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11:11 Systems Completes Acquisition of iland; Combined Offering to Unlock the Power of Connectivity, Cloud and Security – Business Wire

FAIRFIELD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--11:11 Systems (11:11), a managed infrastructure solutions provider, today announced the completion of the acquisition of iland, the award-winning global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS).

11:11 Systems recently acquired Green Cloud Defense, a channel-only, cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider. By adding ilands steady 25% YOY momentum to 11:11 Systems expanding national network of MSPs, VARs and IT consultants, a hyper-growth pathway has been created.

Gartner analysts said that more than 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and will not be able to fully execute on their digital strategies without the use of cloud-native architectures and technologies. *** Companies are increasingly struggling to effectively manage their hybrid infrastructure and are under pressure to focus scarce resources on other key priorities. 11:11 answers growing market demand for a single, trusted vendor to navigate security threats and reduce complexities in infrastructure management.

Mike Small, senior analyst at KuppingerCole, highlights this challenge: Deciding where and how to focus resources is a struggle for most IT organizations, and they need their infrastructure solutions which serve as the backbone of their entire IT footprint - to be stormproof. iland is a long-established provider of secure storage services for backup and disaster recovery. In combination with 11:11, they can deliver a broad offering for managing and protecting the infrastructure backbone of organizations.

11:11 will leverage iland's Secure Cloud Console natively combining deep-layered security, predictive analytics, and compliance to deliver visibility and ease of management across all of its cloud services.

Brett Diamond, CEO, 11:11 Systems:

CIOs and IT leaders are being pushed to address increasing numbers of security threats, application vulnerabilities and network weaknesses that can leave organizations exposed to data breaches; at the same time, they are tasked with laying the right foundation within their infrastructure to embrace hybrid cloud, navigate sophisticated application requirements, artificial intelligence and more while data and devices continue to multiply exponentially.11:11 Systems is focused on significantly simplifying our customers approach to cloud, security and connectivity to drive greater security, innovation, and responsiveness and adding iland and Green Cloud as core ingredient platforms substantively advances this mission.

Justin Giardina, CTO, iland:

Joining 11:11 Systems, which now includes Green Cloud, will open up the doors of innovation even wider with new opportunities to expand services across the iland platform, which will further enhance our customers ability to manage and monitor their hybrid environments. We will have the unprecedented opportunity to offer our customers choice in their infrastructure services, while also untangling them from the overwhelming intricacies that too often accompany infrastructure management.

Dante Orsini, SVP, Business Development, iland:

We are thrilled to join 11:11 Systems and further solidify our position as a market-leading provider of infrastructure services. This acquisition opens up new opportunities for our global channel partners and bolsters our expertise, bench of satisfied customers, and solution offerings with our core technology partners including VMware, Veeam, Zerto, and HPE as well as other market leaders. Merging with 11:11 Systems will make iland a one-stop-shop for cloud, security, and connectivity utilizing the markets most trusted solutions.

Effective immediately, Justin Giardina, CTO of iland, is appointed Chief Technology Innovation Officer; Dante Orsini is promoted to Chief Strategy Officer; Jennifer Brenner will remain Chief Marketing Officer. Scott Sparvero, current CEO and co-founder, and Brian Ussher, current President, and co-founder, will support the transition until complete.

As part of an ambitious M&A strategy to expand, aggregate, and further automate infrastructure solutions, 11:11 is backed by Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a middle-market private equity firm that invests in growing infrastructure platforms.

*Gartner, Market Guide for Disaster Recovery as a Service, Ron Blair, Jeffrey Hewitt, 29 July 2021.

**Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service, Mark Jaggers, Ron Blair, Lisa Pierce, 5 June 2019. This report is now archived and retired by Gartner.

***Gartner Press Release, Gartner Says Cloud will be the Centerpiece of New Digital Experiences, 10 November 2021.

GARTNER and MAGIC QUADRANT are a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartners research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

ABOUT 11:11 SYSTEMS11:11 Systems is creating a new model empowering customers and partners to RETHINK CONNECTED in connectivity, cloud and security solutions. Fully integrated, fully automated. All services, all activities, all data, all performance, powered on a single platform. Learn more at 1111Systems.com.

ABOUT ILANDiland is a global cloud service provider and industry-recognized leader of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS). ilands award-winning iland Secure Cloud Console natively combines deep layered security, predictive analytics, and compliance to deliver unmatched visibility and ease of management for all of ilands cloud services. Headquartered in Houston with regional offices in London and Sydney, iland delivers cloud services from its cloud regions throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Learn more at iland.com.

ABOUT TIGER INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERSTiger Infrastructure Partners is a middle-market private equity firm that invests in growing infrastructure platforms. Tiger Infrastructure targets investments in communications, energy transition, transportation, and related sectors, primarily located in North America and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.tigerinfrastructure.com.

