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Partnership will redesign data centre computing to improve security of the cloud – Imperial College London
A new partnership between Imperial and the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi aims to boost the security of cloud computing services.
Cloud computing, in which data and software are accessed via the internet rather than stored locally on personal laptops and smartphones, was until quite recently a novel concept, but is now a pervasive feature of our digital lives. It powers widely used mobile messaging and email apps, and the productivity suites that office workers use to collaborate online. It will play an even greater role when the Internet of Things (IoT) takes off and devices such as kitchen appliances and industrial machinery become internet-connected as standard, reporting sensor data to cloud servers.
But Professor Peter Pietzuch in Imperials Department of Computing, the partnerships academic lead, says that the devices and operating systems typically used to host cloud services in data centres were not designed with cyber security in mind. Security has not changed much from traditional operating systems that pre-date the internet and the era of cloud services, he says.
Limitations with the security of these systems have contributed to the regular occurrence of data theft, ransomware attacks in which cybercriminals hijack an organisations data and demand a ransom to restore it and attacks from other kinds of malware. These threats could pose ever greater risks to society as vital infrastructure such as the NHS becomes increasingly reliant on digital services and IoT.
The research partnership between Imperial and TII will work toward mitigating these risks by redesigning the hardware and software that the cloud runs on, from the ground up. The project aims to rethink what the hardware and software stack in cloud environments should look like when you design them with security in mind, says Professor Pietzuch.
The project will address the key challenge of ensuring data centre servers are isolated from one another so that a malicious cloud tenant cannot access data belonging to another, while also enabling servers to communicate efficiently for legitimate purposes, particularly for data-intensive computation tasks that are sometimes parallelised over thousands of machines.
The project will work toward developing software and hardware architectures, building on existing AArch64 and RISC-V processor architectures, to allow data to be well compartmentalised while enabling efficient sharing.
Dr Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar, Chief Researcher at TIIs Secure Systems Research Centre (SSRC), said: The research project with Imperial aims to find solutions based on AArch64 and fits nicely with other research and use cases as SSRC is doing a lot of work on ARM-based and RISC-V platforms and on OS [operating systems] in phones and drones. Easily applicable to todays mobile devices, the projects solutions will simplify the unification of cloud and edge security approaches.
We are talking about new low-level security mechanisms in moderncomputer architectures, says Professor Pietzuch. Malicious attackers can currently exploit unauthorised access to data in a lot of ways for example, to leak data or install ransomware. Instead of thinking about very specific high level attacks and coming up with mitigations against them, our approach will deal with a number of security challenges by helping create a hardware and software stack that is secure at every layer.
Professor Pietzuch emphasises that this requires fundamental research. This is a scientific problem. Companies have been plugging one hole after the other, but there is no end in sight. What were trying to do is step back and consider how to fundamentally rethink software stacks so we dont face the same repeated problems. We need a fundamental shift so we can move to something less vulnerable, or in the future things could get worse and worse.
A lot of people at TII are applied industrial researchers. They bring in an industry view where they ask the right types of questions. They talk about usability aspects and when we devised the project they provided very useful input, steering things so we are aware of where the hard problems lie. Its great to be partnering with them on this important project.
Dr Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez, Director of Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation for Imperials Faculty of Engineering, said: Cyber security is an area in which we can only make real headway by bringing together basic research of the kind carried out at Imperial and an understanding from industry experts of the problems and challenges faced in the real world. Im delighted about this partnership, which will combine the world-leading expertise of Professor Pietzuch and colleagues and the fantastic resources and expertise of the Technology Innovation Institute.
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Nearly One-Third of Developers are Turning to Alternative Cloud Providers, New Research from SlashData Finds – PR Web
Were seeing tremendous growth of multicloud approaches as organizations look for the best provider fit to solve their specific challenges. This trend will only continue to gain momentum as multicloud becomes the prevailing cloud strategy for businesses.
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Developers increasingly rely on multiple cloud providers for their infrastructure needs. Thats the finding from research conducted by SlashData. The 21st edition of the global Developer Nation survey, which asked nearly 3,500 backend services developers which providers they turn to for their cloud infrastructure, found that one out of every four respondents (27%) uses an alternative cloud provider like Linode, DigitalOcean, or OVHcloud. The survey results also found that usage of alternative cloud providers has nearly doubled over the past four years, a period in which usage of the three largest hyperscalers, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), only grew by 18%.
As the cloud market continues to boom Gartner predicts global cloud revenue to total $474 billion in 2022 more organizations are seeking out cloud providers that cater to their specific needs, beyond the complex and costly offerings of the big three hyperscalers. In fact, SlashDatas latest research found that while half (51%) of developers stated that AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP served as their primary service provider, the majority (78%) of respondents use more than one provider for cloud services.
Developers and businesses are craving simpler, more affordable, and more reliable cloud services, said Blair Lyon, vice president of cloud experience at Linode. Were seeing tremendous growth of multicloud approaches as organizations look for the best provider fit to solve their specific challenges. This trend will only continue to gain momentum as multicloud becomes the prevailing cloud strategy for businesses.
