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Full Article | | | Cross-Fire Panel Discussion at Data Summit 2016 Debates the Implications of IoT | What's ahead for the Internet of Things as far as data privacy, standards for interoperability, and meaningful use cases? John O'Brien, principal advisor of Radiant Advisors; Joe Caserta, president and CEO of Caserta Concepts; and George Corugedo, CTO of RedPoint Global, addressed those questions in a cross-fire panel discussion at Data Summit 2016.
Full Article | | | 10 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Cloud Services | Public cloud services vendors have had a number of notable outages that have taken down well-respected web-based companies, temporarily putting them out of business. In a session, presented at Data Summit 2016, Michael J Corey, president, Ntirety - A HOSTING Company, and Don Sullivan, system engineer database specialist, VMware, suggested that, despite the fact that public cloud is no longer a cutting-edge, disruptive technology, in many ways, it is still the Wild West. They outlined what to watch out for in their session.
Full Article | | | Doubling Developer Productivity With Virtual Data | Creating, distributing, and managing test data has become a bottleneck in the increasingly fast world of agile and DevOps. One way to manage test data management is with virtual data, according to Kyle Hailey, technical evangelist at Delphix, who presented a session at Data Summit titled, "Double Developer Productivity With Virtual Data."
Full Article | | | IDERA Adds Free Tool Called SQL BI Check to Product Portfolio | Bringing another tool to its product portfolio, IDERA has released SQL BI Check, which provides a no-cost option for real-time performance monitoring of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). According to the vendor, SQL BI Check is particularly effective for data professionals tasked with overseeing SSAS processes in addition to SQL Server deployments when they have no tools or little budget to manage the SQL BI services layer. It allows users to see the 16 most important SSAS metrics, providing a picture of their analysis services.
Full Article | | | BI Platform Provider AtScale Raises Series B Funding Round | AtScale, Inc., which provides a self-service BI platform for Hadoop, has raised a Series B round of $11 million, bringing its total funding to date to $20 million. According to Bruno Aziza, chief marketing officer of AtScale, its platform is different from others in three key ways, making it applicable to use cases in an array of industries including healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and financial services.
Full Article | | | | | | | | IBM Opens Quantum Computing to the Public | IBM Research has announced that, for the first time ever, it is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBM’s quantum processor via the cloud.
IBM scientists have built a quantum processor that users can access through a first-of-a-kind quantum computing platform delivered via the IBM Cloud onto any desktop or mobile device. IBM believes quantum computing is the future of computing and has the potential to solve certain problems that are impossible to solve on today’s supercomputers.
The cloud-enabled quantum computing platform, called IBM Quantum Experience, will allow users to run algorithms and experiments on IBM’s quantum processor, work with the individual quantum bits (qubits), and explore tutorials and simulations around what might be possible with quantum computing.
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