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2015-01-22T00:00:00.000+12:00

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Charter, Cisco, New Cloud-Based Cable-TV Service (video)

2015-01-19T00:00:00.000+12:00

Charter, Cisco Unveil New Cloud-Based Cable-TV Service: Video - Bloomberg:
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Charter Communications unveiled a cloud-based cable-television service backed by technology from Cisco Systems, bolstering the company’s efforts to compete against much larger rivals. Cisco Senior Vice president Kelly Ahuja speaks from the Consumer Electronics Show on “Bloomberg West.”(Source: Bloomberg Jan 7)

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Box IPO Valuation, $1.6B? (video)

2015-01-15T00:00:00.000+12:00

Box Seeks Valuation of as Much as $1.6B in U.S. IPO: Video - Bloomberg:
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Box, the cloud-storage provider that first filed for an initial public offering last March, is proceeding with the share sale after several delays. Egnyte Co-Founder and CEO Vineet Jain speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg Jan 9)

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Future of Cloud Computing: Barak Regev, Taylor Rhodes, Tony Scott (video)

2015-01-12T00:00:00.000+12:00

Regev, Rhodes, Scott Discuss Cloud at Bloomberg Summit: Video - Bloomberg:
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Barak Regev, Google Inc.’s cloud chief for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Taylor Rhodes, president and chief executive officer at Rackspace and Tony Scott, senior vice-president and chief investment officer at VMware, discuss the future of cloud computing. They speak at Bloomberg's Enterprise Technology Summit in London in a panel moderated by Bloomberg Television's Caroline Hyde. (Source: Bloomberg 12/9)

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Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Google Cloud Platform, Barak Regev (video)

2015-01-08T00:00:00.000+12:00

Google's Regev Says Cyber Security Must be Addressed: Video - Bloomberg:
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Barak Regev, head of Cloud Platform at Google in EMEA, says the issue of cyber security "has to be addressed" in cloud computing. He speaks to Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse". (Source: Bloomberg 12/9)

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Taylor Rhodes: US Ahead of Europe in Cloud Adoption, Technology (video)

2015-01-05T00:00:00.000+12:00

Rhodes Says U.S. Ahead of Europe in Cloud Adoption: Video - Bloomberg:
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Taylor Rhodes, chief executive officer at Rackspace Hosting, says the U.S. is always "18 to 24 months ahead of European markets" in "technology adoption." He spoke to Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse" on Dec. 9. (Source: Bloomberg 12/10)

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Cloud Technology, Healthcare Industry, Cyber Attacks (video)

2014-12-29T00:00:00.000+12:00

Can Cloud Tech Transform the Healthcare Industry?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Imaging Advantage CEO Naseer Hashim discusses improving traditional healthcare with technology and the concerns of cyber attacks. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Trish Regan on “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/10)

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Sports, Social Media, The Cloud (video)

2014-12-24T00:00:00.000+12:00

Sports Evolves for Social Media Through the Cloud : Video - Bloomberg:
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Grabyo Chief Executive Officer Gareth Capon discusses the impact from technology for both sports fans and content providers. He speaks with Francine Lacqua and Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Google Cloud, Autoscaling, Google Compute Engine

2014-12-22T00:00:00.000+12:00

From the Google Cloud Platform Blog: Autoscaling, welcome to Google Compute Engine:"The true power of cloud computing is unlocked when developers can build resilient and cost efficient applications that use just the right amount of resources necessary at any given time. So the same team that designed the scaling infrastructure for products like Google Search and Gmail have brought a highly anticipated feature toGoogle Compute Engine - intelligent horizontal Autoscaling. Today we are releasing the service into Beta, which means it is now available for everyone to start using. Autoscaling allows customers to build more cost effective and resilient applications. Using Compute Engine Autoscaling, you can ensure that exactly the right number of Compute Engine instances are available at any given time to handle your application’s workload. This saves you money when your application’s usage is low, and ensures your application is responsive when utilization is high. The Compute Engine Autoscaler is able to intelligently and dynamically scale the number of instances in response to different load conditions by defining the ideal utilization level of a group of Compute Engine instances. This means that when the actual utilization of your service increases or decreases, Autoscaler will detect the change and adjust the number of running instances to match. Autoscaler can respond to a number of different metrics such as CPU load, QPS on a HTTP Load Balancer and metrics defined using the Cloud Monitoring service...." (read more at link above)

