The opportunity to profit from the intersection of big data and data analytics is huge, but a new study from EMC reports a “rampant scarcity” for the prerequisite skills necessary for a company to capitalize on these opportunities. Only one-third of the companies participating in the EMC Data Science Study–covering the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and China–are able to effectively use new data to assist their business decision making, gain competitive advantage, drive productivity growth, yield innovation and reveal customer insights, says the storage giant.
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EMC: Big Data Crippled By Huge Skills Shortage
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Emerging DCIM Software Market To Grow 500% By 2015
The precise definition of datacenter infrastructure management appears to be in the eye of the beholder, but whatever DCIM is, it is growing rapidly, states 451 Research. In its inaugural DCIM software market-sizing report, 2010 revenues of $ 245 million will see a 39% compound annual growth rate through 2015 to $ 1.3 billion, says Andy Lawrence, research director, eco-efficient IT and datacenter technologies.
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Verizon Lands High-Level Federal Security Certification
Verizon has earned “Level 3″ certification by the U.S. government for its Universal Identity Services (UIS) identity and access management technology to protect computer networks. Verizon says it is the first identity access provider to reach Level 3 certification.
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Crossroads’ StrongBox: Securing the Future of Data Archiving
If you were asked which storage product — hard disk drives (HDDs) or tape — would decline precipitously in market share over the next five to ten years, you would probably be one of the vast majority of people who said tape. You would also be wrong. Winning storage technologies have to excel on at least one dimension, either performance or capacity, and tape excels on capacity.
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Zultys Ships ‘Ultimate’ UC Contact Center Management Tool
Unified communications solution provider Zultys is now shipping MXIE SuperView, the ‘ultimate contact center management tool’. Integrated into the MXIE Unified Communications (UC) client, the new offering provides real-time visibility into agent productivity, queued and active calls, call wait time, threshold alerts, and more, all from a single screen.
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Thanks For Nothing, Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.)
There are bad ideas, and then there are terrible ideas. The American citizenry is about to be dealt a doozy, courtesy of the honorable representative from Nebraska, and the rationale provided thus far on a bill that opens the door for abuse of our cell phone accounts is simply nonsensical. It’s no secret that when politicians meddle in issues of technology, us common folk frequently end up paying for it. Unfortunately, we’re all on the fast track to being on the losing end of yet another Washington-enabled technology mistake, and there may be no way to stop it.
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EMC Throws Out Big-Data Lifesaver
Hot on the heels of its survey that shows we are drowning in a growing big-data deluge, EMC Corporation is announcing a lifesaver, the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP). Intended to be a foundation for the company’s data analytics strategy, it brings together three Greenplum products into a unified offering: the database for structured data; the enterprise Hadoop offering for the analysis and processing of unstructured data; and Chorus 2.0, a social media collaboration tool for data science teams.
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Terremark Taking Over Management Of Verizon Data Centers
Ten months after it was acquired by Verizon for $ 1.4 billion, cloud services provider Terremark is undergoing an assessment of Verizon data centers globally that will now be managed by the Terremark business unit while also increasing its own data center capacity.
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Cisco Storms Into The Cloud Market
CloudVerse, codenamed Hurricane, a framework that combines unified data center, cloud intelligent networks and cloud applications, is Cisco’s cloud coming-out party, say company officials. One of the company’s top five priorities, Cisco sees hundreds if not thousands of cloud providers, what it calls ‘The World of Many Clouds’, and it wants to ensure it gets more than its fair share of the cloud infrastructure market.
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Public Vs Private Cloud Debate Goes On
While there are important differences between a public cloud and a private cloud computing environment, industry leaders say the pros and cons of each aren’t as significant as the fact that both options are available for businesses and enterprises. At the recent CloudBeat 2011 conference in Redwood City, Calif., executives of various companies delivering cloud technology and services said any combination of public, private or hybrid clouds may be the right solution for any company based on its needs.
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