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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)
Google is not only taking on rivals Yahoo, MSN, and AOL in the instant
messaging space by combining internet telephony and IM in its new Google Talk
service, but also challenging early market leader Skype in the telephony
space. Media Metrix says AOL has more than 40 million users on its AIM and
ICQ networks, Yahoo has 20 million users, and MSN Messenger has 14 million.
Skype claims to have 51 million users worldwide.
Google is apparently banking on a more approach than those being taken by its
rivals in its bid to asser itself into these two 21st century communications
markets. Google Talk is based on an open technology called Jabber, created to
help different networks talk to each other. And Google is looking for
megajabber. "We are going to try to be the first in the world to connect
everyone to everyone," said Georges Harik, director of new products at
Google, ... (more)
I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having
said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because
they can only give you answers."
Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would
share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application
pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered.
From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed.
What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX?
Eric Miraglia of Yahoo!
1. (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the
iPhone SDK vs using AJAX?
2. How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to
make it faster?
3. When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for
my rich web apps? Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)
Weaker-than-expected ad spending in the financial, travel and retail areas
led to a 23% decline in fourth-quarter net income for Yahoo! to $205.7
million, or 15 cents a share, from $268.7 million, or 19 cents, a year
earlier, the company said yesterday. It announced its first layoffs since
2001: 7% of its workforce will need to go!
By restructuring in this way, the company hopes - according to chairman Jerry
Wang - to return to growth in 2009. Yang said in a conference call.
"This is a pivotal time for Yahoo's business and we have a unique window of
opportunity right now to make the necessary, game-changing investments," Wang
said in a statement.
The cutting of 1,000 of its 14,300 employees would start in February, Yahoo!
said.
... (more)
Nexus Q
Google unveiled its media-streaming glowing orb to many oohs and ahhs,
followed by head-scratches. The thing looks cool. And it sounds good, both in
concept and fidelity. But two major questions remain: Who is it for, and how
well does it work? Why It Matters: It matters because this is the first
product like this we’ve seen out of Google. The Nexus Q is a ball of
multimedia hardware that’s supposed to enhance the lives of the legions of
Android users. It’s a slick and easy way to play movies, music, and YouTube
videos through your TV and home stereo setup, and it gives you a reason to
buy stuff from the Google Play store instead of its competitors. Read the
full story at Gizmodo.
... (more)
This past week hubby and I had the most delightful summer adventure of a
different kind, we went Segway Gliding. That's what it is called when you go
for a drive on a Segway. A few years ago at a Health Show I had the
opportunity to do 5 minutes of Segway gliding and I fell in love with it.
First stop at a small waterfall on the BLT trail Then a few months ago I came
across a local ad for Segway tours in Nova Scotia. I made a mental note and
told myself that hubby and I would do this some time in August. Well, last
Thursday was that day. It was early in the morning on hot summer's day.
We met up with Max from Segway NS at the BLT (Beechville - Lakeside -
Timberlea Trail) at trail on what once was the rail bed.
What is a Segway Anyway? Here is the info from Wikipedia:
The Segway PT is a two-wheeled self-balancing battery-powered electric
vehicle invented by Dean Kamen. It ... (more)
What is the Largest Single Cost Category in Your IT Hardware Budget?
If you're like most of the enterprise customer organizations that were
surveyed when we were designing Windows Server 2012, your answer is probably
the same as theirs: STORAGE! For the organizations we surveyed, we found that
as much as 60% of their annual hardware budgets were allocated to expensive
hardware SAN solutions due to ever-increasing storage requirements.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some of that budget back for other IT
projects? YES! We agree too ... that's why the server team included "Storage
Spaces" in Windows Server 2012!
Get Ready for "Storage Spaces"!
"Storage Spaces" is a new storage virtualization technology that's included
in Windows Server 2012 and our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 to provide SAN-like
storage capabilities and performance using commodity hardware components,
such as ... (more)
Three of our workplace experts has weighed in on the following question from
a reader to give you three points of view. For other editions of our 360°
Answers series, please click here. Here’s the...
Follow The Fast Track on Twitter: http://twitter.com/intuitquickbase &
Google+ at https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106377964303068533661/+quickbase
... (more)
Since Marissa Mayer took over at Yahoo, she has made a steady push to rebuild
the photo-sharing community at Flickr by overhauling its products. Flickr is
getting its most dramatic makeover to date on Thursday, with a total redesign
of the apps for iOS and Android that make it a more direct competitor to
Instagram and other photo-sharing services. It takes the easy-capture and
sharing features of Instagram and pairs them with the worry-free backup of
Dropbox and Google+. The result is an app that is faster and more fun to use,
even as its imitation of features that others made famous will likely draw
charges of copying. Previous incarnations of Flickr for mobile devices felt
more like boiled-down versions of the website than an app built for capturing
and browsing images. Flickr 3.0 improves on its predecessors with a faster,
more fluid feed that replaces the previ... (more)
Zvents.com Joins Zap2it Entertainment Network
CHICAGO, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribune Media Services (TMS), producer of the
leading entertainment news and listings website Zap2it.com, today announced
an expansion of its recently launched partnership with Zvents, the innovative
local search engine and event listings service. The new agreement calls for
the Zap2it national advertising sales team to exclusively represent display
advertising inventory and sponsorship opportunities on the Zvents destination
web site.
