Category: Business

ALPHARETTA, GA, March 2, 2022: Cyble, an AI-powered, Y Combinator-backed, cyber threat intelligence company that empowers organizations with darkweb & cybercrime monitoring and mitigation services, today announced that Vivek Kumar Sharma, former India Sales head at Attivo Networks, has taken over as Cyble’s Regional Sales Director – Strategic Alliances and Partnerships (India and SAARC). This news follows Cyble’s recent announcement of having raised a $10M Series A financing round led by Blackbird Ventures, with continued participation from Spider Capital, January Capital, Cendana Capital, and VentureSouq.

In a career spanning over 20 years, Vivek has made his mark as a versatile and influential leader with extensive achievements in strengthening operations and accelerating profits in challenging market environments. His expertise lies in strategically catalyzing business reorganization to break revenue barriers by capitalizing on current and emerging opportunities.

“Cyble is deeply engaged in the cybersecurity partner ecosystem, and I am glad to welcome Vivek to the team for growing and enhancing the delivery of cybersecurity services to organisations in India and SAARC. Vivek brings with him a unique skill set, extensive knowledge of cybersecurity, and excellent channel presence. This is an exciting time for Cyble, and we are thrilled to have him onboard as we chart new territories and enter new markets,” said Mandar Patil, Vice President International Market and Customer Success at Cyble.

Prior to joining Cyble, Vivek was responsible for initiating and setting up the sales operation of Attivo Networks in India, besides surpassing business goals and formulating plans for territory development/ management. Previously, as the Strategic Account Manager at M.Tech Solutions (India), Vivek initiated and orchestrated several high-profile deals with multiple technologies in a market with several established key players.

“I am delighted to join the team at Cyble. Building a cybersecurity framework has been a key priority for ensuring business continuity, and often, it can be challenging to choose the right security partner. I am proud to be associated with an organization that aids enterprises and individuals combat the rising risk of cyber attacks. This is a wonderful opportunity for me to find more innovative solutions that meet our customers’ needs,” said Vivek.

Commenting on the development, Manish Chachada, Co-founder and COO of Cyble added, “Cyble has disrupted the cybersecurity fraternity with its AI-powered darkweb monitoring capabilities, emerging as the undisputed cyber resilient partner to our clients. As we take Cyble to the next level, we’re glad to welcome Vivek to the team. A well-respected leader in the industry, Vivek has a passion for manifesting customer success through sustainable relationships. His proven customer-centric approach and customer engagement expertise will ensure continued growth of the business in India and SAARC, besides sustaining the growing need for Cyble’s solutions across the region.”

Beenu Arora, CEO and Co-founder of Cyble says, “Vivek is certainly a key talent in the portfolio. Alongside the wealth of experience as a sales leader, he also brings with him a passion for cybersecurity and immense positivity and enthusiasm through his go-getter spirit. A highly seasoned professional, he will be quick to read through the requirements of our prospective customers within India and SAARC. He has a proven track record of strategically penetrating key markets, building loyal customer relationships, and helping brands scale to the next level. We wish him great success at our journey together at Cyble.” 

Cyble is a global threat intelligence SaaS provider that helps enterprises protect themselves from cybercrimes and exposure in the Darkweb. Its prime focus is to provide organizations with real-time visibility to their digital risk footprint. Backed by Y Combinator as part of the 2021 winter cohort, Cyble has also been recognized by Forbes as one of the top 20 Best Cybersecurity Start-ups To Watch In 2020. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and with offices in Australia, Singapore, and India, Cyble has a global presence.

To learn more about Cyble, visit https://cyble.com/

Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 2: DigitalGlad is an online academy that helps entrepreneurs to build their dream startups. It’s said that entrepreneurs are not born, they are created.  With this belief, the team at DigitalGlad helps all the existing entrepreneurs and newbies start and grow their online businesses. India, being the Entrepreneurial Bhoomi is a hub for startups. Nearly 170+ million Wantrepreneurs in India want to start their business. To bridge this gap and strengthen the Indian economy, DigitalGlad helps aspiring entrepreneurs take the path of entrepreneurship through its book ‘You Can Startup’.

