Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
https://respond.io/de/blog/viber-for-business
By Mary Ruth Ochavillo. Posted on SEPTEMBER 11, 2024.
Cebu City, Cebu – On September 5, 2024, twenty-six (26) micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), comprising 39 entrepreneurs from Cebu, participated in “Chat to Scale Up: Empowering MSMEs with Rakuten Viber Business Accounts.” This initiative, organized by Rakuten Viber in partnership with the FISH Visayas Project, aimed to expand MSMEs’ market reach by guiding them in creating Viber Business Accounts. These accounts allow enterprises to connect with other businesses and consumers directly, opening up opportunities for greater market access and customer engagement.
https://fishvisayas.afosfoundation.org/2024/09/05/...siness-accounts/
By Kexuan Sun
Principal Wireless Architecture, Rakuten Symphony CTO Office
September 17, 2024
The increasing complexity of 5G, and early 6G, network infrastructure demands sophisticated management solutions.
Much of the complexity is due to networks built using different hardware types, multi-cloud environments, and varying protocols from multiple vendors. This heterogeneous environment poses challenges in terms of cost, performance, and energy consumption – and necessitates intelligent solutions.
One promising approach is the integration of AI/ML into RAN to automate RAN deployment and ongoing operations. Training these AI models, however, needs the data from a live production network for accuracy, but can negatively affect services if trained in a live network.
One solution is the use of digital twin (DT) technology optimized for the RAN (DT-RAN).
In a previous white paper, I explored how digital twin technology applies to Open RAN and 5G. Recently, I contributed my thoughts on how DT-RAN could work for AI/ML training, evaluation and performance as a contributor to a DT-RAN research report sponsored by the O-RAN ALLIANCE next Generation Research Group (nGRG) task force. Rakuten Symphony joined 10 other network operators, telecom vendors and one university from around the world to compile the research for the report.
This research report is one of the documents that will inform the work of standards bodies to create at DT-RAN standard. The 3GPP is developing its DT-RAN standard slated for Release 19 / Release 20 that will be finalized in 2025 or 2026. The O-RAN ALLIANCE is also planning to include DT-RAN in its O-RAN Rel005 that will be available at about the same time.
The rest of this post will give you a preview of my use case, but the research report has other interesting use cases for DT-RAN including network testing automation, network planning, and energy savings. I encourage you to download the entire report here.
https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...y-will-tame-5g-6g-ran-complexity
By Brooke Frischemeier
Head of Product Management, Unified Cloud Rakuten Symphony
September 20, 2024
In the first edition of this three-blog series, I introduced the Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) and discussed its fundamental benefits for enterprise storage solutions. In this second instalment, I will delve deeper into how vendors can leverage CSI to introduce advanced data management features, enhance performance and scalability, and improve security. These innovations are particularly crucial for enterprises operating at the edge, where efficient and reliable storage solutions are paramount.
Advanced data management features
One key area for innovation in CSI is advanced data management. Vendors can integrate capabilities such as advanced lifecycle management, compression, and tiering into their CSI drivers. These features can help reduce storage costs and improve efficiency by minimizing the amount of data that needs to be stored and transferred.
Data lifecycle management and protection
Features like automated snapshots, cloning, and backup can provide robust data protection and disaster recovery options. Automated snapshots capture the state of a volume at a specific point in time, allowing organizations to restore data to that state if needed. Cloning creates a copy of a volume, which can be used for testing or development purposes. Backup features ensure that data is regularly backed up and can be restored in the event of data loss or corruption.
Automated storage policies
Storage policies define rules for data placement, replication and retention, automating and enforcing data management in Kubernetes. These policies ensure data is stored in the appropriate locations, replicated for high availability, and retained according to compliance requirements. This automation simplifies management and enhances data reliability and security.
Quality of Service (QoS)
Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) is a performance measurement used to benchmark the speed at which a storage device or system can read and write data. QoS in Kubernetes ensures storage performance meets the specific requirements of different workloads. By setting performance metrics like IOPS, latency, and throughput, QoS guarantees that critical applications receive the necessary resources, optimizing performance and preventing resource contention in multi-tenant environments.
Compression
Compression reduces the size of data by encoding it more efficiently. By integrating compression capabilities into their CSI drivers, vendors can help organizations store more data in the same amount of space, further reducing storage costs.
Enhanced performance and scalability
Another critical area for innovation is performance and scalability. Vendors can focus on optimizing their CSI drivers to reduce latency, increase input/output operations per second (IOPS), and ensure that their solutions can handle large-scale deployments efficiently.
Reducing latency
Latency is the time it takes for a storage request to be processed. By optimizing their CSI drivers to reduce latency, vendors can improve the performance of applications that rely on storage. This can be achieved through techniques such as caching, which stores frequently accessed data in memory for faster access and optimizing the storage stack to minimize processing time.
Increasing and managing IOPS
By increasing IOPS, vendors can improve the performance of applications that require high levels of storage throughput. This can be achieved through techniques such as parallelism, which allows multiple storage requests to be processed simultaneously, and optimizing the storage hardware to handle more operations per second. Furthermore, IOPS can be used to control and manage throughput in shared environments, which is increasingly necessary in edge deployments where storage resources may be limited and frequently shared among applications.
Handling large-scale deployments
As organizations scale their Kubernetes environments, they need storage solutions that can handle large-scale deployments efficiently. Vendors can optimize their CSI drivers to ensure that they can manage large numbers of volumes and handle high levels of storage traffic without performance degradation.
Security enhancements
Security is a critical concern in any storage solution. Vendors can innovate by incorporating advanced security features into their CSI drivers, such as end-to-end encryption, secure multi-tenancy, and compliance with industry standards like GDPR and HIPAA.
