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  • 87% of Enterprises Lack the Budget They Need for Data Analytics According to ‘The Challenges of Massive Data Analytics Report 2021’

    TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, February 9, 2021 – SQream, provider of a data analytics acceleration platform that enables enterprises to gain critical business insights, much faster, from their massive data stores, announced today the release of ‘The 2021 Challenges of Massive Data Analytics Report.’ The report collected the feedback of hundreds of data professionals from around the world to get a first-hand look at some of the biggest challenges facing data professionals today.

    The report, based on a survey done in collaboration with Global Surveyz, focused on uncovering the challenges that companies face when it comes to analyzing their data, especially in light of the fact that the Global Big Data Analytics Market is growing at a CAGR of 12.3% and is expected to reach $105 billion by 2027, according to Gartner.

    Among the findings:

    • 87% of organizations lack the budget they need to analyze their exponentially growing data stores;
    • 59% of organizations expect their data to grow by 50% or more in the coming year;
    • 82% of organizations face challenges when it comes to analyzing massive volumes of data.

    “With enterprise data growing at levels never seen before, data professionals are challenged with how to rapidly analyze their data, at scale and while it is still relevant,” said Ami Gal, SQream CEO and co-founder. “The 2021 Challenges of Massive Data Analytics Report highlights what data leaders are experiencing both in terms of data growth, budgets and obstacles they are encountering in extracting critical business insights from their data. We believe this report provides invaluable insights that will help in meeting these challenges.”

    The complete report can be downloaded here.

    The full results and an expanded analysis of the report will also be presented in an upcoming webinar, which will take place on Wednesday, February 17th at 11am EST. You can register for the webinar here.

    About SQream
    SQream provides enterprises with critical business intelligence from massive data stores. Global enterprises use SQream to analyze more data, faster than ever before, while achieving improved performance, reduced footprint, significant cost savings and the ability to scale the amount of data they analyze to hundreds of terabytes and more. SQream is available both on premise and in the cloud. To learn more, visit sqream.com or follow us on twitter @sqreamtech.

    Key Findings from ‘The 2021 Challenges of Massive Data Analytics Report’

    • 59% of organizations surveyed anticipate data volume growth of 50% or more in 2021.
    • 60% of organizations have over 500 TB in their data stores, 77% of organizations carry out data analytics on over 50TB.
    • 99% of management teams are on-board and understand the importance of data analytics.
    • But as you look at larger organizations, they admit to being less prepared to handle increased data volume.
    • 87% of organizations lack the budget to meet data analytics needs.
    • Companies face various challenges in their data analytics, #1 on the list are lengthy SQL queries that do not complete.
    • Addressing key data challenges is top priority for 2021, #1 on the list at 59% is significantly increasing amount of data being analyzed.

     

  • Codefresh Taps Dan Garfield as Chief Open Source Officer, Strengthening Commitment to Open Source

    The move is the latest of several strategic product and partnership decisions that have guided the company

    Mountain View, Calif., February 9, 2021 – Codefresh, a software leader in cloud-native DevOps, often contributing to strategic open source projects, today signaled a strategic shift to put open source front and center in their company strategy. Dan Garfield, who joined founder and CEO Raziel Tabib to launch Codefresh in 2016, has been promoted to Chief Open Source Officer. Garfield previously led evangelism, community and marketing as Codefresh’s VP of Marketing and Chief Technology Evangelist.

    In his new role, Garfield will lead the realignment of Codefresh as an open source company, with engineering time dedicated to open source contributions and providing enterprise solutions on top of open source projects for their customers.

    While Codefresh is no stranger to open source, acting in the past as core-contributors to Helm and other projects like cloud native application bundles (CNAB), they are now reshaping their company strategy on heavy involvement in the open source community.

    “We’re making a commitment to invest heavily in open source and continuous delivery. Dan has used his experience, creativity and insight to help us to exceed our goals as we transition from traditional CI/CD to a next generation, more GitOps CD focused platform,” Tabib said. “As Chief Open Source Officer, Dan can focus his seemingly endless energy and expertise on the engineering, partnerships, and tools that make software development and delivery consistent, efficient, and easy to use for engineering and operations teams.”

    In November, Codefresh became a founding member of the GitOps working group with Amazon, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks as an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to define a principle-lead meaning of GitOps to improve interoperability between tools. They also announced GitOps 2.0 that defines observability in software delivery as the key to delivering software faster.

