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  • MariaDB and Node.js Connection Strengthens, Adding Features and Faster Performance

    New MariaDB Connector delivers 1.7 times faster query performance and 35 times faster batch processing compared to alternative connectors for Node.js developers

     

    MENLO PARK, Calif. and HELSINKI – December 13, 2018 – MariaDB® Corporation today announced the availability of the MariaDB Connector for Node.js, giving developers a fast and streamlined method to build Node.js applications on top of MariaDB’s proven, enterprise relational database. Node.js has exploded in popularity, recently ranking as the preferred framework for developers according to surveys this year by Stack Overflow and HackerRank. With the MariaDB Connector for Node.js, developers get significantly better performance over alternative connectors. When benchmarked against other popular Node.js drivers, the MariaDB Connector performed 1.7 times faster in query mode and 35 times faster in batch mode.

     

    “Developers are tired of the limitations of building Node.js applications on top of NoSQL,” said Thomas Boyd, Director of Technical Marketing, MariaDB Corporation. “We’re seeing a growing trend of developers using MariaDB to replace the ‘M’ in the MEAN stack to enable a broader view of the data across the business using standard SQL. The MariaDB Connector for Node.js gives developers a great experience with faster performance when building Node.js applications on top of the most trusted enterprise open source database, MariaDB.”

     

    With the MariaDB Connector for Node.js, developers enjoy better overall application performance through the Connector’s Insert Streaming and Pipelining functions. These capabilities reduce network traffic and enable asynchronous processing of database queries from a Node.js application, making the processing of multiple database queries far more efficient. The Connector works with MariaDB’s standard SQL layer, providing access to the latest MariaDB database features and innovation, such as temporal processing, advanced data protection and more, as well as ease of access to data for reporting and analytics.

     

    The MariaDB Connector for Node.js is available for download as a Release Candidate now and will be generally available next month. Join our December 18 webinar to get started building Node.js applications with the MariaDB Connector/Node.js as well as learn how to take advantage of modern SQL with JSON functions, temporal tables and more.

     

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    About MariaDB Corporation

    MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional or analytical use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, The Home Depot, ServiceNow and Verizon – MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it’s the fastest growing open source database. Real business relies on MariaDB™.

     

  • Twistlock Introduces Hybrid Cloud Service Discovery and Expands Istio, Kubernetes, and Serverless Functions Support

    In Addition, the 15th Release of Twistlock Expands Monitoring with Prometheus and Alerting with PagerDuty, AWS Security Hub, and IBM Security Advisor

    PORTLAND, OR, December 10, 2018–Twistlock, the leader in container and cloud native security, today announced the release of Twistlock 18.11. This substantial update now enables customers to easily discover cloud native services to protect against threats across hybrid environments and understand how potential vulnerabilities connect to one another. It also introduces security visualization for Kubernetes, industry-first compliance and security configuration checks for Istio, and includes new alerting integrations with PagerDuty, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Hub, and IBM Security Advisor.

    “While the adoption of Kubernetes and cloud native technologies for production workloads has increased exponentially, security and compliance remain key hurdles to mass production deployments,” said Fernando Montenegro, Security Analyst for 451 Research. “Twistlock has shown momentum with the cloud providers, ISVs, and open source tools driving the cloud native movement. We believe that this coming year we’ll see more emphasis on security for containers and cloud native applications than ever before.”

     

    Discover and Protect Services Across Hybrid Cloud Environments

    Twistlock 18.11 introduces Cloud Platform Compliance, which allows customers to centrally discover all cloud native services in use across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), across all accounts, and in every region. Cloud Platform Compliance continuously monitors these accounts to detect when rogue services are added, and alerts end users to avoid risks introduced by rogue deployments, abandoned environments, and environments not being protected by Twistlock.