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Google Drive leads in malware hosting, with majority of downloads attributed to the cloud – SC Media

Most malware downloads have originated from the cloud, with the percentage of cloud-based malware increasing from 46% in 2020 to 66% in the fourth quarter of 2021, SecurityWeek reports citing a study from Netskope.Google Drive was also discovered to be the leading malware hosting source, surpassing OneDrive.We dont yet know which cloud app will prove most popular in 2022 but we can be almost certain it wont still be Google Drive, said Netskope Threat Research Director Ray Canzanese.The report also revealed that while credential stuffing attacks against cloud apps have not significantly increased between 2020 and 2021, most attacks last year originated from the U.S.Meanwhile, the ongoing Great Resignation phenomenon has also prompted increased data exfiltration, according to the study.The increasing popularity of cloud apps has given rise to three types of abuse: attackers trying to gain access to victim cloud apps, attackers abusing cloud apps to deliver malware, and insiders using cloud apps for data exfiltration, Canzanese added.

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Why NPM Tools Need to Work Across On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid Environments | eWEEK – eWeek

The networking landscape has shifted dramatically over the past two years as remote work, cloud migration, and container-based architectures have augmented network infrastructure. This digital transformation has put added pressure on NetOps teams to gain visibility into on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments to ensure performance of the entire network and applications, regardless of location.

As a result, traditional network performance monitoring (NPM) tools are no longer enough for organizations that want to proactively plan, monitor, and optimize their network services or that want to find and fix network performance problems quickly.

In fact, according to Gartners Market Guide for Network Performance Monitoring 2021, by 2025, 60% of organizations will have seen a reduction in traditional network monitoring tool needs due to increases in remote work and cloud migration, as compared to 2021.

In essence, organizations can no longer afford to have visibility gaps across infrastructure. To overcome this challenge, they need to ensure their infrastructure is equipped to handle issues both on and off premises as well as leverage a combination of data sources to provide a holistic end-to-end view of the entire network.

How is this done? Lets dive into more details on the state of NPM and how its adapting to offer cloud and hybrid visibility.

Also see: The New Focus on CloudOps: How Enterprise Cloud Migration Can Succeed

NPM tools leverage a combination of data sources, including network-device-generated traffic data; raw network packets; and network-device-generated health metrics and events to monitor, diagnose, and find performance issues. This includes giving NetOps teams forensic data to identify the root cause of performance issues and insights into the end-user experience.

Traditional NPM tools focus on the core network and data center, capturing information from within the traditional network perimeter. The traffic types, flow rates, and traffic patterns are almost a known factor except for network anomalies that happen.

Customers with on-premises network designs have a robust, scalable, and stable environment and, with the help of firewalls, reliable WAN edge devices and other network components. NPM tools are 99% aware of the possible issues that could happen, and they monitor and act based on this analysis.

With customers migrating to cloud and container-based architectures (and other technologies like SD-WAN and microservices), its become more difficult to capture traffic and isolate problems. Today, organizations need tools that can monitor LAN, WAN, and into the cloud, so lets dive into each area thats impacting this shift around visibility.

Its no secret that the remote workforce has resulted in organizations redesigning network infrastructure, but these changes often dont account for monitoring or visibility.

For example, with the increase in the remote workforce, the number of connections coming in through the VPN concentrators or firewall has increased tremendously for most large enterprises. These devices and network designs must be redesigned to accommodate this increase in scale, throughput, and number of user access licenses.

With more remote workers, enterprises are looking for NPM tools that can monitor and analyze traffic patterns, utilization, and application monitoring from the VPN concentrators. NPM tools are now available to read useful data (Flow, SNMP, API, etc.) from these devices to help analyze and monitor remote user traffic.

Cloud migration has been happening for years, but due to recent events, has been accelerating at a staggering pace. The drive toward more cloud-enabled applications and services, which may not be owned by the organizations, further complicates monitoring and troubleshooting.

For example, there are cloud solutions offered by multiple cloud companies (like Google, Amazon, Azure) that also provide services and applications hosted on their portal or managed services by other vendors.

With this mix of vendors, the type of useful readable data for NPM tools to understand and monitor can be challenging. But NPM tools are now able to capture raw cloud data and convert to readable IPFix data, or via API to create useful reports for monitoring and analysis.

Some NPM tools have global or private agents deployed in the cloud at various sites, which make use of synthetic traffic for monitoring and analyzing network SLAs. Cloud vendors are also trying to add more ways (advanced API, service tags, etc.) for raw data to be easily accessible for NPM tools.

Containerization and microservices allow an organization to package software and its dependencies in an isolated unit, either on-premises or in the cloud. Having visibility into these services is crucial for managing performance across a user base, but its fundamentally different due to changes in traffic flow.

NPM tools need to be able to access the raw data, read this information, and analyze useful information from these containers and microservices to export this data into useful user reportable format. Each vendor has their own way to implementing how the containers or services are hosted on-premises or in the cloud, and the format in which raw data can be accessed. Most vendors have APIs to get access to this data; its just a matter of NPM tools to implement this API format to fetch this data.

