Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Leveraging AI for Mobile Enterprise Applications Mobile device usage has increased exponentially during the past several years, as consumers rely on handhelds for everything from news and weather to banking and purchases. What can we expect in the next few years? The way in which we interact with our devices will fundamentally change, as businesses leverage Artificial Intelligence. We already see this taking shape as businesses leverage AI for cost savings and customer responsiveness. This trend will continue, as AI is used for more sophisticated patterns, and chatbots replace the traditional mobile apps. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Meiner, an Engineering Director at Oracle, looked at this evolution of mobile computing, along with the underlying enterprise technolog... (more)

In 2014 Big Data Investments Will Account for Nearly $30 Billion - Eventually Accounting for $76 Billion by 2020 End

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)

Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing

Behind every cloud service or cloud-based solution, there are real people... A robust ecosystem of solutions providers has emerged around cloud computing. But who are the CEOs & CTOs behind those providers, who are the internal and external entrepreneurs driving companies involved in the Cloud, who are the leading engineers, developers, analysts, researchers, marketing professionals, authors...who, in short, are the people behind the cloud? This list will be updated weekly between now and November 4-7, 2013, when 13th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley opens its doors in the Santa Clara Convention Center, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Here are some highly prominent "Cloud People" to kick off with... RANDY BIAS | @randybias "Randy Bias is visionary. He sees things others don't." [Emphasis added.] That is how Mårten Mickos puts it, as succinctly as ever.... (more)

Finding New Life For SOA in the Cloud

We’ve been having quite a few discussions with analysts over the past few months on the subject of “cloud”. The interesting thing about these discussions is the vast array of points of view from which those analysts are viewing “cloud”. Some are focused on the network aspects, others on pricing/differentiation, and some are even very focused on what “cloud” means to applications – and the organizations that will, allegedly, take advantage of the cloud as a means of application deployment. One such analyst is Daryl Plummer of Gartner. Daryl has always been very application focused so it’s always a pleasure to speak with him and, of late, read what he has to say via his blog. (Daryl is also a cartoonist, and has turned his interests in that area on the cloud, resulting in “G-Men”. If you haven’t yet, take a gander. He’s quite talented.) The last time we spoke to Daryl... (more)

GovIT Expo Highlights Cloud Computing

I'm happy to announce my appointment by SYS-CON to be the Technical Chair of the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. This event is a 1-day deep dive into how cloud computing is changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being held October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC, builds on the success of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo. Data storage, security and software services are among the major themes of the technical program. During one of the event sessions, I will also do a presentation on recent developments in Tactical Cloud Computing. This technology branch refers to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements. Use cases could include: “Cloudbursting” to support cyclic data processing requirements; Establishing a... (more)

SAP Gains 3M as New Customer

ST. PAUL, Minn. – March 01, 2010 – One of the world’s largest brands has selected SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) as its enterprise standard software provider to unify its global business processes. 3M is rolling out SAP® Business Suite 7 software as it phases out some of its legacy applications at sites around the world. Along with its growing portfolio of acquired companies offering innovative products from healthcare and highway safety to office products and abrasives and adhesives, 3M has inherited these companies’ business software installations, which currently run distinct processes from the shop floor, to the supply chain, to sales and reporting. The company is now unifying its IT landscape on SAP Business Suite to orchestrate business processes in an integrated operating model and gain clearer insight across its global operations. “Providing innovative solutions to ou... (more)

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of March 9, 2014

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Cyber Security News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here! With support from the Indian government, a new mobile phone early warning system will be launched in India in April to alert millions of people to potential disasters such as tsunamis and typhoons.  The system has the ability to send immediate SMS messages to all mobile phones in a designated locality, providing precise... (more)

Wipro to Provide Run SAP Based FlexDelivery Enterprise Application Support for Aquarion Water Company

BANGALORE, India, September 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that it has entered into a three year agreement to provide SAP enterprise applications management services for the Aquarion Water Company (AWC), the largest investor-owned water utility in New England and among the seven largest water utilities in United States. The announcement comes close on the heels of Wipro being rated as a Leader in SAP implementation services by an independent research firm - The Forrester Wave(TM): SAP Implementation Providers, Q3 2009. Moreover, Wipro became the first SAP Partner to be Certified Globally in Implementation of Run SAP(R) Methodology. Under the agreement, Wipro will provide its competency based FlexDelivery model in conjunction with Run SAP Methodology to provide business, te... (more)

Research and Markets: Enterprise Mobile Strategies Report: Plan New Ways of Improving Productivity through the Latest Developments in Enterprise Mobile Data

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dbbc9c/enterprise_mobile) has announced the addition of the "Enterprise Mobile Strategies" report to their offering. Enterprise Mobile Strategies is a report to help large organisations plan new ways of improving productivity through the latest developments in enterprise mobile data. It explains the many of elements in a complete enterprise solution, the decisions that IT executives need to take and how the alternatives compare. The report also helps anyone understand more fully the positioning of different mobile wireless technologies and services from an enterprise viewpoint. The report saves the time and cost of attending a myriad of seminars or researching this complex market in-house. Drawing from long experience of the IT industry and board-level client presentations, BRC has sifted large qu... (more)

New MySQL/PostgreSQL Distribution: ExtSQL Provides Usage Accounting

LYONS, N.Y., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Many MySQL(R) and PostgreSQL DBAs are frustrated by their inability to account for high server usage. The engineers at Software Workshop had similar feelings when trying to find 'usage hogs' among web hosting clients. Relying on years of expertise, Software Workshop developed their own modifications to Open Source MySQL and called it ExtSQL(R). It gives DBAs a simple way to monitor activity by individual users, database, or even connection. ExtSQL has new commands built into the server as an extension to the SQL language, e.g. SHOW STATISTICS select, insert FROM user HISTORY -- display the number of select and insert statements issued per hour by each user. Kelly Button, a senior admin stated, "We'd see a usage spike, but it was hard to track down to a user. ExtSQL makes monitoring easy by storing historical data and high usa... (more)

Ripley Entertainment Believes in Silver Peak Systems for WAN Optimization

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/19/10 -- Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data center class Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization, today announced that Ripley Entertainment, Inc., a global leader in location-based entertainment, has selected Silver Peak's NX appliances to lower WAN bandwidth costs and improve application performance across the company's global WAN. With Silver Peak's WAN optimization solution, Ripley's Entertainment Inc. is avoiding costly WAN upgrades, while improving employee productivity by optimizing the performance of virtual desktop applications across the company's global WAN. Silver Peak employs real-time network optimization techniques to maximize application performance across the WAN while minimizing IT operational costs. These techniques include: -- Network Acceleration to overcome WAN latency -- Network Integrity to correct pack... (more)