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The Interaction Between Identity Cloud and Akamai Edge Services – Security Boulevard
Akamai Identity Cloud is a purpose-built customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform specifically architected to meet the needs of application owners and API providers consumer identity needs. As a cloud-based SaaS offering, all interactions with Identity Cloud occur over the public internet. And as an integrated part of the larger Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, Identity Cloud transactions benefit from many of the same services that Akamai customers do namely, Ion for application acceleration and Kona Site Defender for web security and DDoS protection.
All request/response interactions with Identity Cloud, either front channel direct from the end user or via back-channel communication from application infrastructure, are accelerated by Ion and protected by Kona.
But theres a bit more to this story, because many Identity Cloud customers are also users of these same Akamai acceleration and security services. And through the magic of DNS CNAMEs, these Akamai customers are also able to apply their instances of Ion, Kona, and even Bot Manager and Client Reputationwith their settings and their rulesto their Identity Cloud web-based transactions.
The purpose of this post is to explain the various interactions across user, application, and Identity Cloud and where exactly, architecturally speaking, customer-managed Akamai services are invoked vs. where Akamai services that are solely managed by Identity Cloud engineers are invoked.
The following diagram helps to describe these distinctions
In the rest of this post, well be breaking down this diagram in more detail.
At a high level, this diagram represents the various possible elements of an Identity Cloud setup and the interaction points between those elements. Some elements always exist, while others may or may not exist.
And finally, lots of lines. These lines represent the various ways these components might interact with each other. Because were talking about the modern-day internet, all of these lines represent HTTPS request/response transactions: the back-and-forth conversation between clients and servers, all based on the HTTP protocol, all secured via TLS. Additionally, one of the defining characteristics of modern-day HTTP is the use of DNS names (A records and CNAMEs), which you see in the boxes that straddle the lines.
As well see shortly, these DNS names are one of the keys to understanding exactly when various elements of Akamai functionality are applied. To foreshadow, keep an eye out for customer-owned domains (e.g., http://www.customer.com, accounts.customer.com) vs. shared Akamai domains (e.g., janrain.com, janraincapture.com). This will give us a major hint as to where Identity Cloud customers can apply their own configurations settings to Identity Cloud transactions.
Now well break things down in more detail. Lets start with Identity Cloud itself.
The box on the right represents the entirety of Identity Cloud the storage and application components that allow our customers to collect, store, and access end-user profile data. This is a cloud-hosted, redundant, and highly available set of services.
Notice, however, that there is only one line going to this box! This is because, as a part of the Akamai family, Identity Cloud itself takes advantage of the same robust acceleration and security Akamai edge features as many of our customers doIon and Kona. To put it simply:
All requests and responses to and from Identity Cloud pass through the Akamai edge.
This allows us to apply acceleration and security controls to all requests destined for the infrastructure of Identity Cloud. Note: These performance and security controls are shared, and are based on configuration settings managed and monitored by a team of engineers at Akamai. These controls are designed to increase the overall performance of the platform (using Ion) and to protect the platform against a broad swath of web application vulnerabilities (using Kona).
Referring to the point made above about DNS names, notice that the requests to the Akamai edge are all to janrain.com and janraincapture.com hostnamesthis is how you know the Ion and Kona configurations are shared. It is important to understand that Identity Cloud customers do not have control over the settings applied at this point.
Next, well look at how Akamai customers can control performance and security controls using their own instances of Ion, Kona, and even Bot Manager and Client Reputation.
While Identity Cloud customers are unable to control the shared performance and security settings and controls that are applied to incoming Identity Cloud requests, those customers with existing Ion, Kona, Bot Manager, and/or Client Reputation entitlements are able to use those entitlements to control and protect certain Identity Cloud workflows.
Across the top of this diagram, we see the main places where requests to Identity Cloud originate. Youll notice that each of the three boxes across the top can generate these requests.
1) Directly from the user agent
In this case, an application such as a single-page browser app or a mobile app communicates directly with Identity Cloud hostnames (e.g., *.janrain.com) without benefit of proxying through the customers own Akamai instance. As such, these requests will only benefit from the shared level of acceleration and protection discussed previously.
