• IBM Issues Watson Mobile Developer Challenge

  At Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona IBM is encouraging mobile developers to create apps powered by Watson, Cisco's Quantum virtualized packet core has passed portability testing, and Radware announces a SDN and NFV solution strategy for mobile carriers and service providers.

• DataStax Enterprise 4.0 Gives in-Memory Option to Cassandra

  DataStax, the company that delivers Apache Cassandra to the enterprise, announced version 4.0 of its always-on database platform, with a powerful new in-memory option.

• CA Launches Management Cloud for Mobility

  CA Technologies (CA) introduced a comprehensive Management Cloud for Mobility.

• Six Considerations in Choosing a Colocation Provider

  Choosing a colocation provider can be challenging, especially with today's multiple application demands and growing need for data protection. Find out the top considerations around choosing the right colocation partner.

• Bringing DCIM Technology into Your Data Center

  Facebook recently performed Proof of Concept with multiple DCIM vendors. While Facebook may have different criteria in how they approach DCIM than your organization, you may want to consider similar factors before deciding how to bring DCIM into your data center, writes Lara Greden of CA…

• Elliott Raises Bid for Riverbed to $3.3 Billion

  Elliott Management has raised the bid for Riverbed to $3.3 billion, and Intel invests in big data and cloud companies in China.

• How to Read Histograms and Use Them in R

  The chart type often goes overlooked because people don't understand them. Maybe this will help.

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• Big doubts on big data: Why I won't be sharing my medical data with anyone

  Big doubts on big data: Why I won't be sharing my medical data with anyone : Jo Best (ZDNet) talking about the privacy concerns of having centralized, non-regulated, non-anonymised healthcare data: If ever there was an open goal for big data, healthcare should be it. By gathering information…

• Intel Adds Virtualization Platforms for Industrial Systems

  At the Embedded World event in Nürnberg, Germany this week Intel (INTC) unveiled the Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series, providing an accelerated path to implement state-of-the-art industrial embedded systems.