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As the cloud market explodes, a distinct chasm has become apparent between the operation of infrastructure and applications. Sharing, isolation and load balancing issues in the network, combined with high density virtualization in compute and storage resources, can adversely impact the performance of applications running across the network, frustrating application developers and end users alike. Enter application defined networking (ADN), which offers great business value for cloud users. A complement to software defined networking (SDN), ADN enables applications to directly control and adapt their networking for optimal performance across both public and private clouds, without compromising on portability or security. With ADN solutions, developers and administrators can automatically instrument, analyze and reconfigure the virtual network of resources to ensure t... (more)

Stay "extra cautious" and avoid danger this Christmas, says Rochdale electrical expert

Friday 13 December, 2013 Lancashire based Downlights Direct director Chris Horridge is urging people to stay alert to electrical hazards around the home this holiday season. According to the NHS, UK residents are 50 per cent more likely to die in a house fire over Christmas than at any other time of the year. In 2002, 350 people visited A&E; after accidents involving Christmas lights, according to RoSPA, and fairy lights caused 20 fires across the UK in 2011. "Christmas can put a heavy strain on the home and we are urging people to be extra cautious this holiday season to avoid accidents," Horridge said. "For instance, if your fairy lights are over five years old then you should consider updating them." He said modern fairy lights have been transformed down to 12 or 24 volts and have to pass stringent new safety checks for added security. Inappropriate storage of fairy lights ... (more)

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of March 9, 2014

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 read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here! The global mobile health market is expected to reach $49 billion by 2020, according to a study by Grand View Research.  Read Original Content The Phone Oximeter is a new smartphone device consisting of a software application and a non-invasive light sensor that attaches to a patient's finger and directs light waves through a patient's fingertip to measure blood oxygen levels. Th... (more)

London South Bank University to Invest More Than £14.8 Million to Transform Student Experience Through Personalised Education

Thursday 1 May, 2014 IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that London South Bank University (LSBU) will invest more than £14.8 million in IBM's Exceptional Student Experience, which uses a mix of analytics, mobile, social and security solutions built on cloud infrastructure to monitor academic progress of individual students. Ensuring each student who enrols on a higher education course has the support they need to graduate and secure employment is fundamental to every university's mission, and therefore LSBU has invested in the five year platform which will augment students' learning experience and help the institution achieve its digital transformation goals. Exceptional Student Experience from IBM aims to transform universities and colleges to be truly student centric. This can be achieved by delivering a personalised engagement from the application process, throughout th... (more)

Splice Machine Launches Public Beta of Its Hadoop RDBMS

Splice Machine, provider of the only Hadoop RDBMS, has announced that its real-time relational database management system is now available as a public beta. The Splice Machine database enables companies to replace traditional RDBMS systems that are too costly or difficult to scale. A full-featured, transactional SQL database on Hadoop, Splice Machine moves Hadoop beyond its batch analytics heritage to power operational applications and real-time analytics. Splice Machine already has 15 charter customers across a variety of industries, including digital marketing, telecom, and high-tech, that are looking to take advantage of its scale-out SQL technology. Harte Hanks, a marketing service organization and partner to top brands, has seen a greater than 10x price/performance improvement with the Splice Machine RDBMS compared to their existing Oracle RAC databases. "We ... (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)

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Blazer Exhibits & Events Announces Partnership With Page1 for Online Marketing Services

MILPITAS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/15/13 -- Blazer Exhibits & Events, a trade show display company, is proud to announce a new partnership with Page1 Online Marketing of Fort Collins, Colorado. The partnership will see Page1 utilizing its expertise in online and traditional marketing services to drive traffic to the company's website to assist in recruiting new clients. "The partnership with Page1 should enable us to increase our brand's reach and visibility in the industry," said Dave Graham, President. "Here at Blazer Exhibits & Events, we are very proud of the excellent work we do in designing trade show display graphics and providing a full range of services in exhibition design and setup." Blazer Exhibits & Events, headquartered in Milpitas, California, was founded in 1983 in order to meet the rising demand for high-quality sign and display graphics created by ... (more)

Cubeware Executive Leading Gartner BI Summit Workshop on Use of Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics to Reduce Customer Churn

