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The real value of multicloud is being lost because of the lack of understanding on how to best use the technology. Whereas a single cloud provider can provide a specific area of use for a company such as email or videoconferencing, multicloud allows businesses to pick and choose the services they need to optimize their workplace, ensuring that all the diverse needs of that business are met via a flexible infrastructure.
Veeam Software announced general availability of new Veeam Backup & Replication v11, enabling the most advanced data protection solution for cloud, virtual, physical and enterprise workloads. "Veeam released V10 with more than 150 new enhancements just 12 months ago, and now has more than 700,000 downloads. Being able to launch the next version - Veeam Backup & Replication v11 - with an additional 200 new and powerful backup, cloud, DR, security and automation enhancements speaks volumes to Veeam's speed of innovation, as well as our strong commitment to the needs and data reliability demands of our customers and partners," said Danny Allan, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam.
Turbonomic announced findings from the survey of over 800 global IT professionals that examines the current state of multicloud adoption, its drivers, and the technologies enabling it, including containers, public cloud, and edge computing. While only 30% of organizations are using three or more clouds, in the coming year advancing a multicloud strategy is the most important initiative for 21% of organizations, coming in second to optimizing existing cloud resources for performance and cost.
Strata Identity, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup that is on a mission to help unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for multi-cloud environments, today announced that it has raised $11 million through a Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures with support from ForgePoint Capital. With businesses increasingly using multiple cloud providers, managing identity and security policies across various cloud platforms can be challenging.
The newest iteration of Yugabyte's open source database improves on the existing high availability, horizontal scalability, and ease-of-use characteristics of YugabyteDB, furthering the company's mission of providing the default distributed SQL database for cloud-native applications in a multi-cloud world. The release of YugabyteDB 2.4 stabilizes the features and capabilities included in the YugabyteDB 2.3 development release.
Tripwire announced expanded multi-cloud capabilities for Tripwire Configuration Manager. Tripwire Configuration Manager simplifies the monitoring, remediation, and automation of cloud account configurations for multi-cloud organizations through a single console.
Multi-cloud network security platform provider Valtix on Thursday announced that it raised $12.5 million in strategic funding. Founded in 2018 and launched in 2019 with $14 million in funding, the Santa Clara, California-based company provides enterprise customers with a cloud-native network security service that can help protect both applications and services.
PacketFabric announced it has launched Cloud Router, a multi-cloud connectivity solution. Cloud Router will super-serve the enterprise as well as small business who are seeking a future-proofed way to connect multiple cloud providers.
With so much to gain by dipping their toes into multiple cloud pools, it should come as no surprise that Flexera recently reported that more than 90% of enterprises are embracing multicloud architectures. Now, it's onto getting a full picture of your data landscape and strategy: can your technology storage stack, transactional databases, data warehouses, and data analytics platforms be accessed across multiple cloud environments? You might even need to redesign or replace your data integration architecture, data lake and big data architectures with hyper-scalable or multicloud services like BigQuery Omni.
Businesses around the globe are facing challenges as they try to protect data stored in complex hybrid multi-cloud environments, from the growing threat of ransomware, according to a Veritas Technologies survey. Typically, if businesses fall foul to ransomware and are not able to restore their data from a backup copy of their files, they may look to pay the hackers responsible for the attack to return their information.