One of the most important tasks that a Data Architect is often asked to help with is the creation of an Enterprise Data Strategy. But why is Data Strategy so important and what exactly does it consist of, and lastly why is this a task that a Data Architect should

Buddy announced availability of its new platform that hosts and manages data generated by any connected device, for the first time enabling measurement of a device from the moment it’s turned on throughout its entire lifecycle. This data, often referred to as “telemetry data”, conveys information about the performance and usage

Qubole, a self-service Platform for Big Data Analytics, announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft Azure in a step to make Big Data solutions more accessible to more people on more platforms. Big Data is an elastic workload and the ideal cloud use case. The Qubole Data Service is a great

It was announced at the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics Innovation Consortium event, that research proposals are invited to discover advanced analytics solutions for the challenging problems faced by today’s global companies. In addition, Accenture and MIT are also providing seed funding for non-tenured professors to support their

Google’s visionary Project Loon, introduced a year back with the objective of using balloons for connecting rural, remote, and underserved areas and for helping with communications after natural disasters announced a fresh update yesterday. They have developed autofill equipment that will be capable of filling large volumes of air into

If there was ever a fascinating time to be immersed in the app economy, it is now. After experiencing a huge and flourishing boom, the industry now faces a period of change, maturity, or decline, depending on who you’re talking to. Berlin-based Priori Data are in a unique position to

At a hackathon hosted by Bayes Impact, data scientists pitted against each other to develop data driven and implementable software solutions for high impact social problems. The winning hack will become a Bayes Impact project, staffed with full-time data scientists and engineers who will work with their partners to bring

Google and Stanford have combined the best of neural network models from two independent researches to create systems that can accurately describe images. Automatically describing the content of an image is a fundamental problem in AI that connects computer vision and natural language processing. Google in a recent paper presented

Success stories of how data-driven practices can revitalise businesses are rife today, but there are few as compelling as the story of Ford. In 2006, the legendary car manufacturers were in trouble; they closed the year with a $12.6 billion loss, the largest in the company’s history. As we reported

KAUST has selected a trifecta of Cray’s storage, analytics and supercomputing systems from global supercomputer leader Cray Inc in a $80 million contract. Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative next-generation products that integrate diverse processing technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to meet the market’s continued