Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bri Pennington.

From Google abandoning MapReduce to Facebook switching off its data center, here’s a look back at the 10 most popular articles on Data Center Knowledge during 2014. Enjoy!

Google Dumps MapReduce in Favor of New Hyper-Scale Analytics System – Google has abandoned MapReduce, the system for running data analytics jobs spread across many servers the company developed and later open sourced, in favor of a new cloud analytics system it has built called Cloud Dataflow…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Krzysztof Polak.

Users of SAP applications in Poland, central and eastern Europe could be forgiven for feeling dizzy because of the changes that have occurred in recent years, not only in the provider’s image and offer, but also in its approach to customers. The new SAP tools for knowledge management are arousing both interest and doubts.

For many years, SAP has been the leader of enterprise management applications – enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), supply chain management (SCM) – in the Polish market at least. However, for two years now, rapid changes have taken place in SAP’s communication in the market. Traditional messages about popular systems for business management have disappeared. Why?…

Grazed from KoreaHerald.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Samsung Electronics said Thursday that it would unveil a lineup of smart televisions running on the Tizen operating system at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.

The company said Tizen would offer a simple user-friendly interface, allowing consumers to rapidly find popular content via Samsung’s Smart Hub function, which will also recommend shows to viewers based on their viewing histories…

Grazed from TechCocktail.  Author: Christopher Beck.

Over the past few decades much of how we communicate, work, and even play has evolved as advancements have been made in technology. With each new invention or advancement, actions that used to require two or more people to be in the same room are fading and even the farthest reaches of the globe are seemingly at our collaborative fingertips.

A recent infographic created by cloud-based digital asset management company, WebDAM, visualizes “How Creative Collaboration Has Evolved Over Time,” and gives audiences a snapshot of just how far technology has come with a fun design that plays off of each decade stylistically…

Grazed from TechInsider.  Author: Fahad Saleem.

In an article on MIT Technology Review, it was reported that Hewlett-Packard Company is gearing up to make a big leap in 2015. The PC giant will launch a new computer called “The Machine” which will have a new Operating System in it designed by Hewlett-Packard Company. The Machine will be more energy efficient, powerful, Cloud based, Big Data supportive and will have a bundle of high-performance computing features. Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) business is in trouble and the company is desperately looking to seize some key deals and products in the Cloud and computing domains.

The article quoted a Hewlett-Packard Company’s executive who said that HP is heavily focusing on innovating the memory management in the modern computers. The machine will resurrect the concept of multi-lapsed memory in order to revolutionize the computing industry…

Grazed from WallStreet.org.  Author: Danielle Cunningham.

Google Inc. has put forth its strategy for the New Year as the company feels that outdated action plans should be a things of the past.  Here is a brief of what the company is up to now:

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Google Inc.’s business forte is its search engine and advertising platform, which drives it forward. The idea behind this massive tool seems quite radical as it has targeted each nation in the world and has gone on to become a global platform to generate searches. Google Inc.’s strength lies in its innovation. The company has always encouraged the employees to be innovative and creative in their ideas…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Glyn Moody.

At the beginning of a new year, it’s traditional to look back over the last 12 months. But as far as this column is concerned, it’s easy to summarise what happened then: open source has won. Let’s take it from the top:

Supercomputers. Linux is so dominant on the Top 500 Supercomputers lists it is almost embarrassing. The November 2014 figures show that 485 of the top 500 systems were running some form of Linux; Windows runs on just one. Things are even more impressive if you look at the numbers of cores involved. Here, Linux is to be found on 22,851,693 of them, while Windows is on just 30,720; what that means is that not only does Linux dominate, it is particularly strong on the bigger systems…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: David Deans.

Chief executives have approved digital technology budgets and updated strategic plans, now the Line of Business leaders and their IT counterparts must address the tactical execution for 2015 and beyond.  In hindsight, 2014 was a pivotal year for cloud service platform adoption. Regardless, the trend will accelerate next year. International Data Corporation (IDC) has shared their 2015 predictions about the global cloud computing platforms market, based upon their latest outlook.

These predictions are intended to help senior executives and IT leaders capitalize on the most profound emerging market opportunities and plan for their future growth.  “Digitization and transformation to virtualized, on-demand services are driving very rapid internal IT change. All business technology buyers are now shifting steadily toward cloud-first strategies,” said Robert Mahowald, vice president at IDC…

Grazed from DataPipe.  Author:  David Lucky.

With 2015 all but arrived, it’s natural for technology experts to offer their predictions for the new year. Oftentimes, these take the form of optimistic forecasts of the new advancements on the horizon. However, sometimes industry professionals acknowledge that the coming months will have their fair share of challenges.

The realm of cloud computing security is a case in point. Writing for InfoWorld, David Linthicum recently highlighted three cloud computing predictions that he would like to see come to fruition in 2015 but which are not likely to reach this point. And the rise of cloud computing security mastery among enterprises was his leading pipe dream. In reality, these companies will continue to rely on managed security services to safely leverage cloud resources in the foreseeable future…

Grazed from PCCMobileBroadBand.  Author: Tara Neal.

Much has been said throughout 2014 about the Internet-of-Things(IoT) becoming a significant growth area for telecom operators. While M2M connectivity leverages on both wireless and fiber connectivity to power all the IoT end devices and their connectivity to the cloud, what is going to becoming a bigger business area for service providers is the cloud-based services comprising IoT platforms, data storage and computing services.

All the data that IoT end devices will be collecting will ultimately be stored in huge data lakes, and because there will be huge amounts of unstructured data, providers of IoT/M2M services will require extensive big data capabilities which include the ability to process the data in real time, produce analytics, integrate the processed data to other third party clouds which will then push the data to end-user applications while at the same time, being able to ensure the privacy, security and timeliness of the data and the processes…

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