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Backup with brains: The growing importance of analytics to business resiliency

Understanding the four types of analysis that can be applied to backup and recovery

Dec 23, 2015 6 mins

Analytics Disaster Recovery

McKinsey names industries that are falling behind in digitization

Entire sectors are failing to keep up, says a major management consultant.

Dec 22, 2015 3 mins

Big Data IT Leadership

5 information security trends that will dominate 2016

Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and collaborative with every coming year. To combat the threat in 2016, information security professionals must understand these five trends.

Dec 21, 2015 10 mins

Big Data Cybercrime IT Skills and Training

Big data gets its first official standard at the ITU

The effort is 'late to the party,' one analyst says

Dec 18, 2015 2 mins

Big Data Cloud Computing Technology Industry

How big data predicts and helps prevent train delays in Sweden

Only good things come from Sweden: the chef from the muppets, Volvo, and great meatballs. Now the Stockholm rail operator adds technology to that list.

Dec 16, 2015 2 mins

Big Data Internet of Things

This big-data startup wants to manage your data lake in the cloud

Bigstep's new 'data lake as a service' offers exabyte-scale storage for big-data workloads

Dec 15, 2015 3 mins

Big Data Cloud Computing

IBM adds to Watson IoT arsenal with new APIs, ‘experience centers’

Global headquarters will be located in Munich

Dec 15, 2015 3 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing

Five things you need to know about Hadoop v. Apache Spark

They're sometimes viewed as competitors in the big-data space, but the growing consensus is that they're better together

Dec 11, 2015 3 mins

Analytics Big Data Enterprise Applications

Lack of big data talent hampers corporate analytics

Businesses continue to struggle with hiring the talented data scientists they need to manipulate their corporate data for insights, according to new research from consultant A.T. Kearney.

Dec 10, 2015 5 mins

Analytics Big Data Technology Industry

How the NSA uses behavior analytics to detect threats

The CIO of the National Security Agency says analytics protect the U.S. intelligence community’s private cloud system from internal and external threats.

Dec 8, 2015 5 mins

Big Data Cloud Security Cybercrime