Salesforce launched Revenue Cloud, a new product aimed at simplifying revenue lifecycle tracking. It does so by integrating existing Salesforce services, thus creating a single point of reference for data on revenue and customer transactions.
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- Revenue Cloud specifically combines CPQ and Billing, Partner Relationship Management and B2B Commerce capabilities, while also making it possible for businesses to connect their sales, partner, operations, and finance teams.
- The new service also comes with new solutions, including multi-cloud billing and the CPQ-B2B Commerce connector, which enables businesses to customize digital storefronts and carts for a self-service experience. The former makes it possible to produce revenue streams from other clouds on a single platform, while the latter makes the buying process faster and easier.
- Visit Trailhead to learn how to get started.
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AWS' Network Load Balance (NLB) now offers support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). This means NLB can now be configured to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections without needing to change your app.
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- IPv6 for NLB s is supported for internet-facing NLBs. You can also use it in AWS CloudFormation templates.
- Other notable recent news from AWS you should know:
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Cybercriminals are using cloud-based services and technologies to facilitate attacks on companies and monetize their stolen data, observed researchers from Trend Micro. Storing stolen data in the cloud makes it easier for buyers to analyze and extract data to use in their subsequent attacks.
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- The researchers estimate that cloud services decrease the time it takes for cybercriminals to use stolen data against an organization from weeks to days or even hours.
- The cybercriminals advertise the cloud-based data on underground marketplaces using the term "clouds of logs."
- The attackers offer monthly subscription rates to access their stolen data, which ranges between $300 and $1,000.
This story first appeared in Inside Security. You can read the story here.
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73% of enterprises with over 500 employees report speeding up their plans to move to the cloud because of the pandemic as organizations shifted to remote work, a new survey reveals.
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- Meanwhile, 48% of all companies surveyed reported having to speed up their cloud migration plans because of COVID-19.
- Enterprises with 250-500 employees trailed closely behind, with 70.4% reporting having to accelerate their plans to move to the cloud.
- Other notable insights from the survey:
- 49% of all organizations and 81% of large-scale enterprises reported speeding up their IT modernization process.
- 59% of the largest enterprises used cloud-native services to digitize more processes.
- Most enterprises have changed their approach to cybersecurity approach over the past six months, with 83% of large-scale enterprises having done so.
- The survey, which was completed by CensusWide and sponsored by Centrify, questioned 215 IT leaders in the U.S. to figure out how IT investments, operations, and spending have changed over the past six months.
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This Week's Cloud Events:
- NOV. 17-20: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. "The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud-native communities virtually, including Kubernetes, gRPC, SPIRE, Thanos, and more as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud-native computing."
- NOW-NOV. 20: Microsoft Azure Hack for Social Justice. "Microsoft invites you to use your creativity, passion, and cloud expertise to create solutions that empower communities and help address a timely and relevant social justice issue." Issues can include protecting democratic elections and voting rights, gender equality, criminal justice reform, accessibility, and more.
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ICYMI: Last Week's Top Stories:
- Google announced a partnership with French technology company OVH technology to resell Google Cloud’s products and services in EU. The partnership comes after the privacy shield agreement between the U.S. and EU, which enables the transfer of EU citizens’ data to the U.S., was invalidated by the EU.
- Adobe acquired work management software provider Workfront in a $1.5b deal. The acquisition will enable Adobe to provide a tool for marketers to manage workflows across teams using its Experience Cloud platform.
- Canonical's Charmed OpenStackCanonical will power leading Russian telecom Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) as a result of a new partnership between the two. The deal's financial details have not yet been revealed.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be opening its second region in India and its eleventh region in Asia in mid-2022. The upcoming AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region will feature three Availability Zones.
- The United States Army is looking at incorporating more Microsoft Azure offerings in addition to its existing Amazon services, according to a recently published Request For Information.
- Krafton, the parent company behind PUBG Corporation and Bluehole, will use Microsoft Azure to host its user data and products, such as the popular multiplayer battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG).
- Starting July 2021, compressed high-quality photos uploaded in Google Photos will be counted towards the 15GB free cap of every Google account's cloud storage. High-quality photos uploaded from Google's Pixel device will be exempted from the rule change. The company already counts original quality photos for the 15 GB cap.
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Alexander Huls is a Toronto-based journalist. He has contributed articles about true crime and pop culture to The New York Times, Men's Health, Popular Mechanics, and other fine publications. Follow him on Twitter @alxhuls.
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