Veeam Software announced a 26% year-over-year increase in annual recurring revenue, emphasizing its transition to a subscription business model, while the luxury resort Atlantis, The Palm, is modernizing its IT infrastructure using Dell Technologies to enhance customer experience. Additionally, a survey indicates that many UAE businesses struggle with AI adoption due to knowledge gaps and resource constraints, despite a strong interest in integrating AI technologies. Barracuda Networks also reported substantial growth in its email protection services, driven by innovations to combat sophisticated email threats.

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Veeam tightens leadership in Cloud Data
Management Market
Double-digit growth in annual recurring revenue highlights accelerated transi-
tion to a subscription business model
This project allows the 5 star luxury resort to focus on business
innovations and reduce administrative burden on IT teams
Veeam Software, the leader in Back-
up solutions that deliver Cloud Data
Management announced results from
Q2 2019. Having recently exceed-
ed $1 billion in annual bookings,
joining an elite group of software
leaders, Veeam’s annual recurring
revenue (ARR) increased 26 percent
year-over-year (YoY) in Q2 2019, a
testament to the success of a unique
subscription pricing model intro-
duced earlier this year for all new
Veeam products, including new Vee-
am Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4.
Hailed as one of the most important
releases in Veeam company history,
Veeam Availability Suite U4 is ap-
proaching 350,000 downloads since
its release in January.
“As we continue to heavily invest
in our R&D, sales and marketing,
and partner ecosystem, we’re seeing
increased adoption of Veeam’s Sub-
scription licensing among our cus-
tomers across all regions worldwide,”
said Ratmir Timashev, Co-Founder
and Executive Vice President (EVP)
of Sales & Marketing. “Each geog-
raphy reported growth, which shows
that, and as we move into Act II of
our evolution — the Hybrid Cloud —
it’s an exciting time to be at Veeam.
Seventy-two percent of organizations
are looking to embrace Cloud Data
Management1 and are transitioning
to cloud strategies. We’re excited to
support their journey and meet data
expectations as the No. 1 player in
Cloud Data Management.”
“Collaboration with strategic tech-
nology partners has never been stron-
ger or in higher demand,” Timashev
continued. “We expect to make addi-
tional partner announcements in 2H
2019 to further feed the demand of
our partners to combine Veeam back-
up and data protection software with
industry-leading hardware, storage
and hyperconverged solutions. Our
new “with Veeam” program, which
is receiving overwhelming positive
response, is just one strategy of how
Veeam will innovate and collaborate
with its technology partners to deliv-
er a combined hardware plus soft-
ware solution to enhance customer
choice and flexibility.”
Atlantis,ThePalmselectsDellTechnologies
toreinventandmodernizeitsITEnvironment
Atlantis, The Palm, announced that
they have selected Dell Technolo-
gies’ industry leading virtualization
technologies to help effectively
manage the availability, reliability
and serviceability of its mission-crit-
ical hospitality applications. With
plans to transform its customer ex-
perience, this deployment aims to
help Atlantis, The Palm, break the
physical boundaries of traditional IT
and offer greater simplicity to boost
business agility and innovation.
Atlantis, The Palm, welcomes peo-
ple from over 227 different coun-
tries and serves 4.4 million dining
guests every year. This has resulted
in a consistently growing large vol-
umes of transactional data, which
highlights the critical importance of
a truly consolidated and integrated
IT environment to better support
and manage rapidly expanding cus-
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>> Continued on page 4
Anthony Lynsdale,
Vice President of IT, Atlantis
Ratmir Timashev
Co-Founder and EVP of Sales
& Marketing, Veeam

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Barracudaacceleratesgrowthin
emailprotection
LufthansaTechnik
embarksondigi-
taltransformation
withPTC
Almost half of businesses in
the UAE are struggling with a
knowledge gap when it comes
to adopting artificial intelligence
(AI), according to a survey of
business leaders in the UAE,
conducted by Vanson Bourne
and sponsored by Avaya Hold-
ings Corp.
