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As the cloud market matures, more companies are looking for innovative ways to use its features. There have been instances of companies that use cloud to provide a better indoor environment, and those that use it to solve many of the social problems we face today. The next in this line of innovative cloud products is Nvidia’s GeForce Now platform.
Announced during the company’s CES keynote, this product overcomes a drawback that is being faced by gamers all over the world, which is lack of support from PCs for a fantastic gaming experience. Most PCs today don’t have the capability to play modern games because they don’t support modern graphic cards. As a result, gamers world-over face frustration when they try to play their favorite game on their PC. To overcome this problem, Nvidia’s GeForce Now will allow players to access a cloud-based gaming system, so gamers can simply log into the system and play their games.
Nvidia has used GeForce Now brand in the past too, in case you’re wondering that it sounds familiar. In the past, this brand allowed players to stream games from their own PC, but unfortunately, this product did not go well with customers due to many reasons. Primarily, this product required a Nvidia product such as Shield Portal or Android TV, and this proved to be a disappointment for many customers. Learning from its mistakes, Nvidia has overhauled its GeForce Now brand to make it more attractive and sustainable to its end customers.
The advantages with this new product is obvious. Firstly, gamers can continue to enjoy their gaming sessions without any interruptions, and secondly, they don’t have to worry about upgrading their system or buying a new graphics card. This service is also reasonably priced, as it costs a mere $25 for 20 hours a play – peanuts when compared to the whopping cost of a graphic card and the inconveniences and disruptions that come with it. With this product, gamers are sure to be a happy bunch as they can save money, and at the same time, continue their gaming sessions. However, users will have to download a small client to access this cloud product. The good news is this download and installation takes only a few seconds, and is fairly self-explanatory.
This move augurs well for the gaming industry too, as it can reach out to more customers. Currently, many users are not playing some games because they don’t have the necessary hardware infrastructure. Now, if the same infrastructure is available on the cloud, more people would be willing to play online. In this sense, this move by Nvidia is sure to strengthen the gaming industry as a whole.
At this point, Nvidia plans to make GeForce Now available by March 2017. We will probably have to wait until March to know the speed and gaming experience this product offers, because as of now, it’s not clear whether Nvidia is going to host it in its own data center or will it take the services of a cloud provider such as AWS.
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Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has been talking a lot about the blockchain recently, so I decided to learn more about it. I read the Marketing the Blockchain e-book, watched The Grand Vision of a Crypto-Tech Economy video and the video keynote of Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne at the Bitcoin 2014 conference, and did some more research on my own. While far from an expert, I do see some interesting similarities to the adoption of open source software.
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2016 was an interesting year in cloud computing. For the European market, data protection regulation came into force, while many of the major cloud providers began to move their operations into and build data centres in Europe, from AWS, to Microsoft, to IBM. Regarding acquisitions, Oracle bought NetSuite, Microsoft bought LinkedIn and Samsung acquired Joyent, while in terms of trends, DevOps, containers and security continued to be the primary talking points.
Here is our short review of the main stories from the more than 400 that went live on CloudTech last year:
AWS celebrates its 10th birthday. On March 14 2006, a press release went out on the wire from Amazon announcing “a simple storage service that offers software developers a highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs.” Thus AWS was born, and a decade on the company enjoys significant market share leadership in the IaaS space.
According to industry figures from Synergy Research, AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and Google continue to grow quicker than the rest of the cloud infrastructure space, with the four leading players owning more than half of the market.
Read more: AWS turns 10: A dominant market share, but does that tell the full story? (March)
GDPR hits. On April 27 last year, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was officially adopted, giving businesses two years – or until May 25 2018, to be precise – to get their house in order. Under the new laws users will have rights including the right to be forgotten, to transfer their data to another service provider, as well as the right to learn when they have been hacked. Businesses who do not comply could face fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover as a result.
Read more: A five step crisis plan to prepare for the pending data protection legislation (February)
Oracle acquires NetSuite. One of the biggest deals of the year came in July, when Oracle announced its intent to acquire cloud ERP software provider NetSuite for $9.3 billion, represented the latest cloud push from the software giant. While not all shareholders were in agreement initially, the deal was eventually completed in November, with the two companies saying in an FAQ at the time: “Oracle and NetSuite cloud applications are complementary and will co-exist in the marketplace forever.”
