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Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data – TechCrunch
The push for renewable energy has brought offshore wind power to the forefront of many an energy companys agenda, and that means taking a very close look at the ocean floor where the installations are to go. Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service.
The company aims to replace the standard big ship with a big sonar approach with a faster, smarter, more modern service, letting companies spin up regular super-accurate seafloor imagery as easily as they might spin up a few servers to host their website.
We believe were the first cloud-native platform for seafloor data, said Anthony DiMare, CEO and co-founder (with CTO Charlie Chiau) of Bedrock. This is a big data problem how would you design the systems to support that solution? We make it a modern data service, instead of like a huge marine operation youre not tied to this massive piece of infrastructure floating in the water. Everything from the way we move sonars around the ocean to the way we deliver the data to engineers has been rethought.
The product Bedrock provides customers is high-resolution maps of the seafloor, made available via Mosaic, a familiar web service that does all the analysis and hosting for you a big step forward for an industry where data migration still means shipping a box of hard drives.
Normally, DiMare explained, this data was collected, processed and stored on the ships themselves. Since they were designed to do everything from harbor inspections to deep sea surveys, they couldnt count on having a decent internet connection, and the data is useless in its raw form. Like any other bulky data, it needs to be visualized and put in context.
Image Credits: Bedrock
These data sets are extremely large, tens of terabytes in size, said DiMare. Typical cloud systems arent the best way to manage 20,000 sonar files.
The current market is more focused on detailed, near-shore data than the deep sea, since theres a crush to take part in the growing wind energy market. This means that data is collected much closer to ordinary internet infrastructure and can be handed off for cloud-based processing and storage more easily than before. That in turn means the data can be processed and provided faster, just in time for demand to take off.
As DiMare explained, while there may have been a seafloor survey done in the last couple decades of a potential installation site, thats only the first step. An initial mapping pass might have to be made to confirm the years-old maps and add detail, then another for permitting, for environmental assessments, engineering, construction and regular inspections. If this could be done with a turnkey automated process that produced even better results than crewed ships for less money, its a huge win for customers relying on old methods. And if the industry grows as expected to require more active monitoring of the seafloor along every U.S. coast, its a win for Bedrock as well, naturally.
Image Credits: Bedrock
To make this all happen, of course, you need a craft that can collect the data in the first place. The AUV is a piece of technology we built solely to enable a data product, said DiMare, but noted that, originally, we didnt want to do this.
We started to spec out what it looked like to use an off the shelf system, he explained. But if you want to build a hyper-scalable, very efficient system to get the best cost per square meter, you need a very specific set of features, certain sonars, the compute stack by the time we listed all those we basically had a self-designed system. Its faster, its more operationally flexible, you get better data quality, and you can do it more reliably.
And amazingly, it doesnt even need a boat you can grab it from the back of a van and launch it from a pier or beach.
From the very beginning one of the restrictions we put on ourselves was no boats. And we need to be able to fly with this thing. That totally changed our approach, said DiMare.
Image Credits: Bedrock
The AUV packs a lot into a small package, and while the sensor loadout is variable depending on the job, one aspect that defines the craft is its high-frequency sonar.
Sonars operate in a wide range of frequencies, from the hundreds to the hundreds of thousands of hertz. Unfortunately that means that ocean-dwelling creatures, many of which can hear in that range, are inundated with background noise, sometimes to the point where its harmful or deters them from entering an area. Sonar operating about 200 kHz is safe for animals, but the high frequency means the signal attenuates more quickly, reducing the range to 50-75 meters.
Thats obviously worthless for a ship floating on the surface much of what it needs to map is more than 75 meters deep. But if you could make a craft that always stayed within 50 meters of the seabed, its full of benefits. And thats exactly what Bedrocks AUV is designed to do.
The increased frequency of the sonar also means increased detail, so the picture its instruments paint is better than what youd get with a larger wave. And because its safe to use around animals, you can skip the (very necessary but time-consuming) red tape at wildlife authorities. Better, faster, cheaper and safer is a hell of a pitch.
