Cybersecurity Roundup: Snow Software, OpenVPN, Exabeam, Acronis
… API changes, so security teams don’t need coding skills or professional services engagements to ensure the right data is being collected.
Ted Plumis, Exabeam‘s vice president of channels, business and corporate development, tells us this acquisition will be “fairly transparent” for his company’s partners at first because they already are selling the SkyFormation product as Exabeam Cloud Connectors via its OEM relationship.
“This relationship has given our partners a competitive advantage over other SIEM technologies because Exabeam can reliably collect logs into Exabeam Data Lake and Exabeam Advanced Analytics,” he said. “One change is our partners will soon have the ability to sell Cloud Connectors to their customer base regardless of the deployed SIEM. It will also expand our cloud offerings, in addition to our recently launched SaaS offering and threat intelligence feeds, which will expand the types and size of customers they can sell Exabeam to.”
SkyFormation has mainly sold via MSP and managed detection and response (MDR) partners, and all SkyFormation partners will be welcome in the Exabeam partner program, Plumis said.
“The timing was right because we are making a strong move into the cloud and expanding our engineering teams globally,” he said. “We recently opened an office in Atlanta and now we have an Illinois development center, which will help us grow and attract more security talent to Exabeam. We also have seen a tremendous demand for Exabeam Cloud Connectors and have had a great relationship with the SkyFormation team since 2016, so it made sense to bring them into Exabeam. In terms of acquisitions, for the near future we are focused on making sure we effectively integrate the SkyFormation team and solutions into Exabeam, but if there are companies or technologies we feel will enhance the Exabeam platform for our customers then we will explore all opportunities.”
Acronis Backup Extended to SAP HANA
Acronis, well-known for its family of backup, imaging and synchronization products, this week unveiled Acronis Backup for SAP HANA data.
Acronis now protects the entire database without requiring any knowledge or expertise in SAP HANA. More than 27,000 enterprises rely on SAP HANA databases.
SAP HANA is the latest platform supported by Acronis Backup, joining more than 20 other physical, virtual, application, cloud, mobile and endpoint systems. In addition, this new SAP HANA backup and recovery support represents the first step toward a greater connectivity between Acronis’ cyber protection services and SAP HANA’s enterprise data management capabilities.
James Slaby, Acronis’ director of cyberprotection, tells us one of the big advantages of Acronis Backup is its ability to protect the customer’s entire IT environment, from servers to mobile devices, including VMs and cloud workloads, from a single interface.
“Now add SAP HANA support to that, and suddenly Acronis partners gain access to an important, large segment of the enterprise market,” he said. “SAP HANA is widely used in business, with tens of thousands of deployments, but backing it up has historically been a headache for IT departments. It uses an in-memory architecture, and deployments are typically large, complex, performance-sensitive and data-intensive. Acronis makes backing up SAP HANA easy, efficient and secure with the use of ready-to-use, prepackaged scripts. IT operations staffs can … quickly recover SAP HANA environments from any data losses, minimizing the duration and cost of downtime from issues like hardware failures and malware attacks.”
Acronis partners now have the ability to add SAP HANA support to Acronis’ support for every computing environment, Slaby said.
“And they can sell SAP HANA customers the other innovative virtues of Acronis Backup, like restore of SAP HANA systems to a variety of destinations (physical, virtual, cloud), near-instantaneous recovery times (by restoring directly from backup as VMware VMs), and the use of native SAP HANA snapshot technology,” he said.
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