Sumo Logic, a leading SaaS Log Analytics Platform, today announced that it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The SCA will focus on continued innovation to accelerate cybersecurity, application observability and automation fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) through Sumo Logic’s partner-first go-to-market motion. Specifically, service enhancements such as Sumo Logic’s SaaS Log Analytics Platform with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Security Lake will drive industry-leading innovation in cloud security and observability, providing powerful visibility and transparency across all AWS environments.

“Since our founding, Sumo Logic made a strategic bet to go all in with AWS. We’re built on AWS and have been a design partner in a multitude of solutions and go-to-market initiatives over the years to unify cloud insights and ignite action through the power of log analytics,” said Timm Hoyt, SVP of Worldwide Partners and Alliances. “We are delighted about this SCA as we head into a second decade of bringing together the best technologies to help customers build and secure their business across AWS and in the cloud.”

Sumo Logic unifies and analyzes enterprise data, translating it into actionable insights through one AI-powered cloud-native log analytics platform. This single source of truth enables Dev, Sec and Ops teams to simplify complexity, collaborate efficiently and accelerate data-driven decisions that drive business value. Customers around the world rely on the Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform to ensure application reliability, security, and protection against modern security threats, as well as gain insights into their cloud infrastructures.

“The SCA with Sumo Logic strengthens our shared vision and commitment to giving our joint customers real-time visibility across their AWS workloads with AI-powered log analytics that break down the silos across security, developers and IT operations,” said Alan Braun, Managing Director, Technology Partnerships and AWS Marketplace at AWS. “We are pleased to collaborate with Sumo Logic to help make the digital world faster, reliable and more secure by unifying insights to ignite action.”

“This strategic collaboration underscores Sumo Logic’s Partner First approach and investment in advancements that give clients the ability to harness the full potential of AI-driven analytics in cloud security and application observability,” said Quentin Rhoads-Herrera, Managing Director of Cybersecurity Managed Services & Platforms for Stratascale. “This collaboration amplifies Stratascale’s ability to deliver unparalleled insights and automation, ensuring that our clients can confidently navigate the complexities of modern IT landscapes. By integrating Sumo Logic’s advanced log analytics with AWS’s robust infrastructure, we are poised to provide next-generation solutions that not only enhance operational efficiency but fortify cybersecurity postures, driving transformative business outcomes.”

“We have been a long-time partner of Sumo Logic, working together to deliver world-class Cloud SIEM technology to help our customers speed up incident investigations by automatically triaging alerts and correlating threats through log analytics,” said Craig Stamm, CEO of Zyston. “It’s fantastic to see Sumo Logic continue to deepen its strategic collaboration with AWS as it helps strengthen the collective ecosystem of partnerships we have with leading cybersecurity organizations that enable Zyston to engage with their clients to build, manage and mature their cybersecurity programs.”

Sumo Logic and AWS power joint customers

As a leading electronic data interchange (EDI) provider that helps power retail supply chains worldwide, SPS Commerce has an expansive infrastructure to serve more than 120,000 customers. It consists of on-premises systems, cloud footprints in AWS and a wide range of custom applications and toolsets. From switches and routers to AWS logs, all the telemetry comes together in Sumo Logic to triage alerts and correlate threats across the company’s infrastructure.

“As the world’s leading retail supply chain network, it’s really important that we consistently deliver highly available, high-performance services to our customers. Delivering industry-leading innovative services demands that our technology teams deploy frequently and also react quickly and confidently to performance or security anomalies,” said Andy Domeier, Senior Director of Technology for SPS Commerce. “We couldn’t do this without the collaboration between Sumo Logic, AWS and our teams here at SPS Commerce. They are critical in helping us investigate really complex problems, leveraging log analytics as a common language across our AWS cloud footprint to help improve collaboration, enabling us to deliver on our promises to our customers.”

This collaboration underscores the value of Sumo Logic and AWS in providing flexibility and unlocking greater business value for customers across industries. For more information, please visit https://www.sumologic.com/resources/amazon-web-services/.

