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Is web3 data storage ushering in a new era of privacy?

Dataconomy

The Cambridge Analytica affair saw the eponymous British consulting firm harvest the data of up to 87 million Facebook profiles without their knowledge, misconduct that later saw CEO Mark Zuckerberg hauled in front of Congress and the social media firm fined $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Microsoft and VMware vet Paul Maritz backs social app built on promise of user privacy

GeekWire

Former VMware CEO and longtime Microsoft executive Paul Maritz is a major investor in True, a social app that vows not to sell or monetize user data. True shows it’s possible to build a social app “not predicated on a business model that requires you to abuse people’s information,” Maritz said.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.

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The Data Storage Explosion

Cloud Musings

Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity. The business reason behind this marketplace reality is the proliferation of real-time data from the web, mobile devices, social media, sensors, log files, and transactional applications.

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Meta is set to launch Quest 3 mixed reality headset this fall for $500

TechSpot

The social media giant said Quest 3 will ship in all countries where Quest is already supported later this fall. for a model with 128 GB of storage, although units with more space will also be available. Pricing will start at $499.99 Read Entire Article

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Azure Storage Account Networking: When to Use Firewalls and Service Endpoints

Linux Academy

Recently, when building content for one of my upcoming courses, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 , I found the Microsoft documentation wasn’t immediately clear on the exclusivity of Storage Account Firewalls, and Service Endpoints. Do I need to use Service Endpoints and the Storage Firewall together?

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New White Paper, “The Public Sector Improves Security and Efficiency with Hadoop”, Available in Research Library

CTOvision

IT Efficiency covers offloading ETL to free up data warehouse capacity; improving storage efficiency using Hadoop as an archive; and combining High Performance Computing with Hadoop. Good Government includes preventing fraud, waste, and abuse; delivering timely and accurate public reporting; analyzing citizen engagement with social media.