{"id":36740,"date":"2019-10-09T15:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=36740"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:34:43","slug":"apstra-darktrace-everactive-guardicore-netfoundry-and-odo-security-scoop-top-honors-at-netevents-2019-innovation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/10\/09\/apstra-darktrace-everactive-guardicore-netfoundry-and-odo-security-scoop-top-honors-at-netevents-2019-innovation-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Apstra, Darktrace, Everactive, Guardicore, NetFoundry and Odo Security scoop top honors at NetEvents 2019 Innovation Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The winners of the<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-6IS88-4ZFCC1-3S5BOK-1\/c.aspx\"><strong>\u00a0NetEvents Innovation Awards 2019 \u2013 Cloud\/Datacenter, IoT &amp; CyberSecurity<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0were announced at the NetEvents Global IT Summit &amp; Awards Dinner at the Hayes Mansion, San Jose, California, USA. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These awards celebrate the year\u2019s most significantly innovative start-ups and established companies in the fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud\/Datacenter and Cybersecurity arenas. All money raised from the award entry fees is being shared between three charities: Prostate Cancer Research, STEM and UNICEF. This year\u2019s charitable contributions brought the total raised to date to over $137,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six company categories were awarded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Three\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cHot Start Up awards\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0categories for innovative pre-IPO contestants in Cloud\/Datacenter, IoT &amp; Cybersecurity.<\/li><li>The three\u00a0<strong>\u201c<em>Innovation Leader<\/em>\u00a0awards\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0covered the same categories, but for established organizations. They were judged by an independent panel of leading technology press and industry analysts from across the globe.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HOT START-UPS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the three&nbsp;<em>Hot Start Up<\/em>&nbsp;categories, winners were selected by a panel of leading technology press and industry analysts from around the globe. Each was invited on-stage to present their business propositions before an audience of technology leaders, press and analysts representing over 35+ countries around the world. The Silicon Valley judging panel of VC\u2019s included: Hiro Rio Maeda, Managing Director, DNX Ventures; Peter Kuper, Managing Director, ClearSky; &amp; Neil Weintraut, Partner, Motus Ventures.&nbsp; The judging panel of VC\u2019s presented the prestigious Hot Start-Up awards on stage at the NetEvents Global IT Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winners of the Hot Start-Up categories are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hot Start-Up \u2013 Cloud\/Datacenter<\/em>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-6IS88-4ZFCC1-3S5HHW-1\/c.aspx\">NetFoundry<\/a>&nbsp;with its \u2018Connectivity as Code\u2019 developer platform was chosen to receive the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hot Start-Up \u2013 IoT<\/em>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-6IS88-4ZFCC1-3S5CB7-1\/c.aspx\">Everactive<\/a>, pioneers in wireless and battery-less IoT was the award winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hot Start Up \u00ad\u2013 Cybersecurity<\/em>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-6IS88-4ZFCC1-3S5CB8-1\/c.aspx\">Odo Security<\/a>&nbsp;took the Award with its \u2018zero trust access solution\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition Odo Security won the overall vote from the VC\u2019s as top choice of the three Hot Star-Up category winners for investment.&nbsp; Lead Judge Hiro Rio Maeda, Managing Director, DNX Ventures commented &#8220;Given the legacy VPN doesn&#8217;t suit the today&#8217;s working environment, we have seen too many security incidents due to the poor access management to the third party developers. Recent Doordash breach was a good example of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odo Security provides a simple and secured but yet detail management to remote workers and 3rd party developers to access privileged assets in which we judges saw the fit with modern enterprise heterogeneous infrastructure needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>INNOVATION LEADERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winner of the&nbsp;<em>Innovation Leader &#8211; IoT&nbsp;<\/em>Award \u2013 presented by Jan Guldentops, &#8216;White Hat&#8217; Hacker \u2013 was<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-6IS88-4ZFCC1-3S5CB9-1\/c.aspx\">&nbsp;Darktrace<\/a>. According to Stuart Corner, who is a regular contributor to IoT Australia; Computerworld NZ; and Computerworld Australia: \u201cDarktrace has addressed one of the most challenging issues holding back the uptake of IoT: ensuring the security of networks that might comprise hundreds of thousands of devices of many kinds that are hard to keep track of, keep updated and keep secure. It has provided an impressive list of real-world examples that clearly demonstrate the power of its technology\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Innovation Leader<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Cloud\/Datacentre<\/em>&nbsp;Award \u2013 presented by Brad Casemore, Research Vice President, Datacenter Networks, IDC \u2013 went to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-6IS88-4ZFCC1-3S5HHX-1\/c.aspx\">Apstra<\/a>. Brad Casemore commented: \u201cAll the nominees were excellent, deserving of candidacy. I chose Apstra because the vendor is helping to lead the charge toward increasingly cognitive and autonomous networking for the cloud-era datacenter. It\u2019s solution addresses the agility, flexibility, scale, and simplicity that next-generation DC networks will require\u201d. Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK, Computer Weekly, added: \u201cApstra stood out for me &#8230; as a really good example of a company trying to meet enterprises where they are on their journey to the cloud by providing support for their existing NSX deployments, so they can tap into hybrid and multi-cloud setups in a safe and secure way\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Innovation Leader<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Cybersecurity<\/em>&nbsp;Award \u2013 presented by Scott Raynovich, Principal Analyst, Futuriom \u2013 went to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-6IS88-4ZFCC1-3S5CBB-1\/c.aspx\">Guardicore<\/a>.&nbsp; Davey Winder, regular contributor to Infosecurity Magazine &amp; Forbes commented \u201cSegmentation remains at the core of network security from a conceptual perspective, but it needs to be done right: Guardicore Centra makes it simple to do it right\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NetEvents Global IT Summit offers a stimulating and topical two-day conference program of hot debates, head-to-heads and presentations by visionaries and industry analysts. For vendors it provides an exceptional opportunity to meet these networking and communications industry gatekeepers and spend quality time together in an informal yet focused environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These awards celebrate the year\u2019s most significantly innovative start-ups and established companies in the fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud\/Datacenter and Cybersecurity arenas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[272,96],"class_list":["post-36740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-netevents","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}