IBM News on Ulitzer IBM says it’s been hired to build an e-government cloud for Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, the one-time capital of South Vietnam. As a first step it’s supposed to consolidate all of the city government’s e-mail systems and web sites. The work will apparently be done in collaboration with something called Quang Trung Software City (QTSC), which let IBM the contract. QTSC will evidently run the new data center. IBM will call on the local resources it started establishing last year when it set up a cloud computing center in Vietnam located in both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. IBM is also co-operating with the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) in setting up a Vietnam Information for Science and Technology Advance Innovation Portal (VIP), an open innovation pilot program that runs on a cloud infrastructure. The new cloud is supposed ... (more)

In 2014 Big Data Investments Will Account for Nearly $30 Billion - Eventually Accounting for $76 Billion by 2020 End

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)

Lockheed Martin Team Prepared for Peak U.S. Census Data Capture Production

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 1, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With the U.S. Census now underway, Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS) team is receiving up to 12 million census forms daily, processing as many as 2.5 million forms every 24 hours and answering more than 56,000 telephone inquiries per hour during peak production expected between the end of March and April 2010. The DRIS contract was awarded in September 2005 to the Lockheed Martin team, which includes major partners and a large small business component. The DRIS team is responsible for the people, process, technology and infrastructure needed to receive, capture and standardize data from potentially more than 300 million U.S. residents as well as provide telephone assistance to support data capture efforts. The Lockheed Martin-lead team hired and trained more than 13,000 ... (more)

Xiotech Debuts High-Performance NAS Solution Integrating Symantec FileStore

LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 04/13/10 -- SYMANTEC VISION 2010 -- Xiotech Corporation today launched a turn-key, scale-out, network-attached storage (NAS) solution pairing Xiotech's patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) blades with Symantec's FileStore product, a file serving platform that delivers industry-leading performance and scale to enterprise storage environments. The joint solution allows cloud service providers, high-performance computing environments and data storage users to achieve cost effective and comprehensive file-based data management and protection with maximum performance and scalability. The combined solution, called ISE NAS, delivers industry-leading functionality, performance, reliability and linear scalability on the back end at a fraction of the cost of similar solutions on the market today. The turn-key solution allows for rapid ... (more)

E2open to Discuss the Importance of Global Supply Chain Management at Hi-Tech & Electronics Supply Chain Summit

E2open: Who: Desikan Madhavanur, General Manager of Products and Strategy at E2open, will be speaking at the sixth annual Hi-Tech & Electronics Supply Chain Summit. What: Madhavanur’s presentation will focus on the importance of managing global supply chain risk utilizing collaborative execution. This includes providing tips that will help businesses achieve more supply chain flexibility in the face of unforeseen disasters, identifying and responding to weak spots in the supply chain and how to successfully reduce inventory costs by assessing the appropriate inventory buffers to have in place. Madhavanur will also be speaking on a panel featuring executives from Avnet, Cisco and Lam Research that will provide attendees with an interactive discussion on mitigating risk in a multi-tiered supply chain. When: Madhavanur’s presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, October ... (more)

Education Technology and the Smart Classroom Market Report: Forecasts and Analysis 2013 - 2018

DUBLIN, Ireland, June 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f6lglw/education) has announced the addition of the "Education Technology and the Smart Classroom Market: Forecasts and Analysis 2013 - 2018" report to their offering.      (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) In recent times, there has been a significant growth in the emergence of smart classrooms. This report discusses the worldwide market forecast and analysis for education technology (ed tech) and the smart classroom market, encompassing systems (LMS, LCMS, LCDS, SRS, DMS) and technologies (Gaming, Analytics, ERP, Dashboards), for the period 2013 - 2018. A smart classroom is equipped with multimedia components which are designed to enrich the teaching and learning process. Technology in education has played a significant role in ed... (more)

Study Finds 90% of Application Performance Issues Are Caused by Poor Performing Storage

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/31/13 -- Kaminario, the leading scale-out all-flash array provider, today announced the findings from its two-year-long Storage Performance Report. After collecting data from 200+ organizations worldwide, the study found storage continues to be the number-one cause of poor application performance across today's enterprises. The study confirms the growing need for enterprises to improve the efficiency and productivity of IT infrastructures by addressing their storage performance issues. "When it comes to ensuring that mission-critical applications are meeting SLA's, performance and reliability are the two most important factors for any company," said George Crump, Lead Analyst, Storage Switzerland. "The issues Kaminario's Storage Performance Report identified as the main roadblocks to achieving these goals are consistent with... (more)

Continuum Announces Addition of James Foy to Board of Directors

BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/22/13 -- Continuum today announced the appointment of James Foy to its board of directors in a move that further supports the company's momentum in bringing proven MSP business model advantages to the telecom industry. Foy is a highly experienced executive leader, initially a software engineer, he ultimately led the growth strategies and operations of multiple prominent companies in the IT and telecom space where convergence of voice and data technologies is driving heightened demand for unified communications. Foy's knowledge and counsel will help shape Continuum's long-term telecom market growth strategy, as well as the company's ongoing focus on IT resellers and VARs looking to capitalize on the increased demand for managed IT services. According to Forrester Research, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) spend amo... (more)

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: IBM, eBay, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart and Target

CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include the IBM (NYSE:IBM-Free Report), eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY-Free Report), Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN-Free Report), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT-Free Report) and Target (NYSE:TGT-Free Report). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101027/ZIRLOGO) Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Get #1Stock of the Day pick for free. Here are highlights from Wednesday's Analyst Blog: Cyber Monday Surges on Mobile Usage Cyber Monday online sales soared 20.6% this year compared to 2012, thanks to a massive year-over-year growth in mobile traffic and sales. According to the recent Cyber Monday 2013 report f... (more)

Research and Markets: Colocation and Managed Hosting Services Market in North America 2014-2018 Out Now

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9wn8mh/colocation_and) has announced the addition of the "Colocation and Managed Hosting Services Market in North America 2014-2018" report to their offering. The analysts forecast the Colocation and Managed Hosting Services market in North America will grow at a CAGR of 13.59 percent over the period 2013-2018. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing need to reduce capital and operational expenses. The Colocation and Managed Hosting Services market in North America has also been witnessing the adoption of high-density computing equipment. However, the growing concerns about data security could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. The key vendors dominating this space are AT&T; Inc., CenturyLink Inc., Digital Realty Trust, Equinix Inc., Level3 Communications ... (more)

Cisco Holds off HP in Leadership Battle for Cloud Infrastructure

RENO, NV -- (Marketwired) -- 06/17/14 -- New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco held on to leadership of the cloud infrastructure equipment market and indeed marginally increased the gap between itself and second-ranked HP. Cisco, which achieved a historic market share high of 14.8%, first took over the top-ranking position in Q1 of last year. HP's market share dropped slightly to 13.7% in the quarter, while IBM fell off the pace due to falling server revenues -- an area where much of the product line is in the process of being sold off. Total cloud infrastructure equipment revenues for the quarter were just short of the $10 billion milestone. Cisco's overall leadership is due mainly to its dominance of the networking segment and its rapidly growing position in servers. HP is the market leader in cloud computing systems, a main challenger in storage... (more)