Different cloud solutions have different ways the end-to-end solution is hosted. For example, deploying an NPM tool and reading raw data from Amazon AWS is completely different from hosting the tool on a Google GCP platform. The data formats provided by different vendors have different data variables, service names, region formats, etc. There are also large new enterprise private cloud solutions coming up (like SAP or Salesforce private cloud solutions), which add to the complexity of read data from hybrid cloud-hosted enterprises.

The shift to cloud and the changing network architecture is putting a premium on NPM solutions that work across all these technologies. This means capturing data that includes streaming telemetry, flow data, packet data, and SNMP, which can be used for such outputs as predictive analysis, real-time monitoring, AI/ML-assisted analytics, and historical analysis.

Enterprises now need to think about how NPM tools are planning to address new hosted technologies and migration from an on-premises design to a complete cloud solution.

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European Parliament pushes to ban targeted ads based on health, religion or sexual orientation – POLITICO.eu

STRASBOURG The European Parliament movedcloseron Thursday to banningtargeted ads based on sensitive data including religious beliefs, sexual orientation and racial or ethnic origin.

A large majority of lawmakersvotedto prohibit online platforms such as Facebook and Google from showing commercials to users based on their most intimate information, in the EUs draft content moderation bill, known as theDigital Services Act(DSA).

The move comes amid sustained calls from activists to bolster online privacy and crack down on what they say is abusive surveillance exploiting peoples vulnerabilities, the likes of which resulted in large-scale manipulations such as in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

U.S. lawmakers also on Tuesday introduced a bill with similar provisions prohibiting tech platforms and data brokers from using sensitive information to push their ads.

The new potential EU restrictions on targeted advertising could reshape the tech industry. They could affect the widely popular marketing practices underpinning tech behemoths' business models and fueling the advertising industry and traditional media organizations.

Lawmakers will now have to negotiate with the Council, representing the 27 EU governments, which has shown no interest in tackling online advertising in the DSA.

France, which is at the helm of the Council and plans to finalize the DSA, has previously shown reluctance to take heed of Parliaments appetite for new privacy rules.

On January 12 at an event organized by the Atlantic Council, French Digital Minister Cdric O said limits on targeted advertising could hamper the rhythm and progress of the adoption of the EUs tech laws, the DSA and its sister bill focused on online competition, the Digital Markets Act.

Proposed by the European Commission in December 2020, the DSA aims to create Europe-wide rules for online services. The bill seeks to crack down on illegal content, regulate online advertising and impose transparency measures on platforms' algorithms.

Galvanized by a widely supported but nonbinding call in the European Parliament to rein in targeted ads in 2020, several left-wing political groups including the Socialists & Democrats and the Greens laid out ambitious plans early on in the negotiations of the DSA to outlaw the practice of micro-targeted online advertisements.

But facing fierce opposition from center-right and liberal lawmakers, negotiators compromised on a ban on manipulative designs to nudge users to consent to online tracking, including so-called dark patterns and website notices to accept online trackers known as cookies. They also added that online platforms needed to clearly get consent from users before tracking them.

Meanwhile, tech companies wouldnt be able to target minors with ads.

Then, on Wednesday, left-wing MEPs pulled off an unexpected feat by winning the support of conservative and far-right lawmakers in what Greens MEP Alexandra Geesecalleda huge win for European citizens.

The privacy changes gave a strong signal that Parliament wants to be crystal clear on the need to do something on [tracking ads], lead lawmaker Christel Schaldemose, a Dane from the S&D, told POLITICO.

Parliament also approved an amendment to force online platforms to make sure that users who declined to be tracked could still have alternative options to access the services, meaning that a platform like Instagram couldntde factooblige users to be tracked to view posts on its app.

MEPs approved the preliminary lead committeerulesas lawmakers also decided to force online services to respect fundamental rights enshrined in the EU charter, including freedom of expression and information, in their terms and conditions.

Cloud hosting companies and platforms, meanwhile, could have to enable anonymous use of and payment for their online services.

Parliament also agreed that small- and medium-sized companies could request assistance when seeking legal representation in the EU, a requirement to comply with the DSA.

An amendment to get platforms to inform media organizations of content moderation decisions based on their terms and conditions, and give them a chance to challenge those decisions, before taking action was rejected. However, MEPs voted to ensure online platforms would also have to respect the freedom and pluralism of media.

The final rules could come into force as soon as 2023.

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ISG to Conduct Study on Private and Hybrid Cloud Providers – Business Wire

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, has launched a research study examining providers of private and hybrid cloud services targeted to enterprise clients.

The study results will be published in a comprehensive ISG Provider Lens report, called Next-Gen Private/Hybrid Cloud Data Center Solutions & Services, scheduled to be released in June. The report will cover a range of private and hybrid cloud services hosted in data centers.

