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Josh Berman is president of C2C, an independent and vetted Google Cloud community with a unique pulse on the cloud market.

The past two years have been exciting periods of growth for the cloud market, driven by increased demand for access to new technology during COVID-19 and the proliferation of the work-from-anywhere culture. IT leaders worked to shift workloads to the cloud to ensure business continuity for the remote workforce, leading to skyrocketing adoption of cloud computing. This momentum is expected to pick up in 2022 and beyond.

For many businesses, the pandemic accelerated their digital transformation plans by months, or even years. Reliance on cloud infrastructure will only continue to grow as organizations adjust to the hybrid work model. Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020.

As we start the new year, C2C, an independent Google Cloud community, has identified six cloud computing trends to watch in 2022.

The pandemic inspired a new generation of entrepreneurs. Whether out of necessity from mass layoffs, a desire for a more flexible lifestyle, or finding the inspiration to finally pursue a passion, millions have started their own ventures.

As their businesses grow and digitize, entrepreneurs across industries are embracing the cloud and adopting technologies like machine learning and data analytics to optimize business performance, save time and cut expenses. There are countless benefits to small businesses and startups. For one, the cloud makes data accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, enabling the seamless collaboration necessary in a hybrid work environment. Without having to spend on expensive hardware and software, entrepreneurs can invest in other areas as they scale their businesses.

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6 cloud trends to watch in 2022 - TechCrunch

Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --FinancialNewsMedia.com News Commentary - Cloud computing increases real-time data collection and improves accessibility to the data. It has outpaced the conventional paper healthcare system by providing more speed and efficiency in data handling. For instance, cloud computing technology is widely used in remote patient monitoring. Rising demand for stringent regulatory compliance, public awareness, and growing investment from healthcare players such as Cisco, IBM, GE Healthcare, and government organizations are expected to create a demand for this technique during the analysis period.The proliferation of high-speed internet and implementation of favorable regulatory acts are also expected to provide growth to the market. A report from Global Market Insights projected that the Healthcare Cloud Computing Marketsize was valued over USD 29 billion in 2020 and is expected to witness around 13.4% CAGR from 2021 to 2027. The report said: "Rising adoption of digital technologies among healthcare professionals is projected to drive the market growth. Escalating patient population suffering through various diseases leads to higher demand for efficient data management tools. Healthcare cloud computing offers easy access to patient information through secured networks, thus eliminating the data privacy concerns. Therefore, increasing acceptance of these technologies encourages safer data sharing and remote collaborations enabling broader treatment accessibility. Similarly, shift of healthcare industry toward information-centric model enables efficient information sharing and streamlined collaborative workflows. Benefits such as IoT support, data automation and storage that streamline treatment process creates tremendous growth opportunities for cloud computing solutions in healthcare market." Active Companies in the markets today include Healthcare Triangle Inc. (NASDAQ: HCTI), Phreesia, Inc (NYSE: PHR), INOVIO (NASDAQ: INO), Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.(NASDAQ: TRHC), Health Catalyst, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCAT).

Global Market Insights concluded: "The private cloud segment in the healthcare cloud computing market is estimated to attain a CAGR of 13.5% through 2027. Private cloud enables direct control over stored data in cloud to healthcare staff, thus allowing them to deploy own applications and also provides adherence to compliance issues. Also, various factors such as better control on computation, patient data and infrastructure further stimulate the market revenue. Developing IT infrastructure in emerging countries, and rising necessity to implement healthcare ITtools in healthcare settings will positively impact the market value Growing acceptance of digital health services will offer significant the market expansion opportunities."

Healthcare Triangle Inc. (NASDAQ: HCTI) BREAKING NEWS: Healthcare Triangle, Inc. Releases Shareholder Update - Healthcare Triangle Inc. ("HCTI" or the "Company"), a leading provider of cloud and data transformation platform and solutions for healthcare and life sciences, today released a shareholder update:

Dear Shareholders: Thank you for your continued commitment and investment in Healthcare Triangle, Inc . Our progress over the past year would not have been possible without your trust and belief in our mission. This is our first shareholder update since our Oct 2021 IPO and it has been a momentous journey and unique in every sense. We work alongside our customers and partners to help them build their own digital capability, creating new businesses, and earn their trust. I am very proud of how we are are using our platforms to help organizations innovate and deliver technology initiatives on the Cloud.