2) Proxied through the Akamai edge
As most Akamai customers know, Akamai edge features are enabled by way of a DNS CNAME, which allows a customer to still use hostnames associated with their own domains, yet direct that traffic to Akamai edge proxy servers. This is fundamentally how products like Ion, Kona, and Bot Manager are injected into the path of web traffic, and Identity Cloud requests are no different.
In this case, however, the customers various edge configurations are set up to use Identity Cloud as its origin, after the customers acceleration and security controls are applied.
Lets look at a more concrete example.
An Akamai customer who also uses Kona, Ion, Bot Manager, and Client Reputation wishes to move its aging and homegrown customer identity functionality over to Identity Cloud. It wishes to use the modern OIDC standard and choose Identity Clouds Hosted Login model, which provides an authentication, registration, and profile management experience that is simple to use and robust right out of the box. It creates a new hostname
accounts.customer.com
which, like its other properties, is CNAMEd to the Akamai edge
accounts.customer.com. IN CNAME accounts.akamai.com.edgekey.net
Now, when it wants its application to invoke an authentication/registration experience, itll make a standard OIDC authorize call to this new hostname
https://accounts.customer.com/{{customer_id}}/login/authorize?client_id=xxx
...which now arrives at an Akamai server. However, because this request was made using the accounts.customer.com hostname, our customer is able to apply its own configuration settings to this Identity Cloud traffic. What might it do?
Once these controls are applied, the requests are then forwarded, or proxied, to the normal Identity Cloud hostname (e.g., v1.api.us.janrain.com), which has been configured as the proxys origin server.
Note that in terms of OIDC and OAuth flows, these are still front-channel requests theyre simply proxied through the customers Akamai edge instance before being sent to the IdP.
Also, if youre paying attention, you might notice that the above request to /authorize appears to be going through two different edge server instances: the customers instance, and then the shared instance. While this is true, in practical terms these will most likely either be the same physical Akamai edge server (i.e., a localhost request), or another server in the same region.
This means there will be very little impact from a performance perspective.
3) Back-channel or machine-to-machine requests generated from customer managed infrastructure
The final place in the architecture where well see Identity Cloud requests originate is from the customers own infrastructure. These API requests are often, though not always, kicked off by a user-driven event, and involve a direct request from the back-end infrastructure to Identity Cloud.
An example of a user-driven back-channel request is the code-for-token exchange that occurs during the OAuth/OIDC authorization code grant flow. But this could also include other administrative RESTful API calls, such any profile updates that may be executed in response to, for instance, a webhook.
Notice that these requests are to Akamai identity domains, and thus are protected only by the shared Ion and Kona configurations, not customer-specific setups. That said, from a security perspective this is generally less worrying. In the case of the code-for-token exchange, for example, the back-channel requests are preceded by a front-channel request as we saw in #2 above, so customer protections can be applied upstream, earlier in the flow.
Other back-end RESTful API calls that are generated server side will simply not present the same level of risk as a user-agent generated front-channel request.
As described above, Identity Cloud is an integral part of the Akamai platform, and utilizes some of the same acceleration and security features that many of our web and media delivery customers benefit from. Identity Cloud comes out of the box with enhanced performance and security that comes from the shared Ion and Kona configurations that are in place.
In addition, Identity Cloud customers that have entitlements to Ion, Kona, Bot Manager, and Client Reputation can also layer these products in front of their own Identity Cloud request flow and customize these to their own specific needs.
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CHR, Microsoft partner on cloud and visibility – JOC.com
C.H. Robinson and Microsoft are mutual customers of each other, with the technology company using the 3PL's managed transportation services for global visibility. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com.
C.H. Robinson has enlisted Microsoft to provide the cloud infrastructure for its technology platform Navisphere, and the third-party logistics provider (3PL) will also use Microsofts associated internet of things (IoT) services to target improved supply chain visibility for customers, the companies said Tuesday.
Moving to cloud server arrangements with the likes of Azure and its main competitor, Amazon Web Services (AWS), allows enterprises to lighten their load on system maintenance and scale up and down as usage dictates. Its also an opportunity to integrate associated solutions offered by Microsoft and Amazon that could benefit an enterprise directly or enable it to offer a capability to its customers.
As an example of the latter use, Minneapolis-based C.H. Robinson said it would use Azure IoT Central to provide its transportation management system (TMS) Navisphere to better track temperature, shock, tilt, humidity, light, and pressure in shipments across modes.
