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MIT Develops Solar-Powered Sensor To Keep IoT Data Flowing
Researchers invent solar-powered sensors to harness Internet of Things potential
Facebook Study Into SSDs Finds ‘Several Distinct Failure Periods’
But paper in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University claims that read disturbance errors do not increase failure rates
IBM Hurricane Planning Software Aids Emergency Services
IBM helps towns plan for hurricanes and scraps official opening of office in Louisiana, whose governor reportedly blamed gay community for Hurricane Katrina
IBM Invests Heavily In ‘Important’ Open Source Apache Spark Big Data Project
IBM pledges technology and 3,500 developers to Apache Spark, which will be used by its analytics and commerce platforms as well as Watson Health Cloud
AWS Rolls Out Powerful, Fast Cloud Offerings
New AWS M4 general-purpose instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon chips and include networking features that reduce latency
Royal Bank Of Scotland Aims To Repair Reputation With Customer Service Focus
RBS is banking on decisioning and analytics from Pegasystems to help it become the number one UK bank for customer service
Pegasystems Enhances Pega 7 With Advanced Analytics And Mobility
New capabilities increase productivity and deepen engagement to satisfy customers
HP Readies A Machine Prototype For Next Year
The company is still five years away from having the system ready for market, but developers will be able to get a look at it in 2016
Government And IBM Pledge £313m For Big Data Research
British government and Big Blue funnel £300m into big data and cognitive computing research
Pure Storage Swipes At Legacy Rivals With Modular Flash Array
All-flash upstart Pure Storage announces array that banishes upgrade cycles and lets customers adhere to Moore's Law
Yahoo To Face Lawsuit For Email Spying
American judge orders Yahoo to face class-action lawsuit for alleged snooping of people's emails
Lenovo Unveils Two New Budget SAN Arrays
Lenovo's S2200 and S3200 claim to provide near All-Flash-Array performance for up to 120,000 IOPS at a fraction of the cost of today’s Flash only systems
SanDisk Releases Low-Cost Z400s SSD
SanDisk takes swipe at traditional hard drives with 'affordable' SSD aimed at verticals and consumers
Consumer Trust Meltdown With Businesses Over Personal Data
Porkie pie time...study finds consumers deliberately provide wrong information when businesses ask for personal details
5 Reasons SMBs Should Embrace Big Data Analytics
Richard Bradbury, director of alliances and partners for UK & Ireland, SAS, explains why SMBs shouldn't ignore or go it alone with analytics
Nexenta Releases Hyper-Scale Big Data Storage Platform For OpenStack
NexentaEdge for OpenStack to offer 'simplified' management of petabyte-scale repositories
Belgian Privacy Watchdog Hits Back After Facebook Criticism
Tit for tat argument continues as Belgian Privacy Watchdog sharply criticises Facebook and its privacy controls
Robots To Seize Control In 100 Years, Says Stephen Hawking
“Open the pod bay doors, Hal!” ... Humans have 100 years left before the robots take over, warns Professor Stephen Hawking
IBM Launches Watson Analytics Pro
With more and more businesses tapping into the power of IBM Watson Analytics cognitive computing solution, Big Blue announced an enterprise version
RSPB Conservation Efforts Take Flight Thanks To Data Analytics
Wildlife charity using SAS analytics to track threats and develop conservation programmes across the UK
Google Reveals Cloud Bigtable Database
Google opens up its NoSQL database to large enterprises dealing with massive data workloads
EU Reveals Ambitious Plan For Digital Single Market
Europe unveils its plan to tackle American domination of the digital world, but will it work?
IBM Launches Power Systems For SAP HANA
IBM and SAP teamed up to announce a new set of Power Systems solutions for SAP's HANA big data platform
IBM’s Watson Takes On Cancer Screening Challenge
AI system teams up with the Epic and the Mayo Clinic to guide screening at 14 clinics
Major Pivotal Big Data Suite Upgrades Designed To Improve Analytical Performance
Pivotal Big Data Suite accelerates digital transformation with upgraded Apache Hadoop distribution and next generation analytical performance
EMC Sees Next-gen Content Platform And Apps Marketplace On The Horizon
EMC introduces Project Horizon, multi-tenant platform to redefine content management for the digital enterprise
EMC Switches Flash Storage To Beast Mode With XtremIO Upgrade
New capabilities for all-flash array storage ramps up 'breakthrough' scalability, performance, automation and workload consolidation
Build 2015: Microsoft Launches Azure Data Lake
Big Data repository for analytics on Microsoft Azure has been announced at Build 2015
IT Life: Fly Like An Eagle
Euan Robertson, CTO of big data company Aquila Insight, tells TechWeekEurope why finding the right people is the key to success