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August 13, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Aug 13, 2012

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

  • Nvidia’s mobile computing investments pay off TechDay
  • Techday – Nvidia reported revenue of $1.04 billion for the second quarter, crediting investments in mobile and visual computing as key factors in takings. (more)

  • Sophos Mobile Control Upgrade Monitors BYOD, iOS Apps
  • InformationWeek Security software provider Sophos has introduced an enhanced version of its Mobile Control product, which it says provides improved risk mitigation features, including the ability for IT to remotely wipe a corporate device if an employee leaves a … (more)

  • Scot Finnie: The real CoIT
  • Computerworld (blog) The vaguely derogatory term BYOD probably started off as some IT person’s joke, a takeoff on a similar acronym that rhymes with it. “Bring your own device” takes the end user’s point of view, not IT’s. But it defines a very narrow aspect of CoIT — and … (more)

  • The rise and rise of touchscreens in the workplace
  • Computing Many IT managers would prefer to believe that the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon (a) does not really exist, or (b) can be safely ignored. These people would be advised to check their server logs, to see exactly what is connecting to their … (more)

  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges Enable BYOD, Deliver Campus-wide …
  • Virtual-Strategy Magazine … which is replacing an existing 802.11a/b/g wireless network from Meru Networks, is expected to cover all learning, work, living and recreational spaces on campus, and will expand upon the Colleges’ support of a bring your own device (BYOD) environment. (more)

  • Sage North America Reveals Mobile and Cloud Business Apps Strategy to
  • Help … Broadcast Newsroom Sage is delivering for the cloud and mobile computing today, and we are committed to helping SMBs be successful in this new world.” Houillon described the company’s global three-pronged approach to the cloud — each aimed at a specific segment of the … (more)

  • Perimeter E-Security to Host Webinar on Five Best and Worst
  • Bring-Your-Own … Sacramento Bee … redistributed. MILFORD, Conn., Aug. 13, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Perimeter E-Security, the leading provider of secure cloud services, will host a webinar this week that focuses on safe and effective bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies for … (more)

  • Research findings show dramatic increase in security issues with BYOD
  • FierceMobileIT A new report from Juniper Research shows that personally owned devices in the enterprise are increasing at a rapid pace, and that the number of such devices is expected to double in two years. Juniper also said that by 2017, the number of such devices … (more)

  • Sophos’ latest MDM software aims to encourage BYOD
  • AppsTech Sophos has announced the release of their Sophos Mobile Control 2.5 mobile device management (MDM) software, which will aim to further encourage BYOD. The software incorporates several facets, including the ability to wipe a corporate device after an … (more)

  • Trend Micro security for firms
  • The Nation Trend Micro is releasing Trend Micro Mobile Security 8.0 to help businesses deal with the challenges of consumerisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. Surasak Wanichwatphibun, a technical consultant at Trend Micro (Thailand), said that this … (more)

  • New Manukau campus ready for BYOD
  • Computerworld New Zealand Manukau Institute of Technology’s planned new tertiary campus, to open mid-next year, will have an end-user computing network set up on virtual desktop principles, with the expectation that students will predominantly bring their own portable … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 13, 2012

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

  • Media6Degrees’ Claudia Perlich Wins Second ACM SIGKDD Best Industry …
  • Broadcast Newsroom “Claudia is an exceptional data scientist, and we’re lucky to have her co-leading our pioneering work alongside Brian Dalessandro,” said Tom Phillips, CEO of m6d. “We are thrilled that the KDD conference has once again recognized the incredible work … (more)

  • How Big Data Became So Big – Slashdot
  • Big Data has sprung from the confines of technology circles into the mainstream, even becoming grist for Dilbert satire (‘Big Data lives in The Cloud. It knows… (more)

  • Companies struggle to get past open source ‘big data’ experimentation
  • TechTarget UK Open source “big data” technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. (more)

  • Nimble unveils scalable big data storage
  • ITWeb Nimble Storage is offering hybrid scale-out storage solutions that are flexible and affordable, qualities necessary requirements for enterprises that are adopting virtualisation in the data centre and trying to get their arms around big data, Tech Week … (more)

  • Symantec Big Data offerings make Apache Hadoop Enterprise Ready
  • CTR Apache Hadoop offers customers significant value to drive revenue by helping analyze data for business insights, however many existing data solutions lack the data management capabilities and built-in resilience to overcome the cost and complexity of … (more)

  • 5 Big Data Trends Transforming the Channel
  • Channelnomics Enter Big Data. A lot is being made of the Big Data trend as vendors race products and services to market to capitalize on this trend. Some say Big Data is just a repackaging of data mining and business intelligence. To a certain degree, this is true … (more)

  • The emergence of big data in the boardroom
  • ITProPortal With more than 1.8 zettabytes of information created in 2011 (which would require 57.5 billion 32 GB iPads to store!) and 2.5 quintillions pieces of data being churned out every day according to IBM, big data has become a serious business issue for … (more)

  • Big data calls for more data scientists
  • CIOL BANGALORE, INDIA: In the past, we had enough number of information technology and software engineers to drive the IT revolution in the country. And today, as the industry is undergoing a change with the onset of cloud and big data, we need a new breed … (more)

  • Data Scientist at Abercrombie and Fitch in Columbus Ohio 43054 …
  • Abercrombie and Fitch – Data Scientist – Columbus – Position Title: Sr. Analyst, Business Intelligence – AnalyticTalent.com. (more)

  • Data Scientist at EMC | AnalyticTalentcom
  • EMC – Data Scientist – - Greenplum, a division of EMC, is setting the pace – AnalyticTalent.com. (more)

  • Big Data Playing a Bigger Role in Fraud-Spotting
  • Compliance Week That may all be changing with the advent of the Big Data era. These days, high-powered analytic tools can crunch through enormous quantities of structured and unstructured data, producing an exponentially greater set of comparisons within the data on … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 13, 2012

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

Daily Log News Feed – Aug 13, 2012

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

Daily ITIL News Feed – Aug 13, 2012

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