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  • Mabl Introduces Native Desktop Application with API and Mobile Test Automation Capabilities

    New low-code test automation for APIs and mobile web browsers enables high-velocity software teams to scale test coverage in a seamless, unified platform.

    BOSTON – February 24, 2021 – Mabl, the leading intelligent test automation company, today announced the beta release of their new native desktop application that empowers users to easily automate testing for desktop browsers, mobile browsers, and APIs. These added capabilities further the company’s mission to offer the leading SaaS solution that enables high-velocity software teams to accelerate innovation while achieving exceptional quality engineering.

    “The new desktop app streamlines my workflow since I don’t have to worry about sessions or cookies impacting my tests,” says Chris Skopec, Software Test Engineer at SmugMug. “Combined with the addition of mobile web and API testing, the streamlined user experience will make it even easier for us to keep quality front and center.”

    With the desktop app, mabl’s low-code interface for test creation and maintenance requires up to 80% less effort than alternatives, improving collaboration and significantly reducing the programming expertise required to write and maintain automated tests. As a result, software teams can avoid testing bottlenecks and harness the power of test automation to achieve the full potential of DevOps.

    New capabilities include:

    Desktop app: The desktop application – built with Electron – provides users a low-code interface to create, execute, maintain, and analyze results of all their automated tests. Eliminating the need to jump between multiple UIs, users can now more efficiently run their browser, API and local web tests, in the cloud or locally through a single unified experience.

    API testing: mabl’s end-to-end API testing functionality improves test coverage by enabling users to easily validate API workflows alongside browser-based workflows in a single unified platform. Users can author and maintain API tests using mabl’s low-code interface or import and export Postman collections to leverage existing automation investments.

    Mobile web testing: New to the mabl platform, the desktop app includes support for mobile web testing. Users can validate responsiveness by creating and running tests across browsers and mobile device profiles in the same unified experience.

    “With the addition of the desktop app, mabl is the simplest, most capable intelligent test automation solution on the market,” says mabl co-founder Dan Belcher. “Quality professionals now have a seamless, low-code solution for their browser, API and mobile web testing needs, enabling them to automate even more routine tasks and focus their talent on higher-level quality initiatives.”

    Mabl users can automate web application tests faster than ever; and improve collaboration among cross-functional team members to not only run better tests, but lead with a culture of quality. Join us at one of our local Experience Tour events to learn more about this latest release, and to hear real-world success stories from mabl customers.

    About mabl

    Mabl is the intelligent test automation company that empowers high-velocity software development teams to integrate automated end-to-end testing into the entire development lifecycle. Mabl users benefit from a unified platform for easily creating, executing, and maintaining reliable tests that result in faster delivery of high quality applications. That’s why customer-centric brands like Splunk, NCR, jetBlue, Dollar Shave Club, Charles Schwab and many other enterprises rely on mabl for testing their business critical apps. https://www.mabl.com.

  • Allego Announces Record-Breaking Q4 and Full Year of Customer and Revenue Growth Marked by Product Innovation and Continued Market Leadership

    New customers drive record new annual recurring revenue growth of 300% for Q4

    Needham, MA – February 24, 2021 – Allego, the leading sales learning and enablement platform provider, today announced record-breaking growth in 2020, touting technological advancements and a significant increase in customer acquisition and expansion. 

    Allego continues to see increased demand for its platform from new customers across industries, resulting in a 300% increase in organic year-over-year new annual revenue growth for Q4. Notable brands adopting the Allego platform in 2020 include Fannie Mae, Johnson Health Tech, Neurelis, Quidel Diagnostics, Recordati Rare Diseases and Regroup Mass Notification. Over the same period, the company also experienced a 51% year-over-year expansion in SaaS annual recurring revenue from existing customers looking to bolster their sales enablement efforts to improve virtual selling success for their teams. Allego’s customer expansion was also marked by increased use of the platform for broader sales enablement needs, including sales content management. 

    As COVID-19 hit and the travel industry was deeply impacted, Tripadvisor looked to consolidate its content management system and sales learning tools to offer its team the greatest efficiencies from one platform. “We’ve been challenged in the past having different systems that do similar things. Being able to bring all of that onto one platform that offers the greatest efficiency was our goal,” said Gerry Hurley, Senior Director of Enablement, Tripadvisor. “We’ve been working with Allego now for over two years and have been impressed with the functionality around learning. Now, we have one central location for our sellers to find approved customer-facing collateral, plus we have the engagement metrics to see how that content is being used in the field and how customers are engaging with it. This feedback helps us continually improve our messaging and sales motion.”

    Furthermore, Allego increased its market-leading position as an all-in-one provider of sales enablement with its acquisition of Refract, a UK-based leader in sales engagement and multilingual conversation analytics, adding more than 100 additional conversation intelligence and call coaching customers. The addition of Refract’s team serves as Allego’s new European headquarters with a full complement of talent across engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to help drive the company’s global expansion.

    Click to Tweet: @AllegoSoftware announces 300% YoY annual recurring revenue growth in Q4 driven by continued demand for market-leading #salesenablement platform plus the exciting acquisition of @Refract.ai https://bit.ly/3aKBajc 

     

    “2020 proved to be a pivotal year for Allego. As the pandemic forced teams to work from home, companies saw an increased need for a learning and enablement platform that allows their teams to stay connected, informed and productive. We delivered, expanding our footprint and implementing technological advancements to offer customers an all-in-one sales enablement solution,” said Yuchun Lee, CEO and co-founder of Allego. “As we look ahead to 2021, Allego will continue to evolve with our customers’ needs for the next normal.”

