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As countries all over the world implemented a strict lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, international travel, unfortunately, became the first casualty.

Many wondered, what impact this loss of mobility will have? Would we all stay cooped up in our houses indefinitely? More importantly, will we ever be able to travel again?

But with more people increasingly stressed about the virus, potentially losing jobs and a worldwide travel ban still in place, Queenie Shaikh a travel journalist with an Instagram handle and a YouTube channel under the moniker The Poor Londoner started racking her brain for ideas thatll help everyone destress. And so, the concept for Visit Us was born.

She asked people on social media to email her a 5-10 second video clip giving one specific reason why people around the globe should visit their hometowns, starting with the phrase Visit Us.

This was to serve as motivation for future travel bucket lists, once normality returned.

With an overwhelming response, Shaikh wished to deliver content that represented diversity, unique cultures, beautiful accents and unheard-of travel spots.

"The idea behind the film was to portray my obvious dismay at the international travel ban, but in the form of a dream sequence. I wanted to depict the power of creative imagination and filmed myself accordingly. Theres a line in the video that says, how cool would it be if I could just disappear into a map and travel the world?

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Breaking Travel News investigates: If you do not self-regulate, others will make the rules for you – Breaking Travel News

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A few words of orientation first: I am fully aware of the context and the self-awareness from which I have arrived at the following realisation. For years I too have been part of the growth system mentioned in this text. Consequently, I must also accept criticism for having benefited from this system. I completely stand by that. When growth tempts you, it is difficult to look beyond what lies directly in front of you. But I would like to at least have the chance to exercise constructive self-criticism from my current, most certainly privileged, position. After all, I am also starting to observe a change of heart among many current and former colleagues. And this change of heart, I believe, comes at the right time.

An unprecedented rescue parachute at high speed, and just like that?

Around the world, airlines have received more than US$85 billion in rescue funds. Otherwise, Covid-19 would have wiped them out. This way, jobs at the directly impacted airlines as well as within the entire ecosystem around airports will be saved. Connections to places and markets will remain secured. In our closely interlinked world, flight connections that provide these access points for people and goods are essential, especially in times of crisis.

On the other hand, $85 billion is by no means a petty little matter. Such significant sums are certainly linked to far-reaching conditions arent they? Not really. The conditions attached to the rescue packages have been minimal at both national and international level. Depending on how you look at it, this is either a fortunate or a rather strange development. Remember how banks and financial institutions in many countries were given tough requirements in connection to the money they had received during the financial crisis?

Is this correct? Shouldnt states and regulators take a different approach and a harder line with aviation? More precisely, shouldnt they demand a greater resistance to future crises, in other words, a more sustainable handling of the national wealth they have accumulated?

One thing is certain: the next assertion of systemic relevance in an exceptional situation will, as much as we would prefer it not to, come back to haunt us much sooner than expected. The time to act and to use the crisis as an opportunity for change is now. This way, the lead time until the next event might be long enough so that the begging bowl held out for state aid will not be quite as big. A big pro-active liberating blow, one might say. But how to go about it?

Higher equity ratios, improved risk coverage, new principles for liquidity management: in Switzerland, the Basel III framework, the BIS regulations on banking regulation, has become much more restrictive in the wake of the financial crisis. At the time, there was a relatively broad consensus that people and people in these cases always means all of us did not want to bail out the banks again with billions of dollars in government money. In most international financial centres similar systematic measures could be observed. I would also like to point out that a number of systemically important banks subjected themselves to even more far-reaching security requirements. And these have taken effect, not least in the current crisis.

The various payments that Greece, as a nation state, received from the EU from 2010 onwards to save the country from bankruptcy were also linked to the implementation of numerous reforms and budget consolidation measures. In many other places, the EU Commission, the IMF and the ECB also imposed tough conditions for financial aid.

However, in the case of airlines which in the past have already been dependent on government support on more than one occasion the terms imposed are minimal. Although, depending on who you talk to, opinions do differ: for the Swiss confederation, for example, it is chiefly important that the funds that are spoken do not go to Germany. Strict is different. Airline-related businesses are also supposed to make sure that any of the funds received will not flow abroad. In other countries, the conditions for bailout money are even less stringent. I fully sympathise with taxpayers who are surprised about this.

A little bit of the misery is self-inflicted

In recent years, many airlines have invested massively in their growth, buying (not leasing) aircraft, expanding connections and launching price wars not just in the short-haul segment. In doing so, we have become highly dependent on a very volatile mass segment, and, as a matter of fact, in the past ten years even used this segment as our growth-engine. The result: the golden decade of aviation. This, however, had one side effect: we all exposed ourselves, fully unprotected, to the risk of straining the supply-and-demand principle to such an extent that the enormous growth in demand was driven by an oversupply of capacity. This has further reduced the already low margins. Provisions were made only very cautiously, if at all. In recent years, US airlines have spent more than 90 per cent of their profits to buy back shares and thus made short-term investors happy. All of us could work out that this fixation on growth and low margins make the industry dependent on precisely this highly volatile demand. Unlike any other sector, the airline business is thus highly sensitive to economic and social developments. And it is so on a global level.

Of course, it cannot be denied that in times of crisis even large cash reserves will not last for a long period of time. The airline business is capital-intensive. And it is of course a little unfair to make these observations during a global pandemic. After all, Lufthansa chief executive, Carsten Spohr, is right when he recently stated in Neue Zrcher Zeitung: It is almost impossible to prepare for a crisis of this dimension, in which 99% of the business disappears over months. The necessary buffer would be so immense that no globally operating airline could cope with it.

A little restraint and common goals would be win-win

Nevertheless, now is the time to stop turning a blind eye: airlines must better secure their business. They need to ensure stability as best they can and draw up future-oriented, sustainable financial plans. Solid risk management and business continuity strategies are the tools of the trade now more than ever. Lufthansa and United Airlines are already more consistently leasing aircraft rather than buying them and have started adapting their route networks.

The same applies to business planning and cash, health and safety and climate and security standards. Here too, I have long been convinced that the industry would be better off regulating itself. Individual airlines are making a major effort to contribute to climate protection. Swiss, for example, is investing in a particularly fuel-efficient fleet. Singapore Airlines has modified the Trent 900 engines of its A380 aircraft to reduce CO2 emissions. KLM saves weight. Etihad is experimenting with flights without the use of single-use plastic. But demands are high, and the road is long.

The challenge, whether it is about environmental, safety or accounting issues, is as follows: if the industry does not develop uniform standards or at least sets uniform goals , then others will do it for them. And they certainly will not do it in a coordinated way. This should be clear to the chief executive as well as to the chief financial officer and the head of corporate social responsibility.

If different rules of the game apply in every country, they become incredibly demanding and complex to comply with. And it potentially distorts competition even more. States that support airlines are the only ones that could introduce particularly loose regulations. I fail to understand why there is no greater momentum behind industry-wide efforts to regulate this once and for all, and on a large scale. That would certainly be beneficial for everyone.

Together into the future

Corona shows us again that it is not just the eleventh hour time is literally running out. The industry, preferably our entire ecosystem, must react now. That self-regulation can work in close cooperation with the authorities is shown by a recent example of the European Aircraft Associations and the European Aviation Safety Agency. Together with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, they have compiled guidelines for airports, airlines, and operators to ensure that passengers can travel safely even in times of corona. Which will make life easier for all of us.