Enterprise buyers will be able to use information from the report to evaluate their current vendor relationships, potential new engagements and available offerings, while ISG advisors use the information to recommend providers to the firms buy-side clients.

The new report will look at ways private and hybrid cloud providers are helping enterprise clients achieve their business goals, said Jan Erik Aase, partner and global leader, ISG Provider Lens Research. Private and hybrid cloud providers are an important piece of many enterprises IT infrastructure, he said. These providers free up enterprises resources to focus on the core business, while offering secure and reliable cloud services.

ISG has distributed surveys to more than 400 private and hybrid cloud providers. Working in collaboration with ISGs global advisors, the research team will produce five quadrants representing the services the typical enterprise client is buying in the private and hybrid cloud space, based on ISGs experience working with its clients. The five quadrants that will be covered are:

The report will cover the hyperconverged systems and hybrid cloud management platform markets on a global basis and the managed services, managed hosting and colocation services markets in the U.S., the U.S. Public Sector, Brazil, Germany, the Nordics, Switzerland, the U.K., Australia, the Benelux countries, France, and Malaysia/Singapore. ISG analysts Shashank Rajmane, Pedro L. Bicudo Maschio, Ulrich Meister, Wolfgang Heinhaus, Ian Puddy, Rohan Thomas, Angus Macaskill, Bruce Guptill and Richard Marshall will serve as authors of the report.

An archetype report will also be published as part of this study. This report, unique to ISG, is the study of typical buyer types of private and hybrid cloud services as observed by ISG advisors.

A list of identified providers and vendors and further details on the study are available in this digital brochure. A separate brochure for the U.S. Public Sector is also available. Companies not listed as private and hybrid cloud providers can contact ISG and ask to be included in the study.

About ISG Provider Lens Research

The ISG Provider Lens Quadrant research series is the only service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations of ISG's global advisory team. Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners, while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market knowledge and make recommendations to ISG's enterprise clients. The research currently covers providers offering their services globally, across Europe, as well as in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, the U.K., France, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, the Nordics, Australia and Singapore/Malaysia, with additional markets to be added in the future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens research, please visit thiswebpage.

A companion research series, the ISG Provider Lens Archetype reports, offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers from the perspective of specific buyer types.

About ISG

ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business partner to more than 700 clients, including more than 75 of the worlds top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping corporations, public sector organizations, and service and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services, including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier services; strategy and operations design; change management; market intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006, and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,300 digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countriesa global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence, deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research and analytical capabilities based on the industrys most comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit http://www.isg-one.com.

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Rethinking Enterprise Data Protection Strategies in 2022 and Beyond – CXOToday.com

The incessant rise of ransomware attacks and other data threats has made backup and data protection services all the more essential for organizations today. While theres no way to predict the extent of these attacks in the years to come, it is clear that a sound data protection, especially a cloud backup strategy, will increasingly become pivotal for organizations to guard against future cyber threats.

In a recent interaction with CXOToday.com, Shiva Pillay, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Veeam Software, explains how data backup and protection requirements are changing, as organizations shift to remote work amid the pandemic and adopt new working models worldwide. He also explains the companys growth plans for the APJ region especially the India market for the next one year.

Data itself is becoming increasingly critical because it is the real asset when we talk about data backup and protection. Without it, not only does an organization face business continuity challenges, but it also hinders organizations efforts to aspire for digital growth and transformation.

The COVID scenario puts the CIOs in a situation wherein they must tackle the challenge of how their businesses will run remotely. This has given rise to workplace trends like work from home (WFH) and bring your own device (BYOD), which in turn has resulted in the organizations witnessing proliferation of data, put very simply, its now a lot more difficult to control, manage and protect as you have many people working remotely demanding access to data.It also represents a significant increase in the potential for hacks and data loss. And that data is critical for the businesss ability to generate revenue and touch their customers.

If an organization is unable to understand data and to use it as an asset, it will inhibit their ability for digital growth. As per the Veeam Cloud Protection Trends Report 2021, Data is moving, and IT platforms are changing. Physical to virtual to cloud to containers, this evolution and expanded deployment mix shows that data lives in multiple places, so organizations need the flexibility to protect their data regardless of physical location, hypervisor, or application. Irrespective of where a workload is stored, it always needs protection even when in the public cloud.

The report states that public cloud is now a primary means of storing and delivering an organizations data. In APJ, 49% of organizations, run their high priority workloads on the cloud, and they host as a mainstream platform for hosting data.

Another change in the landscape is cloud-hosted IT delivered models infrastructure as a service, Software as a Service, and containers are gaining a lot of traction for production and disaster recovery, which means legacy providers, typically, served on-premises style engagements, must keep up with these mechanisms.

Talking about containerization, in APJ 40% of back up data belongs to containerized applications separately. Majority of the organizations believe their container architecture is durable, so they dont need to back up at all. Also, as per Veeams Data Protection Report 2021, 82% APJ organizations have an availability gap face an issue with recovering applications in an acceptable time frame and 77% of them face a protection gap.

