BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acquia today announced that its Drupal Cloud and Acquia DAM (formerly Widen Collective) solutions have been named as market Leaders by G2, the worlds largest software marketplace, in its Fall Grid Reports.

This recognition is based on responses from real users to questions about digital experience platforms (DXPs), digital asset management (DAM), web content management (WCM), and web hosting featured in the G2 review forms. Corresponding products are Acquia Open DXP, Acquia DAM, Acquia CMS and Code Studio devops tools for Drupal, and Acquia Cloud Platform, respectively. Acquia Marketing Cloud was also named a High Performer in the Mid-Market Grid Report for Marketing Automation.

Hearing the voices of real users is critical not only to Acquia, but to any organization evaluating digital experience solutions, said Deanna Ballew, SVP of DXP Products at Acquia. G2 responses bring to light how products and services are really being used so technology buyers and users can easily weigh their advantages.

Acquia products achieved Leader recognition in 20 G2 reports including the Enterprise Grid Report for Web Hosting | Fall 2022 and the Enterprise Relationship Index for Digital Asset Management | Fall 2022 by receiving positive reviews from verified users compared to similar products. For inclusion in the report a product must have received 10 or more reviews.

Rankings on G2 reports are based on data provided to us by real software buyers, said Sara Rossio, Chief Product Officer at G2. Potential buyers know they can trust these insights when researching and selecting software because theyre rooted in vetted, verified, and authentic reviews.

Learn more about what real users have to say, or leave your own review of Acquias products, on G2s review pages:

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Many businesses that would benefit from the blockchain have been avoiding it. Its carbon footprint, expense, and links to volatile cryptocurrencies contributed to blockchain harbouring a toxic reputation that it couldnt shake, and businesses wouldnt touch.

That was until the Merge. This now widely used term references the restructure of the worlds largest programmable blockchain: Ethereum. Put simply, this September the cryptography driving the system has been switched from proof of work (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS). This essentially replaced the huge, energy-intensive computers that were the networks core validators, with individuals and companies. It is expected to reduce the energy consumption of Ethereum by 99% and reduce the global use of energy by 0.02%, according to Vitalik Buterin, improving its sustainability significantly. The Surge, the epilogue to the Merge, will eventually increase capacity and lower fees on the network.

Its clearly a significant step towards bringing Ethereum into the mainstream and it marks an evolution of blockchain technology. But what does blockchains improved reputationreally mean for institutional use?

Press coverage has focused on more widespread crypto usage; however, the real impact will be on the institutional side particularly within financial services. Now the stage is set for innovations, it is likely that parts of the industry may turn towards decentralised infrastructure. Blockchain can offer safe and secure transaction processing at a fraction of the cost, particularly when compared to the enormous expense and burden of todays systems.

This has never been more relevant. The digital asset market is maturing significantly just as its traditional counterpart enters a period of turmoil and uncertainty. As the world hurtles towards another recession, businesses will be examining how to save money and cut costs. A greener, more cost-efficient blockchain could form part of the answer and reduce the institutions huge IT expenditures.

If implemented correctly, blockchain could save billions in infrastructure and associated IT costs. Rather than paying for service level agreements, data centres, cloud hosting and other services, financial institutions can and will leverage blockchain infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of running the same transactions in-house. Cost efficiencies aside, tokenisation could improve several areas within asset management specifically, such as issuance, exchange and servicing as well as simplify processes involving a host of intermediaries. Potential benefits include improved access to, and personalisation of, investment solutions.

For private equity, blockchain could enable fractional ownership and decentralised funds, which will not only increase transparency, but create more flexibility around liquidity for what could previously only be long-term, locked-in investments.

However, there is still a missing piece of the puzzle to be considered: interoperability. For true mainstream adoption of blockchain to occur within businesses, users need to be able to transact across multiple networks. Currently, it is not particularly easy to share information from one blockchain to another. To put this into context, if interoperability within email communication had never been achieved, Outlook users wouldnt be able to send messages to Gmail accounts and vice versa.

Even if widespread adoption did occur as a result of the Merge, until different blockchains including Ethereum can communicate with one another effectively, the full benefits of the technology for businesses will not be unlocked.

