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European Commission launches Evolve Project to tackle big data processing

Launched in December 2018, EVOLVE is a €14 million Innovation Action comprising of 19 organisations from 11 European countries.

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Most enterprises don't trust their data

Less than one third (31%) of data specialists, including data analysts, data scientists and data quality managers, are fully confident in their ability to deliver trusted data at speed throughout their organization, reveals a new global survey from Talend.

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Poor data mastery impacting ability to drive value from data

On average less than 40% of companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are confident they can master their data – that is manage, secure and gain insight from data, and use it responsibly. Capabilities in these four areas aren’t projected to increase in the next three years, according to a new study from cloud company, Oracle, called ‘Rediscovering trust in your data and security’. This is despite respondents recognising the value of achieving excellence in these areas, with the top three benefits being cited as increased customer loyalty, revenue and brand value.

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Better data equals a better bottom line

Following the success of Snowflake’s sold-out inaugural user conference, Snowflake Summit on June 3-6, the company released customer survey results to shed light on the state of data insights adoption for organisations across a variety of industries. Ninety-four percent of enterprises claim that using data-driven insights to inform business decisions improves their bottom line by enabling them to better serve customers.

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Big data adoption increases

WHISHWORKS reveals results of 2019 Big Data Survey with in-depth look at trends and challenges.

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Too many data sources to count?

Ivanti has published the results of a survey of 400 IT professionals that captures the challenges faced by IT when it comes to siloes, data and implementation.

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Telensa selects Kainos as lead digital and data partner

New smart city platform ensures city control, policy transparency and citizen trust.

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MapR accelerates separation of compute and storage

New advances make it easy to deploy native Spark and Drill applications in Kubernetes.

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AI helps find the needles in the data lake 'stack'

BlackBerry Cylance has published the findings of its global artificial intelligence (AI) security survey, commissioned with the help of the SANS Institute, which highlights that 85% of cybersecurity professionals surveyed believe that AI can improve security, now more than ever, given the vast amounts of available data captured and analyzed in the Internet of Things.

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Database 'inertia' could stifle digital transformation

Lack of flexibility and scalability top legacy database issues.

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Databricks opens EMEA HQ

Databricks has opened its new EMEA headquarters in the former House of Fraser offices on Baker Street, London.

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Gartner identifies top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2019

Augmented analytics, continuous intelligence and explainable artificial intelligence (AI) are among the top trends in data and analytics technology that have significant disruptive potential over the next three to five years, according to Gartner, Inc.

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Paf selects Sumo Logic

Paf, an international gaming company founded on the Šland Islands, has chosen Sumo Logic to help deliver the best online customer experience, and provide critical operational, security and business insights across their distributed system while migrating their application stack to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Solving global challenges starts with open data

Better incentives for researchers and fewer barriers between technological systems are key to kickstarting a revolution in open data, according to Realising Potential, a report released by the Open Research Data Task Force (ORDTF) – a group of senior professors and UK higher education and research organisations and Chaired by Professor Pam Thomas, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick.

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Survey highlights BI dissatisfaction

AI-driven analytics shows growth as organisations aim to simplify analytics processes through automation to gain faster insights.

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Videos

Erast Wortel, Syniti’s new vice president, go-to-market for EMEA North, shares some great insights and advice on data management challenges and opportunities – topics discussed include data quality, data lakes and swamps, data governance, data migration and master data management – with some great customer examples along the way.
John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, discusses the company’s recent 2023 report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Trends, warning of the dangers of email impersonation, payment interception, phishing and hybrid vishing, before going on to explain how businesses can optimise their email security through considered use of technology, training and processes.
Allison Ward, Senior Sustainable Materials Engineer at Dell Technologies, explains how the company balances the priorities of the circular economy alongside ensuring that sustainable materials innovation doesn’t come at a performance cost. She shares some brilliant insights as to the work Dell is doing around sustainability innovation, both internally and working with its supply chain, strategic partners and, importantly, customers.
In the first of a series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Bond, from our series sponsor company, Centiel, shares valuable thoughts on and insights into current data centre industry challenges and opportunities – with sustainability and skills very much the focus. He also reveals what keeps him busy away from the workplace.

Expert Opinions

By Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity.
How MSPs achieve neutrality in a multi-provider world. By Lee Thatcher, head of cloud, Cloud CoCo.
By Ash Patel, General Manager, EMEA - Zimperium.
By Ajoy Kumar, cloud architect at BMC.