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COMPANY NEWS: Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader, today announced that Boomi Pay-As-You-Go, a self-serve, pay-as-you-go edition of the Boomi platform, is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalogue with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

GUEST OPINION: Over 90% of attackers are using the same tactic to cover their tracks that security teams use to protect their data, and broadly speaking, no-one is watching.

COMPANY NEWS:  Vertice launches its solution for cloud cost control - a Cloud Cost Optimization Platform to give finance and tech leaders shared visibility and control of cloud investments, enabling companies to cut cloud costs by up to 25%.

Key stats:

• Cutting cloud spending is revealed as the number one cost-saving priority for over a third of finance leaders, but only 9% of technical leaders say that managing cloud costs is a top concern. 
• Over a third (34%) of tech and finance leaders disagree on their approach to cloud spending.
• 41% of finance leaders said the main cause of friction is a lack of transparency from tech leaders, whereas 55% of tech leaders say that non-technical staff don’t have the right knowledge or expertise to understand cloud investments.
• Friction is most acute in scale-up environments, with leaders reporting almost twice the level of friction than inside enterprise-sized organizations.
• 50% of organisations struggle to scale cloud usage efficiently as they grow.

Hybrid multicloud computing provider Nutanix has appointed Michael Car as head of its hybrid multicloud business APJ.

GUEST OPINION: Data fabric and data mesh are two concepts mentioned frequently in discussions around enterprise data and analytics, but there are subtle differences between the two which are often misunderstood. They are in fact very different in purpose for information flow.

COMPANY NEWS: Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise artificial intelligence (AI), announced today that it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services.

Swedish telecommunications vendor Ericsson, AWS, and the research and development division of Hitachi America has conducted a 5G infrastructure trial to identify potential manufacturing defects at Hitachi Astemo Americas’ electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky US.

Rackspace Technology is one of a very few global multicloud providers, president of public cloud business unit D.K. Sinha told iTWire, even though most organisations want a multicloud environment so that regulated or data-intensive applications can be deployed in private cloud while others are suitable for running in a public cloud.

Financial services company Suncorp Group says tech transformation including digitisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) have helped support its performance in the financial year 2023.

COMPANY NEWS: Rimini Street, a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software, and a Salesforce and AWS partner, today announced its expansion of its Rimini Manage for SAP products to include SAP cloud applications.

AWS consultancy Cevo has appointed Stefan Buchman to the role of CTO.

Security vendor Trend Micro's new Trend Vision One – Endpoint Security combines prevention, detection, and response for endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and data centres.

COMPANY NEWS: 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services by joining the AWS Partner Network and will offer customers holistic data protection strategies that include additional Veeam Software solutions on AWS. The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market and sell customer offerings.

Security provider Trustwave has expanded its globally federated, cloud-native Fusion platform into the Pacific region by using a data centre in Australia.

COMPANY NEWS: Amazon recently announced improved support for using FIDO2 security keys as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) device to log on to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) console. FIDO2 security keys are a phishing-resistant standards-based passwordless authentication method and are typically USB-like devices, but they can also use Bluetooth or near-field communication (NFC).

COMPANY NEWS: Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, announced Dino DiMarino has been appointed as chief revenue officer.

Gas and electricity provider Jemena has chosen the Salt Security API Protection Platform to protect its critical gas and electricity infrastructure.

Self-styled work operating system monday.com is now running in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region, its first data centre presence in APAC.

COMPANY NEWS: Lumify Group, the leading provider of information, communications and technology (ICT) training in Australasia, has today announced the launch of Lumify Learn. Lumify Learn provides quality, self-paced, vendor-certified and nationally accredited ICT training, leveraging 30 years of experience, skills and knowledge accumulated by the wider Lumify Group as industry leaders.

COMPANY NEWS: Rapid7 today announced that InsightIDR integrates with AWS AppFabric, announced today by Amazon Web Services. Rapid7’s ability to support AWS AppFabric at launch expands its relationship with AWS and affirms the company’s commitment to extending customers’ monitoring, detection, and response capabilities for the cloud.