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Seeding the schedules cloud means addressing 1980s-era Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) pricing policies that limit access to 21st-Century commercial solutions, especially leading-edge commercial technologies, like cloud computing. By so doing, the General Services Administration can increase agency access to best value commercial products, services, and solutions.

MAS consolidation has eliminated contracting stovepipes, duplication, and process burdens at the contract level. The next step for GSA is to streamline, reform, and enhance the underlying pricing policies governing contract negotiation, award, and compliance. Reforming these underlying pricing policies will unleash the MAS program, enhancing best value mission support by focusing on increasing commercial market access and competition at the task order level.

Nowhere will this effort be more impactful than in the MAS programs cloud computing offerings. The federal government is scratching the surface on cloud, with the federal market for cloud expected to grow to over $8.5 billion in the next few years according to Bloomberg Government. Cloud enables data analytics, machine learning, and AI capabilities that are the focus of government modernization. Moreover, the pandemic has served to accelerate the commercial cloud transition and usage, with remote work and virtual offices driving demand. Given the growing demand for cloud, the MAS program has the opportunity to leverage the commercial market to deliver increased capabilities to support agency IT needs. So, pricing reform clearly is a game changer.

For example, MAS commercial cloud capabilities are held back by the outdated, anti-competitive pricing policies, like the Price Reduction Clause (PRC) and Commercial Sales Practices (CSP) that are the basis for MAS price negotiations. The PRC and CSP are static, formulaic, catalog-driven mechanisms that limit pricing flexibility. By so doing, they restrict flexibility and competition and emphasize oversight and compliance. In contrast, the cloud pricing environment is dynamic and flexible. Pricing is driven by customer business models and frameworks, volume, and variable pricing is driven by market demand, technology, business models, and customer frameworks. These factors require flexible pricing that can react over time depending on use and market conditions. The PRC and CSP were simply not built for this kind of dynamic approach to the market.

Negotiating cloud pricing terms consistent with the current MAS pricing policies is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Thus, with these current pricing policies, customers, contractors, and GSA suffer increased pricing risk and restricted access to technology solutions. It is time to waive application of the PRC and CSP for cloud computing services. Likewise, the Economic Price Adjustment clause should be waived for cloud. In their place, a flexibly priced model at the contract level should exist to enhance the ability of MAS contractors to effectively and efficiently price and deliver best value cloud solutions at the task order level.

Together, these changes will provide an opportunity to ensure that task order terms and conditions retain the flexibility for contractors to effectively respond to customer needs and adjust to changing market conditions in meeting those needs. The net benefit will be to streamline customer access to innovative commercial cloud solutions at the competitive task order level. For these reasons, the Coalition stands ready to work with all stakeholders on seeding the cloud for a best value customer forecast.

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Featured 2020 was a fascinating year for cloud technologies. The Covid-19 pandemic forced remote working initiatives which accelerated demand for cloud software and infrastructure. 2021 is going to be about taking advantage of the opportunities which have arisen, with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud to the fore.

As Andrew Brown, general manager EMEA for IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software wrote for this publication last month, while 2021s exact playout is unknown, the company expects hybrid cloud technologies to continue to play a large role in breaking down barriers for the enterprise. Brown added he believed regulated industries would go hybrid, while open source tools would unify clouds.

With this in mind, CloudTech has selected seven companies in the wider cloud economy to feature for 2021, from managed hyperscaler service providers, to security firms. Read their stories below:

2nd Watch is a provider of consulting and managed cloud services to enterprises. The company is a Microsoft Azure gold partner and Google Cloud partner but, headquartered in Seattle, its AWS premier partnership is the flagship service.

For these consultants and MSPs targeting the enterprise, its not good enough to just talk the talk. Chris Garvey, EVP product, tells CloudTech 2nd Watchs born-in-the-cloud culture, fluent in enterprise is key. By applying public cloud technology to our clients IT environment needs, we create a bias towards innovation enabling our clients to benefit from the latest technology and capability provided by the major cloud service providers, says Garvey.

Our approach enables our clients to reduce the level of complexity inherent to enabling digital transformation and achieve their strategic vision.

One such client is an engineering company focused on large-scale municipal water management. The company needed to gather telemetry data in real-time from tens of thousands of water meters and flow devices to support a variety of strategic data needs, as Garvey puts it. Using AWS services such as Amazon Forecast, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue, 2nd Watch created a data lake to capture inbound IoT data streams, data cleansing and preparation processes, and a reuseable machine learning data pipeline.

The company is hiring strategically, recently announcing Chris Whaley, late of IBM, as its EVP cloud solutions sales. Going forward, there are key trends 2nd Watch is betting on, from industry vertical-based clouds, to technological expansion.

The enterprise market in cloud is maturing and its not enough to enable their journey to cloud, explains Garvey. Enterprises are increasingly looking to leverage their applications and data in the cloud to drive innovation, market agility and increased security and governance.

2021 will be a year of reinvention for many companies, Garvey adds. Four technology trends we foresee driving the biggest chance are around the pace of cloud migration accelerating, artificial intelligence and machine learning delivering even greater business insights, edge computing taking on greater importance, and platform as a service gaining added urgency.

AppOmni is a San Francisco-based provider of cloud security posture management (CSPM) for SaaS. The company secured additional funding from Salesforce at the end of December to bolster its goal of helping companies with monitoring and security across clouds, business units, and apps.

Tim Bach, vice president at AppOmni, explains that while many cloud security tools focus on network access, an increasing need exists for securing third party applications connected to SaaS environments, as well as public access portals. AppOmni was designed to continuously monitor all of these non-network data access points as well as configuration settings for third party applications, and both internal and external users to SaaS systems, Bach tells CloudTech.