    Garfield is a full-stack engineer, GitOps Working Group maintainer, Google Developer Expert, member of the Developer Week Advisory Board, and a member of the Forbes Technology Council. As a Kubernaut and CI/CD expert, he has built tools for advanced deployment methodologies with Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio. His code and talks have been featured at conferences including Kubecon, Dev Week, Google Cloud Summit, SwampUp, Redis Conf, and more. His new responsibilities will include realigning core products around open source, organizing contributions, building communities, and evangelizing open source projects and user success.

    “Being more active with our open source contributions and taking part in the community is critical,” Garfield said. “We believe we can go farther by building our platform in a more collaborative manner. My focus as Chief Open Source Officer will be open sourcing more code, improving our platform, and bringing more contributions to existing projects in the GitOps and Continuous Delivery space.”

    Garfield will serve as interim VP of Marketing while the company actively searches for someone to take over the role.

    About Codefresh

    Codefresh is the first cloud-native DevOps automation platform. Their mission is simple, to provide a platform and practices that enable companies to confidently ship code faster. After launch in 2017, Codefresh is trusted by companies like GoodRx, Skillshare, Monday.com, TBS, and financial services companies. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh goes beyond simple pipelines to connect runtime environments for total observability, advanced deployments and faster engineering/recovery cycles. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Red Dot Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.

     

  • Nexthink Reaches $1.1 Billion Valuation with $180M in Series D Financing Round, Names Former Adobe CEO to its Board of Directors

    Permira led the Series D following a year of very strong demand for the Nexthink Digital Employee Experience platform

    Lausanne/Boston — February 8, 2021 — Nexthink, the leader in digital employee experience (DEX) management software, today announced a $180 million Series D financing round reaching a valuation of $1.1 billion. Permira, through its Growth Opportunities Fund, led the round alongside existing investors including Highland Europe and Index Ventures. In addition to the investment, the company has announced that Bruce Chizen, former CEO of Adobe and senior advisor at Permira, will join its board of directors. The latest round will be used to accelerate Nexthink’s innovation, rapid growth and expansion, particularly in the US.

    “The rise in remote working has dramatically accelerated the need for Digital Employee Experience, as a big part of all the interactions that employees have with companies are now digital,” said Pedro Bados, CEO and Co-founder of Nexthink. “We see a huge opportunity ahead of us to redefine the future way in which companies will provide digital workplaces to their workforce. Bruce is a terrific addition to the team. At Adobe he transformed the way people work by providing delightful experiences to millions of software users. Now we can do the same with the employees of thousands of companies around the world.”

    “Nexthink has seen outstanding growth in recent years,” said Bruce Chizen, Senior Advisor for Permira. “With the move to remote and hybrid digital workplaces, digital experience is everything in the enterprise and it is a critical component to employee satisfaction. With this latest round, Nexthink is poised to reimagine the role of IT for the world’s largest brands and give them the platform they need to deliver the best experiences at work.”

    Nexthink provides the most complete digital experience management platform to IT teams to discover, monitor and proactively improve the digital services they provide to their employees. According to a new survey, 96% of the technology executives agree that employee experience is an essential part of what IT teams do, yet more than a third (34%) rely on manual methods to collect experience information and nearly half (46%) don’t measure their employees’ digital experience at all. Nexthink’s award winning platform provides IT with a cloud-native solution that enables unprecedented insight into employees’ daily experiences of technology at the device, application and network level. The solution’s unique event-level visibility and advanced visualizations make troubleshooting dramatically easier, empowering IT teams to continuously improve employees’ digital experiences, solving problems in minutes instead of days.

    The company is now close to 700 employees and plans to reach 900 by the end of 2021, hiring in all major locations in the U.S., Europe and India. During 2020 Nexthink has continued its hypergrowth crossing the $100M ARR, adding 180 customers and reaching 1,000 worldwide including 200 of the Global 2000 and a total of 11M employees.

    In 2020, Nexthink released major innovations in the market including the most complete Remote Worker experience solution, Experience Optimization for proactive support teams, additional virtualization capabilities and Persona Insight. In October, Nexthink was recognized as a leader in End User Experience Management in the Forrester New Wave™: End-User Experience Management, Q4 2020.

    Permira funds’ investment was made through the Growth Opportunities Fund I, which focuses on minority investments in growth-focused businesses. The Permira funds have a strong track record of investing in technology, including investments in: TeamViewer, a leading global provider of secure remote connectivity solutions; Mirakl, a marketplace SaaS platform that empowers B2B and B2C organisations to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale; Zwift, the global online fitness platform for cyclists and runners; and, Klarna, the leading innovative payments company.

    “Nexthink is a clear global market leader, offering excellent support and services to its clients,” said Stefan Dziarski, Partner at Permira. “Using our experience and know-how in infrastructure software, particularly prior investments such as TeamViewer, we look forward to partnering with Pedro and his team to drive growth across the firm.”