The 3-2-1-1-0 strategy is fairly simple. It stems from cyber attacks, which are becoming extremely prominent in todays day and age. When you think about cyber-attacks, they really impact a companys ability to drive their business and hamper their ability to move their businesses forward. The 3-2-1-1-0 strategy means you have three copies of your data, on two different media types one copy should be off-site and one copy being offline, air-gapped, or immutable and lastly there should be 0 errors after automated backup, testing and recoverability verification.

Having an ultra-resilient copy of backup data that is either offline, air-gapped or immutable is an incredibly resilient specimen to help ensure data recovery in a ransomware event. It is a life insurance policy for you to get your data back up and running, while your security teams go back and solve the root cause of ransomware attack.

Also, having 0 surprises upon restore is a big benefit today. Sure Backup recovery verification by Veeam is a great way to confidently know that you can restore data. This isnt because a Veeam backup isnt good it is just that certain behaviour are only manifested on restores or reboots that may inhibit a restore going as planned.

Ransomware attacks are inevitable in todays time. It is not something that you can defend against. So, my advice to companies having worked in both security and the data backup space is if you have an immutable copy of that data, thats the ideal way of ensuring that youve got zero errors and you protect the integrity of the data.

New-age technologies, techniques are changing the game. Talking about how Veeam is playing in that space, we have had 20 new product releases in the last year. This spans the ecosystem of not only the cloud business, which is what weve started talking about, but the virtual, physical infrastructure, SaaS and application-specific environment.

Last year, Veeam has released the v11a a product, which is, even stronger and more robust platform. It comprises of a number of things which are quite interesting for our cloud users. One, it has increased value for customers as they expand to the cloud, including native and advanced protection for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. It has also delivered massive new support for leading public cloud platforms to help organizations accelerate cloud adoption by ensuring data is reliably secured, protected, and managed, while optimizing spends.

Our fastest growing product, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 reported 73% growth YoY in Q321.The #1 backup and recovery solution for Office 365 enables users to securely backup to any location, including on premises, in a hyperscale cloud, or with a service provider.

Moving on to Kubernetes, we are now doubling down on modern infrastructure in this space, with the recent acquisition of Kasten. This acquisition enables us to deliver not only in the physical-virtual but also in the container-based environment; it has enabled us to offer K10 platform to our customers across the region.

With Kasten K10, organizations can store backups in the cloud, on-premises, and ransomware-proof immutable environments. It further enhances the data security posture and will add value to the data protection solution.

The intent for us is to deliver modern data protection solutions for the multi-cloud enterprise and help customers manage and back-up all the new types of data that are critical to their environment.

We have the same code that runs on an SMB environment. For instance, if you are backing up on Veeam, the same license will protect hundreds and 1000s of machines for enterprise customers. It really goes down to the concept of where we differentiate ourselves in the market and what we feel is one of the reasons for growth is the simplicity of the product and how it applies to an SMB customer all the way through to very large, complex enterprise customers.

In fact, 100% of our solutions cater to all enterprises across sectors. Veeam is continuously innovating with its solutions and the strong focus on innovation has helped the company reach where it is today. Veeam continues to deliver consistent, double-digit revenue growth because of its unmatched scale and market expansion.

Globally, in Q321 Veeam witnessed a double-digit growth with an annual recurring revenue (ARR) increase of 28% year-over-year (YoY). With the fastest revenue growth YoY (25.3%) in the most recent IDC Semi-Annual Software Tracker for Data Replication & Protection 1H21. Globally, we achieved double-digit growth for the 15th consecutive quarter.In APJ, Veeam reported an annual recurring revenue (ARR) increase of 30% year-over-year (YoY). Veeams momentum was fueled last year by new product releases and major feature updates, and the company is gearing up for a couple more this year in Q1 2022, including Veeam Backup for Office 365.

The APJ region we have expanded our partnership with Ingram Micro following the launch of Veeam on Ingram Micros cloud marketplace in ANZ, were also now available in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Recently, Veeam expanded its business partnership with Ingram Micro India by signing a distribution agreement in India.

This quarter we added some great referenceable customers to the region, including: Parul University in India, Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical in China, Diamond Group in Indonesia, Midosuji Tax Office in Japan, TRC Thailand, Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia and Essilor Group in Singapore spanning across multiple verticals such as education, healthcare, construction, F&B and government. This is a testament to our commitment in providing the best-in-class data protection technologies to businesses across all industries and markets.

In India, we also work with major companies like Hero MotoCorp, Future Generali, and 63 Moons to name a few. Automotive, BFSI, healthcare, telecom, ITeS and PSU are the key focus verticals for Veeam in India. We cover the whole gambit of these types of customers.

