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CIOs see cloud computing as the bedrock of digital transformation – Express Computer
In a power packed AWS CXO panel that saw participation of Sourabh Chatterjee, President and Head IT, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co, Balkrishna Singhania, EVP and Head Digital, HDFC Life and Manish Verma, CTO, SonyLiv agreed on a common view that cloud computing is the most important technology for their digital transformations during the past five years.
The session was chaired by Puneet Chandok, President Commercial Business, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, AWS India and South Asia.
In his opening remark Chatterjee of Bajaj Allianz said, At Bajaj Allianz we decided to move our core policy admin platform to a public cloud, and this is easier said than done, because we needed top-down commitment and other approvals, and we were fortunate to have that. So for us, agility and future-readiness was the primary driver of digital transformation. From a pure tech standpoint, besides the infra and provisioning, more importantly, we had clearly defined the business outcomes for each of the areas of transformation. I think the thing that worked for us and were just still working on, is a variable cost model, and the Covid pandemic times proved that fixed infra and high capex is not needed.
Sharing SonyLivs story of digital transformation, Verma said, We started our transformation journey sometime in December last year, and we put an aggressive target for ourselves to relaunch our application with the revised product and content positioning in the next four-five months. So you can imagine what it takes to launch 20 different applications across 20 different platforms. And we also had content in different types GEC audience content is more organic, as compared to sports and live sports content with cricket and football, where we see spikes in traffic, and having a reliable tech backend and cloud infrastructure hence becomes important. To address these different types of traffic pattern and consumer behaviour, we had to use a reliable tech platform and ensure we were able to offer a seamless consumer experience across 20 different platforms. Since we launched, we have seen a 5x increase in subscription traffic and a 70-80 per cent increase in the traffic for content consumption.
Highlighting the cloud journey of HDFC Life, Balkrishna Singhania stated, We setup a separate team that focused on developing applications solely on the cloud. At some part earlier this year, as a part of our migration of our infrastructure. We did a lift and shift of our core applications from on premise machines to the cloud, with the whole idea that if we wanted to be cloud-native and digital-native, we couldnt afford to build patch-up systems where some part of it is on the cloud, and some cloud system is talking to on premise machines for data, and so on. Insurance is more B2B2C business than a B2C business. Enabling our partners was important having our API installed in our partners systems, to enable them to query our systems for a particular customer, could become seamless with the cloud.
The CIOs also shared their challenges and experiences during the pandemic. Responding to the big business focus area that tech and cloud will enable or drive in 2021, Chatterjee shared, For us, its very clear the data and analytics piece, and all the modeling that we are doing around fraud, retention propensity, the entire claims experience, I think, across the value chain, anything that is data and insights. And I will be careful in using the term analytics, because in a lot of areas we use analysis and we incorrectly call it analytics, but the idea is, cloud will enable the entire data and insights as a capability within the organisation. This is something big for us and will be driven by the cloud.
For SonyLiv, the focus is on harnessing the use of data. We as an organisation, are digital and are using data in each and every decision that we make, whether it is on the infrastructure side, content programming, content production, churn analysis, retention everywhere. I think it is all about data and democratisation of the data. We are working big time on introducing some of the prediction models, machine learning models, which can help us to retain users. So, I think data is going to play a critical role. The other area which I feel we as a business, is on the OTT side. As we have seen that especially cricket in India, each match is a new benchmark, Verma highlighted.
Lastly, Singhania of HDFC Life mentioned, Focus on making our applications intelligent is the next big thing, so data and analytics definitely comes there. And as a company where you have multiple touch points with customers, being able to take all the pieces of information and what customers need, where they need it, how they need it, and being able to give them in a nice and intelligent fashion, is the key according to me. When you add to technology a recommendation engine, propensity models, etc., you can make the systems intelligent. Making a lot of our systems intelligent is the key for us.
Sharing some of the best practices for the Indian counterparts of BFSI sector, Chandok highlighted, AWS work globally, and were the worlds largest and most broadly adopted cloud platform, including in financial services. And globally, weve got Capital One, Intuit, HSBC, Barclays many large organizations building and scaling upon the cloud. And theres a real network effect to this. And thats the beauty of a cloud platform like AWS, where some of the largest organisations, not just enterprises, but even startups, small and medium businesses, government organizations are building on it and everything they build, you are able to democratize that and bring that to all your customers. The best practices very quickly get democratized, and we learn from each other.
