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  • Broadcom Unveils the Industry’s First Open AIOps Platform Delivering a New Level of Full-Stack Observability for Hybrid Clouds

    Empowering Organizations to Achieve Digital Agility through Actionable Insights that Enhance Customer and Employee Engagement

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 1, 2020 — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) today announced the availability of the latest generation of AIOps from Broadcom, an open platform with artificial intelligence, machine learning and end-to-end observability that helps organizations achieve operational excellence. AIOps allows business and IT leaders to manage critical KPIs that align IT outputs to business outcomes, driving digital agility, while proactively ensuring enhanced customer and positive employee experiences.

    “Imagine a lens that provides a clear and fully integrated view of your business with IT providing valuable intelligence that drives informed decision-making. This is no longer a wish list, this is a reality for our customers through the new Broadcom AIOps solution,” said Serge Lucio, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Software Division, Broadcom. “AIOps from Broadcom provides enterprises with comprehensive observability across user experience, applications, infrastructure and networks delivering digital agility, actionable insights and intelligent automation— all enhancing business outcomes and customer experience.”

    As enterprises progress in their ongoing digital transformations, they face complex modern and hybrid IT environments, while adopting Site Reliability Engineering and automation approaches to achieve operational effectiveness. Customers and employees now demand instant access to services delivered by IT teams. However, many struggle to gain vital insights across heterogeneous digital landscapes due to disparate tooling, increased volume of data, increase in remote traffic, frequency in redundant tasks, and lack of actionable insights.

    New Leading-Edge Capabilities

    AIOps from Broadcom is an open platform that correlates and analyzes a broad range of IT observability data sources and acts as a trusted proof point for the IT Operations analytics offered in Broadcom’s BizOps solution. AIOps from Broadcom now includes new AI/ML techniques and customizable views for enhanced actionable insights. New capabilities include:

     

    • Full-Stack Observability—for hybrid clouds, cloud-native applications, distributed tracing, mobile-to-mainframe insights and network telemetry while providing users openness to ingest other data sources quickly with 15 new third-party data integrations.
    • DX Dashboards— provide rich visualizations for task-based persona-driven insights along with unfettered access to all data to easily customize and create company-specific dashboards.
    • Service and Alarm Analytics—include additional machine learning topology and correlation, casual graphs and intelligent situational analysis for automatic root cause analysis, noise mitigation, alarm clustering, and anomaly detection.
    • Intelligent Automation— based on a recommendation engine connects root cause analysis with extensive out-of-the-box actions and automation strategy based on problem scenarios.
    • Capacity Analytics—provide service-aware configuration for capacity planning and drill-downs for service context and group context to identify the potential over-utilized or under-utilized resources and optimize the capacity allocation.
    • Continuous Feedback Loops—connect data across development, IT and the business for views and insights across disparate data sets and siloed teams.
    • Machine Learning—based on an extensive library of algorithms, natural language processing and an ontological graphical topology for rich situational correlation for continuous learning and improved automated root cause analysis.
    • Software to Silicon Insights— apply AI and ML to rich, granular data capture at the chip level to enable a unique, AI-driven solution for real-time proactive network congestion and packet loss triage.

     

    “It was vital that our teams moved from a focus on managing IT resources to managing business implementations, so we started by eliminating the lines that traditionally separated IT and business,” said Mike Sydor, chief architect, ADP. “A big part of that effort required us to establish views, dashboards, and reports that reflected both perspectives. By leveraging the comprehensive insights garnered through AIOps from Broadcom, we were able to accelerate the move away from having staff concentrate on individual metrics and instead have them focused on the metrics that are significant for good business outcomes.” 1[read the full story here]

    Forrester recommends organizations invest in AIOps saying, “AI for IT operations (AIOps) is unifying traditional infrastructure, public cloud, application performance management (APM), and even network monitoring.” 2 – Rich Lane, senior analyst, Forrester Research.

    Broadcom AIOps Virtual Forum

    In conjunction with this announcement, Broadcom unveiled the results of a Broadcom sponsored report “Using AIOps to Gain Observability and Insight: A Global Survey of Executives and IT Professionals” conducted by Dimensional Research. For a full copy of the report and to learn more about how the world’s leading companies are driving business outcomes, join Broadcom for the AIOps Virtual Forum, “Maximizing Value and Success with AIOps in 2021,” December 3, 2020 at 11AM (ET). Visit AIOps from Broadcom to learn more about how AIOps is augmenting human intelligence to help manage increasingly complex app infrastructures, automate remediation and align business and IT.

