The document discusses the rise of cloud computing to support business objectives in a world experiencing an intelligence explosion. It notes that cloud computing provides a new computing model that enables on-demand access to computing resources and rapid service delivery. The document differentiates between public clouds, which are accessed externally via service providers, and private clouds, which are internal but can offer similar benefits to public clouds with greater security and control. It recommends understanding your specific needs and environment to determine whether a public or private cloud is best suited for your organization.
Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Transformation: Driving Agility, Innovation and GrowthCognizant
Whether used for process optimization or modernization, cloud solutions bring much-needed flexibility to enterprises struggling to stay ahead of changing markets.
Building Trust into eInvoicing: Key Requirements and StrategiesSafeNet
For years, the digitalization of assets has been underway, completely transforming entire
industries, from healthcare to music. In the same way, the move to digitalization has also
brought fundamental change to the way businesses manage invoices. By moving to electronic
invoicing, known as eInvoicing, organizations in a host of industries can realize a range of
benefi ts • Reduced costs. By eliminating the purchase of paper for invoice printing, reducing the
time and expense of physical invoice handling, reducing the space and expense of paperbased
fi le storage, and eliminating postage, organizations can realize direct, upfront cost
savings.
From Vision to Procurement: Principles for Adopting Cloud Computing in the Pu...accacloud
Cloud computing is a scalable, cost-efficient and highly-secure solution to help the public sector transform their services and drive efficiencies. However, to effectively enable public sector cloud procurement, discussions need to advance beyond just cost and security. Appropriate procurement processes that provide clear guidance on how cloud can be procured are also critical.
This paper outlines seven principles distilled from conversations with government procurement officers, policymakers, and auditors where they have told the ACCA and its members what the essential elements are to enabling adoption of technology solutions in the public sector. The ACCA is delighted to present this white paper to help demystify cloud solutions and provide necessary guidance to procurement policymakers and public sector agencies that are evaluating cloud services.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
2011-2012 Cloud Assessment Tool (CAT) White Paperaccacloud
The Cloud Assessment Tool (CAT) was developed by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). It was refined through extensive and in-depth discussions over a period of 2 years between members of the WG and by looking at relevant cloud and IT specifications.
The CAT defines the requirements placed on IaaS/PaaS solution providers to support stringent cloud applications. However, that perspective was subsequently extended to cover all application requirements. As such, its final realization has broad applicability.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Transformation: Driving Agility, Innovation and GrowthCognizant
Whether used for process optimization or modernization, cloud solutions bring much-needed flexibility to enterprises struggling to stay ahead of changing markets.
Building Trust into eInvoicing: Key Requirements and StrategiesSafeNet
For years, the digitalization of assets has been underway, completely transforming entire
industries, from healthcare to music. In the same way, the move to digitalization has also
brought fundamental change to the way businesses manage invoices. By moving to electronic
invoicing, known as eInvoicing, organizations in a host of industries can realize a range of
benefi ts • Reduced costs. By eliminating the purchase of paper for invoice printing, reducing the
time and expense of physical invoice handling, reducing the space and expense of paperbased
fi le storage, and eliminating postage, organizations can realize direct, upfront cost
savings.
From Vision to Procurement: Principles for Adopting Cloud Computing in the Pu...accacloud
Cloud computing is a scalable, cost-efficient and highly-secure solution to help the public sector transform their services and drive efficiencies. However, to effectively enable public sector cloud procurement, discussions need to advance beyond just cost and security. Appropriate procurement processes that provide clear guidance on how cloud can be procured are also critical.
This paper outlines seven principles distilled from conversations with government procurement officers, policymakers, and auditors where they have told the ACCA and its members what the essential elements are to enabling adoption of technology solutions in the public sector. The ACCA is delighted to present this white paper to help demystify cloud solutions and provide necessary guidance to procurement policymakers and public sector agencies that are evaluating cloud services.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
2011-2012 Cloud Assessment Tool (CAT) White Paperaccacloud
The Cloud Assessment Tool (CAT) was developed by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). It was refined through extensive and in-depth discussions over a period of 2 years between members of the WG and by looking at relevant cloud and IT specifications.