A recent report from 451 Research found that large hyperscale providers are not always ideal for all cloud use cases and that alternative cloud providers are increasingly bridging the gap for use cases that previously went overlooked or underserviced, including for small businesses and independent developers. In addition, a 2021 survey of devops professionals by Techstrong Group (formerly Accelerated Strategies Group) found alternative cloud providers were used by one-third of those survey respondents.
"Since we began tracking this category over the past few years, developers have increasingly turned to alternative cloud providers for their infrastructure needs, said Konstantinos Korakitis, Director of Research at SlashData.
The 22nd edition of the Developer Nation survey is currently live, so if you are a developer anywhere in the world, you can share your input here.
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Filings buzz in the mining industry: 111% increase in cloud computing mentions in Q3 of 2021 – Mining Technology
Mentions of cloud computing within the filings of companies in the mining industry rose 111% between the second and third quarters of 2021.
In total, the frequency of sentences related to cloud computing between October 2020 and September 2021 was 162% higher than in 2016 when GlobalData, from whom our data for this article is taken, first began to track the key issues referred to in company filings.
When companies in the mining industry publish annual and quarterly reports, ESG reports and other filings, GlobalData analyses the text and identifies individual sentences that relate to disruptive forces facing companies in the coming years. Cloud computing is one of these topics companies that excel and invest in these areas are thought to be better prepared for the future business landscape and better equipped to survive unforeseen challenges.
To assess whether cloud computing is featuring more in the summaries and strategies of companies in the mining industry, two measures were calculated. Firstly, we looked at the percentage of companies which have mentioned cloud computing at least once in filings during the past 12 months this was 31% compared to 11% in 2016. Secondly, we calculated the percentage of total analysed sentences that referred to cloud computing.
Of the 50 biggest employers in the mining industry, Honeywell International Inc was the company that referred to cloud computing the most between October 2020 and September 2021. GlobalData identified 37 cloud-related sentences in the US-based company's filings 0.4% of all sentences. China Steel Corp mentioned cloud computing the second most the issue was referred to in 0.15% of sentences in the company's filings. Other top employers with high cloud mentions included Tata Steel Ltd, Metalurgica Gerdau SA, and Nippon Steel Corp.
This analysis provides an approximate indication of which companies are focusing on cloud computing and how important the issue is considered within the mining industry, but it also has limitations and should be interpreted carefully. For example, a company mentioning cloud computing more regularly is not necessarily proof that they are utilising new techniques or prioritising the issue, nor does it indicate whether the company's ventures into cloud computing have been successes or failures.
GlobalData also categorises cloud computing mentions by a series of subthemes. Of these subthemes, the most commonly referred to topic in the third quarter of 2021 was "software as a service", which made up 68% of all cloud subtheme mentions by companies in the mining industry.
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AI storage: a new requirement for the shift in computing and analytics – Information Age
AI storage is needed as the boundaries of traditional computing and analytics shift to a new era
Data or AI storage is necessary to solve the emerging data challenges caused by the move away from traditional computing and analytics.
The universe of supercomputing has expanded rapidly to incorporate AI, advanced data analytics and cloud computing. The era of serial data is ending, with parallel data management replacing network file systems (NFS).
This shift has corresponded to the rise of AI, with investments in the technology hitting a new record in 2021. As an example, Microsoft invested $1 billion in an artificial intelligence project, co-founded by Elon Musk.
This shift in the boundaries of traditional computing and analytics has caused several data challenges that need to be resolved:
Data talent there is need to source new data science talent, maintain currency and up to date skills sets in a rapidly changing software environment.
Data sources there is a need to ingest high volume data from broad sources through a variety of ingest methods at rates well beyond traditional computing requirements.
Data processing there is a need for a different type of data processing to implement large scale GPU environments to bring the parallelism needed for training and inference in real-time.
Data governance there is a need to label, track and manage that data (forever) and share that data across organisations with the right security policies. Explainable AI on an application level and available data on a platform level.
During The IT Press Tour in San Francisco, James Coomer, Sr. Vice President Products Data at DDN, explained that data is the source code of AI, data is imperative for AI and storage is imperative for AI.
Storage cant be an afterthought, as its key for data ingestion, sourcing, management, labelling and longevity, which is critical for AI.
Data or AI storage is necessary to solve the emerging data challenges caused by the move away from traditional computing and analytics:
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Traditionally, DDN Storage has focused on traditional data storage for unstructured data and big data in enterprise, government and academic sectors.
Now, it is redefining the imperatives that are driving it as a company, focusing on AI storage, with its solution, AI, which is at the heart of its growth strategy.
In action, over the last two years DDN has acted as the core backend storage system for NVIDIA to increase performance & scale and flexibility to drive innovation.
NVIDIA commands nearly 100% of the market for training AI algorithms and has multiple AI clusters, according to Karl Freund, analyst at Cambrian AI Research.
Following this success, DDN is powering the UKs most powerful supercomputer, Cambridge 1, which went live in 2021 and is focused on transforming AI-based healthcare research.