We can no longer close our eyes to the fact that the world with and after Corona is a different one. Let us face this challenge together and reposition the industry in a new and better way. We are better equipped than others to do this.

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Nepal Is Reopening Everest for Tourists to Regain Lost Earnings. Will It Work? – VICE

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Birds are pictured flying over the Himalayan mountain Mount Everest and other mounts ranges from Namche Bazar in the Everest region, some 140 kms northeast of Kathmandu on March 26, 2020. Photo credit:PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP

International flights are set to resume in Nepal next week but Lakpa Tamang, a 31-year-old tourist guide in Nepals capital, Kathmandu, doubts if it will be business as usual. Im not sure if I will go back to the city anytime soon, Tamang said.

Since April, he has been living in a remote village in Solukhumbu region, more than 200 kilometers from Kathmandu, where he has started a poultry farm. He used his savings of 15 years and took out a loan from a relative to start the farm. The Nepal government has announced a slew of measures to revive the tourism sector but Tamang said that he cannot afford a risk. They (government) can take a U-turn. You never know, he told VICE News. The industry has become uncertain after coronavirus.

Tamangs employer and president of Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal, Khum Bahadur Subedi, is distressed about his mounting losses. More than 80 groups he was supposed to receive this year, and take to places like Everest base camp, Annapurna base camp, Ghorepani village and Mera Peak, have cancelled or postponed their plans due to the coronavirus. I tried to help some of my staffers by arranging bank loans but this is not sustainable in the long run. If 2021 is not good, many of them might quit the industry.

Last month, the government announced that international flights will resume from August 17; trekking, mountaineering hotels and restaurants businesses were allowed to function from July 30; and travel agents could take bookings for the autumn season. However, travel entrepreneurs are unsure if the governments decision to open up the sector will inspire confidence, in the absence of a clear protocol and rising coronavirus cases. Then theres the dilemma that too strict rules could equally discourage tourists.

A senior official told Kathmandu Post that the government is in the process of drafting stringent norms purely aimed at discouraging travelers movement. These measures may include obtaining visas from Nepals diplomatic mission in the origin-country, 14 days of quarantine and a negative polymerase chain reaction test.

Previously, Nepal had a relatively liberal visa policy allowing tourist visas on arrival. Indians, who do not require visas to travel to Nepal, formed the biggest chunk of more than 1.1 million foreign tourists who visited last year.

Nepal is home to eight of the worlds fourteen highest peaks above 8,000 meters including Mount Everest, Kanchenjunga and Annapurna.

The spring season, considered best to scale Mount Everest, was lost to the lockdown. The autumn season is a favourite for trekkers who want to explore smaller peaks and far off valleys.

The nationwide lockdown, lasting 120 days, was lifted on July 20.Partial restrictions were enforced in 14 districts on August 5 against the backdrop of a surge in COVID-19 cases.

As of Monday, 22, 972 people in Nepal got infected by the coronavirus; 75 have died.

Nepals tourism industry is staring at $400 million in losses due to COVID-19, noted a study commissioned by the UN Development Programme.

Kul Bahadur Gurung, general secretary of Nepal Mountaineering Association, said that stakeholders in the tourism industry held interactions with the government as early as April to chalk out a survival, revival, arrival strategy. But it did not bear much fruit.

Unfortunately, even in August, not much has been done and we are still in the survival stage, Gurung told VICE News.

In 2019, the contribution of travel and tourism to employment in Nepal was around seven percent (1.03 million jobs), according to World Travel & Tourism Council data.

Out of 182.2 million jobs in the sector in the Asia Pacific region, 33 percent of jobs will be lost due to COVID-19, per the best case scenario projected by the Council.

Gurung said that the most vulnerable are those belonging to low-income groups including guides and porters. The majority of them dont have a backup plan. Relying on agriculture is not a sustainable option because they are not updated with the latest technology, he said. And the government has no relief package for them.

By December, Gurung normally starts getting inquiries for the coming spring season. Even in December 2019, he got 70 percent less booking for the 2020 spring season. I was confused, Gurung said. I was told that people were hesitant to visit as Nepal was close to China.

The latest edition of theUnited Nations World Tourism Organization Travel Restrictions Reportnotes that 115 destinations (53 percent of all destinations worldwide) continue to keep their borders completely closed for tourism. 87 destinations have now eased travel restrictions, whilejust four have completely lifted all restrictions.

But there is some optimism. Dawa Steven Sherpa, mountaineer and entrepreneur, told VICE News that if the country receives even just five to ten percent of tourists it got last year, it will be a good stepping stone for spring 2021.

There is a rare breed of mountaineers who have a high tolerance for risks. They will be the first ones to travel once the restrictions are eased, Sherpa said. They know that they will get discounts because the economy is in bad shape and they dont mind a short period of quarantine.

Sherpa said that after the 2015 earthquake, tourists were back by 2016, giving him hope that a similar trend will continue. Plus, he believes Nepal has an incomparable gem that will save the industry. Dont forget that Nepal is home to Everest, a unique destination, which will continue to attract tourists.

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Every journey begins with a single step; or so it was once believed. In the modern world, travel has become much simpler. With cheaper transport and a booming tourism industry this was the case at least until recently a journey in the 21st century usually begins with a single click an online booking and ends with another a post on social media. But for all the convenience technology affords to the traveller, is not the experience of the journey itself somewhat lost along the way?

Literary history would agree. After all, great many works of literature are based on the adventures of travellers. Imagine a Victor Frankenstein with modern-day technology, chasing his monster with only a couple of clicks on a gadget, liberated from the unsettling struggle to get to the Mediterranean Sea from Geneva south or from having to journey across the Black Sea to Russia to the Arctic Circle. Or Odysseus, for that matter his wife, Penelope, neednt have woven a handkerchief, let alone a shroud, by the time her husband returned from Troy. Where, then, would the richness of their storiescome from?

Over the years, travel writers, too, have emphasized the pleasure andpain of journeying. Dervla Murphy,for one, often sets out on a paltrybudget to get a taste of local travel she recounts her extraordinary experiences of staying in fishermens huts andtravelling in packed buses in South India in On A Shoestring to Coorg, while in Full Tilt, she chronicles her tripon a bicycle from Dunkirk to Delhi. Alexis Wright and Lindsey Hilsumthink that travel writing should accommodate other voices: the accounts ofmigrants and refugees and theirexperiences of searching for a new home.

An arduous journey need not be a solitary experience. Treading across changing terrains, the traveller develops an intimacy with both the pit-stops and the final destination. Consider the essays of Robert Macfarlane and thedepth to which he delves to learn about the history and geography of eachplace he writes about. This sense of proximity helps Macfarlane plot out new territories not just within thenatural world but also inside the human mind he travels from a known landscape to somewherewe feel and think significantly differently even when there are no bordersthat correspond to national boundaries.

However, journeying far and wide is not necessary to forge a deep bond with a place. James Joyce wrote volumes on his dear dirty Dublin, and Virginia Woolf mapped out her neighbourhood in London on foot for her, it was the greatest of adventures. Are these musings not travelogues, especially for readers in distant lands?The pandemic has brought to a halt the world and travel. The prospect of great journeys seems bleak for now. Yet, all hope is not lost for travel enthusiasts. Stuck at home for an indeterminate stretch of time, they may finally have the leisure to read the travel stories real or imagined of others, or even relive their own journeys in the past. Reminiscing is a journey as well, isnt it?

