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Grazed from Economic Times. Author: Editorial Staff.

Dell has announced the availability of Wyse Cloud Connect, an ultra-compact and highly mobile cloud access device that instantly delivers desktop virtualization and personal cloud services to any HDMI- or MHL-enabled display. The pocket-size device delivers a full-HD experience with enterprise-level security, manageability and reliability. Organisations of any size can now deliver streaming cloud services and IT solutions in a cost-effective, mobile offering for work, home and on the go.

According to IDC, the smart connected device market rose 30.4% in 2012 and global shipments are expected to surpass 1.7 billion by 2014. By 2017, IDC expects that shipments will surpass 2.3 billion units and revenues will reach $748.6 billion. These numbers illustrate a powerful and ongoing disruption in how users communicate and interact with their professional and personal content, driven by trends such as BYOD, mobile app development, social media and cloud computing…

Grazed from Reuters. Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft Corp said it will increase its cloud storage offering for business users by 40-fold as the world’s largest software company makes a case for businesses buying an all-in-one product from itself rather than buying technology "piecemeal" from multiple sellers. "The era of making isolated, single-solution decisions is rapidly coming to a close," wrote John Case, corporate vice president of Microsoft Office Division.

Microsoft on Monday raised its OneDrive for Business storage to 1TB per user from 25GB. Microsoft’s pitch to be the one-stop destination for companies looking to buy technology runs against efforts by smaller rivals such as Box and Dropbox that offer one or two specialized services…

Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: George Leopold.

IT “infrastructure matters in the new era of computing,” IBM managers argued in the formal launching of its Power Systems servers based on its Power8 processor, taking aim at big data applications and cloud computing. IBM engineers also announced a Power8 interface advance designed to put accelerators closer to the processor. IBM is touting the Power Systems platform as the first to specifically address big data analytics and cloud computing economics.

Doug Balog, general manager of IBM’s Power Systems division, said the company has invested $1 billion over the last year in Linux-based Power Systems development to ease, among other things, the porting of applications from X86 to Power platforms. The Power8 systems are the culmination of three years and $2.4 billion in investments that IBM has made in chip design and manufacturing, systems design, and system software development…

Grazed from GuruFocus. Author: Editorial Staff.

Hardware giants like International Business Machines (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) are diversifying into more areas to propel growth given the slowing personal computer market. Cyber security and cloud computing are among the most talked-about markets in IT solutions growing at a rapid pace.

The products such as mobile communications, cloud computing, and security solutions are being focused upon by IBM since they are higher margin markets with higher growth products. Acquisitions and partnerships are considered as the ideal ways to step into such markets. IBM’s rock-solid cash position has enabled it to make a few acquisitions and its established brand image has enabled it to enter into agreements with leading players…

Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Joe Curtis.

Governments are set to spend proportionally more on cloud computing than private industries as expenditure is predicted to increase 35% year-on-year until 2018. The UK government’s annual budget for cloud services will grow by 35.6% year-on-year over the next four years, according to the latest statistics released exclusively to CBR by research firm Kable.

That outlay is 4.5% more than the combined predicted cloud spend of Britain’s financial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and insurance industries. Kable also pegs the UK government to lead international public sector spend on cloud, ahead of the US (34.7% year-on-year), Denmark (30.5%), and Canada (30.1%), hitting $8.4bn by 2018…

Grazed from CiteWorld. Autthor: Matt Weinberger.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) basically defines the bleeding edge with its mandate to build and operate robotics for planetary exploration missions. Which is why it’s no surprise that it’s turned to cutting-edge cloud infrastructure to empower scientists within JPL to use the right technology to deliver the right content and workloads to the right place at the right time, while still maximizing its $1.5 billion annual budget, as explained NASA JPL IT CTO Tom Soderstrom at this week’s CITE Conference in San Francisco.

NASA JPL has been experimenting with the cloud for the last six years, Soderstrom explained. And by "experiment," he doesn’t mean that they proceeded with caution — Soderstrom and his team audited a bunch of solutions from a multitude of vendors, using it for exciting test cases around new and interesting ways to process and visualize big chunks of data with advanced analytics (which he refers to as a "less-hyped version of Big Data")…

Grazed from GovInfoSecurity. Author: Jeffrey Roman.

Two members of Congress have introduced legislation that’s designed to help pave the way for the Department of Defense to make greater use of cloud computing providers to save money – as long as specific security requirements are met. Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Mass., and Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., introduced the Department of Defense Cloud Security Act, which would require the U.S. comptroller general and the CIO of DoD to assess the cloud security requirements of the Defense Department.

The bill would require a full evaluation of the overall security and potential capabilities of the current DoD cloud system; a determination of best practices related to cloud security by both public and private entities to establish security requirements for the DoD; and an examination of the potential for commercial cloud providers to host DoD information systems, the sponsors say…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Caitlin White.

Enterprise IT has found the business intelligence value of big data, but SMBs and startups without money or staff have missed out on the benefits of data analytics. Analyzing petabytes and exabytes of unstructured data on-premises requires significant overhead. Companies need the staff, resources and time to prepare the data for analytics — before it’s even ready to be mined for business intelligence (BI).

As a result, smaller businesses, particularly those in the start-up phase, don’t have access to intelligence that could enhance the business. Cloud computing, with its minimal overhead and upfront costs, could level the playing field. "Cloud-based tools lower the barriers to entry [by] creating readily understandable graphics for complex, data rich topics," said Dan Sullivan principal of DS Applied Technologies, LLC…