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Once completed, the merger of the two highly complementary companies will form the most comprehensive global provider of data management and protection solutions for organizations spanning from SMBs to the Fortune 50. The merger will solve the growing market need for a single source to manage and protect workloads throughout the data center, cloud, SaaS applications, and at the edge.
Samsung announced that it has begun mass producing its most advanced line of data center SSDs, the PM9A3 E1.S. The new PM9A3 fully complies with the Open Compute Project NVMe Cloud SSD Specification to satisfy the rigorous demands of enterprise workloads. "Providing an optimal mix of performance, power, reliability and firmware, we believe our new PM9A3 will help advance today's data center storage technologies and expand the market for OCP-compliant SSDs.".
Proofpoint has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InteliSecure. With this acquisition, Proofpoint looks to strengthen its cloud-based people-centric security platform by enhancing customers' ability to protect critical data in diverse environments.
Platform9 also reported an industry-leading NPS of 71 and a customer satisfaction score of 99% for 2020. The company's Managed Kubernetes deployments have become a critical part of many large-scale and complex 5G infrastructure roll outs, hybrid cloud containers-as-a-service, and Edge use cases in the retail, media, and entertainment market segments.
AlertEnterprise announced the appointment of two new members to its Advisory Board: Rich Mason and James Hughes. Mason and Hughes join AlertEnterprise in this consultative role as the company continues to bring in new industry leadership to guide its Cyber-Physical Security strategy and connect with forward-looking professionals to accelerate Security Convergence adoption.
Lacework has announced several key executive additions as the company prepares for the next phase of growth. David "Hat" Hatfield has been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; former CEO Dan Hubbard takes the helm as Lacework's Chief Product Officer; renowned security and machine learning researcher Ulfar Erlingsson, PhD. joins as Chief Architect; and industry veteran Mike Staiger has joined as CFO. Lacework founder and CTO, Vikram Kapoor is taking on an additional role as the founder of a wholly owned Lacework entity, to be revealed at a later date.
Looking to take advantage of a growing global market for its bot protection technologies, PerimeterX has banked a new $57 million round of venture capital funding. PerimeterX said AllianceBernstein led the new capital raise, and was joined by new investors Stereo Capital, JS Capital and Golden Arc Capital.
For the first time in a public release, Microsoft has released a Windows 10 cumulative update that is combined with a servicing stack update for ease of installation. Microsoft sometimes releases a special update called a servicing stack update that fixes bugs or issues that may prevent a cumulative update from installing correctly.
For the first time in a public release, Microsoft has released a Windows 10 cumulative update that is combined with a servicing stack update for ease of installation. Microsoft sometimes releases a special update called a servicing stack update that fixes bugs or issues that may prevent a cumulative update from installing correctly.
Cybercriminals are ready for tax season with new malware designed to exfiltrate Quickbooks data and post it on the internet, according to a new report from ThreatLocker. "When Quickbooks is on a file server, you are required to use a Quickbooks Database Server Manager, the report said."When carrying out a repair, file permissions are reset and the 'everyone' group is added to the permission.