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The Information Difference is an analyst firm focusing on master data management (MDM). Its Big Data Warehouse Landscape is a listing of big data warehouses and the key players.

Machine learning is no longer the sole preserve of data scientists and the ability to apply machine learning to vast amounts of data is greatly increasing its importance and wider adoption, according to a big data specialist.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has given the thumbs up to new regulations mandating data breach notification, with strong endorsement of the guiding purpose of the government’s Privacy Amendment Bill which will allow individuals to take steps to protect themselves from a likely risk of serious harm resulting from a data breach.

Big data solutions provider Invigor Group is claiming the first Australian launch of a price-tracking solution for business that allows retailers and brands to monitor market pricing across their industry.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming the new user interface, underpinning the way people transact and interact with systems, according to a new global study which found that 79% of survey respondents agree that AI will “revolutionise” the way they gain information from and interact with customers.

Demand for IT professionals with security credentials and experience will dominate the tech industry jobs market over the next five years, but new research also reveals it will be increasingly difficult to recruit these professionals in a “candidate-short” market.

A new study from Juniper Research estimates that consumer migration from operator voice and text services to OTT (Over the Top) messaging services and social media will cost network operators nearly $104 billion in 2017.

MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has announced the release of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0, a columnar storage engine.

The number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world will triple over the next five years, reaching over 46 billion in 2021.

The Queensland Brain Institute has migrated its systems to Brocade’s Gen 6 fibre channel storage network in a move designed to accelerate its work on brain research.

Global data management and analytics provider Cloudera, in partnership with Australian analytics company Contexti and Amazon Web Services, has deployed an advanced big data solution for West Australian-based national media group, Seven West Media.

The uptake and spending on public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is increasing among Australia’s businesses and organisations, with market predictions that the Australian IaaS market is on track to grow by more than 60%, reaching $621 million this year and forecast to hit $1.049 billion by 2020.

The Australian government may well have to reconsider its plan to release data about its citizens for use by businesses or scientists, with a top expert in security and privacy engineering telling iTWire that de-identification of datasets so that they cannot be traced back to the original is very hard, to the point of being practically impossible.

We are creating so much data from so many sources it is hard to get your [human] head around it.

Non-IT business leaders are still yet to fully understand the benefits of Big Data and the wider impact on their organisation, despite new research showing that it has become fully embedded in Australian business life so that it is no longer considered “hype”.

Fresh meal delivery service HelloFresh is using MapR for analytics.

Geospatial technology is increasingly important to the public and private sectors, according to Pitney Bowes.

Splunk's 7th annual worldwide conference has kicked off with announcements by chief executive Doug Merritt and loud applause by the Splunk faithful.

Qlik’s James Fisher has a simple but important message for businesses and all organisations when it comes to the use of Business Intelligence – BI is optimised when you harness the collective human intelligence across an organisation, and the more that people use analytics the more value they get.

Customer experience software solutions company Amdocs spoke to us about its business in 2016, its telco customers in Australia and more.