Month: November 2015

Grazed from SeekingAlpha. Author: Randall Radic.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), a major player in the database software arena, recently decided to gird up its loins and muscle its way into cloud computing. Oracle calls its venture Elastic Computing because, ostensibly, it will offer efficient infrastructure (IaaS) capable of handling anything an enterprise might want to build or run. Translation: Oracle is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services for supremacy.

The problem is that Oracle is late to the party. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) arrived ahead of Oracle. And Amazon is the acknowledged heavyweight champion in cloud computing. Amazon got to the party early and already dominates Infrastructure-as-a-Cloud. In other words, Oracle’s late arrival to a very competitive field may prove difficult…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: TJ McCue.

Amazon’s “Amazon Web Services” (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure are in a global land grab, according to cloud expert Adrian Cockcroft. He spoke at the annual Structure Conference last week, shared a tightly focused “state of the cloud” presentation, where he expressed that the tech and investor community is likely underestimating the potential of the AWS offering.

Sitting in the audience with my media pass, I listened attentively, as did 600 others, to Cockcroft’s current assessment and predictions of what’s to come for cloud computing. “Amazon could be growing even faster than current analyst projections of 80% per year,” Cockcroft said. He states that Amazon is in the lead; with Microsoft Azure in second, Google in third…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

With the striking down of the Safe Harbor agreement in October, we have seen the tip of a data privacy iceberg whose global implications will play out well into the new year. In 2016, U.S. businesses can expect a regulatory domino effect that will occur region by region, as more governments will take steps to protect citizen data, preserve national security interests, and build legal fences to protect local businesses.

These evolving rules will be determined within various governments, with different privacy concerns driving each set of regulations. It’s likely to produce more chaos before consistency. As we close out 2015, representatives from the EU Commission and the U.S. have been working on the terms of a new data-transfer framework that will meet the EU court’s requirements…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

Google Compute Engine went down for approximately 70 minutes last week, the company has confirmed, making certain Internet destinations unreachable from the europe-west1 region during that time. The issue first came to light at 1326 PST on November 23 with a status update, before a further missive at 1432 confirming the problems should have been resolved.

Four days later, Google explained what exactly went wrong. At 1151 PST on November 23, Google engineers activated a new peering link – with an unnamed provider who Google says it works with extensively – but during the activation, the providers’ estimations of how much capacity the link could take differed wildly from actual performance…

Grazed from PromotionWorld. Author: Adam Groff.

If your business provides cloud services, then you already know how important it is to spread the word about the cloud to potential clients. Fortunately, there are a number of ways cloud providers just like you are successfully marketing their services to businesses of all kinds. Here are just a few cloud marketing tips to keep in mind:

Educate the Customer

Although cloud computing is quickly becoming the new norm in the business world, not all businesses are familiar with cloud technology. It’s your job as a cloud service provider to educate potential customers in cloud terminology. You don’t have to offer a cloud tutorial with your marketing campaigns, but it is wise to incorporate some informational content within each campaign…

Grazed from PRNewswire.  Author: PR Announcement.

 The GE Health Cloud was unveiled today at the 101st annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago. Designed exclusively for the healthcare industry, the new cloud ecosystem and its applications will connect radiologists and clinicians to speed, efficiency and collaboration across care pathways and multidisciplinary teams – both inside and outside the hospital setting.

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Janakiram.

Microsoft Azure is no different in overwhelming the customers. It has over 30 VM types with varied capabilities and pricing options but with very little guidance on choosing the right configuration.  Like most of its competitors, Google has a choice of 18 predefined machine types that offer varying power of CPU, memory and storage across 4 categories. Each machine type has its own pricing and is billed separately. For example, customers running transactional databases choose from high-memory machine types while running the development and test workloads on standard machine types.

Grazed from Newzy.net.  Author: Sylvia Adams.

 The newly formed Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is to partner with Microsoft as part of its cloud strategy, with a view to Azure filling the public cloud requirement for HPE customers, replacing its own Helion Public Cloud services in the future.  Microsoft just scored a big win in the public cloud wars.

Grazed from Amazon.  Author: PR Announcement.

Being able to store all your videos, photos, and other bulky files in the cloud is a beautiful thing. It lets you have a small (or even practically nonexistent) hard drive, and access you files from wherever you happen to be.

Grazed from BidnessETC.  Author:  Martin Blanc.

Oracle Corporation has planned to lay off around 150 employees in Germany, which represents around 6% of the 2,700 total employees in the region, local business magazine, Wirtschaftswoche reported yesterday. The report also said that the company was planning to gather its IT support jobs at one site in Romania. It is interesting to note that the magazine did not name any source.