Cern: Where Big Bang meets big data

Tech Sanity Check TechRepublic Member | May 23, 2012

Cern: Where the Big Bang meets big data The home of the Large Hadron Collider is to be a testbed for developing big data technologies Read more Resource of the day Optimizing Your Virtual Platform Without Messing it Up Read this white paper to learn how to come up with a virtualization strategy that optimizes your network while avoiding costly pitfalls. Read it now to learn more. More from TechRepublic   Sony Xperia P, Xperia U and Xperia sola launched in Singapore Aussie IT job numbers down one fifth VMware: Why your datacentre needs to be as good as Google's Agile grows up and new challenges emerge On the road? My seven tips for keeping hackers at bay News from ZDNet   NPD: Apple continued to dominate mobile PC shipments in Q1 IBM bans Siri: Privacy risk, or corporate paranoia at its best? Microsoft: 500 million will run Windows 8 in 2013 First test for Googlarola: ICS updates Build your own open-source cloud with ownCloud 4 Nokia changes date and scale of Nokia World Lenovo's next growth act will be much trickier Oracle announces Oracle VM Server for x86 Release 3.1 SAP eyes creating cloud super network with Ariba acquisition SAP gets huge cloud and extended business process boost with Ariba acquisition Apple's next iPhone: 4-inch display; 12.5% more productivity GPlayer fills the iOS void left by VLC Five Android apps worth paying for Leap Motion gesture-control module takes on Microsoft Kinect for Windows News from CNET   FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit U.S. spy agency looking to train students in cyber ops Jonathan Ive: Apple's current work is 'most important' yet Google's Page: Our search was pretty bad five years ago Samsung Galaxy S III smashes preorder records in U.K. Amazon Prime acquires access to Paramount films Anonymous attacks Justice Dept., nabbing 1.7GB of data Dell's first quarter, outlook: Uh-oh Nokia shakes up Nokia World: 'Less CES, more SXSW' Tablet power is in the platform Why Apple needs to settle its e-book suits VCs' next big things: Big data, drugs, and education ITC judge recommends banning Xbox imports Firefox flirts with Blekko for 'instant' search Will Lego produce a hardware hacker's idea of a set for girls? (photos) New Comcast services threaten wireless text and data revenue Today's recommended downloads WAN Optimization: Why go Virtual? (Silver Peak Systems, Inc.) Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper (Condusiv Technologies) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) V-locity 3 Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer - 30 Day Trial (Condusiv Technologies) Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Center Temperature and Efficiency (APC by Schneider Electric)   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the products, people, and ideas that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief For real-time updates on the latest tech stories, follow my Twitter feed (@jasonhiner) or my Google+ feed (+Jason Hiner). Connect with TechRepublic Reading online privacy policies cost us $781 billion per year Michael Kassner interviews two privacy researchers who feel we are spending too much to understand privacy policies. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Tablets in the Enterprise Five Apps Software Engineer Smartphones

Send us your feedback here. Sign up for more free newsletters from TechRepublic! To manage your account settings or to remove yourself from all TechRepublic communications, please visit our Subscription Center. The e-mail address for your subscription is habib2best@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this e-mail | FAQ | Advertise | Privacy Policy Copyright 2012 CBS Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. TechRepublic is a registered service mark of CBS Interactive, Inc. TechRepublic 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A.