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Cloud computing is in its beginning stages and will only continue to grow, Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday.

"It's possible that AWS could become the largest business at Amazon. Now, Amazon has other large and great businesses, and so it could take a while for us to get there," Selipsky said in an interview on "Mad Money."

"Essentially, IT is going to move to the cloud. And it's going to take a while. You've seen maybe only, call it 10% of IT today move. So it's still day 1. It's still early. Most of it's still yet to come," he added.

The cloud business' revenue in the first quarter beat the consensus among analysts polled by StreetAccount, accounting for roughly 16% of Amazon's total revenue. AWS grew faster from the same period a year before than analysts expected.

AWS was launched in 2006, before competitors Microsoft's Azure or Alphabet's Google Cloud Platform, and has notable collaborations with Goldman Sachs, Stellantis and Best Buy.

Selipsky said that despite the heightened competition in the industry and the threat of a recession, AWS is continuing to do well.

"Demand continues to be strong, with lots of new customers signing up and existing customers expanding," he said.

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AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started - CNBC

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This edition of IT, Computing and Communications (ITCC) Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides a snapshot of the emerging ICT led innovations in Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing.

This issue focuses on the application of information and communication technologies in alleviating the challenges faced across industry sectors in areas such as retail, industrial, BFSI, and automotive.

ITCC TOE's mission is to investigate emerging wireless communication and computing technology areas including 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Big Data, cloud computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, virtualization and the Internet of Things and their new applications; unearth new products and service offerings; highlight trends in the wireless networking, data management and computing spaces; provide updates on technology funding; evaluate intellectual property; follow technology transfer and solution deployment/integration; track development of standards and software; and report on legislative and policy issues and many more.

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As organizations harness digital technologies to reimagine both customer and employee experiences, theres been an exponential rise in the adoption of a multi-cloud strategy. Recent years have seen cloud computing gaining almost universal adoption. In fact, by 2025, the Indian public cloud services market is expected to reach $10.8 billion and is growing at a CAGR from 24.1% for 2020-25 .

While multi-cloud delivers greater efficiency, agility and scalability to organizations, it can come with certain trade-offs for businesses. Given the increasing dominance of cloud solutions in modern workplaces, unfortunately several half-truths and misconceptions about multi-cloud have been widely accepted. Here are a few myths surrounding multi-cloud that need to be debunked:

Myth 1. Most enterprises rely on one cloud providerNot really, but know why you need a multi-cloud approach

Enterprises have realized that relying on a single cloud infrastructure provider for all their applications and workloads is not the right strategy. As per a research on public cloud users, 81% of enterprises said they are working with two or more providers.Most enterprises have diversified their multi-cloud strategy to utilize the best-of-breed solutions. Having a choice of multi-cloud providers is best opted for meeting business needs. The research also suggests that enterprise buyers choose multiple cloud providers for hybrid deployment and another cloud provider for managing workloads to avoid limitations.

Large organizations are turning to create a multi-cloud strategy to enhance agility and reduce vendor lock-in, cost and flexibility. With cloud infrastructure evolving rapidly, its not a wise step to depend on a single cloud provider. Adopting a multi-cloud approach that prioritizes application development and workloads, where each works best, allows you to optimize with the speed, agility and security you need.

Myth 2. Multi-cloud is expensiveOr is it a cost-effective solution to help you reap more benefits?

A study revealed that 53% of users said multi-cloud has helped them achieve their business goals.When fully optimized, multi-cloud architectures can help businesses accelerate service delivery while reducing costs and business risk. Companies can deliver transformational apps more quickly to customers and employees, thereby strengthening their competitive positions.

Organizations with multi-cloud architectures have:

Myth 3. Multi-cloud complexity outweighs its benefitsCan visibility across clouds simplify operations?

