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EU Political agreement reached on the Digital Services Act – JD Supra

On 23 April 2022, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a political agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA), as proposed by the European Commission in December 2020.

You can read about the background to the DSA in our blog here and about the practical implications of the proposal for various businesses here.

The DSA will cover various online intermediaries and their respective obligations shall depend on their role, size and impact on the online ecosystem. The DSAs coverage includes the following online intermediary services:

The political agreement reached on the DSA follows various compromises, including:

Other key takeaways from the political agreement on the DSA include:

The political agreement reached on the DSA will now need to be approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. Once adopted, the DSA as a regulation will be directly applicable throughout the EU and will apply 15 months after entry into force, or from 1 January 2024, whichever is later. However, with respect to very large online platforms and very large online search engines, the DSA could apply sooner, i.e. four months after their designation.

Read the European Commission's press release 'Digital Services Act: Commission welcomes political agreement on rules ensuring a safe and accountable online environment' and the updated Q&A.

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The Global Cloud Computing Market is expected to reach a value of USD 750,100 Million by 2027, at a CAGR of 30.10% over the forecast period (2021 -…

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Cloud computing enables businesses to store, manage, and process critical data by utilizing remote servers hosted on the internet. The increasing volume of data generation in websites and mobile apps, the growing emphasis on delivering customer-centric applications to drive customer satisfaction, and the growing need to control and reduce Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditure (OPEX) are just a few of the factors driving the growth of emerging technologies. Emerging technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are gaining traction, propelling the global cloud computing market forward. The growth of cloud computing services is being driven by major factors such as data security, faster Disaster Recovery (DR), and meeting compliance requirements.

Westford, USA, May 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The need to reduce risks, achieve scalability and flexibility in moving and storing data, reduce storage and infrastructure complexities, and increase business efficiency drives the cloud computing market's growth.

Enterprises are concerned about the upfront and ongoing costs of hosting data on-premises. Furthermore, electricity costs, employee expenses, and downtime issues are a few additional concerns for businesses. The current competitive environment and global economic conditions have hastened the adoption of cost-effective measures to restructure business models. The increasing shift of enterprises toward digital transformation and the acceleration of customer experience are a few more factors driving the adoption of cloud computing services, ultimately lowering enterprise costs. Furthermore, the cloud provides the benefit of a pay-as-you-go model, which allows enterprises to pay for cloud services based on their usage, resulting in lower costs. Because of benefits such as on-demand availability, start-ups and SMEs are increasingly turning to cloud services.

Read market research report, " Global Cloud Computing Market Segmented by Deployment Type (Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud), Service Model (Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS)), And Industry Vertical (Government, Military & Defense, Telecom & IT, Healthcare, Retail, and Others) & By Region - Forecast and Analysis 2021-2027 by SkyQuest

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Enterprises with existing infrastructure are moving toward cloud computing services and are willing to take a hybrid approach to reap the benefits of both on-premises and cloud services. SMEs are largely adopting cloud computing services due to significant benefits such as no initial infrastructure setup costs and on-demand computing service availability. These factors are helping to drive the adoption of hybrid cloud services in businesses. The hybrid cloud provides advantages such as improved workload management, increased security and compliance, and effective integration within DevOps teams. It also provides the flexibility to switch from on-premises to cloud or between clouds, as well as the scalability required to gain a competitive advantage over other companies. Increased user and resource mobility, ongoing cloud application migration, and the emergence of more sophisticated threats are driving organizations to adopt a hybrid cloud. Healthcare, BFSI, and government that prioritizes compliance, security, and customer experience use the hybrid deployment model. Furthermore, as cloud-based applications such as Dropbox, Facebook, and Gmail, among others, become more flexible and robust, the processing cycle in a real-time scenario must be faster. As a result, enterprises are shifting to Omni-cloud solutions to take advantage of numerous benefits such as ease of data use, effective decision making, secure data availability, and real-time scalability.

Cloud computing services assist businesses in increasing business efficiency and lowering costs. Furthermore, these services provide numerous benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, and agility. Despite the fact that the cloud provides numerous benefits and security measures, data stored in the cloud is still vulnerable to cyberattacks. The number of cyberattacks is rapidly increasing as the volume of data grows and enterprise initiatives toward digital transformation expand. Cyberattacks such as Spectre and Meltdown, as well as cloud malware injection attacks, account or service hijacking, and man-in-the-cloud attacks, expose enterprise data to vulnerabilities. These threats have the potential to cause business losses and shutdowns.

The top players in the Cloud Computing market are Google LLC, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Microsoft Inc., Alibaba Cloud International, IBM Corp., Yahoo, Inc., and Salesforce Inc. etc. New players are also entering the segment thus increasing its market penetration and therefore demand growing exponentially.

