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July 9, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Jul 9, 2012

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

  • Network security in the BYOD era

    • Computerworld Australia The bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon may be consumer-led, it may be tempting to also pass along network and data security onto employees, but doing so would lull you into a false sense of security. If anything, BYOD means that IT departments … (more)

  • Apple Poised To Change The Mobile Computing Landscape …

    • ipad mini, apple, daily deal media Three years ago in January, Apple permanently altered the mobile computing landscape when late CEO Steve Jobs … (more)

  • IBM Goes BYOD With VDI

    • IT Jungle In June, IBM announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution aimed at bridging the gap between client/server apps and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution. Organizations today face a two-pronged challenge of meeting the modern … (more)

  • School electronics debate escalates in Hooksett

    • The Union Leader One school board member is calling for the body’s chairman to consider stepping down following last month’s vote to permanently implement the district’s Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy. (more)

  • Mobile technology and business – changing environment

    • St. Louis Beacon Anyone thinking about his or her business’ future must consider the impact of mobile computing. Even if that technology is only marginally important now and no matter what business you are in, it is likely be much more profound in the future. Trends in … (more)

  • BYOD is a user-driven movement, not a secure mobile device strategy

    • Regardless if you call it the consumerization of IT or the bring your own device ( BYOD) movement, the trend of people using their own mobile devices to access … (more)

  • BYOD for SMBs: Trends, Risks and Benefits [Infographic] | Inside the …

    • For SMBs, mobility and the move toward BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) offer both opportunities and challenges. It’s a trend that shows no sign of slowing down, … (more)

  • Enterprise Mobility and Migration Towards Cloud Data Centers Drives the …

    • Virtual-Strategy Magazine Increased adoption of mobile computing devices as common business tools, particularly in emerging markets such as China and India, has created the need for mobile applications and services, which can be efficiently delivered over the Internet, thereby … (more)

  • Mobile Strategies Come First In The Future

    • Channelnomics These are signs that tablet computing (and mobile computing) is becoming a de-facto kind of computing. Today, a mobile-first approach might seem impractical. Outfitting large enterprise companies with purely mobile solutions is a near-impossible task. (more)

  • Three Reasons Why Apple Must Release A Small iPad

    • International Business Times As tablets become the rage in the mobile computing market, manufacturers are sprucing up their plans to gain a toehold in this segment. With turf wars hotting up, the IBTimes Tech Desk identifies three reasons as to why market leader Apple must release … (more)

  • After Getting HP Love, Intel Reaches $31 On Mobile Growth

    • Forbes Intel has been a force to reckon with in the PC microprocessor market for the last two decades, and we believe its entry in mobile computing is a good long-term strategy to stay abreast with changing consumer trends. While ARM Holdings claims not to be … (more)

  • Framehawk Mobilizes Enterprise Apps With Less Pain

    • InformationWeek The excitement that surrounds mobility, and indeed anything that jets into the realm of BYOD (bring your own device) or COIT (consumerization of IT), has been drowning out–perhaps thankfully–the more pedestrian topic of enterprise mobility. The … (more)

  • BYOD can only be allowed if correct management is in place

    • ihotdesk – IT News While flexibility can be the key for success in the modern business world, using things like video conferencing, VoIP, cloud computing and in particular allowing BYOD (bring your own device) come with pitfalls which have to be considered. Mr Amedume … (more)

  • Network Management: AppNeta Takes On BYOD

    • Midsize Insider The era of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) in IT has brought a proliferation of consumer devices into the workplace. This in turn is producing network management headaches for IT managers at midsize firms. Now one vendor, AppNeta, is responding with tools … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Jul 9, 2012

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

  • Streaming Goes Global: Analysing Global Streaming Music With EMI Insight

    • Data Music Industry Blog (blog) The data is being shared with the data science community in a range of initiatives including forthcoming Music Data Science Hackcamps. As hard data continues to be something of a scarce commodity for the streaming music debate I decided to mine EMI’s … (more)

  • Soda Versus Pop, Visualized

    • Gizmodo is to grab a bunch of data from Twitter and analyze it. Which is exactly what Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, decided to do. (more)

  • Aggregating Twitter data to answer the age-old question: soda or pop?

