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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the cloud services brokerage market and it is poised to grow by USD 14.17 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 20% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment.

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The market is fragmented, and the degree of fragmentation will accelerate during the forecast period. Accenture Plc, Arrow Electronics Inc., Capgemini Services SAS, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Dell Technologies Inc., DXC Technology Co., Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., International Business Machines Corp., and Wipro Ltd. are some of the major market participants. The increasing adoption of cloud computing will offer immense growth opportunities. To make the most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.

Increasing adoption of cloud computing has been instrumental in driving the growth of the market.

Cloud Services Brokerage Market 2020-2024: Segmentation

Cloud Services Brokerage Market is segmented as below:

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Cloud Services Brokerage Market 2020-2024: Scope

Technavio presents a detailed picture of the market by the way of study, synthesis, and summation of data from multiple sources. Our cloud services brokerage market report covers the following areas:

This study identifies low IT cost as one of the prime reasons driving the cloud services brokerage market growth during the next few years.

Cloud Services Brokerage Market 2020-2024: Vendor Analysis

We provide a detailed analysis of vendors operating in the cloud services brokerage market, including some of the vendors such as Accenture Plc, Arrow Electronics Inc., Capgemini Services SAS, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Dell Technologies Inc., DXC Technology Co., Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., International Business Machines Corp., and Wipro Ltd. Backed with competitive intelligence and benchmarking, our research reports on the cloud services brokerage market are designed to provide entry support, customer profile and M&As as well as go-to-market strategy support.

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Cloud Services Brokerage Market 2020-2024: Key Highlights

Table Of Contents:

Executive Summary

Market Landscape

Market Sizing

Five Forces Analysis

Market Segmentation by Deployment

Customer Landscape

Geographic Landscape

Market Drivers

Market Challenges

Market Trends

Vendor Landscape

Vendor Analysis

Appendix

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Moving to the Cloud to Save Money

The Covid-19 pandemic has created profound challenges for almost every organization. As these challenges mount, companies are dramatically cutting their soft costs, including information security. Many companies are reducing their information security and privacy compliance spending by moving to the cloud. This is good, right? Maybe, and only if the move is managed in a well-informed way. Not asking the right questions up front can lead to serious consequences.

It is crucial to keep in mind that no information security or privacy law in existence today views being in the cloud, in and of itself, as constituting reasonable information security. Nor does any information security or privacy law view the cloud as a mitigating factor in the context of data breaches.

Increasing Reliance on Cloud Computing

The use of cloud platforms has grown exponentially. One of the results of the work-at-home mandate, which will persist even as work restrictions are relaxed, is the continuing move to cloud computing, both because of the benefits of scalability and the dedicated IT and IS resources afforded by cloud vendors and also the need to conserve financial resources. It is difficult and expensive to maintain onsite information technology and information security operations and staff. Cloud computing reduces costs and increases accessibility.

Moving to the cloud, however, does not eliminate all risks some hazards go away but others are introduced. Cloud environments are vulnerable if end-users fail to observe proper security hygiene vulnerabilities at the end-user level will create vulnerabilities in the cloud environment. It is imperative as well that the cloud vendor has appropriate information security and privacy compliance measures in place. Many smaller cloud vendors and service providers who use the cloud have deficient information security and privacy compliance frameworks, assuming they have any in place at all. Many organizations, especially small and medium sized businesses, seldom evaluate whether their vendors cloud is a safe place to be.

Getting the move to a cloud environment right is crucial. The security and availability of an organizations data is important for both operational and business continuity reasons. Moving to a cloud is no excuse for taking eyes off of information security or for lax privacy compliance.

