Value Journal - June 2021

Last December, Alibaba Cloud and
Redington signed a strategic Cloud
Managed Service Partner (MSP)
agreement to jointly provide indepen-
dent consulting, planning, designing,
integration, delivery and managed
services. Alibaba Cloud MSP can cov-
er public cloud or hybrid cloud, as
stipulated within the contract. Since
then, the two companies have success-
Issue 55 // June 2021
Redington Value is a value added distributor for the following brands in parts of Middle East & Africa
More than 1,000 digital professionals have benefited from co-training initiatives.
Alibaba Cloud and Redington
Boost MEA Technology Ecosystem
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology
and intelligence backbone of Alibaba
Group, has announced that over 1,000
digital professionals in the Middle East
and Africa (MEA) region have signifi-
cantly enhanced their understanding of
cloud technology and related domains
since the launch in 2020 of its co-train-
ingswithRedington,anend-to-endsup-
ply chain technology solutions provider. >> Continued on page 3
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fully completed over 200 trainings for
System Integrators (SI) and Managed
Service Providers (MSP), covering
topics including computing, network-
ing, big data, security and storage.
Nearly 1,000 digital professionals
have enhanced their understanding of
cloud technology through participat-
ing in these learning sessions that were
conducted in English and Arabic. The
trainings primarily focused on indus-
tries that were most likely to benefit
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Expands HPE GreenLake
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has an-
nounced innovations that transform
HPE Storage into a cloud-native, soft-
ware-defined data services business. The
company has unveiled a data services
platform that delivers on its Unified
DataOps vision for a new data expe-
rience that brings a cloud operations
model to wherever data lives and unifies
data operations. The new platform is
designed to address the data explosion
edge-to-cloud, collapse the silos and
complexity that plague data environ-
tives, deliver new customer experienc-
es, and drive digital transformation.”
Unified DataOps is HPE’s vision for
a new data experience that integrates
data-centric policies, cloud-native
control, and AI-driven insights to
eliminate the silos and complexity of
data management and infrastructure,
drive operational agility across edge-
to-cloud, minimize business risk, and
accelerate data-driven innovation.
The latest introduction of a new
data services platform delivers on
the Unified DataOps vision with
the Data Services Cloud Console,
cloud data services, and HPE Al-
letra – that together bring cloud
Unveils new data services platform to address the explosion of data edge-
to-cloud, and accelerate data-driven digital transformation for customers.
ments, maximize agility and innovation,
andreducebusinessrisk.Theannounce-
ment marks an important milestone in
HPE’s vision to become an edge-to-
cloud platform as-a-service company.
Antonio Neri, President and CEO,
HPE, said, “HPE was the first to rec-
ognize the need to deliver a unified
and consistent cloud experience, from
edge to cloud, with HPE GreenLake.
The latest announcement builds on
this strategy, by enabling our custom-
ers to break down silos and leverage
data, wherever it resides, with unified
data operations. As we enter the Age
of Insight, HPE is providing the ideal
platform for organizations seeking to
apply distributed data to fuel AI initia-
operational agility and streamline
data management for customers.
Data Services Cloud Console is a cloud
console that delivers cloud operations
and unified data operations as a service.
Designed to deliver a broad collection of
cloud data services, it is based on prov-
en, secure, cloud-native technology that
underpins Aruba Central – the engine
thatservesmillionsofdevicesconnected
across tens of thousands of customers in
clustersdeployedaroundtheworld.Data
Services Cloud Console offers a unified
API for HPE-led automation for appli-
cations, partner-led and custom-built
data services, and gives developers ac-
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Alibaba...
from cloud technologies such as retail,
finance, healthcare, education and the
public sector.
Investments in digitalization initiatives
in the region are on the rise, with local
companiespushingformoredigitaltech-
nology adoption. The MEA cloud infra-
structure services
market is expected
to grow to US$4.72
billion by 2023, at
a Compound An-
nual Growth Rate
(CAGR) of 11.0
percent over the
forecast period from
2018 to 2023, ac-
cording to Markets
and Markets’ 2017
findings.
Dharshana K, Senior Vice President
at Redington Gulf, said, “The ever-in-
creasing cloud services are creating a
demand for new skillsets and exper-
tise in local and international markets.
We are proud to partner with Alibaba
Cloud to empower local digital talents
and enhance industry know-how in
shaping the work-
forces of the future.
Alibaba Cloud of-
fers robust services
to businesses of all
sizes located in di-
verse markets – our
strategic synergy
enables businesses
in the MEA region
to face challenges
head on and stay
competitive. We are
happy to note that our co-trainings
with Alibaba Cloud have significant-
ly strengthened the cloud technology
ecosystem in the MEA region.”
