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Versa Networks Wins 2023 Product of the Year Award for its Industry-Leading SASE Solution – Yahoo Finance

Versa Single-Vendor Unified SASE is the Only SASE Solution to Win a Product of the Year Award and be Recognized for Exceptional Innovation by Cloud Computing Magazine

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 04, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Versa Networks, the recognized leader of single-vendor Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Versa SASE the 2023 Product of the Year Award, presented by Cloud Computing Magazine.

"The accolades continue to roll in this year for Versa SASE, most recently being named as the only SASE solution to earn the Cloud Computing 2023 Product of the Year Award," said Kelly Ahuja, CEO of Versa Networks. "The Versa Unified SASE Platform is designed to simplify how enterprises protect and connect their users, devices, and sites across cloud workloads and applications. Whether its enforcing a cloud-delivered Zero Trust security model for remote users, protecting hybrid workers against a wide range of cloud-based threats, connecting and optimizing branch office networks with cloud-delivered SD-WAN, or natively integrating multi-cloud infrastructures, Versa SASE can help."

"Organizations need more than just security for their cloud environments, and Versa SASE delivers unique integration of the most comprehensive range of networking and security services," Ahuja continued. "Our products were architected with this integration principle from inception. This is enabled by Versas single-stack architecture, which uniquely delivers the SASE functionalities organizations need, as proven by Versas continued success and industry recognition."

Versas AI/ML-powered single-vendor Unified SASE delivers organically developed best-of-breed functions that tightly integrate and deliver services via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both, managed through a single pane of glass. Versa delivers SASE services such as Secure SD-WAN, Next-Generation Firewall, Next-Generation Firewall as a Service, Cloud Network Firewall, Unified Threat Management (UTM) including Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Remote Browser Isolation (RBI), and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA). Versas single-vendor Unified SASE platform goes above and beyond management console automation by providing the ability to integrate networks, points of presence, policy definitions, application definitions, agent logic, and data lakes.

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About the Cloud Computing Product of the Year Award

The Cloud Computing Product of the Year Award honors vendors with the most innovative, useful, and beneficial cloud products and services that have been available to deploy within the past year. For more on Versas Product of the Year Award, see https://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/breaking-news/articles/455274-winners-the-2023-cloud-computing-product-the-year.htm.

"Congratulations to Versa Networks for being honored with a Cloud Computing Product of the Year Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "Versa SASE is truly an innovative product and is among the best solutions available that facilitate business-transforming cloud computing and communications. I look forward to continued excellence from Versa in 2023 and beyond."

Versa simplifies how enterprises protect and connect their users, devices and sites to workloads and applications anywhere, anytime. As the leader in SASE, the fastest growing category in cybersecurity, Versa is the only company delivering a differentiated Unified SASE architecture that converges security and networking to ensure an improved security posture, enhanced user-to-application experience, and operational efficiency. Gartner has identified Versa SASE as having the most SASE components out of all 56 vendors Gartner evaluated and named Versa as one of the vendors delivering single-vendor SASE. Also, KuppingerCole Analysts AG named Versa a leader in every evaluation category in its recent SASE Integration Suites Leadership Compass report. In addition, Frost & Sullivan honored Versa with its SASE Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award for its industry-leading SASE solution. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) also found that Versa SASE has the most SASE supported functions, as published in its industry report; while 650 Group recognized Versa as the market share leader for both Deployed SASE and Enabled SD-WAN. Finally, the CIO CHOICE 2023 Honor and Recognition program distinguished Versa SASE as the Most Trusted Brand by CIOs for SASE.

About Cloud Computing Magazine

Cloud Computing magazine is the industrys definitive source for all things cloud from public, community, hybrid and private cloud to security and business continuity, and everything in between. This quarterly magazine published by TMC assesses the most important developments in cloud computing not only as they relate to IT, but to the business landscape as a whole.

About Versa Networks

Versa Networks, the leader in single-vendor Unified SASE platforms, delivers AI/ML-powered SSE and SD-WAN solutions. The platform provides networking and security with true multitenancy, and sophisticated analytics via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both to meet SASE requirements for small to extremely large enterprises and Service Providers. Thousands of customers globally with hundreds of thousands of sites and millions of users trust Versa with their mission critical networks and security. Versa Networks is privately held and funded by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, Artis Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Comcast Ventures, BlackRock Inc., Liberty Global Ventures, Princeville Capital, RPS Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners. For more information, visit https://www.versa-networks.com or follow Versa Networks on Twitter @versanetworks.

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Adaptive Learning Global Market Report 2023: Growing Use of Cloud Computing Among Organizations and Educational Institutes to Motivate Learners to…

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Global Adaptive Learning Market

Dublin, April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Adaptive Learning Market Research Report by Components (Platform and Services), Application, Deployment, End User, Region - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19, Russia Ukraine Conflict, and High Inflation - Global Forecast 2023-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Global Adaptive Learning Market size was estimated at USD 2,492.08 million in 2022, USD 3,083.33 million in 2023, and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 24.20% to reach USD 14,114.58 million by 2030.

Market Dynamics

Drivers

Rising Demand for Elearning Solutions Globally

Rising Demand for Personalized Learning

Government Initiatives for Adaptive Learning Solutions

Restraints

Opportunities

Boosting the Use of Blended Learning Technology

Increasing Demand for Gamification in Adaptive Learning

Growing Use of Cloud Computing Among Organizations and Educational Institutes to Motivate Learners to Adopt Web-Based Adaptive Solutions

Challenges

Cumulative Impact of High Inflation:

The high inflation in developed economies globally has resulted in an overall price surge over the past two years. The cumulatively eroding overall purchasing power is expected to impact developing economies significantly and is considered helpful in numerous ways. The report uncovers the effect of high inflation on the long-term performance of the global economy and provides details on fiscal policies measuring and reducing its short-term impacts on demand/supply, cash flow, and currency exchange. The Global Adaptive Learning Market report delivers the high inflation expectation considering the related impact from cost-push and demand-pull inflation.

Market Statistics:

The report provides market sizing and forecasts across 7 major currencies - USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, AUD, CAD, and CHF; multiple currency support helps organization leaders to make better decisions. In this report, the years 2018 and 2021 are considered as historical years, 2022 as the base year, 2023 as the estimated year, and years from 2024 to 2030 are considered as the forecast period.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:

The report on the Global Adaptive Learning Market identifies key attributes about the customer to define the potential market and identify different needs across the industry. Understanding the potential customer group's economies and geographies can help gain business acumen for better strategic decision-making. The market coverage across different industry verticals reveals the hidden truth about the players' strategies in different verticals and helps the organization decide target audience. This report gives you the composite view of sub-markets coupled with comprehensive industry coverage and provides you with the right way of accounting factors such as norms & regulations, culture, to make right coverage strategy for the market plan. This research report categorizes the Global Adaptive Learning Market in order to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

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Based on Components, the market is studied across Platform and Services. The Services is further studied across Managed Services and Professional Services. The Professional Services is further studied across Consulting, Implementation, and Support & Maintenance.

Based on Application, the market is studied across EdTech Companies and Educational Institutes.

Based on Deployment, the market is studied across Cloud and On-premises.

Based on End User, the market is studied across Academic and Enterprise. The Academic is further studied across Higher Education and K-12. The Enterprise is further studied across Large Enterprise and SME.

Based on Region, the market is studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The United States is further studied across California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

FPNV Positioning Matrix:

The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes vendors in the Global Adaptive Learning Market. based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) and placed into four quadrants (F: Forefront, P: Pathfinder, N: Niche, and V: Vital). The Global Adaptive Learning Market FPNV Positioning Matrix representation/visualization further aids businesses in better decision-making and understanding the competitive landscape.

Market Share Analysis:

The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market, providing the idea of revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. This provides insights on vendors performance in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. The Global Adaptive Learning Market Share Analysis offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. The outcome reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.

The report provides insights on the following pointers:

1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyzes penetration across mature segments of the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Market Trends: Provides comprehensive understanding of the Cumulative Impact of COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, and the High Inflation5. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players6. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments

The report answers questions such as:

1. What is the market size and forecast of the Global Adaptive Learning Market?2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global Adaptive Learning Market during the forecast period?3. Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the forecast period in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?4. What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?6. What is the market share of the leading vendors in the Global Adaptive Learning Market?7. What modes and strategic moves are considered suitable for entering the Global Adaptive Learning Market?

Key Attributes:

Report Attribute

Details

No. of Pages

237

Forecast Period

2022 - 2030

Estimated Market Value (USD) in 2022

$2492.08 Million

Forecasted Market Value (USD) by 2030

$14114.58 Million

Compound Annual Growth Rate

24.2%

Regions Covered

Global

Key Topics Covered:

1. Preface1.1. Objectives of the Study1.2. Market Segmentation & Coverage1.3. Years Considered for the Study1.4. Currency & Pricing1.5. Language1.6. Limitations1.7. Assumptions1.8. Stakeholders

2. Research Methodology2.1. Define: Research Objective2.2. Determine: Research Design2.3. Prepare: Research Instrument2.4. Collect: Data Source2.5. Analyze: Data Interpretation2.6. Formulate: Data Verification2.7. Publish: Research Report2.8. Repeat: Report Update

3. Executive Summary

4. Market Overview

5. Market Insights

6. Adaptive Learning Market, by Components

7. Adaptive Learning Market, by Application

8. Adaptive Learning Market, by Deployment

9. Adaptive Learning Market, by End User

10. Americas Adaptive Learning Market

11. Asia-Pacific Adaptive Learning Market

12. Europe, Middle East & Africa Adaptive Learning Market

13. Competitive Landscape

14. Company Usability Profiles

15. Appendix

Companies Mentioned

Area9 Lyceum

Cerego Inc.

CogBooks Limited

Curriculum Associates, LLC

Dreambox Learning, Inc

Follett Corporation

Fulcrum Labs, Inc.

Imagination Station, Inc.

Imagine Learning LLC.

Impelsys Inc.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Knowre

McGraw Hill

Pearson Education Inc.,

Realizeit

Stride, Inc.

VitalSource Technologies LLC

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The CNA market size is expected to grow from USD 5.9 billion in … – GlobeNewswire

New York, April 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Cloud Native Applications Market by Component, Deployment Mode, Organization Size, Vertical and Region - Global Forecast to 2028" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06445319/?utm_source=GNW Open-source managed services (OSMS) have also become a key part of the cloud native app development ecosystem. Services and tools are required to provide app developers and businesses with various ways to take advantage of the cloud and open-source software. For instance, the Kubernetes website lists over 200 certified service providers who integrate with their open-source platform. OSMS providers make the configuration, monitoring, and management of cloud native apps easier, nimble, more predictable, and more reliable. OSMS providers largely focus on businesses that dont have the limitless development resources of companies such as IBM, Amazon, and Google.

Public cloud segment to have a larger market size during the forecast periodPublic cloud includes a platform being managed by a third party, and operated over the internet.It uses the standard cloud computing model to avail resources and services to remote users worldwide.

Public cloud services can be used for free or be provided through subscription-based or on-demand pricing schemes, including the pay-per-usage/pay-as-you-go model.The crucial benefits of the public cloud include a decreased requirement for organizations to invest in maintaining their on-premises IT resources and infrastructure; scalability to meet workload and user demands; and fewer redundant resources owing to customers payment with the pay-per-usage model.

The public cloud providers offer the infrastructure needed to host and deploy workloads in the cloud. Tools and services help customers manage cloud applications, including data storage, security, and monitoring and reporting capabilities.

Healthcare and life sciences vertical to exhibit significant growth during the forecast periodThe cloud native applications for the healthcare and life science vertical offer dependable, comprehensive features that make it simpler to enhance and efficiently manage the entire healthcare experience.It also provides clients in the healthcare sector with an open, secure, and enterprise-grade environment to support workloads, prevent downtime, regardless of their stage in the migration to the cloud or their workload environment.

By adopting cloud native applications solutions, this industry can enhance patient engagement, improve health data insights, effective management of physical infrastructure management burden, secure health information, improve patient experience, enhance privacy, empower health team collaboration, cost-efficiency, flexibility and reliability, and boost productivity with accurate virtual capabilities (diagnosing).The cloud native applications for life sciences lower obstacles to innovation by offering a selected set of solutions that have been curatively created to assist businesses in developing, testing, manufacturing, and selling treatments swiftly and effectively while adhering to the strictest security and compliance standard.

This improves the healthcare and life sciences professionals access to the most recent medical data and allows them to choose wisely and expedite the demand to achieve desired outcomes.

Asia Pacific to hold the highest CAGR during the forecast periodAsia Pacific experiences considerable cloud native spending owing to the ever-growing cloud computing traffic landscape of the region.The countries in the Asia Pacific region are home to many emerging and growing SMEs.

According to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, SMEs are the catalysts of growth in the Asia Pacific region.They account for slightly over 87% of all operational businesses and employ over half of the workforce in the region.

SMEs are increasingly adopting cloud computing to increase their operational efficiency, and cloud native applications is an integral part of it.During the pandemic, cloud technology has supported global supply chains and remote working.

It assists organizations in the region, enabling scalability, business continuity along with improvement, and reduced costs with vendors working significantly to facilitate zero downtime. Cloud native applications have emerged as a foundational infrastructure for building scalable, digitally enabled infrastructure and solutions for firms. Multinational cloud platforms, such as Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, and domestic cloud computing companies across the Asia Pacific, have ramped up their capacities as well as capabilities and diversified their service offerings to support businesses and enable a new generation of startup companies. Regional governments and organizations are taking up several initiatives related to cloud-based solutions. Organizations in this region are also increasingly focusing on increasing the customer experiences of their clients with enhanced security and application protection.Further, in-depth interviews were conducted with the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Chief Marketing Officers (CMO), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Operating Officers (COOs), Vice Presidents (VPs), Managing Directors (MDs), technology and innovation directors, and related key executives from various key companies and organizations operating in the Cloud native applications market. By Company Tier 145%, Tier 230%, and Tier 325% By Designation C-Level40%, Director Level35%, and Others25% By Region North America40%, Europe25%, Asia Pacific25%, RoW 10%Cloud native applications vendors include Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon, US), Google LLC (Google, US), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, US), Infosys Technologies Private Limited (Infosys, India), Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI, India), Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft, US), Oracle Corporation (Oracle, US), Red Hat (US), SAP SE (SAP, Germany), VMware (US), Alibaba Cloud (Singapore), Apexon (US), Bacancy Technology (India), Citrix Systems, Inc. (Citrix, US), Harness (US), Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (Cognizant, US), Ekco (Ireland), Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei, China), R Systems (US), Scality (US), and Sciencesoft (US). The study includes an in-depth competitive analysis of these key players in the Cloud native applications market with their company profiles, recent developments, and key market strategies.

Research CoverageThe research study covered inputs, insights, trends, happenings, from secondary sources, primary sources, stakeholders interviews and surveys.Secondary sources include information from databases and repositories such as D&B Hoovers, Bloomberg, Factiva, CoinDesk, among others.

Primary data was fetched from supply-side industry experts who hold the chair of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Technological Officer (CTO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), Vice-President (VP) of IT, and Managing Director (MD), among others.Few of our key primary respondents are IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, among others.

Few startups are also included during our primary interviews. Additionally, we have taken the information and statistical and historical data from a few government associations, public sources, webinar and seminar transcripts, journals, conferences and events.

Reasons to buy this report:The report will act as a guide for the market leaders/new entrants in this market with information on the closest approximations of the revenue numbers for the overall Cloud native applications market and associated subsegments.This report will help stakeholders understand the competitive landscape and gain more insights to position their businesses better, improvise and revamp their offerings vis--vis ever-changing customer requirements with customizations, and plan suitable go-to-market strategies.

The report also helps stakeholders understand the pulse of the market and provides them with information on key market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities. The report provisions significant and business development-focused data for the readers with strategic inputs/insights via numerous charts, and closest figures of forecast, to help readers design their blueprint to outgrow peers current offerings, maintain and enhance market sustainability,

The report provides insights on the following pointers Analysis of key drivers (Significant reduction in vendor lock-ins, real-time analytics provisioning and guidelines compliance, getting apps-to-market or time-to-market swiftly and efficiently), restraints (cost overrun being a limiting factor, replacement of new practices with traditional ones), opportunities (better reliability with respect to IT infrastructure), and challenges (management and governance of development workflow) influencing the growth of the cloud native applications market Product Development/Innovation: Detailed insights on upcoming technologies, research & development activities, and new product & service launches in the Cloud native applications market Market Development: Comprehensive information about lucrative markets the report analyses the Cloud native applications market across varied regions Market Diversification: Exhaustive information about new products & services, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments in the Cloud native applications market Competitive Assessment: In-depth assessment of market shares, growth strategies and service offerings of leading players like include IBM (US), Amazon(US), Google (US), Microsoft (US), Oracle (US), Red Hat (US), SAP (Germany), VMware (US), LTI (India), among others in the Cloud native applications market strategies. The report also helps stakeholders understand the competitive analysis by these market players.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06445319/?utm_source=GNW

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Colocation vs. cloud: SEO firm finds cloud to be cost prohibitive for its high density computing – Network World

A software firm in Singapore claims it would cost more than $400 million over three years if it were to migrate from its existing colocation setup and move its workloads to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Notably, the firmruns a very compute-intensive environment, and high density computing can be very expensive to duplicate in cloud environments.

