Bullish Forecast for Hadoop Services

Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy clip through 2021, fueled in part by growing enterprise demand for Hadoop services.

According to a market forecast released this week by Allied Market Research, the Hadoop market is expected to grow at a 63.4 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, reaching $84.6 billion by 2021. The sustained growth is attributed in part to accelerated Hadoop adoption in Europe, where annual growth rates are expected to top 65 percent.

The sustained growth of the Hadoop market stems largely from higher rates of adoption in North America, especially in the IT, banking and government sectors as enterprise big data strategies have been rolled out.

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Bullish Hadoop Forecast Despite Spark Hype

Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy clip through 2021, fueled in part by growing enterprise demand for Hadoop services.

Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Market to Reach $139 Billion, Globally by 2022

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, "World Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) Market", the global SDDC market is expected to generate revenue of $139 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 32% from 2016 to 2022. SDDC is a facility where all data center resources that include storage, networking, and computer are virtualized and delivered as a service. It leverages deployment, monitoring, and management of data center resources through automated software. Exponential growth of big data, increased demand for streamlined & automated data center operations, and cost efficiency has resulted in increased SDDC adoption, globally. On the contrary, factors that restrain the market expansion in certain regions include possibility of security threats and integration complexity.

THE NEW JAGUAR F-PACE RUNS JAGUAR’S HYPED INCONTROL TOUCH PRO INFOTAINMENT UNIT AND SO TO DOES THE UPGRADED XE, SO, IS IT ANY GOOD?

IN-CAR INFOTAINMENT AND communication systems are in a constant state of flux. And no sooner does one car maker reveal its latest tablet-esque system than another has released its system that’s either bigger or faster.

But it wasn’t so long ago that we never needed our infotainment systems to do much more than change the radio station from either AM to FM, or use a safe-cracker’s touch to finely tune a radio station.

And then along came sat-nav units and map book publishers began going broke. And now, the touchscreen units we have in even the cheapest of cars are able to connect with you phone and while all will stream the music on it, many, depending on the connectivity, will even be able to display the maps and more from your phone, read out text messages and even allow you to dictate a response.

Biometric technology replacing pins and passwords at StanChart

Voice recognition and fingerprints are replacing pin numbers and passwords at Standard Chartered as the UK-listed bank becomes the latest lender to introduce biometric technology.

StanChart, which operates mostly across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, will roll out the new service to some 5m mobile and telephone banking customers this year, allowing them to check bank balances and access investments without needing to remember multiple passwords.

The move comes as many of the world’s biggest banks expand digital investments in order to meet the rising demand for mobile banking, as the number of customers visiting branches declines.

Earlier this month, Barclays announced that all personal phone banking customers in the UK would be able to use their voice as a form of secure ID instead of answering security questions or remembering passwords. HSBC is planning to launch voice recognition and fingerprint ID in the summer while Royal Bank of Scotland is launching artificial intelligence to interact with staff, to help them assist their small business customers.

In Singapore, local banks have gone one step further and are collaborating on a service that will allow customers to make payments using their social media ID and mobile phone numbers instead of account numbers and sort codes.

StanChart’s moves are part of a plan unveiled by chief executive Bill Winters last November to invest $1.5bn in technology over three years and bolster the bank’s retail banking division.

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The future of DOOH is now: Pairing biometrics with digital signage

When "Diamonds Are Forever" came out in 1971, film buffs and James Bond fanatics got a sneak peek at a futuristic technology that is now so mainstream that many of us carry it around in our pockets as part of our smartphones: A biometric fingerprint scanner.

WORLD HYPERSCALE DATA CENTER MARKET EXPECTED TO REACH $71.2 BILLION BY 2022

According to a new report by Allied Market Research titled World Hyperscale Data Center Market, the world hyperscale data center market is expected to reach a revenue of $71.2 billion by 2022, with a CAGR of 20.7% from 2016 to 2022. Hyperscale data centers are most widely adopted by cloud service providers to house cloud-based resources and cloud services, accounting for a market share of around 63% in 2015. North America is the largest revenue-generating region for hyperscale data centers, followed by Europe and Asia-Pacific in 2015.

Rio Olympics 2016: Medal hopes ride on technology

RIO DE JANEIRO: The seeds for many of the 25, maybe 30, medals the US track team hopes to win in Rio de Janeiro were planted at a training center in California with the help of technology originally designed for golf.

One of the many tools USA Track and Field makes available to its athletes is called "Track Man," a computerized tracking device that sports fans might recognize from watching golf on TV . In addition to golf balls, "Track Man" can trace the trajectory of shot puts and hammers to allow the athletes who throw them keep track of how high and far they go.

"Immediate feedback," says Phil Cheetham, senior sport technologist for the US Olympic Committee, when asked about the greatest benefit of the technology. "Immediate knowledge of results is proven to help you improve technique much more quickly than if you don't have the feedback."

Saddled with restrictive sponsorship rules and less-than-ideal earning potential, athletes have been lashing out for years against organizations such as the USATF for not plowing their profits back into the pockets of the people who put on the show.

Track Man and the program at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, are examples of how the federations are, indeed, trying to invest in athletes. Some of the investment comes in the form of direct cash into the pockets of the runners and throwers; other comes in training tools like Track Man and similar technologies that help sprinters and jumpers.

"Since I got here, I've improved over four feet," said Joe Kovacs, the 2015 world champion whose first coach was his mother. "It's been a combination of great coaching, awesome facilities and the technology we have."

Most notable among those who don't think USATF does all it can for athletes is 800-meter runner Nick Symmonds, who boycotted world championships last year over a dispute about what runners can wear in a sport where both athletes and institutions depend on shoe and apparel companies for most of their money. Symmonds was injured and didn't qualify for the Olympics, but he's hardly alone.

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New facial recognition algorithm is so smart it doesn’t need to see your face

Facial recognition already posed serious problems for privacy advocates. Used by everyone from law enforcement to churches, the privacy concerns with facial recognition are very real, and they’re about to get a lot worse.

The ability to identify anyone just by analyzing an image of their face creates a severe imbalance of power from the common citizen to the people in charge. The ability to identify those whose faces are blurred or otherwise obstructed kills that balance entirely. Yet that’s exactly what algorithms like the ‘Faceless Recognition System’ (FRS) are aiming to do.

FRS was a creation by researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Saarbrücken, Germany. The idea was to create a method of identifying individuals through use of imperfect - blurry or otherwise obscured — images. The system trains a neural network on a set of photos containing obscured and unobscured images before using that training to spot similarities from a target’s head and body.

It’s crazy accurate too. The algorithm is able to find an obscured face after seeing an unobscured version of the same face only once at a 69.6 percent accuracy rate. If the machine has 10 images of the person’s face, the accuracy rate climbs to 91.5 percent.

There are, however, limitations. For example, black boxes obscuring a person’s face drop the accuracy rating down to about 14.7 percent, but even that is three times more accurate than humans.

It’s not just one algorithm, either. Facebook has its own facial recognition algorithms that can reportedly identify users with obscured faces at an 83 percent accuracy rate. To do so, it uses cues such as stance and body type. The Faceless Recognition system, however, might be the first fully trainable system that uses a full range of body cues to correctly identify targets.

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