Its sprawling network of warehouse-size data centers around the world scrapes and analyzes the Web for every clue to how we search for what's out there.
The explosion of data, even in mid-size firms requires automation, Collet added.
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Data on competitive pay practices has essentially become a commodity, with size and industry-specific data being accessible to most consultants, not to mention the fact that a tremendous amount of data can be gleaned from proxy reports.
These drives are based on flash memory - which stores data even after its device is turned off - and are about the size of a large cigarette lighter.
The data shows the average tax that a medium-size American company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes, equates to 46.7% of total profits in the U.S. compared with 42.7% in the OECD despite having less number of taxes to pay than its advanced economy rivals (11 for U.S. vs 13 different taxes for OECD).
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The advent of even mid-size firms producing multiple terabytes of data makes it is impossible to take that approach.
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IBM's Mr. Vlasov said the company has demonstrated it can fabricate data channels using its technology that are one-tenth the size of others created so far from silicon.
NetApp, a leading provider of data storage solutions, has always had a strong presence among mid-size business clients.
The survey on business growth strategies found mid-size companies continue to prioritize automation of business processes, data analytics, and business intelligence as triggers to increase productivity and areas where they are most likely to make investments in 2012.
Organizations are rapidly shifting away from hard to use, one-size-fits-all (at very high cost) enterprise software applications and large data centers.
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In a blog post Thursday, Sun's (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) data center architect, Brian Cinque, wrote that the company plans to cut the size of its internal data centers in half by 2013, and eliminate them altogether by 2015.
One major upgrade will be to the playback experience by offering not just higher-resolution streams, but various levels of video clarity based on device capabilities, screen size and data speeds.
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Because the original deployments of IDS were just passive data collectors there was no impact on network performance from adding new signatures so the data base grew and grew and the logs IDS generated grew and grew to the point where even a mid-size organization would receive millions of alerts a day.
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