Posts Categorized: cloud services

Why didn’t electricity immediately change manufacturing?

Posted by & filed under Cloud Computing, cloud services, IT and History, IT Infrastructure, IT Trends.

For investors in Boo.com, WebVan and eToys, the bursting of the dotcom bubble came as a bit of a shock. Companies like this raised vast sums on the promise that the worldwide web would change everything. Then, in the spring of 2000, stock markets collapsed. Some economists had long been sceptical about the promise of computers. In… Read more »

Google Again Pledges Undying Support to Business Cloud Customers

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Google executives once again took to the stage Wednesday to say the Internet search and advertising company is 100% committed to providing cloud computing services to business customers.  At the company’s Google Cloud Next tech conference in San Francisco, the company’s brain trust said it will be a key provider of computing, storage, and networking… Read more »

Hillary’s 33,000 emails might not be ‘missing’ after all

Posted by & filed under Business Intelligence, Civil Liberties, Cloud Computing, cloud services, IT and Politics.

For months now, we’ve been told that Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails were permanently erased and destroyed beyond recovery. But newly released FBI notes strongly suggest they still exist in several locations — and they could be recovered, if only someone would impanel a grand jury and seize them. Source: New York Post Date: November 1st, 2016… Read more »

Is the world wide web a waste of water?

Posted by & filed under Cloud Computing, cloud services, Ethical Issues, Green Computing, Green Tech.

Researchers at Imperial College London made headlines last year when they claimed that up to 200 litres of water could be involved in the download of a single gigabyte (GB) of data. Source: BBC News Date: October 18th, 2016 Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37471911 Discussion 1) “Whenever you check social media, send an email, or stream a video, you will be… Read more »

Google Cloud Chief Diane Greene: Here’s How We’ll Catch Amazon And Microsoft

Posted by & filed under App Economy, Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, cloud services.

Diane Greene, senior vice president in charge of cloud and enterprise at Google.  The onetime cofounder of VMware, a pioneer in what’s now known as cloud computing, heads Google’s enterprise and cloud businesses, seen by many as its next big business beyond advertising. Appointed last November when Google bought her startup, the senior vice president… Read more »

Microsoft focusing on speed, security and luring customers away from Oracle

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Description: With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft focuses on speed, security and luring customers away from Oracle Source: Tech Crunch Date: March 10, 2016 The SQL Server 2016 can’t just encrypt data at rest but also query it without having to decrypt it, using a relatively new cryptographic technique called “homeomorphic encryption.” Read More. Questions for discussion:… Read more »

Three Essential Tools for Collaborating with Clients Remotely

Posted by & filed under app, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, cloud services, Data storage, Functional Information Systems, peer file sharing.

Description: If you’re working with clients remotely, you need to use the tools available to help make sure that you are properly servicing the client. The only way to do this is with the appropriate technology. Source: TechVibes Date: March 7, 2014 Convenient, simple and easy. That’s what every single client wants from a service provider in… Read more »

Farm At Hand is Taking Farm Management to the Cloud

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Description: Farm At Hand is taking farm management from the dusty notebook to the cloud. The farm management multi-platform program will allow farmers to track everything from equipment to harvesting. Source: TechVibes Date: August 28, 2013 News on the upcoming GrowLab cohort is slowly leaking as accepted startups update their AngelList profiles and move into office space… Read more »

Google’s data mining raises questions of national security

Posted by & filed under Analytics, cloud services, cyber war, data analytics, data mining, Data storage, Digital Policy, Security.

Description: Free cloud service providers collect and store massive amounts of personal data. While this data is usually well-protected and secure, given the right incentive, there is no question that hackers could compromise the security of even the largest cloud service providers. So what are governments doing to protect their sensitive data? Source: TheGuardian  Date: October 15,… Read more »