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	Amazon improves performance and cuts cost of data warehouse service Amazon Web Services has improved the performance of its Redshift data warehouse with new SSD-based nodes, which can also reduce the cost of the service as long as storage capacity needs are also low. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Inc. Make the Challenges of Remote Office IT a Thing of the Past Join us to see why PC Pro named Dell PowerEdge VRTX the "2013 Server of the Year." PowerEdge VRTX may be just what you need in your remote and branch offices to redefine your IT operations. Take advantage of the onboard shared storage, then scale over time as needed. Learn more In this Issue 18 essential Hadoop tools for crunching big data Read this before you buy another hard drive INSIDER Survey: Big Data, 2014 Sharky: That should narrow it down Flash your way to better VMware performance Wearables, connected homes to spur surge in data sharing by 2017, Gartner says 3D graphene-like material could lead to super electronics WHITE PAPER: IBM 9 Steps to Building a Business Case for B2B Integration Justifying a strategic B2B initiative that reaches beyond the organization's four walls is especially critical. Fortunately, you can significantly increase your chances of approval if you follow these nine steps. Read Now 18 essential Hadoop tools for crunching big data Making the most of this powerful MapReduce platform means mastering a vibrant ecosystem of quickly evolving code. Read More Read this before you buy another hard drive It's rare that a company would release internal data on drive failure rates -- even more so when that company, Backblaze, earns its living storing consumer data in the cloud. That makes the hard drive data released this week even more valuable. Read More INSIDER Survey: Big Data, 2014 Companies place a high priority on the ability to harness data to help make better and speedier business decisions. Insider: Free registration required. Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices The need for flawless, high-performing mobile apps is critical, yet many organizations struggle. This paper explains how to accurately analyze performance of mobile apps, calculate the cost of app failure, and how to develop, deploy and test mobile apps so that malfunctions don't happen. Read more! Sharky: That should narrow it down Pilot fish at this growing manufacturing outfit gets an emailed request from a user who needs access to Access. The problem: Even with upgrades to web and SQL, there are some 70 Access databases running all over the company. Read More Flash your way to better VMware performance PernixData FVP clusters server-side flash to improve virtual machine performance and reduce SAN latency. Read More Wearables, connected homes to spur surge in data sharing by 2017, Gartner says By 2017, the typical mobile user will share their personalized data stream with 100 applications and services every day, with wearable devices and Internet-connected appliances fueling the use trend, according to Gartner. Read More 3D graphene-like material could lead to super electronics Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered a new material that could someday turn a 1TB hard drive into one that can store 10TB of data on the same volume. Read More
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