Ahrefs, which develops search engine optimization tools, made the $400 million claim in a March 9 blog post by one of the companys data center operations executives, Efim Mirochnik. Mirochnik compared the cost of acquiring and running its 850 Dell servers in a colocation providers data center with the cost of running a similar configuration in AWS.

With colocation, a company buys its own IT equipment, but instead of building and maintaining a data center for it, the equipment is hosted by a colocation provider. This way the customer can manage its own IT systems and leave things like power management and cooling to the colocation provider.

Theres a wide swath of colocation providers, ranging from firms with just a few locations to global giants like Equinix. According to Allied Market Research, the colocation market was worth $46 billion in 2020 and is projected to top $202 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of nearly 16% from 2021 to 2030.

Mirochnik calculated Ahrefs' cost per server per month at $1,550, including the cost of acquisition, for the firm's colocation setup. That estimate factors in the cost of renting space at the colocation facility as well as electricity use, the cost of IP transit and dark fiber between the data center and point of presence, and network hardware.

To get the same hardware through AWS, he estimated the company would pay $17,557 per month for an equivalent server, including storage and data-transfer costs.

However, Mirochnik explained the comparison isnt quite even. Ahrefs has relatively new hardware with high core-count CPUs, 2TB RAM, 2x 100Gbps per server, and, on average, 16 15TB drives. You wont find that kind of configuration on any cloud service provider, even AWS. So Mirochnik compared one Ahrefs server to two Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances:

The cost structure for AWS is different from the colocation, Mirochnik explained. Unfortunately, AWS doesnt provide an EC2 instance with the number of cores we have. So we found an EC2 configuration with half the cores and 1TB RAM. We then compared one Ahrefs server cost to the cost of two such EC2 instances.

Storage equivalency also required some modifications. For the cost comparison, Mirochnik priced Amazon block storage, which isnt as fast as Ahrefs NVMe drives.

Apart from EC2 instances, we added Elastic Block Storage (EBS). It is not an accurate replacement for directly attached storage, as we use big and fast NVMe drives in the servers. To make things simple, we chose cheaper gp3 EBS (much slower than ours, though). Its cost consists of two parts: storage size and charges for IOPS.

The Amazon storage may have been slower than Ahrefs NVMe drives, but it sure was pricey. Ahrefs estimated the monthly cost of EBS at $11,486 which accounts for 65% of the $17,557 total monthly cost. The EC2 instances came in at $5,606, and data transfer costs were estimated at $464.

Given the enormous cost and lesser storage capability, AWS was no replacement for an on-premises configuration for Ahrefs.

A replacement EC2 instance with similar usable SSD space in AWS would cost us roughly the same amount of money for 11.3 servers in a colocation data center. Accordingly, that means our 20-server rack would transform into just ~2 servers, Mirochnik wrote.

At $1,550 per server, Mirochnik calculated the cost of running its own 850 servers in a colocation data center at $1.3 million per month. Over a 30-month period, it would cost $39.5 million.

By comparison, Mirochnik estimated the monthly cost for AWS EC2 instances with an equivalent amount of computing as the on-prem setup at $14.9 million, which translates to $447.7 million over 30 months.

The $447.7 million price for AWS would have greatly exceeded the $257 million in revenue Ahrens reported during the same 30-month period. It doesnt take a CFO to figure out that the company would be running at a massive loss in this scenario.

Ahrefs would hardly survive if a cloud was our primary infrastructure destination, Mirochnik concluded.

Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager of IDC's worldwide infrastructure research organization, notes that Ahrefs operates a high-performance computing environment with the gear it uses, and the cloud is not built for sustained high-performance computing in general.

The economies of scale start to become less compelling as you start using more premium products or premium services from these corporate players, Nadkarni said.

If you implement an HPC environment in the cloud without doing your homework first, you could end up spending two to three times more over a period of three to four years just in operational costs alone, Nadkarni warned.

Nobody's saying get rid of public cloud services. Absolutely not. What we do say is you want to place the workload at a location in an operating environment that is doing justice to the workload itself, he said.

If you have an HPC environment that only needs to run two hours a day, then you're probably not serving yourself well by going with an on-prem solution. But if you have an HPC environment that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, then you should think about whether it is best to invest in your own on-premises or colocation infrastructure, he added.

