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Grazed from BusinessStandard.  Author: Editorial Staff.

"Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation," Satya Nadella said in February 2014 when he was appointed chief executive officer of Microsoft. After 39 years, the company Bill Gates co-founded had come to be perceived as an out-of-touch behemoth that relied too much on its Windows operating system and failed to move into new markets, like mobile.

Key products such as Microsoft Office – the suite of applications that includes Word and Excel-had been designed around Windows, with only parts converted to work on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android systems. Nadella’s accession would be a chance to reorient the company, getting it to introduce products that looked outside Windows and to develop new business models…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

A few years ago, there was a shift in the world of machine learning.  Companies, such as Skytree and Context Relevant, began popping up, promising to make it easier for companies outside of big banks and web giants to run machine learning algorithms and to do it at a scale congruent with the big data promise they were being pitched.

Soon, there were many startups promising bigger, faster, easier machine learning. Machine learning became the new black as it became baked into untold software packages and services — machine learning for marketing, machine learning for security, machine learning for operations, and on and on and on…

Grazed from ITProPortal.  Author: Ian Barker.

It’s no surprise that more and more organisations are using the cloud, but the latest State of the Cloud report from RightScale throws up some interesting trends.  The company surveyed 930 technical professionals across a broad cross-section of organisations about their adoption of cloud computing.

Among the findings are that a vast majority, 93 per cent, of organisations surveyed are running applications in the cloud or experimenting with infrastructure-as-a-service. In addition 82 per cent of enterprises now have a hybrid cloud strategy, up from 74 per cent in 2014…

Grazed from CloudIntelligence.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) today announced that Cobweb Solutions, one of the largest independent cloud solutions providers in Europe, has become the latest Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to join the growing roster of members.

Established in 2009, the Cloud Industry Forum is the industry body that aims to improve standards and education in the cloud industry. CIF provides transparency through certification via a Code of Practice to endorse credible online CSPs, and assists end users in determining the information to enable them to adopt cloud services…

Grazed from USA Today.  Author: Marc Saltzman.

If you’re reading this article – perhaps on a smartphone, tablet or laptop — chances are you’ve wrestled with how to best protect your digital information on those devices.  That is, with all the important files you likely have, you might be unsure whether to rely on one of the many "cloud" services available today or an external hard drive?

The answer? Both.  Consider an online and offline solution — to protect all the documents, photos and other files on all your computing devices — as they each have their distinct benefits and drawbacks…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Robert Sheldon.

With all the licensing troubles that can come with hosting Windows desktops in the cloud, some companies — and vendors — are looking to Linux operating systems instead.

VMware plans to offer a Horizon View client for Linux, and Horizon DaaS, formerly Desktone, has had a hosted Linux option for years. Citrix is planning a similar strategy for XenDesktop and XenApp with Linux Virtual Apps and Desktops. These two big-name virtualization vendors putting attention on Linux shines a spotlight on the OS…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author:  Katie Benner.

Activist investors — you know, the guys with pitchforks and torches — have attacked enough tech companies recently that both sides have found it more efficient to settle into an uneasy co-existence: Corporate watchdogs and businesses in transition, or, depending on whom you ask, carpetbaggers and prey.

Activists are pretty open about the levers they’ll pull to make a stock move higher. They’ll fight for goals that include some combination of new management, stock buybacks, dividends and divestitures. Companies saddled with entrenched leadership and a slew of poorly-paired businesses under a single corporate umbrella — but sitting atop piles of cash — have spent the last few quarters pow-wowing with lawyers, crisis PR firms and consultants to prepare for activist broadsides…

Grazed from Emerald-Technology.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Inforgraphic covers topics such as Cloud Computing Industry Valuation, Storage Trends, Customer Profiles, Data Center Sizing, Cloud Computing Job Creation by Industry, and much more…

To view the cloud computing and datacenter infographic, visit http://emerald-technology.com/blog/cloud-computing-data-center-infographic/

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Amit Chowdhry.

Microsoft has been giving away a lot of freebies through their cloud computing storage service OneDrive lately. Last week, Microsoft gave away 100GB of free storage for two years to create a Bing Rewards account. And now Microsoft OneDrive is offering 100GB of free storage for one year to Dropbox users.

The offer is limited to current Dropbox users and the first 10 million people to redeem it. The OneDrive bonus storage is not available to customers with OneDrive for Business either. You can receive 100GB of free OneDrive storage for a year by visiting the OneDrive bonus website and logging in with your Microsoft account…

Grazed from DataCenterDynamics. Author: Hawkins Hua.

As IT infrastructure and operations have become more complex, technologies such as cloud and virtualization have been implemented to adapt to various business needs. Over the past decade, server virtualization has redefined the deployment, management and optimization of computing resources, transforming the data center into a more adaptable and efficient platform for business applications. Application loads that once ran on static, dedicated servers are now hosted in dynamic, virtualized server environments that can be scaled and shaped on demand.

While virtualization reshapes data center operations, enabling enterprises to deploy affordable, rack-based servers that can be pooled and allocated to shifting application demands, the transformation is incomplete. Network and storage assets in data centers remain tightly siloed and statically configured. Few facilities are capable of automating and orchestrating the management of pooled network and storage hardware…