    About Broadcom
    Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber security software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

     

    Broadcom, the pulse logo, and Connecting everything are among the trademarks of Broadcom. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc., and/or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

    1 How IT Transformation at ADP is Fueling Operational Excellence

    2 The Forrester Tech Tide™: Modern Technology Operations, Q3 2020

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  • Render Continues Explosive Growth: More Than 100,000 Services Created on the Zero DevOps Cloud

    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Render, the Zero DevOps Cloud, today announced that more than 100,000 services have been created on its cloud. These services range from static sites and APIs to cron jobs and managed PostgreSQL instances. More than half of these services were created just in the second half of 2020, underscoring Render’s rapidly increasing popularity with developers and businesses of all sizes.

    Render launched in 2019 and has seen record month-over-month adoption since it launched, quickly becoming one of the fastest growing public clouds. In 2019, Render competed against thousands of startups at TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield and won for being the most promising early-stage and fundamentally disruptive startup. In April this year, it surpassed one billion HTTP requests served monthly.

    Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render, said: “Cloud computing in 2020 is still harder than it should be, and this milestone underscores our focus on making the cloud considerably more accessible for developers around the globe. As our customer base continues to grow, we remain excited about making Render even more powerful and versatile with a long list of features and improvements planned for the coming months.”

    Render offers an innovative public cloud alternative that developers love; it gives them the best of both worlds: instant setup and incredible ease of use, coupled with the power and flexibility previously afforded only by large cloud providers. It does this by offering an intuitive hosting platform that requires zero knowledge of servers and infrastructure and combining it with powerful containerization technology which enables customization, cost reduction and reliability at scale.

    Render is trusted by tens of thousands of developers and teams from fast-growing tech startups like Cypress.io to popular consumer startups like Bloomscape to established companies like 99designs.

    About Render
    Render offers the easiest cloud to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely free up developers and startups from managing cloud infrastructure by building a cloud that offers the best developer experience coupled with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds of applications. Render is backed by General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund and based in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://render.com or follow @getrender.

  • Ingram Micro Cloud Teams with nOps to Drive Channel Partner Growth on AWS

    November 19, 2020 – IRVINE, Calif. – Ingram Micro Cloud today announced it has formed a strategic collaboration with nOps, a leading provider of cloud management software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner. The alliance expands Ingram Micro’s offering of tools for reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) designed to help build an efficient, secure, and high-performing AWS infrastructure for their applications and workloads.

    Ingram Micro Cloud, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and AWS Distributor, is dedicated to accelerating the growth of AWS Consulting and Technology Partners globally. Leveraging the nOps platform, Ingram Micro partners should be able to better maintain their customers’ AWS environments by ensuring continuous alignment with AWS Well-Architected Framework guidelines. The addition of nOps offerings is expected to help Ingram Micro partners more efficiently execute AWS Well-Architected Reviews designed to identify risk, provide cost-optimization insights and root cause analysis, and deliver fact-based assessments and remediation proposals to customers that drive higher project win rates.

    “Our guiding mission at Ingram Micro Cloud is to provide our channel partners with access to the industry’s largest and most robust cloud services portfolio, and nOps was an outstanding addition,” said Victor Baez, Vice President of Cloud Channel Sales at Ingram Micro Cloud. “We anticipate that, working with nOps, we can better empower our partners to build next-generation MSP practices that drive greater value and revenue opportunities for our channel partners.”

    “nOps is thrilled to team with Ingram Micro,” said JT Giri, CEO and Founder, nOps. “We share mutual excitement and expectations of scaling nOps’ success in helping AWS Consulting Partners and AWS MSP Partners grow their AWS practice while delivering outstanding support to customers. Our cloud management platform and Ingram Micro’s combination of scale and commitment to partner enablement is a winning combination.”

    Kaizen Technology Partners CEO, Dao Jensen, adds, “Given our 20+ years of experience as results-driven Cloud technology experts, we’ve worked strategically with both Ingram Micro and nOps and are honored to see their collaboration bring more value to our AWS practice. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, we are dedicated to solving our customers’ needs first and look forward to streamlining the way we help them optimize their cloud infrastructure and drive success.”

