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  • GridGain 8.8 Advances Its Multi-Tier Database Engine To Scale Beyond Available Memory Capacity And Meet Growing Customer Demand

    Improved Storage Utilization Reduces Total Cost Of Ownership; Expanded Memory Quota For SQL Enables Complex Real-Time Analytics; Enhanced Security Allows Data Encryption At Rest

    FOSTER CITY, Calif., Jan. 14, 2021 – GridGain® Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions powered by the Apache® Ignite® distributed database, today announced GridGain 8.8, the latest release of the company’s in-memory computing platform. The release features enhanced support for GridGain’s multi-tier database engine, which scales up and out across memory and disk. The changes enable customers to leverage the disk tier of the database to query much larger datasets, reduce total cost of ownership, and secure sensitive or personal data at rest. Companies can now use GridGain for a greater number of production use cases, ranging from complex real-time analytics to mission-critical transactional workloads.

    “As our customers expand their use of GridGain, they increasingly require the flexibility to scale workloads beyond available memory capacity,” said Abe Kleinfeld, president and CEO of GridGain. “As a result, we are continuing to evolve our data persistence technology to simplify GridGain cluster management, reduce disk requirements and improve performance, while lowering TCO and accelerating time to value. The combination of more effective disk utilization and higher memory quotas for SQL allows GridGain to support significantly larger and more complex real-time analytics use cases.”

    GridGain’s multi-tier database engine enables companies to build modern applications that support transactional and analytical workloads on the same dataset by using Apache Ignite as a database that scales beyond the available memory capacity. Ignite allocates memory for hot data and accesses the disk tier whenever applications query cold records.

    Key Features Of GridGain 8.8

    • Data compression – Reduces memory and disk space requirements for storing data.  The dictionary-based cache entry compression is built on the Zstandard library, and a pre-trained dictionary can allow compression ratios of up to 60% on real-world scenarios. If the load pattern is I/O bound, then enabling native persistence can save space while also improving performance. Available in GridGain Ultimate Edition.
    • Advanced seamless disk space defragmentation – Improves GridGain’s persistence management. Defragmentation shrinks data files and reclaims disk space while still storing the current cached data durably on a disk. Available in all GridGain editions.
    • SQL memory quotas on node or query level – Prevents out-of-memory issues when executing SQL queries requiring significant memory space. Support for offloading data to the disk tier enables greedy or complex analytical queries to pull and process gigabytes of data while executing and returning the result back to an application. Available in all GridGain editions.
    • Transparent data encryption – Improves security of data stored in the cluster by encrypting data at rest. New procedures for managing Cache and Mater encryption keys support data encryption in production environments. Available in all GridGain editions.

    GridGain will be hosting a webinar, “New Advances in GridGain’s Multi-Tier Database Engine,” on February 3, 2021 at 10:00 PST / 1:00 EST.

    Availability

    GridGain 8.8 is available now at https://www.gridgain.com/resources/download.

    Additional Resources

    To learn more about the GridGain in-memory computing platform:

    About GridGain Systems

    GridGain Systems is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering an in-memory computing platform built on Apache® Ignite®. Common use cases for the GridGain platform include application acceleration and as a digital integration hub for real-time data access across data sources and applications. GridGain solutions are used by global enterprises in financial services, software, e-commerce, retail, online business services, healthcare, telecom, transportation and other major sectors, with a client list that includes ING, Raymond James, American Express, Finastra, UPS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, American Airlines, Agilent, and UnitedHealthcare.

    GridGain delivers unprecedented speed, massive scalability and real-time data access for both legacy and greenfield applications. Deployed on a distributed cluster of commodity servers, GridGain software can reside between the application and data layers (RDBMS, NoSQL and Apache® Hadoop®), requiring no rip-and-replace of the existing databases, or it can be deployed as an in-memory database. For more information, visit gridgain.com.

