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Revealed by Edward Snowden last year, the NSA spying program has had many repercussions. The PRISM program has cost U.S. industry a $22 to $35 billion loss over three years . More than that, NSA spying caused more damages to…
Research firm IDC in a recent report shows that companies combine Hadoop with other databases to make big data analysis. A significant proportion of survey respondents said Hadoop is used to replace traditional data warehouse…
The popularity of Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS has grown to record levels and continues to grow at a very rapid pace. During the last four years, the object stored on Amazon’s S3 servers increased from 262 million to over two…
The LAUNCH Festival 2014 Hackathon is February 21-23 in San Francisco. LAUNCH Hackathon #3 is offering grand prizes of $2M investment or $10k cash, awesome food, massages, and additional prizes from API partners. The best part?…
Recognizing the emergence of a strong demand for cognitive computing , IBM has made the decision to give birth to a new business unit that will deal specifically on technologies related to the supercomputer. The Blue chip…
If a toast charred, Google wants to know about the future. The Internet giant sets big jump on the bandwagon with networked home automation and in particular Internet of Things . For this purpose, the group absorbs the company of…
McAfee Labs has published a report with the predictions of threats in 2014 ( McAfee Labs 2014 Threats Predictions ), where in the list along with the apocalyptic threat of cyber-attacks on infrastructure, big data, and PC, there…
By Adam Stern Nearly everyone agrees on the key benefits of virtual servers -- scalability, improved resource utilization, reduced operational costs, instant provisioning, and the ability to quickly expand the server base. But…
More studies confirm that the average safety offered by the data center over the cloud is higher than the average recorded at similar facilities on premises, but WikiLeaks scandal and espionage activities conducted at the level of…
By Jieming Zhu According to industry research firm Gartner, the worldwide market for cloud computing will grow 18.5 percent this year to $131 billion. One of the leading areas of adoption among companies of all sizes is file share…