HPE have bought San Francisco-based cloud-native security and zero trust networking experts Scytale. The company was formed in 2017.
SPIFFE
Its founders, Sunil James, Emiliano Berenbaum, and Andrew Jessup, who move to HPE as part of the deal, are the founding contributors of the SPIFFE (the Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone), a set of open-source standards for securely identifying software systems in dynamic and heterogeneous environments, and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) both open source projects to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Scytale is itself built on SPIFFE and focuses on application-to-application identity and access management, something that is becoming ever more important as we move to using more automated processes that involve little human intervention.
Veaam
At the same time, HPE and Veeam have announced improvements to their data protection offerings with Veeam support for HPE Primera storage and enhancements to HPE StoreOnce backup.
HPE and Veeam have been working together to protect customer data for the last ten years. This new support for HPE Primera, together with the just announced Veeam Availability Suite v10, ensures customers’ data is always available, recoverable and protected. In addition, HPE StoreOnce with Veeam v10 delivers higher data availability by efficiently moving backup copies offsite for disaster recovery.