Phillip Liu, General Manager of Mid-
dle East and Africa, Alibaba Cloud
Intelligence, said, “Home to one-third
of the world’s population, the MEA
region is well on track to becoming
the global supplier of the modern
workforce. With two in five residents
under the age of 30, the region has
a young and tech-savvy workforce.
However, to lock in a prosperous fu-
ture, the digital skills gap must be
addressed on a priority basis. Cloud
technologies are now fundamental to
all businesses around the world, and
it is, therefore, crucial for companies
to seek out skilled professionals when
It is crucial
for companies to
seek out skilled
professionals,
especially in the
post-pandemic
landscape.”
Security
has to be at
the heart of
everything in
the new world
we live in. We
believe it needs
to be done with
a platform
approach that
is simple,
comprehensive
and based on
intelligence.”
filling these roles - especially in the
post-pandemic landscape.”
Analyst firm IDC spotlighted the UAE
as the region’s most active adopter of
cloud technology, with the country pre-
dicted to spend over US$313 million on
public cloud services in 2022. The UAE
is also in prime position to become the
regional hub for cloud adoption.
Every month, Redington and Al-
ibaba Cloud hold ACA and ACP
trainings that provide certification
for cloud computing professionals
in areas including architecture, net-
working, cloud security, and best
practices – all core skills in the era of
digital transformation. Already this
year, over 20 training sessions have
been scheduled.
Cisco Announces New Service
Enhancement For XDR And SASE
Cisco unveils innovations that simplify security across devices, networks, applications and data
with expanded Extended Detection & Response (XDR) capabilities in the SecureX platform.
risk-based vulnerability management
as part of the SecureX platform with
its announcement of intent to acquire
Kenna Security.
• SecureX Device Insights: Customers
can quickly consolidate their device
inventory from multiple sources with-
in the SecureX
platform to pro-
vide unsurpassed
visibility and con-
text for IT opera-
tions (ITOps) and
security opera-
tions (SecOps) as
well as automated
threat response
and enrichment.
• Simplified Tran-
sition to XDR
from EDR: As
the only endpoint
security solution
with a built-in
platform, Secu-
reX continues to
help customers
simplify the move
from EDR to
XDR with more
We believe it needs to be done with a
platform approach that is simple, com-
prehensive and based on intelligence,”
said Fady Younes, Cybersecurity Di-
rector at Cisco Middle East and Afri-
ca. “There is really no perimeter in the
enterprise to defend anymore. We need
visibility across endpoints, users and
applications as well as
securing critical con-
trol points with con-
tinuous passwordless
authentication.”
In response to grow-
ing cyber threats,
Cisco continues to
expand its XDR ca-
pabilities, integrat-
ing multiple security
control points and
applying analytics
and automation to
reduce customers’
time to detection
and response. Cisco
has announced:
• Vulnerability Man-
agement with Kenna
Security: Cisco will
combine threat and
Cisco has announced a new security
service to further its journey to radi-
cally simplify and deliver end-to-end
security, across users, devices, net-
works, applications and data. Latest
announcements improve XDR with
greater visibility across corporate
networks, endpoint and cloud. New
innovations expand Cisco’s vision for
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
with enhanced threat detection in the
cloud and redefine and simplify net-
work security.
“Security has to be at the heart of ev-
erything in the new world we live in.
than 30 pre-built workflows, 40 turn-
key integrations and new orchestra-
tion capabilities. In addition, Cisco
Secure Client, the single agent across
user, cloud and endpoint protection,
enables faster XDR while reducing
agent fatigue.
• Expanded Investigation and Quick-
er Response: Cisco Secure Endpoint’s
advanced search technology now bol-
sters XDR value, offering more than
200 endpoint queries out-of-the-box
to get real-time answers to support
investigations, threat hunting, and IT
Ops use cases such as tracking arti-
facts about endpoints.
Cisco’s SASE architecture integrates
multiple security and networking
functions into a single, secure con-
nectivity offer. This significantly sim-
plifies security and reduces the cost,
time, and resources previously re-
quired for deployment, configuration,
and integration. Continuing to deliv-
er on its SASE vision, Cisco has an-
nounced Rapid Deployment of Cloud
Security across SD-WAN, Intrusion
Prevention System (IPS) in cloud-de-
livered firewall and new packages for
best protection and value.
Fady Younes, Cisco

4
Microsoft-EIU Study Reveals
Digital Preparedness Helped
Firms Adapt to COVID-19
The Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU) released the results of an in-
depth study of how the relationship
between technology, business and
people evolved during the COVID-19
pandemic. The EIU heard from busi-
ness leaders across eight distinct in-
dustries about the challenges and op-
portunities the disruption created for
organizations and how digital initia-
tives shifted to confront a new reality.
