Puleng Technologies extends Data Access Governance portfolio supported by technical skills to a market crying out for them.
Puleng Technologies has recently been appointed as a local reseller of Varonis Software. “If you look at our offering, it overlays the Varonis software product offerings with our architecture and skills sets, so it is an ideal business partnership that will enable us to deliver their technologies into the South African marketplace,” says Business Development Director Steve James.
By partnering to provide solutions, Varonis and Puleng see significant opportunity in the South African market to give organisations the data governance automation they have been waiting for. The solution, combined with Puleng Professional Services, enables customers to have a comprehensive data governance strategy, while ensuring automation of critical sustainable data and management processes and secure collaboration.
Sharing information and collaborating with digital files is essential to organisations today. However, as the quantity of documents, spreadsheets, video, audio, and e-mail continues to skyrocket, the ability to manage and protect that information becomes increasingly challenging and chaotic. With dynamic, cross-functional teams accessing data sets in numerous locations on multiple platforms such as Files Systems, NAS devices, SharePoint sites and e-mail systems, it can be difficult or impossible for IT to determine who has access, needs access, who's accessing, and who owns the data. Further, organisations often store and have a responsibility to protect files containing sensitive information about their partners, vendors, clients, patients and customers. When these digital assets are misused, they become a tremendous liability (ie, WikiLeaks).
Today, no one would consider looking for information on the Internet without a sophisticated search engine. Data auditing, classification, ownership identification and access control are now in the same place that search was 10 years ago - representing over 80% of the world's data and doubling every 18 months (Source: Gartner). There is simply too much unstructured data to manage manually.
Customers have the ability to completely standardise unstructured and semi-structured data protection and management on their File Systems, NAS, SharePoint Sites and Exchange Mailboxes with the Varonis Metadata Framework technology that forms the foundation of Varonis software.
Organisations can effectively and automatically manage data access control, audit, ownership, classification, entitlements and authorisation processes on the platforms that host unstructured and semi-structured data. The framework enables organisations to expand digital collaboration boundaries safely, while at the same time significantly increasing IT workforce productivity for daily data protection and management tasks.
“Varonis is very pleased to have Puleng as a reseller partner in South Africa, said Jim O'Boyle, senior vice-president of sales at Varonis. The Puleng and Varonis partnership will give South African customers access to key local technical skills and advanced data governance automation and metadata framework technology, enabling organisations to easily identify excessive permissions and abnormal access activity on their file systems, NAS devices, SharePoint sites and Exchange, by showing who has access to data, who is using their access, who shouldn't have access, who owns the data, and what data is sensitive.”
James says Puleng offers its customers a component-based roadmap toward achieving service-orientated infrastructure automation, which delivers value to both operations and business divisions.
The market is demanding technical excellence and technologies that can enable businesses to take new services to the market more quickly through a flexible and agile architecture, while ensuring corporate compliance and governance. Puleng provides solutions to its customers that will meet the requirements of business through emerging technologies that address data access governance, roles-based governance, Internet single sign-on, data centre automation technologies for ensuring provisioning, security and compliance and automation delivered via a content-enriched self-service IT storefront.
Whereas most IT companies move from hardware and software through a solutions roadmap before reaching the point of offering professional services, Puleng Technologies has been built with the premise that technical skills are fundamental to customers' project success.
“There is high demand for qualified technical skills of the sort that we provide and what this acquisition of skills has enabled us to do is to provide service-orientated infrastructure solutions, literally from concept through to implementation, thereby accelerating the time to value for our clients.” continues James.
Puleng has the following basic principles behind its commitment to customers:
* To provide “service-oriented infrastructure” as a means to achieve competitive advantage.
* To reduce the overall cost of IT ownership through the automation of operational process and support.
Puleng Technologies is a proudly South African business, which specialises in service-orientated infrastructures. Puleng has always had the ambition of providing offerings that were complemented and differentiated by the accompaniment of South Africa's leading technical specialist skills within specific IT disciplines.
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