Data & Analytics

 

Why IoT Data Protection Has Become More Important than Ever (ReadWrite)

Passed in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU law designed to give users more control over their personal data – and to protect against data breach a... More

Good News, Programmers: There Will be 253K New Software Developer Jobs by 2026 (Tech Republic)

Developers continue to be one of the fastest-growing and most in-demand tech professions, according to a new report. By 2026, more than 253,000 new software developer roles will be... More

AWS Rolls Out New Security Feature to Prevent Accidental S3 Data Leaks (ZDNet)

Amazon's Web Services division has rolled out new security features to AWS account owners today that are meant to prevent accidental data exposures caused by the misconfiguration o... More

SAS Signs Up as Multi-Year Partner to Sport Ireland Institute (HITS)

Sport Ireland has signed a multi-year partnership agreement with SAS, which will see the multinational become the Official Analytics Partner of Sport Ireland Institute through to M... More

Top Machine Learning Trends: The Path to Realization (Western Digital Blog)

Machine Learning was a concept that existed for decades. Yet only recent advancements in software, processing and massive, rich datasets have made it a reality. It’s no longer ju... More

Why Blockchain Developers ‘Can Earn $158K’ (BBC)

WEF analysts have included “blockchain specialists” in a list of 50 occupations that will rise in importance over the next four years. And alongside this will be an increasing ... More

Why Data Modeling is Important – And Why It’s Not (Forbes)

Data modeling does not excite passion within programmers. Your average Java or Python developer probably doesn’t even realize that they are doing it when they write programs, in ... More

The Growing Significance of DevOps for Data Science (Forbes)

Data science and machine learning are often associated with mathematics, statistics, algorithms and data wrangling. While these skills are core to the success of implementing machi... More

Google Cloud Wants to Make it Easier for Data Scientists to Share Models (TechCrunch)

Today, Google Cloud announced Kubeflow pipelines and AI Hub, two tools designed to help data scientists put to work across their organizations the models they create. Rajen Sheth, ... More

IBM Puts DNA Data on the Cloud with Ancestry Partnership (CBR)

IBM is providing its Analytics-as-a-Service model for the world’s largest consumer DNA network, Ancestry. The Utah-based genealogy company will use Big Blue’s Planning Analytic... More

VMware Cloud Accelerates Expansion to AWS Data Centers Around the World (DCK)

The VMware team that runs the company’s cloud out of Amazon Web Services data centers is expanding its footprint across the Amazon infrastructure, and the expansion is accelerati... More

5 Predictions for 2019: Business Value From Data (IW)

The year 2018 is almost a wrap. Your enterprise may have moved from piloting an artificial intelligence project to putting a program into production in 2018. Yet you may not yet ha... More

21 More Jobs That Pivot on Human-Machine Harmony (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

Help Wanted: Data Trash Engineer. Algorithm Bias Auditor. Head of Machine Personality Design. Chief Purpose Planner. Could you envision needing one of these job titles in your orga... More

Cloud Giants Continue Pouring Billions Into Data Centers (DCK)

Even though there are indications that overall cloud data center spend may be slowing down, the biggest cloud providers continue spending billions to expand their platforms’ phys... More

Data Science Careers: From Fragmentation to Necessity (ReadWrite)

Over the past decade — the concept of being a data scientist has become a “normal” occupation title. It is no longer an unusual way to phrase the job description in data anal... More

SAP CTO Explains How Integration Underpins the ‘Pivotable’ Business (Forbes)

SAP has been through various reinventions of itself. The company bought its way into mobile through various acquisitions. It then developed along with the rest of the tech market i... More

The Shift From Data Assurance to Data Engineering (Wipro Blog)

Data plays a key role in generating valuable insights and visualizations to build quality deliverables and drive delivery excellence. The need and importance of data is not restric... More

AWS to Open South African Cloud Data Centers in 2020 (DCD)

AWS plans to launch three availability zones in South Africa in the first half of 2020. The AWS Africa (Cape Town) region will be the cloud company's first data center deployment i... More

Data Science, the ‘New Latin’ for Students, in Demand in Silicon Valley (San Francisco Chronicle)

Dubbed the “sexiest job of the 21st century” by Harvard Business Review, data science is most easily described as using the modeling and analysis skills of statistics combined ... More

SAP Leonardo Unveils Latest Machine Learning, Analytics Updates (HITS)

SAP announced an expansion of SAP Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities based on its upgraded SAP Conversational AI service that will enable major companies to build increasingly ... More

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