Redington Value Journal August 2019

Issue 35 // August 2019

Microsoft announces investments to broaden opportunities for partners Microsofts shares how it is tuning partner investments for the cloud era, including updates to Teams, Dynamics 365, Azure Microsoft has announced new investments in technologies and programs designed to support its partner ecosystem. The investments are aimed at helping optimize Microsoft’s partner engagement for the cloud era.

“Customers and partners alike continue to move to the cloud and accelerate their digital transformation, leading us to new and different levels of partnership,” said Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner group. “Our portfolio of programs, offers and resources for companies partnering with Microsoft is transforming to help them capitalize on this opportunity.”

Investments in and programs

products

Microsoft Teams extensions and adoption: Just two years after its launch, Teams now has 13 million daily active users and 19 million weekly active users. The company also announced new features in Microsoft Teams for every worker — including new ways to support healthcare organizations and firstline workers. Additional new partner integrations include support for contact centers, compliance recording and cloud solution providers.

Dynamics 365 updates: The company announced significant updates to the Dynamics 365 Nonprofit Accelerator and two new integrations

for Dynamics 365 that address the automotive and financial services industries. In addition, the Business Applications ISV Connect program is generally available, with new development tools and guidance, marketplace resources, joint field engagement processes and go-tomarket support.

Introducing Azure Lighthouse: Azure Lighthouse gives partners a single control plane to view and manage Azure at scale across all their customers. This provides a better managed Azure experience with higher automation and efficiency, resulting in greater visibility and security for customers. This marks the first time Microsoft has architected a solution at this scale, with partners

Gavriella Schuster,

Corporate VP, Microsoft and for partners.

Azure Migration Program: The new Azure Migration Program (AMP) helps customers accelerate their migration to Azure. AMP offers proactive advice and tools to help mitigate risks and address common issues associated with moving workloads to the cloud.

Broadening partner opportunity Since the inception of Microsoft’s

Atlantis, The Palm selects Dell Technologies to reinvent and modernize its IT Environment This project allows the 5 star luxury resort to focus on business innovations and reduce administrative burden on IT teams Atlantis, The Palm, today announced that they have selected Dell Technologies’ industry leading virtualization technologies to help effectively manage the availability, reliability and serviceability of its

mission-critical hospitality applications. With plans to transform its customer experience, this deployment aims to help Atlantis, The Palm, break the physical boundaries of traditional IT and offer greater

simplicity to boost business agility and innovation.

Atlantis, The Palm, welcomes people from over 227 different countries and serves 4.4 million dining

Anthony Lynsdale, Vice President of IT, Atlantis >> Continued on page 4

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Veeam tightens leadership in Cloud Data Management Market Double-digit growth in annual recurring revenue highlights accelerated transition to a subscription business model Veeam Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management announced results from Q2 2019.

Having recently exceeded $1 billion in annual bookings, joining an elite group of software leaders, Veeam’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) increased 26 percent year-over-year (YoY) in Q2 2019, a testament to the success of a unique subscription pricing model introduced earlier this year for all new Veeam products, including new Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. Hailed as one of the most important releases in Veeam company history, Veeam Availability Suite U4 is approaching 350,000 downloads since its release in January.

“As we continue to heavily invest in our R&D, sales and marketing, and partner ecosystem, we’re seeing increased adoption of Veeam’s Subscription licensing among our customers across

all regions worldwide,” said Ratmir Timashev, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Sales & Marketing. “Each geography reported growth, which shows that, and as we move into Act II of our evolution — the Hybrid Cloud — it’s an exciting time to be at Veeam. Seventy-two percent of organizations are looking to embrace Cloud Data Management1 and are transitioning to cloud strategies. We’re excited to support their journey and meet data expectations as the No. 1 player in Cloud Data Management.”

“Collaboration with strategic technology partners has never been stronger or in higher demand,” Timashev continued.

