{"id":3823,"date":"2020-03-30T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:42:10","slug":"cloud-computing-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/devops\/cloud\/cloud-computing-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Cloud Computing the Superhero of Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last few weeks have been one of isolation, both socially and physically. In a bid to prevent <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/articles\/stories\/developers-can-help-fight-the-coronavirus\/\">COVID-19<\/a> from spreading, our physical worlds have become geofenced to encompass our home and short neighborhood walks. In response, our virtual lives have come alive in an array of riches as we attempt to replace our physical realities with virtual tools that create a digital transformation of our social <span id=\"urn:enhancement-13a6c458\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/interaction\">interactions<\/span> and daily lives. If there&#8217;s one technology that&#8217;s been able to shine a brightness amidst office closures, quarantines, social isolation, and anxiety, it&#8217;s cloud <span id=\"urn:enhancement-f6a2aaf5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/computing\">computing<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cloud-computing-brings-the-digital-world-to-us\"><strong>Cloud computing brings the digital world to us<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Services such as <span id=\"urn:enhancement-9b6d5878\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/amazon_web_services\">Amazon Web Services<\/span>, <span id=\"urn:enhancement-8b7cd736\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/microsoft_azure\">Microsoft Azure<\/span> and Google Cloud have enabled us to continue our digital lives through applications such as Zoom Video, Slack, and Netflix. Without <span id=\"urn:enhancement-2f118da1\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/amazon_web_services\">AWS<\/span> we&#8217;d struggle to enjoy Prime Video or gaming platforms like Twitch as we move to digital forms of communication and entertainment.&nbsp; According to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/23\/technology\/coronavirus-facebook-amazon-youtube.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, downloads of Netflix\u2019s app \u2014 a proxy for traffic from the streaming site \u2014 jumped 66 percent in Italy, according to data from Sensor Tower, an app data company. In Spain, they rose 35 percent. In the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-e692bbd9\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/united_states\">United States<\/span>, where Netflix was already popular, there was a 9 percent bump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-but-is-time-for-cloud-relief\"><strong>But is time for cloud relief?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amongst many businesses, startups are feeling the pinch in a time when offices are closed and many businesses are on hold or on reduced services. Cloud infrastructure costs amount for one of the highest expenses for many startups besides payroll and at a time when many companies are laying off people, an extension on payments could ease some of the financial pressures. Josh Constine <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/03\/26\/cloud-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposes<\/a> cloud relief, where platforms let&nbsp;startups and small businesses defer their cloud infrastructure payments for three to six months until they can pay them back in installments. Notably, when asked by Josh for comment or about whether they\u2019re considering payment deferment options, <span id=\"urn:enhancement-972317cc\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/span> declined, and Amazon and Google did not respond).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cloud-computing-is-a-mighty-force-against-covid-19\"><strong>Cloud computing is a mighty force against Covid-19<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>However, many cloud providers are helping the fight against <span id=\"urn:enhancement-479540ed\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/covid-19\">Covid-19<\/span> in an array of ways. Last week Salesforce launched its first Salesforce Care solution for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/company\/news-press\/stories\/2020\/3\/salesforce-care-response\/\">Healthcare Systems<\/a>, designed specifically for healthcare providers experiencing an influx of requests due to <span id=\"urn:enhancement-ec675a03\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/covid-19\">COVID-19<\/span>. They have further expanded Salesforce Care with additional free solutions to help companies in any <span id=\"urn:enhancement-9943a349\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/industry\">industry<\/span> stay connected to stakeholders, even when everyone is working remotely. Salesforce Care solutions are available immediately and can be set up very quickly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alibabacloud.com\/campaign\/fight-coronavirus-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alibaba<\/a> has offered AI-powered cloud computing platform and supercomputing cluster for free to power global research institutions to accelerate viral gene-sequencing, protein-screening and other research in treating or preventing the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-24c10369\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/coronavirus\">Coronavirus<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-covid-19-high-performance-computing-consortium\"><strong>COVID-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/covid19\/hpc-consortium\">COVID-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium<\/a> has been organised by OSTP and IBM and brings together Federal government, federal agency partners (NASA and the National Science Foundation) and five Department of Energy labs, <span id=\"urn:enhancement-62c0202d\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/industry\">industry<\/span>, and academic leaders to provide access to the world\u2019s most powerful high-performance <span id=\"urn:enhancement-ee97b7f7\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/computing\">computing<\/span> resources in support of COVID-19 research.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/passportloverblog.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/03\/180608-summit.jpg\" alt=\"clouding computing summit super computer\" class=\"wp-image-10122\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The consortium will bring forth an unprecedented amount of computing power\u201416 systems with more than 330 petaflops, 775,000 CPU cores, 34,000 GPUs, and counting This includes Summit (OLCF-4 i) a supercomputer developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is the fastest supercomputer in the world, capable of 200 petaFLOPS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Dario Gil, Director of IBM Research, these high-performance computing systems allow researchers to run very large numbers of calculations in epidemiology, bioinformatics, and molecular modeling. This makes <span id=\"urn:enhancement-73559f8c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/experiment\">experiments<\/span> possible that would otherwise take years to complete if operated on slower, traditional computing platforms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;IBM\u2019s Summit has <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/US-Dept-of-Energy-Brings-the-Worlds-Most-Powerful-Supercomputer-the-IBM-POWER9-based-Summit-Into-the-Fight-Against-COVID-19\">already enabled researchers<\/a>&nbsp;at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee to screen 8,000 compounds to find those that are most likely to bind to the main \u201cspike\u201d protein of the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-358dec28\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/span>, rendering it unable to infect host cells. They were able to recommend the 77 promising small-molecule drug compounds that could now be <span id=\"urn:enhancement-484629a\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/experiment\">experimentally<\/span> tested. This is the power of accelerating discovery through computation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High tech innovations are likely to receive the most acclaim &#8211; especially by the media. However, startups and SMEs have been loyal customers of cloud providers. They should be supported in their efforts to stay afloat. They may not all be as glitzy as supercomputers, but they provide jobs and service their local economies. Their ability to continue to support their own customer base through the use of cloud services will be a vital part of their recovery. We&#8217;re in unprecedented times globally and this is really an opportunity for big tech to step up and support their clients and lead the way in helping businesses survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time where the physical world has been replaced by the virtual, we take a look at the technology that makes it all possible &#8211; cloud computing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":3,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5244],"tags":[5100,5221],"collections":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cloud","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-ibm","10":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Cloud Computing the Superhero of Covid-19? 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