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How to watch the Teamfight Tactics OCENA Qualifier Finals – Dot Esports

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Danzig

A total of 24 of the best Teamfight Tactics players from the Oceania and North American regions will battle it out this weekend for a seat at the Galaxies Championship in September.

Scheduled to take place on Sept. 3 to 4, the TFT Galaxies Championship will feature 16 competitors from the Regional Finals, two of whom will be representing the Oceania and North American regions. For the last 12 weeks, players have grinded for top-ranked spots on the ladder while also earning qualifier seeds via the OCE, Cloud9, and Liquid Galaxy Qualifiers.

And all that work has led to 24 players who will compete at the OCENA Qualifier finals this weekend for a chance to play at the TFT Galaxies Championship and take home a piece of the $200,000 prize pool.

The OCENA Qualifier Finals will take place over the course of two days. Coverage begins at 8pm CT on Aug. 14 and 15 via the Riot Games Twitch channel. Fans can also watch their favorite players compete on their own streams. Those who tune into the main broadcast will catch TFT gurus DoA, Kien, thatsPRIMAL, and Becca casting the tournament.

Day one of the OCENA Qualifier Finals will feature 24 players divided up into three lobbies of eight. Competitors will play a total of seven Swiss rounds, with the eight players who have the most points at the end of the day advancing to the next round. Players are awarded points in each round based on their standings in the lobby, with first-place earning eight points and eighth place gaining only one.

The second day of competition is somewhat different, with points resetting and the first player to reach 16 points winning the OCENA finals. Once a winner is declared, the player with the most points will finish second. Both players will then advance to the TFT Galaxies Championship on Sept. 3.

The first player to reach 16 points and then a first place finish will be the OCENA Final winner and OCENAs first seed representative in the Galaxies Global Championship, said Riot. After a winner is declared, the player with the most points earned across Day Two games will secure second-place and will be the second OCENA seed at the Galaxies Global Championship.

The 24 players competing at the OCENA Qualifier Finals earned their spots several different ways. A total of 16 players qualified via ladder rank. The Cloud9 and Liquid Galaxies tournament each produced two qualifiers. And four players earned a spot via the OCE Qualifiers.

The Teamfight Tactics OCENA Qualifier Finals will run from Aug. 14 to 15, starting at 8pm CT both days via the Riot Games Twitch channel.

Update Aug. 10 7:40pm CT: Riot Games updated the incorrect format information for day two of the OCENA Qualifier Finals. Information from Riot had previously stated second place needed to earn eight points to qualify for the Galaxies Championship.

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Fluxx, Centus, and Devmarta on the Oceanic and South Asian Six August 2020 Majors – SiegeGG

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Danzig

The next two Six August 2020 Majors are upon us, with the action continuing with the APAC South subregions of Oceania and South Asia. The games and the teams are certainly going to be new and exciting to learn more about, so be sure to tune in later at 6 PM AEST (UTC+10).

In order to know more heading into the APAC North mini-major about what to expect and how teams are preparing for the tournament, a few interviews were in order. As such, SiegeGG spoke to Wildcard Gaming coach Bharath "Fluxx" Sukesh, kami coach Antoni "Centus" Lagemann, as well as APAC North and European League caster James "Devmarta" Stewart.

To read up on everything you need to know about the mini-majors, check out our companion article as well.

Your team made some personnel changes after Season 11 of the Pro League and came back incredibly strong, only dropping a single map through the Six Masters 2020 campaign. Would you say this matched your own pre-season expectations and how did you guys achieve this?

We all knew the team had the potential to be stronger than before, and so from Day 1 we just made sure we put in the work to make our team strong once again. We knew it'd take some time for two new players to settle in, and learn our playstyle, our system, and were aware that all teams may have a honeymoon phase when they make roster changes, so we just made sure we didn't get carried away with anything, and we just worked towards our common goal.

From when we made our roster changes, we said this roster's in it for the long haul, and it's been nice to see our work pay off during the season and playoffs, but I wouldn't say we played our best Siege, we can be better.

With the first stage now over, what are your thoughts on this new APAC format? Has the South Asian scene caught your eye and what do you expect from them at this mini-major?

There's positives and negatives for the new format. Changes to APAC North are really beneficial for the region, it's incredibly competitive now and great to watch, but it's left APAC South in a strange position.

The introduction of South Asia into the scene is fantastic and it's great to see new teams getting to compete for their shot towards the global stage. However, their region's matches weren't really broadcasted on the main channel or promoted via social media, so it missed exposure from there. I'm looking forward to seeing how those teams develop as time goes on.

I personally don't agree with only a single team from Oceania getting SI points -- I'd rather a split like it is in LATAM.

What are your expectations from this mini-major and who do you see being your biggest threat?

Sadly there's only three teams in the mini-major, so it doesn't leave much room for predictions, and we're already in the grand-final, so it's just a matter of preparing for both kami and Knights, and paying attention to ourselves in the leadup to the grand final.

The 2-0 win in the Six Masters grand-final doesn't properly convey how close the maps actually were, so I would say kami are definitely hungry to get their revenge, but I believe in my team. We just need to take it one round at a time and I'm confident we can pull through if we're on the ball on game day.

Your team is still org-less, but went from strength to strength in the Six Masters 2020 campaign. Would you say this matched your own pre-season expectations and how did you guys achieve this? Is an organisation soon to come?

We went into the season with high expectations, expecting to be top two. Especially in the beginning, we ran into a lot of smaller problems stacking up which lost us some games we should not have lost. We went ahead and did our best to fix those and were mostly successful nearing the second half of the season. We definitely didn't perform to our own standards in the online stages, but were able to do so in the playoffs.

We have been in talks and negotiations with multiple organisations over the last season and beyond which often were stopped due to financial complications that came with the current global pandemic. At this point in time, we are still looking for an organisation to represent us in the upcoming stages.

With the first stage now over, what are your thoughts on this new APAC format?

I personally like the current format we have in the Oceanic and South APAC regions to get to the qualifiers -- the only thing that I and a lot of other players/teams from the ANZ region don't like is the SI points distribution. I understand why it is set up this way but I am still not convinced it is the best way for our region to develop new talent and show it off internationally.

We have scrimmed a few of the top teams from the South Asian region and they definitely have potential but run into the same problem that ANZ had when it first came part of the international scene; lack of experience. I'm not sure what exactly to expect from them at the mini-major, to be honest, but I'm looking forward to seeing their scene develop.

What are your expectations from this mini-major and who do you see being your biggest threat?

At the mini-major, the biggest goal is to win first place to get a lot of Six Invitational points. Also, with a record of nine wins and one loss, and each player having a strong ability, Giants Gaming is the most threatening team.

The tournament will also see the use of the combined APAC North and European broadcasting studio in Paris, with the talent there covering all three APAC mini-majors this coming week.

It will thus have the omission of prominent Australian casters Jessica "Jess" Bolden and Devmarta, who are still in Australia, with the latter in a Melbourne that declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic a few days ago.

However, despite his predicament, Devmarta was certainly happy to let us pick his brain on what we have to expect from this upcoming tournament.

What is APAC? Could you sum that up for us?

