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Case for the cloud – Police Professional
Case for the cloud
Ryan Parthemore explores how cloud-based solutions are helping law enforcement answer todays policing challenges.
There is no doubt that policing today is significantly different from 20 years ago. Today, lack of public support, reduced staffing and increased scrutiny of use-of-force incidents have slowed the investigation process.
Simultaneously, criminal suspects are embracing advances in technology to commit and hide their illicit acts, making it much harder for law enforcement to gather evidence.
Many agencies did not even have a website when I started law enforcement in 2001. Our mobile data terminals looked like the monochrome mainframes of decades past, and our biometric capabilities consisted of rolled, ink fingerprints. Todays technological advances in law enforcement provide roadside fingerprint identity verification, rapid DNA identification and city-wide gunshot detecting sensor grids.
While procedures in policing have advanced regarding the management of physical evidence, initiating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for managing digital evidence varies widely among agencies, even though evidence lawfully collected from digital sources has become a driving force in almost every investigation. Law enforcement agencies need innovative solutions to keep up with tech-savvy criminals, but the world around them is not making it easy for them to do this.
There are three key components to this current reality affecting law enforcements ability to serve its community effectively and efficiently. Here is how they break down:
Staffing shortages and budget cuts have made it difficult for law enforcement to stay on top of investigations. The pandemic has also affected staffing with many detectives being reassigned to back-fill vacant patrol positions. This leaves the few remaining investigators faced with the unenviable choice of which cases to investigate and which to close. This lack of manpower has led to massive case backlogs and a frustrated public. But the issue in case backlogs does not stop at the detective level. Digital forensic units are also feeling the squeeze.
Caseloads for digital forensic units vary depending on the proportion of digital evidence per case, device size and dataset to sift through. But it is safe to say that this proportion is only going one way and that is up. Once all the data is acquired and analysed, digital forensic units will painstakingly put the digital evidence onto a storage device and place it into physical evidence.
Therefore, before the investigators can even start their analysis, many must drive to the point of examination, retrieve the digital and physical evidence, drive back to the office, create a working copy, and then submit proof of storage. This five-step physical retrieval process for digital evidence in todays digitally advanced world is unnecessarily inefficient and risks compromising the digital chain of evidence.
While technology and the laws surrounding it are changing rapidly, these advancements in technology are rarely updated in policy. Outdated policies can leave investigators open to chain-of-custody claims by defence lawyers or lead to possible civil rules-of-evidence violations against the police department. Nothing we did in the investigation matters if the evidence is deemed inadmissible.
Digital evidence retention is no different than its physical evidence counterpart. Suppose digital evidence is used to prosecute a serious felony, homicide, or sexual assault. In that case, that evidence may need to be held for decades, but storage devices, such as CDs, DVDs and thumb drives, cannot physically guarantee safe storage and accessibility of evidence for this long. Devices can become corrupted, unreadable, or break, and many manufacturers specify untenable maintenance to keep the stored data accessible. We must understand that digital evidence is now as equally important as murder weapons.
3: Police work is teamwork
Because criminal activity transcends political boundaries, many will commit crimes in multiple jurisdictions. As a result, it is now common to see multiple agencies working together on the same case or as a multi-jurisdictional task force.
Even within a single agency, investigators work with many divisions, including other investigative units, patrol, crime labs, crime scene technicians, evidence and prosecutors.
Timely and efficient collaboration is key to a successful criminal investigation.
An unsustainable situation
Combining these three trends to form the bigger picture makes the conclusion undeniable.
Continuing with business as usual is not an option. Law enforcement leaders know that the future of efficient and effective policing relies heavily on inter- and intra-agency collaboration. The only way to do this successfully is to take a page out of the private sectors playbook and, in doing so, start utilising cloud-based solutions.
Private sector innovation leads the way for public sector success
Many private sector companies have mastered collaboration and project management out of necessity because their employees, vendors and clients are worldwide.
Law enforcement can use the best practices and tools from the private sector to become more effective within their investigative workflow. SaaS (software as a service)-based solutions provide the quickest and easiest ways to collaborate and manage projects, regardless of location.
