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The Center for Health Affairs Partners with ORock Technologies to Offer IT Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions – Markets Insider

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

CLEVELAND, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Center for Health Affairs,the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership withORockTechnologies, a high-performance hybrid cloud service provider built on OpenStack and certified by FedRAMP and the Department of Defense. The alliance will allow The Center's member hospitals and members of its business affiliatesCHAMPS Group PurchasingandThe Essentials Groupto utilize secure IT infrastructure and cloud storage and hosting solutions.

ORock's unique network architecture and open-source cloud environment, ORockCloud, enable organizations in healthcare, financial services and more to capitalize on the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing. Regardless of bandwidth or user count fluctuations, organizations get predictable pricing based upon zero ingress, egress and trans-region data transfer fees. In addition, members can utilize cloud storage as a service with ORockCloud Storage, which allows for object and block storage solutions for hybrid IT environments.

ORock's solutions are built for environments in which customers must satisfy stringent standards for security and compliance. In the scope of healthcare IT, ORock's cloud computing, storage and containers solutions meet HIPAA and HITECH requirements. With ORock's offerings, healthcare systems and hospitals can share patient records with confidence, keep data safe and stay compliant.

"It's no secret that 2020 was a challenging year for IT teams across the board," said Tracy Wise, senior vice president of business operations and administration for The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare. "Over the past year, our team has been searching for solutions that could help our members fortify their security measures and appropriately handle threats such as ransomware. With ORock Technologies, we've achieved just that. This partnership provides our membership with secure data solutions designed for industries that require the gold standard in terms of security and compliance."

"Our customers across healthcare and other highly regulated industries are embracing the future of cloud with ORock," said Gregory Hrncir, Co-Founder, CEO and President, ORock Technologies. "ORock offers a fully compliant portfolio of cloud solutions for healthcare systems and hospitals modernizing their tech stacks and seeking high performing, sensibly-priced cloud solutions. We look forward to working with The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS' membership to protect sensitive workloads in the cloud while helping each member organization achieve its important strategic IT and healthcare goals."

Headquartered in Reston, Va., ORock manages its network, monitors security and supports its customers through its U.S.-based Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC). The ORock NOC and SOC provide round-the-clock customer service with a single point of contact for issue resolution and 24/7 customer service.

The Center and ORock will host an informational webcast in September on the virtual events platform BrightTALKto showcase the vast potential of ORock's IT solutions. Registration for the event will open on The Center's Healthcare Leadership Serieschannel in the coming weeks.

ORock Technologies is the most recent addition to The Essentials Group's lineup of Business & Consulting, Data & Technology and Security & Compliancevendors. Launched in January 2020, The Essentials Group is the latest business line of The Center, providing a portfolio of high-quality products and services aimed at driving efficiencies and bottom-line impact to clients and members of The Center.

About The Center for Health Affairs:With a rich history dating back to 1916, The Center for Health Affairs serves as the collective voice and leading advocate for 36 hospitals across nine counties in Northeast Ohio. As the nation's first regional hospital association, The Center aims to enhance the effectiveness of the healthcare community and the health of the communities it serves by providing expertise, resources and solutions to address the challenges facing the region's healthcare providers. The Center's efforts focus on areas in which member hospitals and their communities can benefit from a regional approach, including emergency preparedness; public policy and advocacy; finance and reimbursement; and community health. Through its business affiliates, CHAMPS Group Purchasing and The Essentials Group, The Center provides a broad level of professional services to its members. Headquartered in downtown Cleveland, The Center is honored to be named as one of The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Top Workplaces in 2014, 2015 and 2021; ERC's NorthCoast99 List in 2003, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017; Crain's Cleveland Business and Best Companies Group's Best Employers in Ohio in 2020 and 2021; and Modern Healthcare's 2021 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. For more, visit neohospitals.org.

About ORock Technologies:ORock Technologies delivers hybrid cloud and IaaS solutions designed for secure, compliant data operations. ORock helps leading organizations protect their most sensitive data, control costs and minimize vendor lock-in while enabling a range of IT modernization, application hosting, migration and edge computing initiatives. ORock's private fiber optic backbone network and enterprise-grade open-source cloud feature the latest HPE Gen10 secure hardware and a flat-rate OPEX billing model with no data egress fees. These solutions support hybrid, private and multi-cloud capabilities while providing superior security, performance, predictability and control. Learn more about ORock.

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Vital Images and CloudWave Partner to Bring Secure Cloud-Based Enterprise Imaging Solutions to Healthcare Delivery Organizations – Business Wire

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CloudWave, a cloud and managed services provider for healthcare, and Vital Images, Inc., a Canon Group Company, the healthcare industry's leader in enterprise imaging solutions, announced their partnership in providing secure, cloud-based enterprise imaging solutions to healthcare.

