Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds

	Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database | Oracle hopes to poach Microsoft SQL Server users with MySQL migration tool
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	Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds A survey of 255 high-level IT managers and storage admins found that they have no plans to use big data analytics and showed that Fibre Channel drives no longer make up the bulk of purchases for enterprise storage capacity. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Addressing Your Top Database Management Challenges Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT Learn how your experience stacks up against your peers and gain insight on strategies to address the most pressing issues as new survey results on managing databases are revealed by Crimson Consulting in this live Webcast. Learn More In this Issue Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database Oracle hopes to poach Microsoft SQL Server users with MySQL migration tool Google failed to delete all Street View data in UK Robert L. Mitchell: Predictive analystics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter Global Payments: data breach cost a whopping $84.4 million Darragh Delaney: Finding out what's flowing over port 80 on your network Black Hat panel: Which do you trust less with your data, the U.S. government or Google? Oracle pulls Exadata ad claims after IBM's complaint WHITE PAPER: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database A researcher scored again against Oracle's database by demonstrating at the Black Hat security conference an exploit that would allow him to take control as an administrator. Read More Oracle hopes to poach Microsoft SQL Server users with MySQL migration tool Oracle is going after users of Microsoft's SQL Server with a new tool for migrating data from SQL Server to its own MySQL database, the vendor announced. Read More Google failed to delete all Street View data in UK Google disclosed in an email to the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office that it had not yet deleted all user data collected by its Street View vehicles, as it had agreed to more than 18 months ago. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Predictive analystics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter The accused Aurora killer made dozens of suspicious purchases prior to committing his crime. But a proactive data mining initiative that analyzed those transactions in real-time probably would not have caught him, says an expert. Here's why. Read More WHITE PAPER: Datawatch Bringing Big Data into your Analytics Strategy. Learn how a report analytics solution can eliminate your content blind spot by allowing you to get to all of your organization's data, so you may take action in improving your business. Learn more. Global Payments: data breach cost a whopping $84.4 million Global Payments, which back in the spring reported a data breach in which information associated with an estimated 1.4 million payment cards was stolen, has revealed that expenses associated with investigations, fines and remediation has hit $84.4 million. Read More Darragh Delaney: Finding out what's flowing over port 80 on your network HTTP was designed as a protocol to transport requests and data between clients and Web servers. Using this information, you could then lock down your firewall to only allow TCP port 80 and 443 so that other applications would be blocked. This worked okay for a while until application developers figured out ways of tunnelling their data over port 80. Read More Black Hat panel: Which do you trust less with your data, the U.S. government or Google? To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the U.S. government, cyberwar and Google. Read More Oracle pulls Exadata ad claims after IBM's complaint Oracle is yanking advertising claims that its Exadata database machine had vastly super performance to IBM's Power Systems hardware, according to an announcement by the National Advertising Division, an industry self-regulatory group. Read More
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