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Nov 29, 2016
The biggest challenge for the cloud market today is a lack of resources and expertise, according to RightScale. 32 percent of respondents felt that their IT departments were poorly equipped to handle the growing workloads in the cloud, compared to 27 percent in 2015.
The Motley Fool *

Nov 29, 2016
The average company uses about 1,427 cloud-based services, according to Skyhigh Networks.
The Motley Fool *

Aug 31, 2016
It is estimated that data center electricity consumption is projected to increase to roughly 140 billion kilowatt-hours annually by 2020, corresponding to about 50 large power plants, with annual carbon emissions of nearly 150 million metric tons. The financial impact for the DC management is also huge since a DC spends between 30 percent to 50 percent of its operational expenditure in electricity: the expected figure for the sector in 2020 is $13 billion per year of electricity bills.
IEEE *

May 31, 2017
According to Gartner, the global public cloud services market broke the $200bn mark in 2016, driven largely by growth in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) segments.
Science Direct *

Aug 01, 2017
A staggering 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged, but companies with highly engaged workforces outperform their peers by 147% in earnings-per-share.
Information Age *

Aug 28, 2017
Toyota has pledged to completely eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions related to its production centers by 2050; developing a completely closed-loop system for managing water is part of that.
GreenBiz *

Sep 25, 2017
Today, the total number of devices that are related to the internet of things has reached a record 20 billion units worldwide. The number of sensors and special portable devices will double next year.
IoT Evolution World *

Oct 12, 2017
In a survey conducted by Forrester, of more than 200 businesses last year, only 22% were leveraging big data well enough to get ahead of their competition.
Forbes *

Oct 12, 2017
In a survey conducted by Forrester, of more than 200 businesses last year, only 22% were leveraging big data well enough to get ahead of their competition.
Forbes *

Oct 31, 2017
The smartphones in our pockets, for instance, are equipped with some 9 to 13 sensors and have been running machine learning and deep learning via on-device firmware and in the cloud for years.
Venture Beat *