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‘Digital laggards’ must harness data or get left behind

Digital leaders post higher gross margins, revenues and profits than digital laggards, according to new research from Harvard Business School. Data is a big reason why.

By Clint Boulton

Sep 21, 2016 5 mins

Big Data IT Leadership Technology Industry

SAP woos SMB developers with an ‘express’ edition of Hana

The free download can be used to build apps on a laptop or desktop PC

By Katherine Noyes

Sep 19, 2016 2 mins

Analytics Big Data Cloud Computing

Salesforce is betting its Einstein AI will make CRM better

Machine learning, predictive analytics, and natural language processing are coming to all Salesforce's clouds

By Katherine Noyes

Sep 18, 2016 3 mins

Analytics Big Data Salesforce

In an attempt to disrupt Splunk, Elastic makes another acquisition

The vendor behind the Elasticsearch open source project buys behavioral analytics vendor Prelert. The move allows it to provide intelligence on top of the data it provides.

By Ben Kepes

Sep 15, 2016 5 mins

Big Data Cloud Computing Open Source

This new programming language promises a 4X speed boost on big data

It offers better memory management for large, scattered sets of data

By Katherine Noyes

Sep 14, 2016 3 mins

Big Data Enterprise Applications Software Development

DataRobot aims to help create data science executives

New DataRobot University course is designed to teach executives how to identify opportunities to optimize their business using machine learning.

By Thor Olavsrud

Sep 14, 2016 4 mins

Analytics Big Data IT Skills and Training

Smartphone tracking not completely evil, academics say

Better pollution exposure data and freer-moving public transportation planning are among the more altruistic uses of smartphone location data

By Patrick Nelson

Sep 14, 2016 3 mins

Big Data Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Who knew Edward Snowden would become such a musical inspiration?

Peter Gabriel is latest to sing about Snowden

By Bob Brown

Sep 13, 2016 2 mins

Big Data Government Security

How Dyn is rising to the cloud challenge

Dyn Chairman Jim Baum on internet performance management’s role in hybrid and public cloud migration, addressing needs of blurring IT and business sides

By John Gallant

Sep 13, 2016 21 mins

Application Performance Management Big Data Hybrid Cloud

Aruba Networks aims its Mobile First Platform at developers

Aruba’s Mobile First Platform, built on the new ArubaOS 8.0, helps partners and customers build mobile-enabled apps on top of the Aruba foundation

By Zeus Kerravala

Sep 12, 2016 4 mins

Big Data Mobile Apps Software Development