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20 cloud stocks expected to increase sales the most over the next two years – MarketWatch
U.S. investors remain bullish, despite rumblings out of China and the spike in delta variant infections.
Cloud companies those at the forefront of the shift in computing power to distributed models over the internet are expected to grow at a rapid clip over the next several years, and four of the five largest exchange traded funds covering the space are close to hitting record highs.
Below is a screen of stocks held by those ETFs, showing which are expected to increase their sales the most through 2023. In an industry with many players at relatively early stages, increases in sales, rather than in earnings, might be the best driver of stock prices.
To begin the screen, we looked at the five largest cloud ETFs:
ETFs might be your best way to take a broad approach for a long-term play on the cloud revolution. If you are interested in any ETF, you should review the fund managers website.
Heres a comparison of total returns through Aug. 4, along with those for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF SPY and the Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ (which tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index NDX ) for comparison:
The ETFs approaches differ. For example, the ARK Next Generation Internet ETF ARKW is the only one that is actively managed. The others track an index. It is also the only one that holds shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, which makes up 10.65% of the portfolio, according to information posted by ARK Invest on Aug. 5. Tesla is an electric-vehicle manufacturer, but it can also be considered a cloud company because it distributes software updates over the internet continually, and offers other cloud-based services.
Another holding unique to ARKW among the five cloud ETFs is Walt Disney Co. DIS, which is certainly an important cloud player through its Disney+ streaming service, even if the company doesnt say directly how much of its sales are derived from that rapidly growing segment.
As part of its description of ARKW, FactSet says the following:
Broadly speaking, the ARKWs managers appear focused on big buzzwords such as Internet of Things, cloud computing, digital currencies and wearable technology. While the funds focus may be appealing for investors with conviction in these new technologies, portfolio implementation is a more difficult task: Most of the companies developing these advancements are huge corporations for which nascent technologies are only a small fraction of total revenues. As such, its very difficult to get pure-play access to ARKWs targeted technologies so be sure to confirm that the funds holdings not just its thesis align with your view of the space.
Together, the five cloud ETFs listed above hold 147 stocks. To project sales growth through 2023, we used calendar 2020 sales estimates as a baseline and then looked at consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet for the subsequent three years, if available. (The 2020 numbers are estimates, because many companies fiscal years dont match the calendar.)
To make sure we had a solid set of estimates, we confined the group to the 126 companies covered by at least five analysts polled by FactSet, for which consensus sales estimates for calendar 2020 through calendar 2023 are available.
Here are the 20 companies projected to have the highest compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for sales through calendar 2023:
Click on the tickers for more about each company.
There are actually 21 stocks listed, including Zillow Group Inc.s Class A ZG and Class C Z shares.
It is interesting to see that the list is dominated by stocks held by ARKW. The fund has a broad definition of cloud companies and is focused also on sales growth.
Here are current forward price-to-sales ratios based on consensus estimates for the next 12 months, as well as ratios of current market cap to projected 2023 sales and summaries of analysts opinions about the stocks.
In comparison, the forward price-to-sales ratio for SPY is 2.8, with a price/2023 estimated sales ratio of 2.6. For QQQ, the current P/S is 4.7, declining to 4.3 for 2023.
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Software as a Service Reduces Cost of Modernization – GovernmentCIO Media & Research
SaaS solutions have demonstrated widespread potential for reducing both the financial resources and human capital necessary to streamline the IT systems of federal agencies.
The use of Software as a Service (SaaS) capacities have shown considerable potential for widely reducing the costs of modernizing federal agencies, particularly in terms of alleviating the operating costs and scope of human capital required to update their IT systems.
Among larger federal agencies, the Department of Veterans Affairs has already implemented SaaS within its efforts to standardize operating procedures across the agency and assist with broader cloud computing transformation. This has allowed VA to roll out software updates to existing employees more quickly while technically onboarding new employees more easily as well.
We switched to Microsoft 365 to get all of our email onto the platforms that most of our employees are using. Then we expanded out to Word and Excel so we could benefit from the fast releases and leverage OneDrive in those products, said Drew Myklegard, executive director of demand management at VA, in a GovFocus interview.
