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AWS is taking the fight to on-prem hardware vendors – TechRadar
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to hit on-premises hardware vendors where it hurts with a new set of products and services.
The cloud hosting giant is adding support for its Dedicated Hosts platform to its on-premises cloud-in-a-box solution Outposts.
In addition, AWS is making a move into the pre-cloud space by making its Storage Gateway Hardware Applianceavailable via third party resellers.
AWS Outposts is a managed device that brings Amazon cloud services into users own data centers.
The added support for Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts allows users to keep using eligible software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle on Amazon EC2, but retain the benefits of public cloud, such as scalability.
As Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host is a physical server fully dedicated for the use of one organization, this could help address corporate compliance requirements, for example in jurisdictions where organizations are forced to keep their data in servers in certain physical locations.
The added support can also potentially help save firms money, allowing them to keep using licenses for expensive software such as Windows Server, SQL Server,SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or other software licenses that are bound to VMs, sockets, or physical cores, subject to existing license terms.
AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance also will now for the first time be on sale from third party resellers.
The appliance is physical, standalone, validated server configuration for on-premises deployments, prebuilt with AWS Storage Gateway.
Now users can procure the hardware appliance through the reseller of their choice, leveraging existing purchasing agreements.
AWS has partnered withTD Synnex (opens in new tab), a global IT distributor, to offer the appliance, which is supported in16 AWS Regions.
To learn more, visit the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Applianceproduct page (opens in new tab), or onlinedocumentation (opens in new tab).
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Google Cloud Storage Triggers | Cloud Functions Documentation
Cloud Functions usesevent-driven functions tohandle events from your Cloud infrastructure.For example, Cloud Functions can respond to change notifications emerging fromGoogle Cloud Storage. These notifications can be configured totrigger in response to various events inside a bucketobject creation, deletion,archiving and metadata updates.
Cloud Storage events used by Cloud Functions are based onCloud Pub/Sub Notifications for Google Cloud Storageand are provided in the Cloud Storage JSON API format.
Storage-triggered functions support four trigger types. These trigger typevalues are used upon function deployment to specify which Cloud Storage eventswill trigger your functions:
The following sample function logs relevant data when an event occurs.
You specify the trigger type when you deploy the function. For example,the deployment example below uses the function to log every timean object is created by specifying the google.storage.object.finalizetrigger type.
For a full tutorial on running this code, see theCloud storage tutorial:
The following gcloud command deploys the function with an object.finalizetrigger.
where YOUR_TRIGGER_BUCKET_NAME is the name of the CloudStorage bucket that the function will monitor.
Trigger type value: google.storage.object.finalize
This event is sent when a new object is created (or an existing object isoverwritten, and a new generation of that object is created) in the bucket.
Trigger type value: google.storage.object.delete
This event is sent when an object is permanently deleted. Depending on theobject versioning setting for a bucket thismeans:
For versioning buckets, this is only sent when a version is permanentlydeleted (but not when an object is archived).
For non-versioning buckets, this is sent when an object is deleted oroverwritten.
Trigger type value: google.storage.object.archive
This event is sent when alive version of an object is archived ordeleted.
This event is only sent for versioning buckets.
Trigger type value: google.storage.object.metadataUpdate
This event is sent when the metadataof an existing object changes.
Storage event data is delivered in the Cloud Storage objectformat.
Events are delivered usingPub/Sub notifications from Cloud Storage.Events are subject to Pub/Sub's delivery guarantees.
A bucket can have up to 10 notification configurations set to trigger for aspecific event. Setting up too many notifications for the same bucket mightexceed the notifications limit for the bucket and make it impossible to createthe function, as indicated by the following error:
If you reach the limit, you can't create a function until you take remedialaction, such as removing notifications.
Learn more about the quotas and request limits forCloud Storage.
You must have sufficient permissions on the project that will receivenotifications. This includes ensuring that you do the following:
Get the email address of the service agent associated withthe project that contains your Cloud Storage bucket.