     

    Additional 2020 milestones include:

    • In Q3, Allego launched Allego 6, the most advanced and fully integrated sales content management and sales learning solution on the market. The all-in-one platform makes learning, content creation, collaboration and coaching easier among sales teams, allowing rapid individual and team-wide growth.

    • In response to the pandemic, Allego partnered with several of the world’s ventilator manufacturers to create the Ventilator Training Alliance app, a centralized knowledge hub that has connected frontline medical providers across 199 countries with critical ventilator training resources.

    • Awards further corroborated Allego’s success, as the company was touted for its technology innovations, executive leadership and corporate initiatives by industry groups including  CLO Magazine, Best in Biz Awards, BISA, Brandon Hall Group and The Stevie Awards. 

    • On a corporate level, Allego was recognized as a top place to work by the Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe and Selling Power.

    • Since Allego’s last funding announcement, the company raised another $25M in new funding to support the company’s aggressive growth. This additional investment, completed in Q4 2020, included funding from General Catalyst and Summit Partners. 

    To learn more about Allego’s leading sales learning and enablement platform, schedule a demo or visit Allego.com

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    About Allego
    Allego’s all-in-one learning and enablement platform ensures that employees have the skills, timely knowledge, and supporting content to accelerate team success. Instead of traditional onboarding and training marathons—which are rapidly outdated and quickly forgotten—enablement and training teams use Allego to deliver the fresh, bite-sized learning that employees need to close deals in today’s dynamic business environment. Learning content is personalized and mastered through reinforcement, on-the-job coaching, and peer collaboration. Nearly 500,000 professionals use Allego to onboard faster, deliver consistent messaging, quickly find critical sales content for virtual selling, rapidly adopt best practices, coach and practice more frequently, and collaborate more effectively. To learn more about Allego and learning and enablement in the flow of work, please visit.allego.com.

  • Hasura Releases Enterprise Grade Features so Developers Can Build Mission-Critical Applications Faster

    Hasura’s GraphQL Engine Grew From 0 to 100 Million Downloads in 2.5 Years, Making it the Fastest Growing Open Source GraphQL Project for the Last 2 Years

    SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, today announced that it has released version 2.0 of its popular open source GraphQL Engine. The release now enables organizations to simultaneously deploy REST and GraphQL APIs from one configuration to provide a bridge between modern application development and supporting existing REST APIs. This release includes the industry’s first GraphQL API gateway which provides granular authorization to any GraphQL API. Additionally, the release also now supports Google’s BigQuery database in addition to PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MySQL, so developers can easily access the data instantly to accelerate application development.

    Hasura GraphQL Engine has seen explosive growth since it was launched in 2018. Downloads grew to 2 million in 2019 and to 100 million in 2020, making it the fastest growing open source GraphQL project over the past two years. Today the project has more than 20,000 GitHub stars. Today’s release is a major milestone for the open source project as well as the GraphQL community and brings Hasura one step closer to delivering on its vision of providing universal secure data access – across data platforms and information silos.

    “Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 confirms that using Hasura as a foundational part of our infrastructure was the right choice,” said Ian Macalinao, Pipe.com’s Head of Product Engineering. “As a startup in the fintech space, we have to continuously innovate while providing the highest levels of data security for our customers. The new enterprise features in Hasura provide us the flexibility to quickly utilize different API formats and data sources, all while securely authorizing highly privileged data to only the right entities.”

    Today Hasura also announced the managed service offering of GraphQL Engine, Hasura Cloud, now has AWS VPC peering capability to securely connect their data and infrastructure to Hasura Cloud in a secure private network. Hasura Cloud and Hasura’s on-premises Enterprise Edition, are both powered by Hasura’s GraphQL Engine.

    Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura said, “Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 has our most anticipated features that make building mission critical applications in enterprise a reality, accelerating time to market for key initiatives. Hasura’s declarative configuration approach and modern developer experience, coupled with a powerful authorization engine means organizations can innovate fast without compromising on security. Hasura is proving to be the backbone for the next generation of mission critical applications. The days of proprietary data access are over. Technology and user behavior are evolving too fast to completely re-architect systems. Hasura’s vision empowers developers to focus on user experience while re-using their data in new ways.”

    Organizations have valuable data they need to access as they build new applications but it is trapped in siloed databases. Rather than trying to use manual approaches to build APIs and worry about security, performance, or trying to consolidate fast-moving operational data, Hasura provides a new option that makes it easy for developers to access the data: simply connect applications by federating access to where the data lives, using a modern API-based approach. With Hasura, developers get flexible data APIs from those sources within minutes to instantly access online data.

    With Hasura, developers can rapidly build applications that connect to data without waiting for costly, time-consuming integration and infrastructure projects to finish building the pieces they need. Instead, they can concentrate on solving business problems with data and rapidly build and ship applications that add value to their organizations. The speed and flexibility provided by Hasura are truly transformative for organizations constrained by legacy systems.

