Using the cloud to scale

Building a business in today’s day and age means adapting your company to the cloud. The future is in the cloud, that much is clear, and businesses will be able to set themselves apart from one another and gain competitive advantages by how well, fast and efficiently they can integrate the many advantages of cloud into their daily operations. And one of the key areas that cloud can help you manage your business is by providing key tools that will make scaling your business that much easier.

First, let’s take a broad look at the cloud and its future. Morgan Stanley predicts that Microsoft cloud products will make up 30% of the company’s revenue by 2018. Amazon Web Services continue to climb at impressive rates, and worldwide spending on public cloud services is set to balloon from nearly $70 billion in 2015 to $141 billion in 2019.

Zscaler, Inc., the leading cloud security company, today announced that it will host a series of presentations on ThreatLabZ research and secure network transformation at Black Hat 2017 in booth #1160. Presentations will include such subjects as IoT and mobile risks in the enterprise, evolving ransomware tactics, and the latest trends in exploit kits. 

Presentations at the Zscaler^TM Booth #1160
The following sessions will take place every hour starting at 11:00 am PT each day.

Cavirin Systems, Inc., offering continuous security assessment and remediation for hybrid clouds, containers, and data centers through correlated risk scoring and simple deployment, announced today additional continuous monitoring capabilities as well as GDPR support, critical for organizations doing business in or with the European Union (EU). Other new benchmarks supported include the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) as well as guidelines issued by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).  

Cavirin’s microservices-based assessment and remediation platform is agentless, permitting multiple deployment options across private/on-premise environments as well as public clouds. The platform’s new capabilities offer event-driven security monitoring with a real-time view of any and all changes to the organization’s on-premise and/or cloud infrastructure and assesses the impact on the security posture. These capabilities eliminate the need for an agent, which can introduce performance and maintenance issues and add management overhead to already stretched IT operations teams. The security monitoring of AWS cloud workloads is greatly simplified by the integration of Cavirin’s platform with CloudTrail, which provides flexibility for configuring and creating alerts for specific security events and the automated remediation that might follow.

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CloudConnect, a leader in Cloud Infrastructure technology and application delivery, announced today that it has released version 3.6 of CloudConnect’s DesktopConfig.

CloudConnect announced release of the latest version of its Cloud deployment tool. DesktopConfig manages lifecycle management and provides tight integration with Microsoft Windows, augmenting Citrix to include items such as common bug fixes, workarounds, and reliability of the Current Release XenApp track. With DesktopConfig, CloudConnect enables customers of Citrix technologies to realize the full benefits of Citrix and the XenApp Long Term Service Release.  

Virtualization

New to IDrive BMR, virtualization allows users and IT administrators to easily backup images of their entire system locally to the appliance for recovery to a new machine in case the original machine is compromised or destroyed.

Specific to IDrive, the virtualization feature enables users to create up to four virtual instances of their clients and store them locally on the BMR server. Users can access these instances and resume working without losing any data in case of any disaster. IDrive BMR uses top of the line hardware, with server grade Xeon E5 processor with 16GB RAM for ultimate performance.

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GoDaddy is giving up on a business that it debuted just a little over a year ago. The website hosting company is ending its cloud computing business, which it unveiled in March, 2016 as an alternative to Amazon Web Services (AMZN, -0.43%) and other cloud companies. GoDaddy confirmed to Fortune that it is shutting down the business unit, but did not say why. Tech news site TechCrunch first reported the planned closure.

“After serious consideration, we have decided to end-of-life our cloud servers’ product,” GoDaddy senior vice president of hosting Raghu Murthi said in a statement. “GoDaddy Cloud Servers provided numerous learnings for us that we’ve already been applying to other products and services.”…

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As enterprises continue to adopt cloud technology, the looming IT skills gap, particularly around public cloud, poses an ongoing challenge. "Many firms are having trouble finding qualified individuals for their cloud projects," said James Stanger, senior director, product development, for CompTIA. While demand for IT pros with generic cloud computing skills continues to be high, those with specific experience in public cloud and open source platforms, such as Cloud Foundry, are especially coveted.

Cloud continues to drive IT hiring

At 24%, cloud is the second biggest driver of demand for technology skills — right behind digital marketing skills at 25% — according to a survey by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing firm. "Cloud projects are near the top of CIOs’ priority lists," said John Reed, senior executive director at the company…

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A few years ago, Microsoft appeared to be another tech has-been, having whiffed on its efforts to compete in mobile phones and internet search. Although it is too soon to say whether Microsoft can pull off a full-blown renaissance the way Apple has, the company is firmly back in favor.

Not long after its shares reached another all-time high at the close of regular trading, Microsoft reported on Thursday that its profit in the most recent quarter more than doubled from a year ago. One reason for that jump was the failure of its mobile phone business, which produced big losses for the company in past years, yielding a $1.8 billion tax benefit that Microsoft was able to recognize last quarter…