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When “effortless” is anything but: Today’s cloud washing is all about hybrid

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For the past few years cloud washing was a practice IT vendors used to paint their not-necessarily-cloudy products as cloudy. It was widespread and obnoxious. It would be nice to say that the trend dissipated, but that is not the case. It has just morphed into hybrid cloud washing.

Hybrid is everywhere. As companies weigh decisions about what workloads to move to the cloud, vendors are using the descriptor to persuade potential customers that their workloads will move “seamlessly” or “effortlessly” between their private cloud and some public cloud. If only saying it made it so.

The fact is it takes a lot of effort to make something effortless, according to Margaret Dawson, VP of product marketing and cloud evangelist for HP Cloud Services(s hpq). In reality, hybrid cloud is a goal.

“If you look at the auto industry, hybrid means the combination of a traditional engine and carburetor…

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IFTTT adds SmartThings as a trigger connecting your house to the web!

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The connected home hub SmartThings has connected with IFTTT (If This Then That) to let users start giving their connected home a bigger voice on the internet. The SmartThings hub, which I am playing with in my own house, comes with a variety of sensors that let you measure temperature, control lights, speak to connected thermostats and door locks as well as a variety of other physical objects in your home.

IFTTT lets you tie web services together through an easy interface, and it is branching into connected devices with triggers for the WeMo and Hue light bulbs. So adding SmartThings is a good move for IFTTT, but has me wondering how this might affect SmartThings’ app store plans. SmartThings has hopes of building out an app store where developers write sophisticated services using various APIs and the SmartThings supported-connected devices. For example, when a moisture sensor detects a leak…

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Global smartphone shipment to hit 1b in 2013

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IDCOne billion smartphones are expected to be shipped this year, helping the global mobile phone market to rebound from just 1.2 percent growth in 2012 to 7.3, percent in 2013, according to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

The overall mobile phone market is growing faster than previously forecast thanks to a stronger-than-expected first half of the year driven by strong gains in emerging markets and the sub-US$200 smartphone segment. IDC previously projected 5.8 percent growth for the year. Vendors are now forecast to ship more than 1.8 billion mobile phones this year, growing to over 2.3 billion mobile phones in 2017.

Worldwide smartphone shipment is forecast to grow 40.0 percent year over year to more than one billion units this year. High smartphone growth is the result of a variety of factors, including steep device subsidies from carriers, especially in mature economic markets, as well as a…

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First look video: Samsung Galaxy Gear demonstration

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Besides my own hands-on time and impressions of the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, I snapped a few minutes of a video demonstration at the Samsung event in New York City. This doesn’t show all of the features but instead gives you an idea of the user interface, performance and its reliance upon the Galaxy Note 3 for certain functions.

The Gear Manager software is the heart of the connection between phone and watch; you can’t run it on just any Android phone. At launch the software will only work with the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition tablet. Other Galaxy devices will gain support in the near future.

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