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Latest Update 2020: Cloud Hosting Service Market by COVID19 Impact Analysis And Top Manufacturers: A2 Hosting, SiteGround, InMotion, HostGator,…

November 19, 2020 | Author: admin

Cloud Hosting Service is often referred to as an artificial kidney. Its function is to remove the excess wastes and fluid from the blood when the patients kidneys can no longer perform that task. Cloud Hosting Services are made of thin, fibrous material.

Overview of the worldwide Cloud Hosting Service market:There is coverage of Cloud Hosting Service market dynamics at the country level in the respective regional segments. The report comprises competitive analysis with a focus on key players and participants of Cloud Hosting Service Industry covering in-depth data related to the competitive landscape, positioning, company profiles, key strategies adopted, and product-profiling with focus on market growth and potential.

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The Top players are A2 Hosting, SiteGround, InMotion, HostGator, DreamHost, 11 IONOS, Cloudways, Bytemark Cloud, Hostwinds, Liquid Web Hosting, AccuWeb, SiteGround, FatCow, BlueHost, Vultr, .

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Cloud Hosting Service Market report analyses the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the Cloud Hosting Service industry. Since the COVID-19 virus outbreak in December 2019, the disease has spread to almost 180+ countries around the globe with the World Health Organization declaring it a public health emergency. The global impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are already starting to be felt, and will significantly affect the Cloud Hosting Service market in 2020.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought effects on many aspects, like flight cancellations; travel bans and quarantines; restaurants closed; all indoor events restricted; emergency declared in many countries; massive slowing of the supply chain; stock market unpredictability; falling business assurance, growing panic among the population, and uncertainty about future.

COVID-19 can affect the global economy in 3 main ways: by directly affecting production and demand, by creating supply chain and market disturbance, and by its financial impact on firms and financial markets.

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The market research report covers the analysis of key stakeholders of the Cloud Hosting Service market. Some of the leading players profiled in the report include:

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The report is useful in providing answers to several critical questions that are important for the industry stakeholders such as manufacturers and partners, end-users, etc., besides allowing them in strategizing investments and capitalizing on market opportunities.

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ICE plans $100 million in cloud spend on AWS and Azure – DatacenterDynamics

November 19, 2020 | Author: admin

ICE is seeking a "Solution Provider to provide access to FedRAMP authorized AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Provider (CSP) marketplace products and cloud based CSP resource offerings including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) within the ICE Cloud,"according to a procurement notice first spotted by Bloomberg.

In July 2018, more than 100 Microsoft employees signed an open letter to CEO Satya Nadella calling for Microsoft to cancel its contracts with ICE, and with other clients who directly enable ICE. Microsoft already provides cloud services for ICE to support "legacy mail, calendar, messaging and document management workloads" in a $19.4m contract.

"Like many of you, I am appalled at the abhorrent policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the southern border of the US," CEO Satya Nadella told employees after they complained about the contract. "I want to be clear: Microsoft is not working with the US government on any projects related to separating children from their families at the border."

Two separate open letters to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company should no longer provide hosting and services to Palantir, which in turn supports ICE and sister Homeland Security agency Customs and Border Protection.

An NBC analysis of federal data last year found that 24 people died in ICE custody under the current administration, including seven children, with a further four dying soon after being released.

This month it was revealed that ICE is trying to deport women who were witnesses or alleged victims of forced gynecological surgery at the hands of an ICE doctor. More than 50 women have come forward alleging jarring medical neglect at the hands of private prison company LaSalle Corrections. Under CBP's care, children were handled violently and sexually assaulted, human rights campaigners found.

In a procurement notice last year, CBP said it used Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. It also used Salesforce and ServiceNow, as well as Quip, Zoom, Office 365, Power BI, IBM Maximo, IBM Trirega, and Presidio.

