Displaying items by tag: Big data

There has been a spike in ransomware attacks as cybercriminals capitalise on the COVID 19 pandemic, according to a new report which found that ransomware attacks can be correlated to key days in the COVID-19 news cycle - suggesting attackers are being “nefariously opportunistic” and leverage breaking news to take advantage of vulnerable populations. 

Australian startup and big data, AI solutions provider Reejig has completed a $2.2 million first capital raising, with the funding to be used to scale its next generation Software as a Service (SaaS).

Silicon Valley has stopped talking about big data, according to Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst.

China will account for one-third of the Asia Pacific cloud computing market by 2023, according to a new report which forecasts that with the increasing presence of ‘hyper-scale’ cloud providers in big data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), cloud has emerged as a compelling proposition for the enterprises and governments alike.

Where is Splunk's technology heading, where do they get their inspiration?

The advent of new technologies is rapidly disrupting the value chain of all sectors, and companies are increasingly forming partnerships with start-ups to better serve their customers, according to one global research and analyst firm.

Big data analytics company Splunk’s agreement to acquire SaaS real-time monitoring and metrics for cloud infrastructure vendor SignalFx puts the company in a position as a leader in monitoring and observability at massive scale, according to Splunk president and CEO Doug Merritt.

Management consulting and professional services firm Accenture is set to acquire Analytics8, a privately held Australian big data and analytics consultancy that specialises in data management, reporting and visualisation, data science and analytics services.

Global analytics firm SAS sees online crime as a big data problem and says more data helps assess threats, while analytics can be applied to solve these concerns.

Revenues generated by fintech platforms will reach US$638 billion by 2024, driven by increasing consumer acceptance of fintech-powered solutions, according to a newly published research.

Data analytics specialist Qlik has completed its acquisition of data integration and big data management software solutions provider Attunity.

Professional services firm Deloitte has boosted its cyber analytics team with the founder and staff of boutique risk consulting business, Converging Data Australia, joining the firm.

Big data analytics company Splunk has announced that it would no longer sell its software and services to organisations in Russia.

Snowflake Computing Issues Six Key Predictions for 2019 – Snowflake Computing, the only data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced its top six key predictions for 2019 which focus on how organisations will need to harness data to drive the new economy. Indeed, data is enabling transparency and facilitating consensus and organisations will now need to successfully harness data for better decision making everywhere. At the same time, access to infinite data sharing and transparency creates true data which gives people the ability to make better decisions.

Indian outsourcing giant Infosys has introduced a series of big data and analytics, artificial intelligence as well as virtual reality and augmented reality-based experiences at the Australian Open tennis championships.

Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei Technologies has unveiled the Kunpeng 920, which it says is the industry's top-performing ARM-based CPU, at a function in Shenzhen on Monday.

Three big companies — KPMG Australia, Macquarie Group and Microsoft — have said they will support to an experimental project for creating new ways of thinking about artificial intelligence by the Australian National University’s Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Institute (3Ai).

Macquarie Government has inked an exclusive partnership with Mesosphere, the multi-cloud automation platform company, to make industry-leading cloud management technologies available to the Australian Government.

Research conducted by a group including scientists at RMIT’s School of Science and the University of Wollongong has developed groundbreaking new technology which could allow 100-times-faster internet by harnessing twisted light beams to carry more data and process it faster.

Open source software which was previously perceived to be a geeky and slightly awkward alternative to mainstream software, has evolved to be trendy, fashionable and innovative. As 2018 nears its end, we’re seeing open source projects play an increasingly important role in all the top strategic technology trends that are reshaping the world around us.