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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.;
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"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)
Data Warehouse as a Service
Recently Amazon announced the availability of Redshift Data warehouse as a
Service as a beta offering. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed,
petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective
to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business
intelligence tools. It's optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred
gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per
year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
Architecture Behind Redshift
Any data warehouse service meant to serve data of petabyte scale should have
a robust architecture as its backbone. The following are the salient features
of Redshift service.
Shared Nothing Architecture: As indicated in one of my earlier articles,
Cloud Database Scale Out Using Shared Nothing Architecture, the... (more)
Eptica Enterprise Suite 9.0 increases operational excellence and deepens
customer understanding
Reading, 19 November 2013, Eptica today launched Enterprise Suite 9.0, which
transforms customer service by applying linguistics and natural language
processing across all digital channels and languages.
By using linguistic search, automatic language detection and context-based
sentiment analysis with all incoming emails, online questions and social
media messages, Eptica Enterprise Suite 9.0 enables businesses to harness the
power of linguistics to achieve operational excellence, increase satisfaction
and gain a closer understanding of customers. It delivers lasting benefits
beyond customer service, providing deep insight into the Voice of the
Customer, integrating with company Big Data programmes and underpinning
predictive analysis of customer behaviour.
Businesses to... (more)
Daegis Inc. (NASDAQ: DAEG), an eDiscovery and information management company,
today announced that Todd Wille plans to step down as President, Chief
Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors to pursue new
leadership opportunities. Timothy Bacci, Executive Chairman of the Board,
will serve as Interim CEO and work with Mr. Wille to ensure a smooth
transition, which is expected to be completed in February 2013.
The Company further announced that Chief Financial Officer Steven Bonham will
also step down in February 2013. The Board has appointed Steve Baker Interim
CFO. Mr. Baker is a Partner with Tatum, a national Executive Services
consulting company, with more than 25 years of experience. The Board will
begin the search process, starting with the CFO, and expects to have it
completed in the next 4-6 months.
Executive Chairman Timothy Bacci commented, “The... (more)
ARMONK, N.Y., March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced
the winners of its 13th annual IBM Beacon Awards, which honor Business
Partners, globally, for their information technology excellence, commitment
to industry skills and expertise, and innovative solutions based on IBM
technology and services.
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Winners of the Beacon Awards are selected by leading industry influencers and
IBM executives in 30 award areas spanning Smarter Industries, Smarter
Computing, Smarter Solutions, and Technical Excellence. The winning solutions
showcase IBM Business Partner skills and expertise in developing innovative
approaches to solving business challenges and helping clients grow.
"The IBM Beacon Award winners and finalists are IBM Business Partners who
have delivered unique and innovative solutions resulting... (more)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/12/13 -- Pure Storage, the all-flash
enterprise storage company, today announced that Riverview Hospital in
Noblesville, Indiana, has deployed the Pure Storage FlashArray to improve
patient database response time and accelerate VDI sessions for its 1,200
employees. The FlashArray has enabled Riverview to accelerate its most
performance-sensitive application used by hundreds of its physicians and
nurses across 20 facilities. The dramatic improvement in the performance of
database applications and virtual desktops provided by the FlashArray has
increased the speed of accessing patient data and enhanced the quality of
service that doctors provide to each patient.
