Tag Archives: Data

Consumer goods firms harness online data to tap Southeast Asia e-commerce boom

Posted on October 22, 2017 by John Davis

SINGAPORE/BANGKOK (Reuters) – When diaper maker DSG International (Thailand) wants to know what its customers are thinking, it often turns to Lazada, an e-commerce firm majority-owned by Alibaba Group Holding (BABA.N). FILE PHOTO: The Singapore Lazada website is seen in … Continue reading →

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Data Science and the Don’ts

Posted on October 2, 2017 by John Davis

Big data analytics promise tremendous benefits for organizations, but there are a few gotchas that stand in the path to success. InformationWeek: Cloud

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It’s a New, Challenging World for Data Governance

Posted on September 27, 2017 by John Davis

Data governance strategy is rapidly shifting from the defense to the offense. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Deloitte Is the Latest Target of a Cyber Attack With Confidential Client Data at Risk

Posted on September 25, 2017 by John Davis

Global accountancy firm Deloitte has been hit by a sophisticated hack that resulted in a breach of confidential information and plans from some of its biggest clients, Britain’s Guardian newspaper said on Monday. Deloitte—one of the big four professional services … Continue reading →

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Amazon Positioned to Use Data to Dominate Where It Wishes

Posted on July 21, 2017 by John Davis

If Amazon expands into food delivery, it will obtain a treasure of consumer information that it can use for its next expansion. InformationWeek: Cloud

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IDG Contributor Network: How big data Is driving technological innovation

Posted on July 19, 2017 by John Davis

Big data analytics, or the collection and analysis of huge sums of data to discover underlying trends and patterns, is increasingly shaking the foundations of the business world. As the field continues to grow at an explosive rate, many innovators … Continue reading →

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IDG Contributor Network: Accelerating Organizational Velocity through a Data Center Autopilot

Posted on July 8, 2017 by John Davis

Understanding the impact of the data center autopilot Current state of the art and my disappointment with traditional databases aside, I mentioned in my comments last week that the data center autopilot will have big consequences. It seems to me … Continue reading →

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IDG Contributor Network: Data migrations without the migraines

Posted on June 18, 2017 by John Davis

Whether or not you work in the IT department, you have likely experienced the pain of migrating from one system to another. When you buy a new laptop, or a new phone, you’re faced with having to backup and replicate … Continue reading →

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IDG Contributor Network: Data Center Automation and the Software-Defined Database

Posted on June 9, 2017 by John Davis

If you take a step back for a moment and think about airplane flight, it turns out that something rather extraordinary is happening. Most of the time the plane is being flown by an autopilot and the pilot is actually … Continue reading →

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OneLogin hack exposed sensitive US customer data and ability to decrypt data

Posted on June 8, 2017 by John Davis

OneLogin, an identity management company which provides a single sign-on platform for logging into multiple apps and sites, was hacked. US customer data was potentially compromised,“including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.” The company, which claims “over 2000+ enterprise customers … Continue reading →

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Future of Data Summit: Secure IoT with Blockchain

Posted on April 11, 2017 by John Davis

IoT security is essential for the Internet of Things to reach commercial success. Here’s one way to protect this technology and data from hackers. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Why Google BigQuery excels at BI on big data concurrency

Posted on April 9, 2017 by John Davis

If you’re trying to do business intelligence (BI) on big data and the capability to handle large number of concurrent queries is a key issue for you, Google BigQuery may well be the way to go, according to a new … Continue reading →

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Juniper extends its data center interconnect options

Posted on March 21, 2017 by John Davis

Large data center interconnect users needing high-speed connectivity and bandwidth for access to massive cloud resources have a new option to handle these demands. Juniper today rolled out its Open Cloud Interconnect package which includes Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing optical … Continue reading →

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IBM-Salesforce deal will bring Watson data into applications

Posted on March 6, 2017 by John Davis

Watson and Einstein are teaming up, and IBM and Salesforce hope the pairing proves as smart as it sounds. The two companies are working together to bring information from IBM systems into Salesforce’s products through a series of integrations announced … Continue reading →

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Killing ‘Zombies’ Achieves Greatest Gain In Data Center Efficiency

Posted on January 3, 2017 by John Davis

The Uptime Institute has estimated the gains from eliminating ‘zombie’ servers and implementing a data center management system versus doing nothing. InformationWeek: Cloud

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ZoneSavvy taps big data to help SMBs find best sites for businesses

Posted on November 24, 2016 by John Davis

Location, location, location: As the old joke goes, those are the three keys to business success. Now, with big data analysis, corporations can be smarter than ever before about where to open up new offices or businesses. But what if … Continue reading →

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Azure October Roundup: Price drops, data analysis, and more

Posted on November 17, 2016 by John Davis

Put away the Halloween candy, and dust off your stuffed turkeys, folks. October is long gone, as are a fresh set of announcements from Microsoft about changes to its Azure cloud platform. Here’s the important news you might have missed. … Continue reading →

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IBM’s Watson to use genomic data to defeat drug-resistant cancers

Posted on November 10, 2016 by John Davis

IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence platform has joined forces with researchers at MIT and Harvard to study how thousands of cancers mutate to become resistant to drug treatments that initially worked to beat back the disease. By discovering how cancers adapt … Continue reading →

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A second Privacy Shield legal challenge increases threat to EU-US data flows

Posted on November 3, 2016 by John Davis

The Privacy Shield transatlantic data transfer deal is now caught in a pincer action: A week after it emerged that Irish digital rights activists had filed suit to annul the deal come reports that a French campaign group has begun … Continue reading →

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Microsoft commits to running data centers off 50% renewable energy by 2018

Posted on September 26, 2016 by John Davis

Microsoft announced it plans to power its data centers around the world using 50% renewable energy by 2018. The company also plans to boost its use of renewable power for its data centers to 60% by the early 2020s. Rob … Continue reading →

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7 Cool Data Center Innovations

Posted on August 2, 2016 by John Davis

We’ve identified seven key innovations being integrated into data centers to further expand capabilities — or to provide vastly improved efficiencies in terms of energy consumption. Here’s what you need to know. InformationWeek: Cloud

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