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  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
  • warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home1/stasocom/public_html/stevestaso/includes/unicode.inc on line 345.
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Equinix’s Jennifer Ruch and AT&T’s John Schulz on ESG and Sustainable Infrastructure

Mon, 12/20/2021 - 17:18

I spoke with Jennifer Ruch, Director, Sustainabilty and ESG at Equinix, and John Schulz, Director of Sustainability Operations at AT&T, about sustainable infrastructure. In a fascinating conversation, we covered the following:

  • As a digital infrastructure partner to many enterprise and cloud providers, what is your sense of where customers are on their sustainability journeys?
  • We’re seeing a lot of companies and nations announce sustainability goals, such as becoming carbon-neutral, climate neutral, and net-zero by a certain date. How well-defined are these targets? Can you talk about the differences within the context of data center operations?
  • How are tech-enabled solutions, such as AI and connected IoT systems, enabling global enterprises as well as small- and medium-sized businesses to increase energy efficiency and reduce their carbon emissions?
  • Businesses are feeling increased pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and do their part to address climate change. President Biden recently spoke at the COP26 climate change conference to reiterate the goal of a 52-percent reduction in U.S. emissions by 2030. How are businesses working to meet this ambitious goal and what role does connectivity play?

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Palo Alto Firewall Boosts Performance with Single Pass Architecture

Mon, 12/20/2021 - 07:15

The new Palo Alto Networks PA-400 ML Powered Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) product family comes in a compact form factor and is designed for branch offices, small businesses, or retail locations.

The product aims for the next generation firewall market, and it features natively integrated security features, such as threat prevention, advanced URL filtering, DNS Security and malware analysis.

The PA-400 Series is available as four models: PA-410, PA-440, PA-450, and PA-460.  These four models offer flexibility for a range of performance requirements. Most significant, the company claims, is the product’s single pass architecture.

Also see: Top Next Generation Firewall Vendors

Single Pass Architecture Improves Security Performance

Palo Alto Networks commissioned independent testing firm Miercom to performance test the product, as it believes its single pass architecture provides superior price performance compared to a traditional NGFW with add-on services.

A single pass parallel processing system applies all elements of threat protection with a single scan. It eliminates many of the redundant functions that bog down a traditional system with add-on capabilities.

All packets are processed and routed, and policies  are applied, decoded and signature matched. As packets are processed, networking, policy lookup, application and decoding, and signature matching for all threats and content are performed only once. This reduces the processing load required to perform multiple functions in a single device.

Miercom tested four Palo Alto Networks products against another leading firewall vendor that had similar pricing and positioning.

Miercom used the Ixia BreakingPoint PerfectStorm test tool to push a real-world load on each platform using an 8 x 10 Gig-E line card. This created life-like scenarios commonly seen in small businesses and branch office environments.

Also see: Best Secure Web Gateway Vendors

Key findings from the Miercom report
  • Consistent throughput with security services enabled. One of the benefits of single pass is that performance remains high when multiple services are enabled, and the Miercom test validated that. Across the various products, the Palo Alto Networks PA-400 series showed consistently superior throughput ranging from 1.8x better to 6.6x. This ensures that application performance remains high instead of being bogged down by security. An interesting factoid from my research is that 63% of networking and security professionals admit to turning security off in favor of application performance. The single pass design eliminates this trade-off.
  • Superior application traffic performance. Miercom tested both vendor products on a range of applications such as MySQL, SIP and FIX. According to the report, Palo Alto Network appliances were observed having an average 24% decline in TCP sessions with services enabled. The competitive products saw over 3x the loss, or 82% average degradation. For connection rate, PA-400 series experienced a decline of only 11% compared to the competitive vendor, which saw a 92% drop.
  • Outstanding price performance. Miercom used the throughput data and calculated a total cost of ownership (TCO) comparison. The testing company calculated the throughput with services enabled, and from that derived a TCO per protected Mbps. Palo Alto’s TCO ranged from $4.09 to $10.02 per protected Mbps where the competitive vendor’s range was $20.60 to a whopping $83.65. This gave the PA-400 series a TCO advantage of 2.1x to 9.4x better.
Performance at Scale is Critical with Security

The results of the Miercom independent validation testing provide a valuable lesson that network and security professionals should heed: performance with security services enabled is what matters.

A product that performs well with just raw TCP/UDP traffic with no security services enabled may not perform in real-world deployments. The true measure of NGFW’s performance must include testing performance of application traffic with security inspection enabled.

Shannon McWilliams, VP of Supplier Alliances, Arrow ECS North America, said that “Arrow’s partnership with Palo Alto Networks enables us to offer our channel partners and their customers a great return on investment. The Miercom PA-400 report shows the architectural advantages of the PA-400 series. This platform allows our channel partners’ customers to easily leverage all of the security services that they have purchased without worrying about the impact on firewall performance.”

It’s critical that as companies evaluate security products, they are tested at maximum load with all security features enabled as this simulates real world scenarios. Businesses should not have to knowingly degrade their threat posture to maintain application performance.