  • Applitools Announces Winners of Online Shopping Holiday Hackathon

    Over 1,100 engineers competed for prizes by testing fictional e-commerce app using Applitools Ultrafast Test Cloud

     

    SAN MATEO, Calif., January 14, 2021 — Applitools, provider of a next generation test automation through Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, announced the winners of the Online Shopping Holiday Hackathon. The hackathon hosted more than 1,100 developers, quality assurance (QA) professionals and test automation engineers from dozens of companies and countries around the world. The holiday themed event ran from November 10 to December 17, 2020 with 50 prizes awarded: (https://applitools.com/blog/holiday-shopping-hackathon-winners-announced/).

    The software engineering community was tasked with testing the functional and visual quality of a fashion retail app to ensure it was ready for the busy online holiday shopping season. The hackathon challenged participants to author tests and catch bugs using the Applitools Ultrafast Test Cloud platform. Participants scaled their tests to cover a variety of browser and device combinations using the Ultrafast Test Cloud and learned how Visual AI technology compares to traditional functional testing and grid solutions. Winners were randomly selected from the pool of participants who successfully completed the submission criteria.

    “Using Cypress and Applitools, setting up tests to run across different browsers, devices, and viewport sizes took less than an hour. With traditional automation tools, this could take days!” said Lauren Christianson, automation engineer at Delta Air Lines. “Even without concurrent runs, I executed 15 tests in multiple browser combos in less than 60 seconds. Applitools’ and Cypress’ dashboards provide helpful insights into failed tests and track execution history all without any extra setup or reporting integration. Ultra fast!”

    Hackathon participants noted the dramatic increase in productivity that Visual AI afforded them, with an 89% decrease in test method code and 87% reduction in locators – this means faster test authoring and less time maintaining test code.

    “I loved participating in the Applitools hackathon!” said Kerry McKeever, automation engineer at Globys. “Having the opportunity to see how quickly testing can be completed with fewer lines of code, faster execution times, and against so many various browsers and viewports is eye-opening.”

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    “We really enjoyed bringing this fun, quick hackathon to the community over the holiday season,” said Angie Jones, principal developer advocate and director of Test Automation University. “To see the number of submissions and participants from all over the world was a proud and inspiring moment. It was also great to hear from so many contestants on how easy it was to get started with visual testing using the Applitools Ultrafast Test Cloud. Congrats to all the winners!”

    “Applitools have a great thing going, from their industry-leading platform to their Test Automation University that has landed me a job as an Automation Engineer!” said Adam Wood, automation engineer at ProAct International. “The hackathon was a fun way to easily learn how their product can benefit a company with easily identifying changes in the UI. Can’t wait for the next one!”

    To learn more about Applitools Visual AI please visit: (https://applitools.com/applitools-ai-and-deep-learning/). Or, contact a testing expert at Applitools to learn more.

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers a Next Generation Test Automation Platform through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid. We enable engineering teams to release high quality web and mobile apps at incredible speed and at a reduced cost.

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

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

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

     

     

     

     

  • Agiloft Appoints Andy Wishart Chief Product Officer to Accelerate Product Innovation

    Product management and legal technology veteran Andy Wishart joins Agiloft’s leadership team to advance development of AI-enabled CLM platform

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Agiloft, the global standard in contract and commerce lifecycle management, today announced the appointment of Andy Wishart as chief product officer (CPO). Wishart will provide leadership and direction to further accelerate innovation in Agiloft’s no-code contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform.

    Wishart brings over 20 years of experience building innovative legal technology solutions. Most recently, he worked as vice president of product management at Thomson Reuters where he led a team focused on legal drafting and productivity solutions. Wishart was co-founder and chief technology officer of Contract Express, the contract automation solution that Thomson Reuters acquired in 2015. With a degree in artificial intelligence and psychology from the University of Edinburgh, Wishart is passionate about enhancing legal productivity through intelligent and easy-to-use solutions.

    “I am beyond thrilled to have Andy Wishart on board,” says Eric Laughlin, Agiloft CEO. “Andy is an outstanding leader in both CLM product management and AI innovation. As an industry leader in both areas, he will play a central role in our strategy of accelerating our CLM product development and AI capabilities.”

