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Internet 101 Survey results show disconnect between confidence and Internet user knowledge – TechSpot

August 28, 2017 | Author: admin

Public Interest Registrys 2017 Internet 101 Survey results are in and you may be surprised by just how many people lack basic knowledge about the Internet. Although it's easy to point fingers at older generations over their perceived lack of technical prowess, it is actually baby boomers that scored highest in a number of areas.

Looking at the infographic below, we see that only 47 percent of people currently have access to the web. Of those who do have access, many rely solely on cellular networks or low-speed connections. Try taking the quiz for yourself to see how you fit in.

The survey included feedback from 506 men and 508 women, all over 18 years of age. Public Interest Registry is a non-profit group responsible for operating the .org top-level domain name. Some of their main goals are educating the public and promoting Internet security.

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Getting Crowdfunding Fundamentals Down to A Science In Advance Of Campaign Key To Success – HuffPost

August 28, 2017 | Author: admin

If I were to start a crowd funding campaign today the first thing I would do is start with a good definition of the word crowdfunding. According to Wikipedia Crowdfundingis the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people.

Crowdfundingis a form of crowdsourcing and an alternative method of finance which has gained popularity over the last decade. In 2015, it was estimated that worldwide over US$34 billion was raised this way.

There are a variety donation crowdfunding platforms where individuals can raise capital for their projects. Crowd funding can be executed through mail-order subscriptions, benefit event, and other methods, but the most common method is internet-mediated registries.

The top ten crowdfunding sites are listed on Traffic Rank, and the list is sorted based on independent traffic data found on Alexa an Compete. Currently, Gofundme, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo rank on the top three list.

The top three books on crowdfunding in 2017 are Step-by-Step: Everything you Need to Raise Money in the Crows by Joseph Hogue, CPA, Crowdstart: The Ultimate Guide to Powerful & Profitable Crowdfunding Campaign by Ariel Hyatt, and Fundraising Crash Course: Fundraising Ideas & Strategies to Raise Money for Non-Profits & Business by Arnold Taggert.

Crowdfunding begins with a proposed idea, project to be funded, individuals or groups who support the idea, and building a platform with all of the pertinent information to engage individuals or groups to support the ideal.

Crowdfunding can be used to support for-profit entrepreneurial ventures, social sector projects, community projects, medical expenses, etc.

According to these sources cited crowdfunding websites helped companies and individuals worldwide raise US$89 million from members of the public in 2010, $1.47 billion in 2011, and $2.66 billion in 2012 $1.6 billion of the 2012 amount was raised in North America.[48]In 2012, more than one million individual campaigns were established globally[49]and the industry was projected to grow to US$5.1 billion in 2013.[49]and to reach US$1 trillion in 2025.[50]A May 2014 report, released by the United Kingdom-based The Crowdfunding Centre and titled "The State of the Crowdfunding Nation", presented data showing that during March 2014, more than US $60,000 were raised on an hourly basis via global crowdfunding initiatives. Also during this period, 442 crowdfunding campaigns were launched globally on a daily basis.[21]

Youll also receive an 8-page Crowdfunding Kit that includes:

Successful Crowdfunding takes patience, planning, commitment, creativity and a great offer to individuals and groups looking to support your cause, so make sure you take the time to develop a well thought out campaign and plan of action from beginning to end!

Phil Andrews is the President of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. an affiliate of the US Black Chambers, Inc. and Past President of the 100 Black Men of Long Island. Mr. Andrews is also the President-Emeritus of the Black Public Relations Society-New York an affiliate chapter of the National Black Public Relations Society. Mr. Andrews has appeared on WABC Here and Now and NBCs Positively Black. Mr. Andrews is a Black Enterprise BE Modern Man.

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Australia gets quantum computing company – ACS (registration)

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The new Silicon Quantum Computing leadership team. Source: cqc2t.org

The NSW Government has teamed up with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in a bid to create the worlds first quantum computer.

The governments $8.7 million investment comes as one of the first expenditures from its recently announced $26 million Quantum Computing Fund.

