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It was almost two and a half years ago that Amazon.com Inc. first put forward the idea of using drones to deliver packages to its customers via its “Prime Air” service. But while the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has been dragging its …
Report: “Cloud shift” to disrupt IT spending to the tune of $1 trillion
Gartner Inc. has reinforced something that most readers will already know – that cloud computing is poised to become one of the “most disruptive forces in IT spending” since the early days of the digital age. But the impact is still staggering. …
Teradata & Nuix team up to shine a light on ‘dark data’
Big Data holds huge potential for enterprises looking to glean new business insights, but that potential can only be fulfilled if it’s possible to analyze said data. The problem is that a huge deal of enterprise data remains inaccessible, either because employee …
Google launches new APIs that understand human language
Building on a raft of machine learning-related announcements it made earlier in the year, Google has just launched two new machine learning APIs into beta. The most exciting of the two looks to be the new Google Cloud Natural Language API, which …
Windows 10 sees rapid adoption in the enterprise
Microsoft released Windows 10 one year ago, and immediately began an aggressive campaign to boost adoption as fast as it could. That campaign has proven to be a tad controversial, with Microsoft being accused of using deceptive tactics to foist the OS …
MapR leverages Big Data analytics in fight against financial fraud
Hadoop purveyor MapR Technologies Inc. is throwing its weight behind the fight against fraud, cybercrime, and regulatory non-compliance with a new risk management solution for financial companies. The idea behind MapR’s new Risk Management Quick Start Solution for Financial Services is that …
Google Transparency Report: Government data demands rise again
Google once again saw an increased number of data requests from global law enforcement agencies during the second half of 2015. For the first time, the total number of requests in a six month period surpassed 40,000. That’s up from the 35,365 …
IBM & CSC boost ties with expanded mainframe cloud deal
IBM and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) are to expand an existing partnership by making the former’s mainframe capabilities and cloud infrastructure available to CSC and its customers. The deal will see IBM deliver its Cloud Managed Services offering for its z Systems …
LinkedIn unveils Open19 data center standard
Recent Microsoft acquisition LinkedIn Corp. is causing a little confusion with its data center strategy, by announcing a new open design standard for servers and racks that it hopes will be adopted industry-wide. What’s confusing is that its soon-to-be-parent company Microsoft has …
Google announces pricing for Stackdriver, its upcoming cloud monitoring tool
Google’s Stackdriver cloud monitoring tool is nearing general availability, and although it’s expected to remain in testing for a couple of months, pricing details have already been published. For those who don’t know Stackdriver, Google describes it as a unified monitoring, logging …