Value Journal - February 2021

and insights help protect time for regu-
lar breaks, focused work and learning.
Managers can see trends at team and or-
ganization level, and recommendations
to better balance productivity. In addi-
tion, a new dashboard allows to com-
bine employee feedback from LinkedIn’s
a safer, healthier, and more produc-
tive environment in the workplace.
Combined with WiFi 6, 5G, location
technologies, and collaboration solu-
tions like Webex, they will identify
underutilized or overcrowded spaces,
while monitoring room temperature,
humidity, air quality, and light.
Keys to the future: app-enabled agil-
ity and resilience: The Cloud enabled
organizations to quickly adapt in the
early months of the pandemic. By using
observability solutions, teams can shift
to monitoring the data and insights that
matter. And as they continue to scale
their ongoing transformations, insights
andautomationwillbeessentialtofuture
growth, competitiveness, and resilience.
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From a greater adoption of sensors to a password-less future and closing the digital divide, 2021
will accelerate technologies that allow for more agility, resilience, and innovation.
Cisco Reveals Top Tech Trends for 2021 and Beyond
ient, and better prepared for unexpected
challenges coming to the fore. In 2020,
the arrival of future digital transforma-
tionoccurred far faster than expected and
research from Cisco expects this trend to
continue during 2021.
Reem Asaad, Vice President, Cisco Mid-
dle East & Africa, said, “As 2020 has
shown, the pace of technological change
moves very quickly, and we expect the
same during 2021. The pandemic was a
hugely challenging experience, but digi-
tization has played a vital role in helping
businesses, organizations and individuals
through the crisis. I remain hopeful for
thefutureandofthepositiveroletechnol-
ogy is playing in our daily lives.”
HerearethekeytechtrendsCiscoexpects
to see during 2021:
Closing the Digital Divide: The intro-
duction and expansion of 5G and WiFi
6 networks will improve bandwidth,
speed, and latency, and reach areas
where fiber is prohibitively expensive.
As a result, frontline mobile workers,
telehealth, manufacturing, and educa-
tion will all benefit. This in turn will
level the digital divide as these new
technologies spur growth and innova-
tion for millions.
Driving experience (and safety)
through sensors: Data-based insights
delivered by sensors will help provide
>> Continued on page 4
>> Continued on page 7
Company reimagines fragmented $300 billion market to bring tools for employee
communications, wellbeing, learning and knowledge discovery into the flow of work.
Microsoft Unveils Employee Experience
Platform to Help People Thrive at Work
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Reem Asaad, Cisco MEA
Viva Connections provides a personal-
ized gateway to your digital workplace
where employees can access internal
communications and company re-
sources and participate in commu-
nities, all from a single customizable
app in Microsoft Teams. The Connec-
tions app for Teams will be available on
desktop in public preview the first half
of 2021 with a mobile app coming later
this year.
Viva Insights gives personalized and ac-
tionable insights that help everyone in an
organization thrive. Personal experiences
in a single, integrated experience di-
rectly in Teams.”
Microsoft Viva builds on the power
of Teams and Microsoft 365 to unify
the employee experience across four
key areas — Engagement, Wellbeing,
Learning and Knowledge. The compa-
ny has announced initial set of mod-
ules in Viva that will provide built-in
capabilities and platform extensibility
that will enable customers to integrate
their existing employee experience
tools with Viva to make them more ac-
cessible to employees:
M
icrosoft Viva is the
first employee experi-
ence platform to bring
tools for employee
engagement, learning, wellbeing and
knowledge discovery, directly into the
flow of people’s work.
Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, said,
“Every organization will require a
unified employee experience from on-
boarding and collaboration to contin-
uous learning and growth. Viva brings
together everything an employee
needs to be successful, from day one,
Cisco has revealed the top tech trends for
2021 and beyond with technologies that
enable businesses to be more agile, resil-

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Aruba ClearPass Security Portfolio
Receives Cyber CatalystSM Designation
Oracle Powers New 5G, Fiber and Digital
Services for Communications Industry
For second consecutive time, leading cyber insurers recognize Aruba security innovations
for the ability to reduce cyber risk for Zero Trust and SASE implementations.
New cloud native Order and Service Management helps accelerate service design and order fulfillment.
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enter-
prise company, has announced that
its ClearPass family of identity-based
access control security solutions has
been recognized for its ability to re-
duce risk by insurers in the Cyber Cat-
alystSM program created by Marsh, a
global leader in insurance broking and
risk management. Cyber Catalyst by
MarshSM is a cybersecurity evaluation
program in which participating insur-
ers independently evaluate cybersecu-
rity products and solutions to identify
those that they believe have the ability
to reduce cyber risk.
Developed with the goal of helping or-
ganizations make informed decisions
about cybersecurity products, the Cy-
ber Catalyst program enables custom-
ers that adopt designated technologies
to be considered for enhanced terms
and conditions on cyber insurance pol-
icies from participating insurers. Aruba
ClearPass joins Aruba Policy Enforce-
ment Firewall (PEF), which received
the designation in 2019, marking the
second time in a row that Aruba se-
curity solutions have been recognized.
