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  • Atlan Raises $16M Series A Round Led by Insight Partners to Build a Collaboration Hub for Data Teams

    After growing 16x in the past 6 months, Atlan plans to leverage the financing to accelerate product development and invest in go-to-market

    New York, NY, May 25, 2021 — Atlan announced that it has closed its $16M Series A round led by global venture capital and private equity firm, Insight Partners. A number of high-profile angel investors also participated in the round, including Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake, Bob Moore and Jake Stein, founders of Stitch, and Auren Hoffman, founder of Safegraph and Liveramp. Existing investors Sequoia Surge and Waterbridge Ventures also participated in the round.

    As a part of the investment, Insight Managing Director Teddie Wardi will join Atlan’s board of directors. “As the modern data stack becomes mainstream, a collaborative layer that acts as a glue across a variety of tools like Snowflake, Databricks, BI tools, and AI/ML applications, is becoming a necessity,” said Wardi.  “Atlan is bringing a truly collaborative approach to the modern data stack, leading the way like Figma did for design teams or Github did for engineering teams. We are thrilled to welcome Atlan to Insight and advise the team on operations, go-to-market, and product development.”

    Atlan started out as an internal project at data for good firm, SocialCops, and was incubated across 200+ data projects, including India’s National Data Platform used by the Prime Minister himself. Since emerging from stealth, the company has grown rapidly, reporting 16X growth within the last two quarters. Atlan is currently used by teams at large enterprises like Unilever and Scripps Health as well as high growth startups like Postman.

    Atlan’s data collaboration platform creates a unified discovery and collaboration experience across the entire modern data stack. “Today, data assets are not just tables, but code, models, BI dashboards, and pipelines,” said Prukalpa Sankar, Co-Founder of Atlan. “At Atlan, we are reimagining the human experience with data — why can’t data assets be shared as easily as sharing a link on Google Docs, or if Google Analytics can tell you usage on a website, why can’t we do the same for our data?”

    “As we rolled-out our modern data platform, we were looking for a product that made it easier to democratize our data and was less dependent on someone central answering each individual analyst’s questions on a one-off basis. Legacy solutions in the market were tailored to legacy systems and approaches where IT or a single data stewardship team owns the data. Atlan was the only solution that was built for a collaborative, bottom-up approach. With native integrations with our modern analytics stack like Snowflake and Tableau, Atlan was very easy to set-up – we had all of our data sources flowing within the first day.” said Danielle Boeglin Ragan, Vice President of Data & Analytics at Techstyle, one of the world’s largest membership-based fashion companies with a diverse portfolio of brands, including Fabletics, Savage X Fenty, JustFab, FabKids, and ShoeDazzle.

    Atlan was recently recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor 2020 in DataOps, one of the Top 3 companies globally to make the list.

    “We are excited to partner with Insight as their significant expertise in backing ScaleUp SaaS companies will help accelerate our growth ” said Varun Banka, Co-Founder of Atlan.  Atlan plans to use the funding to expand its current team of 40 across marketing, sales, and customer success, and accelerate its go-to market motion.

    About Atlan

    Atlan is a modern data collaboration workspace (like Github for engineering or Figma for design). By acting as a virtual hub for data assets ranging from tables and dashboards to models & code, Atlan enables teams to create a single source of truth for all their data assets, and collaborate across the modern data stack through deep integrations with tools like Slack, data warehouses like Snowflake & Redshift, BI tools like Looker, Sisense & Tableau, data science tools and more.

    A pioneer in the space, Atlan was recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in DataOps, as one of the top 3 companies globally.

    Visit www.atlan.com or follow us on Twitter @atlanHQ

    About Insight Partners

    Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners has invested in more than 400 companies worldwide and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Across its people and its portfolio, Insight encourages a culture around a belief that ScaleUp companies and growth create opportunity for all. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.

  • Chorus.ai Launches Momentum to Transform Relationship Visibility Inside the CRM

    Conversation Intelligence leader unlocks insights to help revenue leaders identify and mitigate deal risks

    San Francisco, CA, May 25, 2021 – Chorus.ai, the No. 1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high growth Revenue teams, today released Momentum by Chorus, a new native Salesforce experience that fundamentally transforms the way enterprises understand their customer relationships. Momentum by Chorus, which was first announced in Dec. 2020, brings the voice of the customer back to the CRM by aggregating every interaction from emails, calls, and video meetings to highlight key moments across the relationship history. Leveraging AI, Momentum empowers Revenue teams to identify and mitigate deal risks, while enabling sales leaders to forecast pipeline accurately. The new offering uses the most accurate form of data that Revenue teams can rely on – the direct conversations between account leaders and their clients.