“We expect to make additional partner announcements in 2H 2019 to further feed the demand of our partners to combine Veeam backup and data protection software with industry-leading

PTC delivers PLM core for more efficient collaboration on the same database and drives Lufthansa’s Smart Factory with IoT technology

Ratmir Timashev

Co-Founder and EVP of Sales & Marketing, Veeam

hardware, storage and hyperconverged solutions. Our new “with Veeam” program, which is receiving overwhelming positive response, is just one strategy of how Veeam will innovate and collaborate with its technology partners to deliver a combined hardware plus software solution to enhance customer choice and flexibility.”

New Avaya Research reveals challenges for AI adoption in the UAE 93% of UAE organizations Identify AI as one of the most important technologies in 2019 Almost half of businesses in the UAE are struggling with a knowledge gap when it comes to adopting artificial intelligence (AI), according to a survey of business leaders in the UAE, conducted by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA).

That gap can be attributed to the confusion between “real AI” and “TV/movie AI” as cited by 44% of UAE respondents — higher than the global average of just 30%. And those organizations that have successfully navigated this potential stumbling block are held back by resource constraints; 40% of UAE organiza-

tions claim to lack the in-house skills to facilitate adoption.

Given these challenges, it isn’t surprising that 98% of UAE businesses concede that their organization has work to do if it is to get the most out of AI. However, UAE organizations are keen to overcome the challenges around adopting AI. The majority say that failing to get on-board with AI now will cost their organization for the next decade. And because of this worry around being left behind on AI, nearly half of UAE organizations (46%) want to adopt more solutions integrating AIbased technologies.

Lufthansa Technik embarks on digital transformation with PTC Windchill and ThingWorx

“While it is encouraging to see the strong appetite for AI in the UAE, the fact that organizations are still struggling to separate the AI fact from fiction validates the guidance and approach we have been offering our customers,” said Yaser Alzubaidi, Senior Director – Digital Engagement Solutions, Avaya International. “We have often stated that organizations do not need AI — they need solutions to business issues. Applying AI for the sake of AI can be tempting. However, the main focus of any CEO looking to deliver best-in-class customer and em>> Continued on page 5

TheLufthansa Technik Group, a global provider of full-service aerospace services, has launched the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutionWindchill and the Industrial IoT (IIoT)ThingWorx platform from PTC as core digital technologies Transformation of product development and design processes selected.

Windchill will serve as the technical backbone to enable the R & D and manufacturing divisions to work simultaneously and intensify collaboration both internally and among the many suppliers. Secure data storage will also help ensure the protection of Lufthansa Technik’s intellectual property throughout the global supply chain. ThingWorx will help the group monitor their operations, drive automation and increase data-driven decision-making. Together, Windchill and ThingWorx will enable a significant increase in the level of digitization within Group processes, improve interfaces with customers and suppliers, and help generate revenue streams through new innovative digital business models.

“Lufthansa Technik stands for state-of-the-art workmanship and the highest quality, and the size of our organization combined with the complexity of the processes and projects we push forward has made the crucial step toward holistic digital transformation imperative,” said Drs. Severin S. Todt, Senior Director of IT Completion and Design Solutions, Lufthansa Technik AG. “Lufthansa Technik conducted a comprehensive assessment of competitive PLM and IoT systems before deciding on PTC, and chose PTC technology for its world-class architecture and seamless integration with Windchill and ThingWorx.

Combined with the robust data management backbone and the award-winning IIoT platform, a new level of collaboration is enabled both internally and externally. It also protects our intellectual property and helps us measure and maintain the highest quality possible at all times. The PTC Customer Success Program helped us a lot with the first IoT projects. If required, we were able to obtain technical know-how from highly qualified technology experts. With this tour, we were able to achieve our project goals in a timely and

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Atlantis, The Palm... guests every year. This has resulted in a consistently growing large volumes of transactional data, which highlights the critical importance of a truly consolidated and integrated IT environment to better support and manage rapidly expanding customer base and improve business outcomes.

