IT EVOLUTION BRINGS A WAY BEYOND BIG DATA & CLOUD

Technology is driving people apart, which would lead to fewer connections in society. Most people want innovation – it is the speed of change that creates divisions with the innovation of Cloud architecture which has evolved to emerge as the most topical IT paradigm in the recent times. Cloud is rapidly transforming the IT landscape. The cloud has several unique architectures and many more are still evolving. The primary ones are the SaaS, PaaS and the IaaS that can be deployed on private, public, community and hybrid clouds.  Where the traditional business models were rigid, siloed management, labour intensive, the computer and storage were in focus and then we moved to Cloud because of virtualization where the service is anytime and anywhere, no problems with the network etc. and then load sharing and sharing of resources were possible where large scale hardware and software can be put wherever you want, consequently Big Data came in. We still have siloed management but what happened is that we had difficulty in admission control which causes security issues. Consequently, we came to a situation where we had a multi-cloud architecture and now what is recommended is that we should go for cognitive self-aware application. Even though everyone is speaking about 5G, 5G is dense, as it comes from various aggregated devices; it may not be possible to handle 5G. IT might be able to handle bigger data consumption as applications like YouTube are running, so it is possible that it may handle bigger data consumption, by upgrading. Surprisingly, no one really speaks about the situation IT architecture will face after 5G arrival. 5G is Denser with 10MB per sec/m3 and 10Million devices/square KM. It is quicker in response, as quick as 1 millisecond including delay of transmission. Also the data consumption is bigger as much as 20 GB and user experience could be around 100 MB, moving at the speed of 500 kms /minute. HOWEVER, many are working on the proper architecture at the moment. Lets Look into today’s headlines in VARINDIA   US Army is researching ‘telepathic’ brain signal communication tech for soldiers In a significant development in technology, the US Army Research Office is funding new research into how brain signals could be analyzed and decoded to create a silent communication channel for military personnel. As reported by C4isrnet, the research program -- backed by the research office -- has been led by University of Southern California researchers, alongside colleagues in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Duke University, and several UK universities, among others. This research includes, algorithms and advanced mathematics providing the foundation for separating brain signals that "influence action or behavior from signals that do not," as per the publication. Indian economy contracts by 7.5% in Q2 and has entered into ‘technical recession’   India’s GDP contracted 7.5% in the second quarter of 2020-21, following a record 23.9% decline in the first quarter, as per estimates released by the National Statistical Office on Friday. The country has now entered a technical recession with two successive quarters of negative growth, which was preceded by seven quarters of declining growth. However, the economy’s contraction in the July to September period, during which lockdown restrictions were eased, is better than most projections of around 10% dip, and better than the 8.6% decline estimated by the RBI.   Increasing tussle among Alibaba, Tencent to buy iQIYI stake   Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd have each held separate talks with Baidu Inc to acquire a controlling stake in video streaming service iQIYI Inc. However, the discussions have stalled with little hope of recommencing soon as they bawk at a valuation of around 20 billion dollars demanded by Baidu and as both companies, which have their own video streaming services, face heightened scrutiny by China's antitrust regulators. At the same time, Chinese tech giant, TikTok owner ByteDance has also internally looked at the possibility of acquiring a controlling stake in iQIYI A survey says, 66% of Indian employees want to work completely from home About 83% of employees in India are still nervous about going back to the office while there is no vaccine and restrictions are still in place, as per the research agency PaperGiant. As per the survey, Indian employees were more likely to want to work completely from home (66%) than any other country surveyed. While people are still managing new challenges that come with remote work, many reported a sense of ‘relief’ being free from the usual presenteeism of the office environment. Increased cyber attacks on Indian vaccine makers in Oct-Nov A report says, the most common ransomware that has been seen during the Covid-19 situation is 'NetWalker ransomware', 'PonyFinal ransomware', 'Maze ransomware' etc. Microsoft detected cyber attacks from nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for Covid-19, including in India. Microsoft did not reveal the names of the vaccine makers, at least seven Indian pharma companies are working to develop the vaccine against coronavirus, led by Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech.   Suspected N Korean hackers target drugmaker AstraZeneca As many have reported earlier that, bad actors and criminals are targeting the Linkedin site for expanding their activities, as the profile of elite crowd is present. Recently, suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, Reuters reported. AstraZeneca, has emerged as one of the top three COVID-19 vaccine developers and the hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers. The victims were sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code. Xbox bug could link hackers link gamers tag with the players emails fixed It has been seen in many cases, Xbox bugs could have been exploited by playing around a browser’s developer console and editing a cookie field.  The Xbox Enforcement site creates a cookie file in their browser with details about the web session. This is done for easier log in the next time and users do not have to re-authenticate details when they log in again. Recently, Microsoft has been able to patch a bug in the Xbox website that could have allowed hackers to link Xbox gamer tags (usernames) with users' email addresses. The bug was located on enforcement.xbox.com where users view strikes against their profile. The bug allowed the researcher to view emails of other users. ` Hyd airport introduces India's first IoT-enabled Smart Trolleys Technology adoption in many ways has pioneered many innovative digital solutions to scale up service and operational excellence. GMR-led Hyderabad International Airport has introduced 'smart' with India's first 'IoT enabled Smart Trolleys' making Smart Baggage Trolleys, becoming India's first airport to use this technology for tracking baggage trolleys for passengers in real-time across the airport. It will also help tackle the theft of trolleys. The system is compatible on mobile, desktop and laptop making it user-friendly.   Zoho complaints Freshworks Of Intentionally Accessing Database San Francisco based Zoho Corp. has filed a fresh case against A start-up on Software-as-a-services (SaaS) ,Chennai based unicorn Freshworks in the US court, accusing the rival software firm of intentionally accessing its database without authorisation and getting information through one of the employees. Zoho has also asked for a discovery process into the “scope of Freshworks’ unauthorised access” to know if any other employees have committed a similar thing or not. Sources said Freshworks was founded by two former Zoho employees, Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasamy, Both of them had worked in Zoho from 2001 to 2010 before founding Freshworks.   RBI guv says growth outlook better Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das said on Monday, that the Indian economic system has exhibited a stronger than anticipated. The growth outlook has improved however cautioned over and should be watchful over drawback dangers of a recent surge in infections, the sustainability of demand after festivals and a potential reassessment by markets round vaccine expectations. The governor further said, adding the monetary policy guidance in October emphasised the need to see through temporary inflation pressures and also maintain the accommodative stance at least during the current financial year and into the next financial year.   KeyTake-aways: With many disruptive things happening by the evolution of Cloud computing to multi-cloud environments the layers of rigid infrastructure, conventional computing, Cloud computing and multi-cloud are available. Data storage is becoming tough for them and so finding database has become difficult. For modern applications, one needs to choose a database that can overcome the challenges of microservices in order to fully unleash the benefits of today’s agile development technologies. It leads to the rise of containers and PO architecture, where one manages micro services through Kubernetes and Container overlays. This is like computing or a form of ubiquitous computing that perceives the environment using sensors. Now the time has come we have to move on from concurrent synchronous distributed workloads to asynchronous distributed workloads. That means workload has to be in a synchronizing nature. Next is Global constituency and local autonomy with hierarchical intelligence. It means whatever one does has to be globally consistent, that means one cannot have a different way of handling different notes and entities.  In order to model intelligence in the digital world, the first thing is to go beyond limitations of symbolic computing by infusing cognition and sentient behaviour to address fluctuations, and the availability of resources without disrupting the computations at hand. No shared storage required across multiple clouds”.