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)

Who Should Be America's First CTO?

Add Your Own Nomination Here... Eric Schmidt? Bill Joy? Steve Ballmer? Bruce Schneier? Ray Kurzweil? Richard Stallman? Vint Cerf? Mitch Kapor? Tom Perkins? As former IAC executive Julius Genachowski was appointed last week to President Elect Obama's transition team, speculation is growing as to the possibility that Genachowski or someone like him may one day soon become the country's first Chief Technology Officer. Barack Obama's transition team also includes Sonal Shah of Google.org and Donald Gips, VP of corporate strategy and development for Level 3 Communications. The notion of a CTO was first raised in Obama's Tech and Innovation Plan, produced by a group that was chaired by Genachowski. In his Presidential announcement speech in Springfield, IL, back in 2007, Obama said: "Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age. Let's se... (more)

Cloud Expo New York Preview: The Economic Impact of GovCloud on IT

Cloud Expo 2011 New York $500 Savings here! In December 2010, the U.S. Federal government awarded cloud computing contracts that totaled over $2B in value. It also announced a mandatory "cloud first" policy, requiring every agency to deploy at least three of its services to the cloud. This transition represents a monumental change in Federal IT strategy. It may also threaten the business model of some of the world's largest IT providers. In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Kevin Jackson, Engineering Fellow with NJVC, will explore the economic impact of GovCloud from the position of the information technology and professional services industries. He will also explore the new business strategies for this new environment. Speaker Bio: Kevin Jackson is an Engineering Fellow with NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions providers suppor... (more)

Cloud Expo Day Four: Still Very Cloudy in New York

The economics of the cloud, the rise of the mobile workforce and the consumerization of IT are making the transformation to the cloud a foregone conclusion within enterprise IT. But not every company, organization or government agency is necessarily keeping up. Is yours? Whether your company is seeking to play at the SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS level of the Cloud Computing ecosystem, the surest way to get yourself and your company fully "Cloud-ready" is by attending Cloud Expo New York – being held this week, June 6 - 9, 2011, at The Javits Center In New York City. A representative sampler (only) of this week''s technical program, which is now in its fourth day, is included below. The full schedule for the entire four days is here. Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC Getting Ready for Cloud Expo 2011 New York Cloud Expo offers a non-stop 4-day technical program with 175+ ... (more)

I Spent A Year Adding Content & My Competitors Nicked My Rankings

A quick follow up to my SEO fight club article, and somewhat tongue in cheek. I just spent a year adding original content which people have told me is really useful, getting relevant links from those in my niche, going for quality of links rather than quantity of crap links, not keyword stuffing, staying within Google guidelines, not buying links from crappy host companies in far-away-lands, nofollowing links to bad neighbourhoods, not hiding text or links, preventing Google’s index being spammed, not using my client sites to promote my own rankings. Some of my competitors now rank above me with cheap exact match domains, regurgitated content, no relevant links, crap links, keyword stuffing, flouting Google guidelines, buying links from crappy host companies in far-away-lands, links to bad neighborhoods, hiding text and links, spamming Google’s index, using client s... (more)

Web 2.0 usage by commercial companies

In my Web 2.o for Dummies posts I discussed Web 2.0 usage by commercial companies. The companies use Blogs, Virtual Worlds, and Wikies. They use YouTube videos as well. An interesting idea of a mobile device application adding human memory in remembering people is presented by a YouTube video made by IBM. It is also a good example of Web 2.0 usage by example of Web 2.0 usage by companies. ... (more)

Intel shows off concept of interactive retailing

 The press release is just an intimidating wall of text, and the copy rough going, but from what i can sort out Intel is at NRF and showing off its take on the future of digital signage in retail. It just screams show me a video (not that one is included with the release) so I searched and found a video done by the Manila Times when the same tech was being demo'd at CES. Here is what it is about: Eyeing a standards-based, interactive digital signage future, Intel Corporation demonstrated a new 7-foot-6-inch multi-user, multi-touch Intel® Intelligent Digital Signage Concept at the National Retail Federation Convention (NRF) in New York. Intel said the prototype device could change the way people interact with digital signage technology in environments such as stores, airports, banks and hotels. First revealed by Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini at the Internationa... (more)

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Are Enterprises Ready for Private SaaS & PaaS?

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! A dedicated SaaS and PaaS deployment model can support more sophisticated and multi-tiered business apps with highly customizable components. Enterprises are poised to run their key business apps in the cloud but today's solutions are designed for simple and fixed stacks. Enterprise apps that are multi-tiered and multi-languages still require manual operations. SaaS and PaaS have been gaining popularity in recent years. Why aren't all enterprises ready to adopt them? The reason is that most enterprise apps don't fit into standard SaaS and PaaS offerings due to the inflexibility of choosing components and lack of customization. As a result, thousands of enterprise apps are still running in their legacy environments, leading to inefficiency, lack of agility and higher cost. The concept of dedicated SaaS and PaaS becomes very... (more)

Report: Flickr and Vimeo Will Have Deep iOS7 Integration

In the upcoming overhaul of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, iOS 7, Apple plans to include an increased presence of third-party social networks, including Flickr and Vimeo, according to a person familiar with the software. Since the new software is yet to be even officially announced, there is a very real possibility that any feature in testing could be removed prior to the announcement, this person said (much like Facebook integration was removed from iOS 4). Last year, Apple added Facebook integration to iOS, and in 2011, the company struck a deal to integrate Twitter. Both Flickr and Vimeo will now also be integrated deeply into the new operating system, so users will be able to sign into the respective networks via iOS 7′s built-in Settings application. Like with iOS’s Facebook and Twitter ties, Apple customers will be able to log-in one time ... (more)

[eim][misc] Tagging rises

Both Facebook and Apple have announced the use of tags. Yay! Tags have continued to percolate through the ecosystem after their most auspicious introduction in Delicious.com. (Note the phrase “most auspicious”; tags have always been with us.) It’s great to see them increase both because they are a great way to get use out of the craziness while preserving it in its original form for others, and because there is great value in scaling tags, as Flickr has shown. So, yay for tags. And yay for the crazy. ... (more)

Will Apple Survive until 2021? - Revisted

Two years ago I published a post titled: Will Apple Survive until 2021? Apple is not unique. I published other Vendors Long Term Survival posts e.g. Google, Microsoft, HP, Software AG, SUN, EMC. My conclusion was: "My answer is that the probability that it will not survive is higher than the probability that the other vendors (not including Software AG and obviously not including SUN) I discussed will not survive".  My habit is to Revisit, when a significant event occurs. Waze acquisition by Google is a significant event, which should need Anti-Trust clearance. Perhaps this event, is more significant for Apple than for Google. Apple's costly and unsuccessful Maps application is lagging behind Google Maps.  Many Web pages pointed out on two losers, who tried to acquire Waze and failed:Apple and Facebook. Perhaps, there is more than one loser, but The Loser is not Facebook. Y... (more)