Multi-cloud architectures are complex today and the complexity is likely to increase in the future as companies deploy more workloads to the cloud, sometimes spread across multiple clouds. There will be new cloud offerings from 5G telco providers, more clouds in edge locations, and an increased focus on security and spend. One significant limitation of managing multiple clouds is that the toolsets that providers offer typically can only function within their own cloud. This requires multiple teams to manage individual clouds in parallel, reducing efficiency and increasing cost and complexity.

Consistency with visibility across clouds at infrastructure and management level can overcome these complexities and can turn into an opportunity. It can help enterprises gain a competitive advantage in todays evolving economy while enabling organizations to map out well-crafted strategies and innovate at speed. Its no wonder, that 91% of executives want to improve consistency across their public cloud environments. According to IDC, around 30% of Indian enterprises will deploy unified Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud management processes and tools to support robust multi-cloud management and governance across on-premises and public clouds.

Views expressed above are the author's own.

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Debunking the top 3 myths around multi-cloud computing - Times of India

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When Thomas Kurian landed the CEO role at Google Cloud, he was welcomed as a respected technologist and executive bringing 22 years of needed enterprise chops from Oracle for a substantial undertaking: turning an underdog into a heavyweight contender for meeting major corporations cloud needs.

At the Google Cloud Next conference in early 2019, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced Kurian, then about three months into his tenure, as a tremendous leader with a powerful vision who already had met with hundreds of customers and partners and whose personal productivity is testing the limits of G Suite and Calendar.

Before leaving Oracle, Kurian had been its product development president since 2008, reporting directly to founder and chairman Larry Ellison. In early 2018, it was Kurian who unveiled Oracles ambitious plan to build up its own cloud capabilities with a massive buildout of its data center footprint and services using machine learning to automate routine operations. Growing differences with Ellison over Oracles cloud direction including Kurians desire for a multicloud approach reportedly led to his departure.

Three and a half years into his tenure at Google Cloud, the bet on multicloud has been a key foundation of Kurians reshaping of the No. 3 cloud provider around infrastructure, data analytics, cybersecurity, collaboration and communication, and industry-specific products and services. In his view, the next decade of cloud computing is likely to look very different from the first 16 years of its evolution.

Google Clouds success can be seen in its financial results revenue has increased some 230% since Kurian joined Google Cloud, and is on track to exceed $23 billion this year and customer adoption from the likes of Deutsche Bank, Ford Motor Company, Mayo Clinic, Univision and the U.S. Air Force, Kurian told Protocol in a recent interview.

There's always more to be done at all times, but clearly we've had a lot of success these last three years, he said.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Read our other story on the evolution of Google Cloud here.

Is Google Cloud enterprise-ready or is it still a work in progress, and what are the indicators of that?

It's the customers who indicate that. And given the number of very large customers from stock exchanges, to large telecommunications companies, to big banks, to hospital systems, manufacturing companies that are running large systems and using our cloud to run the core parts of their business I would say, yes, the answer is yes. We've really, really transformed, and most of our largest customers have been super successful in adopting and using cloud through the work they've done with us. So we definitely feel very confident we're doing that.

Where do we have more work to do? Obviously, we have a certain size and scale. We want to expand to more countries, to more industries, and there's a lot of work going on to expand both our data center footprint around the world, as well as our sales, distribution and service organizations around the world. So there is more expansion that we want to do globally to bring our technology to more countries, more places.

Where do you see the most opportunity to expand globally?

We've expanded significantly overseas in Europe. We are growing very quickly in Latin America. We're expanding in Asia to many more markets. We are quite strong in the big markets, which is India, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, greater China and ASEAN, but there's always more places in Asia, whether that's in Thailand, Vietnam, etc. Similarly, in Latin America, there's a lot of potential for growth. There's more that we want to grow in Japan. We are expanding our presence in Africa. So there's a lot more other geographies that we want to go to in addition to expanding in our core geos, whether that's the U.K., France, Germany, United States, Canada, etc.

How market-share-oriented is Alphabet when it comes to Google Cloud? And if not market share, what is it using as a metric for success?

