IoT is at the core or many Digital Transformation initiatives with the goal of re-inventing a company’s business model. We all agree that collecting relevant IoT data will result in massive amounts of data needing to be stored. However, with the rapid development of IoT devices and ongoing business model transformation, we are not able to predict the volume and growth of IoT data. And with the lack of IoT history, traditional methods of IT and infrastructure planning based on the past do not apply either.
Monthly Archives: January 2017
[session] Wizard of IoT | @ThingsExpo @GridConnect #IoT #IIoT #M2M #API
Things are changing so quickly in IoT that it would take a wizard to predict which ecosystem will gain the most traction. In order for IoT to reach its potential, smart devices must be able to work together. Today, there are a slew of interoperability standards being promoted by big names to make this happen: HomeKit, Brillo and Alljoyn. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Adam Justice, vice president and general manager of Grid Connect, will review what happens when smart devices don’t work together, and will look at each standard in detail, highlighting strengths and weaknesses. He will also look at whether standards can co-exist, and what it would take to make this happen.
Creating Your Digital Strategy | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DigitalTransformation
For many corporations, welcoming the New Year also heralds the season of strategy development and budget distribution. This year, however, companies of all sizes are struggling with how to deal with the accelerating consumerization of technology and the mind numbing societal changes it brings. While each industry vertical has its own processes and business models to deal with, they all share a pressing need to develop an appropriate digital strategy. For 2017 this seems to be at the top of every executive to do list.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 01/16/2017
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 01/16/2017!
The rapid evolution in virtualization arena. Cybersecurity trends to watch for in 2017. 5 things to come for the hyper-converged infrastructure. What’s new with Windows 10. HPE gets serious about hyper-converged storage with SimpliVity buy and more tops news this week you may have missed!
Remember, to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news throughout the week, follow @GreenPagesIT on Twitter.
Tech News Recap
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Pays $650 Million In Cash For SimpliVity
- The Rapid Evolution in Virtualization Arena
- 5 Things to Come for the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
- Cybersecurity trends to watch for in 2017
- 95 Percent of Enterprise Cloud Services Aren’t Enterprise Ready
- To reap the benefits of hyper-convergence, manage it right
- Why all hyper-converged infrastructure isn’t created equal
- HPE gets serious about hyper-converged storage with SimpliVity buy
- Rationalizing the Move Toward the Software-Defined Data Center to Achieve IT as a Service
- Windows 10: What’s New
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Time for the Tail to Stop Wagging the Dog | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Agile
Here’s a novel, but controversial statement, “it’s time for the CEO, COO, CIO to start to take joint responsibility for application platform decisions.” For too many years now technical meritocracy has led the decision-making for the business with regard to platform selection. This includes, but is not limited to, servers, operating systems, virtualization, cloud and application platforms. In many of these cases the decision has not worked in favor of the business with regard to agility and costs.
Olympics Official Cloud Provider – Alibaba
Alibaba has entered the world of big budget advertising, as it joins the ranks of giants like Coca-Cola and Samsung, thanks to a deal between Alibaba and the Olympics Committee, under which Alibaba is the official lead sponsor of Olympics Games until 2028.
Besides being the lead sponsor, Alibaba will also provide cloud computing and data analytics services until 2028. This is obviously a big opportunity for Alibaba as it takes on global leaders in the cloud market such as AWS, Microsoft, and Google. Currently, Alibaba’s cloud service called Aliyun is nowhere near the ranks of giants like IBM, AWS and Microsoft, but it hopes that this can change over the next decade or so.
In a way, this is a strategic move by Alibaba as it gives them the much-needed exposure on the global stage. There is no event greater than the Olympics, and being a lead sponsor, means Alibaba is going to be known across all countries that’ll participate in this event. This exposure can propel Alibaba into the limelight, and can even help to increase its revenue and profits.
Other than this benefit, it gives a huge boost for its marketing campaigns as the company can now sport the Olympics logo in all its marketing material. It’s the first Chinese company to do so, and is also the first Chinese sponsor of the 2022 Winter Olympics slated to be held in Beijing. The revenue that it’ll gain from such an exposure is likely to run into billions, and even has the potential to put the company right among the top cloud players of the world. Specifically, the benefits for the Chinese market are expected to be simply enormous, as it can create a separate Olympic channel to sell its merchandise geared towards a Chinese audience.
Over the last few months, Alibaba is plagued by counterfeit products, and it’s doing its best to weed out these violators. According to Jack Ma, the CEO of Alibaba Group, it has employed more than 2,000 people to identify those who are selling counterfeit products on its e-commerce sites, and the company hopes to remove this problem at the earliest. The International Olympic Association also understands this problem, and even lauded Alibaba’s efforts in this regard.
