New Head of Architecture to drive future development at RDT

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MapR free On-Demand Training now includes Apache Spark

Enables developers to get started with building big data pipelines and real-time applications using Spark.

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Pay-as-you-drive insurance underpinned by analytics

IBM  and The Weather Company have given details of how Octo Telematics, the leading insurance telematics services provider, is using real-time weather data from the two companies as a critical input to its driver behavior scoring app. Octo U is a free mobile app that uses proprietary algorithms to offer personalized pay-as-you-drive – or usage-based-insurance – quotes based on driver behavior. Octo U has currently launched in the UK, Italy and Spain.

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EIU study reveals high aspiration and complex challenges in digital transformation initiatives

Two-thirds of companies have digitised roughly half of their operations or less but most plan to be 80 percent digital or more in five years.

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Dell reinforces ‘All-Data’ strategy

End-to-end big data and analytics solution helps organizations harness all data to connect better with customers, improve operations and systems, and drive new business creation.

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Picking up the patterns in IoT data

New capabilities enable Teradata customers to “listen” in real time and see the distinctive patterns in IoT data, at immense scale.

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