    Already a leader in the exploding contract lifecycle management (CLM) space, Agiloft has begun to take its product development to a new level, propelled by a $45 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital in the fall of 2020.

    This announcement follows an Agiloft fall software release with enhanced AI functionality, the new Agiloft Contract Assistant add-in for Microsoft Word, and new and improved integrations with Dell Boomi, Tableau, and Salesforce. Agiloft further accelerated growth with a revamped partner program announced in December 2020.

    “I am very excited to be joining Agiloft’s dynamic team at this pivotal moment in its growth and innovation,” said Wishart. “As a recognized industry leader, Agiloft has developed exciting AI capabilities around clause extraction and risk scoring and has integrated that seamlessly into the user’s contracting workflows. I look forward to bringing my passion and expertise to the table to spur on the company’s course of product development.”   

    About Agiloft

    As the 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.  

  • SurveyMonkey Announces Integration with ServiceNow to Prepare Organizations for the Future of Work

    SurveyMonkey and ServiceNow bring enterprise organizations a smarter way to work by enhancing the overall feedback experience for employees, customers, and IT across digital workflows

     

    SAN MATEO, Calif. –  January 13, 2021— SurveyMonkey (Nasdaq: SVMK), a leader in agile software solutions for customer experience, market research, and survey feedback, today announced a new integration with cloud services and workflow management provider ServiceNow to enable enterprises to seamlessly pair mission-critical feedback data with digital workflows. The integration provides customers with the data-driven stakeholder insights they need to improve employee engagement, build customer relationships, and accelerate business growth as the future of work continues to evolve.

     

    In 2021, businesses will need to accelerate their digital strategies as they solve for new ways of interacting with customers and improving the experiences for their distributed workforces. To realize the full potential and accelerate time-to-value from these digital transformation tools, organizations will require agile, user-friendly technology instead of outdated, service-heavy offerings that fall short of today’s expectations. For example, in a recent study conducted in partnership with ServiceNow and UNLEASH, SurveyMonkey polled over 700 HR leaders that were involved in significant technology projects over the past four years and found that only 16% reported their projects were highly successful and only 11% believed they improved the employee experience, suggesting there is significant room for improvement in how teams work together and how the tools they use contribute to success.

     

    “The technology landscape is frenzied and many companies are dealing with a fragmented ecosystem as they adopt more and more technologies. Enterprises are increasingly using our agile solutions to solve today’s digital complexities,” said Tom Hale, president of SurveyMonkey. “Together with ServiceNow’s vast workflow capabilities, organizations will be better equipped to collect timely feedback in critical areas like employee onboarding, IT service requests, and online customer service, so they can take action at a moment’s notice to improve operations and the bottom line.”

     

    “As companies become more interconnected than ever before, they’re recognizing the importance of keeping a constant pulse of vitals across the business at all times,” said Marcus Torres, vice president of product management, platform business and foundation at ServiceNow. “With IntegrationHub, organizations can now connect ServiceNow’s Customer, Employee and IT workflows to SurveyMonkey in minutes with no code.  This provides organizations the power to easily and quickly collect insights to help retain, engage, and satisfy customers and employees throughout their user journeys.”

     

    The integration will help enterprises bridge the gap between automating feedback and creating meaningful improvements for customers, employees, and organizations overall. With AI-powered analysis, advanced segmentation capabilities, contextual targeting, and omni-channel feedback collection, workflows can streamline how people work and promote greater efficiency. Organizations with various needs can benefit from this integration’s robust capabilities:

     

    • Improve the customer experience: Enable customers to share feedback through multiple channels in all stages of their journey to track and improve customer satisfaction.

    • Increase employee retention: Collect critical feedback from employees in one place, enabling workforces to take action to boost employee engagement, happiness, and retention.

    • Boost team productivity: Automatically track, manage, and resolve inefficiencies by channeling direct stakeholder feedback into your system of record.

     

    SurveyMonkey will join more than 125 IntegrationHub spokes with no code required and ready-to-run connectors for the most critical business systems including Oracle, Workday, SAP, Google Cloud, Salesforce, Box, Twitter, Zoom, Microsoft Azure, Jira, and Adobe on the ServiceNow Store.