In addition, as competition in the hospitality and entertainment sector increases, this majestic 5 star luxury hotel has pushed the boundaries of industry excellence and has taken a global lead on one of the most important aspects of travel and tourism - quality customer experience. Maintaining this momentum of business success to stay relevant in a highly digitized business landscape requires the resort to ensure greater utilization of infrastructure investments, lower infrastructure, energy, and facility costs and enable its IT staff focus on business innovation rather than time-consuming administrative tasks.

To this end, Atlantis, The Palm chose to adopt Dell Technologies’ best in class VxRail and leverage its purpose-built capabilities to move and respond at the speed of business, differentiate

its business and safeguard its brand.

Unlike the resort’s traditional IT environment which impacted the efficiency of mission critical applications and hampered Disaster Recovery solutions and strategies due to its complexities, Dell Technologies’ VxRail enables Atlantis, The Palm to ensure delivery of continuous innovation with future-proof performance. This new solution is designed to provide next-generation simplicity and higher operational efficiency and enhanced security – resulting in low administrative overhead costs.

A strong IT backbone is instrumental to the resort’s ability to meet the ever growing demands from consumers who today need secure, uninterrupted access to services and products anytime, anywhere. Therefore, this project with Dell Technologies, will allow Atlantis, The Palm to power its transformation journey, elevate the benchmark of the industry and ensure a sustained growth of visitors as well as its business, in line with the national aspirations of Dubai 2020. The solution was deployed and implemented in partnership with Emircom, a leading partner to Dell Technologies.

Anthony Lynsdale, Vice President of IT, at Atlantis, The Palm said,“The ability to digitize our business will continue to intensify in the coming

years, reinforcing the need for Atlantis The Palm, to set the foundation for the new digital era. Our first step was to choose Dell Technologies as our trusted partner, as we embark on our transformational journey. We are driven by our commitment to deliver the highest levels of service excellence, we are confident that our partnership with Dell Technologies will help us to achieve our core objectives of strengthening the loyalty of our customers and ensure sustainable business growth.”

Fady Richmany, Senior Director and General Manager, UAE at Dell Technologies said “The hospitality industry in the UAE is seeing unprecedented digital disruption, as they seek to transform their technology infrastructure to boost competitiveness, enhance customer experience and streamline operational management. Atlantis, The Palm opted for VxRail - Dell Technologies’ automated, turnkey hyper-converged solution, that delivers cost-effective, high-performance computing and a simplified path to an on premise, hybrid cloud experience. The result is the elimination of inefficient processes through a more agile IT environment that supports their need to transform and scale operations rapidly and efficiently. We are pleased to have been chosen by Atlantis, The Palm as their technology partner of choice and look forward to working closely with them as they embark on their IT transformation journey.”

MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2 expands the reach of HyperIntelligence Platform Update Brings HyperIntelligence to Mobile Users and Injects Analytics into Popular Business Applications

Michael J. Saylor CEO, MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, has announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2, adding powerful new capabilities and products for MicroStrategy 2019, the industry’s first and only platform for Federated Analytics, Transformational Mobility, and HyperIntelligence. Designed to revolutionize how people across the enterprise access, act on, and collaborate around their critical business data, MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2 expands the reach of HyperIntelligence to further ignite a culture of analytics capable of exponentially driving digital transformation.

MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2 significantly boosts

the functionality of the MicroStrategy 2019 platform. Specifically, the latest update expands the platform’s suite of HyperIntelligence products to supercharge web browsing, accelerate access to intuitive intelligence on iOS and Android devices, and add windows of contextual insights to email on Outlook. The new update also delivers powerful enhancements designed to augment user productivity on popular BI tools including Tableau, Power BI, and Qlik, putting trusted insights into the hands of a larger number of users within the enterprise. This year, MicroStrategy 2019 received the highest product scores for four use cases in the “2019 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms” report.

Despite widespread investment in analytics, a majority of business users lack easy access to corporate data and contextual insights to make better, timely decisions throughout the course of their day. These users are left to navigate their complex technology ecosystem and sift through applications or silos of data stored across a num-

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ber of BI tools, preventing a data-driven culture from becoming pervasive across the enterprise.