Your Company - Healthcare Triangle ("HCTI") is a healthcare IT provider that delivers personalized healthcare, accelerates drug research, and supports digital transformation through proprietary technology platforms. HCTI is a well-recognized provider of cloud infrastructure migration, AI, data analytics, security & compliance and cloud managed services to Healthcare and Life Sciences customers. Our multi-cloud technology transformation platform CloudEz, data analytics platform DataEz, AI based platform Readabl.AI, and our Cloud EHR Managed Services have been at the forefront of our customer service offering and are leading to deeper partnerships, larger and multiyear cloud engagements. HCTI was recognized as one of the top 100 premier partners of Amazon Web Services, which is a Global community comprising of over 100,000 partners. The company also achieved Premier Partner status with Google Cloud in 2021.

Fiscal Year 2021 was a pivotal year for HCTI. We are focused on becoming one of the top 10 US healthcare IT providers by revenue by 2025. This impacts how we run the company, what investments we commit towards this vision and how we take our platform and services to the market. We recently hired a CRO with strong experience in the Healthcare and Life Sciences market to help us achieve this goal by building a world class sales team.

Strategic acquisition DevCool Inc - We firmly believe that an expedited way to drive revenue and expand our offerings is by acquiring profitable strategic assets. We recently announced the acquisition of DevCool Inc, an EPIC EHR Implementation and Managed Services company servicing 6 of the top 10 hospitals in the USA. DevCool also specializes in providing healthcare IT services to cancer research hospitals and university medical centres. DevCool generated approximately $20 million in revenues in fiscal year 2020 and has generated consistent top line growth over the past 4-6 quarters and is expected to be EBITDA accretive to HCTI. The combined entity will focus on accelerating healthcare providers' adoption of cloud technologies to improve clinical, operational, and financial performance. The acquisition also opens opportunities to upsell our SaaS Platforms like CloudEz, DataEz, and Readabl.AI to DevCool's existing client base. CONTINUEDRead this full release for Healthcare Triangle at: https://www.healthcaretriangle.com/investors/

Other recent developments in the markets include:

INOVIO (NASDAQ: INO) recently announced updates on the Phase 3 program for VGX-3100 for HPV-associated cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), including a one-year follow-up of efficacy and safety data in participants from REVEAL1, completing enrollment in REVEAL2, and advancing its pre-treatment biomarker candidate for VGX-3100 to be further developed with QIAGEN. In addition, INOVIO's development partner withinGreater China(mainlandChina,Hong Kong,Macao,Taiwan), ApolloBio Corp. ("ApolloBio"), dosed the first participant in a separate Phase 3 trial inChina.

Dr. J.Joseph Kim, President and CEO of INOVIO, said, "We are making strong progress in developing INOVIO's immunotherapies treating HPV-associated cervical HSIL. Left untreated, cervical HSIL may progress to cancer. VGX-3100 has the potential to be the first approved immunotherapy and non-surgical alternative for women with cervical HSIL and we look forward to advancing our efforts from our Phase 3 studies through commercialization."

Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.(NASDAQ: TRHC),a leading healthcare technology company advancing the safe use of medications, recently announced a five-year contract renewal with Evernorth, a premier health services business that connects and coordinates innovative and flexible solutions for health plans, employers, and government programs, to expand use of TRHC's Medication Therapy Management (MTM) programs and other clinical services.

Evernorth renews contract and expands use of TRHC's Medication Therapy Management programs and other clinical services. The new agreement expands upon THRC's previous 10 year relationship with Express Scripts PBM, which is part of the Evernorth portfolio.

"We are thrilled to extend our long-term relationship with Evernorth, helping them to advance the safe use of medication among their customers," said TRHC Chairman and CEO,Calvin H. Knowlton, PhD.

Health Catalyst, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCAT), a leading provider of data, analytics and technology services to healthcare and life sciences organizations, and Datavant, the leader in helping organizations securely connect health data, recently announced a strategic partnership to improve research and care delivery with connected health data.

The partnership between Datavant and Health Catalyst will enable life sciences and healthcare organizations to exchange tokenized, de-identified data within the recently announced Health Catalyst Research Network and Health Catalyst Touchstone Match. "Tremendous waste occurs from failing to recruit patients truly eligible for trials. Improved collaboration through connected healthcare data during the clinical trial process can help solve this problem and increase the potential for new discoveries and treatments for patients," saidSadiqa Mahmood, General Manager & Senior Vice President, Life Sciences Business, at Health Catalyst.