CloudWave enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to migrate critical IT services like medical imaging to secure, performant, highly available multi-cloud public, hybrid, private platforms. CloudWaves OpSus Healthcare Cloud powers both legacy healthcare applications and native SaaS applications with seamless fully managed platforms that utilize Edge Cloud, Private Cloud, and Public Cloud resources.

Vital offers an array of enterprise imaging solutions built to unlock, view, analyze, and share information across applications and departments. Vitals Vitrea Enterprise Imaging solution focuses on interoperability, making data accessible across the entire enterprise anytime, anywhere, and in any standardized form.

Together, CloudWave and Vital will deliver Enterprise Imaging as a cloud-based service, featuring options for fully-hosted, multi-cloud, and local cloud edge deployments, with systems management, replication, disaster recovery and data protection solutions delivered from the OpSus Healthcare Cloud.

Mark Middleton, Vice President of Cloud Services at CloudWave comments, Our vision for CloudWaves OpSus Cloud has always been focused on providing solutions that hospitals need to deliver the best care possible to their communities. Working with Vital Images, we are solving for the imaging challenges faced by healthcare organizations today by offering interoperability, reduced complexity, and reliable systems performance. The Vital Enterprise Imaging service gives hospitals control over their imaging platform, with operations and management delivered from the cloud to meet stringent service level agreements.

"Diagnostic real-time patient centric applications such as imaging services are much different than the traditional applications in the cloud," says Larry Sitka, VP and CSIO at Vital Images. "Latency of 30ms matters to the physicians that use our applications. Sitka explains that these highly skilled and trained physicians are able to capture an image in their brain that exemplifies an anomaly of some sort anomaly detection. If latency or a frame skip occurs, these physicians are unable to create clear 3D images to detect anomalies. "Together, with CloudWave, we have identified these sync challenges and have solved this problem as healthcare organizations go to the cloud and enable their physicians, continues Sitka.

"Partnering with CloudWave meant added security and expertise, but most importantly, a cloud solution that comes with real people. Not only are they able to monitor the solution, but they also have the capacity to fix workflow issues, altogether resulting in better patient care and a better physician experience, says Sitka.

We built our OpSus Cloud Services to be the healthcare cloud delivered by healthcare people, says Jim Fitzgerald, Chief Strategy Officer and CloudWave founder. Vital's leading enterprise imaging solution, combined with CloudWaves expert federation and delivery, will provide the cost-effective tool hospitals need to store, analyze, and share medical images.

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About CloudWave

CloudWave helps hospitals bring public, private, and cloud edge resources together into a single operating environment. Our OpSus Cloud Services deliver managed hosting, disaster recovery, systems management, security, backup, and archiving services to healthcare. http://www.gocloudwave.com.

About Vital Images

Vital Images, Inc., a Canon Group company, has a 30-year history in healthcare imaging innovation. The company helps healthcare organizations and imaging centers to achieve their interoperability goals by transforming their current disparate PACS into efficient, elegant enterprise imaging (EI) systems. The Vital EI solution employs cutting-edge technologies and aligns with industry standards as defined by the Healthcare Information Management System Society (HIMSS) and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). As the premier provider of vendor-neutral EI platforms, Vital offers modular and scalable enterprise informatics, enterprise visualization and enterprise analytics solutions. These solutions help organizations optimize resources across multiple facilities and make data accessible across the enterprise, anytime, anywhere. They also support healthcare organizations in delivering exceptional patient care and enabling patients to be active participants in their own care. For more information, visit http://www.vitalimages.com, or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

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Replicated raises $50 million for its on-prem software delivery tools – SiliconANGLE News

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

On-premises software delivery company Replicated Inc. is much richer today after grabbing $50 million in a Series C round of funding.

The round was led by Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital. New investors Lead Edge Capital and Headline, and existing investors Two Sigma Ventures, Amplify Partners, BoldStart, Ridgeline and Heavybit also participated in the round.

Replicated sells tools that help software makers create and deploy on-premises versions of their applications.

What Replicateds platform does is reduce the amount of work involved in adapting an application to run on on-premises servers. Normally, doing so can take weeks or even months because software makers need to make auxiliary components such as an installer to set up the application on customers hardware. Replicated delivers ready-made components that save companies the hassle of creating them.

The company provides an installation engine that enables an app to be deployed on-premises or in a public cloud. It uses the open-source container orchestration software Kubernetes as the foundation on which applications are deployed. If the container framework isnt already setup in the customers environment, Replicated will embed this together with the app.

Users also get an administrator console for managing their various Replicated-powered app deployments. Through this console, customers can create backups of their apps and data, patch them and perform other maintenance tasks.