For AppOmni, like many other companies in the space, Covid-19 saw something of a boon professionally. Enterprises were forced to rely more heavily on SaaS solutions to house sensitive data and as the stakes get higher, companies found they fell foul of the new provisions.

The company says that, in more than 95% of cases analysed where external users regularly logged into enterprise SaaS environments, they were over-provisioned. Typical industries where AppOmni has a presence include technology, banking and healthcare as well as other security providers. Yet Bach notes: Were seeing this issue across all industries.

With funding in the bank, the task ahead of AppOmni is expansion. Our goal in 2021 is to enable our customers to enjoy the huge benefits of SaaS without inadvertently introducing new security risks, adds Bach. With the right security tools, increased SaaS adoption doesnt have to lead to increased SaaS data breaches.

CloudSphere, a cloud governance provider based primarily in the United States and Ireland, is another relative new kid on the block. Formed last year as a merger of HyperGrid, a provider of cloud management and governance, and iQuate, a company focused on agentless discovery and application mapping, the company sits as a middleman for the hyperscalers.

Keith Neilson, technical evangelist at CloudSphere, says the companys offering empowers users to safely harness the power of the cloud. Securing and governing multi-cloud environments is a top IT challenge facing enterprises as cloud adoption accelerates amid the pandemic, Neilson tells CloudTech. This has driven demand for CloudSpheres solution.

The company is attempting to stamp its mark with the appointment of Jane Gilson, formerly of Microsoft and Google, as CEO. Gilson spoke to CloudTech earlier this month around how the enterprise adoption of multi-cloud architectures was a once-in-a-generation transformation of the IT landscape.

This feeds in to work the company is conducting with one of its largest customers, a global service integrator (GSI). CloudSphere is assisting with the GSI across the board, on cloud migration and discovery, cloud cost economics, and governance.

CloudSphere has provided a single multi-cloud platform that addresses all of these use cases, some of which are proving to be disruptive to their current tooling, to allow them to offer a differentiated services offering that benefits both them and their enterprise customers, says Neilson. The company is also consolidating tools to help manage multi-cloud environments.

Going forward, Gilson noted that she believed CloudSphere has the right approach and tech differentiation to become a worldwide leader in this space and expect the roadmap to follow. CloudSphere plans to announce some exciting new product developments in 2021, which will strengthen CloudSpheres current solution, while adding some new features unique to the market, adds Neilson. Watch this space.

Compared with the previous two entries, Fujitsu has a lifetimes experience literally, having been founded in 1935. While the Japan-headquartered ICT services company doesnt get the headlines of the hyperscalers, it does have an extensive cloud portfolio, focused on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud support for the Amazons, Microsofts et al.

Yet this suits the company fine. As Brad Mallard, CTO for digital technology services north west Europe explains, Fujitsus focus is trust, and a deep ability to provide transformation at pace that aligns business and operational priorities together seamlessly.

We understand that a transformational big bang is no longer attractive or realistic for organisations that are seeking to undergo digital transformation, Mallard tells CloudTech. Many organisations have instead moved their transformation to an as a service model with quarterly horizons to reset and realign priorities based on pre-agreed, composable services.

Our experience and breadth of skill in delivering mission-critical services from the cloud in countries around the world including services at the highest levels of security provides confidence and ensures the resilience needed by customers in the wake of Covid, Mallard adds.

Fujitsu is taking plenty of work in helping organisations continuously respond to Covid-19 related challenges. The company has rolled out rapid cloud solutions, and enabled tens of thousands of healthcare professionals to deliver critical support remotely. Recent research conducted by the company found two thirds of businesses polled are reinventing their digital transformation strategies amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Another customer success story hinges around a major manufacturer in the automotive sector, helping the company shift towards a digital business and mobility services provider approach. Our value here centres around accelerating innovation through cloud-native applications and microservices, built by deploying agile development squads and methodologies, says Mallard.

For 2021, Mallard predicts a year where responsible digital business models prevail, with reinvention and sustainability the watchwords. We will be at the forefront of this with a focus on maximising the impact for our customers by supporting them in their operating model shift, enabling them to take advantage of their data to create actionable insights, he says.

Pax8, a Colorado-based provider of cloud management technologies, has had a hot start to the year. The company secured $96 million (69m) in funding at the beginning of January, looking to expand its geographic reach as well as improve its cloud automation and orchestration capabilities.

Nick Heddy, chief revenue officer, explains the companys rationale for providing cloud services to the IT channel and its appeal to investors. There is no company on the market today quite like Pax8, he tells CloudTech. The leadership team built Pax8 into a true innovator. Pax8 is accelerating cloud transformation, enabling our partners to easily buy, sell and manage cloud technology to SMBs worldwide.

The geographic expansion includes a UK launch, also announced last month. One UK customer, seen by CloudTech, noted the need for a simple way to bring the best of breed products available to us as an MSP or MSSP and make it easier to buy, install, implement but only pick what we need for that specific client.

Bolstering the product line is the recent launch of Pax8 Pro, which offers partners an introduction to cloud automation and simplified software as a service lifecycle management, as Heddy puts it.

Ultimately, the company focuses on automation and simplicity for partners but a rigorous process to approve vendors. Vendors go through a more than 150-step process before launching with Pax8. We have a unique approach that tightly couples our technology platform with an unparalleled customer experience that simplifies cloud adoption, says Heddy.

We are excited about the future, and how we are helping IT professionals bring best-in-class cloud technology to businesses across the world.

