Sony Wins Cloud Gaming Boost From Gaikai On July 2, Sony Computer Entertainment (of PlayStation fame) made a delicious tech-forward coup sure to find its virtual entertainment rivals Samsung and LG salivating with envy: the acquisition of Gaikai, the foremost cloud gaming company worldwide. Gaikai literally translates as “an open ocean” in Japanese. That definition conjures images of vast expanses inviting curious exploration — the same vibrant point of view that spearheaded the cloud computing movement, and that is spurring rapid concomitant change in the video game community via the cloud as well. Sony Computer Entertainment, or SCE, financed this
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What Prompted Sony’s Move from Amazon to Rackspace? From HP’s announcement to invade its territory (See: HP Seeks to Give Amazon Competition with a New Public Cloud Service) to the loss of a big client, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is facing multiple challenges to its hegemony. While HP’s move may still be some weeks away, the decision by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), which manages popular games such as Grand Theft Auto IV and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, decision to move some of its cloud workload from AWS to Rackspace OpenStack will have immediate repercussions to revenue, and
China’s Alibaba Establishes Fund to Develop Ecosystem in Support of Cloud OS The iPhone is the defining consumer product of the 2000s. In addition to its sleek design and captivating functionality, one of the major reasons it reached such heights of popularity was the creation of an ecosystem of third-part applications that greatly enhanced what value an iPhone could deliver. These iPhone Apps, as they came to be called, developed into a USP for the product itself. This phenomenon of an ecosystem encouraging adoption of a product or technology is not new. Consider the VHS-Betamax War of the 1970s fought
Expert Guide to Application Security – Real-time Hybrid Analysis: Find More, Fix Faster This white paper details how hybrid app security enables organizations to resolve critical security issues faster and cheaper than any other technology Over the years, two key techniques have emerged as the most effective for finding security vulnerabilities in software: Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST). While DAST and SAST each possess unique strengths, the “Holy Grail” of security testing is thought to be “hybrid” – a technique that combines and correlates the results from both testing methods, maximizing the advantages of
Cloud Security Still Top Priority For Finance Execs In the wake of the recent Sony PlayStation hack, Amazon EC2 outage and Epsilon data theft, information security is once again back in the news – for all the wrong reasons. The web has become a playground for hackers and malcontents eager to phish, defraud and steal wherever and whenever they can. Policing this landscape is a logistical nightmare, and battle lines are being drawn and redrawn many thousands of times a day – which perhaps hints at why many of us are still uncomfortable with the idea of storing sensitive data in
The three most popular electronic devices used nowadays are: The personal computing device – laptop, tablet, etc. The personal communication device – mobile phones. The personal entertainment device – iPod, Zune, etc, Now, what is the common attribute they share, other than the fact that whenever you buy one, you feel that you should have waited a month for the next model? MOBILITY. Being able to carry your electronic device with you wherever you go is what makes these three categories widely popular. It’s the same feeling that drove the enormous popularity of the Sony Walkman decades ago. And it’s
