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ESET LAUNCHES NEW CLOUD-BASED ENDPOINT SECURITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
The solution provides a cloud-based console for managing ESET security solutions deployed with real-time visibility
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Ignacio Sbampato
Chief Business Officer, ESET
ESET has announced the launch of its new endpoint security management platform, ESET PROTECT, in selected countries. The new solution brings easy and automated management of ESET’s wide portfolio of security solutions with two deployment options: on-premises and cloud. ESET PROTECT Cloud is the new cornerstone for security management in ESET’s cloudbased business offering, capable of catering to organizations of all sizes.
The introduction of ESET PROTECT Cloud reflects the well-recognized shift in the security landscape from on-premises security software solutions to cloud-based services. ESET recognizes that many businesses are moving toward a “cloud first” approach, so a security software offering that aligns with this strategy is essential.
ESET PROTECT Cloud provides a cloudbased console for managing ESET security solutions deployed in a network with real-time visibility into both on-premises and off-premises endpoints. The console allows IT administrators to deploy ESET security solutions, execute tasks, enforce security policies, monitor system status, and quickly respond to problems or detections on managed endpoints across all platforms, including desktops, servers, virtual machines, and even mobile devices. In addition to integration for security information and event management (SIEM) tools, comprehensive reporting, and a fully customizable notification system, ESET PROTECT Cloud allows IT administrators to take immediate action against incidents.
The console allows users to manage existing ESET products, including ESET Endpoint Security, ESET Dynamic Threat Defense, and ESET Full Disk Encryption. Customers of ESET Cloud Administrator will be automatically and seamlessly upgraded to ESET PROTECT Cloud.
To ensure businesses of all sizes are equipped with the right solutions, ESET is offering a selection of subscriptions tailored to the specific business needs of home offices, SMBs, managed services providers (MSPs), and enterprises
SAP’S NEW LAUNCH ‘RISE WITH SAP’ OFFERS BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AS A SERVICE
Offered on a subscription basis, it features one responsible party for service-level agreement, operations and support SAP has announced RISE with SAP, an offering to enable its customers’ holistic transformation into intelligent enterprises. According to the company, RISE with SAP offers customers at all stages of digital transformation a completely new way to redesign processes for better business outcomes. Along with its robust partner ecosystem, SAP will deliver fast time to value, and flexibility to thrive amid change — all without high up-front investments. The announcement to deliver business transformation as a service was made during RISE with SAP: The Introduction, where SAP also unveiled plans to make a strategic acquisition in the business process intelligence space.
“Geopolitical tensions, environmental challenges and the ongoing pandemic are forcing businesses to deal with change faster than ever before,” said Christian Christian Klein
Chief Executive Officer, SAP
Klein, chief executive officer, SAP. “Companies that can adapt their business processes quickly will thrive — and SAP can help them achieve this. This is what RISE with SAP is all about: it helps customers continuously unlock new ways of running businesses in the cloud to stay ahead of their industry.”
RISE with SAP is a single offering that provides a path to the Intelligent Enterprise for every customer, independent of starting point or complexity. Offered on a subscription basis, it features one responsible party for service-level agreement, operations and support. The holistic approach will help companies truly transform their business, going beyond a technical migration to the cloud to enable continual transformation. Together with its strong partner ecosystem, SAP will guide companies through their business transformation by redesigning business processes, enabling technical migration and building an intelligent enterprise.
RESEARCH REVEALS IT PROFESSIONALS’ GROWING CONFIDENCE IN PUBLIC CLOUD
Organizations face growing constraints when it comes to cloud access Barracuda has released key findings from a report titled Cloud networks: Shifting into hyperdrive. Commissioned by Barracuda, the research surveyed global IT decision makers to capture their attitudes and opinions about public cloud, access constraints, security concerns, emerging solutions, and a variety of related topics.
