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By Amy Hawthorne, VP, Global Marketing, iland.

Natural disasters and data breaches have been hitting the headlines this year. While it might not happen to you on such a large scale, any sort of outage can cause IT administrators and CIOs to lie awake at night wondering if they are well protected. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is now a mainstream use of the cloud.

BSI’s global centre of excellence for Cybersecurity and Information Resilience has announced cybercrime investigative journalist, Brian Krebs as a speaker at the BSI International Cyber Resilience Exchange. The Exchange takes place at The Convention Centre Dublin on 26 March 2019.

Cyber security specialist CySure Ltd has appointed Frost Solutions as a specialist value added reseller partner in South Africa. Frost Solutions specialises in delivering IT services to the small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) market and has added CySure’s information security management system, VOSO to its product and service portfolio.

Schneider Electric announces the launch of its APC Technology Partners Initiative, expanding its portfolio of solutions by partnering with innovative technology providers to deliver to resellers comprehensive approaches to achieving high availability and increased resiliency at the edge. Available are solutions for Unified Threat Management,

GridGain Systems has announced that GridGain Cloud, an in-memory-computing-platform-as-a-service (imcPaaS) solution, now includes automatic disk-based persistence of the in-memory operational dataset which ensures immediate data access if a cluster restart is ever required.

2018 was one of substantial change in data protection as organisations grappled with new privacy regulations, exceedingly sophisticated ransomware attacks, and cloud-first disaster recovery strategies that ushered in unexpected costs and heightened risks of data loss. Data protection provider Arcserve, LLC names three predictions for 2019 and their impact over the next 12 months:

HERE Technologies, the mapping and location platform services provider, has introduced the HERE OLP Marketplace, a new hub for global location data exchange and enrichment across industries.

Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, has been positioned as a Rising Star for its public cloud transformation services in the ISG Provider Lens Quadrant Report 2018 on “Cloud Transformation/Operation Services & XaaS.” Mindtree was also recognised as a Product Challenger in managed public cloud services.

Over the last few years, digital transformation has been one of the biggest buzzwords in business and with organisations understanding the benefits that technologies such as AI, IoT and big-data analytics can bring, projects have been executed, bringing improved efficiencies, cost reductions and improvements to business processes.

Blockchain technology incubator Adel has announced the alpha launch of AdelPoint. This is Adel’s first released project since its launch in December 2016.