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Profiling Key Players: IBM (US), Carestream Health, Inc (US), athenahealth (US), CareCloud Corporation (US), Siemens Healthineers AG (Germany), eClinicalWorks (US), Koninklijke Philips N

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Cloud-Computing In Healthcare Market Booming Worldwide by 2020-2027 focuses on major key players IBM (US), Carestream Health, Inc (US), athenahealth...

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Edge computing offers enormous promise some say it may even supplant cloud computing. Certainly this emerging technology, in which sensors across the Web provide a torrent of data, is growing rapidly. A research report in August 2019 forecast a blistering 32% CAGR yearly increase between now and 2023, meaning the edge market will double in size.

Edge computing fuels many of the tech trends that are getting buzz today, including smart factories, smart grids, connected vehicles and more. While IoT has driven edge computing, the technology fueled by 5G will play an ever greater role in many sectors beyond IoT.

To provide insight into the future of this key technology, Ill speak with a leading expert, Bryan Beal, Senior Director, Strategy and Solution Innovation at VMware Telco and Edge Cloud group

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Enterprises eager to undergo digital transformations and modernize their applications are quick to see the value of adopting a cloud computing platform. They are increasingly finding business agility or cost savings by renting software. Each cloud computing service and deployment model type provides you with different levels of control, flexibility and management. Therefore, its important to understand the differences between them.

Common convention points to public cloud as the delivery model of choice. But, when considering the right architecture of cloud computing for your applications and workloads, you must begin by addressing the unique needs of your business.

This can include many factors, such as government regulations, security, performance, data residency, service levels, time to market, architecture complexity, skills and preventing vendor lock-in. Add in the need to incorporate the emerging technologies, and you can see why IT leaders are challenging the notion that cloud computing migration is easy.

At first glance, the types of cloud computing seem simple: public, private or a hybrid mix of both. In reality, the choices are many. Public cloud can include shared, dedicated and bare metal delivery models. Fully and partially managed clouds are also options. And, in some cases, especially for existing applications where architectures are too complex to move or the cost-benefit ratio is not optimal, cloud may not be the right choice.

The right model depends on your workload. You should understand the advantages and disadvantages of each cloud deployment model and take a methodical approach to determining which workloads to move to which type of cloud for the maximum benefit.

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Cloud computing industry is evolving at a lightning speed with new trends and developments emerging every year. However, one thing has become quite clearthe future of cloud is hybrid. Combining the higher security for mission-critical applications that comes with private cloud with the flexibility and scalability offered by public cloud, hybrid cloud promises organizations the best of the both worlds.

Given the advantages, hybrid cloud has emerged as the preferred implementation model that will drive the progression of the cloud industry. This trend is corroborated by the findings of the research firm Gartner, which reveals that 77% of enterprise global infrastructure decision makers that are planning, implementing, or upgrading cloud technology say that they are in a hybrid cloud environment.

As hybrid cloud space continues to mature, it is undergoing a rapid evolution. Lets look at some definitive trends that will define the hybrid cloud future in the coming year:

Consistent hybrid experienceThe talks around hybrid cloud being the future have been doing rounds for quite some time. The year 2020 will see that turn into reality. With new innovations in hybrid cloud space, organizations will be able to ensure seamless experience across the environment instead of looking at public cloud and on-premise or private cloud as separate pieces. Organizations will be able to move past the latency challenges and experience truly consistent hybrid experience.

Hybrid multicloud on the riseOrganizations across industries are picking and mixing technologies and services from multiple cloud providers as per their specific business needs to avoid vendor lock-in and gain from the best-of-the-breed capabilities. As multiple cloud providers get added to the public piece of hybrid cloud puzzle, hybrid multicloud will become the new IT normal. Using a mix of on-premise and/or private / public cloud from multiple providers, hybrid multicloud offers organizations freedom and flexibility to run their workload on-permise or cloud and even change cloud providers, if required. Further, a hybrid multicloud approach enables organizations to adopt common management and software development capabilities across the environment. Through 2020, hybrid multicloud will emerge as a dominant trend that will shape the cloud industry. As per McKinsey & Company, hybrid, multicloud is set to be a USD 1.2 trillion market opportunity by 2022.

