Value Journal - December 2020

Issue 50 // December 2020
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New capabilities equip UAE compliance professionals with latest technology to protect and
govern data, meeting growing security and privacy needs in times of remote work, said Microsoft.
Microsoft Facilitates Compliance
in the Hybrid Work Era
Microsoft has recently demonstrated
its commitment to creating a safe and
secure environment for businesses,
governments and people, by demon-
strating how compliance processes can
be supported by AI and other cutting
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The distribution leader aims to elevate its channel partners to new
heights and enable customers’ transformation to the new digital era.
Redington Value Announces Strategic
Partnerships and Service Offerings
ment Platform with an intuitive and
clear UI to enhance user experience.
DigiGlass, Managed Security Services
by Redington, helps clients scale their
security while focusing on business.
DigiGlass MSS helps you fight threats,
without having to worry about skill-
set gaps within the IT security team,
no matter where and how the threats
originate – be it external or internal
actors. With onsite, remote and hy-
of breed solutions as part of a service
model. We are confident that our part-
ners and customers will see tremen-
dous value in these offerings.”
TrackMyCloud by Redington is a SaaS
platform designed to be an all-in-one
solution to manage complex, sophis-
ticated Cloud. TMC offers a bouquet
of five solutions with 800+ features,
simplifying monitoring and optimiza-
tion of spends, done on managing the
cloud infrastructure. TrackMyCloud is
the most user-friendly Cloud Manage-
Sayantan Dev, Redington Value
Mohammed Arif, Microsoft
fering – TrackMyCloud, a cloud con-
sumption management service.
Sayantan Dev, President, Redington
Value, said, “We have led the industry
for several years with innovations in
solution delivery and technology prac-
tices and this year hasn’t been any dif-
ferent on that front. Three of our main
new offerings – TrackMyCloud, Digi-
glass and EdgeAhead focus on ensur-
ing a wholesome view to our customers
into their Cloud, Security and Wireless
infrastructure while delivering the best
edge technologies. With the availabil-
ity of the new Microsoft Compliance
Manager, that addresses key UAE
regulations, compliance specialists
are now empowered to keep up with
increasing workloads at times when
organisations are often unable to sup-
port growing compliance needs with
additional resources.
The solution was demonstrated at
Microsoft’s recent ‘Compliance in the
Digital Age’ Webinar, which brought
together the compliance community
information creates complexity for
managing business records with cost
and risk implications,” said Moham-
med Arif, Business Group Director,
Modern Workplace and Security at
Microsoft. “Microsoft Compliance
Manager helps businesses to make
sense of this data-driven business
world, providing a comprehensive set
of templates for creating assessments,
helping your organisation comply with
national, regional, and industry-spe-
R
egional value-added distri-
bution company Reding-
ton Value’s focus at GITEX
Technology Week earlier
this month, was its newest service of-
and focused on how knowing, pro-
tecting, and governing organisational
data is critical to adhere to regulations,
meet security and privacy needs and
the latest tools available for compli-
ance specialists to stay on top of in-
creased workloads created by more
remote devices.
“Arguably, in a world in which remote
work is the new normal, securing, and
governing your company’s most criti-
cal data becomes more important than
ever before. The increased volume of

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Cisco Announces All New Webex
Oracle’s Second-Generation Cloud
Region in the UAE Goes Live
All New Webex for meetings, messaging and calling announced with several new functionalities.
Dubai cloud region will be supported by a second region in
the UAE, providing major boost to the UAE’s digital economy.
At WebexOne, Cisco announced a
wave of Webex innovation to help or-
ganizations collaborate seamlessly and
transform their employee and customer
experiences. WebexOne is Cisco’s pre-
mier digital collaboration conference
that brings together thought leaders,
customers and partners to discuss the
future of work.
Webex has a rich history of helping em-
ployees innovate and remain productive
wherever they are. Since the pandemic,
Webex has not only continued to help
businesses thrive, it has also been an in-
tegral platform for governments to con-
tinue to lead remotely, doctors to meet
with patients safely, and educators to
teach students at a distance. It’s clear that
the future of work will involve a com-
bination of remote and on-site interac-
tions, known as hybrid-work. Cisco has
a clear vision of how technology can
help customers realize that future today
and create a more inclusive world for all.
“Cisco’s purpose is to power an Inclu-
sive Future, and collaboration tech-
nology plays a critical role in leveling
the playing field so everyone is able
to participate in the global economy
regardless of geography, language and
personality type. This is why we are
driven to deliver a Webex experience
that is 10x better than in-person—and
at the same time make in-person inter-
actions 10x better too,” said Jeetu Patel,
SVP and GM, Security & Applications,
Cisco. “Webex enables a shift towards
hybrid working and less reliance on
geography-based hiring, opening the
global economy and giving everyone a
seat at the table—no matter where the
table is. Our team is passionate about
delivering this vision which fuels ev-
ery device we build, every line of code
we write, and every feature we create.”
