Blockchain As A Service
Businesses need to find ways in order to get ahead; by taking on new
technology, they can gain an edge. Blockchain can be a very complicated
technology, but with the right Blockchain as a service solution, it should not
get in the way of your business goals and objectives. If you are looking to get
started quickly without having to know too much about Blockchain or how
Blockchain works, then make sure that your Blockchain platform is easy for you
to use. Blockchain as a service should be easy to understand and use so that you
can get up and running right away. Blockchain is easy enough for everyone,
including business owners who may not have much experience working with
blockchain technology. However, if you want your Blockchain platform to provide
the possible functionality, ease of use is important. The Blockchain wants your
business will run on may not be compatible with the Blockchain platform that you
want to work on. Make sure that the Blockchain platform you choose is compatible
with the technologies that your business uses.
Why Data Operations Platforms Can't Survive without Governance
Data operations (DataOps) is a data management methodology that improves an
organization's efficiency and profitability by applying agile techniques to the
workflows that derive business value from data. It leverages a combination of
processes and technologies to reduce data friction, improve business agility,
and increase security, integrity, and reliability throughout the data pipeline.
However, to achieve increased productivity, a DataOps system has to ensure that
the data is governed throughout its life cycle as it moves through increasingly
complex pipelines and analytics workflows. Data governance is another data
management concept that focuses on the necessary people, processes, and
technologies to ensure the availability, usability, integrity, and security of
enterprise data, based on internal data standards and policies. Effective data
governance ensures that data is consistent, trustworthy, and appropriately used
by data consumers. Data governance focuses on the organizational strategies,
roles, and policies that define who can take what action on what data, in which
situations, using what methods.
5 considerations for saving more and wasting less on cloud services
Data on the historical usage of resources for a product or project is key to
getting an understanding of the basic needs for your engineering and developer
teams to plan and select commitments. However, it is often overlooked that past
resource utilization will not always reflect future usage. Changes in business
strategy, right-sizing or migration plans, and other external factors can lead
to a drastic deviation from historical usage patterns. The net result is either
over committing to resources and wasting money, or under-committing and missing
savings opportunities. To anticipate potential deviations from historical usage,
consider modeling the impact of different scenarios on usage and costs. Scenario
planning is a nuanced activity that takes place between engineering, finance,
and operations teams. Inputs such as right-sizing, migration, re-architecting,
new projects, business growth, and financial best practices need to supplement
historical data in estimating future costs and cloud service savings and usage
to avoid over or under-commitment to services.
Vast Data Eyes A Role In The Data Center Beyond Storage
Vast Data views itself as a data company, he says. Looking at spectrum of
storage systems available, some are more intelligent and evolved than others.
“File systems are more evolved then than block storage systems are or J-Bots
and what you have are essentially data management systems,” Denworth says. “We
realized that we could take that far beyond the classic definitions of a file
system, but the realization was that the architecture that has the most
intimate understanding of data can make the best decisions about what to do
with that data. First by determining what’s inside of it. Second of all, by
either moving the data to where the compute is or the compute to where the
data is, depending upon what the most optimized decision is at any given
time.” There is a “classic IT stack that infrastructure teams have been
running for forever, products like VMware and Oracle and EMC,” he
says.
The opportunities and challenges of data center industry in 2022
The data center industry is gearing up for broader adoption of liquid cooling
tech in 2022. The demand from powerful new hardware for AI workloads, pressure
to eliminate water use in cooling servers, and also the progress of liquid
cooling tech are prompting an overhaul of the current systems. Microsoft has
already started using immersion-cooled servers in production on its campus in
Quincy, Washington. The company had been testing cooling technology used in
bitcoin mining facilities. Here, servers are dunked in tanks of cooling fluid
to manage rising heat. “We are the first cloud provider that is running
two-phase immersion cooling in a production environment,” said Husam Alissa,
principal hardware engineer, Microsoft’s data center team. In November,
Digital Realty also started offering liquid-cooled servers in Digital Loyang 1
(SIN11) facility, Singapore and slashed the power consumption to up to 29 per
cent compared with the conventional air-cooled servers. Advancements like
Metaverse calls for dense compute, varying latencies, and massive storage
requirements.
