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A security vulnerability can be exploited to coerce the containerd cloud platform into exposing the host's registry or users' cloud-account credentials. Containerd bills itself as a runtime tool that "Manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond." As such, it offers deep visibility into a user's cloud environment, across multiple vendors.
Protegrity announced a significantly transformed Protegrity Data Protection Platform, offering enterprises the flexibility to easily secure sensitive data across cloud environments from a single platform. This latest version of the Protegrity Data Protection Platform builds on a legacy of innovation, spanning 87 U.S. patents and more than two decades of experience delivering data security and protection to the world's largest enterprises.
IBM announced new services, partnerships and capabilities designed to help clients accelerate their hybrid cloud journeys and deploy and run SAP software workloads wherever they choose - from the IBM public cloud to on-premises. Global clients across industries are choosing to run their SAP software workloads on IBM Cloud, including Peruvian construction company Cementos Pacasmayo, Coca-Cola European Partners, the world's largest Coca-Cola bottler based on revenue, and Italian fashion footwear retailer Primadonna Collection.
Google Cloud's global sales force will now collaborate with Cysiv to help customers simplify the security of their cloud workloads. Security is a shared responsibility, and Cysiv's capabilities complement Google Cloud's secure infrastructure, storage, services and communications, with important measures that will further ensure customer's sensitive data, workloads and IT environment are adequately protected from cyberattacks and insider threats, while meeting compliance requirements.
MariaDB announced a major expansion of MariaDB SkySQL cloud database. With this update, SkySQL now runs the latest version of MariaDB Platform X5, which most notably added distributed SQL capabilities for global scale.
When moving to the cloud, perimeter security is still important, but identity-based security is available to strengthen the security posture. As a result, organizations win operationally, financially, and from a security perspective, when moving to the cloud.
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely proven to be an accelerator of cloud adoption and extension and will continue to drive a faster conversion to cloud-centric IT. Global spending on cloud services to rise. The strongest growth in cloud revenues will come in the as a service category - public cloud services and dedicated cloud services.
Splunk announced a series of new product innovations designed to help security teams around the world modernize and unify their security operations in the cloud. Led by new, cloud-centric updates to Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Mission Control and the newly announced Splunk Mission Control Plug-In Framework, Splunk's security operations suite enables Splunk customers to secure their cloud journey and solve their toughest cloud security challenges with data.
NetApp announced enhancements to industry-leading cloud-connected NetApp ONTAP data management software. Organizations can now optimize performance and security, reduce costs, easily extend data management from on premises to any cloud, and consume hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service.
CTERA released version 7.0 of its Enterprise File Services Platform, delivering ultra-fast edge-to-cloud synchronization, secure geo-segmentation, embedded antivirus, and built-in data discovery and migration from legacy file storage. The CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform unifies local file sharing with cloud hyperscale storage, allowing enterprises to modernize every aspect of their distributed file services delivery - including remote offices, work-from-home laptops, VDI, and mobile - without compromising performance or security.