The AI storage vendor is also working with Recursion, the drug discovery company.
Our at-scale data needs require fast ingest, optimised processing and reduced application run times, said Kris Howard, Systems Engineer at Recursion.
Working with DDN, the drug discovery company achieved up to 20x less costs and raised the possibilities for accelerating the drug discovery pipeline with new levels of AI capability.
It previously ran on the cloud, but now operates more efficiently, with greater value for money on-premise.
DDN pioneered accelerated data-at-scale to tackle what ordinary storage cannot. We make data environments for innovators to create the future. Were the largest AI storage provider in the world, proven in an array of different industries and customers, from financial services to life sciences, added Coomer.
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Infrastructure as a Service Market Projected to Reach a Valuation of USD 119 Billion by 2030, Registering Around 24.1% CAGR – GlobeNewswire
New York, US, Jan. 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Market Overview: According to a comprehensive research report by Market Research Future (MRFR), Infrastructure as a Service Market information by Solution, by Deployment Type, by End User, by Verticals and Region forecast to 2030 market size to reach USD 119 billion, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 24.1% by 2030.
Market Scope: The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market is expected to garner significant traction in the next few years. The continually growing demand for data governance, alongside the rising cases of IaaS misconfigurations and inadvertent sensitive data storage exposure that can cause significant data breaches, have created vast market opportunities over the past couple of years.
Dominant Key Players on Infrastructure as a Service Market Covered are:
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Market USP Exclusively Encompassed:Market DriversBusinesses are increasingly focusing on responding to rising cybersecurity threats by improving data governance to prevent data loss. Simultaneously, augmenting demand for hybrid computing, scalability, faster implementation, and accessibility of the IT system define the continually growing market landscape.
Moreover, the increasing adoption of IaaS, multi-cloud, and cloud-based IaaS platforms would escalate the market shares. Resultantly, the market is projected to witness significant growth in the years to come. Augmenting uptake of cloud computing in BFSI, IT & telecom, healthcare, and retail & e-commerce industries due to maximum uses of IT resources and cost-effective cloud computing services among organizations drive the market demand.
Conversely, the lack of technical expertise required to manage IT infrastructure and cloud data security is a major factor impeding market growth. However, the growing adoption of a cloud-based IaaS platform to enhance IT services and data accessibility would support the market growth through the review period. Also, vast implementations of infrastructure services in large enterprises would impact the growth of the IaaS market over the forecast period.
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Segmentation of Market Covered in the Research:The market is segmented into solutions, deployment types, end-users, verticals, and regions. The solution segment is sub-segmented into managed hosting services, storage-as-a-service (network attached and storage area network-based storage), disaster recovery as a service, high-performance computing as a service, network management, and content delivery services.
The deployment type segment is sub-segmented into public, private, and hybrid clouds. The end-user segment is sub-segmented into SMEs and Large Enterprises. The vertical segment is sub-segmented into IT & telecom, BFSI, healthcare, retail & e-commerce, government, defense, and others. The region segment comprises the Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe, and rest-of-the-world.
Regional AnalysisNorth America dominates the global infrastructure as a service market. The largest market share attributes to the wide uptake of IaaS and technological upgrades. Besides, increasing investments in cloud-based solutions drive the IaaS market growth in the region. With the increasing penetration of hybrid cloud and advanced IT infrastructure, the region is projected to retain its dominance throughout the forecast period.
Europe stands second in the global infrastructure as a service market. The region, with its vast technology upgrades, offers lucrative opportunities. The market growth is driven by rapidly growing enterprises in the region and vast investments in risk disparity factors due to infrastructure service disruptions in extreme weather events. Moreover, the rising awareness of integrating social dimensions into the resilience planning of infrastructure systems substantiates the region's market size.
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The Asia Pacific region is also a promising market for infrastructure as a service globally, accounting for a sizable market share. Factors such as spurring industrialization and economic growth across the region are key driving forces for market growth. Countries like China, Japan, and India support the regional market's growth, heading with significant technological advances.
COVID-19 Impact on the Global Infrastructure as a Service MarketThe onset of COVID 19 significantly impacted the infrastructure as a service market, halting infrastructure development and the global economy. On one side, where the pandemic created rapid disruptions in key infrastructure sectors and industries, on the other hand, it increased the value of digital connectivity, presenting it as the most cost-efficient and effective solution to respond to the global crisis.
The COVID19 outbreak also had numerous contrasting effects on the digital infrastructure sector, such as increased demand for quality digital connectivity due to falling telecommunications prices in certain countries and increased network capacity in others. Emerging trends and their implications for policies and corporate, alongside investment strategies to support the development of the digital infrastructure sectors in emerging markets, would contribute to IaaS market revenues through the pandemic and beyond.
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Competitive LandscapeHighly competitive, the IaaS market appears fragmented due to several large and small players forming a competitive landscape. To gain a larger competitive edge, players incorporate strategies such as collaborations, mergers & acquisitions, product/ technology launches, and expansion.
