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Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky started Numenta nine years ago to create software that was modeled after the way the human brain processes information. It has taken longer than expected, but the Redwood City, Calif.-based startup recently held an open house to show how much progress it has made. Hawkins and Dubinsky are tenacious troopers for sticking with it. Hawkins, the creator of the original Palm Pilot, is the brain expert and co-author of […]
Big data means many things to many people, but how broad is its impact? Consider these figures on big data and the gurus who splice it. Almost everything will be connected The Internet of Things will include many strange and wondrous devices, many of which are new to the world of big data. That’s why analysts at ABI Research predict more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected by 2020. Health-related data collection […]
After years of revving their engines, many companies are gaining momentum with their digital initiatives. Executives say their CEOs are more involved in digital efforts than ever before and that their enterprises are now investing enough to meet their overall digital goals. Yet McKinsey’s latest survey on digitization 1 also finds that many respondents say their companies must address key organizational issues before digital can have a truly transformative impact on their business. This […]
SiSense , a business intelligence startup that is among those making big data analytics accessible to ordinary business users (and not just data scientists) is today announcing more funding: a $30 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth — the VC’s arm dedicated to later-stage investments that recently announced a new fund we understand to be totalling over $500 million (in May, its size was ‘only’ $470 million). Others backing the startup include existing investors Battery Ventures, […]
Daikin also uses a power meter that monitors the supply coming into the unit. Via the gateway, it sends data about the power signal to an Intel cloud, where it’s analyzed to determine the power usage of each component inside the HVAC system, like fans and refrigerant compressors. Without the back-end analytics, Daikin would have to install meters on each component, an implementation that would be prohibitively expensive, Facinelli says. Daikin’s commercial Rebel cooling […]
Don DeLoach: The way the metadata layer is established is tantamount to indexing everything. So the maneuverability over the data especially for things like ad hoc queries and investigative analytics is very strong. That’s all done without the benefit or requirement of a database administrator. This typically is a low hardware requirement, a very low human capital requirement, and a very easy-to-use platform in terms of the accessibility and the maneuverability across that data. […]