As the largest employer in its region, Riverview treats nearly 300,000
patients a year. The hospital's IT organization is a progressive team that
has embraced virtualiz... (more)
ITDatabase and Business Wire today highlighted numerous calls for speakers,
awards and other opportunities and deadlines that tech industry
communications and marketing professionals should be aware of, including:
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Innovation By Design Awards (Fast Company)
Awards Info
http://www.fastcodesign.com/section/innovation-by-design-awards/enter-the-awards
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe
Speaker Submissions
https://docs.google.com/a/itdatabase.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdESE5NbTRsekJlT1ZIRElEUTIyRWc6MA
TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco
Speaker Submissions
https://docs.google.com/a/itdatabase.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF9YX3AtbzJzc0pvT2FBeGE0SHU2VFE6MA
Oracle OpenWorld
Call for Speakers
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/call-for-papers/information/index.html#tab
Solar Power International
Call for Speakers
https://set... (more)
GREAT FALLS, Mont., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable energy
generation and energy storage group, Gaelectric, has raised $84 million in
funding for its portfolio of on-shore wind energy projects on the island of
Ireland. The portfolio comprises 164 MW of generation capacity across 13
projects which the Group plans to develop out by 2017, representing a total
investment in the region of $325 million. Gaelectric is developing a further
pipeline of 510 MW of wind energy projects centred on Montana to supply power
markets in the Pacific North West and California within the 2014 to 2017
timeframe. Gaelectric has also concluded a framework agreement with leading
German turbine manufacturer Enercon (www.enercon.com) which will see Enercon
technology deployed on all the Gaelectric sites covered by the current
funding round for its Irish projects.
The funding is led... (more)
Time Warner Cable today announced that Philip G. Meeks will join the company
as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Business
Services, effective June 3rd. In this newly created role, Mr. Meeks will lead
the Company’s rapidly growing business services unit, which serves more
than 570,000 business customers and accounts for approximately $2 billion in
annual revenues.
Mr. Meeks will lead a team of more than 6,000 employees and oversee all
aspects of operations, sales and marketing for Business Services. Mr. Meeks
will be based in Time Warner Cable’s corporate office in New York City and
will report directly to the Company’s President and COO, Rob Marcus.
“Phil is a proven leader in the commercial telecommunications industry,
with a unique combination of telecom and cable business services
experience,” said Marcus. “Business Services is a leading d... (more)
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MetricStream's commitment to
lead and define the future of GRC culminated with the MetricStream GRC Summit
2013, which was held from April 30 – May 1, 2013 at the Mandarin Oriental
Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two-day summit brought together thought
leaders, industry practitioners, analysts, consultants, policy makers, board
directors, and CEOs to discuss the challenges, trends, and issues in
governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management. With over 50 speakers and
over 200 attendees representing more than 100 companies worldwide, the summit
was a truly one-of-a-kind GRC event.
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Former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.) set the tone for
the summit with an inspiring keynote ad... (more)
BOSTON, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Manhattan Software, the world leader in
real estate and facility management software, announced the arrival of a new
Big Data and Analytics technology solution to their global client base at
their Annual User Conference in Las Vegas. Manhattan Analytics (MA) creates
knowledge from real estate (RE) and facility management (FM) data for
industry executives making critical decisions about their property and
building portfolios. It is a unique blend of data populated by Manhattan's
CAFM and IWMS solutions, combined with other data sources (i.e., Microsoft®
Excel®, sensor and meter readings, financials, etc.). This creates a set
of "big data" that is organized and managed to allow insightful analysis on
the performance of properties in the past, present – even predictions for
the future.
"We believe that Manhattan Analytics is an i... (more)
DXWorldEXPO Digital Transformation Stories By Yeshim Deniz  Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul... Oct. 28, 2018 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,026 | By Pat Romanski  Digital transformation is about embracing digital technologies into a company's culture to better connect with its customers, automate processes, create better tools, enter new markets, etc. Such a transformation requires continuous orchestration across teams and an environment based on open collaboration and daily experiments. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Alex Casalboni, Technical (Cloud) Evangelist at Cloud Academy, explored and discussed the most urgent unsolved challenges to achieve fu... Oct. 27, 2018 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,669 | By Carmen Gonzalez  Only Adobe gives everyone - from emerging artists to global brands - everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.
Adobe Systems Incorporated develops, markets, and supports computer software products and technologies. The Company's products allow users to express and use information across all print and electronic media.