Vikash Sharma is the Founder & CEO of DigitalGlad Academy and BeautyGlad Home Salon. He is an entrepreneur, Digital Business Coach, and author. He along with his wife Kalpana Sharma started BeautyGlad Home Salon in 2016 which is now a renowned brand in Home Salon Space. Vikash believes that there is a gap between the Indian education system and the employment system.  He says, “Our current education makes us the Job Seeker and not the Job giver. We are never taught to become entrepreneurs or business owners in our formal education. Instead, we are always taught that “Get a Good Education and Get a Good Job.” To bridge this gap and help wantrepreneurs, he has authored a book called “You Can Startup”. Vikash is on a mission to empower 1 million people to start their online Startup and help them achieve their dreams.

You Can Startup is the perfect manual for every individual who is looking forward to launching and growing their business online. Besides, it also provides complete practical knowledge on starting a profitable startup from scratch and growing it into a multi-million dollar business. This revolutionary book also teaches the 7 steps proven system to start & grow your startup from scratch without hiring an agency and spending huge money on technology & marketing. You Can Startup talks about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, mistakes new entrepreneurs make, ways to validate your business ideas, business planning, setting up the system to launch a startup and ways to grow the startup.

You Can Startup is available on Amazon at Rs. 359. The Kindle edition is priced at Rs. 149. DigitalGlad also offers Training programs to hone the skills and knowledge of the wanna-be entrepreneurs. With a plan to introduce a few more programs to help empower business owners, solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and consultants to become skilled and ready for startups & businesses, DigitalGlad has embarked on its journey. Click www.digitalglad.com  for more information. Visit www.youcanstartup.co to find out more about the book.

CloudSEK investigates Electric Vehicle related phishing campaigns exploiting advances in the sector, and Google Ads, to steal users’ data and money

New Delhi (India), March 2: CloudSEK today released Unearthing the Million Dollar Scams Targeting the Indian Electric Vehicle Industry, highlighting a large-scale phishing campaign targeting Electric Vehicle (EV) consumers and businesses. It is notable that the scams increased considerably after the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, for electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, was approved by the cabinet in September 2021.

CloudSEK’s in-depth investigation has revealed that scammers are exploiting Google Ads to misdirect users to phishing sites that collect users’ data and money. With each site defrauding users of INR 200,000—400,000, in booking fees and down payments, the scam has so far cost the Indian public over INR 40— 80 Million.

Overview of the Phishing Campaign

Since the second half of 2021, CloudSEK’s flagship digital risk monitoring platform XVigil has detected a spike in phishing campaigns impersonating EV manufacturers and dealerships. Scammers propagate this scheme by:

• Registering fake domains that resemble legitimate domains of EV manufacturers and marketplaces.
• Creating Google Ads for the fake domains, and manipulating SEO, such that these ads are top results for generic searches as well as searches for specific EV brands .
• Directing users clicking on these ads to phishing domains that impersonate the content and images of legitimate websites.
• Collecting users’ information and money in the guise of reservation/ booking fees for a vehicle or a security deposit, through phishing websites, to become an EV dealer.

Impact on Consumers and EV Companies

The phishing campaign has already cost the Indian public over INR 40— 80 million, and this value is expected to increase significantly in the future. Apart from financial loss, users also share Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and banking details, which can be leveraged to orchestrate other social engineering campaigns, and even identity theft. For EV companies, these phishing websites lead to direct loss of business, reputation, and credibility. This could also lead to a general decline in the adoption of e-mobility, an already unfamiliar technology, if users’ first touch point in a phishing campaign.

Addressing Threats to the Growing EV Sector in India

EV companies can mitigate the threats posed by these phishing scams by running awareness campaigns to educate users/ customers about the ongoing scams. They can also report the campaigns to the Cyber Crime Cell. In addition, businesses that are part of the EV sector can implement real-time monitoring of phishing domains with XVigil to identify and suspend phishing websites spoofing their business.

CloudSEK is an AI-driven Digital Risk Monitoring Enterprise. CloudSEK’s XVigil platform helps clients assess their security posture in real-time from the perspective of an attacker. XVigil scours thousands of sources (across the surface, deep and dark web), to detect cyber threats, data leaks, brand threats, identity thefts, etc. To learn more about CloudSEK XVigil, visit cloudsek.com.

