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THE BOOK NOOK: Deep behind the scenes of 9/11 – Niagara Gazette

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

You remember exactly where you were.

You were in your office, at home doing breakfast dishes, just getting out of bed, and at first, you didn't believe what you were seeing. It was not April Fool's Day, it was September 11, 2001, and these books commemorate the anniversary of that day ...

Though the images you saw that morning are probably seared in your mind, you'll still want to spend time reading "September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy" by journalists of the Associated Press (Sterling Publishing, $35). Packed with photos that are rarely seen, taken by professional photographers that fall morning, this book also includes a moment-by-moment timeline and hundreds of recollections from the men and women whose job it was to chronicle what happened. But this book takes things further: you'll read here about the weeks after September 11, 2001, and how everything changed forever.

Also with a timeline this one wider and longer is "On That Day: The Definitive Timeline of 9/11" by William M. Arkin (PublicAffairs, $18.99). This book takes readers much deeper behind the scenes, in the White House, near the Pentagon, and in the air above, and it's not necessarily good news. Unique about this book is that readers don't usually see such in-depth, government-based reporting on September 11 and the days afterward.

Another little-known story can be learned in "The Lives They Saved" by L. Douglas Keeney (Lyons Press, $26.95). Here, you'll read about the kind of heroism that you might have missed: on the day of the attack on the Twin Towers, people who lived and worked in Manhattan needed to evacuate from the area, fast. But how do you get large numbers of people out when many escape routes were blocked? The question is answered in documents and interviews that have been declassified: boat owners, medics, and others who knew the waters around Manhattan came together to shuttle some 300,000 people off the island and to safety. It became the largest boat-lift in history, larger than any other boat-lift in any war, and it happened in one single day. It's a powerful story, perfect for understanding this seminal event.

And finally, there are two generations that won't remember 9/11, either because they were babies then or because they weren't even yet born. For them, there's "I Survived The Attacks of September 11, 2001: The Graphic Novel" by Lauren Tarshis, art by Corey Egbert (Scholastic, $10.99). This is the fictional story of a young boy who struggles with a decision his parents made that he doesn't agree with. He needs to talk things over with his beloved uncle, who works at a firehouse in Manhattan, but shortly after he arrived, something happened that was unimaginable. Meant for kids ages 7-and-up, this book will be a quick read for any young adult who likes graphic novels.

If you'd like more information, you'll find plenty of information on September 11, 2001 at your local bookstore or library. In the meantime, these great books will help you remember ...

Terri's grade:A.

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How 7 years of dirt is deep cleaned from mattresses – Insider

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

The following is a transcript of the video.

