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In late 2020, Gavin Chen was ready for a change.

The Philly native, who had left the area to attend school at UC Santa Cruz and returned in 2019, was working on Jefferson Hospitals IoT team but wanted to expand his skill set in a new direction. However, he felt a bit out of touch with the local tech scene, so he turned to Technical.lys newsletters and reporting to help him get informed. This led him to discover Linode, where he now works as a cloud software engineer.

Based in Old City, the recently acquired cloud hosting provider Linode has used Technical.lys Talent Pro platform since 2017 to share information about its workplace culture and attract skilled talent. Chen researched the company through Linodes Culture Page and reported articles on Technical.ly, and started working there in January 2021.

Recently, we chatted with him to learn more about why he felt Linode was the right fit for him and what his experience has been like so far.

Im on the storage team, which is kind of like a backend team for clusters, so the way I usually like to describe it is we do anything thats persistent storage. As part of any cloud infrastructure, we need something that holds onto data, i.e. object storage, when youre just uploading a whole bunch of files, or block storage, which is essentially adding in hard drives to the computer, and then managing things like databases or anything that has persistent storage on the cloud platform. Our team essentially manages most of that stuff.

Most of our responsibilities actually range a little bit. Technically, Im on the dev team. We have a dev team and an ops team, but day to day, we kind of do a little bit of a mixture between development and testing, and also some upkeep. We have a pretty wide range of responsibilities compared to some of the other companies that Ive worked at.

I was originally working for a department in Jefferson Hospitals they had this new digital innovations lab. And then I started to look for jobs and found Linode. My original training is actually with embedded systems, so Im a little bit more on the low level, like microprocessors and the lower hardware stuff. When I was looking for new jobs, I had seen where cloud was going, and I figured I wanted to try to make the switch. So I ended up applying to Linode and seeing what they had to offer. I really like cloud so far.

Theyre one of the biggest software companies in Philadelphia, and theyre in a really competitive space, which is cloud. They seemed like they were growing extremely fast. Just looking at some of the articles from Technical.ly and some other articles, and then their website and career page, they have a marked difference between them and the other companies I was looking at. Something about Linodes culture and their attitude interested me. It was probably the fact that they act like theyre a relatively new company. Theres a lot of new things that they try out, and theyre not afraid to do new things or try different trends in the industry.

Its a two-week-long process, if I recall correctly, and the first initial beginning is you work with our learning and development team, and they get you up to speed with all the hardware and all the tools and everything.

And then interspersed with all that its just a lot of trying to meet people and getting familiar with the company. We have something called your go-to Linodian, which is a person who is not necessarily within your team, or who you work with directly, but who has been there for a while and who you can go to as someone for conversation if you have any questions or something that youre just wondering about how we do things with the culture at Linode.

Other than that, we have support training where every single developer has to go through two days where they sit with support. Theyre essentially on the front lines, seeing the day-to-day activities of communicating with customers. Support is a pretty big portion of our company, and its one of the things that sets us apart, I think, from some of the other providers. I remember being struck by how much more thought and effort they put into support than some other companies. It definitely seemed like a focus rather than an afterthought. Then once those two weeks are over, youre kind of folded into the team and work essentially begins. So I will say it was definitely a learning curve, but it was very interesting to hear all this stuff.

I had originally lived in Philadelphia and then moved back, but I never really got to know Philly until I moved back. I really enjoy Philadelphia as a city. Right now, Im living in Fishtown, but Ive lived in a few areas all around the city. Im a Philadelphian. Everything about the city walking down the street talking to people, seeing whats going on I feel very at home. Philadelphia has a lot to offer, so if anyones interested in food in the city or is curious about it I could go on and on about the different things that the city has.

I had originally wanted to hear more about the Philadelphia tech scene admittedly, were a little bit smaller, so its hard to get to know a lot of the tech things unless you have some of the channels. And a lot of the time, a lot of channels are more university-related, so its a little bit hard for me to hear about these things. So with Technical.ly, I read some of the newsletters, and theyre actually super interesting, just to give a little view into some of the tech scene thats in Philadelphia. And I saw a few pieces on Linode.

