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Leading File Data Services Provider Nasuni Set to Open New Innovation Centre in Ireland with 55 jobs

Nasuni Corporation, the leader in file data services, today announced that it will create up to 55 new senior engineering jobs over the next three years in Cork, Ireland at its newly established Innovation Centre. This will be Nasuni’s first innovation centre and its fourth office including its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and additional offices in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA, and Cary, North Carolina, USA. The company is also expanding its presence in Germany, Benelux and London as part of its global expansion.

The company is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland. Welcoming the announcement, Taoiseach Michéal Martin TD, said “This announcement is great news for Cork and indeed Ireland. With up to 55 jobs planned, Nasuni is placing a significant vote of confidence in Cork and further demonstrates our competitive position in attracting Foreign Direct Investment. I am delighted that Nasuni chose to locate its Innovation Centre in Cork as part of its global expansion.”

Nasuni has also hired Derek Murphy as Vice President of Engineering, EMEA. Derek is an experienced head of engineering with experience at multinational enterprise companies including Forcepoint, McAfee, Intel, and Apple. In the past 15 years, Derek has worked in the domain of Cyber Security under the areas of Cloud Product and Services, with a focus on Cloud Software Engineering and Cloud Operations.

“We are looking for the right talent to fill senior, ‘greenfield development’ positions, cloud and analytics focused. This is high-value work, crucial to our business, and we are convinced we will find the right candidates in Ireland,” said Murphy.

Paul Flanagan, CEO of Nasuni, added: ‘‘Nasuni is committed to Ireland, and we have already incorporated Nasuni Ireland Ltd. The country is known for its well-educated software talent pool as well as the number and variety of its technology hubs. Together with the strong support and relationship with the IDA and the diversity of the region, Ireland has a track record as a place to invest, and one that yields results. This will complement the success that Nasuni has in its centres of innovation and offices across the globe, continuing to offer the same level of trusted file data services in the region. Our vision is to expand the team to over 55 people over the next three years.”

IDA Ireland CEO Martin Shanahan said: “Nasuni’s investment comes at the right time, as remote work continues to create unprecedented challenges and cyber security is more important than ever for enterprises. The establishment of the EMEA Innovation Centre for Nasuni is a testament to the region’s highly-skilled and talented workforce and reinforces IDA Ireland’s mission to boost jobs and investment for regional locations. I welcome Nasuni to Ireland and wish the team every success with this expansion.”

With the rising threat to business from cyberattacks, Nasuni believes it is more important than ever that the entire IT ecosystem of an enterprise—its suppliers, partners, and managed service providers – offer the highest standards of security and risk management. Enterprises benefit from Nasuni services to achieve cost-efficient, multi-site primary file storage capacity, fast access over standard file sharing protocols and the ability to recover files systems after a ransomware attack in minutes; all for less than the cost of traditional on-premises file infrastructure.

Nasuni has a hybrid working arrangement in place across all its offices as it transitions out of COVID-19. The current expectation is that the Ireland site will also support hybrid working. As Nasuni Ireland scales and hires people, the company intends to open a physical facility in the near future.

Nasuni is hiring across all functions and locations in 2022; for more information, please visit https://www.nasuni.com/company/careers/. 

Nearly 90,000 Irish SMEs have had data stolen in the last year

Datapac, Ireland’s leading technology solutions and services provider, today announces the results of a new survey which found that an estimated 89,744* SMEs (31%) in Ireland have had data stolen in the last 12 months. Furthermore, the research revealed that over two fifths (41%) of small and medium-sized businesses have permanently lost critical data within the same timeframe.

The survey of 150 SME business owners in Ireland was carried out by Censuswide in association with Datapac and cybersecurity and backup specialist, Datto, during February 2022.

The research shows 37% of Irish SMEs experienced a known cyberattack in the last year. Looking ahead, 86% of SME business owners are concerned that they will become a cybercrime target. However, almost a quarter (23%) admit that they are not at all prepared to defend themselves against cybercrime.

