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	Test your SSDs or risk massive data loss, researchers warn Companies adopting flash-based SSDs as a cornerstone to the data center storage systems are risking "massive data loss" due to power outages, according to a new study titled "Understanding the Robustness of SSDs Under Power Fault" by researchers from the University of Ohio and HP Labs. In exposing 15 SSDs from five different vendors to power loss, researchers found that 13 suffered such failures as bit corruption, metadata corruption, and total device failure. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Rapidly Integrate SAP with Cloud Applications As cloud adoption rates increase, the need to integrate cloud applications and SAP systems is critical. IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration provides companies with the ability to implement integration projects in days, not weeks or months and it can streamline business processes across multiple cloud and on-premise applications. Read Now In this Issue Four new mobile OSes -- caught on tape! Disney's big data dream is no Mickey Mouse effort The sequester will hurt tech nationally 'Search is still in its infancy,' says Google CFO WHITE PAPER: SAP Mobile Commerce: The Path to Customer Engagement Mobile provides an unprecedented way for enterprises to establish and strengthen customer relationships. Download this playbook, sponsored by SAP, and learn how to navigate this new world of mobile customer engagement and commerce. Learn More Four new mobile OSes -- caught on tape! Tired of the same old iPhone-vs.-Android mobile wars, with Windows Phone and BlackBerry skirmishing on the sidelines? Then Mobile World Congress, starring new combatants Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch, Tizen, and Sailfish, was the show for you. Read More Disney's big data dream is no Mickey Mouse effort Disneyland is the place where dreams come true, and soon this will be the case for big data junkies, too. Or maybe it's a nightmare. The Walt Disney Co. recently announced its intention to "evolve" the experience of its theme park guests with the ultimate goal of giving everyone an RFID-enabled bracelet to transform their every move through the company's parks and hotels into a steady stream of information for the company's databases. Read More The sequester will hurt tech nationally The federal government's automatic budget cuts, due to begin Friday, may accelerate cost savings measures already in place via sharing of services across agencies, IT consolidation, and an increasing reliance on off-the-shelf products and cloud-based services, as opposed to customized development. Read More 'Search is still in its infancy,' says Google CFO The idea that the technology behind search is a done deal is far from the truth, according to Google, as the company appears to still have plenty of tricks up its sleeve to improve it. Finding new ways to deliver direct answers to users' search queries rather than just a string of websites is a major goal at Google, says Patrick Pichette, Google Chief Financial Officer, during a Q&A session Thursday at Morgan Stanley's Technology, Media and Telecom conference in San Francisco. Read More
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