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]
Eric Anders from RELORoundtable knew little about what Cloud technology really was until he was approached by Curt Clements, Move One Inc.’s CEO, who wanted to introduce him to how Move One Inc. applies this innovative technology to their integrated global relocation, removal and logistics services.
Move One Inc., uses these virtual resources provided by Radix Technologies, to [...] [...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]
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]
After the recent launch of its data centers in Hungary and China, Radix Technologies, a SaaS business application developer, will be holding a series of conferences focusing on cloud computing and global workforce mobility challenges. The series kicks off in Budapest on February 25, with events following in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beijing and Shanghai.
These conferences [...] [...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]
Google Chrome OS netbooks may have a rival – Apple’s iPad. The device, which as Apple CEO Steve Jobs described it, is like ‘holding the Internet in your hand’ may challenge Google for cloud computing, if it becomes as popular as the Apple iPhone or Apple iPod.
The iPad has been promised till now as a [...] [...more]
Microsoft has called on Congress to make a law for protecting consumers and businesses as cloud computing becomes a more popular IT option.
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