That gap can be attributed to
the confusion between “real AI”
and “TV/movie AI” as cited by
44% of UAE respondents —
higher than the global average
of just 30%. And those organi-
zations that have success-fully
navigated this potential stum-
bling block are held back by re-
source constraints; 40% of UAE
organi-zations claim to lack
the in-house skills to facilitate
adoption. Given these challeng-
es, it isn’t surprising that 98%
of UAE businesses concede that
their organization has work to
do if it is to get the most out of
AI.
However, UAE organizations
are keen to overcome the chal-
lenges around adopting AI.
Nearly half of UAE organiza-
tions (46%) want to adopt more
solutions integrating AI-based
technologies.
“While it is encouraging to see
the strong appetite for AI in the
UAE, the fact that organizations
are still struggling to separate
the AI fact from fiction validates
the guidance and approach we
have been offer-ing our cus-
tomers,” said Yaser Alzubaidi,
Senior Director – Digital En-
gagement Solutions, Avaya
Interna-tional. “We have often
stated that organizations do not
need AI — they need solutions
to business is-sues. Applying AI
for the sake of AI can be tempt-
ing. However, the main focus
of any CEO looking to deliver
best-in-class customer and em-
ployee experiences should be on
utilizing AI, if — and only if —
it solves a business issue.”
Just 25% of UAE business-
es have a fully implemented
Barracuda Networks, a leading
provider of cloud-enabled se-
curity solutions, has announced
accelerated growth for its email
protection business for FY2019
with a $200 million annual rev-
enue run rate and accelerating
growth for Barracuda Sentinel,
the company’s advanced tech-
nology that leverages API in-
tegration to protect businesses
from spear phishing, account
takeover, business email com-
promise, and fraud. Driven by
innovations in detection, re-
sponse, and automated cleanup
to counter the increased sophis-
tication of email threats that
occur beyond the gateway, Sen-
tinel sales bookings grew 440
percent year-over-year at the
end of Q1 FY2020.
Email protection is a notable
growth vector in the managed
service provider market as well.
Barracuda MSP, the MSP-ded-
icated business unit of Bar-
racuda, saw annual recurring
NewAvayaResearchreveals
challengesforAIadoptionintheUAE
93% of UAE organizations Identify AI as one of the most important
technologies in 2019
Key innovations in detection and response beyond
the email gateway drive increased adoption
PTC drives Lufthansa’s Smart Factory
with IoT technology
>> Continued on page 5
revenue for its email protection
business grow 122 percent year-
over-year for Q1 FY2020.
“We are excited to see this sol-
id momentum across our email
protection business,” said BJ
Jenkins, CEO of Barracuda.
“Our product pipeline is strong,
offering customers email pro-
tection beyond traditional gate-
ways to safeguard employees
and organizations. We are fo-
cused on continuing to expand
our award-winning portfolio
with comprehensive, easy-to-
use solutions to protect against
socially-engineered, targeted
attacks like business email com-
promise and account takeover.”
According to Gartner: “The
email security market is starting
to adopt a continuous adaptive
risk and trust assessment (CAR-
TA) mindset and acknowledge
that perfect protection is not
possible. As a result, vendors
are evolving or emerging to sup-
port new detect and response
capabilities by integrating di-
rectly with the email system via
API.”1
Market conditions are also a
significant factor in the growing
demand for email protection as
threats continue to proliferate
and have a major impact on busi-
nesses of all sizes. A Barracuda
report released today found that
82 percent of surveyed IT se-
curity professionals have faced
email attacks over the past year.
74 percent of those surveyed
advised that these attacks are
having a direct business impact
in the form of lost productivity
(48%), downtime (36%), dam-
age to ITs reputation (28%), re-
covery costs (20%), and more.
