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, […]
Customer Dynamics Forms Joint Venture with motionSlice, Raises $1 Million to Fund Accelerated Growth
by Linda Rosencrance Microsoft partner Customer Dynamics, a Dynamics CRM and technology consulting firm, has formed a new joint-venture with CRM customization firm motionSlice and has raised over $1 million in funding as it launches a new SaaS division and aims to accelerate growth. Funding was led by MotionVest LLC. Both companies will now operate jointly […]
Google adds to its Cloud Platform as vendors compete with AWS Lambda
Written by Business Cloud News Google has added to its public cloud infrastructure for developers, Cloud Platform, with a new service that allows app writers to set up functions that can be triggered in response to events. The new Google Cloud Functions has drawn comparison with the Lambda offering from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The […]
Azure IoT Hub General Availability: An Overview of the Hub & the Opportunity
by Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor From a Microsoft demo of an Azure IoT Suite Fleet Management scenario Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub reached general availability last week and added a range of new features beyond what was in the public preview. As described in a new blog post from Nayana Singh, Sr. Program Manager, Azure IoT, the […]
Microsoft creates Azure hub for Internet of Things
Written by Business Cloud News Microsoft has put its new Azure IoT hub on general availability. In a statement, it claims the new system will be a simple bridge between its customers’ devices with their systems in the cloud. It claims that the new preconfigured IoT offering, when used with the Azure IoT Suite, can […]