The CAT defines the requirements placed on IaaS/PaaS solution providers to support stringent cloud applications. However, that perspective was subsequently extended to cover all application requirements. As such, its final realization has broad applicability.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Towards Better Patient Outcomes and Staying Well: The Promise of Cloud Comput...accacloud
The healthcare industry is one which is often at the forefront of technology change. From hospital management to rural healthcare communities, from doctors and surgeons to pharmacists and lab technicians— there is often a tension between the urgent needs of the healthcare industry that compels rapid technology adoption, and a strict and heavily-regulated environment that defaults to caution when embracing new technology. Today, we see a healthcare industry that is moving towards the new paradigm of cloud computing with increasing optimism and trust.
How can the healthcare industry best deploy cloud computing to achieve better patient outcomes? What are the current opportunities to start a digital transformation in a healthcare institution? Where are the opportunities for the healthcare industry to leverage cloud technology, and move towards an ideal of preventing disease whenever we can, for prevention is preferable to cure? What other prospects does cloud computing hold for the healthcare sector?
This report will answer these questions by demonstrating the different innovative uses and deployment of cloud computing in six healthcare sub-verticals. These case studies show how technology and the healthcare industry can strengthen patient outcomes, and together, work towards the goal of staying healthy and well.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
2017 Towards Better Patient Outcomes and Staying Well: The Promise of Cloud C...accacloud
The healthcare industry is one of the most advanced technology users - within their domains. Anecdotal evidence has revealed that there is a wide range of capacity and capabilities in the healthcare industry with respect to patient management, especially when it comes to administrating large amounts of patient records and information. How has the healthcare industry pivoted towards using cloud technology to improve patient outcomes? This study documents a number of key case studies within Asia Pacific.
Safe Cloud Principles for the FSI Industry 2014, endorsed by the Asia Cloud C...accacloud
Cloud Computing is poised to transform how information technology is used by the Financial Services Industry (FSI). However, this transformation can only come about if the FSI has confidence that the use of Cloud Computing will not interfere with legal obligations and sound business practice.
This document has been created in partnership between Financial Institutions (FIs), Cloud Service Providers (CSP), Financial Regulators and industry bodies. It proposes Safe Cloud Principles in the form of a unified, condensed and clarified set of best practices to help FIs to focus on and navigate through the relevant regulatory issues when contemplating a move to the cloud. The Safe
Cloud Principles cover key requirements such as confidentiality, availability and integrity and are derived from the very laws, regulations and guidelines with which FIs must comply.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
The Impact of Data Sovereignty on Cloud Computing in Asia 2013 by the Asia Cl...accacloud
The Impact of Data Sovereignty on Cloud Computing offers detailed information describing the implications of data sovereignty law and policy on the adoption of cloud computing-based infrastructures and services in Asia. By describing and analyzing data sovereignty regulations in 14 countries in this study, the Association identifies potential bottlenecks that could slow adoption and threaten Asia’s digital future.
The study serves to identify the gaps between an “ideal state” and the actual realities in Asian countries around policy, legal and commercial cloud drivers to provide a tool for businesses organizations, cloud service providers and policy makers to look at cloud in a more holistic manner.
This report provides substantive detailed analysis for each of the 14 countries, including 4-5 page detailed insights into the regulatory environment for data sovereignty in each country and recommendations for each country to bring attention to the highest priority issues that if addressed will bring the country closer to the “ideal state.”
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
2018 Cross-Border Data Flows: A Review of the Regulatory Enablers, Blockers, ...accacloud
Access to data represents a huge potential in terms of potential economic growth and social enablement opportunities. It is not surprising then, that many governments are setting forth ‘digital economy’ agendas, including policy and regulatory frameworks, to ensure they maximize participation and opportunity. However, such a cross-cutting agenda is not without its challenges. Regulations put in place to enable or protect one part of the economy can damage growth in neighboring sectors or industries, often unintentionally. This research report takes an investigative look at the way five Asian economies—India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam—are aggressively transitioning to more digitally enabled economies.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Asia's Financial Services on the Cloud 2018: Regulatory Landscape Impacting t...accacloud
This report updates our 2015 research on the regulatory landscape impacting Cloud Services in APAC. It updates the current approaches governments and Regulators in nine selected APAC markets have taken towards cloud computing, and the environment these relevant policies and regulations have created for cloud adoption in the financial services sector.
