Yellow gold turquoise bracelet from Irene Neuwirth featuring a thin row of cabochon turquoise stones set in 18 karat yellow gold, and safe hook clasp closure. Measures 6 3/4" long. What does the future hold for today’s big data vendors? Hundreds of startups are rushing into the big data market to stake their claim to a market that IDC predicts will reach $187 billion by 2019. Dang, that’s a big market, especially considering that the Global Business Intelligence market will only reach a trifling $20.8 billion by 2018 or the long-running ERP applications market is expected to reach a trivial $84.1 billion by 2020. Yes, the big data market opportu...Oct. 25, 2016 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,264Watson Crowdsources Cloud ComputingBy Kevin JacksonRecently I've been doing quite a bit of analysis work using the IBM Watson cognitive business platform. The really exciting thing about this opportunity is the way data can seem to have a conversation with you. This got me wondering if social media data could carry on a conversation as well. Given my almost unhealthy interest in cloud computing, we ran a one week experiment to "crowdsource the internet" in order to see if it held any interesting cloud computing insights. Oct. 25, 2016 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 982Wearable Medical Devices MarketBy Ram SonagaraThe global wireless health market by products encompasses ECG monitors, insulin monitors, neuromonitors such as EEG and EMG devices. Recent estimations show that an astounding 1.8 million people across the world will be using wireless remote monitoring devices by 2017. Many of these users will be those suffering from chronic diseases. To put that into perspective, consider this: about 75% of all healthcare expenditure worldwide is spent on patients suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, and Alzheimers, and cardiovascular problems. Grappling with these issues, the healthcar...Oct. 25, 2016 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,383The Internet of Things and Analytics at The EdgeBy William SchmarzoThe Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change everything by enabling “smart” environments (homes, cities, hospitals, schools, stores, etc.) and smart products (cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, wind turbines, lawnmowers, etc.). I recently wrote about the importance of moving beyond “connected” to “smart” in a blog titled “Internet of Things: Connected Does Not Equal Smart”. The article discusses the importance of moving beyond just collecting the data, to transitioning to leveraging this new wealth of IoT data to improve the decisions that these smart environments and products need to make: t...Oct. 25, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,538Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Six Big TopicsBy Roger StrukhoffAs we enter the final week before the 19th International Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo in Santa Clara, CA, it's time for me to reflect on six big topics that will be important during the show.