More servers are being connected to each other and to internal resources such as databases.
This includes mostly storage and compute services, but IaaS providers are expanding into other areas such as databases services.
And, of course, PCs run serious workaday apps, such as databases and PowerPoint.
Until the unnatural disaster hit, most digital information was in the form of structured data, such as databases that can be easily sorted and queried and analyzed.
The vast majority of this growth is occurring in the realm of unstructured data, i.e. data that does not fit well into relational tables such as databases.
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There are plans to change that, by adding relevant content such as medical databases related to that field or specialty.
Recent innovations in the financial industry, such as credit databases and scoring, have made it easier for lenders to screen would-be borrowers.
Called Y2K Scanner, this plug-in server module from Centennial works with Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall to discover Y2K flaws in files created by spreadsheets, such as Lotus' 1-2-3 and Microsoft's Excel, as well as files from databases, such as Microsoft's Access and Inprise's dBase.
Good habits start with basic data literacy skills such as knowing how to do a proper Google search and know to use non-indexed databases such as USASpending.gov.
Instead, they are considering gathering information from the vast, centralised databases held by government, such as tax records, benefit databases, electoral lists and school rolls, as well as periodic polling of a sample of the population.
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For example, Siri could become the front end to important databases such as Yelp and OpenTable, bypassing search entirely.
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The same thing applies to column-oriented databases, such as HBase and Cassandra.
Traditional relational databases, such as from Oracle (ORCL), were not built for the torrents of data from mobile devices, cloud apps and social networks.
The company hopes to eventually access additional data from larger state and federal databases, such as the FBI's registry of fingerprints or the driver's-license photos from motor-vehicle departments.
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Running on these mobiles, and also on home and wide-area networks will be increasingly intelligent software, able to learn behaviour, predict needs and integrate with a growing number of databases, such as transport updates from major providers.
Jurors are chosen at random through state databases of names, such as voter registration and driver's licenses.
While Siri relies on external databases for answers, such as the online encyclopedia Wolfram Alpha, Evi has a painstakingly amassed collection of 635 million facts on 28 million things.
While some thefts come from stolen wallets containing Social Security cards and the like, thieves also are filching Social Security numbers in sneakier ways, such as from health-care or financial databases.
More ambitious still are plans to link the register to other government databases, and to incorporate biometrics such as fingerprints and iris scans.
The tool computes many of the answers "on the fly" by grabbing raw data from public and licensed databases, along with live feeds such as share prices and weather information.
On the Internet platform, companies get developers by offering them access to big databases they could not afford on their own (such as map coordinates, calendar information or sales tracking information) and letting them build things against it.
Through software that obscures users' identifying information such as email addresses and phone numbers, Datalogix and Facebook can combine their databases, and group users based on their offline purchases.
The company's algorithm draws on information from more than 100 databases and social networks, looking at an array of variables such as users' locations and the number of personal connections.
The lack of a formal schema, which typically has to be designed before any code is written, means that schemaless databases are a better fit for current software development practices, such as agile development.
That long tail includes about a hundred databases of specialized information that the search engine is now working on indexing, such as the Security and Exchange Commission's online filings and the online collection of medical journals known as PubMed.
Businesses with broader network concerns can look to platforms from SMB-focused companies such as Check Point Software, Trend Micro and Imperva, which offers a free, downloadable tool that scans databases for security vulnerabilities.
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