Today marks the official launch of Mosaic, and to promote adoption Bedrock is offering 50 gigs of free storage of any kind of compatible map data, since the platform is format-agnostic.
Theres a ton of data out there thats technically public but is nevertheless very difficult to find and use. It may be a low-detail survey from two decades ago, or a hyper-specific scan of an area investigated by a research group, but if it were all in one place it would probably be a lot more useful, DiMare said.
Ultimately we want to get where we can do the whole ocean on a yearly basis, he concluded. So weve got a lot of work to do.
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The pandemics long-term legacy on cloud adoption rates and what comes next – ITProPortal
After a year of hardship and disruption, many UK businesses will have viewed Julys Freedom Day and its easing of the remaining Covid restrictions as a welcome return to some sort of normality. The long-awaited return to the office and face-to-face meetings is finally here. However, very few organizations will be planning a reversion to the old paradigms.
The pandemic accelerated a trend that was already well underway; cloud adoption. During the first weeks of chaos, the need to facilitate a mass move towards remote working, boost resilience and switch to online customer communications, meant that the use of cloud services was no longer optional. And, with more than 4 in 5 UK businesses already stating plans to implement hybrid strategies moving forward, cloud workloads are only likely to increase even further.
However, cloud environments come with their own unique set of data-related challenges. Whether it's integration or security, businesses need to act now to get one step ahead.
Although many organizations have been on the journey to the cloud for several years in some way or another, the pandemic undoubtedly created a new impetus. It forced business leaders across all sectors to reevaluate their priorities and more often than not cloud adoption came out on top.
In fact, Denodos 2021 Global Cloud Survey discovered that cloud adoption year-on-year has risen 25 percent in advanced cloud workloads, with more complex workloads moving to the cloud. It also reported that almost 40 percent of the 150 businesses questioned are now leveraging hybrid cloud (using combined on-premise and cloud services) and some 9 percent who have extended their architectures to multi-cloud (more than one cloud service).
There are several reasons why the pandemic accelerated cloud adoption at a mass scale. These include:
- The need to facilitate remote working This is perhaps the most apparent change brought on by the pandemic. In an effort to follow government guidelines, keep employees safe and limit the spread of the virus, offices closed their doors and remote work took hold. The need to collaborate online instead of face to face meant that cloud technologies were more essential than ever before. Even industries that were typically slow to adopt due to lack of funding or resources such as the public sector had no option when the pandemic hit.
- The need to continue to deliver services to customers in a digital landscape Traditional retailers and service providers needed to accelerate their transformation from face-to-face, store-based customer interaction to online services. Whether it was putting in place new service models for physical goods such as home-delivery and click and collect or adopting new ways to deliver informational services and advice such as healthcare Software as a Services (SaaS) applications or e-learning all industries needed to reassess how they communicated with their customers in a new digital world. This is where the cloud came in.
- The need to increase resilience and agility The first few months of the pandemic, especially, caused fluctuations in the demand for specific services. Cloud-enabled businesses to be more flexible and scale according to this demand. It also helped businesses to rapidly adapt to new commercial models and launch innovative products and services to gain a competitive advantage, even during this time of chaos.
There is no doubt that cloud technologies became a lifeline for many businesses over the last 18 months, enabling them to survive one of the toughest economic periods in recent history. However, whilst the mass adoption of cloud technologies solved some of the immediate problems caused by the pandemic, it has also created a very unique set of data-related challenges. If organizations are to continue to reap the benefits of cloud long-term, they need to act now and put the processes in place to thrive in our new hybrid landscape.
Businesses typically find themselves struggling during three stages of maturity in the cloud deployment journey:
A common thread throughout these stages is data integration. When moving to the cloud the huge increase in data volumes being stored across multiple sources can make it difficult to keep track. This exacerbates existing challenges around data security and maintaining governance and compliance as well as other regulatory practices such as data sovereignty, lineage and ownership.