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SkyQuest has segmented the Global Cloud Computing Market based on Deployment Type, Service Model, Industry Vertical and Region:

Cloud Computing Market By Deployment Type (Revenue, USD Million, 2020 - 2027)

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Computing Market By Service Model (Revenue, USD Million, 2020 - 2027)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Cloud Computing Market Industry Vertical (Revenue, USD Million, 2020 - 2027)

Government

Military & Defense

Telecom & IT

Healthcare

Retail

Others

Cloud Computing Market Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Million, 2020 - 2027)

North America

Europe

Germany

France

UK

Italy

Spain

Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

China

India

Japan

Rest of Asia Pacific

Central & South America

Middle East & Africa

GCC Countries

South Africa

Rest of MEA

List of Key Players of Cloud Computing Market

Accenture PLC (Ireland)

Adobe, Inc. (US)

Alibaba Cloud International (China)

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (US)

Apple, Inc. (US)

AT&T, Inc. (US)

Cisco Systems, Inc. (US)

Citrix Systems, Inc. (US)

Dell, Inc. (US)

Google LLC (US)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (US)

IBM Corp. (US)

Intel Corp. (US)

Microsoft Corp. (US)

NetSuite, Inc. (US)

Oracle Corp. (US)

Salesforce.com, Inc. (US)

SAP SE (Germany)

Verizon Enterprise Solutions (US)

Yahoo, Inc. (US)

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SANS Institute Hosts Neurodiversity in Cybersecurity Summit on May 12 – PR Newswire

The free, online event features discussions and panels for neurodivergent cybersecurity professionals

"Since taking our Summits virtual in 2020, we've had the privilege of hosting many people who had never been to SANS events before, and we've learned a great deal about the different ways people consume and process information," said Jennifer Santiago, Director of Content Development for SANS Institute Summits. "We respect individual learning and working styles, and we're excited to bring the community this content specifically dedicated to celebrating the unique talents and contributions of neurodivergent professionals in cybersecurity. We hope to share tools and tactics to help these individuals thrive in their cybersecurity careers."

"A sense of community not only brings together people of all learning styles within the cybersecurity industry, but also has a major influence on schools, government, employers, and service providers to collaborate on changing how we support these individuals," said Teresa Thomas, SANS Summit Advisory Board, and MITRE Corporation's Program Lead for Neurodiverse Talent Enablement.

The ND in Cybersecurity Summit is free and open to everyone. It will begin at 9 a.m. ET on May 12 and is worth 6 Summit CPE Credits. Featured presentations, panels, and speakers will include:

For the full agenda and more details about the event, please visit:https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-training-events/neurodiversity-cybersecurity-summit-2022/.

About SANS InstituteTheSANS Institutewas established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. Today, SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of cybersecurity training and certification to professionals in government and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach more than 60 courses at in-person and virtual cybersecurityevents and on demand. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates practitioner skills through more than 35 hands-on, technicalcertifications in cybersecurity

and provides the highest and most rigorous assurance of cybersecurity knowledge and skill globally.TheSANS Technology Institute, a regionally accredited independent subsidiary, offers master's and bachelor's degrees, graduate certificates, and an undergraduate certificate in cybersecurity.SANS Security Awareness, a division of SANS, provides organizations with a complete and comprehensive security awareness solution, enabling them to manage their "human" cybersecurity risk easily and effectively. SANS also delivers a wide variety of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, webcasts, podcasts, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning systemthe Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to support and educate the global information security community.www.sans.org

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Supercharged IT, superclouds, and superpowered healthcare what they can deliver – MedCity News

When it comes to information technology (IT), the whether and why discussion about cloud use is pretty much over. As noted in some recent analysis from Accenture, The last two years have laid bare the power and agility of cloudand a new understanding that cloud at scale is essential for operations maturity, and ultimately, value.

Even in the slow-to-digitize healthcare sector, contemporary estimates indicate around 90% of the industry has leveled-up to using some degree of cloud computing for some functions and in various incarnations (private-, public-, hybrid-, multi-cloud).

Supercharging IT with cloud power may now be essential, but that doesnt necessarily mean its simple. Despite an accelerated cloud adoption curve over the past couple of years, a huge swath of healthcare organizations still rely on infrastructure predating the advent of the iPhone. And as everyone knows, hordes of valuable data remain confined to countless racks of servers siloed in hospital basements and assorted colocation data centers far and wide.

Working with assemblages of those very old systems and very new cloud deployments can get very, very complicated.

Its difficult to rectify the sheer magnitude of differences in both fundamental operation and capability between legacy on-premise infrastructure and cloud infrastructure. Picture someone from the horse-and-buggy age being presented with access to a rocket ship and trying to conceptualize whether it will fit in the barn or what to feed it. Thats kind of where healthcare finds itself.

