Esticast-Technology: July 2017

Tuesday, 18 July 2017

Intel Next-Gen Processors Target Networking, Data Center Workloads

Intel moved further into the data center space with its next-generation processors targeting cloud and communications service providers and enterprises. The company says the new chips are 1.65 times faster than its previous generation.

At an event today in New York, Intel launched its Xeon Scalable processors. They’re designed to support data center and networking workloads including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and 5G.

T-Mobile is the fastest LTE network in the U.S. for 14th straight quarter; Verizon now 3rd

T-Mobile has been bragging that its network is more suited for unlimited 4G LTE service than its rivals. And some of this has actually been borne out by data mined by Ookla, the creator of the Speedtest app, and analyzed by the carrier itself. T-Mobile has now gone 14 consecutive quarters with the fastest network in the U.S. While a chart posted by T-Mobile shows the latter's data speeds continuing to move higher, T-Mobile Chief Technical Officer Neville Ray pointed out that the chart reveals what happens when "carriers jump into unlimited without doing the hard work to make sure their networks are ready."

The Internet of Changing Things

“The internet of things is not really about things” but about services, says Macario Namie, head of internet of things strategy at Cisco. “The impact is really in changing to service-based business models.” Namie was one of nearly a dozen industry experts who spoke about how enhanced interconnectivity is impacting the business world when Stanford Graduate School of Business hosted the Internet of Things in Global Value Chains Executive Conference this spring.

For example, Namie says, Konica Minolta no longer sells office copy machines — it provides a connected “digital hub” and businesses pay for the scanning, copying, and digitization services it provides. Selling these “outcomes” is a revolutionary change for a company long steeped in a one-time revenue model of selling physical products. “The impact on business models is profound when you have this kind of real-time connection to the thing itself.”

Apple is building its first China-based data center per new cybersecurity law

Apple is building a new data center in China in order to comply with new cybersecurity laws passed last year that, among other restrictions, require companies to store data for Chinese users on servers located in China, via The Wall Street Journal.

The data center will be located in the province of Guizhou as part of a $1 billion investment by Apple in the area. As Bloomberg reports, the new data center will be operated by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data — which was co-founded by the government of Guizhou — in partnership with Apple, since the new regulations require that the data centers be managed by Chinese company.

Amazon is teaming up with its one-time enemy VMware to go beyond the cloud, says report

Amazon Web Services is thinking about building software for corporate data centers as part of its recently formed partnership with VMware, according to a report on Monday.

The work could make it easier for companies to migrate applications between their data centers and Amazon's server farms and make it easier to recover data from Amazon in case of disasters, The Information said, citing an unnamed source.

AI is not yet a slam dunk with sentiment analytics

When we look at how big data analytics has enhanced Customer 360, one of the first disciplines that come to mind is sentiment analytics. It provided the means for expanding the traditional CRM interaction view of the customer with statements and behaviors voiced on social networks.

And with advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/machine learning, one would think that this field is pretty mature: marketers should be able to decipher with ease what their customers are thinking by turning on their Facebook or Twitter feeds.

"Mobile phones are not smart enough," says Pete Lau, CEO, OnePlus

Is OnePlus a completely independent organization or is it part of the Oppo group?

Right now, we are a wholly independent company. The matrix of measuring this is that if OnePlus is not successful, the team will be dismissed.

What was the need for OxygenOS? Why not create it on top of Android?

The original Android has a very good framework and outline, but we feel that in terms of the experience and service, there is a lot of scope for improvement. Even for Google, they provide the original version for reference. So far, those not specialized in making products may not tell the difference between the original version and OxygenOS, but those who specialize can tell you a lot of differences in terms of details.

Fraud and the Internet of Things

During the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the hottest movements of our time. Although many technology trends and buzzwords come and go overnight, it’s clear that the IoT is here to stay. Almost half of the world's population is online, and technology is a deeply integrated part of our lives. Smart thermostats regulate our business and household temperatures, connected cameras watch over our homes and pets, online TVs and speakers respond to our every need, and intelligent devices constantly monitor our health.

According to Gartner, the number of worldwide Internet-connected devices will grow to 11.4 billion by 2018. It’s a phenomenal trend that will continue to spread until human and machine connectivity becomes ubiquitous and unavoidably present.

India's telecom industry most dynamic worldwide: Ciena's Gary Smith

NEW DELHI: US-based telecom equipment and software services provider Ciena is seeing a surge in India business on the back of telcos network spend including its recent packet-optical technology deployment for Reliance Jio to support subscriber base.

