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New biotech incubator welcomes expressions of interest – BioPharma-Reporter.com

Open to start-ups across Australia and internationally, the incubator will give participants access to industry expertise and specialized lab and clinical facilities and infrastructure to develop and commercialize innovations.

It will be Australias first and only incubator that is co-located with a leading biopharmaceutical company, pledging to provide all of the wrap around support start-ups need to translate medical research into new treatments and therapies.

The incubator will be open to applications from small biotech companies who have engaged in early research and are seeking to take their discoveries to the next stage of development.

Created by global biotech CSL, biomedical research institute WEHI and The University of Melbourne, the incubator will be operated by Sydney-based Cicada Innovations (twice named top incubator in the world by International Business Incubator Association, Cicada has helped incubated start-ups raise over $1.5bn in funding, achieve over $1.3bn in exits and trade sales, file over 600 patents, and launch over 700 innovations globally).

Located over two floors of CSLs new corporate headquarters being built in the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, the incubator will provide affordable, state-of-the-art wet-lab facilities, equipment and office space to start-ups. The incubator will be embedded alongside seven floors of laboratory and clinical manufacturing space supporting CSLs own R&D program.

Cicada will provide a range of services, including commercialization education programs, facilitated access to investors, industry mentoring and access to service providers for incubator residents, ensuring the creation and ongoing success of a vibrant biotech ecosystem within the incubator.

The incubator will be able to accommodate up to 40 early-stage companies from around Australia and internationally.

CSLs Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Andrew Nash said incubator residents will benefit from Cicadas operational expertise and proven track record of incubator management as well as its location within CSLs new R&D hub.

The strong collaboration between CSL, the University of Melbourne, WEHI, Breakthrough Victoria and now Cicada Innovations has been critical to bring the incubator to fruition and reflects CSLs values and desire to deliver on our promise to patients worldwide.

"As Australias largest biotech, we can share our extensive knowledge with resident biotech start-ups who will have access to the wrap around support they need to translate their medical research into new treatments and therapies, he said.

Start-ups interested in applying for residence in the incubator are invited to email incubator@csl.com.au.

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Questioning the Cloud Value Proposition | No Jitter – No Jitter

According to Wall Street and the quarterly reports filed by many top technology companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, cloud growth decelerated in the quarter that just ended. The growth of cloud computing has slowed a bit this year, The Wall Street Journal admitted, and most tech publications sing the same tune. Some people are now questioning whether the cloud was cheaper, as was claimed, than the data center. It may not be time to abandon the cloud, but it sure sounds like we need to look at it more closely.

Lets start with a basic truth. If youre an enterprise with a data center that contains hundreds of rack-mounted servers, and youre looking at the price of running an application instance in a virtual machine in your data center versus in the cloud, the data center will be cheaper. You can get almost the same economies of scale as an enterprise as a cloud provider could achieve, and you dont have to pay the cloud providers profit margins.

So, the cloud is a massive fraud? Not so fast. If you have an application, not a single instance, that has to support consumer access via the Internet, and you want to host the application somewhere, that same cloud is almost certainly going to be cheaper. Why? Because the application will need to scale to the maximum number of users expected, and providing that scalability in your own data center means buying a bunch of servers that wont be used most of the time. The clouds scalability is based on resources shared across all its users, so its more efficient.

There is a legitimate reason to use cloud resources. The current trends toward direct online product information and sales support encourage the building of applications that have to scale significantly and so are reasonable candidates for public cloud hosting. Whats not legitimate is the often-expressed view that everything is moving to the cloud. What we are seeing now is proof thats not the case.

Suppose the cloud was really cheaper, and that everything in the data center could run in the cloud at a lower cost. Here we are in an economic downturn, and yet companies are decelerating their cloud adoption. Forget savings, they say, and toss out that cheaper cloud option! Nonsense. Clearly, a cheaper cloud would be adopted more, not less, often. But suppose that the clouds growth depends not on overall cheapness, but on enterprises shifting to an online marketing/sales model. If were in that same economic downturn, wouldnt it be smart to wait till things look better before we start our new online program? The result is a slowing of cloud growth.