Questions to Ask When Considering a Move to the Cloud

Recurringly, organizations fail to ask themselves the most rudimentary questions before moving to cloud platforms, and they suffer as a result. They think, for example, that deploying Office 365 will solve all their productivity and data management challenges yet never address the fact that they still remain responsible for data breaches and for maintaining network performance and security. They also never imagine that their managed services provider may be storing their data with a cloud vendor whose operations are subpar. And as safe as the Amazon, Azure and Google clouds may be, none of them insure the security of your data from risks that arise on the customer side. Ask at least these questions when considering a move to a cloud environment:

These are only a few of the many questions that should be addressed in connection with any move to a cloud platform, regardless of the size and sophistication of the cloud environment. If you have not asked these questions and gotten satisfactory answers, your move to the cloud may expose you to serious legal compliance and operational risks.

Regulatory Compliance and the Cloud

The current pandemic has forced changes in the way we work and has seen nasty new exploits from hackers. The privacy compliance and enforcement landscape, however, has not changed. Some privacy regimes have been relaxed HIPAA for example, to facilitate telemedicine. But there is no indication that other privacy laws will be ignored or relaxed and, especially in California, all indications are to the contrary. The California Attorney General is set to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act on schedule, beginning in July of this year. In particular, the CCPA-imposed duty to have reasonable information security processes and practices in place remains in effect. Companies are subject to private rights of action with statutory damages if they experience a data breach and do not have reasonable information security in place.

Keep Cloud Risks Front and Center

Moving to the cloud to save money may be a good business and financial strategy. If managed properly it can even be a good information security and privacy strategy. But moving to the cloud creates its own set of risks, some of them potentially existential. These risks can only be controlled if the right questions are asked before the move.

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Information Security in the Time of Covid-19 - Moving to the Cloud as a Cost-Cutting Measure Does Not Lessen Compliance Obligations - Lexology

Dublin, May 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Cloud Gaming Market By Type (Video Streaming v/s File Streaming), By Offering (Infrastructure v/s Game Platform Services), By Type of Device (Smartphones, Tablets, Others), By Deployment Mode, By Gaming System , By End Users, By Region, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Global Cloud Gaming Market is expected to grow at a robust rate during the forecast period. The Global Cloud Gaming Market is driven by the increasing smartphone proliferation and internet penetration. Additionally, advancements in cloud computing, GPU as a service, OTT gaming services, among others are further anticipated to propel the market during forecast period. Furthermore, increasing spending by the governments in different countries especially in developing economies for the development of 5G infrastructure is expected to foster the growth of the market through 2025.

The Global Cloud Gaming Market can be segmented based on type, offering, type of device, deployment mode, gaming system, end-users, company and region. Based on type, the market can be bifurcated into video streaming and file streaming. The video streaming segment is expected to dominate the market during forecast years since it allows users to play games anywhere and, on any platform, if they are connected to internet. Based on type of device, the market can be fragmented into smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, PCs & laptops, smart TVs, head mounted displays and others. The smartphones segment is expected to dominate the market on account of its cost effectiveness.

Regionally, the cloud gaming market has been segmented into Asia-Pacific, North America, South America, Europe, and Middle East & Africa. Among these, North America is expected to dominate the market during forecast period. This can be attributed to the early adoption and advancements in technologies in the region.

Major players operating in the Global Cloud Gaming Market include Nvidia Corporation, Intel Corporation, Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sony Corporation, IBM Corporation, Tencent Holdings Ltd, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Jump Gaming, Paperspace, Vortex, Playgiga, Activision Publishing, Inc., Playkey, Loudplay, Electronic Arts Inc., Blacknut, Hatch and others. The companies are developing advanced technologies and launching new services in order to stay competitive in the market. Other competitive strategies include mergers & acquisitions and new service developments.

Objective of the Study:

The author performed both primary as well as exhaustive secondary research for this study. Initially, they sourced a list of service providers across the globe. Subsequently, they conducted primary research surveys with the identified companies. While interviewing, the respondents were also enquired about their competitors. Through this technique, they could include the service providers which could not be identified due to the limitations of secondary research. The author analyzed the service providers, and presence of all major players across the globe.