The pace of change were seeing in the supply chain industry today is unparalleled, Chris OBrien, chief commercial officer for C.H. Robinson, said in a statement. Being able to quickly scale and adapt our technology is what helps give our customers a competitive advantage. We gain more scalability, premier data security, and increased application speed, which benefit our customers and carriers around the world.
Landing North Americas largest freight brokerage is another feather in the supply chain cap for Microsofts Azure web services division, which supports a number of widely used logistics software providers such as Blue Yonder and Descartes and global logistics providers such as Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co., Hapag-Lloyd, DB Schenker, and Yusen Logistics.
Azure is also used by C.H. Robinson competitor J.B. Hunt, primarily to power its J.B. Hunt 360 digital freight marketplace.
C.H. Robinson and Microsoft have a long, symbiotic history, the two companies said in the statement. Microsoft assisted in the development of Navisphere, a technology at the core of C.H. Robinsons internal operations and the managed transportation services it offers to shippers through its TMS division. Meanwhile, Microsoft is also a customer of C.H. Robinson, using the 3PL for freight and inventory visibility and management globally.
Aside from C.H. Robinsons use of Microsoft Azure, it will also leverage Microsofts customer relationship management (CRM) platform Dynamics 365, while Microsoft will integrate C.H. Robinsons pricing, execution, and transportation management tools and make them available to other Dynamics 365 customers.
Microsoft Azure competes primarily with AWS to provide server and data storage infrastructure to enterprises, and both have distinct units focused on the transportation and logistics industry. It has been speculated that many software and logistics services providers catering to global shippers choose Azure in part to avoid AWS; providers operate under the presumption that working with AWS is problematic because of its affiliation with Amazon the e-commerce leviathan. In other words, a retailer or manufacturer that views Amazon as a competitor or threat won't want to entrust its systems to a company that uses AWS.
AWS representatives acknowledged to JOC.com the stigma of being associated with Amazon seen as a competitive threat to swathes of shippers and logistics providers remains, but said the firm is making progress in the transportation and logistics space, where it estimates a large proportion of companies have yet to migrate fully to cloud-based services.
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Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy on How the Cloud is Aiding Vaccine Development; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that is Transforming…
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy discusses how cloud-based services have buttressed the at-home economy in the COVID-19 era; how machine-learning tools are being deployed to speed the development of vaccines and the natural synergies between the tech and energy industries in the latest edition of the CERAWeek Conversations series.
In a conversation with Daniel Yergin, vice chairman, IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), Jassy talks about the origins of AWS; the rapid growth of cloudfrom primarily used by smaller startups to being embraced by large companies and the public sector; and how providing reliable, scalable, cost-effective infrastructure allows people to innovate.
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Selected excerpts:Interview Recorded Wednesday, June 24, 2020
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It really spans the gamut in terms of customers. In the first half dozen years or so of AWS you mostly saw startups using the platform.
What's happened over the last seven or eight years, but particularly over the last five, is that the enterprise and the public sector have really started to adopt AWS and the cloud in a very pervasive way. You see it in every imaginable vertical business segment: In the energy sector; you see it in financial services; in healthcare; in the public sector we have 7,000 government agencies worldwide using AWS; 10,000 educational institutions; 25,000 non-profits. So, its a very broad and diverse customer base.
One of the biggest benefits of the cloud [is] the ability to move quickly and to innovate on behalf of your customers quickly. When you have data, as most enterprises do, that live all over the place in all these different silos, it's incredibly difficult to actually do much with that data or to do analytics on that data.
We started working with Shell on their subsurface data universe. What they really want to do was have this one place where they could run lots of analytics in almost endless simulations. The data scientists had all kinds of ways they wanted to use this data, so we built this with them.
They appropriately thought about it and said: we want to actually democratize this data set so that lots of other companies can do the same type of exploration and, as importantly, will get a number of ISVs (independent software vendors) and systems integrators who will build to enable us to do more in the analytics and then what we can do with this data. So, they really opened this upits just totally changed access to that data and what you can find from it and what you can do and how you can save money and time and energy in the exploration process.
You can look at Woodside which has gas plants all over the world. They were trying to innovate on the traditional way that you ran these [plants] and you did maintenance and you operated them. So, they went about using machine learning and AI to build an intelligent asset that tried to fuse together all of this historical data and how the plants were used and how they were operated and fusing that data with thousands of real time sensors on their various assets.
