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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)

API Economy By @AkanaInc | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #Microservices #InternetOfThings

"People are a lot more knowledgeable about APIs now. There are two types of people who work with APIs - IT people who want to use APIs for something internal and the product managers who want to do something outside APIs for people to connect to them," explained Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at SOA Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Internet of Things, Data and APIs When something as simple as an API can integrate massive amounts of data into, and through, a wide variety of applications, any company can be a digital enterprise. There is a perception that some industries are using technology to innovate, while others languish in antiquated ways of running their business. But in our massively connected age, it's rare to find examples where technology isn't... (more)

KEMP announces first load balancer and ADC to run natively within Cisco UCS

Cisco IVT Certified LoadMaster operating system for Unified Computing System (UCS) enhances enterprise application performance and availability 24 June 2013 - KEMP Technologies has announced the availability of its LoadMaster Operating System Software (LMOS) for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The KEMP LMOS for UCS is fully Cisco IVT (Interoperability Validation Testing) Certified and is the first ADC and Load Balancer OS to run natively within the UCS blade server fabric without requiring a server virtualization hypervisor. Cisco customers can now install KEMP's high-performance load balancer operating system with Layer 7 traffic management and optimization on any Cisco UCS server to increase application performance and reduce network traffic congestion through its tight integration with the UCS fabric. More than 20,000 enterprises worldwide already rely ... (more)

Equity Auto Sales in Plant City, Florida Adds U-Haul Rentals

PLANT CITY, Fla., Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Equity Auto Sales, located at 310 Collins St. N., recently added U-Haul truck and trailer rentals to the used car sales business. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090622/LA34860LOGO-b) Click here to download the photo accompanying this press release. Families needing the finest in moving services now will have increased convenience and a shorter distance to travel when moving, which not only will make their move easier but also will have the positive effect of reducing the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere. U-Haul partnering with business owners across North America to increase convenience for customers while helping our environment is just one of the programs that support U-Haul Company's Corporate Sustainability initiatives. Equity Auto Sales can now offer its customers a variety of movi... (more)

Northern Virginia Technology Council Submits 2013 Legislative Agenda to Virginia Policymakers

Council urges policies and investments focused on diversifying Virginia's technology economy HERNDON, Va., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Jan. 4, the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) – the largest technology council in the nation – sent letters to all members of the Virginia General Assembly and to Gov. Bob McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Cabinet members and other senior officials of the McDonnell administration outlining NVTC's 2013 legislative priorities. The letter highlights the importance of further advancing the gains Virginia has made in building a globally branded technology business climate by passing 2013 budget and policy actions that strengthen and diversify Virginia's technology economy. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20071106/DC06626LOGO) Specifically, NVTC's 2013 Legislative Agenda u... (more)

EMC Qualifies Attunity File Replication and Transfer Solutions for EMC Greenplum Hadoop (GP HD)

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, January 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU), a leading provider of information availability software solutions, announced today that EMC Greenplum has officially qualified Attunity RepliWeb for Enterprise File Replication (EFR) and Attunity Managed File Transfer (MFT) with EMC Greenplum Hadoop (HD). Attunity RepliWeb for EFR and Attunity MFT were designed as high-performance, easy-to-use solutions for automating, managing and accelerating the process of making data available for Big Data Analytics with Hadoop. The Attunity products, launched earlier this year, are the first and only solutions currently qualified by EMC for Greenplum HD. Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, has rapidly emerged as one of the leading solutions for Big Data analytics across unstructured data. However,... (more)

Vitria Operational Intelligence Provides O2 with Real-time Visibility into Customer Experience

  -- Real-time Visualization of Big Data in Motion: Network Events and Customer & Device Data LONDON, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vitria Technology, Inc., The Operational Intelligence Company, today announced that O2, the commercial brand of Telefonica UK, is deploying Vitria Operational Intelligence to gain greater insight into customer experience. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120920/SF77971LOGO) Vitria Operational Intelligence was selected and deployed by O2 to gain real-time visibility into customer experience and help meet the challenge of addressing customer-facing issues as they happen. Vitria Operational Intelligence (OI) enables real-time visibility into real-time Big Data, complex events and business processes. Vitria OI provides continuous insight into the customer experience by combining and correlating high-volume, high-rate, network eve... (more)

Die Personalleiter Europas verraten, wie sie ihre Personalaufgaben umgestaltet haben

LONDON, July 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Die zwei größten Herausforderungen für Führungskräfte im Personalwesen sind derzeit die beschleunigte Umsetzung der weltweiten Umgestaltung im Personalwesen sowie die Durchsetzung der strategischen Agenda des Personalmanagements. Andrew Winnemore, Leiter der Abteilung Global Human Resources Services bei Nokia, erklärte jüngst in einem Interview mit SSON, dass es bei der Bereitstellung von Personaldienstleistungen drei nächste Schritte gibt: Umgestaltung: "Wir sind derzeit dabei, unsere Policies zu modernisieren... wie mit Compliance und Missmanagement zukünftig umgegangen wird, wird damit immer wichtiger in der Agenda." Technologie: "Wir haben in den letzten paar Jahren viel Konsolidierung bei der Technologie gesehen... [doch] in den Systemen ist weitere Konsolidierung nötig." Einblick: "Konsolidierung der Unternehmensfunktione... (more)

