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7 steps for business success with big data — Cloud Computing News. Quantum computing could head to 'the cloud', study says. 19 January 2012Last updated at 19:17 By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Simple laboratory-based quantum computers may yet find a way to the desktop A novel high-speed, high-security computing technology will be compatible with the "cloud computing" approach popular on the web, a study suggests.

Quantum computing could head to 'the cloud', study says

Quantum computing will use the inherent uncertainties in quantum physics to carry out fast, complex computations. A report in Science shows the trick can extend to "cloud" services such as Google Docs without loss of security. This "blind quantum computing" can be carried out without a cloud computer ever knowing what the data is. Amazon Launches Big Data Service - Cloud-computing - Software as a Service. DynamoDB cloud service, based on Amazon's own big data handling experience, offers NoSQL database capabilities and storage built for speed. 12 Top Big Data Analytics Players (click image for larger view and for slideshow)

Amazon Launches Big Data Service - Cloud-computing - Software as a Service

Health Care Is Next Frontier for Big Data. Science Data Sharing Site figshare Relaunches, Adds Features. Connotate and Information Evolution, Inc. Partner to Make Big Data Easy for Small Businesses. Data-digesting cloud colossus touted by Fujitsu. High performance access to file storage Being online to serve your customers is not enough anymore.

Data-digesting cloud colossus touted by Fujitsu

Big Data Redraws the IT Landscape. What if current buyers of enterprise IT became the most important IT suppliers?

Big Data Redraws the IT Landscape

Consider this scenario: By the end of this decade, a number of established and emerging enterprises will become big data-driven entities, expanding beyond their narrowly defined “industries” to become full-fledged IT players, working with or competing with traditional IT vendors to develop and deliver IT solutions for a wide range of customers. There has been only one previous restructuring of the IT industry and analyzing it may help shed light on the next one.

Survey: Business Intelligence Back on Top of CIOs Minds. Business intelligence and analytics have again become the top technology priority for CIOs, replacing cloud computing, according to a survey of 2,335 CIOs conducted by Gartner.

Survey: Business Intelligence Back on Top of CIOs Minds

Business intelligence lost the top spot on Gartner's list to virtualization in 2010, but returned this year. "I think it dropped off the top for a couple of years because expectations were really high, and they weren't really met," said Dave Aron, vice president and a fellow in Gartner's CIO Research group. The underlying technology wasn't necessarily the culprit, but reasons for the disillusion were more on a corporate level. Companies not having the right business focus, or making sure that business intelligence efforts were really used right, according to Aron. Big Data Changes Storage Needs - storage Blog. Growth of unstructured data forces IT managers to look for new ways to scale storage capabilities, with cloud storage a leading option.

Big Data Changes Storage Needs - storage Blog

In our last entry we talked about the trend of converging storage and compute infrastructures into a single platform. Smallest data storage: A 100TB pen drive. When it comes to digital storage, it has always been a race for the smaller ones.

Smallest data storage: A 100TB pen drive

Now, researchers at IBM have unveiled the smallest data storage device taking nanotechnology to a totally different level. The findings, reported in the journal Science, could shrink the size of memory chips and data storage devices that will have capacities ranging over 100 TBs apart from consuming less power. The new development will reduce the number of atoms used to store a bit of data on a disk drive from one million to just 12 magnetic atoms. The mass production of the new technology may not be possible for several years though. According to reports, the 12 atom device currently operates at 1 degree kelvin, about - 458 degrees Fahrenheit and using it in room temperature would expand its size up to 150 atoms. Under the laboratory's founder, Don Eigler, IBM has explored the science of nanomaterials far smaller than the silicon chips used in today's semiconductors. Big data could change view of cloud storage.

Enterprises may be harboring continued doubts about cloud-based storage systems, but the onslaught of big data may begin to override those doubts.

Big data could change view of cloud storage

The unprecedented expansion of unstructured data is the main driver behind cloud storage, writes George Crump, analyst with Storage Switzerland. With the growth of user-generated data, including video and audio in addition to documents, combined with computer- and application-generated data, the need for storage capacity is exploding. Conventional storage systems might not be able to keep up, Crump writes in a post at InformationWeek.

Storage systems increasingly will have to be scalable and cost-effective. Crump predicts that we will see a trend toward systems based on commodity-class gear used in clusters and taking advantage of an object storage model, along the lines of the public cloud model. Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox! For more:- see George Crump's post at InformationWeek. Big Data: Taming the Beast for Competitive Advantage. I recently presented, "The Moneyball Approach to Big Data - Creating an Unfair Advantage," at the Wall Street Technology Association's Hot Technologies Forum in New York. Everyone is talking about Big Data, but when it comes to taking action, most are taking a "wait-and-see" approach, and that concerns me.

Skepticism or "late-adopter" mentality is understandable - you want to forego a low-risk, high-reward opportunity and let your competition gain the advantage. RainStor: bringing the power of Hadoop to corporate developers. John Bantleman, CEO, and Deirdre Mahon, VP of marketing, of RainStor, introduced me to some enhancements the company was just about to announce.

RainStor: bringing the power of Hadoop to corporate developers

The goal was to make Hadoop easier to use for corporate developers, improve the performance of Hadoop and also dramatically reduce the number of systems needed to process Hadoop-based analytics. Before we get into what RainStor had to say, let's take a moment to look at Hadoop. What is Hadoop? Hadoop is a set of Apache open source projects that is getting quite a bit of interest recently.

Hadoop is mentioned almost every time the catch phrase "Big Data" is discussed. More Big Data related Startups for 2012. Out-Hoover Hoover: FBI wants massive data-mining capability for social media. The FBI wants “to determine the capability of industry to provide an open source and social media alert, mapping, and analysis application”, the agency said in a request for information (RFI) “The application must have the ability to rapidly assemble critical open source information and intelligence that will allow SIOC [Strategic Information and Operations Center] to quickly vet, identify, and geo-locate breaking events, incidents and emerging threats”, the RFI explained.

Out-Hoover Hoover: FBI wants massive data-mining capability for social media

The application must be able to provide an “automated search and scrape capability of both social networking sites and open source news sites for breaking events, crisis, and threats.” Nowhere in this detailed RFI, however, does the FBI ask industry to comment on the privacy implications of such massive data collection and storage of social media sites. Nor does the FBI say how it would define the “bad actors” who would be subjected this type of scrutiny. Tech in 2012: The end of unlimited Internet and the return of UBB. Get ready to start paying for your lunch with your smartphone and to welcome another tablet into your home. According to analysts with Deloitte & Touche LLP, 2012 will bring about the end of unlimited Internet, the increased proliferation of touchscreen tablet computers and the rise of smartphone wallets using near field communications (NFC) technology.

On Tuesday, Deloitte representatives will release the company’s annual technology forecast, sharing the 10 major trends the professional services firm believes will shape the worlds of technology, media and telecommunications in 2012. Below is a quick preview of Deloitte’s predictions for 2012. 2012: A Cloudy Year for Big Data - Cloud Computing. Truth be told, big data is not a big or new concept. New data risk emering from cloud computing. The concept of cloud computing is both old and new. Observers note that the concept behind it—sharing computer time—has been around for decades. Its use in conjunction with the Internet, however, is of relatively recent vintage. A survey last year of more than 1,500 public- and private-sector organizations in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region by Sunnyvale, Calif.

-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. found that 70% either are using or investigating cloud computing for remotely hosted applications or to store data. Coming up with a definition, though, has been tricky.