Financial Regulators’ outsourcing guidelines have a key role to play in shaping this environment, and can determine the extent FSIs can benefit from cloud computing technology. As with the previous report, we provide an overview of the regulatory landscape in Part 1. of this report. We also review and elaborate on best practice examples of the ten key cloud outsourcing risk management requirements that must be addressed in order for an FSI to adopt Cloud Services: 1. Due Diligence Process for Cloud Adoption, 2. Review, Monitoring and Control, 3. Audit, 4. Confidentiality and Security, 5. Resilience, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, 6. Data Transfer and Location, 7. Data Use Limitations, 8. Data Segregation, 9. Cloud Contracts and Subcontracting, and 10. Exit and Termination. This is followed by Part 2. which summarises the relevant regulations in each market according to these requirements.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Report on Cloud Data Regulations 2014: A contribution on how to reduce the co...accacloud
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to, and help drive the formation of, policies concerning cloud computing in Asia. The paper addresses the increasing complexities surrounding the transfer of data between jurisdictions, and the problems this poses for operators, such as carriers, remittance service providers, social networks, Internet and e-commerce companies, offering legitimate cross-border data transfer services.
This paper builds on original research developed by the ACCA in 2013 as part of a broader and ongoing study on Data Sovereignty throughout the Asia Pacific. It argues that law makers and regulators should balance their efforts to protect personal data privacy and data in key sectors, such as banking and health services, with solutions that facilitate and therefore lower the cost of data transfers under all reasonable circumstances.
For more information, visit us at asiacloudcomputing.org
Regulating for a Digital Economy: Understanding the Importance of Cross-Borde...accacloud
Cross-border data access, usage, and exchange are essential to economic growth in the digital age. Every sector—including manufacturing, services, agriculture, and retail—relies on data and on the global flow of that data. Whether directly, or by indirectly taking advantage of global-scale data infrastructure such as cloud computing, global connectivity has enabled cross-border economic activity, allowing individuals, startups, and small businesses to participate in global markets. However, while the economic and trade opportunity from connectivity and data flows are significant, governments are increasingly introducing measures which restrict data flows—data localization measures.
This report reviews the various mechanisms by which governments are attempting to manage their digital economy. It covers the issues of data localization and data residency, clarifies cross-border data flow restrictions by developing a typology of data localization mechanisms like privacy, cybersecurity, law enforcement, digital protectionism, and levelling the playing field for businesses.
Sponsored by the Asia Cloud Computing Association, this report was independently researched and published by the Brookings Institution and TRPC Pte Ltd.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
SMEs in Asia Pacific: The Market for Cloud Computing - Case Studies of 14 mar...accacloud
Small and medium-sized enterprises represent well over 90% of all businesses in Asia, and across the 14 markets under review they employ some 1.02 billion people and contribute around $10.9 trillion directly into the economies in which are based (49.1% of total GDP for the region.) They also spend significantly as a group on ICT.
Cloud computing – and cloud computing technology – has the potential to be the ‘great leveller’ for both SMEs and developing economies. This is because cloud offers the prospect of both the access to enterprise grade tools on a pay-per-use basis making them immediately accessible and affordable, and the ability to scale up and down such access as required (elasticity of use). In other words, upfront capex requirements go down substantially.
What are their challenges to using cloud? How can this technology be made more available to SMEs, so that they can harness its power for digital transformation? This report reviews 14 markets' SME industry, and establishes market size, characteristics, and identifies industries most likely to undergo digital transformation.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Cloud Readiness Index 2016 by the Asia Cloud Computing Associationaccacloud
Asian countries top the new Cloud Readiness Index (CRI) 2016 released by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). The CRI places Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia above markets such as Germany, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), showing that Asia economies are indeed leading the world in cloud readiness. This is also the first time that the 14-market Asia Pacific-focused study also includes a sample of six non-Asian markets for comparative analysis.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
2015 Asia's Financial Services: Ready for the Cloud - A Report on FSI Regulat...accacloud
The ACCA developed this report with the primary purpose of equipping CSPs with an understanding of the current regulatory landscape in APAC, and their FSI customers’ key regulatory challenges to adopting Cloud Services. This report aims to help CSPs to develop and provide solutions to these challenges. In particular, this report:
1. provides CSPs with a database of issues and possible solutions to discuss with their FSI customers;
2. provides CSPs with recommendations as to how to comply with the current regulatory landscape; and
3. supports CSPs in their engagement with relevant governments and Regulators.
