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More information is beginning to trickle out about the Stuxnet worm that has infected numerous Siemens hardware installations worldwide. While the worm itself relies on several exploits for Windows that could have been created by decent black hats, the originators must have also had inside information on how to craft it to the specific Iranian targets.

A quick article that shows Hadoop can be used for more than just social network data. In this case, a company is using it to analyze open source software code to ensure proper license usage.

Interesting article from NetworkWorld that gives an overview of the importance of big data and its applications to several organizations.

Alex Williams over at ReadWriteWeb hits the nail on the head that problems currently being solved with Hadoop are not the real interesting challenges that we can tackle once we get past the purely “geeky” questions.

An interesting bit in the NY Times about why IBM is not involved in the bidding war for 3Par. Apparently they use their research centers to find out about small companies before their competitors like HP and Dell do. If true, that could be a significant sustainable competitive advantage.