Now, with both ClearPass and PEF
having received the Cyber Catalyst des-
ignation, customers have an integrated
identity-based network access control
solution that is the foundation for both
Zero Trust and Security Access Service
Edge (SASE) frameworks.
Products that receive the Cyber Cat-
alyst designation undergo a rigorous,
multi-stage evaluation process in
which each of the participating insur-
ers assess the cybersecurity solutions’
ability to reduce cyber risk, while
meeting key practical considerations
such as ease of deployment and on-
going management requirements. A
Building on TM Forum industry stan-
dards, Order and Service Management
features an intuitive new visual service
design and cloud native development
experience that helps service provid-
ers model, test, and deploy new or
bundled services quickly. For exam-
ple, a communications company may
co-create a new sports-based digital
service offering with a partner. Order
and Service Management enables the
provider to quickly spin up processing
capacity to support order delivery and
uses elastic scaling to meet increased
order volumes in peak demand peri-
ods, such as during playoffs or a cham-
pionship game.
“Many service providers are looking
to cloud technologies to realize a step
change in both operational agility
and cost in how they deliver digital
and 5G services to their customers,”
said Jason Rutherford, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Or-
acle Communications-Applications.
“The latest Order and Service Man-
agement, together with cloud native
open-source tooling, empowers our
customers with IT solutions to better
operate, scale, and control the deliv-
ery of customer orders.”
This new environment also enables
providers to more quickly build and
deploy cartridges (the functional
building blocks of OSM) and in-
stall and replicate Order Service and
Management environments in under
30 minutes. As such, service provid-
ers can quickly incubate additional
services and continually adopt new
functionality with virtually no mainte-
nance downtime. Whether deploying
the solution on their own infrastruc-
ture, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
(OCI), or a third-party cloud, service
providers can maintain complete con-
trol over service delivery and sensitive
customer data.
and operational tools to rapidly design
and manage the fulfillment of customer
orders. Now, communications compa-
nies can get products and services to
customers faster by orchestrating pro-
cesses and updates across billing, part-
ners, shipping, and service delivery.
Helping communications companies
deliver new fiber, digital, and 5G-based
services to customers, Oracle intro-
duced a cloud native deployment of Or-
acle Communications Order and Ser-
vice Management (OSM). The solution
gives service providers enhanced visual
majority voted to designate Aruba
ClearPass as a Cyber Catalyst solution
for its ability to provide full-spectrum
visibility, combined with role- and
device-based secure network access
control for IoT, BYOD, corporate de-
vices, as well as employees, contrac-
tors and guests. Whether deployed
alone or used in conjunction with
Aruba PEF, ClearPass helps customers
adopt a Zero Trust posture to mitigate
the risks associated with the explosive
growth in attacks targeting IoT devices
and users connecting to the network.
This approach can also support orga-
nizations who are looking to imple-
ment a SASE approach to protecting
its operations. To further reduce se-
curity complexity, while strengthen-
ing enforcement functions, ClearPass
integrates with an ecosystem of 150+
third-party solutions across a broad
range of security capabilities.
Products
that receive the
Cyber Catalyst
designation
undergo a rigorous,
multi-stage
evaluation process
in which each of
the participating
insurers assess
the cybersecurity
solutions’ ability
to reduce cyber
risk, while meeting
key practical
considerations.

4
Citrix to Acquire Project
Management Platform Wrike
Citrix Systems has entered into a defini-
tive agreement to acquire Wrike, a play-
er in the SaaS collaborative work man-
agement space, for $2.25 billion in cash.
The combination will bring together
Citrix’s digital work platform, which
securely delivers the resources an em-
ployee needs to be productive in one
unified experience, and Wrike’s work
management solution, which stream-
lines collaboration and work execu-
tion, providing employees with ad-
ditional tools to work efficiently and
securely wherever they may be. The
addition of Wrike’s cloud-delivered
capabilities will accelerate Citrix’s
business model transition to the cloud
and strategy to become a complete
“Work today is happening everywhere –
at home, in the office and on the road.
We believe that in the future, success
will go to those companies that can
support flexible and hybrid work mod-
els and provide a consistent, secure and
efficient experience that removes the
complexity and noise from work so em-
ployees can focus and perform at their
best, wherever they happen to be,” said
David Henshall, President and CEO,
Citrix. “Together, Citrix and Wrike will
deliver the solutions needed to power a
cloud-delivered digital workspace ex-
perience that enables teams to securely
access the resources and tools they need
to collaborate and get work done in the
most efficient and effective way possible
across any channel, device or location.”
Transaction unites leading workspace delivery platform with best-in-class SaaS
work management solution, ushering in new era of employee productivity.
David Henshall, Citrix
SaaS-based work platform addressing
the needs of various functional groups
within the enterprise.
