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Around the globe, CIOs report facing the highest level of skills shortage since the Great Recession that began in 2008. Large enterprises are struggling to hire data analytics savants, project managers, and enterprise architecture experts. Small companies are in dire need of workers in big data analytics and development.
But that is only part of the hiring issues that CIOs are facing, according to the recently released 2016 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey. The survey of 3,352 CIOs and technology leaders across 82 countries was conducted from Dec. 12, 2015 to April 10, 2016.
[See 10 Strange Job Interview Questions Big Tech Companies Ask.]
The survey delved into the skills shortage, as well as the regions that are impacted the greatest by it. Additional results from the survey examined whether CIOs believe they are able to grow their IT teams during this shortage, the degree that IT organizations are seeking to diversify their workforce, and the type of employment they are offering, such as full-time permanent, or full-time contract work.
CIOs are having to deal with these hiring issues at a time when their own role as a top technology executive is fundamentally changing to expand beyond the role of technology strategist to ones of revenue generator and business leader.
Despite these challenges, CIOs must find skilled IT workers in a difficult climate. Is your CIO encountering the same difficulties as the 10 hiring issues cited here?]]>
Apple CEO Tim Cook provided insight into his company's interest in augmented reality (AR) and his views on the platform, as the iconic computer maker's competitors gain a greater foothold in emerging technology.
Apple, which has been coy in discussing its move into virtual and augmented reality, acquired Metaio, an AR authoring tool and software development kit maker, in 2015. But Apple was unwilling to confirm or deny its purchase.
Earlier this year, Apple began to visit Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab more frequently. But it also remained mum about the purpose of those visits to the VR lab.
Cook, however, during the company's third-quarter earnings conference call on Tuesday, finally addressed Apple's interest in augmented reality when questioned by an analyst.
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster asked the CEO how augmented reality, especially given the hyper-popularity of Pokémon Go, affects the way Cook views the future of the technology.
Cook responded:
In terms of AR and the Pokémon phenomenon, it's incredible what has happened there. I think it's a testament to what happens with innovative apps and the whole ecosystem and the power of a developer being able to press a button, so to speak, and offer their product around the world.
This certain developer has elected not to go worldwide yet because of the pressure on their servers, because of the demand, but I'm sure that they will over time.
It also does show, as you point out, that AR can be really great. We have been and continue to invest a lot in this. We are high on AR for the long run. We think there are great things for customers and a great commercial opportunity. And so, we're investing and the number one thing is to make sure our products work well with other developers' kind of products like Pokémon and so on. And that's the reason you see so many iPhones out in the wild right now chasing Pokémon.
I know there are people that want to call it [augmented reality] a new computer platform, and we'll see. I think there's a tendency in this industry to call everything new the next computer platform. However, that said, I think AR can be huge. So, we'll see whether it's the next platform. Regardless, it will be huge.
Worldwide shipments of augmented reality glasses are projected to soar to nearly 5.4 million units annually by 2020 from less than 114,000 units annually in 2015, according to a research report from Tractica.
[See 10 Tools to Bring Virtual Reality to Life.]
Google, for example, has established a dedicated virtual reality department for its VR efforts, including its Cardboard headset that aims to serve the mass market with its inexpensive user-friendly goggles. On the other spectrum is Microsoft's high-end HoloLens that is expected to find a home, not only with gamers, but also in business applications. Facebook has its Oculus virtual reality company, which it purchased for $2 billion in 2014.
Apple also has some plans in the works. It filed a patent for head-mounted googles in 2013 and began laying the groundwork for its VR team in 2014.
Time will tell what Apple's CEO has been cooking up in its VR lab.]]>
The internet of things took a step toward becoming better at management as GE released its Predix Developer Kit on July 26. It's a bundle of GE-supplied hardware and software that makes it easier to collect machine data from the internet.
Developers supply an IP address, an Ethernet connection, an electrical socket, and enough programming to indicate what data they want to collect. The Predix Kit appliance automatically establishes the connection, registers its presence with a central version of Predix, and starts transmitting time-series data that may have to do with the temperature, pressure, speed, flow readings, or other data from the device sensors that it's attached to.
GE Digital owns and operates the hardware and software combination on behalf of the user, who subscribes to its output. That's for the most secure form of IoT device data collection, based on a GE Field Agent (PDF) piece of hardware using a ruggedized PC. Developers may also opt to use an Intel Edison board with a dual core CPU and WiFi connection, or a Raspberry Pi mother board running an ARM CPU.
Without a Predix Developer's Kit, an IoT programmer would set up a board to connect to a device, download software for operation of such a device, and build screens to visualize those operations. Then a programmer would have to do the type of programming that can recognize the device monitored and the hardware on which it was sitting, a task likely to take many hours, Mark Bernardo, professional services leader for GE Digital, Americas, wrote in a blog posted Tuesday.
"Predix Kits can reduce that time to less than 15 minutes," Bernardo wrote.
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Predix is GE Digital's analytics system that can capture and store machine data and then apply analytics to it to learn from it and predict possible trouble points or future failures and how they can be addressed.
It became generally available Feb. 22 at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.
Included in the kit is the Predix UI or user interface that GE Digital released in early March, a week after the Predix analytics system became generally available. It includes a set of software components that can be used by an interface designer or developer to create an IoT application that makes use of Predix services.
In addition, GE Digital announced Tuesday that it has opened the first "digital foundry" for IoT applications in Paris. Three more will be operating by the end of the year. Market researcher Evans Data has reported that IoT is attracting developers at a breakneck pace; there are already 6.2 million developing for it worldwide.
[Want to see how GE Predix works with the cloud? Read Microsoft, GE Partnership Targets Industrial Cloud.]
GE has seen 500 developers sign onto the Predix.io website as programmers each week since it became available in February. It counts 12,000 Predix developers as of today, and expects 20,000 by the end of the year.
GE Digital is using Predix to help it better manage electricity-generating turbines in aging Italian power plants.
Bernardo wrote that the Predix Kits would also be good for building applications to collect data from and manage solar energy projects. They can be used in creating mine safety systems that monitor oxygen levels in operations deep underground or monitor other factors in a difficult to work in environment.
They can also be used to help create smart buildings that can track movements and room temperatures inside to improve comfort and security.]]>
Apple's earnings Tuesday highlight a company in limbo. Its core products, the iPhone and iPad, are mature, and it's unclear if or when Apple will shake things up. Ever the optimist, CEO Tim Cook during the company's call with investors hinted that big things are yet to come.
Apple generated $7.8 billion in profit based on revenues of $42.4 billion. That's a drop from the previous quarter, when Apple generated $10.7 billion in profit on $49.6 billion in revenue. Apple's quarterly numbers are lower than they were in the year-ago period, and the company saw its cash on hand decline for the first time in two years.
Sales of the iPhone continue to slow. The company shipped 40.4 million iPhones in the three months ending June 30, a decrease from 51.2 million in the previous quarter and 47.5 million in the year-ago quarter. While consumers were quick to snap up the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the fall of 2014, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus haven't generated the same level of interest.
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Cook admitted during the earnings call that consumers' buying habits may be changing. Phone prices, for example, "can be a shock for people who are used to paying $199 for their smartphone. They come back in and they pay less for their service but more for their smartphone."
Cook is referencing carriers' shift away from two-year contracts in favor of month-to-month pricing for phones. More to the point, Apple is expected to keep the design of the iPhone 7 largely unchanged, something that is a deciding factor for some consumers.
One bright spot in Apple's iPhone business is the iPhone SE. "I really like what I've seen with the iPhone SE, and the fact that it's opening the door to customers that we weren't reaching before, and likely convincing some people to upgrade that wanted a smaller form factor," said Cook.
