With vital business information spread across your company, at different locations, in various databases and data warehouses, and now potentially in big data platforms like Hadoop, there is no easy way to manage all of this infrastructure, let alone get value out of the data that resides in these systems. Instead managers and analysts are faced with new and complex interfaces to data platforms, multiple third-party APIs, high-priced analytic frameworks and silos of point products that each require a small army of tech-savvy data specialists to operate. But there is an alternative to the build-it-yourself big data trend of the past 12 months. Managed big data services are emerging that are easy to consume and provide a much quicker path to value than rolling out your own.
Our panel of experts will discuss these topics and more:
Drivers for doing big data as a service
Understanding the ecosystem of big data cloud services and big data managed services
When does the cloud model make sense for big data?
Speakers include:
Jo Maitland, research director, Cloud, GigaOM Research
Ron Bodkin, GigaOM Research analyst and founder and CEO, Think Big Analytics
Jim Kaskade, CEO, Infochimps
Register here to join GigaOM Research and our sponsor Infochimps for answers to “Selling your big data initiative to your c-suite” a free webinar on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 10 :00 a.m., PDT.
Recurring revenue is much more than fixed-price subscriptions. Freemium, metered usage and tiered subscription models have upended the recurring revenue markets, and successful companies need to provide flexibility in pricing and payment to serve the widest possible audience. A flexible recurring revenue strategy can increase customer satisfaction, open products to new markets and provide predictable revenue streams while allowing service offerings to adapt to market demands. This webinar will examine evolving recurring revenue opportunities, the markets they create and the technologies that enable them.
Join GigaOM Research and our sponsor Aria Systems for “Expand your revenue stream: Build your customer base with recurring revenue programs,” a free analyst webinar on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:00 AM PT.
Our panel of experts will discuss these topics:
How can recurring revenue benefit businesses and their customers?
What are the current recurring revenue and payment models?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each model?
What are the operational and technical inhibitors to recurring revenue adoption?
How should businesses choose recurring billing solutions?
The value of cloud services lies in the rapid and cost-effective instantiation of applications that can be consumed by users anywhere. Enterprises expect cloud services to increase their agility in turning up applications while simplifying their operations. For cloud services to thrive, the networks within and across data centers must evolve to become as virtualized and readily available as the server and storage infrastructure.
Nuage Networks removes the constraints of the data center network through an innovative Virtualized Services Platform that provides abstraction and automation to unbound any data center network infrastructure. With the Nuage Networks’ software-defined networking solution, cloud service providers, web-scale operators and large tech enterprises can build a robust and scalable multitenant networking infrastructure that delivers secure virtual slices of readily consumable compute, storage and networking instantaneously across thousands of tenants and user groups.
The Nuage Networks’ solution takes advantage of proven technology from the routers that scale the internet and support thousands of enterprises on a multitenant VPN infrastructure today. With this heritage, the Nuage Networks’ solution can confidently deliver the robust and scalable performance required by cloud data center networks. In today’s environment where CSPs cannot afford to experiment with fragile or unproven platforms, the decade of ethernet and IP network deployment experience that is at the heart of the Nuage Networks offering proves critical.
A new kind of application monitoring for next-generation IT architectures
Over $7 billion is spent annually on IT operations, most of it going to legacy vendors with products designed for a different era. Next-generation applications are the driver of modern business, and those applications demand a new approach to ensure performance and security, an approach based on data and analytics. Boundary’s SaaS solution for Application Operations has rocketed with hundreds of users benefiting from the service. Boundary is allowing customers to deal with the new challenges brought about through the dynamic nature of modern, distributed applications and in the process reinventing the way customers think about IT operations.
One-second app visualization, cloud-compatible and only a few minutes from setup to results
By monitoring every packet that flows from server to server instance and analyzing them in seconds, Boundary alerts users to developing problems in seconds not minutes. No matter what computing environment you operate — including public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures – Boundary gives you real-time visibility not obtainable from traditional monitoring tools. Boundary lets you innovate more, move faster and embrace new technologies without fear.
Everyone agrees: There has been a lot of hype around big data. There are differing views, however, on if that hype has been or will be met. The promise has been elusive.
We believe this is because people were trying to solve today’s problems with yesterday’s technology. The truth is that big data is different: There’s more, it comes faster, and it changes all the time. In this world, with last-generation tools, IT was doomed to fail.