     

    This latest integration adds to the growing number of partners building into the SurveyMonkey platform. In 2020, SurveyMonkey announced it expanded its partner platform with the launch of the SurveyMonkey Technology Ecosystem Program (STEP). The program addresses enterprises’ growing and evolving needs to generate stakeholder feedback and channel it into direct action.

     

    For companies looking for additional resources to help navigate the ever-changing future of work shift, SurveyMonkey recently launched professional support and feedback templates that can be accessed here.

     

    About SurveyMonkey

    SurveyMonkey is a leader in agile software solutions for customer experience, market research, and survey feedback. The company’s platform empowers over 17 million active users to analyze and act on feedback from employees, customers, website and app users, and market research respondents. SurveyMonkey’s products, enterprise solutions, and integrations enable more than 335,000 organizations to deliver better customer experiences, increase employee retention, and unlock growth and innovation. Ultimately, SurveyMonkey’s vision is to raise the bar for human experiences by amplifying individual voices.

  • ScyllaDB Unveils ‘Monstrous’ New Capabilities for Its NoSQL Database

    At Scylla Summit 2021, ScyllaDB CEO outlines plans to hit new levels of performance, flexibility and scale

    PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At Scylla Summit 2021, ScyllaDB took the wraps off new cloud-native capabilities, wider platform support and a year-long project to buff every aspect of its high-performance NoSQL database.

    At its previous Summit, ScyllaDB announced it had matched Apache Cassandra feature-for-feature. It also launched its Alternator API, giving Amazon DynamoDB users an open source alternative with greater deployment options, better performance and lower total cost of ownership.

    So what comes next for the world’s fastest, most cost-effective NoSQL database? ScyllaDB co-founder and CEO Dor Laor provided answers in the opening keynote of Scylla Summit 2021.

    Introducing Project Circe

    The announcements kicked off with Project Circe, a twelve-month initiative to bring greater consistency, improved elasticity and ease of use to Scylla’s already powerful database. Each month ScyllaDB will release a new feature or upgrade to an existing capability, along with numerous smaller quality-of-life improvements.

    Among the big changes slated for this year, Laor said, is migration to the Raft consensus protocol, bringing significant improvements in two areas. The first is elasticity and manageability. All internal metadata manipulations will become transactional, enabling Scylla to elastically double its size in a single operation. The second area of improvement is consistency. NoSQL databases formerly relied on eventual consistency in order to avoid performance overhead. With Raft, Scylla will support transactions at the same low processing overhead of regular operations — a game changer for NoSQL developers.

    Other developments under Project Circe will improve throughput, reduce latency and simplify the operational complexity of running a distributed database at scale. For more details on Project Circe and to track its milestones, please visit ScyllaDB’s Project Circe page.

    “Scylla was born as a highly distributed database modeled after Apache Cassandra,” Laor said. “We transformed Cassandra from the ground up, rewriting the code in C++ and optimizing every aspect of its performance. Project Circe will transform Scylla yet again, delivering speed, reliability and cloud-native capabilities that far exceed any other database of its kind.”

    Scylla Cloud on GCP

    Laor also announced that Scylla’s hosted solution, Scylla Cloud, which launched last year on AWS, now runs on Google Cloud Platform (currently in beta). It was the latest in a string of announcements for Scylla Cloud, which was most recently selected as the only NoSQL database certified on the AWS Outposts platform for on-premises managed services.

    Scylla Operator for Kubernetes now available

    Laor next announced general availability of Scylla Operator, a Kubernetes extension that makes it easy to run Scylla clusters in cloud-native environments. Supporting the wide adoption of Kubernetes, Scylla Operator enables users to create multiple Scylla clusters with a single command, automate deployment across multiple availability zones, scale operations, conduct rolling changes, repairs and upgrades, benefit from auto-healing and perform backups, restorations and more.