To make matters worse, traditional means of moving and copying data are no longer fit for purpose. In fact, the most common method of data integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL) where data files are extracted from an existing source, transformed into a common format and loaded onto a new location has been around since the 1970s. Its no surprise that this techniques limitations, most prominently around complexity, performance and security and governance, are becoming increasingly apparent in our data-intensive age. This is where data virtualization comes in.
Data virtualization complements ETL and other methods of integration such as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) by removing the need to move and copy data during the journey to the cloud. This gives agility and self-service capabilities to the business, without compromising on security and governance.
As consumers, many of us actually already use a very similar model in the home when consuming entertainment through services such as Netflix and Spotify. They dont hold the physical content in their homes, on DVDs, Blu Rays or CDs. Instead, they will review the information about the film or music (the meta-data) on a platform to decide what they want and, when selected, that content is viewed in real-time from some unknown location in the cloud.
Data virtualization works like this, but for enterprises. Using this technology, the data is kept at the source and only abstracted and consumed in a report, dashboard or application in real-time, when it is needed. This is completely different from the bulk moving and copying of data used in ETL and data warehousing models. It is enabling businesses to gain real-time data insights, to vastly reduce the movement of data around the enterprise and provide centralized security and data governance irrespective of the data sources. For example, for a user who wanted to run a query for a new analytics report, a data virtualization layer would hold details about all the data they might want to consume. It would only be at runtime however, that the system would abstract and combine the actual data from the data source locations for their request. Much like the domestic model for entertainment described above, the content is provided only as and when it is needed.
With cloud technologies set to play an increasingly important role moving forward, organizations need to act now to ensure that they are able to overcome any data-related challenges and maximize value from their pandemic investment. Modern technologies, such as data virtualization, could bring enormous agility to businesses, removing the complexities from hybrid and multi-cloud architectures as users no longer need to worry about where the data is held or what format or protocol is needed for access. Adopting these technologies could help businesses to thrive, no matter what is around the corner.
Charles Southwood, Regional VP Northern Europe and MEA, Denodo
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uk – Your authority on UK local government – How the cloud is powering the future of flexible working – LocalGov
After months of the new normal, local councils have experienced the true benefits of remote working, including increased flexibility and no commuting, and seen the financial rewards with huge cost efficiencies. As a result, whilst some plan on either returning fully to the office or remaining WFH in the foreseeable, a great deal of others will adopt a hybrid model of both on-site and remote locations, including local councils.
And it goes without saying that this hybrid model of working is fundamentally allowed by cloud computing.
Flexible workforce
By hosting applications in cloud services rather than on-site, public services such as councils give users access to their resources in real-time, from anywhere, on any device as long as theyre connected to the internet. Multiple employees are able to collaborate on centrally stored projects and exchange ideas instantly, even if from different locations. This enhances the quality of the work being produced, as well as of each individuals time-efficiency. Business leaders have in fact noticed an increase in levels of productivity, with using online tools for project management, video conferencing and file sharing. A survey by TalkTalk Group, for instance, found out that 58% of workers in the UK have been more productive as a result of working from home, while over half (52%) said they never expect to return to a five day working week in the office.
Now, imagine a post-pandemic world where cloud computing didnt exist working from home wouldve been catastrophic, to say the least. Instead of collaborating on planning policies or housing benefits at the same time, public servers would have to rely on the never-ending exchange of emails containing feedback and iterations. And, as you can imagine, its easy to lose track of the newest version of a document with so many messages flying around.
Cost-efficiency
Cloud solutions are much easier to scale than traditional data centres and servers. A council could temporarily scale back or increase resources as it pleases, to accommodate staff members or changes in traffic. Instant activation of services and speedy adjustments are key components to support growth. They also provide much needed agility.