Evolving Threat Environment

The years of the Covid-19 pandemic witnessed rapid digital transformations across many organisations, largely to help facilitate new remote and hybrid working environments. 56% of businesses reported a reliance on cloud storage for some or all of their data storage needs.

When asked about the impacts of permanently losing data, over a quarter (27%) believe they would go out of business. SME owners also said the loss of critical data would impede their business growth (38%), damage their professional reputation (35%), lead to regulatory consequences (32%), contribute to employee attrition (31%) and result in the loss of some of their customers (29%).

Despite the prevalence of cybercrime and data loss, just 5% of Irish SMEs back up their data in real-time, with nearly three quarters (72%) reporting that their data backup frequency is once per week or less. The research shows around a fifth (21%) of small businesses don’t have a tested Disaster Recovery (DR) plan in place in the event of data theft or loss. In addition, 43% admitted they don’t have a secure copy of their data held offsite.

83% state that they have plans to increase their level of outsourced IT to a Managed Service Provider (MSP) over the coming year. Nearly a third (32%) attribute this decision to a need to address cybersecurity shortcomings in the face of the cybercrime risk, while 36% cited the need to access a wider range of expert IT skills and knowledge.

Commenting on the survey results, Karen O’Connor, General Manager, Datapac said:

“Our survey has highlighted the unprecedented scale of cybercrime for small and medium-sized businesses in Ireland today. With over 4 in 10 of all Irish SMEs permanently losing mission-critical data over the past year and almost a third having data stolen, this can have significant and damaging repercussions for these businesses and their customers.

 “The vast majority of business owners are concerned about being a cybercrime target, yet many still don’t seem to be taking the necessary steps to improve their protection. While threat detection and prevention are important parts of the cybersecurity puzzle, they don’t solve it alone. Data backup is a vital component and one that shouldn’t be overlooked. With almost three quarters of firms only backing up their data weekly or even less, this presents a huge challenge for businesses to maintain continuity after an incident.

 “In the likely event of a cyberattack, a robust backup and business continuity solution is the last line of defence and enables most businesses to recover quickly from business-critical data loss. Put simply, data cannot be recovered if it isn’t backed up effectively to begin with.”

Nicholas O’ Donovan, Sales Manager, Datto Ireland, said:

“The pandemic has permanently changed the way many organisations work, fundamentally altering where data is created and stored. A more dispersed workforce creates a larger network threat perimeter, which increases the risk of cyberattack.

Wherever the data lives, be it in an on-premises server or in the cloud, it needs to be backed up with the highest frequency possible in a way that allows instant restoration for when disaster strikes.”

Cyber resilience and its role in delivering digital public services

By George Maybury, Public Sector Director, Dell Technologies Ireland

The moves underway to digitally transform public sector services today will directly impact the long-term wellbeing of citizens and protect the economies of the future.

However, in realising the true potential of a new, efficient public sector, we must seize the opportunities of our data-driven era not only by preparing for innovative technologies, but also confronting the rising threats of cyber and ransomware attacks head on.

With the greater focus on cybersecurity in the newly published National Digital Strategy and plans to strengthen the National Cyber Security Centre by collaborating with technology leaders in the private and public sector, Ireland has the opportunity to power digital government services that are citizen-centric and above all cyber secure.

Vulnerabilities

Cyberattacks occur every 11 seconds and costed €9.6bn to the Irish economy in 2020 alone.  But the human cost is immeasurable. From healthcare organisations taking care of patients with eHealth services, to virtually connected classrooms at all levels, our public sector today heavily relies on digital technologies to operate. That’s why, with an increased dependence on data, cyberattacks can be catastrophic for those who carry on providing the services that we as citizens rely on.

Preventative cyber technology is constantly evolving with new innovations to protect data and keep pace with ever-evolving cyber threats. However, a collaborative approach between the public and private sector in Ireland can help to maximise the cyber resiliency of digital public services as range of such services expand.

As organisations come together to mount more robust, joint defences against cyberattacks, so too should the brightest cyber experts, CIOs, and public sector leaders. Representing a large scale, global security issue, ransomware is everyone’s problem and could hinder progress in Ireland if not dealt with decisively.

