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Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life sciences organizations to ingest, store, query, and analyze their health data at scale. Using Amazon HealthLake, organizations can easily move their FHIR-formatted health data from on-premises systems to a secure data lake in the cloud.
Strata Identity launched Maverics Identity Discovery, a free software tool that automates the manual process of auditing and cataloging on-premises identity environments, to reduce cloud migration project times from months to hours. According to the recent State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report 2021, 70% of organizations said they have an active cloud migration project planned this year since most on-premises identity systems are nearing end-of-life and will no longer be supported in 2022.
Actian announced the general availability of its new Zen V15 embedded database for mobile and IoT. Actian Zen V15 addresses the demanding needs of today's on-premise, cloud, mobile, and IoT application developers by providing persistent local and distributed data across intelligent applications deployed in enterprise, branch, and remote field environments. "Actian Zen V15 edge data management delivers against a broad and demanding set of requirements including leveraging a variety of hardware architectures, operating environments, networks, communications interfaces, and languages to offer comprehensive support, performance, and the flexibility modern enterprises need to stay competitive."
Securiti has partnered with Snowflake to bring it's advanced functionality also operating natively inside Snowflake Data Cloud. Securiti for Snowflake enables joint customers to fulfill all of their key obligations around protection, privacy, governance and compliance of sensitive data in the Data Cloud.
Palo Alto Networks this week announced the availability of patches for security flaws in the Prisma Cloud Compute cloud workload protection solution and Windows agent for the Cortex XDR detection and response platform. The most serious of the bugs - CVE-2021-3042 - is a local privilege escalation issue in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows platforms.
Tripwire announced the results of a research report that evaluated cloud security practices across enterprise environments in 2021. According to the research, 73% currently operate in a multi-cloud environment, but security professionals responsible for these types of complex environments overwhelmingly report that relying on multiple cloud providers creates additional security challenges.
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 12.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2021 to $15.1 billion, according to IDC. Investments in non-cloud infrastructure increased 6.3% year over year in 1Q21 to $13.5 billion. Shared cloud infrastructure spending is expected to surpass non-cloud infrastructure spending in the near future.
Attivo Networks announced a new Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management solution, IDEntitleX, designed to deliver visibility and reduce the attack surface for identities and entitlements in the cloud. Organizations are moving to the public cloud in record-setting numbers, but with this growth comes unanticipated security challenges with user identity management and the explosion of "Non-human" identities such as applications, databases and data stores.
SAIC launched CloudScend, a cohesive solution of integrated platform automation tools, security protocols and processes to help federal agencies plan for and accelerate the migration of large-scale workloads to the cloud and innovate further once they're there. CloudScend leverages SAIC's deep experience in helping government organizations obtain the benefits of the cloud to determine the best way to prioritize the migration of strategic workloads.
The team of more than 60 professionals will join Accenture's Google Cloud Business Group, part of Accenture Cloud First. "Wabion's market-leading Google Cloud skills will further strengthen Accenture Cloud First to continue to combine the best of Google human-centric design and innovation with Accenture intelligence."