Due to the increased frequency of extreme weather, businesses have to make sure they protect themselves. In January, Brge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum, warned that climate change and environmental risks are the biggest threats facing society.

Even businesses that are not directly affected by extreme weather events may face risks if accurate weather forecasting is not built into their business assumptions, with Peter Giger, group chief risk officer of Zurich Insurance Group, recently asking: If weather patterns change, how do I look at the probability of events occurring?

The floods in 2013 were reported as the worst December and January rainfall on record. Two years later, in 2015, Cumbria and North East England faced Storm Desmond, which broke records for the most rainfall in a single day. This week, residents of Cumbria are again facing the big clean-up in the wake of Storm Ciara.

Weather Source provides enterprise clients with meteorological data to support their businesses. Such information is becoming business critical, due to the effects of climate change.

What we are seeing is climate change is in full effect, says Mark Gibbas, CEO of Weather Source. Weather information is important to many companies that have sensitivity to weather, which can impact their operations and their revenue.

As weather becomes more extreme, accurate forecasting becomes increasingly important in helping companies to quantify and manage climate risks.

Weather Source has created a business to provide such information to businesses. According to Gibbas, what makes the service unique is that it offers a continuum of weather over space and time, which provides a history of normal weather conditions for any hour of the year and the variants in weather.

In the early years of the company, around 2015, Weather Source used MySQL on optimised hardware for speed. As it expanded, it began hosting the service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). While public cloud hosting is still being used, Gibbas says the company wanted to achieve greater speed and efficiency.

Due to the complex dataset it requires a time series database which spans the planet Gibbas says the company needed something that could handle petabytes of data.

Weather Source selected Snowflakes Data Exchange to provide its clients with a better understanding of climate change risk and to increase its customer portfolio. This data includes hyper-local weather information and climate data from around the world.

Snowflake is extremely efficient and fast, and has powerful technology for data sharing, he says. This allows us to store information once and share with many different clients, cutting down on the total storage we require and avoid duplicating information.

The Weather Sources service runs on Snowflake, which is hosted in AWS. Moving historical data into the cloud is time-consuming, but once there, updates to the database can be achieved relatively quickly. For instance, migrating half a petabyte of historical data into the public cloud can take several days.

But once the data is in Snowflake, operationally, it only takes seconds to update the latest weather information, according to Gibbas. The Weather Source has two ways to upload data: either via an AWS S3 bucket, which can automatically load data into Snowflake, or via the Snowflake application programming interface (API), which Gibbas says is very fast.

Snowflake is also very efficient computationally. Only a few hundred Gbytes of new data per day is processed, he adds. For comparison, the company needed to process a terabyte of data on GCP or AWS.

Such efficiency gains are essential in accurate forecasting. Each days forecast is made up of several forecasts and is projected over 15 days, leading to petabyte scale of data processing. But once the data is in Snowflake, Weather Source does not have to move the data.

The Weather Source data service is available in Snowflakes Data Exchange market. Snowflake users who require weather data are able to access different views of the weather data provided by Weather Source, without the need to download anything.

Traditionally, organisations both had to make a copy of the data locally on their own systems when they needed to share data, which Gibbas says dramatically expands the amount of data they need.

However, data sharing through the Snowflake Data Exchange market provides a single place where the data is stored. They just access one common database, Gibbas adds.

This also cuts down the speed of data transfer as there is no need to load the data into their own systems, says Gibbas. Since there is only a single copy of the weather data, as and when the forecast is refreshed, users can immediately access the new data.

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SOLANA BEACH, Calif. (PRWEB) February 12, 2020

alwaysAI, a software company dedicated to making computer vision (CV) accessible to all developers with its innovative and easy-to-use platform, announced today that its beta program is open for all software developers to quickly create and deploy CV applications on the edge.

The move builds on the momentum of its recent private beta program, which attracted more than 1,600 developers since it opened in October 2019.

We see enormous interest in computer vision and how it can drive new value for enterprise applications and developers it makes AI and IoT come alive in the real world, said Marty Beard, co-founder and CEO of alwaysAI. We love evangelizing the value of this exciting new technology, and I believe we are fundamentally changing the way developers create, prototype and deploy computer vision applications at the edge.

