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Cloud Computing

Private Equity Buys Veeam

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Private Equity Buys Veeam

Private equity firm Insight Partners acquires cloud data management company Veeam in a deal worth $5 billion, one turning the Swiss startup into a US company complete with move to a US HQ.

The acquisition also brings a change in leadership, as Veeam co-founders CEO Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev are leaving the company. Taking the reins is executive VP of operations William H. Largent, while VP of product strategy Danny Allan is promoted to CTO. As mentioned earlier Veeam is also moving headquarters to the US. The company currently employs 1200 employees in the US, but plans to expand further in the coming year.

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Check Point Security for Kubernetes, Serverless Services

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Check Point Security for Kubernetes, Serverless Services

Check Point extends the capabilities of the CloudGuard cloud security platform to support Kubernetes services, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Elastic Container Service (ECS).

The company also offers additional security capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Serverless computing solutions, such as AWS Lambda and related services like AWS Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB and Kinesis. Such capabilities come from the recent acquisition of serverless security provider Protego, and ensures Kubenetes configurations comply with established container security baselines such as CIS Kubernetes Benchmark or NIST 800-190.

The functionality complements existing CloudGuard capabilities to secure traffic between Kubernetes and on-premise or cloud assets using IPsec VPN. A Serverless Code Scanning feature detects, alerts and remediates security and compliance risks within a Serverless environment.

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Acronis Gets Unified Cloud Management With 5nine

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Acronis Gets Unified Cloud Management With 5nine

Backup and recovery service provider Acronis acquires 5nine, a global provider of Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure cloud management and security solutions. Financial details of the deal are not available.

5nine offers end-to-end cloud solutions for Hyper-V, as well as what it claims is the first and only agentless, multilayered security solution for Hyper-V and Azure. Acronis plans to integrate 5nine technology into the Acronos Cyber Platform before making the services available through the Acronis Cyber Cloud Solutions portals. 5nine solutions should enable MSPs and organisations to simplify cloud service orchestration, create new business and manage customer needs.

In addition, Acronis will use 5nine to offer an an easier way to migrate workloads from physical or virtual infrastructure to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure or both. 5nine unifies cloud migration, management, monitoring and workload management and processes, ensuring the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity and security (SAPAS) of all data, applications and systems.

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A Central Portal for HPE's GreenLake

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A Central Portal for HPE's GreenLake

HPE continues to build on the promise of an edge-to-cloud portfolio-as-a-service with GreenLake Central, a front end and control plane providing a consistent experience throughout the entire GreenLake platform.

According to the company, GreenLake Central gives customers a unified experience across public and private clouds, the datacentre and edge workloads, bringing lower costs and risks as well as greater control and choice. HPE delivers the single operational console as-a-service, and customers can choose the tools to use, as well as where and how to place workloads, before paying for what they exactly consume.

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Quantum Computing on the Amazon Cloud

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Quantum Computing on the Amazon Cloud

Customers curious about the potential of quantum computing get an Amazon option with Braket, a fully-managed service for the building, testing and running of quantum computing algorithms running on the the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

Aimed primarily at scientists, researchers and developers, Braket provides a development environment for building quantum algorithms, simulated quantum computers for testing and a choice of different quantum hardware technologies for testing. Developers can either build own quantum algorithms or choose from pre-built options, and the simulation service helps troubleshoot and verify the implementation.

On the actual quantum hardware side, Amazon counts D-Wave quantum annealing, ion trap devices from IonQ and Rigetti supercomputing chips. All are accessible through single user experience, and Amazon helps manage classical compute resources and establish low-latency connections to the quantum hardware.

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