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How to Eliminate IT Complexity and Succeed – Marketing Tech Outlook

By Martech Outlook | Thursday, December 19, 2019

The suite of innovative solutions is eliminating the complexity of IT by providing the resources that companies need to be successful.

FREMONT, CA:A pioneering provider of information technology hardware, software, and services, Aventis Systems, has launched Cortavo Managed Services Solution. The new suite is an innovative all-inclusive managed services experience on the market. Cortavo Managed Services Solution is designed to eliminate the burden and complexity of IT by providing the resources companies need to be successful. Cortavo brings companies a full-service IT experience with a simple and affordable way to deploy complete and regular hardware refreshes. The solution maximizes productivity and receives technical advice to help with their day-to-day operations while also future-proofing businesses by fostering faster growth for companies. Businesses now can center squarely on their core business rather than being occupied by managing the technology that is assisting the business.

As Aventis Systems owns 100% of the hardware provided with its full suite of services, this solution is truly unique, resulting in fully personalized equipment with rapid turnaround times and more costs that are economical. Cortavo will refresh complete infrastructure at a cheap monthly rate per user, with no concealed fees, setup fees, or price jumps during the contract, enabling businesses to plan and move from CAPEX to OPEX, saving thousands of dollars efficiently.All-inclusive features of Cortavo include hardware, productivity, help-desk, virtual servers, phone system, and advisory.

Aventis Systems is a custom IT solutions provider, building and operating complete physical and virtual infrastructures. The comprehensive solutions that the company offers comprise of exceptional refurbished and new hardware, system, and an array of deep managed services comprising infrastructure consultation, virtualization deployment, cloud hosting and migration, data, and disaster recovery, hardware relocation, security consultation, and equipment buyback. Aventis Systems aims to work with IT professionals relentlessly to make their jobs streamlined, offer sound advice to meet technical and budgetary obligations, give peace of mind concerning infrastructure and cloud investments, and offer outstanding customer experience from start to finish.

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Bidco to acquire cloud firm after Boards agree on 79.4m deal – East Midlands Business Link

Lincoln-based Divitias Bidco, the sole parent of GCI, is to acquire Nasstar in a 79.4 million deal.

Bidco was incorporated on 27 April 2018 for the purposes of making corporate acquisitions. In May 2018 it acquired GCI pursuant to a management buy-out. Bidco is an indirect subsidiary of the Mayfair Funds.

Nasstar, which is headquartered in Telford with regional offices in Northampton, Bournemouth and an office in Auckland, specialises in building bespoke cloud hosted services. Nasstar was founded in 1998, admitted to AIM in December 2005 and acquired e-know.net Limited in a reverse takeover in January 2014, Kamanchi in July 2014, VESK in October 2015 and Modrus in September 2016.

A statement reads: Bidco believes that Nasstar is a leading IT services provider with strong cloud hosting solutions, an impressive portfolio of services and an attractive customer base.

Bidco, supported by Mayfair, believes Nasstar and GCI have highly complementary strategies and that the Acquisition will enable the businesses to benefit substantially from increased purchasing power, deeper technical expertise, broader products / service offerings and wider cross-selling opportunities across an expanded customer base.

Bidco believes that Nasstar would substantially benefit from the scale of the business of the Enlarged Group and the proposed acquisition is in the long-term interests of Nasstar.

Commenting on the Acquisition,Nick Bate, the Chairman of Nasstar, said:Nasstar has performed well since the Reverse Takeover and I would like to reiterate the Boards appreciation of the effort of the management team and all Nasstar employees in this time.

The Board believes this is a compelling offer for Nasstar Shareholders, at a significant premium for those who invested at the point of the Reverse Takeover, and at a fair valuation. We believe the acquisition is in the best interests of all our stakeholders, and unanimously recommend that shareholders vote in favour of the resolutions relating to the Acquisition.

Commenting on the Acquisition, Wayne Churchill, the Chief Executive Officer of GCI , said:We are very pleased that the Board of Nasstar is recommending our cash offer. The transaction is highly complementary for both businesses and we are encouraged to see that a large percentage of Nasstar shareholders have given undertakings to accept the offer.

We have a deep understanding of and great respect for the customer-centric business that the team at Nasstar has built. By working together we can combine our expertise to enhance our offering for customers through a larger pool of technical experts with different and complementary capabilities, and provide a wider portfolio of products and services. The combination of the two companies will create a business with exciting, long-term prospects and we look forward to working closely with Nasstar to deliver for all of our stakeholders.