New Delhi (India), March 2: BSE (530961) and NSE ( VIKASECO) listed Vikas Ecotech Ltd. engaged in the business of Speciality Polymers & Specialty Additives and Chemicals for Plastics & Rubbers industries, catering to a wide horizon of applications in Agriculture, Infrastructure, packaging, electrical, footwear, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical devices and components and other consumer goods has announced a major development in its Specialty Chemicals & Compounds Business wherein it has received orders for its Organotin Heat Stabilizer material from HIL Limited, a  CK Birla Group company for application in the food grade drinking water plumbing systems, essentially the cPVC Pipes & Fittings. The current order received from HIL is valued about INR 20 Million and will be completed within 20 days and more orders are expected to follow.

With the receipt of this order, the company has accomplished complete revival of the Organotin domestic customers and business post the disruptions caused during the pandemic situation.  Though an export of Organotin Material is also being pursued aggressively and is expected to start contributing again in company’s topline in 2-3 months down the line.

Vikas Ecotech Limited is the only manufacturer of the FDA approved Organotin PVC Heat Stabilizers in India, the Organotin Stabilizers are essentially a PVC additive which is fast replacing the toxic heat stabilizers conventionally used in PVC formulations.

The company recently announced cracking the technique to recover the precious “Tin Metal” component from the Process Residue generated during the production of Organotin Mercaptides. The success in recovery of Tin Metal will aid achieving better economics in terms of the costing of this material to the company. Post the technical breakthrough the company is eying a wider acceptance based on better costing, aggressive pricing for its customers, both facilitating an enhanced order book which will eminently add encouraging numbers to the Top Line and also ensure better profits from the Organotin manufacturing business.

The company has also received an approval and the first bulk commercial order for the Flame Retardant Additive from the E V conglomerate the Renowned “Olectra Green-Tech Limited.” Olectra Greentech Limited– a subsidiary of MEIL Group is the India’s largest Pure Electric Bus manufacturer having manufacturing facilities at Hyderabad, India. Olectra is India’s first ever electric bus manufacturer having manufactured and deployed multiple variants of Electric Buses in India. After leading in the commercial run of electric buses, the company is expanding its product line in the e-mobility segment for 3-wheeler electric autos and electric trucks.

Vikas Ecotech Ltd. is a New Delhi based company. Vikas Ecotech is the only manufacturer of Organotin (Heat Stabilizers for Vinyl applications) in lndia with in-house R&D facilities and is one of the single digit number of manufacturers of this product worldwide, who have technology and expertise for manufacturing this material right from Tin Metal to the final product.

Vikas Ecotech is expanding its business and product portfolio has added many consumer (final) products to its conventional (raw material businesses) profile. The new business segments include Infrastructure Products like Steel Pipe Fittings, MDPE Pipes for Gas applications to its business lines.

March 2: Imagine what it means for a property developer to be officially recognized for making the lives of people a whole lot better? Along with a sense of pride for the developer, it means that the company has a reliable brand that people can trust. One such real estate developer, Shivam Developers, has been honored with the Trendsetter 2022 award by Times Applaud, a leading press release and public relations organization.

During a mega-event held recently in Mumbai, the Honorable Governor of Maharashtra, Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari bestowed the Trendsetter 2022 award to Shivam Developers, for its remarkable project Thane Next. The company was also recognized for being an innovative leader in the field of real estate.

Rarely do we hear about the recognition of individuals, leaders, and organizations who can affect positive change in society as a whole through the work they do to make our lives a bit easier. But, Times Applaud understands the importance of appreciation. Hence it organizes the Trendsetter award every year to recognize outstanding leaders who deliver remarkable and quality services to society.  Apart from these leaders, Times Applaud also understands the need to appreciate property developers who strive to make the lives of people a lot better. Hence, Times Applaud thought it only to be proper to also award a reliable and innovative real estate business like Shivam Developers with the Trendsetter 2022 award.

Shivam Developers puts in the best of efforts, along with quality building materials that the company uses, to build housing projects that enable people to live comfortably with all the modern-day amenities they deserve.

Shivam Developers has evolved as one of the market’s most sought-after brand, with a record of over 25 years in the field of innovation. They have completed more than 20 residential and commercial projects. The company believes in providing value to all by developing products and services that improve people’s experience of life THROUGH GATED COMMUNITIES that are safe and secure.

