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]]>As organizations continue to navigate an evolving landscape, the demand for solutions supporting remote workforces and efficient application delivery has never been higher. Parallels RAS represents one such solution, and now that it can be purchased and deployed through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, additional options emerge for partners to extend this delivery to customers wishing to better deploy and manage their remote desktop and application infrastructure.
“With Parallels RAS now available in the Azure Marketplace, organizations worldwide can experience enhanced accessibility,” said Prashant Ketkar, Chief Product and Technology Officer for Parallels. “Listing Parallels RAS as a managed app alongside the existing BYOL options, simplifies the deployment process, making it easier for organizations to find, adopt, and integrate Parallels RAS directly from the Azure Marketplace. This move optimizes operations and removes barriers to adoption, ensuring a smoother and more efficient implementation.”
Deploying Parallels RAS within Azure Marketplace offers a significant advantage: complete automation. This streamlined process handles the initial setup of a full Parallels RAS infrastructure in the customer’s Azure subscription. It automates the deployment of infrastructure components, such as Connection Brokers, Secure Gateways, and Load Balancers, all customizable to the user’s preferences.
Furthermore, integration with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can automatically be configured. This allows organizations to jump start their Azure Virtual Desktop deployment, take advantage of all the benefits Azure Virtual Desktop provides, and get all the enhancements Parallels RAS bring to this platform.
During the automated deployment, a new pay-as-you-go license is configured, meaning there is no need to buy Parallels RAS licenses separately. With an Azure Marketplace deployment of Parallels RAS, organizations automatically pay for usage based on the highest concurrency each month, billed through Azure Marketplace.
Additionally, customers may be eligible to debit their existing Microsoft cloud commitment to purchase offers like this in Azure Marketplace. This alignment with existing cloud consumption commitments provides businesses with an incentive to leverage Parallels RAS on Microsoft Azure, optimizing IT spending while benefiting from its advanced features.
Tailored, private offers by partners
With Parallels RAS now available as a transactable solution within the Azure Marketplace, partners, such as Cloud Solution Providers, can now work together with Parallels to create unique offers for their customers and help promote revenue growth. A Multi-Party Private Offer (MPO) allows partners to create personalized offers, provide added value, add custom payouts, and sell directly to Microsoft customers with simplified selling through the marketplace.
A suggested private offer could be an extended offer with Parallels RAS as the secure application and desktop delivery solution, included with professional services for migration, consultancy and IT training from value-added partners.
Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp., said, “We welcome Parallels RAS to Azure Marketplace, where global customers can find, try, and buy from among thousands of partner solutions. Thanks to trusted partners like Parallels, Azure Marketplace is part of a cloud marketplace landscape predicted to grow revenue 500% from 2022 to 2025.
The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.
To learn more about Parallels RAS on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, visit the website here.
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]]>Having fully integrated the acquired companies, Nutrient is now able to deliver a cohesive portfolio of solutions that enhance, secure, and accelerate innovation in an organization’s document ecosystem. Documents have and continue to be the foundational medium for exchanging and recording knowledge. Modern document tools are critical for developers and their organizations to build document experiences that exceed the expectations and meet the needs of 21st century users.
“In a world that innovates so fast, digital documents continue to be limited by the constraints and use cases of the ‘90s,” said Jonathan Rhyne, co-founder and CEO of Nutrient. “We are on a mission to change that by evolving the way people experience and interact with documents.”
Nutrient provides an unrivaled breadth of modern document tools that developers and IT professionals need to deliver on the promise of digital transformation. By building with Nutrient software development kits (SDKs), product leaders and developers are able to create seamless, secure, and scalable document experiences. Whether building web, mobile, server, or cloud-based microservice applications, Nutrient SDKs help developers integrate document functionality — from viewing, signing, and form filling, to conversion, generation, authoring, and much more. Nutrient enables organizations to streamline document workflows and scale operations with off-the-shelf, low-code solutions and backend automation. With Nutrient’s Workflow Automation Platform, IT leaders and citizen developers can build structured, efficient, and auditable workflows for every department with a platform that’s easy to implement, use, and scale.
“Nutrient’s leading-edge document processing technology accelerated our PDF previewing capabilities in the Box mobile app, helping us achieve our mobile UX goals months earlier than planned,” said Klaudyna Szpara, a product manager at Box, the Intelligent Content Cloud.
