A reader asked – is there a nail polish remover that is safe and good?
I must admit, I was caught on the hop. I've been using a simple drugstore brand for a while, considering it a cheap and, actually, quite a good option. Granted, it was drying out the skin, but then, I figured, which remover doesn't? Hold on.
Finally, the search was over, the contender was found, the nail polish was on since two days (and started chipping)! Ta-daa! Time for the text!
Ingredients: Alcohol denat., Ethyl Lactate, Ricinus Communis, Aqua (Water), Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Limonene, Linalool – except for natural citrous allergenes one is either sensitive to or not, the ingredients are non-toxic and the cleanest a nail polish can get, also – palm-oil free.
Promises on the packaging: None.
Scent: Fine orange aroma. No typical nail polish remover scent or let's be frank here: boyfriend-friendly.
Effect: Feels quite oily on the skin, dissolves two coats of nailpolish with one top-coat easily. Seems to be volatile: the cotton pad gets dry quite quickly.
Aftermath: No sensation of dryness or discomfort, there is a fine oil film on skin and nails, leaving them moistursed. Nevertheless I wash the hands afterwards; no dryness occurs. Totally thumbs up!
Ingredients: Ethyl Acetate, Alcohol denat., Aqua, Perfume, Caprylic/Capril Triglyceride, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Biotin. They are all considered safe, except that "perfume" is The Great Unknown and that Caprylic/Capril Triglyceride might be derived from palm oil.
Promise on the packaging: With Biotin and Argan Oil (true). Great for brittle nails (well, let's find out).
Scent: Typical remover scent, not too strong, but distinct.
Effect: Dissolves easily two coats of nailpolish with one top-coat.
Aftermath: Skin and nails look and feel very, very dry. The urge to wash hands and to slather on hand lotion is unbearable.
Hands down, definitely Santé. I'm really happy with the whole package – the formula, the effect, the packaging. The price could be somewhat lower, but I've already spotted it on sale (4,79€) at one of my fave online shops. Late night shopping, here I come!
For me the best (Santé) nail polish remover so far except the scent. I am not sure what it is; no doubt I love oranges, but… I really like the oily feeling and that it seems not to dry my dry nails even more.
and yet we're happy there's a good polish remover.
austerity can be very, very healthy. we need the place to spread the wings, and the emptiness for our ideas to echo.
so beautifully (and correctly) put.


Ranked as 103 on our all-time top downloads list with 62904 downloads.
Ranked as 94 on our top downloads list for the past seven days with 25 downloads.
Ranked as 184 on our top rated list with a weighted average of 8.40.
Description gbc4nspire is a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for the TI-Nspire, TI-Nspire CAS, TI-Nspire CX, and TI-Nspire CX CAS written from scratch in ARM assembly. Includes Ndless file association support. Latest version fixes a stack corruption glitch that was causing crashes with new versions of Ndless.
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe - For some reason this wouldn't transfer to my calculator?
Super Mario Land - Worked fine, but when I tried to quit the calc froze and I had to format and reinstall the OS to get back.
Pokemon Pinball - Froze a few seconds into the game; had to take the batteries out to get back.
Might try some more games later.
Overall I am very amazed at this program; highly recommended download.


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Q: Recording video in adobe media server 5 gives invalid file I just installed a testing version of Adobe Media Server 5 and I'm trying to create an application that will save the videos to disk for later play.
I've found code online that suggests stream.record(), but this results in an FLV file with the correct name, but is less than a kB in size. Inspecting the file with mediainfo (a tool) shows me that the duration of the "video" is correct (for example 2 min 27 sec), but it contains no actual data.
Is my code wrong? Or am I missing a setting?
My main.asc:
application.onPublish = function(clientObj, streamObj) {
    streamObj.record("append");
}

application.onUnpublish = function(clientObj, streamObj) {
    streamObj.record(false);
}

All I want is that people can watch live, but there is still a recording for watching later as well (not DVR mode).

A: The answer is not the code, that works, but it's the CODECs. If I stream using my tool in audio AAC, that doesn't work. If I stream my desktop (that's what the application does) in x264, that doesn't work either.
If I stream audio in mp3, the file grows.
Unfortunately, the tool doesn't stream video in another codec, so I can't be sure that video is saved, but I assume so.

