Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, at Computex Taipei 2015 today announced its new CloudSpeed Eco™ Gen. II SATA SSD, a purpose-built storage device for cloud service providers with up to 2TB* capacity. This new SSD is now sampling with select hyperscale customers. Based on 15nm NAND flash, the new CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II SSD delivers greater storage density with 3x the streaming bandwidth vs. hard disk drives (HDDs).

Designed as a drop-in replacement for HDDs, CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II provides datacenters with a lower cost-per-square-foot for hyperscale applications such as analytics, media streaming and content repositories. Cloud Data Services, such as Big Data Analytics, SaaS, IaaS and PaaS environments, are driving radical data center transformation. The number of connected ‘things’ is set to explode, with Gartner forecasting this number will reach 25 billion by 2020, generating a deluge of data that will need to be analyzed in real-time1. Micropayments, online commerce and similar applications are read-intensive and require high data throughput and scalable storage capacity…

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Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Editorial Staff.

Chipmaker Nvidia Corp said it expects cloud computing revenue to hit $1 billion in the next two to three years, as demand for big data analysis drives growth in graphics chips. Cloud computing is the company’s fastest-growing segment, with revenue increasing at about 60-70 percent a year, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told reporters a day before Computex, Asia’s largest technology trade show, opens in Taipei.

Nvidia makes chips for computing and gaming graphics, known as GPU, or graphical processing units. It has also been moving into automotive graphics in partnership with automaker Tesla Motors Inc. Cloud computing allows people to play graphics-heavy games over the Internet, Huang said. He also noted that the company’s GPUs can now be used for a wide variety of applications, such as voice commands like those used by Apple Inc’s Siri.

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Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Louis Columbus.

Application development (34%), managed services (27%), ERP implementations (22%) and cloud (20%) are the highest spending priorities for enterprises in 2015 according to the latest Cowen & Company IT spending survey.  53% of enterprises plan to purchase Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) services from an IT services provider.

21% year-over-year spending growth on SMAC technologies is forecast between 2014 and 2015.  Funding is expected to increase 7 to 8 times vs. average IT Services budgets for digital and SMAC-based initiatives this year.  These and other insights are from Cowen & Company’s Mid-Year 2015 IT Spending Survey published May 26th (client access)…

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Gregor Petri.

Unlike in the current hit song “Thinking Out Loud” – where singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran declares his love to last to well into his seventies – it remains to be seen how long the love will last when it comes to “Thinking of Cloud”. IT loves are often short-lived.

In fact so short, we call them hypes. At Gartner we even created the hype cycle, a curve that shows how after a first spark (the technology trigger) many new infatuations quickly reach the peak of unreasonable expectations followed by a period of considerable disillusionment. In that hype cycle cloud computing is now at the beginning of the plateau of productivity (or as Sheeran would say more poetically: the beginning of lasting love)…

Grazed from Ventiv.  Author: Angus Rhodes.

To respond to changes in data storage and growing financial complexity, risk managers are increasingly turning to software. Good programs can automatically monitor company operations, assess threats, and make suggestions for improvements at all hours. The future of risk analysis lies in programs that consolidate large amounts of data and manage the risks of cloud computing.

Accelerating Automation

Companies are increasingly adopting automated risk management products to save money and improve results. Automated risk software requires few workers to operate, reducing job demand and associated payroll costs. It can monitor risks continuously, provide quick reports to management, takes regular records, and guards against after-the-fact data manipulation…

Grazed from Business Insider.  Author: Julie Bort.

When Google announced that its new Photos app would be free and come with  unlimited cloud storage it crossed a line that many in the tech industry had been watching with fear.  Price: $US0.

The cloud computing industry reads like a who’s who of profitable tech giants. But they have been nervously watching a competition started by Amazon, matched by Microsoft, and taken up with gusto by Google.  It’s called “the race to zero.”…

Grazed from GCN.  Author: Kathleen Hickey.
 
Decade-old predictions about the eventual depletion of IPv4 addresses may soon be coming true.  The United States will run out of Internet addresses based on Internet Protocol version 4 by the summer, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

“The shortage puts companies that maintain their own large and growing Internet presence at the biggest risk, especially providers of cloud-computing services. Such companies could find themselves saddled with unexpected costs, technical problems or simply an inability to serve new customers. Those that aren’t building out their own data centers won’t face the shortage directly, but their online providers likely will,” the WSJ wrote…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Paul Trotter.

With employees across the company empowered with greater access to technology, the tech expertise inside your business is no longer limited to the IT department. In many businesses, Sales and Marketing, HR and Finance are leading the discussions, with Line of Business (LOB) specific insight into the cloud solutions that can help drive their departments forward.

Yet many companies are struggling to accommodate the often competing views of LOB executives and the IT department, and in some cases there’s a battle for control…

Grazed from TopTechNews.  Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

CRM Relevant Products/Services giant Salesforce has come up with a new way to help enterprises drive more value from big data Relevant Products/Services and tap into more customer insights via its Analytics Cloud. It’s called Salesforce Wave for Big Data and it’s coming to market with an impressive partner list that includes Google, Cloudera, Hortonworks, New Relic, Informatica and Trifacta.

Salesforce Wave for Big Data aims to meet a valid — and big — need in the industry. According to the EMC Digital Universe Study, the digital universe is doubling in size every two years. If you can imagine it, the digital universe will multiply 10-fold between 2013 and 2020, from 4.4 trillion to 44 trillion gigabytes…

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Grazed from Fortune. Author: Heather Clancy.

The explosion last year in venture funding for education technology—more than $1.87 billion invested—wasn’t strictly earmarked for K-12 classrooms, colleges and universities. A fast-growing portion of ed-tech investments is squarely focused on corporate cyberlearning applications as businesses struggle to fill skills gaps and retain talent.

As one vivid illustration, consider the $1.5 billion paid by LinkedIn to acquire Lynda.com, a venerable subscription-based online learning company in business for two decades. Wrote LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, in a blog post justifying the deal: “I believe we need to transition from a 20th century approach heavily reliant on rote learning to a 21st century curriculum focused on collaboration, critical reasoning and creative problem solving; provide more opportunities for experiential vs. textbook learning; better equip teachers to cater to multiple forms of intelligence vs. simply focusing on math and verbal skills; ensure compassion is taught in every classroom; and provide today’s students with the skills they need to obtain the jobs that are and will be vs. the jobs that once were.”…

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