Digital Lifescapes

Mobile communication service providers have started to build out fifth-generation (5G) wireless network infrastructure. There are many use cases for this new technology. What benefits will 5G bring to the media and entertainment industry? One example: 5G will empower cloud-based entertainment on the go. While 2019 has seen the first deployments of 5G in the consumer domain, 2020 will be the year of large scale commercial 5G rollouts across the globe. As a result of this network investment, 5G generated revenues for cloud-based entertainment services are forecast to rise rapidly. According to the latest worldwide market study by ABI Research, 5G alone will contribute revenues of almost $1.9 billion to cloud gaming -- accounting for 42 percent of overall cloud gaming revenues, as well as $67.5 billion in cloud video -- accounting for 31 percent of cloud video revenues by 2024. 5G Edge Computing Market Development "These numbers underline the growing demand for cloud-based en...

Cloud computing services continue to grow, as more organizations discover the benefits of hybrid cloud solutions. The worldwide cloud infrastructure services market grew significantly in the first quarter of 2017, up by 42 percent year-on-year to reach $11.4 billion, according to the latest market study by Canalys. Once again, Amazon AWS maintained its dominance in the sector, holding a stable global market share of 31 percent. It was followed by its strongest hyperscale rivals - Microsoft, Google and IBM. Microsoft grew 93 percent and Google was up 74 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago. These growth rates were faster than those of AWS and IBM, which grew 43 percent and 38 percent respectively. Public Cloud Service Market Development "Competition for enterprise customers is intensifying among leading cloud service providers, which are investing heavily to secure key national and global accounts," said Daniel Liu, research analyst at Canalys . Timing is ...

If there's one compelling point to take away from the Amazon " AWS re:Invent 2015 " keynotes and commentary this week, then it's this -- the leading public cloud service providers know that the current economic trends favor their business model. Moreover, the leading IT industry analysts are providing the statistical evidence that validates the notion that lower-cost hyperscale hardware and open source software is dramatically altering the underlying foundation for enterprise computing. Therefore, the ongoing rapid shift to cloud computing by the bold trailblazers is assured. When the CIOs of traditional IT organizations -- such as General Electric and  Capital One -- say that their wholesale transition to a public cloud solution is now inevitable, the doubters prior questions about security seem like a moot point. Whether it's a large domestic financial services provider or a huge multinational industrial company, the path to progress has become vividly cl...

The aftermath from the ongoing Shadow IT trend will have a significant impact in 2015. Line of Business leaders that satisfied their forward-looking IT needs by utilizing the facilities of the public cloud service providers -- such as AWS and Google -- will refuse to retreat back to obsolete corporate data centers, unless major enhancements are deployed. We have reached a pivotal point in time where the visionary among us can foresee an infinity of open hybrid cloud computing possibilities -- without the obligatory limitations that were imposed from a bygone era of uninspired IT mediocrity. The advent of next-generation data center capabilities have raised the bar of expectations -- the disruption of the status quo has been in motion for some time. Traditional IT leaders that deferred important decisions about infrastructure investment and staff retraining must now prepare to concede. International Data Corporation (IDC) has highlighted their Data Center predictions, based on a r...