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SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 5, 2021 – Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced it was awarded the 2021 Best Practices Global Market Leadership Award in Email Security by Frost & Sullivan. Since 2015, for seven consecutive years, Proofpoint has been the market leader in email security. The recognition reflects Proofpoint’s excellence across key strategic areas for cybersecurity companies outlined by Frost & Sullivan, such as growth strategy, implementation, product differentiation, and technological leverage….

Google has announced financial backing for a new initiative designed to incentivize proactive security improvements to open source code. Unlike bug bounty programs which offer financial rewards to researchers who discover critical software bugs, the Secure Open Source (SOS) project will do the same for developers whose work prevents major vulnerabilities appearing in the first place. “SOS rewards a very broad range of improvements that proactively harden critical open source projects and supporting infrastructure against…

A major telecoms service provider has revealed it was the victim of a five-year breach impacting hundreds of customers. Syniverse routes text messages for hundreds of global telco customers — allowing it to boast of reaching “more people and devices than anyone on Earth.” However, in a filing with the SEC last week ahead of the firm going public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), it admitted discovering a major incident…

Facebook has apologized for a major global outage that left users unable to access the social network and other platforms for hours, blaming the incident on a configuration error. The outage began at around 11.40 Eastern Time on Monday morning and lasted well into the evening of the same day — affecting not just Facebook and Messenger but Instagram and WhatsApp. The recovery effort was also impacted as Facebook engineers found it difficult to access…

Welcome to VMworld 2021.   In my recent article: How The World Of Multiple Clouds Is Becoming Multi-Cloud (forbes.com), I mentioned we have found that many enterprises are in the process of multiyear cloud migrations and application modernization efforts. During the pandemic, many of those same companies pulled forward plans to compensate for the lack of easy data center access and, in some cases, the delayed supply of compute, storage and networking enterprise infrastructure hardware.  VMware Cloud on…

Welcome to VMworld 2021.   In my recent article: How The World Of Multiple Clouds Is Becoming Multi-Cloud (forbes.com), I mentioned we have found that many enterprises are in the process of multiyear cloud migrations and application modernization efforts. During the pandemic, many of those same companies pulled forward plans to compensate for the lack of easy data center access and, in some cases, the delayed supply of compute, storage and networking enterprise infrastructure hardware.  VMware Cloud on…

VMware Cloud on AWS has been helping our customers accelerate their hybrid cloud journey since its launch in 2017.  Not only have we extended the benefits of proven VMware enterprise capabilities to the AWS Cloud, we have also delivered a strong economic value compared to the alternatives of staying on a traditional on-premises infrastructure or moving to traditional public cloud instances.  We have worked with thousands of customers and validated hundreds of TCO assessments with them….

VMware Cloud on AWS has been helping customers accelerate their hybrid cloud journey since its launch in 2017. And with the 4-year anniversary of the service, we are excited to announce a limited time price reduction for VMware Cloud on AWS i3.metal hosts .  Through this offer, VMware is lowering the list price of on-demand, 1-year or 3-year subscription for i3.metal hosts of VMware Cloud on AWS by 15 %.  According to Forrester Consulting[1], when customers used VMware Cloud…

It gives me immense pleasure to introduce VMware Cloud with Tanzu services to millions of IT admins around the globe, so they could modernize vSphere-based workloads on a fully managed infrastructure.  Tanzu services will consist of a portfolio of managed Kubernetes services for an easy path to enterprise-grade deployments and management for accelerating application modernization initiatives. VMware Cloud with Tanzu services is a win-win for customers looking for a unified platform, which is multi-cloud ready…

VMworld 2021 is here and as usual, we have lots of big announcements for VMware Cloud on AWS. And at this year’s VMworld, we are celebrating the 4-year anniversary for VMware Cloud on AWS. Within these 4 years, we have helped customers in accelerating their cloud migration journey in a fast and cost-effective manner. Over the last 4 years, based on customer requirements, we have released features almost every week with 16 major releases, we…