The author calculated the market size of the Global Cloud Gaming Market by using a bottom-up approach, wherein the data for various end-user segments was recorded and forecast for the future years. They sourced these values from the industry experts and company representatives and externally validated through analyzing historical data of these product types and applications for getting an appropriate, overall market size. Various secondary sources such as company websites, news articles, press releases, company annual reports, investor presentations and financial reports were also studied.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Product Overview

2. Research Methodology

3. Impact of COVID-19 on Global Cloud Gaming Market

4. Executive Summary

5. Voice of Customer5.1. Brand Awareness (Aided/Unaided)5.2. Vendor Satisfaction Analysis5.3. Unmet Needs/Challenges

6. Global Cloud Gaming Market Outlook6.1. Market Size & Forecast6.1.1. By Value6.2. Market Share & Forecast6.2.1. By Type (Video Streaming v/s File Streaming)6.2.2. By Offering (Infrastructure (Compute, Memory, Storage) v/s Game Platform Services (Content Services, PC Services))6.2.3. By Type of Device (Smartphones, Tablets, Gaming Consoles, PCs & LaptopsSmart TVs, Head Mounted Displays, Others)6.2.4. By Deployment Mode (Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud)6.2.5. By Gaming System (G-Cluster, PlayStation, Stream my game, steam in home streaming, Remote Play, Others)6.2.6. By End Users (Casual Gamers, Avid Gamers, Hardcore Gamers)6.2.7. By Company (2019)6.2.8. By Region6.3. Product Market Map

7. Asia-Pacific Cloud Gaming Market Outlook7.1. Market Size & Forecast7.2. Market Share & Forecast7.3. Asia-Pacific: Country Analysis

8. Europe Cloud Gaming Market Outlook8.1. Market Size & Forecast8.2. Market Share & Forecast8.3. Europe: Country Analysis

9. North America Cloud Gaming Market Outlook9.1. Market Size & Forecast9.2. Market Share & Forecast9.3. North America: Country Analysis

10. South America Cloud Gaming Market Outlook10.1. Market Size & Forecast10.2. Market Share & Forecast10.3. South America: Country Analysis

11. Middle East and Africa Cloud Gaming Market Outlook11.1. Market Size & Forecast11.2. Market Share & Forecast11.3. MEA: Country Analysis

12. Market Dynamics12.1. Drivers12.2. Challenges

13. Market Trends & Developments

14. Competitive Landscape14.1. Nvidia Corporation14.2. Intel Corporation14.3. Google LLC14.4. Microsoft Corporation14.5. Amazon14.6. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.14.7. Sony Corporation14.8. IBM Corporation14.9. Tencent Holdings Ltd14.10. Alibaba Group Holding Limited14.11. Jump Gaming14.12. Paperspace14.13. Vortex14.14. Playgiga14.15. Activision Publishing, Inc.14.16. Playkey14.17. Loudplay14.18. Electronic Arts Inc.14.19. Blacknut14.20. Hatch

15. Strategic Recommendations

16. About Us & Disclaimer

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Insights on the Worldwide Cloud Gaming Industry to 2025 - Featuring Nvidia, Intel & Google Among Others - GlobeNewswire

Stadia was announced a year ago, and the service was received with a bit of skepticism. Pundits argued that the experience of streaming games wasnt as good as just having your console at home. But even with a slow start, Stadia might be the start of a new gaming era.

Cloud computing will have a new meaning with the introduction of gaming in the cloud. Gaming will make cloud computing a reality for consumers everywhere. For games that means that your gaming state is saved in the cloud and never lost. That there are no limits in storage and in computing, as long as you pay for it. With streaming services like Stadia, all computing happens on the cloud, and the computer just serves as a streaming box.

This concept has been floating for years, and there were a few startups that tried this idea over the years. The most notorious was OnLive. It was streaming games directly to your computer. But at the time, internet speeds werent as good as they are right now.