What they're able to do now is, they have all this historical data, they built models to analyze and predict what's going to happen based on historical data, they have real time inputs, they have a visual representation of what's happening in their plants and then they're able to run all these simulations on different scenarios, such that, now they're able to predict when there might be a failure or maintenance issue up to a week before it actually happens.
Moderna built really a digital manufacturing platform on top of AWS and they were able to use things like EC2, which is our compute service, and S3, which is our storage service, and Redshift, which is our data warehouse service.
Then they used our machine learning to build a number of very deep neural networks that allowed them to be able to predict structures of different strains of what they're trying to solve.
They were working on mRNA and they were trying to build a vaccine for SARS-COV-2 and they were able, by using machine learning [to] predict these structures and predict what they would have in various simulations. They were able to build a vaccine in 63 days in what normally takes 20 months. Under any circumstances that would be remarkable, but if you especially think about the environment in which we live today, it's very important.
They didn't have to buy the hardware. They didnt need the data center. They didnt have to build the infrastructure software. They just used our compute and our storage and our data warehouse and our machine learning capabilities to scale up and scale down as they needed to really in rapid fire be able to build something much faster than they otherwise would.
Energy companies have technology infrastructurewhether they use the cloud or don't use the cloudthey have on-premises technology infrastructure that they're going to use. If you look at research that's done, it's 3.6 times more energy efficient to run technology infrastructure in AWS and the cloud than to run it on-premises.
If you actually add the carbon intensity for the same task, it's 88% more energy efficient to run an AWS than it is on premises. Wed rather try to be a part of the solution and help energy companies be more energy efficient with the technology infrastructure they're going to use, but also save money and time so they can spend their innovation cycles working on the renewable projects that allow us to all get to 100% renewable like we want.
I'm not sure I know any companies that aren't focused on the environment right now and who don't understand how important that is to our future. There's such an urgency to get there, but if you're going to run technology infrastructure it is so much more energy efficient to be able to do so in the cloud than on-premises and that's because we have much better utilization in the cloud of servers and more efficient power. If you can be 3.6 times more energy efficient with the same workloads you have to run, but in the cloud, that changes what your own carbon footprint looks like.
Amazon by most people's standards in the 1990s and early 2000s was a company that innovated at a very rapid clip. And yet at the time we were very frustrated with the speed with which we were innovating. It felt like it was taking so long.
We asked people how much of [their] time when building these features or capabilities is spent on what really differentiates the capability versus that undifferentiated heavy lifting of the infrastructure. We were stunned to hear that people spent about 80% of their time on that undifferentiated heavy lifting. That was a real realization to us that, if you built reliable, scalable, cost-effective infrastructure services, it would allow Amazon to innovate at a much faster clip than we were before.
We thought about Amazon, which is a very strong technology company, and if we had that issue, we figured a lot of other companies probably had that same issue.
It changes what's possible with companies. If you can turn capital expense into a variable expense, usually that's attractive to people. In the cloud you dont have to lay out all that capital for the data centers and the hardwareyou get to just use the infrastructure as you need it. And then variable expenses is a lower expense than what most companies can do on their own because we have such giant scale that we pass on to customers in the form of lower prices. Weve lowered our prices on almost 80 different occasions in the last 10 years.
Anyone who needs to provision infrastructure knows that you have to guess ahead of time how much you need. If you guess too little, you end up having an outage if it turns out that you need moreso nobody guesses too little, everybody provisions for the peak. Theres a reason they call it the peak, you rarely sit at the peak.
In the cloud you don't have to guess. You provision what you need. If turns out you need more, you seamlessly scale up and if it turns out you hit a peak, you just give it back to us and stop paying for it. But the number one reason that people have adopted the cloud and the way it's most changed a lot of businesses is just the agility and speed with which you can innovate and change your own customer experience.
The first is who you hire. If you hire people who are content moving slow and operating in an incumbent pace, you will move slow. Whereas we overly index on who we hire on builders. We think about builders as those who like to invent, but also those who look at a customer experience and try to figure out what's wrong with it and then have this hunger to change that and to reinvent that.
Then we try to organize them in as small and separable and autonomous teams as we can, so they own their own destiny. If teams own all the resourcesthere's no more finger pointing between engineering and product management, operations; they're all in the same team, and they're all owning it togetherthey take charge of their own destiny.
