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December 5, 2016 By editor

There are a lot of advantages to storing your big data in the cloud. Start-ups can get going without having to set up servers and data centers. However, what about organizations that already have data centers? How do you move petabytes of valuable data to a cloud provider? You rarely see much coverage of this---because it's a difficult problem. There are no clever technical solutions. Amazon's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Big data Tagged With: Amazon, AWS, cloud, data transfer, Snowball, Snowmobile, upload

Microsoft speeding up tonight’s Iowa caucus

February 1, 2016 By editor

Microsoft is providing technology for tonight's Iowa caucus that should facilitate [the] accuracy and efficiency of the reporting process It also gives the company, which is seeing strong grow in its cloud services, to showcase its cloud and mobile offerings in a high stakes setting. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Big data Tagged With: cloud, Microsoft, politics

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