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Posts from the 'Amazon Web Services' Category
Where AIOps Is Delivering Results Today
Bottom Line: Capitalizing on AI and machine learning's inherent strengths to create contextual intelligence in real-time, LogicMonitor's early warning and failure prevention systems reflect where AIOps is delivering results today.
LogicMonitor's track record of making solid contributions to their customers' ability to bring greater accuracy, insight, and precision into monitoring all IT assets is emerging as a de facto industry standard. Recently I was speaking with a startup offering Hosted Managed Services of a variety of manufacturing applications, and the must-have in their services strategy is LogicMonitor LM Intelligence. LogicMonitor's AIOps platform is powered by LM Intelligence, enabling customers' businesses to gain early warning into potential trouble spots in IT operations stability and reliability. LogicMonitor does the hard work for you with automated alert thresholds, AI-powered early warning capabilities, customizable escalation chains, workflows, and more.
Engineers who are working at the Hosted Managed Services provider I recently spoke with say LM Intelligence is the best use case of AI and machine learning to provide real-time alerts, contextual insights, discover new patterns in data, and make automation achievable. The following is an example of the LM Intelligence dashboard:
How LogicMonitor's Architecture Supports AIOps
One of the core strengths LogicMonitor continues to build on is integration, which they see as essential to their ability to excel at providing AIOps support for their customers. Their architecture is shown below. By providing real-time integration to public cloud platforms, combined with control over the entire IT infrastructure structure along with over 2,000 integrations from network to cloud, LogicMonitor excels at unifying diverse IT environments into a single, cohesive AIOps-based intelligence system. The LogicMonitor platform collects cloud data through our cloud collectors. These collectors retrieve metrics such as the cloud provider health and billing information by making API calls to the cloud services. The collector is a Windows Service or background process that is installed in a virtual machine. This collector then pulls metrics from the different devices using a variety of different methods, including SNMP, WMI, perf Mon JMX, APIs, and scripts.
Using AIOps To Monitor, Analyze, Automate
LogicMonitor has created an architecture that's well-suited to support the three dominant dimensions of AIOps, including Monitoring, Analytics (AIOps), and Automating. Their product and services strategies in the past have reflected a strong focus on Monitoring. The logic of prioritizing Monitoring as a product strategy area was to provide the AI and machine learning models with enough data to train on so they could identify anomalies in data patterns faster. Their 2018/2019 major releases in the Monitor area reflect how the unique strength they have of capturing and making use of any IT asset that can deliver a signal is paying off. Key Monitor developers recently include the following:
Kubernetes Monitoring
Configuration Monitoring
Public Cloud Monitoring
LogicMonitor's core strengths in AIOps are in the Anomaly Detection and Early Warning System areas of their product strategy. Their rapid advances in the Early Warning System development show where AIOps is delivering solid results today. Supporting the Early Warning System, there are Dynamic Thresholds and Root Cause Analysis based on Dependencies as well.
The Automate area of their product strategy shows strong potential for future growth, with the ServiceNow integration having upside potential. Today Alert Chaining and Workflow support integrations to Ansible, Terraform, Slack, Microsoft, Teama, Putter, Terraform, OpsGenie, and others.
LogicMonitor's platform handles 300B metrics on any given day and up to 10B a month, with over 28K collectors deployed integrated with approximately 1.4M devices being monitored. Putting AI and machine learning to work, interpreting the massive amount of data the platform captures every day to fine-tune their Early Warning and Failure Prevention Systems, is one of the most innovative approaches to AIOps today. Their AIOps Early Warning System is using machine learning Algorithms to fine-tune Root Cause Analysis and Dynamic Thresholds continually. AIOps Log Intelligence is also accessing the data to complete Automatic Log Anomaly Detection, Infrastructure change detection, and Log Volume Reduction to Signal analysis.
How To Excel At Secured Cloud Migrations With A Shared Responsibility Model
60% of security and IT professionals state that security is the leading challenge with cloud migrations, despite not being clear about who is responsible for securing cloud environments.
71% understand that controlling privileged access to cloud service administrative accounts is a critical concern, yet only 53% cite secure access to cloud workloads as a key objective of their cloud Privileged Access Management (PAM) strategies.
These and many other fascinating insights are from the recent Centrify survey, Reducing Risk in Cloud Migrations: Controlling Privileged Access to Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments, downloadable here. The survey is based on a survey of over 700 respondents from the United States, Canada, and the UK from over 50 vertical markets, with technology (21%), finance (14%), education (10%), government (10%) and healthcare (9%) being the top five. For additional details on the methodology, please see page 14 of the study.
What makes this study noteworthy is how it provides a candid, honest assessment of how enterprises can make cloud migrations more secure by a better understanding of who is responsible for securing privileged access to cloud administrative accounts and workloads.
Key insights from the study include the following:
Improved speed of IT services delivery (65%) and lowered total cost of ownership (54%) are the two top factors driving cloud migrations today. Additional factors include greater flexibility in responding to market changes (40%), outsourcing IT functions that don't create competitive differentiation (22%), and increased competitiveness (17%). Reducing time-to-market for new systems and applications is one of the primary catalysts driving cloud migrations today, making it imperative for every organization to build security policies and systems into their cloud initiatives.
Security is the greatest challenge to cloud migration by a wide margin. 60% of organizations define security as the most significant challenge they face with cloud migrations today. One in three sees the cost of migration (35%) and lack of expertise (30%) being the second and third greatest impediments to cloud migration project succeeding. Organizations are facing constant financial and time constraints to achieve cloud migrations on schedule to support time-to-market initiatives. No organization can afford the lost time and expense of an attempted or successful breach impeding cloud migration progress.
71% of organizations are implementing privileged access controls to manage their cloud services. However, as the privilege becomes more task-, role-, or access-specific, there is a diminishing interest of securing these levels of privileged access as a goal, evidenced by only 53% of organizations securing access to the workloads and containers they have moved to the cloud. The following graphic reflects the results.
An alarmingly high 60% of organizations incorrectly view the cloud provider as being responsible for securing privileged access to cloud workloads. It's shocking how many customers of AWS and other public cloud providers are falling for the myth that cloud service providers can completely protect their customized, highly individualized cloud instances. The native Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities offered by AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others provide enough functionality to help an organization get up and running to control access in their respective homogeneous cloud environments. Often they lack the scale to adequately address the more challenging, complex areas of IAM and Privileged Access Management (PAM) in hybrid or multi-cloud environments, however. For an expanded discussion of the Shared Responsibility Model, please see The Truth About Privileged Access Security On AWS and Other Public Clouds. The following is a graphic from the survey and Amazon Web Services' interpretation of the Shared Responsibility Model.
Implementing a common security model in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid environments is the most proven approach to making cloud migrations more secure. Migrating cloud instances securely needs to start with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), deploying a common privileged access security model equivalent to on-premises and cloud systems, and utilizing enterprise directory accounts for privileged access. These three initial steps set the foundation for implementing least privilege access. It's been a major challenge for organizations to do this, particularly in cloud environments, as 68% are not eliminating local privilege accounts in favor of federated access controls and are still using root accounts outside of "break glass" scenarios. Even more concerning, 57% are not implementing least privilege access to limit lateral movement and enforce just-enough, just-in-time-access.
When it comes to securing access to cloud environments, organizations don't have to re-invent the wheel. Best practices from securing on-premises data centers and workloads can often be successful in securing privileged access in cloud and hybrid environments as well.
The study provides four key takeaways for anyone working to make cloud migrations more secure. First, all organizations need to understand that privileged access to cloud environments is your responsibility, not your cloud providers'. Second, adopt a modern approach to Privileged Access Management that enforces least privilege, prioritizing "just enough, just-in-time" access. Third, employ a common security model across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Fourth and most important, modernize your security approach by considering how cloud-based PAM systems can help to make cloud migrations more secure.
The Truth About Privileged Access Security On AWS And Other Public Clouds
Bottom Line: Amazon's Identity and Access Management (IAM) centralizes identity roles, policies and Config Rules yet doesn't go far enough to provide a Zero Trust-based approach to Privileged Access Management (PAM) that enterprises need today.
AWS provides a baseline level of support for Identity and Access Management at no charge as part of their AWS instances, as do other public cloud providers. Designed to provide customers with the essentials to support IAM, the free version often doesn't go far enough to support PAM at the enterprise level. To AWS's credit, they continue to invest in IAM features while fine-tuning how Config Rules in their IAM can create alerts using AWS Lambda. AWS's native IAM can also integrate at the API level to HR systems and corporate directories, and suspend users who violate access privileges.
In short, native IAM capabilities offered by AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and more provides enough functionality to help an organization get up and running to control access in their respective homogeneous cloud environments. Often they lack the scale to fully address the more challenging, complex areas of IAM and PAM in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
The Truth about Privileged Access Security on Cloud Providers Like AWS
