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	Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI Microstrategy is hoping to get its BI (business intelligence) software in front of people looking to get more out of Microsoft Excel with a new service, Cloud Personal, that is being offered at no charge. Read More WHITE PAPER: SEPATON and Hitachi Data Systems Data Growth and Protection: Addressing the Challenge How does your organization deal with the data deluge? This white paper explores new research that gets to the heart of the challenges of protecting and managing the data you already deal with and preparing for the ever-increasing volumes of data to come. And, it discusses how a single, scaleable solution can address these issues. Read now In this Issue IBM launches city parking analytics system Pirates tap BI tools to forecast, boost attendance New Oracle database appliance aims at small, mid-size firms NoSQL is eclipsing the old-time RDBMS Robert L. Mitchell: Can business intelligence save health care? OnStar reverses course on controversial GPS tracking plans Violin releases two new flash memory arrays OCZ's Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives EMC adds unstructured big-data analytics to Greenplum platform Senators question whether Google has biased search results Teradata's Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu America, Inc. The Effect of Delaying Application Upgrades According to a recent Computerworld survey, nearly 9 out of 10 organizations have suffered in some way as a result of enterprise application upgrade delays. Learn how you can overcome upgrade barriers and: - Demonstrate ROI in 12-18 months - Develop an IT optimization plan - Leverage third-party experts to ensure a successful upgrade Read now! IBM launches city parking analytics system IBM has launched a system designed to help cities ease parking congestion and collect more parking fees, the company announced. The service could also help motorists find parking spaces more easily in crowded urban areas. Read More Pirates tap BI tools to forecast, boost attendance After 19 consecutive losing seasons, the Pittsburgh Pirates need a little extra help finding fans to buy tickets for seats at PNC Park. Read More New Oracle database appliance aims at small, mid-size firms Oracle's new Database Appliance product should appeal to small and mid-size businesses that run both transactional and analytic applications, analysts said. Read More NoSQL is eclipsing the old-time RDBMS IT is turning to the modern NoSQL and 'NewSQL' approaches over traditional relational databases. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Can business intelligence save health care? Blue Cross wants to use predictive analytics to cut costs and improve health care outcomes. But will doctors be willing to accept an insurer's prescription for success? (Insider - free registration required.) Read More OnStar reverses course on controversial GPS tracking plans GM subsidiary OnStar has reversed a planned change to its privacy policies that would have let it collect and share GPS tracking and other data from vehicles -- even after users stopped subscribing to OnStar. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM and Intel Scalable Management for your Virtual Data Center Read this solution brief to see how Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager Workgroup Edition on IBM® System x® servers can centralize and streamline management of a consolidated virtual environment. Read Now Violin releases two new flash memory arrays Violin Memory released an upgrade to an all-flash memory array, doubling the capacity, as well as a new higher-end line of arrays that store up to 20TB per 3U shelf with an aggregate of 4GBps throughput. Read More OCZ's Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching OCZ's latest SSD, the Synapse, works in conjunction with a computer's regular hard drive to boost performance. Read More Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption One of Canada's largest political parties is using cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store information about voters and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law prompted the Canadian party to use a strong encryption approach. Read More Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives Toshiba announced a new cloud service interface on its Canvio 3.0 line of external portable hard drives, which automatically discovers files and recommends which should be backed up to the cloud. Read More EMC adds unstructured big-data analytics to Greenplum platform EMC announced new software capability in its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance that allows users to mix and match unstructured and structured data analytics platforms. Read More Senators question whether Google has biased search results Several U.S. senators accused Google of giving search preferences to its own suite of services over competitors, but Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt denied that his company is manipulating search results during a hearing Wednesday. Read More Teradata's Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment Teradata is adding an appliance option for its Aster analytic database, giving it another potential weapon against rivals such as Oracle's Exadata, EMC's Greenplum and SAP's HANA. Read More
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