"The Dome9 Flex for AWS offering from Dome9 will allow AWS Marketplace customers to buy and deploy the Dome9 Arc SaaS platform for end-to-end security and enjoy the benefits of integrated AWS billing," said Barry Russell, GM, global business development, AWS Marketplace and Catalog Services, AWS, Inc. "With businesses ramping up their use of the cloud for mission-critical workloads, security and compliance of cloud environments is a top priority. Dome9 Arc complements the powerful native capabilities of AWS with simplified security management."

Zadara Storage, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) today announced that their Zadara Storage Cloud will offer Intel-based, flash storage solutions providing industry-leading flash performance in a pure-OpEx-based model – however at prices that rival traditional hard disk drive configurations.

As the market continues to abandon traditional CapEx-based storage and move at an increasing rate toward OpEx-based Storage-as-a-Service, Zadara Storage has teamed with Intel to provide new industry-leading flash-enabled solutions to address the insatiable demand for high-performance storage. The new solutions combine Intel PCSD servers, Intel Xeon E5 v4 processors and Intel SSDs based on the new Intel 3D NAND technology with the Zadara Storage Cloud software architecture. The resulting solutions enable both service providers and enterprise customers to enjoy unprecedented flexibility, scalability and performance. In a move that will accelerate market momentum away from HDD-based offerings, Zadara is now offering new flash-based solutions at price-parity with existing HDD products.

Microsoft Office 365 commercial subscriptions have ballooned in 2016, up 40 percent from the previous year to 85 million subscribers. As companies around the world continue to embrace the shift to the cloud, millions of Microsoft Office 365 corporate users now have access to Kaseya AuthAnvil’s patented password management, MFA and SSO capabilities to further secure both employee and customer environments in the cloud.

Security is a high-growth market for IT spending and presents a key opportunity for partners to solve one of their customers’ biggest challenges. According to the Ponemon Institute, the total cost of data breach has increased 29 percent since 2013, with the average data breach costing a company approximately $4 million.

Today Zerto announced the launch of the new Enterprise Cloud Edition with the general availability of Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 (ZVR).  Zerto states that ZVR is the industry’s only heterogeneous data and application protection, replication and mobility solution for building and managing a hybrid cloud platform, and with the 5.0 launch, is now available with Microsoft Azure support. The new Zerto Enterprise Cloud Edition that comes with the 5.0 general availability, is designed to enable organizations to implement a hybrid cloud strategy by simultaneously protecting and recovering any virtual machine (VM) in any environment, from on-premises data centers to public clouds, all with different SLAs and retention policies using One-To-Many replication. Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 will also be available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace starting November 15, 2016.

"Zerto Virtual Replication recently completed a successful alpha test phase, and we’re pleased to see it a step closer to becoming generally available as cloud-based and software-defined infrastructures become more pervasive in today’s IT-enabled businesses," said Dominic Anschutz, director, Global Cloud Team, Microsoft Corp. "Across industries we see our mutual customer base embracing the shift BC/DR software is driving for these cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure, and how they’re allowing business leaders to build and execute their cloud strategies using Zerto."

As enterprises in every industry digitally transform their businesses to meet modern consumers’ demands, AppDynamics is bolstering its role as a digital accelerator in that process with the expanded Azure support. AppDynamics gives enterprises the confidence to deploy digital solutions for business-critical functions knowing that they have uninterrupted, end-to-end visibility across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. With AppDynamics Application Performance Management powered by the App iQ Platform, enterprises have flexibility to cost-effectively deploy and manage application workloads and the digital businesses built on them.

“The healthcare sector is evolving quickly, especially with respect to patient engagement and consumerism,” said James G. Graham, Head of Treasury Management at PNC. “Our team brings to bear deep industry knowledge and sophisticated treasury management capabilities for our customers. Aligning with CareCloud will help both of us continue to lead the way with physicians’ practices and patients.”

The acquisition, which closed on November 14, 2016, was financed with a new $70.0 million senior secured credit facility led by East West Bank, which replaces Fusion’s previous $40.0 million senior credit facility. The new credit facility reduces Fusion’s weighted average borrowing cost from 8.0% down to 7.5%.

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Grazed from PointAndBeyond. Author: Kelley Katsanos.

A recent Cisco white paper projects cloud data center traffic will exceed 14 zettabytes (ZB) in 2020 — a 262-percent increase from 2015, according to a report in Data Center Knowledge. Also by 2020, 92 percent of all workloads will be in the cloud, and total global traffic will reach 15.3 ZB annually.

Data Center Traffic Projections by Cisco

The Cisco Global Cloud Index white paper shows that the number of Hyperscale data centers will grow from 259 at the end of 2015 to 485 by 2020. Moreover, most traffic through data centers will move from private to public clouds this year, and, according to Data Center Knowledge, “public cloud will continue to grow by 35 percent CAGR throughout the forecast period (compared to 15 percent for private), boosted by demand for cost efficiency and agility, along with strengthening public cloud security.”…

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