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Loss-making Nokia Tuesday introduced a cloud map service called Here.
It means it to be one of five businesses including smartphones, basic phones,
patents and cellular infrastructure that will help it get back on its feet.
Its map customers include Amazon, Rand McNally, Bing, Daimler, Nikon and
Yahoo.
Here is supposed to work across multiple devices and operating systems and
offer directions and hotel bookings.
Nokia has also just bought Earthmine, a California 3D mapping concern, to
drive phone sales. Terms were not disclosed.
Nokia will soon have a free app for Apple, whose own Google-replacing maps
have been trashed, and expects to have widgetry that include offline use,
voice guidance and public transport information in a couple of weeks if Apple
okays it.
Nokia will also open the widgetry to Android developers next year. Nokia is
using location features to di... (more)
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010)
being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time
to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the
Cloud Ecosystem.
I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this
year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and
continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of
enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe ... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will
take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's
leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York,
Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry
professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception,
more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East
Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL
TODAY... (more)
Cloud Expo® Silicon Valley $500 Savings here!
SYS-CON Events announced today that BMC Software, the global leader in
enterprise cloud management, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 13th International
Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Explore Cloud Expo® Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities !
For more than 30 years, BMC has helped thousands of companies around the
world master tough IT problems. From mainframe to mobile, from the back room
to the boardroom, BMC delivers the automation, integration, and
sophis... (more)
The blurring of professional and personal lives in social media and the rush
of organizations to “join in” may create just that.
Almost every modern organization has behavioral policies known as
“zero-tolerance” these days. These policies are designed to provide a
healthy, productive environment in which anyone can work without fear of
being insulted, offended, harassed, or otherwise made uncomfortable on a day
to day basis.
Basically, “zero-tolerance” policies are - in part - the codification of
the common-sense rule that says you don’t talk about religion, politics, or
sex in... (more)
U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping
application development work to offshore IT services providers for years.
Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their
business to providers of data center services located in this country,
according to an article at ComputerWorld.com.
Case in point: Grupo Posadas, a hotel company in Mexico that relies on five
data centers to support more than 17,000 guest rooms in over 100 hotels.
Grupo Posadas IT personnel run three of those data centers. The other two are
run by outsourcing part... (more)
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@ThingsExpo Stories By Pat Romanski  The IoT has the potential to create a renaissance of manufacturing in the US and elsewhere.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Florent Solt, CTO and chief architect of Netvibes, will discuss how the expected exponential increase in the amount of data that will be processed, transported, stored, and accessed means there will be a huge demand for smart technologies to deliver it.
Florent Solt is the CTO and chief architect of Netvibes. Prior to joining Netvibes in 2007, he co-founded Rift Techn... Apr. 18, 2016 03:53 PM EDT | By Elizabeth White  How do you evaluate a cloud provider for your database platform? How do you coordinate the diverse moving parts that must come together when developing your IoT product? What are the key challenges addressed by Data as a Service? DevOps, Digital, Cloud – three separate transformative trends, or one mega-trend?
Which cloud model is right for your company? How can you turn your corporate data into dollars? Apr. 18, 2016 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 449 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Formation Data Systems, a company revolutionizing enterprise storage, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Formation Data Systems enables organizations to realize transformative benefits of modern, software-defined storage to address the challenges faced by customers deploying traditional and modern applications. The revolutionary FormationOne™ Dynamic Sto... Apr. 18, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,992 | By Liz McMillan  IoT device adoption is growing at staggering rates, and with it comes opportunity for developers to meet consumer demand for an ever more connected world. Wireless communication is the key part of the encompassing components of any IoT device. Wireless connectivity enhances the device utility at the expense of ease of use and deployment challenges. Since connectivity is fundamental for IoT device development, engineers must understand how to overcome the hurdles inherent in incorporating multipl... Apr. 18, 2016 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 203 | By Pat Romanski  Machine Learning helps make complex systems more efficient. By applying advanced Machine Learning techniques such as Cognitive Fingerprinting, wind project operators can utilize these tools to learn from collected data, detect regular patterns, and optimize their own operations.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Stuart Gillen, Director of Business Development at SparkCognition, will discuss how research has demonstrated the value of Machine Learning in delivering next generation analytics to ... Apr. 18, 2016 02:32 PM EDT Reads: 190 | By Pat Romanski  IoT generates lots of temporal data. But how do you unlock its value? You need to discover patterns that are repeatable in vast quantities of data, understand their meaning, and implement scalable monitoring across multiple data streams in order to monetize the discoveries and insights. Motif discovery and deep learning platforms are emerging to visualize sensor data, to search for patterns and to build application that can monitor real time streams efficiently.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, ... Apr. 18, 2016 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,198 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Tintri Inc., a leading producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualization and cloud environments, will exhibit at the 18th International CloudExpo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Apr. 18, 2016 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,079 | By Elizabeth White  Join IBM June 8 at 18th Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn how to innovate like a startup and scale for the enterprise.