The funding will support a new company, Silicon Quantum Computing Pty Ltd, responsible for retaining intellectual property in Australia, supporting new industries based around quantum computing, and most importantly, creating the worlds first quantum computer.

Deputy Premier and Minister for Skills, John Barilaro, spoke about the new partnership.

NSW has an incredible and an unusual depth of talent in quantum research, and the world is watching our progress.

This new company, led by UNSW, will help to ensure we remain global leaders in the race to develop a silicon-based quantum computer.

Professor Michelle Simmons and her incredibly talented team of researchers at UNSW have put Australia ahead of the pack in the race to build the worlds first fully-functional quantum computer in silicon, he said.

The company will operate within the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), residing in the UNSW School of Physics.

CQC2T labs were opened by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in April 2016, where it was announced they would accelerate Australia in the international race to build the worlds first quantum computer in silicon.

Also backed by Commonwealth Bank, Telstra and the Federal government, CQC2T believes it is on track to create an operational quantum system within 10 to 15 years.

The new company is expected to create an extra 40 jobs, including 25 post-doctoral researchers and 12 PhD students.

Quantum computing can perform complex equations that would otherwise take years to complete in just minutes, using quantum bits (qubits).

While IBM has already created a 16 and 17-qubit computer, CQC2T is hoping to process a world-first 30-qubit system, capable of outperforming a classical computer.

Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science the Hon Arthur Sinodinos spoke of the importance of quantum computing for Australia.

Quantum computers are expected to transform the way we live, work, and do business over the coming decades, creating new jobs in new industries not even imaginable today, he said.

If Australia wins the global race to build a functional quantum computer, it will create new industries and job opportunities across our economy.

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Russians Lead the Quantum Computer Race With 51-Qubit Machine – Edgy Labs (blog)

August 28, 2017 | Author: admin

An international research team successfully created and tested a record-breaking quantum supercomputer. Running on 51 qubits, the new machine surpasses the theoretical threshold of quantum supremacy.

Like Schrdingers cat, qubits, or quantum bits, are undecided and can be in two positions simultaneously. In other words, if traditional computers have bits that can take the value of 1 or 0 at a time, qubits can be either at the same time.

Hence the edge quantum computing has over classical computing in solving very complex calculations much faster.

Qubits allow the development of new computational algorithms, which are much more productive than silicon-based iterations.

The more qubits a quantum computer uses, the more processing power it has.

But most advanced quantum computational systems available today are still far behind supercomputers in terms of their practical applicationsalthough the situation is changing very fast indeed.

Theres a theoretical threshold after which quantum computers would surpass most powerful classical supercomputers. Scientists believe it should happen somewhere around 50 qubits.

Currently, the most advanced quantum chips are below 20 qubits, such as theIBM Q that uses 17 qubits.

Google also is no stranger to the quantum race, as its working on a 49-qubit 14-meter machine using superconducting circuits.

Googles 49 qubit computer was supposed to be the highlight of the ICQT 2017 (The International Conference on Quantum Technologies, held July 12th16th in Moscow).

Designed by John Martinis, a professor at University of California at Santa Barbara, Googles computer will use a chip embedded with 49 qubits (0.6 cm by 0.6 cm).

But as groundbreaking Googles machine might be, it was another machine that stole the show.

During the same day of the ICQT 2017 that Martinis was supposed to give a lecture about his quantum device, Mikhail Lukin, the co-founder of RQC, made his own announcement.

Mikhails team, including Russian and American scientists, have built the worlds most powerful functional quantum computing system, running on 51 qubits.

The new quantum system uses an array of 51 cold atoms in lieu of qubits. Locked up on laser cells, these atoms should be kept at extremely low temperatures.

we observe a novel type of robust many-body dynamics corresponding to persistent oscillations of crystalline order after a sudden quantum quench, said researchers in a paper available at arXiv.org. These observations enable new approaches for exploring many-body phenomena and open the door for realizations of novel quantum algorithms.

