Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
New Acquisition Creates Mega-Database
The Tribune Co. has agreed to buy the Gracenote subsidiary from Sony for $170 million. This will add a music metadata service to its video metadata operation. Gracenote is best known for its music metadata, used by a number of streaming music services. The Gracenote database gets 550 million look-ups each day and more than 16 billion every month. This news come from CED Magazine in their article, “Tribune to buy Gracenote for $170M.”
Read MoreNew Partnership Results in Real-Time Analysis
Datawatch Corporation has announced an OEM partnership with Semantic Visions to deliver real-time predictive analysis and visualization of supply chain disruptions on the SAP HANA platform. This came to us from MarketWatch in their article, “Datawatch And Semantic Visions Enable Real-Time Predictive Analysis And Visualization For SAP HANA.”
Read MoreUsing the Data You Store
Data storage continues to be an issue for most organizations. This piece of information might make you feel better about your own situation. At the end of 2012, 1.3 trillion objects were stored in Amazon S3, the world’s largest object storage system. Even more so, that number is growing faster than 1 billion objects per day. InfoWorld brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “What is object storage?”
Read MoreBeyond Storage
We have discussed numerous times in the past about the rapid growth of data. The main focus has always seemed to surround the storage and management of the data. But what about the risk and liability to organizations?
Read MoreAs Smart as Siri
The next step in the semantic web may be cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). CaaS will enable every app to become as smart as Siri in its own niche. CaaS powered apps will be able to think and interact with consumers like intelligent virtual assistants.
Read MoreBuilding a Solid Foundation
The complexities of cloud integration present many challenges. The solutions are similar to what you might use on-premise, but another option can leverage metadata for integration in a different way – semantic web technology. IT Business Edge brought this news to us in their article, “Another Option for Cloud Integration: Semantic Technology.”
Read MoreKnowledge Management and Data Governance – Management and Tools
As an IT process and governance consultant, I see a large number of software tools for managing knowledge, information, and data. The choices between vendors and in-house development options seem endless. Evaluation can be challenging because descriptions of purpose, use, and comparative approach are often not clear, standardized, or based on research.
Read MoreGetting the Most Out of Your Work
Temnos has released a new content intelligence platform that helps content creators get the most out of their content and user relationships. Temnos’ platform offers a scalable, integrated tool that recognizes, evaluates, extracts, and creates metadata and content to support an end-to-end content intelligence process. This interesting data was found on Geeks World in their article, “Temnos Launches Content Intelligence Platform, Appoints CEO and Secures Funding.”
Read MoreSemantic Technology and Big Data
Big Data Spain is an event about massive data processing applications and technologies that took place this November in Madrid. The event drove home the point that increasingly critical applications of big data in sectors such as banking and telecommunications and some new technological and business trends need systems that facilitate online analysis of large volumes of data. In addition, one of the key areas of big data application is the processing of social content to obtain all types of insights.
Read MoreThe Government Impact
Budget cuts, both domestic and governmental, manage to touch every part of our lives at one time or another. Yesterday, the United States government shut down all non-critical services due to the inability to settle on a budget. No real surprise there, as they haven’t been able to agree on anything since, well, ever. Interestingly, this article from earlier in the year in The New York Times, “As Works Flood In, Nation’s Library Treads Water“, lifts up challenges from the federal cuts for the current fiscal year.
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