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Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America

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Zenysis Technologies , a big data startup headquartered in San Francisco and Cape Town, announced today that it has closed $13.3 Jonathan Stambolis launched the company in 2016 to improve how developing countries respond to humanitarian emergencies and help them improve public health. . million seed in 2016 and a $5.8

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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. The main standard with some applicability to big data is ANSI SQL.

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The 2016 Big Data Prediction: Which of these two types of organization will you be in?

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Today, there is countless data collected and analyzed by companies. Just a few years ago, that data was useless, now data is collected and used to provide answers and solve problems. As big data use cases continue to evolve, there will be an increasing number of business missions that will be served by new approaches to data.

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Supercomputing Predictions for 2016

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Wondering where supercomputing is heading in 2016? This is something to keep an eye on throughout 2016. Data-Tiering. Cray’s DataWarp products are a few examples of attempts to combine software and hardware innovation around data-tiering. Katie Kennedy. Here are some well informed assessments brought to you by Cray.

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Big Data: Prescription for the Pharmaceutical R&D Plight

Toptal

However, a solution could be data analytics, which enhances and accelerates drug development. This article examines the current state of drug development, and how big data can improve its different components: drug discovery, clinical trial design, and adverse drug reaction detection. billion to bring a single drug to market.

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Top SQL Server 2016 Features: Analytics

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The release of SQL Server 2016 offered a host of new features for organizations. Some of the new capabilities and enhancements included Stretch Databases, Always Encrypted, a Query Data Store, Dynamic Data Masking, and more. The adoption of big data analysis capabilities is soaring in the enterprise, according to Forbes.

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Zoomdata: Designed to support Big Data

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Zoomdata is the next generation data visualization system that easily allows companies and people to understand data visually in realtime. Zoomdata develops the world’s fastest visual analytics solution for big data. They are an In-Q-Tel company and a strategic investment in Zoomdata was announced on 8 Sep 2016.