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Business Wire
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Anaconda Partners with Databricks to Bridge Security and Governance Gaps in Enterprise AI Development
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Anaconda Inc., the leader in advancing AI with open source, today announced a go-to-market partnership and native integration with Databricks, the Data and AI company. By combining Anaconda's AI Platform delivering secure, curated open source Python packages with the scale, performance, and governance of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform - enterprises will experience a new standard of enterprise-ready AI development with enhanced governance. Anaconda and Databricks are partnering to empower enterprises to build, scale, and govern AI solutions with confidence. Share Today's enterprises invest millions in AI adoption, but they still struggle to deploy successfully due to three critical challenges: dependency blindspots creating a productivity imperative, crippling vulnerabilities expanding the risk surface, and a lack of visibility and confidence in delivering production-ready results. IDC Research predicts that 80% of AI project failures this year will result from these obstacles. Organizations need stability, consistency, and control to build AI systems at scale, not just experimentation environments alone. The availability of Anaconda's AI Platform delivering an enterprise-grade Python ecosystem natively within Databricks Runtime brings together the best of open source and enterprise-grade security into one seamless experience, enabling developers to deploy and scale AI/ML applications confidently with reduced friction, accelerated time-to-value, and improved governance and compliance. 'This partnership addresses one of the biggest challenges of AI production deployment today: combining the speed of open source experimentation with the rigor of enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements,' said Stephen Orban, SVP of Product Ecosystem and Partnerships at Databricks. 'Together, we're removing key barriers around Python package governance and open source security for enterprises seeking to accelerate AI adoption.' Anaconda and Databricks are partnering to empower enterprises to build, scale, and govern AI solutions with confidence. This unique partnership delivers the only end-to-end solution offering enterprise-grade Python open-source governance and reproducibility—from curated package selection to secure, compliant model deployment within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Joint customers will benefit from faster time-to-value and more streamlined AI/ML workflows, enabled by the elimination of dependency conflicts with frictionless collaboration across their teams. 'Our collaboration with Databricks marks a major milestone in accelerating enterprise AI adoption and advancing open-source innovation at scale,' said Barry Russell, SVP of Partnerships at Anaconda. 'By bringing together Anaconda's trusted AI Platform and open-source ecosystem with the power of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, we're enabling organizations to build, deploy, and scale AI applications faster and more securely—while maintaining strict compliance and governance. This partnership accelerates enterprise adoption across industries to harness the full potential of open-source AI with confidence and agility.' Learn more about what the Anaconda and Databricks partnership can mean for your enterprise AI strategy by scheduling a demo today. About Anaconda Anaconda is built to advance AI with open source at scale, giving builders and organizations the confidence to increase productivity, and save time, spend, and risk associated with open source. 95% of the Fortune 500 including Panasonic, AmTrust Financial, Booz Allen Hamilton, and over 50 million users rely on the value the Anaconda AI Platform delivers through a centralized approach to sourcing, securing, building, and deploying AI. Trusted by 79% of the Global 2000, Anaconda has established itself as the gold standard for Python, data science, and AI and the enterprise-ready solution of choice for AI innovation with 21 billion downloads and growing. Anaconda partners with Nvidia, AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle and is backed by world-class investors including, Snowflake Ventures and Apertu Capital. Learn more at
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Anaconda Partners with Databricks to Bridge Security and Governance Gaps in Enterprise AI Development
Open Source Champions Join Forces to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption with Streamlined Data Science Workflows and Enhanced Security and Compliance AUSTIN, Texas, June 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anaconda Inc., the leader in advancing AI with open source, today announced a go-to-market partnership and native integration with Databricks, the Data and AI company. By combining Anaconda's AI Platform delivering secure, curated open source Python packages with the scale, performance, and governance of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform - enterprises will experience a new standard of enterprise-ready AI development with enhanced governance. Today's enterprises invest millions in AI adoption, but they still struggle to deploy successfully due to three critical challenges: dependency blindspots creating a productivity imperative, crippling vulnerabilities expanding the risk surface, and a lack of visibility and confidence in delivering production-ready results. IDC Research predicts that 80% of AI project failures this year will result from these obstacles. Organizations need stability, consistency, and control to build