He also reiterated that, India is leading from the front on this right. And you can see this in this conversation, two of the largest insurance in the country, are thinking big and bold and moving fast onto the cloud and leveraging it. And not just in financial services, virtually every vertical business segment today is being reinvented by the cloud, due to its cost effective, functionalities.
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What are the Advantages of Cloud Computing in the Healthcare Sector ? – Healthcare Tech Outlook
The healthcare providers are using cloud computing so that it becomes easy for them to manage the massive amount of data.
FREMONT, CA:For the healthcare sector, cloud computing is not a whole new concept. The implementation of cloud technology has been growing at a frenetic rate in the last few years. According to recent research, the global demand for cloud technology in the healthcare industry is projected to expand by USD 25.54 billion during 2020-2024. The pandemic of COVID-19 has only accelerated this trend.
Even though pandemic effects are still unraveling, it is already evident that not every industry will suffer the same as some have indicated significant improvement. The healthcare and technology industries fall into this group making the worldwide healthcare cloud computing market very promising for the coming years.
The democratization of data and its remote accessibility free up providers and patients in an industry where a large amount of data is generated daily, breaking down geographical constraints on healthcare access.
Here are the top 3 healthcare advantages of cloud computing.
Collaboration
As the healthcare facilities is moving forward with the value-based care payment procedure, the collaboration among physicians, agencies, and even institutions have become essential. With a cloud computing server's help, medical professionals can share data and improve collaboration for better care.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
There is one sector where AI can be intimidating, and it is healthcare. But AI and machine learning technologies can be a critical solution to help clinical decisions and provide a faster time-to-treatment with the medical professionals' busy deadlines, especially when the world is continuously fighting against a global pandemic and rise of data.
Cloud infrastructure will facilitate the transition of artificial intelligence into conventional healthcare operations and help users handle vast volumes of data as more and more cloud providers incorporate AI and ML into their services.
Data Storage
Electronic medical records, patient portals, mobile applications, and big data analytics have to be dealt with by healthcare providers. It is a lot of data to maintain and analyze, and every in-house facility cannot process it.
Therefore, Cloud computing enables healthcare organizations to store all the information while eliminating unnecessary physical server maintenance expenses.
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Cloud Computing and Its Advantages in the BFSI Sector – Analytics Insight
Cloud computing has garnered massive traction in recent years. As one of the crucial and rapidly developing technologies, cloud computing has enabled many other disruptive technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, the internet of things (IoT), and others. It has revolutionized many core banking processes, offering a myriad of advantages, including cost savings, usage-based billing, business continuity, agility, interoperability and secure storage, among others.
Earlier, players in the BFSI ecosystem were reluctant towards cloud infrastructure, particularly owing to privacy concerns, security, regulatory requirements, and the complexity of internal and third-party legacy systems integration. With increasing banking services such as payment gateways, online transactions, digital wallets, and omnichannel customer services and more, financial institutions are actively exploring cloud computing applications.
The banking, financial services and insurance industry deals with voluminous amounts of data for an effective banking experience. Rapid technological innovation and digitization are driving the digital revolution in the sector. That being said, banks are investing heavily in cloud environments, public, private and hybrid clouds to make banking processes easier as well as convenient.
The adoption of cloud computing in BFSI delivers substantial advantages to financial services and insurance providers.
By integrating the cloud, financial institutions can capitalize on modular capabilities, thwarting the underutilization that often accompanies the expansion of physical architecture. It can minimize a large up-front capital expenditure by lessening the need for investment in dedicated hardware and software along with the staffing to maintain them. Additionally, it allows banks and insurance companies to focus on core customer-focused functions.
With cloud computing, BFSI companies will be able to respond quickly to changing markets, customer needs and technological demand. It also enables applications to be built, tested and rolled out in a fraction of the time compared with traditional, on-site environments. Integrating the cloud also makes access between parties and institutions easier. Eventually, it assists the banking, financial services and insurance companies to manage the distinct demands in the banking landscape.
Cloud computing offers a complete data backup to information, making it a highly reliable technology in BFSI. As the emerging landscape of fintech across the globe is changing the traditional norms of the BFSI sector, banks are looking to address the pain points of customers from a fresh perspective. Among the challenges is data privacy. By leveraging the hybrid cloud model, banks can secure their data while enjoying the improved flexibility and scalability of the cloud.
