According to the IBM Institute for Business Value the market will see a rapid adoption of initial cognitive systems. The most likely candidates have moved beyond descriptive and diagnostic, predictive and routine industry-specific capabilities. 70 percent of survey respondents are currently using advanced programmatic analytics in three or more departments. In fact, the widespread adoption of cognitive systems and artificial intelligence (AI) across various industries is expected to drive worldwide revenues from nearly US$8.0 billion in 2016 to more than US$47 billion in 2020.
Google Cloud’s Presence in India
India is a growing market fueled by its economic aspirations and young demographics. It’s little wonder that every major company in the world has a presence here, and Google is no different. It plans to set up a dedicated data center in Mumbai during 2017 to cater to the growing demands of Indian businesses.
This is an important move for Google because the Indian market is too large to be ignored. Already AWS and Microsoft have a presence here. However, the Indian cloud market is still in the developing stage, so any investments here is likely to grow with the cloud sector. All the major cloud providers understand the current situation, as well as the potential it offers during the next decade or so.
Currently, many businesses in India are in the unorganized sector, especially small and medium enterprises. Many of these SMEs still prefer to use cash for their everyday transactions, and only have a limited exposure to technology. All this is expected to change within the next few years – thanks to awareness about the benefits of universal education and the Indian government’s robust economic policies.
India has a young population, and the education levels are slowly and steadily increasing. Many children attend private or government schools, and they are getting exposed to a lot of technology. This means, they will grow up in a digital space, and it won’t be long before they drive the digital world. Another significant factor is the Indian government’s push towards a digital economy. Single-window business clearances, demonetization, and other steps are ensuring that more people would embrace the digital world for their everyday needs. While the results won’t be imminent right away, it’s sure to make a difference within the next five years. When that happens, tech companies want to be in a position to tap into the demand, and this is why they’re planning ahead of time.
Another reason for Google’s Indian presence is its aim to become a leader in the Japan and Asia Pacific region. To this end, it has invested about $9.9 billion in 2016 alone, and this has led to the emergence of two centers – one in Taiwan and the other in Japan. In 2017, it plans to open three more centers in Asia, out of which one will be in Mumbai. The company reiterated that Mumbai will be a region with three zones, but this doesn’t necessarily mean three data centers. Rather what it means is that these zones will ensure a risk-free and fall-tolerant service, but could encompass any number of data centers, but all of them will be located in the Mumbai region.
Though there are many cities in India, Google announced that it chose Mumbai because it is the financial capital of the country, and many local businesses are already using cloud or are planning to move to it soon.
This announcement is good news for the Indian economy as it will generate more employment opportunities, and can also assist the government’s plans to move the country to a digital space.
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HPE, Cisco maintain lead in cloud infrastructure equipment market
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The competition in cloud seems tough as organisations are girding well to grab the lion’s share in the market. The new Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) maintained a narrow lead over rival Cisco in the strategically important cloud infrastructure equipment market.
The data showed Dell EMC challenging the top two after the completion of their historic merger.
At the same time, original design manufacturers (ODMs) or contract manufacturers, in aggregate, are continuingly increasing their share of the market, driven by continued heavy investments in data centres by hyper-scale cloud providers. Microsoft and IBM complete the group of top cloud infrastructure vendors.
According to Synergy, HPE and Cisco have been in a closely contested leadership battle in the cloud market for the last sixteen quarters, over which time their total revenues are virtually identical.
And across the different types of cloud deployment, Cisco continues to hold a commanding lead in public cloud infrastructure while HP has a clear lead in private cloud.
Revenues continue to grow
The research firm predicts the total cloud infrastructure equipment revenues, including public and private cloud, hardware and software, to reach $70bn in 2016 and continue to grow at a double-digit pace.
Servers, OS, storage, networking and virtualisation software, all combined, accounted for 94% of the Q3 cloud infrastructure market and the balance comprised cloud security and cloud management.
Moreover, HPE leads the cloud server segment and is a main challenger in storage, while Cisco is dominant in the networking segment and also has a growing server product line.
Dell EMC is the second-ranked server vendor and has a clear lead on storage. Microsoft features heavily in the ranking due to its position in server OS and virtualisation applications, while IBM maintains a strong position across a range of cloud technology markets.
John Dinsdale, a chief analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group: “Growth in private cloud infrastructure is slowing down as enterprises shift more attention and workloads to the public cloud, but that means that there is a continued boom in shipments of infrastructure gear to public cloud providers.
For traditional IT infrastructure vendors there is one fly in the ointment though — hyperscale cloud providers account for an ever-increasing share of data centre gear and many of them are on a continued drive to deploy own-designed servers, storage and networking equipment, manufactured for them by ODMs.
ODMs in aggregate now control a large and growing share of public cloud infrastructure shipments.”
Arquitecturas i386, i486, i586, i686, i786
En los paquetes podemos encontrar que esta compilado para 32 bits usando i386 o i586 generalmente.