Our plan is very simple in terms of growth. We will be driving high growth. And it needs to be a sustainable one for our customers, our channel partners, our own team, and the organizations we partner within

The alliances ecosystem will be focused on vertical lead orientation. We have a great leadership as well as sales team and I have a focus that will be on taking share. So, we continue to take share in India, were pushing towards that number one spot

Secondly, we will build more scale by investing into headcount and the areas that help our customers and partners use our products more effectively

And then lastly, we will continue to invest in futures and the way we drive our business. Veeam is continuously innovating and the strong focus on innovation has helped us reach where we are today. From doing $100,000 sales in 2008 to reaching over 1 billion dollars (globally) in 2020, our innovation-driven approach has paid off well.

Ransomware attack volumes have increased 151% globally, in the first six months, businesses of all sizes are aware of the threat. Rick Vanover, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeam has written a whitepaper which suggests five best practices CISOs should look at adopting if they want to drive and guarantee business continuity.

If you have the five best practices in place and have great backup solutionthat can help you repopulate your data, youre in a better position to not succumb to ransomware attacks.

In APJ, we are seeing some positive trends around the movement to cloud and containers, it is far more accelerated than we see in some of the other markets. And as you know, India is very central to innovation and driving cost efficiency. The new economical alternatives to build infrastructure become increasingly critical and explosive in those markets.

I always see India as a place of great innovation and forward-looking in terms of tech and driven from a cost efficiency standpoint, but then that has high demands on the type of technology. You must be present as a technology leader to be successful in that marketplace.

All in all, the criticality of data is one of the key messages from here. The move to cloud and the move to different types of Cloud container-based, SaaS, infrastructure as a service means that to keep your data available, you need modern data protection strategies. Veeam is doing well because were so focused on our customers, partners, and are so close to their trends. And as I said earlier, it is important for CXOs to address the changing data protection requirements and start thinking about a layered data protection approach i.e., identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.

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What is the metaverse? Is it the future? – BCS

You will have heard the word metaverse a lot over the past few months, with more than a few articles written, but here is another one from the perspective of someone with decades of activity in the industry.

As early as the turn of the century, I was trying to get virtual world technology, inherited from the games industry, into enterprise use. This got some traction in 2006 when a group of us in IBM (initially in Hursley) started to explore the potential of Second Life.

This grew from a few of us with an unofficial blog called Eightbar, which evolved into a cross company movement of over 8,000 people. My actual business card had Metaverse Evangelist written on it; my sons birth certificate has it as his fathers profession for posterity.

During the Wimbledon tennis championship in 2006-2008, we created a social and data-powered experience, live in a virtual world. All this, and many more community projects and customer interest, led a global emerging business unit formed by IBM to investigate where this could all go. There still is a very large community of us from then, from all walks of life, with experience gathered and ideas to share.

Its great the metaverse concept is back I dont think it ever went away. Also, we werent the first to explore this. Here, I will explain why this is an important evolution for us all. Yes, Facebook did rename itself to Meta and put out a lot of metaverse PR, but this article isnt all about them, nor only about Microsoft Mesh, Nvidia Omniverse, Niantic, Virbela, Roblox, VRChat, Rec Room, Sinespace, Sansar, Second Life, the list goes on...

The metaverse was forged in science fiction. It was the term used specifically in Neal Stephensons Snow Crash in 1992 (you can now mark off a standard phrase on your metaverse buzzword bingo card). Writers like William Gibson also have a significant place in its literary life.

At its core, the metaverse is a unified way for people and things to interact in a virtual and spatial capacity. A collection of virtual worlds, which includes our physical one, make up the metaverse. Its often reduced to the idea of a giant virtual world by a single company but the pure concept is an evolution of an interoperable internet, now spatial.

It doesnt only have to be a computer screen with avatars wandering around, nor does it have to be experienced in virtual reality (VR), nor is it always projected onto the physical world with smart glasses or headsets for augmented reality (AR). It is all, or any, of those and will evolve to be much more.

With the web, using the internet, we were initially presented with the basics of text and hyperlinks. That steppingstone has quickly developed into where we are today. The metaverse is yet another step, helping our interactions with people and data, more suited to our evolution as spatial beings than to any technology restrictions.

We experience things around us, learn and grow based on that, yet we stare at flat screens, talk into a phone or type words in order to communicate at distance. Travelling and actual teleportation aside, dont you think that we should be able to find better ways to feel we are together with others and to have shared experiences? That is the role of the metaverse.

We need to start somewhere, hence avatars and virtual spaces are a logical place to begin; there are plenty already up and running and many more on the way.

Having spoken to thousands of people about virtual worlds and the metaverse, written papers and science fiction novels, I have heard a lot of objections to the technology. Is it just a new-fangled computer graphics powered concept?

The popular objection is someone claiming not to be a gamer, which leads them to not consider the idea of moving around and talking in a virtual space. Many games are virtual worlds but not all virtual worlds are games. Not that long ago, qwerty keyboards and even mouse/trackpad/touch screens didnt exist we all accept those to navigate applications.

We will evolve better ways to move around virtual environments, we know how to move around the physical world, whether deep in important business discussions on the golf course or kicking a football around with the kids.

