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08/06/2015

Sumo Logic has a cloud-based system that analyzes a company’s machine data generated from servers and connected devices.Businesses aren’t just looking at the rise of big data as a way to help make better marketing or sales decisions. They are also tapping into that explosion of data to better optimize their data center and IT operations.Sumo Logic wants a piece of this big IT operations market, and on Monday will announce that it landed an $80 million funding round, which brings the company’s total investment to $160.5 million. The startup, based in Redwood City, declined to comment on its valuation.There’s a ton of data being generated by the increasing number of familiar devices, like thermometers and automobiles, now going online, as well as the increasing use of phones and tablets to access Internet apps, Sumo Logic president and CEO Ramin Sayar explained in an interview.The type of data created by these devices is known as machine data, and that is exactly what Sumo Logic wants to analyze. Inside this machine data are vast amount of log files, sensor data, and server information that provide an audit trail, which can give a company a better sense of how well their devices and data centers are performing. If a problem affected a particular connected device or a server in a data center, the organization’s IT team can scan the machine data and pinpoint the error. However, with so much data, analyzing that vast body for one small error can be time consuming and complex.That’s where Sumo Logic comes in. Sumo has a machine-data analyzing system, hosted in Amazon Web Services, that companies can use with their own internal or cloud-based databases, according to Sayar. Once connected, the startup’s technology can scan a company’s machine data and find patterns or detect anomalies that could help IT staff better understand their infrastructure and see where problems may be lurking.Sumo Logic faces competition from legacy IT players like IBM, Oracle, and SAP, explained DFJ Growth co-founder and managing director Randy Glein, who invested in the startup. But perhaps its biggest competitor comes from San Francisco-based Splunk SPLK , who went public in 2012. Technology analysts frequently compare the two companies when talking about the log-management space and its future.What distinguishes Sumo Logic, however, is its easy integration with the cloud, while Splunk is used for “strictly on-premise deployments,” said Sayar. The bet is that as companies consider …

31/05/2015

At last year’s Google I/O developer conference, the company launched its official Gmail API. One year later, it’s adding a small but important feature to this API: Push notification support.The inclusion of push notification support means third party developers no longer have to poll Gmail for new messages, which helps eliminate time and extra network costs. As Google puts it, “Just subscribe to a Gmail mailbox and whenever a change occurs, the Gmail API will instantly notify your server.”Although you can still use IMAP, the official Gmail API will support all the features that come with Gmail, such as drafts, replies and native search, to name a few.For more info on what you can do with the new update, read the developer’s guide here.➤ Gmail API Push notifications: don’t call us, we’ll call you [Google]

30/05/2015

The future of mobile is being redefined. The smartphone and tablet markets are nearing saturation. The days of heady hardware growth are long gone.Mobile growth is moving into media, advertising, software, and services. Meanwhile, new devices are expanding the meaning of "mobile."BI Intelligence has created a slideshow that highlights the new markets growing up around the multiscreen consumer.Only BI Intelligence subscribers can download the individual charts and datasets in Excel, along with the PowerPoint and PDF versions of this deck. Please sign up for a membership here. BI Intelligence is a research and analysis service focused on mobile computing, digital media, payments, e-commerce, and the Internet of Things.

30/05/2015

It looks like Samsung’s plan to distance itself from Android is finally taking shape.The Tizen app store is now live across the globe, according to the Wall Street Journal, which means anyone with a Tizen-powered phone can download and use apps. But there’s just one tiny detail that’ll stop most of you from getting a Tizen phone.There's currently only one model, the Z1, that runs Samsung's homemade Tizen OS, and it’s only available in India and Bangladesh.The Tizen Store is accessible around the world, however. So Samsung will likely want to leverage its hardware where its been successful, particularly in Asia, before perhaps offering it across the globe.Samsung probably wants to test how well its Tizen OS will fare in emerging markets first, which will also allow some time for app developers to add to the store — there are only 25 apps available in the Tizen store at this time.Samsung has the monumental challenge of getting popular app developers to make apps for Tizen. Both BlackBerry and Microsoft have largely failed to entice enough app developers to make compatible apps for their respective platforms, and as a result, neither platform is anywhere near as popular as iOS or Android.Microsoft recently announced it will offer a tool that allows Android and iOS app developers to easily convert their apps for Windows Phone 10, which may help phones running the Windows Phone platform gain more market share. But there's no indication so far that Samsung will employ the same tactics.There are obvious benefits to Samsung weaning itself off Android: Samsung would have more control over its device ecosystem, which could seamlessly link any of its smart products like phones, tablets, watches, TVs, and potentially even car entertainment systems. Another reason Samsung may want to continue developing its own mobile OS is to differentiate itself in the crowded, seemingly homogeneous inexpensive mobile device market and reduce the competition it faces, especially in emerging markets.