Additionally, the cloud significantly reduces expenses on hardware and infrastructure, consequently reducing IT budgets. Think about it: when you buy an office and all of the equipment to fill it with, your capital expenditure is high, even if its a one-off payment. However, by moving to the cloud, you will move to an operational expenditure model, where you pay-as-you-go for the resources you use.
Increased security
To say that accessing sensitive data from outside of the office requires a robust cybersecurity strategy is to state the obvious. Security and compliance are one of the top concerns for most businesses, but especially for those in the public sector. Councils, in particular, are a goldmine for cyber criminals when considering how sensitive is the data they hold on their constituents Hackney Council's hack and Redcar and Cleveland's ransomware attack being recent examples.
The truth is, cyber crime against councils is likely to continue to grow. Migrating to the cloud and away from legacy infrastructure can help organisations reach high standards of security by hosting their website, data and applications in enhanced data centres that run on enterprise-grade networking.
If you havent yet migrated to the cloud, its important to look into providers compliance and accreditations to boost the overall level of security (both cyber and physical) of network and digital information systems. Id also recommend looking for cloud servers with no single point of failure design and 100% uptime guarantee, ensuring seamless continuity of service.
The future is in the cloud
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly highlighted the importance of cloud computing. Working in the cloud has been tried and tested. If council leaders were uncertain of its benefits before, they are likely convinced of its potential now. Moving forward, the cloud will continue to be the solution that allows for flexible working, with employees dispersed in multiple locations, may that be in the office, at home, or from their favourite coffee shop.
Jon Lucas is co-director of Hyve Managed Hosting
The next normal for business growth: CXOs share their experiences of developing new tech-driven solutions – YourStory
The pandemic affected almost every industry and business function, resulting in short-term pivots and a shift in priorities for many. For others, it validated their offerings. Conversations with industry leaders reveal that organisations that coped better to the fast-changing external environment brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic were those that leveraged technology to shape solutions for the new normal.
The latest edition of the Digital Pioneers Club CTO Roundtable series, hosted in association with Google Cloud brought to the fore these stories of resilience and innovation. Leading the conversations were Manish Mittal, Managing Principal - India, Axtria; Jayateerth Mirji, VP Technology, TeamLease; Vijay Sivaram, CEO, Quess IT Staffing, Quess Corp; Mani Rangarajan, Group COO, PropTiger and Mitesh Agarwal, Head of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud India.
The weeks that followed after the onset of the pandemic saw businesses creating new opportunities by bringing about an acceleration in adopting new business models. For instance, real estate advisory PropTiger launched a virtual platform PropTiger Direct where customers could experience digital home-buying. It provided access to multiple projects in different localities of a city, access to digital brochures, project and locality videos, pre-recorded webinars with experts from the area, virtual site tours and complete coverage of site location and locality through drone shoots. Mani points out that there were a lot of naysayers about real estate at the start of the pandemic, however contrary to the market expectations the sector witnessed a resurgence in consumer interest aided by adoption of remote working, hybrid working and the fact that people felt safest in their own homes. In addition, the sector saw the entire ecosystem of realty developers, brokers, house owners, and consumers coming forward to embrace digitisation. We saw a massive change in people's outlook towards digitisation, he said.
Quess Corp, a leading business services provider offering services like workforce management, asset management among others, to 2,600+ customers across 10 countries reimagined three pivotal requirements of organisations the pandemic had displaced - people, productivity and technology. We needed to figure out how people could work in different formats - be it work from home, hybrid or back to office. We also had to ensure that there are systems in place for employees to stay productive and build metrics that could define productivity under the new circumstances. From a technology perspective, we needed structural infrastructure that could ensure smooth day-to-day operations. So, we needed to make sure that people, productivity and technology are in place at all times and keep improving, shared Vijay.