Traditionally, deploying on-premise software requires teams of engineers to build and maintain instances across a wide variety of environments,Replicated co-founder and Chief Executive Grant Miller told SiliconANGLE. A high level of customization and close work with a customer is necessary for each install and, as a result, this can slow down the process. Often professional services or field operations need to be involved in each customer install.

Other problems with on-premises deployments include the need for a much higher level of dedicated IT oversight and customer support after the initial install, Miller said. SaaS traditionally automates remediation and maintenance, which many on-premises implementations cannot do.

Replicateds platform is popular, used by more than half of enterprises in the Fortune 500. Many of those customers are software makers, including the likes of UiPath Inc., HashiCorp Inc., Puppet Inc., Rocket.Chat, Circle Internet Services, Inc. and PluralSight Inc.

Replicateds popularity might be surprising given the trend of delivering enterprise software in the cloud. But the company points out there are many scenarios when on-premises deployment might be preferable. It cites data from a recent survey by Dimensional Research of more than 400 software makers, which showed that over 90% reported growth in on-premises sales in the last five years. That proves there is still very strong demand for on-premises software.

Indeed, Miller reckons the future of software delivery will actually be multi-prem, where software makers will be able to deploy their applications on any customer environment with relative ease.

Over half of the on-premises software deployments done via Replicateds tools are actually deployed into a public cloud, which is why we call it multi-prem software, he said. Instead of a software vendor deploying the application into their own public cloud account and hosting it for the customer, were providing the enterprise with the necessary automation to host it themselves in whatever public cloud provider they prefer.

Miller said there are many situations where so-called multi-prem deployments are preferable to the cloud. For instance if an organization has security concerns, multi-prem software means that they can stop sending data out to hundreds or thousands of different app vendors and instead host their apps where their data resides, he said. This means organizations can maintain better control over the flow and visibility of their data.

Securing this funding will allow Replicated to continue revolutionizing how software is delivered and how enterprises manage it, Miller said.

Analyst Holger Mueller of Constellation Research Inc. told SiliconANGLE that despite all the talk about moving to the cloud, on-premises applications are alive and well, and with that comes a demand for on-premises automation, just as automation exists in the cloud.

Enterprises need to go on-premises for performance, data residency and sometimes just to keep old practices going, he said. The primary enabler of on-premises automation is Kubernetes and that is what Replicated is using to power its platform. Enterprises always welcome more options for deploying their applications, so todays funding is a good sign.

Moving forward, Replicated said todays funding will enable it to focus on accelerating growth and expanding into more markets around the world.

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HostArmada A Review of the Global Web Hosting Solutions Provider – TechBullion

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HostArmada Inc. has been described as one of the fastest-growing web hosting companies, thanks to the range of solutions offered. The company has literally stormed the industry, with its innovative and creative approach to Cloud SSD Web Hosting Solutions endearing businesses as well as personal brands to HostArmada Inc., amidst rave reviews from different quarters in just over a year in the market.

There has been a steady increase in the demand for web hosting solutions across the globe, as more businesses look to improve their online presence and reach a wider audience. According to a recent publication by Global Industry Analysts Inc., (GIA), a leading market research company, the global Web Hosting Services market was estimated at $71.1 billion in 2020, with a projection that it will hit over $152.7 billion by 2026. Over the years, several companies have emerged to address the growing and diverse needs of customers. Unfortunately, a good percentage of the service providers in the industry have failed to deliver as claimed. However, the team at HostArmada Inc. seems to have mastered the art of surpassing the expectation of their customers, judging by the amazing reviews on platforms such asTrustPilotandHostAdvice reviews, where the company is ranked in the top 10 web hosting providers.

HostArmada Inc. leverages the technologies in the industry and a team of well-trained and highly experienced professionals to deliver solutions for clients across the globe. The web hosting company has data centers in different parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, and North America, with services deployed from the nearest data centers to clients.

The categories of solutions offered by HostArmada Inc. include WordPress Hosting, Shared Cloud Hosting, VPS Cloud Hosting, Dedicated CPU Servers, and Development Hosting. Other products from the company are WooCommerce Hosting, Magento Hosting, and Domains.

HostArmada Inc. has built a reputation for combining innovations, strategic planning of collocation, and well-established technology to deliver solutions to meet the specific needs of each client. The company provides reliable web hosting solutions with very high uptime, extremely fast support and secure, simple and easy-to-use tools.

HostArmada Inc. offers 3 packages shared hosting, VPS hosting, and dedicated hosting, all with a FREE one-time transfer service and 45 Days Money-back Guarantee.

In line with the companys goal of delivering an all-inclusive experience to clients, HostArmada Inc. also has a learning center that offers several tutorials, including cPanel Tutorials, WordPress Tutorials, WooCommerce Tutorials, Magento Tutorials, and Prestashop Tutorials.

