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A closer look at Azure Synapse Link
Announced at the Build conference last week, Azure Synapse Link extends the cloud data warehousing service to operational data, starting with Azure Cosmos DB. Microsoft also claims Link works without impacting Cosmos DB. The answer on how it does that might surprise you.
Scientific fact-checking using AI language models: COVID-19 research and beyond
Fact or fiction? That's not always an easy question to answer. Incomplete knowledge, context and bias typically come into play. In the nascent domain of scientific fact checking, things are complicated.
APAC consumers have concerns about online privacy, but let it go for freebies
More than half of consumers in Asia-Pacific are concerned about protecting their online and physical lives, but 20% are willing to offer their personal data for free products or services, while 24% share their social media details for quizzes.
Brazilian Senate overturns postponement of data protection regulations
New changes reinstate the original schedule with rules set to go live in August this year.
GoodData and Visa: A common data-driven future?
From user, to partner and investor. That's not a very common scenario for software vendors, especially if the user-cum-partner-investor is someone like Visa. GoodData is evolving more than its relationship with select users.
Coles shuffles data management into the cloud
It opens up the ability for the company's data science team to use machine learning and advanced analytics.
Brazil shifts public health websites to the cloud
The Ministry of Health portal and websites relating to the coronavirus pandemic have migrated to an environment operated by Embratel.
Open source observability, meet data transformation: Grafana 7.0 promises to connect, unify, and visualize all your data
Grafana Labs sets the bar for open source observability with Grafana 7.0: more developer friendly, more data sources, data transformation, and growth in the cloud and on premise
No matter how sophisticated, artificial intelligence systems still need human oversight
AI and machine learning systems are only as good as the data we feed them. Witness the fallout from the COVID-19 crisis, which threw many AI algorithms out of whack: 'If machines are to be trusted, we need to watch over them.'
Data privacy awareness grows in Brazil
Users want more control over how their information is handled in digital platforms, according to a new study
Data security startup Dathena snags $12M in Series A
Singapore-based data security startup Dathena rakes in $12 million in its Series A round, which will be tapped to boost its R&D work and expansion plans in the US market, where it has a sales partnership with Microsoft.
Database Week: MariaDB lets you have it your way with new tier to SkySQL cloud
Fresh out of the gate with its SkySQL managed cloud database service, MariaDB is now adding a premium tier that lets customers tailor their own deployments.
Database Week: CockroachDB spring release targets developers
The spring release of CockroachDB has a clear developer focus, with features aimed to lowering barriers to entry, and it checks off a few more boxes, such performance management, that are essential for enterprises.
Database Week: Microsoft OEMs Redis Enterprise for Azure
Microsoft is upgrading the Azure cache service through a new OEM agreement to the full Redis Enterprise service.
Database Week: DataStax unleashed Astra managed Cassandra cloud
A couple weeks following AWS’s release of Keyspaces, DataStax now has its answer: a managed cloud service based on DataStax Enterprise.
ioSafe Duo: Fireproof and water resistant data storage (in pictures)
The ioSafe Duo brings peace of mind to onsite storage.
When chatbots are a very bad idea
Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.
Hybrid transactional analytical processing
Traditionally, operational databases and platforms for data analysis have been two different worlds. This has come to be seen as natural, as after all the requirements for use cases that need immediate results and transactional integrity are very different from those that need complex analysis and long-running processing.
Insight Platforms as a Service
Remember how we noted data is going the way of the cloud? While there are no signs of this slowing down, there's another interesting trend unraveling, the so-called Insight Platforms as a Service (IPaaS). The thinking behind this is simple: if your data is in the cloud anyway, why not use a platform that's also in the cloud to run analytics on them, and automate as much of the process as possible?
Streaming becomes mainstream
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?
The machine learning feedback loop
The pace of change is catalyzed and accelerated at large by data itself, in a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts: data-driven product -> more data -> better insights -> more profit -> more investment -> better product -> more data. So while some are still struggling to deal with basic issues related to data collection and storage, governance, security, organizational culture, and skillset, others are more concerned with the higher end of the big data hierarchy of needs.
Moving up the analytics stack
As descriptive and diagnostic analytics are getting commoditized, we are moving up the stack towards predictive and prescriptive analytics. Predictive analytics is about being able to forecast what's coming next based on what's happened so far, while prescriptive analytics is about taking the right course of action to make a desirable outcome happen.