    For more information on Ingram Micro’s nOps solution offering check out the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace or contact Ingram Micro Cloud at IaaS@ingrammicrocloud.com.

    About Ingram Micro Cloud

    Ingram Micro Cloud brings together innovators and problem solvers to help the world accomplish more. It facilitates and manages the cloud’s complex digital value chain—all powered by CloudBlue technology. Ingram Micro Cloud operates in 64 countries with over 55,000 reseller partners, and its Cloud Marketplace serves 6.5 million seats, offering more than 120 cloud solutions. With unmatched global reach, easy access to automated go-to-market and integration tools, deep technical expertise, and a curated selection of scalable SaaS and IaaS solutions, Ingram Micro Cloud helps vendors, resellers, and managed service providers by offering More as a Service.  Detailed information is available at http://www.ingrammicrocloud.com.

    About nOps

    nOps enables rapid-growth companies and partners to build, manage, and run an AWS Well-Architected infrastructure that is cost-optimized, secure, reliable, efficient, and operationally excellent — and to help keep it that way through continuous compliance.

    Headquartered in San Francisco, nOps is an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and has achieved Cloud Management Tools Competency status for delivering operations and governance best practices to help partners and customers identify solutions that enable their cloud strategy. For more info, visit http://www.nops.io/ and follow at http://twitter.com/nopsio.

  • GitLab Completes Integration of Fuzzing Solutions to Bolster DevSecOps Capabilities

    Implementation of Peach Tech and Fuzzit enable customers to shift left and find vulnerabilities that traditional testing and quality assurance technique may miss

    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today GitLab, the single application for the DevOps lifecycle, announced it has completed integration of Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing and dynamic application security testing (DAST) API testing, and Fuzzit, a continuous fuzz testing solution providing coverage-guided testing. Both acquired in June of this year, the full integration of Peach Tech and Fuzzit into GitLab provides users with capabilities such as continuous fuzzing, coverage guided fuzz testing, and web API fuzz testing, with results provided directly to the developer while they are still iterating on their code. Traditionally, fuzzing can be difficult and hard to get results from. By bringing Peach Tech and Fuzzit into GitLab, developers and security teams alike can easily integrate fuzz testing into their workflows to take advantage of its powerful benefits in a meaningful and actionable way.

    In a recent report from the Linux Foundation — “Core Infrastructure Initiative FOSS Contributor Survey November 2020” — only 39 percent surveyed said they received formal training in secure software development. For those that rated the highest, their training included bug/security fixes, free security audits, simplified ways to add security tools, and a course on security. Providing fuzz testing and other scan results to the developer, before the code ever leaves their hands, is a powerful element of training. They can see right away what security flaws they just created, without wondering where the vulnerability came from and whether they had a role in it.

    “No longer can security be viewed as a separate step outside of DevOps processes,” said David DeSanto, Director, Product for the Secure and Protect stages at GitLab. “With the completed integration of these fuzzing technologies, GitLab is making it easier for development and security teams to incorporate both coverage-guided and API fuzz testing techniques much earlier in the software development lifecycle. Developers can employ DevSecOps best practices with ease as well as understand what security vulnerabilities are being created at code commit. This enables close collaboration with their security counterparts to reduce their organization’s overall security risk.”

    Fuzz testing is nothing new, and according to those surveyed for a recent GitLab report, 81 percent believe it’s important. However, because of the difficulty many find with setting up and integrating fuzz testing into their CI systems, only 36 percent said they were actually using fuzzing. With increasing enterprise security concerns as threat vectors and vulnerabilities grow, having fuzz testing in the existing GitLab workflow supports organizations with comprehensive DevSecOps, finding security issues and flaws in the business logic of an application or service. Additionally, fuzzing compliments other forms of application security testing such as static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST). SAST and DAST look for known vulnerabilities while fuzz testing will find things that are unique to the application and not identified by a known Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE).

    “A common paint point for security teams is how to integrate automated security testing into the DevOps CI pipeline, ensuring that project teams follow a prescribed set of testing and that security policies are adhered to,” said Cindy Blake, GitLab. “GitLab’s Ultimate tier and Gold tier simplify this effort. Templates can be set up and applied to projects in a consistent manner with exceptions documented.”

