improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources wikibon news newspapers books scholar jstor free images september 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message a major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . september 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message this article reads like a news release or is otherwise written in a promotional tone . please help by either rewriting this article from a neutral point of view or by moving this article to wikinews . when appropriate blatant advertising may be marked for speedy deletion with db spam . september 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message wikibon type private industry technology founded 2007 headquarters marlborough massachusetts key people david vellante founder and ceo ; david floyer founder and cto products technology community number of employees 5 website www.wikibon.com wikibon is a community of practitioners and consultants on technology and business systems that uses open source sharing of free advisory knowledge . 1 the company was launched in 2007 by david vellante david floyer and peter burris and is headquartered in marlborough massachusetts . 2 wikibon has approximately 5 employees . contents 1 content 2 references 3 external links 4 further reading content edit wikibon compares itself to technology research services such as gartner and international data corporation . unlike them its research is available under a gnu general public license . wikibon s research is created and made available in the form of a wiki enabling contributors to post content add to existing content and offer changes and amendments . 3 in 2008 wikibon introduced conserve it to help it companies and customers qualify for rewards from pacific gas and electric company for installing energy efficient equipment . 4 wikibon holds calls to allow it practitioners to share information it calls peer incite . 5 wikibon creates and shares infographics and covers topics such as cloud computing big data and virtualization on its blog . 6 7 forbes magazine called a wikibon report estimating the size of the big data market groundbreaking in 2012 . 8 references edit babcock charles march 18 2011 . cloud becoming a major disaster recovery strategy . informationweek . retrieved 2011 03 23 . courten j july 20 2010 . around david vellante from wikibon in 10 questions . analyst relations . retrieved 2011 03 23 . neubarth michael august 17 2009 . open source research one on one with wikibon s founder . cio zone . retrieved june 20 2013 . dinan michael august 4 2008 . wikibon intros green money saving service for it companies . tmcnet . retrieved 2011 03 23 . peer incite archive . company web site . retrieved june 20 2013 . infographics . wikibon blog . williams alex november 29 2010 . 3 infographics about cloud computing . readwriteweb . retrieved june 20 2013 . furrier john february 17 2012 . big data is big market & big business 50 billion market by 2017 . forbes . archived from the original on february 19 2012 . retrieved june 20 2013 . external links edit wikibon website wikibon now legacy wiki crunchbase further reading edit wexler steve march 2 2011 . hp storage blitz leverages 3par acquisition . network computing schillinger raymond march 18 2011 . surviving the data deluge a call to action for the 21st century . the huffington post retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wikibon & oldid 739278085 categories research and analysis firmshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from september 2013all articles with topics of unclear notabilitywikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from september 2013articles with a promotional tone from september 2013all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 19 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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