Dave McComb of Semantic Arts recently commented on Gartner’s nod to Semantic Technology. McComb writes, “Gartner has, finally, nominated Semantic Technology as one of their Top Technology Trends. We’ve seen this movie before. We know how it ends. Indeed it was Gartner themselves who named the plot trajectory: the ‘hype cycle.’ It’s worth a pause to reflect on why the hype cycle exists. The hype cycle suggests that a new technology follows a development growth path as predictable as egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. In the hype cycle, the stages are [pictured above].” Read more

fluid Operations, leading provider of cloud and data management solutions based on semantic technologies, today announced fluidOps eCloudManager has successfully completed testing to become VSPEX™ Labs Validated.

The inclusion of eCloudManager as a part of an EMC® VSPEX solution enables users to automate and simplify daily IT operations and speed up their cloud adoption and automation. Joint customers benefit from an automated VSPEX solution right from the start, being able to set up ‘IT as a Service’ offerings (including Infrastructure as a Service, Storage as a Service and Landscape as a Service™) in their own data centers, without having to resort to public cloud options. Read more