Contrary to what most people believe, Rainbow Six Siege esports in APAC has been highly active since the game's release, and teams have been challenging themselves to hone their craft and be the best even long before Japan, South Korea, South East Asia, and Oceania were introduced to the Pro League in 2017. So, it's important to credit these teams and players who have been involved in esports as long or longer than the household names from Europe and North America.

That said, APAC has had it's fair share of challenges which have made it much more difficult for teams to commit their lives to and improve in Rainbow Six Siege; geography and ping restricting inter-regional scrims, less funding to compensate players for their time, and less opportunities and global events such as the Pro League, Majors, SI and Minors.

Despite these challenges APAC has come a long way in three years; APAC North finally provides teams across Asia to compete between sub-regions instead of in separate Pro Leagues which has increased the overall skill of the league, Oceania is slowly seeing more funding and support such as salaries and larger prize pools, plus Fnatic leaving Oceania leaves an opportunity for other Oceanic teams to fill, and countries from South Asia are finally included in the global circuit. This progress has allowed teams like Giants and Wildcard to flourish and in my view improve to the point of rivalling the top teams across the world.

So what should you look out for when watching APAC? Creativity and a breath of fresh air from teams like FAV Gaming, Xavier, and Cyclops who bring hectic and unusual playstyles and operator picks. Highly coordinated team play and chemistry from teams like Wildcard and Giants, where rounds play like clockwork, and an overall fast paced game that is super entertaining to behold.

You have been greatly involved with the APAC North and Oceanic scenes. What are the key highlights from those scenes, as well as South Asia, that we should be looking out for?

APAC has had a long journey through adversity, persevering through issues not prevalent in Europe and North America, but finally the time for APAC to shine is now. APAC has serious talent and a willingness to think outside the box, teasing unusual operator and loadout choices like Finka, Blitz, shotguns, but what's more actually making it work consistently.

Keep your eye out for strategic mayhem from teams like Cyclops and Xavier, and for clockwork coordination from teams like Wildcard, Giants, and FAV.

What are your expectations from teams such as Wildcard Gaming and Giants Gaming at their respective mini-majors?

One of the most exciting things to me in the development of APAC across the last six months is how far Wildcard and Giants have come since their recent disappointments at Six Invitational in February.

Wildcard dominated the Six Masters, only dropping a single map through the entire league and playing flawlessly through the playoff bracket. Since SI, Wildcard made two roster changes, replacing veterans NeophyteR and Derpeh with young gunners Gio and Pat, who have both thrived on their new team. Mix together good communication, talented individual players and a clockwork-coordinated team chemistry and you have the unbeatable kings of Oceania that is Wildcard.

Tune in to see the spanking new Parisian studio on the official Twitch and YouTube channels andcatch some high-octane APAC Siege over the course of the next six days, starting in a few hours, from 6 PM AEST (UTC+10).

As always, make sure to check back here for continued coverage and follow us on Twitterfor more.

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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic – The Republic

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Danzig

GYMNASTICS

Artistic World Cup in Melbourne, Australia, from Feb. 20-23: China team withdrew.

All-Around World Cup in Milwaukee on March 7: Russia team withdrew.

Artistic World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, from March 14, Day 3 of 4, canceled.

Artistic World Cup in Doha, Qatar on March 18-21 postponed to June 3-6, postponed.

All-Around World Cup in Stuttgart, Germany on March 20-22 canceled.

Aerobic World Cup in Cantanhede, Portugal on March 27-29 canceled.

All-Around World Cup in Birmingham, England on March 28 canceled.

Rhythmic World Cup in Pesaro, Italy on April 3-5 postponed to June 5-7, postponed.

Acrobatic World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria on April 3-5 postponed.

All-Around World Cup in Tokyo on April 4-5 canceled.

Artistic Jesolo Cup in Italy on April 4-5 canceled.

Rhythmic World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria on April 10-12 postponed to June 29-21, postponed.

Acrobatic World Cup in Puurs, Belgium on April 10-12 canceled.

Rhythmic World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on April 17-19 postponed.

Aerobic World Cup in Tokyo on April 18-19 canceled.

Trampoline World Cup in Brescia, Italy on April 24-25 postponed to June 19-20, postponed.

Rhythmic World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan on April 24-26 postponed.

Artistic womens European championships in Paris on April 30-May 3 postponed to Kyiv, Ukraine from Dec. 17-20.

Artistic Asian championships in Tokyo on May 2-5 canceled.

Trampoline European championships in Gothenburg, Sweden on May 7-10 moved to Sochi, Russia from April 29-May 1, 2021.

Pan American championships in Utah Valley, United States on May 7-10 postponed.

Rhythmic Asian championships in Tokyo on May 8-10 canceled.

Rhythmic World Challenge Cup in Portimo, Portugal on May 8-10 postponed.

Aerobic world championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on May 14-16 postponed.

Artistic World Challenge Cup in Varna, Bulgaria on May 14-17 postponed.

Rhythmic European championships in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 21-24 postponed to Nov. 26-29.

Trampoline African championships in Swakopmund Namibia, Namibia on May 27-29 postponed.

Artistic mens European championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on May 27-31 postponed to Dec. 9-13.

Acrobatic world championships in Geneva on May 29-31 postponed to June 18-20, 2021.

Artistic World Challenge Cup in Cairo on June 5-8 postponed.

Artistic World Challenge Cup in Koper, Slovenia on June 11-14 canceled.

Artistic World Challenge Cup in Osijek, Croatia on June 18-21 postponed.

Artistic World Challenge Cup in Mersin, Turkey on June 26-28 canceled.

Trampoline World Cup in Arosa, Switzerland on July 3-4 canceled.

Rhythmic World Challenge Cup in Minsk, Belarus on July 3-5 postponed.

Rhythmic World Challenge Cup in Moscow on July 10-12 postponed.

HANDBALL

Olympic womens qualifying event in Podgorica, Montenegro from March 20-22 postponed to March 19-21, 2021.

Olympic womens qualifying event in Lliria Spain from March 20-22 postponed to March 19-21, 2021.

Olympic womens qualifying event in Gyr, Hungary from March 20-22 postponed to March 19-21, 2021.

Olympic mens qualifying event in Trondheim, Norway from April 17-19 postponed to March 12-14, 2021.

Olympic mens qualifying event in Paris from April 17-19 postponed to March 12-14, 2021.

Olympic mens qualifying event in Berlin from April 17-19 postponed to March 12-14, 2021.

African womens championships in Yaounde, Cameroon from Dec. 2-12 postponed to June 11-20, 2021.

HORSE RACING

Dubai World Cup on March 28 canceled.

Grand National in Liverpool, England on April 4 canceled.

Kentucky Derby in Louisville on May 2 postponed to Sept. 5.

2000 and 1000 Guineas Stakes in Newmarket, England on May 2-3 postponed to June 6-7, no spectators.

Preakness Stakes in Baltimore on May 16 postponed to Oct. 3.

Derby and Oaks in Epsom, England on June 5-6 postponed to July 4.

Belmont Stakes in New York on June 6 postponed to June 20, no spectators.

Gold Cup at Ascot, England on June 18, no spectators.

ICE HOCKEY

NHL from March 12 suspended.

KHL from March 17 suspended. From March 25 canceled.

Mens world championship in Switzerland from May 8-24 canceled.