    “Disruptive SaaS leaders that deliver clear productivity and employee experience benefits in today’s fast changing world are a key focus area for us at Permira. Nexthink is a great fit with the investment strategy of Permira’s Growth Opportunities Fund given its strong growth and technology focus,” added Pierre Pozzo, Principal at Permira.

    This transaction is scheduled to close in Q1.

    For more information about Nexthink, please visit www.nexthink.com.

    About Nexthink

    Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company gives IT leaders unprecedented insight into employees’ daily experiences of technology at the device level – freeing IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization. Nexthink enables its more than 1,000 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 11 million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.

    About Permira

    Permira is a global investment firm. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds with a total committed capital of approximately US$50bn (€44bn) and makes long-term investments, including majority control investments as well as strategic minority investments, in companies with the objective of transforming their performance and driving sustainable growth. The Permira funds have made over 250 private equity investments in four key sectors: Technology, Consumer, Services, and Healthcare. Permira employs over 250 people in 15 offices across Europe, North America, and Asia. For more information visit www.permira.com.

    About Highland Europe

    Highland Europe invests in exceptional growth-stage software and internet companies. Active in Europe since 2003 as Highland Capital Partners and formally launched in 2012, Highland Europe has raised over €1.8 billion and has invested in companies such as Adjust, AMCS, Camunda, ContentSquare, Featurespace, GetYourGuide, Huel, Jellysmack, Malwarebytes, MatchesFashion, NewVoiceMedia, Nexthink, Spot, Supermetrics, WeTransfer, Wolt and Zwift. Highland’s collective history of investments across the US, Europe and China includes 46 IPOs and 19 billion-dollar-plus companies.  For more information, please visit https://www.highlandeurope.com/.

    About Index Ventures

    Index Ventures is a London and San Francisco-based international venture capital firm that helps the most ambitious entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses. Index-backed companies that are reshaping the world around us include Datadog, Dropbox, Elastic and Slack. www.indexventures.com

  • Moogsoft Featured Among CRN’s Coolest Cloud Companies for 2021

    Recognition highlights the importance of surfacing actionable insights from observability data across the full cloud stack

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moogsoft, the AI-driven observability leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Moogsoft as one of its 100 Coolest Cloud Companies for 2021. This annual list recognizes the leading cloud technology providers in five critical categories: infrastructure, monitoring and management, security, storage, and software.

    This year’s 100 Coolest Cloud Companies were selected by the CRN editorial team based on their demonstrated commitment to working with channel partners and innovation in product and service development.

    CRN’s 100 Coolest Cloud Companies list not only honors exceptional technology suppliers, but it has become a trusted resource for solutions providers looking for cloud technology providers to partner with — presenting a list of the companies best positioned to support their cloud services needs.

    This recognition follows Moogsoft’s recent launch of the Moogsoft Observability Cloud, a self-service SaaS platform that advances observability in the cloud to meet the demands of a software-defined world. This cloud-native intelligent observability solution enables DevOps practitioners and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to begin surfacing actionable insights from telemetry across their digital infrastructure in minutes.

    “We’re honored to be recognized for delivering our partners and customers the actionable intelligence that DevOps and SRE teams need to support constantly evolving customer experiences,” said Moogsoft Founder and CEO Phil Tee. “Our scalable, self-service architecture enables new and existing customers and partners to begin performing advanced correlation of metrics, events and more with AI, all in the time it takes to make a cappuccino!”

    “Cloud services are quickly becoming the critical component needed to build successful and secure IT solutions,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO, The Channel Company. “The honorees on this year’s 100 Coolest Cloud Companies list have proven they support partners in the ever-evolving cloud computing business with leading innovative solutions and growth in cloud-based technologies. Our team applauds those on the list for 2021 and looks forward to watching them drive positive change in the cloud domain.”

    CRN’s 100 Coolest Cloud Companies list will be featured in the February 2021 issue of CRN and online at www.crn.com/cloud100.

    Additional Resources

    About Moogsoft

    Moogsoft is the AI-driven observability leader that provides intelligent monitoring solutions for smart DevOps. Moogsoft delivers the most advanced cloud-native, self-service platform for software engineers, developers and operators to instantly see everything, know what’s wrong and fix things faster. Founded in 2012, Moogsoft has more than 140 customers worldwide including American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Fiserv, HCL Technologies, SAP SuccessFactors, and Verizon Media. It has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and outsourcing organizations including AWS, Cisco, HCL Technologies, TCS and Wipro.

    Moogsoft® and the Moogsoft logo are proprietary trademarks of Moogsoft Inc. All other products or names may be trademarks of their respective companies.

