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  • Lucidum Unveils Community License of IT Asset Discovery Platform to Eliminate Blind Spots Across AWS Environments

    Driven by machine learning, Lucidum provides complete visibility of all critical assets and context of how and why they are used for IT teams to take corrective action
     
    SAN JOSE, Calif. — January 25, 2021 – Lucidum today announced the commercial availability of its IT asset discovery platform that eliminates blind spots across cloud, security and IT operations. The launch of the Lucidum Community License follows the company’s successful, over-subscribed early access program through which customers are using the Lucidum platform to gain complete visibility of all critical IT assets, including unknown unknowns.
     
    The Lucidum Community License is available as a free, self-configured download and provides enterprises with an always-on, centralized and continuously updated inventory of their AWS investments. Once configured, the platform automatically ingests data from 13 AWS services, including compute, storage and database services. Within hours, Lucidum provides visibility and context into all known and unknown AWS assets purchased, if they are properly configured, who is using them, if they have appropriate security controls in place and if a company is overpaying for AWS services.
     
    “The most fundamental challenge technology leaders face is visibility and context of assets in their sprawling IT estates,” said Peter Liebert, former CISO of the State of California. “Both are extremely hard to pin down because of multiple technologies and protocols that exist across complex environments. The key to success is removing the unknowns to fully understand risk and take the right actions. Lucidum uniquely allows for that, which is absolute gold.”
     
    The Lucidum platform employs patent-pending machine learning against a massive volume of pre-existing data to triangulate and provide context about known and unknown computers, mobile devices, cloud environments, IoT devices, microservices, and other technology assets. Without agents or scans, Lucidum identifies anything that stores, processes, or transmits data and answers important questions about where an asset is, what it is, what it’s doing, and how it’s being used. 
     
    Through a growing list of integrations with over 150 of the most popular tools and platforms already in use by enterprise IT organizations, and an open API, the Lucidum platform feeds IT operations, security, cloud, compliance, finance, and other core disciplines with critical information about the assets it identifies. 
     
    One customer is using Lucidum to discover and reconcile unknown assets in order to prove that its overall IT asset inventory is accurate. Within hours of deployment, the Lucidum platform automatically updated the customer’s configuration management database (CMDB) and provided visibility and context of its unknown assets in order for its IT organization to take the correct proactive actions to account for them. Within two weeks, the organization reduced its unknown assets from 13% to 4%, which translated to a 70% improvement in asset visibility.
     
    “We started this journey at Lucidum by asking hundreds of technology leaders about their most existential challenge,” said Joel Fulton, Lucidum CEO and co-founder. “We clearly learned that asset visibility is a fundamental capability on which everything else rests – from securing to managing and transforming. Our early access customers have been essential partners in delivering a product that empowers technology leaders to improve every other aspect of their IT, cloud and security operations. We’re excited to now make Lucidum available to everyone and grow our community.”
     
    Lucidum’s co-founders are Joel Fulton, former CISO at Splunk, and Charles Feng, former head of security innovations and data science at Splunk. The founding team brings exceptional experience in IT leadership and machine learning from companies including Boeing, Nordstrom, Symantec, and Google.
     
    The Lucidum Community License for AWS is now available as a free download and allows customers to gain complete visibility of AWS cloud environments, assets (both static and ephemeral assets), users, and data. Support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform will be available later in 2021. For more information or to download the Lucidum Community License, visit https://lucidum.io/communitylicense/.
     
    About Lucidum
    Lucidum is the asset discovery company that eliminates blind spots across cloud, security, and IT operations. Fortune 500 companies rely on the Lucidum platform and its patent-pending machine learning to discover, triangulate, and identify all assets – even previously unknown unknowns – delivering visibility essential to truly secure, manage, and transform your enterprise. Backed by GGV Capital and Silicon Valley CISO Investments(SVCI), Lucidum is based in San Jose, California. For more information, follow Lucidum on Twitter (@LucidumInc) and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/lucidum-inc), or visit www.lucidum.io.

  • Incorta Appoints Former Alteryx President Scott Jones as Chief Executive Officer

    IT industry veteran to accelerate company’s expansion amid rapid growth of data analytics market; Co-founder Osama Elkady to remain at Incorta as CTO to lead product strategy and innovation

    SAN MATEO, CA — January 21, 2021 – Incorta, the world’s leading next-generation enterprise data and analytics platform, today announced the appointment of Scott Jones as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Osama Elkady. As the founder of Incorta’s Direct Data Mapping and unified analytics solution, Osama will remain at the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), where he will work with current Fortune 1000 customers and the engineering team to lead product strategy and innovation.

    Jones brings extensive experience in building and managing go to market teams in enterprise software, with a 25-year track record of high-impact success in early stage, rapid-growth, as well as market-leading public companies. Prior to joining Incorta, Jones served as president and chief revenue officer for automated analytics company Alteryx. Before this, Jones served as the senior vice president of Americas Sales at Tableau Software, where he was instrumental in growing the sales organization. Earlier, Jones spent more than five years at SAP with various leadership roles, including COO of its Database and Technology Division, and Group Vice President – Large Enterprise Sales Western U.S, as well as senior roles at Business Objects.

    “Given his experience building and scaling high-growth teams, Scott has the background, energy and vision to drive the future growth of Incorta,” said Incorta co-founder and CTO, Osama Elkady, who led the search for a new CEO and personally picked Jones. “I am confident Scott will provide the  leadership, insights and strategic direction for Incorta to achieve new heights, and I look forward to supporting his work as he leads Incorta in bringing next-generation enterprise data and analytics to the entire market.”

