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Stakeholders and executives of financial organisations remain on the fence about whether the advantages of cloud computing outweigh the potential risks of trusting sensitive information to remote servers. With the current demands on banks IT infrastructure and front-, middle-, and back-office staff, and the implementation of Basel IV pushed forward to January 1, 2023, this year may be a good time to transition ever-growing IT infrastructure to the cloud.

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly attractive toand indispensable forfinancial organisations. The cloud has the potential to completely change the financial services landscape. Banks can take advantage of cloud technologies to improve their entire risk management systems and to access fast, high-end technologies on an as-needed basis. As a result of switching to cloud computing, many services can be delivered with reduced up-front capital outlay and IT expenses.

The current state of cloud computing allows financial organisations to access any modern core banking system offering without any loss in cost-effectiveness. This not only enables banks to save costs, but also increases data processing speed and improves the quality of the financial services they provide.

Despite possible initial hurdles in implementing cloud technologies, such as security risks, reliability issues, and problems with business continuity planning, the extra flexibility and scalability provided by the cloud far outweigh the negative aspects. If an organisation can ensure effective corporate governance and security by performing vigorous endpoint management and IT policy management, the cloud will provide many security benefits.

Some IT professionals still overlook the fact data can be more secure in the cloud than in a physical data center. They continue to see data which has been stored in the cloud as a vulnerable asset, raising security, privacy, and compliance concerns.

It is true some engineers are so focused on getting to the cloud they do not initially put the time into setting up security, governance, and auditing. In the best-case scenario, the organisation only has a permissions nightmare to deal with, even though incorporating proper governance will still be a painful and expensive process. In the worst case, neglecting security in a rush to the cloud can result in a data breach or the deletion of all of IaC (Infrastructure as Code to automate cloud resource deployments) and backups.

The cloud is very different from a traditional data center, and banks need to approach their data management differently as a result. Otherwise, the cloud could end up being an extra expensive data center should financial firms choose to throw their legacy technology into it.

Cloud computing has the resources to ensure high levels of security and prevent data breaches, but it is imperative an organisation implement vigorous endpoint management and IT policy management to gain the maximum benefit.

Unlike traditional data centers, which typically rely on physical defenses to prevent unauthorized access to data, public clouds, such as Amazon Web Service or Microsofts Azure, allow server-side 256-bit encryption to protect files. These files remain encrypted when they are transferred within the network or saved to cloud storage.

Data objects sent to the cloud server by the client/user are also deduplicated and compressed. In this case, if a third party were to gain access to the data, they would be forced not only to decrypt the objects without the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) 256-bit encryption key, but also to uncompress and reassemble them into readable files.

When high-performance access to a file is required, the cloud infrastructure can be modified accordingly by deploying virtual or physical cache servers. As with traditional file servers and NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices, these servers cache only the active files needed for local, high-speed access, thus reducing storage needs and costs.

Cloud storage data and metadata are encrypted and unavailable in their at-rest format, so a cache server is required to access them. This server, in turn, provides its own additional security, such as closed unused protocol ports, no open back-end access, additional encryption between the client and the directory server, and self-encrypting drives.

The same reliable authentication procedures and access tools as in an on-premises data center can be used for cloud deployments. For instance, access to remote data can be provided though standard file sharing protocols such as SMB (Server Message Block) 1, 2, and 3 or NFS (Near-Field Communication) v3 and v4, in exactly the same way as if traditional file servers or NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices were used.

Additionally, AD (Active Directory) permissions, which are controlled by the banks system administrator, manage data access. An authenticated user can access only the data that is visible to them, and the rest of the data is protected through group- or user-specific policies. Moreover, the support of Active Directory trust relationships allows the creation of logical links and the application of policies between users and domains within the system.

The cloud easily surpasses the capabilities of traditional data storage when it comes to the protection of data against accidental or intentional mistakes and system failures which would otherwise lead to data corruptions.

Writing data to cloud storage is done using a WORM (Write Once Read Many) model, in which new data is always appended (added to the existing one) and never replaced or overwritten. The system creates snapshots of data at assigned intervals in order to be able to instantly recover any set of data in case any server-side or related problems occur.

Third party regulations and certifications ensure data is secure. All public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, are required to go through extensive third-party certifications, e.g., HIPAA, HITECH, Soc2, PCI, and ITAR, to ensure all data is properly protected.

Consequently, they meet important audit and compliance requirements. Should a financial institution transfer its data to the cloud, it will meet all these requirements automatically. Should a financial institution transfer its data to the cloud, it will meet all these requirements automatically.