The world of technology moves at lightning speed. For a host of reasons, the healthcare sector has struggled to keep pace. What lies between is a gulf of IT complexity that stymies even the most sophisticated organizations. Thus a host of promising models and solutions are continually evolving to help bridge the gap. The latest of these is the supercloud.

Supercloud

The supercloud term dates back to a 2016 Cornell University project describing an architecture that enables application migration as a service across different availability zones or cloud providers. The supercloud provides interfaces to allocate, migrate, and terminate resources such as virtual machines and storage and presents a homogeneous network to tie these resources together[and] span across all major public cloud providersas well as private clouds.

Much of the current excitement about the concept is centered around making everything portable across existing hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and the big business potential in constructing specialized clouds on top of them. Trendy examples of this model can be found in Snowflakes recently launched Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud and Databricks new Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences.

The central value of the supercloud concept really hinges on provisioning the best cutting edge technology available while simplifying the way the organization interacts with it. The real magic of cloud power today isnt really in portable IT workloads; its in the vendor-specific cloud-native services that the big hyperscalers supply. For example, Amazon Web Services has some really cool database and stream management technology. Microsoft Azure has some really cool storage technology. Google Cloud has some really cool machine learning technology. But your average healthcare business cant afford to staff a huge IT department that:

Its just not feasible.

However, cloud resources are now incredibly varied and accessible, with a large ecosystem of industry-specific cloud-based managed services specializing in these complexities. Which means the average healthcare organization can, indeed, afford to tap into supercloud power they just get it as a service.

Essentially, healthcare organizations can get a service layer designed for their industry with sets of application programming interfaces (APIs) that are called to implement best-of-breed cloud services in a hybrid fashion amongst the appropriate hyperscalers. The right cloud is picked for particular use cases, and a mesh service layer covers all of it. Unique compliance and security requirements are automated, and the underlying implementation complexities are hidden from the business users of those services. So the healthcare organizations IT department can pretty much offload tasks 1 through 3 and focus entirely on innovating ways to help the business.

Youll sometimes see a similar ideal touted as industry cloud. As recently noted by Brian Campbell of Deloitte Consulting in HealthITSecurity, Industry clouds are a portfolio of business transformation-focused solutions, assets, and accelerators that ultimately help to reinvent and transform the business side of that specific industry, supplying an excellent option for healthcare organizations looking to keep pace with the changing digital landscape.

Superpower

Regardless of how a healthcare organization goes about increasing IT agility, reducing complexity, and reinventing business processes, the cloud should be central to the effort. A simple fact has been established: Cloud power increases healthcare power.

To demonstrate, consider a recent six-month study where a team of researchers shattered the record for diagnosing rare genetic diseases with DNA sequencing, and set a new Guinness World Record of 5 hours and 2 minutes to sequence a patients genome. At Stanford Hospital, the team dedicated specialized flow cell sequencing hardware to try to speed sequencing a single patients genome. But the amount of data being produced overwhelmed the labs computational systems.

According to Stanford study team member Euan A. Ashley, We werent able to process the data fast enough. We had to completely rethink and revamp our data pipelines and storage systems. Team member Sneha Goenka found a way to funnel the data straight to a cloud-based storage system where computational power could be amplified enough to sift through the data in real time.

The results?

They were able to sequence and diagnose a genetic illness in 7 hours and 18 minutes, which is about twice as fast as the previous record. For one teenaged patient in their study, their sequencing data showed his condition was rooted in genetics within a matter of hours, and he was immediately placed on a heart transplant list. He received a new heart three weeks later, and as of January this year, his mom says hes doing exceptionally well.

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Notion app review: Why (and how) I rely on this powerful productivity tool – ZDNet

Notionis a cloud-based application that's actually quite a challenge to describe. So, before attempting to explain what Notion is or what it can do, I'll tell you this: I rely on it. I'm a paying customer. Notion comes with a free tier, but my wife and I each have a paying account because it's important to both business and household management.

Notion has been compared to a wide range of other applications, but it's really its own thing. It has the feel of a wiki, the organizational capability of a database, and the note-taking and data archiving ability of a networked notepad. Once you understand it, it's easy to set up, but people sometimes have a bit of a challenge getting their arms around the thing.

In our case, my wife often outlines the problem she wants to solve, and I set up a Notion page to manage it. Page setup is usually a ten or fifteen-minute thing. Although Notion does have an API, it doesn't have an integral scripting language. You're mostly just choosing from the many design and data management elements Notion offers and arranging them on a page.

Probably one of the easiest ways for you to understand Notion is for me to show you some examples of how I use it. I use it for tracking everything, including sensitive personal data and confidential work data. As such, when I do show you screenshots, I'm going to have to blur out a lot. You'll get the idea, but private information must remain private.