Jon Bristol: My name is Jon Bristol, and I'm from Trinidad and Tobago. I'm the director of Super Fresh, and today I'm going to show you how we clean very dirty mattresses as well as the average dirty ones. So, a typical process of cleaning a mattress is we spray on an enzyme-based cleaner, and that will break down the dirt and the body oils and, you know, the incidents. And we give that chemical some time to work. After that, there's some agitation, also known as scrubbing, and in the final stage of the process, we use the extractor, and that would spray on a solution of clean water, fabric shampoo, and deodorizer and vacuum at the same time. So it rinses away everything, so there isn't any harsh chemicals left to interfere with anyone's skin or anything afterwards. There's going to be a lot of dust buildup over time. There's going to be hair. If there are a lot of kids in your home, you're going to find urine, even if the client doesn't know. Sometimes, you know, some people eat on their beds and stuff, so you find crumbs from various foodstuff. All right. So, I actually had no idea what to expect when coming to do this job. And I'm still not entirely sure what caused it. It may have been some flooding in the area, but I'm not sure. So that was probably more than five years for sure. So, right here, I am spraying on the enzyme-based cleaner onto the mattress, and I'm looking to see the areas where I may have to apply another coat as we go along. What I use right now, it's a synthetic enzyme. I could use it for everything, but there are some stains that would require additional chemicals if you really want to get them removed visually. But the most important thing for most clients is getting the actual thing that caused the stain out. So we say there may not be a visual improvement, but you can be sure that you're getting all the nasties out. They're usually just regular buildup, so just regular dust and dirt that accumulate over the years. Some clients don't use a full three-piece sheet set. A lot of clients don't have mattress protectors either. Using heat is beneficial because heat acts almost like a universal catalyst. So heat would help your chemicals to work faster, so it would help the enzyme cleaner to break down the stuff faster, and it will also help the fabric shampoo to latch onto the dirt particles faster. So it helps make the cleaning process more efficient. Unfortunately, there's no way to know for sure that you get 100% of it, but you want to know that you're picking up as much as possible. This mattress was especially dirty, so it's either, like, a lot of years, probably more than seven or so, or a lot of use. But I don't think it's any one thing, but just a combination of factors that leaves it to be that condition. I found that you could use a variable-speed polisher and a scrubbing-brush attachment. The brush is rotating at about 600 rpm. We use the softest brush available, because some fabrics are really delicate. And we use that to help break down the larger debris and stuff on the surface of the fabric. So it helps break down the larger pieces of debris, 'cause sometimes they have buildup that is really, really bad, and it's actually, like, caked up. The general process for removing stains is just to isolate where the stain is, and I may double-apply the enzyme-based cleaner to it or I may spend a little longer scrubbing it. I believe for this one the client told us it was probably about two years, and it wasn't too bad. It was just, like, a cream-ish color, but we know the original color was white, and so we sprayed it one time and we did the scrubbing. I mean, you'll always have the extreme. Some would be much, much darker brown. Some would be much more spotty. But the average person is just a little cream, just a little off-white from where it should be. For mattresses, you're usually going to get those kind of colors, because even below the surface, you still have a lot of debris. Your dead skin cells, your dirt, and your dust building up. So even if the top After a certain amount of years, your mattress significantly increases in weight simply due to the dust and dead skin cells that collect. So, one, it's going to be more uncomfortable. Two, if you're using it regularly, some of that is going to be entering the air. So you're going to have a lower-quality air inside the home. It may attract mites if there's a lot of moisture around. Just overall it's not going to be the best way of well-being. For people that are asthmatic, the buildup of dust could be a problem. For people with sensitive skin, any buildup on your mattress over time could pose a threat in the future in terms of having flare-ups. If you're taking only preventative measures, I don't think you should need to service more than, like, once a year. Get it cleaned and then get a mattress protector, because you can always wash that every fortnight or every month, and you're in a much better position than paying me. And I don't mind, but you're in a much better position for your own well-being.

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A therapy called rhythm that creates impact on the body and the mind – Onmanorama

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

New Delhi,: Believing that music is a divine art form, which when clubbed with spirituality can do wonders, Hindustani classical vocalist Lavanya Sundram, who has incorporated aspects of healing into her work, says, "Music is Naad Yog, and sound creates an impact on the body and the mind. A combination of different ragas, insightful lyrics and profound prayers that come from a deep connection with divinity creates tremendous energy and can be instrumental in healing frayed nerves."

Hailing from a family of musicians, Sundram started training for Carnatic vocal music when she was three years old. She performs Hindustani and Carnatic vocal music, Bhajans, Kirtans and Ghazals. She stresses that the feeling of love and peace is the essence in any kind of music. "And love is pure and divine. Be it any genre of music, I connect with my heart and sing with immense love, devotion and peace."

Although her training started very early, it was in grade IX that she started feeling very strongly towards music. Sundram's grandmother, her first guru, felt she should focus on vocals. "Later, I felt very strongly that music had an important role to play in my life and I must give back what I have inherited."

Looking back at her journey, she feels blessed to have had encouraging gurus. "They groomed me into a mature musician and teacher, and have taught me how to give and share. Lovely opportunities to learn and perform, compete and grow have come my way."

Talk to her about not enough platforms for young classical musicians to showcase their talent, and Sundram feels that music must be for the sake of music, and not as a means to achieve something else. "That is true sadhana. When one does this, immense opportunities come knocking for the artist to perform. This art form is not for entertainment I have always felt that one should keep focusing on taleem, keep growing and improving his/her."

Stressing that it was important to give all possible support to the classical arts, the vocalist, who was recently part of HCL Concerts' Baithak, says, "HCL is doing a commendable job by supporting and nurturing music. We definitely need more organisations to come forward."

For Sundram, the lockdown was a period to develop herself and introspect the role of music in her life. "As musicians, performing before an audience is an ecstatic feeling -- it keeps us alive and motivated. I have really missed the live concerts and I am eagerly looking forward to getting back."

