SD Times news digest: VCs pouring money into blockchain companies, Checkmarx acquires Dustico, ONUG names two new members to its board

Blockchain corporations have raised $30.4 billion in complete funding, marking a rise of 44% inside a yr, in keeping with Block Arabia, a information media website within the area of economic markets.

Crunchbase knowledge confirmed that 2018 was a document yr for blockchain funding, however the subsequent two years noticed a big stoop. This yr, traders started flocking again to the expertise. 

Block Arabia discovered that  U.S. blockchain corporations lead within the complete worth of investments, with $12.5 billion in funding rounds up to now, adopted by European corporations at $6.1 billion and Asian corporations at $5.4 billion. 

Checkmarx acquires Dustico

Checkmarx’s acquisition of the startup, which developed distinctive strategies to determine provide chain assaults, will broaden the expertise to Checkmarx’s software program composition evaluation instrument, CxSCA.

It will add ML-driven behavioral evaluation and contributor repute indicators into the chance evaluation equation, alongside the answer’s present menace feed, impartial safety analysis, and the Exploitable Path functionality.

Checkmarx acknowledged that it’s engaged on getting these new protections into CxSCA as quickly as potential and can publish updates on its site. 

ONUG names two new members to its board

ONUG immediately introduced the appointment of Shannon Lietz, vp of Vulnerability Labs at Adobe, to the ONUG board as co-chair alongside Nick Lippis and Ernest Leffner, co-founders of ONUG. 

Additionally, Yesim Akdeniz, managing director of structure, expertise and engineering at Citigroup, is being appointed to the ONUG board.

The ONUG board units the tone and route of open enterprise cloud frameworks for the trade that may finest serve the pursuits of ONUG members which embrace corporations like Financial institution of America, Cigna, Citigroup, FedEx, Constancy Investments, Hole Inc., Pfizer, Goal, Raytheon Applied sciences, Kaiser Permanente and moe. 

ServiceNow to amass Swarm64

ServiceNow signed an settlement to amass the database efficiency firm Swarm64 to assist prospects extra successfully and effectively handle knowledge throughout many various use instances to execute complicated, high-speed knowledge analytics at a mass scale.

Swarm64 was co-founded in 2013 to speed up PostgreSQL database efficiency by means of a  mixture of analytical and transactional database capabilities that assist large-scale, clever workflows and allow best-in-class efficiency and scalability.

ServiceNow expects to finish the acquisition of Swarm64 in Q3 2021. Further particulars can be found here. 

Apache weekly replace

This week on the Apache Software program Basis noticed Apache Pinot, a distributed Huge Information analytics infrastructure created to ship scalable real-time analytics, transfer as much as a Prime-Degree Undertaking.

New releases this week embrace Geode 1.13.4, Camel 3.11.1, Commons CSV 1.9.0, and Commons DBCP 2.9.0