Overwhelmingly, business leaders cit-
ed digital preparedness as key to their
ability to adapt. The mass move to
remote work also led to a heightened
focus on employee engagement — so
much so that empowerment topics like
skill-building, well-being and creating
lasting benefits for society at large now
to their work and to a shared sense of
purpose. The percentage of all respon-
dents citing employee engagement
as a technology imperative shot up
from 24% pre-pandemic to 36% in the
COVID era, and was up by 10 or more
percentage points in manufacturing,
financial services, retail and education.
Concern for people and society
showed up in other ways as well, with
most companies saying that the pan-
demic has highlighted the need to
contribute more powerfully to social
outcomes — 75% said digital trans-
formation should go beyond business
success to support societal improve-
ments like creating a more inclusive,
accessible workforce and addressing
carbon footprints and climate change.
The pandemic sparked a renewed focus on employee engagement and societal well-being,
according to a recent Microsoft-commissioned study by Economist Intelligence Unit.
lead the transformation agenda for
many organizations.
CommissionedbyMicrosoft,theEIUre-
search seeks to unlock insights from the
past year and focus on the way forward.
Researchers connected the dots be-
tween organizations’ digital maturity
and their ability to weather the un-
precedented disruption and found a
strong correlation: The more focused
companies were on digital transforma-
tion, the faster they were able to recov-
er operations and empower people to
move forward.
The study showed a renewed focus
across industries toward engaging
and connecting people to each other,
Organizations across industries accel-
erated their transformation initiatives
and began to rely more heavily on digi-
tal tools. Here cloud technology led the
way, with 50% of organizations saying it
played a critical role in their COVID-era
operations.Thatwasfollowedbytechnol-
ogies to enable remote work (40%), arti-
ficial intelligence and machine learning
(33%), and the Internet of Things (31%).
Because each industry operates differ-
ently, the pandemic exposed digital gaps
in different ways. Educators expressed
concerns about access and inclusion,
while automakers focused on climate
change. Across all industries, the hu-
man side of technology transcended
their responses and, in some ways, over-
shadowed benefits to business.
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HPE... Dell Technologies Announces
Planned VMware Spin-Off
The companies will strengthen their mutually beneficial strategic relationship and
continue to co-engineer solutions for customers through a commercial agreement.
Dell Technologies has announced
the planned spin-off of its 81% eq-
uity ownership interest in VMware.
The transaction will result in two
standalone companies positioned for
growth in the data era. The transaction
is expected to close during the fourth
quarter of calendar 2021, subject to
certain conditions, including receipt
of a favorable IRS private letter rul-
ing and an opinion that the transac-
tion will qualify as generally tax-free
for Dell Technologies shareholders
for US federal income tax purposes.
Dell Technologies and VMware will
enter into a commercial agreement
that will preserve the companies’
unique and differentiated approach-
es to the co-development of critical
solutions and alignment on sales and
marketing activities. VMware will
continue to use Dell Financial Ser-
vices to help its customers finance
their digital transformations.
“By spinning off VMware, we expect
to drive additional growth opportu-
nities for Dell Technologies as well
as VMware, and unlock significant
value for stakeholders,” said Michael
Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Dell Technologies. “Both com-
panies will remain important partners,
providing Dell Technologies with a
differentiated advantage in how we
bring solutions to customers. At the
same time, Dell Technologies will con-
tinue to modernize its core infrastruc-
ture and PC businesses and embrace
new opportunities through an open
ecosystem to grow in hybrid and pri-
vate cloud, edge and telecom.”
Upon completion of the spin-off, Mi-
chael Dell will remain chairman and
chief executive officer of Dell Tech-
nologies, as well as chairman of
the VMware board. Zane Rowe will
remain interim CEO of VMware, and
the VMware board of directors will re-
main unchanged.
With an even stronger capital struc-
ture, Dell Technologies is poised to
further capitalize on the rebound in
infrastructure and PC spend, new
cloud operating models driving as-
a-Service growth, compute moving
to the edge, and customers’ lon-
ger-term digital transformation ini-
tiatives. With a strong commercial
agreement in place, Dell Technolo-
gies will have the ability to contin-
ue to work closely with VMware to
drive innovation and preserve go-to-
market synergies while generating
new growth opportunities through
an open ecosystem.
cess to infrastructure and data as code.
Delivered through the Data Services
Cloud Console, HPE is also introducing
Data Ops Manager for global manage-
ment of data infrastructure from any-
where, from any device, and intent-based
provisioning that brings a paradigm shift
todatainfrastructureprovisioningwithan
AI-driven, application-centric approach
that enables self-service, on-demand
provisioning, eliminates guesswork, and
optimizes service level objectives (SLOs).
HPE Alletra is cloud-native data infra-
structure that powers data from edge-
to-cloud. Managed natively by the Data
ServicesCloudConsole,HPEAlletrade-
livers the cloud operational experience.
