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IoT to have massive impact, but few companies have a plan in place

More than 40 percent of organizations expect the Internet of Things (IoT) to transform their business or offer significant new revenue or cost-savings opportunities in the short term (over the next three years), rising to 60 percent in the long term (more than five years), according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. However, those surveyed said that many of their organizations have not established clear business or technical leadership for their IoT efforts.

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Weak demand for new facilities at year end

Data from Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters, 451 Research’s newest product offering, reveals that the worldwide datacenter install base grew at +0.2% Y/Y in Q4 2014 to 4.3 million datacenters and IT sites. The weak demand for new facilities was primarily driven by a decline in traditional enterprise demand, particularly in mature markets. 

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Removing the barriers to mainstream Apache Hadoop adoption

Syncsort has released what it describes as 'the biggest, most comprehensive' release of its data integration product suite, including new technology that makes it easier for customers to adopt Apache Hadoop.

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Bigstep and Datameer partner to provide Hadoop-as-a-Service for departments in enterprises

From zero to big data analytics in 20 minutes, without the need for data scientists and hefty investment by IT departments.

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Dealing with Big Data security threat

Dataguise has launched what it says is the industry’s first data-centric discovery and security solution to counter the risk of data breaches to NoSQL data stores. Based on customer demand, the first implementation will support Cassandra/Datastax NoSQL deployments, with additional agents for HBASE, Mongo, and others scheduled for 2015. 

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FAAST brings the benefits of earliest warning fire detection to Data Centre World 2015

FAAST, the latest innovation in early warning fire detection from Honeywell, will be exhibiting for the first time at Data Centre World 2015. The company aims to inform visitors about how aspiration fire detection can protect people and assets and maintain maximum levels of uptime.

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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