From hot information to in-memory to tape drives, you need to manage your data.
With cloud object stores becoming the de facto data lakes, a recent survey shows that enterprises are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to finding and accounting for all the data that is piling up.
The platform for managing first-party data will help its customers with the heavy lifting of forwarding end-user data requests to various marketing tools.
Tableau is looking to expand its reach into enterprises by automating more of data preparation and launching new flavors of the analytics software designed for various business roles.
The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and streamline sustainable development goals. While this is work in progress, there are some fundamental questions as to its effectiveness.
As the launch pad for nearly a dozen commercial database products, has the time finally come for PostgreSQL to step out into the spotlight?
The Victorian government has asked for privacy safeguards and further clarification on who can access Australia's Face Identification Service before the Bill is set in stone.
Far too many enterprises are unprepared to comply with the GDPR provisions, even though those organizations are liable for the consequences if they don’t. This checklist provides a baseline assessment...
Microsoft is offering 30 percent off a SQL Server 2017 on Linux subscription through June 30, 2018, to qualifying customers.
Tech giant launches local store and avails its smart speakers at retail outlets, while its execs attempt to ally data security fears by stressing the devices are designed around the company's privacy framework.
The country wants the multilateral global trade body to start a debate on regulation and governance.
Having experienced several significant market changes, IBM is adept at transformation and will continue to do so by focusing on "strategic imperatives", says its first female Asia-Pacific chief Harriet Green.
Analysts are largely betting that Facebook will weather the Cambridge Analytica flap and congressional hearings and that marketers will stick with the platform.
Maladies in healthcare data management are obvious, but what about solutions? From selling Genome data to using Blockchain and the effects of GDPR, would we rather stick to the devil we know?
A coalition has accused YouTube of violating child protection laws.
How is data managed? Do users get to have consent over how their data is used? And do they get a cut out of the value generated by using that data? Let's take a walk on the wild side.
Facebook is being skewered for its data management, but every company needs to think about its customer data strategy well beyond GDPR. The wild west of data is being tamed.
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.
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?
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 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.
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.
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
Not all graphs are created similar. Here are the main differences between RDF and LPG.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
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.
Ashley Madison users have many priorities. Apparently, an airtight password is not one of them.
Letter rip: Lessons any high-tech office warrior can learn from the teenage word masters of the National Spelling Bee
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.
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.
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.
AT&T offers a peek behind the scenes at the digital networking pipelines designed to improve baseball fan experiences at its eponymous ballpark in San Francisco.
CEO Greg Clark thinks that online information protection will be even more important in the years to come.
The typical enterprise has become a nonstop software and data factory, operating 24x7. Technology has to be there at all times.
Video: What new data rules mean for you and your business.
Technology vendors are scrambling to create an abstraction layer that can clean up data and make it easier to prep for analytics. The problem is humans haven't been the best stewards of organized data. As a result, machine learning is the next magic bullet for data management issues dating back decades.
New players, new features, platforms, and ticking boxes. Graph databases, and Neo4j, are moving on.
As cloud approaches its second decade in enterprises, IT managers find it to be an ideal backup environment, two new surveys confirm.
Here are three lesser-known cloud services that can help solve the kind of business problems that keep you up at night.
Data governance is finally getting industry attention, via new feature sets, open source projects, commercial products, and even whole companies. So far, though, the solutions are pretty piecemeal. MapR is trying to be more comprehensive.
We get answers from Addison Lee CDO Graeme McDermott.
Cloud and 'as a service' models have changed the way computing works. Get over it.
Can data from organizations as prominent as NASA vanish into thin air? A grass-roots initiative lead by scientists and researchers believes it just might, and is doing everything in its power to prevent this.
Offering open-use terms, near real-time access, and APIs, Finland's electricity grid operator says it's the first European country to open up national electricity data.
Microsoft, HERE, TomTom, and Esri are collaborating on building a world graph of geographic data that's integrated with Microsoft's Azure cloud. Mary Jo Foley
The Internet Archive has been collecting websites, books, music, software and other materials for the last 20 years. This is what it's like to be inside their real-life location.
[CASE STUDY] Singapore bank is expanding its machine-to-machine infrastructure to capture customer interactions on mobile devices and social media in real-time, which it hopes will improve service quality and customer experience.
The venerable FileMaker database gets an update that includes better development tools, including the ability to create mobile versions of databases that run in the browser.
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, 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.
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