The Webex team is laser focused on
making sure users have what they need
to do exceptional work. The all new We-
bex available immediately, provides a
single secure place for connecting and
getting things done: call, meet and mes-
sage in one app. New features are being
added across all modes, and the app in-
cludes the firm’s unique, real-time pres-
ence capability, so users always know
who is available.
data leave the country. Customers that
want to run critical systems of record in
the cloud need fully independent cloud
regions for disaster recovery purposes
with multiple sites in the same country
to meet data residency requirements.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a sec-
ond-generation security platform,
conceived and architected on securi-
ty-first design principles. Innovations
like isolated network virtualisation
and pristine physical host deploy-
ment, enable customer isolation from
other cloud tenants and from Oracle
personnel as well as reduced risk from
advanced persistent threats.
Oracle Cloud is designed to provide en-
terprisecustomerswithsecurity,rock-sol-
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id reliability, and powerful management
capabilities for large and complex deploy-
ments—allwhilebeatingindustryperfor-
mance and pricing standards.
Currently available Oracle Cloud Re-
gions include:
• Asia Pacific: Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul,
Chuncheon, Mumbai, Hyderabad,
Sydney, Melbourne
• Americas: San Jose, Phoenix, Ash-
burn, Toronto, Montreal, São Paolo
• Europe: Frankfurt, London, Zürich,
Amsterdam
• Middle East: Jeddah, Dubai
• Government: two general U.S. Gov-
ernment regions, U.S. National Secu-
rity regions, three U.S. Department
of Defense specific Government re-
gions, one in the United Kingdom
ing the country’s digital readiness. Or-
acle’s second-generation cloud region
in Dubai will help accelerate the digital
transformation initiatives of organi-
zations across the UAE’ government
entities, large enterprise and SMEs,
thus directly supporting the country’s
economic vision,” said Abdul Rahman
Al Thehaiban, Senior Vice President,
Technology, MEA & CEE, Oracle.
Etisalat, one of the leading telecommu-
nication operators in emerging mar-
kets, is the telecom partner for the Or-
acle Cloud region in Dubai. Oracle has
a unique dual region strategy that en-
ables customers to deploy resilient ap-
plications in multiple geographies for
disaster recovery and compliance re-
quirements – without having sensitive
Oracle has announced the availability
of the first of two planned second-gen-
eration Cloud regions in the UAE. The
addition of the Dubai Cloud region
marks the availability of 26 Oracle
Cloud Regions worldwide. The open-
ing is part of Oracle’s aggressive plan to
have 36 Cloud regions by July 2021. Lo-
cated in Dubai, the new Cloud region
will offer all Oracle Cloud services, in-
cluding Oracle Autonomous Database
and Oracle Cloud Applications.
“The contribution of digital economy
to the UAE’s GDP stood at 4.3 per cent
in 2019, and His Highness Sheikh Mo-
hammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice
President and Prime Minister of the
UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has set a target
to double this contribution by enhanc-
brid models available, the company’s
flexibility allows you to scale up your
security operations as necessary.
Edge Ahead is a Managed Services of-
fering by Redington, Aruba Networks
and Faraday Networks that imple-
ments the best of breed wireless and
network technology solutions to orga-
nizations for a set monthly fee. Every
network or application needs quality
infrastructure and services as a base.
Edge Ahead brings you Wireless as a
Service to bring down your capital ex-
penses whether you are setting up your
network infrastructure or upgrading it.
Additionally, Redington has announced
several key partnerships with ecurity
vendors such as FireEye, Corelight, Gig-
amon, Digital Guardian in parts of Mid-
dle East and Africa to fortify its already
burgeoning security portfolio while
adding Targus and Citrix to the portfo-
lio. Partnership with Alibaba Cloud also
strengthens Redington’s Cloud portfo-
lio, and this was announced during the
GITEX Technology Week 2020.
Redington Value
Announces Strategic
Partnerships and
Service Offerings
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New Comcast Business Solution
Powered by Aruba Brings Enterprise-
Grade Office Connectivity from Home
Huawei Outlines New Growth
Opportunities with 5G
At the recent 11th annual Mobile
Broadband Forum, Huawei’s Dep-
uty Chairman Ken Hu spoke with
global leaders about the new value
that 5G will bring to different in-
dustries around the globe—trans-
forming the way we live, connect,
and work.
“There’s no out-of-the-box approach
to innovation,” said Hu. “We’ve got to
focus on real needs in real scenarios –
Comcast Business has announced that
it is joining forces with Aruba, a Hew-
lett Packard Enterprise company, for
the launch of Comcast Business Tele-
and build up the capabilities to meet
those needs.” While many industries
have shown that they are ready and
willing to embrace 5G, Hu stressed
the importance of developing criteria
for specific scenarios and assessing
whether or not 5G is the right tool
for the job based on technical rele-
vance, business potential, value chain
maturity, and standardization.