The Lufthansa Technik Group, a global pro-
vider of full-service aerospace services, has
launched the Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM) solutionWindchill and the Industrial
IoT (IIoT)ThingWorx platform from PTC as
core digital technologies Transformation of
product devel-opment and design processes
selected.
Windchill will serve as the technical back-
bone to enable the R & D and manufacturing
divisions to work simultaneously and inten-
sify collaboration both internally and among
the many suppliers. Se-cure data storage will
also help ensure the protection of Lufthansa
Technik’s intellectual property throughout the
global supply chain. ThingWorx will help the
group monitor their operations, drive automa-
tion and increase data-driven decision-mak-
ing. Together, Windchill and ThingWorx will
en-able a significant increase in the level of
digitization within Group processes, improve
interfaces with customers and suppliers, and
help generate revenue streams through new
innovative digital business models.
“Lufthansa Technik stands for state-of-the-art
workmanship and the highest quality, and the
size of our organization combined with the
complexity of the processes and projects we
push forward has made the crucial step to-
ward holistic digital transformation impera-
tive,” said Drs. Severin S. Todt, Senior Direc-
tor of IT Completion and Design Solutions,
Lufthansa Technik AG. “Lufthansa Tech-nik
conducted a comprehensive assessment of
competitive PLM and IoT systems before
deciding on PTC, and chose PTC technology
for its world-class architecture and seamless
integration with Windchill and ThingWorx.
Combined with the robust data management
backbone and the award-winning IIoT plat-
form, a new level of collaboration is enabled
both internally and externally. It also protects
our intellectual property and helps us mea-
sure and maintain the highest quality possi-
ble at all times. The PTC Customer Success
Program helped us a lot with the first IoT
projects. If required, we were able to obtain
technical know-how from highly qualified
technology experts. With this tour, we were
able to achieve our project goals in a timely
and smooth manner.”
“One of our key areas at PTC is to enable the
digital transformation in aerospace and de-
fense, and we are proud to join forces with
Lufthansa Technik in their path of transfor-
mation,” said Kevin Wrenn, Divisional Gen-
eral Manager, PLM Segment, PTC.

4. transform cor-
porate culture.
In essence, we
believe this is
digital trans-
formation at its
core.”
HyperIntelli-
gence injects
analytics into
the applica-
tions that peo-
ple use every
day – Google’s
G Suite, Microsoft Office 365, SaaS applications
such as Salesforce, Workday, and Atlassian, pop-
ular mobile productivity apps, and more – and
delivers relevant, contextual insights tailored to
each individual. With MicroStrategy 2019 Up-
date 2, people on-the-go can easily receive con-
textual insights on their favorite apps and devices
with HyperIntelligence for Office and HyperIn-
telligence for Mobile. Rather than looking up in-
formation across a number of corporate systems,
users can get vital information about upcoming
meetings in real-time and quickly find data using
their iOS and Android devices. Update 2 intro-
duces a number of enhancements and new prod-
ucts, including:
HyperIntelligence for Mobile, which now reach-
es people with Android mobile devices as well
as iOS devices. Update 2 includes a standalone
HyperIntelligence app for Android that works on
both tablets and smartphones and supports in-app
search and calendar-based notifications. Experi-
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>> From page 1
Atlantis,The
Palm...
MicroStrategy2019Update2expands
thereachofHyperIntelligence
tomer base and improve business outcomes.
In addition, as competition in the hospitality and
entertainment sector increases, this majestic 5
star luxury hotel has pushed the boundaries of in-
dustry excellence and has taken a global lead on
one of the most important aspects of travel and
tourism - quality customer experience. Maintain-
ing this momentum of business success to stay
relevant in a highly digitized business landscape
requires the resort to ensure greater utilization
of infrastructure investments, lower infrastruc-
ture, energy, and facility costs and enable its IT
staff focus on business innovation rather than
time-consuming administrative tasks.
To this end, Atlantis, The Palm chose to adopt
Dell Technologies’ best in class VxRail and
leverage its purpose-built capabilities to move
and respond at the speed of business, differentiate
its business and safeguard its brand.