Ping Identity, headquartered in Denver, promises intelligent identity for the enterprise. In the words of Emma Maslen, VP and GM EMEA and APAC, this means the company understands the challenges enterprises face as they navigate through the current digital transformation acceleration, often including the need to leverage a hybrid mix of cloud solutions to successfully modernise legacy IAM systems.

This manifests itself in various ways: passwordless authentication, integration with multiple risk, fraud and threat signals, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to detect and analyse anomalous behaviour. The company asserts that a trade-off between strong security and ease of use is not necessary, and has earned praise as a result, being shortlisted in the international Cloud Computing Awards for best hybrid cloud solution.

One recent customer success story focuses around telecoms: an ISP was dealing with continual outages from use-surges and relied on multiple login credentials for different parts of the business, as Maslen puts it. The goal was to achieve a streamlined experience for identity. As they look ahead to new business opportunities with 5G, they will be ideally positioned to provide the experience customers demand between services and applications, Maslen tells CloudTech.

The ISP is not the only one to be well positioned. With remote working an inevitability even after Covid, Ping Identity sees itself as an arbiter of frictionless and secure digital experiences.

For Ping, 2021 will be the year of cloud-enabled scalability, adds Maslen. We will prioritise centralised solutions that facilitate cost reduction, enable Zero Trust security through passwordless-ness, and help businesses deliver more personalised digital experiences from anywhere.

Uptycs, headquartered in Massachusetts, looks to take a broader view when it comes to cloud security. The cloud security is still nascent and many vendors are tackling niche problems, such as identifying vulnerabilities in containers, securing Kubernetes systems, spotting misconfiguration of cloud resources, or analysing identity and access, CEO Ganesh Pai tells CloudTech.

As a result, the company promises a cloud-native approach to cloud infrastructure security. The risk of tackling these problems piecemeal is the type of tool sprawl that weve seen in the traditional, on-premises enterprise space, only mirrored in the cloud, Pai adds.

Pai admits that, looking at the shared responsibility model, it can be quite difficult to get comprehensive visibility across various services and accounts. Amazon Web Services (AWS), with more than 200 products available, is a case in point.

This is where the companys recent AWS integration, extending the types of data in Uptycs SQL-powered security analytics platform, comes in.

For comprehensive cloud workload security, you need both a view of workloads from the outside and a view from the inside, explains Pai. Data from AWS services and resources provides an outside-in view of the cloud environment to complement the inside-out view from within hosts and containers that Uptycs already provides. Flexport, a digital freight forwarder and customs broker, is one such customer of the AWS side.

With regard to 2021 plans for Uptycs, who secured $30 million (21.6m) in funding back in June, Pai notes greater integration with cloud providers, alongside extensions which provide deeper visibility into identity and access management. The company is also keen to give something back. Uptycs recently released Kubequery and Cloudquery, two open source extensions for the osquery project a key part of Uptycs rationale and more is promised.

We will also continue to contribute back to the open source community, providing a strong technical foundation for the next generation of cloud security tools, says Pai.

Editors note Feb 17: An original version of this article stated that AppOmni raised $10 million in series A funding at the end of last month. That funding round was in January 2020 while the company received funding from Salesforce at the end of the December. This has since been corrected.

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The cloud machine-learning algorithms could learn from billions of real and simulated miles.

The quest for automated vehicles continuesIn fact, with the deluge of new vehicles in the market, there has been glimpse of automation in one way or another. At Volkswagen Group, automated driving remains one of its goals and the German auto group has partnered with Microsoft to accelerate the development of automated functions into its vehicle offerings.

ADAS require large-scale computational capabilities, especially since petabytes (1 million GB) of data are expected to be transferred every day. Likewise, connected driving experiences also require machine-learning algorithms that could learn from billions of real and simulated miles.

To address these requirements, Car.Software Organization and Microsoft will simplify the developer experience while leveraging the "learnings from miles driven" from real traffic data (from VW vehicles) and simulation data. With Microsoft Azure and Microsoft's agile development tools and methods, Car.Software Organizations developers could work on a single development environment.

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ADAS and AD functions will be tested, deployed and operated through Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, another collaboration between VW and Microsoft. Started in 2018, the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud will allow the integration of digital services and mobility offerings across VW's brands in the future. It will also allow VW to deliver vehicle updates and new features without installing new hardware.

The first test vehicles connected to the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud will hit the road this year, with production rollout expected in 2022. The integration of the ADP and Volkswagen Automotive Cloud will occur as Car.Software Organization integrates its software solutions, tools and methods. Once integrated, the ADP can cut development cycles from months to weeks, while efficiently a managing massive amount of data.

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As companies plan to reopen their doors to bring employees back, a lot is going on to decide what the future workplace will look like. There are a few common themes emerging which make a lot of sense for both the employees and the company. It is time to make some bold decisions and manage the change process.

It begins with safety and wellness. Companies will need to rethink air quality, wellness programs, rearranging seats for a safe distance and much more. Any decision made will require the workplace to have a seamless, transparent digital end-to-end process in place. The days of packing people into rooms will disappear for the next many years to come.

Clearly, culture plays a huge part in the future workplace. I spent 6 months at home and when I went to work none of the people I work with showed up on the same day. Sounds familiar? Thats a No-No to encourage people back to work. It kills productivity. Organizations need to have a clear strategy for ensuring teams work together, neighborhoods created for teams and departments and let intelligent solutions ensure rostering happens in a way that people get to collaborate when they are at work. The concept of Hybrid work is a reality and to get it right culture, team dynamics and work schedules need to be well thought through. Its time the HR team and workplace team work very closely together.