For instance, on Jan. 20, 2022, 11:11 Systems, a leading provider of managed infrastructure solutions, announced the acquisition of iland, a leading global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for IaaS DRaaS and BaaS. The company (11:11 Systems) has also recently acquired Green Cloud Defense, a channel-only, cloud IaaS provider.
The addition of iland's steady 25% YOY momentum would enable 11:11 Systems to expand its national network of MSPs, VARs and IT consultants, creating a hyper-growth pathway. Companies are increasingly struggling to manage their hybrid infrastructure effectively and are under pressure to focus scarce resources on other key priorities. 11:11 would be able to meet the growing market demand and help single, trusted vendors navigate security threats and reduce complexities in infrastructure management.
In another instance, on Jan. 18, 2022, Sunlight.io, a leading provider of the edge infrastructure, announced a partnership with Safozi, a leading IaaS provider in North Africa. Together with Sunlight.io, Safozi launched high-performance cloud services in Tunisia to bring high-performance and private cloud services with local support across North Africa. Safozi's affordable, high-performance cloud services would now be able to deliver a far higher level of responsiveness to their users striving for better customer satisfaction.
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Aussie cloud computing spend to hit $20B by 2025 – ARNnet
Australian enterprises are set to invest almost $20 billion in cloud computing technology by 2025, according to new analysis by GlobalData.
The analyst firm claimed the market is set to grow by an average of 12.5 per cent over the next three years, reaching US$14.1 billion.
Broken down, public cloud services, including software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) will account for more than half of the market over the forecast period, with SaaS being the largest category overall.
However, PaaS will be the fastest growing area over the forecast period, driven by enterprise preference for cloud-native application development platforms.
According to GlobalData technology analyst Saurabh Daga, this is due to the cost advantage and better application management capabilities of PaaS.
"Much like the rest of the world, Australian businesses witnessed COVID-19 pandemic-fueled rapid transformations, which included adoption of remote work, automation of key business processes, and dependence on digital channels for customer interactions," he said.
"Cloud-based platforms and services continue to be a key element of this ongoing transformation, thus driving the enterprise spending on cloud in the country to grow at 12.5 per cent over the forecast period.
Public hyperscale providers like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google have already established their cloud regions within Australia.
Google launched its second cloud region in Melbourne in 2021 and Microsoft is currently planning a new cloud region in Sydney, which will be its fourth in the country, GlobalData said.
AWS, meanwhile, is also set to launch another cloud region in Melbourne later this year.
Recently, Microsoft, in partnership with IT services provider Infosys, entered into a multi-year strategic agreement with Ausgrid to modernise its legacy applications and IT infrastructure through cloud management platform and managed services.
In August 2021, Atos was awarded a three-year contract by Australias Digital Transformation Agency Cloud Marketplace to provide cloud services to Australias federal government agencies.
Most recently, Australias criminal intelligence agency awarded a A$180 million contract to migrate its fingerprint system to a protected cloud platform.
Yet while large enterprises will account for the largest share of Australia's cloud market, the combined spending from micro, small and medium enterprises will increase at a marginally faster compound annual growth rate of 12.5 per cent over the forecast period.
Various Australian government digitisation initiatives such as [the] Digital Business Plan, and [the] Digital Business-to-Business (B2B) Partnerships Initiative, will be the key growth driver for spending on cloud services and platforms by the SMEs in Australia," Daga added.
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6 cloud trends to watch in 2022 – TechCrunch
Josh Berman is president of C2C, an independent and vetted Google Cloud community with a unique pulse on the cloud market.
The past two years have been exciting periods of growth for the cloud market, driven by increased demand for access to new technology during COVID-19 and the proliferation of the work-from-anywhere culture. IT leaders worked to shift workloads to the cloud to ensure business continuity for the remote workforce, leading to skyrocketing adoption of cloud computing. This momentum is expected to pick up in 2022 and beyond.
For many businesses, the pandemic accelerated their digital transformation plans by months, or even years. Reliance on cloud infrastructure will only continue to grow as organizations adjust to the hybrid work model. Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020.
As we start the new year, C2C, an independent Google Cloud community, has identified six cloud computing trends to watch in 2022.
The pandemic inspired a new generation of entrepreneurs. Whether out of necessity from mass layoffs, a desire for a more flexible lifestyle, or finding the inspiration to finally pursue a passion, millions have started their own ventures.
As their businesses grow and digitize, entrepreneurs across industries are embracing the cloud and adopting technologies like machine learning and data analytics to optimize business performance, save time and cut expenses. There are countless benefits to small businesses and startups. For one, the cloud makes data accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, enabling the seamless collaboration necessary in a hybrid work environment. Without having to spend on expensive hardware and software, entrepreneurs can invest in other areas as they scale their businesses.
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Building resiliency and spurring innovation: customers are using the Microsoft Cloud to advance industries and keep business moving forward – The…
Since the start of the pandemic, organizations representing a cross-section of industries have mobilized to adopt digital technologies to gain insights from their data and unlock cloud-based innovation. With the Microsoft Cloud, customers are reimagining ways to deliver patient care and provide access to critical services, secure their digital environments to scale and maintain business operations, extend frontline worker productivity, enhance employee experiences, and encourage new forms of business engagement and interaction.
