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Sophos announces plans for new data centres in Canada , Australia and Japan
Sophos , a global leader in nextgeneration cybersecurity , has announced plans to provide new data centres in Montreal , Canada , in July ; Sydney , Australia , in August ; and Tokyo , Japan , in September . Sophos already has data centres in the US , Ireland and Germany . The planned new data centres will provide critical additional regional capacity to address the growing global demand for Sophos Central , the cloud management platform that supports Sophos ’ portfolio of advanced , nextgeneration cybersecurity products . detection and response ( XDR ), endpoint , server , encryption , Cloud Optix and Managed Threat Response solutions .
“ As a global leader in cybersecurity , Sophos understands the growing need to provide data sovereignty solutions for
organisations with strict national or local regulatory or policy requirements ,” said Dan Schiappa , Chief Product Officer at Sophos . “ Additionally , with the fast and massive migration to cloud computing , some organisations simply want to store their data in a specific geographical location .”
Sophos ’ strategic initiative also provides organisations of all sizes , in both private and public market sectors , with the flexibility of an in-country data centre and the ability to store , manage and access data locally from Sophos Central . The initial products and services in the portfolio with access to the new data centres include Sophos ’ extended
Study finds software delivery maturity tied to business outcomes and revenue gains
CloudBees , the enterprise software delivery company , has shared results from a study conducted on its behalf by Forrester Consulting which revealed organisations with a high level of software delivery maturity are three times more likely to grow at 15 % or more annually .
Conversely , those not modernising their software delivery processes face increasing roadblocks that limit growth , slow DevOps transformations and expose security and risk vulnerabilities .
“ The organisations that unravel the complexities of the software delivery process exceed business objectives and grow revenue faster than those that do not ,” said Stephen DeWitt , CEO at CloudBees .
“ Those that don ’ t , face issues with collaboration and communication across their organisations which can lead to siloed development , delivery bottlenecks and ultimately , customer dissatisfaction . It ’ s like driving on a dirt road instead of a four-lane highway to achieve your goals . You can get where you ’ re going faster and with fewer pot-holes along the way .”
The study , Modernizing Software Delivery with End-to-End Automation , Orchestration and Collaboration , was commissioned by CloudBees and is based on a survey of 317 IT decision-makers .
According to the study : ‘ Organisations that pair delivery automation capabilities with effective collaboration practices see more successful Digital Transformations and exceed business expectations at a higher rate than those that cannot . Software delivery maturity is correlated with improved market share , user adoption , innovation and customer loyalty .”
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