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God’s mysterious riches, wisdom, and knowledge – Leawood – Church of the Resurrection

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

Daily ScriptureRomans 11:25-36

25 I dont want you to be unaware of this secret [or mystery], brothers and sisters. That way you wont think too highly of yourselves. A part of Israel has become resistant until the full number of the Gentiles comes in. 26 In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The deliverer will come from Zion.He will remove ungodly behavior from Jacob.27 This is my covenant with them,when I take away their sins [Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34]

28 According to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but according to Gods choice, they are loved for the sake of their ancestors. 29 Gods gifts and calling cant be taken back. 30 Once you were disobedient to God, but now you have mercy because they were disobedient. 31 In the same way, they have also been disobedient because of the mercy that you received, so now they can receive mercy too. 32 God has locked up all people in disobedience, in order to have mercy on all of them.

33 Gods riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep! They are as mysterious as his judgments, and they are as hard to track as his paths!

34 Who has known the Lords mind?Or who has been his mentor? [Isaiah 40:13]35 Or who has given him a giftand has been paid back by him? [Job 41:11]36 All things are from him and through him and for him.May the glory be to him forever. Amen.

NOTE: Today we recall the terrible events of 9/11/01, 20 years ago, which made us painfully aware that the bitter divisions in our world have horrible results. It is a good day to ponder Pauls summary of Gods vision of the world. God has locked up all people in disobedience, in order to have mercy on all of them, he wrote. Left to ourselves, we tend to see the world in us and them terms. But God sees one human family, offers mercy to every one of Gods earthly children, and yearns for us to accept that offer. Which is why Paul closed with a great hymn of praise: Gods riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep!....May the glory be to him forever. Amen.

Reading all of Romans 9 11 this week should help us see why it doesnt work to read a fragment of 11:26 as a stand-alone conclusion. N. T. Wright pointed out, The question: how is God saving his whole people, Jew and Gentile alike? How is all Israel going to be saved (verse 26)? Many people find this puzzling. Surely, they say, all Israel must mean all Jewseither all Jews who have ever lived, or all believing Jews, or all Jews alive at the time of final salvation. But Paul himself has indicated otherwise.* And William Barclay wrote: Paul argues that there is more to Jewishness than descent from Abraham, that the chosen people were not simply the entire sum of all the physical descendants of Abraham.** Verse 32 returned to what Paul wrote in Romans 3:23-24, now applied more fully to the tension between Jewish and Gentile Christians.

Creating, redeeming God, your riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep! Thank you for a mind that can wrestle with hard questions, and for a heart that can trust you to know answers I cannot yet fathom. Amen.

* Wright, N.T., Paul for Everyone, Romans Part Two: Chapters 9-16 (The New Testament for Everyone) (p. 59). Westminster John Knox Press. Kindle Edition.

** William Barclay, Daily Study Bible Series: The Letter to the Romans (Revised Edition). Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1975, p. 128.

*** Michael J. Gorman, study note on Romans 11:33-36 in The CEB Study Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013, p. 294 NT.

**** William Barclay, Daily Study Bible Series: The Letter to the Romans (Revised Edition). Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1975, p. 155.

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Bidens abortion clash with the Catholic Church – POLITICO

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

On the Texas law restricting abortions

I think the interesting thing will be watching how [Biden] deals with this Texas bill and seeing how he follows through on what he's promised, which is a all of government effort to combat it and to block it. And the idea that the nation's second Catholic president could oversee the death of abortion access, you know, or the the fall of Roe v. Wade This is a remarkable moment. Its really an interesting, complex and difficult position for him to be in. Ruby Cramer

It's a little awkward because when Joe Biden goes to mass, you're not actually going inside the church with him. What you actually do is sit on a bus on a road near the president's home, wait for the president to leave his home as you're getting security sweeps and all that stuff checked by the Secret Service.

And when he leaves to go to church, the press bus joins up with the motorcade, drives to the church with him, pulls up to a certain spot, a designated area. Essentially, you watch him walk from the motorcade to the front doors of the church, you watch him go inside, then that's over. There's nothing else to see because you're not going in with him.

It just feels like a weirdly personal moment that you're observing through a literal fence. It has a fishbowl element that plays out so literally as to almost be ridiculous, and it's just a strange feature of this particular president that always stuck in my mind.

I think with Biden, there's always been a presumption, this almost unspoken rule, that for him mass is so sacred and his church is so sacred that it is an incredibly private space. And I think the interesting tension ... is that, yes, it's private, and that's always how Biden has treated it and yes, communion is this sort of, for Catholics, a literal moment before God, and that's as personal as you can get. But it's also the president of the United States occupying this incredibly public role of being the nation's second Catholic president, second to John F. Kennedy.

