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Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Sharon Gaudin.

 A company that helps users to create their own websites now knows what kind of sites their 80 million users are building without pestering them with repeated questions.  Wix, a Tel Aviv-based web development company, is using machine learning on Google’s cloud platform to learn more about its users so it can help them find the images they need to build interesting and useful websites.

Grazed from TheStreet.  Author: Scott Gamm.

Equinix  is smack in the middle of two burgeoning areas: cloud computing and the Internet of Things.  "The primary driver for us is the continued rollout of the cloud computing paradigm shift going on in the world today," said Steve Smith, CEO of Equinix, when asked what factors will drive the company’s expectations of 30% revenue growth in 2016. "Equinix is providing the on and off ramps to a lot of this cloud computing."

With these new advancements, Oracle provides all of the cloud-based services that organizations need to capitalize on key transformative technologies such as big data analytics, social, mobile, and IoT, as well as continue to extend foundational use cases that enable organizations to move enterprise workloads to the cloud. Oracle continues to help organizations drive innovation and business transformation by increasing business agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity. The new PaaS and IaaS services can be deployed wherever an organization chooses — in the Oracle Cloud or in their own data center via the Oracle Cloud at Customer offering. 

AppDirect, the leader in cloud service commerce, today announced its acquisition of Xendo, the leading provider of hosted enterprise search. Xendo, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014, offers cloud-based unified search across 30 different cloud and on-premise apps to allow business users to easily find content across the various cloud services they use every day. The service can be set up in minutes and integrates with organizations’ IT security infrastructure. Xendo’s customers include Netflix, Looker and Alphabet-owned Intersection.

With cloud adoption at all time highs, and with the average employee actively using 30 cloud applications per month, IT departments are aggressively attempting to address not only “shadow IT,” but also usability and interoperability to increase efficiency and collaboration across their organizations. While technologies like single sign-on allow workers to securely access multiple online services, cloud-based information still remains siloed, often leaving employees searching for documents, spreadsheets and other files within individual apps. Xendo’s turnkey enterprise search service allows users to spend less time looking for their cloud content and get more done.

Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, today announced support for Google Cloud Platform with its market leading NetBackup 7.7 and Backup Exec 15 solutions. Organizations can use the Google public cloud as a backup destination, run back up and perform disaster recovery to or from the Google Cloud Platform. With this support, Veritas is delivering needed visibility and control for hybrid cloud environments.

“Our Hybrid Cloud research shows that 31 percent of organizations are already looking to the cloud for their backup and recovery workload, and that percentage will grow even more in the future,” stated Ben Gibson, Veritas CMO. “Integrating our market leading NetBackup and Backup Exec solutions with Google Cloud Platform gives organizations the ability to confidently and securely do this today.”

"Cloud Cruiser has collaborated with Microsoft since 2012, delivering cloud analytics solutions to enterprises and service providers utilizing Microsoft Azure Public Cloud, Windows Pack and System Center," said Paul Tilston, vice president of sales and alliances, Cloud Cruiser. "This Azure Marketplace offering for all Azure EA accounts helps track consumption with confidence and gives fast insights into usage and costs, better enabling customers to deliver the right services at the right time.  We believe this is a must-have capability as you move more workloads to Azure," added Tilston.

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Robert Hof.

When Google scored a $400 million to $600 million deal to supply cloud services to Apple last week, according to multiple reports, it was widely viewed as a coup for the search giant’s cloud business. And why not? Apple, which has been relying mainly on Amazon Web Services as well as Microsofts Azure to run part of its iCloud and other services, is a marquee reference customer.

It will get Google in the door of just about every big company–and, not incidentally, throw a little shade on its rivals. But the big win obscures a stark reality for Google’s Cloud Platform: At just $500 million in revenues according to Morgan Stanley estimates, it trails far behind AWS’s $7.9 billion reported revenues in 2015, and it’s even a distant third behind Azure’s $1.1 billion in estimated sales…

Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2016/03/23/google-to-challenge-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud-computing-war/#6ed0757818fd

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Blair Hanley Frank.

When Google executives take the stage Wednesday at the company’s conference for customers of its cloud platform, they’re going to have quite a task in front of them. While the company’s cloud is the choice for some household names like Best Buy and Spotify, it hasn’t seen the same adoption as competing offerings from providers like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.

These vendors are the market leaders in the public cloud race, with Amazon holding a dominant share of the overall market. That comes at the same time many developers are enamored with Google’s technical chops, along with some of the technical capabilities of its platform. Gartner Vice President Lydia Leong said that Google has always had a lot of promise as a public cloud provider, but just hasn’t lived up to it…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: Wallace Witkowski.

As expected growth in corporate tech budgets shrinks, capital investment priorities are sharpening with an increased focus on network security and cloud adoption, and that’s good news for some tech companies like Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., while bad news for others, like Cisco Systems Inc.

Corporate tech budgets are expected to grow by 1.2% in 2016, down from an earlier estimate of 3.1% in October, according to a survey of 50 chief investment officers by Nomura Securities. In 2017, those same CIOs expect growth of 2.3%, for now. Where that money will be spent matters to tech companies…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: JanaKiram.

The rise of mobile and IoT applications is fueling the growth of serverless computing platforms. This new paradigm is based on the microservices architecture, which is revolutionizing software development and deployment. Serverless computing frameworks, when triggered by external events, invoke autonomous code snippets. These snippets are loosely coupled with each other that are essentially designed to perform one task at a time.

Serverless frameworks are responsible for orchestrating the code snippets at runtime. Think of it as an extensible, developer-friendly, IFTTT service in the cloud. This emerging cloud computing service delivery model offers many advantages to developers and administrators. It finds a middle-ground between IaaS and PaaS by offering the right level of flexibility and control…