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Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services like servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the Internet or the cloud. It enables organizations to innovate faster, have flexible resources, and economies of scale. Here, organizations pay only for the cloud services they use, which reduces the operating costs and runs the infrastructure more efficiently.

Cloud computing is a big change from the traditional way businesses use IT resources. Recent years witnessed a huge surge in companies going for cloud adoption due to digitization and new technology developments.

Most cloud computing services can be categorized as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), serverless computing and software as a service (SaaS). The cloud has allowed businesses of all sizes to be more efficient and independent. As the cloud industry grows and new technology develops, entrepreneurs and innovators will continue to push the industry to new levels.

The United States is known for having many entrepreneurs working on the new technologies. This makes it a good place for making new cloud-based products. It is the breeding place for almost 2065 cloud companies.

At the second spot is the United Kingdom with 262 cloud companies. Here, the government has recently set core objectives to sustain strategic advantage in its technological developments by 2023. European countries, including Sweden, France, and the Netherlands boast widely diverse clusters of cloud-based companies and feature more on the top 20 than any other continent.

Canada, China and India occupy the third, fourth and fifth spots with 169, 157, 156 cloud companies respectively.

The United States is known for hosting some of the worlds best cloud computing businesses. These include both longstanding businesses and startups. California leads the pack with 842 cloud companies in the state alone. Silicon Valley, located in the North California region, has long been known as the global center for high technology and innovation with cloud companies spanning across the state, from Santa Clara to Palo Alto and Cupertino to Irvine.

New York (151) and Texas (148) are respectively making their own paths in the East and South regions of the United States. These 299 businesses are much less in comparison to Californias cloud catalogue. However, these have the potential to grow and develop in the future.

The United States has a long history of being a key player in the cloud business. But other countries are catching up, and the future could look very different. The snapshot below shows the top 5 up-coming countries for cloud entrepreneurs. They have been listed based on the number of cloud-based startups in the last 5 years and plotted against the population of each country to show the true scale of growth.

Israel is having a rapidly growing cloud startup economy as the country can boast of 76 cloud startups founded since 2017. It has the highest proportion of cloud-based businesses per million people, which is 8.4.

Another country that is showing significant growth in cloud business is Singapore. It will possess exemplary cloud computing skills in the future. 33 cloud computing startups were founded in Singapore over the last 5 years. Its proportion of cloud startups per million people is 5.5. Moreover, Singapore has a relatively low corporate tax rate of 17% and has internet speeds of 211 Mbps, one of the fastest in the world.

Despite being a comparatively small island, Cyprus is another cloud center to look out for. It has a low corporate tax rate of 12.5%. Its Cypriot Investment Program offers citizenship in a faster pace for foreign investors. 5 cloud computing startups were founded here since 2017. Many more startups are expected to spring up in the very near future.

eStruxture, based in Montreal, is the largest Canadian network and colocation data center provider. It has received the most funding since its inception in 2017. The business received investments totaling over $919 million from huge investors like the National Bank of Canada. It has data centers in 15 Canadian locations.

Kitopi is based in Dubai and offers services for restaurants enabling them to open delivery-only locations. It raised over $800 million in investment since 2018. Kitopi now operates with a dual strategy. It combines cloud kitchen tech with insights from traditional restaurants. This is enabling more extensive data collection for their customers.

Group 42, also referred to as G42 is based in UAE. It has attracted substantial amounts of funding. The Silver Lake and Mubadala backed business managed to raise $800 million towards its AI-focused endeavors over its 4 years of trading.

Megazone Cloud is an AWS Cloud MSP and leads the Korea Cloud Market since 2012 when it was selected as the first AWS official partner in Korea. Backed by Salesforce Ventures, MBK Partners, KB Financial Group, Korea Investment Partners and Korea Development Bank, Megazone Cloud managed to garner an investment of $673 million.

Axonius, based in New York, offers infrastructure and security operations solutions. It was able to raise a funding of $665 million.

The cloud computing industry is booming and shows no signs of slowing down. Although 2017 was the year of cloud computing, this industry is expected to grow even more in the years to come. With businesses becoming increasingly digitized and reliant on technology, its no surprise that cloud adoption will continue to rise.