Shivam Developers believes in combining cost, quality, and on-time delivery for the people they serve. The company is gaining the clients’ trust with their dedication and openness. Shivam Developers understands that home is still the best place on earth for its clients who want it also to be affordable.

Hence, the company has put construction in full swing at Thane Next its new project in Temghar, Bhiwandi, a city in the Thane district of Maharashtra.

The project is spread over 2.7 acres and offers 1 BHK, 2 BHK, of sizes that start from 340 sq. ft. to 650 sq. ft.

Thane Next is designed to provide inhabitants with a comfortable living environment and is built with modern architecture that gives the impression of a wealthy lifestyle. Thane Next by Shivam Developers is well built and positioned in a desirable neighborhood, keeping the customers’ needs in mind. The interiors are tastefully furnished, and the exterior of the property is stylish, which draws you in. At Thane Next, the residences are full of beautiful ambiance, and the cool running breeze throughout the rooms makes Thane Next the ideal comfort zone for people to live in harmony and tranquility.

Shivam Developers is promoting Thane Next as a new housing revolution and the project surely is as it has 51+ exclusive amenities including:

1. Voice controlled home
2. Premium or exclusive Balcony lifestyle
3. Mini theatre
4. Co-working space in the clubhouse
5. Mandir
6. Open banquet Party lawn
7. Kids pool
8. The exclusive air-conditioned lobby
9. Fully furnished homes
10. Wifi free homes
11. 100% Vastu compliant
12. Indoor games
13. Exclusive air-conditioned Gym
14. Cricket & football turf
15. Library

The flats are fully furnished and you can book 1 BHK for Rs.29.99 lakh without any stamp duty and registration charges.

Shivam Developers have provided a flexible payment option on booking your residence at Thane Next.

– 100% loan assured

– lowest down payment

– down payment assistance

The project is also located with the comfort of people in mind, as Thane Next it is:

5 minutes walk away from Temghar Metro Station; 5 minutes drive from Mumbai-Nashik Expressway, and 10 minutes drive from Bhiwandi Bus Depot as well as Bhiwandi Station.

By recognizing Shivam Developers for the Thane Next project, Times Applaud has only raised the bar for other property developers to deliver better projects. Shivam Developers has now become a path leader for other property developers and hence justly bestowed with the Trendsetter 2022 award, which it received at Governor’s House Raj Bhavan in Malabar Hill, Mumbai, on February 24, 2022.

We wish Shivam Developers all the best for its future endeavors and building projects. Website –www.shivamresidency.in

Partner Winners with Grand Trophies and other accolades

New Delhi (India), March 2: Kingston Technology, the world leader in memory and storage products, recently felicitated over 48 channel partners for their stellar performance and support to grow the brand in leaps and bounds in2021. The company has selected 48 partners based on their business performance, consistency, and strength in their respective markets, across various product lines including SSD, DRAM, USB drives, and memory cards. The recognition includes a rolling trophy for the winners and an opportunity for all channel partners to share their feedback for the products as well as campaigns.

Over the years, the channel partners have been one of the biggest growth drivers for Kingston Technology, and the initiative is another step towards giving an impetus to the engagement with the partners.  The response from all partners was unanimous and positive, with everyone going out of the way to appreciate Kingston Technology for its product offerings, processes, customer-oriented approach, and market leadership. The initiative is another unique effort by the company to keep the Channel Partners motivated for their dedication and diligence.

“At Kingston, we believe in adopting a channel friendly approach. Taking ahead our motto of growing with our partners, we are honored to felicitate our partners for their hard work and dedication. We have always worked towards strengthening the ecosystem for our partners and empowering them by bringing a plethora of business opportunities for them. In the coming years as well, the continued focus area will involve channel engagement and empowerment activities, developing the network and rapidly increasing channel strength to establish a strong foothold in various regional markets.”, said Mr. Tejashwar Singh, India Sales Head, Kingston Technology. 

Kingston Technology, with a compelling range of products and market expertise provides a platform for all channel partners to improve and grow in terms of revenue and reach. The company also provides proactive training sessions on an ongoing basis which underlines the belief that the channel partners are truly considered partners in the company’s growth story.  In addition to this, Kingston will continue with the 360-degree marketing approach and will come up with compelling campaigns which cuts across PR, Social, Digital, and Traditional media, in order to touch the lives of the new age users.

