Okera and Starburst Enter into a Strategic Partnership

Together, Okera and Starburst enable customers to achieve accelerated analytics along with privacy protections and essential security for sensitive data – at scale and at a lower cost than other strategies.

FREMONT, CA: Okera and Starburst, the Presto Company, has declared a strategic partnership to automate sensitive data discovery, security, as well as privacy protection, enabling secure data access and analytics at scale.

Together, Okera and Starburst enable customers to achieve accelerated analytics along with privacy protections and essential security for sensitive data – at scale and at a lower cost than other strategies.

"Secure data access across a distributed environment is key to unlocking the full potential of a powerful analytics platform like Starburst while still protecting and securing sensitive data and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations," stated John F. Marchese, Vice President of Global Alliances & Partner Sales Channel at Okera. "Our partnership with Starburst provides enterprises with a well-governed and responsible approach to executing federated SQL queries across their infrastructure and taking full control of their data universe."

"Starburst customers want to unlock access to their data everywhere, but they also need to ensure they have the required data security in place to protect sensitive data and intellectual property," stated Justin Borgman, Co-Founder & CEO at Starburst. "The Okera Dynamic Access Platform enables our customers to combine unique analytics prowess with full governance everywhere and at scale."

By utilizing Okera's policy management and data masking, joint customers would experience end-to-end data protection across sensitive, regulated, personal, and critical data.