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Going to stay with family means exposing more than one household. Can testing in advance keep everyone safe?

Let's face it, if you've been staying home a lot, you're probably pretty tired of looking at the same faces. Love them as we do, it feels like well past time to start seeing other people, to visit or host relatives and dear friends. So how can you do this without unknowingly spreading the virus or getting exposed?

Recently my husband and I debated this when our son, who lives in another state, said he'd like to come home for a visit. He lives with roommates in a city with a high rate of infection, and he works in a restaurant. We thought of having him get a diagnostic test to find out if he is infected. That way, if he got back a negative test, our problems would be solved, right?

Well, when I called up a few infectious disease specialists to ask if this all made sense, I discovered that using a diagnostic test for the coronavirus this way can be problematic. Here's what I learned.

First, which test are we talking about?

Currently the most commonly available test that can detect an active infection is the molecular or PCR test, typically collected via a swab in the nose or the back of the throat. These tests look for the virus's genetic material and are highly sensitive. Another kind of diagnostic test is an antigen test that can detect the coronavirus's proteins these are less sensitive, says Daniel Green, a pathologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and can be less accurate. And finally there are tests that show if your body has developed antibodies because it fought an infection from the coronavirus. Those tell you about an infection you had in the past, not what you have right now.

If I get a negative result on a PCR diagnostic test, can I be certain I won't infect someone I want to spend time with?

Like everything with this pandemic, the answer is complicated. The infectious disease experts I spoke to told me there are two reasons why testing might not be very helpful. The first has to do with the length of time it takes to get your test results back these days up to a week or more in some places for PCR tests. By the time you get your results back, you could have unknowingly been exposed to the virus, making the original test irrelevant.

The next big reason has to do with accuracy. While the PCR test is highly accurate in a laboratory setting, out in the real world it can produce some false positives and a lot of false negatives. In fact studies show a negative diagnostic test result can be wrong between 5% and 40% of the time, depending on the circumstances.

Some of this variation has to do with how well the sample was collected whether an adequate amount of mucous made it onto the swab, for example. But it also has to do with timing. You see, the diagnostic test tells you whether or not you have the virus on the day you took it. It reflects a single "pinpoint in time," says Dr. Henry Anyimadu, an infectious disease specialist with Hartford HealthCare Medical Group at the Hospital of Central Connecticut.

"Suppose that I was exposed on the 1st of August and I didn't know it," says infectious disease specialist Dr. Aileen Marty of Florida International University. "And I took the test on the 2nd of August. My test result will probably be negative." That's because the virus typically has at least a four- to five-day incubation period, so in the first few days after exposure, there may not yet be "enough virus in the upper respiratory system to be detectable," Marty says.

Wait, up to 40% false negative sounds like a lot is there anything I can do to ensure my results are more reliable?

Yes, there are some things you can do. But first remember this, for many of us that false negative rate could be much lower than 40%, says Green, who was a coauthor on one of the studies about test reliability. He points out that many of the people in his study were sampled too early, before the diagnostic test could detect the presence of the virus. So if you want to make sure your test is as reliable as possible, wait several days from the last point you think you could have been exposed before getting the test and while you wait, self-quarantine to avoid further exposures.

Marty agrees, saying, before you take the test, "be in a bubble for at least four or five days." Don't go to bars and restaurants and scale back grocery story visits or have food delivered. Bottom line, limit your exposure as much as possible leading up to test day. And then, Marty adds, "Stay in the bubble until you get your results back." That's because if you aren't careful, you could be exposed to the virus while waiting for results, and if you do have the virus even if you don't have symptoms you could spread it to others.

So if negative results are iffy, is it ever worth getting a diagnostic test?

Yes. There are definitely times when one should get a test, Anyimadu says. "If you're worried you have COVID-19 based on symptoms, you should get a test." Or, if you think you might have been exposed for instance, if your roommate, housemate or someone close to you is infected get a test.

And you should consider a test if you've traveled to an area with a high rate of coronavirus infection, Anyimadu says. To find out if your county or one you've spent time in recently has a high rate of infection, check this county-level map. If the county has more than 10 new daily cases per 100,000 residents, that's considered high risk.

If I test positive, but I don't have any symptoms, what should I do?

If you get a positive test result, our experts say, this is not the time to expand your bubble! Even If you don't have any symptoms, you are possibly contagious, and you could still develop symptoms. Marty says you should isolate yourself for 14 days, learn the symptoms of COVID-19 and monitor yourself. If you do get sick and your symptoms are getting worse, call your health care provider. And don't forget all those folks who live with you. They too need to be tested whether they have symptoms or not, Marty says, and should self-quarantine.

Marty also suggests people "connect with their department of health to assist with contact tracing," and help health workers reach out to anyone else who might have been exposed to you.

If you develop any symptoms, keep track of when they kick in so that you will know when you're no longer contagious. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you should isolate yourself for at least 10 days after your first symptom appears. At that point, as long as you haven't had a fever for at least 24 hours and you're feeling better, you should be able to mix with others.

If I can't rely on negative test results, what do I do instead to visit someone safely or merge social bubbles?

The safest and simplest thing to do if you want complete peace of mind is to quarantine yourself for 14 days before the visit this is especially important if you're hoping to visit someone who is older or has an underlying condition.

But short of that, experts say testing can play a role in your decision-making as long as you "don't treat a negative test as a get-out-of-jail free card," Green says.

Think of it as one more piece of imperfect information that you can add together with the most important factor, your own behavior. Have you been able to isolate as much as possible before the potential visit with a friend? If you have gone out, did you carefully socially distance and wear a mask? Have you been avoiding bars and restaurants and indoor gatherings?

If the answer to these questions is yes, and if you are certain you haven't been around someone with a possible or confirmed case of COVID-19, then a negative test could be helpful. "If you aren't sick or don't have any particular reason to believe you're infectious," says epidemiologist Justin Lessler from Johns Hopkins University, "then getting that negative test should increase your confidence."

And remember, before you head off on your trip or join friends for an indoor gathering, ask the people you're visiting about their own behaviors and whether or not they've also gotten a test. Remember, you can spread the virus, but you can receive it as well.

"There's no way to bring your risk down to zero," Anyimadu says. But the recommended measures of mask-wearing, social distancing and thorough hand washing are still the most important defense against the virus. And that is true whether you've had a negative test, a positive test or not even gotten a test at all.

Rob Stein and Carmel Wroth contributed to this report.

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Cloud Computing Testbed Chameleon Launches Third Phase with Focus on IoT and Reproducibility – HPCwire

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Aug. 14, 2020 Over the past decade, cloud computing grew from a tool used primarily by large scientific collaborations to one of the core technologies beneath the hood of the internet and other critical systems. That evolution continues today, as the Internet of Things (IoT), more powerful mobile applications, and serverless computing drive new scientific and commercial uses of cloud computing.

Since it launched in 2015, Chameleon has enabled these innovations by providing thousands of computer scientists with the bare metal access they need to assemble and test new cloud computing approaches. Under a new four-year, $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the cloud computing testbed led by the University of Chicago will further broaden its scope, adding new features for reproducibility, IoT and networking experimentation, and GPU computation to its core mission.

Chameleon is a scientific instrument for computer science systems research, said Kate Keahey, Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE) Senior Scientist affiliated with the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and principal investigator of the Chameleon project. Astronomers have telescopes, biologists have microscopes, and computer scientists have Chameleon.

