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Big data analytics

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  SAP UK&I User Group Conference 2015: Newcastle University puts ERP on Hana

  Newcastle University has put enterprise resource planning and data warehouse data on SAP’s Hana platform in a proof of concept project

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  DDN revamp adds SFA14K plus hyper-converged and all-flash options

  DataDirect Networks upgrades core HPC storage arrays to create SFA14K, and adds hyper-converged SFA14KE plus all-flash IME14K front end to smooth I/O bottlenecks

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Suppliers lay the groundwork for IoT in Czech Republic

  ICT suppliers are putting in place the technology infrastructure that will enable towns and cities in the Czech Republic to harness the internet of things

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Met Office's new supercomputer to deliver £2bn of socio-economic benefits

  The Met Office aims to realise a range of socio-economic benefits to UK industries thanks to improved forecasting with its new Cray supercomputer

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Larry Ellison vaunts Oracle’s cloud services over rivals

  Larry Ellison promoted his company’s cloud services and berated rivals in his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  UK retailers could use data analytics more to cash in on Black Friday

  Research by data visualisation supplier Tableau suggests British retailers could do better with analytics as Black Friday looms

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  MySQL 5.7 aims at deeper convergence with Oracle tech and NoSQL

  MySQL 5.7 has been released with next-generation hardware in mind, offering greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Low-power WANs overlooked for IoT connectivity, says Beecham

  Beecham Research says machine-to-machine comms and the internet of things (IoT) will turn to low-power wide area networks (WANs) over mobile grids

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Singapore and UK researchers investigate privacy in big data era

  Academic organisations in Singapore and the UK collaborate on the privacy questions raised by big data and the cloud

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Keeping up with Cassandra, the NoSQL database

  What does Call of Duty, the Hive smart thermostats, Social Weather and the William Hill bookie app all have in common? They are all powered by the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Accenture spends €25m on European centre in Dublin

  Accenture will open a European technology hub in Dublin that will recruit 200 people and focus on modern technologies

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Legal documents reveal HP's failings over Autonomy

  The board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) knew about Autonomy’s failings – yet voted the $11.1bn acquisition through regardless, internal memos have revealed

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Almost 30% of retailers use facial recognition technology to track consumers in store

  Retailers are using more technology in store to track customer behaviour, with the younger generation finding it useful for their shopping experience

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Tennis governing body ATP outsources digital development

  The men's world tennis governing body, the ATP, signs Infosys to help it use digital technology to better engage fans and players

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  William Hill kicks off football season with blast from the past

  A mathematical programming concept that dates back a decade before the world’s first electronic computer is proving itself in the era of web-scale computing

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  Alan Turing Institute gets down to work

  The Alan Turing Institute, named after the Second World War Bletchley Park cryptanalyst, is getting down to work with the announcement of its first new director and a raft of partnerships

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Comparethemarket uses Cloudera to gain single view of customer data

  Price comparison site Comparethemarket has turned to Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to get a better view of customer data from different channels. Doug Cutting, the father of Hadoop, explains

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Manchester City group joins forces with SAP to further global goals

  The City Football Group, which includes Manchester City, has teamed up with SAP to further its global development goals

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  The internet of things could save the honeybee from extinction

  Gemalto’s M2M unit is developing an ambitious project with agricultural science firm Eltopia and the University of Minnesota. The objective: to save the honeybee from extinction

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Genomics England rejects open source to deploy EMC Isilon HPC storage

  100,000 Genomes Project rejects building open-source parallel file system on x86 servers and opts for EMC Isilon clustered NAS deployed by Capita S3

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Waitrose uses ServiceNow for business continuity planning

  Luxury retail brand Waitrose deploys ServiceNow to cope with business continuity across its supply chain

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics

  Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Google eyes Tesco’s customer analytics arm Dunnhumby

  Google is reported to have joined the scramble to buy Dunnhumby, the customer analytics unit behind Tesco’s Clubcard

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth talks about space, drones and smartphones

  Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, strives towards the vision of a converged handheld device

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  Executive interview: Google's big data journey

  A programming concept developed in 1958 inspired the seminal Google whitepaper that introduced the world to MapReduce

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  PSNGB rebrands to drive information sharing across PSN

  PSNGB, the trade association set up to promote the Public Services Network, rebrands itself as Innopsis and says its work is far from over

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

  Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, vice-president of information systems at Reckitt Benckiser

  Seven months after taking charge of IT at Reckitt Benckiser, Darrell Stein is pushing ahead with a strategy to increase digital revenues

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: McDermott declares SAP natively digital

  SAP CEO Bill McDermott declares the company “digital” at Sapphire 2015 and made “empathy” the watchword of his keynote

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Why self-service and automation will power mass adoption of BI

  Tibco’s analytics head, Brian Gentile, believes business intelligence needs to adapt for mass-market adoption

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  CIO interview: Fernando Birman, head of the digital office, Solvay

  After years of IT work to support major M&A activity, global chemicals company Solvay is focusing on innovation to drive internal efficiency

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Juniper Networks goes after finance market with switch-integrated compute

  Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  NHS announces £78m technology fund for health and social care providers

  The NHS will give £78m integrated digital care funding to health and social care providers in 2015 to help them invest in technology

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Case study: How National Grid uses analytics to keeps the lights on

  National Grid has started a project to supplement its existing asset maintenance system with predictive analytics

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects

  As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  National Grid uses IBM to add predictive maintenance capabilities

  National Grid is using cloud-based analytics powered by IBM SoftLayer to provide preventative maintenance

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Self-service BI, data integration top information management issues

  Self-service business intelligence and data integration top information management challenges for IT and finance professionals

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Former Capital One data analysts charged with mining customer data

  US financial services regulator SEC charges two former employees of financial services firm Capital One with insider trading

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis

  The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: Hedge fund AHL Man Group uses MongoDB to feed quants with data

  Hedge fund AHL Man Group replaces disparate relational databases with a single data platform built on NoSQL database MongoDB

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  SAP’s Cohen on 2014 results: Europe strong north and south

  SAP’s Emea president Franck Cohen optimistic about the supplier’s growth prospects in southern and northern Europe

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Case study: UniCredit uses Fico to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management

  Italian bank UniCredit is using Fico software to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Cabinet Office begins procurement for next stage of Gov.uk Verify

  The Cabinet Office has submitted a tender notice for a £150m three-year framework for the provision of identity assurance services

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  Lloyd’s Register Foundation grants £10m to Alan Turing Institute

  The Lloyd’s Register Foundation has announced £10m in funding over five years to support research by the Alan Turing Institute

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Care.data faces more delays over concerns about patients

  The NHS’s Care.data scheme may face more delays due to concerns over lack of publicity and clarity of the proposed programme

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  M&S turns to predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked over Christmas

  Marks & Spencer is using predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked with mince pies and turkeys over Christmas.