Advances in computer networking, more reliable storage and faster processing have made cloud-based solutions the preferred method for companies and many government agencies. A SaaS-based solution for managing your investigations means evidence can be accessed securely anywhere, anytime, and on any computer. The vendor is the one to push out updates, maintain the software and keep the systems secure so that the agency can focus on what matters criminal investigations.
Investigative DEMS (digital evidence management systems) span the entire investigation but are rare in our industry. They enable strong collaboration by streamlining investigator and lab processes from the beginning of the investigative workflow, and allow evidence to be submitted, assigned, tracked and reviewed all from a browser. The lead investigative agency can upload and analyse the digital evidence, then instantly share it with those involved in the investigation with just a few clicks of a mouse. These efficiencies ultimately help reduce investigator case backlogs and increase case resolution.
Addressing command staffs concerns
Cloud-based solutions are now widely accepted as the safest and most secure ways to store data especially when you consider the risks of the current physical storage methods and this is why many agencies are switching.
The vendor handles the security patches and penetration testing to monitor weaknesses and potential threats. Many vendors even have dedicated network and security operators who perform continuous testing.
Choosing a provider
Security is paramount for those seeking cloud-based solutions, which is why it is critical to identify industry-leading providers with a proven track record in the law enforcement arena.
You will undoubtedly look for solutions that utilise data encryption and multi-factor authentication to ensure evidentiary integrity. Compliance frameworks, including ISO 27001 and SOC2, help ensure a particular solution (and its vendor) have proven their mettle.
Looking deeper, be sure your provider understands the threat landscape and is equipped to respond and manage security incidents. Ask questions about tenant segregation, isolation and web security monitoring capabilities.
Finally, determine where your data is stored, any regulatory implications concerning that location, and how you can retrieve it totally if necessary.
While doing so, remember that all cloud hosting is not the same. Amazon Web Services (AWS), for example, offers GovCloud for added security and adherence to compliance frameworks for both private and public sectors.
Conclusion
The amount of digital evidence is increasing, technology will continue to advance, and retention policies are getting stricter and more extended. Furthermore, there is no crime today that does not include some type of digital evidence.
Police agency leaders need to act now. Using outdated technology such as USBs or CDs to store digital evidence in a physical way, instead of digitally in the cloud, can only put your agency at risk.
Ryan Parthemore joined Cellebrite as a SaaS evangelist following his extended tenure within law enforcement. A veteran in the industry, he has more than 20 years experience as a patrol officer, detective and technical lead in a government digital forensics laboratory. During his time in law enforcement, he completed 559 hours of training in digital forensics, performed thousands of digital forensics examinations, represented his unit through ANAB ISO 17025 accreditation, and testified as an expert witness in state and federal court. He moved to Cellebrite to utilise his expertise to help others in law enforcement find more effective ways to resolve cases.
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The rise of the hybrid office and Hosted PBX in the cloud – ITWeb
The world of work has a completely new ring to it. After two years of working from home (WFH), employers and employees have made this concept work. Companies have scaled down their office spaces and workers are spending less time in traffic. But is there longevity in this?
Experts believe that WFH may have a negative effect on company culture and in order to secure long-term productivity and passion for their role in the company, networking and engagement with colleagues and clients are a must. There is a way to keep everyone happy: the hybrid office environment.
Greg Schwebig, Founder and CEO of AfricaWorks, believes the flexible approach of a hybrid office is the best way forward.
The office will never be 'consumed' like before, he says in a Business Insider Africa interview. However, it is erroneous to think that the office is dead! At AfricaWorks, we believe that the future is hybrid and will be a mix of work from home and 'work from office'.
The hybrid office is the ideal solution to keep talent and bring back normalcy in the work environment, but how would it work practically? Will teams alternate? And how will managers keep tabs on who's working where and on which day?
Luckily, with a comprehensive communication tool like Hosted PBX in the Cloud by Domains.co.za, this is not an issue. Whether someone is working from the office, their home, or in Japan, reception can simply patch them through.
What Hosted PBX in the Cloud by Domains.co.za can do for your hybrid workforce
Hosted PBX in the Cloud by Domains.co.za, also referred to as Cloud PBX or VOIP, is the answer to obtaining a fully streamlined, highly productive and super-efficient hybrid workforce.