Womens world championship in Nova Scotia, Canada from March 31-April 10 canceled.

Womens world championship Division I Group A in Angers, France from April 12-18 canceled.

Womens world championship Division I Group B in Katowice, Poland from March 28-April 3 canceled.

Womens world championship Division II Group A in Jaca, Spain from March 29-April 3 canceled.

Mens world championship Division I Group A in Ljubljana, Slovenia from April 27-May 3 canceled.

Mens world championship Division I Group B in Katowice, Poland from April 27-May 3 canceled.

Mens world championship Division IV in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from May 3-5 canceled.

Womens Challenge Cup of Asia in Manila, Philippines from Feb. 23-28 canceled.

Womens Challenge Cup of Asia Division I in Manila, Philippines from Feb. 23-28 canceled.

National League in Switzerland from March 2 suspended. From March 13 canceled.

Elite League in United Kingdom from March 13 canceled.

Mens Olympic qualifiers in Bratislava, Slovakia; Riga, Latvia; Norway from Aug. 27-30 postponed to Aug. 26-29, 2021.

Champions Hockey League in Europe due to start on Sept. 3 postponed to Oct. 6.

US-Based Professional Womens Hockey Players Association tour of Japan from March 4-7 canceled.

JUDO

Paris Grand Slam from Feb. 8-9: China team withdrew.

Dusseldorf Grand Slam in Germany from Feb. 21-23: China team withdrew.

Rabat Grand Prix in Morocco from March 6-8 canceled.

Winterthur European Cup in Switzerland from March 7-8 canceled.

Ekaterinburg Grand Slam in Russia from March 13-15 canceled.

Santiago Pan American Open in Chile from March 14-15 canceled.

Sarajevo European Cup in Bosnia and Herzegovina from March 21-22 canceled.

Lima Pan American Open in Peru from March 21-22 canceled.

Tbilisi Grand Prix in Georgia from March 27-29 canceled.

Antalya Grand Prix in Turkey from April 3-5 canceled.

Asian Oceania championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from April 17-18 canceled.

Nordic championships in Reykjavik, Iceland from April 25-26 postponed to Sept. 12-13.

European championships in Prague from May 1-3 postponed to Nov. 8-10.

Baku Grand Slam in Azerbaijan from May 8-10 canceled.

Orenburg European Cup in Russia from May 16-17 canceled.

Doha Masters in Qatar from May 28-30 canceled.

Budapest Grand Slam in Hungary from June 12-14 suspended.

Celje-Podcetrtek European Cup in Slovenia from June 20-21 canceled.

Guayaquil Pan American Open in Ecuador from June 20-21 canceled.

African championships in Rabat, Morocco from June 25-27 canceled.

Hohhot Grand Prix in China from June 26-28 canceled.

Pan American championships in Montreal from June 26-28 canceled.

Potsdam European Cup in Germany from June 27-28 canceled.

Aktau Asian Open in Kazakhstan from July 4-5 postponed.

KARATE

Karate 1 Premier League in Rabat, Morocco from March 13-15 canceled.

European championships in Baku, Azerbaijan from March 25-29 canceled.

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Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment – Discovery Institute

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Danzig

Photo: Portland riot, by Tedder / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Endless lockdowns matched with urban chaos its hard to believe these two shattering phenomena overlapped entirely by accident. How exactly, though, do they relate? At Mind Matters, Michael Egnor suggests Darwinism as a missing link.

Egnor cites Plato, as analyzed by philosopher Edward Feser. Plato charted a devolution in forms of government, from what he regarded as the best (a sort of philosophical aristocracy) to oligarchy, timocracy, issuing in base democracy, followed by tyranny. Egnor understands totalitarianism Nazism and Communism as the special modern iteration of tyranny, which received its scientific imprimatur from the theory of Darwinian evolution.

The transformation of tyranny to totalitarianism, as explained by philosopher Hannah Arendt (19061975) is Darwinian. Arendt notes that

Darwinism met with such overwhelming success [in totalitarian systems] because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as class rule

Underlying the Nazis belief in race laws as the expression of the law of nature in man, is Darwins idea of man as the product of a natural development which does not necessarily stop with the present species of human beings, just as under the Bolsheviks belief in class-struggle as the expression of the law of history lies Marxs notion of society as the product of a gigantic historical movement which races according to its own law of motion to the end of historical times when it will abolish itself.

Nazism was clearly inspired in no small part by Darwins theory and Arendt notes that Marx and Engels explicitly credited Darwin with insights essential to Marxism. She points out,

the great and positive interest Marx took in Darwins theories; Engels could not think of a greater compliment to Marxs scholarly achievements than to call him the Darwin of history the movement of history and the movement of nature are on and the same.

This is not to say that Darwin caused totalitarianism. Totalitarians were on the scene a century before Darwin. Marx also drew heavily from Hegels World-Spirit metaphysics and from Feuerbachs atheism and materialist anthropology. But Darwin provided a naturalist rationale a scientific imprimatur for the indispensable characteristic of totalitarian movements, which is the claim that their triumph is an inexorable natural movement. In the Platonic scheme, totalitarians are tyrants (thugs) who rule not by their mere base lusts but by a fanatic devotion to an ideology of human evolution biological/racial evolution (Hitler) or economic/class evolution (Marx, Lenin, Mao).

In each totalitarian variant of tyranny, the pandemonium of late democracy is atomized, terrorized, and paralyzed, like a herd of unruly cattle stampeded in a single direction dictated by the alleged irresistible laws of nature. Totalitarianism is, in short, the tyranny of guided evolution. Thus, Darwin provided a scientific imprimatur for this modern mutation of ordinary Platonic tyranny.

In other words, Darwinism provides a framework and pretext for totalitarian thinking, which sees itself as fulfilling an evolutionary destiny. You can have totalitarian tyranny without Darwin, but the idea of evolution paves the way.

Does this sound overstated? Melodramatic? It would be interesting to ask Cliff Mass. The University of Washington climate scientist took a two-hour walking tour last week through largely abandoned and boarded up downtown Seattle. From lockdown to looting and riot, our once-lovely city has been on a mad plunge to suicide. On his blog, Mass compared what has happened to the city to Kristallnacht, the November 9, 1938 Night of Broken Glass in Hitlers Germany. An online mob came for Professor Mass for that one, and he got cancelled from his gig commenting on the weather the weather! for NPR. Analogies are always risky, especially when they encompass anything to do with the Nazis. But he wasnt entirely off-base. While Nazis rampaged against Jewish businesses, Antifa and other protestors have targeted all business and normal life in general. The government in both cases winked at it, while good people were afraid to speak out.

In 2020, our culture could well be poised on the edge of something still darker than what weve seen so far. Antifa was at it once more last night in Seattle, as Chicago again witnessed rampant looting and anti-police violence. And then there is the ongoing chaos in Portland. Hannah Arendt would not have seen such mayhem and the isolation and powerlessness of lockdown as separate and unrelated. In Michael Egnors reading, neither would Plato. The pandemonium of late democracy walks hand in hand with atomization, terror, and paralysis. The contribution of evolutionary ideology in getting us here should not be neglected.

