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Eric Chiu is the Lead of Cloud Business at China Mobile International,responsible for business planning and innovation of new products and solutions.

Chiu holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has 10 years of experience in the telecommunications field, specialised in solution consultancy and product development of Cloud Computing, SD-WAN and ICT Solutions.

Chiu has been leading in the development of Cloud-Network Integrated Solution and integrated Cloud Platform, providing comprehensive enterprise solutions to execute Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud strategies.

In his Cloud 2020 presentation, Chiu explains how enterprises are facing challenges in terms of the connectivity needed to implement cloud solutions.

He also elaborates on how China Mobile is the leading connectivity provider in China and is investing to expand its global network presence.

Our aim is to provide customers a unified, flexible, private cloud network to enable customers to connect to the cloud in a seamless, secure, and stable way, Chiu said.

Chiu provides a detailed breakdown of how China Mobile Internationals range of iSolutions products and services serve these needs.

You can view the full presentation from Eric Chiu, Lead of Cloud Business at China Mobile International, below.

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iland Secure Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 with Cloud Console provides customers and partners with self-service file restoration capabilities and complete visibility into their data protection environments

London, UK 24th September, 2020 - iland, an industry-leading, global provider of secure application and data protection cloud services built on proven VMware technology, today announced the integration of the iland Cloud Console with its popular Secure Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365. This update provides customers and partners with a single view across iland cloud hosting, backup, disaster recovery, and now Microsoft 365 including Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business.

Many organisations begin their cloud experience with Microsoft 365 believing their data is protected and available when they need it. However, a shared-responsibility model and additional backup solutions are necessary to ensure data is protected from internal and external threats including cybercrime and accidental deletions, as well as retained in accordance with geographic compliance and regulatory requirements. With ilands Secure Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365, customers and partners are assured their business data is protected in the event of data loss.

With this release, the Secure Cloud Console offers complete control and a unified view of Microsoft 365 data protection solution environments, as well as iland Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Backup as a Service (BaaS) environments. With this new capability, customers and partners can pinpoint and restore any object, including users, groups of users, emails, and One Drive files, to an exact moment in time. The console also helps users manage daily usage, and view past backups and related events.

No matter where we put our data in the cloud, it is ultimately our responsibility to ensure its properly managed and stored, said Jason Espinales-Osorio, senior systems administrator from Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia, in Kennesaw, Georgia. By adding the console to our Office 365 backups, I will essentially have an extra person watching my back to make sure things are going the way they should. Whether its an email informing me of the results of my last backup, a report on how much Office 365 is being used, or just the ability to write my own backup policies, the iland Secure Cloud Console and Office 365 backup provides the added layer of protection we need.

The iland Secure Cloud Console provides transparency through comprehensive monitoring and reporting from network configuration to backup security. Microsoft 365 data is automatically backed up daily to ilands Secure Cloud with unlimited storage quotas, an unrestricted retention policy, and a 100-percent uptime guarantee. This cloud-based service includes all licensing and eliminates the need for customers to build, manage and maintain additional local storage to support Microsoft 365 backups.

Other new features are available with iland Secure Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 include:

According to Microsoft, over 200 million monthly active users around the world rely on Microsoft 365 to drive their businesses forward. This explosive adoption in turn creates massive amounts of vulnerable data with little to no backup or protection, said Justin Giardina, iland chief technology officer. The integration of Microsoft 365 backup management into the iland Secure Cloud Console not only provides administrators with transparency into their data and backups, but also reduces the risks, cost and complexity of using Microsoft 365 applications in the cloud.

About ilandiland is a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS). They are recognised by industry analysts as a leader in disaster recovery. The award-winning iland Secure Cloud Console natively combines deep layered security, predictive analytics, and compliance to deliver unmatched visibility and ease of management for all of ilands cloud services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas and London, UK, iland delivers cloud services from its data centres throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Learn more at http://www.iland.com.

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Dance tutorials, arts and crafts, food, dogs.

Anyone scrolling through TikTok can see that the widely popular video-sharing app is, at the very least, incredibly entertaining. Addicting? Maybe. A questionable use of time? Perhaps.

But is it an enormous threat to national security as the Trump administration claims in its proposal to ban the app in the United States? Not likely, says David Choffnes, associate professor of computer sciences.

