Cloud data management startup Druva raises $80M
An ongoing trend among businesses to put more of their data into the cloud — bringing ever more smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices on to their networks — is driving a lot of business to startups that are building smart ways to capture, back up and analyse these increasingly complex network architectures. Today, one of the bigger of these startups is announcing a… Read MoreHow Oberweis Dairy used analytics to boost sales and win customers
The Illinois-based firm tapped a business intelligence platform from SAS to gain new insights on consumer habits and needs.Insurance Struggles with Lead Gen & Data Analytics
Insurance agencies struggle to reach new prospects. To adapt to changing markets, they must overcome challenges with data integration, data quality, and systems fragmentation.The explosive stock that’s dividing Wall Street (BABA)
AP / Ng Han Guan Alibaba is up more than 90% in 2017, and it's been winning over some high-profile hedge fund managers The company's stock is still the most shorted in the world by a magnitude of two, and short sellers are refusing to throw in the towel despite losing billions of dollars Alibaba has soared to stratospheric new heights this year, winning over plenty of new fans along the way.7 Great Benefits of Big Data in Marketing
Big data is reshaping the business as we know it. Data science lays the foundation for decision-making processes in most of the modern companies, which is exactly why its revenue should surpass $40 billion in 2018. Marketing is by no means different in that regard. Today, marketing teams embrace the power of information and data analytics to improve the reach and influence of their campaigns.NVMe fabrics could shuffle traditional arrays off to the graveyard
With the array controller out of the data path, who needs it? Opinion NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMeF) shared storage access could kill the legacy storage array business – unless vendors get inventive and somehow continue to supply charged-for data management services alongside NVMeF data access.…Traders have lost almost $10 billion betting against Alibaba this year (BABA)
If you're thinking about betting against Alibaba's stock, you might first consider simply lighting your money on fire. Traders wagering on declines in the company's shares have lost a grand total of $9.8 billion in 2017, according to data provided by financial analytics firm S3 Partners. That makes Alibaba the worst-performing short in the world this year, and it isn't particularly close.Traders are doubling down on one of the market’s hottest trades
Scott Olson/GettyYou'd think last Thursday's stock market shock would have investors betting on more price swings. The opposite has happened. Traders are instead using the 44% single-day spike in the CBOE Volatility Index — or VIX — as a reason to pile into wagers that the measure will come back down. Using exchange-traded notes, they've made their exposure $393 million more bearish on the VIX over the past week, according to data compiled by financial analytics firm S3 Partners.New Features of CRM that has Revolutionized Microsoft Dynamics 365
After Microsoft Dynamics has been launched officially, everyone is having eyes on his new features. Perhaps, there are many new features introduced of CRM for Microsoft Dynamics 365. Many of them are available for both on-premises and online as well. These fully integrated tools are helpful for marketing, operations and sales to boost up the productivity of your business. In this blog post, we are going to discuss the top 10 new features of CRM for Microsoft Dynamics 365.Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database
In partnership with ProPublica, Google News Lab is launching a new tool to track hate crimes across America. The "Documenting Hate News Index" is being powered by machine learning to track reported hate crimes across all 50 states, collecting data from February 2017 onward. TechCrunch reports: Data visualization studio Pitch Interactive helped craft the index, which collects Google News results and filters them through Google's natural language analysis to extract geographic and contextual information.FOLLOW US:
