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Cisco Future Hybrid Cloud

In early June 2021 Cisco announced its vision for the Future Cloud. This vision comprises two distinct elements – UCS, a unified hyperscale computing infrastructure and tools to provide end to end observability of hybrid cloud services . Hybrid Management Challenge As…

A Cloud for All Seasons

The Coming Storm On April 28 th , 2021 the European Data Protection Board announced that The Portuguese Data Protection Authority (CNPD) ordered INE (National Institute for Statistics) to suspend the sending of personal data from the Census 2021 to the United States. CNPD has…

Cloud Codes of Conduct Get the EU Green Light, but More Is Still Needed

Green Light On May 20 th , 2021 it was announced that the EU Cloud Code of Conduct had received official approval by the Belgian Data Protection Authority, following the positive opinion issued by the European Data Protection Board.  At the same time, the European Data…

Business Continuity and the Cloud

On Wednesday March 10 th at 1am in the morning a fire started that destroyed a major data centre that provides cloud services from OVHcloud . Thankfully no one was injured but this should be a wake up call for cloud service users to check that they have factored the use of cloud…

Does Microsoft Double Key Encryption Help with Schrems II?

On July 16 th , 2020 the European Court of Justice issued its decision on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Data Protection Shield for the transfer of personal data for commercial purposes by an economic operator established in an EU Member State to another economic…

AWS – A new Vision for Hybrid IT?

Attending AWS re:Invent is always an exceptional experience and, despite it being virtual, this year was no different. As usual, there were the expected announcements of bigger better and faster services and components. AWS always shows a remarkable level of innovation with many more…

Global IaaS Providers Tenant Security Controls

The KuppingerCole Market Compass reports provide an overview of vendors and their product or service offerings in a certain market segment. This Market Compass focusses on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from Cloud Service providers (CSP) with a global presence and with a specific focus…

IaaS Tenant Security Controls

IT Organizations now commonly use multiple cloud services as well as on premises IT. This KuppingerCole Buyer's Compass focusses on the capabilities IaaS services provide to manage the common business risks such as loss of business continuity, data breaches and regulatory compliance failure…

Oracle Cloud Guard

Poorly managed security controls within a cloud services tenant's resources are increasingly the cause of security incidents and compliance failures. CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) tools provide functionality to address this challenge. This report provides a review of Oracle Cloud…

Microsoft Cloud App Security

Many organizations are using cloud services, but the use of these services is often poorly governed. Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) provide functionality to discover the use of the cloud, to control which cloud services can be accessed and to protect the data held in these services.…

Commvault Complete™ Data Protection

Business continuity planning is essential to the digital transformation process. This requires the use of data backup products and disaster recovery services which must support today’s multi-cloud hybrid IT environment. This report describes how Commvault Complete™ Data…

Analyst Chat #85: Hybrid IT 4 - Hyperconverged, Edge and Cloud in a Box

This episode concludes the four-part series on hybrid IT. To wrap things up, Mike Small and Matthias focus on the latest developments in hybrid infrastructures, between containers, hyperconverged, edge and cloud in a box.

Analyst Chat #84: Hybrid IT 3 - Managing and Governing

Part three of the four-part series on hybrid IT looks at approaches to appropriately manage and evolve hybrid architectures. Mike Small and Matthias put the focus not only on technical management, but also on appropriate governance in particular.

A Cloud for all Seasons

Even though the pandemic has been the main driver for digital workplace productivity as a strategic requirement, this topic will not go away after it is over. The Digital Business workforce needs to be “anywhere-enabled”. In order to support this Secure & Flexible…

Confidential Computing and Why This Matters for Cloud

Analyst Chat #83: Hybrid IT 2 - The Challenges

Mike Small and Matthias continue their four-part series on hybrid IT, looking at the increasing complexity: they look at multiple dimensions of the challenges that come with deploying and operating hybrid IT architectures.

Analyst Chat #95: Deconstructing the User Journey (EIC 2021 Special)

KuppingerCole's flagship event EIC 2021 took place very successfully in Munich and online…

Assuring Cloud Security and Compliance

Digital transformation is changing the way that they do business through the use of cloud…

NEXIS 4

NEXIS 4 implementiert intelligente Analytik für Rollen und Identitäten und Prozesse zum…

A Iot to Venture, More to GAIN

As social beings, people interact with their environment, whether as citizens of a state, as…

Analyst Chat #94: From Ransomware to Globally Assured Identities (EIC 2021 Special)

EIC 2021 finally took place in Munich in a hybrid format between on-site and online. Of…