Exhibitors showcase new products & services at first Cloud Connect in Chicago
Cloud Connect, produced by UBM TechWeb, is the defining event of the cloud computing industry with content-led conferences in Silicon Valley, Chicago and Bangalore, India. Through conference and exhibition, Cloud Connect’s main goal is to chart the course of cloud computing's development by bringing together enterprise IT professionals, developers, infrastructure and service providers and cloud computing innovators. Cloud Connect is a one-of-a-kind event that encompasses the entire cloud computing ecosystem.
As said by Steve Wylie (General Manager) of Cloud Connect, “Cloud Connect Chicago, provides attendees with a great opportunity to gain first-hand info about the innovations, strategies and advancements in cloud computing. It is also highly appreciated that event exhibitors have chosen to introduce their new products and services, representing the latest in cloud technologies, while they are at Cloud Connect.”
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Actian and BiBOARD join forces to provide Big Data analytics
Actian Corporation and BiBOARD, a key provider of business intelligence solutions, recently announced the signing of an agreement that allows both companies to combine technology solutions and marketing efforts as well as offer organizations in the French market more intuitive and affordable high performance analytics. Providing one of the best price/performance ratios, the innovative solution will answer the needs of companies that cannot afford high-end analytic databases or those which are not satisfied with performance and agility levels of the traditional systems. It also creates an ideal platform for companies who are delivering analytics as a service to many customers over the Internet or for companies whose business operates in the cloud generating lots of unstructured data that needs to be analyzed for critical business.
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Baidu launches new mobile browser; to invest in $1.6 billion in cloud
China's leading search engine Baidu announced the launch of its own mobile Internet browser. According to Analysys International, a research firm, Baidu had 78.6 per cent of China's search market in the second quarter of this year, compared to Google’s 15.7 per cent. The browser will offer speedy download times and Baidu’s services can run applications directly off the Internet. As China's customers increasingly turn to smartphones to access the Internet, users have more often turned to other search engines as well as social networks to surf the web.
Continue reading at: http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/baidu-launches-new-mobile-browser-invest-16-billion-cloud
South Africa: Closomo - the next big thing
Recent research predicts that by 2014 'all smartphones will transparently synchronize local data with at least one cloud service', 'most organizations will deliver mobile applications to workers through private application stores' and 'social networking will replace email as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20% of business users'. These forecasts are very striking and cannot be ignored. With cloud computing having developed further and bandwidth improvements making its use viable, many local companies have adopted cloud to some extent. Now, they are facing the complexity of adopting and integrating social media and mobility too. These technologies complement and support each-other. Therefore, they should be approached in a unified fashion, not in silos.The challenge is to identify what should be migrated to the cloud, how systems should be restructured, what social media and mobility tools will best serve the enterprise's strategic direction, and how they should be integrated into the existing systems.
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