Unlike the resort’s traditional IT environment
MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of
enterprise analytics and mobility software, has
announced the general availability of MicroStrat-
egy 2019 Update 2, adding powerful new capa-
bilities and products for MicroStrategy 2019, the
industry’s first and only platform for Federated
Analytics, Transformational Mobility, and Hy-
perIntelligence. Designed to revolutionize how
people across the enterprise access, act on, and
collaborate around their critical business data,
MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2 expands the reach
of HyperIntelligence to further ignite a culture of
analytics capable of exponentially driving digital
transformation.
MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2 significantly boosts
the functionality of the MicroStrategy 2019 plat-
form. Specifically, the latest update expands the
platform’s suite of HyperIntelligence products
to supercharge web browsing, accelerate access
to intuitive intelligence on iOS and Android de-
vices, and add windows of contextual insights to
email on Outlook. The new update also delivers
powerful enhancements designed to augment
user productivity on popular BI tools including
Tableau, Power BI, and Qlik, putting trusted in-
sights into the hands of a larger number of users
within the enterprise. This year, MicroStrategy
which impacted the efficiency of mission critical
applications and hampered Disaster Recovery
solutions and strategies due to its complexities,
Dell Technologies’ VxRail enables Atlantis, The
Palm to ensure delivery of continuous innovation
with future-proof performance. This new solution
is designed to provide next-generation simplicity
and higher operational efficiency and enhanced
security – resulting in low administrative over-
head costs.
A strong IT backbone is instrumental to the re-
sort’s ability to meet the ever growing demands
from consumers who today need secure, uninter-
rupted access to services and products anytime,
anywhere. Therefore, this project with Dell Tech-
nologies, will allow Atlantis, The Palm to power
its transformation journey, elevate the benchmark
of the industry and ensure a sustained growth of
visitors as well as its business, in line with the
national aspirations of Dubai 2020. The solution
was deployed and implemented in partnership
with Emircom, a leading partner to Dell Technol-
ogies.
Anthony Lynsdale, Vice President of IT, at At-
lantis, The Palm said,“The ability to digitize our
business will continue to intensify in the coming
years, reinforcing the need for Atlantis The Palm,
to set the foundation for the new digital era. Our
Platform Update Brings HyperIntelligence to Mobile Users and Injects
Analytics into Popular Business Applications
first step was to choose Dell Technologies as our
trusted partner, as we embark on our transforma-
tional journey. We are driven by our commitment
to deliver the highest levels of service excellence,
we are confident that our partnership with Dell
Technologies will help us to achieve our core ob-
jectives of strengthening the loyalty of our cus-
tomers and ensure sustainable business growth.”
Fady Richmany, Senior Director and General
Manager, UAE at Dell Technologies said “The
hospitality industry in the UAE is seeing un-
precedented digital disruption, as they seek to
transform their technology infrastructure to boost
competitiveness, enhance customer experience
and streamline operational management.Atlantis,
The Palm opted for VxRail - Dell Technologies’
automated, turnkey hyper-converged solution,
that delivers cost-effective, high-performance
computing and a simplified path to an on premise,
hybrid cloud experience. The result is the elim-
ination of inefficient processes through a more
agile IT environment that supports their need to
transform and scale operations rapidly and effi-
ciently. We are pleased to have been chosen by
Atlantis, The Palm as their technology partner of
choice and look forward to working closely with
them as they embark on their IT transformation
journey.”
2019 received the highest product scores for four
use cases in the “2019 Gartner Critical Capabili-
ties for Analytics and Business Intelligence Plat-
forms” report.
Despite widespread investment in analytics, a
majority of business users lack easy access to
corporate data and contextual insights to make
better, timely decisions throughout the course of
their day. These users are left to navigate their
complex technology ecosystem and sift through
applications or silos of data stored across a num-
ber of BI tools, preventing a data-driven culture
from becoming pervasive across the enterprise.