Edge computing gains greater relevance in hybrid cloud strategiesEdge computing, a model where computations are performed as close as possible to the sources and sinks of data and content, will become a critical element of hybrid cloud strategies. Combination capabilities of hybrid cloud and edge computing brings a great value proposition for organizations, wherein hybrid cloud ecosystem can be used to aggregate most relevant data and back-end functions, while edge can support processing and real-time analytics. In 2020, as number of IoT devices increase, more and more enterprises will tap into the advantage of edge with hybrid cloud model to discover key business insights.

Containerization continues to riseIndustry pundits are widely recognizing containers as the core of an effective hybrid cloud model due to their capabilities to provide consistency, regardless whether a workload is deployed on-premise or on one or more clouds. Containers simplify deployment, management, and operational concerns associated with a hybrid cloud, helping organizations to maximize the business value from their hybrid cloud strategy. In 2020, while containers will not become mainstream, we can expect stronger adoption. With every tech giant introducing platforms to simplify deployment and management of clusters, organizations will consider tapping into the power of containers in making hybrid cloud heterogenous and workload agnostic.

Hyperconverged infrastructure for hybrid cloud gains tractionHyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is emerging as a best match to support the hybrid environment as it addresses the biggest concern with the environmentincreased complexity. HCI enables organizations to integrate cloud into their environments by eliminating the need to manage compute, storage and network resources as separate tiers. Organizations gain the ability to manage everything from a single pane of glass. Further, pre-integrated, consolidated compute and storage resources of HCI solutions enable cloud implementations to run faster, scale higher and respond quicker. As hybrid cloud continues to gain momentum, HCI solutions are evolving in order to align with the needs of hybrid cloud world. In 2020, expect more and more organizations to run their hybrid cloud on HCI, which according to industry watchers, will eventually become the go-to infrastructure platform for hybrid cloud.

DR and backup requirements will spur hybrid cloud adoptionIn todays always-on business scenario, effective DR and backup has become more important than ever to ensure business continuity and data safety. Providing scalability, flexibility and cost efficiency, a hybrid cloud approach for DR and backup can prove extremely beneficial for businesses. DR is complex and cost and resource-intensive activity, hence cloud-based DR and backup is emerging as a viable option. Using hybrid cloud model enables organizations to have the secondary off-site backup location in the cloud, which is way more effective than traditional storage, while having the flexibility to host sensitive data on private network and meeting compliance requirements. Increasing DR and backup requirements will continue to drive hybrid cloud adoption through 2020.

Stronger uptake for hybrid cloud managed servicesIn 2020, a large number of organizations will partner with cloud service providers to define and determine the optimum approach to cloud management. Organizations will choose providers to handle complexities associated with hybrid cloud and effectively manage instances across cloud providers and hosted on various deployment models (private cloud and on-premise). Cloud providers offering a combination of robust Cloud Management Platform and Managed Services will emerge as preferred partners on account of their capabilities to help organizations ensure a single view and holistic and seamless experience of their hybrid infrastructure.

As we enter a new decade, cloud is certainly braver and stronger than ever before. Hybrid cloud will continue to grow and evolve to offer organizations more flexibility and consistency and help them speed up application deployment cycle.

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Socionextrecently partnered with Foxconn Technology Group and Network Optix to produce a newsolution for edge computing, the BOXiedge. But what drives this multicore, edge-computing server and how does its SoC point to the trend in edge computing?

Cloud computing has its disadvantages: latency, security vulnerability, and unreliable network connection. These disadvantages have given rise to edge computing. Edge computing allows IoT devices to run AI algorithms that are trained on the cloud.

Socionext claims that BOXidege is one such edge computingsolution. The fanless deviceincludesa 24-core mini-server that uses 30 watts of power. The BOXiedge is designed for edge computing applications that require intelligence, including factory automation, retail, agriculture, and digital health.

