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Direct connectivity to IBM Cloud now available with Ascenty’s Cloud Connect

Digital Realty, a global provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a provider of data centre services in Latin America, announced that

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Guardhat advances worker safety through collaboration with IBM Watson Internet of Things

Detroit-based Guardhat, an industrial safety technology company specialised in developing wearables, infrastructure and software platforms to provide a safer and more productive work environment, announced a collaboration with IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT).

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Hyundai Card Commercial tap IBM to accelerate Digital Transformation

During IBM Think, Hyundai Card Commercial, financial services subsidiaries of Hyundai and Kia Motors, announced they are working with IBM to advance their use of cloud-based AI and blockchain technology with the aim of improving the customer experience and expanding their financial services business globally.

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Medidata and Cognizant form strategic alliance to make Digital Transformation accessible for the life sciences

Medidata and Cognizant have entered into a strategic alliance to offer life science clients comprehensive solutions that leverage the market’s leading cloud platform with world-class business and technology services.

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Bright Pattern selected by IT-Communications to drive Digital Transformation with top AI solution

IT-Communications Inc., a business process outsourcing (BPO) provider with a number of locations throughout Japan, has selected Bright Pattern Contact Centre software to fuel the digital transformation of its clients’ customer relationships.

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Why big data and building analytics aren’t going anywhere: Part 1

In 2014, businesses around the globe collectively produced a whopping 8.4 zettabytes (or 8.4 trillion gigabytes) of digital content, up from 2.7 zettabytes in 2012. That’s a lot of information to parse — hence the term “big data,” which describes the trend of processing high-volume and highly variable information to

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Successful AI is all down to data management

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days, whether in reality or just as a hyped-up label for some simple rules-based decisioning, and this has led to some interesting problems, says David Smith, head of GDPR Technology, SAS UK & Ireland.

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Guavus buys SQLstream to offer telcos and IIoT real-time analytics and AI from edge to core

Guavus, a Thales company and specialist in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based analytics, has acquired SQLstream. SQLstream is a real-time streaming analytics company based in San Francisco, CA. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

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Why a data network will drive the energy industry forward in 2019

Digital transformation continues to be the keynote of the coming year for operators across the oil and gas sectors. Digitalisation is nothing new to the sector, of course, says Ron Beck, Energy Industry marketing director at AspenTech. Refineries have, for example, been pursuing it for more than thirty years, with technologies like advanced process control (APC) well-established

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Zeppelin cuts factory engine failures with predictive IoT maintenance

Splunk Inc, reports that Zeppelin GmbH, is using Splunk Enterprise to reduce the risk of factory shutdowns and predict machinery and equipment maintenance.

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HPE opens Geneva IoT Innovation Lab to capitalise on edge data

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new IoT Innovation Lab in Geneva, Switzerland. It is designed to help customers make use of the large amounts of data generated by devices, machines, assets and sensors working at the network edge. As an HPE spokesman tells, IoT Now‘s editorial director, Jeremy Cowan, the edge is anywhere outside data centres. 

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Universal Electronics and Microsoft partner on turnkey digital assistant platform for home hubs

Universal Electronics Inc.,, a global provider of universal control and sensing technologies for the smart home, is collaborating with Microsoft to launch a new digital assistant platform for the home built on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform using AI and IoT services.

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Unleashing the Internet of Things with in-memory computing

According to the “Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2015–2020,” the total amount of data created by devices, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), will reach 600 ZB per year by 2020, up from 145 ZB per year in 2015.

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Healthcare spend in wearables to reach $60bn by 2023 as monitoring devices & hearables become ‘must haves’

New findings from Juniper Research reveal that wearables, including health trackers and remote patient monitoring devices, are set to become ‘must haves’ in delivering healthcare, with US$20 billion (€17.4 billion) forecast to be spent annually on these devices by 2023.

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IoT: Preparing our future workforce

Data scientists have often been compared to the heart and soul of the running of Internet of Things (IoT) projects, says Anthony Sayers, IoT Evangelist at Software AG. As the gatekeeper to every organisations capability to make more informed decisions with their data, these individuals are considered vital for successful IoT projects.

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Can we create drone regs to enable US$15.1bn commercial UAS potential?

The growing market for commercial UAS (unmanned aerial systems) platforms and associated services will be led by demand from the agriculture, commercial security and first responder sectors: The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, “ Commercial UAS Market Outlook 2017-2027 ,” forecasts the commercial UAS market will grow to over $15.1 billion (€13.10 billion) by

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