Use the email address that you obtained in the previous step togive the service agent the IAM role pubsub.publisher for therelevant Pub/Sub topic.
Learn more aboutconfiguring Pub/Sub notificationsfor Cloud Storage.
The gcloud command below deploys a function that is triggered by legacyobject change notifications on aspecific bucket. Generally, Cloud Pub/Sub notifications areeasier to use, more flexible, and more powerful than object change notifications.However, these legacy notifications are supported for legacy functions alreadyconsuming these events.
See the Cloud Storage Tutorial for an example of how toimplement an event-driven function that is triggered by Cloud Storage.
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Vote now: Do you use cloud storage? – PhoneArena
Ten years ago, storage was a huge issue, at least for me. I remember burning spindles of CDs containing music, movies, photos and everything I cherished at the time. My hard drive was constantly full, and my phone had something like 350MB of internal storage. It was a nightmare!
Now things are very different - not only because memory technology is far superior to what it used to be but also because everything is in the cloud. You could get a 1TB phone if you like but that amount of storage space is often overkill. You can also slap 4 SSDs in your PC or laptop and forget about it but again, the cost might not be justified.
Still, with the modern internet speeds, cloud storage could potentially offer the same space with some additional benefits at a lower price. Ive been using Google Drive for years now (the free version - something like 17GB), and should the need arise, Id probably buy a 100GB subscription for $20 a year. Its just so convenient.
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How Airbnb, Dropbox and Reddit Got Their First Customers – Inc.
Even when you think you have a brilliant idea, it can take some convincing to get others on board.
Just ask some of today's most successfulfounders. Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit are just a few companieswho used some farout-of-the-box strategies to get their very first customersbefore becoming household names. Learn from their examples. Will they work for you?
Creating a viral moment that targets a specific community
Sure, they aren't easy to pull off, but viral moments can be crafted with some strategy and dedication. WhenDropbox launched in 2007, the cloud-storage company had a hard time bringing in new users. It ran a GoogleAdSense campaign, but it barely made a difference. So, co-founder Drew Houston, 39,decided to show, not tell. He made avideo to demonstrate exactly how itsstorageworked, and posted it on the news aggregator Digg. Users on Digg quickly up-voted the video, and by the next day, the site had 70,000 new sign-ups, according to Dropbox, which notedthat the Digg community of avid internet-users was an ideal target.
Still, Houston says that it was important for the company to keep innovating for the company to gain new users. One standout strategy: Dropbox ran a campaign that offered users 128 megabitesof storage, in return for sharing a referral link on Facebook and Twitter. Within just 30 days, Dropbox users sent ouf 2.8 million invites, which greatly bolstered the site's user base.
Pulling from another company's user base
Poaching customers from another business may sound like playing dirty--but it's often a reality of business. When developing their apartment-sharing platform, Airbnb's founders thought about what alternative a prospective short-term renter might use without their service. The answer: Craigslist. The founders were confident that they could make the rental experience more pleasant for everyone involved, but they knew that, before they started any kind of customer outreach, they needed to find people who were looking for renters. So, co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, both 40,developed a software that allowed them to extract the contact information of property owners on Craigslist and ask them to advertise their property, according to a case study that Thales S. Teixeira and Morgan Brown wrotefor Harvard BusinessSchool.What's more, it launched witha feature that allowed users to simultaneously list their property on both Airbnb and Craigslist.
While property owners leaped at the chance toadvertise their properties on both Craigslist and Airbnb, the latter company wanted tobring in even more value to sway them. For early listings, Airbnb hired professional photographers to help photograph the rental spaces, easing the burden for property ownersandmaking the listings far more appealing to potential renters. While this tactic wasn't financially sustainablein the long run, launching the site with well-photographed listings established a precedent that other property owners would follow as the site grew, Teixeira and Brown report.