With that caution in mind, Palo Alto’s PA-400 series’ single pass architecture is ideally suited for today’s network-centric world. As traffic volumes continue to increase, the difference between the product and legacy products will become more apparent.

Also see: Top Cybersecurity Companies

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Apache Kafka Gains Adoption as Streaming Data Grows

Thu, 12/16/2021 - 11:14

Apache Kafka is a distributed event-streaming platform that enables companies to monitor and manage real time data feeds. This open source software launched in 2011, following its initial development by LinkedIn, and evolved into a real-time event-streaming platform by 2015. 

Kafka is not the only event-streaming technology; it competes in the marketplace with Amazon Kinesis. But Kafka has gained solid marketshare, and is the basis for multiple implementations, including Red Hat AMQ Streams.

High-profile tech companies like LinkedIn, Netflix, Uber, and others proved the business case for combining Kafka, streaming data, date pipelines, and business analytics. In 2015, using Kafka event-streaming was still a new approach to computing that made it easier to “ingest” large volumes of data from data lakes. That allowed customers to blend enterprise applications with the cloud’s scale-out, distributed computing and microservices.

Kafka uses a “publish-and-subscribe” model that links data sources (IoT sensors, factory-floor updates, retail sales events, media/entertainment data) to data receivers, labeling them as “topics.” The data, sorted by topics, flows in parallel data streams that don’t interfere with one another. The Kafka event-streaming process uses software “connectors,” linking Kafka event-streams to enterprise data stores and software products.

Addressing the Need for Constant Monitoring

Customers want to take the real-time “data temperature” of their business every day and around the clock. They’re increasingly asking Kafka software to help them do that job.

This IT strategy for event-streaming in a cloud-centric world is gaining traction. Kafka is often a key element in a business’s intelligent process automation initiatives, as implemented by many vendors’ software products. The business push to leverage data-in-motion is driving many customers to connect their cloud microservices with enterprise data sources, ranging from sensor data to enterprise databases.

Data-in-motion tells the business where the economic “action” is taking place in their organization. Applying event-streaming data—from the factory floor, local banks, retail stores, and sporting events—helps businesses adjust their daily processes to achieve better business outcomes. 

Recent supply-chain backups are being identified using Kafka to track the real-time placement of the delayed cargo shipments. But the types of applications that can be used with Kafka are very broad, reaching across the enterprise and around the world. Examples include:

  • Adaptive pricing optimization.
  • Smart recommendations systems based on sales.
  • Detection systems for anomalies in the data that identifies fraud and theft.
Rapidly Growing Market for Event-Streaming Software

The worldwide market for messaging and event-streaming software is growing at a rapid 26.9% CAGR. It’s projected to grow from $1.6 billion in 2019 to $5.3 billion in 2025, according to IDC. 

“While this market is growing rapidly, growth in event streaming is explosive,” Maureen Fleming, program vice president of intelligent process automation research at IDC, told eWeek

Why is this happening now? What’s changed since Kafka’s earlier growth spurt in 2015, when it began appearing in software vendor’s products? Some recent shifts in enterprise computing are leveraging Kafka in new and important ways:

  • Increased emphasis on real-time event streaming. Examples include identifying and applying changes in retail data and financial data, fine-tuning pricing optimization, and updating business decisions based on new sales patterns. Kafka connects data across the enterprise and cloud providers, harvesting the data and feeding it to other types of software that provide deep analytics of the distributed events.
  • Proliferation of microservices. Application development is increasingly focused on building microservices for hybrid clouds and multiclouds. These cloud-native applications, leveraging containers and Kubernetes orchestration, work with data-in-motion before storing application results as data-at-rest in enterprise databases.
  • Growing importance of multicloud deployments. Large companies with presences across multiple geographic regions need to update database event logs for analytics, data compliance rules, and faster response to changing business conditions. Kafka’s publish-and-subscribe model supports multi-cloud data replication, helping to ensure business continuity in cases of outages and disaster recovery.

The accelerating pace of customer cloud migrations is giving customers a chance to re-think the way data is distributed across their enterprise—and to use it differently than before.

Event-streaming is allowing customers to move into new “patterns” of data management, including scaling capacity by doing data updates in parallel, supporting dynamic analytics across hybrid clouds and multiclouds, and speeding analytics results that improve business outcomes.

Connecting Event-Streaming to Enterprise Databases

As cloud migrations accelerate, the business world realizes that the “front end” of their data landscape, associated with data-in-motion and cloud-native microservices, must now be linked to the “back end” enterprise data, which is data-at-rest stored in data centers, data lakes, and data warehouses.

“Large enterprise organizations are increasingly looking to become more event-driven,” Jeff Pollock, vice president of product development at Oracle Corp, told eWeek. “They want to take advantage of innovative opportunities to work with data—as the data is being born. 

“Technologies like Kafka empower a lot of these cutting-edge use cases,” including the development of cloud-native microservices and new applications, he added. 