Platfora recognized this and took a different path. We built a new architecture unlike anything that has been seen before by putting business users in control of the incredible power of Apache Hadoop. We call it the Interest Driven Pipeline (TM), and it will unlock the next quantum leap in productivity for business.
We offer this approach and after two years in development, it’s available today. Customers such as Edmunds.com and Riot Games have accelerated the time-to-value from months to hours and have given business users consistently fast access to all of their data collected in Hadoop. This is game-changing technology that lets companies be more agile and make better business decisions immediately.
Platfora is proving that the promise of big data is attainable by every enterprise, and we’re just getting started.
Earlier this year, Shawn DuBravac, the chief economist and director of research at the Consumer Electronics Association, proclaimed we’re entering a “post-smartphone era,” referring to the fact that smartphones are used for noncommunication activities 65 percent of the time. He said 350 million devices with IP addresses will ship in 2013.
As the internet of things takes hold, all manner of historically static products will become connected, including things like lamps and football helmets. Consumers will move beyond smartphones and touchscreens to smart environments that put human needs first and design for partial attention.
This type of connection between products and users will create new challenges for interaction designers, marketers and manufacturers. As digital becomes an embedded, invisible layer, designing for the post-screen era will require new concepts, skills and thinking.
Contagious is delving deeper into the world beyond screens at Now Next Why 2013, held May 1 in New York City. Research scientists from Disney and IBM will be among many discussing this and other topics at the heart of the future of communications. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/nnwnyc13.
Smartphones and mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives. We use them for everything – from updating Facebook to checking our bank accounts. With over a million available apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play alone, the competition for user adoption is fierce.
If you’re a mobile app developer, you know you need to get your app in as many hands as possible. One in four mobile apps are abandoned after the first use. And more than 60 percent of apps in the Apple App Store haven’t been downloaded even once. The deciding factors in mobile app adoption come down to speed to market, app performance and a high-quality user experience.
Until now, there hasn’t been an easy way to see what’s causing performance issues. Crash reports can help, but by the time they reach you, the damage has already been done. So, what is a mobile developer to do?
Today New Relic is excited to announce the availability of New Relic for Mobile Apps. Now you can have real time, actionable insight into the performance of your native iOS and Android apps. With New Relic for Mobile Apps, you’ll be able to:
• Monitor the health and speed of every server and web API your app talks to • Get detailed network and web server level analysis • Have in-depth insight into real users, sessions and finger swipes as they happen
For more information and a free 30-day trial of New Relic for Mobile apps, visit here.
Information abounds in the internet age, but people who understand it do not. The market for data scientists is ripe, and it is quickly becoming a necessary part of even nontechnical jobs. Big data is changing the way people make decisions, shop and even date.
Get ahead of the data curve with a free online class on big data from GigaOM Research and tech education company General Assembly. This beginner-friendly class will explore how big data is already affecting business and daily life in surprising ways.
GigaOM Research analyst Ben Woo will explain contemporary data modeling, analysis and infrastructure and will talk about how to transition from a traditional business career to an entrepreneurial role in big data. Woo will also stick around after the class for a live Q&A. Bring questions, get answers. This free live-streamed class will take place on April 5 from 2 to 3 p.m. EDT. Sign up now.
At some point or another most people struggle to achieve work/life balance. It’s not a mystery that finding time for your never-ending workload is a challenge. Enter LogMeIn Free — remote access software that lets you connect to and control another PC as though you were sitting right in front of it. It’s an ideal solution for busy professionals whose packed lives require an on-the-go work solution. Plus, the LogMeIn App gives you remote computer access on the go, from your favorite mobile device.
Use LogMeIn to maintain the work/life balance you have, or get the balance you want:
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Multitask, from home Incorporate the personal and professional by working from home. Eliminate wasted time, and rely on LogMeIn to give you access to the tools you need, sans all the interruptions.
Technology applied thoughtfully can make your life easier and allow you more flexibility to excel. Install LogMeIn Free on any laptops or desktops you might want to access. Get LogMeIn, and get the work/life you want.
