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What Can You Do with Big Data?

Big data doesn’t refer to high fives or towering twelves. It refers to lots of data. The primary goal of handling big data is to capture all the data available in a given computing scenario and then analyze it to find identifiable business, behavior, or other patterns.

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Naomi Karten
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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Jonathan Vanian
New Encryption App Protects Both the Good—and Bad—Guys

With new advancements in technology come the fears of wondering what purposes they'll be used for. Now that full-scale phone call and data encryption are available for everyone, can we really be certain we're not arming the wrong people with this much protection?

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Noel Wurst
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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Joe Townsend
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.

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Jonathan Vanian
It's Time We Create a Configuration Management Manifesto

A recent discussion on Linkedin about the problem of misapplying CM principles has pushed Joe Townsend to action. It's time that CM professionals create a configuration management manifesto in the form of a living document that gives professionals a mantra they can follow in their CM-related work.

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Joe Townsend
Is Your Data Deceiving You?

Do you know how clean, accurate, and up-to-date your data is? Learn how to increase the quality of your data so that your data never deceives you again.

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Adrian Reed