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Tech stories of the week - Week 20, 2015

Written by Corporate | May 15, 2015 7:36:54 PM

ContainerShip making infrastructure portable with Cloud

ContainerShip, a disruptive startup, is helping many companies to deploy their containerized applications on different hosting services. Switching hosting providers is not an easy task. ContainerShip takes this work on their shoulders and helps developers feel comfortable about deployment of their application on cloud.

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Importance of big data in healthcare

Till a decade ago, there were no digital systems or technologies which could use patient data to diagnose diseases. Today with wearable devices, you get data which can provide actionable insights to the doctors or patients so that they can take further decisions based on the data. This has helped many doctors in diagnosing complicated diseases as well as reducing the number of deaths caused due to medical errors. Most of the hospitals are now using Big Data/Hadoop systems in-house to leverage the technology benefits for the patients and also to reduce the burden on the nurses and doctors.

Read more: http://goo.gl/8UEmeY

Mobile apps open to pre-launch on Google Play store

Google took one step further in its competition with the Apple app store by launching their new service of pre-launching the on the Google Play store. Now app developers will be able to pre-launch their application even when their app is not ready to roll out, similar to the concept of movie trailers. Though this feature might increase malware in the app store but Google has always been more lenient about the verification of the apps as compared to Apple. This feature will help many developers and companies to promote their brand in advance to the actual launch and offer new marketing opportunities.

Read more: http://goo.gl/5zLu62

Collaboration trends this year

Working collaboratively in an organization is a very common phenomenon nowadays. Companies, irrespective of their size, need to have a platform which can facilitate communication between employees. There are few some trends that will drive collaboration this year.

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