Good morning, Thursday.
Some new news on the cloud computing front: Fortune’s reporting that Velostrata has raised a $14 million Series A funding round. The company’s plan is to make hybrid clouds that mix private and shared public cloud infrastructure faster and more efficient.
The story indicates the secret sauce is technology that "will let companies keep the bulk of their data in-house, in private cloud, or data centers controlled by them, and just offload, or stream, the compute portion of their workloads to the public cloud of choice."
Wherever you may be keeping your latest workloads, you’ll be glad to note that here in the U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter.
Solid domestic demand expanded at a 3.7 percent annual pace (well over the initial 2.3 percent reported in July), and may well offer reassurance to investors about the shape of the U.S. economy’s ability to weather the recent turbulence.
And if you’ve been thinking about a newfangled wearable device to put on your wrist to track everything from the markets to your heart rate in real-time, don’t rule the Apple Watch out just yet. Despite persistent rumors on the underground the Apple Watch wasn’t quite keeping the needed time, IDC is reporting Apple shipped a total of 3.6 million units in 2Q15.
"About two of every three smart wearables shipped this quarter was an Apple Watch," said Jitesh Ubrani, Senior Research Analyst for IDC Mobile Device Trackers. "Apple has clearly garnered an impressive lead in this space and its dominance is expected to continue."
But the IDC story observes that what’s really worth watching is the continued development of the watchOS, the next version of which will allow for native apps (lest we forget what a boon native apps on iOS became for the iPhone).
Me, so far I’m a holdout on this first gen of the Apple Watch, but time will tell if I give in (which I certainly did with the initial iPad).
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