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Data Privacy Detective Podcast – Episode 50 – Intersection Of Cloud Computing And Data Privacy – Lexology

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

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Cloud computing offers a business the prospect of efficiency and savings by improving data storage capabilities and outsourcing computing resources that a business need not build for itself. But when data moves to the cloud, does this raise new troubles and make legal compliance more difficult? Or can it minimize risk and increase compliance with a dizzying array of global data privacy laws? How do cloud computing and data privacy compliance intersect?

Lowell Thompson of Genity, a US-based company, discusses in this podcast how a cloud computing service can address this challenge and opportunity. Using encryption technology, Genity offers what it describes as data security by default that aims to bypass data privacy laws of Europe, California, Canada, and other countries.

Major data breaches such as Equifax (2017) revealed weaknesses in internal business systems, in that case exposing sensitive personal information of 147 million people from several countries. As a business focused on data, a cloud provider must be attentive to cybersecurity and differing data privacy rules and so may be able to provide greater security and compliance than many businesses can expect of their own personnel and system.

When a business contracts with a cloud computing services provider, it should consider several key issues: consent of data subjects, security, control and supervision, and server location. If a server resides in a jurisdiction that requires data localization or requires sharing data with government authorities, this can complicate a business data issues. The contract between a business and cloud services provider merits careful review to determine whether proceeding minimizes or increases the risk of data breach and inadvertent violations of differing state and national data privacy rules.

Cloud computing has its benefits. But you dont want a cloud to turn dark with thunder and lightning. Explore the intersection of cloud computing and data privacy in this podcast. If you have ideas for more interviews or stories, please email info@thedataprivacydetective.com.

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COVID19 Outbreak Cloud Computing in Education Market To Witness Huge Growth By 2025 | Netapp, Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems, NEC Corporation,…

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

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Cloud Computing Market Research Report by Type, by Workload, by Industry – Global Forecast to 2025 – Cumulative Impact of COVID-19 – Yahoo Finance

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

Cloud Computing Market Research Report by Type (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), by Workload (Application Development and Testing, Business Analytics, Collaboration and Content Management, Database Management, and Enterprise Resource Management), by Industry - Global Forecast to 2025 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19

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The Global Cloud Computing Market is expected to grow from USD 296,938.56 Million in 2019 to USD 657,755.20 Million by the end of 2025 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.17%.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:This research report categorizes the Cloud Computing to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

Based on Type, the Cloud Computing Market studied across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Based on Workload, the Cloud Computing Market studied across Application Development and Testing, Business Analytics, Collaboration and Content Management, Database Management, Enterprise Resource Management, Hypervisor & Edge computing, Integration and Orchestration, and Storage, Backup, and Disaster Recovery.

Based on Industry, the Cloud Computing Market studied across Aerospace & Defense, Automotive & Transportation, Banking, Financial Services & Insurance, Building, Construction & Real Estate, Consumer Goods & Retail, Education, Energy & Utilities, Government & Public Sector, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunication, and Travel & Hospitality.

Based on Geography, the Cloud Computing Market studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas region surveyed across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The Asia-Pacific region surveyed across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa region surveyed across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

Company Usability Profiles:The report deeply explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Cloud Computing Market including Alibaba, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and SPA.

FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Cloud Computing Market on the basis of Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.

Competitive Strategic Window:The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies. The Competitive Strategic Window helps the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. During a forecast period, it defines the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth.

Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:COVID-19 is an incomparable global public health emergency that has affected almost every industry, so for and, the long-term effects projected to impact the industry growth during the forecast period. Our ongoing research amplifies our research framework to ensure the inclusion of underlaying COVID-19 issues and potential paths forward. The report is delivering insights on COVID-19 considering the changes in consumer behavior and demand, purchasing patterns, re-routing of the supply chain, dynamics of current market forces, and the significant interventions of governments. The updated study provides insights, analysis, estimations, and forecast, considering the COVID-19 impact on the market.

The report provides insights on the following pointers:1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyzes the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players5. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and new product developments

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It’s time to think differently about how to develop cloud computing talent – Information Age

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

As businesses across the world become more reliant on the cloud, how can they upskill their workforce and develop cloud computing talent effectively?

It's time for businesses to think differently about how they develop their cloud computing talent.

The disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated business dependence on technologies, such as the cloud.The dial was always moving in this direction, but now the global economy is increasingly reliant on the cloud to facilitate remote working and as a result, developing cloud computing talent must now be taken as a priority.

How to develop this talent should also change, with a greater focus on learning and culture, as opposed to the tradition of IT outsourcing.

Commenting on this trend, Simon Ratcliffe, principal consultant at hybrid IT services provider, Ensono, says: Cloud computing has challenged many of our long help preconceptions about IT. It has delivered flexibility, agility, freedom from capital expenditure, a safe world in which we can create an environment, experiment and tear it down again. So many of these changes, whilst driven by the underlying technology, mean we must think differently if we are to maximise the benefits.

A recent McAfee report found that 40% of large UK businesses expect their companies to be cloud-only by 2021, with 70% working towards being cloud-only businesses in the future.

Unfortunately, Fred Flack, head of talent academy at CloudStratex, points out that, still, many businesses fall into the trap of outsourcing their IT departments, wrongly believing this makes them digital.

He argues that this could not be further from the truth, as this digital knowledge is leased, and any advantage they enjoy from it will disappear when they can no longer afford to pay, putting them right back at square one.

As more businesses embrace a cloud-only model, which is accelerating in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, they have a duty of responsibility to their employees to keep them upskilled or even reskilled where necessary, according to Flack.

This does not mean paying lip service to digital training, but prioritising the development of cloud computing talent within the corporate strategy.

Flack suggests that this involves making appropriate digital hires where possible, despite the difficulty of finding talent given the current skills shortage.

He points out that another option is to employ IT training organisations who can educate and qualify staff in the first instance, with the aim of creating an internal digital knowledge hub and culture that encourages good practice and ultimately digital autonomy.

DevTeam.Space takes a look at what benefits cloud computing can provide for companies, including storage capabilities and cost. Read here

As cloud computing evolves, it will become something that more closely resembles a software development role, rather than an IT support role.

Theres still a skills crossover they need knowledge around hardware, infrastructure and be able to trouble shoot, but businesses looking for cloud computing talent are essentially looking at developer roles.

Commenting on this changing role, Simon Utting, COO at Amito, says: With the cloud environment becoming increasingly complex feature-wise, staying ahead of competitors, maintaining platforms and scaling requires consistent automation. This brings us back to coding. Make sure your team is on a pathway of continually developing these skills. Theres a huge gap around Linux talent right now so were looking at how we can plug that, given 65% of our client base run on it.

Another shift is tying security into your cloud talent development its going to be huge in the next couple of years as cyber security becomes more sophisticated your team needs to know how to respond to it effectively. Theres a major learning curve ahead.

Your business is so important and you need to do what you can to ensure you are running it the best way you possibly can. That means you need to think about what you can do to make the company more efficient and successful. Read here

Similar to Flack, Utting also emphasises the importance of creating a culture of lifelong learning in his cloud business.

Certifications help set a benchmark for a conversation, but we tend to verify during interviews. Personally, Im far more interested in curiosity, a desire to solve a problem, being self-starters this talent goes much further as you develop it, he adds.

