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Equifax Eyes Are Watching You--Big Data Means Big Brother

Equifax, the giant credit bureau, is using Big Data to create new analytics products from 800 billion business and consumer records worldwide. Its CIO says, 'We know more about you than you would care for us to know.' Full Story »
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New Zeus Malware Scam Promises Rebates, Security

Attacks on Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo unique in targeting MasterCard SecureCode and Verified by Visa's 3D Secure service, Trusteer says

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Kaspersky Denies it's Working with Apple on Mac Security

Kaspersky Lab has denied a report that said Apple asked the security vendor to help it improve security in Mac OS X, which is becoming a more desirable target for malware-distributing cyber criminals.

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Public vs. Private Cyberattack Responsibility Debate Heats Up

Should the federal government combine legislative muscle with fear to pressure private enterprise leaders into funding defenses for a cyberwar? Or should it be up to the government to fund and create a "cyber army" to protect private industry, just as it protects factories and infrastructure in the physical world?

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CSOs Warned of Serious Cyber-espionage Attack

Simplicity of malware masked a highly sophisticated operation, says cybersecurity consulting firm

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Free Fraud Protection Scam Delivers Financial Malware

While initially aimed at one Spanish bank's customers, the Tatanga malware's authors may be trying spread the Trojan, says security expert.

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Windows 8 Privacy Worry Overblown, Says Microsoft Analyst

It sounds like a privacy hole big enough for a truckload of your personal information to be leaked to the world, but experts say a recently disclosed Windows 8 privacy issue is really a non-issue.

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Does "Stand Your Cyberground" Stand a Chance?

Internet security experts say the concept has merit, but major legal and ethical problems still need to be sorted out

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IDC: Explosive Growth Expected for Hadoop, Mapreduce-related Revenues

The analyst firm predicts banner days ahead for the 'big data' programming frameworks

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Red Sky Alliance: An Experiment in Information Sharing

Chris Camacho, information security officer at The World Bank Group in Washington D.C., explains how the Red Sky alliance helps member organizations safely share information.

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Tibco Adds Hadoop Support to its Spotfire In-memory Analytics

Other features focus on predictive analytics and Apple iPad support

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Teradata Building Out Marketing Platform with Ecircle Acquisition

The move heightens its rivalry with the likes of IBM and Oracle

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Cloud Providers Need to Step Up on Security, Say Analysts

Cloud providers ought to provide data security -- that should be obvious. But some providers themselves, along with some security analysts, say they also ought to be doing more, such as educating their customers about best security practices.

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SAP's Sikka Fires Back Against Oracle's 'falsehoods' About HANA

The response and rhetoric highlights the rivalry between the companies' in-memory database platforms

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Informatica Adds Developer Edition to Cloud Data-integration Platform

The move is meant to draw ISVs and systems integrators to Informatica's service

 
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Identifying the right configuration and deploying complete, scalable data warehouses can be a time consuming, costly and error-prone process. Success ultimately depends on the ability to deploy a system that can support an expected level of performance - then allow that performance to scale linearly as needed.
Increasingly companies are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). A true EDW provides a single 360-degree view of the business and a powerful platform for a wide spectrum of business intelligence tasks ranging from predictive analysis to near real-time strategic and tactical decision support throughout the organization. Ensuring the EDW will get the desired performance and will scale out as your data grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the physical data model and the data loading process. By correctly designing these three corner stones you will be able to create an EDW that can seamlessly scale without constant tuning or tweaking of the system.

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as your data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
Analyzing new and diverse digital data streams can reveal new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into customer behavior and identify market trends early on. But managing this influx of new data can be a challenge. To derive real business value from big data, you need the right tools to ca! pture and organize a wide variety of data types from different sources, and be able to easily analyze it with your enterprise data. By using the Oracle Big Data Appliance with Oracle Exadata, enterprises can acquire, organize and analyze all their enterprise data to make the most informed decisions.
By deploying Oracle Database 11g within their IT architecture, organizations can leverage the power of the world's leading database to reduce their server and storage costs and improve quality of service. Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
Real Application Clusters with Oracle Database 11g, enables a single database to run across a cluster of servers, providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance, and scalability with no application changes necessary. This white paper provides a technical overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 with an emphasis on the features and functionality that can be implemented to provide the highest availability and scalability for your enterprise applications.
Join IDC Analyst Dan Vesset and HP Senior Architect, Jeff Spiller, as they discuss the rise of analytics, the impact of big data and need for scalable enterprise solutions. Learn about the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse appliance, which offers massive scale at low cost for single rack appliances up to large scale Data Warehouses. All while providing a single view of information across your enterprise that scales with your data, improves query performance and reduces IT cost over traditional data warehousing offerings. Featuring Intel® Westmere processors. View the entire webcast or only the chapters you desire.
The first appliance in the industry which consolidates and manages thousands of databases, integrates hardware, software and support and is scalable to meet your changing business needs.
Please join guest speaker IDC Analyst Carl Olofson as he discusses Enterprise Data Center challenges and why database consolidation is important and necessary. And hear from HP expert Joe Sullivan, who will discuss the HP Database Consolidation Appliance and how it addresses enterprise industry challenges. Joe will provide an overview of product architecture and details on how the appliance enables companies to build their own private cloud. This webcast will provide the latest information for simplifying your data management needs while reducing costs.
Fact: The demand to respond faster and with greater insight to business demands, based on data, is increasing. Fact: More organizations are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing for insightful decision-making.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
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