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"With AWS Control Tower, it only takes a few clicks for enterprise organizations to provision new AWS accounts that conform to company-wide policies," said Chris Grusz, Director, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "The Aviatrix cloud networking solution uniquely offers a network factory for AWS Control Tower. With AWS Control Tower account factory ensuring account control governance, customers will benefit from Aviatrix's new capabilities that make certain the network infrastructure supporting those accounts is secure and correctly deployed every time." AWS Service Catalog enables organizations to create and manage catalogs of approved IT services for use on AWS. The Aviatrix cloud network platform provides the prescriptive transit network architecture and operational visibility that meets enterprise cloud networking and security requirements.

Tech Data announced that it has expanded its Cloud Solution Factory offering with the addition of a new Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure Click-to-Run Solution, which increases remote workforce productivity while ensuring data and applications can be securely accessed from any location using any device. "As a leader in cloud and next-generation solution aggregation, Tech Data makes cloud adoption simple by significantly reducing cloud configuration and deployment processes so that our channel partners can serve their customers more effectively and with fewer risks."

Amplo Global announced that its AI-powered platform is now available on the MicrosoftAppSource and Microsoft Azure Marketplace - their online stores providing applications and services for use on Azure. Brian Bell, Director at Microsoft's Commercial Marketplace, said, "On Microsoft Azure Marketplace and AppSource, customers around the world can easily find, buy, and deploy partner solutions they can trust, all certified and optimized to run on Azure. We're happy to welcome Amplo Global and their AmploFly4.0 solution to the growing Azure Marketplace ecosystem."

Half a year into the shutdown, companies are still playing catch up to optimize their remote work experience, according to Infoblox. Organizations are still building out their IT infrastructure and security controls to optimize remote work.

Tangoe advised companies about the risk of unexpected cloud migration expenses, while at the same time employees are also buying more self-service infrastructure to support working from home. "Given the cost pressures many companies find themselves under because of the current economic environment, it is critical they employ a strategy for cloud investment that provides the best service to their organizations, while optimizing both their cloud infrastructure and corresponding spend," said Brandon Henning, Chief Product Officer at Tangoe.

Snow Software announced new capabilities to help organizations optimize cloud technologies at a time when consumption is increasing yet budgets are tightening. A recent Snow survey found that 76% of IT leaders have increased their use of cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, and over half increased their use of cloud-based applications.

The worldwide public cloud services market, including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service, grew 26% year over year in 2019 with revenues totaling $233.4 billion, according to IDC. Spending continued to consolidate in 2019 with the combined revenue of the top 5 public cloud service providers capturing more than one third of the worldwide total and growing 36% year over year. Public cloud services market has doubled since 2016.

RackTop Systems announced the general availability of key features in the BrickStor Security Platform to facilitate data security and protection for distributed workforces and hybrid clouds. BrickStor Security Platform is for customers who need to securely protect unstructured data, both on premises and in the cloud, without the complexity or security vulnerabilities inherent to integrating existing legacy storage systems with loosely coupled third-party tools.

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NICE Actimize announced the launch of its newest platform, NICE Actimize Xceed, which integrates best-in-class AI, data intelligence, behavioral analytics, and insights within a unified cloud platform designed to bring agility to financial institutions of all sizes, including community and regional banks, that are looking to modernize their financial crime risk management solutions. With "Always On" AI-based technology, NICE Actimize Xceed's self-learning capabilities immediately and autonomously adapt to new threats, helping financial institutions meet today's dynamic risk management needs with laser accuracy, speed and simplicity, and without the need for a team of data scientists.