The essence of the Shared Responsibility Model is assigning responsibility for the security of the cloud itself including the infrastructure, hardware, software, and facilities to AWS and assign the securing of operating systems, platforms, and data to customers. The AWS version of the Shared Responsibility Model, shown below, illustrates how Amazon has defined securing the data itself, management of the platform, applications and how they're accessed, and various configurations as the customers' responsibility:
AWS provides basic IAM support that protects its customers against privileged credential abuse in a homogenous AWS-only environment. Forrester estimates that 80% of data breaches involve compromised privileged credentials, and a recent survey by Centrify found that 74% of all breaches involved privileged access abuse.
The following are the four truths about privileged access security on AWS (and, generally, other public cloud providers):
Customers of AWS and other public cloud providers should not fall for the myth that cloud service providers can completely protect their customized and highly individualized cloud instances. As the Shared Responsibility Model above illustrates, AWS secures the core areas of their cloud platform, including infrastructure and hosting services. AWS customers are responsible for securing operating systems, platforms, and data and most importantly, privileged access credentials. Organizations need to consider the Shared Responsibility Model the starting point on creating an enterprise-wide security strategy with a Zero Trust Security framework being the long-term goal. AWS's IAM is an interim solution to the long-term challenge of achieving Zero Trust Privilege across an enterprise ecosystem that is going to become more hybrid or multi-cloud as time goes on.
Despite what many AWS integrators say, adopting a new cloud platform doesn't require a new Privileged Access Security model. Many organizations who have adopted AWS and other cloud platforms are using the same Privileged Access Security Model they have in place for their existing on-premises systems. The truth is the same Privileged Access Security Model can be used for on-premises and IaaS implementations. Even AWS itself has stated that conventional security and compliance concepts still apply in the cloud. For an overview of the most valuable best practices for securing AWS instances, please see my previous post, 6 Best Practices For Increasing Security In AWS In A Zero Trust World.
Hybrid cloud architectures that include AWS instances don't need an entirely new identity infrastructure and can rely on advanced technologies, including Multi-Directory Brokering. Creating duplicate identities increases cost, risk, and overhead and the burden of requiring additional licenses. Existing directories (such as Active Directory) can be extended through various deployment options, each with their strengths and weaknesses. Centrify, for example, offers Multi-Directory Brokering to use whatever preferred directory already exists in an organization to authenticate users in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. And while AWS provides key pairs for access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, their security best practices recommend a holistic approach should be used across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, including Active Directory or LDAP in the security architecture.
It's possible to scale existing Privileged Access Management systems in use for on-premises systems today to hybrid cloud platforms that include AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other platforms. There's a tendency on the part of system integrators specializing in cloud security to oversell cloud service providers' native IAM and PAM capabilities, saying that a hybrid cloud strategy requires separate systems. Look for system integrators and experienced security solutions providers who can use a common security model already in place to move workloads to new AWS instances.
The truth is that Identity and Access Management solutions built into public cloud offerings such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are stop-gap solutions to a long-term security challenge many organizations are facing today. Instead of relying only on a public cloud provider's IAM and security solutions, every organization's cloud security goals need to include a holistic approach to identity and access management and not create silos for each cloud environment they are using. While AWS continues to invest in their IAM solution, organizations need to prioritize protecting their privileged access credentials – the "keys to the kingdom" – that if ever compromised would allow hackers to walk in the front door of the most valuable systems an organization has. The four truths defined in this article are essential for building a Zero Trust roadmap for any organization that will scale with them as they grow. By taking a "never trust, always verify, enforce least privilege" strategy when it comes to their hybrid- and multi-cloud strategies, organizations can alleviate costly breaches that harm the long-term operations of any business.
AWS Certifications Increase Tech Pay Up To $12K A Year
AWS and Google certifications are among the most lucrative in North America, paying average salaries of $129,868 and $147,357 respectively.
Cross-certifying on AWS is providing a $12K salary bump to IT professionals who already have Citrix and Red Hat/Linux certifications today
Globally, four of the five top-paying certifications are in cloud computing.
These and many other insights of which certifications provide the highest salaries by region of the world are from the recently published Global Knowledge 2019 IT Skills and Salary Report. The report is downloadable here (27 pp., PDF, free, opt-in). The methodology is based on 12,271 interviews across non-management IT staffs (29% of interviews), mid-level professionals including managers and team leads (43%), and senior-level and executive roles (28%) across four global regions. For additional details regarding the study's methodology, please see page 24 of the report.
Key insights from the report include the following:
Cross-certifying on AWS is providing a $12K salary bump to IT professionals who already have Citrix and Red Hat/Linux certifications. Citrix certifications pay an average salary of $109,546 and those earning an AWS certification see a $12,339 salary bump on average. Red Hat/Linux certification-based jobs pay an average of $113,165 and are seeing an average salary bump of $12,553. Cisco-certified IT professionals who gain AWS certification increase their salaries on average from $101,533 to $111,869, gaining a 10.2% increase. The following chart compares the salary bump AWS certifications are providing to IT professionals with seven of the more popular certifications (please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading).
AWS and Google certifications are among the most lucrative in North America, paying average salaries of $129,868 and $147,357 while the most popular are cybersecurity, governance, compliance, and policy. 27% of all respondents to Global Knowledge's survey have at least one certification in this category. Nearly 18% are ITIL certified. In North American, the most popular certification categories beyond cybersecurity are CompTIA, Microsoft, and Cisco. The following table from the report provides an overview of salary by certification category (please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading).
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate is the most popular AWS certification today, with 72% of respondents having achieved its requirements. Certified Solutions Architect – Associate leads the top five most commonly held AWS certifications today according to the survey. AWS Certified Developer – Associate (33%), AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (24%), AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (16%) and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner round out the top five most common AWS certifications across the 12,271 global respondents to the Global Knowledge survey.
10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Amazon's Patent Growth
Since 2010 Amazon has grown its patent portfolio from less than 1,000 active patents in 2010 to nearly 10,000 in 2019, a ten-fold increase in less than a decade.
Amazon heavily cites Microsoft, IBM, and Alphabet, with 39%, 32% and 28% of Amazon's total Patent Asset Index
Amazon's patent portfolio is dominated by Cloud Computing, with the majority of the patents contributing to AWS' current and future services roadmap. AWS achieved 41% year-over-year revenue growth in the latest fiscal quarter, reaching $7.6B in revenue.
Patents are fascinating because they provide a glimpse into potential plans, and roadmaps tech companies are considering. Amazon has one of the most interesting patent portfolios today that encompass a wide spectrum of technologies, from aircraft technology, drones, cloud computing, to machine learning. Interested in learning more about Amazon's unique patent portfolio, I contacted PatentSight, a LexisNexis company, one of the leading providers of patent analytics and provider of the PatentSight analytics platform used for creating the ten charts shown below.
Amazon patents grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of above 35% between 2010 and 2019. PatentSight's analysis shows that Amazon's patent portfolio has increased tenfold in the last decade, and is comprised entirely of organic patents with only a small percentage gained from acquisitions. PatentSight also finds that Amazon's patents have a falling average quality as measured by their Competitive Impact score shown on the vertical axis of the chart below. As Amazon's patent portfolio has grown, there has been a downward trend of quality. William Mansfield, Head of Consulting and Customer Success at LexisNexis PatentSight explains why. "To maintain a high quality when growing the portfolio is difficult, as each patent would need to be equally as good as or better than the previous," he said. Mr. Mansfield's analysis found that Amazon's portfolio has an average Competitive Impact of 2 today, double the PatentSight database average of 1.
Amazon's patent portfolio is unique in that 100% of it is protected in the U.S. "The protection strategy of Amazon is also uncommon. While it can be the case that US firms tend to be US-centric, Amazon is an extreme case," said William Mansfield. It's surprising how many Amazon patents are active only in the USA (86%) and invented in the USA and active only in the USA (81%). William explained that "one factor for this US-centricity could be the great acceptance of software patents in the USA, we do also see high US-only filing for other tech giants, but are a level of around 60% vs. Amazon's 86%."
PatentSight found that the majority of the Amazon portfolio falls in the 2nd decile of Competitive Impact (top 20% – 10%). Comparable technology-based organizations have a higher density of patents in the top 10% of Competitive Impact, which is another unusual aspect regarding Amazon's patent growth. "This is unusual compared to other big tech companies which have more in the top 10%, it could be Amazon is holding onto more lower value assets than required," William Mansfield remarked.
Amazon's patent citations most often cite Microsoft, IBM, and Alphabet, with 39%, 32% and 28% of Amazon's total Patent Asset Index. Interesting that PatentSight's analysis finds the reciprocal is not the case. A much smaller percentage of companies cite Amazon in return. This can be attributed to a few other firms having the breadth and depth of patent development that Amazon does today. PatentSight found that less than 10% of their respective portfolios even mention Amazon. William Mansfield explains that "one factor here is the larger size of these companies, vs. Amazon. However, even in absolute terms, Microsoft and IBM cite Amazon much less than the other way round. However, citation value is close to equal in absolute terms between Amazon and Alphabet."
