How Green is Your Cloud? - ReadWriteCloud. As prediction markets offer contracts in more and more areas, are they starting to encroach on the role that opinion polls currently serve in politics? Pre-election polls are often referenced in the build-up to major elections, offering a flavor of the results that might be on the way. However, every political commentator will be quick to say they are not predictions – and indeed they are often proved wrong when the results actually roll in.
In both the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections, polls underestimated the support for Donald Trump in key battleground states. While there was some improvement in accuracy in the 2024 election, with most major polls estimating that it would be a close run between Kamala Harris and Trump, the majority were leaning more towards Harris than Trump. Enter: prediction markets By comparison, prediction markets that were offering political contracts in the run-up to the election were offering more accurate odds.
Potential for abuse Featured image: Pexels. How Has Cloud Computing Impacted Businesses Around the World? [INFOGRAPHIC] Cloud Computing: The Layperson's Guide to Distributed Networks. As buzzwords go, few have conjured up as much debate and discussion as cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is that software, services and information can be provided to users over a network connection and through a web browser, rather than running locally on a computer or a local network server. Popular cloud applications like Google Docs and Salesforce.com offer users robust ways to manage and access content, and the beauty of the cloud is that the content is accessible from any web browser or connected device.
Major Cloud Providers and Companies Amazon Web Services: In 2006, Amazon launched its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services. AWS is comprised of a number of different products that allows businesses and application developers to build their own cloud-enabled applications. Amazon is a huge player in the cloud platform space, with major web companies like Groupon and Foursquare using various parts of Amazon's cloud infrastructure to power their products. New WiFi Routers Managed in the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud. A Look at Unified Networking for Cloud Environments - ReadWriteCloud. Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns. Total new full-time jobs running the facility: 50. Apple’s data center has been a disappointing development for many residents, who can’t comprehend how expensive facilities stretching across hundreds of acres can create so few jobs, especially after thousands of positions in the region have been lost to cheaper foreign competition.
But in the newer digital economy, capital investments that a generation ago would have created thousands of new positions often equal only a handful today, with computers and software processing the heavy lifting while the key programming is often done by engineers back in Silicon Valley. “Apple really doesn’t mean a thing to this town,” said Tony Parker, the owner of Temple Furniture, one of the last surviving furniture makers in Maiden. His son-in-law, Kelly McRee, the company’s operations manager, said: “Apple was the apple of everybody’s eye, but that’s about it. It was something for everyone to ooh and aah over.” Most were not as lucky. The Five Signs That an Application is Ripe For the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud. When you’re in the process of establishing your cloud architecture, figuring out what can be moved to the cloud, and when it should be moved, is job one.
That can seem like a daunting task, depending on the size of your organization, the number of applications in use, the complexity of your network architecture, and so on. But it’s not as hard as it first seems. You can kick start your cloud migration by looking for applications that share some or all of these five characteristics: Apps that are already virtualizedApps that are loosely coupled and modular in their designApps that have low requirements for privacy and securityApps that can tolerate latencyApps that are unencumbered by regulatory requirements Mapping your path to the cloud will be easier once you understand how and why these characteristics matter, so let’s drill down into each. 1. Bert Huelman is Senior Solution Architect at SHI.com.
Virtualization isn’t limited to the cloud. 2. 3. 4. 5. Have questions? From DevOps to NoOps: 10 Cloud Services You Should Be Using - ReadWriteCloud. The Social Gaming Leadership Alliance (SGLA) has this week (November 13) testified before a Massachusetts committee on a bill that contains provisions that could see Social Plus games banned in the Commonwealth. Just the day before, the alliance announced the introduction of ‘Social Plus’ which they say is a new term that defines the category of freemium social games provided by SGLA partners.
They describe these as being online social games with sweepstake promotions that “deliver interactive board, card and casino-style games to millions of Americans.” The online casino-related bill, H.4431, was referred to the committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies. At present, nothing has yet been actioned as the committee will accept written testimony until November 20. The organization believes that allowing the ‘thriving’ industry to continue will generate new revenue for the Bay State. The SGLA also suggests that voters are opposed to the potential ban. Featured Image: Canva. Top 10 Consumer Cloud Applications of 2011. For the last few years, many everyday folks who’ve been asked in surveys, “What is a cloud application?” Have either guessed wrong or said they don’t know. Folks don’t know what “the cloud” is, and for the most part, that’s not their fault. Unlike the Internet, which truly is a single network of interconnected resources, “the cloud” is more of a concept, one which can be leveraged by marketing departments to mean just about anything.
For this year’s ReadWriteWeb list of the most important and influential consumer-grade cloud computing apps of the year 2011, we focused our gaze on services that truly fit the formal definition: specifically, services that 1) utilize a remote resource of 2) variable capacity 3) which the user can provision for herself, 4) which is mostly or totally independent of programs installed on the user’s devices or PCs, and 5) which is not just a Web site with a big server. 10. CloudApp. RWW’s The Consumer Cloud series by Richard MacManus: 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 1.