The last piece is, if you want to invent and you want people to take chances and work on new initiatives, you have to be able to tolerate failure. None of us like failure at Amazon. But if you don't allow people to take chances and have an opportunity if it doesn't work out to be able to move on to something great, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy: none of the good people work on the new things because it will be too risky.
We talk a lot about how everything we build starts with the customer and then moves backwards from there. If you sat in our product development meetings you would see that it's almost like the customer sitting at the table. It's always with a customer lens on it. It's easy to talk about being customer focused and a lot harder to actually execute on that. I think the company is unusually focused on customers.
Just in the last few days we've announced this $2 billion fund to fund renewable projects that change the speed with which we can all get to carbon zero. It's a big priority for the company. It's a big priority for AWS and for the rest of Amazon and we're looking for as many partners as we can to help accomplish it.
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Server Management Software Market 2020 Global Size, COVID 19 Outbreak, Segments, Growth and Trends by Forecast to 2023 – Cole of Duty
Server Management Software Market Highlights:
Market Research Future (MRFR) projects that the server management software market 2020 can gain considerable ground at a significant rate during the review period, which is between 2018 and 2023.
Server Management Software Market solutions cost-effectively enhance the overall performance of every server device, their demand is projected to mount exponentially across organizations in the years to come. These solutions also provide timely updates of the software, ensuring that the servers are all set to be protected against any virus or malware. Also, they offer high storage capacity, data protection and are therefore, finding more and more application areas across various industries. Some of the emerging applications include hosting of busy and large websites, databases and web applications, and more.
The markets future growth prospects seem bright, due to the fast emergence of cloud-based technologies combined with the rising adoption of cloud servers across enterprises. The massive growth in the implementation of server management solutions in various verticals such as BFSI, healthcare, IT & telecom and education can mean excellent business growth during the evaluation period.
The server management software market also benefits from the rapidly mounting demand for the software in small as well as medium sized enterprises. These small and medium sized businesses are rising in number at a fast pace all over the world, which can work in favor of the server management software industry.
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Prominent Industry Participants:
Prominent industry participants that account for the expansion of the server management software market size are Percona (U.S.), Microsoft Corporation (U.S.), Adaxes (U.S), Datadog (U.S.), Super Micro Computer Inc. (U.S.), SolarWinds MSP (Canada), Central Solutions (U.S.), NEC Corporation (U.S.), Infrascale (U.S.), ManageEngine (U.S.), Server Density (UK), Hewlett Packard (U.S.), BMC Software (U.S.), to name a few.
Market Segmentation:
The global server management software market has been extensively studied in the MRFR report, with the main segments listed as deployment, organization size and vertical.
Regional Insight:
The server management software market size can expand considerably in the major regions of Europe, North America, Asia Pacific (APAC), and the Rest of the World (RoW).
Accounting for the biggest share in the global market, North America can exhibit a superlative progression even in the coming years. Canada and the United States (U.S) rank among the top markets for server management software in the region, as a result of the large base of established companies like ManageEngine, Datadog, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation, Super Micro Computer Inc., BMC Software and NEC Corporation, to name a few.
The APAC market for server management solutions can attain a significant expansion rate between 2018 and 2023, by virtue of rapid developments and expansion of the IT infrastructure. The demand for server management software solutions is expected to soar considerably in the following years, following the increasing need to enhance the efficiency and production in the IT sector across the region.
A sizeable portion of the server management software market has been seized by Europe, with the prime growth boosters identified as the mounting concerns regarding data protection and security. The increasing implementation of server management software and solutions in IT & telecom vendors is also stimulating market expansion in the region.
Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary
2 Scope of the Report
2.1 Market Definition
2.2 Scope of the Study
2.2.1 Research Objectives
2.2.2 Assumptions & Limitations
2.3 Markets Structure
3 Market Research Methodology
3.1 Research Process
3.2 Secondary Research
3.3 Primary Research
3.4 Forecast Model
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List of Tables
Table 1 Global Server Management Software Market: By Region, 2017-2023
Table 2 North America Server Management Software Market: By Country, 2017-2023
Table 3 Europe Server Management Software Market: By Country, 2017-2023
Table 4 Asia-Pacific Server Management Software Market: By Country, 2017-2023
Table 5 Middle East & Africa Server Management Software Market: By Country, 2017-2023
Table 6 Latin America Server Management Software Market: By Country, 2017-2023
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List of Figures
Figure 1 Global Server Management Software Market Segmentation
Figure 2 Forecast Methodology
Figure 3 Five Forces Analysis of Global Server Management Software Market
Figure 4 Value Chain of Global Server Management Software Market
Figure 5 Share of Global Server Management Software Market In 2017, By Country (In %)
Figure 6 Global Server Management Software Market, 2017-2023
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Tengxunyun.net.cn Is Now Among the Best Online Blogs That Cover Information Regarding Tencent Cloud Server Service – Press Release – Digital Journal
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Shanghai, China -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/14/2020 -- Tencent's cloud server service is a must-have option for businesses nowadays. However, to use the service effectively, one needs the aid of an online blog that can provide details, news and information regarding it. For this purpose, Tengxunyun.net.cn is among the most popular and widely used online blogs. They provide their readers with an abundance of articles and details about the Tencent cloud server. As a result of their coverage, many people have been able to remain informed on various important intricacies.
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How Tencent is upping the ante on Asian rival Alibaba Cloud – TechHQ
Members of the cloud industry have propped up businesses amid the shift to remote working theyve also played a crucial role in providing the support for apps and systems used to help contain the outbreak.
Asian cloud leaders Alibaba Cloud and Tencent have been notable for their charity the former offered has its computational platforms and resources available to tens of research groups to accelerate data-heavy drug development and vaccine discovery. Of course, this increasing reliance on advanced cloud services has proven lucrative and, amid all the chaos, the race for stakes between these two Chinese internet giants has heated up.
The circumstances have also opened up new opportunities. The benefits of the long-emergingtelehealthsector have been thrown into the spotlight: Alibaba revealed that its AliHealth app, hosting over 1,000 doctors, has been receiving over 3,000 consultation requests per hour at the peak of the pandemic, while Chinese Tencents Wedoctor app had served up to 1.5 million consultation services by the end of February.
Eyes are on automation, too. COVID-19 has provided the watershed moment for investment into automation technology such as robotics to get serious in sectors like manufacturing and logistics. Cloud computing will be a backbone.
As reported byReuters, this technological inflection point though ripe with cloud-driven opportunity is leading to more fierce competition than ever between Chinas tech titans, and contender Tencent is taking every opportunity to steal groundacross Asia and beyondfrom world heavyweight Alibaba Cloud, which dominates its home market and currently ranks fourth worldwide in the public cloud tables, behind AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Tencent last month also announced the launch of a smart city project. TheShenzhen-based smart campuswillleverage technologies including 5G connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in a bid to show whats possible with these initiatives, andwill serve as a manifestation of the companys ambitions.
Sources told the site that Tencents began to display a new level of aggressiveness as far back as 2018, when it put cloud at the center of its growth plans, and that energy has only stepped up a gear since the pandemic hit.The competition with Alibaba is so fierce right now, the sales teams are fighting them for every deal, an unnamed member of Tencents cloud division was quoted.
Already this year, Tencent has appointed more than 3,000 employees to its cloud arm and, as demand soared in China for bandwidth early on in the pandemic, it added a 100,000 cloud servers in eight days to support the box-freshTencent Conference.
In May, the firm said it was gearingup to invest 500 billion yuan approximately US$70 billion in cloud computing, AI and cybersecurity over the next five years. That was a I raise you on Alibabas pledge to invest 200 billion yuan (US$28 billion) in its own infrastructure just a few weeks before.
Tencents stacks, or a portion of them, will be directed at growing its operations outside its home market. At present, Alibaba Cloud has an unchallenged lead, claiming just under half (44.5%) of the entire cloud market share, while Tencent holds about a fifth, the same as Huawei Technologies. The social media and gaming titan wants to take the fight to Alibaba and other US rivals in markets outside of China, in markets where the battle between these two cloud blocs continues.
The cloud infrastructure markets of India and Indonesia will be crucial turf for Tencents growth ambitions, and here it will be able to compete for market share against its own local rival Alibaba Cloud, and US firms Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS.
Speaking toReuters, Poshu Yeung, VP of Tencents international business group, noted a huge interest in shifting further into the cloud business and for the online education market.