AI systems at scale, not just experimentation environments alone. The availability of Anaconda's AI Platform delivering an enterprise-grade Python ecosystem natively within Databricks Runtime brings together the best of open source and enterprise-grade security into one seamless experience, enabling developers to deploy and scale AI/ML applications confidently with reduced friction, accelerated time-to-value, and improved governance and compliance. "This partnership addresses one of the biggest challenges of AI production deployment today: combining the speed of open source experimentation with the rigor of enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements," said Stephen Orban, SVP of Product Ecosystem and Partnerships at Databricks. "Together, we're removing key barriers around Python package governance and open source security for enterprises seeking to accelerate AI adoption." Anaconda and Databricks are partnering to empower enterprises to build, scale, and govern AI solutions with confidence. This unique partnership delivers the only end-to-end solution offering enterprise-grade Python open-source governance and reproducibility—from curated package selection to secure, compliant model deployment within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Joint customers will benefit from faster time-to-value and more streamlined AI/ML workflows, enabled by the elimination of dependency conflicts with frictionless collaboration across their teams. "Our collaboration with Databricks marks a major milestone in accelerating enterprise AI adoption and advancing open-source innovation at scale," said Barry Russell, SVP of Partnerships at Anaconda. "By bringing together Anaconda's trusted AI Platform and open-source ecosystem with the power of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, we're enabling organizations to build, deploy, and scale AI applications faster and more securely—while maintaining strict compliance and governance. This partnership accelerates enterprise adoption across industries to harness the full potential of open-source AI with confidence and agility." Learn more about what the Anaconda and Databricks partnership can mean for your enterprise AI strategy by scheduling a demo today. About Anaconda Anaconda is built to advance AI with open source at scale, giving builders and organizations the confidence to increase productivity, and save time, spend, and risk associated with open source. 95% of the Fortune 500 including Panasonic, AmTrust Financial, Booz Allen Hamilton, and over 50 million users rely on the value the Anaconda AI Platform delivers through a centralized approach to sourcing, securing, building, and deploying AI. Trusted by 79% of the Global 2000, Anaconda has established itself as the gold standard for Python, data science, and AI and the enterprise-ready solution of choice for AI innovation with 21 billion downloads and growing. Anaconda partners with Nvidia, AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle and is backed by world-class investors including, Snowflake Ventures and Apertu Capital. Learn more at View source version on Contacts Kodie Dowerkdower@
TECHx
10-04-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Cohesity Teams with Google Cloud on Cyber Defense
Cohesity has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to help organizations tackle increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. With enterprises losing an average of $540,000 per hour in downtime, the need for robust cyber resilience has never been more critical. This collaboration introduces new AI-powered solutions that enable earlier threat detection, faster incident response, and rapid data recovery. As a result, organizations can reduce business risk and minimize disruption. Key updates include the integration of Google Threat Intelligence into the Cohesity Data Cloud, offering enhanced threat detection using insights from over 450 global threat actors and 1,100+ annual investigations. This enables faster identification and containment of risks. Cohesity is also partnering with Mandiant, a Google company, for incident response. Cohesity's CERT team and Mandiant's experts will now collaborate to help joint customers mitigate cyberattacks, recover critical data, and reduce downtime. Another major development is the ability to create a Cloud Isolated Recovery Environment (CIRE) in Google Cloud. Built with Mandiant, this solution allows organizations to securely restore operations after an attack. Additionally, Cohesity is integrating with Google Security Operations to enhance customers' data protection and security posture. To help businesses derive more value from their data, Cohesity is also launching new AI-driven features. Through the integration of Cohesity Gaia with Google Agentspace, customers will be able to search across enterprise data quickly and securely. With Gemini models from Google Cloud, users gain advanced reasoning capabilities for deeper insights. Furthermore, the integration of Google Gemini with Cohesity Gaia strengthens Cohesity's AI-powered enterprise search assistant, enabling intelligent data discovery and analysis. Stephen Orban, VP at Google Cloud, stated that the partnership will help organizations improve cyber resilience and accelerate digital transformation. Johnny Karam, VP at Cohesity, added that the collaboration aims to reduce both legislative and reputational risks while empowering businesses with AI-enhanced data access. Vikram Kanodia, VP at Cohesity, emphasized that the joint solutions are designed to protect business data and turn it into a strategic asset. The new integrations with Google Cloud are expected to be available by summer 2025. The Mandiant partnership and integration with Google Security Operations are already live.