Huawei has in turn unveiled a vision
for “1+N” 5G target networks and
released a full series of 5G solutions
for building such networks. “To em-
brace the approaching golden decade
of 5G, we need to evolve our networks
towards 5G with full spectrum and
build one high-bandwidth simplified
target network that ensures ubiqui-
tous connectivity with on-demand
overlay of ‘N’ capabilities,” said Yang
gig-speed network. This combination
provides employees a dedicated, inde-
pendent internet connection that does
not interfere or compete with their
at home internet – freeing up home
bandwidth for remote learning, enter-
tainment and more.
Comcast Business Teleworker VPN
is powered by Aruba ESP, an enter-
prise-class, cloud-native platform
which is centrally managed by Aru-
ba Central’s single cloud console.
When combined with Comcast’s
Managed VPN Aggregator service
at a business location, enterprises
can securely connect home-based
devices to the corporate network,
enabling them to reduce the burden
on IT with simple, centralized cloud
management and optimization that
During annual Mobile Broadband Forum, Huawei recognizes a “golden decade” of
5G, outlining priorities across industries, while previewing vision for a 5.5G era.
Comcast Business joins forces with Aruba to provide enterprise employees a secure, reliable,
dedicated connection to their corporate networks – without competing for in-home bandwidth.
Ken Hu, Huawei
Michael Dickman, Aruba, a Hewlett
Packard Enterprise company
worker VPN. The new solution is spe-
cifically engineered to help enterprises
provide their rapidly expanding re-
mote workforces with the same secure,
reliable high-performance connection
to their corporate network that they
have when physically in their office.
Comcast Business Teleworker VPN
offers a centrally managed remote ac-
cess VPN solution that enables enter-
prises to provide employees the same
access to their corporate network
that they enjoy in the office, remotely.
When combined with Comcast Busi-
ness’s Teleworker Broadband solu-
tion, Comcast Business Teleworker
VPN provides employees a secure,
reliable connection to primary busi-
ness systems, applications and files
– all backed by the nation’s largest
Chaobin, President of Huawei Wire-
less Network Solution.
David Wang, Huawei’s Executive Di-
rector, also alluded to the next gen-
eration of 5.5G technologies—an ex-
tension of the standard 5G scenarios
defined by the ITU. He noted that 5G
will remain the major mobile commu-
nications technology until 2030 and
will likely be in service until 2040.
However, looking ahead to 2030, cel-
lular networks will carry more than
100 billion connections, and 5G needs
to keep evolving to meet the ever more
diverse and complex needs of society.
The 5.5G evolution will—amongst oth-
er things—enable the ICT sector to ex-
plore new scenarios including Uplink
Centric Broadband Communication
(UCBC), Real-Time Broadband Com-
munication (RTBC), and Harmonized
Communication and Sensing (HCS).
Huawei has proposed that all indus-
try stakeholders should start working
on 5.5G within the 3GPP framework
as soon as possible, that the industry
should make the most of sub-100 GHz
spectrum, and that the ICT industry
needs to further integrate 5G into ver-
ticals to create more use cases.
detects and dynamically resolves
network issues.
“Work-from-home solutions require
enterprise-class security and perfor-
mance, with consumer-class ease of
use,” said Michael Dickman, Senior
Vice President of Product Management
at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company. “Aruba ESP delivers on both
fronts with secure policy-driven access
to the full spectrum of corporate ser-
vices, in a form factor perfect for home
that is simple to use with plug-and-
play installation. The new Comcast
Business Teleworker VPN offering is
a fantastic solution for organizations
as they help their remote workers be
efficient, creative and productive when
connecting to corporate services from
any location at any time.”

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Citrix Sets New Standard for
Digital Workspace Security
Barracuda Acquires Zero Trust
Network Access Innovator Fyde
Barracuda, a provider of cloud-en-
abled security solutions, has an-
nounced that it has acquired Fyde, a
ZTNA provider based in Palo Alto,
Calif., and Porto, Portugal to expand
the Barracuda CloudGen SASE plat-
form with ZTNA capabilities. The
Fyde solution is available immediate-
ly as Barracuda CloudGen Access to
businesses of all sizes. It will be avail-
able in the coming weeks for Managed
Service Providers.
Fyde’s innovative Zero Trust solu-
tion enables secure, reliable, and fast
access to cloud or on-premises ap-
plications and workloads from any
device and location. Fyde’s ZTNA
solution addresses the security risks
associated with traditional remote
access by continuously verifying that
only the right person, with the right
device, and the right permissions can
access company resources. The solu-
tion is ideal to connect users directly
to cloud-native and legacy corporate
applications deployed in hybrid and
multi-cloud environments.
“Remote work is here to stay, cloud
migrations are accelerating, and tra-
ditional corporate perimeters have
disappeared,” said BJ Jenkins, Pres-
ident and CEO at Barracuda. “Fyde
offers a powerful ZTNA solution
that works on any infrastructure,
any device, and with any application
on a corporate network. With this
acquisition, Barracuda is providing
distributed businesses a new way to
modernize remote access, enforce
global security and access policies,
and achieve seamless connectivity
without compromising productivity.”