    Incorta has a unique opportunity for expansion, as evidenced by recent funding rounds for data analytics startups and recent industry IPOs that address the global data analytics market which is expected to reach $105.08 billion by 2027, according to ResearchandMarkets.com

    Given this significant market opportunity, Jones’ experience will aid in scaling the company and capitalizing on the market growth opportunity for next-generation data analytics and BI. Incorta is distinguished by its game-changing direct data mapping and all-in-one analytics and BI platform solution that allows an entirely new way to address today’s toughest data challenges.

    “Companies today need to be able to change direction and make decisions quickly, and that is only accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. Data powers this agility,” said Scott Jones, CEO of Incorta. “Incorta is breaking through 30-year barriers with its unique innovative direct data mapping technology that eliminates the time consuming and expensive traditional ETL processes both IT and businesses face today. Incorta uniquely enables business users to manage the entire analytic workflow in one platform. The real time enterprise today is looking for the data, the analysis and the predictive analytics, all in one.

    The increasing global demand for real-time data insights has been instrumental in driving the company’s growth to date. In the last year, the company was named a Microsoft U.S. Partner Award winner for startups and was ranked 158th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ list for 2020. Incorta also has increased its customer base to include many of the top Fortune companies, such as Broadcom, Nortek, Equinix, Keysight Technologies, Duluth Trading Company, and Forterra and continues to strengthen its partnerships with system integrators and ISVs such as Wipro, Infosys, and Microsoft.

    About Incorta

    Incorta is the data analytics company on a mission to help data-driven enterprises be more agile and competitive by resolving their most complex data analytics challenges. Incorta’s Direct Data Platform gives enterprises the means to acquire, enrich, analyze and act on their business data with unmatched speed, simplicity and insight. Backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Kleiner Perkins, M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), Telstra Ventures, and Sorenson Capital, Incorta powers analytics for some of the most valuable brands and organizations in the world. For today’s most complex data and analytics challenges, Incorta partners with Fortune 5 to Global 2000 customers such as Broadcom, Nortek, Forterra, Equinix, and Credit Suisse. Incorta is ranked 158th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™. For more information, visit https://www.incorta.com.

  • DevOps Institute Sees Strong Growth with Expanded Team, New Resources and Programs for the Humans of DevOps, and More SKILup Days in 2021

    Company to release DevOps Capability Assessment (DOCA) and a robust membership program to connect the Humans of DevOps, advance their skillsets, and accelerate continuous improvement at their organizations

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – Jan. 21, 2021– DevOps Institute, a global professional association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced it has continued its strong growth, expanded its team, and is adding several new programs and offerings in early 2021. With the addition of eight new team members (a 57 percent growth in staff), the company can keep pace with the growing demand for events, resources and membership participation. The goal is to help DevOps professionals advance their careers through Skills, Knowledge, Ideas and Learning (SKIL).

    DevOps professionals looking for a fresh start in 2021 will see the launch of a crowdsourced, vendor-neutral DevOps Capability Assessment (DOCA), a tiered professional membership program, continued certifications, and more SKILup Days events from DevOps Institute.

    “We are diving into 2021 with strong momentum and substantial growth, despite the challenges of 2020,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “Each new year is an opportunity for a fresh start and new beginnings, and we’re starting strong with new offerings for the DevOps community. Our expanded team of talented individuals are working hard to create a seamless experience for members of DevOps Institute.”

    DevOps Institute New Team Members

    DevOps Institute expanded its team across multiple roles and responsibilities including marketing, events, sales, and membership. New additions include:

    • Jason Baum, Director of Membership. Baum drives all strategic efforts around DevOps Institute’s professional and enterprise membership programs to grow and maximize the member experience.
    • Ashley Cusberth, Event Production Assistant. As a member of the events team, Cusberth provides day-to-day coordination and support for DevOps Institute events.
    • Nickson Jean Baptiste, Technology Coordinator. Jean Baptiste is responsible for advising, customizing, developing, and implementing DevOps Institute’s technology solution strategies and logistics.
    • Lorena Jordan, Digital Marketing Manager. As the digital marketing manager, Jordan leads and implements digital marketing strategies and communications.
    • Jaida Olvera, Social Media Coordinator. Olvera maintains the company’s social media presence.
    • Ingrid Sides, Director of Marketing. As Director of Marketing, Sides leads the marketing team with alignment and strategy around all marketing initiatives and campaigns.
    • Daniel Schultz, Creative Events Manager. Schultz helps lead creative strategy around events.
    • Adam Schneider, Business Development Manager. Schneider leads strategic efforts to grow event sponsorship and maximize customer experience.

    “DevOps Institute offers unmatched experiences and resources for the humans of DevOps,” said Sides. “I am thrilled to be rejoining and leading the marketing team during this period of growth at DevOps Institute. I look forward to orchestrating our marketing strategy to reach and engage the DevOps community in new and creative ways – and ultimately help drive ROI in 2021.”

    “Now more than ever, professionals in the DevOps space are looking for access to tools and resources that will help them do their jobs better and build their reputations in the industry,” said Baum. “A DevOps Institute membership will provide them with those tools and so much more. I am thrilled to lead strategic efforts to cultivate incredible experiences for DevOps Institute members while helping grow the program.”

    A Fresh Start for DevOps Professionals
    DevOps Institute supports DevOps professionals looking to build new skills, expand knowledge and learning, make new connections, and try new things.

    Tools and programs to look forward to in 2021 include:

    1. DevOps Capability Assessment (DOCA)
    DOCA is a vendor-neutral assessment featuring a scorecard based on an empirical data model that examines five core DevOps dimensions. It is designed for individuals, teams and organizations to baseline their current DevOps state while measuring and accelerating continuous improvement during their DevOps journey.