Despite the growth that people have seen so far, the market is very early in its transition, and so we see the market potential in three different ways. First of all, many customers have not yet transitioned [to the cloud]. Secondly if you look at surveys from Gartner, IDC, the analyst firms, they will tell you that almost all large customers plan to use multiple cloud providers, which was not true a few years ago.

So when you look at the market, whether that's new solutions like analytics or cybersecurity, these are all new segments that are opening up for cloud. We think the market is in its early stages. So we're investing for growth and investing in terms of both our investments in capital, data centers and our global network, in products and in go to market. And we're doing it in a thoughtful way. I think you've seen our financial results, and both the growth and the improvement of profitability because of the growth speaks for itself.

Sundar Pichai and Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat have said that Alphabet is in it for the long term with Google Cloud. Is there any timeframe under which you have to meet a certain measure?

No, when we say long term, five to 10 years. If you look at the cloud market data today versus five years ago, it's vastly different.

Five years ago, if you talked to customers, there was a lot of anxiety that if you go to the cloud, will it be less secure, as an example. Today, cybersecurity tools that we offer in our cloud are being used by large retailers, large financial institutions, large telecommunications companies. A market segment that did not exist in the cloud five years ago cybersecurity tools is now being created in the cloud as a new opportunity for people to go after. So in our view, we are looking at growing our business, diversifying the product portfolio in a thoughtful way. And how the market looks in five years or 10 years will be quite different than the way it looks like today.

Is Google Cloud's embrace of multicloud a big selling point, and what are customers with a multicloud strategy coming to Google Cloud for?

If you went back and looked at our announcement in April 2019, where we said we are going to enable multicloud and what we mean by that is you can build applications that can co-exist across clouds, you can do analytics that spans data that sits across clouds, you can use our machine-learning tools to access information and get better insights from data and inference across clouds that was not possible before then. It's become almost a norm now in large companies, where they want to use the best of the best from different cloud providers.

People come to us for our infrastructure. Many people come to us for our analytics and large-scale data processing and databases. Others come to us to protect their systems with cybersecurity. It really depends on the customer and which part of the journey they're on. Infrastructure, analytics and data, and cybersecurity are typically the top three that people choose us for.

Do you see any holes in your technology or areas that you want to beef up?

We're always looking at where we have areas for potential growth and where the market itself is changing, and then either we organically build new capability or we acquire.

As an example, if you look at our rationale for Mandiant [a detection-and-response cybersecurity company that Google Cloud announced it was buying for $5.4 billion in March]. There are two primary challenges we see that organizations have with cybersecurity.

First of all, very few organizations, if any, know whether they're truly secure. Almost every cyber breach for most organizations are black swan events. They thought they were secure prior to it; after it occurred, they realized they were not secure.

Infrastructure, analytics and data, and cybersecurity are typically the top three that people choose us for.

The second is people want a platform. Today, the challenge most organizations have is they don't have the capability to understand what occurred to cause a cyber breach, [to] analyze which of your systems have been compromised, [to] remediate that through workflow and then test whether you, in fact, are secure. We have two of the pieces. We have the analyze whether you're being compromised [piece] and then remediate the breach through workflow.

We realized in the front, we needed really great threat detection and response capability. Mandiant brought us that. And then at the end, after you've gone through all of this, you have to actually be able to test whether you are secure from the breach if it were to happen again. Mandiant also has the capability to do that. So recognizing that combination would complement what we had, we chose in this particular instance to say, Let's acquire a company that will complement our products and fill it out.

We wanted customers to have a very high-end, relational database transaction-processing platform based on an open platform. [In May,] we announced a new product at [Google] I/O called AlloyDB. It's designed to allow people who are running large-scale transaction systems, but to use a much [more] open platform database to process large-scale transactions with great performance and reliability.

The second thing we saw was people really love our BigQuery [serverless data warehouse] technology. They like the fact not only is it a very scalable, analytical platform, but it also allows them to access and analyze data across clouds, meaning you could have your data in another cloud, and you can still analyze that using BigQuery. You don't have to move all your data to our cloud for the purpose of analysis. We then felt that you would want the equivalent capability for something called a data lake, and so we announced a product called BigLake, an evolution of our analytic platform to support the notion of a large-scale, very scalable data lake that can run across data stored in multiple environments.

