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Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Infrastructure Managed Services Market Revenue, Region Analysis, And Forecast 2024 – Space Market Research
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Major Player DetailIBMWiproTata Consultancy Services (TCS)EnsonoAccentureZensar TechnologiesNTT GroupInfosysFujitsuAtosT-SystemsCapgeminiOrange Business Services
Region SegmentationNorth America Country (United States, Canada)South AmericaAsia Country (China, Japan, India, Korea)Europe Country (Germany, UK, France, Italy)Other Country (Middle East, Africa, GCC)
Type Segmentation (Public Cloud Hosting, Private Cloud Hosting )
Industry Segmentation (SME (Small and Medium Enterprises), Large Enterprise)
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Manufacturer Detail: IBM, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Ensono, Accenture, Zensar Technologies, NTT Group, Infosys, Fujitsu, Atos, T-Systems, Capgemini, Orange Business Services
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Why Is Apple Trusted More Than Google? – Forbes
Apple's popular Apple logo seen at the Passeig de Grcia store in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Paco ... [+] Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The pomp and circumstance of the Apple credit card launch has left people wondering why there wasnt as much excitement about the news of Googles venture into checking accounts. Does this mean Apple is better, or more consumer-friendly than Google?
Despite speaking to some of the most respected and informed minds in the fintech industry, this question remains unanswered and the general consensus is simply that the two are incomparable because it is a question of trust.
A couple of weeks ago and around the time that it emerged that Google would be partnering with Citigroup and the Stanford Federal Credit Union to offer checking accounts, a Twitter poll from Chris Gledhill caught my eye because it revealed that a staggering 70 percent would not open a bank account with Google. But why? Apple also has the support of Goldman Sachs and Mastercard, so it didnt make sense to me at first.
When comparing Apple Pay and Google Pay (Send), they both offer similar services: ability to use with credit and debit cards, credit card fees around 3 percent for merchants, free debit fees, withdrawal speed of up to one to three days and transfer limits of around $10,000.
However, despite Google Pay being compatible with Android, Web and iOS, Apple Pay transactions have reached above three billion, surpassing PayPal and leaving behind the far less popular Android NFC payment alternatives, according to Apple Insider. I then considered the brand psychology of Apple.
Trust
I spoke to consumer psychologist at digital marketing agency SYZYGY and lecturer at the University of the Arts London Dr Paul Marsden, who believes that the biggest digital disruption occurring today is not in technology, but inside peoples heads.
The way that technology has influenced our expectations, relationships and identity has meant that we require everything on-demand, from pizza to Netflix to sex. We are all chronically impatient.
Dr Marsden highlights that digital is creating a trust deficit in society, fueled by fake news, mass propaganda and substantial data breaches such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal and therefore, consumers are becoming less trusting of brands.
In a similar vein, when asked about the negative reaction towards news of the Google checking account, Roisin Levine, Head of Banks at Flux, also says that it could be down the growing concerns around the possible misuse of powerful data sets by tech companies.
Following Facebooks involvement in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, mistrust of Big Tech has (somewhat understandably) heightened and the argument to Break Up Big Tech is now commonly used during the current American political debate.
Looking at the drivers of trust, Dr Marsden illustrates how Apple has found a way of tackling the real cause of this trust deficit. The psychology of trust - whether its a human, brand or app - is based on two dimensions: competence and intention, can they help and do they care enough to want to help?
When looking into banking and what is driving the trust deficit in this industry, it is not that people feel that banks are incompetent managing our money, it is that they are uncaring. They do not want to help us, they want to harm us.
Health
However, since rumors of an Apple credit card emerged, the tech giant has focused exclusively on showing that the company cares about people and their financial health and wellbeing. In addition to this, Apple have continued to show that they are a privacy-first organization and have doubled down on ensuring customers are aware that they respect peoples security - that respect can translate to a sense of caring, Dr Marsden says.
On the subject of financial wellbeing, he says that it seems as if they have taken the Apple Health app and instead of fitness and activity rings, you have interest rings. They walk the talk of actual care. Financial health indexes are not new, but what Apple has tried to do is put the customer first and provide practical services that make it stand apart from heritage banks and fintech companies.