I mean, we've got a history in this country of that being a very fraught and important and full-of-meaning sort of role. And what does that mean to people? That's what's interesting about it, I think. Ruby Cramer

In my conversations with the people who built the faith engagement program, I would always ask them the same question, which was, When you are going to work for Joe Biden running a faith program for him did you ever sit down and talk to him like, Hey, buddy, how do you want to do this faith thing? Because religion and politics is pretty complicated, last I checked.

... So I always wanted to know, like, did these people ever sit down with Joe Biden and ask him what were the boundaries of what this should look like? I thought that was a good question. And basically, the impression that I got is no, no one ever did that. And I think what happened instead was they all just kind of took their cues from watching him, understanding that he was going to sort of set the tone for the way that they would make the case to people. Ruby Cramer

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Does cloud computing have a silver lining? – DTNEXT

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

Chennai:

When I recently arrived at Sinna Dorai, a tea estate bungalow of Parrys perched atop the estates highest point, the clouds that hung in there seemed like massive cotton balls glinting under the shimmering sun. In an instant, the beautiful emerald blue sky that was bewitchingly sublime turned tar-black as more clouds began gathering. Then an eerie caterwauling sound filled the air, whipping the wind into a frenzy, and a splatter of rain began drumming my window as it gradually settled down to a pitter-patter. Like the clouds in the natural world, we have clouds in the digital world. Clouds in the natural world bring gifts to a farmer and put a smile on his face; conversely, they could also be churlish and Kraken-cruel and cough out gallons of water to flood the fields, overrun the dams and swell the rivers. How does the digital cloud compare to the natural cloud? What does cloud computing entail? Does it have a silver lining?

Cloud computing is a technology that delivers services through the Internet, including data storage, software, servers, databases, and networking. Cloud-based storage saves files to a remote database. For instance, Google Cloud is a suite of public cloud services delivered by Google.

Cloud computing, like the clouds in the natural world, offers a variety of benefits. Cloud computing spares the users of unscheduled software updates, frees up computer space, reduces maintenance woes, and saves time, liberating the administrator to focus on more strategic tasks. Companies dont need to buy software anymore as they can avail it on rent from the cloud. Daily activities of life such as banking, Media Streaming, email and e-commerce all use the Cloud. Netflix is an illustration of a company using the cloud.

Clouds can protect data from natural disasters, failure of electricity, and other catastrophes. The cloud ensures that the data gets backed up and secures it in a safe location. The ability to re-access the data helps organisations conduct business, as usual, by reducing downtime and loss of productivity.

The most crucial benefit of the Cloud is the flexible ease of storage and release of data as per the users needs. The other benefits that accrue to companies from cloud computing are decreasing costs and better efficiency. Over 90 per cent of all businesses witnessed at least one area of improvement in their IT department after they migrated to the cloud. Small to medium companies that adopted the cloud experienced a 40 per cent increase in earnings after a year compared to those that did not use the cloud.

Besides the advantages mentioned above, the Cloud has several downsides. For instance, Google stores our email and Google docs; Dropbox stores our documents while Facebook and Instagram our images, and our mobile phones automatically upload data to the Cloud. The accumulation of millions of gigabytes of data on the Cloud means that our personal information gets stored not just in our hard drives but also on cloud-based servers, implying that by putting all the jewels in one box, we seem to have prevented the need for the hackers/criminals to target individual hard drives and instead granted them an opportunity to loot the entire treasure in one attack.

Second, as the Cloud service providers have access to massive data, there is a significant risk of stored data being deleted, changed, and leaked intentionally or accidentally. Theres also the danger of administrators of these service providers getting lured into disclosing data from databases for personal or political gain. The Cloud service providers also tend to compromise the privacy of users with their privacy policy. For instance, most service providers, like Dropbox, share data with third parties for law and order.

Third, transnational interconnections and endless warehousing of enormous amounts of data mean data leaks are inescapable. In 2008, a military contractor from Maryland, USA, who wanted to listen to pirated music by downloading P2P sharing software accidentally installed the program in the wrong directory because of which the design and security features of the presidents Sikorsky VH-3D helicopter got leaked, ending up on a P2P network in Iran. A military contractors desire to listen to pirated music caused a billion-dollar military project to get jeopardised.