Keep in mind that these examples are about how I use Notion. One of the biggest benefits to Notion is that you can sculpt it to your unique needs. Another benefit is that you can always tweak and update your implementations so it grows as you do. So my uses have been sculpted into my workflow. Yours, of course, will fit what you need to do every day.

I can't recall if this was the first project I set up, but it's certainly one of the first. As a tech columnist and product reviewer, I get an enormous flow of review products that show up to be reviewed. I needed to keep track of the products and status of their reviews. To manage this, I started with a kanban board, or what Notion calls the board view. If you think this looks a lot like Trello, you're not wrong. Notion has a full Trello-like implementation as just one of its tools.

My four columns are:

The tabs across the top are In House, To Arrive, On Hold, Posted, All Items, and Cancelled. They're quite powerful because I can assign a given review to any one of these categories (which I created when I set up my board) and can see the product's status and where the product is in the review cycle.

Any one of the product entry blocks can have as many custom fields as you want. I chose a set that helps with review management:

I also use a similar kanban table to track bug reports for the software products I produce:

As you can see, I've set certain tags to specify the product associated with each bug, the urgency level of each bug, as well as the overall category.

Let's switch over to the page where I organize most of my coding information and notes about each project I'm coding. Here's an overview of it. Notice that there are expand/collapse arrows under most of the sections.

You can cram a ton of information under one of those drop-downs. Here's a list of coding resources. Note that I chose to organize this information in three columns:

At the top of the page are some links to more in-depth notes. You can also use Notion as a note-taking system, as I've done here:

I have a similar style page for all the 3D printers I work with. There's a main 3D printing page, then sub-pages with details, tables, images, and more.

For example, here's part of a page with print settings and G-code (the code that tells the 3D printer how to print):

The graphics and code from that set of notes wound up in my Creality Sermoon D1 article and video.

Another powerful data structure is the table. I use one to track all my assigned projects at ZDNet.

One of the most powerful features of Notion is the way it lets you filter data into different views. The above view shows my currently-assigned projects. But I could choose to filter based on a wide range of criteria and build custom tables out of that filtering.

You can even cross-reference tables. For example, I have a set of tables that tracks overall expenses for all the cloud services we use. One table summarizes all the expenses for each category, while another table contains all the detailed information, which can then be sliced up as needed when doing cost management.

When my firm got involved in an international acquisition last year, I put together a massive table that tracked all the moving parts, had detailed notes in the various fields, and allowed us to manage the transition across continents. That was all managed in Notion.

I'll give you one more example before talking more about Notion in general. I wish I had started this section years ago because it's so helpful. Lab Notes is arranged as a gallery. It consists of a set of pages related to many different projects my wife and I are working on.

Each note captures different information. Some just contain dimensions. Some contain detailed instructions for repeating a project. Some are filled with photos and images, while others just have links. The point is if we're involved in a project and want to remember the details, this is an organized place to put it. And because there are fields here as well, we can easily select those projects that are related to the Fab Lab or those related to my wife's projects, or those related to gear configuration and management.

Note the project in the lower-left corner above. That became my first big CNC project, which I showed you last month.

If you keep in mind that every field in a database can open up to a wiki page or an entire semi-structured "app" and that the same is true of every bullet in every list, you begin to become one with the notion of Notion.

Notion is a "slash" application. It's a wiki-slash-database. It's a note tracker-slash-kanban manager-slash-outliner. It's a gallery-slash-document archive. It's a to-do manager-slash-sales tracker. It's ideal when you're mixing information concepts.

If all you need is a single pinpoint application, Notion can be cumbersome. But as soon as you want to mix multiple things together and link them through one or more dashboards, Notion begins to take form.

Also, before I go on, I should mention that Notion does have some wind in its sails. In its last funding round, Notion raised $275 million and has about $340 million in total investment. Its last funding round, from last fall, valued the company at $10 billion. So the services hosting your data are unlikely to be turned off anytime soon.

Here are ten things I really like about Notion in no particular order.

I should also add that there is a wealth of information on using Notion out there. Notion itself does a great job with video training, and there are tons of helpful YouTube videos as well. It also comes with a bunch of moderately useful templates you can copy and customize, so you don't have to start from scratch.

This is hard. Overall, I've found Notion to be a powerful tool. That's said, there are a few things I'm not thrilled with:

Also, there's this: The company clearly owns notion.com, but when you enter it into the browser, you're sent to notion.so. The problem is, dot-s-o is Somalia,which is listed by the US Department of State as "Do Not Travel" due to "crime, terrorism, civil unrest, health issues, kidnapping, and piracy."

Granted, dot-s-o is being used merely as a vanity top-level domain. Even so, the Somalia connection, no matter how limited, could be a tough sell when you're trying to convince an organization to trust Notion with your data.

