January 2012
10 posts
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“Why do we still use a keyboard and mouse to interact with digital information?...”
– Quote found at MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group website. I am using the quote in my HorizonWatching Trend Report on Human Computer Interaction
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“The world is in transition and in the year ahead, mobile will be both the...”
– Quote by Jason Armitage, senior analyst at Yankee Research. Quote found in a Yankee press release: Yankee Group’s Predictions: Instability Will Rule Mobility in 2012
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“Public cloud services will grow five times faster than overall IT enterprise...”
– Quote by IT research analyst firm Gartner in press release: “Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending to Reach $2.7 Trillion in 2012”
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“The global public cloud services market will more than triple in size over the...”
– Quote found in a press release by the research firm, Ovum. See “Public cloud services market to hit revenues of $66 billion”
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“Demand for private clouds is expected to double as many organizations look for...”
– Quote found at IBM press release: “IBM Introduces New Portfolio of Private Cloud Offerings”
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“virtualization as an IT initiative is still in its adolescence, and is...”
– Quote by Gartner found on Gartner’s website for it’s Hype Cycle for Virtualization, 2011 report, authored by Gartner Analyst Philip Dawson
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December 2011
13 posts
6 tags
“For years, observers have been wondering when malware would become a real...”
– Quote by Tom Cross, manager of Threat Intelligence and Strategy for IBM X-Force. Quote found at “IBM X-Force Report Reveals Mobile Security Exploits to Double in 2011”
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“Although better hardware design can reduce energy consumption, companies must...”
– Quote found in an IBM Redbook titled “Smarter Data Centers Achieving Greater Efficiency”
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“Unprecedented growth in information volume and complexity combined with...”
– Quote found on a Gartner website: Trends That Business Intelligence Leaders Cannot Ignore
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“Retailers are optimistic that a combination of strong promotions and lean...”
– Quote by said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay. Quote found in a National Retail Federation press release NRF Forecasts Holiday Sales Increase of 2.8 Percent to $465.6 Billion
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“The bottom line for me with any new emerging technology…whether it is is...”
– Quote found in a HorizonWatching blog post on typepad at “Culture Plays A Big Part In Social Business Adoption”
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“Last month, IBM released it’s 2011 IBM Tech Trends Report, which is one of the...”
– Quote found on HorizonWatching post on Typepad at IBM: 2011 Technology Trends Survey Results and Report
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“It turns out, teenagers aren’t avoiding careers in engineering because...”
– Quote found in a Oregonian article titled: Intel survey of teenagers shows they don’t know what engineers do, limiting them from choosing those careers
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“Neither tools nor people alone can solve the challenges of Big Data. They must...”
– Quote by Michael Driscoll, Ph.D Boston University, Co-Founder and CTO at MetaMarkets. Quote found in an EMC press release titled: “New Global Study: Only One-Third of Companies Making Effective Use of Data”
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“Cloud and data center traffic is exploding, driven by user demand to access...”
– Quote by Suraj Shetty, vice president of product and solutions marketing, Cisco. Quote found at a Cisco press release article titled “New Cisco Global Cloud Index Projects Cloud Computing Traffic to Grow 12-Fold by 2015; Cloud to be 51 percent of Data Center Workloads by 2014”
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“The industry’s shift to the 3rd Platform will accelerate in 2012, forcing...”
– Quote by Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC. Quote found in an IDC Press Release: IDC Predicts 2012 Will Be the Year of Mobile and Cloud Platform Wars as IT Vendors Vie for Leadership While the Industry Redefines Itself
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“As much as 20% of this (I.T.) total spending will be driven by the technologies...”
– For more, see HorizonWatching blog post:
IDC: 2012 Predictions for Information Technology Industry
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“Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2012 and...”
– See December 1, 2011 Gartner press release “Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2012 and Beyond”
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“Public cloud services will grow five times faster than overall IT enterprise...”
– Quote from Gartner in an October 17, 2011 press release “Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending to Reach $2.7 Trillion in 2012”
November 2011
18 posts
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“Worldwide information volume is growing annually at a minimum rate of 59 percent...”
– Quote found at Gartner Says Solving ‘Big Data’ Challenge Involves More Than Just Managing Volumes of Data
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“The results are clear. Mobile computing, cloud computing, social business and...”
– Quote by Jim Corgel, General Manager ISV and Developer Relations, IBM. Quote found in IBM press release: “IT Professionals Predict Watson Technology To Transform Education Industry”
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“I’m convinced this is a transformational technology. Until now, we have always...”