Apples simplicity and transparency is rebuilding trust and explains the success of the company. Why cant heritage banks and fintech companies do the same? They have revenue to think about. Dr Marsden adds: The reason Apple can do this because they dont actually have to make any money out of this. Banks and fintech startups have got shareholders or VCs breathing down their necks.
On this subject, Sam Maule, Managing Partner - North America at 11:FS says: Apples chief motivation for the Apple Card offering, in partnership with Goldman Sachs, is creating a deeper customer relationship centered around the Apple ecosystem.
And the Apple ecosystem is centered around hardware, specifically the iPhone. The concept for Apple is straightforward. The more transactional activity it can lock into the Apple ecosystem, the more loyal the Apple consumer is to the brand. And we all know how loyal Apple fans are to the brand.
Suresh Vaghjiani, CEO & Co-Founder of Tribe Payments, has a stronger view and claims that Google is often seen as a poor copycat - coming to the market with me-too offerings. Google Pay shortly after Apple Pay and now Google Checking after Apple, Amazon and Facebook have made major plays.
Privacy
It remains to be seen how much incremental changes such as removing card numbers from credit cards will impact security and financial crime, but in the short term, this is perhaps another way that the Apple brand is showing that it cares about its customers.
Dr Marsden adds: Whats smart about Apple is while other Big Tech companies are monetizing and manipulating consumer behavior by using their data, they have taken a stand against it, sometimes resulting in controversy e.g. when the police need to access a criminals phone.
Privacy is a fundamental human right; they have built that protection into their services. From a psychological perspective, it would be challenging for Uber to have the same effect with Uber Money, but not quite as challenging as Facebook using cryptocurrency.
Vaghjiani has a similar attitude and says: Apple has an incredibly strong brand and unrivalled track record when it comes to the users experience in particular it has taken a strong stance on privacy. Last month its iPhone advert said We believe your privacy should never be something you have to question.
While Adam Gibson, Executive Director, Skymind Global Ventures adds that Apples business model allows it to focus on prioritizing user privacy over selling ad targeting and Google gives away its software and collect data from it - so banking is just another scheme to collect data from its users, Alex Batlin, CEO, Trustology agrees and says that Apple has made a big play to sell products and services whereas Google has made its play in monetising data.
Levine takes this one step further. While the reaction Apple received was overwhelmingly positive which shows consumer appetite, criticisms of Googles new project may seem unfair as Google have explicitly said that it will not sell any of the data.
However, she adds that the keen eyed will note that Google are yet to say that they will not use any of the data for marketing purposes. It would seem obvious for Google to leverage their expertise in this area to potentially surface targeted advertisements based on spending habits and use this new information to prove conclusive ROI to merchant partners.
Maules view is that at its core, Google is an advertising company. While it is similar to Apple with respect to aligning users to the Android ecosystem, Googles key focus is on analysing customer transactional data with the intent of monetizing this information. And this is where the key difference between the two products differs.
How willing will consumers be for Google to have such access to their financial lives; even more importantly is how willing will consumers be for Google to profit from the monetization of this information?
Apple has addressed this head on by their insistent messaging concerning data privacy with respect to their financial product. Google has expressed the same messaging; however, their track record concerning consumer data and advertising data doesnt particularly align with this messaging.
However, Googles dataset analysis capabilities must not be undermined, especially when being compared to traditional banks. Google may be able to provide new levels of support to its banking partners around this and if they are able to demonstrate value to the Google Checking Account consumer base then they may be able to make a dent in the marketplace."
Bias
Since launching in the U.S., Apple have already got themselves involved in a sticky financial data situation and the tech giant was called out for gender bias within their credit algorithm.
Although Dr Marsden acknowledges that the tweet that was sent out caused a minor media storm, he states that as long as Apple can dissociate itself from the algorithm, given the power of the Apple brand, people will forgive and forget relatively rapidly.
The tweet was about credit limits and it can be spun both ways: Apple is unfairly putting men at increased risk of debt that they cant afford, or its saying that women cant pay debt.
Michael Kent, CEO, Azimo also believes this will happen: I dont think Apple is better than Google, its just that they have different core business models that mean people are more sensitive to privacy concerns around Google.
Witness the backlash to their cloud hosting deals in the healthcare sector where Amazon, IBM and Microsoft have far fewer problems. I do think its something the market will get over.
