MARKET MOVEMENT
Hitachi Vantara completes acquisition of
Waterline Data
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, has completed
its acquisition of the assets of privately held
Waterline Data Inc, a provider of intelligent
data cataloging solutions. Hitachi Vantara
also introduced Lumada Data Catalog,
incorporating Waterline’s data cataloging
technology into the Lumada portfolio to
solve modern data challenges for analytics
and governance across Edge-to-core-tocloud
environments.
Lumada Data Catalog expands Hitachi
Vantara’s DataOps solutions and provides
customers with a way to unify silos of
data distributed across the cloud, data
infrastructure and the machines and devices
at the Edges of their networks. Waterline’s
data cataloging technology gives customers
a common metadata framework for
managing all their data. By applying DataOps
methodologies to the unified datasets,
customers can rapidly gain insights and
drive innovation. Waterline Data Founder
and Chief Technology Officer, Alex Gorelik,
now a Hitachi Vantara senior fellow, led the
integration of Waterline’s technology into
the Lumada portfolio – a data management
and innovation platform for all industries.
Guido Schroeder, Chief Technology
Officer, Digital Solutions, Hitachi Vantara,
said: “Adding Waterline Data’s capabilities to
Hitachi Vantara’s suite of DataOps solutions
is a great step forward in ensuring our
customers can effectively and efficiently
manage their data assets across environments
– from Edge-to-core-to-multi-cloud.”
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Mindware partners with Mist Systems to distribute
AI-driven wireless in MENA
Mindware, one of the leading Value
Added Distributors (VADs) in the
Middle East and Africa, has announced that
it has signed a distribution agreement with
Mist Systems, a Juniper company that is a
pioneer in cloud-managed wireless networks
powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
As per the agreement, Mindware will
offer Mist’s entire portfolio of solutions
to enterprises across the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) including the GCC
countries, Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq,
Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan,
Tunisia and Yemen. Mindware will extend
and enable the vendor’s regional channel,
while also providing value-added services
for support, implementation, training and
business development.
The agreement marks a significant
extension of Mindware’s long-standing
Nicholas Argyrides, General Manager – Gulf at Mindware
partnership with Juniper Networks which
spans over a decade. Having established
proven expertise as a value-added
distributor for Juniper Networks’ best-inclass
wired LAN, SD-WAN and security
solutions, Mindware is now ready to
round out its portfolio by extending this
competency into the wireless domain.
Nicholas Argyrides, General Manager
– Gulf at Mindware, said: “Through our
partnership with Mist, we are improving
the reliability, predictability and
measurability of Wi-Fi, while introducing
unmatched convenience and simplicity
through the intuitive and scalable cloudmanagement
layer.”
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