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Logituit boards a new streamline strategy with Abhijit Kabra
MUMBAI: Call it a stream-savvy power play. Logituit, the media technology innovator best known for its AI-driven video streaming solutions, has welcomed seasoned digital leader Abhijit Kabra to its board of directors, a move aimed at bolstering its global ambitions and future-forward playbook.
Kabra’s resume reads like a crash course in digital transformation. The former CEO of Sasken Technologies and ex-MD at Accenture Digital and Barclays Digital has helmed billion-dollar businesses, navigated M&A waters, and driven transformation across telecom, semiconductors, fintech, and Industry 4.0. Now, he’s plugging into Logituit’s boardroom just as the media-tech sector hits high velocity.
“We are delighted to welcome Abhijit to our Board,” said Logituit CEO and co-founder Sandeep Chandak. “His strategic vision and extensive experience in technology-driven business growth will be instrumental as we strengthen our AI-driven video streaming and media technology solutions.”
Currently a non-executive director and investor in several tech ventures, Kabra’s addition reflects Logituit’s larger goal not just to stream faster, but smarter. With the media landscape increasingly shaped by automation, intelligence, and platform convergence, Kabra’s experience in navigating disruption could help Logituit leap from agile player to global leader.
His appointment also underscores a growing trend among forward-looking tech companies pairing deep tech with deep talent, right at the top. For Logituit, that strategy now has a new face and one with serious bandwidth.
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Google completes $32 billion Wiz deal to boost AI and cloud security
Wiz joins Google Cloud but keeps multi-cloud support across rival platforms
NEW YORK: Google has completed its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security company Wiz, marking the biggest deal in the tech giant’s history and signalling a major push to strengthen security in the era of artificial intelligence and multi-cloud computing.
The New York-headquartered cybersecurity firm will join Google Cloud while continuing to operate under the Wiz brand. Crucially, the company will maintain support for multiple cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, reflecting the reality that most large organisations run their systems across several cloud providers.
Google said the acquisition is designed to help organisations build and scale applications more securely as businesses and governments increasingly move critical systems and data to the cloud. At the same time, the rapid adoption of generative AI has introduced new cybersecurity risks, with attackers also using AI to launch faster and more sophisticated attacks.
Wiz has built a reputation for simplifying cloud security. Its platform maps entire cloud environments, identifying vulnerabilities, potential attack paths and misconfigurations before they can be exploited. By connecting insights from code, cloud infrastructure and runtime environments, it allows security and engineering teams to detect and fix risks early in the development cycle.
Bringing Wiz into Google Cloud will create what the company describes as a unified security platform capable of detecting, preventing and responding to threats across cloud and AI environments. The combined offering will also integrate Google’s own security capabilities, including threat intelligence tools, security operations platforms and the cybersecurity expertise of Mandiant.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the move reflects the growing importance of security as more organisations rely on AI and cloud technologies. “Keeping people safe online has always been part of Google’s mission,” he said, adding that the partnership will help organisations innovate with greater confidence.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, said the goal is to make security an enabler rather than a roadblock for businesses building modern applications. He noted that the combined technologies will simplify the complex task of protecting hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
For Wiz, the acquisition opens the door to global scale while keeping its core philosophy intact. Co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport said the company remains committed to an open, multi-cloud approach and will continue supporting customers regardless of where their workloads run.
Over the past year, Wiz has expanded its platform to address emerging risks tied to AI applications, including tools that help organisations monitor AI usage, detect AI-specific vulnerabilities and secure AI workloads during runtime.
With Google’s infrastructure, artificial intelligence capabilities and security ecosystem now behind it, Wiz plans to accelerate development of its platform while continuing to serve enterprises, governments and start-ups operating across different cloud environments.
For Google Cloud, the acquisition adds a powerful piece to its security puzzle as competition intensifies among global cloud providers. For customers, it promises a future where building fast in the cloud does not have to come at the expense of staying secure.