Myklegard also noted this has synced with the VAs switch to a public cloud platform, one that has expedited the delivery of software and technical updates across the agency as a whole.
We also have switched to mostly cloud-provided CRM and ERP just for the ability to add tens of thousands of employees who are able to get those expected software releases, Myklegard said.
Agencies looking to leverage SaaS should analyze its direct benefits for their specific modernization programs and map out how to incorporate these in advance.
I would encourage agencies to go back and look at what their real drivers are. One of the values that we've seen among our own customers has been around looking at what you already have in your existing capabilities, and looking at those demands to identify what are the best candidates [for SaaS] in particular. We have a lot of customers that are looking to move away from on-prem and get out of all the software maintenance, get out of the patching, and get out of that technological debt. So they're doing the imagery to better understand how they'd get value out of it and how its aligned to their mission, said Chris Borneman, CTO of SoftwareAG Government Solutions.
Myklegard noted that SaaS has particular value for large agencies with an expansive workforce and scope of mission responsibilities, with SaaS allowing departments to more easily manage large quantities of data and internal communications even amidst software updates and broader IT transformation.
We have 130,000 major medical facilities and 2,500 minor facilities, as well as all of our cemeteries and regional benefits offices. So when we consolidated our facilities API, we consolidate about 40 or 50 major databases in the backend. Technically that kind of transition isnt hard, but the governance behind it was extremely challenging. You've got to make sure that the service is up and youre able to make quick changes, Myklegard said.
Borneman outlined that this reduces operational costs, allowing agencies to install software updates and implement new capacities in ways that are less taxing to both their budgets and ability to continuously operate.
You're seeing a reduction in cost because you're not maintaining all the staff to go through and do the upgrades and do the continuous training. You're seeing a great reduction in technology debt. If you find a bug, you're able to fix it very quickly, whereas in a traditional model those are very large costs, Borneman said.
Myklegard explained these benefits have already provided considerable returns for VA, an agency undergoing a substantial scope of IT modernization technical leadership has needed to reconcile with the VAs demanding scope of responsibilities including the delivery of health care amidst a pandemic.
Anytime a system goes down, it costs us money. When our electronic health record system is down, it's about $1 million a minute. We all intrinsically know that if the system goes down and our people can't work, that's going to be expensive. A couple years ago, almost weekly we would have high priority incidents where our systems were down and you'd push code, and it took you a long time to recover. It was really tough to manage. You're spending half your day trying to solve the problem and the other half trying to communicate to your customers what's gone down. SaaS has just radically reduced that, Myklegard said.
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ORock Technologies Partners with Commvault to Set New Standards for Comprehensive Backup and Recovery in the Cloud – PRNewswire
RESTON, Va., Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --ORock Technologies, Inc., ahigh-performance hybrid cloud service provider built on OpenStack and certified by FedRAMP and the Department of Defense, today announced it has entered into a partnership with Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a recognized global leader in the management of data across cloud and on-premises environments, to expand data protection and offer a seamless migration to the cloud for mission-critical workloads. This cost-effective solution is ideally suited for any business operating in a highly regulated industry as well as any federal, state, local or education (SLED) government agency seeking comprehensive backup and recovery in a secure cloud environment.
Commvault offers an all-in-one solution combining Commvault Backup & Recovery with Commvault Disaster Recovery for enterprise-grade data protection software that is both powerful and easy to use. ORock offers a secure network architecture and open source, scalable cloud environment that enable organizations to capitalize on the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing, while protecting workloads from security attacks. As highly regulated businesses and federal and SLED agencies come under increasing cyber threats, the need for comprehensive backup and recovery and disaster recovery planning in a secure cloud infrastructure has never been more vital.
The ORock-Commvault partnership allows organizations to use ORock as a validated S3-compatible Object Storage target for their data protection. Service providers and customers utilizing Commvault's Intelligent Data Services, anchored by ORock's government-grade secure cloud, can seamlessly back up and recover data and applications, virtual machines and containers, along with verifiable recoverability of replicas, cost-optimized cloud data mobility, security and resilient ransomware protection, and more. With the combined solution, Commvault users can access, move or repatriate their terabyte stores of data as often as they like without any data egress charges.