“HyperIntelligence creates a unique environment
for users as they move through their day by in-
jecting valuable insights into their sightline,” said
Michael J. Saylor, CEO, MicroStrategy Incorpo-
rated. “It’s having a ripple effect on how people
make decisions, connecting them to each other
and to the products, customers, and core metrics
that matter most to their business. We use Mi-
croStrategy 2019 internally and it has sparked
curiosity and inspired collaboration across the
entire organization. We’re seeing a whole new set
of use cases spring to life that have the poten-
tial to ignite faster, better decisions and entirely

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Microsoftannouncesinvestmentsto
broadenopportunitiesforpartners
AI strategy, according to the research, with the
remainder still weighing up use cases. With
customer experience more important than ever
before, Alzubaidi suggests focusing on those ap-
plications of AI that can have a measurable pos-
itive impact on the customer journey as the best
place to start. This means integrating AI into the
contact center.
UAE businesses agree on this point; 92% of UAE
respondents said that effective AI can transform
the performance of their contact center. Indeed,
over half (51%) are at least half-way through their
strategy for rolling out AI in the contact center.
“AI can be so much more than chatbots; for ex-
ample, First Call Resolution (FCR) is a perfect
use case for AI that demonstrates this. AI can
support the customer service agent by collating
all relevant infor-mation on the customer, in re-
al-time, and presenting it in a format that allows
the agent to easily view, interpret and action the
customer’s query without the need for multiple
touch points,” explainedAlzubaidi. “Practical ap-
plications like these will offer the fastest route to
success in implementing AI.”
As AI becomes more prominent, 87% of UAE
organizations say they’ll need to look for more
third-party support. Recognizing this, Avaya has
in recent years evolved its product portfolio and
partner ecosys-tem to offer its customers the eas-
iest path to implementing AI into their business.
>> From page 3
Yaser Alzubaidi
Senior Director – DES, Avaya
NewAvaya
Research...
Microsofts shares how it is tuning partner investments for the cloud
era, including updates to Teams, Dynamics 365, Azure
Microsoft has announced new investments in
technologies and programs designed to support
its partner ecosystem. The investments are aimed
at helping optimize Microsoft’s partner engage-
ment for the cloud era.
“Customers and partners alike continue to move
to the cloud and accelerate their digital trans-
for-mation, leading us to new and different levels
of partnership,” said Gavriella Schuster, corpo-
rate vice president of Microsoft’s One Commer-
cial Partner group. “Our portfolio of programs,
offers and resources for companies partnering
with Microsoft is transforming to help them cap-
italize on this opportunity.”
Investments in products and programs
Microsoft Teams extensions and adoption: The
company also announced new features in Mi-cro-
soft Teams for every worker — including new
ways to support healthcare organizations and
firstline workers. Additional new partner integra-
tions include support for contact centers, com-
pli-ance recording and cloud solution providers.
Dynamics 365 updates: The company an-
nounced significant updates to the Dynamics 365
Non-profit Accelerator and two new integrations
for Dynamics 365 that address the automotive
and fi-nancial services industries. In addition, the
Business Applications ISV Connect program is
generally available, with new development tools
and guidance, marketplace resources, joint field
engagement processes and go-to-market support.
Introducing Azure Lighthouse: Azure Light-
house gives partners a single control plane to
view and manage Azure at scale across all their
customers. This provides a better managed Azure
experience with higher automation and efficien-
cy, resulting in greater visibility and security for
customers.
Azure Migration Program: The new Azure Mi-
gration Program (AMP) helps customers accel-
erate their migration to Azure. AMP offers pro-
active advice and tools to help mitigate risks and
address common issues associated with moving
workloads to the cloud.
Broadening partner opportunity
General availability of the Microsoft Security
competency: This new competency allows part-
ners to market their expertise and provides access
to a range of benefits designed to enable business
growth and profitability.