    2. DevOps Institute Membership
    In early 2021, DevOps Institute will roll out a tiered membership program for individuals and enterprises. DevOps Institute Professional Members gain exclusive access to leading DevOps resources, discounted and free certification exams, exclusive event access and networking opportunities with leading DevOps practitioners and organizations.

    Learn more about membership here: https://devopsinstitute.com/membership/

    3.  SKILup Days
    The popular SKILup Days are back, starting with Cloud Native and Serverless on February 25. SKILup Days are one-day virtual micro-conferences focused on the ‘how to.’ Each SKILup Day takes a specific industry practice to examine under a microscope and highlights perspectives of the people, process, and technology aspects of IT.

    Register for the upcoming events here: https://devopsinstitute.com/skilupdays/

    4. Certifications
    Individuals and teams can kick off their fresh start in 2021 with a new certification in one or more DevOps disciplines such as Site Reliability Engineering, DevSecOps, DevOps Leadership and DevOps Foundation. DevOps Institute is the industry authority for DevOps certifications to help DevOps professionals to advance and grow their careers.

    Learn more about certifications: https://devopsinstitute.com/certifications/

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    About DevOps Institute
    DevOps Institute is a professional member association whose mission is to advance the human elements of DevOps.

    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.

  • Buoyant Wins Tech Ascension Award Recognizing Linkerd Service Mesh as Best Open Source DevOps Tool of 2020

    San Francisco, Calif. – January 21, 2021 –  Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd, today announced that Linkerd was named the Best Open Source DevOps Tool of 2020 by the Tech Ascension Awards. This award recognizes the ability of Linkerd to address a core challenge faced by engineers building modern “cloud native” applications: adding and maintaining critical security, reliability, and observability features to their applications without changing code.

    The pioneer of the service mesh category, Linkerd remains the fastest, smallest service mesh on the market. Its unique human-centric approach prioritizes simplicity, speed and security, in stark contrast to the complexity commonly associated with competitive service mesh solutions. With minimal resource consumption, Linkerd installs in minutes, requires zero configuration, and can be incrementally extended to the application one microservice at a time with no disruption to applications or infrastructure.

    “Linkerd delivers on the promise of open source, zero-config service mesh, making it frictionless for engineers to reduce overhead and complexity and support zero trust security for Kubernetes,” said William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant. “Recognition as the best Open Source DevOps Tool of 2020 underscores how important Linkerd and the service mesh have become in supporting healthy microservices applications and the organizations that rely on them. The service mesh should be simple, secure and reliable—that is what Linkerd delivers.”

    Linkerd decouples platform teams and developer teams so that codependency does not limit agility. It provides critical observability, security, and reliability features at the platform level in a way that is uniform and consistent across all microservices—regardless of language, framework, or team—to support DevOps and DevSecOps methodologies. Linkerd enables platform teams to deliver a reliable, secure, and scalable platform for developers so they can focus on implementing the fundamental business logic of applications.

    “DevOps is helping to accelerate IT innovation across the world,” said David Campbell, CEO, Tech Ascension Awards. “We’re excited to be able to recognize companies like Buoyant for their outstanding technical and business benefits.”

    The Tech Ascension Awards recognizes the very best innovations in B2C and B2B technology, judging applicants based on technology innovation and uniqueness, market research (analyst reports, media coverage, customer case studies), hard performance stats, and competitive differentiators.

    For more information or to get started with Linkerd, please visit https://linkerd.io/.

    About Buoyant

    Buoyant was founded by William Morgan and Oliver Gould in 2015 with the mission of making the fundamental tools for reliability and security of software accessible to every engineer in the world. They pioneered the service mesh category with Linkerd, the open source, open governance service mesh. Today, Buoyant’s software powers critical production infrastructure for leading organizations around the world. Buoyant investors include GV, Benchmark, #ANGELS, A Capital and SV Angel. For more information, visit https://buoyant.io/.

    About Linkerd

    Linkerd is an ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Linkerd is open source and open governance. Created in 2016, Linkerd was the first service mesh project and introduced the term “service mesh” to the industry lexicon. Linkerd is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). For more information, visit https://linkerd.io.

    About the Tech Ascension Awards

    The Tech Ascension Awards elevate companies that possess cutting-edge, innovative technology that solve critical challenges in their respective markets. Tech Ascension winners rise above the crowded consumer and enterprise technology industries and receive validation from an independent organization. Applicants are judged based on technology innovation and uniqueness, market research (analyst reports, media coverage, customer case studies), hard performance stats, and competitive differentiators. The awards recognize leaders in cybersecurity, DevOps, big data and consumer technology. For information about the Tech Ascension Awards, please visit www.techascensionawards.com.

  • GigaSpaces Closes Strong 2020, Doubling Annual Recurring Revenues, Fueled by New Product Innovations to Drive Customers’ Digital Transformation

    Growing demand for In-Memory Computing platforms powers record results 

    New York, NY — January 20, 2021 — GigaSpaces, the leading provider of in-memory computing platforms that drive digital transformation announced today its 2020 results. The company doubled annual recurring revenues and doubled the number of subscription customers for the second year in a row. In 2020, GigaSpaces continued its rapid growth fueled by new product innovations, and the expansion of global partnerships, driving forward digital transformation initiatives with the fastest, most scalable, and easiest to deploy in-memory computing platforms that meet the most challenging enterprise data and analytics processing needs.

    “The demand for in-memory computing solutions continues to grow dramatically, and has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, as enterprises strive to improve customer experience, optimize operations and comply with regulations in an increasingly competitive digital environment,” said Adi Paz, CEO at GigaSpaces. “We remain committed to meeting our customers’ complex data and analytics requirements for higher agility and greater efficiency, and enabling them to rapidly introduce low-latency, scalable, digital applications, accelerate analytics and deploy operational BI across on-premises, cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.”

