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Iron-Eating Bacteria: Coming Soon to a Hard Drive Near You? May 15, 2012 
Today's hard drives may be smaller, faster, cheaper and more capacious than their predecessors, but the need for ever-tinier components is making it difficult to keep improving them. Therein lies at least part of the motivation behind biocomputing -- in which microscopic biological molecules are being recruited to play a role -- and recently scientists have identified a fresh new possibility in this area.
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Sapphire Now: It's a Mobile, Social, Cloudy, Collaborative World May 15, 2012 
The Sapphire Now conference kicked off Monday in Orlando, Fla., with 60,000 customers, partners and employees of SAP participating, either at the conference facility or watching it online. The first day of the event offered the usual lineup of celebrity speakers -- corporate and otherwise -- with Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong featured in the morning and SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott in the afternoon.
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Apple and Microsoft Take Heat for High Prices Down Under April 30, 2012 
Today in international tech news: Lawmakers investigate why software and downloads are so much more expensive in Australia, a mobile network is lobbying to speed up the introduction of 4G in Britain, a wireless provider might try to block Skype in Sweden, and Tech In Asia looks at the inspiration for the Google Drive logo.
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What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Hactivists? April 30, 2012 
Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of IT pros believe their organizations will be the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and three out of five (61 percent) say the attack will come from hactivists. That was one of the findings in cybersecurity firm Bit9's annual security survey released last week. What's surprising about the survey is the concern given to hacktivist attacks, said Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove.
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Disaster Recovery: It's Not Just for Catastrophes Anymore April 30, 2012 
Business standards and compliance services provider SAI Global is benefiting from a strategic view of IT-enabled disaster recovery. SAI Global has brought advanced backup and DR best practices into play for its users and customers. This has not only provided business continuity assurance, but it has also provided beneficial data lifecycle management and virtualization efficiency improvement.
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Would You Let Your Data Sleep Over at Google's House? April 28, 2012 
A lingering cloud of Google vaporware finally condensed recently into an actual product. Google Drive has been a subject of speculation for years, but now the company's own cloud storage service is here for real. Google Drive lets anyone store a few gigabytes worth of data on Google's servers.
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Match the Big Data Job to the Big Data Solution April 27, 2012 
In the rush to play in the Big Data game, it's easy to forget the fundamentals. The fear of being left behind can cause enterprise IT teams to move directly into pilot projects with a choice of products and technologies that may not be best designed to solve the identified business problem.
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Online Storage: Pick a Cloud, Any Cloud April 25, 2012 
With the launch of Google Drive on Tuesday, the number of cloud storage service options for consumers has become bewildering. Players include Google with Google Drive, Windows Live SkyDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, YouSendIt, SpiderOak, SugarSync, Box.net, Amazon Cloud Drive and Ubuntu One. On a basic level, they all offer similar services.
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Google Drive Hits China's Wall April 25, 2012 
Today in international tech news: Google Drive is "dead in the water" in China. Meanwhile, a soap opera is unfolding in South Korea, where there's a feud between the chairman of Samsung and family members who want a bigger piece of the company's fortune. Elsewhere, Twitter plays a central, and unfortunate, role in an English court case.
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Google Drive Kicks Into Gear April 24, 2012
Google on Tuesday unveiled Google Drive, its long-anticipated storage locker in the cloud. The service incorporates Google Docs and lets users upload, access and share their files, including videos, photos and PDFs. Google Drive works on Macs and PCs, and an Android app is available. An iOS app is in the works.
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SkyDrive Builds Up Syncing, Downsizes Free Space April 24, 2012 
Microsoft is giving its SkyDrive cloud storage service a makeover that will include new apps and greater synchronization abilities across mobile and PC devices. The new service includes SkyDrive for the Windows desktop, so it can be managed right from Windows Explorer or from SkyDrive.com.
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Tech Industry Coalition Seeks More Government Transparency April 24, 2012 
President Obama initiated an Open Government program on his second day in office, pledging to make government information more accessible to the public. Three years later, that program has achieved significant success in many forums. However, the effort of making more federal information even more accessible is a continuing one that seems to get more challenging every year.
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Harnessing Big Data Through Customer Intelligence April 24, 2012 
Driving revenue performance and applying data in order to influence/generate buying behavior throughout the customer life cycle is not new -- it's an ongoing goal. Real-time marketing, which relies on capturing data in real time, improves revenue performance and is the optimal way to drive 1:1 customer interaction throughout the customer life cycle.
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Disaster Recovery: Learning From Painful Experience April 23, 2012 
When Hurricane Ike struck Texas in 2008, it became the second-costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S. It was also a wake-up call for Houston-based insurance wholesaler Myron Steves & Co., which was not struck directly but nonetheless realized its IT disaster recovery approach was woefully inadequate.
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Big Data, Tough Questions April 20, 2012
If you work with SIEM, you've been spending more than a couple of years, dealing with "Big Data" -- more lines of logs than any one person, or even a reasonable-sized team of people, could ever hope to keep up with reading through. Our data is plenty big enough already. So why is everyone so hyped over Big Data now?
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Is Google Drive Ready to Hit the Road? April 17, 2012 
Cloud-based storage utility Google Drive is set to debut next week. Rumors regarding a Google online storage space have persisted for years, but it's actual release is now just around the corner. The cloud storage system will be available for free, and Google will give new users 5 GB of free space. It will work across Windows, OS X and various mobile platforms.
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Look Who's Going to the Big Data Party April 13, 2012 
The exponential growth of data from a widening array of sources is making the term "Big Data" a hot topic among corporate executives from businesses of all sizes across nearly every industry.
The Big Data phenomenon is being fueled by new social networks, mobile devices and increasingly powerful applications that can apture every keystroke and convert it into valuable information.
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Run Your Software From a USB Stick for Security and Speed April 12, 2012 
Historically, freelancers have carried their software tools as compact discs, or as copies of the discs on a portable hard drive. Both have needed to be installed on the library, or client's computer. This has been time-consuming additional work. Security has also been an issue, with temporary document files and software footprints being left behind after an install -- a thorough cleanup being even more onerous at the end of the job.
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Customer Relationship Metrics Takes On the Unstructured Data Challenge April 02, 2012 
Customer Relationship Metrics has launched Text BI, its latest offering in its suite of managed analytics solutions. Text BI enables companies to take unstructured text-based data from surveys, emails, social media, CRM systems and other applications, and organize it into a format that makes it easier to analyze.
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Google Gives Users a Gander at the Trails They Leave March 29, 2012 
Google has launched a new tool called "Account Activity," designed to give users a detailed glimpse into their Web usage across all Google sites and services. Account Activity is a personalized, detailed monthly report on Web activity with Google search, Gmail accounts, YouTube and social network Google+.
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