Flexibility is great but you need to keep in mind productivity, collaboration and cost. A well-planned organization can get the best of both worlds. After guiding the transition from fixed to the hybrid working of over 200 odd offices worldwide, one thing that stands out is that a well-planned Hybrid workplace model is the way to go. 3 days at work, 2 days at home brings about an ideal scenario. This model based on averages combines a set of 3 categories permanently work from home, permanently work in the office and Hybrid workers. With the right tools every employee feels engaged, they know where their teammates are, they go to work based on the need and tasks at hand. With the right automation, this will drive up productivity and increase employee satisfaction.

Cost is a big factor at play. Real estate and workplace overall costs have been very high for underutilized spaces. Check you P&L and sum it all up. This is #2 or #3 on the balance sheet. Heres a great opportunity to cut it down. With Hybrid working, you can safely let go of 30 % of your space. Let technology determine the best way space gets allocated and consumed. With Rs. 6-7 lakhs per annum seat cost including rentals, cleaning, power and using them a few times a month is not an optimum way to run the business.

The talent equation is fast changing. You can now hire for the skills, not location. This is a huge plus. Location doesnt matter anymore and gives you access to talent globally. Hybrid working and access to talent pools worldwide will really help and keep companies competitive.

One thing is for sure that as we move from fixed timing, fixed location and fixed desk to the new Hybrid and Flexible Workplace, technology is going to play a huge part. The ability to manage all the variables at play and getting it right requires a sophisticated AI solution with a very easy to use seamless interface for employees. Reducing employee and operations teams toil will be critical.

Businesses will journey across the stages as they shift to the new hybrid workplace and a solution which can support this journey can help get the most value both in adoption as well as real cost savings. With AI recommendations, business teams will be able to make informed decisions about space optimization. At the end of the day, technology will be the catalyst to the new paradigm of flexible workspaces, bringing to the table better collaboration and space optimization opportunities that will eventually change the way we work.

The new Hybrid workplace is here and now and can become a competitive advantage for companies. The early ones will learn and be ready ahead of the rest. The time to act is now.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Granulate, a leading provider of autonomous real-time computing workload optimization and cost reduction solutions, has been named the 2020 winner of the Cloud Development Innovation category in the Cloud Awards. After a lengthy review process, the announcement occurred at the InternationalCloud Computing Awards program, The Cloud Awards.

Granulate provides real-time computing performance optimization with its AI-driven solution that tailors computing workload prioritization for the unique needs of any company in any industry. With Granulate's solution, companies see rapid and drastic performance improvement, including up to a 5x increase in throughput, 40% faster response times, and a reduction in cloud computing costs of up to 60%. Designed to function in any computing infrastructure or environment, implementing Granulate is simple and fast, requiring zero code changes or R&D involvement, with results within days, if not hours.

"We are honored to be recognized as the Cloud Innovation of the year in the Cloud Computing Awards," said Asaf Ezra, CEO and co-founder of Granulate. "Our optimization solution enables companies of any size to significantly reduce computing costs while improving performance, not only in the cloud, but on-prem as well, with minimal effort. We are excited to receive this honor, and will continue to develop our solutions to further improve computing efficiency for our customers. Optimizing computing power means optimizing business."

The Cloud Awards program celebrates the brightest and the best in Cloud Computing. Open to organizations across the globe, the Cloud Awards is the first and largest recognition platform of its kind.

"Performance and resource usage is often overlooked when deploying to the cloud, as development and product teams focus on the end deliverables. The judges were particularly impressed by the solution offered by Granulate which offers customers huge savings, both in cost and in the environmental impact that can be achieved with next to no effort," said Cloud Award Judge Richard Geary. "Cloud technologies make a good platform for turning around urgent applications rapidly and at scale. This was clearly evidenced in the range of innovative technological solutions that Granulate has offered during the Pandemic."

"Every year, we find ourselves reporting the winners of the Cloud Awards, in simple awe at the scalability and agility of cloud-based solutions. Previous winners have risen superbly to the evolving challenges organizations must face in our increasingly unrecognizable modern world," said Head of Operations for the Cloud Awards, James Williams.

Hundreds of organizations entered the Cloud Awards, with entries coming from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. You can view the full shortlist here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2020-shortlist/.

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Granulateis a real-time, autonomous computing optimization company that delivers reduced compute costs, faster response time, and better throughput, without any code changes required. Granulate's patent-pending next-generation solution provides AI-driven infrastructure and workload optimization for robust compute performance and cost improvements in any computing environment, empowering businesses of any size from any industry by bolstering their computing power while slashing computing costs. Companies that have implemented Granulate have reduced compute expenses by up to 60%, benefitting from a 40% response time reduction and 5X increase in throughput.

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TheCloud Awardsis an international program which recognizes and honors industry leaders, innovators, and organizational transformation in cloud computing. The awards are open to large, small, established, and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2021 and beyond. The Cloud Awards currently offers two awards programs, the Cloud Computing Awards, and the Software-as-a-Service Awards. For more information about the Cloud Awards, please visithttps://www.cloud-awards.com.

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Tata Communications on Tuesday joined hands with Google Cloud to drive cloud adoption among Indian businesses. The announcement of the partnership led to the shares of Tata Communications climbing close to 6 per cent on the BSE to Rs 1,050.90. Tata Communications said the deal had expanded its managed public cloud services portfolio to include the capabilities of Google Cloud.

The partnership is expected to enable organisations to deploy and access Google Cloud services through Tata Communications IZO Managed Cloud platform. Companies will get access to end-to-end services, including cloud architecture planning and workload migration.