Relying on patents to keep AWS' rapid growth going appears to be Amazon's high priority patent strategy today. As can be seen from the portfolio below, Cloud Computing patents dominate Amazon's patent portfolio today. In the latest fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2019, AWS delivered $7.9B in revenue and$2.2B in operating income, growing 41% year-over-year. "Amazon's ongoing developments in alternative delivery methods in Urban Logistics and Drones are noteworthy with Drones being one area of particular strength in the portfolio as seen from the high Competitive Impact, despite the smaller portfolio size," notes William Mansfield.
Amazon's prioritization of cloud computing, AI, and machine learning patents is evident when 18 years of patent history is compared. The proliferation of AI and machine learning-based services on the AWS platform is apparent in the trend line starting in 2014. The success of Amazon's SageMaker machine learning platform is a case in point. Amazon SageMaker enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale.
Amazon is already one of the top 10 patent holders in Drone technology, just behind Alphabet and Toyota Motors. PatentSight defines Drone technology as encompassing aviation, autonomous robots, and autonomous driving. Amazon's rapid ascent in this area is attributable to the logistics and supply chain efficiencies possible when Drones and their related technologies are applied to their supply chain's more complex challenges.
PatentSight finds that FinTech is an area of long-standing strength in the Amazon patent portfolio, attribute to their payment systems being the backbone of their e-commerce business. Reflecting how diverse their business model has become, Amazon is now one of the top 15 patent holders in this area due to cloud computing, AI, and machine learning taking precedence. "FinTech is a highly competitive field with many established players, and while Amazon is not in the top 10, but top 15 players, it's still an impressive achievement," said William Mansfield.
Amazon's patent portfolio in speech recognition encompasses Alexa, its related patents, and Amazon Lex, an AWS service used for creating conversational interfaces for applications. Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung are patent leaders, according to PatentSight's analysis. The fact that Amazon is in the top 10 speaks to the level of activity and patent production going on in the Alexa research and development and product teams.
Amazon's patent strategy is eclectic yet always anchored to cloud computing to make AWS the platform of choice. The following selected patens reflect how broad the Amazon patent portfolio is. What each share in common is a reliance on AWS as the platform to ensure service consistency, reliability, and scale. An example of this is their patents Video Game Streaming.
CIO's Guide To Stopping Privileged Access Abuse – Part I
CIOs face the paradox of having to protect their businesses while at the same time streamlining access to the information and systems their companies need to grow. The threatscape they're facing requires an approach to security that is adaptive to the risk context of each access attempt across any threat surface, anytime. Using risk scores to differentiate between privileged users attempting to access secured systems in a riskier context than normal versus privileged credential abuse by attackers has proven to be an effective approach for thwarting credential-based breaches.
Privileged credential abuse is one of the most popular breach strategies organized crime and state-sponsored cybercrime organizations use. They'd rather walk in the front door of enterprise systems than hack in. 74% of IT decision makers surveyed whose organizations have been breached in the past say it involved privileged access credential abuse, yet just 48% have a password vault. Just 21% have multi-factor authentication (MFA) implemented for privileged administrative access. These and many other insights are from Centrify's recent survey, Privileged Access Management in the Modern Threatscape.
How CIOs Are Solving the Paradox of Privileged Credential Abuse
The challenge to every CIO's security strategy is to adapt to risk contexts in real-time, accurately assessing every access attempt across every threat surface, risk-scoring each in milliseconds. By taking a "never trust, always verify, enforce least privilege" approach to security, CIOs can provide an adaptive, contextually accurate Zero Trust-based approach to verifying privileged credentials. Zero Trust Privilege is emerging as a proven framework for thwarting privileged credential abuse by verifying who is requesting access, the context of the request, and the risk of the access environment.
By taking a least privilege access approach, organizations can minimize attack surfaces, improve audit and compliance visibility, and reduce risk, complexity, and the costs of operating a modern, hybrid enterprise. CIOs are solving the paradox of privileged credential abuse by knowing that even if a privileged user has entered the right credentials but the request comes in with risky context, then stronger verification is needed to permit access.
Strategies For Stopping Privileged Credential Abuse
The following are five strategies CIOs need to concentrate on to stop privileged credential abuse. Starting with an inventory of privileged accounts and progressing through finding the gaps in IT infrastructure that create opportunities for privileged credential abuse, CIOs and their teams need to take preemptive action now to avert potential breaches in the future.
In Part 1 of a CIO's Guide to Stopping Privileged Access Abuse, below are the steps they can take to get started:
Discover and inventory all privileged accounts and their credentials to define who is accountable for managing their security and use. According to a survey by Gartner, more than 65% of enterprises are allowing shared use of privileged accounts with no accountability for their use. CIOs realize that a lack of consistent governance policies creates many opportunities for privileged credential abuse. They're also finding orphaned accounts, multiple owners for privileged credentials and the majority of system administrators having super user or root user access rights for the majority of enterprise systems.
Vault your cloud platforms' Root Accounts and federate access to AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and other public cloud consoles. Root passwords on each of the cloud platforms your business relies on are the "keys to the kingdom" and provide bad actors from inside and outside the company to exfiltrate data with ease. The recent news of how a fired employee deleted his former employer's 23 AWS servers is a cautionary tale of what happens when a Zero Trust approach to privileged credentials isn't adopted. Centrify's survey found that 63% or organizations take more than a day to shut off privilege access for an employee after leaving the company. Given how AWS root user accounts have the privilege to delete all instances immediately, it's imperative for organizations to have a password vault where AWS root account credentials are stored. Instead of local AWS IAM accounts and access keys, use centralized identities (e.g., Active Directory) and enable federated login. By doing so, you obviate the need for long-lived access keys.
Audit privileged sessions and analyze patterns to find potentially privileged credential sharing or abuse not immediately obvious from audits. Audit and log authorized and unauthorized user sessions across all enterprise systems, especially focusing on root password use across all platforms. Taking this step is essential for assigning accountability for each privileged credential in use. It will also tell you if privileged credentials are being shared widely across the organization. Taking a Zero Trust approach to securing privileged credentials will quickly find areas where there could be potential lapses or gaps that invite breaches. For AWS accounts, be sure to use AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch to monitor all API activity across all AWS instances and your AWS account.
Enforce least privilege access now within your existing infrastructure as much as possible, defining a security roadmap based on the foundations of Zero Trust as your future direction. Using the inventory of all privileged accounts as the baseline, update least privilege access on each credential now and implement a process for privilege elevation that will lower the overall risk and ability for attackers to move laterally and extract data. The days of "trust but verify" are over. CIOs from insurance and financial services companies recently spoken with point out that their new business models, all of them heavily reliant on secured Internet connectivity, are making Zero Trust the cornerstone of their future services strategies. They're all moving beyond "trust but verify" to adopt a more adaptive approach to knowing the risk context by threat surface in real-time.
Adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all threat surfaces that can adapt and flex to the risk context of every request for resources. The CIOs running a series of insurance and financial services firms, a few of them former MBA students of mine, say multi-factor authentication is a must-have today for preventing privileged credential abuse. Their take on it is that adding in an authentication layer that queries users with something they know (user name, password, PIN or security question) with something they have (smartphone, one-time password token or smart card), something they are (biometric identification like fingerprint) and something they've done (contextual pattern matching of what they normally do where) has helped thwart privileged credential abuse exponentially since they adopted it. This is low-hanging fruit: adaptive MFA has made the productivity impact of this additional validation practically moot.
Every CIO I know is now expected to be a business strategist first, and a technologist second. At the top of many of their list of priorities is securing the business so it can achieve uninterrupted growth. The CIOs I regularly speak with running insurance and financial services companies often speak of how security is as much a part of their new business strategies as the financial products their product design teams are developing. The bottom line is that the more adaptive and able to assess the context of risks for each privilege access attempt a company's access management posture can become, the more responsive they can be to employees and customers alike, fueling future growth.
The State Of Cloud Business Intelligence, 2019
An all-time high 48% of organizations say cloud BI is either "critical" or "very important" to their operations in 2019.
Marketing & Sales place the greatest importance on cloud BI in 2019.
Small organizations of 100 employees or less are the most enthusiastic, perennial adopters and supporters of cloud BI.
The most preferred cloud BI providers are Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
These and other insights are from Dresner Advisory Services' 2019 Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence Market Study. The 8th annual report focuses on end-user deployment trends and attitudes toward cloud computing and business intelligence (BI), defined as the technologies, tools, and solutions that rely on one or more cloud deployment models. What makes the study noteworthy is the depth of focus around the perceived benefits and barriers for cloud BI, the importance of cloud BI, and current and planned usage.
