Kai Waehner explains why you need Kafka
The Apache Kafka summit was held in London last week. Kafka was originally designed to solve the problem of high volume and throughput at LinkedIn. This means that it is capable...
Confluent Cloud get cloud native boost
At the Kafka Conference in London, Confluent announced several updates to its Confluent Cloud platform. These are all aimed at making the product cloud-native and adding new fully managed services. The...
Topolytics wins $100,000 for WasteMap data platform
Topolytics has won first prize in the Google Cloud and SAP Circular Economy 2030 Contest for its WasteMap data analytics platform. The company beat 250 companies from 50 countries to win...
QiO licenses BT’s SATURN cyber analytics
QiO Technologies has licensed BT's SATURN AI solution and will integrate it into its Foresight Platform. SATURN was designed to handle very large volumes of data and deliver a real-time visual...
SAS to invest $1 billion in AI
Analytics vendor SAS is to invest US$1 billion in Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the next three years. The money will be spread across three key areas: Research and Development (R&D), education...
Qlik boosts Data Literacy Project course library
The Data Literacy Project has just expanded its course library after data analytics vendor Qlik made 18 of its courses available. The project was launched in 2018 by Qlik and lists...
MOBI announces 3 Phase I grand challenge winners
The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative – MOBI – has announced the top three winners of phase I of the three-year MOBI Grand Challenge (MGC). Submissions were judged on the following categories:...
TigerGraph chosen as new graphDB by OpenCorporates
TigerGraph has announced that OpenCorporates has migrated its back end database to TigerGraph. OpenCorporates is the world largest open database of companies with more than 170 million entries, all freely available...
Tableau launches the next gen analytics
Today Tableau has announced the release of the latest version of its analytics software Tableau 2019.1. This includes several new features but also, a new user interface platform called Ask Data....
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KeyedIn raises funding
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Deepdive and Paytomat to combine
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CDC and WHO’s Coronavirus data, visualised from a blockchain
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Infosys acquires Simplus
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Research shows how IT leaders are approaching digital transformation
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Hedera Hashgraph to leverage Armanino’s TrustExplorer
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Equifax breach was carried out by Chinese military
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Alcon sees audit better with Workiva
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