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Bare Metal Cloud Market Scope and Opportunities Analysis 2017 2025 – News Cast Report

Global Bare Metal Cloud Market: Snapshot

As a public cloud service that offers a facility to customers to rent hardware resources from a remotely situated service provider, bare metal cloud comes with the primary benefit of flexibility for the businesses to meet their specific and diverse requirements. With base metal clouds services, small and medium enterprises can also troubleshoot their applications without interfering with other nearby virtual machines (VMs). Since bare metal cloud are made out of dedicated servers, complications from neighbors are avoided and it works very well for high traffic workloads that are intolerant to latency as well as applications pertaining to big data.

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Some of the key factors augmenting the demand in the global bare metal cloud market are: critical need for reliable load balancing latency sensitive and data-intensive operations, decommissioning of workloads after termination of service level agreements (SLAS), no noisy neighbors and hypervisor taxes, and the advent of fabric virtualization. On the other hand, restraints such as stringent cloud regulations, expensive model, hindrances pertaining to restoring, and lightweight hypervisors are challenging the bare metal cloud market from attaining greater potential. That being said, growing usage for big data and DEVOPS applications, micro-services and batch processing applications, and growing interest in open compute project (OCP) are anticipated to open new opportunities in this market in the near future. Some of the industry verticals that are generating the demand for bare metal cloud are manufacturing, retail, healthcare, IT and telecommunication, government, and BFSI.

Some of the key audiences of this research report are providers of base metal cloud, application developers, managed service providers, third party system integrators, bare metal hardware vendors, regulatory agencies, and government. The report provides analytical and figurative assessment of the markets potential during the forecast period of 2017 to 2025.

Global Bare Metal Cloud Market: Overview

Bare metal cloud is an alternative for virtual cloud services and works with the help of a dedicated server. The dedicated server is needed in order to balance and scale the arrangement of this model. However, the dedicated hardware is attributed without including any additional storage. Yet, bare metal cloud server can support huge workloads. The main motto of bare metal cloud is to minimize the overhead which is incurred on account of the implementation of virtual technology. Despite the elimination of implementing virtual technology, bare metal cloud services offers efficiency, scalability, and flexibility. One of the other benefits of bare metal cloud servers is that it does not require any host or recipient and can be deployed with cloud-like service model. Bare metal cloud combines features of traditional hosting as well as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in order to provide high performance workloads. Due to all these reasons, this market is expected to witness high growth in the years to come.

Global Bare Metal Cloud Market: Key Trends

There is a high demand for bare metal cloud from the telecom and the IT sector on account of big data, resulting in high demand for effective storage. The advertising sector will also make extensive use of bare metal cloud and this is a trend which is anticipated to continue throughout the forecast period. Today enterprises are switching from conventional hosting services to bare metal cloud on account of the escalating demand for secure storage facility as well as advancements in the cloud industry. Bare metal cloud solutions offer innumerable benefits such as data security, effective service delivery, efficient data storage, faster service delivery, improved performance, streamline data center operations, and standardized hardware platforms.

Global Bare Metal Cloud Market: Market Potential

The global bare metal cloud market has displayed promising potential as it offers various advantages such as easy maintenance of records, enhanced security, and ability to monitor activities in residential and commercial areas. Bare metal cloud has also found its use and application in providing national security. Because it can help monitor activities, it is enabling countries to fight against terrorism as well as external threats. This is anticipated to create potential growth opportunities within the global bare metal cloud market.

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Global Bare Metal Cloud Market: Regional Outlook

On the basis of geography, the global bare metal cloud market is segmented into Asia Pacific, North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. Of these, North America has been leading in the market on account of the increasing focus on research and development in cloud technology. The European bare metal cloud market is also estimated to expand at a fast pace with key contribution from Germany, Spain, and the UK. However, it is Asia Pacific which is anticipated to expand the fastest pace during the forecast period on account of the increasing number of new market players. The digicloud initiative which is undertaken by the government in Singapore so as to offer IaaS, SaaS, along with the use of bare metal servers is also an important factor driving the growth of the Asia Pacific bare metal cloud market.

Global Bare Metal Cloud Market: Competitive Landscape

Key players in the market are concentrating towards achieving organic growth and thus implementing various strategies in order to maintain their position. The report profiles leading players operating in the market. They are: Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (The U.S.), CenturyLink, Inc. (The U.S.), IBM Corporation (The U.S.), Media Temple (The U.S), and Internap Corporation (The U.S.).

