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U.S agency kills hardware over routine malware warning

The U.S. Economic Development Administration destroyed $170,000 in computers, keyboards, printers and mice over a routine malware infection. A lack of funding prevented the agency from throwing out its remaining $3 million in IT inventory

The big data governance challenge

Analytics and search must cross the silos of structured and unstructured data, writes Forbes contributor April Reeve

Tug-of-war in the public cloud

HP claims a major enterprise win from Amazon; Amazon begs to differ. How enterprises are likely to maintain multiple cloud relationships

Pinterest as a career tool

Career coach Nancy Collamer offers five ways to use the social media network to advance your career. How would you apply these techniques to IT?

The Ethernet is down, and so is your rocket launch

A cable with too little slack scrubs a space mission just minutes before launch. Talk about mission-critical cabling

The Big Apple goes back to mechanical voting

The state assembly approves the move as the city cites tight turnaround times for runoffs in its September mayoral primaries, but citizen's groups say there's plenty of time

Shrinking big data

At HP Discover, the company introduces a new Autonomy module to sort out unused and aged data within repositories, plus a more powerful free version of Vertica Analytics

A third say NSA data mining ‘no big deal’

While 55 per cent of those taking an online survey said they were "outraged" at the U.S. government's collection of personal data, many -- especially outside North America and Europe -- expected an incident like that

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