"We are happy to announce a high-value, innovative cloud partnership with ORock that benefits our customers in a number of ways," said David Foth, Sales Director, North America Service Providers, Commvault. "Enterprises will only accelerate to the cloud if a robust security apparatus is there to protect all of their data and applications in backup. ORock, known for their rigorous security controls, high-touch customer support and no egress charges, is a leading choice for businesses seeking a trusted hybrid cloud innovator. Our joint solution gives our customers a secure, convenient and cost-effective solution to modernize their data management strategy and team with market leaders."
"We're living in a critical time when companies are planning a hyperconnected multi-cloud future and need the assurance that their cloud ecosystem prioritizes security, accelerates performance and lowers costs," said Gregory Hrncir, Co-Founder, CEO and President, ORock Technologies. "The ORock-Commvault partnership makes it incredibly easy to shift, manage and safeguard workloads in the cloud, shielding organizations from data corruption and ransomware while slashing TCO and storage costs. This is a powerful combination of technologies that will propel your enterprise forward and keep operations running efficiently."
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ORock Technologies delivers hybrid cloud and IaaS solutions designed for secure, compliant data operations. ORock helps leading organizations protect their most sensitive data, control costs and minimize vendor lock-in while enabling a range of IT modernization, application hosting, migration and edge computing initiatives. ORock's private fiber optic backbone network and enterprise-grade open source cloud feature the latest HPE Gen10 secure hardware and a flat-rate OPEX billing model with no data egress fees. These solutions support hybrid, private and multi-cloud capabilities while providing superior security, performance, predictability and control. Learn more about ORock.
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Dizzying year sees Rackspace IPO, a dramatic restructuring and a mass layoff. Will the company live up to expectations in 22? – San Antonio…
Rackspace Technology, like the rest of us, has had quite a year.
Apollo Global Management, the behemoth investment firm that took Rackspace private in a $4.3 billion deal in 2016, returned the San Antonio cloud computing company to the stock market 12 months ago.
Since then, Rackspace has cut its workforce and shifted its strategy within the fast-moving cloud computing business. Its stock price has gyrated along the way.
As investors have run hot and cold on the company over the past year, Rackspace has produced strong revenue growth and is expected to generate about $3 billion in revenue this year. That would mark two consecutive years of double digit growth since 2019, when the company posted revenue of $2.4 billion.
We really feel good about the revenue growth sustainability, Rackspace CFO Amar Maletira said during the firms first-quarter earnings call in May. We can continuously drive double-digit growth into 2021 and beyond.
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1998: Rackspace founded
2008: Goes public at $12.50 per share, raising $187.5 million.
2013: Shares climb to about $80.
Feb. 2016: Shares fall as low as $17 amid competition from larger-scale cloud-computing services.
Nov. 2016: Acquired by Apollo Global Management Inc. for $32 a share, taken private in deal valued at $4.3 billion.
April 2020: Apollo registers Rackspace for an IPO that could value it at more than $10 billion.
June 2020: Saying it more accurately reflects new focus, changes name to Rackspace Technology Inc.
July, 10, 2020: Registration statement for IPO shows debt of nearly $4 billion, up from $493 million in last filing as public company in 2016.
July 27, 2020: New filing shows it expects to raise nearly $925 million in IPO.
Aug. 5, 2020: Shares debut at $21 and fall nearly 22 percent to close at $16.39 after first day of trading. Selling 33.5 million shares, IPO raises $703.5 million.
Aug. 31, 2020: In first earnings report since IPO, reports loss of $33 million on $657 million revenue in second quarter. Shares close at $19.33.
Nov. 10, 2020: Reports loss of $101 million on $682 million in revenue in third quarter. Shares close at $17.60.
Jan. 26: Taking advantage of low interest rates, refinances nearly $2.9 billion in debt "to repay all borrowings outstanding."
Feb. 19: Reports loss of $64 million on $716 million revenue in fourth quarter. Shares close at $20.93.
March 19: Regulatory filing touches off speculation company could be an acquisition target. Shares close at $24.13.
May 10: Reports loss of $64 million on revenue of $726 million in first quarter. Shares close at $24.02.
May 11: In response to company's forecast for slower growth, shares crater to $19.01.