The combined company will offer cus-
tomers an enhanced value proposition
through complementary solutions,
unlocking new revenue opportunities
both within existing installed customer
bases and new lines of business buying
centers, including marketing, profes-
sional services, and HR. Together, Ci-
trix and Wrike will serve over 400,000
customers across 140 countries. In ad-
dition, upon closing, Wrike will gain
access to Citrix’s robust ecosystem of
partners, creating new opportunities
within the ecosystem to drive addition-
al value for customers.
FortiXDR is the only extended detection and response
solution that can autonomously manage cyber
incidents from identification to remediation.
Fortinet Announces
AI-powered XDR for
Fully Automated Threat
Detection and Response
John Maddison, Fortinet
tinually trained by the threat data and
research of FortiGuard Labs as well as
the frontline expertise of its incident
responders. The solution starts by lever-
aging the diverse security information
shared across the Fortinet Security Fabric
for correlation and analysis, converting
them into high fidelity security incidents.
These are then investigated by the AI en-
gine, just as a seasoned security analyst
would, to come to a final threat classifica-
tion and scope. Finally, the best possible
contextual responses are defined and can
be automatically implemented to quickly
remediate confirmed incidents.
John Maddison, EVP of Products and
CMO at Fortinet, said, “FortiXDR is the
only XDR solution that leverages artificial
intelligence to replicate the hands-on in-
vestigationthatotherwiseleavesorganiza-
tions playing catch up. Applied across the
F
ortinet has announced a new
Extended Detection and Re-
sponse (XDR) solution, FortiX-
DR, designed to reduce com-
plexity, speed detection, and coordinate
response to cyberattacks across the orga-
nization. FortiXDR is the only solution of
its kind to leverage artificial intelligence
(AI) for the investigation effort critical
to incident response. Expanding on the
cloud-native endpoint platform of For-
tiEDR, it enhances an organization’s Se-
curity Fabric and the threat protection
powered by FortiGuard Labs security
services. Specifically, FortiXDR can fully
automate security operations processes
typically handled by experienced security
analysts to mitigate threats faster across
the broad attack surface.
Unlike other solutions, FortiXDR is
AI-powered by a patent-pending Dy-
namic Control Flow Engine and con-
Security Fabric platform, it helps enter-
prises keep pace with today’s accelerating
threat landscape, even for organizations
limited by small teams and few tools.”
Key benefits of FortiXDR include:
• Dramatically reduces the number of
alerts across products—by 77% or
more on average.
• Handles complex tasks in seconds that
would take experts with specialized
tools 30 minutes or more to accom-
plish. And without human error.
• Enables the consolidation of indepen-
dent security products and an auto-
matic, coordinated response.
• Fully automates intelligent incident in-
vestigation rather than relying on scarce
human resources.
>> From page 1
Glint with collaboration data from Viva
Insights. The Viva Insights app in Teams
andthenewGlintandVivaInsightsdash-
boardarenowavailableinpublicpreview.
Viva Learning makes training and pro-
fessional development opportunities
more discoverable and accessible in the
flow of work. It aggregates all the learn-
ing resources available in one place, in-
cluding content from LinkedIn Learning;
Microsoft Learn; third-party providers
including Skillsoft, Coursera, Pluralsight
and edX; as well as an organization’s own
content library. The Viva Learning app is
nowavailableinprivatepreview,andlater
this year Viva Learning will offer integra-
tions with leading learning management
systems, including Cornerstone OnDe-
mand, Saba and SAP SuccessFactors.
Viva Topics delivers a knowledge dis-
covery experience that helps people con-
nect to information and experts across
the company. Using AI to reason over a
customer’s Microsoft 365 data, and with
the ability to integrate knowledge from
a variety of third-party services, Viva
Topics automatically surfaces topic cards
within documents across Microsoft 365
and Teams. Viva Topics is now generally
available as an add-on to Microsoft 365
commercial plans.
Microsoft...
The transaction, which has been unan-
imously approved by the board of di-
rectors of both Citrix and Wrike, is ex-
pected to close in the first half of 2021,
subject to regulatory approvals and
other customary closing conditions.
Until close, the companies will con-
tinue to operate independently. Upon
closing, Filev will continue to lead the
Wrike team and report to Arlen Shen-
kman, EVP and Chief Financial Offi-
cer, Citrix.

5
Check Point Unveils New Quantum
Spark Security Gateways for SMBs
CyberArk Study: Poor Security Habits Raise
Questions About the Future of Remote Work
Check Point Software Technologies
has announced the availability of its
complete Quantum Spark series of
security gateways for small and me-
dium size businesses (SMBs). The
range of six gateways sets new stan-
dards of protection against the most
advanced cyber-attacks for SMBs,
A new remote workforce study
from CyberArk found that the ma-
jority of employees feel more produc-
tive at home and want to continue re-
mote work, even after it’s deemed safe
to return to offices. However, poor
security practices could force busi-
nesses to reconsider the long-term
viability of remote work.