     

    Compliance and Security Configuration Checks for Istio Service Mesh

    Istio provides load balancing, fine-grained traffic routing, mutual TLS, and service-centric RBAC, but lacks a simple way to visualize and understand interconnectivity between services. Twistlock now integrates with Istio to enrich the Radar dashboard with details about protocols and service roles used with the Istio service mesh, and introduces an industry-first set of compliance and secure configuration checks for Istio. This adds to Twistlock’s 300 individual compliance checks for Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux, and enables customers to enforce a secure Istio configuration and cover key risks like misconfigured TLS settings and universally scoped service roles.

     

    Kubernetes Service Account Monitoring and Visualization

    Twistlock now includes a first of-its-kind discovery and monitoring tool for Kubernetes service accounts. Integrated into the Radar dashboard, every service account associated with every resource in a cluster can be easily viewed, so that security staff can easily understand role configuration, assess the level of access provided to each service account, and mitigate risks associated with overly broad permissions. For each account, Twistlock shows detailed metadata describing the resources it has access to and the level of access it has to each of them.

     

    Additional improvements in Twistlock 18.11 include:

     

     

    • New Monitoring and Alert Providers: Customers can build high-level, dashboard-like stats based on Twistlock data using Prometheus for monitoring. New alert providers include PagerDuty, generic webhooks, AWS Security Hub, IBM Security Advisor, and logging to stdout.

    • Expanded Support for Pivotal: Pivotal customers can now protect applications against threats with the Pivotal Application Service on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) via a single click from a tile in the Pivotal Network.

    • Dashboard UX Improvements: Twistlock’s automatically generated Radar view is now the main interface for the product. This central view provides at a glance insight into the application topology, risk and compliance status of customers’ entire cloud native environments

     

      • Enhancements to CaaS and Serverless Defenders: AWS Fargate Defender v2 is the first WAF for Fargate with CNAF support and common data stream alerts. Serverless Defender v2 now blocks outgoing connections. Both now integrate with Incident Explorer

     

    • Improved Credential Manager A central, product wide credential manager makes it easy to securely store and reuse accounts and keys for external services.

     

     

  • Venafi and DigiCert Machine Identity Protection Partnership Delivers New Solution for Large-Scale Enterprise PKI

    SALT LAKE CITY – December 6, 2018 — Venafi, the leading provider of machine identity protection, and DigiCert, the world’s leading provider of TLS/SSL, IoT and other PKI solutions, today announced a new, deeper integration that simplifies and automates complex machine identity programs for the world’s most demanding, security-conscious organizations. The combined  solution enables organizations to customize and orchestrate public key infrastructure (PKI) and machine identity protection at machine speed and scale.

    “The rapid adoption of DevOps, microservices, cloud, and IoT requires a new level of technical sophistication and innovation to deliver protection for all machine identities,” said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence for Venafi. “The Global 5000  are looking for a certificate provider that tightly integrates with the Venafi Platform and provides them with the confidence of a complete solution. DigiCert is the leading CA of choice for large enterprises.”(1)

    The integrated solution leverages DigiCert’s industry-leading, globally dispersed, modern OCSP infrastructure and a deep API integration with Venafi’s industry-leading machine identity protection platform. The new, adaptable driver allows customers to access a rich set of new features from DigiCert CertCentral. Mutual customers can customize specific features, from fully automating certificate provisioning to enforcing internal policies, allowing them to easily address industry regulations such as PCI DSS, HIPAA  and GDPR as well as the most demanding use cases. The integrated solution also simplifies the integration of machine identity protection across a wide variety of systems and allows customers to fulfill high-value certificate requests in seconds. Venafi solutions support the most popular CertCentral features out-of-the box.

    “DigiCert enjoys a long-standing history of collaboration and integration with Venafi, and we share mutual enterprise customers that benefit from their robust platforms and services,” said Dan Timpson, chief technology officer to DigiCert. “In an era when enterprises face increasing threats from a growing landscape of connected devices and agile deployments, Venafi provides leading solutions for addressing machine identity and digital certificate management. We are looking for additional ways to work together to support enterprise customers.”