Employees can make and take unlimited* phone calls from anywhere via an app on their cellphones, mobile devices or desktops. Due to Vox Voice and Domains.co.zas leading hosting atmosphere, calls are crystal clear, secure and reliable as the connection affords.
Award-winning 3CX Software on the other hand allows for 150 effective and efficient features, including video conferencing and Live Chat.
It is important to remember that one companys hybrid needs will be different from the next.
Luckily, Domains.co.zas Hosted PBX in the Cloud solution offers eight different packages best suited to our clients diverse needs. Plus, the solution is fully managed by us, and our excellent support team can assist you every step of the way.
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Digital Innovations in Healthcare in 2022: Trends and Developments – Healthcare Tech Outlook
Time and money are at stake when selecting how to update the healthcare company. The healthcare sector must work with a software engineering team that understands their demands and ambitions.
FREMONT, CA: Although 2021 has passed, COVID-19's presence continues to linger around the planet. Healthcare, maybe more than any other industry, has been irreversibly altered by the global pandemic's effects. With substantial advancements in technology and procedures necessary to meet the expanding demand for healthcare access and the growing digitization of protected health information, the healthcare business has developed creative ways to maintain the same great level of service.
As humans move forward, it is vital to keep an eye on the trends that will shape healthcare technology in 2022. While legacy software and infrastructure are vital to the success of modern hospitals and care centers, it is critical to explore how these systems can be integrated with newer technology or eventually replaced by more reliable solutions. The goal should be to increase performance, productivity, efficiency, and security while maintaining reliability and accessibility.
Consider some critical technologies that can alter the healthcare sector.
NATURAL LANGUAGES PROCESSING: Chatbots can significantly improve telehealth's efficiency. UCLA researchers used chatbot and AI technology to develop a Virtual Interventional Radiologist (VIR). This was done to assist patients in self-diagnosing and assist physicians in diagnosing such patients. While chatbots powered by Natural Language Processing are not yet capable of performing primary diagnosis, they can aid in the process. Additionally, they are well qualified to elicit information from patients before initiating correct treatment.
DATA STORAGE AND CLOUD HOSTING: While storing data in most cloud storage providers is relatively secure, it may not conform to national rules governing protected health information. HIPAA-compliant cloud hosting solutions are crucial for any healthcare company that utilizes electronic health records to ensure performance and efficiency.
However, teleconferencing and data storage are not the only services the firm may find beneficial. Additional features such as security, location services, appointment management, secure messaging, healthcare provider evaluations, visit history, and wearable connection could benefit.
Certain apps may require the storage of fitness data collected via consumer devices such as Google Fit or Apple HealthKit. Maintaining these linkages securely and effectively can be extremely beneficial to both the patient and caregiver.
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NICE Actimize Receives 2022 Best Technology Management Team North America Award from Global Banking and Finance Review – Business Wire
HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) business, today announced that Global Banking and Finance Review, a financial media platform with over three million readers worldwide, has awarded the company the Best Technology Management Team, North America award for 2022. The management team award is the seventh honor received by NICE Actimize from Global Banking & Finance Review for 2022, joining its Best-Anti-Fraud/Security Solutions and Excellence in Innovation awards for the Asia Pacific, Europe and North American regions.
Driving digital innovation and leveraging its decades of financial crime expertise, NICE Actimizes technology management team of cloud developers, artificial intelligence experts, and data scientists, launched multiple new financial crime solutions this past year, addressed such product trends as advanced sanctions screening, dark web intelligence, entity risk solutions, conduct surveillance, and new account fraud offerings, among just a few signature solution categories. Further integrating its recent company acquisitions into the NICE Actimize family, NICE Actimizes technology management team led the continued success of two financial crime platforms, X-Sight and Xceed, addressing the challenges of top-tier traditional banks and mid-tier financial institutions, along with a focus on neobanks, crypto firms, and more.
