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Tecala awarded NetApp Gold Partner status
Award-winning technology services and IT consulting provider , Tecala , has announced that it has been awarded NetApp Gold Partner status based on its success in meeting NetApp ’ s rigorous standards for cloud and data management competency , managed services and support and customer satisfaction .
Tecala was originally appointed a NetApp partner earlier this year and has subsequently invested in deploying NetApp storage and data management solutions within its own managed services infrastructure data centres facilities in Sydney and Melbourne . This has helped the company scale with increased market demand for NetApp solutions ensuring it can deliver a superior customer service experience , while supporting Tecala ’ s own expansion of Value Added services .
In addition , Tecala has invested in training and certifying a team of its own NetApp solutions professionals to support the ongoing development of its managed services provision to lower costs , provide a faster time to market and reduce risk for both public and private sector organisations .
“ Tecala is now one of the leading organisations providing NetApp solutions in Australia . We are honoured to have been appointed a NetApp Gold Partner at this time , a testament to the industry-leading skills , experience , pace of innovation and investment we have made in successfully deploying NetApp technology within our own data centre infrastructure environment , as well as for end-user customer provisioning ,” said Pieter DeGunst , Managing Director , Tecala .
Pieter DeGunst , Managing Director , Tecala
Qualys extends integration with Microsoft Azure Defender to on-premises and multi-cloud with Microsoft Azure Arc
Qualys , a pioneer and one of the leading providers of disruptive cloud-based IT , security and compliance solutions , has announced it is expanding its integration of Qualys Vulnerability Management to Microsoft Azure Arc , allowing customers to perform vulnerability scanning on servers outside of the Azure platform , including on-premises and multi-cloud servers ( e . g ., AWS , GCP , etc .).
Qualys ’ built-in vulnerability assessment solution integrated in Azure Defender now supports Azure Arc . This enables customers to perform Vulnerability Assessment with one click on their non-Azure machines onboarded to Azure Arc . Customers can also consolidate vulnerability findings for both Azure VMs and non-Azure machines in a single interface . The built-in capability is available to all Azure Defender for servers ’ customers at no additional cost .
“ With Azure Arc , Microsoft continues to bring flexibility , choice and peace of mind to organisations ,” said Philippe Courtot , Chairman and CEO of Qualys . “ Extending our collaboration uniquely allows us to deliver built-in security to Azure customers , so they can easily secure their hybrid cloud environments in one click .”
Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Arc enabled servers and public preview of Azure Arc data services at Microsoft Ignite this September .
“ It ’ s never been easier to protect onpremises and multi-cloud virtual machines with solutions like the Qualys vulnerability assessment capabilities integrated with Azure Defender and Azure Arc ,” said Scott Woodgate , Senior Director , Azure Product Marketing Management at Microsoft Corp . •
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