Developers, from beginners to experts alike, are encouraged to open their free account at http://www.alwaysai.co and start creating, prototyping and deploying CV apps on ARM-based devices including cameras, drones, wearables, industrial monitoring equipment and transportation units.

Making Development Easy

In the open beta, developers get immediate access to a growing, searchable catalog of pre-trained computer vision models, a full set of CV primitives including image classification, object detection, tracking, counting, face detection and now human pose estimation and semantic segmentation, as well as an expanding array of supported edge environments.

In addition, developers get an open channel of communication with alwaysAIs rapidly growing developer community and direct access to the engineering team.

alwaysAIs accessible and user-friendly platform enables developers to create and deploy computer vision applications in three simple steps:

And with alwaysAI, inferencing happens on the edge, so there is lower latency and no required cloud hosting or inference charges a significant cost and time savings.

Growing Demand from Developers

Co-founders Marty Beard and Steve Griset started alwaysAI with the intention to democratize computer vision and help all enterprise developers leverage CV in practical and affordable ways.

We have seen communications like messaging and speech get automated and proliferated across a wide variety of end-points. But vision arguably the most powerful human attribute has simply been too difficult for technologists to implement and deploy, Beard said. With the open beta program, we are broadening access and offering new features that make it even easier and more powerful for the everyday developer.

Developers from a wide variety of backgrounds and industries agree:

New Computer Vision Features

alwaysAIs computer vision software is now available on NVIDIAs Jetson systems. The combination of alwaysAI's software and NVIDIA's Jetson hardware will provide intelligent sight to devices that run autonomous machines, smart cities, retail services and other advanced computer vision applications.

NVIDIAs Jetson Nano is a small, powerful computer that lets a developer run multiple neural networks in parallel for applications like image classification, object detection, segmentation and speech processing. The Jetson Nano is the ideal platform for creating high-performance deep learning, computer vision projects at the edge.

The alwaysAI platform also makes it easy to build, test and deploy computer vision applications for autonomous driving applications, including a pedestrian and bicyclist detector equipped with semantic segmentation. Autonomous vehicles need to determine how far away pedestrians and bicyclists are, as well as their intentions.

With semantic segmentation, detections are done pixel-by-pixel, rather than with bounding boxes. In certain scenarios like foot and bicycle traffic in bustling urban areas the autonomous vehicle needs much more detailed information about the exact location of a pedestrian or a bicyclist. alwaysAI makes that fast and easy.

In opening up the beta, alwaysAI carefully listened to its growing developer base, offering more of the powerfully optimized tools they want. The alwaysAI platform recently released an easy-to-deploy image for both Raspberry Pi 3B+ and the Raspberry Pi 4. Enterprise software developers and hobbyists alike are tapping into the alwaysAI platform to get their edge computer vision projects up and running.

alwaysAI is an awesome product ... it makes computer vision development on the edge simple, said Tomas Migone, hardware hacker in residence at balena. The tools are easy to use, and the documentation is straightforward. Developing with alwaysAI is a great experience. I'm looking forward to continuing using it for computer vision projects.

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alwaysAI (http://www.alwaysai.co) brings deep learning computer vision to embedded and IoT devices. By providing a professional catalog of pre-trained models, innovative set of computer vision APIs, and growing array of supported edge environments, alwaysAI accelerates the time it takes to get a computer vision app up and running. Based in San Diego, alwaysAI is led by a team of technology veterans who are passionate about democratizing access to computer vision. Co-founders Marty Beard and Steve Griset have more than 40 years of combined experience in enterprise software, mobility, cloud applications and cybersecurity.

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) needs moreflexibility and efficiency from its cloud services.

The independent agency posted a request for information recently, soliciting feedback from companies on a potential plan to replace its enterprise cloud contract. The contract listing is called Platform & Infrastructure for Cloud Archives & Records Depositories or, in acronym form, PICARD.

The requirements of a new cloud contract spring from the directive that NARA transition to fully electronic record keeping, and stop collecting paper records, by the end of 2022.

Beginning January 1, 2023, all other legal transfers of permanent records must be in electronic format, to the fullest extent possible, regardless of whether the records were originally created in electronic formats, an Office of Management and Budget memo from July states. After that date, agencies will be required to digitize permanent records in analog formats before transfer to NARA.