But internet speeds have caught up. Now, many ISP providers offer up to 1 Gbps. Something that would be unimaginable a few years ago. The average American household can stream Stadia games at 4K resolution. Stadia supports 720p at around 10Mbps and 4K video at 35 Mbps.

But Google is not the only one that betting on the fact that game streaming services will be big. Microsoft released a similar service, called Xcloud, whereas customers can stream games that they bough. Not only that, Microsoft released Xbox Game Pass, a game bundling service. Apple is also playing the long game and has also launched its own gaming subscription service, called Apple Arcade.

It is no surprise that the biggest tech companies are all looking at the same target. The Netflix of games is arriving, and it will be much bigger than Netflix.

The biggest winners of this transition will be consumers. Given that the average lifespan of a gaming console is 6 years, that meant that consumers had to wait, in average, 3 years to see their games with newer graphics and faster loading screens.

With cloud computing, whenever there is a new GPU, cloud providers can upgrade their system and consumers can take advantage of the new gaming platforms instantaneously. Not only that, but compute is not limited to one machine. Graphics will be generated by multiple GPUs.

The techniques developed in this market will be employed in other areas, opening up new opportunities for cloud computing. This will allow users to access powerful applications in the cloud, and that means that the average consumer will have access to much more powerful applications.

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The future of gaming - Giuliano Giacaglia - Medium

Global Marketers.biz has published yet another new report on the global Cloud Computing market. This report can help the user to better understand the opportunities and threats that are doled by the industry and its players. Additionally, this study is inclusive of the market scenario and factors like the players who influence and dominate the industry. The strategies of these players, the products they offer, their operating areas, and the opportunities are discussed in detail. The report serves the analysis of the global market share, segmentation, revenue growth estimation, and geographic regions of the market.

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This study analyses the growth of Cloud Computing based on the present, past and futuristic data and will render entire information about the Cloud Computing industry to the market-leading industry players that will guide the direction of the Cloud Computing market through the forecast period. All of these players are analyzed in detail to get details concerning their recent announcements and partnerships, product/services, investment strategies, and so on.

Competitive Landscape:

Cloud Computing market report highlights key players included in the market in order to render a comprehensive view of the competing players existing in the market. Company details, strategies, aptitude, history, cost analysis, and prevalent strategies

Leading Cloud Computing manufacturers/companies operating at both regional and global levels:

OracleGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft AzureAmazon Web ServicesRackspaceIBMSAPVmwareAliyunSalesforceDELLEMC

The report also inspects the financial standing of the leading companies, which includes gross profit, revenue generation, sales volume, sales revenue, manufacturing cost, individual growth rate, and other financial ratios.

The Cloud Computing market report provides successfully marked contemplated policy changes, favorable circumstances, industry news, developments, and trends. The information is verified and validated through primary interviews and questionnaires. The data on growth and trends focuses on new technologies, market capacities, markets and materials, CAPEX cycle, and the dynamic structure of the Cloud Computing market.

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Industry outlook:

Cloud Computing product types, applications, geographies, and end-user industries are the key market segments that are comprised in this study. The report speculates the prospective growth of the different market segments by studying the current market standing, performance, demand, production, sales, and growth prospects existing in the market.

The segmentation included in the report is beneficial for readers to capitalize on the selection of appropriate segments for the Cloud Computing sector and can help companies in deciphering the optimum business transfer to reach their desired business goals.

In market segmentation by types of Cloud Computing, the report covers-

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Platform as a Service (PaaS)Software as a Service (SaaS)

In market segmentation by applications of the Cloud Computing, the report covers the following uses-

Large enterpriseSmall and Medium enterpriseGovernment

This Cloud Computing report covers vital elements such as market trends, share, size, and aspects that facilitate the growth of the companies operating in the market to help readers implement profitable strategies to boost the growth of their business. This report also analyses the expansion, market size, key segments, market share, application, key drivers, and restraints.

