February 16th, 2012
Advanced positioning solutions provider, Trimble, recently came out with Connected Community Environmental – a cloud-based gas monitoring solution.
According to an article in Waste Management World, this innovative solution provides real-time management and deployment of siteFID landfill gas surface monitoring data. The way it works is that it allows field monitoring data to be uploaded to the cloud and become accessible real time to other team members via the internet.
Here are some characteristics and advantages from Connected Community Environmental:
According to Trimble’s portfolio manager, Ken Fossey, this solution provides a more secure, defendable and accessible environmental data management.
Read more about Trimble’s Connected Community Environmental and find out the latest technology in environmental efforts, visit Waste Management World.
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February 15th, 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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February 14th, 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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February 13th, 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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February 10th, 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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February 9th, 2012
Movie buffs can now enjoy their favorite movies anytime, anywhere.
Recently, Paramount announced through various online media channels, its opening of the first Ultraviolet-based film rental and download service.
The studio is initially offering 60 titles that the public can buy and access anywhere. This initiative is in adherence to the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem’s (DECE) “Buy one, pay anywhere” approach.
The Ultraviolet digital library is a system that allows access to movies and TV shows that are stored in the cloud. From here, users can download or stream media using multiple devices.
To read the full article, view pricing and other details, visit Register Hardware.
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February 8th, 2012
Data breach on ATMs has been quite popular with hackers where they will put card readers on the machines that will store customer data in an encrypted file, which they can access.
Last September, ATM-maker Diebold, addressed this issue when it introduced a virtualized ATM, which stores all customer data in the cloud – as written in an article in Information Week.
The company partnered with VMWare and they came up with a zero-client machine where no customer data is captured and stored in the physical machine. Instead, all data will be relayed to central servers. This way, bank customer data will be more secure as it cannot be accessed through the ATM.
At this point, Diebold is looking for a partner with whom to deploy virtualized ATMs to further prevent the theft of customer data. Find out more on how the cloud can increase the level of security in teller machines, read the full article in Information Week.
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February 7th, 2012
Dubbed as the “yardstick for technology procurement”, certified infrastructure consultant James Carlini discusses his suggested framework for choosing and purchasing an organization’s cloud computing service.
In his article, he emphasized the need for an evaluation with a good set of criteria in choosing any technology, this includes cloud computing. Carlini gave 12 criteria, which either starts with an R, F or P:
With this tool, the assessment and selection for a cloud computing service will be much more defined. Read the rest of the 12 criteria in sys-con.com and see how organizations can decide to purchase a cloud computing service based on more than just pricing.
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February 6th, 2012
Not only is cloud computing changing the way businesses processes are done; it also fuels the continuously evolving roles of key people in an organization.
IT trends and innovation writer Joe McKendrick shares in his article in Forbes.com his interview with David Nichols, principal and CIO services leader for Ernst and Young IT Advisory Services.
After outlining some satisfying cloud business cases and identifying some challenges that organizations need to address before they can become fully immersed in cloud computing, the standing question would be, how will it affect important relationships between companies, managers and IT professionals and outsourcers?
How did he come to these conclusions? Visit Forbes.com to see why cloud computing has affected these roles. Read Nichols’s recommendations on how to avoid disappointments in cloud deployment and learn what the best way is to understand this new technology.
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February 3rd, 2012
Much More in this Year’s Cloud Connect
Last year’s Cloud Connect, the premier technnology event for cloud computing, was a success. This year, tech enthusiasts have much more to look forward to. On February 13-16, the Sta. Clara Convention Center in California will be the venue for almost 100 companies who will showcase the latest cloud technology, hardware, software and service providers.
Aside from focusing on mobile cloud and big data processing, the event will also host the first Annual CloudNOW Awards. This initiative was conducted by CloudNOW, a forum for networking, sharing and economic growth. This year, the group will be awarding the 10 Outstanding Women in Cloud Computing for their contributions, accomplishments and thought leadership.
Some notable companies that will be participating in the event are:
Read the full release about this year’s Cloud Connect, visit The Sacramento Bee.
Interxion Survey: Who is Leading the Way in Cloud Usage?
A Europe-wide survey was conducted in 2011 for current and intended cloud usage; the aim was to gain a better understanding of what the objectives and concerns of organizations are on cloud computing, as reported in the Interxion survey.
Though there was a significant amount of executives who are using or are planning to use cloud technology, small companies are still leading the way in terms of cloud usage. When asked what was driving investment in the cloud, the results were:
The survey was quite extensive as it also covered other aspects such as barriers and challenges, commonly used applications and how is cloud tomorrow.
Visit the Interxion site and read the full report on the results of the survey.
Cloud Computing Similar to Moving to a New House
An entry in the Enterprise Services Blog of HP likened an organization’s move to the cloud to moving to a new house. Quite interestingly, the author stated some points that shows the similarities:
Read the full blog and see the other aspects on moving to the cloud and how it was compared to moving to a new house. Visit HP’s Enterprise Services Blog now.
SOASTA’s TouchTest Technology
SOASTA, the performance testing company has recently extended its CloudTest application to mobile devices. The addition of TouchTest will be able to record and play back touch-based interaction on iOS and Android devices.
This new technology will help developers and publishers in performing assessments and identify problems on usabilty and technical flaws.
This application is now available and is offered in various forms such as within a package or just and enhancement.
Visit Information Week and read the full article to see what else the technology enhancement does and how programmers and mobile application developers will benefit from it.
A Week in the Clouds
This article by blogger and tech enthusiast, Eric Sisler, checks to see if cloud technology is indeed everywhere. The test is conducted by looking for cloud-based solutions or applications for anything that he will need which requires using technology during that week.
Satisfyingly, the blogger announces that he has discovered some useful cloud-based applications:
This is pretty much the takeaways from day 1. Sisler admits and foresees “increasing clouds” in the future. Visit the full article at Deseret News and find out the results of the cloud test.
How Do You Secure Your Cloud?
With all the security concerns looming around cloud technology, the Federal Government through the National Institute of Standards and Technology, spearheaded the initiative to further understanding and recently issued a set of 7 working guidelines on cloud security and privacy:
These are just the first 3 guidelines; visit Forbes.com and read the rest of the article and find out what the other 4 guidelines are.
Cloud-Based Absentee Voting
Good news for military and overseas Americans: With the help of the Federal Voting Assistance Program and the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, a cloud-based application was deployed that enables voters to gain access to an absentee ballot online.
An article in pdspc.com reports that the technology was tested by more than 1,200 Florida voters from 40 counties prior to the January 31 elections. The technology is also available in California, Virginia and voters with disabilities in Washington.
The user-friendly platform is believed to increase the submission of absentee ballots on time since the need to request ballots by main will make it much easier for members to access their ballots and therefore participate in elections.
The developers see a bright future for this technology including a mobile development which will further improve the numbers on absentee ballots.
Read the full article on the new technology, visit pdspc.com now.
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