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VMware Reports Fiscal Year 2021 Third Quarter Results – Web Hosting | Cloud Computing | Datacenter | Domain News – Daily Host News
Total revenue growth of 8% year-over-year
Subscription and SaaS revenue growth of 44% year-over-year; 24% of total revenue
PALO ALTO, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE)VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2021:
Q3 was another good quarter for VMware, and were pleased with our results, commented Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. As customers navigate through these unprecedented times, our focus remains on delivering the digital foundation for an unpredictable world. We continue to shape the future in areas that are top priority for every businessfrom app development to multi-cloud to security and digital workspaces.
Subscription and SaaS revenue increased 44% year-over-year in Q3 and surpassed license revenue for the first time, said Zane Rowe, executive vice president and CFO, VMware. VMware will continue to invest in and focus on further expanding our Subscription and SaaS portfolio, which we believe will drive company growth, customer satisfaction and shareholder value.
VMware is raising full-year fiscal 2021 total revenue guidance to $11.7 billion and increasing GAAP net income per diluted share to between $4.17 and $4.27 with non-GAAP net income per diluted share of $7.03.
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The company will host a conference call today at 1:30 p.m. PT/ 4:30 p.m. ET to review financial results and business outlook. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the VMware investor relations website at http://ir.vmware.com. Slides will accompany the web broadcast. The replay of the webcast and slides will be available on the website for two months. In addition, six quarters of historical data for unearned revenue will also be made available at http://ir.vmware.com in conjunction with the conference call.
1 Forrester, The Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2020, August 2020
2 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, Naresh Singh, 23rd September 2020. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartners research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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VMware software powers the worlds complex digital infrastructure. The companys cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace offerings provide a dynamic and efficient digital foundation to customers globally, aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough innovations to its global impact. For more information, please visit https://www.vmware.com/company.html.
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to VMwares financial results as determined in accordance with GAAP are included at the end of this press release following the accompanying financial data. For a description of these non-GAAP financial measures, including the reasons management uses each measure, please see the section of the tables titled About Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding VMware innovations, product and solutions developments and previews, and their expected benefits to customers, including those relating to VMware Carbon Black Cloud, VMware Workforce Anywhere, Tanzu, Project Monterey and the 5G Telco Cloud Platform; partnerships with Menlo Security and Zscaler and collaboration with NVIDIA, and their expected benefits to customers; the expected benefits of the acquisition of SaltStack; and VMware FY21 financial guidance regarding total revenue and GAAP and Non-GAAP net income per diluted share. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (1) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, financial condition, our customers, the business environment and the global and regional economies; (2) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (3) delays or reductions in consumer, government and information technology spending; (4) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into the virtualization software and cloud, end user and mobile computing, and security industries, as well as new product and marketing initiatives by VMwares competitors; (5) the ability to successfully integrate into VMware acquired companies and assets and smoothly transition services related to divested assets from VMware; (6) rapid technological changes in the virtualization software and cloud, end user, security and mobile computing industries; (7) VMwares customers ability to transition to new products, platforms, services, solutions and computing strategies in such areas as containerization, modern applications, intrinsic security and networking, cloud, digital workspaces, virtualization and the software defined data center, and the uncertainty of their acceptance of emerging technology; (8) VMwares ability to enter into, maintain and extend strategically effective partnerships, collaborations and alliances; (9) the continued risk of litigation and regulatory actions; (10) VMwares ability to protect its proprietary technology; (11) changes to product and service development timelines; (12) VMwares relationship with Dell Technologies and Dells ability to control matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of VMwares board members and matters relating to Dells investment in VMware; (13) the potential impact of Dells investigation of strategic alternatives with respect to its interest in VMware, including a potential spinoff and related special cash dividend; (14) VMwares ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (15) the ability of VMware to utilize our relationship with Dell to leverage go-to-market and product development activities; (16) risks associated with cyber-attacks, information security and data privacy; (17) disruptions resulting from key management changes; (18) risks associated with international sales such as fluctuating currency exchange rates and increased trade barriers; (19) changes in VMwares financial condition; (20) geopolitical changes such as Brexit and increased tariffs and trade barriers that could adversely impact our non-U.S. sales; and (21) other business effects, including those related to industry, market, economic, political, regulatory and global health conditions. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including VMwares most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8- K that we may file from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. VMware assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(amounts in millions, except per share amounts, and shares in thousands)
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Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
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November 1,
October 30,
November 1,
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2019
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639
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728
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2,019
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Automation to shape cybersecurity activities in 2021 – Help Net Security
Automation will play a major role in shaping cybersecurity attack and defence activities in 2021, WatchGuard predicts.