It is difficult to track exactly how much DHS agencies spent on cloud providers as they often use resellers. Bloomberg Government data estimates that in Fiscal 2020 ICE paid Microsoft more than $20m for products and services, $9.9m of which was for Azure. CBP spent about $21m on AWS, while ICE spent more than $24m on AWS-hosted Palantir this fiscal year.

A small number of Google employees also protested the CBP contracts, writing: "Its time to stand together again and state clearly that we will not work on any such contract. We demand that Google publicly commit not to support CBP, ICE, or ORR with any infrastructure, funding, or engineering resources, directly or indirectly, until they stop engaging in human rights abuses." The group added that any cloud provider that worked for CBP will be facilitating its human rights abuses."

The new cloud contract request comes as the Department of Homeland Security looks to reduce its own data center footprint and shift to the cloud.

It also comes at a period of turmoil for the department - this weekend, a federal judge ruled that acting Secretary Chad Wolf was not legally serving in his position as he was never confirmed by the Senate. Any rules signed by Wolf could potentially be illegal, and could be reversed.

Last week, two senior Department of Homeland Security officials were forced to resign by the White House as part of a wider reorganization pushing party loyalists. This week, President Trump fired Christopher Krebs after the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that the 2020 election had been "the most secure in American history." His deputy resigned after the firing.

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The Hyper Digitization Era Blessing in disguise for the technology industry – Web Hosting | Cloud Computing | Datacenter | Domain News – Daily Host…

November 19, 2020 | Author: admin

By Anandh Venkatraman, Head of Consulting Global COEs, Dell Technologies

On one side, human existence is being challenged by a non-living particle with the entire medical fraternity up in arms to save humanity and on the other side, enterprises across the globe are quite far along now their hyper digitization journeys to maximize their returns while minimizing human involvement. With the way that humanity is caught in the middle and its future hangs in the balance, it is equally fascinating to examine how the technology world order is changing rapidly as we speak.

The world is moving towards everything-on-the-cloud and everything-as-a-service model. Gone are the days when organizations needed to invest a fortune in datacenters and staff large IT teams to take care of their IT needs. In a decade, datacenters will be considered to belong in the stone age. Interestingly, not only is IT infrastructure being cloudified, but also physical working infrastructure will be a thing of the past. Organizations have seen the benefits of working from home, and the last three quarters have proved how effective it could be for the ecosystem. Saving commute time, saving on international travel, saving on fuel and electricity, reducing carbon footprint the positive effects of lockdown on the natural environment certainly gave much cause for hope and also gave rise to the term anthropause[1].

One thing that has changed for the common man is that the adoption of digital has significantly increased. Online banking, phone-based payments, chat bots, e-commerce, online deliveries have all undergone hyper adoption. So, companies that have been in the traditional mode of operations have realized that they will soon be kodaked[2], as people become more and more digitally enabled and transform into digital nomads. Entire cities are moving to the cloud, and the city of Helsinki is making waves by adopting a concept called City as a Service.

Everything-as-a-Service, the new world order

To meet significant increases in demand, enterprises are in a hyper-digitization mode to scale up their infrastructure by moving to the cloud. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure are innovating daily and competing to ensure that their customers adoption and journey to the cloud is as seamless as possible. Extrapolating the current trend, cloud will become the computing engine in the immediate future. Infrastructure will be a commodity, and customized industry-based services and outcomes are what enterprises will look for from cloud vendors. In the new world order, everything will be available as a service. While it is very difficult to provide a one-size-fits-all model in the cloud environment, the adoption of the hybrid multi cloud model will continue to be a priority with enterprises. Soon there will be a multi-cloud platform (Java of the cloud), where workloads could seamlessly flow across different cloud vendors like a breeze. In the current model, once you are locked into the native implementations, it becomes very difficult to migrate.

Traditional functions like marketing and sales will also be kodaked soon, because once everything on the cloud becomes a service marketing, sales, finance could be handled remotely, and their intelligence moved to AI platforms on the cloud. The day is not far when we will start seeing organizations offer marketing-as-a-service, sales-as-a-service, finance-as-a-service etc.

