Source: Intel
5 Big Trends Driving the Rush to the Cloud
Recent cloud statistics and predictions report that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow from $70 billion in 2015 to more than $141 billion in 2019. Those numbers ...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
Dubai Police Use Real-time Image Processing in Traffic to Track Down Scofflaws, Terrorists
When people drive, their cars identify who they are. Or who they might be. This includes people “of interest” to police: drivers with expired licenses or unpaid fines, with ...Full Article
The Open Source World of Today: How We Got Here
Is the closed-source system on its last legs? Maybe not just yet, but we’re pretty close to it. Consider the phenomenal growth in the last five years of new ...Full Article
Mesosphere Touts ‘Container 2.0’
In a bid to jumpstart what it calls a "Container 2.0" movement, application container pioneer Mesosphere announced partnerships with big data vendors designed to push distributed application technology to ...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
Study: Corporate-“Shadow” IT Gap Puts Cloud-based Data in Peril
As corporate data – much of it sensitive – flies to the cloud in growing volume, a serious disconnect between corporate and “shadow” IT has developed in recent years, ...Full Article
The Third Age of Data and the Unfolding Scale-out World
Welcome to the Third Age of Data, where an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources, from health monitoring devices to municipal ...Full Article
How GPU-Powered Analytics Improves Mail Delivery for USPS
When the United States Postal Service (USPS) set out to buy a system that would allow it to track the location of employees, vehicles, and individual pieces of mail ...Full Article
New Flash from IBM Targets Unstructured Data Analytics
JBOF (“jay-boff”), or Just A Bunch of Flash, may sound like a pejorative acronym. But when industry analyst Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Evaluator Group, used it in reference ...Full Article
