Cloud storage is cheap and gets cheaper every day. In January, AWS announced yet another price cut (its 51s to be exact) for select instances. Google hit back criticizing the cut, however even with the January price cuts, Google Cloud Platform is between 15-41 percent less expensive than AWS across several comparable instance types. That’s great…
We have strong opinions here at Push on when REST APIs can be harmful to an app – namely how it can impact a system’s scale, throughput and performance. While REST APIs are tried and trusted for downloading web pages, most mobile and web app users are used to having information delivered to them proactively…
Tackling The Latency Issue So how do you eliminate bandwidth problems? Well, one way is to minimize the data you send across the network, but how do you do that? Earlier this year, Barry Burd wrote an article about XLABS, a company that asserts that they can achieve close to 99% lossless compression on any…
The drive for greater customisation and tailored products could be hampered by customers’ fears about use of their data. Digital Catapult research has found that 60 percent of UK consumers were uncomfortable sharing personal data and 14 percent refused to share any at all. There were also worrying findings about transparency amongst organisations; 65 percent…
Warning systems for earthquakes and other natural disasters demand speed, no doubt; but, another important factor that’s often overlooked is scale – and scale across many different devices. In the case of an earthquake warning, the alert would potentially need to go out to hundreds of thousands or even millions of people – and not…
Led by Leopard Rock Capital, New Funding Fuels Push Technology’s U.S. Expansion to the West Coast, 30 Percent Staff Increase and Strategic Partner Integrations London, UK and San Jose, Calif. – August 12, 2014 – Push Technology, a leading provider of data distribution solutions enabling scalable and efficient Web and mobile applications, today announced that…
Earlier this week, I was reading an article titled: “Nine Things you need to know about the Internet of Things”. The article discusses the predicted future value of IOT (Internet of Things), the criminal opportunities that are arising because of IOT, such as fraud, theft of SIM cards and DOS attacks and even talks about…
Today we are looking at whether organizations should consider a purpose built solution to handle data distribution to cope with scale, speed and data efficiency or whether developing this in-house is better. We appreciate that this is coming from our blog and we do provide a solution for this, but hear us out. First off,…
Quality of Service (QoS) used to relate to the overall performance of a network or a computer as seen by users. Most QoS technologies help to handle bandwidth, re-routing or data compression so that you can ensure good connectivity and application performance. This however is not enough. To deliver true QoS for mobile and web…
It’s only four months to go before Brazil opens its gates to the rest of the world for the FIFA World Cup. The tourist board anticipates that $10.4 billion will be spent during the month-long event. The same holds true for sports betting. Billions will be spent. Odds are already in favor of Brazil winning…