Robert Courtneidge, CEO of Moorwand, makes an interesting point. Not only has the Big Tech giant not made it in time to be first - Facebooks Libra launched in June, Apples credit card in August were also yet to see if it can be the best.
But Google wont be the only one that experiences this scrutiny. A bad air is settling around Big Tech banking that is becoming hard to brush off that could be why Google has opted to lead with Citigroups branding rather than its own. At this point, another venture gone wrong could be the nail in the coffin.
Nevertheless, a recent McKinsey survey has shown that 58 percent of US consumers say they would trust financial products from Google, 64 percent for Amazon and only 31 percent for Facebook.
Levine says that if Google is able to provide an enticing array of loyalty rewards and a great personal finance tool for customers, then it is difficult to see how this could not be a success given their brand and marketing capabilities.
Dr Marsden concludes by saying that it would be a relatively unfair comparison to pit the Apple credit card against the Google checking account. Its abstract because Googles product has not yet been launched. That said, with Google bidding for Fitbit and discussion around health record and data, it is important to remember that Google is not Apple.
Apple is building brand equity around the idea of privacy and Google is a company that makes money out of advertising.
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Ryuk ransomware attack on cloud hosting company affected 110 hospitals – TEISS
A Ryuk ransomware attack launched by Russian hackers targeting a cloud data hosting company resulted in as many as 110 hospitals being unable to access patient medical records and medication administration data that were stored in the company's servers.
The Ryuk ransomware attack targeted servers belonging to cloud hosting company Virtual Care Provider Inc. which is based in Mikwaukee, Visconsin on November 17 and as per the company's own admission, up to 20% of its servers were affected.
Virtual Care Provider Inc. provides cloud data hosting services to as many as 110 nursing homes and acute-care facilities in 45 states across the United States. The hackers who took control of the company's servers following the ransomware attack demanded $14 million (10.88 million) in exchange for returning the control over the hijacked servers but the company couldn't afford to pay that amount.
Karen Christianson, chief executive of Virtual Care Provider Inc. told security researcher Brian Krebs that the ransomware attack "affected virtually all of their core offerings, including Internet service and email, access to patient records, client billing and phone systems, and even VCPIs own payroll operations that serve nearly 150 company employees".
"We have employees asking when were going to make payroll. But right now all were dealing with is getting electronic medical records back up and life-threatening situations handled first," she said, adding that the company is working hard to restore all affected servers.
"We take seriously our responsibility to protect the security and privacy of our customers data and are working diligently to restore these systems as quickly and safely as possible. Our investigation remains ongoing. We regret any concern this may cause," said Virtual Care President Zachary Koch in a statement to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel during the weekend.
Alex Holden, the head of security firm Hold Security, told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that hackers behind the Ryuk ransomware attack on Virtual Care Provider Inc. slowly gained a foothold into the company's internal systems over the past 14 months by sending phishing emails to employees that contained malicious attachments.
Once employees started clicking on these emails, the hackers started taking over computer systems bit-by-bit, took down antivirus software, and finally gained access to administrative accounts using which they hijacked the entire network.
Hackers have extensively used the Ryuk ransomware since 2018 to target a number of companies in the United States and the rest of the world. Once of the earliest instances of the ransomware's deployment was discovered when hackers targeted the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in downtown Los Angeles, affecting distributions of newspapers from leading U.S. media organisations such as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Baltimore Sun.
"We believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal information," said a source to LA Times who also reported that computer experts at Tribune Publishing believed that the malware attack may have originated outside of the United States.
Sources at Tribune Publishing also told LA Times that the malware attack was possibly a "Ryuk" ransomware attack and that computer files corrupted because of the malware attack contained the extension .ryk..
In March this year, Jackson County in Georgia was forced to pay $400,000 in ransom to cyber criminals after a ransomware attack paralysed computer systems and email servers at all departments of the county, forcing County officials to rely only on phones and radio communication.
Because there was no backup, Jackson County was forced to acceed to the hackers' demands and had to pay $400,000 in ransom in exchange for decryption keys. Not accepting the hackers' demands would have led to a huge loss of data and would have cost the county millions to build new networks and to create fresh backups.
After the ransom was paid, Jackson County recovered all the data encrypted by cyber criminals. It was believed that the ransomware used by hackers in the attack was Ryuk, the one which was also used to target the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in December.