    For details on GCP support and tips for integrating and connecting applications to ScyllaDB’s hosted solution for AWS and GCP, be sure to attend the Scylla Summit session on Scylla Cloud. And for a deep dive on Scylla’s Kubernetes operator, don’t miss the session covering scale-out, rolling upgrade, automatic configuration changes and much more.

    To see the full agenda for Scylla Summit 2021 and register for the live event or the free half day of instructor-led training, visit the Scylla Summit 2021 website here.

    About ScyllaDB
    Scylla is the real-time big data database. API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity as much as 10X. Comcast, Discord, Grab, Hotstar, Medium, Starbucks, Ola Cabs, Samsung, IBM, Investing.com and many more leading companies have adopted Scylla to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs. ScyllaDB was founded by the team responsible for the KVM hypervisor and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Wing Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, TLV Partners, Magma Venture Partners, Western Digital Capital and Samsung Ventures and more. For more information: ScyllaDB.com.

     

  • No-Code Movement Eases Software Developer Shortage by Enabling Anyone to Code Without Prior Knowledge

    No-code solutions have begun infiltrating a variety of businesses, from startups to technological companies, as user-friendly interfaces with a pre-written code facilitate the software development process. Tools like Ycode are beneficial for speeding up business goals and allowing non-programming staff to create web apps or websites.

    January 12, 2021. The growing demand for software development professionals has already resulted in a talent shortage of 40M workers worldwide which is projected to reach 85.2M by 2030. However, no-code solutions will allow anyone in the organization to code cheaper, faster, and without any prior knowledge in programming. 

    Ignas Rubežius, CEO of The Remote Company, which is creating an ecosystem of several no-code products, shares his insights on the emerging trend.

    “We see that no-code solutions are becoming commonplace,” says Ignas Rubežius, CEO of The Remote Company. “The tools using the no-code approach get everyone on the team involved in the creative process. Until now, web development required the involvement of IT professionals who oversaw every step of the process. With the help of no-code tools, teams can do most of the work themselves and the IT department can jump onboard later, if needed.”

    Experts predict that by the end of next year, 75% of development shops will use similar solutions, while 85% of engineer leads believe that the implementation of low-code or no-code solutions will become a standard within their companies in the next few years.

    No-code is an alternative to a traditional approach to software development. Instead of having professionals spend hours writing code, non-technical staff can join the process by assembling the website or an app using pre-made elements via a user-friendly interface. No-code products work by providing a visual layer on top of the code – if changes are made in the visual editor, they are reflected in the respective lines of code in the background.

    Pfizer, General Electric, and Zurich Financial are among the fast-growing number of companies that have adopted various no-code solutions in creating custom software. For example, no-code platforms can aid in migrating legacy apps that are costly to maintain. It can also be used in creating new tools that can access all company data in real-time and turn it into insightful statistics.

    No-code solutions are utilized in marketing communications, too. For example, MailerLite is a tool that allows businesses to launch and manage marketing campaigns without any coding. The user-friendly product can be used by marketing teams to easily create, track, and optimize company newsletters. Every part of the process is done without the involvement of the IT department.

    “After the success of MailerLite, we set out to find a way to let users build their dream web project themselves, without putting a lot of effort into learning programming or hiring developers,” says Rubežius. “It offers people the ability to build quickly and efficiently, without technical barriers.”

    Ycode, which will go into public beta in early 2021, reimagines the traditional way of designing and developing websites and web applications. It empowers anyone to build faster, without needing to know how to code. Users have full freedom – not only can they change the look of the basic visual elements, but they can customize interactivity, functionality, and user experience of the website or the web app too. It uses the most progressive and fastest-growing Tailwind CSS framework in the frontend and writes clean Laravel PHP code in the background. Ycode avoids vendor lock-in and offers easily understandable code, which means any developer can jump in and extend on the project.

    Such solutions democratize development and bring the power of building websites and web apps to anyone interested. The ease of use, efficiency, and the involvement of a wider workforce makes no-code the future of development that might soon become an industry standard. 

