Data & Analytics

The European Union (EU)’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a significant responsibility for companies of all sizes, and compliance includes a long list of requirement... More

The skills that attract attention from young job candidates can also serve as a sort of compass for where the technology industry is heading. Because technology changes so quickly,... More

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-based analytics platforms are replacing traditional business intelligence tools to deliver significantly higher-level business ins... More

While we weren't looking, WD assembled a formidable array of storage technologies, beyond their leadership in disks and SSDs. That includes all-flash arrays, scale-out object stora... More

Gathering insights from information placed on Microsoft's cloud-based storage and big data analytics platforms is about to get easier for the company's enterprise customers. On Jun... More

Google has added a new region for its Google Cloud Platform in Finland, which joins the Netherlands, Belgium, London and Frankfurt in Europe. The new region, europe-north1, makes i... More

One of the biggest challenges of data management is ensuring data quality—and for many organizations this remains a struggle.... More

Scholastic said that it’ll make available media, articles, and nonfiction content from its Scholastic Go and ScienceFlix libraries in IBM’s Watson Education, which will apply m... More

Microsoft this week declared the "general availability" of Traffic Analytics, a service that checks network activity across Microsoft Azure public cloud infrastructure. Traffic Ana... More

AI is not a new concept, nor are the math fundamentals underpinning it. But for AI to “eat software” and become truly useful it needs hardware: processors and chips fast and st... More

APIs have become the mechanism of choice for connecting internal and external services, applications, data, identities, and other digital assets. As a result, APIs now have the pot... More

Chief data officers are the new standard bearers for ethical business, a responsibility conferred upon their office as organisations from all sectors seek to maintain customers’ ... More

MicroStrategy announced that the University of Colorado Denver School of Business is participating in the MicroStrategy Academic Program to provide free MicroStrategy software lice... More

Big data is undoubtedly one of the hottest trends of our age, and the promise of enormous amounts of data to fundamentally transform how our organizations operate is considerable. ... More

Cloud computing is the next generation “analytic data infrastructure,” according to a new study. Whether on-premises, private, hybrid or multi-cloud, organizations taking advan... More

The future of the chief data officer is intriguing as there’s a transformational shift happening. Most sizeable companies will have a CDO by next year and the role is becoming be... More

When Gartner’s research vice-president Mario Faria said that by the end of 2019, 50 per cent of chief data officers would be seen to fail, it was hardly the stuff of recruitment ... More

Ordinary people can now rent out part of their unused hard drive space and earn money for doing so. The ability to leverage excess storage capacity has become a reality thanks to t... More

To make sure you stay compliant systems will need to stay responsive. Keeping data sets clean and tidy, ensuring easy and transparent unsubscribe processes and dealing with other d... More

For many years, people have captured and analyzed data to gain insights. One of the lessons learned over time is that the more the data being acted on is integrated, the more insi... More