Protecting data

Data is quickly becoming the lifeblood of public sector organisations in Ireland as they look to digitalise and enhance the services they provide to citizens. But accelerated digital transformations have created increasing complexities – and data protection must evolve to meet new demands.

We have witnessed this trend in the past two years. While remote access to social services, supported by always-on digital platforms, boosted accessibility and streamlined efficiencies, it also significantly expanded the amount of data that the public sector is handling.

With Dell Technologies Data Paradox survey highlighting how 75% of organisations experienced an increase in data demand in the past three years, it is more important than ever that key decision makers place intrinsic security around this data and at the heart of their digital strategies. Retaining trust in the digital innovations that underpin future economies and social well-being is critical to sustaining progress. This starts with holistic cyber security.

As public sector organisations in Ireland look to reinforce cyber resiliency, focusing on their most critical data is key – from court records with accompanying images and digital classroom attendants sheets, to object data from diagnostic systems and health surveys. Placing this critical data in a vault will help ensure it is isolated, can’t be modified and can be quickly recovered in the event of an attack – enabling healthcare services to get up and running quickly again.

As part of our cyber product offering at Dell Technologies, we have developed a cyber vault. This provides the ultimate protection for critical healthcare data. It delivers a fast, easy-to-deploy public cloud vault that moves critical data away from the attack and isolates it within a secure, automated operational air gap. Our vault solution can be a building block for cyber resilience in this critical era of digital transformation across societies and economies.

Better together

Protecting data requires a ‘people, process, and best of breed technology solutions’ approach. While there is no antidote or 100% fail-proof approach, enlisting a cyber strategy that focuses on all three areas is critical.

Cyber security is evolving quickly to keep pace with cyber criminals and that means cyber strategies should be constantly evolving, too – with stress tests and ongoing assessments to ensure they are fit for purpose. Planning and preparation are vital. This is not a journey that public services providers can travel alone.

But the risks of not acting now far outweigh the short-term cost of investing in tighter cyber strategies. Progress is at stake. It is underpinned by technology innovations that require patient trust, continuity, and reliability.

Take the potential for Digital Twin technology, which is the focus of one of the modules of the ‘Digital Futures in Healthcare’ programme that Dell Technologies developed with the HSE. A digital twin is the digital copy of an asset. By running simulations on this digital asset,  IT scientists and researchers can study it and predict real world outcomes based on changes in its digital operating conditions.

This innovation is transforming the sector and enabling healthcare institutions to meet pressing challenges – from personalising healthcare to combatting patient wait times. The powerful combination of the digital twin, IoT, AI, and data analytics will boost patient outcomes and hospital performance.

But this must be supported by stringent cyber security to evolve with the trust of patients and healthcare providers – and remain operational in the event of a ransomware attack.

Ransomware is a global challenge, and open, multistakeholder approaches across sectors will help organisations in Ireland ramp up defences. The nature of healthcare makes it particularly vulnerable, and the stakes are high as it powers global and national resilience beyond the pandemic.

Securing the viability of public sector innovations with first-class cyber strategies will benefit everyone, everywhere. As we look to transform our digital public services for the benefit of teachers, our justice system, local authorities, patients and healthcare workers, prioritising cyber security and resilience will become more than a hot topic – it’s a lifeline.

Storing Your Activity Progress in Salesforce Explained

If you are involved in a small, medium, or large business and have worked with a CRM system to simplify task management of your sales and services, you probably know what Salesforce is. This American cloud-based software was specifically designed to provide its users with efficient enterprise tools for case, task, and issue management. Einstein Activity Capture and Revenue Grid tools also help automatically integrate data from clients’ mailboxes, calendars, and other services to Salesforce.

With all the handy functions Salesforce offers, you can monitor how your business is doing and store your activity progress on the platform. Data capturing services help to make these processes more efficient. Read on to find out the details.

How to Monitor Your Activity Progress? 

