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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.

Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, announced one of its largest expansions of Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric in seven new EMEA markets to help global businesses simplify hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. In response to this market shift, Equinix is extending its ECX Fabric service in EMEA to help digital businesses simplify hybrid multicloud deployments and expand their global interconnection opportunities on Platform Equinix®.

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."

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.".

As enterprises increasingly transition and scale their operations in the public cloud, at RSA Conference 2020 FireMon announced new integrations with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services to help improve cloud visibility, reduce complexity and match the pace needed to protect systems from ongoing cyber threats and data breaches. "With our latest Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud integrations, customers can now deploy consistent, seamless, and adaptive security policy orchestration across any type of infrastructure."