Friday, January 27, 2012

Stuff the Beatles left off the White Album January 23-27 2012

Is the 'quantified self' movement just a fad?

Google kills more services

Jim Kobielus on 2012

http://www.decisionstats.com/jim-kobielus-on-2012/

Apps Overtaking Middleware

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment

The PC industry is heading for collapse

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-pc-industry-is-heading-for-collapse/17828?tag=nl.e019

What Megaupload's Demise Teaches about Cloud Storage
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7823979/7006273/548530/0/

Using Libraries In the Age of eBooks
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3393423/5553367/280399/0/

Web Jargon Origins Revealed
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280481/0/

Facebook's Timeline Apps: Beacon 2.0
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280484/0/

Internet Promotes Literacy, Study Says
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280486/0/

Hadoop Takes a Giant Step Toward the Enterprise

http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Business-Analytics/Hadoop-Takes-a-Giant-Step-Toward-the-Enterprise/?kc=STNL01232012STR3

The 10 dumbest tech predictions for 2012

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/the-10-dumbest-tech-predictions-for-2012/3004?tag=nl.e101

Oracle's Hadoop move could push rivals toward big data bundles

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223599/Oracle_Move_Could_Push_Rivals_Toward_Big_Data_Bundles?source=CTWNLE_nlt_thisweek_2012-01-23

Megaupload, Anonymous, SOPA and the Internet fallout

The Hazy Future of Phones
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3395283/5553367/280841/0/

Microsoft Takes a New Approach to the Cloud

IBM Debuts New Analytics Appliance to Help Retailers Transform Big Data Into Business Opportunities

MicroStrategy Delivers Free In-memory Data Discovery Capabilities to Salesforce Users http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4952253&access=EH

MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.2.1m http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4952278&access=EH

12 Hadoop Vendors To Watch In 2012

Hadoop's Flexibility Wins Over Online Data Provider

Q&A: EFFECTIVE PREDICTIVE MODELING TECHNIQUES MORE THAN A MATH
PROBLEM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16147559/2433922

IceWeb, nDataStor Team on Unified Data

The MDM and Governance Ripple Effect

Testing the Edge of the Cloud

Dot Collectors and Dot Connectors

Cloudera Teams With O'Reilly Media to Merge Hadoop World and Strata Conferences

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudera-teams-oreilly-media-merge-143500569.html

Google+ Says 'Yes' to Nicknames, But No to Anonymity
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281192/0/

Google Looks to Speed Up the Internet
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281195/0/

Facebook, Twitter Devs Release 'Don't Be Evil' Tool for Google
Search
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281202/0/

The Web's Growing Muscle

'If I Die' Facebook app sends your final message

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223679/_If_I_Die_Facebook_app_sends_your_final_message_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-01-25

Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7

6 Predictions For Business Intelligence In 2012

CEP and Big Data 2

CRM data integration provider Scribe boosts cloud offering with GUI synchronization services

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

Cassandra and Hadoop

Understanding the options for Big Data in the cloud

Rival Social Nets Scold Google With 'Don't Be Evil' Bookmarklet
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74258.html

Google's Plan for World Domination

Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data

http://links.eqentia.com/520b2ad1536d771f/?dst=http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/microsoft-big-data.html&utm_campaign=visibli&utm_source=cloudcomputing&utm_medium=twitter

EMC Tops Backup Appliance Market

BI Experts: Why Enterprise Data Strategies Must Support Business Goals

Q&A: "Cool BI" List Includes Dashboards, Visual Discovery Tools

2012: Year of Cloud BI

Q&A: Analytics, Unstructured Data, and the Growth of Social Media

From the BI Scorecard: The Year Ahead in BI and a Look Back on 2011 Highlights

EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

Google to combine users' data across its services

Tibco adds geolocation to its Tibbr social platform

Why the time is almost ripe for Solid State Disks in the data center

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking/why-the-time-is-almost-ripe-for-solid-state-disks-in-the-data-center/5279?tag=nl.e102

IBM Netezza Appliance: Speed Lane To Retail Insights

BPM AND ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE: THE CASE FOR INTEGRATION
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16160853/2433922

GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT: ORACLE, IBM LEAD PRODUCT MDM SOFTWARE MARKET
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16165565/2433922

CREATE BUSINESS RULES IN ORACLE HYPERION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16165164/2433922

Total Execution of Social Networks and Analytics

Cloud and Social IT Serendipity

Applications of R in Business

Amazon Web Services moves backups to cloud with new appliance

BMMsoft Announces EDMT Solution 9.0 on MySQL for Small and Medium Enterprises

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/25/4213792/bmmsoft-announces-edmt-solution.html

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment

SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year

Is Security An Afterthought For NoSQL?

IBM, Oracle Make Competing Smart Grid Announcements

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=121003Y8RBWD&nl=2

Amazon Rolls Out Ultra-Scalable DynamoDB

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=121007WBM55U&nl=2

Big Data's Big Challenges for Content Management
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74243.html

TIBCO Spotfire Webcast to Offer Insights on Increasing Customer Engagement, Efficiency and Loyalty Through Advanced Analytics

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/tibco-spotfire-webcast-offer-insights-on-increasing-customer-engagement-efficiency-loyalty-nasdaq-tibx-1611256.htm

PepsiCo Makes Employees Social Ambassadors

Why Personal Health Records Have Flopped

Mavuno: A Hadoop-Based Text Mining Toolkit

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/16519051392/mavuno-a-hadoop-based-text-mining-toolkit

Preston Gralla: Is Steve Ballmer a better leader for Microsoft than Bill Gates had been?

Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7

Joomla gets search, database reinforcements

NoSQL-Based Database Service for Apps Launched by Amazon

CIA-backed Cleversafe announces 10-exabyte storage system

EMC To Release 'Project Lightning' Flash Cache Soon

6 Predictions For Business Intelligence In 2012

Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries

Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

Talend Seeks More Partner 'Mindshare' For Its Open-Source Software

4 Best Practices for Process-Centric CRM

Not All Analytics Fit for the Cloud

Big Data is More Than Hadoop

How to Predict the Future and Act with Certainty

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

Cassandra and Hadoop

My thoughts on IBM, NEC, and OpenFlow

Can Cloud-Based Collaborative Data-Sharing Be Secure Enough for
Defense Systems?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3398729/5553367/281990/0/

Microsoft Cloud Service Lets Users Crunch Big Data
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16173082/2433922

Analysing customers: It pays to keep data near where they are crunched

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0f5f848-412f-11e1-8c33-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1kfY5hmJw

IBM Joins Google, Microsoft In Cloud Productivity War

Amazon cloud storage gateway scrutinized by competitors
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16190734/2433922

IT Execs Predict Big Future for Clouds, Big Data

Cloud, SaaS Offerings Bolster Business Intelligence Market

Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Storage Gateway

Solid State Storage Can Save You Money

Twitter Prepares To Censor Tweets, Country by Country
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3399745/5553367/282398/0/

INTEREST GROWING IN CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16191532/2433922

Scientists Close In on Invisibility Cloak
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74285.html