Sean Farrington, SVP EMEA at Pluralsight, also believes that developing and maintaining cloud computing skills once talent is in place is a challenge. Businesses need the ability to accurately map skill levels and proficiencies within teams and put in place tailored learning pathways to address knowledge gaps, he says.

Success in thisrequires a reassessment of how learning is undertaken. Pluralsight, for example, found that 40% of IT professionals prefer learning online, either through self-paced or instructor led courses, rather than in classroom-based setups.

Commenting on this, Farrington adds: Companies are nothing more than the sum of their parts, and so business leaders must listen to the needs of their employees and implement an appropriate learning environment. In this case, the ability to upskill on demand and in bite-sized chunks is likely to keep cloud computing talent motivated, current and project-ready.

Ratcliff agrees that as businesses adapt their culture to embrace the cloud, they must also adapt their approach to developing the talent.

He says: It is no longer enough to produce a list of technical requirements and pattern match applicants to skills. We must adopt a far more people-centric approach to recruitment and development right across the organisation. The speed, agility and freedom to fail provided by the cloud are worthless without an underlying culture that accepts this.

Pointing to the other half of the battle with developing cloud computing talent, Farrington suggests that cloud computing roles can be neglected in favour of more glamorous jobs in AI development or cyber security.

He continues: Half the battle with developing cloud computing talent is showing bright employees that there is a long, enriching career in the cloud. As technology leaders, we must show them that the cloud is the engine room for tomorrows innovation; helping build our smart cities by underpinning big data, AI, IoT or 5G applications.

Ratcliffe believes that because cloud technology evolves at such pace, looking for technical skills is a redundant exercise.

Instead, he suggests businesses and the wider community build a talent pool with a blend of individuals that promotes diverse thinking and a passion to learn new things constantly.

The days of a couple of technical courses a year for staff are long gone. Learning is constant, consistent, on the job and flexibility needs to be built into the culture to allow for this, he adds.

Can The EU Create Its Own Cloud Platform? – Forbes

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

The EU is forming an alternative to US and Chinese cloud platforms called Gaia X. This effort will fail on so many fronts. It reminds me of Australias National Broadband Network (NBN) which still struggles for viability after spending an estimated $51 billion.

An idea for a new cloud platform

This CRN article reports: According to Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the Gaia-X cloud computing platform is expected to be ready to launch in early 2021. That would be a remarkable time frame although admittedly you can assemble a couple of racks of bare metal servers and run virtualized services on them in short order. But can you create the equivalent of AWS? Never.

Just look at the relative size of the major cloud providers. The combined market cap of the four largest cloud companies, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Alibaba is $4.8 trillion (1.569+1.578+1.001+.685). For comparison the GDP of the largest member of the EU, Germany, is $3.9 trillion. (I know, false equivalence, but I dont know how to calculate a market cap for a country.)

Admittedly, Airbus, a similar venture partnership between government and industry, has succeeded in creating and supporting an aerospace industry in Europe. It has not been a commercial success of course. One can make the argument that having a viable aerospace industry is critical to national security and therefore creating and operating a money losing business is still worth it. Can the same argument be made on the grounds of data privacy? I would argue no, especially when the real purpose is actually the opposite.

The era of digital mercantilismor, as the East West Institute calls it, Tech Nationalismwas ushered in after Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the NSAs digital tentacles as it reached into as many data sources as it could to collect everything. The blowback was predictable and is destined to harm the US dominance of the technology sector. Also revealed by Snowden was the vast partnerships between the NSA, the rest of the Five Eyes, and Sweden, Germany, and others. They too were beneficiaries of the NSAs systematic Hoovering of the worlds data.

The EU General Data Protection Act (GDPR) was crafted and enacted in the wake of Snowdens revelations. But note the carve out in GDPR for law enforcement data records and government agencies. Lets face it. Every intelligence agency wants to emulate the US and not be beholden to the NSA for favors in exchange for being able to tap into its data stores in Utah.

The three tech giants that own most of the cloud platform business in the US are rabidly competitive. Yes, we dont know the full extent of their relationship with the Intelligence Community. There is even a mechanism which, in the hands of an overly aggressive regime, could be abused: that of national security letters whereby the subject of a demand for data cannot even reveal the existence of the letter. But their business would be drastically harmed if they were discovered to be providing backdoors to the FBI or NSA and they resist such efforts with lobbying and teams of lawyers.

Organizations in the EU should be as leery of working with the US cloud providers as they would be with Chinese cloud providers. But there is an argument to be made against having a domestic cloud platform. Your own government, which has much more interest in your data than a foreign government does, could have unfettered access to your data. From a privacy perspective the people with the power to abuse your private data are your own government, not China.

The answer is not to trust any cloud provider. This is what the term zero-trust meant originally. You encrypt all of your data before it goes to the cloud and you protect the encryption keys with multiple layers of defense. Do the job right and you will know when a government agency wants your data. They will demand the keys or, if it is a foreign agency, they will attempt to steal your keys.

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Cloud Computing Security Software Market Size, Historical Growth, Analysis, Opportunities and Forecast To 2025 – Chelanpress

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

The Cloud Computing Security Software market study now available at MarketStudyReport.com, is a detailed sketch of the business sphere in terms of current and future trends driving the profit matrix. The report also indicates a pointwise outline of market share, market size, industry partakers, and regional landscape along with statistics, diagrams, & charts elucidating various noteworthy parameters of the industry landscape.

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Capital One fine is latest wake-up call for banks using the cloud – American Banker

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

Its been more than a year since Capital One Financial said it had suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 106 million customers, but the lessons from the episode are as timely as ever.

The $80 million penalty assessed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Thursday against the McLean, Va., company for its security lapse highlights how serious a regulatory risk data-integrity issues are especially those involving cloud computing.

The hack was allegedly carried out by Paige Thompson, a former software engineer at Amazon Web Services, who broke into Capital One's servers in Amazon's cloud through a misconfigured web application firewall. Thompson was arrested and awaits trial on charges of hacking Capital One and 30 other organizations.

Banks continue to put sensitive data in the cloud, especially as digital services have risen in popularity during the pandemic. The incident and its aftermath offer banks a watchlist of precautions that have become clearer with the passage of time, say academic and information security experts interviewed for this story.

Here are six steps banks can take to strengthen their data defenses.

Thompson gained access to the Capital One data through an insecure web application firewall.

Jim Reavis, co-founder and chief executive of the Cloud Security Alliance, said Capital One used open-source software to build its firewall to the servers.

Open-source software in and of itself is not dangerous, he said. All of corporate America uses open-source software of different types and flavors, he said.

But this firewall had a misconfiguration that the attacker used to conduct a server-side request forgery, which enabled her to obtain privileged identity credentials.

Maintaining security updates on open-source software is as important as it is on proprietary software, Reavis said.

Capital One did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday, but a day earlier, after the OCC penalty was announced, the company said it takes data security seriously and had controls in place at the time of the breach that helped authorities make an arrrest.

"In the year since the incident, we have invested significant additional resources into further strengthening our cyber defenses, and have made substantial progress in addressing the requirements of these orders," a company spokesperson said in an email to American Banker.

A combination of automation and human review can be used to check and double-check the security of software code, said Steve Rubinow, a computer science faculty member at DePaul University and former chief information officer of the New York Stock Exchange.

