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The innovative cloud data center infrastructure, with enterprise-wide cloud migration, is now an unquestionable identity as a backbone of today's and future's digitally-driven world.
A shift from the deployment of cloud tools to more holistic strategies centralized around increasing the abilities of remote and hybridized workforces has authenticated the viability of cloud technology as one of the futuristic trends.
And, why not?
From serving as a key medium to the delivery pipeline of just about every digital platform, including social media and streaming entertainment, and to the connected cars and autonomous Internet Of Things (IoT) infrastructure, the cloud computing infrastructure is outright essential.
With super-fast networks like 5G and Wi-Fi 6E to be implemented broadly in near future, there will be an explosion in the availability of super-fast streaming services from the cloud gaming platforms such as Google Stadia and Amazon Luna. Moreover, we may have in future cloud virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) to transcend our imagination to the Matrix-level rendition.
These are innovations in the making that prove the power of Cloud, and also its viability from an investment point of over the course of 2022.
The thirst for cloud solutions is ever-growing, with more businesses around the world adopting cloud migration strategies.
As long as businesses worldwide adopt a cloud-first strategy, let's discuss some new and futuristic cloud computing trends for 2022.
A cloud computing execution model or Serverless computing is an innovative architecture for code execution. It eliminates hassles for developers in managing, provisioning, and maintaining servers when deploying code.
Based on the mechanism called functions-as-a-service, serverless computing is now a revered cloud standard among bigwigs of the cloud computing world based on its legit pay-as-you-go model helping brands pay just for the services used. The serverless architecture rules out any major capital investment when it comes to scaling an application invisibly, and helps eliminate the risk of back-end snags.
The serverless computing model has a pivotal role in fostering a unique user experience in the future.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is all in favor of the viability of cloud computing, based on its role in the deliverance of AI services, calling it more profound than electricity or fire, considering how the architecture will influence society in the future.
The development and evolution of both cloud and AI are deeply interwoven.
Moreover, the role of Cloud datacenters is also invaluable in catering to the working mechanism of Machine Learning platforms that relies on the huge processing power and data bandwidth. The artificial intelligence that is becoming so ubiquitous around us, like in Google search and Instagram filters, actually resides in the Cloud.
Some of the strongest trends in AI known as "creative" algorithms will have a substantial role in Cloud computing. These trends are generative machine learning that will facilitate the creation of anything from art to synthetic data, and language modeling that will help facilitate enhanced accuracy of machines in understanding human languages.
Kubernetes (K8s) is defined as an open-source container orchestration platform that streamlines the automation of software deployment, scaling, and management.
The productivity of this platform has become so stronger within the span of five years that it is now functioning as a default method for deploying and managing cloud applications, notably faster progress than any enterprise technology.
Moreover, the technology's latent power is to map computer resources in sync with the requirements of services in the ongoing infrastructure paradigm.
Interestingly, Kubernetes is seen to be used in conjugation with the new infrastructure layer called blockchain or to deploy blockchain networks. Blockchain is an open-source technology of shared, tamper-proof ledger recording transactions among parties.
The use of Kubernetes for blockchain means interoperable services between companies having different architectures.
Moreover, the deployment of blockchain on Kubernetes is quite simplified, aside from the fact that it also affords the feature of great upgradeability. Such deployment is seen as the standard of adoption aiming to solve the issue of complexity and integration into the existing infrastructure of the blockchain.
A distributed information technology (IT) architecture, edge computing facilitates the processing of client data or involves building localized data centers for computation and data storage near the originating source.
Meaning, it rules out a central location positioned at thousands of miles away. Basically, the technology is an efficient alternative to computing and storing information in the cloud infrastructure.
A decentralized computing infrastructure like edge computing allows reducing latency issues and gives more power to application performance. Data processing is done locally, given its proximity to the end user's device. Therefore, the technology benefits organizations to save money.
The main difference between cloud computing and edge computing is that it uses the data that is time-sensitive while cloud computing processes data that is not time-driven.
Cloud gaming is a subscription-based emerging technology in which the users can stream a host of unlimited virtual games on their desktop, laptop, or smartphone. Interestingly, it rules out using an expensive console to play the choice of your cloud gaming.
The premise developed around cloud gaming is that a player doesn't have to buy a disc and console and can stream a game that works on remote servers in data centers.
No doubt, cloud gaming leverages cloud technology in the gaming industry to cater to the demand and engagement of countless players for unlimited options of games, thus eliminating the need for having storage space or specialized hardware. It also rules out the possibility of piracy problems.
The cloud-gaming is quite an emerging trend in the cloud computing environment in the future.
Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud both are used interchangeably but they have one major difference.
Hybrid cloud includes private cloud infrastructure and is typically managed as one entity. On the other hand, multi-clouds consist of more than one public cloud service. Both the infrastructures are the need of the time without any compromise between approaches.
