There is bad and ugly news for telcos – just shy of half of SMBs surveyed recently receive no help from their telecoms operators whatsoever and many are contemplating switching telco operators.
But there is good news – 40% of UK and US SMBs are openly willing to purchase software and tools from operators to help them grow their business according to recent research. Another 31% of SMBs currently have a cloud migration strategy in place – the segment remains largely untapped.
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This summer Google announced that HTC, the Taiwanese smart phone and tablet maker, is a big customer of Google Cloud Platform or GCP according to Fortune. But HTC isn’t only a GCP customer. John Song, HTC’s senior director of cloud computing said in the article that HTC also uses “cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft. Why? Because some clouds suit some jobs better than others.”
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Last week we hosted a webinar between 451 Research and IBM about Big Data and the Rise of Spark. Here is a summary of some of what Donnie Berkholz, Research Director, Development, DevOps & IT Ops had to say on the topic.
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Whether you are in DevOps, are a cloud service provider, a data engineer or a data scientist, you need to stay informed of emerging technologies and trends creating additional or new opportunities for you.
We have put together a compelling and interactive webinar to discuss Big Data and the rise of Spark on July 30, 2015 at 14.00 EST (11:00 PST). During the webinar, listen to a discussion between 451 Research, IBM and Flexiant to find out what these trends mean for you.
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The emergence of large scale Big Data projects continue to grow. This has fuelled the need to process Big Data faster and is accelerating the adoption of new approaches and technologies. One such technology exploding in 2015 is Apache Spark. According to IBM this is a crucial technology that will make it possible to quickly gain insights from data. This will produce extraordinary time and cost savings and will enable early adopters to thereby save time and spot opportunities in areas like sales and new product development at an unprecedented rate.
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