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  • 5 reasons to move to big data (and 1 reason why it won't be easy)

    Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that big data can benefit your business--and one precaution that may well thwart your big data plans.

  • Big Data is a big but young market

    A recent survey by Forrester found that 7 per cent of IT executives and 9 per cent of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from Big Data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.

  • London Gatwick Airport takes out 200 servers, moves to cloud, BYOD

    Cloud computing and a "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy aren't technology approaches typically associated with running an airport's information-technology operations. But London Gatwick, the U.K.'s second largest airport, is pushing heavily into both.

  • It's not the size of your data, it's how you use it

    Data -- whether it is defined as "big" or "little" -- exists everywhere, and effective use of it does not have to be confined only to the largest companies with the biggest budgets and most sophisticated IT staff. In essence, it's not the size of the data, but how you use it that really matters.

  • Video: 3D-printed gun fires first shot

    Fulfilling his promise to unveil the world’s first operational 3D-printed firearm, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson invited Forbes reporter Andy Greenberg to watch the weapon’s first shot at an undisclosed private shooting range outside of Austin, Texas, this weekend.

  • How Genomic Research Could Improve Healthcare

    The cost of mapping an individual genome is quickly dropping. The potential benefits for improving the care individual patients as well as entire populations are immense. So, too, are the obstacles to getting all stakeholders--healthcare providers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and the patients themselves--to share what they've learned.

  • How to Evaluate High Availability Options for Virtualized IT Environments

    One upside to virtualization is that it puts more applications on fewer servers. One downside is that the availability of those servers become of greater importance.

  • Indiana University dedicates biggest college-owned supercomputer

    Indiana University today dedicated the fastest supercomputer owned by a university to date -- the new Big Red II system.

  • 3 Tips to Get a Payoff From Collaboration Tools

    To reap the value of collaboration tool investments, CIOs study employee behavior, create incentives and embed capabilities in current workflows

  • EMC tackles Big Data, Cloud skills gap among IT business leaders

    Many organisations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and Cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers.

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