[Esip-preserve] Group Seeks Global Protocol to Identify Big Data Sets - ScienceInsider

[Bruce Barkstrom]

Oh goody - now IBM wants to take us over.  I remember IBM (and Fujitsu and
some other companies) doing in the momentum of the Global Grid Forum and
replacing it with "cloud computing".

Any notion of how big "big data" is?

Bruce B.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Mark A. Parsons <parsonsm at nsidc.org> wrote:
> Of interest to the identifier/locator crowd:
> http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/group-seeks-global-protocol-to-i.html?etoc&sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d70e8589cd12db0,0
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