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According to a Deloitte survey of 1,000 U.S. corporate M&A executives and private equity firm professionals, 61% of survey respondents expect U.S. M&A activity to return to pre-COVID-19 levels within the next 12 months. Private equity investors plan to remain more focused on traditional acquisitions, while simultaneously pushing pursuit of M&A alternatives - including private investment in public equity deals, minority stakes, club deals and alliances.

Era 2.0 extends the Nutanix database management solution across clouds and clusters to simplify operations, with increased scale and reduced costs for IT and database teams. Era enables IT teams to deliver Database as a Service by bringing one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and lifecycle management.

Microsoft 365 is currently experiencing an outage affecting users on both coasts of the United States and preventing them from accessing multiple Office 365 services. Starting at approximately 2:30 PM EST today, Office 365 users all over the United States began having difficulty accessing their Outlook mail and using Microsoft Teams, with active calls getting dropped.

F5 introduced Shape AI Fraud Engine, a new SaaS solution that eliminates fraudulent online transactions that get past existing fraud tools. SAFE typically identifies twice as much fraud per month when compared to other current fraud tools.

Organizations are building confidence that their cybersecurity practices are headed in the right direction, aided by advanced technologies, more detailed processes, comprehensive education and specialized skills, a research from CompTIA finds. At the same time, many companies acknowledge that there is still more to do to make their security posture even more robust.

The latest innovations help finance teams leverage touchless operations, predictive planning, and digital assistants to pivot towards growth. "Our newest innovations help finance teams rapidly adapt to the current economic climate, drive new business models, and improve strategic decision making; all designed to help our customers define their future."

DeepSurface Security announced $1 Million in seed funding to launch the automated Predictive Vulnerability Management suite of tools. The company, which has been in beta for the past year with several large healthcare, SaaS, and financial services businesses, allows cybersecurity teams to automate the stubbornly manual and imprecise process of analyzing and prioritizing vulnerabilities on enterprise networks.

It reveals that 85% of IT leaders believe permanent remote work puts greater pressure on their teams while 34% are concerned that their teams will be stretched too far in terms of time and resource. Lack of visibility of Bring Your Own Device risks: 78% of remote workers who worked on their personal devices during the lockdown period between March and July 2020 said they received phishing emails, either in their work or personal inboxes.

If GRC leaders don't have confidence in the accuracy and timeliness of security data provided to regulators, then the same holds true for the confidence in their own ability to understand and combat cyber risks. 92% of senior risk and compliance professionals believe it would be valuable to have quantitative security controls assurance reporting and 93.5% believe it's important to automate security risk and compliance reporting.

Evolve IP announced that it has integrated SMS business messaging and voice recording with AI speech analytics into its Microsoft Teams direct routing platform. "Microsoft Teams adoption has been astounding as employers and employees have shifted to a work anywhere mentality and selected Microsoft productivity software to keep their businesses running," said Scott Kinka, Chief Technology Officer of Evolve IP. "Evolve IP's enhanced direct routing platform for Microsoft Teams with Cisco VoIP allows employees to work wherever and whenever they want, providing seamless functionality on every device, a proven history of 99.999 percent reliability, and superior voice quality."