Qlik Expands Partnership with Databricks

Qlik has announced continued expansion of its strategic partnership with Databricks with support for the launch of Delta Sharing, Databricks’s open protocol for secure data sharing. Joint customers will be able to leverage the tight integration between Qlik and Databricks to share relevant data sets and insights more easily and securely with any stakeholder in their ecosystem through the cloud and platform of their choice.

Delta Sharing aligns with Qlik’s approach to creating more value from data, where customers can confidently share governed data sets on any cloud both within and outside the organization. With Delta Sharing, joint customers will leverage Databricks’ Delta Lake and Qlik’s unique associative engine to share impactful insights that help improve supply chain vendor relationships, enhance prospect interactions, and drive deeper and more long-lasting customer satisfaction through data.

Fortinet Announces Secure SD-WAN Integration to Google Cloud’s Network Connectivity Center

Fortinet has announced an integration of its Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to the Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center (NCC). Fortinet is extending the benefits of its industry-leading Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution to Google Cloud NCC users to simplify and improve their connection across distributed sites, Google Cloud workloads and applications. Fortinet is delivering the most complete and simplified cloud on-ramp experience through its Secure SD-WAN solution.

Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN with Network Connectivity Center allows customers to more effectively interconnect applications and workloads running on GCP for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployments. This delivers the best of both worlds, bridging a first-party native cloud underlay from GCP with best-in-class Secure SD-WAN and cloud on-ramp service from Fortinet.