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	INSIDER R programming beginner's guide  It's all here in one place -- our popular "Beginner's guide to using R." You'll learn how to get your data into R, easy ways to do basic data analysis, painless data visualization, syntax quirks you'll want to know and get tons of useful resources.Read More  WHITE PAPER: IBM Enterprise Mobile Management  This report details Forrester’s findings about how well each vendor fulfills their criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help infrastructure and operations professionals select the right partner for their enterprise mobile management. Learn More In this Issue Think you know your competitors? This tool helps uncover some you don't Big data suite goes open source Proponents speak out against warnings of open data’s dark side INSIDER Big data secrets from Airbnb, Starbucks and Sonic Oracle steps up its big-data push with new products How machine learning ate Microsoft Retail CIOs focus on data security, digital innovation (via CIO.com) How 'power fingerprint' could improve security for ICS/SCADA systems Centrify extends identity management to Hadoop clusters On-demand economy: Creating entrepreneurship or exploitation? (via CIO.com) Apache Spark jumps on the R bandwagon WHITE PAPER: IBM Enterprise Mobility Management Big Bang Theory  Mobile device Management was just the beginning of the enterprise journey towards complete mobility. Learn why enterprise mobility management is now needed for all devices and data for work. View more Think you know your competitors? This tool helps uncover some you don't  GinzaMetrics updates its competitive intelligence suite with a feature focused on finding new foes Read More  Big data suite goes open source  Pivotal is releasing its data lake architecture components, including Greenplum DB, GemFire and HAWQ, to the open source community. Read More  Proponents speak out against warnings of open data’s dark side  While some people have raised concerns over making public data freely available, those who favor doing it feel the potential good far outweighs the bad. Read More  INSIDER Big data secrets from Airbnb, Starbucks and Sonic  The 5 small steps that can lead to big competitive advantages. Read More  Oracle steps up its big-data push with new products  New tools aim to make it easier for enterprises to wrest value from their information stores Read More  WHITE PAPER: IBM The Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device  The Ten Commandments of BYOD show you how to create a peaceful, secure, and productive mobile environment.Learn More How machine learning ate Microsoft  Yesterday's announcement of Azure Machine Learning offers the latest sign of Microsoft's deep machine learning expertise -- now available to developers everywhere. Read More  Retail CIOs focus on data security, digital innovation (via CIO.com)  Major security breaches at leading retailers cast a long shadow over industry as CIOs look to bolster defenses and align tech team with business units. Read More  How 'power fingerprint' could improve security for ICS/SCADA systems  A new company says monitoring the ‘power fingerprint’ of digital systems can secure them by detecting anomalies in that fingerprint in real time. Read More  Centrify extends identity management to Hadoop clusters    Centrify has optimized its Centrify Server Suite 2015 solution for Hadoop and big data environments, allowing customers to leverage Active Directory and existing skillsets to provide identity management. Read More  On-demand economy: Creating entrepreneurship or exploitation? (via CIO.com)  Companies like Uber, FancyHands, Airbnb and Snagajob are flourishing, driven by technology, a slow economic recovery and consumer demand. But what does that mean for today's workers? Read More  Apache Spark jumps on the R bandwagon  The big data processing technology looks to draw in data scientists Read More
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