The word software engineer could very well soon be a thing of the past, with developers being referred to as full stack engineers or polyglot programmers. The world is moving from creating products through code, to assembling solutions like LEGO blocks. Technologists of the future will be like gourmet chefs assembling frameworks to create quick, efficient and cost-effective solutions on the cloud for end-users/customers. What used to get accomplished in months takes weeks now, and in the immediate future could be assembled in hours. One point to ponder then, would be: how do we keep the millions of traditional software developers relevant in the future context? This is a topic that would require a separate analysis.

Resilience and innovation in the new age

Now, given that enterprises are rapidly migrating to the cloud there is increased insecurity about 24/7 availability, security, data, compliance etc. Organizations are adopting state-of-the-art business-critical cyber recovery solutions that protect, back up and help restore digital assets. Going into the future, cloud providers will offer Business Resiliency/Cyber Recovery as a service in their respective platforms for enterprises to consume. Cloud providers will increasing become a one-stop-shop for the digital and infrastructure need of the enterprise.

Saving the best for the last, any conversation about digitization is not complete if you dont talk about the possibilities of 5G. The combination of IoT, edge computing, AI/ML and a mobile-dedicated bandwidth into the cloud is the recipe for laser-focused outcomes for the technology industry. This can be likened to giving a super car to an enthusiast in an eight-lane German autobahn. This will redefine the very nature of business across the globe. Soon, wars will not be fought on battle fields but on clouds, soon national boundaries will become less relevant, but ecosystems and kingdoms will be created on the cloud. The future of mankind will be left to his imagination to conceive, construct and conquer. The bigger question then arises: what happened to the virus?

[1] The term anthropause refers to a global reduction in modern human activity, especially travel, and was coined by a team of researchers in June 2020 in an article discussing the possible impact of COVID-19 lockdown on wildlife.

[2] Kodaked is a term used for technology extinction

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‘China-Backed Hacking Group’ Allegedly Works on Global Campaign Targeting Automotives, Pharmaceutica – Tech Times

November 19, 2020 | Author: admin

A security firm claims that the Chinese government is sponsoring a hacking group way back in 2019. The cybercriminals are allegedly exploiting ZeroLogon vulnerability in automotive, pharmaceutical, and industrial attack waves.

(Photo : Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)A participant sits with a laptop computer as he attends the annual Chaos Communication Congress of the Chaos Computer Club at the Berlin Congress Center on December 28, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Computer Club is Europe's biggest network of computer hackers and its annual congress draws up to 3,000 participants.

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ZDNet reported that the hacking group is working on a massive campaign, targeting pharmaceutical, engineering, and automotive entities across the globe. The massive attack is already targeting some businesses using the recently-disclosed security vulnerability.

According to Bleeping Computer's latest report, several Japanese companies and subsidiaries from multiple industry sectors in 17 regions across the world are also targeted.

Symantec claimed that the global cyberattack campaign is done by the Cicada group, also known as Stone Panda, APT10, or Cloud Hopper. The threat group was first identified in 2009.

(Photo : Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)A participant looks at lines of code on a laptop on the first day of the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) - Behind Enemy Lines computer hacker conference on December 27, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Computer Club is Europe's biggest network of computer hackers and its annual congress draws up to 3,000 participants.

The United States also claimed that the hackers are supported by the Chinese government. Symantec security researchers said that Cicada's most recent attack wave has been ongoing since mid-October in 2019.

The massive campaign is believed to be active at least this October of 2020. Cicada was reportedly using a variety of techniques and tools to conduct cyber attacks.Since the group is well-resourced, it is able to continue its hacking campaign for almost a year.

Cicada or APT10 is using different methods to exploit its ZeroLogon vulnerability. These include network reconnaissance, command-line utilities, PowerShell scripts, DLL side-loading, credential theft, and both RAR archiving.

A legitimate cloud hosting provider is also included. It helps the hacking group regarding packaging, downloading, and exfiltrating stolen data from different companies.