By using many cores on a local system that is capable of running AI algorithms, users will not need to rely ona stable,secure internet connection. Sensitive data is also stored locally on the server, improving security.

A deeper dive into the processor that drives the BOXidege may illustratehow the virtues of edge computingare reflected in the hardware design.

The SynQuacer SC2A11 is a 24-core, 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53clocked at 1GHz. The SoC includesthree levels of cache with 4MB of L3, DDR4 RAM, PCIe, and LAN.

It also includesvarious IOs including UART, I2C, and GPIO.

Each core has two processorstwo levels of cachewhile the L3 cache is used in theinterconnects with all the cores. The SC2A11 is scalable, supporting 64 devices in parallela total possible core count of 1,536.

Designed for power efficiency (specifically, 5W),the SC2A11 is aimed at servers,industrial applications, and edge computing applications. The many cores are said to allow large amounts of data to be processed simultaneously.

The SC2A11 is housed in a metal lid BGA package, measuring 30mm x 30mm. This compact designmakes it a useful option for applications requiring a large number of cores. Several security features are also integrated into the SC2A11, including OPAL andan ethernet processor. Socionext also offersan evaluation board for the device.

The evaluation board includes the SC2A11 with multiple DDR4 memory slots and various I/O.

Microcontrollers are oftengeared for processing a single task.

The SC2A11, however, demonstrates that microcontrollers may take a new direction:multicore designs. While the SC2A11 is a dramatic example of a multicore SoC, it does show how designs are being influenced by edge computing.

The demand for more secure systemsand lower-latency devices (such as those required in self-driving vehicles) emphasizes the utility of parallel designs. It's likely that this focus on security and latency will influence futuremicrocontrollers, including the integration of multiple cores and AI co-processors.

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Cloud computing has become a fundamental requirement for most organizations.

With this in mind, cloud computing is massively on the rise in the current day and age. In fact, 81 percent of companies with 1,000 employees or more have a multi-platform strategy. The number is to rise to more than 90 percent by 2024. Between 2018 and 2021, worldwide spending on public cloud services is to grow to 73 percent, from $160B to $277B.

Cloud computing has been around for so many years, and this sudden growth might surprise a lot of the industry players.

Cloud computing became a phenomenon in the early 2000s. However, due to the lack of awareness about the potential of technology, many brands hesitated to adopt it for their products and processes. Bart McDonough, CEO of Agio, believes the recent rapid adoption of cloud is mainly due to the understanding of ease of use and scalability of the technology.

As organizations expand their understanding of the enormous benefits of cloud computing, they are now more willing to conduct workload tests on cloud and even migrate entire applications to the cloud.

Let's take a look at some major moments in cloud computing's recent history.

Since cloud computing simplifies the process of monitoring resource consumption, the brands were able to use it for development and services delivery with a much higher level of confidence. Gradually, real-time streaming services started processing data over the cloud. Capitalizing on the opportunity, Microsoft launched Power BI, a business analytics and intelligence tool with comprehensive interactive visualization.

Tech giants are always eager to unleash breakthroughs to dominate the industry. In October 2019, Google announced a Quantum Breakthrough that could revolutionize cloud computing. Google claims to achieve results that well beyond the limitations of conventional technology.

A quantum machine has significant implications in areas like artificial intelligence. It actually makes todays most powerful supercomputers look like toys. The Google device performs a mathematical calculation in fewer than three and a half minutes. In comparison, a modern supercomputer would require more than 10,000 years to complete the calculation. Thats not all.

Google launched Stadia, a cloud gaming service where users can stream and can play AAA games on the go. All processing is done on the cloud, and users can play the games without requiring specialized gaming hardware. This is a massive breakthrough for gamers who now do not have to invest in expensive hardware.

Kris is the CSO and Co-Founder of Egnyte. He is responsible for creating and implementing Egnyte's global information security and compliance management strategies, policies, and controls that protect all customers content and users.