The comprehensiveness of the solutions offered and their relative affordability have endeared HostArmada Inc. to clients worldwide, serving more than 3,000 customers in just over a year of operations.

HostArmada Simply Rocks 6 Stars. If you are looking for super FAST hosting especially for WordPress sites, HostArmada will overwhelm you with their world-class LiteSpeed server but the crux isnt even tech, its their ridiculously superb support that will take care of you like a baby right from migration. Believe it or not, they even helped me to configure the LiteSpeed! Now, thats what I call Heavenly Professionalism. I am 101% happy and satisfied so far. NB: Never commented in such a manner before not for a web hosting company for sure. But folks at HostArmada are simply amazing. I am sold inside out, said RastaMonk dotCom from CA.

For more information about HostArmada Inc. and the range of solutions offered, visit https://hostarmada.com/. HostArmada Inc. can also be found across social media, includingFacebookandLinkedIn.

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Explore the benefits of data center as a service – TechTarget

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

On-premises IT infrastructure supports large companies' data and computing requirements, but such infrastructure often remains beyond the reach of today's startups and small businesses. Instead, these businesses can turn to data center as a service as an option to support their IT infrastructure needs.

The cloud offers cost savings and increased scalability for small but growing organizations. However, data availability and security issues often arise for businesses with cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures. Several data center providers offer DCaaS for organizations that require speed and adaptability in their IT infrastructure but can't afford the overhead costs that come with building and housing it on premises.

Organizations looking to divest themselves of hardware and the responsibility of looking after it should also consider DCaaS. The extensive options and combinations DCaaS can provide makes it increasingly attractive for certain larger organizations as well.

DCaaS is a hosting service in which a provider provisions physical data center infrastructure and facilities to clients. Clients rent or lease access to the provider's data center without purchasing or maintaining the hardware and facilities. In return, they get remote access to the data center's storage, server and networking resources through a wide area network (WAN).

DCaaS provides facilities and services such as power, cooling, racks, capital equipment, bandwidth and experienced IT staff to clients. Providers can tailor the service to each client's needs. Many organizations offload the hosting and management of nonessential applications and services to the DCaaS in order to reduce the physical limitations of their on-premises infrastructure.

However, WAN disruptions for organizations using a DCaaS can sometimes leave applications unavailable. Clearly defined service-level agreements outline what happens during an outage, but organizations considering DCaaS should think about the implications of unexpected downtime on their business.

Another factor to consider when choosing DCaaS is the state of the provider's organization. Like any other tech-based business, DCaaS providers are subject to the same pressures and challenges as the rest of the IT world. They might merge with other companies, endure staffing issues or even go out of business, leaving clients to recover and restore affected applications on their own.

Some organizations use multiple cloud services to meet different business needs. Many of these businesses seek to incorporate their multiple clouds into a single network, but this can present a difficult task. DCaaS providers, however, already design complex networks to meet their various clients' needs and can more easily stitch together a cohesive network from multiple cloud vendors.

Using multiple clouds with a DCaaS combines the public cloud's scalability with the increased security and control of a private one. This can ensure high availability of systems and limit risk of exposure for data and applications.

Smaller organizations often struggle to set up and maintain a private cloud because they lack the budget or resources for it. A DCaaS enables businesses such as these to enjoy the same IT infrastructure as larger organizations with less money or fewer resources. This in turn enables them to dedicate their resources elsewhere until they can make the investments larger organizations do at the start.

For example, a company can handle internal applications and services they wish to keep on-site, while they contract with a DCaaS provider to manage nonessential or noncore applications such as project management, payroll and sales reporting in the cloud.

Data centers offer continuous uptime, which is critical for technology-based organizations. Such businesses require reliable networks in order to deliver products and services to customers, and unexpected downtime can cause severe financial and reputational damage.

Combining a DCaaS with hybrid or multi-cloud architecture gives organizations redundancies and backups that create flexibility when disaster strikes. In addition, a DCaaS' remote resources can help them identify potential problems and deal with them efficiently ahead of time to avoid costly disruptions.

Scaling IT infrastructure always presents a problem for IT pros, no matter the size of the organization. Data centers always require more capacity, facilities and budget to keep pace with business growth, but the organization's private cloud or on-premises infrastructure might limit that growth.

Partnering with a DCaaS ensures organizations always have IT resources at the exact moment they need them. Scaling up or down only requires an adjustment to monthly billing or subscriptions.

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Microsoft made $167m a day in profit, every day, over the past 12 months – The Register

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

Microsoft's $46.2bn in revenue for its fourth quarter of 2021, and profits rising 47 per cent to $16.5bn, shows the continued strength in its cloud business, investors were told on Tuesday.

Analysts on average anticipated results more along the lines of $44.1bn, though company stock nonetheless slipped in after-hours trading, possibly due to declines in revenue from Windows hardware makers or perhaps just that the market is just down at the moment.