For instance, public servers will be used to store data that needs quick and frequent access while private servers can be used to keep more sensitive data with monitored access. In 2022, more organizations around the globe will focus on utilizing the benefits of these models.
Cloud technology has emerged as one of the biggest tech winners, becoming a trendy tech with novelty and standard for flexibility, productivity, and cost-effectiveness. With the increasing importance of cloud-powered services in virtually all business sectors worldwide, we are sure that the technology of varied and dynamic architecture will have its ubiquitous presence in 2022 and beyond.
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The year 2021 has witnessed an enthusiastic response of many people toward investing in various crypto assets across the global market. The trend has led to a consequential upshot, in terms of giving much more space of digital assets to the mainstream.
Meanwhile, the rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies has correspondingly prompted the rise of blockchain technology, which, as an upshot, gave rise to the importance of digital assets, with market capitalization soaring to $3 trillion in values during November 2021.
Statistically, close to 14% of people in the U.S. retain the ownership of crypto-assets while India has witnessed an impressive population of 15 million investors investing in digital assets. This is indicative of a rather encouraging fact, indicating that India is the second-largest country in the world going for crypto adoption.
With cryptocurrencies having no administrative authority to be circulated in the legal tender in India is a problem that the country's crypto industry believes should be handled on serious priority. The countries like India require a progressive and regulated framework that will eventually foster a thriving ecosystem of the crypto industry, inspiring more people with the confidence to invest in digital assets.
In this blog, we are going to discuss some top crypto projects that are likely to become game-changers in 2022.
Held in reputation as being the second-largest crypto network in the world based on its market capitalization, Ethereum is undoubtedly one of the biggest players in the DeFi (decentralized finance) space.
However, the network of this DeFi space witnessed a slowdown this year by a growing number of consumers making transaction on a blockchain that requires serious upgrade, Ethereum 2.0 which is still in the process of finalization, and is likely to be completed next year.
What qualifies Ethereum 2.0 to be so futurist is based on its ability to cut short the transaction speeds and costs.
Moreover, it will pave the path for the proof-of-stake protocol for mining that is considered environmentally friendlier compared to its existing proof-of-work model.
OVR, powered by the Ethereum Blockchain, is set to make a big headway in the moving spaces of metaverse next year.
This decentralized metaverse platform functions by merging physical and virtual worlds using Augmented Reality technology, offering crucial geolocation to help users how to easily navigate throughout the metaverse.
The company has recently released a new program called Map2Earn for users, allowing them to participate in a global treasure hunt and get rewarded by the platform's native OVR tokens.
Created by Charlie Lee in 2011, Litecoin is held as a futuristic replacement of Bitcoin, though the crypto is marred with its limited supply, say nearly 84 million units.
If we believe in the prediction of LongForecast, an Economy Forecast Agency, this peer-to-peer cryptocurrency (Litecoin) will touch the value of $200 by the end of 2022 and grow to $250 by the end of 2023.
Polygon framework is used to build and connect blockchain networks compatible with Ethereum.
This Ethereum blockchain or Ethrereum's Internet of Blockchains is one of the top crypto projects speculated to scale the blockchain's capabilities, linking it to other compatible blockchains.
It combines the best of Ethereum and sovereign blockchains, paving the path for developing a compact multi-chain system.
In its recent announcement, polygon revealed its shifting to Polygon PoS on Uniswap.
Corite is a NFT platform and was founded by Mattias Tengblad and Emil Angervall.
The Corite project aims at democratizing the music industry by incorporating a crowdfunding model. The purpose is to gain substantial distribution of revenue for musicians.
Corite project's blockchain is based on the mechanism, say getting funding directly from the audiences/fans who then get a share of revenue in return.
Solana is a public blockchain platform known for its impressive speed of 2,500 transactions per second with lower associated costs and without compromising on decentralization.
Based on this very attribute, the platform was termed as a potential long-term rival for Ethereum. The internal crypto of this platform is called SOL.
The currency has the application-building functionality which qualifies it a robust risk-reward dynamic in the future.
World Mobile Group (WMG) bases its functionality on combining renewable energy with blockchain technology with a mission to bring forth a new change in the paradigm of connectivity in Africa.
In 2022, the company will launch its blockchain academy to be able to host conferences to draw attention of experts worldwide and bring new talent to the region.
The WMG project is seen as a potential game changer for Africa's various war and poverty stricken regions.
It's not at all a foregone conclusion as to which way the crypto space will head in the year 2022, based on how faster the space moves with a certain degree of volatility.
However, one thing can be said for sure that cryptocurrencies will look quite differently in due course of time. Emerging new players and updated technology will reinforce the pace of crypto space, moving it to a tectonic shift of new heights.