Despite this drawback, the Olympic Committee accepted Alibaba, and this could be partly because of a heavy sponsorship fee. At this point, the amount of money paid by Alibaba for this coveted partnership is not known. Jack Ma refused to divulge into the details, and opined that this is not just a sponsorship, but a partnership deal.
If you’re wondering how Alibaba got this idea, it simply took lead from the Chinese government’s new policies. Recently, the Chinese government called on all local companies to promote the sporting sector in a big way, and Alibaba simply took this idea to the next level.
Alibaba’s first event will begin in 2020 at Tokyo. It’ll be interesting to see how much money Alibaba will make from the deal, and if it’ll be more than what it spends by way of cloud computing infrastructure and the hundreds of millions of dollars as sponsorship fees.
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Facebook to expand data centre empire to Denmark with Odense site
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Facebook has announced it will build a new energy-efficient data centre in Odense, Denmark, marking a continued expansion for tech firms choosing to store their data in the Nordic regions.
According to a report from Reuters, Niall McEntegart, Facebook director of data centre operations, told local authorities that the Odense data centre will be “one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centres in the world.” The social giant acquired a 0.5 square kilometre plot of land in the Danish city last year.
The expansion marks the third data centre from the company outside the US, with facilities already in Lulea, Sweden, and Clonee in Ireland. Writing at the time of the Clonee launch this time last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that the facility will be cooled with outdoor air with an indirect air cooling process to filter the salt from the Irish Sea air. It is a similar process to the one which Rackspace unveiled in 2015 for its data centre in West Crawley, and again signifies the advantages of the natural temperatures in the area.
The data centre facilities in Lulea are well documented, with Facebook being the most prominent customer of The Node Pole. Swedish data centre providers also enjoy significant electricity cuts as of January 1 after parliamentary legislation was secured in November last year. The rates were down to 0.005 krona, or 0.00054 US dollars per kWh, as of January 1 2017 at a 97% cut.
Speaking to this publication in 2015, Anne Graf, then investment and development director of The Node Pole, explained the importance of the Swedish premiership recognising the potential of the data centre industry in the region. “Facebook has been hugely important, not only for the Node Pole but also for the region, both in terms of jobs created and bringing this industry to the attention of Sweden,” she said.
Danish energy minister Lars Lilleholt said in a statement that Denmark has “one of the world’s greatest energy systems, with large quantities of green energy, high security of supply, good fibre connections and competitive power prices.”
Facebook to expand data centre empire to Denmark with Odense site
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Facebook has announced it will build a new energy-efficient data centre in Odense, Denmark, marking a continued expansion for tech firms choosing to store their data in the Nordic regions.
According to a report from Reuters, Niall McEntegart, Facebook director of data centre operations, told local authorities that the Odense data centre will be “one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centres in the world.” The social giant acquired a 0.5 square kilometre plot of land in the Danish city last year.
The expansion marks the third data centre from the company outside the US, with facilities already in Lulea, Sweden, and Clonee in Ireland. Writing at the time of the Clonee launch this time last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that the facility will be cooled with outdoor air with an indirect air cooling process to filter the salt from the Irish Sea air. It is a similar process to the one which Rackspace unveiled in 2015 for its data centre in West Crawley, and again signifies the advantages of the natural temperatures in the area.
The data centre facilities in Lulea are well documented, with Facebook being the most prominent customer of The Node Pole. Swedish data centre providers also enjoy significant electricity cuts as of January 1 after parliamentary legislation was secured in November last year. The rates were down to 0.005 krona, or 0.00054 US dollars per kWh, as of January 1 2017 at a 97% cut.
Speaking to this publication in 2015, Anne Graf, then investment and development director of The Node Pole, explained the importance of the Swedish premiership recognising the potential of the data centre industry in the region. “Facebook has been hugely important, not only for the Node Pole but also for the region, both in terms of jobs created and bringing this industry to the attention of Sweden,” she said.
Danish energy minister Lars Lilleholt said in a statement that Denmark has “one of the world’s greatest energy systems, with large quantities of green energy, high security of supply, good fibre connections and competitive power prices.”
New Year New Mac Best Practices
We’ve put together some of our best practices when unboxing that shiny new Mac you may have spoiled yourself with or received as a gift from a friend, family member, or work this holiday season. Starting with a fresh machine is, hands down, the best way to kick off a productive year. Here’s the […]
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[slides] #WebRTC for the #IoT | @CloudExpo @MontesLu #M2M #RTC #Telecom
Web Real-Time Communication APIs have quickly revolutionized what browsers are capable of. In addition to video and audio streams, we can now bi-directionally send arbitrary data over WebRTC’s PeerConnection Data Channels. With the advent of Progressive Web Apps and new hardware APIs such as WebBluetooh and WebUSB, we can finally enable users to stitch together the Internet of Things directly from their browsers while communicating privately and securely in a decentralized way.