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Cloud computing -- defined by the ACM Computer Communication Review as a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources that can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust to a variable load and operated on a pay-per-use model -- has been generating considerable attention throughout the high-performance computing community, in both the commercial and academic sectors. This new model is seen as a possible way for researchers to move from processing and managing their own data sets locally, to relying on large, off-site, commercially-managed data clusters.

Cloud-related tech spending by businesses is forecast to triple from 2011 to 2017, research firm IHS said Friday.

Check out my latest upload on the Big Data research that continues to indicate that Cloud Competitiveness and productivity have spiked in interest among America's CIO's.

The Big Data research study on 'American CIO's Look to the Cloud to Create Value' explains how the cloud can be used to predict future sales, views from IT Managers on private and public cloud, changing role of CIO's, relation between IT and cloud and how to move to the Cloud. To learn more download the free white paper from our site.

This report discusses the issue of cloud computing and outlines its implications for the privacy of personal information as well as its implications for the confidentiality of business and governmental information. [...] The World Privacy Forum is a non-profit public interest research and consumer education group.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Using the big data research these white papers presents an overview on the Cloud Competitiveness and productivity that have spiked in interest among America's CIO's. Download your free copy of white paper.

IBM report about Reservoir

Alan Kay's saying that the best way to predict the future is to create it resonates through the best cloud computing and enterprise software predictions for 2014. Constraints that held start-ups back from delivering sophisticated new apps and services are disappearing fast.  The dynamics of one of my favorite books

Fraud analytics is the fastest growing technology in the global online payment fraud detection market owing to the increasing adoption of AI in online payment fraud detection solutions. Continuous advancements in technologies is leading fraudsters to use sophisticated tools resulting in challenging environment for enterprises to prevent themselves from fraud incidents. Hence, due to the need for real-time information, vendors have introduced technology-based online payment fraud detection solutions, which are more capable and intelligent.