    Key features of the integration include:

    • Provides full visibility into the demand, usage and workflow of certificate services.
    • Reduces risk with automated policy and workflows, including configurable approval and authorization, and detailed logging.
    • Achieves compliance for workflow approvals, authorization and authentication.
    • Supports the full certificate lifecycle from request, issuance, and renewal to revocation.

    For more information please visit:

    https://www.venafi.com/techpartner/digicert

     

    1. DigiCert maintains the largest market share for the Alexa Top 1000 as measured by Datanyze. https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/ssl/Alexa%20top%201K/

    About DigiCert, Inc.

    DigiCert is the world’s leading provider of scalable PKI solutions for identity and encryption. The most innovative companies, including the Global 2000, choose DigiCert for its expertise in identity and encryption for web servers and Internet of Things devices. DigiCert supports TLS/SSL and other digital certificates for PKI deployments at any scale through its certificate lifecycle management platform, CertCentral®. The company has been recognized with dozens of awards for its enterprise-grade management platform, fast and knowledgeable customer support, and market-leading growth. For the latest DigiCert news and updates, visit digicert.com or follow @digicert.

    About Venafi

    Venafi is the cyber security market leader in machine identity protection, securing machine-to-machine connections and communications. Venafi protects machine identity types by orchestrating cryptographic keys and digital certificates for SSL/TLS, IoT, mobile and SSH. Venafi provides global visibility of machine identities and the risks associated with them for the extended enterprise – on premises, mobile, virtual, cloud and IoT – at machine speed and scale. Venafi puts this intelligence into action with automated remediation that reduces the security and availability risks connected with weak or compromised machine identities while safeguarding the flow of information to trusted machines and preventing communication with machines that are not trusted.

    With 31 patents currently in its portfolio, Venafi , delivers innovative solutions for the world’s most demanding, security-conscious Global 5000 organizations, including the top five U.S. health insurers; the top five U.S. airlines; four of the top five U.S., U.K., Australian and South African banks; and four of the top five U.S. retailers. Venafi is backed by top-tier investors, including TCV, Foundation Capital, Intel Capital, QuestMark Partners, Mercato Partners and NextEquity. For more information visit: www.venafi.com.

  • Instana Releases First Solution to Automatically Analyze Traces from Any Source, Including Jaeger and Zipkin

    Instana Automatically Correlates OpenSource Traces with Built-in AutoTrace™ Solution and Provides Deeper Analysis with Trace Analyzer

    San Mateo, CA and Solingen, Germany – December 6, 2018 – Instana, the first monitoring solution to fully automate all aspects of application performance monitoring (APM), today announced the release of a new capability to seamlessly ingest tracing data from all the opensource material alongside any automatic traces. Instana’s AutoTrace™ is the first and only tracing technology that automatically captures and traces every user request across any language and microservice technology.

    Through the release of the company’s AutoTrace and Trace Analyer capabilities Instana has revolutionized the way DevOps can use Tracing technology to improve CI/CD. This correlated tracing enables any constituent to visualize and analyze application performance according to their needs. Developers get the extreme detail view, along with analysis tools, to debug issues. Simultaneously, SREs and Ops team members get the overarching application performance visibility they need to assure business operations.

    Instana’s automatic APM solution for dynamic applications is unique in its ability to automate every step of the application monitoring lifecycle, from monitoring deployment to application discovery and monitoring. Instana’s AutoTrace feature extends this automation to tracing, automatically capturing an end-to-end trace of every single application request.

    Instana’s Trace Analyzer combines and correlates data from individual traces and analyzes them together, searching for patterns to help improve performance and scalability. Users can use Trace Analyzer to optimize overall performance, locate and eliminate bottlenecks or solve production application performance issues or outages. All of Instana’s Trace analysis capabilities have the ability to include not just Instana’s AutoTrace data, but also data from all tracing sources, including OpenTracing, Jaeger and Zipkin.