In reality, you don't need to worry. The fact is, Notion is located in San Francisco, and all its data is on AWS, but the optics of the dot-s-o association could still be problematic. I reached out to the company on this issue and will update this article if there's a response.

I'm at more than 2,200 words, and I've just scratched the surface of this tool. I didn't touch on any of the application integrations, the API, or how other users are using it. But that's okay. The key is deciding whether to try it out, and I can't see any reason why you shouldn't.

Here's my final thought: I rely on this tool. The company never pitched me on it or tried to convince me to write about it. I found it when looking for a better organizational dashboard. I've been using it for a little over two years. I started with the free tier and upgraded for 30-day undos and unlimited document storage. It works well enough that I don't see any compelling reason to stop using it.

Hey, here's a quick note to the folks out there in ZDNet-land who used Lotus Notes back in the day. Is it my imagination, or does it seem like Notion has some Notes DNA in it? Let me know in the comments below.

As for the rest of you, do you use Notion now? Let us know how you're using it. If you're just learning about Notion, what do you think? Do you think you're going to give it a try? Let us know in the comments below.

You can follow my day-to-day project updates on social media. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @DavidGewirtz, on Facebook at Facebook.com/DavidGewirtz, on Instagram at Instagram.com/DavidGewirtz, and on YouTube at YouTube.com/DavidGewirtzTV.

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AMD will finally give investors its data-center data as business soars – MarketWatch

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s data-center business will finally get its own spotlight.

After reporting record sales Tuesday and predicting another record this quarter, AMD AMD, +1.44% Chief Financial Officer Devinder Kumar said that beginning in the second quarter, the chip maker will delineate sales specifically from the division that has boosted its stock in recent years. This column has advocated, as have several Wall Street analysts, for AMD to break out this business segment separately for investors for more than two years.

AMD has appeared to be gaining some market share in the important server business at the expense of its biggest rival Intel Corp. INTC, +0.22%, but it was hard to compare the two directly because AMD did not provide raw sales information for its data-center segment, as Intel does. After closing its merger with chip maker Xilinx Inc. and announcing the acquisition of data-center software company Pensando in recent weeks, though, AMD plans to solve that problem.

From 2018: Why AMD believes it can challenge Intel in servers

While the change took too long, it arrives at a perfect time, as the information AMD does provide shows that the data-center business is booming. AMD said revenue from its data-center business doubled from a year ago, helping the segment in which it currently resides enterprise, embedded and semi custom group sales increase revenue 88%. Intel, in contrast, said it saw data-center sales jump 22% in the first quarter, which was solid but still a slower rate than AMDs. AMD will move from reporting two segments to four: data center, client, gaming and embedded.

There have been fears of a slowdown in spending by cloud companies, such as Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.20%, so an independent data-center segment should show signs of that. When asked on the call about recent comments by some cloud companies about slowing down their investments, Chief Executive Lisa Su described AMDs demand as still robust.

We havent seen that, Su said. We havent seen that particular phenomena. We do see is that there needs to be good planning, so good planning with our server customers and our large cloud customers, and were doing that. And our planning extends beyond 2022, extends into 2023 as well. And from what we can see, its robust demand.

More from Therese:The pandemic PC boom is over, but its legacy will live on

The server, or data-center business, has always been a big potential growth area for AMD, after it spent years with very slim market share before Su decided to challenge Intel, the dominant player. AMD has been trying to return as a serious challenger in that market, a role it played for a few years in the early 2000s.

Its more recent success in servers has joined big gains from personal computers and gaming consoles, leading to AMDs first $5 billion quarter and predictions of its first $6 billion quarter in the current period, even as the overall PC market is now slowing after a huge boost during the pandemic.

Investors were clearly pleased with AMDs progress, sending shares up 7% in after-hours trading Tuesday. Maybe executives who are still refusing to break out important business segments such as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.95% and its Azure cloud-computing business, or Meta Platforms Inc. FB, +0.43% and Instagram will see those gains and finally take the plunge as well.

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Enpass Business allows organizations to choose where they store their data – Help Net Security

Enpass released a new solution, Enpass Business, built for enterprises who want to maintain complete control of their password data. Enpass Business offers a strong value proposition as it eliminates the burden and overhead associated with on-premises server installation and ongoing monitoring and management.

Supporting Microsoft 365 integration, Enpass Business also allows businesses to leverage their existing cloud storage of OneDrive/SharePoint for storing their sensitive data.

Most password management solutions on the market today store data outside of an organizations IT infrastructure, most commonly in the service providers cloud. This poses a compliance problem for many businesses who have mandates in place preventing them from storing data outside their IT infrastructure, or are concerned about the data security issues associated with storing sensitive data outside their zone of safety.