Overall, the findings indicate that although IT professionals are gaining confidence in the cloud, organizations face growing constraints when it comes to cloud access. Highlights from the report include: • IT professionals are gaining confidence in the cloud. • More than three-quarters of respondents use multiple cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. • Nearly 80% say their organization has deployed an Azure-based network. • Organizations face growing constraints when it comes to cloud access. • 56% of respondents are struggling to ensure seamless availability and “always-on” access to cloud applications for their organizations. • Nearly 70% experience latency and performance issues running SaaS workloads, such as Office 365. • Current network infrastructure is growing increasingly costly. • More than 70% of respondents are using traditional access methods, such as MPLS, in their organization’s network. • More than 60% say their MPLS costs increase heavily due to seasonal workload peaks. • IT professionals are looking for easier and more economical connectivity. • More than 70% of respondents have plans to implement an SD-WAN solution in the next 12 months to address cloud-connectivity issues. • At the same time, nearly 60% say their organization is hesitant to adopt an SDWAN solution because of fears that they are complex and expensive. “As organizations continue to radically transform their infrastructures and rely more on the public cloud, they are uncovering new connectivity and security challenges,” said Klaus Gheri, VP, Network Security, Barracuda. “But by embracing highly-flexible SASE solutions, organizations of all sizes and types can improve connectivity, simplify management, and strengthen security.”
Klaus Gheri
VP, Network Security, Barracuda.
GO SMART SOLUTIONS MIGRATES TO IBM CLOUD TO ACCELERATE CUSTOMER TRANSFORMATION
Go Smart Solutions is now able to provide its customers with digital solutions as a service
IBM announced that Go Smart Solutions, a software development company in Saudi Arabia, has selected IBM Cloud to transform its operations. The transition also aims to help Go Smart Solutions’ customers accelerate their digital transformation and expedite their hybrid cloud strategies.
Founded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Go Smart Solutions serves customers locally as well as in the UAE, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. As part of its transformation strategy, the company recently migrated its production environment to IBM’s public cloud to meet its critical need for infrastructure performance and enterprise-grade security, support business growth and provide an enhanced and uninterrupted experience to its customers. Solutions now benefits from the industry’s most secure and open cloud platform. The IBM Cloud offers sophisticated encryption capabilities such as “keep your own key” and confidential computing – so that not even IBM can access clients’ data. “ity.” Go Smart Solutions also benefits from enhanced business continuity and uninterrupted operations. IBM Cloud also offers access to AI and IoT.
“Companies of all sizes and industries are in their digital transformation journey. The pandemic accelerated these journeys,” said Hossam Seif El-Din, GM, IBM Middle East and Pakistan. “Through IBM Cloud, Go Smart Solutions is able to reshape its operations to differentiate itself from the competition and serve its customers and their agendas in a fast, uninterrupted and secure manner.”
Hossam Seif El-Din
GM, IBM Middle East & Pakistan
able to provide its customers with digital solutions as a service with a cloud-based subscription model, enabling businesses to opt for the services they require. Through its cloud adoption, Go Smart
COMMVAULT DEBUTS NEW SAAS, HYBRID CLOUD WORKLOADS
HUAWEI SIGNS AN EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH EROS GROUP TO DISTRIBUTE IDEAHUB IN THE UAE
Metallic adds new support for Salesforce backup, Microsoft Teams, Oracle Databases, Active Directory, and HyperScale X for Metallic
The productivity tool for smart offices bundles intelligent writing, High Definition (HD) video conferencing and wireless sharing
Commvault has announced another expansion of its award-winning Metallic Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) portfolio. On the heels of last quarter’s accelerated innovation, Metallic is adding new data protection solutions, features, and enterprise workload support including: enhanced SaaS application protection with the introduction of Metallic Salesforce Backup and Microsoft Teams recovery enhancements; the addition of Oracle and Active Directory to Metallic Database Backup; and the expansion of its hybrid cloud capabilities with the addition of HyperScale X as a fully integrated appliance and edge offering for Metallic.
Manoj Nair, General Manager, Metallic said, “With our new offerings like Salesforce and Oracle backup and our unique SaaS Plus capabilities, Metallic solutions offer customers what no other cloud-delivered backup service can match: the most comprehensive portfolio of BaaS solutions and the flexibility to backup Manoj Nair
General Manager, Metallic
each data source to the optimal storage target--whether that be cloud or on-premises storage, or the new HyperScale X for Metallic at the edge for ultimate performance with BaaS simplicity.”