The model was successfully tested in the labs of Harvard University, solving physics problems that silicon chip-based supercomputers would have a hard time replicating.

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Quantum Computing and Financial Trading – LeapRate

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If you have not heard of quantum computing, you are not alone.

To date, most of the work of quantum computing has been taking place in universities, where super smart tech geeks work with never-before-seen technology to change the world using algorithms that most of us cant comprehend.

If youre not a tech head or theoretical mathematician, defining quantum computing doesnt really give you an understanding of what it means and what it is likely to be able to achieve. But lets give it a go anyhow.

The difference between current computing and quantum computing is the difference between binary bits of technology, where each bit is either a binary 0 or 1, and quantum computers qubits, which can be zero, one or a quantum superposition of the qubit states. In my head, I guess it is like the difference between 2D and 3D movies, but thats just an educated assumption.

What does this mean practically?

At its basic level, quantum computers are able to figure out many of the encryptions that are not possible to the figure out on a normal computer, because of the limitations of the binary bits in traditional computing. This is just one of the practical advances, but the current level of cryptographic encryptions would not be effective defense against quantum computing, leading many in the security community to fear a cryptopocalypse (which is a pretty cool way of mixing cryptography and apocalypse, even if it is a totally scary concept).

For the financial industry, it has certain impacts. The first is obviously the need to create a more secure situation to protect money, since the current encryptions will be useless in the face of quantum computing.

The second interesting one is its potential to seriously disrupt the financial markets. Quantum computers are able to execute more complex algorithms than todays computers and execute them more quickly. It can solve issues in algorithmic trading in a way that is unfeasible by current standards of computing. This means that the capabilities of algorithmic trading will increase significantly with the advent of quantum computing. By changing the capabilities of certain types of trading, the market metrics will also change, making it a significant disruptor.

Not only are existing algorithms able to be more effectively computed, but a significant potential exists to develop new algorithms. Each development will represent a new, greater level of computational capabilities, potentially rendering the previous algorithm obsolete. Companies will focus on creating new algorithms for both profit and competitive advantage.

Quantum computing has the chance to impact security in the financial industry and develop algorithmic trading, disrupting existing market dynamics and creating a new dynamic in the process. This brave, new world of computing capabilities has the power to create new unique disruptions in a similar way to AI and machine learning. Quantum computing can harness data and create algorithms to solve problems in ways that we cannot yet fathom, and like each iteration of technology that came before it, quantum computing will have the power to change the world.

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The pros and cons of cloud vs in house servers – Edmonton

August 28, 2017 | Author: admin

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If you read our last post on business continuity planning, you know that a failed server can have catastrophic effects on your business. But lets assume you already have a sound business continuity plan in place, and you know what youre going to do if that server fails. What should you consider when it comes to choosing the right server for your business in the first place?

The biggest decision is whether to have a cloud based or in house server infrastructure. While it may sound like a black-or-white selection, there are many things to consider. The first factor is how important uptime is to your business. Cloud solutions are usually more expensive than in house, but the benefits of being in the cloud can far outweigh the costs for some businesses. For example, an online business that is reliant on web-based transactions will consider uptime an extremely important factor; therefore, they will likely be willing to pay more for a cloud based solution that can guarantee a certain level of uptime. Other businesses not as dependent on uptime may be more suited to an in house set up.

Here are some pros and cons of cloud vs in house servers.

As you can see, there are many pros and cons under each setup. For this reason, SysGen often recommends a hybrid model to clients meaning a combination of both in house and cloud based solutions. Going hybrid gives clients the best of both worlds. Having some in house server hardware can be suitable for companies that do not want to rely on the Internet. And at the same time, businesses can reap the benefits of a cloud solution, such as Microsoft Exchange email, to allow users to connect from anywhere with a high degree of uptime. SysGen actually guarantees 99.99% uptime to its clients with cloud based email.

A hybrid server model also gives companies greater data security. For example, with a SysGen hybrid model, clients can back up their data to an onsite server as well as a cloud solution. SysGens backup solution partner, Datto, introduces next-gen backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions. Read more about backup solutions in our blog post, Five key questions to ask about your backup solution.