In the past, many data and file security solutions (such as firewalls and antivirus software only supported traditional NAS (Network-Attached Storage) software to detect and stop cyber threats. Today, the same integration capabilities are available when using cloud-based file storage.

Cloud solutions now allow high levels of flexibility when it comes to integration. This provides banks with the ability to find and isolate sensitive data, visualise data access, adopt and manage a least privilege access model, and streamline compliance activities.

Moreover, it allows unstructured data to be securely stored by financial institutions in public or on-premises cloud storage, where the cache server, as an extra layer of protection, processes the actively used data whenever high-performance access is required.

Working with on-premises deployment creates a false sense of security because of the perception the network itself is protected by a physical boundary. However, only the most sensitive networks operate in an air-gap mode without any outside access. Of course, providing remote access opens systems up to certain cybersecurity risks, but in the cloud, there is also less risk of misconfiguration, and all those risks are more easily mitigated by using standard security infrastructure and features, and standard security audit tools.

While cybersecurity risks exist in both on-premises and cloud environments, cloud systems are better protected than on-premises or data center deployments. It is notable many of the recent major hacks occurred in on-premises networks or hybrid environments rather than in purely cloud-based systems.

An optimally running cloud solution reduces cybersecurity risks through the use of a standard set of cloud services and technologies, which present less penetration risk than non-standard on-premises or hybrid networks.

Banking risk management functions will receive tangible benefits from cloud computing, but leaders of banks risk departments still face significant challenges when migrating to the cloud. With the increased number of cloud adoptions in finance, the importance of day one security, governance, and auditing should not be downplayed by a financial organizations management. Failing to take these factors seriously will undoubtedly lead to the disruption of business operations and could damage the organisations reputation owing to financial and legal issues.

To prevent disasters and secure a banks data in the cloud more effectively, they should set up multiple layers of security. For large banks and other financial organisations, it is better to set up risk management functions with a private cloud provider. Small- and medium-sized businesses, on the other hand, would benefit from taking advantage of the public cloud service providers in order to grow their business and connect data securely. For highly secure operations, it is better to use a private cloud. If you use a public cloud for the upper layer of your organisations operations, a hybrid cloud solution might also be a good option.

Moreover, hosting a cloud storage system in your own data center within a security perimeter can be just as efficient for your organisation. Private cloud solutions deployed in a private data center possess all the benefits of public clouds, including 256-bit encryption, compression, deduplication, and modular building blocks that can scale at a comparatively low cost.

By partnering with CompatibL, financial institutions can ensure they are always in control of their sensitive corporate and private information, and are compliant with the current and upcoming regulatory capital requirements.

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n the last decade, the global tech landscape has developed at lightning speed, and many of us are struggling to keep up. Most of us have got to grips with the basics Facebook, Slack, Zoom but terms like the cloud are harder to understand.

Far from a niche area of tech, the cloud is becoming a crucial tool for businesses, often with unwanted implications.

Every day, organisations looking to modernise their data practice are moving to cloud hosting and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based products. For those not well-versed: traditionally, a website would be hosted on a single server, usually in a data centre. Cloud hosting, on the other hand, sees a companys data distributed across different servers, usually in different places, which are all connected to form a network. This network is called the cloud.

Many companies migrate to these systems as theyre easy to manage and can integrate with other complementary products across an organisation, whilst also receiving updates for the software in real-time.

Across any given industry there are a small set of market leaders who provide the software, and the largest organisations in the world will naturally prefer to use these top solutions. They are easy to trust, have strong industry presence, and justification for procuring them is smooth for internal budget holders and external shareholders.

What we dont always think about are the macro-implications: now we have a large number of organisations who are heavily reliant on a single organisation to provide a common product.

Take a look at any accounting software used across major companies. If its managed by a cloud-based third-party on behalf of the company, then a single attack to that software provider would not only impact the accounting system of the individual company, but others who use that same product.

Global industries putting all their software eggs in one vendors basket is a very attractive proposition for an attacker: a single attack can scale across many different companies.

In the case of Ransomware, attackers have asked themselves the following economic question: why spend time managing and attacking 100 firms individually, receiving only a small amount of capital from each of them, when I can look to the biggest business-to-business software providers in an industry and target those, charging a huge amount to restore their systems so they can continue to deliver services to their clients?

(European Space Agency)

Their answer has been clear: weve started to see a global increase in software supply chain attacks. The impact on business, from down-time and lost revenue, is in the billions of dollars.

But what can organisations do? Look towards the space agencies, for starters.