    According to an industry study, 50% of sales leaders believe their CRM system is challenging to use, and 18% believe it’s caused them to lose opportunities or revenue. While CRMs aggregate important customer data points, these systems often provide outdated data and lack actionable information on the key indicators impacting deal velocity, such as deal risks. Chorus is the first company to provide full visibility into deal health and relationship history, which solves the biggest challenges in today’s CRM.

    “Momentum is the culmination of years of work to solve a fundamental problem for Revenue leaders – the ability to make smart decisions based on the limited relationship context available in the CRM,” said Jim Benton, CEO of Chorus.ai. “We’re excited to put the “R” back in the CRM by harnessing relationship insights from real customer interactions across the entire buyer’s journey. Momentum leverages the voice of the customer to know where deals stand and project where they are headed so leaders can forecast accurately and impact deal outcomes.”

    In an analysis of how relationships and engagement activity correlate to deal outcomes, Chorus’ purpose-built AI found:

    • Competitors are mentioned more in early stage meetings in closed-won deals (5-6 times on average) than closed-lost deals (3 times).

    • Once in the later stages of a deal, closed-won deals include fewer competitor mentions on average (2) than closed-lost deals (4).

    • Pricing is 10% more likely to be discussed in the early stages of a won deal vs. lost, and 17% more likely to be discussed in the later stages of a won deal vs. lost.

    “With Momentum, this is the first time that I can rely on timely and accurate data to see where there are potential roadblocks to a deal closing without depending on anecdotal evidence,” said Michaela Downs, Head of Sales Operations at Benchling. “When doing deal reviews and pipeline forecasts, I need to feel confident that I’m accurately projecting our closed-won opportunities. Chorus has been a game changer for me and enables me to confidently position my work to all of our executive leadership.”

    Using Momentum, Chorus’ customers can easily spot risks like these as well as understand the interactions that drive revenue, like call participants, key discussion items and recommendations for future interactions. Accessing the real voice of the customer directly from emails, calls and video meeting interactions can all be done from inside your CRM platform. Now you can look at the actual email thread or watch the video conference call between you and your client all in one location.

    This means Revenue leaders can leverage Momentum’s advanced analytics to conduct better pipeline reviews, as well as identify deal risks to forecast with better accuracy without leaving the CRM. Alternatively, reps can access the full relationship history to streamline handoffs and move deals forward faster.

    “The CRM as we know it has changed with the launch of Momentum,” said Dominik Facher, VP of Product and Engineering at Chorus.ai. “Bringing the voice of the customer to the CRM has always been a challenge and something that has always been missing. Momentum delivers that customer context in the form of conversations, messages and any type of interaction that revenue teams have with their clients. It goes so far as to literally bring the customer’s voice from actual calls or video meetings via a native video player viewable in your client account in the CRM.”

    For more information on Momentum and Conversation Intelligence from the industry leader, visit Chorus.ai.

    About Chorus.ai
    Chorus.ai is the No.1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high-growth sales teams. Founded in 2015, Chorus.ai’s Conversation Intelligence Platform identifies and helps teams replicate the performance of top-performing reps by analyzing their sales meetings. These insights serve as the foundation of an effective coaching strategy for sales and customer success teams and provide insight into the voice-of-the-customer across the entire organization. Customers like Zoom, Mavenlink, Qualtrics, Adobe, TripActions, and GitLab ramp new hires to productivity 30-50% faster and see an increase in quota attainment from 20-to-100%. Chorus.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, Toronto, and Salt Lake City.

  • Qumulo Unveils Post Production Platform in the Cloud with Studio Q on AWS

    Qumulo Studio Q enables creative teams using Adobe Creative Cloud to work from anywhere to rapidly create, modify and monetize media content faster than ever before

    Seattle, WA, May 25, 2021 – Qumulo, the breakthrough leader in radically simplifying enterprise file data management across hybrid cloud environments, today announced its new Studio Q Quick Start offering, a comprehensive post production platform that enables creative teams to replicate the collaborative editorial production process in the cloud. With a simple AWS CloudFormation deployment, studios, broadcasters and corporate video production teams can now run Adobe® Premiere® Pro and Adobe After Effects® on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), unblocking content creation workflows, previously suboptimal or impossible with other file systems.

    Qumulo® Studio Q combines the power of the Qumulo File Data Platform with Teradici CAS PCoIP® technology to enable a unique virtual desktop per editor, allowing simple and easy collaboration with a rich and lossless user experience across shared media assets without disruption. With the Studio Q Quick Start, enterprises with high-performance mezzanine editorial workflows can now rapidly deploy a complete studio in the cloud for collaborative, remote editorial teams.