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Amazon AWS, Massive Scale, Custom Network Gear

2014-12-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of AWS: "... So nearly five years ago, when this problem became apparent, AWS designed its own network routers and went to original design manufacturers to build the hardware, and put together a team to write the networking software stack on top of them. This is a course of action, Hamilton said laughing, where people “would get you a doctor and put you in a nice little room where you were safe and you can’t hurt anyone.” The first thing that Amazon learned from its custom network gear is what it learned about servers and storage a long time ago: If you build it yourself with minimalist attitudes and only with the features you need, it is a lot cheaper. “Just the support contract for networking gear was running tens of millions of dollars.”..."

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THE Cloud Question: Amazon or Google?

2014-12-15T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon or Google is The Cloud Question:

Amazon's New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat | WIRED: "... Google introduced a product called Sustained Use Discounts, and this made things much simpler. If you used a lot of computing resources, you’d get a discount: no upfront fees. That’s the model that Amazon took a step toward this week... There are still differences. Amazon had previously demanded upfront payments from customers who wanted to take advantage of its reserved instances pricing. And while those payments are no longer required, customers still have to commit to using Amazon’s services for a year or more. That’s not the case with Google... late last year that Google really delivered a competitive offering, called Compute Engine. And now the company is fast catching up. In late March Google started a price war with Amazon, slashing its cloud computing prices, across the board, by 30 percent. That kind of price slashing is likely to continue, says Michael Crandell, the CEO of RightScale, a cloud management company. “There’s clearly a case of point-counterpoint going on, and it is a competitive market.” Byrne says that while Google doesn’t offer the wide range of products, it beats out Amazon in many respects. Google’s compute speed and network “is faster than Amazon’s,” he says. “They’re probably the only people where you can say that their infrastructure is really world-leading.” (read more at the link above)

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Andy Rubin, Startup Incubator

2014-12-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

Google's Andy Rubin leaves to start incubator - GadgeTell | TechnologyTell: "The head of Google’s robotics division and a co-creator of the Android operating system, Andy Rubin, is leaving Google. Rubin plans to create a startup incubator, so he is leaving his current position at Google and will be replaced by James Kuffner, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal...Google acquired Android in 2005, thereby bringing aboard Rubin. As for Rubin’s replacement, Kuffner has been working with the robotics division at Google for years. Kuffner helped develop the idea for cloud robotics back in 2010, and he has worked as a research scientist in the same Google division for quite a while. Rubin was also involved in robotics when his career really began to takeoff in the 1980s." (read more at link above)
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The Cloud Market, Little Space for Rackspace?

2014-12-08T00:00:00.000+12:00

Little Space Remains for Rackspace -- Ahead of the Tape - WSJ - WSJ: "... Rackspace was effectively shopping for a buyer, only to formally call off the effort a few weeks before the quarter’s end... Keeping business running during a period of such uncertainty is a notable feat. But the bigger question of whether Rackspace is better off alone won’t be settled here. The company is in the painful position of competing against a host of large, deep-pocketed tech stars like Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that are driving down the price of cloud services...." (read more at link above)

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Amazon Cloud Drive API

2014-12-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon Cloud Drive Gets Its Own API | TechCrunch: ".... Amazon says developers who use the Cloud Drive API won’t have to worry about things like various screen resolutions, metadata management, indexing, search or sync functionality; it will be included after the API’s integration. Cloud Drive is also available within other developer tools, including Filepicker and Temboo, which makes it easier on those working with a range of cloud services. At launch, a number of mobile applications have integrated Cloud Drive’s API, including: OfficeSuite, Perfectly Clear, FreePrints, Photo Gifts by MailPix, ScanCafe, FileThis, CloudHQ, File Commander, Jumptuit, Secrata, and Wappwolf. These are now featured in an online Cloud Drive App Gallery here..."

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Amazon Aurora, Cost-Effective, MySQL-Compatible Database Engine, for Amazon RDS

2014-12-01T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS: .... Aurora, is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. When you use Amazon RDS for Aurora, you'll spend less time managing and tuning your database, leaving you with more time to focus on building your application and your business. As your business grows, Amazon Aurora will scale with you. You won't need to take your application off line in order to add storage. Instead, Amazon Aurora will add storage in 10 GB increments on as as-needed basis, all the way up to 64 TB. Baseline storage performance is rapid, reliable and predictable—it scales linearly as you store more data, and allows you to burst to higher rates on occasion. You can scale the instance size in minutes and you can add replicas with a couple of clicks....