– Quote from Bill Gates in his blog post “The Power of the Natural User Interface” where he talks about the potential of Kinect technology.
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“Touchscreens could be extinct if researchers pioneering new human-computer...”
– Quote found at Infoworld.com in an article by Nick Barber of IDG News Service. For more, see the article “Beyond touch: A look at next-gen user interfaces”
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“President Obama has identified cybersecurity as one of the most serious economic...”
– Quote found at whitehouse.gov website: The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative
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“The amount of information created and replicated will surpass 1.9 zettabytes...”
– Found in an IDC Press Release: IDC Expects “Big Data” to Drive the Next Wave of Investments in Business Analytics for CIOs in Asia/Pacific
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“Disruption is continuously afoot in every market and eventually comes to...”
– Quote found on a Gartner website introducing a keynote recap for keynote speaker Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard who coined the phrase “disruptive technology” over 15 years from now. For more, see 2011 Gartner Symposium ITxpo Live Orlando
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“We are very excited about sending the world’s most advanced scientific...”
– Quote by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Quote found at Mars Science Laboratory: NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover To Mars
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“Looking out five years, Forrester sees three technology ‘trains’ impacting the...”
– Quote by Matt Brown, vice president and practice leader at Forrester Research. Quote found at Forrester Press Release: Half of US Information Worrkers Split Time Between Office And Remote Locations
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“We strongly believe the consumerization trend will emerge as one of the key...”
– Quote by Ian Song, IDC senior research analyst, Enterprise Virtualization Software. Quote found at IDC Consumerizaton of IT: An IDC Survey
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“Combined sales of smartphones and tablets will be 44 percent bigger than the PC...”
– Quote found at Gartner Says Consumerization Will Drive At Least Four Mobile Management Styles
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“The global public cloud services market will more than triple in size over the...”
– Quote found in an Ovum press release titled “Public cloud services market to hit revenues of $66 billion”
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“Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012, a...”
– Quote found at a Gartner Press Release titled “Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending to Reach $2.7 Trillion in 2012”
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“By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile...”
– Quote found in an IDC Press Release: More Mobile Internet Users Than Wireline Users in the U.S. by 2015
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“Exascale computing has the potential to address a class of highly complex...”
– Quote found in an IBM press release “IBM Announces Supercomputer to Propel Sciences Forward”
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“Electrical grids, the interconnected systems that transmit and distribute power,...”
– Quote found in a MIT Technology Review Briefing article titled: The Smart Grid
“I think the impact from robotics on a new age of information science, and even...”
– Quote by David Ferrucci, IBM Fellow and principal investigator on the IBM Watson Project. Quote found on the IBM Research Blog in the post “Artificial Intelligence: The Promise Revisited”
“Genographic scientists confirm that African populations are the most diverse on...”
– Link to IBM press release The Genographic Project Confirms Humans Migrated Out of Africa through Arabia
October 2011
3 posts
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“The Nano Hummingbird will usher in a new class of aerial surveillance vehicles...”
– Quote from Popular Mechanics article “Flight, Reimagined: The First Robotic Hummingbird”
“From business to health care, education and the government, the advanced...”
– From a quote by Bernard Meyerson, vice president of innovation and academic programs, IBM. Quote found at IBM Watson Heads to Harvard, MIT to Explore Future of Technology in Business
September 2011
6 posts
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“This really is a transforming technology, and when we leverage the capabilities...”
– Quote by Paul Bloom IBM Chief Technology Officer for Telecom Research. Quote found at Watson after Jeopardy!
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“Congestion does more than choke our highways, it chokes our economy, making it...”
– Quote by Tim Lomax, one of the authors of The 2011 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. Quote found at Traffic problems tied to the economy, study says
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“Racetrack memory, a solid-state breakthrough technology, is a potential...”
– Quote found in an IBM press release titled: “IBM Survey: Nearly Half of IT Decision Makers Favor Solid-State Storage Technology
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“The 21st Century presents unprecedented challenges to the long-term viability of...”
– Quote by Michael Reuter, executive director of The Nature Conservancy’s Great Rivers Partnership. Quote found at The Nature Conservancy and IBM Launch Program for Sustaining Watersheds
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“This is the first instance that the researchers are aware of in which gamers...”
– Quote found online at Science Daily’s article “Gamers succeed where scientists fail: Molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme solved, doors open to new AIDS drug design”
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“We can’t simply build our way out of congestion no matter which city. In order...”
– Quote by Vinodh Swaminathan, director of intelligent transportation systems, IBM. Quote found at IBM Global Commuter Pain Survey: Traffic Congestion Down, Pain Way Up - United States