Covergin and 11 Israel-related Headlines, Week of February 7, 2010
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Environment, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, Uncategorized, Web2.0, cloud computing
The week of February 7, 2010, was big for investments and M&A. Social music player TuneWiki raised $7 million and among Israeli companies to be acquired were Convergin, which was picked up by Oracle, and Exanet, bought by Dell. IBM continues to grow its XIV channel and 3DV and PrimeSense continue to be big players in providing sensor technologies for consumer electronics. See below for these stories and more from the week of February 7, 2010.
Cleantech
1. Better Place Sees Electric Cars on Israeli Roads by End of 2011
2. Arava Power: Agreements for 15 Initial Solar Fields
Investments and M&A
3. Oracle Acquires Israeli Startup Convergin
4. Dell Acquires Storage Vendor Exanet
5. Social Music Player TuneWiki Raises $7M From Motorola Ventures, Others
Information Technology
6. Interview with Frederic Aknin, Sparkeo: Innovators in E-Learning Series
7. Point, click: a review of gesture control technologies
8. IBM Expands Channel Program Around XIV Storage Line
9. Opera and Perfecto Mobile Partner To Offer Remote Testing on Real Mobile Devices
Miscellaneous
10. Case Study: Students teach the CEOs
11. Emblaze Brings Patent Infringement Suit against Microsoft, Apple
Vringo and 8 Israel-related Headlines, Week of January 24, 2010
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Environment, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, Uncategorized
During the week of January 24, 2010, electric car venture Better Place raised $350 million. Vringo, a video ringtone company, filed for an IPO and data storage company Continuity Software announced that it added service management software to its offerings. For these stories and the rest of this week’s 8 headlines, see below.
Cleantech
1. Israeli wastewater firms to benefit from new regulations
2. Better Place wins $350 m. investment
Investments
3. Analyst: Israel to benefit from new MSCI standing
4. Video Ringtone Company Vringo Files For $13.8 Million IPO
Information Technology
5. San Mateo’s Clarizen manages growth against major software competition
6. Continuity Software adds SLA management to DR software
Miscellaneous
7. Secrets of the box-office smash
8. Design Museum by Ron Arad Opening in Israel
Storage and 9 Israel-related Headlines, Week of January 3, 2010
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Environment, Information Technology, Internet Security, Mergers and Acquisitions, Uncategorized, VC
During the week of January 3, 2010, Dot Hill bought storage company Cloverleaf for $12.5 million. China’s Sanhua invested in Israeli solar firm, HelioFocus and new vulnerabilities were discovered in Twitter and Google Calendar. For these stories and more, check below for this week’s 9 Israel-related headlines.
Cleantech
1. Are Energy Advances in Israel in Parallel With Those Abroad?
2. China’s Sanhua invests in Israeli solar firm
Investments
3. Dot Hill confirms storage virtualization acquisition
4. Clean tech gets big piece of venture-capital funding
Information Technology
5. 3D sensor co PrimeSense attracts Vegas attention
6. Vulnerabilities Discovered In Twitter, Google Calendar
Miscellaneous
7. Researcher: Computers in schools do not improve students’ results
8. One third of high-tech incubator companies succeeded
9. Animating the Na’vi with an Israeli swagger
Guardium and 9 Israel-related Headlines, Week of November 29, 2009
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Environment, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, Uncategorized, cloud computing, data security
During the week of November 29, 2009 the biggest headline was IBM’s acquisition of database security and compliance company, Guardium. Dune was purchased by Broadcom and VMware is planning to double its workforce in Israel. For these stories and more, check below for this week’s 9 Israel-related headlines.
Cleantech
1. Capstone and Israel’s HelioFocus Get Grants To Fire Up Solar Powered Micro-Turbines
Investment
2. Broadcom To Acquire Dune For $178 Million
3. IBM buys database security firm Guardium
Information Technology
4. Thanks to Israel, ‘the Cloud’ will be safer
5. VMware doubles Israeli R&D workforce
5. Red Bend Software Named One of the Most Important Companies in M2M for 2010
Miscellaneous
7. Israeli firm Emblaze sues Apple claiming iPhone streaming ‘patent infringement’
8. Israeli tech firms are coming back home
Smartphone security trends in 2010
Filed under: Data Storage, Internet Security, Mobile Web, Uncategorized, data security
Using their own independent studies, VeriSign and Israel-based Discertix both recently released the smartphone security trends they expect to see in 2010.