Besides, most users who upload the data to the Cloud have no clue where their uploaded data, like pictures on Facebook, Instagram etc., is getting stored and in which part of the real world. Our deep dependence on Cloud-based services and nonlocal data storage could prove risky when the services go down, or if there is a denial of service attack, when we may not be able to access data. Cloud computing services need a secure internet connection and also gobble up a great deal of electricity.

Data breaches remain a critical issue in Cloud Computing; major cloud service providers like Microsoft, Google, Dropbox etc., have experienced breaches in which data such as credit card information, email addresses, mobile numbers got stolen. Data of several thousand businesses stored in the cloud continue to be breached each year.

Data breaches have been occurring for individuals as well. On August 31, 2014, hackers posted an assortment of nude snapshots of various stars such as Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence on the anonymous image-sharing website 4chan. Relaxed security policies at Apple and Amazon helped hackers breach the Twitter, Google, and iCloud accounts of Mat Honan, a writer working for Wired magazine. The hackers remotely erased a years worth of personal memories stored on his iPad, iPhone and MacBook Pro. Hence, entrusting personal data, such as family photographs, to Cloud service providers has its risks.

According to a report by IBM Security and Ponemon Institute, in India, data breaches cost businesses about 165 million on an average, which is a rise of 17.85% from 140 million compared with the last report released in 2020. India witnessed the highest data breach during the pandemic because of a rapid shift to remote work. In 2021, the five most significant breaches in India were reported by Mobikwik, Juspay, Dominos Pizza, Upstox and Air India.

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Amazon Microsoft Google Remain Top Cloud Vendors But It Might Not Always Be Like That – CMSWire

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

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After the recent round of financial results, it is clear that for many of the big tech companies, cloud computing is driving revenues in one way or another. Recent releases in the market indicate that this is, indeed, the case. Earlier this week, for example, Basking Ridge, NJ-based Verizon announced the general release of an on-premises, private edge compute solution in partnership with Microsoft Azure. Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge is a cloud computing platform that enables computing and storage at the edge of the enterprise.

Elsewhere this week, Germany-based SAP and Mountain View, CA-based Google have deepened their partnership as part of Rise with SAP, the company's latest push to spur on S/4HANA migrations in what looks like an evolution of the public cloud hyperscaler market for SAP customers.

So its a typical week in the cloud industry. Amazon, Google and Microsoft are dominating the space and it seems unlikely that there is room for anyone else. In fact, data from the Synergy Research Group published in January shows that the total number of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers increased to 597 at the end of 2020, having more than doubled since the end of 2015.

It also showed that among the hyperscale operators, Amazon, Microsoft and Google collectively account for over half of all major data centers. Amazon and Google opened the newest data centers in the last twelve months, accounting for half of the 2020 additions, with Oracle, Microsoft, Alibaba and Facebook also being particularly active.

Hyperscale data centers are massive business-critical facilities designed to efficiently support robust, scalable applications and are often associated with big data-producing companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft.

The result of this ongoing positioning in the cloud market means that many businesses have treated Amazon and Microsoft as the only options as they look to embrace cloud-computing. However, there is growing evidence to suggest that IT and tech vendors are looking around for alternatives as more money is being pumped into cloud computing. In fact, looking at the data from alt-date research companies like Stackline, the current state of the 'Cloud Wars' show a general ebb from a 5% reduction in budget allocation for cloud in 2020, to a 2021 renewed flow, forecasting as much as 8% growth in the space.

As global business finds its footing in remote hybrid decentralized work with about 60% still predominantly remote, and over 30% in a hybrid model since March 2020 - the new cloud-infrastructure supporting this kind of work model has also brought with it new cybersecurity threats especially with the rise in the number of collocated teams, New York City-based Elizabeth Hunker an advisor on tech start-ups that has worked with the likes of HyperVerge and DecentraNET, told us.

The question, however, is whether the distribution is equal across all players? Obviously not. Those benefiting the most from this growth seem to be those with the strongest security offered within their enterprise cloud stack. With AWS maintaining a 50% incumbent ownership status in the cloud space, Azure looks to be holding in 2nd position at just over 30%, followed by Alibaba and GCP sharing nearly 17% of all cloud adopters evenly between them.