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Kubernetes Security Leader Alcide Releases 2020 Predictions: Kubernetes on the Edge, Intelligent and Automated K8s Security and the Rise of…

TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alcide, the Kubernetes security leader empowering DevSecOps teams with end-to-end continuous security guardrails for Kubernetes deployments, today announced the key findings from its recent Kubernetes usage survey alongside its expert predictions for what DevOps and SecOps teams can expect in 2020. With the market split between those who have gained experience and are running Kubernetes in production, and those who are still learning the ropes, Alcide foresees a strong shift toward security solutions tailor made to protect K8s as more threats and vulnerabilities are unveiled.

Based on about 200 responses from Dev, Ops, Security and Cloud Architects teams, the latest Alcide Kubernetes survey reveals that 45% of companies are now running Kubernetes in production, while 37% are leveraging hybrid or multi-cloud environments for their K8s clusters. The rapid adoption of Kubernetes, driven by the implementation of microservices (60%), improved innovation velocity and time to market (53%), and application scaling (44%), has created a K8s expertise gap with only 20% of teams considering themselves Kubernetes pros. This lack of experience is resulting in 50% of teams not feeling confident their K8s deployments are secure, while 67% anticipate their use of K8s security tools in 2020 to increase. The explosive adoption of Kubernetes, the growing threats and the shortage of experienced users are in the base of Alcides K8s predictions for 2020.

As K8s gains more steam in production, the need for integrated CI+CD security which equally addresses the needs of those starting out and those scaling K8s will drive continuous innovations in intelligent and automated security solutions in 2020, says Gadi Naor, co-founder and CTO of Alcide. Community-driven projects such as Helm 3, Jaeger, and KUDO will play a pivotal role in advancing new capabilities across the cloud-native software development lifecycle that will bolster K8s as the digital transformation engine of the 21st century.

Alcide believes the following five trends will shape the Kubernetes market in 2020 and will drive continuous innovation:

The many east-west transactions, inherent in such environments - among services, their traffic, or the containers that trigger or consume them, require a new approach to observability, debugging and runtime analysis, called distributed tracing. The graduation of Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform stewarded by CNCF, shows the growing need for such systems for increasingly complex K8s clusters going forward.

We are excited to see there is a wider awareness and market understanding that continuous deployment and runtime are distinct yet interconnected phases of the cloud-native software lifecycle, adds Amir Ofek, CEO of Alcide. I am proud of the Alcides ability to foresee these trends ahead of the market and respond with innovative solutions such as the Alcide Advisor and our newly launched Alcide kAudit, which uniquely address the specific needs of CD scans and runtime detection of security risks in a way that manages the complexity of Kubernetes for users.

About AlcideAlcide is a Kubernetes security leader empowering DevOps to implement and maintain security guardrails through their CI/CD pipelines and aiding security teams to protect their growing Kubernetes deployments with continuous security. Alcide provides a K8s-native, AI-driven security platform for configuration risks, visibility, runtime security events, and a single policy framework across Kubernetes clusters.www.alcide.io, LinkedIn, Twitter

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Leaseweb USA Research Reveals that Nearly Two Thirds of Organizations Cite Hybrid or Private Cloud as the Future Infrastructure of Choice -…

MANASSAS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leaseweb USA, a leading hosting and cloud services company, today released the results of its Developer IaaS Insights Study, based on a survey conducted at DeveloperWeek Austin. The research revealed that 61.4% of companies see hybrid cloud (31.6%) or private cloud (29.8%) as the infrastructure for the future of their company, and 75.9% of developers prioritized scalability, speed, ease of use and cost as top factors when choosing their IaaS hosting solution.

As companies evolve, their hosting needs and capabilities also evolve, said Lex Boost, CEO of Leaseweb USA. Understanding why companies choose to migrate to an IaaS solutions vendor provides insight to not only the marketplace, but what value vendors can bring to the businesses. This survey is a microcosmic example of the current industry trend. The power, speed, flexibility and functionality of dedicated, hybrid and private cloud infrastructure environments are undeniable. Companies are shifting back to custom solutions designed to fit their exact needs, in this precise moment of their company lifecycle. The mettle of metal cannot be ignored.