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Industrial protocols are communications between industrial automation products for data acquisition or control. In the infancy of industrial automation, communications were very much a competitive differentiator, and automation vendors invented their own communication protocols to both develop a technical advantage and, to some extent, lock in their customer base. This has, of course, changed over the years and vendors have opened up their protocols, even treating them as industry standards in order to broaden adoption. Vendors realized that suppliers with the largest ecosystem of products to choose from will have a greater likelihood of winning parts of a project, if not the entire project. Vendors also realized that it is challenging to be an expert in all areas of automation. Lets explore several types of industrial protocols and those that may be compatible with cloud applications.

Over time, the manufacturing marketplace became dominated by a set of protocols, understandably from the leading suppliers of automation products. Before discussing which are best for the cloud, we can discuss some of the most common industrial protocols. These include protocol names such as Modbus, EthernetIP, Profinet, CC-Link, EtherCAT, etc. Many of these protocols are available in different forms, to address varying topologies dedicated wires vs. Ethernet, for example and different purposes (general information transfer vs. deterministic control).

Efforts in standardization over the years brought us technology from the OPC Foundation, which was initially Microsoft technology-based, leveraging COM and DCOM Windows technologies for communications between applications. Hence, the delivery of OPC (OLE for Process Control OLE being an acronym for Object Linking and Embedding the technology behind COM).

OPC brought standards for accessing data, either polling or subscribing, and the definition of different data types and how to handle them (Analog and Discrete variables, History Data, Alarms, and Events, among others). In time, this standardization effort moved from being Windows technology-centric to being Operating System-agnostic, to supporting Linux and delivering functionality that would be applicable to Internet-based communications.

The new standard was called OPC UA with OPC now representing Open Process Communications and UA representing Unified Architecture, one standard to replace the many earlier standards that had developed.

Another technology, more focused on the transport of messages and less focused on the content of messages came out of the need for a very distributed infrastructure with limited bandwidth, as can be found in the upstream oil and gas marketplace. This protocol is called MQTT. Its application in the industrial automation marketplace, especially for cloud communications, has become quite popular in recent years.

Vertical markets present unique requirements and have fostered the need for unique developments. In the Building Automation Systems (BAS) space, the leading protocol is called BACnet. In the Power Generation and Distribution space, there are a number of protocols, IEC-61850, 60870, DNP-3, among others.

Over time, these protocols have also lived on various topologies, and most today, offer Ethernet compatibility.

The benefits of cloud computing are numerous and compelling. They include:

The cloud can take several forms, from a solution delivered by industry leaders such as Microsoft and Amazon to more scaled offerings for targeted markets. Finally, there are just hosted solutions, moving on-premise servers to virtual servers in the cloud, but still fully managed by the owners IT staff.

The purpose of cloud computing is to offer a lower total cost of ownership through reductions in system management and hardware ownership and the ability to leverage solutions provided by others.These third-party solutions are often purpose-built for a market and offer multi-tenant capability, letting the service provider manage many customers while offering data and user isolation. The concept of cloud computing, especially for the industrial marketplace, is still in its infancy and companies are wrestling with both cloud connectivity and the idea of hosting their data outside their four walls.

But again, the benefits are compelling: reduced operating costs and domain experts that have developed vertical market applications that only require connectivity to the right data. There is one other very compelling benefit. Service providers have the ability to leverage knowledge gained over their large array of customers and deliver greater value to an individual customer. So, the failure mode of a product in one environment can be predicted by the failure modes learned from other environments. This results in the potential for predictive analytics, tuned by the results and anonymization of data from a similar ecosystem of users. When connecting to the cloud, its important to consider which industrial protocols will work best for the application.

The considerations in leveraging cloud-based solutions fall into two main categories

Security is often managed through the use of VPNs (Virtual Private Networks). This is an excellent solution for bi-directional communications and ad-hoc communications as it is set up for remote troubleshooting purposes. When using VPNs for ad hoc access, customers can leverage solutions to secure and broker access to endpoints in a very methodical and controlled way.This can include approval processes, windows of access and time limitations, and extra levels of authentication.

