Stories by Steve Singer

Transitional changes in technology are happening at an ever-increasing rate, and the pace is unlikely to slow any time soon.

Just as IT gets a lid on the complexity of its environment, another set of challenges brings yet more layers of complexity, and the battle begins over.

Cyber-criminals will continue to change their methods to maximise the chance of success, writes Zscaler regional vice president and ANZ country manager Steve Singer.

If you’re not sure where your data comes from, or how clean it is, you can’t trust the reports you generate from it. In some cases, if you don’t know what you have, you don’t even know how to ask the right questions. 

Most people will describe someone who spends time extracting valuable insights from large volumes of information. While that definition is correct, unfortunately reality is rather different.

Many observers fear AI technologies could end up replacing the roles of large numbers of workers, consigning them to the unemployment queue.

Less than one in three (29%) of data operational workers are confident that data within their organisation is always accurate and up to date.

The term has been co-opted in recent years to describe the phenomenon of commercial processes which appear to work smoothly and effortlessly.

"To remain competitive, businesses must think of good data management as a team sport."

"APIs can make it possible for companies to build rich and accurate profiles of their customers by aggregating data about them from multiple computer systems."

"It is somewhat of an understatement to say that organisations today are facing a complex data landscape, so organisations need new ways to work with data more efficiently."

"Before IT leaders attempt to successfully deploy or conquer an enterprise-wide AI strategy, they must have the capability to bring large datasets together."

"The ability for employees to access data on demand is key to a successful AI strategy."

A data lake is a large body of raw data held in a natural state where different users can examine it, delve into it, or extract samples from it.

When it comes to technology trends, they don’t come much bigger than cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

In the Asia-Pacific region, research company IDC predicts that more than 70% of enterprises will have a multi-cloud strategy by the end of this year.

While GDPR has been a hot topic of conversation recently, but what impact will the laws have on cloud platforms and environments?

Who will end up paying any additional costs that are levied? Will cloud providers be taxed by the telco operators?

Steve Singer, Talend ANZ Country Manager talks about the necessities of machine learning for the enterprise space.