It is vital for companies to be on top of the latest trends in business and technology. One key development thats changed business operations over the past decade is cloud computing. This article will discuss just what cloud computing is, as well as how it has benefited businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Business success has always been influenced by the technology thats available to us. This is especially true when it comes to supporting the growth of companies on a global scale. Enterprises are being forced to adopt new technologies, which is having a huge impact on smaller enterprises and large corporations. New tech like blockchain, AI, and QuickBooks premier cloud hosting will be highly useful for small businesses looking for ways to work more effectively and grow their profits faster using some of the leading IT developers who help present real-life solutions you can use in your business model once you've identified your needs.

Although using cloud-based platforms was once an option for companies a few years ago, it has now become a necessity. And regardless of your company's size, a growing number of businesses from large corporations to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) - are implementing cloud-based ERP solutions to boost their operational efficiencies and gain a competitive edge.

Here are some advantages associated with implementing cloud tech in your business

Increased agility & flexibility

Moving to a cloud-based platform is ideal for businesses whose bandwidth demands are constantly fluctuating or growing because it provides access to an array of performance levels that align with the needs of your business at any given time. It means your business can easily adapt by scaling up or down at anytime.

Disaster recovery solutions

A solid disaster recovery plan should be an essential part of any business plan. But sometimes, it's hard for SMEs to find the time or resources to implement this. Cloud computing can help SMEs through its use of remote servers, meaning businesses no longer need local IT teams.

Server maintenance

The real beauty of cloud services is the servers are located off-site, which means you dont have to worry about them. Your service provider will ensure all the software updates (including security) because they host your software or applications on their servers. This way, you just need to focus on using those applications and not maintaining them yourself.

Pay as you go model

Another great advantage of using cloud services is that they do not require one to spend a large amount on hardware. Cloud hosting services are subscription based, so you can pay as you go without having to plan for an entire year at once, which will help your business keep its cash flow going strong!

Easier collaboration among employees

Your employees can conduct themselves in a highly productive manner if they've easy access to your company's information and applications. A cloud-hosted platform helps keep teams collaborating on files more easily, faster, and effectively.

Streamlining of document management system

What could be extra helpful than storing files everywhere on our systems and devices?

Allowing your business document to be at one central place. Cloud hosting platforms centralize the storage of files and allow easy collaboration with tools that are built right into the cloud software. This results in easier collaboration and transparency which ultimately leads to better workflow.

Having a unified system that brings everyone in the organization on the same page is crucial for standardizing business operations whether it's an online platform or integrated systems used by your company as part of your organizational structure.

Additional security

Hosted services are a safe and secure way of running your company. The host takes care of the security, ensuring your data is safely stored in highly secure off-site servers so you never have to worry about whether or not theyre staying safe and secure. Additionally, hosting companies also have disaster recovery and backup modes ready to save your data in the event that it gets lost, stolen or damaged on their end.

Final Words

A few decades or so ago, it was just a common belief that companies need to be in the clouds when it comes to their accounting software - something which has now become not only a preferred option for organizations of all sizes but also an absolute necessity. Were not just talking about large companies here - many small and medium businesses are now using cloud-based QuickBooks premier hosting accounting software to help them optimize operations and get ahead of the competition in terms of efficiency as well as overall performance.

Cloud based systems are important because more and more people want to prioritize jobs that allow them to set their own hours.

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Stanley Kania and Warren Patterson have taken on new leadership positions.

ALPHARETTA, Ga., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Hosting, one of the largest providers of virtual servers and cloud-based QuickBooksand Sage hostingin the U.S. and Canada, is pleased to announce today that a senior leadership transition has taken place. Stanley Kania, former CEO of Summit Hosting has become Chairman of the Board for the company, and Warren Patterson, former COO, has become the CEO.

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"We came together to form Summit Hosting in 2016 with the shared vision of creating a great cloud hosting company that offers tailored solutions to help businesses save money and increase growth while removing IT headaches. Warren has been instrumental in executing on that vision and is highly equipped to continue to lead the organization in his new role as CEO" said Kania. "This transition was part of the strategic plan we developed when partnering with our private equity partners, Silver Oak Services Partners, last year and I look forward to remaining actively involved in the company going forward as Chairman."

Patterson has focused on scaling companies in the application hosting and IaaS space throughout his career. "I am thrilled to take the next step as CEO of Summit Hosting," he said. "We have built a great business with the best people, processes, and technology in place to provide an excellent customer experience. I look forward to continuing to execute on our growth plan through continued acquisitions, and expanding into new end markets while continuing to provide high-quality services to our existing customers."

