Login. Amy's Baking Company crashes and burns on Facebook after Kitchen Nightmares show. Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique and Bistro leapt to defend its brand. And it failed spectacularly. Chef Gordon Ramsay was asked in to help Sam and Amy Bouzaglos save their failing business, and the advice was filmed for his show Kitchen Nightmares, airing last Friday. Unusually for Ramsay, he quit the show, saying that he could not help the two owners because they were "incapable of listening". Google presses algorithm, cloud advantage vs. Apple, rivals. SAN FRANCISCO---Google's Vic Gundotra introduced new photo enhancement features to Google+ that are consumery, entertaining and pretty useful.
The photo enhancements to Google+ may be enough to sway a few converts to the search giant's social networking effort. But don't take your eye off the ball here. Gundotra's announcements at Google I/O weren't about social networking, search or even product features. The enhancements to Google+ as well as Google Maps, voice recognition, sensors and search enhancements boil down to two words: Cloud and machine learning. "Google's data center is your darkroom," said Gundotra. The new Google features by themselves are interesting, but the big picture is that Google can go places that rival Apple can't. Google CEO Larry Page knocked the Google vs. rivals storyline, but it's hard to ignore the advantage the search giant has pushing boundaries. Page added that creating the future isn't a zero sum game.
The Cloud Rush for Cloud Services Leaves On-Premise Solutions in the Dust? Cloud Services is just a handy way of marketing the concept of leased application platforms running in a vendor’s data center and accessible over the Internet.
Thus, instead of owning and running an application on-premise, in your own data center, you are leasing the right to access and run an application over the Internet that is being maintained in a vendor’s data center. Cloud Services provides many benefits depending on the service being offered: Now, let’s compare those benefits with the typical on-premise solution: With all of these clear benefits, it’s no wonder it feels like a repeat of the Old West Land Rush but in this case it is a New Frontier Cloud Rush! CIOs like Cloud Services as they are quick to roll-out, provide key technology solutions without the overhead of building them in-house and reduce internal overhead in maintaining an ever-growing application pool for the enterprise.
Not to paint too rosy a picture here, Cloud Services do have their drawbacks as well: Like this: 'Personal Cloud' to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner. There’s no doubting the cloud invasion.
But the research firm Gartner believes the personal cloud will replace the PC as the center of our digital lives sooner than you might think: 2014. “Major trends in client computing have shifted the market away from a focus on personal computers to a broader device perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices,” Steve Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday. “Emerging cloud services will become the glue that connects the web of devices that users choose to access during the different aspects of their daily life.” Google plans a cloud-centered future with Google Play and its market-leading Android mobile OS.
But the personal computer will also not miss out on the cloud, as Microsoft and Apple are planning to weave the cloud into the next generation of their desktop operating systems, Windows 8, and OS X Mountain Lion.