The third quarter of 2012 can be considered as the most unpredictable period for the mobile services. Huge changes included Google’s decision to move to hardware market when it proposed a partnership with Motorola. Hewlett-Packard, on the other hand, shocked everyone when it announced it will discontinue production of phones and tablets that are running…
A recent survey was made by Cisco IBSG (Internet Business Solutions Group) on the impact mobile cloud computing will have on businesses this coming 2012. The survey was conducted over 1,000 respondents from various businesses and the results were very interesting. The top 5 predictions from Cicsco IBSG was released via a cloud computing infographic to…
The United Sates and Taiwan recently had an agreement to spearhead the fee-for-service rental of cloud products and services for SMBs (Small and Medium sized Businesses) in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. This move is made to develop competitiveness among enterprises. US and Taiwan hopes to leverage their cloud solutions in the global market;…
Andrew McAfee is popular for being a supporter of Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 tools in many businesses. McAfee, a researcher at MIT’s Sloan School of Management was recently drawn to Katie Fehrenbacher’s of GigaOM’s statement. This took McAfee to look at companies that plans to have their first venture into cloud computing coined as…
Cloud computing is obviously a game changer and a life changer; this brings to mind how the nature of work and jobs will be affected in 2012. This includes not just the IT Technology, but all jobs that operate on the cloud. IT will play a strategic role on the direction that businesses will take…
With the cost-savings, scalability and agility that cloud computing offers to organizations, it’s no wonder the market opportunity is growing rapidly – jumping to more than $241 billion in 2020 from $40.7 billion this year, according to Forrester. However, as organizations look to embrace cloud computing they are confronted with a number of choices about…
As 2011 rolls to a close, it’s time to make a few predictions for 2012 in the cloud data space. 2011 was a year of adoption, where many companies started to enjoy the economies of scale, security and ease-of-use of the cloud in managing their growing data needs. Clearly, 2012 promises even greater cloud adoption….
The Amazon Kindle Fire outage last month created high frustration and disappointment level for its users. This was in spite of Amazon’s assurance of “ultra-fast web browsing,” the truth is, several users say that Silk runs slower through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon reasoned out that the cause of problem was the overload with cache…
Written by Mark Goros, CEO of Caringo Inc. 1. Object Storage will bring Cloud economics to any organization in 2012 A key to the affordability delivered with cloud storage is to begin with commodity components in a redundant, multi-tenant architecture with highly efficient disk utilization. These benefits are driven by object storage infrastructure which most…
Akamai Technologies said it agreed to buy rival Cotendo Inc., a maker of mobile-network acceleration software, for about $268 million in cash. The companies expect to close the deal in the first half of 2012. Cotendo was founded in 2008 and provides technology that accelerates the delivery of content through the Internet. Its content delivery…