These interactions are not objected to in the same way as a 3D, computer-mediated spatial interaction. Objections to evolving technology are fair enough, but have we reached the pinnacle of human communication and technology right now? I would suggest we have a way to go...

Another objection is that its not a serious business; the metaverse is just for escapism. Yes, there are places and things to escape into, just like losing yourself in a good book, but thats not all. In Second Life in 2006, as a programmer, I first tried to figure out how to pull data into the environment. This included x,y,z of tennis ball trajectories in a rally (gathered from Hawkeye) and the control of an internet connected lamp (before we used the term IoT). I also connected with people: we met, shared ideas and built things together. Those relationships remain today, decades on. I think there is enough evidence to show we are not considering escapism as the primary reason for the metaverse, so we can knock that one on the avatars head.

Then, there are virtual goods the I want to own the real thing! challenge. I am not going to get into an NFT conversation about provenance, cryptocurrency and blockchain thats a different conversation. Digital assets are virtual. So are enterprise software systems, operating systems and avatar clothing they are all virtual. You can, of course, turn some digital things into physical things, like 3D printing a model. It is the relevance of digital assets that is the core of the objection. You hear ideas like: Well pay for cloud hosting, an app on a phone or to stream movies, but we wont pay for an avatar t-shirt.

Lets consider the massive rise in the use of video-based meetings. Pre-pandemic enterprise remote meetings used voice teleconferences. Almost overnight, Zoom, Teams et al. became the norm for people suddenly working from home. Webcam tricks, formerly only used by geeks, such as replacing real backgrounds with something virtual rolled into the major applications.

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Pivotree to Host Exclusive Webinar on Digital Commerce Trends in 2022 – PRNewswire

Experts in Supply Chain, eCommerce, and Data Management Share Critical Strategies to Adopt in 2022 for Business Growth and Improving Customer Experience

TORONTO, Jan. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pivotree Inc. (TSXV: PVT) ("Pivotree'' or the "Company"), a leading provider of frictionless commerce solutions, invites business and IT leaders to attend an exclusive live webinar, Expert Discussion: What Emerging Trends Will Move Digital Commerce in 2022? Hosted byPivotree experts James Urbati, GM of Commerce, James Brochu, VP Operations and Vinny Maurici, VP of Strategy & Solutions.

To help retailers and brand manufacturers navigate the year ahead, Pivotree experts will share their thoughts on 2022 trends across the three critical areas of Supply Chain, eCommerce, and Customer Experience. Attendees can discover when and how supply chain woes could ease up, what's driving the shift away from 'one-stop-shop' marketplaces, the B2C and B2B eCommerce trends that are expected to accelerate and much more.

The pandemic caused major supply chain disruptions and after the peak holiday season of 2021, retailers are looking at different ways to improve their customer experience, and get a better handle on the supply chain channels involved in their business.

"No matter where you stand, one thing is clear: eCommerce has forever changed and the pressure is on to adapt,'' says James Urbati, GM of Commerce at Pivotree. "The good news is that 2022 holds a unique opportunity to take the lessons learned during the pandemic and accelerate your digital transformation journey. Looking ahead, everything from assortment and selection to payments and processing will all play important roles in providing unique and frictionless experiences to customers."

"The pandemic kicked off a perfect storm for supply chain disruption. Factory closings, material shortages, exploding consumer demand, and transportation bottlenecks have created chaos often surfacing as hard-to-find products and soaring prices," said James Brochu, VP Operations at Bridge Solutions Group, a Pivotree Company. "The ability to effectively solve these supply chain issues will be a significant differentiator for digital commerce leaders in 2022."

"Smart data management will play a critical role in 2022. Consumers are moving to digital commerce in droves but their patience for suffering through friction points is fading fast. If their experience feels hard at any point, they won't hesitate to switch where they shop and potentially never come back a daunting thought for many retailers," said Vinny Maurici, VP of Strategy & Solutions at Codifyd, a Pivotree Company.

Experts from Pivotree will explore the best practices to ensure a winning strategy for customer loyalty in 2022, and across all areas Supply Chain, eCommerce, Customer Experience, and beyond. One common factor of success for retailers will be their ability to remove points of friction (internally and externally) and deliver true end-to-end frictionless commerce for their customers.

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Pivotree (TSXV:PVT) is a leader in frictionless commerce with expertise in eCommerce, MDM, Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Supply Chain solutions. Itis an end-to-end vendor supporting clients from strategy, platform selection, deployment, and hosting through to ongoing support. It operates as a single expert resource to help companies adapt relentlessly in an ever-changing digital commerce landscape. Leading and innovative clients rely on Pivotree's deep expertise to choose enterprise-proven solutions and design, build, and connect critical systems to run smoothly at defining moments in a commerce business. Pivotree serves as a trusted partner to over 170 market-leading brands and forward-thinking B2C and B2B companies, including many companies in the Fortune 1000. With offices and customers in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, Pivotree is widely recognized as a high-growth company and industry leader around the globe. For more information, visithttp://www.pivotree.com.