Explains Wanda Rich, Editor, Global Banking and Finance Review, Our judges and editorial team congratulate NICE Actimizes technology management team for its outstanding contributions to fighting financial crime and its successful expansion into new markets by addressing the growing demand for cloud-focused solutions, and in forging digital innovation across the full scope of anti-money laundering, enterprise fraud, holistic conduct surveillance, and case management. We are honored to acknowledge NICE Actimize and its technology management team as this years winners of our Best Technology Management Team, North America, award.
Notes Craig Costigan, CEO, NICE Actimize, We are honored that Global Banking and Finance Review distinguishes our world-class technology management team and its numerous contributions to providing innovative financial crime and compliance solutions that meet the challenges of our customers. We will continue to offer innovation and advanced technologies in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high performing cloud-based solutions that take our customers into the digital future.
NICE Actimize combines deep industry expertise and a patented technology platform to quickly enable global businesses to increase their insight into real-time customer behavior and improve risk and compliance performance. NICE Actimize provides enterprise risk management solutions to banks, insurance companies, payment companies, and government entities around the world.
About Global Banking and Finance ReviewGlobal Banking & Finance Review is a leading Financial Platform established in 2010 A Media Powerhouse with its own Online Portal, Print & Digital magazine reaching over 3 million readers worldwide on an annual basis. Since the inception of the Global Banking & Finance Awards in 2011, The Awards reflect the innovation, achievement, strategy, progressive and inspirational changes taking place within the Global Financial community. The awards were created to recognize companies of all sizes which are prominent in particular areas of expertise and excellence within the financial world. The Banking awards & the Financial Awards are known throughout the global banking and financial community as a symbol of excellence.
About NICE ActimizeNICE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions, as well as government regulators. Consistently ranked as number one in the space, NICE Actimize experts apply innovative technology to protect institutions and safeguard consumers' and investors' assets by identifying financial crime, preventing fraud, and providing regulatory compliance. The company provides real-time, cross-channel fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions that address such concerns as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence and insider trading. Find us at http://www.niceactimize.com, @NICE_Actimize or Nasdaq: NICE.
About NICEWith NICE (Nasdaq: NICE), its never been easier for organizations of all sizes around the globe to create extraordinary customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. Featuring the worlds #1 cloud native customer experience platform, CXone, NICE is a worldwide leader in AI-powered self-service and agent-assisted CX software for the contact center and beyond. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, partner with NICE to transform - and elevate - every customer interaction. http://www.nice.com
Trademark Note: NICE and the NICE logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NICE Ltd. All other marks are trademarks of their respective owners. For a full list of NICEs marks, please see: http://www.nice.com/nice-trademarks.
Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, including the statements by Mr. Costigan, are based on the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the management of NICE Ltd. (the "Company"). In some cases, such forward-looking statements can be identified by terms such as "believe," "expect," "seek," "may," "will," "intend," "should," "project," "anticipate," "plan," "estimate," or similar words. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results or performance of the company to differ materially from those described herein, including but not limited to the impact of changes in economic and business conditions, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; competition; successful execution of the company's growth strategy; success and growth of the company's cloud Software-as-a-Service business; changes in technology and market requirements; decline in demand for the company's products; inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications; difficulties or delays in absorbing and integrating acquired operations, products, technologies and personnel; loss of market share; an inability to maintain certain marketing and distribution arrangements; the company's dependency on third-party cloud computing platform providers, hosting facilities and service partners;, cyber security attacks or other security breaches against the company; the effect of newly enacted or modified laws, regulation or standards on the company and our products and various other factors and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting the company, refer to the company's reports filed from time to time with the SEC, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise them, except as required by law.
Hospitality sector uses cloud-based analytics as it roars back to life – IT Brief New Zealand
Hospitality can be a hectic business. Cloud-based system hospoIQ was developed for just this reason.
The first brainchild of New Zealandbased 2IQ, hospoIQ offers business intelligence for the hospitality sector. It brings together point of sale (POS), rostering, wages and accounting data into one clear dashboard and insights platform that provides projections, comparisons and overlays so businesses can adapt in real-time.
"Hospitality was one of the hardest-hit sectors of the economy when COVID-19 struck, and while some were able to operate a takeaway service, many others closed their doors," says the company.