Summit Hosting is committed to bringing the best cloud solutions to the market by pushing the boundaries of what they offer anddelivering a high-quality cloud experience with a strong focus on customer satisfaction.

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"We're excited about the future," said Patterson. "We have a lot of interesting projects in the works and these leadership changes position Summit Hosting for continued success."

About Summit Hosting: Summit Hosting is a leading cloud hosting provider for financial applications, including QuickBooks, Sage, and SAP Programs in North America. We offer top-tier hosting platforms for customers worldwide, with over 8,000 servers and 30,000 end-users running in our environments. We pride ourselves on giving our customers every tool they need to make their day-to-day more manageable and allow their business to grow.

About Silver Oak Services Partners: Founded in 2005 and based in Evanston, IL, Silver Oak is a leading lower middle market private equity firm focused exclusively on service businesses. Silver Oak invests in business, healthcare, and consumer services companies in the lower middle market, typically with EBITDA of $4 million to $25 million.

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GURUGRAM, India, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --

Government's 'Making Indonesia 4.0' Plan: The Indonesian Government's program 'Making Indonesia 4.0' will putIndonesiaamong the top ten global economies by 2030 by implementing digital transformation in different industry verticals such as manufacturing, finance, healthcare, and more resulting in the higher demand for Data Center services by the end users in the country.

Growth of Internet Economy to Drive Data Center Growth: The growth of the digital economy in Indonesia is expected to reach USD 150+ billion in 2025.With the growing internet economy, the demand for data services and infrastructure is expected to increase exponentially in Indonesia.

New Entrants: New entrants will provide a major boost to market growth during 2022-2026, supporting the wholesale needs of local enterprises and cloud service providers in the region.Companies such as Space DC, PureDC and more are currently building their facilities in the country.

Upcoming Smaller Facilities: PT Solusi Sinergi Digital Tbk or Surge is preparing to build edge data centers in train stations and warehouses of village cooperatives (KUD) across Java Island.

Emergence of 5G Technology: The emergence of 5G technology in Indonesia is likely to grow the adoption of IoT-enabled products in the Indonesian market further contributing to the development of data center industry.

Analysts at Ken Research in their latest publication "Indonesia Data Center Market Outlook to 2026- Growing Tech Savy Population, Internet Penetration Rate and Rising Number of Facilities to Drive the Indonesia Data Center market in the near future" believe that the data center industry in Indonesia has been growing and is expected that it will expand further owing to the rising number of data centers, surge in demand for local data centers, attractive investments from hyper scale cloud providers, additional services provided by the companies such as cloud services, data recovery, security services, cross connect and others. The market is expected to register a positive CAGR of 24% in terms of revenue during the forecast period 2022F-2026F.

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KSA Data Center and Cloud Services Market Outlook to 2026F Driven by rising investments in data centers from private sector and government support towards technology and Cloud first policy

KSA is the largest ICT market in the MENA, and it is well-positioned to become a technology service and cloud hub with access to international connectivity through the Red Sea and the Gulf. KSA Data Centre industry is witnessing robust growth in the era of virtualization and cloud computing. Shifts in creative media content towards Content Delivery Networks, IoT, growth of big data and the roll out of 5G is driving the demand for data consumption in KSA. Improvement in network connectivity, government support, and rapid growth in the adoption of big data, and IoT services have been strong enablers for the growth of the KSA data Center market.

KSA Data Center is moderately concentrated market with STC and Mobily are the top player with the greatest number of data centers. Majority of the Data Center operators are in collaborative terms with other market players to expand their business and reach to the rising demand of data usage by end users. KSA Data Center Market is set to grow at a CAGR of 19.5% in terms of revenue generation, over the period 2021-2026F. The KSA government's smart city initiatives, adoption of 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud first policy are driving the demand for Data Centers.

UAE Data Center and Cloud Services Market Outlook to 2026F Driven by Rapid Digital Penetration along with Increasing Investments to meet the Rising Demand for Data Storage and Cloud Services

UAE Data Centre industry is witnessing robust growth in the era of virtualization and cloud computing. The increased use of data consumption and internet bandwidth in the country is driven by expanding reach of social media, increased use of smart devices, data localization, increased adoption of cloud services and digital transformation journeys of many UAE Data Center companies.

UAE Data Center is highly fragmented market with Etisalat as the top player with most number of data centers. Majority of the Data Center operators are in collaborative terms with other market players to expand their business and reach to the rising demand of data usage by end users. UAE Data Center Market is set to grow at a CAGR of 18.4% in terms of revenue generation, over the period 2021-2026F. The UAE government's smart city initiatives, adoption of 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) are driving the demand for Data Centers.