Cicada uses a toolkit called CVE-2020-1472. This utility issued a CVSS score of 10 and was patched by Microsoft in August. On the other hand, the ZeroLogon vulnerability allows the hackers to hijack domains and spoof domain controller accounts, as well as breach Active Directory identity services.

Aside from the ZeroLogon, the international hacking group also launched Backdoor.Hartip, a new custom malware, which is not yet seen in connection to the APT10 group. This vulnerability is also designed to targets top businesses in different countries.

Symantec also suggested that the cyber criminals are focused on the cyberespionage and theft of sensitive company data. These include HR documents, meeting demos, expensive information, and corporate records.

For more news updates about other hacking groups, always keep your tabs open here at TechTimes.

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Latest Study explores the Microserver Market Witness Highest Growth in near future – AlgosOnline

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Latest Study explores the Microserver Market Witness Highest Growth in near futurePublished: 19 hours ago Author: Ashwin NaphadeCategory: #news

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Application Hosting Market Report Examines Analysis by Latest Trends, Growth Factors, Key Players and Forecast to 2028 – TechnoWeekly

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DLT Solutions Bolsters Hybrid Cloud, AI, Security and Other Software Offerings for the U.S. Public Sector with IBM Solutions – Inside NoVA

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HERNDON, Va., Nov. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --DLT Solutions, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tech Dataand a premier government technology solutions aggregator, is working with IBM to offer hybrid cloud, AI, security and other software solutions to the U.S. public sector.

"Around one-third of government organizations are feeling an increasing urgency to transform digitally, according to Gartner," said Chris Wilkinson, president, DLT Solutions, a Tech Data company. "The addition of IBM's extensive hybrid cloud, AI, security and software portfolio to DLT's Cloud Navigator Program and our technology domains further enhances our ability to support our channel partners as they help fulfill the U.S. public sector's digital transformation and modernization goals."

DLT will use its Cloud Navigator Program to extend the channels reach and help ease their U.S. public sector customers' journeys to the cloud. Through Cloud Navigator, DLT's partner network assesses cloud readiness, provides government customer cloud migration support and helps ensure the organizations maintain visibility, gain actionable intelligence, and achieve automation and accountability across their cloud investments.

"We're seeing organizations increase their investments in hybrid cloud and AI as they accelerate their digital transformations," said Jay Bellissimo, IBM's general manager for the U.S. public and federal market. "This collaboration with Tech Data and DLT will expand our platforms' footprint further into the partner ecosystem and with clients in the U.S. government and education markets, which ultimately will provide them with the flexibility, security and innovation of IBM's open hybrid cloud and AI solutions."

As an authorized U.S. public sector aggregator of IBM solutions, DLT is now positioned to bring IBM's open hybrid cloud, AI, security and other software solutionsto government end-users through its channel partner network.

As part of this support, DLT will offer IBM Cloud Paks, IBM's fully-containerized and integrated suites of software that enable customers to implement intelligent workflows throughout their businesses. IBM Cloud Paks offerings run on Red Hat OpenShift, the leading enterprise container platform, and can be hosted on multiple clouds to enable business to easily develop, deploy and manage applications across hybrid cloud environments. IBM Cloud Paks integrate the power of IBM Watson enabling clients to infuse AI into their systems to help automate complex processes, optimize employees' time and create more meaningful customer experiences. In addition to IBM Cloud Paks and IBM Watson, DLT is authorized to offer all of IBM's software-based solutions.

By hosting IBM Cloud Paks offerings on IBM Cloud, DLT channel partners and their U.S. public sector clients can benefit from the sameindustry-leading confidential computing securityfound in IBM Z. Delivered via IBM Hyper Protect Services, it features 'Keep Your Own Key' encryption capabilities, making the IBM Cloud the industry's most secure and open public cloud.

