Portworx announces an update of the namesake cloud-native storage and data management platform-- Portworx Enterprise 2.1, adding features focused on security and disaster recovery.

Role-based access controls come as part of PX-Security, a feature enabling organisations to set access ownership and access controls on a per container volume basis, integrated within a corporate authorisation and authentication system. Another addition is PX-DR, a feature enabling disaster recovery with zero data loss between datacentres located within a single metropolitan area.

Ingram Micro announces the next iteration of the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, adding features, functionality and resources to further help partners and independent software vendors (ISVs) do "more with more."

First launched in 20019, the Cloud Marketplace currently boasts over 55000 partners globally managing nearly 4 million fully-automated seats. The update promises to further streamline and standardise processes, increase sales and marketing efficiencies and effectiveness, and make it easier for partners and ISVs to grow their businesses.

The eighth RightScale State of the Cloud Survey shows public cloud adoption is on the up in 2019, with companies of all sizes increasing investments in public cloud while private cloud use is in decline.

Conducted on January 2019, the RightScale survey asks 786 IT professionals about the adoption of cloud infrastructure and related technologies. Of the respondents, 58% represent enterprises with over 1000 employees.

As mentioned earlier, public cloud is becoming increasingly popular with enterprises, with adoption clocking at 91%. Private cloud, on the other hand, is at 72%, and 69% of respondents use "at least" one public and one private cloud. Thus it should come to no surprise that the adoption of hybrid cloud strategies is on the rise, growing from 50% in 2018 to 58% in 2019, even if the number of organisations using multiple public clouds or multiple private clouds is declining "slightly." Overall, 84% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy.

The Information claims to have word on the next big hybrid cloud partnership-- Microsoft and VMware, with an agreement reportedly bringing the VMware virtualised compute infrastructure on the Azure cloud.

According to the report, the partnership with Microsoft will be similar to the one VMware already has with AWS. Once bitter rivals, VMware decided to embrace Amazon in 2016, in an an agreement allowing organisations to take advantage of the AWS cloud while still making use of investments in VMware server virtualisation technology.