It's plenty easy for users of cloud computing services to store data in just one click.
So SAP engineers discovered how to store data in main memory, which is 10, 000 times faster than a disk.
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Most recently, stiff competition and the rising cost of improving chips has made it even harder for surviving makers of dynamic random-access memory, the chips known as DRAMs that are used to store data in personal computers and server systems.
The default option for Miseq customers will be to store the data in the cloud.
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"With iTwin SecureBox, users can store sensitive data in the Cloud without fear", says Lux, CEO of iTwin.
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Cubby Pro's distinct DirectSync mode provides the ability to sync an unlimited amount of information across computers (PCs and Macs) without ever having to store your data in the cloud.
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The location of those data centers is important, Greenpeace argues, because data centers -- basically big warehouses full of computers that store data "in the cloud" or online rather than on home machines -- are such big users of electricity.
Back in April the U.S. government started questioning the viability of their plan to use RFID chips to store biometric data in passports, which would also have required biometric passports from any visitors to the U.S. entering the country under the Visa Waiver program (which allows short-term visits without a visa).
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Creating a central repository for data, the equivalent of a data store, in addition to an app store would have the same effect.
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Vermont Country Store invested in data mining software because they hired somebody who had experience in the financial services industry, and she used the software to demonstrate that she could find more responsive customers for their mailings.
HDDs used to store content in data centers is used more efficiently that those in personal computers and so the growth potential is more moderate for content stored in centrally managed repositories rather than in individual computers.
In addition, the GIGA Vu SONIC can store and display digital data in popular file formats such as JPG and even various specific RAW camera formats.
While this data explosion cannot be ignored, the real story lies in how corporations can store, govern, and manage their data in order to leverage it as an asset.
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In addition to the regulatory requirements to store data for seven years, banks face internal demands for data to use in modeling and trying to understand the behavior of the marketplace, Bantleman added.
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Most major Japanese banks store duplicate sets of data in computer centers 600 km apart in Osaka and Tokyo, in case a major quake hits one city.
MasterCard recently approved two BlackBerry models (one Bold, one Curve) for its PayPass program, meaning the devices can store virtual credit card data in their SIM cards.
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On Tuesday, Sun announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
The reason it puts some store in the data is that it says the last two times long-only buying was at these levels, March 2009 and July 2009, the MSCI Europe index performed very strongly over the next three months.
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Granite uses a combination of virtualization technology and wide area network (WAN) optimization, which makes it possible to store large amounts of data in the hub centers, yet transmit information to multiple offices in a short period of time.
On Tuesday, Sun (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
The first is when the input data are too fast to store in their entirety: in order to keep storage requirements practical some level of analysis must occur as the data streams in.
Prices of the widely used 32-gigabit NAND flash chip, typically used in smartphones and tablets to store data, jumped as much as 17.7% in late Asia trade Monday, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia's biggest spot market for chips.
The value in Big Data is not the ability to capture and store vast and rapidly increasing quantities of data, its value lies in providing companies and organizations real time information that they can act upon and provides insights to their business for competitive advantage.
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You could store 40 times as much data in the same finite space.
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Adidas, for instance, with its agency partner iProspect, determined that including the real value of a click on a store locator button, which it had identified from store data, proved that mobile ads were paying off in in-store sales.
In this world, your photos are held in a data store controlled by you.
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Now, they can also store their own check-in data in Facebook Places database, and search that database too.
In fairness to Congress, in 1986 storage space was expensive and no one imagined it would be possible to store that volume of data that can now be saved in the cloud.
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Content in a personalized data store may be accessible to the user via transfer such as moving, streaming, or download.
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Write caching would store data to be written on the HDD in flash memory initially until enough data was in the flash cache to do an efficient write to the HDD disks.
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