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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

TechCrunch

Big data is a sham. There is just one problem with big data though: it’s honking huge. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. What should a company do?

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Monad emerges from stealth with $17M to solve the cybersecurity big data problem

TechCrunch

Once an organization has extracted data from their security tools, Monad’s Security Data Platform enables them to centralize that data within a data warehouse of choice, and normalize and enrich the data so that security teams have the insights they need to secure their systems and data effectively.

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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

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million) on the back of strong demand for its tech from companies working in transportation and energy infrastructure. As with the larger opportunity in enterprise IT, big data players like LiveEO are essentially the second wave of that development: applications built leveraging that infrastructure.

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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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As extreme weather events worsen, 7Analytics meshes AI and big data to predict flooding

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One of these companies is 7Analytics , a Norwegian startup founded back in 2020 by a team of data scientists and geologists to reduce the risks of flooding for construction and energy infrastructure companies. “We close this gap with a high-precision risk tool.” “We close this gap with a high-precision risk tool.”

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RapidSOS raises $85M for a big data platform aimed at emergency responders

TechCrunch

For example, RapidSOS stepped in to provide data when the Nashville bombing took out a portion of 911 infrastructure on Christmas Day, affecting 300 agencies. These included not just responses to sudden downturns for COVID-19-stricken people, but also natural disasters and helping in related situations when other problems arose.

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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

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Data sovereignty and the development of local cloud infrastructure will remain top priorities in the region, driven by national strategies aimed at ensuring data security and compliance. The Internet of Things will also play a transformative role in shaping the regions smart city and infrastructure projects.

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