It features a portfolio of workload-opti-
mized systems consisting of All-NVMe
HPE Alletra 9000 and 6000 systems to
deliver architectural flexibility to run
any application without compromise.
Data Services Cloud Console, cloud
data services, and HPE Alletra will be
available for order globally direct and
through channel partners May 2021.

5
Huawei Releases CloudCampus 3.0
for Fully Wireless Networks
Huawei Tech Investment Saudi Arabia
conducted the Huawei Middle East IP
Club Carnival 2021 and announced
new IP products and solutions for
customers across different sectors and
ecosystems. The event, which was held
virtually, was attended by network
access, One Global Network, Compre-
hensive Cloud Management and Intel-
ligent O&M of Campus network for
enterprise users. Additionally, the new
Air Engine Wi-Fi 6 not only delivers
the highest performance of 1.6Gbps
per user within the industry, but also
achieves the exclusive 100M Every-
where; continuous coverage with zero
lapses. The Air Engine Wi-Fi 6 plays a
key role in encouraging organizations
to be innovative by exercising data val-
ue and optimising O&M efficiency to
ensure stable businesses.
As digital technology is reshaping the
world, the campus connects people
and objects, integrates machines, sub-
stances, and events as one; forming a
carrier of work and life, and simulat-
ing a solid bedrock of the world for the
future of intelligence.
The new offering delivers a feature-rich solution that combines fully wireless access, One Global Network,
Comprehensive Cloud Management and Intelligent O&M of Campus network for enterprise users.
technology experts from around the
Middle East.
During the virtual event, Huawei
rolled out the CloudCampus 3.0 Solu-
tion, which delivers a feature-rich
solution that combines fully wireless
New business models are emerging
as digital technology extending from
campus to service to production. This
event delved into how digital tech-
nology can uncover the power of will
and innovation, from the three di-
mensions of business, technology, and
ecosystem, leading to paradigm shifts
towards digital transformation.
The ultimate objective of intelligent IP
network development, with a range of
applications — from video and remote
working solutions to cloud comput-
ing, and AI, is driving a new wave of
growth in the network bandwidth.
Campus networks are upgrading to
Wi-Fi 6 and 100 GE switches, while
data centers and IP backbone net-
works are already heading towards
400 GE supported by Big Data and AI
based predictive O&M.
Forcepoint Acquires Remote Browser
Isolation Innovator Cyberinc
The combined strengths of both companies will offer enterprises better visibility
and control to protect against advanced threats from wherever people are working.
lithic products through a best-in-class
SASE cloud service.”
The Forcepoint Data-first SASE plat-
form enables enterprises to use the
cloud to transform their network and
security architectures. It goes beyond
simply protecting access to resources;
by putting data security first, Force-
point’s SASE is able to simplify con-
nectivity, and unify security policy
enforcement everywhere employ-
ees, partners and customers use data
across the distributed enterprise. Re-
mote browser isolation has become a
key component utilized within mod-
ern SASE architectures.
Cyberinc has developed the Smart Iso-
lation capability that is context-aware
and adapts the browsing experience
with dynamic risk assessment, pow-
ered by the Cyberinc Threat Intelli-
gence Service.
Today’s distributed enterprises ampli-
fy challenges for security teams that
already must adapt to rapidly evolving
hybrid workforces and ever-expand-
ing SaaS applications. The Secure Ac-
cess Service Edge (SASE) architecture,
which reinvents fragmented network-
ing and security products as con-
verged, cloud-native services, provides
a compelling path forward.
“Forcepoint is executing on our vision
for the industry’s most comprehensive
data-first SASE offering that delivers
risk-based data security everywhere,
over every channel, to give custom-
ers consistent enforcement anywhere
their people work,” said Manny Rivelo,
CEO of Forcepoint. “The acquisition
of Cyberinc’s Smart Isolation capabil-
ities is the first of many investments
Forcepoint will make to enhance user
productivity, lower operational bur-
dens and eliminate traditional mono-
Data-first cybersecurity solutions
provider Forcepoint has announced
the company has acquired Cyberinc.
Cyberinc delivers intelligent remote
browser isolation (RBI) technology
that gives administrators granular con-
trol that enables them to minimize risk
without impeding user productivity.
Forcepoint will integrate Cyber-
inc’s Smart Isolation capabilities
within the company’s current SASE
offering, including Cloud Security
Gateway (web and cloud security),
Private Access (Zero Trust Network
Access), Email Security gateway and
Next-Generation Firewall to offer
enterprises of all sizes better visi-
bility and control to protect against
advanced threats as well as theft or
loss of sensitive data, wherever peo-
ple are working.
“Like Forcepoint, Cyberinc under-
stands the key to modern security is
to get ahead of the threat and prevent
breaches before they happen. Our
shared vision is to intelligently adapt
to the changing levels of risk posed as
employees click on links or web pages
while balancing a better native user
experience and security,” said Samir
Shah, CEO of Cyberinc.