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Highlights of the Cloud Computing market study:

Speculations for sales:

The report contains historical revenue and volume that backing information about the market capacity, and it helps to evaluate conjecture numbers for key areas in the Cloud Computing market. Additionally, it includes a share of every segment of the Cloud Computing market, giving methodical information about types and applications of the market.

Key point summary of the Cloud Computing market report:

This report gives a forward-looking prospect of various factors driving or restraining market growth.

It presents an in-depth analysis of changing competition dynamics and puts you ahead of competitors.

It gives a six-year forecast evaluated on the basis of how the market is predicted to grow.

It assists in making informed business decisions by creating a pin-point analysis of market segments and by having complete insights of the Cloud Computing market.

This report helps users in comprehending the key product segments and their future.In the end, the Cloud Computing market is analyzed for revenue, sales, price, and gross margin.

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Global Cloud Computing Market Manufacturers, Technology, Segmentation and Development Trends Forecasts to 2025. - Cole of Duty

Deloitte plans to train 4,000 team members across Australia in cloud computing, as part of the Deloitte Cloud Guild, a technology training program with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Announced today, the Deloitte Cloud Guild will offer a variety of training opportunities, from hackathons and immersion days to highly targeted self-paced learning modules to upskill consultants on the technology underlying many of todays business transformations.

AWS has similar cloud skills programs withNational Australia Bank,Australia Post, and Insurance Australia Group and Kmart.

Deloitte Consulting Managing Partner, Kaylene OBrien, said upskilling was critical to ensure clients continued to see Deloitte as the provider of choice to help them imagine, deliver, and run their organisations in the future, particularly as so many were now working remotely.

This is something we had planned before the current COVID-19 crisis and will now become even more valuable as our clients continue to move to the cloud and with more urgency, she said.

Technology is changing the workplace so quickly that continuous skills development is a key requirement for all professionals today. We already have a firmwide tech savvy learning hub to help upskill our people on key disruptive technologies. The Deloitte Cloud Guild we are announcing today will take professional development around cloud knowledge to the next level for our people.

Zack Levy, Deloitte Consulting AWS Lead Partner and director of the Deloitte Cloud Guild, said the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic has strengthened the firms commitment to technology-enabled change.

The transition to working from home in last month was enabled by Deloitte virtual office initiative which was launched midway through last year.

We have a Sydney office, the Melbourne office, and we have a managing director for our virtual office. We wanted to do this to make sure that our people are well equipped to work effectively remotely, whether we want them to work on the customer sites, or we want them to have more flexibility to work from home, Levy said.

In April, 97 per cent of Deloittes workforce abruptly moved to work from home, as businesses closed their offices to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

This was only possible because we made it a priority to invest in future-ready tools for our people, and it just reinforced for us the value of investing in continuous technology education empowering our people for the future.

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Deloitte and AWS to train 4,000 consultants in cloud skills - Which-50

As the economy slowly begins to reopen following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies are turning to the cloud to keep their business, and employees working seamlessly in times of uncertainty.

JTC, Inc., in Manassas, Virginia, has been a leader in helping businesses in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area migrate their data to the cloud by granting its customers access to its privately-owned JTC Sky network, which guarantees 99.9% uptime.

During the pandemic, JTC has been busier than ever, working to move even more businesses to the cloud.

Dempsey & Company CPAs, in Manassas, Virginia, has been working in the cloud since the company was founded two years ago. Dempsey & Company relies on JTC Sky.

We have all of our servers, all of our data, everything in the cloud at this point. When I set the business up, I wanted to have the ability to work remotely, to be able to access information from clients offices, be able to provide that service, meet with a client, and be able to pull up their information and have it right there, said Dempsey & Company CPAs Principal Jeannie Dempsey.

Dempsey described the many advantages of moving to the cloud. Recently, the biggest advantage is no loss of work time due to the fact that now everyone is working from home. And, thats helpful, because that means all of the employees have all of their data with them and have no need to go to the office to look up old files, or old information that might have been stored on a local server inside the office.

