Big data’s noise is drowning out the signal. Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney’s long-rising star is dimming fast.
He’s been in constant damage control mode over revelations that his cherished Temporary Foreign Worker program is crowding Canadians out of jobs. And he’s been the fall guy over accusations his government used inflated job vacancy figures to justify an incursion onto provincial job training turf. Instead of a skills gap to fill, Mr. Kenney’s now got a credibility gap to kill. This isn’t all his fault. Yet, if Mr. The idea that the trillions of bytes of data we generate on social media are equipping policy-makers with vast new predictive powers is all the rage these days. That’s how we got Google Flu. It was all a hoax, albeit an unintentional one that illustrates the hubris and false positives of the so-called “big data” revolution. This is but one example of how big data can lead to misguided policy. The problem is that much of what they report is probably wrong, or at least tendentious.
Until then, Mr. Ten questions to ask a cloud supplier before moving your IT - Investigating Outsourcing. Cloud computing has been hijacked by the IT suppliers.
Let's face it people have been accessing applications via web browsers for a long time. OK strictly speaking the cloud is multitenant, pay as you go blah blah blah... But many of the services being sold as cloud services don't meet the strictly speaking criteria. Last week I met up with Izak Oosthuizen, an IT consultant at IT services company Exec Sys . It was interesting to hear some horror stories about clients he has had to help out following disastrous moves into the cloud. He told me about companies ending up using software without licenses without realising and others finding out that their emails had not been archived.
I asked him to provide me of a list of questions businesses should ask customers before jumping into the cloud. This is what he came up with. 10 key questions to ask a cloud provider, by Izak Oosthuizen 1. 2. Big Data knows you're broke. Big Data knows when you've fallen on hard times.
Whether you're deep in debt or a senior on a fixed income, data brokers can track and sell your information to payday lenders, debt consolidation firms and other marketers. The problem is the information can be used by businesses or scammers that prey on the poor and the elderly, lawmakers say. For example, lists of frequent payday loan borrowers could be targeted for other high cost loans -- ones that could sink them even further into debt. North American Healthcare Cloud Computing Market worth $6.5 Billion by 2018 - New Report by MarketsandMarkets.
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Browse more than 131 market data tables with 63 figures spread through 353 pages and in-depth TOC on "North America Healthcare Cloud Computing Market" Early buyers will receive 10% customization on this report. This report studies the North American healthcare cloud computing market over the forecast period of 2013 to 2018. This market was valued at $1,750.4 million in 2013 and is poised to grow at a CAGR of 29.8% from 2013 to 2018, to reach $6,459.0 million by 2018. SaaS continues to dominate enterprise cloud computing market. While there are security, compliance and portability concerns with “as-a-service” models, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS look set for further growth While the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model remains dominant in terms of market share, growth and breadth of coverage, a new research report says other cloud computing models have established themselves as contenders and are themselves undergoing rapid growth despite some issues.
Worldwide SaaS revenues will reach US$53 billion by 2018, or 59 per cent of the enterprise public cloud computing market, says a new report from U.K. Cloud computing in numbers. Amazon Web Services: The cloud is an inevitable force. By having applications installed in data centres instead of being ‘on premise,’ companies would not have to individually install software locally on personal computers, laptops, or even on tablets. — Reuters picKUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — The cloud computing paradigm shift is an undeniable and unstoppable force driven by the competitive needs of businesses and while there are still some impediments that stand in the way of full adoption, its acceptance will eventually happen, says the top executive of a major cloud player.
Dr Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc, says companies – both big and small – can no longer afford to consider the cloud as a ‘nice to have,’ and those that do will stand to lose out in a big way. Speaking to Digital News Asia (DNA) in an exclusive interview, Vogels says cloud computing is now a ‘need to have’ as it’s unlike any other technology evolution that the world has seen in the past five decades of computing.
Small steps are best.