Phreesia, Inc.(NYSE: PHR) recently announced it has acquired Insignia Health, LLC, a founder-led and mission-oriented company dedicated to improving health outcomes through patient activation. The acquisition is a natural extension of Phreesia's commitment to enabling patients to become more active participants in their care.

"Phreesia's core strength is putting tools in the hands of patients to take on tasksfrom self-reporting data like social determinants of health to making payments to signing consent formsthat they can do better than anyone else, and that align with the convenient digital experience they want," said Phreesia's CEO Chaim Indig. "We've long admired Insignia's expertise in understanding and activating patients, and we believe this acquisition will help us deliver on our mission to create a better, more engaging healthcare experience."

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Growing Acceptance Of Digital Health Services is a Huge Boon for Healthcare Cloud Computing Market - PRNewswire

Managing security for cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications or for your own applications in the cloud is placing different, more complex demands on cybersecurity teams. While cybersecurity skills remain in short supply, the availability of people with both cloud and on-premises security skills is even more constrained, particularly for small to midsize organizations.

With the rise of popular SaaS applications like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Box, and Zoom, your IT team needs to understand what security components you are responsible for with each SaaS provider you use. The same holds true for enterprise resource planning, HR, and other applications when you move them to cloud infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Why is this important? Because any cloud environment, SaaS or otherwise, becomes part of your total attack surface, and misconfiguration of cloud resources remains a leading cause of data leakage.

Introducing Shared ResponsibilityCloud providers, both SaaS and infrastructure providers, have made very clear what they are responsible for in the way of security. According to the Center for Internet Security, a SaaS provider is solely responsible for physical security, host infrastructure security, and network controls. However, for application-level controls, identity and access management, and endpoint protection, the provider and the customer share security responsibility. That's where the confusion and the need for cloud security expertise comes into play.

Consider, for example, securing Microsoft 365 SaaS applications, which are mission critical. Microsofthas published where its responsibilities lie. It falls to you, the customer, to configure user and device access; monitor user, application, and data behavior; and respond to incidents. This includes the actions of partners that access your data or apps in the public cloud.

Plus, whether in the cloud or on-premises, your email users remain a leading source of risk from human error. From their PCs, laptops, and mobile devices, they can still click on a malicious link or open an attachment and introduce malware to that endpoint.

This is where we are seeing a shift in what happens next. Once hackers penetrate the endpoint, they are no longer content to pivot sideways on the network to penetrate on-premises resources. Instead, they move through the endpoint to the cloud to access your data, which is often lower-hanging fruit.

Securing Workloads in the CloudCOVID-19 has accelerated the migration of traditionally on-premises applications and workloads to cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), where the configuration of cloud resources such as storage and databases can be even more complex.

One of our healthcare customers, for example, was primarily operating on-premises at its own HIPAA-compliant data center. Due to COVID-19, the company had to quickly migrate its practitioner workplace environment from PCs and laptops to tablets that could be used for at-home patient care. This also meant moving data to the cloud to make it accessible from anywhere. It quickly found that configuring cloud infrastructure and storage required skills it did not have in-house, creating a potential cybersecurity and compliance gap.

What's different in the shared responsibility model in this example? For companies using IaaS to run applications on cloud servers and place data into cloud storage, the cloud provider is wholly responsible only for physical host, network, and data center security. Everything else is your responsibility. That includes application-level controls, identity and access management, client and endpoint protection, and data classification and accountability. Responsibilities for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings such as Windows Azure fall in between IaaS and SaaS.

Options for Acquiring Cloud Security Skills The primary takeaway is that whether you are using Microsoft 365, running your Windows applications on Windows Azure, replicating enterprise data to a cloud data lake, or running custom enterprise applications on bare metal servers, you are responsible for the security of your data. What's more, any security breaches in the cloud can put your remaining on-premises resources at risk.

While cloud offerings are not new, expertise on cloud computing and specifically cloud security is hard to come by. Industry reports indicate that demand for cloud security skills is second only to demand for application security expertise. Businesses of all sizes, including small and midsize organizations, cannot afford to neglect cloud security when moving workloads and data away from on-premises resources.

Even though cloud security skills are in short supply, companies can grow their own skills through training existing in-house staff. Alternately, they face hiring cloud experts in today's highly competitive salary and recruitment environment. By offering remote work arrangements, companies can extend their reach and hire from anywhere, making it easier to acquire the skilled workers they need.