You can benefit from the Activities dashboard, which is built on Tableau CRM. It displays a summary of your sales activities, including those added manually to Salesforce. If you wonder how long activities are stored in Salesforce, you should note that Events and Closed Tasks that were due more than a year ago are automatically archived. So are Closed Tasks with no due date created more than a year ago.

In Salesforce Classic, you can view the Activities related lists on the associated records: 

  1. Address the “My Tasks” component on the Home tab. 
  2. Click on a particular date on the Calendar on the Home tab.

 

In Lightning Experience, you can monitor the Activity Timeline on the associated records:

  1. Press the Calendar tab from the app menu.
  2. Observe the “Today’s Tasks” and “Today’s Events” components on the Home tab.

What Has Changed?

There has been a new location for activity storage information in Salesforce since summer 2021. The Activity Storage page that revealed the number of activities captured by Inbox and Einstein Activity Capture has been removed. Now you can find the activity storage data on the User Status page. This modification applies to a bunch of editions: 

  • Lightning Experience in Essentials; 
  • Enterprise;
  • Professional;
  • Performance;
  • Unlimited. 

Currently, your activity storage information is displayed when using Inbox with/without Einstein Activity Capture.

Are There Any Alternatives to Einstein Activity Capture?

Among various productivity-boosting tools you can use, Einstein Activity Capture can help you keep data between Salesforce, your email, and calendar applications up-to-date. Though this feature is widely used, some clients are concerned it stores sales activity information on third-party databases. 

Since emails captured by Einstein Activity Capture aren’t stored in Salesforce, they aren’t displayed in standard Salesforce reports. You can’t delete emails from Einstein Activity Capture, and the data is lost forever once you decide to migrate from it. Besides, the captured activities won’t show up on standard Salesforce reports, so you won’t be able to create accurate reports in Salesforce based on the data in this tool. 

However, other services like Revenue Grid can provide you with maximum data security and full analytics, by storing your data directly in CRM. Therefore, your data and your client data will never leave your business’s servers.

Keep Track of Your Business Data

This platform has provided its clients with an opportunity to reach maximum success, and using efficient tools will help you control your data. However, don’t forget about the importance of programming skills. You will need to master your knowledge of the Apex language (Java clone) and Visualforce (template language). Besides, you will require HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery) to succeed. Store your activity progress and make the right data-driven decisions.

How Important Is Data Engineering in This Era of Big Data?

Big data is a critical part of the digital world we live in today, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. It’s expected that by 2023 there will be a 44% increase in the overall size of big data. This means that those who are truly gifted at managing and analyzing information, or those who understand how to make this data more usable for the business, will be highly sought after as we progress further into the future. In other words, if you would like to keep your job as a part-time social media manager, it’s probably best that you start beefing up your skills in unstructured data processing and analysis and all the more reason to look at IT managed services in los angeles.

This is where data engineering comes into play — an evolving new field within computer science and information technology that can put companies one step ahead of their competition by providing them with innovative ways to utilize stored information. Below are reasons why data engineering is so essential nowadays:

 

1. Working With Data Engineers Is the New Business Model

Data engineering is not just a necessary part of the business world, but it’s becoming increasingly common for businesses to have their team of data engineers on staff. This allows these companies to manage this information internally and work more efficiently with other organizations collecting or analyzing data. Since their responsibilities primarily involve processing big data once collected, a data engineering company will only need to pay for the required equipment. The processing itself can even be done off-site, further reducing costs.

 

2. It’s the Key to Data Analytics

Data engineering is an integral part of data analytics, extracting actionable insights from raw data to form more effective business strategies. Without these insights, companies are simply working with incomplete information (assuming they even know what questions to ask) and cannot make accurate predictions about whether or not their business practices are effective. However, when you pair up the science of data analytics with its counterpart, data engineering, it can help businesses obtain valuable insight that will allow them to move forward into the future without having any blind spots.

To ensure the accuracy and reliability of the insights derived, businesses must also adhere to data quality principles that govern the consistency, completeness, and validity of the information. By implementing these principles, companies can ensure that their data is of the highest quality, empowering data engineers to produce precise, actionable results that guide informed decision-making.

