Grazed from CloudWedge.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Spatial computing is an industry that is growing at an impressive rate. With Google’s ‘Project Tango’ due to be released later this year, and 3D imaging startup Matterport’s  $16 Million in Series-B funding, there is a lot of buzz surrounding who will be the next company to release this technology to the general public.

Late last year Apple acquired PrimeSense, 3D sensing company for around $ 360 million, and then very little was heard again on the subject. PrimeSence produced this video about where they had envisioned 3D technology would take us when combined with the internet of things:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5QGf_9gGME

Grazed from TechTimes.  Author: Mike Cannon.

Google’s Kubernetes project seeks to provide an open-source standard for Docker container management. Kubernetes is receiving a surprising amount of support from other companies, with a number of tech giants collaborating on the project.

Supporters of Kubernetes now include Microsoft, IBM, RedHat, and Docker itself. Kubernetes promises to revolutionize cloud computing by making container management easier. By making the system an open-source standard, Google wants to make Kubernetes compatible with any system, making containers transferrable between different paltforms and operating systems…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Marc Shaw.

Even though cloud computing has quickly gone mainstream, many business owners remain hesitant. One reason is because of the many myths still surrounding cloud computing. We’re examining several of these myths in our ongoing blog series.

One issue with cloud computing is its very name. It sounds vague, ethereal; I guess my data is “somewhere up there.” The image of the cloud serves primarily to communicate dislocation, but seems to carry vague mystical overtones: people often think moving to the cloud means their data is somewhere in the ether, moving back and forth between locations possibly. The term perhaps doesn’t quite capture the true nature of the cloud computing revolution, which is really a shift toward a utility computing model…

Grazed from ChinaCSR.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Beijing municipal government has reached a cooperation agreement with IBM to use the tech company’s advanced weather forecast and cloud computing technologies to solve the stubborn smog problem in the city.

Facing serious environmental pollution problems, the Chinese government has promised citizens that it will take measures to improve the environmental situation. To handle the haze and pollution problems, it is necessary to enhance data collection and monitoring and forecast abilities. Beijing has reportedly established an early warning system with data from 35 monitoring stations and the system can warn about heavily polluted weather three days in advance and adjust traffic volume accordingly…

Grazed from TheHansIndia.  Author: Kuldeep Nayar.

India’s second largest IT services provider Infosys Ltd said on Friday it would boost investment in cloud computing, smartphone apps and other new technologies to win more high-margin outsourcing contracts.
 
The move towards these more lucrative deals heralds a change in focus by Infosys, once a trendsetter in India’s $100 billion IT outsourcing industry but which has struggled in recent years to retain staff and market share. Analysts say new technology is the next big requirement for global corporations. Infosys currently derives the bulk of its revenue from low-margin and highly competitive businesses like application development and maintenance and IT infrastructure management services. "Change is inevitable," Outgoing Chief Executive Officer and co-founder S.D. Shibulal told reporters after Infosys posted a higher-than-expected quarterly net profit growth of 21.6 percent…
 

Grazed from Top Tech News.  Author: Barry Levine.

Tech giant Amazon wants in on enterprise storage Relevant Products/Services and collaboration. On Thursday, the company announced the launch of a limited preview of Amazon Zocalo, an online storage and sharing service for businesses.

Zocalo, which translates from Spanish into square or place, allows PC, Mac or tablet users to comment on files, distribute them for feedback, and control versions. Administrators can integrate the service with existing corporate directories or audit logs, implement sharing policies, and determine where files will live. Policies can be set to control how users share…

Grazed from DefenseOne.  Author: Frank Konkel.

The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community. If the technology plays out as officials envision, it will usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing agencies to share information and services much more easily and avoid the kind of intelligence gaps that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

For the first time, agencies within the IC will be able to order a variety of on-demand computing and analytic services from the CIA and National Security Agency. What’s more, they’ll only pay for what they use…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Amy Reichert.

Your organization is ready to move to the cloud in order to reap all the benefits of pre-built development and deployment tools; seamless data access; and a fast, reliable user experience with your application. All your organization’s "stuff" is accessible, and if the system goes down, the vendor has to respect the service-level agreement and fix it. All your organization needs to do is crank out applications and features. It sounds too good to be true.

It sounds too good to be true because it’s complex. The complication is due to the number of integration points between information and the applications in a cloud platform, as well as the legacy applications that already exist. Any time code is altered to accommodate new technology, those changes tend to expose integration problems…

Grazed from EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.  Author: Arthur Cole.

The cloud is emerging as one of the key drivers of network modernization in the data center. Across the board, enterprises are beefing up internal infrastructure to make it easier to provision server and storage resources for stakeholders, and the best way to do that is with a top-flight network.

Private cloud needs drive network infrastructure upgrades in the data center

According to Infonetics, the average spend for enterprise networking upgrades was $1.1 million last year, and if current trends hold, 2014 should see a healthy 20 percent gain. While wireless LAN technology is a top priority, most CIOs report that the need to build private clouds is paramount. This upgrade is being fueled by two main factors: the need to provide services and applications directly to users to stem the flow of data to public clouds, and the desire to ultimately build hybrid networks that can provide both the ease of use and scalability that emerging, data-driven industries require…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Salesforce.com has acquired RelateIQ, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup that has been touting its big data-infused software as the next generation of customer relationship management.  Salesforce.com is paying $350 million for RelateIQ, which sells a "relationship intelligence platform" that gathers and analyzes data from salespeople’s interactions with contacts, including email, calendars and smartphone calls. It then uses this data to provide insights that can help deals move faster.

RelateIQ’s software supports Office 365, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010 and Google Apps. It also works with Facebook to let users add photos and verify contact information…