According to VeriSign CTO, Kenneth Silva, who recently spoke in Seoul about the likely mobile device threats in 2010,
“An attack on the mobile device operating system will affect the phone contacts, mobile banking log-ins and passwords and any other valuable information stored on the device”
Smartphone sales are expected to beat PC sales for the first time in 2011.
The opportunities for cyber criminals to penetrate mobile devices are the results of:
- More phone applications needing updates which can pose an opening for phishing scams
- An increase in jail broken phones, which compromises the operating system as an example.
Silva explains that these vulnerabilities can lead to “deliberate Denial of Service attacks, extortion, and corporate espionage as threats for 2010″ and has as such become a national priority for several countries including Israel, the U.S. and the U.K
Research by Discretix, an embedded security solutions company, indicates that smartphones already make up 25% of the market and might reach 40% market share in the next 5 years.
In addition to finding the same threats posed by applications and an open OS that VeriSign did, Discretix has also listed:
- Some of the new OSs (e.g. Android) are open source, missing the traditional safeguards and closed environment of other real time operating systems
- Also the devices are multi-use with massive storage capacity, moving data and applications freely between the enterprise and the home
Despite the seriousness of these threats, a survey conducted by security software firm Trend Micro that was released in August 2009 indicated that 44% of mobile phone users considered Web surfing on a smartphone to be “as safe, if not safer, than doing so on their PC” and “only 23 percent of smartphone owners use security software already installed on their smartphones.”
Discretix was one of the fastest growing Israeli companies in 2008 and 2009 according to Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar and will deliver Open Mobile Alliance DRM capabilities to HTC Windows Mobile and Google Android handsets.
IBM and 10 Israel-related Headlines, Week of July 12, 2009
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Environment, Information Technology, Internet Security, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0
During the past week, word continued to spread about IBM’s latest data-masking technology. Israel’s IQWind raised $500k from foreign investors while in Q2 2009, Israeli high-tech companies raised a total of $279 in venture capital. For these stories and the rest of this week’s 10 Israel-related headlines, see below.
Cleantech
1. Study Says World Driver To Go “Total Electric” By 2030
2. Israeli IQWind raises $500k from U.S. investors
Investments
3. Israeli high-tech companies raised $279m in venture capital in Q2 2009
4. Toyota looking for Israeli development
Information Technology
5. IBM develops new data-masking technology
6. Major AV engines failing to detect malware
7. TWS2009 Showcases Ten of Israel’s Most Promising Startups
8. Israeli SOX Software Innovation to Reduce Time and Cost in I-SOX Compliance Implementation
Miscellaneous
9. N-Viro launches clean soil facility in Israel
N-Trig and 10 Israel-related Headlines, Week of July 5, 2009
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Environment, Information Technology, Video
During the week of July 5, 2009, it was announced that NASA and Israel’s Seambiotic will be researching and developing algae for use as a possible aviation fuel. Discussion continued on N-Trig’s planned 2010 IPO and the company’s latest developments and IBM Haifa researchers revealed new data-masking technology that filters sensitive data from unauthorized viewers on the fly. For these stories and more, check below for the full 10 Israel-related headlines from this past week.
Cleantech
1. How Terra Venture Partners Accelerate Clean Technology
2. Israel’s Bright Sparks Invent ‘Electric’ Road
3. Israeli company, NASA to work together on bio-fuel project
Investment
4. Israel’s N-trig: New touch technology bolsters IPO
Information Technology
6. International TechneGroup acquires software firm
8. RADVISION Receives 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award from TMC
Miscellaneous
9. ‘Degradable’ plastic bags are no such thing, claim experts
10. The oldest hotel in Tel Aviv [video]
Sentrigo Enters Database Vulnerability Assessment Market
Filed under: Data Storage, IT management, Partnerships, Uncategorized, Video, data security
Sentrigo, an Israel-based database security software company, announced last week that it has become the sole distributor of Repscan by Red-Database-Security, “the only 360-degree database vulnerability assessment and security scanning software available for Oracle databases.”