Remote Work Challenges: Family
Disruptions and Zoom Fatigue
As the pandemic forced more of our
in-person lives into virtual environ-
ments, remote workers have had to
overcome several challenges to bal-
ance their work and personal lives.
• 78% admitted to having technology
issues with connecting to corporate
systems and resources cited as the big-
gest hurdle.
sioning, which means they deliver
full protection out-of-the-box inside
one minute.
Flexible connectivity: Quantum Spark
Gateways include Gigabit Ethernet,
Wi-Fi and integrated cellular LTE mo-
dems, giving users the widest range
of connectivity options. Quantum
Spark gateways also support multiple
internet service providers and perfor-
mance-based routing, delivering the
best bandwidth and quality of service
for applications.
Easy, intuitive management: Check
Point’s WatchTower mobile ap-
plication enables staff to monitor
their security status and quickly
mitigate any threats directly from
the mobile device. Security can
also be managed from any bowser,
using a cloud-based portal with in-
tuitive web UI.
Balancing Security, Productivity and
Convenience
Sixty-seven percent admit to finding
workarounds to corporate security
policiesinordertobemoreproductive
including sending work documents
to personal email addresses, sharing
passwords, and installing rogue appli-
cations. However poor security habits
go far beyond sidestepping a policy or
two and more education is not chang-
ing these behaviors. Over half (54%)
of the employees surveyed said they
had received remote-work specific se-
curity training, yet:
• 69% of respondents admit to using
corporate devices for personal use.
• 57% of all remote workers admit
that they allow other members of
their household to use their corporate
Extended range of gateways delivers automated threat prevention and integrated
security out of the box, with zero-touch management to meet the unique needs of SMBs.
95% of employees want to continue remote working, 67% ignore corporate security policies.
Itai Greenberg, Check Point
giving unrivalled ease of deployment
and management, and delivering op-
timum security without needing spe-
cialist skills.
Check Point’s Quantum Spark Gate-
ways 1500 four-model series is now
being expanded with two new models,
1600 and 1800.The full line of gate-
ways allows supporting businesses
ranging from one employee all the way
to 500. Quantum Spark Gateway users
benefit from:
Highest levels of security with auto-
mated threat prevention: All models
include Check Point’s SandBlast Zero
Day Protection with up to 2Gb of
threat prevention performance and
over 60 security services focused on
threat prevention.
Automatic set-up in 60 seconds: All
models feature zero-touch provi-
• 45% of remote employees cite dis-
ruption from family and pets as the
biggest challenge of remote work, fol-
lowed by balancing work and personal
life (43%) and ‘Zoom fatigue’ (34%).
• Despite these challenges, employees
also recognize the distinct benefits of
remote work – including saving time
on commuting (32%), being able run
errands (24%) and catch up on house-
hold chores between meetings (23%).
devices for activities like schoolwork,
gaming and shopping.
• 82% of all remote workers admit to
reusing passwords.
“The global pandemic has been the
largest test yet for the future of distrib-
uted work. Working people have prov-
en incredibly resilient as they rise to the
challenge and overcome the stress and
significant obstacles of blending home
and work lives,” said Matt Cohen,
Chief Operating Officer, CyberArk.
“As we continue to adapt to this new
way of operating, it’s the responsibility
of both employees and organizations to
take responsibility of corporate securi-
ty. Organizations should continually
reinforce best practices and implement
user-friendly tools and policies while
employees need to understand and be
receptive to those policies.”
Complete protection for remote em-
ployees and cloud applications: In
addition to the network protection
Quantum Spark gateways provide,
businesses can protect all laptops and
PCs against threats such as malware,
ransomware and phishing with Check
Point endpoint protection, and secure
employees’ smartphones with Check
Point mobile protection. Email and
docs can be protected with Check
Point email security.
Itai Greenberg, VP of Product Man-
agement at Check Point Software
Technologies, said, “The new Quan-
tum Spark gateways give small and
medium-size businesses the most
advanced protection for their net-
works and employees’ devices, so
they benefit from enterprise-grade
automated security, together with
easy intuitive management.”
As part of the expansion of the new
Quantum Spark gateways, the 910
Security Gateway model is now dis-
continued and will not be available
for order after July 2021. Check Point’s
Quantum Spark Gateways 1500
four-model series and the two new
models, 1600 and 1800 are available to
order now.

6
Fujitsu Amps up Behavior Recognition
Tech with Deep Learning
By leveraging this technology, Fujitsu
aims to contribute to significant im-
provements in public safety and in the
workplace, helping to deliver on the
promise of a safer and more secure so-
ciety for all.
With time series behavior-recognition
technology developed by Fujitsu Labs,
the company has successfully realized
highly-accurate image recognition
using a deep learning model that can
operate with high-accuracy even for
complex behaviors in which multiple
joints change in conjunction with each
other, such as removing objects from a
box during unpacking.