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, technology firms have been witnessing a rise in demand for services such as cloud computing. A cloud is where various services can be accessed from the Internet through a provider.

Tata Communications said as a Google Cloud India partner, it will support organisations with services across infrastructure modernisation, data centre transformation, application modernisation and smart analytics.

According to the company, with the current global scenario, there is wider recognition for business resilience and agility that cloud enables and most businesses are now beginning to explore a cloud-first model.

The current demands on enterprises to manage and optimise their cloud solutions has never been more important, especially in the wake of Covid-19 and our increasing reliance on cloud infrastructure, Rajesh Awasthi, global head of cloud and managed hosting services at Tata Communications said.

As organisations migrate to Google Cloud, they need a partner that will support them across their entire IT ecosystem and deliver a unified cloud management platform that offers greater transparency, control and security of their data and applications, Awasthi said.

Tata Communications, erstwhile VSNL was in the news last month when the Government said that it will sell its entire 26.12 per cent stake in the company through offer for sale and strategic sale route in the current fiscal.

In a notice, the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) had said that a part of the shareholding will be offered through offer for sale (OFS) and the balance, including any leftover portion in the OFS, will be offered to strategic partner Panatone Finvest Ltd. The transaction is to be completed by March 20, 2021, the DIPAM had said.

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Nico Grant and Tom Giles(Bloomberg) --International Business Machines Corp. is considering a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, a person with knowledge of the matter said, a move that would help newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna focus on faster-growing cloud computing operations.

Deliberations are at a very early stage and the company may opt not to pursue a deal, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private talks. IBM is exploring a range of alternatives, from a sale to a private equity firm or a merger with a blank-check company, according to the Wall Street Journal, which earlier Thursday reported the possibility of a deal.

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IBM has been trying toboostits share of revenue from hybrid-cloud software and services, which lets customers store data in private servers and on multiple public clouds, including those of rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. IBM bought RedHat for $34 billion in 2018 to boost this effort.

As a testament to the companys bet on the cloud, Krishna said in October that he would spin off IBMs managed infrastructure services unit into a separate publicly traded company. The division, currently part of the Global Technology Services division, handles day-to-day infrastructure service operations, like managing client data centers and traditional information-technology support for installing, repairing and operating equipment. While the unit accounts for about a quarter of IBMs sales and staff, it has seen business shrink as customers embraced the shift to the cloud, and many clients delayed infrastructure upgrades during the pandemic. The spinoff is scheduled to be completed by end of 2021.

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Offloading IBM Watson Health, which helps health care providers manage data, would further Krishnas efforts to streamline the company. The unit generates about $1 billion of annual revenue and isnt profitable, according to the Journal, which cited people it didnt identify. An IBM representative declined to comment.

IBM embarked on Watson with lofty goals, such as revolutionizing health care for cancer patients, but many of its ambitions havent panned out and some customers have complained that the products didnt match the companys hype. IBM has scaled back its Watson ambitions, including through job cuts last year.

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International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a potential sale of its IBM Watson Health business, according to people familiar with the matter, as the technology giants new chief executive moves to streamline the company and become more competitive in cloud computing.

IBM is studying alternatives for the unit that could include a sale to a private-equity firm or industry player or a merger with a blank-check company, the people said. The unit, which employs artificial intelligence to help hospitals, insurers and drugmakers manage their data, has roughly $1 billion in annual revenue and isnt currently profitable, the people said.

Its brands include Merge Healthcare, which analyzes mammograms and MRIs; Phytel, which assists with patient communications; and Truven Health Analytics, which analyzes complex healthcare data.

It isnt clear how much the business might fetch in a sale, and there may not be one.

IBM, with a market value of $108 billion, has been left behind as cloud-computing rivals Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. soar to valuations more than 10 times greater. The Armonk, N.Y., company has said its focused on boosting its hybrid-cloud operations while exiting some unrelated businesses.

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A year or so ago there were over 500 hyperscale data centre in existence worldwide and a further 170 or more in the pipeline, according to Synergy Research. But the explosion in cloud adoption public and private is not only driving demand for hyperscale data centres. Fuelled by the IoT and the arrival of 5G, the ongoing decentralisation of the cloud is also contributing hugely to the growing shift towards distributed edge computing.

Edge cloud environments are now pivotal in extending the cloud down to the local level. These enable much of the data processing, storage, control and management of local applications to take place much closer to users, machines and devices. With this latency is significantly improved and optimised applications responsiveness, therefore maximising enterprise productivity, efficiency, competitive advantage, user and customer experience. Low latency also ensures the future availability and performance potential of 5G mobile network coverage; super-fast streaming video for content delivery providers; real-time cloud gaming; real-time AI, machine learning/deep learning decision making in industrial automation and medical environments; pinpoint control of driverless vehicles and much more.

Fuelled by the IoT and 5G, the ongoing decentralisation of the cloud is contributing hugely to the growing shift towards distributed edge computing

For lower latency and greater agility, data centres must be able to rapidly provision and scale compute and storage resources exactly where they are needed but without risk of compromising IT security and resilience. At the same time, it is important to bear in mind that edge computing in edge data centres complements rather than competes against public cloud services.

Therefore, CIOs and developers reliant on the lowest latency possible must consider the best place to deploy and support new services as well as rethink the network architecture. In doing so, large enterprises, SMEs as well as cloud and telecoms service providers will benefit from their data and applications being much closer to users and customers with only less time sensitive, non-mission critical data being sent to the centralised public cloud for further analysis or archiving.