"As the sector gets into gear again, it's facing challenges good staff are hard to come by and keep, rules and regulations about how they operate continue to change, and customer expectations have shifted. It's even more important that businesses have a good grasp on how they are performing and what the future might hold."
Built on Microsoft Azure, hospoIQ is elastic and scalable by design. So when businesses did have to shut their doors to customers because of the risk posed by COVID, hospoIQ was able to suspend customers' subscriptions.
Now it's all systems go again, according to 2IQ co-founders Andrae Gaeth and Craig O'Loughlin.
"hospoIQ allows businesses to monitor wage costs against sales day by day, explore historical patterns and predict demand to help optimise rosters for the next week," says Gaeth, who is also the CEO of 2IQ.
O'Loughlin, chief operating officer at 2IQ, says hospoIQ lets a business owner quickly assess if they are making money or not.
"Traditionally, a lot of hospitality businesses would rely on their accountant telling them at the end of the month, which is probably too long before they realise that they've lost money," he says, "hospoIQ provides easy access to gross profit, margins and wage costs."
"It's probably making them think a lot harder about what items they should be selling because these are the things that give them the best margin. When you're doing well, and you're selling tons, then it probably doesn't matter so much. But when you're selling less, you need to be thinking harder about what things to sell because you need to be making sure you're making a good margin."
He says gross profit has become more important to hospitality businesses, both their wage costs and their gross profit on the items themselves, so things like the recipe costing are high.
"I think a lot of providers previously hadn't thought that hard about what does go into a menu item and what's the actual cost of selling that," says Gaeth. "That's something that the solutions helped them with."
According to Debby Rosevear, administration manager at Vieceli Hospitality, which operates six bar brands in the Christchurch area, hospoIQ provides clearer and more concise reporting, particularly on KPIs.
"Managers would be in touch with their numbers, and we needed meaningful breakdowns of these metrics," she says. "And we wanted it in a simple format that they could easily digest. hospoIQ ticked the boxes.
Developed on Azure, hospoIQ collects data from different systems, including cloud accounting platform Xero, and captures it in Azure blob storage before directing it to Azure SQL databases where it can be analysed using Power BI.
The company's proprietary algorithm allows users to explore recent weekday patterns and compare that with what happened a year earlier or see the impact of different events based on a calendar that hospoIQ maintains. For example, if the city was hosting a major sporting event or concert.
hospoIQ is being used in New Zealand by organisations including Savor Group and Armadillos, while Perth-based Sneakers & Jeans has recently signed up as one of 2IQ's first Australian customers.
Falstone Hospitality, which operates Top Hut Sports Bar, 65 Dine Gastropub & Smokehouse and Super Liquor in Twizel, New Zealand, uses the system to provide insights about the business.
Owner Darrin Burgess says hospoIQ delivers a service and a solution that exceeds the company's requirements.
"They provided more knowledge with live linked data that gives accurate, up-to-date reports from front of house and back office at our fingertips," he says. "The conversations we have with our managers are far more intelligent. We can offer them tools to be able to control and report back with their business units."
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Lyrid Raises $1.1M in Seed to Bring Cloud-Agnostic Technologies to Masses – Newswire
Lyrid's cloud-agnostic infrastructure helps users deploy cloud-native apps globally in minutes on any platform
Press Release-Feb 22, 2022 08:00 PST
SAN JOSE, Calif., February 22, 2022 (Newswire.com) - Lyrid announced a $1.1 million seed round led by a diverse set of notable venture capital companies with participation such as Plug and Play Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Titan Angels, and ExpertDojo. The funding will help Lyrid introduce new auto-scaling managed Lyrid Kubernetes clusters on multiple cloud-hosted operators, automated updates, and consistent cluster and application monitoring.
"We are focused on delivering the best developer partners' experience, scalability, stability, and performance throughout this evolving period. Lyrid's mission is for you to create unsurpassed ease and affordability in cloud development and deployment for our partners." Handoyo Sutanto, CEO
Co-founder Handoyo Sutanto spent countless hours deploying across multiple infrastructures, a process that was overly complex and repetitive. From his personal experience and speaking with industry leaders, he realized that this was a problem every cloud developer experienced. The next five years, Sutanto was driven to automate the entire process in order to save time and resources for all DevOps teams.