Traditionally a high-investment, high-return targeted attack, in 2021 automation tools will replace manual techniques to help cybercriminals launch spear phishing campaigns at record volumes, by harvesting victim-specific data from social media sites and company web pages.
And as society continues to grapple with the impact of COVID-19, it is likely that these automated spear phishing attacks will prey on fears around the pandemic, politics and the economy.
Conversely, the research team believes that automation will also help cloud-hosting providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google to crack down on cybercriminal groups abusing their reputation and services to launch malicious attacks.
Threat actors commonly host website HTML files designed to mimic a legitimate website like Microsoft 365 or Google Drive to steal credentials submitted by unsuspecting victims. But in 2021, these companies will deploy automated tools and file validation technologies that will spot spoofed authentication portals.
In its annual look ahead to the next 12 months, the tumultuous events of 2020 will impact the threat landscape next year and for years to come. Other predictions include:
As more companies adopt VPNs and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) solutions to provide secure connections to employees working from home, attacks against them will double in 2021. If an attacker can compromise VPN, RDP or remote connection servers, they have an unobstructed path into the corporate network.
Endpoints have become a high priority target for attackers during the global pandemic and many personal computers are still running legacy software that is difficult to patch or update.
With Microsoft just ending its extended support program for Windows 7, organizations are warned to expect at least one major new Windows 7 vulnerability to make headlines in 2021.
Authentication is the cornerstone of strong security; but with billions of usernames and passwords available on the dark web and the prevalence of automated authentication attacks, no Internet-exposed service is safe from cyber intrusion if it isnt using multi-factor authentication (MFA). In fact, any service without MFA enabled is highly likely to be compromised in 2021.
As we have learnt in 2020, it is very difficult to predict what is going to happen in the future, says Corey Nachreiner, CTO at WatchGuard.
But our Threat Lab team along with other researchers around the world have an increasing level of analytics and insight to make well-informed guesses. Cybercriminals always look for the weak links, so the growing ranks of home workers are an obvious target and when it comes to new technologies such as automation and AI, what can work for good, can also be exploited for malicious activity. Its just a case of trying to stay one step ahead.
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Professional Services Automation Market Share, Size, Analysis, Growth, Industry Statistics and Forecast 2025 – Khabar South Asia
Global Professional Services Automation Market: Snapshot
The global market for professional services automation is expected to expand alongside the adoption of automation technologies across commercial units. Professional Services automation refers to the creation of automated systems for bill generation, expense monitoring, time tracking, and resource allocation in companies or businesses. Professional services automation offers a wide range of benefits to organizations in the form of reduced processing time, improved efficiency, satisfied customers, and reduced costs. International companies are on the lookout for options that can help them function with agility and nimbleness. In order to do this, it is extremely important for these companies to shorten their chain of operation by effectuating smarter systems.
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Hence, the demand for professional services automation is expected to be driven by the efforts of organizations to bring about standardization on the operational front. Furthermore, the quest to achieve customer satisfaction has also driven demand within the global market for professional service automation. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as the backbone of automation technologies and has revolutionized the way companies look at their operations. This penetration of AI into the framework of organizations has also led to the growth of the global market for professional services automation.
The swift adoption of automation technologies across North America has been the key reason behind the growth of the market for professional services automation in the region. Furthermore, the markets in Europe and Asia Pacific are also expected to expand on account of the emergence of new companies with advanced operational benchmarks and better recourse.
