Data Mining
107 Stories
Businesses hunting for gold with data mining
News Companies are gathering more data and using increasingly sophisticated tools to use data mining and modeling to improve their businesses.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Data, data mining, Fiat, RSA Security Inc., insurance, Prague, Customer, Web, car
APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives
News update Some supercomputing users in the region are trialing flash memory for added boost, says a vendor, but an analyst notes SSDs won't be common "anytime soon".
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
New DNSChanger Trojan variant targets routers
News New variant of trojan changes DNS look-up settings on routers, putting any computer on the network at risk of being sent to malicious Web sites.
Tags: Security, Network security, Secure Computing Corp., name resolution, DNS, video codec, network, researcher, malicious web site, Web Surfing
IBM launches business analytics system
News Bundle of preconfigured and optimized hardware and software, is aimed at helping companies cut deployment time, according to Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Servers, IBM Corp., data mining, business analytics, business intelligence, Hardware, analytics, cost reduction
Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
Techguide Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard so much so you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Databases, Medicare, Wells Fargo & Co., data mining, entertainment, data warehouse, Teradata, Data centers
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News The Semantic Web will be able to enforce privacy policies set by Web users, according to Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Tags: Web sites, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Semantic Web, data mining, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, photograph, desktop, built-In
IBM roars into business consulting
News Its new 4,000-strong Business Analytics & Optimization Services will mine IBM's research and software divisions for innovations.
Tags: Consulting, IBM Corp., SAS Institute, data mining, Frank Kern, Data-mining Software, business analytics, Sales, software, analytics
Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service
News Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data mining & analysis, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Apache Hadoop, Dana Gardner, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., API, software, job
IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers
News The company has released new versions of its DB2 database and InfoSphere Warehouse with an eye to picking up Oracle customers.
Tags: Databases, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., IBM DB2, database management system, database management, Database, Oracle Corp., Databases
Google's PR campaign
News The search giant hopes to counter charges of monopoly abuse with a charm offensive.
Tags: Public relations, Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., FTC, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc.
Short Take: Myregtool.com signs with NEONET
News Internet-based application solution provider FOCUs5.NET Pte Ltd announced today that it had signed an agreement with Japan's NEONET Inc, giving the latter exclusivity in licensing myregtool.com to Japanese companies.
Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
News From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, App servers, IT project management, R&D, Antivirus software, Norton Co., Security, computer science, Machine, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
IBM launches business research group
News in brief IBM has opened a new center designed to combine supercomputing, advanced math, data mining and management consulting to tackle complicated business problems.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Consulting
Microsoft revamps spec for Web searches
News The company plans to announce a new version of XML for Analysis, intended to offer better support for data mining and Web services applications.
Data mining firm makes process pocket-sized
News Data mining company DigiMine introduced a service Monday to track the behavior of people who surf the Web from wireless devices, an innovation experts say could result in more targeted advertisements--or an overdose of annoying marketing pitches.