    With completed implementation of Peach Tech and Fuzzit technologies, GitLab Secure customers have an even more comprehensive and fully-integrated security solution, from Auto DevOps deployment of security testing to vulnerability management and remediation. Fuzzing and all other GitLab scans (DAST, SAST, Dependency scanning, Container scanning, Secrets Detection, and License Compliance) are available within the CI pipeline out-of-the-box, requiring no complicated APIs and no Plug-ins. This fully integrated approach allows GitLab to innovate further with the acquired fuzzing IP, with plans to add replay capabilities to DAST to easily recreate how the vulnerability occurs and to correlate fuzz test findings to improve the fidelity of GitLab’s already leading SAST capabilities.

    Fuzz testing specific future plans include advanced configuration options for users who want to customize their fuzz tests and expanding fuzz testing to address additional use cases, beyond only web apps and APIs. More information about GitLab’s plans for maturing fuzz testing can be found on the direction page.

  • LogicGate Expands Suite of Pre-Built Applications

    LogicGate broadens options for customers looking for more guidance in creating GRC programs

    CHICAGO – November 19, 2020 – LogicGate, a leading provider of cloud software solutions for automating governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes through its Risk Cloud™ platform, today announces an expansion of its Application suite with seven new out-of-the-box Applications. The Risk Cloud now has 25 proprietary Applications that enable LogicGate customers to implement best-practice GRC processes quickly. The suite is an ongoing initiative for the LogicGate team and new applications will be consistently released to meet customer needs.

    “These new applications are based on best practice frameworks that allow organizations to quickly launch new GRC initiatives.” said LogicGate Chief Product Officer, Jon Siegler. “Because these Applications are based on our powerful Risk Cloud platform, they can easily be connected into any other application on the Risk Cloud. Many of our customers use our out-of-the-box Applications as a baseline starting point, and modify them to fit into their organization’s unique structure and workflow. Since our Applications are based on industry best practices and standards, our customers can be confident in knowing they have an efficient and compliant process in place.”

    Risk Cloud Applications are each richly built based on industry best practices. The pre-built configurations can help organizations get their GRC program up and running faster, no matter the use case they are looking to solve. New Applications include:

    • HITRUST

    • Regulatory Compliance

    • Issues Management

    • COSO Enterprise Risk Management

    • SOX Control Testing

    • Controls Management

    • Procurement and Contract Management

    In addition to new Applications, LogicGate is also debuting the Risk Cloud Home Screen. Risk Cloud users now have a customizable view of their Applications when logging into the platform. This addition streamlines their work, aligns users with key initiatives and increases organization-wide adoption of their risk programs.

    This announcement follows LogicGate’s recognition in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools. For more information about LogicGate, visit LogicGate.com.

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    About LogicGate

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

  • Devo Names Former CrowdStrike and Aqua Security Executive as SVP of Corporate Development

    Upesh Patel tapped to expand Devo cloud and technology partner ecosystem to support rapidly accelerating growth and massive customer demand; Company soars with more than 100% revenue growth and new marquee customers

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Devo Technology, the cloud-native data analytics and security company, today announced the appointment of Upesh Patel as senior vice president of corporate development. Patel brings deep experience and a proven track record in the security industry for creating value from next-generation cloud-native security technologies, and for building strategic relationships at some of the world’s most recognized security companies, including Aqua Security, CrowdStrike, IBM Security, and Check Point Software. He will play a key role in driving Devo’s strategic direction forward, contributing critical insights on products, market trends, and business opportunities.

    Patel joins Devo at a pivotal time as the company’s explosive momentum continues into the second half of this year, with no signs of slowing. The company’s more than 100% year-over-year growth in Q3 is underpinned by strong growth in enterprise customers, including marquee organizations Bird, Magna International, One Main Financial, and Sprout Social.

    “We’re experiencing a sea change in the security analytics market as more and more organizations urgently look to replace legacy solutions that have failed analysts and SOCs, especially as enterprises accelerate their move to the cloud,” said Marc van Zadelhoff, CEO of Devo. “Rapidly expanding customer requirements—which Devo is uniquely positioned to fulfill—are driving a surge in the need for, and interest from, a broad ecosystem of strategic partners. Upesh’s experience and insight will be instrumental for Devo as we drive the company’s next phase of growth and success through integrations and partnerships with leading technology companies ranging from cloud providers to technology and OEM partners. We’re absolutely thrilled to have Upesh on our team.”