Manny Rivelo, Forcepoint

6
New Avaya OneCloud CCaaS Features
to Enhance Customer Experiences
dicting and enabling better customer
experiences faster than traditional
approaches. Gartner predicts that by
2023, 40 percent of enterprise appli-
cations will have embedded conversa-
tional AI, up from less than 5 percent
today. These new AI-based benefits
enable Avaya to deliver on the prom-
ise and potential of OneCloud CCaaS
voice-based automation, in particular.
Key benefits of AI workflow:
• Realize the power of voice-based au-
tomation and intelligent interactions
using domain-led designs that are ef-
fortlessly composed
• Compose and modify applications
easily for hybrid cloud deployments
using a single visual user interface
• Leverage pluggable, pre-built, bring
or create your own AI
, with multi-
lingual Virtual Agent, Chatbot, and
Agent Assist capabilitiesand OOTB
integrations including Google Dialog-
Avaya has introduced new capabili-
ties for Avaya OneCloud CCaaS that
deliver better outcomes for customers
by connecting voice, digital and AI
applications using a single visual de-
sign environment.
The graphical low code/no code con-
versation composer empowers domain
expertstoquicklyintegrateawiderange
of AI-enabled insights and processes
with advanced OneCloud CCaaS voice
and digital capabilities. Contact center
staff are now empowered to create more
memorable customer experiences.
Availability of Avaya OneCloud
CCaaS was recently expanded across
the Middle East and Africa, including
Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
South Africa, Turkey, and the UAE.
AI-based customer service continues
to grow rapidly, by identifying, pre-
Connects voice, digital, and AI applications including Google, Nuance,
Amazon, IBM Watson and BYO into a single user interface.
“In a world where resources can be
accessed anywhere, anytime from
any device, traditional security
models focused on locking systems
down won’t cut it,” said Fermin Ser-
na, Chief Information Security Offi-
cer, Citrix. “What is needed is an in-
telligent, people-focused approach
that allows organizations to secure
all the tools, apps, content, and de-
vices that employees need and pre-
fer to use in a simple experience
that can be customized to fit their
personal preferences and evolving
work styles.”
The Citrix-Pulse survey supports
this notion. Of the IT executives and
managers in North America, Europe,
the Middle East, Africa and the Asia
Pacific region who responded to the
measure,
• 64 percent indicated that they are
aiming to shift from their current VPN
strategy
• 71 percent said they are looking to a
zero trust, cloud-based model as a re-
placement
CitrixResearchUncovers
NewApproachtoSecurity
And employee experience will figure
prominently in their plans:
• 97 percent of those surveyed cited
employee experience as a key influence
on their strategy going forward, and
• 75 percent said they are looking to im-
prove the user experience through their
design and execution
“Employee experience is critical to
delivering business innovation and
growth, and security must support
it,” Serna said. “Savvy organizations
recognize this and are evolving their
security postures to provide access
to applications and information in a
contextual and transparent way that
empowers employees rather than frus-
trating them.”
Citrix provides a powerful set of se-
cure access solutions that combine a
full cloud-delivered security stack in-
tegrated with identity-aware Zero Trust
Network Access (ZTNA) to protect
employees without getting in their way,
as well as a complete Secure Access Ser-
vices Edge (SASE) stack of services.
Global survey finds IT organizations shifting to intelligent,
zero trust models to accommodate future of work.
flow, Microsoft LUIS, IBM Watson and
Alexa Skills Kit
• Use built-in analytics and insights to
better support decisions on what cus-
tomers want and need
“Leveraging the power of AI, machine
learning and a multi-cloud platform,
Avaya is helping customers move be-
yond the traditional contact center to
create composable customer experience
centers that drive revenue and build
real brand advocacy,” said Anthony
Bartolo, Executive Vice President and
Chief Product Officer, Avaya. “Avaya’s
AI-powered workflow capability enables
users to easily compose and customise
applications, providing full integration
with data repositories ensuring con-
tinual improvement of underlying ma-
chine learning algorithms within Avaya’s
multi-cloud ecosystem across the Avaya
OneCloud portfolio. We’re making it
easier than ever for OneCloud CCaaS
users to synchronise resources across
the entire organization and deliver the
right knowledge at the right time for the
optimal outcomes.”
Implementing security used to be sim-
ple: Build a perimeter and protect the
resources inside. But as apps are increas-
ingly moving to the cloud and work is
happening anywhere, things have be-
come more complicated, and the tradi-
tional architecture of castle and moat no
longer works. IT organizations around
the world realize this, and according to
the results of a Pulse survey conducted
by Citrix System, are abandoning tra-
ditional approaches to securing infor-
mation and devices in favor of modern
ones that enable them to overcome
these challenges and deliver the future
of work.