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Embrace the Journey of Technological Transformation – CIOReview
Yony Feng, Co-founder, CTO & CIO, Peloton Interactive
Yony Feng is Co-founder, and Chief Technology Officer at Peloton. After graduating from the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech with an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yony moved to the bay area to work for Silicon Valleys hottest companies such as Cisco, Skype, and Ticketfly. He was a key contributor and pioneer in event driven distributed systems, using asynchronous communication.
Today, Yony runs a processing platform that transcodes more than 600 hours of video a month as well as applications and services that power its real-time leaderboard serving more than 20,000 users competing simultaneously.
In the light of your experience, what are the trends and challenges youve witnessed in the AWS space?
Over the past decade, cloud hosting has evolved from providing a bare minimum service of hosting our process or posting our data in our own data center on a cloud platform to an increased focus on higher level of services, such as distributed data storage, distributed caching, and serverless processing. The focus is more on these value-added services, whether its for managing machines or implementing frameworks to run data pipeline on a cloud platform. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, now offers serverless offerings, such as AWS Lambda and AWS Glue, which enables data to be migrated and processed from one service to another more seamlessly.
With a large number of high-level abstract services being offered by AWS, one trend that is gaining momentum is complete end-to-end serverless tooling, such as AWS Lambda, application load balancing, and Dynamo DB. These services can be horizontally scaled and integrated with many other AWS high-level services. This abstracts away many of the complexities of managing virtual machines on the cloud platform. It simplifies standard hardware resource management, such as networking and hard-drive IOPS, and memory management as well. A word of caution, before migrating existing services into new AWS offerings, always be sure to understand the characteristics, limitations, and strengths of these high-level services.
The journey of technological transformation is not a sprint but a marathon, so I advise any aspirants in this industry to just pace themselves and absorb the technical journey before we actually embark on creating new technologies
Could you talk about your approach to identifying the right partnership providers from the lot?
To identify which partners to use or engage with, we need to have a clear understanding of what member-facing value-add the intended partnership is going to provide. Theres a due diligence phase of assessing a newly proposed partnership, versus an existing partnership, to provide us with the same incremental value-add for our members at home. Once this assessment phase is conducted, the gap in assessing the current coverage of our needs, any new initiatives, or evaluating different partners comes down to understanding how much more complexity we are adding to our architecture. This phase drives towards an ROI analysis of whether the benefits given to our members through the partnership are actually worth investing in. It also helps us keep the partnership solution simple and drive direct member benefits.
Could you elaborate on some interesting and impactful project/initiatives that youre currently overseeing?
We recently launched a new home screen for the Peloton Bike and Tread that revamped how we deliver the log in experience for our members at home. We leveraged the high-level services capabilities on AWS, driving towards personalized experiences for members. Enabled by data portability capability of AWS, this project allows our members to view personalized recommendations on a per-member basis.
How do you see the evolution of the AWS arena a few years from now concerning some of its potential disruptions and transformations?
Given the unique position of AWS in how involved it is in managing the compute, data, and process of transporting and accessing data, I think theres a massive opportunity for them to focus on a platform-wide security insight. Its a world of opportunity for AWS to change the landscape by focusing on the aspect of security and intelligence within the detection, monitoring, and reaction against any unintended data access and transport.
What are some of the key strategic points you adapt to steer the company ahead of the competition, and can you also draw an analogy between your hobbies and how they reflect on your leadership strategy?
Im an engineer at heart, so driving the passion for technology as a hobby at work and outside is vital to steering ahead of the competition. Im always exploring new systems, framework, language, or database and, hopefully, I inject the same passion and excitement for technology to my leadership team as well. I always warn my team to be open-minded to new technology and be objective in assessing how new technology can be a value-add to the company.
The core of how we drive our technology and business goals roadmap is to look at where the technology landscape is developing and evolving, find opportunities that are different from current architecture and then make the incremental drive towards becoming better. Besides, one of the critical aspects of aligning our technology in IT roadmap is being onboard with the whole notion of the members-first and deliver member value-added functionality enabled by technology. Although its not just about learning the current and future technology ecosystem but filtering the component of evolution that can be absorbed into the Peloton technology stack and have a meaningful impact on our members at home.