What’s the deal with SMS-enabled phone numbers? Bandwidth has prepared an ebook providing essential information for application developers and service providers interested in learning more about this growing market opportunity. You’ll learn:
What SMS-enabled telephone numbers are
How SMS-enabled numbers interoperate with wireless networks, including a graphical depiction of the wireline to wireless ecosystem
What to look for when you decide you need SMS for your application or service
Today there are countless applications across platforms using telephone numbers to drive development of in-demand text applications. With a growing demographic of tech-savvy users set to establish text messaging as the dominant form of communication across the globe, now is a great time to learn more.
Get started by downloading your complimentary ebook on the essential guide to SMS-enabled telephone numbers today.
Opscode would love to have you attend our second annual user conference, #ChefConf 2013, to hear directly from innovators at the intersection of some of the more important emerging trends in IT today. From ecommerce for a mobile world to the private cloud in the enterprise to the power of “hacker culture” to agile application development, the speakers at #ChefConf will have stories from the front lines of what’s next in IT.
Join us at the Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco, April 25–26, to connect with your peers, hear real world tales of DevOps success from those making it happen and learn applicable strategies for taking your own path to IT automation. Confirmed speakers include General Electric, Facebook, Nordstrom, Disney, Adobe, Ancestry.com, Kickstarter, Splunk and many more.
Are you interested?
If so, please go here to learn more about the show, then register here. We look forward to seeing you in April!
On March 28 Box and Centrify will be hosting a webinar where we will cover how to approach enterprise mobile management. Topics will include mobile identity and authentication, enterprise app management, enabling single sign-on to apps, as well as policy and architectural considerations for managing mobility projects across a myriad of platforms, use cases and enterprise boundaries. Learn how you can give employees the application experience and privacy they expect, while obtaining the visibility and control IT requires.
In this webinar you’ll learn how to:
Implement container technology for increased security and to separate employee work spaces from personal spaces
Develop a mobile security strategy for your enterprise apps
Understand the crucial role that centralized identity services plays to ensure both end-user productivity and IT efficiency
This session is designed for IT managers, architects and IT security professionals responsible for implementing mobile initiatives or mobile and security operations. A “day-in-the-life” demonstration will show you how your employees should experience their personal and work mobile spaces and how you will administer it. Join this session for presentations from Jamie Perlman, Box Senior Director of Business Development, Mobile, and David McNeely, Centrify Senior Director of Product Management, Mobile.
Click here to register today for this webinar on March 28 at 10 a.m. PST!
These videos were paid for and created by Microsoft. GigaOM’s editorial team had no involvement in their production.
What happens when devices at the edge of enterprise networks are connected to software and services in the back end or the cloud? Suddenly, a rich new source of information is available. The data has always been there, but now with Windows Embedded 8 and an integrated stack of Microsoft technologies, extending from the server room to the customer’s fingertips, your enterprise can evolve business intelligence to operational intelligence to identify and act on new opportunities.
Watch the videos below or visit www.getwindowsembedded8.com to learn how Windows Embedded enables you to drive a new level of business intelligence and identify opportunities that would be otherwise out of reach.”
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Unlock business intelligence with Windows Embedded 8
What happens when devices at the edge of enterprise networks are connected to software and services in the backend or the cloud? Suddenly, a rich new source of information is available. The data has always been there, but now with Windows Embedded 8 and an integrated stack of Microsoft technologies, extending from the server room to the customer’s fingertips, your enterprise can evolve business intelligence to operational intelligence to identify and act on new opportunities.
Watch the videos below or visit www.getwindowsembedded8.com to learn how Windows Embedded enables you to drive a new level of business intelligence and identify opportunities that would be otherwise out of reach.
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Capitalizing on the internet of things
The internet of things is prompting businesses to rethink how they use their digital assets. Kevin Dallas, GM of Windows Embedded at Microsoft, tells GigaOM Research’s Adam Lesser how companies can build intelligent systems to take advantage of the data their devices are already generating, for better business intelligence.
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Transforming business in manufacturing
For manufacturers, competitive advantage lies in connecting equipment on the factory floor to backend systems to harness real-time data. Windows Embedded GM Barb Edson, Microsoft CTO for Manufacturing Rohit Bhargava and ARC Advisory Group analyst Craig Resnick join GigaOM Research’s Adam Lesser to discuss how intelligent systems drive operational efficiency and new business opportunities in manufacturing.