Among the four, AWS was the only to see recent growth, as a decentralizing trend disintermediates a historically monolithic enterprise landscape. Given the relative explosion in demand for cloud-first architecture skillsets, there's been a tandem climb in the IT Service & Consulting industries, buoying market leaders like Accenture, Oracle, Juniper, Teradata & Coupa. Where Fortune 1000 players have historically chosen between enterprise monoliths who happen to offer cloud computing and services we're now seeing microservices that offer specialization and agility like never before, she said. With liquidity expansions & rising popularity in SPACS, SPARCS and IPOs, a space that seemed to be contracting via M&A without halt is showing renewed independence. In this respect, she pointed out that some of the biggest gainers in 2021 include players in InfoSec, RPA & Managed Data like Snowflake, UiPath & Splunk.

Although Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services still dominate the market, other players are gaining traction. Google Cloud Platform is an attractive choice for IT managers interested in its big data and analytics workloads.

Meanwhile, hybrid cloud and traditional data center providers such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and VMware also have their place, Brad Touesnard, founder and CEO of Canada-based SpinupWP, said. Salesforce and ServiceNow are using their back-to-work enablement suites to establish themselves as major platforms.

It all comes down to one thing. The battle is being fought over data acquisition. Major players know that the more corporate data that resides in the cloud the more loyal the customer. Cloud computing vendors are pitching enterprises to use their data storage platforms for everything from analytics to personalized experiences.

Key differentiators for discerning IT managers here, he said, will be artificial intelligence, IoT, analytics, and edge computing. Other important factors are the provision of serverless and managed services. Cloud vendors including Google Cloud Platform, AWS and Hewlett-Packard are seeking to entice customers by offering management layers to manage their other properties.

The dominance of AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure cannot be understated. However, there are several other companies investing in their infrastructure business to make the space truly competitive, so that business owners have more choice over their providers, Phil Strazzulla of Cambridge, MA-based Select Software Reviews, added. He points to IBM as one of those companies that was fairly quiet on the cloud front for a long time. However, the company has been consistently investing and building its services to the point where Watson is a viable product for businesses. These days, IBM/Watson are perfect solutions for companies looking to expand their data engineering potential.

Similarly, while many companies like Microsoft and Amazon are focusing on expanding cloud computing offerings, Google is looking to the future and building a quantum computing service thats already outpacing competitors. As it stands right now, Google will be the first to a viable quantum computing option that will be in much higher demand than machine learning or AI solutions.

As trends in the business seem to migrate towards a la carte computing options, Azure seems to be trying to keep everything under one label. "Azure Synapse Analytics works only with the Azure architecture, and can make it challenging for businesses to employ too many different cloud systems. As the segment becomes more competitive, we might see more companies opting for these exclusionary practices designed to keep people exclusive to their platform," said Strazzulla.

Ian Campbell, CEO of Nucleus Research wrote in a recent blog, Microsoft famously won the recent $10B DOD Jedi cloud contract only to have political pressure bring AWS back into the picture. It looks like the contract will be split into two but before the decision is made, Id suggest IBM might be worthy of real consideration. He thinks, the DOD is only considering Microsoft and AWS because they were the only two to satisfy all the certification requirements and that is a silly way to measure. In this rapidly changing technology environment what is missing today is available tomorrow and obsolete the day after. Better to choose the partner than a snapshot feature list. Especially if you are making a 5- or 10-year decision, he said.

The way is open, it seems, for other contenders, but for the time being the field is dominated by AWS, Microsoft and, to a less extent, Google. It will take quite some time before others can gain ground.

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Why startups are choosing the cloud – Techradar

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate, especially when it comes to startups. Its uncommon now to find a startup that isnt cloud native; most chose to adopt a cloud infrastructure from the beginning. Businesses such as Monzo, AirBnB and Lyft have been able to grow and innovate quickly, seamlessly underpinned by their highly secure, agile, and flexible cloud infrastructure.

Startups approach cloud, and more importantly cybersecurity, with a different viewpoint when compared to larger established organizations who are still struggling to marry together new capabilities with legacy systems.

To bring their ideas to life and scale rapidly, startups are taking advantage of numerous benefits and advantages offered by the AWS Cloud, safe in the knowledge that security is not an after-thought, but rather the cornerstone of its services and infrastructure.

When starting a business, managing burn rate is critical in a startups journey to finding product market fit. Therefore investments that deliver the highest possible value and return on investment (ROI) are a must. This approach enables startups to avoid the large upfront expense of owned infrastructure, and manage their IT at a lower cost.

However, low cost does not mean low functionality. To the contrary, a startup operating on cloud infrastructure has access to the same services and capabilities as the largest enterprise or government customers. This investment includes entire teams dedicated to security to satisfy the security and compliance needs of the most risk-sensitive organizations.