 

3. It’s Crucial for Business Growth

When you think about the purpose of data engineering, it’s to make an organization more efficient. But efficiency isn’t just needed for a company to be profitable, but also because there are only so many resources available to them. This means that data engineers are essentially responsible for minimizing wastefulness at every turn, whether it be time or money. For example, by better processing basic information and making it more accessible for analysis, data engineers create opportunities for employees who would typically spend hours analyzing this useless information to spend their time. Instead of focusing on other parts of the business to contribute to its growth.

 

4. It Provides Operational Insights

To have a successful business these days, it’s not enough to offer a product or service that your clients want — you also need a way of tracking their behavior and preferences so you can adjust accordingly. This process is called operations research, and big data also plays an integral role in this field. Businesses can adjust their strategies according to popularity and trend by using data to track operational insights. In other words, they can predict the future rather than merely react to current events.

 

5. It Can Increase Efficiency & Reduce Costs

Since data engineering can help provide operational insights, which allows for more informed decision-making, it is the process of doing this analysis that will ultimately increase efficiency and reduce costs. Data engineers can analyze trends within the information, summarize essential data sets, and provide insight where needed. This means optimal business practices become easier to carry out with less time spent on trial-and-error experimentation. Big data also helps reduce costs by cutting down on corruption, fraud, or any other type of malpractice since you always have accurate information at your fingertips.

 

6. It’s a Great Investment for Business Future

To stay competitive in this ever-changing digital world, companies will need to become more adept at leveraging big data. In other words, they will have to invest more into their knowledge of data engineering if they hope to continue being successful. This is the best way to ensure that nothing falls through the cracks and all potential opportunities are being explored. Since a large part of the future of business is tied to how well they handle their big data. Those who can provide actionable insights and adapt this information for organizational purposes will be the most successful in the long run. At the same time, those who ignore this trend will fall behind (and lose key opportunities).

 

7. Data Analytics is Inescapable

To stay competitive in business today, companies of all sizes must incorporate data analytics into their overall strategy. This is the only way to maintain a distinct advantage over their competitors and continue with a successful path towards growth and prosperity. While some companies may have an initial fear of uncertainty regarding big data, they should rest assured that this isn’t something that needs to be approached with trepidation. With more educated workers, including data engineers, utilizing big data can lead down a promising road filled with countless opportunities for success.

 

8. It Can Be Done in Real-Time

While some aspects of big data require companies to wait until they have collected all the necessary information, other information can be handled in real-time. Once you’ve perfected your data collection methods and made them more efficient than ever before. This will allow for these interactions to occur in near real-time, which provides businesses with an even greater chance at success when they can act quickly on new opportunities that come their way.

Big data gives us informational possibilities, but if we want to see what this means for our businesses, we need skilled individuals who know how to process and store this information in ways that are effective and up-to-date with today’s technological trends. With data engineering skills like these on your resume, you’ll likely never have to worry about finding employment again.

Dining out Data, What food apps know about you and its more than your toppings.

In the past 18 months QR codes and apps for restaurants and takeaways have replaced paper menus and card machine payments allowing customers to enjoy their food whilst reducing human contact.

Whether you are a fan of an ordering app or QR code menu, if you are a fan of eating out, there is a high chance you have had to scan your phone and enter your details to order your morning coffee or burger meal. We have noticed just how much QR codes have suddenly became popular again and highly visible even here in Ireland.

Let’s face it, food apps are taking over our phones and collecting our data as they go, but which apps are collecting the largest amount of data from us each time we order?