    “Organizations today want to provide GraphQL access to APIs and data services, while leveraging their existing REST assets with granular controls,” said James Governor, RedMonk co-founder. “Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 is designed to meet that need, bridge REST and GraphQL with a single management and authentication model, at the row level, across various database sources.”

    New Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 Features

    • Simultaneous auto-generation of REST and GraphQL APIs. To ease the transition to GraphQL, Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 provides the ability to auto-generate REST and GraphQL APIs, enabling organizations to support both formats within a single configuration – saving significant time and cost. This also enables organizations to continue to support existing investments in REST APIs.
    • Enhanced security and authorization. Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 includes the industry’s first GraphQL gateway with built-in authorization so that developers can easily secure all the GraphQL APIs in their organization – not just ones created by Hasura. Using GUI tools or declarative configuration, developers can easily configure granular role and attribute-based access control rules and inheritance policies to prevent unauthorized data use and security breaches in complex enterprise systems.
    • Expanded database support for Google BigQuery. In addition to relational database support for PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL, Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 provides auto-generated GraphQL APIs for Google BigQuery, eliminating complex data migrations and enabling data unification at the GraphQL layer.

    With New Support for AWS’ VPC Peering, Enterprises Can Securely Connect to Hasura Cloud
    AWS VPC Peering and security certifications for Hasura Cloud. Hasura Cloud users can use its managed, serverless offering in a private, secure cross-premises network to accelerate data access in enterprise environments utilizing AWS’ VPC Peering. Hasura Cloud is also certified SOC2 Type 1 and HIPAA compliant.

    About Hasura
    Hasura is helping to build the modern world of globally relevant, data-driven applications and APIs. Hasura’s range of data access solutions helps organizations accelerate product delivery by instantly connecting data and services to applications with GraphQL APIs. For more information, go to: https://hasura.io or follow @HasuraHQ. 

  • Nokia unveils new 5G core deployment services to give operators better capabilities

    Nokia unveils new 5G core deployment services to give operators better capabilities

    • Nokia DelOps (Delivery and Operations) approach and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Services to reduce network complexity and improve operational efficiency
    • Nokia DelOps and CI/CD Services to help operators deliver new products and services faster to their customers

     

    23 February 2021

    Espoo, Finland – Nokia has today announced the launch of its DelOps initiative, a new and innovative approach to managing the complexity of 5G core software delivery and operations, and a new suite of CI/CD Services to help communication service providers (CSPs) realize increased operational efficiencies and velocity of new services.

    As a result of increased automation enabled by CI/CD services, CSPs can expect to see faster time to market with rapid iterations and increased flexibility through the entire lifecycle of 5G core network functions and services. With Nokia’s CI/CD services playing a critical role in 5G core deployments, these solutions have already been selected by five Tier 1 CSPs for upcoming rollouts, and discussions are ongoing with several other operators globally.

    Nokia’s DelOps approach allows CSPs to harness the benefits of DevOps-style software development, yet also caters to the complexity and customization needs of the telecom industry by enabling the efficiencies of continuous integration and delivery. Nokia’s DelOps approach is flexible, scalable and agile, providing network reliability and reducing time to market for new products and services.

    DelOps can support multiple domain environments, third-party software and hybrid cloud environments by initiating a separate integration process for each environment or platform with independent design, deploy, test and operate phases.

    In combination with DelOps, Nokia’s new suite of CI/CD services reduces the complexity of the full lifecycle management of cloud-native 5G core applications. With three tailored segments for CSPs to choose from that accommodate existing CI/CD frameworks created by the operator, a third-party or by Nokia, operators have the flexibility to choose the solution that best fits their needs.

    Dave Bolan, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group, said: “As we begin to enter the era of 5G Standalone Networks with 5G Core, CSPs will need to deliver new features and services in a more complex environment than ever before. With network slicing, multi-access edge computing, on-premises enterprise wireless networks, potentially all in a multi-cloud environment, CSPs are going to need solutions that simplify, while at the same time accelerate, bringing new services and features to the market. Nokia’s DelOps addresses this transition to make the complex simple.”

    Fran Heeran, SVP & Head of Core Networks, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia, said: “Just as DevOps revolutionized the IT and web scale industries, DelOps opens a door to a new way of deploying and integrating new telecom solutions, and rapidly provides for efficient delivery into a wide range of environment types. Working in tandem with Nokia’s CI/CD services, CSPs will be able to innovate and deploy new services faster and more frequently without sacrificing network reliability.”

    Learn more: www.nokia.com/networks/solutions/ci-cd/

    About Nokia
    We create the critical networks and technologies to bring together the world’s intelligence, across businesses, cities, supply chains and societies.

    With our commitment to innovation and technology leadership, driven by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, we deliver networks at the limits of science across mobile, infrastructure, cloud, and enabling technologies.

    Adhering to the highest standards of integrity and security, we help build the capabilities we need for a more productive, sustainable and inclusive world.

    For our latest updates, please visit us online www.nokia.com and follow us on Twitter @nokia.

     

  • LogicGate Invests in Strategic Alliances Program to Accelerate Customer Value

    Industry veteran, Joseph Schorr, joins company to lead partner program

    CHICAGO – February 23, 2021 – LogicGate, a leading provider of cloud software solutions for automating governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes through its Risk Cloud™ platform, today announces they have partnered with Ascent, a provider of AI-based solutions that automate regulatory compliance processes and CastleHill Managed Risk Solutions, a GRC SaaS provider. These initiatives will be led by Joseph Schorr as he joins LogicGate to champion the Strategic Alliance Program to bring even more value to Risk Cloud and LogicGate customers. His appointment comes as LogicGate scales and expands to new markets, including continuing to establish channel relationships, bringing Risk Cloud to managed service providers, systems integrators, and distributors.