Or suppose youre a social media company whose revenues come from ads. Do your advertisers, seeing the threat of an economic downturn, decide to up their spending, so you can up your cloud spending? Doubtful, so what really happens is that they cut their spending, and you cut yours. Cloud providers revenues dont grow as fast as a result.

The signals from the market are clear; cloud spending depends on consumers online activity. Its the variation in these consumer workloads that makes an application a candidate for the cloud. If lower overall cloud costs were driving adoption, the same companies would accelerate a movement to the cloud. In fact, wed have converted to the cloud long ago.

OK, so everything isnt moving to the cloud. Whats the action item? For IT and network planners, including CIOs, the truth about the cloud raises two questions. First, what actually happens to applications that, instead of being run either in the cloud or data center, must now be run with a foot in both worlds? Second, if the role of the WAN is to connect the cloud piece of applications to the data center piece, what does the network of the future actually look like?

The questions here are as important as their answers. What theyre showing is that the network of the future is being framed by application software decisions rather than by things like the location of workers or facilities. As the cloud becomes the universal on-ramp for applications, how the cloud relates to workers and relates to the data center (outwards to the workers and inwards to the data center) establishes network policy.

What seems inevitable is that nearly all application access will move to the cloud, that mission-critical transaction processing and databases will remain in the data center, and that the Internet on the outside, and cloud-to-data-center connections on the inside will be the WAN of the future. In fact, the current cloud evolution could have a major impact on MPLS VPN services by siphoning traffic off VPNs and onto the Internet.

Is the basic value of the cloud under threat? No, the coverage of the cloud is whats questionable. Weve accepted facile views of cloud benefits that never had any basis, and were now struggling to understand the real benefits of the cloud. Cloud benefits are more complicated, so they take more than a few soundbites to communicate. The moral here is that the cloud, as it gets more pervasive, mature, and advanced, also gets more complicated, and we have to accept it will take some effort to deal with that. Once we do, then the real future of the cloud will become clear.

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CloudWave acquires Sensato to expand its healthcare cybersecurity portfolio – Help Net Security

CloudWave acquires Sensato Cybersecurity, bringing together cloud hosting services and managed Cybersecurity-as-a-Service for healthcare organizations.

Sensato was founded by long-time health information technology visionary John Gomez, who will join CloudWave as chief security and engineering officer.

Sensato developed a fully integrated Cybersecurity-as-a-Service platform (CaaS) that features an innovative solution stack to provide real-time network monitoring, intrusion detection, and asset fingerprinting along with a 247 Security Operations Center designed specifically for healthcare infrastructure and connected devices. It will be available immediately as part of CloudWaves new Sensato Cybersecurity suite.

As healthcare organizations are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals, CloudWaves Sensato Cybersecurity suite provides a level of security that combines the ability to comply with best practices and regulations, detect threats, and respond to cybersecurity incidents in a fully integrated and easy to deploy holistic platform.

The Sensato Cybersecurity suite is a natural fit with CloudWaves OpSus Cloud Services. It will enable hospitals to implement a fully managed cybersecurity program, resulting in full HIPAA and NIST compliance, with end-to-end service and support from a single provider.

The companys Cybersecurity Tactical Operations Center (CTOC), a next generation SOC, employs a tactical approach to cybersecurity with continuous monitoring by cybersecurity analysts, while also incorporating machine learning.

The blending of operations for cybersecurity and cloud service delivery into a single extended healthcare ecosystem, spanning public cloud, private cloud and on-premises healthcare technology environments is unprecedented and provides a seamless, enhanced experience to customers.

As a managed cloud service provider to hundreds of hospitals, CloudWave has witnessed how devastating a cyber event can be to healthcare organizations. Unfortunately, the frequency of these attacks continues to risean increasing number of customers have called upon CloudWave for rapid response services to help halt and remediate cyberattacks on their on-premises systems in just the last two years, said Erik Littlejohn, president and CEO of CloudWave.