A new study by TechRobot has revealed the top apps and chain restaurants in the UK and US that are eating up our data each time we order:

The study reveals that:

  • Cafe Nero is the drinking up the most customer data of the chain restaurants analysed in the UK
  • There are five coffee chains that feature in the top 15 apps for data consumption in the UK
  • McDonald’s and Dominoes are in the top 5 apps in the UK saving consumers data – including your browsing history and personal ID
  • In the US, Caviar and Grubhub are the dining out apps that know the most about you
  • Dunkin’ and Chick-Fil-A both place in the top 10 most data invasive apps in the US

UK top 10 apps consuming the most data:

  1. Cafe Nero (68%)
  2. Paul UK (65%)
  3. Dominoes (50%)
  4. Wendy’s (47%)
  5. McDonalds (47%)
  6. Brewdog (42%)
  7. Costa (42%)
  8. Noxy Brothers (38%)
  9. Burger King (38%)
  10. Starbucks (38%)

US top 10 apps consuming the most data:

  1. Caviar (71%)
  2. Grubhub (71%)
  3. Postmates (68%)
  4. Uber Eats (68%)
  5. Subway (56%)
  6. Dunkin’ (52%)
  7. Chick-Fil-A (52%)
  8. Sonic (52%)
  9. Jack in the Box (50%)
  10. Whataburger (50%)

Worried about what data you are handing over then? Read more –  The security risks of dining out

 

How Asynchronous Replicator Technology Upgrades Databases

The problems of low data availability, limited access, and drooping efficiency levels can be overwhelming. The issues like this that businesses face seem to come from every direction touched by incomplete, missing, and stale data housed across databases that can’t communicate. To help, data replication technologies like the Rapidi Replicator prepare organizations for a new way of working.

That new path is paved by a boost in availability, efficiency, and access that turns informational assets into opportunities. Every database and system is strengthened from within by a process that cuts out mistakes as well as the need for manual duplication. While these promote growth and reduce wasted resources, the benefits of asynchronous data replication are not always so plain. 

But, when you consider the number of issues that problem data can introduce, it starts to become clear just how fully your company may need replication. With systems isolated into their own channel, your employees find it harder to get results and your leadership feels the friction of limited data insights while making decisions. 

When you choose a plug-and-play third-party solution—data replication technologies are likely to bring these coveted gifts to your business. 

Simplicity

While many businesses avoid replication opportunities for as long as they can, the truth is that it can be much more simple than they think. The problem seems to be that business decision-makers feel that the development must be done in-house in order to be custom. And there is difficulty in tasking one of your teams with an invisible improvement of tremendous complexity.

However, without needing to assign the work within, businesses can get the management and support throughout the data replication process through a third party. That partner handles the challenges and careful adjustment of your replication solution, benefiting your organization while minimizing its impact on your time, budget, or peace of mind.

Seamlessness

Along with simplicity, businesses that choose a third party also enjoy a more seamless experience of their data environment. Crossing divides in your systems and traveling between locations, your data is freed with a complete solution to replication. Just as work with a partner like Rapidi minimizes the difficulty of getting replication going, they also support the smoothest possible access and use of your data.

Security

Tools like the Rapidi Replicator are serious about the security and sensitivity of the data they work with. Because of this, Rapidi encrypts data against threats and meets international standards for information security. Working with a third party should mean that you can replicate data without a second thought about its theft. 

By securing each point of data in their workflow, the most robust asynchronous replicators for databases are on constant guard. It’s clear that data is valuable and customer information is sensitive. The liability to your company that a lack of security forms can be threatening—and catastrophic during a breach. 

Support

One of the most important reasons that a company would choose to develop an in-house solution to data replication is that they always have access to the team. 

Whatever issues emerge during the course of business with data information and access can be addressed within. Initially, this can appeal. But, after tasking the internal team with the replication, some find their teams scrambling for answers and overworked with other projects. 

The alternative is support from a third party. Every organization has unique needs and characteristics that require flexible and open support. For example, Rapidi offers consistent five-star support to their clients, building custom replications to respond to each client’s needs. 

But, support does not end with having someone to call when things aren’t functioning at their highest level. Instead, Rapidi—like some other integration partners—gives maintenance to its replication systems with regularity. Using these upgrades and receiving these changes, businesses can stay ahead of alterations to the systems they rely upon without losing data to oversights during an upgrade.

With customer support and ongoing maintenance, third-party replicators release companies from the learning curves, technical blocks, and frustrating challenges of independent replication.

