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Dresner Advisory Services Publishes 2023 Cloud Computing and … – GlobeNewswire
NASHUA, N.H., March 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dresner Advisory Services today published the 2023 Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence Market Study, part of Dresners Wisdom of Crowds series of research. The 12th annual report examines end user deployment trends and attitudes toward cloud computing and business intelligence (BI). Cloud is defined as the technologies, tools, and solutions that employ one or more cloud deployment models.
Throughout the 12 years of our focused cloud BI study, we have observed a trending increase in current use of public cloud use and a trending decrease in the percentage of organizations with no plans for public cloud BI. Indeed, the trend lines for these variables intersect for the first time this year, said Jim Ericson, research director at Dresner Advisory Services.
According to the report, cloud and software as a service (SaaS) ranks 6th among the 59 topics under study. Sixty-eight percent of respondents say cloud BI is either critical or very important in 2023. The number or organizations currently using cloud BI is near an all-time high with 58 percent reporting current use.
Its exciting to see the progress of cloud computing and BI over the course of 12 years, said Howard Dresner, founder and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory Services. In 2012 few organizations were embracing public cloud as an option and today its considered mainstream.
Wisdom of Crowds research is based on data collected on usage and deployment trends, products, and vendors. Users in all roles and throughout all industries contributed to provide a complete view of realities, plans, and perceptions of the market. For more information visit http://www.dresneradvisory.com.
About Dresner Advisory Services Dresner Advisory Services was formed by Howard Dresner, an independent analyst, author, lecturer, and business adviser.Dresner Advisory Services, LLC focuses on creating and sharing thought leadership for Business Intelligence (BI), Performance Management, and related areas.
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Global Adaptive Learning Market
Dublin, April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Adaptive Learning Market Research Report by Components (Platform and Services), Application, Deployment, End User, Region - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19, Russia Ukraine Conflict, and High Inflation - Global Forecast 2023-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Global Adaptive Learning Market size was estimated at USD 2,492.08 million in 2022, USD 3,083.33 million in 2023, and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 24.20% to reach USD 14,114.58 million by 2030.
Market Dynamics
Drivers
Rising Demand for Elearning Solutions Globally
Rising Demand for Personalized Learning
Government Initiatives for Adaptive Learning Solutions
Restraints
Opportunities
Boosting the Use of Blended Learning Technology
Increasing Demand for Gamification in Adaptive Learning
Growing Use of Cloud Computing Among Organizations and Educational Institutes to Motivate Learners to Adopt Web-Based Adaptive Solutions
Challenges
Cumulative Impact of High Inflation:
The high inflation in developed economies globally has resulted in an overall price surge over the past two years. The cumulatively eroding overall purchasing power is expected to impact developing economies significantly and is considered helpful in numerous ways. The report uncovers the effect of high inflation on the long-term performance of the global economy and provides details on fiscal policies measuring and reducing its short-term impacts on demand/supply, cash flow, and currency exchange. The Global Adaptive Learning Market report delivers the high inflation expectation considering the related impact from cost-push and demand-pull inflation.
Market Statistics:
The report provides market sizing and forecasts across 7 major currencies - USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, AUD, CAD, and CHF; multiple currency support helps organization leaders to make better decisions. In this report, the years 2018 and 2021 are considered as historical years, 2022 as the base year, 2023 as the estimated year, and years from 2024 to 2030 are considered as the forecast period.
Market Segmentation & Coverage:
The report on the Global Adaptive Learning Market identifies key attributes about the customer to define the potential market and identify different needs across the industry. Understanding the potential customer group's economies and geographies can help gain business acumen for better strategic decision-making. The market coverage across different industry verticals reveals the hidden truth about the players' strategies in different verticals and helps the organization decide target audience. This report gives you the composite view of sub-markets coupled with comprehensive industry coverage and provides you with the right way of accounting factors such as norms & regulations, culture, to make right coverage strategy for the market plan. This research report categorizes the Global Adaptive Learning Market in order to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:
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Based on Components, the market is studied across Platform and Services. The Services is further studied across Managed Services and Professional Services. The Professional Services is further studied across Consulting, Implementation, and Support & Maintenance.
Based on Application, the market is studied across EdTech Companies and Educational Institutes.
Based on Deployment, the market is studied across Cloud and On-premises.
Based on End User, the market is studied across Academic and Enterprise. The Academic is further studied across Higher Education and K-12. The Enterprise is further studied across Large Enterprise and SME.
Based on Region, the market is studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The United States is further studied across California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.
FPNV Positioning Matrix:
The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes vendors in the Global Adaptive Learning Market. based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) and placed into four quadrants (F: Forefront, P: Pathfinder, N: Niche, and V: Vital). The Global Adaptive Learning Market FPNV Positioning Matrix representation/visualization further aids businesses in better decision-making and understanding the competitive landscape.
Market Share Analysis:
The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market, providing the idea of revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. This provides insights on vendors performance in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. The Global Adaptive Learning Market Share Analysis offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. The outcome reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.
The report provides insights on the following pointers:
1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyzes penetration across mature segments of the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Market Trends: Provides comprehensive understanding of the Cumulative Impact of COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, and the High Inflation5. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players6. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments
The report answers questions such as:
1. What is the market size and forecast of the Global Adaptive Learning Market?2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global Adaptive Learning Market during the forecast period?3. Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the forecast period in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?4. What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?6. What is the market share of the leading vendors in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?7. What modes and strategic moves are considered suitable for entering the Global Adaptive Learning Market?
