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As organizations increasingly move mission-critical applications, workloads and business processes to the cloud, there is a growing need to securely integrate cloud capabilities into their business network environments. Kinetic Business is offering Cloud Connect, a reliable, fast and highly secure private access hub that connects directly to third-party public and private cloud service providers through the business's wide-area network, or WAN. Cloud Connect improves access, better secures transmission of data, and creates a simpler network architecture to manage.
In a cloud-first environment, organizations now operate under a shared responsibility model with cloud providers, which lays out what responsibilities belong to the cloud provider and what responsibilities belong to the user. In many instances, a shared responsibility model dictates that cloud providers are responsible for the security "Of" the cloud, and organizations are responsible for security "In" the cloud.
Wipro announced it is collaborating with Oracle to launch Wipro Zero Cost Transformation, a new offering that helps organizations migrate to the cloud. With Wipro's Zero Cost Transformation, companies can migrate their workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with lower cost, shift from a Capital expenditures to Operating expenses model, and benefit from application and infrastructure support provided under a managed-services framework.
Threat hunters at Microsoft recently uncovered and disrupted infrastructure that powered a large-scale business email compromise campaign. "The emails originated from an external cloud provider's address space."
Anodot announced the results of a survey that reveals how organizations struggle to control skyrocketing cloud computing costs of the remote workforce, even as business moves to a hybrid model. Most organizations having a hard time controlling cloud computing costs Fewer than 20% of survey respondents stated that they were able to immediately detect spikes in cloud costs.
The problem is that while the Executive Order is a great start, the two primary requirements for putting Zero Trust into effect, MFA and encryption, don't really close all cloud security gaps. These attack vectors show the importance of SaaS security management to cloud security as a whole.
A successful cloud strategy is about much more than investing a large amount of capital, however. Business and IT leaders now have a golden opportunity to not only increase their cloud adoption, but to consider how they can adapt their operations around cloud capabilities.
Snowpark enables AtScale to execute advanced analytic functions within the Snowflake Data Cloud, further optimizing complex analysis, query performance and resource consumption, resulting in unparalleled ROI. This initial integration provides a foundation for embedding additional, high-value services within the Snowflake Data Cloud. The AtScale semantic layer provides BI analysts and data scientists with a business-oriented, virtualized view of data within cloud data platforms that can be accessed through applications like PowerBI, Excel, Tableau and DataRobot.
Nutanix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an expanded partnership to accelerate hybrid cloud and multicloud adoption by offering Nutanix Era, a multi-database operations and management solution, bundled with HPE ProLiant servers, as a service through HPE GreenLake. Customers using Nutanix Era reported a positive experience in increasing speed of database provisioning by 97%, reducing unplanned downtime to avoid average losses of $35,000 per hour, decreasing storage requirements for copies and backups by 60%, and reducing database administrators' overtime work by 50%. By combining Nutanix Era on HPE ProLiant servers, the world's most trusted servers offering high-performance, scalability and versatility to run a range of workloads, and delivering the solution as a cloud service through HPE GreenLake, customers can transform database management with one cloud-ready platform.
The native integration of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Email Security means MSPs can use one solution to extend their cyber protection services to protect their clients' Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Open-Xchange mailboxes, or on-premises mail server. "We are thrilled to partner with Acronis to power the leading Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud solution, with Perception Point, integrated as the Advanced Email Security pack," said Yoram Salinger, CEO of Perception Point.