In any security space, the weakest link is human because we humans make mistakes, Rubinow said. Even the smartest of us, the most capable of people with the best track records are capable of making mistakes.

Thompson was an insider: She had worked at AWS on the Capital One account.

Reavis said companies need to pay more attention to administrator accounts, sometimes called God access accounts, that give insiders carte blanche access to everything. And they should and apply dual key systems, so administrators cant access elevated privileges on their own.

Companies ought to employ a principle of least privileges so when a credential is stolen, as in this case, they can reduce the harm caused, Reavis said.

Capital One made some mistakes with authentication, Reavis said.

Multifactor authentication is a great way to take a lot of different types of successful attacks and cause them to have no negative consequences, he said.

Capital One does use multifactor authentication a lot, Reavis said. But on back-end systems like this one, its use is uncommon.

That's changing you're seeing more organizations thinking of identity more holistically, Reavis said. They're thinking of identity of devices, identity of applications, identity of data stores, and then extending their identity management and authentication strategies across the board.

Capital One did respond quickly and effectively to the breach, such that the hacker was caught right away and the data was rapidly secured.

In addition to a strong incident response, Capital One notified customers of the breach promptly.

It likely reduced their fine significantly, Reavis said.

Throughout the past year, Capital One has been in a court battle to keep private an investigative report it hired the security firm Mandiant to write about the breach. But recently, a court required Capital One to share the report with the plaintiffs' attorneys in a class action.

An incident analysis or forensics type of report is going to have a lot of sensitive information that might expose additional vulnerabilities and threat vectors, Reavis said. I understand the sensitivity. But organizations need to be very frank about how their systems are configured and tested to make sure they're secure in the first place and be very transparent about how incidents are handled, how the systems are governed.

Mark Bower, senior vice president with the data-security company comforte AG, makes a point regulators have been making for years: Companies cant outsource security to vendors, especially cloud vendors.

The signal is very clear: The often-referenced shared responsibility cloud model means naught when its your data, Bower said. You are responsible and accountable, and will pay the price if gaps are exploited.

Rubinow echoed this point.

There have been a number of companies in the past that have so much respect for Amazon or whoever their cloud provider is that they say, if I just put my computing assets in their cloud, they will secure them for me because they're really smart people and they do it at scale, he said.

I always have to remind those people that they don't secure everything. And at the end of the day, these are your applications. This is your data. You need to be vigilant and safeguard them, because no one's going to care about them as much as you are, and it's still your responsibility.

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Cloud Computing as the Foundation for Platform Banking | Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News – Fintechnews Switzerland

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

Cloud computing doesnt just allow banks and financial institutions to benefit from improved agility and costs savings, it also enables them to move closer to platformification, a model set to govern the banking landscape of the future, Tom Eck, global chief technology officer at IBM said in a conversation with fintech influencer Jim Marous.

During a Banking Transformed podcast hosted by Marous in July, Eck stressed the imperative for banks and financial institutions to embrace cloud technology and truly prepare themselves for the new era in banking.

The cloud allows banks [and any financial institution] to reinvent themselves as platforms, Eck said. A platform to me is when an entity, an institution, a bank, makes its services, plus the services of its ecosystem partners, simple to consume.

Tom Eck

Im a firm believer that the platformification of just about any industry makes sense, and that the cloud is the necessary underlying platform.

Advances in technology, changing consumer behavior, and new regulations aimed at stirring innovation in banking, have led to the rise of fintech. These tech-enabled players are now rapidly gaining ground and setting new standards in usability, championing digital-first customer experience. And with COVID-19 accelerating digital transformation, now is the time for banks and financial institutions to step up their game and rethink their business.

[COVID-19] has made [digitalization] even more imperative, Eck said. I think that the gulf between the haves and have-nots, [when it comes to adopting cloud computing], will really [be determinant of their future success]. Doing nothing has a risk of its own.

With COVID-19 forcing companies to adopt remote working, cloud providers have witnessed significant traction. Just a few weeks ago, Amazon Web Services struck a big new deal with HSBC, and Google announced partnerships with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.

The pandemic has also accelerated the trend towards digital banking with Dutch group ING stating in July that it would close a quarter of its branches.

For Eck, cloud computing will be the foundation for the ecosystem model, where banks and financial institutions will be required to partner with third-parties to provide a more holistic experience with services that extend beyond financial services.

Citing the example of mortgages, Eck explained the reasoning behind this emerging trend:

Nobody wants to obtain mortgage. People want to buy a house. [A mortgage] is just a necessity, its just one piece of it. They also have to worry about turning on the utilities, getting a moving company, getting insurance, etc.

So imagine if the bank became the hub for all those things, and the consumer would only need to onboard themselves once to the platform. All the know-your-customer (KYC), anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) checks would be done once and would be shared securely, with the consumer allowing it to happen It would be a much more fluid user experience.

Banks need to transform from being a financial institution to being [an entity that] offers services. [After all], they are there to serve their clients. And money and the transfer of money [happen to be] behind everything. So lets bring all these things into the mix and make it more convenient.

Although the benefits of cloud computing might be obvious for many, some financial institutions are still reticent in moving some of their businesses onto the cloud.

Banks are in the business of risk management. Moving to a completely new environment, especially public cloud, [gives rise to] many concerns. Some of those threats are real but some are just perceived, Eck said.

There must be education. Regardless of all the technology in the world it still comes down to people. We still need to convince people so that decision-makers understand why if [they] go and move some of [their] sensitive network to [the] cloud, [they] will be able to sleep at night.

Unlike incumbents, which have a deep ingrained legacy culture and which are highly risk averse, for fintech startups, cloud is the obvious choice since the technology allows them to be agile, scale quickly and develop sophisticated solutions for their customers, Spiros Margaris, a venture capitalist and the founder of margaris ventures, said during the podcast.

Cloud is a beautiful offering for those startups to [access and] use cutting-edge technology and be able to scale and become more successful,

Margaris said.

For startups, its very clear that cloud is the way to go. [They] need to build things that make [them] unique. If someone offers something that does it better, why not use it? Thats the whole purpose of these companies: use the best services available to provide [their] customers with a better user experience and better services.

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Healthcare Cloud Computing Market 2020 Size by Product Analysis, Application, End-Users, Regional Outlook, Competitive Strategies and Forecast to 2027…

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

New Jersey, United States,- The most recent Healthcare Cloud Computing Market Research study includes some significant activities of the current market size for the worldwide Healthcare Cloud Computing market. It presents a point by point analysis dependent on the exhaustive research of the market elements like market size, development situation, potential opportunities, and operation landscape and trend analysis. This report centers around the Healthcare Cloud Computing business status, presents volume and worth, key market, product type, consumers, regions, and key players.

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The third wave of cloud is cresting – Information Age

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

With service differentiation, followed by a rise in multi-cloud popularity, over the past ten years, the third wave of cloud is coming, according to Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist at F5 Labs

The cloud landscape is set to see further evolution.

There is an ebb and flow to technology cycles, and the same goes for cloud. Weve seen two very strong cycles over the past ten years, and it appears that a third wave is beginning to crest.