Key Attributes:
Report Attribute
Details
No. of Pages
237
Forecast Period
2022 - 2030
Estimated Market Value (USD) in 2022
$2492.08 Million
Forecasted Market Value (USD) by 2030
$14114.58 Million
Compound Annual Growth Rate
24.2%
Regions Covered
Global
Key Topics Covered:
1. Preface1.1. Objectives of the Study1.2. Market Segmentation & Coverage1.3. Years Considered for the Study1.4. Currency & Pricing1.5. Language1.6. Limitations1.7. Assumptions1.8. Stakeholders
2. Research Methodology2.1. Define: Research Objective2.2. Determine: Research Design2.3. Prepare: Research Instrument2.4. Collect: Data Source2.5. Analyze: Data Interpretation2.6. Formulate: Data Verification2.7. Publish: Research Report2.8. Repeat: Report Update
3. Executive Summary
4. Market Overview
5. Market Insights
6. Adaptive Learning Market, by Components
7. Adaptive Learning Market, by Application
8. Adaptive Learning Market, by Deployment
9. Adaptive Learning Market, by End User
10. Americas Adaptive Learning Market
11. Asia-Pacific Adaptive Learning Market
12. Europe, Middle East & Africa Adaptive Learning Market
13. Competitive Landscape
14. Company Usability Profiles
15. Appendix
Companies Mentioned
Area9 Lyceum
Cerego Inc.
CogBooks Limited
Curriculum Associates, LLC
Dreambox Learning, Inc
Follett Corporation
Fulcrum Labs, Inc.
Imagination Station, Inc.
Imagine Learning LLC.
Impelsys Inc.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Knowre
McGraw Hill
Pearson Education Inc.,
Realizeit
Stride, Inc.
VitalSource Technologies LLC
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Colocation vs. cloud: SEO firm finds cloud to be cost prohibitive for its high density computing – Network World
A software firm in Singapore claims it would cost more than $400 million over three years if it were to migrate from its existing colocation setup and move its workloads to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Notably, the firmruns a very compute-intensive environment, and high density computing can be very expensive to duplicate in cloud environments.
Ahrefs, which develops search engine optimization tools, made the $400 million claim in a March 9 blog post by one of the companys data center operations executives, Efim Mirochnik. Mirochnik compared the cost of acquiring and running its 850 Dell servers in a colocation providers data center with the cost of running a similar configuration in AWS.
With colocation, a company buys its own IT equipment, but instead of building and maintaining a data center for it, the equipment is hosted by a colocation provider. This way the customer can manage its own IT systems and leave things like power management and cooling to the colocation provider.
Theres a wide swath of colocation providers, ranging from firms with just a few locations to global giants like Equinix. According to Allied Market Research, the colocation market was worth $46 billion in 2020 and is projected to top $202 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of nearly 16% from 2021 to 2030.
Mirochnik calculated Ahrefs' cost per server per month at $1,550, including the cost of acquisition, for the firm's colocation setup. That estimate factors in the cost of renting space at the colocation facility as well as electricity use, the cost of IP transit and dark fiber between the data center and point of presence, and network hardware.
To get the same hardware through AWS, he estimated the company would pay $17,557 per month for an equivalent server, including storage and data-transfer costs.
However, Mirochnik explained the comparison isnt quite even. Ahrefs has relatively new hardware with high core-count CPUs, 2TB RAM, 2x 100Gbps per server, and, on average, 16 15TB drives. You wont find that kind of configuration on any cloud service provider, even AWS. So Mirochnik compared one Ahrefs server to two Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances:
The cost structure for AWS is different from the colocation, Mirochnik explained. Unfortunately, AWS doesnt provide an EC2 instance with the number of cores we have. So we found an EC2 configuration with half the cores and 1TB RAM. We then compared one Ahrefs server cost to the cost of two such EC2 instances.
Storage equivalency also required some modifications. For the cost comparison, Mirochnik priced Amazon block storage, which isnt as fast as Ahrefs NVMe drives.
Apart from EC2 instances, we added Elastic Block Storage (EBS). It is not an accurate replacement for directly attached storage, as we use big and fast NVMe drives in the servers. To make things simple, we chose cheaper gp3 EBS (much slower than ours, though). Its cost consists of two parts: storage size and charges for IOPS.
The Amazon storage may have been slower than Ahrefs NVMe drives, but it sure was pricey. Ahrefs estimated the monthly cost of EBS at $11,486 which accounts for 65% of the $17,557 total monthly cost. The EC2 instances came in at $5,606, and data transfer costs were estimated at $464.
Given the enormous cost and lesser storage capability, AWS was no replacement for an on-premises configuration for Ahrefs.
A replacement EC2 instance with similar usable SSD space in AWS would cost us roughly the same amount of money for 11.3 servers in a colocation data center. Accordingly, that means our 20-server rack would transform into just ~2 servers, Mirochnik wrote.
At $1,550 per server, Mirochnik calculated the cost of running its own 850 servers in a colocation data center at $1.3 million per month. Over a 30-month period, it would cost $39.5 million.
By comparison, Mirochnik estimated the monthly cost for AWS EC2 instances with an equivalent amount of computing as the on-prem setup at $14.9 million, which translates to $447.7 million over 30 months.
