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Paging Dr. Watson! IBM Puts Its AI to Work in Healthcare
IBM’s artificial intelligence project, Watson, is really coming into his own. The initiative, several years in the making, is being put to work as part of IBM’s Big Data portfolio, a monetizable solution instead of a research-driven hobby for Big Blue. One of the most viable sectors for Watson is the healthcare industry, and that’s ...
How Big Data Can Incentivize Your Restaurant’s Waitstaff [VIDEO]
Big Data is being applied to countless businesses these days, namely healthcare and finance. But restaurants can get in on the fun, too, especially if there’s a way to leverage Big Data to incentivize employees. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante caught up with Phil Beauregard, the founder and CEO of Objective Logistics, at the Technology Underwriting Greater ...
Why You Should Take a Services-Oriented Approach to Data Backup [VIDEO]
One of the “most pressing problems that plague IT since the dawn of computing.” That’s how Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante explains backup, offering his view and solution in a featured segment this week (see full clip below). According to Vellante, the fundamental issue about backup is that it delivers no tangible business ...
Virsto Buyout, Rumors and Passwords: This Week in the Cloud
The past few days were an exciting period for both the enterprise and consumer space. VMware made a major acquisition, a password management startup existed stealth with $15 million in the bank, and Cisco announced record quarterly earnings. On Monday SiliconAngle founder and CEO John Furrier reported that VMware acquired Virsto, a California-based developer of ...
API Analytics, Funding and Outsourcing This Week in Big Data
This week in Big Data: a high-profile cloud firm announced an analytics offering; an emerging Big Data developer secured funding, and MasterCard struck a services deal that sheds new light on the challenges of data science in the enterprise. Apigee, the developer of an API management service used by major brands to optimize their web ...
BlueStacks Launch is Big News for Windows 8 Users – Breaking Analysis
BlueStacks, the startup behind the platform of the same name that lets you run Android apps on other systems, added support for Windows 8 this week. The launch of App Player for Surface Pro is big news for Windows 8 users, who can now access 750,000 plus Android applications from their PCs and mobile devices. Before ...
Analytics for Hire: Apigee Launches New Subscription API
Apigee, a startup that helps developers manage the way their apps communicate with the outside world, revealed a new subscription-based API analytics service. For an initial price of $5000 per month, users can leverage Apigee Insights to churn out statistics about the data that flows in and out of their apps. “The information an enterprise ...
Geek Love that Excites on Valentine’s Day
Love is in the air! Geek love, that is. Networking guru Stu Miniman showed up on this morning’s NewsDesk show for a special Valentine’s Day segment on user trends in the consumer space and enterprise. He begins by explaining the meaning of “love” for technology and technology brands. It’s all about the fans, he says: consumers ...
HStreaming’s Hadoop Framework Funded for Hybrid Analytics
HStreaming just announced that it has received funding from Atlas Venture, a high-profile Boston-based VC that owns a stake in sqrrl, Nimbus and dozens of other early-stage tech startups. The company did not disclose how much capital it received in the round. HStreaming is a San Francisco-based Big Data developer that specializes in streaming analytics, ...
Why Hire A Data Scientist When You Can Outsource With MasterCard?
Analytics — the golden nectar of the business world. The finance industry has been on the data bandwagon for decades, always ready to leverage the newest technology. This week MasterCard Advisors, the credit company’s services subsidiary, injected an undisclosed sum into a Chicago-based analytics provider called Mu Sigma. A fresh way to help retail understand ...