Tag: Power

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Lewis Wynne-Jones. Companies are champing at the bit to introduce any solution that promises Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. But hasty adoption is leaving one important question unanswered.   Is your data ready for AI?  For most companies, the answer is no. Industry leaders in every sector are racing to adopt sophisticated systems that promise the introduction of AI and ML into their organizations. Executives often get sold on the concept of a technology that will give them the ability to see things that humans can’t, making suggestions or changes to business ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Chelsea Navo, Vanguard Lead, Presales Architecture. Enterprises want the best of both worlds, which is why they’re increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to take advantage of what both public and private cloud providers have to offer and build powerful, modern applications. The hybrid cloud market is expected to grow to $97.64 billion by 2023—quite the uptick from the $44.6 billion the market realized in 2018.  Today, more than 65% of organizations use hybrid cloud environments. Not only does a hybrid cloud infrastructure enable companies to leverage the scalability the public cloud ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Merritt Maxim. According to UN projections, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. As cities grow, municipal governments are investing in infrastructure and applications to improve operations, services for constituents, and the overall urban experience. Composed of the internet of things, “smart cities,” aimed to optimize operations, present new security and privacy risks to city leaders and citizens alike. Existing Smart City Defenses Are Insufficient In April 2019, ransomware infected the servers for the city of Stuart, Florida and brought down email, payroll, and other vital functions, ultimately costing the ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Dipanjan Chatterjee. The Value Of Brand Valuing a brand can be a deeply divisive exercise. To most marketers, there is an axiomatic simplicity to brand value. Questioning it, or attempting to validate it, can well be an exercise in futility and mathematical mumbo jumbo. Wally Olins (of Wolff Olins fame) once characterized the attempt to “chew [brand] up into numbers” as a “contemporary version of witchcraft.” However, not all CEOs, CFOs, business heads, and others like them are cut from the same cloth. Someone has to show them the money. As Bobby Calder writes in ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Khari Villela. Read about the differences in data lakes and data warehouses So, you've decided to build a data lake – great news! Data lakes can be incredibly useful. However, as I explained in my earlier post, it can be challenging to move past over-hyped promises and unrealistic expectations to capture the real value of data lakes. I’m sure you’re eager to get started. But before you jump straight to implementation, keep in mind that it takes a lot of planning and thought to build a data lake that’s more than just a mono-tasking problem solver ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: InsideMySQL.com; Hello MySQL Connector/NET community, Consistent with our ongoing effort to power MySQL products with the top technologies, we are pleased to announce the latest updates regarding MySQL Connector/NET and .NET Core. And while we move forward, we also want to shape the product to maximize supportability. To achieve these two goals, we will deprecate the support for .NET Core 1.X to align with Microsoft’s end-of-life schedule (EOL May 14, 2019). But it’s not all about bad news, we also want to talk to you about the inclusion of .NET Core 2.2 support in the Connector/NET8.0.17 ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Krishna Maheshwari. Apache Phoenix for CDH: Best New Feature for DBMS Cloudera is adopting and will be supporting Apache Phoenix for CDH while it integrates it for its Cloudera Data Platform on a go-forward basis. Cloudera’s CDH releases have included Apache HBase which provides a resilient, NoSQL DBMS for customers operational applications that want to leverage the power of big-data.  These applications have grown into mission important and mission critical applications that drive top-line revenue and bottom-line profitability.  These applications include customer facing applications, ecommerce platforms, risk & fraud detection used behind the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Auslander. Microsoft Azure is rapidly becoming the public cloud of choice for large financial services enterprises. Some of the biggest reasons Global Financial Services Institutions (GFIs) are choosing Azure to augment or replace on-premises application environments are: The high level of security that the Azure cloud provides. The exceptional control enterprises can have over compliance and security within their subscriptions. The many features that Azure has for data governance and protection. The long list of Global Regulatory Standards that the Azure cloud is compliant with. Please see the Microsoft Trust Center for more information ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Nick Leimer. Intelligent insurance means improving operations, enabling revenue growth, and creating engaging experiences—which is the result of digital transformation. The cloud has arrived with an array of technical capabilities that can equip an existing business to move into the future. However insurance carriers face a harder road to transform business processes and IT infrastructures. Traditional policy and claim management solutions lack both cloud-era agility, and the modularity required to react quickly to market forces. And legacy systems cannot be decommissioned unless new systems are fully operational and tested, meaning some overlap between old and ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Bryan Christiansen. In today’s production environment, digital technology, automation, and analytics are more prevalent than ever.  Facilities are looking to use “big data” to make intelligent decisions on the production floor.  Accordingly, mobile devices are becoming more accepted for production use.   As the next step, analytics apps have begun to enhance the shop floor.There are many reasons to utilize mobile apps in modern manufacturing.  But there are hundreds of applications available today.  Which apps should you choose?  We will attempt to cut down on the noise and showcase 5 Analytics Apps that can help ... Read More