Photos: How FC Barcelona uses football player data to win games
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
A graph is a graph is graph? RDF vs LPG
Not all graphs are created similar. Here are the main differences between RDF and LPG, as presented by Jesus Barrasa, Director Telecoms Practice, Neo4j: http://bit.ly/howSemanticIsYourGraph
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Super Bowl 50: Big tech bringing top talent to keep fans entertained, connected
Estimates peg more than one million people will visit Super Bowl City alone in the two weeks leading up to Super Bowl Sunday. No word yet on how many Instagrams of burritos and palm trees that could produce.
Presenting the 20 dumbest Ashley Madison passwords, in no particular order
Ashley Madison users have many priorities. Apparently, an airtight password is not one of them.
How to dominate at any tech job using spelling bee tips
Letter rip: Lessons any high-tech office warrior can learn from the teenage word masters of the National Spelling Bee
AT&T hauling cows, cheese wheels and a giant eyeball to Outside Lands
The annual Outside Lands music and food extravaganza marks the first occasion where AT&T is deploying all three of the biggest wireless tools in its arsenal at a single festival.
Inside CERN's datacenter helping the Large Hadron Collider probe the Big Bang: Photos
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.
APAC consumers have concerns about online privacy, but let it go for freebies
More than half of consumers in Asia-Pacific are concerned about protecting their online and physical lives, but 20% are willing to offer their personal data for free products or services, while 24% share their social media details for quizzes.
Data security startup Dathena snags $12M in Series A
Singapore-based data security startup Dathena rakes in $12 million in its Series A round, which will be tapped to boost its R&D work and expansion plans in the US market, where it has a sales partnership with Microsoft.
Singapore consumers trust their emotions more than data, technology
Over half of consumers in the country make decisions based on personal experience and intuition, with 67% expressing concerns their data may be disclosed publicly.
How to manage the increase in cloud demand? This is Microsoft's plan
Microsoft officials say they've been taking some behind-the-scenes steps to try to head off current and future cloud capacity issues.
Slack expands data residency program to Australia
It comes after the program was introduced in Germany, France, and Japan.
How data is making the EMS to emergency room hand-off easier
ESO Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brent Myers outlines how structured data from EMS calls are informing COVID-19 responses and protective gear needs. 5G may also bring doctors into the ambulance via video calls in the future. Read more: https://zd.net/2VaHeJ3
Microsoft reports a 775% increase in demand for cloud services
Microsoft is sharing more guidance around capacity limits it is putting in place for its cloud resources caused by higher-than-usual demand due to COVID-19.
California law enforcement shares citizens' vehicle data without controls, audit finds
An audit from the State of California reveals that license plate tracking by law enforcement seems a touch wayward.
Cerner moves data to the cloud to solve problems like physician burnout
Eric Geis, VP of clinical product development at Cerner, talks about the opportunities and challenges for the health IT giant as it adopts new cloud-based technologies.
Singapore government pledges to improve data security with new measures
Set up after a spate of security breaches involving government agencies, a review committee dishes out several recommendations Singapore's public sector should take to boost its security posture in order to better safeguard citizen data.
Microsoft's new storage system can hold Superman movie in bit of glass
Microsoft says its latest collaboration with Warner Bros could help store data for generations to come.
Google thinks I'm single. How do I tell my wife?
Chris Matyszczyk explains that Google is revealing what it tells advertisers about you. It doesn't seem too accurate. Read more: https://zd.net/2WzM7vp
No right to be forgotten? A step-by-step guide to reducing your digital footprint online
Here's how to remove yourself from the Internet and hide your identity. Read more: https://zd.net/2Vq4DWE
Turning NASA data into videos, maps, and pictures
Tonya Hall sits down with Ernie Wright, visualizer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to learn more about the process of transforming data into useful visual aids.
Microsoft creates high-level team to give users more control over their data
Microsoft is staffing up a new Data Dignity team in its CTO's office which could help users to control their own personal data, ultimately to the point of buying and selling it.
PDF-eXPLODE
For standard invoices and reports requiring efficient delivery, PDF-eXPLODE could well be a lifesaver. It can be a bit touchy on occasion, but once your document templates are set up properly it should be plain sailing.
InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007
InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007, the latest update to their post-relational database product.
IBM DB2 9
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.
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