30/05/2015

Google’s Firebase mobile backend cloud service is making it easy for developers to add offline support to their mobile apps.In a talk today at the I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Firebase cofounder James Tamplin will announce the new offline support in Firebase’s Android and iOS software development kits (SDKs).Developers who use the new feature can rest assured that app users can access the data they want right when they need it — even after an Internet connection is lost.It’s not a completely revolutionary addition — last year Facebook-owned Parse introduced the Local Datastore feature to add offline support for Android and iOS apps — but it could sweeten the overall Google Cloud Platform service portfolio for mobile app developers and make it appeal to people more than other major public clouds, like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.And today’s news fits in nicely with some announcements Google made during its I/O keynote yesterday: mobile offline support for Google Maps directions, YouTube videos, and website content.A blog post from Firebase core developer Jonny Dimond describes how the new offline technology works:The Firebase database uses synchronization rather than request / response to move data between client and server. All read and write operations happen against a local, on-device version of your database first. Then, data is pushed and pulled from our servers behind the scenes. This design has allowed the Firebase database to compensate for network latency — local write operations are reflected by local reads before being acknowledged by the server.It turns out, though, that this design is also essential to a high quality offline experience. By sending all reads and writes through a local version of the database, the Firebase SDK maintains the freedom to serve that data from the best source available — whether that’s from the network or local disk. Later, when a network connection becomes available, our SDK automatically commits local operations to the server and pulls in the latest remote updates.Citrix has been using this feature for its Talkboard app since 2013.“When you draw on a canvas in Talkboard, any updates you make while offline will be saved to disk and synchronized later when you reopen the app,” Dimond wrote in today’s blog post.For more on Firebase’s new offline support, see Firebase’s updated Android and iOS documentation.

30/05/2015

While we didn’t see any new Project Tango hardware at Google I/O this year, that doesn’t mean Google forgot about the platform in the slightest. Google today announced that it’s teaming up with Qualcomm to create a Project Tango smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 810 processor. These new smartphones will unfortunately only be geared towards Tango developers and device makers.Qualcomm has just issued a press release, detailing that the smartphone will be available for purchase for developers in Q3, though no price estimate was given in the release. The image below gives us a good example as to what the Tango/Qualcomm phone will look like.Now, there are already Project Tango smartphones out there, but they’re only available to a small subset of devs. But now that Google is partnering with a notable manufacturer to bring its augmented reality platform to a smaller form factor, it’s clear that Google’s intentions are to bring Tango devices to the public, even if it’s not sometime soon.This news comes after Google just recently began selling its Project Tango tablet to the general public, no invite needed, for just over $500.

30/05/2015

Today was Google ATAP’s day to shine at Google I/O, and it took the opportunity to announce a new security-focused product.Project Vault is the latest effort from Google ATAP, and it’s basically a …