Five advanced specializations: These include
Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to
Mi-crosoft Azure, Linux and Open Source Data-
bases Migration to Microsoft Azure, Data Ware-
house Migration to Microsoft Azure, Moderniza-
tion of Web Applications in Microsoft Azure, and
Kuber-netes on Microsoft Azure.
New advancements in marketplace: Additional
pricing models, a rewards program and a new
route to market are rolling out in July for com-
panies that publish transactable offers in Micro-
soft’s expanded commercial marketplace. The
pricing models include monthly and annual SaaS
billing, flexible, custom-metered billing options,
standard contracts, and free SaaS trials that con-
vert to paid engagements.
ence the power of HyperIntelligence for Mobile
today. The HyperIntelligence for Mobile app can
be easily downloaded and installed from the Goo-
gle Play store and Apple AppStore.
HyperIntelligence for Office, a new product that
brings HyperIntelligence to the extensively used
Microsoft Office client – Outlook. HyperIntelli-
gence can supercharge emails within Microsoft
Outlook to bring zero-click, contextual insights
to the millions of active users of the Outlook
desktop and web clients. This new product en-
ables users to find relevant, contextual insights
within their emails and Outlook-based workflows
through HyperIntelligence cards. Bite-sized
views of information are consolidated into cards
that appear to users in their Outlook application.
The cards are accessible via a brand-new add-in
for the Outlook web and desktop clients for both
Windows PC and Mac.
HyperIntelligence for Web, which introduces
enhanced cards with more out-of-the-box tem-
plates that now include dynamic links to URLs.
Not only can users see contextual information
on their web applications, but they can also drive
workflows by directly linking other applications.
Gavriella Schuster, Corporate VP,
Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner Group

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SonicWall has announced the find-
ings from its mid-year update of the
2019 SonicWall Cyber Threat Re-
port, based on real-world data from
more than 1 million international
security sensors in over 200 coun-
tries. New data found an escalation
in ransomware-as-a-service, open-
source malware kits and cryptojack-
ing used by cybercriminals.
“Organizations continue to struggle
to track the evolving patterns of cy-
berattacks — the shift to malware
cocktails and evolving threat vec-
tors — which makes it extremely
difficult for them to defend them-
selves,” said SonicWall President
and CEO Bill Conner. “In the first
half of 2019, SonicWall Real-Time
Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI)
technology unveiled 74,360 ‘nev-
er-before-seen’ malware variants.
To be effective, companies must
harness innovative technology, such
as machine learning, to be proactive
against constantly-changing attack
strategies.”
Ransomware-as-a-Service:
The Exploit Kit of Choice
While global malware volume is
down 20%, SonicWall Capture
Labs threat researchers found a
15% increase in ransomware attacks
globally and a 195% surge in ran-
somware within the United King-
dom. SonicWall threat researchers
accredit this to criminals’ new pref-
erence of ransomware-as-a-service
(RaaS) and open-source malware
kits.
IoT Dispersing Malware at
Record Pace
As businesses and consumers con-
tinue to connect devices to the
internet without proper security
measures, IoT devices have been in-
creasingly leveraged by cybercrimi-
nals to dispense malware payloads.
In the first half of 2019, SonicWall
observed a 55% increase in IoT at-
tacks, a number that outpaces the
first two quarters of the previous
year.
Bitcoin Run Keeping Crypto-
jacking in Play
Cryptojacking volume hit 52.7 mil-
lion for the first six months of the
year, a 9% increase over
the last six months of 2018.
This rise can be partially at-
tributed to the rise in bitcoin
and Monero prices, helping
cryptojacking stay relevant
as a lucrative option for cy-
bercriminals. Coinhive re-
mains the top cryptojacking
signature despite the service
closing in March 2019. One
reason for the high detection
is that compromised web-
sites have not been cleaned
since the infection, even
though the Coinhive service
is non-existent and the URL has
been abandoned.