    In May 2020, GigaSpaces announced the closing of a $12 million funding round led by Fortissimo Capital, joined by existing investors Claridge Israel and BRM Group to scale and accelerate growth, collaboration with partners and product innovation.

    GigaSpaces rolled out new product innovations in 2020, beginning with the availability of GigaSpaces Cloud, a managed service on Google Cloud Platform.

    InsightEdge version 15.2 introduced GigaOps Stack, to reduce IT production management overhead, providing end-to-end provisioning, self-healing, auto-scaling, A/B testing, proactive-monitoring, and distributed tracing. To simplify deployment and accelerate go-to-market, the release delivered both one click, no-code integration with databases and one-click installation on a cluster across any cloud and on-premises, including provisioning resources and configuring network and security policies.

    With the launch of InsightEdge version 15.5 in September, GigaSpaces became the only in-memory computing vendor to enable the creation of a hybrid cluster that can be provisioned both on-premises and in a public cloud, eliminating the need to replicate data between clusters. Version 15.5 also added AIOps functionality to autonomously scale up and out, on-premises and on cloud, with no downtime or performance impact.

    In December, GigaSpaces launched the new InsightEdge Portfolio, a full suite of platforms including Smart Cache, Smart Operational Data Store (ODS), and Smart Augmented Transactions. The expanded portfolio, powered by the unique combination of in-memory speed and scale with AI-driven data operations and management capabilities, simplifies and optimizes enterprise digital transformation initiatives, driving improved customer experience, faster go-to-market and optimized TCO.

    InsightEdge Smart ODS received industry recognition, being cited by Gartner as one out of four available out-of-the-box Digital Integration Hub (DIH) platforms. “Application leaders struggle to deliver high-throughput, responsive and reliable APIs while minimizing the workload hitting their systems of record. By extending their API platform with a digital integration hub, they can address these issues and add value by enabling analytics and data integration.”

    Gartner, Innovation Insight: Turbocharge your API Platform with a Digital Integration Hub, July 2020. 

    GigaSpaces doubled customer subscriptions across finance, insurance, health and transportation industries. Highlighted new customers in 2020 included Groupe PSA, the second-largest car manufacturer in Europe, where together with Capgemini, GigaSpaces helped PSA offload from and modernize their mainframe to power their WLTP pricing calculator for online car orders, supporting 15X its mainframe capacity while providing a 15-19 milliseconds query and analytics response time.

    InsightEdge Smart ODS was also deployed at CLSA, Asia’s leading capital markets and investment group, for their algorithmic trade execution and all client and exchange-facing management systems in over 12 countries.

    A focus on growing technology and go-to-market partnerships in 2020 strengthened GigaSpaces offering scope and global expansion goals. GigaSpaces collaborated with OpenLegacy to help customers modernize their legacy stacks to accelerate time to market for new services; with Red Hat, announcing the availability of InsightEdge on the Red Hat Marketplace, for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across all environments; and with Confluent, providing a connector for the capture of data streams from Apache Kafka into GigaSpaces InsightEdge state store product..

    Recognized by the industry, GigaSpaces was honored by several leading industry organizations, receiving Tech Ascension’s Best Big Data Solution Award, the Gold for the Stevie 2020 American Business Awards, the Data Management Innovation of the Year award from AI Breakthrough and announced the Best Global Deployment at the AFTAs for Société Générale data services project powered by GigaSpaces.

    About GigaSpaces 

    The GigaSpaces InsightEdge portfolio delivers fastest, scalable and easiest to deploy in-memory computing platforms to meet the most challenging enterprise data and analytics processing needs for accelerating and scaling real-time applications, analytics and operational BI on any data, at any load, across any environment. One-click integrations with on-premises and cloud operational data stores, automatic data modeling, business-policy data tiering and AI-driven autonomous scaling reduce time-to-market and ensure rapid response times and highest performance levels, with lower TCO.

    Hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations and OEMs across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more trust GigaSpaces for powering their mission critical services to optimize business operations, comply with regulations and enhance the customer experience. GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Israel with partners around the globe; serving customers such as Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, CSX, Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, Avanza Bank, Avaya, Frequentis, CLSA, Groupe PSA and UBS. For more information visit www.gigaspaces.com and www.gigaspaces.com/blog/, follow us on Twitter, or visit our YouTube and LinkedIn channels.

     

  • Agiloft Announces Agiloft Contract Lifecycle Management Software on Salesforce AppExchange, the World’s Leading Enterprise Cloud Marketplace

    Customers can now benefit from real-time, bi-directional integration with Agiloft to streamline the contracting process, connecting sales, legal, procurement, and other enterprise functions.  

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Agiloft, a global leader in contract and commerce lifecycle management (CCLM), today announced it has launched its AI-powered contract management software on Salesforce AppExchange, enabling enhanced data synchronization between Agiloft and Salesforce to streamline and accelerate the commercial processes surrounding contracts. Through a fully configurable integration, customers can access business information and easily create new contracts, reducing data silos and inefficiencies that lead to missed opportunities and lost revenue. 

    Agiloft’s Contract Lifecycle Management software is currently available for both Classic and Lightning standards on AppExchange at https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000EcstxUAB. 

    Contract management is a tool that can help businesses drive long-term revenue growth, maintain cost discipline, and reduce security and compliance risk. With its robust AI capabilities, Agiloft’s user-friendly CLM platform offers possibilities for the configuration and automation of complex contract and commercial workflows—from one-click creation of proposals and agreements to tracking performance obligations, contract expirations, and invoicing. Out of the box, Agiloft is ready for integration with the Salesforce platform, available as a bi-directional or one-way sync that can be run manually, on a time-based schedule, or triggered automatically when a record is created or edited. 

