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Data gathering is an important process in any business. To ensure that the gathered data will be useful for an organisation it should be in pristine condition. Making decisions based on dirty data can be detrimental to the company.

Now what is dirty data anyway? Putting it simply, data that is duplicated, inaccurate, incomplete or flawed in any way is exactly what dirty data is. Therefore it is essential that quality control is applied in the process of data gathering.

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KUALA LUMPUR – July 10, Tuesday - SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), today introduced to its Continuous Data Protection (CDP) series the capability of using a CDP appliance as an offsite data backup solution. CDP Box-to-Box Backup provides a comprehensive solution for backing up and restoring data remotely without using third-party offsite facilities, giving users and managed service providers control over their data backup and recovery solutions.

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Kuala Lumpur, July 9, 2007 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that industry analyst firm Dell’Oro has reported Alcatel-Lucent’s continued market leadership in DSL as well as IP DSLAM shipments at the end of the first quarter of 2007.

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KUALA LUMPUR, 28 June 2007 - SAS, the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) software provider, today launched two academic-related programs in active response to MSC Malaysia’s call for more substantial efforts from ICT companies towards a knowledge-based economy.

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I recently bought a few things at Giant Taman Pelangi. Take a look at the receipt I got and guess how many items I bought. For your information, the receipt is exactly 61.9 centimeters long, that’s 24.37 inches for you non-metric folks.

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