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	Big data has potential but requires care The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software 2011 Survey on Cross-Platform Database Administration In this Unisphere Research survey by Quest Software, see how a strong cross-platform database management administration – including cloud management – saves your company money. Then, read about the "accidental DBA," and how to keep ahead of an ever-expanding wealth of database information. Read Now! In this Issue Intel's Warning Will Mean Pain for Everyone Hitach GST begins shipments of a 4TB disk drive Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers Red Hat RHEL 6.2 boosts storage capabilities IBM demonstrates first Racetrack Memory chip EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics Big data has potential but requires care 10 must-have tools for cloud power users Follow the Mythbusters' bouncing cannonball WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase IQ Supercharges Predictive Analytics This white paper introduces you to Sybase® IQ—a high-performance, scalable column-store database engine which has been repeatedly proven to meet the predictive analytics needs for a wide variety of businesses. Read now. Intel's Warning Will Mean Pain for Everyone Intel ruined the start of the trading week with some very bad news: it was lowering guidance for the fourth quarter by $1 billion due to lower sales, thanks to the flooding in Thailand. For those not keeping up, allow me to backtrack. In October, Thailand was hit with some of its worst flooding in decades and it lasted a while. Unfortunately for the tech industry, virtually all of the storage industry... Read More Hitach GST begins shipments of a 4TB disk drive Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market, three months after rival Seagate launched its own version. Read More Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers Fuji Xerox will launch a new cloud storage service that hooks directly into its multifunction copiers next week, allowing documents to be uploaded by scan or fax, then edited or downloaded by computer or phone. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Learn More! Red Hat RHEL 6.2 boosts storage capabilities Red Hat has updated its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with new technologies designed to cut the cost and improve performance of enterprise storage, the company announced Tuesday. Read More IBM demonstrates first Racetrack Memory chip IBM on Monday demonstrated its first Racetrack Memory chip, which could offer as much data storage capacity as a hard drive but with the read/write speeds of DRAM and durability of NAND flash. Read More EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad range of users the tools to study an enterprise's information. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Cloud ready business intelligence Learn how Oracle BI's web services based SOA architecture, metadata based design, standards based security integration, common federated access to multiple data sources and common systems management capabilities make it a good fit for both cloud and non cloud type deployments. Read Now Big data has potential but requires care The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week. Read More 10 must-have tools for cloud power users Turn your cloud power up a notch with these 10 awesome add-ons for Gmail, Dropbox and other online services. Read More Follow the Mythbusters' bouncing cannonball Words fail to do justice to the path taken Monday by an errant cannonball fired as part of an experiment by television's Mythbusters, but this map does the trick. Read More
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