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Working with VMware, Vodafone Group has completed the roll-out of network virtual infrastructure across all of its European business and 21 markets in total. Operating a reliable, agile network that can be more efficiently upgraded to maintain the quality of coverage has never been more important as Vodafone customers across Europe rely on the operator to provide critical connectivity and communications services during the COVID-19 crisis.

Consulting giant Accenture announced this week that it has acquired critical infrastructure protection firm Revolutionary Security for an undisclosed sum. A privately held startup, Philadelphia-based Revolutionary Security provides security solutions for both information technology and operational technology environments.

Robert Lee, founder & CEO of Dragos, Inc., speaks with Dan Patterson about which countries pose a threat to US industrial infrastructures.

Robert Lee, founder and CEO of Dragos, discusses the dangers cyberattacks pose to critical industrial infrastructures. Dan Patterson: What do we mean when we talk about this abstract idea of infrastructure and connected infrastructure?

Robert Lee, founder and CEO of Dragos, discusses the dangers cyberattacks pose to critical industrial infrastructures.

Dan Patterson speaks with cybersecurity expert Robert Lee about how Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea pose a threat to US industrial infrastructures. Robert Lee: The [countries] we've seen over the years would be Russia, Iran, China, North Korea-the normal players.

Total end-user spending on IT infrastructure products for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, recovered in the fourth quarter of 2019 after two consecutive quarters of decline, according to IDC. The 12.4% year-over-year growth in 4Q19 yielded $19.4 billion in spending. In 4Q19, growth in spending on cloud IT infrastructure was driven by the public cloud segment, which grew 14.5% year over year to $13.3 billion; private cloud grew 8.2% to $6.1 billion.

Splunk, provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, announced the next release of SignalFx Microservices APM, the only application performance monitoring solution that provides customers complete observability into modern, cloud-native environments to produce meaningful business outcomes regardless of scale. "As organizations make the shift from on-premises to hybrid and cloud-native environments, Splunk is the only company that can support any organization's observability needs across all stages of their digital transformation," said Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager, IT Markets, Splunk.

Lenovo Data Center Group expands its portfolio of IT infrastructure solutions. "At a time when the speed and agility of processes critically impacts your daily business operations, our customers demand more powerful, secure and flexible solutions," said Kamran Amini, Vice President and General Manager of Server, Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure at Lenovo DCG. "Lenovo's technology architecture is purpose-built to deliver real-time, valuable insights from edge to core to cloud, enabling a new era of intelligence where customers can fully realize the potential of the data at their disposal."

Using Cloud Analyzer, any company can, for the first time, have visibility and recommendations that automate performance and availability and minimize costs across all their cloud accounts. "Using machine learning algorithms, automation, and now with broader visibility into spend and usage - Cloud Analyzer is able to free up CloudOps teams to deploy applications fast, while maintaining uptime at lowest possible cloud infrastructure costs."