Global Professional Services Automation Market: Overview
Professional service automation systems are a type of software products that are designed to aid professional services and companies to streamline numerous operations, enhance their efficiency, and gain a higher profitability and productivity. These systems can be seen as a complete business solutions and have a variety of capacities which include billing, project management, time tracking, expense management, invoice management, and resource allocation.
The global market for Professional Services Automation could be segmented in terms of the different solution types and services provided. The global market could also be segmented in terms of the type of deployment, size of organization, and by geography. Such in depth and precise segmentation of the global Professional Services Automation market offered by the report helps in grasping the all-round growth prospects and the future outlook of the different segments of the market and thus, helping the potential buyers to make informed decisions while investing in the market.
The report on Professional Services Automation market provides the analysis and forecast on regional as well as global level. It offers historical data of the year 2016 along with the anticipated data of 2017, and a forecast data up to year 2022 in terms of revenue as well as volume. The report also provide vital driving and impeding factors for the development of the global Professional Services Automation market and their impact on each region over the duration of the given forecast period. The report also offeres the value chain analysis of the market with a list of manufacturers. The research report on the global market for Professional Services Automation provides vital growth prospects and key trends and opportunities that may come up in the market over the course of the given forecast period. The research report is the result of in-depth and extensive primary as well as secondary research methodologies backed by crucial market insights offered by the industry professionals.
Global Professional Services Automation Market: Trends and Opportunities
Of the two vital methods of deployment of the Professional Services Automation (PSA) systems are on premise-PSA and cloud PSA products and services. These services are hosted on cloud platforms and are gaining increasing popularity, specifically among the medium and small sized companies. The several advantages of cloud hosting with respect to disaster recovery, flexibility, diminished infrastructure development, and increased collaboration cost are some of the key factors expected to drive the overall growth of the global Professional Services Automation market over the coming years. In addition to this, the growing inclusion of tablets, smartphones and other gadgets to the internal networks of the companies are also expected to help in driving market growth.
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Global Professional Services Automation Market: Market Potential
A recent observation found by the industry experts that AI (artificial intelligence) can considerably add benefits to the global Professional Services industry. It is expected to create a huge wave both in terms of adoption and uptake with automation industry likely to be heading towards the heavy use of AI. AI is expected to be the future of computer technology and with automation of the professional services, it is only time the market is can experience the impact of AI in the professional services industry
Global Professional Services Automation Market: Geographical Segmentation
The global Professional Services Automation can be segmented into key regions such as North America, Middle East and Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
Global Professional Services Automation Market: Key Players
Some of the key players in the global market include names such as FinancialForce PSA, Deltek, Projector PSA, and Autotask Corporation among others
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End-user spending on India public cloud to rise nearly 30% next year – iTWire
Spending on public cloud services by end-users has been forecast to increase to US$4.1 billion (A$5.58 billion) next year, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that this would be an increase of 29.4% year-on-year.
The company said the Indian IT market outlook had been discussed at its Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo India which ended on Wednesday.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was the starting point of the Cloud 2.0 era, said Sid Nag, research vice-president at Gartner.
Indian enterprises were not ready for the large scale of remote work. However, public cloud delivered on its promise of scalability, cost efficiency and business resilience for Indian enterprises during this critical time in 2020.
Gartner said that in 2021, managed services and cloud infrastructure would make up 8% of the total IT spending in India. While cloud application services (SaaS) were expected to be the biggest segment, cloud system infrastructure services (IaaS) would see the most growth, the company said.
It said Indian businesses were at an early stage of cloud adoption compared to the rest of the world, with the pandemic having speeded up adoption.
As employees moved to working from home, applications like email, Web hosting, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and human resources had been moved to the cloud, so that they could be accessed around the clock.
While end-user spending on cloud in India is increasing, there is a long road ahead for Indian enterprises to achieve the same market maturity as the US or Europe," said Nag.
"India-based organisations and their chief information officers need to focus on the cultural shift that will make them cloud-ready and give them a competitive edge."