Counted among one of Indias leading human resource companies, TeamLease Services saw an acceleration in transforming from a technology-enabled company to becoming a technology-driven company. Services like hiring, onboarding, employee cycle management, financial reconciliation, etc which are enabled by technology are at the core of our business. In addition, we also have SaaS products like Digital Workforce Solutions that addresses some of the most critical challenges faced in workforce management. In the last one year, we saw an increase in the adoption of technologies which in turn brought in an extensive acceleration in the evolution of our technology offerings with new capabilities and features, shared Jayateerth.
At Google and Google Could, the way we have worked with organisations in the past is phenomenally different from the last 18 months, shared Mitesh. He underlined that Googles work with organisations have traditionally focused on three broad areas. First, how Google can help in an organisations cultural transformation while embracing technology. Second, how to enable business build scale, security and resilience by enabling access to the same set of technologies irrespective of the size of the business. Here, Google Cloud has been a big lever in terms of democratising access to technologies, he said. Third, how to enable organisations to make better data-driven discussions.
He shared, Bringing all the three together - organisational and cultural transformation, access to best-in-class technology and data-driven decision-making together create a very powerful condition and that unleashes innovation and transformation. And, this is what we've been doing with a number of customers across the globe including India. Mitesh highlighted Google Clouds recent partnership with Indian telecommunications giant Reliance Jio Infocomm to build solutions in 5G for the enterprise and consumer segments as an example in the direction. In a very short period of time, India will have its first 5G phone, powered by Google Cloud.
Data Warehousing has been around for a long long time. But what has really changed in the last couple of years has been the journey of data to the cloud, shared Manish of Axtria, a global provider of cloud software and data analytics to the life sciences industry. Manish highlighted that cloud providers like Google Cloud and others in the industry today provide security and privacy, which are critical for enterprises.
In addition, privacy regulations such as The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the US federal law that requires the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), the European Union law on data protection and privacy have further built the consumer and industry confidence. This has enabled enterprises to get comfortable with taking data to the cloud, building their data lakes, data warehouses, etc. and make way for structured and unstructured data to be made available to business owners without having to deep-dive into the tech stack. And, this has accelerated in the last 18 months. Five years ago, enterprises were only talking about applications and cloud, but they are now looking at hosting data on the cloud. It is no longer a question mark anymore.
Mitesh highlighted that various definitions of multi-cloud environments exist and are often accurate given the context, most organisations when they look at multi-cloud, they're looking at it for growth. Here, he pointed out how Google Clouds Anthos is an innovative product that becomes a model platform for both hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Anthos unifies the management of infrastructure and applications across on-premises, edge, and in multiple public clouds with a Google Cloud-backed control plane for consistent operation at scale. We released Google Cloud Anthos a couple of years back and have built some fantastic use cases. We have organisations in banking, telecom manufacturing, and life sciences that have really started using this. Anthos enables organisations to freely choose where they want to deploy and provide them the ability to manage it in a unified way, he said.
He predicted that 90 percent of the enterprises globally will move towards a multi-cloud strategy, making Anthos highly relevant for the market. With Anthos customers get the freedom of choice to chart their own cloud as well as transformation journey. In addition, Anthos also provides the capability to run BigQuery on multi-cloud.
The discussion also highlighted how startups can build new tech products by keeping the needs of the business and customer at its core. PropTigers Mani shared, We are a proptech company, and we have technology firmly in our DNA. As a tech-driven company we have realised that you should not build a technology which requires a market, instead you need to focus on the market and understand the kind of technology solutions that fit in. He shared an example of how at Housing.com they saw an opportunity to increase the customer engagement level on the platform via digitisation in the early days of the pandemic. Unlike e-commerce marketplaces which have a high level of engagement, customers visit property portals like Housing.com only when they want to buy, rent or sell a house. We realised there are a lot of periphery activities around buying, renting or selling that open up opportunities to engage with the customer, he explained.
