by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Optiv Security, a market-leading provider of end-to-end cyber security solutions, today announced it has acquired Decision Lab, a big data, automation and orchestration services company. The acquisition reinforces Optiv’s continued commitment to executing its global growth strategy, and augments the company’s capabilities related to advanced security […]
Predictive Analytics: Giving Smart Manufacturers an Edge
“The quality of service a company can deliver after the initial sale is important to the overall long-term financial health of the company, and Predictive Analytics can fundamentally improve the way a company can deliver service,” said Gary Brooks, Chief Marketing Officer at Syncron in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Syncron specializes in using Predictive Analytics […]
Data Science Trends in 2018
The Data Science Trends for 2018 are largely a continuation of some of the biggest trends of 2017 including Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), along with some newer technologies like Blockchain, Edge Computing, Serverless Computing, Digital Twins, and others that employ various practices and techniques within the Data Science industry. The Dataconomy […]
Using Your Data Corpus to Further Digital Transformation
Click to learn more about author Gary Orenstein. Introduction Every day we see freshly created data streams. From new mobile apps, to new connected appliances and automobiles, to new business applications capturing information from all corners of the world, we are awash in data. This dramatic trend is perhaps best illustrated in the skyrocketing valuations […]
Radiant Solutions is Transforming Global Mapping with Unique Geospatial Information
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Radiant Solutions, the newly formed geospatial services business unit of Maxar Technologies (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) today announced its strategy for combining its legacy businesses to create a new leader in the geospatial industry. Radiant Solutions will deliver unique capabilities to transform global mapping […]
Five Essentials to Multi-Data Lake Management: Synchronizing Everything Together
Click to learn more about author John Felahi. Data is the New OS “From a technology perspective, every employee should have access to the data that matters most to their jobs and should be empowered to share it with others across a business.” Multi-Data Lake Management is at the top of many minds at numerous […]
Blue Data Advances Big-Data-as-a-Service with Dell
The press release said, BlueData®, provider of a leading Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software platform, today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Dell EMC, becoming a Select partner in Dell EMC’s Technology Connect Partner Program. The two companies will deepen their go-to market relationship to deliver the BlueData EPIC software platform to Dell EMC’s […]
Pepperdata Helps HPE Improve Performance and Streamline Its Big Data Systems
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Pepperdata, the DevOps for Big Data company, today announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has selected the Pepperdata product suite to automatically optimize its Hadoop clusters and improve monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting. The Pepperdata product suite helps HPE to better manage its big data environment, providing several […]
Introduction to Machine Learning and Decision Trees
Click to learn more about author Alejandro Correa Bahnsen. Almost everyone has heard the words “Machine Learning”, but most people don’t fully understand what they mean. Machine Learning isn’t a single formula that is simply applied to a problem. There are many algorithms to choose from, each of which can be used to achieve different […]
Five Ways Data Analytics is Transforming the Insurance Industry
Click to learn more about author Roi Agababa. Insurance professionals collect a huge amount of data from their customers. And then, they hand it over to underwriters, who evaluate risks of insuring that person using various actuarial data, claims data, and a bunch of other techniques (some of which are proprietary to the insurer). From […]