He notes that the future of cloud computing is on its own very robust track that impacts everyone. The latest news about quantum computing indicates very early theoretical advances that will take many years before it is going to be available to the public. Eventually, the same advances in quantum computing may expand the scope of what is available via cloud computing in general.

The growth of cloud computing will only underscore the importance of getting people to focus on business value and customer acquisition first. The time and energy spent on foundational infrastructure requirements will be significantly offset by the core capabilities available immediately via cloud computing resources. As a result, key metrics like time to value will only become accelerated.

As cloud computing becomes mainstream, organizations are now moving toward adopting it into the in-house processes. As such, almost all industries are witnessing an increase in the use of cloud-based platforms and services.

Traditionally, all the marketing data/metrics (including campaign stats, strategy plan, number of engagement, etc.) were collected and reported separately. A marketer had to sit down with an analyst to connect all the dots to come up with a detailed picture that could then be used for setting up a future course of action.

A cloud-based marketing platform is an end-to-end digital marketing platform that integrates with marketing tools such as emails, analytics tools, and social management measurement tools. All integrated data helps marketers build and optimize marketing strategies. The cloud-based marketing solution also allows simplifies the execution and management of multi-channel campaigns (social media, mobile, email, and web).

The purpose of the marketing cloud platform is to help develop a great marketing strategy, improve customer engagement, and increase return on investment.

Gone are the days when the search for information required a library. These days, digitally-enabled classrooms to allow students to create and submit presentations online; attend classes remotely through web conferencing; and collaborate and participate in globally distributed projects.

Hospital records before the era of cloud-based health management systems were notorious for their bulk. To figure out a course of treatment, hospital staff has to wade through a mountain of forms and files to discover patient history from paper files. Fast forward to today, all data is on secure cloud solutions. Information sharing and access among all relevant stakeholders (medical professionals and insurance) is a breeze.

Cloud-based solutions ensure excellent and timely treatment without unnecessary delays. Recently a remote surgery was performed from thousand of miles away. Such innovation could revolutionize the healthcare industry.

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The future is bright for cloud computing. Analysts at IDC estimate that the field will evolve rapidly in the coming years, with almost 75% of data operations will be carried out outside the normal data center. Moreover, 40% of organizations will deploy cloud technology, with edge computing becoming an integral part of the technological setup. Also, a quarter of end-point devices will be ready to execute AI algorithms by the year 2022.

Cloud computing facilitates businesses to focus on achieving their goals, with performance at the core, without any fuss. When a five-pronged cloud computing phenomenon that leverages flexibility, agility, security, mobility, and scalability combines with existing processes, the level of business performance rises to a new level. The idea is to help businesses get computational power they need, and how they want it to work for them, and move on.

Software development agencies tend to follow the agile framework. With a launch-and-learn mindset working to their advantage, they work on continuous integration of processes and delivery, meanwhile, publishing many open-source software.

Online security firms are now using zero-trust enterprise security model from Google, instead of the traditional firewall standards. This practice has led them to let users work remotely from any location on Earth, with approved devices. With a managed hosting service working behind-the-scenes, users do not have to bother about the network level access to secure their devices. Therefore, the devices security remains intact.

Data analytics firms now work on continuous data help businesses make informed decisions. The data is first fed into a machine learning system to get better results out of it. Today, every process has become continuous. This means we cant label any process or product as completely finished.

Even the transition into this new digital world is a continuous journey. There are always updates and iterations being released by the organizations, thus testifying the process is in a continuous flow.

Similarly, the security is not a fixed process, but rather it a steady flow of events, an ongoing practice that demands continuous upgrades. Also, data analytics is not just faster, but iterative. That being said, cloud computing calls for not just working faster, but working in a more efficient way. This is why cloud computing unleashes a completely new set of possibilities to think about and work within the technological environment.

This fact brings us to the point that technological transition has created a strong social impact, both within the organizations and the people whom these businesses work with.

