Category: Challenges

February 1, 2018

Web and mobile applications are a key differentiator between healthcare providers in a highly competitive industry — customers want to be able to access their healthcare records, prescriptions, and associated data in the way that is most convenient to them. […]

January 5, 2018

Big data adoption reached 53% in 2017 for all companies interviewed, up from 17% in 2015, with telecom and financial services leading early adopters. Reporting, dashboards, advanced visualization end-user “self-service” and data warehousing are the top five technologies and initiatives […]

December 20, 2017

If you thought 2016 was bad — a year of historical hacks and game-changing cyberattacks — 2017 was even worse. Sure, 2016 may have killed every famous person we ever cared about, but this year brought shame on our favorite […]

December 14, 2017

Two pieces of research have hit CloudTech HQ, both examining how the security of data is perceived – and which data is more private than others. Information security provider Trustwave, in its ‘Value of Data Report’ published today, aimed to […]

December 4, 2017

(Bloomberg) –When Timnit Gebru was a student at Stanford University’s prestigious Artificial Intelligence Lab, she ran a project that used Google Street View images of cars to determine the demographic makeup of towns and cities across the U.S. While the […]

November 27, 2017

The on-demand economy has raised user expectations and put more pressure on businesses to deliver. That pressure is passed on to IT professionals. They must become even more diligent about the overall health of their data centers, proactively identifying, solving, […]

November 8, 2017

Memcache, an App Engine service, went down for two hours, causing downtime and latency for two other services One of Google’s cloud services went down for nearly two hours Monday across all regions, causing another service to also go down […]