In its first five years, Chameleon has attracted more than 4,000 users from over 100 institutions, working on more than 500 different research and education projects. Scientists have used the testbed to study power management, operating systems, virtualization, high performance computing, distributed computing, security, machine learning, and many other research areas. Educators have used Chameleon for cloud computing courses, allowing college and high school students to build their own cloud and learn the inner workings of the technology.

You can read more Lessons Learned from the Chameleon Testbed in the teams paper from the 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.

Growing interest among the Chameleon user community has driven the new priorities for the next phase of the project, Keahey said. A surge in edge computing, fueled by Internet of Things devices that supplement local computation with cloud resources, motivated the creation of a new Bring Your Own Device process for users to connect IoT technologies to Chameleon. These new capabilities will support users such as the Sage project, a UChicago/Argonne/Northwestern collaboration studying the deployment of sensor networks in urban and natural environments.

Some of the most exciting emergent research directions are in developing the cloud to edge continuum, said Pete Beckman, Director of the Sage project and Co-Director of the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering. Partnering with Chameleon will allow our users to tap into the potential of such a combined platform.

Chameleon will also add expanded tools for reproducible research, allowing users to more easily publish and share the details and results of their experiments so that other scientists can replicate and build upon their work. After integration with Jupyter notebooks proved popular with the Chameleon community, the team began work on a sharing portal integrated with the Zenodo platform, where experiments can be easily published and discovered.

Additionally, the third phase of Chameleon introduces new options for software-defined networking, including compatibility with networking testbed project FABRIC, as well as new hardware and storage resources at the projects two sites: UChicago, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).

Unlike traditional computer science testbeds, which are typically configured using technologies developed in-house, the CHameleon Infrastructure (CHI) on which the project is built provides the same capabilities on top of the mainstream open-source OpenStack project. This feature enables Chameleon to provide familiar interfaces to users and operators, as well as work with a large and active development community associated with the project, both making and leveraging contributions. To expand access to computer science research testbeds, the project will continue development of its CHI-in-a-Box testbed packaging.

CHI-in-a-Box allows you to not only build a testbed very, very quickly, Keahey said. But it also contains a packaging of our operations model including testbed monitoring as well as failure detection and mitigation tools. The idea is to lower the cost of this type of testbed so that we can have more of them, and allow more researchers to run more experiments.

Chameleon is a great example of how shared infrastructure with over 4,000 users can save the academic community time and money while catalyzing new research results, said Deepankar Medhi, Program Director in the Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering Directorate (CISE) at the National Science Foundation. NSF is pleased to fund Chameleon for four more years in order to extend the platform with new capabilities, thus allowing researchers to conduct new lines of research and students to learn newer technologies.

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Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet. These services are divided into three main categories: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).

A cloud can be private or public. A public cloud sells services to anyone on the internet. A private cloud is a proprietary network or a data center that supplies hosted services to a limited number of people, with certain access and permissions settings. Private or public, the goal of cloud computing is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.

Cloud infrastructure involves the hardware and software components required for proper implementation of a cloud computing model. Cloud computing can also be thought of as utility computing, or on-demand computing.

The name cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that's often used to represent the internet in flowcharts and diagrams.

A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional web hosting:

Cloud computing characteristics

Some of the main benefits of cloud computing are:

Self-service provisioning:End users can spin up compute resources for almost any type of workloadon demand. An end user can provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, eliminating the traditional need for IT administrators to provision and manage compute resources.

Elasticity:Companies can freely scale up as computing needs increase, and scale down again as demands decrease. This eliminates the need for massive investments in local infrastructure, which may or may not remain active.

Pay per use:Compute resources are measured at a granular level, enabling users to pay only for the resources and workloads they use.

Workload resilience:Cloud service providers often implement redundant resources to ensure resilient storage and to keep users' important workloads running -- often across multiple global regions.

Migration flexibility:Organizations can move certain workloads to or from the cloud -- or to different cloud platforms -- as desired or automatically -- for better cost savings, or to use new services as they emerge.

Broad network access: A user can access cloud data or upload data to the cloud from anywhere with an internet connection and using any device.

Multi-tenancy and resource pooling: Multi-tenancy lets numerous customers share the same physical infrastructures or the same applications, yet still retain privacy and security over their own data. With resource pooling, cloud providers service numerous customers from the same physical resources. The resource pools of the cloud providers should be very large and flexible enough so they can service the requirements of multiple customers.

Cloud computing benefits

Cloud computing boasts several attractive benefits for businesses and end users. Some of the main benefits of cloud computing are:

Cost savings: Using cloud infrastructure can costs, as organizations don't have to spend massive amounts of money buying and maintaining equipment. This reduces their capital expenditure costs as they don't have to invest in hardware, facilities, utilities or building large data centers to accommodate their growing businesses. Additionally, companies don't need large IT teams to handle cloud data center operations because they can rely on the expertise of their cloud providers' teams. Cloud computing also cuts costs related to downtime. Since downtime rarely happens in cloud computing, companies don't have to spend time and money to fix any issues that may be related to downtime.

Mobility: Storing information in the cloud means that users can access it from anywhere with any device with just an internet connection. That means users don't have to carry around USB drives, an external hard drive or multiple CDs to access their data. Users can access corporate data via smartphones and other mobile devices, enabling remote employees to stay up to date with coworkers and customers. End users can easily process, store, retrieve and recover resources in the cloud. In addition, cloud vendors provide all the upgrades and updates automatically, saving time and effort.

Disaster recovery: All organizations worry about data loss. Storing data in the cloud guarantees that users can always access their data even if their devices, e.g., laptops or smartphones, are inoperable. With cloud-based services, organizations can quickly recover their data in the event of emergencies, such as natural disasters or power outages.

Cloud computing deployment models

Private cloudservices are delivered from a business's data center to internal users. With a private cloud, an organization builds and maintains its own underlying cloud infrastructure. This model offers the versatility and convenience of the cloud, while preserving the management, control and security common to local data centers. Internal users may or may not be billed for services throughIT chargeback. Common private cloud technologies and vendors include VMware and OpenStack.

In thepublic cloudmodel, a third-party cloud service provider delivers the cloud service over the internet. Public cloud services are sold on demand, typically by the minute or hour, though long-term commitments are available for many services. Customers only pay for theCPUcycles,storageorbandwidththey consume. Leading public cloud service providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), MicrosoftAzure,IBMandGoogle Cloud Platform.

Ahybrid cloudis a combination of public cloud services and an on-premises private cloud, with orchestration and automation between the two. Companies can run mission-critical workloads or sensitive applications on the private cloud and use the public cloud to handleworkload burstsor spikes in demand. The goal of a hybrid cloud is to create a unified, automated, scalable environment that takes advantage of all that a public cloud infrastructure can provide, while still maintaining control over mission-critical data.

In addition, organizations are increasingly embracing amulti-cloudmodel, or the use of multiple IaaS providers. This enables applications to migrate between different cloud providers or to even operate concurrently across two or more cloud providers.

Organizationsadopt multi-cloudfor various reasons. For example, they could do so to minimize the risk of a cloud service outage or to take advantage of more competitive pricing from a particular provider. Multi-cloud implementation and application development can be a challenge because of the differences between cloud providers' services and application program interfaces (API).

