Support team guest blog author: Ajith Mamolin If you already use Parallels Toolbox, or are planning to give it a shot soon, you might be interested to learn more about the awesome Parallels Toolbox features we introduced in a past blog. The Parallels Development Team is constantly expanding the Toolbox functionality, and it now includes around […]
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The rise of the cloud has put Messaging and Collaboration in the dark when it comes to measuring the service delivered to end-users. Since they don’t have any view of what is happening at the server level, the only way for them to know what is going on is to be able to replicate the end-user experience everywhere it is important. This includes not only measuring the performance of basic tasks that end-users would do on Exchange, SharePoint, or Skype for Business, but also having an idea of what’s going on from a network and configuration perspective in critical locations.
US-based Oracle Corporation, and China-Based Tencent Holdings Ltd., have come together to tap into a growing Chinese cloud market. This partnership, announced last Wednesday, aims to make the most of Chinese government’s policy to promote the rapid development of cloud market. Earlier this year, the Chinese government announced that it will be earmark certain technological areas including cloud, in an effort to move the Chinese economy up the value chain from a mere manufacturing hub.
To tap into this initiative, Oracle and Tencent have partnered to sell cloud-based solutions to different companies within the country. Under the terms of the partnership, Tencent will be the local partner whose responsibility is to sell Oracle’s cloud computing products in China. Also, this partnership aims to integrate the benefits of Oracle’s cloud functions with Tencent’s WeChat social media platform, to provide a better and more streamlined experience for its users. Currently, WeChat has about 700 million active users, and is termed as one of the fastest growing social media platforms in China. This integration with Oracle is sure to bring on more users within its fold, thereby increasing its reach and customer base.
This is a new beginning for both the companies. For Oracle, this signifies a foray into the lucrative Chinese market, that is already dominated by some big names such as IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft. For the Shenzhen-based Tencent, this partnership opens up new possibilities to expand its business, especially in the areas of retail, and banking. Currently, Tencent plans to sell computing products based on Oracle’s technology to financial companies, manufacturers, and retailers. Depending on the success of these offering, it plans to expand to other sectors too in the near future.
This partnership with Oracle is a natural extension for Tencent for a host of reasons. Firstly, this company understands the importance of getting into the cloud business, but this is not really its domain. It needed a reliable partner with a strong foothold in the cloud market, and Oracle fitted this need well. Secondly, Tencent’s biggest source of revenue is its online games. Though it already uses a limited amount of cloud computing to power these online games, a solid partnership can help to boost revenue from this avenue. Thirdly, it wants to expand its business line, so it has a more diversified portfolio that can withstand any negative impact in the future. Due to these reasons, Tencent stands to gain enormously from this partnership with Oracle.
Besides the two companies, the Chinese market as well as millions of tech-savvy Chinese users will also benefit from this partnership, as it will give them more choices in an already competitive market. Besides, having more companies in the same segment is sure to encourage innovation. Also, this partnership is expected to boost the digital lifestyle of young Chinese, and can even pave the way for a more interconnected life.
In all, this partnership between Tencent and Oracle augurs well for everyone, even if it’s a little late.
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In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and transform the client experience.
In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of Data Center Group and GM, discussed how clients in this new era of innovation can apply data, technology, plus human ingenuity to springboard to advance new business value and opportunities.
The Jevons Paradox suggests that when technological advances increase efficiency of a resource, it results in an overall increase in consumption. Writing on the increased use of coal as a result of technological improvements, 19th-century economist William Stanley Jevons found that these improvements led to the development of new ways to utilize coal.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera, compared the Jevons Paradox to modern-day enterprise IT, examining how the Internet and the cloud has allowed for the democratization of IT, resulting in an increased demand for the cloud and the drive to develop new ways to utilize it.
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It’s that time of year again: Cisco has released its latest cloud index survey, and the numbers keep getting bigger. This time, global cloud traffic is predicted to rise from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015, to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020, assisted by greater data centre virtualisation and increased migration to cloud architectures.
The figures from this time last year put the current prediction into context; back in October 2015 the networking giant put the overall figure for the end of 2019 at 8.6 ZB, although adding that the Internet of Everything (IoE) would generate an eye-watering 42.3 ZB per month by 2019.
Among the updated figures include global data centre traffic, which is forecast to hit 15.3 ZB per year by the end of 2020, while global data centre IP traffic will grow three-fold in the coming five years. 68% of cloud workloads in four years’ time will be in public cloud data centres, up from 49% in 2015, providing an interesting comparison with VMware’s analysis back in August, which argued 2021 will be the year where 50% of all enterprise IT workloads will be in the cloud, and 2030 the year when public cloud will be the dominant share.
The types of cloud service delivery models will also change, according to Cisco.
By 2020, almost three quarters (74%) of total cloud workloads will be software as a service (SaaS), up from 65% in 2015, compared with 17% for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) – down from 26% last year – and 8% for platform as a service (PaaS).
One evident trend Cisco aims to emphasise is around larger scale ‘hyperscale’ data centres, and how they will have a ‘significant’ impact on the global data centre landscape. By 2020, the report argues, hyperscale will host almost half (47%) of all data centre servers, as well as more than two thirds (68%) of data centre processing power.
Collaborating with Synergy Research, whose reports on cloud infrastructure have long been covered in this publication, Cisco argues there are 24 hyperscale operators globally that either hit $1bn in IaaS or PaaS, $2bn in SaaS, $4bn in search or social networking, or $8bn in eCommerce. From 259 at the end of last year, Cisco estimates there will be 485 hyperscale data centres by 2020. “As with servers, hyperscale data centres represent a large portion of overall data, traffic, and processing power in data centres,” the report notes. “Traffic within hyperscale data centres will quintuple by 2020.”
The report’s conclusion makes for particularly interesting reading, again noting that an ‘extraordinary’ amount of data will be generated by IoE applications – somewhere to the tune of 600 ZB – by 2020, as well as other emerging technologies. “Not only is the data centre traffic growing, but it is also getting streamlined with architectural innovations such as SDN and NFV, which offer new levels of optimisation for data centres,” the report notes.
With regard to cloud readiness – the work of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) is an excellent reference point in this regard – Cisco adds countries around the globe have made ‘significant strides’ in supporting cloud services. “The focus now turns to continuing to improve network capabilities to support the advanced cloud applications that organisations and end users expect and rely upon,” the report adds.
You can read the full paper here (PDF).
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These and many other fascinating insights are from the Evans Data Corporation Global Developer Population and Demographic Study 2016 (PDF, client access) published earlier this week. The methodology Evans Data has created to produce this report is the most comprehensive developed for aggregating, analysing and predicting developer populations globally. The study combines Evans Data’s proprietary global developer population modeling with the current results of their semi-annual global developer survey.
Key takeaways from the study include the following:
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Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 11/7/2016.
Cyber fraudsters take money out of 20,000 Tesco Bank accounts. Why group chat is emerging as the hottest thing in IT. The top concerns for cloud computing adoption are visibility and security. Ransomware attack forces Madison County, Indiana to pay up. Hackers use DDoS attack to cut heat to apartments in Finland. Britain budgets $2.3 billion to defend and attack against hackers. Microsoft adds Kubernetes support to Azure Container Service. How AI makes security systems more flexible and more top news this week you may have missed!
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