    “Qumulo on AWS gives us the performance gains needed over object stores and the ability to use our highly active file data at any scale in the cloud,” said Graham Peddie, COO from Cinesite. “Qumulo, with its capacity-based consumption options, allows our Line of Business and IT teams to work together on our digital projects without compromising on choice of how we manage our unstructured data or control costs.”

    As production studios, corporate video editors and broadcasters shift their creative workflows to a remote environment, Studio Q accelerates the transition to the cloud by making it radically simple. Customers can now leverage the Studio Q Quick Start to select pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, quickly spinning up the entire Studio Q environment on AWS, reducing hundreds of manual procedures to just a few steps, and allowing video editors and artists to get up and running immediately. Teradici CAS provides the flexibility to work from anywhere, enabling simple and secure access to Studio Q with an outstanding user experience.

    “The increasing demands for video production paired with today’s shift to remote work have left creative teams within the media and entertainment industry with more data challenges than they ever thought imaginable,” said Ben Gitenstein, Vice President of Product at Qumulo. “Studio Q is a cloud solution that allows global teams to run Adobe Premiere Pro on AWS with the same performance of an on-premises workstation.”

    To provide an easy pathway to cloud, two platform service options are available via the AWS Quick Start landing page. Customers can choose Studio Q’s self-service model through their own AWS account or undergo a guided sales experience to test editorial workstations. The testing and developing route will support customers that are moving current workstations to the cloud. Customers looking to engage in a guided sales experience to test their specific use case may be eligible for AWS credits as part of the testing.

    About Qumulo, Inc.

    Qumulo is the breakthrough leader in simplifying data management in its native file form at a massive scale across hybrid-cloud environments. Its high-performance file data platform is designed to store, manage and create workflows and applications with data in its native file form at massive scale on prem and in the public cloud. Qumulo is trusted by Fortune 500 companies, major film and animation studios, and some of the largest research facilities in the world to easily manage the full data lifecycle from ingestion, transformation, and publishing to archiving, with cost-effective capacity, dynamic scalability, automatic encryption, real-time visibility and an advanced API that enables customers to easily integrate Qumulo into their ecosystem and workflows. www.qumulo.com.

  • Imperva® Launches New Product to Secure Serverless Functions with Visibility into the Application Layer and Code-Level Vulnerabilities

    Imperva Serverless Protection provides an additional layer of security for AWS Lambda environments

    San Mateo, CA, May 24, 2021 — Imperva, Inc., (@Imperva) the cybersecurity leader whose mission is to protect data and all paths to it, launches Imperva Serverless Protection, a new product built to secure organizations from vulnerabilities created by misconfigured apps and code-level security risks in serverless computing environments. Designed with the developer and security team in mind, the new product is easily deployed as an AWS Lambda layer, protecting functions without changing code.

    Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Imperva Serverless Protection is a fully integrated tool within AWS Lambda Extensions. The integration gives developers faster access to the new Imperva offering to provide an additional layer of security for their AWS Lambda environment. This latest innovation from Imperva adds to the company’s solutions for protecting applications in all their forms: legacy, APIs, microservices, and serverless functions.

    “We see hundreds of thousands of customers of all sizes embrace serverless applications to quickly deliver value to their customers,” says Holly Mesrobian, General Manager, AWS Lambda, AWS. “The Imperva extension enables customers to easily embed additional security in their DevOps processes for serverless applications with just a simple configuration change.”

    Developers are increasing adoption of serverless functions that offer lower costs, less configuration and faster deployment. However, “through 2022, 80% of successful attacks on serverless [platform as a service] PaaS will have a root cause of misconfiguration or the use of known vulnerable code due to immature tools and processes,” writes Neil MacDonald, Vice President, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, in the March 2020 report, “Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Serverless PaaS”. He adds, “New approaches and techniques for securing serverless will be required and should be designed using a life cycle approach, starting in development and carrying through into operations.”

    Imperva Serverless Protection offers market-differentiated capabilities to help organizations manage the complex security risks that emerge in serverless functions.

    • Protection against malicious activity: Purpose-built for serverless computing, Imperva uniquely enables a positive security model that provides protection against malicious changes, like zero-day exploits, within the function. Deployed as an AWS Lambda layer, it can be deployed once and applied to multiple AWS Lambda functions.
    • Visibility and protection from internal and external code vulnerabilities: Imperva Serverless Protection secures serverless functions from vulnerabilities embedded in first and third-party code — the underlying risk factor that can trigger a software supply chain attack. It effectively monitors and blocks vulnerabilities without elaborate or manual steps involved.
    • OWASP Serverless Top 10 coverage: Imperva Serverless Protection offers protections from misconfigurations, code-level risks, injections and weaknesses. It stops HTTP response splitting and method tampering, code injection, and other complex threats. It also monitors for insecure cookies and transport, logging of sensitive information, unauthorized network activity, weak authentication, and other potential vulnerabilities.
    • Deep visibility into security incidents at the application layer: Imperva Serverless Protection runtime monitoring gathers log-level information to provide forensic detail so security teams can fully understand the context of every attack with virtually no impact on latency. It also identifies and maps third-party dependencies used during runtime.