Attacks Against Non-Stan-
dard Ports Still A Concern
Cybercriminals have their sights set
on non-standard ports for web traffic
as a manner to deliver their payloads
undetected. Based on a sample size
of more than 210 million malware
attacks recorded through June 2019,
Capture Labs monitored the largest
spike on record since tracking the
vector when one quarter of malware
attacks came across non-standard
Sonicwall2019mid-yearreportshowsworldwide
malwaredecreaseof20%
ports in May 2019 alone.
Malicious PDFs, Office Files
Remain Dangerous to Busi-
nesses
Traditional PDFs and Office files
continue to be routinely leveraged to
exploit users’trust and experience to
deliver malicious payloads. In Feb-
ruary and March 2019, SonicWall
Capture Labs threat researchers
found that 51% and 47% of ‘nev-
er-before-seen’attacks, respectively,
came via PDFs or Office files.
Rise in ransomware as a service, IoT attacks and cryptojacking
An online study of more than 10,000
respondents in EMEAi conducted
by Palo Alto Networks and YouGov
alongside Dr Jessica Barker, an ex-
pert in the human nature of cyber-
security, explores attitudes towards
new cybersecurity technologies,
such as artificial intelligence (AI),
and how these technologies protect
their digital way of life.
Just over a quarter (26%) of EMEA
respondents would prefer their cy-
bersecurity to be managed by AI
rather than a human. Italy has the
most confidence in relying on AI
(38%), while in the UK only 21
percent of people prefer AI over
humans to protect their digital way
of life.
The research suggests that those
who are more open to AI technolo-
gies have a positive outlook on the
role cybersecurity plays in their day-
to-day lives. Almost a third (29%)
of respondents online who preferred
their cybersecurity managed by AI
feel having cybersecurity checks
in place has a very positive impact
on their overall online experience,
compared to the combined average
AquarterofpeopleinEMEAprefer
CybersecuritymanagedbyAI
of 20 percent.
Greg Day, VP and CSO EMEA at
Palo Alto Networks, comments on
the findings: “AI is already playing
a vital role in cybersecurity, helping
to detect and prevent breaches with
new capabilities that the human
brain simply could not achieve. It
is encouraging, therefore, to see the
gap closing between AI- and hu-
man-managed cybersecurity tech-
nologies, and the positive attitude
towards cybersecurity checks that
comes with a preference for AI tech-
nologies is one we hope to see em-
braced by more people in the future.
Humans are risk averse, yet innova-
Palo Alto Networks survey finds over half of respondents
take responsibility for their data online
tion requires taking new steps, and
many still see change as risk. Tak-
ing responsibility for data loss and
keeping personal data secure is the
first step in ensuring we are using
best practice within a business, and
education is key in helping respon-
dents feel safer online.”
The study also uncovered mixed
views on the perceived security of
internet of things (IoT) technolo-
gies, such as smart home devices
and wearables: 38 percent of EMEA
respondents believe them to be se-
cure, with a similar number (43%)
thinking the opposite. However,
this did vary across the region, with
those in the UAE most trusting of
IoT’s security (71% believe it to be
secure), whereas a higher proportion
in Germany (53%), France (48%),
and the UK (46%) believe them to
be insecure.

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Micro Focus has announced the general avail-
ability of Micro Focus Robotic Process Automa-
tion (RPA) which gives companies the power to
build, secure, and scale automated business pro-
cesses, from legacy to modern, across the enter-
prise.
According to Gartner, “The ability to integrate
legacy systems is the key driver for RPA proj-
ects. By using this technology, organizations can
quickly accelerate their digital transformation
initiatives, while unlocking the value associat-
ed with past technology investments.”* Micro
Focus RPA automates repetitive, error-prone
UI-based human actions on legacy apps and inte-
grates them with modern IT process automation
in a single product.
