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CLOUD SECURITY

GovCon Wire | August 12, 2021

Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data repository. In February 2020, John Sherman, then chief information officer of the IC, announced NSA’s plans to issue...

CLOUD APP DEVELOPMENT

Oracle | January 20, 2022

On January 19, Oracle announced the opening of its first cloud region in Africa. This move effectively meets the rapidly expanding demand for enterprise cloud services on the continent. This new cloud region will boost cloud adoption across Africa while also assisting businesses to attain optimum performance and fostering continuous innovation. With Johannesburg, Oracle has opened its 37th cloud region around the world. They move forward with the aspiration of having at least 44 cloud regions by...

CLOUD COMPLIANCE AND AUDIT

Qumulo | April 26, 2022

-Qumulo, the leader in data storage and management at scale, today unveiled “Cloud Now,” a new program that offers cloud builders the ability to create and test up to one petabyte (PB) of multi-cloud file storage at no cost*. As the only multi-cloud file platform able to run massive data workloads with radical simplicity, Qumulo designed the Cloud Now Program to eliminate barriers to unstructured data storage in the cloud while speeding time to deployment. Customers can now build a p...

Blackbaud | July 18, 2020

American cloud software firm Blackbaud has confessed to having been hit by ransomware and paying a ransom as it was unable to block the attack before its data was exfiltrated, though it managed to prevent the encryption taking place. The company, which refers to itself as the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, said in a statement that the data had been exfiltrated, using PowerShell scripts as is the usual practice, in May. Blackbaud, ...