IBM says IoT investments are about to pay off

The company is spending $200 million for a new IoT headquarters in Munich.  

By Justine Brown • Oct. 4, 2016

Big Data, business analytics revenues to hit $203B in 2020, IDC says

Big Data and analytics will continues to see huge growth as companies look to find competitive advantages in a sea of information.  

By Justine Brown • Oct. 4, 2016

Microsoft CEO: We are pursuing AI for 'the greater good'

At the company's Ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, "we are not pursuing AI to beat humans at games’  

By Justine Brown • Sept. 28, 2016

Cognizant: AI biggest driver of business change for the next 3 years

CIOs that are not already planning for AI should get started now, a new study suggests. 

By Justine Brown • Sept. 26, 2016

Salesforce unveils AI capabilities across CRM product line

The company confirmed its new Artificial Intelligence offering Einstein will officially go live next month at Dreamforce.

By Justine Brown • Sept. 19, 2016

Ensuring compliance in a data driven world

In a conversation with CIO Dive, Hmong Vang, chief trust officer of Liaison Technologies, discusses how today's CIOs can keep up with evolving platforms and requirements without compromising sensitive information.

By Justine Brown • Sept. 19, 2016

Report: Companies encountering a data engineering talent vacuum

The number of data engineers grew 122% between 2013 and 2015, but the number of job openings on the market far outpace the number of available engineers.

By Justine Brown • Sept. 12, 2016

Apple reportedly launching new machine learning division

It’s now clear how the company plans to use Turi, the machine learning company Apple bought last month.

By Justine Brown • Sept. 1, 2016

How human biases can slip into machine learning

An expert warns that care is needed to make sure algorithms don't reflect stereotypes.  

By Justine Brown • Aug. 17, 2016

HPE bolsters data analytics efforts with $275M SGI purchase

The purchase will also work to strengthen HPE's high-performance computing and data management solutions.  

By Justine Brown • Aug. 12, 2016

Intel acquires Nervana Systems to help expand AI capabilities

The company said Nervana Systems' expertise in accelerating deep learning algorithms will be a game changer for growing its Artificial Intelligence capabilities.

By Justine Brown • Aug. 10, 2016

Why Workday's Platfora purchase means deeper data analysis

Platfora's addition of advanced operational analytics capabilities will "act as a bridge from HR to financials" for Workday products. 

By Justine Brown • Aug. 1, 2016

Talend goes public as tech IPOs slowly come back to life

The Big Data integration software company filed to raise $94.5 million in an initial public offering Friday.

By Justine Brown • July 29, 2016

Open source among the CIA's IT modernization priorities, director says

Open source and analytics has already provided the agency a "major intelligence advantage," said CIA Director John Brennan.

By Justine Brown • July 26, 2016

Teradata buys Big Data company to boost its open source analytics offering

Teradata said the Big Data Partnership purchase will also help it grow its consulting services, bringing Big Data analytics expertise to customers in Europe and Asia.

By Justine Brown • July 25, 2016

Report: More than half of enterprises plan to use AI by 2018

Desire to implement artificial intelligence technology is there, but more data scientists are needed.

By Justine Brown • July 21, 2016

AT&T building AI platform for better predictive capabilities

The company wants to use artificial intelligence to better predict events like system failures.

By Justine Brown • July 19, 2016

IBM revenues rise with help from cloud, Watson

Big Blue’s traditional hardware businesses continued to struggle, but its cloud and analytics capabilities are starting to pay off.

By Justine Brown • July 19, 2016

Data's dark side: What can't be seen can't be controlled

"Dark data are like closets full of clothes and shoes that will never be worn again. It’s easier to just keep them all," said Bill Ho, CEO of Biscom.

By Justine Brown • July 13, 2016

Microsoft, GE partner to bring industrial businesses to the cloud

Combining Predix and Azure will help industrial businesses leverage IoT and Big Data.

By Justine Brown • July 12, 2016

White House wants to reduce local jail overcrowding through analytics

Dozens of public sector entities promise to use the analytics initiative in their law enforcement programs.

By Justine Brown • July 8, 2016

Artificial intelligence on the cusp of major disruption, tech startup leader predicts

Technology developments could mean big changes for the enterprise.

By Justine Brown • June 27, 2016

The rise of the revenue-generating CIO

As the role of CIO continues to evolve, Big Data is increasingly an outlet that allows enterprise technology leaders to help grow the bottom line. 

By Justine Brown • June 21, 2016

Enterprises may soon get FICO-like cybersecurity scores

The scores could help businesses manage the risk associated with third parties, Fair Isaac Corp. said.   

By Justine Brown • June 16, 2016

How Microsoft could leverage LinkedIn's business

Buying LinkedIn will provide Microsoft with a gold mine of business data. But what will the company do with it? 

By Justine Brown • June 15, 2016