July 22: Lays off 700 employees, about 10 percent of global workforce, in restructuring.
Thursday: Shares close at 17.13.
Despite its increasing revenue, Rackspace lost $246 million in 2020 and, through the first three months of this year, reported a $64 million loss. The company is projecting to lose between $30 million and $50 million in the second quarter of this year.
Launched here in 1998, Rackspace grew fast in its early years, exciting struggling and often overlooked entrepreneurs in San Antonio and drove city and business leaders appetite for a more muscular technology industry locally.
As demand for cloud services has ratcheted up, Rackspace acquired four companies including Onica, a cloud services and management firm, and Datapipe, a managed services provider for private and public cloud customers for a total of $1.7 billion in cash and stock since 2017.
Rackspace opened its Open Cloud Academy in 2013 to train tech workers; CodeUp acquired the academy in April for an undisclosed amount. And as they left Rackspace over the years, founders and senior executives began advising local startups and establishing investment funds.
But in its hunt to reach profitability, Rackspace has reshaped its business over the past half-decade. The company used to host websites for companies, and eventually found itself in competition with Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
And if you cant beat em, join em.
More recently, Rackspace has focused on providing cloud services, where it helps companies move their data onto the cloud, which means remote data storage.
And firms are increasingly going to a multicloud strategy where they use more than one cloud service. Think of working with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud at the same time, for example.
Pursuing a mulitcloud strategy allows a company to use the best functions of each cloud service, such as data transfer or automation functions. And using different cloud services buffers a company from the risk of one service failing.
But using multicloud services can be complex, and firms hire Rackspace to help them make the transition.
The market for multicloud services is expected to reach $520 billion by 2024, a roughly $200 billion increase, according to Gartner, an information technology firm.
While Rackspace shifts its business internally, it has shed employees.
Last month, the company laid off 700 workers about 10 percent of its global workforce. Rackspace said it is investing in growth areas like cloud migration, Elastic Engineering, professional services, cloud native application development, Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Security services.
We are restructuring the company to fuel the investment, and to position our business for these hyper-growth areas, a spokeswoman said.
In 2019, Rackspace cut 200 jobs and moved another 125 to India. In 2017, it cut fewer than 100 positions and issued another 275 pink slips the following year.
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Analysts have largely given Rackspace a pass for its heavy losses in recent years because the company has been investing in its own growth. Ten Wall Street analysts covering Rackspace still recommend investors buy the stock.
But its unclear when investors appetite for profit will exceed their hunger for potential growth in the future.
In mid-March, a document Rackspace filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission outlined compensation plans for its top executives in the event of an ownership change. It appeared to suggest the company may be acquired by a rival such as Amazon.
The news sent the stock price to a record high, when it topped $26 per share in early April.
But when Rackspace reported second-quarter earnings in May, the companys share price plummeted even though it exceeded expectations for the quarter.
The stock price cratered, falling by 21 percent in a single day, largely because the companys targets for the second quarter and full year suggested Rackspaces earnings wouldnt grow as quickly as analysts wanted.
Despite calling for second-quarter revenues above analyst targets, the companys forecast of slower earnings growth was enough to shake Wall Street.
The stock price recovered some after Rackspaces first-quarter presentation, but it has struggled to rise since. The companys shares have fallen nearly 14 percent over the last month. They traded just above $17 on Thursday.
Rackspace will report second-quarter results on Wednesday.
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Hyperion Research’s Steve Conway on the State of AI and the HPC Connection – HPCwire
Looking for an AI refresher to beat the Summer heat? In this Q&A, Hyperion Research Senior Adviser Steve Conway surveys the AI and analytics landscape in a time of intense activity and financial backing. Just last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it had expanded the National AI Research Institutes program to 40 states (and the District of Columbia) as part of a combined $220 million investment. What is all this attention and investment leading up to? What is significant right now? Whats the HPC connection? Keep reading for insights into the questions everyones asking.
HPCwire: How would you describe the status of AI today?
Conway: AI is at an early developmental stage and is already very useful. The mainstream AI market is heavily exploiting early AI for narrow tasks that mimic a single, isolated human ability, especially visual or auditory understanding, for everything from Siri and Alexa to reading MRIs with superhuman ability.
