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Boulder, Colo. December 9, 2020 TheActive Archive Alliancetoday announced that Object Matrixhas joined the organization, which promotes modern strategies to solve data growth challenges. Object Matrix joins a growing number of industry-leading storage and IT vendors that support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management.

Were pleased to welcome Object Matrix to the Active Archive Alliance,said Peter Faulhaber, Chairman of the Active Archive Alliance and President and CEO of FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. The Alliance is dedicated to bringing the best of breed technologies together to provide users with active archive solutions for intelligent data management. Companies across the globe are embracingactive archive technologiesto manage the complexities of vast data volumes and realize the value of their data.

Rising data volumes are intensifying the need for efficient, cost-effective active archives, which manage data for rapid search, retrieval, and analytics.Active archiving enables organizations to gain value from retained data quickly.By leveragingan intelligent data management layer,active archives allowfast access to archival data across a virtual file system and manage data between storage systems and media types.

Object Matrixis the award-winning software company that pioneered object storage and the modernization of media archives.It enables global collaboration, increases operational efficiencies, and empowers creativity through the deployment of MatrixStore, an on-prem, hybrid and cloud storage platform. Object Matrixs unified deployment approach ensures content spans on-prem and cloud storage, while its focus on the media industry gives it a deep understanding of the challenges organizations face when protecting, processing and sharing video content.

Now more than ever, media organizations require solutions that enable creative and production teams to self-serve access to content from work or remotely from anywhere, said Jonathan Morgan, CEO, Object Matrix. Our MatrixStore solution delivers the inherent scalability and interoperability of object-based storage, as well as instant access to data and metadata, and our customers include some of the worlds largest media organizations. With MatrixStore, organizations have the protection and governance for the lifetime of any content. We are excited to join the Active Archive Alliance and help promote active archive strategies to solve todays data growth challenges.

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2020 was a year of evolution for many sectors of the tech industry due to the reality of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many tech leaders had to pivot their strategies by shifting to a largely remote-work model and assessing new markets that were impacted by unforeseen economic impacts.

The tech industry has had major changes this year and because of that many experts are predicting new or evolved trends in 2021. Below multiple tech experts highlight their top predictions within the technology industry for the new year.

Krishna Subramanian, president and COO at Komprise:

In 2021, cloud storage costs begin to overtake compute costs. For the past three years, cloud cost optimization has been a key priority for businesses. In fact, Gartner predicted that 80 percent of businesses will outspend their cloud budgets in 2020. A bulk of these costs so far has been in the compute, since cloud object storage is relatively cost effective. But this is changing, since cloud file storage is typically ten times more expensive than S3, and file data is way more voluminous than block data all of which underscores the importance of using cloud file storage just when you need it. In 2021, enterprise IT organizations will begin adopting cloud data management solutions to understand how cloud data is growing and manage its lifecycle efficiently across the various cloud file and object storage options.

Anshu Sharma, CEO and co-founder, Skyflow:

Every large company is on a long-term transition to digital and cloud - so they can effectively compete against the likes of Amazon, and the Silicon Valley startups who are aiming for them. Companies like Nike, JP Morgan Chase, and Walgreens have been trying to transform and in 2020 they all got an unintended boost in their push to the cloud - because they had to. The Fortune 500, having seen relative success with cloud and digital are not going back. They are all doubling down. 2021 will be the year of the digital double down.

Patrick Harr, CEO, SlashNext:

Over the last 30 days, 10 percent of company users were phished, according to live data we compiled across more than 100 large and mid-sized enterprises. Every day, SlashNext Threat Labs detect 21,000 new phishing attacks, almost double the number of threats from a year ago, and SlashNext Threat Labs are seeing an alarming 50-75 percent attacks getting past conventional phishing defenses to compromise enterprise networks. So, if you think your current defenses will keep you safe, think again. And in 2021, we anticipate this problem will get much, much worse.

Stowe Boyd, analyst, Gigaom:

The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technologies that were popular before, but which are now essential. One example has been the combination of work chat tools and video conferring, as typified by Microsoft Teams and Slack. Microsoft has seen a dramatic uptick in usage, and the release of Google's new take on the former GSuite, now known as Google Workspace, which also integrates work chat and video conferencing represents another challenge for Slack. As the two leaders in what we might think of as 'business operating systems,' Google and Microsoft present a difficult challenge for Slack, since companies will not want to pay extra for functionality, they already have access to in their communications and file storage platforms.

