Big data could revolutionize analytics, databases and enterprise IT.
MongoDB’s latest foray is acquiring Realm, a popular alternative to SQLite, for sealing the deal with mobile app developers.
From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support, is one of the pain-points keeping organizations from getting the most out of their data lakes. Delta Lake is here to address this.
Delta Lake is a new open source project that could help data scientists and data engineers untangle their batch and streaming data pipelines by adding a transaction layer.
Elon Musk is a master at promotion, but Nvidia is laying out a few "inaccuracies" with Tesla's GPU comparisons.
Country's government agencies identify 121 job roles in banking, asset management, and insurance that they believe will be necessary in future when the financial sector sees increased adoption of data analytics and automation.
To machine learning pioneer Terry Sejnowski, the mathematical technique called stochastic gradient descent is the “secret sauce” of deep learning, and most people don’t actually grasp its true significance.
The search for qualified candidates for an open data scientist position with the right education and the right experience will take time and require a comprehensive recruitment plan. This kit includes...
Want your business to gain a competitive advantage? If so, learn what prescriptive analytics is--and is not.
With the hiring of Tom Kurian, Google Cloud Platform gains an executive highly experienced with running an enterprise computing business. Among his earliest priorities for GCP are hiring the right people – and lots of them. They will be needed in more places than you think.
Take this quick, multiple choice survey and tell us about your company's plans for prescriptive analytics.
Marketing company Quander is using graph database technology from Neo4j to help its customers make better decisions.
Start with a new, more tightly integrated Confluent Cloud on Google Cloud Platform. Add integration of Fivetran SaaS connectors into BigQuery's Data Transfer Service. The result? Third-party data services with a first-party sheen.
Among the announcements coming from Google NEXT this week, InfluxData and Google Cloud have entered a new partnership to host its time series database. For InfluxDB, one of the most popular open source databases, the move to Google Cloud is occurring just as the company takes another major step – or risk – in transitioning its core platform.
The new AI tools announced at Google Cloud Next focus on addressing common business challenges like structuring data from documents or forecasting inventory.
Mark Russinovich, the chief technologist for Microsoft's Azure, reflects on bringing AI from cloud to edge, a process that in over time may look like a very big Visual Basic app.
A new pre-built app for Sales Analytics, as well as a new JavaScript SDK, open source library and new visualizations, make Looker more developer-friendly.
Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.
Most of us do not know that we are using chatbots to talk to service agents, so how will we know that AI will be seamlessly interacting in with our future lives?
The endless streams of data generated by applications lends its name to this paradigm, but also brings some hard to deal with requirements to the table: How do you deal with querying semantics and implementation when your data is not finite, what kind of processing can you do on such data, and how do you combine it with data from other sources or feed it to your machine learning pipelines, and do this at production scale?
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
If you want to track sleep and heart health, these apps will get you going.
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
This new exhibition at London's Science Museum looks to help people explore the "invisible revolution of big data" and inspire the data scientists of the future.
Computers are smarter than you think, but will they soon think smarter than you? Plenty of big names in science say so...and that it's only a matter of when.
Whether you're in the C-suite of a Fortune 500 tech company or starting the next unicorn in your garage, these 20 tech thinkers have valuable insights you need to hear.
These meddling apps and sneaky strategies help the boss poach your privacy and can even keep you working around the clock.
The University of New South Wales has launched a DomeLab in the hope to help researchers visualise data sets in the medical and museology field.
As well as acting as the hub for a grid of scientific institutions around the world, CERN's datacenter has to cope with vast amounts of raw data from its particle physics experiments.
Earlier this month, New Horizons joined the US space agency's many dozens of other far-flung unmanned probes that are already gathering a combined 30 terabytes of data daily from the near and far reaches of our solar system.
There's no better way to put Chef Watson to the test than actually putting on an apron, heading down to the kitchen and taste whatever big data actually has to offer.
ZDNet's Greg Nichols tells TechRepublic's Karen Roby about how augmented reality and virtual reality are working to change the way we interact with data.
Internet giant unveils a physical space, occupying 7,200 square feet within its Singapore office, that it says offers various resources for developers from Southeast Asia, including hands-on mentorship, networking opportunities, and access to Google technologies.
Meanwhile, the ATO believe successful organisations are those that utilise data analytics, IT, and business together.
Searching publicly available information across the web has revealed some interesting insights about Facebook’s workforce.
iOS app developers have been capturing how users interact with screens without gaining user consent.
Ask Data hopes to change how Tableau customers navigate and interact with the analytics software.
'Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power platform on top of what we’re doing with Azure is the core of what we are doing as a company,' says CEO Satya Nadella.
Samsung's new Remote Access feature will allow users to wirelessly control their PCs, tablets, and smartphones through their smart TVs.
At Unbound Miami 2018, ZDNet Senior Technology Editor Jason Perlow moderates a panel on the state of AI, its current uses, and what the future holds for one of the most disruptive technologies of our time.
The bank's iPhone-using customers can now remove that PayTag sticker Commonwealth Bank had previously been touting as sufficient.
Serverless isn't usually something synonymous with stringed instruments and amplifiers, but Fender's chief digital product officer believes it's the way forward for the guitar-maker.
Increasingly, NASCAR seeks to deliver a sophisticated mix of live race action, data feeds, social network interactions and consumer view point experience choices across multiple screens.
Two-year initiative is expected to kick off by year-end with autonomous vehicles rolling on Chinese roads, following efforts by Ford engineers to equip the vehicles with Baidu's Apollo Virtual Driver System.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has decided to extend its data matching program to look into shareholder data
Vijay Raghavan, executive vice president and chief technology officer Risk and Business Analytics for The RELX Group, talks with Tonya Hall about a balance between analytics and intuition.
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InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007, the latest update to their post-relational database product.
IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.
Displaying images brightly and sharply, this stylish LCD projector is best suited for boardroom presentations. Read our Australian review.
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