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Key Things to Consider While Choosing a Public Cloud – CXOToday.com
By: Neelesh Kripalani
The Coronavirus pandemic has compelled organizations to shift to a remote working model overnight. As a result, organizations are frantically moving towards cloud computing and software products.
As per a new IDC report, 64% of organizations in India are expected to increase their demand for cloud computing, while 56% are expected to demand for cloud software to support the new normal. To adjust to the new normal, organizations need SaaS-based collaborative apps to ensure on and off-site presence at all the times and zero-disruption to business. Since businesses have realized the limitations of physical infrastructure, pay-per-use public cloud model is witnessing an accelerated demand.
However, it is important for organizations to consider the below mentioned factors while choosing a public cloud.
The acceleration towards public cloud has got a huge fillip due to COVID-19. The scenario today leaves little doubt on the need to move to the public cloud wherever possible. Organizations that would take the step now while keeping the above considerations in mind and hiring a cloud consulting and implementation partner to charter their roadmap would emerge from this scenario with a much desired competitive edge.
(The author is senior VP & Head- Center of Excellence Clover Infotech and the views expressed in this article are his own)
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Global Cloud Computing in Automotive Market 2020-2025: Value, Components, Technology, Installation Base and Leading Players Comparison – Owned
Global Cloud Computing in Automotive market report presents an overview on the basis of key parameters such as market size, revenue, sales analysis and key drivers. The size of Cloud Computing in Automotive market is anticipated to grow at large scale over the forecast period. The main purpose of the study report is to give users an extensive viewpoint of the Cloud Computing in Automotive market. So that users can apply strategic processes to benchmark themselves against rest of the world. Key drivers as well as challenges of the market are discussed in the report. Also reports provides an in depth analysis of the Cloud Computing in Automotive market with current and future trends.
Cloud Computing in Automotive Market 2020-2025 research report is an in-depth analysis of the latest trends, market size, status, upcoming technologies, industry drivers, challenges opportunity with key company profiles and strategies of players.
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The report also includes a description of the main factors that can significantly stimulate or hinder the growth of the Cloud Computing in Automotive market. It also discusses the future impact of regulatory and policy enforcement on the growth of the market. The report also estimates the estimated CAGR of the Cloud Computing in Automotive market based on the initial history of the market, existing trends and future development trends. The report also includes the geographical fork of the Cloud Computing in Automotive market.
Top Leading Key Players are:
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
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The Cloud Computing in Automotive market study report covers all the geographical regions where competitive landscape exists by the players such as North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East Africa. Thus report helps to identify the key growth countries and regions. Furthermore, global Cloud Computing in Automotive report covers the competitive panorama of existing and new players in the industry. Also report offers strategies initiatives of the players for the development of products. Moreover report cover in depth analysis of the market on the basis of segments. And for all the segments, actual market sizes and forecast have been provided over the forecast period. In addition, report presents quantitative as well as qualitative narration of global Cloud Computing in Automotive market.
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Ampere Altra Family of Cloud Native Processors expands to 128 cores with Altra Max – PRNewswire
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
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Ampere today announced further roadmap details of its Ampere Altra server processor family. In March the company announced Ampere Altra, the world's first cloud native processor, featuring 80 cores. Today, Ampere unveiled preliminary details of the expansion of the cloud-native processor family by adding Ampere Altra Max, which has 128 cores, providing customers with another cloud-optimized processor to maximize overall performance and cores-per-rack density.
Ampere Altra Max is ideal for applications that take advantage of scale-out and elastic cloud architectures. Compatible with the 80-core Ampere Altra and also supporting 2-socket platforms, Ampere Altra Max offers the industry's highest socket-level performance and I/O scalability. It will be sampling in the fourth quarter and additional details will be provided later this year.
"In March we introduced the industry's first cloud native processor, our 80-core Ampere Altra. Today, we are announcing the expansion of the Ampere Altra family with the first 128 core server processor, sampling in Q4 2020. We know customers need different products for specific workloads and decided to create a family of different products to meet their needs.We are very excited to share our rapid progress, driven by our continued commitment to deliver leadership performance and power efficiency,"said Renee James, Ampere Founder and CEO.
In keeping with the commitment to deliver an annual cadence of new products, Ampere has also recently completed the tape-out of a 5nm test chip for internal validation.