    • The Verge Twitter data scientist Edwin Chen collected and analyzed tweets across the world to map one of the most well-known markers of linguistic difference: how … (more)

  • Vertica Systems Co-Founder and Big-Data Entrepreneur Andy Palmer joins …

    • MarketWatch (press release) SEATTLE, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Medio Systems Inc., leading provider of Big Data analytics utilized to increase customer understanding, engagement and monetization, today announced it has named Andy Palmer as corporate advisor. (more)

  • GridGain Systems Advances its Compute Grid for Real Time Streaming Big

    • Data … Virtual-Strategy Magazine One of the biggest challenges for companies with Big Data is getting real time answers from highly computational operations – particularly on live, high-velocity streaming data. GridGain Systems develops scalable, distributed in-memory compute and data … (more)

  • Big Data In Space and Around The World

    • The Network However, thanks to big data and the governments of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, astronomers will be able to see back in time before the first galaxies came into existence. This will all be made possible through the mammoth, global science … (more)

  • Symantec Uses Big Data To Make Smarter Anti-Virus

    • Trefis Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) has revealed the inner workings of Norton Insight. This is a Big Data approach to security and is likely to produce better security products for the company. Norton Insight started collecting information about co-operative user … (more)

  • Mount Sinai Medical Center, Cloudera embrace Big Data in genomics

    • FierceBiotech IT Major forces in the worlds of genomics research and Big Data have united to transform the analysis of elephantine amounts of biological and health data. And the collaborators–Mount Sinai Medical Center and the software company Cloudera–have enlisted … (more)

  • Coke Vs Soda Vs Pop, Visualised

    • Gizmodo Australia The route to answering the big questions these days is to grab a bunch of data from Twitter and analyse it. That’s exactly what Twitter data scientist Edwin … (more)

  • Data Storage: Big Data Analytics Is Just Starting to Reach Its Potential:

    • 10 … eWeek Big data- and the demands that its collection, processing and security put on IT resources- is on about every IT decision maker’s mind right about now. The so-called Four V’s of Big Data- volume, variety, velocity and value- are holding true as … (more)

  • Yahoo launches big data tool Genome on schedule (but will anybody care?)

    • GigaOM Between its CEO search and patent war with Facebook, the past few months have been especially rocky for long-beleaguered Yahoo. But, on schedule, the company today announced that it is rolling out its big data ad tool Genome. (more)

  • Kasabi’s big data, makes small splash

    • Upstart Big data marketplace Kasabi is due to permanently close it’s offices, and after… (more)

  • Microsoft, Big Data and statistical idiocy

    • ComputerworldUK (blog) The performance management system of “stack ranking” has been in the news this week. Stack ranking is controversial for a number of reasons but our particular bugbear is that it is an example of the broader misunderstanding and misuse of statistics … (more)

  • Focus on cloud and big data courses

    • The Australian INDUSTRY has singled out cloud, mobile and big data skills as being among the key requirements from university graduates in the next few years. (more)

  • Soda or pop? How to refer to your sugary drink

    • msnbc.com Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, geo-tagged every tweet with the mention of “soda,” “pop,” or “coke” to see who was saying what, where. (more)

  • Soda vs. Pop: Twitter Is Pretty Good at Linguistics

    • The Atlantic Wire Looking to solve the great soda versus pop debate, data scientist Edwin Chen went to Twitter for some data points and his results are pretty consistent with … (more)

  • The 3 I’s Of Big Data

    • Forbes As Vance Loiselle, CEO of analytics company Sumo Logic recently told me, Big Data is: Immediate – in the sense that you need to do something about it now Intimidating – what if you don’t? Ill-defined – what is it, anyway? With a nod to the well-known 3 … (more)

  • GridGain Systems Advances its Compute Grid for Real Time Streaming Big

    • Data … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) In essence, GridGain has taken the Hadoop MapReduce paradigm (splitting large computational tasks into smaller parallelizable pieces) to a whole new level, with the world’s fastest implementation highly optimized for in-memory, distributed and parallel … (more)

  • Internet2 readies 100G OpenFlow SDN for Big Data

    • Computerworld Internet2 is nearing completion of its OpenFlow-enabled 100G Ethernet software-defined network for testing service delivery of applications for Big Data compilation and research, among others. (more)

  • July 20, 2012 – Events – Data Science Central

    • All Events on Friday, July 20, 2012 | Welcome to Data Science Central. The Community of and for Data Scientist. (more)

  • Big Data, Big Problems

    • Electric Light & Power Few people in my social circles, including my close friends and family, understand what I do for a living. (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 9, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily Log News Feed – Jul 9, 2012

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily ITIL News Feed – Jul 9, 2012

Daily aggregation of ITIL news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.