IEEE 802.1X

Redpanda Grows Revenue Nearly Fivefold, Unveils New Managed Connectors for Its Streaming Data Cloud

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The company also announced new connectors to popular data sources for Redpanda Cloud and the availability of Redpanda platform 23.1 with new features that lower the bar to adoption, improve data security and safety, and enhance system scalability.

Key Points: 
  • The company also announced new connectors to popular data sources for Redpanda Cloud and the availability of Redpanda platform 23.1 with new features that lower the bar to adoption, improve data security and safety, and enhance system scalability.
  • “We conducted a thorough evaluation of streaming data options and Redpanda was the clear winner,” said Chip Turner, Engineering Director at cloud security leader Lacework.
  • Redpanda’s managed cloud service, which can be deployed as either dedicated clusters run by Redpanda or BYOC (running in the customer’s cloud) clusters, now comes with built-in connectors for the most popular data sources and sinks to simplify data pipelines.
  • This adds to the existing list of connectors (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and MirrorMaker) available in Redpanda Cloud.

Venafi Introduces TLS Protect for Kubernetes to Simplify Cloud Native Machine Identity Management

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Venafi® , the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, today introduced TLS Protect for Kubernetes .

Key Points: 
  • Venafi® , the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, today introduced TLS Protect for Kubernetes .
  • As part of the Venafi Control Plane for machine identities, TLS Protect for Kubernetes enables security and platform teams to easily and securely manage cloud native machine identities, such as TLS, mTLS and SPIFFE, across all of an enterprise’s multi-cloud and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
  • “Through the Venafi Control Plane, we’re modernizing machine identity management and making managing machine identities in cloud native environments easier than ever.
  • Features in TLS Protect for Kubernetes include:
    Observability – Through a comprehensive web-based management interface, security and platform teams can easily discover machine identities used across all clusters, including alerts on machine identity management infrastructure health, compliance and configuration.

Amplifire Receives Strategic Investment from Polaris Growth Fund

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Thursday, July 28, 2022

BOULDER, Colo., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Knowledge Factor, Inc. ("Amplifire"), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging brain science, has received a strategic investment from Polaris Growth Fund ("PGF").

Key Points: 
  • BOULDER, Colo., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Knowledge Factor, Inc. ("Amplifire"), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging brain science, has received a strategic investment from Polaris Growth Fund ("PGF").
  • Chief Executive Officer Bob Burgin and the existing management team will continue to lead Amplifire.
  • The company has realized impressive growth driven largely by the development and expansion of Amplifire's Healthcare Alliance.
  • The Amplifire eLearning platform helps customers make learning stick, eliminate mistakes, and change behavior that results in enhanced performance and prosperity.

Leeds Equity Partners Announces Sale of Amplifire to Polaris Partners

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Monday, July 25, 2022

NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leeds Equity Partners ("Leeds Equity"), the New York-based private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in the Knowledge Industries, announced the sale of its portfolio company Knowledge Factor, Inc. ("Amplifire," or the "Company"), a leading SaaS provider of cognitive science-based assessment, training, and data analytics, to Polaris Partners.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leeds Equity Partners ("Leeds Equity"), the New York-based private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in the Knowledge Industries, announced the sale of its portfolio company Knowledge Factor, Inc. ("Amplifire," or the "Company"), a leading SaaS provider of cognitive science-based assessment, training, and data analytics, to Polaris Partners.
  • Canaccord Genuity served as financial advisor to Amplifire and Leeds Equity Partners.
  • Amplifire, founded in 2000, is headquartered in Boulder, CO.
    Leeds Equity Partners is a private equity firm dedicated exclusively to partnering with management teams in the education, training, and information services industries (the "Knowledge Industries").
  • Leeds Equity seeks to leverage its sector-focused expertise and market insights to create long-term value for its partner companies.

MaxLinear Expands Portfolio of Industrial Ethernet Products with a Quad-Port 2.5GBase-T PHY and 1GBase-T Switches

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Thursday, April 7, 2022

"As the requirements for industrial-grade Ethernet products continue to grow, we continue to invest to remain in a strong position to support these fast-growing markets."

Key Points: 
  • "As the requirements for industrial-grade Ethernet products continue to grow, we continue to invest to remain in a strong position to support these fast-growing markets."
  • "According to our 2022 market research, the Industrial Ethernet market is expected to outpace the overall market and reach $3.5B in 2025.
  • "The Industrial Ethernet market is transitioning from fast Ethernet to GigE and mGigEth is creating the need for a new family of Industrial grade IC's.
  • The MaxLinear industrial Ethernet PHY and Switch products will help drive this market transition."