Read more: Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3bn to further strengthen its cloud story (July)
Rackspace goes private. Managed cloud services provider Rackspace was acquired by private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $4.3 billion in the summer. CEO Taylor Rhodes said the deal would allow the firm to “seize the big opportunity that we face as the world’s #1 managed cloud company.”
In its most recent financial results before the takeover, Rhodes noted a highlight was almost 300 customers gained on its AWS service over the past nine months, but warned that IT spending growth would “almost certainly” be negative in 2017.
“The next 24 months is going to be key to Rackspace to reposition itself in the lucrative cloud and IoT markets,” Ian Moyse, cloud industry leader, told this publication at the time.
Read more: Rackspace goes private with $4.3bn Apollo Global transaction (August)
Dropbox security scare. On August 25, a blog post from cloud storage firm Dropbox explained that users who had not changed their passwords prior to mid-2012 would be prompted to do so the next time they logged in “purely as a preventative measure.” On August 30, a report from Motherboard led with the headline: “Hackers stole account details from over 60 million Dropbox users.”
A day later, the company confirmed the password reset measures put in place had prevented any hacking of user data. “This is not a new security incident, and there is no indication that Dropbox user accounts have been improperly accessed,” said head of trust and security Patrick Heim in a statement. “We can confirm that the scope of the password reset we completed last week did protect all impacted users. Even if these passwords are cracked, the password reset means they can’t be used to access Dropbox accounts.”
Read more: Dropbox says password reset measures have worked following leak revelations (August)
Below various experts and CloudTech contributors give their views on how the cloud industry will develop in 2017:
Matthew Finnie, CTO, Interoute: cloud and digital transformation programmes will continue to drive new IT spend, while the skills shortage becomes the biggest barrier to success
“While some commentators expect 2017 to be flat on IT spending overall, we expect to see IT increase its spend on cloud and digital transformation. In particular, we’ll see investment in emerging integrated digital platforms that enable a business to move faster, deploy resources quicker and exploit new market opportunities.
“Lack of in-house skills in key areas will start to have a negative impact on the IT team’s ability to achieve its goals. Enterprises will need to look for skilled partners to support data centre migrations and development projects and manage IT systems and infrastructure. Partner management and strategic relationships will become the key to competitive success.”
James Butler, CTO, Trustmarque: ‘software defined’ continues to gain momentum while GDPR will make firms look over their shoulders
“The race to ‘software defined’ will continue apace, as most of the major storage vendors integrate their stacks to the larger cloud players, in an attempt to maintain their customer base in a changing world. Meanwhile, startups and other players will be jumping on the bandwagons of AWS and Azure, looking to solve new problems customers face around data synchronisation and management in the cloud.
“With GDPR on the horizon in the EU, everyone will be a lot more focused on data protection and risk management, which may finally drive more widespread adoption of encryption and rights management technologies.”
John Engates, CTO, Rackspace: 2017 will be the year of serverless architecture, and implications for the IoT
“Serverless computing is making developers’ lives easier, and if what I’m seeing and hearing holds true, 2017 is the year it will really take off.
“Serverless, of course, is a misnomer. There will always be servers; serverless architecture refers to applications that depend on third party services (backend as a service) or custom code (function as a service) – AWS Lambda being the most popular vendor host today. What serverless really means is that developers no longer have to worry about infrastructure. And as those barriers to IoT entry continue to fall, we’ll continue to see new players and their devices muscle into what appears to be an almost limitless potential market.”
Jeff Denworth, SVP, CTERA Networks: prepare for a ransomware nightmare this year – but on the flip side, blockchain is on the rise
“Ransomware will not be stopped and [will] only get more sophisticated. Estimated ransomware payments will exceed $2 billion globally and there will be a series of public outages that spur investment into new approaches to counter ransomware. In addition, at least one major business cloud SaaS service will not only experience a breach of user credentials, but there will also be [a] significant data breach announced.