“HyperIntelligence creates a unique environment for users as they move through their day by injecting valuable insights into their sightline,” said Michael J. Saylor, CEO, MicroStrategy Incorporated. “It’s having a ripple effect on how people make decisions, connecting them to each other and to the products, customers, and core metrics that matter most to their business. We use MicroStrategy 2019 internally and it has sparked curiosity and inspired collaboration across the entire organization. We’re seeing a whole new set of use cases spring to life that have the potential to ignite faster, better decisions and entirely transform corporate culture. In essence, we believe this is digital transformation at its core.”

HyperIntelligence injects analytics into the applications that people use every day – Google’s G Suite, Microsoft Office 365, SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Workday, and Atlassian, popular mobile productivity apps, and more – and

August 2019 / 05 delivers relevant, contextual insights tailored to each individual.

With MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2, people on-the-go can easily receive contextual insights on their favorite apps and devices with HyperIntelligence for Office and HyperIntelligence for Mobile. Rather than looking up information across a number of corporate systems, users can get vital information about upcoming meetings in real-time and quickly find data using their iOS and Android devices. Update 2 introduces a number of enhancements and new products, including: HyperIntelligence for Mobile, which now reaches people with Android mobile devices as well as iOS devices. Update 2 includes a standalone HyperIntelligence app for Android that works on both tablets and smartphones and supports inapp search and calendar-based notifications. Experience the power of HyperIntelligence for Mobile today.

The HyperIntelligence for Mobile app can be easily downloaded and installed from the Google Play store and Apple AppStore.

HyperIntelligence for Office, a new product that brings HyperIntelligence to the extensively used Microsoft Office client – Outlook.

HyperIntelligence can supercharge emails within Microsoft Outlook to bring zero-click, contextual insights to the millions of active users of the Outlook desktop and web clients. This new product enables users to find relevant, contextual insights within their emails and Outlook-based workflows through HyperIntelligence cards. Bite-sized views of information are consolidated into cards that appear to users in their Outlook application. The cards are accessible via a brand-new addin for the Outlook web and desktop clients for both Windows PC and Mac. HyperIntelligence for Web, which introduces enhanced cards with more out-of-the-box templates that now include dynamic links to URLs. Not only can users see contextual information on their web applications, but they can also drive workflows by directly linking other applications.

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New Avaya Research... ployee experiences should be on utilizing AI, if — and only if — it solves a business issue.”

Just 25% of UAE businesses have a fully implemented AI strategy, according to the research, with the remainder still weighing up use cases.

With customer experience more important than ever before, Alzubaidi suggests focusing on those applications of AI that can have a measurable positive impact on the customer journey as the best place to start.

This means integrating AI into the contact center.

UAE businesses agree on this point; 92% of UAE respondents said that effective AI can transform the performance of their contact center.

Indeed, over half (51%) are at least half-way through their strategy for rolling out AI in the contact center.

“AI can be so much more than chat-

Yaser Alzubaidi

Senior Director – DES, Avaya

bots; for example, First Call Resolution (FCR) is a perfect use case for AI that demonstrates this. AI can support the customer service agent by collating all relevant information on the customer, in real-time, and presenting it in a format that allows the agent to easily view, interpret and action the customer’s query without the need for multiple touch points,” explained Alzubaidi. “Practical applications like these will offer the fastest route to success in implementing AI.” As AI becomes more prominent, 87% of UAE organizations say they’ll need to look for more

Barracuda accelerates growth in email protection Key innovations in detection and response beyond the email gateway drive increased adoption

Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, has announced accelerated growth for its email protection

business for FY2019 with a $200 million annual revenue run rate and accelerating growth for Barracuda Sentinel, the company’s advanced technology that leverages API integration to protect businesses from spear phishing, account takeover, business email compromise, and fraud. Driven by innovations in detection, response, and automated cleanup to counter the increased sophistication of email threats that occur beyond the gateway, Sentinel sales bookings grew 440 percent year-over-year at the end of Q1 FY2020.