Do you have any suggestions or advice for budding entrepreneurs looking to embark on a similar professional journey along the lines of your service and area of expertise?
In the years Ive experienced in the technology industry, I have learned that theres more uncertainty, especially when we open our mind to the horizon of possibilities and product offerings. Both with new technology and strategy on the evolving technology landscape, one needs to look for trade-offs in new pieces of technology, be connected to what value it is offering to customers, and not just sprint or fad in it. The journey of technology transformation is not a sprint but a marathon, so I advise aspirants in this landscape to pace themselves and absorb the technical journey before embarking on creating new technologies.
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If tsoHost is lecturing us on sleep hygiene, Brit outfit really does have hosting back to front – The Register
UK hosting outfit tsoHost (the artist formerly known as TSO Host) continues to suffer the blacklist blues as email woes have continued to beset the company.
"Unbelievably, it's even worse!" remarked one Register reader as Microsoft blacklisted some of the company's addresses, making it somewhat tricky for affected customers to send emails to accounts hosted by the Windows giant. You know, minor stuff like Office 365, that sort of thing.
Things had tottered back after the incident in August, when customers were unable to send emails to Hotmail or Outlook addresses for more than a week.
This week's borkage looks to have started a week ago, with the company once more pointing the finger at Microsoft for blocking its IP addresses. The catalogue of naughtiness began with IP 95.142.156.174 due to its "reputation" on 18 November, before the Redmond gang moved on to webmail at 95.142.156.251. Gemini.servers.prgn.misp.co.uk and Nebula.servers.prgn.misp.co.uk were blacklisted yesterday.
The company's cloud hosting mail IP, 188.65.116.98, which is responsible for emails sending via contact forms, has been blacklisted for over two weeks now: "Our client [sic] may face bouncebacks when emails are send [sic] from their contact forms to Microsoft accounts. Please excuse us for the caused inconvenience."
It's not a great situation but, hey, there's always comfort from tsoHost's ("we know hosting back to front" geddit?) social media orifice with quizzes on typefaces and advice on good sleep hygiene.
You know, in case you're losing sleep over your hosting.
One of the company's emissions prompted the obvious question:
A good question, Nick.
Naturally, The Register attempted to contact TSO Host to get its take on the problems, but despite spending some quality time on hold, we've yet to receive a response.
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Join In For The IBM i On The Public Cloud Webinar – IT Jungle
November 25, 2019Timothy Prickett Morgan
After so many years of waiting, it looks like IBM i shops are going to have a wide variety of options when it comes to acquiring true cloud computing to either replace or augment their on premises systems.
IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Skytap all are offing slices of Power9 machines, which complement the cloudy and hosted infrastructure that has been available for a number of years from Connectria, iInTheCloud, UCG Technologies, LightEdge Solutions, Data Storage Corp, Source Data Products, Secure Information and Services, and First Option IT have offerings that fall on the spectrum from traditional hosting to cloud as well. There is clearly a lot going on here, after a decade and a half of waiting for what I used to call utility computing before Amazon Web Services uncloaked from stealth back in March 2006 and everyone started using its cloud metaphor.
On December 5 at 1 p.m. Eastern, we will be participating in a webinar being hosted by John Blair, founder and president of Blair Technology Solutions, to talk about all things cloud as they relate to the IBM i platform. We did a profile of Blair Technology back in early November, and the company is offering services layers on top of the public cloud offerings from IBM, Google, and Microsoft, which is partnering with Skytap because of the IBM i expertise that it has developed over several years.
The webinar will go over the current state of the cloud for IBM i as well as go over the various scenarios where cloud capacity makes sense initially for customers disaster recovery and high availability are the obvious starting points for IBM i shops and how this expands out to either running test/development in the cloud or moving applications wholesale to a public cloud and getting rid of on premises iron entirely. This is not a cheap option from an operational perspective, but it does add flexibility and that is worth something. We will also talk about the various assessment, migration services, and managed services that are layered on top of these public cloud offerings. There is still plenty of stuff that the big public clouds dont do for IBM i shops that a service provider like Blair Technology can fill in the gaps for. And rapid templating, something that Skytap has been doing, is also a key feature. Everything we said about IBM i also applies to AIX, of course.
