| Today's InfoWorld Headlines: Wrap Up | | | We're now hearing that the notorious, flawed IE rollup was re-released without notification on April 22 | | | Issue highlights 1. Adatao enhances Hadoop with natural-language queries and machine learning 2. MIT paints grim picture for future of U.S. tech research 3. Microsoft jumps into application monitoring | | White Paper: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) The oil and gas industry is undergoing several changes, both in terms of the nature of its workforce and overall operations. These changes pose several challenges with respect to employee retention, engagement, training, and productivity. View Now. | | Last year, data visualization company Adatao -- spearheaded by the former engineering director of Google Apps -- announced its Data Intelligence Platform, a toolset for querying Hadoop data that's meant to be as easy as putting together a document in Google Docs. Today Adatao announced general availability for the toolset, which claims to put machine intelligence at the disposal of nontechnical users making natural-language queries with Hadoop data. READ MORE | | Webcast: Damballa How much higher can you build your network prevention fortress? When prevention fails, and it will, learn how Damballa Failsafe detects successful infections with certainty and gives you proof to immediately respond. Learn More | | 2014 was a year of notable scientific highlights: the first landing on a comet, discovery of a new fundamental particle that sheds light on the origin of the universe, development of the world's fastest supercomputer, and research uncovering new ways to meet global food demands. Unfortunately, none of these were U.S.-led achievements. A new MIT report warns that the United States is missing out on cutting-edge technological developments and is in danger of falling behind other countries because of ongoing federal funding cuts to basic research. READ MORE | | With the release of Application Insights, Microsoft could help organizations learn more about how well their applications are performing, how often they are used, and how to fix them when they are not operating correctly. READ MORE | | White Paper: CDW As organizations move applications to the cloud and reduce the number of legacy servers in their data centers, the importance of a reliable and stable Internet-cloud connection has increased. View Now | | Join the IDG Contributor Network The IDG Contributor Network is a collection of blogs written by leading IT practitioners about the technology, business opportunities and challenges you face everyday. We invite you to participate by applying to be a contributor today. |
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