Just as we are getting our arms around terms like B2B and BYOD, the latest technology acronym emerges — M2M. And this one is big and getting bigger fast. For many of us, M2M (machine-to-machine) is a new concept, but you might be surprised to learn that it is already a $24B market and predicted to reach nearly $86B by 2017. [...]
Companies are moving more and more of their IT functions online in the form of publicly-available cloud computing services, software-as-a-service applications and the like. That’s not really a big surprise. Where the controversies, or at least the questions, arise are in the company’s IT department.
For instance, does the rise of the [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about big opportunities in Little Data. And while my stance on Little Data hasn’t changed, there are also very exciting and very surprising things happening with Big Data right now. A quick look across the business landscape reveals some powerful use cases that may help get your creative juices flowing on how Big Data [...]
Salesforce.com (SFDC) just announced its largest acquisition to date, a $2.5B takeover of ExactTarget, a marketing automation company. Almost instantly a flurry of praise arose from the blogosphere, most celebrating the news as a major milestone for the company and its customers alike. According to SFDC, the motivation behind the huge purchase [...]
Paying back that 20 dollars your buddy spotted you last night will soon be as easy as sending an email. With very little fanfare last week at Google I/O, a very useful new technology was introduced. You might have missed it among the flurry of other announcements. Google announced that Gmail users will be able to make peer-to-peer (P2P) payments [...]
Technocrats have been lining up in a virtual line by the thousands to get their hands on the first release of Google Glass. Google started shipping the much anticipated computing spectacles to developers, industry analysts and early technology adopters a few weeks back. But early feedback on the gadget has been less than positive. [...]
Here in Las Vegas, Interop is one of those granddaddy technology shows where CIOs from around the world look to the hundreds of vendors who come to showcase their latest and greatest products and services as a barometer for what’s next. Some years though, what’s hot isn’t necessarily the flashiest new launches; it’s all about how to make last [...]
You’ve probably heard that researchers at AMD are predicting the death of Moore’s Law, at least in terms of silicon-based computing. If you don’t already know, Moore’s Law is a theory based on the prognostication of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. He stated that computing power for the world doubles every two years — and the corollary, [...]
Here are some stats that will blow your mind: Every minute of every day, 48 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube, Google receives over 2 million queries, over 100,000 tweets are sent and nearly 600 new websites are created. Perhaps most shocking is that quietly in the background, all of this data is tracked and stored. But what happens [...]
March Madness is already halfway over, with Sweet 16 games tipping off tonight and the Final Four just a week away. And many IT teams for SMBs and enterprises alike are really feeling the strain on their networks.
Because let’s face it, more than a few employees are covertly — or quite openly — streaming the action via their employer’s [...]
