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"Margrethe Vestager is on the lookout for antitrust issues arising from companies' use of big data -- but says it doesn't require special regulation"

"In this article, I review some of the top open source business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools. In economies where the role of big data and open data are ever-increasing, where do we turn in order to have our data analysed and presented in a precise and readable format?"

"Independence day for your private data. SENGI: a new way of using cloud services and messaging apps. Johannes Ehrlich Halle, Germany About"

"Independence day for your private data. SENGI: a new way of using cloud services and messaging apps. Johannes Ehrlich Halle, Germany About"

"Sometimes looking for information on a Unix system is like looking for needles in haystacks. Even important messages can be difficult to notice when they're buried in huge piles of text. And so many of us are dealing with "big data" these days -- log files that are multiple gigabytes in size and huge record collections in any form that might be mined for business intelligence."

[... It has been sixteen months since I retired - or thought I was retiring - from my monthly column. A lot has happened since. First, my company was purchased by Seagate, and I am now part of the Seagate Government Solutions organization. That, of course, now changes what I write about in this column a bit as I am now a vendor, but I am still going to deal with the big issues facing storage and data movement. I will do my best to continue to not mention vendors unless I am referencing things that are in the news. Secondly, this will not be a monthly column - I'll likely post something every few months. And lastly, I want to thank those who have written in and asked me to keep writing. Thank you! The topic this month is going to be rootkits, which are nasty security issues that I think we all need to start thinking about, as well as what to do about them. ...]