    For more information about the Moogsoft Observability Cloud and its customers’ success, visit www.moogsoft.com.

    About The Channel Company

    The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com

    Follow The Channel Company: Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook

    © 2021 The Channel Company, LLC. CRN is a registered trademark of The Channel Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

  • Women In Tech And Epam Partner To Advance Women In The Future Of Work

     NEW YORK, FEB 5, 2021 – Women in Tech is thrilled to announce its Silver partnership with EPAM Systems,

     Inc., a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. With more than 50,000 members worldwide, they’re accelerating the fight to close the gender gap and empower women by helping them embrace technology.

    Women in Tech and EPAM’s first order of business is to build a talent marketplace on  www.women-in-tech.net, and take to the stage together at the Women in Tech Global Forum in Sharjah, UAE, this coming February.

    Partnering with key industry players, like EPAM, will accelerate change on a global scale regarding how we feel about gender in the workplace. “Women in Tech is extremely proud of how far it has come and is excited about the very real possibilities it can unlock with the help of industry partners,” said Carine de Meyere, CCO of Women in Tech. “With companies like EPAM at our side, not only can Women in Tech give community access to more job opportunities, but also encourage a broader cultural shift in a traditionally male-dominated industry,” adds Ayumi Moore, Founder of Women in Tech.

    EPAM is no stranger to innovation—appearing on Forbes 25 fastest-growing Public Tech Companies list since 2013 and ranked as the top IT services company on Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2019 and 2020. According to Shamilka Samarasinha, Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at EPAM, their aim is to establish a more diverse workforce, share their industry expertise with impactful community initiatives and commit their voice publicly to supporting women in the future of work.

    “There is a lot of focus currently in the technology industry on attracting, retaining and developing female talent, but there is a lot more than can be done,” said Elaina Shekhter, CMO & Head of Strategy at EPAM. “We’re pleased to partner with Women in Tech, a global movement to empower women in STEM. Their mission is very much aligned with EPAM’s core values. Together, we can empower women all over the world and help expand the community of female technology professionals.”

    With the success of their first 24-hr Virtual World Tour and the launch of a talent marketplace, Women in Tech has become the number one destination for women to exchange STEM knowledge, meet new role models and participate in mentoring programs, take master classes, learn about job opportunities and receive online support.

    To find out more about Women in Tech, visit here.

     About Women in Tech

    With 50.000 members and followers in over 70 countries around the globe and growing rapidly, Women in Tech is an international organization with a

    double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. Gender equality is at the centre of our mission, where we aim to empower women and girls with the necessary skills and confidence to succeed in STEM career fields. Through our purpose-led, performance-driven mission that is closely aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we focus on executing our strategy by driving progress and outcomes on four main pillars: Education, Entrepreneurialism, Social Inclusion, and Science and Innovation.

  • Iteratively Raises $5.4 Million to Help Teams Rebuild Trust in Their Data

    New Funding Led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-Focused Venture Fund, to Expand Product Development by Doubling Down on Quality-First Approach to Analytics

    SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Iteratively, a SaaS tool that helps data and product teams define, instrument and verify their analytics tracking, announces today that it has secured $5.4 million in new capital led by Google’s AI-focused venture fund, Gradient Ventures, with participation from Fika Ventures and early investor PSL Ventures. Zach Bratun-Glennon, Partner at Gradient Ventures, joins the board.

    Iteratively takes a proactive approach to solving the problem of poor data quality, by helping teams ensure that data quality issues are caught before making their way into production. Solving and preventing issues proactively at the source means data consumers have high quality and trustworthy data that’s ready for use, with no cleaning required. This is significant since analysts and data scientists today waste up to 80% of their time preparing and cleaning data, leaving a minority of time for actual analysis.

    Co-founders Patrick Thompson and Ondrej Hrebicek worked together at Ondrej’s first startup, Syncplicity (acquired by EMC), and spent six months doing extensive customer development before starting Iteratively in June 2019. They interviewed over 400 product managers, data teams and engineers, and found the number one pain point was the massive problem of bad data. According to Gartner research, poor data quality costs businesses in the U.S. more than $3 trillion per year.

    Iteratively enforces a reliable source of truth for teams’ analytics and provides the first tool that brings product managers, data analysts and engineers together to collaborate on data. It offers an easy-to-use web UI for data analysts and product managers to define and evolve their tracking plan in a collaborative way, as well as best-in-class developer tooling for engineers to easily and accurately implement analytics tracking with type-safe, open-source SDKs, a CLI and CI/CD integration.