The $447.7 million price for AWS would have greatly exceeded the $257 million in revenue Ahrens reported during the same 30-month period. It doesnt take a CFO to figure out that the company would be running at a massive loss in this scenario.
Ahrefs would hardly survive if a cloud was our primary infrastructure destination, Mirochnik concluded.
Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager of IDC's worldwide infrastructure research organization, notes that Ahrefs operates a high-performance computing environment with the gear it uses, and the cloud is not built for sustained high-performance computing in general.
The economies of scale start to become less compelling as you start using more premium products or premium services from these corporate players, Nadkarni said.
If you implement an HPC environment in the cloud without doing your homework first, you could end up spending two to three times more over a period of three to four years just in operational costs alone, Nadkarni warned.
Nobody's saying get rid of public cloud services. Absolutely not. What we do say is you want to place the workload at a location in an operating environment that is doing justice to the workload itself, he said.
If you have an HPC environment that only needs to run two hours a day, then you're probably not serving yourself well by going with an on-prem solution. But if you have an HPC environment that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, then you should think about whether it is best to invest in your own on-premises or colocation infrastructure, he added.
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The CNA market size is expected to grow from USD 5.9 billion in … – GlobeNewswire
New York, April 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Cloud Native Applications Market by Component, Deployment Mode, Organization Size, Vertical and Region - Global Forecast to 2028" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06445319/?utm_source=GNW Open-source managed services (OSMS) have also become a key part of the cloud native app development ecosystem. Services and tools are required to provide app developers and businesses with various ways to take advantage of the cloud and open-source software. For instance, the Kubernetes website lists over 200 certified service providers who integrate with their open-source platform. OSMS providers make the configuration, monitoring, and management of cloud native apps easier, nimble, more predictable, and more reliable. OSMS providers largely focus on businesses that dont have the limitless development resources of companies such as IBM, Amazon, and Google.
Public cloud segment to have a larger market size during the forecast periodPublic cloud includes a platform being managed by a third party, and operated over the internet.It uses the standard cloud computing model to avail resources and services to remote users worldwide.
Public cloud services can be used for free or be provided through subscription-based or on-demand pricing schemes, including the pay-per-usage/pay-as-you-go model.The crucial benefits of the public cloud include a decreased requirement for organizations to invest in maintaining their on-premises IT resources and infrastructure; scalability to meet workload and user demands; and fewer redundant resources owing to customers payment with the pay-per-usage model.
The public cloud providers offer the infrastructure needed to host and deploy workloads in the cloud. Tools and services help customers manage cloud applications, including data storage, security, and monitoring and reporting capabilities.
Healthcare and life sciences vertical to exhibit significant growth during the forecast periodThe cloud native applications for the healthcare and life science vertical offer dependable, comprehensive features that make it simpler to enhance and efficiently manage the entire healthcare experience.It also provides clients in the healthcare sector with an open, secure, and enterprise-grade environment to support workloads, prevent downtime, regardless of their stage in the migration to the cloud or their workload environment.
By adopting cloud native applications solutions, this industry can enhance patient engagement, improve health data insights, effective management of physical infrastructure management burden, secure health information, improve patient experience, enhance privacy, empower health team collaboration, cost-efficiency, flexibility and reliability, and boost productivity with accurate virtual capabilities (diagnosing).The cloud native applications for life sciences lower obstacles to innovation by offering a selected set of solutions that have been curatively created to assist businesses in developing, testing, manufacturing, and selling treatments swiftly and effectively while adhering to the strictest security and compliance standard.
This improves the healthcare and life sciences professionals access to the most recent medical data and allows them to choose wisely and expedite the demand to achieve desired outcomes.
Asia Pacific to hold the highest CAGR during the forecast periodAsia Pacific experiences considerable cloud native spending owing to the ever-growing cloud computing traffic landscape of the region.The countries in the Asia Pacific region are home to many emerging and growing SMEs.
According to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, SMEs are the catalysts of growth in the Asia Pacific region.They account for slightly over 87% of all operational businesses and employ over half of the workforce in the region.
SMEs are increasingly adopting cloud computing to increase their operational efficiency, and cloud native applications is an integral part of it.During the pandemic, cloud technology has supported global supply chains and remote working.
It assists organizations in the region, enabling scalability, business continuity along with improvement, and reduced costs with vendors working significantly to facilitate zero downtime. Cloud native applications have emerged as a foundational infrastructure for building scalable, digitally enabled infrastructure and solutions for firms. Multinational cloud platforms, such as Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, and domestic cloud computing companies across the Asia Pacific, have ramped up their capacities as well as capabilities and diversified their service offerings to support businesses and enable a new generation of startup companies. Regional governments and organizations are taking up several initiatives related to cloud-based solutions. Organizations in this region are also increasingly focusing on increasing the customer experiences of their clients with enhanced security and application protection.Further, in-depth interviews were conducted with the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Chief Marketing Officers (CMO), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Operating Officers (COOs), Vice Presidents (VPs), Managing Directors (MDs), technology and innovation directors, and related key executives from various key companies and organizations operating in the Cloud native applications market. By Company Tier 145%, Tier 230%, and Tier 325% By Designation C-Level40%, Director Level35%, and Others25% By Region North America40%, Europe25%, Asia Pacific25%, RoW 10%Cloud native applications vendors include Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon, US), Google LLC (Google, US), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, US), Infosys Technologies Private Limited (Infosys, India), Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI, India), Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft, US), Oracle Corporation (Oracle, US), Red Hat (US), SAP SE (SAP, Germany), VMware (US), Alibaba Cloud (Singapore), Apexon (US), Bacancy Technology (India), Citrix Systems, Inc. (Citrix, US), Harness (US), Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (Cognizant, US), Ekco (Ireland), Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei, China), R Systems (US), Scality (US), and Sciencesoft (US). The study includes an in-depth competitive analysis of these key players in the Cloud native applications market with their company profiles, recent developments, and key market strategies.