This observation led PropTiger to launch Housing Edge- a full-stack rental and allied services platform, through which the company enabled digitisation of multiple services that tenants and landlords can avail. These services include packages like online rent payment, rental agreements, tenant verification, packing and moving, furniture rental, home interiors, and home services. The move has led to an exceptional increase in engagement because of the product-market fit. Today, the platform sees about 300,000 transactions being done every month with a high repeat usage rate. About 80 percent of people who come to pay rent on the platform tend to use the product every month, he explained.
The discussion also saw the panelists sharing the technologies they have used extensively to build and strengthen their product offerings and the impact it has had on their growth and digitisation journey.
Global Cloud Hosting Service Market Expected To Reach Highest CAGR By 2026: A2 Hosting, SiteGround, InMotion, HostGator, DreamHost etc. – The Market…
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Top web hosting platform could be easily exploited using these threats – TechRadar
Cybersecurity researchers have successfully conducted remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation attacks on popular web hosting control platform cPanel & WHM by exploiting a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
While cPanel is limited to managing a single hosting account, cPanel & WHM allows admins to manage the entire server.
Our team has found multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/WHM during a black-box pentest, the most important one being a privilege escalation via stored XSS, shared Adrian Tiron, co-founder of cloud security firm Fortbridge.
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According to Tiron, the researchers were able to exploit the XSS vulnerability to escalate privileges to root.
Whilst disclosing these bugs to the cPanel & WHM team, the Fortbridge team realized that the pentested cPanel account was a reseller account with the permission to edit locales, leading them to conclude that the XSS vulnerability discovered during their pestest is considered a feature, and it was not fixed.
The second bug is an HTML injection vulnerability. Although Tiron says this vulnerability is enough to bypass the CSRF/referrer leak protection, the process to exploit it is a lot more convoluted.
Fortbridge notified cPanel of the vulnerabilities earlier this year, and the popular control panel updated the relevant portions of its documentation earlier this month.
However, cPanel hasnt yet fixed the flaws, arguing that threat actors must be authenticated to exploit the vulnerability.
In a conversation with The Daily Swig, Cory McIntire, product owner on the cPanel security team, said the Locale interface can only be used by root and Super Privilege resellers to whom the root must grant this specific ACL to.
He added that this is labelled a Super Privilege with a warning icon in the server admins WHM interface, and also flagged as such in the cPanel documentation.
In terms of protection, McIntire said that Super Privileges should only be given to people you would trust with root on your server.
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Wildfire Smoke That Affects Droplet Formation in Clouds May Lead to Less Rain, Worsening Dry Condition in Western US – Science Times
A new study recently showed tiny particles present in wildfire smoke affect the manner droplets are forming in clouds, possibly leading to less rain, not to mention worsening dry conditions that stimulate fires.
APhys.orgreport specified as heatwaves and wildfires is stressing the western United States, worries about drought increases.
Dry landscapes are burning faster, and rain can help control the already-raging fires. However, wildfire smoke may keep that much-needed rain from falling.
When the smoke coming from wildfires goes up into the atmosphere, small particles also fly up with it. Water droplets can then condense in the cloud particles.
The study's authors expected a rise in the number of water droplets that form in the clouds caused by wildfires, as more particles are generating more droplets.
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(Photo: Maranie R. Staab/Getty Images)A firefighter makes his way day a mountainside before extinguishing a small blaze on August 9, 2021, near Westwood, California. The Dixie Fire, which has incinerated nearly 500,000 acres, is the second-largest recorded wildfire in state history and remains only 21 percent contained.
In their study,Biomass Burning Smoke and Its Influence on Clouds Over the Western US,published inGeophysical Research Letters, the researchers found that the difference between smoky and clean clouds hosting roughly five times the amount of droplets compared to their clean equivalents.
In addition, smoky droplets were also found to be half the pristine droplets' size. The difference in size is what could stop the falling of drops.
As indicated in the study, since tiny droplets are less likely to develop and sooner or later fall out as rain, wildfires in the western US could mean there's less rain during the wildfire season.