Apart from improved latency the cost of backhauling all data to one or two large hyperscale data centres can be significantly reduced by keeping it local. High volume data transmission costs can be enormous, such as in the case of autonomous vehicles.

In response to new and growing market requirements a more regionalised edge data centre colocation solution has become necessary. This directly addresses the latency issues and data transit costs that typically occur with centralised cloud business models overly reliant on data centres in far off locations at the other end of the country or even further afield. Edge colocation facilities are purpose-designed to fill the considerable gaps between modular micro (unmanned) data centres located at the very edge of the network, for example next to mobile cell towers, on factory floors and hospital wards and the centralised hyperscale ones.

However, to optimise a best of both worlds approach between public and local edge private clouds requires strategically located data centres to regional internet exchanges as well as diverse onsite carrier fibre connectivity. Hybrid architectures combining public, private and perhaps on premise legacy IT will also be required which often creates complex engineering challenges.

Applications migrations will dictate the hybrid strategy and one size does not fit all. Building the business case and the preparation work can be challenging when considering which applications will be placed in the edge data centre and which in the hyperscale data centre; how long it will take to migrate all the applications to the new infrastructure; the skills and experience available within the IT department; whether any remaining on premise legacy IT infrastructure needs to be accommodated; the software required for managing all environments within a hybrid implementation.

To optimise a best of both worlds approach between public and local edge private clouds requires strategically located data centres to regional internet exchanges as well as diverse onsite carrier fibre connectivity

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The need for speed in terms of achieving low latency connectivity along with greater bandwidth and the benefits of reduced data transit costs must not be allowed to distract from the fundamentals of colocation: Continuous 24/7 data and storage systems availability through the provision of secure and resilient critical infrastructure.

It is wise to check physical and cyber security, forwards power availability, the types of cooling systems used and overall energy efficiency (PUE) use of 100 per cent renewably sourced power should be a given by now but also look at how else a potential data centre provider is addressing sustainability. Finally, request proof of uptime service record, proven certifiable security and operational credentials, DR and business continuity contingencies, and the ability to provide end to end server migration and installation services.

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Making an automated mechanism for building and deploying software workloads onto cloud platforms was a superb idea. Since 2015, the task of building a business around it has, at least on paper, been tackled by the open-source community. Today, its champions are the names we recognize: Google, VMware, Microsoft, Amazon (if reluctantly), Red Hat, and by extension, IBM. Containerized workload automation must be a somewhat viable business, otherwise, those companies wouldn't have swallowed it up.

"Cloud-native computing" is a great idea that would have been poison for any single vendor to have claimed and defended just for itself. Revolutions have always been great (at least the successful ones) as long as someone else leads the charge, and you're not the one getting bloodied. The overall goal of cloud-native is to unseat a dynasty: to eject virtualization from its throne at the center of the data center economy, and in its place install workload automation. From a distance, the task resembles replacing a refrigerator with a washing machine.

Yet witness how Google swiftly and adeptly pulled off this masterstroke: At exactly the time that Docker, a workload deployment system, sought to leverage the gains from the movement it sparked, Google started its own movement at a campsite down the road. It took an in-house workload orchestration project (even its original name, Borg, delivers gorgeous irony); offered it up as an open-source initiative; stewarded its evolution into the raison d'tre for workload portability; marginalized the Docker whale; infused Red Hat, VMware, to a lesser degree Microsoft, and kicking and screaming, Amazon with the workload portability bug; and cemented Kubernetes' place as the axis around which a software ecosystem revolves -- all without ever "pulling a Microsoft" or being accused of monopolizing a market, and all by leveraging other people's efforts.

Minimum investment, maximum payoff, clean shirts. A clinic on influencing an industry. If only all insurgencies could work like this.

But is the scale of this revolution broad enough to have genuinely changed the way we live and work? That's the type of question we've created Status Report to help us answer. It aims to take the ten most important categories for any technology's or platform's capability to influence its users' businesses and livelihoods, examine each one in isolation, score its positive and negative factors separately, then toss them all onto a graph to see if its capacity for change is as great as our proclivity for emotion. Through this cleansing process, we may be able to extrapolate pertinent, relevant facts about whether technology makes a genuine difference.

Today, when I refer to "cloud-native" technologies, there's a general presumption that I'm referring not just to "containerization" (another terrible word) but specifically to Kubernetes, and the ecosystem of open source components that comprise its "stack." The Linux Foundation maintains a project called the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, whose job is to nurture new technologies in this space, as well as promote and support all of them.

Three years ago, I was told emphatically that presuming containerization meant Docker or Kubernetes, or any one name, would be contrary to the spirit of the open-source movement. Openness, I was sternly corrected, was all about choice, and ensuring that customers are never again locked into one way of doing things. Now, of course, it's an all-Kubernetes stack all the time. The CNCF's accreditation program for IT professionals in the cloud-native space is called Certified Kubernetes Administrator. Its competition has been kicked to the curb, then stomped on and flattened, followed by being declared not only irrelevant but never all that relevant to begin with.

The original, and still true, meaning of containerization is the method of packaging any workload with all the tools and dependencies it needs so that it can run on any cloud platform without modification. Think of a camper who carries everything she needs in her backpack, as opposed to a traveler who carries a light briefcase but expects to stay in a hotel. (Actually, virtualization would be like a traveler who drags the entire hotel behind him on chains.)

