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Yearly Archives: 2015

HashiCorp Atlas: Automating DevOps Application Delivery on Any Infrastructure

By Dick Weisinger

Today HashiCorp announces the general availability of their Atlas commercial product.  Atlas is a cloud service that wraps their six open-source products: Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, and Vault.  The goal of the service is to dashboard and control the total DevOp application…

Internet of Things (IoT): Less Than 10 percent of Mobile and IoT data is ever Analyzed or Acted on

By Formtek

The IoT market is expected to grow rapidly.  IDC estimates that it currently is growing at a rate of 13 percent annually, growing from a value greater than $1.3 trillion this year to more than $3.04 trillion in 2020.  Today…

Enterprise Software: CRM Market Still Strong

By Formtek

The global CRM market grew 13.3% in 2014, reaching $23.2 billion, according to Gartner.  Of that money, 47 percent of it were for SaaS-based CRM applications. The report noted market share as follows: 18.4 percent – Salesforce 12.1 percent –…

Unstructured + Structured Data: The Challenge of Seeing the Two in Context

By Formtek

Analysts estimate that 80 percent of all new data created is unstructured data.  It’s this crushing amount of data that is driving much of the interest behind Big Data tools like Hadoop.  Extracting information from unstructured data is a big part of the…

IT Spending: Strong Dollar Continues to Force Downward Revision

By Dick Weisinger

The numbers for 2015 IT spending are crumbling.  In June 2014, Gartner saw 2015 as a big year for global IT spending and forecast 2015 growth to be 3.7 percent.  By January 2015, Gartner revised their estimate to 2.4 percent.  In…