“In 2017 data infrastructure (and its modernisation) will become a new industry category thanks to Gartner. EFSS will begin to die as a primary market category. Customers will look for broader solutions that tie together on-premises and cloud-based files as well as associated device backups. Moreover, the move to a consolidated platform enables the elimination of silos of disconnected and ‘dark’ data and ‘data infrastructure modernisation’ will further enable IT governance and unified security initiatives.”
Do you agree with the top stories for 2016 and the predictions for 2017? Let us know in the comments…
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2016 was an interesting year in cloud computing. For the European market, data protection regulation came into force, while many of the major cloud providers began to move their operations into and build data centres in Europe, from AWS, to Microsoft, to IBM. Regarding acquisitions, Oracle bought NetSuite, Microsoft bought LinkedIn and Samsung acquired Joyent, while in terms of trends, DevOps, containers and security continued to be the primary talking points.
Here is our short review of the main stories from the more than 400 that went live on CloudTech last year:
AWS celebrates its 10th birthday. On March 14 2006, a press release went out on the wire from Amazon announcing “a simple storage service that offers software developers a highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs.” Thus AWS was born, and a decade on the company enjoys significant market share leadership in the IaaS space.
According to industry figures from Synergy Research, AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and Google continue to grow quicker than the rest of the cloud infrastructure space, with the four leading players owning more than half of the market.
Read more: AWS turns 10: A dominant market share, but does that tell the full story? (March)
GDPR hits. On April 27 last year, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was officially adopted, giving businesses two years – or until May 25 2018, to be precise – to get their house in order. Under the new laws users will have rights including the right to be forgotten, to transfer their data to another service provider, as well as the right to learn when they have been hacked. Businesses who do not comply could face fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover as a result.
Read more: A five step crisis plan to prepare for the pending data protection legislation (February)
Oracle acquires NetSuite. One of the biggest deals of the year came in July, when Oracle announced its intent to acquire cloud ERP software provider NetSuite for $9.3 billion, represented the latest cloud push from the software giant. While not all shareholders were in agreement initially, the deal was eventually completed in November, with the two companies saying in an FAQ at the time: “Oracle and NetSuite cloud applications are complementary and will co-exist in the marketplace forever.”
Read more: Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3bn to further strengthen its cloud story (July)
Rackspace goes private. Managed cloud services provider Rackspace was acquired by private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $4.3 billion in the summer. CEO Taylor Rhodes said the deal would allow the firm to “seize the big opportunity that we face as the world’s #1 managed cloud company.”
In its most recent financial results before the takeover, Rhodes noted a highlight was almost 300 customers gained on its AWS service over the past nine months, but warned that IT spending growth would “almost certainly” be negative in 2017.
“The next 24 months is going to be key to Rackspace to reposition itself in the lucrative cloud and IoT markets,” Ian Moyse, cloud industry leader, told this publication at the time.
Read more: Rackspace goes private with $4.3bn Apollo Global transaction (August)
Dropbox security scare. On August 25, a blog post from cloud storage firm Dropbox explained that users who had not changed their passwords prior to mid-2012 would be prompted to do so the next time they logged in “purely as a preventative measure.” On August 30, a report from Motherboard led with the headline: “Hackers stole account details from over 60 million Dropbox users.”
A day later, the company confirmed the password reset measures put in place had prevented any hacking of user data. “This is not a new security incident, and there is no indication that Dropbox user accounts have been improperly accessed,” said head of trust and security Patrick Heim in a statement. “We can confirm that the scope of the password reset we completed last week did protect all impacted users. Even if these passwords are cracked, the password reset means they can’t be used to access Dropbox accounts.”
Read more: Dropbox says password reset measures have worked following leak revelations (August)
Below various experts and CloudTech contributors give their views on how the cloud industry will develop in 2017:
Matthew Finnie, CTO, Interoute: cloud and digital transformation programmes will continue to drive new IT spend, while the skills shortage becomes the biggest barrier to success
“While some commentators expect 2017 to be flat on IT spending overall, we expect to see IT increase its spend on cloud and digital transformation. In particular, we’ll see investment in emerging integrated digital platforms that enable a business to move faster, deploy resources quicker and exploit new market opportunities.
“Lack of in-house skills in key areas will start to have a negative impact on the IT team’s ability to achieve its goals. Enterprises will need to look for skilled partners to support data centre migrations and development projects and manage IT systems and infrastructure. Partner management and strategic relationships will become the key to competitive success.”