The IBM Power on Public Cloud webinar will last for 45 minutes, including plenty of time for question and answer from the audience. You can sign up for the live webinar at this link, and we hope that you will do so. We look forward to sharing our thoughts about IBM i on the cloud and hearing yours.
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Global Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) Market 2018-2022 | Evolving Opportunities with IBM and iland | Technavio – Business Wire
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IBM
IBM is headquartered in the US and offers products through the following business units: Cognitive Solutions, Global Business Services, Technology Services and Cloud Platforms, Systems, and Global Financing. The company offers various services such as IBM Resiliency DRaaS and IBM cloud virtualized server recovery.
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Sungard Availability Services is headquartered in the US and offers products through the following business segments: Cloud and Hosting Services, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Data and Disaster Recovery Centers, and Managed Application Cloud.
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DHA SDD Shifting Health IT Outlook for 2020 – GovernmentCIO Media
The division's upcoming contracts are eyeing rationalization, optimization, cost reduction and optimization.
The Defense Health Agency's engineering branch'sfuture health IT initiatives will focus on rationalization, optimization, cost reduction and modernization.
"ROCM," as Solution Delivery Division Chief Col. Francisco Dominicci calls it, is a new perspective for the agency unveiledat the DHA Industry Day in San Antonio Nov. 21. Those four elements play different roles throughout SDDs IT activities, but they ultimately fuel each other in a cyclical manner, he said.
Rationalization, he said, has led to realizing the efficiencies of creating a common electronic health record, which DHA has launched withMHS GENESIS. Similar to what the agency accomplished with MHS GENESIS, optimizing from a data perspective is key to SDDs work.
As DHA continues to rationalize and optimize, cost reduction follows, Dominicci explained. This will allow the agency toconsolidate contracts, leading to increased efficiency. Finally, DHA can realize its modernization efforts through efforts such as migrating to the cloud, whether on milCloud or other platforms.
We need to be innovative, entrepreneurial, boldand risk tolerant, Dominicci said. In order to do this, SDD will have to adopt a mindset that will drive continuous rationalization, optimization, cost reduction and modernization.
With the new foundation that Dominicci set for SDD, other leaders from the division presented some of DHA's major and upcoming contracts in 2020 within that framework.
DHA Chief Technology Officer Nick Saund, for instance, presented a Platform-as a Service solution contract, which he said would help DHA centralize its currently disparate applications, and how it fits intothe Dominicci's ROCM vision.
DHA applications are currently isolated and difficult to run in a common environment, Saund said. Not only would moving toward platform as a service create commonality among DHA apps, but it would work in line with the ROCM strategy Dominicci outlined.
Once again, its more cost effective. Once again, that component is reusable across the board for all of the consuming applications that are operating on our platform, Saund said. So in the spirit of ROCM, it actually gives you the ability to rationalize, optimize, save money, [and]modernize.
Saund said that the single-platform approach DHA seeksin thecontract upholds ROCM, as it would require the agency to modernize in a way so that DHA could forma solution once and continue to build off of its applications and solutions from there. With this strategy, the agency wouldn't have to start from scratch in building and maintaining disparate applications, thereby allowingDHA to be agile, efficient, cost-cutting, and optimized, Saund added.
The agency is looking at software architectures that are microservices or service-oriented, are modular andcan be easily replaced without replacing the entire model, Saund said.
The platform-as-a-service contractrequirements point to the values ROCM sets for SDD, Saund said, andcall forautomated processes, which Saund said could help SDD build the platform once and continue to build on it speeding up processes and delivery time.
Platform mobility and portability in terms of cloud-hosting environments is critical to the solution, Saund added. With the various cloud environments on which DHA runs, a multi-cloud management strategy will be key to platform as a service as it will make sure applications can easily move between cloud environments and have seamless services across them.
As we know that our cloud-hosting environments changes as leadership changes, direction changes our cloud environments ... will be focusedin AWS or Azure, milCloud," Saund said."The point here is we need to be able to have portability across those clouds."
Ultimately, ROCM and the significant IT initiatives DHA plans to take on in 2020 will require industry to focus on thinking outside the box, Saund said, adding that he wants industry partners to help DHA succeed with innovative engineering, analysisand design.