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About DLT SolutionsDLT Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tech Data, the world's leading end-to-end distributor of technology products, services and solutions. DLT is the premier government solutions aggregator that specializes in understanding the IT needs of the federal, state, local and education markets. We help simplify the process for independent software vendors, federal systems integrators and value-added resellers doing business in the public sector. Leveraging Tech Data's end-to-end portfolio, an extensive array of public sector contract vehicles, and dedicated channel and enablement services, DLT provides government agencies and channel partners with the means to rapidly and cost effectively transform technology to achieve mission success. For more information, please visit http://www.dlt.com.

About Tech DataTech Data connects the world with the power of technology. Our end-to-end portfolio of products, services and solutions, highly specialized skills, and expertise in next-generation technologies enable channel partners to bring to market the products and solutions the world needs to connect, grow and advance. Tech Data is ranked No. 90 on the Fortune 500and has been named one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for 11 straight years. To find out more, visitwww.techdata.comor follow us onTwitter,LinkedIn,FacebookandInstagram.

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Artificial intelligence and the classroom of the future | BrandeisNOW – Brandeis University

November 19, 2020 | Author: admin

By Tessa Venell '08Nov. 19, 2020

Imagine a classroom in the future where teachers are working alongside artificial intelligence partners to ensure no student gets left behind.The AI partners careful monitoring picks up on a student in the back who has been quiet and still for the whole class and the AI partner prompts the teacher to engage the student. When called on, the student asks a question. The teacher clarifies the material that has been presented and every student comes away with a better understanding of the lesson.This is part of a larger vision of future classrooms where human instruction and AI technology interact to improve educational environments and the learning experience.James Pustejovsky, the TJX Feldberg Professor of Computer Science, is working towards that vision with a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder, as part of the new $20 million National Science Foundation-funded AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming.The research will play a critical role in helping ensure the AI agent is a natural partner in the classroom, with language and vision capabilities, allowing it to not only hear what the teacher and each student is saying, but also notice gestures (pointing, shrugs, shaking a head), eye gaze, and facial expressions (student attitudes and emotions).

Pustejovsky took some time to answer questions from BrandeisNOW about his research.

How does your research help build this classroom of the future?For the past five years, we have been working to create a multimodal embodied avatar system, called Diana, that interacts with a human to perform various tasks. She can talk, listen, see, and respond to language and gesture from her human partner, and then perform actions in a 3D simulation environment called VoxWorld. This is work we have been conducting with our collaborators at Colorado State University, led by Ross Beveridge in their vision lab. We are working together again (CSU and Brandeis) to help bring this kind of embodied human computer interaction into the classroom. Nikhil Krishnaswamy, my former Ph.D. student and co-developer of Diana, has joined CSU as part of their team.How does it work in the context of a classroom setting?At first its disembodied, a virtual presence on an iPad, for example, where it is able to recognize the voices of different students. So imagine a classroom: Six to 10 children in grade school. The initial goal in the first year is to have the AI partner passively following the different students, in the way they're talking and interacting, and then eventually the partner will learn to intervene to make sure that everyone is equitably represented and participating in the classroom.Are there other settings that Diana would be useful in besides a classroom?Let's say I've got a Julia Child app on my iPad and I want her to help me make bread. If I start the program on the iPad, the Julia Child avatar would be able to understand my speech. If I have my camera set up, the program allows me to be completely embedded and embodied in a virtual space with her so that she can help me.

Screenshot of the embodied avatar system Diana."

How does she help you?She would look at my table and say, Okay, do you have everything you need. And then Id say, I think so. So the camera will be on, and if you had all your baking materials laid out on your table, she would scan the table. She'd say, I see flour, yeast, salt, and water, but I don't see any utensils: you're going to need a cup, you're going to need a teaspoon. After you had everything you needed, she would tell you to put the flour in that bowl over there. And then she'd show you how to mix it.

Is that where Diana comes in?Yes, Diana is basically becoming an embodied presence in the human-computer interaction: she can see what you're doing, you can see what she's doing. In a classroom interaction, Diana could help with guiding students through lesson plans, through dialogue and gesture, while also monitoring the students progress, mood, and levels of satisfaction or frustration.Does Diana have any uses in virtual learning in education?

