That means more competition with one another, and with data storage specialist EMC, long a Dell ally.
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Epic Systems, a data-backup specialist it bought in 1993, helped EMC add the world's fastest open- system backup technology to its arsenal.
For example, C3 Energy, a "big data" analytics specialist, provides software and monitoring systems that can show large and small businesses how much energy they are using and on what processes, then compare these with buildings and businesses in the same area.
Many have specialist teams devoted to supplying data to the firms that compile the rankings, and to challenging the positions of rivals.
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"We're starting to see parts of the specialist motoring press trying to produce reliable data, " says Mr Archer.
For Argentine consumer-price data we will look instead to PriceStats, an inflation specialist, which produces figures for 19 countries that are published by State Street, a financial services firm.
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Under the overall authority of the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), under the Head of the Education Indicators and Data Analys is (EIDA) Section, and the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist, the incumbent will be the main focal point for education statistics for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Big data, big hype, says Simon Garland, chief strategist at Kx Systems, a specialist in high-performance databases and timeseries analysis widely used in finance.
And since the early 90s they have installed specialist buoys, tethered to the seabed, which use sonar to provide a near-constant stream of data about the ice above.
She said all contracts with suppliers were now established and monitored by specialist procurement staff and the council would continue to train, support and raise awareness on the importance of data protection.
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