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Grazed from TheGlobeAndMail. Author: Mark Cunningham.

The “race to zero” is alive and well, as Google Inc. made clear a few weeks ago when it announced that its new Photos app will be free, including unlimited storage. Cloud services have finally reached zero. Over the past two years, the cloud industry’s price war has been good for pretty much everyone.

Lower upfront costs, tumbling storage prices and cheaper “compute” (non-storage) services are benefits that software vendors and end consumers alike can thank the race-to-zero gods for providing. But as prices keep dropping across the board, we’re starting to see a levelling of the playing field among major vendors…

Grazed from ConvergeDigest. Author: Leon Adato.

Learn from the past, live in the present and prepare for the future. While this may sound like it belongs hanging on a high school guidance counselor’s wall, they are words to live by, especially in IT. They apply perhaps to no other infrastructure element better than the network. After all, the network has long been a foundational building block of IT, it’s even more important today than it was in the days of SAGE and ARPANET, and its importance will only continue to grow in the future while simultaneously becoming more complex.

For those of us charged with maintaining the network, it’s valuable to take a step back and examine the evolution of the network. Doing so helps us take an inventory of lessons learned—or the lessons we should have learned; determine what today’s essentials of monitoring and managing networks are; and finally, turn an eye to the future to begin preparing now for what’s on the horizon…

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Grazed from SeattleTimes. Author: Rachel Lerman.

It has officially been nearly two decades since shoppers of the world were introduced to the idea of buying books online. Seattle-based Amazon.com’s e-commerce website turns 20 years old this month. The company has grown from an idea hatched by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to use the burgeoning Internet to revolutionize the book-selling business into an international “Everything Store” that has undeniably changed the way the world shops.

The company seems to be on a never-ending growth trajectory — Amazon employs more than 165,000 workers worldwide and last year brought in nearly $89 billion in revenue . Amazon celebrated its 20th anniversary of incorporation a year ago, in July 2014, and now, on July 16 of this year, it’s marking the two decade-point of its website launch and first book sold…

Grazed from LinkedIn.  Author:  Mayank  Singh.

Grazed from Accenture.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from ITBusinessNet.  Author: PR Announcement.

 Cloud computing is no longer just a mysterious trend over-hyped by marketers. As its early adopters have found, the cloud offers a significant competitive advantage when it comes to cost, scalability and flexibility. And with the likes of Azure hitting the market in 2010, most security and reliability concerns have been allayed.

As a company that specializes in making collaboration easier, Qorus Software is always looking for ways to improve its service to sales, marketing and bid management teams around the world. Naturally, making its most popular solution, Qorus Breeze Proposals, available in the cloud was high priority but so was ensuring improved security and reliability…

 Grazed from TheMarketSurge.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Chip designer Mellanox Technologies is banking on newly unveiled innovations to quell doubts and extend its recent flurry of robust earnings deep into 2016.  The Israel-based company, a designer of chips used in servers and data storage systems, has generated strong earnings growth in recent quarters, in part on generational upgrades to high-performance data center computers that are equipped with Intel processors.

Grazed from BusinessInsider.  Author: Julie Bort.

Grazed from TechInvestingDaily. Author: Alex Koyfman.

It seems like just a little while ago that the world was introduced to the mysterious, abstract, and often confusing term “cloud computing.” Evocative of a fresh, clean, airy, futurist utopia, cloud computing took the world by storm, gaining millions of users — even though a good proportion of them weren’t even sure what it was they were using.

What cloud computing actually is may perhaps be a bit of a letdown to those imagining super-smart microprocessors floating in the sky. In reality, cloud computing is nothing more than shared data storage on a mass scale, operated by large companies offering countless terabytes at miniscule prices to anybody with Internet access…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

Recently SUSE announced that it has fully embraced Docker as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12. After having spoken to representatives of Red Hat, VMware and a number of other interested suppliers, I thought it would be good to speak with the SUSE team.

SUSE points out that its current Docker offering supports x86- and x64-based servers. It’s planning to introduce support for this technology on other hardware platforms in the future. The company also has plans to integrate Docker into its SUSE Manager for lifecycle management tool…