DataGrail, recent player in data governance, was a good surprise of the recent
IT Press Tour.
Founded in 2018 by Daniel Barber, Earl Hathaway and Ignacio Zendejas, following their Node.io shared experience, the company has raised so far $4M for its series A. The mission is to address a fast growing need linked with CCPA and GDPR, especially with the proliferation of SaaS, mobile applications and even endpoints/IoT devices.
On average a Fortune 500 company uses more than 100 marketing systems and today we count 7000+ entities in the marketing ecosystem.
The key point is the notion of personal data belonging as it should belong to the user not the enterprise that offers a service especially an online one. And by personal data, we don't limit the idea to phone numbers and email but also website behavior, product usage, mobile usage, IP address cookies and purchase history.
DataGrail targets this new demand with a string control around email, data access and deletion.
The idea is to manage specific records on various connected business systems and DataGrail has developed until now 100+ API integrations. In real, when a user asks for a an email deletion, DataGrail connected to all business systems, cascades and propagates the deletion order.
This is a key differentiator against some vendor, coming from backup, that can do this for inly one systems like salesforce, this is obviously largely not enough.
The company expects to double its team soon and also pass the
200+ API integrations following lots of demands. The solution runs on AWS ands it seems that some plans exist to support GCP and Azure.
2019 should be interesting with potentially a new VC round and an acceleration of the adoption. Would be good to meet again DataGrail next year to check progress and market penetration.
Kaseya, a leading IT management solution provider for SMB and MSP, just announced a new amazing round with this time $500M that value that company at $1.75B.
Pica8, a leader in SDN, unveiled Nymble automation framework for PICOS based on open-source Ansible AWX. This marks a new step in the simplicity of managing large complex networks.
Anaplan, a leader in corporate planning, has a new board member as Suresh Vasudevan joins effective April 14. A bit of a surprise as Suresh is more an infrastructure guy having worked at NetApp, Omneon (acquired by Harmonic), Nimble (acquired by HPE), HPE and currently be the CEO of Sysdig.
CloudGenix, a leader in SD-WAN, confirmed a new VC round of $65M - Series C - reaching almost $100M in total raised.
HYCU, emerging leader in data protection for virtual environments and reference in Nutanix environments, continues to iterate its expertise outside of its comfort zone Nutanix recognizing that cloud eats the world and can't be ignored.
Unitrends, member of the Kaseya family and data protection specialist for SMB and MSP, recently introduced new appliances named Unitrends Recovery Series MAX. This new 1U system line starts at 2TB up to 8TB, 128GB SSD, with dual 1GB or 10GB networking ports and large memory set of 32 or 64GB. They continue to offer services Unitrends are delivered like WAN optimization, global deduplication, encryption, bandwidth throttling and even ransomware detection. Kaseya confirms its SMB and MSP strategy presented recently to The IT Press Tour team with this product iteration.
Ugloo, another iteration of a P2P backup concept, ceased its operations, it is clearly mentioned on the societe.com site. Founded in 2014, Ugloo has raised €1.25M from Picardie Investissement and CapDecisif Management.
I wrote in May 2018 a short post about Kopit I discovered at VivaTech 2018. The bas news is that the adventure is dead, the web site redirects to the portal login page for clients. Hum... and nothing else exists it even seems that all elements on the web disappeared. The team has even removed the LinkedIn company entry. It confirms the difficulty I mentioned for a long time with HDD and cloud storage pricing fast drop and in current climate business such solution has a very tough life. Eduardo Gonzalez, CEO and founder, continues to mention Kopit as a current experience on his profile.
