article thumbnail

Year in Review: Actian’s Top 5 Highlights of 2018

Actian

2018 was a year of solid growth and progress for Actian, with many announcements and company highlights – including a major acquisition, a proprietary event, product innovations and much more! August 2018 ushered in a new version of Actian DataConnect , which was chock full of new features to better support DataConnect users.

article thumbnail

Fleet Management and Big Data: Points to Consider

Smart Data Collective

According to a forecast by IDC and Seagate Technology, the global data sphere will grow more than fivefold in the next seven years. The total amount of new data will increase to 175 zettabytes by 2025 , up from 33 zettabytes in 2018. This ever-growing volume of information has given rise to the concept of big data.

Big Data 356
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Technologies That Will Help You Comply with GDPR

The Data Administration Newsletter

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It’s a regulation introduced by the European Union in 2018 to protect the privacy and personal data of EU citizens. It applies to all companies that process personal data of people living in the EU, regardless of the company’s location.

article thumbnail

Closing the Data Science Skills Gap at Your Organization

Dataversity

Data scientists are some of the most in-demand professionals on the market. A LinkedIn Workforce Report in 2018 found 151,000 unfilled data scientist jobs across the United States, with “acute” shortages in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. And the demand for data scientists […].

Big Data 130
article thumbnail

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

Smart Data Collective

After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. These numbers show that the volume of data breaches may not be continuously increasing, but they never go away. million (from 35.7 million in 2008). million (from 197.6

article thumbnail

How To Improve Incident Response Time for Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

This breach was not discovered until 2018. Granting the malicious actors open access to more and more data as the Marriott hotel group was doing business. Had this data breach been detected earlier, countermeasures could have been put into place and protected many of their clients.

article thumbnail

7 Advantages of Using Encryption Technology for Data Protection

Smart Data Collective

In one case occurring in June 2018, the University of Texas’s MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $4.3 However, according to a 2018 North American report published by Shred-It, the majority of business leaders believe data breach risks are higher when people work remotely.