Whatever your approach, evaluate your cloud security posture and cloud cybersecurity skills gap. Your data security depends on it.

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Cloud Adoption Widens the Cybersecurity Skills Gap - DARKReading

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Ericom Software, a leading provider of Zero Trust cloud cybersecurity solutions and developer of the ZTEdge SASE Platform, announced that its cloud-delivered security solutions are experiencing increased demand in the Japanese market. New customers are showing a strong preference for cloud-delivered Ericom security and remote access solution offerings, and a significant number of longstanding Ericom customers have elected to migrate to cloud-delivered versions of their on-premises solutions.

The move to Ericom's cloud-based options aligns with broader cloud service growth trends in the Japanese market, where, according to market studies, nearly 70% of enterprises have begun to adopt cloud services.1 By September 2020, 39% of enterprises had cloud computing services fully implemented throughout their operations and an additional 29+% had begun implementation in some offices and/or departments.

"Demand for cloud services in Japan is accelerating rapidly, driven by digital transformation initiatives and the need to support our increasingly remote workforce," said Hidekazu Takagi, Division Senior Manager, Access Infrastructure Technical Division of K.K. Ashisuto, Ericom's distribution partner in Japan. "Organizations are turning to cloud-delivered Zero Trust security like the flexible, modular Ericom RBI platform to protect their digital transformation programs from cyberthreats like ransomware, phishing attacks, and credential theft."

Contributing to the growth in cloud-delivered solutions is the increasing adoption of Zero Trust security solutions, many of which, like Ericom Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) and the ZTEdge SASE platform, are primarily cloud-based. Ericom Zero Trust security experts Dr. Chase Cunningham, Chief Strategy Officer, a former Forrester Research Zero Trust Security analyst, and Nick Kael, Ericom CTO, have been actively working with K.K. Ashisuto to introduce its customers and partners to the Zero Trust approach, discuss its applicability to the current cyber threat landscape, and help plan their transition to Zero Trust.

Enterprise demand for managed services for cloud environments is also exceptionally strong in Japan, with Gartner forecasting spending to reach $6.19 billion by 2024.2 Ericom RBI makes it easy for MSPs and MSSPs to provide organizations with cost-effective cloud-delivered web isolation services that protect users regardless of whether they are working in company offices or remotely. Ericom and K.K. Ashisuto are working with a number of MSPs and MSSPs to help them benefit from projected managed security services growth in this area as well as others.

"Ericom is proud to be a trusted brand in Japan, thanks to our excellent solutions and the expertise of our partner, K.K. Ashisuto, in bringing those solutions to security-forward organizations in Japan," said David Canellos, Ericom CEO. "We are especially pleased to see the growth in adoption and pipeline for our cloud-delivered solutions in Japan, the 3rd largest cybersecurity market in the world. Almost two years into the Covid pandemic, organizations are more distributed than ever before, and they are now accelerating adoption of Zero Trust security to protect their new work environments. I am extremely optimistic about continued strong growth for Ericom solutions in 2022 in Japan."

To learn more about Ericom secure access solutions and the ZTEdge SASE platform, visit the Ericom and ZTEdge websites, or contact K.K. Ashisuto at cv_info@ashisuto.co.jp to arrange a demonstration.

About Ericom Software and the ZTEdge Cloud Security Platform

Ericom Software is a leading provider of cloud-delivered, Zero Trust cybersecurity solutions that protect today's digitally distributed organizations from advanced security threats. The company's ZTEdge platform is the industry's leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution developed specifically for midsize enterprises and small businesses. Ericom solutions leverage innovative remote browser isolation, application isolation, microsegmentation, and virtualization technologies, and are delivered on the Ericom Global Cloud, a distributed high-availability elastic cloud platform. Ericom's cybersecurity solutions protect thousands of businesses and millions of end users worldwide. The company has offices around the world and a global network of MSPs, distributors, resellers and technology partners.

1 Statistica Research: Share of business enterprises which use cloud computing services in Japan 2 Gartner: Key Actions Tech CEOs of Local and Regional Cloud MSPs Can Take in the Asia/Pacific Market; 10/27/2020

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Ericom Sees Significant Growth in Adoption of its Cloud-based Zero Trust Security Solutions in Japan - WFMZ Allentown

An IT company used by the Government to handle sensitive NHS and military data has been taken over, months after civil servants were told to prepare for its collapse.