This report may also be used by Regulators and FSIs to understand the current regulatory landscape in APAC and the key opportunities and challenges to adopting Cloud Services.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Towards Better Patient Outcomes and Staying Well: The Promise of Cloud Comput...accacloud
The healthcare industry is one which is often at the forefront of technology change. From hospital management to rural healthcare communities, from doctors and surgeons to pharmacists and lab technicians— there is often a tension between the urgent needs of the healthcare industry that compels rapid technology adoption, and a strict and heavily-regulated environment that defaults to caution when embracing new technology. Today, we see a healthcare industry that is moving towards the new paradigm of cloud computing with increasing optimism and trust.
How can the healthcare industry best deploy cloud computing to achieve better patient outcomes? What are the current opportunities to start a digital transformation in a healthcare institution? Where are the opportunities for the healthcare industry to leverage cloud technology, and move towards an ideal of preventing disease whenever we can, for prevention is preferable to cure? What other prospects does cloud computing hold for the healthcare sector?
This report will answer these questions by demonstrating the different innovative uses and deployment of cloud computing in six healthcare sub-verticals. These case studies show how technology and the healthcare industry can strengthen patient outcomes, and together, work towards the goal of staying healthy and well.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
2017 Towards Better Patient Outcomes and Staying Well: The Promise of Cloud C...accacloud
The healthcare industry is one of the most advanced technology users - within their domains. Anecdotal evidence has revealed that there is a wide range of capacity and capabilities in the healthcare industry with respect to patient management, especially when it comes to administrating large amounts of patient records and information. How has the healthcare industry pivoted towards using cloud technology to improve patient outcomes? This study documents a number of key case studies within Asia Pacific.
Safe Cloud Principles for the FSI Industry 2014, endorsed by the Asia Cloud C...accacloud
Cloud Computing is poised to transform how information technology is used by the Financial Services Industry (FSI). However, this transformation can only come about if the FSI has confidence that the use of Cloud Computing will not interfere with legal obligations and sound business practice.
This document has been created in partnership between Financial Institutions (FIs), Cloud Service Providers (CSP), Financial Regulators and industry bodies. It proposes Safe Cloud Principles in the form of a unified, condensed and clarified set of best practices to help FIs to focus on and navigate through the relevant regulatory issues when contemplating a move to the cloud. The Safe
Cloud Principles cover key requirements such as confidentiality, availability and integrity and are derived from the very laws, regulations and guidelines with which FIs must comply.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
The Impact of Data Sovereignty on Cloud Computing in Asia 2013 by the Asia Cl...accacloud
The Impact of Data Sovereignty on Cloud Computing offers detailed information describing the implications of data sovereignty law and policy on the adoption of cloud computing-based infrastructures and services in Asia. By describing and analyzing data sovereignty regulations in 14 countries in this study, the Association identifies potential bottlenecks that could slow adoption and threaten Asia’s digital future.
The study serves to identify the gaps between an “ideal state” and the actual realities in Asian countries around policy, legal and commercial cloud drivers to provide a tool for businesses organizations, cloud service providers and policy makers to look at cloud in a more holistic manner.
This report provides substantive detailed analysis for each of the 14 countries, including 4-5 page detailed insights into the regulatory environment for data sovereignty in each country and recommendations for each country to bring attention to the highest priority issues that if addressed will bring the country closer to the “ideal state.”
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
2018 Cross-Border Data Flows: A Review of the Regulatory Enablers, Blockers, ...accacloud
Access to data represents a huge potential in terms of potential economic growth and social enablement opportunities. It is not surprising then, that many governments are setting forth ‘digital economy’ agendas, including policy and regulatory frameworks, to ensure they maximize participation and opportunity. However, such a cross-cutting agenda is not without its challenges. Regulations put in place to enable or protect one part of the economy can damage growth in neighboring sectors or industries, often unintentionally. This research report takes an investigative look at the way five Asian economies—India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam—are aggressively transitioning to more digitally enabled economies.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Asia's Financial Services on the Cloud 2018: Regulatory Landscape Impacting t...accacloud
This report updates our 2015 research on the regulatory landscape impacting Cloud Services in APAC. It updates the current approaches governments and Regulators in nine selected APAC markets have taken towards cloud computing, and the environment these relevant policies and regulations have created for cloud adoption in the financial services sector.
