Tag: Project

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Rathnakumar Udayakumar; The latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms has just been released, and IBM is delighted to be recognized as a Leader in the space. Watson Studio on IBM Cloud Pak for Data, a modular, open and extensible platform for data and AI that combines a broad set of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive capabilities. Organizations seeking to more efficiently run and manage AI models, simplify their AI lifecycle management, and empower their data scientists with technology that can help optimize their data-driven decision-making can turn to IBM ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Rafael Cordon. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ministerio de Educación de Guatemala (the Guatemala Ministry of Education) made the decision to close public schools to mitigate the spread of the virus. The closing of schools gave the Ministry’s authorities the opportunity to implement new solutions to enable students, teachers, and parents to continue with the education experience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner ITZ Data (AWS Advanced Consulting Partner / Government Competency), with support from UNICEF and the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala, helped the Ministry launch Mineduc Digital—the country’s first online platform where ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Farhad Jahangirov. Applications running on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack are ubiquitous—WordPress alone represents 38% of all content management systems. Other popular CMS applications such as Drupal and Joomla also run on LAMP as well as Moodle, a widely used learning management system (LMS). Because of the popularity of these applications, public sector organisations such as educational institutions should protect their business continuity by implementing disaster recovery (DR) solutions: policies, tools, and procedures to help the recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure and systems following a disaster. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. ERGO is one of the major insurance groups in Germany and Europe. Within the ERGO Group, ERGO Technology & Services S.A. (ET&S), a part of ET&SM holding, has competencies in digital transformation, know-how in creating and implementing complex IT systems with focus on the quality of solutions and a portfolio aligned with the entire value chain of the insurance market. Business Challenge and Solution ERGO has a multi-account AWS environment where each project team subscribes to a set of AWS accounts that conforms to workload requirements and security best practices. As ERGO began its cloud journey, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robert Cull; Pretty much everyone is familiar with some form of cloud storage. It lets you easily store and access your files over the internet. Aside from just storing your content online, many providers also let you sync content directly between your desktop and cloud storage service. This lets you keep exact copies of your files both in the cloud and on your device. Although this handy feature can boost your productivity, unfortunately not all cloud storage providers offer the best security or sync features. Finding the best cloud storage with sync can be daunting, so we’ve ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Dominic Royé. [This article was first published on R on Dominic Royé, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. A disadvantage of choropleth maps is that they tend to distort the relationship between the true underlying geography and the represented variable. It is because the administrative divisions do not usually coincide with the geographical reality where people live. Besides, large areas appear to have a weight that ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . In the age of agile development, devops and related management techniques, is IT project failure even a thing anymore? The answer, sadly, is yes. In the past, IT failures often meant high-priced flops, with large-scale software implementations going on way too long and way over budget. Those failures can and still do happen. Case in point: IBM’s never-completed $110 million upgrade to the State of Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation system. But IT failure today is frequently different than in it was in the past, as agile, devops, continuous delivery and the fail-fast movement have changed the nature ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; The internet has changed the way that we work as individuals, making it far easier for us to collaborate on projects as a team. Cloud storage is a powerful way for a group of like-minded people to access the same files, whether they’re for business or personal use. Many cloud storage services are designed with individual users in mind, but that doesn’t make them a good solution for multiple users. Although some providers allow you to share files with other users, they’re not always the perfect solution for collaboration. To help you find the best ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Colin Marden. By Colin Marden, Solutions Architect at AWS Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are increasingly important for financial institutions as they look to assess portfolio risk, meet investment mandates, align with customer values, and report on the sustainability of their portfolios. According to a BNP Paribas-sponsored survey, 66 percent of asset managers and institutional investors identified the difficulty of ESG data integration as one of the biggest barriers for asset managers who want to get started with sustainable investing. In response to this challenge, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a curated ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Mehrnoosh Vahdat, PhD.; The collaboration of the IBM Data Science and AI Elite (DSE) with Rolls-Royce continues to yield significant results for the Emergent Alliance. This not-for-profit alliance supports innovation and resilience as organizations move toward a post-COVID-19 future. The team’s first project involved creating a risk-pulse index to help governments understand the impact of COVID-19 on several aspects of the economy. The IBM and Rolls-Royce team pressed on developing analytics tools to help policymakers better understand the data used to shape strategies in response to COVID-19. They aimed to provide further insights to ... Read More