Apple said the device is doing exactly what it was intended to do -- get people to try the iPhone for the first time. The iPhone SE starts at $399, while the larger iPhone 6s and 6s Plus start at $649 and $749, respectively.
iPad sales are down, but the rate of decline has slowed somewhat. The company shipped 9.95 million during the quarter, which is down from 10.25 million in the previous quarter and down from 10.93 million in the year-ago quarter. Interestingly, iPad revenues increased to $4.88 million, suggesting the more expensive iPad Pro models are finding buyers. Cook said about half of iPad Pro sales are going to enterprise customers.
Mac shipments increased from 4 million in the three months ending March 31 to 4.25 million in the three months ending June 30.
One especially good development in Apple's earnings appears in the form of services revenues. The company says sales from iTunes and the App Store reached $5.9 million for the quarter, which is up 19% from the year-ago period. Apple Music, which costs $10 per month, may be playing a big role here.
[Read Snowden Designs iPhone Add-On to Thwart Surveillance.]
"App Store revenue was the highest ever, as our installed base continued to grow and transacting customers hit an all-time record," said Luca Maestri, Apple's CFO, in a prepared statement.
Curious about sales of the Apple Watch? So is everyone else. The company shared no data on sales of its pricey wearable. The Apple Watch falls under Apple's "other" category, which generated $2.22 million in revenue in the quarter, down from $2.64 million in the year-ago period. IDC says sales of the smartwatch are slowing.
Apple's research and development costs are the one clue it provided about new products.
"We do continue to invest significantly in R&D," said Cook. "The products that are in R&D, there is quite a bit of investment in there for products and services that are not currently shipping or derivations of what is currently shipping. So, I don't want to talk about the exact split of it, but you can look at the growth rate and conclude that there's a lot of stuff that we're doing beyond the current products."
In other words, Apple is spending a lot of money creating brand new stuff that we haven't yet seen. Could that stuff be a car? A TV? Who is to say?]]>
Tesla Motors has opened a part of its massive Gigafactory, where the electric carmaker plans to house most of its manufacturing process under one roof, while reducing costs and allowing the company to vastly increase production.
The factory, located outside Sparks, Nev., is where Tesla expects to begin cell production in 2017. By 2020, the facility will reach full capacity and produce more lithium ion batteries annually than were produced worldwide in 2013.
The Associated Press reported July 26 that the facility, while open, is only 14% complete. When it's finished the massive building will be one of the largest in the world, with an area of about 10 million square feet.
Tesla says centralizing operations will drive down the per kilowatt hour (kWh) cost of the company's battery pack by more than 30%, an important cost savings for a company that has not yet turned a yearly profit.
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The Gigafactory will be managed by Tesla, with Panasonic as the principal partner responsible for lithium-ion battery cells. The Japanese electronics firm will occupy approximately half of the planned manufacturing space.
In addition to the cutting-edge technology inside, Tesla is also using the Gigafactory to demonstrate its commitment to sustainability at all levels of production. The facility will be powered, at least in part, by solar panels on the roof.
Getting the facility up and running will also be integral to the success of the latest production vehicle, the Model 3, which debuted to much fanfare earlier this year and led to a crush of pre-sales orders, which some analysts doubt the company will be able to fill.
At the same time, some analysts see the risk in producing a massive amount of batteries at once: A dearth of actual sales or production delays could leave Tesla exposed.
[Read more about Tesla's recent problems with Autopilot.]
"They could be left with a lot of excess capacity in the near term," Navigant Research's Sam Abuelsamid told the AP.
The opening of the Gigafactory follows the publication of CEO Elon Musk's broader vision for the company. That plan includes proposals to move his company beyond electric cars and batteries, including ones for heavy-duty trucks and for high-passenger-density urban transport, which is something luxury carmaker Daimler is currently developing.
In other Tesla news, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the carmaker has parted ways with Israeli company Mobileye, a key supplier of its Autopilot system, which was responsible for handling the ADAS and semi-autonomous driving components of the system.
"I think in a partnership, we need to be there on all aspects of how the technology is being used, and not simply providing technology and not being in control of how it is being used," the paper quoted Mobileye's chief technical officer Amnon Shashua as saying during an earnings call.
The decision comes in the wake of a fatal crash involving a Tesla vehicle, which was in autopilot mode at the time of the accident. The collision raised fresh concerns over the safety of self-driving vehicles.]]>
The trouble with many analytics projects is that even though they are designed to deliver information and insight to users, the process of moving data, cleaning data, and integrating data can take time. And when business users want to turn on a dime and make decisions, they don't want to wait.
So sometimes they go around IT to get alternate solutions implemented.
Platforms such as Tableau have tried to speed up the process by offering self-service tools to users, enabling non-IT workers to create data visualizations quickly without the need to involve IT. Now, with its upcoming release of Tableau 10, the data visualization company is putting some control back into the hands of the IT organization.
[Tableau is one of the market Leaders in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics. Find out who the other two are. Read Gartner BI Magic Quadrant: Inflection Point Has Arrived.]
Tableau's vice president of product development Francois Ajenstat spoke with InformationWeek. He provided a preview on the strategy behind the improvements in the soon to be released update to the company's data visualization and analytics platform.
Among the new features: Data integration or mashups of data from multiple different sources; the addition of many different new advanced analytics including drag-and-drop clustering; greater mobile responsiveness, and new capabilities for developers.
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For IT organizations, one of the most welcome new features is probably the greater levels of control over the platform itself. Ajenstat said Tableau 10 is not just an analytics platform itself. The platform also has an additional analytics platform built on top of it to provide visibility into how users are using Tableau.
"In the past with traditional business intelligence tools, IT controlled everything and built the reports, and delivered them to the users," Ajenstat said. "In the new modern analytics world everything is self-service, so IT doesn't have the same control or understanding of what is going on out there. So having this ability back means they can better tune their environments. They can provide oversight and governance over what is being used."
Tableau 10 also adds analytics version control. That means when users are working on analysis projects and decide they want to make changes or revert back to a previous version, they can revert natively inside the platform, Ajenstat said.
Tableau 10 is also adding data mashups. The company has already supported over 50 different data sources out of the box, from Oracle to DB2 to cloud databases, to SQL on Azure, to Hadoop. It also supports applications such as Salesforce and Google Analytics. Version 10 adds native support for Google Sheets and QuickBooks.
Plus, it expands the capabilities related to linking to these data sources. On previous versions of the platform you had to connect to one source at a time. Tableau 10 enables users to connect to any data source and combine it with any other data source with a simple point-and-click action. A user could now work with SQL Server, Oracle, and Hadoop as a single integrated data source, Ajenstat told InformationWeek.
"If you didn't have this capability, you would struggle with ETL or put it in Excel," he said. "This is one of the game-changer capabilities in Tableau 10."
That's not to say it can't be done. But it's not something that a non-IT user would be able to do.
"You don't have to be technical to do this," Ajenstat said. "It feels as if it is just one data source. This will open up new scenarios."
Tableau 10 is also making some sophisticated advanced analytics capabilities, such as clustering, available to end-users via drag-and-drop functions. Ajenstat says this unleashes capabilities that have been available to data scientists via tools such as SAS, SPSS, and R, and makes them available to more people.
Another new capability in the platform enables dashboards, apps, and reports that are sometimes delivered to mobile devices to be automatically optimized for consumption on those devices.
The company is running the largest beta its ever done -- two-times bigger than ever before -- with 13,000 people from Tableau's 42,000 customers. Tableau officials said that the official release is coming shortly.
"This is the most significant release we've ever made," Ajenstat told InformationWeek.