At Microsoft Ignite, customers shared how accelerating their digital transformation with us as their partner has enabled them to better navigate the ongoing pandemic. They explained that while no single approach to digital transformation works for every company or industry, their journey to embrace technology has created the opportunity to retool their business model, improve operational and business performance and meet ambitious goals that drive industry-leading innovation.
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The growth we saw this past quarter further emphasized the role Microsofts comprehensive cloud plays in our customers digital transformation. Novartis shared through its multi-year research and development collaboration with Microsoft how they are using AI to accelerate the discovery, development and commercialization of medicines. Wejo announced continued progress in building its suite of data assets on Azure to enable near real-time data exchange and the ability to deliver new solutions to the broader mobility sector. Johnson & Johnson announced its digital manufacturing transformation with tools such as AI, IoT and Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing capabilities to improve agility, reduce cost of ownership and improve disaster recovery. We partnered with Kyndryl to bring to market advanced solutions on Azure and accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, modernize applications and processes and to support mission-critical workloads. CVS Health selected Microsoft as a preferred cloud provider to customize care, empower frontline workers and digitize operations. We also shared news of our Xandr acquisition from AT&T to shape the digital ad marketplace with an emphasis on strong data governance and consumer privacy practices. And just today, we announced with FedEx a new cross-platform logistics solution for e-commerce aimed at increasing merchant competitiveness and improving the shopping experience so brands can better fulfill, ship and service customer orders.
St. Lukes University Health Network nurtures a commitment to innovation with Microsoft tools.
Healthcare organizations are digitally transforming to advance patient care and secure personal health data
Israel-based Maccabi Healthcare Services is improving the patient experience with Teams and Power Apps to enable care workers to manage critical healthcare-related communication and workflows. HCA Healthcare is ensuring personal health information and the devices and systems caregivers rely on each day remain secure using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and the NHS has built a more responsive and scalable system architecture using Azure to help increase security, performance and operations. St. Lukes University Health Network is more easily connecting people to their doctors and consolidating its data to communicate directly with patients. Lancet Laboratories has modernized its supply chain management solution across South Africa by migrating to Dynamics 365, and Orizon is migrating to Azure to modernize its data infrastructure to speed up care and further protect the data of 16 million Brazilian patients. And, with the support of Microsoft partner Pegasus One, IN.S.P.I.RE Global LLC is using Azure services to create a health and wellness platform that offers guidance on follow-up visits and coordinated care.
In Washington state, King County delivers critical services using Microsoft Power Apps portals.
The public sector is increasingly turning to the cloud to maintain access to services and secure its environments
The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs is helping residents affirm their identities and access services more easily by centralizing its identity service across 56 public agencies. The University of Miami is boosting security improvements for its on-premises environment and scaling its virtual network using Azure VMWare. The Dominican Republic, via its Ministry of the Presidency, will be the first Caribbean country to be part of the Microsoft Government Security Program aimed at improving protection and defense against cyberthreats. Japans Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is using Power Platform to digitize administrative procedures, enhance government services and drive data-driven policy decisions, and the King County Department of Information Technology is taking a low code-first strategy to help residents gain access to needed services by building more than 200 solutions. With help from FunctionOne, the Court of Justice of So Paulo is creating a more inclusive environment for employees with disabilities by implementing Microsoft 365 tools and developing a chatbot.
Johnson Controls exceeds enterprise training expectations with a scalable solution built on Power Platform.
From smart spaces to factory floors, manufacturing organizations are building cloud infrastructures to scale operations and keep employees connected
Global manufacturer Advantech is keeping its networks and facilities in Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Australia highly secure and compliant by deploying Microsoft Security solutions, and Rudin is monitoring unmanaged devices for threats and targeted attacks across its smart buildings. In Mexico, CEMEX is using Azure to significantly improve performance of its SAP applications. AMD is using high-performance computing to maximize production timelines and speed delivery. Supported by Infosys, Norwegian global supplier Jotun Group is modernizing key business applications to run on Azure, resulting in better app performance, less app downtime and reduced cost. Using Power Apps, Johnson Controls built a class of enterprise-level training solutions that can track, measure and analyze progress on learning outcomes and key initiatives. Austrian furniture manufacturer Blum is keeping factory floor employees connected to the larger company by adopting Microsoft Viva.
Zurich Insurance gets future-ready with Microsoft 365 tools that modernize customer service.
Financial services companies are embracing cloud solutions to maintain business operations and respond to customer needs
Bankingly is democratizing access to financial resources across rural Latin America through web services and mobile applications developed on Azure. Interac is powering the future of digital payments in Canada by migrating core software applications to the cloud and reliably scaling its solutions, and United Arab Emirates-based Mashreq Bank is using Azure for its hybrid solution to gain better insights into customers and optimize the digital banking experience. Netherlands-based Rabobank is using Microsoft Defender for Cloud to manage its hybrid, multi-cloud environment and to protect data and information. Investors Bank is maintaining business continuity and enabling a digital-forward, omnichannel strategy by migrating to the cloud with help from Applied Information Sciences. Zurich Insurance Germany is maintaining security, compliance and the ability to protect customer data while also equipping employees with productivity tools, and Techcombank is adapting to a remote work model to keep business operations running smoothly for employees and customers across Vietnam.
