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Forget silicon - SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases
A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic to have any practical value. Today, you can extend PostgreSQL with the right software and bio-chemical modules, and run SQL on DNA.
Singapore government systems still weak in IT controls
Auditor-General Office finds weaknesses in IT controls of several government entities including the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Finance, where third-party access rights were lax and the logging and review activities of privileged users inadequate, and notes similar lapses in previous years, indicating a need for further improvement.
Singapore hopes to groom data protection officers with training framework
Government agency responsible for data protection legislation has released a competency framework and skills roadmap detailing skillsets data protection officers need, and expects more than 500 such professionals to benefit from a year-long pilot training programme.
Microsoft-Accenture joint venture Avanade to launch an Adobe practice
Microsoft and Adobe's ties keep getting tighter.
Singapore's public sector to adopt new measures to tighten data security
Following a "stocktake" of the public sector's security practices, Singapore's government agencies will roll out "technical measures" for existing as well as new systems to beef up data security standards, including automated detection of emails containing sensitive information and stronger encryption for files.
Brazil gears up to enhance data analytics to tackle benefit fraud
Interoperability and workforce training to use more data in decision-making are at the core of projects underpinning the reform of the country's pension system.
You can’t ignore GDPR in customer service
How customer data moves through your contact center will determine your compliance path.
Brazilians report lack of cybersecurity skills
Not knowing what to do to protect their digital lives is a source of distress for users in the country, says report.
Elastic takes the first steps toward building out its SIEM solution
Following its dive into APM, the new release of the Elastic stack has the beginnings of what will become a security events-based solution.
Brazil to add digital data protection to fundamental rights
A proposal has been approved to put protection of personal information in digital platforms in the individual guarantees secured by the constitution.
Redis wants more than cache
Redis may be ubiquitous as a persistent caching tier, but the company behind it wants you to think about it as an operational database that is extensible.
Ad-juster report shows publishers lack vital programmatic ad data
Media companies are losing large revenues by being kept in the dark on programmatic advertising performance
Singapore government to run another bug bounty
Its third with bug bounty platform HackerOne, the Singapore government is looking to identify potential security holes across nine online digital services as well as ICT systems with high user engagement.
Contractor's server exposes data from Fortune 100 companies: Ford, Netflix, TD Bank
Exposed data includes passwords and private keys for production systems, employee details, sales information.
Salesforce open sources research to advance state of the art in AI for common sense reasoning
Deep learning is great for many applications, but common sense reasoning is not one of them. New research from Salesforce promises to alleviate this, advancing previous results by a considerable margin.
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.
Quality Data: The first mile of machine learning
To launch an effective machine learning initiative, companies need to start with quality data -- and maintain steady flow of data to keep models updated, explains Dale Brown, Head of Operations at Figure Eight.
The challenges of finding an alternative to Facebook
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. Read more: https://zd.net/2Hw5EqA
How Wayfair approaches natural language processing, machine learning and returns
ZDNet's Larry Dignan caught up with Dan Wulin, head of data science and machine learning at Wayfair to talk about how the company is using natural language processing for unstructured data and tracking returns on machine learning investment.
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.
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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