DataPortability has big names on board, but a long road ahead
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Plaxo, Google, and Facebook now have members in the relatively new consortium to promote social-networking interoperability. Don't expect to see immediate results any time soon, though.
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Research work could mean data gets in and out of computer chips at speed of light.
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The popularity of Web 2.0 applications is prompting top storage vendors to reassess their tools and services.
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Software on the Seine, anyone? Backup in Budapest? VTL from Vienna? And why not. Europeans have far more experience when it comes to dealing with data regulatory issues than we do.
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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Unthinkable a year ago, perhaps, but there are currently indications that Microsoft is starting to think about identity management systems in terms of interoperability. A meeting  later this month with vendors and other organizations such as the Liberty Alliance promises to be productive.
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Major storage vendors are looking to add hosted offerings, mostly by acquisition so far, to take advantage of Web 2.0 users willing to store data off-site.
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&quot;Application and subscriber-aware technology solutions like P-Cube&#39;s provide the ability to differentiate and control new content-based data services.
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Over the next few years, corporations will face tough decisions on how to store growing amounts of data and find information.
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IBM&#39;s planned purchase of Venetica provides Big Blue with one more piece in its on-demand computing strategy. The challenge will be to seamlessly meld Venetica&#39;s unstructured-data expertise with structured-data management.
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SERI KEMBANGAN: Most company networks run a mix of old and new systems, and so-called virtual machine software can help when migrating from one to the other.
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Market for data loss prevention is increasingly becoming consolidated, but industry leader Vontu could become the odd man out.
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On tap for the new database management system: improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, manageability and what Oracle dubs "diagnosability."
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Analysis Won't reach it without industry and download-service support
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(Source: Network Appliance)  This paper takes a look at using data virtualization to provide end-to-end data reduction efficiencies. It features three user case studies on how users were able to have a significant impact on bottom-line expenses through data virtualization, as they relate to the storage acquisition and ongoing data storage management costs.
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One big challenge, analysts say: building a developer base and overall ecosystem for its products.
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Adam Bosworth complains  about the current lack of quality and scalable databases in our industry.  "About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. The products that the database vendors were building had less and less to do with what the customers wanted."  "It is this. Users of databases tend to ask for three very simple things:"  "1) Dynamic schema so that as the business model/description of goods or    services changes and evolves, this evolution can be handled seamlessly in a    system running 24 by 7, 365 days a year ..."  "2) Dynamic partitioning of data across large dynamic numbers of machines. A    lot people people track a lot of data these days. ..."  "3) Modern indexing. ...