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Micro Logics Projet Cirrus Bringing Sovereign Cloud to Canada – CIO

Stphane Garneau, the president of Quebec-based Micro Logic, still sees the same forces driving private sector enterprises and public sector agencies to seek out sovereign cloud solutions now that he witnessed nearly a decade ago.

We first made the commitment to create and offer sovereign cloud solutions and services in 2014, says Garneau. At the time government agencies wanted to embrace technologies and the flexibility and performance they offered, but feared being subjected to a competitive country that potentially could leverage their legislative power to unilaterally force local and international cloud providers to grant access to critical, classified or otherwise strategic information. Today, those same motivations and same concerns have only grown stronger.

Today, Projet Cirrus Micro Logics suite of sovereign cloud solutions, including private, community, public, and hybrid offerings is relied on by hundreds of organizations in the public and private sectors organizations that require all data to reside in Canada at all times. Not only that, but data is required to only be accessible by fully vetted Canadian citizens or in the case of international companies doing business in Canada, to be subject to the data protection regulations of their home country.

High profile incidents as well as the widespread collection and use of data have led to a growing preoccupation with what happens to the information we share or upload online, adds Garneau. This is particularly true for sensitive and private data used in certain industries and by the government. It is more important than ever to control and secure this data at all times, which is exactly what the sovereign clouds solutions in Projet Cirrus do.

The sovereign cloud offerings within Projet Cirrus also include robust backup and disaster recovery services, as a well as a Fortified Cloud that features encryption and data protection measures that exceed the most stringent guidelines for government agencies and highly regulated industries. All services are provided from two distinct and independent Tier-3 certified data centers in Quebec and Montreal.

Notably, the entire Projet Cirrus suite is supported by the more than 300 sovereign cloud experts at Micro Logic. This includes a dedicated team that is specifically focused on building and developing locally owned and operated international alternative cloud products that are designed to address the unique, bespoke needs of specific enterprises and institutions.

Flexibility is one of the key attributes of the cloud, and that same concept extends to sovereign cloud solutions and services. Our dedicated Projet Cirrus team is comprised of certified and highly skilled experts who strive to push innovation forward and who are ideally qualified to address each customers unique cloud journey, says Garneau. Our clients benefit from this expertise and a sovereign cloud that is not only built around the latest technology and hardware, but which is also based on agnostic technology that empowers them to avoid vendor lock-in at all times.

Garneau also stresses that the companys strong relationship with VMware and reliance on its proven and trusted technologies offers enterprises additional peace of mind. He notes it is also of importance to prospective customers.

The VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction is an important recognition for Micro Logic because it highlights our commitment and shows that we have made the extra effort to ensure that their data is hosted in known and trusted facilities sheltered from foreign political or legislative influence, he says. The breadth of our expertise allows us to address the full spectrum of IT challenges organizations and businesses face today. We took our extensive experience in on-premises computing and in years of service expanded it to encompass the sovereign, hybrid and multi-cloud environments our clients depend on and need today.

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Oracle Strengthens Commitment to South East Asia with Second … – PR Newswire

New region will help meet increasing demand for OCI services in South East Asia while addressing growing business continuity and compliance requirements

Industries across South East Asia including financial services and telecommunications will benefit from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's high performance and security, powerful data and analytics, and distributed cloud capabilities

Second cloud region in Singapore will join Oracle's 41 existing and nine other planned public cloud regions

SINGAPORE and AUSTIN, Texas, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle CloudWorld Tour -- To meet the rapidly growing demand for its cloud services in South East Asia, Oracle today announced plans to open a second cloud region in Singapore. Continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider, the new region is one of 10 planned public regions to join the 41 regions that Oracle currently operates.

The region will offer Oracle's public and private sector customers and partners a new option to locate their infrastructure, applications, and data for optimal performance and latency. Customers will have access to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications; innovate with data, analytics, and AI; and migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In addition, customers will be able to achieve greater business continuity by using both Oracle Cloud Singapore Regions together while retaining data residency within Singapore.

"Our upcoming second cloud region in Singapore will help meet the tremendous upsurge in demand for cloud services in South East Asia," said Garrett Ilg, president, Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle. "With the new region, Oracle offers customers true business continuity and disaster protection while meeting in-country data residency requirements. As a result, we're extending our commitment to helping organizations in South East Asia embrace technologies like AI, machine learning, and IoT to address their most complex challenges and achieve more with less."

