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Ingram Micro Cloud announced its new Marketplace-as-a-Service model to help reseller partners fully automate and scale the next step of their cloud businesses. The offering enables Ingram Micro Cloud channel reseller partners to launch their very own cloud marketplace and grow with streamlined cloud subscription management and billing, helping provide an accelerated path to commercialize and sell their products and services.
In the digital world, cryptographic solutions use encryption keys to secure data at rest, data in use, and data in transit. Now, you can and should encrypt the keys themselves, but then how do you protect those encryption keys? This cycle eventually ends with a root key, which is the most important key in the chain.
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.