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The Cloud Is the New Normal, says Amazon Web Services Exec

2014-11-27T00:00:00.000+12:00

New Normal = The Cloud

'The cloud is the new normal,' Amazon Web Services executive says | Computerworld: "... Increasingly, however, AWS is finding that organizations are moving entire data centers, as well as their entire IT operations, to the cloud, Jassy said. An organization may have a lease coming up on a data center or need to do an expensive hardware refresh, and the pending costs or long-term commitment to infrastructure "that is kind of frozen in time," may cause it to more heavily consider the cloud, Jassy said. This is a trend that is accelerating at a very fast rate," he said. AWS' win of a government contract to run the services of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 2013 caused a lot of other organizations to take notice, Jassy said. "A lot of customers would say if it's secure enough for the CIA, it is probably secure for us too," Jassy said...."

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Microsoft Cloud Apps, Enterprise Apps

2014-11-24T00:00:00.000+12:00

PCWorld
Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed
Enterprise Apps Today
Microsoft offers cloud-based apps for business intelligence, CRM and ERP. You'll want to evaluate the "best-of-breed" approach to going with a single vendor like Microsoft for everything. When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems ...

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Ken Goldberg: Robots in the Cloud

2014-11-20T00:00:00.000+12:00

The Robot in the Cloud: A Conversation With Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg has been thinking hard about robots for almost three decades.
His work ranges from over 170 peer-reviewed papers on things like robot algorithms and social information filtering to art projects about the interaction of people and machines. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he is establishing a research center to develop medical robots to assist in surgery. That is just the latest development in what he thinks will be one of the great technology breakthroughs of our age: the fusing of robotics and cloud computing. He talks about it in this edited and condensed conversation.
Q. What is cloud robotics?
A. Cloud robotics is a new way of thinking about robots. For a long time, we thought that robots were off by themselves, with their own processing power. When we connect them to the cloud, the learning from one robot can be processed remotely and mixed with information from other robots.
.... The term “cloud robotics” was coined in 2010 by James Kuffner, who was at Carnegie Mellon and then went to Google. I had been doing robot control over the Internet since the mid-90s, with a garden people could connect to, then plant seeds or water their plants. The cloud is different from my Internet “telegarden,” though. The cloud can have all the computation and memory stored remotely. That means all of the endpoints can be lightweight, and there is a huge collective benefit. These robots can address billions of behaviors and learn how to do important things quickly....(read more at link above)

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Cloud-based Workday Streamlines Mobile Apps, Unveils Big Data Plans

2014-11-17T00:00:00.000+12:00

InformationWeek
Workday Streamlines Mobile Apps, Unveils Big Data Plans
InformationWeek
Workday, the fast-growing, cloud-based HR and financial ERP applications vendor announced a fresh take on mobile apps and a coming wave of big data-powered analytic applications. Unveiled at the company's annual Workday Rising event in ...

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Google Cloud, Container Engine, Kubernetes

2014-11-13T00:00:00.000+12:00

Google Builds New ‘Freeways’ to Its Data Centers for Cloud Push - Digits - WSJ: ".... Google built one of the world’s most powerful networks of data centers, but fell behind Amazon and Microsoft in the business of renting this remote computing horsepower to other companies. Google executives said they’re now an option for companies considering running projects in the cloud, something they couldn’t have said 18 months ago. Executives said they are less interested in projects that shift existing applications from a company’s own data center to the cloud, and more interested in persuading companies to create new applications in the cloud. “Are we winning in yesterday’s workloads? Probably not. But that will be how the minority of workloads are managed in the cloud in the future,” said Brian Stevens, vice president of cloud platforms at Google. Google is hoping to leapfrog Amazon by pushing its own approach to cloud computing, known as containers. The technology is considered faster and more efficient than more standard cloud computing technology known as virtual machines, experts say. In June, Google released an open-source version of the technology, called Kubernetes, to encourage adoption.... the company unveiled Container Engine, a service that Google said will automate much of the work involved in running applications using this technology."