7
Fortinethasannouncedenhancements
to the company’s FortiEDR solution,
whose customer adoption has been
growing exponentially. These include
new MITRE ATT&CK tags for system
activity, new managed detection and
response (MDR) service options and
the recently announced extended de-
tection and response (XDR) capability.
John Maddison, EVP of Products and
CMO at Fortinet, said, “Unlike tradi-
tional Endpoint Protection Platform
(EPP) products that bolt on Endpoint
Fortinet Unveils New FortiEDR Capabilities
ty into and reduces the endpoint attack
surface with a lightweight agent whose
operation is transparent to users.
• Integrated Endpoint Protection
(EPP) with EDR: Not only does this
approach prevent
attacks pre- and
post-execution,
but can also de-
tect threats that
bypass the pre-
vention layer and
quickly respond
to minimize busi-
ness impact.
• Managed detec-
tion and response
(MDR) service: Delivers 24x7 threat
monitoring, alert triage, remote re-
sponse and environment tuning for
additional expertise and insight.
To help organizations secure their
environments and protect critical
infrastructure in an evolving threat
Detection and Response (EDR), or
first generation EDR solutions that
add EPP later, FortiEDR is the only
solution that was built as a unified
solution from the start. As a result, it
seamlessly provides behavior-based
protection, detection and response at
both pre-infection and post-compro-
mise stages as demonstrated in the
recent MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation
results. In the past year, FortiEDR
customer adoption grew more than
300 percent. This advancement in
endpoint security is critical to defend
against the sophistication and mali-
ciousness of recent high profile cyber-
attacks and evolution of ransomware.”
With the latest additions, organiza-
tions of all sizes can now benefit from
advanced endpoint protection with
automated endpoint detection and re-
sponse (EDR), including:
• Cloud-native Endpoint Security:
Helps secure workers’ computers on
and off the network, providing visibili-
New updates include MITRE ATT&CK tags for system activity, MDR service
options and extended detection and response (XDR) capability.
FortiEDR
seamlessly provides
behavior-based
protection, detection
and response at both
pre-infection and post-
compromise stages.”
John Maddison, Fortinet
landscape, FortiEDR delivers patented
ransomware protection without any
dependency on shadow copies that the
more sophisticated cyberattacks dis-
able. Additional patented detect and
defuse capabilities thwart other class-
es of advanced
threat while
m a i n t a i n i n g
high availability
even in the midst
of a security in-
cident. This also
buys valuable
time needed for
full incident re-
sponse. Unlike
other endpoint
protection solu-
tions that rely on known threat intel-
ligence to block attacks or blunt tools
for detection and response, FortiE-
DR provides durable behavior-based
protection and ongoing analysis and
automatable response that can roll
back malicious changes without taking
machines offline to re-image.
Mimecast: 61% of Firms were
Infected with Ransomware in 2020
Mimecast has announced the pub-
lication of its fifth annual ‘The State
of Email Security’ report. The report
shows enterprises faced unprecedent-
ed cybersecurity risk in 2020 from
increasing attack volume, the pan-
cast’s Threat Center data, which screens
more than one billion emails per day.
A full 79% of respondents indicated
their companies had experienced a
business disruption, financial loss or
other setback in 2020 due to a lack
of cyber preparedness. Respondents
identified ransomware as the chief
culprit behind these disruptions. 61%
indicated they had been impacted by
ransomware in 2020, a 20% increase
over the number of companies report-
ing such disruption in last year’s report.
Also, more than half (52%) of ran-
somware victims paid threat actor
ransom demands, but only two-
thirds (66%) of those were able to
recover their data. The remaining
one-third (34%) never saw their data
again, despite paying the ransom.
While ransomware was a big problem
Mimecast’s annual ‘The State of Email Security’ report also revealed 79%
suffered disruption or financial loss due to cyber preparedness shortcomings.
demic-driven digital transformation
of work, and generally deficient cyber
preparedness and training. The report
is based on a global survey of 1,225 in-
formation technology and cybersecu-
rity leaders, and supported by Mime-
for organizations in 2020, it wasn’t the
only one. The report also revealed ad-
ditional threat trends, including a 64%
year-over-year increase in threat vol-
ume and an increase in email usage in
eight out of 10 companies. 47% of sur-
vey respondents noted they saw an in-
crease in email spoofing activity while
71% said they are concerned about the
risks posed by archived conversations
from collaboration tools.
Despite facing an elevated threat vol-
ume, the report found that companies
aren’t doing well in the area of threat
prevention. In addition to the 79%
of respondents who indicated a lack
of cyber preparedness, other notable
findings include 40% of those surveyed
said their organizations fall short in
one or more critical areas of email
security systems, leaving employees
open to phishing, malware, business
email compromise and other attacks.
