“I believe it is incumbent on the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and/or System Integrators (SIs) to understand the regulatory and compliance-related issues that their customers face,” noted Manjula Talreja, VP of Global Cloud Business Development at Cisco, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Of course these issues are different in each industry and in each country.”
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Research confirms growth in mobile commerce will continue long past the holiday season. According to a recent study by IDC Financial Insights, mobile commerce will likely top one trillion dollars in 2017. Read Original Content
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Fab announced that 56 percent of its Christmas day U.S. revenue was from sales through its mobile apps, a new single-day record for the design-focused e-commerce platform. Forty percent of its European revenue on that day was also via mobile, another milestone for the company. Read Original Content
During the 72 hours following Thanksgiving, Wal-Mart posted 50 million mobile ads on Facebook. The retailer accumulated an additional 164,000 fans over those three days. Read Original Content
CVS Caremark Corp. is beefing up its mobile commerce site and smartphone app to help customers better manage their health. The new enhancements to the CVS mobile site include an immunization scheduler. Read Original Content
According to recent research by London-based market research firm, Mintel, Brits are quickly becoming addicted to mobile commerce. Nearly two thirds or 62 percent of all Brits own a smartphone and almost half of those use their mobile device to shop or make purchases. Read Original Content
For Affiliate Window’s 10,000 sites, 16.29 percent of all traffic stemmed from mobile devices in November, the U.K. affiliate network reports. That’s up from 13.25 percent in October. Read Original Content
More than 60 percent of U.S. adults believe payments made via smartphones will replace credit card and cash transactions in the future, yet only around 30 percent believe that will happen within the next five years, according to an online poll by market research firm Harris Interactive. Read Original Content
EMarketer forecasts overall spending on mobile advertising in the U.S., including display, search and message-based ads, will reach beyond $4.0 billion by year's end, up 180 percent over 2011. Read Original Content
After several years of predictions and studies about how advertising will migrate to mobile platforms, a new research report from Berg Insight predicts mobile ad spending will increase several times by 2017. According to the survey, the total value of the global mobile marketing and advertising market will grow from $4.4 billion in 2011 at a compound annual growth rate of 31 percent to $26.1 billion in 2017. Read Original Content
A wave of innovation in social media advertising will spark an exponential increase in ad spending on the medium, driving annual revenue to $19.2 billion by 2016, according to BIA/Kelsey executives speaking at the ILM West conference. Read Original Content
The global mobile advertising market will generate revenues of $12.8 billion in 2013, growing from $8 billion in 2012, according to the latest research published by Informa Telecoms & Media. Read Original Content
Digital marketing and media research firm eMarketer predicts U.S. mobile advertising revenues will experience rapid growth in the coming years. The research group has projected U.S. mobile advertising revenues to more than quadruple from the $1.45 billion seen in 2011 to $6.62 billion in 2014, and to be worth nearly $12 billion by 2016. Read Original Content
The number of mobile Internet users in India is expected to nearly double and hit 165 million by March 2015, up from the present 87 million mobile surfers, according to a recent survey. Read Original Content
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“I believe it is incumbent on the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and/or System Integrators (SIs) to understand the regulatory and compliance-related issues that their customers face,” noted Manjula Talreja, VP of Global Cloud Business Development at Cisco, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Of course these issues are different in each industry and in each country.”
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By Pat Romanski INetU, the industry's experts in complex hosting and a global provider of business-centric managed cloud and application hosting, has announced that Cloud Architect Rich Hand will be presenting "Private Cloud, Public Cloud - Is There a Third Option?" at the 12th International Cloud Expo taking place June 10-13, 2013 in New York City.
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By Liz McMillan “I’m careful when using terms like Big Data, because it can mean so many things to different people,” explained Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “There is huge value in analytics that companies can use to pull intelligence from a collection of data sources that are available in their businesses. The inexpensive storage that cloud services can offer make a great environment to pull together siloed data.”
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“Regulations and compliance are key trust topics with regards to cloud solutions and technology,” noted Sven Denecken, Vice President, Strategy and Co-Innovation Cloud Solutions, SAP AG, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “But it is also more than security of access – it is portability of data and a clear definition of where the data resides.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Sve...
Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms – software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value.
IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in place to help scale operations. In his Day 3 Keynote at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], Intel's Rob Crooke will describe the range of products that Intel provides to support different usa...
One of the cloud’s biggest draws is the capability to virtualize computing resources, allowing it to be consumed with the click of a mouse. But behind that simple click is an enormous infrastructure challenge that has recently been cited as a major cause for slower enterprise adoption. Enterprises can better prepare for this shift and take full advantage of future computing benefits. Between architecture design and migration planning, the road can be long, so what do you do with your talent?
I...
In the old world of IT, if you didn't have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It’s a true dilemma for developers and innovators – why spend the time creating, when a project could be abandoned in a blink? That was the old world. In the new world of IT, developers rule. They have access to resources they can spin up instantly.
A hyb...
INetU, the industry's experts in complex hosting and a global provider of business-centric managed cloud and application hosting, has announced that Cloud Architect Rich Hand will be presenting "Private Cloud, Public Cloud - Is There a Third Option?" at the 12th International Cloud Expo taking place June 10-13, 2013 in New York City.
As more enterprise IT departments move into the cloud, many executives are evaluating whether to adopt a Public or Private cloud. The cost benefits of the Public ...
“I’m careful when using terms like Big Data, because it can mean so many things to different people,” explained Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “There is huge value in analytics that companies can use to pull intelligence from a collection of data sources that are available in their businesses. The inexpensive storage that cloud services can offer make a great environment to pull together siloed data.”
Cloud Co...
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This table provides a simple and hi...
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This month, we’ll be releasing a new article ...
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OpenStack is easily installed using a package called Packstack. Redhat is one of the primary contributors to packstack and my install experience is similar to the installation of RDO, described here
The procedure is quite simple:
Install Redhat, Fedora or Centos on one or more x86 servers.
I inst...
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The three most common answers to "give me an example of PaaS" are: Force.com, Azure, Google. I didn't even need to do an unscientific Internet survey to ...
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n the cloud doesn't matter whether you are running on an Open Source platform or not - it is NOT free because you pay for the service. And for long Open Source project have been funded through the services premiums that you pay. I would argue that Open Source vendors have mastered the way they can t...








