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[1] Devo Technology announces $100M in funding to develop 'autonomous SOC'

[2] Rockset enables real-time analytics for Oracle users

[3] Privatar, Denodo partner to unite data's context with regulatory compliance

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[1] Today, cloud-native logging and security analytics provider Devo Technology announced it has raised $100 million as part of a series F funding round and achieved a valuation of $2 billion. Global investment firm Eurazeo led the round, and the organization intends to use the fund to fuel its growth and accelerate its vision of the "autonomous security operations centers (SOC)."

The Devo platform provides enterprises with a cloud-native logging and security analytics solution that integrates with a set of purpose-built applications for security, IT operations and machine learning use cases, alongside the organization's community application marketplace, Devo Exchange.

The announcement comes as security teams are consistently struggling to secure a fast-growing attack surface. Research shows that 70% of SOC analysts report their home lives are being emotionally impacted by an overload of IT threat alerts>> Read more.

[2] Oracle makes industrial-strength databases, servers and storage devices that are among the fastest and toughest in the business, but they don't necessarily perform all the functions users are now seeking.

Enter six-year-old startup Rockset, which has developed a real-time analytics platform for cloud apps, including those from Oracle. The San Mateo, California-based startup announced yesterday a new integration with the giant database company, one that it claims enables developers to run real-time search, aggregations and "joins" on data from Oracle databases.

"Enterprises looking to use data from their Oracle databases to power user-facing analytics have traditionally relied on read replicas that are too expensive, or loaded it into warehouses that are too slow," Rockset Chief Product Officer Shruti Bhat said in a media advisory. "Rockset now ingests real-time change data capture (CDC) streams from Oracle, and indexes every field to enable low-latency, high-concurrency analytics, without the complexity of traditional approaches." >> Read more.

[3] Data privacy guardian Privitar has partnered with data virtualization stalwart Denodo to fortify the latter's data integration and data management capabilities with Privitar's data provisioning. The partnership addresses the sudden influx of regulations organizations are facing pertaining to data privacy.

The emergence of these regulations — which began in earnest only about five years ago with the passage of the GDPR — coincides with the AI era, in which concern about consumer data has become paramount.

The most exacting aspect of these developments isn't just the enlarging quantity of regulations in this space or the stiffness of noncompliance penalties. Instead, it's that organizations must now discern and reveal the purpose for which data is gathered, connected to, and accessed. >> Read more.

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