NARA currently uses Amazon Web Services, but is considering moving to multi-cloud. The agency recognizes that other agencies transferring records to NARA could be transferring them from any cloud hosting environment and NARA needs to be prepared for ensuring efficient transfer of records into its legal and logical custody.

The agency also has new functionalities in mind, and as such requires the flexibility to expand its cloud presence.

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Cloud services have revolutionised the way we work, providing easy paths for collaboration over a distance and business-critical features such as automatic off-site backups and version control.

However, potential issues range from not wanting to entrust data to the uncanny tentacles of global megacorporations, to very limited options for intranet-only deployments and the cost of per-user licensing for bundled services that not all users need.

Setting up your own cloud services can in some cases provide financial savings, but it will certainly provide greater control over the data youre responsible for and the way your users can access it.

That can be a distinct advantage when it comes to data protection and financial services regulation. Note, though, that you will be responsible for securing and updating the software that runs your cloud, rather than being able to leave that to a third party.

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Well guide you through setting up open source cloud storage suite Nextcloud and Collabora Online, which adds online collaborative document editing to Nextcloud, as well as a few more common business cloud features. For brevity and convenience, well be using containerised versions of the software distributed using Snap and Docker.

The latest version, Nextcloud 18 Hub, includes support for an integrated OnlyOffice editing environment on the same server. This is bleeding edge stuff, so for both this reason and because the OnlyOffice Community Edition it uses supports just 20 simultaneous open documents, we've opted not to use this approach for our tutorial.

Instead, well guide you through setting up the current stable version 16 snap release of Nextcloud and the more fully-featured Collabora document editing environment on a dedicated server, as this is more appropriately scaleable to the needs of most businesses.

In our example deployment, weve given Nextcloud and Collaboras servers each a dedicated VM. The required spec will vary depending on how many users you have, how much they need to store and how frequently theyll access storage and edit documents.

A very basic setup - suitable for a small business or department of three to ten people - works smoothly with a single core and 1GB RAM for the Nextcloud server, and two cores and 2GB RAM for Collabora. The extra memory is particularly important here if you expect multiple users to work on their documents at the same time.

Unless you have very high storage capacity requirements, we suggest using an SSD-based system to improve responsiveness. This tutorial was written using virtual servers hosted on Vultr and that services default Ubuntu 18.04 image, but applies to any comparable virtual or hardware server configuration.

Set up an Ubuntu 18.04 server. If your install image doesnt prompt you to do so, create a new user, add them to the sudoers group and update the server. Youll be logging in as that new user, rather than as root, whenever you need command line access to the Nextcloud server.

Now, were ready to install the Nextcloud snap package, which packs in all required dependencies.

To configure your Nextcloud, connect to your servers IP address in a web browser and follow the prompts to create an admin account. Congratulations, you now have a basic cloud storage server.

To make it easily accessible and appropriately professional looking, well want a domain name for it either a new domain or a subdomain of your existing web address will work well.

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With an appropriate domain name registered or subdomain selected, create an A record in your registrars DNS management portal pointing at your new Nextcloud server's IP address.

Now well have to tell your Nextcloud instance what its domain name is. Log in to the server at the command line.

Add your new domain name under trusted_domains, save changes and you should now be able to immediately access your Nextcloud from that URL.

With that done, its time to run through Nextclouds recommended server security tweaks, most importantly HTTPS support.The Nextcloud snap comes with built-in support for generating a LetsEncrypt certificate, so just run:

Then follow through the certificate creation process for your domain name. The Nextcloud Snap includes an integrated auto-renewal routine, but you can also renew your certificates at any point by re-running the creation command above.

Nextcloud needs to be able to communicate with your users for everything from registration emails to editing invitations, so youll need an SMTP server that it can send outbound emails through.

In this example, were integrating Nextcloud with a business that uses G-Suite, so well use Gmail as our SMTP server. However, third-party SMTP providers of this kind may require some extra configuration on their end to work. In this instance, we had to reduce security to allow access. If users arent allowed to manage their own less secure apps, youll have to grand them this permission in the G-Suite admin panels Advanced Security Settings.

If youre testing Nextcloud and using a standard Gmail account for SMTP, youll find the same setting in your personal Google Account Security options.

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If you run your own mail server, youll want to create a user for Nextcloud and point it at that.