Document sharing is one of the best examples of how collaborative technology works. It favors the continuous process of writing, editing, commenting, and publishing a document. Similarly, developing videos with a click of a button has strengthened the value of communication, thereby speeding up the actions.

Availability of rich data streams has transformed the way to design a prototype with an emphasis on personalization.

When it comes to product development lifecycles, cloud-connected objects are having a positive impact on the whole process, thereby forcing the organizations to make frequent updates to the software they offer to the users. New versions of highly effective subscription-based model is one such example. Last year, Tesla had to improve the brakes of the cars with an over-the-air download. This is an example how cloud-connected objects influenced an alteration in the hardware system of a car. Both these examples pinpoint the fact that today, customers have become more conscious about the products they buy.

This is why they want businesses to understand their wishes and pain points in advance and anticipate what they want next. This paradigm shift in the thinking of a common customer has raised the bar for competitors within the industry.

Businesses like logistics and supply chain have also embraced the technological shift. Such organizations are readily accepting streaming capabilities. Blockchains have triggered a revolution in real-time payments and virtual warehousing. Similarly, Uber-like delivery services have played their part in making the payment processes continuous. Shippabo is a company that optimizes route management and compliance to make operations fast, thanks to the cloud-based infrastructure.

Just a decade ago, no one could have imagined the specifications of the consoles and mobile devices that we use today. Similarly, the application of cloud in the form of the popular marketing cloud platforms, healthcare-based cloud platforms, and the emerging cloud-based educational applications are poised to change the way we work (and play) in the coming years.

With this rapid growth, all major processing and computational capabilities will soon move on to the cloud and the end-users will be able to leverage this power anywhere through an on-demand consumption model.

The best part? Users no longer have to invest in equipment because the cloud would take over the current endpoint hardware processing requirements. For brands, this opens up a whole new avenue of building computational and processing infrastructure that users could access through simple UI. The main challenge in this scenario is to ensure the sustained and consistent delivery of these services to a globally distributed user base and continue to provide value through new features and services.

As many futurists envision, cloud computing will give rise to a whole new breed of API and microservices that would become the main service/product delivery channel for the brands. This would simplify the process of development for the end users because now they can ship releases faster without getting bogged down into code writing issues.

Lets dive into some cloud computing trends making waves in 2020.

Quantum computing will transform the business world like never before. Companies like Google are leveraging the principles of quantum physics to make breakthroughs by developing next-generation products for the end users. The supercomputers are the best example of how quantum computing can work wonders if put into proper use. Corporations like IBM, Microsoft, Google, AWS are making efforts to gain competitive advantage over their competitors by adapting to the new quantum technology.

Quantum computers use the principles of quantum physics to perform complex algorithm calculations and process massive datasets in quick time. These powerful computers can be used to encrypt electronic communication and help in augmenting cybersecurity.

Financial institutions can use quantum computing to their advantage by making the transaction process faster. Consequently, this practice will save more time, making the process efficient. In quantum computing, data is stored in qubits, making the process much quicker, as qubits is a simpler form of data. Using quantum computing will also reduce any additional costs required to incur new resources to handle already optimized operations.

Automation helps business organizations improve their productivity without spending too much time and effort. The automation tools available to us have proved to be very important when it comes to addressing errors in business processes, meanwhile streamlining them to generate fruitful results.

For instance, developers can make changes to their websites hosted on the cloud before going live. If anything goes wrong, they can restore an older version of the website without affecting the sales process or user experience. As soon as the website goes live, it starts getting traffic. Opting for cloud means there will be more data consumption involved. Managing applications and routine tasks can become tedious. Developers can use automation to get rid of the manual process they have to use to carry out daily operations.

Many organizations take security for granted. They simply misunderstand the concept of cloud-based security. The high-ups in the organizations think that the cloud service provider must also be responsible to provide cloud security. Thats where the misunderstanding lies. The fact remains that the security compliance is a shared responsibility of all the stakeholders involved overseeing the security operations of the organization, by proper resource usage.