Daimler looks to optimize supply chain processes and reduce downtime with Dynamics 365.
From virtual tire development to interactive movie posters to flight crew communication, the Microsoft Cloud is driving innovation across every industry
Belgium-based Bridgestone EMIA is using high-performance computing to increase the sustainability, efficiency and agility of its virtual tire development process, and Daimler Trucks North America is bringing together actionable insights and optimizing operations across the supply chain using Dynamics 365. Axpo, Switzerlands largest renewable energy producer, is creating a single access point for its grid assets using Azure services and Power BI. German energy company Uniper is creating a unified solution to standardize management of its data estate using Azure Arc, and Finnish telecommunications company Nokia is using the technology to deploy, operate and monitor applications running in its customers preferred cloud. With partner Accenture, Disney Studios StudioLAB is developing and piloting interactive movie posters leveraging Azure to enable the virtual setup and monitoring of content and data analytics. Peloton is using Azure and its AI capabilities to develop live subtitles so members who are deaf or hard of hearing can more easily engage in classes. U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer is using Teams as its productivity platform for frontline workers and office-based employees, and United Airlines is using collaboration apps to improve core operational processes and boost communications between operations teams and flight crews.
How our customers are adapting underscores technologys critical role during times of unpredictability and change. Amid the previous quarters pandemic-related challenges, we kept pace with our customers evolving needs, innovating through our partner ecosystem to harness the Microsoft Cloud in support of their business outcomes. That is our purpose and will remain so even once we are all beyond the pandemic. As always, I feel tremendously privileged to work with the customers who have chosen to partner with Microsoft, and I am excited as their trusted technology advisor about what is on the digital horizon.
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Growing Acceptance Of Digital Health Services is a Huge Boon for Healthcare Cloud Computing Market – PRNewswire
Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --FinancialNewsMedia.com News Commentary - Cloud computing increases real-time data collection and improves accessibility to the data. It has outpaced the conventional paper healthcare system by providing more speed and efficiency in data handling. For instance, cloud computing technology is widely used in remote patient monitoring. Rising demand for stringent regulatory compliance, public awareness, and growing investment from healthcare players such as Cisco, IBM, GE Healthcare, and government organizations are expected to create a demand for this technique during the analysis period.The proliferation of high-speed internet and implementation of favorable regulatory acts are also expected to provide growth to the market. A report from Global Market Insights projected that the Healthcare Cloud Computing Marketsize was valued over USD 29 billion in 2020 and is expected to witness around 13.4% CAGR from 2021 to 2027. The report said: "Rising adoption of digital technologies among healthcare professionals is projected to drive the market growth. Escalating patient population suffering through various diseases leads to higher demand for efficient data management tools. Healthcare cloud computing offers easy access to patient information through secured networks, thus eliminating the data privacy concerns. Therefore, increasing acceptance of these technologies encourages safer data sharing and remote collaborations enabling broader treatment accessibility. Similarly, shift of healthcare industry toward information-centric model enables efficient information sharing and streamlined collaborative workflows. Benefits such as IoT support, data automation and storage that streamline treatment process creates tremendous growth opportunities for cloud computing solutions in healthcare market." Active Companies in the markets today include Healthcare Triangle Inc. (NASDAQ: HCTI), Phreesia, Inc (NYSE: PHR), INOVIO (NASDAQ: INO), Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.(NASDAQ: TRHC), Health Catalyst, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCAT).
Global Market Insights concluded: "The private cloud segment in the healthcare cloud computing market is estimated to attain a CAGR of 13.5% through 2027. Private cloud enables direct control over stored data in cloud to healthcare staff, thus allowing them to deploy own applications and also provides adherence to compliance issues. Also, various factors such as better control on computation, patient data and infrastructure further stimulate the market revenue. Developing IT infrastructure in emerging countries, and rising necessity to implement healthcare ITtools in healthcare settings will positively impact the market value Growing acceptance of digital health services will offer significant the market expansion opportunities."
Healthcare Triangle Inc. (NASDAQ: HCTI) BREAKING NEWS: Healthcare Triangle, Inc. Releases Shareholder Update - Healthcare Triangle Inc. ("HCTI" or the "Company"), a leading provider of cloud and data transformation platform and solutions for healthcare and life sciences, today released a shareholder update:
Dear Shareholders: Thank you for your continued commitment and investment in Healthcare Triangle, Inc . Our progress over the past year would not have been possible without your trust and belief in our mission. This is our first shareholder update since our Oct 2021 IPO and it has been a momentous journey and unique in every sense. We work alongside our customers and partners to help them build their own digital capability, creating new businesses, and earn their trust. I am very proud of how we are are using our platforms to help organizations innovate and deliver technology initiatives on the Cloud.
