{"id":653552,"date":"2013-04-21T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=632795"},"modified":"2013-04-21T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T13:00:34","slug":"last-week-on-pro-quarterly-wrap-ups-and-openstack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653552","title":{"rendered":"Last week on Pro: quarterly wrap-ups and OpenStack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, we wrapped up our second conference of the year, as paidContent Live in New York City<\/a> drew a packed house and standing-room-only workshops. More than 40 innovators, analysts, and content creators joined us on stage to discuss the future of digital media. Meanwhile, over on GigaOM Pro, our analysts took a look at the consumer products market, including new products and developments in OTT and streaming content services, as well as initial analysis of last week\u2019s OpenStack Summit.<\/p>\n

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Cloud: Understanding the State of OpenStack<\/a><\/strong>
David Linthicum<\/p>\n

Analyst David Linthicum provides his takeaways from last week\u2019s OpenStack Summit in Portland, OR. As the cloud computing standard continues to gain in popularity, Linthicum sees it as an increasingly important competitor to Amazon Web Services, especially as OpenStack gains traction with companies such as IBM, Rackspace, and HP (as well as many smaller startups). Linthicum offers his analysis and opinion on OpenStack\u2019s future as a viable cloud computing standard, and offers suggestions on what major hurdles still exist for OpenStack\u2019s interoperability and compatibility for the industry.<\/p>\n

Connected Consumer: Connected consumer first-quarter 2013: Analysis and outlook<\/a><\/strong>
Paul Sweeting<\/p>\n

Analyst Paul Sweeting looks at recent developments in consumer products market \u2013 the past quarter was anchored by the CES expo in Las Vegas and closed with new buzz about a potential smart watch from Apple (and offerings from other competitors). The past quarter also saw new developments in consumer-facing copyright laws in the US and Europe in response to the newly-emerging used digital goods market. Sweeting looks at the proposed changes to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as well as other potential copyright law reforms targeting content aggregation services. He also reviews the past quarter in the OTT market, including services such as Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu, who are actively producing their own original content as well as serving up existing content on demand. Sweeting also provides a near term outlook on the consumer products market, including game consoles, connected TVs, streaming content services, and smart watches<\/p>\n

Social: Social first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook<\/a><\/strong>
Stowe Boyd<\/p>\n

Analyst Stowe Boyd highlights some of the biggest developments that emerged in the social business marketplace. Kicking things off with Marissa Meyer\u2019s elimination of Yahoo\u2019s WFH policy, Boyd provides data on the remote work habits of US workers across multiple industries, and the continuing consumerization of enterprise solutions, led by the likes of Salesforce and Microsoft and supported by hybrid consumer\/enterprise products such as LinkedIn, Behance, and Mendeley. With continuing changes in business culture and the release of products such as Tempo and Mailbox, Boyd delves into the changing role of social tools in the workplace and wonders who comes first in the workplace \u2013 the business or the worker?<\/p>\n

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