    Schorr has more than 20 years of experience leading strategic business development, and constructing new sales and delivery engagement models. Prior to LogicGate, he served as vice president of global executive services at Optive. Before Optive, Schorr amassed his experience in cybersecurity from various roles with organizations including Exodus Intelligence, SecureWorks and HP. Now, as Vice President of Strategic Alliances, he’ll expand and scale LogicGate’s successful channel practice.

    “The importance of proper governance, risk, and compliance can’t be overstated in today’s business environment,” said Schorr. “LogicGate’s Risk Cloud is the ideal solution for organizations looking to be more risk-intelligent. The partnerships I hope to cultivate on LogicGate’s behalf will advance the company’s mission to be the center of an organization’s GRC ecosystem. The work we’re doing with Ascent and CastleHill are two perfect examples of how customers win when we establish strong alliances with complementary providers.”

    Bringing AI to regulatory compliance with Ascent

    LogicGate has joined with Ascent to create Risk Cloud’s Regulatory Compliance Powered By Ascent Application. This Application will bolster Risk Cloud’s regulatory compliance offerings by leveraging Ascent’s AI-fueled technology that automatically delivers a complete set of obligations targeted to each organization’s needs. This regulatory partnership takes the guessing game and manual work out of a compliance program and reduces the thousands of regulations down to a manageable size, helping risk and compliance professionals narrow their focus to only relevant information. The pre-built application ensures that firms have the right regulatory data automatically populated in Risk Cloud, which they can then operationalize to remain compliant with the law at all times. This ultimately frees up teams to explore new regions, services, or products knowing the organization can evolve with any new regulation.

    “Our solution is designed to work with platforms like Risk Cloud in a powerful, complementary way,” said Brian Clark, Ascent Founder & President. “Combining Ascent and Risk Cloud is a recipe for success for our heavily regulated clients as it creates a single source of regulatory truth that is both targeted to the customer and always up-to-date. With our combined solution, customers can dramatically reduce their regulatory risks and costs with a flexible, user-friendly platform that is automatically populated with the regulatory information they care about.”

    CastleHill Managed Risk Solutions simplifies regulatory change management

    LogicGate has partnered with CastleHill Managed Risk Solutions to help organizations across any vertical and industry navigate the regulatory and compliance landscape. The combination of CastleHill’s expertise and Risk Cloud makes Regulatory Change Management and Regulatory Compliance as efficient and seamless as possible. Powered by the Risk Cloud’s advanced technology architecture and pre-configured solutions and CastleHill’s proprietary methodology.

    “As we grow Risk Cloud, our partners increase the value we bring to our customers,” said LogicGate CEO, Matt Kunkel. “In heavily regulated industries, regulations change rapidly. It’s more than cumbersome to track changes and map how they apply to an organization and then change processes to adapt to the new regulations. Our innovative Application with Ascent is a game changer for our customers in those heavily regulated industries, saving them time and creating efficiencies.”

    This announcement follows LogicGate’s announcement of surpassing $40 million in total funding late in 2020. For more information about LogicGate, visit LogicGate.com.

     

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    About LogicGate

    LogicGate is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for automating governance, risk and compliance (GRC) processes. LogicGate empowers customers to transform disorganized risk and compliance operations into agile enterprise risk management programs, tailored to their business needs. Its proprietary Risk Cloud™ platform, an end-to-end suite of risk management solutions, blends the right mix of flexibility and out-of-the-box functionality, enabling organizations to manage their risk with confidence. Companies like SoFi, CAPCO and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, rely on LogicGate to accurately assess, monitor, action, and, when needed, rapidly pivot GRC processes, without the support of consultants or corporate IT. The Chicago-based company has been named a leading GRC Software Platform on the G2 GRC Grid for five consecutive quarters, and was awarded Best Security Innovation in a SaaS Product by the SaaS Awards. For more information, visit LogicGate.com and follow LogicGate on LinkedIn and Twitter at @LogicGate.

  • Test Automation University, the World’s Largest Free Online Testing Education Platform, Crosses 75,000 Student Mark

    Quickly becoming the industry standard for the software testing community, Test Automation University enables hiring managers to fill key roles and engineers to upskill and advance their careers

    SAN MATEO, Calif., February 23, 2021 — Applitools, provider of the next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, today announced Test Automation University (TAU) has surpassed 75,000 students. This marks the single largest free online education community for test automation in the world. Since announcing its first course in January 2019, the program’s 39 renowned instructors have produced a curriculum of more than 50 courses and 12 unique learning paths.

    To join Test Automation University and start learning for free, visit https://testautomationu.applitools.com/

    As job insecurity became a reality for many due to COVID-19, new and seasoned engineers went looking to develop new skill sets and expand their careers. In fact, a recent study found that at least 80% percent of respondents experienced some degree of worry about job security due to the pandemic. TAU has quickly become the industry standard for the testing community, enabling hiring managers to fill key roles and new engineers to land their first job.