So these are all areas where we look at the needs of customers, we look at what we can help them solve. In the case of Mandiant, we chose to acquire because we think they're an exceptional team, and they have exceptional technology and exceptional expertise. In the case of these other two products we've chosen to build out ourselves.

Which vertical industries are getting the most traction for Google Cloud?

We have traction in many industries. If you look at financial services, we have a lot of traction with our data platform, analytics, machine-learning tools and AI. If you look at retail, we are a huge part of the ecommerce infrastructure as well as the retail store transformations that are going on. If you look at health care, many pharmaceutical and biomedical companies use our platforms for molecular modeling, genetic analysis of all kinds, etc. what's sometimes called high-performance computing. If you look at public-sector agencies, many state governments, for example, in the United States are using us to transform health and human services, transformation of their mobility and transportation departments, etc.

Telecommunications is another one. We have a lot of capability in media, given our expertise in streaming and other things from the work we've done historically with YouTube and how we're bringing that to customers. A lot of people during the pandemic spent a lot of time gaming, and our platforms have helped some of the largest games in the world.

What's behind Google Clouds recent reorganization of its sales and customer success teams? Was the previous setup built in 2019 under former global sales president Rob Enslin not working? And when you reorganize these teams again, are you worried about the signal its sending the customers?

We've talked to many customers and partners. I've talked to over 100 of them in the last week alone, and over 200 in the last two weeks. Customers' and partners' feedback are the rationale for [why] the changes make sense.

When we started in 2019, we were largely focused on acquiring customers. When I say acquiring customers [I mean] winning new customers, because we had very few. As we have ramped our business, increasingly, the sales organization that's working with the customer to identify new opportunities in the account, and the customer success team that ensures the projects are going well, and the team that works with partners like Accenture, Deloitte, etc., all need to come together, because the salesperson is identifying the opportunity, the customer success coordinates the engagement with the partners, etc. So they all need to work in one coherent fashion, right at the point of client engagement.

We integrated the two organizations in each geography so that they could be much more effective working with customers. The feedback internally from our own teams and the feedback from customers and partners has been, we really like what you've done. So we're very confident in the quality of our leadership, in what the changes have been, how the changes have been made. And we remain committed to making sure that this change will help our customers grow and mature their relationships with us.

What are top customer complaints or challenges that you're trying to address?

Our biggest challenge right now is expanding globally. There's demand in many countries where we don't have presence. There are lots of places we'd like to take it to, and building an organization to support those expansions is obviously something that we spend a lot of time on.

Are any of your enterprise customers asking for more help to cut costs given inflationary pressures, and what are you doing to address that?

We have a team from our professional services that works with customers and our technical account managers to do what's called cost optimization. Cost optimization is, you're running your workload on our cloud, you have a certain pattern of usage, [and] we observe the pattern of usage after you've got to some steady state and then we teach you how best to modify the way in which you're using the cloud to be much more efficient in cost. We have tools that show people how to do that. It's a methodology that we offer, and it's also something we make available through our services teams to support customers. It's something that's been ongoing for the last two years, and certainly for an ongoing basis.

Throughout the pandemic as well as now, [customers have] come to us saying, Hey, I'd like to have you help me reduce my costs in this area or that area, and we work with them. It's part of getting them to be efficient in using our cloud. We think the more effective we can be at teaching them how to optimize, the more they will use in the future.

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Cloud adoption has rocketed as companies seek computing and storage resources that can be scaled up and down in response to changing business needs. But even given the cost and agility upsides to cloud, theres rising interest in yet another deployment model edge computing, which is computing thats done at or near the source of the data. It can empower new use cases, especially the innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning applications that are critical to modern business success.

