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Featured in the Data RoundUp this week:
- Global IT spend is on the rise
- If you missed World Backup Day last Sunday, there’s still time to backup your important data
- A lively debate between experts on the benefits of data center optimization through a full overhaul
- Terabit wireless downloads could be just around the corner
- A biological transistor!
World Backup Day (worldbackupday.com) A day for people to learn about the increasing role of data in our lives and the importance of regular backups.
America’s New Sustainable Manufacturing Hubs (Fast Company) Across the country, new multidisciplinary spaces for people to learn, experiment, and make are popping up, creating a new surge of jobs with them.
Undersea Cable Cut Near Egypt (GigaOm) While the cut was on a single cable, it came at an unfortunate time as a few other major cables were in “maintenance mode” and that has resulted in problems for service providers across the region.
Data Center Optimization Debate: Overhaul or Incremental Changes (ZD Net) @DavidChernicoff and Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, both of ZDnet, provide opening statements, rebuttals, and closing arguments in their online debate on data center optimization.
Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads (MIT Tech Review) The calculations are the latest testament to the striking possibilities of graphene, which is seen as providing high-performing transistors, photovoltaics, and other electronic devices.
Global IT Spend Will Rise 4.1% in 2013 (Tech Crunch) Gartner cautions that while nothing is going away soon, wider trends in mobile, cloud, social media and information management are affecting all categories of spend.
Saying No to College (New York Times) The idea that a college diploma is an all-but-mandatory ticket to a successful career is showing fissures.
Stanford Researchers Create Genetic Transistors (Engadget) The boffins in Palo Alto want to build computers out of living tissue, and to that end they’ve created a biological transistor, called the transcriptor.
10 Real World Big Data Deployments That Will Change Our Lives (CIO) Here are 10 real-world big data deployments you may not have realized were driven by big data.
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