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Comments Off on NSF Promotes Data Science with $31M Award
(Source: HPCwire)  The $31 million funding award was directed to the Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) program, which is now in its second year. According to the NSF, ......
Comments Off on Syncsort Ironstream Brings Real-Time Mainframe Data to Splunk Users
(Source: Database Trends and Applications) Splunk allows customers to use machine data in real-time to gain operational insights for IT operations, application management, application development, ......
Comments Off on Moving Hadoop beyond batch processing and MapReduce
(Source: InfoWorld) There are two prerequisites to creating purpose-built applications for Hadoop data access. The first is an "operating system" (somewhat akin to Windows or ......
Comments Off on Security bug in Xen may have exposed Amazon, other cloud services
(Source: Ars Technica) The Xen Project has published a security advisory that could affect millions of virtualized servers running in Amazon's cloud and other public hosting services....
Comments Off on Microsoft to set up cloud data centres in India
(Source: Times of India)  Microsoft will have local data centres for its commercialcloud services in India by the end of 2015, CEO Satya Nadella announced in the capital on ......
Comments Off on Ello promises an ad-free social network that doesn’t mine your data

(Source: Digital Trends) Ello is a fledgling social network looking to pinch users disgruntled by the advertising and data mining carried out by the bigger sites. It’s clear, clean and ad-free, … ...

Comments Off on India to become the second largest market for data center infrastructure in Asia-Pacific by 2015: Gartner

(Source: InformationWeek India) The Indian data center infrastructure market, comprising of server, storage and networking equipment, will total USD 2.03 billion in 2015, said research firm … ...

Comments Off on Actifio Introduces World’s Fastest Application Data Management Solution for Cloud and Distributed Enterprises Built on Oracle

(Source: SYS-CON Media )  “Together, Oracle and Actifio provide the world’s best platform for enterprise application data management – enabling IT to be more customer-centric and agile in … ...

Comments Off on Secret App: Strong anonymisation often leads to loss of intelligence

(Source: Economic Times) This, along with a slew of public data statistics such as census records, innocuous social network data could mean the task of re-identifying anonymised … ...

Comments Off on You had me at Ello! Users flock to anonymous social network after Facebook stops its members using fake names

(Source: Daily Mail) And now users fed up with this policy are flocking to a socialnetworking site, dubbed ‘Hello Ello’, … ‘Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads. ...