Redundancy and failover the ability to switch automatically and seamlessly to a reliable backup system have always been key concepts in space missions, ensuring that everything is built to a high standard, but its assumed that what can go wrong, will go wrong.

What does that mean for the rest of us that spend most of our time below the outer atmosphere? First, organisations need to have catalogued all their software products, mapping these to their dependent business functions. We need to know which are mission critical for us to continue trading, as these create the greatest business risk. These should be prioritised, back-up providers evaluated, and a redundancy plan put in place to ensure any impact is minimal in case of a failure.

This needs to be built from the ground up. When organisations run their procurement process for these mission critical systems, a back-up provider should be identified and a failover deal should be negotiated in case the primary supplier goes down.

Lastly, but something which is often overlooked, back-ups need to be stored in a format usable by a different product, instead of being tied to a single product.

Attackers gravitate towards the greatest reward for their input, and supply chain attacks on software providers are an attractive way to scale the impact of their work. Fortunately, organisations can put in place sufficient failovers to mitigate many of the risks they face when their supply chain becomes the target.

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Part 3: What AV Practitioners Need to Know When Incorporating Cloud into AV/IT Infrastructure

In Part I and Part II of the Guide to the Cloud series, we discussed the benefits of AV integrators using the cloud - from enabling remote management of AV/IT infrastructures to saving companies money and, in turn, creating revenue. However, this Cloud implementation can take on many different roles, and the degree of manual assistance is entirely reliant on the level of usage or assigned role, site setup required, software and installation assistance, and degree of customization desired.

For example, AV practitioners that want the cloud software to simply take on a read-only supervision role just need computer operation information, an email address, and details on website browser usage. On the other hand, an AV Management/Help-Desk Role for the cloud software would only require some level of understanding around AV device setup, network connectivity, and subnets.

That said, when using cloud-based software for AV/IT administration - materials, cooperation, and help are required from site IT staff.

The requirements from the IT staff vary based on the actions one wishes to manage via the cloud management software. IT support on the implementation of cloud management software can include:

However, ClearOne's CONVERGENCE Cloud AV Managerhas complex features that can bypass excessive IT oversight and can help enable a more straightforward setup. ClearOne CONVERGENCE Cloud AV Manager has simplified Local Agent setup, so no detailed IT skills are needed beyond onsite computer/server setup and software installation. Device-to-Cloud registration happens through the Local Agent server, making registering all ClearOne Pro Audio devices easy.

In addition, CONVERGENCE Cloud AV Manager allows an organization to use its own server for email notifications by default. However, if desired, an organization may use its own email server, in which case its settings would be required from the IT staff.

When it comes to security, Local Agents should be operated behind a network firewall to be secure. However, they require specific ports to be open on the Local Agent server's firewall to operate thoroughly. Through CONVERGENCE Cloud AV Manager, this task is now automated and somewhat customizable during installation.

Also, a strong understanding of network technologies such as FTP, TCP, UDP, and DHCP is typically required to set up and maintain a Cloud system. However, CONVERGENCE Cloud AV Manager does not require this understanding. Therefore, while some knowledge of these technologies can be helpful to better understand some security, network, AV device, and discovery options, it is not necessary when using CONVERGENCE software to integrate the cloud into AV infrastructure.

ClearOne's CONVERGENCE Cloud AV Manager is built for the integrator and supports a smooth and largely autonomous implementation.

The ClearOne CONVERGENCE Cloud AV Manager remote management software solution will be available for free until 2023. If you're interested in learning more about how this software can benefit your clients, click here.

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If you haven't noticed, I am have positive on Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and havewritten several articleson the topic. That was not always the case. I was very critical of Oracle Cloud V1.0.

OraclesGeneration 2 Cloudisan entirely new infrastructure developed from the ground up with no resemblance to its predecessor. The design goals werebetter performance, pricing, andabove all elsesecurity.Oracle Cloud V2 is a significant improvement, more competitive, and the reason I have had a change of heart.

A year ago, in aJanuary 2021 article, I wrote, "In my view, Oracle has come a long way since Cloud V1.0, and the product is better than the market perception right now. You heard it here first. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the story will keep getting told, and you will see more key customers choosing Oracle.

A year on,it is high time to take stock of that prediction and see where OCI stands in the marketplace.

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OCI by the numbers

Oracle reported stellarQ2 earningsdue tocontinued and increased global demand for the cloud business.

The increase in OCI consumption revenue was 86% in constant currency, with total cloud customer revenue up 45%.Those are impressive numbers compared to the largest IaaS and PaaS companies. I can only imagine the disruptive transition to aconsumption-based business. Customers only pay for cloud services when consumed. A simple pay-as-you-go concept, but it changes the entire sales cycle.

