The “third platform” of computing means a massive increase in scale
Grazed from CiteWorld. Author: Matt Rosoff.
Toward the end of last year, IDC coined the term "third platform" to describe the current wave of technological advances shaping the workplace, including mobile devices, cloud computing, social collaboration, and data analytics. IDC analyst and CITE Conference speaker Joe Pucciarelli explains that these are more than just the hot buzzwords of the moment. To get the most of any of these technologies, you have to deploy them in conjunction with one another.
"Companies are typically combining a sales force app to include mobility based on a new cloud computing platform. They’re using a big data analytics platform, but the data may be drawn from a social community they’re operating. By combining technologies together, you get the real power."…
VMware has unveiled a new cloud-based service tailored to extend disaster recovery to the public cloud. Dubbed VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery, the platform has its footing in the virtualization giant’s flagship vSphere cloud computing operating system. Along with the usual promised benefits of all things cloud (cheaper rates, fewer setup requirements), the self-managed solution is touted to provide a continuously available recovery site, repeatedly replicating virtual machines to VMware datacenters via the vCloud hybrid infrastructure…
The battle to control the infrastructure for cloud computing is coming down to market leader Amazon.com (AMZN) and competitors Google (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT), a report by Bernstein Research says. Amazon is top dog in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market, with estimated 2013 revenue of more than $3 billion from its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, Bernstein analyst Carlos Kirjner said in a report published Friday. AWS revenue jumped 85% in 2013, he said.
Fusion PPT, a recognized strategy and technology consulting firm, announced today that the company is now a Standard tier Consulting Partner with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). Fusion PPT joins an extensive community of industry leaders and experts from around the U.S., a partnership that will enable Fusion PPT to stay up to date with the latest technology changes and collaborate to deliver the highest quality, best-fit solutions to the firm’s clients.
Verio Inc., an NTT Communications company and the leading provider of online business solutions, today announced a new Cloudn portal which makes it easy for customers to provision, configure, and manage their cloud solutions by putting everything in a single convenient location. Additionally, Verio and NTT Communications reduced Cloudn pricing by up to thirty seven percent for its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cloudn offerings, effective May 2014. The price reductions are applicable to Cloudn virtual machine (VM) plans and existing customers will automatically be billed at the reduced rate, effective May 2014.
If someone were to say, “Oracle is the most comprehensive cloud provider on the planet," would you believe them? Based on the company’s track record, probably not. But make no mistake, the company that makes the above claim – Oracle itself – is getting very serious about cloud computing.
IBM inventors have patented a cloud computing security technique that enables app developers to ensure that data notifications are securely and confidentially pushed to and from mobile devices. It enables developers to create applications that can encrypt data notifications, assign them a unique message identifier (ID) that is securely transmitted to a mobile device via a third-party service provider.