According to atmospheric scientist Cynthia Twohy atNorthWest Research Associates and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, they were surprised at how effective the said organic particles formed cloud droplets and their large effects on clouds microphysics.
Twohy, the study's lead author added, she started thinking about the long-term effects of this occurrence considering the drought, and there's a lot of wildfires that increase over time.
In clouds reaching high into the atmosphere, adding more particles can stimulate and enliven the clouds and bring rain, although according to the lead author, the opposite is true for low-attitude cumulus clouds as the ones she studied.
Backing the new results, previous research unrelated to this study showed akin changes in the size and concentration of droplets related to smoke in the Amazon.
A similarMirage Newsreport said atmospheric chemist Ann Marie Carlton from the University of California-Irvine said, what really excited her about this research were the links to the hydrological cycle.
Carlton, who's not part of the new study added, observed differences in the size and precipitation of the cloud droplets and the formation of clouds, which definitely affects the hydrologic cycle.
Twohy noted cloud microphysics are complex that other than droplet size, there are factors to consider for the smoky clouds' overall impact on regional climate.
If wildfire smoke makes rain less possible, dry conditions and more wildfires could be more typical in the future. More so, cloud microphysics are complex, thereby taking more time before such links are clear.
Regardless, in associating wildfire smoke with changes in clouds and, tentatively, rain, this new research of Twohy is pushing atmospheric physics and chemistry to
Regardless, in connecting wildfire smoke to cloud changes and, tentatively, precipitation, Twohy's new research pushes atmospheric physics and chemistry to draw near climate change.
Carlton added that humans had agitated the atmosphere's composition; no one has ever known about all these interactions and feedback.
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CDPQ invests in Beyond Technologies’ international expansion – PRNewswire
MONTRAL, Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec (CDPQ), a global investment group, announced today a minority investment representing a 20% stake in Beyond Technologies, the leading SAP solutions integrator in Canada.
"With the seismic technological shift in the past years of organizations pushing their business to cloud-based and online transactional models, we see rising demand for SAP and business transformation solutions. On our path for growth, we are excited to welcome CDPQ as an investor, whose long-term commitment to help Canadian-based companies succeed internationally, robust expertise in M&A, and international network of offices and partners will support our ambitions, which include growth through strategic acquisitions," said Luc Dubois, CEO of Beyond Technologies.
"With over 20 years' experience in digitally transforming businesses with SAP solutions, Beyond Technologies stands out due to its experienced team of experts across multiple industries. We look forward to being part of this Qubec-based company's journey as it strengthens its presence in Canada and continues to expand across international markets such as Europe and the USA," said Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President and Head of Investments in Qubec and Stewardship Investing at CDPQ.
Headquartered in Montral, Beyond Technologies specializes in providing organizations with the expertise and tools to digitally transform their business leveraging SAP solutions. Its services range across the entire transformation cycle, from cross-industry functional and technical business consulting, customer experience, project management, cloud hosting, business intelligence, as well as continuous business improvement and performance. Founded in 2005, the company has grown from 100 to over 320 professionals in the past five years, and today serves over 150 SMEs, family-owned businesses and large enterprises from across its six locations in Canada, the USA, France and South Africa.
ABOUT BEYOND TECHNOLOGIES We are a professional services firm, specialized in SAP solution integration and business process optimization. We offer intelligent, practical, and innovative solutions that give our clients a competitive edge, in a timely and cost-effective manner. https://www.beyondtechnologies.com
ABOUT CDPQ At Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec (CDPQ), we invest constructively to generate sustainable returns over the long term. As a global investment group managing funds for public retirement and insurance plans, we work alongside our partners to build enterprises that drive performance and progress. We are active in the major financial markets, private equity, infrastructure, real estate and private debt.As at December 31, 2020, CDPQ's net assets total CAD365.5billion.For more information, visit cdpq.com, follow us on Twitter or consult our Facebook or LinkedIn pages.