At this point, you should add a recovery email address and ideally enable two-factor authentication for your admin account. Once you roll Nextcloud out to your users, you should strongly encourage them to do the same.

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If all you need is online storage, you're ready to invite users, but if you want to provide more advanced cloud services and apps, such as document editing, youll want to add a few more features.

Click on your profile icon and select Apps. Here, you'll see all the default features of Nextcloud, such as its gallery display for images, plain text editor and PDF viewer, as well as any pending updates for them.

In the pane on the left, a category list lets you view a full range of official and third-party Nextcloud apps. There's a lot here, so you'll want to take a look through everything to see what your users are likely to need.

Nextcloud's app library includes Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox integrations that can help users transfer files from third-party cloud services to Nextcloud, multimedia file playback and conversion, single sign-on and additional two-factor authentication support, web form creation, WebRTC-based video and voice conferencing, end-to-end encryption and real-time tracking of associated mobile devices, as well as more traditional office suite functionality.

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For this tutorial, we're going to add a calendar, task list, and contact management. Go to Office & text and select Download and enable on Calendar, Contacts and Tasks. You may be prompted to enter your password. Once you've added these and returned to the main Nextcloud interface, you'll be able to access these via extra buttons that'll appear on the interface's top bar.

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Nextcloud includes a simple integrated text editor by default, but if you need proper online document creation and editing, the Nexcloud Collabora Online app is an elegant solution. To use it, however, you'll need to set up a Collabora Online server.

Based on LibreOffice, Collaboras features include full version control, commenting, collaborative document editing, and it allows you to create word processor documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Documents are saved in standard Open Document formats, and the synced versions thatll be saved on users devices can be opened in any compatible word processor, although you only get access to collaborative editing via the web interface.

Collabora is available as a Docker image. As it can become rather memory-hungry if you've got lots of users editing documents at the same time, we recommend giving it its own server, which also makes life a little easier when it comes to setup and configuration.

Spin up a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 server and update it. We'll be expanding on Nextcloud's official Collabora deployment instructionsfor this section and working on the assumption that Collabora will only need to serve a single Nextcloud instance.

While some previous iterations of Docker liked to run as root, which is reflected in the Collabora setup instructions linked above, you can and should use a normal user in the sudoers group. So, if your installation image doesnt do this for you by default:

adduser usernameadduser username sudosu usernamesudo apt updatesudo apt dist-upgrade

sudo apt install docker.iosudo docker pull collabora/codesudo docker run -t -d -p 127.0.0.1:9980:9980 -e 'domain=subdomain\.yournextclouddomain\.tld' -e 'dictionaries=en en-gb' --restart always --cap-add MKNOD collabora/code

These parameters include British, as well as US, English dictionaries - you can add others as needed. The path specified in the docker run command above must match the URL that your users will be using to connect to Nextcloud.

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Youll also need Apache to act as a forward proxy for the Docker images.

Before you can configure it properly, though, well need to set up TLS certificates for the subdomain itll be using. Were again using Lets Encrypt certificates in this tutorial.

In this particular configuration, the easiest option is to stop Apache before using the Lets Encrypt certbots certificate-only generation mode.

Enter the domain name you want to use for the Collabora server - we suggest using a subdomain on the same domain youre using for your Nextcloud server. Remember to create an A record in your DNS settings to point the subdomain at your new Collabora server before you try to generate the certificate.

Certbot automatically sets up a cron job to handle the required three-monthly renewals of Lets Encrypt certificates, but well have to make a couple of modifications to make sure it stops and restarts Apache properly. First, test renewal, as itll have to stop your server.

If that runs without any errors, we need to create scripts for those pre and post hooks into the appropriate directories.

sudo nano /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/pre/stop_apache#!/bin/bashservice apache2 stop

sudo nano /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/post/start_apache#!/bin/bashservice apache2 start

sudo chmod u+x /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/post/start_apachesudo chmod u+x /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/pre/stop_apache

See if these are working by runningsudo certbot renew --dry-run

You can also confirm that theres a systemd timer in place for certbot thus:

Were using Apache as a proxy here, so youll need to enter the URL of the Collabora Online server the one you just got a certificate for and the path to the certificates we created earlier.