The Ampere Altra family provides the flexibility to address a spectrum of workloads and Ampere is working with ecosystem partners to enable accelerators to meet specific customer requirements.
Several customers have begun to offer platforms featuring Ampere Altra.
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"Cloudflare is deeply interested in the Ampere Altra processor and its innovative architecture. We have started evaluating Ampere Altra and are excited with the preliminary performance benchmarks we are seeing. We will share these performance metrics of Ampere Altra later in the year. Cloudflare is also excited to be engaged with Ampere on the Ampere Altra Max processor with 128 cores and can't wait to test it. "Nitin Rao, Head of Global Infrastructure, Cloudflare.
"We are excited to announce GenyMotion has been ported to Ampere platforms. Customers who are using our cloud-based Android virtual devices demand scalability and the performance boost of running Arm native applications on an Arm-based server. It is exciting to see a high performant Arm server processor, Ampere Altra, available now. Ampere Altra enables unparalleled scalability and density to run our Android virtual devices on the cloud."Tim Danford, Chief Executive Officer, Genymobile.
"NVIDIA has moved quickly to bring its CUDA-X collection of libraries, tools, and technologies to deliver GPU acceleration to the thriving Arm ecosystem. We are happy to collaborate with Ampere and partners building reference designs that demonstrate the best combinations of GPU and CPU performance optimized for accelerated computing." Duncan Poole, Director of Platform Alliances, NVIDIA.
"We are excited to extend our partnership with Ampere by providing early access to their new Ampere Altra processors. Our shared passion for pushing the boundaries of performance for cloud-native applications is complemented by an equally deep commitment to engaging with the software ecosystem early and often. With this early access program our users, and the community at large, can experience what'snext with silicon, today."Zac Smith, Managing Director of Bare Metal Packet, an Equinix Company.
"We are excited to offer Ampere products to our customers in the coming months. Adding the Ampere Altra processor and associated servers to our portfolio will enable Phoenics to provide our customers with key solutions for cloud, storage, edge and other server applications."Peter Rooks, President , Phoenics Electronics, an Avnet Company.
"At Scaleway we strive to provide diversity of architectures tailored to meet the variety of cloud workloads our customers run. We were among the first to offer Arm and Arm64 based virtual instances and bare-metal systems in the cloud. The new Ampere Altraprocessor brings us a new world of performance on Arm64 architecture, and enables new cross usage in the cloud for all sizes of workloads. We are pleased to work closely with Ampere and are delighted to say that we're evaluating Ampere Altrafor the new breeze of our Arm64 cloud instances in late 2020."Scaleway.
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About AmpereAmpere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world's first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.
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Microsoft’s new Asia boss outlines business priorities in the age of coronavirus – CNBC
Ahmed Mazhari, President, Microsoft Asia
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In an environment where firms big and small have suffered tremendous disruption due to the coronavirus pandemic, Microsoft wants to enable its clients to stay in business and build long-term resilience, the company's Asia president told CNBC.
One of the hardest challenges at the moment is the fragile balance between lives and livelihoods as governments are forced to decide between restarting their economies, or keeping them in lockdown to contain the virus, Ahmed Mazhari said.
Mazhari recently completed his first 100 days at the helm of Microsoft's Asia business, after replacing Ralph Haupter in February.
"The times are challenging for humankind, but the last 100 days have been lots of learning, lots of anxious moments with our customers, with our partners, with governments," he said in a recent exclusiveinterview with CNBC.
"Our business priority is to ensure that we help people, in the long term, become more resilient in their businesses and institutions," Mazhari added. "In the short term, enabling them to keep business running."
Microsoft said during itslast earnings releasein late April that the initial impact of Covid-19on the business was mixed. Cloud computing-based products such as Teams and Azure saw increased usage as more organizations shifted to remote work. But "there wasa slowdown in transactional licensing, particularly in small and medium businesses, and a reduction in advertising spend in LinkedIn," the company said.
Mazhari explained there were two aspects whereMicrosoft saw an acceleration in its cloud business.
"The one isjust consumption as a consequence of the fact that there's more ... telecommuting happening, (a) lot more people on the internet, lot more people accessing corporate networks," he said.
The other aspect was that institutions and corporations realized they were not ready for remote work when the pandemic forced countries to step up restrictions and require nonessential employees to work from home. "Cloud plays a huge role in enabling virtualization of your workforce, virtualization of your technology and consequently your workforce," Mazhari added.