I was looking for a job towards the end of 2020, and knew I wanted to make a big step into a newer company that was growing and challenging. Thats what Linode seemed like to me.

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Cast your mind back to early January 2022. A COVID-19 variant was collectively frustrating the country yet again. People were trying frantically to get tested, receive their booster shots or both. At-home tests were hard to obtain, and free drive-thru rapid test clinicsacross the countryhad cars backed up for blocks.But then, on Jan. 14, anannouncementfrom the Biden administration: American households would be able to order up to four free at-home rapid tests through a new website, COVIDtests.gov.This should have been a relief, but many Americans have distinct memories of government websites falling short. HealthCare.gov is an easy target, but lets not forget the recent issues during the pandemic with statehealth benefitsandunemployment insurancethat required people to navigate complicated websites unprepared to handle heavy user traffic.And yet, as it turns out, COVIDtests.gov is pretty good. My own experience was one of pleasant surprise, with straightforward screen flow, simple language and minimal time spent on the website.Many people completed the request form in wellunder a minute, without feeling burdened or mistreated, according to Politico. People reported successfully accessing and completing the order on their phones or through different browsers.And apparently, capacity hasnt been an issue. COVIDtests.gov remains one of the most visited federal websites, according to analytics.usa.gov, gettingover one million hitsin a single day when it went live.

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So, what made COVIDtests.gov different? For one, the federal government has learned a lot since 2013. The U.S. Digital Service was createdas a resultof the HealthCare.gov debacle to give the federal government a dedicated group of technologists to assess, plan and design a digital product, and that certainly helped the fledgling website.Second, by looping in the right stakeholders in the planning stage in this case, the Digital Service, the White House, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services the COVIDtests.gov product team was able to work collaboratively to come up with the best approach.Finally, the Biden administration issued anexecutive orderlast December on transforming federal customer experience and service delivery. It appears that the Digital Service took that to heart with its measured approach to COVIDtests.gov.Part of this approach meant realizing how vital the address component was in ensuring that the tests were sent to the correct mailing locations. The USPS has an address search and verification feature that citizens use daily, so the product team decided toembedUSPS functionality into the ordering process.The Digital Service also knew capacity was a potential concern. This new site could draw as much attention as a retail site on Black Friday, for a free product that consumers were desperate for. As such, the COVIDtests.gov team decided to use provencommercial productslike those from Amazon Web Services that are designed to deal with heavy traffic.And despite its simple appearance its basically a single-form webpage a lot of back-end analysis ensured that the customer experience was fast and straightforward while the website handled traffic without crashing.Paul Smith, one of the people tasked with fixing HealthCare.gov, explains that the user interface simplicityand architecture reinforce each other, creating a quick, easy-to-use digital experience.

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So, what lessons can the federal government and other agencies take from the success of this project? First, get the right stakeholders in the room. HealthCare.gov fell entirely to an agency that at the time had neither the means nor the expertise to deliver such a complex digital product.Next, expand the role of groups like the Digital Service that collaborate and share knowledge across agencies, and focus on customer experience as a design consideration separate from the service or logistical component of the website.Leverage commercial products and cloud hosting to shift some technical and maintenance burdens away from in-house federal staff.Finally, replicate good project management practices. COVIDtests.gov was completed inthree weekswith a small team that had ownership over the development timeline.The success of COVIDtests.gov is a hopeful moment that the federal government is starting to get it when it comes to citizen-facing digital services. Federal agencies should continue to focus on what worked with that website, and replicate and scale its success.

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More than a year after essentially being shut down, the notorious Emotet malware operation is showing a strong resurgence.

In a March threat index, Check Point researchers put the Windows software nasty at the top of its list as the most widely deployed malware, menacing or infecting as much as 10 percent of organizations around the globe during the month a seemingly unbelievable estimate, and apparently double that of February.

Now Kaspersky Labs says a rapidly accelerating and complex spam email campaign is enticing marks with fraudulent messages designed to trick one into unpacking and installing Emotet or Qbot malware that can steal information, collect data on a compromised corporate network, and move laterally through the network and install ransomware or other trojans on networked devices.

