4 Benefits of Cloud Platform in the Internet of Things

What if I tell you the Internet of Things (IoT) alone does not offer many benefits? Yes, that is true to some extent. IoT is a network of billions of physical devices having processing ability, and are embedded with sensors and software. These devices collect and share a massive amount of data per second over the internet. This raw data when analyzed interprets meaningful information useful for smart decision making.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As per IDC, by 2025 there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices that will generate 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data. Storing, processing, and managing the flow of such a vast amount of data is a complex task for businesses. In such a case, the Cloud platform acts as a catalyst by providing storage space and cloud computing allows the analysis, processing, and managing of the data enabling IoT systems to work more efficiently.

4 Major Benefits of Cloud Platform in the Internet of Things

Cloud platforms and cloud computing can bring ease to your business operations and drive its growth.  Here are 4 major benefits when you switch to a cloud platform:

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How Security Operations Center (SOC) Services Strengthen Cybersecurity with Mass Migration To Cloud Computing?

The onset of Cloud Computing in the technological scheme of things made the phenomenon of Mass Migration of web-based apps, services, and ecosystems in general a thing to look forward to. With the increase in the number of cloud service providers, this migration became more evident for organizations and enterprises.

The USPs being affordability and accessibility it definitely was and is still changing the priorities for digital ecosystem provisions. For time being though there were several questions raised regarding its functionality and especially its security. Let us try and understand all its aspects before arriving at a conclusion and see if cloud computing is fit for your organization or not.

Mass Migration to Cloud Computing and Storage

Cloud Computing did go through an initial phase of suspicion from organizations and individuals alike. Time though has had its positive say with the significant increase in the number of adoptions, as mentioned in an article titled “The 2021 State of Cloud Adoption”, which states that out of the mid-sized to large-sized enterprises 52% of the software applications being developed are cloud-based.

This significant rise has majorly been due to the increasing demand for digital ecosystems by various industries post-pandemic. In that reference, the priority to cloud computing was certain due to its ease of administration as the back-end of cloud, like maintenance and setup is taken care of by the cloud computing providers. Another main reason for Migration is to get connected from any place at any time making it affordable and accessible further enhancing the rate of adoption of cloud computing-based services.

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Email Migration – Understanding the Importance and Process

 

Serving as an advanced mode of communication for businesses across the globe, no doubt Emails play a significant role in the professional industry. Keeping a track record of all the conversations related to a professional or personal matter. Emails have become a simple and easy way to communicate with customers or any other business conversation. In this digitized era, emails carry crucial data and information. Said that, when these emails store such vast data of information from day-to-day conversations to financial data or sensitive documents/information, these emails need to be protected and secured.

As we move deeper into the digital transformation age, emails are even more prone to cyber risks. The CIOs, CTO’s and other professionals ensure to opt for a secure and stable backup and recovery partner for their business. While backup and recovery are essential businesses also need a safer and long-term email service provider. As these emails hold crucial business data companies need a reliable email service, where their data is smoothly transferred and stored safely for their daily activities.

Need of Email Migration

Organizations explore different email service providers when they feel that the existing one is not able to keep up with the growing business demands. While there are several other reasons for a company to upgrade or change to another email service provider, reliability is truly an important feature. Back a decade ago on-premise email servers were considered fundamental by IT firms, today it is completely different. Companies go for a cost-effective and smarter way to utilize email services. A cloud-based platform is one of the options that are also available in the market. 

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Disaster Recovery Using Cloud: Working, Planning and Benefits

 

 

What is the main asset for a business in today’s time? Definitely the Data. Data is the currency of today. Data is moving businesses and is at the core of business success. Hence, saving the most crucial, money-making asset of your business is the top-most business priority across all industries. Given its significance to business success, the importance of disaster recovery cannot be overstated in this data-driven world. Regardless of the business domain, when an unanticipated event occurs bringing operations to a halt, businesses need all the plans in place to quickly resort to their operations and continue their services.

What is Disaster Recovery and IT Disaster Recovery Plan?

Disaster recovery is a method of restoring the data and recovering infrastructure, systems, applications, networks, power, and connectivity after a disaster has happened. IT Disaster Recovery plan is a document containing a set of policies and procedures to enable the organization to retrieve access to its hardware, applications, and data, and resume its operations post a disaster. A business can be impacted by various disasters, from man-made such as cyber-attacks, device failure, or human error to a natural event such as an earthquake or flood. Considering all these parameters, an IT Disaster Recovery plan is designed to reduce system downtime, financial loss and keep the customer’s trust.