One big change in the event-streaming world is that new roles, also known as “personas,” have emerged as the users of Kafka event-streaming systems. Now that the nuts-and-bolts of streaming data are well-understood, there’s a greater focus on applications and tools that can be built around the foundation of event-streaming software. That’s why the familiar SQL query language for enterprise data—widely used by data scientists—is being integrated into many application tools designed for use with Kafka and event-streaming.

Building dynamic, cloud-native microservices will require user-friendly application toolkits. 

“The interest we’re seeing in the last couple of years is not just coming from IT developers, but from business-driven use-cases,” George Vetticaden, vice president of product management for Cloudera’s Data-in-Motion business unit, told eWeek. “Application developers, data scientists, data engineers, all of these classes of developers now want to tap into Kafka.”

Broader Set of Uses for Event-Driven Software

This broader set of users is demanding a broader set of uses for event-driven software. Since 2016, the market has moved from “easier data ingestion” into enterprise data lakes to a generation of software tools and applications that harvest data for faster business decisions. 

New patterns are emerging for event-streaming’s publish-and-subscribe model, which allows multiple, parallel data streams to move across the enterprise without slowing data updates from corporate data lakes and distributed data sources. From a business perspective, many customers are looking for increased scalability for large data volumes and better support for multi-cloud applications.

 Vendors are Extending Kafka Functionality

It’s clear that no single vendor controls the Kafka software stack. However, many vendors are providing Kafka-enabled software products and services that enable Kafka-fueled mechanisms to help customers transform traditional enterprise computing.

Oracle, Cloudera, and Confluent, to name three examples, extended Kafka-enabled functionality this year to address and simplify operational complexity for customers adopting hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. Let’s look at what each one added: 

Oracle

Oracle’s Golden Gate data-integration software was recently updated and released as a fully managed and automated cloud service for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle’s second-generation public cloud. This latest release of Golden Gate supports Kafka event-streaming, dynamic real-time scalability, improved ease of use, and automation for scaling up large data volumes.

Cloudera

Cloudera recently announced Cloudera Data Flow for the Public Cloud, a new cloud-native service leveraging Kafka that provides real-time data-streaming on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Cloudera Data Flow automates complex data-flow operations while auto-scaling the volume of streaming data events across customers’ hybrid clouds.

Confluent

Confluent Inc. announced an expanded multicloud strategy, with Confluent Cloud data-management software that runs across public clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Confluent also announced a strategic partnership with IBM, which allows IBM to resell the Confluent Platform and IBM Cloud Pak software, with unified customer support from IBM and Confluent.

What’s Next for Kafka?

As we approach 2022, the drive to pull enterprise data and cloud data together is accelerating, and many customers are using Apache Kafka to do just that. They’re using Kafka to move event data throughout the enterprise and the cloud, speeding up data-based decisions with the fierce urgency of “now” that is being built into cloud services based on distributed data. 

Real-time data, moving through the enterprise through a publish-and-subscribe model, is emerging as an important approach to transforming enterprise infrastructure for the age of microservices and multi-cloud deployments. 

“Kafka is one of the main tools in the kit-bag that can help organizations adapt toward becoming a more real-time business,” said Pollock. “And I think that’s at the very heart of many of the digital transformation initiatives that CIOs are embarking on.”

Also see: What is Data Analytics? A Guide to Data Insights

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The Future of CloudOps: Big Challenges and Possible Solutions

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:46

The most hyped areas of cloud computing include cloud native development, the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data, and other areas of cloud deployments that people enjoy discussing when they talk about the future of cloud. In contrast, CloudOps (cloud operations – the management of a complex cloud deployment) is a topic that rarely gets that kind of attention.

Enterprises that didn’t pay much attention to CloudOps are now running into a wall as they deploy more applications and data stores to the cloud. This includes net-new cloud native applications as well as lift-and-shift applications.

The Two Main Challenges: Where We’re Failing

The difficulty with CloudOps comes from two different directions, which feed into one another:

Growing Complexity 

First, complexity slows or stops cloud-based workload deployments and operations.  Informally, this is called the “complexity wall.” This is the result of several years of rapid movement to public cloud providers, including multicloud.

The problem is that movement typically took place without regard for the use of common services such as security and monitoring systems. Everyone provisioned whatever they thought was best-of-breed for their solution. So the number of technology stakes grew to a point that no enterprise can pay for the number of skills and tooling needed to operate these systems. In other words, the amount of complexity made them too costly and too risky to operate in their current state.

Consider this report entitled Bridging the Cloud Transformation Gap that evaluates the findings of Aptum’s Global Cloud Impact Study. Some 62 percent of respondents cited complexity and abundance of choice as a hindrance when planning a digital transformation that leverages cloud.

Lack of Planning

Second, CloudOps should have specific planning in place before the migrations and development take place. The typical enterprise moves to the cloud with no idea as to how they will operate those applications and handle the data once they are there. The lack of planning also causes too much complexity due to a lack of ongoing coordination.

