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Mayo Clinic Turns to IBM’s Watson to Fill Clinical Trials

Mayo clinicians will leverage Watson's natural language processing and data analytics capabilities to quickly sift through millions of pages of clinical trial and patient data to match patients with appropriate clinical trials.

8 Sep 2014 4 mins
Big Data Business Intelligence Healthcare Industry
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How IBM Serves Up Data to Tennis Fans at U.S. Open

IBM is using a combination of mobile, cloud and data analytics technologies to help the United States Tennis Association transform the U.S. Open fan experience.

29 Aug 2014 6 mins
Analytics Big Data Mobile Apps
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CIOs Have to be Business Savvy to Get On Board

Ability to manage people, bring in change, and take substantial interest in business processes are few things a CIO needs to make it to the board.u00a0u00a0

22 Aug 2014 2 mins
Business CIO Small and Medium Business
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Does Microsoft Really Love Open Source?

Microsoft is involved in many major open source projects, including Hadoop and Docker. What's motivating the company to abandon its 'proprietary-only' roots?

21 Aug 2014 7 mins
Hadoop Java Web Development
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Pioneering Companies Enter a New Data Analytics Phase

Companies such as Ford, General Electric are entering the next phase of data analytics. Analytics 3.0 will go beyond internal use and become a driver of external products and services.

19 Aug 2014 3 mins
Analytics Big Data CIO 100
news analysis

3 Mistaken Assumptions About What Big Data Can Do For You

Many executives and organizations see big data as a panacea, but data and analytics can't address every problem you face. These three scenarios in particular illustrate common misconceptions about what big data can do.

19 Aug 2014 7 mins
Big Data Data Mining Data and Information Security
how-to

Cut Costs by Analyzing and Optimizing Licenses, Migrations and Power

By evaluating what workers actually use and ruthlessly cutting waste, IT departments can save millions of dollars through OS migrations and power management.

18 Aug 2014 4 mins
Analytics Big Data IT Strategy
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Indian CIOs Deny Any CIO-CMO Conflict Exists

Indian CIOs refute that a digital gap exists between the CIO and CMO and agree that working together is more important to build a digital platform.

18 Aug 2014 5 mins
Business CIO Small and Medium Business
opinion

6 Things to Know About Choosing a New IT Vendor

No one should sign a contract with an IT vendor without fully evaluating who they are and what they do. Asking vendors these six questions might throw them for a bit of a loop, but their (honest) answers will help you determine if they are the right

15 Aug 2014 8 mins
Analytics Budgeting Enterprise Architecture
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5 Uses for the Surveillance Robot of Tomorrow

A Silicon Valley startup is building a surveillance robot that it hopes will help security and law enforcement personnel detect trouble while remaining out of harm's way. Here's a closer look at five ways advanced robots can monitor commerc

13 Aug 2014 6 mins
Physical Security Predictive Analytics Startups