Research CoverageThe research study covered inputs, insights, trends, happenings, from secondary sources, primary sources, stakeholders interviews and surveys.Secondary sources include information from databases and repositories such as D&B Hoovers, Bloomberg, Factiva, CoinDesk, among others.
Primary data was fetched from supply-side industry experts who hold the chair of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Technological Officer (CTO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), Vice-President (VP) of IT, and Managing Director (MD), among others.Few of our key primary respondents are IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, among others.
Few startups are also included during our primary interviews. Additionally, we have taken the information and statistical and historical data from a few government associations, public sources, webinar and seminar transcripts, journals, conferences and events.
Reasons to buy this report:The report will act as a guide for the market leaders/new entrants in this market with information on the closest approximations of the revenue numbers for the overall Cloud native applications market and associated subsegments.This report will help stakeholders understand the competitive landscape and gain more insights to position their businesses better, improvise and revamp their offerings vis--vis ever-changing customer requirements with customizations, and plan suitable go-to-market strategies.
The report also helps stakeholders understand the pulse of the market and provides them with information on key market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities. The report provisions significant and business development-focused data for the readers with strategic inputs/insights via numerous charts, and closest figures of forecast, to help readers design their blueprint to outgrow peers current offerings, maintain and enhance market sustainability,
The report provides insights on the following pointers Analysis of key drivers (Significant reduction in vendor lock-ins, real-time analytics provisioning and guidelines compliance, getting apps-to-market or time-to-market swiftly and efficiently), restraints (cost overrun being a limiting factor, replacement of new practices with traditional ones), opportunities (better reliability with respect to IT infrastructure), and challenges (management and governance of development workflow) influencing the growth of the cloud native applications market Product Development/Innovation: Detailed insights on upcoming technologies, research & development activities, and new product & service launches in the Cloud native applications market Market Development: Comprehensive information about lucrative markets the report analyses the Cloud native applications market across varied regions Market Diversification: Exhaustive information about new products & services, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments in the Cloud native applications market Competitive Assessment: In-depth assessment of market shares, growth strategies and service offerings of leading players like include IBM (US), Amazon(US), Google (US), Microsoft (US), Oracle (US), Red Hat (US), SAP (Germany), VMware (US), LTI (India), among others in the Cloud native applications market strategies. The report also helps stakeholders understand the competitive analysis by these market players.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06445319/?utm_source=GNW
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Micro Logics Projet Cirrus Bringing Sovereign Cloud to Canada – CIO
Stphane Garneau, the president of Quebec-based Micro Logic, still sees the same forces driving private sector enterprises and public sector agencies to seek out sovereign cloud solutions now that he witnessed nearly a decade ago.
We first made the commitment to create and offer sovereign cloud solutions and services in 2014, says Garneau. At the time government agencies wanted to embrace technologies and the flexibility and performance they offered, but feared being subjected to a competitive country that potentially could leverage their legislative power to unilaterally force local and international cloud providers to grant access to critical, classified or otherwise strategic information. Today, those same motivations and same concerns have only grown stronger.
Today, Projet Cirrus Micro Logics suite of sovereign cloud solutions, including private, community, public, and hybrid offerings is relied on by hundreds of organizations in the public and private sectors organizations that require all data to reside in Canada at all times. Not only that, but data is required to only be accessible by fully vetted Canadian citizens or in the case of international companies doing business in Canada, to be subject to the data protection regulations of their home country.
High profile incidents as well as the widespread collection and use of data have led to a growing preoccupation with what happens to the information we share or upload online, adds Garneau. This is particularly true for sensitive and private data used in certain industries and by the government. It is more important than ever to control and secure this data at all times, which is exactly what the sovereign clouds solutions in Projet Cirrus do.
The sovereign cloud offerings within Projet Cirrus also include robust backup and disaster recovery services, as a well as a Fortified Cloud that features encryption and data protection measures that exceed the most stringent guidelines for government agencies and highly regulated industries. All services are provided from two distinct and independent Tier-3 certified data centers in Quebec and Montreal.
Notably, the entire Projet Cirrus suite is supported by the more than 300 sovereign cloud experts at Micro Logic. This includes a dedicated team that is specifically focused on building and developing locally owned and operated international alternative cloud products that are designed to address the unique, bespoke needs of specific enterprises and institutions.
Flexibility is one of the key attributes of the cloud, and that same concept extends to sovereign cloud solutions and services. Our dedicated Projet Cirrus team is comprised of certified and highly skilled experts who strive to push innovation forward and who are ideally qualified to address each customers unique cloud journey, says Garneau. Our clients benefit from this expertise and a sovereign cloud that is not only built around the latest technology and hardware, but which is also based on agnostic technology that empowers them to avoid vendor lock-in at all times.
