• Four emerging positions CIOs need to fill

  By Maryfran Johnson | 25 February, 2011 06:08

  As someone with a mild-to-moderate addiction to Bare Escentuals cosmetics, I have to admit that my heart skipped a beat while reading Kim Nash's cover story ("Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need to Hire Now").

• IBM speeds up data analysis with new algorithm

  By Agam Shah | 26 February, 2010 07:09

  IBM researchers have developed a new algorithm that could in minutes analyze terabytes' worth of raw data to more quickly predict weather and electricity usage, the company said Thursday.

• Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet

  By Network World staff | 18 December, 2009 09:39

  Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data analysis that could be used to solve health, traffic and human behavior problems.

• MySpace to open source in-house data analysis technology

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 16 September, 2009 05:36

  MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.

• Autonomy tool analyzes data from Facebook, social networks

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 28 May, 2009 04:40

  Autonomy is giving businesses a way to analyze and react to discussion of their products and services on social media sites.

• Big data - Part 2

  By Brad Howarth | 20 September, 2011 10:12

  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.

• Big data - Part 1

  By Brad Howarth | 19 September, 2011 10:12

  According to IDC’s Digital Universe report the data created globally on an annual basis will leap from 1.2 zettabytes this year to 35 zettabytes in 2020 (one zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes).

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