Part of the solution is simple: Add planning as part of the process to move to or build on the cloud. You also need to create standard procedures about how things should operate, and design net-new and migrated systems in ways that result in better operations. This means building things such as management APIs that include more self-reporting data from the cloud-based systems, bespoke for CloudOps.

Also see: The New Focus on CloudOps: How Enterprise Cloud Migration Can Succeed

Trends Affecting the Future of CloudOps

Some of the more progressive enterprise pioneers who are moving to or building on clouds are just now hitting the complexity wall. Most enterprises with workload migrations below 20 percent do not yet understand that this limitation exists.

However, the cloud operations tool market has seen a steady rise in interest with CloudOps-related tools. These tools include cloud management and monitoring, AIOps (AI operations), FinOps (financial operations), and API and resource governance.

Moreover, there is more focus on CloudOps-related skills that include those who can operate the tools we just listed. But more important are those expert staffers who understand how to create and implement operations models (ops models), including the proper configuration of technologies and humans for the most cost efficiency and lowest risk. There are still too many open CloudOps positions chasing too few candidates, and this will likely get worse in 2022 and 2023.

A few key trends are emerging right now that will affect the future of CloudOps. They include:

  • Lack of available CloudOps skills. As mentioned above, this includes both technology and CloudOps tool SMEs, and even people who can perform more traditional ops-related work such as system backups, runtime monitoring, and even fixing simple problems such as restarting cloud-based systems as needed.
  • Static budget. Typically, no additional funding is available for CloudOps than was available for traditional operations.
  • Rising security threats. These are related to CloudOps, such as ransomware attacks and denial of service attacks.
  • Rise of the use of atypical platforms. Examples include high-performance computing and even use of quantum systems. Each requires specialized operations and different sets of skills.
  • The shift to a utility consumption model. Meaning that we no longer focus on data centers and our own hardware and software, but virtual systems that we’ll never see. We pay for this hardware and software as-a-service, and thus there are different rules to measure cash burn, and different metrics to gauge success.

The CloudOps technology and tool vendors react to these trends in very different ways.  Their solutions to the challenges listed above also vary in different ways. Some will prevail in the future, while others will fall by the wayside. The market will call the balls and strikes over the next 2-3 years.

Possible Solutions: What’s CloudOps’s Future?

It’s not difficult to pick the most likely events that will occur around CloudOps, both as a concept and as a set of technologies. Consider the emerging problems and envision how enterprises and tool providers will approach and solve those problems.

That was easy to say, maybe not so easy to do. To give you a leg up, here are a few events you’ll probably see in the future – including some you probably didn’t see coming.

We Face the Operational Complexity Around Cloud Deployments

While many understand it’s there, most don’t have an approach or sets of technology needed to solve the problems. Count on this becoming an area of discipline, with tools placed directly in the operational complexity problem-solving business.

CloudOps Tools Evolve Around the Use of AI and Automation

These tools exist today, but few provide the depth of automation that CloudOps will require in the future. While automation is loosely coupled with these tools today, as is AI, they will have to morph to solve an increased array of challenging problems.

Self-healing through AI and automation will be more in demand. Not just for simple problems such as restarting a database to work around a poorly performing cache, but to deal with complex failures that have difficult to diagnose root causes and as many as a hundred different components that must be fixed in specific ways, and in specific sequences.

This will stretch the limitation of automation and AI, and each must be employed if CloudOps staffers are to get ahead of the operational issues they need to solve that are clearly in their future.

CloudOps Skills Become More Widely Defined

If you think of CloudOps today, you’ll likely think of an employee who stares at a screen watching for graphics to turn from green to red. However, the future of CloudOps will be much more complex and include new specialized roles. These roles will include CloudOps staff who specialize in DevOps-related operations, those who focus on database operations, others who focus on security operations, and so forth.

The issue is that these new roles will come with their own sets of challenges that are unique to each area. The way you deal with operations needs to be unique as well.  Specialized tools will also follow, with more CloudOps tools focused on specific domains rather than on holistic CloudOps.

If you’re looking for gainful employment for the next 10 to 15 years, this is a good area to focus on. As we move across the 50 percent mark of enterprise systems running in the clouds, operational challenges will follow. These challenges need to be solved by specialized tools and staff, or cloud will be dead in its tracks.

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ITRenew, a High-End Webscale Refurbisher, Integrates with Pluribus Networks

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 15:22

The definition of cloud is changing as hybrid multicloud and distributed cloud architectures emerging, and with businesses seeking to augment their public cloud deployments with a private cloud stack. Deploying a private cloud can be quite a significant undertaking as it requires procuring and integrating network, storage, compute, orchestration software and other technology.

One vendor that’s trying to make the process easier and much more cost effective by providing pre-integrated rack-level infrastructure is ITRenew, one of the world’s largest decommissioners of hyperscale IT infrastructure.