Nearly every business wants to leverage the latest in digital offerings to remain competitive in their respective markets and to provide support for fast and ever-increasing demands for data capacity. 400G is the answer.
Initial challenges are associated with supporting such project and upgrades to fulfil the promise of higher-capacity transport.
The foundation of optical networking infrastructure includes coherent optical transceivers and digital signal processing (DSP), mux/demux, ROADM, and optical amplifiers, all of which must be able to support 400G capacity.
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This Week in Jobs DE: Gigs and giblets for the hungry job hunter – Technical.ly Delaware
Editors note:Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the regions most exciting career opportunities. Weve lovingly called itThis Week in Jobs(aka TWIJ twidge). Below is this weeks edition.Heres the last one we published; its meant to live in your inbox.Sign up for the newsletter here.
Its disappointing that we cant gather in person this Thanksgiving, but there are plenty of ways to spin this time lost with loved ones. Think of it as a year off from being asked why you dont have kids yet. One less ceramic trinket for your collection from your Great-Aunt Debra (who single-handedly gifted entire said collection). Zero arguments between the self-appointed political pundits of the family.
Things change, but family remains the same. So no matter what events you must pass on this year, remember: Cousin Ron will still get too drunk, burn the turkey and make Aunt Angela cry next year. Promise.
Now onto the good stuff: jobs.
Think of investing like ice cream, as VC Include CEO and founder Bahiyah Robinsonand indie.vc scout and fund manager Del Johnsondiscuss the swirl of factors bringing new pools of money into venture capital investments on this weeks episode of Off the Sidelines.
Donna Allies turned her self-made cleaning business Team Clean into a multi-million dollar enterprise. But even with her success and proven track record, Allie says opportunities for Black- and Latinx-owned businesses are not equal to those going to white business owners. Heres what she thinks needs to happen in order for such companies to scale in Philly. And note the unique investment that gave her company a leg up during the pandemic.
And because not all of us want to eventually trade our fleece joggers for denim leg shackles, here are a few gigs designed for the remote lifestyle:
Oh, another benefit to a private Thanksgiving is that you can eat everything straight out of a can (pumpkin pie included) and no one will ever know. Take that, moms. Just kidding, we love and miss you.
Happy job hunting and a happy Thanksgiving, friends.
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Financial services companies are starting to use the cloud for big data and AI processing – TechRepublic
The financial sector has historically been nervous about allowing its data to go off premises, making it harder to scale. Now it's allowing for some data in the cloud to speed AI and data management.
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Financial services companies are and continue to be focused on maintaining a majority of their mission-critical systems on premises, where they have direct control. They also want direct control to quickly recover systems if a failure occurs. It's also financial institutions that have the reputation of being transaction-driven and not customer-centric.
SEE: Cloud data storage policy (TechRepublic Premium)
As marketplace competition increases, most now recognize the need to store and mine customer information and the need to incorporate unstructured big data culled from the Internet, demographics, and other forms of data that don't necessarily arrive in structured data record formats.
Financial institutions mesh unstructured data together with traditional structured data so they can perform analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) on a composite of customer information. But in the process of doing so, they must find ways to scale and store an increasing amount of data that can grow exponentially overnight.
The quandary they face is that a broad scale-out of data storage and processing isn't workable with most on-premises systems, which might take a year or longer to budget for and acquire. This is where using more scalable cloud services can deliver value.
"Every organization that has data at scale can benefit from the economies of scale in the cloud," said Paul Scott Murphy, VP of product management, big data/cloud at WANdisco, a provider of distributed computing services. "The cloud has been a natural home for huge swathes of data that financial institutions use every day."
SEE: Top cloud providers in 2020: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, hybrid, SaaS players (TechRepublic)
Murphy said that many banking customers he works with start with cloud data hosting of their customer-related data.
