Samsung and Oracle in mobile cloud development pact

Written by Business Cloud News Samsung and Oracle are to combine their respective device and cloud expertise in a pact to jointly create tools, apps and enterprise systems for the mobile world. The two partners are working with systems integrators to help industries make use of their existing systems in the cloud, modernizing them to […]

Salesforce bolsters machine learning business with PredictionIO acquisition

Written by Business Cloud News Open source machine learning software vendor PredictionIO has announced it is to become part of Salesforce. The Palo Alto start up has stressed that the software will continue to be available under an open source Apache license. The addition of analytics and machine learning has become a key strategy to […]

Microsoft Founds, Influences IoT Standards Organization

Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor Microsoft Dynamics users operate in many of the verticals where the Internet of Things (IoT) is needed like automotive, defense, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, and healthcare. Microsoft announced on its Windows blog that it is “pleased to join other industry leaders” to create the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), which is committed […]

IBM and Microsoft race to develop Blockchain-As-A-Service

Written by Business Cloud News IBM has made 44,000 lines of code available to the Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Project in a bid to speed the development of a Blockchain ledger for secure distributed online financial transactions. IBM is now competing with a number of vendors, such as Microsoft Azure and Digital Asset, to […]

Nokia creates foundations for launching telcos into the cloud

Written by Business Cloud News Nokia’s Data Center Services division has unveiled plans to launch mobile telcos into the cloud. Plans include a custom-made a multivendor infrastructure to support its transformation consulting services. These services aim to help telecoms operators re-shape their people and processes for the new cloud-centric comms industry. In a statement it […]

Microsoft adds RedHat Linux, Containers and OneOps options to Azure

Written by Business Cloud News Microsoft has launched a trio of initiatives aimed at widening the options of its potential clients of its Azure cloud services. It made the announcements through the Azure Blog, which promises the availability of new RedHat Enterprise Linux ‘instances’ (i.e. units of computing resources), a new application lifecycle manager, OneOps, […]