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Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure Spend Grows 23.0% to $7.6 Billion in the Third Quarter, According to IDC

January 25, 2016 enews

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 23.0% year over year to $7.6 billion in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15). FRAMINGHAM, Mass., January 14, 2016 – The overall share of cloud IT infrastructure sales climbed to 33.8% in 3Q15, up from 28.7% a year ago. Revenue from infrastructure sales to private cloud grew by 18.8% to $2.9 billion, and to public cloud by…

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IBM, U. of Michigan Creating Chatty Computer

January 21, 2016January 24, 2016 enews

IBM and the University of Michigan are working on a conversational computing system that will transform human-machine communication. How would you like to have a conversation with your computer to plan your vacation or to do your taxes, or literally hold a discussion with your car about the best way to get home through traffic? Well, if a new project from IBM and the University of Michigan goes as planned, that may not be so far off. Sure, it is possible to “talk” to PCs, cars, smartphones and other devices…

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Algorithm will make Google Chrome 26 per cent faster

January 21, 2016 enews

Google has announced it will roll out a new compression algorithm to its Chrome browser, boosting speeds by up to 26 per cent. The tech, called Brotli, will compress the information sent to and from the browser Called Brotli, the technology will compress data, including web font compression and other intensive elements of a web page commonly sent to and from pages, to make them load faster. It replaces the previous Zopfli algorithm Google was using to cut down the volume of traffic throughput, which was released two years ago.…

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Wirate: use the cloud to evaluate the chances of your startup succeeding

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 enews

Startup of the Week We are constantly profiling innovative Startups with great ideas for the digital economy. Each week, we are going to present you the ones we find most exciting. We focus on their disruptive ideas, digital vision and business model. Learning early on what customers think about the products and services offered by your company is a decisive factor for success. Companies gain such insights by means of market research and direct feedback from customers. Processing this data often requires, in any case, resources that aren’t readily available…

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CXOs: Take these steps to reevaluate risk management in 2016

January 20, 2016 enews

The move to digital technology creates an immense amount of opportunity for companies in areas like IoT, customer engagement management, and business analytics. It also creates new risks that those companies will have to learn to address— and quickly. Recent Gartner research showed that 77% of survey respondents agreed with the statement: “The digital world is creating new types and levels of risk for our business,” and 65% felt that “Investment in risk management practices is not keeping up with new and higher levels of risk.” “CEOs are right to…

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How we’re putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good

January 20, 2016January 24, 2016 enews

As Satya Nadella announced today, we’re committed to putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good. That’s why Microsoft Philanthropies, with support from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Business Development, will donate $1 billion in Microsoft cloud services to nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years. Our goal is to support 70,000 nonprofits through this initiative during that time. I wanted to provide some more detail on what we’re doing and the commitments we are making today. Our rationale for today’s announcement is simple. Cloud computing has…

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Google Maps Now Gives Real-Time Traffic Advice With One Tap

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 enews

The new Google Maps feature tracks your most frequent destinations, such as home or work, and might suggest leaving ASAP or waiting a bit due to traffic. Google Maps can now give users real-time traffic advice, for example, if it is a good time to head home or to work, or if it would be wise to have a cup of coffee and read for a bit before braving the traffic on nearby roads.The new driving shortcut feature was announced by Brian Ferris, a Google Maps software engineer, in a…

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Skype Translator Now Available to All Windows Users

January 18, 2016January 19, 2016 enews

Microsoft completes its rollout of Skype Translator for Windows and announces an integration with the Slack team communications platform. For nearly three and a half months, Microsoft has beenrolling out its Skype Translator technology to millions of Windows users. This week, the company crossed the finish line. “This takes Skype one step closer to our mission of empowering people to do more, even across languages,” stated Microsoft in a Jan. 13 announcement on the company’s Website. “We hope that our customers can achieve their goals through relationships that would have previously…

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EMEA Big Data Datacenter Infrastructure Market to Triple by 2019, Reaching $5.4B, Says IDC

January 17, 2016January 18, 2016 enews

International Data Corporation (IDC) has completed an in-depth market sizing of the EMEA Big Data infrastructure market focusing on servers, storage, and cloud resources used for Big Data–related activities. These include value creation from merging different data sources, various analytics, log files, and metadata that help identify patterns and generate predictions. LONDON, January 13, 2016 — IDC forecasts that Big Data–related server shipments will increase from 6% of all servers shipped in EMEA in 2015 to 16% by 2019, and server values from $1 billion in 2015 to $2.7 billion…

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What the Tech Landscape Will Look Like in 2019

December 30, 2015 enews

Expect the number of devices you own to multiply! We are in an era where technological advances are happening at an exponential rate. According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Forecast, in just four years you can expect to see the number of mobile devices skyrocket, non-PC devices to reign supreme, and online video to do a complete takeover of television. Head’s up—maybe it’s time to start carving out some space for those extra devices in your 2019 home-of-the-future. Billions and Billions of Devices! Jumping from a “meager” 14.2 billion devices…