Cloud computing in recent years has grown into a larger part of Microsoft's business model and its Azure platform remains one of the dominant players in the market.
Microsoft said that for fiscal year 2021, which begins in July, its Asia business is focused on working with governments and communities to use digital technology and data analytics to respond to the coronavirus crisis and accelerate the recovery process.
The company added it plansto help its customers achieve business continuity in areas like telemedicine, online learning, and day-to-day operations as people continue to work remotely in what some have said is a fundamental social shift that has emerged from the pandemic.
Cybersecurity and data privacy remain another area of focus for Microsoft, according to the tech giant. In March senior technology executives surveyed by CNBC said that cybersecurity risks increased as a majority of their employees worked from home.
When asked about his outlook, and if there was any restructuring or potential job cuts on the horizon, Mazhari said the Asia business "continues to progress and wemake progress in helping."
"At this stage, our primary focus is to ensure we can help our customers, our partners and governments come out stronger and help reimagine a future that is driven by inclusive growth and better health," he said.
The virus was first reported in China in late December and has since spread around the world, infecting more than 9.1 million people and killing over 470,000.
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How Edge Computing and 5G Work Together – TechAcute
What is edge computing about exactly and how does it work together with 5G and related technology stacks? Were all currently living in the cloud computing era. Online services that we all use Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and many others heavily rely on this technology. However, with the rollout of 5G and the increase in our purposes and usage of IoT devices, the strain on cloud networks couldnt be greater. Weve seen cloud services fail due to unexpected load in COVID-19 times, and surges could happen again.
Unfortunately, this increased strain on networks inevitably results in inconveniences that were all too familiar with. Due to high amounts of traffic, the time it takes for data to be processed increases, and were often left to deal with high network latency. To combat this, some cloud-based networking relies on edge computing to get the job done. Its not a solution for all services but its a mandatory aspect to consider when trying to build a reliable network.
Edge computingis a type of cloud computing that allows for data to be processed at the edge or outer part of the network, as opposed to at the central network. How this process is made possible is due to data from IoT devices being processed by computers or servers located closer to the data source. This method of cloud computing allows for IoT devices and web applications to function faster, as it ultimately reduces the strain on bandwidth and network congestion to improve service quality and resilience.
Edge computing can be seen as an intermediate layer between devices and cloud, where services are handled by distributed edge nodes
While edge computing has been around for a few years, the implementation of 5G has made it more relevant than ever. 5G will inevitably increase the amount of data being transferred across networks, and it is crucial that connection utilizing this technology is fast, secure, and reliable. In other words, the future of successful 5G relies on the capabilities of edge computing. You can also leverage some aspects of this setup without 5G as well, but you might be surprised what additional use cases are enabled by combining the tech stacks.
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Ericssons Head of Marketing and Communications for Networks, Cecilia Atterwall, says that 5G will unleash new ways of solving problems. She also adds that its a combination of devices, content, 5G access networks, edge computing and high-performance distributed 5G core capabilities that make these innovations possible.
Its not an understatement to say that everyone relies on edge computing in one way or another, if not already, then at least in the near future and going forward. However, its definitely grown to be an absolute necessity for many key industries and even autonomous vehicles. For example, edge computing is utilized for industrial manufacturing purposes, within smart cities, AI, and even self-driving cars.
The reason behind its use and importance boils down to its ability to assist IoT devices in low-bandwidth environments, ensuring that data is processed as quickly as possible. Reducing network latency is especially crucial when it comes to the computing processes behind the successful operation of self-driving cars. For example, Tesla cars are equipped with computers that process the data obtained by the vehicles sensors allowing for this technology to function on a split-second basis.
Karlsruhe, Germany, Vodafone cell site with 5G upgrade (3.500 MHz, band n78)
Edge computing has also opened up a plethora of opportunities for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to build on their business services. For example, Ericsson offers hybrid deployments (PDF), and they provide many edge computing services. Ericsson agrees that it is a requirement for successful CSPs to be providers of the following:
CSPs are continually seeking to aid in the development of the edge ecosystem, and in doing so, they focus on delivering edge solutions that will help advance the future of smart manufacturing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, not to mention online gaming experiences.
