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Lenovo Data Center Group announces a range of new and updated hyperconverged infrastructure solutions and Lenovo Cloud Services to enable customers to keep pace with evolving business needs. Lenovo, in collaboration with Microsoft, announce the new Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Azure Stack HCI Edge and Data Center Solutions, enabling customers to rapidly deploy a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Netskope announced the Cloud Threat Exchange, one of the industry's first cloud-based solutions for the ingestion, curation, and real-time sharing of threat intelligence across enterprise security enforcement points. Any certified, partner, vendor, or customer may use Cloud Threat Exchange to automate the delivery and distribution of high-value, actionable threat intelligence, thus reducing the time to protection and eliminating gaps in coverage.

Kryon launched the industry's first cloud-based Full Cycle Automation-as-a-Service platform. Powered by Amazon Web Services, Kryon's FCAaaS pushes the boundaries of automation by combining Process Discovery, RPA, and actionable analytics in one unified platform.

Volterra​ announced new capabilities for its VoltMesh service to provide globally distributed networking and security for cloud-native, API-centric applications. The Gartner report Ensure Your API Management Solution Supports Modern API Trends Such as Microservices and Multicloud states, "Gartner's 2019 API Strategy and Usage Survey found that 45% of surveyed organizations reported using microservices architecture to build APIs".

Deepwatch announced its partnership with Red8 to provide medium and large enterprises with cloud based cyber security solutions. "COVID-19 has forced our customers to accelerate their transition to the cloud by 3 to 4 years," said Brandon Kaier, Red8 Field CTO. "The problem is that Chief Information Security Officers and their teams don't have the time to think about the security ramifications of transitioning to the cloud. Our customers are hungry to consume new technologies in a secure and responsible way."

Synacor unveiled its flagship Zimbra Cloud collaboration suite for small and medium businesses and prosumers, via Zimbra Gold Partner XMission. Zimbra Cloud is designed to improve productivity and effectiveness by supporting multiple collaboration modalities from a single, familiar, email-centric workspace.

Amazon Web Services announced that Indeed, the world's leading job site, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud. As part of the multi-year agreement, Indeed will migrate more than 30 petabytes of data to AWS, moving its customer-facing products, business-critical workloads, and legacy databases to AWS. As a result of the move, Indeed expects to reduce its global data center footprint by 40% while streamlining its overall IT operations.

SHI International and Regulator Group have made a strategic investment in mLogica, to accelerate the development of digital transformation technologies and cloud services offered by mLogica and SHI. Under the terms of the strategic agreement, SHI and mLogica will go-to-market together to help their customers migrate legacy databases, applications and platforms to the Cloud, embrace the benefits of Big Data analytics, and optimize the performance of their IT infrastructure, including databases and applications, with a full stack managed services program. "Over the last five years, SHI has invested aggressively to develop a range of professional and managed services capabilities, and we've seen revenue grow 54% in the past year," said Thai Lee, President and CEO of SHI. "This clear evolution of the SHI brand better positions us as a services delivery partner to help customers meet infrastructure and cloud goals. The partnership with mLogica further strengthens that portfolio of services and gives SHI the ability to meet a broader set of customer needs as they migrate away from legacy infrastructure, make their data work harder and smarter, and continually optimize their IT environment."

VMware announced its 5G Telco Cloud Platform, a consistent cloud first solution powered by a field proven, carrier-grade, and high-performance cloud native infrastructure with intelligent automation. The VMware Telco Cloud Platform combines VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure - an evolution of the vCloud NFV solution - and VMware Telco Cloud Automation - the recently launched multi-domain orchestration and automation capability.

More attention should be dedicated to strange login times and locations so that cloud and SaaS account compromises do not result in company-wide damage. Since the unusual login location was accompanied by an unusual login time, the actions triggered a deeper analysis from my team.