The promise of the edge comes down to data, according to three industrial technologists who spoke at the recent Future Compute conference hosted by MIT Technology Review. Specifically, there is a need to gather, process, and analyze data closest to where its being generated, whether thats on the factory floor, in an autonomous vehicle, or in a smart building system.

The ability to run artificial intelligence models directly on data at the edge without the extra step of moving workloads to the cloud reduces latency and costs. Most important, it is the key to unlocking the real-time insights that separate the leaders from the laggards, the panelists agreed.

Companies are starting to recognize the role edge computing can play in driving successful data-driven business transformation. Gartner estimates that while only 10% of enterprise data was created and processed outside the data center and cloud in 2018, this number will be 75% by 2025.

George Small, the chief technology officer of Moog Inc., a $3 billion motion control solutions company, said hes seen measurable progress from edge applications.

There's real use cases. We're now seeing where value's being created, he said. It's actually making significant improvements in productivity.

As companies move ahead with data-driven business, they need to create an IT landscape that includes both edge and cloud computing. Data collected and analyzed at the edge can initiate a real-time response to troubleshoot a piece of industrial equipment to prevent machinery downtime or to redirect a self-driving car out of harms way.

At the same time, device data from that machine or vehicle can be sent to the cloud and aggregated with other data for more in-depth analysis that can drive smarter decision making and future business strategy.

Gartner estimates that 10% of enterprise data was created and processed outside the data center and cloud in 2018.

Connectivity has gotten to the point that its a baseline, which is feeding this idea of an intelligent edge, Small said.Intelligence starts at a sensing level at the edge and spans to a networked system of systems that ultimately gets to cloud. We look at it as a continuum.

Moog is experimenting with edge computing for a variety of applications, Small said. In the agricultural space, the company is using edge capabilities and machine learning recognition for almond and apple farming, helping harvesting equipment autonomously navigate terrain and improve crop yields. In construction, Moogs edge and AI-based automation efforts are focused on material movement for example, turning a piece of an excavator into a robotic platform to enable automation, Small said.

Ongoing labor and productivity challenges drove Moog to experiment with edge-based automation in the agriculture sector, Small said.

There are opportunities where you dont have as much of a structured environment or people need to interact with the actual work site, he said. That was our introduction to this definition of edge. We came at it from the point of view of automating a vehicle.

Another potential use case combines edge computing, 3D printing, and blockchain to orchestrate on-demand, on-location output of spare parts. Moog customers in sectors like aerospace and defense could create spare parts for critical equipment on-site, using blockchain as a means to verify the providence and integrity of the part, Small said.

At Honeywell Building Technologies, edge computing is a key part of transforming building operations to improve quality of life, said Manish Sharma, vice president and general manager of Honeywells sustainable building technologies. Smart edge sensors monitor temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels, helping to create an intelligent building system that can automatically adjust energy and lighting use to keep costs down while optimizing for carbon neutrality and maintaining building comfort.

Connecting heating, cooling, and air filtering systems to edge devices creates an intelligent network that facilitates data sharing and makes smarter decisions closer to where they have the most impact.

Youre building a system of systems and to do the right computation, you need to have a common network where data can be shared and decisions can be made at the edge level in a matter of milliseconds, Sharma said.

The panelists outlined some best practices that can help companies identify the right candidates for edge deployments while avoiding some of the more common deployment challenges.

Move computing power to where the data is. Determining whether edge or cloud is optimal for a particular workflow or use case can cause analysis paralysis. Yet the truth is the models are complementary, not competing.

The general rule of thumb is that youre far better moving compute to the data than vice versa, said Robert Blumofe, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Akamai. By doing so, you avoid back hauling, which hurts performance and is expensive.

Consider an e-commerce application that orchestrates actions like searching a product catalog, making recommendations based on history, or tracking and updating orders.

It makes sense to do the compute where that data is stored, in a cloud data warehouse or data lake, Blumofe said. The edge, on the other hand, lends itself to computing on data thats in motion analyzing traffic flow to initiate a security action, for example.