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All in all, 5G technology promises to deliver great connection, low latency, and large bandwidths. In order to accomplish this, edge computing not only works to reduce network traffic, but it also encourages local data processing and storage. Together, both technologies are capable of delivering new solutions and innovation, with a secure and reliable connection.
Photo credit: The feature image has been done by Dynamic Wang. The edge computing diagram has been prepared by NoMore201. The Vodafone 5G antenna photo was taken by Toms Freres.Sources: Andrew Froehlich (Network Computing) / Blair Felter (vXchnge) / Ericssons 5G for Business Report / Ericssons Edge Computing & Deployment Strategies / Ericssons Recipe for 5G Success / IoT Australias White Paper of Edge Computing Consortium / Ericsson whitepaper A new era of PaaS
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Increasing election security monitoring in cloud computing – Microsoft on the Issues – Microsoft
Today, we have an exciting announcement we believe will help increase election security while enabling election officials to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of cloud computing.
For years, the Department of Homeland Securitys Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and state and local governments throughout the United States have worked with the non-profit Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS) to monitor the security of election-related data. This is enabled by Albert Network Monitoring, which examines internet traffic and connection attempts on networks owned and run by election officials including voter registration systems, voter information portals and back-office networks.
Albert provides network security alerts for both basic and advanced network threats, helping organizations identify malicious activity such as attempted intrusions by foreign adversaries or cybercriminals. Data from these sensors is sent in near-real-time to the CIS Security Operations Center, which is monitored around the clock every day by expert cybersecurity analysts.
To date, cloud computing providers, such as Microsoft Azure, have not been compatible with Albert sensors. This presented election officials with the difficult choice of selecting powerful, secure and cost-effective cloud computing options, or hosting the data on local servers if they wanted to take advantage of the added security of Albert. Today, through a partnership with CIS, were providing a new choice by making Microsoft Azure compatible with Albert for the first time.
Were starting this journey through a pilot, which will begin this week, with 14 county Supervisors of Elections in Florida. Moving forward, Microsoft and CIS will look to open the capability to states and jurisdictions across the United States.
Todays announcement is the result of collaborative work between Microsofts Azure Global engineering team and CISs engineering team, in partnership with Microsofts Defending Democracy Program. In the coming months, we look forward to sharing more details about our work to help secure the 2020 elections and future elections in the U.S. and around the world.
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Cloud Computing Technologies and Its Legal Dimension – Lexology
I. INTRODUCTION
Cloud database is the system where the data is stored by means of the hardware (such as computers, storage units, etc.) through the system located in a remote place from the computer that generates the data. Those data become available for the re-access of the user from the place where the data is stored over the internet, regardless of device and location. Technological developments related to cloud computing are occurring much faster abroad and the companies providing the service are mainly based abroad. Because of that, people or companies that receive cloud database services receive these services through hardware systems located abroad. Nevertheless, it can be said that important technical innovations have been provided in this field and the legal infrastructure has started to be established In Turkey. In this article, the legal dimension of cloud computing technology and its legal regulations are discussed.
II. CONCEPTS ON CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Before going to the legal examination of cloud computing systems, it will be useful to briefly explain the types of the system in order to better understand the technical dimension of cloud computing. In this context, it is possible to mention about three types of cloud computing systems.
It will be more informative to mention about the service items offered to the user by the cloud service provider through the above-mentioned cloud computing systems. In this context, three types of services can be mentioned.
III. LEGAL DIMENSION OF CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS
The parties of the cloud computing system explained in detail above or the services and the service method which are used in these systems shall be known in order to understand legal aspect of cloud computing systems that are the subject of this article. The legal dimension of cloud computing shall be examined multilaterally. On one hand there is a contractual relation between user and service provider; on the other hand, the data stored in the cloud system have legally importance with respect to The Law on The Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) numbered 6698.
Furthermore, it shall be taken into consideration that special regulation which came into force in field of banking and capital markets related to cloud computing systems.
When the contractual relationship established between the user and the service provider regarding cloud computing systems are examined, classification of such contracts as service contracts due to their characteristics will be a very general qualification. There is fundamentally a service provided by service provider to the users but keeping and saving of data that belong to users also is a part of the contractual relation.
Contracts related to cloud computing systems also contains similarities with safekeeping contract which is regulated in the article 561 of Turkish Law of Obligation (TBK) numbered 6098. However, describing these types of contracts as merely safekeeping (contract of mandate) contracts does not fully provide the content of the contract. Safekeeping contract include the physical storage of a movable property, not being used by the safekeeper, and returning it in accordance with the terms of the TBK. However, data storage is quite different from condition of keeping movable properties.