Saad Siddiqui, principal, Telstra Ventures:

The unrelenting pace of open source innovation will continue in 2021, particularly in the areas of data analytics and data infrastructure, leaving many Fortune 1000 businesses and other SMBs struggling to keep pace with, and integrate with, open source innovations. Unlike large tech players, who can afford to hire an army of engineers to constantly change things and add their own herbs and spices to improve their operations, most businesses and newer vendors dont have as many talented engineers or cant hire more engineers to keep pace with change. To address this talent wall, were seeing the rise of a hybrid open source business model, whereby open source data analytics companies like Incorta and infrastructure companies like Rancher Labs monetize closed source, out-of-the-box capabilities that deliver open source innovations while requiring less time and resources for enterprises to derive value.

Cornelia Davis, CTO, Weaveworks:

2021 will see the emergence of common distributed operational patterns widely implemented across all industries, and with the coming of 5G and the edge, this could not be timelier. There are several signals that foreshadow this, such as the adoption of GitOps as a defacto standard and best practice for operating Kubernetes and its workloads. IT systems will not only enjoy greater resilience, and security, but having GitOps in place also lays the foundation for massive scalability and growth.

Yiannis Antoniou, analyst, Gigaom:

Responsible AI / ML will become the hottest topic in the cloud ML industry. Given societys increased emphasis on combatting unfairness and bias and the overall interest in better interpretability and explainability of machine learning models, cloud providers will invest and enhance their ML offerings to offer a full suite of responsible ML / AI capabilities that will aim to satisfy and reassure regulators, modelers, management and the market on the fair use of ML. Meanwhile, AI / ML will continue to see explosive growth and usage across the whole industry, with significant enhancements in ease-of-use and UX combining within a responsible AI / ML framework to drive the next growth spurt of this sector.

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Working in partnership with the National Health Service, and funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) collaborates with universities, local governments, research teams and the general public to carry out life-changing medical research projects.

The NIHR is one of those hidden gems inside the NHS, Justin Riordan-Jones, head of systems and information at the DHSC, tells Computer Weekly. And our job usually means peoples lives get better in about 10 years time, as a result of the work we do.

This year, though, the organisation has been actively working to improve the lives of the nation in a much shorter timeframe, as the NIHR and its stakeholders have worked tirelessly to help bring the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic under control and help save lives.

The past 10 months have really highlighted just how important and vital research is to the health and wealth of the nation, and we were delighted to be able to be part of rolling out the vaccines, rolling out research and all that good stuff, he says.

The onset of the pandemic in early 2020 prompted a rapid shift in priorities in the NIHR, as it set about coordinating 50 urgent public health studies including two focusing on possible vaccines into the effects of Covid-19.

The overarching aim of this work was to gather as much clinical and epidemiological evidence as possible to inform the UK governments response to the pandemic, while supporting efforts to create new diagnostic systems, treatments and vaccines to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Research initiatives on this kind of scale typically take months, even years, to get off the ground, but the NIHR was able to do so this time around in a matter of weeks, with the help of its Google Cloud-based Digital Hub.

The NIHR is one of those hidden gems inside the NHS, and our job usually means peoples lives get better in about 10 years time, as a result of the work we do. Justin Riordan-Jones, DHSC

Described by Riordan-Jones as the fundamental backbone to the NIHRs operations, the Digital Hub provides the organisations 8,000 employees with access to Googles portfolio of cloud-based communication, collaboration and productivity tools, formerly known as G Suite.

The setup was originally devised in 2014 to bring a little more order to the way the NIHR worked, both in-house and with its external research partners and stakeholders, by replacing the patchwork of data repositories and collaboration tools they relied on to work together.

We wanted a solution that would empower us to operate as a single corporate entity over multiple locations, multiple platforms and multiple scenarios, says Riordan-Jones.Our [previous] system worked in the beginning, but the lack of consistency was starting to slow down our progress.

Working with technology consultancy PA Consulting, the NIHR embarked on finding a suitable replacement for this patchwork of productivity tools, before deciding to press ahead with the deployment of Google G-Suite, which has since been rebranded as Google Workspace.

Fundamentally, choosing Google came down to its development pathway, he says, following a market evaluation of four similar products, which resulted in Google Workspace emerging as a front runner along with one other.

At that stage, there was very little functionality difference between them. What was hugely different was peoples acceptance of how well [the two systems] worked, and the ease of operation so they could migrate swiftly [to Google], he adds.

