Category: News

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

As a technology, Short Message Service (SMS) has been around as a commercial service since the early 1990s. But with the advent of the cloud and the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs) the overall SMS market has evolved into a $100 billion industry. Starting this week, Plivo, an aggregator of SMS offerings that can be invoked via a single API, appears to be single-handedly starting a price war.

Plivo is lowering the cost of outbound messages deliver via SMS by as much as 40 percent across 200 countries. Plivo co-founder and CEO Venky Balasubramanian said because Plivo has been able to aggregate SMS offerings delivered via over 1,600 networks, the company has been able to drive down pricing by negotiating directly with each carrier…

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

Chuck Hollis, a longtime executive with EMC and then VMware, is joining Oracle where he will again work with fellow EMC veteran Dave Donatelli. As to what he’ll be doing? Other than blogging, he’ s not saying much other than “probably a lot of stuff I’ve done before plus some new stuff.” according to a blog post post over the weekend.

Hollis, who joined EMC in 1994 and moved to VMware, part of the EMC Federation , two years ago. At VMware he was chief strategist of storage and availability. The Federation comprises EMC itself and associated companies VMware, Pivotal, RSA, and VCE, in which EMC owns a stake. The federation has come under fire as Elliott Management pressures EMC to sell its stake in VMware. Elliott’s contention is that VMware would do better for shareholders if it was completely spun out from EMC. EMC chairman Joe Tucci has proclaimed otherwise…

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Quentin Hardy.

Intel, the world’s biggest maker of computer chips, has seen its future. There may not be room for some of Intel’s old friends in it. “A new world is coming, and it is inevitable,” said Diane M. Bryant, who runs Intel’s business in chips for industrial-size computing centers. “Everyone has to act differently.”

Indeed, Intel’s venture arm is expected to announce on Monday that it will put $100 million toward software that is used in cloud computing, an increasingly popular method for making bigger and more efficient computing systems. Intel will lead a $75 million equity investment in Mirantis, a little-known start-up specializing in open-source cloud software, and will spend another $25 million on bolstering its own resources for working with Mirantis-type products, according to several people familiar with the deal…

Grazed from TechTimes.  Author: Jill Arce.

In the war against cancer and in a world of continuously developing technology, expertise in genomics and biomedical imaging tied up with large-scale computing make a powerful weapon in fighting against a disease that kills millions of people all over the world.  It’s faster, cheaper and personalized for patients.

 Grazed from SentinelRepublic.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Singapore facility will become operational in September. He also revealed that Aliyun was building a new portal to serve the different language and payment needs of businesses based in an economically and culturally-diverse region such as South-east Asia.  Although the new data center won’t open until next month, Aliyun has started accepting pre-orders for “elastic” cloud services and computer resources such as storage, processing power, and network bandwidth.

Grazed from ITBusinessNet.  Author: PR Announcement.

Grazed from CMSWire.  Author: Virginia Backaitis.

 Christmas in August? VMWare’s End-User Computing boss Sanjay Poonen may not think so, but IT managers and the end users they serve just may smile when they experience Citrix’s Workspace Cloud.  It puts the same modern digital workspace at users’ fingertips, regardless of the access point they want to use: desktop, laptop, iPad, tablet or mobile phone. 

 Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Chris Matthews.

 Grazed from Yibada.  Author: Steve Pak.

Intel and an Oregon cancer institute launched a pilot network this week that will give healthcare facilities the ability to share DNA  and genomic data. This cloud computing technology could result in the creation of personalized cancer treatments that cut medical research time from months to hours, and lower fatality rates.

Grazed from CIO. Author: Kenneth Corbin.

Pamela Dyson is shepherding a determined, if incremental, effort to move her agency’s applications to the cloud. Dyson was named the CIO at the Securities and Exchange Commission in February, after having joined the agency in 2010, when she joined an ambitious initiative to modernize and improve efficiencies in the SEC’s IT infrastructure.

Dyson shared her thoughts on the cloud-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model during a recent presentation hosted by Federal Computer Week, explaining that the SEC’s Office of Information Technology holds out four overarching IT priorities: modernizing its aging infrastructure, improving business agility, harnessing big data and analytics, and what Dyson calls digital transformation — updating applications and access to better serve end users…