“Qualys Announces General Availability of Qualys Cloud Agent on Google Cloud - PRNewswire” plus 2 more
“Qualys Announces General Availability of Qualys Cloud Agent on Google Cloud - PRNewswire” plus 2 more |
- Qualys Announces General Availability of Qualys Cloud Agent on Google Cloud - PRNewswire
- Google Cloud’s Enterprise Weakness Is Its Hidden Complexity - Forbes
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure pitch focused on cost, security - TechTarget
| Qualys Announces General Availability of Qualys Cloud Agent on Google Cloud - PRNewswire Posted: 06 May 2020 06:02 AM PDT FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced general availability of the Qualys Cloud Agent on the Google Cloud via Google Cloud Marketplace. In one click, with essentially no software to install or maintain, the lightweight agent provides customers with visibility of their workloads and Virtual machines in Google Cloud. Available from the Google Cloud Marketplace, customers can configure and deploy the Qualys Cloud Agent on specified compute instances on Google Cloud automatically and transparently into Linux and Windows workloads as part of their Devops processes, providing immediate visibility from the start without the need to install agents manually. Using the Cloud Agent, customers can easily activate multiple Qualys applications such as the game-changing VMDR – Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response app to build a streamlined workflow within the Google Cloud. The Qualys findings, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, can be directly integrated into the Google Cloud Security Command Center for ease of tracking across the entire enterprise, including multiple cloud accounts, various providers, as well as on-premises assets and user endpoints. "We're delighted to partner with Qualys to deliver their leading security capabilities on Google Cloud," said Manvinder Singh, director, partnerships at Google Cloud. "Making the Qualys Cloud Agent available on Google Cloud enables customers to easily and quickly achieve visibility into their IT and security infrastructure via the Google Cloud Security Command Center." "The built-in integration with Google Cloud allows customers to, with a click of a button, gain full visibility and establish consistent security policies across their entire hybrid environment (cloud, on premises, endpoint, mobile, OT and IoT) all with no software to install or maintain," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys. Additional Resources About Qualys The Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated Cloud Apps deliver businesses critical security intelligence continuously, enabling them to automate the full spectrum of auditing, compliance, and protection for IT systems and web applications across on premises, endpoints, cloud, containers, and mobile environments. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has established strategic partnerships with leading cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform, and managed service providers and consulting organizations including Accenture, BT, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deutsche Telekom, DXC Technology, Fujitsu, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, NTT, Optiv, SecureWorks, Tata Communications, Verizon and Wipro. The Company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance. For more information, please visit www.qualys.com. Qualys and the Qualys logo are proprietary trademarks of Qualys, Inc. All other products or names may be trademarks of their respective companies. Media Contact: SOURCE Qualys, Inc.  Related Links |
| Google Cloud’s Enterprise Weakness Is Its Hidden Complexity - Forbes Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:53 PM PDT GCP's drive for OPEX optimization and low-cost leadership is not a strategy to extract value from enterprise accounts. GCP has focused on a small handful of verticals to create enterprise solutions value. The combination is probably not enough to maintain its third-place public cloud revenue position against aggressive competitors. Google Cloud revenue was $2.61B in 4Q 2019, up 53% YoY from $1.71B in 4Q 2018, and $2.78B in 1Q 2020, up 52% YoY from $1.83B in 1Q 2019. (Alphabet started breaking out Google Cloud revenue as a separate line item in 4Q 2019, so there's currently a reporting gap for 2Q and 3Q 2019.) YoY growth of 53% for 4Q 2019 and 52% for 1Q 2020 sounds impressive, but it doesn't convey the whole picture.  Google Cloud quarterly earnings 4Q 2019 - 1Q 2020 Liftr InsightsGoogle Cloud revenue includes both GCP and G Suite. Alphabet emphasized during its 1Q 2020 earnings call that it saw "significant" growth in GCP, above the YoY average for Google Cloud, while G Suite saw merely "solid" growth. The challenge for Google Cloud will be to position GCP as an enterprise-class IaaS solution. Its competitors are doing a better job of offering cloud customers easy paths to control, predictability and consistency. But during its 1Q earnings call, Alphabet indicated that GCP will reduce new data center build-out in favor of driving increased existing infrastructure optimization. As enterprise competition heats up and as pandemic-driven remote work and remote education fuel increased G Suite revenue, mid-2020 Google Cloud revenue growth may shift its mix between GCP and G Suite. GCP's competitive challenges are mostly due to data center architecture choices. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a much simpler menu of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) products than the rest of the top clouds, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. However, underneath that simplicity lies hidden complexity that handicaps GCP in mainstream enterprise IT. GCP started out with fundamentally different choices from its competitors and continues maintain its differentiation. IaaS architecture walks a tightrope between simplicity and complexity. Alibaba Cloud, AWS and Azure each give cloud customers a lot of detail up-front, but GCP does not. The impact is that customers may spend more time understanding low-level configuration options or experiencing higher service or cost variability with apps in deployment. GCP's relatively simple IaaS service menu stands out. Though GCP's IaaS complexity more than doubled (128% growth) over the past three quarters, that growth was from a much smaller base (see chart below). Liftr Insights measures IaaS complexity by counting the number of each cloud's rentable configurations in each of its operating regions. The other three clouds ranged from 35% to 68% total growth (compound monthly growth rates are shown in the chart).  Complexity & Growth of Top Four IaaS Clouds 3Q 2019 - 1Q 2020 Liftr InsightsGCP's IaaS complexity growth was much slower over most of the past few quarters. More than half of GCPs complexity growth over the past three quarters occurred in March 2020, with GCP's production deployment of two new cost-conscious high-level instance type families. However, most of GCP's new type family deployments can be scheduled on GCP's current infrastructure, so that increase in complexity requires minimal new data center infrastructure build-out. As of March 2020, the top clouds had similar geographic coverage. GCP had announced several upcoming new regions, which will require new data center build-out (table below).  New & Announced Cloud Regions March 2020 Liftr InsightsAlphabet mentioned variants of GCP data center operations "efficiency" nine times during its 1Q 2020 earnings call. It also stated that it would shift the mix of its infrastructure investment in 2020 "with relatively more spend on servers than on data center construction." I believe GCP will likely delay deploying some of its announced regions in 2020. There are no publicly committed dates, so some of these regions are likely to slip into 2021. GCP's March 2020 type family deployments are great examples of offering more IaaS products that run on existing data center infrastructure to increase efficiency, reduce OPEX and boost utilization rates for GCP's existing sunk CAPEX. — The author is an employee of Liftr Insights. The author and Liftr Insights may, from time to time, engage in business transactions involving the companies and/or the products mentioned in this post. The author has not made an investment in any company mentioned in this post. The views expressed in this post are solely those of the author and do not represent the views or opinions of any entity with which the author may be affiliated.  |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure pitch focused on cost, security - TechTarget Posted: 06 May 2020 02:22 PM PDT Oracle still lags well behind hyperscalers AWS, Microsoft and Google in IaaS, but the company is trying to lure existing customers with a three-fold message centered on competitive pricing, advanced security and greater assurances on availability, performance and manageability. Those themes resounded in a virtual keynote delivered this week by Oracle's chief corporate architect, Edward Screven. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the second IaaS offering from the company. Its first attempt, known as OCI Classic, was based on OpenStack and failed to gain much interest. OCI Gen2 introduced many technical advancements over Classic. Unlike rival platforms, OCI offers customers not only an availability service-level agreement, but also SLAs for performance and manageability, Screven said. "I don't know about you, but an availability SLA without a performance SLA? It seems kind of meaningless," he said. "What does it mean to say my system is available and performing if I can't perform a lifecycle management operation I need?" Last year, Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison claimed that customers who moved Oracle database workloads from AWS onto OCI would save at least 50% on their bills. The same is true in general for services running on OCI, said Screven, who reports directly to Ellison. "We charge about half as much for compute, and much less for storage and network egress," he said in a question-and-answer session. "The exact difference will depend on shapes and configurations you choose." Of course, these types of customer-friendly policies are critical if Oracle wants to gain market share against AWS, Microsoft and Google in IaaS. To that end, one new Oracle customer backed up the company's cost-savings claims. Naveego, a startup with a platform for collecting and cleansing data from various sources for use in machine learning, has moved all of its development and testing instances to OCI after first using AWS and Azure for those purposes, CEO Katie Horvath said in an interview. In initial talks, Oracle representatives told Naveego it could save 60% on costs compared with rival platforms, according to Horvath. "I thought, 'That's way too good to be true,'" Horvath said. But it turned out to be the case, and not through any extra largesse on Oracle's part. "Oracle had pretty much set prices," she said. "No chits, or anything like that." Naveego's software needs high availability, and thus is deployed across multiple availability zones, Horvath said. While other cloud providers charge money for data communication between zones, Oracle does not. "[The savings] allowed us, within our existing budget, to expand dev and testing," she said./p> The company is also moving some production workloads to OCI but will continue using AWS and Azure in production as well in order to meet customer needs or preferences, according to Horvath. Oracle's pricing -- and in particular, Ellison's 50% off claim -- should be placed in context, said John Rymer, an analyst at Forrester. "As a company that relies on direct sales, you need to have really, really simple value propositions like that for your sales force," he said. The aggressive pricing also follows a pattern Microsoft engaged in as it built out Azure, Rymer said. "That was how they got [Azure] off the ground. Oracle, as the 'new kid,' that may be how that have to get going."  Oracle's OCI pitch focuses on the installed baseOracle doesn't believe it's in the same game as AWS, Azure and Google, seeking appeal from a broad cross-section of IT buyers, Rymer said. Rather, it has positioned OCI as a migration target for its customers' on-premises databases and applications. "That's what they're focused on," Rymer said. "That is a different competitive stance. To me, that's two niches." But you won't hear Oracle executives directly say so in public statements. "It's not the kind of thing that Larry is going to shout about," Rymer said. "It's too limiting." Oracle's on-premises customers include many in highly regulated, conservative industries. Thus, it is not surprising that its OCI pitch has a heavy emphasis on security. Screven discussed Cloud Guard and Maximum Security Zones, two upcoming services Oracle launched at OpenWorld in September. Cloud Guard monitors customers' instances and determines whether they're in a weakened state of security or are under attack. The system then changes configurations to ward off attack. Maximum Security Zones provide customers with a completely locked-down environment by default to avoid configuration-related data leaks. Many high-profile incidents of that kind have been linked to misconfigured AWS S3 storage buckets.
Exactly how well Cloud Guard and Maximum Security Zones work in real life remains to be seen. Both will be generally available later this year at no additional charge to customers, Screven said. Screven also spoke to the potential concerns of Oracle applications customers now running the software on premises. "One of the important design points for Gen2 cloud was to be able to lift and shift traditional workloads, including [E-Business Suite], into the cloud," he said. Some customers already self-manage their EBS installations on OCI, while others use managed services from Oracle, he said. "You don't need to think about this as a cloud-native rewrite," he added. "You can move a workload, then integrate with Autonomous Data Warehouse, then integrate with Digital Assistant, then begin using Helidon and Kubernetes." During the next 12 to 18 months, Oracle should continue to prioritize helping customers modernize applications, but there are gaps in its strategy, according to Rymer. "In order to get new blood into the customer base, they really have to introduce a focus on developers and business process [automation]," he said. Part of this can be attributed to the departure in late 2018 of former product development chief Thomas Kurian, who is now CEO of Google Cloud. "They kind of did a reset at about the time Kurian left, and resets cost time," Rymer said.  |
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