In 2019, Simon Loo and Sutanto reunited after discussing their shared vision: DevOps processes should be simple and streamlined. With Loo's experience gained from working in Fortune 500 companies for six years, he joined Lyrid as its new COO. They decided to put their vision into action and create Lyrid.
"Led by founders who have walked many miles in the customers' shoes has given us the confidence that Lyrid will bring the disruption needed to cloud infrastructure. We see Lyrid's drive for growth, and we are excited about our investment," said Clancey Stahr, Managing Partner, GoAhead Ventures.
Today, cloud computing provides almost everyone access to resources that previously did not exist. Most of this access is running behind a handful of major cloud infrastructure companies. Lyrid helps users build, deploy and manage applications on any cloud infrastucture. This cross-compatibility accelerates time-to-market for all cloud applications. The latest investment round will help the company gain market share in the still "blue ocean" multi-cloud infrastructure space.
For 2022, Lyrid is looking forward to expanding its network with a bigger solution that encompasses its data analytic platform, along with white-labeling efforts for its platform to help the company's hosting and datacenter partners to provide new solutions to sell in a new market. Having a strategic investment partner like Plug and Play will be crucial to position Lyrid for the global enterprise, as it is entering new partnerships and sales regions.
About Lyrid
Lyrid is a multi-cloud platform provider that makes developing new cloud-native solutions easier and more affordable. Lyrid helps enterprise partners innovate with a variety of tools, data, analytics, redundancy and automation that make going to market globally with cloud-native apps more efficient.
Contact us at hello@lyrid.io.
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With cloud, we have reduced TCO: Nagarro CTO – ETCIO
Nagarro is a system integrator that works with many customers across the globe. Given the global and distributed nature of the organizations work, shifting the workload to the cloud is a necessity.
The billion dollar companyNagarrostarted its cloud journey in 2015 with a modernization thought process which eventually required partnering and working directly with hyperscalers.
According to Kanchan Ray, CTO, Nagarro, the cloud journey was a roller coaster ride as a lot of these platforms were quite new to the market and back then, the cloud providers used to lack the maturity that has now changed.
Today, most of Nagarros workloads already exist in the cloud, and the workloads that exist on-premises are required to be so due to customer/compliance requirements.
There are times when on-prem servers cannot be avoided due to specific customer needs, and hence we do host a small data center connected to the public cloud over a private network but thats a very small footprint, said Ray.
By leveraging cloud, the company has been able to shift to a permanent work from anywhere model. Not only that, but the cloud has also led to higher availability, reduced TCO, and better business continuity planning.
Talking about the future of corporate owned data centers, Ray said, he has seen a considerable decrease in corporate-owned and managed data centers. Most organisations are not entirely getting rid of the data center ecosystem. Existing CapEx investments (hardware), regulatory and compliance requirements, and mission critical systems with real-time data processing requirements are a few key reasons for keeping them.
Rays team has also been automating various HR processes and developing intelligent and personalized employee apps.
Additionally, Nagarro is developing an intelligent human operating system over the cloud with the goal of better employee experience and intelligent data-driven decision-making.
We continue to modernize and automate our cloud provisioning services and centralize the cloud license management across various global entities of Nagarro
Today, the cloud is the basis for most modern applications, platforms, architectures, and frameworks. While Nagarro continues to leverage cloud technology for horizontal solutions (industry neutral), the company is also witnessing a significant shift in cloud verticalization.
We continue to leverage various cloud services in the horizontal play to implement cloud infrastructure-based scalable compute solutions and data-driven intelligent solutions. At the same time, the cloud can also act as a platform to host entirely custom-built solutions. It can considerably reduce the time to market and let the developers focus on solving their business problems instead of resolving challenges around scalability, security, hosting, etc, Ray added.
Managing multiclouds Most of Nagarros workloads run in the cloud (mostly as-a-service), and the small portion is hybrid-cloud. Currently, we are not utilizing the multi-cloud since it would be overkill, but we may opt for it in the future as we continue to grow, he added.
