Where Are People Going With Machine Learning In 2017
Machine learning is an industry in flux. It is not a new industry, but new players are taking the field hoping to make a big impact, sometimes without anything tangible to base that hope on. Many will fail but the result is likely to be a more coherent approach to...
The Breaches We Don’t Know About
Stories of major data breaches continue to roll in. One victim announced during the spring was hard drive maker LaCie (now owned by Seagate). In March the firm confirmed a security blog's report that its customer data was exposed to hackers for nearly a year. For...
Security Protection or Morality Police?
Businesses have a right to pick and choose the customers they do business with, so long as they do not violate anti-discrimination laws. And decisions by a particular firm not to cater to specific customers do not keep those customers from doing business elsewhere....
CRN Big Data 100
There are many established IT vendors such as Microsoft, SAP and Hewlett-Packard, but increasingly, big data is driven by startups. This proliferation of great companies offering their new Hadoop-related technology or business analytics application has been a boon to...
Big Impact From Big Data
The potential impact from big data and advanced analytics is huge, which is why so many are becoming excited about the prospect. However, the level of impact it makes in reality is often underwhelming. For most organizations, successes have been few and far between,...
Future of Information Dashboards
More and more businesses realize the value of data visualizations and there are now many predictions for the future of the meteoric rise of the information dashboard. The past couple of years have seen huge movement in the industry, and with more and more businesses...
Five Biggest Benefits of Data Visualization
Every year, the amount of data created grows almost exponentially. So much so, that by 2015 the global annual rate of data production had exceeded five and a half zettabytes. This data is of no use on its own however, to be beneficial to anyone it needs to be...
Trends in Modern Data Visualization
It is easy to scoff at data visualizations, a technology many see as promising much, but delivering little. However, recent versions of data visualization tools are finally arriving to fulfill the claims of instant insight across data sets. In many cases, part of the...
Visualizations in Complex Data
Ever since social media outlets have allowed developers to create visual representations of a person's social network, network diagrams have become an extremely popular way of presenting information. With users of Facebook and LinkedIn able to use third-party tools to...
Cloud Computing Is SAAS
Many businesses are increasingly overwhelmed by the complexity of their own data. The solution to this is cloud computing, which eliminates the problem of processing large amount of data. Over the last decade, business intelligence systems have evolved to the point...
Compliance Challenge For Cloud Computing
The single biggest concern for large organizations looking at cloud adoption is still compliance issues, according to a new report by cloud security experts CipherCloud. The survey found that among over 100 respondents, 64% saw compliance as the biggest obstacle to...
Integration Still a Problem Despite Adoption
While uptake has certainly been high—some 93% of businesses now use cloud technology in some form—integration is still an issue. A survey of 930 IT professionals showed that 88% of businesses are using public cloud technologies, while 63% are using private cloud...