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Veeam Software has launched a certified plugin for SAP HANA, offering customers a backup and recovery solution.

Security teams and solutions will have to contend with synergistic threats, increasingly backed by artificial intelligence to avoid detection.

NZQA introduces online marking system for NCEA exams, with 14 subjects going online this year and more in 2020. Students support move to digital assessment.

BMC Helix with IBM Watson delivers cognitive insights across structured and unstructured federated knowledgebases.

Symantec has acquired Luminate Security, enhancing its Integrated Cyber Defense Platform with next-gen Secure Access Cloud tech amid increasing cloud reliance.

Palo Alto is calling it the ‘fastest-ever next-generation firewall’ with integrated cloud-based DNS Security service to stop attacks.

Its secure data analytics platform adds this plus other new capabilities for greater business insights and data visualisation.

Talend's Stitch Data Loader now supports Azure SQL Data Warehouse, offering a convenient way to import data into a cloud data warehouse in minutes.

Microsoft has unleashed a new healthcare bot that provides cloud-based conversational AI to help patients take healthcare into their own hands.

According to Canalys, spending grew by 46% in 4Q18 and AWS maintained dominance with nearly a third of the total.

According to IDC, 92% of organisations have adopted a cloud environment with 64% adopting a multi-cloud approach.

Canalys analysts say the huge growth in cloud services will be of benefit to channel partners with a number of incentives.

Last year saw almost manic growth in revenue for cloud providers as businesses continue to seek the benefits the services can provide.

The new group elevates a longstanding strategic alliance, expanding combined service capabilities, global scale and joint solution development.

Indium Software announced that it has enhanced its digital services capability by becoming a Microsoft Partner Network member with Silver Analytics Competency.

A new report from Canalys has revealed what the world’s two largest cloud providers have been up to – and they’ve certainly been busy.

While the Big Four providers will have the lion’s share, lock-in will be avoided through multi-cloud and cloud-native approaches.

In an exclusive interview, Scality’s Paul Speciale shares his thoughts on the data centre and cloud industries.

Version 7.0 of the Varonis Data Security Platform features new cloud and threat detection and response capabilities.

The new capabilities supposedly deliver cost-effective data retention, easy cloud migration and data mobility.