Given these factors, it’s not surprising
that 70% of survey respondents be-
lieve their business will be harmed by
email attacks in the next year. In 2020,
only 59% of respondents said they felt
this way.

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Software AG has announced new in-
novations of its webMethods platform
for APIs, Integration and Microser-
vices. With this release, companies can
simplify and accelerate their digital
transformation initiatives while also
speeding their adoption of cloud.
Suraj Kumar, GM of API, Integration
and Microservices at Software AG,
said, “Companies today are facing un-
precedented challenges with speed of
digital transformation. Our customers
are accelerating their multi-year road-
map of digital programs to months just
to keep pace with this rapidly chang-
ing and disruptive market. That’s why
we are focused on helping companies
accelerate their digital transformation
initiatives. Our customers are innovat-
ing daily, customizing curbside pick-
up, monetizing data, deploying digital
healthcare and rolling out open bank-
ing solutions, for example.”
The latest updates to webMeth-
ods include:
• To simplify cloud adoption, Software
AGhasaddedAIandML-assistedsmart
mapping. Now users are given suggested
mappings based on the combined best
practices across the platform, reducing
the effort of building integrations.
• A new online community gives
partners and users the opportunity
to share cloud connectors as well as
integration templates, or “recipes,” to
build their projects faster and with
fewer errors.
Palo Alto Networks Introduces
Complete Zero Trust Network Security
Software AG Delivers New
webMethods Upgrades
Democratize and speed development
and integration of data and services
for use in applications with a new
graphical flow editor for power users,
as well as a drag and drop UI for busi-
ness users (multi-persona interface).
• Enhancements to develop produc-
tivity with improved DevOps capa-
bilities including open APIs for all
API Management and Microservices
deployment functionality, container-
ized runtimes, helm charts, and CI/
CD samples to simplify update rollout.
• Eliminate the complexity of man-
aging business application with
webMethods AppMesh that ties to-
gether its API Management and Mi-
croservices platforms to bring applica-
tion-level visibility and control.
• Secure access for the right users:
The industry’s first Cloud Identity
Engine allows customers to easi-
ly authenticate and authorize their
users across enterprise networks,
clouds and applications, irrespective
of where their
identity stores
live.
• Enhanced
security: The
Advanced URL
Filtering service
offers indus-
try-first preven-
tion of zero-day
web attacks
with inline
machine learning capabilities. The
expanded DNS Security capabilities
prevent emerging DNS attacks that
no other solution protects against.
• Making secure access universal-
ly available: These new capabilities
are designed to be available on all
firewall form factors: hardware, soft-
ware and cloud-delivered, making
safe access universally available, re-
gardless of where users are located.
In addition to the existing firewalls,
these innovations will run on new
ML-Powered
Next-Gener-
ation Firewall
models to en-
able Zero Trust
Network Secu-
rity across your
enterprise —
from the small-
est branch of-
fices (with the
PA-400 Series)
to the largest
campuses and hyperscale data cen-
ters (with the PA-5450 platform).

Most of the hardware and all of the
new features will be available in
June. The smallest desktop firewall,
the PA-410, will be available ain
late summer.
device in any location. Enabling
this seamless experience securely is
one of the many promises of a Zero
Trust architecture,” said Anand Os-
wal, Senior Vice President, Firewall
as a Platform, Palo Alto Networks.
“Today we are making it signifi-
cantly simpler for companies to
adopt complete Zero Trust Net-
work Security.”

The latest introductions of SaaS
Security, Advanced URL Filtering,
DNS Security, Cloud Identity En-
gine, and new ML-Powered Fire-
walls allow organizations to easily
and effectively implement Zero
Trust Network Security with four
key benefits:
• Secure access to the right appli-
cations: The first integrated Cloud
Access Security Broker (CASB)
that allows customers to proactive-
ly extend secure access to all SaaS
applications, including those never
seen before.
Industry-leading innovations help customers adopt a zero trust architecture across their network security stack.
Latest release makes it possible for anyone – from business users to power users – to free
their data to deliver innovative new applications and services across on premise and cloud.
Palo Alto Networks has introduced
five key innovations that make it eas-
ier for customers to adopt Zero Trust
across their network security stack.

“The productivity of a hybrid work-
force lies in the ability for users to
move freely on and off the campus
network and still securely access
any applications or data from any
We are making
it significantly
simpler for
companies to adopt
complete Zero Trust
Network Security.”
Companies
can now simplify
and accelerate
their digital
transformation
initiatives while
also speeding their
adoption of cloud.
