Outgoing federal CIO warns of 'an IT cartel'

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	Outgoing federal CIO warns of 'an IT cartel' In a wide-ranging discussion Friday with President Barack Obama's top science advisors, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra warned of the dangers of open data access and complained of "an IT cartel" of vendors. He also believes the U.S. can operate with just a few data centers.[ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ] Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: MarkLogic New Survey: Unstructured Data Explosion Companies are only beginning to grasp the complexities created by unstructured data, according to a new survey by Unisphere Media. Even organizations that depend strongly on unstructured data lack special governance or best practices. Is your company getting the full business value of unstructured data? Get more details in the full report. In this Issue Can metadata save us from cloud data overload? Facebook shouldn't be afraid to rewrite its code, and neither should you WHITE PAPER: IBM Business Strategy for Cloud Providers Get no nonsense, practical guidance on how to succeed as a cloud provider in the marketplace. Focusing on reality and not hype, this whitepaper addresses how to best evaluate cloud services/offerings, implement operations and approach customer engagement. Read Now Can metadata save us from cloud data overload? It's clear that the growth of data is driving the growth of the cloud; as data centers run out of storage, enterprises spin up cloud storage instances. Read More Facebook shouldn't be afraid to rewrite its code, and neither should you In most fields, there's a special kind of shame associated with having to start a project over from scratch. As an architect, for example, the last thing you want to hear is that one of your buildings will be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up because it can no longer support the weight of its tenants. According to computer scientist and entrepreneur Michael Stonebraker, however, that's more or less the situation confronting Facebook right now. Only in Facebook's case, the "building" is a Web application, and the problem isn't concrete or steel girders; it's MySQL. Read More
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