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Cloud Computing

The Gartner Road to Increased Enterprise Cloud Usage

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The Gartner Road to Increased Enterprise Cloud Usage

Cloud services remain a small part of overall IT spending Gartner reports-- according to a recent survey only 38% of organisations currently use cloud services, even if 80% intend to do so within 12 months. 

The survey covers 651 organisations across 9 countries. 

"Given that the use of cloud services currently constitutes only a very small part of the vast enterprise IT market, strategic planners should not make the mistake of taking current cloud use cases to be predictors of future cloud use," Gartner says. "Cloud computing is set to have a considerable impact on business in the future which is reflected in the survey finding that around 60% of organizations plan increased investment over the next 2 years to 5 years, while only 6% plan to decrease investments in cloud services." 

Gartner mentions 3 factors to "significantly" impact near to midterm enterprise cloud use-- tactical business solutions, the increase of cloud service impact the more enterprises move up the cloud value chain chain and how the introduction of cloud solutions leasds to more diverse solution portfolios.  Read more...

Gartner: Amazon Cloud is the Biggest

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Gartner: Amazon Cloud is the Biggest

Just like the Amazon rainforest is the biggest around (deforestation notwithstanding), the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud beats the competition, at least according to Gartner and the "Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service" report. 

While sounding like something out of a Harry Potter novel, the magic quadrant is actually a means of technology ranking. It spreads companies across four squares split by an x-axis (represents "completeness of vision") and a y-axis ("ability to execute"). The best technology lies on the top right, the worst on the lower left. Sounds simple enough! 


Filling the quadrant involves customer references, hands-on service trials, information from cloud providers, surveys of over 75 providers and a number of service provider interviews. 

In this case Gartner ranks the 15 largest cloud players as based on estimated market share.  Read more...

HP Takes on Enterprise File Sharing

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HP Takes on Enterprise File Sharing

HP integrates Autonomy WorkSite on-premise document and email management with Flow CM public file sharing and collaboration to create Autonomy LinkSite, a hybrid cloud file sharing and email management solution. 

According to the company LinkSite provides enterprise-grade document/email management and collaboration within a system as easy and simple to use as any consumer solution. It synchronises files on internal WorkSite deployments with cloud-based storage, making internal files available outside corporate firewalls. 

All files inherit read/write permissions from their in-house versions.  Read more...

Teradici Updates PCoIP Hardware Accelerator

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Teradici Updates PCoIP Hardware Accelerator

PCoIP protocol creator Teradici updates the PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX) with a 2.3 driver release designed to complement a physical GPU in VMWare View environments. 

It also optimises bandwidth further through the addition of caching support.

According to the company the Hardware Accelerator offloads PCoIP image encoding tasks to reduce CPU loads, with the 2.3 driver allowing the reduction of bandwidge usage by up to 50% to ensure successful VMware Horizon View deployments.   Read more...

Dell Beta Tests Micro-PCs

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Dell Beta Tests Micro-PCs

Dell starts shipping its take on micro-PCs to beta testers with Project Ophelia, an HDMI dongle the size of a large USB stick promising to turn any HDTV into a cloud-powered PC.

First seen at CES 2013, at first glance Ophelia is not too different to the recent crop of micro-PCs, even if unlike the popular Raspberry Pi it ships inside a proper case. However it features an interesting trick up its dongle-style sleeve-- as well as running as a stand-alone Android 4.1 device, it can connect to the cloud to act as a multipurpose Citrix or VMware thin client.

It packs a Rockchip RK3066 SoC ( X2 ARM Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1.6GHz, Mali 400 graphics engine, memory controller), 1GB RAM, NAND storage, microSD card slot, Bluetooth and wifi connectivity. Since it lacks batteries, the Ophelia sips power through either MHL port or separately via USB interface.

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