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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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Geolocation and the Cloud—An Oxymoron? As cloud computing services become more widely accepted, the regulatory compliance, geolocation, and corporate governance issues have global companies expressing a need to know where their data is actually located. |
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The Rush for Mobile Development: IT’s Most Common Mistake Mobile is too big now to ignore. But IT departments are making some critical mistakes in their attempts to master mobile. Make sure you know what to avoid before it costs you. |
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Don't Misapply the Principles of Agile Don't misapply the principles of agile. Don't be that someone who hijacks a principle or idea and twists it to support his preferred method of work. |
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SEC Investigations Continue as Firms Retain Experts The US Securities and Exchange Commission launched a broad investigation involving the technology issues at several major brokerage firms. Bob Aiello explains the investigations as well as what the SEC wants to accomplish. |
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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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Knight Capital's Quality Control and CM Problems On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital experienced what all IT shops hope to avoid. A software release that was put into production caused more than $440 million in trades to take place. Joe Townsend explores the quality control and CM issues that created the problem. |