30/05/2015

The cloud CRM giant adds Google, Cloudera, Hortonworks, New Relic, Informatica, and Trifacta as key partners for Wave.Big companies manage a proliferation of data across systems both inside and beyond their own server rooms. That’s the good news and the bad news. More data can be valuable, but only if the right people can make sense of it.Now Salesforce and new best pals Google, Cloudera, Hortonworks, New Relic, Informatica, and Trifacta are working to make it easier to move data into and out of Salesforce’s Wave analytics cloud for further analysis, poking and prodding.The companies are developing a series of connectors that will, say, make it easier for a marketing person to retrieve Salesforce data, pump it into Cloudera Hadoop or Google GOOG BigQuery to run queries against it, and then bring it back into other applications. In theory, that means an executive can combine and analyze disparate data sets to fine-tune marketing and sales campaigns.For example, a marketing chief could pinpoint patterns between product usage logs in Cloudera or Hortonworks HDP and customer demographics from Salesforce CRM . If customer usage on a particular product lags, the marketer could figure out some sort of promotion to remedy that. Or maybe the development team can figure out what’s wrong with the product and fix it.The news here is that the six companies mentioned above have joined Salesforce’s partner ecosystem and will release connectors to make this data collaboration possible. Timing of connector availability depends on the provider, although many of them are already ready, at least in test form, Keith Bigelow, senior vice president and general manager, of Salesforce Analytics Cloud told Fortune.The various connectors themselves will be free. The idea is that they will inspire more use of various paid services offered by all the parties, Bigelow said. Tech-savvy customers could already build or “roll their own” integrations between Wave and the rest of the world. “we’re just trying to simplify and automate that,” he said.This really could be a win-win situation. Salesforce holds a ton of customer data that could be parsed by Google or Cloudera or Trifacta’s services. Google, for example, has a slate of muscular tools in BigQuery, BigTable, and DataFlow but is still looking for traction in big business shops. Salesforce has plenty of big business customers. You can see the possible mutual advantage there.“We think we have the best big data services and Salesforce …

21/05/2015

When you first purchase your iPad you automatically get 5 BG of free iCloud storage to use for things like your email, iCloud backups of your devices, your Photo Library, and iCloud Drive. However, items you purchase from any of Apple’s stores like movies, music, apps and books do not count against the free storage totals. If you ever need more iCloud storage you can increase the amount at any time by selecting a new plan that best suits your needs. To do this in iOS 8 go to Settings–> iCloud–>StorageHere, you will get a snap-shot of your current available storage along with a pathway to manage your storage needs. When you click on manage storage you will see a listing of all your devices that are currently being backed up to iCloud along with how much storage all of your documents and data are currently occupying on your account. You can reduce the amount of storage that is being used by deleting individual documents and data, or by deleting your iPad back-up from iCloud. If neither of those are viable options for you, then change/upgrade your storage plan.Select–> Change Storage Plan and upgrade to a plan that provides you with the best available option to fit your storage needs. Your current iCloud Storage plan will be displayed along side your options. If you’re like me and you have a legacy plan, once you upgrade, you will no longer have the option to return to that plan in the future. For instance, my legacy plan was provided by Apple as an upgrade once upon a time, and provides me a slight discount that is renewed on a yearly basis instead of the typically offered monthly charges.Once you make your choice, your existing storage plan will be canceled, and you’ll be charged the prorated cost for your upgrade Your plan is upgraded immediately, and your new monthly payment date is updated to reflect the purchase date for the new plan. You can also choose to cancel or downgrade your plan form your iPad to any monthly storage option that is less than what you are currently using.

21/05/2015

Master your iPhone and iPad. Sign up here to get our Tip of the Day delivered right to your inbox.Touch ID is a very useful feature on iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 plus models, as well as iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3. You can set it up to work as a password to your phone and App Store purchases, as well as use it in apps like 1Password as an identification tool. The Touch ID button recognizes your fingerprints, up to five of them, and gives you easy and seamless access to your device without having to enter a number or word password.But how do you even set it up in the first place? Well, if you skipped the "Set up Touch ID" screen in your initial iDevice set up, you can set up Touch ID by going to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode. To get to the settings, enter your passcode you have set on your device.Once you're past that screen, you can see the settings to use Touch ID for iPhone Unlock and/or iTunes and App Store purchases. Under these options, you'll see the Add a Fingerprint option.To set up a new fingerprint, tap "Add a Fingerprint" and follow the prompts for adding a fingerprint. Just place your finger on the Home button, don't press! And make sure to move your finger in all directions around the Home Button so you'll always be able to open your phone, no matter which way your finger is facing. You'll have to places your finger on the Home Button multiple times to get it stored in your phone. You'll feel vibrations when you're calibrating your fingerprint, so you'll know when to lift and place your finger. Make sure you add at least one finger from each hand. You can also have your significant other add a fingerprint if you want them to have access to your iPhone or iPad.Once you've added your fingerprint Touch ID will automatically be enable for iPhone Unlock, Apple Pay (for the 6 and 6 Plus), and iTunes and App Store purchases. Toggle off any of those you don't wish to use Touch ID for.To name your fingerprints, tap on the fingerprint name in the list above the Add a Fingerprint option (see above) and then type the new name. This can be handy for knowing which fingerprint to delete and redo if it stops working; especially when multiple people have added a fingerprint, such as might be the case for a family iPad.One thing to remember is that if your Touch ID isn't working (due to rain on your screen, or the fact that you're wearing gloves), or someone else needs to access your phone, your iPhone can still be accessed via the passcode.Top image credit: Denys …

