Cloud Services Market

Microsoft is working on a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure service codenamed 'Singularity' that will provide data scientists and AI researchers a way to build, scale, experiment and iterate on their models on a Microsoft Azure Cloud service built specifically for AI. A group of researchers, mostly of Indian origin, have published a paper which provides technical details about the ‘Singularity' project.

Web services company Akamai Technologies has announced to acquire Linode, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers, for $900 million. With the acquisition, Akamai aims to provide businesses with a developer-friendly and massively-distributed platform to build, run and secure applications for modern digital experiences.

As a result of the ongoing economic and humanitarian crises, we have all been witness to a major shift to digital as organisations showed resilience and realignment in their businesses. Now, as the country advances its agenda of building a digitally knowledgeable economy, it must also look to create a self-sustaining model of development and progress.

According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), around 12.1 lakh cybersecurity incidents were observed till October 2021 in India. Microsoft analyzes over 8.3 trillion signals each day for potential malicious activity in email, desktops, laptops, and cloud applications that people log into for work and personal life. Here are five cybersecurity paradigm shifts shared by Microsoft Security for 2022:

As innovation, ecosystem partnerships, and integrated customer experiences become increasingly important, leaders need to move quickly to stay relevant. The choices - and investments - they make today will define, in part, how they will compete in a fast-moving global market, says Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India

Over the next few years, market research firm Gartner estimated that cloud revenue will surpass non-cloud revenue for relevant enterprise IT markets. "There is no business strategy without a cloud strategy. The adoption and interest in public cloud continues unabated as organisations pursue a "cloud first" policy for onboarding new workloads," said Milind Govekar, distinguished vice president at Gartner.

Cloud IaaS and PaaS is a critical, enabling component for the future of digital infrastructure. Public cloud services remain an essential part of enterprise recovery strategy as IT organizations reevaluate budgets, build infrastructure focused on business resilience, and work toward operating efficiently and managing risk in a post-Covid-19 world.