Presidential election a victory for quants

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	Presidential election a victory for quants If there was one lesson for political pundits from last week's presidential election, it was that basic statistical modeling techniques can be used to predict election outcomes with stunning accuracy. Read More WEBCAST: Citrix Online New Technology to Your Users: A Make-or-Break Moment Live Webcast: Tuesday, November 27th at 1:00pm EST Join this live, interactive webinar to learn: - How to assess what users expect from technology - Common missteps and omissions in the QA process - What you can do to make uses feel more confident and supported - And more… Learn More In this Issue Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server Google gives cloud-based database a performance boost Facebook's Corona boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle Sharky: What IT doesn't know won't hurt it, right? SAP promises '360-degree' view of customer with HANA-powered CRM platform Adobe investigates alleged customer data breach Barack Obama's Big Data won the U.S. election Jaspersoft BI suite gets a new visualization engine RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. Read More Google gives cloud-based database a performance boost Google's Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running their instances in data centers based in either the U.S. or Europe. Read More Facebook's Corona boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert. Read More Sharky: What IT doesn't know won't hurt it, right? This business-products distributor receives payments from customers through a bank's service, and that works almost perfectly. Then someone fixes a bug. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle and Intel Take Complexity Out of a Database Build November 8th, 2012 10 AM PST/ 1 PM EST Attend this Webcast to hear customer stories and discover how the Oracle Database Appliance increases ROI by reducing capital and operational expenses. Learn More SAP promises '360-degree' view of customer with HANA-powered CRM platform SAP is tying the HANA in-memory database to its CRM software and other applications, creating a package that will "allow organizations to revolutionize the way they engage with their customers," the company announced. Read More Adobe investigates alleged customer data breach Adobe said it is investigating the release of 230 names, email addresses and encrypted passwords claimed to have been stolen from a company database. Read More Barack Obama's Big Data won the U.S. election Traditional news media on the eve of the United States Presidential election was reporting a closely contested election and there were many polls indicating that it might be a photo-finish. However, one thing has become clear from this election: not all polls are created equal. Read More Jaspersoft BI suite gets a new visualization engine With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, doing away with an Adobe Flash-based visualization engine in favor of one using HTML5 Web standards. Read More
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