    “As DevOps teams are adopting containers and kubernetes, the initial approach to understanding application performance is for developers to build their own tracing using OpenTracing and Jaeger. But as the number of microservices start to grow, this approach does not scale well and takes too much effort,” said Pete Abrams. “We wanted to offer a way to repurpose those initial efforts yet seamlessly align those traces with our automatic tracing approach powered by our AutoTrace technology.”

    Instana’s new trace ingestion capability supports Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenCensus, and OpenTracing. Instana captures every trace from any source which are then automatically analyzed by Instana’s AI powered APM. DevOps teams no longer need to worry about their storage model, their analysis or alerting strategies. This is all handled automatically saving DevOps teams copious amounts of time and effort.

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  • Slalom reimagines how teams build software and technology with launch of Slalom Build

    Slalom reimagines how teams build software and technology with launch of Slalom Build

    New York and two other cities to join seven existing North American Build Center locations to deploy “Build as a Service,” a new category for cloud-native software and product engineering

    SEATTLE, December, 5, 2018 – Slalom Consulting, the $1.4 billion purpose-driven consulting firm that helps companies solve business and technology problems, announced the next generation of software- and technology-building services: Slalom Build. As companies continue to transform themselves into organizations that use technology as a strategic advantage, they are being forced to rethink how they build modern software.  “Shifting from a project mindset to a product mindset is critical for companies to drive success in the modern business era”, says Slalom Build General Manager Mike Cowden.  Slalom Build has pioneered the “Build as a Service” (BaaS) model, a new category of professional services that enables any company, large or small, to build cloud-native software and technology products. Recognizing that building mission critical, modern technology requires a different way of thinking, Slalom Build puts interdisciplinary teams to work, with proven methods, in close proximity with clients, to create technology and software products – faster, cleaner and more nimbly than ever before.

    “What started as an experiment to build engineering centers on-shore has become one of the most successful, bold moves in our history,” said Slalom CEO Brad Jackson. “Every company is looking to reimagine themselves, and they’re counting on technology to fuel their next generation of growth. Slalom Build helps our clients take a differentiated approach to disrupting the status quo.”

    With teams distributed across seven Build Centers in North America, Slalom Build will add three new Build Centers in early 2019 in New York and two other locations. The company aims to disrupt traditional siloed and archaic consulting approaches by blending beautiful design, product engineering, analytics, and platform and process automation to custom-build technology and software products. This approach comprises five components – all working in concert with one another to create one seamless BaaS experience including:

    • Builders – The talent with the skill, aptitude, and passion to build with the latest, most cutting- edge technology.
    • Build Centers – Located in clients’ time zones, these centers of knowledge, collaboration, and culture are where Builders create.
    • Elasticity – Clients have the ability to seamlessly shift or scale work, so that every project gets exactly what is needed, then ramps down as necessary.
    • Methodology – A pragmatic approach that drives fluidity with rigor, acceleration with quality, and ties it all with business relevance.
    • Co-Creation – More than just products, Slalom Build forms teams, processes, and culture – together with clients – to lay the tracks for building modern software through every project.

     

    “There are no enterprise-class off-the-shelf solutions in our industry today,” said Bron McCall, Senior VP of IT of Extra Space Storage, the second-largest self-storage provider in a $38 billion industry. “Slalom Build helped us build for the future with modern software development tools and processes, transforming our IT organization along the way.”

    With 1,000 builders in seven Build Centers across North America, Slalom Build serves more than 1,200 clients in a wide variety of industries and categories. Build Center locations include Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Houston, Denver, Toronto and Charlotte. New York and two other cities will join as Build Center locations in early 2019. Learn more at slalombuild.com.

    About Slalom Build

    Slalom Build, the next generation of software- and technology-building, reimagines how companies build modern software, transforming how companies create change with technology. With 1,000 builders and seven build centers distributed across North America, Slalom Build establishes “Build as a Service,” a new category for cloud-native software and product engineering. Slalom Build puts interdisciplinary teams to work, in close proximity with clients, to build modern technology and software products for enterprises – faster, cleaner and more nimbly than ever before. Learn more at slalombuild.com.