Keeping data safe and secure from unauthorized access or damage has always been a significant concern for the financial services industry. Using the cloud can lower risks associated with doubts around data security and traditional technology, such as capacity, redundancy and resiliency concerns. It can give banks more control over security issues.
Banks perform a large number of works, from email to application development and testing, and customer management to data intelligence and storage. However, these processes are more time-consuming and error-prone. Cloud computing significantly removes all the redundant time for such processes, giving more time to employees to work on valuable tasks, hence bolsters productivity.
Moreover, cloud computing has a regulatory advantage. As vendors can completely secure the data or provide partial access to selected data, it can ensure the regulations in databases.
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The Cloudification of Everything – CNBCTV18
Cloud computing as a technology has been around for quite a few decades. The first instance of the term being used can be found in a Compaq internal document back in 1996. But, it is at the turn of the century (or the millennium, actually) that the technology moved beyond the realm of academic discussion to into real-life application. With the phenomenal growth of the Internet, cloud computing has gained much traction. From users storing their data on third-party applications like Gmail or Facebook to enterprises converting their business functions into managed services like finance or HR, the cloud is now the foundation on which our data-enabled society runs. In the past few years, just as cloud computing became ubiquitous, terms like SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) have become mainstream.
One can gauge the rise of cloud computing from the fact that global spending on cloud computing is expected to grow from an estimated $371.4 billion in 2020 to $832.1 billion by 2025. A recent report published by IDG states that the average cloud spending by the enterprise segment is up 59% from 2018 to $73.8M in 2020. Even the COVID-19 pandemic that had a pervasive negative impact on all sectors could not arrest the growth of cloud computing. On the contrary, the worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow by 6.3% in 2020 to a total of $257.9 billion.
As the world hunkered down under the impact of the pandemic, cloud computing transformed into a saviour. Communication and collaborative tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Amazon Chime helped businesses and individuals stay connected during the lockdown and continue working from home. Digital education became a boon, as students were unable to attend school. Restaurants turned to food delivery apps like Zomato or Swiggy to explore new business avenues like home delivery. Patients were able to consult doctors online. People availed numerous government services at the click of a mouse. All this has been possible thanks to the power of cloud computing and more importantly, because of the pervasive cloudification of everything.
To understand the factors driving cloudification and how it is changing the enterprise space, CNBC-TV18 and Intel dedicated a complete episode titled 'Everything Cloudified', under the aegis of the tech-centric series "Future-Proof Your Business". The episode charts the rise of cloud computing by featuring India's premier cloud service provider NTT-Netmagic. In the episode, Sharad Sanghi, Leader-Designate, NTT India, reflects on the power of cloud computing and its relevance in the Indian enterprise space. He talks about how the current capacity for cloud computing in India stands around 375 megawatts and will grow to 1000 megawatts in the next five years. The reason he attributes for the rise of cloud computing is the cost-factor, elasticity of use and scalability. Sanghi also threw light upon the partnership with Intel and how technologies like DC Persistent Memory (DCPMM) has aided in providing faster and better services to enterprise users. "Intel offers next generation of storage and memory solutions that allows us to address the very needs of data management solutions for our clients worldwide," he stated.
Prakash Mallya, VP & MD, Sales Marketing & Communications Group, Intel India, touched upon how cloud computing had helped companies deal with the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The most significant trend in the days to come is the emergence of 'Everything as a Service', stated Mallya. Another exciting trend will be how cloud computing will leverage the power of other technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) or edge computing. "Latency is a crucial aspect for businesses. So, compute will move where the data is. Therefore edge computing will be evolving very rapidly; we see this as a significant opportunity. The industry sees this as a significant opportunity. We will see the emergence of new business models which are very unique, very tech-savvy and have a transformational impact in the country," he stated.
Meanwhile, Som Satsangi, Managing Director, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), India, spoke about the emergence of a new mobile workforce that is leveraging the power of the cloud. He also talked about how companies were able to function even during the lockdown with cloud computing. "HPE has announced almost $2 billion in financing new programs to help customers cope up with COVID-19 crisis," he said.
In the end, the adoption of cloud computing in the Indian enterprise space has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. According to IDC's COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, 64% companies in India are expected to witness an increase in demand for cloud computing. At the same time, almost 56% of them will embrace the cloud as the new normal. Little wonder then, cloud computing is now the engine for digital transformation for Indian enterprises.