Today, Nutrient powers thousands of global organizations, including more than 15% of Global 500 brands, thousands of commercial businesses across 80 nations, and more than 130 public sector organizations in 24 countries. Nutrient customers span nearly every vertical industry — from architecture, construction, and engineering to finance, healthcare, and software as a service.
In 2022, Stax, a market-leading consulting firm, estimated the total addressable U.S. commercial market for document developer tools to be nearly $1.9 billion — a remarkable 79% increase from 2019. This growth is fueled by new use cases and the accelerated shift to digital documents. Stax also projected that meeting the needs of all B2B document developer tools could potentially double the total addressable market, further enhancing Nutrient’s market position.
Nutrient is strategically positioned to capitalize on the acceleration of digital transformation, which is expected to drive growth by addressing a broader range of document and workflow use cases across various industries. The acquisitions of Muhimbi, ORPALIS, and Aquaforest in 2022 and Integrify in 2024 have significantly bolstered Nutrient’s capabilities, enabling the company to provide an unrivaled breadth of comprehensive solutions.
To learn more about Nutrient, visit the website here.
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]]>ConfusedPilot attacks, a term coined by University of Texas at Austin students mentored by Symmetry CEO Dr. Mohit Tiwari, represent a new class of threats targeting RAG-based systems like Microsoft Copilot. These attacks can lead to the dissemination of misinformation, potentially compromising critical decision-making processes within enterprises.
“The research into ConfusedPilot attacks highlights the asymmetry of AI security threats – these attacks are as easy as uploading a file, but defending against them is difficult,” said Dr. Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems. “Our enhanced Data+AI Security suite now provides robust protection against Confused Pilot attacks, ensuring that organizations can confidently leverage AI technologies without compromising data integrity or decision-making processes.”
This enhanced product line offers six key capabilities:
Comprehensive Protection for the AI Era
This update to Symmetry’s Data+AI Security suite complements Symmetry’s existing capabilities and offers businesses a holistic approach to Data+AI security, covering everything from deployment readiness to ongoing threat protection.
“As organizations rapidly adopt AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, the need for cohesive security measures that look at both the data+AI has never been more critical,” added Tiwari. “Our expanded capabilities not only address immediate threats but also prepare businesses for the future of AI in the workplace.”
Availability and Implementation
The enhanced Data+AI Security suite with ConfusedPilot protection is available as an add-on for existing Symmetry Systems customers and will be offered to all new clients. Symmetry’s team of expert consultants is prepared to assist organizations in implementing these new features and integrating them into their existing security frameworks.
Find our more at the Data+AI Security Summit 2024
For those interested in learning more about ConfusedPilot and other emerging threats in the AI security landscape, we invite you to join us at the Symmetry Data+AI Security Summit 2024. This event will bring together industry experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the latest developments in AI security. For more information and to register, please visit the website here.
To learn more about Symmetry Systems expansion of its Data+AI Security and DSPM capabilities to combat the emerging threat of ConfusedPilot attacks, visit the website here.
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]]>Every week we read news about critical applications failing users. IT departments are still plagued by too many incidents and war rooms that disrupt their operations, requiring the top experts in each field to stop everything to try to pinpoint the root cause of incidents. According to a Forrester report, in the month before the study, 37% estimated their companies lost between $100,000-$499,000, and 39% lost $500,000-$999,999 due to internet disruptions.
Large enterprises usually have dozens of Tier-1 applications that are critical for the business, especially as everything becomes digital. According to the Catchpoint Internet Resilience Report, 97% of respondents say a reliable, resilient Internet Stack is of utmost importance to their business success. Every second of slowness or downtime costs the business money, trust, and reputation. Some examples of critical applications ideal for AppAssure include:
“The main reason why application teams are failing is because in today’s cloud-centric world where everything is distributed and service-oriented, these teams don’t have visibility into how the dozens of external dependencies across the internet are impacting their application,” said Mehdi Daoudi, co-founder and CEO of Catchpoint. “These teams are myopically focused on collecting ever more logs, traces, and events, while ignoring the internet stack which includes cloud providers, APIs, EDGE devices, ISPs, Site-to-site connectivity, CDNs, DNS, and dozens more. AppAssure is a game changer for these teams.”
AppAssure changes all this by providing a turnkey solution, quickly deployed to eliminate the guesswork of performance and resilience monitoring. It grants you access to all the power of Catchpoint IPM in an all-in-one cost-effective package that simplifies setup and management, ensuring your critical applications are resilient—without burdening your internal teams.