In the first wave, organisations sprinted to the cloud, lured by the promise of cost savings and business agility. As cloud adoption grew, providers moved to differentiate through a variety of services and specialties. AWS is definitely an eCommerce powerhouse, perfect for apps that need to integrate into commerce ecosystems. Azure has a lock on traditional and database-driven applications, perfect for supporting applications built with Microsoft technologies and toolsets. Google, meanwhile, remains a developers dream, encouraging experimentation and innovation, and supporting the very latest protocols, platforms, and services.

This ultimately drove a second wave of cloud, resulting in an increased popularity for multi-cloud environments. As each provider catered to slightly different applications, organisations responded by choosing the right cloud for the application. The average enterprise today, according to our research, operates applications in two to six different public cloud environments.

Organisations that have been operating in the cloud for some time now have begun to rebel against its significant operational costs that can drive down profit margins and upset investors. Often referred to as cloud repatriation, we now see that a non-trivial percentage of large enterprises are leading the third wave of cloud out of the public space and back to the data centre and, one assumes, to a private cloud (86.5% of organisations operate one on-premises).

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At the heart of these waves lies a common concern over costs. Organisations want to maximise return on their investment in applications. As they progress through the phases of digital transformation, the number of applications in the enterprise portfolio are growing, often exponentially. Cost becomes a significant inhibitor to expansion of the digital capabilities demanded by convenience-hungry consumers. Each application must provide a return either in productivity gains or profit.

That cost factor is significant when you begin to examine the enterprise app portfolio and recognise that the majority of applications in service and thus, in the public cloud were not designed to take advantage of the economies of scale innate to the cloud model. The bulk of applications in service today are based on traditional architectures, and not on the more cloud-inspired containerised model.

Applications that are developed using modern architectures are inherently more capable of realising the cost savings promised by cloud computing. Cloud-native architectures focus on the disaggregation of workloads based on business function into smaller, more discrete functions often referred to as microservices and thus are more operationally capable of taking advantage of cloud economies of scale. The consumption of resources at scale of a cloud-native application when compared to a traditional application is significantly lower because only those business functions in demand are scaled, rather than all of them. For example, one large retailer recently told us they replaced 200 siloed and redundant apps with a single microservice that performed the same business function. This decreased complexity, improved reliability, and lowered costs.

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Additionally, cloud-native architectures are innately more portable between cloud entities, allowing organisations to drive towards a future where cloud arbitrage is real and offers compelling cost savings for those able to harness it. Investing in application services and architectures capable of operating in any environment will ensure a smoother migration from one environment to the next. Relying on a consistent set of application services decoupled or loosely coupled with the underlying infrastructure also eliminates a significant source of cost associated with cloud computing: cloud specific tools, services, and skills.

Consider this theoretical example. Imagine an enterprise has a cloud-native application that was prototyped in AWS. The developers incorporated AWS application services like load balancing, web application firewalling (WAF), and Kubernetes Ingress. The app is successful, so it is turned on, and begins serving live traffic and customers. Then, as the app grows in functionality, the company realises that part of it needs to be deployed in Azure. This same app still requires load balancing, WAF, and Kubernetes, so developer and DevOps teams must dedicate time to deploy, configure, and maintain those Azure-specific services. At this point, the enterprise has experienced the first two waves of cloud adoption moving to the cloud for agility and then going multi-cloud. Now imagine the company has built up familiarity and expertise around managing cloud-native apps. The economics favour bringing the app on-prem, either partially or entirely. The company is in the third wave of cloud adoption, and needs yet another round of deployment, configuration, and maintenance of its on-prem app services.

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Cloud providers will no doubt respond to this third wave with compelling services and ecosystem advantages that will draw enterprises to redeploy in public cloud again, kicking off a fourth wave of cloud adoption.

Ultimately, almost every organisation operates in an accidental multi-cloud model. We expect the trend of cloud repatriation will only accelerate this phenomenon. A better approach than all or nothing is a strategic one that invests in the right application services to enable a best cloud for the business choice in the future.

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Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

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3 Stocks to Buy as the Internet Continues to Evolve During the Pandemic – The Motley Fool

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

It's another busy week for earnings reports, with many businesses providing updates for a period that encompassed the worst of the COVID-19 lockdown and accompanying economic downturn.

It's now abundantly clear that many companies were woefully underprepared. Some were completely behind the digital curve, while others were laden with debt and slim on cash.

But three recent report cards stand out from the crowd: Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), Twilio (NYSE:TWLO), and Disney (NYSE:DIS). Here's why all three are benefiting from long-term technology trends reinforced during the pandemic.

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Riding over a decade of rapid growth in cloud computing from giants in the industry like Amazon and Microsoft, Arista Networks' prospects have taken a negative turn in recent years. The infrastructure needs of cloud titans are starting to slow. Arista's revenue has consequently also ebbed, even starting to contract late in 2019. An expected slowdown in spending from many of its customers during the pandemic didn't help matters. Shares have been languishing in volatile sideways action for over two years now.

But Arista's second-quarter report came as a small but positive surprise. While revenue declined 11% from a year ago to $541 million, it represented a sequential increase of 3% over the first quarter and beat management's own guidance. Amid the broad adoption of work-from-home policies and a renewed shift toward the cloud for enterprise use, the company reported a rebound in demand during the period.

Prospects for more cloud and networking infrastructure upgrades loom in the coming years, especially for smaller organizations. Some organizations are still using ancient dot-com era equipment stuffed in coat closets. Arista's Cognitive Campus service, which is geared toward replacing legacy on-premises business networks with new cloud-based operations, did $100 million in sales in its first year. Management is optimistic that figure will double within another five years or so.

Also on the way is 400G networking hardware, which will begin shipping late this year and into next and could prompt an eventual upgrade cycle in existing data centers. Even in lean times, Arista remains highly profitable, generating an adjusted income profit margin of 27% in Q2. With $2.78 billion in cash and equivalents, zero debt, and traffic across the web and cloud not abating anytime soon, the long-term potential for Arista remains intact.

Next up is customer experience software firm Twilio. I've been critical of Twilio in the past, like after it took over email management outfit SendGrid in early 2019 for $3 billion. But I changed my tune toward the end of last year as the company digested its expensive takeover and demonstrated strong growth in the nascent cloud-based communications and customer experience industry.

That thesis has been borne out in grand fashion in recent months. COVID-19 has shoved the world down the digital path, and many organizations have had to accelerate their adoption of new ways to stay in touch with their customers -- from chats and video conferences to new tech-enabled call centers. As a result, Twilio's revenue is up 51% through the first half of 2020.

To be sure, this is an expensive stock after the Q2 report. Shares are currently trading for 20 times one-year forward revenue, a price tag that assumes double-digit expansion will continue for the foreseeable future (with profitability being a concern much later). But Twilio is well-positioned to capitalize on its opportunity, having $1.9 billion in cash and equivalents and $471 million in convertible debt on the books at the end of June. After the last report, Twilio announced it will raise an additional $1.25 billion in cash via issuance of new stock. With a current market cap of $38 billion, the fresh infusion of liquidity could go a long way toward Twilio's expansion without diluting existing shareholders too much.

Cloud and customer experience spending is expected to grow near an 18% per year rate through most of the next decade. As communications continue to move online, Twilio's upside could be far from over.

