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SoftServe has become an official Google Cloud reseller in the delivery and management of Google Cloud solutions. With this designation, SoftServe can support end-to-end delivery and management of Google Cloud solutions, from application development to cost control, in guiding its UK&I clients through the complex landscape of public cloud resource management.
"Successful DevOps depends on the right mix of processes, technology, culture, and risk mitigation in an organization's software assembly line," said Al Sadowski, Effectual SVP Product Management. "One of our key platform design principles was to ensure that security and compliance are baked into every phase of the DevOps lifecycle."
Accenture has completed its acquisition of Imaginea, a cloud native product and platform engineering firm that helps companies drive innovation through disruptive technologies to transform their businesses digitally and capture new opportunities. With headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and offices in London and throughout India, Imaginea excels in using its product and platform engineering skills and leads with a design-thinking approach steeped in innovation.
Your company takes compliance and security very seriously, but you've no idea what or how to layer on top of AWS's existing security and compliance protocols to achieve levels necessary for compliance certification. In this case and others, passing a compliance audit may prove particularly problematic even though your company is committed to performing at or above baseline legal requirements.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a series of innovation updates to its HPE GreenLake cloud services portfolio, and new capabilities and partnerships designed to dramatically simplify the experience and expand the reach of the HPE GreenLake Cloud Services business. New HPE GreenLake cloud services for virtual machines, containers and bare metal management with scalable, modular entry points specifically tailored for mid-market businesses, starting at 100 VMs, and increasing to 600 VMs. New agreements with ALSO Group, Arrow Electronics, Ingram Micro, Synnex, and Tech Data that expand the market reach for HPE GreenLake Cloud Services by integrating HPE GreenLake in their online marketplaces.
Ingram Micro Cloud announced a new global Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS. This multi-year, joint investment is geared towards accelerating the growth of AWS Partners worldwide through Ingram Micro Cloud. Ingram Micro Cloud plans to scale AWS adoption with emerging ISVs, while driving greater adoption of AWS solutions with SMB customers through the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace.
According to Gartner, cloud adoption will only accelerate as we move into 2021, with cloud services revenue climbing more than 19%. However, all of this change creates a totally different set of work streams and security challenges. Organizations must assess what controls cloud services providers offer in order to understand the security risks and challenges.
Lightspin announced the availability of enhanced contextual security for cloud environments. Lightspin provides rapid, in-depth visualization of the cloud stack and sophisticated detection capabilities to proactively protect cloud environments, including dynamic remediation, real-time end-to-end monitoring, smart alerting, and risk analysis across the full DevOps lifecycle.
Akash Network, a project out of Overclock Labs, confirmed the successful launch of Akash MAINNET 2, the first open-source cloud and the only viable decentralized cloud alternative to centralized cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Akash MAINNET 2 empowers developers to break free from the limitations of traditional cloud infrastructure, and accelerates growth and scale in the blockchain ecosystem by enabling developers and companies to decentralize their cloud infrastructure, deploying applications faster, more efficiently, and at lower cost.
Hawk is integrated with AWS and other leading cloud platforms and tools, providing a unified view across hybrid infrastructure. "Using AWS with Gigamon Hawk, for example by leveraging Amazon Athena to analyze application metadata collected by Hawk in S3 buckets, customers can gain the visibility they need across their hybrid - or pure cloud - infrastructure to be confident in its security, performance and scalability," commented Scott Ward, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. "We are seeing most of our clients accelerate the movement of their mission-critical apps and workloads to the cloud, resulting in increasingly complex hybrid cloud infrastructures and interactions."