Besides stealing electronic cash, a thief could exploit stored data for mischief - or blackmail.
Does this mean, contrary to the Big Data hoopla, that the growth of stored data is slowing?
Privacy advocates in Ireland are equally concerned over false positives and the potential for abuse of the stored data.
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Facebook uses Hadoop to manage 400 terabytes of stored data and ingest 15 terabytes of new data per day.
The real advantage of Hollerith's system became clear, however, when it came to manipulating the stored data and compiling the results.
In 2009, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that U.S. banks and capital markets firms collectively had more than one exabyte of stored data.
Most of all, you need to practice the entire disaster recovery process, including using an alternate location, operating from a hosted site, and loading your stored data.
Microsoft may have solved that problem with MyLifeBits software, still in development, which is letting users annotate their stored data with hyperlinks and voice notatations, while automatically recording web pages, IM transcripts, radio and television.
Other interesting statistics from a recent Symantec study suggests that businesses are storing 2.2 Zettabytes of information and that data creation doubles every two years with one gigabyte of stored data creating a petabyte of transient data.
The stored data "is sequential, like a magnetic tape, where you have to spool through stuff to get at the data, " said bioengineer Sriram Kosuri at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, who was the project's lead researcher.
Because consumers must walk back and forth from the computer to the television set to drag and drop files onto the TakeTV, SanDisk Vice President Eric Bone says TakeTV relies on the old-fashioned "SneakerNet"--the tried and true technique of marching across the living room with stored data, an operation that dates back to the days of floppy disks, burnable CDs and DVDs.
The ruling allows police in California to access any data stored on an arrestee's phone: photos, address book, Web browsing history, data stored in apps (including social media apps), voicemail messages, search history, chat logs, and more.
It allows police in California to access any data stored on an arrestee's phone: photos, address book, Web-browsing history, data stored in apps (including social media apps), voicemail messages, search history, chat logs, and more.
Digging beneath the surface, Kramer identified the motivations of such hackers who break through technologies intended to protect business transactions and data stored in a data center.
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Data is stored in the magnetic state of the electrodes, similar to the way data is stored in a magnetic hard drive.
Having your data stored in Pakistan is clearly different from having it stored someplace like the CSX data center in the Greenbrier bunker.
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Prosecutors say he stored the data in a subdirectory protected only by a password that consisted of his initials.
This is the earliest-known document that describes how to program a stored-data computer.
If incorporated into a living cell, the stored DNA data might be changed or erased by the normal process of cell biology.
These proceedings have now been brought to a conclusion with the legally binding decision that Google Inc. had, negligently and without authorisation, captured and stored personal data.
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As neat as the disaster-proof drives are, I still prefer to have my data stored off-site because it offers the best chance of keeping my data safe across all eventualities.
"Data stored in the cloud is substantially easier for the government to obtain than the data you store yourself because of lower legal standards, " Bankston said.
Find out if your data will be stored in more than one data center and if your cloud storage provider will back up your data to geographically diverse locations automatically.
Thus flash memory in ultra thin notebook computers will be most popular ether incorporated into a hybrid HDD (such as those offered by Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Toshiba) or as a dual storage device configuration where the OS and applications are stored on a small SSD and user data is stored on a HDD.
While competing backup products continue to increase the amount of data stored until there is no more room, SmartSave uniquely grows and shrinks the amount of historical data, while never leaving a user's system unprotected.
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In hybrid form, a private cloud can include data stored on premise or off, with a private Platform-as-a-Service middleware layer managing application data and enforcing data security.
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Given the capacity of HANA and the amount of data stored in a typical SAP application, it is likely that the ability to manage and use so-called big data will also start to be productized.
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In such systems, data are stored in 64-bit units, making work with big data sets--common in video and scientific computing--faster and easier.
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