Dilip Tinnelvelly

IBM developerWorks surveyed over 4,000 IT professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries about their views on critical and evolving technology trends with a focus on business analytics, mobile computing, cloud computing, and social business. The ability to gather information is far outpacing organizations' ability to use it effectively, something that the companies call "Hitting the Data wall" - when the amount of data needed to make optimal decisions and carry on operations overwhelms a firm's technology and infrastructure. Not surprisingly with businesses struggling everyday to crunch rapidly growing amounts of data, business analytics stood out as the most-adopted technology among those surveyed. 42% of respondents called it as an "in demand" area for software development and as having the highest adoption tendency (90%) when compared with other technology ar... (more)

VMware Delves Deeper into the Mobile Virtualization Platform

VMware has certainly announced some significant products and partnerships at the VMworld 2011 global conference happening this week. But the highlight has been the company's strong headway into the mobile virtual market that aptly addresses data synchronization demands brought about by rapid smartphone and tablet proliferation for both enterprise and personal usage. VMware has plans to deliver virtual desktops to Samsung and LG android devices by integrating its recently updated desktop virtualization platform, VM View 5 and newly revealed VMware Horizon Mobile with Samsung mobile... (more)

Cloud Education Key to Dispelling Consumer Haziness

TheInfoPro, a division of The 451 Group, has released the results of a cloud computing services study. Fifty-two percent of the cloud decision-makers interviewed were of the view that internal change and learning were the main stumbling blocks to cloud adoption. This according to the analyst company brings to light a "pent up demand " for cloud advisory services as consumers are confused by the rapid changes that are brought about by cloud adoption. Other cloud roadblocks included up-front cost (15%) and security (13%). This confusion with regard to cloud computing is magnified w... (more)

IBM Acquires Cloud Software Testing Enabler, Green Hat

After a spate of recent acquisition announcements from IBM like DemandTec Inc., Emptoris Inc. and Curam Software Ltd, the IT services giant continues to stay in mode with yet another one. IBM has just said that it is acquiring software quality improvement and cloud testing company Green Hat, which is headquartered in London, England, and Wilmington, Delaware, for an undisclosed amount. Green Hat's application virtualization technology helps developers conduct testing on a software application by leveraging the cloud as a virtual test environment instead of the traditional method... (more)

Best Buy Set to Tackle Apple’s iCloud with Cloud Music Service

Joining the spate of companies that have rushed to offer cloud-based music storage and streaming services, Electronics retailer, Best Buy Co., has also announced that it is bringing its online music platform, which is already operational in the UK, to the U.S. The My Music Anywhere platform as it is known in the U.K. allows users to stream content purchased via computer, mobile phone or tablet, sidestepping the cumbersome computer storage and file transfer process. The offering echoes recent ideas advanced by Amazon with its Cloud Player and by Apple, which revealed the iCloud p... (more)