Your Company - Healthcare Triangle ("HCTI") is a healthcare IT provider that delivers personalized healthcare, accelerates drug research, and supports digital transformation through proprietary technology platforms. HCTI is a well-recognized provider of cloud infrastructure migration, AI, data analytics, security & compliance and cloud managed services to Healthcare and Life Sciences customers. Our multi-cloud technology transformation platform CloudEz, data analytics platform DataEz, AI based platform Readabl.AI, and our Cloud EHR Managed Services have been at the forefront of our customer service offering and are leading to deeper partnerships, larger and multiyear cloud engagements. HCTI was recognized as one of the top 100 premier partners of Amazon Web Services, which is a Global community comprising of over 100,000 partners. The company also achieved Premier Partner status with Google Cloud in 2021.
Fiscal Year 2021 was a pivotal year for HCTI. We are focused on becoming one of the top 10 US healthcare IT providers by revenue by 2025. This impacts how we run the company, what investments we commit towards this vision and how we take our platform and services to the market. We recently hired a CRO with strong experience in the Healthcare and Life Sciences market to help us achieve this goal by building a world class sales team.
Strategic acquisition DevCool Inc - We firmly believe that an expedited way to drive revenue and expand our offerings is by acquiring profitable strategic assets. We recently announced the acquisition of DevCool Inc, an EPIC EHR Implementation and Managed Services company servicing 6 of the top 10 hospitals in the USA. DevCool also specializes in providing healthcare IT services to cancer research hospitals and university medical centres. DevCool generated approximately $20 million in revenues in fiscal year 2020 and has generated consistent top line growth over the past 4-6 quarters and is expected to be EBITDA accretive to HCTI. The combined entity will focus on accelerating healthcare providers' adoption of cloud technologies to improve clinical, operational, and financial performance. The acquisition also opens opportunities to upsell our SaaS Platforms like CloudEz, DataEz, and Readabl.AI to DevCool's existing client base. CONTINUEDRead this full release for Healthcare Triangle at: https://www.healthcaretriangle.com/investors/
Other recent developments in the markets include:
INOVIO (NASDAQ: INO) recently announced updates on the Phase 3 program for VGX-3100 for HPV-associated cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), including a one-year follow-up of efficacy and safety data in participants from REVEAL1, completing enrollment in REVEAL2, and advancing its pre-treatment biomarker candidate for VGX-3100 to be further developed with QIAGEN. In addition, INOVIO's development partner withinGreater China(mainlandChina,Hong Kong,Macao,Taiwan), ApolloBio Corp. ("ApolloBio"), dosed the first participant in a separate Phase 3 trial inChina.
Dr. J.Joseph Kim, President and CEO of INOVIO, said, "We are making strong progress in developing INOVIO's immunotherapies treating HPV-associated cervical HSIL. Left untreated, cervical HSIL may progress to cancer. VGX-3100 has the potential to be the first approved immunotherapy and non-surgical alternative for women with cervical HSIL and we look forward to advancing our efforts from our Phase 3 studies through commercialization."
Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.(NASDAQ: TRHC),a leading healthcare technology company advancing the safe use of medications, recently announced a five-year contract renewal with Evernorth, a premier health services business that connects and coordinates innovative and flexible solutions for health plans, employers, and government programs, to expand use of TRHC's Medication Therapy Management (MTM) programs and other clinical services.
Evernorth renews contract and expands use of TRHC's Medication Therapy Management programs and other clinical services. The new agreement expands upon THRC's previous 10 year relationship with Express Scripts PBM, which is part of the Evernorth portfolio.
"We are thrilled to extend our long-term relationship with Evernorth, helping them to advance the safe use of medication among their customers," said TRHC Chairman and CEO,Calvin H. Knowlton, PhD.
Health Catalyst, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCAT), a leading provider of data, analytics and technology services to healthcare and life sciences organizations, and Datavant, the leader in helping organizations securely connect health data, recently announced a strategic partnership to improve research and care delivery with connected health data.
The partnership between Datavant and Health Catalyst will enable life sciences and healthcare organizations to exchange tokenized, de-identified data within the recently announced Health Catalyst Research Network and Health Catalyst Touchstone Match. "Tremendous waste occurs from failing to recruit patients truly eligible for trials. Improved collaboration through connected healthcare data during the clinical trial process can help solve this problem and increase the potential for new discoveries and treatments for patients," saidSadiqa Mahmood, General Manager & Senior Vice President, Life Sciences Business, at Health Catalyst.
Phreesia, Inc.(NYSE: PHR) recently announced it has acquired Insignia Health, LLC, a founder-led and mission-oriented company dedicated to improving health outcomes through patient activation. The acquisition is a natural extension of Phreesia's commitment to enabling patients to become more active participants in their care.
"Phreesia's core strength is putting tools in the hands of patients to take on tasksfrom self-reporting data like social determinants of health to making payments to signing consent formsthat they can do better than anyone else, and that align with the convenient digital experience they want," said Phreesia's CEO Chaim Indig. "We've long admired Insignia's expertise in understanding and activating patients, and we believe this acquisition will help us deliver on our mission to create a better, more engaging healthcare experience."
