Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
January 9, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: January 9, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Snyk, a provider of developer security, is forming a new strategic alliance with Deloitte, a provider of global security consulting services, offering the organizations' shared clients access to both the Snyk Developer Security Platform and Deloitte's Secure by Design solution. According to the companies, the move is to help organizations mature developer security initiatives and improve visibility into enterprise-wide application risks from code to cloud.
Coming off of remarkable momentum in AI and hybrid cloud technologies in 2023, IBM aims to expand its partner initiatives to help organizations meet ramping demands for modernization and automation. Citing the success of IBM's marriage of its robust partner program and cutting-edge technology, the company's introduction of the Service track in Partner Plus seeks to create even more proprietary opportunities for IBM partners and their businesses.
Keepit, the provider of next-level SaaS data protection for companies with data stored in the cloud, is announcing that HSBC Innovation Banking has provided Keepit with a $40 million refinancing package, delivered in partnership with The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO). This funding will serve to drive Keepit's investments in international expansion, hiring, proprietary operations, and product development.
Nerd/Noir, a consulting firm specializing in transforming large-scale, product engineering organizations, is partnering with DX, the trusted platform for measuring and improving developer experience, to accelerate Nerd/Noir's commitment to helping engineering organizations measure and improve developer productivity. The move aims to make organizations more efficient and better situated for long-term success, according to the companies.
Radix IoT, LLC is releasing enhanced MQTT support in Mango 5.1, fortifying the company's market leadership as the IoT platform of choice for advanced scalability and monitoring of globally diverse facilities. Building on MQTT's wide adoption as an open-source protocol for data exchange and communication between IoT devices, Mango 5.1 reduces bandwidth usage to enhance the IoT system's resilience, performance, and reliability with unprecedented scalability options, according to the company.