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"Georges Nahon delivered a very inspiring keynote today before our panel of bloggers in which he shared his vision with regard to what is happening in IT in general, and in the Valley in particular. I will begin my account of Georges's visionary presentation by detailing his conclusions. As I always do, I have taken detailed notes of the pitch and they are made available at the end of this piece. If there is one thing that should be remembered from that pitch is that the Web is everywhere and in everything that will be happening in the future. Something which established players don't like according to the Head of Orange Silicon Valley. However, Nahon insisted on the fact that it won't be the same Internet we used to know."

The Cisco ®  Global Cloud Index is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based  IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing. This  document presents the details of the study and the methodology behind it. Global data center traffic:  ● Annual global data center IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes by the end of 2015. In 2015, global data center  IP traffic will reach 402 exabytes per month.  ● Global data center IP traffic will increase fourfold over the next 5 years. Overall, data center IP traffic will  grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent from 2010 to 2015.  Data center virtualization and cloud computing transition:  ● The number of workloads per installed traditional server will increase from 1.4 in 2010 to 2.0 in 2015.  ● The number of workloads per installed cloud server will increase from 3.5 in 2010 to 7.8 in 2015.  ● By 2014, more than 50 percent of all workloads will be processed in the cloud.  Global cloud traffic:  ● Annual global cloud IP traffic will reach 1.6 zettabytes by the end of 2015. In 2015, global cloud IP traffic  will reach 133 exabytes per month.  ● Global cloud IP traffic will increase twelvefold over the next 5 years. Overall, cloud IP traffic will grow at  a CAGR of 66 percent from 2010 to 2015.  ● Global cloud IP traffic will account for more than one-third (34 percent) of total data center traffic by 2015. 

"Data Centers have come under attack as terminally wasteful and "dirty" enterprises that offer little in the way of jobs. Joe Weinman, senior VP at Telx, disputes that, and says in fact they indirectly employee countless thousands across many industries."

Amazon is expanding its retail store offerings to business and industrial clients with its new AmazonSupply online store.

One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund, largely driven through the low-cost services it provides via Amazon Web Services. But the venture capital community wasn't always a fan.

Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Marketplace's 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured software on your own Amazon EC2 instances and pay only for what you use, by the hour or month. AWS handles billing and payments, and software charges appear on your AWS bill.

Think of Google Drive as a file system underneath Google Docs, but integrated with all the other Google services. All Google users get 5GB of storage for free. If you're a heavy Google Docs and Gmail user, Drive is probably best for you. If you use Office and Outlook, SkyDrive makes sense. Dropbox doesn't have the lock-in effects, but it also doesn't have the advantage of its own stack of applications. Then again, third-party apps that use Dropbox are great. It's up to you and your colleagues.

Everyone knows Amazon's cloud is huge. But many want to know exactly how huge it is. The latest to try is Deepfield Networks, a stealthy startup that worked with unnamed "network provider research" partners to figure out how much Internet traffic flows into and out of Amazon's cloud. It found that 1/3 of all Internet users hit Amazon-based services at least once a day and that 1 percent of all web consumer traffic is moving either into or out of Amazon's cloud.

Les meilleures pratiques en gestion du changement dans le nuage informatique SherpaTOMC, c'est 200 000 heures cumulées (150 clients et 300 projets) d'expérience pratique en gestion du changement, dans un système expert disponible à même le nuage informatique (à quelques clics de souris) pour vos gestionnaires et employés affectés à la gestion du changement, qu'ils soient novices ou experts.

Le Fonds pour la société numérique (FSN), géré par la Caisse des Dépôts dans le cadre du Programme d'investissements d'avenir (PIA), va réaliser son premier investissement dans une centrale numérique de confiance à hauteur de 75 M€ sur un total de 225 M€. Cet investissement permettra de créer un nouvel acteur majeur de l'économie numérique

3D printers, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies under development now will drastically change our world in the decade to come, according to Cisco chief futurist Dave Evans

The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don't merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we're seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors on the other-and even those who keep their PCs are being swept along. This is a little for the better, and much for the worse.