For the average American user, the Chinese-owned TikTok app doesnt pose a national security threat any more than our beloved Facebook or Twitter, he says.

David Choffnes is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

There are some risks for sure, Choffnes says. TikTok could be collecting your location data, and they could potentially be forced to hand that information over to the Chinese government, even if they dont want to.

But unless you are, for example, a member of the military using TikTok on a classified base, then the stakes of the Chinese government knowing your location via TikTok are very low.

The ban on new downloads of TikTok, which was supposed to go into effect on Sunday, has been postponed until Sept. 27, a date that will likely be extended unless, in the meantime, TikToks parent company, ByteDance, can negotiate a deal with an American company to host the apps data in the U.S.

As of Wednesday, Oracle and Walmart were working on a partnership with ByteDance to create a spinoff company, TikTok Global.

Oracle would hold a 12.5 percent stake in the new company and serve as the cloud hosting provider for the new entity. Walmart would hold a 7.5 percent stake in the company, with ByteDance owning the remaining 80 percent.

TikTok will most likely not be taken out of app stores in the U.S. because the companies that would be affected, such as Apple and Google, would either compromise with the U.S. government or challenge it in court.

A company like ByteDance could, hypothetically, inject code into TikTok that could prove harmful to U.S. national security.

The app stores do reviews to look for that kind of malicious code, Choffnes says. They cant catch everything. But generally speaking, its hard to mount such an attack without detection, especially in an app as popular and closely monitored as TikTok.

Plus, even if new downloads of the app were banned in the U.S., in most cases, no one except the user themselves can uninstall the app from their phone if they already have it. This makes things complicated for network providerswould these companies be breaking the law for allowing users to access the app if they already have it?

Its one thing to take it out of the app store. But when I start seeing network-level controls, thats the opposite of an open internet, Choffnes says. Its a slippery slope that takes us down a path other countries have taken that we prefer not to be compared to, like widespread censorship in China.

He adds that the deal, which is still being disputed, seems more like a political move by the Trump administration than an attempt to protect people in the U.S. from a national security threat.

It also isnt an attempt to protect individuals privacy. In this proposal, the argument isnt being made for consumer protection where we actually see the greatest risk, he says. And TikTok is only a small piece of a much larger problem when it comes to consumer protection.

The Chinese government doesnt need TikTok to figure out that Im at home right now, he says. They can just buy that data from a data broker. Thats how much information is already out there.

This kind of thing is pretty scary as someone who works on privacy and consumer protection, and also net neutrality and internet freedom, Choffnes says. Theres a whole lot of wrong here.

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Call for Codes powerful ecosystem includes IBM, David Clark Cause, The Linux Foundation, and Charitable Partner United Nations Human Rights, together with a global movement of 400,000 developers across 179 nations

ARMONK, N.Y.,Sept. 28, 2020 Call for Code Founding Partner IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Creator David Clark Cause today announced the top five worldwide finalists for the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge.Call for Codeunites hundreds of thousands of developers to create and deploy applications powered by open source technology that can tackle some of the worlds biggest challenges. This year, developers around the globe were asked to create solutions to help communities fight back against climate change and COVID-19.

Now in its third year, the Call for Code global competition has generated more than fifteen thousand solutions built using a combination of open source-powered products and technologies, including Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud, IBM Watson, IBM Blockchain, data from The Weather Company, and APIs from ecosystem partners like HERE Technologies and IntelePeer. Since its launch in 2018, this movement has grown to more than 400,000 developers and problem solvers across 179 nations, reflecting the reality that challenges like climate change and COVID-19 demand solutions that work on the local level, but also have the ability to scale and help any community, anywhere.

This year of crisis underscores the need for the worlds developers and business leaders to apply the power of hybrid cloud, AI and open source technology to address societys most pressing issues, saidBob Lord, Senior Vice President, Cognitive Applications, Blockchain, and Ecosystems, IBM. For the third year in a row, the developer community has answered the Call for Code in overwhelming numbers, creating extraordinary solutions powered by open source technology. As a leader in open source with a long history of driving tech for good, it is incredibly gratifying for us at IBM to see how the broader tech community continues to come together, unified in purpose to make a tangible difference in the lives of so many.

