Industry Events in October 2019

October 2019 is coming to an end. What major events have happened in the IT field? 51CTO has sorted out the major events of October according to different IT product fields for your reference.

Cloud Application Areas

AWS lost! Microsoft won the 70 billion yuan JEDI cloud computing super order

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The Pentagon said on October 25 that Microsoft had won the 10-year, $10 billion contract over market leader AWS in a fierce competition to provide public cloud resources to the U.S. Department of Defense. The announcement said the deal is a sign of the rise of Microsoft’s Azure cloud as a strong challenger to AWS and a new win for Satya Nadella, who succeeded Steve Ballmer as Microsoft president in 2014. As AWS soars, Microsoft has also signed large cloud infrastructure deals with companies such as Walmart.

Ian Massingham: AWS continues to invest in the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence

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As an advanced cloud service provider, AWS has always stood at the forefront of the global cloud computing market. In the view of Ian Massingham, AWS Vice President (Global Technology and Developer Evangelist Team), market ranking or status is not AWS's main goal. AWS hopes to achieve its own development and value by listening to customer needs and providing customers with high-quality services.

In the digital economy era, 5G+Cloud+AI accelerates the intelligent transformation and upgrading of government and enterprises

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At the "China Intelligent Transformation and Technological Innovation High-level Seminar" held recently, the release of the "China Cloud Computing Industry Development White Paper" attracted widespread attention. The white paper shows that in recent years, driven by the government and industry, cloud computing technology has been rapidly promoted in my country. In 2018, the scale of China's cloud computing industry reached 96.28 billion yuan. However, compared with developed countries, my country's cloud computing industry still has a large gap. How to seize the new opportunities provided by emerging technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, and build a safe and controllable intelligent industrial system, so as to smoothly transform and upgrade, is the concern of every transforming enterprise.

Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud jointly launch the "Open Application Model (OAM)"

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Kubernetes has become the industry's leading container orchestration environment, which has greatly promoted the significant growth of Kubernetes services on major public cloud platforms around the world. However, in the core resources of Kubernetes, such as services and deployments, from the perspective of the entire application, it seems to present a discrete state of the application. In addition, objects such as Helm charts, although they look like deployable applications, lack the application-centric model required to run the application after they are actually deployed. This requires a clearly defined, complete and consistent model to express the entire application, not just its template or components. It is for this reason that Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud have cooperated based on the Open Web Foundation to launch the Open Application Model (OAM).

Lingqiao Cloud not only provides a platform, but also aims to be a long-term cloud-native technology partner for customers

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At the CNBPS 2019 Cloud Native Technology Practice Summit held on October 24, many cloud native experts and industry users shared their interpretations of cloud native technology and implementation practices. Lingqiao Cloud CEO Zuo Yue said that Lingqiao Cloud not only provides customers with a product, but also helps enterprises sort out their business, combines cloud native related technologies with traditional businesses, and becomes a long-term cloud native technology partner for customers.

2019 6th World Internet Conference: Inspur releases iGIX enterprise digital capability platform

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On October 18, the "Light of Internet" Expo officially opened in Wuzhen. At the conference, Inspur launched the industry's first "digital middle platform" for enterprise capabilities - Inspur iGIX Enterprise Digital Capability Platform. According to reports, Inspur iGIX Enterprise Digital Capability Platform includes three middle platforms: technology, data, and business. Based on cloud native and microservice architecture, it integrates digital technologies such as elastic computing, intelligent IoT, machine learning, and cognitive services, and provides application innovation acceleration capabilities such as low-code development, DevOps, hybrid cloud integration, and ecological openness; built-in data asset management and rich data services break down data barriers, fully integrate enterprise data resources, and build data-based innovation capabilities; precipitate shared business services and build business service capabilities based on big sharing.

Yunxi completes Series B financing of RMB 350 million and launches Digital Middle Platform Lighthouse Plan

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On October 25, Yunxi Technology successfully held the Digital Middle Platform Lighthouse Project and Series B Financing Conference, officially announcing the completion of a Series B financing of RMB 350 million, making Yunxi a middle platform service provider that broke through the Series B. At the same time, Yunxi announced that it will use Digital Middle Platform 3.0 as the foundation and engine of digital business, and invest nearly RMB 100 million in special funds to launch Yunxi's three-year strategic deployment - the Digital Middle Platform Lighthouse Project. In the future, Yunxi will work with 30+ leading lighthouses, 100+ industry benchmarks, and 1,000+ business innovation demonstration companies to delve into the core of the business, refine business scenarios and operational capabilities, digitally empower business innovation and growth, drive more companies to realize the commercialization of the middle platform, and illuminate the digitalization process of enterprises.

Big Data Field

Ant Financial's OceanBase has been on the TPC-C ranking for nine years, but we still need to look at it rationally

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On October 2, the official website of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) disclosed that OceanBase, a financial-grade distributed relational database independently developed by China's Ant Financial, broke the world record held by the US company Oracle for 9 years in the TPC-C benchmark test, becoming the first Chinese database product to top the list. After this news was widely circulated in WeChat Moments, everyone was very excited, but after the excitement, we still need to look at it rationally.

Amazon completely removes Oracle database: Migration completed

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On October 15, 2019, Jeff Barr, chief evangelist of AWS, published an article titled "Migration Completed – Amazon's Consumer Business Unit Closes the Last Oracle Database" on the official blog. The article pointed out that Amazon's database migration is now complete. Amazon's consumer business unit has just closed the last few Oracle databases (some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and have not yet been migrated), migrating 75 PB of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases to multiple AWS database services.

Yonghong Technology launches desktop intelligent analysis product to make it possible for everyone to be a data analyst

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On October 25, the Data Analysis Technology and Application Summit Forum with the theme of "Intelligent Cooperation, Digital Creation of the Future" was held in Beijing. At this forum, Yonghong Technology released Yonghong Desktop, China's independent desktop intelligent analysis product. It is understood that Yonghong Desktop includes functions such as data acquisition, data governance, data exploration, intelligent analysis, sharing and collaboration, so that people without professional big data skills can also easily get started and formulate their own data business reports according to the company's application scenarios. Through dragging and dropping, business personnel can quickly build visual reports, and built-in classic algorithm models help users who lack statistical knowledge use algorithms such as regression analysis, correlation analysis, and trend analysis to improve their business.

Sensors 2019 Data Driven Conference with the theme of "Momentum·Change" was held in Beijing

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Recently, the Sensors 2019 Data Driven Conference with the theme of "Moment•Change" was held in Beijing. Lv Houchang, the current data director of the US travel platform Lime, attended the summit and gave a keynote speech. He pointed out on the spot that "data" is not just cold numbers. Today, data is directly linked to value output. Data is a lever. Companies that use data well can leverage infinite business value.

IoT

Learn more about LoRa and LoRaWAN from a few questions

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LoRaWAN is a popular and widely deployed LPWA communication standard. Unlike NB-IOT, LoRa operates in the free ISM frequency band. Users can complete the deployment of LoRa networks without relying on operators, which is not only faster but also cheaper. However, during the deployment of LoRa, new signal towers, industrial base stations and even portable home gateways need to be built. This is difficult for ordinary users. Therefore, there are basically no projects with millions of connections in the industry. This article deeply analyzes the communication technology of LoRa from the aspects of transmission distance, transmission rate, power consumption, and deployment requirements.

Historical opportunities and challenges for the UK to build the next generation of IOT infrastructure

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Municipalities around the world are calling for infrastructure plans to support 5G. These infrastructure plans will also bring with them other high-speed data networks that will make the future of IoT possible. In July 2018, the UK government released a detailed national broadband strategy with the goal of bringing fiber to every home by 2033. The amount of work required to fully roll out fiber optic networks (FTTP) to every corner of the UK is quite huge. So far, Openreach claims that they have covered more than 900,000 premises and plan to reach 3 million by 2020. It is too early to make any judgments about the future of the UK's full fiber infrastructure, but smart investors should keep an eye on Openreach and their efforts to support the UK IoT industry in the coming decades.

Advantech ranked fifth among Taiwan's international brands for two consecutive years

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On October 24, 2019, Advantech, a global leader in the Industrial Internet of Things, was ranked fifth in the 2019 Taiwan International Brand with a brand value of US$556 million. This is also the second consecutive year that Advantech has been recognized by Interbrand since 2003, and has been ranked fifth in the Taiwan International Brand in the past two years.

Enterprise computing

Second-generation AMD EP YC processors officially launched in Greater China

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On October 10, at the AMD Greater China Partner Summit held in Beijing, AMD and its powerful industry chain partners witnessed the official launch of the new generation of 7nm AMD EPYC processors in the Greater China market, jointly creating a new future for data centers. Industry chain partners such as Tencent Cloud, Dell Technologies, H3C, Lenovo, and VMware announced that the latest products and solutions based on the second-generation AMD EPYC processors have or will officially land in the Greater China market.

New story of a veteran: The new generation of IBM Z sets a new record for architectural resilience

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On October 24, 2019, IBM held a grand ceremony in Beijing to launch the new generation of Z and LinuxONE, and officially launched the new enterprise platform z15, LinuxONE III and high-end storage IBM DS8900F. With the increasing number of enterprises adopting hybrid multi-cloud environments, maintaining data security and privacy has become increasingly urgent and difficult. z15 is a blockbuster product that IBM has spent four years developing. It has many industry-first technological innovations such as data privacy passport and instant recovery, which can help enterprises manage customer data privacy across hybrid multi-cloud environments, and escort enterprises' cloud migration journey and business innovation in hybrid multi-cloud environments.

PowerEdge servers powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC unveiled at Dell Technologies Summit

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At the 2019 Dell Technologies Summit held in Beijing recently, Dell Technologies Group and AMD jointly launched the most complete PowerEdge server product line designed and optimized for the second-generation AMD EPYC processor, including two single-way Dell EMC PowerEdge servers R6515 and R7515 and three dual-way Dell EMC PowerEdge servers R6525, R7525, and C6525 (2U4 nodes), launching breakthrough servers and solutions for modern data centers and reshaping the cornerstone of modern data centers.

Data storage area

Michael Dell came to Beijing to attend the 2019 Dell Technologies Summit

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On October 25, the 2019 Dell Technologies Summit with the theme of "Expanding Boundaries and Making It Real" was grandly held at the Beijing National Convention Center. Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, attended the summit and delivered a keynote speech. He witnessed the signing of strategic cooperation agreements between the group and multiple local governments, universities, and enterprises. Together with the leaders of the Ministry of Education, he interacted with students from two primary schools in Chengdu and Liangshan, Sichuan, in real time through Dell Technologies' 5G+Cloud+VR education solution.

Seagate launches 16TB SkyHawk AI surveillance hard drive

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Seagate Technology recently appeared at the 17th China International Public Security Expo (CPSE), showcasing its full range of security storage solutions and releasing the 16TB Seagate SkyHawkAI surveillance hard drive, further promoting the application of artificial intelligence in security monitoring and facilitating the rapid deployment of smart security.

Network Field

Review and Outlook of China's 100-day 5G Licensing

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It has been more than 100 days since the release of the 5G commercial license. Previously, China's timetable for full commercial use of 5G was 2020, but after South Korea and the United States grabbed the first position in the global 5G commercialization in April this year, the anxiety of the domestic industry has been rising. At the same time, with the escalation of Sino-US trade frictions and the US's crackdown on Huawei in the global market, the call for 5G to be commercialized as soon as possible finally defeated rational planning, and the 5G commercial license was advanced by at least half a year. The competition in 5G is not a game that can be won or lost at a certain time and place, but a deep competition on a global scale, with a long time period and a wide range of industries. The 5G network layout of operators should still be based on the needs of industry customers and industrial users, concentrate on capital and resource advantages, and focus on solving the coverage needs of industry customers and the surrounding areas of industrial layout through SA independent networking.

When WiFi6 collides with 5G, is it a crisis or a business opportunity?

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2019 is the first year of commercial use of 5G and WiFi6. Both have been quite popular recently. Many people are even arguing that WiFi6 and 5G will collide head-on in the future and WiFi6 will gradually be eliminated. However, many people believe that WiFi6 and 5G are competing with each other, but they can also be perfectly integrated and coexist and complement each other.

Security

my country's Cryptography Law passed, to take effect on January 1, 2020

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On October 26, the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to pass the "Cryptography Law of the People's Republic of China", which will come into effect on January 1, 2020. The Cryptography Law aims to regulate the application and management of cryptography, promote the development of cryptography, ensure network and information security, safeguard national security and social public interests, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations. The bill focuses on "how to use cryptography, who manages cryptography, and how to manage cryptography", and regulates a total of five chapters and 44 articles.

National standard for vehicle information safety technology officially launched

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At present, there is no systematic research and evaluation standard for automobile information security at home and abroad. Establishing scientific and standardized information security standards for vehicle network equipment will help improve the information security protection capabilities of vehicle network equipment and ensure the rapid development of my country's Internet of Vehicles information security industry. "Information Security Technology Vehicle Network Equipment Information Security Technical Requirements" puts forward information security technical requirements for vehicle network equipment communication security, vehicle network equipment firmware, vehicle network equipment sensitive data, and vehicle network equipment system remote upgrade. It is suitable for guiding and standardizing vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to design, develop, produce, implement, and test and evaluate the information security functions of vehicle network equipment.

The US Data Privacy Protection Act is coming and will take effect in January next year. Currently only 2% of companies are compliant

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will take effect in January next year, and there are less than three months to prepare. In addition, starting with New York State, more bills are taking effect in many states in the United States.

The CCPA Act is similar to the GDPR. Regardless of where a company is located, as long as the consumer group it serves includes residents of California and New York, the company must comply with the law, otherwise it will be fined. According to its official website, CCPA is a privacy protection regulation used to protect personal data. It is a local law enacted by the state of California, USA. This law was actually passed in 2018 and gives consumers new rights to access, delete and share personal data collected by companies.