    “AppExchange is trusted worldwide for integrative solutions for Salesforce, and we are excited to join this premier marketplace,” said Eric Laughlin, Agiloft CEO. “Our real-time integration makes Agiloft’s no-code enterprise CLM tool even more powerful as it synchronizes contract information and processes directly with Salesforce. Users can now unite their CPQ or CRM experience with Agiloft, allowing critical data to inform the creation and negotiation of contracts and ultimately accelerate sales.” 

    “Agiloft is a welcome addition to AppExchange, as they power transformation for customers wanting to enhance digital contract management and workflows,” said Woodson Martin, GM of Salesforce AppExchange. “AppExchange is constantly evolving to enable our partners to build cutting-edge solutions to drive customer success.” 

    About Salesforce AppExchange 

    Salesforce AppExchange, the world’s leading enterprise cloud marketplace, empowers companies to sell, service, market and engage in entirely new ways. With more than 6,000 solutions, 8 million customer installs and 90,000 peer reviews, it is the most comprehensive source of cloud, mobile, social, IoT, analytics and artificial intelligence technologies for businesses.  

    About Agiloft 

    As a global leader in contract and commerce lifecycle management (CCLM) software, Agiloft is trusted to provide significant savings in purchasing, enable more efficient legal operations, and accelerate sales cycles, all while drastically lowering compliance risk. Agiloft’s adaptable no-code platform ensures rapid deployment and a fully extensible system. Using contracts as the core system of commercial record, Agiloft’s CCLM software leverages AI to improve contract management for legal departments, procurement, and sales operations. Visit www.agiloft.com for more.  

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  • Splice Machine Launches The Splice Machine Feature Store To Simplify Feature Engineering And Democratize Machine Learning

    With a true SQL HTAP database, the Feature Strore streamlines the most time-consuming and expensive task of the data science life cycle and enables ML models to integrate past and present data to predict the most accurate future

    San Francisco, CA, January 19, 2021 – Splice Machine, the only scale-out SQL database with built-in machine learning, today announced it has launched the Splice Machine Feature Store. The solution will help more companies operationalize machine learning by reducing the complexity of feature engineering and allow data scientists to make the right decisions based on real-time data.

    Despite the hype around AI and machine learning, seven out of 10 executives whose companies had made investments in artificial intelligence reported minimal or no impact from them, according to a 2019 research report from MIT. Those surveyed stated that creating a machine learning model and putting it into operation in an enterprise environment are two very different things.

    “The capacity to create, share, explain and reliably reproduce features for a given model is paramount to the success of a data science team,” said Monte Zweben, CEO, Splice Machine. “The old way of doing things meant data science operations were simply not scalable. The Splice Machine Feature Store enables you to harness complex analytics in real time and transform real-time data into features, so your models are never uninformed. It also stores feature history making training set creation a single click.”

    Feature engineering is the most time-consuming and expensive task of the data science life cycle. As companies work to operationalize machine learning, current approaches are not scalable because data science productivity is too low to enable widespread adoption. Simplifying the data science workflow by providing necessary architecture and automating feature serving with feature stores are two of the most important ways to make machine learning easy, accurate and fast at scale.

    The Splice Machine Feature Store Platform solves some of the biggest pain points of operationalizing machine learning, including:

    • Reducing the effort of feature engineering
    • Helping to solve for governance issues, such as bias, drift, or regulatory oversight
    • Scaling data science operations
    • Reducing monetary loss from the creation of inaccurate models

    This will help data scientists realize numerous benefits, including:

    • Achieving faster deployments of AI/ML into production by reusing features and avoiding duplicative feature engineering
    • Spending 80% less time on feature engineering
    • Developing more informative models via automatic aggregation of raw data
    • Gaining predictive accuracy of models with near real-time feature updates and consistent training sets

    “As our Clinical Advisor application continues to be adopted by more and more clinicians, there will be increasingly more data at our disposal to help hone and create new features that can further improve our application’s precision in identifying the course of disease and improving patient outcomes,” said IPH (Innovative Precision Health) Chief Scientific Officer, Mark Gudesblatt, MD. “Splice Machine’s feature store makes it possible to leverage features developed by data scientists for a particular disease like Multiple Sclerosis to be leveraged by other data scientists for other diseases like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.”

    “We had this sort of a feature store at Airbnb, but it was limited by the fact that we were largely on HDFS,” said Robert Yi, CDO at Dataframe and former Airbnb data scientist. “It enabled users to share features, but it didn’t solve the online/offline problem. But the solution can obviously be much more elegant if you start with a more amenable database that can function in realtime. Splice Machine seems to be doing exactly that – MLflow integration, database re-injection, Spark lazy loading, easy deployment, and API-less access.”

    Zweben added, “The Splice Machine Feature Store is the only one in the market that does not have to synchronize two underlying data engines — an online store and an offline store, simplifying the architecture with one store, lowering costs, and eliminating latency.”

    To learn more about the Splice Machine Feature Store Platform, visit https://splicemachine.com/product/feature-store/.

    Zweben will also discuss the importance of feature stores at the upcoming TWIMLcon 2021, being held online January 19-29, 2021. Monte’s session, “Unified MLOps: How Database Deployment and a Feature Store Can Revolutionize ML”, is slated for Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 11:40 AM PST and a workshop, “Hands-On Feature Store and Model Deployment with Splice Machine”, as scheduled for Thursday, January 28 at 9:00 AM PST. More information about the event can be found here: TWIMLcon

    About Splice Machine
    Splice Machine makes it fast and easy to deploy AI applications. The company combines SQL database and machine learning technology into one seamless platform to slash software, infrastructure and people costs and to vastly improve data science productivity. Enterprises build new intelligent applications on the Splice Machine platform, extend existing applications with AI, and modernize their applications in the cloud with virtually no rewrites. The Splice Machine Livewire solution enables industrial clients to ingest live sensor data to predict operational problems in real-time to avoid costly outages. Splice Machine is available as a fully-managed cloud service on AWS, Azure, and GCP and is also available on-premises. For more information on Splice Machine, visit www.splicemachine.com.