Existing key contracts, including"Care and Benefits Integrated Systems" and "Electronic Institutional Review Board," use this new strategy.DHA hopes to launch the platform-as-a-service contract April 1.
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4 Popular Types of Website Hosting That You Need to Know – India West
Website hosting services essentially act as a place to house your website when you publish it online. But not all web hosting services are the same, and as a matter of fact there are several distinct types out there.
Before you get stuck in and start to look at the storage capacity, bandwidth, and other miscellaneous features that web hosts provide you should first determine the type of web hosting service you require. The good news is that in general there are four types that are the most popular, and should be at the top of your list.
As its name suggests this type of hosting will involving sharing a server. If you choose to use it, your website will be housed on a server alongside hundreds or possibly even thousands of others.
Because so many users share the same server, the cost of shared hosting is cheaper than any other type of hosting service. However at the same time all those websites are going to be sharing the same RAM, CPU, bandwidth and other server resources so the performance will be low.
Although many shared hosting packages claim to offer unlimited storage or bandwidth, it is often an empty promise. The truth is that once you go over the fine print youll find that shared hosting is more limited than any other option.
Technically VPS hosting involves sharing a server too, but the difference is that each website is hosted in its own dedicated virtualized space that acts as its own server. That means that although the physical server is shared, each website will have their own distinct set of resources to work with.
For all intents and purposes VPS hosting acts like a dedicated server and gives you full control over the virtualized server. The resources that are available can be scaled up or down as required too subject to certain limitations.
Generally speaking there is no significant disadvantage to this type of website hosting, only the cost is higher and it can be more difficult to set up. At times however hosting providers oversell their VPS servers which can result in users not getting the resources that were promised.
Overall however VPS hosting is a great middle-ground between shared hosting and a dedicated server.
If you use a dedicated server, youll essentially be exclusively leasing an entire physical server. Simply put youll have full control over the server, and can decide exactly what you want to do with it.
Although this is generally the most expensive type of hosting service, it is also the one that has the potential to provide the best performance, flexibility, and scalability. It will enable you to customize the server based on your requirements and optimize it to fit your needs.
Aside from the cost, the main downside of hosting your website on a dedicated server is that you need the technical expertise to set up and maintain the server. It is possible to find managed dedicated servers or hire a server administrator but both will cost even more.
In many ways cloud hosting shares a lot in common with VPS hosting, except your website and data will be hosted on a network of servers. Effectively it combines the network of servers into a virtualized machine, and allocated resources as required.
One of the main reasons why cloud hosting has become popular in recent years is that it is both scalable and flexible. Most providers will bill you based on the resources that you use, and you can scale it up or down as necessary.
Additionally the built-in redundancy that comes with having your website hosted on several servers can help to reduce the risk of downtime and data loss. Suffice to say unlike other types of hosting you wont have to worry about having a single point of failure.
The disadvantages of cloud hosting are that its costs can add up if you arent careful, and at times security can be a concern. Both these issues can be mitigated as long as youre careful however.
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Make no mistake there are a few other types of web hosting services that are relatively popular, such as managed hosting and co-location. However the four listed above are far more popular and odds are you should be able to find the type that you need from among them.
After you determine the type of website hosting that you feel is the best fit, you can then start to look at the various packages that are available. Ideally your goal should be to find one that matches your requirements and provides both the resources and features that you need.
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Is IT prepared for life in the fast lane of multi-cloud? – – Enterprise Times
The time has passed when organisations were content with gradually moving data and applications out of costly on-premises data centres and into the cloud. Now, the strategic imperative is to create IT environments that can support emerging technologies such as IoT, edge computing, AI and 5G. It has businesses opening the floodgates to migrate everything to a multi-cloud utopia ASAP.
At first there was a cloud first strategy. This was where new applications and workloads were developed in the cloud and legacy applications were slowly migrated over. Cloud NOW! is the new mandate where on-premises legacy and mission-critical applications are all subject to migration.
Businesses are laser-focused on getting to a resilient, high performance, future-proof cloud infrastructure ASAP. But they shouldnt gloss over the challenges along the way. Forrester research indicates that 50 percent of digital transformation efforts stall. One of the primary reasons is lack of preparation. Depending on your viewpoint, digital transformation is either your end goal, or the foundation you need for next generation technology. Either way, to benefit from whats next, we need to better prepare.