    “Traditional security technologies are not designed to get visibility into and provide protection for ephemeral workloads like serverless functions. Customers require the combination of protection at the function, contextual awareness, and high performance. Additionally, customers are not interested in modifying their workloads or changing code to support security functions. Imperva Serverless Protection was created exactly to solve these needs,” says Kunal Anand, Chief Technology Officer, Imperva. “With Imperva Serverless Protection, DevOps and SecOps teams have a powerful new capability to stop serverless attacks.”

    “We are pleased to have partnered with Imperva on the design of their Imperva Serverless Protection solution and believe they’re offering the right approach to serverless security by embedding protection into the function,” says Tyler Warren, Director, IT Security, Prologis. “Imperva is a true differentiator and ensures we remain at the forefront of protection against ever-evolving security threats, including those emerging in serverless functions.”

    About Imperva

    Imperva is the cybersecurity leader whose mission is to protect data and all paths to it. Customers around the world trust Imperva to protect their applications, data and websites from cyber attacks. With an integrated approach combining edge, application security and data security, Imperva protects companies through all stages of their digital journey. Imperva Research Labs and our global intelligence community enable Imperva to stay ahead of the threat landscape and seamlessly integrate the latest security, privacy and compliance expertise into our solutions.

  • GridGain Control Center Now Available as a Cloud Service

    New SaaS version of GridGain Control Center continues GridGain’s move to the cloud for in-memory computing solutions

    Foster City, CA, May 24, 2021 — GridGain® Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions powered by the Apache® Ignite® distributed database, today announced that an enhanced version of GridGain Control Center is available as a cloud service on a subscription basis. GridGain Control Center SaaS is another step by GridGain to move more of its solutions to the cloud to support accelerated cloud migration by customers. While GridGain Nebula, released last year, is a fully managed service for Ignite and GridGain, Control Center SaaS is a cloud-native solution for operations teams that prefer to manage their production environments. A free 30-day trial of Control Center SaaS is available on the GridGain website.

    GridGain Control Center is a comprehensive troubleshooting, management and monitoring solution for the GridGain platform and Apache Ignite, which run on a distributed cluster of servers. Troubleshooting and managing these distributed clusters can be demanding, and Control Center simplifies key tasks to help developers and operations teams be more productive building, managing and optimizing applications on these platforms. GridGain Control Center as a cloud service enables customers to manage compute clusters that are deployed across single or multi-cloud services, on-premises and hybrid environments.

    “As the migration of infrastructure to the cloud accelerates, we are seeing more customers deploy Apache Ignite and the GridGain platform across their cloud environments, increasingly taking advantage of GridGain Control Center and the GridGain Nebula managed service,” said Greg Stachnick, Director of Cloud Product Management, GridGain Systems. “As a result, we continue to invest in new GridGain offerings, such as Control Center SaaS, to better enable customers to achieve the speed and scale required by their most demanding applications.”

    Control Center greatly simplifies Ignite and GridGain platform-specific troubleshooting and management tasks. These include debugging SQL performance bottlenecks, tracing performance of operations under load, simplifying data backup and recovery, and proactively managing data skews to optimize cluster utilization. In addition, Control Center performs routine monitoring tasks, such as tracking cluster metrics via customizable dashboards and setting up alerts.

    The new Teams feature enables a group of users to form a team and share configuration resources, allowing Control Center to be used as a standalone observability platform. In addition, Control Center can complement existing observability solutions, such as Zabbix or Prometheus, providing additional contextual information that helps troubleshooters quickly understand the root cause and fix the underlying problem.

    Feature Summary

    • Customizable, intuitive dashboard
    • User-defined production alerts
    • Query development tools
    • Active tracing and root cause analysis
    • Disaster recovery and backup management
    • Monitoring of rolling upgrades and cluster rebalancing
    • Simple configuration of Apache Ignite clusters

    Availability
    A free 30-day trial of GridGain Control Center SaaS is available on the GridGain website. After the free trial, the service is available on a subscription basis, billed either monthly or annually based on the number of cluster nodes to be managed and monitored.

    Additional Resources
    To learn more about GridGain Control Center offered as a service:

    About GridGain Systems
    GridGain Systems is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering an in-memory computing platform powered by the Apache® Ignite® distributed database. Common use cases for the GridGain platform include application acceleration and digital integration hubs for real-time data access across data sources and applications. GridGain solutions are used by global enterprises in financial services, software, e-commerce, retail, online business services, healthcare, telecom, transportation and other major sectors, with a client list that includes ING, Citibank, American Express, Finastra, UPS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, American Airlines, Agilent and UnitedHealthcare.

