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There's a widening gap between IT resources and the demands of managing the increasing scale and complexity of enterprise cloud ecosystems, a Dynatrace survey of 800 CIOs reveals. CIO responses in the research indicate that, on average, IT and cloud operations teams receive nearly 3,000 alerts from their monitoring and management tools each day.
"Data has never been less secure. Solutions developed by the networking industry to protect data are rapidly becoming obsolete for today's cloud-and mobile-based workloads. Furthermore, technologies such as SD-WAN and cloud-based point solutions focus more on cost reductions, but don't address the underlying security vulnerabilities to sufficiently protect Internet reliant businesses," said Guru Pai, co-founder and CEO, Privafy. "Privafy was purpose-built to secure data in today's modern world. We have democratized Internet security to protect data in a way that is easier to deploy and far more economical for any sized enterprise, regardless of where or how they work."
The acquisition, which closed on January 17, 2020, will add cloud workload security capabilities to FireEye Helix, offering customers one integrated security operations platform for cloud and container security. Cloudvisory offers a complete centralized security management solution for audit, compliance, micro-segmentation and enforcement through cloud-native controls of the various cloud platforms.
Sysdig will use the funds to extend market presence and leadership in enabling enterprises to confidently run cloud-native workloads in production. "As a customer, we are impressed with Sysdig's technology and the company's open source approach to security. We look forward to Sysdig joining our investment portfolio and seeing their continued growth as a leading Kubernetes security vendor," said Soumya Rajamani, Vice President of Merchant Banking at Goldman Sachs and Sysdig Board Observer.
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FireEye on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Cloudvisory, a Dallas, Texas-based provider of tools for cloud visibility, security, and policy management. Founded in 2013, Cloudvisory's platform provides continuous visibility, compliance, and security policy governance solutions for cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, declined in the third quarter of 2019 as the overall IT infrastructure market continues to experience weakening sales following strong growth in 2018, IDC reveals. Spending on private cloud IT infrastructure has shown more stable growth since IDC started tracking sales of IT infrastructure products in various deployment environments.
Micro Focus released Micro Focus AD Bridge 2.0, offering IT administrators the ability to extend Active Directory controls from on-premises resources, including Windows and Linux devices to the cloud - a solution not previously offered in the marketplace. With AD Bridge 2.0, organizations can leverage existing infrastructure authentication, security as well as policy, in order to simplify the migration of on-premises Linux Active Directory to the cloud, resulting in fully secured and managed Linux virtual machines in the cloud.
While infosec has always been an imperative, in a cloud environment, BMC Software's Rick Bosworth says it is especially critical since the liability does not rest with cloud service providers for secure resource configuration. "It is absolutely not the responsibility of the cloud service provider to make sure that those resources are securely configured," states Bosworth, a director of marketing at BMC. "If you check the T&Cs of your contract with your cloud service provider, under the shared responsibility model it is incumbent on the enterprise themselves, the users themselves to make sure those IaaS and PaaS services are securely configured."
As Elastic announced with the alpha release of ECK back in May 2019, the vision for ECK is to provide an official way to orchestrate Elasticsearch on Kubernetes and provide a SaaS-like experience for Elastic products on Kubernetes. Kubernetes has continued to grow in popularity and has become the standard for orchestrating container workloads, and Elastic has seen a growing number of users deploying the Elastic Stack on Kubernetes.