Heres an example of a SysGen hybrid model. As you can see, the client has an onsite server with local backup storage. Employees access their desktops, applications, files, printers, and email from the office using the local network. At the same time, data is backed up for redundancy to a cloud based solution, and email is entirely in the cloud with Hosted Microsoft Exchange. The cloud configuration also gives employees anywhere access to their desktops, applications, files, printers, and email. (Click the photo to enlarge it).

The hybrid model seems to be on trend with whats happening in the IT industry in general. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, techs future may lie in the fog rather than the cloud. In other words, cloud solutions are great, but businesses may not want to have everything out there in the cloud. Some solutions will still need to be kept in house or on device, closer to the ground. For many companies, the best configuration will be somewhere in between, which the article refers to as the fog.

Either way cloud, ground, or fog, SysGen can help you determine the right set up to meet your specific business needs. Contact us to support your Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer or Vancouver-based business anytime!

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You Can Now Spin Up VMware Servers in Amazon Data Centers – Data Center Knowledge

August 28, 2017 | Author: admin

Ever wish you could just run VMware on Amazons cloud? Now you can, but not on the entire AWS cloud, just in one availability region hosted in Amazon data centers in Oregon.

This morning, on stage at VMworld, VMwares big annual conference in Las Vegas, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced initial availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, which is essentially VMwares server virtualization platform running on bare-metal servers inside Amazons data centers customers can consume the same way they consume AWS cloud server instances.

The two companies announced a partnership with the goal of seamlessly extending VMwares environment from the enterprise data center to AWS about one year ago. VMware is nearly ubiquitous in corporate and public-sector data centers, where users deployed the platform to radically increase the utilization rate of each physical machine.

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While many large IT organizations have deployed applications on public cloud platforms, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, by many accounts they still run most of their workloads in their own data centers. Giving them a way to deploy software in the cloud using the same underlying software stack they use in-house and the associated management tools will presumably further reduce the friction they face when using cloud services.

The partnership highlights a change in the message AWS has been sending to the market about the future of cloud in the IT industry. The company used to paint hybrid cloud, where users have both on-premises data centers and cloud services, as little more than a stepping stone toward a world where nearly all workloads would run in public clouds.

Its willingness to partner with VMware on hybrid cloud signals that Amazon recognizes what many industry pundits have been saying for years: for numerous reasons many IT shops simply dont think deploying the entirety of their workloads in one or another public cloud providers data centers makes sense.

The partnership is also a big step for VMware, which has in the past attempted to become a cloud service provider itself, making essentially the same pitch: extend your on-premises VMware environment into the cloud, where youll find the same familiar platform and tooling. While VMware execs claim the cloud business had been successful, the company ended up selling the business, called vCloud Air, to the French service provider OVH earlier this year.

VMwares new strategy in the cloud services market is to enable customers to use multiple cloud providers together with their on-premises VMware environments using the same toolset.

As of now, VMware Cloud on AWS is available in the AWS US West region, but plans are in place to expand the service worldwide next year. Customers pay for each hour a host is active in their account.

It includes not only vSphere, the core server virtualization platform, but also VMware NSX for network virtualization, VMware VSAN for storage virtualization, and the management suite VMware vCenter. The technologies are all part of VMwares fairly new software-defined data center platform VMware Cloud Foundation.

The cost is about $8.40 per host per hour; $52,000 for one reserved host for one year (a 30-percent discount compared to on-demand pricing); or $110,000 for a three-year single-host contract (a 50-percent discount). Users of VMwares on-premises software get further discounts (up to 25 percent off) based on eligible on-premises product licenses.

A number of companies are providing managed services around VMware Cloud on AWS, such as solutions for DevOps, application migration, data protection, cloud analytics, and security.