    GridGain delivers unprecedented speed, massive scalability, and real-time data access for both legacy and greenfield applications. Deployed on a distributed cluster of commodity servers, GridGain software can reside between the application and data layers (RDBMS, NoSQL and Apache® Hadoop®), requiring no rip-and-replace of the existing databases, or it can be deployed as a distributed database for high performance computing with in-memory speed. For more information, visit gridgain.com.

  • Technology Evolution Will Underpin the Next Wave of Enterprise Cloud Migration

    Colt research discovers appetite for new tech will drive post-COVID projects

    London, UK, May 24 2021 — Colt Technology Services has today released new research into enterprise plans for the next wave of technology migration. The findings demonstrate a hunger for emerging tech solutions, with 54% of respondents citing ‘technology evolution’ as a key enabler of their plans.

    The unique research, carried out by Censuswide, asked 400 senior IT decision-makers from organizations with over 500 employees about their upcoming cloud projects. The research embraced cloud decision-makers, as well as executives with C-level responsibilities. The findings span geographies across Europe and Asia, as well as numerous industry sectors.

    With the last 12 months having seen a surge in cloud migration, driven by COVID-19, enterprises are now ready to take migration to the next level, engaging with a new era of cloud possibilities and embracing a whole new generation of cloud-centric compute and connectivity.

    With large budgets backing the next wave of cloud projects, there is evidence of a renewed focus on overcoming barriers and delivering goals. Some 33% of respondents are setting aside between £251,000 and £500,000 to fund their next cloud move. There is also recognition of the importance of forging the right partnerships to develop cloud plans and turn them into reality. Tried and tested relationships with existing cloud service providers and network service providers are especially valued.

    With legacy technologies increasingly unsuited to solving the complex challenges of the multi-cloud era, enterprises are looking for newer solutions built with the cloud in mind. Application programming interface (API) technology topped the list of essential tools for meeting cloud goals, with 56% of respondents citing it. Edge compute (47%), AI (43%), on-demand networking (40%), uCPE (34%) and SD WAN (32%) were also deemed critical, with high confidence expressed in all.

    The study found that Customer Relationship Management (CRM) topped the list of applications for the next phase of cloud migration. Improving the customer experience and finding better ways to map the customer journey are clearly of growing importance to enterprises, suggesting an intimate connection between enterprise objectives for the cloud and a desire to improve customer experience through effective transformation. Some 57% said CRM applications would be the focus of their next cloud migration project while 54% said ERP.

    Keri Gilder, CEO of Colt said ““From our research last year, we saw an increase in cloud migration projects. This new report deep dives into what enterprises are moving, how they’re doing it and why. It’s no surprise that tech evolution and emerging technologies are being increasingly used for these projects. The connectivity that underpins them is critical. To ensure cloud migrations happen smoothly, enterprises need to focus on flexible, high bandwidth, low latency connectivity. To do that, they need the right partners. They need an ecosystem of partners working together to deliver for them and their end customers. At Colt, we work closely with the major cloud service providers to deliver and enable cloud migrations for enterprises. Colt strives to take what’s always been in our DNA to create an environment of constant transformation that puts enterprises in the best possible position to tackle today’s business challenges.”

    She added: “The Colt IQ Network, a 100Gbps optimized intelligent network distributed to more than 29,000 on net buildings, 900 data centers and hundreds of data network connection points around the world is the perfect network to help them achieve this.”

    The full research report is available to download and view today.

    About Colt

    Colt strives to transform the way the world works through the power of connectivity – taking what’s always been in its DNA to enable customers’ success. The Colt IQ Network connects more than 900+ data centers and over 29,000 on net buildings across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs.

    Colt understands today’s shifting connectivity requirements and provides agile, on-demand and secure high bandwidth networking and voice solutions to ensure enterprises can thrive. Customers include data-intensive organizations spanning over 210 cities in more than 30 countries. Colt is a recognized innovator and pioneer in Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Privately owned, Colt is one of the most financially sound companies in the sector, and because of this, it’s able to put its customers’ needs at its core. For more information, please visit https://colt.net.

  • WANdisco Deepens Product Integration with Databricks to Accelerate Time to Value for Cloud-Scale Analytics

    San Ramon, CA, May 24, 2021 — WANdisco, the LiveData company, announced today that its LiveData Migrator platform, which automates the migration and replication of Hadoop data from on-premises to the cloud, can now automate the migration of Apache Hive metadata directly into Databricks to help users save time, reduce costs, and more quickly enable new AI and machine learning capabilities. For the first time, enterprises that want to migrate on-premises Hadoop and Spark content from Hive to Databricks can do so at scale and with high efficiency, while mitigating the many risks associated with large-scale cloud migrations.

