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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: aliye-ozcan; Nearly every business is under competitive, disruptive, and regulatory pressures. As companies face digital transformation and modernization to meet their customers’  expectations, leveraging data and AI at the speed of business can be the biggest differentiator.However, according to MIT Sloan, 81 percent of organizations don’t understand their data because it’s locked in silos. Much of the data remains inaccessible, untrusted or unanalyzed, providing little-to-no value. Cloud and mobile adoption has accelerated the pace of data creation and increased the number of locations where data can reside. Yet many businesses ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Log-based simulation allows you to play back pre-recorded log data such as sensor streams for testing robotic functions such as localization, mapping, and object detection. In addition to running a physics-based Gazebo simulation, RoboMaker can be used to test a particular robotic function with log-based simulation.  Event driven simulation termination allows you to end a simulation job programmatically through ROS messages based on an event. For example, you can programmatically terminate a simulation job once your simulated robot has succeeded or failed a defined task without waiting for the simulation job to complete. This feature allows you ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Michael McLaughlin; There was an option during the Fedora 30 Workstation installation to add the Apache Web Server, but you need to set it to start automatically. Unfortunately, there was no option to install PHP, which I thought odd because of how many web developers learn the trade first on PHP with a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) stack. You see how to fix that shortcoming in this post and how to install and test PHP, mysqli, and pdo to support MySQL 8. Before you do that make sure you install MySQL 8. You can find ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS RoboMaker extends the most widely used open-source robotics software framework, Robot Operating System (ROS), with connectivity to cloud services. These cloud services provide a robotics development environment for application development, a robotics simulation service to accelerate application testing, and a robotics fleet management service for remote application deployment, update, and management. RoboMaker also provides cloud extensions that enable a robot to stream data, navigate, communicate, comprehend, and learn through AWS machine learning services, monitoring services, and analytics services. To get started, please explore the RoboMaker webpage or run a sample simulation job in the RoboMaker console.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With this release, Athena workgroup administrators can configure workgroup settings to allow members to reference S3 Requester Pays buckets in queries. Once configured, the requester, instead of the bucket owner, pays for the Amazon S3 request and data transfer costs associated with the query.  For information about how to configure this setting for your workgroup, Create a Workgroup in the Amazon Athena User Guide. For more information about Requester Pays buckets, see Requester Pays Buckets in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.  ... Read More

Feed: Yellowbrick Data. Author: Joshua Miner; According to Gartner, global retail sector spending will reach almost $203.6 billion dollars in 2019. Gartner states that software is the fastest-growing category of technology spending, “as retail CIOs prioritize analytics, digital marketing, mobile applications, e-commerce platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) as the technologies most crucial to their organization’s mission.” Table 1. Retail IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars) The Yellowbrick solution’s high-performance design gives retailers faster, higher quality insight, even as data volumes increase. This enables retailers to win the fight for the customer through a personalized experience and targeted advertising, and ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Andreas Schurch, VP Alliances; Andreas Schurch, VP Alliances At Matillion, we value the relationships we have with our partners. As our business continues to grow, our partner relationships grow along with it. So it is with great excitement that we announce a private preview of the new Matillion Partner Network to select Matillion Partners. The Partner Network is a global program that allows our industry allies to come together to connect and collaborate. It provides the tools, training, and support that partners need to help their customers compete using data, by transforming ... Read More

Feed: Arisant. Author: Kyle May; When open enrollment or class registration comes around, do you fear for your data center’s health? Could a 10% increase in students cause your data center to run at maximum capacity and create a catastrophic event for your IT staff like a system crash? If your current on-premises system is reaching the end of its useful life, causing headache for IT staff, or running at capacity 10 days out of the year followed by a semester of running at 50%, then it may be time for your college or university to consider a new solution ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Christie Chirinos; What do Apple, Starbucks, Disney, Under Armour, and Bank of America have in common? They all make hundreds of millions of dollars of sales while offering an incredible user experience due to multi-channel marketing.Today, our goal is to take you through how these companies are succeeding with multi-channel marketing.  But that’s not all: We’re also going to highlight the important takeaways from their multi-channel strategy, and give you tips that you can apply to your own eCommerce store and marketing strategy.What Is Multi-Channel Marketing?Marketing channel strategy refers to how products are transferred from retailer to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Philip Piletic. Actuarial scientists have made use of PCs ever since the first affordable microcomputers came on the market. This is one field where automation and AI are old news. What’s making headlines in the industry, though, is the fact that cloud-based infrastructure is now the norm for almost all insurance companies regardless of their size.Companies that make the most efficient use of this information are often able to gain some leverage over the competition. Since they’re able to plan for the future much more easily. Data doesn’t have to be exclusively financial, however.In ... Read More