Why All Those New Google / Amazon Data Centers Won’t Really Go To Waste – Cloud Computing’s First Supercomputer As the market leaders of Cloud Computing’s rapidly growing industry, both Google and Amazon are looking to steadily increase the size of their data centers. However, many opponents to this idea are asking questions such as what will happen if or when the need for these data centers falls? Unlike the rest of us who are using Google and Amazon Cloud services in an elastic and dynamic manner as needs require it, as the actual hardware-backed Cloud providers they won’t be
Invisible Computing: How Cloud Is Forcing Software And Hardware Apart
Invisible Computing: How Cloud Is Forcing Software And Hardware Apart By 2018, Gartner predicts that 70 per cent of professionals will conduct their work on personal mobile devices, enabled by the revolutionary concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing essentially separates software from the logical functionality of local hardware. In other words, instead of needing computing power to ...
Cloud Infographic: The Amazing Cloud ATM
Cloud Infographic: The Amazing Cloud ATM One of the more entertaining and colorful infographics brought to out attention by CA Technologies. The research has been conducted with 542 IT leaders from around the world. Infographic Credit: CA Technologies
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Storage 2013
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Storage 2013 Future Trends And Prospects In Cloud Technology – Year 2013 Many technology experts think that cloud technology has not reached its maturity yet; it may take it about five or more years to mature if the present pace of growth remains consistent. It is being anticipated that the growth will be even ...Amazon Expands Cloud Footprint with Brazil Operations BRIC – a grouping acronym coined by Goldman Sachs executive Jim O’Neill to refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which are all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development. It is estimated that BRIC economies will overtake G7 economies by 2027. G7, of course, refers to the existing group of powerhouse economies, consisting of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. With that informative prelude, I begin my article on Amazon’s move into the South American market through its new
The Social Cloud: Promising Social Media Startups for 2012 While Facebook continues to dominate the Social media scene and rumors abound as to its next acquisition (probably Digg according to some people) many more startups are joining it by providing services somewhat different from the usual. Promising Cloud Based Social Media Startups to watch for in 2012 include Tumblr, Pinterest and Wooplr. Tumblr While it may seem like Tumblr.com is just another blog platform (or in their own words: microblogging) like WordPress and Blogspot, in reality it is much more like a social sharing site for pictures, text, media, video
Here is an attractive Infographic that we’ve come across that provides insight into The Past, Present and Future of Cloud Computing… Source: Dell
2012 and the Cloud: Computing Wonders That Won’t Cease 2011 wraps up in mere days now. We’re well aware of CloudTweaks’ readers’ hunger to get the scoop on what’s to come for the cloud in the New Year. But only vetted psychics can divine the future with truly reliable accuracy, and cloud computing has yet to invent a custom-made crystal ball. That said, our finger on technology’s pulse has led us to expect more of one truly good thing for the cloud: positive attention, and an increase in cloud converts who sing its praises with word of mouth. We’d like
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – New CEO By David Fletcher
Big Data and Promising Startups for 2012 A lot of people are saying Big Data is going to be even bigger in 2012. While it has always been an important factor in the Cloud revolution the main reasons this is so are that it is forecasted that enterprise Hadoop solutions are going to rise very quickly for 2012 while in-memory analytic platforms will grow exponentially. Both will make it easier for providers to deploy Big Data across multiple servers which is also why there are a number of promising startups looking to delve into Big Data for 2012. These include
What’s The New Cloud-Friendly CIO Like? The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has always occupied a position secondary to the other C-suite executives like the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). However, that is changing with the advent of cloud computing. So, what’s this new cloud-friendly CIO like? NOTE: I had written about some of these desirable traits earlier, though I had referenced the CTO or Chief Technology Officer instead of the CIO. Considering that these positions are quite similar, it may be worth a look. (See: The Seven Habits of Highly
