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Cloud Predictions for 2013 Writers worldwide are making their predictions for just how large the cloud will grow in the new year, and Noel Wurst has read them all. If history prevails, as it often does, the growth of the cloud will be bigger this year than ever before. See which predictions were most commonly made. |
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Google’s Eighteen Minutes of Downtime—Security Fears Remain Google's Chrome and Gmail crash lasted only eighteen minutes on Monday, but what kind of damage do these repeated, albeit brief, downtimes cause those who are already skeptical of moving their data to the cloud? One way to stop the bleeding is to quickly let customers know what went wrong. |
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Prices Drop as Cloud Storage Wars Heat Up Amazon and Google are racing to grab cloud customers, and headlines, in the great cloud war. By consistently lowering prices and offering advanced services, both giants want nothing more than to be the world's cloud storage leader. But is either of them making a profit? |
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Superstorm Predictions and Disease Diagnosis…from Your Mobile Device? Supercomputers and mobile devices may look at lot more like each other in the not too distant future as manufacturers look to increase power, while reducing size. As long as the value of human interaction isn't underestimated, we may see some pretty amazing machines in as few as five years. |
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VMware Updates vCloud Suite While Cisco Eyes a Potential Rival Virtualization software giant VMware, Inc. made news this week with an update to the company’s vCloud Suite 5.1 while two top executives at VMware and Cisco made public the companies’ tenuously friendly relationship. |
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What Exactly Is Big Data? Although some people may believe that the term "big data" refers to large amounts of unmanageable data, there's more to it than that. Joe Townsend explains what exactly is big data and why it needs to be managed and analyzed. |
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Big Data: Defining and Mining the Latest Trend Once you've found a definition of big data that you agree with, and calculated how much of it you have, now what? The mining and analyzing of big data has only just begun and while its benefits aren't guaranteed, it's possibilities are too enticing for anyone to simply ignore. |
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Are Data Centers Harming the Environment? Since The New York Times’s explosive piece on data centers and their apparent harmful effects on the environment came out, members of the tech media and industry have voiced their concerns about what the article got wrong. |