UKClouds rescue comes amid concerns that the public sector has become over-reliant on Amazons giant cloud computing arm, which has been awarded hundreds of millions of pounds in taxpayer contracts.

UKCloud, which last year warned that it needed a cash injection of 30m to keep operating, has been taken over by an investment vehicle led by its chairman Jeff Thomas.

The company said the deal would help boost confidence among taxpayer-funded customers, after the Cabinet Office told them to make contingency plans.

UKCloud, based in Farnborough, provides cloud computing services such as data storage and processing to central government, defence and the NHS. It is seen as a UK-based alternative to the US giants of Amazon, Microsoft and Google, ensuring that data is stored in Britain and could not be transferred abroad.

However, it warned last year that it needed further investment to keep operating and to pay taxes and debt. UKCloud recorded a 17.9m loss in 2020 and appointed advisers to secure new investment.

Mr Thomas, the founder of data centre company Ark, has acquired a majority stake in UKCloud through his investment company Hadston 2. Existing investors, the venture capital firm BGF and US investor Digital Alpha, have also put more money in.

The company did not reveal a price, although it is believed to be around the 30m needed to keep operating and fund its investments.

Simon Hansford, the companys chief executive, said the company planned to expand into the Middle East, seeking contracts with governments that wanted data to be stored domestically.

Mr Hansford said there was a disproportionate amount of money that is being spent on a single hyperscaler, referring to Amazon.

You want a vibrant British tech industry, we are the people that are spending money in the UK, creating jobs, social value. I'm employing and paying taxes and my staff are paying their money here. That's not the case necessarily with one of the big American[companies].

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British cloud computing company used by Government rescued from collapse - Telegraph.co.uk

For businesses in any sector, weathering the disruption of the last couple of years has meant investing in technology. This is particularly true in the life sciences, where weve witnessed accelerated adoption of different types of technology that hold the ability to unlock some of the greatest challenges our industry is wrestling with. But its not just about new apps, more artificial intelligence or cloud computing. The very experiments and processes that take a drug from concept to patient-ready are in the process of being transformed. The initiatives that have begun as a response to COVID could produce dramatic changes to how we do science, and how we bring the products of that science to the world.

There are three areas in particular where the potential for transformation is huge, and where we are observing substantial shifts.

Cloud labs will be transformative for the biosciences, enabling scientists to effortlessly collaborate and run hugely powerful experiments from wherever they are. COVID has initiated a new drive towards the cloud, and significant progress will be made towards the cloud lab vision in 2022.

Keeping labs operational is critical. This has been shown to dramatic effect across the industry as critical projects have been delayed by COVID. Solutions to ensure the resiliency of critical R&D labs to this and future crises have become paramount. As a result, weve seen a resurgence of interest in the last 24 months in cloud labs, because they can offer resiliency that doesnt require everyone to be in the lab simultaneously.

This is quite different to previous drives toward the cloud-lab model, which primarily focussed on their enablement of lab work without the need for highly costly labs and equipment, analogous to cloud computing. In this new focus, cloud labs could be either external enabling the efficient outsourcing of lab work or internal enabling resilient access to internal capacity for running experiments.

The question remains whether, after many years of hype, the cloud labs time is now? We believe its day is coming, with the adoption of disruptive digital tools moving more of the experimental process into the cloud. Contract research and development organizations,in particular, are in a great position to digitize and use the hardware assets they already have to help make the cloud lab a reality as a natural extension of their existing business models.

The response to COVID highlighted the importance of our global biomanufacturing capacity. This, combined with the explosion of therapeutic modalities in recent years, has opened up massive opportunities for contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs), both in overall demand, and in specific niches. New CDMOs are looking to technology as a differentiating factor, employing automation and cloud technologies as never before.

It's well recognised that we need a large amount of flexible manufacturing capacity to respond to this pandemic, and to whatever nature throws at us next. And this need is likely to increase over time, as biotechnology continues to step up to the world's biggest problems. A multitude of established pharma and dynamically growing, diverse biotechs are looking to CDMOs to provide or augment their manufacturing capabilities.

This has prompted a huge flurry of announcements of capacity increases by existing CDMOs, and the formation of many new CDMOs that are looking to establish themselves in specific niches. Its these new CDMOs, unencumbered by legacy technologies, who are seizing the opportunity to build out their operations with a radically different direction, with cloud technology and automation transforming how they can run projects and connect those projects with their clients.

