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Global Cloud Xchange, the leading provider of global managed next-generation networks, announced the extension of its relationship with global automotive supplier Autoneum through a new three-year managed network agreement. With the renewed contract, GCX will proceed to transform Autoneum's business-critical Wide Area Network to embrace next-generation network technologies like SD-WAN. "Proceeding on our digitalization journey, we need to extend our flexibility in shifting workloads between Clouds or on-premises. Global real-time collaboration among employees and external partners using innovative new technologies is key."
Palo Alto Networks released research showing how vulnerabilities in the development of cloud infrastructure are creating significant security risks. The Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report: Spring 2020 investigates why cloud misconfigurations happen so frequently.
Enea launched the Enea Unified Data Manager, a hardware-agnostic, cloud-native network function for 4G and 5G data management. The software performs the 3GPP functions of Unified Data Management in 5G networks and interoperates with any Home Subscriber Server in 4G. The solution is a critical component in multi-vendor and multi-generation network architectures.
Cloud security company Netskope on Thursday announced that it has raised $340 million in a Series G funding round, valuing the firm at nearly $3 billion. "We'll use this investment to continue to execute on our plan to dominate the largest market in security and accelerate global security transformation by innovating our platform and network and product set, and advancing our efforts to make our sales, marketing and post-sale efforts industry best," Sanjay Beri, CEO and founder of Netskope, told SecurityWeek.
Wind River, a leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, announced that T-Systems is using Wind River Cloud Platform edge cloud infrastructure software for its EdgAIR secure and high-performance edge computing platform. Its EdgAIR platform performs as a private enterprise edge cloud and can be connected to a campus network by supporting various network and protocol standards.
On Monday, Google sent emails to certain Google Photos users alerting them of a problem that affected them in late November 2019, as described by 9to5Google. For some Google Photos users who turned to Google Takeout between November 21 and 25 to download their data, one or more of their videos were "Incorrectly exported to unrelated users' archives," meaning that other people were able to see them.
Before settling on a solution they must assess it for security and privacy needs, including some that are unique to higher education. To help them do that more expeditiously, EDUCAUSE - a US nonprofit association that aims to advance higher education through the use of information technology - has created HECVAT: the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit.
The bug-hunters at Checkpoint have laid claim to the discovery and reporting of two serious, and now patched, security flaws in Microsoft Azure. Among the fixes are security updates for iOS and macOS, the two major operating systems from Cook and Co. While there aren't any massive risks posed by the patched flaws, users and admins should look to get the patches in place before malware writers begin to take aim at them.
Imply, the real-time intelligence company, announced general availability of Imply 3.2, which leverages the power and flexibility of Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration to help enterprises easily deploy and manage the Imply platform on private and public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Imply provides a complete real-time intelligence solution around Apache Druid, a popular open source database that delivers sub-second query response on enormous streaming datasets.
Univa, a leading innovator of enterprise-grade workload management and optimization solutions, announced the general availability of Navops Launch 2.0, its flagship cloud-automation platform, designed to help enterprises simplify the migration of HPC and AI workloads to their choice of cloud. The GA release helps enterprises easily extend HPC workloads to the cloud, boosting efficiency and productivity, and dramatically improving cloud ROI while reducing cloud-related spending by 30-40 percent.