Cloud Tech News

Terrafugia, the $279,000 airplane that drives and parks like a car, was the toast of the recent New York Auto Show. But that is quite the overhead and a long future before mass acceptance. Today we have a new reality in cloud innovation that pertains to safe driving, Japanese governance, and time-stamping data.

Workforce engagement with enterprise mobility solutions is critical if the projects are to deliver the efficiency and productivity intended, but new research suggests many companies are failing to consider the factors that affect employee buy-in when implementing these systems.

If you believe that you've had to learn more about the safe online operation and ongoing management of your PC than you ever wanted to know, then you'll be pleased to discover that there's relief on the horizon. According to the latest market study by Gartner, the reign of the personal computer is coming to an apparent close.

Why do we still fundamentally architect our data centers as if it were 1984 – as if we still run client/server, with 18 servers. Our networks are all designed to be massively interconnected (and OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive) Core-based, with multiple layers beyond that all connect together. We are force-fitting old thinking into new requirements, badly. It can’t end well.

Big Data applications have gained new momentum in the marketplace, as the benefits of working with larger and larger data sets enables analysts to spot key business-related trends. International Data Corporation (IDC) released a worldwide forecast of Big Data opportunities, noting that the market is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015.

Apple has quietly been releasing information on now to integrate its growing list of Smart devices with Enterprise IT. While currently synonymous with consumers or perhaps less kindly termed "masses", the evidence is clear that Macs, iPads and iPhones are infiltrating corporate environments either knowingly or unknowingly.

There has been a thunderstorm of growing noise surrounding Cloud Computing in the past 24 months. Vendors, analysts, journalists and membership groups have all rushed to cover the Cloud medium; A combined hype has paralleled around BYOD (Bring your own device) also known as consumerisation. Where will the two collide?

As applications built for the cloud multiply, so too do the number of user interfaces floating around. With so many unique takes on UI design, it can be disorienting to switch between multiple cloud applications. One soution to this problem may be to create a set of UI standards to create a more unified experience.