Getting Personal With Search
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Getting Personal With Search

Most of the main internet search engines leverage human intelligence to find relevant documents based on keywords. One way that page rank algorithms leverage human intelligence is by analyzing the…
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Cloud Query: Prove It
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Cloud Query: Prove It

When it comes to securing content in the cloud, section 7.2 of the AWS Customer Agreement currently says the following (in part): We strongly encourage you, where available and appropriate,…
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What’s In A Storage Name
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What’s In A Storage Name

When the acronym RAID came out, it stuck like glue. The original paper from Berkeley was extremely influential in its introduction of terminology that combined disk striping and data protection…
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Provenance Awareness
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Provenance Awareness

EMC is building stronger relationships with universities and technology companies in the Cambridge, MA area. I've been making monthly visits to Harvard University to interact with both their CS department…
Data Quest
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Data Quest

I recently met two professors from the UK that are on a data quest. They're touring the United States asking questions about scientific research data. On Wednesday afternoon I spent…
Cloud Cartography
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Cloud Cartography

Photo: Above The CloudsOne of the benefits of the recent partnership with MIT is that all EMC employees are invited to attend (in person or remotely) lectures on a variety…