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Anomaly Detection: Glimpse into the Future of IoT Data The New Stack – thenewstack.io
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Margaret is senior vice president and general manager of digital service and operations management for BMC Software, Inc. She has P&L responsibility for the companys full suite of BMC Helix solutions for IT service management and IT operations management.
Big data and the internet-of-things go hand in hand. With the continued proliferation of IoT devices one prognosticator estimates there will be 64 billion IoT devices online by 2025 enterprises are faced with extreme data volumes.
Managing these volumes, and yielding actionable insights from them, is key to transforming business for an era in which data is as vital as sunshine.
One area where the IoT data deluge can provide insights is through anomaly detection. Like traditional business applications and IT infrastructure, IoT can be monitored for issues in the physical devices to which theyre connected.
For example, when IoT devices are used to help modernize and automate processes in industrial or manufacturing settings, anomalies could be a sign that a particular piece of machinery needs maintenance. An early heads-up to a potential problem can help reduce unplanned downtime.
But corralling all that data can be a challenge as getting it moved from the device into a central compute platform can be problematic. Do you really need to send all the data from every device?
Edge computing can help overcome data overload and make IoT anomaly detection more effective. Exploring that practice in depth provides an illuminating look into emerging network architectures and how they will propel businesses in the future.
There are two prominent anomaly detection strategies integrated into IoT cases, each with advantages and drawbacks.
Static thresholds have the advantage of automating routine decision-making and alerting, giving it some advantage over traditional strategies. But to use static thresholds, administrators need domain knowledge thresholds at the right levels. And these levels dont change according to conditions, making them difficult to maintain in ever-changing environments.
Methods based on machine learning (ML), either supervised or unsupervised, add intelligence to automated anomaly detection. By continuously learning time-series data behavior, the system becomes more adaptive to data changes and can better handle changing environments.
However, the volume of data generated by IoT devices will continue to increase over time, driving related increases in network bandwidth, storage volume and compute requirements. As a result, the use of centralized resources, even cloud, for real-time IoT data processing is becoming more and more expensive and lengthening the latency in data processing.
Edge computing provides a more effective way to leverage ML-based anomaly detection. By shifting critical data processing workloads closer to the data source (IoT devices), you can reduce workloads on the cloud, ensure zero-latency data processing, improve response time and decrease network load and cloud costs.
Edge computing can be also used to monitor machine health in real time to detect anomalies that might indicate a failure in a system. Zero-latency data processing makes it possible to report major incidents in near-real time and prevent system failures.
Edge computing can be deployed with a number of architectures, including 100% edge computing and hybrid models that combine edge and cloud computing. For the purposes of illuminating edge architectures for anomaly deployment, the latter is shown here in Figure 1.
In this model, the IoT gateway collects and receives data from IoT devices using various IoT data protocols and pushes data to a messaging layer. Data processing components at the edge pull data from the messaging layer, process it and send insights to the cloud for centralized alerting and reporting. A monitoring and management system reports operational issues to the cloud and ensures that components are synchronized with the configuration data centrally managed from the cloud.
Edge computing components can be deployed together in a single-board computer like Raspberry Pi or across multiple devices in the same data center for greater scalability. The choice depends on scalability requirements.
Figure 2 shows an architecture for implementing edge computing for anomaly detection. This model adds intelligence to the generic architecture described previously.
In this model, an intelligent IoT gateway acts as a time-series data router. The messaging layer has separate queues for each anomaly detection method. Based on the anomaly detection methods being applied to specific time series, the gateway makes routing decisions and puts data into the respective queues. Dynamic routing decisions are driven by the configuration. Configuration changes are made at the cloud, and the monitoring and management system applies them.
Anomaly detection processors fetch data from the respective queues, detect anomalies and report them to the cloud. These processors also store data in a time-series database.
In this example, an offline training scheduled job periodically fetches bulk data from the time- series database, compresses data and sends it to the cloud to train ML models for supervised anomaly detection. The job also fetches ML models from the cloud and stores them in an ML models database. A supervised ML anomaly detector fetches ML models from the models database.
The monitoring and management system reports operational issues to the cloud and ensures that components are in sync with the configuration data centrally managed from the cloud.
For the foreseeable future, most enterprises will adopt a hybrid IT approach that includes both centralized and edge computing as part of an even more complex IT landscape.
The next step is to use edge computing to collect, apply analytics, and act. The days of centralized compute engines and lagging insights are numbered. Today, we are living in a world where we can collect, analyze and act on data where its generated in an instant.
This is where we can apply intelligent automation to find ways to orchestrate important edge data with central data pipelines for the required insights for automated action, instantaneously.
The data volumes and velocity of a modern IoT implementation call for scalable, efficient, real-time anomaly detection. Edge computing makes it possible to leverage machine learning for IoT anomaly detection while avoiding high cloud costs and processing latency. By using the architecture described above, you can detect and resolve IoT failures quickly to ensure optimal service for your organization.
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