    “Recently we hired an associate tester who had no previous testing experience, but his passion and accreditation from Test Automation University landed him the job,” said Suman Bala, QA Lead at Sky.

    “Applitools has a great thing going, from their industry-leading platform to their Test Automation University that has landed me a job as an Automation Engineer!” said Adam Wood, Automation Engineer at ProAct International.

    Created as an expert-driven collection of free educational training resources for people interested in developing test automation skills, TAU helps people of all skill levels advance their careers. The instructors of TAU help guide students on their journey through the 50-plus courses available that cover web, API, mobile, Visual AI, and codeless automation frameworks and provide training in multiple programming languages, such as Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Ruby and Swift.

    “The growth of Test Automation University has been astonishing. It’s been such a joy to witness the remarkable outcomes for our students,” said Angie Jones, Senior Director of Test Automation University, and instructor of five courses ranging from ‘Java Programming‘ to ‘Selenium Webdriver‘ to ‘Automated Visual Testing: a Fast Path to Test Automation Success‘ “During a very difficult time for many, the Test Automation University community grew stronger and generated inspiring stories of success and collaboration as a result of these courses.”

    Test Automation University is sponsored by Applitools. Contact us at (https://applitools.com/contact/sales) to learn more about modern software testing via Visual AI. 

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers the next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud. We enable engineering teams to release high quality web and mobile apps at incredible speed and at a reduced cost.

    Applitools Visual AI modernizes important test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design Testing, Cross Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI/CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Tech, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharma, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • IBM Power Systems Enhances Hybrid Cloud Capabilities with Red Hat

    New pre-configured private cloud platform, innovative cloud-consumption payment model, and more Red Hat software now supported on IBM Power Virtual Servers

    ARMONK, NY – February 23, 2021 – IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced availability of Red Hat software on IBM Power Systems as well as new IBM Power Systems hardware. These announcements further expand IBM Systems commitment to help clients modernize by empowering them with the latest tools from Red Hat to develop cloud-native applications and deploy them into hybrid cloud environments.

    Today’s announcements include:

    • Expanded Red Hat Capabilities on IBM Power Systems – IBM Power Systems will now feature Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Virtual Server leveraging OpenShift’s platform-agnostic installeri, Red Hat Runtimes, and new certifiedii Red Hat Ansible
    • New IBM Power Private Cloud Rack Solution – Providing clients an optimized, production level environment to modernize traditional environments to cloud native applications, the IBM Power Private Cloud Rack combines on-premise hardware, a complete software stack of IBM and Red Hat tools, and installation from IBM Systems Lab Services to deliver 49% lower cost per request x86iii.
    • Extended Cloud-Like Capacity Scaling on IBM Power Systems – Enhancements to IBM Power System’s capacity management to quickly scale processing power across the hybrid cloud on Linux, IBM i, and

    “Twelve months ago, IT practitioners faced a vastly different landscape before the world was transformed by the global COVID-19 pandemic,” said General Manager of IBM Cognitive Systems Stephen Leonard. “But despite the challenges, they recognize that a hybrid cloud approach can offer 2.5x the value derived from a single public cloud, as measured by IBM’s Institute of Business Valueiv. IBM Power Systems, along with the greater IBM Systems portfolio, plays a critical role in this transition to hybrid environments.”

    IBM Power Systems and Red Hat Drive Client Success with Hybrid Cloud

    Shree Cement Ltd., one of India’s largest cement producers with nearly $2 billion in revenue last year, selected IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems to run a combination of Red Hat and AIX to help them modernize their IT infrastructure with hybrid cloud. When Shree needed to streamline their supply chain while also increasing its computing capacity, they knew they needed to refresh their existing Oracle- based infrastructure.

    “We were in the midst of technology modernization and were looking for a dependable IT infrastructure support that could deliver 24/7 capabilities and integrate the operations, logistics, resources, export- import supply chain, said Manoranjan Kumar, Chief Information Officer, Shree Cement Ltd. “The two operating systems on IBM Power Systems, namely IBM AIX and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, helped us move away from vertical business silo approach. This allows us to operate horizontally across thecompany to bring in synergy amongst multiple manufacturing plants to drive business results and ensure business continuity even during the migrations.”

    Shree Cement wanted to build around an infrastructure that would allow them to scale with future business expansion while maximizing the utility of their hardware, and by selecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Power Systems, Shree Cement has laid a foundation that positions them to capitalize on the expanding hybrid cloud capabilities from IBM Power Systems and Red Hat, such as:

    • Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Virtual Server – Recognizing that OpenShift is a critical part in helping organizations build an agile hybrid cloud, the container platform is now available on IBM Power Virtual Server leveraging OpenShift’s platform-agnostic installer1. The IBM Power Virtual Server is an enterprise Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering built around IBM POWER9 and offering low-latency access to over 200 IBM Cloud services. In addition, IBM Power Virtual Server clients can now run leading business applications like SAP HANA in an IBM POWER9-based
    • Red Hat Runtimes on IBM Power Systems – To help organizations and developers create cloud-native applications, Red Hat Runtimes is now supported on IBM Power Systems. Red Hat Runtimes is a set of products, tools and components designed to develop and maintain cloud-native applications. Now, developers looking to create cloud-native applications on IBM Power Systems have access to leading open-source frameworks and runtimes that provide a single development experience for hybrid applications spanning IBM Power Systems and other platforms.
    • New Red Hat Ansible Modules – Red Hat Ansible, made available on IBM Power Systems last year, is an open-source based tool that allows for simple automation of common IT jobs, freeing up IT administrator time as well as compute resources. IBM Power Systems has added 22 new Ansibles modules that bring new automation capabilities for common tasks like Patch Management, Security Management, OS & Application Deployment, Continuous Delivery, Centralized Backup and Recovery, and Virtualization Management & Provisioning, bringing the total number of POWER-supported Ansible modules to 102, and they have been downloaded over 11,000 times on GitHub as of February 23,