With the addition of the innovative, proprietary technologies included in the Sensato Cybersecurity suite, along with the cyber expertise of the Sensato team, CloudWave will be able to offer customers the high-level cybersecurity we provide for our cloud-based delivery to on-premises systems., Littlejohn continued.

Rich Temple, vice president, CIO at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ, commented, The Sensato Cybersecurity suite offers a level of healthcare data protection to hospitals that would be difficult to implement on our own. Theres peace of mind in knowing that our systems are being monitored and protected by an experienced team of cybersecurity specialists.

He continued, As a long-time CloudWave customer, we know that having a single partner for services delivery of our cloud-hosted applications and our on-premises cybersecurity systems and support simplifies our IT operations significantly.

CloudWave is the independent cloud and managed EHR hosting provider in healthcare and has been delivering secure IT services to the healthcare market via the cloud for more than a decade. The company is 100% focused on healthcare with more than 250 hospital environments currently managed in the public cloud and the OpSus private cloud.

CloudWave also employs a defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity. Its Sensato Cybersecurity suite and CTOC further fortifies the OpSus Cloud Services platform and provides complete, managed cybersecurity as a service to customers.

Were excited to become part of the CloudWave family, said John Gomez. The promise of what well be able to collaboratively provide to the healthcare community with our combined expertise securing and delivering IT services is beyond measure.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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5 things you need to know about re:Invent, AWS’s biggest cloud event of the year – About Amazon

Thousands of cloud-computing fans will convene in Las Vegas from November 28 through December 2 for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) 11th re:Invent cloud conference. Each year, re:Invent features leader keynotes, new service announcements, fun, and inspiration. Here are five things to know about this years re:Invent:

re:Invent is AWSs biggest cloud event of the year, and an opportunity to check out all the latest news and developments in compute, databases, analytics, machine learning, and storage. You can follow all the key announcements, and get a peek at the newest cloud technologies from AWS at the Amazon Press Center.

After going virtual in 2020, and offering a hybrid event in 2021, re:Invent is offering more in-person events so all attendeesfrom customers to partners to aspiring technologistscan learn from experts and each other. The team has designed an in-person program with nearly 2,300 sessions. To ensure the conference is as inclusive as possible, AWS is live-streaming all keynotes and leadership sessions for virtual attendees. All presentations, including breakout sessions, will be captioned and broadcasted. To catch the re:Invent action remotely, register to virtually attend.

AWS leaders, including CEO Adam Selipsky, will host keynotes, announcing the latest product launches and sharing inspiring customer stories. Other keynote speakers include Amazon Chief Technology Officer Dr. Werner Vogels, Senior Vice President of AWS Utility Computing Peter DeSantis, Vice President of AWS Worldwide Channels and Alliances Ruba Borno, and Vice President of AWS Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning Swami Sivasubramanian. In total, re:Invent will feature 22 leadership sessions. Check out the full agenda.

At its heart, re:Invent is a learning conference, offering builder labs, bootcamps, gamified learning, and hundreds of technical sessions, from the introductory to the most advanced. Attendees get to dive deep with new technologies, and they can practice new ways of working and hone their skills alongside their cloud-community peers.

Participants will have opportunities to explore demos and interact with technology, including meeting a robot bar-keep, seeing a basketball free-throw analyzer, and playing a cloud-skills game. AWS is also hosting a showcase for sustainability, which highlights how technology is being used to address challenges like water conservation and decarbonizing operations. And the AWS Disaster Response rolling laba technology-packed truckshows the benefits of cloud capabilities during disaster responses. Finally, attendees can catch the annual AWS DeepRacer League Championship, where machine learning meets model cars racing autonomously around a tough track.

