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26 May 2013
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What's Next for Data Centers: Virtualization and SDN Take Over [31115]
GCN, May 13th, 2013
"Someone working in data centers 30 years ago wouldn't recognize them today, and likely the next 30 years will see just as many changes. But what will those changes be?", asks John Breeden in "GCN".
"Doug Bourgeois, chief cloud executive for VMware's U.S. Public Sector division and former director of the Interior Department's National Business Center, sees an overall shift to software-defined data centers, more use of big data and end-user computing..."
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12 May 2013
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Is Big Data Big Trouble For State, Local Governments? [30932]
GCN, May 1st, 2013
"Although 97 percent of state and local IT professionals expect their data to grow by more than 50 percent over the next two years, more than three-quarters of them say they are just somewhat or not very familiar with the term 'big data' -- and only 2 percent have a complete big data strategy, according to a recent report by MeriTalk," writes Kathleen Hickey in "GCN."
'Agencies still have data silos, and they are just beginning to explore how to effectively analyze this disparate data,' Regina Kunkle, vice president of state and local government for NetApp, underwriter of the report, said in a release. The report, 'The State and Local Big Data Gap,' is based on a survey of 150 state and local government CIOs and IT managers taken in November and December 2012..."
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05 May 2013
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How Video Analytics Helps Reconstruct Boston Marathon Bombings [30841]
GCN, April 22nd, 2013
"Video from surveillance cameras and people's cell phones are increasingly valuable resources in helping investigators collect and analyze data from crime scenes, such as the finish line of the Boston Marathon," reports Rutrell Yasin in "GCN."
"Investigators are combing through hours of digital feeds and thousands of photographs to identify suspects responsible for detonating two bombs there on April 15...
But how do investigators weed through terabytes of video in different formats, whether 30-second snippets from cell phones or hours of footage from a surveillance camera at a nearby store? ..."
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22 Apr 2013
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What Good's An Android That Can't Make Calls? For NYPD, Plenty. [30741]
GCN, April 15th, 2013
"New York City police are piloting a somewhat novel use of Android smart phones, using them on the beat the same way they would use the laptop PCs in their cruisers," reports "GCN".
"NYPD has distributed about 400 Androids to officers as part of a program that started in 2012, the New York Times reports. Police with phones is nothing new, of course, but these phones can't make or receive calls. Instead, they're used to access databases of information on everything from criminal records, existing warrants, registered gun owners and motor vehicle records..."
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02 Dec 2012
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Say goodbye BIOS, hello UEFI; your hardware will be more secure for it [28694]
GCN Oct 31st, 2012
"PCs have changed a lot in the past four decades, but one constant has been the Basic Input/Output System, BIOS, which handles the initialization process at startup and hands off control to the operating system, " writes John Breeden II
in "GCN".
He notes that, "There's a new acronym on the block, UEFI, and it's worth getting to know... The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI, is a boot-level program that will replace BIOS on just about every new system from now on..."
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