Is data an asset or a liability? | #MITCDOIQ
The role of the Chief Data Officer continues to evolve. But just when does data go from an asset to a liability? During theCUBE’s kickoff to day two of MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2015, Dave…
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Akana adds deep analytics to its API management platform
While the industry has its attention turned to the new-generation API management providers vying to fill the vacuum created by the slow reaction of their traditional rivals to the rise of cloud services and mobile…
Hortonworks’ cloud agnostic HDP 2.3 hits general availability
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks Inc. announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.3 at the Hadoop Summit yesterday, less than a month after it first unveiled the release. At the time…
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Continuum Analytics scores $24 million to put Python on the Big Data map
Chances are that if programming is brought into an analytics discussion nowadays, the first language to come up will be R, the open-source statistical processing framework backed by Microsoft Corp. and decades of use…
Microsoft to give 10 years of support for Windows 10 to everyone
Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 users will be given free feature and functionality updates for exactly ten years from the time they first buy the operating system – for example, on a new…
Microsoft cracks down on revenge porn, but is it enough?
Finding yourself a victim of revenge porn – intimate photographs or video being posted online without the consent of the person(s) appearing in the picture/clip – can have devastating consequences for those involved. In…
Apple sold 4M Apple Watches, takes 75% market share, says report
By Collen Kriel
Apple has not said how many Apple Watches it sold last quarter and analyst estimates vary wildly. Following Apple’s third-quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, we were left guessing at the number of Apple…
Latest iOS 9 beta brings back Home Sharing, support for new iPod touch, more
By Collen Kriel
Following the release of iOS 9 beta 4 to developers on Tuesday, Apple on Wednesday released iOS 9 public beta 2 to members of its public beta software program. Since the two beta’s are…
Sony’s enterprise drones ready to take off next year
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is getting into the drone business. The company said it’s going to create a joint venture with another Japanese firm to build UAVs that capture images and other data for…
BlackBerry furthers enterprise push with Athoc acquisition
BlackBerry Ltd. is continung its Phoenix-like rise from the ashes with the acquisition of AtHoc Inc., a provider of secure, networked crisis communications to enterprises and government organizations. The deal was announced late Wednesday,…