Posted on October 18, 2013, by Goran Čandrlić | 6 minute read
Akamai, the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, announced plans for future integration of Akamai Unified Performance technology into the Cisco ISR-AX series of routers.
Image 1 - Akamai Intelligent Platform combined with Cisco routers
The two companies intend to combine the power of Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) with Akamai Unified Performance to extend the corporate data center and the Akamai Intelligent Platform into the branch, specifically to offload existing network links and improve performance for web and business critical applications. The benefit of such solution would be:
"The intent of both Akamai and Cisco is to utilize the Internet as a fast, reliable, cost-effective WAN option to address the exploding traffic requirements on corporate networks and deal with the architectural challenges hybrid clouds impose on traditional hub–and-spoke networks," it is said in the press release.
Watch an interview with Akamai's Tim Knudsen and Cisco's Liad Ofek:
Read the press release here.
According to Linthicum and Maitland, some major cloud breakthroughs in the third quarter of the year were the rise of multicloud as a concept, changes at Microsoft that call into question the viability of the software's giant cloud strategy, the Open Stack cloud turning 3 years old, the investigation of IBM for cloud washing by SEC, as AWS and IBM battled for the CIA cloud contract, several major players being awarded $10 billion worth of new contracts, and finally, Oracle boosting its in-memory capabilities and price tag.
The quarter marked slower and less hyped growth, also the concern steaming from the NSA surveillance scandal whim made cloud providers offer new privacy services.
The full paper can be downloaded at GigaOM Pro.
The fact that more people will have access to 3D printing technology is great, but the implications of this are more interesting. Moreover, the global engineering technology is moving towards cloud computing which will bring a whole new set-up for the next generation manufacturing. The Internet of things, 3D printing and software-defined anything, from networks to data centers make Gartner's 2014 top technologies list. The materials that we can use for 3D printing will eventually be as good and as available as materials used in factories, making it possible for consumers to customize the design of any object. Add to it the cloud technology, and it could be done using smartphones and tablets. Democratization of 3D printing may also be at hand. According to Gartner, global shipments of 3D printers will grow by 75% in 2014 and nearly double the following year. Time to look at what 3D printed bunny costed before, and think about its price going down in the near future.
Image 2 - 3D Printed Bunny Cost
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Cloud, Mobility, 3D Printing Make Gartner's 2014 Key Technologies List.
VMwolrd 2013 event ended on October 17th in Barcelona. The latest IT trends and best practices were discussed, also cutting-edge topics like the software-defined data center, hybrid cloud, cloud management, and mobility. VMware is an American software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, being the first who managed to virtualize the x86 architecture, founded in 1998 in Palo Alto, California. New capabilities and enhancements to VMware were announced in the area of cloud management solutions, cloud hybrid service, end-user computing, and data protection technologies. Announcements from CEO Pat Gelsinger and the VMware team at VMworld 2013 Europe can be found here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/2013/10/vmworld-europe-2013-news-summary-from-barcelona.html.
Also, visit the official VMworld 2013 website.
"Google spent nearly $2.29 billion on data centers, servers and other infrastructure during its fiscal third quarter," it is reported by GigaOM as taken from the company's Q3 financial summary. Actually, manufacturing and inventory-related costs, data center operational expenses, amortization of intangible assets, and content acquisition costs altogether, increased to $3.44 billion, or 23% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2013. Most spendings were on investing in servers, data centers, fiber optic cables, wind farms and whatever it takes to run a mobile-device business.
But Google also reported consolidated revenues of $14.89 billion for the quarter ending September 30, 2013, an increase of 12% compared to the third quarter of 2012, with a concluding statement from Larry Page, CEO at Google: "We are closing in on our goal of a beautiful, simple, and intuitive experience regardless of your device.”
Google's Third Quarter financial summary.
