Category: Big Data

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kip-yego; Building on a history of collaboration, in April 2017, IBM and HCL entered into a 15-year partnership that merged the best of their shared knowledge and teaming experience to accelerate the product roadmap and innovation of IBM Informix.HCL is responsible for development and support of the IBM Informix product family with the guidance and direction of IBM and the IBM Informix customer base. IBM continues to be responsible for Sales, Tech Sales, Marketing, and Lab Services. There are no changes to client relationships and processes, such as sales ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Saša Vujnović. Accessing the web via VPN is as popular as ever.  This trend gives users access to geo-blocked websites and more content at reduced rates. Apart from this, users can access services without the worry that their sessions will be tracked.  However, like every other service, VPNs have their downsides, and it’s important to do your research before deciding which one to subscribe to. In this guide, we’ll take a look at the many pros and cons of VPNs, and we’ll give some tips on how to pick the best VPN for your ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kip-yego; As data proliferates, the need to efficiently undertand, process, and act quickly for competitive advantage continues to increase. Applications must be able to use data swiftly and adapt as needs change by the week or even the day. Developers also require places to store their data that can handle multiple formats and use cases. In order to manage these growing data needs, drive innovation and increase agility via modern application development, enterprises are turning to open-source-based solutions and technologies. The State of Enterprise Open Source report by Red Hat ... Read More

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Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Glenn Sanders. A robot with no way to sense its position or environment is simply an automaton that performs movements blindly. That is changing due to a trend toward adding vision, torque, and other sensors to robots to make them more aware of their surroundings. This is the result of companies seeking greater productivity, throughput, safety, and quality that is creating a surge in automation, smart manufacturing, and robotization. Let’s take a look at some of the technologies and key companies in this space. Position sensors One of the most rudimentary sensors for robots tells ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Xen Chia. What’s your go-to move for lead generation?If your answer is going to be “buying leads”, then we suggest that you cancel all your meetings because this is going to be a long discussion. Leads that are bought are hollow and give you nothing but empty promises. Quality leads are important for increasing conversion rates, but higher conversions are only possible if you can also generate leads through an effective and efficient manner— marketing automation.Let’s imagine that you run an organic, online food delivery service. You have a huge target market, which includes ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Customers use Apache Hive with Amazon EMR to provide SQL-based access to petabytes of data stored on Amazon S3. Amazon EMR 6.0.0 adds support for Hive LLAP, providing an average performance speedup of 2x over EMR 5.29, with up to 10x improvement on individual Hive TPC-DS queries. This post shows you how to enable Hive LLAP, and outlines the performance gains we’ve observed using queries from the TPC-DS benchmark.Twice as fast compared to Amazon EMR 5.29.0 To evaluate the performance benefits of running Hive with Amazon EMR release 6.0.0, we’re using 70 TCP-DS queries with ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  An interesting documentary about the earliest days of AI/ML and my alternate take on how we should really be describing the development of our profession to the newly initiated. What could be more natural in these days of the Corona Virus than binge watching great videos.  I was intrigued by a recent offer from Futurology who has sponsored “The History of Artificial Intelligence” on YouTube for free viewing.  The two-and-a-half-hour video is described as "the culmination of documentaries that cover the history and origins of computing-based artificial intelligence." ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kevin-oliver; Two of the greatest challenges faced by organizations today are the rising volume of data and the lack of  confidence to act on the insights this data reveals. Fortunately, there are AI-fueled data management solutions that directly address these two challenges to make data simple and accessible.Databases should be both powered by AI and built for AI, meaning they use embedded AI capabilities to improve their day-to-day functionality (powered by AI), while also being able to support AI initiatives throughout the entire business (built for AI). For example, ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Josh James. Last week I had the distinct privilege of “Zooming” with Todd Jensen. Todd is the VP of Sales at Harmons, a long-standing, upscale supermarket chain here in Utah that we at Domo have been working with for several years now. On this particular call, I wanted to get Todd’s take on how Harmons was using Domo to manage the impact the coronavirus situation was having on its business. I got so much more. Over the course of our fast-moving, 20-minute conversation, Todd provided a steady stream of ways in which Harmons used Domo and ... Read More