Making the decision to move to the cloud is just the start. It throws up a wealth of questions to address before the project can succeed. Over the past decade, iland has been helping customers answer those questions in relation to cloud hosting, cloud-based disaster recovery and cloud backup solutions. Ultimately, the multi-cloud or bust drive will likely happen.
We will adopt multiple clouds. But, we should focus on adopting one cloud strategy first, so the multi-cloud movement doesnt inflict unnecessary pain, risk or excessive cost. We should also make sure we are in a position to anticipate risk factors before they become complications. Its about getting your house in order before exposing your cloud infrastructure to the added pressures of multiple clouds or emerging technology.
In our experience, businesses must address six key areas for their multi-cloud ambitions to be successful:
You need visibility and control over your data before you innovate. However, the proliferation of cloud services makes it easy for anyone with a credit card to set up a SaaS-based application or storage site. The moment they do, the corporate data that theyre sharing and storing goes beyond the business control. In todays data protection environment, this constitutes an unacceptable security and compliance risk that must be prevented.
To solve this problem, you need a two-prong approach. First, identify why business units take matters into their own hands. Is it down to impatience with IT backlogs? Lack of respect for data protection policies? Demand for facilities you didnt offer or support? Once you address this question, you must implement a corporate cloud policy that restricts new, unauthorized cloud-based resources to give IT and security personnel full visibility over what data is in the cloud and where.
Cloud transition is all about finding the right fit. This is more than preventing over- or under-provisioning resources. Its also about getting your critical data, existing applications and workloads transitioned securely to the cloud with minimal disruption, and without rewriting them. Its also about finding a cloud that fits your broad business needs including those indicated by shadow IT cloud services that you want to eventually control.
If, for example, you operate a VMware environment on-premises, it makes sense to choose a cloud service provider with the expertise to support migration of virtualised applications and ensure the specific performance you need in the cloud. Getting this right early in your migration gives you the best chance of realising your goals.
In todays high-risk cybersecurity environment, security and compliance are more than something you check off. View them through the lens of business needs and risks. For example, there may be a geographic stipulation regarding data storage for GDPR compliance, or industry-specific security standards to meet if you operate in finance or healthcare.
Offering compliant cloud services is merely table-stakes for CSPs. Security environments are constantly changing. This requires businesses to develop ongoing, constructive CSP partnerships for expertise to support scheduled audits, security breaches or emerging threats. You need to know that you can call someone for informed counsel when the stakes are high to make the right decisions for your business.
As mentioned earlier, many businesses are pushing a cloud now strategy for critical applications to achieve the end-goals. But when planning how to get there, it is important to look at how to manage the journey. Some providers offer software and infrastructure but will not manage the migration process itself. Others offer a concierge service to migrate customer data to the cloud.
Your approach depends on how much in-house resource and expertise you need to support your project. A fully managed concierge approach is likely a better bet if you are already stretched. Consultancy fees can be costly and add up if you run into issues part-way through your migration. Its better to have your migration journey mapped out and managed to avoid nasty surprises.
Aim for a multi-layered approach to data protection that safeguards data based on its value and vulnerability. Mission-critical applications need a backup plan and disaster recovery solution that includes an off-premises backup. Use a mirror site to keep this separate from your production environment. This also ensures that data is protected based on its value and associated risk.
Visibility and management are often a common barrier when migrating to the cloud. However, it is possible to achieve the same level of familiarity, visibility and control over a cloud environment similar to an on-premises infrastructure, including security, costs and performance across the full stack available for management and reporting. This is the final key to gaining the benefits of moving to the cloud.
The urgency to transition fully to the cloud is understandable. But unless you focus on getting your house in order first, you could find that your projects cant achieve your stated goals. Get one cloud (and associated operational policies) done right before you deliberately adopt multiple clouds. Its a case of more haste, less speed. Focusing on key aspects of the migration journey and looking at how your business governs cloud use, security, data protection and compliance will pay off in the long term.
iland is a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS). They are recognised by industry analysts as a leader in disaster recovery. The award-winning iland Secure Cloud Console natively combines deep layered security, predictive analytics and compliance to deliver unmatched visibility and ease of management for all of ilands cloud services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas and London, UK, iland delivers cloud services from its data centres throughout the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia.
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