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Data Governance Trends in 2020
Data Governance always has been a complicated issue for most organizations. That won’t change in a big way in 2020. In fact, the increasing prevalence of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) may show up some of the pains even more. Don’t take that to mean that companies aren’t becoming more mature in their approach to Data Governance, though.
AI, ML, the Internet of Things (IoT), and full process digitization will be a focus for organizations in 2020. Compa...
Blockchain vendors need to focus on buyers’ needs
The business value added by mature blockchain platforms will grow significantly in the next few years, from just over $176 billion by 2025 to $3.1 trillion by 2030, according to a Gartner forecast. But for now, enterprises struggle to understand what benefits they’ll see compared with their company’s existing processes.
The lack of industry agreement about product concept, feature set, and core application requirements adds to companies’ hesitancy to adopt blockchain platforms. Vendors aren’t...
How Businesses Leverage Load Balancers and Reverse Proxies for Smoother Web Experiences
Companies continue to grow their web apps and services portfolios, but as they scale, they must implement traffic management of some kind if they don’t want to experience problems with performance and function.
What Is a Virtual Private Cloud, and Why Should a Business Deploy One?
A virtual private cloud provides the benefits of public and private clouds in one solution.
More businesses are becoming interested in exploring the technology: The global VPC market is expected to grow from $20.9 billion in 2019 to $58.9 billion by 2024, reports ResearchandMarkets.
Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2020
The world of semantic technology in 2020? One way or another, it’s all about graphs. And machine learning. And AI. And what their connections to each other are.
Building Data Definition Consensus
Data definitions are about a business creating a common vocabulary in a common language. They’re about how the organization thinks about itself. It's about the reality of the business — how to do you make it so that the computers can interact with that reality?
Training Artificial Intelligence Systems
Computer vision systems are driving some incredible developments.
Convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms are most commonly applied to analyzing visual imagery. Startup LexSet is building its company on a visual AI solution for object recognition and visual search, specializing in synthetic data generation.
Why Data Visualization Is a Central Element of Effective Analytics
In business communication, clearly conveying a message to one’s audience — turning data into a story that resonates with it — is often what makes it possible to affect positive change. That’s where data visualization comes in.
The Cybersecurity Threats That Keep K–12 CIOs Up at Night
Schools are not safe from cybersecurity threats. Consider this: There have been 712 publicly disclosed cybersecurity-related incidents involving U.S. public schools since 2016, according to the K–12 Cyber Incident Map. In 2018 alone, 122 incidents affected 119 public K–12 education agencies, a rate of about one new publicly reported incident every three days of the calendar year.
Here’s How to Keep A Website Humming, No Matter How Much Traffic It Gets
Crashes are common on Cyber Monday. But they don’t have to be.
Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2020
One way or another, it’s all about graphs. And machine learning. And AI. And what their connections to each other are. Welcome to the world of semantic technology in 2020. The year ahead largely picks up the pace on what industry experts predicted would happen in 2019.
How to Modernize Your Datacom Infrastructure
Data communications infrastructure is the heart of digital business transformation. Speedier connections, mesh computing and other advancements are critical for businesses to leverage cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the
Internet of Things (IoT), next-generation data analytics and more.
For Better Self-Service Analytics, Turn to Smart Catalogs
Most businesses have yet to optimize the value of their organization’s
data. That can change with a smart catalog that makes data accessible,
easy to understand, and contextually relevant.
Blockchain vendors need to focus on buyers’ needs
The business value added by mature blockchain platforms will grow significantly in the next few years, from just over $176 billion by 2025 to $3.1 trillion by 2030, according to a Gartner forecast. But for now, enterprises struggle to understand what benefits they’ll see compared with their company’s existing processes.
The lack of industry agreement about product concept, feature set, and core application requirements adds to companies’ hesitancy to adopt blockchain platforms. Vendors aren’t...
Deep Neural Networks: Understanding the Tech Behind AI
AI adoption grows, it will change the way businesses operate, forging a new relationship between humans and machines that’s expected to increase labor productivity by up to 40 percent, Accenture says. Changing business dynamics through AI will depend largely upon the use of deep neural networks.