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SparkCognition, a company that applies machine learning to predictive analytics, has begun working with Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to develop an automated threat identification and remediation system that works in conjunction with IBM's Watson.
As part of the arrangement, SparkCognition says it plans to train researchers at SEI's CERT Division how to use IBM Watson to record and index vulnerabilities in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) list and CERT Secure Coding Rules. By doing so, the researchers will make vulnerability information more accessible and more useful to those focused on protecting critical national infrastructure.
To fight automated attacks, organizations need automated defenses in order to help security professionals separate signal from noise.
"Cybersecurity has evolved to a point that without AI, it's really hard to keep up with all the attacks today," said CEO Amir Husain in a phone interview. "The purpose of this partnership is to combine our collective capabilities, and to be able to predict attacks even when the specific threat is not something that's been seen before."
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Through automated modeling and machine learning, which the company uses outside the security industry to anticipate wind turbine failure, SparkCognition can predict the behavior of unknown software and flag it for analysis. Husain said these sort of models can help people make better decisions by presenting them with better information.
"AI will find things for me to pay attention to," said Husain, stressing that companies should not seek to completely automate their defenses out of concern for liability, "for the same reason the military does not want AI to pull the trigger."
It's an approach that Husain argues is superior to traditional antivirus tools like blacklists and signatures.
"The rate at which these attacks are being created is so rapid no blacklist can keep up," said Husain.
SparkCognition's SparkSecure automates the process of analyzing inbound and outbound server log data to aid in the detection of malicious software, bot traffic, and suspect IP addresses. It looks at how software is built and the resources it uses before the code gets run.
[See 10 Hot Security Technologies Enterprises Need Now.]
Husain said his company's system has flagged malware that was missed by more than 60 antivirus engines. When analyzed by a security researcher, the flagged software turned out to be a common decompression utility that had been injected with a previously unseen -- and thus undetectable by signature -- strain of malware.
The role of IBM Watson in this ecosystem is to provide advice, available through natural language queries, to those responsible for dealing with threats. Having been fed massive amounts of security-related information, like device manuals and vulnerability data, Watson acts as a AI help desk.
Husain contends his company's technology is ideal for organizations that have a security information and event management (SIEM) system in place that either is being underutilized or is overloading administrators with alerts.
More than half of all website traffic comes from bots, many of which are trying to scrape data, scan for vulnerabilities, or facilitate identity theft, said Husain. AI can make sense of that vast amount of data more readily than a person.
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Your organization probably already has more data than it knows what to do with. Yet, it's quite likely you're overlooking, disregarding, unaware of, or unable to access important information that could directly affect analyses and business outcomes.
It doesn't matter what your universe of data is -- enterprise data or a combination of internal and external data sources -- important nuggets of information may be missing.
"Companies are collecting more data, but often struggle with what to do with it," said Dave Hartman, president and founder of technology advisory firm Hartman Executive Advisors. "Data can be extremely overwhelming in its raw form."
[What's hot in data science? Read 10 Programming Languages and Tools Data Scientists Use Now.]
Data silos are one culprit causing blind spots, which result in missed opportunities and can expose your company to risk. Today's companies need cross-functional views of their data in order to serve customers and to compete effectively.
"The untapped gems lie in the cross-links between data sources that relate to customers across channels and derive future value. This includes creating consistent and comprehensive customer profiles across the board," said Dominik Dahlem, lead data scientist at customer intelligence cloud platform vendor Boxever.
Achieving that kind of visibility isn't easy, since it requires organizations to tie together enterprise systems, which can be difficult to do despite the number of APIs available. Businesses also have to consider external data sources, such as social media or weather data, which help provide a complete view of customer behavior or serve to identify overlooked issues that might negatively affect business performance.
Constellation Research vice president and principal analyst Doug Henschen said unused data tends to fall into two broad categories. These are data exhaust and dark data, both of which have been aided by NoSQL technologies. Data exhaust is information an organization is currently not saving. Dark data is information companies may be saving but not exploring.
"Historically, companies used to throw away historical data simply because they couldn't afford to retain it. So they would keep, say, one or two years' worth of data," said Henschen. "Most people keep durable goods, such as beds and furniture, for at least five years. So targeted promotions based on two-year-old buying information may not [enable] deep enough analysis."
Dark data includes semi-structured and unstructured data that are hard to compute against. Although it's been possible to retrieve the metadata, deciphering the meaning has been a one-time, manual task. With modern search, natural language processing, semantic analysis, sentiment analysis, and machine learning, such data is now becoming computable, according to Henschen.
"The text in a CRM comment field can be analyzed and segmented across the entire customer base, rather than just looking at sentiment, one customer at a time," said Henschen. "The same goes for social network comments about your brand and products."
One way to identify missing gaps is to focus on the key metrics the organization wants to improve, which may turn out to be different than the current KPIs. For example, if the goal is to improve customer satisfaction, it's important to understand the cause of customer dissatisfaction, as well as its symptoms.
"The drivers of lower customer satisfaction might be inadequate product features and the symptoms would be lower customer adoption or product sales," said Sanjay Sidwani, SVP of marketing analytics at financial services company Synchrony Financial. "Getting a deep understanding of the drivers requires persistence in analyzing data and slicing it in multiple ways."
What data is your company missing? Once you've reviewed our 12 examples, tell us about your own experiences with hidden data in the comments section below.]]>
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced its latest Office 365 updates that will utilize its machine learning and natural language processing to bring smarter capabilities to Word, and also tweaks to features in PowerPoint and Outlook.
With the updates, Redmond introduced Researcher for Word, which aims to make it easier to find material and incorporate it word document, and also Editor for Word, which uses machine learning and natural language processing to improve proofreading documents. Meanwhile, it tweaked PowerPoint for greater flexibility when doing presentations and Outlook to ease scrolling and responding to messages.
"We are releasing a new set of cloud-powered intelligent services in Office apps designed to save you time and produce better results. These features help you improve your writing in Word, deliver dynamic presentations in PowerPoint and prioritize the emails that matter most to you in Outlook," Microsoft said in a blog post Tuesday.
In drilling down into the details of these updates, Editor for Word will use machine learning and natural language processing to suggest alternative words and phrases. It might suggest you replace "the majority of" with the single word "most." Word will also take on the additional role of your high school English teacher and explain why words or phrases are incorrect.
For those who struggle over comma placement and hyphen anxiety in addition to spelling, Word will make some tweaks to its color-coded grammar prompts. The red misspelled word squiggles will remain as is, but the blue squiggle grammar alerts will change to a solid blue underline. Writing style issues will be flagged with a dotted gold line. Editor for Word will be available in the fall.
The new feature helps users research information while staying in a Word document, which avoids the dreaded toggling back and forth between an Internet browser and Word document. It will also incorporate the information and add its properly formatted citation with one click. Researcher is available to Office 365 subscribers using Word 2016 on Windows desktops.
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Microsoft is adding a feature called PowerPoint Zoom to PowerPoint 2016. It allows users to zoom into desired portions of a presentation. They have the flexibility to jump from one part of the presentation to another without having to rely on its previously ordered sequence. This feature is available to Office Insiders using PowerPoint 2016 on Windows desktops.
Microsoft is rolling out two updates to Outlook this month. One is a Focused Inbox, in Outlook on iOS and Android, coming to the desktop on Windows and the Mac and Outlook on the web.
[See Google Apps vs. Office 365: Which Suite Reigns Supreme?]
Focused Inbox will automatically separate email in a user's inbox into two tabs, into one group that is labeled with the "Focused" tab and the other for less important emails goes into the "Other" tab.
Additionally, Microsoft is also adding @mentions, which identifies emails that need the user's attention as well as flag actions for others.
