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Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author:  Archana Venkatraman.

Actor Michael J. Fox’s charity for Parkinson’s disease is seeking to improve the treatment for Parkinson’s through a research project that involves wearable technologies, big data analytics and public cloud computing.

Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative brain disease that affects about five million people worldwide. While it usually affects people in their 60s, it can come earlier. There is a wide range of motor and non-motor symptoms associated with the disease…

Grazed from AlliedResearch.  Author: Editorial Staff.

According to the latest report by Allied Market Research titled, "Global Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS/HDaaS) Market (Deployment Type, End User, Geography) – Industry Analysis, Trends, Share, Opportunities and Forecast, 2013- 2020", the global HaaS market is expected to reach $16.1 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 70.8% from 2014 to 2020. In the current business scenario, HaaS market is majorly constricted to North America. Amazon Elastic Map Reduce was the most prominent service, accounting to nearly 85% of the global market revenue in 2013.

HaaS made a grand ingress in the big data analytic market in last couple of years. The advent of this novel technology is highly appreciated among the data scientists and among the SMEs. The market has doubled itself in 2013 (from 2012) and is now gaining prominence among conventional Hadoop users…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: CJ Arlotta.

Nasuni’s vision of pairing on-premise hardware with cloud storage has gained more support from investors. The Natick, Massachusetts-based storage services provider this week said it has raised an additional $10 million in Series C financing, bringing the round’s total to $30 million.

Previous investors Flybridge Capital Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners participated in this extension of Nasuni’s Series C funding round. A "strategic investor" also contributed funds…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview.  Author:  Dennis Schwartz.

When it comes to cloud computing, Microsoft’s goal is clear: Redmond is "in it to win."  That was the main message from Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich at his keynote address during the TechMentor conference on the Microsoft campus.

He emphasized that growing use of the Microsoft Azure cloud service, rapidly expanding features and a price war is putting the squeeze on cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS)…

Grazed from Baseline.  Author: Dennis McCafferty.

Remember when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison famously dismissed the cloud as "complete gibberish"? Or the days when you’d mention cloud computing in casual conversation with a non-techy friend or family member, and they’d have absolutely no clue what you were talking about? Clearly, those days are in the past, as the cloud is now a mainstream technology that is considered essential for business.

Ninety-four percent of organizations surveyed are using cloud computing, and 58 percent have a hybrid (public and private) cloud strategy in place, according to the annual "2014 State of the Cloud Report" from RightScale. Given all the interest about this technology, there’s been a lot of other research released about cloud investments and trends…

Grazed from FederalTimes.  Author: Andy Medici.

The Defense Department will soon be moving some of its data into the cloud as part of a series of pilot projects, acting chief information officer Terry Halvorsen said Aug. 13.  He said at the 2014 Federal Forum in Washington, D.C., that he expects DoD to announce five pilots by Sept. 1 that will expand its efforts to move data into the cloud and has promised his staff a steak dinner when they finalize the pilots.

“I think you will see us announce that fairly quickly going forward,” Halvorsen said.  The Defense Department will start with level three data — sensitive information that is not for the public — and then move on to level four. But the focus will be in what he called semi-private clouds, such as government-only clouds available in the private sector…

Read more from the source @ http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20140813/IT/308130012/DoD-release-cloud-computing-pilots-by-September?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Departments|p

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Juniper Networks is rolling out a new line of Ethernet switches aimed at helping enterprises deal with the increasing demand for better and faster access to cloud services and applications such as unified communications and virtual desktop infrastructures.

Juniper’s new EX4600 switches, announced Aug. 13, are open and scalable, and offer high performance in a small and cost-effective form factor, according to company officials. The switches also leverage Juniper’s Open Converged Framework (OCF), an approach to networking introduced by the company in June that calls for using open, published interfaces to enable the convergence of wired and wireless networks from different vendors…

Grazed from GeekWire.  Auhor: Tricia Duryee.

Amazon has made a rare investment in Acquia, a Burlington, Mass.-based digital marketing company that operates on Amazon’s cloud services.  The undisclosed investment piggybacks on a $50 million round closed in May from major investors, including Sigma Partners and New Enterprise Associates.

In all, the company has raised more than $100 million over several rounds of funding.  The company said the money will be used to help deliver an open cloud platform for content, community and commerce.  Investments made directly by Amazon, and not Jeff Bezos, are fairly infrequent. Recent examples include small investments in e-commerce companies in China or India…

Grazed from NetworkWorld.  Author: Brandon Butler.

The Internet of Things has reached the height of its hype, according to Gartner.  Each year the research firm puts out a Hype Cycle of emerging technologies, a sort of report card for various trends and buzzwords. This year, IoT tops the list.

Gartner believes that most emerging technologies go through a natural process in which they are triggered by some innovation, then they rise to a peak of inflated expectations. As the technologies mature, markets generally become disillusioned by them, before they start to become mainstream and just part of everyday technology…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

It’s not discussed and written about as much as it probably should be, but cloud applications crash at least as often as their on-premise counterparts. It’s simply a fact of IT life: Any application running anywhere—whether on a physical server or in a virtual machine halfway across the world—can crash at any time.

While minimizing downtime remains a key IT challenge, cloud computing disasters require a slightly different approach. Increased flexibility does mean that IT administrators have to give up a degree of control. When disaster does strike, there’s no physical data center you can visit to investigate the problem—or at least it’s usually not close enough to access quickly…