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02.15.2012
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products are likely to evolve into a major component of the overall cloud computing market. This is according to Yefim Natis, Vice President and analyst at Gartner, as written in an article in echannelline.
According to him, at the rate of growth of PaaS offerings, the market will produce new programming models, new standards, new software and new market leaders by 2016.
The challenge ahead is how the market and major players would handle the tension between the short-term and long-term strategic imperative of PaaS as it will define the key developments in the market in the next few years.
Because of this, users and vendors that are not yet engaged with PaaS are encouraged to start getting into the technology if they want to be able to keep up with future challenges and fast-paced changes.
Read more about the article and see why PaaS is seen to be a t the apex of its strategic growth. Visit echannelline now.
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02.14.2012
An article in Data Center Dynamics talks about how cloud brokers are predicted to come into their own this 2012.
The idea of having a cloud broker for companies is starting to be accepted. Their roles are now being given value as they remove the complex decision-making from a cloud migration. Furthermore, it is also how they package the products and combine it with additional services that gives leverage to what they do.
According to Cordy’s product director Matt Davies, to provide cloud brokering services, the company needs to sit at an intersection of three points:
A couple of consulting firms have already begun providing these services, and it is expected that new players will enter the scene pretty soon.
Read more about cloud brokers and get more updates at datacenterdynamics.com
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02.13.2012
A survey recently conducted by Fonality, the provider of Webtorials for VoIP, revealed that small and medium businesses are now easily adapting to the use of cloud-based business communications solutions.
Here are some statistics from the survey:
The findings infer that SMB’s are starting to appreciate cloud’s contribution to an organization’s growth by reducing expenditures and maximizing operations expenses.
To see more findings from this survey, visit Fierce Enterprise Communications now.
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02.10.2012
Cloud is the Answer to Exabytes of Genomics Data
While technology companies like Life Technologies and Illumina have developed instruments that can fully sequence the human genome in one day, the going question is, how can they make it affordable to store, process and analyze all genomic data?
An article in GigaOM reports the introduction of a cloud-based platform for storing and analyzing genomics data by DNANexus. The company’s founder and CEO, Andreas Sundquist believes that cloud computing will directly adress these concerns:
With the popularity of human genome sequencing, the projected data volume of data is 1 exabyte or 1 million terabytes by 2014. Sundquist says that aside from its ability to accommodate such a large volume of data, the cloud generally costs less over time.
Read more on the statistics of increasing genomics demand and how te cloud is believed to resolve the anticipated issues, visit GigaOM now.
Cloud Unified Communications Service
Unified Communication (UC) is the going trend for enterprises in their attempt to increase productivity and simplify communications. However, new issues arise, with the adoption of US solutions comes financial and technological challenges.
AT&T seems to have a solution as they announced the release of their Cloud US services in eWeek. This new system eliminates most hardware integration and installation and help organizations control costs and prevent unpredictable expenditures.
Said to have partnered with cloud hosting provides, SoftLayer, the UC cloud is a user-friendly, single user interface for PC and mobile and has the capabilities to integrate multiple communications and collaboration tools such as:
Read the full article and find out the other advantages that AT&T’s Cloud USC services provide – visit eWeek now.
Audio Books Via the Cloud
An article in Mobiletor announced Audiobooks.com’s new cloud-based audio book service. This step is seen to be revolutionizing the audiobooks industry.
Here are some highlights of the service:
The company is already offering thousands of popular book titles that can be accessed from the internet by Android and iOS devices.
To find out the pricing and other details of this new service, click here.
Cloud Data Storage and Sharing: Alternatives to MegaUpload
With the closure of file sharing site, MegaUpload, users are now looking for replacements. An eWeek article lists down 10 legitimate alternatives that offer the same storage and sharing services.
The list includes:
Find out the rest of the sites from the list, visit the article at eWeek now.
Cloud-Based eBook Lending
An article in MPRNews announced that St. Paul Public Library in Minnesota wil begin the formal trial of 3M’s “Cloud Library” system, along with 10 other public libraries in the United States.
This roll-out was inspired by the increasing number of Americans owning e-readers such as Kindle, Nook and iPad. 3M, a company that has a long history of serving libraries will now aid these institutions in building and managing the lending of e-books.
It is expected that e-book lending will eventually account for 20% of book lending in libraries. Here are some advantages of cloud-based e-book lending:
Read the rest of the article and find out the other technological initiatives of 3M at MPRnews.
Cloud Computing Survey on SMB’s
A recent cloud computing survey conducted by Business Webhosting Plans to over 500 businesses displayed findings in PRWeb.
Here are the results from the survey:
25% of businesses have been using cloud computing for 2.5 years
75% of businesses have been using cloud computing even longer than 2.5 years
The company said that most of these businesses were already using cloud computing and they were not even aware. Small and medium sized businesses are really the ones that benefitted from shifting a significant workload from their computers to a cloud computing system.
Visit PRWeb to read the rest of the article and find out further results of the survey.
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