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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

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By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. Cloudant will extend IBM’s Big Data and Analytics , Cloud Computing and Mobile offerings by further helping clients take advantage of these key growth initiatives.

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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

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You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution. Security alarm systems have communicated with operations centers and police for a long time, but now allow monitoring and control from your smartphone. With these burgeoning capabilities, there needs to be some focus on cyber security.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Contact Info.

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Enhancing AI projects with advanced cloud GPU servers

Dataconomy

Big data analysis is another area where advanced cloud GPU servers excel. The ability to process vast datasets quickly and efficiently allows businesses to extract insights and make data-driven decisions with greater speed and accuracy. Compliance with industry regulations is also paramount.

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Vendor-Side DevOps Practices Can Still Deliver Better Value While Client-Side Government Processes Catch Up

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We must approve and deploy in an environment with significant cultural, regulatory and security guardrails. Each cloud computing provider has “opinionated” ways of handling things such as load balancing, elastic scaling, service discovery, data access, and security to name just a few.

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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS

Cloud Musings

Enhanced security through continual security updates to individual PaaS stack components Dramatically reduce overall project risk by bringing predictability to both the cost and the ramifications of introducing new applications and services.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.