Qbot, which is linked to the operators of Emotet, can also access and steal emails, Andrey Kovtun, email threats protection group manager for Kaspersky, wrote in a blog post this week.

The Kaspersky team said it had picked up 3,000 malicious Emotet-linked emails in February, and about 30,000 in a month later, written in such languages as English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

"Some letters that cybercriminals send to the recipients contain a malicious attachment," Kovtun wrote. "In other cases, it has a link which leads to a file placed in a legitimate popular cloud-hosting service. Often, malware is contained in an encrypted archive, with the password mentioned in the e-mail body."

To increase the chances that the email recipient will open the attachment or download the malicious file through the link, the spam email often says that it contains important information, such as a commercial offer.

"Our experts have concluded that these e-mails are being distributed as part of a coordinated campaign that aims to spread banking Trojans," he wrote.

As an indication of the continuing development of Emotet by its operators, Cryptolaemus, the group of security researchers and systems administrators that came together more than two years ago to fight back against Emotet, said on Twitter this week that one of the botnet subgroups has switched from 32-bit to 64-bit for loaders and stealer modules.

The reemergence of Emotet into the top levels of the malware world happened quickly. In February 2021, Europol and police forces from such places as the US, Germany, the UK and Ukraine conducted a multinational takedown of the main botnet deploying Emotet. The operation included raids of the homes in Ukraine of the alleged operators.

Europol in a statement at the time said the raid severely disrupted Emotet's operations, which was used to "infiltrate thousands of companies and millions of computers worldwide."

However, Check Point Research this month noted in announcing its March threat index that Emotet returned in November 2021 and had gained momentum since the shutdown of the Trickbot botnet infrastructure in February. It is again the most prevalent malware.

"This was solidified even further [in March] as many aggressive email campaigns have been distributing the botnet, including various Easter-themed phishing scams exploiting the buzz of the festivities," the researchers wrote.

"These emails were sent to victims all over the world with one such example using the subject 'Buona Pasqua, happy easter,' yet attached to the email was a malicious XLS file to deliver Emotet."

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Cloud storage is a complete solution package, which includes software and services to manage, maintain, and store data in a virtual environment. It helps both large and small & medium enterprises to store and access relevant information from data center through the Internet. These data centers are maintained at distant places and are connected through networks, which enable the users to access information using the Internet. Cloud storage gives additional cost benefits to the enterprises, as it doesnt require any on-premise storage and hardware components. In the recent years, cloud storage adoption has reached newer heights, owing to growth in need for advanced data storage, large resource scalability, and data mobility across various industry verticals such as banking, government, manufacturing, telecommunication & IT, retail, healthcare, and many others. The cloud storage solution is delivered through multiple deployment modes such as private, public, and hybrid models.

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The file offers market sizing and forecast throughout 5 primary currencies USD, EUR GBP, JPY, and AUD. It helps corporation leaders make higher choices when foreign money change records are available with ease. In this report, the years 2020 and 2021 are regarded as historic years, 2020 as the base year, 2021 as the estimated year, and years from 2022 to 2030 are viewed as the forecast period.

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The global cloud storage market is expected to witness high growth rate during the forecast period, owing to the rise in ICT spending by governments in several developed as well as developing regions including North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In addition, rise in concerns over data loss and recovery has given rise to the cloud storage industry among several user types including large and small and medium enterprises. In the coming years, small and medium enterprises are expected to adopt cloud storage technology at a rapid pace due to low cost of deployment, easy accessibility, flexible payment model, and growth in demand for data backup and disaster recovery services. However, data privacy apprehension in public cloud deployment is one of the key factors obstructing the cloud storage market growth.

The global cloud storage market is segmented based on component type, deployment mode, user type, industry vertical, and geography. Based on component type, the market is categorized into software and services. Considering deployment mode, the market is divided into private, public, and hybrid models. User type covered in the study includes large enterprise and small & medium enterprise. On the basis of industry vertical, the market is divided into BFSI, government and education, healthcare, telecommunication & IT, retail, manufacturing, media & entertainment, and others. Geographically, the market is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.

