Author Archives: GilPress

About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

The Machine Learning Landscape

Posted on January 9, 2016 by GilPress

Shivon Zilis: Most of these machine intelligence startups take well-worn machine intelligence techniques, some more than a decade old, and apply them to new data sets and workflows. It’s still true that big companies, with their massive data sets and … Continue reading →

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IIA, Forrester, IDC, and Gartner on the Future of Big Data Analytics and Cognitive Computing

Posted on January 9, 2016 by GilPress

Big data analytics is the next trillion-dollar market, says Michael Dell. IDC has a more modest and specific prediction, forecasting the market for big data technology and services to grow at a 23.1% compound annual growth rate, reaching $48.6 billion … Continue reading →

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Most In-Demand Data Science Skills

Posted on January 9, 2016 by GilPress

Source: CrowdFlower, based on “3500 relevant job openings from LinkedIn.” The folks at CrowdFlower excluded Excel from their list but noted that “that’s still something you see in myriad job listings. Old habits die hard.” Of course, data scientists don’t … Continue reading →

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Remembrance of Technology Past in 2030

Posted on January 8, 2016 by GilPress

Source: @ValaAfshar

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Music streaming grew 93% in 2015

Posted on January 7, 2016 by GilPress

Nielsen: …on-demand audio and video streaming continued to gain in popularity in 2015, posting growth rates of 83% and 102%, respectively. In fact, Justin Bieber’s album Purpose set an all-time record for total audio on-demand streams when it was streamed … Continue reading →

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Mobile App Usage Rose 58% in 2015

Posted on January 6, 2016 by GilPress

Flurry Insights: In 2015 overall app usage grew by 58%. In this context, we define app usage as a user opening an app and recording what we call a “session.” With the exception of Games, every app category posted year-over-year … Continue reading →

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History of Databases (Infographic)

Posted on January 4, 2016 by GilPress

Source: Cazena

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Technologies Shaping the Future: #cloud, #mobile, #IoT, #cognitive

Posted on December 29, 2015 by GilPress

Source: World Economic Forum

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Gartner, IDC and Forrester on the Future of Digital Transformation

Posted on December 27, 2015 by GilPress

Gazing intensely into their respective crystal balls, Gartner, IDC, and Forrester have come up with predictions for 2016 and beyond, highlighting digital transformation and its impact on businesses and consumers worldwide. According to Forrester, only 27% of today’s businesses have … Continue reading →

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Digital Marketing Trends (Infographic)

Posted on December 25, 2015 by GilPress

Source: DazeInfo  

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