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Juniper Research has signalled an unprecedented interest in the mobile advertising space by key brands and agencies.
Annual Adspend on Mobile Channels to Reach $11 Billion by 2015
This follows the dramatic increase in mobile application usage in key markets and the growing penetration of smartphones with location aware and augmented reality (AR) capabilities. Global advertising expenditure on mobile delivery channels is expected to exceed $11 billion annually by 2015 – up from $3.1 billion this year – as campaigns seek to capitalise on the personalised, targeted advertising and high levels of user engagement that mobile has to offer.
P.A.A.S Platform as a service
“The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications, created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider,” according to NIST. This includes environments such as Microsoft’s Azure, or Salesforce’s Force.com.
Businesses may well be using some, or all, of these services already. Hosted Microsoft Exchange email or hosted SharePoint services, Google’s Docs product and software as a service applications - of which Salesforce.com is perhaps the best known - show the range of services on offer through the cloud.
Software as a service
SAAS
We have all heard of SAAS, although you may not acknowledge that you are aware of it.
My Grandmother has Networld account, now better known as Virgin Media. It generally works well although Nan probably doesn’t understand that she is not working with-in the PC (Oh sorry Nan I mean Personal Computer ).
Using the capability provided to the consumer with Hotmail, Gmail, Linked-in, Twitter, Facebook and the plethora of “On-Line services”
Enterprise Cloud
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COLT, a European provider of business communications, has enhanced its managed services offering with the launch of its enterprise cloud platform.
This offering will enable COLT to deliver services that give its customers the freedom to choose when and how to take advantage of managed infrastructure and application services as well as increased flexibility to drive greater levels of business efficiency, security and performance.
Enterprise cloud will feature prominently in COLT’s approach of offering customers immense choice and versatility, giving them freedom to utilise dedicated IT infrastructure, virtualisation and cloud computing to match their business requirements.
TP-Link AV1200 Gigabit Passthrough Powerline
Powerline networks use electrical wiring to connect devices though out your building. By means of linking 2 Powerline adapters to your router or super hub and you can access the internet hard wired from any room with a working socket. This should be the perfect solution for those places where your wireless won’t reach.
EMC acquires 3 Cloud companies to push forward its Cloud strategy
Spanning Cloud Apps from Austin Texas was snapped up for EMC’s “Born-in-the-Cloud” Data Protection Strategy
Spanning Cloud Apps a provider of data backup and recovery for cloud applications, acquired by EMC Corporation. The company will continue to operate under the Spanning Cloud Apps brand in Austin, Texas and will be the foundation of EMC’s “born-in-the-cloud” data protection strategy in its Core Technologies Division. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Spanning is a provider of backup and recovery for SaaS applications, helps organisations to protect and manage their information in the cloud.
Read more: EMC acquires 3 Cloud companies to push forward its Cloud strategy
Box on Fire
According to wall street journal Online storage company Box Inc. has filed for an IPO (initial public offering), taking advantage of a law that allows start-ups to quietly file paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission without public disclosures.
The Los Altos, California based company, which just raised $100 million in December at a valuation of about $2 billion, is gearing up to go public amid intensifying competition in the online storage market. Prior to this the influx of cash, it was reported that Box first ventured into Europe with a piggy bank of $350 Million. Which is remarkable for a ECM (Enterprise content management) software company.
This is definitely one to watch the burn rate on.
Preparing the Channel for cloud-based services
An over view of what the cloud can do for you and the opportunities
As the market for new cloud-based services continues to grow,there is some nervousness among many channel partners about their role in the value chain,
often because when vendors deliver solutions like Software-as-a-service (SaaS) they feel it could cut them out of the loop. However, while there is no denying that traditional channel business models will be impacted by the move to cloud-based services, there are also a host of benefits for those channel partners willing to embrace the change. It is a golden opportunity for service providers to position themselves as ‘trusted advisors’ as end users look to embrace this emerging technology.
PC shipments in EMEA declined 16%,
According to the latest research from International Data Corporation (IDC), PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) declined 16%, reaching 21.4 million units in the third quarter of 2013.
Iomart Group acquires Switch Media
Iomart Group a managed hosting and cloud computing services company, has bought domain name and hosting company in Liverpool as it continues to expand its hosting offering to the UK market.
Far from the silver lining (cloud)
The Information Security Forum (ISF) has announced its predictions for the 10 most likely threat scenarios that organisations face in the future.
New Service-now.com ITSM platform combines ITIL process support and SaaS delivery
Service-now.com, the creator of modern software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Read more: New Service-now.com ITSM platform combines ITIL process support and SaaS delivery
Tenable launches cloud-based Nessus Perimeter Service with flat-rate pricing
Tenable Network Security Joins SaaS Security Market with Enterprise-Class Nessus Perimeter Service
Read more: Tenable launches cloud-based Nessus Perimeter Service with flat-rate pricing
Rules and regulations on the cloud
There are little in the way of formal standards governing cloud services, and especially, the way they categorise and store data.
Platform as a service
“The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications, created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider,” according to NIST. This includes environments such as Microsoft’s Azure, or Salesforce’s Force.com.
ScoLocate selects Keysource to double Edinburgh data centre
ScoLocate has teamed up with Keysource to double the size of Scotland’s largest purpose-built co-location facility as part of an £8 million investment.
Read more: ScoLocate selects Keysource to double Edinburgh data centre
Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue Market to Surpass $8.5 Billion in 2010
Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue within the enterprise application software market is forecast to surpass $8.5 billion in 2010,Read more: Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue Market to Surpass $8.5 Billion in 2010
Remote site monitoring and telecom
Enable new services with remote site monitoring and telecom management products
For service providers with remote equipment sites that deliver network services, and managed service offerings for equipment located within customer offices, physical conditions and equipment failures are some of the major causes of unplanned network downtime.
Administrators are becoming increasingly aware of the need to protect these vital, yet vulnerable sites. However, acquiring more devices, more complexity or more single capability solutions is not the answer.
AVMI has been selected as a strategic partner for Microsoft’s new Surface Hub
Microsoft’s latest Audio Visual product incorporates Skype, touch screens, connecting with laptops, tablets, and phones. With inkback™ and touchback™, claiming be the answer to Engaging and productive meetings with the ability to send meeting notes and content, outcomes and action points. Microsoft Surface Hub claims that it re-imagines the meeting experience so that you can unlock the power of the group. You can walk up and join a Skype for Business meeting with a single tap, and share content effortlessly, so that you spend your time connecting to people rather than technology.
Read more: AVMI has been selected as a strategic partner for Microsoft’s new Surface Hub
Mobile Banking
According to research by Forrester, a fifth of internet users in Western Europe currently use mobile banking, which could make it a more important innovation for managing our money than even cash machines or credit cards, Finextra reports.
100 million smartphone owners browse the web using Opera’s products
100 million Android active users are now accessing the web using Opera’s browsers, twice as many as one year ago.
Browser Notable releases dates In order of release: The www WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991, Mosaic, Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer, Opera web browser, Mozilla Navigator, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome.
Now that browser, Safari, Opera and Firefox are enter the dictionary. Plus Google is becoming a verb and part of the dictionary such as “Hoovering” we are all falling into the Google Gulf.
The largest number of Opera users on Android are residing in India, followed by China, Indonesia, Russia and Mexico. I do not know numbers for other browsers but we will continue.
Read more: 100 million smartphone owners browse the web using Opera’s products
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