This month, Amazon Web Services (AWS) turns five years old. As a leader in infrastructure as a service (IaaS), its impact can hardly be overestimated especially as an cloud enabler for SME‘s, new SaaS providers and, increasingly, an option for large companies that want to migrate infrastructure and services to the cloud. In retrospect, it’s amazing to see the number of services that AWS has added to its portfolio in the past five years. The original offering that provides basic compute … [Read more...]
HP’s Cloud Strategy and WebOS
March 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
It’s becoming increasingly clear that with last year’s purchase of smartphone maker Palm and its WebOS, HP is going to develop its own cloud offering. HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced this week that HP wants to provide the platform of choice for cloud services and connectivity and that HP will launch a public cloud offering in the near future. Apotheker also says everything HP will do in the future will be delivered as a service. HP also intends to install WebOS on a variety of devices, … [Read more...]
The Growth of Cloud-Based Music Streaming
March 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
Cloud computing is gradually revolutionizing the music industry and the way digital music is being consumed. Instead of buying and downloading (digital download) songs over the internet, consumers are accessing to them via the cloud in the form of on-demand streaming services. This also brings new services that helps users to create playlists and receive recommendations for songs and bands according to their music interests. Cloud-based music services Due to its enormous penetration and … [Read more...]
Mobile Cloud Computing Changes App Development
March 14, 2011 By 2 Comments
With the advent of mobile cloud computing, increasing effort has been put into developing platforms that simplify the development of cloud-based mobile applications. Creating apps for the mobile cloud is significantly different than developing apps for a native smartphone platform like the iPhone or Android. But over the long run, the mobile cloud computing model may prove more profitable for app developers, and open the field to a larger number of developers. Current mobile development … [Read more...]
Storage and backup in the mobile cloud
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When it comes to working with data and files on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, one of the most crucial issues concerns data storage – where and how the data is going to be stored, accessed, updated and backed up. Cloud storage assumes storing data in the cloud and making it accessible irrelevant of location and, sometimes, irrespective of terminal type. In a mobile cloud computing scenario, both mobile apps and data are stored and run directly from the cloud, increasing the … [Read more...]
LTE in the Spotlight at the Mobile World Congress
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona last week, most of the leading service providers gathered to give their view of contemporary and future technologies and trends. Much of the spotlight at MWC focused on future mobile broadband technologies, as well as the shift in focus from smartphone devices to smartphone platforms and ecosystems. One trend worth watching is the development of mobile broadband networks, particularly the 4G Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) technology. Status of … [Read more...]
The Forecasted Mobile Traffic Explosion and its Impact
February 14, 2011 By 2 Comments
There’s incredible growth in mobile data in the coming years, according to several vendors and analysts who have recently issued reports. This is a particularly interesting development for mobile cloud computing, as most of the forecasted traffic is expected to be driven by cloud-based services. In a new Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update for 2010-2015, issued by Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI), there are clear indications of a real explosion in mobile data traffic. Some of … [Read more...]
Advanced browsers are key to mobile cloud computing
February 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
The key requirements for mobile cloud computing are a web interface and Internet access to remotely stored applications in the cloud. Handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablets require browsers that can quickly display and execute remote applications optimized specifically for mobile cloud computing. From a user perspective, this makes it less obvious that the application is not native or handset-centric, but run from the cloud. To support mobile cloud computing, there is an … [Read more...]
Why Amazon SDKs support the mobile cloud
January 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
Most industry analysts agree that mobile cloud computing is going to proliferate in 2011. There are many reasons for this, including the increased coverage, stability and quality of broadband wireless networks like 3G and the growth of broadband-enabled smartphones and tablets that can access and display cloud-based applications. Mobile cloud computing builds on the principles of cloud computing, bringing attributes such as on-demand access and software as a service (SaaS ) to the mobile … [Read more...]
Facebook puts pressure on text messaging services
January 5, 2011 By 2 Comments
I'ts interesting to note that many telecom operators are claiming that Facebook and other social media applications are threatening their text messaging, SMS, business. The number of SMS's sent by customers, mostly mobile users, is shrinking year-by-year since the heights of 2007/2008. This year (2010) telecom operators in Sweden, Norway and Denmark report a significant decrease in the number of messages. In Sweden, the four operators Tre (3), Tele 2, Telia and Telenor distributed a total of … [Read more...]
Mobile virtualization supports mobile cloud computing
December 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Is seems that some of the latest buzz concerning mobile cloud computing is handset, or smartphone, virtualization. Creating completely separate profiles through virtualizing the handset opens completely new possibilities in terms of usage scenarios. This includes, for example, to integrate both a business profile and a personal profile in the same device - without coinciding any information or applications. Storing copies of the profile(s) in the Cloud means that users can replicate and shift … [Read more...]
Mobile cloud computing – opportunities and challenges for MNOs
November 30, 2010 By 8 Comments
Mobile cloud computing (mCC) represents a relatively new, and fast growing, segment of the cloud computing paradigm. In simple terms, mCC is about provisioning mobile applications and services in the cloud, enabled through cloud service providers and delivered to end-user’s mobile handsets over the Internet. In a recent study by Juniper Research, annual revenues from cloud-based mobile applications are expected to reach $9.5 billion in 2014, from $400 million in 2009. The numbers of mCC … [Read more...]
Android 2.2 and mobile cloud computing
November 8, 2010 By 4 Comments
It seems that with the latest Android release, v. 2.2, Google is stepping into the enterprise mobile cloud computing realm with its mobile platform. Android 2.2 is supposed to support many of the required security policies enforced in enterprises, especially concerning enterprise email. These include automatic handset lock due to inactivity and administrator remote wiping in the case of lost or stolen handset. More information are given on Google's Enterprise blog Another very interesting … [Read more...]