The results are particularly significant when considering that less than 20% of respondents believe they are using the industry standard, are happy with the performance of their infrastructure and have no plans to change. Further, 51.7% plan on migrating in the next two years while 26.7% have not yet made a decision as to whether they will migrate in the same timeframe. Clearly, most companies are reevaluating their DevOps infrastructures, and will either be migrating to solutions or considering solutions that more thoroughly meet their hosting and infrastructure requirements.

Barriers to Migration

To assist developers who are looking for the right fit for their companys DevOps infrastructure needs, providers need to address cost of migration and the size of the job which rose to the top as barriers to migration that remain a prohibitive factor. Cost of migration or the size of the job were cited as top barriers to migration by 37.5% of companies, while 24.2% of respondents identified cost alone as the top barrier.

The survey also revealed 15% arent sure what to outsource, 8.3% are not finding the right partner and 3.3% are held ransom by public cloud providers.

About the Survey

Leaseweb USA surveyed 120 DevOps professionals in November 2019 at DeveloperWeek Austin 2019.

About Leaseweb

Leaseweb is a leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider serving a worldwide portfolio of 18,000 customers ranging from SMBs to Enterprises. Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Dedicated Servers, Colocation, Content Delivery Network, and Cyber Security Services supported by exceptional customer service and technical support. With more than 80,000 servers under management, Leaseweb has provided infrastructure for mission-critical websites, Internet applications, email servers, security, and storage services since 1997. The company operates 20 data centers in locations across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, all of which are backed by a superior worldwide network with a total capacity of more than 6 Tbps. Leaseweb offers services through its various subsidiaries, which are Leaseweb Netherlands B.V. (Leaseweb Netherlands), Leaseweb USA, Inc. (Leaseweb USA), Leaseweb Asia Pacific PTE. LTD (Leaseweb Asia), Leaseweb CDN B.V. (Leaseweb CDN), Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH (Leaseweb Germany), Leaseweb Australia Ltd. (Leaseweb Australia) and Leaseweb UK Ltd (Leaseweb UK).

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Understanding the Benefits of Microsoft Azure Consulting for your Business – The Future of Things

Image SourceMicrosoft Azure Consulting Services can help to take your business to the next level

Its an understatement to say that the Cloud has changed the way businesses are run. Thanks to sharing platforms made possible by the Cloud, employees and employers can complete, share, edit and send documentation easier than ever before, without having to be in the same place or using the same devices.

The Cloud, also known as Infrastructure as Services (IaaS), allows sharing without printing, memory sticks or even emailing. Data and documentation saved within the Cloud are both secure and easy for authorized personnel to access. It means collaboration can occur even when employees are working remotely and are using their own devices. With the Cloud, the days of a set office desktop for each worker are behind us.

This is good news for small businesses that, by encouraging employees to use their own devices and work from home, can save significant costs on tech and office space. Instead, business owners only need to pay an affordable monthly sum for their share of the Cloud. Running a business has never been simpler, smoother or more secure.

And Microsoft Azure is an example of the Cloud working at its very best. Along with platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure is one of the top providers of the Cloud.

This is why were here to run through everything you need to know about Microsoft Azure, including the benefits of this platform and how it can work for your business. Lets take a look.

As one of the most popular Cloud-based services available, there are plenty of reasons why businesses are turning to Microsoft Azure to help their organization reach new heights.

Azure Cloud services can help to decrease IT ownership costs by minimizing the amount of tech you need to invest in. It also delivers fully scalable Cloud services for businesses of all sizes, which means that you only need to pay for what you actually use. This flexibility can adapt to your business as you continue to grow.

With Microsoft Azure, youll also enjoy full life-cycle support and consulting. This means you never have to struggle alone if you have issues with your business tech.

With Azure, you can enjoy the power of more than 100 different services and solutions. This, as well as being highly useful, can also be a bit overwhelming if youre new to the program. Thats why you should consider seeking out Microsoft Azure consulting to help clarify the program.

Outsourcing to find Azure Consultants like Syntax can make using platforms like Azure much smoother and more rewarding. Having Microsoft Cloud experts on-hand means you can receive help with planning, deployment and services. Using Azure to its full potential can create an intelligent and highly cost-effective platform for your business. Azure has the power to greatly enhance business efficiency, increase productivity and drive growth in the long term. With the strategic advice and expert guidance of outsourced consultants on your side, you could potentially see your business transformed by what Azure offers.