This allows them to compete on an even playing field, innovating quickly and bringing products to market, all with the knowledge that they can securely run their business with the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. This is especially critical in highly regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare and life sciences.

Startups are ambitious, tenacious and hungry to expand, so choosing to build and scale their business on the cloud is a natural choice. Simply by embracing cloud, startups can scale rapidly, giving them the ability to trade capital expense for variable expense, and only pay for IT services as they consume them. The variable expense is much lower than what startups can do for themselves because of AWSs economies of scale. This means they can redirect costs into shipping products faster to capture more market share in pursuit of product market fit.

For over 15 years, AWS has been the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering, and now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, so startups can go global in a matter or clicks and support any expansion plans.

Cloud platforms provide an opportunity for startups to optimize existing IT systems and to increase operational efficiencies, while driving business agility and growth. This is achieved by allowing companies to significantly decrease the time it takes to provision and de-provision IT infrastructure.

While a physical server could take months or weeks to procure and provision, a cloud server takes minutes. Furthermore, cloud supports the increasingly rapid pace of product development and the need to swiftly bring products to market by using the services that AWS offers. Startups are all about speed and agility, and AWS believes this is exactly what cloud offers.

Startups must make security a top priority, regardless of size. A security breach can impact startups by hurting their reputation and customer-bases and can have repercussions on the larger organizations these businesses they do business with. With a report from Malwarebytes revealing that cyber-attacks across Europe have soared 235 percent over the last 12 months, startups need to bake-in security from the ground up to make sure they are not the weak link in a supply chain.

Time is precious for startups and, at AWS, automating security tasks enables startups to be more secure by reducing human configuration errors and giving teams more time to work on other tasks critical to the business. Automation can also offer a smarter approach to detecting potential threats through its ability to monitor patterns of behavior; being able to identify changes in behavior means potential attacks can be identified and dealt with immediately.

Applying machine learning and mathematical logic to security also allows cloud platforms to proactively manage tasks including security assessments, threat detection and policy management. AWS is committed to helping customers achieve the highest levels of security in the cloud. Using automated reasoning technology, the application of mathematical logic to help answer critical questions about your infrastructure, we are able to detect entire classes of misconfigurations that could potentially expose vulnerable data.

From an early stage, startups must choose a cloud provider whose network architecture is designed to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations in the world. At AWS, we believe startups are a huge driving force for innovation. However, this wouldnt be possible without a cloud provider that can support and evolve with them as they grow and that enables them to keep their data safe and protect against malicious attacks. By having a cloud-native approach and putting security at the center, startups can focus on innovating and disrupting their industry, knowing that their cloud platform is as agile, highly secure and dynamic as they are.

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$313.1 Billion Worldwide Cloud Computing Services Industry to 2027 – Impact of COVID-19 on the Market – ResearchAndMarkets.com – Business Wire

September 13, 2021 | Author: admin

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Cloud Computing Services - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Cloud Computing Services estimated at US$313.1 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$937.5 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 17% over the analysis period 2020-2027.

Infrastructure as a Service, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 18.4% CAGR and reach US$449.3 Billion by the end of the analysis period. After an early analysis of the business implications of the pandemic and its induced economic crisis, growth in the Platform as a Service segment is readjusted to a revised 16.2% CAGR for the next 7-year period.

The U.S. Market is Estimated at $84.2 Billion, While China is Forecast to Grow at 22.2% CAGR

The Cloud Computing Services market in the U.S. is estimated at US$84.2 Billion in the year 2020. China, the world's second largest economy, is forecast to reach a projected market size of US$222.5 Billion by the year 2027 trailing a CAGR of 22.1% over the analysis period 2020 to 2027. Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 12% and 15.1% respectively over the 2020-2027 period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 13.4% CAGR.

Software as a Service Segment to Record 15.1% CAGR

In the global Software as a Service segment, USA, Canada, Japan, China and Europe will drive the 14.2% CAGR estimated for this segment. These regional markets accounting for a combined market size of US$57.7 Billion in the year 2020 will reach a projected size of US$145.7 Billion by the close of the analysis period. China will remain among the fastest growing in this cluster of regional markets. Led by countries such as Australia, India, and South Korea, the market in Asia-Pacific is forecast to reach US$145.6 Billion by the year 2027, while Latin America will expand at a 16.8% CAGR through the analysis period.

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