Complex movements like unpacking
involve hand, elbow, and shoulder
joints moving in tandem with the
arm bending and stretching. Fujitsu
has developed a new AI model for
a graph convolutional neural net-
works that performs convolution
operation of the graph structure by
adopting a graph consisting of edges
Fujitsu Laboratories has announced
the development of a technology that
utilizes deep learning to recognize the
positions and connections of adjacent
joints in complex movements or be-
havior in which multiple joints move
in tandem. This makes it possible to
achievegreateraccuracyinrecognizing,
for instance, when a person performs a
task like removing objects from a box.
This technology successfully achieved
the world’s highest accuracy against
the world standard benchmark in the
field of behavior recognition, with sig-
nificant gains over the results achieved
using conventional technologies, which
don’t make use of information on
neighboring joints.
Fujitsu aims to contribute to significant improvements in public safety and in the workplace by
leveraging the new tech to perform checks of manufacturing procedures or unsafe behavior.
according to procedure, the product
can reduce the need for manual in-
spection of finished goods, resulting
in labor saving.
In addition, data integration and data
sharing with existing business systems
can be performed on this product, with
an application that collects data from a
PLC and other on-site devices, images
of the on-site environment, and data
related to power voltage, vibration,
temperature and relative humidity.
These enable rapid identification of the
affected range in the event of defects,
and the detection of environmental
changes that may affect the quality of
finished goods, contributing to the re-
duction of loss costs and improvement
of the quality of finished goods.
Hitachi Launches Industrial Edge
Computer CE Series Embedded AI model
Intel’s OpenVINO toolkit is pre-in-
stalled on the image analysis execution
platform of this product to leverage AI
and deep learning. By using a variety of
pre-trained models that are optimized
via the OpenVINO toolkit on the CPU,
the detection of objects, estimation
of structures, and other solutions us-
ing AI functionality that could not be
achieved by conventional embedded
devices can be easily performed. With
itsthermaldesignthatencompassesIn-
tel’s Atom processor’s low power con-
sumption feature and Hitachi’s know-
how gained through the development
of Hitachi’s information and control
systems, the product achieves a fanless,
slitness, and spindleless structure that
can also be installed in harsh environ-
ments, such as manufacturing sites.
The new model contributes to the digital transformation of customers through the fusion of
Intel’s AI technology and Hitachi’s highly reliable design and manufacturing technologies.
connecting adjacent joints based on
the structure of the human body with
the joint position as a node (Vertex).
By training this model in advance us-
ing the time series data of joints, the
connection strength (Weight) with
neighboring joints can be optimized,
and effective connection relationships
for behavior recognition can be ac-
quired. With conventional technol-
ogies, it was necessary to accurately
grasp the individual characteristics of
each joint. With an AI model that has
already been trained, the combined
features of the adjacent joints that
are linked can be extracted, making
it possible to achieve highly-accurate
recognition for complex movements.
This technology was evaluated against
the world standard benchmark in the
field of behavior recognition using
skeleton data, and in the case of simple
behaviors such as standing and sitting
in the open data set, the accuracy rate
was maintained at the same level as
that of conventional technology that
does not use information on neigh-
boring joints. In the case of complex
behaviors like a person unpacking a
box or throwing an object, however,
the accuracy rate improved greatly,
to achieve an overall improvement of
more than 7% over the conventional
alternative to reach the world’s highest
recognition accuracy.
Outline of the newly developed technology compared with conventional technologies
Hitachi Industrial Edge Computer
CE series Embedded AI model
Hitachi has announced the launch of
its Industrial Edge Computer CE series
Embedded AI model that was devel-
oped in collaboration with Intel Cor-
poration. The product, an integration
of Intel’s AI technology and Hitachi’s
highly reliable control system design
and manufacturing technologies, is a
new model that incorporates an image
analysis execution platform using AI
and deep learning.
Hitachi collaborated with Intel and
developed an edge computer that will
enable the effective allocation of on-
site workers and achieve automation
and labor saving. With a built-in im-
age analysis execution platform that
uses Intel’s AI and deep learning, the
product will allow the easy introduc-
tionofsolutionsusingAIfunctionality
on site. For example, by incorporating
an application that analyzes images
from a variety of cameras installed on
site and then determines whether the
assembly work is being done correctly

7
Nutanix, Inc. has released an analysis
of its third global Enterprise Cloud
Index survey and research report,
showing how companies in the UAE
compare with the rest of the world
when it comes to hybrid cloud adop-
tion. This year, survey respondents
were also asked about the impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on current
and future IT decisions and strategy.
A key finding: hybrid cloud is still
the frontrunner as the ideal IT infra-
structure model (83% of respondents
in the UAE think so, which is close to
the global figure of 86%), and respon-
dents running hybrid environments
are more likely to plan to focus on
High Private Cloud Usage Sets Path
for UAE’s Hybrid Cloud Migration
Cisco...
their own data protection policies
for SaaS applications. Adding Hub-
Stor to the Veritas portfolio allows
customers to protect all their data,
now including SaaS data, from a sin-
gle platform, whether in the cloud,
in the data center or at the edge.”