Microsoft Azure is one of the most effective Cloud-based application platforms available, both in terms of cost and use. It is primarily used for developing, managing and hosting applications and data. Azure offers a secure, safe and compliant platform in which data is stored, protected and easily accessed by the authorized personnel. This platform is physically located within Microsofts data centers.

Microsoft Azure consists of several different key components. These include:

Seeking out Microsoft Azure consulting can help you make the most of what Azure has to offer, experiencing maximum benefits for your business.

Microsoft Azure offers a wide range of services that can help make a businesss day-to-day operations smoother. Includes within these services and solutions are:

High-quality Cloud-based services like Azure make accessing and sharing important business data a far easier and simpler process. Seeking out consultancy to advise you through using Azure can help you make the most of the platform.

For any business, time is precious. The idea of moving all your IT infrastructure onto a new platform can, therefore, be daunting, as it will inevitably lead to at least a short amount of downtime. However, the right Azure consultancy can help to minimize this transition period and offer maximum benefits once your infrastructure is up and running on Azure. With Azure consultancy, you can successfully migrate your business assets on-time and within budget.

There are several factors involved in this process. These include:

Azure consultancy can offer a complete and in-depth audit of your existing IT infrastructure, presented to you with a detailed report. This report will offer you a breakdown and how your IT could be improved with the migration. It will also clarify the process and cost of the process, both in terms of finances and time.

Microsoft Cloud experts can then work with you and your team to create an updated Cloud infrastructure for your business data. This is designed to meet your key business needs and challenges, improving on the previous IT infrastructure used by your business. This new model will be aligned to your business strategy.

As with any project in any business, meticulous preparation and planning are absolutely essential when it comes to getting your transformation completed smoothly and successfully. As such, Azure consultants can deliver a detailed plan of action which will ensure your business is fully ready to make the transition over to Microsoft Azure. This plan will also include a list of tasks that must be completed before the migration takes place. The right consultancy team will help you in completing these tasks before beginning the migration process.

Before the business can be fully transported over to Microsoft Azure, a consultancy can complete a series of pre-migration tests in order to make sure that the Cloud infrastructure is correctly configured. This will also test whether version-to-version application upgrades and migrations have bee completed, allowing all of your business data to be transferred with complete success.

After these tests have been completed, the transformation can finally take place. With the help of the right Azure consultancy services, you can enjoy a move over to Microsoft Azure both on time and within your budget. You can also take comfort that there will be minimal disruption to your business operations.

Microsoft Azure consulting and managed services allow you to gain a better understanding of this highly useful platform, minimizing the transition period and maximizing the benefits to your organization.

With Microsoft Azure, you can both extend and transform your existing business IT, giving you more room for growth and flexibility in the long term. As a growing collection of various integrated Cloud services, Microsoft Azure delivers a range of features that can help boost both the productivity and security of your business.

From analytics and computing to database, networking, mobile, storage and web, Microsoft Azure allows your business to move faster, save on costs and simply achieve more.

Azure consultancy is the best way to get to grips with all that this platform has to offer. Whether businesses are looking to migrate or start completely fresh with their IT infrastructure or even if you are already using Azure but would like to know more finding a consultant is the best way to understand the platform fully, and therefore reap the rewards.

With Microsoft Azure, businesses of all sizes can invest in an IT and storage system that is perfectly tailored to their needs. This might mean starting small with your Cloud space, before increasing it down the line as your business grows. Microsoft Azure allows you to do this.

Extending your existing IT is easy with Microsoft Azure. It might be that youre mostly happy with your current infrastructure and dont want it to change too much, or perhaps youre ready for something completely different which is better suited to your organization. With Microsoft Azure, both of these options and everything in between is possible.

Azure can easily integrate with your existing Microsoft based IT services and environment, delivering a seamless transition which creates the minimum amount of disruption for your business while it is taking place. Once this has been swiftly completed, your business can start enjoying all the benefits of using Microsoft Azure without worry, and Azure consulting can help to minimize this transition period even more.

The very nature of the Cloud itself makes it a flexible operating system. Rather than relying on specific devices and hardware, your data can be accessed easily anywhere and from any device, providing you have the correct authorization. For small businesses, in particular, this is extremely useful as it means you dont have to fork out huge costs on hardware and devices before youve even got up and run. Employees can use their own devices, and even work from home, in a manner thats flexible for them, you and your organization.