And, customer momentum appears to be broad-based. Enterprise and cloud native customers are running mission-critical workloads on OCI. Oracle's sample of those customers is Deutsche Bank, Pernod Ricard, Bayer, Aviva, Santander Bank, Telefonica Brasil, Quest Diagnostics, Bechtel, Carrefour, Liberty Global, Ingersoll Rand, and the National Stock Exchange of India.

Oracle is also making strides with cloud-native companies like Kaltura, SoundHound, and independent software vendors such as Telestream, Thomson Reuters, Kaltura,Crunch Mediaworks, Ericom Software, Fastly, and SCC Soft Computer.

Oracle also continues to expand its sports partnerships with teams like theGolden State WarriorsandRed Bull Racingto showcase how those organizations are using Oracle Cloud to gain a competitive advantage on and off the court and track. Its why Oracle partners not only with individual teams but, in certain cases, entire leaguessuch asPremier LeagueandSailGP.

The industry is taking notice too.Oracles score in a recent Gartner Scorecard reportjumped to 78%ahead of Google.

Why the continued momentum? Below I dig into the reasons why I think OCI is gaining momentum.

Equivalent performance and latency in the cloud

At the very least, you expect comparable I/O performance and latency. OCI featuresisolated network virtualization, essentially moving network and IO virtualization out of the server stack to network. The result is dedicated hosts with no hypervisor overhead, interference from other servers, or shared resources with a complete software-defined Layer 3 network topology. Off-box network virtualization enables bare-metal, VM's, containers, and databases to run on the same set of APIs with the cloud-native security and governance of a Layer 3 virtual network.

OCI addresses latency concerns witha flat non-blocking network based onClos network topology(named after Charles Clos). Predictable data rates reduce the number of routers and switches that data has to pass through.

OCImeets enterprise requirements for database clustering (including OracleReal Application Clusters(RAC),Exadata, VMware, compute clustering (RDMA), and tenant isolation.

Easing migration of enterprise workloads

Migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud is non-trivial. Oracle hasthe Cloud Liftprogramthat offerstechnical expertise and white-glove services to help customers move to the cloud at no additional cost.More than1,000 global companieshave already used the program.

Financial incentives are possible withOracle Support Rewards, which enables new OCI customers to reduce software license costs, even down to zero.

Oracle Support Rewards is a program where you earn $0.25 to $0.33 in rewards for every $1 you spend on OCI. Rewards are applied to reduce your technical software license support bill. The $0.33 bonus is applicable if you are anUnlimited License Agreement (ULA)customer.

If you use Oracle's on-premises software, you become eligible for Oracle Support Rewards when you place aUniversal Credit orderand begin consuming OCI.

Redefines the Telco cloud market

Oracle continues to introduce new solutions and recently announced Oracle Cloud for Telcos, a comprehensive set of cloud solutions built on OCI, that provides telcos with an exceptional customer experience and helps drive new opportunities for growth.The solution takes advantage of Oracles decades of experience working with global telcos to support their critical data systems, applications, and network operations.Oracle has already started with key partners likeTIM (Telecom Italia),Bharti Airtel, andTelefonica Espana.

Strong support for regions and hybrid clouds

I believe the customer experience is better when the cloud resources are closer. It is that simple. Additionally,business continuity and compliance requirements dictate that applications run across geographically separated locationsoften without having sensitive data leave the country. Oracle has invested in significantGlobal cloud region expansionacross 30 commercial and seven government cloud regions in 14 countries. Oracle opened sevennew cloud regions alone in the last three months -Israel,Marseille,Abu Dhabi,Milan,Stockholm,SingaporeandJohannesburg.

Customers can run thecomplete portfolio of public cloud servicesandOracle Fusion SaaSapplications on-premises withDedicated RegionandExadata Cloud@Customer. At the edge,Roving Edge Infrastructurewith ruggedized devices enables cloud computing at the edge of networks and disconnected locations.

Notably, Oracle also sees strong hybrid adoption from customers like Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen, and Marsh McLennan.

TheOracle and Microsoft Azure interconnectdelivers a mostly seamless and private interoperability for the many customers running multi-cloud environments.Oracle now has 10 interconnects around the world with the recent addition of South Korea and Phoenix.

Oracle joined forces with Cloudflarein the Bandwidth Alliance toeliminate unnecessary data transfer feesand ease the path to multi-cloud.

Continued innovation on the platform

OCI introduced hundreds of services and features over the past year. Here are just a few that caught my attention.