  • Exadel Achieves Adobe Experience Manager Sites Specialization

    The Exadel Digital Marketing Technology Practice recognized with Adobe Sites Specialization in the Americas region

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., January 19, 2021 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global provider of digital platform engineering solutions and services, announced it has achieved Adobe Experience Manager – Sites Specialization in the Americas region, part of the Adobe Solution Partner Program.

    Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is the premier content management system for complex large-scale websites. Exadel’s Digital Marketing Technology Practice team has gained extensive experience using AEM to serve clients, with the majority of its core experts AEM certified, including architects, developers and business practitioners.

    The Exadel Digital Marketing Technology Practice has recently added a number of new solution releases including AEM Authoring Toolkit 1.2.1, Server-Sketch and Snap Environment Switcher. This is part of an ongoing effort to create service accelerators that maximize Digital Marketing Technology platforms. Exadel open sources these solutions whenever possible.

    AEM Authoring Toolkit 1.2.1 (https://github.com/exadel-inc/aem-authoring-toolkit) helps Adobe Experience Manager developers to author in an easier and more flexible manner through increased interactivity with AEM dialogues and improvements to the overall AEM User Experience. Server-Sketch (https://github.com/exadel-inc/server-sketch) helps developers set up and configure demo UI servers, and Snap Environment Switcher (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snap-environment-switcher/efjoaihofoihbocdckfnadfmgjpfbpcb) is a Google Chrome plugin that allows developers and QAs to switch between environments and modes while creating software.

    The Exadel Digital Marketing Technology Practice was recently featured in the Nordic IT Sourcing and Innovation Summit (https://nordicitinnovation.com/) during a workshop on Digital Transformation. Exadel’s Digital Marketing Technology Practice head, Vladislav Baranov, made a case for using Digital Marketing Technology as the basis for a modern marketing strategy.

    “We are proud to be a part of the Adobe Solutions Partner Program and to be recognized with Sites Specialization,” said Lev Shur, president of Exadel Solutions. “Over the years our team has worked hard to get the most out of the Adobe Experience Cloud Platform for our customers and this Specialization is a welcomed validation of our efforts.”

    For more than 20 years, Exadel has provided Fortune 500 clients with top-of-the-line software engineering and development services that support digital transformation and marketing initiatives. Visit the Exadel website to learn more about their services, solutions and client history: https://www.exadel.com/

    Tweet this: New @exadel AEM certification from @adobe reflects company’s commitment to #digitalmarketing technology practices focused on the delivery of end-to-end solutions leveraging Adobe tools

    About Exadel

    Exadel is an enterprise software development company that supports organizations at any stage of their digital transformation journey. For over twenty years it has helped companies redefine the way they do business by developing their core products and platforms, and facilitating transition to the cloud. Exadel has a long history of developing its own products, platforms, and open-source solutions that accelerate the services it provides and add value to customers. A Forrester-recognized market leader in distributed Agile, the company has a long track record of partnering with the biggest names across most industries. For more information on Exadel services and areas of expertise visit exadel.com and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter @exadel.

     

  • Quali Raises $54 Million in New Funding to Help Enterprise DevOps Streamline Infrastructure Complexity

    Greenfield Partners and JVP co-lead new round after record sales of CloudShell Platform to Global 2000 and innovators around the world

    Austin – Jan. 19, 2021 – Quali, the Infrastructure Automation at ScaleTM company, today announced $54 million in new funding, co-led by Greenfield Partners and JVP. The company will use the funds to further expand its stellar customer base, enable new partnerships, strengthen its market leadership position, accelerate CloudShell innovation, and grow the Quali team.

    Quali’s CloudShell platform simplifies cloud infrastructure, making it accessible and secure for application development and deployment, accelerating digital transformation. Quali’s mission is to unlock business value encumbered by technology operations, and to unleash the time and talent of technology teams so they are free to build the future—to develop, test, and deploy with simple self-service at any time, on any cloud, or even on-prem.

    Despite COVID-19, Quali has experienced a record year, with significant growth, serving customers such as Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, Verizon, multiple banks, and cloud service providers. Quali investors see the immense potential in bringing automation to the masses. In addition to the continued support from Kreos Capital, this round also welcomes a fund managed by Hamilton Lane as a new investor.

    While traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) players have focused on catering to a relatively small set of experts, Quali’s technology simplifies the user experience—effectively making cloud infrastructure, and its complexity, invisible to the application teams who need it.

    “Development teams are burdened by the time and complexity of setting up and operating cloud infrastructure. Quali empowers developers to develop, testers to test, planners to plan, and ops to operate by offering safe and productive access to hybrid cloud infrastructure”, said Quali CEO, Lior Koriat. “Since Quali’s most recent funding in 2018, the company experienced rapid growth in sales, platform innovation, and expanded its own workforce globally.”

    ”Quali has proven its position as a market leader in the DevOps and Infrastructure Automation category, servicing tier-1 customers across multiple segments,” said Erel Margalit, Founder and Chairman at JVP. “This is one of our most fascinating companies, and we are happy to join forces with Shay Grinfeld, Managing Partner at Greenfield partners, and Boaz Dinte, Managing Partner at Qumra Capital, who helped build leading companies in this category such as Jfrog, BigPanda, and others. Alongside Yoav Tzruya, Quali’s Chairperson, and the vast experience of JVP in building international companies such as CyberArk and QlikTech, we are confident that together with Lior and Quali’s great team both in Israel and the US, the company will become the next big thing.”