Sumo Logic Secures New AWS Competencies

Additionally, Sumo Logic announced today that it has achieved the AWS Cloud Operations Competency in the Retail, Education and Government categories as an AWS Partner who has demonstrated AWS technical expertise and proven customer success, delivering real-time log analytics across these verticals. Sumo Logic now has nine AWS Competencies, including AWS Retail ISV, AWS Government Competency, AWS Education ISV Competency, AWS Cloud Operations Software Competency, AWS Data & Analytics ISV Competency, AWS DevOps ISV Competency, AWS Built-in Competency, AWS Small and Medium Business Software Competency, AWS Containers ISV Competency and AWS Security ISV Competency. Sumo Logic is also an AWS Lambda Partner, Amazon Linux Ready Partner and AWS Graviton Partner.

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Veeam^® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Resilience, today announced the release of Veeam Data Platform v12.2, broadening support for protecting data on an extensive range of new platforms while continuing to advance end-to-end cybersecurity capabilities. This latest release combines the most comprehensive data backup, recovery, and security capabilities with the ability to empower customers to migrate and secure data across new platforms. Veeam Data Platform v12.2 is a single, comprehensive solution that provides organizations with the freedom to maintain operational agility and security while safeguarding critical data against evolving cyber threats and unexpected industry changes.

“In a digital world, organizations face three critical challenges: they must protect their data and be able to rapidly recover it no matter what happens; they need the freedom to move to new platforms; and their data must be available where it’s needed, including AI,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. “At Veeam, we’re committed to supporting these critical capabilities for our 550,000 customers, and 12.2 is a major step forward. Veeam Data Platform provides a single platform that delivers data resilience across cloud, on-premises and hybrid platforms bringing together powerful data protection, secure migration, seamless cloud integration, and the industry’s most advanced end-to-end ransomware protection. Data is the lifeblood of every organization and Veeam Data Platform ensures that data is safe, secure and always available.”

With Veeam Data Platform v12.2, organizations have the freedom to choose their preferred infrastructure with scalable policy-driven protection. New integration with Nutanix Prism Central provides the best-in-class protection for enterprise needs. Additionally, the new Proxmox VE hypervisor support allows organizations to migrate and modernize on their terms. MongoDB backup is also included, offering immutability, centralized management, and high-speed recovery.

New Veeam Data Platform v12.2 helps accelerate organizations’ transformation to the cloud, new hypervisors, or HCI with support for Amazon FSx, Amazon RedShift, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Data Lake Storage. The platform offers full management of YARA rules, including RBAC, secure distribution, and orchestrated scanning of backups, allowing timely detection of issues and ensuring compliance rules are met.

Strengthening security posture and streamlining operations is made easy with Veeam Data Platform v12.2. Expanded health-check alarms help identify data integrity violations and collection gaps. Additionally, backups can be fast-tracked to archive storage, optimizing costs without compromising compliance.

New Veeam Data Platform v12.2 introduces several new features, including:

1. Backup for Proxmox VE: Protect the native hypervisor without requiring the management or use of backup agents. Enjoy flexible recovery options, including VM restores from and to VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, oVirt KVM, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud; as well as restores of physical server backups directly to Proxmox VE (for DR or virtualization/migration).
2. Backup for MongoDB: Bolster your cyber resilience with ease by leveraging immutable backups, backup copies, and advanced storage capabilities.
3. Enhanced Nutanix AHV integration: Protect critical Nutanix AHV data from replica nodes without impacting the production environment. Benefit from deep Nutanix Prism integration with policy-based backup jobs, increased backup security, and flexibility in network design.
4. Expanded AWS support: Extend native resilience to Amazon FSx and Amazon Redshift through policy-based protection and fast, automated recovery.
5. Expanded Microsoft Azure support: Extend native resilience to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for resilient protection and fast, automated recovery.

For more information about Veeam Data Platform v12.2 and its new features, visit https://www.veeam.com.

Learn more about the new Veeam Data Platform v12.2 and discover how organizations of all sizes can keep their data secure, protected, and accessible during VeeamON Data Resilience Summit, taking place virtually October 1 (AMER and EMEA) and October 2 (APJ). Register now for free: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon-data-resilience-summit.