The problem with the term "cloud-native" is that it implies a software workload stays in one place throughout its lifecycle. That's not what "cloud" is about. A cloud platform is an abstract plane whereby a workload is addressable through the network at all times, regardless of where it is. This is the actual value of the concept: It ensures isolation (for security), portability, and at the same time, accessibility. This reduces the cost of change for enterprises charged with maintaining it. Historically, IT has kept costs low by maintaining system configurations until their platforms can no longer sustain them, and usually beyond that time. "Cloud-native" flips the whole maintenance cost argument on its head: Ideally, it ends up costing organizations less to continually adapt their own workloads to new situations and requirements at a moderate pace, than to constantly pour more effort and capital into maintaining IT systems' stability.

In the end, this is why Kubernetes won. (I expect to be told once again, it's not about winning or losing. The people telling me this will, without exception, be the victors.) Yes, it's the packaging of the workload that enabled its system of orchestration. But it's in the orchestration that customers find value.

The software industry is, first and foremost, about intellectual property. The open-source movement is largely an effort to neutralize the legal, financial, and other natural advantages a competitor may attain by having thought of the idea first. It forces its market to be about something else.

In a market where the incumbent is the leader by way of ingenuity, that something else is usually an effort to drive the value of that advantage down through product homogenization, and substitute service and support as value-adds. This is how Linux first gained a foothold in the enterprise. However, in an infrastructure market, where the incumbents reinforce their value propositions by stifling change instead of driving it, an open-source player has the unusual opportunity to reverse the situation: to encourage the developer community to foster ingenuity among themselves, as a tool for disruption.

As Docker, and immediately afterwards Kubernetes, proved, this plan can work out rather well at the outset. But then suddenly it hits a wall. It takes tremendous human effort to sustain even a moderate pace of change for any technology that has established itself in its market -- an effort that has traditionally been supported through vendors' IP license fees. When IP is at the core of a market, its incumbent has the luxury of slowing down ingenuity to a pace it can comfortably manage (see: Apple, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Amazon). That method doesn't work anymore if the incumbent is a shared entity: It must evolve or die. And since the benefits of that ingenuity are shared by design, it takes even more effort to spark the incentive that encourages ingenuity in the first place, especially when everyone knows ahead of time that such ingenuity must be short-lived (see: "Union, Soviet").

A successful business is all about minimizing risk. Information technology is the most volatile component of any business. The types of organizations that take a risk here are often the newer ones, or perhaps the very old ones for whom casting off their mortal coils has become a mandate -- companies with very little pre-existing baggage that's not worth losing anyway. Early adopters are the groups that have calculated the potential for significant gains, either through disruption or just pure innovation.

But the earliest adopters of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies include public cloud service providers (of which there are few), communications providers (of which there are few), small businesses, and startups. Although they're arguably reaping benefits, they have yet to lay down the kinds of patterns for success that other industries can follow. In financial services, healthcare, government, and incredibly, logistics, there remain highly placed individuals in IT, including at the CIO level, who have never heard of Kubernetes or "cloud-native" or containerization. Not that they've rejected them, or would want to do so -- they don't even know what these things are. Such individuals tend to be myopically focused on other institutions less risk-averse than their own. Until these other firms take the plunge, they won't know a plunge can be taken.

Now let's score each component of our evaluation individually:

What the cloud-native ecosystem (CNE) intends to do is give vendors, both old and new, something amounting to a freeze-dried infrastructure kit. They can get into the business of producing products and services, so long as they don't make their involvement about intellectual property or exclusivity. [+7] What its benefactors do not do -- perhaps because they cannot -- is provide instruction or guidance about how to provide distinguished services around this business [-4], which is one reason why the earliest open-source trailblazers, such as Red Hat, have come out on top thus far. [Net: +3]

From the outset, Kubernetes' engineers have said they'll know their efforts have pierced the envelope into the realm of permanent success once everyone finds it a dull and boring topic already. Their experience comes from Linux. Linux is dull and boring. Take it from a journalist who has been paid to come up with reasons to make Linux exciting again.

But Linux established itself through homogenization -- by driving down the advantages gained through ingenuity. Kubernetes actually took the reverse route: It disrupted a market that could have comfortably fed off of the first-generation virtualization until the end of time. From the outset, however, no single player has attained a native competitive advantage -- no one has "come out on top." This is a problem for prospective customer organizations that typically wait for someone to emerge from the rubble, before investing in IT. [+2 | -7, net: -5]

This is Kubernetes' present dilemma: For the CNE to thrive, it must continually spawn new entities and innovative projects. Because Kubernetes is the axis of the ecosystem, those projects cannot be another orchestrator, but rather another service mesh, logging analytics tool, or key/value store. Because the axis of the ecosystem is strong, you can build a business around a product or service that orbits it. . . for a while. [+5]

Actual map of the CNCF's Cloud-native Ecosystem. Magnification available from CNCF.io

As the CNCF's own landscape map reveals all too clearly, even without a magnifying glass, this leads to dozens of startups essentially competing for the same market spaces. Venture capitalists will find it difficult to invest in a project that, by design, must compete with dozens of other projects that appear on the surface to be functionally identical. While we may call this a meritocracy, Charles Darwin would have called it something else. [-7, net: 2]

As noted in the Executive Summary, the components of the CNE must evolve or die. That's not necessarily a bad thing; indeed, it leads to consistent improvements. [+8] But it requires a long-term vision -- for 10, 15 years down the road -- that few, if any, have yet articulated. To withstand a threat from a future disabler, Kubernetes and its satellites cannot afford to become, like Linux, dull and void. They must continue a level of sustained pressure just to remain relevant. They are, in a word, hungry. Over time, this creates a vulnerability, increasing the likelihood of a future competitive challenge. [6, net +2]

