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Data Prep: Easing Data Scientists’ ‘Janitorial Work’
March 15th, 2017 Comments Off on Data Prep: Easing Data Scientists’ ‘Janitorial Work’
Data Scientist: is there a more formidable job title in the IT industry? Not Data Manager, not Data Analyst, but Data Scientist. They know things, do things, discuss (among themselves) things that the rest of us can’t begin to ...

Keys to a Successful Cloud Migration
March 10th, 2017 Comments Off on Keys to a Successful Cloud Migration
No matter what study you look at, it’s clear that cloud adoption is growing rapidly – and increasingly workloads are being shifted from the data center to clouds. Key considerations for planning successful cloud migrations start with a full ...

IDC’s HPC Group Spun out to Temporary Trusteeship
March 9th, 2017 Comments Off on IDC’s HPC Group Spun out to Temporary Trusteeship
The immediate fate of the HPC research group within International Data Corp. (IDC) became known yesterday with comments from (now former) IDC Program Vice President, HPC, Earl Joseph, who told EnterpriseTech his group is being spun out under the ...

Overcoming Security Challenges in the Hybrid Cloud
March 7th, 2017 Comments Off on Overcoming Security Challenges in the Hybrid Cloud
Businesses are embracing the flexibility and scalability of hybrid cloud computing, where the public cloud and ancillary dedicated infrastructure converge. IDC predicts that by next year, 80 percent of organizations will be committed to hybrid cloud architectures. But many ...

Software Defined Storage: Changing Data from ‘State-ful’ to Stateless
March 4th, 2017 Comments Off on Software Defined Storage: Changing Data from ‘State-ful’ to Stateless
Hedvig, the Santa Clara software defined storage (SDS) start-up now in its third year, has announced the infusion of a cool $21.5 million in Series C venture funding as attention increasingly turns to the fragmented SDS market, predicted to ...

IoT Adoption Gaining Traction Despite Widespread Breach Vulnerability
February 27th, 2017 Comments Off on IoT Adoption Gaining Traction Despite Widespread Breach Vulnerability
IoT in 2017 is a hodgepodge of contradictions. Adoption of IoT is at once more widespread and more vulnerable than might be thought. Companies report greater IoT benefit than they had expected, yet nearly nine in 10 IoT implementers ...

Police Digital Forensics: Storing and Using an Overflow of Video Data
February 26th, 2017 Comments Off on Police Digital Forensics: Storing and Using an Overflow of Video Data
When police departments object to installing cameras in cruisers and on uniforms, it can undermine trust in the police, feeding an assumption that they want to conceal their activities from public view. But some police resistance to always-on cameras ...

DevOps and Automation: There’s a Big Difference
February 22nd, 2017 Comments Off on DevOps and Automation: There’s a Big Difference
Confusion abounds that DevOps and development automation are synonymous. An online search for implementing DevOps practices leads to lists of tools meant to automate everything from development to QA to deployment. While automation is certainly a key aspect of ...

Icelandic Data Center Cuts Power Costs, Carbon Footprint for ThreatMetrix
February 22nd, 2017 Comments Off on Icelandic Data Center Cuts Power Costs, Carbon Footprint for ThreatMetrix
One can envision Iceland – an island country so remote it makes you wonder at the navigational prowess of the 9th century mariners who settled there, a place of exotic natural wonders and harsh natural elements, that at times ...

ExxonMobil, NCSA, Cray Scale Reservoir Simulation to 700,000+ Processors
February 17th, 2017 Comments Off on ExxonMobil, NCSA, Cray Scale Reservoir Simulation to 700,000+ Processors
In a scaling breakthrough for oil and gas discovery, ExxonMobil geoscientists report they have harnessed the power of 717,000 processors – the equivalent of 22,000 32-processor computers – to run complex oil and gas reservoir simulation models. This is ...
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