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03.16.2012
Miami Dolphins Use Cloud Technology
A collaboration between the Miami Dolphins, Sun Life Stadium and IBM brings an analytics platform: Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) for smarter cities.
The stadium, likened to a mini-city, will be providing the latest technology to stay competitive and continue to attract tech-savvy fans to its events.
IOC will be introducing a new platform that will provide metrics to address:
Moreover, they will also provide a mobile application to audience that will:
Read more about this new cloud-based technology that is expected to further increase and attract more visitors, visit PCWorld now.
Phorum 2012
This coming March 28, the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) will be having its National Cloud Conference Demo Pit, which would features 15 very promising cloud companies.
These companies were selected for their innovation in the use of cloud computing to address business concerns such as operations and cost through a diverse range of cloud offerings.
At the end of the event, three Demo Pit participants will be selected and will have the privilege to meet Mr. Peter Coffee – VP and head of platform research at Salesforce.com.
To get further details on the event, visit Digital Journal.
Success of Cloud Connect 2012
UBM Techweb-produced event, Cloud Connect 2012 proved to be a success as they announced their record-breaking attendance of over 3,700 IT professionals, developers and service providers.
The event, known for being the most important, vendor-neutral for the entire cloud ecosystem had over 90 exhibitors, a 20% increase from 2011.
Highlights of the event included:
The event expects to see the same (or even better) turnout on the next Cloud Connect in September. To view details on the event, visit Brandenton now.
Major Hollywood Studios Eager to Use the Cloud
Two big Hollywood studios, Warner Brothers and Fox, have partnered with Sandisk and Western Digital to form Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA).
They will be launching Project “Phenix”, which is a software customers can use to store and manage movie and videos that they have purchased online.
The studios, also known to be associated with Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) say that this is complimentary to the cloud-based project, and this should bet be seen as a move on giving up on Ultraviolet.
Read the full release on this news and see also how the DECE plans to address this.
Cloud Brings More Jobs
A recent article in The Infoboom announced its prediction that the cloud will bring about more jobs as strong cloud growth is expected in the next five years and businesses of all sizes will create cloud computing jobs.
This time, many universities and colleges offer cloud computing programs but often, there is disconnect between these institutions and the real world. There are adoptive processes though, that have started to address these concerns.
One is the effort of companies in defining how they will use the cloud, and the other one is the initiative of recruitment agencies to supply small and midsized businesses with cloud computing talent by offering a cloud-specific career board to its offerings:
Businesses know that they still need to identify and staff cloud computing jobs on top of developing their cloud infrastructure.
How does the cloud exactly create more job opportunities in the IT community? Find out by reading the full article in Infoboom.
Cloud Foundry Open Tour 2012
The Cloud Foundry will be having its open tour – a global series of one-day developer events – this year.
This event will help the cloud community, especially developers to meet and exchange ideas mainly on open Platform-as-a-Service.
In the United States, the tour will be visiting four locations:
The event’s focus will be on the broad community of contributors including activities:
To find out more details and register for the event, visit the Cloud Foundry website.
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03.15.2012
More often than not, the healthcare industry is at least a few steps behind technological innovation – cloud technology adoption is not any different.
At this time, where technology is not seen in the industry as a tool to leverage on improvement of patient care, providers and even governments around the world find themselves spending a considerable amount of capital or GDP, which is clearly unsustainable.
In the second installment of healthcare industry blog series in HDS, author Dave Wilson, senior director of Global Health and Life Sciences discusses the top healthcare drivers for cloud technology:
Though these drivers have not been very prominent to be seen as influencing factors in technological innovations in the healthcare industry, though it is undeniable that they are crucial to its development. To read the full article, visit HDS.
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03.14.2012
Personal cloud storage and sharing firms Box and Dropbox are hopeful to go public next year as reported in a recent article in USA Today.
How can consumers gain access to documents, photos, music and videos regardless of what device they are using, wherever they are? This was the question addressed by Dropbox despite the presence of larger competitors such as:
The start-up still managed to capture more than 50 million users. Not far from this success story is fellow start-up Box, that has earned more than 9 million users even though it has bigger competitors like:
Though there is the challenge of competing against many “Goliaths” in the estimated $1.4B personal cloud storage market, these start-ups remain optimistic as 90% of Corporate America is projected to use this technology within the next three years.
This projection paves the way for Box to be the next great enterprise software company and for Dropbox to build the next Apple or Google.
Read more about start-ups Dropbox and Box and see how much they have accomplished in their respective industries. Visit USA Today now.
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03.13.2012
Most small and midsize businesses opt for cloud adoption without seriously taking into consideration putting up a comprehensive data management or backup plan in place.
ZDNet’s award-winning business journalist, Heather Clancy shares in a blog her learnings on how a cloud adoption’s security is dictated by real business strategy and commitment.
She also partakes 7 ways to make sure that an organization’s cloud-hosted solution is as safe as possible:
To read the rest of the 7 safety measures for cloud adoption, visit ZDNet.
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