Tag: SaaS
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Keeping Up With Security Needs Cloud Apps Create
Categories: Cloud ComputingCloud app security Keeping Up With Security Needs Cloud Apps Create Firms have on average 100,000 files with sensitive data stored in the public cloud and 4,000 instances of exposed credentials—all potential security risks. Risky Credentials On average, 4,000 files at each organization are stored in public cloud apps containing credentials (usernames and passwords) to… Read more
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A Revamped Riverbed Beefs Up Its Channel Program
Categories: NetworkingRiverbed Technology—which became private earlier this year and has shed a few product lines, such as its virtual application delivery controllers and cloud backup and recovery products—told partners it is changing its competency requirements and making available professional service training. At its May 19-21 partner conference, Karl Meulema, senior vice president of global channels for… Read more
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Cisco, Elastica Forge Reseller Partnership
Elastica, a cloud access security provider, and Cisco signed a reseller agreement that adds Elastica’s cloud app security solution to Cisco’s threat-centric security portfolio. The deal bolsters Cisco’s security offering with a cloud access security broker (CASB) portfolio that addresses security and compliance risks associated with cloud application and services adoption. While Cisco gains access… Read more
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Salesforce Looks to Partners to Drive Growth Plans
Tyler Prince ticks off some of the goals Salesforce executives have set forth for the company: changing the conversation with customers to help them rethink how their businesses are run, creating a more vertical focus in Salesforce cloud services offerings and expanding the reach of the vendor internationally. Each time, Prince points to how Salesforce’s… Read more
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10 Key Facts About Shifting Cloud Patterns
Categories: Cloud ComputingCloud security Privacy Preferences 52% said they’re planning to migrate apps and/or data that were primarily part of a public cloud environment to a hosted, private cloud within the next year, and 19% said they’ll migrate these apps and/or data to an on-premise cloud model. Moving Off Premises Within two years, survey participants said their… Read more
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Cisco Teams Up With Microsoft to Create MSP Platform
Categories: Managed ServicesCisco and Microsoft are pooling their collective resources as part of an effort to make the lives of managed service providers (MSPs) simpler. The two companies announced the Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Platform, which combines an instance of Microsoft Azure Pack and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure to create a unified platform for service… Read more