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

How to evaluate a data scientist

Posted on December 2, 2015 by GilPress

Jerry Overton: What’s commonly expected from a data scientist is a combination of subject matter expertise, mathematics, and computer science. This is a tall order and it makes sense that there would be a shortage of people who fit the … Continue reading →

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65% growth in mobile data traffic over last 12 months driven by video

Posted on December 2, 2015 by GilPress

  Ericsson Mobility Report: Video dominates data traffic: Global mobile data traffic is forecast to grow ten-fold by 2021, and video is forecast to account for 70 percent of total mobile traffic in the same year. In many networks today, YouTube … Continue reading →

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Only 16% of IT budgets are allocated to investments in innovation and growth

Posted on November 28, 2015 by GilPress

While 45% of CIOs identify “innovation” and 44% point to “growth” as their organizations’ most important priorities, only 15% are investing in emerging technologies . Only 16% of IT budgets are allocated to investments in innovation and growth, with the … Continue reading →

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Artifical Intelligence Machines to Replace Physicians and Transform Healthcare

Posted on November 23, 2015 by GilPress
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10 New Big Data Observations from Tom Davenport

Posted on November 20, 2015 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHhD4n3iFE?rel=0] The term “big data” has become nearly ubiquitous. Indeed, it seems that every day we hear new reports of how some company is using big data and sophisticated analytics to become increasingly competitive. The topic first began to … Continue reading →

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Google’s RankBrain Outranks the Best Brains in the Industry

Posted on November 15, 2015 by GilPress

Bloomberg recently broke the news that Google is “turning its lucrative Web search over to AI machines.” Google revealed to the reporter that for the past few months, a very large fraction of the millions of search queries Google responds … Continue reading →

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Cloud traffic will grow at an annual rate of 33% over the next 5 years, Cisco predicts

Posted on November 14, 2015 by GilPress

The new version of the Cisco Cloud Index computes the rapid expansion of today’s stampede to the cloud. “We have never seen anything like this in terms of speed of customer adoption,” Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd said recently, describing how his corporate … Continue reading →

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Google Knows Everything (#IoT)

Posted on November 13, 2015 by GilPress
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Who Does What in Data Science (Infographic)

Posted on November 12, 2015 by GilPress
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The Evolution of Biotechnology 8000 BC to Near Future (Infographic)

Posted on November 10, 2015 by GilPress
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