Video #4 here
Transforming business in health care
Connected technology can be transformative for healthcare organizations but also needs to be secure. Windows Embedded GM Barb Edson, Microsoft’s WW GM for Health Neil Jordan and Ovum analyst Cornelia Wels-Maug join GigaOM Research’s Adam Lesser to discuss how intelligent systems help health care providers securely improve patient care, access and outcomes in less time and at lower costs.
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Transforming business in manufacturing
For manufacturers, competitive advantage lies in connecting equipment on the factory floor to backend systems to harness real-time data. Windows Embedded GM Barb Edson, Microsoft CTO for Manufacturing Rohit Bhargava and ARC Advisory Group analyst Craig Resnick join GigaOM Research’s Adam Lesser to discuss how intelligent systems drive operational efficiency and new business opportunities in manufacturing.
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Building edge devices and intelligent solutions
To be a part of the internet of things, businesses need the right kinds of devices. Kevin Dallas, GM of Windows Embedded at Microsoft, tells GigaOM Research’s Adam Lesser what OEM and ODMs should think about as they help their customers build intelligent systems to take advantage of the data their devices are already generating.
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Building edge devices and intelligent solutions with HP
Today’s health care providers are looking to implement intelligent systems that connect data across departments and organizations. HP’s Lance Stevens joins GigaOM Research’s Adam Lesser to discuss how his company’s Windows Embedded devices enable healthcare organizations to seamlessly and securely access data across multiple touch points while driving operational efficiency for increased productivity and improved patient care.
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Building edge devices and intelligent solutions with Dell Wyse
As retailers look to provide a better shopping experience for customers, OEMs will play a key role, creating the devices that deliver rich, personalized customer experiences.
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Building edge devices and intelligent solutions with Omnicell
As health care providers work to provide effective care for patients, they need to securely access information in many different systems from a single location. Omnicell’s Jeff Kropp joins GigaOM Research’s Adam Lesser to discuss the intelligent systems opportunity in health care and how his company’s Windows Embedded devices deliver the security and interoperability health care organizations need.
The cloud brings tremendous flexibility and scalability to enterprise hosting, but it is not a panacea. For online retailers and other businesses with a critical online presence, security concerns, performance sensitivity, custom applications or compliance requirements, traditional, dedicated servers will remain an essential component of their architecture for years to come. Blending hosting strategies requires a special set of management tools and an ability to shift between paradigms as a business grows, as well as choosing partners that understand your business processes.
In this webinar, our panel of experts will discuss:
How to determine which applications require customizable infrastructure (cloud versus dedicated)
Security and regulatory concerns
Management challenges in a hybrid environment
How to address storage, platform lock-in and other growing pains
Register here to join GigaOM Research and our sponsor Rackspace for “Hybrid hosting: customizing your infrastructure for your growing business,” a free analyst webinar on Monday, March 25, 2013, at 10 a.m. PT.
Business leaders need insights to remain competitive, which is driving them to prospect for big data “gold.” But they need help filtering the signal from the noise and don’t want to waste time on standing up the hardware, configuring the software and manually coding point-to-point solutions. They want to get data in and out of Hadoop, or any other big data target, as fast as possible without needing a complement of data science experts on staff.
Snaplogic is an enterprise cloud integration platform that enables users to efficiently build, deploy and manage multiple high-volume, data-intensive integration projects. For enterprises dealing with massive amounts of data, SnapLogic’s Big Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) solution provides data ingress, egress and data logging for Hadoop to help them get from big interactions to big insights quickly and easily.
This new solution offers regular Joes and data architects alike an easy way to integrate Hadoop data with several other data sources, including leading business intelligence (BI) apps, for better information flow and decision making. It removes the complexity of deploying big data solutions by enabling rapid access to big data sources and targets six times more productively than legacy integration solutions.
SnapLogic also offers pre-built connectivity (called Snaps) to over 150 different data sources, including on-premises applications like traditional ERP and finance systems, as well as social media, mobile and machine data. With Snaps, IT and application owners connect data anywhere (cloud or on-premises), of any type (big, mobile or real-time), to any application (SaaS, enterprise or hybrid).
With the growing deployments of mobile devices driven by the “bring your own device” trend and the increasing usage of multi-tenanted SaaS platforms, the end result is that more IT resources are not only physically moving outside the firewall but they are also outside the visibility, management and even ownership of the IT organization. Regardless of where the devices and applications reside, and who owns them, IT organizations still require controls over these resources that are accessing and/or storing corporate data consistent with security and compliance best practices.
