CLOUD SECURITY
Nagarro | May 23, 2022
Nagarro, a global pioneer in digital engineering, announced a partnership with Soravia, one of the top real estate groups in Austria and Germany, and Google Cloud to redefine the future real estate market. The building of digitally interconnected, energy-neutral communities, as well as smart, new services for customers and investors, is predicted to scale up dramatically in the future years thanks to this innovation and technology alliance.
Nagarro is in charge of the strategy and end-to-end technological solution, thanks to its demonstrated competence in smart technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Soravia will draw on its extensive experience in sustainable project development and skills in all areas of the real estate lifecycle. Google Cloud will bring its proven expertise in data analytics, AI and machine learning, connectivity, and Internet of Things (IoT) goods to the table.
Digital technologies for smart building, investment, and property and facility management will be the focus in the coming months and years. In the first phase of the project, digital interfaces will be developed that will allow customers and investors to communicate in completely new ways. As a prerequisite for ongoing service development, the goal is to greatly improve user experience and performance using cutting-edge cloud technology and intelligent data analysis.
"Digitalization offers enormous development potential for the real estate industry - economically, socially and ecologically. As a group, we have been involved with digital aspects of project development for many years. By combining the expertise of SORAVIA and global technology leaders such as Google Cloud and Nagarro, we will drive the transformation of the real estate industry even further in the coming years. We believe in a greener future with sustainable living spaces through innovative technology solutions," said Erwin Soravia, CEO of SORAVIA.
He further stated that in doing so, the three firms are bound together by a pioneering spirit and a shared vision to radically transform the customer experience.
Paul Haberfellner, Managing Director at Nagarro, said, "Through artificial intelligence and machine learning, smart buildings are constantly adapting to the needs of their users. This optimizes their operation and creates economic and ecological benefits. The basis for this is the analysis and interpretation of data, a core strength of Nagarro. As part of the partnership, we are working on the strategy and comprehensive solutions to further develop and use the technology in practice."
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Elastic | June 08, 2022
As part of Elastic Security for Cloud, the firm behind Elasticsearch has revealed new features for managing cloud risk and posture, as well as safeguarding cloud workloads.
Cloud-native and hybrid environments can now benefit from Elastic Security's infrastructure detection and response (IDR) capabilities, as well as its ability to enforce security postures, thanks to the addition of Elastic Security for Cloud. In addition, the unified Elastic Search Platform allows customers to monitor both deployment and run-time hazards.
Elastic Security Labs, the company's threat research, detection engineering and malware analysis division, provides out-of-the-box rules and machine learning models to identify new threats.
"While cloud security is key to business, it introduces more dependencies on various internal and third-party elements and increases complexity. The result is an environment with fragmented visibility, and you can't secure what you can't see. Such an environment can be difficult to secure, since many elements need to come together cohesively. Elastic aims to reduce this complexity and improve attack surface visibility by delivering Elastic Security for Cloud on a single platform that enables customers to secure their cloud risks while integrating it within their broader security operations,"
Ken Buckler, Research Analyst - Security and Risk Management, Enterprise Management Associates.
By 2025, more than 85% of enterprises will adopt a cloud-first strategy, with 95% of new digital workloads running on cloud-native platforms, according to Gartner. But a recent Elastic study indicated that nearly half (49%) of cloud-native enterprises expect misconfigurations to increase as a root cause of breaches over the next two years.
"To protect applications and workloads in the cloud, security operations teams require deep visibility across their organizations' underlying infrastructure and application data," said Santosh Krishnan, General Manager of Elastic Security, Elastic. "Elastic Security for Cloud provides customers with a single platform to monitor their cloud deployments, manage their cloud posture, and secure their cloud workloads - giving them the visibility they need to prevent, detect, and respond to threats faster."
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Clever Cloud | July 06, 2022
Clever Cloud, a European provider of automation and optimization solutions for websites and applications hosting, and Kalray (Paris:ALKAL) (Euronext Growth Paris: ALKAL), a leading provider of a new generation of processors and acceleration cards specialized in Intelligent Data Processing from Cloud to Edge, announce a partnership aimed at strengthening the relationship between the two companies for the deployment of next-generation storage solutions.
