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Confluent cloud-native data-streaming platform hosted on Microsoft cloud region in Qatar
Confluent announced that Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure is now available to customers in Qatar through Microsoft Cloud region in country . “ Data sovereignty and residency are rapidly becoming critical to digital projects across the region , which has led to a fundamental shift in the expectations of business leaders regarding the role cloud providers play in
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compliance ,” said Fred Crehan , Area Vice President , Emerging Markets , at Confluent .
Microsoft Cloud regions offer Confluent the availability , high performance , low latency , and security it needs to meet customer standards of flexibility , reliability , and disaster recovery . Additionally , because data is stored in-country , Confluent can cater to highly regulated verticals such as government and financial services .
Confluent Cloud is a managed , cloud-native service for connecting and processing data , everywhere it is needed . Its elastic scalability and virtually infinite storage simplify real-time data movement across public and private clouds . And it offers managed connectors to the most popular data sources in the Kafka ecosystem , as well as SQL-based stream processing and a governance suite for streaming data , all from the same access pane . The service is backed by 99.95 % uptimes that are guaranteed by SLAs .
Additionally , Confluent has worked to ensure some of the industry ’ s most robust enterprise-grade security and compliance measures are in place . For example , the company recently announced Stream Governance Advanced , which includes the Schema Registry for Stream Quality . By more than doubling the global availability of Schema Registry to 28 regions , Confluent has provided customers with more flexibility to manage schemas directly alongside their Kafka clusters in order to maintain strict compliance requirements and data sovereignty .
Confluent sees the availability of its data streaming platform on Microsoft Azure in Qatar as a clear signal of its ongoing commitment to the nation ’ s government , businesses , and people .
AZCOM partners with security vendor Perception Point to protect against advanced threats
UAE based AZCOM IT Distribution announced a new partnership with Perception Point , a provider of advanced threat prevention across digital communication channels . The partnership promises to deliver to CIOs and CISOs in The Gulf Countries a robust and cost-effective solution against the most advanced cyberattacks across their digital footprint .
Perception Point ’ s holistic threat prevention solution , powered by multiple layers of advanced static and dynamic detection engines , prevents , detects and remediates threats across an organisation ’ s main attack vectors : email , web browsers , and cloud collaboration channels .
The solution detects all threats , such as APTs , zero-days , phishing , malware , BEC , ATO , impersonation attacks , and spam , in both Windows and Mac , up to 40x faster than other solutions on the market ,
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dynamically scanning 100 % of content within seconds to prevent attacks from reaching the organisation . Perception Point customers also receive a fully managed Incident Response service that manages all incidents and optimises detection engines , drastically reducing the strain on SOC team resources .
“ We are proud to have entered into this distribution agreement with Perception Point . The business potential to meet the needs of CIO ’ s and CISO ’ s for this type of solution is significant and we are accordingly motivated to do a great job with the Perception Point team ,” said Nassir Nauthoa , Executive Head of AZCOM IT Distribution .
“ At this point in time , cyberattacks and malicious actors are more sophisticated than ever before and companies of all sizes are experiencing a growing number of threats across email , web browsers and an increasing number of cloud collaboration apps ” said Yoram Salinger , CEO of Perception Point .
Perception Point is a Prevention-as-a- Service company for the fastest and most accurate next-generation detection and response to all attacks across email , cloud collaboration channels , and web browsers . •
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