Multi-cloud deployments should become easier, however, as providers' services and APIs converge and become more standardized through industry initiatives such as the Open Cloud Computing Interface.

A community cloud, which is shared by several organizations, supports a particular community that shares the same concerns, (e.g., the same mission, policy, security requirements and compliance considerations). A community cloud is either managed by these organizations or a third-party vendor and can be on or off premises.

Types of cloud computing services

As mentioned previously, cloud computing can be separated into three general service categories:

Infrastructure as a service. IaaS providers, such as AWS, supply avirtual server instance and storage, as well as APIs that let users migrateworkloadsto a virtual machine(VM). Users have an allocated storage capacity and can start, stop, access and configure the VM and storage as desired. IaaS providers offer small, medium, large, extra-large and memory- or compute-optimized instances, in addition to customized instances, for various workload needs.

Platform as a service. In the PaaS model, cloud providers host development tools on their infrastructures. Users access these tools over the internet using APIs, webportalsor gateway software. PaaS is used for general software development, and many PaaS providers host the software after it's developed. Common PaaS providers include Salesforce'sLightning Platform,AWS Elastic BeanstalkandGoogle App Engine.

Software as a service. SaaS is a distribution model that delivers software applications over the internet; these applications are often calledweb services. Users can access SaaS applications and services from any location using a computer or mobile device that has internet access. In the SaaS model, users gain access to application software and databases. One common example of a SaaS application is MicrosoftOffice 365for productivity and email services.

Emerging cloud technologies and services

Due to competition, providers must constantly expand their services to differentiate their services. This has led public IaaS providers to offer far more than common compute and storage instances.

For example,serverless, or event-driven computing is a cloud service that executes specific functions, such as image processing and database updates. Traditional cloud deployments require users to establish a compute instance and load code into that instance. Then, the user decides how long to run -- and pay for -- that instance.

With serverless computing, developers simply create code, and the cloud provider loads and executes that code in response to real-world events, so users don't have to worry about the server or instance aspect of the cloud deployment. Users only pay for the number of transactions that the function executes.AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions and Azure Functions are examples of serverless computing services.

Public cloud computing also lends itself well tobig dataprocessing, which demands enormous compute resources for relatively short durations. Cloud providers have responded with big data services, includingGoogle BigQueryfor large-scale data warehousing and Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics for processing huge data sets.

Another crop of emerging cloud technologies and services relates toartificial intelligence (AI) andmachine learning. These technologies provide a range of cloud-based, ready-to-use AI and machine learning services for client needs.Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Lex,Amazon Polly, Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine and Google Cloud Speech API are examples of these services.

Cloud computing security

Security remains a primary concern for businesses contemplating cloud adoption -- especially public cloud adoption. Public cloud service providers share their underlying hardware infrastructure between numerous customers, as the public cloud is amulti-tenant environment. This environment demands significant isolation between logical compute resources. At the same time, access to public cloud storage and compute resources is guarded by account login credentials.

Many organizations bound by complexregulatoryobligations andgovernancestandards are still hesitant to place data or workloads in the public cloud for fear of outages, loss or theft. However, this resistance is fading, as logical isolation has proven reliable, and the addition of dataencryptionand variousidentity and access managementtools have improved security within the public cloud.

History of cloud computing

The history and evolution of cloud computing dates back to the 1950s and 1960s.

In the 1950s, companies started to use large mainframe computers, but it was too expensive to buy a computer for each user. So, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, a process called time-sharing was developed to make more efficient use of expensive processor time.

Time-sharing enabled users to access numerous instances of computing mainframes simultaneously, maximizing processing power and minimizing downtime. This idea represents the first use of shared computing resources, the foundation of modern cloud computing.

The origins of delivering computing resources using a global network are for the most part rooted in 1969 -- when American computer scientist J. C. R. Licklider helped create the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, the so-called precursor to the internet. Licklider's goal was to connect computers across the globe in a way that would allow users to access programs and information from any location.

In the 1970s, cloud computing began taking a more tangible shape with the introduction of the first virtual machines, allowing users to run more than one computing system within a single physical setup. The functionality of these virtual machines led to the concept of virtualization, which had a major influence on the progress of cloud computing.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Microsoft, Apple and IBM developed technologies that enhanced the cloud environment and advanced the use of the cloud server and server hosting. Then in 1999, Salesforce became the first company to deliver business applications from a website.

In 2006, Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing such services as computing and storage in the cloud. Following suit, the other major tech players, including Microsoft and Google, subsequently launched their own cloud offerings to compete with AWS.

Cloud computing examples

Examples of cloud computing include:

Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365: Users can access Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365 through the internet. Users can be more productive because they can access work presentations and spreadsheets stored in the cloud at anytime from anywhere on any device.

Email, Calendar, Skype, WhatsApp: Emails, calendars, Skype and WhatsApp take advantage of the cloud's ability to provide users with access to data remotely so they can access their personal data on any device, whenever and wherever they want.

Zoom: Zoom is a cloud-based software platform for video and audio conferencing that records meetings and saves them to the cloud, enabling users to access them anywhere and at any time.

AWS Lambda: Lambda allows developers to run code for applications or back-end services without having to provision or manage servers. The pay-as-you-go model constantly scales with an organization to accommodate real-time changes in data usage and data storage.

Future of cloud computing

Over 30 percent of enterprise IT decision-makers identified public cloud as their top priority in 2019, according to the "RightScale 2019 State of the CloudReport." Still, enterprise adoption of the public cloud, especially for mission-critical applications, hasn't been happening as quickly as many experts had predicted.

In 2020, however, organizations are likely to migrate mission-critical workloads to public clouds. One of the reasons for this shift is that business executives who want to ensure that their companies can compete in the new world of digital transformation are demanding the public cloud.

Business leaders are also looking to the public cloud to take advantage of its elasticity, modernize internal computer systems and empower critical business units and their DevOps teams.

Additionally, cloud providers, such as IBM and VMware, are concentrating on meeting the needs of enterprise IT, in part by removing the barriers to public cloud adoption that caused IT decision-makers to shy away from fully embracing the public cloud previously.

Generally, when contemplating cloud adoption, many enterprises have been mainly focused on new cloud-native applications. They haven't been willing to move their most mission-critical apps into the public cloud. However, these enterprises are now beginning to realize that the cloud is ready for the enterprise if they select the right cloud platforms, i.e., those that have a history of serving the needs of the enterprise.

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Cloud is an enabler of business process change as it facilitates key benefits including expenditure reduction (CapEx and OpEx), service development and delivery efficiencies, and greater flexibility to meet evolving business needs. Cloud technologies and solutions are becoming increasingly more important to communication service providers, enterprise, content and commerce providers. This is particularly the case as many businesses IT departments predominantly implement virtualization of network functions and softwaritization of applications and operational support systems through the use of software-defined network solutions.

Clouded based technologies are evolving at a rapid pace along with the myriad of ways in which services can be developed, implemented, and operated. Various players in the cloud ecosystem achieve varying degrees of sustainability in accordance with their ability to identify gaps in IT infrastructure and/or services delivery regardless of what technologies are in place today and anticipate how methods and procedures will need to evolve to capture future opportunities.

Arguably, a corporation's most critical asset is its data. As a result, optimizing data management assets, processes and procedures is of particular importance. This includes those data elements that are shared between the numerous applications, systems and services within the enterprise across all industry verticals. Only through reliable data management services can organizations truly realize the true potential of their own data as well as data from customers, suppliers, partners, and various third parties.