The new Oracle Cloud Singapore Region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave Database Service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. These applications and services will help startups and medium-sized and large organizations across financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail in South East Asia harness data to help uncover new business value and optimize applications, typically without requiring costly re-architecture. The first Oracle Cloud Singapore Region has supported the innovation needs of more than 1,000 customers in South East Asia, including Pacific International Lines and Siam Makro.

High Availability and Low Latency Provides Customers with a Resilient Cloud Foundation

OCI's next-generation architecture maximizes performance and security. Each Oracle Cloud Region contains at least three fault domains, which are groupings of hardware that form logical data centers for high availability and resilience to hardware and network failures. The second region in Singapore will help customers increase business continuity while addressing regulatory needs.

Both Singaporeregions will provide low-latency networking and high-speed data transfer to allow customers and partners to derive better value from their data. In addition, OCI's distributed cloud solutions, including Dedicated Region and Exadata [emailprotected], can assist with applications where data proximity and low latency in specific locations are critical.

Spurring South East Asia's Digital Economic Growth

In its Top ICT Predictions for 2022 and Beyond at IDC FutureScape 2022,IDC said that by 2023 digital will rule in South East Asia, as one in three companies will generate more than 15 percent of their revenue from digital products and services, compared to one in six in 2020. The strong focus on increasing revenue from digital products and services will contribute towards cloud technology playing an even more integral role in business continuity and resiliency for South East Asian organizations in today's digital-first world.

"Oracle's second cloud region in Singapore is a welcomed addition as the country continues to establish itself as one of the top markets for data centres globally, with sustainability at its core. Despite economic uncertainties, cloud spending by South East Asia organizations remains strong as cloud adoption continues to be seen as a business differentiator to meet the challenges of the post-pandemic future. IDC forecasts the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) overall public cloud services market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.5% from US$53.4 billion in 2021 to reach US$153.6 billion in 2026," said Estelle Quek, senior research manager, Cloud Buyer Trends and Intentions Research, IDC.

A Focus on Driving Sustainable Operations Across the Globe

Underscoring its ongoing focus on sustainability, Oracle has committed to matching all worldwide Oracle Cloud Regions with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, including the new Oracle Cloud Region in Singapore. Several Oracle Cloud Regions are already powered by 100 percent renewable energy, which enables customers to run their computing services more sustainably and with a lower carbon footprint. To further advance its commitment to sustainable operations, Oracle and its Asset Recovery partners recycled 99.9 percent of retired hardware they collected in FY'22.

Customers and Partners Welcome Oracle's Second Cloud Region in Singapore

"We're excited to hear Oracle's plans to launch another cloud region in Singapore. Singapore Pools had a good experience with the first cloud region. With the launch of the second region, this strengthens our confidence for maximum high availability for our cloud services," said Yeo Teck Guan, chief business technology officer, Singapore Pools.

"The upcoming second Oracle cloud region in Singapore is timely for Siam Makro as we are expanding across the South East Asia region. We'll soon be able to scale up on our cloud-based technology as well as consolidate our cloud needs holistically, allowing us to operate more efficiently," said Paul Stephen Howe, group chief information technology officer, Siam Makro.

"We're thrilled to embark on this journey with Oracle as its second cloud region will offer endless possibilities for system integrators and independent software vendors like us to scale our operations and achieve greater performance. With Oracle's advanced technologies and our expertise in delivering mission-critical IT services, we are poised to help our customers and advisors navigate the complexities of the digital landscape and optimize their digital journey," said Richard James, managing director, enterprise application services, APMEA, DXC Technology.

Oracle Cloud's Rapidly Growing Global Footprint

Oracle provides a broad and consistent set of cloud services, with the same low prices, across more than 41 cloud regions in 22 countries. OCI currently operates 34 commercial regions and seven government regions, in addition to multiple dedicated and national security regions.

Currently available Oracle Cloud Regions include:

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Edited April 3, 2023: Happy April Fools Day, everyone. Stay safe!

Hello, chess world. This is the first of a 25-article series proving why GM Anish Giri is the best person in the history of all humanity. I am writing this article series not because master Anish is now my CEO and ultimate boss but because I truly believe in the words I am writing.

In this first article, we shall explore Giri's incredibleness levels, which are off the charts. Let us begin.

