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From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

Someday, the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as data centers, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

Mark Hurd spells out Oracle analytics vision

Oracle rolled out a series of announcements aimed at portraying itself as a dominant player in business analytics on Wednesday, as well as one relevant to customers of rival SAP.

Facebook, Twitter are lifelines as tornadoes wallop Texas

As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

CIOs Plan to Increase Cloud Spending

An exclusive survey finds that many CIOs say cloud services are a plus for business continuity and speedy deployment. But they still worry about security.

Quantum unveils enterprise-class cloud backup services

Quantum has partnered with Xerox, which is using two new products for a cloud-based backup service.

Wait may be long for big data unified stack

Despite the growing interest in big data platforms, it may be some time before organizations will be able to deploy a standardized big data software stack, concluded a panel of speakers Wednesday during a virtual panel hosted by GigaOm.

Who's to Blame When IT Breaks?

There's always a reason why things break in IT, and the powers that be can usually find someone to blame -- whether that someone is a data center operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third-party service provider. Insider (registration required)

Get Hadoop certified ... fast

IT professionals are scrambling to get trained and certified in what's expected to be the hottest new high-tech skill for 2012: Hadoop.

Diskeeper changes name, announces new product direction

Diskeeper, a vendor best known for its hard drive defragmentation technology, announced it has changed its name to Condusiv and is taking a new product direction.

Who do you blame when IT breaks?

There's always a reason why things break in IT, and the powers-that-be can usually find someone to blame -- be it a data center operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third party service provider.

CA offers new disaster recovery option

CA Technologies has launched a disaster-recovery software-as-a-service offering that combines on-site data protection with a cloud-based service, using Microsoft Azure's infrastructure.

Dell buys AppAssure for software backup

Dell said Friday it has purchased backup software vendor AppAssure, in the first of an expected run of acquisitions following Dell's appointment of former CA CEO John Swainson as head of a new software division.

Hadoop wins over enterprise IT, spurs talent crunch

Hadoop is coming out of the shadows and into production in enterprise IT shops. But the relative newness of the open-source platform and a shortage of experienced Hadoop talent pose hurdles.

NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

Product review site NextAdvisor.com now offers rankings of cloud storage services.

Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to the cloud and shared across any device.

CommVault to combine backup, archive functions

CommVault plans to announce an upgrade to its flagship Simpana software in the next several weeks that will allow backed-up data to be archived while still leaving end users will an easy way to retrieve that data.

Oracle, Cloudera unveil Hadoop appliance

Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday.

NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices

NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems by 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply.

Two IT managers fatally shot by co-worker at Calif. utility

Two IT managers were killed Friday afternoon by a co-worker at Southern California Edison in a workplace shooting.

Big data has potential but requires care

The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week.