Category: News

Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Ron Miller.

Oracle added another piece to its growing cloud portfolio today, buying digital-marketing, Data as a Service broker Datalogix. The move not only gives Oracle another cloud tool, it’s one that’s aimed directly at marketers, an area where Oracle is fighting hard with rival Salesforce.com and others for dominance. The announcement did not include terms.

Datalogix gives Oracle a data-driven service, designed to help companies link consumer spending with online ad campaigns, a powerful combination because it can help digital marketers understand if their online ad campaigns are actually translating into offline buying. Oracle surprised some people in its latest earnings report when it showed significant growth in its cloud computing business, announcing “cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) revenue was up 45% to $516 million.”…

Read more from the source @ http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/22/oracle-continues-march-to-cloud-buying-data-as-a-service-broker-datalogix/

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Zetta.net today announced that it was named a winner in the 2014 Cloud Computing Product of the Year Awards, presented byCloud Computing magazine. The award was given based on Zetta.net’s appliance-free enterprise-grade cloud backup and disaster recovery (DR) solution for small and mid-sized enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs).

The Product of the Year Award honors vendors who have been determined to offer "the most innovative, useful, and beneficial" cloud products and services that entered the market over the past year, while leveraging the latest technology trends. The annual award is sponsored by global media company TMC, which publishes Cloud Computing as well as other magazines in the technology industry. TMC has honored companies in the technology and communications sector with awards in various categories for more than two decades…
 

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today IBM announced the opening of its first cloud data center with SoftLayer in Japan, located in Tokyo. This announcement comes on the heels of recent SoftLayer cloud data center launches in Melbourne and Paris and represents the next step in IBM’s $1.2 billion investment to expand its global cloud footprint.

The facility in Tokyo complements other SoftLayer resources located in cities within the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore, Hong Kong, and Melbourne and broadens data redundancy options and geographic diversity within IBM’s growing number of cloud data centers worldwide…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

The Cloud. Can it really be avoided? The cloud market is expected to grow to $121 billion dollars in 2015, a 26% compound annual growth rate from 2010’s $37 billion (i). Such growth is set to continue, with research showing that 81% of organizations forecast a move to the cloud for 50% of their future transactions.

So what are the drivers for the growth in the cloud market? With 60% of CIOs stating that their number one priority is cloud computing (ii), a major driver has been the adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) technology. By 2017, SaaS is set to generate almost 60% of cloud revenues (iii). The move to SaaS is primarily driven by its ability to offer greater scalability, higher efficiencies with no loss of functionality, and reduced application costs, with a move to the cloud offering annual savings of over 20% (v)…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Identacor – a unique cloud based access and management solution provider – announced availability of real-time Active Directory (AD) integration capabilities for its enterprise users to ensure swift and secure access control across disparate cloud-based enterprise apps and software. The robust integration features 360-degree access management for all connected software, including software as a service (SaaS), desktop and mobile phone applications, in an instant with just a few simple configuration steps!

“Our strategy is to help enterprises do more with compelling apps and showcase the best of cloud computing and business instinct in a secure environment.” said Sandy Dalal, CEO at Identacor. “Today, we are excited to announce the integration between Active Directory and our cloud-based identity and access management service that will let enterprise users to access all apps, be it on-premises or over the cloud, with just a centralized network username and password.”…
 

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Eileen Yu.

China is planning to rate the trustworthiness of cloud computing vendors, allowing only those with full security clearance to partake in government projects. The move could leave foreign companies out of government procurement contracts, according to a report by China Daily.

Zuo Xiaodong, vice-president of industry group China Information Security Research Institute, said: "The basic idea of the security rating mechanism is to find trustworthy hardware, software, and service providers to ensure the government has total control of the entire ecosystem."…

Grazed from Gadget.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Technology has come a long way since IBM announced the System/360 mainframe in 1964. But how did the connectivity we take for granted now come about? MARK WALKER attempts to answer this and gives his opinion on where to next.  It’s April 7, 1964, and while the Beatles are telling the world that ‘Money Can’t Buy Me Love’, IBM is attempting to convince the business community that it can at least buy you a decent mainframe.

The IBM System/360 – touted as the Big Blue’s most innovative iteration to date – had just been announced, and since then the technology industry has changed in extraordinary ways, shaping the way we live, work, and play. The impact on Africa has been profound, with the continent and its people now connected with each other and the rest of the world in ways that couldn’t possibly have been imagined only a decade or so ago. But how did the connectivity we now all take for granted first come about?…

Grazed from GeekWire.  Author: John Cook.

Netflix and Amazon.com are going old-school in their attempts to gain viewers for their Web TV series, with both companies taking out full page ads in The New York Times on Saturday. The ads were spotted by venture capitalist Chris Fralic, and they indicate just how far Netflix and Amazon will go to gain viewers.

Amazon is promoting its dark comedy “Mozart in the Jungle,” which debuts on Dec. 23. Meanwhile, Netflix is getting the word out on its 10-part highly-rated “Marco Polo” series, which is now streaming…

Read more from the source @ http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-netflix-buy-full-page-ads-nyt-promote-web-tv-series/

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: David H. Deans.

As this year comes to a close, let’s take one last look at the most pervasive cloud computing trends — including increased usage across the different cloud service models, the key business drivers and the impact of agile innovation strategies.



Cloud computing adoption has matured, with 69 percent of survey respondents stating that at least a portion of their computing infrastructure is in the cloud. However, 56 percent of companies are still identifying IT operations that could potentially move to the cloud, according to the latest market study by IDG Enterprise...

Grazed from IBTimes.  Author: Thomas Halleck.

Sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 have been underwhelming since its release last year, but one executive says the company is already planning for the PlayStation 5. Whether it is a physical home console or not, Sony says that the PlayStation 5 will be focused on games.

Some have speculated that the release of the PS4 and Xbox One could be the “last generation” of home consoles, as computing increasingly moves to the cloud, with processing done remotely and then streamed to home devices. Sony Computer Entertainment’s executive vice president Masayasu Ito said that gamers should expect a “next generation” of gaming consoles, including the PlayStation 5, but said he was not sure whether the next PlayStation would be a console or not…