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	Electricity company pushes out BI tool to customers Power NI, an electricity company in Ireland, is piloting a business intelligence tool, normally used in enterprise, to give consumers better visibility of their power usage and bills. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Free IBM White Paper: Are Spreadsheets More Hindrance than Help in Data Analysis? Find out how spreadsheets' limitations can be liabilities, and learn a better way to analyze data. Download The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis white paper and discover how predictive analytics can avoid risks of spreadsheets and produce faster, more accurate results. In this Issue Salesforce.com unit launches stand-alone database service HP announces enterprise-class deduplication appliance HP pairs Autonomy and Vertica software Robert L. Mitchell: Google Health: First Failure of 2012 Obama wants feds to digitize all records NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service Leigh Jasper: Beyond cool: The cold, hard facts on collaboration Lawmaker dissatisfied with Amazon's answers on Kindle Fire's data harvesting Five ways to get the most out of existing storage WHITE PAPER: IBM Delivering Information you can trust This whitepaper rovides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data quality and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. Read Now Salesforce.com unit launches stand-alone database service Salesforce.com's Heroku division has launched a stand-alone version of its PostgreSQL-based database, giving developers a "battle-tested" way to build applications with the cloud platform of their choosing, the company announced. Read More HP announces enterprise-class deduplication appliance Hewlett-Packard announced an enterprise-class deduplication appliance and a new Windows-powered NAS array. Read More HP pairs Autonomy and Vertica software Hewlett-Packard is quickly putting to use its recent acquisitions of Autonomy and Vertica, integrating the software from these companies into a single software package, called the HP Next Generation Information Platform. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Google Health: First Failure of 2012 As of January 1, Google's idea of using an unregulated, private, advertising-supported business model as the aggregation point for highly sensitive personal health data is dead. Will other initiatives soon follow? Read More 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! Obama wants feds to digitize all records President Obama has called for all federal agencies to update their decades-old methods of records management, in large part by moving to electronic records management systems. Read More NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service NetApp is teaming up with Iron Mountain to offer its StorageGRID object storage software with two Iron Mountain medical data archiving services: the Digital Record Center for Medical Images and its vendor-neutral archive offering. Read More Leigh Jasper: Beyond cool: The cold, hard facts on collaboration If you aren't collaborating effectively with your business partners, then you aren't getting the most from your processes and supply chain. And if you aren't using the right collaboration tools, then you aren't collaborating effectively. It's time to get hardcore about this. Read More Lawmaker dissatisfied with Amazon's answers on Kindle Fire's data harvesting Amazon told a Massachusetts congressman that the Silk browser in its Kindle Fire tablet doesn't pose a privacy threat to consumers, but the lawmaker wasn't ready to give the online retailer a pass. Read More Five ways to get the most out of existing storage Recent flooding in Thailand has affected many hard drive manufacturers, resulting in price hikes for hard drives of as much as 50% to 100%. How long this will last is unclear, but in the meantime, you can postpone new purchases of storage gear by implementing these suggestions. Read More
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