    About Slalom

    Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, WA, Slalom is a purpose-driven consulting firm that helps companies solve business problems and build for the future, with solutions spanning business advisory, customer experience, technology, and analytics. Named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2018, Slalom has more than 5,000 employees across 25 cities in North America and Europe. Learn more at slalom.com.

     

     

  • GigaSpaces Launches v14.0 of In-Memory Computing Platforms InsightEdge and XAP for Smarter, Faster Insights to Action

    Includes Full Support for Kubernetes Simplified Container Deployment for Cloud, On-Premise and Hybrid Environments and Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory  

    New York, NY — December 05, 2018 — GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, a leading in-memory real-time analytics platform for instant insights to action, announced today the general availability of InsightEdge Platform v14.0 and XAP v14.0, to simplify customers’ development and deployment of applications required for time-sensitive and mission-critical services.

    New features and functionality in version 14.0 include:

    • Kubernetes environment support; for simplifying deployment in cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments
    • Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory integration utilizing GigaSpaces MemoryXtend module to significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase capacity with near in-memory performance
    • Customized rebalancing policies to perform a hot swap during runtime without having to reload the data
    • Data visualization with faster access to Apache Zeppelin for InsightEdge users only

    This latest version is designed to help enterprises leverage and analyze their data for real-time impact in an optimized manner to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage.

    “The digitalization of business generates an inexhaustible demand for faster performance, greater scalability and deeper real-time insight, which is boosting innovation around IMC technologies,”  according to Gartner analyst Massimo Pezzini, in the report Predicts 2018: In-Memory Computing Technologies Remain Pervasive as Adoption Grows.

    GigaSpaces is among a select group of ISVs (including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft) who have integrated with Intel’s Optane DC persistent memory  technology prior to broad availability in the first half of 2019.  GigaSpaces’ integration leverages Intel’s groundbreaking technology in a uniquely efficient manner. Indexes, stored in-memory, access the desired data from this new data storage layer, according to the business logic defined by the customer and not only according to simpler LRU methods. Intel Optane Persistent Memory’s higher data capacity and increased speed are leveraged for accelerated data processing compared with SSD technology, along with faster and more accurate analytics, by enabling real-time machine learning to run on larger data sets at sub-second latency.  Additionally, the number of required servers is dramatically reduced resulting in smaller footprint with lower power consumption, maintenance, network and other overhead costs.

    This latest release of InsightEdge Platform and XAP also supports the Kubernetes environment for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications at scale for cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments for major cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP and others.  Kubernetes is No. 1 in terms of activity on GitHub, with over 1500 contributors and is already considered the de-facto standard for cloud-native orchestration. Kubernetes’ Stateful Sets are utilized to enable self-healing, load balancing, and automatic roll backs for minimal downtime and zero data loss.  Auto-deployment of data services, visualization tools and Machine Learning frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin are supported.

    “Obtaining smart, real-time insights and acting on them within a critical time frame, especially at scale, is a challenge for many enterprises “said Yoav Einav, VP Product at GigaSpaces.  “With this release of InsightEdge Platform and XAP, we continue to innovate and simplify the development and deployment of smarter, faster applications and services across cloud, on-premise and hybrid with optimized TCO, helping our customers accelerate their data-driven initiatives.”

    For a more in depth description of the features of the GigaSpaces In-Memory Computing Platforms v14.0, click here.

    About GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces provides leading in-memory computing platforms for real-time insight to action and extreme transactional processing.  With GigaSpaces, enterprises can operationalize machine learning and transactional processing to gain real-time insights on their data and act upon them in the moment.  The always-on platforms for mission-critical applications across cloud, on-premise or hybrid, are leveraged by hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations worldwide across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more. GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia.

    More at www.gigaspaces.com and blog.gigaspaces.com.