In addition to the Office 365 updates, Microsoft is offering its Windows 10 Anniversary Update for free up until July 29 for Windows 7 and 8.1 users, according to a report in Ars Technica. The Windows 10 Anniversary update is scheduled to be released on Aug. 2.]]>
If a smartphone is made by Alcatel and runs Android, could it possibly be a BlackBerry? Leaked details about the BlackBerry DTEK50 would appear to suggest just that. The onetime smartphone king accidentally posted details about the BlackBerry DTEK50 to its own website hours before the official unveiling Tuesday, and the device looks strikingly similar to the Alcatel Idol 4.
Based on the images and specs spotted by CrackBerry, the DTEK50 is a slab-style smartphone with a 5.2-inch, full HD screen, and no physical keyboard. The phone is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 617 processor with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Other features include a 13-megapixel main camera, 8-megapixel selfie camera, 2,610 mAh battery with Quick Charge 2.0, and support for memory cards up to 2TB.
These specs match those of the Alcatel Idol 4, announced back in February. More to the point, photos of the DTEK50 show a metal frame, stereo speakers, and a distinct round button on the side -- all hallmark physical features of the Idol 4. The only visible difference between the two is the rear panel, which has a dimpled texture and BlackBerry's iconic logo.
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BlackBerry noted that the DTEK50 ships with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, BlackBerry Hub, Password Keeper, DTEK, BBM, and other BlackBerry apps. BlackBerry pulled the listing before too long, leaving a host of unanswered questions in its wake.
For instance, why would BlackBerry use Alcatel to ODM the device rather than design and manufacture the phone itself? Does BlackBerry not have the resources or talent to design hardware anymore? What does this portend for the future of BlackBerry's hardware business as a whole? Is BlackBerry done making its own phones?
[See Beyond BlackBerry: Outdated Tech the Feds Should Dump.]
Obviously, it is less costly for BlackBerry to rely on an ODM hardware partner to design and manufacture its smartphones. BlackBerry is focusing more on its software than its hardware anyway. A shift away from in-house hardware makes sense. Further, BlackBerry CEO John S. Chen has spent the majority of his tenure slicing and dicing costs, with the hardware team facing the deepest cuts.
Alcatel's role here is even more surprising. The Idol 4 is one of Alcatel's two flagship devices for 2016. In fact, Cricket Wireless plans to sell the Idol 4 later this year. Alcatel is working hard to improve its image around the world, so it's curious to see the company strip the brand name off its most important phone of the year.]]>
Apple's Project Titan, the worst kept secret in the self-driving vehicle space, is shifting into higher gear with the appointment of longtime Apple hardware engineer Bob Mansfield, who will reportedly lead the project.
A July 25 report in The Wall Street Journal, which quoted unnamed sources familiar with the situation, reported that Apple employees learned of Mansfield's return to the company when they noticed in a company directory that all employees working on the car project were now reporting to him.
Although Mansfield's official retirement came in 2012 after more than a decade with the company, he has remained connected to the consumer electronics giant to work on future projects, where he reports to company CEO Tim Cook.
Although Project Titan is talked about, few details of what Apple is up to have leaked. Apple's super secretive workplace society has keep all details tightly under wraps so far -- but Apple has reportedly launched a clandestine lab in Berlin to speed up development of the initiative, according to an April report in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
The staff in the Berlin lab is made up of hardware and software engineers, among others, and considered "progressive thinkers" who felt stymied by their bosses at their former jobs, according to the German publication.
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It's been a bit of a bumpy road for the company so far. Apple's momentum was dealt a blow at the beginning of the year following the departure of veteran Steve Zadesky.
As reported by the Journal, Zadesky, who was thought to be the project lead on Titan, is leaving the company for personal reasons, according to unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation.
Zadesky's departure put additional pressure on the Titan team, which according to the Journal report has been faced with unattainable targets and no clear goals. Bloomberg reported in February 2015 that Apple is pushing the team to have an electric car in production by 2020.
Apple is far from the only technology company investing in electric vehicles and self-driving cars. Rival Google has been testing its own autonomous car around various parts of the US, with a stop in London potentially next on the list.
[Read more about the race to create self-driving vehicles.]
Tesla Motors, which is also seen as a leader in the up-and-coming electric vehicle market, has come under scrutiny in recent days following a fatal crash that involved one of its sedans that was in Autopilot mode at the time of the accident. The collision raised new questions about the safety of self-driving cars.
New capabilities are being tested. Some of the world's largest automakers are investing heavily in self-driving vehicle technology.
Nissan announced July 13 that its Serena minivan, scheduled to go on sale in in Japan later in August, would come equipped with the company's ProPILOT autonomous drive technology.
In Northern Europe, meanwhile, the Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot, a self-driving vehicle designed for cities deploying bus rapid transit (BRT) programs, reached a milestone after the company put the bus through a complicated route covering almost 12 miles.
Its path, on one of Europe's longest BRT routes in the Netherlands, links Amsterdam's Schiphol airport with the town of Haarlem. It includes a number of tight bends, tunnels, several bus stops, and stretches requiring high speeds.]]>
The amount of data collected by enterprises continues to grow, and yet organizations still struggle with getting value out of that data because of a gap in cloud and data skills. To bridge the gap, many vendors from the major Hadoop distributors, to online course providers, to Microsoft are providing online training. This training helps companies teach their existing employees and assists IT workers who want to enhance their careers by acquiring in-demand data analytics and management skills.
That's the backdrop for a new acquisition this week by established data warehouse company Teradata of a company called Big Data Partnership, a three-year-old big data solutions and training business with expertise in in big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop.
[IT workers say they will play a part in their companies' digital transformations. Read IT Organizations Unprepared for Digital Business.]
Teradata, which Gartner ranked as a Leader in its most recent Magic Quadrant report for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics, is buying this EMEA-based startup for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will become part of Teradata's Think Big consulting practice, and help Teradata expand its customer data science education and consulting efforts into new territory. These services are part of the company's efforts to close the data analytics skills gap for its customers.
"Big Data Partnership brings exciting new capabilities and broadens our analytic services portfolio, enhancing Think Big's expertise and giving our customers more choices, outcomes tailored to their goals, and valuable knowledge transfer," Rick Farnell, senior vice president of Think Big, a Teradata company, wrote in a prepared statement released July 25.
"We continue to strengthen our world-class solutions business to help our customers design, build and run analytics, and the Big Data Partnership consultancy fits well with Teradata's increasingly strong global analytics practice."
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Worldpay, a global payments company based in London, is among Big Data Partnership's customers. It anticipates gaining greater support from the company, now that it is part of Teradata's Think Big.
"The combination of Big Data Partnership and Think Big will provide us with quality data engineering and data science talent [that] will complement our teams in the successful delivery of our big data strategy," Worldpay CIO Mark Kimber wrote in a statement.
The combination of these two organizations may also solidify what analysts already considered a strength for Teradata -- customer experience. In its Magic Quadrant report released this year for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics, Gartner said that existing Teradata customers reported above-average customer experiences, particularly in the delivery of professional services.
Big Data Partnership's team has expertise in big data technologies including the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, NoSQL, and search technologies.
Teradata named Victor Lund as its new president and CEO in May following a first-quarter earnings report that showed a revenue decline of 6% from this year's $545 million compared to the same period last year. The company reported a net loss of $46 million compared to a net income of $22 million for the same quarter a year ago.
Teradata made its database and associated tools available for the first time on AWS by the end of the first quarter of this year. Teradata also recently signed a definitive agreement to sell its marketing applications business.