HPCwire: Whats the eventual goal for AI?
Conway: The goal over time is to advance toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), where AI machines are versatile experiential learners and can be trusted to make difficult decisions in real time, including life-and-death decisions in medicine and driving situations. Experts debate what it will take to get there and whether that will happen. Hyperion Research asked noted AI experts around the world about this in a recent study. The sizeable group who believe AGI will happen said, on average, it will take 87 years. There was an outlier at 150 years. But whether or not it happens, AGI is an important aspirational goal to work toward.
HPCwire: What role does HPC play in AI?
Conway: HPC is nearly indispensable at the forefront of AI research and development today, for newer, economically important use cases as well as established scientific and engineering applications. One reason why HPC is attracting more attention lately is that it is showing where the larger, mainstream AI market is likely headed in the future. The biggest gifts HPC is giving to that market are 40-plus years of experience with parallelism and the related abilities to process and move data quickly, on premises and in more highly distributed computing environments such as clouds and other hyperscale environments. The HPC community is also an important incubator for applying heterogeneous architectures to the growing number of heterogeneous workflows in the public and private sectors.
HPCwire: Reversing that question, what role does AI play in HPC?
Conway: A recent Hyperion Research study showed that nearly all HPC sites around the world are now exploiting AI to some extent. Mostly, theyre using AI to accelerate established simulation codes, for example by identifying areas of the problem space that can be safely ignored. In cases where the problem space is an extremely sparse matrix, this heuristic approach can be especially helpful. HPC-enabled AI is also used for pre- and post-processing of data.
HPCwire: Whats the relationship between analytics and simulation in HPC-enabled AI?
Conway: Some applications use analytics alone, but many HPC-enabled AI applications benefit from both data analytics and simulation methodologies. Simulation isnt becoming less important with the rise of AI. This frequent pairing of simulation and analytics says that HPC system designs need to be compute-friendly and data-friendly. Newer designs are starting to reverse the increasing compute-centrism of recent decades and establish a better balance.
HPCwire: You mentioned newer, economically important use cases for HPC-enabled AI. Can you say more about those?
Conway: A few years ago, anecdotal evidence led Hyperion Research to compile a list of repetitive AI use cases that vendors could begin to pursue as emerging HPC market segments: precision medicine, automated driving systems, fraud and anomaly detection, business intelligence, affinity marketing, and IoT/smart cities/edge computing. Hyperion Researchs recently completed multi-client study of the worldwide HPC market found that 80 percent of the surveyed HPC sites already use one or more of these applications. Some of this is to support established HPC applications in HPC datacenters, but a surprising portion is to support business operations in enterprise datacenters. This confirmed the growth of a trend weve been tracking for a decade, where enterprise data analytics requirements are pushing up into the HPC competency space.
HPCwire: How is AI related to HPDA?
Conway: Hyperion Research defines high performance data analysis, HPDA, as data-intensive computing that uses HPC resources, whether for simulation or analytics. AI is the HPDA subset that involves data analytics, whether learning models or other analytics methods.
HPCwire: What about AI and cloud computing? Edge computing?
Conway: Our studies show that 20 percent of all HPC workloads are being run in third-party clouds and this number is growing, mostly not at the expense of on-premises computing. AI methods supporting HPC workloads are about as common in cloud settings as on premises. HPC also has a crucial role to play in the important subset of edge computing applications that need wide-area analysis and control, as opposed to just local responsiveness at the edge. A large portion of the one-time Top500-leading Tianhe-1a supercomputer, for example, was dedicated to urban traffic management in Guangzhou. Some respected thinkers believe HPC will be the glue that unifies the emerging global IT infrastructure, from edge to exascale.
HPCwire: Whats needed to move things forward? Are people working on these things?
Conway: Things are definitely moving forward, thanks in no small part to researchers advancing AI practices in the worldwide HPC community, but there are important challenges that are being worked on. They include making the operations of multilayered neural networks explainable and trustworthy, ramping up the availability of realistic synthetic data to address the shortage of useful real-world data in some domains, and advancing multimodal AI that can concurrently mimic more than one human sense. A more profound challenge concerns AI methodologies and the decades-old, rising debate between experts who believe learning models will be adequate for achieving AGI and those who say learning models mimic only high-level, abstract functions of intelligence and need to be augmented with methods that mirror our brains by directly experiencing the natural world.
