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Company to meet region’s growing demand for locally hosted cloud-based physical security technology

Macquarie Flex brings true hybrid capabilities to Australian businesses revolutionising the handling of critical workloads

COMPANY NEWS: In an Australian first, Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ), has leveraged strategic relationships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies, to launch Macquarie Flex.

COMPANY NEWS:  Blue Zebra Insurance (BZI) may be a relatively new arrival to Australia’s insurance sector, but it has quickly established a name for itself through its innovative digital offerings. Since it was founded in 2017, it has provided agencies and insurers with a self-built and cloud-hosted digital platform for insurance policy administration, helping it deliver its services efficiently at scale and speed.  One of the most notable indicators of Blue Zebra's growth trajectory is the nearly $100 million increase in Gross Written Premium (GWP), representing a remarkable growth rate of more than 50% compared to the previous year. Blue Zebra has also received significant industry recognition, winning the Insurance Business’ Digital Insurer of the Year Award for five years running. 

Enterprise automation and AI software company UiPath has announced that Raghu Malpani is joining the company as Chief Technology Officer.

COMPANY NEWS: i-PRO (formerly Panasonic Security), a global leader in professional security solutions for surveillance and public safety, today announced Docker container support for its new X Series line of AI-enabled cameras.

Data streaming company Confluent has announced that Australian Government agencies with an Information Security Manual PROTECTED level requirement can now use Confluent Cloud across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Data protection specialist Veeam Software has extended a five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to “innovate new solutions” for protecting customers by integrating its product family and Microsoft Copilot and artificial intelligence (AI) services.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix unveiled the Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, a new virtual routing service to help businesses connect applications and data across multiple clouds and on-premise deployments.

It's an old joke that the cloud is "just someone else's server", and while that's a fun simplification, the reality is that AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and the rest really do run physical server hardware in physical data centres. If you've ever managed your own server hardware you might be curious what one of the public cloud servers looks like. Thanks to AMD, iTWire got to see.

COMPANY NEWS: A fully managed, customised Azure solution that extends DR resiliency for on-premises, cloud and/or multi-cloud environments

COMPANY NEWS: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, has announced deeper integrations across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, with the latest milestones to deliver seamless access to data capabilities for millions of global Azure customers.

COMPANY NEWS: Delinea, a leading provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), today announced the availability of Secret Server in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure.

GUEST RESEARCH: Once used primarily by search engines, bots now have a variety of uses — both good and bad. The good bots are primarily search engine crawlers and other similar bots used for aggregating or monitoring content. These bots obey the website owner’s rules as specified in the robots.txt file, publish methods of validating them as who they say they are, and work in a way to avoid overwhelming the websites and applications they visit.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies today announced the availability of Dell Apex Cloud Platform for Microsoft, a new fully integrated turnkey system developed in collaboration with Microsoft that extends the Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud experience to data centre and edge environments.

AMD has begun shipping its new Epyc 8004 Series processors, rounding out its fourth-generation Epyc CPU family.

Deutsche Telekom in collaboration with Microsoft has launched the Campus Network Smart solution, a private 5G campus networks following a successful pilot with a pharmaceutical company in Germany.

GUEST OPINION: Data fabric and data mesh are two concepts mentioned frequently in discussions around enterprise data and analytics, but there are subtle differences between the two which are often misunderstood. They are in fact very different in purpose for information flow.

COMPANY NEWS: Illumio, the zero trust segmentation company, today announced the general availability of Illumio for Microsoft Azure Firewall. This integrated solution makes it easier than ever to use Azure Firewall as a zero trust enforcement point to visualise and secure all traffic between Azure resources connecting through the Azure Firewall. Illumio for Azure Firewall builds resilience to ransomware and other cyberattacks while also maximising the impact and value of Azure Firewall as a security investment.

COMPANY NEWS: Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, announced Dino DiMarino has been appointed as chief revenue officer.

COMPANY NEWS: Teradata today announced it will offer Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Microsoft Azure, opening up new markets, new capabilities, and new use cases. This makes Teradata’s modern cloud-native architecture, and robust analytics capabilities in ClearScape Analytics, available to customers interested in using harmonised data and trusted AI to drive faster innovation.