Asynchronous replicator technology puts information and data within easy reach through sophisticated and custom approaches to handling your greatest asset.

 

 

Begin Data Replication with Rapidi

Through a simple replication technology that provides significant benefits over in-house development, Rapidi helps organizations energize operations and guide decisions with a fuller, more flexible data ecosystem. Before you decide to pursue an asynchronous replication system yourself (or through your team), consider simplicity, security, support, and seamlessness. 

You can start saving resources and pushing standards from within by connecting your siloed systems, get started with data replication technologies through Rapidi.

The Best Colleges to Earn a Master of Data Science Degree in Ireland

In organizations that leverage big data and the use of data analytics tools is an everyday occurrence, qualifications in data science can open doors to lucrative job positions. If you are considering taking a master’s degree in Ireland, it is important to note that most colleges accept students with technical backgrounds such as engineering, mathematics, and computer science.

Also, some colleges may offer a Master of Data Science degree with Data Analytics or Computing Science to allow students to explore data scientist and data analyst roles. Whether you are a local or international student, finding the best college for your postgraduate education is key to securing the foundation of your career. Below are the best colleges to consider if you are looking for an institution to earn your Master of Data Science degree in Ireland.

1. Trinity College

Founded in 1592, Trinity College is the oldest university in Ireland. It offers a Master of Computer Science program, and allows students to specialize in Data Science. The specialization focuses on three main areas: storage data management, data analysis, and computation.

You can expect to complete the program in 3 semesters that takes 12 months. During your study, you have the option of taking optional courses like text analytics and urban computing in the first two semesters, in addition to the mandatory courses like data visualization and machine learning. The tuition cost for Trinity College is €22,575. To qualify for the program, you need to have ELTS/TOEFL/PTE, Bachelors with 75% or 7.5 CGPA

2. University College Cork

Situated in Ireland’s second-biggest city, University College Cork (UCC) positions itself as a research-oriented institution. Founded in 1845, it has a Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics program that runs for one year offered by the Science, Engineering, and Food Science College.

The master’s program is divided into Part 1, consisting of 60 credits, and Part 2, consisting of 30 credits. The program equips you with crucial skills in data programming, data management, and modeling and interpretation of data. The tuition fee for EU citizens is €7000, while non-EU citizens can expect to pay €18000. You also need to have a CGPA of 6.5 to qualify for the program in addition to ELTS/TOEFL/PTE.

3. University College Dublin

University College Dublin is a public university established in 1854. It is among the best colleges in Ireland, given its ranking among the 1% of best universities globally. The college offers an MSC in Data and Computational Science and an MSC in Data Analysis.

The master’s program is ideal for students with quantitative discipline backgrounds in statistics, physics, math, and engineering. It will take you one year to complete the program on a full-time basis, and two years on a part-time basis. You can expect to pay a tuition cost of €19200.  To qualify for the program, you need to have at least a Bachelor’s degree with a second class honors upper division and ELTS/ TOEFL/PTE.

4. Maynooth University

Maynooth University is among the newest colleges in Ireland. It was established in 1997 and is located in the town of Maynooth. The college introduced the Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics degree program in 2017, making the institution one of the best places to earn a Master of Data Science degree in Ireland. The college offers the program in the Nation Center of Geocomputation under the university’s departments of Mathematics and Statistics and Computer Science.

The master’s program takes one year to complete if you study full-time and two years when studying part-time. Under the program, you will learn the fundamentals of data science as well as statistical machine learning. You will also need to submit a thesis before graduating. To qualify for the program, you need Bachelors with 65% or a CGPA of 6.5 in addition to ELTS/TOEFL/PTE exams. The tuition cost for the Masters of Science in Data Science and Analytics is €17,500.

5. Letterkenny Institute of Technology

Established in 1972, Letterkenny Institute of Technology is located in Letterkenny and offers a Master of Science in Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. The duration of the program is one year for full-time students and two years for part-time students. During the study, students learn the processes of examining and interpreting large data sets to uncover insights. You also learn to enable computer systems to come up with independent decisions.