20/05/2015

In about a month, I’m moving from Los Angeles to Seattle. This made me wonder if anyone really LIKES moving from one home to another. Sure, you may upgrade your living situation or relocate to an exciting new city, but the hassle of it all can put a damper on the experience. There’s the exercise of finding a suitable place to live, sifting through and packing up all your belongings, transporting everything to the new location, finding local services to replace the familiar ones, and the constant stream of unexpected costs. Companies face many of the same considerations (and angst!) when evaluating a move from their on-premises data centers to a public cloud. How can you make the transition easier? Here are five tips. #1: Identify your painWhy are you even considering a public cloud in the first place? Do you think it will save you money in your IT budget? Are you planning on drastically reducing IT headcount after a migration? Is it just good ol’ fashioned peer pressure? Done incorrectly, a move to the cloud will cost you more money and require more support staff! The right answer is: agility. The cloud has taken off because forward-thinking companies see the immense business benefit of rapidly acquiring and scaling services globally in order to offer new, valuable capabilities to customers faster than their competitors can. #2: Pick the cloud that suits youThere is no “one size fits all” cloud, and not all clouds look alike. Identify the areas that matter most to your applications and way of working. A few such areas include:Performance vs price. Do you need screaming performance and are willing to pay top dollar? Or is average disk read/write and CPU performance perfectly fine for your workloads?• Additional services needed. Are virtual machines enough? Do you need web application containers, databases, storage? Are you a “do it yourself” sort of company or would managed services add value?• Geographic locations. If your employees or customers are bunched together in a few key markets, geographic reach may not matter. Conversely, if you need to distribute workloads across the globe, data center breadth matters.• Tooling and APIs. How do you plan on consuming cloud services? Do you need existing infrastructure management and deployment tools to work against cloud environments? Or are you pushing a self-service model where employees use vendor-provided interfaces and APIs to interact with the cloud? #3: Deep dive on support strategyOnce you move to the cloud, how …

12/05/2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of those galactic terms that seems almost too overwhelming to contemplate. It is estimated that within the next five years, there will be more than 25 billion devices, sensors and chips handling upwards of 50 trillion gigabytes of data. It’s the same as hearing that the global economy equals $87 trillion. It’s nice information to know, but it doesn’t provide the tools and insights needed to get started. Where does one even begin to capitalize on such a growing monstrosity as the IoT? Where can you begin to see value?One analyst group of has actually attempted to narrow down IoT a bit to its most valuable core essence. They suggest that the value isn’t in “Things” at all — meaning any device with an IP address. Instead, the “Internet of Sensors” — one piece of the IoT — is where the real action is, according to a report from The Technology Partnership (TTP). TTP’s Steve Taylor suggest that “there’s simply no point in objects talking to each other just for the sake of it. The IoT only provides the communications backbone. An Internet of Sensors looks more like the roots of a tree, with sensors of all types at the extremities, capturing and feeding data upwards to the main trunk – the Internet.”The real value lies in being able to capture and analyze the data that comes from the sensors at the endpoints of IoT — and that needs to be the few nuggets of data that are of material value to the business. But even if it’s narrowed down to an Internet of Sensors, such a network may not deliver what a business truly needs. As I heard a colleague put it thus way a few years back: you can have a warehouse with pallets loaded with product, and the technology exists to detect whether something falls of that pallet. But does that really matter to the business? At the same time, there is a huge amount of much more relevant data that goes unrecognized. The business needs to weigh in on what data really matters to their success going forward.Ultimately the value of IoT may come from two directions — providing insights into things that weren’t previously visible to the business, and also elevating peoples’ roles within organizations. “IoT promises to handle tedious tasks so people can focus on more important things,” said Ron Exler, analyst with Saugatuck Technology, in a recent report. Exler predicts a great deal of confusion around IoT in the coming years — as mentioned above, consider its gargantuan scope. Every vendor, for one, is …

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