But it was the fact we could already see a development pathway for two to three years at that point, which we knew would be beneficial to us. So it was the vision and clarity of where Google was going with the product that made us choose it.

The Google Workspace deployment provided the organisations employees with access to their own corporate email addresses for the first time via Gmail, as well as video-conferencing tools in the form of Google Meet, and cloud-based document storage and collaboration through Google Drive.

Rather than having to host multiple systems in different places and locations, and a [heterogenous] technology stack that were forever running around trying to keep up to date, we have something in place now that that is much more compartmentalised and much easier to maintain, says Riordan-Jones.

The setup has also served to give its employees a greater sense of corporate identity, as well as make the productivity portion of its IT estate easier to manage and control.

We have seen a much greater corporate approach than we ever had before, so people now act as if they are the NIHR and not body x inside the NIHR, and we have reassurance and know that the hub is behaving the way we want it to, he continues.

We also know we are benefiting from the levels of security that Google wraps around it, and we have greater control and visibility over how its working [compared with the previous system].

Relying on a single system to fulfil its collaboration and productivity requirements has unlocked sizeable cost savings for the NIHR as well.

When we rolled this out in 2014-15, we were the biggest public sector implementation of G Suite technology at that stage, although weve since been overtaken because weve proved how well it works, says Riordan-Jones.

Over the years, [that has unlocked] 10-15m pounds worth of savings, which has gone into research rather than technology endeavours.

Even so, six years is a long time in tech, and the Digital Hub has been subject to numerous tweaks to its functionality in that time, based on user feedback and the NIHRs wider organisational goals, says Riordan-Jones.

We dont sit there and say this is the definitive version, he says. We are constantly looking at how it needs to be improved, based on the feedback we get from the users and [our] interpretation of where we need to be going for our digital strategy.

The latest iteration of the Digital Hub has been in place since March 2020, with its original functionality bolstered by the inclusion of Google Cloud Search, which integrates with Google Workspace to make it faster and easier for users to locate data stored within its entire infrastructure.

We are constantly looking at how [the Digital Hub] needs to be improved, based on the feedback we get from the users and [our] interpretation of where we need to be going for our digital strategy Justin Riordan-Jones, DHSC

The NIHRs workforce is distributed across various offices, universities and hospitals in the UK, which had led to some data being unintentionally siloed and isolated within these locations, making it inaccessible to some employees who need access to it.

Over the course of 16 weeks, this data sharing pain point was addressed through a Google Cloud Search-focused redesign of the Digital Hub, which has been instrumental in enabling the NIHR to rapidly refocus and coordinate its Covid-19 research efforts.

The long-standing productivity and collaboration functionality of the Digital Hub has also come into its own during the pandemic, as employees have grappled with working remotely.

In fact, its employees have taken to this new way of working like ducks to water, with the NIHR reporting a 379% uptick in the use of Googles cloud-based video-conferencing service Meet during the first two months of the first UK lockdown. Furthermore, use of Google Drive, the search giants online storage and document collaboration offering, was up 198%.

With the reworked Digital Hub now firmly embedded in the NIHR, Riordan-Jones says the scene is set for the organisation to push its digital ambitions further than ever before, following the appointment of John Nother as its chief digital officer in March 2020.

One of Nothers top priorities since joining the organisation has been to set out a five-year digital strategy for the NIHR, which is geared towards streamlining data sharing processes within the organisation through the adoption of what Riordan-Jones describes as a do once and share approach.

As an example, Riordan-Jones cites the process research organisations have to go through to secure ethical approval from the Health Research Authority before they can start work, which requires them to submit details about the nature of the project they want to embark on.

So you tell this organisation all that information and then you come to the NIHR which helps you run that research inside the NHS, and we ask for all that same information again, he says.

It is very simple to say we should be sharing that data, but unfortunately, due to legal considerations and other factors, it is not easy to do so at the moment. But were working our way through it, so that somebody who arrives at the beginning of the research journey only gets asked the absolute questions that need to be asked, rather than having to repeat themselves over and over, he adds.

All this repetition slows down the pace at which the NIHR and its stakeholders are able to work, but as the organisations rapid response to the pandemic has shown it is possible to modify such processes to get where it needs to be faster.

Because of the way the response to the pandemic was organised, we were able to modify processes in some respects to do that. And we have learned a lot as a result about what we can do, how we can do it, and where we can do it, says Riordan-Jones.

Hopefully, were going to take some of the lessons learned from this exercise now and roll those forward because we have proof, even in unfortunate circumstances, that it works and we can roll that forward.

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