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Big Data – Business Value
With every passing day, Big Data assumes new strength as a significant force in our industry. Someone even said that Big Data is transforming business same way IT did few decades ago. The overall revenue (includes hardware, software, service) for … Continue reading
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley – Democratization of IT: IT as Service Provider
Cloud computing is disrupting the world of IT as we know it. Unlike previous platform shifts, this one enables users to bypass central IT. Whether you call it “Rogue IT” or “Getting My Job Done,” end users taking IT into … Continue reading
Bulgaria, Hong Kong Among Diverse ICT Leaders
Yesterday, I listed the countries which performed best overall in our latest research at the Tau Institute. Our mission at the Tau Institute is to produce a sophisticated ranking that takes into account relative progress of the nations of the … Continue reading
Cloud Expo: Transforming Cloud Infrastructure to Support Big Data
As companies turn to the cloud to store, manage and access Big Data, it’s clear that its benefits are tempered by technical bottlenecks: transfer performance over WANs, HTTP throughput within remote infrastructures, and size limitations of cloud object stores. In … Continue reading
Apple Nicks Samsung’s Oxygen Supply: Reuters
Apple has reportedly cut the number of memory chips it has on order for its new iPhone from Samsung, its biggest supplier and the biggest reason it’s in court all the time trying to stop the Korean company from ripping … Continue reading
Microsoft Stiffening Its China Ranks
By next July Microsoft means to hire another thousand people in China where it already has a staff of 4,500, according to what Ralph Haupter, CEO of Microsoft’s Greater China unit, told the press in Beijing. The hires will be … Continue reading
Software as a Service (SaaS), Security and Risk Management: Part 1
As cloud computing technologies and offerings mature and evolve in its services to customers, one common consumer use will be that of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. My earlier articles have touched on the various models, risks, security … Continue reading
The Disruptor Framework: A Concurrency Framework for Java
Let’s start with the basic question: What is the disruptor? The disruptor is a concurrency framework for Java that allows data sharing between threads. The age old way of coding a producer-consumer model is to use a queue as the … Continue reading
Verizon CEO: Samsung is the Elephant in the Room
Samsung Electronics could be a major player if it launched its own mobile operating system in a big way, according to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. “There’s a potential elephant in the room with Samsung,” McAdam said at an investor conference … Continue reading
Mobile Healthcare in China Gathers Momentum
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 … Continue reading