Using an AI partner for virtual learning could be a fairly natural interaction. In fact, with a platform such as Zoom, many of the computational issues are actually easier since voice and video tracks of different speakers have already been segmented and identified. Furthermore, in a Hollywood Squares display of all the students, a virtual AI partner may not seem as unnatural, and Diana might more easily integrate with the students online.What stage is the research at now?Within the context of the CU Boulder-led AI Institute, the research has just started. Its a five-year project, and its getting off the ground. This is exciting new research that is starting to answer questions about using our avatar and agent technology with students in the classroom.

The research is funded by the National Science Foundation, and partners with CU Boulder on the research include Brandeis University, Colorado State University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 5G and IoT will be the Most Important Technologies in 2021, According to new IEEE Study – PRNewswire

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PISCATAWAY, N.J., Nov. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today released the results of a survey of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) in the U.S., U.K., China, India and Brazil regarding the most important technologies for 2021 overall, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the speed of their technology adoption and the industries expected to be most impacted by technology in the year ahead.

2021 Most Important Technologies and ChallengesWhich will be the most important technologies in 2021? Among total respondents, nearly one-third (32%) say AI and machine learning, followed by 5G (20%) and IoT (14%).

Manufacturing (19%), healthcare (18%), financial services (15%) and education (13%) are the industries that most believe will be impacted by technology in 2021, according to CIOs and CTOS surveyed. At the same time, more than half (52%) of CIOs and CTOs see their biggest challenge in 2021 as dealing with aspects of COVID-19 recovery in relation to business operations. These challenges include a permanent hybrid remote and office work structure (22%), office and facilities reopenings and return (17%), and managing permanent remote working (13%). However, 11% said the agility to stop and start IT initiatives as this unpredictable environment continues will be their biggest challenge. Another 11% cited online security threats, including those related to remote workers, as the biggest challenge they see in 2021.

Technology Adoption, Acceleration and Disaster Preparedness due to COVID-19CIOs and CTOs surveyed have sped up adopting some technologies due to the pandemic:

The adoption of IoT (42%), augmented and virtual reality (35%) and video conferencing (35%) technologies have also been accelerated due to the global pandemic.

Compared to a year ago, CIOs and CTOs overwhelmingly (92%) believe their company is better prepared to respond to a potentially catastrophic interruption such as a data breach or natural disaster. What's more, of those who say they are better prepared, 58% strongly agree that COVID-19 accelerated their preparedness.

When asked which technologies will have the greatest impact on global COVID-19 recovery, one in four (25%) of those surveyed said AI and machine learning,

CybersecurityThe top two concerns for CIOs and CTOs when it comes to the cybersecurity of their organization are security issues related to the mobile workforce including employees bringing their own devices to work (37%) and ensuring the Internet of Things (IoT) is secure (35%). This is not surprising, since the number of connected devices such as smartphones, tablets, sensors, robots and drones is increasing dramatically.

Slightly more than one-third (34%) of CIO and CTO respondents said they can track and manage 26-50% of devices connected to their business, while 20% of those surveyed said they could track and manage 51-75% of connected devices.

About the Survey"The IEEE 2020 Global Survey of CIOs and CTOs" surveyed 350 CIOs or CTOs in the U.S., China, U.K., India and Brazil from September 21 - October 9, 2020.

About IEEEIEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities, IEEE is the trusted voice in a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers, and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power, and consumer electronics

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Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Has Substantially Grown To Aid The Warfighter – Department of Defense

November 19, 2020 | Author: admin

It was just two years ago when the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center was created to grab the transformative potential of artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of America's national security, and it has grown substantially from humble beginnings.

Dana Deasy, the Defense Department's chief information officer, and Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, the director of the JAIC, virtually discussed from the Pentagon the growth and goals of JAIC at a FedTalks event during National AI Week.

