Estimating Potential Operational Cost Savings by Migrating On-Premises to Cloud: A Study using Amazon TCO

In order to use Amazon TCO(Total cost of ownership) calculator to compute the company operational cost saving by migrating on-premises, Colocation workloads to the AWS cloud, we started investigating the case studies showing on the AWS web page. Cases are categories by either company type or by solution. Data are gathered from Amazon webpage. The following reports are from TCO calculator to show the IT cost savings based on both qualitative and quantitative methods. By solution, the parameters like Big Data, Data Center Migration, Enterprise Solutions, Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Internet of Things, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence and Web & Mobile Apps are normally considered. By company the parameters like type and size, Enterprises, Startup and Public Sector are considered

Global Business Trends Depending On Skill Enhancement Of Youth In View Of Lockdown Situation For Sustainability

The outbreak of a pandemic disease caused by the novel Coronavirus has severely affected the lives and the wellbeing of all people globally and so naturally the global trends of business has gone down slightly in view of lock down situations. Youths are experiencing major interruptions in their career and assessments. Still youth power is responding positively by utilizing the lockdown period to enhance their skills and creativity, this has indirectly given a boost to E- learning in India. The E-learning industry in India is a prolific one, witnessing a steady growth rate of 25 per cent year-on-year and is projected to be a $1.96 billion industry by 2021. Many youths have come forward with prudent to explore learning opportunities in digital classrooms, which are otherwise not feasible during work days. Several institutes and web portals are offering digital courses across disciplines that can be looked at for skill enhancement. From business development to IT, software to design and photography, there are a plethora of options. E-Learning also helps to utilize time effectively and learn a few new skills to gain that extra edge. This paper highlights the significance of skill enhancement and the role of E -Learning Portals in skill enhancement of youths during Pandemic Covid 19 crisis. An analysis was done with the help of youths of Dakshina Kannada District on skill enhancement such as Job skills, Aptitude skills, Soft skills and Technical skills (JAST), through e-learning, which in turn also improves their creativity and become the most sought after in their field. This paper describes the ways and means of enhancing the skills via online and thereby the global business trends can be brought to a sustainable level in view of lock down situations, through the role of digital transformation

Svevende forventninger. Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv og Klassekampen sin fremstilling av nettskyen: en metaforanalyse

I denne masteroppgaven analyserer og diskuterer jeg fremstillingen av nettlagringstjenester i avisene Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv og Klassekampen. Dette gjør jeg gjennom en kvalitativ tilnærming og metaforanalyse av avisartikler fra disse tre avisene, for å se hvordan de fremstiller nettlagringstjenester ved hjelp av metaforer. I denne oppgaven undersøkte jeg disse tre avisene i perioden mellom 2010 og 2011, fordi det var i denne perioden denne teknologien ble populær ut i fra et forbrukerperspektiv. Den andre tidsperioden som ble undersøkt var i 2013, fordi Edward Snowden sine avsløringer skapte blant annet en stor debatt om nettlagringstjenester. I denne oppgaven viser jeg at disse tre avisene brukte spesielt sky-metaforen, personifikasjon og forretning-metaforen i et metaforisk scenario som var med på å forklare hva nettlagringstjenester er for noe. Samtidig ble sikkerhet- og bunker-metaforen brukt i denne perioden sammen med spionasje-metaforen, som involverte et metaforisk scenario der man diskuterte datasikkerheten og lokaliseringen til nettlagringstjenester. I tidsperioden etter Snowden-avsløringene ble forretning-metaforen og sikkerhet- og bunker-metaforen kombinert i et metaforisk scenario hvor sikkerheten til bedrifter som benytter seg av nettlagringstjenester ble diskutert. Sky-metaforen og personifikasjon ble i begge tidsperioder kombinert i et metaforisk scenario, som fremstilte nettlagringstjenester som en teknologisk reise med tanke på utvikling og innovasjon, hvor man måtte stoppe opp for å diskutere personvernsutfordringer og datasikkerhet ved nettlagringstjenester.Masteroppgave i medievitenskapMEVI350MASV-MEV

Data that Matter: On Metaphors of Obfuscation, Thinking 'the Digital' as Material and Posthuman Cooperation with AI

This article argues that ‘the digital’ and ‘big data’ are metaphors of obfuscation, which are used to screen the real effects of technologies on lived experiences and the planet. Now that technology consumers are connected 24/7 to the Internet (or ‘Web’), their data can be gathered and monetized on a vast scale. The new data economies and AI technologies that have emerged as a result require careful evaluation regarding their effects on bodies, environments and new forms of knowledge. In this piece, I therefore lay out the material impacts of so-called digital phenomena: of data, their large-scale storage in the ‘Cloud’, and their use in training algorithms and emergent forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Building on scholarship by cultural theorists of technology including Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Elena Esposito, as well as long-standing philosophies of metaphor and violence by Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt, I make the case that thinking about new media and technology is more ethical where it is less metaphorical, and so more conscious of the entangled nature of technology with human and posthuman life, including AI. The resulting concept of data that matter is proposed with a view to more justice-oriented uses of data and machine cognition in the future