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GoZone WiFi and Forum Info-Tech Provide Toyota Arena and Ontario Convention Center with Innovative Portfolio of IT Solutions to Self-Manage, Automate…

Stadiums and Convention Center Venues Benefit from New Ways to Monetize and Differentiate their Facilities

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. & CORONA, Calif., November 29, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GoZone WiFi, the leader in WiFi monetization and management tools, and Forum Info-Tech, a top 100 managed service provider (MSP), today announced that the two companies are working together to provide the Toyota Arena and Ontario Convention Center with advanced IT and WiFi solutions. Toyota Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Ontario, CA, hosting local sporting events and concerts including the Ontario Clippers, and the Ontario Convention Center is a full-service, state-of-the-art convention facility used for conventions, trade shows, exhibits and meetings.

GoZone WiFi and Forum Info-Tech are helping to drive revenue and connect with Wi-Fi users that exhibit or attend events at large facilities like the Toyota Arena and Ontario Convention Center using GoZones Smart WiFi Suite of guest analytics solutions and Forum Info-Techs IT products and services. These combined solutions offer these venues with updated IT services and the ability to self-manage and automate the onboarding of any type of user including exhibitors, guests, fans, contractors, and all their IoT devices.

"We are excited to partner with Forum Info-Tech to provide Toyota Arena with our combined innovative guest analytic and IT solutions," said Todd Myers, Founder and CEO, GoZone WiFi. "GoZones solutions for stadium and Convention Center facilities like Toyota Arena and Ontario Convention Center provide these venues with the opportunity to increase concession revenues, drive future attendance and make informed staffing decisions. In addition, these venues can better understand traffic flow and attendee behavior and apply that data to event layout and design. They also can showcase event sponsors with interactive ads, drive app downloads, and provide advertiser attribution."

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"GoZone Wi-Fi helps Forum Info-Tech add an additional layer of service for our Managed IT Service venues like the Toyota Arena and Ontario Convention Center. In addition to providing onsite and co-managed IT services for their computer networks, workstation support, and cloud hosting and security compliance, we have found that GoZone Wi-Fi provides Forum Info-Tech the logical extension of taking care of the venues Wi-Fi to provide an incredible and hassle-free WiFi experience for both the venue and those attending events," added Biren Shukla, President and CEO, Forum Info-Tech.

About GoZone:

GoZone WiFi is a SaaS company and leader in monetizing and managing Guest WiFi. The company offers business analytics, venue intelligence and guest engagement by using WiFi networks to deliver branded content, provide customer analytics, and display advertising. GoZones Smart WiFi Suite of products enables WiFi monetization through rich location data, marketing engagements, and third-party sponsorships. GoZones venue intelligence enables enterprises to strategically refine operations, bridging the gap between marketing and IT. Learn more at GoZoneWiFi.com.

About Forum Info-Tech:

Forum Info-Tech specializes in educating our clients on the information technology options available to ease business IT concerns and implement the best solution. Our professional scope ranges from engineering and implementing on-premise network solutions, designing and migrating to cloud solutions, business continuity, and data recovery solutions, and consulting on various IT projects. Our network and technical engineers combined experience allows us to successfully provide custom, affordable solutions to our valued clients. For more information, please learn more at http://www.foruminfotech.net.

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How Cloud Computing Will Drive The Future Of Data Analytics – HostReview.com

Cloud computing and data analytics are the present-day superheroes that can run a business solely on their shoulders. Since the introduction of cloud services in 2006, it has evolved so much, and many big players in the tech industry, like Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Adobe almost all tech giants, big and small, are offering cloud services at various levels.

Data analytics, on the other hand, is the study of statistics and is as old as pyramids, literally! Ancient Egyptians used census statistics for the building of pyramids. Statistics played an important role for governments all over the world in the creation and classification of censuses, distribution of goods, and collection of taxes et al. Data analysis is the process of collecting data from various sources and studying it to extract useful information.

With the introduction of computers, the power of computation has increased tremendously, and it helped data analysis to look deep into the data to find various answers that can be benefitted from. While cloud computing is a modern technological marvel, data analysis existed long before. Before finding out the combined power of the two, lets look at their strengths to understand them better.