    • Data sets do not need to be migrated in full before they are converted into the Delta format. LiveData Migrator automates incremental transformation to Delta Lake.

    • Accelerate time to business insights by eliminating the need for manual data mappings with direct, native access to structured data in Databricks from on-premises environments.

    • Use a single pane of glass to manage both Hadoop data and Hive metadata migrations.

    Ongoing changes to source metadata are reflected immediately in Databricks’ Lakehouse platform, and on-premises data formats used in Hadoop and Hive are automatically made available in Delta Lake on Databricks. By combining data and metadata and making on-premises content immediately usable in Databricks, users can eliminate migration tasks that previously required constructing data pipelines to transform, filter and adjust data – along with the significant up-front planning and staging. Work that would otherwise be required for setting up auto-load pipelines to identify newly-landed data, and convert it to a final form as part of a processing pipeline are set aside.

    “This new feature brings together the power of Databricks and WANdisco LiveData Migrator,” said WANdisco CTO Paul Scott-Murphy. “Data and metadata are migrated automatically without any disruption or change to existing systems. Teams can implement their cloud modernization strategies without risk, immediately employing workloads and data that were locked up on-premises, now in the cloud using the lakehouse platform offered by Databricks.”

    “Enterprises want to break silos and bring all their data into a lakehouse for analytics and AI but they have been constrained by their on-premises infrastructure,” said Pankaj Dugar, Vice President of Product Partnerships at Databricks. “With the new Hive metadata capabilities in WANdisco’s LiveData Migrator, it will now be much easier to take advantage of Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform.”

    LiveData Migrator automates cloud data migration at any scale by enabling companies to easily migrate data from on-premises Hadoop-oriented data lakes to any cloud within minutes, even while the source data sets are under active change. Businesses can migrate their data without the expertise of engineers or other consultants to enable their digital transformation. LiveData Migrator works without any production system downtime or business disruption while ensuring the migration is complete and continuous and any ongoing data changes are replicated to the target cloud environment.

    Making Hive data and metadata available for direct use in Delta Lake in Databricks can be achieved by configuring LiveData Migrator to have a data migration target available for the chosen cloud storage and Databricks. Users choose to convert content to the Delta Lake format when they create the Databricks metadata target. The desired data to migrate is then set by defining a migration rule, and selecting the Hive databases and tables that require migration.

    Learn more about successful strategies for Hadoop to Cloud migration at the Databricks Data+AI Summit 2021, with sessions including accelerating analytics on Databricks (Wed., May 26, 4:25 p.m. PT) and Spark-based analytics by minimizing barriers of Hadoop migration (Thurs., May 27,11:35 a.m. PT)  presented by WANdisco, Databricks, Microsoft and Avanade.

    About WANdisco

    WANdisco is the LiveData company. WANdisco solutions enable enterprises to create an environment where data is always available, accurate and protected, creating a strong backbone for their IT infrastructure and a bedrock for running consistent, accurate machine learning applications. With zero downtime and zero data loss, WANdisco LiveData Platform keeps geographically dispersed data at any scale consistent between on-premises and cloud environments allowing businesses to operate seamlessly in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. For more information on WANdisco, visit www.wandisco.com.

  • Imperva Launches New Product to Secure Serverless Functions with Visibility into the Application Layer and Code-Level Vulnerabilities

    Imperva Serverless Protection provides an additional layer of security for AWS Lambda environments

    San Mateo, CA, May 24, 2021 — Imperva, Inc., (@Imperva) the cybersecurity leader whose mission is to protect data and all paths to it, launches Imperva Serverless Protection, a new product built to secure organizations from vulnerabilities created by misconfigured apps and code-level security risks in serverless computing environments. Designed with the developer and security team in mind, the new product is easily deployed as an AWS Lambda layer, protecting functions without changing code.

    Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Imperva Serverless Protection is a fully integrated tool within AWS Lambda Extensions. The integration gives developers faster access to the new Imperva offering to provide an additional layer of security for their AWS Lambda environment. This latest innovation from Imperva adds to the company’s solutions for protecting applications in all their forms: legacy, APIs, microservices, and serverless functions.

    “We see hundreds of thousands of customers of all sizes embrace serverless applications to quickly deliver value to their customers,” says Holly Mesrobian, General Manager, AWS Lambda, AWS. “The Imperva extension enables customers to easily embed additional security in their DevOps processes for serverless applications with just a simple configuration change.”

