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)

Re: JDOM XSLT TransformerConfigurationException

Hi Michael and Robert,   Thanks for reponding to this question.   You are right about it my Java application is having diffulty reading stateStyleSheet.xsl. I have overcame it by moving it to a new project and suspects that the order of jar files in CLASSPATH were in the wrong order. Nevertheless, I now encountered another issue this time:   java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.         at org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipChar(Unknown Source)         at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)         at org.apache..xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragme... (more)

How 12 Million People Brand Your Company 27.3 Million Times Every Day

Twitter on Ulitzer That’s 12 million people engaged in 27.3 million conversations on Twitter every day.  They are branding your company even if they are not mentioning you. That kind of branding is called “ignoring the non-entity.” In financial social media marketing and every other industry it’s the branding of the invisible. This increased and increasing volume of “conversation” is indicative of the heightened adoption of social media in general and reflects a significant shift in how marketers approach customers.  The shift from talking “at” customers to having a conversation “with” them has begun in earnest. Watch Mad Men on AMC and see the difference between an ad monologue to many and a one-on-one conversation. Brands no longer say to their customers what they are. Rather, it is the customers themselves who are saying to the brand, “Here’s what you are to me.... (more)

Cloudy Xmas cards and new year’s predictions

At the end of the year - and in this case the end of a decade - I thought it made sense to look back at what has been and try and predict what may be. Many already have named 2010 the year of Cloud Computing, so I decided to call on Google Trends to put this into a little perspective. Below you see the results, I expect you may be as (pleasantly) surprised as I was. As I personally spend the last decade dabbling in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Service Management (ITIL) and Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) I used these as anchor points for this perspective. In addition I decided to include Cloud Computing's slightly more mature nephew (SaaS) also in to the fold.  The epiphany for me personally was that it explained why I had found it so hard to choose between SOA, PPM and ITIL (design, build and run). But enough about me. The rise of Cloud Computing’s fr... (more)

HP announced the release of the first server created exclusively for Big Data, ProLiant SL4500 Gen8

Currently several major organizations have encountered the problem of managing large volumes of data. These organizations have so far tried to develop solutions on established architectures, but unfortunately do not get the results you expect to have with high workloads representing Big Data processing, which grows ever more rapidly. Perhaps this new server HP announced today, elProLiant Gen8 SL4500, can help with this problem, as it was created solely thinking Big Data processing. ProLiant SL4500 is a server that includes processing, networking and storage units, which in theory and according to HP, optimize the performance of applications such as Hadoop and OpenStack. HP says that this server uses roughly 60% less energy, requires fewer wires and takes up half the floor space of other servers. It has a modular design that allows for various types of storage configurat... (more)

Visualisation – the key that unlocks data’s value?

As the Big Data hype machine continues its relentless attempt to gobble everything in its path, new business units and entire new domains buying into the promise find themselves faced with unanticipated data volume and complexity. They see the potential for data-based decision making, but still face (short-term?) challenges in actually managing, analysing or interpreting the data they now collect. Early iterations of core tools such as Hadoop were raw and unpolished, driving the emergence of a niche group of developers and data analysts with the specialist skills to cope. Those tools become easier to use with each new release, which goes some way toward countering panicked claims of a massively yawning skills gap. There is, of course, still a need for people with specialist knowledge, hard-won skills, and painfully gained experience. But you no longer (if you eve... (more)

New Webinar: High Performance Predictive Analytics in R and Hadoop

This coming Tuesday, August 27, our US Chief Scientist Mario Inchosa will reveal some details of the forthcoming in-Hadoop predictive analytics capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise 7, due for release later this year. Here's the abtract of his webinar, High Performance Predictive Analytics in R and Hadoop: Hadoop is rapidly being adopted as a major platform for storing and managing massive amounts of data, and for computing descriptive and query types of analytics on that data. However, it has a reputation for not being a suitable environment for high performance complex iterative algorithms such as logistic regression, generalized linear models, and decision trees. At Revolution Analytics, we think that reputation is unjustified, and in this webinar, you will learn the approach we have taken to porting our suite of High Performance Analytics algorithms to run nat... (more)

Open Source Census Gaining Traction Globally as Enterprises Gain Visibility Into Their Own Open Source Usage

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/16/08 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced that after its first two months, more than 220,000 open source package/project installations have been discovered. Additionally several organizations have joined The Open Source Census at various levels, including: ActiveState, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft, Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, and OSAlt.com (Open Source as Alternative). "The Open Source Census gives enterprises the chance, for the first time and at no cost, to see what open source software is already installed on their computers and to compare themselves to similar companies," said Kim Weins, senior vice president of products and marketing OpenLogic. "Having this visibility helps with everything from open s... (more)

SpringSource Partners With Satyam to Optimize Enterprise Solutions

SAN MATEO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/24/08 -- SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, today announced a strategic partnership with Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY), a leading global business consulting and information technology services provider. The alliance reduces risk for Satyam customers who can streamline projects utilizing certified SpringSource software. Customers also benefit from SpringSource software and support, which optimizes development efficiency and improves production success. Additionally, Satyam professionals have direct access to SpringSource experts, and can leverage these professionals for best practice guidance. "We look forward to optimizing Spring-enabled solutions for our global customers," said GS Raju, head of Satyam's Java Practice. "We use Spring-based products and enlist SpringSource... (more)

Webtide and Terracotta Simplify Deployment and Lower Cost of Building Reliable Web Applications

Webtide, the main developer of leading open source Java web container Jetty, and Terracotta, a leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, today announced a partnership agreement whereby Webtide will maintain the Jetty integration with Terracotta’s clustering solution for Java applications and distribute the integrated solution with the Jetty application server itself to provide a simpler deployment process for end users. The partnership links two rapidly growing Java development communities more closely and provides customers with an integrated, continuously tested solution to seamlessly scale Jetty-based web applications more easily. “This partnership creates great value for both of the Terracotta and Jetty communities. Jetty offers tremendous advantages for the back-end of scaling rich internet applications, with a proven ability to scale to... (more)

OpenLogic Expands OpenLogic Exchange Enterprise Edition to Help Customers Identify Cost Savings From Using Open Source Software

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 07/28/09 -- OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced new capabilities within OpenLogic Exchange Enterprise Edition (OLEX EE) that allow users to quickly identify specific cost savings that could be realized by moving from proprietary to open source software. OpenLogic has also completed a study comparing open source support and subscription costs against similar proprietary software, and has calculated savings of 60-90% from using open source databases, application servers and web servers. "With the current economic pressures, companies are looking for opportunities to use open source software wherever they can to reduce costs. When enterprise-grade SLA commercial support is available at a reasonable price, open source software continues ... (more)