Data management - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Overcoming your data management woes

  Tech execs discuss how they're making better use of and protecting their data in a hybrid cloud world.

• In pictures: CIO roundtable - Overcoming your data management woes

  Senior tech execs gathered at Sydney's Rockpool restaurant to discuss strategies to make better use of and protect data in hybrid cloud environments. The luncheon was sponsored by Lenovo.

• Jobs up for grabs: MTIA seeks CIO for newly created role

  The Major Transport Infrastructure Authority (MTIA) is seeking an experienced chief information officer for a newly created position within the Office of the Director-General.

• AI firm takes ‘Quantium’ leap in hyperconverged data space

  Over three years into the role and Quantium IT director, Craig Taylor, says he hasn’t got comfortable - and that’s a good thing considering the state of flux and constant change in the IT industry. In particular, the data science and AI realm that Taylor lives and breathes.

• Financial institutions inefficient in handling data

  Data distribution is fraught with inefficiencies across the financial services sector, exposing companies and customers to financial, regulatory and commercial risk, according to research.

• 6 Practical Predictive Analytics Tools

  Most analytics tools put data in an historical context. That's all well and good, but if what if you want to use past data to gauge future performance? That narrows your analytics options. These six tools will help you make practical use of your data in order to make business decisions.

• Big Data, Cheap Storage Bring In-Memory Analytics Into Spotlight

  In-memory analytics, like virtualization and the cloud, is an old idea that's been given new life. In this case, the combination of big data, inexpensive commodity storage and parallel processing make it possible to analyze terabytes of data without slowing systems to a crawl.

• How-to: Get started with MySQL

  An easy step-by-step guide to setting up a MySQL database server, along with phpMyAdmin, on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu

• 8 Ways Big Data and Analytics Will Change Sports

  The leading minds in sports convened in Boston last week at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference to share ideas about how big data will be a game-changer for fans, players, coaches, officials and front-office personnel.

• Agile Comes to Data Integration

  Informatica is aiming to ease the pain of data integration with a new platform designed to allow businesses to rapidly prototype and validate before sending projects to development.

• C-Level Execs Value Data, Have No Idea What to Do With It

  Almost all C-suite executives at large enterprises believe data and analytics are important to their business, but most are struggling to become data-driven businesses -- and more than half say they don't even know what data to collect.

• Big Data Drives City of Buffalo's Operation Clean Sweep

  By layering data from 311 and 911 calls over Census data, unemployment data and other poverty indicators, Buffalo uses data analytics to identify its most challenged neighborhoods and more effectively deploy resources for everything from neighborhood beautification to combatting crime and reducing fire hazards.

• Marketers See Value in Big Data Analytics, But Face Hurdles

  Feeling the pressure to become more data-driven, marketers agree that big data analytics will be an integral part of their organizations going forward. But a lack of data analytics skills and antiquated business processes are hampering their efforts.

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