- Microsoft recently announced that it acquired unified data access control company BlueTalon. These are the details behind the deal.
Microsoft recently announced that it acquired BlueTalon, which is a unified data access control company that helps enterprises control their data. The terms of the deal were undisclosed. BlueTalon is also known for building technology for private data centers and it provides data-centric security across Hadoop, SQL, and big data environments.
Prior to the acquisition, BlueTalon raised a bit more than $27 million in total funding from venture firms like Signia Venture Partners, Maverick Capital, and Divergent Ventures.
“BlueTalon works with leading Fortune 100 companies to eliminate data security blind spots and gain visibility and control of data. BlueTalon provides a customer-proven, data-centric solution for data access management and auditing across the diverse systems resident in modern data estates,” said Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Azure Data Rohan Kumar. “The IP and talent acquired through BlueTalon brings a unique expertise at the apex of big data, security, and governance. This acquisition will enhance our ability to empower enterprises across industries to digitally transform while ensuring right use of data with centralized data governance at scale through Azure.”
On his LinkedIn profile, BlueTalon founder and chief product officer Pratik Verma said that he launched BlueTalon to eliminate barriers in use of data to accelerate innovations in data-intensive and privacy-sensitive industries.
“BlueTalon enterprise customers increasingly began to migrate more and more of their data to the cloud and asked us to support them in that process. As we began exploring partnership opportunities with various hyperscale cloud providers to better serve our customers, Microsoft deeply impressed us. The Azure Data team was uniquely thoughtful and visionary when it came to data governance. We found them to be the perfect fit for us in both mission and culture. So when Microsoft asked us to join forces, we jumped at the opportunity,” added BlueTalon CEO Eric Tilenius.
