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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. In 2009 for example, data breaches dropped to 498 million (from 656 million in 2008) but the number of records exposed increased sharply to 222.5 million (from 35.7

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

The market for using GPUs as general-purpose processors (GPGPUs) really opened up in 2009, when OpenGL publisher Khronos Group released Open Computing Language (OpenCL). One is building and running the virtual worlds in which self-driving algorithms are tested without putting anyone at risk. Nvidia gets two bites at this market.

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Understanding Simpson’s Paradox to Avoid Faulty Conclusions

Sisense

A new drug promising to reduce the risk of heart attack was tested with two groups. When the data is combined, it seems that the drug reduces the risk of getting a heart attack. In addition, men are at a greater risk of having a heart attack, overall. It also reduced their risk of heart attack.

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AI Advances Drive New Generation of Browser-Based Solutions

Smart Data Collective

It’s seemingly compulsory for most developers to build mobile versions of their applications or risk losing millions of potential users. Many people tend to forget their app updates, which can pose significant risks. But, using browser-based apps removes this risk altogether.

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Leverage Blockchain Technology for Supply Chain Management

BizAcuity

A few years after the advent of cloud computing solutions (2006), came cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (2009) and Ethereum which leveraged blockchain to decentralize financial transactions. This also improves resilience over the long run thanks to better risk analysis and management. Industry 5.0

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The Very Group adopts a data catalog to better organize and leverage its online retail capabilities

CIO Business Intelligence

It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015. Pimblett took a carrot-and-stick approach to get everyone working together, partnering with them on value creation (the carrot of profit) and risk mitigation (the stick of compliance).

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How to Decide Whether a SaaS Tool is Worth Purchasing?

Smart Data Collective

It was launched as a paid service and went on to add a freemium option in 2009, growing its user base from 85,000 to 450,000 a year. SaaS is clever and allows users to preserve data intelligently without risk of data loss; there is no need to send documents for review, systematic folders, and master documents.