The acquisition of HubStor enables
expanded protection for a variety of
SaaS-based applications, including
Microsoft 365, Slack, Box and Goo-
gle Workspace. HubStor is built on
a modern API-first architecture that
provides a clear path for integration
with the unified Enterprise Data Ser-
vices Platform to simplify operations
and reduce risk as part of a holistic
data protection strategy.
Veritas Extends Cloud
Capabilities Across its Platform
45% of new deployments in the same
time frame.
3. Security, privacy, and compliance
strengthstogetherrepresentthenumber
one decision factor when considering
new IT deployments. This was agreed
by 26% of UAE respondents. Cost ad-
vantages ranked a distant second (13%);
from there, respondents from the UAE
were highly divided in their selections
of the top IT deployment decision fac-
tor. More respondents from the UAE
did report having to abide by execu-
tive-level mandates as their top criteri-
on (9%) than average (2%).
“It is a great sign that companies in the
UAE have a healthy adoption of private
cloud and multiple public cloud infra-
structures. Both these components are
a necessary step on the journey to a
dominant hybrid cloud environment,
as enterprises gain the right mix of
management tools and skill sets to han-
dle the job,” said Aaron White, Sr. Sales
Director, METI, Nutanix.
strategic efforts and driving positive
business impact.
Top key findings are as below:
1.RespondentsintheUAEcurrentlyrun
more private clouds (35%) than any oth-
er IT infrastructure model. Those from
the UAE tied with Australia and Italy
for having the largest penetration of pri-
vate cloud of all ECI companies polled
worldwide. Private cloud is a component
of the emerging, highly flexible hybrid
cloud model, which 83% of respondents
in the UAE agreeing is the ideal IT oper-
atingmodelgoingforward.UAEappears
to have done a reasonable job of paring
down their use of legacy datacenter-only
environments, reporting below-average
penetration of 15% while the country
is right in line with averages for hybrid
cloud adoption (just 10% penetration).
2. Over the next five years, respondents
in the UAE plan to reduce all IT models
in use except for hybrid cloud, which
they expect to grow significantly. Hy-
brid cloud/ multi-cloud will account for
Third annual Nutanix survey finds UAE companies
ahead of the global curve on private cloud adoption,
which is a key component of the emerging, highly
flexible hybrid cloud model.
The company acquires HubStor to expand enterprise SaaS data protection in the cloud.
From customer experience to brand
excitement: The most advanced ap-
plications enable even more personal
relationships, along with instantaneous
responses. That demands the ability to
quickly turn masses of real-time infor-
mation from the network into action-
able insights. Companies that employ
such capabilities can respond to a cus-
tomer even before they report an issue.
The combination of immersive, intelli-
gence-based personalization and expe-
rience that will transform baseline cus-
tomer satisfaction into deep customer
engagement, excitement, and loyalty.
Identity and a password-less future:
The use of technologies such as biomet-
rics will be far more expanded as plat-
forms, industry groups, and security
providersworktowardsapassword-free
future for consumers and enterprises.
Organizations need to begin preparing
for this inevitable shift, where users no
longer rely on a traditional password as
their primary method of identification.
Consumption models for the tech
you actually need: Consumption
models will continue to shift, especial-
ly as more features and capabilities are
available via software, whether on site
or in the cloud. These pay-as-you-con-
sume models are far too flexible and
cost effective to ignore.
Aaron White, Nutanix
Greg Hughes, Veritas
Services Platform to provide custom-
ers with a single platform for all of their
cloud environment use cases. The ad-
vancements include the acquisition of
HubStor to enable powerful enterprise
Backup as a Service capabilities. Veri-
tas is also launching NetBackup 9 with
significant new features that simplify
operations and provide customers with
flexibility and choice for deployment
across edge, core and cloud.
Greg Hughes, CEO of Veritas, said,
“Today, more enterprises than ever
rely on cloud services such as Mic-
rosoft 365, Slack and Box. But too
few companies realize that they
are responsible for implementing
Veritas Technologies has announced
major updates to its Enterprise Data
HubStor has been developed to over-
come some of the biggest barriers to
cloud data protection faced by enter-
prises. It is designed from the ground
up to meet the high performance and
scalability demands needed to protect,
manage and restore enterprise data
sets. The integration of HubStor tech-
nology into the Veritas portfolio will
provide customers with a SaaS backup
solution that lets them customize and
tailor configurations to a highly gran-
ular level – even down to individual
items, recover data through a simpli-
fied self-service portal for end-users
and discover insights on their backup
environment through dashboards and
reporting among other benefits.
HubStor’s technology harnesses the
power of Microsoft Azure, giving cus-
tomers access to the Azure platform’s
global footprint for data sovereignty and
replication needs, the ability to leverage
other Azure services, and the option to
use their own Azure subscription.