In context of the reasons that are indicated above, it can be said that the contract regarding the cloud system services made between the user and the service provider is an atypical contract. In the arrangement of these contracts, data storage process and the unique features of cloud computing should be taken into consideration. Additionally; the service to be provided to the user, details of the rights and obligations of the parties, the privacy clauses and protection of personal data should be evaluated within this framework.
It is obvious that the provisions of KVKK are of great importance in terms of the legal legislation of cloud computing systems. Some points of cloud computing such as data logging, keeping and protecting personal data or data transfer brings obligation of data officer regarding KVKK. Cloud storage service provider and its user are responsible for assessing whether the security measures taken by the cloud storage service provider are sufficient and appropriate in accordance with the decision and precedent review of Personal Data Protection Authority(Authority).
In this context, it is recommended by the Authority to know in detail what the personal data stored in the cloud are, to back up data, to ensure synchronization and to perform two-step authentication control for remote access if this personal data is required. During the storage and use of personal data in cloud systems as a means of data protection, it is recommended to encrypt with cryptographic methods, sending them in cloud environments with crypts and using separate encryption keys where possible for personal data. In particular, it is recommended to use encryption keys separately for each cloud solution.[1]
The principles regarding the legal dimension of cloud computing systems are determined by special legislation regulations beside of the basic legal dimensions aforementioned above.
In terms of banking legislation, the Guideline on the Information Systems and Electronic Banking Services of Banks (Guideline) was issued by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Board (BRSA). The enforcement date of the Regulation has been determined as 1 July 2020.Within the scope of the Guideline, regulations have been made regarding the use of private and public cloud services to enable banks to avoid the risks while benefiting from the cloud service model.
Another legislation are Information System Management Citation and Information System Independent Audit Citation which were put into force by Capital Markets Board (CMB). The citations include requirements of cloud computing system for companies which are under audition of CMB. If the data called the primary or secondary systems will be uploaded to the cloud database by these companies, the data storage center (hardware which are physical equipment that stores data) of the selected cloud database must be available in Turkey. For instance, if there is desire to use cloud computing for e-mail services, the data center of this cloud computing services should be available in Turkey.
IV. CONCLUSION
Cloud computing systems, which bring practical solutions to many problems encountered in business and business world, continue to develop rapidly. Besides the advantages of cloud computing services, there are some critical points to pay more attention such as possibility of personal data leaks.
In addition to general legislation, legal regulations in special fields such as banking or capital markets are mentioned. It is important to comply with the rules and procedures that is related to cloud computing systems.
All regulation that are explained above are still new and in the initial phase. Because of that, cloud computer systems still need some detailed legislations. For all those reasons, it is clearly seen that the highest importance should be given for this area to prevent failures and legal mistakes.
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The 10 Hottest Cloud Startups Of 2020 (So Far) – CRN: Technology news for channel partners and solution providers
Cloud startups are operating at a time when cloud computing increasingly has become a lifeline for people living, working and learning during the coronavirus pandemic.
With remote learning, work from home and more applications and technology needing to be accessed during this new normalthe shift to cloud computing over the last few years is now the hearts and lungs core technology and infrastructure enabling companies and governments globally to operate smoothly during this unprecedented environment, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said in a report this month. While applications such as Zoom, DocuSign, Citrix, Microsoft Teams and Slack among others are on the front lines enabling collaboration and functionality for consumers and enterprises globally, its the back-end public/hybrid cloud stalwarts such as Amazon (Web Services), Microsoft (Azure) and Google (Cloud) ultimately facilitating virtual offices and communications globally.
And startups, backed by venture funding, continue to feed off that system.
While global information technology spending is projected to slide 8 percent to $3.4 trillion this year due to the impacts of the coronavirus and a global economic recession, cloud computing spending is expected to increase by 19 percent, according to research firm Gartner.
Cloud migrations and infrastructure projects are being fast-tracked well-ahead of expectations, as many enterprises find themselves caught flat-footed with a lack of cloud-enabled functionality, according to Ives.