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Indian firms see a silver lining in cloud adoption in pandemic-hit year – Business Standard
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated Cloud adoption by several years in 2020 and Indian enterprises of all sizes fast-tracked their decisions to shun the legacy infrastructure and move their operations -- in piecemeal or in full -- to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-powered Cloud.
For Cloud players, the year offered a great opportunity to sell their scalable and secure Cloud-based solutions while keeping data within the territories of the country.
According to an IDC survey that came out in November, more than 60 per cent of the Indian organisations plan to leverage Cloud platforms for digital innovation, as the firms re-strategise their IT spending plans as a result of Covid-19.
Although most organisations in India have adopted Cloud at some stage, said the IDC, the current pandemic situation enabled them to spend more on public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS).
According to Shailender Kumar, Regional Managing Director, Oracle India, several Indian businesses like Polycab, Religare Broking and Mphasis moved on to its second-generation cloud services in the country, amid the rising demand for secure, enterprise-grade Cloud services in the pandemic.
"Buoyed by rising Cloud demand and to aid better disaster recovery and regulatory compliance, we made our second local cloud region available to customers in India. Our cloud business is growing well and is on the right track in the country," Kumar told IANS.
After spending several months in uncertainty around the pandemic-induced lockdowns, "there has been an uptick in business sentiment in India and a vast number of small and medium businesses (SMBs) and startups are now turning to the Oracle second generation cloud infrastructure for high performance and growth," Kumar elaborated.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud computing business of e-commerce giant Amazon, said that amid the pandemic, it has seen an acceleration both in terms of customer adoption and how they are using the Cloud in the country.
Besides banking and financial services, other areas, where AWS has seen huge traction in India include media and entertainment and automotive sectors.
AWS will invest $2.77 billion to set up multiple data centres in Hyderabad, the Telangana government said last month.
The company will set up Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region with three Availability Zones (AZs). It is expected to start operations by mid-2022.
A Google Cloud report revealed this month that more than one in two retail executives in India feel their company is accelerating Cloud adoption in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Google Cloud won some key customers in India this year.
"We have always been bullish on India and you will see more investment coming from us towards that direction. India offers a great opportunity where Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with its latest agile, secure and scalable offerings can help enterprises, SMBs and the growing startup ecosystem amid the government's call for digital transformation," Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian told IANS.
Earlier this year, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai committed $10 billion to drive India go digital and the company will open its second GCP region in India, in Delhi next year.
IT industry's apex body Nasscom said in November that with Cloud adoption among India's small and medium-sized businesses growing, they can account for 28-30 per cent of the country's Public Cloud market by 2025.
"As India aims to become a Cloud-first nation and with the government's push for Cloud adoption by MSMEs, it will be crucial for SMBs in India to think of themselves as digital enterprises and lead the E-revolution for India," said Debjani Ghosh, President, Nasscom.
The Covid-19 pandemic severely impacted the SMB segment and they struggled with liquidity crunch, lack of demand and lack of an alternative operational model.
Nasscom said that progressive policies and awareness programmes can accelerate cloud adoption at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has already fast-tracked digital transformation of companies across all verticals.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, nearly 97 per cent of mid-market firms considered technology to be important for business success and most were already experimenting with cloud, AI and emerging technologies.
"The uncertainty triggered by Covid-19 is making them relook at their own IT setup to ensure that they fix the gaps which could hamper their ability to operate remotely," Sandip Patel, MD, IBM India-South Asia, told IANS.
"This segment is usually more agile in their decision making and hence we are seeing several new engagements and discussions started already," Patel added.
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TeamSupport Named Finalist in 2020-21 Cloud Awards – PRNewswire
TeamSupport employs cloud technologies to deliver outstanding results for its B2B customers and is a deserving finalist.
"Every member of our team strives to develop innovative solutions to help companies build strong and lasting relationships with their customers, and to support our customers with meaningful interactions each and every day," said Pete Khanna, CEO, TeamSupport. "To be recognized as a finalist is not only an honor, but clear recognition of the innovation and excellence we strive to achieve using leading cloud technologies."