ServerName your.collabora.subdomain:443

# SSL configuration, you may want to take the easy route instead and use Lets Encrypt!SSLEngine onSSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/certificate.domain.here/cert.pemSSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/certificate.domain.here/chain.pemSSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/certificate.domain.here/privkey.pemSSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-G$SSLHonorCipherOrder on

# Encoded slashes need to be allowedAllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode

# Container uses a unique non-signed certificateSSLProxyEngine OnSSLProxyVerify NoneSSLProxyCheckPeerCN OffSSLProxyCheckPeerName Off

# keep the hostProxyPreserveHost On

# static html, js, images, etc. served from loolwsd# loleaflet is the client part of LibreOffice OnlineProxyPass /loleaflet https://127.0.0.1:9980/loleaflet retry=0ProxyPassReverse /loleaflet https://127.0.0.1:9980/loleaflet

# WOPI discovery URLProxyPass /hosting/discovery https://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/discovery retry=0ProxyPassReverse /hosting/discovery https://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/discovery

# Main websocketProxyPassMatch "/lool/(.*)/ws$" wss://127.0.0.1:9980/lool/$1/ws nocanon

# Admin Console websocketProxyPass /lool/adminws wss://127.0.0.1:9980/lool/adminws

# Download as, Fullscreen presentation and Image upload operationsProxyPass /lool https://127.0.0.1:9980/loolProxyPassReverse /lool https://127.0.0.1:9980/lool

# Endpoint with information about availability of various featuresProxyPass /hosting/capabilities https://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/capabilities retry=0ProxyPassReverse /hosting/capabilities https://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/capabilities

sudo service apache2 restart

Your Collabora server should now be good to go. Log into your Nextcloud web interface as an admin, open the Settings screen and scroll down the left-hand pane until you get to Collabora Online Development Edition.

Click on that and enter the URL and port of your Collabora subdomain your.collabora.subdomain:443 and click apply.

With all your apps up and running, its finally time to invite your users. In the Nextcloud web interface, click on your profile icon on the top right of the interface and select users.

Create new users by clocking the +New user button in the left-hand pane then filling in the account settings you want to give them in the entry that appears at the to of the user list on the right.

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You can set a password for them, which they should change after first logging in, and inform them of it. Alternately you can leave this password field blank and have them use the password reset feature to create their own password.

When they first log in, users should set their language and locale preferences in the Personal info section of the settings screen, again accessible by clicking on the user icon at top right. Locale determines the first day of the week for the calendar, which is set to the US Sunday-first system by default, and the language in which days are named.

As well as the website, client applications are available for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. Users will be prompted to download these when they first connect, and they're always available via the Mobile & desktop entry in the settings screen, accessible by selecting settings from the menu that appears when you click on your user icon at top right.

Users can also search for Nextcloud clients in mobile app stores and link them by manually entering your cloud server's URL. This section also includes links to information for syncing calendar and contact data.

If you want your Android users to be able to edit documents from the Nextcloud mobile app, you should use your device management system to roll out the apk file that can be downloaded directly from Nextcloud or have them install the app from the F-Droid store, as the Google Play version is, at time of writing, lagging behind when it comes to support for Collabora Office.

The mobile apps Auto upload options allow you to select specific directories on your phone to be automatically backed up to Nextcloud, whether thats your photo gallery or critical document folder.

Assuming youve enabled the contacts app for Nextcloud, the mobile clients will be able to automatically back up your contacts to the service every day, and you can use Bitfires DAVx5 app for real-time calendar and contact syncing once added, Nextcloud calendars and contacts can be accessed via your preferred app.

Tasklist management for the Tasks feature is supported in DAVx5 via OpenTasks for Android, which users are prompted to install. Sync schedules can be customised as needed, with features including the option of only syncing over Wi-Fi, and everything works seamlessly in the background.

The desktop clients let you configure file syncing and create a default Nextcloud folder, whose contents will be automatically kept in sync with your Nextcloud server. You'll want to set it to launch on system startup. You can also apply bandwidth limits and throttling, which may be helpful to those working from home or on the road.

Nextcloud and its broad range of apps and connectivity tools have great potential for any business that wishes to either switch away from or supplement third-party cloud services.

For a more customised installation or to support large numbers of users, you may wish to build from source once youve familiarised yourself with Nextclouds systems, but the containerised versions of Nextcloud and Collabora are regularly updated and meet the core requirements for a small self-managed business cloud.

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