Citrix Systems has introduced two
new workspace security solutions de-
signed to secure access and protect
applications wherever work needs
to get done. Citrix delivers on an
application-centric approach that
starts with the digital workspace. In
Barracuda provides a broad and
growing portfolio of cloud-en-
abled network and application
security solutions. In July of
this year, Barracuda launched
CloudGen WAN, the indus-
try’s first global SD-WAN ser-
vice built natively on Microsoft
Azure. With the acquisition
of Fyde, Barracuda now offers
ZTNA solutions that use a mod-
ern approach to securing appli-
cations and devices by providing
identity-aware access control
and device-based contextual se-
curity policies. This acquisition
expands the capabilities of Bar-
racuda’s SASE offering to help
customers with digital migra-
tions to the public cloud.
With this acquisition, Barracuda
expands its differentiated capa-
bilities for today’s complex IT
environments, enabling security
teams to address many use cases.
Financial terms of the deal were
not disclosed.
curity service that addresses the
security requirements of modern
enterprises. This includes secure
web gateway, next-generation fire-
wall, cloud access security broker
(CASB), DLP, sandboxing and
AI-driven attack detection.
• Citrix Secure Workspace Access
– A VPN-less solution that deliv-
ers zero trust access to corporate
web and SaaS applications accessed
from managed and BYO devices.
• Complemented by Citrix SD-
WAN, the solutions – which can
be purchased and used separately
or together - also plug and play with
The acquisition expands Secure Access Service Edge
(SASE) platform by adding Zero Trust capabilities.
The company unveils new SASE and Zero Trust solutions designed to provide unified,
secure and reliable access to applications anywhere, anytime from any device.
a single solution, Citrix combines a
full cloud-delivered security stack
integrated with identity-aware Zero
Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and
an application-aware SD-WAN that
allows companies to deliver cloud and
Internet-based applications securely
with high performance and reliability
across work environments.
With the two new secure access offer-
ings announced, companies can accel-
erate their journey to a Secure Access
Services Edge (SASE) and future proof
their security investments:
• Citrix Secure Internet Access – A
comprehensive, global cloud se-
third-party SD-WAN infrastruc-
ture, enabling companies to maxi-
mize their existing investments.
In embracing Citrix’s approach to
security, companies can enhance
security and productivity through
identity-aware, zero trust access to all
cloud and internet-based applications
and virtual desktops. They can also
leverage machine learning and artifi-
cial intelligence to provide real-time
insights into user behavior and au-
tomate the process of preventing cy-
bersecurity breaches - all while main-
taining a reliable digital workspace
experience for employees.
“Modern enterprises require an intel-
ligent approach to workspace securi-
ty that protects employees, following
the Zero Trust model, without get-
ting in the way of their experience,”
said Fermin Serna, Chief Informa-
tion Security Office, Citrix. “And
that is what Citrix digital workspace
security solutions are uniquely de-
signed to deliver.”
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cific requirements governing the col-
lection and use of data. This is part of
Microsoft’s commitment to keep our
businesses and government organisa-
tions safe and secure.”
During the course of the webinar,
analysis was provided on how essential
Microsoft applications such as Teams
provide ways to meet compliance reg-
ulation. This includes identity protec-
tion, providing additional layers of se-
curity that begins with single sign-on
through Azure Active Directory and
multi-factor authentication.
Focus was also provided on how Mic-
rosoft’s suite of products has data loss
prevention, which enables customers
to control the flow of information,
and prevents sensitive content from
being shared. Furthermore, Microsoft
Threat Protection (MTP) provides
built-in intelligence, automation, and
integration to coordinate protection,
detection, response, and prevention
across endpoints, email, identity, and
cloud apps.
Microsoft
Facilitates
Compliance in the
Hybrid Work Era

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Check Point Software Launches
New Cybersecurity Platform
has the industry’s first autonomous
Threat Prevention system, which
eliminates labor-intensive manual
threat classification and updates.
R81’s new Infinity threat prevention
policy enables security teams to im-
plement in a single click, security
best practices that then continuous-
ly update automatically.
• Rapid response to changing securi-
ty needs with fastest policy instal-
lation: Reducing policy installation
time by up to 90%, from minutes to
seconds. Moreover, security admins
can upgrade hundreds of remote
gateways to the new release in a
click of a button.
• Automatic security performance:
R81 uses dynamic allocation of
gateway resources across the en-
terprise to deliver automatically
Check Point Software Technologies
has introduced its next-generation
unified cybersecurity platform, Check
Point R81. The new platform is the
industry’s first to deliver autonomous
threat prevention designed for the en-
tire distributed enterprise, enabling IT
staff to manage the most complex and
dynamic network environments easily
and efficiently.