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Cloud Computing, Coming of Age

2014-11-10T00:00:00.000+12:00

Coming of Age in Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com: "... Microsoft, which operates one of the biggest so-called “public clouds,” or large and flexible computing systems available for remote rental, announced several changes to its data storage and processing services that will make them more powerful. Microsoft also announced a partnership with Dell to sell a kind of “cloud in a box,” or hardware and software that created a mini-version of Microsoft’s cloud, called Azure, inside a company. The idea is that a company could work with its own version of Azure, then easily move up to the giant version Microsoft has to handle big workloads. Hewlett-Packard may be after something similar with its effort to create a private-public cloud business based on the HP cloud, which uses a kind of open source software. What all of this means is that cloud computing, which makes it easier to tie more things to computers and more easily manage software, is starting to appear in even more forms and types...." (read more at link above)

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InformationWeek
Cloud Computing: IT's Driving Again
InformationWeek
For example, in 2013 it reported cloud storage was growing at a rate 2.5 ... Organizations adopting cloud services expect to spend "54% of their IT ...

Defense One
Clarifying DISA's Cloud Computing Role
Signal Magazine
“I don't think DISA is going to be moving away from our participation in the cloudbrokerage, cloud services,” said Alfred Rivera, the agency's acting ...

Cloud computing in 2020: Looking into that crystal ball
CloudTech
Recently, @thedodgeretort of Enterprise CIO Forum held a Twitter chat about what cloud computing in 2020 will look like. I decided to write up a quick ...

ITProPortal
Demystifying cloud computing jargon: A guide to understanding the future of IT infrastructure
ITProPortal
How many of you really understand the cloud? If you were tasked with explaining "thecloud" to a child could you manage it? A recent discussion with ...

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IBM Sending Cognos and SPSS to the Cloud

2014-11-07T00:00:00.000+12:00

Wall Street Journal
IBM sends Cognos and SPSS to the cloud
Computerworld
Two of IBM's most popular analysis products, the Cognos Business Intelligence and the SPSS predictive analytics package, are headed for the cloud, the latest in an ongoing push by IBM to port its vast software portfolio to the cloud. Accessing such a software ...

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Microsoft, Data Centers, Cloud Computing

2014-11-05T00:00:00.000+12:00

CLOUD NEWS:

Computerworld
Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge
Computerworld
Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group, shows how Microsoft differentiates Azure at a press conference earlier this month. Credit: James Niccolai/IDG News Service ...

The Globe and Mail
Memo to Microsoft skeptics: Don't look back, look forward
The Globe and Mail
Few companies, if any, have gone from startup to the Dow Jones in as little time as Microsoft Corp., yet the software giant doesn't get a lot of respect. That's part of what makes it an interesting investment. I think Microsoft is on the cusp of a period of ...

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Can IBM Compete In Cloud Computing

2014-11-03T00:00:00.000+12:00

Doubtful--

IBM's Big Stumble - Businessweek: "... Rometty’s nearly impossible task of reinventing IBM for the era of cloud computing while handcuffed by the “Roadmap.” IBM is 103 years old and has survived upheavals in the technology industry before—selling mainframes, then personal computers, then getting into the consulting game. Rometty will tell anyone who listens that the changes demanded of IBM today are as great as they’ve ever been. One question is whether IBM has the technical chops to compete with Amazon and others: After losing a lucrative CIA cloud project to the upstart, IBM had to acquire a small competitor, SoftLayer, to competently provide the services its customers are now demanding. The arrival of cheap cloud computing means that corporations don’t need IBM’s big, expensive mainframes. And even if IBM does catch up, the cloud might be such a thin-margined industry that it can’t sustain the profit margins IBM had been telling investors to expect. Until today...."

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Microsoft, Azure, Enterprise Cloud Computing

2014-10-31T00:00:00.000+12:00

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Seeks to ‘Harmonize’ With CIOs - The CIO Report - WSJ: "...The company plans to differentiate Azure by the level of enterprise support it delivers, the scale at which it can deliver services and its ability to help companies operate both in the cloud and on-premises in a hybrid environment, said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of cloud and enterprise. By the end of 2014, the Azure footprint will extend to 19 regions around the world, more than that of Amazon Web Services and Google Inc., said Mr. Guthrie. Each region can hold up to 600,000 servers. “Going forward, we think all customers are going to need this hyperscale functionality to power their businesses,” said Mr. Guthrie. Microsoft projects that, aside from itself, only Amazon Web Services [AWS] and Google will be able to deliver this level of scale...."

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