ITRenew Offers Webscale Technology

ITRenew works with many of the webscale companies, such as Facebook and Microsoft, as well as tier-two cloud-based companies like Uber and Dropbox, which refresh their IT gear after about only three years of use. ITRenew will decommission this equipment and then use these components in their supply chain to integrate them into new, recertified rack-level solutions. ITRenew’s “circular economy” approach is to maximize the lifetime of data center technology by giving it a second life.

The company decommissions, recertifies, and transforms IT equipment used by the cloud companies, and then deploys it into enterprises and service provider data centers. Most of the webscaler companies work with the absolute, latest cutting-edge technology. This is tech that hasn’t previously been available to power the private cloud needs of general enterprises and service providers. This makes the ITRenew option a viable one, particularly in this current climate of supply chain shortages that limits the availability of new equipment.

Decommissioned Webscale Equipment Offsets Supply Chain Bottlenecks  

ITRenew takes the equipment and provides a fully validated, turnkey design, so IT pros merely need to deploy the rack. ITRenew must make several modifications so this hyperscaler gear can be deployed into standard colos or on-prem data centers. These modifications include upgrades to power, adding dual port NIC cards and of course testing at the rack-level with various software workloads.

Obviously, every environment is different so there may be some additional customization required. End-users can work with ITRenew to have that customization done at the factory.

This approach not only allows organizations to adopt the latest technology at a lower cost, but it also reduces the impact of manufacturing new equipment has on the environment. ITRenew’s focus is reducing technology waste, whereas most efforts to create “green” data centers are typically aimed at increasing energy efficiency and using renewable resources.

Pluribus Networks Now Integrated with ITRenew

Recently, ITRenew announced that Pluribus Networks cloud networking software solution is fully integrated with ITRenew. Pluribus makes an open, software-based network operating system that can run on “white box” solutions and is highly automated, like those used at the webscale companies. These low-cost, high performance white box switches have been appealing to webscale providers as they can run their own network operating system. However, most businesses would not want to use something like FBOS (Facebook OS) and Pluribus can provide an excellent option.

An example of a high volume of switches decommissioned by ITRenew is Edgecore Wedge100S-32X, which is based on Broadcom ASIC. Previously Cumulus Networks would have been an OS option, but with their acquisition by NVIDIA the relationship with Broadcom was effectively dissolved.

With this announcement these switches now can come pre-configured with the Pluribus Netvisor ONE Network Operating System (OS), which powers Pluribus’s Adaptive Cloud Fabric (ACF) controllerless software-defined networking (SDN) software. ACF allows the network underlay and the virtualized overlay fabric to be deployed across up to 100 racks in multiple data centers.

Pluribus Automates Complex Network Tasks

“Networking has been the Achilles heel of deploying IT infrastructure and network services quickly, especially across multi-site private cloud architectures,” Mike Capuano, CMO of Pluribus, told ZK Research in an interview. “Using Pluribus, you can simply type ‘VLAN create ID 110 scope fabric’ and it automatically deploys it on every switch across the fabric transactionally because our SDN control plane has a mini database in every switch. So you always have 100 percent consistent configuration.”

The ACF control plane is what holds the power of Pluribus’ solution. Rather than spending time configuring every box and deploying services in hours, days or even weeks, NetOps teams can deploy services instantly and focus on more strategic initiatives. Teams have visibility of every flow across the fabric with no external probes or additional infrastructure costs. This level of visibility improves both security and network performance monitoring at the application level.

With the ITRenew-Pluribus integration the company addresses one of the biggest problems in networking: automating data center fabrics. By fully automating both single-site and multi-site data centers, NetOps teams can deploy services faster and keep with up the growing demands of cloud computing.

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5 IoT Trends in 2022

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 14:36

Rapidly evolving trends are driving change in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector, which itself is growing exponentially. The IoT market is forecast to grow at a 25.4 percent CAGR rate, zooming from $381 billion in 2021 to $1.8 trillion to 2028, according to Fortune Business Insights.

Going into 2022, the vast number of IoT devices that connect and communicate with one another will help business operations work still more efficiently. Business leaders and IT specialists should be aware of upcoming trends in the IoT space and how it could affect the market. Let’s dive into the top Internet of Things trends moving forward into the next year.

Also see: What is Edge Computing? Your Complete Guide

Cybersecurity Concerns

There is no doubt that the growth of IoT devices will bring new vulnerabilities for business security. This is because if one device is compromised, the other devices it’s communicating with could face equal vulnerability.

A Trend Micro and GSMA Intelligence report showed that 15% of businesses that have deployed IoT for their operations have not updated their security protocols. This is surely due to the rapid growth and adoption of these technologies. As of now, there are very few government standards requiring businesses to stay on top of their cybersecurity. For the most part, investing in cybersecurity is a decision made purely out of the volition of business leaders themselves.

Expect not only a growth in cybersecurity tools, but an increase in businesses viewing addressing cybersecurity as an essential part of their growth.

5G Growth

The growth of IoT and 5G goes hand in hand. The rapid adoption of 5G networks is greatly accelerating the world of IoT, and will continue to do so going into 2022.

