Acquisition broadens Fastly's security offering and accelerates Compute@Edge adoption; Expected to be accretive to growth and gross margin Fastly, Inc., provider of an edge cloud platform, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signal Sciences ("Signal Sciences"), for approximately $775 million in cash and stock. The acquisition will expand Fastly's robust security portfolio at a time when security at the edge has never been more critical. Signal Sciences' strong, developer-first web application and API protection solutions will bolster Fastly's existing security offerings to bring customers a unified edge security solution. Signal Sciences' technology combined with Fastly's current solutions will form Fastly's upcoming new security offering, Secure@Edge. Secure@Edge will be a modern, unified web application and API protection solution that will power and protect companies looking to further or begin their digital transformation.

AI Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market, today announced that Cognite, an industrially specialized DataOps and AI platform company, has been selected as the winner of the "Best Predictive Analytics Solution" for the Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. Cognite Data Fusion supports the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries around the world, empowering companies with contextualized OT/IT data to drive industrial applications and develop and scale solutions that increase safety, sustainability, and efficiency, and drive revenue. CDF turns historical and real-time industrial data into insights for organizations in a variety of verticals including: oil and gas, energy and manufacturing, helping them develop and deliver new digital services and even transform their business models. "Cognite Data Fusion is revolutionizing the workflows of industrial customers worldwide," said Dr. John Markus Lervik, CEO and co-founder of Cognite. "It's important for us to make a true impact on our customers while shaping the digital future of the world's largest, most vital industries. We believe data must be made accessible, insightful, open then contextualized. Contextualization defines modern data management."

DobiProtect enables heightened business continuity by giving customers the ability to identify and maintain an air-gapped'golden copy' of mission-critical unstructured data Datadobi, the global leader in unstructured data management software, announced DobiProtect enhancements to help companies maintain the highest standards of business continuity. With DobiProtect, organizations can easily create a'golden copy' of their business-critical file and object data in its native format across heterogeneous systems. This golden copy enables companies to quickly restore business operations that rely on unstructured data when serious disruptions occur such as cyberattacks, ransomware, insider threats, storage platform specific bugs, natural disasters, etc. With business operations becoming increasingly reliant on unstructured data being immediately accessible, DobiProtect customers are giving themselves a fighting chance to get their activities up and running fast by simply keeping a golden copy of core business-critical data. Customers can keep their data in a bunker site, in the cloud, or behind an air gap. The choice is entirely theirs as DobiProtect gives them the freedom to choose any NAS or object storage.

Chatmeter, the industry leader in the local search marketing and reputation management space, announced several key appointments to its leadership team including the new hires of Dan Cunningham, Chief Technology Officer; Nichole Peterson, Vice President of Finance; and Kathleen Titano, Director of People & Culture. The new appointments highlight the company's accelerated expansion among increased need for multi-location businesses to manage their local presence. Other recent news includes new improvements to Chatmeter's Social Suite, with the addition of Google Posts, Instagram, and advanced social analytics tools to the platform. "Chatmeter's growth has continuously accelerated even throughout COVID-19. I'm confident that each of these new members, in addition to the extensive experience they bring, will help take the company to the next level," said Collin Holmes, CEO of Chatmeter.

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced the appointment of Paul Appleby as president, worldwide field operations. Appleby was most recently the chief executive officer of Kinetica, and will be responsible for enhancing the customer journey, driving global revenue growth, and developing strategies for addressing the large market opportunity for Elastic. Appleby will report to Elastic founder and Chief Executive Officer Shay Banon. Appleby joins Elastic as the company continues to see increasing demand for its enterprise search, observability and security solutions that are built on a single technology stack under a unified pricing model. Elastic's unified, resource-based pricing enables customers to predictably control costs and fuel rapid adoption across its solutions.

As countries across the world grapple with the novel coronavirus, there has been a significant effort to integrate input from sources, from surveillance cameras to point-of-sale systems and connected health devices. The trend has highlighted the power of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments for public data collection as well as the technology's privacy-eroding potential. South Korea, for instance, has aggregated data from IoT devices and smartphones to create detailed logs of its citizens' behavior. The nation has documented where residents went, how long they stayed, who accompanied them and whether they were wearing a mask. Part of an aggressive approach, the South Korean strategy, which includes extensive testing for the novel coronavirus, has proven to be largely effective in curbing infection without closing businesses or mandating universal quarantines.

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Today's digital economy is powered by data, which is produced in abundance by both individuals and enterprises and stored in vast data centres, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company's latest report, 'Big data – Thematic Research', details how several prominent business people and a number of leading publications have described data as the new oil, capable of generating significant value if used in the right way. Many big data vendors have had to contend with a growing market perception that data governance, security, and management have taken a back seat to accessibility and speed. In response, most companies are now accepting the challenge and openly prioritising data governance. This is expected to result in multiple disparate solutions being replaced by single data management platforms, leading to efficient scalability, collection, and distribution of data.