Cisco, HPE, AWS, Salesforce, Azure: Hot Cloud Services News This Week
Cloud computing announcements this week aren’t as hot as Death Valley but we’ve got some goodies for you.
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Cohesity, a data security and management vendor that competes against the likes of Druva and Veeam, has secured Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as sellers for its Cohesity Cloud Services.
Cisco and HPE each will offer Cohesity Cloud Services to their customers relying on hybrid and multicloud environments. HPE resellers may sell the platform now. Cisco channel partners will be able to deliver Cohesity Cloud Services sometime this year, Cohesity said.
Cohesity provides full management of its cloud services platform, which is hosted in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The service delivers backup and recovery, cyber vaulting and data isolation, automated disaster recovery, and threat defense on a SaaS basis. Cohesity says the approach lets IT teams focus on higher value projects and responsibilities.
“With more applications generating more data than ever before, customers face increased complexity and cost as they look to secure and manage their data while also improving cyber resilience and recovery,” said Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Compute. “To address these challenges, we are excited to bring simpler, cost-effective solutions to our customers with Cohesity Cloud Services.”
11:11 Systems, which provides managed cloud, connectivity and security solutions from data centers throughout the world, said this week it has joined the Amazon Web Services Partner Network.
The company will focus on delivering data protection, particularly through its Veeam Software portfolio on AWS. That includes 11:11 Cloud Backup for Veeam Cloud Connect, 11:11 Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 and cloud object storage.
“Expanding our relationship with AWS allows us to quickly deploy our … data protection services to the geographies where our customers are doing business and across their entire IT portfolio, including their current and future cloud environments,” said Brett Diamond, CEO of 11:11 Systems. “This results in greater protection for our customers in an increasingly hostile cybersecurity landscape.”
The hyperscalers now account for 37% of all data center capacity worldwide.
The large public cloud providers, which include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and others, use 900 data centers globally, according to new stats from Synergy Research Group.
That capacity is split about half and half between hyperscalers using their own data centers and leasing from other companies.
Non-hyperscale colocation capacity makes up another 23% of capacity, leaving on-premises data centers with 40% of the total, analysts said.
Those figures mark a stark contrast, Synergy said, compared to five years ago when almost 60% of data center capacity was in on-premises facilities. Over the next five years, hyperscale operators will make up more than half of all capacity, while on-premises will drop to less than 30%, the firm found.
On-premises data centers will not disappear anytime soon, Synergy wrote in a recent news release, but their scale is being increasingly dwarfed by hyperscale and colocation companies.
However, all data center capacity will rise steadily, even as that’s driven by hyperscalers almost doubling their presence over the next five years.
Some Microsoft Azure users are getting free, expanded cloud logging capabilities.
Microsoft has teamed with the U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to offer the no-charge security protections to federal government customers and Microsoft commercial customers.
The news comes a week after Microsoft said it had crushed cyberattacks from China targeting federal email accounts on its server. CISA and the FBI said Microsoft held the responsibility for mitigating the attack.
Meantime, CISA Director Jen Easterly said the agency had been working with Microsoft over the past year to bring the July 19 announcement to the market.
“While we recognize this will take time to implement, this is truly a step in the right direction toward the adoption of Secure by Design principles by more companies. We will continue to work with all technology manufacturers, including Microsoft, to identify ways to further enhance visibility into their products for all customers.”
Over the past several years, operational teams at CISA identified several security logs critical for detecting and preventing threat activity, CISA said. But companies on the Microsoft basic enterprise license had to pay extra for the capability. From now on, though, that functionality will be free, starting in September.
A Microsoft representative said the announcement stems from the company’s “close partnership” with CISA. The news “also reflects our commitment to engaging with customers, partners and regulators to address the evolving security needs of the modern world,” said Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president of security, compliance, identity and management at Microsoft.
Your customers soon will pay more to use their Salesforce platforms. Some of the company’s cloud and marketing tools will go up in price by an average of 9%.
The CRM company says it’s the first time in seven years it has raised prices, and that part of the increase stems from adding generative AI to its platforms. As Reuters reported last week, Salesforce has put more than $20 billion into research and development over the last seven years. That money has allowed the company to add features, including generative AI, to its products.
On that note, on July 19, Salesforce announced general availability and pricing for Service GPT, Sales GPT and the Einstein GPT Trust Layer. The features support greater productivity and personalized interactions with customers, the company said. Here’s the cost:
• Sales GPT comes with Sales Cloud Einstein at $50 per user, per month, and includes a limited number of Einstein GPT credits.