Cloud Computing:

Cloud computing had given all business enterprises the option of not buying a cow when they need a packet of milk. The analogy may seem funny, but that was the case with all the businesses before the cloud. Previously, business enterprises used to spend a bomb on IT infra, most of which was used just as a backup to face any eventualities or when the situation demands. When not in use, these IT resources used to occupy a lot of space and waste a lot of energy in terms of the power they consume and, eventually the money. Cloud services have eliminated all this wastage by simply offering every IT resource as a service. Now, businesses can buy a service and pay for what they use and need not own that IT infrastructure.

Cloud computing services are mainly of 3 types. Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS, where businesses can rent infrastructure like servers, networks, virtual machines, operating systems, and storage without having to buy these costly entities. This way, the businesses like e-commerce platforms can make use of these services by scaling up or down depending on the demand; for example, during festive seasons, they can scale up the resources as the traffic is expected to peak, and on other occasions when the traffic is low, they can scale down the resources. This saves a ton of burden for the businesses as they need not worry about scaling their hardware and can concentrate on other important business aspects. Thats one use of cloud computing, scalability of hardware on demand!

The second category of cloud computing service is Platform as a Service, PaaS. The cloud service offers a complete development framework and deployment environment for any web application for the customers. Just like in IaaS, PaaS also includes infrastructure such as servers, networks, and storage, and in addition also includes development tools, database management services DBMS, business intelligence BI tools, and all the middleware required to build and maintain a complete web application lifecycle right from inception, build, test, deploy, manage and update! IaaS is a subset of PaaS in the sense that PaaS offers all the services of IaaS and more.

The third category of cloud computing service is Software as a Service, SaaS where the cloud provider hosts a software application for the end users to make good of it for a price. The software provider can either host the software application, and all the related databases using its own servers and resources and offer services like Microsoft Azure or, in the case of an independent software vendor, ISV can use a cloud provider's help to host his application. These applications can typically be accessed through web browsers and used by B2B and B2C users. SaaS is a superset of IaaS and PaaS.

By using any of the cloud-mentioned computing services, a business can benefit in many ways. The first and foremost benefit of using cloud services would be a drastic cutting in IT costs. Scalability is another main advantage of using a cloud-based service. Also, since cloud services can be accessed from anywhere, businesses can longer confine their manpower to offices alone. The manpower can be scattered anywhere and can work using an internet connection.

This mobility can especially be useful for startups and small businesses where employees can work from anywhere with any device cutting significant costs on premise rent and other amenities. One of the most important benefits of hosting your data on the cloud is security. On-site data storage is as good as the hardware on which it resides and is vulnerable but when you move your data to a cloud, you can rest assured as long as your cloud provider is operational, your data is in safe hands. Cloud service providers offer data security not only from physical theft, natural disasters, and damage but also from hackers and data burglars.

The above gives you an idea of cloud services and how a business can benefit immensely. Lets move on to our next superhero of a business, data analytics.

Data analytics:

Have you ever encountered a puzzle on social media where you need to find a hidden figure embedded inside an image within 30 seconds and if you find it successfully, they claim you have extraordinary IQ? You might be familiar with finding the differences between two almost identical images in magazines or perhaps you would recollect those questions from a competitive exam where you need to find the number or shape that comes next in a series of numbers or shapes. Do you know what is the one thing that is required to solve these types of questions where at first these images, shapes, and numbers appear to be very ordinary and typical? Analytical observation! The ability to analyze the given data and arrive at a conclusion is called analytical thinking or observation.

Data analytics are used to analyze what appears to be meaningless, raw, and abstract data to discover, interpret, and communicate meaningful patterns from that data. The interpretations and patterns thus obtained can be used to optimize a business and can help perform it more efficiently by providing various insights. Since data will be huge and cannot be interpreted by humans, various techniques and processes used to interpret the data have been automated into various mechanical processes, and algorithms were designed to be used on raw data. Implementing data analytics in a business will optimize its performance in various ways such as reducing operational costs by identifying more efficient ways of conducting business, making better decisions, finding customer behaviors, and discovering new business opportunities and trends.

