School Finds Simplicity and Security in Move to Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia:
Jakarta-based Privy, which offers digital signature and identity verification services, raised a $48M Series C led by KKR, bringing its total funding to $71.6M  —  Privy, a Jakarta-based startup that provides universal identity and digital signature services, has raised $48 million …

When it was time for New Albany–Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. in Indiana to upgrade its aging server and storage hardware, it could have purchased another server and storage area network. However, a traditional server and SAN setup would have been expensive for this district of 12,000 students and 1,200 staff.
Plus, managing a traditional data center is not exactly easy. So, NAFCS decided to explore the latest technology.
What IT staff members discovered was hyperconverged infrastructure. They learned HCI equipment is more affordable and easier to manage. That led the district, in…

The pandemic, which accelerated tech use in K–12 schools, also changed how that technology is consumed. Today’s educators are using more applications to facilitate student…

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
LA County arrests election software maker Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu over the alleged theft of data on poll workers and says some data was found stored in China  —  The executive, Eugene Yu, and his firm, Konnech, have been a focus of attention among election deniers.

Megha Paul / Tech.eu:
Berlin-based Latana, which offers brand tracking and consumer insights tools, raised a €36M Series B led by Oxx, with participation from Balderton and Kreos  —  The German startup offers direct channel to consumers that helps brands understand exactly what their key audiences are thinking

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS unveils Amazon Security Lake, a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a data lake  —  AWS today announced Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data.