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)

The Oracle Sun Repercussion Discussion Begins

I just started following sfearthquakes on twitter, a useful service that provides the scoop whenever we get a temblor in norcal. If it followed biz earthquakes in Silicon Valley, it'd be reporting on a magnitude 7.0 event, maybe higher, today. For the repercussions from the Oracle Sun deal have just begun, and there are several fault lines along which major aftershocks could no doubt occur. The major threads in the repercussion discussion are: * What is the future of MySql? John Dvorak was all over this angle more than a year ago, with a column that at the time sounded, frankly, paranoid, but which now looks incredibly brilliant and prescient: http://bit.ly/15lYnG. (As he said in a twitter post today, "not to brag, but I nailed something here.") * Will Oracle now get real close to HP, and provide a blockbuster competitor to IBM? ZDNet's Dana Gardner has thought this and o... (more)

Oracle-Sun: Latest 10-Q SEC Filing by Sun Notes "Potential Violations"

On page 40 of its latest 10-Q filing with the SEC, Sun notes that it may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, quotes a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing as saying that potential violations are usually uncovered when companies are doing due diligence ahead of an acquisition. So that suggests that it could have surfaced during IBM’s due diligence since, as far as anyone knows, Oracle never did any due diligence on Sun. The filing doesn't specify when the “potential violations” happened or over how long a period of time they occurred, merely that during fiscal 2009, which started last July, Sun “identified activities in a certain foreign country that may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).” The filing says Sun “initiated an independent investigation with the assistance of outside... (more)

New Release of Quest Toad for Oracle Offers Enhancements to Reduce Risk

Today's economy requires IT management to justify the cost of every purchase while ensuring their teams are more productive, agile and versatile than ever before. These pressures filter down to the individual developer, administrator and analyst, who often have to do the work of two or three people. And in the database world, a Big Data and Cloud revolution is changing the way database professionals develop access, manage, and analyze data. Amidst this sea of change, the majority of Fortune 500 companies and more than 2 million individual database professionals continue to rely on one tool as they have for nearly 15 years. With the release of version 11, Toad for Oracle again proves why it is the most popular, most comprehensive tool for Oracle database management on the market today. Toad for Oracle 11 gives developers a far more flexible and intuitive way to per... (more)

CCID Consulting: China’s Engineering Construction Project Management Software Sector Sees Great Momentum

Over the past decade, China's engineering construction industry has kept a high average annual growth rate of over 20%. The gross output of the construction industry in 2011 reached RMB11.7734 trillion and its value added accounted for 6.79% of China’s GDP that year. Guided by China's overall strategy of integrating informatization and industrialization and driven by the vigorous supports of the governments' policies and the enterprises’ urge for enhanced core competitiveness, more and more engineering construction enterprises have geared for engineering project management informatization. The sector now has the following features. I. Rapid Growth Based on its long-term monitoring of and study on China’s engineering construction project management software, CCID Consulting believes that the market will achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27% in the next... (more)

Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Market - Worldwide Forecasts and Analysis (2013 -- 2018)

NEW YORK, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Market - Worldwide Forecasts and Analysis (2013 – 2018) http://www.reportlinker.com/p01120907/Service-Delivery-Platform-SDP-Market---Worldwide-Forecasts-and-Analysis-2013-–-2018.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=VOIP In the current telecom industry, stiff competition has resulted in a decrease in profit margins for service providers. To counter this, service providers are constantly developing innovative business models. Also, the immense popularity of web apps by web based application providers, such as Google and Yahoo, has fuelled the growth of SDP implementation by the MNO's for rolling out their own app stores. In the recent years, Service Delivery Platforms have quickly gained popu... (more)

InsideView Named to the JMP Securities' 'Hot 100' List of Best Privately Held Software Companies for the Fourth Consecutive Year

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/01/13 -- InsideView, the CRM Intelligence™ leader, today announced that it has been named to the 2013 JMP Securities' 'Hot 100' List of Best Privately Held Software Companies for the fourth consecutive year. JMP Securities, a full-service investment bank, and its software research team honored a list of 100 profiles of the leading private companies throughout various sectors of the software industry. The award underscores a record year of revenue growth and broad customer adoption of InsideView products in 2012. "We are honored to be named to JMP's 'Hot 100' List of Best Privately Held Software Companies," said Umberto Milletti, founder and CEO of InsideView. "InsideView's growth can be attributed to our broadly-adopted CRM Intelligence Platform and the changing nature of sales and marketing. CRM Intelligence is imperative f... (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)

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Now Open

Early Bird Savings Cloud Expo Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength. The 5th International Cloud Expo, to be held April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is fast approaching. Topics on which submission are welcome include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested examples below). Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud: submit your speaking propos... (more)

Cloud Expo 2011 East To Attract 10,000 Delegates and 200 Exhibitors

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL TODAY! The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship &... (more)

AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Kicks Off in New York City

In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York City, the speaker lineup is as usual dripping with real-world expertise. The distinguished Speaker Faculty is headlined by Oracle's Ashish Mohindroo, whose Opening Keynote on "Breaking the Collaboration Barrier with Rich Enterprise Applications" set the tone for two intense days of breakout sessions across three parallel tracks. According to Mohindroo and Oracle, Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs) promise breakthrough capabilities and services for achieving higher levels of personal and team productivity throughout your enterprise. "Consumer web and mobile technologies are setting high standards for wha... (more)