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Grazed from Neptune. Author: PR Announcement.

In the first Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) "Amazon City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge," Neptune Technology Group Inc. (Neptune) has been named as a grand prize winner for its N_SIGHT™ IQ intelligent analytics software for utilities, which runs on the Amazon Web Services cloud computing network.

The Cloud Innovation Challenge recognizes applications that contribute to helping solve local government challenges. Accordingly, N_SIGHT IQ provides water utilities with the ability to store and analyze up to 10 years of homeowners’ consumption data, along with advanced analytics based on historical trends and flagged consumption events…

Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Kathryn Myklesseth.

IBM is pumping $3 billion into hardware innovation – trying to jump ahead of the pack in cloud and cognitive computing. Serving as a testament to Big Blue’s commitment to get on the leading side of cloud innovation, the company announced it will invest $3 billion over the next five years in two broad research and early stage development programs for chip technology.

The research focuses on making semiconductors more efficient for cloud computing and Big Data systems. IBM is taking the first in a series of steps in changing up the hardware. The areas focused on in the funded studies include, carbon nanoelectronics, silicon photonics, new memory technologies, and architectures that support quantum and, no surprise here, cognitive computing…

Grazed from IBM. Author: PR Announcement.

IBM has announced it is investing $3 billion over the next five years in two broad research and early stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and Big Data systems. These investments are intended to push IBM’s semiconductor innovations from today’s breakthroughs into the advanced technology leadership required for the future.

The first research program is aimed at so-called “7 nanometer and beyond” silicon technology that will address serious physical challenges that are threatening current semiconductor scaling techniques and will impede the ability to manufacture such chips. The second is focused on developing alternative technologies for post-silicon era chips using entirely different approaches, which IBM scientists and other experts say are required because of the physical limitations of silicon based semiconductors…

Grazed from BibeyPost. Author: Chris Bibey.

Microsoft Corporation is always looking for ways to fly past the competition, and it may have found its ride: the cloud. At the upcoming 2014 Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft will have the chance to discuss a variety of new cloud based services and technologies, all of which are going to make life much easier on its partners.

As the shift to cloud computing continues to ramp up, some companies will find themselves in position to provide their customers with the infrastructure and technology necessary to stay in the game. Microsoft Corporation is definitely one of these companies…

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Henry Kenyon.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is planning to make its first tentative steps into the federal cloud computing arena as it seeks a solution to store sensitive crime data. In a request released July 7, the DEA is surveying cloud providers for the most cost-efficient way to shift data to an agency-wide hybrid cloud. One of the major nodes in this proposed cloud architecture will be the DEA’s Sterling Park Technology Center, or SPTC.

The agency wants to move its eGIS capability – a Google Earth-based crime information system that uses geospatial mapping data to tag crime and suspect location data – to the cloud. eGIS is currently hosted at SPTC, but the goal is to create a secondary site hosted on a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant government community cloud run by an authorized commercial cloud service provider…

Grazed from FierceCIO. Author: David Weldon.

Cloud computing is becoming a game changer for many organizations, and that means the IT manager of the future needs to be well-versed in all things cloud. That is the clear message from a recent article at Tech Page One, which examined current trends in IT, and what they mean to the skills required of IT leaders.

"Transition can be a rough time for any company, no matter the reason," the article notes. "With the constant development and implementation of new technology, company IT departments are almost always in a state of transition, adapting to major changes and making sure things run smoothly. IT managers need to be ready, particularly for the big changes happening in the near future."…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Alistair Blair.

Google Wednesday fired another shot in the price wars for cloud-computing services, offering businesses more free storage in an effort to compete with industry leader Amazon Web Services. Google Cloud Platform offered two terabytes of free storage for a year, through one of its partners, a startup called Panzura.

The move highlights the battle among Google, Amazon and Microsoft MSFT -0.26% to provide companies with remote storage, computing power and other technology services, which reduce companies’ need to buy and run their own equipment. Some industry insiders predict storage will soon be free…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Eric Lundquist.

The concept of using cloud computing to replace or augment your IT infrastructure is still relatively new. The introduction of Amazon Web Services in 2006 is a good date to pick as a starting point for this trend. We are now halfway through 2014 and Google, IBM, HP and the OpenStack gang have had their turns to talk about their latest cloud offerings. So this is a good time to see what is changing in cloud computing. Here are five trends I’m watching.

1. Transparency: I consistently hear from users and potential users that cloud computing sounds great, but while the tech is fairly straightforward to consider it is still devilishly difficult to figure out the pricing. This seems like it should be simple to solve. While the big cloud vendors are very public about price cutting, there remains lots of room to help CIOs figure out in advance what they will pay…

Read more from the source @ http://www.eweek.com/cloud/five-trends-show-why-cloud-computing-is-far-from-mature.html

Grazed from WCCFTech. Author: Fahad Arif.

In the initial months after announcing its latest eighth generation video game console, one of the things that Microsoft boasted the most about was Xbox One Cloud. Less in a way, but the platform holder still actually talks about the potential that lies in marriage between cloud technology and video game streaming, and recently speaking at Develop, the Redmond-based company talked about the power of Xbox One Cloud, and via a blueprint, the company explained how cloud computing can enable massive multiplayer games.

We are around more than a half year through the launch of Microsoft’s latest console, and after all those Cloud computing talks, we still have not seen Xbox One Cloud in action, besides one technical demo of course, however, Microsoft keeps the memory alive by occasional informative sessions on how Cloud computing can change the way we play video games. Recently, Microsoft’s Rob Fraser talked about the potential of Xbox One Cloud and the company’s Azure servers at Develop Conference…

Read more from the source @ http://wccftech.com/microsoft-reveales-xbox-cloud-flow-layout-explains-cloud-enables-massive-multiplayer-games/

Grazed from DataCentres. Author: Editorial Staff.

A new report from research house, IDC Worldwide Semi-annual Public Cloud Services Tracker show the worldwide market for cloud services hit $US45.7 billion) during 2013. Of that total, $US10.78 billion (24%) was spent on ERP systems and $US8.13 billion (18%) was spent on CRM. ERP systems (such as SAP, Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics AX) are integrated whole-of-business management applications integrating accounting, payroll, manufacturing, supply chain management and project management. Meanwhile, CRM software (such as Salesforce) manages customer relationships.

Other major cloud-based service categories included servers at $US3.981 billion or 9% of the market, collaborative applications (such as Office 365) at $US3.37 billion, and security software at $US2.922 billion. The strength of ERP and CRM spending meant the Software-as-a-Service model accounted for 72% of the market, with Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service making up 14% each.