Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Event Announcement.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
  Why? Because the "things" are not just desktops, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. The "things" come from the world of sensor-driven Big Data that is even now expanding the size of the Web beyond what we thought just a few years ago.

How big? Estimates from everyone from Gartner to the US Government foresee a 100X time increase — then a 1,000X increase — in Web traffic over the next few years. The world will need hundreds of billions of dollars of new servers, memory, storage, and data centers. The challenge to software developers will be increasing as never before…

Grazed from CDMMedia.  Author: Event Announcement.

Despite the economic downturn freezing or cutting budgets and yielding a slow recovery, businesses are regaining strength and global IT spending is expected to increase in the coming years. But even with an economic upturn on the horizon and more importance placed on IT, we arent out of the woods yet. The role of the CIO is more important than ever as financial turmoil continues to alter the global economy, making it difficult to put your organization in a position to achieve success. The business goals have changed and CIOs are now tasked with trying to find emerging opportunities to drive value throughout the enterprise.

We’re in a historic transition – one marked by challenges, but filled with possibility. Preparing for the upturn and making the right decisions in times of change can better position your enterprise to succeed. Accordingly, the theme of this year’s summit is CIOs in Transition – The Shift from Cost-Saver to Value Provider…

Grazed from Six Degrees.  Author: Event Announcement.

The Cloud conference track at Apps World Europe, to be held on November 12-13, 2014, in ExCel London,  will map the cloud landscape and assess the different tools and options available to both develop and distribute apps, and manage the associated data via the cloud.

Cloud platforms are highly fertile ecosystems for creating, distributing and selling functionality and with the industry constantly growing and innovating how do you decide what the best approach is for you, your company and customers?…

Grazed from CDMMedia.  Author: Event Announcement.

The Big Data Summit, to be held on November 16-18, in Phoenix, AZ USA, offers innovative members of the vendor community a unique opportunity to meet with leading IT executives eager to hear about new big data solutions. As a sponsor, you will have the opportunity to outline your product or service during interactive educational sessions and networking breaks with guaranteed budget holders and decision-makers.

One-on-one Executive Exchange meetings, arranged to match unique executive challenges with appropriate solutions, are held throughout the summit to allow you to go over specific details and address individual questions and concerns…

Grazed from BZMedia.  Author: Event Announcement.

AnDevCon is the technical conference for software developers building Android apps. Offering mobile app development training and Android app development tutorials and classes, AnDevCon is the biggest, most info-packed, most practical Android conference in the world. Choose from more than 75 app development classes and in-depth Android development tutorials designed to take your Android development skills to the next level.

ADC-GoogleKeynote-burstAndroid is the hottest mobile platform – and AnDevCon is the hottest development conference offering mobile app development training. But you’ll learn from more than just our app development classes and Android development tutorials…

Grazed from PCWorld.  Author: Chris Kanaracus.

SAP technology chief Vishal Sikka, champion of the companys Hana in-memory computing platform, is leaving the company in a major management shakeup shortly before co-CEO Bill McDermott is expected to be named sole CEO.  Sikka, who oversaw of all of SAPs product development, is leaving SAP effectively immediately for personal reasons, SAP said late Sunday.

No company in the industry can do what SAP can do in the cloud with the SAP Hana platform today, SAP co-founder and supervisory board chairman Hasso Plattner said in a prepared statement. I would like to personally thank Vishal for his contribution to take SAP to this stage. We will remain friends as he pursues the next step in his journey…

Grazed from TechDay.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The best way to build a cloud system for your enterprise is to ensure it has the best technology infrastructure and software platform, and that transitioning to the cloud doesn’t disrupt existing IT systems.  Enterprises are now starting to embrace cloud computing and want to move their legacy IT networks and applications to the web to reduce costs and be more flexible in the way they interact with their customers.

Because the always-on business world requires companies to be nimble, Hitachi Data Systems has introduced a new kind of infrastructure to support business-driven IT and equip the future-ready enterprise for whatever comes next…

Grazed from ClearData.  Author: PR Announcement.

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced it has secured funding from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and several industry angel investors. The company has demonstrated strong revenue growth through its existing customer base which ranges from single provider practices to small and large hospitals throughout the U.S…

Over the past three years, ClearDATA has entered into several strategic partnerships and currently provides cloud hosting and information security services to over 10,000 healthcare practitioners. The funding will be used to grow the companys products and presence in order to meet the increasing demand for its secure, HIPAA-compliant cloud computing services in the healthcare industry…

Grazed from BusinessTimes.  Author:  Amit Roy Choudhury.

THE adage, if you can’t beat them, then join them, applies as much to technology as it does to anything else. Established enterprise software giants, whose business models revolve around selling packaged software to companies at high margins, are aggressively moving into the cloud and in the process carving out new business models.

German enterprise software company SAP is a good example. With its traditional business model under challenge, the firm has tweaked its portfolio so that it can seamlessly move into the cloud. It is doing this using its hugely successful Hana platform, which is an in-memory database and analytics tool…

Grazed from SupplyChain24x7.  Author: Roberto Michel.

For all of the hype about cloud computing in recent years, when it comes to the cloud for deploying supply chain execution (SCE) software such as warehouse management system (WMS) solutions, the numbers tell a pretty modest story.  While some other enterprise software categories such as customer relationship management (CRM) have seen cloud solutions catch on in a significant way, the SCE segment lags behind.

For instance, cloud-based WMS sales in 2013 only accounted for about 8 percent of the WMS market, according to Chad Eschinger, an analyst with Gartner Research.  By comparison, Gartner estimates that 45 percent of the CRM market was cloud-based in 2013, while the overall supply chain management software market was 21 percent cloud in 2013…