5G enables businesses the power to offer services that would have previously been too expensive or difficult to operate. Generally speaking, 5G offers a number of additional advantages over 4G that will only allow IoT devices to more efficiently connect and communicate with one another. These include:

  • Faster data transfer rates.
  • Global internet coverage.
  • Up to 90% more energy efficiency per traffic unit.

Expect 5G to be a main catalyst in the growth of IoT. However, note that 5G itself has cybersecurity concerns similar to those of IoT devices. Both 5G and IoT could usher in a new era of rethinking cybersecurity.

Read also: Understand the Differences Between 5G, WiFi 6 and Wifi 6E

Growth in Wearable Technology

One surprising trend business leaders should look out for is IoT’s push for more wearable technology.

Wearable tech, such as smart watches, have huge potential in the IoT space and for many businesses. Fitness and lifestyle-based businesses will especially find this trend beneficial, considering the fact that many smartwatches and wearable devices are integrated with health and fitness monitoring options.

Expect the healthcare industry to also take advantage of this growing trend. Wearable IoT devices could be used to prevent and monitor heart attacks, track EMG sensors for stroke patients, and monitor asthma.

Also see: Top Edge Computing Companies

Bundled IoT For Enterprises

Although the IoT space is growing, there is an initial learning curve that might discourage enterprises and business leaders from adopting it.

Andrew De La Torre, group VP of technology for Oracle Communications, says that bundled IoT solutions that offer user-friendly functions and integrated analytics will drive much of IoT’s adoption. He says that “enterprises are investing in the form of off-the-shelf IoT solutions with a strong desire for connectivity and analytics capabilities built-in.”

Indeed, enterprises are driving much of the investment in the IoT/edge computing sector.

IoT in Healthcare

The healthcare industry, especially since the beginning of the pandemic, has been at the frontlines of IoT adoption. This is due to the potential to gain high-quality data.

Together, IoT and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to analyze patients and their needs, as well as blood samples and genetic information, to find diagnoses and create new drugs.

Another way IoT devices can be used in the healthcare realm is through wearable devices, as mentioned earlier. There are a number of notable examples of wearable devices helping patients. Wearable defibrillators are one of the most striking examples of the potential of IoT and healthcare.

For instance, the Zoll LifeVest 4000 is a wearable defibrillator used to treat dangerous and life-threatening heart rhythms for patients with risk of sudden cardiac arrest. This is clearly an example of one of the more ambitious projects centered around IoT and healthcare. This ambition explains the devices’ rather pricey cost, coming in at over $3,000 a month. However, businesses should expect the growth of these devices and IoT solutions to drive these prices down, due to the increase of market competition.

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Lenovo Delivers AI-Enhanced Edge Computing with NVIDIA GPUs

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:00

The case for edge computing is so compelling that it can obscure the “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” nature of these solutions. The fact is that potentially valuable data has always existed or been generated at the edges of business networks whether they encompassed factory floors, retail outlets, remote locations, city streets or wireless infrastructures. What finally made edge computing possible and increasingly worthwhile are the evolutionary improvements that innovative vendors develop and deliver.

That point is highlighted in the new ThinkEdge SE450 servers that Lenovo introduced last week. By working closely with strategic hardware and software partners, Lenovo offers customers ways to solve complex problems with AI-enhanced solutions. Let’s consider that in more detail.

Also see: Top Edge Computing Companies

Lenovo ThinkEdge SE450

It is worth noting that Lenovo’s new solution is not its first AI-enabled edge server. That honor falls to the ThinkEdge SE350 the company launched in May 2020, which included a Xeon D-2100 CPU with up to 16 cores, up to 256GB of DDR4 memory and an optional single accelerator card. The SE350’s ultra-compact (1U, 8.27 inches X 15 inches) footprint, along with its rugged shock- and vibration-resistant design, made it a natural fit for building control, IoT, manufacturing and distribution, retail and surveillance environments.

It is reasonable to consider the ThinkEdge SE450 as the “bigger sibling” of that original system in both size and capabilities. Within its 2U short depth (11.8 inches to 14.2 inches) form factor, Lenovo offers customers a 1X 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum processor with up to 36 cores, up to 1TB of DDR4 memory and up to 4 single-width GPUs (150W) or 2 double-width GPUs (300W).

Lenovo noted that the ThinkEdge SE450 is one of the industry’s first NVIDIA-Certified edge systems with acceleration options, including NVIDIA A2, A30 and A100 Tensor Core GPUs. As a result, Lenovo’s new solution is capable of supporting multiple AI-enabled functions, including advanced data analytics and real-time decision making. That makes the ThinkEdge SE450 a solid choice for a range of edge computing requirements, including vertically specific applications and business workloads.

Like other Lenovo systems, the ThinkEdge SE450 can be automatically installed and managed with Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) and configured with Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator software. The new solutions will be available in March 2022 through Lenovo and its channel partners, including those participating in the recently announced Lenovo 360 partner framework. The new systems will also be available as-a-Service through Lenovo TruScale, which extends workloads from the edge to the cloud in a consumption-based model.