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Cloud security market to reach $12B by 2024, driven by rise of cyber attacks – TechRepublic

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The global cloud security market is predicted to reach $12.64 billion by 2024up from $1.41 billion in 2016, according to a new report from Hexa Research. The growth is driven by the increasing use of cloud services for data storage, and the rising sophistication of cyber attacks, the report stated.

Businesses are increasingly transferring their data to cloud servers due to flexibility and cost savings, the report stated. The cloud security market includes products and solutions focused on the security of compliance, governance, and data protection.

Cloud identity and access management tools were the most widely used, according to the report, accounting for the largest market share at $287.3 million. Email and web security came in second place, and these solutions have increased across many enterprises due to the rise of malware and ransomware in particular.

Data loss prevention is also expected to grow over the forecast period, due to strict regulatory policies by various governments to ensure organizational and individual data is protected.

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Public cloud services held the greatest portion of the market share in 2016, with nearly 36%, due to their strong security track record and the transparency of leading cloud providers, the report noted. However, hybrid deployments are estimated to be the fastest-growing market due to their cost-saving model, improved security, and enhanced organizational performance, according to the report.

Demand for cybersecurity solutions has been on the rise in government agencies, healthcare organizations, e-commerce, insurance, and banking industries, according to the report. Large enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud security services due to frequent attacks on data centers. And small and medium businesses are expected to grow at a CAGR of 35% over the forecast period, as they become increasingly aware of security threats.

In terms of location, North America will be the major revenue-generating region for cloud security services, due to its advanced IT infrastructure and the presence of a large number of cloud security providers. European countries including the UK, France, and Germany also widely use these solutions. And the Asia-Pacific region is expected to see double-digit growth over the forecast period, due to enhanced IT infrastructure.

However, the cloud security market remains constrained by a lack of awareness about security, inconsistent network connections in developing countries, and a lack of proper standards, the report stated.

1. The global cloud security market is predicted to reach $12.64 billion by 2024, and increase from $1.41 billion in 2016, according to a new report from Hexa Research.

2. The growth is driven by the increasing use of cloud services for data storage, and the rising sophistication of cyber attacks, the report stated.

3. North America will be the major revenue generating region for cloud security services, due to its advanced IT infrastructure and the presence of a large number of cloud security providers.

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Jeff Pulver, Internet Pioneer of VoIP and Entrepreneur Joins … – Markets Insider

August 28, 2017 | Author: admin

DUBLIN, August 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Cloudwith.me$300 millionICO creates the Cloud token for ready use to access cloud services at 50% of the current cost

Cloudwith.me creates basis for a distributed blockchain payment ecosystem

Cloudwith.me, the managed cloud services company, today announced the appointment of Mr. Jeff Pulver to its Advisory Board. Mr. Pulver is an Internet pioneer and influential figure in the modern technology industry who helped to shape the worldwide market acceptance of VoIP. He will advise Cloudwith.me on its "Cloud" cryptocurrency and on corporate governance and business strategy.

Mr. Pulver comes with a wealth of experience and knowledge as he has dedicated his career to the future of the Internet and is recognized by media as an expert in his field. He is currently the Founder of MoNage, a startup which joins people together who are interested in the future of the Conversational Web, and he has invested in over 350 startups since 1998.

"Mr. Pulver is a valuable addition to our company and will be instrumental in helping us achieve our mission of bringing the cloud to 'the rest of us,'" said Asaf Zamir, Cloudwith.me's Co-Founder and CTO. "His experience is key in advising our management team by providing on-going strategies and breaking into the disruptive technologies market."

Commented Mr. Pulver: "Cloudwith.me's ongoing vision to bring decentralized cloud services to the masses by involving the community from the beginning excites me. What's most intriguing is its innovative way of driving that participation through the use of the Cloud token by offering access to the world's largest cloud servers (Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure) at a significantly reduced cost. I have no doubt that Cloudwith.me will succeed in disrupting the cloud industry, as we know it today, and am thrilled to be a part of this revolution."

Founded in 2015, Cloudwith.me offers its customers a managed hosting solution for hyper-scale cloud services. It currently has over 22,000 server deployments globally servicing SMBs worldwide with strong partnerships with the leading providers of cloud services today.