It is important to note that for a SaaS company the cloud service provider offers an extra layer of security along with the already built in features that come with the service package. In case of shared hosting, the user(s) must implement security measures and compliance to enhance the application of existing services and policies.

We live in the world of Internet of Things (IoT). With every device connected to the internet businesses now encourage use of IoT in almost every aspect of organizational operations. The IoT devices can leverage cloud computing as it offers, high speed, performance, flexibility, and ample storage space to keep the data safe, find resources, and share information among different users within the same space.

There is another phenomenon the Internet of Everything (IoE) an offshoot of IoT that helps us interact with each other via connected devices to a particular network. This concept is continuously evolving and it is about time when everything we use will be interconnected to an already populated network of devices.

The serverless paradigm is the next revolution in waiting, according to the CTO of Amazon. The concept of serverless paradigm relates to the fact that it facilitates cloud to execute a code snippet without any hassles for the developers.

Using this approach developers can divide software into chunks of code to upload on cloud to address customers desires, thereby delivering valuable experience. This practice ensures faster release cycle for software. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has already started using the serverless paradigm to its advantage.

As cloud computing continues to make inroads in enterprise worlds, all stakeholders are looking forward to the evolution of the model. As things stand today, almost every significant innovation such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, robotics, and IoT rely on cloud computing technology.

Its not just computational power, networking speed, or storage capacity that makes cloud computing great. Those are just operational metrics that better technology would eventually change and replace over time. The real value of technology is what it does, not what its made of.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) Alibabas promise to the Olympic family is to bring its technological might to help organizers, broadcasters and fans.

The Chinese tech giants Olympic sponsorship deal is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and runs for 12 years, starting in 2017 and continuing through the upcoming Tokyo Games and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing and into the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

We are not just putting the rings alongside our logo, Alibaba BABA, +1.56% chief marketing officer Chris Tung told The Associated Press in an interview at the Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, the IOCs home city. We also like to leverage our technology to help transform and upgrade the games. That is always what we have in mind by being a sponsor.

At this years Tokyo Olympics, broadcasters will gain the most from Alibabas cloud computing work. Fans will see the biggest changes at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing as ticketing and merchandise operations become more digital.

Then it should be the turn of organizers as they reap more rewards from Alibabas expertise at the 2024 and 2028 Games.

We expect Paris and L.A. will be a total explosion of what has been tested and what has been discussed with the previous games, Tung said.

Now clearly established in a top tier of global partners working with both the International Olympic Committee and FIFA, Alibaba is looking to improve sports events on top of helping finance them. With Olympic sports and anti-doping bodies now regularly targeted by hackers, including from Russia, cybersecurity is cited as an absolute must, by Tung.

Asked about integrity issues confronting Chinese tech giant Huawei, Tung pointed to Alibaba enjoying the trust of 200,000 brands using its e-commerce platforms Tmall and Aliexpress.

The two-week Winter Youth Olympics will test Alibabas work with the IOC subsidiary Olympic Broadcasting Services to create a better service for rights-holding national networks in Tokyo. Routing thousands of hours of action and interviews through Alibabas cloud servers should be faster, more efficient with fewer staff and less equipment on site and create more content for social media.

What works in 2020 should be improved in 2022 when Beijing becomes the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games.

Fans and athletes will experience a totally different Olympic Games with a lot of support from cloud technology, Tung said, predicting long lines at souvenir stands replaced by immediate delivery to hotels from ordering on Alibabas online platforms.

After a decision by FIFA in October, China and Alibaba will get an extra forum to test hosting ideas seven months before the Winter Olympics. In June 2021, a revamped 24-team Club World Cup will kick off in China bringing tens of thousands of soccer fans worldwide to see games in several cities. Alibaba Cloud is already the title sponsor of the existing annual, but low-key, club tournament.

We are excited about the opportunity, Tung said, adding Alibaba awaited details from FIFA about new Club World Cup plans. Its very strategic for us to increase the reach and influence of (soccer) as a sponsor.