"We began tracking and analyzing the cloud BI market dynamic in 2012 when adoption was nascent. Since that time, deployments of public cloud BI applications are increasing, with organizations citing substantial benefits versus traditional on-premises implementations," said Howard Dresner, founder, and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory Services. Please see page 10 of the study for specifics on the methodology.
Key insights gained from the report include the following:
An all-time high 48% of organizations say cloud BI is either "critical" or "very important" to their operations in 2019. Organizations have more confidence in cloud BI than ever before, according to the study's results. 2019 is seeing a sharp upturn in cloud BI's importance, driven by the trust and credibility organizations have for accessing, analyzing and storing sensitive company data on cloud platforms running BI applications.
Marketing & Sales place the greatest importance on cloud BI in 2019. Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICC) and IT departments have an above-average interest in cloud BI as well, with their combined critical and very important scores being over 50%. Dresner's research team found that Operations had the greatest duality of scores, with critical and not important being reported at comparable levels for this functional area. Dresner's analysis indicates Operations departments often rely on cloud BI to benchmark and improve existing processes while re-engineering legacy process areas.
Small organizations of 100 employees or less are the most enthusiastic, perennial adopters and supporters of cloud BI. As has been the case in previous years' studies, small organizations are leading all others in adopting cloud BI systems and platforms. Perceived importance declines only slightly in mid-sized organizations (101-1,000 employees) and some large organizations (1,001-5,000 employees), where minimum scores of important offset declines in critical.
The retail/wholesale industry considers cloud BI the most important, followed by technology and advertising industries. Organizations competing in the retail/wholesale industry see the greatest value in adopting cloud BI to gain insights into improving their customer experiences and streamlining supply chains. Technology and advertising industries are industries that also see cloud BI as very important to their operations. Just over 30% of respondents in the education industry see cloud BI as very important.
R&D departments are the most prolific users of cloud BI systems today, followed by Marketing & Sales. The study highlights that R&D leading all other departments in existing cloud BI use reflects broader potential use cases being evaluated in 2019. Marketing & Sales is the next most prolific department using cloud BI systems.
Finance leads all others in their adoption of private cloud BI platforms, rivaling IT in their lack of adoption for public clouds. R&D departments are the next most likely to be relying on private clouds currently. Marketing and Sales are the most likely to take a balanced approach to private and public cloud adoption, equally adopting private and public cloud BI.
Advanced visualization, support for ad-hoc queries, personalized dashboards, and data integration/data quality tools/ETL tools are the four most popular cloud BI requirements in 2019. Dresner's research team found the lowest-ranked cloud BI feature priorities in 2019 are social media analysis, complex event processing, big data, text analytics, and natural language analytics. This years' analysis of most and least popular cloud BI requirements closely mirror traditional BI feature requirements.
Marketing and Sales have the greatest interest in several of the most-required features including personalized dashboards, data discovery, data catalog, collaborative support, and natural language analytics. Marketing & Sales also have the highest level of interest in the ability to write to transactional applications. R&D leads interest in ad-hoc query, big data, text analytics, and social media analytics.
The Retail/Wholesale industry leads interest in several features including ad-hoc query, dashboards, data integration, data discovery, production reporting, search interface, data catalog, and ability to write to transactional systems. Technology organizations give the highest score to advanced visualization and end-user self-service. Healthcare respondents prioritize data mining, end-user data blending, and location analytics, the latter likely for asset tracking purposes. In-memory support scores highest with Financial Services respondent organizations.
Marketing & Sales rely on a broader base of third party data connectors to get greater value from their cloud BI systems than their peers. The greater the scale, scope and depth of third-party connectors and integrations, the more valuable marketing and sales data becomes. Relying on connectors for greater insights into sales productivity & performance, social media, online marketing, online data storage, and simple productivity improvements are common in Marketing & Sales. Finance requiring integration to Salesforce reflects the CRM applications' success transcending customer relationships into advanced accounting and financial reporting.
Subscription models are now the most preferred licensing strategy for cloud BI and have progressed over the last several years due to lower risk, lower entry costs, and lower carrying costs. Dresner's research team found that subscription license and free trial (including trial and buy, which may also lead to subscription) are the two most preferred licensing strategies by cloud BI customers in 2019. Dresner Advisory Services predicts new engagements will be earned using subscription models, which is now seen as, at a minimum, important to approximately 90% of the base of respondents.
60% of organizations adopting cloud BI rank Amazon Web Services first, and 85% rank AWS first or second. 43% choose Microsoft Azure first and 69% pick Azure first or second. Google Cloud closely trails Azure as the first choice among users but trails more widely after that. IBM Bluemix is the first choice of 12% of organizations responding in 2019.
Public Cloud Soaring To $331B By 2022 According To Gartner
Gartner is predicting the worldwide public cloud services market will grow from $182.4B in 2018 to $214.3B in 2019, a 17.5% jump in just a year. Photo credit: Getty
Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud service market will grow from $182.4B in 2018 to $331.2B in 2022, attaining a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6%.
Spending on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is predicted to increase from $30.5B in 2018 to $38.9B in 2019, growing 27.5% in a year.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) spending is predicted to grow from $15.6B in 2018 to $19B in 2019, growing 21.8% in a year.
Business Intelligence, Supply Chain Management, Project and Portfolio Management and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) will see the fastest growth in end-user spending on SaaS applications through 2022.
Gartner's annual forecast of worldwide public cloud service revenue was published last week, and it includes many interesting insights into how the research firm sees the current and future landscape of public cloud computing. Gartner is predicting the worldwide public cloud services market will grow from $182.4B in 2018 to $214.3B in 2019, a 17.5% jump in just a year. By the end of 2019, more than 30% of technology providers' new software investments will shift from cloud-first to cloud-only, further reducing license-based software spending and increasing subscription-based cloud revenue.
The following graphic compares worldwide public cloud service revenue by segment from 2018 to 2022. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.
Comparing Compound Annual Growth Rates (CAGRs) of worldwide public cloud service revenue segments from 2018 to 2022 reflects IaaS' anticipated rapid growth. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.
Gartner provided the following data table this week as part of their announcement:
Business Intelligence, Supply Chain Management, Project and Portfolio Management and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) will see the fastest growth in end-user spending on SaaS applications through 2022. Gartner is predicting end-user spending on Business Intelligence SaaS applications will grow by 23.3% between 2017 and 2022. Spending on SaaS-based Supply Chain Management applications will grow by 21.2% between 2017 and 2022. Project and Portfolio Management SaaS-based applications will grow by 20.9% between 2017 and 2022. End-user spending on SaaS ERP systems will grow by 19.2% between 2017 and 2022.
Sources: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 17.5 Percent in 2019 and Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2016-2022, 4Q18 Update (Gartner client access)
2018 Roundup Of Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates
Cloud computing platforms and applications are proliferating across enterprises today, serving as the IT infrastructure driving new digital businesses. The following roundup of cloud computing forecasts and market estimates reflect a maturing global market for cloud services, with proven scale, speed and security to support new business models.
CIOs who are creating compelling business cases that rely on cloud platforms as a growth catalyst is the architects enabling these new business initiatives to succeed. The era of CIO strategist has arrived. Key takeaways include the following:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounted for 55% of the company's operating profit in Q2, 2018, despite contributing only 12% to the company's net sales. In Q1, 2018 services accounted for 40% of Amazon's revenue, up from 26% three years earlier. Source: Cloud Business Drives Amazon's Profits, Statista, July 27, 2018.
80% of enterprises are both running apps on or experimenting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as their preferred cloud platform. 67% of enterprises are running apps on (45%) and experimenting on (22%) the Microsoft Azure platform. 18% of enterprises are using Google's Cloud Platform for applications today, with 23% evaluating the platform for future use. RightScale's 2018 survey was included in the original data set Statista used to create the comparison. Source: Statista, Current and planned usage of public cloud platform services running applications worldwide in 2018. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier viewing.
Enterprise adoption of Microsoft Azure increased significantly from 43% to 58% attaining a 35% CAGR while AWS adoption increased from 59% to 68%. Enterprise respondents with future projects (the combination of experimenting and planning to use) show the most interest in Google (41%). Source: RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier viewing.
The enterprise SaaS market is now generating $20B in quarterly revenues for software vendors, a number that is growing by 32% per year. Microsoft is in the lead with a worldwide market share of over 17% and is now the leading SaaS vendor primarily due to its leadership in the high-growth collaboration segment. Source: Quarterly SaaS Spending Reaches $20 billion as Microsoft Extends its Market Leadership, Synergy Research August 21, 2018.
Financial Services has the highest percentage of server images deployed in private or public clouds, approaching nearly 100% versus a median adoption rate of 19%. A recent McKinsey & Company study found Financial Services had progressed the furthest to advanced cloud maturity beyond virtualization and basic cloud compared to insurance and healthcare. Source: McKinsey & Company, Cloud adoption to accelerate IT modernization by Nagendra Bommadevara, Andrea Del Miglio, and Steve Jansen.
