Two Microsoft Ventures portfolio companies detailed their unique approaches to cybersecurity at Microsoft Inspire 2017.

The WHIR returned to the nation’s capital this week for a WHIR Networking Event during the Microsoft Inspire conference.

SINGAPORE – Equinix, Inc.

Toronto, Ontario – Cartika, a leading provider of managed application and cloud hosting services, announced today the launch of its new EMail-as-a-Services (EMaaS) cloud email platform. The innovative new approach allows companies to manage Microsoft Exchange and POP/IMAP accounts all on a single domain.

LinkedIn, which Microsoft has owned since December, has also contributed to open source.

AUSTIN, TX – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), and a global ecosystem of server partners, today marked a new era in the datacenter with the launch of AMD EPYC™ 7000 series high-performance datacenter processors. AMD was joined by multiple customers and partners at the global launch event in presenting a wide array of systems, performance demonstrations, and customer testimonials

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – DataCore announced that its DataCore Cloud Replication software solutions are now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to support customers’ disaster recovery efforts. Customers with on-premises deployments of SANsymphony™ software-defined storage and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN can use the Microsoft Azure cloud as an added replication location to safeguard highly available systems. For example, on-premises stretch clusters split between two sites in a metropolitan area can also replicate a third copy of the data to Azure to protect against data loss in the event of a major regional disaster.

TYPO3 v8 LTS maintenance release schedule TYPO3 v8 LTS receives a plannable release schedule for upcoming maintenance releases, as we organized with TYPO3 v7 already.

REDWOOD CITY, CA and FRANKFURT, Germany – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced an expansion of its presence in the Frankfurt market with the opening of its latest state-of-the-art data center.

BURLINGTON – Acronis, a global leader in hybrid data protection and storage, today changed the future of data backup protection with the latest release of Acronis Backup 12.5, the world’s most innovative backup solution offering unprecedented levels of protection for all sizes of infrastructure. The new Acronis Backup 12.5 comes in two editions: Standard and Advanced, with an easy in-place upgrade. Acronis Backup 12.5 is the world’s fastest, most reliable, complete, and cost-effective backup offering available on the market today