India Data Center and Cloud Services Market Outlook to 2025- Favorable Government Support and Data Localization Leading to Surge in Data Center Adoption

The India data center market was observed to grow with a stable growth pattern in the review period 2014-2020P. Factors such as data localization law, government's digitization drive, rapid movement from cloud computing to the edge computing surge in outsourcing of data center services and others have helped the data center industry to grow in India in terms of revenue.

Malaysia Data Center Market Outlook to 2022 - by Revenue Streams (Colocation, Managed Hosting and Cloud Services), by End Users (Banking & Finance, Federal Government, Content & Technology and Others)

The data centre market in Malaysia is in the growth stage. The support and encouragement provided by the government along with the efforts to promote the country as a hub for data centres have catapulted development in the market in every aspect. The market is an amalgamation of large-sized and mid-sized players that specialize in colocation and managed hosting services. The market has also witnessed a substantial rise in the demand for public and private cloud services. The Johor area (close to Singapore) in the southern part of the country is growing as an attractive investment opportunity for data centre companies. Malaysia data centre market has witnessed substantial growth in the past few years recording a CAGR of ~% during 2012-2017. The market has grown from USD ~ million in 2012 to USD ~ million in 2017 driven Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) launched in Malaysia which has listed development of Data Centre Market in Malaysia as a key Entry Point Projects (EPPs) under the Business Services NKEAs (National Key Economic Areas). The low cost of the establishment along with the infrastructure development has been the major attractions for DC companies in Malaysia. The market has witnessed double-digit growth in the past five years except in the year 2015 when the growth rate of the market fell to ~% from ~% in 2014. The slowdown in the global market restricted companies from outsourcing their data centre services, this restricted the double-digit growth of the market in 2014 to single-digit growth in 2015.

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On July 5, 2022, the European Parliament voted to approve the final text of the Digital Services Act("DSA" or the "Act"), a landmark regulationthat-along with its sister regulation, the Digital Markets Act("DMA")-is poised to transform the global regulatorylandscape for social media platforms, hosting services like cloudservice providers, and other online intermediaries.

Lawmakers have billed the DSA as implementing the principle that"what is illegal offline, should be illegal online." Inreality, the DSA goes much further, requiring online platforms tonot only take greater accountability for "illegal" and"harmful" content that they host, but also to provideunprecedented transparency around their content moderationpractices, targeted advertising, and recommender algorithms, and tomaintain comprehensive risk management systems for a potentiallywide range of systemic risks-from public health crises to politicalmisinformation.

In this Debevoise Data Blog post, we have provided an update onthe status of the DSA, an overview of the key features of thislandmark regulation, and several take-aways for companies about theimport of the DSA.

The Parliamentary vote was the penultimate step for enactment ofthe DSA, which is now due to be adopted by the European Council inSeptember 2022, formally enacting it as law. The Act was firstintroduced in December 2020, but stalled for negotiations betweenthe European Council and Parliament. A political agreement wasreached in late April 2022, and the text of the Act was finalizedin the subsequent months leading up to the July Parliamentaryvote.

Once adopted, the timeline for its application and enforcementwill be fast-paced. While the full text of the DSA would beginapplying to all covered online intermediary services on January 1,2024, companies designated as very large online platforms("VLOPs") may have to begin complying with a subset ofprovisions at a much earlier date, most likely in early ormid-2023.

The DSA applies to a wide range of "intermediaryservices," which the Act categorizes by the role, size, andimpact of a given company on the online ecosystem."Intermediary services" include a broad range of"mere conduit," "caching," and"hosting" services, with the bulk of the Act'srequirements focused on the following types of companies:

Under the Act, VLOPs and VLOSEs are subject to the moststringent set of requirements, as well as greater regulatoryoversight.

The DSA imposes tiered requirements on different categories ofintermediary services, which means that a different set ofobligations will apply to each type of intermediary covered underthe Act. However, the general requirements of the Act are asfollows:

The DSA imposes outright bans on the following practices for allproviders of online platforms:

The DSA increases intermediaries' obligations to counterillegal goods, services, or content online. In particular,platforms must implement policies to ensure greater traceability ofbusiness users in online market places and must provide a mechanismfor any individual or entity to easily flag illegal content.Requirements for various categories of intermediaries include:

The DSA also establishes stringent transparency requirements forintermediary services regarding targeted advertising and contentmoderation practices. Requirements for various categories ofintermediaries include:

The DSA provides that VLOPs (such as major social mediaplatforms) have "a systemic impact in facilitating publicdebate, economic transactions and the dissemination of information,opinions and ideas." Accordingly, the DSA imposes additional,more stringent obligations on them. In addition to the requirementslisted above, VLOPs will be subject to the followingobligations:

Platforms must comply with crisis responseprotocols developed by the Commission in the event ofa "serious threat to public security or public health,"which may include ordering the platform to "identify and applyspecific, effective and proportionate measures" of theplatform's choice to mitigate the threat, provide informationon the threat, or report back to the Commission on progress inmitigating the threat progress (Art. 27a).