Whats more, Azure supports the widest selection of operating systems, frameworks, tools, programming languages, devices and databases, so you can enjoy maximum flexibility when you make the switch. Making use of an Azure consultant can help you understand more about the benefits of using Azure across a range of different devices and systems. Consultants can help you make the transition to Azure quickly and easily.

When the Cloud was first introduced, many were skeptical about how it would keep business data secure. People found it hard to wrap their heads around the idea of their business documentation floating around in cyberspace, rather than confined to individual PCs and devices.

However, since then the Cloud has more than proved itself as an extremely secure system. While it is easy for members of your business to access data in the Cloud from anywhere, those without the correct authorization will find it extremely different. Even better, having data in the Cloud means that you arent at risk of losing the data forever if some of your hardware becomes lost, damaged or stolen. With the Cloud, your business data is always backed up.

And of the Cloud-based operating systems available, Azure is undoubtedly one of the most secure. For one thing, Microsoft was the first major Cloud provider to adopt the new international Cloud privacy standard known as ISO 27018. Launched in 2014, this is a code of practice which focused on the protection of personal and sensitive data held within the Cloud.

Azure consultancy is a great way to switch over to Azure seamlessly and get to know all that the platform has to offer. Azure consultants possess a deep understanding of Microsoft technologies and how they work. This means that they are well placed to design, build and manage your IT environment, providing the reliable performance you need to make the switch. The right Azure consultants will do all this while interacting seamlessly within your business. If youre still unsure about whether Azure is right for you, seek out a consultant support company today to talk things through.

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Reds team up with leader in cloud storage Acronis – Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC has welcomed global leader in cyber storage, Acronis, to the Reds family in a new multi-year partnership.

The technology company, which provides hybrid cloud solutions for backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and data access, will now become LFC's official global cyber backup and storage partner.

The partnership will see the Swiss-Singaporean technology leader provide LFC with innovative cyber backup and cloud solutions to improve data storage and access and create a more efficient and collaborative workflow.

Being able to efficiently back up and safeguard huge volumes of important information using cloud-based storage solutions from team data to day to day business operations will significantly help LFC optimise its data management in the increasingly digital world.

The ability to securely sync files will enable departments to easily share a range of documents and collaborate on important tasks, making for more efficient, streamlined ways of working.

Partnering with high performance organisations in the sports industry, Acronis aims to continue to build brand awareness, recognition and visibility across global markets.

Billy Hogan, managing director and chief commercial officer, Liverpool FC, said: We are always looking for ways to enhance the way we store and share important files and information across the business, so were looking forward to working with Acronis as our new official global cyber backup and storage partner.

"Our data is incredibly valuable, and safely and efficiently storing and accessing that information is critical to the way we operate as a business and a football club."

Enrico Tizanno, senior vice president of technology and transformation, Liverpool FC, said: We look forward to working closely with Acronis to utilise its expertise and innovation in data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions to help us meet our modern data needs.

"From how to best protect our valuable data assets, to how we can make the best use of the petabytes of the data we have and securely distribute it.

The Five Vectors of Cyber Protection that make up the backbone of Acronis' solutions include safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS). Using this approach will help the club to ensure easy, efficient, and secure management of data, applications, and systems.

Serguei Beloussov, Acronis founder and CEO, said: At the highest level of competition, data is a critical asset. Acronis technology is perfectly suited for helping organisations get #CyberFit in high-pressure, digitally intensive environments.

"We are proud to partner with this great club and look forward to our joint projects in the future.

Acronis is already a part of the FSG family and the sporting world, through its current partnership with the Boston Red Sox and Roush Fenway Racing.

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The 5 Best Deals on Cloud Storage and Backup This Holiday Season – XDA Developers

Whether you want to back up your photos or sync files between devices, cloud storage space is always useful. Here are the best deals on cloud services this holiday season at the XDA Developers Depot now with 15% off when you use code MerrySave15 at checkout.

Based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology, Polar Backup provides a generous 1TB of secure backup. Your files are protected by AES-256 encryption, and you can back up any PC, Mac, or external drive.

Worth $390, lifetime backup is now $34 with the code MerrySave15.

With more space than Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive combined, Degoo Premium gives you plenty of backup space to play with. The platform automatically backs up your data, and you can share files securely with friends and family. Worth $900, lifetime 1TB backup is now just $42.50. You can upgrade to 2TB for $51, get 3TB for $59.50, or grab the 10TB plan for $85.

