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LogPoint releases LogPoint 7

Comprehensive update provides best-in-class SIEM and SOAR integration within one unified security operations platform for accelerated detection, investigation, and response.

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AvePoint launches Confide

New product addresses the growing need to protect sensitive data, without sacrificing efficiency.

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Plum cloud platform?

Node4, the cloud-led Managed Services Provider (MSP), has delivered a comprehensive IT infrastructure upgrade for Victoria Plum, one of the UK’s largest and best-known online-only bathroom retailers. The project, which evolved from the desire to close Victoria Plum’s head office and make homeworking permanent for most of its workforce, was delivered via Node4’s revolutionary Services Gateway. It focused on four key areas: Backup, Disaster Recovery (DR), MPLS inter-site connectivity, and Security as a Service (SECaaS).

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Cloud services transforming how value is created in the financial services sector

“Cloud in Financial Services”, a joint report by Reply and Imperial College Business School, provides a one of a kind, in-depth look at how the cloud is set to transform financial services.

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79% of European businesses already seeing savings from shift to cloud security

54% of organisations working on a security transformation project now or in the next 12 months.

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Renewable energy powers Zscaler

Zscaler Zero Trust exchange cloud-based architecture enables superior green security capabilities compared to legacy on-premises hardware and appliance-based models.

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Westcon-Comstor expands Zscaler distribution agreement

New distribution agreement set to bolster Westcon-Comstor’s Zero Trust offering in more markets across Europe with further expansion into APAC planned.

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Netwrix releases new version of StealthAUDIT strengthening cloud security

StealthAUDIT 11.5 helps organisations further minimise the risk of a data breach by delivering enhanced visibility into sensitive data regardless of where it resides.

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Silos stopping digital transformation

New research from Virtana reveals that 70% of cloud decision makers view silos across teams as a hindrance to IT’s ability to maximize business value. The research shows that a lack of executive involvement in cloud efforts, along with cross-functional stakeholder participation, correlates with escalating challenges for enterprises.

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Survey underscores rapid pace of cloud adoption

More than half of respondents have 100% of their infrastructure in the cloud; IT playing an increasingly critical role in driving corporate strategy.

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Cloud adoption continues to be undermined

Veritas Technologies has published the findings of new research highlighting the damage that workplace blame cultures are having on the success of cloud adoption. Veritas found that UK businesses are losing critical data, such as customer orders and financial data, because office workers are too scared or too embarrassed to report data loss or ransomware issues when using cloud applications, such as Microsoft Office 365.

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Cloud on the increase, but cost concerns remain

O’Reilly has published the findings of the global 2021 Cloud Adoption Survey. The report explores the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Similar to last year’s results, cloud adoption has continued to grow, but cost and regulatory requirements are two major challenges cited by respondents.

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89% of UK tech operations to be hosted off-premise

Plans for hybrid working and future tech investment are calling into question the need for businesses to maintain or rely on their on-premise data centres, according to new research from Zen Internet.

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Netskope introduces Cloud Exchange

New and enhanced tools offer key integrations and intelligence sharing with partners, including CrowdStrike, Mimecast, Rapid7, and PagerDuty.

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Metallic launches Security IQ

Metallic Data Management-as-a-Service (DMaaS) adds advanced security insights and capabilities across its entire award-winning data portfolio.

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Videos

Elliott Young, CTO, Dell Technologies UK, discusses edge computing – what is or isn’t happening as of now, how it contributes to companies’ sustainability objectives and, perhaps most importantly, the huge potential it offers almost every business when it comes to optimising the performance of their applications.
Elizabeth Green, EMEA Advisory and Cyber Lead, at Dell Technologies, discusses the ever-shifting cybersecurity landscape, where cyber resilience is very much the focus.
Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, discusses the Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible (BANI) challenges facing businesses at the present time, explaining how the company’s innovative storage solutions help to address many of these current cost, staffing and wider cybersecurity, data resilience and sustainability pain points.
Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.

Expert Opinions

By Manfred Berger, Senior Business Development Manager EMEAI, Western Digital.
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