  • Applitools Introduces Industry’s First Automated Root Cause Analysis for Developers and QA Teams to Quickly Pinpoint Bugs within Web Applications

    AI-powered Root Cause Analysis slashes bug remediation times, enabling development teams to keep application projects on-time and on quality

    SAN MATEO, Calif., December 5, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management (AVM), today announced the industry’s first automated root cause analysis for bugs within web applications. For the first time, front-end developers and QA professionals can pinpoint the cause of bugs in application code within minutes, eliminating hours from traditional bug diagnosis practices and enabling companies to keep software projects and digital transformation initiatives on schedule.

    Applitools Root Cause Analysis shows what DOM and CSS differences underpin each visual difference between a baseline screenshot and a test screenshot and comprise the “root cause” of the bug.  Rather than digging through thousands of lines of DOM and CSS to find the root cause, developers typically only need to look at several lines. This makes bug fixing go faster and helps app teams be more productive and release on time.

    Relatedly, Applitools has extended its user interface version control so that it now includes DOM and CSS associated with each screenshot. This enables development teams to see not only how the visual appearance of a web application has evolved over time, but also how its underlying DOM and CSS have changed. This makes it easier for development teams to roll back new features that are not meeting business needs.

     

    To get started with Applitools’ new Root Cause Analysis tool, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account at (https://applitools.com/rca).

     

    “Root cause analysis for visual testing will significantly shorten the mean time to resolution of application bugs from hours down to minutes,” said Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools. “By identifying the exact location and cause of a visual bug within a few lines of code rather than sifting through hundreds or thousands of lines of code, the increase in productivity from developers and QA teams creates a lasting benefit to the application and product owners, digital transformation managers, and ultimately, the business’ bottom line.”

     

    Businesses need to test their applications on an increasingly larger set of devices, browsers, screen sizes, and operating systems. These constantly growing test matrices create more challenges for developers and test automation engineers. By allowing these teams to confidently find and fix bugs as quickly as possible, Applitools Root Cause Analysis helps companies to release better apps faster than their competition.

     

    About Applitools

    Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes.

     

    Applitools’ Visual AI engine mimics the human eye and brain to avoid undetected visual bugs, minimizing false positive bug alerts. Applitools Eyes can instantly validate entire application pages and detect layout issues on even the most complex and dynamic pages. When development teams are confident they can fix visual bugs faster, they are unleashed to push more high-quality code than ever before.

     

    Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

     

  • Pixm Emerges from Stealth as the Industry’s First Endpoint-based Anti-Phishing Solution

    Pixm’s Computer Vision Technology Stops Phishing Attacks In Real-time Regardless of Location, Device or Source

    BOSTON & NEW YORK, December 5, 2018 – Pixm, the industry’s first endpoint-based anti-phishing solution, emerged from stealth today with next-gen spear-phishing protection in the company’s flagship solution. Through advanced computer vision technology, Pixm shuts down phishing attacks at the point of the user’s click regardless of their location, device or phishing link source.

    Co-founded by Chris Cleveland, CEO, and Arun K. Buduri, President, Pixm was created to address the significant hole that exists in the anti-phishing ecosystem. Today’s popular anti-phishing solutions rely on blacklisting to stop only the already known phishing attacks but do little to address new attacks. Pixm’s solution is designed to detect and shut down a new zero-day phishing attack within the browser at the moment the page is opened in real-time using computer vision.

    “Over the past few years, attackers significantly ramped up their evasion techniques to blacklist all cloud-based anti-phishing services from seeing their phishing page and reveal phishing attacks to victims only on their endpoints,” said Arun K. Buduri, Co-Founder & President of Pixm. “Employees are also being targeted with phishing attacks in their personal accounts, as well as in their homes as a way to breach their work accounts. With the launch of Pixm, we are providing the world with the industry’s first endpoint-based solution to solve the phishing epidemic across all attack dimensions.”

    Pixm Offerings:

    • FREE Personal Edition: Protect your family, personal accounts and sensitive information from the most common phishing attacks.
    • Phishing Edition: Protect your business and your customers from the most common phishing attacks.
    • Spear-Phishing Edition: Get custom protection for your Enterprise when you are the target of sophisticated spear-phishing attacks.