Melissa Hendrick, Chief Marketing Officer, TeamSupport, agrees. "We are all proud to stand by our software solution. But more important to us is providing a customer-first client experience, a cross-collaborative and holistic view of the customer, really understanding their needs, and reducing the time it takes to resolve their issues."
Head of Operations for the Cloud Awards, James Williams, said: "TeamSupport employs cloud technologies to deliver outstanding results for its B2B customers and is a deserving finalist in the 2020-21 Cloud Awards program."
"This year has been one unlike any other, posing uniquely non-trivial challenges across every sector of industry. As we have seen across so many of this year's awards entries, the cloud has been pivotal in increasing organizational efficiency to meet demands both anticipated and unforeseen.
"From call centers to online shopping carts, cloud technologies have been the grease that keeps the global wheel of industry turning. They have been at the center of considerable behavioral change and new, innovative ways of working."
Hundreds of organizations entered, with entries coming from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. View the full shortlist here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2020-shortlist/.
Final winners will be announced on Thursday 28 January 2021.
About TeamSupport
TeamSupport is a post-sale award-winning customer support software provider built specifically for the unique needs of B2B (business-to-business) technology-enabled companies within the computer software, hardware, information technology services, and telecom industries. Created by B2B customer support industry experts, TeamSupport has spent the past decade creating a support solution that helps build passionate customer bases for its clients. TeamSupport stands alone as the leading support solution that helps solve for sophisticated client needs and fuels successful client interactions.
The TeamSupport suite of solutions includes TeamInsights, a customizable reporting and analytics dashboard.
TeamSupport is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at TeamSupport.com.
About the Cloud Awards
The Cloud Awards is an international program which recognizes and honors industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing. The awards are open to large, small, established and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2021 and beyond. The Cloud Awards currently offers two awards programs, the Cloud Computing Awards and the Software-as-a-Service Awards.
Finalists were selected by a judging panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards, visit https://www.cloud-awards.com/.
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Healthcare Cloud Computing Market To Witness Astonishing Growth 2020- 2027 – LionLowdown
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Industrial Impact of Covid-19 on Healthcare Cloud Computing Industry:
The outbreak of the pandemicCOVID-19changed the market scenario on the global platform. Many of the regions are facing the biggest economic crisis owing to the lockdowns that were implemented due to the outspread of the coronavirus infection. As the only solution that has been found to contracting this disease is social distancing many countries have implemented strong regulations in regards to people gatherings. Owing to this many of the businesses are working with only 30% of its employees thus not able to bring the maximum production.
Thiscan affect the global economy in 3 main ways: by directly affecting production and demand, by creating supply chain and market disturbance, and by its financial impact on firms and financial markets.
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IBM Leverages Cloud To Push The Encryption Envelope – The Next Platform
Unfortunately, the powerful capabilities of quantum computers also introduce risks to our current security technology, namely public key cryptography. Symmetric key cryptography such as Advanced Encryption Scheme (AES) or Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) -2 and -3 will not be completely compromised. The only known attack uses Grovers algorithm, which achieves fast unstructured search for the key space for symmetric ciphers or the output space for cryptographic hash algorithms. However, enhanced search by Grovers algorithm has an upper limit. Furthermore, the attack requires a considerable amount of quantum resources. Therefore, these symmetric key algorithms can sustain their security by simply increasing the key sizes or output sizes to at most twice their current size.
The rapid adoption by enterprises of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments along with the rise of the Internet of Things, a much more remote workforce and other trends that have contributed to the increasingly distributed nature of modern IT has put the vast amounts of data that is being generated in a precarious position. No longer created, collected and store in central datacenters sitting behind corporate firewalls, workloads and data are now bouncing between public clouds, between clouds and on-premises datacenters, from the edge through the cloud to the datacenter and back again.
Data is everywhere and in multiple environments, putting it at greater risk from cyberthreats from increasing sophisticated criminal and nation-state operations that now have a much larger attack surface to work on. Theres no way to put a firewall around such a decentralized situation, so other means of security including encryption are getting more work as organizations look to shield sensitive data from cyberattacks and stay in compliance with the growing numbers of government regulations and standards think the European Unions General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or Californias Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) designed to protect the privacy of business user and consumers.
However, even modern encryption has its shortcomings. Enterprises now can encrypt data when its at rest and when its in transit. However, when they have to start putting it to work to process and analyze it it must be decrypted, exposing it to cyber-criminals who want to access or steal it or to third parties that may be able to see it. In a hybrid cloud world, the risk is high.
