Cloudera’s Big Data Growth Story

In a report published by IDC earlier this year, Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012-2016 Forecast, the worldwide big data technology and services market is projected to grow annually at 31% to be worth $23.8 billion by 2016. This is a conservative estimate compared with Wikibon’s research, which projects the big data market to be worth $50 billion by the year 2017, up from $11.4 billion last year.

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MobileIron Protects Ever-Growing Mobile Data Pool

Analysts at Gartner believe that the mobile device management (MDM) market will see strong growth in the coming years. Studies estimate that nearly 20% of medium and large businesses in the country have already purchased MDM tools. The MDM market is still small and was estimated to be worth more than $500 million in revenues in 2012. This is up from an estimated value of $265 million in 2009. But as more and more organizations adopt the “bring your own device” (BYOD) approach within the workplace, the MDM market will grow.

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Adobe’s Creative Cloud Takes Stock to 52-Week High

According to Gartner, the global public cloud services market was estimated to have grown 20% last year to $109 billion. Business process services (BPS) was the largest segment in the market at $84.2 billion, with a 77% market share, compared with $72 billion a year ago. The software as a service (SaaS) market is estimated to be worth $14.4 billion, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) reported the highest growth, from $4.3 billion in 2011 to $6.2 billion in 2012. Besides businesses, the industry is seeing increased adoption of cloud services by individuals. Digital services provider Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) is counting on this increased adoption to drive their own growth.

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ExactTarget’s Growth Continues

According to a recent report, the marketing automation industry is the fastest growing segment within the $4 billion CRM market. Researcher SiriusDecisions believes that adoption of marketing automation will grow 50% by the year 2015. Another report by TechNavio pegs the growth of the worldwide marketing automation market at 8.2% annually from 2011 through 2015. Growth within online marketing is projected to be driven by the increasing availability and adoption of SaaS-based marketing tools and the increased adoption of these tools by small and medium businesses. >>>

OpenTable at 52-Week High

According to recent market reports, traffic to restaurants in the United States is projected to grow a mere 3% this year. But there are still opportunities, and online restaurant reservation services provider OpenTable (Nasdaq:OPEN) is working to improve their offerings to capture a bigger share of this diner growth.

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Coursera’s Business Model Challenge

According to a report, The U.S. Market for Self-Paced eLearning Products and Services: 2010-2015 Forecast and Analysis, by market research firm Ambient Insight 2015, the number of post-secondary students in the U.S. who are taking online classes will rise from 12.36 million in 2010 to 21.13 million by 2015. Annual growth over the five-year period is expected to be 11%. While many students will continue to take both online and offline classes, the largest growth is projected among students taking exclusively online courses. The report projected annual growth of 23% for students taking only online courses; this is up from 1.37 million in 2010 to 3.86 million in 2015. The online education industry will benefit from the growth of massive open online courses (MOOCS), which are usually free courses offered to a big online population.

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Groupon’s Mason Is Fired

If analysts were expecting the daily deals market leader, Groupon (Nasdaq:GRPN), to show impressive results during the holiday quarter last year, they were surely disappointed. According to market research conducted by Manta prior to the holiday quarter, 82% of small businesses surveyed claimed that they had no desire of running deals during the holiday season last year. And it is not just the holiday season that is affected. According to a Raymond James survey of merchants who have used daily deals services earlier, 39% claimed that they did not want to run another daily promotion due to the high costs and low repeat customer rate. Thirty-two percent of the merchants surveyed reported the deals to be loss-making ones.

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Fusion-io Reduces Dependency on Apple and Facebook

IDC projects that the worldwide big data technology and services market will grow 40% annually from 2010 to 2015 to reach $16.9 billion in 2015. The growth in big data is expected to be about seven times the growth of the overall information and communications technology market. Within the market, the server segment is expected to see annualized growth of 27%. Further, the software market for big data is projected to grow 34% annually, while the most growth will be seen in the storage market at 61% annual growth. Flash memory maker Fusion-io (NYSE:FIO) is among the leading storage solutions provider for big data companies. To cater to the growing demand for storage products, Fusion is expanding their product offerings and seeing strong results.

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Jive’s Intense Competitive Landscape

Recently MarketsandMarkets released a report, Enterprise Social Software Market – Global Advancements, Demand Analysis and Worldwide Market Forecasts (2013-2018), to track the growth of the enterprise social software market. The report estimates that the global enterprise social software market will grow from $721.3 million last year to $6.18 billion by 2018, recording growth of 45% annually. Growth will be driven by increased adoption of the tools by the high tech and telecommunications vertical. North America will hold the maximum revenue share in the market, and Asia Pacific will drive high growth in the market by region.

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HP’s Slow Turnaround

Gartner’s Q4 worldwide PC shipments report may have painted a picture of dismal performance for PC shipments, which fell 4.9% over the year to 90.3 million units, but for HP, it was still a better quarter than previous ones. After having slipped from the leading vendor position in the third quarter last year, HP regained their lead in the final quarter. During the quarter, HP commanded 16.2% of the global market share, compared with 15.5% both a year and a quarter ago. Lenovo, which had managed to gain a marginal lead in the previous quarter with 15.7% share, slipped to the second largest vendor with 15.5% of the market share. But HP should not be complacent because over the year, their shipment volume dropped 0.5% to 14.6 million, while Lenovo registered a strong 8.2% increase to 13.98 million units.

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