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The cloud space continues to evolve rapidly buy fundamental strategic principles will always apply - to the cloud industry or any other industry, for that matter. One of those principles is Michael 
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Amazon continues to expand its worldwide network of data centers, with Montreal, the UK, China, and India all slated to become part of its chain.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Great news for Montreal and Canada as Amazon announced plans to open a new data center in Montreal. Montreal is recognized for its cheap and very green hydro electric power. Montreal also has amazing fiber network connectivity with other North American and European regions. Also, Canada may provide better data protection and privacy laws than the US - although this may be debatable. This is great news for Montreal and for Canadian businesses looking to move to the cloud!
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Google is courting enterprise customers like never before, but it has lacked a proper mobility framework for Android since the OS debuted. Now the company wants to change the game with Android for Work, but could its efforts prove to be too little, too late? Via TechinBiz
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Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it's silently becoming a core piece of the internet.
Farid Mheir's insight:
more data on amazon cloud...
Jake Peters's curator insight,
January 30, 2015 4:13 PM
No surprises here really. Cool stuff though!
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During Amazon’s fourth quarter earnings announcement today, the company revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS)—essentially its cloud computing infrastructure—has over one million active customers. Via TechinBiz
Farid Mheir's insight:
interesting statistics...
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The idea behind cloud computing, as pioneer Amazon Web Services believed when it launched its first utility compute and storage products eight years ago, i
Farid Mheir's insight:
Full of data about the size of Amazon data centers (Amazon probably has close to 5M servers), the article describes how they are organized and hints at the networking issues they face. Very interesting and insightful.
John Rinehart's curator insight,
December 8, 2014 3:47 PM
Over the long haul, Amazon believes the massive scale of the public cloud will mean that very few organizations will run their own datacenters.
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The list concerns the 10 most impactful shifts for companies next year. Via Peter Azzopardi, Patrick Bouillaud
Farid Mheir's insight:
Always good to follow those trends. No surprise.
Peter Azzopardi's curator insight,
October 9, 2014 5:46 PM
The most directly related trend was "Cloud/Client Computing. ....
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In 2010 I asked Professor Eben Moglen to speak to the Internet Society of New York about software freedom, privacy and security in the context of cloud computing and social media. In his Freedom in the Cloud talk, he proposed the FreedomBox as a solution: a small inexpensive computer which would provide secure encrypted communications in a decentralized way to defeat data mining and surveillance by governments and large corporations. Via Peter Azzopardi
Farid Mheir's insight:
Security and privacy concerns are top of mind for corporations and individuals looking to move their data to the cloud. This very technical story provides some insights into what may be offered in the future: fully encrypted data, as soon as it leaves the browser, with minimal overhead. Let's hope we can see this in commercial offerings soon.
Peter Azzopardi's curator insight,
April 18, 2014 6:54 PM
Homomorphic encryption allows data to be processed in an encrypted form so that only the end user can access it in a readable form. So far it has been too demanding for normal computers to handle.
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Simple tendance au tournant de la décennie, l’infonuagique pourrait bien devenir la norme d’ici quelques années. Entreprises et gouvernements se tournent vers cette solution informatique qui, par l’entremise de serveurs distants, permet un accès réseau à nos données, à la demande et en libre ser
Farid Mheir's insight:
(article is in french) looks like Canada is catching up in the cloud computing world- Forbes 2012 article was clear about that. Governments, in particular the Quebec government are now targetting local cloud providers with servers in their jurisdiction as preferred partners. The decision will in the short term limit solutions - not all SaaS solutions can guarantee hosting in a specific country. On the other hand this will spark a higher level of local investment in the field, which is good. I also like the IDC Canada - Telus report cited in the article, which provides some interesting survey data about the state of the cloud computing in Canada. I like their simple diagram that shows the progression of IT sourcing methods, it says it all. This goes along with the realization that the cold Canadian weather and low electricity costs may actually be the best to host large server farms. It may actually be a better use of our Hydro energy that the production of aluminium?
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Les revenus SaaS des 100 premiers éditeurs de logiciels dans le monde ont augmenté de 60% en un an pour atteindre 20 milliards de dollars, d'après PwC. Via Serge FLEITH
Farid Mheir's insight:
(in french but direct link to english PWC report included) Interesting report that shows SaaS accounts for <5% of revenues for Microsoft and IBM, but looking at the revenues in $ shows that SaaS is a meaningful billion dollar a year market for software publishers.
VOS ANIMATEURS >'s curator insight,
March 29, 2014 5:31 PM
Intéressant de voir un rapport qui montre que le SaaS est une source de revenue <5% pour les grands éditeurs de logiciels comme Microsoft ou IBM. Cependant, en chiffre absolu c'est quand même un marché d'un milliard de dollars et plus annuellement! Un lien direct au rapport de PWC est inclu dans l'article.
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Facebook is radically changing the way technology is being built with its Open Compute Project. Here's a tour of some of the amazing new gadgets from OCP. Via jean lievens
Farid Mheir's insight:
A good review of the open compute project from Facebook. Lots of links to follow. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Everything is moving to the cloud and the OCP open source designs are the basis for servers and equipments that run cloud data centers. This is bound to increase innovation speed and reduce cost. It may also lead the way for other open sourcing of hardware projects and solutions.
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My friend PL Bisaillon raises a very good point: your digital product or services must be differentiated from that of the large established players. PLB highlights different ways that the cloud services industry providers can differentiate themselves from the large players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Cloud solutions in particular and digital solutions in general will be dominated by large global organizations. For digital transformation, large consulting firms such as McKinsey, Capgemini or the big4 will certainly offer services and solutions that appeal to a large audience and global organizations. However, this leaves room for regional providers - french speaking ones in Quebec province for examples - or niche players that focus on specific industries or verticals - eCommerce as is the case for my organization FMCS.digital for example. Always good to be reminded that the world will not be a monolithic one composed solely of large players.