The tuition cost for the program is €10,000. Additionally, you need ELTS/TOEFL/PTE, as well as a 6.0 CGPA to qualify for the program. A Higher Diploma in Computing also makes you eligible to apply. If you wish to pursue the program without an honors degree but have relevant experience in the field, you can apply through the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). One-week bridging courses are also available.

A Masters of Data Science degree in Ireland gives you a competitive advantage in the job market and propels you towards career excellence in data science and related fields. With the above information, you can choose the best college for your postgraduate education and begin your journey towards career advancement.

How to Properly Store Student Computer Data to Avoid Losing it During a Breakdown

As a student, it can feel frustrating when you lose important school notes because of a breakdown. Lost information will lead to losing plenty of effort and time to recover or restore the information. 

This is why it’s important to store your data on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device that you don’t want to lose. You need a backup strategy that’s part of your “cyber hygiene.” Here, you will learn some tips for how to properly store your data so it won’t get compromised. 

Create a data backup

A data backup is an archive or a copy of the important files stored on your devices, including your phone, tablet, and computer. With a data backup, you can easily restore the files when something happens that causes you to lose your data. Creating a data backup gives you the assurance that your information is completely safe. It will eliminate any stress you might feel when you realize that all of your treasured memories and hard work will be gone forever. 

The main reason for backing up your files is to have a secure place where you store your important information, whether these be treasured photos of your loved ones, academic documents, and more. In case your devices break down, you can easily restore your files using the data backup.whether it’s a photo or a deleted file in Microsoft 365. Learn more here about how to recover a deleted item in Microsoft 365.

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While you’re in college, part of your learning process is to complete various coursework along with all of the other students in your class. Whenever you write something important, make sure to save writing in different places, especially if your deadline is still far off. You can also use StudyClerk professional essay writing help while learning. This is a professional service that employs professional writers who can create written works on virtually any topic under the sun. Reach out to them when you need help.

Store files on your hard drive

With important data and files, it’s advisable to become proactive instead of reactive. This means that you should take preventive measures to keep your computer’s data protected no matter what type of hard drive you have installed. 

If your hard drive gets damaged, you can still recover lost data by taking out the hard drive from your computer, then connecting it to another device like a laptop or a desktop computer. Doing this allows you to see if your files got damaged or not. If they’re still there, make sure to back them up right away. If your hard drive has been completely corrupted, you can try to retrieve your data using data recovery software. For this, it’s recommended to ask a professional to do this for you.

Get more storage space

You may save some money by only choosing to store data that you cannot replace. But if you can afford data storage, it’s better to back everything up on your device. In doing this, you can determine what data storage options are ideal with the different types of data you have. For instance, if something happens at home, you might lose a physical data backup device like a removable media device. But the data you have backed up in online storage Google Drive won’t. 

Therefore, it makes sense that you should store irreplaceable information in the option that you’re not likely to lose it. Then you won’t have to choose between the two options. Store your data in both options is the safest bet since you won’t lose your data no matter what happens.

Backup before deleting

It’s normal for computer users to update, create, delete, and save files on their devices. But sometimes, files get overwritten or deleted unintentionally. Even with precise computers, we are still humans who make mistakes. Fortunately, there are some safety measures you can take advantage of. One such feature is the Recycle Bin, where you can still recover your files if you delete them accidentally. 

But there might be situations where you can’t depend on the Recycle Bin either. Such situations include when you delete files from drives or when you delete files that are too big for the capacity of your recycle bin. This can also happen when you press Shift + Delete, which deletes your files permanently or when you delete files using the Windows Command Prompt. Therefore, before deleting files, you should back them up first.

Conclusion

The most important things when using networks and devices are the data you have created and stored there. While you can always reinstall operating systems and applications, user-created data is a different story. This is why you should always store important data safely.

Author’s Bio: Alisia Stren is one of the leading writers and editors with a publishing startup and is the key person there in the company’s success. Her success in publishing work and in her freelancing academic writing gigs comes mainly from the high-quality training programs she has attended. Her hobbies include clay modeling, pencil sketching and playing dart games.