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How collective intelligence is reshaping systems management

Big data has always had a place in the world of systems management, but it might have found its sweet spot in the cloud. While there are plenty of tools available for analyzing data on how your physical resources are operating in your data center, it's still a lot of work and it's not easy to truly figure out what's going on. You could think of it like a Yakov Smirnoff joke: In data center, you discover insights. In cloud, insights discover you. What that means is that companies providing cloud computing and cloud services can tap into the experiences of all their customers to give everyone a sense of what's going on. Nand Mulchandani, co-founder and CEO of SaaS startup ScaleXtreme calls it "the wisdom of the crowd." Ideally, for example, his server-management service should be able to realize I'm running my servers at far too low a utilization rate compared with other customers, and it should be able tell me the ideal size instance to run and the most-effective software stack for fixing my problem. As of Thursday, ScaleXtreme does just that. The company announced its first suite of analytics functions for configuration management, patch management, capacity and utilization, and monitoring. The analytics functions are fairly elementary off the bat, Mulchandani said — what side effects has the latest Windows patch created, what are the best software stacks, do customers running Amazon Spot Instances save more than those using Reserved Instances, etc. – but they'll get more advanced and more predictive in time. That's when things get really interesting and become the Holy Grail of crowdsourced analytics. Mulchandani thinks it will be about a year before ScaleXtreme is predicting problems, but it's coming. "If machine A fails … the first question after you cleaned up the mess is 'Wow, what other system of mine are going to fail?'," he explained. If it puts the right models in place to identify failure patterns across its customer base, ScaleXtreme should be able to give users that level of foresight. Among its peers, however, ScaleXtreme isn't necessarily unique in its thinking. Cloudability,which monitors users' spending across their various cloud services, has told me it's also working on incorporating big data techniques into its service. The idea there is that the company could tell users how their cloud spending and choice of services compare with those of other similarly situated users. Another startup, Newvem, uses crowdsourced insights to recommend better choice for Amazon Web Services customers. Nodeable , which launched last year as a Twitter-like app for letting administrators keep track of their systems, is undergoing a significant shift into a real-time analytics engine. It's relying on Hadoop and Storm, a real-time processing front end, to analyze and alert customers to system events as they're happening, perhaps even before. There's a saying in analytics that more data trumps better algorithms, and this definitely seems to be one of those cases. A single organization can only collect and analyze its own data, but that's just a drop in the bucket of all the data generated by everyone trying to do the same thing. Especially with a new model such as cloud computing, there could be a real value in learning from what your peers are doing.
http://techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/How-collective-intelligence-is-reshaping-systems-management-13212
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Motorola Mobility to Microsoft: We Demand a Royalty Recount

Here's a big surprise: Google and Microsoft beg to differ. For months now, the software giant has been saying that Google's Motorola Mobility unit has refused to license standards-essential patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Microsoft's beef: That the cellular telecom company was demanding a 2.25 percent royalty rate on Windows for use of its portfolio of patents related to the H.264 video standard. "Motorola has refused to make its patents available at anything remotely close to a reasonable price," Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner claimed in a February 2012 blog post. "For a $1,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay a royalty of $22.50 for its 50 patents on the video standard, called H.264." All told, that adds up to $4 billion. That's a hefty figure, of course — and one that got Microsoft a lot of mileage in the media. But in an interview with AllThingsD on Wednesday, a Motorola exec said the company hasn't been seeking royalties at that level for some time and that it has only been demanding 50 cents in royalties for each copy of Windows for a year now. "Microsoft says we demanded $4 billion a year from them, and that's simply not true," said Kirk Dailey, VP of intellectual property for Motorola Mobility. "We never asked for anything like that." Dailey also alleged that Microsoft was aware of that lower offer when it said that Motorola was demanding far larger royalties. Dailey noted that a 50-cent royalty on 300 million copies of Windows would net Motorola just $150 million. Not surprisingly, a spokesperson for Microsoft disputed Motorola's account, tellingAllThingsD that it didn't see the 50-cent proposal until just two days ago. But it is even more of a hairball than that, when the roles are reversed. Dailey said that Motorola has offered to pay Microsoft a 33-cent fee for every Android phone that uses its ActiveSync software, to avoid a U.S. International Trade Commission ruling scheduled to go into effect July 17. "We are willing to take an ActiveSync license at that price, and we believe they are obligated to consider and accept that," Dailey said. But, in a statement given to AllThingsD, Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, slagged both Motorola and the search giant for what he suggests are untoward tactics. "While we welcome any good faith settlement effort, it's hard to apply that label to a demand that Microsoft pay royalties to Google far in excess of market rates, that refuses to license all the Microsoft patents infringed by Motorola, and that is promptly leaked to the press," said Gutierrez. "At a time when the FTC, prominent members of Congress and leading companies from across the industry are expressing concern about Google's refusal to honor its obligations to standards bodies, this appears to be little more than an effort to change the subject." In other words, just another typical day between Microsoft and Google.
http://techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Motorola-Mobility-to-Microsoft-We-Demand-a-Royalty-Recount-13213
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Report: 57% Of Mobile Developers Plan To Adopt Windows Phone

Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be a huge hit with consumers just yet, but according to a new report by market analysis and strategy firm VisionMobile, it's definitely catching on with developers. Almost 60% of the developers who responded to this survey say that they plan to develop for the Windows Phone platform. Those are just 'plans,' though, and those don't have to turn into reality. Windows phone, say the survey's authors, "is indeed the new cool," but "to turn the buzz into developer buy-in at the levels of iOS and Android, actual adoption must follow soon or fall flat." One area that's especially attractive to developers, it seems, is the ease of coding and prototyping apps for Microsoft's mobile platform, as well as the relatively low cost of development and low learning curve. As for other platforms, about 28% of the developers surveyed in this study say they plan to develop for iOS, 25% say they'll target Android and another 25% plan to develop for Chrome. As tablets become increasingly popular, developers are also jumping on the bandwagon. Almost half of the mobile developers surveyed for its study now target tablets and almost 75% of iOS developers do so. That's up from just 34.5% a year ago. Smartphones, of course, remain the most popular mobile devices targeted by developers, with 85% of them developing for one of the leading smartphone platforms. When it comes to making money from their apps, though, mobile app developer clearly still remains a bit of a hit-driven business. The average revenue per app developers can expect to make is somewhere between $1,200 and $3,900 depending on the platform they are targeting. According to this study, BlackBerry developers currently make the most per app ($3,853), followed by iOS developers ($3,693) and those writing apps for Android ($2,735). While many developers may be expressing interest in developing for Windows Phone, the reality is that those who currently do so say they only make around $1,200 per app. These numbers only take into account the bottom 95% of developer by per-app-revenue, so there are obviously some developers who make significantly more. It's worth noting that only 4% of respondents said they developed for BlackBerry, though. This relatively small sample size likely influenced the average income per app (maybe only those who are still making good money from their BlackBerry apps actually still support the platform?). Another caveat: the majority of developers who responded to this survey were from Europe (41%) and Asia (28%). Only 18% were from North America. It's worth keeping this in mind as you look at the data, as the differences between these markets surely colors the developers' experiences.
http://techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Report-57-Of-Mobile-Developers-Plan-To-Adopt-Windows-Phone-13214
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Twitter sets off jitters as site goes down

The widely popular Twitter website went offline for many users Thursday, prompting a flurry of complaints on rival sites. "Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter," a company statement said. "Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue." That did not stop some panicked users from launching complaints. "Twitters broke, my life has no meaning anymore," one user wrote on the social media website Tumblr. Another wrote, "twitter is down and my life is over." Twitter, which allows its members to post brief comments , links or pictures, claims to have more than 140 million active users, with the largest number being in the United States . A recent survey found one in seven Americans who go online use Twitter and eight per cent do so every day.
http://techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Twitter-sets-off-jitters-as-site-goes-down-13216
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HTC One S comes to India

HTC has formally launched its One S smartphone in India. The company had unveiled One S at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2012) earlier this year. The latest offering from HTC boasts of a dual-core processor wrapped under a 4.3-inch AMOLED screen. It runs on Android 4.0 powered by 1650 mAh battery. HTC One S is equipped with an 8-megapixel camera with several advanced camera functions like auto-focus and continuous shooting mode. One S also has HD video recording facility.The connectivity features include, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi 802.11 and GPS/aGPS. The HTC One S will be available at an MOP ( Best buy ) of Rs 33,590. Key specs: * 1.7 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor * 8MP auto focus camera with flash * 1080p HD video recording and front-facing VGA camera * Beats Audio integration * 25GB free Dropbox space * Other features include, 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, stereo FM radio with RDS, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB internal memory.
http://techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/HTC-One-S-comes-to-India-13221
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How to Retrieve Forgotten Email Account Password Stored in Your Desktop Email Client?

Personally I prefer Desktop email clients to web-based interface provided by email service providers. Using dedicated Desktop mail client is easier and better than web interface as you can use them offline and type and save emails to send later. Also you always have a backup of your emails in your Desktop client. When we [...] Read rest of this article at AskVG.com
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