January is always a strange time of year at CloudTech HQ; the Consumer Electronics Show signifies the last vestiges of the holiday break, with the industry firmly awoken from its hibernal slumber to press ahead with 2014 deliverables.
As a result there’s plenty to find across the web – here are our favourite pieces from the last fortnight:
1) Salesforce CEO praises Oracle, slams Microsoft, and hints at analytics acquisitions [Venture Beat]: Amid the Vegas glitz of CES, over in Manhattan Salesforce kicked off its Salesforce1 World Tour. The ensuing roundtable provided a litany of quotable opinion from CEO Marc Benioff.
Benioff called Steve Ballmer’s resignation “a very good decision…but it’s probably five years too late”, while adding that Microsoft “need[s] to push the rest button on vision.” Yet the Salesforce chief was more salutary about Oracle, saying that its tech was “an important part of …
Anniversaries are always a good point to take a step back, reflect on the past and think about what the future holds. That is something I have done this week as we head into the third calendar year of G-Cloud by taking time out to reread the document which lays out the government’s Cloud First Strategy as published by the Cabinet Office in 2011.
Looking through the document it is striking how frequently it refers to a vision for commodity IT services and a move away from customised solutions as part of a drive for lower costs and greater competition. But is this move towards commodity buying really likely to change buyer behaviour and deliver those benefits?
As things stand right now, I am not so sure.
I’d even go so far as to say that commoditisation could end up being a barrier to the delivery of lower …
Appcore has released its latest product, Appcore AMP Service Manager, a hosted private cloud solution for service providers.
Based on customer demand, Appcore is releasing Appcore AMP Service Manager, allowing service providers to now sell hosted private cloud. “It is paramount for service providers to differentiate their product offering to compete in today’s environment. Our hosted private cloud solution now allows service providers to further leverage their existing network and infrastructure to provide a secure environment for their enterprise customers,” said Jeff Tegethoff, Appcore CEO.
Innodisk, a designer and manufacturer of SSDs for industrial applications, is committed to providing flash storage solutions that meet the unique security demands of the gaming and amusement industry without sacrificing reliability and performance. With its release of a new series of casino gaming industry storage devices, the industry no longer needs to rely on insecure commodity hardware.
AWPs (amusement with prize games), arcade games, slot machines and casinos have strict security requirements.In jurisdictions worldwide, stringent gaming industry regulations include requirements for data storage used in gaming machines designed to enhance security, such as protection of game play data, to ensure a safe and legal market. With the high volume of monetary transactions involved, manufacturers must ensure strong authentication and compliance with strict government regulations.
While unprecedented technological advances have been made in healthcare in areas such as genomics, digital imaging and Health Information Systems, access to this information has been not been easy for both the healthcare provider and the patient themselves. Regulatory compliance and controls, information lock-in in proprietary Electronic Health Record systems and security concerns have made it difficult to share data across health care providers.
The opportunities inherent in mobile technology are dramatically changing the way healthcare business gets done. Healthcare provider professionals are adopting mobile devices and tablets as an alternative to desktops/laptops and using mobile applications to augment gaps in existing patient management system capabilities. Developing mobile applications for the healthcare industry has some unique challenges, particularly protecting your backend data services while making them available to mobile application frameworks and SDKs.
Keeping up with the day-to-day HR needs of a growing workforce can significantly affect your efficiency. Paperwork, approvals, requests for information and staying compliant: all take you away from your strategic focus. A cloud-based HR system can help remove the administrative stress from your growing HR needs and allow you to concentrate on your business.
You already use the cloud
It’s amazing how many people are aware of ‘The Cloud’ but don’t know they’re using it, over 75% of businesses are in, or are looking to move to the cloud for a variety of reasons.
But first, if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, shop online or bank online you are actually more familiar to the cloud then you already know. They all use the cloud because it’s simple, it’s mobile and pretty much anyone can use it, working in real time makes your life easier. This is why HR is moving to the cloud, for the same reasons you use the above; Instant access, easy to use. Cloud makes business simple!
Keeping up with the day-to-day HR needs of a growing workforce can significantly affect your efficiency. Paperwork, approvals, requests for information and staying compliant: all take you away from your strategic focus. A cloud-based HR system can help remove the administrative stress from your growing HR needs and allow you to concentrate on your business.
You already use the cloud
It’s amazing how many people are aware of ‘The Cloud’ but don’t know they’re using it, over 75% of businesses are in, or are looking to move to the cloud for a variety of reasons.
But first, if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, shop online or bank online you are actually more familiar to the cloud then you already know. They all use the cloud because it’s simple, it’s mobile and pretty much anyone can use it, working in real time makes your life easier. This is why HR is moving to the cloud, for the same reasons you use the above; Instant access, easy to use. Cloud makes business simple!
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has been named a finalist in the Cloud category of the Tech Trailblazers Awards.
Rose Ross, chief Trailblazer said, “Our esteemed judges and I congratulate all the finalists of the first annual Tech Trailblazers Awards. It was a tough competition. Our fans and the judges will now decide who will be the startups who can say ‘We are Tech Trailblazers’ in the near future.”
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has been named a finalist in the Cloud category of the Tech Trailblazers Awards.
Rose Ross, chief Trailblazer said, “Our esteemed judges and I congratulate all the finalists of the first annual Tech Trailblazers Awards. It was a tough competition. Our fans and the judges will now decide who will be the startups who can say ‘We are Tech Trailblazers’ in the near future.”
…On Friday at 5:30 PM PT, we had a planned maintenance scheduled to upgrade the OS on some of our machines.
…In this case, a bug in the script caused the upgrade to run on a handful of machines serving production traffic.
…some master-slave pairs were impacted which resulted in the site going down.
…We were able to restore most functionality within 3 hours, but the large size of some of our databases slowed recovery, and it took until 4:40 PM PT today for core service to fully return.