To say Disney had a great spring 2020 would be incorrect. But considering the current state of affairs for the travel and entertainment industry, things could have been a lot worse. In fact, while sales were down 42% from 2019 to $11.8 billion, Disney is still sporting a top-line gain of 0.3% through the first three quarters of its current fiscal year. While operating income is down 34% on the year after the latest report, Disney is still shockingly profitable, with $7.5 billion in operating income.

With the worst of the crisis hopefully in the rearview mirror, it's time to start thinking seriously about Disney's long-term growth again. With its parks operating on a limited basis and movie theaters shuttered, this mouse has quickly adjusted to a world of web-based entertainment. TV subscriptions totaled 101.5 million at the end of June, with 57.5 million of those subs for Disney+.

Speaking of Disney+, the company will test the waters with a premium direct-to-consumer offering of the live-action Mulan blockbuster hopeful. Starting Sept. 4, subscribers can view the film for $29.99, with the movie going to theaters in markets where the streaming service isn't yet available and where cinemas are open.

It will be fascinating to test consumers' willingness to forgo the silver screen and instead watch feature films from their couches. Given the pre-pandemic cost of taking a family of four to the movies, I'm optimistic that Disney and its fans will embrace this new era of entertainment.

Add in the resumption of live sports (basketball, and, for the moment, baseball), and it's looking like Mickey may have endured another crisis and will begin rebuilding from here on out. The company is laden with $64.4 billion in debt, but has ample liquidity, with cash and equivalents of $23.1 billion. Already starting to turn the corner on the bottom line, Disney is in much better shape than I expected after the last quarterly update. It remains one of my core holdings.

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Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution – Discovery Institute

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Danzig

Photo: Ernst Mayr, by University of Konstanz / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).

Editors note:Dr. Shedingeris a Professor of Religion at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He is the author of a recent book critiquing Darwinian triumphalism,The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms. See also the earlier entries in this series:

The phenomenon of convergent evolution is well documented in the literature of evolutionary biology. In StrickbergersEvolution, Brian K. Hall and Benedikt Hallgrimsson make frequent reference to it. But what does it mean? In the 19th century, St. George Jackson Mivart made convergence a central aspect of his criticism of theOrigin of Species. If the variations on which natural selection acts are produced randomly, Mivart reasoned, one would expect different kinds of variations to arise in geographically isolated populations, leading to evolutionary divergence, not convergence. But the latter is what we see. StrickbergersEvolution, while acknowledging the reality of convergence, tries mightily to ignore the non-Darwinian character of this phenomenon, leading to some striking inconsistencies.

In a chapter outlining evidence for evolution we read:

The evolution of different organisms, or parts of organisms, in similar directions convergent evolution (convergence) indicates that selection for similar features in different evolutionary lineages can, and often does, lead to functionally similar anatomical structures.

But how and why do these similar features arise in different lineages so that natural selection can preserve them? Hall and Hallgrimsson do not say. They even note that air-breathing evolved 67 times, but ignore the larger implications of how such a complex series of similar mutations could occur repeatedly if the mutations are produced without reference to the needs of the organism, or randomly.

This problem becomes even more acute when Hall and Hallgrimsson write:

As in parallelism, convergence derives from the exposure of different lineages to similar environmental factors evincing similar selective forces. Common adaptive features thus can be attained in each group through independent genetic changes.

But selection does not produce the independent genetic changes. It only preserves them once they arise. The phenomenon of convergence thus raises real questions about just how independent those genetic changes are. Also, by focusing so much on the environment as driving evolutionary change, do Hall and Hallgrimsson realize they sound a lot more like Lamarck than they do Darwin?

Nevertheless, in a startling reversal on the very next page, Hall and Hallgrimsson contradict everything they have just said in a discussion of the work of Sandra Mitchell, a philosopher of science who proposed a scheme of hierarchical levels of complexity in organisms. The third level of her hierarchy is called evolved complexity, the principle that similar adaptive challenges have resulted in a diversity of forms of organisms, not a single form. But I thought similar adaptive challenges drove evolution to produce similar adaptive forms! Hall and Hallgrimsson ignore the contradiction.

In fact, just two pages later, seemingly unaware of Mitchells work whichtheycited, they write:

When similar organisms are exposed to similar environments in different localities, evolution can produce strikingly convergent or parallel features, whether a structure, function, or behavior.

Mitchell is correct that Darwins theory predicts evolutionary divergence. Unfortunately for Darwin, evolutionary convergence is often what we observe.

Still, Hall and Hallgrimsson press on undeterred by this gap between theory and observation. In a discussion of plant evolution we read:

Not surprisingly, these beautiful adaptations reflectconvergenceas selection under similar environmental conditions produced similar plant phenotypes in different lineages residing in different geographical localities.

George Ledyard Stebbins, the biologist who brought botany into the fold of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1940s, also wrestled with the meaning of convergence among plants. He saw convergence as evidence for some type of guiding force in plant evolution either natural selection or orthogenesis. As an orthodox Darwinian, Stebbins discarded orthogenesis as a possibility and opted for natural selection by default. But observing how plants with primitive features continue to exist alongside plants with more evolved features, rather than the latter replacing the former, Stebbins wrote:

The differentiation of orders and families of flowering plants through the action of natural selection under present conditions is well-nigh impossible to imagine.

I couldnt agree more. And this is the reason the phenomenon of convergence still stands as a powerful challenge to Darwinian evolution, just as Mivart understood as early as the 1870s.

More recently, paleontologist Simon Conway Morris has made convergent evolution the focus of his work. In a striking passage Conway Morris writes:

Wherever one looks it seems as if evolution has very little choice. If, then, we can discover the details of the metaphysical map across which life must navigate to the very few available solutions, then are we not on the threshold of a predictive biology? This view of life cuts cleanly across one of the central areas of neo-Darwinian thinking, an area that insists on the randomness of evolution and the unpredictability of its outcomes.

Such an idea is, of course, anathema to the biological establishment. According to Conway Morris, the best way to enrage an evolutionary biologist is to sidle up and suggest that evolution has a remarkable directionality. If you are lucky, he quips, all youll need is a clean handkerchief to dab the spots of spittle, but sometimes the response is closer to foaming.

Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr (pictured above) was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Earlier in his career, Mayr agreed with Francois Jacob that a tinkerer made a better analogy for the action of natural selection than an engineer. Engineering was just too teleological a comparison for a process said to have no foresight or directionality. But in his final bookWhat Evolution Is, written in his nineties, Mayr positively marveled at the phenomenon of convergence:

Convergence illustrates beautifully how selection is able to make use of the intrinsic variability of organisms to engineer adapted types for almost any kind of environmental niche.

So much for the tinkerer bumbling about in his garage. Natural selection, according to Mayr, does work more like the intelligent engineer after all.

StrickbergersEvolutionrepeatedly acknowledges the widespread nature of the phenomenon of convergent evolution. But by consistently ignoring the profound challenge convergence poses to Darwinian natural selection, the textbook denies students the opportunity to grapple with big and important questions about the history of life on Earth, questions that got the attention of Mivart in the 1870s, Conway Morris more recently, and that even did not escape the notice of Ernst Mayr. This greatly undermines the very educational process a textbook should be designed to foster.

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