Garneau also stresses that the companys strong relationship with VMware and reliance on its proven and trusted technologies offers enterprises additional peace of mind. He notes it is also of importance to prospective customers.
The VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction is an important recognition for Micro Logic because it highlights our commitment and shows that we have made the extra effort to ensure that their data is hosted in known and trusted facilities sheltered from foreign political or legislative influence, he says. The breadth of our expertise allows us to address the full spectrum of IT challenges organizations and businesses face today. We took our extensive experience in on-premises computing and in years of service expanded it to encompass the sovereign, hybrid and multi-cloud environments our clients depend on and need today.
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Oracle Strengthens Commitment to South East Asia with Second … – PR Newswire
New region will help meet increasing demand for OCI services in South East Asia while addressing growing business continuity and compliance requirements
Industries across South East Asia including financial services and telecommunications will benefit from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's high performance and security, powerful data and analytics, and distributed cloud capabilities
Second cloud region in Singapore will join Oracle's 41 existing and nine other planned public cloud regions
SINGAPORE and AUSTIN, Texas, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle CloudWorld Tour -- To meet the rapidly growing demand for its cloud services in South East Asia, Oracle today announced plans to open a second cloud region in Singapore. Continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider, the new region is one of 10 planned public regions to join the 41 regions that Oracle currently operates.
The region will offer Oracle's public and private sector customers and partners a new option to locate their infrastructure, applications, and data for optimal performance and latency. Customers will have access to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications; innovate with data, analytics, and AI; and migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In addition, customers will be able to achieve greater business continuity by using both Oracle Cloud Singapore Regions together while retaining data residency within Singapore.
"Our upcoming second cloud region in Singapore will help meet the tremendous upsurge in demand for cloud services in South East Asia," said Garrett Ilg, president, Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle. "With the new region, Oracle offers customers true business continuity and disaster protection while meeting in-country data residency requirements. As a result, we're extending our commitment to helping organizations in South East Asia embrace technologies like AI, machine learning, and IoT to address their most complex challenges and achieve more with less."
The new Oracle Cloud Singapore Region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave Database Service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. These applications and services will help startups and medium-sized and large organizations across financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail in South East Asia harness data to help uncover new business value and optimize applications, typically without requiring costly re-architecture. The first Oracle Cloud Singapore Region has supported the innovation needs of more than 1,000 customers in South East Asia, including Pacific International Lines and Siam Makro.
High Availability and Low Latency Provides Customers with a Resilient Cloud Foundation
OCI's next-generation architecture maximizes performance and security. Each Oracle Cloud Region contains at least three fault domains, which are groupings of hardware that form logical data centers for high availability and resilience to hardware and network failures. The second region in Singapore will help customers increase business continuity while addressing regulatory needs.
Both Singaporeregions will provide low-latency networking and high-speed data transfer to allow customers and partners to derive better value from their data. In addition, OCI's distributed cloud solutions, including Dedicated Region and Exadata [emailprotected], can assist with applications where data proximity and low latency in specific locations are critical.
Spurring South East Asia's Digital Economic Growth
In its Top ICT Predictions for 2022 and Beyond at IDC FutureScape 2022,IDC said that by 2023 digital will rule in South East Asia, as one in three companies will generate more than 15 percent of their revenue from digital products and services, compared to one in six in 2020. The strong focus on increasing revenue from digital products and services will contribute towards cloud technology playing an even more integral role in business continuity and resiliency for South East Asian organizations in today's digital-first world.
"Oracle's second cloud region in Singapore is a welcomed addition as the country continues to establish itself as one of the top markets for data centres globally, with sustainability at its core. Despite economic uncertainties, cloud spending by South East Asia organizations remains strong as cloud adoption continues to be seen as a business differentiator to meet the challenges of the post-pandemic future. IDC forecasts the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) overall public cloud services market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.5% from US$53.4 billion in 2021 to reach US$153.6 billion in 2026," said Estelle Quek, senior research manager, Cloud Buyer Trends and Intentions Research, IDC.
A Focus on Driving Sustainable Operations Across the Globe
Underscoring its ongoing focus on sustainability, Oracle has committed to matching all worldwide Oracle Cloud Regions with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, including the new Oracle Cloud Region in Singapore. Several Oracle Cloud Regions are already powered by 100 percent renewable energy, which enables customers to run their computing services more sustainably and with a lower carbon footprint. To further advance its commitment to sustainable operations, Oracle and its Asset Recovery partners recycled 99.9 percent of retired hardware they collected in FY'22.
Customers and Partners Welcome Oracle's Second Cloud Region in Singapore
"We're excited to hear Oracle's plans to launch another cloud region in Singapore. Singapore Pools had a good experience with the first cloud region. With the launch of the second region, this strengthens our confidence for maximum high availability for our cloud services," said Yeo Teck Guan, chief business technology officer, Singapore Pools.
"The upcoming second Oracle cloud region in Singapore is timely for Siam Makro as we are expanding across the South East Asia region. We'll soon be able to scale up on our cloud-based technology as well as consolidate our cloud needs holistically, allowing us to operate more efficiently," said Paul Stephen Howe, group chief information technology officer, Siam Makro.