Supporting Quotes

“The Futurum Group’s Cybersecurity Decision Maker IQ data indicates that improving the ability to meet RPO/RTO requirements, and the ability to improve cyber resiliency capabilities, are the top reasons that customers would consider replacing their existing data protection vendor. IT and Security teams express the need not only for confidence in the ability to recover as quickly as possible from a cyber-attack, but also to optimize their security posture and defenses, to prevent an attack to begin with. At the same time, we are seeing customers evaluate a vast array of hypervisor and cloud infrastructure options to optimize both cost and functionalities – making data mobility more important than ever before. Veeam Data Platform v12.2 is pinpointing this requirement, while continuing the company’s steady cadence of data resiliency-focused updates.” – Krista Case, Research Director at The Futurum Group

“We see Veeam’s support for the Proxmox VE hypervisor as a valuable addition for organizations seeking open-source flexibility and cost-effectiveness. It allows customers to stick with their preferred single platform for data backup and recovery while embracing the preferred hypervisor of their choice.” – Martin Maurer, CEO of Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH

“With the recent changes at VMware, we were forced to re-evaluate which hypervisor to choose for our data center – a situation nobody wants to be in. Veeam remains a critical partner for us as we look forward to being able to choose to move to Proxmox. Using Veeam’s trusted tools for data migration will provide us with the peace of mind we need during these tumultuous times.” – James Westendorf, Director of Technical Services, Lake Land College

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Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider building the future of networks, and Whitestack, an open source-based developer of Telco Cloud solutions, today announce successful completion of a technology alignment that enables Mavenir’s Cloud-Native IMS solution to be seamlessly integrated into Whitestack’s Telco Cloud platform – demonstrating Mavenir’s pivotal expertise in facilitating cloud-native deployments. The collaboration was initiated as part of a deployment with a leading Tier 1 operator in Latin America and harnesses the power and performance capabilities of the Intel Xeon processor and Intel Ethernet technology.

Empowering mobile operators to deploy telco workloads on its cloud solutions is a fundamental aspect of Mavenir’s cloud-native strategy. Today’s announcement marks the achievement of full integration with Whitestack’s Telco Cloud solution – offering telco operators a wider array of flexible options for deploying Mavenir’s solutions – and underscores the continued expansion of the telecom ecosystem aimed at liberating operators from legacy or monolithic solutions

The two companies are capitalizing on industry momentum, following significant announcements from operators adopting cloud infrastructure for critical network functions. This trend is generating substantial interest from traditional operators. To meet this clear demand, Mavenir and Whitestack are offering a compelling performance-to-cost ratio, making the transition to cloud solutions an easy decision.

“We are very pleased to have completed the integration process in a reasonable timeframe, thanks in part to our experience with other Telco Clouds and Whitestack’s flexibility in adjusting their data plane configuration to maximize our performance,” said Brandon Larson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mavenir’s Cloud, AI & IMS Business Strategy. He added: “As the industry moves towards cloud infrastructure, cloud solutions must be adapted to be suitable for telco workloads,” says Brandon Larson. “In order to accomplish this, it takes companies like Mavenir that have developed a specialized skillset in both cloud and telco.”

Mavenir’s Cloud-Native IMS solution is based on a microservices architecture comprising Containerized Network Functions (CNFs) that adopt cloud-native principles, offering voice services that leverage the intrinsic benefits of Kubernetes to ensure high availability. This solution operates on Whitestack’s Telco Cloud platform under an automated deployment model.

“One of the many key aspects of a Telco Cloud, compared to a regular private cloud, is the ability to utilize advanced techniques for accelerating network function performance,” said José Miguel Guzmán, Telco/NFV Business Development Manager, Whitestack. “Each application has its own processing, memory, disk, and traffic profile. In WhiteCloud, we have granular control over these aspects, allowing us to provide each VNF or CNF with the optimal hardware settings to maximize their throughput, mixing and matching legacy and new-generation servers.”

“Server configurations based on Intel Xeon processors include new features designed to accelerate user traffic. When combined with the Intel Infrastructure Power Manager software and Intel Ethernet E810 Controller, these configurations allow service providers to drive optimization of their infrastructure for performance, energy efficiency and space in the telco data center,” said Alex Quach, VP Network and Edge Group, Intel.   