Opens its 77th ‘Exclusive’ Showroom in India

The 3800 Sq feet ‘Simpolo Gallery’ to have an exclusive and elegant range of Tiles and Sanitaryware for every need of Households, Builders and Architects under one roof

New Delhi (India), March 2: Showcasing the company’s production and technological excellence at one place, Simpolo Vitrified Pvt Ltd– one of India’s leading and innovative tiles brands has inaugurated its 77th exclusive showroom ‘Simpolo Gallery’ in Una, Himachal Pradesh. Spread in the area of3800 sq ft, the exclusive showroom in Una offers the exclusive and elegant range of tiles and sanitaryware including Simpolo’s best selling products i.e., Dry Granula, Sintered Compact Surface among others. Hrithik Roshan is the brand ambassador of Simpolo Vitrified.

The exclusive showroom is opened in franchisee model in association with M/s. Aggarwal Home Solution and strategically located Near Dayal Sweet, Opposite Durga Colony, Nangal Highway, Una, Himachal Pradesh. The showroom was inaugurated on 27 February, 2022.

On the Grand opening of the showroom Mr. Bharat Aghara, CMO, Simpolo Group, said, “Himachal Pradesh is the hub of Asia’s biggest pharma cluster and one of the prominent tourist destination. This showroom promises to take Una’s tile shopping to a different level of richness in design and visual experience. Trusted for reliability, adaptability, innovation, quality consciousness, Simpolo Vitrified has created a strong brand identity which is recognised globally.”

Una showroom is expected to meet all the tiling needs of every classy House Builder, Architect and aimed at adding style statement &enriching the indoor space. An innovative collection of company’s most exquisite designs and versatile range including company’s best selling range 1200×2400 Dry Granula first in class along with 1200×1800 Posh Surface, Sintered compact surfaces, 16 mm Rockdeck Series for outdoor applications, Kitchen top, Double Charge & Glazed Vitrified tiles, wall tiles etc. will be on the display at the showroom. The displays are designed to give customers a feel of how each tile will look in its actual use and inspire designers to go further from there.

Simpolo Vitrified is aiming to become among the top players in Himachal Pradesh in the coming time, the company will be opening more showrooms and strengthening its dealer – distributor network in the state.

Himachal Pradesh’s tiles industry has been witnessing a strong growth year-on-year due to the vibrancy of Tourism activities, industrial development in Pharma, IT industries and steadily growing infrastructure activity, real estate and housing sector.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ashwani Asija (GM – North 1) Simpolo Vitrified, said, “Una is well known for its elite taste and sense of aesthetics. With the showroom, we hope to match up with their requirements by offering an exclusive range of products to them and their clients and customers who always prefer the best when it comes to home and hotel décor.”

Mr. Bharat Aghara, CMO, Simpolo Vitrified inaugurating Simpolo Showroom in Mohali, Punjab

Opens its 76th ‘Exclusive’ Showroom in India

The 2000 Sq feet ‘Simpolo Gallery ‘ to have an exclusive and elegant range of Tiles and Sanitaryware for every need of Households, Builders and Architects under one roof

 Mohali (Punjab) [India], March 1: Showcasing the company’s production and technological excellence at one place, Simpolo Vitrified Pvt Ltd– one of India’s leading and innovative tiles brands has inaugurated its 76th exclusive showroom ‘Simpolo Gallery’ in Mohali, Punjab. Spread in the area of 2000 sq ft, the exclusive showroom in Mohali offers an exclusive and elegant range of tiles and sanitaryware including Simpolo’s best selling products i.e., Dry Granula, Sintered Compact Surface among others. Hrithik Roshan is the brand ambassador of Simpolo Vitrified.

The exclusive showroom is opened in the franchisee model in association with M/s. Tiles Art Gallery and strategically located at Plot No 411, Sector 82, JLPL Industrial Area, Sas Nagar, Mohali (Punjab) – 160055. The showroom was inaugurated on 26 February 2022.

