Mobile Robotics Growth Opportunity for Cloud Providers

With the popularization of mobile robotics in a wide range of industries, more organizations will store the collected data from these robots in public cloud services, and then use that data to train more advanced AI algorithms that enable robot cognition.

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Global Hyperscale Cloud Capital Investment Update

“Business at the hyperscale operators is booming. Over the last four quarters, their year-on-year revenue growth has averaged 24% and they are investing an ever-growing percentage of their revenues in capex,” said John Dinsdale, a Chief Analyst at Synergy Research Group.

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AWS S3 Outage: Why CIOs Need an IT Survival Strategy

Forrester analyst said “AWS owns the failure and the customer experience problems it caused. AWS customers should keep the pressure on for a root cause description and a strategy to avoid future S3 problems.”

Source: Forrester

The Shift to Cloud Computing Creates a Disruptive Transition

More than $1 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to cloud during the next five years, according to the latest worldwide study by Gartner. This transition will make cloud computing one of the most disruptive forces of IT spending across the globe.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

How M2M Data Fuels New Cloud Object Storage Use Cases

Unique business models will apply emerging technology concepts to enable innovative applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). As an example, in-vehicle infotainment services, such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, will generate large amounts of new cellular M2M mobile data traffic.

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Cloud Infrastructure Spending Reached $6.6 Billion in 1Q16

The ongoing transition to Hybrid IT infrastructure models continue to negatively impact some vendors. Meanwhile, total cloud computing infrastructure revenues climbed to a 32.3 percent share of overall IT revenues during 1Q16 — that’s up from 30.2 percent a year ago.

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Worldwide Enterprise Storage Market Declines 7%

Total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue declined 7 percent year-over-year to $8.2 billion during the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16), according to IDC. Total capacity shipments were down 4 percent year-over-year to 27.8 exabytes during the quarter.

Source: IDC

Worldwide ‘Data as a Service’ Market will Grow by 44 Percent

The global DaaS market to reach almost $1.2 billion between 2016 and 2020. The growing need to reduce data management costs is the primary driving force behind market growth. Enterprises can considerably reduce IT storage costs by the implementation of data-as-a-service (DaaS) as the expenses involved are based on data usage.

Source: Technavio

Digital Multimedia Content will Drive Cloud Storage Demand

The amount of digital multimedia content assets produced will certainly grow in the coming years. For example, 92% of survey respondents said they are currently producing more volume than they did two years ago. Meanwhile, hybrid cloud object-based storage solutions will proliferate.

Source: eMarketer

Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon Apps will Grow in 2016

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons have emerged as a major new wireless technology with a multi-billion dollar market development opportunity — and it’s a key part the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.

Source: Digital Lifescapes