To avoid besieged buses in San Francisco and Oakland, Google begins transporting employees by boat. 10 Great Google Apps Tips (Click image for larger view.) While Google sorts out the permit issues with regards to the barge-borne showroom it hopes to dock at a San Francisco pier, the corporate has launched a ferry service to hold workers between San Francisco and Redwood City, Calif., a connection point with a corporation bus path to its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google has recently come under fire for providing private buses to shuttle workers between San Francisco and Mountain View. Despite the ecological and traffic jam benefits of keeping workers out in their cars — eliminating a minimum of 45 million vehicle miles traveled and 761,000 metric a whole lot carbon annually — Google buses have drawn the ire of a few San Francisco residents for using public bus stops without compensating the town and for providing free parking that may cost private residents a $274 fine.... Read More »
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Server Revenue Slips In Q3: Gartner
Server shipments are slightly up but revenues are down within the third quarter, and Unix server sales continue to slip, says Gartner report. It’s not a very good year to be within the server business. Pity especially the poor Unix server salesperson in Europe. Gartner on Wednesday released third-quarter server market estimates that show that total worldwide shipments were up 1.9% from the prior-year quarter to only over 2.5 million units while total server revenues were down 2.1% to $12.3 billion. “The global server market remains in a comparatively weak performance mode as we go through the second one 1/2 the year,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice chairman at Gartner, in an announcement. Server revenues grew strongly within the Middle East and Africa (up 12.1%) and modestly in Canada (up 6.5%), but were flat or declined in all other regions. Europe all over again suffered the steepest declines. [ Want more at the impact of slow server sales? Read IBM Hardware Slide Drags Down Q3... Read More »
Enterprise Cloud Adoption: 5 Hard Truths
Everest Group lead analyst Jimit Arora looks at five factors that may determine successful cloud adoption inside the enterprise. Last fall I had the respect of sitting at the selection committee for the inaugural ICE (Innovation in Cloud for Enterprise) Awards, sponsored by the Cloud Connect show and Everest Group. The experience taught me how large enterprises are adopting cloud computing in ways in which are usually compelling, sometimes surprising, and infrequently breathtaking. The winner, Revlon, Inc., presented a majestic case for a way it leverages cloud to succeed in organizational transformation that reinforces competitiveness and consumer wallet share. As impressive as each individual entry was, there have been five recurring themes that emerged around the enterprise cloud adoption stories we read. While under no circumstances scientific, they reflect what enterprises themselves report as important factors within the success in their cloud deployments. 1. Identify a compelling reason to step out of the relaxation zone.We’ve examine the significance of senior management buy-in to be successful... Read More »
Facebook Introduces Bolts To Ease Mobile Development
[ Developer] Mobile development is made such a lot easier in case you have an SDK to work from. Facebook’s mobile SDKs for iOS and Android are the very best within the biz, and now the social network is making parts of it open source. Facebook announced today that Bolts – a “collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier” – is now available to in the course of an open source license. It doesn’t require Parse or Facebook developer services or accounts. It just requires you to download the jar and begin using it. Where did Bolts come from? Facebook says all of it befell from a collaboration between the iOS and Android SDK teams: When Parse joined Facebook, we immediately started searching for how one can improve our SDKs by comparing code and learning from each others’ successes. We found that there have been plenty of small, low-level utility classes in iOS and Android that we had both implemented. As... Read More »
Google+ Sign-In Adds Support For Apps Users, Non-Google+ Users
[ Developer] Google announced several improvements to Google+ Sign-in today. A major one is support for all Google account types. Now, Google Apps users or even those without Google+ accounts can use the feature to sign into third party apps and internet sites. The second upgrade is straightforward migration from other auth methods. As product manager Yaniv Yaakubovich, explains, “If you’re using OpenID v2 or OAuth 2.0 Login for authentication and wish to upgrade to Google+ Sign-In, we’ve made it easy to take action; it’s entirely your choice. Google+ Sign-In can grow your audience in multiple ways — including over-the-air installs, interactive posts, and cross-device sign-in — and now it’s fully compatible with the OpenID Connect standard.” There’s a migration guide here. Finally, they’ve added incremental auth, that is dsecribed as “a new approach to ask users for the proper permission scopes on the right time, versus all permissions directly.” “For example: In case your app allows users to save lots of music playlists to... Read More »