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1.0 Executive Summary

2.0 Introduction

3.0 Cloud Computing Technology and Markets

3.1 Business Value Proposition

3.2 Cloud Computing Ecosystem

3.3 Telecom in Cloud Computing

3.4 Cloud Computing Market Segmentation

3.5 Cloud Computing Applications

3.6 Cloud Computing Market Growth Drivers

3.7 Cloud Computing Market Challenges

4.0 Global Cloud Computing Market Outlook

4.1 Global Cloud Computing Revenue 2020 - 2025

4.2 Revenue by Cloud Computing Deployment Type

4.3 Global Cloud Revenue by Software, Platform, and Infrastructure

4.4 Global Cloud Services Revenue 2020 - 2025

4.5 Regional Cloud Computing Market Outlook

4.6 Global Cloud Computing Revenue by Industry Vertical 2020 - 2025

5.0 Cloud Services in IoT

5.1 IoT Overview

5.1.1 IoT will Drive Massive Data Storage and Processing Needs

5.1.2 Processing Cloud IoT Data

5.1.3 Dealing with Centralized Storage and Decentralized Processing

5.1.4 Data Security and Personal Information Privacy are the Biggest Hurdles

5.1.5 Enhanced Tools needed for Machine Generated Data in IoT

5.1.6 Cloud Data Management for IoT Devices

5.2 Leading Vendors in IoT Cloud Computing

5.3 Cloud Computing in IoT Market Outlook

6.0 Cloud Computing Case Studies

7.0 Carrier Cloud Services

7.1 Overview

7.2 Carrier Clouds

7.3 Mobile Edge Computing

7.4 Carrier Cloud Market Outlook

8.0 Important Cloud Computing Industry Developments

8.1 Cloud Computing Mergers and Acquisitions

8.2 Cloud Computing Investments

9.0 Select Companies in Cloud Computing and Infrastructure

9.1 Amazon Web Services, Inc.

9.1.1 Company Overview

9.1.2 Cloud Computing Portfolio

9.1.3 Recent Developments

9.2 Microsoft

9.3 Alibaba

9.4 Google

9.5 IBM

9.6 VMware

9.7 Oracle

9.8 Rackspace

9.9 Salesforce

9.10 Adobe

9.11 Verizon

10.0 Appendix: Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

10.1 Cloud Computing Deployment Model Categories

10.2 Cloud Technologies and Architecture

10.3 Cloud Computing and Virtualization

10.4 Moving Beyond Cloud Computing

10.5 Rise of the Cloud-Based Networked Enterprise

10.6 General Cloud Service Enablers

10.7 Personal Cloud Service Enablers

10.8 Cloud Computing Services

10.9 Emerging Models: XaaS (Everything as a Service)

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10.10 APIs and Database

10.11 The Need for Federated Database Model

10.12 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the Cloud

10.13 Supply Chain Management in the Cloud

10.14 Emerging Cloud-Based Applications

10.15 Cloud Myths and Realities

11.0 Appendix: MEC Technology and Solutions

11.1 MEC Characteristics

11.2 Benefits of MEC

11.3 MEC Architecture and Platforms

11.4 MEC Technology and Building Blocks

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Initially approached with caution by healthcare organizations, cloud computing is becoming more widely adopted. In 2017, cloud adoption in healthcare increased, as cost savings outweigh potential data protection concerns. Healthcare IT systems are historically expensive to implement, update and maintain. Cloud economics changes that by shifting from individual budgets to cost-sharing models enabled by private, multi-tenant, and in some cases, public clouds.

These trends are shifting in favor of increased IT spending toward cloud hardware, software and networks. The global market for cloud technologies in healthcare was $16.1 billion in 2016. The market is expected to grow to $20.2 billion in 2017 and increase to $35.0 billion by 2022, with a compound average growth rate (CAGR) of 11.6%.

North America will continue to lead spending due to the combination of the large number of cloud suppliers and providers in the region, as well as the pressure to shift expenses away from traditional IT environments. The region will grow from an estimated REDACTED in 2017 to REDACTED in 2022 at a strong CAGR of REDACTED. Europe and Asia-Pacific (APAC) will be the next-largest markets, each representing a REDACTED share of global spending. Europe will increase spending for cloud technologies inhealthcare from REDACTED in 2017 to REDACTED in 2022, at a REDACTED CAGR. APAC will achieve a similarspending level, but it will surpass Europe as cloud services expand in the region. APAC spending will increase from REDACTED in 2017 to REDACTED in 2022, at an REDACTED CAGR.

Latin America, Middle East and Africa, and the remaining Rest of World countries will comprise the remaining REDACTED of the market, with cloud technologies advancing over traditional IT at a slow but steadyrate of between REDAC TED and REDACTED.

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How Configr Relies on the Alternative Cloud – Channel Futures

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The objective of alternative cloud platforms is simpleprovide useful services and reliable support at a transparent price.

Alternative cloud providers are becoming popular for small and midsize businesses across the world, offering IT solutions that fit their needs, providing dependable customer support and not forcing any unnecessary features theyll never use. The objective of alternative cloud platforms is simpleprovide useful services and reliable support at a transparent price.

Linode prides itself on offering transparent and consistent pricing and a customer support team extremely technically qualified and available 24/7/365 with no tiers, no bots and no hand-offs. The big three public cloud providersAWS, Azure and Google Cloudcant as easily make the same claim.

This mission is what made Linode the right choice for cloud services provider Configr. Founded in 2013 by Arthur Furlan and Felipe Tomaz, Configr serves customers throughout South America by democratizing cloud computing for agencies, freelancers and businesses of all sizes. One of Configrs core values has always been the ability to simplify running a business in the cloud.

Our clients are not cloud infrastructure experts, said Felipe, Configrs COO. They are from industries like digital marketing or e-commerce that dont typically have the knowledge or staff to install, configure and maintain their own cloud infrastructure. We provide technical and people expertise so they can focus on growing their business.

The co-founders had worked with hyperscale cloud providers in the past and found the complexity, lack of transparency and high costs a challenge. For their business, they needed a cloud partner that could provide high-performance infrastructure at low, predictable rates coupled with a people-focused service approach.

Configr uses Linode Backups, Block Storage, Dedicated CPU and High Memory compute plans, allowing its customers to deliver highly reliable and scalable web applications. Configr has grown to hosting more than 3,000 servers with Linode.

Like Configr, many of your own clients dont want, or need, the hassle of a large-scale cloud provider. Theyll end up with more tools and features than they need and a particularly generalized way of setting up and running the service.

Linode offers us a great price point without a compromise in performance or forcing tools and features on us we dont want, said Arthur. They also give us the service experience we need to help our customers grow.

Simplicity is likely what your clients are asking for, and it is what alternative cloud providers like Linode offer. If you need an uncomplicated cloud services solution, consider making the switch to an alternative cloud provider like Linode.

Read the entire Configr story: People-Focused Cloud Technology Delivers for Solutions Provider.

Sam Smith is a Senior Customer Success Specialist at Linode, where he works with the companys customers and partners, which include managed service providers, systems integrators and specialized service providers.

