Business Cloud is Getting More Intelligent






Companies are asking questions like how to get more intelligent solutions from ever growing business cloud. Questions like how to connect different types of cloud solutions more intelligently to use the depth of cloud computing more effectively. i.e connecting public and private cloud from a single central point across the business. 

Some companies like Accenture calls "the next iteration of hybrid cloud" as "Intelligent Business Cloud"

Increasing number of companies realise that they need to use different types of cloud services in order to meet up customer needs and satisfactions such as public or private cloud services, or the combination of both services as hybrid cloud.

The "intelligent business cloud" is thought to be a cohesive cloud platform that spans and manages multiple clouds from multiple technology providers, all from a central control dashboard that provides a single view of all cloud services across the organisation. 

Cloud computing is more under pressure with small and big organisations competing ever faster today. They need to compete with each other more faster, with more flexibility,  with fewer resources. They are pushed towards creating faster differentiation in this strongly growing market place. There is a essential need for cohesion while creating differentiation for consuming everything as a service. Companies should have vision for an open, scalable, integrated platforms. They need more connectivity between fundamental components of digital cloud business platforms.

Cloud technology is not a trend anymore, but rather is the basis from which companies will carry on growing depending upon how intelligent their business cloud is.


Wind powered Data Centre to Support Facebook's 1.5bn Users




Wind powered Data Centre to Support Facebook's 1.5bn Users

Facebook founder has announced from hisd Facebook page  that Facebook's fifth data center will be built in Fort Worth, Texas. He says in his page:
"Our data centers power Facebook and will help connect billions of people around the world in the coming years.
Fort Worth will be one of the most advanced and energy efficient data centers in the world. It will use 100% renewable energy and it will actually add 200 megawatts of new wind energy to the Texas power grid. It will be built using hardware designed and developed through the Open ComputeProject.
This is just one example of new technologies we’re building to create internet services at planetary scale. We’re grateful to the Fort Worth community for helping to make the world more open and connected, and we’re glad to be a part of that community.".
Facebook will invest at least $500 million in the global data center, a spokesperson said, and will employ at least 40 full-time employees. The center will also be powered entirely by renewable energy, Tom Furlong, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, wrote in a blog post.
As part of the deal, the 1.4-billion user social network brought 200 megawatts of new wind energy to Texas, Furlong wrote.
Facebook opened its first data center in Prineville, Oregon, in 2011. It has also built centers in Altoona, Iowa, Forest City, North Carolina and Lulea, Sweden.

From The Cloud To The Fog





The Internet wave of the 1990s connected 1 billion users, and the mobile wave of the 2000s connected another 2 billion. But the IoT has the potential to connect as many 50 billion “things” to the Internet by 2020, ranging from bracelets to cars to houses. 

Fog computing, like many IT trends and advancements, grew out of the need to address certain major concerns:
  • The need for real-time processing of incoming data
  • Limitations on available bandwidth
Fog computing is defined by specific characteristics that make it a suitable platform for the IoT, including low latency and location awareness, widespread geographical distribution, mobility, its very large number of nodes, the predominant role of wireless access, the strong presence of streaming and real-time applications, and heterogeneity.
Fog computing places some transactions and resources at the edge of the cloud rather than establishing channels for cloud storage, processing and use. In so doing, it reduces the need for bandwidth by not sending every bit of information to the cloud, instead aggregating and processing data at certain access points. Using such a distributed strategy can lower costs and optimize resources.
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