Month: February 2015
Apple investing in EU Investment $2B Apple will invest $2B in developing two new 100% renewable energy data centers in Athenry, Ireland, and Viborg, Denmark; they will be 166,000 square […]
Study Suggests That You Will Obey Your Future Robot Boss
By Evan Ackerman original article If you’re lucky, you may not lose your job to a robot in the future. That doesn’t, however, mean that your boss won’t lose his […]
Cloud providers rush to build European datacentres over data sovereignty
original article Archana Venkatraman Large cloud providers such as IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and VMware are building datacentres in Europe as enterprises based in the European Union (EU) migrating workloads […]
Big data in Construction
original article by Singlepointsolutions An example of how big data can help businesses can been seen in the world of retail. Retail businesses are now able to take data from […]
IBM looks to Bitcoin blockchains for internet of things platform
original article IBM has outlined a decentralised and distributed internet of things (IoT) platform incorporating the blockchains database technology that underpins online currency Bitcoin. The concept is set out in […]
Big Data Can Guess Who You Are Based on Your Zip Code
In the era of Big Data, your zip code is a window into what you can afford to buy, but it also reveals how you spend time—and, in essence, who […]
The Big Data Phenomenon
original article Goldmasachs Ninety percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years… The ultimate question is really what insight and value can we draw from […]
In 2015, big data will drive the Internet of things
Orginal article Infoworld Big data has proven to have many uses, but one will surface in 2015: the support of the connected objects that constitute the Internet of things With […]
EU Data Protection Regulation: fines up to €100m proposed
original article, Computerweekly, William Long Following several delays, the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties recently voted to adopt amendments to the EU’s proposed Data Protection Regulation. The proposed regulation, […]
Employee monitoring under the radar, says security expert
Warwick Ashford Wednesday http://www.computerweekly.com Edward Snowden has stirred debate about US and UK spy agency internet surveillance, but corporate employee monitoring barely gets a mention, says David Melnick chief executive […]