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What is SaaS? Understanding the distribution method companies use to host software on the internet – Business Insider India
Depending on what you do and who you talk to, you've either never heard of SaaS, or you've seen the term thrown around as though you were supposed to understand what that meant without any context. We're here to make sure you're in the know the next time it pops up.
The gist is this: SaaS (Software as a Service) is a distribution model for software licensing where the provider hosts applications on the internet (or makes them available through a website), so that users don't have to download anything onto their computers to access the software. (SaaS falls under the cloud application umbrella.)
Even if you're unfamiliar with SaaS, you've probably used a service that uses this model. In fact, it's becoming so popular that one survey found 86% of organizations expected most of their software needs to be met by SaaS by 2022.
Here's what else you should know about SaaS.
There are two main types of Saas.
While both are using the same distribution model, the difference lies in how they serve their customers (and who those customers are.)
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As with anything, there are pros and cons to making the switch to a SaaS platform.
You've probably already heard of, if not used, a SaaS platform. For reference, here are a few examples of popular SaaS companies.
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Vertex Continues Industry Leadership with Oracle as a Preferred Cloud Infrastructure Partner – Yahoo Finance
Vertex customers running integrated Tax Solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) see 35 percent improvement in performance
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced that Vertex, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERX), a strategic partner and trusted global provider of indirect tax technology solutions, has seen a significant increase in customer adoption on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) over the last 12 months. Joint global customers leveraging Vertex Indirect Tax O Series solutions integrated with their Oracle applications have seen a 35 percent performance boost on OCI versus other environments.
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As one of the first tax technology partners to provide validated integrations for Oracle solutions available on OCI, the pace of adoption among joint customers keeps growing. Already, customers have been able to process more than 150 million transactions per month or a total of more than one billion transactions leveraging Vertex tax solutions on OCI in 2021.
A typical customer has 100,000 global transactions a day, half of which require VAT compliance calculations spanning 20 million tax rules. Since those transactions often span sales channels digital, brick and mortar, etc. the ability to quickly and consistently process accurate tax calculations and transactions, not only impacts compliance, but business performance. OCI's powerful compute services help Vertex resolve each transaction in milliseconds, consistently creating a better user experience. Vertex uses OCI's North America Cloud Regions and is working to expand internationally to Germany.
"We continue to collaborate with our partners at Oracle to advance technological innovation, streamline deployment, and achieve faster time-to-value," said David DeStefano, chief executive officer, Vertex. "As a result, OCI provides a preferred option for our joint customers, providing the performance, scalability and security they need to help accelerate global commerce."
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OCI's built-in security, high availability, and superior price-performance help Vertex customers around the world automate their transactions and stay compliant without having to worry about capacity constraints. Vertex O Series on OCI provides a cloud solution for companies that allows for increased flexibility of a tax system configuration without the responsibility of infrastructure, hosting and system maintenance.
"Vertex has been one of our trusted partners for more than 25 years, providing automated tax determination that has enabled our joint customers to modernize their finance and accounting processes and grow their businesses more rapidly," said Dave Profozich, senior vice president, ISV Ecosystem, Oracle. "The findings speak for themselves and demonstrate that Vertex's tax solutions running on OCI have helped our joint global customers improve their ROI from the digital transformation of back-office operations."
Vertex, already a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), continues to expand its partnership with Oracle and has developed advanced capabilities to streamline adoption and implementation for joint customers. In addition, Vertex, an Oracle Cloud Build partner, has achieved Integrated with Oracle Cloud and Powered by Oracle Cloud Expertise. This means customers can be confident that Vertex solutions are supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SLA, enabling full access and control over their cloud infrastructure services as well as consistent performance.
Oracle and Vertex will jointly market and sell solutions in an alliance designed to expand Vertex's existing global footprint and provide manageability and security at scale. Vertex's solutions are available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, where customers can search for available applications and services to find the best business solutions for their organization.
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