    Patel brings decades of executive-level experience in business strategy and corporate development. Most recently, he was vice president of business development at container and cloud-native security pioneer Aqua Security. Prior to Aqua, he served as vice president of business and corporate development at CrowdStrike, and spent several years as vice president of business development at Trusteer, which was acquired by IBM Security. He also spent nearly a decade at Check Point Software as director of business development. Patel earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the U.K.

    Devo’s momentum is also reflected by numerous industry accolades during the last month alone. Devo earned a spot on the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the second consecutive year, and was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations, Q4 2020. Recognized as a Boston company that is setting the innovation ecosystem ablaze, Devo made BostInno’s 2020 Inno on Fire list in the Security Tech category, and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s 2020 Tech Top 50 for Business Accomplishment.

    About Devo
    Devo, the cloud-native logging and security analytics company, empowers security and operations teams to maximize the value of all their data. Only the Devo platform delivers the powerful combination of real-time visibility, high-performance analytics, scalability, multitenancy, and low TCO crucial for monitoring and securing business operations as enterprises accelerate their shift to the cloud. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Devo is backed by Insight Partners, Georgian, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Learn more at www.devo.com.

  • Tricentis Releases New Research on The Rise of Enterprise Application Testing

    Mountain View, Calif. – Nov. 17, 2020 – Tricentis, the world’s #1 testing platform for modern cloud and enterprise applications, has released new research in partnership with Nimbus Ninety that highlights a mounting imperative to extend modern quality strategies across the enterprise application landscape, from SAP to Salesforce and beyond. The report, titled “The Rise of Enterprise Application Testing,” examines the market forces that have given rise to this trend and shares the strategies leading organizations have implemented to achieve continuous business innovation.

    As digital disruption continues to fundamentally reshape the business landscape, enterprises are ramping up plans for cloud migration, DevOps transformation, and enterprise application modernization. As an organization’s digital core, enterprise applications build the foundations for wider digital transformation strategies and business process innovation at scale. But because major updates across these mission-critical applications pose significant risks to business continuity, testing is non-negotiable. For many organizations, testing has also represented the most significant delay in the process.

    The average organization uses more than 900 applications today, according to MuleSoft’s 2020 Connectivity Benchmark, and a single business workflow might touch dozens of these applications via microservices and APIs. Testers must ensure none of those workflows are impacted when any one of these applications is updated. Tests must work across multiple technologies and interfaces – which are often evolving in parallel – and across a combination of on-premise, public, and private cloud environments.

    “As the research highlights, traditional testing methods are no longer suitable for today’s complex, rapidly evolving IT landscapes,” said Chris Trueman, SVP of Product Management, Tricentis. “To meet increased demands on testing, technology leaders must extend the continuous testing processes that have transformed traditional software development across the enterprise application landscape.”

    Drawing on interviews with enterprise testing and technology leaders from leading global enterprises, this report examines best practices that are helping organizations scale enterprise application testing to meet today’s business demands. Highlights include:

    ●        Extending Agile and DevOps principles across the enterprise application landscape

    ●        Enabling business users with domain expertise to contribute to testing

    ●        Using smart technologies to cover more business risk with less testing

    ●        Addressing the test automation skills gap

    ●        Developing processes that verify functionality before, during, and after a major upgrade or migration

    To download the report, visit https://www.tricentis.com/resources/enterprise-application-testing-trends/.

    About Tricentis

    Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise continuous testing, widely credited for reinventing software testing and delivery for DevOps and agile environments. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing platform provides automated testing and real-time business risk insight across your DevOps pipeline. This enables enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Tricentis has been widely recognized as the leader by all major industry analysts, including being named the leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant five years in a row. Tricentis has more than 1,800 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as Accenture, Coca-Cola, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, RBS, and Zappos. To learn more, visit www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

    About Nimbus Ninety

    Nimbus Ninety is the independent community for disruptive business and technology leaders. The Nimbus Ninety community brings together a broad range of senior stakeholders that are responsible for driving digital transformation initiatives across business and technology functions, through a variety of member-driven activities, including summits, bespoke dinners and breakfasts, networking drinks, workshops and masterclasses.