Zawya
10-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Rubrik introduces new cyber resilient solution with Google Cloud
Dubai, UAE - Cloud Next '25 - In its ongoing commitment to deliver comprehensive cyber resiliency, Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) today announces upcoming capabilities designed to help ensure Google Cloud customers can quickly recover their business from a cyberattack or operational disruption. Surviving a Cyberattack: Beyond Backup Recovery "As organizations increasingly shift their business-critical data to the cloud, they're confronted with new challenges in protecting sensitive information against rapidly evolving cyber threats—challenges their traditional security technologies simply can't address," explained Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Rubrik. "We aim to empower Google Cloud customers to address these challenges with confidence, enabling them to strengthen their cyber resilience, streamline data protection, optimize backup and recovery processes, and ensure business continuity in the face of any cyber incident.' 'For organizations navigating today's complex cyber threat landscape, comprehensive cyber resiliency is non-negotiable,' said Stephen Orban, Vice President of Migrations, ISVs, & Marketplace at Google Cloud. 'Our collaboration with Rubrik provides customers with the tools and technologies to establish isolated recovery environments on Google Cloud, fortified by the proactive security insights and expertise of Mandiant." Achieving Complete Cyber Resilience and Recovery Precisely designed for Google Cloud, this collaboration delivers: Cloud-Based Isolated Recovery Environment in Google Cloud – Rubrik, in collaboration with Mandiant, is developing a cloud-based isolated recovery solution on Google Cloud. This solution is designed to enhance organizational cyber resilience by ensuring business-critical data backups are secure from cyber threats and efficiently, safely replicated to Google Cloud via Rubrik's Secure Vault after an incident. By leveraging Rubrik's Data Threat Analytics and Orchestrated Application Recovery Playbooks, combined with Mandiant's periodic security assessments and Incident Response services, it aims to establish a secure recovery environment on Google Cloud, to enable swift core application restoration and business continuity. Strengthened protection of Google Cloud Engine and Google Cloud SQL – New threat-analytics capabilities are planned for Anomaly Detection, Data Discovery and Classification, Turbo Threat Hunting, and Threat Monitoring. These capabilities are designed to work together to proactively detect cyber threats, accelerate incident response and recovery, and ensure sensitive data remains protected and compliant. Enterprise-grade protection for Google Workspace – Rubrik's solution is designed for Google Workspace customers, to help them protect their mission-critical SaaS data from cyber threats, insider risks, and accidental deletion, through newly-offered immutable backups, automated anomaly detection, and rapid, granular recovery. Rubrik's strengthened protection of Google Cloud Engine is available now. New threat analytics capabilities, expanded protection of Google Cloud SQL, expanded protection of Google Workspace, and Cloud-Based Isolated Recovery Environment are planned to be generally available at a later date. To learn more, visit Rubrik's booth #3140 and #1210 in the Expo Hall at Google Cloud NEXT 2025 or request a demo here. About Rubrik Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world's data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organizations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked. For more information, please visit and follow @rubrikInc on X (formerly Twitter) and Rubrik on LinkedIn. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: Any unreleased services or features referenced in this document are not currently available and may not be made generally available on time or at all, as may be determined in our sole discretion. Any such referenced services or features do not represent promises to deliver, commitments, or obligations of Rubrik, Inc. and may not be incorporated into any contract. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon services and features that are currently generally available. Media Contact: Meghan Fintland Head of Global PR, Rubrik
Zawya
10-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Rubrik Annapurna and Agentspace partner to enable secure and intelligent AI on Google Cloud