Financial Regulators’ outsourcing guidelines have a key role to play in shaping this environment, and can determine the extent FSIs can benefit from cloud computing technology. As with the previous report, we provide an overview of the regulatory landscape in Part 1. of this report. We also review and elaborate on best practice examples of the ten key cloud outsourcing risk management requirements that must be addressed in order for an FSI to adopt Cloud Services: 1. Due Diligence Process for Cloud Adoption, 2. Review, Monitoring and Control, 3. Audit, 4. Confidentiality and Security, 5. Resilience, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, 6. Data Transfer and Location, 7. Data Use Limitations, 8. Data Segregation, 9. Cloud Contracts and Subcontracting, and 10. Exit and Termination. This is followed by Part 2. which summarises the relevant regulations in each market according to these requirements.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Report on Cloud Data Regulations 2014: A contribution on how to reduce the co...accacloud
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to, and help drive the formation of, policies concerning cloud computing in Asia. The paper addresses the increasing complexities surrounding the transfer of data between jurisdictions, and the problems this poses for operators, such as carriers, remittance service providers, social networks, Internet and e-commerce companies, offering legitimate cross-border data transfer services.
This paper builds on original research developed by the ACCA in 2013 as part of a broader and ongoing study on Data Sovereignty throughout the Asia Pacific. It argues that law makers and regulators should balance their efforts to protect personal data privacy and data in key sectors, such as banking and health services, with solutions that facilitate and therefore lower the cost of data transfers under all reasonable circumstances.
For more information, visit us at asiacloudcomputing.org
Regulating for a Digital Economy: Understanding the Importance of Cross-Borde...accacloud
Cross-border data access, usage, and exchange are essential to economic growth in the digital age. Every sector—including manufacturing, services, agriculture, and retail—relies on data and on the global flow of that data. Whether directly, or by indirectly taking advantage of global-scale data infrastructure such as cloud computing, global connectivity has enabled cross-border economic activity, allowing individuals, startups, and small businesses to participate in global markets. However, while the economic and trade opportunity from connectivity and data flows are significant, governments are increasingly introducing measures which restrict data flows—data localization measures.
This report reviews the various mechanisms by which governments are attempting to manage their digital economy. It covers the issues of data localization and data residency, clarifies cross-border data flow restrictions by developing a typology of data localization mechanisms like privacy, cybersecurity, law enforcement, digital protectionism, and levelling the playing field for businesses.
Sponsored by the Asia Cloud Computing Association, this report was independently researched and published by the Brookings Institution and TRPC Pte Ltd.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
SMEs in Asia Pacific: The Market for Cloud Computing - Case Studies of 14 mar...accacloud
Small and medium-sized enterprises represent well over 90% of all businesses in Asia, and across the 14 markets under review they employ some 1.02 billion people and contribute around $10.9 trillion directly into the economies in which are based (49.1% of total GDP for the region.) They also spend significantly as a group on ICT.
Cloud computing – and cloud computing technology – has the potential to be the ‘great leveller’ for both SMEs and developing economies. This is because cloud offers the prospect of both the access to enterprise grade tools on a pay-per-use basis making them immediately accessible and affordable, and the ability to scale up and down such access as required (elasticity of use). In other words, upfront capex requirements go down substantially.
What are their challenges to using cloud? How can this technology be made more available to SMEs, so that they can harness its power for digital transformation? This report reviews 14 markets' SME industry, and establishes market size, characteristics, and identifies industries most likely to undergo digital transformation.
For more information, visit http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Cloud Readiness Index 2016 by the Asia Cloud Computing Associationaccacloud
Asian countries top the new Cloud Readiness Index (CRI) 2016 released by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). The CRI places Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia above markets such as Germany, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), showing that Asia economies are indeed leading the world in cloud readiness. This is also the first time that the 14-market Asia Pacific-focused study also includes a sample of six non-Asian markets for comparative analysis.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
2015 Asia's Financial Services: Ready for the Cloud - A Report on FSI Regulat...accacloud
The ACCA developed this report with the primary purpose of equipping CSPs with an understanding of the current regulatory landscape in APAC, and their FSI customers’ key regulatory challenges to adopting Cloud Services. This report aims to help CSPs to develop and provide solutions to these challenges. In particular, this report:
1. provides CSPs with a database of issues and possible solutions to discuss with their FSI customers;
2. provides CSPs with recommendations as to how to comply with the current regulatory landscape; and
3. supports CSPs in their engagement with relevant governments and Regulators.