If Im meeting with a client at their office, if Im working from a clients office one day because theyre having an audit or something and I need to be there, I can still work with other clients. I can log in, I can work remotely, I can keep up with my information, said Dempsey.

They have also seen great improvements in the software programs the company uses on a daily basis. Like the companys tax software, which before had to be updated manually, but is now updated automatically, faster, in the cloud.

Moving to the cloud as also proven effective for the companys bottom line, too. No longer having the need for large space to store file cabinets, Dempsey & Companys CPAs has reduced the size of its physical office space after they moved all of their files online. Now, those files are accessible from anywhere in the world.

Dempsey shared advice for business owners looking to move to the cloud.

I biggest thing would be that they would have to get over the idea of owning the servers. Servers are very expensive and thats a huge amount of output. I think some people might look at the monthly fees theyre paying for the cloud as a lot more expensive than what they want to pay out every month, but if you look at the fact that you dont have those servers to pay for and you dont have the in-house work on them to deal with, I havent found it to be any more expensive than what I was gonna be paying in servers, time and equipment, said Dempsey.

Over the past eight weeks, many businesses have become comfortable with the idea of their employees working remotely. That trust, said Dempsey, is critical to a successful cloud computing strategy for any business.

Today, employees may all want to work different hours, they may not always want to work eight to five. If theyre getting the work done and you trust them, then its pretty easy to allow them to work remotely, said Dempsey

About JTC, Inc.

JTC has just released its 5th generation of Private Cloud Hosting Services. The firm owns and operates its own Private Cloud Infrastructure located in multiple data centers, as noted in this exclusive LeaseWeb article: Leaseweb USA Accelerates JTCs Infrastructure Update

Dataverstiy has also highlighted JTCs work to build a trusted IT cloud infrastructure: Case Study: JTC Grows its Cloud Services Core through Trust and Teamwork

JTC was also named Tech Company of the Year for 2020 by the Prince William County Chamber.

Founded in 1996 and incorporated in 2002, Jewell Technical Consulting is a leading provider of technology-based business solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area.

Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, Jewell Technical Consulting services the business needs of a variety of clients and employs Cisco and Microsoft Certified full-time professionals that are truly some of the best in the business.

Our staff has many years of experience and strives to continue learning all of the new products and features the technology world has to offer. Every JTC employee is committed to making your technology function the best way possible, so you and your company get the most out of it.

Contact JTC, Inc. today by visiting their website, by calling 703-794-1225, or by visiting them on Facebook.

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JTC provides 99.9% uptime, peace of mind for businesses on its cloud service - PotomacLocal.com

Apple has hired several well-known software engineers with cloud computing experience in recent months, according to a report from the tech site. Protocol.

The gamut of employees Apple has hired has created "a stir" in the "tight-knit cloud community," and it is a sign that Apple may be planning to build a serious cloud infrastructure to compete with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. .

Employees have experience in containers and Kubernetes. Michael Crosby, for example, known as one of the container engineers in existence today, joined Apple in 2020. Arun Gupta, who worked at Amazon Web Services, joined Apple in February and leads Apple's open source efforts. . Another former AWS employee who worked in managed container services, Maksym Pavlenko, also moved to Apple. Francesc Campoy, a former Google employee, is now at apple working on Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration platform that enables managing containerized applications between hosts.

Apple has also listed multiple job openings that suggest it is working on new tools for its internal software development teams.

Apple already has a massive cloud-based platform spanning iCloud, the App Store, Apple TV +, Apple Music, and more, but it doesn't measure up to the cloud technology used by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Netflix

Apple announced in 2018 plans to invest $ 10 billion in data center construction, and in 2019 it joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that houses Kubernetes and containers.

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Apple enters the wave of cloud computing recruitment - NewsDio

12 May 2020

The collaboration will focus on building a portfolio of new research projects relating to AI, robotics, cyber-physical systems, human-centred computing, and support to the Universitys new Lighthouse Doctoral Scholarships.

