SD Times News Digest: VC Funds Blockchain Company, Checkmarx Acquires Dustico, ONUG Nominates Two New Members to Board

According to financial market news media site Block Arabia, blockchain companies have raised a total of $ 30.4 billion and recorded a 44% increase within a year.

According to Crunchbase data, 2018 was a record year for blockchain investment, but the next two years saw a significant decline. This year, investors have begun to flock to technology.

Block arabia US blockchain companies are leading the total investment, with $ 12.5 billion in funding rounds to date, followed by European companies at $ 6.1 billion and Asian companies at $ 5.4 billion.

Checkmarx acquires Dustico

Checkmarx’s acquisition of a startup, which has developed a unique way to identify supply chain attacks, extends technology to Checkmarx’s software configuration analysis tool, CxSCA.

This adds ML-driven behavioral analytics and contributor reputation metrics to the risk analysis equation, along with the solution’s existing threat feeds, independent security investigations, and exploitable path capabilities.

Checkmarx says it is working on incorporating these new protections into CxSCA as soon as possible and will post updates. site.

ONUG nominates two new members to the board

ONUG today announced that it has appointed Shannon Lietz, vice president of Adobe’s Vulnerability Labs, to the ONUG board as co-chairs with co-founders Nick Lippis and Ernest Leffner of ONUG.

In addition, Yesim Akdeniz, Managing Director of Architecture, Technology and Engineering at Citigroup, has been appointed to the ONUG Board of Directors.

The ONUG Board is the direction and direction of an open enterprise cloud framework for the industry that will most benefit ONUG members, including companies such as Bank of America, Signa, Citigroup, FedEx, Fidelity Investments, Gap Inc., Pfizer and Target. Set the gender. Raytheon Technologies, Kaiser Permanente, moe.

ServiceNow acquires Swarm64

ServiceNow has acquired Swarm64, a database performance company, to sign an agreement that enables customers to manage data more effectively and efficiently across a variety of use cases and perform complex, fast data analysis on a large scale. did.

Swarm64 was co-founded in 2013 to accelerate the performance of PostgreSQL databases through a combination of analytic and transactional database capabilities that support large-scale, intelligent workflows for best-in-class performance and scalability.

ServiceNow plans to complete the acquisition of Swarm64 in the third quarter of 2021. Please see here for the detail. here.

Apache weekly updates

At this week’s Apache Software Foundation, Apache Pinot, a decentralized big data analytics infrastructure created to provide scalable real-time analytics, has moved to a top-level project.

New releases this week include Geode 1.13.4, Camel 3.11.1, Commons CSV 1.9.0, and Commons DBCP 2.9.0.