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Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market Growth Opportunities 2020-2025 | Amazon, Akamai Technologies, CA Technologies, Alibaba, Cisco Systems and Google…

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Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market research is an intelligence report with meticulous efforts undertaken to study the right and valuable information. The data which has been looked upon is done considering both, the existing top players and the upcoming competitors. Business strategies of the key players and the new entering market industries are studied in detail. Well explained SWOT analysis, revenue share and contact information are shared in this report analysis.

Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market is growing at a High CAGR during the forecast period 2020-2026. The increasing interest of the individuals in this industry is that the major reason for the expansion of this market.

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Amazon, Akamai Technologies, CA Technologies, Alibaba, Cisco Systems and Google Inc.

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The report further highlights the development trends in the Global Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market. Factors that are driving the market growth and fueling its segments are also analyzed in the report. The report also highlights on its applications, types, deployments, components, developments of this market.

Global Southeast Asia Cloud Computing market is segmented based by type, application and region.

Based on Type, the market has been segmented into:

by Deployment (Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud) by Product (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) by Organization (Small, Medium, Large) by Application (IT & Telecom, BFSI, Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Government & Utilities, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Others)

Based on application, the market has been segmented into:

by Application (IT & Telecom, BFSI, Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Government & Utilities, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Others)

The key questions answered in this report:* What will be the Market Size and Growth Rate in the forecast year?* What are the Key Factors driving Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market?* What are the Risks and Challenges in front of the market?* Who are the Key Vendors in Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market?* What are the Trending Factors influencing the market shares?* What are the Key Outcomes of Porters five forces model?* Which are the Global Opportunities for Expanding the Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market?

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Table of Contents:Global Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market Research ReportChapter 1 Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market OverviewChapter 2 Global Economic Impact on IndustryChapter 3 Global Market Competition by ManufacturersChapter 4 Global Production, Revenue (Value) by RegionChapter 5 Global Supply (Production), Consumption, Export, Import by RegionsChapter 6 Global Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by TypeChapter 7 Global Market Analysis by ApplicationChapter 8 Manufacturing Cost AnalysisChapter 9 Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream BuyersChapter 10 Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/TradersChapter 11 Market Effect Factors AnalysisChapter 12 Global Southeast Asia Cloud Computing Market Forecast

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KubeCon EU, CNCF Community, and the Role of the Cloud during the Pandemic: Q&A with Priyanka Sharma – InfoQ.com

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InfoQ recently caught up withPriyanka Sharma, general managerof CNCF, to discuss the upcoming virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU event. Topics also discussed includedthe role of the cloud, open source, and the current and future work of the foundation in these unprecedented times in which we are all living.

Sharma was recentlyannounced as the GM of CNCF, and as suchthis will be her first KubeCon event in thisnew role. She will not be alone, though, as this will be a new experience for many due to the conference being run asavirtual event on August 17-20, resulting fromthe global pandemic limiting the organization of in-person events.

The pandemic has fundamentally changed business models -- sometimes for better, and sometimes for the worse -- and the adoption of cloud has played a significantrole herein regards to both driving innovation and providing capabilties to elastically meetincreased customer demand. CNCF aims to empower all organizations to be capable of harnessing cloud technologies and the related architectures and processes.

Sharma is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), both personally and professionally. In the discussionshe outlinedsteps that CNCF are taking to further increase DE&I initiatives within the community.

InfoQ: Due to the global pandemic, its been a very strange year for everyone so far. What different approaches are you taking to keep the cloud nativecommunity robust and growing?

Priyanka Sharma: It has been a strange year, but the challenges are really ones that open source -- and thus, CNCF -- was built for. Our lives have gone remote. Our challenges have gone global. Everybody has had to pivot and do everything online in a world where online solutions are having to catch up to the needed scale. With some businesses growing exponentially because of the pandemic, others are facing different challenges. No one knows what business conditions will be next month, much less next year. In such a rapidly changing environment, we need innovation from anywhere and everywhere more than ever.

And that is exactly what open source provides, and our goal at CNCF remains to enable the cloud native ecosystem to reach its full potential by supporting this foundation of doers. That ecosystem includes project creators, maintainers, contributors, the builders who provide the technology, the end users who consume the technology, and the many unsung heroes who work in the background to ensure projects progress.

InfoQ: Lets specifically talk about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DE&I). Are you happy with the state of DE&I with CNCF community in general, and if, not what specific steps are you taking?

Sharma: Open source often reflects what is best in our society --people joining together from across the world to provide solutions to issues relevant to anyone touched by technology, and often for the betterment of societies.

The challenges faced by underrepresented communities, however, are meaningful even in this supportive environment. Systemic issues with the education system have prevented many talented individuals from discovering and thriving in our industry.

Bottomline: CNCF stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and equality for all. That said, recent events have taught us that we need to understand, empathize, and do more, as a foundation and as an open source ecosystem. I am personally involved in a project to eradicate racially problematic terminology from code.

As far as specific steps, CNCF is actively working to improve the gender and racial balance inside the cloud native ecosystem. Since 2016, CNCF has offered more than 1,000 diversity scholarships to traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communitiesincluding, but not limited to persons identifying as LGBTQ, women, persons of color, and/or persons with disabilitiesto attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events.

Were helping to make their voices heard, as well. At the 2019 show, 42% of keynotes were led by women or non-binary/other genders. At the Diversity Lunch + Hack, which drew 250 attendees, round table discussions were held about diversity and inclusion and opportunities to get hands-on with Kubernetes.

The Cloud Native Community is wonderfully diverse, and we want everyone to feel safe being part of it. Thats why were also taking steps, along with many others, to eradicate racially-charged language from software code.

InfoQ: Can you talk about Cloud Computing and CNCF in this new world and how its making an impact today and going forward?

Sharma: CNCF, the cloud native community and open source was built exactly for the unprecedented challenges our world is facing.

Open source -- whose full power and potential have been unleashed by the cloud and collaboration among people like all of us -- will be the key. The ecosystem needs support now more than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven a huge uptick in cloud adoption. Workflows are moving online faster than ever. More people are using online banking; more people utilize e-commerce. Were amid a huge shift. As a result, more companies are becoming cloud native in order to support the scale of traffic as online consumption increases.

As the demand for cloud native increases, so does the need for CNCF to support the ecosystem. We, as the foundation, need to support end users with education and enablement, certifications, [and] training programs just to get them across that chasm into a new, even more online-focused reality. We need to support people looking for new development opportunities, and companies that need new technology to help them grow during the pandemic. My guiding principle is to say yes to everything -- and only stop short on things that I may not be able to offer to everybody.

CNCFs core mission is to make cloud native computing ubiquitous. That was true before the pandemic and it is still true today.

InfoQ: Obviously the Kubernetes community has been very successful. What other technologies and trends coming out of CNCF should developers and architects pay attention to?

Sharma: Trends we think will shape our community for the next few years:

Serverless and service mesh are definitely key topics of discussion in our ecosystem. There is a lot of interest to welcome more projects to round out the cloud native experience. There are core infrastructure projects, which were doing a good job of attracting, and affiliate-type projects that are related, which can improve the developer experience. Projects adjacent to cloud native infrastructure improve how productive web and application developers can be when working with cloud native tech.

InfoQ: Lets talk about the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon next week. What will be the focus and how is it going to be different from previous Kubecons and other webinars?

Sharma: As its the first virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event, the team has been working hard to make sure it is educational, engaging, and most importantly, fun.