Call for Code Global Top Five

These five finalists were chosen from an elite group of top solutions from each region of the world:

Each year, the Call for Code Global Prize winner receives$200,000and hands-on support from IBM, The Linux Foundation, and other partners to expand the open source community around their solution and to deploy their solution in areas of need. This years grand prize winner will be selected by an elite group of judges, including some of the mosteminent leadersin human rights, disaster risk reduction, business, and technology.

Path to Deployment

The IBM Service Corps and technical experts helped incubate and deploy the previous two Global Challenge winning solutions. Last years Call for Code Global Challenge winning team,Prometeo, created a wearable device that measures carbon monoxide, smoke concentration, humidity, and temperature to monitor firefighter safety in real-time as well as to help improve their health outcomes in the long-term. The solution was incubated and completed its first wildfire field test earlier this year during a controlled burn with the Grups de Refor dActuacions Forestals (GRAF) and the Grup dEmergncies Mdiques (GEM) dels Bombers de la Generalitat de Catalunya nearBarcelona, Spain. Prometeo was developed by a team comprising a veteran firefighter, an emergency medical nurse, and three developers.

Project Owl, the winning solution from Call for Code 2018, provides an offline communication infrastructure that gives first responders a simple interface for managing all aspects of a disaster. The physical clusterduck network is made of hubs that create a mesh network that can send speech-based communications using conversational systems to a central application. Together with the IBM Service Corps, Project Owl has been piloted acrossPuerto Rico, focusing on areas that were hit hard by hurricanes.

Both projects, as well asothers, continue to be incubated through the Call for Code deployment pipeline.

Call for Code University Edition

This year, IBM partnered with the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) to launch a dedicated University Edition within Call for Code. Together, IBM and CGI U reached more than 53,000 students around the world to help create solutions to fight COVID-19 and climate change. The 2020 Call for Code Challenge University finalists are:Kairos App(Latin America);Lupe(Europe);Pandemap(Asia Pacific);Plant-it(North America); andRechargd(Asia Pacific). Solutions in the University Edition are competing for a grand prize of$10,000. The grand prize-winning team and runner-up will also receive the opportunity to interview for a potential role at IBM.

This year, we launched the dedicated University Edition within the Call for Code Global Challenge so university students around the world could apply their learnings from the classroom, life experiences and imagination to tackling climate change and COVID-19 in sustainable, equitable and innovative ways, saidChelsea Clinton, Vice Chair,Clinton Foundation. These finalist solutions are outstanding, and we look forward to announcing a winner onOctober 13th.

Growing Ecosystem

Call for Codes growth and success is a product of the unique ecosystem that IBM and David Clark Cause have convened to unite the technology development community with humanitarian organizations ensuring that solutions are robust, efficient, innovative, and easy-to-use. This community includes the United Nations Human Rights Office, The Linux Foundation, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative University, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Verizon, Persistent Systems, Arrow Electronics, HERE Technologies, Ingram Micro, IntelePeer, Consumer Technology Association Foundation, World Bank, Caribbean Girls Hack, Kode With Klossy, World Institute on Disability, and many more.

We are facing a time of unprecedented crisis, saidLaurent Sauveur, Chief, External Relations, UN Human Rights While the COVID-19 pandemic puts lives and livelihoods at immediate risk, climate change is an existential threat for humanity. By triggering global engagement, initiatives like Call for Code open up the potential for developers and problem solvers around the world to put their skills to use to create inclusive and effective response solutions that can be deployed quickly yet have long-term impact.

The grand prize and University Edition winners will be announced onOctober 13via a digital event, the2020 Call for Code Awards: A Global Celebration of Tech for Good.

About Call for Code Global Challenge

Developers have revolutionized the way people live and interact with virtually everyone and everything. Where most people see challenges, developers see possibilities. Thats why David Clark Cause createdCall for Codein 2018, and launched it alongside Founding Partner IBM and their partner UN Human rights. This five-year,$30 millionglobal initiative is a rallying cry to developers to use their mastery of the latest technologies to drive positive and long-lasting change across the world through code. Call for Code global winning solutions are further developed, incubated, and deployed as sustainable open source projects to ensure they can drive positive change.

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