Big data could revolutionize analytics, databases and enterprise IT.
Together they plan to focus on mainframe operations, cybersecurity, application development, data, and storage.
The live dashboard pulls data from sources like the World Health Organization to show all confirmed and suspected cases of coronavirus, along with recoveries and deaths.
One of Google Cloud’s fastest growing services, BigQuery has differentiated itself by the ability to scale querying of large sets of data with ability to support high concurrency. We’re awaiting what’s in store when Google announces its roadmap with the recently acquired Looker.
SambaNova, a stealth startup, has received over $450 million to build a complete computing system of hardware and software. Co-founder Rodrigo Liang tells ZDNet the stakes are bigger than the craze for AI, it’s about a multi-decade shift in computing.
Despite much concern over the energy consumption of data centers, a new study shows that companies are doing a good job at making their infrastructure greener.
The internet plays an increasing role in our lives today, with social media spanning half the world’s population -- but there are still significant challenges for us all
The company's latest software release includes a bevy of features that aim to offer more flexibility for administrators and stronger data visualization capabilities.
Databricks announces its Data Ingestion Network partner program, adding third party data connectors and pipelines to its platform. Along the way, the company is touting its "data lakehouse" concept to promote its platform as a one-stop shop for data lake, data warehouse and machine learning workloads.
Prescriptive analytics and models for the supply chain only go so far when there's the uncertainty of the coronavirus hampering operations.
The space features multiple environment sensors, free Wi-Fi, and charging ports.
A Bay area startup with seed money is opening a cloud service that extends natural language from query to predictive analytics.
It also promises to pay back employees who have been incorrectly paid.
It wasn't all completely smooth sailing.
What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors -- specifically, Amazon and commercial open source vendors?
Python is the top search term and top programming language, by usage, on O'Reilly's learning platform, up on both from last year. Other analytics-relevant categories on the upswing include Kafka, data engineering, data science, and AI + ML.
Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.
Most of us do not know that we are using chatbots to talk to service agents, so how will we know that AI will be seamlessly interacting in with our future lives?
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?
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
If you want to track sleep and heart health, these apps will get you going.
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
This new exhibition at London's Science Museum looks to help people explore the "invisible revolution of big data" and inspire the data scientists of the future.
Computers are smarter than you think, but will they soon think smarter than you? Plenty of big names in science say so...and that it's only a matter of when.
Whether you're in the C-suite of a Fortune 500 tech company or starting the next unicorn in your garage, these 20 tech thinkers have valuable insights you need to hear.
These meddling apps and sneaky strategies help the boss poach your privacy and can even keep you working around the clock.
The University of New South Wales has launched a DomeLab in the hope to help researchers visualise data sets in the medical and museology field.
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.
Earlier this month, New Horizons joined the US space agency's many dozens of other far-flung unmanned probes that are already gathering a combined 30 terabytes of data daily from the near and far reaches of our solar system.
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.
Prescriptive analytics and models for the supply chain only go so far when there's the uncertainty of the coronavirus hampering operations.
The space features multiple environment sensors, free Wi-Fi, and charging ports.
Greater Manchester is the latest city to put big data to good use, managing crowds in its transportation network.
The live dashboard pulls data from sources like the World Health Organization to show all confirmed and suspected cases of coronavirus, along with recoveries and deaths.
Tiernan Rays tells Karen Roby that some of the brightest minds in AI last month gathered in Vancouver to propose technology to fight global warming. Despite the brilliance of the inventions, other factors such as policy will be necessary to reduce carbon emissions swiftly. Read more: https://zd.net/373YMLj
The biggest crowds at CES 2020 were at the Neon booth to check out the new project from Star Labs. The humanoid AI bot is meant to serve as a companion if you need a friend. Read more: https://zd.net/2FtsBZI
It will also develop a data hub to store all of the collected information in real time.
Dr. Kevin Petty, director of science and forecast operations in public/private partnerships at The Weather Company, explains to Tonya Hall the benefit of using IBM's Watson, Blue Thunder, and GPU-based processing platforms to integrate big data into weather predictions.
Tiernan Ray explains how DeepMind, a unit of Google that develops ambitious AI projects, found a way to stimulate the kind of long-term planning of risk and reward that humans do by turning memory into a game of actions and future payoffs. Read more: https://zd.net/2YEyR9W
Commuters will be provided an approximate number of parking spaces available to help them better plan their trips.
The Australian airline carrier is now able to manage flight disruptions in minutes -- not hours.
Woodside plans to use the technologies to develop an 'intelligent plant' and reduce its plant maintenance costs by 30%.
The Australian government also wants industry input on the design of this data hub.
Chris Matyszczyk explains that Google is revealing what it tells advertisers about you. It doesn't seem too accurate. Read more: https://zd.net/2WzM7vp
With the help of Harrison-AI, the IVF clinic is preparing to commence trials to validate the use of AI for IVF treatments.
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Spotfire Mobile Metrics can collate and analyse your BI data and deliver the key metrics needed to monitor business performance direct to a notebook, smartphone or tablet.
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.
Displaying images brightly and sharply, this stylish LCD projector is best suited for boardroom presentations. Read our Australian review.
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