Tag: compliance

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jay-limburn; Data can be an organization’s most valued asset, providing insights that help strengthen business. Knowing what works and what does not can help you invest more resources in what would work in the future.But there are two main challenges that might impede you from realizing the true value of your data and slowing your journey to adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Challenge 1: Inefficient data management The first challenge is the inefficiency in managing all the disparate data that flows through your enterprise. You need to ensure a fluid ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To help customers succeed in an increasingly complex global economy, Oracle today introduced new releases of Oracle Transportation Management Cloud and Oracle Global Trade Management Cloud. The new releases enable customers who seek to reduce costs, streamline compliance with global trade regulations, and accelerate customer fulfillment, to manage these significant needs on a single, integrated platform. The latest releases of Oracle Transportation Management Cloud and Oracle Global Trade Management Cloud provide real-time, data-driven insights into shipment routes and automated event handling. They also offer expanded regulatory support for fast, accurate screening and customs declarations. For ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sujay Talasila. Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for applications running in Azure and on-premises. Using ASR, you can reduce application downtime during IT interruptions, without compromising compliance. ASR provides comprehensive coverage for on-premises applications across Linux, Windows, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines, and physical servers. Azure Site Recovery now powers Veritas Backup Exec Instant Cloud Recovery (ICR) with Backup Exec 20.2 release. With ICR, Backup Exec users can easily configure continuous replication for on-premises virtual machines to Azure for a quick failover in case of a disruption on-premises ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service - Windows Server Containers in Web App are now available in public preview. Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administrative access, software installations, changes to the global assembly cache, and so on. If your application requires more access than the preconfigured environment allows, you can deploy a custom Windows container instead. Azure App Service caches several parent images ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. 2-DAY Azure Cloud Transformation Workshop & POC: Microsoft Azure is a powerful platform, but getting started can be daunting. Begin your Azure cloud journey with Steeves and Associates to gain the tech know-how to move forward with Azure. Advanced Analytics and AI: 1/2 Day Briefing: During this half-day workshop, Dimensional Strategies Inc. will provide powerful insights on machine learning and how industries can extract value from their data by leveraging Microsoft's machine learning tools. AI Envisioning: 1-Day Workshop: Guided by T4G experts, this collaborative envisioning engagement is designed to harness the power of ... Read More

Feed: Blog. Author: Bert Scalzo; Database security is a hot topic these days, especially with all the new and seemingly never-ending security compliance requirements being imposed such as GDPR. This means that DBAs must up their game when it comes to database security. Some DBAs may think these new requirements apply only to production, but depending on the situation DBAs may well need to apply tauter security across the board – including development and all test databases (e.g. unit testing, stress testing, and acceptance testing). This blog covers some very simple database security checks which are easy to deploy and ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Navneet Mathur, Senior Director of Global Solutions, Neo4j | August 13, 2018Reading time: 5 minutes How do you prevent another global financial crisis like the one in 2008?The answer lies in better visibility into the deep connections in risk data. Armed with an understanding of risk data lineage, financial houses could have limited their exposure.A connected data foundation not only streamlines financial risk reporting – it also supports a world of innovative uses of your enterprise data, including 360-degree visibility of your customers, detecting and preventing fraud, proactively assessing credit applications ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: ajit jaokar. In this post, I discuss the development of the Enterprise AI business case through a framework of four quadrants.  According to Gartner: “The mindset shift required for AI can lead to “cultural anxiety” because it calls for a deep change in behaviors and ways of thinking”. Deployment of AI in an Enterprise is complex and multi-disciplinary. Hence, this framework is evolutionary.  The vendors and initiatives listed are included to illustrate the framework. In progressive orders of complexity (and opportunity) the four quadrants for the Enterprise AI business case are: ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; News broke this week that sensitive data was exposed yet again. Remember our running analogy, “we are living in the cybersecurity version of the movie Groundhog Day?”  It feels like the same day, the same problem, the same leak over and over again. Too often now we hear about S3 bucket leaks (Fed Ex, Alteryx, National Credit Federation, Verizon, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Dow Jones, Deep Root Analytics, Robocent, Macy’s, Adidas, etc.)  that have exposed sensitive, personal information for hundreds of millions of people from around the world. This epidemic has seen the theft or loss ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: The USGS OWI blog. Boxplots are often used to show data distributions, and ggplot2 is often used to visualize data. A question that comes up is what exactly do the box plots represent? The ggplot2 box plots follow standard Tukey representations, and there are many references of this online and in standard statistical text books. The base R function to calculate the box plot limits is boxplot.stats. The help file for this function is very informative, but it’s often non-R users asking what exactly the plot means. Therefore, this blog post breaks down the calculations into (hopefully!) ... Read More