Scientists will increasingly employ more effective experimental designs. Combined with modern cloud and automation technologies, this will result in a dramatic increase in the rate of biological discovery.

Experiments have always been expensive, and the logistics for assembling all the necessary reagents, cell lines and consumables slow. Perhaps its the extended timelines and greater expense imposed by COVID-related supply chain issues that is driving scientists to look at how they could get more bang for their experimental buck. Whatever the reason, were observing a dramatic increase in interest in being able to perform hugely powerful, multifactorial experiments.This is hugely exciting for a number of reasons.

Firstly, these experiments are able to cut through biological complexity and give transformative insight, unparalleled by more common experimental approaches. But perhaps more importantly for the future, it marks a shift to a way of working where building models of the systems involved is the norm.It points the way towards a future of much more systematic experimental methodologies, supported by automation andmachine learning, that will drive a transformative step-change in the already rapid rate of bioscience progress.

COVID-19 has simultaneously shown the power of nature and the depth of the scientific and technological resources that humanity can bring to bear on a pandemic. But it has also emphasized to many of us the imperative for continued innovation in how we do our science, catalyzing a shift to more powerful tools and methodologies. If one of the legacies from this pandemic is that resulting changes to industry can stop the next one in its tracks, that would be a true victory for the power of human ingenuity.

Markus Gershater is co-founder and chief scientific officer at Synthace

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Biosciences in 2022: Bioscience Reaps Benefits From the Cloud - Technology Networks

BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- inovTI, a leading Managed Service Provider based in Sao Paulo, and premier cloud management platform provider Abiquo have signed a deal to collaborate in a strategic project to enhance inovTI's cloud technology and services, ensuring the success of their customers with different services that include hybrid cloud (with Azure) and self-service access for their clients.

inovTI has been in the cloud and datacenter business for over 20 years and has popular products and services such as datacenters, VMware-based private cloud, delivery of managed cloud services, backup and disaster recovery, outsourcing, licensing and IT automation, serving more than 150 clients with managed and trusted infrastructure.

inovTI and Abiquo have started a strategic partnership to bring inovTI's multicloud services to the next level, offering a wider range of services as well as an exceptional technology, including hybrid cloud (with Azure) and self-service access for inovTI's clients. The project will make it possible, for all businesses, to encompass different types of environments and technologies in the same platform, allowing management of all the cloud resources needed to face any challenges in the market.

"We're pleased to announce our new partnership," said Xavier Fernndez, CEO of Abiquo. "inovTI has an exceptional track record of helping businesses make their journey to the cloud relying on their extensive technical experience. That, added to their solid background working with cloud technologies and datacenters, make them a great partner for Abiquo to optimize and expand their cloud infrastructure with efficient implementation and support."

"After reviewing several alternatives we have decided to commit to Abiquo as our long-term CMP solution due to its large experience helping MSPs reach their business goals. We will be able to offer our customers a greater way to manage their cloud costs and resources as well as improving our technology assets.'' - said Diego Guedes, Head of Architecture at inovTI.

About inovTI

inovTI is a leading managed services provider in Latin America that works with the main brands in the market to offer a wide range of solutions to cover the most diverse needs in the market, always available for the challenges posed by customers.

inovTI counts on the best in technology and innovation to serve all businesses.

About Abiquo

Founded in 2006 with headquarters in Barcelona, Abiquo is a leading developer of Hybrid and Multicloud Management solutions.

Abiquo is a Cloud Management software that offers the unique ability to manage both public and private clouds through one portal.

Companies can easily and rapidly deploy, manage, monitor and control applications across public and private clouds, which will lead businesses to optimize and integrate cloud computing resources to become more agile, scale, obtain cost savings and gain competitive advantage.

Abiquo increases agility, simplifies operations and reduces costs for managing hybrid cloud via a unified platform that increases productivity and provides control.

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inovTI selects Abiquo to improve their multicloud offering in Latin America - PRNewswire

Mumbai: Google on Monday announced plans to open a new office in Pune this year, that will hire professionals for building advanced enterprise cloud technologies.

Expected to open in the second half this year, the facility will hire people for Cloud product engineering, technical support and global delivery centre organisations.

