Megazone, an AWS premier consulting partner and cloud-specialized company today announced a strategic alliance with CloudPassage for cloud-based security automation.

CloudPassage offers a SaaS-based workload security automation platform that on-demand delivery of security controls across data centers, private/public clouds, virtual machines and containers – at speed and scale. Unlike traditional security systems, Halo and its robust APIs integrate with popular CI/CD toolchains and processes, providing just-in-time feedback for fixing vulnerabilities early in the development cycle. This lets DevOps teams operate efficiently while providing security teams the validation they require without slowing the DevSecOps workflow. Halo easily integrates with popular infrastructure automation and orchestration platforms, allowing Halo to be easily deployed. CloudPassage works with many Fortune 500 customers and leading MSSPs to continuously monitor the security and compliance posture of their business critical workloads.

The acquisition now allows Qualys to provide enterprises of all sizes with the ability to create and continuously update an inventory of mobile devices on all versions of Android, iOS and Windows Mobile in their environment; and to continuously assess their security and compliance posture, while quarantining devices that are compromised or out-of-compliance. It also allows Qualys to extend its PCI certification to mobile devices and to deliver a highly scalable Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution that permits the distribution of apps and security policies over the air (OTA) to corporate or employee-owned devices (BYOD).

"With the acquisition of 1Mobility, Qualys is uniquely positioned to provide visibility across on-premises, endpoints, cloud(s) and now mobile and IoT environments," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO, Qualys, Inc. "This is critical as companies are accelerating their digital transformation and looking at ways to consolidate their current security and compliance stack while expanding their mobile workforce. 1Mobility has built a comprehensive and well-architected technology that allows organizations to manage and secure mobile and IoT devices at scale, and we welcome them to the Qualys family."

Fitness enters the Cloud

Wearable devices are collecting vital information nonstop. Depending on the device, they can collect data like calories burned, optimal heart rate, temperature, miles walked, and even advanced metrics like length and quality of sleep. All of this data is automatically saved to the cloud for easy interaction with other devices.

There are even apps that let you take a picture of the exercise machine’s console, capturing data like time, distance, calories burned. These apps use optical character recognition to translate the data on the machine to information stored in your fitness profile. This is a viable solution for saving your data when the machine you’re working on isn’t compatible with your personal device.

Storing, processing, and efficient management are three basic challenges related to Big Data. Presently, there is not a large enough capacity to store the amount of data that has been created in the digital world during the last few years. Big data is the result of measuring and monitoring practically everything going on in the world, creating data at a faster rate than can be stored, processed, or managed by currently-available technologies. Interestingly, the vast majority of Big Data is either duplicated or synthesised data. This surge of unstructured data makes up as much as 80% of new data that must be managed. This has put many enterprises in a position where they need to come up with efficient management solutions for Big Data.

Why Manage Big Data?

The broad concept known as Big Data management encompasses all the technology and procedures used to collect, store, organise, and deliver vast caches of data. It involves data migration, cleansing, integration, and preparation to be used in reporting and analytics. Big Data management is essential because it can improve the accuracy and reliability of analytics. This means your organisation can benefit from quality business insights resulting from the analytics.

Switch and Rackspace customers will receive multiple benefits including:

Apps

There’s an app for everything it seems, with more being added and developed constantly. It’s highly likely that there is an app around that would be very helpful to you if you only knew it existed. If you already have an idea for what would help your business, you can have a look online and see if there are apps that can do what you’re looking for. If you haven’t got any ideas yourself, don’t assume that there isn’t anything – there are many innovative and original apps available for all types of consumer. Have a browse for apps that are relevant to your industry or niche and see what you can find. You can also look in industry publications, where apps are frequently reviewed and advertised. Say you have just opened a new Italian Restaurant in a busy city center. Competition is fierce, but by looking at what apps are relevant to your industry, you could make use of restaurant marketing and mobile apps that can give you an advantage over your rivals. If the app you want doesn’t seem to exist, you can always create one yourself, or use a freelance designer to create one for you. If it catches on, you may find you have an additional revenue stream as well as a useful app. You can also use apps as an advertising platform, where you pay to have your business featured on the app of your choice, helping you to reach more potential customers.

The new product releases — Realize Operations 6.7, vRealize Automation 7.4, vRealize Business for Cloud 7.4, vRealize Orchestrator 7.4, vRealize Log Insight 4.6 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.2 — will come together in the VMware vRealize Suite to enable customers to manage and provision compute, network, storage and application services across hybrid cloud environments at scale. The new operations, automation and lifecycle management features and enhancements across the integrated platform are designed to provide customers with faster overall time to value, improved ease of use, and increased control of VMware’s software-defined data center (SDDC) stack.

"VMware is focused on delivering innovation across our cloud management platform to help customers accelerate their digital transformation journey," said Ajay Singh, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware. "Cloud transformation is difficult and can quickly derail without a capable, integrated and easy-to-operate CMP. Our investments in IT operations management and automation will further simplify and speed our customers’ use of the hybrid cloud to transform their businesses."

Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) is a secure solution that provides clinicians access to medical applications and patient data on any devices, while adhering with HIPAA and other medical guidelines. With this technology, medical applications such as Office Practicum, Praxis EMR, MediTouch EHR software, CPOE systems, and imaging viewers are accessible on iPad, iPhone, Android, and other devices.

Here’s your chance to learn more!

WHEN? April 10th, 2018 @ 9AM PDT

In this webinar you will learn how to…

• Easily enable medical staff with secure access to EHR applications working across distributed facilities, on any device.
• Protect sensitive data and adhere to HIPAA compliance requirements by using the latest encryption protocols and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Reduce overall TCO and simplify IT management and support.
• Achieve faster logins and receive a better mobile experience.

Stick around and see a live demo of a customer that Parallels RAS helped migrate their legacy EHR application to the cloud!

Cloud computing has been around now for some time but questions about security still linger-especially with reports of widespread data breaches. Cloud computing makes it relatively easy to procure the services you want and trust the service provider to do the heavy lifting. The prize of less complexity and less worry with the promise of fast and flexible data and applications is very enticing. However, this "trust" in the arrangement overlooks a very important risk-that of exposing data to hackers and thieves.