Intelligent CIO North America Issue 11 | Page 12

NEWS

8x8 announces XCaaS to help organizations meet new work requirements on-premises systems to SaaS and cloud deployment models , fragmentation occurred resulting in multiple disparate solutions across the enterprise . XCaaS eliminates communications silos , brings the employee experience and customer experience back together , and helps drive the cloud communications industry forward significantly .”

Brian Himstedt , Senior Director of
Technology at The Kansas City Royals , said :
“ 8x8 ’ s integrated cloud communications
and contact center platform provides us the
flexibility and resilience to quickly manage

8x8 , a leading integrated cloud communications platform provider , has announced Experience Communications as

a Service ( XCaaS ), a cloud communications
deployment model that erases the boundary
between Unified Communications as a
Service ( UCaaS ) and Contact Center as a
Service ( CCaaS ).
With XCaaS , organizations can support the communications requirements of all employees as they work together to deliver differentiated customer experiences .
Dave Sipes , 8x8 CEO , said : “ As is in other markets , such as CRM and ERP , when organizations transitioned from legacy ,
all employee and customer interactions from any location or device .
“ With XCaaS , it ’ s not just the operational value when it comes to the platform . It ’ s the data insights and the ability to which you can make those insights readily available across the organization to help us provide a better customer and fan experience .”
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Barracuda launches platform to defend web apps from evolving attack vectors

Barracuda Networks , a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions , has announced significant new capabilities for its Cloud Application Protection platform to deliver an additional level of protection and make it easier for organizations to secure their applications in a digitally transformed world .

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These new services and features include client-side protection , the ability to deploy containerized WAF nodes and an autoconfiguration engine .
In addition , Cloud Application Protection now leverages Machine Learning , vulnerability scanning and remediation , and Advanced Threat Protection to provide active threat intelligence for more powerful protection .
Cloud Application Protection is Barracuda ’ s platform for Web Application and API Protection ( WAAP ).
“ At Barracuda , we strive to continually make security easier for our customers , and Cloud Application Protection 2.0 provides enterpriselevel application security with consumer-level ease of use ,” said Tim Jefferson , SVP , Engineering for Data , Networks and Application Security at Barracuda .
“ The powerful new capabilities we ’ re introducing address the application security issues organizations are most concerned about right now and also provide protection for where applications are headed next .”
Barracuda surveyed hundreds of IT security decision makers from organizations around the world , and the top five application security challenges they pointed to were bots , supply chain attacks , vulnerability detection , API security and security slowing down app developments .
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