There are different ways disaster recovery plans can be put in a place. However, with a massive amount of data generated by businesses, a cloud-based DR solution provides the optimum benefits. Want to know why you need to make a move from traditional disaster recovery to the cloud-based DR solution? Read Cloud-based DR or Traditional DR – Which is the best Disaster Recovery Plan for you?

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What is Cloud Computing? All You Need to Know

As we gear up for the year 2022, we are undeniably living in a Digital World. When we talk about a Digital World, we are talking about Cloud-based solutions dominating this era. The Cloud is nothing but a platform that hosts a plethora of computing resources over the internet. These services are easy-to-use and on-demand facilities that can be used on a pay-as-you-go basis. The Clouds are virtualized Data Centers, compact with computing and storage resources.

In present times, Cloud-based solutions dominate the digital world by helping various businesses with advantages like enhanced productivity, low equipment costs, traffic cost reduction, data security, unlimited storage capacity, automatic software updates, and integration, as well as enhanced productivity. It is provable to say Cloud-based applications have simplified lives and businesses to a great extent.

Significant Features of Cloud-Based Applications

• Clientele can access information stored in the cloud on any device, anytime, and from anywhere.
• App’s data is positioned in cloud infrastructure and could be partly stored on a user’s device.
• The requirements for devices to run the applications are minimum.
• Encryption, Optimization, and Compression of data, as well as backup schedules, can be set up by the user. 
• Placid technical support to manage and support Cloud apps, infrastructure, and architecture
• When offline, the information stored on a user’s device can be accessed. When online again, the app updates and uploads the data that was generated offline to the location of the cloud storage.

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Is Banking Heading Towards Digital Transformation in the Near Future?

Digital Banking is no more a talk of the future, and we all have witnessed the transformation of the Indian banking system. There was a time when visits to the banks were an essential part of our weekly schedules but it has almost become a phenomenon of the bygone era now. With most banking services available literally at our fingertips, digital banking has now become an inseparable part of our lifestyle. As just within the last decade the technological advancements like cloud computing in BFSI and many others, have brought about impeccable changes in the banking sector. From cards to digital payments, the digitization of the core banking services and not to forget the ground-breaking UPI payments mode, have become clearly synonymous with day-to-day business in the banking sector.

Looking towards the future prospect of the sector what we need to consider first is the present status of the daily operations in the banking sector.

The Present Status of Digital Banking in India

Talking about Digitization in the present day in Banking System, yes the sector has come a long way ahead of both in terms of the Core Banking System and various other administrative services in the daily business of the banking and finance organizations. Especially with the updates in the cloud banking solutions in India, banking administration has simplified and most importantly has brought about a remarkable change which has made the ease of doing banking business a thing of the present. Otherwise, who would have thought of real-time payments, easy or same-day loan procedures, or even a completely paperless Core Banking System? All becoming a common phenomenon in today’s banking system. Not just words but even numbers prove it with statistics from Statista about the “Total number of digital payments across India from the financial year 2018 to 2021” which clearly proves the exponential growth of digital payments in India, i.e. from USD 14.59Bn in FY 2018 to USD 43.71Bn in FY 2021.

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Networking Defined By Software: Seven Ways to Implement Them

 Networking Defined By Software

 

In few IT groups, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is still viewed as a hypothetical idea or vaporware to a great extent. Even though SDN  is valid multiple fields, the truth is that we now have few circumstances where SDN can be utilised – and you will be able to see several cases in the coming years. What was previously just another buzzword expressed by IT marketing experts, has now transformed into a practical idea which most of us can make use in organization networks.

Who can precisely derive the benefits from SDN deployments today? There are many factors playing an important role in answering this question. For one, a small portion of your network architecture must be fit for utilising software-defined technologies or can be redesigned to permit such centralised orchestration.

The widest areas where SDN can be applied today is either inside the datacenter or at the WAN control. While it’s feasible for SDN to loosen up completely to the access layer, few networks have suitable hardware in access closets. In any case, that shouldn’t prevent us from considering practical uses. What’s more is once your next network recharge comes around, you will be prepared to take benefits of SDN capacities that are arid.

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Data Privacy or Data Security: Which One is Important for You?

