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Meaningful Use, 3D Imaging Drive Health Data Storage Demand

Healthcare providers are under siege by massive amounts of data. This is forcing the industry to upgrade its aging storage infrastructures, architectures and systems. Where that data is being stored may come as a surprise. Full Story »
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Aurora Hackers Said to Have Accessed Law Enforcement Targets

Chinese cyber marauders sought more than just information on activists -- they wanted access to FBI, DOJ investigations on spies in the U.S.

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5 Reasons to Move to Big Data (and 1 Reason Why It Won't Be Easy)

Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that big data can benefit your business--and one precaution that may well thwart your big data plans.

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Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk

Experts say large-scale security analytics can cut through the noise to find key intelligence. But connecting the dots can lead to legal trouble.

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Tibco Offers Free R to the Enterprise

A new free edition of Tibco's R runtime engine might entice more organizations to use the programming language

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SAP Builds Out HANA Platform and Ecosystem

SAP is shipping a raft of new features for the in-memory platform and letting partners in on its HANA Enterprise Cloud

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Labor Department Hackers More Sophisticated Than Most

The hackers who hijacked a U.S. Labor Department website were as interested in gathering data for their next attack as they were in stealing information from their victims, security experts say.

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More Data Isn't Always Better, Says Nate Silver

Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver, who became one of America's most well-known faces of data analysis after his FiveThirtyEight blog accurately predicted 2012 presidential election results in all 50 states.

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SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service

Customers will be able to run their applications on the HANA-powered cloud

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SAP Launches Free Online Training for HANA, Other New Technologies

OpenSAP classes will begin later this month

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How Genomic Research Could Improve Healthcare

The cost of mapping an individual genome is quickly dropping. The potential benefits for improving the care individual patients as well as entire populations are immense. So, too, are the obstacles to getting all stakeholders--healthcare providers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and the patients themselves--to share what they've learned.

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Big Data Can Be a Big Headache for Data Defenders

Big data is all the buzz in board rooms these days, but in security circles it's a mixed blessing.

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Infor Partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered Cloud Analytics Platform

Amazon's Redshift service will provide the data warehouse underpinnings for SkyVault

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National Digital Public Library Launches

The new National Digital Public Library will initially contain 2.4 million digital records, including historical images, video and audio that had previously been siloed in public and private institutions.

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Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.