"We're thrilled to embark on this journey with Oracle as its second cloud region will offer endless possibilities for system integrators and independent software vendors like us to scale our operations and achieve greater performance. With Oracle's advanced technologies and our expertise in delivering mission-critical IT services, we are poised to help our customers and advisors navigate the complexities of the digital landscape and optimize their digital journey," said Richard James, managing director, enterprise application services, APMEA, DXC Technology.
Oracle Cloud's Rapidly Growing Global Footprint
Oracle provides a broad and consistent set of cloud services, with the same low prices, across more than 41 cloud regions in 22 countries. OCI currently operates 34 commercial regions and seven government regions, in addition to multiple dedicated and national security regions.
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The Future Of Computing: Supercloud And Sky Computing – Forbes
Cloud computing, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud are all terms weve become used to hearing. Now we can add super cloud and sky computing to the list of terminology that describes the computing infrastructure of the coming decade.
Although its hard to believe, given how ubiquitous it is today, cloud computing as a practical reality has only been around for the past decade or so. However, at that time, it revolutionized the concept of IT networking and infrastructure.
In the simplest terms, it involves providing computer storage, processing power, and applications via the internet, so users don't need to worry about buying, installing, and maintaining hardware and software themselves.
In that time, weve seen the emergence of multi-cloud which involves businesses and organizations picking and choosing services across the multitude of cloud providers and hybrid cloud, where infrastructure is delivered via both cloud and on-premises solutions.
But technological progress never stands still, and more recently, new terms, including supercloud and sky computing, have emerged to describe what the next stage in the evolution of infrastructure-as-a-service) might look like.
But what do they mean, and what advantages do they offer businesses and organizations? Lets take a look at them in a little more depth and examine some of the potential use cases.
What Are Supercloud and Sky Computing?
Both of these terms, in fact, describe very similar ideas the next stage in the evolution of cloud computing, which will be distributed across multiple providers. It will also integrate other models, including edge computing, into a unified infrastructure and user experience. Other names that are sometimes used include distributed cloud and metacloud.
This is seen as necessary because, while many organizations have made the leap to multi-cloud, the different cloud providers do not always integrate with each other. In other words, a business pursuing a multi-cloud may find itself managing multiple cloud environments, with each one operating, to some extent, as an independent entity. This can make it difficult if, for example, we want to shift applications or data from one cloud to another.
The answer proposed by the supercloud concept is to create another abstraction layer above this that operates agnostically of whatever cloud platform or platforms are running below it. This is the supercloud, where applications can be run in containers or virtual machines, interfacing with any cloud platforms underneath.
The result is separate cloud environments that operate as if they are interconnected with each other, allowing software, applications, and data to move freely between them.
This means that a business might have service agreements in place with, for example, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Infrastructure could then be reconfigured on-the-fly through the supercloud interface to move services between these different platforms, or between servers in different geographic locations, as requirements change.
Examples of when this might be useful are when services need to be delivered to a new group of users in a new region or when a particular data center becomes overloaded. The entire application can simply be "lifted and shifted" to a new, more convenient data center or a different cloud provider.
In many deployments, supercloud combines the benefits of both hybrid and multi-cloud, as it also gives access to on-premises infrastructure and other models such as edge computing. The important part is that all of it is accessible and usable through a unified user interface, so the actual location where the data is stored and where the applications are running from is invisible to the user, who always has a consistent experience.
As well as simplifying internal infrastructure, systems, and processes, migrating to supercloud models, in theory, makes it easier for organizations to integrate and share tools or data with their clients and partners, who may be using completely different platforms to them.
What Are The Key Challenges With Supercloud and Sky Computing?
Right now, a major challenge when it comes to setting up supercloud infrastructure is security. This is because different cloud providers might have different security protocols, and any data and applications that have to operate across multiple providers will need to be configured in a way thats compatible with all of them.
Using more cloud services simply means that there are more surfaces where data can be exposed to possible security breaches. A priority for those laying the foundations for supercloud systems will be creating automated solutions that run in the supercloud layer in order to offer protection regardless of what cloud service or on-premises infrastructure is being used.
Fundamentally, cloud computing is designed to be a final stepping-stone on the road to the commoditization of computing infrastructure. This objective is set out in a paper published in 2021 by the University of California, Berkley professors Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker, titled From Cloud Computing to Sky Computing.
Stoika and Shenker were early proponents of the cloud computing paradigm, writing about it as early as 2009. Back then, they predicted that it could lead to compute and storage infrastructure becoming "utilities," similar to electricity and internet connectivity. This didnt happen largely due to the emergence of different standards between different cloud service providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and so on). Supercloud (or sky computing, as Stoica and Shenker prefer to term it) may be the way to finally make it happen.
They do, however, posit that while the technical challenges will be fairly simple to overcome - creating services and standards to communicate between different clouds, for example might encounter some resistance from the cloud providers themselves.
Will Amazon or Google welcome the idea of sharing their cloud customers with competing services? Stoica and Shenker point to the existence of applications such as Google Anthos an application management platform that runs on Google Cloud as well as AWS and other cloud platforms as evidence that they might be becoming receptive to the idea.
Altogether, supercloud is an exciting concept that has the potential to make it simpler and more affordable for organizations to leverage powerful computing infrastructure. This has to be good news all around, hopefully making it easier for innovators to bring us cloud-based tools and apps that further enrich our lives.