Let's start with a scientific analysis of his name. To a non-specialist's eyes, Anish Giri might seem like a regular name. However, our star's moniker hides a secret message that describes the type of person he is.

AmazingNobleIncredibleSavantHonorable

GoodImpressiveRegular guy? No way.Incredible again

Not many people can pull off such a name. Nay, just one canand his name is CEO Anish Giri.

The golden ratio is a magical mathematical concept that turns regular things into perfect masterpieces. For this reason, it's also called the "divine proportion."

Not a lot of people know this, but the golden ratio is based on Anish Giri. Let me show you:

What do William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, and others like them have in common? None of them could write well enough to express their thoughts in 280 characters. That's why they all had to write booksand also the reason why they never had a meaningful following on Twitter.

GM and CEO Anish Giri, on the other hand, is a Twitter whisperer. He makes that bird sing. That's why he has so many followers, and that's why you should follow him too. Click the button below to go to his Twitter profile. And do notice how he's the only super grandmaster in the world with a personalized Twitter button. That's how incredible he is.

Don't have a Twitter account? You should create one and follow him. Do it while it's still free (who knows what they're doing next).

In conclusion, CEO Anish is an incredible person. And OMG, I hope he doesn't read this far. Please help us. Someone call Erik and tell him to come back.

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by Reemus Fernando

St. Josephs and Trinity will meet in the final to decide the champions of the Under 19 Division I Tier A tournament as they edged out their opponents in contrasting fashion in the semi-finals ended on Tuesday.

St. Josephs edged out St. Benedicts through points after their match ended in a no decision at Mount Lavinia. Trinity scored an outright victory over Maliyadeva as Tharana Wimaladharma bagged eight wickets in the match played at Kirimandala Mawatha.

In reply to Maliyadevas 139, Trinity posted 199 runs thanks to vital contributions made by Rahal Amarasinghe (34), Dinusha Peiris (45) and Dinuka Tennakoon (36).

In their second essay Maliyadeva were dismissed for 99 runs. While Jayavi Liyanagama took three wickets, off-spinner Tharana Wimaladharma picked up his second four wicket haul of the match.

With that match bag of eight wickets Wimaladharma has now taken over 80 wickets in both limited overs matches and two-day matches.

Trinity were left with a target of 40 runs to chase for an outright victory and they achieved it for the loss of three wickets with many overs to spare.

At Mount Lavinia, St. Josephs continuing on their overnight total went on to amass 439 for seven wickets declared. Avintha de Alwis went on to score a century while Muditha Dissanayaka (78) and Lahiru Amarasekara (46n.o.) helped boost the score.

In their essay St. Benedicts were 90 for six wickets at close. St. Josephs had accumulated enough points to secure their place in the final. Incidentally, St. Josephs are in their third consecutive final after having won back to back titles prior to the tournament was halted by covid 19 pandemic.

The finals of the Tier A tournament will be played over the weekend. However both teams have expressed their concern over the scheduling of the final which coincides with Easter Sunday.

Match Details

Trinity beat Maliyadeva by seven wickets at Kirimandala Mawatha

Scores:

Maliyadeva

139 all out in 56.5 overs (Gayana Weerasinghe 65; Tharana Wimaladharma 4/34, Dinuka Tennakoon 3/37, Kaveen Gamage 2/23) and 99 all out in 42.4 overs (Gayana Weerasinghe 20; Jayavi Liyanagama 3/06, Tharana Wimaladarma 4/36)

Trinity

106 for 2 overnight 199 all out in 53.5 overs (Rahal Amarasinghe 34, Dinusha Peiris 45, Dinuka Tennakoon 36; Charuka Herath 4/43, Dimath Abeysinghe 3/61) and 41 for 3 in 10 overs (Dinusha Peiris 17n.o., Vathila Udara 17)

St. Josephs edge out St. Benedicts on points at Mount Lavinia

Scores:

St. Josephs

294 for 3 overnight 439 for 7decl. in 148.5 overs (Sadeesh Jayawardana 44, Sahan Dabare 41, Naren Muralidaran 102, Avintha de Alwis 101, Muditha Dissanayaka 78, Lahiru Amarasekara 46n.o.; Mevan Dissanayake 4/137)

St. Benedicts

90 for 6 in (Sharujan Shanmuganathan 33n.o., Shenel Samarathunga 21; Lahiru Amarasekara 2/26, Yenula Dewthusa 2/08)

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