     

  • Wasabi and DataCore to Provide Low-Cost Solution for Automated Transfer and Archiving of Files to the Cloud

    New partnership simplifies the process of identifying older data and migrating it while still making it available to users, reducing costs while increasing the accessibility of hot data

    BOSTON, MA, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL November 17, 2020 — Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, today announced a new partnership with DataCore Software, the authority on software-defined storage (SDS), to provide customers with a fast, practical, and cost-effective solution for archiving inactive files and saving snapshots to the cloud in a secure format. Users of NAS and file systems can use DataCore vFilO file and object storage virtualization software to pool and easily migrate cold, inactive data to the cloud, unlocking greater storage capacity for hot data on network-attached storage (NAS) and filers on-premises.

    Inactive, historical data is one of the biggest culprits of annual storage spend for any company. While this data is critical to save, it consumes a significant amount of storage space requiring companies to buy new equipment and manually spread files across different systems. This is both expensive and ultimately breaks directory hierarchies and disrupts users, resulting in expensive data silos. With access to Wasabi’s low-cost, scalable cloud object storage, users of DataCore vFilO can leverage secondary storage in the cloud in a completely non-disruptive, automated, and reversible manner. The integrated solution saves companies from buying more expensive capacity on-premises and keeps the familiar directory structure intact.

    IT organizations leverage vFilO’s capability to serve as a virtualization layer on top of existing file systems including Isilon, NetApp, and other NFS or SMB-based systems, then establish policies to identify data to be archived in the cloud based on metadata such as file age. vFilO then continuously identifies files that meet the policy, encrypts and compresses them, performs global deduplication, and uploads them to a cloud storage system. The files are still available transparently for users. Upon request, these files are downloaded from the cloud, re-hydrated, and presented to users.

    Another use case is to store copies of entire folders, shares, or systems in the cloud for data protection purposes, where data is encrypted and protected. Wasabi offers not only extremely low-cost cloud object storage using the standard S3 interface, the company also provides multiple datacenter options in various geographic locations. Wasabi provides 11x9s of data protection with redundant data centers and the option for immutability.

    “Customers rely on DataCore vFilO to orchestrate data placement across different classes of storage as the value of data changes. While we have always prioritized efficient data archival, identifying a cloud option that was cost-effective without compromising on performance has been a challenge,” said Paul Tilston, VP Alliances at DataCore. “By integrating Wasabi’s cloud with vFilO, we solve this problem allowing customers to easily extend their data archival to the cloud in an automatic and sustainable way at an extremely low cost.”

    Wasabi’s hot cloud storage provides the most affordable alternative for archiving files and storing extra snapshots. The company’s zero egress fees and low latency allows users to easily access archived data without the fear of excess fees or long delays.

    “Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage provides simple, predictable, and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world at 1/5th the price of the competition,” said David Friend, Wasabi CEO and co-founder. “Through this partnership, Wasabi will allow DataCore customers to alleviate storage capacity issues while enabling them to fully leverage the power of their data without burning through their storage budget.”

    “Despite the economic uncertainty we’ve experienced throughout 2020, enterprise data growth continues to expand at a relentless pace,” said Andrew Smith, research manager, IDC Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies. “However, in many enterprises, storage budgets are not growing in parallel with data growth. This can create an unsustainable scenario where IT organizations are asked to store more data without the ability to contribute any additional spending. Low-cost secondary storage services from cloud providers are designed to help alleviate this challenge, providing customers with extremely low rates (in terms of $/GB month), and intelligent tiering options that help place data in the most accessible and cost-effective environments possible.”

    About Wasabi

    Wasabi provides simple, predictable, and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an infinite amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured $110 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

    Follow and connect with Wasabi on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and our blog.

  • Chili Piper aims to overtake Calendly among revenue reps with the first meeting automation tool and new Spicy offering

    Latest product release introduces new Free and Spicy offerings for revenue teams with more robust booking links than Calendly and the first ever meeting automation solution for reps, allowing teams to automate and track every buyer interaction in their CRM

    NEW YORK — November 17, 2020 — Chili Piper, the leader in Inbound Revenue Acceleration, today announced the expansion of Chili Meetings, its meeting automation platform for revenue teams.

