Logitech buys Saitek to expand its reach in game controls and other peripherals

Logitech announced that it has acquired the Saitek brand and the Saitek line of flight, farm, and space simulation game controllers.

“They’re the go-to products for anyone into games like Elite Dangerous, Eve Valkyrie, Star Citizen, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Farm Simulator,” said Ujesh Desai, vice president and general manager of gaming at Logitech, in a blog post.

Desai said that Saitek’s products get great reviews from fans. He also said, “Simulation games are cool and getting cooler. Whether you’re into driving, flying or exploring space, there are fresh new titles available and more to come. Some of these titles are even VR enabled and we believe that dedicated controllers will stimulate and enhance the total VR experience.”

And he said that Logitech is “excited to be a bigger part of the simulation community.”

He added, “We already make gaming wheels for the driving simulation market and this new line of products will provide an even more complete experience. We care about this space and want to do right by its fans. We have a vision that will take these products further, faster. Stay tuned for future updates, as we further integrate the Saitek products into our overall Logitech G portfolio.”

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Oracle buys Palerra to boost its security stack

Oracle is kicking off a big customer confab in San Francisco this week, and to mark the event, it’s announced an acquisition. Oracle is buying Palerra, a cloud security startup co-founded by Oracle alums Rohit Gupta (its CEO) and Ganesh Kirti (CTO).

Terms of the deal were not disclosed but we will try to find out. Palerra was founded in 2013 (originally called Apprity) and raised $25 million with investors including Norwest Venture Partners and August Capital.

Palerra’s business currently focuses on providing security automation for enterprise apps, covering not just data in the apps but as that data “moves across services and it offers several layers of protection across infrastructure and software services,” as we wrote about them last year.

The company will continue to serve its existing customers as well as work on more services for the future, Gupta notes in a blog post announcing the news.

At a time when companies are facing more sophisticated cyber attacks than ever before, Palerra’s feature set is in demand: it covers  breach discovery, compliance, insider threat detection and incident response.

While Gupta and Oracle are not giving many details of the new product road map, Gupta notes that they will be working on integrations with Oracle’s platform.


“Together, Oracle and Palerra will help accelerate cloud adoption securely by providing comprehensive identity and security cloud services,” he writes. “The combination of Oracle’s Identity Cloud Service and Palerra’s CASB platform plan to deliver comprehensive protection for users, applications and APIs, data, and infrastructure to secure enterprises in their adoption of Cloud and SaaS applications.”

You can see how the company could apply it as an added feature covering its own enterprise software, or as a standalone product much as it is sold today.

Oracle has made well over 100 acquisitions to date, but not many in the area of security. Others include Oblix in 2005 and device management startup Bitzer Mobile in 2013.

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