With its dedicated data network and almost unimaginable bandwidth, Qwest was a new sort of telecoms firm.
He hired dedicated data entry people who made sure that every relevant piece of patient information was correctly filed.
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And where data management and analysis was once a job for IT specialists, now it is more commonly seen as an everyday part of line-of-business operations: in our new survey, 95 percent of respondents told us that their dedicated data analysts work within business groups rather than in the IT department.
While large companies, like Amazon and Wal-Mart, have huge budgets and teams dedicated to data analytics, most do not.
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The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.
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Enterprise servers, the kind server that dominates IT department purchasing today, have dedicated storage and data center network access on each motherboard.
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And there are credible television and radio stations dedicated solely to sharing data and providing guidance.
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TeraGrid's partner sites are connected by a dedicated optical network that zaps data around at ten to 30 gigabits per second.
This allows riders to gain comprehensive, accurate ride data from a dedicated device, while keeping their phone out of the elements and saving its battery incase of an emergency.
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An adapter is available for VGA-based infrastructures and an Ethernet connector helps ensure dedicated, stable bandwidth for fast data transfers and efficient communication with remote locations.
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VoLTE, as the new technology is known, offers greater efficiency because once-dedicated voice space can also run data when not being used for voice calls, something the current technology doesn't allow.
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However, in the middle is a whole new class of companies, such as data suppliers and data aggregators, that are dedicated to tracking and predicting our behavior.
For the first time in the memory of most people in the enterprise computing and software business, Oracle Open World took a back seat to a whole new industry event, this one dedicated to the Cloud and to Big Data.
Let us also remind ourselves that these predictions are coming from some of the most sophisticated market-watchers in the world, with all of the resources and research and equipment and data and full-time dedicated staffers that most investors could only dream of.
With dedicated and enthusiastic leadership, I think a data driven culture can be instituted.
However, VOIP differs from the usual phone services in that it sends calls as digital packets of information over data networks rather than relying on a dedicated circuit-switched network.
For the last six years, Devon Birds, a group dedicated to the conservation of birds, has been compiling data on bird sightings in the county.
The growing acceptance of open-source software, especially when it is supported by a dedicated vendor, is another way by which the big data wave is different from previous surges of investment in the collection and analysis of data.
Gaikai, headed by David Perry, has taken a different road from OnLive, which uses a dedicated application in effect to open a remote session with a data centre and deliver access to entire games.
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Leaving aside the issue of the meaning of entrance standards in a college dedicated to providing second chances for adult students, I gave you data showing that applications had risen this year and that rejections had risen even more rapidly.
Virtualization DOES work, but in a narrow sense: if you need a dedicated server, not so much for power as for security, data integrity, and the like, you can farm out a VPS a lot cheaper than you can farm out a whole machine.
We took a serious look at the problem in February, using data provided by U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting health care safety (see " Lethal Confusion").
It suggests this could be done by allowing its members to choose under what circumstances data about them was combined by asking them to click on dedicated buttons.
But last year the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) quietly released Chemical Cuisine, an app for Android and iPhones exclusively dedicated to explaining the additives in our food, based on the impressive data collected by CSPI on more than 120 food additives.
Throughout the institute's 25-year history (we are a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research, education and public outreach), we have analyzed these raw data with custom algorithms operating on semi-custom hardware.
Our play in the cloud business is to attract as many of these managed and dedicated hosting companies that are selling the cloud offerings to put their cloud infrastructure into our data centers.
Toshiba believes that this product can create a dedicated flash based hardware engine for content delivery that reduces the costs and lowering power usage and data center footprint when the product is available later this year.
Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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Your mobile phone, acting as a store of your credit card data, sends it wirelessly to a nearby receiver, which could be another phone, a dedicated terminal, or a payments module embedded in, say, a vending machine.
Data for each is transferred over Bluetooth Smart (low consumption) to Parrot Cloud, analysed by dedicated software and sent to a compatible Smartphone or tablet.
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