Go heavy on experimentation. Its still early days in edge computing, and most companies are at the beginning of the maturity curve, evaluating how and where the model can have the most impact. Yet capabilities are improving rapidly and companies cant afford to remain on the sidelines.

You really need to start pushing because there is value to be created, Small said. You have to be out there looking for new opportunities youre not just going to think them up, you have to find them.

Dont skip over ROI. Edge-enabled automation can help companies do more with less labor and free up people to do higher value-added work, noted Moogs Small. But in addition to those obvious first-order productivity gains, there are other, harder to quantify benefits from automation at the edge, including repeatability, he said.

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The promise of edge computing comes down to data - MIT Sloan News

6/28/2022

CGG announced the creation of a new HPC & Cloud Solutions business, under the leadership of Agns Boudot, who will report to the CEO and joined the companys executive team on June 28, 2022.

Agns brings in-depth High-Performance Computing (HPC) experience from the IT industry to CGGs growing HPC & Cloud Solutions business. Over her 30-year career, she has gained experience in various areas of IT, and specifically HPC, storage & media, and visualization. Before joining CGG, she led the global HPC, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Business Line at Atos, successfully growing this business over the last five years.

Sophie Zurquiyah, CGG CEO, said: The HPC and cloud solutions markets offer CGG significant and immediate business opportunities that capitalize on our well-established HPC and cloud computing strengths. I look forward to working with Agns, whose industry leadership will support and accelerate the development of our technology and go-to-market activities in this promising area of growth for CGG.

CGGs HPC & Cloud Solutions Business will be consolidated into the Data, Digital & Energy Transition (DDE) reporting segment under Geoscience (GEO).

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inspur Information, a leading IT infrastructure solutions provider, joined the Arm SystemReady program, achieving the highest-level Arm SystemReady SR certification. Thanks to its standardized design that can be adapted to multiple systems, Inspur Information is able to meet the increasingly diverse customer needs for different use scenarios in the new era of big data and cloud computing.

Inspur Information announces NF5280R6, its first product supporting Arm based AmpereAltra and AmpereAltra Max Cloud Native Processors that are designed for modern cloud infrastructure. The 2U dual socket NF5280R6 platform is Arm SystemReady certified and supports up to 256 high performance CPU cores that deliver predictable performance, scale linearly and consume lower power. The NFS280R6 platform will improve rack density by greater than 36% while lowering the power by more than 41% when compared to legacy x86 platforms. In addition, with support for multi-host and smart NICs, NF5280R6 provides eight standard PCIe 4.0 slots and one optional OCP 3.0 slot, maximizing its scalability for various applications such as high-performance all-flash storage and network acceleration. NF5280R6 provides an open source solution that alleviates application portability difficulties and allows customers to maximize their business benefits with minimum porting costs. This makes it an ideal choice for practicing cloud container deployment, Android cloud gaming, and big data applications.

Backed by SystemReady SR, infrastructure solution developers can directly deploy or run mainstream operating systems such as Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise, CentOS, Debian, and WinPE on NF5280R6 for an "out-of-the-box" refined user experience. No extra costs for adaptation to different operating systems or container technologies are required. Simplified deployment and support for standard firmware interfaces reduce the cost of customizing firmware and maintaining multiple software platforms, so customers can focus on innovation with their products.

"We always keep consumers in mind as we continually innovate our products and technologies to build increasingly diversified product platforms," said Ricky Zhao, Deputy General Manager of Inspur Information's Server Product Line. "As the Arm architecture grew in the server space, we noticed that our customers focused more on the portability of platforms and the convenience of Arm-based cloud-native applications, which is exactly what the Arm SystemReady program provides our customers. NF5280R6, the SystemReady SR-certified cloud-native dual-socket server, handles diversified customer needs, and provides computing power support for a more extensive customer base. In the future, Inspur Information will continue to bring more Arm-based values and innovations complying with industrial standards to our customers and developers."