With Enpass Business, all passwords remain within the trusted boundaries of the organizations local IT systems. Enterprises have the option to store data on employee devices, or use their existing cloud storage, enabling them to maintain control over their data without the need to host additional servers.

We have had great success with our B2C solution that creates strong and unique passwords, provides secure and convenient storage and automatic website login. In fact, many businesses were onboarding our consumer-centric solution because of its offline capability, said Hemant Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder of Enpass. Notably, there are major corporations out there who have spent millions securing their businesses, yet still dont use a password manager because they dont want their data to be stored in the service providers cloud. We developed Enpass Business to respond to this market need and provide enterprise-level password management across all platforms, with security top of mind.

Enpass Business maintains compliance while reducing security risk, as passwords, credentials and other information never leave the organization. The Enpass Business feature set includes:

With Enpass, none of the user data ever reaches our servers; we never have access to it. All the data is 100% encrypted with 256-bit AES and stored either locally on employee devices, or in the organizations business cloud, said Kumar. The concept of leveraging Microsoft 365 to provide all the capabilities of vault sharing and access rights management is unique and we are very excited to be bringing this one-of-a-kind solution to the market.

Enpass Business, along with the consumer version of Enpass are both available and sold via subscription directly through the website.

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Concerned about cloud costs? Have you tried using newer virtual machines? – The Register

Better, faster, and more efficient chips are driving down cloud operating costs and pushing prices lower, according to research from IT infrastructure standards and advisory group, the Uptime Institute.

With each generation of processor family, cloud pricing has trended downward with one notable exception, Owen Rogers, research director for cloud computing at Uptime Institute, explained in a write-up this week.

The research tracked Amazon Web Services (AWS) pricing across six generations of AMD and Intel CPUs and three generations of Nvidia GPUs using data obtained from the cloud providers price list API. While Rogers acknowledged AWS Graviton series of Arm-compatible CPUs, they werent included in testing.

All tests were conducted on AWS US-East-1 region, however, Rogers notes his findings should be similar across all AWS regions.

Of the eight AWS instances Rogers tracked, the majority saw a steady decline in customer pricing with each subsequent CPU generation. Pricing for the AWS m-family of general purpose instances, for example, dropped 50 percent from the first generation to present.

Some instances AWS storage optimized instances in particular saw even more precipitous pricing drops, which he attributed to other factors including memory and storage.

It comes as no surprise that CPU performance in these instances tends to improve with each generation, Rogers noted, citing the various performance and efficiency advantages to architectural and process improvements.

For example, AMDs third-gen Epyc Milan processor family and Intels Ice Lake family of Xeon Scalable processors claim a 19-20 percent performance advantage over previous-generation chips. Both families are now available in a variety of AWS instances, including a storage-optimized instance announced last week.

Users can expect greater processing speed with newer generations compared with older versions while paying less. The efficiency gap is more substantial than simply pricing suggests, he wrote, adding that it is plain to see in AWS pricing.

In other words, while intuitively you may think instances based on older processor tech should be less expensive, more modern, more power efficient instances are often priced lower to incentivize their adoption.

"However, how much of the cost savings AWS is passing on to its customers versus adding to its gross margin remains hidden from view, he wrote.

Some of this can be attributed to customer buying habits, specifically those that favor cost over performance. Because of this price pressure, cloud virtual instances are coming down in price, he wrote.

The exception to this rule are GPU instances, which have actually become more expensive with each generation, Rogers found.

His research tracked AWS g-and p-series GPU-accelerated instances over three and four generations, respectively, and found that the rapid growth of total performance alongside the rise of demanding AI/ML workloads have allowed cloud providers and Nvidia to rise prices.

Customers are willing to pay more for newer GPU instances if they deliver value in being able to solve complex problems quicker, he wrote.

Some of this can be chalked up to the fact that, until recently, customers looking to deploy workloads on these instances have had to do so on dedicated GPUs, as opposed to renting smaller virtual processing units. And while Rogers notes that customers, in large part, prefer to run their workloads this way, that may be changing.

Over the past few years, Nvidia which dominates the cloud GPU market has, for one, introduced features that allow customers to split GPUs into multiple independent virtual processing units using a technology called Multi-instance GPU or MIG for short. Debuted alongside Nvidias Ampere architecture in early 2020, the technology enables customers to split each physical GPU into up to seven individually addressable instances.

And with the chipmakers Hopper architecture and H100 GPUs, announced at GTC this spring, MIG gained per-instance isolation, I/O virtualization, and multi-tenancy, which open the door to their use in confidential computing environments.

Unfortunately for customers, taking advantage of these performance and cost savings isnt without risk. In most cases, workloads arent automatically migrated to newer, cheaper infrastructure, Rogers noted. Cloud subscribers ought to test their applications on newer virtual machine types before diving into a mass migration.

