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Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Kathleen Hillenbrand, Service Delivery Program Manager at AWSThe AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with validated customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 for Windows, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Kinesis. Please join us in congratulating these top 14 APN Partners on achieving new AWS Service Delivery Program designations in November. Each follows AWS best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. To receive an AWS Service Delivery designation, APN Partners must undergo service-specific ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Whatever your industry, data is central to how organizations function. When we discuss data strategy with customers, it’s often in the context of how do they ingest, store, process, analyze, distribute, and ultimately secure data.Amazon EMR is a managed Hadoop framework that you use to process vast amounts of data. One of the reasons that customers choose Amazon EMR is its security features. For example, customers like FINRA in regulated industries such as financial services, and in healthcare, choose Amazon EMR as part of their data strategy. They do so to adhere to strict regulatory ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. The global energy market is undergoing a massive shift with the emergence of decarbonization, decentralization, and new technologies. Utilities, independent power producers (IPPs), and other energy companies are exploring effective ways to manage the imbalance in demand and supply caused by the growing use of unpredictable renewable energy source (RES) in power generation.Therefore, utilities, energy companies, and grid operators are exploring ways to employ AI technologies to improve the accessibility and efficiency of renewable energy technologies. Despite its nascence, AI possesses tremendous potential to transform the energy & utilities sector.“In combination with ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Nigel Fenwick. With GE establishing a new stand-alone software business, we examine what it means for existing and potential customers of GE Digital and for GE. What we know: December 13th 2018 – GE announces the formation of a new industrial IoT software business with $1.2bn in revenue (based on GE Digital sales). The new IIoT company (unofficially referred to here as GE Digital 2.0 or GED2) will be given a new brand. GED2 will be a separate legal entity with GE the only shareholder at this time A new Board will be put in ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ayush Srivastava. Since the industrial revolution, humanity has made tremendous progress in manufacturing. With time we have seen more and more of mundane manual work being replaced by automation through advanced engineering, computers, robotics and now IoT. We believe that recent advances in AI (or Deep Learning to be more precise) will help accelerate this trend towards automation in a fascinating way. This is because AI adds one very critical component that the factories have been missing till today — “The ability of machines to see”. With computer vision enabled robots, a lot ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: James Staten. Every company needs edge computing on its technology road map starting in 2019. While many of you may see edge as exclusive to IoT, its value is much wider and will prove as critical to driving up customer experience as content delivery networks (CDN) were in the early days of the web . . . . . . which explains why you are now seeing edge compute and AI services from all the major cloud vendors and on the road maps of the leading telecom companies. Twenty-seven percent of global telecom decision makers, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. We recently interviewed Pankaj Rai, a well-known expert in analytics and banking and is currently the Senior Vice President Strategy at Wells Fargo. The former Analytics Director at Dell International Services, Pankaj shared his views on some of the hot topics in the financial & banking sector right now – digital transformation, innovation in fintech, new regulations, and blockchain to name a few. Read the complete interview below: What does your day typically look like at Wells Fargo? How do you start and end your day? (Laughs) My days are quite straightforward ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Emil Eifrem, CEO & Co-Founder, Neo4j, Inc. | December 11, 2018Reading time: 7 minutes It is my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Neo4j Board of Directors: Denise Persson.Denise is the Chief Marketing Officer at Snowflake Computing, one of the hottest companies in the data space – and like Neo4j, also based in San Mateo, California(!).Denise and I got to sit down after she joined the Neo4j board, and here’s what we chatted about.For readers who don’t know you, could you give us a little background?Denise: I grew ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Brian Lewis, Solutions Architect at AWSOne of the great things the cloud has brought information technology is the high-end service that abstracts away much of the grunt work that was traditionally required. Removing the need to procure servers, switches, and routers, and then place them in a rack, has been a benefit from the very beginning. As Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to add and evolve service offerings, customers can gain enhanced agility by abstracting away even more of the traditional grunt work like service configuration and patching. This enables ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Kibo Hutchinson. The best thing about big data analytics is its adaptability and widespread application. It can be (and has been) applied to a divergent number of industries. Even outside of these commercial industries, there is a number of use-cases and advantages for big data. For example, it can have a huge impact on the government sector. Both on a native, national level and on a global scale. Today, with the current state of affairs, there is a significant number of complex issues on the tables of government organizations. Officials need to work by ... Read More