La diferencia radica en el set de instrucciones que usa el binario. Las diferentes generaciones son:
- i386: Intel i386/80386 (1985) y AMD386 (1991)
- i486: Intel i486/80486 (1989) y AMD486 (1993)
- i586: Intel Pentium (1993) y AMD-K5 (1996)
- i686: Intel Pentium Pro (1995) y AMD-K6 (1997)
- i786: Intel Pentium 4 (2000) y AMD-K7 (1999)
[video] @RackNgo’s #DevOps and Hybrid Cloud | @CloudExpo #CD #ML #SDN
“RackN is a software company and we take how a hybrid infrastructure scenario, which consists of clouds, virtualization, traditional data center technologies – how to make them all work together seamlessly from an operational perspective,” stated Dan Choquette, Founder of RackN, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
[slides] Uberizing Smart Cities | @ThingsExpo @CityzenData #IoT #IIoT #M2M
Smart Cities are here to stay, but for their promise to be delivered, the data they produce must not be put in new siloes.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mathias Herberts, Co-founder and CTO of Cityzen Data, discussed the best practices that will ensure a successful smart city journey.
Alibaba Enters Japan
Alibaba’s growing aspirations to be the one-stop tech shop for all consumer and business products in Asia, became one inch closer to reality with its entry into the Japanese market. On Thursday, the company announced a couple of partnerships that are likely to give a big boost to its two growing business arms – content delivery and cloud storage.
One of the partnership is with the Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corporation. Already, SoftBank is one of Alibaba’s largest investors, and with this agreement, it has entered into a joint venture to run a local cloud center hosted by SB Cloud Corporation. With this partnership, Alibaba has officially entered the Japanese market, and it will offer cloud computing services to local clients. The other agreement is with Oriental DreamWorks, through which it plans to bring animated movies to its Chinese customers on its online streaming platforms – Tudou.com and Youku.com.
This entry into Japan is significant in many ways. Alibaba has been strategizing to have a global footprint with a stronghold in Asia. Already, it’s cloud product called Aliyun, has a presence in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates, and with this data center, the total number of global data centers has increased to 14. Outside of Asia, it has a big presence in the US, and a growing one in Australia.
Currently, Alibaba is one of the largest conglomerates in the world, and owns the following companies:
- Aliyun – Cloud computing platform
- Tmall – Largest platform for businesses and retailers for B2B and B2C transactions in China.
- Taobao – Largest online shopping platform in China
- AliExpress – A global retail market platform
- 1688 – Leading wholesale marketplace in China
- Alimama – Largest online marketing platform in China
- Youku.com and Tudou.com – China’s largest online video streaming platforms
- Cainiao – Platform for logistics and operation management.
- Alitalk – Instant messenger for merchants and businesses
With such an impressive portfolio of companies, it’s no surprise that Alibaba is looking beyond the Chinese shores. If you look closely, Alibaba and Amazon have a lot in common. Both companies started out as e-commerce retailers and branched into public cloud computing line of business. Also, these two companies are leaders in their respective geographical areas, though Amazon is much larger and has a wider global footprint when compared to Alibaba. This partly explains why Alibaba is trying to mirror Amazon, and even compete with it on the global market.
It is significant to note that Amazon opened its new cloud data center in London last week to meet the growing demands of its British clients, and also to prepare for the possible consequences of Brexit. Likewise, Alibaba also entered the Australian market a few weeks ago to cater to the growing needs of its Australian customers. In this sense, both the companies have been aggressively pursuing different markets, and it’ll be interesting to see how the competition plays out in the Asian market, especially considering that Gartner predicts the Asia Pacific and Japan cloud market to be worth $11.5 billion by 2018.
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How the Cloud Is Transforming the PoS Industry | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #BigData
A number of retailers, especially small businesses, are moving away from these expensive systems to cheaper, yet a lot more sophisticated cloud alternatives. A typical cloud PoS system should cost retailers between $50 to $200 a month.
Point of Sale (Pos) systems typically haven’t required an internet connection. These devices come with a cash register, a barcode scanner and a card reading machine that connects to the bank via a fixed line connection. In addition to this, the higher end PoS systems come with inventory tracking and management tools as well. All of this does not come cheap and the hardware for these devices can cost anywhere between $2000 to $4000. This is not including the monthly support fee of between $25 to $100 that PoS providers charge businesses.
[slides] @Citrix’ #IoT and #DigitalTransformation | @ThingsExpo #BigData #ML
Businesses are struggling to manage the information flow and interactions between all of these new devices and things jumping on their network, and the apps and IT systems they control. The data businesses gather is only helpful if they can do something with it. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Witeck, Principal Technology Strategist at Citrix, discussed how different the impact of IoT will be for large businesses, expanding how IoT will allow large organizations to make their legacy applications and systems more useful by leveraging an increasingly disparate ecosystem of technologies, users and devices to create actionable business intelligence.
[video] Smart Video with @Roundeeio | @ThingsExpo #RTC #UCaaS #WebRTC
“LinearHub provides smart video conferencing, which is the Roundee service, and we archive all the video conferences and we also provide the transcript,” stated Sunghyuk Kim, CEO of LinearHub, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.