MARKET MOVEMENT
StarLink and Napatech partner to extend business
reach to enterprise and cloud customers
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tarLink, one of the fastest growing ‘True’
Value-Added-Distributors (VAD) in the
Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META), has
announced signing up as Napatech’s VAD for
the Middle East and Africa.
Napatech’s reconfigurable computing
platform improves the performance of security offerings. StarLink will be fully
authorised to sell, market and distribute
Napatech’s FPGA-based SmartNIC
hardware and software to networking and
cybersecurity teams who are deploying
applications and services as software
solutions on standard server platforms. solutions on standard server platforms. We
are excited to add the Napatech solutions
to our security framework using its FPGA-
based SmartNICs to help our customers and
partners fulfil this vision.”
Joe Seiferth, Vice President, Worldwide
Channel Sales at Napatech, said: “An
leading IT applications for networking,
security, Big Data, analytics, Machine
Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Its FPGA-
based SmartNIC software and hardware
offloads and accelerates burdensome
workloads within standard server platforms,
returning valuable CPU resources to the
applications and services for which they
were intended. The agreement enables
StarLink to add Napatech’s reconfigurable
computing platform to its portfolio of IT This partnership marks the latest move by
Napatech to strengthen its sales, marketing
and distribution channels around the world
and follows recent partnerships with VARs
and distributors in North America and EMEA.
Mahmoud Nimer, General Manager at
StarLink, said: “In a world of software-
defined networking, the way networks are
being designed and secured is changing. A
wide range of cybersecurity applications
are being deployed as software-only increasing number of networking and
cybersecurity professionals are deploying
software-based solutions to meet their
performance and cost objectives, while
maintaining the highest levels of agility. The
demand for these new solutions includes
enterprise, government, service providers
and cloud data centre networks. StarLink
has the reputation and relationships to bring
Napatech’s solutions to its customers and
partners around the world.”
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CrowdStrike and Secureworks form strategic partnership
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rowdStrike and Secureworks have
announced that they will bring a new
level of advanced endpoint threat detection
to the marketplace by teaming up to apply
Secureworks’ Red Cloak behavioural
analytics and intelligence to CrowdStrike’s
Falcon platform data.
The joint offering delivers in one package
a market-leading endpoint detection and
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response solution with applied analytics and
intelligence to accelerate investigations and
provides guided remediation steps for more
confident response to real threats.
The announcement follows the
September 4 launch of the Secureworks
Red Cloak Partner Program, which allows
the company to make its high-fidelity
detection and incident investigation
capabilities available more broadly in the
marketplace while also giving clients the
freedom to choose best-of-breed endpoint
security solutions.
“We are excited to team up with
Secureworks to enable it to apply its well-
regarded expertise in threat intelligence
and analysis to CrowdStrike’s Threat Graph
telemetry data generated by the Falcon
endpoint protection platform,” said Mike
Carpenter, President, Global Sales and Field
Operations at CrowdStrike.
Secureworks will leverage more
than 16 years of experience detecting
advanced adversaries across its global
client base and CrowdStrike will leverage
its market-leading endpoint protection
and EDR products to deliver the high-
fidelity telemetry that makes it possible
for Secureworks to apply its analytics
and deliver the best possible context for
validating and remediating true threats.