AppAssure incorporates unique AI-powered capabilities designed to ensure the resilience of your mission-critical applications. A few key benefits include:
AppAssure is fully customizable based on the complexity of the application and the specific monitoring needs of the business.
The goal is to simplify implementation and day-to-day operations, eliminating the need for installations, agent deployments, or distractions to customer’s technical teams. It’s a full-service solution delivering instant insights and business value:
To learn more about AppAssure from Catchpoint and how it enables resilience and performance for Tier-1 applications, visit the website here.
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]]>“I’ve spent nearly five years focusing on Zero Trust and assisting companies in achieving Zero Standing Privilege within their cloud environments. At Apono, we’re providing a solution that can significantly enhance this process and is poised to revolutionize how organizations secure and scale their cloud infrastructure,” said Dan Parelskin, Senior Vice President of Sales. “Apono offers customers a rare win-win for user experience and security, while also modernizing the 25-year-old privileged access management industry with a cloud native, cloud-first approach that reduces risk of excess privilege within a modern, user-driven environment.”
“Every enterprise today faces the growing challenge of efficiently securing access across cloud resources and cloud providers. Apono has demonstrated its ability to provide a simple, innovative, and secure solution that addresses this critical need,” said Stephen Lowing, Vice President of Marketing. “I’m thrilled to join a company that understands the breadth and depth of this challenge and look forward to reaching and delivering for more customers.”
“This is a very exciting time for Apono. The market opportunity is clear, and we’re thrilled to add the right talent to capitalize on it,” said Rom Carmel, CEO and Co-founder of Apono. “Steve and Dan will be instrumental in this phase of our growth. We’re excited to benefit from their expertise and look forward to building upon this momentum.”
To learn more about Dan Parelskin and Stephen Lowing and the rest of the Apono leadership team, visit the website here.
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]]>The post 2024 State of the Staffing Industry Report Released by Prodoscore appeared first on Digital IT News.
]]>The companies included in the 2024 State of the Staffing Industry report range in size from 20 to 1,500 employees across 32 different roles in the staffing ecosystem. Productivity was measured based on usage of various cloud tools (i.e., ATS, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack), which showed that employee productivity was on the decline in January through July but increased beginning in August.
“Prodoscore has been pivotal in enhancing productivity and transparency across our workforce,” said Kevin Sailor, CEO and Managing Partner at Financial Recruiters International, a Prodoscore customer. “With real-time insights, we can make data-driven decisions that address potential issues before they impact our teams. We’ve learned that balanced manager-to-employee ratios are essential for reducing attrition, enabling our managers to better support their teams. Prodoscore has empowered us to better serve our employees more effectively by making informed decisions based on tangible insights rather than gut instinct.”
“Our 2024 State of the Staffing Industry Report underscores the transformative role data is playing not only in the staffing sector but across all professional services,” said Sam Naficy, CEO at Prodoscore. “As we navigate a rapidly evolving job market, insights into remote and hybrid productivity are more valuable than ever. By focusing on the metrics that matter, companies can identify the ways in which their employees work at their best and develop transparent performance expectations that encourage high levels of productivity for all employees. Prodoscore is creating a new category and revolutionizing the way companies of all sizes approach employee engagement and productivity, driving actionable changes that enhance business value.”
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]]>The post C1 Unveils Advanced Technology Solutions to Benefit Business Outcomes appeared first on Digital IT News.
]]>“Businesses depend on their technology infrastructure more than ever, but IT complexity is high. Coupled with the rapid pace of innovation, this has made the situation unmanageable for most organizations. To achieve business outcomes, advanced communications, networking, and security systems are essential to allow users to work securely from anywhere without causing disruptions or risks,” stated Omar Bhatti, Chief Customer Officer of C1. “C1’s proven managed and professional services have the unique ability to work closely with clients to define their desired business outcomes, then customize each implementation to rapidly and safely enable them to meet those goals.”
“C1 helped us see things that we weren’t seeing ourselves. They helped us understand how the product can scale for us and grow with us. That’s why we rely on a partner like C1 to help guide us, and that’s exactly what they have done,” said Sapidah Shefa, vice president of operations at Road Runner Sports, a C1 customer.