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Malwarebytes has announced en-
hanced integrations and business of-
ferings in its OneView management
dashboard to streamline security
business operations for Managed Ser-
vice Provider (MSP) partners. The
latest expansion brings management
of server products into the cloud con-
sole and also integrates directly with
ConnectWise Manage business man-
agement solution, making it easier for
MSPs to streamline billing, service
ticketing, and account management
during a critical time of increased cy-
bersecurity threats.
“Security is an increasing concern
for MSPs, particularly as their cli-
ents have become more targeted by
cybercriminals in the wake of the
COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mike
LaPeters, Vice President of World-
wide MSP and Channel Operations
at Malwarebytes. “By expanding On-
eView integrations and product capa-
bilities, we are helping MSPs by both
providing tailored security solutions
for their clientele and also easing the
burden of management and billing.”
Malwarebytes’ OneView integration
with ConnectWise Manage boosts
MSP team productivity by eliminat-
ing manual tasks and providing up-
to-date customer data capabilities
to increase efficiency of billing and
licensing management. Automated
ticket creation from Malwarebytes
security scans give MSP teams full
awareness of threats to their custom-
er with direct visibility into endpoints
while informing on critical status and
information to keep customers more
secure. Malwarebytes’ software agent
provides MSP staff with a deep un-
derstanding of endpoint status and
configuration by exchanging im-
portant details like OS version, IP
address, installation date, and more
with the ConnectWise Manage tool,
enabling teams to make more in-
formed decisions on securing their
customer endpoints.
MSP partners can now also inte-
grate Malwarebytes endpoint se-
curity products for servers into
Lumen, VMware Expand Partnership
to Drive Rapid Innovation at the Edge
Malwarebytes Announces New Integrations
in OneView Management Dashboard
the OneView console for stream-
lined management:
• Simplify server protection, detec-
tion and response: Malwarebytes
Endpoint Detection and Response for
Servers provides a complete solution
that includes support packages to cus-
tom fit a business’ security needs.
• Proactively protect and remediate
Windows and Linux servers: Mal-
warebytes Endpoint Protection for
Servers provides endpoint security
that combines fast speeds with excep-
tional protection to offer simple and
efficient solutions to organizations of
all sizes. The product provides pro-
active malware protection and re-
mediation for server infrastructure,
driven from a single cloud console,
providing visibility into all activity
across an organization.
Connections. This combination will
enable businesses to create a more se-
cure software supply chain to rapidly
deploy new edge-native workloads,
on-demand, closer to the point of dig-
ital interaction.
Work-from-anywhere: Adding VM-
ware’s Secure Access Service Edge
(SASE) platform – inclusive of VM-
ware SD-WAN and VMware Work-
space ONE – to the Lumen solutions
set. Many organizations now manage
distributed workforces, making leg-
acy solutions – including hub-and-
spoke-based VPNs – obsolete. This
initiative will help customers more
seamlessly adopt SASE architecture
to achieve the reliability and per-
formance of a traditional network,
as well as deliver superior customer
and employee experiences, in a Zero
Trust model.
Security: Integrating VMware Carbon
Black Cloud Endpoint and VMware
Carbon Black Cloud Workload with
intelligence data from Black Lotus Labs,
the threat research arm of Lumen. En-
terprises will be better positioned to
defend against cyber-threats, right from
the end point, using the combination
of security analytics derived from one
of the world’s most deeply peered net-
works and industry-leading endpoint
protectionanddatacentervirtualization.
“We see an exploding set of edge use
cases that will result in every hu-
man experience becoming digital,”
said Pat Gelsinger, Chief Executive
Officer, VMware. “These trends have
only been accelerated as a result of the
pandemic. Materializing these oppor-
tunities requires strong partnership
by proven technical leaders. The Lu-
men-VMware partnership will pro-
vide the exact combination required
to transform business processes and
customer experience.”
global cloud core to the distributed
network edge.
Automated factories. Smart cities.
Telemedicine. These interaction-in-
tensive experiences require the or-
chestration of compute, network, and
data resources closer to the customer
to deliver low latency, and intrinsically
secure applications. To lay the founda-
tion for advanced workloads, Lumen
and VMware will form a Joint Innova-
tion Lab, bringing together architec-
ture and design, marketing, and sales
resources. The teams will focus initial
efforts on co-developing solutions for
the Lumen portfolio of managed ser-
vices in key areas including:
Edge Computing: Certifying the in-
tegration of the VMware Tanzu Basic
edition with the Lumen Edge Bare
Metal service and Lumen Dynamic
Companies to establish a joint Innovation Lab to accelerate customers’ ability to build,
run, manage, connect, and protect applications across distributed infrastructure.
Expanded management capabilities through integration with ConnectWise Manage and
expansion of OneView cloud console to servers streamlines MSP business operations.
