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Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity technology company protecting 500 million users worldwide, today announced its Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE) is now available for MSPs. Expressly designed to help service providers protect their customers’ virtual desktops and servers without slowing performance or affecting users, it delivers full-fledged, multi-layered defense, including machine learning, anti-exploit and continuous process monitoring, all within a lightweight footprint.

To ensure maximum performance and protection, Bitdefender’s SVE for MSPs offers a highly resilient virtual machine (VM) security architecture that offloads scanning to hardened, virtual appliances with load balancing and failover capabilities. Available as a monthly-billed service, it addresses challenges related to poor performance and user experience, inefficient security management, VM security and compliance gaps, which MSPs have been struggling with for years.

One: Graphic Design 

Design plays a huge part in the success of businesses that operate both online and offline. Designers who work for marketing companies or teams within a business are given a set of constraints regardless of whether they intend to advertise physically (on posters and billboards), or digitally through websites, digital signage and other new media. These constraints not only act as limitations for the designers to butt against but also as structured challenges to foster creativity. In this sense, there is perhaps more creative potential in a more limited area of graphic design in advertising as it forces the designers to come up with innovative solutions to meet the business’ objectives. Digital media such as video content and dynamic websites are much flashier but also require less concentrated effort in order to pass for adequate. This means that there is more chance of low quality as the designs are merely a sideline of the main marketing task. Of course, the benefits of having a good designer working with digital media means that much more content will be created to advertise your business without wasting as many material resources. For a company with enough of a marketing budget, both print and digital design is a must. 

Healthcare systems are adopting modern technology into their day-to-day processes in order to streamline medical processes and increase patient satisfaction, and this integration is having noteable positive changes in medical care. More and more hospitals are already adopting technology like the cloud, which has helped to increase the efficiency of sharing data between doctors. As technology continues to advance and produce lifesaving breakthroughs, recent healthcare technology interconnects with technology like the cloud to create a hyperconnected field of medicine.

Patient Care

The cloud serves as a method for sharing a vast amount of data, in real time, across many sources. This provides an invaluable resource that is exponentially more valuable depending on the kind of information you are able to share across it. While the technological advancements happening don’t always seem directly tied to the field of medicine, tech developers, as well as medical practitioners are always looking for ways to bring them all together to help patients.

Zenoss Inc., a leader in software-defined IT operations, announced it has joined the Google Cloud partner program with intention to expand Zenoss capabilities for IT operations management (ITOM) to enterprise hybrid cloud environments that leverage the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

With this partnership, Zenoss will add value to clients by integrating the monitoring of hybrid cloud environments leveraging GCP with any IT infrastructure an organization may support – adding to robust multicloud capabilities Zenoss already supports with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Zenoss builds comprehensive real-time models of hybrid IT environments and uses them to provide holistic health and performance insights exactly where they are needed. Using Zenoss, customers of GCP can:

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.