You need to deliver quality applications faster and cheaper, attract and retain customers with an engaging experience across devices, and seamlessly integrate your enterprise systems. And you can't take 12 months to do it. Apr. 18, 2016 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 852 | By Liz McMillan  This is not a small hotel event. It is also not a big vendor party where politicians and entertainers are more important than real content.
This is Cloud Expo, the world's longest-running conference and exhibition focused on Cloud Computing and all that it entails.
If you want serious presentations and valuable insight about Cloud Computing for three straight days, then register now for Cloud Expo. Apr. 18, 2016 01:42 PM EDT Reads: 274 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Kintone has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
kintone promotes cloud-based workgroup productivity, transparency and profitability with a seamless collaboration space, build your own business application (BYOA) platform, and workflow automation system. Apr. 18, 2016 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,612 | By Elizabeth White  WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications world.
The 6th WebRTC Summit continues our tradition of delivering the latest and greatest presentations within the world of WebRTC. Topics include voice calling, video chat, P2P file sharing, and use cases that have already leveraged the power and convenience of WebRTC. Apr. 18, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,261 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that AppNeta, the leader in performance insight for business-critical web applications, will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AppNeta is the only application performance monitoring (APM) company to provide solutions for all applications – applications you develop internally, business-critical SaaS applications you use and the networks that deli... Apr. 18, 2016 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,977 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Commvault, a global leader in enterprise data protection and information management, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management... Apr. 18, 2016 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,061 | By Pat Romanski  Angular 2 is a complete re-write of the popular framework AngularJS. Programming in Angular 2 is greatly simplified – now it's a component-based well-performing framework. This immersive one-day workshop at 18th Cloud Expo, led by Yakov Fain, a Java Champion and a co-founder of the IT consultancy Farata Systems and the product company SuranceBay, will provide you with everything you wanted to know about Angular 2. Apr. 18, 2016 12:01 PM EDT Reads: 349 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Interoute, owner-operator of one of Europe's largest networks and a global cloud services platform, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2015 at the Javits Center in New York, New York.
Interoute is the owner-operator of one of Europe's largest networks and a global cloud services platform which encompasses 12 data centers, 14 virtual data centers and 31 colocation centers, with connections to 195 ad... Apr. 18, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,041 | By Liz McMillan  The paradigm has shifted. A Gartner survey shows that 43% of organizations are using or plan to implement the Internet of Things in 2016. However, not just a handful of companies are still using the old-style ad-hoc trial-and-error ways, unaware of the critical barriers, paint points, traps, and hidden roadblocks. How can you become a winner?
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tony Shan will present a methodical approach to guide the holistic adoption and enablement of IoT implementations. This ov... Apr. 18, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 854 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that EastBanc Technologies will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
EastBanc Technologies has been working at the frontier of technology since 1999. Today, the firm provides full-lifecycle software development delivering flexible technology solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing systems – whether on premise or cloud. EastBanc Technologies partners with p... Apr. 18, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,347 | By Yeshim Deniz  SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. With a global footprint of data centers and network points of presence, SoftLayer provides infrastructure as a service to leading-edge customers ranging from Web startups to global enterprises. SoftLayer's modular architecture, full-featured API, and sophisticated automation provide unparalleled performance and control. Its flexible unified platform seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices linked via a world... Apr. 18, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,293 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that iDevices®, the preeminent brand in the connected home industry, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
iDevices, the preeminent brand in the connected home industry, has a growing line of HomeKit-enabled products available at the largest retailers worldwide. Through the “Designed with iDevices” co-development program and its custom-built IoT Cloud Infrastruc... Apr. 18, 2016 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,371 | By Pat Romanski  Organizations planning enterprise data center consolidation and modernization projects are faced with a challenging, costly reality. Requirements to deploy modern, cloud-native applications simultaneously with traditional client/server applications are almost impossible to achieve with hardware-centric enterprise infrastructure. Compute and network infrastructure are fast moving down a software-defined path, but storage has been a laggard. Until now. Apr. 18, 2016 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,206 |
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