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Confidential computing encrypts data in use as it's being processed and keeps that data encrypted in memory and elsewhere outside the CPU. Google Cloud just launched a new technology that encrypts data while it's being processed: Confidential computing, which also keeps data encrypted in memory, as well as outside the central processing unit. Google Cloud users can now control the confidentiality of their data.
Allscripts and Microsoft announced the extension of their long-standing strategic alliance to enable the expanded development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions. The five-year extension will support Allscripts' cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record, making Microsoft the cloud provider for the solution and opening up co-innovation opportunities to help transform healthcare with smarter, more scalable technology.
"HPE was an early mover in identifying the opportunity at the edge and that trend is accelerating in a post-COVID world," said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE. "With this acquisition we are accelerating our edge-to-cloud strategy to provide a true distributed cloud model and cloud experience for all apps and data wherever they live. Silver Peak's innovative team and technology bring critical capabilities that will help our customers modernize and transform their networks to securely connect any edge to any cloud." "Bringing together Silver Peak's advanced SD-WAN solutions with Aruba's industry leading networking portfolio provides an unprecedented opportunity to deliver comprehensive business-driven solutions to our customers," said David Hughes, founder and CEO of Silver Peak.
Open Raven, the cloud-native data security platform that prevents breaches driven by modern speed and sprawl, announced a significant expansion of its leadership team with the appointment of three cloud and security industry veterans. The strategic hires come immediately on the heels of Open Raven's Series A funding of $15M led by Kleiner Perkins and general availability of the Open Raven platform, announced last month.
Public cloud adoption continues to surge, with roughly 83% of all enterprise workloads expected to be in the cloud by the end of the year. While cloud adoption has transformed the way applications are built and managed, it has also precipitated a radical rethink of how to approach security.
Alfresco Software, an open source, content services provider announced the availability of Alfresco Policy and Procedures as a Service, a new Content Accelerator hosted in Alfresco Cloud. Alfresco Policy and Procedures as a Service is a no code, tailored solution accelerator using modern search features and reporting tools that enables business users to quickly and easily locate, change, approve, and release both simple business procedures as well as more complex and regulated manufacturing and operations documents.
With this offering, enterprises get the exact same complete set of modern cloud services, APIs, industry-leading SLAs, superior price-performance, and highest levels of security available from Oracle's public cloud regions in their own datacenters. Over the past few years, enterprise adoption of public clouds has gone mainstream as companies took advantage of the pay-as-you-go economics, scale, and agility of cloud computing.
RtBrick has extended its cloud-native approach to telco networks by offering two new APIs into its software. RtBrick is already known for pioneering a radical new approach to carrier networks, by disaggregating MPLS routing systems.
Against the backdrop of widespread remote working and the increased use of collaboration apps, attackers are ramping up application-based attacks that exploit OAuth 2.0, Microsoft is warning. An offensive starts when an attacker registers a malicious app with an OAuth 2.0 provider, such as Microsoft's own Azure Active Directory.
Slow-moving automation efforts and an increase in cloud environments are intensifying the alert overload crisis for security teams, according to a new study. SEE: TechRepublic Premium editorial calendar: IT policies, checklists, toolkits, and research for download. Big companies report up to 1,000 security alerts a day, and 86% of survey respondents are concerned about burnout, high levels of stress, and flight risk among security teams, due to the daily volume of alerts.