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Almost three-quarters (72%) of UK firms believe that graduates lack the necessary skills to analyse data effectively. As a result, only 10% look at new graduates when recruiting for big data projects. These were among the key findings of a recent OnePoll survey of senior executives commissioned by Teradata.

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Timico answers bandwidth boom with fixed-price Ethernet

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Splunk acquires Cloudmeter

Splunk Inc. has acquired Cloudmeter, Inc., a provider of network data capture technologies. The addition of Cloudmeter will enhance the ability of Splunk customers to analyse machine data directly from their networks and correlate it with other machine-generated data to gain insights across Splunk’s core use cases in application and infrastructure management, IT operations, security and business analytics.

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Oracle sponsors OpenStack Foundation

Oracle plans to integrate OpenStack capabilities into Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle’s ZS3 Series, Axiom Storage Systems and StorageTek Tape Systems, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Oracle Storage Cloud Service.

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Supporting rapid online expansion

Mozzart Bet, a leading online sports betting and gaming company servicing eastern Europe, has replaced most of its existing data center infrastructure with an integrated Juniper Networks switching, routing and security portfolio.

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