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Financial services, telecom, manufacturing lead in Big Data adoption, says new Wikibon report
Financial services, telecom/media and manufacturing lead vertical markets in Big Data adoption according to the Wikibon Big Data Analytics Survey, writes Dr. Ralph Finos (right) in his latest analysis. The survey data breaks down overall results into 12 vertical industries, each with its own data analysis needs. The report recognizes three stages of Big Data adoption: ...
Rapid prototyping gives Intermountain Healthcare better applications faster and cheaper
Since its founding in 1975, Intermountain Healthcare‘s goal has been to provide the highest quality care, but today cost control is also more important than ever. “For years healthcare’s been running at an almost unsustainable cost as a collective industry. We want to deliver the highest quality healthcare always but at a sustainable cost,” said Todd Dunn, ...
Wikibon sees more than six-fold public cloud growth by 2026
Public Cloud services — Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) — will grow at a combined rate of 20% annually for the next decade, reaching $428 billion in 2026. That is the conclusion – based in part on recent earnings results from Amazon, Microsoft and IBM – of Wikibon’s just-published Public Cloud Market Forecast ...
Wikibon sees ‘Systems of Intelligence’ dominating future IT landscape
A new kind of data processing called Systems of Intelligence will take over from traditional systems of record as the main focus of new application development in enterprises for at least the next decade, writes Wikibon Analyst George Gilbert. These new applications and the data they need are markedly different from traditional business intelligence applications, ...
Wikibon: Forward-looking CIOs squeezing suppliers with pay-as-you-go pricing
A few forward-looking CIOs of major enterprises are pushing a new vision of IT, based on paying for hardware and software as they are consumed in an OPEX rather than a CAPEX model, and exposing IT to internal users as services rather than monolithic systems. Essentially these IT le aders, like Royal Philips VP of ...
Beware the third IT platform revolution myth
The third platform revolution touted by several of the big analyst houses and vendors is a myth, warns Wikibon CTO David Floyer. IT is certainly evolving quickly to take advantage of multiple disruptive technologies – Big Data, mobile, cloud, social. But the key word is “evolving”. “The implication of this thinking is this third platform nirvana ...
Wikibon makes sense of container-mania
“The growth rate of Docker has gone beyond ludicrous; it’s now plaid,” said Battery Ventures VC Adrian Cockcroft on theCUBE (see embedded video below). And the evolution of container technology has accelerated to the point that new versions are coming out every two to three months, writes Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman. In his latest ...
Wikibon frames rapidly evolving container ecosystem
The next generation of application platforms is evolving rapidly, writes Wikibon Senior Analyst Stuart Miniman, and containers are at its core. Containers offer major advantages for application development and deployment because of their speed, simplicity and flexibility. They can accelerate the transition to modern application frameworks and provide application portability for hybrid clouds. However, building a full ...
Growing pains: Open source ubiquity raises ownership, governance issues
CIOs and business leaders long have treated open source as an esoteric source of code that is used deep in the IT infrastructure and that has no real impact on business. With the possible exception of Linux, which is supported by Red Hat, Inc., Canonical, Ltd. and IBM, open source tools have not raised alarm ...
Wikibon advises CIOs to go hybrid and grow up in the cloud
CIOs of established mid-sized to large organizations faced with the choice of cloud strategies are almost always well-advised to choose a hybrid cloud approach rather than a mass migration t0 public cloud. A hybrid cloud allows IT to keep its existing, usually large portfolio of legacy applications, and the associated data, in-house, simply adding a ...