    Simplified Deployment and Management of Hybrid Cloud

    To help clients not only quickly deploy a hybrid cloud, but also scale with agility to respond to spikes in demand, IBM is announcing two new technologies designed to bring simplicity to hybrid cloud deployment and management:

    • The IBM Power Private Cloud Rack Solution – A pre-configured system with compute, storage, networking and pre-installed software to match an organization’s existing infrastructure, be it based around Linux, IBM i, or AIX, to help organizations operationalize their cloud management and provide an IaaS environment to help clients accelerate development and operations for Kubernetes container-based cloud-native applications with Red Hat OpenShift Container
    • Cloud-like Capacity and Pricing Across the Hybrid Cloud – IBM had already enabled scalable capacity for select on-premises IBM i and AIX IBM Power Systems servers, allowing users to

    unlock additional compute cores as needed and get cloud-like consumption-based pricing. Now, IBM is extending that ability to the hybrid cloud by piloting hybrid capacity credits, which can be purchased and used to unlock capacity on on-premises servers as well as IBM Power Virtual Servers. IBM is also working with other ecosystem partners to further extend dynamic capacity across multiple Linux distributions.

    “IBM’s latest expanded support of their hybrid cloud and application modernization initiatives will enable our customers to easily attain the efficiencies and flexibility of combining on-premises and cloud solutions using the latest open source and tooling,” said Jim Dixon, Vice President, Software & IBM Power Systems at Mainline Information Systems. “Availability of hybrid cloud credits and appliance-like options of hardware and Red Hat software solutions, combined with Red Hat OpenShift consistency between on-premises IBM Power Systems and off-premises clouds, will surely offer ease of entry into this new and important IT paradigm.”

    IBM IT Infrastructure Continues to Evolve for Hybrid Cloud

    Later this year, the next generation of the IBM Power Systems servers based on the IBM POWER10 processor, which was built from the ground up for hybrid cloud, will debut. In addition, later this year the next generation of the AIX operating system, version 7.3, is expected to continue the legacy of innovation with enhanced capabilities that deliver the resiliency, security, and scale needed for the hybrid cloud.

    To round out a hybrid cloud ready infrastructure, IBM Storage recently announced new entry-level IBM FlashSystem models with comprehensive container support as well as support for Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible, while IBM Z and IBM Power Systems also announced new hybrid

    cloud container offerings for IBM Z across Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks.

    For more information on IBM, please visit http://www.ibm.com.

    For more information on IBM IT Infrastructure, please visit https://www.ibm.com/it– infrastructure/power.

    ii Red Hat Ansible certification involves Red Hat testing the Collections developed by IBM and a commitment to provide enterprise support. The Collections for AIX and IBM i are maintained and supported by IBM.i Red Hat Knowledge Base article, “Deploying OpenShift 4.x on non-tested platforms using the bare metal install method – https://access.redhat.com/articles/4207611 [2] Power Systems encryption based on IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Service, the only service in the industry built on NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 4-certified hardware.

    iii The results were obtained under laboratory conditions, not in an actual customer environment. IBM’s internal workload studies are not benchmark applications. Prices, where applicable, are based on U.S. prices as of 09/20/2020 from IBM and x86 hardware pricing is based on IBM analysis of U.S. prices as of 09/20/2020 from IDC. Price comparison is based on a 3-year total cost of ownership including HW, SW, networking, floor space, people, energy/cooling costs and three years of service & support for production and non-production (dev, test and high availability) environments.

    iv Based on IBM internal, cross-industry assessment

  • ScienceLogic Raises $105 Million in New Financing to Accelerate Leadership in Growing AIOps Market

    Latest funding round to capitalize on enterprise adoption of hybrid-cloud management solutions, elevating customer experience and operational agility 

     

    Reston, Virginia – February 23, 2021 – ScienceLogic, a leading provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management, announced today that it has raised $105 million in growth financing. Silver Lake Waterman led the company’s Series E round with participation from existing investors Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital. The investment will support the company’s continued innovation in the AIOps market and further broaden ScienceLogic’s position within the $30+ billion IT Operations Management software market.

    Companies across the globe are adopting cloud strategies and tools more than ever amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with massive demand for digital services and scalability. We believe ScienceLogic is poised to meet that demand as organizations look for hybrid-cloud toolsets from trusted partners to securely harness business agility, cost savings and innovation.

    “More than ever, IT Operations Management has taken root as a front-office priority supporting mission-critical digital experiences that define the way we live, work and play. As large enterprises shift workloads to the cloud while managing on-prem resources, new tools are paramount to deliver service visibility and faster incident resolutions made better by advanced AI/ML technologies,” said Dave Link, Founder & CEO of ScienceLogic. “What we’re witnessing is a major investment cycle away from legacy monitoring tools and toward AIOps platforms.”