Lumen Technologies and Vmware
have announced a significant expan-
sion of their partnership to fast-track
the design, development, and delivery
of edge computing and more secure,
work-from-anywhere solutions. Lu-
men and VMware’s combined capabil-
ities will enable customers to deliver
future-forward experiences for any
application, to any device, from the

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Hybrid-Ready: Portable data format
and integration with Veeam Back-
up & Replication external reposito-
ries enables easy recovery outside of
Google Cloud; utilizes flexible Veeam
Universal Licensing (VUL) to sim-
plify license management and enable
Cloud Mobility.
Veeam Software has announced its ex-
pansion of public cloud support with
the general availability of new Veeam
Backup for Google Cloud Platform –
completing the company’s support for
all three major public cloud providers.
With the majority of organizations
now running hybrid or multi-cloud
environments and 72% of those using
public cloud currently having more
than one vendor in place, Google
Cloud is one of the top five-largest
public cloud infrastructure providers
worldwide. With this new offering,
Veeam delivers a single platform to
protect, secure and manage all appli-
cations and data – cloud, virtual and
physical – enabling organizations to
accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption.
Danny Allan, Chief Technology Of-
ficer and Senior Vice President of
Product Strategy at Veeam, said, “As
we now expand public cloud support
Veeam Announces Availability of New
Backup for Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud-Native: Simple yet
powerful web UI, deployable from the
Google Cloud Marketplace starts pro-
tecting data in minutes; Policy-Based
Automation of Google Cloud-native
snapshots for fast and frequent recov-
ery points, and rapid full- and file-lev-
el recovery options to overcome any
cloud data loss.
Cost Optimization: Industry-first cost
calculation to align service-level objec-
tives (SLOs) with budgets while avoid-
ing cloud overspend; back up to Google
Cloud object storage for cost-effective
long-term retention and compliance.
Security: Overcome security threats
including ransomware as well as in-
sider threats by isolating backup
data from production (cross-project/
cross-region); layered security to pro-
tect against brute force attacks with
multi-factor authentication (MFA).
even further with the general availabil-
ity of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud
Platform, we have simultaneously
expanded our partnership with Goo-
gle Cloud, enabling Veeam to jointly
engage customers through the Goo-
gle Cloud Marketplace. Additionally,
with Veeam recently acquiring Kasten,
customers can also acquire Kasten’s
K10 data management platform, pur-
pose-built for Kubernetes, through the
Google Cloud Marketplace.”
Veeam helps customers address se-
curity and data protection responsi-
bilities by delivering Google Cloud
backup and recovery to protect and
secure applications and data, utilizing
and automating Google Cloud-native
technologies to quickly and reliably
overcome any cloud data loss.
New functionality of Veeam Backup
for Google Cloud Platform includes:
Strengthens Veeam’s commitment to hybrid cloud, providing customers with broad platform support and choice.
Danny Allan, Veeam
Palo Alto Networks Expands
IoT Security to Healthcare
Solution uses machine learning, crowd-sourced telemetry and MDS2
data to quickly and accurately profile devices and stop threats.
while offering deep insights on health-
care-specific devices and vulnerabili-
ties. This helps improve data security
and patient safety while meeting the
needs of both IT teams and biomedi-
cal engineering teams.

While IoT has opened the door for
innovative new services across indus-
tries, it also presents new cyberse-
curity risks. This is particularly true
in healthcare. According to a recent
report from Unit 42, 83% of medical
imaging devices are running on un-
supported operating systems, making
them potential avenues for attackers.
Attacks on medical devices like these
can potentially disrupt the quality of
care and allow attackers to steal pa-
tient data.

Palo Alto Networks IoT Security is
designed to ensure Healthcare Deliv-
ery Organizations (HDOs) can realize
the benefits of IoT for patient care —
without sacrificing security. It is the
industry’s only solution to use ma-
chine learning and crowd-sourced te-
lemetry to quickly and accurately pro-
file all devices on the network — even
those never seen before. IoT Security
also offers ML-powered policy recom-
mendations to reduce manual effort;
intrusion prevention to block exploits;
sandboxing to detect and prevent IoT
malware; and URL and DNS security
to stop IoT attacks via the web.

“The Internet of Medical Things has
the potential to improve healthcare,
save lives, and bring massive savings.
But if not properly secured, these
same devices can pose huge risks,” said
Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President
and General Manager, Firewall as a
Platform, Palo Alto Networks. “Our vi-
sion is to give healthcare organizations
complete visibility, in-depth risk analy-
sis, and built-in prevention so they can
get the maximum benefits from this
transformative technology while re-
ducing risks to patients and their data.”
Palo Alto Networks IoT Security
with these healthcare features are
currently available.
Security simplifies the challenge of se-
curing the Internet of Medical Things
(IoMT) through ML-powered visi-
bility, prevention and enforcement,
Palo Alto Networks has announced
the most comprehensive Internet of
Things (IoT) security solution for
healthcare. Palo Alto Networks IoT

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