    Quali’s new Board Member, Shay Grinfeld, Managing Partner at Greenfield Partners, said, “Our investment thesis was built around Quali’s unique ability to streamline cloud and infrastructure complexity for application and technology teams with the growing adoption of DevOps methodology and CI/CD procedures. We are impressed with their recent growth and are excited about the opportunity to build an exceptional business.”

    “With the growing adoption of DevOps and CI/CD best practices, beyond early adopters, challenges related to scaling such practices are becoming more prevalent—removing operational, process and knowledge bottlenecks, reducing costs, assuring governance and unifying infrastructure. This is where Quali shines”, stated Yoav Tzruya, General Partner at JVP and chairperson of Quali, “While Atlassian and JFrog solve needs around process management and streamlining dev-to-prod, Quali focuses on abstracting away and automating infrastructure, and enabling the CRO to focus on sales, instead of the complexities of demos and POCs, the developers to develop instead of spending resources on IT and cloud provisioning, and operations to offer best in class customer experience instead of worrying about costs and governance”.

    “What attracts me to Quali is their ability to bring essential automation technology directly to the masses (developers) without requiring deep expertise,” said Boaz Dinte, a board member of Quali and JFrog. “It’s the same thing that impressed me as an early investor at JFrog and I could not be more excited about Quali’s future.”

    “Quali’s automation framework further enhances our ability to build tomorrow’s future today, allowing Verizon to deliver amazing new technology to our customers at the speed of DevOps,” said John Musa, Manager at Verizon Wireless.

    New Customers: Category-leading companies in consumer electronics, telco, banking, technology, media, and more rely on Quali to deliver more productivity, faster time to market, and reduced business risks.

    New innovation: In addition to 1-click infrastructure setup, Quali’s CloudShell Platform features the industry’s only “no-click” auto-decommissioning of cloud environments as well as its unique auto-tagging capabilities, both of which are essential for cloud cost visibility and cloud cost control.

    New employee growth: With aggressive hiring goals in every functional area, Quali will nearly double its employment, filling multiple new positions at its new offices in Austin and Tel Aviv and across the US, Europe, and Asia.

    More information on open positions can be found at https://www.quali.com/about-us/careers/.

    About Quali

    Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Quali provides the leading platform for Infrastructure Automation at Scale. Global 2000 enterprises and innovators everywhere rely on Quali’s award-winning CloudShell platform to create self-service, on-demand automation solutions that increase engineering productivity, cut cloud costs, and optimize infrastructure utilization. For more information, please visit https://www.quali.com/ and follow Quali on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    About Greenfield Partners

    Greenfield is an Israel-based investment firm focused on early growth stage technology and tech-enabled businesses. With a dual presence in Tel Aviv and New York, the Greenfield team fuses investment and operating experience, deep local Israeli roots, and an expansive global network to support entrepreneurs in their quest to build thriving technology companies. Greenfield’s roots date back to 2016, when it was established by TPG Growth as an investment platform for early growth technology investments in Israel. An independent fund since 2020, its culture remains grounded in this heritage, bringing the rigor and depth of private equity to early growth investing. The Greenfield team continues to serve as Senior Advisors to TPG Growth, and in this context seeks opportunities for collaboration on selected large-check, growth stage investments in Israel. Its portfolio includes such companies as Avanan, BigPanda, Guardicore, and Vast Data. More information about Greenfield Partners is available at www.greenfieldlp.com.

    About (JVP)

    Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), founded and led by Dr. Erel Margalit, is an internationally renowned venture capital fund. JVP has raised $1.4 billion to date across nine funds, and has been listed numerous times by Preqin, and other rankings, as one of the top-ten consistently performing VC firms worldwide. JVP has built over 150 companies, leveraging a broad network of partners and market expertise to help companies become global market leaders. JVP was recently chosen by New York City and EDC to lead the cyber security cyber hub in NYC. Among the pioneering firms of the Israeli venture capital industry, JVP has been instrumental in building some of the largest companies out of Israel, facilitating 12 Initial Public Offerings on NASDAQ, including CyberArk Software, QLIK Technologies, and Cogent Communications among others. https://www.jvpvc.com/

  • WANdisco Solidifies Market Leadership for Live Data, Serving 150 Customers, Managing 200 Petabytes

    WANdisco advances strategic alliances with leading cloud providers, partners and customers to automate the migration of petabyte-scale Hadoop data lakes to the cloud with zero downtime

    SAN RAMON, CA, January 18, 2021 – WANdisco, the LiveData company, announced a milestone with over 150 Live Data customers and 200 petabytes of data under management, the equivalent of all printed material that has ever been produced. WANdisco’s LiveData Migrator is the only hands-off, automated data lake migration service to allow on-premise applications to continue to operate while migrating data under active change. Available to AWS and Google Cloud Platform customers and as a native turnkey service in Microsoft Azure, WANdisco shifted to a channel-first sales model with the launch of its LiveData Partner Network. The exabyte-scale Hadoop to cloud migration opportunity represents more than 100 exabytes of data and thus a multi-billion dollar total addressable market.

    “2020 demonstrated that cloud plays a vital role in business, and we look forward to continuing to give customers the complete freedom to choose where their data lives within their enterprises’ IT infrastructure, free from technological or cost constraints,” said David Richards, CEO and Co-founder of WANdisco. “As we move into 2021 with a solid foundation and expanded sources of revenue, WANdisco seeks to extend its lead within the cloud migration and replication market with an exciting product roadmap, a world class team and strategic partnerships.”

