DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

The Human Body and Data Center Automation | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #DataCenter

The Human Body and Data Center Automation - Part 2 Disclaimer: I am an IT guy and my knowledge on human body is limited to my daughter's high school biology class book and information obtained from search engines. So, excuse me if any of the information below is not represented accurately !! Human body is the most complex machine ever created. With a complex network of interconnected organs, millions of cells and the most advanced processor, human body is the most automated system in this planet. In this article, we will draw comparisons between working of a human body to that of a data center. We will draw parallels between human body automation to data center automation and explain different levels of automation we need to drive in data centers. This article is divided into four parts covering each of body main functions and drawing parallels on automation. This i... (more)

Whose Data Is It? | @CloudExpo #IoT #AI #ML #DL #M2M #BigData #Analytics

Many times, sports have been at the leading edge of data analytics.  The book “Moneyball” was one of the first popular books to bring the basic concepts behind data analytics and data science to the general audience.  Fantasy leagues, sabermetrics and even games like “Strat-O-Matic” baseball and basketball provided an introduction into basic statistical concepts. And it now seems that sports, in this case the National Basketball Association (NBA), are breaking new ground with another data analytics topic: who owns the data?  The National Basketball Players Association recently banned NBA teams from using a player’s wearable data in contract negotiations or other transactions (see “NBA Bans Teams From Using Wearable Data In Contract Negotiations”). Maybe after the bitter fights professional and college athletes had about their “likeness” being used for advertising... (more)

SMAC News Weekly – Week of December 30, 2012

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week. Each of us is impacted by SMAC.  We all use mobile devices and social networking solutions like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  We use search engines, maps and weather apps, all of which use analytics and are in the cloud.  SMAC is the combination of all of these trends coming together on mobile devices.  This convergence is impacting businesses in many different ways.  We will do our best to capture these by reporting on the SMAC trends, numbers and forecasts in this weekly newsletter. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Other than its... (more)

13 Energy Startups to consider, Pinterest buys Punchfork and more

By RyanKamauff Here are the top tech news and stories of the day. 13 energy data startups to watch in 2013 - GigaOM has a great list of Big Data startups to worry about in the near future. These big data startups focus on helping energy firms get better at saving money, and saving energy. Via GigaOM, more here. Pinterest Acquires And Will Shut Down Recipe Discovery Site Punchfork - The Punchfork site was founded in 2010, and added Pinterest to their site, which shared cooking recipes with anyone. The entire site is soon closing, with APIs and mobile apps shut down as well. Pinterest is purchasing it for $138M, their first purchase, so what’s next for the both of them? Via TechCrunch, more here. Will 2013 be another year of Apple iteration masquerading as innovation? BetaNews asks the question of Apple, if they will continue to iterate instead of innovate. It is a fa... (more)

Microsoft and DoD strike a deal, Cybersecurity issues unveiled at Commerce and more

By RyanKamauff Here’s the top cyber news and stories of the day. Big Data in Demand for Intelligence Community - The National Security Agency (NSA) is poised to deliver an initial cloud computing capability for the entire intelligence community (IC) that will significantly enhance cybersecurity and mission performance, and unleash the power of innovation for intelligence agencies, Lonny Anderson, NSA chief information officer, says. There is no better use case for the IC, than big data, and it’s good to see how deeply they are warming to it. Via AFCEA Signal, more here. Library of Congress has archived 170 billion tweets … and counting - While this isn’t quite news, it’s pretty interesting. Twitter and the LofC are working together to archive ever public tweet (even the deleted ones!). One day it will be interesting to see some cool big data analytics over 20 years ... (more)

Aspect Enterprise Solutions Continues Growth In West Africa Announcing Deal With Market Leader Oando Supply & Trading

Commodity trading and risk management Cloud provider Aspect Enterprise Solutions today reaffirms its leadership position in the key West African market with the announcement of a major CTRM deal with the region's Oando Supply & Trading. Nigeria's largest independent and privately owned oil trading company, Oando made the switch to AspectCTRM for trading and risk management in a phased install beginning at its London office followed by Lagos. Aspect's system now forms a major part of the workflow for front, and mid to back-office staff across the three facilities. Aspect undertook integration of its own system with Oando's Oracle Financials back-office accounting and ledger solution. Aspect also migrated in existing data from Oando's previous legacy CTRM/ETRM system. Oando chose the Aspect solution in a competitive tender involving several other established vendors ... (more)

R in the news: Interviews with Revolution Analytics execs

Here are three recent news articles that feature interviews with members of the Revolution Analytics team talking about the importance of the R language: In Forbes, CEO Dave Rich talks to Gil Press about the business landscape for Big Data. In the article, Dave says: SAS and SPSS remind me of Cobol and Fortran circa 1995. The scientific and academic institutions are relying on R and over time, this will be like the switch from Cobol to Java. The kids today are learning R and it will have the run for the next forty years that SAS and SPSS had for the last forty. Sramana Mitra's Thought Leaders in Big Data series features an in-depth interview with Dave and Chief Strategy Officer Michele Chambers. Michele says: There is a new generation of tools, methodologies, and resources that are being trained at universities today. That is all being done around [the programming lan... (more)

Are your analyst, blogger, media or press requests being read?

Are your analyst, blogger, media or press requests being read? By Greg Schulz Are you a marketing or public relations, press or analyst relations or social media expert and your email messages, notes, updates or requests get overlooked? Are you in the first paragraph or couple of sentences indicating who you are representing, what the info or request is about as well as what call to action you are looking for? If you are doing what is done in many of the requests for coverage or meetings or even announcements, you may be getting overlooked resulting in a missed opportunity, that is unless your goal is to simply gauge how many requests you send out. Now do I have your attention? Time for some tough love. Almost every day (not as much on weekends) my email inbox gets filled up with notes from vendor marketing and public relations (PR) firms organizations telling abou... (more)

Big Data, IoT, API...Newer Technologies Protected by Older Security

Nowadays every single CIO, CTO, or business executive s captivated by these three new technologies: Big Data, API management and IoTs (Internet of Things). Every single organizational executive that I speak with confirms that they either have current projects that are actively using these technologies, or they are in the planning stages and are about to embark on the mission soon. Though the underlying need and purpose served are unique to each of these technologies, they all have one thing common. They all necessitate newer security models and security tools to serve any organization well. I will explain that in a bit, but let us see what is the value added by these technologies to any organization: IoT – is specific data collection points that employ sensors placed anywhere and everywhere. Most often times the information collected by these devices are sensitive... (more)

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust wins public sector project of the year at the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software

Latest award follows a series of other accolades from other schemes: DM Awards [Gold Project of the Year], Techworld Awards 2012 [Finalist] and UK IT Industry Awards 2012 [Highly Commended] July 4, 2013 - CCube Solutions today announces that Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has won public sector project of the year in the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software. Used by around 3,000 health professionals on a daily basis, the Trust has stopped using paper health records in clinical practice and installed an electronic document management system from CCube Solutions, along with custom portal to provide clinicians an electronic medical record. Brian McKenna, Computer Weekly's business applications editor, says, "Electronic medical records have been a big challenge for NHS IT and have dogged the service for years. Aintree has implemen... (more)