    Chili Piper has become synonymous with instant lead conversion, helping revenue teams double inbound conversion rates with its Concierge scheduling solution. This new release introduces Free and Spicy plans, including the first ever meeting automation tool for reps, Instant Booker. Customers have booked nearly six million meetings to-date with Chili Piper.

    Try Chili Meetings for 14 days for free today at: (https://www.chilipiper.com/spicy).

    Instant Booker makes it fast and easy for sales, customer success and support reps to book meetings in seconds from Google Calendar, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft, and more – complete with automated invites, reminders, rescheduling and CRM actions.

    Chili Piper improves upon the standard booking link introduced by Calendly, with one-click booking, automated signatures and personal pages that make it easier for customers to book time on a rep’s calendar.

    “We switched all our business units from Calendly to Chili Piper primarily because of the Salesforce integration and the streamlined user experience when scheduling handoff meetings for our prospects and clients,” said Madeline Anderson, Business Operations Administrator at Buildertrend. “Now instead of just using booking links, the new Spicy license gives our team multiple ways to schedule meetings and stay connected to our customers.”

    As the only automated scheduling solution allowing both customers and reps to book meetings, Chili Meetings offers the unique benefit of capturing every buyer interaction in Salesforce, giving RevOps leaders greater piece of mind and accurate reporting.

    “It’s been really helpful in removing friction from our revenue team members’ days, just being able to schedule something much more easily from a number of different sources,” said Denis Malkov, Director of Revenue Operations at PandaDoc. “So whether they’re working in Salesforce, in their Chrome browser, or their Gmail account, they can get to Chili Piper through Instant Booker and get onto a customer’s calendar very fast.”

    Chili Meetings is now available in a “Spicy” version for $15 per user per month with a 14-day free trial. In addition, Chili Piper’s individual booking tools are now available without a CRM integration in its “Free” version. Learn more about Chili Meetings here: (https://chilipiper.com/blog/introducing-chili-meetings-spicy)

    Both Free and Spicy offerings help revenue professionals automate the process of booking individual or group meetings from a variety of business tools, making it easier to connect with customers:

    • Use Suggested Times to book 13x more meetings with simple one-click scheduling
    • Use Instant Booker to book automated, templated meetings from any screen in seconds
    • Use Smart Email Signatures to offer easy one-click scheduling in every email
    • Use Personal Pages to share your availability and connect with the world

    Chili Meeting’s two-way CRM integrations give you ultimate flexibility and control to build custom CRM workflows for specific teams and meeting types:

    • Create new leads and contacts
    • Create new events, related to accounts, cases or opps
    • Track and update meetings held, rescheduled, and cancelled
    • Pull CRM data into dynamic meeting templates and reminders

    “Until today, revenue professionals had to use the same tools, Google Calendar or Outlook, as my 90 year old mother,” said Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of Chili Piper. “With Chili Piper Spicy, a meeting is now much more than an entry in a database. It comes with templated invites, reminders, easy ways to schedule and reschedule, automated capture in CRMs and follow up workflows. It’s time for the digital transformation of sales!”

    “The “Invite All” feature is a game-changer for us in increasing user adoption, reducing redundancy and improving sales productivity with Chili Piper,” said Jennifer A. Hollingsworth, Social Media Digital Marketing Specialist at Kaon Interactive, Inc. “As a B2B company selling into enterprise-level B2B companies, most buying decisions are by committee — meaning most sales meetings, throughout the sales cycle, are held with multiple stakeholders. Hence, this seemingly tiny feature was a huge sticking point for our sales people. They expressed “great joy and gratitude” at the launch of this feature.”

     

    About Chili Piper

    Founded in 2016, Chili Piper is the leader in Inbound Revenue Acceleration, with a mission to reinvent the system of action for revenue teams – their calendar and inbox. Chili Piper automates the antiquated processes in scheduling and email that cause unnecessary friction and drop-off in the sales process – resulting in increased productivity and conversion rates throughout the funnel.

    Companies like Square, Twilio, QuickBooks Intuit, Spotify, and Forrester use Chili Piper to create an amazing experience for their leads, while converting double the amount of leads into held meetings. Chili Piper is a fully distributed company leveraging global talent with employees in 50 cities across 15 countries. To learn more, visit https://www.chilipiper.com/