“In a recent ZK Research study, 93% of organizations stated their IT infrastructure is more important to business operations than two years ago. This is why modernizing technology has become a critical initiative for companies of all sizes. However, in that same time frame 80% report the environment is more complex. Success with IT is dependent on ensuring technology is not deployed in silos – everything must work together as what happens in the network affects security, which impacts communications and so on. This suite of services C1 has offered looks at infrastructure holistically but gives customers a choice of starting points. C1’s services overlay enables brands to deploy leading edge technologies without the typical risks and pitfalls associated with infrastructure deployments,” said Zeus Kerravala, chief analyst, ZK Research.
The C1 solutions include:
Communications:
Infrastructure:
Security:
Mark Langanki, Chief Technology Officer of C1, added, “With this set of solutions, C1 continues to deliver industry-leading communications, networking, and security services that empower our customers to modernize their IT infrastructure for transformative growth. These IT fundamentals are critical to supporting essential business services and will determine their ability to adapt to evolving technologies and competitive demands – on time and within budget.”
To learn more about C1 and how to achieve your desired business outcomes, visit the website here.
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]]>With traditional approaches, enterprises often struggle to gain insights across unstructured data and text. This challenge only grows as the amount of unstructured data increases. With unstructured data representing more than 80 percent of all corporate data, companies are often forced to run queries and compile reports based on a small subset of data—the information stored in structured systems. As a result, reports and analyses may be incomplete or inaccurate, with valuable insight still locked inside disparate unstructured systems.
Cohesity Gaia brings the power of generative AI to enterprise data, dramatically improving the speed and quality of insights available for a variety of use cases. The solution indexes and provides insight based on data stored in many popular formats, including emails, documents, PDFs, text files, spreadsheets, HTML, XML, and presentations.
Gain Insights Faster with Auto-Generated Themes and Topics for Thousands of Documents
One of the biggest challenges users face when working with vast datasets is having access to data but not knowing where to begin or what valuable insights can be retrieved. Cohesity Gaia overcomes this by automatically providing a visual representation of the data, sorted by themes, giving users a clear starting point. The new visual explorer uses topic modeling, a set of advanced AI techniques with natural language processing, to instantly identify hidden thematic structures across documents and files. This deep insight and context into the nature of the data offers a framework for better understanding, empowering users to ask more informed and targeted questions as they search.
The Gaia visual data explorer further simplifies this process by allowing users to click through each theme, ask conversational questions, and interact with intelligent, context-aware prompts to quickly find the most relevant information. Aligned with Cohesity’s responsible AI commitment, Gaia gives customers insight into their data while keeping it secure and compliant with regulatory requirements.
Cohesity will host a series of AI workshops to give customers and prospects a hands-on look at the first-of-its-kind visual data explorer and learn more about how Cohesity Gaia can help unlock new insights from their business. For more information on the AI workshops, visit our website.
“By addressing the challenge of managing and extracting insights from unstructured data across disparate systems, Cohesity Gaia and its new visual data explorer have the potential to revolutionize data accessibility for enterprises,” said Chirag Mehta, Principal Cybersecurity Analyst with Constellation Research. “This innovation not only could enhance data security and compliance but could also empower business users of enterprise customers with deeper, more contextual insights, significantly benefiting the decision-making process and operational efficiency.”
Access Vast Amounts of Data Stored in Sharepoint and NAS environments with Generative AI
Cohesity has also expanded support for new workloads and data sources within Gaia. Cohesity customers can now analyze corporate data protected on the Cohesity platform from Microsoft 365 Mail, Microsoft 365 Sharepoint, and Microsoft 365 OneDrive, as well as on-prem or cloud-based file servers, including popular systems like Dell EMC Isilon, Netapp NAS, physical file servers, and Cohesity Smartfiles.
The new visual data explorer feature in Cohesity Gaia visually maps customers’ data sets based on semantic indexing and creates a list of suggested questions and queries, illustrated here using test data.
To learn more about Cohesity Gaia visual data explorer, visit the website here.
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]]>The post Palo Alto Launches OT Security Solutions to Combat Industrial Threats appeared first on Digital IT News.
]]>According to the 2024 State of OT Security report from Palo Alto Networks and ABI Research, 70% of industrial organizations experienced a cyberattack on their OT environment in the last year. Almost 25% of these organizations suffered attacks that led to operational shutdowns and disrupted business continuity.