    “We kept hearing the same thing from data and product teams that they have lost confidence in their analytics. We built a tool that helps them rebuild trust in their data and empowers them to collaborate on analytics. We believe data is a team sport and collaboration is key for cross-functional teams to succeed,” said Patrick Thompson, Iteratively’s Co-founder and CEO.

    Iteratively serves a broad spectrum of customers but is initially focused on helping companies with existing product and data teams, such as SaaS, ecommerce and DTC companies. Iteratively fits seamlessly into teams’ existing data stacks and offers direct integrations with their infrastructure, whether that’s custom-built or third-party tools like Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment, dbt and more. Customers include Box, Artifact Uprising and Beekeeper.

    Charles Lariviere, a Data Scientist at Iteratively customer Dribbble, shared, “Iteratively has become the source of truth for our event collection and an integral part of our data stack. As a team, we’ve experienced great benefits from adopting Iteratively and clear improvements in data quality.”

    “Iteratively’s software has a unique approach to enabling company-wide collaboration and enforcing data quality. Going forward, we believe that intelligent analytics and data-driven business decision making will differentiate successful companies and best-in-class products. Iteratively’s mission, product and team are poised to give each of their customers these capabilities,” said Zach Bratun-Glennon, partner at Gradient Ventures.

    Iteratively will use the new capital to accelerate product development. The team will also make key hires within marketing, sales and customer success.

    To learn more about Iteratively and try out their product, visit www.iterative.ly to sign up for a free account.

    About Iteratively

    Iteratively helps data teams, product managers and engineers define, instrument, verify and collaborate on analytics tracking. We proactively empower teams to identify and resolve data quality issues and provide a workflow for managing the evolution of your analytics tracking, ensuring data consumers always have high-quality and ready to use data in their favorite tools. Iteratively was founded in 2019 by Patrick Thompson and Ondrej Hrebicek and is a remote-first company. Investors include Gradient Ventures, Fika Ventures and PSL Ventures. For more information, visit www.iterative.ly.

    About Gradient Ventures

    Gradient Ventures is Google’s AI-focused venture fund – investing in and connecting early-stage startups with resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence. The fund focuses on helping founders navigate the challenges in developing new technology products, using the latest best-practices in recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering so that great ideas can come to life. Gradient was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.gradient.com.

  • VMware Refreshes vRealize Cloud Management to Better Optimize, Protect and Modernize Customers’ Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

    Customers IHS Markit and Provident Mexico Benefit from VMware vRealize Cloud Management Solutions

     

    PALO ALTO, Calif., February 4, 2021 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced innovations across its VMware vRealize Cloud Management portfolio of on-premises and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The new and enhanced capabilities combine to enable customers to more securely deploy and operate their hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

    VMware customers IHS Markit and Provident México are using VMware vRealize Cloud Management solutions to attain greater IT and business agility for faster achievement of business outcomes.

    “In today’s uncertain world, enterprises are seeking to increase agility and efficiencies to remain competitive and to drive faster business growth,” said Purnima Padmanabhan, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware. “As more businesses pursue cloud as an agility strategy, vRealize Cloud Management helps customers run their applications anywhere while maintaining consistent operations and common governance across all environments.”

    Consistent Deployment and Operations of Apps, Infrastructure and Platform Services

    VMware vRealize Cloud Management enables customers to consistently deploy and operate their applications, infrastructure, and platform services, from the data center to the cloud to the edge. It helps them accelerate innovation with quick and easy access to services, gain efficiency by improving visibility and automation, and improve control while mitigating risk through unified operations and governance. Today, VMware introduces new releases including VMware vRealize Automation 8.3, VMware vRealize Operations 8.3, VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.3, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.3 VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.1 and VMware Skyline; along with enhancements across VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud, and VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud.

    Enhanced Event and Data-Driven Infrastructure Automation

    VMware vRealize Automation 8.3 delivers enhanced solutions for customers’ most critical automation use cases including self-service multi-clouds, network automation, and DevOps with actionable insights, greater security and improved performance. New VMware vRealize Automation capabilities include:

    • Property Groups: The ability to create, update, read and delete property groups with predefined data. This helps customers work more efficiently by reusing groups of properties, tracking resource usage and storing metadata. vRealize Automation makes the VMware Cloud Templates development more powerful and dynamic by reusing these attributes and keeping them up to date.
    • Security Properties: The ability to create a secure variable in Cloud Assembly and apply it to a cloud template or ABX action. This enables customers to better secure sensitive data in encrypted form and introduces a new method to produce secure variables for project and consumption.
    • VMware NSX-V to NSX-T migration: This release now supports NSX-V to NSX-T migration enabling customers to benefit from multi-hypervisor, multi-cloud networking, declarative APIs for full stack automation, built-in distributed security, advanced threat protection with intrusion detection and prevention, network threat analysis, unified networking and security for cloud native applications, and consistent policy and streamlined operations across deployments.

