Cisco gains container security with Banzai Cloud buy

In its second cloud-native technology acquisition in as many months, Cisco is buying container security firm Banzai Cloud for an undisclosed amount.Founded in 2017, Banzai is known for developing Kubernetes-based cloud application development and security technologies. It will become part of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation group, where the company brews new projects for cloud-native n

Vendor giant to re-categorise all partners in an effort to increase its ‘relevance in the market by elevating roles beyond the traditional resale motion’ Cisco is to streamline its partner programme, including re-categorising all partners, in an overhaul it's claiming is the biggest in over a decade. At Cisco’s virtual PartnerSummit Digital 2020, it unveiled Cisco PXP, its new Partne

SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, today announced it had raised $267 million in Series F funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Sequoia Capital Global Equities and existing investors, including Insight Partners and Third Point Ventures.{loadads} The significantly oversubscribed round will allow SentinelOne to continue accelerating hypergrowth dri

On August 30, CenturyLink experienced a major network outage that lasted for over five hours and disrupted CenturyLink customers nationwide as well as many other networks. What was unique about the outage was the scope of the disruptions as the outage affected video streaming services, game platforms, and even webcasts of European soccer. This is an example of how telecom network outages have ex

Chuck Robbins says he ‘isn’t too concerned’ about sales decline, claiming Cisco has a ‘robust pipeline’ with large on-prem infrastructure spending making a comeback Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has remained upbeat and assured that customer spending on IT will rebound, despite the vendor suffering a double digit drop in product sales in its fiscal Q1. For the three months ending 24 October

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #Cloud–Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, announced today the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.5 with major enhancements to multi-region deployments, enterprise-grade security features and performance improvements. The latest version builds on Yugabyte’s mission to provide the default distributed SQL database for cloud-native ap

Enterprises have embraced the moving of multiple applications to the cloud using containers and are utilizing Kubernetes for orchestration. But the findings of a new report also confirm that many are inadequately securing the data stored in these new cloud-native environments. The report from cloud-native data protection specialist Zettaset shows businesses are continuing to leverage existing lega

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zettaset, a leading provider of cloud-native data protection for a DevOps-driven world, in partnership with Accelerated Strategies Group, today announced findings from the “Kubernetes Data Protection Report,” research that was conducted to understand how organizations are using containers and microservices as part of their larger digital transformation strategies. A

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nightfall AI, the first cloud-native data loss prevention platform, joins CircleCI’s Partner Network to Bring Data Loss Prevention to Code Commits.