    The funding is intended to accelerate ScienceLogic’s product development and engineering leadership, supporting the company’s broader expansion plans and the reach of its flagship SL1 digital infrastructure monitoring platform. Funds are expected to be allocated toward recruitment efforts and product investments aimed at cloud-native technologies including microservices and container solutions, AI/machine learning, and hybrid cloud operations that transform digital experiences and enhance security.

    “The ScienceLogic team has built a leading platform to monitor mission-critical infrastructure and applications and is at the center of some of the largest, most complex IT environments at the forefront of digital transformation,” said Shawn O’Neill, Managing Director and Group Head of Silver Lake Waterman. “Dave Link and the leadership team have a long track record of building value and trust with customers and we look forward to partnering with the team and helping drive further adoption”.

    Some of the largest global enterprises, federal agencies and managed service providers trust ScienceLogic’s modern platform to ensure availability of their applications and business operations across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. The scalable SL1 monitoring platform helps IT operations teams ingest hyperscale data volume in real-time across disparate hybrid-cloud architectures, while its patented discovery and automation technology improves agility, accelerates incident response and drives productivity by strengthening application health, resolution time and user experience.

    The funding news comes after a recent announcement from the company to expand its product development, engineering and sales and marketing staff. ScienceLogic’s AIOps market leadership also was recently highlighted by the Forrester Wave, which included ScienceLogic as one of only three firms highlighted as AIOps Leaders – honors that further cement the company’s forward momentum.

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    About ScienceLogic

    ScienceLogic is a leader in IT Operations Management, providing modern IT operations with actionable insights to predict and resolve problems faster in a digital, ephemeral world. Its IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps solution sees everything across multi-cloud and distributed architectures, contextualizes data through relationship mapping, and acts on this insight through integration and automation. Trusted by thousands of organizations across the globe, ScienceLogic’s technology is designed for the rigorous security requirements of the United States Department of Defense, proven for scale by the world’s largest service providers, and optimized for the needs of large enterprises. https://sciencelogic.com

    About Silver Lake Waterman

    Silver Lake Waterman is part of Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing with approximately $75 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of professionals located based in North America, Europe and Asia. Silver Lake Waterman focuses on providing flexible expansion capital to later-stage growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries. For more information about Silver Lake Waterman and Silver Lake, please visit www.silverlake.com

  • Humio Announces Advanced Log Management Certification Course for ITOps, DevOps and SecOps Practitioners

    Live education sessions will be delivered by Humio, IBM, Instana, Lunar, SOC Prime and Vijilan Security

    SEATTLE —  February 23, 2021 — Humio, the only log management platform enabling complete observability for all streaming logs in real-time and at scale, self-hosted or in the cloud, today announced a six-part advanced certification course for ITOps, DevOps, SecOps, security and IT practitioners to gain in-depth knowledge of new log management techniques, capabilities and practices. Six one-hour online sessions will take place between March 4 and April 22. Topics will include an in-depth overview of logging fundamentals, strategies, techniques, best practices and toolkits, featuring experts from Humio, IBM, Instana, Lunar, SOC Prime and Vijilan Security.

    “Digital transformation and acceleration are leading enterprises to find new ways to gain full visibility of their entire IT infrastructure’s behavior to detect, investigate and address issues immediately,” said Kasper Nissen, lead platform architect at Lunar. “Using modern log management practices has given us the speed and transparency required to immediately understand, analyze and troubleshoot anything from performance issues to security threats. We are very enthusiastic about this course, which we feel will give attendees a better understanding of how they can do the same to drive increased business benefits and resilience.”

    The course will give practitioners an in-depth overview of new log management techniques, capabilities and practices, providing participants with the toolset to realize the enormous advantages of modern log management. Session topics include log management planning and design, centralized log collection and management, integrating security throughout your infrastructure, threat management and forensics using streaming log data, system observability through log data and reducing infrastructure cost at scale while improving efficiency.

    In these sessions, course attendees will:

    • Learn how to plan, architect and design a modern log management solution that breaks silos, increases transparency and delivers real-time business insights
    • Examine modern log management principles used to optimize application delivery speed, system visibility and security
    • Discover how to increase resilience by enabling security workflows, threat modeling, compliance requirements and real-time threat hunting
    • Get an in-depth technical overview of Tactics, Techniques and Procedure (TTP), threat intelligence frameworks, SIEM rule engineering and data forensics
    • Learn technical strategies to drive context in your analysis, techniques on implementing AIOps and risk management as you scale
    • Explore best-in-class tools that help you drive infrastructure cost savings at scale and improve efficiency without sacrificing speed

    “Logging everything changes everything because high-fidelity data lets you understand real problems as they are unfolding, ” said Kresten Krab Thorup, Humio CTO and co-founder. “We designed this course to take attendees well beyond the ‘intro to logging’ concepts to help them understand the true benefits of modern log management principles when implemented correctly across the enterprise.”

    For more course information and registration, please visit www.humio.com

    About Humio
    Humio’s log management platform offers the lowest total cost of ownership, industry-leading unlimited plans, minimal maintenance and training costs and remarkably low compute and storage requirements. Humio is the only log management solution that enables customers to log everything to answer anything in real-time — at scale, self-hosted or in the cloud. Humio’s modern, index-free architecture makes exploring and investigating all data blazing fast, even at scale. Founded in 2016, Humio is headquartered in London and backed by Accel and Dell Technologies Capital. For more information, visit www.humio.com and follow @MeetHumio on Twitter.