Koofr keeps things simple. The platform is easy to use, with no razzle dazzle. It also allows you to connect your other cloud accounts, so you can see all your files in one place. Better still, there is no file size limit.

Worth $270, the 25GB lifetime plan is now $17. You can upgrade to 100GB for $30.66, 250GB for only $59.50, or 1TB for just $110.50.

Running on powerful Tier IV data center facilities, ThunderDrive storage is six times faster than Amazons. You can access your files via any desktop or mobile device, with 256-bit AES encryption for complete peace of mind. Normally $1,200, lifetime 2TB subscriptions are now only $33.15. If you prefer, you can get the lifetime Personal plan (500GB) for just $24.65.

Combining cold storage and instant access storage, Zoolz offers incredible value. The Instant Vault is perfect for the files you use every day, while the Archive Backup is suited to family photos and other precious files. You can get lifetime 1TB cold storage with unlimited users for $101.15.

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Data Stored in the Cloud Needs Backup Heres Why – TechiExpert.com

Cloud adoption is at an all-time high with cloud computing models like Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In enterprise environments, cloud is already playing an integral role in reducing data center footprint, optimizing business processes and delivering great value-for-money experience.

Speaking of cloud adoption, here are some statistics by Statista aboutthe state of the cloud in 2017. 2018 and the expected growth rate in 2020:

The flexibility, scalability and availability that CloudService Providers (CSPs) offer have made it simply the go-to choice fornumerous enterprise use-cases. Verily, cloud storage tiers are a good optionfor business and organizations of all sizes ranging from Small to Medium-sizedBusiness (SMBs) to large enterprises.

However, theres one thing that cloud adopters need toremember about cloud storage technology: it does not protect from data loss.

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), like Microsoft Azure, AmazonS3, Google cloud and other public clouds, take responsibility for dataavailability.

Data availability means that CSPs only make sure that yourdata is available but protecting data from data loss due to threats likeaccidental deletion, malicious deletion, ransomware attacks, viruses, malwareetc. is the data owners (your) responsibility. Therefore, its imperative thatalong with cloudstorage, reliable and effective data backup measures are set up to preventdata loss.

But before we talk about these backup or data protectionmeasures, lets try to draw a clearer line between data availability and dataprotection or data security.

Microsoft Azure and Amazon use geo-replication to replicateyour stored data to different servers in the same data center. Andadditionally, the data is replicated between different data centers as well.

This is done to make sure that if a server in Azure orAmazons data center fails, you dont feel any discontinuity or unavailabilityof data. If the primary copy becomes inaccessible, the system fails over thesecondary copy (or replicated copy) and data accessibility continuesseamlessly. And with replicas of data stretched across data centers, these CSPsensure that you dont feel any disruption even if an entire data center goesdown.

You might be wondering, Thats great and all, but whathappens when a virus affects a volume or when a file is accidentally deleted?

The answer: theres no built-in failsafe for that. If afolder is deleted, then the real-time replication features make sure that itsdeleted from all replicas or secondary and tertiary copies. In other words, thevirus, the file deletion, or malicious encryption, is replicated across allcopies of the data whether its within the same data center or betweendifferent data centers.

So how can you protect business-critical files, folders andVirtual Machines (VMs) running in the cloud? You can do so by backing up yourdata stored in the cloud.

By setting up backup and Disaster Recovery (DR), youllensure that in the event of a ransomware attack, virus infection, accidental ormalicious deletion, you still have backup copies that can be used to recoveryour data.

It goes without saying here that backup copies are not thesame as the replicas created with geo-replication or sync & asyncreplication services.

For more detailed insight on the difference between cloudbackup, cloud storage and cloud sync, we highly recommend thisblog.

Thus far, weve established:

Now that weve established that its important to backupdata stored in the cloud, the two consequent questions are:

Data owners have a couple of options when it comes tosetting up backups for data stored in the cloud. The best option variesdepending on specific requirements, budget, internal policies, IT staffexperience, and applicable industry regulations.

Following are a number of generally applicable & securebackup options for enterprise data owners using cloud storage solutions:

If your IT framework is open to setting up an in-house datacenter, then one option is to set up a dedicated backup & DR appliance. Thepurpose-built backup appliance creates backups of the data stored in the cloudand keeps copies in the on-premises infrastructure.