HPCwire: The NSF recently announced it is expanding the National AI Research Institutes program to 40 states (and the District of Columbia) as part of a $220 million investment. That is one of many state-sponsored AI projects being launched around the world. Where does public investment fit in your view of AI?
Conway: The U.S., China, Europe and Japan all have government-funded initiatives aimed at increasing their AI capabilities as a prerequisite for scientific-engineering progress and economic competitiveness. They have analogous initiatives in HPC, which has already proven its ability to accelerate scientific and industrial innovation. For AI, HPC and other technologies with strong transformational potential, government investment is crucial for laying out national-regional goals and motivating progress toward those goals, especially when the technology is in an early and uncertain stage, as is certainly true of AI.
HPCwire: Stephen Hawking famously said, AI is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. Care to comment?
Conway: Who am I to question Dr. Hawking? I think theres a danger that AIs now-unstoppable momentum could overwhelm crucial ethical considerations, but especially in the past two years or so, more attention is being paid to the ethical ramifications of AI progress. With AGI predicted to be a century or so in the future at best, humanity has some time to wrestle with this.
Bio: Steve Conway is Senior Adviser of HPC Market Dynamics at Hyperion Research. Conway directs research related to the worldwide market for high performance computing. He also leads Hyperion Researchs practice in high performance data analysis (big data needing HPC).
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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21 – Healthcare IT News
LAS VEGAS One year ago this week, a group of digital health experts formulated the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, which outlined priorities and recommendations for the global health community in response to COVID-19 and other future pandemics.
But in order to see meaningful change, those priorities must be turned into concrete action, said panelists who gatheredat a HIMSS21 "view from the top" panel on Tuesday.
Convened by HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary, the panelists who played a critical role in developing the Riyadh Declaration reviewed the recommendations, compared them to progress so far and outlined digital health goals for the future.
"Digital public health is clearly what really matters these days," said His Excellency Dr. Bandar Al Knawy, chief executive officer of the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs in Saudi Arabia.
"The future is digital," Al Knawy continued.
After recapping the nine recommendations set forth in the Riyadh Declaration, Al Knawy emphasized the importance of digital epidemiology tools, saying they must be considered within a comprehensive public health infrastructure.
"We'll need to consider digital health preparedness and response to any pandemic as a national and international security issue," he said.
Dr. David Bates, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital, compared the priorities set out by the declaration to the real-world response to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the United States.
He pointed out that the U.S. mortality rate from COVID-19 was 2.8 times that of Canada, driven in part by a lackluster approach from the national government.
"Federal leadership in the U.S, especially from the president, did not follow some of the recommendations of public health officials," said Bates.
Regarding the novel coronavirus, Bates observed that disinformation was common,that systems were unprepared to report high-quality public health data centrally,that surveillance systems were not global or adequate, especially early on,and that there was a massive demand for personal digital tools that was hard to meet.
He said that whilethe workforce was well trained, and digital health was prioritized, the pandemic still came as a shock.
When it came to more specific digital health innovations, Bates reviewed progress about applied health intelligence, cloud computing, artificial intelligence which he predicted will see a boost in the next five years and telehealth.
"Healthcare systems clearly need to invest in digital solutions, especially in terms of enabling access to data and analytics," he said.
Louise Schaper, chief executive officer of the Australasian Digital Health Institute, summed up the digital health landscape with two words: "Money talks!"
She pointed to recent reports from Rock Health, showing that more funds were invested in the first six months of 2021 than in the entirety of 2020.
"To say there's a lot of money being invested in digital health is pretty much a massive understatement," said Schaper.
She outlined the seven priorities from the Riyadh Declaration, noting several places such as communication, interoperability and data transparency that still need to improve throughout the world.
Now that concrete guidance has been established, the panelists said continued action is needed.
According to Al Knawy, several agencies, including the World Health Organization and World Bank, have been in conversation about concrete strategies to implement at least some of the recommendations.