The move helps Sentrigo solidify its hold on the database security market by complementing its Hedgehog database activity monitoring software with software that monitors and identifies Oracle database weaknesses and vulnerablities. In specific, Repscan can “detect insecure PL/SQL code and forensic traces; database modifications; insecure system configuration settings; and weak, shared and default passwords.”
Some main Repscan features include:
- Report-driven penetration testing
- Altered data detection (privileged and user tables)
- Forensic trace discovery from common security and hacker tools
- Automatic conversion of the weaknesses found by Repscan into protection rules and policies in the Sentrigo Hedgehog Database Security Suite
According to Sentrigo’s website, Hedgehog Enterprise
“is for organizations that require breach prevention, end-user identification, virtual patching, integration with your existing security infrastructure, IT governance and operate with enterprise-wide database deployment.”
The software also
“provides full visibility into all database activity including local privileged access, protects the database in real-time with actionable alerts and prevention capabilities, and allows enterprises to enforce security policy and comply with regulatory requirements, such as PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, SAS 70 and HIPAA.”
As an aside, Oracle is currently in talks to purchase Sun Microsystems for over $7 billion and enter the hardware market.
10 Israeli infosec companies at the 2009 RSA Conference
Filed under: Data Storage, IT management, Industry pulse, Information Technology, Internet Security, Uncategorized, cloud computing, data security, virtualization
The 2009 RSA Conference kicked off yesterday in San Francisco. As the conference is the biggest annual information security one in the world and Israel is a leader in the field, several Israeli companies are present this year as sponsors, exhibitors, speakers and attendees. Some of the companies exhibiting and attending include:
- Check Point Software Technologies
- Tufin Technologies
- Safend, Inc
- Imperva
- Radware Inc
- Aladdin Knowledge Systems
- AlgoSec
- Cyber-Ark Software, Inc
- Promisec
- Commtouch
Hot topics expected to be discussed in depth throughout the conference are cloud computing security, conficker worm and the conflict between national security concerns online and the protection of citizen’s rights.
Though reports indicate that overall attendance at the conference this year is significantly lower than in previous years due to the state of the economy and companies cutting back, it is unclear how this has impacted participation and attendance among Israeli companies compared to past years.
16 Israel-related headlines from the week of February 8, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, IT management, Information Technology, Israeli Websites, Telecomunications, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0, data security
Two big deals were announced during the week of February 8, 2009. Solar energy company BrightSource inked the largest solar energy deal ever that will help power Southern California, while Web 2.0 news and blog recommendation engine, Outbrain raised an impressive $12 million. Google Israel announced that it will be restructuring and Dell introduced the Latitude XT2 Multitouch Tablet, its latest laptop to use N-Trig’s multitouch technology. For these stories and more, check out this week’s 16 Israel-related headlines below.
Cleantech
1. BrightSource Inks 1.3GW SoCal Edison Deal
2. Lamar Testing Solar-Powered Digital Billboards
3. Crisis Bodes Well For Electric Cars
4. Israeli Solar Company AORA Raises $5 Million
Investments
5. Israel’s Pontis gets $19.65 mln in equity financing
6. Outbrain, the news story recommendation service, gets $12M
Information Technology
7. Dell Intros Latitude XT2 Multitouch Tablet
9. Startup Neocleus building bare-metal desktop hypervisor
10. Industry’s Only Clientless Endpoint Security Management Solution
11. Acronova’s Entry Level DVD-R Duplication System Now Shipped with TrusCont Copy Protection System
Telecom/Mobile
12. Modu unveil modular cellphone jackets, promise big MWC launch news
13. Apps the new battlefield for mobile industry (Nexperience)
14. Having Text? Cell Phone Users Are Cheating on Their Partners
Miscellaneous
15. How Social Media War Was Waged in Gaza-Israel Conflict
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