“Micro Focus RPA delivers on key capabilities
such as scalability, resiliency and security that
Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration
and data integrity, has announced the Summer
’19 release of Talend Data Fabric, its end-to-end
suite. The new release serves as the industry’s
first easy on-ramp to accelerate the development
of all types of integration environments from
simple ingestion tasks to the most comprehen-
sive integration scenarios. Summer ’19 enables
companies to balance immediate business needs
for initiating data projects with long-term scale
requirements for integration, such as governance
and cross-cloud support.
The Summer ’19 release of Talend Data Fabric
enables data professionals, from citizen inte-
grators to more technical developers, to quickly
embrace data warehouse projects and easily tran-
sition to more complex and trusted multi-cloud
hybrid use cases. New flexible pay-as-you-go
capabilities, in-product chat, and machine learn-
ing-driven data preparation can accelerate the
development of new and ongoing projects. Data
protection enhancements and scalable DevOps
with improved container and automated contin-
uous integration (CI) support ensure that Talend
Data Fabric will support enterprise projects of
Micro Focus introduces new Robotic Process Auto-
mation Product
Talend delivers Pay-as-You-Go On-Ramp to
accelerate Integration Projects
Designed for the enterprise, the
scalable and resilient solution is
first to deliver UI and API-based
RPA
New release is designed to jumpstart data integrations and
provide the ability to scale rapidly
our customers and partners demanded,” said Tom
Goguen, Micro Focus Chief Product Officer. “It
adapts to UI changes, automates UI and API-
based applications, and includes real-time au-
diting and traceability, giving our customers the
confidence to deploy RPA across the enterprise
while providing for centralized governance and
compliance for their digital workforce.”
“As we have worked closely the last few years
with our customers and partners to leverage test
automation for their first RPA projects, it present-
ed a convenient way to evaluate the potential of
business-related automation and further prove its
value to the organization,” said Raffi Margaliot,
Micro Focus General Manager for Application
Delivery Management. “With Micro Focus RPA,
we augmented our core capabilities to be purpose
any scale or complexity.
New features in Talend’s Summer ’19 release
include:
Jumpstart data integration projects quickly
and easily
• Flexible, pay-as-you-go option with Pipeline
Designer provides simpler billing based on how
much is used to jumpstart next-generation data
integration projects
• In-product chat provides online product support
in real-time to help users resolve technical issues
Scale to trusted complex integrations in cloud,
hybrid and on-premises environments
• Intelligent data with machine-learning powered
suggestions (MagicFill)
• Centrally managed hybrid deployments from
the cloud
• Comprehensive support for Databricks and Mi-
crosoft Azure connectivity with Pipeline Design-
er provides greater options for connectivity and
built for RPA and we believe our innovations in
making automation more resilient to change will
deliver a lower TCO compared to existing solu-
tions.”
Micro Focus RPA capabilities include:
Easy-to-use design studio: An intuitive design
interface that allows users to easily record screen
actions and design sophisticated end-to-end RPA
workflows, visually or with code.
Cross-platform connections: A technology-rich
product that combines UI automation with API
and other integration methods to connect business
processes spanning old and new applications.
Scalable robots: A worker-queue-based archi-
tecture to scale robots up or down as workloads
change, making it possible to run hundreds or
thousands of robots at once.
Centralized security: A centralized dashboard
to manage the robots that have unique IDs and
encrypted, role-based credentials.
Resilient robots: Advanced object recognition
technology to detect UI changes and automatical-
ly adapt as needed, saving time on maintenance.
big data processing at scale
• Extended native support for Delta Lake, the
open source storage layer that makes data lakes
analytics-ready
• Address sensitive data protection needs with
new reversible Format Preserving Encryption
Accelerate development at scale
• Enhanced Docker container support for Data
Services and Routes to easily scale up and down
depending on business needs
• Enable enterprise CI automation easily using
the new zero config CI plugin to automatically
leverage CI/CD without any complex setup or
configuration
The Summer release of Talend Data Fabric will
be available in Q3 for cloud or on-premises.

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