Enterprises have accelerated their
digital transformation programs and
changed IT priorities in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic, which has
increased their cyber risk exposure
and risen the complexity of managing
employees remotely. Seventy one per-
cent of security professionals reported
an increase in cyber threats since the
beginning of the pandemic. Address-
ing the need for better security and
less complexity, demands consolida-
tion and automation of threat preven-
tion technologies, processes, and pol-
icies to make protection smarter and
more efficient across organizations’
complex, distributed networks.
Check Point R81 cyber security plat-
form delivers:
• Highest levels of security with au-
tonomous threat prevention: R81
New R81 platform eliminates and automates labor-intensive security
administration and management, also reducing policy installation
time by up to 90% across the entire distributed enterprise.
Falcon X Recon is being introduced to
proactively collect and inform Crowd-
Strike customers about fraudulent ac-
tivity, stolen data, threats to enterpris-
es, and identified exploits and tools in
the adversaries’ arsenals. Falcon X Re-
con will automate the collection of data
from thousands of forums, market-
places, messaging platforms and more,
bringing scalability to network defend-
CrowdStrike Advances Threat Intelligence
Offerings with Situational Awareness
ers so they can stay ahead of threats.
By delivering situational awareness
with relevant, real-time warnings, or-
ganizations can instantly identify data
exposure and threats to the enterprise.
“Falcon X Recon is an important ad-
dition to our CrowdStrike Intelligence
product suite. It will advance organi-
zations along the threat intelligence
maturity curve to go beyond threat
feeds generated from past attacks,” said
Adam Meyers, Senior Vice President
of Intelligence, CrowdStrike. “With the
addition of Falcon X Recon, Crowd-
Strike will broaden its delivery of au-
tomated industry-leading threat intel-
ligence, allowing companies to more
easily find that needle in the haystack.”
Falcon X Recon is expected to be avail-
able in early 2021.
New module, CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon, will empower customers with unprecedented visibility into
raw intelligence from the hidden recesses of the web to better understand adversaries’ next moves.
CrowdStrike has announced the
new CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon
module that will provide custom-
ers an increased level of situational
awareness through the deep, broad
collection of data from digital
sources. Falcon X Recon will help
uncover potential malicious ac-
tivity so security teams can better
protect their brand, employees and
sensitive data.
CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon is de-
signed to go beyond the dark web
to include forums with restricted
access on the deep web, breach data,
source code repositories, paste sites,
mobile greyware stores, unsecured
cloud storage, public social media
posts and messaging apps. In today’s
evolving threat landscape, mali-
cious actors may use one or more of
these resources to more effectively
target their victims and monetise
their efforts. These sites are virtual
watering holes, where adversaries
congregate and underground digital
economies thrive.
Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike
the best hardware performance
and security.
• Optimal security for encrypted net-
worktraffic(SSL):R81utilizesthelatest
standards for secure connectivity in-
cluding TLS 1.3 and HTTP/2, and en-
sures threats cannot hide in encrypted
traffic. A dedicated policy layer allows
the admin to control easily the decision
to inspect or bypass network traffic.
Itai Greenberg, VP of Product Man-
agement at Check Point Software Tech-
nologies at Check Point, said, “Our
new R81 platform gives IT and secu-
rity teams holistic visibility, automated
threat prevention and granular control
over their entire network environment,
making it easier to plan, check and
quickly deploy changes to serve busi-
ness need while strengthening their
security and compliance postures.”
Falcon X Recon will
advance organizations
along the threat
intelligence maturity
curve to go beyond
threat feeds generated
from past attacks.”
OurnewR81
platformgivesITand
securityteamsholistic
visibility,automatedthreat
preventionandgranular
controlovertheirentire
networkenvironment.”

7
Fortinet has been recognised as a
Leader in the 2020 Gartner Mag-
ic Quadrant for Network Firewalls.
This marks the 11th time Fortinet has
Nutanix will utilize the HPE Digital Life
Garagehubasanincubatorfornewtech-
nology ideas and innovations that will
redefine the future of Enterprise IT.
Nutanix has announced the signing of
a sponsorship agreement with Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE) for its ‘HPE
Digital Life Garage’ innovation hub in
Dubai. The agreement builds on the ex-
isting strategic collaboration between the
two vendors that has provided enterpris-
es with a “better together” combination
of cloud technologies to further their
digital transformation aspirations. Nuta-
nix will use the HPE Digital Life Garage
hub as an incubator for new technology
ideas and innovations that will redefine
the future of Enterprise IT.
Over the past year Nutanix has collab-
orated effectively with HPE to provide
customers and partners with greater
freedom of choice for building their hy-
brid cloud strategy.
Aaron White, Regional Director, Mid-
dle East at Nutanix. “Buoyed by our
Gartner Recognises Fortinet as
Leader in Network Firewalls
past joint successes, we decided to sign
up as a key sponsor of the HPE Digital
Life Garage, which we believe is a great
platform for co-innovation and digital
acceleration. HPE’s focus for the hub of
‘transforming technology’s impact on so-
ciety’ is in line with our own company’s
vision and ethos.”