• Service GPT is included in Service Cloud Einstein at $50 per user, per month, and includes a limited number of Einstein GPT credits.
• As usage grows, customers can purchase Enterprise Expansion packs for Sales and Service teams.
• Initially, only customers who have purchased Unlimited Edition, which includes the Einstein SKU, will be eligible to use GPT-powered capabilities, Salesforce said.
Even as Salesforce bulks up its platforms, the company is trying to make up for slowing revenue. Like other cloud providers, Salesforce experienced revenue highs during the pandemic. But that demand has started to slow as the world has returned to normal. Raising prices will help the vendor recoup some of those losses.
The price hike impacts Tableau, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Industries for both new and existing customers, according to Salesforce.
Connectbase, formerly Connected2Fiber, has secured a $16 million loan to fuel its growth.
“With the additional resources from this line of credit we will be able to accelerate our global growth strategy, and secure our position as the leading intelligence platform and marketplace,” said Yossi Hazan, CFO of Connectbase. “We will be able to get to more customers, and help our customers get to the value propositions of Connectbase — selling and buying network services through automation and with data-driven intelligence and insight — even sooner.”
The Massachusetts-headquartered company landed the debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank, the bank that famously failed earlier this year and that is now owned by First Citizens Bank.
Carriers including Cox, Granite, Paxio and MetTel use Connectbase to bring together network buyers and sellers — basically a marketplace for connectivity, rather than cloud applications. The Connectbase buyer cloud (part of the company’s The Connected World platform) lets partners identify, manage and quote ideal providers for deals. This mitigates fallout issues that plague more than 20% of all connectivity orders globally, Connectbase has said. Meantime, the seller cloud streamlines the sales process to prevent unnecessary costs, lost revenue and unhappy customers.
The Connectbase news comes a couple months after the company bought London’s LastMileXchange, an access quoting platform firm. And, last year, Connectbase raised $22 million in Series C funding. Connectbase claims more than 2.4 billion profiled locations within The Connected World.
Connectbase, formerly Connected2Fiber, has secured a $16 million loan to fuel its growth.
“With the additional resources from this line of credit we will be able to accelerate our global growth strategy, and secure our position as the leading intelligence platform and marketplace,” said Yossi Hazan, CFO of Connectbase. “We will be able to get to more customers, and help our customers get to the value propositions of Connectbase — selling and buying network services through automation and with data-driven intelligence and insight — even sooner.”
The Massachusetts-headquartered company landed the debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank, the bank that famously failed earlier this year and that is now owned by First Citizens Bank.
Carriers including Cox, Granite, Paxio and MetTel use Connectbase to bring together network buyers and sellers — basically a marketplace for connectivity, rather than cloud applications. The Connectbase buyer cloud (part of the company’s The Connected World platform) lets partners identify, manage and quote ideal providers for deals. This mitigates fallout issues that plague more than 20% of all connectivity orders globally, Connectbase has said. Meantime, the seller cloud streamlines the sales process to prevent unnecessary costs, lost revenue and unhappy customers.
The Connectbase news comes a couple months after the company bought London’s LastMileXchange, an access quoting platform firm. And, last year, Connectbase raised $22 million in Series C funding. Connectbase claims more than 2.4 billion profiled locations within The Connected World.
Cloud computing news this week isn’t as hot as Death Valley or Phoenix, but there are some key developments – namely in cloud services — that channel partners should know.
First up, resellers for Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise got some welcome cloud news this week. They’ll soon be able to sell cloud services that come as SaaS, and offer backup, recovery and data management. Find out who’s providing that platform.
After that, a big managed services provider has joined the Amazon Web Services Partner Network. This New Jersey-based firm will deliver data protection as a cloud service.
And new data from Synergy Research Group show who’s hogging the world’s data center capacity to deliver cloud services. The names of those companies should come as no surprise. What might surprise you is how much on-premises data center share is dwindling.
Cloud Services: Azure Verticals
Next, if you have Microsoft Azure customers in certain verticals, there’s a big change coming for them. After a year of negotiations and some high-profile breaches, Microsoft execs have agreed to offer a necessary capability for free.
You probably already know, too, that Salesforce recently announced some significant changes to its pricing for cloud services. But did you know it just added some new generative AI tools, too?
And, finally, Connectbase, which provides access to carrier pricing, has landed a fistful of money — from a bank whose name and reputation still raise eyebrows.
Start with the image above to get the scoop on all the cloud services and cloud computing happenings this week. And grab an iced tea to cool down while you read.
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