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To sweeten that success, during the second half of 2020, Veeam moved into the No. 2 position for worldwide market share with the fastest revenue growth in the global market. Read more.

The virtualization giant also announced that Sanjay Poonen, VMware’s COO for customer operations, “made the personal decision” to leave VMware. Both Raghuram and Poonen were considered frontrunners. Read more.

“One of the most important first steps in a zero-trust journey is to establish strong authentication,” Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal said. Read more.

The move comes as API vulnerabilities such as those that led to the Experion and Peloton data leaks highlight the need to identify flaws and secure APIs before they reach production. Read more.

I expect a handful of top trends and threats to dominate the discourse. And like just about everything else over the past 12 months, many of these have been shaped by COVID-19. Read more.

“IBM is all-in on hybrid cloud because we understand that businesses need a clear and critical path to modernize their mission-critical systems with advanced cloud services,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said. Read more.

Security services will be both the largest and the fastest-growing category, accounting for 48.8% of security spending between 2019 and 2024. Read more.