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)

Orbitz and the Macs: Signals, not segmentation

By now you've probably heard about the fact that Orbitz users accessing the site via Macs are seeing more expensive hotel options when they search. But it seems worth clearing up a couple of fallacies. First, it's not as if the same hotel room is being offered at a higher prices to Mac users. (So no, using Windows to access Orbitz won't get you a better deal.) Orbitz offers the same search results to Windows and Mac users, but Mac users may see more expensive hotels higher earlier in the search results. And the reason why this is happening isn't segmentation, as some have claimed.  From what I remember of the Orbitz presentation at the R user conference a couple of years ago, all sorts of signals go into the R model to try and predict which hotels a given Orbitz user might be interested in: WebTrends data, search history, purchase history, planned travel dates ... a... (more)

Intermap Technologies 2009 Q4 and Year-End Conference Call Notice

Intermap Technologies Corporation, (TSX: IMP) issued notice today that it will release its 2009 fourth quarter and year-end financial results after the close of trading on Thursday, February 25, 2010. A conference call to review the results will take place the same day at 4:30 pm ET (2:30 pm MT). Management will speak on behalf of the Company, providing an update on the Intermap’s progress on its NEXTMap business model. A question-and-answer period will follow the review of the financial results. To participate in the call, please dial +1-416-340-8018 or +1-866-223-7781 approximately 10 minutes prior to the conference call. A recording of the conference call will be available through March 10, 2010. Please dial +1-416-695-5800 or +1-800-408-3053 and provide the password 7310672 to listen to the rebroadcast. About Intermap Technologies Intermap (TSX: IMP.TO) is a pre... (more)

FireFly Seismic System to Be Deployed by Apache in Argentina's Wine Country

HOUSTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) today announced that its cableless land seismic acquisition system, FireFly(®), will be used by Apache Corporation to acquire data on two separate projects in the Mendoza region of Argentina. Deployment will be covered by the terms of the original launch partnership agreement signed among ION, BP, and Apache. The Apache projects in Mendoza will utilize conventional geophones, marking the first time FireFly has been deployed using analog seismic sensors. Geophones remain the predominant sensor type used in land acquisition today. Dave Monk, Director of Geophysics at Apache, commented, "We look forward to using FireFly again. The survey areas are environmentally sensitive, with agricultural developments, vineyards, and urban settings. FireFly should be well suited to the operationa... (more)

Technip successfully completed the new Apache II vessel at its Finnish yard facing a low workload

Regulatory News: Technip (Paris:TEC) (ISIN:FR0000131708) announced that it has successfully completed the construction of its new vessel, the Apache II, at its construction yard in Pori, Finland. The work involved transferring the Apache’s high-performance pipelay equipment on to a new-built hull acquired in 2009, as a result of which the Pori yard has delivered a state of the art vessel. Strategically positioned to address the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and West Africa markets, the Pori yard has in particular the requisite technical abilities to deliver all types of offshore floating platforms for the oil and gas industry from Spars to TLP(1). Pori continues to work on a variety of smaller contracts and to bid on sizeable projects but, as previously indicated, no new significant projects are expected to be awarded in the short term and accordingly an optimi... (more)

/C O R R E C T I O N -- Paragon Software Group/

In the news release, NETGEAR Selects Paragon Software's NTFS for Linux for NETGEAR's N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Routers, issued 03-Apr-2012 by Paragon Software Group over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the contact email address at the end of the release should be "[email protected]" rather than "[email protected]" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: NETGEAR Selects Paragon Software's NTFS for Linux for NETGEAR's N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit RoutersHigh Speed Access to Windows-formatted Storage Devices from Linux-based Network Products IRVINE, Calif., April 3, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- Storage software developer Paragon Software Group today announced that NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and s... (more)

Big Data on Tap™ with Release of SQLstream s-Server 3.0

SQLstream Inc. (www.sqlstream.com), a pioneer of real-time Big Data, today delivered the new generation of its streaming Big Data management platform. SQLstream s-Server 3.0 is the fastest and most scalable release of the company’s flagship product, introducing high performance distributed stream processing, Google BigQuery integration, and enhanced platform manageability and streaming application development. SQLstream’s Big Data on Tap™ platform architecture is built from the ground up for real-time, streaming Big Data applications. The new release, with its real-time data collection, transformation and sharing capabilities, enables businesses to respond even faster to their operational Big Data. SQLstream s-Server 3.0 queries log file, sensor and service data in real-time, joins and transforms data streams using only the standard SQL language, and shares results... (more)

Engaging the Millennials: Leading Marketers Address Key Challenges in Digital Age

Pacific Conferences to Run Its 9th Conference on Marketing to Digital-Savvy Youths in Singapore and Indonesia Singapore, July 16, 2013 - (ACN Newswire) - The Millennials are one of the most challenging yet rewarding target audience of APAC marketers. Born with technology as their sixth sense, these "digital natives" are a generation of early adopters who shape trends that will eventually permeate into the rest of the population. With more than half of the APAC population under the age of 35 and their ever-increasing buying power, opportunities are boundless. However, this market also proves to be a hard nettle to crack. Samuel Jacoba, Intel's Southeast Asia Strategy Ideation and Social Media Lead, shared, "Millennials have one of the shortest attention spans in the history of man. This generation continues to befuddle marketers who have tried all the tricks in the boo... (more)

Actian Integrates ParAccel Big Data Analytics Platform to Speed Time to Analytic Value

Actian Corporation (“Actian”), a next-generation leader in big data analytics, announced the release of new ParAccel Dataflow Operators that integrate the recently announced ParAccel Big Data Analytics Platform, further unifying its technology offerings. This new innovation ties together the data management capabilities of Hadoop with the high-performance analytic processing of the ParAccel Big Data Analytic Platform, enabling organizations to achieve better price performance and quicker time to analytic value. The ParAccel Big Data Analytics Platform provides a single, visual interface to load, prepare, enrich and analyze data natively on various Apache Hadoop distributions. Users can now process data directly on Hadoop and move the data to the ParAccel Big Data Analytics Platform’s high-performance analytics engine without any MapReduce or SQL programming, rapidly ... (more)

Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan: 20 Providers, Led by IBM, Dominate the Big Data Market, but More Than 300 Vendors Compete

-- Big Data analytics and business intelligence market almost doubles by 2017, with market consolidation coming MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Data is an intrinsic component of any organization, ushering in the "Golden Age of Big Data" as companies learn to harness data to enhance operational and revenue performance.  Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan identified more than 20 large solution providers (out of approximately 340 providers analyzed) who control much of the Big Data, analytics and business intelligence (BI) market. So behemoths rule, but hundreds of providers dot the battlefield.  Smaller players typically offer a higher degree of specialization and more affordable services, as new offerings continually enter the market. New analysis from Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan's The World Moves Fast, and Data is Driving – Part 2, Competitive ... (more)

The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem. I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)