"There is a natural affinity for those datasets to be used along with data from CRM, ad tech, and service desk applications that are cloud-native," he said. We've seen that once these companies establish the necessary controls, security, and governance for the data they hold in the cloud. After that, they expand to much broader types of big data, such as transactional information for real-time risk analysis, data aggregation and analytics to support loan origination decisioning, and customer and market intelligence to offer personalization."
Key factors that are moving more big data to the cloud include digital transformation, in which cloud hosting is playing a larger role; agility and cost optimization, which enable companies to move data more rapidly to the cloud than in their own data centers, and to do this in a pay-per-use mode that can trim operational and capital expense overhead; and an expanding array of AI and machine learning (ML) services and expertise that cloud providers can offer.
Together, these forces enable financial companies to bring big data and AI applications to market sooner than if they had to do it on their own.
SEE: Artificial intelligence can take banks to the next level (TechRepublic)
Critical backups and recoveries of big data are also a concern.
"One way we have addressed data backup in the cloud is through a live data strategy," Murphy said. "With this strategy, data changes are replicated immediately as they occur. This approach enables data to remain consistent across multiple environments and enables near zero recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) targets."
Murphy recommends that companies consider a live data backup strategy because it lowers the risks and costs of legacy data migration approaches and enables continuous data migrations, which are needed in a hybrid cloud computing environment that uses both on-premises and on-cloud data and applications.
"I also suggest that companies take a data-first approach for their Hadoop big data migration to the cloud," he said. "Get the data there quickly so your data scientists can begin to experiment with the new system immediately for a faster time to value."
Finally, don't consider decommissioning all or parts of your on-premises systems too hastily. If your long-term strategy is to move more data and applications to the cloud, do it gradually and test thoroughly.
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ICE plans $100 million in cloud spend on AWS and Azure – DatacenterDynamics
ICE is seeking a "Solution Provider to provide access to FedRAMP authorized AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Provider (CSP) marketplace products and cloud based CSP resource offerings including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) within the ICE Cloud,"according to a procurement notice first spotted by Bloomberg.
In July 2018, more than 100 Microsoft employees signed an open letter to CEO Satya Nadella calling for Microsoft to cancel its contracts with ICE, and with other clients who directly enable ICE. Microsoft already provides cloud services for ICE to support "legacy mail, calendar, messaging and document management workloads" in a $19.4m contract.
"Like many of you, I am appalled at the abhorrent policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the southern border of the US," CEO Satya Nadella told employees after they complained about the contract. "I want to be clear: Microsoft is not working with the US government on any projects related to separating children from their families at the border."
Two separate open letters to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company should no longer provide hosting and services to Palantir, which in turn supports ICE and sister Homeland Security agency Customs and Border Protection.
An NBC analysis of federal data last year found that 24 people died in ICE custody under the current administration, including seven children, with a further four dying soon after being released.
This month it was revealed that ICE is trying to deport women who were witnesses or alleged victims of forced gynecological surgery at the hands of an ICE doctor. More than 50 women have come forward alleging jarring medical neglect at the hands of private prison company LaSalle Corrections. Under CBP's care, children were handled violently and sexually assaulted, human rights campaigners found.
In a procurement notice last year, CBP said it used Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. It also used Salesforce and ServiceNow, as well as Quip, Zoom, Office 365, Power BI, IBM Maximo, IBM Trirega, and Presidio.
It is difficult to track exactly how much DHS agencies spent on cloud providers as they often use resellers. Bloomberg Government data estimates that in Fiscal 2020 ICE paid Microsoft more than $20m for products and services, $9.9m of which was for Azure. CBP spent about $21m on AWS, while ICE spent more than $24m on AWS-hosted Palantir this fiscal year.
A small number of Google employees also protested the CBP contracts, writing: "Its time to stand together again and state clearly that we will not work on any such contract. We demand that Google publicly commit not to support CBP, ICE, or ORR with any infrastructure, funding, or engineering resources, directly or indirectly, until they stop engaging in human rights abuses." The group added that any cloud provider that worked for CBP will be facilitating its human rights abuses."
The new cloud contract request comes as the Department of Homeland Security looks to reduce its own data center footprint and shift to the cloud.