The company held its annual user conference earlier this month. It featured sessions about the internet of things and sensor data; strategies and frameworks to monetize data assets; real-time, advanced, and predictive analytics; cloud computing and cloud-based analytics; and cyber-security, privacy, and governance.]]>
The FBI is currently investigating a hack that surfaced the contents of email from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
About 20,000 email messages were leaked late last week, highlighting officials' favor towards Hillary Clinton and throwing the party into disarray ahead of its 2016 Democratic National Convention. Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will resign as a result.
The messages, which were published on WikiLeaks, did not shed any light on who was behind the breach. Clinton's campaign says it believes Russia conducted the hack to benefit Donald Trump, and sources close to the matter claim Russian hackers gained access to the DNC's system.
[Read: Snowden Designs iPhone Add-On to Thwart Surveillance]
"A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the FBI will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace," wrote the FBI in a statement, as reported by a number of news outlets.
Regardless of who the FBI finds guilty, this politically charged attack carries a few key lessons for IT pros. If the DNC is vulnerable to having their sensitive content breached and published, your organization could also be at risk.
Following the breach and publication of DNC emails, cyber-security industry experts spoke out about the importance of protecting sensitive data, maintaining email best practices, and having the right response prepared for when an attack takes place.
"This situation demonstrates that all data has value to someone -- even if it's not commercial data," said Mark Kraynak, SVP and general manager of enterprise solutions at Imperva, in an email. Kraynak explained how an attacker may value data more than its owner, at least until the information is compromised.
"Situations like this are a great reminder of the need for all organizations to ensure the security of their data and that they have appropriate response mechanisms in place for the inevitable attack," he continued.
Some security pros say they believe sophisticated hackers will always be one step ahead of the businesses they plan to attack. Brad Taylor, CEO at Proficio, noted a popular lesson within the security space -- once an experienced attacker is on your network, he or she can complete a breach in less than 30 minutes and maintain a presence for over 250 days without being detected.
"Security controls of any organization will never be capable of keeping out a determined adversary," Taylor cautioned. "Like water coming through a screen door on a submarine, they will find a way into any network."
Travis Smith, security researcher with Tripwire, says he expects it will be found that the DNC hack originally started with a phishing email. "Why knock down the wall if you can be welcomed in through the front door?" he asked.
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"Phishing, spear-phishing, and whaling continue to be the dominant entry point for attackers, as humans are often the weakest link in an organization's security architecture," Smith explained.
Employees should be cognizant of suspicious email and of how they act online, cautioned Lamar Bailey, senior director of security R&D for Tripwire.
"We do not know the source of this leak," Bailey noted in an email to InformationWeek. "It could have been a hack, weak password, misconfiguration, or even an inside job. Regardless, the same things can happen to any business."
In terms of key lessons IT and security managers can take from these hacks, Bailey emphasized that data needs to be classified, and proprietary or confidential information should be treated with extra precautions.
While the 2016 presidential election has made political candidates like Clinton and Trump prime targets for cyberattacks, organized cyber-criminals have the potential to infiltrate any organization they have on their radar. Is your business protected?]]>
Most IT and information security leaders are aware of the risk and high cost of external internet cyberattacks, but only a small percentage believe their business is equipped to handle them, according to a study released July 19 by the Ponemon Institute.
The study, sponsored by BrandProtect, aimed to uncover the ability of organizations to address cyberattacks taking place outside their traditional security boundaries. External threats are defined in the study as those which lie outside a company's firewalls and primarily leverage digital channels, such as social media, email, and mobile apps.
The study, Security Beyond The Traditional Perimeter, is based on a Ponemon Institute survey of 591 IT professionals and IT security practitioners working at 505 enterprises in the US. The vast majority of respondents (79%) said security processes for internet and social media monitoring are non-existent, partially deployed, or inconsistently deployed.
[Read: EU Data Protection Law May End The Unknowable Algorithm]
This is a major risk, and an expensive one. The 505 organizations included in the study experienced an average of more than one cyberattack each month, and spent an average of $3.5 million to deal with each attack.
Even for a large organization, $3.5 million is significant, said Larry Ponemon, president of the Ponemon Institute, in an interview with InformationWeek.
The study discovered an average of 30% of external attacks were conducted over the internet or through social media. Most companies are not consistently monitoring these threats, and most are not doing what's necessary to ensure high-level security, Ponemon said.
"The protection of intellectual property from external threats is considered important to the sustainability of the company," he said. "The information that could lead to reputational damage could be catastrophic in cases."
When asked which external threats worry their organizations the most, 51% of respondents cited reputational damage. Forty percent of respondents also said they worried about branded exploits, and 33% said they were concerned about compliance and regulatory problems related to these threats.
While monitoring the internet and social media was seen by most respondents as critical to ganing intelligence about external threats, only 17% of respondents said their organizations consistently apply a formal process to do so. More than a third of respondents (38%) said their companies do not monitor the internet or social media to determine external threats their companies face. Another 23% identified their process or approach as informal or ad hoc, while 18% said they have a formal process in place but it is not applied consistently throughout the enterprise. Another 4% of respondents said they could not determine how their companies monitor internet and social media for potential threats.
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So, what are companies monitoring, exactly?
When asked to identify the most important monitoring activities to achieve a strong security posture, 62% of respondents cited monitoring mobile apps, 61% cited monitoring social engineering and organizational reconnaissance, and 59% cited branded exploits. Other priorities cited were monitoring for spear-phishing infrastructure (58% of respondents), and monitoring executive and high-value targets (54% of respondents).
However, the ability to stay current on these technologies is lacking at many of the organizations surveyed. More than 80% of respondents believe their businesses are ineffective at monitoring social media and the internet.
"The study highlights a gap in defenses against threats that have proven to be extremely effective for cyber criminals and costly for employees," said Ponemon in a prepared statement.
While CIOs and Chief Information Security Officers are cited in the study as being responsible for directing efforts to minimize exposure to business risk stemming from threats on the network or at the security perimeter, the same is not true of external threats. Responsibility for external threats is most often given to the lines of business, or else no one person in the company is responsible, according to the study.
When asked how involved their company's security leader is in the collection and evaluation of intelligence gained from the internet and social media, only 12% of respondents said such executives were "very involved." Another 24% said their security leader has "some involvement" in the process.
Security leaders surveyed plan to address these shortcomings. Over the next two years, respondents said they plan to increase firewall monitoring in-house, and launch both in-house and outsourced initiatives to drive internal network monitoring.
Outside their security perimeters, companies plan to increase cyber threat monitoring, anti-phishing, social media monitoring, and external domain monitoring through both in-house projects and outsourcing.
Organizations will be consistently challenged to stay current on social media, an ever-changing landscape of new apps and websites. In our interview, Ponemon noted how, without the right tools and right insight, it's almost impossible to keep up.
The key will be in raising organizational awareness and becoming conscious of emerging technologies, he said, as new social sites can contain harmful information and lead to corporate identity theft. There is a possibility it will get a lot worse before it gets better.]]>
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IT professionals often spend long working hours addressing employee concerns, implementing new systems, and exploring new technologies.
By the time you arrive home at the end of the day, it can be tempting to sit down and relax -- but there are often more things to do. Errands like grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, and dog walking don't disappear because you were at the office.
It can be overwhelming to handle the mundane tasks of everyday life in addition to the pressures of a demanding job. Sometimes it seems there aren't enough hours in the day to handle it all.
[Planning a vacation? Take a look at these 9 high-tech cities around the world.]
Fortunately for stressed professionals, the Apple App Store and Google Play have several apps designed to help with chores and make your to-do list more manageable.
These services aim to boost your out-of-office productivity with handy features like suggesting cleaning tips, having someone pick up your mail or laundry, and reminding you to pay your bills on time.