On the Grand opening of the showroom Mr. Bharat Aghara, CMO, Simpolo Vitrified, said, “Mohali has emerged as the next big real estate and industrial destination in Punjab. Development of IT park, Aero City, and International airport have propel the growth of real estate and infrastructure activity in the city. Company’s Mohali showroom promises to take tile shopping to a different level of richness in design and visual experience that will make some of the premium brands rethink their strategies competing in the city. Trusted for reliability, adaptability, innovation, quality consciousness, Simpolo Vitrified has created a strong brand identity which is recognised globally.”

Mohali showroom is expected to meet all the tiling needs of every classy House Builder, Architect and is aimed at adding style statement & enriching the indoor space. An innovative collection of company’s most exquisite designs and versatile range including company’s bestselling range 1200×2400 Dry Granula first in class along with 1200×1800 Posh Surface, Sintered compact surfaces, 16 mm Rockdeck Series for outdoor applications, Kitchen top, Double Charge & Glazed Vitrified tiles, wall tiles etc. will be on the display at the showroom. The displays are designed to give customers a feel of how each tile will look in its actual use and inspire designers to go further from there.

Simpolo Vitrified is aiming to become among the top players in Punjab in the coming time, the company will be opening more showrooms and strengthening its dealer-distributor network in the state.

State’s tiles industry has been witnessing a strong growth year-on-year due to the vibrancy of Corporate India, steadily growing infrastructure activity, real estate, and housing sector. 

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ashwani Asija (GM – North 1) Simpolo Vitrified, said, “Mohali is well known for its elite taste and sense of aesthetics. With the showroom, we hope to match up with their requirements by offering an exclusive range of products to them and their clients and customers who always prefer the best when it comes to home décor.”

March 1: With an aim to providing a robust platform to inculcate the habit of reading books among the citizens and especially the youth in today’s rapidly growing digital era as well as encouraging budding writers, poets and literary figures, FICCI FLO Ahmedabad is to organize a two-day ‘FLO Word Fest’ on 4th and 5th March, 2022 at the Gujarat University. The Word Fest will feature a wide range of Gujarati, Hindi and English language books as well as self-published books, traditionally-published books, children’s books, fiction, non-fiction and general books among others.

The two-day Word Fest will feature a variety of interesting events, including the highly-anticipated presence of well-known authors such as Bhawana Somaaya, Koral Dasgupta, Ravindra Singh, Abhishek Jain, Dr. Nimit Ojha, Priya Narayanan, Utkarsh Patel, Kevin Missal and author and publisher Esther David , Manhar Oza, Revanta Sarabhai in conversation with Yash Vyas & Dr. Prashant Bhimani on Mental Health Awareness, where they will discuss with the public and also present their views on various issues covering all aspects and genres related to literature.

In addition to this a mobile book van was placed at the entrance of Gujarat University under the ‘Book Exchange Drive’ for the last one month. Interestingly, it has collected more than 1200 titles to date which will be given away to the prison inmates, old age homes and mobile library in deprived area.

Commenting on the ‘FICCI Word Fest’, spokesperson of FICCI FLO said, “We are immensely excited to organize a word fest for the book-lovers of Ahmedabad city. It is very essential to inculcate reading habits from the very beginning so as to create a healthy and thoughtful society. Therefore, we have organized the fest with an aim to providing wonderful reading materials to people of all age groups including the youth. It will be beneficial for both of us. We hope that a large number of people will make the most of such a worthy word fest.

Writers from all walks of life will be able to display and sell their books at the Gujarat Publishers’ Book Stall at ‘FICCI FLO Word Fest,’ providing a unique opportunity of Vocal for Local to both budding and established authors. This fest will surely enable authors to present their books to a large number of visitors.

Focused on reliable high performance, cost efficiency, multi-domain automation

Delivering on today’s mobile operator needs in the simplest way and preparing for the next generation of 5G and Enterprise cloud-native deployments & operations

Partha Seetala to lead Rakuten Symphony’s Unified Cloud business unit

 Tokyo, Japan and San Jose, California, March 01– Rakuten Symphony, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire leading Silicon Valley-based cloud technology start-up, Robin.io. The addition of Robin.io’s multi-cloud mobility, hyper automation and orchestration capabilities to the Rakuten Symphony portfolio allows the creation of highly efficient, consistent high performance cloud infrastructure and operations, from edge to central data center.