In a statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella credited the mega-corp's performance in part to its cloud business, along with other business units.

We are innovating across the technology stack to help organizations drive new levels of tech intensity across their business, he said.

Our results show that when we execute well and meet customers needs in differentiated ways in large and growing markets, we generate growth, as weve seen in our commercial cloud and in new franchises weve built, including gaming, security, and LinkedIn, all of which surpassed $10bn in annual revenue over the past three years.

The respectable results may serve as some consolation following the US government's cancellation of its 10-year, $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative contract, awarded to the company in 2019 and then fiercely fought over in court.

Microsoft's salient stats for the final quarter of its financial year, which ended on June 30, were as follows:

For the company's full fiscal 2021:

In terms of specific business units for this last quarter, software and services mostly posted gains. However, Xbox services, core Windows OEM revenue, and Surface revenue proved considerably less buoyant.

The company's Productivity and Business Processes group delivered revenues of $14.7bn, up 25 per cent (21 per cent in constant currency). That includes:

The company's More Personal Computing unit generated $14.1bn, about 9 per cent (6 per cent in constant currency) more than the year-ago quarter. More specifically:

As we closed out the fiscal year, our sales teams and partners delivered a strong quarter with over 20 per cemt top and bottom-line growth, highlighted by commercial bookings growth of 30 per cent year over year, said Amy Hood, EVP and CFO of Microsoft in a statement. Our commercial cloud revenue grew 36 per cent year over year to $19.5bn.

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Remember when Microsoft devs got so excited about Windows 8 features, Twitter thought it was under attack? – The Register

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has reminded us of the time when Twitter misdetected the overexcited developer emissions from the 2011 Build conference as a denial-of-service attack and hit the mute button.

Chen is curiously quiet on what caused the volume of messages to spike so during the keynote. The Register is happy to remind him that Build 2011 was when Steven Sinofsky showed off Windows 8 to a horrified/delighted world.

As the keynote rolled on, and the majesty of Sinofsky's ambition was revealed, delegates took to Twitter then not yet five years old to express their feelings on the matter. And Twitter went down.

Or rather, it went down for those at the convention centre in Anaheim, California.

Many of us have experienced the unalloyed delight of conference Wi-Fi (and any speakers brave enough to use it for demonstrations get an automatic bonus point for sheer courage) but the specific nature of the problem left those responsible for the network scratching their heads.

"Eventually," said Chen, "somebody called Twitter technical support to get some help with the problem, and they learned that Twitter blocked all traffic from the convention center because it looked like a denial-of-service attack."

"Nope," was the response from Microsofties, "we just have a lot of excited developers."

Excited was not perhaps the word we'd use as the overhaul was revealed, along with an upcoming Windows Store and Metro apps that would run on Intel and Arm hardware alike. Then again, free Samsung fondleslabs were also given to attendees so perhaps all the "Free Stuff!" tweets were what tipped the scales at Twitter HQ.

In the end, developers stayed away from the Store in their droves and Microsoft spent the next decade backing away from Sinofsky's vision following Windows 8's 2012 release (Sinofsky himself would leave shortly after).

The good news was that a call to support ("I had no idea that Twitter even had a technical support phone number," said Chen) got the ban lifted, permitting users to share in the thrill of Windows 8's introduction.

"I recall that some attendees complained that the wireless access during the keynote was terrible," said Chen, "though they didn't name Twitter specifically."

"Well, now you know why. And it was partly your fault."

But who was to blame for Windows 8?

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8 Open Source GitHub Repositories That Are Trending Right Now – Analytics India Magazine

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

San Francisco-based Internet hosting for software development GitHub was founded in 2008, and acquired by Microsoft in 2018. Since then, GitHub has been offering distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git.

GitHub Repositories usually consist of folders, files, images, spreadsheets, and videos; and are used to organise projects. GitHub boasts of being one of the worlds largest community of developers. As of January 2020, it reported hosting over 40 million users with 190 million repositories. A developer can either create private repositories or choose to share it with others.

Today, we take a look at eight open source GitHub Repositories that are trending right now:

Developed by Amnesty International Security Lab, Mobile Verification Toolkit or MVT is a collection of utilities to automate gathering of forensic traces used in identifying potential threats on Android or iOS devices. It was released recently in the context of the Pegasus project.

For iOS devices, MVT helps extract artifacts from iTunes backup and full filesystem dump. It also compares stored JSON results to provide indicators. For Android devices, MVT downloads all or non-safelisted installed APKs and checks the Android backup.

Using the MVT tool requires technical skills including understanding the basics of forensic analysis and using command line tools.

