Axcient, a cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) provider, has announced the results of an independent survey that investigates the current state of backup and disaster recovery with SMBs, essentially focused on evaluating the impact of cloud backup solutions. Conducted by market research company Dimensional Research and commissioned by Axcient, the study, questioned

IEEE VIS 2014 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology, IEEE Information Visualization, and

INFORMS returns to the City by the Bay for its 2014 Annual Meeting with a rich and varied program, bridging data and decisions. Each year, the INFORMS meeting brings together experts from academia, industry, and government to consider a broad range of ORMS and analytics research and applications. In 2014,

Press Release: Global business intelligence (BI) software firm Phocas Software has ranked on top of its competitors in 13 categories and scored outstanding results in 26 others in its two peer groups ad-hoc reporting and visual discovery in the latest findings from the world’s largest survey of business intelligence software

Zoomdata, a Big data Visualisation startup, has landed $17 million recent funding for its proprietary platform capable of analyzing billions of records in seconds, bridging old and new data management platforms. Zoomdata’s mission is to make the processing and visualising of big data an accessible field to all; their technology

Business intelligence has gained considerable traction over the past decade. The explosion of data and the importance it now has on every modern business has led to a dramatic rise in BI vendors offering various solutions to improve the ways in which a company stores, collects and analyses its data.

Press Release: Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, today announced a major recruitment drive in the US to support the growth of its business and enhance its capabilities. The company plans to hire 1,500 professionals for consulting, sales and delivery during the current financial year. In

SpaceCurve, a geospatial and location data analytics firm and AirSage, a population analytics innovator have signed into an alliance to enable marketing and entertainment companies glean consumer behaviour insights based on time, location, motion, sensor data, and other attributes. “Companies and organizations have been clamoring for Big Data to deliver

NewVantage Partners has released its third annual Big Data Executive Survey for 2014 and it turns out that Corporate investment in Big Data has been growing. This year’s results provide compelling evidence that Big Data and analytics continue to be rapidly adopted within the corporate mainstream. Corporate investments in Big

“Where there is data smoke, there is business fire.” – Thomas Redman  The idea of Data Smoke is quite a brilliant analogy by Thomas Redman. It adequately explains why so much emphasis has been placed on tools, personnel, and culture within companies over the past decade. To understand the quote, however, it’s