Security News
Further strengthening its ability to support customers and partners in their digital transformation and migration to cloud, Avaya announced it has appointed Darcey Harrison as Vice President of Cloud Acceleration, North America. Harrison is responsible for continuing expansion of new and existing customer adoption of the Avaya OneCloud communications and collaboration portfolio.
Palo Alto Networks on Tuesday snapped up early-stage startup Bridgecrew, adding a cloud security platform for developers to its $3.4 billion-a-year enterprise product portfolio. For Palo Alto, the deal is part of a strategy to spend big to snap up early-stage companies in the cloud security and DevOps workflow space.
Strata Identity, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup that is on a mission to help unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for multi-cloud environments, today announced that it has raised $11 million through a Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures with support from ForgePoint Capital. With businesses increasingly using multiple cloud providers, managing identity and security policies across various cloud platforms can be challenging.
Google Cloud and Sigfox announced that the leading global 0G network and IoT platform services provider, has partnered with Google Cloud, to scale its cloud infrastructure and extend its IoT services portfolio. Google Cloud will also enable faster improvements to Sigfox's connectivity, geolocation, and other value-added services towards ultra-low-cost and ultra-low-power IoT solutions.
WatchGuard has announced new capabilities that make WatchGuard Cloud the ideal security platform for managed service providers. "Our vision for WatchGuard Cloud has always been to build a powerful, cloud-hosted security platform that directly supports the way MSPs do business and simplifies every aspect of security delivery for our partners," said Andrew Young, senior vice president of product management at WatchGuard.
The newest iteration of Yugabyte's open source database improves on the existing high availability, horizontal scalability, and ease-of-use characteristics of YugabyteDB, furthering the company's mission of providing the default distributed SQL database for cloud-native applications in a multi-cloud world. The release of YugabyteDB 2.4 stabilizes the features and capabilities included in the YugabyteDB 2.3 development release.
Tripwire announced expanded multi-cloud capabilities for Tripwire Configuration Manager. Tripwire Configuration Manager simplifies the monitoring, remediation, and automation of cloud account configurations for multi-cloud organizations through a single console.
Accenture and VMware announced an expanded partnership and the launch of a dedicated business group that will help organizations adopt a 'cloud first' strategy - accelerating migration to the cloud, building modern apps more rapidly, and using the cloud as a foundation for innovation and new business models, ultimately realizing greater value. Supported by approximately 2,000 Accenture cloud professionals trained in VMware products and services, the Accenture VMware Business Group will help clients tap into the powerful capabilities and elasticity of the cloud - which has become essential to quickly scaling business services, operating efficiently and enabling innovation at scale.
Sonrai Security announced significant new functionality designed to automate prevention of data breaches in public cloud deployments for its Sonrai Dig platform. Supporting leading public cloud databases in combination with advanced behavioral modeling and automated blocking, the newly enhanced service helps ensure critical corporate data is secure wherever it resides in cloud environments.
By bringing together edge and cloud capabilities, FogHorn and IBM plan to help customers rapidly deploy, process, store, analyze and train critical data from edge to cloud and enhance business processes. "Through our upcoming collaboration, FogHorn will leverage IBM Edge Application Manager to deliver edge-to-cloud FogHorn solutions for our customers that can help them make more informed decisions with their data, in real-time."