At a certain point, a product or service becomes so fundamental to a market that its existence as an enabling factor is mandated. The Kubernetes model of application deployment is now a fact of the public cloud. [-7] It has yet, however, to significantly penetrate the small enterprise data center, and not even its integration into the latest VMware vSphere appears to be changing this fact measurably. So if you're in the cloud services business, and your customers include medium to large enterprises, you have to position yourself differently than you would for a small company that's starting fresh with the newest tools and methods. [-5, net +2]

The shift to a cloud-native operating model can, and has, revolutionized corporate IT [+7]. . . for those organizations capable of understanding it, and meeting its requirements. Kubernetes is a hungry beast. As of yet, there has yet to be a single, successful, persuasive initiative to educate the organization as a whole, including the C-suite, as to the end value of cloud-native, outside of IT departments and software developers who have already been convinced. [-6, net: +1]

Through having infiltrated the mindsets of the leading data center virtual infrastructure vendors, the CNE is now a measurable contributor to the world's gross domestic product. [+7] While some effort and capital continue to be expended toward buttressing pre-existing systems and methods, most of those expenditures have yet to be directed specifically against the advancement of the CNE. [-3, net: +4]

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Perhaps the best measure of whether a concept has thoroughly permeated the fabric of a society is the degree to which its peoples benefit without their having to pay attention to it. The public cloud sustained the tremendous surge in user demand brought on in the onset of the global pandemic. No other industry has fared as well in the face of potential economic peril. [+8] What has yet to materialize, although it still could, is a sustainable system of education and certification around cloud-native IT, beyond just a bunch of YouTube videos and TED talks. [-2, net +6]

Has this integration helped advance people further forward, making them more capable? Through the enablement of real-time video communications that were not feasible with the first-generation virtualization, undoubtedly yes. [+6] Through the incidental enablement of certain negative aspects of social media that would not have been feasible otherwise, no. [-2, net: +4]

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The cloud-native ecosystem is the strongest collective community of software developers and IT engineers ever assembled. [+9] Granted, it did not metastasize under its own power -- it required leadership and, certainly at the outset, a positive vision. It also adopted a mandate for personal empowerment and even betterment that no other information technology initiative has ever achieved.

Yes, there are pockets of community initiatives to reinforce those resources devoted to maintaining old, and admittedly dated IT systems. But these pocket communities do not form an ecosystem themselves. What's more, we're seeing evidence that these efforts are at last collapsing. [-3, net +6]

As technologies fare with this new series, a score of +2 or above is very strong. As a geometry teacher may point out, it's possible for an evaluated technology to post weaker net scores in one or more categories, and end up yielding stronger final influence scores. This is intentional. These categories are not intended to represent cumulative virtues. Should Kubernetes ever find that magic formula that guarantees its vendors revenue for the long-term, as it very well may, that final score could be pulled closer to 0, or at least toward the centerline of the X-axis?

But if a technology cracks the customer value barrier, so that not only is it necessary but desired, then that final influence score could skyrocket. What company has ever sustained itself in business for an extended period of time, earning value for its shareholders and also benefitting communities and society as a whole, without also generating products and services that have high perceived value? And what industry has ever come to fruition with a plurality of organizations that could successfully accomplish the first two, but not the third?

Here for the first time, we have enough background data to render a comparison between evaluated technologies. Notice in this comparison, we've zoomed in somewhat, narrowing our scale from 10 points in both directions to 3 points. Our benchmark is the World-Wide Web as of September 12, 2001, when that new technology faced the opportunity to bring a society together. It posted a strong positive score that leaned somewhat toward societal benefits, and away from corporate benefactors. 5G edge computing has nearly found that balance between altruistic and self-serving interests and could post a much stronger influence score if it can make a stronger value proposition.

The CNE is highly slanted toward the altruistic, self-sacrificing, part of the chart. That's a good thing, but only for a short time -- which is why the metaphor for this series is a pendulum.

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Despite all evidence pointing to the business efficiencies, cost savings, and competitive advantages that cloud computing brings, many companies are still reluctant to move their data and applications to the cloud due to security concerns.

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This report covers an in-depth analysis and forecast for theCloud computing Marketon a global and regional level from 2015 to 2024. The research report covers historical data from 2015 to 2017 with a forecast from 2018 to 2022 based on revenue (USD Billion). The report covers a comprehensive view of the market including market size, share, trends, industry growth, market drivers, restraints, and future opportunities. It also provides the level of impact of drivers and restraints on the Cloud computing Market between 2017 and 2024.

The Cloud computing Market research report included a detailed competitive scenario and product portfolio of major market key players. The report evaluates Porters Five Forces model to analyze the different factors affecting the growth of the Cloud computing Market.

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Cloud computing Market: Report Structure & Growth Drivers

Moreover, the research report includes in-depth analysis on Price and Gross Margin, Capacity, Production, Revenue, current Cloud computing Market geographical zones, technology, and demand-supply, Consumption, Import, Export, Market Drivers and Opportunities. The report mainly focused on industry size, share, trends, growth factors, and major company profiles through the forecast period.

In addition, this report discusses the key drivers influencing market growth, opportunities, the challenges, and the risks faced by key manufacturers and the market as a whole. It also analyzes key emerging trends and their impact on present and future development.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Global Business Impact Analysis

We at Fatpos Global understand how difficult it is for you to plan, strategize, or make business decisions, and as such, we have your back to support you in these uncertain times with our research insights. Following is the list of things that we as a management consulting, advisory, and market research team are doing at Fatpos Global to provide you with the latest information that will aid you in your business decisions.

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The report additionally majorly includes the major market players business strategies, end-to-end factors such as application, development, innovation, value supply & distribution channels, profit and loss figures, production capability, and others.

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