The HPE Digital Life Garage facility, of-
ficially launched in Dubai in August this
year,isthefirstinaseriesofthecompany’s
worldwideinnovationcentres.Locatedin
theheartoftheInnovationHubofDubai,
the multi-million-dollar HPE Digital Life
Garage consists of four pillars: The Digi-
tal Innovation Showcase, the Digital Life
Lab, the Digital Knowledge Center, and
the HPE Global Network.
Aspartoftheagreement,thetwocompa-
nies will work together within the HPE
Digital Life Garage to map customers’
digital transformation journeys and de-
velop innovative solutions based on cus-
tomer and partner requirements. They
will explore and build new technology
use cases; increase customer and partner
engagement by bringing them into the
Nutanix Signs Sponsorship
Agreement of HPE Digital Life Garage
our continued successes to our ongoing
commitment to innovation, unique and
flexible security platform, and approach
to securing the entire attack surface –
whether on-prem or in the cloud.”
Fortinet’s FortiGate Next-generation
Firewalls (NGFWs) are an integral
component of Fortinet’s Security Fab-
ric platform, which provides broad
visibility and protection across the
entire attack surface. Fortinet Forti-
Gate NGFWs protect any edge and
at any scale because they are pow-
ered by purpose-built Security Pro-
cessing Units (SPUs) resulting in the
industry’s highest Security Compute
Rating. Fortinet continues to drive in-
novation with its Secure SD-WAN of-
fering as well, with advanced routing
facility to conduct Ideation Workshops,
PoCs,demosanddrivevirtual,in-person
and hybrid events.
The collaboration through HPE Digital
Life Garage follows the announcement
of a global partnership between Nutanix
andHPEin2019,todeliveranintegrated
hybrid cloud as a Service (aaS) solution
to the market.
After just over a year of engagement, Nu-
tanix customers now have a very wide
choice of HPE hardware models and
configurations to run Nutanix software
on. HPE GreenLake, an integrated hy-
brid cloud as-a-service solution, as well
asHPEProLiantDXservers,designedfor
building enterprise cloud on-premises,
both run Nutanix hyperconverged soft-
ware. The joint solutions combine com-
pute, storage, virtualisation and network
functionalities, making it simple and easy
forITtomaintainandscalewhenneeded.
“The objective of the Digital Life Ga-
rage is to create an environment to col-
laborate with our partners and develop
technology ideas that advance the way
people live and work. We are happy to
welcome Nutanix as a sponsor and see
the company playing an important role
in helping us achieve the goals set out by
this initiative,” said Wolfgang Egger, Vice
President, Compute, Data and Storage
Services & Solutions, United Kingdom,
Ireland, Middle East and Africa at Hewl-
ett Packard Enterprise.
been recognised in the 2020 Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Network Fire-
walls for completeness of vision and
ability to execute.
John Maddison, EVP of Products and
CMO at Fortinet said, “We believe
Fortinet delivers the broadest and
most complete security platform in
the industry. We have pioneered the
Security-driven Networking approach,
integrating security into every element
of the network and enabling custom-
ers to protect any edge, at any scale.
Fortinet has been named a Leader in
this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Network Firewall. Fortinet also recently
announced its placement as a Leader in
the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for
WAN Edge Infrastructure. We credit
and industry’s most flexible security
options via an integrated NGFW or
SASE-based cloud-delivered security.
The vendor believes its placement in
the Leaders quadrant is largely due to
the company’s ongoing commitment
to offer a Security-driven Networking
approach, which integrates security
into every element of the network.
Fortinet also offers industry’s most
flexible and hyperscale security solu-
tions to meet escalating and often
unpredictable capacity needs that can
quickly outpace an organisation’s secu-
rity solution performance capabilities.
In addition to being recognised as a
Leaderinthe2020GartnerMagicQuad-
rant for Network Firewalls, Fortinet was
named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights
Customers’ Choice for Network Fire-
walls. The firm believes that this addi-
tional customer validation further high-
lights that Fortinet’s simple, secure, and
scalable platform approach resonates
with customers across all industries.
Eleventh consecutive year Fortinet recognized in Gartner Magic Quadrant for network firewall.
Nutanix will utilize the HPE Digital Life Garage hub as an incubator for new
technology ideas and innovations that will redefine the future of Enterprise IT.
John Maddison, Fortinet
(L-R) Aaron White, Nutanix and Wolfgang Egger, HPE

8
VMware has unveiled the Modern Net-
work framework to enable businesses,
andtheirITandapplicationdevelopment
teams, to accelerate adapting to a new
normal.Tohelpcustomersrealizeamod-
ern network of their own, VMware also
announced further enhancements to its
virtualnetworkingproductsandservices.