One key aspect of these controls is that an IT organization must manage users’ digital identities and the corresponding roles and rights those identities have across mobile devices, servers and applications — that is, IT must still manage who can access what business systems, even though it no longer owns the endpoints or backend resources. Related to this is the increasing burden on end users to keep up with all the URLs and passwords they need to remember to do their jobs.
Centrify solves this challenge by delivering a set of unified identity services that centrally manage identities across data center, cloud and mobile to optimize cost, agility and security. Our identity services include integrated authentication, access control, privilege management, policy enforcement and compliance. Click here to see Centrify’s solution for mobile and SaaS SSO in action. You will love the results — one single login for users and one unified identity infrastructure for IT.
An ideal BYOD approach is one that protects corporate apps and data without interfering with employees’ personal data and applications. Employees can bring their own device to work — with their own information and applications running on it — while corporate data and apps can be managed and secured by a mobile application management (MAM) solution. Apperian’s solution protects the business apps layer of mobile devices and the apps’ ability to securely access information in an enterprise network. As the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement continues to gain traction, it is critical for IT executives and other decision makers to develop a practical plan for managing, monitoring and tracking employees’ mobile apps and how they’re using them for work. Download the “6 Pillars for Building a Successful BYOD Program” to learn more.
Doing a deep dive into customer data — analyzing and mining the vast stores of information now available to many enterprises — can yield profitable results that provide an enterprise with a strategic advantage over its competitors. It can also improve response time and overall efficiency. This is particularly true in health care, where analyzing patient discharges, real-time clinical transactions and purchasing data can provide insights that improve patient care and reduce costs. The challenge is aggregating the data from multiple sources, analyzing it and then getting the results into the right hands — quickly.
The Premier Healthcare Alliance’s goal is to improve the health of all communities through their people, data and their ability to connect health care organizations across the United States. The stats are impressive:
Premier currently connects 2,700 hospitals and 90,000 health providers through its database.
Premier manages the data for 1 in every 4 discharges nationwide with 2.5 million real-time clinical transactions daily.
Premier also manages nearly $43 billion in annual purchasing data.
Our panel of experts will discuss:
How does the term “platform” apply to big data?
What criteria can an enterprise in other verticals use to determine whether its data is suitable for use as a platform?
How can combining data into a platform provide efficiencies and reduce costs?
What are some ideas to reduce the cost of moving data and get faster results?
Register here to join GigaOM Research and our sponsor IBM for “Transforming health care with big data: Premier Healthcare Alliance,“ a free analyst webinar on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 10 a.m. PT.
Why texting and over-the-top providers need to consider 911, right now
The FCC issued their text-to-911 Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) on Dec. 13 of last year. So what does all of this have to do with over-the-top (OTT) providers and why would anyone beyond the wireless carriers even care?
The FCC’s proposed requirements include any prospective providers of ‘interconnected text services,’ not just the wireless carriers. Based upon the continued evolution toward internet protocol technology and the FNPRM, it is reasonable to assume that OTT texting applications will be required to support text to 911 too.
INetwork has prepared an ebook to help you stay a step ahead, get smarter on this dynamic topic, and possibly even shape the solutions that will be deployed. While bandwidth cannot predict the timeline or the ultimate rules that result from the FNPRM, the indications are that the FCC is set to act soon.
When is big data useful? How can we find relevant big data? Certainly not by having to ask someone else to answer questions but by allowing as many people as possible to explore it for themselves.
The problem with most discussions of big data is that the emphasis is on one or two steps in the entire value chain.
Big data cannot be boiled down into a one-off project or a quarterly task. It is a new capability to be mastered and incorporated in ways that make sense.
Business intelligence (BI) solutions don’t live up to their potential when you can only answer questions planned months in advance. Asking new questions requires changes to the data model and system changes by experts who become a bottleneck. Emerging technologies such as Hadoop are, well, still emerging.
Splunk supports a new approach to big data: interactive exploration (as well supporting every other phase of the big data life cycle).
Splunk customers use our software every day to gain insights across their big data deployments. Splunk offers:
A simple and easy-to-use search language
A powerful search language that supports a complicated data processing pipeline
Support for batch and real-time processing
A mature environment for application development
Splunk can support an entire end-to-end big data program and get many people involved so that you can get results quickly. That’s why you should be using Splunk for your big data.