This report may also be used by Regulators and FSIs to understand the current regulatory landscape in APAC and the key opportunities and challenges to adopting Cloud Services.
For more information, visit us at http://www.asiacloudcomputing.org
Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
Exploring a Cloud Based Approach to IT InfrastructureReadWrite
A key part of cloud-based information technology is the ability to deliver benefits to the business and to the overall technology infrastructure for the organization.
This briefing explores the ways to build a cloud-based IT infrastructure that allows for a dynamic environment that supports business needs.
Cloud computing has arrived on the IT landscape with all the commotion of a Hollywood blockbuster in terms of its media coverage. The hype and chatter that this has caused has arguably not helped its initial growth and development as companies have been at the mercy of a mixed set of messages, some of which have almost approached the point of confusion in various cases.
Although many organizations have adopted the cloud and are reaping the
benefits of a cloud computing platform, there are still concerns with the
handling of sensitive information on a public cloud platform. For such
organizations an alternate option is available, and it means having their own
private cloud.
Cloud-based systems have brought a new, scalable application
delivery service model to the market. They can help clients
save both capital and operational costs, and further shift capital
expenses (CAPEX) to operational expenses (OPEX) while
providing increased flexibility for their organizations. However,
a key aspect of any type of Cloud deployment is reliable service
delivery, on which ready access to the digital information (data)
in the Cloud is foundational requirement.
iStart hitchhikers guide to cloud computingHayden McCall
Many pundits agree that
2011 is set to become the year of
The Cloud and that IT professionals
need to prepare themselves. While everyone
seems to be talking about “The Cloud” in excited
tones, do we really understand what it’s all about?
iStart helps demystify what it all means and
navigates a clear path through all the hype.
What are the implications of ‘going public’
and staying private? By Chris Bell
http://www.istart.com.au
Ctrls delineates how organizations are moving towards Virtualization and Cloud Computing to optimize their IT Infrastructure needs. Benefits such as cost effectiveness, scalability on demand, moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model and increased returns on investments have made virtualization a lucrative datacenter option.
Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4 HD which is a 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server. This powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud
deployments. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improve your business environment and help save operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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This Redbook talks through the benefits and product specification of IBM System x3500 M4. The x3500 M4 offers a flexible, scalable design and simple upgrade path to 32 HDDs, with up to eight PCIe 3.0 slots and up to 768 GB of memory. A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the IBM System x3500 M4, can deliver the scalability, reliable performance, and optimized efficiency for your business-critical applications. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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Learn about IBM PureFlex Sytem and VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite. The IBM PureFlex System platform has been used to meet the hardware requirements in support of this reference architecture. All the components required to support vCloud Suite (including computing, networking, storage, and management interfaces). For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
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Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Lean how Matters Stephen Leonard General Manager Global Markets IBM Systems elucidates the impact of IBM Flex system in businesses which can be instrumental in helping firms to cut their operational down cost. In simple terms “IBM Flex System represents an entirely new generation of technology, with more performance and bandwidth, true integrated enterprise SAN storage.
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Learn how Vernon Turner throws light on increased importance of Infrastructure in 2014. He further explains how IBM systems and servers can bring flexibilty, reliablity and time saving elements into one's business, thereby contributing towards their revenue generation. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
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UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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understanding and Leveraging Cloud Xcomputing
1. Cloud computing
To support your business objectives
Breaking through the haze: understanding
and leveraging cloud computing.
2. Intelligence explosion demands
a new computing model
A new, intelligent planet is developing around us — one that
enables us to move, interact and conduct business more
rapidly than ever before. In a world where almost anyone and
anything can connect to the Internet, we are seeing an explosion
of technology and information — and connected devices —
affecting our everyday lives. With all the added convenience this
intelligence explosion has wrought, it has also introduced new
levels of complexity. For instance:
• Organizations are facing accelerating business change, global competitive pressures
and social responsibility demands.