Anand Oswal, Palo Alto Networks
Suraj Kumar, Software AG

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for enterprise environments, which
has resulted in +246% growth YoY in
large-deal transactions. Contributing
to this specific segment growth is 17
new product releases since VeeamON
2020 (12 months ago) that span the
ecosystem of cloud, virtual, physical,
SaaS and application-specific envi-
ronments, including Veeam Backup
& Replication v11. The firm also re-
leased Veeam Backup for Microsoft
Office 365 v5 at the end of 2020.
Veeam credits its growth to being
software-defined, hardware-agnostic,
cloud-ready and flexible. In addition
to 83 primary storage arrays and 85
secondary storage systems, it has offi-
cially validated support for 37 object
storage systems, 12 of which are im-
mutable – including support across
all three hyper-scalers (AWS, Azure
and Google Cloud Storage) and avail-
able in all 3 respective marketplaces.
Veeam boasts more than 1EB of data
protected with object storage in just
the past 2 years.
Veeam Accelerates Data Protection
Strategies at VeeamON 2021
with market demands by adding
solutions for multiple hypervisors,
physical systems, SaaS offerings
(Microsoft Office 365), public cloud
environments, and most recently, is
now doubling down on modern in-
frastructure like Kubernetes (with
the recent acquisition of Kasten).
Modern Data Protection, defined by
Veeam, provides a single platform for
data resiliency to protect every work-
load, access all platforms with a single
experience, reduce operational costs,
and ensure guaranteed recovery.
Veeam recently announced another
quarter of double-digit growth with
an annual recurring revenue (ARR)
increase of 25% year-over-year (YoY)
for Q1’21 – the thirteenth consecutive
quarter of double-digit growth. Vee-
am highlights strong growth in the
Enterprise segment with two-thirds
of the bookings coming from net
new licenses vs. only one-third from
renewals. Veeam continues to release
new features and enhancements ideal
three cloud object storage providers
alone in just the first quarter of 2021,
compared to 242 PB in all of 2020,
and we recently surpassed 1 million
active Veeam Backup & Replication
installations. Data storage in the
cloud is just one of the engines that
is driving massive growth at Veeam.
And the way we’ve built and evolved
our single platform for Modern Data
Protection – to be simple, flexible,
reliable and powerful – continues
our solid reputation of the being the
industry standard and providing the
highest level of value to customers.
VeeamON attendees not only heard
about how they can leverage our solu-
tions to advance their data protection
strategies, but also saw a glimpse into
the future. We delivered more than
20 new products and major product
updates over the last 18 months, but
there is so much more to come.”
Quickly known as the very best back-
up solution for VMware vSphere,
Veeam has continued to evolve along
The pure play modern data protection provider lays down a marker for future growth and continued market leadership.
Talend: Over a Third of Business Leaders
Don’t Use Data for Critical Decisions
According to a recent survey by Talend, 78% of leaders say they face challenges in using their data.
Only half of the executives highly rate
their ability to deliver the basics: timely,
accessible, complete, and accurate data.
Data management companies have been
offeringtosolvetheseproblemsforyears
— but they’re focused on the mechanics
of data like moving it and storing it.
“Our relationship with data is un-
healthy. Only 40% of executives al-
ways trust the data they work with, and
more than a third of executives are
still making decisions based on gut
instincts,” said Christal Bemont, CEO,
Talend. “The reality of data is falling
well short of the industry’s vision. Data
management, which largely focuses on
moving and storing data, doesn’t take
into account the overall health of data.
Therefore, in trying to manage data,
companies are in fact creating digi-
tal landfills of corporate information.
This has to change. Our vision of data
health is the future because it recog-
nizes fundamental standards for quali-
ty and reliability are critical for corpo-
rate survival.”
Data health is Talend’s vision for a
holistic system of preventative mea-
sures, effective treatments, and a sup-
portive culture to actively manage the
well-being of corporate information.
It is designed to allow companies to
answer basic questions about their
data that remain challenging for
many to address — where it resides,
who has access to it, whether it’s ac-
curate, and how much it’s worth.
Data health would help organizations
understand and communicate — in
a quantifiable way — the reliability,
risk, and return of this extremely crit-
ical business asset.
they face challenges in using their data,
and more than a third say they simply
aren’t using it to make decisions.
There’s a difference between data-satu-
rated and data-driven. Companies have
more access to data than ever before, but
there’s very little way to make sense of it.
Talend has released the results of a
survey that highlighted the challenges
businesses face in becoming data-driv-
en organizations and the solutions to
these challenges. It’s clear that business
leaders know how important data is —
two-thirds report that they use data
every day. Yet 78% of these leaders say
Danny Allan, Veeam
Veeam Software delivered a clear over-
view of its vision and strategy for the
most advanced data protection solu-
tions for cloud, virtual, SaaS, Kuberne-
tes and physical workloads at its sev-
enth annual user event VeeamON 2021.
Danny Allan, CTO and SVP Product
Strategy, Veeam, said, “We moved
more than 100 PB of data into our top

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