Whitestack has emerged as a key player in the open infrastructure space in Latin America, supplying dozens of Tier 1 data centers in the region with a Telco Cloud solution based on open-source technology. Its offering includes whitebox networking, high-capacity optics systems, and COTS servers powered by Intel Xeon processors.

Mavenir, Whitestack and Intel will be participating at the Open Telco Cloud Summit 2024 in Mexico City on September 3^rd 2024 – register to attend in person or virtually.

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ExaGrid^®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes and immutability for ransomware recovery, today announced its support of Metallic, which is part of Commvault^® Cloud, the data resiliency and recovery platform.

ExaGrid improves the storage economics of Commvault environments by working with Commvault compression and deduplication enabled to provide up to 15:1 reduction in storage consumption – a 3X storage savings over using Commvault deduplication alone. This combination dramatically lowers the cost of onsite and offsite backup storage.

ExaGrid has now expanded this benefit to Commvault Cloud users with its support of Metallic, offering more flexibility to users who want to back up data on-premise, and offering greater storage and costs savings for organizations that keep longer-term retention of their data.

ExaGrid supports:

• Commvault dedupe on
• Commvault dedupe off
• Commvault compression on
• Commvault compression off
• or any combination of the above

“ExaGrid continues to innovate its Tiered Backup Storage solution to enhance its integration with the leading backup applications and utilities. ExaGrid has been a target for Commvault software for nearly 15 years. We are excited to offer even more value to Commvault users by expanding our support to Metallic as well,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid.

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Kingston Digital, Inc., the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, today announced the addition of new red colored XS1000 External SSD, a small and incredibly sleek file backup solution. The XS1000 red joins the original all-black XS1000 and silver XS2000, expanding Kingston’s external SSD product lineup. These external drives are extremely compact and under 29 grams to provide pocket-sized portability.

Kingston’s XS1000 family offers read speeds up to 1,050MB/s¹ and large capacities up to 2TB², providing ample room for storing countless photos, videos, games, and files. The drive comes with a USB-C®³ to USB-A cable and an additional USB-A to USB-C adapter for maximum compatibility with newer and legacy devices. Small like a key fob, the XS1000 serves as a reliable companion for easy file backups, guaranteeing continuous access to your important documents, cherished memories and media files. Earlier this year, Kingston’s XS1000 External SSD was named a winner of the 2024 Red Dot Award: Product Design. The Red Dot Design Award, established in 1955, is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious design competitions, receiving more than 20,000 annual submissions from approximately 60 countries worldwide.

“Building on the success of the all-black XS1000, we’ve introduced a new colorway for those customers looking to stand out and express themselves through color,” said Keith Schimmenti, SSD business manager, Kingston. “With the addition of XS1000 red, they now have more options for external storage with an award-winning design.”

XS1000 is available in 1TB and 2TB capacities and is backed by a limited five-year warranty⁴ with free technical support. For more information visit kingston.com.

XS1000 External SSD Features and Specifications:

• Ultimate portability: Compact and weighing just under 29g, this sleek, SSD fits in your palm, allowing you to take your files on the go effortlessly.
• Reliable file backup: Take it all with you. Transfer and store your documents, large photos, games, and videos without interruption.
• Increased storage: Expand your digital library with high capacities up to 2TB² to preserve life’s cherished moments.
• USB 3.2 Gen 2 support: Achieve read speeds up to 1,050MB/s¹ with backwards compatibility to USB 3.2 Gen 1, ensuring seamless connectivity with legacy devices.
• Interface: USB 3.2 Gen 2
• Speed¹: Up to 1,050MB/s read, 1,000MB/s write
• NAND: 3D
• Capacities²: 1TB, 2TB
• Dimensions: 69.54 x 32.58 x 13.5mm
• Weight: 28.7g
• Casing Material: Metal + Plastic
• Operating temperature: 0°C~40°C
• Storage temperature: -20°C~85°C
• Warranty/Support⁴: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support
• Compatible with⁵: Windows® 11, 10, macOS® (v.10.15.x +), Linux (v. 4.4.x +), Chrome OS, Android, iOS/iPadOS® (v.13+)

Compatibility Table
	USB 3.2 Gen 2
Windows® 11	✓
Windows® 10	✓
macOS® (v. 10.15.x +)	✓
Linux (v. 4.4.x +)	✓
Chrome OS	✓
Android	✓
iOS/iPadOS® (v.13+)	✓

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Swimlane, automation for the entire security organization, today announced an exclusive global partnership with Macnica to enable greater scale and adoption of Swimlane Turbine across the Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) and Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) regions. Through the partnership, Macnica will gain access to Turbine, creating an advanced automation practice across their global network of distributors and resellers to bring the power of AI-enhanced security automation to the regions.

