This is particularly important in relation to the ever-expanding data and information available to companies, which is also discussed in the piece.
On-line applications and services have created new sources for expanding data that create new challenges for fast access and fast use of this content.
So heavy are the current energy demands of our expanding data usage that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pegged servers and data centers as responsible for nearly two percent of total national electricity consumption.
Systems which rely only on internally generated company data will be analytically outperformed by systems which can use this ever-expanding plethora of data.
Yet even the nimblest fugitives leave clues, even patterns -- they're just buried in an expanding universe of data, a challenge that intensifies as we seek still more data, hoping it will yield more insight.
So in this expanding pool of increasingly worthless data, what are we to do?
We've already given away more than 15 million MB's of free data and are expanding our Beta to meet the increased demand this holiday season.
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The pressures are only going to increase as CMOs live on a planet rapidly expanding with social and web data they are struggling to explore and CIOs live on a rapidly shrinking planet (budget-wise), but struggling to manage a more demanding and complex IT environment.
Facebook has been expanding its ad services that use identification data.
AutoGrid is part of an expanding club of software startups tackling the utility data market.
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LinkedIn's profits also will be lowered by the expenses for expanding the company's payroll and building data centers to run its online services.
And as companies see more value from their ability to make use of big data, they are committed to expanding their ability to take advantage of this important trend: more than 90 percent of the executives we surveyed reported that they plan to increase their investment in data management and analysis tools and capabilities.
By 1932, however, there was observational data indicating that indeed the universe was expanding.
Hbasecon highlights the growing importance of the open-source community as leaders in expanding the pure performance and capability as the big data market rapidly expands.
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U.S. gross domestic product data on Friday showed the American economy expanding at an inflation-adjusted 3.4% annual rate in the second quarter, which should have been good news for equities, but analysts believed the market's focus would quickly return to the credit markets.
"While the broad picture emerging from the data is that Africa's economies have been expanding robustly and that poverty is coming down, the aggregate hides a great deal of diversity in performance, even among Africa's faster growers, " said Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa.
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Pharmaceutical firms are also expanding their interest, he added and some retail organizations are exploring big data.
Stocks in Australia rose after growth data met expectations, with gross domestic product for the fourth quarter expanding 0.6% on-quarter.
Data points clearly need to be sized so they are visible without expanding beyond their specific locations or positions and cluttering the display.
They will consider expanding cooperative efforts in theater missile defense technology and exercises, study ways of sharing data obtained through early warning systems, discuss theater missile defense architecture concepts, and seek opportunities for joint research and development in theater missile defense.
The major CRM software vendors could then re-direct their efforts from building their own inferior Social CRM functionality inside of older architecture and instead apply their resources to updating and expanding their applications so that they can be used to capture all that social media data.
Some scientists are taking advantage of the smartphone's expanding capabilities to design Android and iPhone apps, which they give away, to gather personal data.
The CTIA also commented on mobile broadband use, reporting that from July 2011 to June this year, Americans consumed 104 percent more data -- no doubt due, in part, to people taking advantage of expanding 4G coverage.
Among the potential policies: expanding low-cost broadband access, adding math and science classes in public schools and making government data more accessible.
With Adyen, merchants can focus on expanding their global reach by giving customers more options for online and mobile payments and keeping their credit card data safe.
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