Welcome to the autumn edition, which is published at a time of global turmoil: unprecedented levels of migration of the non-computing variety, a rising home-grown terrorist threat and war on several fronts.
With the Ashley Madison hack still fresh in our minds, we take a look at the risks posed by cyber threats and highlight organisations’ ever–increasing exposure to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Continuing the security theme, we bring you an update on developments with the Cisco Intercloud Fabric and show how our two companies’ deepening partnership will remove the boundaries between private and public clouds while still maintaining security and control.
Talking about control, we announce the launch of Application Cloud Services for Oracle, an exciting new service that promises to put customers back in control of their Oracle assets and help them build an optimised, consumption-based environment. If you want to reduce the risk of non-compliance yet ensure you only pay for the licences you actually need, please get in touch.
I can’t finish without thanking those customers who gave their valuable time to participate in our annual customer survey. We are currently digesting the feedback but you can see the headline findings here. It was gratifying to see that almost nine out of ten are happy with customer communications such as AVAIL.
I hope you enjoy this issue but, as always, my team welcomes feedback on any aspect of the magazine – just send your comments to the editor at avail@sungardas.com
Keith Tilley
EVP Global Sales & Customer Service Management