FinServe Big Data Analytics and the Cloud: Strategies and How To’s
The future isn’t what it used to be in the financial services industry. The present isn’t, either. The past, for that matter, wasn’t as tranquil as might be thought. ...Full Article
Taking Aim at Retail’s $40B Annual Non-Scanning Losses
By hook, crook, negligence or equipment malfunction, $40 billion worth of goods pass through checkout lanes at retail stores around the world each year without being scanned. Be it ...Full Article
Crowd-sourcing Algorithms to Beat Wall Street
Looking to cash in on your algorithm expertise? Join the crowd. A three-year-old hedge fund investment company, Quantopian, which crowd-sources algorithms to guide its investing, has just received an ...Full Article
9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
The big data revolution is changing how business gets done in all industries. That includes the massive retail market, which drives $2.6 trillion in business in the U.S. and ...Full Article
NSA Looks to IT Industry to Harden Vulnerable U.S. Nets
U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, are increasingly turning to commercial solutions in their efforts to head off the alarming number of cyber attacks that culminated in ...Full Article
Overcoming the 3 Key Barriers to Industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers exciting possibilities for transforming industrial automation. Having the ability to capture data at the industrial edge—from the manufacturing shop floor to natural ...Full Article
New Data Analytics Benchmark Puts Stopwatch to Hadoop-based Systems
Ladies and gentlemen, start your clusters. A new data analytics and machine learning benchmark has been released by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) measuring real-world performance of Hadoop-based ...Full Article
Itseez Acquisition to Help Drive Intel’s Vision for Driverless Vehicles, IoT
In breaking the news of a massive layoff last month, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stated that the company is transforming itself from a PC and server company to one ...Full Article