    Developers are increasing adoption of serverless functions that offer lower costs, less configuration and faster deployment. However, “through 2022, 80% of successful attacks on serverless [platform as a service] PaaS will have a root cause of misconfiguration or the use of known vulnerable code due to immature tools and processes,” writes Neil MacDonald, Vice President, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, in the March 2020 report, “Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Serverless PaaS”. He adds, “New approaches and techniques for securing serverless will be required and should be designed using a life cycle approach, starting in development and carrying through into operations.”

    Imperva Serverless Protection offers market-differentiated capabilities to help organizations manage the complex security risks that emerge in serverless functions.

    • Protection against malicious activity: Purpose-built for serverless computing, Imperva uniquely enables a positive security model that provides protection against malicious changes, like zero-day exploits, within the function. Deployed as an AWS Lambda layer, it can be deployed once and applied to multiple AWS Lambda functions.
    • Visibility and protection from internal and external code vulnerabilities: Imperva Serverless Protection secures serverless functions from vulnerabilities embedded in first and third-party code — the underlying risk factor that can trigger a software supply chain attack. It effectively monitors and blocks vulnerabilities without elaborate or manual steps involved.
    • OWASP Serverless Top 10 coverage: Imperva Serverless Protection offers protections from misconfigurations, code-level risks, injections and weaknesses. It stops HTTP response splitting and method tampering, code injection, and other complex threats. It also monitors for insecure cookies and transport, logging of sensitive information, unauthorized network activity, weak authentication, and other potential vulnerabilities.
    • Deep visibility into security incidents at the application layer: Imperva Serverless Protection runtime monitoring gathers log-level information to provide forensic detail so security teams can fully understand the context of every attack with virtually no impact on latency. It also identifies and maps third-party dependencies used during runtime.

    “Traditional security technologies are not designed to get visibility into and provide protection for ephemeral workloads like serverless functions. Customers require the combination of protection at the function, contextual awareness, and high performance. Additionally, customers are not interested in modifying their workloads or changing code to support security functions. Imperva Serverless Protection was created exactly to solve these needs,” says Kunal Anand, Chief Technology Officer, Imperva. “With Imperva Serverless Protection, DevOps and SecOps teams have a powerful new capability to stop serverless attacks.”

    “We are pleased to have partnered with Imperva on the design of their Imperva Serverless Protection solution and believe they’re offering the right approach to serverless security by embedding protection into the function,” says Tyler Warren, Director, IT Security, Prologis. “Imperva is a true differentiator and ensures we remain at the forefront of protection against ever-evolving security threats, including those emerging in serverless functions.”

    Additional Information

    About Imperva

    Imperva is the cybersecurity leader whose mission is to protect data and all paths to it. Customers around the world trust Imperva to protect their applications, data and websites from cyber attacks. With an integrated approach combining edge, application security and data security, Imperva protects companies through all stages of their digital journey. Imperva Research Labs and our global intelligence community enable Imperva to stay ahead of the threat landscape and seamlessly integrate the latest security, privacy and compliance expertise into our solutions.

     Gartner, Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Serverless PaaS, Refreshed 4 March 2020, Published 4 September 2018, Neil MacDonald

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  • Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion in Data Center Projects Across the Americas

    Growing digital ecosystems and new real estate acquisition plans to fuel Yondr’s global growth

    San Francisco, CA, May 20, 2021 — Yondr Group, a global leader, developer, owner operator and service provider of hyperscale data centers, today announced a major expansion plan to deliver data center infrastructures across the United States, Canada, Central and South America.

    A Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) report found that the data center construction pipeline reached near-record levels in 2020, with over 611.3MW under construction in the United States. The significant investment in data center projects will add to Yondr Group’s existing network of global data centers and underscores the growing momentum to meet cloud and edge computing demands in the Americas.

    Yondr Group has appointed Éanna Murphy as Senior Vice President of Operations for the Americas. Éanna will lead the investment, development and management of digital infrastructure assets across the Americas, ensuring the delivery of solutions that enable the most innovative clients to flourish without constraints. Prior to joining Yondr Group, Éanna, a leading authority on data center development, was a key member of the Google Data Center Delivery and Execution Leadership Team, where he oversaw the buildout of some of the world’s largest data centers.

    “The Americas represent a significant opportunity for Yondr Group,” said Dave Newitt, CEO and Founder of Yondr Group. “Already, the USA’s data center capacity alone is more than twice that of Europe. And it’s continuing to grow, with a predicted 11GW of capacity in place by 2025. With Éanna’s market leadership and Yondr Group’s unrivalled ability to build cost-effective, secure and scalable data centers, faster than anyone else, we’re bringing greater flexibility and sustainability to our clients in the Americas.”

    Efficient, inclusive, sustainable

    Speed sits at the heart of Yondr Group. The company has streamlined the entire data center development model, from investment through to operations, with the aim of  becoming the fastest full-scale service provider of data centers in the world. All while adhering to the highest health and safety standards. Moreover, as of January 2021, Yondr Group announced that all global data centers will be carbon neutral at the point of handover to its clients.

