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Hi {NAME}, The Register: Tech Resources - 17 May 2023 ### Why Ransomware Hackers Love Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is the cornerstone of business continuity, especially in these days of remote work. Plenty of enterprise leaders recognize this but so do attackers. In fact, there is nothing quite so precious to businesses large and small, which makes the Microsoft 365 platform a target for ransomware and other malicious attacks. Microsoft has built robust tools to help businesses tackle key risk points, along with providing retention policies, litigation controls, compliance, and governance but what enterprise clients will immediately miss in the event of an attack are all the fast, reliable recovery tools that are not part of Microsoft 365. Microsoft understands that its platform is not equipped for deep recovery of data and even recommends a third-party solution to help businesses get back to work without long, expensive downtimes from restoration efforts. The tech giant has partnerships, including an equity role, in leading companies like Rubrik for this reason—to allow enterprises to get back up and running after ransomware (or even accidental data deletion) in no time. Join Rubrik cloud and data security expert Drew Russell and Principal Product Marketing Manager Kim Lambert with Situation Publishing’s moderator, Nicole Hemsoth, for an in-depth conversation on what you might be missing beyond mere compliance and policies. We will talk through what an extra layer of protection means for your company’s valuable data and for continued, successful collaboration. What to expect from this dynamic conversation: * Understand the potential vulnerabilities associated with your Microsoft 365 environment. * Learn how Rubrik secures your Microsoft 365 data with unified management across your data centers and cloud applications, for fast recovery from ransomware or accidental data deletion. * Engage with a demo of the Rubrik solution for Microsoft 365. View Now ### Optimise your object storage needs with a ‘multicloud by design’ strategy Storage strategy has become a critical challenge for organisations of all sizes, across all vertical sectors – they’re discovering that storing their data most efficiently and cost-effectively is far more complex than it used to be. It’s not just provisioning the growth in data volumes, nor data’s increased importance to business performance – from backend analytics to frontend customer experiences. The dynamics of storage demands are throwing up all kinds of new challenges, from budgetary overruns due to rampant public cloud consumption, to the need to accommodate growing object storage needs. IT leaders are having to decide how to designate their storage estates. The cost complications of maintaining multiple clouds have left organisations wondering whether to repatriate workloads for better performance, value extraction and control – snag is, they’re not always sure which workloads to bring back. What’s more, physical separation between on-premises applications and analytics platforms, and data stored in off-premises cloud, inhibits data mobility, limiting the speed with which they can move back and forth and introducing more costs. Many enterprises look to trusted tech providers to advise them on strategic decisions regarding storage architecture and engineering. Solutions vendors with long-established, proven partnerships whose expertise scopes the challenges in full have much to offer. Join The Register’s James Hayes in discussion with storage solutions experts Anahad Dhillon, Dell’s Director of Object Storage Product Management, and Michael Levy, Director of Product, Private Cloud, at Rackspace, to learn how you can: * Establish hybrid and/or multicloud storage architecture that also scopes on-premises object storage benefits * Optimise your object storage with a ‘multicloud by design’ strategy * Leverage market leader experience to make properly informed decisions about data repatriation Signup Now ### Achieve sustainability goals while managing data growth If your organisation wants to make it to Net Zero, then management’s beady eye is fixed on the data centre. A meaningful commitment to Net Zero also means signing up to science-based targets. Suddenly, you have to account for your emissions in scope 1 (what you emit), scope 2 (the emissions caused by your electricity), and scope 3 (all other emissions in your value chain). Wait, what? Scope 3 are usually the biggest component of your carbon footprint, but how do you account for them, and how does that fit into a credible plan to reach Net Zero while your data needs continue to increase? You can’t kick the carbon can down the road, so join David Locke, EMEA Chief Technology Advisor at WWT and Patrick Smith, EMEA Field CTO at Pure Storage and The Reg’s Tim Phillips, who will be discussing: * What is Net Zero, and is it compatible with data growth? * What are Scope 3 emissions and how do you measure them? * Making a plan to reach Net Zero Signup Now ### Manage your cloud-native security Is security in your cloud and container environments top of mind? Are your team struggling to prioritise cloud and container vulnerabilities at scale? Sysdig’s 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report, based on real-world, real-time data, found that 87% of container images have high or critical vulnerabilities, and 90% of permissions are unused. You cannot fix the entire 87%, so how do you focus on the vulnerabilities that matter the most? You need to prioritise the unpatched vulnerabilities that create in-use risk exposure, to trim excess permissions, and to fix misconfigurations. Join the Reg’s Tim Phillips for our latest Regcast, where he will be talking to Sysdig’s Stefan Trimborn on how using the right tools can make this task manageable, reduce your exposure to vulnerabilities, and also build effective DevSecOps capabilities. Join this regcast to learn about: * The scary statistics on cloud and container security * How to prioritise what’s urgent and important * Creating DevOps security culture to implement best practice View Now ### Cloud-first without compromise You want to move your IO-sensitive workloads to the cloud, but you want to do it without compromising the high performance, low latency, and data services that you love with your on-premises systems. And you also want to do it with predictability of both cost and performance. . Native cloud storage solutions can’t deliver an attractive price/performance efficiency model that would make it an ideal platform for these workloads. Lightbits flips the switch and changes that. Lightbits is a robust cloud data platform with unmatched speed, flexibility, and efficiency. It enables organizations with a cloud-first strategy to move their IO-sensitive workloads to the public cloud without compromise. It delivers higher performance (1M IOPs), low consistent latency, enterprise data services (included in the license), and predictable and lower costs than native cloud storage solutions. In addition, the license is portable between on-premises and the cloud–so migrate at your own pace. Sign up for this Regcast to hear Lighbits’ Sagy Volkov, distinguished performance architect and Abel Gordon, chief system architect, explain to The Reg’s Tim Phillips how they do it, and they enable a cloud-first strategy. You will hear: * Why performance and cost should no longer barriers to implementing a cloud-first strategy * Why storage bottlenecks should no longer be a barrier to migrating IO-senstive applications to the cloud * How it’s possible to achieve predictability in cost and performance on the cloud View Now ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: