user: In the series A Song of Ice and Fire, who is the founder of House Grafton?

assistant: Gerold Grafton

user: What are the benefits of the public cloud

assistant: The public cloud offers a global, standardized and harmonized infrastructure and networking environment. The cloud resources are operated by one of the large hyperscalers and are delivered over highly secure and reliable internet connections. 

Benefits and advantages of the public cloud are:

- High reliability: a large network of servers ensure against failures. Hyperscalers operate in datacenter regions across the globe and in availability zones. You can store a copy of your data up to three times and apply highest standards of business continuity and disaster recovery

- Lower costs: there is no need to purchase hardware and software and run an on-premise datacenter. The environment is harmonized and new hardware will be released constantly to make sure a great TCO is applied and the current compute can be optimized frequently

- Services availability: create a new resource at any time with all the services being available. No provisioning of hardware and software and pay only when you use them

- Innovation: the services are always up to date and cutting edge to make sure your business can lead with innovation

- Scalability: resources are provided on-demand and scale almost unlimited to meet your business needs

- Shared responsibility: the service provider provides the maintenance and operates in a shared responsibility model 

- PAYG: pay as you go and as you use the cloud services. No termination fees, no fixed and long-term binding contracts (unless you would like to save additional costs and sign a longer-term agreement with a cloud provider)

- Increased security: public cloud providers analyze trillions of signals every day and make sure the infrastructure is robust and highly secure against cyber attacks

- Trial and error: you can kick-off several new initiatives in parallel on a low-cost environment and stay flexible that if one of these projects fail, you will be able to shut down all the resources immediately

- Eco-system: public clouds offer a wide range of additional service providers and independent software vendors and make sure you can use best-of-breed products as you go. You can purchase it through a large marketplace and some of them are even available as first-party services

- M&A activities: if your business is involved in merger and acquisitions, a public cloud environment lets you organize all the resources in the cloud, merge and harmonize them and  optimize the infrastructure environment

Data & AI: all your data can be aggregated in one place and service providers in the public cloud add artificial intelligence and machine learning services to help your business adapt and understand the next best action

There are many more benefits of using the public cloud. They come as you grow.

user: What did Doctor Richard Hodes achieved

assistant: Richard Michael Hodes (born May 30, 1953) is an American medical doctor specializing in cancer, heart disease, and spinal conditions. Since the 1980s he has worked in Ethiopia and has adopted a number of children from the country. He is medical director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.