The Virtual Cloud Network embodies
the Modern Network framework. More
than 18,000 organizations have mod-
ernized their networks using VMware’s
Virtual Cloud Network solution. These
customers are embracing a cloud oper-
ating model, launching workloads with
full automation, and eliminating weeks
and months of wait time to update a fire-
wall or load balancer. They are virtual-
izing everything from the data center to
the branch to the end user. The Virtual
Cloud Network gives organizations an
end-to-end solution to deploy applica-
tions and make sure they are running
optimally and efficiently, while enabling
a great user experience.
“Our customers must efficiently manage
the rapid shift to remote work, deliver
applications faster and more securely,
and reduce the cost and complexity of
connecting and protecting the distrib-
uted enterprise,” said Rajiv Ramaswami,
Chief Operating Officer, Products and
Cloud Services, VMware. “The Mod-
ern Network framework enables our
customers to do this. It turns the old
way of thinking about networks as hard-
ware appliances, switches, and routers
in enterprise networks on its head and
instead, takes a top-down view that puts
users and applications first. This is the
promise we are delivering on with the
Virtual Cloud Network.”
VMware also announced the following
enhancements among others to the Vir-
tual Cloud Network portfolio –
• VMware is extending the Future
Ready Workforce Solution with new
VMware SD-WAN work from home
subscriptions. These new offerings
will provide individual business us-
ers optimized network connectivity,
more assured application perfor-
mance, and better security at an af-
fordable low price.
• VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is an
exciting new technology that controls
the communication between each of
Micro Focus Announces CISO Resource
to Accelerate Enterprise Resilience
VMware Unveils the Modern Network Framework
for Data Center and Cloud Networking
the thousands of components, en-
forcing security policy and measuring
performance and other critical func-
tions, regardless of the underlying in-
frastructure. VMware is announcing
a preview of a unique Attribute-Based
Access Control policy model that will
bring “who, what, where, when and
how” simplicity into modern applica-
tion policy creation.
• Further, VMware is announcing NSX
Advanced Load Balancer integration
with Tanzu Service Mesh. This inte-
gration will enable application de-
velopers using Kubernetes to launch
an application with all required load
balancing capabilities without ever
having to touch the infrastructure.
API driven, this combined solution
will deliver high availability and secu-
rity for modern applications via load
balancing and web application fire-
wall capabilities. This integration is
expected to be available in VMware’s
Q1 FY22.
tions to protect their business, detect the
changing risk surface, and evolve their
competencies in line with changing
threats. Each of the core pillars of cyber
resilience (protect, detect and evolve) is
covered as part of the assessment and
are considered critical elements in en-
abling teams to continually and intelli-
gently deliver an intended outcome in
the face of a potential threat a reality.
“Internal and external adversity will
always be forces that impact busi-
ness continuity and performance
and those organizations that have the
frameworks in place to assess, pivot
and adapt will be in a better position
to successfully navigate those chal-
lenges,” said John Delk, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Se-
curity, Micro Focus. “The launch of
this trusted new resource and ‘360˚
Assessment Tool’ provides security
leaders and senior stakeholders with
knowledge and means to not only bet-
ter understand financial, operation-
al, and information risk, but how to
evaluate and elevate their posture in a
manner that ultimately drives business
growth, profitability and sustained or-
ganizational modernization.”
map to cyber resilience and, ultimate-
ly, business resilience.
CyberResilient.com provides the ‘360˚
Cyber Resilience Assessment Tool’ as a
means by which CISOs and cybersecu-
rity leaders can holistically assess their
current status and identify strategy gaps
so that they can take the necessary ac-
CyberResilient.com equips cyber leaders with strategic knowledge and an intelligent
assessment tool to help evaluate operational risk and drive growth in times of uncertainty.
VMware announces the next wave of Virtual Cloud Network innovation for enabling a
public cloud experience and best meeting the needs of applications and users.
MicroFocushasannouncedthelaunch
of CyberResilient.com, a new digital
resource designed to support CISOs
and board members as they navigate
the shifting demands of the digital
economy, and attempt to continue to
drive business growth during times
of uncertainty. In the face of unprec-
edented global challenges and the rise
of cybercrime, organizations are seiz-
ing the opportunity to transform into
a resilient enterprise designed to have
the agility, structure, and growth-cen-
tric focus to not only weather adverse
conditions but also drive sustained
business performance. Knowing how
to successfully adapt to an evolving
business and threat landscape can be a
challenge and as such, CyberResilient.
com provides leaders with a trusted re-
source to help them build their road-
Rajiv Ramaswami, VMware
CyberResilient.
comprovidesleaders
withatrustedresource
tohelpthembuild
theirroadmaptocyber
resilienceand,ultimately,
businessresilience.

9
• Inhibits risky user behavior to aid in
blocking voluntary or involuntary
data exposure and data movement.
As a single centralized cloud service,
Palo Alto Networks Enterprise DLP
can be deployed across an entire large
enterprise in minutes with no need for
additional infrastructure. In addition,
the service makes it easy to define data
protection policies and configurations
once and automatically apply them
to every network location and cloud
where an organization has data. This
also makes it easy for security teams to
deploy DLP when organizations add
new users or branch offices.
