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Cisco Acquires Socio Labs, to combine with Webex
Cisco Systems completed the buyout of event management platform - Socio Labs - for an undisclosed amount. U.S-based Socio Labs’ event technology platform assists organizers to conduct virtual, in-person as well as hybrid events with varying size of attendees and in different formats. Post the acquisition, Socio Labs’ team will merge Cisco’s Collaboration Group. Cisco will integrate Socio Labs’ technology with its video conferencing solution, Webex. With event management platform embedded with Webex, business enterprises can create bespoke branded registration and ticketing experiences along with dynamic ads. By having a regular engagement with attendees across various events, business enterprises can obtain valuable data regarding participants’ behaviour and help in forging personalized experiences, Cisco said.
iValue partners with CoSoSys to guard from Data Loss
iValue InfoSolutions has announced their teaming up with CoSoSys. Established in 2004, CoSoSys has grown multi-fold currently boasting 11 million users worldwide using their rich portfolio of security products and features for device control, data loss prevention (DLP), and eDiscovery for Windows, macOS and Linux, as well as the development of applications for portable storage device encryption and enhancement. "A couple of trends that have evolved in the last few years, and now, accelerated with the onset of Corona Pandemic are - Diminishing Network Controls and Evolving Controls around Endpoints and associated Data. Every single enterprise is concerned & keen to protect organization's critical data residing on employee's endpoints against intentional theft or unintentional loss, with comprehensive support for operating systems - Windows, Mac and Linux. iValue is excited to partner with CoSoSys, an excellence award winner in Endpoint DLP and Device control space, and recognized leader by Gartner, to effectively support partners and customers," says Harsh Marwah, Chief Growth Officer, iValue InfoSolutions. iValue's focused partner network pan-India has helped to target specific partners of relevance based on his top customers and top brands. Being a premier enabler iValue has endured to consistently partner with the right mix of widespread and niche technology providers to help customers in their transformational journey.
HPE acquires Ampool, to accelerate hybrid analytics for clients
With the explosion of data and cloud capabilities, enterprises increasingly require data analytics services with cloud-like operations. The Structured Query Language (SQL) continues to be a predominant database workload in many organizations. Ampool will join the HPE Ezmeral software organization, and will play a pivotal role in accelerating HPE Ezmeral analytics runtime for interactive SQL workloads. Current on-premises SQL technologies don’t account for the new requirements around hybrid cloud and scale. As a result, modernizing the SQL stack is at the forefront of analytics transformations, to address the challenges in the hybrid cloud and disparate data space. Ampool will join the HPE Ezmeral software organization, and will play a pivotal role in accelerating HPE Ezmeral analytics runtime for interactive SQL workloads, helping to improve quality, repeatability, throughput, and time to value for our customers’ AI/ML, analytics and data-intensive workloads. With the acquisition of Ampool, HPE will deliver a cloud-native, high-performance SQL analytics engine for data engineers and business analysts.
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Sophos Acquires Capsule8 to Bring Powerful and Lightweight Linux Server and Cloud Container Security
Sophos has announced acquiring Capsule8, a pioneer and market leader of runtime visibility, detection and response for Linux production servers and containers covering on-premise and cloud workloads. Founded in 2016, Capsule8 is privately held and headquartered in New York, NY. “Sophos already protects more than two million servers for over 85,000 customers worldwide, and the Sophos server security business is growing at more than 20% per year,” said Dan Schiappa, chief product officer, Sophos. “Comprehensive server protection is a crucial component of any effective cybersecurity strategy that organizations of all sizes are increasingly focused on, especially as more workloads move to the cloud. With Capsule8, Sophos is delivering advanced, differentiated solutions to protect server environments, and expanding its position as a leading global cybersecurity provider.”
Check Point Transforms Hybrid DC Security with On-Demand Scalability and Simplified Management in the Cloud
Check Point Software Technologies has extended the capabilities of its Quantum Hybrid Data Center Security solution to deliver the most advanced protection for complex hybrid data centers with automated operations and an ultra-scalable platform. The new Check Point R81.10 software, Check Point Quantum Maestro 175 and Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Security Management appliances enable businesses’ to have greater flexibility to securely move workloads between the data center and cloud on demand. Enterprises can now enable applications and workloads to be delivered at the edge with better response times at lower costs. The acceleration of enterprises´ cloud adoption due to the new ‘work from anywhere’ environment has spread business applications across the data center and multiple clouds making it difficult for security teams to manage distributed cloud systems with a centralized control. This rapid digital transformation has been further complicated by the increased demands to securely connect users to the data center and the cloud from anywhere. As traffic between the data center and cloud have increased, organizations are challenged with scaling on demand and rapidly delivering services and apps without creating a bottleneck of security over performance.
Commvault names Ingram Micro as master regional distributor
Commvault has announced Ingram Micro as master regional distributor for Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Customers, resellers, and managed service providers in Malaysia and Singapore, with immediate effect, can now enjoy additional access to Commvault’s intelligent data services platform to store, protect, optimize, and use their data, wherever it lives. Ingram Micro is appointed as a non-exclusive Distributor authorized to sell Commvault products and software services. They are also Commvault’s existing distributors in India and Thailand, this regional distributorship will progressively take effect across the rest of the region as the various Ingram Micro offices in the country complete the on-boarding. Distribution partners are significant layers in Commvault’s strategic move as it strengthens its partner ecosystem and expands its customer base with Commvault’s industry-leading portfolio, including growing the backup-as-a-service (BaaS) Metallic offering in Australia and New Zealand and will soon be launched into new markets across Asia.