    Additionally, this new release delivers improved performance, deployment speed, increased efficiency and helps complete tasks quicker. This includes reducing the time it takes to deploy a virtual machine — a 2x improvement from vRealize Automation 8.2. (1) The new release also enables customers to distribute a deployment across cloud zones via enhancements in placement logic.

    Improved Security for AI-Powered Operations

    VMware vRealize Operations delivers self-driving operations from apps to infrastructure to better optimize, plan and scale private, hybrid, and multi cloud environments. Powered by AI and predictive analytics, vRealize Operations delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, proactive planning, intelligent remediation and integrated compliance. VMware vRealize Operations 8.3 and VMware vRealize Operations Cloud feature:

    • Data Security Standards: VMware vRealize Operations 8.3 modules meet Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 and follow the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for U.S. Federal data security requirements.
    • VMware Cloud Configuration Maximums: Provides customers with better visibility into their VMware Cloud limits and their consumption relative to those limits.

     

    VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud introduces enhanced ML analytics for errors and Knowledge Base (KB) correlation, ERI-FIPS compliance, VMware HCX and VMware Site Recovery Manager log integration, and native data archiving support.

    Network Visibility and Troubleshooting for Applications, Networks, and Security

    VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.1 and VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud provide an end-to-end network view by learning from multiple data sources across virtual and physical infrastructure. Using machine learning for application discovery as well as assurance and verification capabilities, vRealize Network Insight makes it easier to plan, build, and manage complex networks. This new release includes:

    Customization: Enhancements to Pinboards for users to customize persistent dashboards to preserve widget filter state at the time of pinning the ability to see others’ pinboards in the Auditor role, as well as new abilities to allow users to pin no result pins;

    • Multi-Cloud: VMware Cloud on AWS edge router interface statistics for improved network troubleshooting;
    • NSX-T Integrations: Data from NSX Intelligence can now be integrated for more application-centric network operations and troubleshooting visibility; and,
    • VMware SD-WAN: New analytics intent for better service level agreement (SLA) monitoring and visibility with SD-WAN link utilization and metering.

    Increased Visibility into Potential Issues and Support Requests Across Teams

    VMware Skyline provides proactive intelligence across customers’ VMware environments to help prevent issues and unscheduled downtime. The latest release of Skyline Advisor provides expanded visibility into the vulnerabilities Skyline identifies and improved Support Request visibility enables easier use of the Log Assist automated log upload feature. This release also includes 31 new proactive Findings and Recommendations.

    • Findings Catalog: New catalog provides increased visibility into all the at-risk issues and vulnerabilities that Skyline checks.
    • Improved Support Request Visibility: A top customer request, this new feature provides Skyline Administrators with visibility of Support Requests across teams, making it easier to leverage Log Assist for automated support log bundle upload.

     

    IHS Markit Automates Cloud Environment for Competitive Edge

    IHS Markit is a business information provider headquartered in London, serving

    more than 50,000 business and government customers worldwide. To speed its time to market, the company uses vRealize Cloud Management offerings including vRealize Network Insight with VMware NSX-T to help release products faster to maintain a competitive edge.

    “We are making VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud IHS Markit’s standard tool for application, network and security visibility and troubleshooting,” said Andrew Hrycaj, Principal Network Engineer, IHS Markit.

    Provident México Speeds Innovation with Cloud Adoption

    Financial services firm Provident México sought to drive business growth by moving all of its applications to the cloud. After selecting VMware Cloud on AWS to run workloads and apps, Provident México used vRealize Cloud Management to reduce its migration risk. The solution empowered IT leaders at the firm to optimize application delivery infrastructure and innovate faster to meet business speed and agility requirements. Specifically, Provident México has improved its efficiency, lowered its risk and reduced its overall capacity requirements by 30% when comparing consumption of on-premises and cloud environments.

     

    “It’s intimidating to think about putting high-value workloads in the cloud, especially in financial services, but adopting cloud is both necessary and practical to achieve IT and business goals,” said Néstor Rodríguez, Director of Technology and Change, Provident Mexico. “It used to take me around a year and a half just to place an application in production. With VMware vRealize Cloud Management, I now do it within months. It’s a game changer.”

     

    Product Availability

    VMware vRealize Automation 8.3, VMware vRealize Operations 8.3, VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.3, VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.3 VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.1 and Skyline Advisor are available. The new capabilities and enhancements to VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud and VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud are also available.

