Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: Phil Cristensen.

 Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Andrew Froelich.

• "Beginner mistakes" on the part of service providers. This is when the provider starts out or grows at a rate faster than can be properly managed its by data center staff. Cloud giants, including Amazon Web Services and Google Compute, were often plagued with outages early on as each company grew at incredible rates. Even Microsoft, which entered the cloud game later than the others, ran into outage problems early and often…

Grazed from Fortune.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Engineering jobs—things like the design of a complex airplane or car part and the virtual testing of that design—pose special and intense computing challenges. And that’s the job San Francisco-based Rescale, which just announced $6.4 million in funding,

The money comes in the form of a seed round led by the Data Collective with contributions from such luminaries as Amazon AMZN -0.84% founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, Ycombinator’s Paul Graham and Sam Altman, and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel…

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: James Bourne.

If organisations could track all cloud consumption and usage across the enterprise, the majority (57%) would utilise it to improve IT forecasting. That was the key takeaway from a survey undertaken by enterprise software provider Cloud Cruiser, who collared 279 IT professionals at the recent Microsoft Ignite event in Chicago. Interestingly, 16% of respondents admitted they did not use Microsoft cloud technologies.

39% of those polled said they would use more wide-ranging tracking skills to compare costs across different platforms and vendors, while 34% said they would expand their on-demand and self-service access to cloud. 72% said tracking cloud usage and costs was extremely or very important to their IT function…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Colm Keegan.

Summertime and the living’s easy, or so the song says. For some overworked IT pros, the summer might represent an opportunity for a brief vacation and some much needed downtime to recharge their depleted batteries. But for many others it could be more like the old ’80s song “Cruel Summer,” particularly if they can’t get a grip on their businesses’ cloud strategy.

Many businesses are turning to cloud services alternatives as a way to increase business agility and reduce costs, a trend that appears to be accelerating. For example, when ESG started tracking the use of cloud as an IT cost-containment measure back in 2009, it ranked dead last compared to eight other cost containment measure strategies…

Grazed from WinBeta.  Author: Jonathan Caldwell.

Microsoft has been developing more and more of their infrastructure and services to support enterprising businesses new and old, and now is no different. Microsoft has announced that they are expanding cloud hybridization as well as cloud hyperscaling, which will bring unprecedented speed, economy, and accessibility for all users and consumers—and for any environment or platform.  What is Cloud Hybridization?   First, a brief explanation of private and public clouds, which a hybrid cloud is made up of.

*  A public cloud is a cloud that quickly handles single or homogeneous and easily scalable services. When a public cloud is used, it’s generally for a wide variety of people and uses lots computing, so typically a public cloud services things like emails or photos- these things are especially scalable services for maximizing cost efficiency…

Grazed from FoxNews.  Author: Steve Tobak.

All leading technology companies have one thing in common: They don’t play by the rules; they make the rules. They create new growth markets, new product categories and new customer experiences. In other words, they lead. Following is the other guy’s job.  It’s been a long time since that’s been true of Microsoft.

Grazed from TopTechNews.  Author: Dan Heilman.

An updated version of Microsoft’s Power BI service will be released July 24, the company announced Friday. The goal of the updated service is to enable business users to benefit from business intelligence and analytics without requiring sophisticated help from analysts, data scientists, or other tech staff.

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Last month, global software giant SAP SE announced that its Predictive Analytics Software has been upgraded to include integration for big data and Internet of Things (IoT) analytics. The stronger integration of SAP HANA analytics with IoT serves the increasing number of customers that apply analytics to the enormous amount of data generated in IoT applications. From an analytics standpoint, customers will now be able to gain insights into big data derived from IoT. On the other hand, IoT enterprises will be able to gain analytical insights that were insofar not available as easily.

This gives SAP a dual advantage in the two budding and highly sought after markets, namely predictive analytics and IoT.  SAP has been aggressively making a push into IoT , and the latest update to its Predictive Analytics software further expands its product portfolio in the IoT market. It also gives the company another step up against competition from leading cloud computing vendor, Salesforce.com, which is targeting the cloud analytics market as its next growth frontier…

Grazed from Music Times.  Author: Ryan Book.