In order to install MVT, first install the dependencies using the following code:

For Linux: sudo apt install python3 python3-pip libusb-1.0-0

For MacOS: brew install python3 libusb

Post this, one can either directly install MVT from pypi with: pip3 install mvt

Or directly from sources:

git clone https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt.git

cd mvt

pip3 install

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The Tinode Instant Messaging Server, on the surface, looks similar to WhatsApp or Telegram. Backed in pure Go, it is meant as a replacement for XMPP and Jabber. Its goal is to create a modern open platform for federated instant messaging, focusing on mobile communication. Additionally, in line with the recent controversies around privacy concerns, Tinode Instant Messaging Server aims to create a decentralised instant messaging platform that would be challenging for the government to track and block.

At present, Tinode is available in English, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.

For more information, click here.

NocoDB is the open source alternative to Airtable. It turns any MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite and MariaDB into a smart spreadsheet. The idea behind developing NocoDB is to provide a powerful open source and no-code interface for databases to digital businesses across the globe. It is focused towards democratising access to powerful computing tools.

NocoDB requires a database to store metadata of spreadsheet views and external databases.

For more information, click here.

Googles SDK to create user experiences for mobile, web and desktop from a single codebase, Flutter works with existing code. The open-source UI software development kit is used by developers and organisations across the globe. Flutter composting capabilities allows one to overlay and animate graphics, video, text and controls without limitations. It also includes a set of widgets to allow the delivery of experiences on both iOS and Android ecosystems.

Powered by hardware accelerated 2D graphics library Skia, and the Dart platform, Flutter enables the compilation to 32-bit and 64-bit ARM machine code for iOS, Android; JavaScript for web and Intel x64 for desktop devices.

Flutter works with any development tool and is a fully open-source project.

For more information, click here.

This repository is useful for everyone trying to crack a Software Development Engineers role at any software company, including the likes of the tech giants Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. It is a multi-month study plan for self-taught web developers looking to become a software engineer.

Created by John Washam, it is a to-do list of study topics that helped John crack a Software Development Engineering job at Amazon.

Besides learning material, this study repository prepares one for the interview process, provides a daily plan, finding the best career opportunity, building a resume, and questions to ask an interviewer, among others.

For more information, click here.

CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsofts cloud infrastructure and edge products and services. It enhances Microsofts ability to stay current on Linuxs updates. Consuming limited disk and memory resources, CBL-Mariner provides minimal attack surface. In the rise of a security vulnerability, CBL-Mariner supports both package-based and image-based update models.

The CBL-Mariner initiative is a part of Microsofts investment in Linux technologies SONiC, Azure Sphere OS and WSL.

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This is a repository to set up a free, self-managed install of Forem in a Fedora CoreOS VM running on popular cloud providers DigitalOcean, AWS and Google Cloud. The main aim of this project is to provide developers with the choice, freedom and cost-effectiveness of hosting their own Forem community.

The requirements include Git, Python 3.x and pip3, Ansible, Butane, Fedora CoreOS and a supported cloud provider.

For more information, click here.

The Windows11 open source project replicates the Windows11 desktop experience on the web using technologies React, CSS and Js. It features all the widgets, menus and layouts of Windows11.

The stack consists of React and Redux, SCSS and CSS Modules.

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Managed Services Markets, 2026 – Focus on Managed Security, Managed Network, and Managed Data Center and IT Infrastructure – ResearchAndMarkets.com -…

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Managed Services Market with COVID-19 Impact Analysis, by Service Type (Managed Security, Managed Network, and Managed Data Center and IT Infrastructure), Vertical, Organization Size, Deployment Type, and Region - Global Forecast to 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global Managed Services market size is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.9% during the forecast period, to reach USD 354.8 billion by 2026 from USD 242.9 billion in 2021.

SMEs seek to adopt more managed services as the IT spending among SMEs is predicted to have a significant increase. Especially in Europe, according to a study, the CAGR for IT spend by SMEs in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) between 2018 and 2023 is expected to be 3.8%, compared with 2.7% for the market overall, these accounted for 35.8% of IT spending in EMEA in 2019.

The rise in IT spending by SMEs is expected to fuel the demand for MSPs, as they adopt cloud, automate services, and explore advanced digital technologies. These technologies have made the provision of managed services to smaller businesses much more cost-effective and efficient.

SMEs are more at risk of cybercrime than enterprises. According to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 43% of cyberattacks target small businesses. SMEs face significant budget constraints and need to maintain compliance and data protection laws.

Another study shows that nearly 65%, 50%, 47%, and 30% of the enterprise consider the desire to reduce CAPEX and other costs, increase efficiency, overcome internal skills shortages, and address security concerns, respectively, are the drivers for managed services adoption among SMEs. Hence, they are reaching out to MSPs to tackle these challenges.

According to the Datto study, only 3 out of 10 SMEs in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Australia are outsourcing some or all of their IT needs; thus, there is a huge untapped potential in the SMEs segment.