The above facts also cast reflection of how important the blockchain application development would spell for companies worldwide to sustain, thrive, and stay futuristic in its business approach.
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The use of data analytics by numerous companies worldwide indicates that they understand the efficacy of analytics for streamlining operations and improving processes in business. Implementing analytics is a unique way of generating informed decisions leading to better customer service performance and gaining competitive edge.
The experts believe Big Data Analytics is a precursor to enhanced customer experience, helping businesses to downsize unwanted costs, boost productivity and profitability, and improve risk management. Big data services are imperative for companies that want riveting business success through comprehensive future predictions facilitated by data analytics.
Besides, the market of data analytics is expected to touch the mark of $103 billion by 2023.
Understandably, analytics is one of the most powerful tools in your business' arsenal. If implemented efficiently, it will transcend the growth of your business.
In this blog, you will get to know how analytics can contribute to the growth and expansion of your business.
With informed and intelligent data at your disposal, you as a business owner will be in a position to lay out the premise for making effective and realistic goals for your business.
It is a universal fact that setting goals for a business require exercising intelligently-structured data. And such data can't be made feasible without a unique tool like data analytics.
Since business requires implementation of non-desultory data (that doesn't change from time to time), the role of analytics becomes even more important, such as -
Data analytics not only helps increase the efficiency of how you do your business, but it also helps spot opportunities available in the market that you can leverage to help your business thrive in the competition.
In this context, the analytics helps you -
Earning new customers and retaining them as a strong customer base are two of the most important aspects of doing a business. Though the first part of it is a herculean task, the latter part is even more difficult, considering customer retention is one of the most delicate procedures for any business across the world.
In this context, data analytics benefits you in the following ways -
With the help of intelligent data, you can bring forth a unique service delivery experience for your customers. Data analytics helps you with intelligent customer behavior with which you can devise strategies aiming to fulfill their demands and consequently translate a successful business.
Data analytics will benefit you in the following ways -
Data analytics can help shipping companies handle the logistics challenges of delivering millions of packages daily. Intelligent data provides insights into maximizing the performance and trustworthiness of your vehicles.
Benefits involved in this context are -
The success of a business increases when you have a proper understanding of which demographic to target that will give your business the best commercial mileage.
With the help of intelligent data analytics, you will reap benefits like -
Data analytics, if implemented efficiently, can help your business grow tremendously, in terms of gaining actionable insights about your customer behavior and competitors so that you can use them to enhance your customer experience and gain competitive leads in the market.
The power of data is such that it is now capable enough to enhance and improve any business process, like streamlining communication in a supply chain or bringing forth higher quality and relevancy in your products and services as a brand.
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Created by programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), as a scripting language, has been one of the most sought-after programming languages for developing dynamic and interactive websites.
However, even though the language has been instrumental in rendering various programming tasks outside the web context, including robotic drone control and graphical application, there has been a buzz gaining the ground that PHP is on its way to meeting an impending doom.
One of the reasons fanning such speculations points out that PHP is a language of hobbyists, or it is just an enterprise language, or it is no longer as effective as it used to be.
Well, before we assume anything about PHP, let's discuss some of the most critical points of this programming language. This way, we will accentuate its relevance to being a key programming language used in the web development process, in addition to explaining why PHP is not going to disappear any time soon, as speculated by some critics.
One may argue that PHP is not all-pervasive language in application development or developing those types of apps that involve using Java or .NET. The main point here is acknowledging the fact that every programming language or tool has its own strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, when there is a need to use a compiled language like JAVA, the application of PHP does not make any sense.
PHP as a programming language is a right tool that excels in web application development, say it powers about 80% of the websites today on the web world. Moreover, even if some may argue that PHP is not an enterprise language, the importance of this programming language even for enterprise is undeniable.
The negative opinion about PHP is peddled because of the dubiety of the critics which contrasts to the reality that PHP programming language is utilized by most of the enterprises for their websites, blogs, or internal tools. With that said, PHP holds its relevance, in terms of being an enterprise language. Even the partial application of PHP for enterprise applications lends gravity of importance to the programming language as a growth catalyst for many companies.
PHP is considered one of the most effective programming languages for developing web apps easier and faster, given it is not a compiled language, and is programmatically designed to scale. This trait of PHP enables companies to launch their apps faster, introduce new features to them, and experience growth of considerable scale. Websites like Yahoo, Facebook, Tumblr, Digg, Mailchimp, and Wikipedia are some of the prominent web platforms that started off with PHP and grew to scale with the programming language.
Reportedly, PHP powers nearly 52% of the top 10,000 websites on the Internet today.
PHP is packed with so many attributes, including, it is versatile, easy to learn, fast and secure, and is a free open source scripting language used on Mac OS, Windows, Linux and supports web browsers, major web servers, and can be deployed on various systems and platforms, cost-effectively.