There may be unexpected issues of interoperability or downtime while the migration takes place, Rogers wrote, adding: Just as users plan server refreshes, they need to make virtual instance refreshes a part of their ongoing maintenance.

By supporting older generations cloud providers allow customers to upgrade at their own pace, Rogers said. The provider doesnt want to appear to be forcing the user into migrating applications that might not be compatible with the new server platforms.

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White Box Server Market Anticipated to Surpass USD 27.48 Billion by the Year 2030 with a CAGR of 17.2% – Report by Market Research Future (MRFR) -…

New York US, May 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Market Overview: According to a comprehensive research report by Market Research Future (MRFR), White Box Server Market information by Form Factor, by Processor and Region Forecast to 2030 market size to reach USD 24.48 billion, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 17.2% by 2030.

Market Scope: The increased acceptance of open platforms such as the project scorpio, open compute project, and others is likely to move the white box server market forward.

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Market USP Exclusively Encompassed:Market DriversNeed for Low-Cost Servers to Boost Market Growth The market is expected to expand due to rising demand for low-cost servers, improved uptime, & a high degree of customization & flexibility in hardware design.

Less Consistency to act as Market Restraints The less consistency coupled with lack of redundancy may act as market restraints over the forecast period.

High Manufacturing Costs to act as Market Challenge High manufacturing as well as research & development costs may act as market challenges over the forecast period.

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By operating systems, the white box server market is segmented into Windows, Linux, UNIX, and others.

By application, the global white box server market is segmented into data centers and enterprise.

By components, the white box server market is segmented into memory, processor, network adapter, motherboard, and power supply.

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Regional AnalysisNorth America to Precede White Box Server Industry North America will precede the white box server market over the forecast period. North America plays a critical role in market expansion. During the forecast period, this region is expected to dominate the market. It's because industrialized countries such as Canada and the US have data centres. In the United States, data centres can be found in regions like New York, Silicon Valley, eastern Washington, and many others. Because North America is home to multiple multinational firms and a significant number of data centres, North America holds a significant portion of the worldwide industry. Increased usage of ICT technologies & enterprise digitalization are transforming the old IT environment, which is helping to boost the regional market. The region is densely populated, with the highest concentration of data centre facilities, including some of the world's largest data centres. Because of the expanding usage of ICT technologies and the digitization of businesses, the region dominates the industry. Besides, the emerging economies have the highest number of data centre facilities, hosting some of the world's largest data centres, all of which will contribute to the region's white box server market's continued expansion.

APAC to Have Favorable Growth in White Box Server Market The expansion of the market will also be heavily influenced by the Asia-Pacific area. It's due to the growing popularity of high-capacity mobile devices. China is a significant country that is significantly responsible for the Asia-Pacific region's growth. Because of the expanding presence of major cloud service providers in APAC, APAC is likely to be the fastest-growing market for white box servers over the projection period. The increasing number of internet users, the increasing demand for infrastructure refresh in the old data centres, and the expanding significance of data sovereignty as data privacy regulations mature in Southeast Asia are all factors driving the expansion of the Asia-Pacific data centre sector. Hong Kong and Singapore are critical sites for the white box server market, with major businesses such as Tecent Holdings Ltd. (China), Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (China), and Baidu Inc. (China) playing a significant role. In addition, companies such as Microsoft Corp. (USA), Facebook Inc. (USA), Amazon Web Services Inc. (USA), & Google Inc. (USA) are expanding their presence in the region. Furthermore, many cloud service companies prefer to use white box servers rather than branded servers. In the coming years, large organizations in APAC are also projected to employ white box servers. The expanding presence of leading cloud service providers in the region, as well as rising usage of mobile devices and digital services are expected to drive demand for data centres to accommodate a variety of consumer and enterprise needs throughout the projected period. Increase in internet users, the rising demand for infrastructure refresh in older data centres, and the increasing significance of data sovereignty as data privacy regulations mature in Southeast Asia are all factors driving the expansion of the Asia-Pacific data centre sector. Furthermore, several cloud service providers prefer to use white-box servers rather than branded servers.

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SSE kicks the A out of SASE – The Register

Analysis The emergence of secure access service edge (SASE) dominated the networking market for the last few years as enterprises sought to address increasingly distributed IT environments.

SASE hit the lexicon after 2019 took hold as enterprises started to see a possible route in the convergence with software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and network security functions for threat protection, zero-trust features, firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) and cloud access security broker (CASB), all delivered as a cloud service.

Now comes security service edge (SSE), which pulls back the security functions in SASE into a unified services offering that includes CASB, zero-trust network architecture (ZTNA) and secure web gateway (SWG). SSE came in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with most employees being sent home to work and putting in motion the ongoing trend toward hybrid work.

With many people working from home at least part of the time, the role of branch offices is lessened and the need for security features that follow workers where they are with work days starting from home and then moving to offices or other locations is growing.