    Diversity, a core business priority

    Yondr Group is also committed to prioritizing diversity and inclusion, improving representation for all under-represented groups globally. Not only has the company committed to gender parity from the inception of the Americas business, it also allocates twice the industry average in diverse supplier spend.

    As part of its Americas expansion plans, Yondr Group is additionally committed to make a concerted effort to address the shrinking talent pool that exists in the data center industry by widening the recruitment net through cross-skilling. This approach will allow Yondr Group to equip the new generation of data center talent with the right skillset to meet the growing requirements of operating and maintaining massive digital infrastructures.

    The announcement comes as part of a global scaling strategy that will see Yondr Group delivering data centers across five continents by 2024.

    About Yondr Group

    Yondr Group is a developer, owner operator and service provider of hyperscale data centers. The company’s mission is to meet growing businesses’ data center capacity and technical real estate needs faster, more elegantly and with better performance outcomes than anyone else. As an organisation, Yondr self-funds, designs, delivers and operates hyperscale data center facilities globally. For more information, visit www.yondrgroup.com

  • Exabeam and Pcysys Partner to Arm Customers Against Latest Advanced Attack Techniques

    Foster City, CA, May 19, 2021 — Exabeam, the security analytics and automation company, and Pcysys, the leader in Automated Security Testing, today announced a partnership to enable global organizations to defend against the latest incoming, live and ever-changing advanced attack techniques. The partnership also helps build ‘purple team’ security methodologies and simulation exercises into SOC workflows and improves cross-team communications.

    “Working with Pcysys, we leverage vast research on the latest advanced attack techniques to develop and release new detections that customers can use to continuously outsmart the odds,” said Adam Geller, chief product officer, Exabeam. “The joint technologies enable successful security outcomes through a proactive prescriptive approach that represents a great win for the industry. Together, we ensure that professionals on the front lines defending their organizations are far ahead of today’s sophisticated adversaries.”

    “By bringing the technologies of Pcysys and Exabeam together, we can rapidly accelerate organizations’ ability to respond with accuracy to the changing threat landscape,” commented Ran Tamir, chief product officer, Pcysys. “And by continuously assessing potential threat impact together with response and mitigation processes, SOC and SecOps teams can drastically improve their levels of preparedness.”

    The Exabeam and Pcysys partnership offers customers the ability to take a proactive approach to security. Automated pen tests allow organizations to identify and remediate gaps in their overall detection capabilities. The partnership further standardizes collection, detection, investigation and response workflows through automation, meaning organizations can frequently and constantly validate their own Threat Detection, Investigation and Response (TDIR) capabilities. In addition, it helps organizations increase security coverage for various Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) by continuously supplying new content based on real-world attack scenarios.

    While 92% of organizations conduct red team and blue team exercises, traditional approaches are manual and cumbersome, leaving many organizations unable to reliably and consistently test their downstream investigation and response processes. As a result, security engineers frequently struggle to ensure their tools can keep up with detecting the latest emerging and advanced threats. The Exabeam and Pcysys partnership also ensures purple teams across industries and organizations are sharing the precise information needed between red and blue teams to consistently fortify cybersecurity defense.

    The first security content package which includes new detection rules and models is currently available to all customers for immediate download on the Exabeam Community.

    To visit the Exabeam RSA 2021 booth or schedule a demo, go to the Exabeam at RSA web page. To demo the Pcysys PenTera platform, go to the Pcysys website.

    About Pcysys

    Pcysys delivers PenTera™, the agentless, automated penetration-testing platform, that assesses and reduces corporate cybersecurity risk. The platform is run remotely on the Cloud or on-site to identify, analyze and focus remediation efforts on breachable vulnerabilities. Hundreds of security professionals and service providers around the world use PenTera to perform continuous machine-based penetration tests that improve their immunity against cyber attacks across their organization networks.

    About Exabeam

    Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that adds intelligence to every IT and security stack. We are reinventing the way security teams use analytics and automation to solve threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR), from common security threats to the most critical that are difficult to identify. The Exabeam Security Management platform is a comprehensive cloud-delivered solution that leverages machine learning and automation using a prescriptive, outcomes-based approach to TDIR. It is designed and built to help security teams detect external threats, compromised users and malicious adversaries, minimize false positives, and make security success the norm. For more information, visit www.exabeam.com.

    Exabeam, the Exabeam logo, Exabeam Fusion, Threat Hunter, Smart Timelines and Security Management Platform are service marks, trademarks or registered marks of Exabeam, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective owners. © 2021 Exabeam, Inc. All rights reserved.