It also comes at a period of turmoil for the department - this weekend, a federal judge ruled that acting Secretary Chad Wolf was not legally serving in his position as he was never confirmed by the Senate. Any rules signed by Wolf could potentially be illegal, and could be reversed.
Last week, two senior Department of Homeland Security officials were forced to resign by the White House as part of a wider reorganization pushing party loyalists. This week, President Trump fired Christopher Krebs after the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that the 2020 election had been "the most secure in American history." His deputy resigned after the firing.
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Latest Update 2020: Cloud Hosting Service Market by COVID19 Impact Analysis And Top Manufacturers: A2 Hosting, SiteGround, InMotion, HostGator,…
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The Hyper Digitization Era Blessing in disguise for the technology industry – Web Hosting | Cloud Computing | Datacenter | Domain News – Daily Host…
By Anandh Venkatraman, Head of Consulting Global COEs, Dell Technologies
On one side, human existence is being challenged by a non-living particle with the entire medical fraternity up in arms to save humanity and on the other side, enterprises across the globe are quite far along now their hyper digitization journeys to maximize their returns while minimizing human involvement. With the way that humanity is caught in the middle and its future hangs in the balance, it is equally fascinating to examine how the technology world order is changing rapidly as we speak.
The world is moving towards everything-on-the-cloud and everything-as-a-service model. Gone are the days when organizations needed to invest a fortune in datacenters and staff large IT teams to take care of their IT needs. In a decade, datacenters will be considered to belong in the stone age. Interestingly, not only is IT infrastructure being cloudified, but also physical working infrastructure will be a thing of the past. Organizations have seen the benefits of working from home, and the last three quarters have proved how effective it could be for the ecosystem. Saving commute time, saving on international travel, saving on fuel and electricity, reducing carbon footprint the positive effects of lockdown on the natural environment certainly gave much cause for hope and also gave rise to the term anthropause[1].
One thing that has changed for the common man is that the adoption of digital has significantly increased. Online banking, phone-based payments, chat bots, e-commerce, online deliveries have all undergone hyper adoption. So, companies that have been in the traditional mode of operations have realized that they will soon be kodaked[2], as people become more and more digitally enabled and transform into digital nomads. Entire cities are moving to the cloud, and the city of Helsinki is making waves by adopting a concept called City as a Service.
Everything-as-a-Service, the new world order
To meet significant increases in demand, enterprises are in a hyper-digitization mode to scale up their infrastructure by moving to the cloud. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure are innovating daily and competing to ensure that their customers adoption and journey to the cloud is as seamless as possible. Extrapolating the current trend, cloud will become the computing engine in the immediate future. Infrastructure will be a commodity, and customized industry-based services and outcomes are what enterprises will look for from cloud vendors. In the new world order, everything will be available as a service. While it is very difficult to provide a one-size-fits-all model in the cloud environment, the adoption of the hybrid multi cloud model will continue to be a priority with enterprises. Soon there will be a multi-cloud platform (Java of the cloud), where workloads could seamlessly flow across different cloud vendors like a breeze. In the current model, once you are locked into the native implementations, it becomes very difficult to migrate.
Traditional functions like marketing and sales will also be kodaked soon, because once everything on the cloud becomes a service marketing, sales, finance could be handled remotely, and their intelligence moved to AI platforms on the cloud. The day is not far when we will start seeing organizations offer marketing-as-a-service, sales-as-a-service, finance-as-a-service etc.
The word software engineer could very well soon be a thing of the past, with developers being referred to as full stack engineers or polyglot programmers. The world is moving from creating products through code, to assembling solutions like LEGO blocks. Technologists of the future will be like gourmet chefs assembling frameworks to create quick, efficient and cost-effective solutions on the cloud for end-users/customers. What used to get accomplished in months takes weeks now, and in the immediate future could be assembled in hours. One point to ponder then, would be: how do we keep the millions of traditional software developers relevant in the future context? This is a topic that would require a separate analysis.
