Tag: application

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Christina Hsiao. If you've ever wanted to apply modern machine learning techniques for text analysis, but didn't have enough labeled training data, you're not alone. This is a common scenario in domains that use specialized terminology, or for use cases where customized entities of interest won't be well detected by standard, off-the-shelf entity models. For example, manufacturers often analyze engineer, technician, or consumer comments to identify the name of specific components which have failed, along with the associated cause of failure or symptoms exhibited. These specialized terms and contextual phrases are highly unlikely to be tagged ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Wearable and consumer electronics are increasingly used for sensitive applications such as Near Field Communication (NFC) ticketing and payments, as well as tracking health data. Oracle today announced the general availability of Java Card 3.1, the latest version of one of the world’s most popular and open application platform used to secure some of the world’s most sensitive devices. This extensive update provides more flexibility to help meet the unique hardware and security requirements of both existing secure chips and emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. New features introduced with this release address use cases ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Luis Deya. We’ve Kicked Off Some New Research, And We Need Your Help.  An important part of Forrester’s research process is gathering input from financial services companies so that we can advise our clients on the latest trends in the market. We’re currently fielding a survey for vendors, end users, and experts that will provide the key input for a report on the current and future state of application architectures in financial services. The previous survey showed, for example, that financial services firms were still reluctant to use SaaS-like delivery models for financial-services-specific software, for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. Elasticsearch 5 Alpine Container with Antivirus: Deploy an enterprise-ready container for Elasticsearch 5 on Alpine. Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. Gosu Secured Ubuntu Container with Antivirus: Deploy an enterprise-ready container for Gosu on Ubuntu. Gosu is a general-purpose programming language built on top of a Java virtual machine. Gosu’s syntax will allow you to write fewer lines of code to accomplish the same task. MySQL 5.5 Secured Ubuntu Container with Antivirus: Deploy an enterprise-ready container for MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu. MySQL is a popular open-source relational SQL database ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: lauren-frazier; Data virtualization gives businesses the power to handle big data and make queries across multiple data sources fast and simple without moving data. As big data continues to grow, enterprises should have the ability to manage all of their data, regardless of where it lives, and they need a platform that has the agility of querying across data silos.But what do the experts, working day to day with data, have to say about data virtualization? The IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub recently interviewed Melvin Greer, chief data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Anna Minzel. By Robert Koury, Managing Partner at Vertical TrailDigital banking has evolved significantly over the past decade, completely transforming the financial marketplace. It has become commonplace for banking customers to use mobile apps and online portals for many banking needs. There are countless apps dedicated to transferring money—and even more for budgeting, saving, and investing. In more and more retail spaces, purchase transactions can be completed with just a tap of your mobile device. People have become accustomed to having their finances at their fingertips. Because of this digital transformation, banks have ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Robert Hryniewicz. Deep learning skills are often portrayed as a dark art. There’s a common misconception that you need a PhD or a high level of technical expertise to use deep learning—and that’s no longer the case. While deep learning can involve complex algorithms and computational processes, developers and scientists are creating user-friendly applications and high-level methods to help your organization get started with this technology. These developments have made it easier than ever for professionals with basic mathematical aptitude and coding skills to learn and develop deep learning skills. Your organization can use, ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: David Gomes. We recently ported the 30,000 lines of JavaScript code in MemSQL Studio from Flow to TypeScript. In this article, I describe why we ported our codebase, how we carried out the process, and how it has been working out for us. I’d like to start by saying that my goal with this blog post is not to condemn Flow or usage of Flow. I highly admire the project, and I think that there is enough space in the JavaScript community for both type checkers. At the end of the day, each team should study ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Jonathan Lacefield, Director of Customer Experience and Graph Solutions at DataStax. As today’s fastest-growing companies shift towards utilizing more cloud applications, data problems have become a growing concern. Application and data center requirements of several key internet players, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google quickly outgrew the relational database management systems (RDBMS) many of their applications were once built on. There was a sudden need for more flexible data models that supported agile development methodologies and could handle a much higher volume of data. This is where NoSQL came into play, but many ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tara Jana. Storytelling is at the heart of human nature. We were storytellers long before we were able to write, we shared our values and created our societies mostly through oral storytelling. Then, we managed to find the way to record and share our stories, and certainly more advanced ways to broadly share our stories; from Gutenberg’s printing press to television, and the internet. Writing stories is not easy, especially if one must write a story just by looking at a picture in different literary genres. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field that is ... Read More