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    About Ycode

    Ycode is a no-code solution that lets anyone build websites and web apps without prior programming knowledge. It offers a user-friendly visual environment that writes clean Laravel PHP code and uses Tailwind CSS in the frontend. Ycode lets users create working databases that can collect data and comes with automatic API support, allowing access to website’s data from anywhere. Public beta of Ycode will be available in January 2021. 

  • Exadel Records Strong Year with Surge in Client Roster, Additions to Executive Team and Record-Breaking Company Growth

    Success comes from growing need for digital transformation solutions and services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., January 12, 2021 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global provider of digital engineering solutions and services, announces a successful 2020 including a burgeoning client portfolio, continued growth, including new executive team members and 2020 sales projections. This year, Exadel gained 24 new clients and many existing clients expanding into new projects. The COVID-19 pandemic created an immediacy for digitization across all industries and verticals giving Exadel an edge with its seasoned product engineering and digital transformation expertise.

    “We could not be prouder of the entire Exadel team for persevering and excelling during one of the toughest years imaginable,” said Fima Katz, CEO and founder of Exadel. “I realize our growth and success as a company in 2020 is a rarity and stands as a testament to the value we deliver to our clients. We approach everything with an Agile product engineering mindset and are continuously updating our practices to stay one step ahead of digital transformation trends. This next year will be equally exciting as we begin to grow Exadel faster than ever before.”

    Some of the key achievements and services in 2020 include:

    • Quality Assurance and Quality Assurance Automation Practices – Exadel announced its Quality Assurance (QA) Practices to address the growing need for quality to be baked into the software delivery process. The QA Practices helps clients work industry-standard QA processes and QA automation into their development work to save time, money and resources, while improving the quality of their software. https://exadel.com/services/engineering/quality-assurance/.
    • Digital Marketing Technology – Exadel Digital Marketing Technology Practicehelps the world’s top brands develop and implement leading-edge digital marketing programs. From back-end platform development and infrastructure services to solutions for big data, conversion funnels, footprint authentication, and predictive analytics, Exadel empowers digital marketing with solutions and platforms, including Adobe Manager and WordPress. Learn more here: https://exadel.com/services/digital-transformation/digital-marketing-solutions/.
    • Content Marketing Practice – Exadel now offers SEO and technical content writing services to IT companies. From full-time assistance with content production or just a standalone article, Exadel’s team of experts can help. And for companies with established writing teams, Exadel’s Digital Marketing Technology Practice can create the tech needed to carry out a digital marketing strategy. Learn more here: https://exadel.com/services/digital-transformation/content-marketing/.
    • AI and Machine Learning Practice – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are powerful forces in the wave of technological changes impacting industries of all types. Exadel works with value added AI services from major vendors and has experience incorporating them into other technology solutions. This year, Exadel announced CompreFace, an open source facial recognition tool that combines Exadel’s ML algorithm with a state-of-the-art facial recognition library, trained on millions of faces, that uses deep neural networks to retrieve features from faces. Learn more here: https://exadel.com/services/engineering/ai-machine-learning/.
    • Additions to C-Suite: Exadel also made several additions to its C-suite including the promotions of Elena Krukovskaya as Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Julia Schlatter as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and new additions including Alexey Girzhadovich as Chief Delivery Officer (CDO), Marc Caponegro as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Oleg Boyko as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Exadel is poised to rapidly expand its engineering team to serve its growing client portfolio, with plans for double digit growth in the first half of 2021.

    Want to work for Exadel? Reach out to submit an application: https://exadel.com/about-us/careers/

    Tweet this: New from @exadel: Exadel reports a strong 2020 with client growth, new executive team members and rapidly expanding engineering team. Paired with #digitaltransformation and #softwareengineering services that drive business value.

    About Exadel

    Exadel is an enterprise software development company supporting organizations at any stage of their digital transformation journey. For more than 20 years we have helped companies redefine the way they do business by developing their core products and platforms, and facilitating the transition to the cloud. Exadel has a long history of developing our own products, platforms, and open-source solutions designed to accelerate the services we provide and add value to our customers. A Forrester-recognized market leader in distributed Agile, Exadel has a long track record of partnering with the largest brands across most industries. For more information on Exadel services and areas of expertise visit exadel.com and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter @exadel.

