
CloudBerry Lab Teams Up with Autotask to Integrate Cloud Backup Solutions
CloudBerry Lab, a backup and management solutions provider for public cloud storage services, has revealed the integration of its cloud backup solution with cloud-based IT business management platform Autotask, with CloudBerry 3.8 with Autotask integration being made available immediately. “Autotask enables IT Service Providers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to

Big Data Analytics To Help CDC Track Pandemics
Disclaimer: This article was originally posted on Dataconomy.com in 2014 covering the spread of the Ebola With the Ebola threat still looming large, widespread efforts are being made to identify, quarantine and treat possible carriers. BigMosaic, a big data analytics program developed by the Centers for Disease Control in collaboration

WPP, IBM in $1.25bn Agreement to Facilitate Digital Upgrade
WPP, the world’s largest communications services group, has entered into an alliance with IBM, in order to chart a long-term and mutually rewarding partnership. As a result of the partnership WPP will be able to innovate new digital services run and managed within a global hybrid cloud infrastructure, according to

Google Focusing R&D On “Artificial Intelligence for Data Science”
Google has been pouring its brain over an Artificial Intelligence project to automate the ‘making sense’ of data sets available across a spectrum of fields – to build an “artificial intelligence for data science”. The Automatic Statistician project has been brewing under Professor Zoubin Ghahramani and his team at the

Ethics, Privacy and Discrimination in the Age of Big Data
At Data Days 2014, one of the most compelling talks came from Lorena Jaume Palasi, a lecturer & PhD candidate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her talk addressed intriguing questions about data ethics- do we need to create new ethical paradigms to deal with data? Where does the

Meet HP Haven OnDemand- HP’s Big Data Analytics in the Cloud
IT giant HP has released HP Haven OnDemand, their Big Data platform that runs on the HP Helion cloud and enables analyses of data such as business and machine as well as unstructured, human information. “To succeed in today’s marketplace, businesses must be able to leverage all forms of data,

Machine Data Intelligence Firm Sumo Logic Appoints Industry Veteran Ramin Sayar as CEO
Sumo Logic, the cloud-based log management and analytics service provider, has landed a new CEO and President. The man in question is industry veteran and former Sr. Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Management Business Unit for VMware, Ramin Sayar. To top that, they have also managed more than 100%

The Data-Driven Future of Advertising
Gone are the days where advertising and sales were the sole remit of creative-thinking Mad Men types, who wildly conjectured who a product’s target audience might be, and constructed campaigns which may appeal to them. Today, advertising is a much more precise, data-driven field. Of course, creativity has a role

Study Reveals Girls Are Better at Making Computer Games
While computer gaming remains primarily male dominated, a new study has revealed that girls may be more skilled at making story-based computer games. The research was conducted by the Informatics Department at the University of Sussex on secondary school students. They were asked to design and program their own computer

Data Scientists at Hampton Creek Using Deep Learning to Find the Ideal Plant Proteins
A food technology company in San Francisco is exploring a new dimension in utilizing plants in food products. Hampton Creek wants to bring “healthier and affordable food to everyone, everywhere,” and its doing so by using deep learning. “Our slug is, we apply deep machine learning to plant biological data,”