Although Tencent came to the space later than Alibaba, I believe the company is willing to endure a relatively long period of investment cycle for this business, hoping to catch up or one day becoming the No. 1 player in this field, said Alex Liu, tech analyst at China Renaissance commented.
Part of Tencents play to gain ground includes getting better at bespoke B2B sales and products, which is Alibaba Clouds bread and butter, while Tencent has been focused more on consumer-centric products and design.
Tencent has great genes in business-to-consumer, but in business-to-business, we either didnt have product managers or we just hired folks with a business-to-consumer background so it took a bit of time to convert their thinking, a second Tencent cloud source told the publication.
Tencent has secured in government contracts, a small but reputable sector which it can use to its advantage in attracting private-sector clients. Reutersnoted that its determination to win tenders saw Tencent offer the Fujian province government a completed information project plan for 0.01 yuan in 2017.
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Top 5 things to know about serverless computing – TechRepublic
Serverless computing can save your company money and maintenance time, among other things. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about serverless computing.
Server room? You don't have room for that? You're not doing peer-to-peer here--you still need a server, but you don't need it all the time. All of these seemingly contradictory considerations are no problem when you take advantage of functions as a service (FaaS). Here are five things to know aboutserverless computing.
Whether it's AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, IBM Cloud Functions, or Azure Functions. Serverless compute is another good tool to consider. Depending on your needs, you may be better off ditching the server, and calling functions as a service.
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Businesses That Need Cloud Services – Student Assembly of the State University of New York
You have heard of the Cloud and how many businesses, whether big and small, are turning to it to increase efficiency and productivity and improve sales. However, will your venture benefit from it, too?
Here are the types of businesses that willmake the most out of cloud services:
It would be a nightmare managing multiple vendors, franchises, and offices that are located in different sites. With the Cloud, however, it would be easier.
For example,vendor management, a ServiceNowplatform, will enable you to track the performance of third-party suppliers. You can assess and evaluate suppliers to ensure that each one maintains the same quality of products and services that customers expect from you.
Through the Cloud, you can see and share information in real-time. It will be as if the distances separating each member of your team does not exist. The Cloud acts as a virtual headquarters where everyone can stay in touch and work together.
The modern office allows for more flexibility. More and more companies are hiring remote workers, some of whom live in other countries.
This arrangement is only possible through the Cloud.
Using the Cloud allows you and your staff to access data and applications wherever they are in the world. You no longer have to acquire on-site servers and physical sites to place them. Workers can finish their tasks easily and efficiently as long as they have an internet connection.
It can help businesses save money. It eliminates the need for on-site servers which can be costly in terms of upkeep and in case there is a need to scale up as demand increases. Overhead expenses are also significantly reduced. There is no longer a need for an office, office equipment, and other stuff that are necessary to run an office.
Cloud offers increased security perfect for companies that handle customer information. One advantage of cloud services is it allows businesses to move around sensitive data, not just store it in one system which makes it very vulnerable. It prevents individuals and groups with malicious intent to access and steal data.
In case of a hacking event, the Cloud also will allow you to respond promptly. You can log into your account as soon as the system detects unusual activity and move your data somewhere else before hackers get a hold of it.
Marketers do so much more than just come up and run a successful advertising campaign for a brand or company. Often, their work does not end when a commercial is aired. They also have to understand how to better reach their target market and assess whether the campaign yielded the results they are hoping for.
The Cloud provides the opportunity to monitor consumer response in real-time. Marketers who also go to events outside of the office can also upload data to the Cloud as soon as it is needed so that the rest of the team can glean insights or make changes if needed.
The benefits of cloud services are clear. However, many businesses are still apprehensive about integrating cloud services into their current processes and systems. Talk to a cloud services provider to determine if your business can be improved and make the switch today.
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An Army of Swipers: Dating in the Modern Age – Visual Capitalist
No matter where in the world you log in fromSilicon Valley, London, and beyondCOVID-19 has triggered a mass exodus from traditional office life. Now that the lucky among us have settled into remote work, many are left wondering if this massive, inadvertent work-from-home experiment will change work for good.
In the following charts, we feature data from a comprehensive survey conducted by UK-based startup network Founders Forum, in which hundreds of founders and their teams revealed their experiences of remote work and their plans for a post-pandemic future.
While the future remains a blank page, its clear that hundreds of startups have no plans to hit backspace on remote work.
