Tag: compliance

Feed: Big Data Feed. Author: itsing. In the past year, the big data pendulum for financial services has officially swung from passing fad or experiment to large deployments. That puts a somewhat different slant on big data trends when compared to 2016 trends.The question of big data hype versus reality has finally been put to rest for banks. This is further supported by the upward trending spend on big data solutions in financials. Bear in mind that the trends and themes discussed here apply to next-generation infrastructure solutions and quantitative approaches that have come to market over the past seven ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Clustrix, a provider of a distributed SQL database, and Zettaset, a provider of big data security, are partnering on data protection and privacy for companies that rely on large-scale OLTP databases.As drop-in replacement for MySQL, Clustrix says its ClustrixDB supports dynamic web applications with its scale-out, in-memory performance capabilities to ensure high performance through heavy concurrent traffic.As the number of cyberattacks on online companies continues to rise, these sites also need to secure their customers’ data, the companies say. As a result, the Clustrix/Zettaset partnership is aimed at helping organizations meet security ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Dataguise, a provider of sensitive data governance solutions, is partnering with WHISHWORKS, a provider of IT services and systems integration, to help European companies strengthen the security and compliance of their data infrastructures.WHISHWORKS will offer DgSecure to customers within its areas of operation, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom.According to the vendors, the partnership is focused on helping organizations to overcome difficulties in unlocking big data’s potential because of the compliance requirements that will be imposed by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May, 2018.DgSecure is an effective solution for ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Blog. Author: Rimma Nehme. The What Part Deep Learning is a hot buzzword of today. The recent results and applications are incredibly promising, spanning areas such as speech recognition, language understanding and computer vision. Indeed, Deep Learning is now changing the very customer experience around many of Microsoft’s products, including HoloLens, Skype, Cortana, Office 365, Bing and more. Deep Learning is also a core part of Microsoft’s development platform offerings with an extensive toolset that includes: the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, the Cortana Intelligence Suite, Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs, Azure Machine Learning, the Bot Framework, and the Azure ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. The connected world is often portrayed through inspirational stories. Prime-time television commercials abound with amazing tales of connected cities and autonomous cars linked by graphics of glowing, flowing, fluorescent interconnected trails. We are watching science fiction come to life before our eyes. Then there are the no less compelling, smaller scale examples of our increasingly connected world. Forget about toys and clothes. This year’s holiday shoppers are wooed with drool-worthy smart thermostats, lighting and even appliances to revolutionize domestic life. With these as examples, it’s not surprising, however that the connected world ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. IT management is at the front lines of ensuring its enterprise infrastructure is optimized and cost effective in order to deliver critical services.In a recent DBTA roundtable webinar Wally Waltner, Director of Global IT Asset Management (ITAM) at First Data and Cathy Won, product marketing director from BDNA, discuss tips and tricks on how to manage all types of data, leveraging IT asset management (ITAM) project for other cost cutting and risk management initiatives, and more. Won said IT asset management is all about knowing what you have and from there being able ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a medical center dedicated to improving health through collaborative innovation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has selected Oracle Cloud Applications to optimize the performance of its finance and HR organizations. The move to Oracle Cloud is part of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s larger strategy to transform business practices via modern cloud applications. With 14,000 employees and annual revenue of approximately $2.4 billion, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center needed to move its finance and HR systems to the cloud to keep pace in a dynamic healthcare environment. The medical ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. At this year’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS made several security and compliance-related service availability announcements important to our public sector customers, including: AWS Shield, AWS Organizations, EC2 Systems Manager, enhancements to AWS Cloud Trail, and AWS Artifact.AWS Shield AWS Shield is a new managed service that protects your web applications against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. It works in conjunction with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 to protect you from DDoS attacks of many types, shapes, and sizes. There are two tiers of service: AWS Shield Standard is available to all AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. APN Partners, are you joining us at the AWS Global Partner Summit at re:Invent? If you’ve not yet registered to attend the Summit, it’s not too late! Log into the re:Invent portal, and click on “Purchase Registration Items” to add Global Partner Summit to your registration. Adding the Global Partner Summit is free of charge.This year during the Summit, we’re offering a number of technical sessions specifically tailored towards topics of interest for APN Partners. We want to highlight some sessions that you can still register to attend. Check them out, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Shay Pal.  This article has been contributed by Alain Louchez (Georgia Tech Research Institute) The Internet of Things already integrates a new phase beyond prescriptive analytics  There is no shortage of attention lately on the “Internet of Things”. As a case in point, see the “Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things Act” or “DIGIT Act”, i.e., S. 2607, a  bill introduced in the Senate on March 1, 2016 and amended on September 28, 2016,  “to ensure appropriate spectrum planning and inter-agency coordination to support the Internet of Things” – A ... Read More