Arm SystemReady is a set of standards and a compliance certification program that enables interoperability between Arm-based devices and leading operating systems or applications, so that software "just works" out of the box. This allows easy deployment of software and takes advantage of the comprehensive ecosystem of mature operating systems.

"As an industry-wide initiative, Arm SystemReady has gained extensive recognition and support from broad partners in terms of its benefits for the entire industrial chain. These partners have taken active participation in formulation and implementation of SystemReady standards, making significant contributions," said Frank Zou, vice president, Infrastructure Line of Business, Arm. "Having Inspur Information, a global leader in computing power infrastructure, join the SystemReady program is a great driving force for the thriving and innovative Arm-based cloud-native ecosystem."

About Inspur Information

Inspur Information is a leading provider of data center infrastructure, cloud computing, and AI solutions. It is the worlds 2nd largest server manufacturer. Through engineering and innovation, Inspur Information delivers cutting-edge computing hardware design and extensive product offerings to address important technology sectors such as open computing, cloud data center, AI, and deep learning. Performance-optimized and purpose-built, our world-class solutions empower customers to tackle specific workloads and real-world challenges. To learn more, visit https://www.inspursystems.com.

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Information technology (IT) is an integral part of the society we live in today. IT pervades our daily routines and business processes in augmented reality, machine learning, and automation, among other technologies. But in many ways, technology has made life better. Since businesses use a lot more IT systems, the need for IT support services has grown consequently over the years. Fortunately, the world of information technology has experienced numerous valuable advancements.

Since the rate of change in IT has increased, businesses rely on it more than ever. Business owners are investing in IT since it frequently results in increased efficiency. Furthermore, the recent COVID-19 pandemic compelled companies to rely extensively on IT to keep their operations running. However, because IT is here to stay, IT support trends will continue to evolve. In light of this, the following are some of the most recent IT support trends.

Given the extent to which the world has gone digital, many businesses are also digitalizing their operations extensively. In some ways, the COVID-19 pandemic encouraged businesses to embrace the concept of digitalization by incorporating various technologies and software into their business processes. This has necessitated integrating these systems with the internet of things (IoT) to transfer data over the internet.

The internet has made life so much easier for individuals and organizations since it allows information to be shared seamlessly across various platforms and mediums. Furthermore, as internet technology advances, internet speeds will continue to rise as more sophisticated technologies develop that require these faster internet connections to process large amounts of data. You will be able to complete your activities more quickly and obtain information more efficiently.

Businesses use a plethora of networked devices and systems to control their operations. Cloud-based and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are good examples. Many applications and software programs are genuinely web-based. Furthermore, many people have an internet connection. So, investing in IoT infrastructure for enhanced customer service is a no-brainer for every organization. As a result, this trend of incorporating the internet of things into organizations is likely to continue.

Automation is one of the best ways a business can hack efficiently into its processes. Most IT support professionals endorse automating as many processes as possible because automation allows you to do more with less. Remember, machines are excellent at doing repetitive tasks. They can work quicker and more accurately than human beings.

Think about robotic process automation, for example. You can program robots to do a repetitive task and do it considerably faster with way more accuracy than a human being. This frees up time for you to focus on other essential things that machines cannot handle, such as intuitive decision-making.

Another trend likely to be adopted in the future is using AI power chatbots for customer service support. Chatbots can help improve the customer experience because you can program them to respond to customer requests and messages in real-time. The drawback is that chatbots may not be able to give sufficient customer assistance. However, it can give the customer enough feedback, and human assistants can pick up from where they left. Remember, online users value responsiveness. So, AI chatbots are likely to be used more often to improve customer experience.

Therefore, automation reduces the costs of human error to a great extent. You may need to ensure that your automation processes are working correctly.

Even so, IT support staff should be there to offer you valuable insights into developments in the area of automation, which can allow you to be more productive. Bear in mind that different industries have different innovations that apply to them. IT support services stay up to date on these trends and should be able to give proper advice on how you could integrate automation into your processes. Hence, automation like the IoT is here to stay.