In recent years, organizations of all sizes have been impacted by data breaches & leaks, which have resulted in significant monetary & non-monetary damages. Business heads, CIOs, and CISOs and their data are always on the brink of a cyber attack since the number of cybercriminals has increased multi-folds. Such data breaches & leaks can cause a significant dent in a brand’s image, resulting in both monetary & non-monetary losses. Data protection and data security are important for safeguarding critical data against these forms of online attacks.

What is Cybersecurity?

Every day a lot of valuable information is uploaded & exchanged over the Internet, exposing their integrity & confidentiality. Cybersecurity includes all the protective measures deployed to secure the digital and web assets against all forms of online threats & human-induced errors. The web assets also need to be secured against privilege escalations and unauthorized users. This is when Information Security comes into the picture, depicting the practices of preventing all unauthorized access, modification, or destruction of information in any form.

Pillars of Information Security

The following pillars of Information Security are also known as the CIA Triad, which has to be addressed for obtaining satisfactory levels of information security.

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5 Easy Hacks to prevent WannaCry Ransomware Attacks and keep your System Safe!

 

Ransomware Prevention Hacks!

Hackers are using ransomware to hold your computer files and demand money in return. It has been witnessed that the first quarter of 2016, hackers were busy creating new domains and sub domains attacking the genuine ones for their ransomware operations.

 
There are a variety of ransomware attacks; however, everything ends up to social engineering tactics or using software vulnerabilities to soundlessly deploy on victim’s machine.

Ransomware attacks are very daunting. Encrypted data can be considered damaged beyond repair. However, prevention is better than cure. Having your system properly prepared will help you in curbing such attacks. Here are some ways to keep ransomware away from your machine.

Data Backup

The only biggest weapon to defeat ransomware is to regularly Backup your data. If attacked by ransomware, you will lose all your data. But, with backups you can start from where you left and restore all the lost data and rest easy. Backing up data not only protects you from ransomware but also in case of other disasters like theft, accidental deletion, flood, fire etc.

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Is Cybersecurity Affecting International Relations?

History says nations have always been aware of their enemies. In the era where the world is shifting towards digitisation, these outright physical attacks are also moving towards digital wars. In other words, the nations are waging wars with the third world countries; which has started entering the realm of cyber warfare. A survey predicts, one-third of the human population on this globe is accessing an active internet connection, and this number is said to increase to 1.5 billion more by 2020. This has resulted into hacking becoming one of the powerful means to take political and economic advantages over enemy nations. With the increasing number of internet users and Internet of Things innovations, there are more threats of cyber criminals hacking the information.The internet expansion in 1990 lead the hackers to explore the various methodologies to play cyber pranks and explore the cyber crime.

Any idea of how cybersecurity has an impact on international relations? Cyber criminals have targeted famous faces like Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump,and also, the nations and its data security has been a significant concern.Thus, countries have been keen on making Cybersecurity as an integral part of governments national defence. Also, Cybersecurity is built as a new domain of warfare.

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Demystifying Data Security for Dummies

One concern that some people who want to undertake cloud computing have data security. While this is a valid concern, it shouldn’t stop you from undertaking cloud computing. Although, in the past, data security was a concern in the cloud computing industry, with new advancements in the field, it’s become a cinch for businesses to handle.

 

Most cloud computing stakeholders agree that data security in the cloud is now considered more advanced and better than that of corporate networks.

Whether or not your data is secure in the cloud is a moot issue. What matters is the cloud computing provider that you are using. Cloud computing providers will implement data protection measures such as the following. They will:

• Allow users to define the permissions attached to their data
• Provide encryption to protect against unauthorized access to stored data
• Offer data protection when it is in transit
• Provide firewalls to protect against outside data attack that are launched against the cloud
• Reinforce servers to protect against every imaginable threat

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Model For Building A Cloud Infrastructure

 

While our country can be called a “cloud country” solely in terms of its climate. In the development of cloud computing, our country has not yet succeeded. Nevertheless, to attribute the cloud to the number of unpromising directions for our country would be premature and erroneous. Just the opposite: that “cloud computing” may be popular as anywhere in the world, and there are several prerequisites.

Factor of geographical distribution, logically, should be the main catalyst for the transition to “cloud services“. It is in terms of territorial fragmentation minimize the costs of providing IT services is becoming increasingly important. Construction of large data centers and the creation of “cloud services” on their basis will lead to an increase in supply in the market that will make cloud computing more accessible and economically beneficial for both business and private users.