"Unless we all work together to do this, again it will be just another document," he said.
Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.Twitter: @kjercichEmail: kjercich@himss.orgHealthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.
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Cloud Computing – W3schools
Cloud Computing has become the buzzing topic of today's technology, driving mainly by marketing and services offered by prominent corporate organizations like Google, IBM & Amazon. Cloud computing is the next stage to evolve the Internet. Though for some people, "Cloud Computing" is a big deal, it is not. In reality, cloud computing is something that we have been using for a long time; it is the internet facility, along with the associated standards that provide a set of web-services to users. When users draw the term 'Internet' as a "cloud", they represent the essential characteristics of cloud computing.
Cloud computing is the latest generation technology with an extensive IT infrastructure that provides us a means by which we can use and utilize the applications as utilities via the Internet. Cloud computing makes IT infrastructure along with its services available "on-need" basis. The cloud technology includes - a development platform, hard disk, computing power, software application, and database. This technology doesn't require large-scale capital expenditure to access cloud vendors. Instead, the cloud facilitates 'pay-per-use,' i.e., the organizations' users have to pay only that limited amount to use the cloud infrastructure. In other words, cloud computing refers to applications and services that run on a distributed network using virtualized resources and uses the standard internet protocols for accessing.
Before learning about Cloud technology, readers must know about Networking, computers, database, etc. Terms such as operating system, applications, programs, and their meanings must be known before starting this.
The small and extensive IT companies follow the old traditions of managing IT infrastructure, i.e., server room, to keep all the details and maintain that server. In a word, it is a server room consists of database servers, mail server, firewalls, routers, switches, QPS (Query per second) & Load handler, and other networking devices along with server engineers. To provide such IT infrastructure, a huge amount of money has to spend. So, to reduce the IT infrastructure cost, Cloud Computing technology came into play.
Cloud computing technology brings a shift in the real paradigm of technology in the way systems are deployed. The massive cloud computing technology was enabled by the likeness & trend of the Internet & the growth of some famous multinational companies. Cloud computing makes the user dream come into reality by the concepts of 'pay-as-you-go', infinite scale architecture, and universal system available with high-speed and accuracy.
With the cloud's help, an organization or individual can start from low and small grade to a big name within a short time. So cloud computing is said to be a revolutionary change, even though the technology is still in an evolving stage. Cloud computing takes services, applications, and technology similar to the internet world and converts them into a self-service utility.
If we analyze the Cloud technology intelligently, we will see that most people separate the cloud computing model into two distinct sets:
These topics will have an elaborate discussion on the later chapters as each of them has their subcategories.
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What Is Windows 365 Cloud PC in 2021? [Microsoft 365 Cloud PC] – Cloudwards
Well, were finally here. Ever since the cloud first made it big on the computing scene with Dropboxs innovative consumer cloud storage solution, people have been speculating about how personal computers might one day work entirely in the cloud. Windows 365 Cloud PC promises to do just that, but will it live up to the hype?
In this article well look into Windows 365 Cloud PC and all of Microsofts big promises. Well explain what this Cloud PC does, how remote access might change the way you work and try to answer the question: What Is Windows 365 Cloud PC? Stick around for all the details on Microsofts new cloud computing service.
Its a cloud computing platform that offers virtual PCs with Windows 10 or 11 installed that are quick and easy to set up.
Yes, because it is a cloud platform, you must use the cloud (and thus, an internet connection) to access it.
Windows 365 Cloud PC is a hardware virtualization platform. That might seem like a mouthful, but its very easy to understand.
In simple terms, Microsoft 365 Cloud PC is a cloud service that hosts virtual PCs with Windows installed on them. Companies can use these virtual machines (or VMs) as if they were real Windows computers physically located in their offices. The only requirement is an internet connection.
Microsofts Windows 365 aims to transform the workplace into a more fluid space between the office and the home.
If everything works as it should, these Cloud PCS should be able to stream a full Windows experience to any device you own, allowing you to easily switch devices for remote work.
Business customers will be able to take advantage of this hybrid Windows model (as Microsoft calls it) to create a seamless transition between in-office and remote work. Users will be able to use a Windows 365 virtual desktop when working in the office, then log in to that same Windows 365 Cloud PC on their personal computer when working remotely, with access to the same apps and files.