Dubai, UAE – Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) today announced that Rubrik Annapurna and Agentspace will explore ways to enable enterprises to securely access and utilize their data for AI-driven applications. By acting as a secure data source for Agentspace, Rubrik can better ensure that enterprise AI models can retrieve, govern, and protect sensitive data with Zero Trust security on Google Cloud. This intuitive offering will be designed to help businesses securely build and scale AI-powered applications, making the implementation process simple. By joining forces, Annapurna and Agentspace can allow companies to confidently move AI projects from pilot to production in the cloud by providing easy, secure access to data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. 'For AI to deliver real business value, enterprises need secure, well-governed data foundations,' said Stephen Orban, VP of Migrations, ISVs, and Marketplace at Google Cloud. 'With Rubrik Annapurna as a secure data source for Agentspace, organizations can seamlessly and securely access their data within Rubrik to power AI-driven insights while maintaining strong governance and compliance.' Enterprises Struggling to Balance AI Innovation with Security Organizations are rapidly adopting Google Cloud to build AI-powered applications. However, many are struggling to move beyond the testing phase due to security, compliance and scalability concerns, especially as evolving cyber risks threaten business-critical AI data. As a result, Gartner, Inc. predicts 'at least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value.' 'AI is only as powerful as the data behind it, but without strong security and governance, enterprises risk compliance violations and data exposure,' shares Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Rubrik. 'With Rubrik Annapurna and Agentspace, customers can now recognize the full potential of generative AI, while safely harnessing their enterprise data for AI and maintaining Zero Trust security.' The combination will seek to provide Google Cloud customers with: Fast, API-driven secure access to enterprise-wide data for AI training and retrieval Anomaly detection and access monitoring to prevent AI data leaks and unauthorized use Seamless AI data pipelines to integrate Google Cloud AI models with enterprise data Automated compliance enforcement to protect sensitive AI training data Understanding the Rubrik & Agentspace Integration: Secure AI Retrieval: Customers will be able to leverage Rubrik Annapurna as a data source within Agentspace, helping ensure that AI models can securely retrieve enterprise-wide structured and unstructured data. Zero Trust Authorization: Organizations will be able to control access via policy-based governance, helping ensure that only authorized AI models and users can query data within Agentspace. Streamlined AI Workflows: With this integration, businesses will be able to build AI-powered applications faster, without compromising security or compliance. Data Security – The Cornerstone of an Enterprise's Journey From AI Pilot to Production By bringing Zero Trust security to AI training workflows, Rubrik Annapurna helps organizations govern, classify, and mobilize their enterprise data with confidence. With built-in anomaly detection and policy-driven data pipelines, it provides real-time access to AI training data while enforcing security policies at scale, helping businesses meet regulatory requirements without slowing down development. This helps ensure that AI applications on Google Cloud are powered by high-quality, properly managed data that is essential for driving reliable, responsible AI innovation. To see Rubrik Annapurna for Google Cloud in action, visit Rubrik's booth #3140 and #1210 in the Expo Hall at Google Cloud NEXT 2025 or request a demo here. Gartner disclaimer Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025, Rita Sallam, et al, 29, July 2024 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Rubrik Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world's data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organizations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked. For more information, please visit and follow @rubrikInc on X (formerly Twitter) and Rubrik on LinkedIn. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: Any unreleased services or features referenced in this document are not currently available and may not be made generally available on time or at all, as may be determined in our sole discretion. Any such referenced services or features do not represent promises to deliver, commitments, or obligations of Rubrik, Inc. and may not be incorporated into any contract. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon services and features that are currently generally available. Media Contact: Meghan Fintland Head of Global PR, Rubrik
