In an article written by Daniel Price, author at cloudtweaks.com,we come to know about different arguments in favour of making cloud services successful in Europe.Cloud computing is a key propeller of economic growth, productivity and job creation in Europe.Europe already trails North Amercia in comparison to adaptability to cloud services. Few of the main reason why cloud services are still lagging in Europe are cautious approach of europeans towards long-term service contracts, costly capital outlays and expensive software licensing fees. In this blog the author points out to basic few things that we have to do to enable cloud services get a better footing in Europe. 

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In an article written by Daniel Price, author at cloudtweaks.com, we come to know how virtualization is helping in the growth of data centers in Europe. The top three reasons for which catapulted the growth of datacenters in Europe were storage growth, business expansion and virtualization. The datacenter market in United Kingdom is expected to grow the most in coming five years. According to a top placed IT executive, the growth can be mainly attributed due to basic change in idea that datacenters are revenue centers and not cost centers and the other reason being that virtualization helps in reducing physical hardware to the minimum.

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In an informative article by GlobeNewswire and published in NASDAQ website we come to know about the top five functions in information technology that might be outsourced by IT executives this year. Outsourcing a service not only helps in saving time but also add costs benefit to a company. Top five services which might be outsourced are connectivity and bandwidth,24/7 network monitoring, virtualization, disaster recovery and security.

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In an article written by Ann All, Editor at QuinStreet, explains how smart phones will help to boost the image of IVR systems in the near future. Till date IVRs have been audio based and sometimes it is cumbersome for customers to navigate through different menu options while holding up their phones to their ears. This not only proved difficult but also created a lot of dissent among the customers. IVRs ease of use reflects a lot on a company's image. With smart phones gaining popularity across the world, companies are trying to shift to interactive and visual IVRs. These visual systems not only help in customers navigate through menu options easily but also presents a visual representation of a company's IVR system. Visual IVRs provide a better customer service experience to the consumers of the company.

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In an article written by Zack Martin (Author at SecureID News), we come to know how a Mexican bank has employed voice biometrics for its customers to make phone banking process easy for them. Bank now uses Vocal Password voice biometrics solution which makes the usage of PINs, passwords, and security questions in their automated phone system redundant and obsolete. Introduction of voice biometrics has helped customers of the bank in a great way that now they don't have to remember any PIN's or passwords their voice is now the password for any banking operation they want to do over phone.

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In an article written by Chad Brooks (BusinessNewsDaily Senior Writer), gives us insight into how effective handling of automated phone systems can reflect positively on the image of your company or vice-versa. Businesses need to tread carefully between their own demands and the demands of their consumers to extract the best possible out of their IVR systems. In his article Brooks lists out some important suggestion by a senior corporate executive in the field of IVR's to prevent a IVR system being exposed to failures.

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In an article written by Chad Brooks (BusinessNewsDaily Senior Writer), gives us insight into the problem faced by small businesses in making and attending calls. Small businesses always cannot employ people just for call operating purposes. Chad brooks in his articles suggests some IVR solutions for these small businesses and also asserts them on why to have a running IVR system in their premises as it will not only help in reducing wastage of precious times for employees as well as can also be a boon for them to develop their business.

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In an article written by Chad Brooks (senior writer of BusinessNewsDaily), explains how to choose a right IVR for your organization. IVR system attends to customer's request based on customer's response. It is an automated process and reduces a great deal of human interaction. So, getting a right IVR for your business will increase your customer satisfaction.

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In a blog written by Uttam Pegu (an IVR blogging expert), we come to know about the current pricing scenario of IVR in India. This article also gives us an insight as to how companies can explore more opportunities for revenue generation through their IVR services.

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Docker is an open source Linux containerization technology which lets an admin run multiple apps with all their dependencies in secure sandboxes on the same underlying Linux OS. It makes an attractive alternative to typical virtualization. Hadoop community is working on patches that will bring Docker into the data management system. To know more, go through the article by Jack Clark, World's only Distributed Systems Reporter.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/02/docker_hadoop/

OpenStack released the latest version, Icehouse, the concept of Database as a Service (DBaaS). Tesora's goal is to help organizations to create and deploy database-based OpenStack applications who don't have a great deal of expertise with database administration.  The focus is to make database just another service rather than a central focus. To know more on OpenStack Icehouse, go through the article by Daniel Kusnetzky, a reformed software engineer and product manager.

http://www.zdnet.com/tesora-database-as-a-service-and-openstack-trove-7000028821/

Human element plays an important role in successful application of big data.  Companies mainly focus on the tools (like Hadoop), using the R language, MongoDB and a few others.  But, it is also very important to understand what kind of data is available, what kind of data is needed and what role an expertise in computer science and applications, modeling, statistics, analytics play. Very often single source of big data leads to incorrect conclusion. So, human power is very much needed. To know more on this topic, go through the article link by Daniel Kusnetzky (a reformed software engineer and product manager):

http://www.zdnet.com/the-human-element-is-critical-in-applying-big-data-7000028983/

Big data analytics is a strong process to enrich any business process. Ford automobile company is applying big data analytics to improve their business. In doing so, they polish the metrics from the company's best processes across myriad manufacturing efforts and through detailed outputs from in-use automobiles-- all to improve and help transform their business. Big data is allowing deeper insights in improving processes, quality control, and customer satisfaction. To know more on this topic, go through the article by Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

http://www.zdnet.com/ford-scours-for-more-big-data-to-bolster-quality-improve-manufacturing-streamline-processes-7000010451/

In the modern era a device which is not connected to the cloud just cannot complete the scenario. Today’s consumers seek a more optimized experience across their phone, tablet and PC and the combined power of Microsoft devices and services provides the best experience they can have today across all these.

To gather more insight read the article by James Bourne, Technology journalist, follow http://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2014/may/08/cloud-computing-india-are-we-verge-explosion/  

Red Hat outlined engineering partnership with Hortonworks to collaborate on enabling more storage file systems. The integration allows Hadoop to run directly on a POSIX(Portable Operating System Interface)-compliant storage node. The two companies will create test suites to validate compatibility between Hadoop and alternative file systems, which will be contributed to the open source community. To know more on this, go through the article by Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-forges-hortonworks-engineering-pact-ties-storage-into-openstack-7000016801/