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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)

Virtualization - Google Puts a Price on Its Cloud

Google has opened up App Engine to one and all. The cloud-sharing gambit meant to entice developers to build their web applications on the same infrastructure that powers Google’s own applications – and in the process locks them into Google instead of Microsoft – has been in beta for the last six weeks and limited to 10,000 developers. Google says that another 150,000 developers are on the waiting list and so on Wednesday, the first day of Google I/O, the company’s two-day developer event in San Francisco, it took down the barricade. Google also disclosed what it’s going to charge for App Engine starting later this year. The product will be free to get started, and during the current preview release developers will continue to be restricted to the free quota of 500MB of storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about five million pagevie... (more)

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of March 9, 2014

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here! The global mobile health market is expected to reach $49 billion by 2020, according to a study by Grand View Research.  Read Original Content The Phone Oximeter is a new smartphone device consisting of a software application and a non-invasive light sensor that attaches to a patient's finger and directs light waves through a patient's fingertip to measure blood oxygen levels. Th... (more)

Wyndham Hotel Group se Associará ao Corinthia Group na Europa, África e Oriente Médio

PARSIPPANY, Nova Jérsei, 10 de agosto /PRNewswire/ -- O Wyndham Hotel Group e o Corinthia Group of Companies assinaram hoje um contrato em princípio para gestão conjunta de hotéis sob as marcas Wyndham(R) e Ramada(R) na Europa, África e Oriente Médio (com abreviação em inglês EMEA). (Logotipo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060810/NYTH118LOGO-ahttp://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060810/NYTH118LOGO-b ) Steven A. Rudnitsky, presidente e diretor geral do Wyndham Hotel Group, e Alfred Pisani, diretor geral e presidente do conselho do Corinthia Group, A assinaram hoje o contrato na sede do Corinthia Group em Malta. Segundo os termos do acordo, 15 hotéis de propriedade do Corinthia existentes na Europa, África e Mediterrâneo adotarão as novas marcas como hotéis Ramada Plaza e Wyndham, e certas instalações sob a marca Corinthia passarão a ser afiliadas a Wyndham ... (more)

Loftware Names 21-Year Supply Chain Management Executive to Lead U.K. Corporate Office

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Loftware, Inc., announced today that its UK-based corporate office has appointed John Bradshaw to the senior position of Managing Director - EMEA. In this position, reporting to Loftware Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Michael Rennell, Mr. Bradshaw will apply his long term experience in the successful development and expansion of enterprise software vendors and consulting businesses across Europe. In a career spanning 21 years, Mr. Bradshaw has specialized in supply chain management software, multi-channel order management software, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and a wide variety of enterprise software technologies and services. In commenting on the appointment, Mr. Rennell said, "It is clear from his experience and track record that John is a results-driven sales professional with the proven int... (more)

AccelOps Participates in CloudSlam'10

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/25/10 -- AccelOps, the integrated data center and cloud service management leader, today announced participation in CloudSlam'10 -- the world's premier virtual conference on cloud computing. Uniquely packaged as a virtual appliance or SaaS, AccelOps increases service uptime and operational efficiency by providing the most integrated solution for data center and cloud service management. The 2nd annual CloudSlam'10 virtual conference is designed to promote a collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in the industry. CloudSlam will be hosted online from March 23-25, 2010. A panel led by Bojan Simic, principle analyst at Info-Trac Research, will lead an end user roundtable discussion today at 4:30 P.M. MDT regarding "Infrastructure Monitoring as a Service." Session: "Integrated Data Center Monitoring - Merging Silo... (more)

New Thin Client Features Extend Devon IT VDI Blaster PC Repurposing Software

Devon IT, a leading provider of thin client and VDI hardware and software solutions, today announced the availability of the latest release of its VDI Blaster™ software. VDI Blaster now comes with DeTOS 7.1., the latest version of its Devon Terminal Operating System (DeTOS). The release includes powerful utility upgrades such as local printer support, the latest Citrix Receiver 12, and a new first boot wizard. Devon IT VDI Blaster™ is the most popular software tool that enables a PC to act as a thin client that is currently available in the growing VDI market. VDI Blaster™ converts PCs into secure and centrally manageable desktop appliances, enables businesses and organizations of all sizes to realize the benefits of thin client computing, and extends capital investment in PCs. VDI Blaster™ offers the benefits of a thin client at a smaller cost than a new device. ... (more)

