- HPE recently announced it is buying service authentication company Scytale. These are the details about the deal you should know about.
HPE fellow and general manager and Plexxi Inc. founder David Husak announced that the company has acquired Scytale. Scytale is known for helping enterprise security engineering teams standardize and accelerate service authentication across cloud, container, and on-premises infrastructures.
Scytale was founded by a group of seasoned engineers who worked at organizations like Amazon Web Services, Duo Security, Google, Okta, PagerDuty, and Splunk. And the team helps enterprise security engineering teams standardize and accelerate service authentication across cloud, container, and on-premises infrastructures.
“We are thrilled to bring onboard to HPE the talented and proven team from Scytale, and co-founders Sunil James, Emiliano Berenbaum, and Andrew Jessup, leading figures in the open-source movement,” said Husak. “This acquisition also represents HPE’s ongoing transformation, part of which is to embrace and contribute to open source projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and elsewhere. Our goal is to deliver services and products that advance these developments, and provide our customers and partners with the fastest-possible path to application modernization. A great proof-point of this is the recently launched, Kubernetes-Certified HPE Container Platform, derived from our recent acquisitions of MapR (key contributors to a number of Apache Foundation projects) and BlueData.”
Scytale’s team of experts in cloud-native security and zero-trust networking is also recognized as the founding contributors of the SPIFFE (the Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone) and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) open-source projects to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. HPE is fully committed to continuing Scytale’s contributions to SPIFFE and SPIRE. Plus these projects will play a fundamental role in HPE’s plans to deliver a dynamic, open, and secure edge-to-cloud platform.
“Early in Scytale’s history, I met Antonio Neri before he became HPE’s CEO. Our discussion left me with a strong understanding of the company’s deep roots in helping customers bridge complex and ever-changing enterprise IT infrastructure. This understanding was reinforced last year when I met David Husak and David Larson (I call them ‘the Daves’), two leaders within Hewlett Packard Labs. They impressed me with their clearsightedness as to the importance of ZT to HPE customers, citing that every HPE ProLiant Gen10 server shipped with an embedded silicon root of trust. This silicon verifies the integrity of the server and installed firmware – a critical foundation for any credible ZT solution,” wrote James in a blog post. “I further observed HPE was compiling experts (through their Cape Networks, Cray, and Plexxi acquisitions) to tackle hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity under the Cloudless Computing banner. As time progressed, it became more apparent to me how directionally aligned Scytale and HPE were.”
