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NSF Promotes Data Science with $31M Award

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(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, ......
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Syncsort Ironstream Brings Real-Time Mainframe Data to Splunk Users

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(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, ......
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Moving Hadoop beyond batch processing and MapReduce

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(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 ......
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Security bug in Xen may have exposed Amazon, other cloud services

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(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....
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Microsoft to set up cloud data centres in India

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(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 ......
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Ello promises an ad-free social network that doesn’t mine your data

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(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, … ...

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

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(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 … ...

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

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(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 … ...

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Secret App: Strong anonymisation often leads to loss of intelligence

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(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 … ...

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

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(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. ...

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