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Information glut costing Australia $3 billion a year: Survey

Unstructured data coupled with IT outages could be costing the Australian economy up to $3 billion each year, according to storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).
Strategies for pruning data in the Cloud

Year after year, the cost of disk space has plummeted. Since you can pick up a terabyte for $50, it's often seemed a false economy to be careful with storage.
Jazz Montreux Festival plans 1.2PB archive for 40 years of music

Forty years worth of performances at Europe's most prestigious jazz festival will soon be stored in a digital archive that will be shared through with students and in cafés around the world.
OpenWorld 2011: Exadata underpinning Oracle Cloud play

Oracle is banking that when organisations across the Asia Pacific turn to new infrastructure to support their move to private cloud or launch of public cloud services, bigger equals better.
Oracle's Big Data Appliance taps growing enterprise need, analysts say

Oracle's new Big Data Appliance, officially introduced at the OpenWorld2011 conference in San Francisco, should appeal to enterprises looking for more efficient ways to capture, organise and analyse vast amounts of unstructured data.
Alarm sounded on lack of virtualization disaster recovery plans

Only 22 per cent of CommVault's ANZ customers are backing up their virtual server environments while another 25 per cent do not have a disaster recovery (DR) plan, according to the results of a global survey conducted by the vendor.
Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs

When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston.
Enterprise data warehouse key to national health reform

The federal government’s Department of Health and Ageing is seeking information from suppliers in preparation for the upcoming national health reform enterprise data warehouse (NHR EDW) program.
IIIS: Big Data driving new trends

Reality mining, tagging data at its source and Cloud reputation agencies are three of the emerging trends likely to come out of the explosion of ‘Big Data’ delegates at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) have heard.
National Library to refresh IT infrastructure

The National Library of Australia (NLA) will refresh its IT infrastructure over a period of four years to keep pace with the growth in digital assets it manages.

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Big data - Part 2

A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.
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Five Advantages of Unified Information Access (UIA)
Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

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