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Surveying over 250 worldwide business executives and IT professionals from a diverse group of technical backgrounds, Denodo's cloud usage survey revealed that hybrid cloud configurations are the centre of all cloud deployments at 42 percent, followed by public and private clouds. The advantages of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud configurations according to respondents include the ability to diversify spend and skills, build resiliency, and cherry-pick features and capabilities depending on each cloud service provider's particular strengths, all while avoiding the dreaded vendor lock-in.
Vizru is announcing the launch of Vizru ZEOS, industry's first OS for delivering and governing AI applications at-scale. With the launch of ZEOS, Vizru has successfully decoupled composition of apps from governance.
To address these challenges, cloud providers have introduced support for Bring Your Own Key that allows organizations to encrypt data inside cloud services with their own keys while still continuing to leverage the cloud provider's native encryption services to protect their data. Even with BYOK, keys still exist in the cloud providers' key management service.
Alkira CSX enables cloud architects and network engineers to build and deploy a point and click multi-cloud network in minutes, with the flexibility to turn services on and off as the business requires, with no upfront CapEx. "Alkira is like having your own personalized virtual co-location capability for cloud network access. It comes with a rich suite of secure and resilient unified services that enable on-time and at scale cloud connectivity."
Ping Identity, the Intelligent Identity solution for the enterprise, announced the availability of PingID multi-factor authentication in AWS Marketplace. Customers can now quickly procure and deploy PingID to secure work from home while adding an additional layer of security to their AWS infrastructure.
Seagate Technology, a world leader in data solutions, announced the latest in high-performance solutions for multi-user NAS environments, adding to their award-winning IronWolf SSD product line. Seagate's IronWolf 510 is an M.2 NVMe SSD with caching speeds of up to 3GBps for NVMe-compatible systems and is ideal for creative pros and business NAS needing 24×7 multi-user storage that is cache enabled.
InterCloud, the leader in fully managed software-defined cloud interconnect services, announced a new investment to bolster InterCloud's premium and secure hybrid and multi-cloud application transport services in Europe. This agreement will supply InterCloud with a multi-100Gbps core backbone capacity across Europe and will activate connectivity to over 420 data centers, accelerating and simplifying deployment of last mile access to InterCloud customer's sites.
The survey reveals that multi-cloud deployments are being driven primarily by a need to maximize availability and reliability for applications, while at the edge IoT is the top use case driving deployments. Multi-cloud deployments are threatened by security and connectivity problems due to differences between cloud providers, as well as operational challenges in managing workloads across several clouds.
"As more enterprises embrace cloud transformation, IT and data teams face increased pressure to harness the power of data and analytics for business intelligence," said Christopher Lynch, executive chairman and CEO at AtScale. "Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategies are key to big data analytics. New data regulations and cybersecurity vulnerabilities are creating roadblocks for IT teams looking to use data for business intelligence, which is why data virtualization and data governance are top priorities in 2020.".