In todays digital age, every business needs data for its success as data conveys many important things. If a business ignores the data, it may miss out on some important opportunities or, even worse, may crash the business. Based on what type of analytics you use on the data, the same is divided into 4 major types. Descriptive analytics on data will give you a description of what happened in the past. This type of data analytics will help you look into what happened previously to plan a course of action. Diagnostic analytics of data will diagnose why and how something has happened, whether good or bad. If it is good, a business can follow it and if it is bad, a business can examine ways to prevent it. Predictive analytics predict future trends based on the current data. These predictions will help prepare businesses for big business opportunities or eventualities. Prescriptive analytics will help guide a business by offering various courses of action on how to proceed based on the given data.

All 4 categories of data analytics mentioned above will help a business to understand its current situation through descriptive analytics, how it got there through diagnostic analytics, where it is headed through predictive analytics, and finally, how to proceed further through prescriptive analytics. Depending on the problem you are facing in your business or trying to set the future goals of your business, you may choose all or some of the data analytics.

But to apply the various analytics, you need the raw material, which is data. The more data you analyze, the more accurate the results will be.

The combination:

Now that we have understood how a business can benefit from both cloud computing and data analytics, lets look at what the combination does to a business.

Theres an ocean of data, all right! But to mine those huge volumes of data and convert it into actionable info, you need to have a powerful infrastructure in-house, more so if the data is stored on-site. Applying data analytics on such in-house stored data is a daunting task. This is where the cloud comes in. Many cloud platforms offer storage solutions to move your enormous data onto the cloud. Not only that, apart from offering cloud-based storage solutions, these cloud platforms also offer integrated cloud analytics to apply to your data.This offers various benefits to a business, the first being not having a host of infrastructure at your premises. The second big benefit is you can easily build customized reports based on the geographical location of your business branches as the data pertaining to all these different locations is now available on the cloud. The third big advantage is the cloud analytics the cloud platform offers are much faster, more robust, and safe than the in-house ones. And lastly, the data will be safe and secure on a cloud rather than on-premise!

All these advantages of combining cloud computing with data analytics will increase the efficiency of a business by arriving at various action plans and staying ahead!

As far as the question of how cloud computing will drive the future of data analytics, it is already driving. In the future, too, we can see these two evolving superheroes shouldering many big businesses to their successes!

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SA’s online threats spiked in October – IT-Online

The November Edition of Trellixs Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing for South Africa has shown a dip from around 2,6-million total files detected in August, to 2,4-million in September, before shooting back up, past the 2,7-million mark, in October.

This top line data measured all files, including malicious and innocuous files, with public utilities, education institutions and financial services organisations recording the highest incidences.

On closer inspection, the volume of malicious threat campaigns saw a spike, from just over 5 000 files to over 20 000 in September and back down to over 10 000 in October. By far, the highest detected threat was of the MyKings Botnet Clipboard Stealer.

With South African investors entering the cryptocurrency market at a faster pace than ever, we are becoming a more attractive target for global cybercriminals as crypto has become their biggest target, says Carlo Bolzonello, country manager at Trellix South Africa. Alarmingly, the MyKings malware is aggressively used to install itself on machines to download crypto wallets and addresses, allowing hacking groups to clear out users crypto wallets.

Other common threats over the period include: An offspring of the Vega Stealer, the Zeppelin (Buran) ransomware group, which originated out of the United States and has proliferated globally, predominantly targeting the financial services and communications sectors.

Vice Society ransomware group is predominantly known for exploiting system vulnerabilities, especially where organisations may be slow to institute patches for prior threats. Threat actors will typically leverage access brokers, who sell the relevant tool on the dark web.

Crackonosh Malware, which is distributed in cracked software, as well as the Telerik UI Exploitation, which leads to malware infection by exploiting the ASP.net patch last updated in 2019.

Long-term trends

Two of the leading threat actors that have emerged in the South African landscape since the beginning of 2022 are the MuddyWaters Group and UNC1945, which target the banking, finance outsourcing, and hosting services, as well as utilities.Using similar techniques and some of the same tools (like Ligolo and impacket), these infiltrate environments to steal credentials. MuddyWaters might also go further, leaving ransomware in environments, while selling credentials on to third-parties, once acquired.