Copyright and Digital Sovereignty

Digital transformation affects all social spheres bringing to life interactive technologies and virtual reality. Since the virtual (digital) space depends on the digital and creative solutions that form its technological base, insofar the legal regime of copying creative solutions affects both the freedom of creativity necessary for sustainable development and public control which is significant for maintaining the manageability of sovereign states and integrational unions.Aim. Improving the legal regime for the protection of interactive works to create a universal and harmonious information space where the rights of authors and the economic interests of software developers are protected, as well as digital sovereignty is guaranteed.Tasks. The concept development for legal protection of interactive works and the political and legal modeling of the digital (information) space presuppose the implementation of international agreements in the field of intellectual rights, as well as solution of several tasks to formalize the results of the creative activity that are perceived through digital technologies.Methods. Political and legal modeling of the digital space is carried out by introducing terminological certainty and creating a system of the interactive works protection. Such legal construction should provide effective public control while preserving creative freedom in digital space.Results. The protection of the copyright and moral rights of the authors of interactive works differs significantly from the legal protection of audiovisual artworks and literature. While the form of objective expression in computer programs may be similar to a literary artwork, their perception by the target audience is fundamentally different in that it models a virtual (digital) space, which the state administration seeks to control in recent years.Conclusion. The state administration’s tendency to digital sovereignty makes sense only if the target audience demonstrates high demand for interactive artworks published under the state jurisdiction. Since the information space is universal, the digital sovereignty of the state is inextricably linked with participation in integration unions that ensure the p roper quality of the results of creative work and create the digital space that is necessary under digital transformation for the interactive art development and the prosperity of creative corporations

Postinternet Art of the Moving Image and the Disjunctures of the Global and the Local: Kim Hee-cheon and Other Young East Asian Artists

Jihoon Kim discusses in his Postinternet Art of the Moving Image and the Disjunctures of the Global and the Local: Kim Hee-cheon and Other Young East Asian Artists” ways in which moving image works by East Asian artists Chen Chen-yu, Lu Yang, and Kim Hee-cheon engage the postinternet condition, a situation in which the internet and digital technologies are no longer perceived as new but as fundamentally restructuring our subjectivity and world. By opening a platform for intersecting the postinternet condition with a discourse on globalization, which has yet to be fully discussed in the existing Western-centric discourses on postinternet art, a key specificity of the postinternet art of the moving image by contemporary East Asian artists lies in its attempts to create spreadable images of multiple political, aesthetic, and cultural layers. The artists’ rigorous aesthetic juxtapositions of virtual and physical spaces should be seen not simply as indicating the artists’ cosmopolitan postinternet sensibilities but also as expressing their engagement with the contradictory and unstable disjunctures of the global and local in contemporary East Asia

Literature Based Study On Cloud Computing For Health And Sustainability In View Of Covid19

The modern age of technology is trending with digitalization and reshaping the business around the world. Advancement of new technologies and innovations are transforming businesses in numerous ways and creating a whole new business computational ecosystem. Most often professionals are across the globe are talking about terms like digitization, Industry 4.0, Big Data, Block chain Technologies, cloud computing, 3D Printing, Machine Learning, Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Data mining etc. Amidst, all the major advanced technologies mentioned above, Cloud Computing, is one of the fast emerging into a large scale computing system with seamless access to virtually limitless resources. Just to apprise how the computing systems works before cloud computing ;technically to elucidate, Server-That was the past, back in the days say 20 years ago every company used to have its own server. In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices. A server is basically a very large computer (just like a mainframe) with its own set of hardware which includes a sophisticated processor capable of handling huge workloads from the office clients. On top of these servers the Operating System (OS) was installed and the applications were placed on these OS. The server will contain all the database of that particular organization and all the concerned in that organization will have access to that data stored in that server through WAN (Wide Area Network) or LAN (Local Area Network). The data stored in these servers can be anything ranging from stock record, records of all transactions or even application or email service. Typical servers are Database servers, CatLog server, File Servers, Print Servers, Sound Server, Media Server, Mail Server, Proxy servers, Web servers, Game Servers, Application servers etc. Hence, to maintain such server facility and proper functionality, it’s becoming daunting task for small and big companies too. As such huge investment, technical expertise, IT infrastructure, vendors, manpower, security , licensing, overall maintenance cost shall gradually become untenable. Then come “Revolutionizing Computing systems called ‘Cloud computing” which is supposed to be totally changed scenario of computational systems. Since it is cheap, no need to hire professional IT to maintain server, no wastage of money on acquiring server OS licensing, user friendly. Hence, it could be sustained in small and big companies/enterprises easily. Coronavirus, now declared as pandemic, is causing widespread shutdown and chaos. The rapid spread and global impact of COVID-19 can make people feel helpless and scared as the novel coronavirus escalates and forces them to change many aspects of their respective lives. It is clear that the world needs a quick & safe solution right now to combat further spread of coronavirus . What then is the best solution to this health crisis? This is where technologies such as cloud computing, AI & machine learning come into play. It will be very interesting to see how cloud computing will address and contribute towards these issues in the healthcare system & industry. The purpose of this paper is to explore the current state, status and trends of cloud computing in health system in view of covid-19