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Nutanix discusses ‘powering digital economy with data-first modernization Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, together with technology partner HPE, and channel partner Mannai – HP Solutions, a business unit of Mannai Trading Co. WLL, participated as Gold sponsors at the recently held IDC Qatar Cloud and Datacenter Roadshow in March. Mr. Mohammed Abulhouf, Senior Director
& GM EMEA Emerging Markets at Nutanix, and Mohammad Alrehaili, Managing Director, Middle East at HPE jointly delivered a keynote address entitled ‘Powering digital economy with data-first modernization’. The session (rated a 4.8 out of 5 – the highest score for a speaker and content) was attended by over 180 tech, audit, and compliance executives across government,
banking, finance, education, public services, oil & gas, and healthcare industries. Organizations today require IT infrastructure and services to be deployed faster. While the adoption of hybrid cloud has accelerated, on-premises infrastructure continues to play a major role in most organizations. The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform brings the cloud experience to apps and data irrespective of where they live—in edges, colocations, and data centers—enabling organizations to free up capital and talent, accelerate what’s next and boost operational and financial flexibility. At the same time, enterprises count on Nutanix software for its flexibility and scalability to run their database services, private cloud, and virtualized desktop infrastructure. HPE and Nutanix jointly deliver a new way to operate and pay for infrastructure – delivering on the promise of the cloud, across key workloads and regulated industries. Together they bring to life an organization’s hybrid and multi-cloud strategy – delivering performance while allowing organizations to eliminate overprovisioning risk, gain greater visibility into consumption and performance, and even access turnkey management services with a fully HPE-managed hybrid cloud solution.
Fortinet survey finds 78% of organizations felt prepared for ransomware attacks Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, unveiled its 2023 Global Ransomware Report. The report is based on a recent global survey conducted by Fortinet and explores cybersecurity leaders’ perspectives on ransomware, particularly how it impacted their organizations in the last year, and their strategies to mitigate an attack. Fortinet’s research revealed there was a large disconnect between respondents’ level of preparedness with existing strategies and their ability to stop a ransomware attack. Although 78% of organizations stated they were “very” or “extremely” prepared to mitigate an attack, the survey found 50% fell victim to ransomware in the last year, and almost half were targeted two or more times. Specifically, four out of the five top challenges to stopping ransomware were people or process related. The second largest challenge was a lack of clarity on how to secure against the
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threat as a result of a lack of user awareness and training, and no clear chain-of-command strategy to deal with attacks. With concerns about ransomware still high and despite a challenging global economic environment, nearly all organizations (91%) expect increased security budgets in the next year. Based on the technologies viewed as most essential to secure against ransomware, organizations were most concerned with IoT Security, SASE, Cloud Workload Protection, NGFW, EDR, ZTNA, and Security Email Gateway. When comparing to 2021, the number of respondents citing ZTNA and Secure Email Gateway increased by nearly 20%. Given email phishing remained the most common attack entry method for the second time, it was promising to see respondents view Secure Email Gateway (51%) with higher importance, however, other essential protections, such as Sandboxing (23%) and Network Segmentation (20%) remained low on the list.
John Maddison, EVP Products and CMO at Fortinet.
