Along with enhancements in battery capacity and network capabilities, mobile devices are now capable of sharing their resources for distributed processing of critical analytics as resource providers of cloud computing.
Correlations between sociodemographic data, clinical variables and visits to the different health care providers were assessed by means of computing Pearson's r.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC., Santa Clara, Calif., a provider of network computing systems, said it had agreed to buy CenterRun Inc., Redwood City, Calif., a developer of software that helps companies install business programs, for $66 million in cash.
Joyent, the Californian provider of cloud computing solutions – although they like to refer to that as delivering "web application hosting Infrastructure as a Service" – today announced that it raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Intel Capital.
UCloud, a China-based provider of cloud computing infrastructure and services for games companies, mobile startups and other enterprises has raised $50 million in a Series B round of financing.
Joyent: Joyent, the Californian provider of cloud computing solutions, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Series A investor Intel Capital, with additional support from existing investor Greycroft Partners and new investor Liberty Global.
Small businesses typically look at application providers as a way to "take away all the pain," of computing services, Mr. Kieffer said.
From the point of view of a provider of compute services, clouds are therefore primarily of interest as a way to absorb peak loads (through 'cloud-bursting'), extending the capacity of the infrastructure while physical resources support the base loads.
Yet even as the providers continually upgrade their networks, the cost of the equipment needed to do so is shrinking steadily, reflecting the well-worn economics of computing.
