Grazed from DigiTimes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Taiwan-based InnoDisk, which develops and manufactures industrial-class storage products, has disclosed the company is partnering with NAND flash chip vendor Toshiba and Super Micro Computer (Supermicro), a specialist in application-optimized servers, workstations, blades, storage and GPU systems, to provide SSD solutions for data centers and cloud computing.

A joint venture between the companies, named AccelStor, has been formed to provide SSD solutions targeted at customers in the financial sector and telecom carriers, according to InnoDisk…

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is enabling law enforcement agencies of any size to access one of the world’s largest networks of law enforcement data comprising more than a billion shareable documents from the Cloud. IBM i2 COPLINK on Cloudapplies analytics to vast quantities of data to help officials piece together seemingly unrelated information and generate investigative case leads.

For almost 20 years, IBM i2 COPLINK has transformed information sharing across more than 6,000 law enforcement agencies in North America, enabling them to uncover hidden relationships and patterns when investigating crime. Through the use of sophisticated analytics and "fuzzy searches," even partial information such as a portion of a license plate, tattoo or nickname can be processed and used to help accelerate investigations…

Grazed from HostSearch.  Author: Editorial Staff.

 In a move that took place in the latter part of 2014 and has not been highly publicized (it is only just being reported in fact), search giant Google acquired mobile cloud computing company Agawi. Led by founders Rajat Gupta, Rohan Relan, and Peter Relan, Agawi has headquarters in Campbell, California, USA. The company bills itself as a technology platform company which specializes in low-latency cloud-to-mobile device app streaming. Alongside mobile it is involved in cloud data services and cloud gaming.

Grazed from Seeking Alpha.  Author: Editorial Staff.

 We are initiating coverage on Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) with a $32 1-year Price Target and a ‘Sell’ rating. While cloud revenue growth is surging, it is an overstated segment of the business. We believe that Oracle’s structural transition to cloud computing has driven the current stock value too high.

Grazed from IFreePress.  Author: Editorial Staff.

If you’re already dialed in to the Google/Android ecosystem, it’s practically automatic and comes with a learning curve equivalent to taking baby steps.  Asides, you can also get a lot of software that you might need, for example picture editing apps. Agawi itself is no longer a live business: its web site is dead (kind of ironically), and its various Twitter accounts have not been updated since 2013. Below are some more Android M details from our time with it on the Nexus 9.

Grazed from WindowsITPro.  Author:  Cheryl J. Ajluni.

As those of you who read IT Innovators regularly know, its goal is to help spark your imagination with new ideas and opportunities for improving your networks and storage capability. Just in case you’re in need of a little additional inspiration, however, there’s word out of Microsoft that cloud computing is being used with cutting-edge molecular biology and drones in a system designed to detect infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread.

The system is being developed through the combined efforts of Microsoft and academic partners across multiple disciplines, all of whom are working together on a project that’s being referred to as Project Premonition. If all works as planned, the system will collect and analyze mosquitos to look for early warning signs that a disease is spreading…

 Grazed from European Commission.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The recent evidence provided in the study on the "Uptake of Cloud in Europe" confirms the increasing adoption of cloud services in the EU by industry according to the size of their business and country of origin.  Furthermore, the research indicates that from 2015 to 2020 cloud computing can create 1 million new jobs in Europe.

This potential was a significant factor in the development of the Commission’s strategy for a Digital Single Market, such that cloud has a prominent and visible role to enhance the digital economy.  With this more prominent role come more challenges…

Grazed from CCI.  Author: Lawrence James.

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Roland Moore-Colyer.

Software is changing the role of chief information officers (CIOs), requiring them to use IT to drive, rather than simply support, a business, according to the CIO of Virgin Active. Andy Caddy explained at Interop 2015 in London that the ability of modern software to replace the functions and capabilities of physical hardware means that CIOs no longer need to focus on maintaining systems or replacing legacy IT.

“Software has solved the problem,” he said. “The idea that, once things are software they solve the problems and you don’t have to look back, is really what’s driving [change].” Caddy added that software can be used to replace specialist hardware with virtual equivalents, and that cloud computing is nearing the stage when shifting traditional disk storage into the cloud is an easy process…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

Research from Zenium Technology Partners has found that one in two organisations are not operating a data centre that could continue to function after a natural disaster. The report, entitled ‘Managing Growth, Risk and the Cloud’, found that half of companies polled has experienced disruption with their data centre due to Mother Nature, with respondents experiencing five incidents in total on average. Despite this, 45% of those polled insisted their data centre was flood resistant, 43% stated their data centre was officially earthquake resistant, and 60% said it was located in an area away from physical or environmental hazards.

For companies who had experienced disruptions with the running of their data centre, more than nine in 10 (91%) confirmed it had come at a loss to their business. A third of C-suite respondents said they didn’t know what the exact cost was, with the highest figure cited as £500,000…