A Machina Research report suggests that we could eventually see a merger between mobile enterprise application platforms and enterprise IoT, suggesting the need for a single platform that encompasses the two. If what Machina predicted comes to fruition, IoT involvement will become increasingly more important as more of our everyday devices become Internet-enabled, like cars and... Read More
Cloud Computing Hold-Outs Risk Losing the Benefits
Believe it or not, there are still some late bloomers who aren’t sold on the benefits of cloud computing. By holding out, these businesses face the real possibility of missing out on the ability to create apps and test them in real time. The Evans Data Cloud Development Survey recently concluded that using the cloud to develop apps can reduce the development timeframe by upwards of 11.6%.... Read More
Expect Growth to the Public Cloud Across the Next 3 Years
A recent study suggests that the next three years will see the vast majority (83%) of data center traffic migrate to the cloud. Additionally, this migration will take place through public cloud services and more workloads will exist in the public cloud than there are in private clouds (56 to 44%, respectively). Roughly 65% of data center traffic exists in the cloud currently. According to... Read More
Microsoft Announces New Commitment to Apache Spark
Microsoft will soon be starting a commitment with open source framework, Apache Spark. The technology giant began working with Spark last year. Now the company plans to launch several Spark services and even announced that Spark would power the on-premises version of Hadoop’s R Server, which has become popular for big data analysis. Additionally, the cloud version of R Server will be... Read More
