Making AI Non-Disruptive to Create Significantly Better Business Decisions Register for this session ▸ Here Disruption, Innovation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Leadership and Management hear these words all day every day... lofty goals but how do we make it real? Add to that, that simply put, people don't like change. But what if we could implement and utilize these enterprise tools in a fast and "Non-Disruptive" way, enabling us to glean insights about our business, identify and reduce exposure, risk and liability, and secure business continuity? According to a report from IBM Marketing Cloud, "10 Key Marketing Trends", 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last 24 months (since that was published in 2107, some are now suggesting that due to the accelerated velocity of data creation, that figure is actually 6 months); perhaps... (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)

[session] IoT, SDN and AI | @CloudExpo @InteractorTeam #DX #AI #IoT #SDN

Modernize Your Applications Through Novel Abstractions and Configurations Most technology leaders, contemporary and from the hardware era, are reshaping their businesses to do software. They hope to capture value from emerging technologies such as IoT, SDN, and AI. Ultimately, irrespective of the vertical, it is about deriving value from independent software applications participating in an ecosystem as one comprehensive solution. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kausik Sridhar, founder and CTO of Pulzze Systems, will discuss how given the magnitude of today's application ecosystem, tweaking existing software to stitch various components together leads to sub-optimal solutions. This definitely deserves a re-think, and paves the way for a new breed of lightweight application servers that are micro-services and DevOps ready! Speaker Bio Kausik Sridhar is a founder and ... (more)

Article: An overview of the Service Component Architecture feature pack

IBM has recently announced the "WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCA" that uses Apache Tuscany. Below is an overview article that introduces the SCA FEP and SCA in general. An introduction to open Service Component Architecture (SCA) concepts, objectives of the technology, and highlights of some key integration points that provide great value to IBM® WebSphere® Application Server V7 users. ... (more)

Is There a Data and I/O Activity Recession?

With all the focus on both domestic and international economic woes and discussion of recessions and depressions and possible future rapid inflation, recent conversations with IT professionals from organizations of all size across different industry sectors and geographies prompted the question, is there also a data and I/O activity recession? Here's the premise, if you listen to current economic and financial reports as well as employment information, the immediate conclusion is that yes, there should also be an I recession in the form of contraction in the amount of data being processed, moved and stored which would also impact I/O (e.g. DAS,, LAN, SAN, FAN or NAS, MAN, WAN) networking activity as well. After all, the server, storage, I/O and networking vendors earnings are all being impacted right? As is often the case, there is more to the story, certainly vendo... (more)

Biomni Announces API for ServiceNow

Consumerize Any IT Service - Physical, Virtual or Cloud - with Independent IT Service Catalog for ServiceDesk ITSM SERVICE DESK UK - Apr, 24, 2012 - Biomni, the pioneer of User-Centric Enterprise Service Catalog and Request Fulfillment solutions, today announced integration with ServiceNow, making the powerful ITSM solution even more consumable by businesses end-user customers. With the new Application Programming Interface (API) to Biomni's independent, customer-focused service catalog, IT Departments easily and quickly optimize ServiceNow operations and provide a single point of contact for viewing and requesting new IT products and services. Biomni offers integration options to the most widely deployed ITSM suites, Cloud/Virtualization vendors, Systems Management products and Financial/Human Resources systems. The new ServiceNow API is immediately available throu... (more)

Vendor Consortium Launches Cloud Revenues Program

24 Oct, 2012, Toronto — Vendors including Cohesive FT, ACIS, Guardtime and PerspecSys have joined the CloudBestPractices.net (CBPN) to launch a Cloud Revenues Program for hosting providers. Following an intense three year in-depth research program into key customer segments for cloud enablement including government, healthcare, small business, and enterprise sectors; the Cloud Revenues Program offers hosting providers the ability to successfully launch new Cloud services into these high-growth markets. The CBPN Cloud Revenues Program will organize vendor partners into new solution suites that hosting providers can deliver across their existing Cloud platforms and launch into these sectors. The Cloud Revenues Program also provides a complete support program including Cloud application technical blueprints, template product plans with revenue models, Cloud migration... (more)

Rethinking a stale IT governance model for the cloud era

The rise of cloud computing is a perfect opportunity to rethink your IT governance model in a fundamental way. Read the first part of this column for a discussion of how to reshape IT governance to add value, rather than hold a business back. Many enterprises place prohibitions on the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and other cloud services, despite the overwhelming evidence that these platforms enable innovation infinitely more than most of internal IT, and are every bit as secure as current systems — often, more secure. Rather than the five guiding principles of the COBIT framework that encourage these prohibitions, IT governance should have only one: Exceed stakeholder expectations for agility, innovation, quality and efficiency to drive business value creation. How is that done while ensuring the proper allocation of capital, the right level of risk man... (more)

Research and Markets: Ten Core Disciplines Required for Cloud Management

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a1ef91/ten_core_disciplin) has announced the addition of the "Ten Core Disciplines Required for Cloud Management" report to their offering. The shift in acquisition of business and IT resources from on-premise, licensed software solutions to Software as a Service (SaaS), and from on-premise data centre infrastructure to Public and Private Cloud deployment, will transform the information technology sector. This transformation will result in a multi-level ecosystem, ranging from technology suppliers through Cloud Computing providers to business services providers For many organizations, the most common mistake in transitioning to Cloud based computing is assuming that it is all about the technology. Organizational issues and people continues to provide the majority of costs and equally the majority of ... (more)

NewMarket Technology, Inc. Eyes East Africa to Expand Its Nearly $100 Million in Global Sales

DALLAS, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 09/15/09 -- NewMarket Technology, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NWMT), a global systems integrator and emerging technology provider, has released an exclusive presentation on its expansion plans into East Africa. The twelve-year-old Company has grown to nearly $100 million in technology and service sales across North America, China, Southeast Asia and Latin America, with a focus on some of the leading emerging economies in those regions that have a large demand for technology hardware, software and services. In the different regions of the globe it operates, NewMarket sells, installs and supports technologies from leading technology providers such as Microsoft, Oracle, and HP as well as some lesser known, but leading edge emerging technology. The Company is now focused on the emerging economies of East Africa, starting with Kenya. Kenya already ha... (more)

Polycom Honored by Prestigious InformationWeek 500 List for Second Consecutive Year

MONARCH BEACH, CA and PLEASANTON, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/15/09 -- Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced that it has once again been named to the 2009 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. Polycom has earned this recognition for two consecutive years. This year, InformationWeek editors honored Polycom for its next-gen Web project, which involved retooling the company's online presence including a number of intranet and extranet sites. "The goal of our project was to radically change the online experience for Polycom's customers, partners and employees," said Polycom CIO Glenn Noga. "Since launching the project, we've seen significant cost savings due to streamlined and improved globalization practices. Additionally, our... (more)