Operator and vendor revenues across the main cloud services and infrastructure market segments hit $148 billion (£120.5bn) in 2016 growing at 25% annually, according to the latest note from analyst firm Synergy Research. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) experienced the highest growth rates at 53%, followed by hosted private cloud infrastructure services, at 35%, and enterprise SaaS, at 34%.
Data is what makes today's business world go 'round, and IBM on Thursday launched a suite of new tools designed to help companies make the most of what they've got. Targeting developers and data scientists, the four new offerings are part of IBM's Cloud Data Services portfolio.
The technology provides an innovative alternative to bricks-and-mortar schooling, enabling personal learning, interactive learning and many-to-many learning. The cloud also allows students to interact and collaborate with an ever-expanding circle of their peers, regardless of geographical location.
Fog provides the missing link for what data needs to be pushed to the cloud, and what can be analyzed locally. This means that we can connect cars, cities, and infrastructures together through a network of "fog".
As networking is in a state of transition, 2017 will prove to be another interesting year. The disruption from digital transformation, the movement to the cloud and the changes in vendor landscape portend a very noteworthy year ahead as customers set their sights on optimizing their businesses.
IDG News Service - If the hardest part of the "Internet of Things" is getting to the Things, Cisco Systems is offering a lifeline. The so-called IoT encompasses a range of Internet-capable devices that could be almost limitless: Thermometers, electric meters, brake assemblies, blood pressure gauges and almost anything else that can be monitored or measured.
Apple will add additional security steps to keep hackers out of user accounts in the wake of the celebrity photo scandal and will aggressively encourage users to take stricter measures, the company's chief executive, Tim Cook, has said.
Over the course of the last few days, I've written a number of articles related to the celebrity photo thefts that surfaced Sunday. Many of those posts have focused on how safe - or unsafe - various cloud service providers are.