Posted on April 12, 2013, by Goran Čandrlić | 4 minute read
"It’s no longer a question of whether to use the cloud, but of how and when," Cesar Orosco writes at Forbes. He brings out some statistical facts about the cloud in enterprise, such as "90% of Microsoft’s 2011 R&D budget of $9.6 billion was spent on cloud computing strategy and products," or "according to IDC, by 2015, one of every seven dollars spent on packaged software, server, and storage offerings will be through the public cloud model, growing five times faster than the total IT industry."
He follows this facts with a detailed suggestion on how to develop your own cloud strategy:
Find more details on each step and see more facts that put cloud as a necessity to roadmap a successful adoption to new technologies in e-commerce.
Frank Childs, director and product marketing at Akamai Technologies says "CDNs has aways been there to make the internet usable for broadband, but a lot has changed in the last 5 years." Now that we are in the era of hyper-connectivity, for example;
"The ability to simplify the internet is something that CDN does," Childs concludes.
Watch the full video below, find out how further development of CDNs affects both companies/organizations and network operators.
For more information visit: http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/aura-solutions.html
David Linthicum and Jo Maitland, for GigaOm, bring out the analysis of the year's first quarter in terms of cloud enterprises and cloud investors data. Major events for this quarter, according to Linthicum and Maitland, include that AWS is now valued at about $20 billion in total value, OpenStack gained renewed interest from IBM, consumer-oriented clouds such as iCloud and Dropbox continued to grow, cloud models are quickly overtaking cloud computing models as the usage of mobile devices is overtaking the use of the PC, and more. "The trends seen in the first quarter reflect a movement toward stability," they conclude.
Find the full disclosure of the trends at GigaOm.
EContent published an interview with Charles White, chief revenue officer at Mirror Image (a cloud service provider from Massachussetts, US) about the evolution of cloud delivery networks (CDNs).
"Today's CDN landscape has changed. Content creation is among the top priorities for any brand. When it comes to delivering that content, how and where to delivery it has changed dramatically with the advent of smartphones and digital technology," says White. He continues: "The shift towards a mobile and app-based internet is rapidly changing the role of the CDN. Higher bandwidth capabilities overall, coupled with our on-demand society, have caused customers to recognize the need for more than traditional content delivery. Today, content delivery must be highly customized to further maximize the end user experience."
Further on, White talks about the adjustments that cloud service providers need to make, about the next generation of CDNs, future and emerging types of content, a shift towards more personalized experience of the end users and more.
Find the full interview at the EContent magazine.
“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we aren’t using a USB jump drive to share our files anymore,” that's what Dorothy could have said in The Wizard of Oz.
At some point, much different from other times, cloud computing experts become playful. Chris Kenealy at CloudTweaks picks twenty of his favorite movie quotes and continues them with what he fancies would suit more the cloud computing era and the world dominated by mass and social media.
Here are some of them:
Find the full list at CloudTweaks.