Strategic Partner Contributions: Agile Hardware Development

An interesting point about the ThinkEdge SE450 launch was Lenovo’s focus on the role of its ecosystem of strategic partners. The company noted that the new solution followed “an agile hardware development approach with partners and customers” culminating in “multiple prototypes, with live trials running real workloads in telecommunication, retail and smart city settings.”

As a result, the ThinkEdge SE450 arrives supporting a wide variety of edge workloads and for extending on-premises clouds leveraging Microsoft, NVIDIA, Red Hat and VMware technologies.

However, other strategic partners, including specialist ISVs, also played significant roles in the new solution’s prototype and live trial exercises. For example, in Barcelona ThinkEdge SE450 systems were deployed in street cabinets to host edge AI use cases, including supporting tourism services, traffic management and security. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Etisalat is using the ThinkEdge SE450 for hosting 5G networks delivered on edge sites and introducing new edge applications to enterprises.

Other strategic partners involved in the prototype and live trial activities included Intel (mobile edge computing), Capgemini (5G networks and vertical use cases), byteLAKE (manufacturing), The EDGE Company (smarter cities) and Everseen (retail).

These are further examples of Lenovo’s longstanding strategy of tapping into the energies and unique capabilities of strategic partners. As a result, the company has been able to increase the speed, efficiency and capabilities of its solution development efforts.

Final Analysis: Lenovo’s Strategy

So how does the new ThinkEdge SE450 fit into Lenovo’s larger strategy and enterprise portfolio? In essence, the company is offering enterprises a powerful, secure, quiet, compact and rugged solution for constrained, often harsh environments that is also easy to deploy, manage and maintain remotely. In addition, the optional NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs should allow customers to support robust AI-enabled functions at the far edges of their networks to derive valuable insights and speedy decision making.

At one level, the ThinkEdge SE450 is a standout new product from a company well known for its leadership in server performance and capabilities. But at another, it qualifies as the latest example of how continuing technological evolution substantially impacts and transforms the ways that organizations, including Lenovo customers, deploy, manage and benefit from computing innovations.

Also see: Why the Future of Computing is at the Edge 

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Dell’s Matt Baker on Edge Computing and ‘The Third Premises’

Mon, 12/13/2021 - 14:45

I spoke with Matt Baker, Senior VP at Dell Technologies, about current and future trends in the edge computing market. He explained his theory of ‘The Third Premises” and how it helps in understanding edge computing.

Among the questions he addressed: 

  • You write that “We are on the verge of a great swing of the pendulum from a state that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella characterized as ‘peak centralization’ toward a much more distributed IT environment.” Along those lines, you managed to connect the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” with the evolution of edge computing. Please, what’s the connection?
  • You anticipate that deployments of IT equipment outside of data center environments will likely dwarf what we have seen over the past decade with public cloud. Can you give us a portrait of how this will evolve?
  • Your blog post opines that “We’ve reached the peak of traditional centralized data and computer warehousing, and we’re seeing a fundamental shift in where computing happens and data is generated. Moving from thousands of systems in hundreds of locations to millions of systems and locations creates a scaling problem, especially for public cloud vendors. Glory awaits whoever can figure out this scaling issue – and we have a nice head start here at Dell Technologies.” Please explain.
  • What do you see as the near to mid-term future of edge computing? What milestones can we expect – and how can businesses prepare for them ahead of time?

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The Evolution of AI: How Enterprises Grow to AI 2.0

Mon, 12/13/2021 - 12:38

Decades ago, artificial intelligence arrived with huge expectations for significant increases in efficiency and productivity. However, despite billions spent on technology, project after project stalled—mainly because challenges with company strategies, technical hurdles, and cultures kept the potential power of AI unrealized.  

Over the last decade, enterprises have migrated en masse to online platforms and cloud providers. This evolution has paved the way for computing capabilities to handle much more data while simultaneously generating troves of new data that these systems can now analyze. 

This migration has laid the foundation for a new generation of automation and analytics—the shift from enterprise AI 1.0 to 2.0. This created the capacity for more sophisticated insights. This includes end-to-end process intelligence powered by focused solutions and machine reasoning that drives exponential gains in operational efficiency and productivity. Enterprise AI 2.0 is overtaking the shallow learning approaches and simple task automation of enterprise AI 1.0.

The organizational shifts underway to embrace these changes from the top down—starting with leaders who understand that future growth is rooted in digital transformation—have driven this transition more than anything. 

Let’s take a look at how companies move toward enterprise AI 2.0.

From Experiment to Mandate: Getting C-Level Support

Enterprise AI 1.0 was a crucial stepping stone to driving success in the new 2.0 phase. Small wins and incremental advances over the past two decades paved the way for the broader buy-in we see across organizations today.