Enter Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Initially discussed in the 1970s but not demonstrated until 2009, homomorphic encryption enables data to remain encrypted even as organizations process and analyze it in the cloud or in third-party environments, protecting it from bad actors and the eyes of others who are not supposed to see it. Once the calculations or other mathematical operations are run on the encrypted data, the results will be corrected once theyre decrypted.
Its important because data is more portable than ever, Eric Maass, director of strategy and emerging technology at IBM Security Services, tells The Next Platform. We are in a very fluid state. Infrastructure is everywhere. Once upon a time, we built monolithic applications and the data, for all intents and purposes, was well contained within sight of a monolith of sorts. Today, applications are very hybrid in nature. Theres computing thats happening on-prem. Theres aspects of that computation that may happen in a hybrid fashion on infrastructure-as-a-service provider. Data is just being sent wherever its needed, basically to be utilized by highly distributed applications. In a hybrid cloud era, we expect that the infrastructure has become far more distributed and therefore [so is] the computing and therefore where the data needs to flow in order to perform that computing.
IBM has been an active player in the development of FHE, with IBM researcher Craig Gentry in 2009 demonstrating the first working algorithm for homomorphic encryption, though it was far too slow for practical use. More recently, Big Blue this summer ran successful FHE field trials and released a FHE toolkit for MacOS and iOS, Apple operating systems, adding Linux and Android later. This month, announced its IBM Security Homomorphic Encryption Services, a scalable offering hosted on IBM Cloud that gives organizations an environment for experimenting with the encryption technology and consulting and managed services to help them with their efforts.
Over the past decade, IBM and other companies have worked to make processing encrypted data faster. The demonstration in 2009 showed it could be done, but at the time it could take days or weeks to run FHE calculations that otherwise would take seconds on decrypted data. The organizations worked to improve the algorithms used for FHE and IBM created open-source libraries, such as HELib and the aforementioned FHE Toolkit. The result is homomorphic encryption that is more functionally viable and ready for wider use. The algorithms IBM is using on its new cloud service are founded on lattice-based cryptography, an encryption technology that is being developed to push back at the oncoming cyberthreats that will arrive with more widespread quantum computing.
The combination of expanded compute power and advanced algorithms, FHE can now be performed at seconds-per-bit, an important measurement that indicates that homomorphic encryption is fast enough to be used in increasing numbers of use cases and early trials. Examples of uses cases can include healthcare facilities that want to give patient data to clinical researchers to help them search for cures for a disease but cant do so now because regulations prevent exposing such sensitive data to third parties or retailers who want to do more targeted marketing but are worried about jeopardizing trust of their consumers by using their data in a way that exposes it.
Over the last 10 years, a lot of what it comes down to is just the math, Maass says. It gets down to finding efficiencies in the way that the math is being done to improve the speed. Way back in the day, a single digit being computed in an FHE-enabled application took somewhere around a half an hour. We improved that. Its still multiple times slower than performing the same calculation on clear text data, but its improved to the point where a lot of the computation that we make here about basic analysis, statistical analysis of data, that sort of stuff, could be done in a way thats almost imperceptible.
IBMs FHE Services offering has two key goals: To give enterprises a cloud-based environment trying out the technology and running experiments and as a way of educating organizations and offering them services and support from IBM cryptography experts, both with the aim of preparing them to build and deploy FHE-enabled applications. The tools were developed by IBM Research and IBM Z, offering templates for common FHE use cases, including encrypted search, AI, machine learning and analytics. The IBM Cloud infrastructure can scale as needed.
There continue to be challenges to mass adoption of homomorphic encryption, Maass says. FHE is complex and requires a lot of compute power as much as 100 times the compute resources of operations on plaintext data the lattice encryption keys and other FHE-specific technologies are not mainstream and may need particular infrastructure, and coding for FHE may be different from traditional methods. Applications and data need to be prepared in particular ways when dealing with FHE.
Data preparation really has a lot to do with what use case you plan to implement with the technology, he says. The simplest example is if you picture a spreadsheet of data, you have rows and columns. Traditional databases have rows and columns of data. Often with [FHE] data preparation, the columns need to become rows and the rows need to become columns. There are certain types of math that needs to take place in which were twisting and turning the data in ways that its not natively coming out of a traditional relational database. Its not overly complex, but it does take understanding those constraints and use cases in order to plan for that. Clearly, systems as they exist today for storing data within these organizations are not going to be natively compatible if we need to start twisting and turning the data that way.
