Displaying items by tag: Multicloud

GUEST OPINION:  As financial institutions continue their transition to multicloud, it’s becoming critical to harness AI to ensure that the infrastructure runs smoothly.

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

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.

A survey conducted for software intelligence specialist Dynatrace shows CISOs find the growing complexity of hybrid and multicloud environments makes it increasingly difficult to keep software secure, and that the continuing use of manual processes helps vulnerabilities reach production environments.

COMPANY NEWS: Entrust, a global leader in identity and data security, is supporting organisations’ Zero Trust journey with new foundational identity, encryption, and key management solutions.

Rackspace Technology has announced the executive appointment of Martin Dubé as vice president sales Asia Pacific and Japan, succeeding Sandeep Bhargava who moves to global head of solutions and services.

Analyst firm Gartner has identified three factors influencing growth in security spending.

COMPANY NEWS: Software intelligence company Dynatrace today announced it has been named a leader in the 2022 GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability Solutions. The report evaluated solution providers based on a range of key criteria, including technical capabilities, product roadmap, innovation, and ability to execute. GigaOm placed Dynatrace in its Leaders Circle because of its uniquely comprehensive approach, which combines deep and broad observability, continuous runtime application security, and advanced AIOps to deliver answers and intelligent automation from data in increasingly complex, cloud-native environments. In addition, GigaOm awarded Dynatrace the highest possible scores across all categories in the radar's key criteria for evaluating cloud observability solutions.

GUEST OPINION: Cybercrime flourished in 2021, and there are no signs of a slowdown in 2022. There are several factors behind this high-confidence prediction.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced the Financial Services Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake’s industry-tailored platform governance capabilities, Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-critical datasets, to help financial services organisations revolutionise how they use data to drive business growth and deliver better customer experiences.

COMPANY NEWS: Kong, the cloud connectivity company, today announced a collaboration with Red Hat to deliver the Kong Konnect service connectivity platform on the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift. As part of this collaboration, Kong has achieved Red Hat Operator Certification for Kong Konnect on Red Hat OpenShift. Kong is among the first Red Hat partners in API management to establish a technology collaboration and Operator certification for Red Hat OpenShift. The Kong Konnect solution can enable enterprises to accelerate time to market for new cloud native applications as the adoption of containers and Kubernetes soars.

Talking to prospects teaches more than reading market research. Recent customer engagements (unfortunately still virtual) made it loud and clear – businesses need effective security.

VMware describes VMware Cloud as "a distributed, multi-cloud platform that enables organisations to accelerate application modernisation across the data centre, edge, and any cloud."

Company News: Cohesity today announced a new company valuation of US$3.7 billion, which is US$1.2 billion higher than its valuation less than 12 months ago. This dramatic growth in valuation continues to validate the incredible trajectory and momentum Cohesity is seeing as the modern multicloud data management company.

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2020 has shown the importance of thinking in terms of 'smart normal' rather than 'new normal,' suggested Lenovo data centre group Asia Pacific president Sumir Bhatia.

VMware and Nvidia's 14 years of collaboration is continuing with the development of an enterprise platform for AI and a new data centre architecture.

Nutanix' hyperconverged infrastructure software Nutanix Clusters is now generally available on AWS bare metal EC2 instances.

Responding to the multi-cloud strategy adopted by many organisations, Google has introduced BigQuery Omni to support the analysis of data stored across more than one public cloud.

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