Zvents.com (http://www.zvents.com) helps consumers discover things to do and
places to go by offering timely, local information on movies in theaters,
events, concerts, festivals, restaurants and more. The site features
high-quality content from four sources: the web at-large, consumers, content
affiliates and the Zvents Media Network. Zvents' listings are... (more)
BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/17/09 -- WordStream has been selected as a
"Promise Award" winner in the category of "Online Advertising" for the 2009
MITX Technology Awards. The annual awards program recognizes achievements in
the development and implementation of innovative technologies. Winners were
announced in ten categories, as well as several "Best of" awards and the new
PricewaterCoopers Promise Awards, at a sold out ceremony attended by more
than 350 industry professionals held on June 16, 2009, at the Copley Westin
in Boston.
WordStream is a provider of keyword management solutions for continuously
optimizing and expanding Pay Per Click (PPC) and Search Engine Optimization
(SEO) efforts, involving large numbers of keywords. WordStream provides a
scalable, private, online keyword workbench for conducting keyword discovery,
keyword suggestion, keyword rese... (more)
CloudEXPO Stories By Pat Romanski  Signs of a shift in the usage of public clouds are everywhere. Previously, as organizations outgrew old IT methods, the natural answer was to try the public cloud approach; however, the public platform alone is not a complete solution. Complaints include unpredictable/escalating costs and mounting security concerns in the public cloud. Ultimately, public cloud adoption can ultimately mean a shift of IT pains instead of a resolution.
That's why the move to hybrid, custom, and multi-cloud will become more and more prevalent. At the heart of this technology trend exists a custom solution to meet the needs and concerns of enterprise organizations, including compliance, security, and cost issues. The "new normal" of enterprise clients is a world of hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, and it is slowly changing the IT technology landscape. Better tools, better management, and easier adoption a... Feb. 18, 2019 04:15 PM EST | By Zakia Bouachraoui  The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a non-profit organization that provides business support services to companies expanding to Japan. With the support of JETRO's dedicated staff, clients can incorporate their business; receive visa, immigration, and HR support; find dedicated office space; identify local government subsidies; get tailored market studies; and more. Feb. 18, 2019 04:00 PM EST | By Yeshim Deniz  While a hybrid cloud can ease that transition, designing and deploy that hybrid cloud still offers challenges for organizations concerned about lack of available cloud skillsets within their organization. Managed service providers offer a unique opportunity to fill those gaps and get organizations of all sizes on a hybrid cloud that meets their comfort level, while delivering enhanced benefits for cost, efficiency, agility, mobility, and elasticity. Feb. 18, 2019 03:30 PM EST | By Elizabeth White  Signs of a shift in the usage of public clouds are everywhere
Previously, as organizations outgrew old IT methods, the natural answer was to try the public cloud approach; however, the public platform alone is not a complete solutionThe move to hybrid, custom, and multi-cloud will become more and more prevalent
At the heart of this technology trend exists a custom solution to meet the needs and concerns of these organizations, including compliance, security, and cost issues
Blending Service and Deployment Models Feb. 18, 2019 03:30 PM EST | By Zakia Bouachraoui  When a company wants to develop an application, it must worry about many aspects: selecting the infrastructure, building the technical stack, defining the storage strategy, configuring networks, setting up monitoring and logging, and on top of that, the company needs to worry about high availability, flexibility, scalability, data processing, machine learning, etc. Going to the cloud infrastructure can help you solving these problems to a level, but what if we have a better way to do things.
As a pioneer in serverless notion, Google Cloud offers a complete platform for each of those necessities letting users to just write code, send messages, assign jobs, build models, and gain insights without deploying a single machine. So cloud compute on its own is not enough, we need to think about all of the pieces we need to move architecture from the bottom, up towards the top of the stack. Wi... Feb. 18, 2019 02:30 PM EST |
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DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want...
Modern software design has fundamentally changed how we manage applications, causing many to turn to containers as the new virtual machine f...
If you are part of the cloud development community, you certainly know about “serverless computing,” almost a misnomer. Because it implies there are no servers which is untrue. However the servers are hidden from the developers. This model eliminates operational complexity and increases developer productivity.
We came from monolithic computing to client-server to services to microservices to th...
Docker is sweeping across startups and enterprises alike, changing the way we build and ship applications. It's the most prominent and widely known software container platform, and it's particularly useful for eliminating common challenges when collaborating on code (like the "it works on my machine" phenomenon that most devs know all too well). With Docker, you can run and manage apps side-by-sid...
The KCSP program is a pre-qualified tier of vetted service providers that offer Kubernetes support, consulting, professional services and training for organizations embarking on their Kubernetes journey. The KCSP program ensures that enterprises get the support they're looking for to roll out new applications more quickly and more efficiently than before, while feeling secure that there's a truste...
In an age of borderless networks, security for the cloud and security for the corporate network can no longer be separated. Security teams are now presented with the challenge of monitoring and controlling access to these cloud environments, as they represent yet another frontier for cyber-attacks. Complete visibility has never been more important-or more difficult. Powered by AI, Darktrace's Ente...
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