Collaboration between Rakuten and Robin.io has already been underway for more than two years, since Rakuten Mobile leveraged Robin.io in production for the Japan deployment of the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized cloud-native mobile network^*1. Understanding the high performance requirements of mobile radio and network applications, combined with the need for financial efficiency and automated operation for scale, enabled Rakuten Mobile and Robin.io to create a complete cloud-native offering to deliver and manage the most demanding applications of this and the next era. Now, Rakuten Symphony and Robin.io are coming together to further accelerate and strengthen the complete end to end automated cloud offering for customers across the globe.

“Edge cloud requirements are unique and critical as mobile operators transition to 5G: The next era of digital experience requires another level of performance, responsiveness and consistency that enables telecom operator and enterprise transformation to be safely accelerated while creating a platform to support the next 10 years of experiences. Robin.io’s cloud capability is proven to be effective for the most demanding workloads in mobile and we believe it will allow Rakuten Symphony to safely accelerate cloud-native transformation for our customers and prepare the industry for the future,” said Tareq Amin, CEO, Rakuten Symphony. “We plan to continue to invest into Robin.io’s cloud-native portfolio of products to further advance our capabilities and offer the most advanced and highly integrated cloud platform mobile operators demand.”

“I am delighted that Robin.io’s technology innovations over the last several years will now get a much bigger canvas to lead the vision for cloud-native transformation for the industry. Our vision to deliver simple to use, easy to deploy hyperscale automation is very well aligned,” said Partha Seetala, CEO, Robin.io. “We believe Robin.io’s customers will hugely benefit from the synergies of cloud-native technology innovations from Robin.io, and the open competitive infrastructure solutions and global scale of Rakuten Symphony. This is indeed an exciting phase for us as we work together to bring a much larger ecosystem together to deliver higher value for our customers globally.”

With over 70 patents in the cloud-native technology space, Robin.io offers a highly differentiated and comprehensive product portfolio, including the following:

• Robin Cloud Native Storage (Robin CNS) – An award winning, high performing, software-defined and industry-first application-aware storage solution that has been built from the ground-up for Kubernetes.
• Robin Cloud Native Platform (CNP)– A leading open-source platform optimized for running data and network intensive applications used in production for various use cases involving databases, big data, data analytics, 5G, O-RAN, packet core &edge.
• Robin Multi Data Center Automation Platform (MDCAP)– The web-scale platform for metal-to-service orchestration and automation.

Robin.io has petabyte size deployments with its software running on tens of thousands of servers in production today that span across its product portfolio and services Fortune 1000 customers across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Adding Robin.io’s portfolio for cloud-native deployment, lifecycle management and orchestration allows Rakuten Symphony to deploy highly reliable, flexible, scalable, secure and resilient mobile networks built on the principles of open interfaces, virtualization and interoperability. Together, the combined companies will also be able to deliver industry leading solutions for various traditional enterprise opportunities in areas of enterprise applications, data management, cloud and virtualization. Following the acquisition, Partha Seetala will take up the position of President of the Unified Cloud business unit of Rakuten Symphony.

The transaction is subject to closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and other customary closing conditions. The terms of the acquisition are confidential.

*1 For a large scale commercial mobile network (as of October 1, 2019). Research: Stella Associate

Rakuten Symphony is reimagining telecom, changing supply chain norms and disrupting outmoded thinking that threatens the industry’s pursuit of rapid innovation and growth. Based on proven modern infrastructure practices, its open interface platforms make it possible to launch and operate advanced mobile services in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security. Rakuten Symphony has headquarters in Japan and local presence in the United States, Singapore, India, Europe and the Middle East Africa region.

For more information, visit: https://symphony.rakuten.com/

 Robin.io provides cloud-native capabilities that automate deployment, scaling and lifecycle management of enterprise and 5G applications on Kubernetes. The company’s core technology uses application bundles and application pipelines, which are automated through patented infrastructure and application-topology awareness technology. Robin.io allows developers and platform engineers to deploy and easily manage data rapidly- and network-centric applications—including big data, NoSQL and 5G—independent of underlying infrastructure resources.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Robin.io solutions are recognized by Gartner, IDC, GigaOm and others for their innovation and reliability.

More at www.robin.io and Twitter: @robin4K8S.