    “Pixm’s computer vision phishing technology will revolutionize the anti-phishing industry and provide end users with a new level of phishing protection not yet seen in the cybersecurity industry,” said Ron Gula, Co-Founder & President, Gula Tech Adventures. “Pixm’s unique approach of sitting on the endpoint enables real-time defense against all of today’s phishing attacks, including internal corporate threats, personal email attacks and hostile social media campaigns.”

    Pixm is a winner of Google and GSVLabs Competition in Cybersecurity and was recently featured by MIT CIO Symposium as 2018’s Top 10 Outstanding Early Stage Companies. RSA Conference 2019 has chosen Pixm to be featured among Top 50 Most Promising Companies in their Early Stage Expo in March 2019.

    Pixm’s investors include: Gula Tech Adventures, Chaac Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Highland Capital, AIRI Capital, MIT Alumni Angels Boston (Chris Wysopal, Founder/CTO of Veracode), Sriram Krishnan (SVP Headspin), Ryan Hoover (Product Hunt), MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge Angels (Phil Sipowicz – IT MSP Business Leader), River Valley Investors, among others.

     

    About Pixm:

    Pixm’s mission is to make phishing attacks obsolete. Pixm brings to you an award-winning technology backed by well-known cybersecurity investors and former Intelligence Community leaders. Pixm’s pedigree is rooted in top accelerators, such as GSVLabs, MassChallenge, and Highland Capital’s Cybersecurity Factory. Pixm is rethinking phishing protection with a fresh ground-up perspective and bringing cutting-edge computer vision technology directly in the hands of everyday users to protect from the #1 attack vector favored by hackers.

     

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pixm.anti.phishing

    Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PixmSecurity

    Visit us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixm-inc/

  • Netwrix Acquires Concept Searching to Expand Data Security Offerings

    This acquisition will help Netwrix customers adopt a data-centric security approach and focus on protecting their most valuable assets

     

    Irvine, CA, December 4, 2018— Netwrix Corporation, provider of a visibility platform for data security and risk mitigation in hybrid environments, announced today the acquisition of Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management software.

     

    After a year of successful technology partnership, Netwrix acquired Concept Searching to enhance customers’ contextual awareness into sensitive structured and unstructured data, both on premises and in the cloud. This investment firmly positions Netwrix in the data-centric audit and protection market and offers organizations seeking solutions a real alternative — one with lower TCO, shorter time to value and significantly lower false positive rates. Together, Netwrix and Concept Searching deliver an integrated solution that will help organizations detect and mitigate data security threats in time to prevent real damage and slash compliance costs. Concept Searching will continue to support its existing customers and solutions.

     

    Gartner advises end-user organizations to “identify the data security controls required to mitigate the risks and threats to each sensitive data type.Then, coordinate with each silo’s management team and data owners to apply the controls consistently across all silos and applications.”1

     

    “The acquisition of Concept Searching is a natural next step for our organization, enabling us to provide our customers with the ability to discover the sensitive data in their environment, and understand who has access to it and who is actually accessing it,” said Steve Dickson, CEO of Netwrix.

     

    “We are excited to join the Netwrix team and bring our expertise and technology to help address the increasingly critical cybersecurity requirements of organizations worldwide. Our flexible metadata framework will continue to resolve a wide range of issues in the management of unstructured content for new and existing clients. The ability to integrate this unique technology with Netwrix’s leading offering will enable us to deliver an unrivaled solution to our clients and partners as we expand our leadership into the data-centric audit and protection market,” said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching.