Creating the illusion of an already-existing audience
When it comes to growing a social media platform, users are critical--it's far easier to convince people to join a site that already seems popular than it is to get them to sign on to something completely new. That's why Reddit's co-founders found a way to make it seem like their website already had an active user base, even when ithad only just launched.
Co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanianfilled Reddit withsubmissions under fake usernames, which made the site seem more popularthan it really was. "Users like to feel a part of something," Huffman, now 38, says in a video for the online learning platform Udemy. "If they showed up to the website and the front page was blank, it just looks like a ghost town."
They also launched the Redditin a more simple form than exists today. Therewas no categorization for the links, and no comments on the site. Starting simply helped the foundersget their platform out in the worldwithout having to spend a ton of time explaining the nuances of different threads.After a few months, real Redditors had arrived and thesite took off, allowing the founders to stop backfilling submissions.
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Infosec products of the month: May 2022 – Help Net Security
Heres a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: AuditBoard, BIO-key, Cohesity, Corelight, Data Theorem, Deepfence, ForgeRock, Fortinet, Hunters, Enpass, iDenfy, Kasten by Veeam, Kingston Digital, Microsoft, N-able, Nasuni, Netenrich, Orca Security, PIXM, Qualys, SafeGuard Cyber, SecureAge, Skybox Security, Sonatype, Trusona, and Uptycs.
Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation opens the Qualys Platform for security architects allowing the creation of custom scripts in popular scripting languages, user-defined controls and automation, all seamlessly integrated within existing programs to quickly assess, respond and remediate threats across your global hybrid environment.
Microsoft has announced the stand-alone version of Microsoft Defender for Business, which aims to bring enterprise-grade endpoint security to SMBs, including endpoint detection and response capabilities to protect against ransomware and other sophisticated cyberthreats.
Cove Data Protection provides streamlined, cloud-first backup, disaster recovery, and archiving for physical and virtual servers, workstations, and Microsoft 365 data, managed from a single web-based dashboard. It also delivers fully managed cloud storage, with 30 data centers to keep backups stored in region, to respect data sovereignty.
BIO-key announced upgrades to BIO-key MobileAuth, a multi-factor authentication (MFA) mobile app that integrates the power of IBB across multiple authentication modalities, allowing customers to build a more complete MFA strategy. In addition to the newest IBB-powered modalities, MobileAuth supports device-based biometric authentication methods including Apple Face ID, Touch ID, and Android Biometrics, as well as support for push token authentication.
With Enpass Business, all passwords remain within the trusted boundaries of the organizations local IT systems. Enterprises have the option to store data on employee devices, or use their existing cloud storage, enabling them to maintain control over their data without the need to host additional servers.
Data Theorems new supply chain product can automatically categorize assets under known vendors, allow customers to add additional new vendors, curate individual assets under any vendor, and alert on increases in policy violations and high embed rates of third-party vendors within key applications.
Uptycs announced new cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) capabilities that strengthen its cloud security posture management (CSPM) offering. These new capabilities provide Security and Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams with continuous monitoring of cloud services, identities, and entitlements so they can reduce their cloud risk.
AuditBoard announced a set of new automation capabilities for its CrossComply solution. These features combine automation with scalability to accelerate security compliance programs with automated framework mapping, evidence collection, and continuous monitoring, as well as providing the ability for teams to leverage applications and data sources.
CatchPulse provides always-on, real-time protection to catch threats by simply blocking all unauthorised applications, processes or scripts from executing. It helps organisations stay one step ahead of unknown threats and offers a simple experience for users of all levels, from novice home users to IT professionals.
Nasuni announced Nasuni Ransomware Protection, a new add-on service to the latest release of the Nasuni File Data Platform that offers an in-line ransomware edge detection capabilities for file data. The new service gives businesses confidence that their file data can not only be quickly recovered following an attack, but that they can now detect live attacks and reduce the time and resources needed to uncover the source of the threat.