Because of its simplified policy engine
and native integration into existing
control points, including Palo Alto
Networks Next-Generation Firewalls,
VM-Series, Prisma Access, Prisma
Cloud, and Prisma SaaS, it has the low-
est total cost of ownership (TCO) com-
pared to complex legacy DLP products.
This combines new and existing DLP
offerings into a single comprehensive
service, bringing Palo Alto Networks
into the enterprise DLP market.
Palo Alto Networks Enterprise DLP
can automatically detect sensitive
content via advanced machine learn-
ing-based data classification and data
patterns that leverage over 500+ in-
dustry-defined data identifiers.
Palo Alto Networks has introduced En-
terprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP)—a
cloud-delivered service that brings a
fresh, simple and modern approach to
data protection, privacy and compliance.
"Data breaches are a huge and grow-
ing problem worldwide, but the ex-
isting legacy and point solutions are
Palo Alto Networks Reimagines
Data Security with Enterprise
Data Loss Prevention Service
• Facilitates regulatory compliance by
helping enterprises meet data securi-
ty requirements for the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR), Pay-
ment Card Industry Data Security
Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insur-
ance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA), California Consumer
Privacy Act (CCPA) and many more.
not accessible, appropriate or effective
for many of the companies that need
them," said Anand Oswal, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Fire-
wall as a Platform, Palo Alto Networks.
"Our new Enterprise DLP solution is
powerful; simple to deploy, with no
new infrastructure needed; integrates
with existing security technologies;
and works for companies whether
they keep their data in the cloud, on-
prem or take a flexible approach."
The solution helps protect sensitive
data at rest and in motion across every
network, cloud and user access and
effortlessly helps solve three major en-
terprise data security problems:
• Helps prevent data breaches by
automatically identifying confi-
dential intellectual property and
personally identifiable information
(PII) consistently throughout the
entire enterprise.
The solution allows the protection of sensitive data at rest and in motion across every
network and cloud and effortlessly helps solve major enterprise data security problems.
Freshworks unveils Freshworks CRM
The company has also announced Freshworks Neo, a reimagined digital-first
platform, providing out-of-the-box customer 360 intelligence for AI-driven selling.
Freshworks, the customer and employ-
ee engagement software company, has
unveiled Freshworks CRM, uniting
sales and marketing teams with out-of-
the-box capabilities for an unsurpassed
and unified 360-degree view of the cus-
tomer to deliver better experiences and
more profitable outcomes. The Fresh-
works CRM solution is built on Fresh-
works Neo, a new and fundamental re-
imagining of the platform experience,
which unifies data on an embedded
customer data platform for person-
alised customer engagement, improved
lead conversion and sales growth. Neo
eliminates the reliance on unwieldy
tools and complex multi-stack point
solutions that result in data silos that
limit artificial intelligence (AI) and ma-
chine learning’s (ML) usefulness. With
Neo, businesses can quickly and easily
extend and craft custom environments,
with simple clicks not code, to better
serve their customers and prospects.
With Freshworks CRM, marketing
and sales users now have access to
AI-powered insights on a single dash-
board. The explosion of customer data
is converted into “Freddy AI” powered
insights that help drive sales and im-
prove customer experiences, increas-
ing the value of the relationship. This
makes CRM inherently more useful
and helps drive bottom-up adoption
by the sales team — a promise that has
thus far eluded legacy CRM solutions.
Prakash Ramamurthy, Chief Product
Officer at Freshworks, said, “We built
Freshworks CRM to harness the power
of data and create immediate value, chal-
lenging legacy CRM solutions that have
failed sales teams with clunky interfaces
and incomplete data. Freshworks CRM
sitsatopourreimaginedNeoplatform—
grantingbusinessesaroundtheglobelike
General Electric Company, Vice Media
Group LLC and Puma SE an out of the
box and low code experience to contin-
uously empower employees to better ac-
quire and retain their customers for life.”
CRM makes the most of the Neo plat-
form’s flexible, end-to-end platform
experience — enabling developers
and partners to quickly customize
and extend the solution to further
increase employee productivity. The
platform delivers out-of-the-box
tools to seamlessly integrate Fresh-
works products with external applica-
tions using a variety of product APIs,
webhooks, and software development
kits. The Freshworks Neo marketplace
also includes more than 1100 apps to
enhance and extend the Freshworks
product suite. With Neo, businesses
can create custom objects and apps
in an instant and deliver unparal-
leled extensibility and customizability
whether they are in sales, marketing,
customer support, CRM, IT or HR,
according to the company.
Anand Oswal, Palo Alto Networks
Our new Enterprise
DLP solution is powerful;
simple to deploy, with
no new infrastructure
needed; integrates
with existing security
technologies; and works
for companies whether
they keep their data in the
cloud, on- prem or take a
flexible approach.”

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