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Database management

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  How Splunk is ‘splunking’ data for APAC enterprises

  Splunk’s regional vice-president talks up the company’s business strategy and how its customers are using big data analytics in security and IT operations

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  British Muslim challenges use of intelligence databases for repeated police stops

  Muzaffar Abdullah is challenging police use of intelligence databases to repeatedly stop and question Muslims, after being arrested for refusing to answer questions under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. His lawyers say he had been stopped at ...

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Data locked in legacy systems curbs digitisation plans

  Maintaining access to data stuck in legacy systems is costly and limits IT’s ability to work on digital transformation initiatives

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  SAP outlines approach to data management

  Through its Hana Data Management Suite, SAP hopes to alleviate the challenges of managing data amid growing data security needs in an increasingly hybrid IT landscape

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Case study: Mercedes F1 team makes gains with Pure Storage all-flash

  Two years ago, the Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team deployed Pure Storage all-flash arrays in its datacentre and in mobile racks out on the circuit. It’s a bet that has paid off for the racing team

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  DCMS sets out plans for National Data Strategy

  A new centre for data ethics and innovations will drive UK government policy making regarding data sharing and use of public data

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  GlaxoSmithKline R&D creates data platform using Hadoop for the internal sharing of scientific data

  GlaxoSmithKline is making better use of the data it has about the development and trials of medicines through a Hadoop-based platform

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Singapore organisations not paying heed to data veracity

  Most Singapore respondents in a global Accenture survey said they have not invested in capabilities to verify data used in decision-making

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Oracle’s autonomous database could leave DBAs unemployed

  The long-term future of database administrators could be at risk if every enterprise adopts the Oracle 18c autonomous database

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Data analytics is about culture, not technology

  Enterprises need to figure out the business problems they are trying to solve and foster a data-driven culture to benefit from data analytics

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Estonia’s digital residency programme faces first headwind

  The Baltic country’s programme to offer anyone, anywhere a chance to run a company online is facing its first crisis

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  SAP bids to modernise indirect licensing with new pricing model

  SAP has announced a new pricing model for indirect licensing scenarios that has been welcomed by user groups, who are still pressing for reassurance that they won’t pay more

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Oracle Q3 2017-18 results see cloud revenue grow to $1.6bn

  Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2018 show an increase of almost 7% of overall revenue to $9.8bn, of which 18% was cloud

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  Capgemini arm bags European Commission data infrastructure project

  The European Commission has extended the contract of prime contractor Capgemini on its open data project

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Wi-Fi provider uses big data analytics to drive customer experience

  The self-styled “Uber of Wi-Fi”, iPass is using Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform and machine learning to monitor its worldwide network and help its customers get the best experience