Ciena's president and global chief executive Gary Smith in an interaction with ETTelecom’s Muntazir Abbas said that the India’s connected population increased 40% in the previous year while the rest of the world only grew 7%.

Cloud computing looks unbeatable but there is a rival tech that can uproot it

For many, this story would be a spin tale. As for people who do not understand cloud, fog computing can be a foggy affair. For years, we have been relying on hard disks and drives to drive our data consumption, but over the last half, a decade technology has allowed storing massive amounts of data in the virtual space. Not only data companies have been able to run servers in the cloud, they have been doing big data analytics using cloud-as-a-service. That doesn’t mean companies have abandoned cloud altogether. Data servers are still up and running, and if anything companies are adding more might to them. Teradata, a data analytics giant, earlier this year announced a new iteration to both its data servers as well as its cloud technologies. More important, not only did it amalgamate these two technologies, it also allowed for a wider reach to its audiences using the best of both worlds.

The Art Of Networking And Why It's Essential To Doing Business

Building a network that really works for your business is about having a continuous audit of the ways people you know connect and create opportunity.

While most people agree with the cliché 'it's not what you know, it's who you know', it carries a lot more weight today as innovative collaborations can appear seemingly out of nowhere.

Janine Garner, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 mentor and author, told HuffPost Australia networking still matters – but it's the network leaders build around themselves that matters more.

"Building a network that works is both an art and a science. It is an art in that it requires basic human skills in communication, connection, authenticity and the ability to be 'in the present' and engaged with people and conversation," Garner said

Mexico's America Movil details argument in telecom dispute

Billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil argued on Wednesday against rules brought in by an overhaul of the country's telecommunications industry, saying in a statement they were unfair and had led to a loss of its business rights.

In the latest chapter in a fight that could shape the future of competition in the sector, the supreme court is considering whether to undo parts of an overhaul that tilted the playing field against Slim's long-dominant America Movil and led to steep drops in prices that Mexicans pay for cell phone service and internet access.

Microsoft's Cloud Focus Could Mean Layoffs: Report

With cloud computing becoming a bigger revenue driver for Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the company reorganized its business earlier this week, which may result in large-scale job reductions at the software company.

A person familiar with the company’s plans told The Wall Street Journal this week that layoffs could be in the thousands range as it moves its sales focus to large enterprises and small and medium businesses. Late last week, the Puget Sound Business Journal broke the news that Microsoft would reorganize its business to focus on a so-called cloud-first strategy that is being led by Azure, its cloud hosting business.

The Internet of Things: Industry’s digital revolution

Amtrak’s North-east Corridor is the busiest railway line in North America, and also the most grumbled about. Its reliability is about average for the government-owned network — about one in five of its trains ran significantly late last year — but because it connects the centres of United States financial and political power, it is the subject of the loudest complaints about slow service.

Out of sight of the disgruntled passengers, however, Amtrak’s engineers are being supported by some of the world’s most advanced technologies to prevent those delays. Siemens, the German group that built some of the locomotives used on the Washington to New York line, is deploying what is known as the “industrial Internet of Things (IoT)” to predict problems before they happen.

Text analytics:not just for customer sentiment

Sentiment analysis is one of the most prevalent uses of text analytics, but the technology has many other valuable uses. Text analytics finds a range of applications in scientific, medical and technology development. It can detect root causes of events and augment the knowledge of what happened with an understanding of why it happened. When used predictively, it can help anticipate future outcomes and prevent adverse events. Text analytics can also enable process automation and case management.

Hacktivist hits Minnesota gov databases to protest Philando Castile verdict

A hacktivist Sunday breached Minnesota government databases and stole 1,400 email credentials, along with other information, to Protest the Philando Castile verdict.

On June 16, a jury acquitted the Minnesota police officer charged with manslaughter for killing Castile during a traffic stop prompting police brutality protests across the nation.

The stolen credentials reportedly give access to internal databases from the server admin.state.mn.us, which connects to other databases of the sites mn.state.us and mn.gov, according to Vice's

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google. How do they stack up against each other?

Three Seattle venture capitalists tackled that question during our inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit last month. Frank Artale of Ignition Partners, S. “Soma” Somasegar of Madrona Venture Group, and Sheila Gulati of Tola Capital attempted to describe the current competitive landscape in the public cloud during a discussion moderated by angel investor Charles Fitzgerald.

As is usually the case with a public discussion in the tech industry, everyone was very polite. And part of the reason is that because all the major players are growing so quickly, it’s hard to say that anyone is really losing.

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