Over the last few years, cloud computing has become increasingly popular. There is a plethora of cloud computing solutions available on the market. Cloud computing is essential for remote working methods, which some companies adopted during the COVID-19 epidemic.

The capacity to store and retrieve your information in one location is maybe the most significant benefit of the cloud. You wont have to worry about storage when you use the cloud. In addition, you can integrate various systems in your company with cloud computing solutions to run your business more efficiently from a single location. Moreover, you will be able to access your companys information remotely.

Cloud computing systems are becoming more powerful and secure, too. Cloud security is an important feature given the increase in cyber-attacks in recent years. Fortunately, most cloud solutions come equipped with security features, ensuring that your data is safe and keeps hackers out of your system.

As most organizations have digitalized their operations, this has increased the amount of information that flows in cyberspace. The number of cybersecurity attacks has increased as well. Opportunistic hackers know that the internet is a treasure trove to scam people.

So, while the internet is great for many things, organizations must prepare for cyber attackers threats. Keeping your data connections secure is a significant issue, especially since hackers keep finding craftier ways of infiltrating networks and systems. Its far from ideal, but something you still need to deal with. Therefore, you need to keep your defenses up to date. This includes things like your password security, firewalls, and antivirus software, all of which can help to keep cybercriminals out.

Furthermore, the threat of cyber-attacks is one of the biggest reasons businesses need high-quality IT support professionals to help secure their organizations. They will help you identify system vulnerabilities and also help you monitor your systems to ensure that theres no suspicious activity going on. Furthermore, they could also help your team members to understand the importance of protecting your defenses.

Mobile devices have become entrenched in peoples daily routines and have become their digital assistants. So many applications are now available that people can use to be productive or just for entertainment. Also, convenience is now important because people are always on the move and no longer have to be tied to their desks all the time.

Additionally, improvements and upgrades are making these digital devices ever more capable. Therefore, many businesses are now relying on IT support immensely to help them develop mobile applications. Moreover, IT support can help build, test, design, refine, and launch a mobile application, whether its creating an ecosystem for workers in your organization, or an application designed for your clients or customers.

Many businesses now rely heavily on information technology. As a result, the demand for IT specialists has also soared. In addition to IT support providers, corporations and governments are looking for top talent in this field. As a result, experienced IT professionals have a more comprehensive range of possibilities and maybe more selective about which companies theyll work for. For this reason, you must have a current and fascinating technological stack to recruit or entice talented individuals.

However, this is also where outsourcing IT support comes in. They have bouts of experienced staff they can deploy in various jobs, probably at a fraction of the price, instead of hiring permanent personnel. Now, if youre a big company and can afford dedicated staff, then, by all means, go for it. But theres so much more than outsourcing IT support can do, such as offering different viewpoints, access to a wide variety of talented individuals, and a wider pool of knowledge. You can rest assured that the technological trend is here to stay. The demand for IT professionals will continue to rise as well.

Since some organizations migrated to the remote working model, some employees have preferred working remotely. They also expect that it stays that way because its convenient for them. For example, theres no need for a daily commute if you work from home. Plus, because of globalization, one organization can have employees dispersed worldwide. Thus, the need for remote IT support.

Even though remote IT assistance has been around for a while, organizations will continue to require it. When a remote team member is under pressure to meet a deadline, nothing is more annoying than having their IT system go down. Yes, there are a few glitches in the system. However, you must rectify as soon as possible due to the impact on your remote teams productivity. Fortunately, IT support services are improving to meet this increased need for remote IT support services.

The IT industry has evolved significantly over time. Every industry will likely have leading technologies developing or creating significant change. Thus, the greater the need for IT support in every business. Trends are constantly shifting and keeping up with unique industry developments can be challenging. Thankfully, IT support services can assist you in bridging these gaps, allowing you to inevitably stay on top of your game.

Christopher Lim is a writer and IT consultant focused on helping Asian-owned businesses in his area. He also contributes to IT blogs from time to time. Aside from work, he loves collecting sneakers and collectibles from his favorite shows.

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