8 years ago052Much of what it takes to be successful as an investment professional – careful research into individual securities and economic trends, and the good judgment to decide what can deliver the best investment returns – has not changed in my more than three decades in the asset management business. But, of course, so many other aspects of...
8 years ago054Perhaps the biggest surprise to come from Microsoft's Build developer conference last week was the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
The system will ship as part of this summer's Anniversary Update for Windows 10. WSL has two parts; there's the core subsystem, which is already included in Insider Preview builds of the operating...
8 years ago042Toyota announced an enhanced relationship with Microsoft on Monday aimed at delivering "connected car" services to drivers in ways they probably never could have imagined.
For instance, artificial-intelligence features could be added to cars that allow them to know where the car is going and offer services drivers might want along the...
8 years ago047Big business has been investing big in Big Data initiatives. But, to what end? A recently released Big Data executive survey, published by my firm, reports that nearly two-thirds of participating executives indicate that a Big Data initiative is in production at their firms. Yet, many of these investments have yet to produce tangible...
8 years ago063The Open Data Platform Initiative (ODPi), a nonprofit consortium of big data industry leaders focused on the simplification and standardization of the big data ecosystem, announced today the release of its ODPi runtime specification and test suite to ensure applications will work across multiple Apache Hadoop distributions.
Descending...
8 years ago063Financial regulation, at least in the United States, is famously resistant to technological change.
Bernie Madoff’s infamous sixteen-year fraud lasted as long as it did because multiple offices at the Securities and Exchange Commission were unaware of one another’s parallel inquiries into Madoff firms.
The Madoff failure was a...
8 years ago052With Oracle Cloud at Customer, companies get a fully managed service within the data center
Public clouds may promise a world of potential benefits, but for companies grappling with data sovereignty and other issues, the risks can loom large. Hoping to ease such concerns, Oracle launched a product on Thursday that effectively puts its...
8 years ago044With record-breaking speeds for fiber-optic data transmission, University of Illinois engineers have paved a fast lane on the information superhighway—creating on-ramps for big data in the process.
Graduate researcher Michael Liu will present the research team's developments in oxide-VCSEL technology, which underpins fiber-optic...
8 years ago055Google has hooked up with Uncle Sam to fix one of America’s biggest and costliest urban ills: traffic.
On Thursday, Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Google’s urban-innovation subsidiary Sidewalk Labs, joined U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx to announce a partnership between Google and the federal government on a big-data traffic...
8 years ago060For enterprise customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that have wanted to migrate their databases over to the AWS cloud, the wait is finally over. The service, which was first announced in preview in October at the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, has been made generally available to all AWS customers.
The AWS Database Migration...
8 years ago059SaaS and PaaS sales climbed sharply, but revenue and profits were down
Oracle reported its fourth consecutive quarter of declining revenue on Tuesday, as rapid growth in its cloud business failed to offset the tepid demand for more traditional products.
Oracle said sales of its cloud services jumped 40 percent in the quarter ended...
8 years ago050After the hell that many hotshot software stocks have put investors through this young year, Wall Street analysts got a break.
"Listening to Oracle (ORCL) conference calls is always a hoot," said Canaccord Genuity analyst Richard Davis in a research note Wednesday, following Oracle's late-Tuesday Q3 earnings that beat analyst...