Active safety and intelligent driving - 2019 Hefei Cyber ​​Security Conference was successfully held

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The 2019 Hefei Cybersecurity Conference focused on proactive security cutting-edge technologies, security practices, and the construction of MLPS 2.0 compliance, and discussed in depth cutting-edge topics such as 5G security and cyberspace security situation awareness. The proactive security construction practices with Anhui Rural Credit Cooperatives Union and Anhui University as models also attracted much attention. At the conference, Anhui Hefei High-tech Zone also held a centralized signing ceremony for new projects in the "China Security Valley". The "China Security Valley" has the advantages of supporting policies, talents, funds, and markets, and is growing into a capital of the cybersecurity industry.

Changting Technology was wholly acquired by Alibaba Cloud, and its security service capabilities were fully upgraded

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Alibaba Cloud plans to acquire Changting Technology in full. After the acquisition is completed, Changting Technology's brand and team will remain independent and continue to operate independently. With the full support of Alibaba Cloud's technology, capital, and business, it will strive to expand the market and continue to provide enterprise-level users with more powerful network security solutions.

AI

After the U.S. Department of Commerce blacklisted several Chinese companies, MIT began to review AI cooperation projects with China

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On October 8, the U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced a new batch of trade "blacklists", including 28 institutions and companies including Hikvision, Megvii Technology, SenseTime Technology, and iFlytek. Many of the above-mentioned companies also responded to the actions of the U.S. Department of Commerce this time, and said that they are actively preparing countermeasures. On October 9, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said that it would review the relationship between the school and SenseTime Group Ltd., including some projects that may involve export control regulations. It is not yet known what impact the new list will have, but judging from the current situation, it still seems not optimistic. Perhaps more Chinese companies need to prepare in advance to deal with more unknown dangers.

50 billion parameters, supporting 103 languages: Google launches "Global Text Translation" model

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Due to the lack of parallel data, the translation of small languages ​​has always been a major problem. Researchers from Google proposed a large-scale multilingual neural machine translation model that can translate 103 languages, achieving significant performance improvements in both data-rich and data-scarce language translation. They trained on 25 billion sentence pairs with more than 50 billion parameters. They obtained a large-scale multilingual, large-scale neural machine translation method M4, which achieved significant performance improvements in both data-rich and data-scarce languages, can be easily adapted to a single domain/language, and can be effectively applied to cross-language downstream migration tasks. In the direction of general machine translation, many promising solutions seem to be cross-domain, and multilingual NMT is becoming an ideal testbed for machine learning techniques such as multi-task learning, meta-learning, and deep network training.

Microsoft's new AI technology: Make your profile photo move and "speak" with emotion

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More and more studies have shown that human facial movements and speech behaviors can be synchronized as long as there is a sufficient corpus. A Microsoft research team recently proposed a technology. They claim that this technology can improve the realism of voice-transmitting avatar animation. Before this, the generation of head animation required clear, relatively noise-free audio and neutral tones. Now, researchers say that their technology can decompose audio sequences into factors such as speech content and background noise, so that noisy and "emotional" data samples can be used.

System Field

Can Linux be used as a regular office computer?

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October 24th is the Programmer's Day defined by Chinese programmers. Alibaba is showing off its cafeteria, and another Internet giant, Tencent, is also taking advantage of this holiday: it released Linux QQ 2.0 beta, announcing the return of the Linux version of QQ. The only PC operating systems widely known to domestic users are Windows and Mac OS, while open source Linux is almost only popular among geeks. However, with the passage of time, the usability of graphical Linux has been greatly improved, and the ecosystem has been increasingly improved. After "YuLinMuFeng", which optimized the system in the XP era, embraced Linux with its own understanding of system usability, more Linux distributions that are more suitable for Chinese people began to appear.

Covering 460 million+ devices! WeChat officially open-sources Hardcoder framework

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Recently, WeChat has open-sourced the performance optimization framework Hardcoder, which has been accepted by mainstream mobile phone manufacturers such as OPPO, vivo, Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung, and Meizu, covering more than 460 million devices. Hardcoder is a performance optimization framework developed by WeChat and a communication solution between Android APP and the system. Hardcoder breaks through the problem that APP can only call the system standard API and cannot directly call the system and directly use hardware resources, allowing Android APP and the system to communicate in real time.

Old iPhones can still fight: 8 new hidden features and detailed usage tips added by Apple iOS 13

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The launch of the iPhone 11 series of mobile phones not long ago also brought Apple's latest operating system iOS 13. Subsequently, Apple mobile phone users including those before iPhone 11 can also download the update. In addition to the dark mode, iOS 13 also has many hidden practical functions.