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Welcome to Bloor
Businesses need help to understand the requirements of an IoT project
The initial challenge about identifying IoT project use cases and business benefit is being tackled, albeit many examples are still only in the pilot phase.
DevOps growing up in Lisbon
At DevOps World | Jenkins World, Forrester told the assembled press and analysts that DevOps is winning and that use of waterfall methods is falling.
Now you can have lower costs and higher availability in Edge deploymen...
Edge computing will demand cost effective, small-footprint, agile, resilient systems that can be run in “dark” micro-datacentres.
Towards effective digital experience management
Research into vendor capabilities in AIOps and Hybrid Infrastructure Management has revealed interesting insights in to what differentiates various solutions.
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Identity and Trust
Identity and access management tools are key weapons in any organisation's arsenal for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information.
Identity and access management tools are key weapons in any organisation's arsenal for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information.
Bloor TV
Bloor TV brings analyst insights and reports to life in a new, easily consumable way with a range of live stream and video programmes.
Bloor TV brings analyst insights and reports to life in a new, easily consumable way with a range of live stream and video programmes.
ArchOps
A combination of tools, practices and cultural philosophies, that increases an organisation’s ability to design, implement and manage agile IT infrastructure.
A combination of tools, practices and cultural philosophies, that increases an organisation’s ability to design, implement and manage agile IT infrastructure.
Data Movement
Data movement does what its name suggests and there are multiple ways of doing so and of avoiding do so.
Data movement does what its name suggests and there are multiple ways of doing so and of avoiding do so.
Trust in Data
There are various data tools that enable us to trust, specifically data profiling, data quality and data preparation.
There are various data tools that enable us to trust, specifically data profiling, data quality and data preparation.
Operational Databases
An operational database is designed to run the day-to-day operations or transactions of your business.
An operational database is designed to run the day-to-day operations or transactions of your business.
Data Discovery and Catalogues
Both data discovery and data cataloguing are designed to allow you to know what you have and how it is related.
Both data discovery and data cataloguing are designed to allow you to know what you have and how it is related.
Graph Databases
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Data Warehousing
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
Blockchain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
Endpoint Detection and Response
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
AnalyticOps
AnalyticOps is about the reduction of friction around the delivery, operationalisation and ongoing monitoring and (change) management of analytic models.
TIBCO Data Science Model Operations
TIBCO Data Science is an analytics and data science platform with a notably broad remit. This focuses on the model management capabilities of the product.
Teradata AnalyticOps
Teradata AnalyticOps Accelerator is a software and services offering comprised of best practices, proven design patterns, and tried-and-tested code.
SAS Operationalising Analytics
SAS offers a variety of products (Model, Decision and Workflow Managers) built around the idea of operationalising your analytics.
IBM Watson OpenScale
IBM Watson OpenScale is a platform that is specifically targeted at operationalising AI (augmented intelligence) models.
Experian PowerCurve
Experian PowerCurve is a decision management platform upon which the company delivers a variety of customer-centric and analytically driven decision solutions.
MemSQL (January 2020)
MemSQL is a scale-out distributed database, with a lock-free architecture that supports both row and column storage. They target Fortune 1000 companies.
ScyllaDB
ScyllaDB is a Cassandra compatible database developed using C++ rather than Java. As a result in has a smaller footprint and better performance that Cassandra.
CHAOSSEARCH
CHAOSSEARCH is a cloud-native, long-term log and event analytics service running on Amazon S3.
AllegroGraph
This paper discusses Franz AllegroGraph, a highly secure, semantic, RDF-based graph database available in-cloud and on-premises.
DataRobot
This paper discusses DataRobot, an automated machine learning platform targeted at the enterprise.
API integration, the right data at the right time - Unlocking valuable data with APIs
This report spotlights the evolution of APIs from EDI to EAI to the API Economy. Companies can add value by opening up their data in a controlled, secure way.