Here, we recommend 10 mobile apps to help make your daily chores and errands easier and more manageable with your crazy work schedule. Have you used any of these apps? Are there any you would add to this list? We would like to learn your ideas in the comment section.]]>
Google is rolling out several changes to Google Maps that make the mobile navigation tool more useful. In addition to a new data-saving WiFi mode, Maps gains the ability to set specific alerts for mass transit delays.
Most smartphone owners subscribe to defined buckets of cellular data each month. Carriers' policies vary, but exceeding the monthly limit generally results in one of two scenarios: Consumers are hit with overage charges, or their data speeds are reduced to 2002-era 2G. Both are painful penalties.
A new tool being added to Google Maps should help cut down on data usage and prevent these scenarios from punishing mobile device owners.
First, Google is changing up its offline tools.
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Google Maps has long allowed people to download certain map segments for offline use. The feature was originally intended to help travelers avoid data charges.
For example, before boarding the plane for your summer vacation to London, you could download the entire map of London to your phone. You could then use Maps in London without worrying about the app making use of costly mobile data when overseas.
Moreover, offline maps allow the app to work even when there's no connection at all. The new WiFi-only mode, first spotted by Android Police, still relies on previously downloaded offline Maps, but will only load new maps when on WiFi.
[Read about recent updates to Google Maps and Google Earth.]
Using the London example, this WiFi-only mode would be helpful if you take an unplanned day trip out to the coast to see the White Cliffs of Dover. You'd be able to stop in a coffee shop where WiFi may be available for free to load new maps of Dover and the surrounding area and remain safe from accidental data use. Google warns the app may still use some cellular data, but it would be minimal.
The second new feature to hit Google Maps should appeal to those who rely on mass transit to get to work every day. Maps will allow commuters to set up custom alerts so they may be warned when their usual trip to work is disrupted.
Screen shots of the new tool show the subway lines of New York City, their status (such as normal service, modified service, or significant delays). Users can subscribe to alerts for one or multiple lines. Such alerts can give commuters time to adjust their route into or around the city in order to avoid trouble spots.
What's not clear is how many metros areas will be covered by the mass transit alerts. The examples so far focus on NYC.
Google has not announced either of these features, but they appear to be rolling out slowly to select Android users.]]>
Ford is moving its connected car platform forward with the July 25 announcement that all 2017 model-year Ford cars, SUVs, light trucks, and electrified vehicles will offer the SYNC 3 voice-activated communications and entertainment system with Google's Android Auto and Apple's CarPlay platforms.
The automaker plans future over-the-air updates through WiFi that will help ensure drivers can keep up with the latest technology, and noted popular applications such as Spotify, Pandora, AccuWeather, and AAA member services have been added through SYNC AppLink.
SYNC 3 features updated hardware and software for better performance, and additional conversational voice recognition capabilities to help drivers connect to their smartphone and access a variety of features, including hands-free phone calls and navigation.
Android Auto provides information, including Google Maps, Google Play Music, and other apps that are projected onto the SYNC screen. The process allows for the integration of the smartphone into the car. Google voice search answers any questions customers may have while driving.
CarPlay, which is compatible with Apple's iPhone 5 and later models, works by plugging in the iPhone through a USB outlet. The CarPlay interface then appears on the touch screen.
In addition, CarPlay features Siri voice control. It integrates an iPhone with the car's built-in display and controls.
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Ford's Escape, Fusion, Mustang, and Explorer vehicles are already available as 2017 models at dealerships. Others, like the F-150, the Focus, the Edge, and the 2017 Super Duty, will arrive later this year.
"Ford's promise that every new model now ships smartphone-ready is huge," Jeffrey Hannah, director of North America for global automotive technology research firm SBD, wrote in the announcement. "Ford is not taking the traditional approach of introducing CarPlay and Android Auto on a few piecemeal models or as an expensive option on luxury vehicles only."
The carmaker also runs the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto, Calif., where mechanical engineers like Jennifer Brace focus on learning about customer needs and how they influence the user interface in Ford cars.
[Read more about Ford's autonomous vehicle.]
Brace's team of user experience researchers conducts studies on far-reaching technologies like autonomous driving, connectivity, and data analysis -- all of which have the potential to be integrated into user vehicles.
In addition to progress with connected cars, Ford is investing heavily in self-driving vehicle technology. In January, it started to test its self-driving vehicle technology on roadways slick with snow and ice.
The company uploaded a short video to YouTube featuring footage of Ford's self-driving fleet of Fusion sedans cruising the wintery roads of Michigan.
In April, a consortium of technology and automotive titans, including Google, Ford, Volvo Cars, Uber, and Lyft, announced the formation of the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets in a move to accelerate federal regulations around the move toward driverless cars.
The coalition aims to work with government agencies, civic groups, and businesses to gain acceptance and support in prompting the federal government to adopt laws that allow the use of driverless cars on the nation's highways and roads.]]>
Verizon Communications announced that it's snapping up the core internet assets of Yahoo for approximately $4.83 billion, essentially ending the tumultuous history of the struggling dot-com pioneer.
For Verizon, the deal bolsters the telecommunications giant's efforts to develop its digital media business and advertising. Last year, Verizon acquired AOL in a $4.4 billion deal and operates it as a wholly owned subsidiary.
The sale, which is expected to close in the first three months of 2017, will result in Yahoo's business operations being integrated with AOL. Despite speculation that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would leave the company after the Verizon merger, she assured employees in a post that she plans to remain.
"For me personally, I'm planning to stay. I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It's important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter," Mayer stated.
The combined Yahoo-AOL will have more than 25 brands in its content portfolio. Yahoo brings to the table roughly 1 billion monthly active users, of which 600 million are monthly active mobile users.
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"Just over a year ago we acquired AOL to enhance our strategy of providing a cross-screen connection for consumers, creators and advertisers. The acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly competitive position as a top global mobile media company, and help accelerate our revenue stream in digital advertising," Lowell McAdam, Verizon CEO said in a statement.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong added, in a statement, "This transaction is about unleashing Yahoo's full potential, building upon our collective synergies, and strengthening and accelerating that growth. Combining Verizon, AOL and Yahoo will create a new powerful competitive rival in mobile media, and an open, scaled alternative offering for advertisers and publishers."
The deal does not include Yahoo's investment stakes in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding and Yahoo Japan. Those assets will remain with Yahoo, which will change its name and will become a publicly traded investment company after the sale closes, according to Verizon.
"The sale of our operating business, which effectively separates our Asian asset equity stakes, is an important step in our plan to unlock shareholder value for Yahoo. This transaction also sets up a great opportunity for Yahoo [as part of AOL] to build further distribution and accelerate our work in mobile, video, native advertising and social," Yahoo CEO Mayer said in a statement.
[Read Yahoo Mail Ad-Blocking Move Angers Users.]
The Alibaba investment accounts for the bulk of Yahoo's estimated $36 billion market cap, and the internet pioneer will also be left with roughly 3,000 patents after the Verizon deal closes, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The former internet darling is expected to unload its patents in a separate auction that may generate in excess of $1 billion in bids, according to the Journal.
The deal for Yahoo, which was founded in 1994, ends its lengthy struggle and failed attempts to turn around its core internet operations that date back to 2001, when it hired high-profile Hollywood executive Terry Semel as CEO to recast the advertising-supported company into a content company. But the company fell further behind fierce competitors Google and an emerging Facebook, and Semel was pressured to step down in 2007, according to a New York Times report.
Yahoo underwent several other CEO changes in the subsequent years. It hired respected technologist CEO Carol Bartz, former CEO of Autodesk, in 2009. But Bartz struggled to turn around the advertising portion of Yahoo's business -- its bread-and-butter for revenue -- and was ousted in 2011.