Many observers see a logical next step in Alibaba joining Olympic sponsors like Coca-Cola and Visa on FIFAs World Cup slate especially as China is widely expected to host in 2030 or 2034.

We, Tung said, are open to the possibility.

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CHICAGO, Jan. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new research report"Middle East Cloud Applications Marketby Application (ERP, CRM, HCM, SCM, and Business Intelligence and Analytics), Organization Size, Vertical (BFSI, Manufacturing, and Telecommunications), and Country - Forecast to 2024", published by MarketsandMarkets, the Middle East Cloud Applications Market is expected to grow from USD 2.0 billion in 2019 to USD 4.5 billion by 2024, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.5% during the forecast period.

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The growing demand for cloud-based services and advanced technologies, increasing need to engage with customers, and deliver an enriched experience continuously are some of the major factors driving the growth of the Middle East Cloud Applications Market.

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Among applications, cloud-based CRM applications to grow at a higher rate during the forecast period

Cloud Customer Relationship Management (CRM) enables enterprises to store and utilize customer data at scale to offer better services and manage relationships with customers. Cloud-based CRM is gaining popularity among enterprises due to various benefits it offers, such as easy accessibility, affordability (especially for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises [SMEs]), rapid implementation, easy upgradation, scalability, and integration capability with other data sources. Cloud-based CRM applications centralize the customer database and provide a comprehensive view of all interactions with customers, offer instant access to real-time insights of sales opportunities, and automate task management processes. With ease of use and affordability, it increases customer retention rates making business more successful. Salesforce, Zoho, Oracle, Microsoft, and Oracle are some leading vendors offering cloud CRM.

The retail and consumer goods vertical is one of the fastest-growing verticals in the region

Factors driving the adoption of cloud applications are the rising purchasing power of customers and the need to satisfy customer expectations, which leads to existing customer retention and new customer acquisition. Online retailing and cloud technologies have significantly disrupted the retail and consumer goods vertical leading to the adoption of cloud computing mainly for storage, backup, and security services. Cloud computing services enable retailers to access customer data with just 1 click from any store located anywhere, thus leading to better customer service delivery. For instance, Hallmark Cards is a retail shop with a number of stores worldwide and is known for selling greeting cards and other products. This store is leveraging the private cloud to store its data and manage all operations, such as conducting real-time inventory tracking, enabling employees to focus on delivering enhanced customers experience, and business critical activities.

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Saudi Arabia to have the largest market size during the forecast period

Saudi Arabia is accelerating the adoption of Information Technology (IT) services in recent years. The country's regulatory body, Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has regulated Cloud Computing in Saudi Arabia by publishing the Cloud Computing Regulatory Framework (CCRF) on its website. The CCRF aims to provide clarity and certainty on the rights and obligations of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and users of cloud services. This shows the interest of the government to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based services in this country. The key factors driving the adoption of the cloud technology in this country include reduced costs, improved infrastructure efficiency, and enhanced scalability.

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Major vendors offering Middle East Cloud Applications Market across the globe includes SAP (Germany), Oracle (US), Microsoft (US), Infor (US), Salesforce (US), Sage Group (UK), IBM (US), Epicor (US), 3I Infotech (India), Ramco Systems (India), Prolitus Technologies (India), IFS (Sweden), and QAD (US).

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Bitcoin isnt exactlyen voguein 2020, but its underlying technology (blockchain) is apparently still cool.

At least, thats according to employment service LinkedIn, which listed blockchain as techs most sought after hard skill this year.

A LinkedIn blog published last week notes that blockchain is the most in-demand skill in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and Germany more popular than cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and UX design.

Blockchain has emerged from the once shadowy world of cryptocurrency to become a business solution in search of problems, said LinkedIn. Which means that you dont have to be in financial services to be seeking new hires who have background and expertise in putting blockchain to use.

The Microsoft-owned company then urged recruiters to start familiarizing themselves with how blockchain works and what its perceived benefits are.

