Microsoft buys the fifth company from Israel for the year
Microsoft has confirmed the purchase of the Israeli company Secure Islands, specializing in information security. The company's technologies will be integrated into the Microsoft Azure Rights Management service.
This transaction will be for Microsoft the fifth in the last year acquisition of a company from Israel.
In the past year, Microsoft has been closely following Israeli startups. November 13, 2014 Microsoft announced the acquisition of an innovator in the field of corporate information security - the company Aorato. This startup was founded in 2011 by veterans of the Israeli armed forces. The company developed and sold software for monitoring access to the central communication components of corporate IT systems. Microsoft acquired a startup to use its development in the corporate hybrid cloud and in July 2015 released the product Advanced Threat Analytics . Details of the transaction were not disclosed, but the amount could amount to two hundred million dollars.
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In January 2015, Microsoft acquired Equivio , a startup involved in legal document analysis and corporate information software. The startup worked with law firms and government agencies, including the US Department of Justice. Microsoft made this deal to get closer to the market leadership of Big Data analytics. According to rumors , the purchase cost Microsoft two hundred million dollars.
In May 2015, Microsoft and the Israeli startup who developed the Surface Pen, the digital pen for tablets, became aware of the deal. The Wall Street Journal estimated the deal at thirty million dollars .
In September 2015, Takeshi Numoto, vice president of marketing for cloud products at Microsoft, wrote on his blog that the company had bought an information security developer in the Adallom cloud. This company has been operating since 2012, its services are already used to protect user data in Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce.com, ServiceNow, Dropbox, ServiceNow and other cloud products. From 2012 to mid-2015, Adalom raised fifty million dollars in investments from EMC, HP, venture funds Sequoia Capitol and European Index Ventures. Microsoft could pay for this startup about three hundred and twenty million dollars.
The fifth Israeli startup that Microsoft buys in the last twelve months will be the purchase of Secure Islands. According to rumors , the amount of the transaction - 150 million US dollars, but after confirming the takeover, none of the companies gave the exact figure. Companies are waiting for regulatory approval.
The company is engaged in information security and for the last nine years has been offering its services to organizations, its technologies are already used by a number of large companies, including Vodafone, UBS and Suisse. Microsoft has already worked with this company to improve the Azure Rights Management Service . The new deal will allow companies to work more closely for the use of Secure Islands technologies in this service to protect the confidential information of organizations in an environment where employees distribute data using both company-owned devices and their own gadgets.
This transaction will be for Microsoft the fifth in the last year acquisition of a company from Israel.
In the past year, Microsoft has been closely following Israeli startups. November 13, 2014 Microsoft announced the acquisition of an innovator in the field of corporate information security - the company Aorato. This startup was founded in 2011 by veterans of the Israeli armed forces. The company developed and sold software for monitoring access to the central communication components of corporate IT systems. Microsoft acquired a startup to use its development in the corporate hybrid cloud and in July 2015 released the product Advanced Threat Analytics . Details of the transaction were not disclosed, but the amount could amount to two hundred million dollars.
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In January 2015, Microsoft acquired Equivio , a startup involved in legal document analysis and corporate information software. The startup worked with law firms and government agencies, including the US Department of Justice. Microsoft made this deal to get closer to the market leadership of Big Data analytics. According to rumors , the purchase cost Microsoft two hundred million dollars.
In May 2015, Microsoft and the Israeli startup who developed the Surface Pen, the digital pen for tablets, became aware of the deal. The Wall Street Journal estimated the deal at thirty million dollars .
In September 2015, Takeshi Numoto, vice president of marketing for cloud products at Microsoft, wrote on his blog that the company had bought an information security developer in the Adallom cloud. This company has been operating since 2012, its services are already used to protect user data in Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce.com, ServiceNow, Dropbox, ServiceNow and other cloud products. From 2012 to mid-2015, Adalom raised fifty million dollars in investments from EMC, HP, venture funds Sequoia Capitol and European Index Ventures. Microsoft could pay for this startup about three hundred and twenty million dollars.
The fifth Israeli startup that Microsoft buys in the last twelve months will be the purchase of Secure Islands. According to rumors , the amount of the transaction - 150 million US dollars, but after confirming the takeover, none of the companies gave the exact figure. Companies are waiting for regulatory approval.
The company is engaged in information security and for the last nine years has been offering its services to organizations, its technologies are already used by a number of large companies, including Vodafone, UBS and Suisse. Microsoft has already worked with this company to improve the Azure Rights Management Service . The new deal will allow companies to work more closely for the use of Secure Islands technologies in this service to protect the confidential information of organizations in an environment where employees distribute data using both company-owned devices and their own gadgets.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/296176/
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