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  • DevOps Institute Announces 2021 SKILup Days Virtual Conference Lineup

    DevOps Institute expands its successful one-day conference program focused on the ‘how-to’ of DevOps practices sponsored by organizations like Harness, GitLab, Epsagon, Instana, DataStax, Datadog, and more

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – Feb. 4, 2021– DevOps Institute, a global professional association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced its monthly lineup of complementary SKILup Days for all members of the IT community, including students, practitioners and decision makers. SKILup Days are one-day virtual micro-conferences focused on specific industry practices that examine “how-to” perspectives of the people, process, and technology aspects of IT.

    SKILup Days include all the elements usually found at a conference, including an expo hall with virtual sponsor booths, raffles and scavenger hunts, attendee chats, and a networking lounge to interact with speakers.

    Learn more and register for upcoming SKILup Days: https://devopsinstitute.com/skilupdays/

    “SKILup Days were a bright light for the DevOps community in 2020, and we’re thrilled to start them up again,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “The ‘how-to’ learning led by subject domain experts, the community building among DevOps humans, and the insights into the latest industry innovations, make each SKILup Day a vital opportunity to connect and grow from anywhere in the world.”

    2021 SKILup Day Schedule

    Cloud Native and Serverless
    February 25, 2021

    Explore how Cloud Native and Serverless development is about how applications are created and deployed, not where.

    The conference is sponsored by Harness, GitLab, Epsagon, Instana, DataStax and Datadog.

    Speakers Include:

    • William Chia, Senior Product Marketing Manager, GitLab
    • Martyn Coupland, Senior Technical Consultant, Ensono
    • Chinmay Gaikwad, Technical Evangelist, Epsagon
    • Robert Hostlowsky, IT Senior WebDevOp Engineer, Instana
    • Ravi Lachhman, Evangelist, Harness
    • Leonardo Murillo, CTO, Qwinix Technologies
    • Daniel Oh, Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat
    • Pawel Piwosz, Lead Systems Engineer, EPAM
    • Tracy Ragan, CEO, DeployHub
    • Rachel White, Technical Evangelist, Datadog

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/cns-2021/

    Value Stream Management
    March 18, 2021

    This one-day virtual micro-conference will focus on the ‘how-to’ aspects of Value Stream Management.

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/vsm-2021/

    Agile Transformation
    April 22, 2021

    This SKILup Day focuses on how understanding agile transformation begins with understanding what it is not: adopting agile software development methodologies.

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/at-2021/

    Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
    May 20, 2021

    Learn how SRE incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems to create scalable and highly reliable software systems.

    Incident Management
    June 24, 2021

    Get an in-depth perspective into the incident management process and discover its impact on business operations.

    CI/CD
    July 22, 2021

    At this SKILup Day, learn how to bridge the gap between development and operation activities and teams by enforcing automation in building, testing, and deploying applications.

    DevSecOps
    August 19, 2021

    Find out how to integrate security practices into your DevOps approach.

    Observability
    September 23, 2021

    At this SKILup Day, learn how to drive higher software delivery and organizational performance with Observability.

    Container Orchestration
    October 21, 2021

    Discover how to automate the operational effort required to run containerized workloads and services.

    Global SKILup Festival
    Global SKILup Festival will be back in December 2021. Dates will be announced soon.

    About DevOps Institute
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    We create a safe and interactive ecosystem where members can network, gain knowledge, grow their careers, lead and initiate, and celebrate professional achievements.

    We inspire thought leadership and knowledge by connecting and enabling the global member community to drive human transformation in the digital age.

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  • Jumpshot Sales Veteran Eli Goodman Joins Datos as Chief Executive Officer

    The stealth global clickstream data provider has launched and is now available to customers globally

    NEW YORK — Feb. 3, 2021 — Datos, a global clickstream data provider, is gearing up for success with a new CEO at the helm, sales veteran Eli Goodman.

    With millions of opt-in panelists, the company’s main data solutions have recently launched out of private beta and are already being used by a select group of global companies to provide search, retail, video, and consumer journey intelligence. Datos has teamed up with online visibility management platform Semrush as an investor and partner. The Board of Datos consists of its three co-founders, Eli Goodman, Serge Jakovs, and Stan Korelchuk.

    “Over the next year we plan to dramatically expand our panelist footprint and build Datos into a leading clickstream data provider,” said Eli Goodman, Chief Executive Officer of Datos. “The need for trustworthy, at-scale, privacy-compliant data is limitless, and our extensive experience in navigating this complex space is one of our most valuable assets.”

    “At Semrush, we really appreciate the opportunity to work with professionals in their field, and we are glad that from this day on, together with Eli, we will have the opportunity to strengthen the position of Datos into that of a leader in the field of data analysis and marketing research,” said Eugene Levin, Chief Strategy Officer at Semrush. “We expect the knowledge and know-how that Eli brings to Datos will help develop the product and delight users and partners, providing even more opportunities in customer journey intelligence.”