For information transfer to the cloud, it is becoming more popular to use publish-subscribe models, and connection brokers to maximize security. Remote sites will publish data to a known and very secure connection, and users of the data, cloud applications, will subscribe to the data through a broker, eliminating application knowledge of remote communication details that represent a vulnerability. Microsoft IoT Hub is an excellent example of this technology.

Not all industrial protocols are compatible with cloud applications, nor should they be. Without getting into each protocol and defining if it can be connected to a cloud, it will suffice to say that an overall solution to the connectivity issue will be to deploy an edge device technology that will handle the communications to your IT and OT environment on one side and the requirements for cloud data transfer on the other. These devices are beginning to proliferate in the market, some with specific cloud connectivity built in, and others with more of a toolkit approach, which can be flexible in their configuration. Most are designed with data transfer as their only function while others support data modeling, analytics, and visualization, in addition to data transfer.

From an OT perspective, we are again talking about a myriad of protocols and the purpose they have been defined for. And as mentioned before, some networks are designed for deterministic performance, for example, the communications between a PLC and a SERVO Drive. Protocols such as these are difficult to share without impacting their performance. Data sharing will be accomplished by communicating with the controller, not devices on a control network. Other, more general-purpose protocols are often easily connected to a cloud gateway (edge device) in order to share information with the cloud.

Ethernet has been improved significantly over time, both in topology and performance, initially being focused on coax and now over twisted pair and delivering speeds over 1 gigabit. A more recent enhancement is in the area of device synchronization and the ability to shape traffic. These features, and more, fall into an area of Ethernet enhancement called TSN (Time Sensitive Networking). TSN delivers the ability to prioritize communications on Ethernet and also control the bandwidth of traffic. The overall benefits in the long term are a greater ability to troubleshoot with access to all devices, a reduction in costs through simplified architectures and the ability to expose all information to cloud systems.

Even with the breadth of industrial protocols on the market, it is now possible to connect virtually any automaton solution to the cloud, safely and securely, either directly or using edge gateways. The challenges we face today are in the area of education and justification, but the benefits are many.

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Astute Analytica released a new market report on theglobal cloud computing in higher education market.This in-depth study of theCloud Computing in Higher Education Marketincludes inputs, information, and data from primary and secondary sources that have been evaluated and verified by specialists in the target market.

The globalCloud Computing in Higher Education Market size was US$ 2,693.5 Millionin 2021 toUS$ 15,180.1 Millionby 2030, growing at a CAGR of20%from 2022 to 2030.

Along with significant data and other pertinent information, the report also covers market growth drivers, key trends for the present and the future, resources that can help to potentially expand the market into untapped regions, and market growth drivers forCloud Computing in Higher Education Market.

The research offers a comprehensive analysis of revenues, the COVID-19 effect, significant developments, strategies, historical data, and information by key competitors that provide essential perspectives and insights into various market scenarios.

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Cloud computing in higher education provides an online platform for educational institutes through various applications and subscription models. In this era of technology, employing latest IT technologies and services in higher education assists teachers, administrators and students in their education related activities. Cloud computing in higher education centrally manages the various business processes such as student and course management, helps teachers in uploading learning materials, students to access their homework, administrators to easily collaborate with each other and library management among others.Cloud computing segment is gaining majority of the spenders from high income group as well as skilled share of people from around the world.

On the basis of institute type, thetechnical schools are estimated to hold the highest market share in 2021 and is also expected to project the highest CAGR over the forecast period owing to increasing demand for cloud computing in technical schools.Moreover, based on ownership,private institutes segment is anticipated to hold the largest market share owing to increasing funding in private institutes for adoption of cloud computing services. Whereas, the public institutes segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR over forecast period. Furthermore, in terms of application, administration application holds a major share in the cloud computing in higher education in 2021. Whereas, unified communication is expected to project the highest CAGR over the forecast period due to increasing trend of e-learning. In addition to this, by deployment, the hybrid cloud segment held the largest market share in 2021.