In 2012, Yahoo wooed Google veteran Mayer to take its CEO post, a move that was widely viewed as a coup from industry observers and Wall Street. But even Mayer could not shift the tide of Yahoo's declining advertising base, and its customers increasingly continued to place their business with rivals Facebook and Google.
In February, Yahoo, facing pressure from activist shareholders, announced it would form a committee to explore its options for selling its assets.
In addition to Verizon, other bidders included AT&T, a group led by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, Vector Capital Management, and private equity firm TPG, according to a Bloomberg report.
Yahoo, according to The Journal, will next work on its patent auction and still has to figure out what it will do with its investment stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
Verizon's decision to buy Yahoo's core internet business was panned by analyst Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research, who pointed to Verizon's disappointing effort to challenge rivals in the cloud computing business with its Terremark purchase in 2011 for $1.4 billion.
"Remember all the nitwit analysts and industry visionaries coming on the media and touting Verizon and Terremark deal as 'ground breaking'?" Chowdhry asked in a research note. "These clueless Verizon executives at that time said, 'We will accelerate everything-as-a-service cloud strategy.'"
Amazon Web Service (AWS) is consistently increasing its revenues at more than 45% on a year-to-year basis, with a base of $10 billion in revenues currently, while Verizon may be trying to sell its data center cloud portfolio that includes Terremark's data centers, Chowdhry said. In 2015, however, Verizon's chief financial officer denied the telecom giant was looking to sell its cloud business, according to a report in Fortune.
"Basically, we are seeing a replay of the previous movie, Verizon buys Terremark, but with a different actor, Yahoo replacing Terremark," Chowdhry said. He pointed to Yahoo being a "non-event" in various internet trends from live streaming, to social payments, to going mobile and real-time messaging.
[Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include comments from analyst Trip Chowdhry.]]]>
IT spending is undergoing a shift from traditional sources, such as direct server and software license purchases, into public cloud computing. The amount of money IT will spend on cloud services this year is $114 billion, and will grow to $216 billion in the year 2020, according to a report released by Gartner.
That means the impact of the shift will amount to a total of $1 trillion over the course of the next five years. The transition is occurring at a rate of about 2% a year, with IT budget dollars moving away from the enterprise data center assets and into the public cloud.
Such a shift will still leave on-premises IT spending predominant for several years to come. Compared to that $216 billion to be spent on public cloud services in 2020, Gartner sees total IT spending that year amounting to $3.9 trillion.
Gartner also projects that IT budgets as a whole will grow at a 2% compound annual growth rate between 2015 through 2020. The firm also projects traditional IT spending will remain essentially flat after 2016, while cloud spending continues to grow.
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The fact that cloud spending is growing comes as no surprise. Every analyst group has pointed out that fact over the last three years, but the Gartner report, issued to subscribers May 18 and made public July 21, quantifies the shift in terms of the IT budget more precisely than has been done before.
That $1 trillion shift "makes cloud computing one of the most disruptive forces of IT spending since the early days of the digital age," according to Gartner's summary on the report. Gartner aired the report summary as part of its build-up to the firm's IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summits 2016 in London Sept. 12-13. (InformationWeek obtained a full copy of the document.)
"The market for cloud services has grown to such an extent that it is now a notable percentage of total IT spending," said Ed Anderson, Gartner research vice president and author, along with analyst Michael Warrilow, of "Market Insight: Cloud Shift -- The Transition of IT Spending from Traditional Systems to Cloud."
On average, cloud spending will represent 24% of the IT budget by 2020, according to the report.
For some companies, the IT spend in the cloud is greater than for others, particularly among young companies and the startup set. The expansion of IT services in the cloud is "helping to create a new generation of start-ups and 'born in the cloud' providers," Anderson wrote in the announcement of the report.
The dollar figures draw the shift in broad strokes, but the transition will occur at different rates for different companies, and at different rates for different regions around the world, the report found. For that matter, not all forms of cloud services will be growing at the same pace.
For example, Gartner sees infrastructure-as-a-service, the core competency of Amazon Web Services, growing at 30.5% a year, from the perspective of the cloud service providers.
Business process as a service, which might include procurement or IT help desk and other forms of customer services, such as those provided by ServiceNow, will grow at a much slower rate of 9%, according to the report.
[Want to see another analyst group's take on the cloud? Read Forrester: In the Cloud, the Big Get Bigger.]
Both software-as-a-service, as provided by Salesforce, and platform-as-a-service, as provided by Microsoft on Azure or Google on AppEngine, will grow at the nearly identical rates of 17.9% and 17.8%, respectively, the report found.
Within IT organizations, the shift will be most evident in three areas:
It will be IT's responsibility, as the shift occurs in a team's own organization and in those of its competitors, to figure out where the organization's risks and opportunities lie among the cloud service providers, and then to capitalize on them. Among other things, IT managers will be choosing and managing vendor relationships as much as they do internal staff.
They will be developing skills in cloud monitoring, cloud workload performance management, and cloud capacity management, instead of procuring equipment and systems management software for their own data centers, the report found.]]>


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Ok, so it's indeed a true. What's next. Humble EA Bundle?
I sure hope most of the money goes to charity ...
Ok, so it's indeed a true. What's next. Humble EA Bundle?
I sure hope most of the money goes to charity ...
Mr. Hibba
It doesn't necessarily bother me that these games aren't cross-platform. It sucks, but I understand it. These games aren't available for Linux and THQ is in dire financial straits (and thus in no position to spend resources porting). If the Humble Bundle guys want to take this opportunity to make some money and give to charity I do not blame them.
Nor does it bother me that these games aren't independent, as I would personally love to see other major publishers doing pay-what-you-want bundles with some proceeds going to charity.
What does bother me, though, is the DRM and also THQ specifically. I have never made a DRM-laden digital purchase in my life and I do not plan to. When I buy media it's either a physical copy or completely without DRM. I use Steam as a service (activating retail/Indie Bundle games, FTP games, social features, etc) but I don't support their online store.
No modern game publisher is perfect by a long shot (not being the sort who believes in intellectual property admittedly skews my perspective) but I place them among the worst (along with the likes of EA, Ubisoft, Warner, Activision, Take Two, Capcom, Zenimax, Microsoft, Sony Computer Entertainment). They were the one of the first third party publishers to institute the Online Pass system, whereby portions of a game (usually but not always online mulitplayer) are tied to a one-time use code distributed with new copies of games, forcing purchasers of used copies to pay extra to unlock them. They have also spoken in favor of banning the sale of used games and are generally among the worst offenders with PC DRM and downloadable content nickel-and-diming.
So yeah, lots of respect has been lost for the Humble Bundle guys. They'll get my money again if the ditch the mandatory DRM.
My site. Come visit me.
Rock Paper Shotgun that HIB are still a big part of their offer. A part. No more the core or main offer. I guess you can expect to see more and more Windows-only / DRM-only / non-indie bundles and less HIB in the long term until in one or two years where they drop them completely.
What pisses me off is not even that this is a bundle of AAA DRM Windows games. I do play on Windows, I do buy games on Steam, I buy other bundles (indie or not) that do not include Linux games. The problem is that they turned on their values. The HIB is the worst place in the world where such a bundle could have happened. They betrayed the community and the trust they built for two and a half years. And they don't even understand that or just don't care.
As for THQ they're in trouble and couldn't make multi-platforms no-DRM games for this bundle? Well, the bundle shouldn't have been done, it's not a big deal if THQ disappears tomorrow. They will anyway. Even if the bundle is a success, they'll raise a few million bucks that'll let them pay some debts and their shareholders. The devs that are in trouble won't see a dime of it.

