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Exabeam, the Smarter SIEM company, announced a significant performance milestone with Exabeam SaaS Cloud contributing more than half of Q1 FY21 new and add-on recurring revenue, signaling an accelerated transition of its business to the cloud. This momentum has been built on consistent improvements to Exabeam's cloud-first product and partner strategy, including the recent announcements of the Exabeam Cloud Platform and Google Cloud Security Partner status.
VMware announced the availability of the second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, a cloud service that combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of enterprise-grade on-premises infrastructure. "Today's IT teams are under constant pressure to deliver the advantages of a cloud operating model-namely, speed and agility-while still accounting for key security and compliance assurances," said Fidelma Russo, senior vice president and general manager, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. "VMware Cloud on Dell EMC further enables IT teams to transform the operation, management and protection of their on-premises infrastructure to a cloud model. Organizations can migrate existing VMware-based workloads immediately to this cloud service, eliminating any re-development, re-factoring, or architectural rework and related costs."
Open Systems, a secure access service edge pioneer supporting enterprises in their digital transformation journey, announced its acquisition of Born in the Cloud, a specialist in cybersecurity threat detection, prevention and response. Its "SWAT team" of architects, engineers and developers enables enterprise customers to securely achieve their cloud automation, strategy and migration goals with the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
AppNeta, the leader in actionable, 4-Dimensional network performance monitoring, announces the introduction of their latest monitoring point, the c50, which is entirely built upon container technology to enable enterprises to gain seamless, comprehensive visibility into their critical cloud and container-based environments. Deploying monitoring solutions in cloud environments such as these is significantly easier with AppNeta's container-based Monitoring Point due to the lightweight nature, ease of automation, and portability.
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced the availability of Geomatica Cloud on the cloudeo marketplace. "PCI Geomatics offers leading edge technology to extract information from UAV, aerial, satellite optical and SAR imagery. Improving access to this technology is a key focus of our business transformation."
Aqua Security, the market leader in protecting container-based, serverless and cloud native applications, announced that it has closed a Series D round of $30M led by Greenspring Associates, with participation by Aqua's existing investors - Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TLV Partners. This investment brings Aqua's total venture funding raised to more than $130M. "Aqua has made impressive strides building its customer base and establishing itself as a market leader in securing cloud native applications," said Hunter Somerville, General Partner at Greenspring Associates.
VMware informed customers on Tuesday that it has patched a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability in its Cloud Director product. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, has been described as a code injection issue that allows an authenticated attacker to send malicious traffic to Cloud Director, which could result in arbitrary code execution.
"Our report clearly describes how current security practices are grossly inadequate for protecting transient cloud infrastructures, and why more than 30 billion records have been exposed through cloud breaches in just the past two years," said Sachin Aggarwal, CEO at Accurics. "As cloud stacks become increasingly complex, with new technologies regularly added to the mix, what's needed is a holistic approach with consistent protection across the full cloud stack, as well as the ability to identify risks from configuration changes to deployed cloud infrastructure from a baseline established during development."
ePlus announced that it has launched ePlus Public Cloud Managed Services, a portfolio of offerings that enables customers to cost-effectively and securely deliver services in public cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure. The suite of services, which includes Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Security Monitoring and Cloud Data Protection, provides customers with fully-managed support and continuous visibility, security and guidance to maintain operational excellence in their journey to the cloud.