Metallic has made global availability a top priority, tripling its country availability and doubling its product offerings. Recent additions include hybrid cloud data protection solutions for SAP HANA and Kubernetes, in addition to the new enhancements:
Metallic Salesforce Backup provides customers scalable, enterprise-grade SaaS data protection for the Salesforce Sales, Service, and Financial Cloud. It offers simple protection for valuable Salesforce data with unlimited retention, unlimited storage, and hardened security controls built-in.
Metallic Office 365 & Teams Backup & Recovery now builds on Metallic’s existing Microsoft Teams capabilities to include in-place restore of Teams conversations and other data. This enables administrators to granularly recover data stored within Teams, channels, and conversations, with better speed and precision while maintaining existing site structures and settings.
Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, signed a partnership agreement with the Eros Group, appointing them as the distributor for the Huawei IdeaHub series in the UAE. The agreement was signed at an event in the Intercontinental Festival City in Dubai in the presence of senior officials from both organizations, system integrators, resellers, and customers.
The Huawei IdeaHub can create an all-scenario smart office for the cloud era, and boost production efficiency for enterprises. It is an innovative productivity tool that integrates multiple functions to create an intelligent endpoint for users. Features include intelligent handwriting, 4K wireless projection, video conferencing, and the open Android AppGallery, making it an ideal addition for collaborative spaces, such as meeting rooms, executive offices, and more.
Differentiated from other Interactive Flat Panel Displays, Huawei IdeaHub cares most about user experience. By featuring the 35ms lowest writing latency and intelligent recognition capability, it enables the smoothest writing experience. AI technology is comprehensively adopted to develop features such as virtual Acoustic Baffle, auto-framing, and voice tracking. Therefore with 20 kHz full band audio, and an array of 12 microphones embedded, it picks up human voices during a video conference in a radius of 8 meters crystal clear and accurately locate the source of the speaker with precision of half degree.
MINDWARE SIGNS PARTNERSHIP WITH RUBRIK FOR MENA REGION
The distribution agreement covers Rubrik’s entire product portfolio, comprising cloud data management, cloud backup and recovery, security and compliance and NoSQL database protection
Professionals and freshers can get certified in key cybersecurity specializations
Mindware announced an agreement with Rubrik to promote and distribute Rubrik’s solutions through its vast reseller network across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This new partnership and the addition of Rubrik’s best-in-class data management solutions for Microsoft 365 applications and Azure cloud environments also positions Mindware to provide increased value as a strategic Microsoft distributor.
“Cloud computing is seen today as an integral part of an organization’s digital transformation strategy, especially with the remote working trend. In this scenario, Microsoft 365 cloud-based collaboration tools including productivity apps and security services and Microsoft Azure cloud computing service, when used together, unlocks opportunities to help organizations transform their business. In addition, Microsoft’s two cloud regions in the UAE have delivered an increased performance for the company’s cloud services and this has further accelerated adoption and strengthened vendor-customer base,” said Philippe Jarre, CEO, Mindware.
“After a detailed market analysis, we decided to add Rubrik to our portfolio, since the vendor has purpose-built data management and protection solutions of Microsoft 365 and Azure, and both companies share a strong technology collaboration. With this partnership, Mindware adds a modern, cloud friendly data protection solution provider to its portfolio. Our two companies together will present great opportunities for our regional business and technology partners to collaborate and add value in the next phase of cloud data management,” he added.
Rubrik will sell its entire product portfoPhilippe Jarre
CEO, Mindware
lio – comprising cloud data management, cloud backup and recovery, security and compliance and NoSQL database protection – through Mindware’s extensive reseller network across MENA.
SecureLink, a leading Risk Advisor in the META region and the British University in Dubai (BUiD) has entered into an agreement to empower cyber professionals accelerate their career paths with advanced cybersecurity qualifications.
BUiD, in affiliation with well-known universities in the UK is known for providing world-class education with high standards of training and research facilities to students and aspiring professionals in the Middle East. All their courses contribute towards technological innovation and are accredited by the UAE Ministry of Education, making them the right choice for someone who is aiming for a successful career move.