Email protection is a notable growth

vector in the managed service provider market as well. Barracuda MSP, the MSP-dedicated business unit of Barracuda, saw annual recurring revenue for its email protection business grow 122 percent yearover-year for Q1 FY2020.

“We are excited to see this solid momentum across our email protection business,” said BJ Jenkins, CEO of Barracuda. “Our product pipeline is strong, offering customers email protection beyond traditional gateways to safeguard employees and organizations. We are focused on continuing to expand our award-winning portfolio with comprehensive, easy-to-use solutions to protect against socially-engineered, targeted attacks like business email compromise and account takeover.”

According to Gartner: “The email security market is starting to adopt

a continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment (CARTA) mindset and acknowledge that perfect protection is not possible. As a result, vendors are evolving or emerging to support new detect and response capabilities by integrating directly with the email system via API.”1 Market conditions are also a significant factor in the growing demand for email protection as threats continue to proliferate and have a major impact on businesses of all sizes.

A Barracuda report released today found that 82 percent of surveyed IT security professionals have faced email attacks over the past year. 74 percent of those surveyed advised that these attacks are having a direct business impact in the form of lost productivity (48%), downtime (36%), damage to ITs reputation (28%), recovery costs (20%), and more.

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Sonicwall 2019 mid-year report shows worldwide malware decrease of 20% Rise in ransomware as a service, IoT attacks and cryptojacking SonicWall has announced the findings from its mid-year update of the 2019 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, based on real-world data from more than 1 million international security sensors in over 200 countries. New data found an escalation in ransomware-as-a-service, opensource malware kits and cryptojacking used by cybercriminals.

“Organizations continue to struggle to track the evolving patterns of cyberattacks — the shift to malware cocktails and evolving threat vectors — which makes it extremely difficult for them to defend themselves,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. “In the first half of 2019, SonicWall Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI) technology unveiled 74,360 ‘never-before-seen’ malware variants.

To be effective, companies must harness innovative technology, such as machine learning, to be proactive against constantly-changing attack strategies.”

Ransomware-as-a-Service: The Exploit Kit of Choice

While global malware volume is down 20%, SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers found a 15% increase in ransomware attacks globally and a 195% surge in ransomware within the United Kingdom. SonicWall threat researchers accredit this to criminals’ new preference of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and open-source malware kits.

IoT Dispersing Malware at Record Pace As businesses and consumers continue to connect devices to the internet without proper security measures, IoT devices have been increasingly leveraged by cybercriminals to dispense malware payloads.

In the first half of 2019, SonicWall observed a 55% increase in IoT attacks, a number that outpaces the first two quarters of the previous year.

Bitcoin Run Keeping Cryptojacking in Play Cryptojacking volume hit 52.7 million for the first six months of the

year, a 9% increase over the last six months of 2018.

This rise can be partially attributed to the rise in bitcoin and Monero prices, helping cryptojacking stay relevant as a lucrative option for cybercriminals. Coinhive remains the top cryptojacking signature despite the service closing in March 2019. One reason for the high detection is that compromised websites have not been cleaned since the infection, even though the Coinhive service is non-existent and the URL has been abandoned.

Attacks Against Non-Standard Ports Still A Concern Cybercriminals have their sights set on non-standard ports for web traffic as a manner to deliver their payloads undetected. Based on a sample size of more than 210 million malware attacks recorded through June 2019, Capture Labs monitored the largest spike on record since tracking the vector when one quarter of malware attacks came across non-standard

A quarter of people in EMEA prefer Cybersecurity managed by AI Palo Alto Networks survey finds over half of respondents take responsibility for their data online An online study of more than 10,000 respondents in EMEAi conducted

by Palo Alto Networks and YouGov alongside Dr Jessica Barker, an expert in the human nature of cybersecurity, explores attitudes towards new cybersecurity technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and how these technologies protect their digital way of life.

Just over a quarter (26%) of EMEA respondents would prefer their cybersecurity to be managed by AI rather than a human. Italy has the most confidence in relying on AI

(38%), while in the UK only 21 percent of people prefer AI over humans to protect their digital way of life.