Autonomous Access uses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor login requests in real time, blocking malicious attempts and adding authentication steps when it detects anomalous behaviors.
Orca Security announced a cloud security solution to provide context-aware Shift Left Security for cloud infrastructure and applications. Orcas new command-line interface (CLI) called Orca CLI enables developers and DevOps teams to scan locally hosted images and IaC templates, view results directly in developer tools, and surface findings within the Orca platform.
Sonatype announced a capability focused on identifying and remediating InnerSource components that contain vulnerable, malicious, or outdated open source dependencies. With InnerSource Insight, developers can manage their InnerSource components, see what open source packages theyre dependent on, remediate concerns immediately, and identify safe upgrade paths that wont break builds.
iDenfys Business Verification services will offer custom automatizations in one API, helping businesses to screen other companies and detect criminal activity. According to the images, iDenfy distinguishes whether it is a dormitory, a residential house, a commercial premise, or a luxury office. The new Business Verification services even determine the companys office rental price.
Cohesity released Cohesity FortKnox a SaaS data isolation and recovery solution, adding to the companys Data Management as a Service portfolio of offerings that run on AWS. It is designed to provide an additional layer of off-site protection while simplifying operations and lowering costs compared to magnetic-tape and self-managed data vaults.
Deepfence Cloud, built on the ThreatStryker offering from Deepfence, observes runtime indicators of attack (IoA) and indicators of compromise (IoC) and correlates events to tell the story of each attack as it evolves. With Deepfence Cloud, enterprises can easily tap into ThreatStryker to provide targeted security for their applications against known and unknown threats in real time.
Kasten by Veeam announced the new Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.0 Kubernetes data management platform. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, this latest release is focused on delivering a comprehensive risk management strategy, streamlined CI/CD pipelines and new ecosystem advancement details that optimize and de-risk Kubernetes investments.
Leveraging its proprietary network modeling techniques, Skybox will now quantify the business impact of cyber risks into economic impact. This new financial calculation enables customers to identify and prioritize the most critical threats based on the size of financial impact, among other risk analyses.
Trusona announced Trusona Authentication Cloud, a low-code, cloud-based service that enables users to authenticate without a password using smartphones, laptops and desktop computers. It can also serve as a secure, low-cost replacement for SMS OTP (one-time passcode) authentication.
PIXM Mobile is a cloud-based mobile solution developed with Computer Vision (CV) cybersecurity technology to identify phishing attacks on mobile devices and stop them in real-time, as a user clicks on a malicious link. PIXM Mobile stops phishing on any app, including SMS (smishing), social media, and business collaboration apps, as well as email and web-based phishing pages.
Kingston Digital released the newest addition to its encrypted lineup, IronKey Vault Privacy 80 External SSD (VP80ES). Featuring a color touch-screen and FIPS 197 certified with XTS-AES 256-bit encryption, VP80ES is designed to protect data while also being user-friendly. It also safeguards against Brute Force attacks and BadUSB with digitally-signed firmware for users from small-to-medium businesses (SMB) to content creators.
Corelight Investigator brings complete visibility of the network, both on-premise and in the cloud, with evidence that spans months and years, not days and weeks. Customers can leverage machine learning, behavioral analysis, threat intelligence and signatures, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, to enable broad coverage of network-centric threats.
SafeGuard Cyber announces the addition of email protection for Microsoft 365 to its security suite of protected communication channels. This new release adds a cyber defense layer to the native security provided within Microsoft 365, giving SOC teams the tools to stop difficult to defend social engineering attacks, insider threats, ransomware intrusion, and other advanced threats across the email channel.
With the Netenrich platform, security ops becomes proactive using a predict and prevent approach in anticipating risky behaviors, disrupting threats and insuring business resilience. Organizations improve their overall security posture while focusing on business growth.
