Oracle recently made a lot of interesting announcements at the OpenWorld conference, including the launch of its cloud platform, Oracle Public Cloud, and the launch of its new Big Data and NoSQL offerings.
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It also operates Ubuntu One, a cross-platform personal cloud service for consumers.
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"Google TV is an ideal platform for cloud gaming and we have tacked the obstacles to achieving low latency streaming game experience with multi gaming controller devices support on Google TV, " said Wesley Kuo, CEO of Ubitus.
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Most new applications that leverage a cloud platform also understand how to leverage this type of architecture to take advantage of the cloud-delivered resources.
In fact, the company has also built several cool applications on top of the cloud platform.
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You may not have heard of the cloud platform but you definitely know its customers.
The real carrot is the managed services and software on top of a Cloud platform and application layer.
You see, the company develops a cloud platform that helps companies evaluate the business cases for IT products.
In addition, our recent acquisition of NewBay further expands our market share, our Personal Cloud platform functionality and our customer relationships.
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In the battle for who will become the most used open source cloud platform CloudStack has just hit a major milestone.
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Sure, cloud platform vendors will argue that their software, if run properly, isolates all user data and setting info from each other.
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The more ambitious, and potentially vaporware bit, is Envizions' hopes for the system as a game development platform and a cloud computing device of sorts.
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Building a platform for the cloud does not seem such a bad idea, since it is precisely what many in the industry are trying to do.
In the spirit of open innovation, Google promises to make the Cloud Platform code, the Arduino sensor designs and the collected data available online after the conference.
TMC's goal is to establish a complete global cloud platform by 2015 that will provide affordable and advanced telematics services to Toyota automotive customers around the world.
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The company's cloud platform currently has more than 10 patents.
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Continuuity is a cloud platform with a suite of developer tools that the company says enable any developer with standard skills to become a Big Data Application (BDA) developer.
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One biggie was the announcement that any and all companies looking for computing horsepower can jump on board its formerly-limited Google Compute Engine, part of the Google Cloud Platform.
Their case study has more details on what the problem was they wanted to address and why they chose the Windows Azure cloud platform over other available solutions they considered.
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Google's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which utilizes a network of Arduino sensors to collect ambient data and translate it into easily understood visualizations.
The IT arm of NYSE Euronext announced beta of Capital Markets Community Platform, its cloud computing offering this week, and the effort, on the surface, is a good example for other vertical markets to follow.
The respondents estimate that it will take approximately three years for cloud platform and infrastructure services to be firmly placed within the growth stage, and at least two years for software services to reach that stage.
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And at salesforce.com (CRM), Holleran help lead its transition from a Small and Medium-Sized Business sales force automation SaaS company to one more focused on global enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications and cloud platform services.
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The Magellan SmartGPS communicates with Magellan's custom-built Smart Ecosystem, a cloud platform for an extensive database of constantly-updating, location-relevant social media and navigation content that is automatically pushed to the SmartGPS display to create a uniquely-rich driving experience.
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Another highlight is that in addition to the existing Flyme Cloud backup and phone tracking service, Meizu's also finally launching a much-needed free video and lossless music cloud platform, and this time it's done in collaboration with legit content providers like Sina, Tencent and LeTV.
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Agawi will be demoing their cloud-based games streaming platform on Windows 8 devices at the Cloud Gaming USA event in San Francisco next week, September 11-12, where Agawi will also be delivering a keynote speech.
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It is a well-established cloud management platform, already widely in production use by many organizations.
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Gaming service Onlive, which offers a cloud gaming platform, has also announced its support for Ouya.
Not every ISV shopping for a cloud data platform or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) needs that scale, though.
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It is also the only cloud gaming platform that has been deployed massively on iPads and other mobile devices.
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