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Scality announced its data storage predictions for 2021, focusing on the rapid growth rate of cloud-native apps and containerization. "For the storage industry, the container trend represents a significant inflection point that will transform deployment architectures leveraging Kubernetes and container-native storage APIs. Its impact will be comparable to that of server virtualization in the 2000s and cloud computing in the 2010s."
Alkira announced the expansion of its on-demand Cloud Network-as-a-Service to extend cloud connectivity to any network. "Alkira's Network Cloud provides a new way to design and deploy a unified, consistent way to deliver secure, integrated enterprise-class network capabilities as simple and powerful to use as a smartphone app. The future of the network is as-a-service, and today our robust and agile Network Cloud now extends to the cloud backbone, on-premises and branch networks."
Authentic8 announced a partnership with Google Cloud to expand availability of Silo across Google Cloud's infrastructure with 1-click procurement. Authentic8 is now a Google Cloud Technology Partner providing security, and Authentic8 gains access to Google Cloud's ability to run compliant web-based workflows at the highest levels of civilian classification.
Deloitte announced a global, multi-year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services Professional Services on cloud migration and application modernization for enterprise and public sector customers. "The nature of our C-suite relationships often enables us to design a holistic migration approach focused on driving the right business outcomes for our clients, including speed and efficiency of getting to the cloud, in a transformational context," said Patrick Jehu, principal and AWS Professional Services general manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Our joint model with AWS uses automation to accelerate and optimize our clients' cloud migrations, and industry-leading solutions to modernize applications."
The Qualys Cloud Platform provides a convenient SaaS solution for enterprises looking to protect their public cloud workloads and boost their security posture. DevOps teams can leverage the same trusted Qualys security solutions for cloud security in their DevOps pipeline and address developers' needs.
"Cloud-native is no longer just a bold new idea for most organizations, it's a reality. Enterprises have increasingly adopted cloud-native apps over the past couple years to achieve faster development cycles, greater scalability and less vendor lock-in. But their DevOps and NetOps teams are facing some serious security and networking hurdles they just didn't anticipate," said Mark Weiner, CMO, Volterra. While over half of organizations are using Kubernetes in some capacity, security and networking challenges are preventing them from using Kubernetes widely across business apps, with only 10% of organizations running half or more of their business apps on it.
Bitdefender launched a new cloud-based dedicated Endpoint Detection and Response solution designed to help enterprise customers and Managed Service Providers improve the ability to detect and eradicate threats as they occur and strengthen overall resiliency against cyberattacks. Unique in the EDR space, it combines endpoint telemetry and human risk analytics with the advanced threat detection capabilities that have made Bitdefender a recognized endpoint security leader.
Amazon Web Services announced five new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, two new AWS Outposts form factors, and three new AWS Local Zones locations that extend its lead in offering the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute offerings in the cloud. AWS already has more compute instance types than any other cloud provider, with instances based on the fastest processors from Intel, cost-optimized instances with AMD processors, the most powerful GPU instances from NVIDIA, instances that feature up to 400 Gbps networking performance, and the only Arm-based instances in the cloud offering customers 40% better price performance with AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors.
DFLabs announces that starting from Q1/2021, its IncMan SOAR solution will be available both on-premise and as a cloud package. Both solutions offer access to the same IncMan SOAR capabilities, with DFLabs' novel IncMan SOAR SaaS Cloud solution providing extra scalability to customers and access to automation and orchestration for small and medium enterprises, as well as MSSPs.
We got questions on a wide range of cloud native security topics and through those and other talks at the conference, I've been able to identify some key concerns around container security and the wider cloud native ecosystem. From a security perspective this is very important point: It's not only Kubernetes security you need to consider when deploying cloud native technologies, but also the security of the surrounding tools.