Major players operating in the cloud storage market include Amazon Web Services, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, IBM Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Google, Inc., VMware, Inc., Oracle Corporation, EMC Corporation, Rackspace Hosting, Inc., Red Hat, Inc., and others. These players have adopted strategies such as geographical expansion, mergers & acquisitions, product portfolio expansion, and collaborations to enhance their product penetration in the global cloud storage market.

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The report provides in-depth market analysis of cloud storage market globally, outlining current trends, key driving factors, and potential areas for product investments.Key players are analyzed with respect to their primary offerings, recent investments, and future development strategies.Holistic approach of segmentation is carried out through in-depth market study and discussions with several industry experts worldwide for global cloud storage market.The report provides highlights of top investment pockets, key impacting factors, and wining strategies for the cloud storage market.

According to Statista, as of 2021 data, the United States held over ~36% of the global market share for information and communication technology (ICT). With a market share of 16%, the EU ranked second, followed by 12%, China ranked third. In addition, according to forecasts, the ICT market will reach more than US$ 6 trillion in 2021 and almost US$ 7 trillion by 2027. In todays society, continuous growth is another reminder of how ubiquitous and crucial technology has become. Over the next few years, traditional tech spending will be driven mainly by big data and analytics, mobile, social, and cloud computing.

This report analyses the global primary production, consumption, and fastest-growing countries in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) market. Also included in the report are prominent and prominent players in the global Information and Communications Technology Market (ICT).

A release on June 8th, 2021, by the Bureau and Economic Analysis and U.S. The Census Bureau reports the recovery of the U.S. market. The report also described the recovery of U.S. International Trade in July 2021.In April 2021, exports in the country reached $300 billion, an increase of $13.4 billion. In April 2021, imports amounted to $294.5 billion, increasing by $17.4 billion. COVID19 is still a significant issue for economies around the globe, as evidenced by the year-over-year decline in exports in the U.S. between April 2020 and April 2021 and the increase in imports over that same period of time. The market is clearly trying to recover. Despite this, it means there will be a direct impact on the Healthcare/ICT/Chemical industries.

Cloud Storage Market Key Segments:

By Component

SoftwareServices

By Deployment Mode

PrivatePublicHybrid

By User Type

Large EnterprisesSmall & Medium Enterprises

By User Type

BFSIGovernment & EducationHealthcareTelecom & ITRetailManufacturingMedia & EntertainmentOthers (Business Service Providers, Energy & Utilities, Transportation, and Construction)

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By Geography

North AmericaU.S.CanadaMexicoEuropeUKGermanyFranceItalyRest of EuropeAsia-PacificChinaSingaporeJapanAustraliaRest of Asia-PacificLAMEALatin AmericaMiddle EastAfrica

Key players profiled in the report

Amazon Web Services, Inc.Microsoft CorporationIBM CorporationHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPGoogle Inc.VMware, Inc.Oracle CorporationEMC CorporationRackspace Hosting, Inc.Red Hat, Inc.

Other Market Players Mentioned in the Report

Nasuni CorporationQumulo, Inc.RubrikZadara Storage

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How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the adoption of by various pharmaceutical and life sciences companies? What is the outlook for the impact market during the forecast period 2021-2030? What are the key trends influencing the impact market? How will they influence the market in short-, mid-, and long-term duration? What is the end user perception toward? How is the patent landscape for pharmaceutical quality? Which country/cluster witnessed the highest patent filing from January 2014-June 2021? What are the key factors impacting the impact market? What will be their impact in short-, mid-, and long-term duration? What are the key opportunities areas in the impact market? What is their potential in short-, mid-, and long-term duration? What are the key strategies adopted by companies in the impact market? What are the key application areas of the impact market? Which application is expected to hold the highest growth potential during the forecast period 2021-2030? What is the preferred deployment model for the impact? What is the growth potential of various deployment models present in the market? Who are the key end users of pharmaceutical quality? What is their respective share in the impact market? Which regional market is expected to hold the highest growth potential in the impact market during the forecast period 2021-2030? Which are the key players in the impact market?

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