This new university-industry collaboration, supported by a 7 million gift from AWS to the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, will accelerate advances in AI and Data Science across the entire research portfolio of the University.

Professor Patrick Grant, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Oxford, said, Cloud computing is an essential part of modern research. A streamlined operating model for using cloud services will benefit all of our researchers. The Oxford Robotics Institute, the Cyber Physical Systems Group, and the Human Centred Computing group are leading the initial projects in the short term, but I look forward to growing the collaboration to bring research benefits across our research work more broadly."

Max Peterson, VP International Sales Worldwide Public Sector, AWS, said: "We are excited about this collaboration with the University of Oxford. With AWS, the University will be able to accelerate time-to-science as multiple, large experiments can be conducted in parallel with greater ease and in less time.

By driving cost down, researchers can dramatically increase the scale of computational experimentation. The collaboration demonstrates how academia can use the cloud to deliver excellent science with greater speed, flexibility and security, compared to using on-premises data centres. Through our donation, we will also support a new generation of researchers accessing cloud-native tools and technology for research through the Universitys Lighthouse Doctoral Scholarships program.

Oxford University has a vibrant, large and growing programme in Data Science, AI and Robotics research and development. To support and inspire the research students and staff, access to fast-moving, state-of-the-art large-scale computing resources is critical.

AWS, one of the leading global cloud providers, offers secure, reliable, scalable, low-cost cloud infrastructure that underpins millions of customers around the world and this collaboration will significantly accelerate the cloud-based research conducted at the University.

Professor Ingmar Posner, Head of Oxfords Applied AI Lab and founding Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute, said, Reliable and scalable compute infrastructure is a cornerstone of a cutting-edge research agenda in Robotics, Data Science and AI. The bold vision developed jointly by the University and AWS is geared not only towards enabling the sustainable provision of this infrastructure here in Oxford but to provide a blueprint of engagement for others to follow. This generous 7M gift from AWS will enable us to start something truly exceptional - in terms of research here at Oxford but also looking ahead at enabling the broader research landscape."

This initiative will drive the creation of cloud-first processes for research, including international collaboration, governance, reproducibility, publishing and translation, said Professor Nick Hawes of the Oxford Robotics Institute, coordinator of the activity within the human-machine collaboration initiative.

This first Oxford-AWS strategic collaboration will create eight research projects in topics around autonomy in human contexts across the Departments of Engineering and Computer Science. These will speed the development of a larger AI and robotics ecosystem over the coming years, involving over 50 organisations (universities and companies and public sector stakeholders), and over 60 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students in joint projects.

Professor Marina Jirotka, Professor of Human-Centred Computing, added, This gift will open up many amazing opportunities. My team is excited to expand our work on the ethical black box for autonomous robots and lay the foundations for an Institute of Responsible Technology. We look forward to extending the impact of our responsible innovation work into industry."

Professor Niki Trigoni leads the Cyber Physical Systems group, which focuses on infrastructure-free indoor positioning systems, human-robot interaction and autonomous collaboration systems for workplaces ranging from hospitals to office environments and warehouses. The group has set up an international centre-to-centre collaboration, across the UK, the US and Australia.

We are focusing on building state of the art situation awareness algorithms for blue light emergency services that combine a variety of sensing modalities - inertial, radio, visual, mmWave and thermal. This additional cloud infrastructure will enable efficient, often health/life-critical solutions for human-machine collaborations in the workplace and beyond, Professor Trigoni concluded.

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- Oxford University and Amazon Web Services create a test-bed for cloud-based research - Design Products & Applications

Given todays challenges with the at home economy, schooling & zooming, we need to focus more than ever on cleaning up our house and our Data Center. The ongoing trend toward multiple computing models, with workloads spread across on-premise, public cloud and hybrid environments, data center managers require more visibility and operational control than ever before. Subsequently, server asset management is essential when IT staff are making decisions based on the available computation and storage capacity. But with such an overwhelming number of IT assets to track and monitor, especially in large-scale data centers, the task of server asset management has gradually become an efficiency bottleneck.

