First Look: Adaptive Planning Adaptive Discovery
Adaptive Planning was founded just over 10 years ago to deliver cloud financial planning solutions. They have about 1,600 customers…
Ensuring Cloud Vendor Security Transparency in the Age of Data Breaches
Gartner recently released recommendations for gaining transparency into cloud software as a service (SaaS) contracts – including emphasis on annual…
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How Big Data Can Help the Developing World Beat Poverty [VIDEO]
The United Nations also see the possibilities of big data and in 2009 the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the…
Metadata and the Baker/Baker Paradox
In his recent blog post What’s the Matter with ‘Meta’?, John Owens lamented the misuse of the term metadata — In his recent…
No Encryption or BAAs: Keep PHI Off Unsecure Clouds
Google Drive, formerly Docs, is a free collaboration tool that can be used to store and manage large amounts of…
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Is Your Data Secure? [INFOGRAPHIC]
A lot of consumers and organisations are using the cloud and all that data is stored in massive data centers…
Encrypting Backup Data for HIPAA and PCI Compliance
Stored data is a top target by hackers, especially the type of data that can be used for fraud and…
4 Benefits for the Public Sector when Governments Start Using Big Data
Government services, or the public sector, are known for creating large volumes of data. Big data thus provides plenty opportunities…
The NSA, Link Analysis and Fraud Detection
The recent leaks about the NSA’s use data mining and predictive analytics has certainly raised awareness of our field and…
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A Visualization of the World’s Largest Data Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC]
The people from Information is Beautiful have built a stunning visualization of the world’s biggest data breaches in the past decade,…