Hunters announced new capabilities in the Hunters SOC Platform to enhance and accelerate security operations workflows for data ingestion and normalization, threat detection, investigation and response. The advances free up data engineers, security engineers and analysts in Security Operations Centers (SOC) to focus on higher value work, such as dealing with threats and challenges unique to their organizations.
Fortinet announced FortiNDR, a new network detection and response offering that leverages artificial intelligence and pragmatic analytics to enable faster incident detection and an accelerated threat response. FortiNDR also features native integrations with the Fortinet Security Fabric as well as API integrations with third-party solutions for a coordinated response to discovered threats to minimize their impact.
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How to pick the right cloud storage – VentureBeat
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Lets be honest, storage has always been a complicated subject. Teams of dedicated storage administrators would choose between block (SAN), file (NAS) or direct-attached (DAS), and then each choice led to more details such as HDD versus SSD. The cloud is supposed to make everything simple with storage-as-a-service. While the details of infrastructure have now been passed on to the magic of the cloud, there are still many choices that have a notable impact on performance, costs and scale.
Unlike buying an on-premises storage array where customers typically had to make compromises around the best storage for a workload and then live with that decision for up to five years, the rate of innovation and offerings in the cloud are nonstop.
On-premises storage decision-making was a big container that had to support many different workloads, often with serious tradeoffs. The cloud now lets you pick the best storage for every workload and even subsets of those workloads. Need ultra-low latency storage for your database? Done! Need low-cost storage for long-term retention of rarely-accessed data? The cloud has the storage for you!
Taking full advantage of cloud storage requires IT managers to stop thinking in terms of storage volumes and pivot to thinking about the data. By segmenting datasets, you can pick the right resources and, more importantly, pivot data to a better cloud resource as your cloud vendor introduces new services or if you realize your initial choice is under- or over-utilized. Lets look at the options:
Object storage is built for the cloud. It boasts unlimited scale with global namespace, which is akin to a universal file directory that makes it seem as if all unstructured data distributed across devices and locations is in a single location.Accessible over the HTTP protocol rather than file protocols like NFS and SMB, object is perfect for web-scale access of unstructured data. Object storage is presented to applications through a URL and storage tasks such as read, write and delete are accessed through simple commands that make it easy to consume by applications.
Also known as Network Attached Storage or NAS, file storage is presented via the popular NFS and SMB protocols for unstructured data. File is often the choice for existing applications versus new born in the cloud apps. File will typically boast higher performance and lower latency versus object with the tradeoff of limited capacity both in terms of number of files and size of volumes.File access is optimized for local or corporate network versus the global namespace that object offers.
Object and file are abstractions on top of storage resources that can increase scale and simplicity, whereas block storage is the equivalent of a local hard disk or direct attached storage. When implemented over a network, block storage is referred to as a storage area network (SAN). Block storage provides the lowest latency and highest performance because it is dedicated to a single application or server without an abstraction layer.
Storage is a space for rapid innovation and the choices are getting more nuanced all the time:
The true innovation of the cloud is that all these options are just a few clicks away and you can change storage as your requirements change. The key is to understand those requirements by analyzing your data both before and after you move to the cloud. Make the best decision for your workloads and data based on current usage and then monitor over time with an eye for new offerings. By optimizing your data for performance, durability and costs over the available resources you can innovate faster and save money.
StevePruchniewski is Director of Product Marketing atKomprise.
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How to free up iCloud storage when space is low – Android Authority
Compared to other cloud storage platforms, Apple only offers a feeble 5GB of free space on iCloud. Unless youre willing to open your wallet and spend cash on upgrading your iCloud account, you will have to get creative on saving space. Here are some quick tips on how to free up iCloud storage.
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To free up space on iCloud, first, uninstall any unused apps. Turn off any apps that don't need iCloud sync, and go through each iCloud folder, deleting the files you don't need, and moving the ones you want to keep to other storage solutions.