Enterprises and cloud service providers (CSPs) very often manually maintain and manage server assets through a configuration management database (CMDB). Asset information includes CPU, memory, hard disk model, serial number, capacity and other information.

However, asset management solutions of this kind usually offer limited scope and cannot be easily integrated into existing systems. Moreover, this method presents a number of problems, such as low data entry efficiency, the failure to update data in real time, and the inability to track server component maintenance updates.

Additionally, many large data centers remain hamstrung by the outsourced hardware maintenance model.

With this approach, an operations and maintenance center confirms a hardware failure and then submits work orders to the onsite hardware supplier, and after the field personnel completes the batch replacement of parts, they provide feedback to the remote operations and maintenance center through the work order system.

This mode has glaring efficiency problems. The feedback information is slow, and manual remote login to the server is needed to confirm whether the parts were correctly replaced, as required.

Adopting a Lean Asset Management Approach for Improved Data Center Efficiency

Lean management practices, a function of lean manufacturing that sought to increase productivity and efficiency by eliminating waste in the automobile industry, date back to the 1940s and Taiichi Ohno, a Japanese industrial engineer, who is considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System, later adopted in the U.S., and worldwide.

With respect to lean asset management, Ohno advocated for a clear understanding of what inventory is required for a certain project, real-time visibility of what capacity is available and what is already committed, and a streamlined replenishment process. He also believed that inefficient processes will always cause delays, if not excess inventory (over-provisioning) and idle resources (underutilization).

Sound familiar?

Through the practice of lean asset management methodology in the data center, IT staff gain the ability to manage the server assets in a fine-grained manner, such as tracking the model, brand, capacity, serial number and other information of the main components of the server.

Lean asset management also enables IT teams to react quickly and efficiently when implementing change strategy. As any IT administrator will attest, change deployments and implementations can pose significant risk. When a deployed change affects systems in an unanticipated way, it can lead to service outages that negatively impact an organizations bottom line and its brand reputation.

By discovering changes in server components, it also becomes convenient for the operations and maintenance team to track changes in components in a timely manner, and improve the efficiency of the component replacement process. Its also easier to collect information concerning the data center computing resources on demand.

A Trusted Source for IT Asset Discovery and Management

Data center management solutions such as Intel Data Center Manager (Intel DCM) have the capability to automatically obtain server asset information such as CPU, memory, disk model, capacity, etc., for the various bands/models through out-of-band methods.

External applications can obtain server asset information through APIs, which are provided by the data center management solution. External systems can automatically compare device component information, find and identify information, and changes in parts.

The following is a typical scenario. The remote operation and maintenance center of a CSP discovers a server component is faulty, and requests that the supplier replace the parts onsite at the data center.

The operator has no need to double-confirm the component by logging into the server after the parts have been replaced. Furthermore, the real-time asset information of the entire data center can be reported to the IT staff at any time and before they make any decision.

To support lean asset management methodology, Intel DCM offers many asset management features, such as organizing systems in physical or logical groups, easily searching for systems using their asset tags or other details, and importing and exporting a data centers inventory and hierarchy.

Along with Intel DCMs real-time power and thermal monitoring, and its middleware APIs that allow the software to easily integrate with other solutions, these features assist companies to avoid investing in additional asset management tools.

As organizations continue to leverage multiple computing models, further dispersing their workloads, and the data center itself becomes more complex, manual processes cant keep pace with the rate of change in the IT environment.

By adopting a lean asset management approach, supported by a data center management solution with IT asset discovery and management capabilities, data center managers benefit from a trusted source of information about asset ownership, interdependencies and utilization so that they can make informed decisions regarding the deployment, operations and maintenance of their servers and systems.

So after youve cleaned our your 5th closet at home, think about cleaning your data center clutter using innovative automation tools to see these lean asset management principles at work, theres no question that Taiichi Ohno would be proud.

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