News Digest May 19, 2013
- IDC Estimates Global Market for SDN to Reach $50 Billion by 2017
According to IDC, in 2013 the global market volume of the software defined network (SDN) market and enterprise networking will reach $42.4 billion, and will reach $50 billion, with growth across all categories, by 2017.
The volume of the Layer 2-3 switch market segment of the market [...]
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- TechNavio Report: APAC SMBs Market Moving Towards Cloud Computing
TechNavio’s analysts forecast the SMB Cloud market in the APAC region to grow at a CAGR of 39.3 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the main factors contributing to this market growth is the reduced costs of the cloud approach.
The APAC cloud market has also been witnessing increasing adoption of next-generation technologies. [...]
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- CloudTimes Partners with ODCA for Forecast 2013 Conference in San Francisco
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is developing a unified vision for cloud requirements – particularly focused on open, interoperable solutions for secure cloud federation, automation of cloud infrastructure, common management, and transparency of cloud service delivery.
As in previous years, CloudTimesis proud to announce to be a <a href="http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/newsroom/mediaresources/redhat-opennetworkfoundation-verneglobal-forecast2013newestsponsor" [...]
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- Understanding the Potential of Software-Defined Networking
In the past two decades, enormous innovation has taken place on top of the Internet architecture. Email, e-commerce, search, social networks, cloud computing, and the web as we know it is all good examples.
With the evolution of cloud computing and virtualization, IT managers have had to change in recent years the way we [...]
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- YouTube Launches Paid Subscription Channels
After more than a year of announcements, Google launched its paid YouTube channels. The service allows YouTube viewers to access premium contents from select content providers. Monthly subscription rate starts at $.99 with a 14-day free trial. Some content creators also offer discounts for those who will pay an annual rate.
As of now, [...]
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- Datacore Software Study: Virtualization Adoption is Slowed by the High Cost of Storage and Performance Issues
Cloud storage provider Datacore Software released the results of its third annual survey of the state of virtualization, which cut the adoption of virtualization strategies by organizations due to storage-related costs and I/O performance issues.
The State of Virtualization Survey Storage survey, suggests that businesses are willing to virtualize their mission critical applications, [...]
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- How the US Army Leverages Cloud and Big Data Technologies
It’s not a secret that the US army takes special interest in groundbreaking technology, and was responsible for the development of GPS technologyfor example. GPS started out as technology exclusive to the military – but what about the Cloud? Cloud as a concept has [...]
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- Solving the Cloud’s Hidden Problem: Access to Knowledge in a Fragmented Environment
By Louis Tetu, CEO of Coveo
In the past several years, as cloud computing has become one of the top IT priorities, we can agree that, for the most part, we’ve overcome the primary concerns associated with the technology – security, reliability and performance. With these concerns at [...]
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- News Digest May 12, 2013
Yahoo Rediscovers Mobile – Will it Work This Time?With Yahoo’s new plan to focus on mobile, we can expect the company to close some of its online services like the local events calendar and a coupon site as told by its Chief [...]
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- Gartner: BYOD to Take Center Stage For Mobile App Use by 2017
More and more companies encourage their employees to work on their devices, thus reducing the cost of computer equipment, but also increase the cost to maintain licenses and safety.
According to research by Gartner, half of the world’s companies will seek from their workers to individually provide devices for work by 2017. [...]
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