Towards connected Clouds
Grazed from Gadget. Author: Editorial Staff.
In South Africa cloud computing is not a new phenomenon, and small startups and large enterprises alike are seeing the cost savings and resource optimization that comes from outsourced IT services. However, concerns remain due to concerns around where data is stored and how it is secured.
Today, the cloud landscape is rapidly changing. In South Africa, businesses understand the benefits of cloud solutions and are willing to adopt this new approach, but adoption rates are still slow. A survey conducted by Symantec revealed that eighty-three percent of respondents in South African are confident that moving to the cloud will have either little impact on or will actually improve their security. However, the same survey revealed that despite a great deal of consideration, many organizations are not ready to adopt cloud due to lack of experience among IT staff. The survey revealed that only 25 percent of IT teams have cloud experience and only the minority (between eight and fifteen percent) rated their staff as extremely prepared for the transition to cloud…
After what could rightly be called a Voltron experience, Snap MyLife, today announced the launch of Snap Sync, a cloud syncing service that let’s users access content from the typical range of devices—phones, tablets, and desktops—with a few ususual ones to boot: such as, television and picture frames.
It never ends. Oracle says its latest acquisition — Instantis — will make it a bigger player in cloud-based project portfolio management. Instantis capabilities will be combined with Fusion and Primavera functions, the company said. Oracle competes with — who else? — SAP in this space.
EMC Corporation has announced EMC Proven Professional training and certifications to help Indian businesses address skill transformation and the looming cloud computing and data science talent gap. EMC will offer cloud computing, data science and Big Data analytics training and certification programs with an "open" curriculum to help develop professionals who can extract more value and insight for competitive advantage from the new expanse of data that businesses create and capture. In addition, the company aims to train over 30,000 engineering students in the first year itself as part of its EAA program.
Dell has announced an expansion of its end-to-end cloud client computing portfolio in Asia-Pacific (APAC). "Dell is pleased to expand our desktop virtualization solutions in the Asia-Pacific region, offering our customers the broadest portfolio of end-to-end cloud client computing solutions. These new solutions enable us to offer our customers and channel partners even more choice in designing, implementing and managing their VDI solutions," said Tarkan Maner, general manager and vice president, Cloud Client Computing at Dell.
Increased teleworking, the adoption of mobility, and cloud computing will reduce the need for companies to have physical office space, according to Intel. Discussing Intel’s Future of Knowledge Work whitepaper, the company’s "chief evangelist and futurist" Steve Brown told journalists in Sydney this morning that over the next 30 years, 75 percent of the world’s population will move into major cities, and this will make commuting to the office more painful for office workers. At the same time, those people will be increasingly working outside the office, and cloud services will reduce the need for them to even be in the office.
Diablo Technologies is an Ottawa-based startup that has brought flash memory even closer to the processor — making applications run even faster. It has built chip technology as well as software and has raised $28 million to bring the technology to market.