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Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Despite all the advantages the cloud offers, it’s important to realize that the cloud itself is not magic. Cloud computing is simply a method for consuming IT as a service rather than building that infrastructure in house. It can offer significant cost savings in the right instances, but not all cloud services are created equal. According to Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (www.us.logicalis.com), there is a growing misperception that data that resides in the cloud is automatically protected just because it’s in the cloud. This, the company warns, is absolutely not the case.

"There’s a common misconception that placing your data in the cloud solves all problems, and that’s just not true," says Eric Brooks, Cloud Services Practice Manager, Logicalis US. "Not all cloud providers are built to accommodate enterprise-level IT needs; many don’t provide the kind of advanced networking, backup or disaster recovery services you would expect to find in an enterprise IT organization. Don’t assume the cloud is somehow magic…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Barclay Ballard.

Alibaba is launching a new artificial intelligence platform, which boasts enhanced data mining and analytics features that could prove useful for enterprise customers. DT PAI uses complex algorithms alongside machine and deep learning techniques in order to analyse client data. Despite its complexity, the platform will present information in a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface.

The platform is based on Aliyun’s Open Data Processing Service (ODPS) technology, which is capable of processing 100 petabytes of data in six hours. It could help find hidden trends within data or recommend products to customers. Alibaba’s cloud computing business Aliyun also believes that DT PAI can help developers predict user behaviour without having to write new code…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Ian Moyse.

“We change our behaviour when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change” – Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend Successful businesses require the ability to change and increasingly to adapt quickly, to be agile to new approaches and technologies and be flexible to the needs of the business and customers.

We are at the wake of monumental change and how businesses service and engage with the customer and employee alike are under upward pressure from users and customers who are driving a higher expectation on their provider where brand loyalty can wane quicker than ever before. Of the Fortune 500 firms in 1955, come 2015 89% of the list has changed, having either gone bankrupt, merged, or exist but have fallen from the Fortune 500…

Grazed from Xconomy. Author: Gregory T. Huang.

The Boston tech industry is entering a new age of enterprise IT. Long known for its companies in data storage, networking, and business software, the local sector is seeing a boom in startups that have a new spin on these traditional fields. One of them is ClearSky Data, a roughly two-year-old effort from founders Ellen Rubin and Laz Vekiarides (pictured) that is finally talking today about what it’s building.

Rubin, the company’s CEO, previously worked at Netezza and co-founded CloudSwitch, while Vekiarides was a veteran of EqualLogic. All of those companies were eventually acquired for big money—by IBM, Verizon, and Dell, respectively. ClearSky raised $12 million from General Catalyst and Highland Capital Partners early last year…

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.