Now it’s China for Amazon’s Cloud Computing
Amazon’s announcement that it will extend its cloud computing services –Amazon Web Services- to China with a limited preview early this year to begin with made a big splash in mid-December. However just hours before Amazon’s official announcement, Aliyun, China’s e-commerce king Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Announced that it is ready to cut its prices by up to 35 percent. If this was not enough, hours later IBM entered the scene to announced that it is teaming up with a local partner in order to deliver high end smart cloud services to all the businesses and enterprise users in China. This certainly looks like a war has been declared in China’s overall small but potentially huge cloud computing sector.
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2014 to be an inflection point for Big Data and the Internet of things, quoted Srinivas Tadigadapa of Intel
Trends like Big Data and the internet of things are likely to take on the world of technology in the year 2014. It looks like these trends will shape major business models, innovation practices impacting hugely the way we lead our lives. 2014 will be the year when these trends will reflect much variety. Here’s a quick look at how these trends will refurbish many other trends in the year 2014.
Big Data is here to live and pave the way to innovation becoming increasingly an integral part of several business models. This will in turn enhance the capability of the industry to successfully compete globally. 15 billion connected devices in the next few years is quite achievable is believed by Intel.
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The impact of Mobile Apps on the way we do business
Apparently mobile applications have facilitated drastic advancements in overall human life. It has had a great impact on the way we conduct business today and have taken humans way ahead in time.
Creates impeccable efficiency:
Intuitive mobile apps have changed consumer response times almost immediately. The quickness of these interactive interfaces. Money transactions have gone through a path breaking phase. Now funds show up in seconds and all vital information is distributed almost instantly.
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Mobile, Cloud, Collaboration the real heroes
This year the Thai Information and communications industry is all set to enter a new era of device innovation , this along with companies continuing to invest in ICT technology in order to enable their enterprises.
An overview of the ICT market this year showed that Asia Pacific is clearly expected to have a shining growth, with almost 5.5 percent to US $767 billion (Bt25.15 trillion) and also almost reaching $933 billion in the year 2017 said Vatsun Thirapatarapong, managing director of Cisco Thailand and Indochina. The research also showed that the penetration of smart phone users in Thailand had reached almost 36 percent and that this trend would continue to be the sole key driver for the ICT over the next year or so.
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