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Uninstall unused apps
A lot of apps sync their settings to iCloud, both as a backup and to make life easier if you use that same app on another Apple device. So the first step to freeing up iCloud space is to delete any unneeded apps. Go through each one in turn and ask yourself if you really need it. If you like to install lots of apps, you may be surprised at how many unnecessary ones you can uninstall.
Now go into the iOS Settings app and tap your name at the top. On the next screen, tap iCloud.
On the next screen, you will see Apple features and other apps which sync their data and settings to iCloud. This is shown by the green toggle. Go down the list and if anything doesnt need to be synced, turn the toggle off to grey.
You can also switch off Apple features like syncing your photo library, and automatic backups of your phone (although this is not recommended for obvious reasons). You can also see a breakdown at the top of what is hogging the most space.
Now its time to delete all of the unnecessary backups. In the previous screenshot, you can see an option at the top called Manage Storage. Tap on this, and this is what you will see.
Everything in the list are backups of that particular app. If you tap one, say Backups, you will see the backups stored in your iCloud account. The following screenshot shows that I have an old backup from an iPad I no longer have. So I tapped it to delete it.
The next screen will give you a Delete Backup button. Tapping that wipes it from your iCloud account.
Once you have removed any unnecessary apps and backups, its now time to go through each iCloud folder and delete any unnecessary files.
On iOS, this includes the Files app and the Photos app.
On MacOS, you need to check the Photos app, iCloud Drive, and the Shared folder.
When youre down to the essential files that you cant delete under any circumstances, you have a few choices.
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Yes, but you need to go to iCloud.com in a web browser. Once youve logged in, go to iCloud Drive, and click Recently Deleted. Click Recover all to bring back everything, or select individual files and click Recover.
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ServiceNow ordered a year’s worth of hardware to avoid supply chain hassles – The Register
The tech world's pandemic supply chain meltdown drove ServiceNow to place orders for a year worth of datacenter kit in January 2022, believing that doing so was necessary to get the hardware it needed to cope with growing customer workloads.
"Pre-COVID, I could generally get stuff in 45 days," CTO Pat Casey told The Register at ServiceNow's Knowledge 22 conference in Sydney, Australia, today.
Well-publicized coronavirus-related supply challenges caused ServiceNow's lead time for some networking kit to stretch to 160 days, while servers can take 120 days to arrive.
So the company "literally placed our entire 2022 order in January," he explained.
"We did it to get in line with the supply chain. If we order it now, hardware starts landing in Q3. If I order in Q3 2022 to meet hardware demand for Q4 2022, I will get the product in Q3 2023."
ServiceNow can't afford to wait that long because, the biz hosts clients on its own infrastructure Casey finds it cheaper to do so. Startups and small companies, he said, rightly balk at paying for datacenter engineers to run their own operations. ServiceNow has reached a scale at which it can afford an infrastructure staff to manage the 200,000 or so instances it runs.
Casey also feels that Amazon Web Services offers "a generic cloud." ServiceNow prefers hardware tuned to the needs of its application, which requires servers loaded up with memory and disk.
"We run one app. I can buy gear optimized for that, which means I can stack it denser; I can often get exactly the stuff I need. The price points are there," Casey elaborated.
The CTO said ServiceNow has found that "middling CPUs" meet its needs. "There is a spectrum of chips: the fast chips with a small number of cores, and the slower you get the more cores they give you for the same amount of power. We are somewhere in the middle we can't run all that efficiently on the core-happy but fairly slow stuff, but it is not worth us to pay a pile of money for something with only four cores on it to get 12 percent faster."
ServiceNow is an x86 shop, though Casey said the company has considered alternatives including IBM's Power architecture. It has not been convinced to change.
ServiceNow's servers use locally attached NVMe storage, housed on separate cards. Shared storage is used sparingly, and usually in the same rack as the servers it, well, serves.