Wikibon projects the True Private Cloud (TPC) worldwide market will experience a compound annual growth rate of 29.2%, reaching $262.4B by 2027. The firm predicts TPC growth will far outpace the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) growth of 15.2% over the same period. A true private cloud is distinguished from a private cloud by the completeness of the integration of all aspects of the offering, including performance characteristics such as price, agility, and service breadth. Please see the source link for additional details on TPC. Source: Wikibon's 2018 True Private Cloud Forecast and Market Shares. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier viewing.
Quality Control, Computer-Aided Engineering, and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are the three most widely adopted systems in the cloud by discrete and process The survey also found that 60% of discrete and process manufacturers say their end users prefer the cloud over on-premise. Source: Amazon Web Services & IDC: Industrial Customers Are Ready For The Cloud – Now (PDF, 13 pp., no opt-in, sponsored by AWS). Please click on the graphic to expand for easier viewing.
The Worldwide Public Cloud Services Market is projected to grow by 17.3 3% in 2019 to total $206.2B, up from $175.8B in 2018 according to Gartner. In 2018 the market will grow a healthy 21% up from $145.3B in 2017 according to the research and advisory firm. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) will be the fastest-growing segment of the market, forecasted to grow by 27.6% in 2019 to reach $39.5B, up from $31B in 2018. By 2022, Gartner expects that 90% of enterprises purchasing public cloud IaaS will do so from an integrated IaaS and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and will use both the IaaS and PaaS capabilities from that provider. Source: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 17.3 Percent in 2019.
Total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches) for deployment in cloud environments is projected to attain a 10.9% year-over-year growth rate, reaching $52.3B this year. Long-term, IDC expects spending on off-premises cloud IT infrastructure will grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.8%, reaching $55.7B. Source: Spending on IT Infrastructure for Deployment in Cloud Environments is Forecast to Grow 10.9% in 2018, According to IDC.
More than $1.3T in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to cloud by 2022. 28% of spending within key enterprise IT markets will shift to the cloud by 2022, up from 19% in 2018. The largest cloud shift before 2018 occurred in application software, particularly driven by customer relationship management (CRM) software, with Salesforce dominating as the market leader. CRM has already reached a tipping point where a higher proportion of spending occurs in the cloud than in traditional software. Source: Gartner Says 28 Percent of Spending in Key IT Segments Will Shift to the Cloud by 2022.
IDC predicts worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending will reach $180B in 2018, an increase of 23.7% over 2017. According to IDC, the market is expected to achieve a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9% with public cloud services spending totaling $277B in 2021. The industries that are forecast to spend the most on public cloud services in 2018 are discrete manufacturing ($19.7B), professional services ($18.1B), and banking ($16.7B). The process manufacturing and retail industries are also expected to spend more than $10B each on public cloud services in 2018. These five industries will remain at the top in 2021 due to their continued investment in public cloud solutions. The industries that will see the fastest spending growth over the five-year forecast period are professional services (24.4% CAGR), telecom (23.3% CAGR), and banking (23.0% CAGR). Source: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC.
Discrete Manufacturing is predicted to lead all industries on public cloud spending of $19.7B in 2018 according to IDC. Additional industries forecast to spend the most on public cloud services this year include Professional Services at $18.1B and Banking at $16.7B. The process manufacturing and retail industries are also expected to spend more than $10B each on public cloud services in 2018. According to IDC, these five industries will remain at the top in 2021 due to their continued investment in public cloud solutions. The industries that will see the fastest spending growth over the five-year forecast period are Professional Services with a 24.4% CAGR, Telecommunications with a 23.3% CAGR, and banking with a 23% CAGR. Source: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC.
2018 BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard: Powering a Bright Future (PDF, 26 pp., PDF)
Amazon Web Services & IDC: Industrial Customers Are Ready For The Cloud – Now
Amazon Web Services Analyst Reports
Bessemer Venture Partners, The State of the Cloud Industry in 2018
Cisco Global Cloud Index
Cloud Computing Market Projected To Reach $411B By 2020
Cloud Revenues Continue to Grow by 50% as Top Four Providers Tighten Grip on Marke
Forrester's 10 Cloud Computing Predictions For 2018
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 17.3 Percent in 2019.
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 21.4 Percent in 2018
Gartner Says 28 Percent of Spending in Key IT Segments Will Shift to the Cloud by 2022.
Gartner Survey Says Cloud Computing Remains Top Emerging Business Risk
Kleiner Perkins, Internet Trends 2018, Mary Meeker
McKinsey & Company, Cloud adoption to accelerate IT modernization by Nagendra Bommadevara, Andrea Del Miglio, and Steve Jansen
McKinsey & Company, Public cloud in China: Big challenges, big upside by Hari Kannan and Christopher Thomas
McKinsey & Company, Ten trends redefining enterprise IT infrastructure by Arul Elumalai, Kara Sprague, Sid Tandon, and Lareina Yee
More than half of EU enterprises use public cloud
Public Cloud Growth Trends for 2018 and the Future Outlook
RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report
Spending on IT Infrastructure for Deployment in Cloud Environments is Forecast to Grow 10.9% in 2018, According to IDC
Spending on Public Cloud Infrastructure Continues to Surge in Q1
The Forbes Cloud 100: The Top Private Companies In Cloud Computing, 2018
Wikibon's 2018 True Private Cloud Forecast and Market Shares
Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC.
Machine Learning's Greatest Potential Is Driving Revenue In The Enterprise
Enterprise investments in machine learning will nearly double over the next three years, reaching 64% adoption by 2020.
International Data Corporation (IDC) is forecasting spending on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will grow from $8B in 2016 to $47B by 2020.
89% of CIOs are either planning to use or are using machine learning in their organizations today.
53% of CIOs say machine learning is one of their core priorities as their role expands from traditional IT operations management to business strategists.
CIOs are struggling to find the skills they need to build their machine learning models today, especially in financial services.
These and many other insights are from the recently published study, Global CIO Point of View. The entire report is downloadable here (PDF, 24 pp., no opt-in). ServiceNow and Oxford Economics collaborated on this survey of 500 CIOs in 11 countries on three continents, spanning 25 industries. In addition to the CIO interviews, leading experts in machine learning and its impact on enterprise performance contributed to the study. For additional details on the methodology, please see page 4 of the study and an online description of the CIO Survey Methodology here.
Digital transformation is a cornerstone of machine learning adoption. 72% of CIOs have responsibility for digital transformation initiatives that drive machine learning adoption. The survey found that the greater the level of digital transformation success, the more likely machine learning-based programs and strategies would succeed. IDC predicts that 40% of digital transformation initiatives will be supported by machine learning and artificial intelligence by 2019.
Key takeaways from the study include the following:
90% of CIOs championing machine learning in their organizations today expect improved decision support that drives greater topline revenue growth. CIOs who are early adopters are most likely to pilot, evaluate and integrate machine learning into their enterprises when there is a clear connection to driving business results. Many CIO compensation plans now include business growth and revenue goals, making the revenue potential of new technologies a high priority.
89% of CIOs are either planning to use or using machine learning in their organizations today. The majority, 40%, are in the research and planning phases of deployment, with an additional 26% piloting machine learning. 20% are using machine learning in some areas of their business, and 3% have successfully deployed enterprise-wide. The following graphic shows the percentage of respondents by stage of their machine learning journey.
Machine learning is a key supporting technology leading the majority Finance, Sales & Marketing, and Operations Management decisions today. Human intervention is still required across the spectrum of decision-making areas including Security Operations, Customer Management, Call Center Management, Operations Management, Finance and Sales & Marketing. The study predicts that by 2020, machine learning apps will have automated 70% of Security Operations queries and 30% of Customer Management ones.
Automation of repetitive tasks (68%), making complex decisions (54%) and recognizing data patterns (40%) are the top three most important capabilities CIOs of machine learning CIOs are most interested in. Establishing links between events and supervised learning (both 32%), making predictions (31%) and assisting in making basic decisions (18%) are additional capabilities CIOs are looking for machine learning to accelerate. In financial services, machine learning apps are reviewing loan documents, sorting applications to broad parameters, and approving loans faster than had been possible before.
Machine learning adoption and confidence by CIOs varies by region, with North America in the lead (72%) followed by Asia-Pacific (61%). Just over half of European CIOs (58%) expect value from machine learning and decision automation to their company's overall strategy. North American CIOs are more likely than others to expect value from machine learning and decision automation across a range of business areas, including overall strategy (72%, vs. 61% in Asia Pacific and 58% in Europe). North American CIOs also expect greater results from sales and marketing (63%, vs. 47% Asia-Pacific and 38% in Europe); procurement (50%, vs. 34% in Asia-Pacific and 34% in Europe); and product development (48%, vs. 29% in Asia-Pacific and 29% in Europe).
CIOs challenging the status quo of their organization's analytics direction are more likely to rely on roadmaps for defining and selling their vision of machine learning's revenue contributions. More than 70% of early adopter CIOs have developed a roadmap for future business process changes compared with just 33% of average CIOs. Of the CIOs and senior management teams in financial services, the majority are looking at how machine learning can increase customer satisfaction, lifetime customer value, improving revenue growth. 53% of CIOs from our survey say machine learning is one of their core priorities as their role expands from traditional IT operations to business-wide strategy.
Sources: CIOs Cutting Through the Hype and Delivering Real Value from Machine Learning, Survey Shows

