Big data analytics today lets businesses play 'Moneyball'

	IDC: PC growth to slow down to 0.9 percent in 2012 | South Korean court rules both Apple and Samsung infringed patents
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	Big data analytics today lets businesses play 'Moneyball' Hype continues to surround big data analytics. But hype or not, data-driven decision-making is becoming central to management decisions at most enterprises. They are taking inspiration from Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team that turned to data analytics (known as Sabermetrics in baseball and made popular in the movie "Moneyball") to assemble a competitive baseball team despite the organization's limited financial resources. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Solar Winds Quickly Identify Misconfigured Active Directory Permissions What users have access to sensitive files or directories? Find out without tedious manual effort. Troubleshoot permissions issues both locally and on remote shares with SolarWinds free tool, Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory. Easily see what permissions a user or group of users has for an object and why. Get a complete hierarchical view of the effective permission and access rights for a specific file folder or share drive today by downloading the free tool. Get Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory >> In this Issue IDC: PC growth to slow down to 0.9 percent in 2012 South Korean court rules both Apple and Samsung infringed patents Dell offers dedicated servers to build private clouds WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Creating the Analytics Driven Enterprise Big Data means Big Analytics. If business decisions are being made on old or incomplete data sets, your company is already behind. With this white paper, learn how an analytic driven enterprise can give employees access to analytics when and where they need it. Learn More IDC: PC growth to slow down to 0.9 percent in 2012 Growth in the PC market is expected to be slower than last year, after mid-year shipments slowed as consumers were hit by weak economic conditions, and also postponed purchases to evaluate Windows 8 and Ultrabook products while considering spending on media tablets and smartphones, IDC said. The PC market is expected to grow by only 0.9 percent this year, down from 1.7 percent last year, although growth may pick up to 6.5 percent in 2013, the research firm said on Thursday. Read More South Korean court rules both Apple and Samsung infringed patents A South Korean court ruled Friday that Apple and Samsung have infringed on each other's patents, ordering small monetary damages and a temporary halt in sales of multiple devices from both companies, including the iPhone 4 and Galaxy S series. The Seoul Central District Court said Apple violated two of Samsung's wireless patents, while Samsung infringed one utility patent held by Apple. The iPhone maker's claims that Samsung copied its designs were denied. Read More Dell offers dedicated servers to build private clouds Dell on Thursday said it will offer dedicated servers in its data centers and off-premises application and storage services for companies looking to establish private clouds. Dell's Cloud Dedicated program intends to reduce the stress of companies hosting servers locally by moving workloads off premises to Dell's data centers. Dell will deliver IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offerings through the private cloud, which could reduce the costs involved in deploying servers and managing services locally. Read More
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