However, enterprise AI 1.0 was hamstrung from the start by organizational structures. AI was being applied almost entirely by data scientists with speculative-use cases that often weren’t aligned to business objectives, processes, or budgets. That led to a certain amount of irrelevancy and a lack of buy-in, especially at senior management levels.

In one study conducted just before the pandemic hit, 93% of respondents—C-level technology and business executives representing Fortune 100 corporations—identified people and process issues as the key obstacle to implementing AI.

Bolstering that assessment, Gartner estimated in 2017 that up to 85% of big data projects fail—with other studies putting the failure rate in that range—due to a lack of buy-in among all levels of management. These failures often stem from data scientists driving AI investments that either don’t align with business objectives or aren’t accessible to frontline teams who could best leverage them.

A key difference in enterprise AI 2.0 is the greater ownership of the transformation at all organizational levels, including C-level sponsorship of AI applications that focus on strategic business impact. 

McKinsey may have been one of the first to study this phenomenon. In 2019, the consultancy found that commitment from management was a significant factor in the success of AI projects. Experts and industry leaders have echoed this idea, including Chris Chapo, senior VP of data and analytics at The Gap, who spoke on the topic at Transform 2019 in San Francisco.

“Sometimes people think ‘all I need to do is throw money at a problem or put a technology in, and success comes out the other end,’ and that just doesn’t happen,” Chapo said, explaining that companies often “don’t have the right leadership support, to make sure we create the conditions for success.”

In sum, deep support from the C-suite is the foundation of AI success. 

From Nascent Skills to Citizen Data Scientists

Enterprise AI 2.0 requires a team with an advanced mix of skills at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering, data pipeline engineering, governance and compliance, AIOps and CloudOps. These skill are needed to translate the initial work done by the data scientists within their sandbox environments to production-ready systems.

Enterprise AI 2.0 leverages sophisticated technology platforms and packaged solutions that streamline, simplify, and accelerate AI-driven innovation. Rather than cobbling together disparate tools and siloed environments, teams work with integrated approaches to manage data and machine learning pipelines from early development through production deployment and ongoing management. Purpose-built solutions abstract the underlying data and model development complexities while significantly hastening time to value. 

Enterprise AI 2.0 will also see the growth of new platforms that unleash the power of AI for employees at all levels of training, throughout entire organizations – the democratization of technology. These business users will use next-gen tools that harmonize data and automatically build predictive models and intelligent applications. 

These employees become citizen data scientists who can use AI, low-code/no-code platforms, and their deep domain expertise to overcome business challenges and exploit latent opportunities. They accomplish this in self-service mode, thus becoming critical enablers across the entire enterprise.

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning

The predominant predictive modeling approach used in enterprise AI 1.0 is based on supervised learning, leveraging shallow algorithms. 

In contrast, enterprise 2.0 will usher in a wide variety of modeling approaches, including lightly-supervised, semi-supervised, self-supervised, low-shot, and unsupervised learning. In addition, we will build more intelligent systems that go beyond merely identifying patterns within data. We’ll create a more nuanced understanding by deriving meaning from enterprise data and user interactions, understanding reasons for a particular behavior or phenomenon.

These next-generation systems, based on domain-specific semantic intelligence, will leverage machine reasoning powered by propositional or probabilistic knowledge. This will work in tandem with machine learning to bring AI closer to human-level intelligence. 

For example, consider an intelligent system that uses multimodal sensors to detect the operating state of a centrifugal pump in an industrial environment. The system can ingest sensor measurements, including pressure, temperature, flows, and vibration, to predict any upcoming performance degradation or equipment failure. By drawing upon a library of failure modes and effects analysis, the system can automatically act or propose mitigation advisories. 

Also see: How AI Can Scale Across the Enterprise and Enhance CX

From Narrow Tasks to Intelligent Systems

Enterprise AI 1.0 machine learning has a narrow scope and simply added automation and intelligence to tactical capabilities. Enterprise AI 2.0 capabilities will broaden AI automation, so entire business processes and decisions can be more policy-driven and autonomous.

Imagine systems of intelligence that can help retailers understand each of their target markets to anticipate shopper demand. This allows sellers to execute personalized promotions, streamline supply chain logistics, ensure ideal inventory levels, and automatically set pricing to maximize quarterly business objectives.

The evolution of governance is also crucial to enabling enterprise AI 2.0. Companies deploying AI will need to make sure they self-impose system regulation to supervise AI-based decisions. This allows them to root out imprecisions, biases, non-compliance, or other problems as AI technology digests models.

Remember how exciting it once was when AI evolved to answer FAQs or score and sort a set of leads for the sales team? Yes, enterprise AI 1.0 solutions handled simple tasks well. This functionality isn’t going anywhere. But we can do so much more.

Companies are already changing their cultures, upgrading their data infrastructure, enhancing their systems and technology, and refining their processes to embrace enterprise AI 2.0 tools and solutions. These changes coupled with AI analytical advances can help companies exploit the full potential of enterprise AI 2.0.

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Eshwar Belani is an operating partner at Symphony AI.

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