Information Technology Market

The 20th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2012) will be held on June 10-13, 2012 in Barcelona Spain. ECIS is the premier information systems event in the European region and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed academic research. ECIS 2012 offers a wide range of track themes that embrace the Information Systems discipline and emerging domains.

ECIS 2012 will be held in Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain in both size and population, with rich historical and cultural heritage.

The CIO CME Summit will be held September 18-21, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The CIO CME Summit is an opportunity for CIOs and IT executives from print, television, film, and cable organizations to discuss best practices and IT pain points in an exclusive business setting. The event includes networking opportunities and interactive agenda sessions, including think tanks, analyst Q&As, roundtables and panel discussions.

A few of the agenda topics to be covered at the CIO CME Summit:

• Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Mobility Through a Mobile Device Platform
• TCO of the Cloud and the New Architecture
• Full Services Co-Sourcing – A Transformational Sourcing Model
• Position Your IT Organization for Times of Change
• Social Networking Trends – Influencing Consumer Choices Through Social Media

For more information about the CIO CME Summit, visit www.ciocmesummit.com.

We heard first about SeaMicro, a Silicon Valley startup developing low power server technology, just 18 months ago when the company emerged from stealth mode to launch a new Internet-optimized x86-server. SeaMicro become famous overnight by its bold move – integration of 512 Intel® Atom™ processors with Ethernet switching, server management and application load-balancing to create a “plug and play” standards-based server, a novel configuration that claimed reduction of the power and space requirements by two thirds.

Quite expectedly success of SeaMicro did not go unnoticed in cutthroatingly competitive server market. It would be no-brainer to guess that SeaMicro woud be market as target for acquisition by major server manufacturers – IBM, HP or Dell. Still announcement of Seamicro acquisition by AMD has come as surprise.

AMD announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire SeaMicro for approximately $334 million. Through the acquisition of SeaMicro, AMD is getting an edge as vertically integrated server company in two fast growing markets – cloud computing and low power HPC (High Performance Computing).

Amazon launches DynamoDB, a fully managed fast and scalable NoSQL database service. Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously. In the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 we’re seeing a scurry of activity in the NoSQL market.

On December 8, 2011, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) was launched as a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP, managed by GSA, sets the following goals:

• Accelerate the adoption of secure cloud solutions through reuse of assessments and authorizations
• Increase confidence in security of cloud solutions
• Achieve consistent security authorizations using a baseline set of agreed upon standards to be used for Cloud product approval in or outside of FedRAMP
• Ensure consistent application of existing security practices
• Increase confidence in security assessments
• Increase automation and near real-time data for continuous monitoring

Currently the lucrative federal cloud computing and cybersecurity markets are dominated by large IT vendors and practically unreachable for medium/small technology solutions providers. FedRAMP will serve as a Federal IT clearing house establishing standards that vendors will have to meet if they want to provide services to federal agencies.

Versant Corporation announced upcoming webcast on NoSQL technology “Leveraging NoSQL for High Performance in Enterprise Database Standards”. The online event will take place on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. PST/12:00 p.m. EST. The webinar will explore open source profiling benchmarks for NoSQL and discuss the performance gains that can be made possible when using a NoSQL technology.

Webinar highlights:

• NoSQL at its Core – How NoSQL technology shifts the traditional database architecture and why this shift is important for both agility and cost savings in the era of Big Data.
• Enterprise NoSQL – How and why NoSQL must evolve from its initial iteration in order to become an enterprise-class solution for the challenges of scaling complex information models.
• Benchmarks – Performance benchmarking results comparing SQL vs. NoSQL, with visual examples of traditional SQL coding as compared to more streamlined NoSQL coding, such as those found in an object oriented database (OODB).

To attend Versant’s “Leveraging NoSQL for High Performance in Enterprise Database Standards” webcast, please visit:
https://versantwebinars.webex.com/versantwebinars/onstage/g.php?d=667100581&t=a

More information: NoSQL Database

A sense of uncertainty about cyber security among U.S. Federal IT policymakers is the last thing that Federal government can afford at this point. According to new study of Market Research Media the U.S. government will significantly increase Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery spending in 2013-2018. The report U.S. Federal IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Market Forecast 2013-2018 predicts strong growth in the governmental BC/DR sector with ultimate focus on the cloud model. Still, the report concludes that no matter how advance cloud technology is, the on-premise backup solutions are here to stay.

Federal IT market over the next few years will be driven by two major forces – pressure to cut federal IT budgets without losing efficiency, and the implementation of new technologies. The Administration is committed to an overhaul of the entire Federal IT organization, betting on new technologies, “rent, not buy” principle and open source. Lack of qualified IT personnel could set back but not thwart these plans. These are predictions of a new market study – U.S. Federal IT Market Forecast 2013-2018.

Market Research Media has released new report “U.S. Federal IT Market Forecast 2013-2018“. With a cumulative market valued at $518 billion (2013 – 2018), the U.S. Federal IT market is predicted to grow steadily at about 3% CAGR. The technology segments like business intelligence, cloud computing, eDiscovery, GIS and geospatial, Health Information Technology, non-relational database management systems, Smart Grid, SOA, unified communications and virtualization will see strong growth in the period 2013 – 2018. Total annual U.S. Federal IT market will surpass $93 billion by 2018.

According to Market Research Media’s latest report, NoSQL Market Forecast 2011-2015, the worldwide NoSQL market is expected to reach $1.8 Billion by 2015. NoSQL market will generate $5.6 Billion revenues over the period 2011 – 2015, at a very robust growth rate of 32%.

The report concludes that the NoSQL market is still in the early stages of rapid growth and that transaction consistency, one of the deficiencies of NoSQL in contrast with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), may prove to be a real hurdle. Still there is a lot of evidence that NoSQL is getting traction at the application markets such as genome database, military image databases and data mining.

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS) has launched AWS GovCloud, a new AWS service designed to allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Previously, government agencies with data subject to compliance regulations such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which governs how organizations manage and store defense-related data, were unable to process and store data in the cloud that the federal government mandated be accessible only by U.S. persons. Because AWS GovCloud is physically and logically accessible by U.S. persons only, government agencies can now manage more heavily regulated data in AWS while remaining compliant with strict federal requirements. The new Region offers the same high level of security as other AWS Regions and supports existing AWS security controls and certifications such as FISMA, FIPS 140-2 compliant end points, SAS-70, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS Level 1. AWS also provides an environment that enables agencies to comply with HIPAA regulations. AWS resources deployed from AWS GovCloud such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) are available on-demand and agencies pay only for what they use, allowing the U.S. government to benefit from the flexibility, scalability and pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS.

Related information:
U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market Forecast 2010-2015