''One of the things we've wanted to keep in our DNA is this idea that we want to hire a lot of diversity of thought into [JAIC],'' Deasy said, ''but yet do that in a way where that diversity of thought coalesces around a couple of really important themes.''

When JAIC began, it needed to grab hold of some projects that can show people that it can be nimble, agile, and it has the talent to give something that is meaningful back to the Defense Department, he noted.

So JAIC started in a variety of different places, Deasy said. ''But now as we've matured, we really need to focus on what was the core mission for JAIC. And that was, we have to figure out what the role is that AI plays in enabling the warfighter. And I've always said that JAIC should be central to any and all future discussions in that place,'' the CIO said.

''Transformation is our vision,'' Groen said.

''So, it's a big job. We discovered pretty quickly that seeding the environment with lots of small AI projects was not transformational in and of itself. We knew we had to do more. And so, what we're calling JAIC 2.0 is a focused transition in a couple of ways. [For example], we're going to continue to build AI products, because the talent in the JAIC is just superb,'' the JAIC director said.

Groen noted that the JAIC is thinking about solution spaces for a broad base of customers, which really gets it focused.

''There are, you know, the application, and the utilization of AI across the department [that] is very uneven. We have places that are really good. And there, some of the services are just doing fantastic things. And we have some places, large-scale enterprises with fantastic use cases [that] really could use AI, but they don't know where to start. So, we're going to shift from a transformational perspective to start looking at that broad base of customers and enable them,'' he said.

JAIC is going to continue to work with the military services on the cutting edge of AI and AI application, especially in the integration space, where JAIC is bringing together intelligence or intelligence of maneuver, Groen said, ''The warfighting functions have superb stovepipes. But now we need to bring those stovepipes together and integrate them through AI,'' he added.

We have to figure out what the role is that AI plays in enabling the warfighter. And I've always said that JAIC should be central to any and all future discussions in that place.''

The history books of the future will say JAIC was about joint common foundation, Deasy said. ''JAIC could never do all of the AI initiatives with the Department of Defense, nor was it ever created to do that. But what we did say was that people who are going to roll up [their] sleeves, and seriously start trying to leverage AI to help the warfighter every day. at the core of JAIC's success has got to be this joint common foundation,'' he noted.

Deasy noted that the JAIC was powerful and very real.

Into next year, he added, JAIC will have some basic services. And then it's a minimum viable product approach, where JAIC is building some basic services, a lot of native services from cloud providers, but then adding services to that.

''And where we hope to grow the technical platform is a place where people can bring their data, places where we can offer data services, data conditioning, maybe table data labeling and we can start curating data,'' Deasy projected. ''One of the things we'd really like to be able to do for the department is start cataloging and storing algorithms and data. So now we'll have an environment so we can share training data, for example, across programs.''

The modernized software foundation now gives JAIC a platform so it can build AI, Groen said, adding AI has to be a conscious application layer that's applied, leveraging the platform and the things that digital modernization provides.

''But when you think of it that way, holy cow, what a platform to operate from,'' he said.

So now JAIC will really have a have a place where the joint force can effectively operate, he said, adding that the JAIC can now start integrating intel in fires, intel in a maneuver command and control, the logistics enterprise, the combat logistics enterprise and sort of the broad support enterprise, Groen noted.

''You can't do any of that without a platform, and you can't do any of that without those digital modernization tenets,'' the JAIC director said.

If JAIC is going to have the whole force operating at the speed of machines, then it has to start bringing these artificial intelligence applications together into an ecosystem, Groen said, noting that it has to be a trusted ecosystem, meaning "we actually have to know, if we're going to bring data into a capability, we have to know that's good data."

''So how do we build an ecosystem so that we can know the provenance of data, and we can ensure that the algorithms are tested to set in a satisfactory way that we can comfortably and safely integrate data and decision making across warfighting functions,'' the JAIC director asked. ''That's the kind of stuff that I think it's really exciting, because that's the real transformation that we're after.''

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