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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO Business Intelligence

Since 2001, Durham University’s tier 1 national supercomputing facility has supported scientists and researchers around the world and is using HPC to build a digital simulation of the universe, starting with the Big Bang. The result s include 18X faster data backups, 72% less power, and a reduction of 60 tons of CO 2 per year.

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IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies

CIO Business Intelligence

While a new forecast released Monday by Spiceworks/Ziff Davis said that overall IT spending will be largely unhampered by recessionary trends in the economic outlook, much of that spending will be driven by large enterprises, leaving the picture much murkier for small and medium-size businesses. Essentially, he said, recessions shouldnâ??t

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Marketing as a strategic business partner: mixing theory, research and #data

Jen Stirrup

I thought I’d share how we started to apply marketing theory, practice, and insights from data. So, organizations need a cohesive strategy which aligns all methods of communication to ensure consistency (Porter, 2001). The secret is the data. After all, the Internet can break a business very quickly! It’s a balance.

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Whether driven by my score, or by their own firsthand experience, the doctors sent me straight to the neonatal intensive care ward, where I spent my first few days. And yet a number or category label that describes a human life is not only machine-readable data. Numbers like that typically mean a baby needs help.

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Modernize a legacy real-time analytics application with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

AWS Big Data

Organizations with legacy, on-premises, near-real-time analytics solutions typically rely on self-managed relational databases as their data store for analytics workloads. Near-real-time streaming analytics captures the value of operational data and metrics to provide new insights to create business opportunities.

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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

Today, the term describes that same activity, but on a much larger scale, as organizations race to collect, analyze, and act on data first. But there have always been limits on who can access valuable data, as well as how it can be used. In the 1970s, data was confined to mainframes and primitive databases.

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You Need a Higher, More Reliable ROI

Andrew White

There are no cheap labor pools to join the WTO, as China did in 2001. Despite the dearth of case studies and press stories telling of wonderous tools and technologies, economic growth has not materialized driven by increased productivity. AI-driven Customer Experience. Data-driven or Analytics program.

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