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Database administrators determine the most effective and efficient way to collect, structure, and store data so that it can be readily retrieved when it’s needed. This kit includes a job description, sample...
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SAS to invest $1 billion in AI for industry uses, education, R&D
The AI investment is part of SAS' efforts to make data, AI, machine learning and algorithms more return driven and consumable.
Singapore public sector reports yet another security lapse
Following a spate of data breaches affecting healthcare patients in Singapore, another lapse has occurred. A server containing personal information of 808,201 blood donors was not properly secured by a third-party vendor, potentially exposing data such as blood type and national identification number.
Brazilian retailer quizzed over facial recognition tech
Hering will have to explain whether its innovation experiments violate user privacy and consumer rights.
The revenge of the atoms can drive a new relationship with customers
In a world dominated by AI and automation, bits of data and atoms are fighting to drive insights and power digital business.
Streamlio, an open-core streaming data fabric for the cloud era
Apache Kafka replacement and beyond. This is open-core Streamlio's claim to fame, and today's announcement of a managed cloud service brings it one step closer to reality.
Get ready for more data privacy regulations
Organizations should build on the momentum from GDPR compliance efforts to prepare for new rules.
Graph data standardization: It's just a graph, making gravitational waves in the real world
AWS, Google, Neo4j, Oracle. These were just some of the vendors represented in the W3C workshop on web standardization for graph data, and what transcribed is bound to boost adoption of the hottest segment in data management: Graph.
Cybercrime is increasing and more costly for organizations
New report says companies need to protect against people-based attacks and deploy tools to limit information loss and business disruption.
Hacker group behind SingHealth data breach identified, targeted mainly Singapore firms
Hackers that compromised the data of 1.5 million healthcare patients have been identified as a group that launched attacks against several organisations based in Singapore, including multinational firms with operations in the country, and is likely part of a larger operation targeting other countries and regions.
Qlik Brazil leader steps down
Country manager Marcelo Rezende left after just over two years at the company.
Survey: Marketers juggle an average of 16 data sources to track customers
With every click, tap and swipe, customers are leaving a growing digital footprint -- one marketers are struggling to handle, a new Salesforce survey shows
Singapore university partners Volvo to pilot full-size autonomous electric bus
Just over a year after first announcing plans to collaborate, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University and Volvo Buses have launched a driverless electric bus stretching 12 metres long that can accommodate 80 passengers.
How to build massive scale infrastructure, without slowing down
SendGrid explains the engineering behind the giant scale of its email and communications systems.
Pure Storage Q4 sales hampered by manufacturing issues
"A process breakdown at a contract manufacturer prevented a number of orders from shipping in the quarter," said Pure Storage. A customer move to subscriptions also hampered sales.
These major scammers just switched focus to aim at schools, universities and charities
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.
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.
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.
Democratizing data cleansing
Tonya Hall talks to Adam Wilson, CEO at Trifacta, about an expectation for broader data sets in 2019.
In China, WeChat breaks all records (with a little help from the government)
WeChat, the most popular messaging app among Chinese consumers, reports a milestone 1 billion daily active users by the end of 2018.
Japan makes visitors pay for their biometric info to be collected
The 1,000 yen tax will be charged on plane and boat tickets and used to fund facial recognition initiatives at airports.
CES 2019: Allstate launches product to help consumers manage their "digital footprint"
Consumers are increasingly concerned about the risks of leaving behind a digital footprint, so Allstate is stepping in to help people learn more about who has their data and why.
CES 2019: As Sleep Number amasses biometric data, it works on customer trust
The mattress manufacturer collects 8.5 billion biometric data points every night via its smart beds, says Sleep Number CEO Shelly Ibach. To protect that data, the company is building direct relationships with customers, she said.
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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