The research suggests that those who are more open to AI technologies have a positive outlook on the role cybersecurity plays in their dayto-day lives. Almost a third (29%) of respondents online who preferred their cybersecurity managed by AI feel having cybersecurity checks in place has a very positive impact on their overall online experience, compared to the combined average

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of 20 percent.

Greg Day, VP and CSO EMEA at Palo Alto Networks, comments on the findings: “AI is already playing a vital role in cybersecurity, helping to detect and prevent breaches with new capabilities that the human brain simply could not achieve. It is encouraging, therefore, to see the gap closing between AI- and human-managed cybersecurity technologies, and the positive attitude towards cybersecurity checks that comes with a preference for AI technologies is one we hope to see embraced by more people in the future.

Humans are risk averse, yet innova-

ports in May 2019 alone.

Malicious PDFs, Office Files Remain Dangerous to Businesses Traditional PDFs and Office files continue to be routinely leveraged to exploit users’ trust and experience to deliver malicious payloads. In February and March 2019, SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers found that 51% and 47% of ‘never-before-seen’ attacks, respectively, came via PDFs or Office files.

tion requires taking new steps, and many still see change as risk. Taking responsibility for data loss and keeping personal data secure is the first step in ensuring we are using best practice within a business, and education is key in helping respondents feel safer online.”

The study also uncovered mixed views on the perceived security of internet of things (IoT) technologies, such as smart home devices and wearables: 38 percent of EMEA respondents believe them to be secure, with a similar number (43%) thinking the opposite. However, this did vary across the region, with those in the UAE most trusting of IoT’s security (71% believe it to be secure), whereas a higher proportion in Germany (53%), France (48%), and the UK (46%) believe them to be insecure.

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Micro Focus introduces new Robotic Process Automation Product

built for RPA and we believe our innovations in making automation more resilient to change will deliver a lower TCO compared to existing solutions.”

Designed for the enterprise, the scalable and resilient solution is first to deliver UI and API-based RPA Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation (RPA) which gives companies the power to build, secure, and scale automated business processes, from legacy to modern, across the enterprise.

According to Gartner, “The ability to integrate legacy systems is the key driver for RPA projects. By using this technology, organizations can quickly accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, while unlocking the value associated with past technology investments.”* Micro Focus RPA automates repetitive, error-prone UI-based human actions on legacy apps and integrates them with modern IT process automation in a single product.

“Micro Focus RPA delivers on key capabilities such as scalability, resiliency and security that

Micro Focus RPA capabilities include:

our customers and partners demanded,” said Tom Goguen, Micro Focus Chief Product Officer. “It adapts to UI changes, automates UI and APIbased applications, and includes real-time auditing and traceability, giving our customers the confidence to deploy RPA across the enterprise while providing for centralized governance and compliance for their digital workforce.”

“As we have worked closely the last few years with our customers and partners to leverage test automation for their first RPA projects, it presented a convenient way to evaluate the potential of business-related automation and further prove its value to the organization,” said Raffi Margaliot, Micro Focus General Manager for Application Delivery Management. “With Micro Focus RPA, we augmented our core capabilities to be purpose

Easy-to-use design studio: An intuitive design interface that allows users to easily record screen actions and design sophisticated end-to-end RPA workflows, visually or with code.

Cross-platform connections: A technology-rich product that combines UI automation with API and other integration methods to connect business processes spanning old and new applications.

Scalable robots: A worker-queue-based architecture to scale robots up or down as workloads change, making it possible to run hundreds or thousands of robots at once.

Centralized security: A centralized dashboard to manage the robots that have unique IDs and encrypted, role-based credentials.

Resilient robots: Advanced object recognition technology to detect UI changes and automatically adapt as needed, saving time on maintenance.