The managed IT infrastructure and Data Center segment is expected to hold a larger market size during the forecast period.

Enterprises are adopting digital technologies, such as cloud computing, mobility, IoT, Big data, and predictive analytics, at a high rate across the world. These disruptive technologies are driving the digital revolution by breaking the barriers between the physical and digital worlds.

These advancements empower almost all the verticals, including IT and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, retail and consumer goods, BFSI, manufacturing, among others, in terms of improved performance, faster time to market, and increased customer experience. However, managing an IT environment is a major concern for CIOs. Most IT enterprises are dedicating most of their time in the cycles of a plan, building, running, and maintaining IT with untrained IT employees.

The lack of IT skilled professionals is the major challenge faced by CIOs. MSPs can address this issue and provide cost-effective solutions while also keeping the security aspect in mind. Managed data center and IT infrastructure services are further divided into managed print services, managed disaster recovery, server management, storage and backup, technical support and maintenance, and others (application & middleware management and database management).

The Banking, financial services, and insurance vertical expected to hold the largest market share in 2020

BFSI enterprises need highly complex IT infrastructure to maintain and manage data from trading instruments to record-keeping, as well as reporting and calculations. Apart from this, there are multiple stringent regulations and compliance that BFSI enterprises are supposed to comply with. Enterprises are highly charged for violation of these regulations. Hence, to avoid fines, enterprises require managed services.

This is creating opportunities for MSPs. Financial transactions involve exchanging information with customers or internally; IT services are essential to their success. Hence, BFSI enterprises need MSPs to help provide services for ultra-low latency trading, market data, hosting, and infrastructure connectivity, and risk management solutions.

Data encryption and secure backup are highly demanded by these enterprises, along with a full range of Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solutions to meet federal compliance regulations. MSPs specializing in BDR for financial services help these businesses protect sensitive information, mitigate downtime, and promote overall business continuity. Managed network, managed security, and managed IT infrastructure are the most popular managed services across the BFSI vertical.

North America to hold the largest market size and Asia Pacific (APAC) to grow at a higher rate during the forecast period

APAC is one of the fastest-growing regions in terms of technology adoption, and the demand for digitization is driven by various initiatives carried out by different governments and large enterprises in the region. Countries such as China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, India, and Indonesia are leading this technology adoption, which includes embracing new-age technologies such as AI, edge, IoT, analytics, and cloud.

The region houses a large number of enterprises related to manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation and logistics, chemicals, and aerospace, which is further expected to drive the demand for managed services. Rapid advancements in telecommunications, cloud computing, and IoT have led several organizations to adopt cloud-based strategies.

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Element bolsters decentralized team messaging with $30M raise – VentureBeat

July 27, 2021 | Author: admin

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Element, the company behind an end-to-end encrypted team messaging platform powered by the Matrix protocol, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding from a slew of notable backers, including Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinns Metaplanet, WordPress.com parent company Automattic, Protocol Labs, and Notion.

In a week that saw Salesforce officially taking Slack under its wing, the gargantuan $27.7 billion acquisition serves as a timely reminder of the importance that team chat and collaboration tools play in a world that has rapidly embraced remote work. In tandem, open source software is infiltrating just about every nook and cranny of the business world, a combination that puts four-year Element in a strong position.

London-based Element develops an open source messaging client on top of Matrix, a decentralized open standards-based communication protocol created inside AmdocsbyMatthew HodgsonandAmandine Le Pape in 2014. The duo departed Amdocs in 2017 to focus entirely on growing and commercializing Matrix, first through a company called New Vector, which developed a Matrix hosting service and a cross-platform Slack alternative called Riot. In 2018, the Matrix.org Foundation came into being to cement Matrixs development as a neutral not-for-profit entity, while last year Hodgson and Le Pape rebranded both New Vector and the Riot app as Element.

So what exactlyisMatrix, and how is Element looking to capitalize on it?

Matrix can perhaps best be compared to something like a telephone network or email, insofar as its an interoperable communication system that doesnt lock people into a closed ecosystem. With email, you can send a message to another person regardless of what service provider or client (app) theyre using Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook, and ProtonMail users can all message each other just fine. The Matrix protocol is striving to achieve a similar goal, but with modern internet-based messaging in its crosshairs in a Matrix world, WhatsApp users can easily communicate with Slack and Skype users.

Because Element is built on Matrix, it essentially serves as a catalyst for the growth of the broader Matrix network. Anyone using Element is participating in an open and global network of tens of millions of users, spread across thousands of deployments from different organizations. It also means that someone thats using Element isnt locked into Element they can switch to any other Matrix-powered client and not lose any data.

Separately, a method called bridging opens up support for third-party apps not built on the Matrix protocol, including Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, and rival open source messaging tools such as Mattermost.