Casey said ServiceNow was one of the first customers of Fusion-io, the storage upstart that was early to market with flash storage on PCIe cards. "It was life changing for us because it was so much better than the spinning disk arrays we had," Casey enthused. "At one point we were buying ten percent of Fusion-io's annual production. We were their number one customer. We are still a big buyer of NVMe storage."
Yet Casey still sees some hangovers from the days of mechanical hard disks in the world of software.
"A lot of the internals of a database are really designed to work around the behaviors of spinning disk arrays," he told The Register. "On NVMe it is almost not worth it. The double write buffering behaviors you see in a lot of databases, you don't need that on NVMe. They are actually counterproductive."
Casey said ServiceNow is a big user of, and investor in, MariaDB, with around 200,000 instances running. In August 2021, ServiceNow acquired German database vendor Swarm64 in the expectation its Postgres-based tech will enable rapid analytics and potentially be useful for primary storage, too. MonetDB, an open source effort led by folks in the Netherlands, also has a home at ServiceNow. Casey said it is "very, very fast, but also sort of fragile."
"You set it up, you load your column storage fast as a thief, but if you change it, it degrades," he said. "So we have to run two of them in parallel, then swap them."
Casey doesnt see any technology on the horizon that he thinks will have a positive impact to compare with that of NVMe, though he is keeping an eye on Compute Express Link (CXL) without being close to a decision. He's aware of SmartNICs but has no plan to adopt them.
One project that has commenced is the development of a backup tier. ServiceNow wrote its own backup solution and is thinking of using a standardized protocol namely, Amazon Web Services' S3 for that tech.
That's not an indication ServiceNow will adopt AWS storage. Instead, Casey said the company may deploy software that speaks the S3 protocol. ServiceNow would not be alone in doing so AWS's cloud storage offering is so pervasive that many on-prem storage rigs and applications use its protocol to allow easier access to hybrid cloud storage. For ServiceNow, S3-compatible storage in-house therefore has value.
Casey's job isn't all infrastructure he also guides development of ServiceNow's products. In that role, he said, an ongoing challenge is the user interface both to ensure complexity does not become an issue and because end-user demands remain high. People expect the ease of consumer tech experiences replicated at work.
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Preql raises $7M to build the future of data transformation – GlobeNewswire
NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Preql, a no-code data transformation solution, announced that it has raised $7 million in seed funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partnerswith participation from Felicis, and top founders in the analytics ecosystem including Taylor Brown from Fivetran, Keenan Rice from Looker, Tristan Handy from Dbt Labs, Eldad Fakash from Firebolt, and Benn Stancil from Mode. Preqls platform allows business users to structure data for reporting without having to write SQL or rely on specialized data talent.
Preql builds upon the innovation of tools like Snowflake and Fivetran, which have made aspects of the analytics workflow accessible to organizations without data engineering resources. The next evolutionary step in the modern data stack is to allow business users to manage their own logic for reporting something thats not possible today without advanced SQL and data transformation expertise.
Preqls Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, Gabi Steele and Leah Weiss, met while leading data teams at WeWork and went on to found a successful data engineering and visualization consultancy. During their time at WeWork, they experienced a disconnect between business users who need data for decision making and the data teams who structure and prepare data for analysis. Business users have to pass along definitions to data modeling specialists, who maintain logic in code but lack sufficient business context. Even with exceptional data talent, the result of this handoff is often lack of trust in data, frustrated data teams, and costly data investments without a clear path to ROI.
Preqls funding comes at a moment where companies of all sizes are now investing in data cloud data storage and ingestion tools. The cloud storage market is growing 22.3% each year. Despite these investments in modern infrastructure, few companies have the internal resources required to shape their data for analysis. Theres a misconception that simply storing data will help your organization become data driven. Data storage is necessary, but the hard part is agreeing on what you want to measure, how you want to measure it, and then translating that business logic into code, said Leah Weiss, Co-Founder. Preql gives business users the ability to contextualize their data and customize definitions, but then abstracts away the complex work of data transformation.