The company said it has kicked off recruitments, alongside rapidly growing teams in Gurugram, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

As an IT hub, our expansion into Pune will enable us to tap top talent as we continue to develop advanced cloud computing solutions, products and services for our growing customer base, said Anil Bhansali, VP of Cloud Engineering in India.

The hires will be responsible for building advanced enterprise cloud technologies in collaboration with Google Clouds global engineering teams, providing real-time technical advice, and delivering product and implementation expertise that customers turn to Google Cloud for as their trusted partner.

Google Cloud has hired some key industry people in recent months in India, including former AWS veteran Bikram Singh Bedi as Managing Director, Google Cloud India.

In November last year, the company hired senior IBM executive Subram Natarajan as Director of Customer Engineering for its India operations.

Google last year opened it second Cloud region in the country in Delhi-NCR and close to the government quarters to further serve businesses of all sizes especially the public sector.

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Google Cloud to open new India office later this year - The Siasat Daily

In classic UC San Diego fashion, an overheard conversation at a campus coffee cart has turned into an interdisciplinary project that's making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over $1 million dollars so far. The effort gives UC San Diego graduate and undergraduate studentsand their professorsbetter hardware and software ecosystems for exploring real-world, data-intensive and computing-intensive projects and problems in their courses.

Larry Smarr, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

It all started while UC San Diego computer science and engineering professor Larry Smarr was waiting for coffee in the "Bear" courtyard at the Jacobs School of Engineering a little more than three years ago. While standing in line, Smarr overheard a student say, "I can't get a job interview if I haven't run TensorFlow on a GPU on a real problem."

While this one student's conundrum may sound extremely technical and highly specific, Smarr heard a general need; and he saw an opportunity. In particular, Smarr realized that innovations coming out of a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research project he leadsthe Pacific Research Platform (PRP)could be leveraged to create better computing infrastructure for university courses that rely heavily on machine learning, data visualizations, and other topics that require significant computer resources. This infrastructure would make it easier for professors to offer courses that challenge students to solve real-world data- and computation-intensive problems, including things like what he heard at the coffee cart: running TensorFlow on a GPU on a real problem.

Fast forward to 2022, and Smarr's spark of an idea has grown into a cross-campus collaboration called the UC San Diego Data Science/Machine Learning Platform or the UC San Diego JupyterHub. Through this platform, the inexpensive, high-performance computational building blocks combining hardware and software that Smarr and his PRP collaborators designed for use in computation-intensive research across the country are now also the backbone of dynamic computing ecosystems for UC San Diego students and professors who use machine learning, data visualization, and other computing- and data-intensive tools in their courses. The platform has been widely used in every division on campus, including with courses taught in biological sciences, cognitive science, computer science, data science, engineering, health sciences, marine sciences, medicine, music, physical sciences, public health and more.

Xuan Zhang (UC San Diego Chemistry PhD, '21) is one of the tens of thousands of UC San Diego students and young researchers who has used the UC San Diego Data Science/Machine Learning Platform extensively in courses.

It's a unique, collaborative project that leverages federally funded computing research innovations for classroom use. To make the jump from research to classroom applications, a creative and hardworking interdisciplinary team at UC San Diego came together. UC San Diego's IT Services / Academic Technology Services stepped up in a big way. Senior architect Adam Tilghman and chief programmer David Andersen led the implementation effort, with leadership and funding support from UC San Diego CIO Vince Kellen and Academic Technology Senior Director Valerie Polichar. The project has already helped the campus avoid well over $1 million dollars in cloud-computing spend, according to Kellen.

At the same time, the project gives the UC San Diego community tools to encourage the back-and-forth flow of students and ideas between classroom projects and follow-on research projects.

"Our students are getting access to the same level of computing capacity that normally only a researcher using an advanced system like a supercomputer would get. The students are exploring much more complex data problems because they can," said Smarr, who was also the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership. Calit2 is now expanding to also include UC Riverside.

One of the many professors from all across campus using the UC San Diego Data Science / Machine Learning Platform for courses is Melissa Gymrek, who is a professor in both the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Medicine's Division of Genetics.

Her students write and run code in a software environment called Jupyter Notebooks that runs on the UC San Diego platform. "They can write code in the notebook and press execute and see the results. They can build figures to visualize data. We focus a lot more now on data visualizations," said Gymrek.

