Converging IoT, Cloud, and Big Data Technologies to Revolutionize the World

9 years ago0392 Lillian Pierson, founder of Data Mania, presents her view on the convergence of IoT, cloud, and big data technologies, with an example from the healthcare industry. Have you heard of medical radio-telemetry? Up until very recently, it’s been the closest thing that the medical field has had to remote, cloud-based intel on the human...

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Your Smartwatch Is Giving Away Your ATM Pin

9 years ago0415 Wearable devices can give away your passwords, according to new research. In the paper "Friend or Foe?: Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN" scientists from the Stevens Institute of Technology and Binghamton University combined data from embedded sensors in wearable technologies, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers,...

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Microsoft Preps All-In-One CRM, ERP Dynamics 365 Bundle

9 years ago0486 Enterprise applications delivered to corporate clients via the cloud may be extremely powerful, thanks to the near-infinite compute resources such programs can deploy. But much of the time they are not necessarily the easiest programs for staff members to use. Two new platforms from Microsoft aim to change that by making a company's...

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CRM Cloud App Market Consolidates With Oracle-NetSuite Acquisition

9 years ago0325 CRM users and industry insiders look at promises and history to predict how Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite's cloud applications might play out. News of Oracle's $9.3 billion acquisition of cloud application provider NetSuite sent a pulse through the industry.... Click here to view the original post. SOURCE: Tech Target Jesse...

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SAP's ERP App for Small Biz Gets an Overhaul

9 years ago0283 New predictive analytics capabilities promise better forecasting for digital transformation The digital transformation imperative is becoming increasingly urgent for companies large and small, and SAP wants to help. On Wednesday, the ERP giant set its sights squarely on SMBs with an updated app that's been enriched with analytics and...

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Cisco Reinforces Cloud Security Technology With $293M Cloudlock Buy

9 years ago0361 Cisco acquisition continues to bolster security services Cisco today said it would make its fifth acquisition of the year by acquiring cyber security provider CloudLock for $293 million. The move should bolster Cisco’s overarching cloud security offerings and the CloudLock team will join Cisco’s Networking and Security Business...

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Daniel Thwaites Appoints Director of People & Development

9 years ago0270 Daniel Thwaites has hired a Director of People & Development. Joanne Carlin joins from Pirelli, where she was HR Director – UK for nine months. Carlin has held multiple senior HR positions; Head of HR at Nutricia (part of Danone Group) (January 2012 to September 2015); Head of HR, and then HR Director, at John West Foods (April...

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Oracle Will Give Cloud Users First Dibs On Its Next Big Database Update

9 years ago0309 Customers are now faced with an 'Orexit vote,' one analyst says Oracle's namesake database may have been born on-premises, but the next big update to the software will make its debut in the cloud. Oracle Database 12c Release 2, also known as Oracle Database 12.2, is slated for release in the second half of this year. It will first...

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Inside Google's New London Headquarters

9 years ago0350 The first pictures of Google’s new office in King’s Cross, London, have emerged – the Evening Standard reports. The office features £17,000 sofas, sleep pods for napping in the workplace and a running track. It was designed by Stirling Prize-winning architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, with black steel and oak staircases...

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Lawmakers Ask GAO to Probe Central States Fund Finances

9 years ago0323 Fifty-one Democratic lawmakers have asked the GAO to investigate the financially troubled Central States pension fund's investment decisions. Ten Democrats in the Senate and 41 in the House requested on June 20 that the Government Accountability Office review the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund's investment...

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Samsung Enters the Cloud Market

9 years ago0347 Mega M&A week continues as mobile kingpin scoops up Joyent For years those who track the cloud computing market have predicted consolidation. The market is young enough, promising enough, and the barriers to entry for companies that want a slice of this market are high enough that mergers and acquisitions are to be...

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Quick Take: Symantec Buys Blue Coat

9 years ago0305 Great management team and plenty of opportunity, but this deal comes with question marks When former Symantec CEO Mike Brown left the company in April, I wrote a blog post about what I would do if I were recruited as Mike’s replacement. While one of my suggestions was for Symantec to resume M&A activities, I was really thinking...

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