Platforms must conduct externalindependent auditing of the platform'scompliance with the DSA on an annual basis, by auditors with provenexpertise, technical competence, and capabilities in the area ofrisk management (Art. 28).

Platforms mustprovide access toplatform data to regulators and vetted researchersunder certain circumstances (Art. 31).

For most platforms, national-level authoritieswill be primarily responsible for enforcement of the DSA, withsupport from the newly formed European Board for Digital Services.Member states will each authorize an authority as a DigitalServices Coordinator, which shall be responsible for all mattersrelating to supervision and enforcement of the DSA. DigitalServices Coordinators will have the power to, among other remedies,impose fines of up to 6% of the annual worldwide turnovers ofproviders who fail to comply with DSA obligations.

For VLOPs, however, the European Commissionwill be primarily responsible for the supervision and enforcementof the DSA, and will be granted enhanced powers for this purpose.The Commission may impose fines of up to 6% of the platform'sannual global turnover where it finds an infringement or failure tocomply. Other specific powers include the authority to requestinformation from the platform (Art. 52); conduct on-siteinspections (Art. 54); and initiate monitoring actions, wherein theCommission can order a platform to provide access to, andexplanations relating to, its databases and algorithms (Art.57).

The DSA is a groundbreaking legislation that aims to transformthe digital regulatory landscape in the EU and beyond. In order tobe prepared to comply with the new rules, companies will need totake note of additional compliance or reporting requirements thatthe DSA will create for them, and the tight timeline on which theywill need to remedy any compliance gaps. Companies should payspecial attention to any implications for their advertisingplatforms as well as any use of algorithmic decision-making or AI,especially in the context of content moderation and recommendersystems, as those applications will be subject to unprecedentedtransparency requirements and, as a consequence, regulatoryscrutiny.

The authors would like to thank Law Clerk Melissa Muse and Summer Law Clerks JoshGoland, Sharon Shaji, and Annabella Waszkiewicz for theircontributions to this article.

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TMC Recognizes Broadvoice b-hive UCaaS Platform for Innovations in Collaboration, Customer Success and Uptime

LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TMC has recognized Broadvoice, a provider of hosted voice, unified communications (UC), call center services (CCaaS), and SIP trunking services for businesses, as a 2022 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner for its Broadvoice b-hive Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform.

Broadvoice b-hive is a proprietary UCaaS platform that delivers a range of communications capabilities rarely found together in enterprise cloud solutions, let alone in a platform designed for small and medium businesses (SMBs) with as few as 10 employees and as many as 250. It includes cloud PBX, Unified Communications (UC) and collaboration features with a virtual call center and integrates with Salesforce CRM and the Microsoft Teams collaboration hub.

"Broadvoice's b-hive Communicator gives small businesses' big business' functionality, with features typically found only on enterprise-scale platforms, including mobility, continuity, high-availability connectivity, flexible pricing and an intuitive self-service portal," said Broadvoice Chief Product Officer George Mitsopoulos. "We're also incredibly proud of our team's efforts in creating a customer-first culture, leading to exceptional customer-satisfaction feedback and Net Promoter Scores (NPS)."

Unlike most other providers, Broadvoice has complete control over its UCaaS platform, including app development, geo-redundant data centers and diverse network connections. In the past few years, the company has focused on product-led growth driven by customer needs. This approach has resulted in innovations, such as introducing its:

"It gives me great pleasure to honor Broadvoice as a 2022 recipient of TMC's Unified Communications Product of the Year Award for their innovative solution, Broadvoice b-hive," said Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC. "Our judges were very impressed with the ingenuity and excellence displayed by Broadvoicein its groundbreaking work on b-hive."

Winners of the 2022 Unified CommunicationsProduct of the Year Award will be announced online and highlighted in INTERNET TELEPHONY magazineonline.

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Broadvoice simplifies communications for small and medium businesses (SMBs) by combining powerful cloud PBX, UC and collaboration features with virtual call center in one award-winning Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform that delivers enterprise-class features at affordable rates. The platform is connected to Broadvoice's secure, redundant network and hosting infrastructure, enabling SMBs to connect with customers securely anytime, anywhere and with any device. With network assets and customers spanning four continents, Broadvoice serves the world's SMBs, enhancing collaboration and commerce across the globe.

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