End-to-end encryption
Encryption ensures that data is protected from unauthorized access by encoding it in a way that can only be decoded with the correct key. By implementing end-to-end encryption, vendors can ensure that data is protected both at rest and in transit, providing a higher level of security for sensitive data. This is especially relevant for edge cloud use cases as data will most certainly cross WAN links.
Secure multi-tenancy
In multi-tenant environments, multiple users or organizations share the same infrastructure. Secure multi-tenancy ensures that each tenant's data is isolated and protected from other tenants. By implementing secure multi-tenancy features, vendors can help organizations meet their security and compliance requirements while sharing infrastructure resources.
Compliance with industry standards
Many organizations are required to comply with industry standards and regulations, such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from Europe and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the U.S. By ensuring that their CSI drivers comply with these standards, vendors can help organizations meet their regulatory requirements and avoid potential fines and penalties.
The Kubernetes CSI provides a robust foundation for storage management in containerized environments. By focusing on areas such as advanced data management features, enhanced performance and scalability, and security enhancements, vendors can not only enhance their CSI offerings but also provide significant value to their enterprise customers, especially those operating at the edge. In the final blog post of this series, I will explore how vendors can simplify management and monitoring, and support hybrid and multi-cloud environments to further revolutionize enterprise storage solutions.
Stay tuned for more insights on leveraging CSI to unlock the full potential of Kubernetes storage management.
https://symphony.rakuten.com/cloud/blogs/...-performance-enhancements
1.1§ACTION EXECUTION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF (18245150)
1.2§METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATION AND ROLE-BASED CONTROL IN MARKETPLACE (18012777)
1.3§CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFIER BASED CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT (18011526)
1.4§COOPERATIVE TRAINING MIGRATION (17770049)
1.5§INSTRUCTION FOR UE TO START AI, ML BY BASE STATION (17999402)
1.6§CAUSE SPECIFYING SYSTEM AND CAUSE SPECIFYING METHOD (18044992)
1.7§ACTION EXECUTION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF (18044991)
1.8§CENTRALIZED KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR MONITORING AND DATA STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD (17757300)
1.9§APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING UPLINK CARRIER AGGREGATION IN A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (17923498)
1.10§CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD (18246682)
1.11§SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DCI RAR OPTIMIZATION (18010344)
1.12§SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RRC INACTIVE MODE ENHANCED PAGING FOR MOBILE TERMINATING-SMALL DATA TRANSFER (18011314)
https://wikipatents.org/index.php/...ublished_on_September_12th,_2024
Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform and Intel architecture-based edge technologies provide low latency, reduced costs and scalability
One of the challenges of deploying edge cloud networks is supporting a growing number of stateful applications using Kubernetes, which is designed for stateless workloads. An application’s state is its status at any point in time. A stateful application saves this state information to storage and can act or build upon it. Other applications are considered stateless in that once an action or user request has taken place the application no longer keeps track of the state of that transaction. Each follow on action or transaction is executed without regard for the previous state information. Many web applications are stateless but offer some stateful capabilities by offloading these requests to a user’s device or to a database server. For example, a web browser is a stateless application, but with cookies stored on the user’s device, or with access to a database, a browser can deliver stateful features. Enterprises are expanding their use of edge cloud servers that need to support stateful applications such as databases, analytics, IoT, mobile networks, AI model training and others. Many edge use cases, such as computer vision or analytics, can benefit from low latency access to local data at the edge which makes stateful edge application delivery a necessity. The volume of data processed and the need for low latency limits the ability to offload the data to an out-of-container storage solution. This makes support for stateful cloud-native applications essential. Kubernetes is the leading cloud-native operating system and was designed to orchestrate stateless applications. The main challenge to building stateful cloud native applications is delivering persistent data storage within a container or a Kubernetes pod to maintain state information. Many initial cloud deployments relied on managed database services or ran their databases outside of Kubernetes containers / pods because round-trip times impacted latency, reducing performance and requiring new reliability and reliance infrastructure for the storage.
https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/...s-with-intel-1722330398.pdf
Muntaha Karim September 12, 2024
You heard it right! Rakuten is the largest Japanese e-commerce and affiliate marketplace, and Rakuten is the 2nd most visited marketplace website (as of January 2024).
But it doesn’t operate business only in Japan. Right now, Rakuten is available in 77 countries. The Rakuten Group is now serving about 1.6 billion members across the world.
Rakuten has already spanned its business on 70+ platforms. It includes the eCommerce industry, communications, digital content, FinTech, etc. So, this is undoubtedly a great platform to promote your products worldwide.
In this article, we are going to cover the best method of creating a product feed for Rakuten and promoting it via Rakuten.
https://webappick.com/rakuten-product-feed/
Wenn du dich über die zeitlich begrenzte Kampagne Rakuten Mobile x Rakuten Ichiba bewirbst, kannst du auch mit einem neuen Vertrag 10.000 Punkte erhalten. (Es gelten Bedingungen)
Beim Kauf von Smartphone-Geräten gibt es eine Punkterückgabe, z. B. bis zu 12.000 Punkte für iPhone-Käufe + 20.000 Yen Rabatt für berechtigte iPhones und bis zu 12.000 Punkte für Android-Geräte.
Auf diese Weise gibt es viele Kampagnen, bei denen Sie Punkte zu einem günstigen Preis erhalten können.
Wenn Sie die Kampagne gut nutzen, können Sie genügend Punkte sammeln, um die monatliche Gebühr für Rakuten Mobile zu decken.
https://www.ultra-domain.jp/rakutenmobile-campaign/
1 Nutzer wurde vom Verfasser von der Diskussion ausgeschlossen: Scansoft