The partnership enables robust automation across Macnica’s most popular use cases including insider threat, Zero Trust, cloud security, operational technology (OT) security, web security, and XDR. Turbine will enable the Macnica customer base to take automation beyond vendor-locked XDR, limited SIEM and SOAR offerings and overly simplified no-code automation tools.

Easing APJ and META security burden and workforce gap

According to the 2023 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the workforce gap grew by 12.6% in 2023, with APJ and META experiencing the steepest regional rise at 12%. The report also found that 71% of cybersecurity professionals in the region think the current threat landscape is the most challenging it has been in the past five years, with 62% of respondents noting that budget cuts and layoffs have inhibited their response to threats. This highlights that security operations teams are overburdened by manual, repetitive and time-consuming tasks required to track, mitigate and respond to security events.

By partnering with Swimlane, Macnica will equip partners with the triple threat of automation, generative artificial intelligence, and low-code. This will open up new automated solutions for customers to help end users overcome the challenges of alert proliferation, product sprawl, widening talent gap and connecting disparate teams or tools.

“The cybersecurity landscape in APJ is reaching a tipping point, with alert fatigue crippling SOC teams and the talent shortage leaving them stretched thin,” said Yusuke Kobayashi, Macnica, Inc. Networks Company President. “This is why Macnica is thrilled to join forces with Swimlane to bring Turbine’s best-in-class low-code automation and AI capabilities to a wider regional audience. Equipping our partners with these solutions will empower them to deliver significant value to their customers, helping them automate workflows, streamline operations and maximize the effectiveness of their security teams.”

“This partnership with Macnica is a game-changer for the APJ and META regions as it extends access to world-class automation that previously wasn’t attainable,” said James Brear, CEO of Swimlane. “Macnica is a recognized leader when it comes to distributing industry-leading technology, and now as a Swimlane partner, they are empowering their vast network to deliver the full force of Turbine’s AI-enhanced and low-code capabilities.”

Redefining security operations with scale and speed

Through this partnership, Macnica partners will unlock a wealth of benefits including:

• Simplified integrations: While diverse integrations in SOCs can unlock significant value, managing them can be a time-consuming burden. For Macnica customers who implement Turbine, Swimlane shoulders the responsibility for a vast majority of integrations, including building new integrations, maintaining current integrations, and updating old integrations when API changes occur.
• Extensive customization: Macnica serves a vast and diverse customer base with varying security postures, compliance requirements and organizational structures. To effectively automate security across this spectrum, customers need a solution that offers customization capabilities. Unlike many SOAR platforms, Turbine empowers Macnica partners to deliver tailored security automation solutions to a variety of popular use cases.
• Analyst accuracy and efficiency: Security analysts constantly face the pressure of speed and repetitive tasks, increasing the risk of human mistakes. Turbine tackles this challenge by automating routine workflow to ensure data is handled according to an organization’s security policies. Turbine’s Hero AI empowers analysts through a collection of AI-enhanced innovations, powered by Swimlane’s own large language model (LLM), boosting efficiency and accuracy for a more effective security posture.

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Cerabyte, the pioneer of ceramic-based data storage solutions, today announced the appointment of Steven Campbell as its Chief Technology Officer. A former CTO with Hitachi Global Storage Technology (HGST) and Western Digital, Steve will help to productize Cerabyte’s revolutionary accessible permanent data storage technology. As CTO, he will define the company’s technical vision, integrating evolving customer needs to execute a leadership roadmap.