Oracle Cloud for Telcosis a comprehensive set of cloud solutions built on OCI. The OCI platform runs Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, Oracle Communications core network and B/OSS solutions, and more than 60 other industry application suites, as well as third-party and custom applications and workloads. It enables telcos to build new applications or modernize existing workloads with 80 plus cloud services, including data management, developer services, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

Oracle Cloud for Telcos enables any telecommunications provider to become more agile, reduce capital expenditures and operating costs, and establish a flexible foundation for innovation. Telcos can:

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to applicationswithout requiring data science expertise is the goal of introducing anew set of AI servicesfor OCI. Prebuilt text recognition and anomaly detection models are now available to all OCI customers, once again at attractive prices. High query performance at scaleincluding provisioning, data loading, query execution, and failure handling is now possible with anew MySQL Database service with an in-memory query acceleration engine calledHeatwave.For the first time, MySQL customers have a unified platform for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytics Processing (OLAP) to run mixed workloads or real-time analytics.

Oracle introduced a new service calledOracle Autonomous JSON Databasethat automates database provisioning, securing, scaling, and tuning to reduce the risk and cost of human error.Oracle Autonomous Database scored the highest in all four use cases in the2020 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases.

I would be amiss not to mention security innovations in the public cloud. Oracle'sphilosophy has always been to build security into the core product. Security features such as encryption are default enabled. There is alist of security featuresto numerous to list here that come free with the product.

Oracle also provides additional capabilities likeSecurity Zonesso administrators can automatically set up and enforce security policies across cloud compartments within OCI.

Finally,in August 2021, Oracle also released theOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cloud Adoption Frameworkto better support customers in their cloud adoption journey. The framework was created as a resource rich center serving anyone who wants to further their cloud knowledgefrom a tech operator to a CIOand as an opportunity to learn more about OCIs unique capabilities. Recently, Oracle enhanced delivering the framework by creating theOCI Cloud Adoption Framework technical site, which hosts relevant technical content, assets, and tools to better enable organizations shifting to the cloud. The site includes templates for cloud business strategy documents, reference architectures for specific scenarios,landing zonescripts to accelerate cloud deployments, and showcases the latestOCI Governance Model.

Wrapping up

I should probably quit my predictions while I am ahead, but clearly, Oracle is making many of the right moves in the cloud space, and customers are voting with dollars.

One area I will be closely looking at OCI in 2022 is its integration of Arm-based instances to lower its customers cost of compute. Cloud companies like AWS have fully embraced the technology and Oracle has to watch this carefully. I will also be looking at composable memory architectures in a future version of OCI where customers can add more memory on-demand without having to add a compute instance.

It will be interesting to check back in at the end of 2022 to review the OCI scorecard.

Note: Moor Insights & Strategy writers and editors may have contributed to this article.

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Microsofts Azure public cloud is providing free inward data migration courtesy of deals with Data Dynamics and Komprise.

An Azure Storage Blog by Karl Rautenstrauch, Microsoft principal program manager for Storage Partners, says these deals with unstructured data management partners help you migrate your file data to Azure Storage at no cost! Its recommended for use by customers with 50TB or more of data to migrate. Users with less data can use tools such as AzCopy, rsync, or Azure Storage Explorer.

He adds: We intend this new program to help our customers and partners migrate from on-premises and non-Azure deployments of Windows or Linux File Servers, Network Attached Storage, and S3-compliant object stores to Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files, or Azure NetApp Files.

This program is a complement to the Azure Migrate portfolio which many Azure customers have used to automate and orchestrate the migration of servers, desktops, databases, web applications, and more to Azure.

Customers who take up the program will be given an onboarding session to learn how to use the software and will receive access to the support knowledgebase and email support for the chosen ISV and up to two support phone calls. We have also co-authored Getting Started Guides and our ISVs have created How-To videos to help you quickly begin your migration, writes Rautenstrauch. The program does not include professional services to help you configure the software beyond the onboarding session, Getting Started Guides and How-To videos.

Data Dynamics uses its StorageX product while Komprise supplies its Elastic Data Migration (EDM) offering. EDM was launched in March 2020 and takes NFS/SMB/CIFS file data and moves it across a network to a target NAS system, or via S3 to object storage systems or the public cloud.

Komprise says EDM eliminates cost and complexity in managing file data by providing analytics-driven data migration to Azure:

Customers can upgrade to the full product,Komprise Intelligent Data Management, which means they can transparently tier across Azure Storage platforms, cutting up to 70 per cent of cloud costs.

Find out more about the Azure and Komprise migration deal here. Lets see if Amazon Web Services and the Google Cloud Platform follow in Azures footsteps.

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