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Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that HPE GreenLake Central, unveiled in December 2019, is now generally available for HPE GreenLake customers. HPE GreenLake is the market leading platform for delivering on-premises IT as-a-Service, and one of the fastest-growing businesses in HPE with more than 800 enterprise customers worldwide and over 500 partners selling today.
CloudKnox Security, provider of the only cloud permissions management platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, announced key capabilities in its platform that help enterprises optimize operational efficiency for critical cloud infrastructure. CloudKnox customers who are accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation realize up to 75% cost savings across all operational areas, including security, infrastructure, and audit and compliance.
Privitar, the leading data privacy platform provider, announced that the Privitar Data Privacy Platform now natively integrates with the Google Cloud Platform. "Traditional security measures such as encryption and attribute based access control are not sufficient as we increase the exposure to sensitive data assets in the cloud. Complimentary privacy controls are essential, particularly for analytics applications that need to optimise data utility," said Jason du Preez, CEO of Privitar.
Orca Security, founded last year by a group of former Check Point executives and architects, announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by GGV Capital with participation from YL Ventures and SVCI. The funding will fuel additional company growth to help more worldwide customers gain deeper visibility into AWS, Azure, and GCP at a fraction of the time and operational cost of alternative solutions. Since its inception, Orca Security has been on an explosive path to solve a fundamental challenge-to provide frictionless cloud security with the breadth and depth to quickly analyze all cloud assets for risks.
Los Angeles, Calif- and Tel-Aviv, Israel-based cloud visibility firm Orca Security has raised $20.5 million in a Series A funding round led by GGV Capital with participation from YL Ventures and SVCI. The funds add to $6.5 million seed funding raised last year, and bring the total investment in the firm to $27 million raised in less than a year. The company's security platform provides deep, workload-level visibility into virtualized cloud environments.
Thales has deployed the world's first GSMA-certified eSIM activation solution on Google Cloud. With telecom operators facing the combined challenges of rapid digital transformation and a drastically growing eSIM ecosystem, Thales has responded by creating a public cloud-based version of its proven eSIM Remote Subscription Platform.
ADTRAN, a leading provider of next-generation open networking and subscriber experience solutions, announced that M-net has selected the ADTRAN Software-Defined Access portfolio, specifically for its Fiber-to-the-Building products, and Mosaic Cloud Platform to help accelerate the introduction of gigabit services to its residential and business customers. M-net is one of the leading fiber optic operators in Germany and selected ADTRAN's Gigabit Gfast fiber extension solution and the Mosaic Cloud Platform for its strong support for both the current and future operational scenarios needed by M-net.
TP-Link has released firmware updates to address several vulnerabilities in its NC series cloud cameras, including bugs that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary commands. Tracked as CVE-2020-12111, the first of the command injection flaws impacts the NC260 and NC450 models and could be abused to remotely execute commands as root on affected devices.
Cloud adoption has grown at an astonishing rate, providing organizations with the freedom to store data in numerous cloud applications that meet their specific business demands. While utilizing these cloud apps provides flexibility and cost savings, it also can allow sensitive data to be exposed.
Public cloud adoption continues to accelerate Twenty percent of enterprises spend more than $12 million per year on public cloud. Cloud cost optimization Organizations are over budget for cloud spend by an average of 23 percent, and expect cloud spend to increase by 47 percent next year.