Likely candidates for using FHE include organizations in highly regulated industries healthcare, financial services, retail and the like and those using data in highly collaborative and distributed, which is getting more common with the growing adoption of hybrid clouds.
That said, FHE will be a targeted sort of technology, not one designed to be a wholesale replacement for all forms of encryption, he says. Were going to still see basic asymmetric and symmetric encryption that exists for data at rest and data in transport continue to be the primary way to do that job. They do it well. They do efficiently. This is really targeted at data that needs to be protected as its being put into an untrusted domain, shared with a third party, maybe being utilized in an untrusted cloud computing environment where its out of our hands and we want to make sure that its not going to be exposed as were computing on it. Theres a time and place for every form of cryptography and we see this as complementary to the data at rest and data in transit algorithms and techniques that are out there today.
Its going to take time, but two to three years down the road homomorphic encryption will have evolved from a fresh-from-the-lab technology to one that is more widely used, Maass says. Gartner analysts earlier this year predicted that by 2025, at least 20 percent companies will have projects on the books that include FHE, up from about 1 percent now. IBMs FHE Services offering is a step in that direction by getting organizations prepared for the technologys evolution.
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One of the most critical and challenging components in an independent energy system is the inverter. You do not have to comprehend the inner workings to select a UPS inverter, but you should know some basic features, strengths, and limitations.
You should first specify your reasons to buy an inverter. It would help if you then learned about the available inverters. Manufacturers of inverters print on their specification sheets (commonly called spec sheets) everything you need to know. Here is a list of the factors that you should consider.
Like a standard wall socket, a UPS inverter supplies current from the battery cleanly and securely. The output from this inverter, identical to service supply, is in a sine curve which leads to noise less operations and increases life of connected appliances.
Since home appliances are built to run on this model, this is the best home UPS inverter. This system is effective without wasting much power if you wish to use high-powered appliances such as microwave ovens, televisions, and air coolers during a power outage.
If you need to operate multiple machines, a pure sine wave UPS inverter is the best option for the home, as it can change the voltage according to power requirements. However, they may be a bit costly.
These inverters create waveforms that are square-shaped. As compared to the other two, square wave inverters are easy on pocket when compared with the similar rated sine wave inverter. However, if only need to run modest devices like Fan, LED lights or universal motors, then this is the right choice. However, such inverters can be noisy.
You need to define the power requirement to zero in on the best inverter for home. This involves recognizing devices such as lamps, tube lights, fans, TVs, cell phone chargers, and Wi-Fi routers that would be connected during a power outage.
The electrical consumption of each unit you want to connect to the inverter will need to be defined, and the total consumption measured. This will determine the number of watt load that is required from inverter. This is the first step in your homes choice of the best UPS inverter.
The total power consumption should, under optimal conditions, be the same as the capacity of the inverter. In the electrical system, however, incoming power is barely sufficient. For residential use, the power factor, calculated based on how effectively incoming power is used, is approximately 0.7 watts.
To arrive at the inverter power, estimated in VA, it splits the total electricity consumption in watts in step 1 by 0.7. If all the devices are used simultaneously, this is the full load of the inverter. If the exact battery capacity is not available, opt for one with greater capacity.
Reliable brands like Luminous will help you find the right one for you if you are looking for an easy way to choose a suitable UPS inverter.
You now need to select the right battery size after choosing the best UPS inverter to allow it to operate optimally. The calculation of the battery size is in Ah.
Decide on a period during which the inverter is needed to provide backup. If you opt for a 600 VA inverter, for example, and want to use it for 4 hours, the appropriate battery size is as follows:
600 * 4 = 2,400VAh
Since the power of a standard inverter battery is 12V, the battery size is 2,400/12 = 200Ah
If the exact battery capacity is not available, opt for one with greater capacity, as with the inverter.
It is not a challenging task to select an inverter. Defining where it should be used, what kind of loads (appliances) you will power, and the maximum power that the inverter can handle will help select the best UPS inverter as per your requirement. There are leading manufacturers of inverters and batteries that offer a wide range of inverters to choose from. Check out their website or call on their toll-free number to get expert advice!
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