Grazed from Nasdaq.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft  recently teamed up with Accenture to jointly fund and build a new hybrid cloud bundle, which is expected to launch next year.  The "hybrid cloud" refers to businesses managing some of their own resources in-house, while relying on external cloud services for others. For example, a company can keep its recent customer data on in-house storage, but send its archived data to a public cloud service.

This approach, which is built on top of existing IT services, is useful for large companies, which can’t transfer their data to the cloud as quickly as smaller businesses…

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Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Anastasia Lamotchkina.

It’s becoming clear that out of the top tech trends this year, the Internet-of-things (IoT) is one of the most interesting. With any hope IoT will quickly evolve from simple trinkets to extremely powerful connected devices. So what’s next? you ask, Vordik thinks the cloud will have a lot to do with it.

IS YOUR TOASTER TALKING?: AN INTRO TO IOT

The Internet of Things is simply a label that has been tacked on to the concept of machine-to-machine communication that has existed for around 15 years. In the same way that computers can interact with each other and share information via their IP address, any object can now be assigned its own IP address – thus enabling it to connect to the Internet.

With technology advancing and prices decreasing, practically anything can become “smart” in the right hands. As a ridiculous example, take a look at this toaster that gets upset and jealous when it’s unused…

Grazed from CloudTimes.  Author: Saroj Kar.

The operating system of most famous open source is gaining ground in business particularly in cloud computing, according to a report from the Linux Foundation and Yeoman Technology Group.

The Linux Foundation has published a study called “2014 Enterprise End User Trends Report” that shows the steady growth of Linux in the market for large companies, especially in recent years driven by factors such as the growth of cloud computing, in addition to its known qualities in terms of safety, capacity deployment, costs or virtualization…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Chris Talbot.

Docker is getting more love from cloud services providers (CSPs) and other organizations, but at the same time, it’s starting to gain its fair share of detractors, as well. Some of the people criticizing Docker’s current strategy are also some of its earliest supporters.

The latest criticism comes from Bob Quillin, CEO of StackEngine. In a blog post, Quillin compared Docker’s current strategy to that of peanut butter, but noted that although spreading peanut butter thin makes for a tasty treat, Docker spreading itself too thin is causing worry for StackEngine and other Docker partners…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Louis Columbus.

There are 3.9 million jobs in the U.S. affiliated with cloud computing today with 384,478 in IT alone.  The median salary for IT professionals with cloud computing experience is $90,950 and the median salary for positions that pay over $100,000 a year is $116,950.  Globally there are 18,239,258 cloud computing jobs, with the majority being in China (40.8%).

These and other key insights are from WANTED Analytics, the leading provider of data analytics on the workplace. The company currently maintains a database of more than one billion unique job listings and is collecting hiring trend data from more than 150 countries...

Grazed from CBROnline.  Author: Eleanor Burns.

According to a NaviSite survey most UK businesses recognise the benefits of cloud computing, but many are still running a significant amount of systems either in-house, or externally on traditional platforms.  Three-quarters of those surveyed had migrated less than 50% of their infrastructure to the cloud.

A major cause of this was found to be the lack of the correct tools and skills needed to execute migration.  A finding which will come as no surprise is the 59% of respondents who cited security as their main concern when choosing a cloud service provider…

Grazed from RPCMag.  Author: Gladys Rama.

As solution delivery increasingly involves cloud-hosted services, solution providers regularly find themselves in the business of taking on new vendors who provide key services from datacenters over which the solution provider has no control. The vendors might be giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Google Inc., Rackspace Inc. or Microsoft, with their own massive datacenters.

They might be smaller vendors providing their services from their own purpose-built datacenter. They might be a co-location arrangement with a services provider of any size. Or they may simply be reselling the service of another vendor, abstracting the whole question…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.   Author: Marissa Tejada.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is affecting the future of IT from various angles, according to a new IDC report that examines network capacity, security and cloud computing trends.

Network, Cloud and Security Concerns

The IoT will strain networks in coming years, IDC’s latest predictions show. Within four years, 40 percent of IoT data will be stored and processed at the edge of a network. The IDC report, featured in ZDNet, also concludes that security will continue to impact IT professionals, with 90 percent of firms experiencing an IoT-related security breach in the next two years. Finally, 90 percent of IoT data will live on cloud service provider platforms, enabling a less complex melding of IoT data — a plus for smaller firms…

Grazed from SeekingAlpha.  Author: Editorial Staff.

With the increase in cloud computing and big data analytics by business, the future looks bright for manufacturers of data-farm equipment. In particular, there is an increasing need for storage that is both denser in its form factor and more efficient in its use of power. The companies that are poised to benefit most from this in the long term are those that have the ability to manufacture in volume and able to pivot from fabricating hard disk drives to fabricating hybrid drives (for the short term) and completely solid state drives (for the long term).

Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) is a well-known hard drive manufacturer that has yet to take a commanding market share in the small but growing solid state market. However, with recent acquisitions, it looks like it is making a stronger push into the market…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols.

If you want to see where enterprise Linux is going, you should look at Red Hat‘s community Linux distribution, Fedora, today.  It’s in Fedora that Red Hat explores the cutting edge of Linux and open source software developments. While not everyone will like where Fedora is going — for example, Fedora’s init systemsystemd still has many detractors — it’s still the bellwether for Linux. If a software library or program isn’t in Fedora at some point, it’s not likely to ever show up in mainstream Linux.

The latest Fedora, which has been the case for the last few updates, arrived a bit late. Never the less, it works well.  Instead of focusing on the desktop, as was once the case, Fedora now comes in three different variants: Fedora 21 Cloud, Fedora 21 Server, and Fedora 21 Workstation…