Big Data

A collection of 36 posts

Big Data

Turn of the century UK pols say it's time to turn NHS health data into a 'competitive asset'

"If you’re selling data to the highest bidder, the people who buy it will be those who can make the most money, not who will do the most good for the NHS..."

NHS

Palantir lands £330 million NHS "Federated Data Platform" contract

"Each NHS organisation will be the data controller for their ‘federated’ platform instance. The use of the data will always remain under the full control and protection of the NHS

Big Data

From roughneck to data dynamo: John Lewis’ Head of Data Products on perspective, Big Query vs Snowflake, and data ambitions

“We have staggering amounts of data. And we have the same problem as everyone else. It's all siloed: we need it in one place…”

Snowflake

5 key announcements from Snowflake Summit 2023

Improved Apache Iceberg integrations (managed and unmanaged); support for containerised applications as a managed service inside Snowflake (hello, Kubernetes) and more...

Snowflake

Snowflake in Vegas: AI, Python, geospatial, and bringing apps to the data layer: A Summit preview...

Snowflake wants to be a natural home for your applications as well as data. But from unstructured data to Python integrations, challenges remain.

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open data

11 UK water utilities are joining forces on Open Data as an ambitious project wins backing

"Progress in developing open data enablers (such as data infrastructure, data culture and capabilities, collaboration) has been limited across the water sector" warns the regulator.

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Microsoft Featured

Microsoft Fabric, a new unified data platform, promises magic, but has gaps to fill...

Microsoft has released a unified data platform called Microsoft Fabric: the next step in a journey that started in 2022 with the release of its “Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform”, and an offering that Redmond says will let users get the “maximum value out of a single copy of data without

Enterprise IT

Gov't lost up to £58 billion to fraud in one year, as auditors warn over data silos

HMG under-performing on data matching, intelligence and analytics

Enterprise IT

BBC failing on personalisation: Spending 5% of Netflix

A 23% staff turnover in product is a warning sign...

Enterprise IT

Department for International Trade eyes more data, dangles £2m

DIT looks to build on supply chain intelligence data pilot...

Enterprise IT

TfL to scrap Oyster system under £1.5B new contract, looks to monetise payments data

"Project Proteus" details emerge...

CIO

The Big Interview: SWIFT’s CIO Tom Zschach

SWIFT is building a new platform that will let it run cutting edge analytics on over 10 billion transactions a year using a containerised on-premises infrastructure, federated learning models and unique software-defined memory to help it utilise its existing hardware stack, says Chief Innovation Officer Tom Zschach. The platform will

Featured

49 suppliers make it onto UK's £2bn new Big Data shopping list

BAE, Palantir, Splunk among those making the cut

Enterprise IT

AI and machine learning have simulated the earth’s surface to a whole new level of detail

Here's why that matters, from our Tech for Good Awards winner...

Enterprise IT

Chief Data Officers, heads-up: Astra Streaming is a data gamechanger

"There's a lot of valuable data in these messages and today that's just evaporating off..."

Enterprise IT

The key to enabling data innovation and collaboration? Shifting to open source

Whilst the intent to innovate with data is there, often the reality is a different story...

Enterprise IT

MOD closes in on £55m overhaul of its "CySAFA" Big Data platform

Systems Integrators (SIs) and other vendors have just over two weeks left to finalise their expressions of interest in a £55 million overhaul of a critical Ministry of Defence (MOD) cyber operations platform. The contract comes as the department continues work to bake Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms into the platform,

Enterprise IT

Microsoft retires SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters early

"This is a big shift, and it's kind of concerning..."

Enterprise IT

Lindsay Carter on ITV’s ambitious data transformation

The programme director for group data strategy is...

Enterprise IT

Unveiled: Fresh Netflix's evolving data platform amid gaming pressure

Details revealed as Netflix valuation plummets by $50 billion

Enterprise IT

"We are the CIO’s secret weapon”

SPONSORED - DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor on driving down TCO for CIOs and simplifying life for developers

ESG/ClimateTech

Expect to hear a lot more about XBRL. Here's why

"Probably the single thing that will help with information flow"

Enterprise IT

FCA eyes market surveillance SaaS refresh with £3.5m contract

The FCA is spending £120m in three years to modernise its systems

Enterprise IT

Nike's digital ambitions hit supply chain snags, as two worlds collide

Nike is pursuing a more "direct, member-centric business model"

Enterprise IT

NYSE President Stacey Cunningham: Data is transforming exchanges

"We process 330 billion messages on a busy day"