Big Data, Big Potential for Big Problems

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Data is not information — it is necessary but not sufficient. Raise that by a few orders of magnitude (i.e., big data) and it’s easy to come (quickly) to the wrong conclusions. Original article by Bob Lewis in InfoWorld. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- Big data’s pitfall: Answers that are clear, compelling, and wrong …

CIO Strategies for 2013

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New month of a new year — and so we review a few new CIO strategies. The post from Caron Carlson in FierceCIO covers an article by John Brandon in CIO. Self-serving highlight: “Embrace the cloud for disaster recovery”. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— 6 CIOs Share Their Strategic Visions for 2013 If your …

Cyber Attack on The New York Times

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Cyber attacks are growing in frequency and sophistication. The 4-month attack on The New York Times is fascinating (to me, anyways) in how expansive it was. Caron Carlson (FierceCIO) summarizes an article by Antone Gonsalves in CSO magazine. Lessons learned: Multiple layers of security are required. Close monitoring and analysis of application behavior is required. Sandboxing and whitelisting — while …

AIS and New Customer DAR.fm in Daily T1R

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DAR.fm has selected the AIS Lightwave datacenter in San Diego for a multi-rack deployment. DAR.fm reported that it will benefit from colocation services from AIS, with the potential for additional services in the future. DAR.fm opted to start 2013 with a fresh slate, including a new MTDC provider to support its mission-critical operations, and migrated from its previous provider during …

IT Security Risks (and ROI) Rising

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IT Security is a big deal for many AIS clients — and the survey results described below help illustrate why that is so. The post is from Jim Kim of FierceComplianceIT and covers an article originally penned by Warwick Ashford in ComputerWeekly.com. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– IT security risk still growing There was a …

DNA Big Data = Big Data DNA

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This article reveals an interesting twist on the subject of big data and bioinformatics. Caron Carlson from FierceCIO picked up on an article by Ed Yong in Nature about using actual DNA to store big data. But don’t throw out those tapes and disks drive quite yet: at over $12K per MB to write and $220 to read, there’s still …

SDBJ: AIS to Provide Services for Innovative Internet Radio Venture

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American Internet Services announced a new customer win recently. The business said it will provide infrastructure for DAR.fm, an Internet radio venture from San Diego serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson. AIS will serve the business from its data center on Lightwave Avenue in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego. DAR.fm describes its product as akin to digital video recorder technology …

3D, High Definition Films: (Really) Big Data

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Big data is a big deal, particularly when it comes to genomics and high definition films, particularly new 3D films such as The Hobbit. I picked up the FierceCIO post below about an article in Information Week by Jeff Bertolucci. These two excerpts pretty much sum up the situation: “Within the last five years, we’ve seen something in the order …

Big Data Heart Hadoop

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I picked up this post from FierceBiotech IT about a story by Chris Kanaracus in Computerworld regarding Hadoop and its use in big data applications (such as genomics). Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————- Hadoop will be in most advanced analytics products by 2015, Gartner says Expect plenty of uptake for natural language and vocal command …

Tape Is Tops…Again?!

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Who knew? Caron Carlson in FierceCIO earmarked this story from Stephen Lawson in Computerworld. I learn something new every day. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– Tape is back and better than ever It’s the oldest medium in digital computing storage, but magnetic tape is far from being relegated to the dustbin of history. Instead, …