South Africa has seen a growing emergence of threat actors, using tools like CrackMapExec and BadPotato, which are quite openly available and conduct surreptitious vulnerability assessments of systems to access privileges, Bolzonello says. Other Threat Actors, like APT28 will go after cloud accounts and infrastructure, moving laterally on systems with minimal detection.

Staying abreast of some of these evolving threats will require a comprehensive strategy for cloud-hosted and on-premise threat detection using live data from security operations centres (SOC), he adds.

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Developing Applications in Space with Azure Orbital Space SDK – InfoQ.com

Microsoft recently announced the preview release of the Azure Orbital Space SDK to provide developers with a secure hosting platform and application toolkit designed to enable them to create, deploy, and operate applications on-orbit.

With the SDK, developers have access to templates, samples, and documentation to make it easy to get up and running with template applications for common workload patterns, such as earth observation image processing. In addition, a "virtual test harness" allows developers to quickly test their applications on the ground against an instance of the host platform.

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Furthermore, the blog post explains that developers can leverage the SDK to write and host more intelligent applications on-board satellite capturing data, use time more efficiently, and even autonomously reconfigure applications. The SDK provides a standard template for completing imaging activities, making it simpler to transfer models and applications from one satellite configuration to another - preventing developers from writing a new solution each time they launch a spacecraft application.

In addition, the SDK also enables more sophisticated management of satellite communications by providing a compute fabric with networking capabilities for hosting telecommunication workloads. Operators can migrate applications more quickly from on-ground cell sites to satellites in space, providing higher resiliency and network utilization.

Steven Kitay, a senior director at Microsoft Azure Space, told InfoQ:

At Microsoft, we are on a mission to combine the power of the cloud with the possibilities of space, and the SDK is the latest way to turn those possibilities into realities. The Azure Orbital Space SDK makes it easier for space developers to create secure applications that run on spacecraft. They can build applications to task, acquire, and process imagery and downlink it from satellites to ground stations. This approach has many benefits for developers and satellite operators alike, including saving time since the data is captured at the edge, allowing for reconfigurability, and providing satellite interoperability and scale.

Earlier in April, Microsoft launched the Azure Space Partner Community and disclosed its first space community partners, including Loft Orbital, Ball Aerospace, and Thales Alenia Space. With the SDK preview release, the company adds Xplore, who will help them continue to shape the future of space technologies and services. It includes leveraging the SDK to gather new insights into how edge computing solutions can better enable government and commercial customers to achieve their mission objectives. Furthermore, Microsofts existing community partners will leverage the SDK.

The Azure Orbital Space SDK is available via private preview for companies through the Azure Space Partner Community and universities through the Azure Space Academic Outreach Program.

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Here are 3 Advantages of Collaborating with a Colocation Data Centre – IndianWeb2.com

The pandemic that broke out in March 2020 altered the world in two waysfirst, on a global scale, where countries were struggling with collapse of healthcare sector, financial crisis, unemployment, etc. On the other hand, the lifestyle and everyday habits of people witnessed a drastic change.

In this article, we will bring under purview the multifarious advantages of collaborating with a colocation data centre. Every business and organization, be it large-scale or small-scale generates data which needs storage. Here, the enterprises have to take a callfirst, they can choose to build an in-house data centre, or they can get onboard with a colocation data centre.

In simple terms, collocation data centre is a service offered by a separate organization. Further, we have mentioned some of the many benefits and advantages of collaborating with a colocation data centre service provider:

Shared Space, Low Cost

A colocation data centre provides space and services to multiple businesses and organization in one single facility. Therefore, the total cost gets equally divided amongst all of them. This allows the organizations to earn a significant amount of profit which they can utilize in advancing their technology, equipment, infrastructure and more.

In contrast, when a company decides to invest in a server room or a personal data centre, it requires considerable amount of capital, labour, and constant supervision. Therefore, a colocation data centre emerges as a sweeping winner between the two.

