Here are today’s top stories. Reading tech news is an important way for IT leaders and professionals, developers, designers to keep up to date. The CIO Influence Team compiles a weekly digest covering DevOps culture, emerging technology trends, open-source cloud and even a roundup of IT-related mishaps.
Cisco to Acquire Splunk, to Help Make Organizations More Secure and Resilient in an AI-Powered World
Cisco and Splunk, the cybersecurity and observability leader, announced a definitive agreement under which Cisco intends to acquire Splunk for $157 per share in cash, representing approximately $28 billion in equity value. Upon close of the acquisition, Splunk President and CEO Gary Steele will join Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team reporting to Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins.
Thales and Intel Collaborate to Enhance Trust in Confidential Computing
Thales, the leading global technology and security provider, announced a collaboration leveraging Thales CipherTrust Data Security platform to deliver end-to-end data security using confidential computing and trusted attestation backed by Intel Trust Authority. This collaboration enables customers in highly regulated industries to secure workloads and protect data in use on-premises and in the cloud.
Apptio Completes Integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Multi-Cloud Capabilities to FinOps Practitioners
Apptio, a leading technology spend and value management company, announced an enhancement to its Cloudability product suite to give FinOps practitioners access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) usage and cost data natively within the Cloudability platform.
Venafi Extends Market Leadership With New Suite of Capabilities for SaaS Machine Identity Management Platform
Venafi, the inventor of machine identity management, launched a suite of groundbreaking innovations within its Control Plane for Machine Identities. Unveiled at the Machine Identity Management Summit 2023, these innovations expand Venafi’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) machine identity management platform, equipping security and platform teams to accelerate modernization and safeguard their organizations against the challenges of cloud native adoption, the rise of AI, the post-quantum era and more.
Komprise Introduces Storage Insights to Unify Data and Storage Management
Komprise, the leader in analytics-driven unstructured data management, announced the general availability of Storage Insights, the industry’s first unified, consistent view of both data usage and storage consumption across vendors and clouds without having to contend with multiple consoles and multiple storage consumption definitions.