Market Dynamics and Trends

Drivers

The increasing adoption of SaaS based cloud platforms in higher education, increasing adoption of e-learning, increasing IT spending on cloud infrastructure in educationand increasingapplication of quantum computing in education sectorwill boost the global cloud computing in higher education market during the forecast period. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a type of delivery model of cloud computing. In the higher education sector, SaaS applications include hosting various management systems for educational institutes and managing other activities. Moreover, higher education industry witnesses an increased adoption of e-learning due to its easy accessibility and high effectiveness. Users such as drop-outs, transfer learners, full-time employees are increasingly relying on e-learning trainings and education to upgrade their skills. Furthermore, higher education institutes are rapidly moving towards cloud-based services to save an intensive IT infrastructure cost and boost efficiency of operations.

Restraints

Cybersecurity and data protection risks, lack of compliance to the SLAand legal and jurisdiction issues is a restraining factor which inhibits the growth of the market during the forecast period. Issues related to data privacy pose threats in interest to mitigation of higher education institutions to the cloud. There are federal regulations for higher education institutes along with state and local laws to manage information security in the education environment. Moreover, the level of complexity in the cloud is high, which usually complies with several service providers and thus makes it hard for users to make changes or intervene. Also, the cloud computing industry faces various legal and jurisdiction issues that can run into years due to regional laws.

Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market Country Wise Insights

North AmericaCloud Computing in Higher EducationMarket-

US holds the major share in terms of revenue in theNorth Americacloud computing in higher education market in 2021 and is also projected to grow with the highest CAGR during the forecast period. Moreover, in terms of institute type, technical schools hold the largest market share in 2021.

EuropeCloud Computing in Higher EducationMarket-

Western Europeis expected to project the highest CAGR in theEuropecloud computing in higher education market during forecast period. Wherein,Germanyheld the major share in theEuropemarket in 2021 because there is high focus on innovations obtained from research & development and technology adoption in the region.

Asia PacificCloud Computing in Higher EducationMarket-

Indiais the highest share holder region in theAsia Pacificcloud computing in higher education market in 2021and is expected to project the highest CAGR during the forecast period owing to potential growth opportunities, as end users such as schools and universities are turning toward cloud services in order to offer high quality services that help users to collaborate, share and track multiple versions of a document.

South AmericaCloud Computing in Higher EducationMarket-

Brazilis projected to grow with the highest CAGR in theSouth Americacloud computing in higher education market over the forecast period. Furthermore, based on ownership, private institutes segment holds the major share in 2021 in theSouth Americacloud computing in higher education market owing to increasing funding in private institutes for adoption of cloud computing services.

Middle EastCloud Computing in Higher EducationMarket-

Egyptis the highest share holder region in 2021 and UAE is projected to grow with the highest CAGR during the forecast period. Moreover, in terms of application, administration holds a major share in the cloud computing in higher education in 2021. Whereas, unified communication is expected to project the highest CAGR over the forecast period due to increasing trend of e-learning.

AfricaCloud Computing in Higher EducationMarket-

South Africais the highest share holder region in theAfricacloud computing in higher education market in 2021. Furthermore, by deployment, the private cloud segment is expected to witness the highest CAGR during forecast period due to the security benefits provided by the private deployment of the cloud.

Competitive Insights

GlobalCloud Computing in Higher Education Market is highly competitive in order to increase their presence in the marketplace. Some of the key players operating in the global cloud computing in higher education market include Dell EMC, Oracle Corporation, Adobe, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., NEC Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, IBM Corporation, Salesforce.com, Netapp, Ellucian Company L.P., Vmware, Inc and Alibaba Group among others.

Segmentation Overview

Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market is segmented based on institute type, ownership, application, deployment and region. The industry trends in the global cloud computing in higher education market are sub-divided into different categories in order to get a holistic view of the global marketplace.

Following are the different segments of the Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market:

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By Institute Type segment of the Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market is sub-segmented into:

By Ownership segment of the Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market is sub-segmented into:

By Application segment of the Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market is sub-segmented into:

By Deployment segment of the Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market is sub-segmented into:

By Region segment of the Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market is sub-segmented into:

North America

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Western Europe

Eastern Europe

Asia Pacific

South America

Middle East

Africa

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