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	Campaign 2012: Mining for voters Big data, analytics and mobile apps are enabling smaller political campaigns and advocacy groups to be more effective when it comes to winning over voters and raising money. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. In this Issue Q&A: What's needed to get a big data job? INSIDER Big hopes for big data, survey says Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs Python: Big Data's secret power tool Q&A: Statistician Nate Silver talks big data, sports analysis Splunk 5 offers fault-tolerant indexing for mission-critical applications Stuart Kippelman: Tablet vs. PC: Let your data decide S.C. governor's post-breach data encryption claims are off-base, analysts say Amazon upgrades -- and starts shipping -- Storage Gateway CommVault highlights app snapshots with standalone IntelliSnap software Barnes & Noble halts use of PIN pad devices after data breach Sybase chief John Chen leaving SAP WHITE PAPER: VMware Forrester: Business Value of Virtualization Forrester interviewed individuals responsible for the IT infrastructure and architecture and asked executives to rate the benefits received from consolidating servers, performing business continuity/disaster recovery, reclaiming data center capacity, and executing similar initiatives. Read Now! Q&A: What's needed to get a big data job? The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating thousands of new jobs, as Michael Rappa projected when he created the first master's degree program in the U.S. that's devoted to data analytics. Read More INSIDER Big hopes for big data, survey says For companies drowning in data, extracting value from all this information is a major IT priority. But success depends on how well customers tackle significant organizational challenges. Read More Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. Read More Python: Big Data's secret power tool When it comes to analyzing Big Data, software packages such as Hadoop or the R statistical language come readily to mind. But at least one company, AppNexus, also relies on the Python programming language to help conduct heavy-duty data analysis. Read More Q&A: Statistician Nate Silver talks big data, sports analysis New York-based political statistician and author Nate Silver was a special guest speaker at IBM's Information On Demand conference. Big data, algorithms and sports analysis were among the topics of discussion. Read More Splunk 5 offers fault-tolerant indexing for mission-critical applications The new version of the Splunk machine data search engine comes with a distributed indexing technology that could save storage costs for those customers running the software as a high-availability service. Read More WEBCAST: LogiXML Enhance Transparency in Private Equity & Alternatives Learn how Neuberger Berman met growing customer demand by enhancing reporting. Using agile BI technology, the company was able to quickly build an on-demand portal enabling investors to view real-time indicators such as Net Asset Value, diversification, and geographic performance. Learn More. Stuart Kippelman: Tablet vs. PC: Let your data decide Will tablets replace the PC? Will the Microsoft Surface tablet cut into iPad market share? Will the broader mobile computing space replace what we know of a desktop and notebook computer? Let your data lead you to the right answers for your organization. Read More S.C. governor's post-breach data encryption claims are off-base, analysts say Security analysts this week challenged S.C Governor Nikki Haley's defense of the state's information security practices in the wake of a data breach that exposed the Social Security Numbers of 3.6 million people. Read More Amazon upgrades -- and starts shipping -- Storage Gateway Amazon Web Services has upgraded its Storage Gateway so it can cache data locally, and has also made it generally available. Read More CommVault highlights app snapshots with standalone IntelliSnap software In a bid to help large businesses create and manage snapshots of application data across sprawling enterprise environments, CommVault is releasing the snapshot component of its Simpana suite as a standalone product. Read More Barnes & Noble halts use of PIN pad devices after data breach Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states. Read More Sybase chief John Chen leaving SAP Sybase CEO John Chen is leaving SAP, roughly two-and-a-half years after SAP acquired the company for its database and mobility technologies, SAP announced. Read More
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