The Big Data revolution has changed almost everything in business, but what it hasn’t changed is the need for the right information, in the right hands, at the right time. This is the domain of search engines, where the user’s needs are translated into commands to find data and bring it out from the cold ...

Big Data analytics are becoming central to the success of all types of businesses. Analytics is a vital tool in managing the complex task of serving the customer while staying ahead of the competition. However, information is most valuable when it can be put to best use, and these days, that window can be very ...

When it comes to Big Data, the question isn’t just “how much” but also “when?” Companies that can sort useful information faster than their competition have an advantage. Further, real-time interactions with customers demand analytics and processing in the now; minutes later is too late. To satisfy this need, companies are adopting streaming analytics, the ...

Farms are getting more interesting with the introduction of robots, for example Bosch has a field robot that literally punches weeds to death and Japan-based SPREAD is building a factory that will plant, grow and harvest lettuce (all indoors). The farming industry may have come from paleolithic origins (the planting and harvesting of sustenance) but modern farming ...

Predictive analysis is one of the great powers of Big Data, and it gives companies the ability to act on the massive amounts of data that modern businesses collect. However, to make use of this power, companies need special tools and skilled experts who can separate important information from the noise. RapidMiner represents a powerful ...

Tighter integration of tech processes has been a major cause of change in the technology business landscape, leading to the practice of hyper-convergence. Under the hyper-convergence model, compute, storage, networking and other technologies are packaged together in one box supported by a single vendor. This dramatically shrinks a company’s operations footprint and speeds development times. To ...

In the tech world, DevOps is a strange thing. It’s vital to companies that want to keep up with the competition, yet, no one really knows what DevOps is for sure. To one company it means a certain thing, but something entirely different to another. Yet, at the same time, DevOps, as a practice, is ...

Recently, the virtual reality platform and exchange, Voxelus (www.voxelus.com), completed a crowdsale of its new online currency, dubbed “voxels” by the company. As their website states, “Voxelus is a platform that allows anyone, anywhere to create, share and play virtual reality games and experiences without writing a single line of code.” While Voxelus offers a ...

Things have been moving fast in the digital world, and companies have been reshaping themselves to keep up. One of the biggest is HP, which recently separated itself into HP, Inc. for traditional personal computing and printing products and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), which looks to technology services and infrastructure. The HPE Discover 2015 conference ...

In the technology world, servers are the workhorses that do the heavy lifting of networked computing. As the digital revolution makes new demands of business infrastructure, so too must servers offer greater performance and power to compete. The world of servers is also changing, fragmenting as new technologies such as the Cloud and the Internet ...