One way to find and experiment with data while avoiding politics and addressing resource availability is to create and participate in a big data Petri dish.

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Implementation of the Basel principles should ideally take place in concert with implementation of other regulations addressing reporting, data and IT infrastructure.

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Robust, unbiased data are the first step toward addressing our long-term economic needs and key policy priorities.

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Huawei believes that pipes with large bandwidth that can transmit and process massive data flow are the key to addressing these challenges and also Huawei's key growth driver in the future.

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Technology is already addressing this problem and companies will move their data and apps from cloud to cloud.

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Along with addressing privacy concerns, companies must also be ready to make sense of the data, managers say.

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In essence, BrokerSavant has been able to help customers work smarter, not harder, by addressing the ever-present challenge of information overload, and by rendering heretofore-unwieldy data sets manageable.

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