What the role of SSE is in the larger network security space is and what it means for the future of SASE are the subjects of some debate in the industry. However, it puts a spotlight on the ongoing evolution of networking as the definition of work continues to change and the focus of IT shifts from the traditional central data center data and workloads in the cloud and at the edge.

Once the pandemic hit, "it was no longer about branch offices," said John Spiegel, director of strategy at Axis Security, which in April launched Atmos, its SSE platform. "It was our users taking their branch office to the home, to their garages, to their basements ... [and] collaborating with their fellow workers via Zoom. The whole thing changed and that's where we saw the utility of SD-WAN really decline."

Enterprises could put WAN devices in every employee's home, but that's expensive and complex, Spiegel told The Register.

"Instead, we pivoted back to this SSE model, which is really about delivering applications," he said. "At the end of the day, that's what a CIO, a leader cares about. It's the delivery of an application. We're getting down to that lowest common denominator and that's the user and that's really where secure service edge is and that's where we see the opportunity."

Gur Schatz, founder and COO at Cato Networks, sees it another way. The company recent months has added such features to its SASE platform as risk-based application access control to address what officials see as limitations in offerings that focus only on ZTNA and SSE and a CASB. People will continue to go to offices to work, there will always be SD-WAN and firewalls, data centers and cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, Schatz told The Register.

The long-term trend will be adding more functions into the SASE environment, he said. SASE is not easy for enterprises to adopt and SSE is a step down the inevitable path toward SASE, which addresses issues of cost and complexity when trying to merge networking and security

"Maybe the topology changed from having branch offices communicating with headquarters to branch offices communicating with data centers or with SaaS applications, but the network is still there with you," Schatz said. "Everything converges and you have a single security posture that covers holistically what you need. It's unreasonable to get this amount of complexity and try to maintain security on top of it."

Gartner, which defined SASE, did the same with SSE last year and in February released its SSE Magic Quadrant, with Zscaler, Netskope and McAfee (which created Skyhigh Security by combining its SSE tools with FireEye's) as leaders and others like Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Forcepoint and Lookout in play.

In addition, Gartner analysts last fall listed both SASE and SSE as must-have cloud security technologies for 2022, with SASE predicted to have a transformational impact in the next two to five year and SSE a high impact over three to five years.

While global SD-WAN revenue did slow in 2020 due to the pandemic and the dramatic to work-from-home, Dell'Oro Group analysts said the market came roaring back last year, growing 35 percent year-over-year and hitting record revenue of more than $2 billion as organizations optimized their branches for cloud services and adopted SD-WAN for their widely distributed workforce.

That said, there are issues with SD-WAN, including the costs that come with adopting it and an implementation phase that can take years, according to Netskope Chief Strategy Officer Jason Clark. In addition, SD-WAN tends to be an on-premises technology that addresses east-west network traffic, which doesn't fit as well when users are going into the cloud.

"For anything north-south, I'm going to my SSE," Clark told The Register.

SASE essentially has been trying to create a Frankenstein monster-like tool package, with network technologies coming from networking vendors and security tools from various security players, he said. Palo Alto is one of the few companies that owns both and is working to meld them together.

"The reality is that you have a really strong SD-WAN vendors who suck at security," Clark said. "You have really, really good security companies, but they're not SD-WAN companies. Then you've got people who are trying to play in the middle. What happened is the buyers told Gartner the security-minded buyers need the best-of-breed security. Two-thirds of them said, 'I need the best SD-WAN and I need the best security. I found nothing that does both awesome.'"

When a user moves off the SD-WAN and into the cloud from home, a lot of the controls in the on-prem network are gone. Netskope's worldwide network is designed to deliver security capabilities once the user hops into the cloud, which is important given that about half an enterprise's traffic is in the cloud, Clark said. Before the pandemic hit, it was about 15 percent, he said.

David Hughes, who was founder and CEO of SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak until Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought it last year for $925 million and folded it into its Aruba Networks business, said Gartner defining SSE is a plus because it clarifies what SASE is the on-prem SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security services.

"It gives the IT administrator a clearer idea of the tradeoffs they would be making if they go with one vendor for everything vs. going with a cloud vendor plus an on-prem vendor," Hughes, now Aruba's chief product and technology officer, told The Register.

"We've always felt that, especially for the larger enterprises, going with a leader in the cloud-delivered security plus a leader on-prem [is best]. That's what we see happening in the large enterprise. As you come down-market, there's a desire for being able to have one throat to choke. What the Magic Quadrant shows is as you come down there, you're having to make some compromises. The split in the analysis helps people see what those compromises might be."

However, the evolving demands for networking security will continue to push the market toward convergence, Cato's Schatz said.

"Eventually all roads lead to SASE," he said.

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