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	Oracle launches revved-up new version of Exadata Oracle has launched the fifth version of its Exadata database appliance, claiming the release provides in many areas double the performance of previous-generation machines. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Concur How much of your T&E would you like to see? It's your second biggest line item and odds are, you can't see all your T&E spend- and if you can't see if, you certainly can't control it. Concur gives you visibility into every piece of expense data from every corner of your business. Find out how In this Issue Amazon adds Kinesis real-time data analysis service Michael Svilar: Dark data: When should it come into the light? 5 tips to keep your data secure on the cloud Data discovery to become the main focus of BI vendors Hadoop gets native R tools for big data analysis Larry Freeman: 2013 in review: Big data, bigger expectations? Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics How to create an automatically updating Google spreadsheet Instagram Direct: Your data, direct to marketers Website lets users find if personal data is exposed in large data leaks WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Backup and Recovery Changes This IDC Whitepaper provides an overview of the forces driving change within today's IT organizations and data centers and discusses how backup and recovery can enable or hinder broader IT infrastructure and business transformation. Learn More Amazon adds Kinesis real-time data analysis service Amazon Web Services hopes enterprises are willing to rely on the company when getting large amounts of data ready for analysis with its latest service, Kinesis. Read More Michael Svilar: Dark data: When should it come into the light? Dark data -- one of the latest trending discussions in data and analytics -- is currently defined as data that a business creates and saves, but isn't used to run the business. I'd like to offer up an addition to that definition: Dark data should also include data that a business creates, but does not currently save. Read More 5 tips to keep your data secure on the cloud The number of personal cloud users increases every year and is not about to slow down. Back in 2012 Gartner predicted the complete shift from offline PC work to mostly on-cloud by 2014. And it's happening. Read More Data discovery to become the main focus of BI vendors BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top investment priority for CIOs, but by 2015 BI vendors will make ad-hoc data discovery, rather than report generation, the prime focus of their product development efforts, according to a new Gartner report. Read More Hadoop gets native R tools for big data analysis Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data processing platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix BYOD Invasion: Report on the Consumerization of IT Welcome to Computerworld's latest Digital Spotlight, a themed electronic edition of the magazine featuring content that was specially selected by Computerworld editors. This report looks at all the ways consumerization is changing enterprise IT -- and fast. Learn more Larry Freeman: 2013 in review: Big data, bigger expectations? It's fair to say that big data has experienced more than its share of hype over the past year. Here's my big-data year-in-review, plus four top tips for IT success in 2014. Read More Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics Critics of the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency's director said. Read More How to create an automatically updating Google spreadsheet Tired of finding, copying and pasting data into spreadsheets? With just a few lines of code, you can set up a self-updating spreadsheet in Google Docs that fetches and stores data for you, as this Facebook example shows. Read More Instagram Direct: Your data, direct to marketers Instagram is going to let you send messages and images to small subsets of your friends and family. It's a clever way to get more of your data into the hands of marketers. Read More Website lets users find if personal data is exposed in large data leaks A new website allows Internet users to check if their usernames and passwords were exposed in some of the largest data breaches in recent years. Read More
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