Under this alliance, cyber pros – be it experienced, or freshers can get handson experience and can excel in the below-mentioned domains that are prudently
are offered by BUiD in collaboration with Phase 2 Advantage and SecureLink:
• Certified Cyber Incident Response Manager (C-CIRM) • Certified Cyber Security Operations Manager (C-CSOM) • Certified Disaster Response and Recovery Manager (C-DRRM) • Certified Network Forensic Analysis Manager (C-NFAM) • Certified Network Infiltration & Assessment Specialist (C-NIAS)
Mahmoud Nimer, President, StarLink Group commented that, “Lack of skilled cybersecurity professional puts an organization at high risk. Most organizations opt for ‘on-the-job’ cybersecurity work experience which may not be sufficient to keep up with the evolving and complex nature of cyber threats. Our association with BUiD is aimed at building a new breed of highly skilled cybersecurity workforce to enable organizations become cyber-resilient.”
mapped and developed to comply with the NIST NICE framework. Thus, enabling candidates enhance their cybersecurity skills across multiple spheres as well as provide enterprises with professionals with the right skillset. These certifications
MCAFEE AND INGRAM MICRO EXPAND PARTNERSHIP
The vendor plans to expand its footprint on Ingram Micro’s network of e-commerce platforms throughout 2021
McAfee and Ingram Micro have announced an expanded worldwide relationship that builds on the transformation of the McAfee channel program. The new agreement will provide access to McAfee products and solutions across Ingram Micro’s global distribution network, including its regional Cloud Marketplaces and Centers of Excellence.
McAfee launched its SaaS portfolio on the U.S. Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace in late 2020, and plans to expand its footprint on Ingram Micro’s network of e-commerce platforms throughout 2021. Both companies recognize the opportunity and impact of cloud transformation happening within the channel landscape. Together, the two companies are working to help channel partners embrace these dynamics and enhance their offerings to address customer needs and drive intiatives to accelerate the opportunity by offering McAfee Device to Cloud Suites designed to help organizations accelerate cloud adoption. Additionally, Ingram Micro is expanding its services capabilities with McAfee to provide migration services to move from legacy security technology to McAfee MVISION products.
“At McAfee, we are focused on empowering our partners to effectively address dynamic customer needs by providing industry leading security solutions, a strong eco-system, and programs that enhance profitability, ” said Kathleen Curry, senior vice president of global enterprise channels, OEM & strategic alliances, McAfee. “Ourexpanded relationship with Ingram Micro will help build on the transformation that McAKathleen Curry
Senior Vice President, McAfee
BIG SPIKE IN GLOBAL MICROSERVICES ADOPTION
The push towards modern application environments is gaining strong momentum, according to new research by open-source pioneers NGINX.
The sixth annual survey of NGINX’s extensive open-source user community found that the proportion of applications being built with microservices jumped from 40% to 60% in the past year. At the same time, more than 50% of the 600 respondents indicated that they were using microservices in some or all apps
The survey also revealed that containers are twice as popular as other modern application technologies. Moreover, 34% of respondents said that they were using containers in their production environment, compared to serverless (15%) and service discovery (7%). to microservices-based apps. More than ever before, organisations are looking to build platforms with greater resilience and faster deployment capabilities. Without question, there’s a growing confidence worldwide that microservices-based apps can help improve the user experience, which is an increasingly critical success factor for all organisations,” said Dor Zakai, EMEA Senior Director for Solutions Engineering, NGINX at F5.
A further indication of this shift is that 14% of respondents plan to embrace service meshes in the next year, a 50% jump from the number currently doing so.As it stands, public cloud remains the most popular infrastructure option for modern app tools (55% of respondents), followed by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (23%), serverless computing (13%) and private Platform-as-a-Service (11%). Organisations are also steadily moving away from on-premises load balancers, with 24% now using software-based load balancers and 19% sticking with hardware. NGINX’s community survey responses indicate that the latter is set to drop to 15% in the next year.
Dor Zakai
EMEA Senior Director, Solutions Engineering, NGINX, F5
NGINX’s research resonates with Gartner’s recent prediction that 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production environments by 2022, up from less than 30% today. fee has been driving and enable our organizations to reach a larger set of customers around the world in need of security protection.”
