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Rubrik to accelerate joint solutions and deliver cyber resiliency for customers with Microsoft equity investment

COMPANY NEWS: Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Management company, today announced a strategic agreement with Microsoft that includes a Microsoft equity investment in Rubrik to drive go to market activities and co-engineering projects to deliver integrated Zero Trust data protection solutions built on Microsoft Azure. This work will address rising customer needs to protect against surging ransomware attacks, which are growing 150% annually. Together, Rubrik and Microsoft will provide Microsoft 365 and hybrid cloud data protection and integrated cloud services on Microsoft Azure.

SolarWinds today announced its SolarWinds DBA xPress product, previously a paid-for tool is now available completely for free. DBA xPress reveals how a data environment is visually structured, helping compare, synchronise, script, and navigate data and schemas.

GUEST OPINION by Craig Somerville, Managing Director and CEO, Somerville:  The benefits offered by the adoption of cloud computing are now well understood, however many IT managers are still struggling to put a clear migration strategy in place.

Deakin University has been reviewing its various systems as part of a migration from on-premises to the cloud. The existing student management system (SMS) wasn't ideal but a suitable replacement could not be found.

GUEST OPINION by Linton Burling, GM, Vault Cloud:  At the start of 2020, IDC predicted that public and private cloud spending would outperform “traditional IT spending” – think on-premise IT and legacy applications - in the forthcoming year. Of course, they weren’t accounting for a global pandemic, which has sent cloud spending into the stratosphere, while traditional IT spending wanes.

Australian mainframe users face a lengthy journey to the cloud, according to Accenture, but it seems that just dipping a toe into the water can be counterproductive.

Oracle's new Oracle Cloud Lift Services provide customers with tools and resources to quickly migrate workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What's more, they are available at no extra charge.

GUEST OPINION by Daniel Harding, Director – Australia Operations, MaxContact: Being able to scale your contact centre operations up and down rapidly is a powerful advantage in uncertain times.

Professional services firm Accenture has acquired cloud migration service provider Olikka.

GUEST OPINION by Mark Lukie, sales engineer manager – APAC for Barracuda: If anyone had predicted half the things that happened in 2020, we should be paying them a lot to give us predictions for 2021! Going into 2021, we should expect many of the key cybersecurity trends from this year to continue in Australia. 

American cloud provider Amazon Web Services and consulting firm Slalom have jointly set up a AWS | Slalom Launch Centre in Melbourne to help companies speed up their migration to the cloud and modernisation of their IT services.

VENDOR NEWS SYDNEY, Sept 16 —The vast majority (83%) of C-level executives expect the changes they made in people, processes and applications as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic to become permanent (whether significant or partial), according to data from a report published today by Radware®.

SYDNEY, Sept 16 —The vast majority (83%) of C-level executives expect the changes they made in people, processes and applications as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic to become permanent (whether significant or partial), according to data from a report published today by Radware®.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Denodo Fast Data Strategy Virtual Summit is back! Attend and learn how logical data fabric powers critical use cases including streamlined cloud migrations, single views of the customer, and self-service analytics. Register today!

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Denodo Fast Data Strategy Virtual Summit is back! Attend and learn how logical data fabric powers critical use cases including streamlined cloud migrations, single views of the customer, and self-service analytics. Register today!

The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) is deploying Microsoft’s three cloud solution to streamline the State’s voting processes.

ExtraHop provides enhanced investigative powers to users of the Splunk platform in order to interrogate possible threats in both on-prem and cloud environments.

Digital transformation, migration to the enterprise cloud and increasing customer demands are creating a surge in IT complexity and the associated costs of managing it, according to a global survey of CIOs commissioned by software intelligence company Dynatrace.

Data breaches, misconfiguration and inadequate change control and lack of cloud security architecture and strategy top the list of major security risks faced by organisations globally, according to a newly published survey from the Cloud Security Alliance.

By Chris Heggem, Avi Networks

Many techies enthusiastically chant ‘cloud, cloud, cloud’ but haven’t thought about what it takes for a successful application migration to the cloud.