A MarketsandMarkets study predicts the machine-to-machine communications and Internet of Things market to be worth $947.29 billion by 2019 due to an increase in the use of Internet-connected devices. The market research firm said Wednesday the M2M and IoT market will experience a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30 percent in the next four years. The […] More

A MarketsandMarkets study reports that the cybersecurity market will reach a value of $170.2 billion by 2020 due to the continued evolution of cyber threats and the corresponding increase in strictness of government cyber regulations. The company said Wednesday the market will grow from $106.3 billion in 2015 at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 9.8 percent, with […] More

Holly Janssen serves as vice president of finance at Thomson Reuters, where she helps to develop strategic, operational and financial plans to grow the company’s court management services. Before taking that role in July 2014, Janssen was the senior director of finance at the company from 2007 to 2014, with responsibility in creating pricing models meant to […] More

Mike Walsh leads EMC‘s team that offers technologies and services to the Defense Department in an effort to help address application, security and infrastructure challenges. He brings over 20 years of federal contract experience to EMC and has held leadership positions with NetApp, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. Walsh recently spoke to ExecutiveBiz for an in-depth conversation […] More

The Commerce Department will work with Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium on a big data project to figure out how to apply environmental data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for efforts to support the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the cooperative research and development agreements Tuesday at the American Meteorological Society forum. “As America’s data agency, we are […] More

Research and Markets‘ latest report on the global mobile security market projects a 30.7 percent compound annual growth rate through 2019 to reach a market value of $5.75 billion. The company said Wednesday the demand for smartphones and other smart devices, upgrades on mobility software and integration of mobile security with cloud service requirements will drive market growth. The […] More

Allied Market Research has released a report that forecasts a Hadoop-as-a-service market value of $16.1 billion by 2020 and North America to account for the highest value of $11.6 billion among other regions covered in the study. The report projects Amazon Web Services, provider of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce HaaS service, to hold nearly 90 percent of […] More

TechNavio expects the growing need for data backup and archiving to propel a storage-as-a-service market growth of 37.96 percent annually from 2015 through 2019. The report lists Amazon, AT&T, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft as the tier-one industry players, Technavio said in February. TechNavio classifies the market into stand-alone and platform-attached storage, cloud backup and cloud […] More

A TechNavio research has forecast a global disaster recovery-as-a-service market that would grow 52.05 percent annually from 2014 through 2019 as adoption of hybrid cloud DRaaS increases. The report, made available by Report Buyer on Jan. 22, attributes the projected market growth to the demand for systems that could protect applications through cloud-based disaster recovery. It listed monitoring and deployment issues as posing challenges […] More

A Research and Markets report predicts the global market for managed data storage, backup and archiving services will grow at a 37.96 percent compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2019. The research firm said Friday the storage-as-a-service model is designed to help organizations recover enterprise data and ensure business continuity in the event of […] More

Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

Tony Frazier became senior vice president of DigitalGlobe‘s government solutions business earlier this year and oversees the geospatial imagery provider’s work with U.S. government customers. Frazier, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, joined DigitalGlobe through its 2013 combination with GeoEye, where he led communications and marketing initiatives in an SVP role. In this conversation with […] More