    New Partners and Customers

    2020 saw substantial customer and partner growth for WANdisco with the signing of multiple, million-plus dollar deals that have expanded customer reach into new industries. Recent customers include one of the largest global airlines, a worldwide retail franchise, a world leader in telecommunications, a leading media conglomerate and a major UK-based supermarket chain among others.

    WANdisco significantly expanded its market reach with its global reseller agreement with Infosys to de-risk and accelerate data lake migration to the cloud. Leveraging Infosys’ vast experience and cloud capabilities, WANdisco will help enterprises across the globe migrate their data lakes to major public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

    Using WANdisco LiveData Migrator, GoDaddy achieved their initial goal to migrate 500TB to AWS S3 in 45 days and to take advantage of the cloud provider’s modern tooling and analytics capabilities. On average, GoDaddy processes over 21,000 change operations per second with peaks of over 100,000 change operations per second while normal business operations continued uninterrupted, leaving engineers to focus on other business-critical projects like refactoring and moving applications to the cloud. “WANdisco provided a solution that addressed our cloud migration challenges,” said Jeremy Zogg, Senior Director of Engineering, GoDaddy. “This includes managing the technical debt inherited by our aging software and hardware, handling the scale of data that we accumulated over the years, and doing so without impacting our business continuity. We couldn’t afford any downtime during the migration process. With WANdisco and AWS, we were able to get up and running in weeks so we could begin experimenting with the new cloud environment very quickly.”

    Xandr accelerated its cloud adoption goals and leverage cloud analytical services by deploying WANdisco LiveData Platform. As the advertising and analytics division of WarnerMedia, Xandr migrated multiple petabytes of on-premises Hadoop data to the cloud while continuing to ingest and process hundreds of terabytes of new data every day – all without taking production clusters offline and completing the migration in a single scan.

    Successful partnerships with leading cloud providers

    In 2020, WANdisco deepened its relationship with Microsoft as its LiveData Platform became the first natively integrated service in the Azure Customer Portal. Since its preview began in June, the collaboration between Microsoft and WANdisco has drawn numerous enterprises who have registered for the service within the Azure Portal, offering positive feedback on its efficiency and operation. As part of the Microsoft Hadoop Migration Accelerator program with Databricks, LiveData Migrator for Azure is a fully operational Azure-nature service and is Microsoft’s recommended Hadoop to Azure migration platform.

    New Channel Program

    Through the new WANdisco LiveData Partner Network portal, cloud service providers, consulting partners, system integrators, ISVs, resellers, and others can leverage WANdisco’s LiveData Cloud Services to enable Hadoop migrations at any scale, in addition to a robust set of new sales, marketing, training, certification and support resources to unlock new revenue streams. WANdisco envisions that the partner network will be its biggest growth driver for the company in 2021, enabling it to quickly expand and scale its business globally. Through these new partnerships, WANdisco will help partners grow their business while providing customers with the tools to accelerate their data and application modernization plans.

    “We see this as a significant growth area,” said Alan Grogan, executive leader for data platform modernization at Avanade Europe, a WANdisco reseller and strategic systems integrator partner.  “Hadoop is failing to meet a lot of the early expectations. WANdisco is an accelerating technology that we see the value in using to help clients who are currently struggling with – or not getting value out of – Hadoop, to move those workloads they are spending billions on,” Grogan said in an interview with CRN.

    “The LiveData Partner Network, coupled with WANdisco’s newly released and self service LiveData Migrator service, will serve to accelerate our business together and enable Motifworks to focus on the upstack aspects of customers’ digital transformation,” said Tarun Agarwal, Director and Practice Lead, Data & AI, Motifworks, a WANdisco partner. “WANdisco has made it easy to do business together, providing a state-of-the-art technology platform to more rapidly onboard Motifworks sellers and cloud architects.”

    LiveData Migrator

    WANdisco is changing the future of migration with this year’s launch of LiveData Migrator. The company’s automated, self-service solution democratizes cloud data migration at any scale by enabling companies to start migrating Hadoop data from on-premises to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform within minutes, even while the source data sets are under active use. With LiveData Migrator, businesses can migrate HDFS data without the expertise of engineers or other consultants. The platform enables enterprises to operate without any production system downtime or business disruption while ensuring the migration is complete and continuous, and any ongoing data changes are replicated to the target cloud environment. “It’s as close to a silver bullet as you can find for this type of project,” according to Gartner analyst Merv Adrian in an interview with TechTarget.

    WANdisco gained designation as an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and achieved AWS Migration Competency status with the release of LiveData Migrator. The only ISV certified in the new Workload Mobility for Data Migration, Data Lake Migration category, WANdisco collaborated with AWS to define the requirements to cover different use cases, including Hadoop, storage and database data migration, and mainframe data integration.

    Awards

    WANdisco’s technological accomplishments were recognized within three awards in 2020. It was a finalist for the Stratus Awards in the Cloud Computing category, organized by the Business Intelligence Group, and shortlisted for the Cloud Awards within the category of Best Cloud Migration or Systems Integration Solution. WANdisco was also highly commended at the UK IT Awards for Cloud Innovation Provider of the Year in November.

    About WANdisco
    WANdisco is the LiveData company. WANdisco solutions enable enterprises to create an environment where data is always available, accurate and protected, creating a strong backbone for their IT infrastructure and a bedrock for running consistent, accurate machine learning applications. With zero downtime and zero data loss, WANdisco LiveData Platform keeps geographically dispersed data at any scale consistent between on-premises and cloud environments allowing businesses to operate seamlessly in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. For more information on WANdisco, visit www.wandisco.com.