Kaseya’s SaaS services are back online
Kaseya managed to restore functionality to its SaaS services, which then led to more unplanned downtime. The company has been in a scrambling mode for the past week or so, trying to reboot its SaaS servers, which it has hardened after the REvil ransomware attack.
The company has communicated to ... Read more
Jamf to acquire Wandera for $400 million
Jamf, the software company specializing in Apple enterprise management, announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase Wandera, the zero-trust cloud security startup. The deal is valued at $400 million. Wandera was founded in 2012 and offers a unified cloud security solution.
The solution... Read more
Qlik updates Mobile Analytics Experience
Qlik announced Qlik Sense Mobile for SaaS, which brings a better mobile analytics experience. It is among four very important features being delivered in the second quarter across the company’s analytics and data integration platform.
Customers will use the updates to achieve active intelligen... Read more
Atlassian launches Jira Work Management for business teams
Atlassian recently launched its Jira Work Management tool, which allows teams within business departments to better collaborate with each other. This extends the work tracking and allocation capabilities that Jira already offers to departments within businesses beyond just the IT department.
Atl... Read more
Mastercard buys identity verification company Ekata
Mastercard will acquire Ekata's Identity Engine SaaS in a deal worth $850 million
This week Mastercard moved to advance its identity verification efforts with the acquisition of Ekata for US$850 million.
Ekata provides global identity verification data via application programming interfaces.... Read more
Cohesity is now valued at $3.7 billion
Cohesity has received offers from institutional investors who want to buy some of the equity the company's employees hold. The data management provider will be valued at $3.7 billion, which is $1.2 billion more than what it was valued at last year.
The investors participating in the tender inclu... Read more
Google and Oracle pledge to have an open cloud
The forced digital transformation that came in the wake of the pandemic forced many businesses and organizations to move to the cloud. However, there are some concerns about vendor lock-in and impedances to movement between different clouds.
To address issues like this one, Google and Oracle are... Read more
NetApp releases Astra to target Kubernetes management and security
NetApp officially released its data management suite for Kubernetes workloads, NetApp Astra. Astra is a SaaS-type managed service that is used to protect, recover and move containerized apps. There is no software to download, install, configure or upgrade.
Eric Han, the product management Veep f... Read more
RISE with SAP is a new program to move customers to the cloud
Luca Mucis, the Chief Financial Officer at SAP, said that the company aims to convert 5 billion euros in revenue from support and software licenses, into cloud subscriptions, in the next five years. The CFO spoke with investors on a conference call with Morgan Stanley, where he elaborated on the so... Read more
Survey: 81% of global IT decision makers plan to adopt MACH
The execs said they plan to add MACH to their architecture in the next 12 months
A recent study has found 81% of IT leaders intend to increase MACH elements into their front-office architecture within the year. The research was done by the MACH Alliance and supported by DJS Research.
MACH st... Read more