Security News > 2020 > May
Public cloud adoption continues to accelerate Twenty percent of enterprises spend more than $12 million per year on public cloud. Cloud cost optimization Organizations are over budget for cloud spend by an average of 23 percent, and expect cloud spend to increase by 47 percent next year.
To help plug it, Citrix Systems has launched App Protection, which enables companies to protect apps and data on unmanaged endpoints and ensure their corporate systems and information remain safe. "Endpoints are the penultimate control point for the implementation of device, application, and data security. The rapid acceleration of remote work sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and proliferation of unmanaged personal devices being used for business has created a special challenge, as decentralization is not the friend of security," said Frank Dickson, Program Vice President, Security & Trust, IDC. "And specialized and sophisticated tools are required to overcome it."
To help them adapt, Citrix Systems, has launched Remote Works, a new virtual series designed to share tips and best practices for staying engaged and productive while working from home. "Working from home is perhaps the biggest change in the way business is done that the world has ever seen and the speed with which it moved from an experiment to a requirement has many companies reeling," said Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President, Business Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix.
Available exclusively to North American customers who are not existing dotData clients, the dotData FastTrack program is designed to empower business intelligence teams to quickly and efficiently add AI/ML models to their BI stacks and predictive analytics applications. At the core of the new program is dotData's full-cycle data science automation platform, dotData Enterprise, which accelerates ROI and lowers the total cost of model development by automating the entire data science process that is at the heart of AI/ML. "We are seeing a huge demand for AI and ML capabilities in the market, but finding that many companies either do not have the internal resources to launch a data science program, or don't know how to get one started," said Ryohei Fujimaki, founder and CEO of dotData.
Verint Systems, The Customer Engagement Company, announced a program that gives organizations metrics and multichannel insights into the productivity of work-from-home agents, and identifies connectivity and other engagement challenges. The program is available to new customers as well as existing customers of Verint's Desktop and Process Analytics software.
PDI, a global provider of enterprise resource planning, fuel pricing, supply chain logistics, and loyalty solutions for the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industries, announced it is adding a new employee self-service mobile app to its PDI Enterprise Workforce software. PDI Employee Self-Service provides c-store employees real-time access to accurate shift coverage, schedule transparency and pay stub information.
NextgenID, a technology leader in trusted identity assurance and credentialing solutions, announced its frictionless procurement model offering to provide federal agencies with additional payment options for the ID*Capture Kiosk and Supervised Remote In-person Proofing. With the Identity-as-a-Service pay-as-you-go business model, agencies are able to immediately deploy and exercise state-of-the-art equipment and software on-site without the need for a capital expenditure.
A-LIGN, a technology-enabled security and compliance partner trusted by more than 2,400 companies, announced the launch of A-SCEND 2.0, its propriety compliance management platform that enables an anytime, anywhere approach to compliance-for anyone. A-SCEND 2.0 centralizes evidence collection and standardizes compliance requests, making it possible to consolidate multiple audits at once.
AtScale, the intelligent data virtualization provider for advanced analytics, announced expanded security features, Autonomous Data Engineering enhancements, and dynamic scaling capabilities in the latest AtScale 2020.2 platform. The release enables organizations to leverage multidimensional business analysis in the cloud, or Cloud OLAP, and includes native availability in the AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Marketplaces.