Ethernity Networks Announces New Edge Device

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Thursday, February 24, 2022

AIRPORT CITY, Israel, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethernity Networks (AIM: ENET.L), a leading supplier of data processing offload solutions on programmable hardware for accelerating telco/cloud networks, today announced its forthcoming disaggregated UEP2025 Cell Site Router (CSR).

Key Points: 
  • AIRPORT CITY, Israel, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethernity Networks (AIM: ENET.L), a leading supplier of data processing offload solutions on programmable hardware for accelerating telco/cloud networks, today announced its forthcoming disaggregated UEP2025 Cell Site Router (CSR).
  • UEP2025 is an upgrade on the existing and currently available Universal Edge Platform that represents Ethernity's line of programmable network appliances targeted for network edge infrastructure solutions.
  • Ethernity Networks (AIM: ENET.L) provides innovative, comprehensive networking and security solutions on programmable hardware for accelerating telco/cloud networks.
  • Ethernity's complete solutions quickly adapt to customers' changing needs, improving time-to-market and facilitating deployment of 5G, edge computing, and NFV.

Broadcom Strengthens its Commitment to Open Compute Project Showcasing Leading-Edge and Wide Range of Initiatives at this Year’s Global Summit

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

A long-time supporter of open, standards-based technologies, Broadcom is dedicated to developing high-performance, scalable solutions optimized for AI/ML in Cloud and hyperscale data centers.

Key Points: 
  • A long-time supporter of open, standards-based technologies, Broadcom is dedicated to developing high-performance, scalable solutions optimized for AI/ML in Cloud and hyperscale data centers.
  • Broadcoms innovative products are designed specifically to deliver a rich set of features at maximum performance, while providing power and cost efficiencies.
  • The first demo is for a massively scalable, virtualized, distributed routing platform utilizing Broadcom Jericho2 and Ramon chipsets, OCP Experience Center.
  • Broadcom showcasing 2x100G OCP NIC 3.0 adapter with multi-host connectivity, manageability, and precision timing using PTP, OCP Experience Center.

Shooter Detection Systems to Showcase Gunshot Detection at ISC East

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Monday, October 18, 2021

ROWLEY, Mass., Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Shooter Detection Systems (SDS), an Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM) company, will return to the International Security Conference and Exposition (ISC East) at the Javits Center in New York City November 17-18, 2021.

Key Points: 
  • ROWLEY, Mass., Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Shooter Detection Systems (SDS), an Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM) company, will return to the International Security Conference and Exposition (ISC East) at the Javits Center in New York City November 17-18, 2021.
  • SDS will highlight developments in their Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System, including new enterprise-level software enhancements and Guardian Wireless, the Patent Pending wireless/battery-powered gunshot detection sensor and the latest innovation to join the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection line of products.
  • Guardian Wireless sensors mirror the proven acoustic and infrared gunshot detection features of the company's flagship Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection Power over Ethernet (PoE) sensors, with the addition of a primary lithium battery pack.
  • With over seven years of experience in the development and delivery of gunshot detection systems to commercial customers, Shooter Detection Systems (SDS), an Alarm.com (Nasdaq: ALRM) company, is a leading provider of patented gunshot detection solutions for schools, government buildings, transportation hubs, entertainment facilities and businesses of various sizes.

Announcing Zero Trust Authentication for Managed Devices and BYOD

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Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Our zero trust authentication solution was built to help security teams close this gap and ensure only authorized users and devices are able to access the organizations data and resources.

Key Points: 
  • Our zero trust authentication solution was built to help security teams close this gap and ensure only authorized users and devices are able to access the organizations data and resources.
  • The most secure way to control access is to replace passwords with fundamentally secure authentication factors and to stop users from logging in from unauthorized devices.
  • With zero trust authentication, Beyond Identitys passwordless authenticator now natively collects more than 25 attributes from users, devices, and applications, including granular device security data from all computers, tablets, and phones.
  • These risk signals are collected from every device during every authentication, including managed and unmanaged devices such as bring your own device (BYOD).

Pulse Secure NAC Extends Zero Trust Network Assurance as Users, Endpoints and IoT Devices Return to a Hybrid Workplace

Available separately or as part of Pulse Access Suite Plus , Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) is an enterprise-class NAC solution that is easy to deploy, manage and scale.

Key Points: 
  • Available separately or as part of Pulse Access Suite Plus , Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) is an enterprise-class NAC solution that is easy to deploy, manage and scale.
  • 48% have moderate to unlikely means to discover, identify and respond to unknown, unmanaged, or insecure devices accessing network and cloud resources.
  • In this report, Pulse Secure ranked among the top 3 hybrid NAC vendors by global market share - offering 802.1X, non-802.1X agent-based agentless functions.
  • Our suites and SaaS platform uniquely integrate cloud, mobile, application and network access to enable hybrid IT in a Zero Trust world.