UC San Diego ITS senior architect Adam Tilghman poses with some of the innovative computing hardware that has opened the door to more data-intensive and computing-intensive coursework for UC San Diego students. These PCs run a wide range of leading-edge software to help students program the system, record their results in Jupyter notebooks, and execute a variety of data analytic and machine learning algorithms on their problems.

One of the thousands of UC San Diego students who has used the platform extensively is Xuan Zhang. Through the data- and visualization-intensive coursework in CSE 284, Zhang realized that the higher order genetic structures at the center of her chemistry Ph.D. dissertationR-Loopscould be regulated by the short tandem repeats (STRs) that are at the center of much of the research in Gymrek's lab. Without the computing-infrastructure for real-world coursework problems, Zhang believes she would not have made the research connection.

After taking Gymrek's course, Zhang also realized that she could apply to obtain her own independent research profile on the UC San Diego Data Science / Machine Learning Platform in order to retain access to all her coursework and to keep building on it. (When Jupyter Notebooks are hosted on the commercial cloud, students generally lose access to their data-intensieve coursework when the class ends, unless they download the data themselves.)

"I thought it was just for the course, but then I realized that Jupyter Notebooks are available for research, without losing access through the UC San Diego Jupyterhub," said Zhang.

This educational infrastructure has added benefits for professors as well.

"With these Jupyter Notebooks, you can automatically embed the grading system. It saves a lot of work," said Gymrek. You can designate how many points a student gets if they get the code right, she explained. Before using this system, students sent PDFs of their problem sets which made grading more time intensive. "It was hard to go past a dozen students. Now, you can scale," said Gymrek. In fact, she has been able to expand access to her personal genomics graduate class to more than 50 students, up from a dozen before she had access to these new tools.

Direct uploading of assignments and grades to the campus learning management system, Canvas, is also now available.

The platform is truly transforming education. Unlike many learning technology innovations, classes in every division at UC San Diego have used the Data Science/Machine Learning Platform. Many thousands of students use it every year. Its innovation with real impact, preparing our students in manysometimes unexpectedfields to be leaders and innovators when they graduate, said Polichar.

"If you build your distributed supercomputer, like the PRP, on commodity hardware then you can ride Moore's Law," explained Smarr.

Following this commodity hardware strategy, Smarr and his PRP collaborators developed hardware designs where performance goes up while prices go down over time. The computational building blocks developed by the PRP, that were repurposed by UC San Diegos ITS, are rack-mounted PCs, containing multi-core CPUs, eight Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and optimized for data-intensive projects, including accelerating machine learning on the GPUs. These PCs run a wide range of leading-edge software to help students program the system, record their results in Jupyter Notebooks, and to execute a variety of data analytic and machine learning algorithms on their problems.

Building on this commodity hardware approach to high performance computing has allowed UC San Diego to build a dynamic and innovative "on premises" ecosystem for data- and computing- intensive coursework, rather than relying solely on commercial cloud computing services.

The computing platform is made of rack-mounted PCs optimized for data-intensive projects, including accelerating machine learning on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The system now contains 126 GPUs, whose usage by students typically ramps up to 100% as each academic quarter progresses.

"The commercial cloud doesn't provide an ecosystem that gives students the same platform from course to course, or the same platform they have in their courses as they have in their research," said Tilghman. "This is especially true in the graduate area where students are starting work in a course context and then they continue that work in their research. It's that continuity, even starting as a lower division undergraduate, all the way up. I think that's one of the innovative advantages that we give at UC San Diego."

UC San Diego professors and students interested in learning more about the Data Science / Machine Learning Platformcan find additional details and contact information on their website.

"I've been at this for 50 years," said Smarr. "I don't know of many examples where I've seen such a close linking of research and education all the way around, in a circle."

This alignment of research and education feeds into UC San Diego's culture of innovation and relevance.

"It's essential for the nation that students all across campus learn and work on computing infrastructure that is relevant for their future, whether it's in industry, academia or the public sector," said Albert P. Pisano, dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. "These information technology ecosystems being created and deployed on campus are critical for empowering our students to leverage innovations to serve society."

To view a a video providing an overview of the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) and a sampling of research projects the platform has enabled, visit the Pacific Research Platform website.

Larry Smarr serves as Principal Investigator on the PRP and allied grants (NSF Awards OAC-1541349, OAC-1826967, CNS-1730158, CNS-2100237) which are administered through the Qualcomm Institute, which is the UC San Diego Division of Calit2.

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