Talend delivers Pay-as-You-Go On-Ramp to accelerate Integration Projects New release is designed to jumpstart data integrations and provide the ability to scale rapidly Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, has announced the Summer ’19 release of Talend Data Fabric, its end-to-end suite. The new release serves as the industry’s first easy on-ramp to accelerate the development of all types of integration environments from simple ingestion tasks to the most comprehensive integration scenarios. Summer ’19 enables companies to balance immediate business needs for initiating data projects with long-term scale requirements for integration, such as governance and cross-cloud support.

Data Fabric will support enterprise projects of any scale or complexity.

The Summer ’19 release of Talend Data Fabric enables data professionals, from citizen integrators to more technical developers, to quickly embrace data warehouse projects and easily transition to more complex and trusted multi-cloud hybrid use cases. New flexible pay-as-you-go capabilities, in-product chat, and machine learning-driven data preparation can accelerate the development of new and ongoing projects. Data protection enhancements and scalable DevOps with improved container and automated continuous integration (CI) support ensure that Talend

Jumpstart data integration quickly and easily

“The cloud has changed organizations’ expectations on how easy it is to buy and use enterprise software,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP Products, Talend. “A pay-as-you-go procurement option provides flexibility and a low-risk entry point for an integration project of any scope.”

cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments

• Flexible, pay-as-you-go option with Pipeline Designer provides simpler billing based on how much is used to jumpstart next-generation data integration projects • In-product chat provides online product support in real-time to help users resolve technical issues

• Intelligent data with machine-learning powered suggestions (MagicFill) • Centrally managed hybrid deployments from the cloud • Comprehensive support for Databricks and Microsoft Azure connectivity with Pipeline Designer provides greater options for connectivity and big data processing at scale • Extended native support for Delta Lake, the open source storage layer that makes data lakes analytics-ready • Address sensitive data protection needs with new reversible Format Preserving Encryption

Scale to trusted complex integrations in

Accelerate development at scale

New features in Talend’s Summer ’19 release include:

projects

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EVENTS

Cohesity-Partner Enablement Session, Riyadh, 17 July 2019

Cohesity-Partner Enablement Session, Riyadh, 17 July 2019

Huawei-Flash & WifiTraining Session,Riyadh 3 July 2019

Huawei-Flash & WifiTraining Session,Riyadh 3 July 2019

Huawei-Flash and Wifi Training session,Jeddah, 7 July 2019

Huawei-For Flash and Wifi6 Training Session, Khobar, 18 July 2019

Splunk- For Investigation workshop, Riyadh, 15 July 2019

Splunk- For Investigation workshop, Riyadh, 15 July 2019

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Microsoft - Azure and M365 Journey - Kenya 22 July 2019

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EVENTS

Microsoft - Azure Technical Training on deployment and Migration - Kenya 23-24 July 2019

Nutanix - Partner Enablement Session - Kenya -16 July 2019

Oracle - Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) workshop - Kenya - 23 & 24 July 2019

Oracle - Digital Assistant and Chatbots (Advanced) Workshop - Kenya - 9-11 July 2019

Palo Alto Networks – CXO Partner Event - Kenya - 23 July 2019

Palo Alto Networks – Partner Enablement Session - Kenya - 18 July 2019

Palo Alto Networks – Wildfire Cloud-Based Threat Analysis Service - Kenya - 24 July 2019

Red Hat - Certified Engineer Partner Event Kenya - 10 July 2019

Splunk - Technology Update - South Africa - 3 July 2019

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EVENTS

Cisco - Collaboration Partner Event - Ghana - 2 July 2019

Cisco - Meraki Partner Event - Ghana - 4 July 2019

Cisco – SMB Partner Session - Nigeria - 18 July 2019

Microfocus - Comprehensive Security For Digital Transformation - Nigeria 3 July 2019

Microsoft Customer Enagagement Session with Burhani and Redington - 3 July 2019 - Dubai

Redhat Customer Event with Optimiza - 09 July 2019 - Jordan

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Advanced 200 Workshop Nigeria - 11 & 12 July 2019

Splunk - Customer Event - Ghana - 19 July 2019

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Splunk - Partner Rookies Workshop - Ghana - 18 July 2019

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