News Digest October 14, 2012

Report: Big Data Needs Broad Strategies for Public Sector Adoption Division of Big Data Commission organization TechAmerica Foundation released a report “Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide To Transforming The…

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Hadoop – The Tape Killer

With the price of commodity hardware continuing to motion downward, it continues to surprise me when I talk to organizations that still offload their historical data to tape offline and…

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Analysing security and regulatory concerns with cloud app migration

As businesses look to clouds for faster, more flexible growth, they confront significant challenges from a legacy application base that has varying levels of cloud suitability. It is therefore worth…

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More enterprises using Microsoft and Google apps in tandem, research reveals

Office 365 continues to be the most popular cloud app used by enterprises ahead of Salesforce and Box, while Slack has jumped in workplace popularity, according to the latest figures…

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Google cloud team launches damage control mission following outage

Google will offer all customers who were affected by the Google Compute Engine outage with service credits, in what would appear to be a damage control exercise as the company…

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New EU data regulations receives warm reception from industry

The European Union finally rubber-stamped a refresh of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that offers greater protection for individuals but at cost of a greater burden on businesses, reportsTelecoms.com.…

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Met Office launches weather app on hybrid cloud platform

The Met Office has launched its latest app on its new hybrid cloud platform, Weather Cloud, in an effort to increase the speed of delivery and accuracy of its weather…

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Microsoft files lawsuit against US government and secret snooping orders

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit in federal court against the United States government arguing the right that customers should have the right to know when the state accesses their…

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IBM and SAP update partnership for greater cloud and on-prem capabilities

IBM and SAP have announced their latest strategic partnership, building on a deal struck in 2014 between Big Blue and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. Described at the time as “SAP’s…

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How Intel’s acquisition of Altera could transform IoT and the data centre

After a relatively quiet transaction that began on June 1 2015, in December Intel officially acquired the Altera Corporation and reformed it as an internal department dubbed “Intel Programmable Solutions…

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