• IT delivery has grown more challenging due to technology changes, increasing end-
user sophistication and rapid information growth.
• Users accessing services via Internet technologies expect a secure, “always-on”
computing infrastructure that delivers as easily and reliably as electricity from a wall
outlet, requiring a fundamental change in how services are delivered.
2
3. Organizations are striving Rapid service delivery management. Its fundamental tie to
service management will help drive
to reach their full potential and “anywhere, lower cost of ownership, improved
by rapidly implementing anytime access” security, higher service quality and
innovative business models characterize clouds service “elasticity” to meet demand.
while lowering IT barriers In addition, as more IT resources are
Cloud computing provides a means
added, a cloud-based infrastructure
to innovation and change. of delivering computing services that
can reduce incremental labor costs
Accomplishing these goals makes the underlying technology,
to nearly zero.
beyond the user device, almost
calls for a new, dynamic
invisible. And because it allows appli-
computing model that The focus on the user experience is
cations and services to be uncoupled
also a huge part of the excitement
enables rapid innovation for from the underlying infrastructure,
and benefit of cloud computing. A
applications, services and enabling the business to adjust quickly
simplified user interface and SOA
to change, cloud computing can be
service delivery. foundation make clouds the delivery
part of a strategy to create a more
model with the “anywhere, anytime,
dynamic enterprise.
just the way I want it” promise. Cloud
computing makes sense for many
Cloud computing can also enhance
businesses, but it’s important to
initiatives for implementing service
understand the types of clouds that
oriented architecture (SOA), data
are available and which is most desir-
center optimization and information
able, given your business goals.
A transformation of the data center is needed
Accelerated pace of business
model changes supported by
Data Operational issues have
technology innovations
center IT at a break point
3
4. Unravel the cloud The other model of cloud computing, business models that include integrated
called a “private” cloud-based service, services from different providers (public
confusion — public offers many of the benefits of a public and private) to support and drive busi-
versus private cloud computing environment. The ness innovation and IT optimization.
Most of what is publicized about cloud difference is that in a private cloud-
computing focuses on the concept of based service, data and processes
Work with IBM, a
public clouds, which are character- are managed within the organization
without the restrictions of network
leading provider of
ized as being available via an outside
service provider. Public clouds can bandwidth, security exposures and private and public
provide the ability to scale rapidly regulatory compliance concerns that
cloud technology
with minimal up-front cost and offer
1 using public cloud services across
IBM has long been on the forefront of
an infrastructure that meets needs for open, public networks might entail. In
developing private and public cloud
rapid innovation. They also enable end addition, private cloud services can
technology and offering public cloud
users to access computing resources offer the provider and the user greater
services, and can provide real-world
(applications, storage, processing control, improving security and resil-
experience helping organizations
power, data) when they are needed iency2 as user access and the networks
implement their own clouds. IBM
and for as long as they are needed, are restricted and designated.
also has first-hand experience imple-
in an attractive, pay-for-what-you-use
menting cloud computing centers
model. Some service providers offer Deciding which type of cloud is right for
around the world, including Dublin,
applications targeted for end users, your environment is an important first
Ireland; Beijing, China; Johannesburg,
such as e-mail and calendaring. Others step in evaluating cloud computing for
South Africa; Tokyo, Japan; and
offer unique business applications, your company. It’s important to under-
several other locations.
like providing developers with access stand which workloads are best suited
to shared development platforms with to take advantage of its benefits. And
For the past five years, IBM has hosted
high resource scalability, to create and it’s important to understand the envi-
“enterprise-class” cloud services
enhance applications. ronment in which those workloads can
for clients via its IBM Computing on
perform — public or private. We also
Demand (CoD) offering. With global
anticipate the development of various
4
5. Is cloud computing right
centers located in the financial hubs
of New York, London and Tokyo, IBM
is able to service clients that need
secure, flexible computing resources for your organization?
on an hourly, weekly or yearly basis.