McAfee Bug Can Be Exploited to Gain Windows SYSTEM Privileges
According to the advisory, McAfee Agent “contains a privileged service that
uses this OpenSSL component. A user who can place a specially crafted
openssl.cnf file at an appropriate path may be able to achieve arbitrary code
execution with SYSTEM privileges.” Dormann found that an unprivileged user
could exploit the bug to place a specially crafted openssl.cnf in a location
used by McAfee Agent and thus potentially be able to execute arbitrary code
with SYSTEM privileges on a Windows system that has the vulnerable McAfee
Agent software installed. When Dormann referred to an openssl.cnf, he was
talking about an OpenSSL configuration file: a file that provides SSL defaults
for items such as certificate files locations, and site details such as those
entered during installation. The second bug in the Agent – tracked as
CVE-2021-31854 and given a CVSS criticality rating of 7.7 – can be exploited
by a local user to inject arbitrary shell code into a file, McAfee said in its
advisory.
Cisco chases quantum tech
Of particular interest to Cisco is future development of quantum-based
networks, data centers, and internet technologies. “Quantum networking could
enable a new type of secure connection between digital devices, making them
impenetrable to hacks,” Centoni stated. “As this type of foolproof security
becomes achievable with quantum networking, it could lead to better fraud
protection for transactions. In addition, this higher quality of secure
connectivity may also be able to protect voice and data communications from
any interference or snooping. All of these possibilities would re-shape the
internet we know and use today.” Looking closer, Cisco’s vision is
twofold--to build quantum data centers that could use classic local area
network concepts to tie together quantum computers to communicate to solve
big problems or a quantum-based network that transmitsquantum bits [qubits]
from quantum servers at high-speeds to handle commercial-grade applications,
said Ramana Kompella a Distinguished Engineer and the head of research in
the Emerging Tech and Incubation group at Cisco.
Should we stop trying to make Open Banking happen when it’s not going to happen?
While Boden’s views dominated headlines at the end of last year, what hasn’t
been covered in as much depth is what was said by others present,
particularly those in the CMA9 – the group of nine banks that were the first
to be involved in the UK’s Open Banking experiment. John Collins, chief
legal and regulatory officer at Santander UK, commented on Open Banking and
stated that, “Open banking has been slow, but it is a good example of banks
and fintechs getting together and working out where the opportunity is for
the consumer in the future. We need to focus on doubling down, with the
infrastructure now in place, and proving the use case, not pursuing all the
connoisseurs’ points and the smaller scenarios right now.” Collins here is
saying that we can still use utilise the Open Banking initiatives, perhaps
not for what was originally planned. Rather than focusing on making a
concept that has been mandated happen, banks should be looking at how to use
that technology effectively and ensure progress.
Bluprint Teaches Kids to Code JavaScript in the Metaverse
The Bluprint metaverse comes pre-populated with objects and characters,
which have code that can quickly be viewed and altered. It gives users a
different way to interact with and learn code, one that can be layered from
one level of difficulty to the next. “We can actually scaffold the learning
by saying: step one, look at the code and change something little about it
(a string, a number) and then see what effect that has on its behavior. Or
maybe add a new behavior by adding a couple of methods, or just activating
them in some way, and see if that can work,” said Chopra. “It’s about
changing something you see, it’s about adding something, and then,
eventually, it’s about authoring things from scratch.” The Bluprint
metaverse is built with security and privacy in mind for its users (seeing
as they’re often below the age of 12), and the worlds that they build are
invite-only, with parental controls built-in. In terms of coding safety,
Bitsbox and Bluprint co-founder Scott Lininger explained that “Kids can
write any JavaScript they like.
All in the Data: Ways to Improve Your Data
Data by itself has no meaning or context. If you are provided a piece of
data – let’s say “01229” is that data – you have no knowledge of what that
data represents without any description or information about that data. Is
it a quantity, an amount, an address, a calculated field, or something
completely different? The data, your data, has no meaning unless context is
provided. That context, in the field of data management, is metadata. Now
put yourself if the position of a corporate executive that is viewing their
daily production dashboard, or a manager that is needs to make a decision
based on data they receive in a report. These people must trust and have
confidence in the data they use. That confidence comes from their knowledge
about the data, or in other words, the metadata that helps the organization
to improve its data. Organizations that strive to become data-centric or
data-driven are introducing policies that spell out that data is an asset
and how it will be governed. Organizations are concentrating on changing
their cultures when it comes to data, and there is a push for organizations
to become more data literate.
Quote for the day:
"Each day you are leading by
example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or
negative, you are influencing those around you." -- Rob Liano
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