     

  • Creatio Raises $68M to Fuel Growth of its Leading Low-Code Platform for Process Management and CRM

    The round is a minority investment to extend Creatio’s leadership position in projected $187B+ low-code platform market

    Boston, MA — February 22, 2021 — Creatio, a global software company that provides a leading low-code platform for process management and CRM, today announced a $68M capital raise led by Volition Capital, a US-based growth equity firm investing in high growth companies, with participation from Horizon Capital, a private equity firm investing in Europe. The funding is a minority investment to fuel the company’s growth, with Creatio’s strategy, leadership team, product vision and commitment to customer success remaining unchanged.

    Since its founding, Creatio has achieved rapid organic growth without previous external capital. Today, the company is delivering exceptional financial results with a team of 600 people worldwide. This investment comes on the heels of rapid exponential company growth. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, its net retention rate in 2020 was the highest in the company’s history. Creatio will use the funds to build aggressively on this momentum and will invest in R&D, global marketing and sales expansion, and support its vast network of partners in 110 countries worldwide.

    “Our vision is a world where everyone can automate business ideas in minutes,” said Katherine Kostereva, CEO and co-founder of Creatio. “Now is a critical time for digital and IT leaders to leverage tech and transform their organizations into low-code companies. This investment will allow us to keep building toward the vision of creating the new world, where any company can automate and change their business processes at speed and scale.”

    Creatio is consistently recognized by top industry analysts, including Gartner and Forrester. It’s been included into five Gartner Magic Quadrants and seven Forrester Waves, named a Leader in two Gartner Magic Quadrants — for Sales Force Automation and CRM Lead Management — in 2019 and 2020.

    Leveraging a Significant Market Opportunity

    The emerging global low-code development platform market is predicted to reach $187 billion by 2030 and holds immense potential for organizations to digitize key business processes and reinvent how they engage with customers, partners and employees. Creatio is well positioned to continue its category dominance, and will use the funds to boost the development of the market for low-code process management and CRM solutions.

    “The market category of low-code platforms for process management and CRM has outstanding growth potential,” said Sean Cantwell, Managing Partner at Volition Capital. “Creatio’s offering, extensive partner base and commitment to customer success has enabled impressive organic growth and market traction. We see Creatio’s leadership position being further strengthened as companies embrace low-code solutions that close the IT delivery gap and empower any organization to become a low-code company,” added Roger Hurwitz, Managing Partner at Volition Capital.

    “We are delighted to partner with visionary co-founder and CEO Katherine Kostereva and the Creatio team, alongside Volition Capital. Creatio truly has it all to deliver on its ambitious expansion plans – a first-class team committed to its customers, solid execution and strong product innovation,” added Lenna Koszarny, Founding Partner and CEO at Horizon Capital.

    Obsessed with Customer Success

    The company’s commitment to customer success, including lifetime guidance for the optimal use of its technology has earned Creatio some of the industry’s highest customer reviews and a Net Promoter Score of 34.

    Creatio empowers mid-size to large enterprises to automate customer-facing and operational processes at speed and scale. The company focuses on 24 verticals, including financial services, manufacturing, professional services and others. Its dedication to bringing value to customers and helping organizations achieve business objectives has earned Creatio a reputation of a partner that consistently exceeds expectations.

    Embracing a Partner-Driven Strategy

    Partnerships are central to Creatio’s vision and play a key role in the company’s strategy. Its go-to-market approach focuses on serving customers directly through offices around the globe and through a channel network with 700+ partners in 110 countries.

    Creatio is driving mutual success through its partner program with top global system integrators and consultants such as Tata Consultancy Services, Amdocs, Virtusa, Softline, Tech Mahindra and many other channel partners worldwide. The company is also rapidly expanding its already robust marketplace ecosystem of ready-to-use apps, vertical solutions and templates to extend the platform and accelerate productivity.

    About Creatio

    Creatio is a global software company providing a leading low-code platform for process management and CRM. The company combines an intuitive low-code platform, best-in-class CRM and a robust BPM in a single solution to accelerate sales, marketing, service and operations for mid-size and large enterprises. Creatio is highly recognized as a market leader by key industry analysts and together with hundreds of partners, operates in 110 countries worldwide. More information can be found at www.creatio.com.

    About Volition Capital

    Volition Capital is a growth equity firm that invests in founder-owned, high-growth software, Internet, information services and tech-enabled services companies that have demonstrated both operating discipline and true break-out potential. The firm selectively partners with founders to help them achieve their fullest aspirations for their businesses. Founded in 2010, Volition has over $1.1 billion in assets under management and has invested in over 35 companies in the United States and Canada.

    About Horizon Capital

    Horizon Capital is a leading growth equity firm active in Europe, backed by over 40 institutional investors with a capital base of $350 billion, managing four funds with a 25-year tenure and over $850 million AUM. The firm is an active, value-added partner, investing in visionary entrepreneurs leading fast-growing businesses in the region, primarily in technology, e-commerce and innovative industries. The firm is known for its strong team, governance, value creation and track record.