Windows 365 will come as part of the Microsoft 365 SaaS platform, which means it will follow a subscription model, billed per user.
According to Microsoft, these cloud PCs will be able to stream a full Windows 10 or 11 operating system, apps, files and all, to any device you choose.
Microsoft first dipped its toes into PC virtualization with its Windows Virtual Desktop platform (renamed Azure Virtual Desktop), which made it big after the COVID-19 pandemic. The one downside to Azure Virtual Desktop is that it can be complicated to set up, as you have to configure your own VM in order to use it.
Although its built on Azure Virtual Desktop, the new Microsoft cloud platform is far easier to use. Cloud PCs will come preconfigured with Windows 10 or 11, and you can use them right out of the box as if they were regular PCs. System admins can manage cloud PCs via Microsofts remote desktop app, Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
The most exciting thing about Microsofts new cloud computing platform is that it should work with any device and operating system. Once your workplace assigns you a Windows 365 Cloud PC account, you can log in to it from any device with an internet connection, and use it as if it were your real-life office PC.
Microsofts tagline Hybrid Windows for a hybrid world highlights cloud PCs ability to adapt to both office and remote work.
This means that you could log in to your virtual Windows 365 Cloud PC from any personal or corporate device. This includes your laptop whether it runs Windows, macOS or Linux and even your Android or iOS mobile devices. You wont even have to roll out of bed to pick up your laptop; you can just fire up your work PC from your phone.
Why should businesses care? Well, they can save an up-front cost on hardware by running Microsofts virtual office PCs on weaker hardware. This creates opportunities for small businesses that lack resources to access the same computing power as their larger competitors.
Plus, the Microsoft cloud PC platform lets you scale processing power by allocating extra resources to your cloud PCs (at an additional cost). Plus, because you pay on a per-user basis, you wont have to pay for redundant VMs.
Microsoft lets you choose the processing capacity of your cloud PCs and change them at will.
Software developers will be glad to hear that the new virtual Windows machines work just like regular physical devices do, so developing for a virtual Windows machine should work the same way. This bodes well for app compatibility, too.
According to Microsoft, the Windows 365 platform is built with a zero-trust approach in mind. If youre not familiar with it, zero trust is the philosophy that employees should only be granted the minimum level of access to company files and systems, in order to minimize the risk of leaks and breaches.
If a company uses zero-trust architecture, a low-level employee falling prey to a phishing scam wont compromise the entire company system.
Using Windows 365s integration with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Microsoft Endpoint Manager, system admins can create access policies for easy access management and overview. Multi-factor authentication adds another assurance that only those who need access can receive it.
Windows 365 is a cloud-based service, and as with all things cloud, it requires a constant, stable internet connection. Streaming Netflix in HD can be taxing enough on some connections, let alone streaming an entire operating system to your device.
Although many countries do have stable internet across their entire territory, even a country as advanced as the United States has poor internet coverage in rural areas. This means that a lot of Microsofts big talk about Windows 365 revolutionizing remote work just wont be an option in a large part of the world.
Our advice is to just take everything with a grain of salt until these Microsoft Cloud PCs are actually released and field-tested. After all, not even Google could successfully pull off its ambitious cloud gaming project Google Stadia and we have reason to believe that Windows 365 might hit some of the same speed bumps that Stadia did.
At the time of writing, we dont have any specific Microsoft pricing information. However, we gleaned one possible pricing plan during the latest Microsoft Inspire conference. The Windows 365 Business plan that was revealed offers a cloud PC with a two-core CPU, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage for $31 per month.
Concrete prices will be available on August 2, 2021, when Windows 365 launches.
We remain skeptical about how applicable the Microsoft Windows 365 Cloud PCs might be across the globe, but the service does show promise, especially if it can work well on a slower internet connection. If all goes according to plan, Windows 365 could indeed revolutionize the workspace and make virtual cloud PCs available to the masses.
Are you excited about these Cloud PCs? Do you believe Microsoft can pull off a quality streamed Windows experience, or do you expect it to fail? Please share your thoughts in the comments below, and as always, thank you for reading.
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