Room for Growth and Expansion

Every business, be it small scale or large scale, has fluctuations in its growth trajectory. In other words, whenever an organization expands or condenses, the generated amount of data also changes. If a company owns a private data centre, they need to move around the servers and equipment on their own, which can prove to be a long and tedious task.

On the other hand, there are multiple operators and administrators in a colocation data centre who ensure that servers are installed and taken down in accordance with the need of the company. Thus, with a colocation data centre, the IT infrastructure can quickly expand to offer the required support within a minimum amount of investment.

Seamless Business Continuity

In a colocation data centre, data is optimally protected against disasters like flooding, fire, and more. In addition, stringent precautions are taken to ensure that the installed equipment does not overheat, for instance, integration of best-in-class cooling systems.

If you have your data stored in a colo facility, it gets much easier to create a quick fall-back scenario in emergency situations. This additional advantage enables employees to work from a temporary location in case of a mishap.

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Mayor Bowser Visits DC’s Advanced Technical Center, Announces Public School Enrollment at Highest Level in 15 Years | mayormb – Executive Office of…

(Washington, DC) Today, during a visit to the Districts Advanced Technical Center (ATC), Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the number of students enrolled in public schools in Washington, DC in the 2022-23 school year is at its highest level since the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) began doing a District-wide count of public school students in 2007. After enrollment remained mostly flat in the 2021-22 school year, the unaudited numbers show an overall increase of nearly 3% across DC or 2,638 more students compared to last years count.

We know that when we invest in our school communities and provide opportunities and programs that challenge and engage students, families trust us. When families trust us when they know that their children will be loved and challenged in our schools that benefits our entire community,said Mayor Bowser.As we continue through the process of reimagining the high school experience, the Advanced Technical Center is a good example of how we can work together, across sectors and with our partners in the community, to create opportunities that set students up for success in school and beyond graduation.

As part of todays announcement, Mayor Bowser visited students and staff at the Advanced Technical Center, which was launched at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year. The ATC, operated and managed by OSSE, is a centralized Career Technical Education (CTE) program, co-located on the campus of Trinity Washington University. The purpose of the ATC is to allow students to take high school and college level CTE courses in a two-year, dual enrollment pathway. By removing the barriers of equipment costs faced by many schools, the ATC allows students from all over the city to access coursework that they might not have been offered, without requiring them to transfer schools. The ATC reimagines the high school experience by giving students access to CTE pathways that prepare them for high-wage, high-skill, and in-demand careers.

During school year 2022-23, the ATC is located on the campus of Trinity Washington University. In subsequent school years, the ATC will be in a permanent location at the Penn Center building (1709 3rd Street NE). Any student in grades 9, 10, or 11 who attends a DCPS or public charter high school that receives federal Carl D. Perkins funding for their CTE programming is eligible to enroll in ATC courses.

Programs currently offered at the ATC include:

Preliminary Enrollment Numbers

Public School Enrollment Since 2007

These preliminary figures are heartening and reinforce that the best place for our children is in school with their excellent educators, said State Superintendent Dr. Christina Grant. As we continue to forge our path through recovery and into restoration, we are so grateful for our families, our educators and for the citys continued commitment to improving educational outcomes in all eight wards.

As the Districts state education agency, OSSE conducts an annual enrollment audit of public schools. The preliminary numbers above are based on a snapshot of data certified by local education agencies in October. This marks the beginning of an enrollment audit and certification process that takes several months and is conducted in collaboration with an independent auditor. The chart above tracks enrollment trends since 2007 with preliminary unaudited numbers for the 2022-23 school year. Final, audited enrollment figures will be published by OSSE in early 2023.

*Note: State-level enrollment subtotal does not equal DCPS + Charter totals due to student duplications. Duplications have been removed from the state level numbers but may still exist at the sector level in these preliminary, unaudited figures.

**These figures represent preliminary data. Final audited enrollment figures will be published by OSSE in early 2023.

VisitOSSEs websitefor moreenrollment dataand information about theannual enrollment audit.

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