Now efforts have been made to improve the accessibility of state institutions and their services for citizens. Instruments of such integration processes should serve as information portals that are created on the principle of “single windows“. They can become a single access point for information exchange between public authorities and consumers of their services. For the functioning of such information systems in a distributed environment, you need to create a distributed and adaptive execution environment, the role which can take on a cloud for a vertically integrated structures (government, health care, e-governance services, tax and customs services, etc.).

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How AI and Machine Learning help build a Smart City?

Rise of the Smart City

The digital advancement in today’s age has brought a lot of attention to the concept of smart cities.  In order to drive the economic and social growth of cities, the governing bodies have mobilized modern technologies to provide core infrastructure and give a quality life to its citizen.  And not just giving quality life, the smart cities also enhance business competitiveness and environmental sustainability.

A smart city is defined as an amalgamation of data and digital technology to address arising city problems, from healthcare, road infrastructure, public transportation, security, and education to waste management.  The smart city is a way of empowering individuals, organizations, or systems to be self-sufficient and futuristic with the consumption of the latest technologies such as AI and Machine Learning.  These technologies acquire a massive amount of data which is used to upgrade the systems and components that run the cities and make them capable of making intelligent decisions without much human intervention.

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The Use Of Optical Cables and Optical Fibers In Data Center

 

 Structured cabling system DPC (Data Center) should support the work of various applications, including those that are only planned to use in the future. Speed in data centers are increasing due to the use of server virtualization technology and the use of this technology leads to an increase in requirements for the cable system. Using an optical cable in data centers is primarily due to the fact that a large number of reliable and working technologies and solutions that use as a medium for data transmission singlemode and multimode fiber , the transmission of large information flows and the distance is much more than it can reach copper cables.

Optical cables have no problems with EMC and crosstalk occurring between the twisted pairs and copper cables, which makes use of copper cables in data centers .

The diameter of the optical cable is less than copper and it allows the use of cable channels for the optical cable of smaller sections, which allows better use of space in data center, reduce the costs of cable channels. Also reduces the load on the mount cable channel.

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Cloud Classification

 

In meteorology there is a detailed classification of clouds, numbering at least 12 species. IT professionals do not lag behind in this regard- they can conventionally distinguish several categories of “cloud services“.  It should be noted that the conventional classification generates a certain amount of confusion in concepts, so it’s important to give at least a brief description of categories.

There are three major types of cloud-based technologies: SaaS; software as a service, PaaS; Platform as a Service and IaaS: infrastructure as a service.

SaaS Model – A lease of the software, which is developed by the service provider, and the user can access it via the Internet. This model allows us to reduce the cost of implementation and maintenance of software. A striking example – popular with the U.S. system of Customer Relationship Management Salesforce.com. Paying for its services in proportion to consumption, you can use the ready business process for working with clients. This completely eliminates the need for costly implementation of the system in operation.

PaaS Model involves the provision of a platform as a service, for example, to develop or test software. Thus, any organization can get the missing computational resources for the development and subsequent operation of their own applications. Google App Engine is one of the leaders in such services.

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Advantages and disadvantages of SaaS and PaaS

 

Below I detail what I understand about the advantages and disadvantages of SaaS and PaaS, and of course what influences decision making in business. To a greater or lesser extent all these relate to paas saas and therefore I have chosen not to separate them.

Advantages:

Less initial investment and less risk, the use of the software without having to make an initial investment in machinery, software base (so) and additional software to run the application they would need in an environment in-house, is an important benefit for IT managers and ultimately for the company.

Cost reduction, in addition to paying for only what you need, you get a cost savings of maintaining the platform of machinery and the necessary software (databases, application server) to run your application.

Immediate updates and new features , a party that will not require dedicated staff for updates and software upgrades immediately. Sometimes we choose to use new features.

Support more agile and quick implementation. Bugs have a direct treatment and commissioning solution faster than in-house facilities.

The company focuses its efforts on your business , you really are outsourced to the point that systems do not expend effort in the choice and maintenance of systems.

However, always require care dept. IT but to a much lesser extent.

Increased availability and data security, against what may appear and in view of the disadvantages that we will see below, many companies have no procedures for backup, restore and general contingency plans in case of loss of information or hardware failure.

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What is Web Hosting in the Cloud?

 

Web hosting in the cloud computing or cloud hosting is the future of web hosting.