We have:

The interactivity, games, live chats with leading cloud native technologists are all what make KubeCon stand out from the other bite-sized content. This is the place we all come together as one. The energy at KubeCon EU Virtual will be like one never seen before.

InfoQ: Anything else you want to add and would like to share or mention to the readers?

Sharma: I know times are challenging for many of us right now. Know that we stand together. #TeamCloudNative will come out of 2020 stronger than ever. Come to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU Virtual next week and experience the power of cloud native.

Sign up here - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/.

The myriad of projects that CNCF is involved in are listed inCNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape.

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The advantages of a cloud-first approach to modern security – Information Age

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Raif Mehmet, area vice-president EMEA at Bitglass, discusses the advantages that a cloud-first approach brings to modern security

Legacy systems are no longer sufficient when it comes to keeping your network secure.

The security needs of modern businesses have evolved significantly in recent years. While digital transformation and cloud migration have helped improve productivity, flexibility, and mobility, they have also seen more and more data moving off premises and far beyond the reach of traditional security tools. In order to address this, businesses need to adopt a new mentality towards security, leveraging relevant controls designed for specific needs that will keep data safe wherever it goes. This article discusses the growing importance of cloud-first security solutions that are designed to provide consistent, comprehensive protections for any interaction in any use case in our cloud-first world.

The proliferation of cloud computing, mobile devices, and remote working is rapidly rendering legacy on-premises security solutions like firewalls obsolete. Today, effective security measures must be delivered for and from the cloud, securing any interaction and addressing any use case. The need to simultaneously secure access to cloud services, block cyber threats like malware, prevent data leakage, enable secure remote work, and comply with regulatory frameworks is enough to give any security team a major headache.

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Fortunately, there are highly effective cloud security platforms now available that integrate complementary technologies in order to defend data wherever it goes any app, device, web destination, on-premises resource, or infrastructure. These are known as secure access service edge (SASE) platforms, and three of the main technologies that they unify are those of cloud access security brokers (CASBs), on-device secure web gateways (SWGs), and zero trust network access (ZTNA).

Businesses typically use multiple public cloud applications every day, including Office 365, G Suite, Salesforce, and Box. While these application providers are responsible for securing their underlying infrastructure, the applications themselves are freely accessible to any user, on any device, from anywhere in the world. As such, it is the customers themselves who must ensure the security of any data that is stored and accessed within the apps.

(CASBs) provide robust, real-time controls for how and when users can access applications, and deliver visibility and control over data at rest and how it is shared. This is accomplished through what is known as a multi-mode CASB, which boasts proxies for security at access, and API integrations for security over data at rest. CASB technology allows SASE platforms to encrypt cloud data, prevent leakage through DLP capabilities like redact and quarantine, and defend against malware at upload, at download, and at rest in the cloud.

The web is simultaneously an indispensable asset and a breeding ground for threats. Every time they go online, users can easily wander into domains where they can be infected with malware, become victims of credential compromise, or leak sensitive data. Unfortunately, traditional security solutions like VPNing into the corporate firewall for traffic inspection can create an increasingly cumbersome bottleneck, particularly when there are large numbers of remote users involved. On-premise solutions require the use of appliances that are expensive to maintain and challenging to scale effectively. Likewise, backhauling traffic to a cloud proxy SWG introduces a latency-inducing network hop and invades user privacy because all user content is inspected at the proxy, including personal login credentials.

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With an on-device SWG, all cloud traffic is decrypted and inspected locally (directly on users devices), and only security events are uploaded to the cloud. Not only does this enable the solution to preserve user privacy, but it also eliminates latency and delivers thorough web security. Threat URLs and unmanaged applications are blocked before they can be visited, and employee access to content is controlled by variables like category, destination trustworthiness, user group, device type, and location. On-device SWGs are core components of SASE offerings and boast a modern architecture that is perfect for growing, mobile, and remote workforces. Forgoing the use of hardware appliances and performing SWG functionality on devices themselves provides maximum scalability, uptime, and performance.

While the vast majority of businesses have migrated to the cloud and embraced SaaS apps to some extent, most continue to maintain some on-premises applications as well. These internal resources typically house organisations most sensitive information and require strict access control. Some firms enable remote access to these applications via traditional VPNs. However, once a user has entered a network via VPN, they gain full access to everything therein, violating the core principles of zero trust. Instead, a more secure approach would be to only give users access to specific applications as needed.

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As the old adage goes, trust must be earned. ZTNA takes the approach that no one is trusted by default as they access on-premises apps, meaning verification is required from everyone trying to gain access to sensitive resources. Leading SASE platforms provide agentless ZTNA for browser apps (a perfect fit for BYOD), as well as more standard agent-based ZTNA for securing thick client apps like SSH and remote desktops. Once users are authenticated via SSO and their traffic is being proxied, secure access to sensitive apps and files is enabled; real-time protections like DLP and ATP are enforced in real time. Users who are not authenticated or deemed trustworthy are simply denied access.

Legacy network security solutions built around on-premises appliances simply cannot support the evolving demands of modern cloud-based business operations. Digital transformation of IT requires transforming security and adopting solutions designed for a variety of use cases in our cloud-first world. Fortunately, SASE platforms provide the needed, comprehensive data and threat protection capabilities that provide complete peace of mind wherever your data goes.

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Cloud Computing Market Size by Top Companies, Regions, Types and Application, End Users and Forecast to 2027 – Bulletin Line

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New Jersey, United States,- Verified Market Researchhas recently published an extensive report on the Cloud Computing Market to its ever-expanding research database. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the market size, growth, and share of the Cloud Computing Market and the leading companies associated with it. The report also discusses technologies, product developments, key trends, market drivers and restraints, challenges, and opportunities. It provides an accurate forecast until 2027. The research report is examined and validated by industry professionals and experts.

The report also explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the segments of the Cloud Computing market and its global scenario. The report analyzes the changing dynamics of the market owing to the pandemic and subsequent regulatory policies and social restrictions. The report also analyses the present and future impact of the pandemic and provides an insight into the post-COVID-19 scenario of the market.

Global Cloud Computing Market was valued at USD 258.40 Billion in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 930.56 Billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 17.28% from 2019 to 2026.

The report further studies potential alliances such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, product launches, collaborations, and partnerships of the key players and new entrants. The report also studies any development in products, R&D advancements, manufacturing updates, and product research undertaken by the companies.

Leading Key players of Cloud Computing Market are:

Competitive Landscape of the Cloud Computing Market:

The market for the Cloud Computing industry is extremely competitive, with several major players and small scale industries. Adoption of advanced technology and development in production are expected to play a vital role in the growth of the industry. The report also covers their mergers and acquisitions, collaborations, joint ventures, partnerships, product launches, and agreements undertaken in order to gain a substantial market size and a global position.

Cloud Computing Market, By Service Model

Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Cloud Computing Market, By Workload

Integration and Orchestration Database Management Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Business Analytics Application Development and Testing Others

Cloud Computing Market, By Vertical

Retail and Consumer Goods IT and Telecommunications Healthcare and Life Sciences Energy and Utilities Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) Others

Regional Analysis of Cloud Computing Market:

A brief overview of the regional landscape:

From a geographical perspective, the Cloud Computing Market is partitioned into

North Americao U.S.o Canadao MexicoEuropeo Germanyo UKo Franceo Rest of EuropeAsia Pacifico Chinao Japano Indiao Rest of Asia PacificRest of the World

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