Author: enews

Private or public? Both cloud types offer benefits and both have enjoyed significant growth over the last few years. Yet, what’s the best bet for your business: The virtually limitless resources of public cloud stacks, or the close-to-home control of private alternatives? Here’s a look at some critical differences between public and private clouds. Infrastructure As noted by Business 2 Community, the biggest difference between public and private clouds comes down to hosting. Public clouds are hosted on shared server infrastructure, which means multiple “tenants” all sharing the same physical space. Servers…

Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. During the press conference to announce NOKIA being acquired by Microsoft, Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. Upon saying that, all his management team, himself included, teared sadly. Nokia has been a respectable company. They didn’t do anything wrong in their business, however, the world changed too fast. Their opponents were too powerful. They missed out on learning, they missed out on changing, and thus…

Snapchat is much more than an app whose popularity has recently been going through the roof. Snapchat is changing behavior on the web and evoking the future of social VR…   When I use social media in my daily life, it more or less involves the following user scenarios: Facebook: I post a picture or a link and think up an amusing phrase to go with it that people will want to share – in the hope of gaining as many likes as possible. The more likes it gets, the…

At the 2016 Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle unveiled a host of new cloud products, including many SaaS and PaaS tools. Oracle kicked off the 2016 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday with a very clear theme—the cloud. The company debuted more than 20 new products and services for the Oracle Cloud Platform, but what stuck out was the company’s focus on intelligent apps, containers, and analytics. The intelligent apps will be formally known as Adaptive Intelligent Applications, and will leverage data and insights found in Oracle’s Data Cloud, according…

Intelligent fridge can tell you when you’re out of milk If you thought grocery shopping could hardly get much easier, think again. Microsoft is collaborating with Liebherr’s appliances division to develop ‘SmartDeviceBox’, a communication module that connects Liebherr’s refrigerators and freezers to the internet. Thanks to internal cameras and deep learning algorithms similar to those of Cortana (Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence), Microsoft’s new fridge technology recognises food packaging, and effectively monitors what products you have at home. “This information flows automatically into an inventory list, which lets the customer see quickly…