Author: Ellen Tate

This acquisition is meant to boost the prospects of the cloud based services on the Samsung mobile services to compete with the big competitors in the marketplace.

GreatResponder.com  Electronic device giant Samsung Corporation announced this week that it is going to acquire Joyent, the cloud computing based service provider company. All financial, technical and commercial aspects have been finalized between the two companies, according to the announcement made by Samsung. Although, the financial terms and conditions for the acquisitions have not been disclosed in the official statement.

It was further informed in the statement that the major objective of this acquisition is to boost the cloud computing based services offered on the Samsung mobile devices, especially the mobile apps and other associated services to compete with the top competitors of the company in the marketplace.

Meanwhile, the official blog of the company states that the existing top member of Joyent will continue working with the Samsung corporation on its cloud project, which envisions the future of the company to progress. Joyent will not be merged into the organization, but it will operate as an standalone company for the cloud project.

“As a result of this acquisition, Samsung will become an anchor tenant for Joyent’s Triton and Manta solutions, and will help fuel the growth of our team and the expansion of our worldwide data center footprint. This acquisition, though, is about more than just adding financial muscle and scale. Joyent and Samsung share a culture of innovation and technical excellence, and bring together a set of highly complementary cloud, big data, mobile and IoT technologies,” CEO, Joyent Company, Scott Hammond wrote in his official blog.

Earlier this major acquisition of US based company, two major companies were also acquired by the Korean giant to strengthen its mobile payment portfolio. These companies include LoopPay and SmartThings, whicy were acquired during the last couple of years.

Many technical experts in the field believe that Joyent was positioning for acquisition for quite a few years, but could not succeed. The main reasons for the present acquisition for Samsung are the Triton, a container infrastructure platform and the Manta, which is cloud based object storage services offered to many reputed clients in the marketplace.

This acquisition will increase the prospects of the cloud based services on the Samsung devices.

The newly launched X1 instances offer 2 TB of memory and high performing Intel processors that is more than any of the other SAP certified cloud instance available today.

GreatResponder.com  Amazon Web Service announces the launch of X1 instances for Amazon EC2. These memory optimized instances will support the large scale in memory database, process big data and HPC. AWS is providing the most comprehensive collection of instances.

The X1 instances have 2 TB of memory and they are powered by four 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon E7 8880 v3 processors delivering 128 vCPUs. The X1 instances also offer up to 10 GB per second of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store that the team believes is well matched to hold up large-scale in-memory databases, big data processing, and high performance computing.

“Amazon EC2 provides the most comprehensive selection of instances, offering customers, by far, the deepest compute functionality to support virtually any workload,” said Matt Garman, Vice President, Amazon EC2.

He further said “With 2 TB of memory – 8 times the memory of any other available Amazon EC2 instance, and more memory than any SAP-certified cloud instance available today – X1 instances change the game for SAP workloads in the cloud. Now, for the first time, customers can run their most memory-intensive applications at scale with the elasticity, flexibility, and reliability of the AWS Cloud, rather than having to battle the complexity, cost, and lack of alertness or on-premises solutions.”

The X1 instances have been certified by SAP for manufacturing workloads. They meet the recital bar for SAP OLAP and OLTP workloads backed by SAP HANA.

It is easy to migrate the on-premises deployments to AWS and also start fresh. Both ways, it can run S/4HANA, SAP’s next-generation Business Suite, as well as earlier versions.

Many AWS clients are presently running HANA in scale-out fashion across multiple R3 instances. Many of these workloads can now be run on a single X1 instance. This design will be simpler to set up and less costly to run. The updated of the SAP HANA Quick Start will offer the clients with more information about their configuration options.

The AWS clients, across almost every industry and layout, are using SAP applications on the AWS Cloud and experiencing the suppleness, scalability, safety, and cost savings of the world’s most complete cloud platform for their business applications.

The latest research from the synergy research group finds that the Microsoft is growing in the Software as a Service (SaaS) Market, but Salesforce still is the leader of this market.

GreatResponder.com  Latest data from Synergy Research Group shows that Microsoft is now challenging the position of leader in the enterprise Software as a Service market. In the year 2015 Microsoft increased its market share by nearly 3 percentage points, but it was still a small way at the back of long time leader Salesforce. Though, Microsoft continues to grow its Software as a Service revenue much more speedily.

According to the research, Microsoft established the 2^nd top level of increase within the division at 70 % year-on-year, only at the back of SAP who were at 73 %, but still only sits 2^nd in the market share rankings. Salesforce is one of only four in the top ten in the division who proved less than 50% growth, however, still accounts for just under 15% of the global market share for Software as a Service. Adobe, IBM, Oracle, Google, ADP, Intuit and Workday complete the top ten.

“In many ways SaaS is a more mature market than other cloud markets like IaaS or PaaS,” said John Dinsdale, Chief Analyst at Synergy Research Group. “However, even for SaaS it is still early days in terms of market adoption. It is notable that the big three traditional software vendors – Microsoft, Oracle and IBM – are all now growing their SaaS revenues faster than the overall market and yet SaaS accounts for less than 8% of their total software revenues.”

The Software as a Service has been indicating strong growth over the past few years, as Synergy calculated approximately this market division has grown by 40% over the last 12 months, and it is expected to be triple over the next five years. The expected growth trends are also supported by a Research by Cisco. Last year the group forecasted that by 2019 59% of total cloud workloads will be SaaS, as evaluate to 45% in 2014.

The research also shows Microsoft as making constructive steps in the customer SaaS market segment beside its enterprise business. Whereas the user segment is approximately a third of the size of the enterprise market, the company’s growth in this division exceeding rivals who at present, have a more secure position in the market.