  • Push Technology Launches MQTT Integration

    IoT Development Teams Can Benefit from the Power of Diffusion

     

    SILICON VALLEY, CA, January 11, 2021 – Push Technology, the pioneer and leader in real-time, event-data streaming and messaging solutions, today announced the expansion of its support for open protocols by adding support for the popular MQTT protocol that is widely used by Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile applications.  By supporting MQTT with the company’s Diffusion Intelligent Event-Data Platform, software development teams can now bring state-of-the-art Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) to their IoT and Mobile solutions. The low code features of the Diffusion platform significantly reduces software development effort and the overall cost of deployed solutions.

    Diffusion supports the OASIS MQTT open standard protocol. MQTT is a publish-subscribe messaging protocol commonly used to connect IoT applications. Now, a wide range of IoT devices can connect directly to Diffusion, send and receive data, interact with other Diffusion clients, and benefit from Diffusion’s event-data processing features and rich security framework. MQTT can also be used as a lightweight alternative to Diffusion SDKs for simple publish/subscribe use cases.

    Diffusion implements MQTT 5.0, the latest version of the specification. Both the TCP and WebSocket transports are supported, and connections can be secured using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Diffusion treats MQTT as a first-class protocol, and acts as a session broker for MQTT clients in the same way as it does for Diffusion SDK clients. Each Diffusion server can host tens-of-thousands of MQTT sessions; and servers can be configured in clusters to scale to an arbitrarily large number of connections. MQTT clients can be monitored and managed by Diffusion SDK clients, the management console, and external tools connected via the Prometheus or JMX gateways.

    MQTT support is fully integrated with Diffusion’s security framework: MQTT connections are authenticated just like any other connection and publish and subscribe operations are subject to the server’s configured fine-grained, access-control rules.

    Sean Bowen, CEO of Push Technology, said: “With our new native support for MQTT, Diffusion easily consumes MQTT client event data – with no code or extra components required.   Now, IoT development teams can take advantage of the powerful data wrangling features of the Diffusion platform and assure efficient and reliable real-time data distribution with secure access control.”

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    About Push Technology

    Push Technology pioneered and leads the market in real-time, event-data streaming and messaging solutions that power mission-critical business applications worldwide. The company’s Diffusion® Intelligent Event-Data Platform: consumes raw event data in any size, format or velocity, enriches event data in-flight, and delivers event data reliably and at massive scale with secure, fine-grained, role-based access control.  Diffusion is purpose-built to simplify and accelerate event-driven, real-time application development, reduce operational costs, and speed time-to-market.

    Leading brands, across industries including financial services, transportation, energy, retail, healthcare, eGaming, and Internet of Things companies, use the Diffusion Intelligent Event-Data Platform to drive customer engagement, fuel revenue growth, and streamline business operations. Diffusion is available on-premise, in-the-cloud, or in hybrid configurations, to fit the specific business, regulatory, and infrastructure requirements of the event-driven applications operating in today’s everything connected world. Learn more at www.pushtechnology.com.

  • NeoSystems Reaches CMMC-AB Registered Provider Organization Status

    Company Expands Expertise in CMMC Compliance

    TYSON’S CORNER, Va., January 11, 2021 – NeoSystems, a full service strategic back-office outsourcer, IT systems integrator and managed services provider, announced today that it has been recognized by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Accreditation Body (AB) as a Registered Provider Organization (RPO).

    With this designation, NeoSystems can play a more influential role in supporting clients as they look to achieve CMMC certification with authorization from the CMMC-AB. The RPO status exhibits that NeoSystems is familiar with the constructs of the CMMC Standard and is able to deliver compliant managed security services designed to ready organizations for audits and help them to meet ongoing compliance requirements.

    Additionally, NeoSystems’ Rob Wilson, Chief Technology Officer, and Brian Giblin, Senior Director of Quality Assurance, have achieved Registered Practitioner (RP) status from the CMMC-AB.

