May 15, 2013 | Isaac Lopez

Predictive apps are going to be one the next major disruptions in technology as enterprises begin to take advantage of the combined power of big data and predictive analytics says Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri. “I call them robot armies, because the algorithms are the things that scour through the data and do all the work,” he said. Let the algorithm wars begin.Read more...

May 21, 2013 | Isaac Lopez

Today, IBM announced that their cognitive computer system and Jeopardy star, Watson, is expanding its reach from healthcare, across the enterprise, where IBM says customer service will be a priority.Read more...

May 1, 2013 | Isaac Lopez

The week, Cloudera announced that Impala, their SQL on Hadoop initiative, is moving out of public beta and into general availability. Datanami spoke with Cloudera to get an overview of the state of Impala, how they see it stacking up in the competitive landscape, and where the space will move in the near future.Read more...

April 24, 2013

The ability to access the recent explosion of unstructured data, in the forms of social media data as well as video and audio files, can be limited. SGI, with their planned release of the InfinteStorage Gateway on June 15, hopes to quicken that access, with the goal being to provide a single universal place from which to draw all sorts of media types and files. Read more...

April 9, 2013

From the National Football League’s various attempts to crack down on concussions and dodge various concussion-related lawsuits to the recent death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from a stroke, the treatment and prevention of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) has caught the public attention of late. Coincidentally, IBM and Excel Medical announced a partnership with the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery recently in an attempt to tackle TBIs with predictive analyticsRead more...

May 7, 2013

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and the ViS Research Institute (ViS) announce a new initiative aimed at improving the efficiency of clinical development for pediatric therapeutics.Read more...

March 1, 2013

Eagle Genomics is organizing the Bioinformatics Symposium at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge on March 21. Read more...

May 6, 2013

Entagen announced that the company has earned a spot on Gartner's prestigious list of Cool Vendors in Life Sciences for 2013 according to the Gartner report published May 2nd, 2013.Read more...

February 25, 2013

Convey Computer announced that the Broad Institute has installed a Convey HC-2 system as part of their high performance compute farm to boost genomic research.Read more...

February 19, 2013

Bina Technologies today announced the commercial launch of the Bina Genomic Analysis Platform. Read more...