     Prior to Joining Datos, Goodman was the VP of Strategic Sales at marketing analytics company Jumpshot. During his time running the sales and partnership teams at Jumpshot, Goodman was responsible for driving over 20MM in annual revenue by early 2020.  His central focus was licensing clickstream data to the most sophisticated data engines on the planet, including, but not limited to, Institutional Finance, Market Research, Management Consulting, and Intelligence platforms of all kinds.

     Before Jumpshot, Goodman served as the Senior Director of Sales and Media Evangelist for comScore, where he oversaw myriad sales and thought leadership functions.  As the Media Evangelist, he delivered well over 100 conference keynote and panel presentations during his 9-year tenure and was responsible for a meaningful portion of the growth of their public voice in the data space.

     About Datos

    Based in New York, New York, Datos is a global clickstream data provider focused on licensing anonymized, at scale, privacy-compliant datasets to ensure our clients and partners are safe in an otherwise perilous marketplace.

    We offer access to the desktop and mobile web browsing behavior for millions of opt-in users across the globe, packaged into clean, easy to understand data feeds for use by our clients.

     For more information visit https://datos.live

  • First FinOps Foundation Survey Shows Rise in Cloud Financial Management

    Many companies rapidly adopting FinOps but are at the early stages of optimizing cloud spend
    PORTLAND, Ore. – February 3, 2021 – Big growth is ahead for FinOps, the field of cloud financial management, as more companies accelerate their cloud plans, especially amid COVID-19, and struggle to contain and optimize cloud spend, new research indicates.
    The FinOps Foundation, a non-profit trade association focused on codifying and promoting cloud financial management best practices and standards, recently surveyed over 800  FinOps practitioners from around the world with a collective $45 billion in annual cloud spend. Almost half of the survey respondents were from companies with 10,000 or more employees, indicating that large companies are driving FinOps adoption.
    The survey underscores that FinOps is experiencing big growth but that there is much work ahead. Key survey findings include:
    • Nearly half of survey respondents (49%) had little or no automation of managing cloud spend—one of the core disciplines of a FinOps practice.
    • Of those with some automation, almost one-third automated notifications (31%) and tagging hygiene (29%.) Only 13% automated rightsizing and 9% spot use–which indicates that companies are likely missing opportunities to optimize cloud spend.
    • Half of compute spend on public cloud was for on-demand,  the highest-price service, and 49% for reserved, savings or committed use coverage, the next costliest option. Only 13% was for spot use, the least expensive service, even though respondents identified 28% as being an “excellent” target for that option.
    • Getting engineers to act on cost optimization was cited by 40% of respondents as the biggest challenge, followed by dealing with shared costs (33%) and accurate forecasting spend (26%.)
    • Just 15% of respondents said their FinOps practice was in the “run” phase of maturity, meaning they can continually improve a built out practice. Four in 10 firms are in the “walk” phase, with core processes running but with much maturing remaining, and 44% are in the  “crawl” phase and just getting to basics.
    “The dirty little secret of cloud spend is that the bill never really goes down,” says J.R. Storment, executive director of the FinOps Foundation. “Smart companies use the cloud to move quickly and outperform their competitors. While agility is paramount, they also want maximum business value for the investment.”
    FinOps is clearly an area more companies will invest in. The survey respondents predicted an over 40% growth in FinOps team size in the next 12 months.
    By learning more about the challenges and opportunities facing FInOps practitioners, the Foundation, which just added Google Cloud as a Premier Member, can better create educational and informative content to help the community.
    “The survey underscores that the challenges faced by large companies—cost, complexity of billing data, the changing nature of the cloud—are surprisingly similar to those faced by small companies,” Storment notes. “This supports the notion that developing FinOps best practices early on will pay huge dividends as cloud use and costs grow. The FinOps Foundation is perfectly positioned to help enable these best practices with our work in such areas as frameworks, benchmarking data, and certifications.”
    For more survey insights, including around such topics of top challenges, team structure, capabilities, KPIs, and primary needs, access the report here.
    About the FinOps Foundation
    The FinOps Foundation (F2) is a non-profit trade association made up of FinOps practitioners around the world including Atlassian, Autodesk, Gannett, HERE Technologies, Just Eat, Nationwide and Spotify. Grounded in real world stories, expertise, and inspiration for and by FinOps practitioners, the FinOps Foundation is focused on codifying and promoting cloud financial management best practices and standards to help community members and their teams become better at cloud financial management.
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