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Building the IIoT: The next industrial revolution
The economic potential of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is simply too massive for enterprises to ignore. Accenture LLP says it could add as much as $14 trillion to the world’s economy by 2030, as long as businesses and governments make the necessary investments to build out enabling factors like broadband networks and skills. ...
Microsoft invests in Cyanogen’s custom ROM to “take Android away from Google”
Microsoft is reportedly investing in an alternative Android firmware startup called Cyanogen, Inc., which builds the popular Cyanogenmod version of Google’s mobile operating system. The Wall Street Journal claims Microsoft would be a “minority investor” in a $70 million funding round that sees Cyanogen’s value skyrocket into “the high hundreds of millions”. Cyanogenmod is based ...
Windows slump shows Microsoft’s transformation is taking hold
Yesterday brought bad news for Microsoft’s shareholders, but the company’s leadership won’t be unduly concerned that its share price fell by 9 percent on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after announcing its fiscal second-quarter results and accompanying outlook. A first glance suggests Microsoft is trundling along rather nicely, with the $26.5 billion in revenues and $0.71 in ...
Don’t let IoT hype distract from security fundamentals, experts say
The Internet of Things (IoT) is often portrayed as some kind of futuristic concept, but the reality is that ‘smart things’ already have an established presence in our homes and workplaces. NPD Group says the average U.S. household already possesses 5.7 connected ‘things’, while almost 65 percent of U.S. businesses had deployed IoT technologies in ...
AWS cloud beats out Google & Microsoft in reliability stakes
Amazon Web Services was the most reliable of the “big three” cloud services – AWS, Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure – according to two seperate studies by companies that analyze cloud outages. CloudEndure, which offers public cloud migration assistance to enterprises, says AWS saw a 488 percent reliability improvement during 2014, with just 230 ...
Fujitsu uses psychological profiling to defend against cyberattacks
Japanese tech firm Fujitsu is building a platform that uses psychological profiling to ramp up computer security in the workplace. The company’s reseach arm Fujitsu Laboratories said it was developing an enterprise tool that will be able to identify workers who’re most vulnerable to cyberattacks, and give advice on how to sidestep them, based on ...
The Industrial Internet could add $14 trillion to global economy by 2030
The world’s economy could miss out on a massive $14 trillion potential windfall from the Industrial Internet, due to a lack of understanding and inaction, according to a new report. The report, titled Winning with the Industrial Internet of Things, was released by Accenture at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday. It reiterates ...
Google cements space ambitions with SpaceX; SDN, IoT & analytics startups bag new funds
Google is boldly going where no web giant has gone before, and along with investment firm Fidelity is pumping a massive $1 billion into Elon Musk’s SpaceX space transportation company. Together, Google and Fidelity now own almost 10 percent of the startup, which already counts four other major investors and is now valued at just ...
Flash forward: How will a storage revolution change software?
Applications and software will undergo a radical transformation in the coming years as developers move to embrace all-flash environments in the data center. This transformation will be hastened by the continuing evolution of all-flash array architectures, which research firm Wikibon believes will supersede spinning disk within the next five to 10 years. Cost will be ...
Just how big did Docker become in the last year?
San Francisco-based startup Docker, which offers an open-source technology that packages applications into movable containers, had a stunning year in 2014. It’s arguably the hottest startup in enterprise tech right now, with Silicon Valley giants like IBM and Microsoft just some of the names that’ve chosen to ally with its technology. Developers have been equally ...