By 2020, the data and applications that most people use will be housed in the cloud rather than on PCs, according to a survey of around 900 technology experts and observers, sponsored by the Pew Research Center. 71 percent of these experts predict we’ll be working primarily through web-based and mobile apps, such as Facebook and [...] [...more]
Microsoft today released a platform preview of Internet Explorer 9. Good news for fans of Microsoft’s browser, but some bad news for people who still use Windows XP. The good news: Next version of Internet Explorer will add support for the latest web technologies like HTML5, which will result in support for video standards like MPEG-4 [...] [...more]
During yesterday’s Campfire One developer event, Google has launched its Apps Marketplace with 50 applications available from third-party vendors. The new App Marketplace will integrate with Google Apps and offer products and services like Intuit Online Payroll, Zoho projects, Bookfresh, etc. In the last three years Google Apps has reached over 2 million businesses across the globe, [...] [...more]
Our strategic partner 3Tera was acquired by IT software giant CA (formerly known as Computer Associates) last week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. 3Tera is one of the oldest companies focused on infrastructure management and monitoring. It’s core product AppLogic helps enterprises build and deploy cloud-bases applications both to public and private clouds. CA plans [...] [...more]
In his upcoming session at the largest cloud computing event in the world, the 5th Cloud Expo in New York City (19-21 April, 2010), 3Tera Chairman and CEO Barry X Lynn will answer questions about management of IT in the Cloud and the leverage of investments. Cloud Expo 2010 East and West (New York and Silicon [...] [...more]
At his keynote at the Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt annouced the new company focus on mobile applications and smartphones. He said Google is now thinking about things in terms of “Mobile First”. Schmidt said that it was because mobile phones will be the most popular endpoint – In three years, smart phones will [...] [...more]
Google is planning to deploy its own experimental fiber-optic network to at least 50,000 homes to deliver speeds of 1 gigabit-per-second, which is more than 20 times faster than residential fiber optic services offered today in the U.S. The City Council of Dalles, a small town in Oregon, voted Monday to accept a $100,000 grant from [...] [...more]
The U.S. Air Force has contracted with IBM to design a cloud computing system secure enough to support defense and intelligence networks. The 10-month project will utilise IBM’s “stream computing,” a technique for real-time analysis of thousands of data streams that would be used to detect and prevent malicious attacks and system failures. The project will push [...] [...more]
By many accounts, 2010 will be the year that cloud computing officially takes hold. The cloud storage adoption will broaden, giving large and small organizations important space, cost and management benefits. The techniques to reduce latency and protect data more efficiently will be refined, meaning that cloud offerings will become more attractive to more users. “2010 will [...] [...more]
As part of the space agency’s highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award program, NASA has made a two-year $600,000 contract with Parabon Computation, who will deliver a first-of-its-kind software service that enables scientists and engineers to interactively develop, execute and collaborate on modeling and simulation (M&S) applications from any standard web browser. The new [...] [...more]
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