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Chepén Province is one of the twelve provinces that make up the La Libertad Region of Peru. It is bordered on the north by the Lambayeque Region, on the east by the Cajamarca Region, on the south by Pacasmayo Province, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The capital of the Chepén province is the city of Chepén.

Political division

The province measures  and is divided into three districts.

Districts
The province is divided into three districts, which are:

The population of the province is 71,954 by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática.

Some localities
Pacanguilla
Chérrepe
San José de Moro
Talambo

See also
La Libertad Region
Pacasmayo Province

References

External links
 Provincial Municipality of Chepén

Provinces of the La Libertad Region

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Garage steht für:

 Garage, Abstellmöglichkeit für Fahrzeuge
 Autowerkstatt, in Belgien, Österreich, Südtirol und der Schweiz
 Depot (Verkehr), in Österreich und der Schweiz die Abstellplätze für Omnibusse oder Oberleitungsbusse

Garage heißen:
 Garage (Saarbrücken), Veranstaltungshalle
 Garage (2007), irischer Spielfilm von Lenny Abrahamson
 Garage House, Stilart der House Music
 Garage Rock, Stilrichtung der Rockmusik
 UK Garage, musikalische Stilrichtung

Die Garage steht für:
 Die Garage (1975), schwedischer Spielfilm von Vilgot Sjöman
 Die Garage (1980), sowjetischer Spielfilm von Eldar Rjasanow

The Garage steht für:
 Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Kanada
 Die Werkstatt (1920), US-amerikanischer Kurzfilm von Roscoe Arbuckle (Originaltitel)


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David Lee Roth on 'Unforgiving' Touring Life: 'It Kills People'
Dave Lifton Published: February 20, 2020
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Currently opening up for Kiss, David Lee Roth is wondering if his first tour since Van Halen got off the road in 2015 is the last time he'll perform.
"I'm calling it 'The Last Tour,' " he joked to the StarTribune, "and then underneath it in parentheses: 'Unless It Isn't.' ... At my age, everything is a possible farewell tour."
He added that the time he's put in has taught him to not take anything for granted anymore. "I'm a 40,000-hour man now, and I'm guessing the fellas in Kiss are 50,000-hour men now," he said. "With all those hours [of work experience] comes confidence, but also a good, healthy fear of what reality can really bring for you, consequently an intense appreciation of being able to do what we do for a living. I know a lot of people who hate what they do for a living."
"It's been a long great trip, a long great run," he continued. "But this kind of music requires the kind of energy that people in their 20s bring. You know what NFL stands for: Not For Long. It's similar in rock. I remember the days when we would stand around and say, 'Let's go have a cigarette.' And that's what we did: Four guys having one cigarette. I remember those days. They go by fast, so enjoy them while you're in them."
His decision to return to his solo career, first with the Las Vegas residency and now on the Kiss tour, came from having "waited five years" for another trek with Van Halen, "and now it's time [for me] to shine."
Roth refused to speculate on why the 2019 stadium tour he talked about never materialized. He only said, "You know what I know" and admitted that he doesn't know about the health status of Eddie Van Halen.
"Ed, God bless him, may have a fair amount of time ahead of him," he said, "but going out on the road is an unforgiving task. It kills people."
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- NEW: Added PINgrid transaction verification functionality via web services.
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- FIX: Removed legacy Windows Mobile 6.5 device support.
Existing AuthCentral installations can be upgraded in place without loss of settings or configuration. Note: A reboot may be required to complete the install.


