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Pure Storage announces acquisition of StorReduce
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ure Storage, the all-flash storage
leader that helps innovators build a
better world with data, has announced
the acquisition of software company
StorReduce, a cloud-first software-defined
storage solution for managing large scale
unstructured data.
The acquisition allows Pure Storage to Vendor in Storage. In the same report,
Gartner noted that developing a private/
hybrid/public cloud strategy is the number
one issue facing organisations today, cited
by one in three organisations as their
primary challenge.
Vanessa Wilson, StorReduce CEO, said:
“With the combination of StorReduce’s
add sophisticated deduplication technology
to its object storage portfolio and expand
its public cloud integrations to meet the
growing demand to manage unstructured
data in multi-cloud environments.
StorReduce’s cloud-optimised technology
reduces storage and bandwidth costs,
enabling flash plus cloud solutions across a
variety of use cases, including data tiering,
migration and protection. StorReduce
has been recognised for its innovative
technology, recently named a Gartner Cool data reduction capabilities and Pure’s flash
and object storage te chnologies, we can
now optimise many modern cloud-native
applications as well as many existing
unstructured data workloads, in particular
rapid recovery, at a faster rate.”
“The StorReduce team has built an
incredibly exciting technology that has the
opportunity to make a major impact on
next-generation storage architectures,”
said Charles Giancarlo, Pure Storage CEO.
“Together, we will help customers execute
on data-centric architectures that bridge
seamlessly from on-prem to cloud.”
Charles Giancarlo, Pure
Storage CEO
IBM X-Force Red will deploy Qualys solutions into
client environments
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Philippe Courtot,
Chairman and CEO,
Qualys, Inc
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ualys, a leading provider of cloud-
based security and compliance
solutions, has announced that IBM
X-Force Red will leverage the
Qualys Cloud Platform as part of its
X-Force Red Vulnerability Management
Services (VMS).
As part of an expanded relationship,
X-Force Red will deploy the Qualys Cloud
Agent and Qualys Cloud Apps into client
environments across the globe, providing
a programmatic vulnerability management
approach that leverages the breadth of
Qualys’ continuous visibility and depth of
the X-Force Red team’s services to identify,
prioritise and remediate clients’ most
critical vulnerabilities.
The Qualys Cloud Platform will also
be leveraged by X-Force Red VMS to
help extend security and compliance
visibility into IoT-connected cars, network
testing and application testing. X-Force
Red will offer the Qualys Cloud Platform
to its network of Global 2000 strategic
outsourcing customers.
“This partnership provides
organisations a cost-effective, automated
vulnerability identification, prioritisation
and remediation programme,” said Charles
Henderson, Global Head of X-Force Red.
“And, since we offer X-Force Red
VMS in conjunction with our X-Force Red
penetration testing services, organisations
get the full scope of top level offensive
security – from automated scanning to
manual testing – to find every not-yet-
known vulnerability.”
Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO,
Qualys, Inc, said: “IBM X-Force Red helps
the largest enterprises in the world securely
create and implement DevSecOps practices
to accelerate Digital Transformations.”