Europe's HR Directors Reveal How They Have Transformed Their HR Function

LONDON, July 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerating their global HR transformation and pushing the strategic agenda of HR management are two of the greatest challenges currently being faced by senior HR executives. As Andrew Winnemore, Senior Director of Global Human Resources Services at Nokia, stated in a recent interview with SSON, there are three next steps in HR services delivery: Transformation: "we are still going through the process of streamlining our policies…how you manage compliance and mismanagement then starts to become higher and higher up the agenda." Technology: "We have seen a lot of consolidation on the technology in the last couple of years...[but] there's still more consolidation needed in the systems." Insight: "consolidating corporate functions [into the] Global Business Services model where we have tighter integration - it's not just about be... (more)

Les directeurs des RH en Europe révèlent comment ils ont transformé leur fonction dans les RH

LONDRES, July 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Accélérer leur transformation mondiale des RH (Ressources humaines) et pousser l'agenda stratégique de la gestion des RH sont deux des plus grands défis auxquels sont aujourd'hui confrontés les cadres supérieurs du secteur des RH. Comme l'a déclaré Andrew Winnemore, Directeur principal des Services mondiaux de ressources humaines chez Nokia, lors d'une récente interview avec SSON, on compte trois étapes à venir dans la fourniture de services de RH : Transformation : « nous sommes encore engagés dans le processus de rationalisation de nos politiques…la manière avec laquelle vous gérez la conformité et la mauvaise gestion commence alors à prendre de plus en plus d'importance dans l'agenda ». Technologie : « nous avons constaté une importante consolidation au niveau de la technologie au cours des deux dernières années... [mais]... (more)

AT&T Launches First Windows Smartphone for GoPhone, the Nokia Lumia 520, on July 26

DALLAS, July 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning July 26, AT&T;* will offer customers even more choice with the launch of the Nokia Lumia 520, the first Windows Phone in the AT&T; GoPhone portfolio. The 4G-capable Nokia Lumia 520 will be available for $99.99. The Lumia 520 offers the intuitive functionality of the Windows Operating System and the outstanding imaging capabilities found on other smartphones in the Nokia Lumia family, all in a more affordable package. You can take great photos with the 5-megapixel camera and Nokia digital camera lenses, add motion to your pictures with Cinemagraph, or capture super-wide-angled pictures to take in more of the scene. In addition, you can use Smart Shoot to capture five sequential images and select different faces and portions of the photos to compile into one final group picture. The super sensitive 4-inch IPS LCD WVGA disp... (more)

DXWorldEXPO Digital Transformation Stories
Cloud is the motor for innovation and digital transformation. CIOs will run 25% of total application workloads in the cloud by the end of 2018, based on recent Morgan Stanley report. Having the right enterprise cloud strategy in place, often in a multi cloud environment, also helps companies become a more intelligent business. Companies that master this path have something in common: they create a culture of continuous innovation. In his presentation, Dilipkumar will outline the latest resear...
Enterprises have taken advantage of IoT to achieve important revenue and cost advantages. What is less apparent is how incumbent enterprises operating at scale have, following success with IoT, built analytic, operations management and software development capabilities - ranging from autonomous vehicles to manageable robotics installations. They have embraced these capabilities as if they were Silicon Valley startups.
Dynatrace is an application performance management software company with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence. Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more busine...
ICC is a computer systems integrator and server manufacturing company focused on developing products and product appliances to meet a wide range of computational needs for many industries. Their solutions provide benefits across many environments, such as datacenter deployment, HPC, workstations, storage networks and standalone server installations. ICC has been in business for over 23 years and their phenomenal range of clients include multinational corporations, universities, and small busines...
Chris Matthieu is the President & CEO of Computes, inc. He brings 30 years of experience in development and launches of disruptive technologies to create new market opportunities as well as enhance enterprise product portfolios with emerging technologies. His most recent venture was Octoblu, a cross-protocol Internet of Things (IoT) mesh network platform, acquired by Citrix. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and ...
The deluge of IoT sensor data collected from connected devices and the powerful AI required to make that data actionable are giving rise to a hybrid ecosystem in which cloud, on-prem and edge processes become interweaved. Attendees will learn how emerging composable infrastructure solutions deliver the adaptive architecture needed to manage this new data reality. Machine learning algorithms can better anticipate data storms and automate resources to support surges, including fully scalable GPU-c...
Cloud-enabled transformation has evolved from cost saving measure to business innovation strategy -- one that combines the cloud with cognitive capabilities to drive market disruption. Learn how you can achieve the insight and agility you need to gain a competitive advantage. Industry-acclaimed CTO and cloud expert, Shankar Kalyana presents. Only the most exceptional IBMers are appointed with the rare distinction of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the company. Shankar has also receive...
Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogge...
Serveless Architectures brings the ability to independently scale, deploy and heal based on workloads and move away from monolithic designs. From the front-end, middle-ware and back-end layers, serverless workloads potentially have a larger security risk surface due to the many moving pieces. This talk will focus on key areas to consider for securing end to end, from dev to prod. We will discuss patterns for end to end TLS, session management, scaling to absorb attacks and mitigation techniques.
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...