     

    Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

     

    For more information on the acquisition, visit our FAQ page here:

    https://www.netwrix.com/faq_concept_searching.html

     

    For more information on Netwrix Auditor Discovery and Classification,  visit our new releasepage here:

    https://www.netwrix.com/data_discovery_and_classification.html

     

    1Gartner, Market Insight: The Future of Data Security, October 2017, refreshed December 2018

     

    About Netwrix Corporation

    Netwrix Corporation is a software company focused exclusively on providing IT security and

    operations teams with pervasive visibility into user behavior, system configurations and data

    sensitivity across hybrid IT infrastructures to protect data regardless of its location. Over

    10,000 organizations worldwide rely on Netwrix to detect and proactively mitigate data

    security threats, pass compliance audits with less effort and expense, and increase the

    productivity of their IT teams.

     

    Founded in 2006, Netwrix has earned more than 140 industry awards and been named to

    both the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists of the fastest growing companies

    in the U.S. For more information, visit www.netwrix.com.

    About Concept Searching

    Concept Searching is the industry leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-

    classification, and taxonomy management. It has a Microsoft Gold Application

    Development competency and offers a complete suite of platform-agnostic content

    analytics, insight and discovery solutions that address the entire portfolio of unstructured

    information assets in on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments. The intelligent,

    metadata-enabled solutions improve search, records management, identification and

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  • Quobyte Data Center File System Now Available on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace

    Santa Clara, Calif., December 4, 2018 — Quobyte® Inc., a leading developer of modern storage system software, announced today its Data Center File System is now available via Google Cloud Platform marketplace, enabling Google Cloud users to configure a hyperscale, high-performance distributed storage platform in just a few clicks.

    Quobyte gives Google Cloud Platform a storage environment for a variety of data-driven workflows such as EDA, DevOps, analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC). With native support for all Linux, Windows, and NFS applications, Quobyte enables existing applications, newly implemented ones, and developers to work in the same environment whether in the cloud or on-premises. Users can run entire workloads in the cloud, or burst peak workloads; start with a single storage node and add additional capacity and nodes on the fly; and dynamically downsize the deployment when resources are no longer needed. Quobyte storage nodes run on CentOS 7.

    Quobyte’s pedigree in truly scalable, modern storage itself dates back to Google, as two of the company founders are Google infrastructure alums. Quobyte’s support for demanding cloud workloads and scalability to petabytes of capacity and millions of IOPS makes it an ideal choice for Google Cloud Platform.

    “In the late 90s Google understood that storing and analyzing vast amounts of data required infrastructure and labor that would be prohibitively expensive, and today, Quobyte has evolved to supply that massively scalable, self-healing storage infrastructure suitable for public cloud,” said Bjoern Kolbeck, Quobyte co-founder and CEO. “It is apt that we are now available through Google Cloud Platform marketplace because it is fair to say without our early experience at the company there would be no Quobyte.”

    “At Google Cloud we strive to make it as easy as possible for customers to deploy, purchase and manage leading solutions in the cloud,” said Nan Boden, Senior Director, Global Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud. “With availability on Marketplace, Quobyte is bringing their expertise in storage environments for data-driven workflows to GCP, simplifying procurement processes and allowing customers to focus on building a successful business.”

    Quobyte’s Data Center File System provides a massively scalable and fault-tolerant storage infrastructure. It decouples and abstracts commodity hardware to deliver low-latency and parallel throughput for the substantial requirements of cloud services and apps, the elasticity and agility to scale to thousands of servers, and to grow to hundreds of petabytes with little to no added administrative burden. With Quobyte, databases, scale-out applications, containers, even big data analytics can run on one single infrastructure.

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    About Quobyte
    Building on a decade of research and experience with the open-source distributed file system XtreemFS and from working on Google’s infrastructure, Quobyte delivers on the promise of software-defined storage for the world’s most demanding application environments including High Performance Computing (HPC), Media & Entertainment (M&E), Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Quobyte uniquely leverages hyperscaler parallel distributed file system technologies to unify file, block, and object storage. This allows customers to easily replace storage silos with a single, scalable storage system — significantly saving manpower, money, and time spent on storage management. Quobyte allows companies to scale storage capacity and performance linearly on commodity hardware while eliminating the need to expand administrative staff through the software’s ability to self-monitor, self-maintain, and self-heal. Please visit www.quobyte.com for more information.