Category: News

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Shawn Drew.

Part of the allure of the public cloud is that natural redundancies reduce the number of system outages that customers experience. Some occasional downtime is inevitable, however, and how a business reacts to these outages may determine the overall success or failure of a cloud initiative. Some major companies are getting a head start by scheduling their own downtime to learn from the event, and midsize businesses should consider doing the same.

When the Cloud Goes Down

When dealing with modern technology, the cloud is no exception to failure. All the redundancies in the world are sometimes not enough to keep things running 100 percent of the time — a fact that more IT professionals, IT managers and business executives are slowly realizing.  This acceptance of downtime has led to some interesting practices, which have the potential to greatly increase the response to these unavoidable incidents…

Grazed from TheStreetInsider.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Research may have come up with a better solution for low-latency cloud-based gaming, something that could jettison the company ahead of peers in the gaming segment and something that could, potentially, set Microsoft apart in cloud computing as well. The following was posted to the official Microsoft Research blog on Thursday:

Abstract

Gaming is very popular. Cloud gaming – where remote servers perform game execution and rendering on behalf of thin clients that simply send input and display output frames – promises any device the ability to play any game any time. Unfortunately, the reality is that wide-area network latencies are often prohibitive; cellular, Wi-Fi and even wired residential end host round trip times (RTTs) can exceed 100ms, a threshold above which many gamers tend to deem responsiveness unacceptable…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Jason Hannula.

Cloud adoption by small and midsize businesses (SMB) continues to march forward and is projected to reach almost 80 percent by 2020, according to an Emergent Research and Intuit report detailed in Forbes. Adoption of cloud computing is widespread, but the ways in which it changes a business and the implications in the SMB realm are just now becoming more clear.

According to the Emergent-Intuit report, the first stage of cloud technology engagement is to focus on creating efficiency gains within the business. The efficiency effects are occurring quickly for SMBs, and as a result they are now able to explore new structures and ways of conducting business. The impact is not limited to start-ups or technology businesses, as traditional, mainstream, product and services-based businesses are seeing benefits from the cloud…

Grazed from CBROnline.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud and smart mobility have been responsible for about 42% of technology deal, with the global technology M&A rising by 57% to $52.4bn this year, a new report revealed.  The latest report from Ernst & Young revealed that the disclosed value of M&A deals rose by 70% to $119bn during the second half of 2014, while the value dropped 21% in 2Q14 compared to Q1.

Ernst & Young Global Technology Industry Transaction Advisory Services leader, Jeff Liu, said: "Global technology M&A is on course for a blockbuster year in 2014. Technology companies are cash rich, and interest rates are low…

Grazed from WallStreetDaily.  Author: Louis Basenese.

Amazon (AMZN) has been basking in the glory of higher sales and share prices, thanks to a phenomenon known as “showrooming.”  That’s when consumers hit their local stores to get an up-close look at a product, but then head home to purchase it online.

Chances are you’re guilty of this behavior, too, since an annual Harris poll shows that 46% of Americans admit to showrooming (up from 43% the year before)…

Grazed from BidnessEtc.  Author: Larry Darrell.

Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM), a pioneer of cloud software business, announced its earnings results for the second quarter of tis fiscal 2015 (2QFY15) after the market closed yesterday.

The San Francisco-based company also revised up its guidance for the entire FY15 after the strong results seen in 2QFY15. Its guidance for revenues was increased by $30 million to $5.34-5.37 billion, while analysts estimate $5.34 billion. The forecast for adjusted EPS was also revised up to $0.50-0.52, in line with expectations of $0.51…

Grazed from CloudComputingIntelligence.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: David Linthicum.

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

These days, everyone wants a piece of the cloud. Technology mergers and acquisitions are on a tear for a blockbuster year, and cloud computing is responsible for much of this burst of activity.

That’s the word from EY, which finds clouds lurking behind many transactions in its latest review of M&A activity in the second quarter of this year (April to June). In total, $52.4 billion in deals were conducted across the globe, a 57% year-over-year increase. Cloud and smart mobility drove 42 percent of technology deal-making, EY estimates…

Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

VMWare is pressing deeper into cloud Relevant Products/Services technologies with its latest acquisition. The virtualization Relevant Products/Services and cloud infrastructure Relevant Products/Services company just bought a real-time Relevant Products/Services application delivery technology provider called CloudVolumes. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

CloudVolumes’ technology makes it possible for enterprises to deliver native applications to virtualized environments on demand, which fills a gap in VMware’s portfolio of software solutions. CloudVolumes customers use the solutions for terminal servers, desktops, and servers, eliminating lock-ins of service providers and hypervisors…