Game Studios at the Forefront of Big Data, Cloud

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If you want to see the future of Big Data, look no further than the nearest gaming-development studio. It isn’t all fun and first-person-shooting. Game developers are the sentinels of a variety of advanced IT techniques, placing them in front of the general IT population with regard to using real-time analytics and cloud computing, among other areas.

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Salesforce 4Q Revenues Up 32% With $3.05B For The Fiscal Year

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Salesforce.com has announced its fourth-quarter earnings with revenues of $835 million, up 32%, compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings per share were 51 cents. Financial analysts had expected revenues ranging from $825 million to $830 million. EPS was estimated to come in at 40 cents.

via Salesforce 4Q Revenues Up 32% With $3.05B For The Fiscal Year | TechCrunch.

The 5 Commandments Of Data And Why Analytics Efforts Are Still A Big Old Mess

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Data has to be a strategic asset. The presence of consultants at a conference like Strata shows how much confusion people still have in realizing how to get the value that vendors promise in such bountiful amounts

via The 5 Commandments Of Data And Why Analytics Efforts Are Still A Big Old Mess | TechCrunch.

I don’t have patience to watch people talk but it sounds like data analytics might be a lucrative field to be in right now.

Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough?

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First, let’s talk small. At just 3.5 inches, the iPhone 4 (and earlier) is relatively small compared to most higher-end phones on the market, yet it’s immensely popular. (Technically, the iPhone 5 has a 4-inch screen, but it’s just longer–not wider–so that doesn’t really count.) Apparently, then, that’s a good baseline for an acceptable screen size for a large swathe of the mobile market.

via Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? – HotHardware.

A New Approach to Databases and Data Processing

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The simplest way to handle more data using more cores (whether on a single machine or in cluster) is to partition it into disjoint subsets, and work on each subset in isolation. In the database world this is called sharding, and it makes scaling relatively simple; only downside is -— it makes writing compellingly complex applications hard.

via Parallel Universe • A New Approach to Databases and Data Processing — Simulating 10Ks of Spaceships on My Laptop.

Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands

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The next step, after raising half a million pounds from shareholders, is to convince Lancastrians to pony up about fifty dollars a month for internet service. (Those who invest £1500 or more can get a year’s free service, a tax credit of 30%, and the option to sell the entire investment back in 2016 at full value.) This isn’t AOL dial-up: customers will have access to a blazing fast 1 gigabit connection, something that many city-dwellers, myself included, would covet.

via There Will Be Broadband: Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands | Motherboard.

Amdahl’s law

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Amdahl’s law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized. For example, if for a given problem size a parallelized implementation of an algorithm can run 12% of the algorithm’s operations arbitrarily quickly while the remaining 88% of the operations are not parallelizable, Amdahl’s law states that the maximum speedup of the parallelized version is 1/1 – 0.12 = 1.136 times as fast as the non-parallelized implementation.

via Amdahl’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.