Posted on January 21, 2014, by Goran Čandrlić | 6 minute read
"To help IT organizations make better, more informed purchasing decisions and ensure optimal performance for their cloud applications, Intel Corporation is teaming with 16 leading cloud service providers (CSPs) around the world to introduce Intel Cloud Technology program. This first-of-its-kind initiative will provide cloud users with a clear view into the technology powering a CSP’s infrastructure before they purchase any services or instances," says vm blog. The program includes Virtustream; Canopy, Cloud4com, CloudWatt, Expedient, KIO Networks, KT (Korea), Locaweb, NxtGen, Online.net, OVH, Rackspace, Savvis, Selectel and UOLDIVEO / UOL Host.
With IaaS revenue expected to grow 41 percent annually by 2016 and with more companies considering outsourcing their IT services, the technology that powers cloud-based services and applications is to be inspected more thoroughly and based on user expectations.
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Adobe partnered with MakerBot and Shapeways to bring 3D Printing support to Photoshop, which will also add Perspective Warp Tool and reset 30-Day trials. "While you could always create basic 3D models in Photoshop, it’s clearly not a tool that was designed for this job, and Adobe freely acknowledges this. Because of this, the company assumes that you are bringing in models from a third-party tool and then finishing them in Photoshop. This means adding textures to these models, for example, and doing the kind of image manipulation fine-tuning that the product is best known for," says Tech Crunch.
All this is a giant mainstream push for 3D printing. Tools will add the necessary scaffolding and rafts so the models can actually be printed and they will also look for potential issues with the model before it is printed, so users don’t waste a lot of time and material. 3D Perspective Warp feature will be useful for working with composite images that include some assets that were shot from slightly different angles.
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Internap released new survey results, they polled nearly 250 Internet infrastructure decision makers globally to gain insight into public cloud adoption, requirements and challenges. The key findings are:
Analysis source (also: full article)
Moving applications to the cloud is a challenging task and requires some understanding of data that is bound to the application, of leveraging the cloud platform and predicting the modifications that need to happen. David Linthicum offers some basic guidelines, which are, in a nutshell:
What does this all mean and what is Linthicum's overall advice, find out here.
Although Microsoft only opened up registration for this year's Microsoft Build event on January 14th, it was sold in 24 hours. The event will take place in San Francisco again, but Microsoft will play host at the Moscone Center between April 2nd and 4th, which is a bit earlier in the year.
"Windows Phone 8.1 includes a notification center and Siri-like personal assistant, with lots of additional tweaks compared to the original release in October 2012. Microsoft will also likely detail its upcoming "Update 1" release for Windows 8.1 at Build 2014," reports the Verge and guesses on key topics to be discussed.
Visit the official event site and join the waiting list.
Also, read more about the event here.