Resilience and innovation in the new age
Now, given that enterprises are rapidly migrating to the cloud there is increased insecurity about 24/7 availability, security, data, compliance etc. Organizations are adopting state-of-the-art business-critical cyber recovery solutions that protect, back up and help restore digital assets. Going into the future, cloud providers will offer Business Resiliency/Cyber Recovery as a service in their respective platforms for enterprises to consume. Cloud providers will increasing become a one-stop-shop for the digital and infrastructure need of the enterprise.
Saving the best for the last, any conversation about digitization is not complete if you dont talk about the possibilities of 5G. The combination of IoT, edge computing, AI/ML and a mobile-dedicated bandwidth into the cloud is the recipe for laser-focused outcomes for the technology industry. This can be likened to giving a super car to an enthusiast in an eight-lane German autobahn. This will redefine the very nature of business across the globe. Soon, wars will not be fought on battle fields but on clouds, soon national boundaries will become less relevant, but ecosystems and kingdoms will be created on the cloud. The future of mankind will be left to his imagination to conceive, construct and conquer. The bigger question then arises: what happened to the virus?
[1] The term anthropause refers to a global reduction in modern human activity, especially travel, and was coined by a team of researchers in June 2020 in an article discussing the possible impact of COVID-19 lockdown on wildlife.
[2] Kodaked is a term used for technology extinction
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‘China-Backed Hacking Group’ Allegedly Works on Global Campaign Targeting Automotives, Pharmaceutica – Tech Times
A security firm claims that the Chinese government is sponsoring a hacking group way back in 2019. The cybercriminals are allegedly exploiting ZeroLogon vulnerability in automotive, pharmaceutical, and industrial attack waves.
(Photo : Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)A participant sits with a laptop computer as he attends the annual Chaos Communication Congress of the Chaos Computer Club at the Berlin Congress Center on December 28, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Computer Club is Europe's biggest network of computer hackers and its annual congress draws up to 3,000 participants.
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ZDNet reported that the hacking group is working on a massive campaign, targeting pharmaceutical, engineering, and automotive entities across the globe. The massive attack is already targeting some businesses using the recently-disclosed security vulnerability.
According to Bleeping Computer's latest report, several Japanese companies and subsidiaries from multiple industry sectors in 17 regions across the world are also targeted.
Symantec claimed that the global cyberattack campaign is done by the Cicada group, also known as Stone Panda, APT10, or Cloud Hopper. The threat group was first identified in 2009.
(Photo : Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)A participant looks at lines of code on a laptop on the first day of the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) - Behind Enemy Lines computer hacker conference on December 27, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Computer Club is Europe's biggest network of computer hackers and its annual congress draws up to 3,000 participants.
The United States also claimed that the hackers are supported by the Chinese government. Symantec security researchers said that Cicada's most recent attack wave has been ongoing since mid-October in 2019.
The massive campaign is believed to be active at least this October of 2020. Cicada was reportedly using a variety of techniques and tools to conduct cyber attacks.Since the group is well-resourced, it is able to continue its hacking campaign for almost a year.
Cicada or APT10 is using different methods to exploit its ZeroLogon vulnerability. These include network reconnaissance, command-line utilities, PowerShell scripts, DLL side-loading, credential theft, and both RAR archiving.
A legitimate cloud hosting provider is also included. It helps the hacking group regarding packaging, downloading, and exfiltrating stolen data from different companies.
Cicada uses a toolkit called CVE-2020-1472. This utility issued a CVSS score of 10 and was patched by Microsoft in August. On the other hand, the ZeroLogon vulnerability allows the hackers to hijack domains and spoof domain controller accounts, as well as breach Active Directory identity services.
Aside from the ZeroLogon, the international hacking group also launched Backdoor.Hartip, a new custom malware, which is not yet seen in connection to the APT10 group. This vulnerability is also designed to targets top businesses in different countries.
Symantec also suggested that the cyber criminals are focused on the cyberespionage and theft of sensitive company data. These include HR documents, meeting demos, expensive information, and corporate records.
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