Anand Oswal, SVP and GM, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks:
“The rise in the frequency and sophistication of OT attacks, often driven by AI, highlights the urgent need for robust, OT-specific security measures. Organizations must implement comprehensive solutions that ensure real-time visibility, end-to-end protection and simplified security management. Palo Alto Networks OT Security solution, powered by Precision AI, secures both OT and converged IT/OT in a consistent way to combat these challenges and protect critical infrastructure.”
Sid Snitkin, Vice President, Cybersecurity Services, ARC Industrial Cybersecurity:
“Operational technology environments are becoming increasingly complex and interconnected, making them more susceptible to cyber threats. The ability to deploy AI-powered tools like guided virtual patching is a game-changer for industrial cybersecurity. It enables organizations to address vulnerabilities in real-time without the costly and often disruptive downtime that traditional patching methods would require. This approach not only reduces risks but also enhances the overall resilience of OT infrastructures.”
Palo Alto Networks OT Security solution safeguards all OT environments, including networks, assets, remote operations and 5G networks. It also provides specific visibility and capabilities to help customers simplify operations and increase efficiency.
New features include the ability to:
During the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference this week, attendees can learn more about the power of Palo Alto Networks new capabilities, as well as experience an interactive tour of our OT CyberWall.
To learn more about Palo Alto Networks OT Security, visit the website here.
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]]>The post CommScope Launches RUCKUS Edge Platform for Network Edge Services appeared first on Digital IT News.
]]>The RUCKUS Edge platform utilizes AI-enabled cloud-based orchestration, together with an edge appliance as a local service delivery point, to enable customers to deploy scalable, low-latency networking, security, and productivity services as well as purpose-driven industry specific vertical services.
RUCKUS Edge is fully integrated with the RUCKUS One platform, retaining advantages of AI-driven assurance and cloud-based management. At launch, the solution will offer a zero-touch, virtual LAN service called SD-LAN, available in the RUCKUS One service catalog that customers can deploy onto the RUCKUS Edge appliance with a single click.
“RUCKUS Edge is a significant product enhancement that enables lower latency and enhanced service resiliency for businesses seeking to manage their networks using cloud-management services,” said Chris DePuy, founder and technology analyst, 650 Group. “Additionally, by extending the company’s RUCKUS One service catalog to its Edge system, the company can enable the deployment of a diverse array of services from both RUCKUS and third-party offerings. We see the company’s service catalog approach will enable a means of incrementally offering AI services to improve network operations.”
“We’re taking a bold step forward by extending the capabilities of our AI-Driven network assurance and business intelligence platform, RUCKUS One, to the edge of the network,” stated Bart Giordano, SVP and president, Networking Intelligent Cellular and Security Solutions, CommScope. “The RUCKUS Edge platform enables RUCKUS Networks and its trusted technology partners to deliver a variety of networking, security, and productivity services at the edge of the network to enhance security, privacy, performance and user experience.”
Proven in Campus Network Deployments
“Deploying RUCKUS Edge has been a game-changer for Wewoka Public Schools,” said Stephen Howard, IT director, Wewoka Public Schools. “The simplified network configuration through overlay networks has significantly reduced resources required from our lean IT staff—minimizing the complexity of VLAN provisioning across switches and APs. Centralized, AI driven cloud-based management has streamlined our operations, making deployment and oversight much more efficient. Additionally, the automated guest internet access is seamless and secure, ensuring that our network remains protected while providing a smooth experience for visitors. RUCKUS Edge has truly transformed our approach to network management and security.”
“With the transformative shift to cloud, managing our campus networks with the combination of RUCKUS One and RUCKUS Edge has given us incredible visibility, scale and roaming capabilities,” said Jason Guntharp, associate director of Telecommunications and Information Services, Itawamba Community College. “With over 5,000 students and staff moving across our campuses daily, seamless Wi-Fi roaming has become crucial; RUCKUS Edge delivers a seamless experience throughout our campuses. Additionally, the ability to create custom virtual networks for student residents has empowered us to provide a personalized connectivity experience. RUCKUS has made it remarkably easy for our IT team to configure and manage our network efficiently.”
Availability and Demos
The RUCKUS Edge platform is available globally for RUCKUS One customers. At launch, the RUCKUS One catalog offers services developed by RUCKUS. The RUCKUS Edge and RUCKUS One platforms will be demonstrated at EDUCAUSE in San Antonio, TX, October 21-24, booth #8062. For more information on RUCKUS Edge Platform, visit the website here.
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