Inspired by the shape of a bottle cap, the scalloped shape of the Bronwen Flush Mount is decidedly playful. The two-light fixture is fashioned from wrought iron, which has been treated to a dark contemporary gold leaf finish. The honey beige art-glass diffuser covering the light source of the fixture complements the finish for a seamless effect.


Genichi Taguchi (田口 玄一, Taguchi Gen'ichi) (January 1, 1924 – June 2, 2012) was an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s onwards, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Taguchi methods have been controversial among some conventional Western statisticians, but others have accepted many of the concepts introduced by him as valid extensions to the body of knowledge.
After the war, in 1948 he joined the Ministry of Public Health and Welfare, where he came under the influence of eminent statistician Matosaburo Masuyama, who kindled his interest in the design of experiments. He also worked at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics during this time, and supported experimental work on the production of penicillin at Morinaga Pharmaceuticals, a Morinaga Seika company.
In 1950, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratory (ECL) of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation just as statistical quality control was beginning to become popular in Japan, under the influence of W. Edwards Deming and the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers. ECL was engaged in a rivalry with Bell Labs to develop cross bar and telephone switching systems, and Taguchi spent his twelve years there in developing methods for enhancing quality and reliability. Even at this point, he was beginning to consult widely in Japanese industry, with Toyota being an early adopter of his ideas.
During the 1950s, he collaborated widely and in 1954-1955 was visiting professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, where he worked with C. R. Rao, Ronald Fisher and Walter A. Shewhart. While working at the SQC Unit of ISI, he was introduced to the orthogonal arrays invented by C. R. Rao - a topic which was to be instrumental in enabling him to develop the foundation blocks of what is now known as Taguchi methods.
On completing his doctorate at Kyushu University in 1962, he left ECL, though he maintained a consulting relationship. In the same year he visited Princeton University under the sponsorship of John Tukey, who arranged a spell at Bell Labs, his old ECL rivals. In 1964 he became professor of engineering at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. In 1966 he began a collaboration with Yuin Wu, who later emigrated to the U.S. and, in 1980, invited Taguchi to lecture. During his visit there, Taguchi himself financed a return to Bell Labs, where his initial teaching had made little enduring impact. This second visit began a collaboration with Madhav Phadke and a growing enthusiasm for his methodology in Bell Labs and elsewhere, including Ford Motor Company, Boeing, Xerox and ITT.
Since 1982, Genichi Taguchi has been an advisor to the Japanese Standards Institute and executive director of the American Supplier Institute, an international consulting organisation. His concepts pertaining to experimental design, the loss function, robust design, and the reduction of variation have influenced fields beyond product design and manufacturing, such as sales process engineering.
The philosophy of off-line quality control, designing products and processes so that they are insensitive ("robust") to parameters outside the design engineer's control.
Innovations in the statistical design of experiments, notably the use of an outer array for factors that are uncontrollable in real life, but are systematically varied in the experiment.
Genichi Taguchi (August 1992). Taguchi on Robust Technology Development: Bringing Quality Engineering Upstream. ASME Press. ISBN 978-0791800287.
Genichi Taguchi; Subir Chowdhury; Shin Taguchi (October 1999). Robust Engineering: Learn How to Boost Quality while Reducing Costs & Time to Market. McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 978-0071347822.
Genichi Taguchi; Subir Chowdhury; Yuin Wu (August 2000). The Mahalanobis-Taguchi System. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 978-0071362634.
Genichi Taguchi; Rajesh Jugulum (2002). The Mahalanobis-Taguchi Strategy : A Pattern Technology System. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0471023333.
Genichi Taguchi; Rajesh Jugulum; Shin Taguchi (2004). Computer-Based Robust Engineering: Essential For DFSS. Amer Society for Quality. ISBN 978-0873896221.
Genichi Taguchi; Subir Chowdhury; Yuin Wu (2005). Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook. John Wiley. ISBN 978-0471413349.
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The EPA Region 8 office is at 1595 Wynkoop Street, along the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The building is located adjacent to Union Station and across from the Tattered Cover bookstore.
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JJ Corry Releases World's First Tequila & Mezcal Inspired Whiskey
by Matt Healy
J.J. Corry Irish Whiskey, Ireland's first modern whiskey bonder, has launched The Battalion, a blended Irish Whiskey with Mezcal and Tequila cask influence.
The Battalion is a 60% 9 Year old Grain and 40% 13 Year old Malt Blend bottled at 41%.
Batch 1 will consist of an edition of 700 bottles in 500ml format with an RRP of 65 euro.
Irish whiskey is in a unique place, that allows a good scope of innovation for the products within the category. This allows for whiskey companies to stretch the bounds of traditionalism and create products that are brilliantly differentiated, allowing the consumers to experience products that would otherwise be impossible to find in any other categories of whisk(e)y across the world.
Louise McGuane, founder of JJ Corry Irish whiskey, has taken these reigns of innovation to deliver a world's first for Irish whiskey, which pays tribute to the Battalion of Saint Patrico's. These were a group of Irish men who fought for Mexico in the Mexican American war of 1846/48. This Battalion was comprised mainly of Irish immigrants from the West Coast of Ireland, who defected from the American side to fight for the Mexicans.
A whiskey in either of these casks would already be a world's first for the category, however, founder Louise has proven that she does not do things by halves.
The Battalion is crafted using 9 year old grain and 13 year old malt whiskeys that Louise has sourced and been maturing for the last number of years in her traditional clay floored, dunnage style warehouse in Cooralclare on the West Coast of Ireland.
The blend is comprised of 60% of the aforementioned grain whiskey, which spent the formative years of its life in ex-bourbon barrels before spending 7 months in Tequila casks, and the final 40% of the blend is crafted using single malt whiskey that was distilled in 2006, which having also spent most of its life in ex-bourbon barrels, it then spent its final months before bottling finishing in Mezcal barrels.
Louise told us how "this is not simply a 'finished' whiskey but in-fact a whiskey that was truly influenced by both the Mezcal and Tequila flavours". She explained how the blending process was one of liquid investigation, as being a first mover means you must write the rulebook when it comes to blending flavours, as there is nothing you can compare to.
"After allowing the component whiskeys to finish in both the Tequila and Mezcal barrels, respectively, we deep dived into the flavours that each cask possessed, before trialing different percentages in the blend, we hoped to produce something that best encapsulated the herbal characteristics of the agave without losing the Irish whiskey base. The result is something really unique (literally), with green herbal notes, and the slightest touch of agave."
Louise proudly explained how as modern Irish whiskey bonders, it is her team's duty to always be searching for interesting flavours to influence the whiskeys that she releases. She added that her team loves taking inspiration from artisanal producers from around the world, and in this case, Mexico.
JJ Corry's Battalion is bottled at 41% ABV (82 Proof) and is available from today with a Batch 1 recommended retail price of €65, with a total batch run of 700 bottles.
To listen to the company story of JJ Corry and the trials and tribulations of reviving Ireland's lost art of Whiskey Bonding, listen in to Louise on our Potstilled Radio podcast, here.
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2 thoughts on "JJ Corry Releases World's First Tequila & Mezcal Inspired Whiskey"
Hugh O'Neill	 May 2, 20199:49 am	 Reply
Excellent….!!!!!
I now know what to get my Mexican brother in law as a present for his 50th birthday…!!
Matt Healy	 May 2, 20199:50 am	 Reply
Great thinking!


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