Bitcasa, the cloud drive for the device economy, today announced a licensing agreement with SanDisk, a global leader in flash storage solutions, for the development of SanDisk-branded cloud storage solutions using the Bitcasa cloud storage platform.

I just got pinged some more research from Deloitte, who have produced a fascinating report about the size of the market for the Internet of Things (IoT).  Here's the management summary and you can download the whole report hereif you want.

With an entire industry focused on financial inclusion, small finance companies, payment banks and microfinance institutions across India have a new option to improve time to market while focusing on building and serving their customers. FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, today introduced Bank

Ormuco, today announces it has signed a 5 year multi-million pound contract with their UK data centre and colocation partner, MigSolv.  The deal means MigSolv can now offer high end cloud solutions and rival their competitors in the ever growing cloud market place.

The B2 Group, provider of based payments, investment funds and FX automation software and consultancy solutions for transaction banks, third-party administrators, fund companies and corporates across the globe, announced today the next generation version of PayEX has been released.

 ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Consorsbank is using the ADVA FSP 3000 for secure connectivity between its data centers.

talech Inc., a cloud-based POS solution, today announced a simple, affordable, EMV ready payment and POS solution that works with specific Ingenico Group terminals, can be activated seamlessly through a software download, and does not require customers to change payment processors.

Customers using talech's point of sale solution can connect to Ingenico Group's innovative payment terminals to start accepting EMV payments including swipe, chip-and-pin, chip-and-signature, as well as contactless solutions.

NetDirector, a leading provider of cloud-based data and document exchange services, has completed its integration with Black Knight Financial Services' (Black Knight) Data Integration Services (DIS) version 3 (v3). DIS is a Web-based tool for attorneys and other service providers that enables third-party applications and case management systems to interface directly with Black Knight's servicing technologies. Black Knight is a leading provider of integrated technology, data and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries.

PayPoint, an international leader in payment technologies, today announces the availability of its new mobile software development kit (SDK). Mobile SDK has been designed so that merchants with mobile apps can handle payments securely, without compromising the customer experience. With the SDK, merchants can ensure payments are made quickly and easily on any device, anywhere, even where mobile signal is intermittent.

Global corporate treasury teams now have access to new technology that can help them operate more easily in local markets, using version 15.1 of the Reval Cloud Platform for treasury and risk management (TRM).