Good Harbor Security Risk Management and big data analytics software developer Context Relevant have forged a cybersecurity alliance that will work to help customers counter threats. Good Harbor's cybersecurity risk management services will be combined with Context Relevant's predictive analytics engine in an effort to help clients respond to data …
Read More »IBM Invests $100M in Watson Computer Africa Roll Out; Kamal Bhattacharya Comments
IBM Corp. wants to invest $100 million in a 10-year initiative to roll out its artificial intelligence and cognitive systems in Africa in an effort to seek business opportunities in the region. IBM will deploy the Watson technology from its Africa research laboratory, where researchers can develop new services in …
Read More »EMC Updates Data Storage Mgmt Offering; Chris Ratcliffe, Manuvir Das Comment
EMC Corp. has updated a storage management offering that is intended to help customers gain insights into data stored in their systems, InfoStor reported Friday. Pedro Hernandez writes the new version of the ViPR platform is built to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System and comply with corporate rules …
Read More »IBM, Texas A&M Form Computational Sciences Research Partnership; William LaFontaine Comments
IBM Corp. and Texas A&M University System have partnered to perform computational sciences research on agriculture, geosciences and engineering through big data analytics and high-performance computing systems. Goals of the research collaboration include to address requirements for extracting energy resources, managing smart grid, developing new materials, identifying and tracking diseases …
Read More »Teradata Receives White House Honors for Non-Profit Data Analytics Support; Sherri Morgan Comments
Teradata received commendation from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Tuesday for providing data analytics offerings to social organizations and charities. The company is collaborating with non-profit organization DataKind to help other non-governmental and non-profit organizations with tools …
Read More »Teradata, Novetta Partner to Build Cyber Analytics Tool; John Burke Comments
Teradata has teamed up with Novetta Solutions to build an analytics-based information technology architecture meant to help organizations counter attacks on their cyber infrastructure. The partnership’s joint integrated cybersecurity offering will comprise of a Novetta network behavior analysis tool and a Terradata big data analytics platform, Teradata said Monday. John …
Read More »Optum Thought Leader Details Big Data Migration Basics for Enterprises
Optum company UnitedHealth Group‘s Venugopal Adooparambil serves as business intelligence director for big data and advised enterprises looking to leap into big data analytics that migration also means training people and enlisting leadership support, ZDNet reported July 31. David Braue writes how the big data consultant had led supermarket chain SuperValu's transition using …
Read More »Teradata, Revelytix Form Hadoop Data Mgmt Partnership; Sean Slack Comments
Teradata will incorporate Revelytix‘s latter’s data management software into Teradata’s enterprise-class offerings for Hadoop. Revelytix offers the Loom platform for data scientists to manage Hadoop-based data and Teradata offers technology for organizations to integrate Hadoop into their data architecture, Revelytix said Wednesday. Sean Slack, director of Teradata Global Alliances, said …
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