Category Archives: Predictions
Scenarios for the Future of the IT Industry
In November 1998, I sent to my then-colleagues at EMC an email with the subject line “The Demise of Dell.” I wrote: “My fail-proof crystal ball just talked to me again: By the end of 2000, Dell’s market cap (today at $80B) will be … Continue reading
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Big Data in 2013
From the Economist‘s The World in 2013 Festival, Shirley Ann Jackson, president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Rachel Sterne Haot, chief digital officer for New York City. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS9TGXIKztk]
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Gartner on Big Data
In its just-published Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing 2012, Gartner predicts that “Big Data will deliver transformational benefits to enterprises within 2 to 5 years, and by 2015 will enable enterprises adopting this technology to outperform competitors by 20% in … Continue reading
3 Scenarios for the Future of Data Science
The last couple of weeks were great for the future of data science. First Wikibon, and then IDC, promised a big data market in 2015 of between $16.9 billion (IDC) to $32.1 billion (Wikibon) (more on these reports in Chuck … Continue reading
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Big Data Bytes of the Week: The End of Big Data?
The end of Big Data? Based on his discussions with CIOs, reports Derrick Harris at GigaOm, Opera Solutions’ CEO Arnab Gupta “thinks the analytics market will crest around the end of next year as CIOs face enormous data spikes.” Is … Continue reading
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