James Butler, CTO, Trustmarque: ‘software defined’ continues to gain momentum while GDPR will make firms look over their shoulders
“The race to ‘software defined’ will continue apace, as most of the major storage vendors integrate their stacks to the larger cloud players, in an attempt to maintain their customer base in a changing world. Meanwhile, startups and other players will be jumping on the bandwagons of AWS and Azure, looking to solve new problems customers face around data synchronisation and management in the cloud.
“With GDPR on the horizon in the EU, everyone will be a lot more focused on data protection and risk management, which may finally drive more widespread adoption of encryption and rights management technologies.”
John Engates, CTO, Rackspace: 2017 will be the year of serverless architecture, and implications for the IoT
“Serverless computing is making developers’ lives easier, and if what I’m seeing and hearing holds true, 2017 is the year it will really take off.
“Serverless, of course, is a misnomer. There will always be servers; serverless architecture refers to applications that depend on third party services (backend as a service) or custom code (function as a service) – AWS Lambda being the most popular vendor host today. What serverless really means is that developers no longer have to worry about infrastructure. And as those barriers to IoT entry continue to fall, we’ll continue to see new players and their devices muscle into what appears to be an almost limitless potential market.”
Jeff Denworth, SVP, CTERA Networks: prepare for a ransomware nightmare this year – but on the flip side, blockchain is on the rise
“Ransomware will not be stopped and [will] only get more sophisticated. Estimated ransomware payments will exceed $2 billion globally and there will be a series of public outages that spur investment into new approaches to counter ransomware. In addition, at least one major business cloud SaaS service will not only experience a breach of user credentials, but there will also be [a] significant data breach announced.
“In 2017 data infrastructure (and its modernisation) will become a new industry category thanks to Gartner. EFSS will begin to die as a primary market category. Customers will look for broader solutions that tie together on-premises and cloud-based files as well as associated device backups. Moreover, the move to a consolidated platform enables the elimination of silos of disconnected and ‘dark’ data and ‘data infrastructure modernisation’ will further enable IT governance and unified security initiatives.”
Do you agree with the top stories for 2016 and the predictions for 2017? Let us know in the comments…
The best problem solver avoids being reactive. Instead, the goal is to remain proactive and ahead of a potential problem. This is where preventative maintenance software plays a substantial role.
The primary benefit is being able to nip a problem in the bud as the saying goes. Instead of letting a problem fester and simmer, it’s better to get rid of it early. This is possible with a preventative solution, which can spot what is going on and alerts the owner. Many problems are okay until things fall apart and the system fails. Instead of letting this happen, it’s better to focus on the right preventative maintenance software.
IMHO there is no doubt that cloud and object storage are in your future, what are some questions?
Granted, what type of cloud and object storage or service along with for work or entertainment are some questions.
Likewise, what are your cloud and object storage concerns (assuming you already have heard the benefits)?
Some other questions include when, where for different applications workload needs, as well as how and with what among others.
Keep in mind that there are many aspects to cloud storage and they are not all object, likewise, there are many facets to object storage.
Like other industries did before it, retail banking is riding a bucking bronco of digital transformation. While customer satisfaction levels drop and government rules and regulations continue to expand, retail banking seeks new ways to adapt to the massive changes in how consumers interact and use financial products and services.
However, unlike other industries such as book publishing that have been rocked by the tsunami of digital changes in the marketplace, companies in the banking sector also have to comply with extensive regulations intended to protect consumers. In confronting this new landscape, banks are looking at better ways to use their existing data in real-time to improve customer experience and loyalty, comply with a growing number of government rules and privacy laws, and consolidate disparate IT systems in their current infrastructure. Banks must provide a seamless experience for customers no matter which product or service they choose.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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The healthcare industry is not immune from today’s relentless wave of cyberattacks. Cyber theft of protected health information (PHI) is on the rise, and health organizations understand that 100 percent prevention of attacks is not realistic.
According to Ponemon Institute’s Sixth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data report, nearly 90 percent of all healthcare organizations have suffered at least one data breach in the last two years. According to another report, 88 percent of ransomware attacks in Q2 2016 were on healthcare entities.