On Monday security vendor McAfee plans to launch a new firewall appliance and a revamped version of its Total Protection set of network security products, including a revamped data loss prevention system, Web security and e-mail security appliances.
The plan raised tough ethical issues, ranging from questions about how outside scientists would get access to the revamped data to whether personal medical data collected with public money should be sold to private companies.
The company last year had to revamp its data plans, after having introduced an Unlimited plan called Neverstop that it found to be unsustainable.
To accommodate the fire hose of information, companies have started revamping their data centers.
The reliability of Cable and Wireless executives suffered a further setback today, analysts said, when the company disclosed that revamping its data business, including the elimination of 3,500 jobs and the closing of 19 of 42 data centers, would cost £800 million ($1.3 billion), about double what some had predicted.
-Jon Ward reports on the state of the GOP data revamp.
To come from behind in this market, H.P. has turned to a hard-sell pitch that says customers can either model themselves after the revamped H.P. by adopting data warehousing or continue to be a mess.
There are several problems with that statistic, though, and comScore has since revised the figure downward to less than 13.2 million as part of a broader revamping of its worldwide data for many sites.
The NCAA's Academic Performance Program revamped the Academic Progress Rate (APR) data in 2011, wary of the struggles historic black colleges and universities were facing in their compilation and submission of data each year.
Proof-of-principle studies will be conducted with new and revamped assays, and new data infrastructure and data management tools will be built.