Cubeware, a leading provider of complete business intelligence software solutions, today announced that Tom Martens, Cubeware vice president of product marketing, is leading a workshop at the Gartner BI Summit, March 20, 2013 in Grapevine, Texas. Martens’ presentation will focus on how to use business intelligence and big data analytics to reduce customer churn, and he will demonstrate relevant solutions implemented by Cubeware for customers in this workshop. Details regarding the workshop are as follows: Time: 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Location: Texas 1 Room, Gartner BI Summit, Gaylord Texan Hotel, Grapevine, Texas “Avoiding or at least reducing customer churn provides a vital competitive advantage for all companies, since the costs associated with acquiring new customers is so much higher than the cost of keeping existing ones,” said Mart... (more)

Global Lead Acid Batteries (Automotive) Industry

NEW YORK, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Lead Acid Batteries (Automotive) Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p092463/Global-Lead-Acid-Batteries-Automotive-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=Battery This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Lead Acid Batteries (Automotive) in Thousand Units and US$ Million by the following End-Use Segments: Original Equipment Market (Motorcycles, Passenger Cars and Commercial Vehicles), and Aftermarket/Replacement Market (Motorcycles, Passenger Cars and Commercial Vehicles).The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2010 through 2018. A six-year historic an... (more)

CA Technologies Helps Deliver Superior End-user Experience by Adding New Analytics Capabilities to Service Assurance Portfolio

CA World -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced new IT operational analytics capabilities in CA Application Performance Management (APM) that help customers ensure an exceptional end-user experience by more easily diagnosing potential performance problems in productivity and revenue generating applications and services. Click to Tweet: New IT operational #analytics capabilities in @CAinc’s #APM enable exceptional end-user experience http://bit.ly/XPUz8I #assurance Similar to other Service Assurance solutions such as CA Capacity Management, CA Infrastructure Management, and CA Service Operations Insight, CA APM 9.5 is now able to use its performance metrics to automatically identify complex emerging performance issues, enabling triage and diagnosis teams to solve problems faster and understand their environments better. “In today’s business environment of emp... (more)

DXWorldEXPO Digital Transformation Stories
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
Digital Transformation is much more than a buzzword. The radical shift to digital mechanisms for almost every process is evident across all industries and verticals. This is often especially true in financial services, where the legacy environment is many times unable to keep up with the rapidly shifting demands of the consumer. The constant pressure to provide complete, omnichannel delivery of customer-facing solutions to meet both regulatory and customer demands is putting enormous pressure on...
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
Enterprises are striving to become digital businesses for differentiated innovation and customer-centricity. Traditionally, they focused on digitizing processes and paper workflow. To be a disruptor and compete against new players, they need to gain insight into business data and innovate at scale. Cloud and cognitive technologies can help them leverage hidden data in SAP/ERP systems to fuel their businesses to accelerate digital transformation success.
Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by...
Charles Araujo is an industry analyst, internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. As Principal Analyst with Intellyx, he writes, speaks and advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. He is also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation and a sought after keynote speaker. He has been a regular contributor to both InformationWeek and CIO Insight...
Cloud is the motor for innovation and digital transformation. CIOs will run 25% of total application workloads in the cloud by the end of 2018, based on recent Morgan Stanley report. Having the right enterprise cloud strategy in place, often in a multi cloud environment, also helps companies become a more intelligent business. Companies that master this path have something in common: they create a culture of continuous innovation. In his presentation, Dilipkumar will outline the latest resear...
Everyone wants the rainbow - reduced IT costs, scalability, continuity, flexibility, manageability, and innovation. But in order to get to that collaboration rainbow, you need the cloud! In this presentation, we'll cover three areas: First - the rainbow of benefits from cloud collaboration. There are many different reasons why more and more companies and institutions are moving to the cloud. Benefits include: cost savings (reducing on-prem infrastructure, reducing data center foot print, redu...
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul...
When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it’s important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures in other areas of your application. “Fly two mistakes high” is an old adage in the radio control airplane hobby. It means, fly high enough so that if you make a mistake, you can continue flying with room to still make mistakes. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee A...