Preqls technology sits on top of the data warehouse, predicts the data model required for your business, and then lets business users customize metric definitions. It compiles all of that logic and delivers reporting ready datasets back in your warehouse, something that previously took months of manual effort from highly skilled data teams. Weve seen first hand the pain business users and data teams experience while building out a central source of truth for reporting, said Gabi Steele, Co-Founder. We are deeply committed to delivering a design forward and intuitive solution that business users will love and understand, and that more mature data teams are grateful for because it saves them so much back and forth.
Were excited to partner with Preql to make data capabilities more accessible to organizations and verticals that are currently underserved, said Amit Karp, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. We were really impressed with the unique insight the founders bring to this problem and the clarity of their vision. Viviana Faga, General Partner at Felicis adds, we couldnt be more thrilled to partner with Gabi and Leah, who are on a mission to change the way data is transformed and accessed, better serving the needs of business users at every company.
About PreqlPreql is building automated data transformation for business users. Its technology empowers business users to access analysis-ready data in minutes without having to learn SQL or rely on a data team. Preql is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Felicis, and several angel investors. Learn more at preql.com.
About Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long standing companies. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemers global portfolio includes Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has $9 billion of capital under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, London, Boston, Beijing and Bangalore. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemers storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio).
About FelicisFounded in 2006, Felicis is a venture capital firm investing in companies reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis focuses on early stage investments and currently manages over $2.1B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 41 companies valued at $1B+. More than 91 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public, including Adyen (IPO), Credit Karma (acq by Intuit), Cruise (acq by General Motors), Fitbit (IPO), Guardant Health (IPO), Meraki (acq by Cisco), Ring (acq by Amazon), and Shopify (IPO). The firm is based in Menlo Park, CA. Learn more at http://www.felicis.com.
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IDC expects the Indian public cloud services market to grow at a CAGR of 24% by 2026 – Wire19
According to the latest report by International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide, the Indian public cloud services market totaled revenue of $4.6 Billion in the second half of 2021. IDC expects that by 2026, the overall Indian public cloud services will reach $13.5 billion, growing at a CAGR of 24%.
With digital innovation leading the top business objectives for Indian organizations, cloud adoption is set to accelerate in 2022. Driven by the need for agility, flexibility, and faster access to digital technologies, cloud continues to gain momentum across segments. Additionally, the need to leverage data intelligently, is supreme and enterprises are able to do so with access to technologies that are built on a cloud foundation, saysRishu Sharma, Associate Research Director, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence, IDC India.
SaaS was the largest component of the overall public cloud services in India in 2021, followed by IaaS and PaaS. Enterprises have increased their spending on the public cloud and the top two cloud service providers are holding over 45% of the public cloud services market in India.
Public cloud adoption continued to surge in 2021 as enterprises invested in public cloud as part of their digital transformation initiatives to improve business resiliency and become a digital-first organization. The increased spend is expected to continue in the upcoming years as enterprises invest in emerging technologies like AI/ML, IoT, blockchain, etc., to automate processes and drive innovation with public cloud as the foundation. The increasing investments in areas like edge computing and IoT will drive the demand for public cloud infrastructure services, especially storage and data management, saysHarish Krishnakumar, Senior Market Analyst, IDC India.
India is a rapidly growing market for public cloud service providers. The demand from large enterprises, digital natives, and small and medium businesses drives this growth. Businesses continued to invest in public cloud services in 2021 to make sure they stayed running, became more resilient and productive and drove digital innovation. With organizations preferring a hybrid work mode in 2022, the demand for cloud-based security applications is increasing. Organizations are migrating their existing workloads to the public cloud and the demand for cloud-native application development has also increased, all of these driven by the need to fulfill the customer demands faster.
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IDC expects the Indian public cloud services market to grow at a CAGR of 24% by 2026 - Wire19