[] Companies seem to be saying that the potential [of blockchain] is worth the gamble, LinkedIn continued. Blockchain has become a line of business for a whos who of the corporate world IBM, Oracle, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft (LinkedIns parent company), Amazon, and American Express, to name just a few.

LinkedIn explains that there are two different kinds of skills: hard and soft.

Hard skills are those that pertain to an employees aptitude for executing specific tasks, mostly technical abilities and specialized knowledge. For software developers, proficiency in the C++ programming language would be a hard skill.

Soft skills relate to the way in which those employees perform those tasks. How one behaves, how they think, and their cognitive skills are all examples of soft skills.

While soft skills are difficult to measure, and perhaps harder to learn, LinkedIn did offer some advice to those looking to break into blockchain this year: learn the programming language used to write Ethereum smart contracts, Solidity.

In November last year, Hard Fork reported that job vacancy site Indeed had noted decreasing candidate interest in blockchain-related roles, but that employer demand in the industry had skyrocketed.

So, while it might be relatively difficult to make money from investing in or trading cryptocurrency this year, working with its underlying tech still seems mightylucrative for now.

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If we needed evidence of cloud computings success, that AWS revenue has risen from US$300 million in 2009 to become a US$32 billion business today, is fairly substantial.

What began as a movement to provide companies with easier and more cost-effective access to IT infrastructure has become the most important computing development in history, opens a new report by AllCloud which cements the trajectory of what is, simply, access to computers on the internet.

According to the Cloud Infrastructure Report, featuring responses from more than 150 IT decision-makers at organizations where at least 300 employees were using cloud infrastructure, 85 percent of organizations expect to shift the majority of their workloads cloudwards by the end of the year, while just shy of a quarter (24 percent) plan to be cloud-only.

At present, around seven in 10 already run at least half of their workloads on the cloud.

The firm said the findings supported its own client feedback: that firms are now comfortable and familiar with the technology, and are ready to explore further benefits and new ways to use it.

What was once a simple implementation or a single workload migration to the cloud has now transformed into a complete infrastructure, platform and application modernization, AllCloud said on the findings.

The continued and aggressive move to the cloud will come hand-in-hand with a further move towards new technologies, such as containers and microservices. More than 56 percent of respondents said at least half of all their cloud workloads are using these technologies.

The adoption of containerized workloads adds efficiency, consistency, and ease of management to cloud strategies. In particular, AllCloud has seen an increase in the number of clients that are planning to implement Kubernetes.

Given AllClouds focus on supporting AWS, the report was centered on the use of this particular service and its extensive network of managed service providers (MSPs).

These are providing 43 percent of organizations with outside support for more than half of their workloads. Database MSPs, in particular, have seen the biggest leap, simplifying the process of migration. There is also a growing understanding that organizing and managing data is a necessary foundational service and strategy, allowing businesses to set the stage for analysis and broader cloud goals.

More than a fifth of respondents (21 percent) said theyd be looking to enlist database MSPs in the coming year, while the limitless use cases of IoT for business are proving attractive for 17 percent.

However, nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of respondents in the study claimed their company used a hybrid cloud approach: This reinforces the flexibility of the AWS platform, which easily works with other infrastructure and technology solutions, the report noted.

These hybrid collaborations are sometimes short-term, while others come down to necessity.

Owed to AWS partnership with VMware, almost three-quarters of enterprise private cloud workloads are using its virtualization services which underlines the need for continued integration between the two platforms, AllCloud said.

The existing partnership is likely to grow stronger and broader, with more accessibility released between the technologies. This will allow a faster rate of enterprise adoption for organizations that want to leverage the benefits of the cloud.

Interestingly, despite the expense of cloud computing services being a commonly-cited concern, cost (14 percent) ranked just fourth as the main deciding factor when it comes to deciding on a cloud platform of choice.

Security (28 percent) was ranked first priority, while reliability (26 percent) and flexibility (22 percent) were also top considerations.

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