How growing hybrid cloud usage will double in two years
Cloud enables IT agility, empowers DevOps teams and helps to transform legacy business models. The fifth annual Future of Cloud Computing survey investigates key trends in corporate cloud usage. This year’s insightful survey findings offer perspective from cloud service practitioners across all industry sectors.
5 Cloud Computing Stocks to Take the Market by Storm in ’16
Cloud computing has totally transformed the way organizations operate and professionals access technology resources. In less than a decade, the move to the cloud has revolutionized the entire IT sector. Companies are now moving away from hardware and licensed software purchases towards software-, platform- and infrastructure-as-a-service (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS).
Before getting into the growth prospects, it might be helpful to understand what exactly cloud computing represents…
2016 Will Be All About the Cloud
Grazed from Barron’s. Author: Tiernan Ray.
Cloud Computing: The Future of Data Centers
Grazed from SysCon. Author: Pavan Kumar.
The future of data centers looks very exciting. Data Centers are turning out to be increasingly important in today’s connected world as we can store and process a lot of consumer and commercial data. Data centers seem to be either becoming huge or very small. In general, marketing cloud storage and cloud computing services are likely to increase the profit margins and favor the large players. There is an increasing need for superior Data center competence as we are more dependent on cloud-based applications and huge Data center services.
The companies will view data as a resource to be extracted for insight, innovation and opportunities are extracted from the future Data centers. The future Data centers can be used as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with pay-per-use model. It will help companies to meet the business requirements and to control the cost, scalability and service level objectives…
Cloud Computing Moves to the Edge in 2016
Grazed from DataInformed. Author: Andy Thural and Mac Devine.
The year 2016 will be exciting in terms of applied technologies. We see a lot of technologies maturing and moving from lab exercises to real-world business technologies that solve real-life customer problems – especially in the areas of digital transformation, API, cloud, analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In particular, we see the following areas evolving faster than others:
Year of the Edge (Decentralization of Cloud)
Cloud has become the ubiquitous digital platform for many enterprises in their quest to provide a single unified digital platform. Integrating the core IT with the shadow IT has been the main focus for the last few years, but in 2016 we anticipate the next step in this process. We started seeing companies moving from the central cloud platforms toward the edge, or toward decentralizing the cloud…
The New Mega-Clouds of Cloud Computing
Grazed from Dataversity. Author: Charles Roe.
Mega-clouds and “the economies of scale?” Such a topic is enough to keep smaller Cloud Computing vendors up at night wondering if their businesses are going to be able to keep up with the pricing demands of the market, “a year ago RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady dubbed such economies as “daunting” for traditional data center vendors, in one of the most polite understatements ever uttered.
After all, a year later we’re seeing mega-cloud vendors – Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft – drive server costs to lows impossible for any enterprise data center to achieve. Oh, and they’re doing it while retaining significant margins for themselves – all of which means we may be on the verge of seeing a complete changing of the guard in enterprise IT that will play out over the next decade.”…
Read more from the source @ http://www.dataversity.net/the-new-mega-clouds-of-cloud-computing/
DoD’s cloud policy rains some risks, IG says
Grazed from FederalNewsRadio. Author: Scott Maucione.
A new Defense Department Inspector General’s report found problems with the Pentagon’s cloud policy that may have monetary and cybersecurity risks. DoD does not maintain a comprehensive list of cloud computing service contracts because the department’s chief information officer failed to establish a standard, department-wide definition for cloud computing. In addition, the DoD CIO did not develop an integrated repository that could provide detailed information used to identify cloud computing service contracts, the report stated.
As a result, DoD has no way of determining if it is actually saving money by migrating to the cloud and may not be able to effectively identify and monitor cloud computing security risks, the report stated. “DoD’s ability to track cloud computing cost savings, and benefits is greatly limited if DoD is not aware what cloud computing service contracts exist within DoD … [and] unless DoD Components accurately classify their information systems as using cloud computing services, DoD CIO will not be aware what security risks are specific to those services,” the report stated…
Read more from the source @ http://federalnewsradio.com/defense/2015/12/dods-cloud-policy-rains-risks/
The Auto Industry: Driving Towards The Internet of Things
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jeremy Daniel.
The year 2015 will largely be remembered as the year when cloud computing went mainstream and companies that had invested early were able to reap the benefits with the promise of much more to come. Industries which for so long had worked as an independent, players began the scramble to connect with each other in previously unheard of ways.
The internet of things, as it has become known, is gathering speed and momentum and nowhere was that more apparent than in the auto industry. Innovation is everywhere. Consider, for starters, the new BMW 7 Series which boasts tech straight out of the future, like ‘’touchless” control of the audio system’s volume control, wireless phone charging and a world-first remote control parking feature. We can’t wait to see those hitting the streets…
Read more from the source @ http://cloudtweaks.com/2015/12/auto-industry-internet-of-things/
Apple reveals fingerprint cloud storage patent
Grazed from PlanetBiometrics. Author: Editorial Staff.
Apple has patented a method for iPhones to store fingerprint information, upload to the cloud, and then download it on another iPhone. The patent “Finger Biometric Sensor Data Synchronization VIA A Cloud Computing Device And Related Methods" was published by the USPTO on December 17, 2015, reports Slash Gear.
Filed in August, this envisioned process would allow Apple devices to collect fingerprint information, as they do today, but also upload that information to the cloud for storage. Previously, Apple has shied away from storing biometric data in the cloud – and its security policy states: “An image of the fingerprint itself is never actually retained…
Cloud Computing: Meg Whitman Will Leave HP and 4 Other Predictions For 2016
Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.
2015 was a blockbuster year in which one tech icon, Hewlett Packard, split itself in half and two others, EMC and Dell attempted to navigate a more-complicated-by-the-minute plan to combine themselves into one. That dichotomy illustrates two world views roiling the tech landscape. HP’s journey exemplified the notion that it’s better to be smaller but more focused on key markets rather than trying to cover the universe.
The Dell worldview, on the other hand, is that bigger is just plain better. Michael Dell is from Texas, after all. With that in mind, here are five totally personal, non-scientific predictions about what will happen in tech in 2016.
1: Meg Whitman will declare victory and exit HP
Count on this one. Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE 1.05% and Chairman of HP Inc. HPQ 0.42% , will initiate a search for a replacement (if she hasn’t already), find one, and take a victory lap before departing…
Read more from the source @ http://fortune.com/2015/12/30/5-predictions-for-2016/