Earlier this year, a new startup called Beeper entered the fray, courtesy of Eric Migicovsky, who sold his previous Pebble smartwatch business to Fitbit back in 2016. Beeper is a universal chat app built on Matrix, and it uses bridging to relay messages between more than a dozen chat apps including iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, Twitter, Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger.

News also emerged last week that Gematik, Germanys national agency responsible for digitization the countrys health care system, was switching to Matrix. This followed several years of siloed digital transformation that resulted in the various health care bodies unable to effectively communicate with each other, while also raising questions over the security and privacy of the systems they had chosen to transmit confidential medical data. Some 150,000 separate organizations constitute Germanys health care system, spanning hospitals, local doctors, clinics, insurance companies, and more.

Switching to Matrix affords the different parties some flexibility in terms of the specific apps that they use. They may have different use cases, but by adhering to a common standard, all the apps will still be able to talk to each other.

This is a big undertaking, and there are 15 vendors so far involved including Element, Element CEO and CTO Hodgson told VentureBeat. There will be a wide range of apps compatible with the system from different vendors.

Several other commercial companies have previously built products on top of Matrix, including Ericssons Contextual Communication Cloud, a managed service that lets enterprises integrate advanced communication and collaboration services into their applications. And French giant Thales launched an instant message service for businesses called Citadel.Team, which is not too dissimilar to Element.

Element also recently renewed its French government contract, through which it targets its messaging and collaboration toolset to more than 5.5 million civil servants across France, while last year it signed a new contract with Dataport, selling commercial licenses to Germanys education system.

All in all, it seems like Matrix has more than a little momentum, claiming 190% growth in the past 12 months, with more than 35 million addressable users across 75,000-plus deployments. And as the main commercial entity pushing the Matrix protocol, Element is well-positioned to capitalize on this surge with a continued focus on data privacy and ownership.

Data sovereignty is the concept of letting organizations choose where and how their data is hosted, and thus which laws apply to its governance this is a massive deal for highly regulated industries and nation states. And in a world that is increasingly turning to the cloud and private infrastructure, many situations lead organizations to feel uneasy handing over all their data to a single big company.

When communication is centralized, it becomes a very appealing target for abuse whether thats through propaganda, surveillance, censorship, or worse, Elements new investor (and Skype cofounder) Tallinn said in a statement. Consumers need rescuing from surveillance capitalism, and organisations need a secure neutral way to communicate. Matrix is the most advanced platform to provide that missing communication layer.

Salesforces multi-billion dollar Slack acquisition last week is a good reminder of whats at stake. Data belonging to businesses that had gone all-in on Slack is now owned by Salesforce, whether they like it or not. And one of the reasons why Slack decided to sell to Salesforce in the first place was due to Microsofts aggressive bundling of Teams as part of its broader Office software suite, something that could soon face antitrust scrutiny in Europe. The point is, this whole episode shines a spotlight on the power and control big tech can wield, something that a decentralized open protocol like Matrix helps to solve.

Salesforces acquisition of Slack is excellent news for Matrix, Hodgson said. It makes it crystal clear that when you are using Slack or Teams, your data is hurtling encrypted only in transit and rest (i.e. not end-to-end) into the big-tech clouds of Salesforce or Microsoft. Organizations of all shapes and sizes are frantically looking for alternatives which give them full sovereignty over their own data, rather than having to blindly trust that these tech giants will act as good custodians.

The same principle applies to the myriad other enterprise team communication tools out there that adhere to an open source ethos, such as Slack-alternative Mattermost; Brazil-based Rocket.Chat, which offers various hosted and self-hosted tiers on top of its core open source chat platform, and which raised $19 million just a few months back; and Kandra Labs, which has developed a bunch of commercial products on top of open source chat platform Zulip.

Element, meanwhile, offers various pricing plans depending what the customer needs. The company offers Element Matrix Services (EMS), for example, which promises all the data sovereignty benefits of an on-premises deployment, except as a hosted service.

But what does that mean, exactly? Its hosted in that you get a dedicated instance just for you, run by us in a geography of your choice, which you can point your DNS at, Hodgson explained. Combined with end-to-end encryption, this means you have full ownership and control over your conversations you have effectively just outsourced the administration of your server to the people who wrote it in the first place.

Element had previously raised around $18 million, and with its latest cash injection the company is now well-financed not only to bolster its own product, but also the foundational Matrix protocol that now powers a host of open source and commercial services. And in the process, it might just go some way toward breaking down communication silos.

Elements funding means theres continued significant investment in the Matrix protocol, which hugely benefits the entire Matrix ecosystem, Hodgson said. Matrix will do for communications what the web did for information sharing. And just like the web, its an open standard, decentralized and universal.

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