Segment launches new GDPR compliance tools
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.
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Tableau launches Tableau Prep to take pain out of data preparation, Creator, Explorer and Viewer versions
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.
Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe
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.
Has the time finally come for PostgreSQL?
As the launch pad for nearly a dozen commercial database products, has the time finally come for PostgreSQL to step out into the spotlight?
Victoria wants data misuse provisions included in face-matching system
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.
Microsoft offers limited-time 30 percent discount on SQL Server on Linux
Microsoft is offering 30 percent off a SQL Server 2017 on Linux subscription through June 30, 2018, to qualifying customers.
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance checklist
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...
Google unveils Singapore online store, retails Home and Home Mini
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.
Brazil demands rules on data flows from WTO
The country wants the multilateral global trade body to start a debate on regulation and governance.
IBM adept at transformation amidst market changes: APAC CEO
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.
Facebook's Zuckerberg holds own before Congress, preserves monetization machine
Analysts are largely betting that Facebook will weather the Cambridge Analytica flap and congressional hearings and that marketers will stick with the platform.
Conway's Law and the future of healthcare data management: Genome, Blockchain, and GDPR
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?
Child protection coalition demands FTC probe into YouTube data collection
A coalition has accused YouTube of violating child protection laws.
Healthcare's $3 trillion question: Should the likes of Google and Facebook control this data?
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's mea culpa tour, Cambridge Analytica and GDPR: The data game is changing before our eyes
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.
Rabobank, IBM aim to use cryptographic pseudonyms for GDPR
With IBM Research, Rabobank has come up with an interesting twist to GDPR compliance.
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.
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.
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.
Why is the chief data officer a crucial role?
We get answers from Addison Lee CDO Graeme McDermott.
The cloud: What is it and how does it work?
Cloud and 'as a service' models have changed the way computing works. Get over it.
Could data vanish forever? Scientists work on data preservation strategies
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.
Finland relies on open data to smarten up the power grid
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 is building a 'world graph' for geographic 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 world's digital history is stored in this old church
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.
M2M makes sense for DBS Bank
[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.
FileMaker 14, First Take: Going mobile
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.
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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