Veeam Software Group GmbH today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti Inc. for $1.725 billion, by far the largest purchase made by the company to date. Though Veeam has made many acquisitions under the tenure of Chief Executive Anand Eswaran (pictured), this is the first in the security market. As a data protection company, Veeam can be thought of as “security-adjacent,” but now squarely enters the artificial intelligence cybersecurity race.
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced its 8223 routing system, powered by its new Silicon One P200 chip — a new network system designed to unlock artificial intelligence’s potential through massive scale. Earlier this year, Nvidia Corp. introduced the concept of “scale-across” architectures as AI is now hitting the limits of a single data center. A “unit of compute” was once a server then evolved into a rack and then the entire data center.
F5 Inc., the Seattle-based application delivery and security company, is expanding its portfolio with today’s acquisition of CalypsoAI Inc., a leader in enterprise artificial intelligence security. The acquired company was founded in 2018, showing it has been pioneers in the AI security market long before the latest hype cycle. The purchase price was announced at $180 million. The company had raised $43.2 million over three rounds, so the acquisition price provided the investors a strong return.
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today added more capabilities to its fast-growing Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform by leveraging AI to create what the company calls “a blueprint for the AI-ready enterprise.” The Secure Access Service Edge service delivers protection against AI-powered threats, data security that adapts to how information flows, and unified operations capable of intelligent scaling.
Inter is a large digital financial services corporation based in Brazil with its U.S. headquarters in Miami. It began operating in 1994 as Banco Inter, a traditional bank, and became Brazil’s first fully digital, cloud-based bank in 2015. Inter provides online banking and other financial services, ranging from investments to travel, shopping and rewards, to companies and individuals throughout the Americas via its super app.