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Informatica forges deeper partnership with Google Cloud
As part of the enhanced partnership, the enterprise cloud data management company now supports Google Big Query and Dataproc.
Couchbase hops the Kubernetes bandwagon with automated operator
Couchbase takes the next step in making its database cloud-native as one of the first to add Kubernetes operators.
Breaking up Facebook? Try data literacy, social engineering, personal knowledge graphs, and developer advocacy
Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up is by getting hold of its data and functionality, one piece at a time. It will take a combination of tech, data, and social engineering to get there. And graphs -- personal knowledge graphs.
The future of SAP HANA
The message that came out of SAPPHIRE last week is that SAP remains all in on HANA, and that the future is making it cloud-native.
MarkLogic launches a Data Hub for the pharmaceutical industry
MarkLogic also announced the latest versions of the MarkLogic Data Hub and the underlying MarkLogic multi-modal database.
AI helps improve and smooth IT service delivery, survey shows
So far so good with AIOps, which applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to help unravel IT hairballs.
Cybersecurity basics still the key for preventing business email compromise
Business email compromise is up, and people are still falling for phishing attacks that give cyber criminals access to corporate email systems.
SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA
SAP wants HANA to be your one gateway to enterprise data. There's a good reason for that, but a bevy of other enterprise vendors have the same idea.
Microsoft Build 2019 Postmortem: Bring on the graph, but hold the glitz
It was hard to top last year’s demonstration of the new Microsoft 365 experienced powered by the Microsoft Graph. The focus this year shifted to how the graph could break down application and device silos to make everyday applications more user-centric.
Tableau reports mixed Q1 results
The data visualization company fell short on revenue but reported strong momentum in subscription revenue.
Medicare for All faces big data, privacy, technology hurdles, says CBO
The Congressional Budget Office highlighted the IT challenges with a single payer healthcare model, but also noted that Taiwan may have a design that would keep costs down.
Snowflake gets new CEO: ServiceNow vet Slootman replaces Muglia
New Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman knows growth, the cloud, the IPO process and returns.
DevOps efforts stumble over database obstacles, survey suggests
Application code changes may be moving along swimmingly, but database schema changes are another story.
Details on 80 million US households exposed by unprotected cloud database
Researchers find another unprotected database containing personal data lying wide open on the internet.
Acronis releases APIs to expand application of core platforms
Singapore-based data security vendor is offering four software development kits, with more than 100 application programming interface functions, to enable developers and customers to build customised features and enhance the performance of Acronis' products.
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.
IBM's Chef Watson mixing big data with Bon Appétit foodie favorites
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.
Designing an automated warehouse
Sawyer Bateman, chief technology officer at EasyPost, tells Tonya Hall about the role data science plays in the creation of an automated warehouse.
How data management works at NASA
ZDNet's Tonya Hall talks with Dr. David Meza, chief knowledge architect at NASA, to learn more about NASA's data management process.
How the American Cancer Society is applying machine learning to decades-old data
Mia Gaudet, ACS strategic director for breast and gynecologic cancer research, explains how machine learning techniques are advancing a research study launched in 1992 and what it took to prepare the data for analysis.
How Brinker International thinks through cloud, data, Apple iPads
Brinker, the company behind the Chili's restaurant chain, is big on hybrid whether it's the approach to cloud computing, data science and the front end customer experience via a pilot with Apple iPads. We caught up with Wade Allen, chief digital officer of Brinker, to talk shop.
How mixed reality is defining our interactions with data
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.
Shifting data from local to the cloud
Tonya Hall talks with Clifford Madru, vice president cloud solution architecture and engineering at Iron Mountain, about the best way to approach transferring local data to the cloud.
French startup developing ultra-low power open-source AI chips for IoT
What if machine learning applications on the edge were possible, pushing the limits of size and energy efficiency? GreenWaves is doing this, based on an open-source parallel ultra low power microprocessor architecture. Read more: https://zd.net/2Nu2t43
Notorious scam group targets universities and non-profits with gift card scheme
Schools and charities beware: if someone pretending to be your boss emails you to buy Apple iTunes or Google Play gift cards, it’s almost certainly a scam.
Can we always trust the core IoT data stream?
Jason Hart, chief technology officer, of enterprise and cybersecurity at Gemalto, tells Tonya Hall that 79% of respondents want government standards regarding the core IoT data stream.
Singapore health ministry refutes suggestions of HIV data leak coverup
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong says the government had to "balance" the interests of affected individuals and general public after discovering in 2016 the personal data of individuals diagnosed with HIV had been illegally accessed, and only publicly revealed the incident in January 2019.
How the health care sector can tap into more data in Salesforce's Health Cloud
ZDNet's Stephanie Condon talks with TechRepublic's Karen Roby about how health care providers, payers and other parts of the industry can now add "social determinants" to the Health Cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/2By418A
Finding a line between privacy and digital ethics
Tonya Hall talks to Adam Hirsch, executive vice president of emerging media and technologies at Edelman Digital, about making ethical decisions privately and digitally.
Merging technology, data, and the customer experience
Preston So, director of research and innovation at Acquia, talks with Tonya Hall about the process of merging technology, data, and the customer experience and the benefits that come with that information.
Building AI data sets in Uganda
Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, founder and CEO of LXMI, sits talks with Tonya Hall about bringing digital micro work to sub-Saharan Africa.
What machine empathy should sound like
Danielle Krettek, founder and principal of Google's Empathy Lab, talks to Tonya Hall about the process of compiling empathy data sets.
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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