Businesses need to effectively manage and plan their day-to-day activities, business strategies and future planning. To efficiently collect and manage all such…

Companies are ramping up their adopting of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service applications. Public cloud spending is expected to reach over $206 billion in 2019.…

Introduction

Deep Neural Networks are highly expressive machine learning networks that have been around for many decades. In 2012, with gains in computing power and improved tooling, a family of these machine learning models called ConvNets started achieving state of the art…

Players in ecommerce, entertainment, finance, Internet and social media space drive and influence risk indicators for not just for themselves but for users of Internet and increasingly to larger society as side effects spread to social, political and economic scenarios. Any risks from above domains are dominant and may easily be extrapolated in domains too.

There are five risks that may influence society negatively and turn in to resistance force for adoption of digital…

Traffic policewoman in Pyongyang

World-famous Pyongyang policewomen, who are reportedly picked by North Korea’s Supreme Leader himself, have garnered a cult following and even have a website devoted to them, quite a rarity in the North Asia country. The job is seemingly held in high esteem, with only the best being hired.

Traffic in…

Sales Forecasting: Science or Instinct?

Recently, we had talked about marketing automation, a digital transformation in the field that involved both artificial intelligence and machine learning. Even Natural Language Processing (NLP) has come a long way, enough to change the content marketing game. But while marketing has shifted to a digital…

Technology is known to shift landscapes, even change the game. We saw that when the internet exploded in scale and popularity, as computers became smarter, and the world goes through the digital transformation. An easy example is in traditional marketing, which now borders on the irrelevant, unable to hold a candle to its more modern counterparts.

Email, search…

• Is data governance critical for you?
• Would you want to build a flexible data governance strategy, iteratively realizing the benefits as it evolves?
• Would you have big data oriented programs, generating a vast amount of data?
• Would you want a governance strategy around individual programs or rolled up into some logical grouping?
• Would you want to improve over your existing governance strategy?
• Would you have…

Global Cyber Security Market – Overview

Cyber Security market is expected to grow with the CAGR of ~8% - 11% during 2016 to 2021, owed to which it is predictable to cross USD $150 billion by 2021, assures the Market Research Future in one of its recently published study report - “Global Cyber Security Market Research Report Forecast 2017- 2021”

With growing industries and preference for centralization amongst the organizations; the computer based systems have become an…

Cybersecurity began with the antivirus. It was the antivirus software that we relied on to secure systems and networks, plus of course endpoint devices too. But today, with technology evolving in an unprecedented manner, traditional antivirus has given way to all kinds of advanced security software.

Endpoint protection is today almost impossible with traditional endpoint antivirus. We have new attack techniques like polymorphic malware, wrappers and packers, which would go…

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Abstract

Polymorphic malware detection is challenging due to the continual mutations miscreants introduce to successive instances of a particular virus. Such changes are akin to mutations in biological sequences. Recently, high-throughput methods for gene sequence…

Last week we discussed the importance of data scientists prioritizing client confidentiality and the concern of exposing high-value information to…

BASICS: DEFINING BIG DATA AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES.

According to Gartner.com , Big Data is high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making.

Are there examples of Big Data in action at major global IT giants?

It is…

For a very long time, businesses had their documents filed in folders and stored in huge metal cabinets. But thanks to advances in technology, they were eventually coded and stored digitally. As we advance through the Age of Information, the traditional digital storage devices like the floppy, compact, and flash discs evolved into cloud storage. Eric Griffith, a…

As an individual user, we are no longer living the world of one computer, rather we are living with living and distributed smart devices. Let us first explore a Single-User/Single-Server Architecture that we used in those times, which we survived, without of much hassle either, we still use this architecture most of the time.

A Single user still use to approach a network via a web application with a local front cache, which then allows user to access requested material as per the…

Let us start with some jargons and distill these into some meaningful things to be understood by us the only intelligent autonomous system in other words humans.

SaaS – Applications focused on end-users, used internet as a medium, e-mail, salesforce etc.

PaaS – Set of tools focused on developers, such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Eclipse, REST, SOAP, Oracle.

IaaS – Complete software and hardware solutions, VMware, Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Google Compute…

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." – Benjamin Franklin