An extensive experimental database of inorganic thin-film materials that organizes a decade’s worth of research at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is now publicly available (‘An open ...
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The amount of data has increased so much in recent years that the metric system of measurement is on the brink of not being able to properly describe how much of it there is in the world. That's what Andrew McAfee, principal research ...
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There are too few data scientists in the world and education needs to change in order to maximise the true potential of data science, one of the leading authorities in the field has told Computing. "The answer is 'no', there aren't enough ...
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Attendees flooded the Habtoor Grand in Dubai today as CNME played host to the region's first ever dedicated big data event; the Big Data Symposium. Though very few companies have yet to implement big data solutions, the curiosity, ...
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Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata CIOs in the Middle East need to start to learn what Apache Hadoop is in order to understand the true value of big data, according to Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata. Brobst was speaking to CNME at Teradata ...
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Intel IT has developed a predictive analytics solution which, it claims, can reduce chip test time by 25 percent and save $30 million over the next year. Every chip Intel produces undergoes a rigorous quality check, involving a complex ...
We won't be discussing cloud computing in two years' time, not because the service has become obsolete, but because it will have become so ingrained in IT there will not be a need to talk about it as a concept. That's the consensus to ...
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According to research firm Gartner, Big Data is currently still a solution looking for a problem, despite it being forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 and create 4.4 million IT jobs by 2015. While businesses are keen to ...
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Change is certainly afoot when a supposedly down-to-earth networking conference is launched with the kind of glitz and glamour usually reserved for the Oscars. But the theme worked well, as Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco, kicked off Cisco ...
UK charity Action for Children has chosen cloud provider Rackspace to tackle its big data challenges and scale up its IT infrastructure on demand. SAS launches academy to tackle demand for "52,000 a year" big data specialists Analysis: ...
Organisations that adopt Big Data in 2013 will create value and competitive differentiation, while those which do not will stagnate. EMC A/NZ channels general manager, Brett Harris, said this is because the speed at which the world is ...
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The rise of the data scientist,so noticeable in the past year,has found expression in a new data science graduate course at the University of Dundee. Mark Whitehorn,professor at the university,said the course will overlap with and extend ...
Data specialists can earn 20% more than other IT professionals and there has been an increase in data roles of 43% in the past year. Research from e-skills UK, sponsored by SAS, suggests demand for big data analysts will double over the ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads, as well as AWS Data Pipeline, a web service that allows enterprises to move data across various systems Launching the new Elastic ...
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CIO-Data scientist jobs are hot in the era of big data.These professionals are responsible for manipulating petabytes of data into better decision-making,new streams of revenue and ultimately more business.A study by McKinsey Global ...
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