We believe this coronavirus pandemic is a key turning point in the technology world around deploying cloud-driven environments, as our long standing projections of moving from 33 percent of workloads in the cloud to 55 percent by 2022 now look conservative, as these targets could be reached a full year ahead of expectations given this pace, he said. With our expectations of a trillion dollars to be spent in the cloud over the next decade there will be many beneficiaries --cyber security, data center plays, cloud stack/enablers, hybrid cloud, applications -- across the technology landscape, with Microsoft Azure and AWS two of the core vendors that will continue to see an acceleration of cloud infrastructure spending during and after this dark coronavirus storm passes.
Heres a look at a sampling of cloud computing startups to watch.
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Higher Education Will See a Jump in Cloud Adoption – EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education
To Cut Costs, Colleges Evaluate Cloud Deployment
To mitigate the financial hit from the pandemic, institutions are reviewing cloud solutions, particularly Software as a Service, to eliminate duplications. For example, one option is to migrate out of a paid storage solution and into one thats free or available under an existing contract.
At the same time, says Flynn, leaders will weigh how many changes they want to impose on staff and faculty who are already coping with a radical digital transformation. If users are dedicated to a particular solution, leaders might choose to retain it.
Thats especially true for cloud-based tools related to teaching, says Doyle.
I think what youre going to see is, if you need it to make that experience better, to retain the students, to not have them be disenfranchised, then well keep that, he says with the caveat that institutions may make a shorter-term commitment to any duplicative solution.
MORE ON EDTECH:Learn how the remote learning pivot could shape higher ed IT.
In an American Council on Education survey conducted in April, 60 percent of college presidents somewhat agreed that faculty had been ready for remote instruction, with only 14 percent saying they strongly agreed.
Teaching effectively online is less about the technology than about a shift in pedagogy, says Clemmons. Accordingly, as colleges increase reliance on cloud-based learning, they may need to scale up instructional design support.
UMBC has offered faculty both general and discipline-specific training, says Doyle, with good results. Were seeing a tremendous uptick in faculty coming back and saying, We recognize there are things we need to do differently. What can we learn? he says.
On the back end, colleges are making sure that cloud providers will be able to meet demand if usage surges for example, if a large institution starts the semester on campus and then has to pivot online.
What happens if everybody uses 20 times the capacity in a week? How do you handle that? says Doyle. That wasnt a question that got asked. Now it is.
MORE ON EDTECH:Learn how artificial intelligence can solve cybersecurity staffing shortages.
Momentum toward the cloud is also gaining speed in research. Google andAmazon Web Services (AWS) each committed $20 million worth of credits for researchers studying COVID-19, and Microsoft has pledged cloud computing resources to testing and vaccine development efforts.
Ive got, right now, three researchers doing COVID work on Google that werent there three months ago, Flynn says.
Providers are also working more closely with researchers to help them optimize cloud-based tools, says Doyle. There seems to be a higher level of interaction from the cloud providers about wanting to understand how research gets done in their cloud.
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Cloud computing to surge in Latin America once Covid-19 lays off – Contxto
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Contxto Coronavirus is changing the way businesses operate. Not just by fostering for more remote work (though were all grateful for that). Covid-19 is also pushing the boundaries towards greater cloud-computing adoption in Latin America.
Why its a big deal: Using this type of service will lead to more scalable projects which bodes for a future with more efficient tech and apps.
But first the ecosystem will have to weather the current storm.
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At the moment, the IT outlook in Latam is a rather somber one.
According to consulting firm, IDC, 53 percent of businesses in the region will reduce their spending in IT during the second quarter of 2020. Companies also told IDC that they expect six to 11 months to pass by before they can get back on track with their original plans.
That entails a reduction in consuming Software as a Service (SaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products, as well as less employment for IT professionals.
Although once a more relative level of stability in Latin America is achieved, things will change.
For IDC, one of the biggest trends in IT in a post-Covid world will be hybrid cloud computing.
Cloud suppliers will have more influence over data centers and businesses will increase their use of the public cloud during the pandemic so as to leverage its flexibility and scalability, observed Alejandro Floren, VP of Consulting and Enterprise Research for Latin America.
That of course will entail a larger need for cloud-based security solutions.
All this cloud hubbub bodes a promisingly profitable opportunity for providers like Google, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
These behemoths have been laying down data centers and cloud infrastructure in multiple parts of the region for quite some time. So in a year or so theyll begin to see a return on their investment.
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