Guess? Selects Trend Micro for Comprehensive Data Center and Endpoint Security

CUPERTINO, Calif., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Switching to Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader, has raised the level of confidence in security for fashion giant Guess? – for the technology staffers who spend less time battling threats, for managers who appreciate that threats are stopped in the cloud, and for employees who don't have to think about security and who can focus instead on creating trend-setting designs for the fashion-conscious. The 30-year-old international fashion industry leader designs, markets, distributes and licenses contemporary apparel, denim, handbags, watches, footwear and other related consumer products. Guess? operates over 431 retail stores in the United States and Canada and 723 retail stores outside of North America. Its technology team faced the challenge of managing a large-scale geograp... (more)

Halon Virtual Spam Prevention Achieves 7th Consecutive VBSpam Award

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2009, the annual VBSpam review has been the most thorough review of anti-spam software. In the seventh consecutive review, Halon VSP won the VBSpam award for the best anti-spam software. After years of working in the field, the Virus Bulletin team started to perform regular reviews of the best software and services for keeping spam out of corporate email. The VBSpam test consists of two parts where two parallel and continues streams of spam email are sent through each spam blocking software under review. At the same time, hundreds of legit email are also sent through the same spam blocking software to measure the amount of false positives (if any). In the first VBSpam review of 2012, Halon Security's award winning email and spam gateway Virtual Spam Prevention was approved its seventh consecutive VBSpam award.... (more)

The Boston Red Sox Selects Comcast Business Class Metro Ethernet to Power its Ballparks

Comcast Corporation, one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today announced the Boston Red Sox have selected Comcast Business Class Metro Ethernet to deliver high-speed communications at both Boston’s historic Fenway Park and the team’s new spring training facility, JetBlue Park at Fenway South, which opened this Spring Training season in Fort Myers, Florida. The Ethernet Service will deliver secure, reliable, high-performance Internet connectivity to support members of the media, Red Sox staff and provide in-game Internet service for fans of one of Major League Baseball’s most-storied franchises. “The sports industry has changed dramatically in the last 15 years in its use of technology – from the use of video files in scouting players to the need for high-speed connectivity at the park so media ... (more)

Nexenta Systems Goes Big on OpenStack

OpenStack Design Summit & Conference—Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today made four significant announcements at the OpenStack conference, at which it is attending and presenting. These announcements include: Nexenta has increased its contributions to OpenStack to support openness in cloud management. The company today released NexentaStor Cloud Archive Plug-in, which delivers seamless backup and restore capabilities for Nexenta customers to and from the most popular cloud storage providers, including OpenStack-based clouds. Nexenta announced a technology preview of storage-as-a-service software that demonstrates the first integration of ZFS-based storage and object storage. It is available at cloudstorage.nexenta.com. Finally, the company has delivered to the OpenStack community additions to the Swift interfaces, making them even more... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
Digital Transformation is much more than a buzzword. The radical shift to digital mechanisms for almost every process is evident across all industries and verticals. This is often especially true in financial services, where the legacy environment is many times unable to keep up with the rapidly shifting demands of the consumer. The constant pressure to provide complete, omnichannel delivery of customer-facing solutions to meet both regulatory and customer demands is putting enormous pressure on...
IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the h...
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...
Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by...
Charles Araujo is an industry analyst, internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. As Principal Analyst with Intellyx, he writes, speaks and advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. He is also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation and a sought after keynote speaker. He has been a regular contributor to both InformationWeek and CIO Insight...
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...
To Really Work for Enterprises, MultiCloud Adoption Requires Far Better and Inclusive Cloud Monitoring and Cost Management … But How? Overwhelmingly, even as enterprises have adopted cloud computing and are expanding to multi-cloud computing, IT leaders remain concerned about how to monitor, manage and control costs across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ...
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
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...