India successfully launched the first technology demonstrator of indigenously made Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), capable of launching satellites into orbit around earth and then re-enter the atmosphere, from Sriharikota near Chennai. A booster rocket with the RLV-TD lifted up at 7 a.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, and the launch vehicle separated from it at an …
In modern business, data flows in from a wide array of physical sensors and online user interactions in large volumes and at high speed. As a direct result of such speeds and volumes, the analysis of this data, as well as the data-driven decisions and actions, must be almost fully automated, with no more than …
Introduction This series of How To or Case Study I am attempting to write was the result of the work of our team for the past 2+ years.We were developing a Predictive Analytics Platform for a global truck OEM. This was to be integrated with their live OBU data, Warranty, Research & Design, Customer Support, …
A major stumbling block that have kept quantum computers to the realms of Science Fiction is the fact that “quantum bits” also called as “Qubits” and the building blocks with which they’re made are prone to magnetic disturbances. These “noise” can interfere with the work qubits do, but on Wednesday, scientists announced a new discovery that could possibly …
Organizers of yesterday’s massive demonstration in São Paulo against the Brazilian government have employed an analytics tool to get accurate attendance data. Opposition group Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) was offered the technology by Israeli startup StoreSmarts for free through its Brazilian distributor SmartLok in exchange for the marketing exposure linked to the anti-government demo. The …
A joint European-Russian mission aiming to search for traces of life on Mars left Earth’s orbit Monday at the start of a seven-month unmanned journey to the Red Planet. The Proton rocket carrying the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) to examine Mars’ atmosphere and a descent module that will conduct a test landing on its surface …
SAP has introduced a new technology, dubbed HANA Vora, that almost epitomizes the idea that Big Data and BI are complementary. Vora melds Big Data technologies like Hadoop and Spark with the original SAP HANA, and downstream sources like SAP BW, Business Objects andERP. In the process, it brings BI-style dimensional (drill-down) analysis into the Big …
MIT has developed a new Quantum Computer with 5 atoms. Yes you read it right, “5 Atoms”. Before venturing to the prophecy of the impending doom due to the obsolesce of encryption, here is a link that might help you understand what a quantum computer is. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm With the concept of “Qubits” which can simultaneously …
Italy-based Eurotech offers machine-to-machine platforms and other IoT products. Red Hat plans to combine its open-source Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss middleware with Eurotech’s Everyware Software Framework and Eurotech Everyware Cloud to create an end-to-end architecture for IoT. This will let enterprises integrate operational data from computing equipment at the edge of …
Well, my first blog or journal came into being at around 2001. And fast forward some 14 years, (which in Common Law is a “Lifetime” ) and approximately 11 blogs after, I am back none the wiser but older. Will try and chronicle the, events to come, happenings and stuff that interests me, or affect …