In addition, IBM can meet the essen- Cloud computing can be beneficial in three key areas:
tial needs of a business, no matter
the size, with cloud services like IBM Business innovation — Cloud computing fosters business innovation by
Arsenal Digital Solutions that provide enabling organizations to quickly and cost-effectively explore the potential
information protection services, and of new, IT-enabled business enhancements that can grow with unprec-
the IBM pilot program, “Bluehouse,” an edented scale.
innovative and powerfully intuitive set of
cloud-based business applications. Service delivery — Cloud computing enables the dynamic availability of
IT applications and infrastructure. More rapid service delivery results from
the ability to orchestrate the tasks to create, configure, provision and add
Examine
computing power in support of IT and business services much more quickly
infrastructure than would be possible with today’s computing infrastructure. Enhanced
requirements before service delivery reinforces efforts for customer retention, faster time to market
and horizontal market expansion. Cloud computing can enhance SOA, infor-
adopting cloud
mation management and service management initiatives, which also support
computing your service delivery initiatives.
Unlike other companies, IBM
approaches cloud computing from the IT optimization — Cloud computing supports massive scalability. Services
perspective that you need a trusted can be quickly expanded or contracted without requiring major overhauls
foundation on which to build the most to the core data center. The benefits include lower cost of ownership, which
secure, efficient and resilient service drives higher profitability, enabling you to more easily reinvest in your infra-
platform, utilizing cloud computing structure and answer the question, “how do I do more with fewer resources?”
where appropriate. Other vendors begin
with the user interface and largely
ignore the importance of the underlying
infrastructure.
5
6. A question organizations must ask is, SOA — Reusing and sharing compo-
can a cloud infrastructure support our nents to deliver services is a required
future needs for service delivery and part of any effective cloud computing
demand? By examining your infrastruc- environment. In a cloud, those shared
ture needs, you help ensure that the components can be sourced on the
service environment you build today will Internet, through any provider, and
stand the test of time. organizations can choose to only pay
for the components that they need.
Review a checklist for
Service management — A fully
cloud computing optimized data center demands a
For any organization looking to adopt a solid service management platform,
cloud computing model, following are deployed with industry best practices,
some key considerations: that supports business processes,
usage tracking for purposes of billing
Data center maturity — The key is an or chargeback, applications and IT
organization’s ability to integrate cloud infrastructure. Service management
computing into a broader strategy and is request-driven and can allocate
architected plan to align IT resources services, dynamically move and opti-
closely with overall business goals, mize workloads and data across the
objectives and needs. In some cases, shared infrastructure, and integrate
cloud computing may be the answer for added resources to scale with very
receiving and/or delivering services. In little, if any, intervention by cloud
other cases, leveraging the underlying service provider personnel.
technologies may be the most appro-
priate choice.
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7. Information on demand — To achieve
Choose experience record for transitioning data centers
the goal of an optimized data center, to new levels of reliability and perfor-
organizations must be able to provide
and expertise for mance is well documented.
easy-yet-secure information access. your cloud computing
A private cloud supports more secure
implementation — Using a global network of skills and
information access by allowing orga- technology expertise, IBM offers a
nizations to access components of
choose IBM broad range of assessment services
information from the cloud and popu- IBM leverages a collection of enabling and cloud computing solutions. The
lating it into their servers — all while technologies and services to create IBM approach to cloud computing is
keeping the service completely trans- the cloud computing experience for predicated on real-world experience,
parent to users. its customers in data center, service offering trusted solutions and expertise
provider and cloud-hosted environ- to help you use cloud computing to
Green IT — The inherently shared envi- ments. Organizations working with IBM accelerate innovation, connect people
ronment in a cloud supports resource have the flexibility to establish their own and provide an effective and creative
optimization and virtualization — both cloud computing centers on premises service delivery model.
of which help cut down on energy and within their firewalls, leveraging the
benefits of security and resiliency that a
usage and associated costs. If greener
For more information
is your goal, cloud computing can private cloud offers.
For more information about imple-
support that.
menting cloud computing in your
A leading provider of technology
organization, contact your IBM repre-
Web 2.0/social networking — Cloud including SOA, information manage-
sentative or IBM Business Partner, or
computing is a service delivery model ment, service management and
visit ibm.com/cloud or ibm.com/
that supports Web 2.0 by helping security, IBM offers the services, prod-
cloudcomputing
organizations design the infrastructure ucts and solutions to help you create
around the end-user experience — a clear, reliable roadmap toward
including information optimization. building and using cloud computing to
enhance these areas. The IBM track
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