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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

Man to Lamp Post: You Talkin’ To Me?

Posted on January 14, 2015 by GilPress

The installed base for ‘smart’ street light luminaires is set to grow rapidly, with network controlled nodes set to rise from 2 million today to 40 million by 2019–ABI Research

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What Data Scientists Do

Posted on January 13, 2015 by GilPress

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3 Surprising Digital Bets for 2015 (Infographic)

Posted on January 13, 2015 by GilPress
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The Cost of a Data Breach Increased 40% from 2012 to 2014

Posted on January 5, 2015 by GilPress
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2015 Predictions for the Big Data Analytics Market

Posted on January 2, 2015 by GilPress

The big data and analytics market will reach $125 billion worldwide in 2015, according to IDC. Both IDC and The International Institute of Analytics (IIA) discussed their big data and analytics predictions for 2015 in separate webcasts last month. Here are … Continue reading →

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Top 2015 Technology Predictions from IDC

Posted on December 15, 2014 by GilPress

In a recent webcast (and accompanying report), IDC issued its top 10 predictions for 2015. IDC’s Frank Gens advised companies in all industries to “Amazon” themselves, but also predicted that the best job of “Amazoning” will be done by Amazon itself. … Continue reading →

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2015 Trends in Data Science (Infographic)

Posted on December 12, 2014 by GilPress
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The Deep Learning Saga or how Geoff Hinton discovered how the brain really works. Once a year for the last 25 years.

Posted on December 12, 2014 by GilPress

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Predictions for CMOs and Digital Marketing in 2015

Posted on December 5, 2014 by GilPress

In 2015, digital marketing budgets will increase by 8%, according to a recent Gartner’s CMO Spend Report, a survey of 315 marketing decision makers representing organizations with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Customer experience is the top innovation … Continue reading →

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Top 2015 IT Predictions from Forrester Research

Posted on December 2, 2014 by GilPress

The analysts at Forrester Research have been blogging about their top IT predictions for 2015. Here’s my take on the predictions which cover all IT trends, technologies, opportunities and challenges, from mobile to security and big data analytics and from the Internet of … Continue reading →

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