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Qovery lets you deploy your application without managing your cloud infrastructure – TechCrunch

Remember how Heroku was a big breakthrough when it was first released? Qovery wants to do it again by building an abstraction layer between your code and your cloud infrastructure. You push code in a git repository and Qovery manages your services for you.

Its a container-as-a-service platform for developers. Like on Heroku, you just have to put a .qovery.yml file to describe the dependencies you need, co-founder and CEO Romaric Philogne told me.

Essentially, Qovery sits in-between your git repository and your cloud infrastructure account the company doesnt take care of cloud hosting itself. You can connect your Qovery account with your GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket account so that it automatically gets triggered when you push new code.

After that, Qovery automatically spins up new servers, managed databases and brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) for you. There are some ways to automate your deployment already with Terraform and continuous integration/continuous delivery software. But Qovery makes it easy to get started.

More importantly, Qovery is building integrations with multiple cloud providers. It already works with Amazon Web Services and the team is currently working on DigitalOcean and Scaleway support. Next up, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are on the road map.

Interestingly, you can design your own infrastructure for each branch. For instance, if you have a development branch to try out new features or a staging branch, you can spin up new servers for this branch without having to recreate your production environment from the start.

And thats arguably Qoverys most important feature. According to the startup, cloud hosting will become commoditized. Each provider will provide managed databases, message brokers, etc. It comes down to reliability, pricing and support level. You can imagine having a production application on AWS and a development branch running on another cloud provider.

Behind the scene, Qovery relies heavily on Terraform and Kubernetes, with an additional layer on top of them. When you compare it with Herokus monolithic philosophy, it scales more efficiently, as it has been designed around micro-services from the ground up.

Qovery costs $15 per application per month. Many companies have dozens of applications running at the same time to handle different parts of a service. So if you switch everything over to Qovery, youll pay $15 for each application.

If you already have a CI tool that works with your development team, you can use it instead of Qoverys built-in CI service. And theres no lock-in effect you can stop using it if you now have your own DevOps team.

The company has raised $1 million from Techstars and a long list of business angels.

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Catalyst Cloud teams with Amazee.io to deliver hosting system used in Australian government – Reseller News

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A cloud web-hosting system used by the Australian government'swhole of government digital platform, GovCMS, is now available in New Zealand.

The GovCMS platform hosts almost 400 government-related websites receiving hundreds of millions of hits per month.

Global cloud managed web hosting service provider amazee.io and NZ cloud computing platform Catalyst Cloud are collaborating in the effort to offer a New Zealand based version of the open source hosting platform.

Based on Kubernetes and using amazee.ios open source hosting platform, Lagoon, and Catalyst Clouds hosting infrastructure, the solution is built to autoscale to meet demand (and to help fend off DDoS attacks) while maintaining enterprise-grade security and availability.

The Department of Internal Affairs launched its equivalent to GovCMS, theCommon Web Platform (CWP), in 2013. The contract, which had been due to be renewed this month, has been extended for one more year and now expires next September.

Catalyst Cloud said the partnership offered a compelling alternative to hosting solutions provided by the "big names in the business" without a local presence for organisations concerned about data sovereignty.

Lagoon, which claims to be the only fully open source hosting platform of its kind in the world,comes with a 99.9 per cent-plus up-time guarantee.

The platform also features its own content delivery network, providing both a response to peaking demand and a further defence against DDoS.

Customers can host in a multi-tenant environment or in their own dedicated cluster.

Lagoon supports Drupal, Silverstripe, WordPress, Laravel, Node.JS, and most other content management systems.

Sites hosted by amazee.io maintained their stability through the COVID-19 online surge thanks to Lagoons ability to autoscale their hosting infrastructure, Catalyst Cloud said.

Data privacy, security, speed and platform scalability are undeniably the highest-ranked requirements of today's enterprises and organisations, said Franz Karlsberger, CEO of amazee.io.

Partnering and innovating with Catalyst Cloud in New Zealand gives local companies and government-related agencies the opportunity to host their applications and data in New Zealand on a fully managed, enterprise-grade, highly secure, scalable container- based platform."

New releases of code are made to Lagoon monthly and the full codebase is maintained on GitHub, so developers have complete insight into releases, configuration and architecture, and can contribute to features, discussions and documentation.

This helps with issue debugging, prevents vendor lock-in and provides insight into future development, the partners said. Twenty-four hour monitoring and chat support was available directly from amazee.ios systems engineers.

Catalyst Clouds managing director, Bruno Lago, said amazee.io's expertise and world-leading platform, and Catalyst Cloud's state-of-the-art infrastructure and true cloud services, were a winning combination.

"The web hosting solution also allows data to be stored securely in Aotearoa, protected by New Zealand law and data privacy regulations, in datacentres powered by companies generating renewable energy."

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