Many companies find themselves in a multi-cloud environment, and one of the challenges with multi-cloud is increasing complexity.
Maintaining workloads across the cloud platforms soon becomes a nightmare in the absence of a central multi-cloud management tool. This requires a lot of tedious manual work and specialized skilled resources to govern the cloud platforms, with respect to cost management, IAM, etc, he maintained.
To efficiently handle multicloud environments, Nagarro engineered a multi-cloud management solution, leveraging cloud services APIs, that helped in managing the workloads across different hyper scalers (Azure, AWS, GCP, on-prem, etc.) through a single portal.
This has reduced the overhead from our support groups and reduced the need for specialists in these groups, thereby reducing operational expenses and providing complete control from a single place, Ray said.
Also Read: Beating the multi cloud blues
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Qatar Managed Services Industry to 2027 – Managed Cloud Services Are Expected to Drive the Market – ResearchAndMarkets.com – Business Wire
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Qatar Managed Services Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Qatar managed services market was valued at USD 467.04 million in 2021, and it is expected to reach USD 871.02 million by 2027, registering a CAGR of approximately 12.15% during the period of 2022-2027.
The rapid adoption of cloud-based solutions by enterprises, increasing investment in information technology, growing adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) culture are expected to create ample opportunities for major vendors in Qatar.
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Managed Cloud Services is Expected to Drive the Market
Government Sector is Expected to hold the majority share
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For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/ujm3na
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Against The Cloud – Hackaday
One of our writers is working on an article about hosting your own (project) website on your own iron, instead of doing it the modern, cloudy-servicey way. Already, this has caused quite a bit of hubbub in the Hackaday Headquarters. Who would run their own server in 2022, and why?
The arguments against DIY are all strong. If you just want to spin up a static website, you can do it for free in a bazillion different places. GitHubs Pages is super convenient, and your content is version controlled as a side benefit. If you want an IoT-type data-logging and presentation service, there are tons of those as well I dont have a favorite. If you want e-mail, well, I dont have to tell you that a large American search monopoly offers free accounts, for the low price of slurping up all of your behavioral data. Whatever your need, chances are very good that theres a service for you out there somewhere in the cloud.
And thats awesome if you only want the service provided. But what if you want to play around? Or learn how it all works under the hood? This is Hackaday!
For instance, you could run your own mail server just for your friends and family. The aforementioned search monopolist will probably flag all of your e-mail as spam, partly because they dont trust small e-mail providers, and partly because thats the m in monopoly. But if you can get folks to whitelist the addresses, youll be in business. And then you open up a world of fun and foolery. You can write hooks to automatically handle mail, or you can create an infinite number of mail accounts, even on the fly as per Spamgourmet, the most awesome anti-spam tool of the last 30 years. Or you can invent your own. Run a mailing list for your relatives. Or do something stupid.
I used to run a service where, when a particular account received an e-mail, the attached photo was pushed up to a website with the subject line as the caption. Instant photo-blog, of the strangest and least secure sort. Getting it running was a few lines of Bash scripting, and an afternoon of fun. Is there a service that does this, already existing in the cloud? Probably. One that allows you a little privacy and doesnt track your every move? Maybe. But even if there is, would I have learned about sendmail by using this service? Nope!
I hear you saying security under your breath, and youre right. This system was secured by lock made of purest obscurity. But still, in seven years of running the service, nobody guessed the magic e-mail address, not once. Knowledge of the e-mail address was essentially a password, but if I needed extra security I probably could have implemented it in a few lines of Bash anyway. The webpage itself was static HTML, so good luck with that, Hackerman! (The sites been down for a while now, so you missed your chance.)
If you just want a service, you can be served. But if you want to be a server, a first-class Internet citizen, with your own cloud in the sky, nothings stopping you either. And in contrast to using someone elses computers, running your own is an invitation to play. Its a big, Internet-connected sandbox. There are an infinity of funny ideas out there that you can implement on your own box, and a lot to learn. If you hack on someone elses box, its a crime. If you hack on your own, its a pleasure.
I know its anachronistic, but give it a try. (PDF, obscenity, uncorrected typos.) Be your own cloud.
Originally posted here:
Against The Cloud - Hackaday