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Amazon Web Services to invest $13bn in expanding Australian cloud computing – The Guardian
Amazon Web Services will invest more than $13bn in Australia over the next five years as it expands its cloud computing operations in Melbourne and Sydney and works towards running its data centres entirely on renewable energy.
The Sydney region of AWSs cloud operations has been in place since 2012, with $9.2bn spent in the decade since the launch. The expected growth in spending over the next five years accounts for the Melbourne region opening up last month.
The investment in the expansion and operation of the two centres will bring in 11,000 full-time-equivalent positions, the company estimated, including direct employees, contractors and construction, maintenance, engineering and communications suppliers.
The Australia and New Zealand country director at AWS Worldwide Public Sector, Iain Rouse, said the spending covered a variety of needs of data centres, noting that the company had spent $620m on network infrastructure such as fibre links.
He said companies in Sydney and Melbourne were choosing where to host their services based on where their customers are located.
If I can give you a faster transaction, to book a flight or book a ride share or do banking I can make a decision to [host] from Melbourne or [host] from Sydney, Rouse said.
Amazons customers include Atlassian, Qantas, NAB and government agencies including the Australian Bureau of Statistics, NSW Health Pathology and the Western Australian Department of Education.
The company has also been expanding to local zone services that provide similar cloud services to people in Perth, with Brisbane set to be announced soon.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, welcomed the investment on Tuesday.
Economic and infrastructure investment from cloud providers like Amazon Web Services helps create jobs, advances digital skills, boosts innovation and uplifts local communities and businesses, he said.
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The Australian government acknowledges AWSs investment into the nation over the past decade and welcomes its planned investment over the next five years, the full-time jobs supported annually and contribution to the nations GDP.
The chief executive of the Technology Council of Australia, Kate Pounder, said the increasing availability of cloud infrastructure in Australia would help grow Australias software sector.
AWS has offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra and will have a combined AWS and Amazon retail office in Melbourne from late 2023.
Amazon has estimated it will reach 100% renewable energy by 2025. It has two solar farms in NSW, which generate 392,000MWh of energy each year.
A windfarm being built in Hawkesdale in regional Victoria will bring in 717,000MWh when operational, which will go to powering Amazons operations.
I think therell always be more for us to do around the space, but these are physical facilities in Australia, Rouse said. Were not trying to offset energy generated in Sweden against consumption in Australia. These are specifically installed in Australia.
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5 priorities that cut cloud costs and improve IT ops – InfoWorld
During the past decade, companies have been building significant computing workloads on public and private cloud infrastructure or shifting workloads to the cloud. Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud services by end-users worldwide will reach $591 billion in 2023, a 43% increase from 2021. Thats a significant jump and suggests that many companies optimized their cloud migrations for speed and that managing costs and operational efficiency were likely secondary concerns.
Although Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending to grow 2.4% in 2023, some analysts are cutting back their predictions, and many IT leaders are planning spending adjustments.
The initial race to build cloud capabilities is pivoting toward managing costs, optimizing infrastructure, and automating more operations. Following up on my recent article on seven ways to reduce costs with agile and devops, here are five recommendations of how IT teams can optimize their cloud stacks to reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies.
Infrastructure has passed a complexity point at which manually deploying infrastructure and applications is an antipattern, says Marko Anastasov, cofounder of Semaphore CI/CD. Use infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform to set up your cloud infrastructure.
Other IaC platforms and tools include AWS CloudFormation, Azure Arm Templates, Red Hat Ansible, Progress Chef, Puppet, and Kubernetes. These platforms enable setting infrastructure standards (sometimes called patterns or templates) and then using code to manage the configuration and deployment. IaC eliminates the manual steps to build, configure, and deploy cloud infrastructure, including networks, computing, storage, and services.
Anastasov says, Automation is the key to reducing costs and improving reliability. Using IaC increases visibility on what services youre running in the cloud and lets you run automated cost analysis tools.
My take: Using IaC is an important step, but organizations looking for efficiencies should standardize cloud architectures and reusable IaC patterns. There is a trade-off between providing devops teams full infrastructure flexibility versus gaining efficiencies from standardizing cloud stacks and infrastructures. But IT teams using IaC and automation can increase the number of supported infrastructure patterns.
I covered CI/CD (continuous integration and condinuous deployment), continuous testing, and other devops practices earlier. These are expected practices when developing cloud-native applications. Agile teams should also address these security risks in software development and increase devops observability.Consider these key devops practices for all applications.
What should devops teams do beyond these basics when developing apps and microservices where high usage is expected and consistent performance is a key requirement?
Arjun Chandar, CEO at IndustrialML, answers, When designing a new cloud tech stack with features meant to be distributed across large numbers of clients, making design choices to improve concurrency is a great way to improve your customers experience. Using languages and frameworks suited to concurrency will reduce your headaches as you scale.
My take: When developing new apps and services, the product manager and agile teams need to review what nonfunctional criteria are priorities. For some apps, its scalability and performance. For others, it might be reliability, flexibility, or meeting compliance requirements. Teams that recognize these priorities up front are better equipped to debate trade-offs when designing the architecture and developing the code.
More organizations are shifting from desktops and laptops to virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) running on the cloud. One market study values the VDI market at $16 billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 20% through 2023.