The Company's Digital Media segment provides tools and solutions that enable individuals, small and medium businesses and enterprises to cre... Oct. 27, 2018 02:30 PM EDT | By Zakia Bouachraoui  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... Oct. 27, 2018 09:15 AM EDT | By Pat Romanski  DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Nutanix has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of CloudEXPO | DevOpsSUMMIT | DXWorldEXPO New York, which will take place November 12-13, 2018 in New York City. Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform blends web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge server, storage, virtualization and networking into a resilient, softwar... Oct. 26, 2018 03:30 PM EDT | By Zakia Bouachraoui  When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it’s important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures in other areas of your application. “Fly two mistakes high” is an old adage in the radio control airplane hobby. It means, fly high enough so that if you make a mistake, you can continue flying with room to still make mistakes. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee A... Oct. 25, 2018 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 16,606 | By Elizabeth White  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... Oct. 25, 2018 10:45 AM EDT | By Yeshim Deniz  Nicolas Fierro is CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions. He is a programmer, technologist, and operations dev who has worked with Ethereum and blockchain since 2014. His knowledge in blockchain dates to when he performed dev ops services to the Ethereum Foundation as one the privileged few developers to work with the original core team in Switzerland. Oct. 25, 2018 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,710 | By Liz McMillan  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. Oct. 24, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,839 | By Liz McMillan  Daniel Jones is CTO of EngineerBetter, helping enterprises deliver value faster. Previously he was an IT consultant, indie video games developer, head of web development in the finance sector, and an award-winning martial artist. Continuous Delivery makes it possible to exploit findings of cognitive psychology and neuroscience to increase the productivity and happiness of our teams. Oct. 24, 2018 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,191 |
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Business professionals no longer wonder if they'll migrate to the cloud; it's now a matter of when. The cloud environment has proved to be a major force in transitioning to an agile business model that enables quick decisions and fast implementation that solidify customer relationships. And when the cloud is combined with the power of cognitive computing, it drives innovation and transformation that achieves astounding competitive advantage.
It cannot be overseen or regulated by any one administrator, like a government or bank. Currently, there is no government regulation on them which also means there is no government safeguards over them. Although many are looking at Bitcoin to put money into, it would be wise to proceed with caution. Regular central banks are watching it and deciding whether or not to make them illegal (Criminalize them) and therefore make them worthless and eliminate them as competition. ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) are something most have no idea as to what it means and how you utilize it. Where is the "Stamp of Approval" or "Stamp of Legitimacy" on some of these Bitcoin websites (how do you know you are not dealing with a scammer?)
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, described how NetApp de...
David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company that delivers fast, low-cost, and reliable cloud storage. Prior to Wasabi, David co-founded Carbonite, one of the world's leading cloud backup companies. A successful tech entrepreneur for more than 30 years, David got his start at ARP Instruments, a manufacturer of synthesizers for rock bands, where he worked with lea...
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, Nexum® takes a comprehensive approach to security. Nexum approaches business with one simple statement: “Do what’s right for the customer and success will follow.”
Nexum helps you mitigate risks, protect your data, increase business continuity and meet your unique business objectives by:
Detecting and preventing network threats, intrusions and disr...
There's no doubt that blockchain technology is a powerful tool for the enterprise, but bringing it mainstream has not been without challenges. As VP of Technology at 8base, Andrei is working to make developing a blockchain application accessible to anyone. With better tools, entrepreneurs and developers can work together to quickly and effectively launch applications that integrate smart contracts...
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 ...
"DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the fantastic results DevOps delivers. So I am excited to help the great team at @DevOpsSUMMIT and CloudEXPO tell the world how they can leverage this emerging disruptive trend."
Automation is turning manual or repetitive IT tasks into a thing of the past-including in the datacenter. Nutanix not only provides a world-class user interface, but also a comprehensive set of APIs to allow the automation of provisioning, data collection, and other tasks. In this session, you'll explore Nutanix APIs-from provisioning to other Day 0, Day 1 operations. Come learn about how you can ...
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