The Future of Cloud Adoption, Cost Analysis of Managing Data

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Cost Analysis of Managing Data
16 Jul 2012

With businesses these days, data has become as important as time and money. However, managing and storage of data cost money, and the bigger the data that a corporation handles, the larger the expenses. The amount of money required to manage big data is no trivial matter, which i[etc]view more ››

Sony Will Put Gaming In The Cloud
15 Jul 2012

Rumors were already floating around even before E3 2012, but Sony Computer Entertainment has recently confirmed their acquisition of the cloud-based gaming company Gaikai. The whole deal was completed to the tune of $380 million, and will allow Sony to establish a new cloud servi[etc]view more ››

The Future of Cloud Adoption
15 Jul 2012

Public cloud computing is one of the biggest factors that speed up the pace of changes that occur in enterprise software these days. Newcomers in the market are constantly launching innovations that can disrupt and attack the most price-sensitive sectors in the market. Most of th[etc]view more ››

45% of Networks Will be Obsolete in Next 5 Years
14 Jul 2012

According to information released by Dimension Data, 45 percent of network structures of some 300 companies audited by the service provider during the year 2011 will be totally obsolete in next five years. As per the Dimension Data's Network Barometer Report 2012, a key factor fo[etc]view more ››

Hotels Offered More Expensive for Mac Users – Hadoop Big Data Use Case
13 Jul 2012

Mac users recently found out that when they search for hotels at the Orbitz website, they were provided with more expensive offers than PC users. This is possible through Hadoop, a technology platform capable of gathering information. The open source technology was able to gather[etc]view more ››

Red Hat Intends to Transform the Enterprise Storage and Hybrid Cloud Platform
12 Jul 2012

The Open Source solutions provider announced the availability of Red Hat Storage Server 2.0, an open source storage scalable solution designed to manage unstructured data. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 is the first system to combine the innovations of the open source community and t[etc]view more ››

A Cloudy Forecast?
12 Jul 2012

Amazon Web Services' East Coast cloud was reported to have crashed for a second time due to a power outage because of a severe storm. A total of 1.3 million in Washington DC was affected. Because of this power outage, websites taking advantage of AWS's cloud like Heroku, Pinteres[etc]view more ››

Dell Acquires Quest For $2.36 Billion
12 Jul 2012

Dell finally acquires Quest Software when it agreed to pay $28 per share. The bid was 50 cents more than its previous bid. For this transaction, Dell has agreed to pay $2.36 billion to acquire Quest.  Last March, Insight Venture Partners offered to buy Quest for $23 per share. It[etc]view more ››

What Amazon's Downtime Taught Us
10 Jul 2012

Not to make light of the entire situation, but it seems that digital clouds are not completely immune to problems caused by real clouds, as severe storms that swept across the United States last June wiped out power for more than 2 million people, an outage that affected Amazon's[etc]view more ››

Gartner Report: One Third of Digital Data will be in Cloud by 2016
09 Jul 2012

Mobile computing, social networking, connected devices and the desire to share contents across multiple devices will inspire consumers to store their digital data in the cloud. Gartner, the research firm, has come out with one more report of the growing importance of the cloud. G[etc]view more ››

SAP's Second Life
09 Jul 2012

It seems odd, but SAP has brought back its cloud service called ByDesign, simply for the purpose of making SuccessFactors use it – even though the cloud service was originally put on the chopping block by SAP itself. SuccessFactors is one of SAP's recent acquisitions, with the pr[etc]view more ››

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