These are the attributes of PHP language which qualify it to become one of the most indispensable programming languages for developers around the world. And boy, this begs a question, like - how such an important programming language with so many unique features are said to fade away, just like that?
It goes without saying that due to lack of a credible yardstick to measure how a particular programming language should be ranked, it is difficult to come up with an idea about vindicating the ranking of PHP. However, PHP has evolved over the years and many brands have ranked the programming language in its database based on its usages. Here are some examples -
In 2014, GitHub ranked PHP the 3rd most popular programming language after JavaScript, and Java.
Tiobe index is another index for ranking software popularity, and according to its October 2021 analysis, PHP ranked 9th position outdistanced by SQL and JavaScript. Moreover, according to Builtwith, the application of PHP in various websites was impressive since 2017 to 2021, awarding it as the most popular on the Entire Internet in Framework category.
W3Techs' data reveals that PHP is not likely to fade away any time soon, considering out of every 10 websites on the Internet are using PHP in some way. Although the number of PHP usage is declining, it doesn't believe the fact that the number of websites using PHP is higher. For example, WordPress which is the most popular content management system on the Internet relies on PHP. And given how WordPress accounts for powering 34% of the websites on the digital sphere, it cumulates a huge number of websites using PHP right there.
We know that in today's fast-changing technologies nothing stays for good, considering there is always a new technology replacing its outdated counterpart. With the emergence of JavaScript and other advanced programming languages, PHP may seem to fight for its existential crisis of staying relevant, yet the widespread usages of the programming language, and its good rankings by some great websites including GitHub leave us in no doubt as to believing that PHP is not going to die any time soon.
Most of the speculations about the impending death of PHP come from those critics who believe that PHP is a procedural programming language without Object Oriented Programming abilities. Later, these attributes were added to PHP-4, and with PHP7 & 8, the object oriented programming became a staple of the PHP.
Once again, PHP is an effective programming language for many businesses large and small. It gives power to more than 50% of the top 10k websites on the Internet. With such widespread application, including WordPress, we can say for sure that the fate of PHP language is not going to be sealed for years to come.
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Blockchain technology, if implemented in React Native framework can pave the path for performance-packed and productive mobile app development. Blockchain as a decentralized ledger of recorded digital transactions, and React Native as a JavaScript-based open-source UI software framework can constitute a great alliance together to build innovative mobile apps, promising performance and data security of next-level.
And why not? Take a look at how digital money or cryptocurrency, digital wallets, and NFT minting platforms rely on blockchain technology for iron-clad protection from data breaches. And React Native is simply a great framework for developing unique mobile apps featuring seamless user experience and user interface attributes.
If you know what cryptocurrency is, you may be familiar with blockchain technology, considering digital transaction of cryptos is not possible without blockchain that prevents third-party involvement during one-to-one (P2P) crypto transactions.
One of the most important traits of blockchain technology is being programmatically decentralized network architecture, eliminating supervision of any digital transfer from a centralized authority.
As a result, it allows complete privacy among members in the network.
Moreover, a decentralized network system is powerfully immune to hacking. It means the system is effective for your conventional database of mobile apps available on a server from being breached by third-party unauthorized access. In other words, decentralized app data on countless network computers are almost invulnerable to get penetrated.
Given blockchain technology's impenetrability and decentralizing third-party supervision, it may sound like a more complex and mind-numbing technology to implement. However, like most of the cutting-edge technologies, this one too is non-complex and easy to implement.
To conclude, blockchain offers more simplification than the Internet Of Things.
In addition, giant tech companies eye on the global promotion of blockchain technology by creating blockchain consortiums to gain cost-effective advantages like cost-saving, sharing risks, and bringing safety and transparency to their business operations.
This means you can allow your team of developers to get acquainted with blockchain processes through educative training modules, or hire a software development company if setting up a new team of developers sounds too overwhelming for your company's budget.
Since app data must require full-fledged protection from getting manipulated by third-party access, adopting blockchain technology in the development of mobile apps through React Native Framework is ensuring protection of app data from the danger of lingering breach amidst threats like Pegasus spyware.
Since blockchain is a decentralized network architecture, transactions of cryptos go through scrutiny using cryptographic codes, and an assortment of different security measures, programmatically designed to safely lock the block.
Blockchain technology can enable the implementation of SSI/ self-sovereign identity, helping prevention of digital identity theft of users. SSI is quite a robust authentication system ensuring world-class data security of user's app data.
React Native is an open-source framework to build mobile apps that can be constructively useful for the data security of mobile phone users if blockchain technology is implemented at the core of the app development process. React Native and Blockchain both can account for productive app development process, generating security-packed and unique mobile apps
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19 Jan
2022
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