If youre already in possession of backup software, then the fully integrated backup system can be replaced by a secure backup targetstorage; which can be a NAS or SAN storage appliance.

With this setup, data owners can keep backup copieson-premises and restore quickly. Not to mention, when considering the long termROIs of on-premises infrastructure versus cloud, on-premises infrastructure hasgreater potential to deliver better value-for-money experience.

If your organization is more in favor of serverlesscomputing, then cloud-to-cloud backups are the right choice for you.

Cloud-to-cloud backups are exactly as they sound like. Byleveraging backup software, data owners backup NAS or SAN volumes stored in thecloud or VMs running on cloud HCI to another cloud repository.

The specifics of the backup strategy and execution varydepending on the chosen backup software vendor and supported cloud integration.

For instance, Veeam isnow venturing into the cloud-native backup world by offering backups forVMs & data stored in AWS and/or Azure. With Veeam software, enterpriseusers can backup their data running in AWS to another repository provisioned inAWS; and the same goes for Azure.

Similarly, other backup software vendors are either alreadydoing this or beginning to come up with similar options for enterprise users.

This should answer the first question: how to backup datastored in the cloud? Now lets talk about how to do it effectively?

There are two major parts of any backup solution:

Which backup software best suits your requirements? Tochoose the right backup software, you need to have clear answers for thefollowing questions:

The second thing that you really need to pay attention toare the data security features of your backup target storage. For instance, thefollowing is a list of very desirable features or data services for backup datastorage:

If your backup target storage has these capabilities, thenyou can be rest assured that your business-critical workloads are safe andsecure from a number of cyber-security threats.

Cloud technology is cost-effective, reliable and itintroduces operational efficiency to several business processes. Consideringthe volume that digitally transformed businesses have to process, cloud storageis definitely a great option.

However, without secure cloud backups, data stored in thecloud is vulnerable to data loss and consequent disruption and downtime.Therefore, its imperative for businesses going serverless to setup backup& DR solutions to ensure data loss prevention and business continuity.

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Swedish c.bank ends five years of negative rates with hike to zero – Nasdaq

Riksbank is first central bank to exit negative rates

Sees benchmark rate on hold at 0.0% through 2021

Swedish crown strengthens

Adds background, currency reaction

STOCKHOLM, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Sweden's central bank hiked its benchmark repo rate by a quarter point to zero as expected on Thursday, defying a slowdown in the economy and global uncertainty to draw a line under five years with negative interest rates.

The hike from -0.25% means the Riksbank becomes the first central bank to inch its way back up to what was long considered the floor for interest rates. Rates are still negative in the euro zone, Japan, Denmark, Switzerland and Hungary.

"The Riksbank assesses that conditions are good for inflation to remain close to the target going forward," the central bank said in a statement.

"Therefore, in line with the assessment in October, the Executive Board has decided to raise the repo rate from 0.25 percent to zero percent."

The central bank as before said it expected the repo rate would remain unchanged through 2021.

All but one analyst in a Reuters poll forecast a hike.

The Swedish crown was slightly stronger against the euro after the decision. EURSEK=

The world's oldest central bank cut rates to -0.10% in 2015, worried that the euro zone crisis would hit already weak prices and lead to a Japanese-style deflationary spiral.

It was forced to go further, with rates dipping as low as -0.50% in 2016 before ultra-loose policy gained traction, weakening the crown, pushing up import prices and boosting the export-reliant economy.

Few would argue that policy has been too tight. But many question the timing of the hike - only the second since mid-2011 - as the economy is slowing.

However, the Riksbank is worried that negative rates are damaging the economy in other ways, boosting asset prices and debt and increasing the risk for a financial crisis.

GRAPHIC: Sweden economy: http://tmsnrt.rs/2bylYpf

GRAPHIC: Riksbank rate, inflation and the Koran: http://tmsnrt.rs/1qEN4Rz

GRAPHIC: The Scandinavian housing market interactive: http://tmsnrt.rs/2k1TfAt

Sweden economy:http://tmsnrt.rs/2bylYpf

Riksbank rate, inflation and the Krona:http://tmsnrt.rs/1qEN4Rz

The Scandinavian housing market interactive:http://tmsnrt.rs/2k1TfAt

(Reporting by Stockholm newsroom; editing by Niklas Pollard)

((simon.c.johnson@thomsonreuters.com; +46 8 700 1045; Reuters Messaging: simon.c.johnson.reuters.com@reuters.net))

The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

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