Clever Cloud, which is currently setting up in a third Parisian data center and strengthening its technical platform, has chosen to partner with French company Kalray and its Flashbox™, a new generation of NVMe storage array that can accommodate up to 24 PCI Express (NVMe) SSDs, for its high-performance storage solution.
PERFORMANCE, RESILIENCE AND OPENNESS
Without a host CPU (Central Processing Unit), the Flashbox™ leverages K200-LP™ accelerator cards featuring the Coolidge™ DPU (Data Processing Unit) that takes advantage of the unique and patented MPPA® (Massively Parallel Processor Array) architecture developed by Kalray. This chip takes advantage of the power of 80 parallel cores and enables data centers adopting NVMe SSD storage to remove bottlenecks and improve performance, while consuming minimal power and resources.
A unique concept on the market today, the Flashbox™ as proposed by Kalray benefits from ultra-fast interfaces and low power consumption. It can deliver up to 12 million IOPS through a 2x 100 Gb/s network interface and is based on market standards such as Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), NVMe/TCP or RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv1/v2). It will eventually be offered by storage vendors using Kalray cards.
"Kalray's solution meets all our needs and the criteria that are important to us, whether in terms of sovereignty, openness, resilience, energy efficiency or performance," said Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.
The Flashbox™ is currently being tested in Clever Cloud's infrastructure and will join its new Paris data center where it will work alongside the latest generation of compute servers Clever Cloud is installing there. It will enable Clever Cloud to offer greater flexibility to its customers in managing storage, but also to support the launch of new offerings.
This is part of the development of Clever Cloud's Storage API, which allows various storage sources, whether local, remote or via third-party cloud service providers, to be simply allocated to the virtual machines that host users' applications. This open, multi-cloud approach is what makes Clever Cloud so successful.
CLEVER CLOUD AND KALRAY: FOR A “MADE IN FRANCE” R&D
Clever Cloud and Kalray are also partnering in several projects where they are working closely together to leverage Kalray's K200-LP™ cards as accelerators to offload Clever Cloud's network layer functionalities or computations related to the protection and redundancy of data stored within Clever Cloud's servers.
"The collaboration with Kalray is not just about two French companies that have an interest in working together, but about two projects that have, at their heart, the creation of value through innovation, where the partnership is also between the technical teams," adds Steven Le Roux, CTO of Clever Cloud.
“We are very pleased to be working with Clever Cloud, with whom we share common values, both in terms of innovation and the philosophy of our solutions, which are designed to be easy to use, flexible, scalable and open.
Kalray has a unique position in Europe in this market of very high-performance and low-power processors. We are proud to be able to build innovative French storage solutions with Clever Cloud and thus contribute to the technological sovereignty of France and Europe”, declares Eric Baissus, President and CEO of Kalray.
ABOUT CLEVER CLOUD
Founded in 2010, Clever Cloud is a company based in Nantes, France, and specialized in IT automation. It creates and provides the software building blocks necessary for the flexible deployment of applications on self-service PaaS architectures. Its clients include such major names as Airbus, AXA, Caisse d'Épargne, Cegid, Docaposte, MAIF, McDonald's, Solocal, SNCF
ABOUT KALRAY
Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris - FR0010722819 - ALKAL) is a fabless semiconductor company, a leading provider of a new class of processors, specialized in Intelligent Data Processing from Cloud to Edge. Kalray’s team have created and developed its leading-edge technology and products to help its clients maximize the market possibilities presented by a world dominated by massive, disparate and pervasive data.
Thanks to Kalray’s patented manycore architecture, Kalray’s MPPA® Intelligent Data Processors are natively capable of managing multiple workloads with no bottlenecks to enable smarter, more efficient and energy-wise data-intensive applications. Kalray's offering includes processors, acceleration cards with associated software environment and appliances, allowing its customers to design the best solutions in fast growing sectors such as modern data centers, 5G, AI and Edge Computing, autonomous vehicles and others.
Founded in 2008 as a spin-off of CEA French lab, with investors such as Alliance Venture (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), Safran, NXP Semiconductors, CEA and Bpifrance, Kalray is dedicated through technology, expertise and passion to offer more: More for a smart world, more for the planet, more for customers and developers.
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