Pity IBM won’t say what it spent on mobile last year sans acquisitions, but whatever it was it’s going to double it this year under a big new “ second wave” initiative decreed by its new CEO Ginni Rometty, who has apparently sensed an inflection point that will grow Blue by a few billion dollars.
It’s Ginni’s first big initiative, and Mike Riegel, IBM’s VP in charge of mobile solutions, has been heard to say that the rise of mobile connectivity and e-commerce is “bigger than the web.”
That makes the new initiative the equal of IBM’s famous push into analytics and the cloud.
So, the company is mustering its troops and its 270 mobile patents and its R&D people behind the effort and has carved a new MobileFirst platform out of the products and services bought in by its 10 acquisitions in mobile that it will hawk.
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Rackspace Lowers Pricing on its Open Cloud
Rackspace Hosting, on Friday announced that it is lowering the price for cloud bandwidth and content delivery network (CDN) services by 33 percent. The company also announced that it is implementing tiered pricing for its open cloud product portfolio, starting with Cloud Files, its object storage service. The new pricing changes will take place over the next several weeks, beginning on February 22nd with tiered pricing for Cloud Files.
Rackspace’s customers deploying bandwidth-intensive workloads serving large amounts of content (which include video streaming, mobile and applications that require fast content delivery to end users) will benefit from the lower price of bandwidth, including CDN bandwidth. The price will change from $0.18 to $0.12 per GB.
Rackspace Lowers Pricing on its Open Cloud
Rackspace Hosting, on Friday announced that it is lowering the price for cloud bandwidth and content delivery network (CDN) services by 33 percent. The company also announced that it is implementing tiered pricing for its open cloud product portfolio, starting with Cloud Files, its object storage service. The new pricing changes will take place over the next several weeks, beginning on February 22nd with tiered pricing for Cloud Files.
Rackspace’s customers deploying bandwidth-intensive workloads serving large amounts of content (which include video streaming, mobile and applications that require fast content delivery to end users) will benefit from the lower price of bandwidth, including CDN bandwidth. The price will change from $0.18 to $0.12 per GB.
Seagate Joins OpenStack Foundation, OCP
For $25,000, which gives it no say in the technology, Seagate is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and a member of the Open Compute Project (OCP).
It’s looking for partners to advance its storage fortunes given the data explosion and the cloud’s role in storing that data.
Thinking perhaps of its Open Vault product, it says it “will help cloud builders develop more scalable, customizable solutions using open platforms while reducing operating costs and providing benefits for consumers in the marketplace.” What technology it may dangle and when is unclear.
Seagate Joins OpenStack Foundation, OCP
For $25,000, which gives it no say in the technology, Seagate is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and a member of the Open Compute Project (OCP).
It’s looking for partners to advance its storage fortunes given the data explosion and the cloud’s role in storing that data.
Thinking perhaps of its Open Vault product, it says it “will help cloud builders develop more scalable, customizable solutions using open platforms while reducing operating costs and providing benefits for consumers in the marketplace.” What technology it may dangle and when is unclear.
Google Puts Touchscreen on Chromebook: WSJ
Google, it seems, has built the first touchscreen laptops for its poorly received Chrome operating system.
The Wall Street Journal says the cloud-based widgets that run web apps should be out and about sometime later this year so Google can go “toe-to-toe” with Microsoft’s touch-sensitive Windows 8operating system.
It’s thought the Touch Chrome devices will actually compete directly with Android, but that’s apparently okay. According to the paper “The company has said it is comfortable having two competing systems that help boost Google services such as its web-search engine and YouTube.”
Samsung, Acer, Lenovo and now HP are in the Chromebook trade.
The Journal says maybe 100,000 Chromebooks were sold in the US last quarter due to heavy promotion.
Cisco and the Internet of Everything
John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, just published a good blog entry about the potential for change caused by universal connectivity, not just of our mobile gadgets, but of pretty much everything. Much has been made of late of the so-called … Continue reading 
Cisco and the Internet of Everything
John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, just published a good blog entry about the potential for change caused by universal connectivity, not just of our mobile gadgets, but of pretty much everything. Much has been made of late of the so-called … Continue reading
What Are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS?
IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, like many other acronyms in the IT industry, leave us lost in translation. With the initial confusion aside, they simply explain the three main developments in cloud computing. As a pooled collection of resources and services that are hosted on the Internet, the Cloud, often referred to as a stack, is categorized into three main service models: Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Sservice translate to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, respectively.
These services function thanks to virtualization, with the availability of high-speed networks and capabilities of modern browsers. With the use of these technologies, it has become less necessary for businesses to have their own infrastructure or software. Yet still IaaS, PaaS and SaaS remain a grey area, and many individuals struggle to differentiate between them to find the optimum solution for their business.
Skyera Gets Better than $51M in Funding
Skyera has gotten $51.6 million in series B financing led by Dell Ventures and a syndicate of other strategic investors to accelerate its next-generation enterprise solid-state storage solutions.
Skyera is supposed to be positioned at the forefront of the hyper-growth solid-state storage sector and is supposed to enable a large class of applications with “extraordinarily fast performance, exceptionally lower power consumption, high density and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems.”
Naturally it supports the cloud, Big Data, increased mobility and social networking.
The general availability of Skyera’s skyHawk series of enterprise solid-state storage systems is supposed to mark the first time that the new-generation 19/20nm solid-state technology can be used to replace the traditional hard disk-based system, at a system price of less than $3 a gigabyte.