“Steve’s extensive experience in managing large-scale global joint product development projects with industry giants such as HGST and Intel on enterprise solid-state storage, and Western Digital and IBM on high-performance hard disk drives, is invaluable to our mission at Cerabyte,” said Christian Pflaum, CEO of Cerabyte. “His experience and innovative vision align with our mission to transform the data storage industry, and with his leadership, we are confident that we will accelerate our product execution.”

Steve brings an impressive background of driving vision and innovation for multiple publicly traded technology companies. In addition to building and leading multi-country, cross-cultural teams across North America and Asia, he is an experienced investor, advisor and director of several early-stage U.S. companies. As CTO at HGST, he revamped the company’s global technology and product development organizations and processes across six development sites in the United States and Japan.

Steve’s appointment marks a significant milestone for Cerabyte as it readies its ceramic data storage technology for commercialization. Cerabyte recently introduced its ceramic data storage offering to the U.S. market as part of its mission to re-invent archive storage.

“I am excited for the opportunity to work with Cerabyte’s revolutionary technology and its passionate team dedicated to revolutionizing how we manage and protect data,” said Steve Campbell. “Together, we will push the boundaries of what’s possible, delivering unparalleled solutions that will enhance the future of data storage.”

Throughout his career, Steve’s contributions have been pivotal in shaping data storage technology, including implementing Shingled Magnetic recording (SMR) and driving the development and launch of the first Helium-filled Hard Drive. In addition to HGST and Western Digital Corporation, Steve was previously CEO of Singapore-listed Magnecomp International Ltd, Thai-listed Magnecomp Precision Technology, and InnoTek Limited.

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Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider^® and Wiz, the leading cloud security platform that provides users with full visibility into their critical cloud risks, today announced that Carahsoft has added Wiz’s Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) to its GSA (General Services Administration) Schedule, making Wiz’s solutions available to the Public Sector through Carahsoft and its reseller partners. Federal, State and Local Government agencies are now able to more easily leverage Wiz’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP^®) Moderate solutions to secure their cloud environment.

“The addition of Wiz’s FedRAMP Moderate CNAPP to Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule marks a significant milestone in our commitment to enhancing cloud security for Government agencies,” said Dean Scontras, VP of Public Sector, Wiz. “This strengthens our ability to offer Federal, State, and Local Governments comprehensive visibility and protection against evolving cloud risks while meeting their strict security regulations.”

Wiz’s CNAPP provides an integrated view of risk with comprehensive visibility and actionable insights for users. It includes Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM), Cloud Detection & Response (CDR), and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), which enables proactive risk mitigation across entire cloud environments. For Public Sector agencies securing Government assets, Wiz conducts thorough risk assessments and identifies potential attack paths, presenting a prioritized view through a graph-based visual interface. With Wiz’s continuous assessment and rapid gap remediation, Public Sector customers can uphold secure, compliant cloud environments.

“The CNAPP addresses the complex cloud security challenges that agencies face daily,” said Brian O’Donnell, Vice President of Cybersecurity Solutions at Carahsoft. “Wiz’s addition to Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule, now supported by its FedRAMP Moderate designation, offers the Government streamlined access to essential tools for securely managing cloud infrastructures. This enhancement not only boosts operational efficiency but also enables our reseller partners to effectively support agencies in prioritizing and mitigating risks with ease.”

Having recently achieved the FedRAMP Moderate designation, Wiz demonstrates its dedication to enhance operational efficiency and security for government agencies. FedRAMP ensures standardized cloud security, streamlining adoption by Federal agencies, while Wiz’s compliance with NIST Special Publication 800-53 underscores its ability to meet stringent security standards.

Wiz’s platform is available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule No. 47QSWA18D008F, and additional Federal, State and Local, and Education contracts. For more information, contact the Wiz team at Carahsoft at (888) 662-2724 or Wiz@carahsoft.com.

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Storj and cunoFS today announce joint efforts to advance and simplify AI and video workflows through the cunoFS file access technology and Storj’s distributed cloud object storage. cunoFS gives highly responsive and POSIX compliant file system access to content stored on cloud based or on-prem object storage platforms, without changing the format of the data.

As a result of this collaboration, creative professionals can access their content in an instant while knowing that content is protected in a non-proprietary format on the resilient, scalable and cost effective Storj object storage platform.