 

The cloud formed by several servers linked together to form a single platform. Because there are a lot of servers working together instead of one, load balancing, increased capacity, and minimizes the likelihood of failure.

Unlike shared hosting servers, where data is stored on a single server, web hosting in the cloud sits on a network server, so if one server fails, or if the hard disk of a server fails, the site is not affected, because their data is mirrored on other servers., is “balancing” their workload between the “cloud” of servers and information is replicated to other servers, so that the user not experience cuts in access to web pages.

This means that in uptime (time that the site is accessible to users) is virtually 100%. The real uptime of a server cloud is around 99.99%.

The fact that abstract information from the physical part is what has given name to this type of web hosting in the cloud (cloud hosting) as the data is supported by multiple servers intertwined, and are more immune to breakdowns a server.

Another advantage is cloud servers scalability. If at any point of time, a site needs more resources for an increase in visits is not limited by your hardware, and can use the resources of the cloud server.

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Basics : Cloud Computing

  

Cloud Computing has become a buzzword now a days in the hosting industry. With the advancements in it companies like Google and Microsoft has extended their search/ investigations towards cloud computing. One of the hottest trends in small business and enterprise-sized IT is cloud computing. Cloud computing represents a major shift in the way companies view their technology infrastructure. In this post I am gonna explain some basics of cloud computing as to understand it in a more simplified way.

Cloud Computing is one of the hottest trends in the industry. This has proven as a bliss for small business and enterprise-sized IT. Cloud hosting has considered as the major shift in the way companies use to look their IT infrastructure. This type of approach to IT relies on the Internet, and usually involves provisioned, scalable, dynamic and virtual solutions. Cloud computing pulls the details of IT infrastructure management away from the business and puts it squarely in the hands of true experts.

Cloud has been used as the metaphor for the internet computing. This can be categorized into SaaS(service as a software), IaaS ( Infrastructure as a service) & PaaS (Platform as a Service). While SaaS is by far the most common type of cloud computing implementation today, other types are rapidly gaining popularity as companies see the cost and expertise advantages of each. It also make use of  Web 2.0 and other virtual technologies, applications are provided to users via the net with the data stored on the provider’s servers.

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7 Reasons Why Small And Medium Businesses Adopt Cloud Computing

 

The concept of cloud computing services is growing between the departments of information technology. According to a survey, 98% of respondents said that the cloud is no longer seen as a passing fad and that the concept is here to stay. In Asia, India is an example of this growth, according to this study, the country tops the list with 20% of medium and large sized companies that already have some application in the cloud. For small, the scenario is still a little different.

According to projections, the number of adherents to the cloud applications are expected to grow between 30% and 35% in the next two years. Being a simple solution to online backup services or outsourcing, the use of cloud computing is an unavoidable reality, especially for small and medium enterprises, which may use it according to demand and pay for what they use, all with security, reduce costs and without worrying about infrastructure, web applications, web professionals and maintenance.

Thinking about it, company that specializes in cloud computing and outsourcing, has the seven main reasons for small and medium businesses that adopt cloud computing.

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The Concept of Mobile Data Centers

 

Data Center (DC) is becoming one of the main points of the efforts to increase energy efficiency in IT and telecommunications. “Green” technology increases the cooling efficiency, reduce losses and allow the use of alternative energy sources. In turn, this leads to a rapid replacement of traditional technologies in the data center to new, with improved energy efficiency, as well as the development of new product niches, such as container, or as they are called mobile or modular data centers (MDC). The fact that the dimensions of mobile containers should allow their transport by road and rail. In addition, they must be strong enough to withstand the loading and unloading and delivery in a complete state. There must be a constructive element for operation and maintenance (air, cable entry, the passes of sufficient width, etc.). These requirements can be satisfied through the use of standard shipping containers (20 and 40 feet).

 

Generally speaking, the concept of containerized data center is very attractive. After all, this solution provides organizations with limited resources, to increase their computing capacity without building a new data center. All tested and debugged the IT data center equipment can be placed, for example, a standard container of ISO, which can only be installed in the right place and connect to the cooling system (water), electrical power and communication channels. However, according to IDC, the market of container data centers is still small. However, the market is growing rapidly. A key feature of its data centers became the third generation modular approach. The concept of novelty under the name of IT PAC (IT Pre-Assembled Component) involves small independent mobile containers that are going off-site data center and can be connected together to form a holistic data center.

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