Cloudwith.me's blockchain technology is one of its kind as it focuses on delivering immediate value for buyers of the Cloud token. Most notably, the Cloud token is the only cryptocurrency token that can be used shortly after the close of the ICO to benefit from and pay for cloud services from the world's largest cloud providers, at 50% of the current cost. The target of $300 million from Cloudwith.me's funds will be invested in additional server deployments and software development.

For more information on the Cloud ICO please visit: token.cloudwith.me.

About Cloudwith.me

Cloudwith.me, founded in 2015 by Asaf Zamir and Gilad Somjen, provides a managed hosting solution for access to AWS and Azure cloud services. Cloudwith.me provides improved efficiency for individuals and business owners, from SME to enterprise, by simplifying the process and minimizing the amount of time and complexity required to set up and maintain their cloud servers.

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Google Aims to Boost Cloud Security with Titan Chipset – BizTech Magazine

August 28, 2017 | Author: admin

The sky continues to be the limit for the cloud market, with IDC reporting earlier this month that the public cloud market will grow to $203.4 billion worldwide by 2020, up from a forecasted $122.5 billion in 2017. Cloud service providers are scrambling to corral as much of that market at possible.

According to the Synergy Research Group, as of the second quarter of 2017, Amazon Web Services led the market with 34 percent market share, followed by Microsoft (11 percent), IBM (8 percent) and Google (5 percent); the next 10 providers totaled 19 percent, and the rest of the market made up the remaining 23 percent.

Google hopes to move up those rankings by making its cloud services more secure, and it plans to do that via a tiny chipset it calls Titan.

Security remains one of the biggest roadblocks to wider cloud adoption, and thats where Google is looking to differentiate itself from its competitors. The Titan announcement is part of an ongoing effort by the tech giant to ramp up the security of its Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Urs Hlzle, the companys senior vice president of technical infrastructure, dramatically unveiled Titan when he removed the tiny chip from his earring during the Google Cloud Next 17 conference in March.

The computing chip will go into Google cloud servers with the purpose of establishing a hardware root of trust for both machines and peripherals connected to the cloud infrastructure.

This will give Google the ability to more securely identify and authenticate legitimate access at the hardware level within GCP. Its one piece of a larger strategy on Googles part to harden its cloud infrastructure, which also includes hardware the search giant designed, a firmware stack it controls, Google-curated OS images and a hypervisor the company hardened.

In a company blog post, Google officials explain that, given the increased cybercriminal focus on privileged software attacks and firmware exploits, its important to be able to guarantee the security of the hardware supporting Googles cloud platform. To do this, Titan focuses on securing two key processes.

The first is verifying the system firmware and software components guaranteeing that what runs the machine is secure. Titan uses public key cryptography to establish the security of its own firmware and that of the host system.

The second process is establishing a strong, hardware-rooted system identity verifying the identity of the machine itself. This process is tied back to the chip manufacturing process, wherein each chip has unique embedded keying material added to a registry database. The contents of this database are cryptographically protected using keys maintained by the Titan Certification Authority (CA).

When a Titan chip is built into a server, it can then generate certificate signing requests (CSRs) directed to the Titan CA. The CA will verify the authenticity of the CSRs based on the keying material in the registry database before issuing the server an identity certificate, which establishes the root of trust.

Titans identity verification measures support a nonrepudiable audit trail of any changes made to the system. And tamper-evident logging capabilities bring to light any changes made to firmware or software by a privileged insider.

With a hardware-based root of trust verified on the server and the integrity of its firmware and software components also verified, a Titan-enabled machine will be validated and ready to engage with the GCP ecosystem.

Are customers themselves ready to engage more with the GCP ecosystem? The addition of the Titan chips to Googles cloud servers targets a specific pain point for customers (especially those industries that have very specific security compliance needs, such as finance and healthcare).

Google is betting that its larger strategy of presenting a more secure cloud will increase its share of the cloud market.

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