Vaughan Wittorff, Co-Founder and CCO of PetaGene (creator of cunoFS) said, “Thanks to our work with Storj, more customers in sports and news broadcasting, post production, VFX studios and ad agencies can get up and running faster with a drag and drop, plug and play approach to accessing the impressive benefits of Storj’s distributed cloud object storage network that can be used all over the world.”

Colby Winegar, CRO of Storj said, “Our partnership brings the value of Storj to more users that can set up their projects even faster. cunoFS requires no additional configuration and doesn’t have a proprietary format that locks-in users like other file management systems. This democratizes data service, giving users more freedom, flexibility and speed.”

Storj conducted extensive testing of several filesystems, and found cunoFS delivered the best overall performance. Unlike many alternatives, cunoFS did not require significant tuning based on data attributes and environmental variables. This means joint customers can advance their strategic goals faster and access more advanced tools like the cunoFS Machine Learning Accelerator (cunoFS MLA), a software library that accelerates existing machine learning models by advanced leveraging of our data retrieval and storage technology.

File system mount solutions are extremely common with media and entertainment use cases and significant time can be spent setting up these file transfer mounts. This collaboration with cunoFS provides a simple high-performance file manager solution that allows customers to get their data into object storage in record time, and instantly use that content in fast turn-around workflows. Speed to market is a major competitive advantage, so this partnership delivers a game-changing impact for organizations on the forefront of innovation involving AI or machine learning and video content.

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Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end, hybrid, multicloud, and AI solutions company, today announced it is working with TrueData, the leader in providing first-party data for advertisers, publishers, and AdTech firms, to achieve cloud and data storage cost savings that can be invested in innovative new services for its clients.

Founded in 2013, TrueData is a leader in independent omnichannel identity resolution. The company connects individuals and households to digital devices and empowers businesses to enhance and leverage first-party data for improved business outcomes.

Focused on profitability while maintaining innovation, TrueData quickly identified the need for better visibility into cloud spending and cost optimization as growth brought increasing infrastructure costs. Substantial costs from a third-party data warehouse added an obstacle to cost savings, so TrueData partnered with Rackspace Technology to identify opportunities to optimize cloud cost savings.

Rackspace Technology implemented Optimizer+ for TrueData, providing the company with enhanced visibility into its cloud spending through an intuitive interface, monthly cost optimization reviews, and proactive recommendations from the team. In addition, the Rackspace Technology team worked closely with TrueData to implement various cost-saving strategies by analyzing the company’s Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance usage and recommended a shift toward more cost-effective options like cleaning up their AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS). The Rackspace Technology team reviewed and optimized data storage policies across Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets and assisted in migrating from the third-party data warehouse to a fully AWS-based solution.

“We’ve evolved beyond the initial startup phase and are now focused on fast, accurate, and sustainable deployments optimized for long-term product success. Our time and resources need to be focused on what matters, on the core product line offering, instead of inefficient side work on financial User Interface Design (UI) development,” said Nader Salehi, VP and Head of Engineering at TrueData. “Our Rackspace partnership lets us leave the intricacies of cloud cost management to the experts. The ongoing support of the Rackspace team helped ensure that TrueData is continually optimizing its cloud usage and costs. Having a partner that comes up with recommendations without me asking is invaluable.”

Rackspace and TrueData Achieved Dramatic Results Together
TrueData dramatically reduced its monthly cloud expenses by approximately 85% while simultaneously expanding its capabilities. The significant cost savings were achieved through decreased spending on AWS services as well as the elimination of expenses related to its previous third-party data warehouse solution. Beyond raw numbers, the optimization effort allowed TrueData to improve resource use by shifting more workloads to Spot Instances. The company also trimmed storage costs through efficient Amazon S3 bucket management. The Rackspace team continues to pursue additional savings through storage commitments, addressing the company’s high storage usage.

“Looking to the future, TrueData plans to leverage its optimized cloud infrastructure and ongoing partnership with Rackspace to fuel further innovation,” says Donny Cross, Rackspace Technology Vice President, Strategic Operations. “Rackspace is about putting our customers and their needs first and driving 85% savings for TrueData, which is a significant business outcome.”

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