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Podcast: The Elora Festival Singers sing Whitacre
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Eric Whitacre is now the unquestioned superstar of American choral composers. Whether he is setting the poetry of Octavio Paz, e.e. cummings, Rumi or the Bible, his marriage of poetry with beauty of sound creates a unique and enchanting sonic … Read More →
Podcast: The Choral Music of Julian Wachner
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A feature interview with American choral composer Julian Wachner, to go with the release of the first Naxos CD of his choral music, part of the Naxos American Classics series. Besides his work as a composer, he is also Music … Read More →
Podcast: Morten Lauridsen's Choral Music
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Morten Lauridsen is America's pre-eminent composer of choral music. His music, with long, arching, expressive lines is enjoyed by performers and audiences alike. In the CD featured in this podcast, the Elora Festival Singers under conductor Noel Edison present five … Read More →
Podcast: Naxos Christmas Podcast 2008
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A Christmas Podcast featuring Christmas music from the ages, along with recipes from the time when the musical selections were written. A mouth watering podcast, thanks to the recipes from The Old Foodie. Album details… Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.557099 SCHUTZ: … Read More →
Podcast: Choral Music of Healy Willan
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A choirboy in his youth, Healey Willan had a life-long passion for the human voice. Not counting his output for organ, chamber music and orchestral works, the bulk of his almost 800 compositions involved voice in one form or another. … Read More →


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Dempsey Im curious, Probably working with Mexican Fighters you might be able to Help. Ive often wondered if most of the great Fighters from there, and Punchers, live at an altitude of over 10,000 ft.
They don't, the one's that can afford it do. Chavez is from Culiacan, Like Chavez sr & Jr, JMM, train @altitude in Toluca. Erick Morales is from Tijuana, and many other name Mexican fighter train @the Otomi, which is a bit lower. I am not sure how high it is. Have you ever trained @high altitude? The Mexico City promoters used to bring in guys to fight a week before the fight, on purpose. The rule of thumb was 72hrs or 2wks before the fight was safe for a low altitude fighter, to have a chance of winning. a week before gave a big edge to the local high altitude fighters. Trainer Ronnie Shields, found that out for himself, when as a young up and comer, he fought in Mexico City, fighting a 10-6, guy and wound up getting stopped in the 6th from exhaustion.
Now they have mask which can replicate high altitude training. But I dont believe most Mexicans would replace going to train @ altitude with wearing a mask. Most Mexicans that I know would rather go to Toluca or the Otomi, to them thats the natural way to do things I guess it's
There are mixed reviews on whether training in high altitude is good or bad.
Training @altitude is either good or bad depends who you talk to, I guess it is a case of "to each his own".
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Sega will eventually go back to Madou-era elements.Though Sega tries, they don't seem to have enough genius to continue the storyline. My guesses are that they might make a more RPG-styled game(which would work better than before), or maybe experiment with the story.
The three worlds (Madou-era, Fever-era, and 7-era) are nothing of the sort.They're timeshifted versions of the same world. Arle and co aren't traveling between dimensions, they're traveling through time. And they don't realize it because there's just enough separation that there are no obvious connections left aside from Puyo.
- That would explain why Arle couldn't change dimensions. And since everyone who went to the Fever-era was playing Puyo, which was magic in the Madou-era, maybe they did a chain that sent them forward into time!
- Jossed. Space travel was established in Puyo Tetris thanks to T's spaceship, and the chapter select in Adventure mode shows multiple planets at some point.
- That would explain why Arle couldn't change dimensions. And since everyone who went to the Fever-era was playing Puyo, which was magic in the Madou-era, maybe they did a chain that sent them forward into time!
Strange Klug's Not-So-Harmless Villain.The demon might not be revealing everything. He's gotta be over a thousand years old, and I believe the Ruin stage where he appears in has something to do with it. However, in Fever 2, he was trying to reanimate/remake his body again. It could be that Ayashii was a demon from long ago, split into two and sealed away because he tried, and nearly scuceeded in?, destorying the world. He's much more serious than Ekoro, but we don't know what would've happened if he got his body back.
- I happen to be right on the whole split-body thing after all. Now, how strong is he, Sega?
Oshare's death was a suicide.He mentions in Fever 2 that the "Memory of Chu" item was a gift from his now-missing boyfriend, but once he disappeared Oshare threw the item into the sea because having a reminder of his loss around was too painful. Perhaps his grief eventually got the better of him, not helped that he doesn't always seem entirely mentally well.


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Caldwell uses 10-run eighth to break open close game
Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
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EAST FLAT ROCK For seven innings, Henderson County Post 77 went toe-to-toe with one of the top teams in the American Legions Western Division on Monday night at East Henderson.
Then in the top of the eighth, Caldwell County dealt Post 77 the knockout blow with 10 runs en route to a 17-6 eight-inning win.
I told the guys after the game that the score wasnt indicative of how close that game really was, Henderson County coach Matt Mabe said. We had a big win the night before, and weve had a long week. Its going to be seven games over eight days.
Post 77 (9-9-1, 8-8-1), locked in next weeks Legion playoffs with a No. 6 seed, did get some good news prior to facing Caldwell.
Lake Norman called and forfeited Thursdays doubleheader, so that gave us two wins right there. So now our season finale will be on Wednesday night against Rutherford, Mabe said.
Post 29 improves to 22-5 and 14-1 in the division and will face co-leader Cherryville (23-3, 14-1) on Wednesday in a pivotal game.
Tyler Coan, who had thrown just one pitch all season long entering the game, took the hill against Caldwell and kept Post 77 in the game by continuously getting out of jams.
But after giving up two walks in the top of the fourth in the rain, he was yanked for reliever Wyatt Messer.
I cant say enough about those two. They did a great job against a great team, Mabe said.
After falling behind 7-2, thanks in large part to a two-run homer by Josh Severt in the top of the third, Henderson County answered with a four-run sixth to cut it to 7-6.
But Caldwells bats caught fire in the top of the eighth as 15 batters ended up taking swings. One of the biggest swings was a two-run triple by lead-off batter Jordan Nelson.
Nathan Hyatt and Ethan Pressley each had solo home runs for Post 77.
Following that tough outing, Henderson County now has the luxury of facing the other top team in the league, Cherryville, at 7 p.m. tonight.
We arent going to have many arms left, but we are going to try our best. Im proud of this team right now, and I believe we are heading in the right direction, Mabe said.
NOTE: Post 77 was going to honor veterans for Thursdays season finale by allowing them free admission. Since those games were canceled, the free admission for veterans will now be for Wednesdays finale.
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Wenger prepared to shell out Arsenal's funds to end trophy drought
After a long period of reluctance over investing Arsenal's money for buying new players, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is reportedly ready to spend the club's money to draw in stars to end an eight-year trophy drought for the team
The Gunners boss has been notoriously reluctant to splash the cash despite the club's strong finances, The Sun reports.
However, Arsenal's vice chairman David Dein said that Wenger is aware of the fact that it is necessary to spend cash to strengthen the team, adding that the club is ready to splash its cash to bring in the right talent for enabling a recovery from the eight-year trophy drought for the team.
Praising Wenger as the best football manager in the world, Dein said that the Frenchman is backed by his coaching career of 30 years, adding that he knows what he wants.
Dein also believes that Wenger is the only man to lead Arsenal to its peak with 17 years of securing champions league football at the club.
Arsenal won the last silverware in the 2005 Football Association Challenge (FA) for beating Manchester United on penalties.
However, unlike both the Manchester teams and Chelsea, Arsenal has not broken the club bank previously for bringing in young talents, the report added. (ANI)