Enterprises are modernizing end-user computing with cloud PCs, a valuable addition to cloud computing strategies that deliver greater agility in uncertain times, says Matthew Davidson, field CTO at Workspot. With cloud capabilities and costs varying among hyperscalers, enterprises benefit from deploying cloud PCs across multiple cloud regions and clouds, enabling cost optimization by use case, an important innovation when budgets are tight.
My take: Many organizations shifted to VDIs during the pandemic, and many rubber-stamped one-size-fits-all configurations. Although this solved an urgent problem and is an efficient way to manage IT resources, it may have delivered a poor user experience, especially for employees with higher-than-average computing needs. IT may find more holistic efficiencies by studying the impact of VDI technologies on employee productivity, identifying usage personas, and creating VDI deployment patterns optimized by persona.
Getting more workloads to the cloud is only the first step of a modernization journey. Providing an efficient and responsive Day 2 model to ensure reliable, efficient, and high-performing cloud stacks and workflows requires IT teams to improve operations iteratively.
Ming Gong, vice president of product at Blameless, recommends improving efficiencies with incident management practices. We find a poorly defined incident management process to be both a hindrance to productivity and an obstacle to innovation, he says. Optimizing your incident management process to remove toil and reduce ambiguity will go a long way towards improving your IT ops efficiency.
Incidents, outages, and poorly performing systems create downstream impacts that can be easy to measure in e-commerce and customer-facing systems but harder to quantify for many departmental workflow and operational systems. AIops platforms can help incident management teams reduce the mean time to resolve incidents and manage their service-level objectives. These are two best practices for reducing the cost and productivity impacts of incidents.
IT ops teams deploy monitoring tools, observability practices, and AIops to cloud stacks, but monitoring virtual desktops and the user experience is also needed. Davidson says, Companies should look for VDI solutions that offer comprehensive, global observability for their cloud PCs across public clouds in a single view. This powerful capability empowers IT teams to provide the highest reliability and availability for maximum productivity.
My take: I believe that you cant improve what you dont measure, an idea often attributed to renowned management consultant Peter Drucker. Whether youre trying to reduce costs, manage more cloud workflows, improve experiences, or increase reliability, I recommend prioritizing observability, monitoring, and AIops at the forefront of your Day 2 models.
In an economic downturn, enterprises should look at their existing tech stack and evaluate which IT initiatives can make the biggest impact with the smallest lift, says Clear Skye CEO John Milburn.
Dan Ortma, global finops practice director at SoftwareOne, adds, Recessionary fears and an overall priority on spend optimization are driving the growth of finops, a cloud financial management practice that brings together IT, finance, engineering, product developers, IT asset management, leadership, and others to align on cloud usage and spending goals.
IT leaders know that rapidly innovating and deploying reliable applications requires a partnership between IT and financial disciplines. Putting financials before IT can lead to slow project plans and underfunded Day 2 operating models, often a recipe for accelerating technical debt. Instrumenting IT without financial disciplines can lead to inefficiencies and systems that underdeliver business impacts. Cloud finops is one approach to helping engineering, finance, technology, and business teams collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.
IT leaders should develop an architecture strategy that promotes developing platforms and reusing capabilities. Milburn suggests, See what features or solutions exist within your platform to make the most out of your current investment. Not only does this save money, but it also reduces complications with new tech implementations.
Anastasov shares this AI example. Running AI workloads is expensive as it needs powerful GPU hardware. Say your application goes viral. Thats great until you get a gigantic bill at the end of the month that you cant pay, he says. He suggests that IT teams only release a feature after having done a comprehensive cost analysis.
My take: IT teams should prioritize experimentation and manage innovation pipelines for developing new products, improving experiences, and building data-driven practices. Then, institute financial disciplines while planning pilots and production use cases, which helps reveal cost and efficiency considerations during development phases. For systems already in production, seeking costs and operational improvements is one way to fund tech debt reductions.
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HIMSS report highlights cloud’s role in building APAC connected health – Healthcare IT News
HIMSS has shared in a new report some points in advancing digital health transformation by extending the role of cloud computing in the post-COVID-19 era.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The report, Next stop, the cloud: connected health on the brink of a new age in Asia-Pacific, features five key policy recommendations that consolidate HIMSS' vision of connected health. Taken from a virtual roundtable with government representatives and regional health authorities in October, each point is dependent on cloud adoption across health systems.
WHY IT MATTERS
Governments across APAC are now coming out of the pandemic with lessons learned during their response.
They are finding value in their experiences, particularly with cloud computing, to support their digital transformation journeys. While some countries have transitioned to public and hybrid cloud models for EMR systems and individual services, this is "still a relatively unchartered territory in healthcare," according to HIMSS.
THE LARGER TREND
Over the past year, major hospitals across APAC have demonstrated enhanced capabilities in care delivery through their transition to the cloud.
In anticipation of raising care demands from its service population, the hospital chain Manipal Hospitals in India has worked with Google Cloud and its telehealth partner Amwell to power its virtual care.
Over in Singapore, the Alexandra Hospital took part in the launch of a cloud-based digital health service called LifeHub+, which connects clinicians and health coaches with patients who are at risk or dealing with preventable chronic health conditions.
Another noteworthy example in the region is Korea University Anam Hospital, which has implemented a cloud-based HIS that propelled its ranking in the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. The system has resulted in significant outcomes, including cost reductions.
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