The Data Driver

By: Emma Isichei, Worldwide Category Director, Capture Solutions at Kodak Alaris
Enterprises today have to be aware that they have Data Chaos within their businesses, and they need to embrace this as part of their digital transformation.

Gartner “Cool Vendor” Sanovi announced that the company has signed up multiple global and regional partnerships for its Cloud Migration Manger software. Sanovi Cloud Migration Manager2.0 (CMM) is a leading edge enterprise software platform that enables Managed Service Providers and Enterprise customers to accelerate deployment of large scale Cloud transformation projects.

With startups such as Cardekho, Flipkart, InMobi and Hopscotch resorting to deferring dates of joining, are jobseekers in India losing faith in the startup boom? A global economic slowdown, mainly due to weakening Brazilian and Chinese economies, is resulting in VCs holding their money close, and a fund crunch for startups and in turn hiring taking a hit.

Quantum announced a Premier Technology Alliance partnership with Veeam Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center, to bring their latest joint virtual machine (VM) storage and availability solutions to customers worldwide. This collaboration will enable the two companies to serve a broader range of customers with simplified virtual data backup solutions that deliver high performance and maximize production system availability while lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Æ  The Global Mobility Megatrend: Innovation in the mobile communication supply chain and the resulting boom in data usage (to grow 10x in five years) is disrupting business models led by smartphones and IoT. Within the value chain, we expect content and internet/app-enabled delivery platforms to capture a bulk of the incremental wallet share, and traditional players’ returns to be modest unless they integrate with the content ecosystem (e.g. Apple, Verizon-AOL). Our analysis indicates that technology players have seen a drop in ROE (Ericsson - from 26% to 8%) and telco returns have remained stagnant (AT&T, Verizon). However, internet players are seeing a sizeable network effect (Netflix, FB) and telecom infrastructure (American Tower) is seeing steady ROE and growth led by data capex.

451 Research announces significant revenue growth for the Total Data Market. Consisting of data platforms, data management, analytics, and data mining the Total Data Market is expected to nearly double in size, from $60bn in 2014 to $115bn in 2019. The specific market segments included in 451 Research’s analysis are Operational Databases, Analytic Databases, Reporting and Analytics, Data Management, Performance Management, Event/Stream Processing, Distributed Data Grid/Cache, Hadoop and Search-Based Data Platforms and Analytics.  The company predicts the focus on ‘big data,’ which has driven a wave of adoption to address unstructured data in addition to existing structured data processing and analytics technologies, will lead to a market CAGR of 14% from 2014 to 2019.

EMC Corporation released the findings of its global survey that asked thousands of IT decision makers from 50 countries for their perspective on the challenges and opportunities that Big Data and IT transformation - and related skills - can present to their companies. Over the last six months this research polled more than 10,700 business and IT management and executives, technical architects, data scientists and storage/infrastructure managers from a range of industries who registered to attend their local EMC Forums.