Based primarily in the UK, almost half of the survey participants were founders, and nearly a quarter were managers below the C-suite.
Prior to pandemic-related lockdowns, 94% of those surveyed had worked from an external office. Despite their brick-and-mortar setup, more than 90% were able to accomplish the majority of their work remotely.
Gen X and Millennials made up most of the survey contingent, with nearly 80% of respondents with ages between 26-50, and 40% in the 31-40 age bracket.
From improved work-life balance and productivity levels to reduced formal teamwork, these entrepreneurs flagged some bold truths about whats working and whats not.
If history has taught us anything, its that world events have the potential to cause permanent mass change, like 9/11s lasting impact on airport security.
Although most survey respondents had plans to be back in the office within six months, those startups are rethinking their remote work policies as a direct result of COVID-19.
How might that play out in a post-pandemic world?
Based on the startup responses, a realistic post-pandemic work scenario could involve 3 to 5 days of remote work a week, with a couple dedicated in-office days for the entire team.
Upwards of 92% of respondents said they wanted the option to work from home in some capacity.
Its important to stay open to learning and experimenting with new ways of working. The current pandemic has only accelerated this process.Well see the other side of this crisis, and Im confident it will be brighter.
Evgeny Shadchnev, CEO, Makers Academy
Working from home hasnt slowed down these startupsin fact, it may have improved overall productivity in many cases.
More than half of the respondents were more productive from home, and 55% also reported working longer hours.
Blurred lines, however, raised some concerns.
From chores and rowdy children to extended hours, working from home often makes it difficult to compartmentalize. As a result, employers and employees may have to draw firmer lines between work and home in their remote policies, especially in the long term.
Although the benefits appear to outweigh the concerns, these issues pose important questions about our increasingly remote future.
To uncover some work-from-home easter eggs (Better for exercise. MUCH more pleasant environment), we grouped nearly 400 open-ended questions according to sentiment and revealed some interesting patterns.
From serendipitous encounters and beers with colleagues to more formal teamwork, an overwhelming number of the respondents missed the camaraderie of team interactions.
It was clear startups did not miss the hours spent commuting every day. During the pandemic, those hours have been replaced by family time, work, or other activities like cooking healthy meals and working out.
Remote working has been great for getting us through lockdownbut truly creative work needs the magic of face to face interaction, not endless Zoom calls. Without the serendipity and chemistry of real-world encounters, the world will be a far less creative place.
Rohan Silva, CEO, Second Home
This pandemic has delivered a new normal thats simultaneously challenging and revealing. For now, it looks like a new way of working is being coded into our collective software.
What becomes of the beloved open-office plan in a pandemic-prepped world remains to be seen, but if these startups are any indication, work-life may have changed for good.
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QNAPs AirPlay-enabled 2-Bay Cloud NAS falls to Amazon low at $239 (20% off) – 9to5Toys
Amazon is currently offering theQNAP TS-231P2-4G 2-Bay Cloud NAS for $238.74 shipped. Down from the usual $299 going rate, todays offer is good for a 20% discount, beats B&Hs sale price by $30, and marks a new all-time low.QNAPs Cloud NAS features two hard drive bays and is as solid of a backup server as it is for dishing out movies with Plex and AirPlay. It features up to 209MB/s transfer speeds, has dual Gigabit Ethernet ports as well as two USB 3.0 slots, and comes equipped with 4GB of RAM.Rated 3.8/5 stars. Head below for more.
Now for those who are searching for one even entry-level way to get started with always-on storage, consider theSynology DS120j 1-Bay NAS instead. Itll only set you back $100 at Amazon, providing plenty of savings along the way. Of course, youll only be able to insert a single hard drive. But its great for those who just want to dip their toes into the world of having a file server.
Synology also just released its new DS220+ NAS, which we found to be quite a powerhouse in our recent hands-on look. It has a similar 2-bay design to the lead deal,but offers more bang for your buck over the entry-level DS120j. Get all the details right here.
The TS-231P2 2-Bay NAS Enclosure from QNAP is a high-performance NAS that provides feature-rich applications for home & office use, including backup, synchronization, and remote access needs on a secure private cloud. Users will also be able to stream their multimedia library using DLNA and AirPlay, as well as build a surveillance center and use Snapshots to restore their NAS in the event of data loss or a system breach.
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