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Data without an associated backup is only as reliable as the system upon which it is stored—and every system has a finite lifespan or may be susceptible to malware or hacking efforts. This policy offers...
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Evolution of data platforms: Using the right data for the right outcomes
Thought leader Esteban Kolsky takes on the big question: What will data platforms look like now that big data's hype is over and big data "solutions" are at hand? This is the second part beckoning.
What to do with the data? The evolution of data platforms in a post big data world
Thought leader Esteban Kolsky takes on the big question: What will data platforms look like now that big data's hype is over and big data "solutions" are at hand?
IBM Cloud Private for Data preps Red Hat OpenShift certification, queryplex search tool
IBM Cloud Private for Data is building out features and tools to query data sources across multiple clouds.
The past, present, and future of streaming: Flink, Spark, and the gang
Reactive, real-time applications require real-time, eventful data flows. This is the premise on which a number of streaming frameworks have proliferated. The latest milestone was adding ACID capabilities, so let us take stock of where we are in this journey down the stream -- or river.
Humanity.co Android app launches: Can blockchain bring property rights to your data?
Healthcare is the first target for Humanity.co's apps, which use IBM's blockchain platform, but there could be multiple industries on deck.
Singapore moots 'essential' cybersecurity rules for financial firms
Monetary Authority of Singapore has proposed converting current cybersecurity guidelines to mandatory requirements, which financial institutions operating in the country must adopt to safeguard their IT systems and build up their cyber resilience.
The Data Expeditions, Epilogue: Reassessing the battle for the core of enterprise data
The Data Expeditions, Epilogue: Where we review the epic struggle to capture and remake data warehouses, in the context of a world that doesn't appear to be aware such a struggle exists, and may never have seen it as all that epic.
The web as a database: The biggest knowledge graph ever
Imagine you could get the entire web in a database, and structure it. Then you would be able to get answers to complex questions in seconds by querying, rather than searching. This is what Diffbot promises.
Chinese police investigating major security breach of hotel group
Some 500 million pieces of customer data is believed to have been compromised, including that of 150 million accounts currently on sale in the dark web for 8 Bitcoins.
Storj Labs forges open-source vendors and cloud services alliance
Open source powers today's cloud, but many open-source developers haven't profited from the cloud's growth. Storj Labs wants to change that dynamic so both can make money.
Azure Data Factory v2: Hands-on overview
Whether you're shifting ETL workloads to the cloud or visually building data transformation pipelines, version 2 of Azure Data Factory lets you leverage conventional and open source technologies to move, prep and integrate your data.
Open port exposes data of 50.5M GOMO app users
Port 80 was left open by Guangzhou-based developer Sungy Mobile, exposing personal data of more than 50 million accounts of its GOMO apps--popular amongst children--including user names, passwords, and mobile numbers.
Data management: Using NoSQL to drive business transformation
Couchbase CEO Matt Cain explains how his company gives end users a competitive edge through real-time data.
Singapore taps data analytics to better manage rail systems
Land Transport Authority dishes out S$18.8 million (US$13.7 million) to deploy a rail management platform that will consolidate its existing tracking systems and use data analytics to monitor and identify potential faults.
Unifi adds Tableau metadata to its data catalog
Company releases version 2.9 of its Unifi Data Platform, with ability to track Tableau projects, workbooks and views through its data catalog. Data stewards can designate trusted data sets; file crawler, filtering and recently-viewed dataset view added .
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.
AT&T's EchoBOT and rewiring the baseball fan experience
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.
Understanding the pros and cons of moving to an OPEX model with the cloud
Moving to a subscription-based model with cloud computing works for some businesses, but it isn't the best option for everyone, explained 451 Research chief analyst Eric Hanselman.
How businesses are getting their app security right
Zach Jones, senior manager static code analysis at Whitehat Security, talks about the right ways businesses can manage their app security.
Creating the data infrastructure to answer almost any question
Teaching artificial intelligence to perform jobs that humans can't do.
Data governance: How to maintain innovation while managing risks
How do you resolve the tension between the need to build and deploy accurate machine learning models fast, and the need to understand how those models work, what data they touch upon, and what are the implications? Data governance may be the answer.
Extending data capture to the sky
Dan Burton, founder at Dronebase, talks about the new technologies drone manufacturers are adding to their aircraft, as well as ethical and regulatory developments for drone flights.
Using big data to create value for external customers and internal teams
Zhe Zhang, manager of Core Big Data at LinkedIn, discusses open source deep learning and artificial intelligence tools used at LinkedIn.
GDPR may change the way data flows
Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute and professor of Strategic Foresight at NYU Stern School of Business, is the author of The Signals Are Talking.
Symantec CEO: We want to protect your data for many years to come
CEO Greg Clark thinks that online information protection will be even more important in the years to come.
DevOps is the hot topic in 2018: Five reasons why
The typical enterprise has become a nonstop software and data factory, operating 24x7. Technology has to be there at all times.
Five things you need to know about GDPR
Video: What new data rules mean for you and your business.
Can machine learning bail enterprises out of their data management woes?
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.
What's new in the graph database world? Here's a quick recap
New players, new features, platforms, and ticking boxes. Graph databases, and Neo4j, are moving on.
Lured by savings and disaster back up, IT managers warm to cloud
As cloud approaches its second decade in enterprises, IT managers find it to be an ideal backup environment, two new surveys confirm.
Moving to the cloud? There's more than Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
Here are three lesser-known cloud services that can help solve the kind of business problems that keep you up at night.
MapR's latest initiative aims to put some order in the Big Data world
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.
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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