    “NeoSystems is thrilled to become a Registered Provider Organization for the CMMC-AB and have Rob and Brian become Registered Practitioners,” said Michael Tinsley, President and CEO of NeoSystems. “We look forward to supporting our growing client-base and navigating the CMMC compliance process on their behalf.”

    The CMMC-AB establishes and oversees a qualified, trained and high-fidelity community of assessors that can deliver consistent and informative assessments to participating organizations against a defined set of controls/best practices within the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.

    The CMMC Model itself is created, managed and mandated by the Department of Defense (DoD). Its purpose is to validate the security of the DoD’s 300,000 vendors throughout its supply chain and includes five levels of certifications. More information is available at: https://www.acq.osd.mil/cmmc/index.html.

     

    About NeoSystems

    NeoSystems, based in Tysons Corner, Virginia, is a full service strategic outsourcer, IT systems integrator and managed service provider delivering services and solutions to enable, run and secure government contractors, commercial entities and nonprofit organizations. Today  NeoSystems maintains a 97% client retention rate, and supports over 600 companies and more than  100,000 client employees with its outsourced services. NeoSystems’ experts have implemented hundreds of fully-integrated financial and business management systems, utilizing best of breed technology and leveraging in-depth domain expertise in Accounting & Finance, IT, HR, Security and Hosting (FedRAMP Ready FISMA Moderate, SSAE SOC1 & SOC2, ITAR). The NeoSystems team enables companies to improve vital operations, reduce their overhead costs and become compliant with complex requirements. NeoSystems has been named one of America’s fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine. For more information, visit https://www.neosystemscorp.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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  • STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Joins CommScope’s Multi-Tenant Data Center (MTDC) Alliance Program

    Bolstering speed of delivery and opportunities to scale for new and existing clients

    DENVER — January 7, 2021 — STACK INFRASTRUCTURE, the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced that it has joined CommScope’s Multi-Tenant Data Center (MTDC) Alliance Program. The MTDC Alliance Program addresses the needs and concerns of multi-tenant data centers in an ever-evolving market. Specifically, it creates a space solely focused on the growth and development of multi-tenant data centers by addressing critical requirements such as speed of delivery, scalability and streamlined global support.

    The announcement comes on the heels of STACK’s announcements of expansion in the Arizona, Atlanta, Portland, Northern Virginia, and New Albany markets, along with the close of financing to fund further development in 2021 and beyond.

    “We are excited to join CommScope’s growing MTDC Partner Program,” said Donough Roche, SVP of Engineering for STACK. “As an Alliance partner, STACK INFRASTRUCTURE now has access to a vast sales network, as well as technical and design support throughout CommScope. Whether it is local, national or global, CommScope has the global footprint to fulfill our clients’ needs.”

    “The addition of STACK INFRASTRUCTURE as a CommScope Alliance Partner further exemplifies our commitment to delivering the best possible solutions and connecting the most appropriate partners to our customers,” said Ernie Pickens, Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Infrastructure Sales, CommScope. “As a fast-growing data center provider, STACK offers the forward-thinking investment in the nation’s most popular data center markets to provide tremendous capacity for new enterprises and clouds in the places they want to be.”

    ABOUT STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

    STACK provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. With a client-first approach, the Company delivers a comprehensive suite of wholesale build-to suit, colocation, and powered shell solutions in eight markets today: Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; New Albany, Ohio; Northern Virginia; Portland, Oregon; Phoenix, Arizona; and Silicon Valley, California. Its offerings include hyperscale campuses and build-to-suit data centers (“HYPER STACK™”), immediately available wholesale colocation and private data suites (“READY STACK™”), and powered shell options (“POWER STACK™”).

    With unparalleled existing and flexible expansion capacity in the leading availability zones, STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. And data runs on STACK.

    For more information, visit www.stackinfra.com

    About CommScope

    CommScope (NASDAQ: COMM) is pushing the boundaries of technology to create the world’s most advanced wired and wireless networks. Our global team of employees, innovators and technologists empower customers to anticipate what’s next and invent what’s possible. Discover more at www.commscope.com.

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