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  • Lightstep Unveils New Observability Platform to Replace Conventional Monitoring Solutions

    Built on top of rich distributed tracing data, metrics, and logs, the platform provides a unified view of telemetry data making it the quickest way to know what’s changed in system and service health

     

    SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2020 — Lightstep, the leading provider of observability software for organizations adopting microservices and serverless, today announced the release of its best-in-class observability solution to help developers better understand the health of systems and services. This includes integrating new metrics capabilities into their platform, enabling developers to have a one-stop shop for all their observability needs. New analysis features provide developers with the fastest and most effective way to investigate errors, understand service health issues, and predict the impact of new deployments.   

     

    As companies’ reliance on performant and reliable software increases, developers are facing the brunt of the burden. Every second of downtime can be detrimental to an organization’s bottom line, and the need for developers to adopt tools that can mitigate these lapses is greater than ever. 

     

    The next evolution of Lightstep’s distributed tracing tool is an observability platform that  provides automatic and rich analysis. Lightstep’s powerful capabilities help developers develop, deploy, and debug new service releases, regardless of the deployment methodology used (for example, canaries, blue/green deploys). Developers will then be able to identify and resolve the cause of performance degradations faster than any other tool on the market. The error and latency analysis feature simplifies the investigation of a service’s errors and latency by quickly highlighting the source of the problem and how it propagates through the call stack. It also helps developers understand what may have caused the error with a list of data-driven hypotheses. 

     

    And with new capabilities around runtime metrics, the solution accurately correlates metrics with problems in service performance. By making runtime metrics accessible with zero additional configuration and providing side-by-side visibility of performance metrics, developers are able to quickly identify if problems in their runtime (e.g. increased garbage collection, CPU, or memory) are causing service degradations.

     

    “At our core, Lightstep is a company of developers, so we know first-hand the stress placed on DevOps teams to execute seamless deployments every time, and how it is only continuing to grow as tech stacks get more complex,” said Daniel Spoonhower, CTO, Lightstep. “With our new observability solution, developers can analyze errors in real time, at any point in the deployment, and have all the tools and data they need in one unified view – that integrate effortlessly into their existing workflows.”

     

     

    With current market offerings, data that developers need quick access to is fragmented across many tools, making it difficult to swiftly understand what has changed in the performance of their services. Lightstep’s platform gives users a single place to answer real observability problems in real-time. These new updates include: 

     

     

    • Minimize the guessing: see insights based on metrics, traces, and logs all in one place, and at the right time
    • Regression analysis: automatically see what is contributing the most to your errors, latency, and throughput
    • Deployment monitoring: automatically see how different versions of your service are performing, and quickly diagnose regressions
    • Seamless onboarding: guided onboarding across almost any language in order to enable immediate insights

     

     

    “The Service Health feature, with regression analysis built-in, is exactly how I, as a performance engineer, would approach a regression. Out of the box, we can pinpoint not only when and where a regression first occurred, but also what caused the regression. All we had to do was show Service Health to the service owner for them to understand performance, distilled into three simple charts on a single tab. Unbeatable,” said Ian Thompson, Senior Software Engineer, Skyscanner.

     

    About Lightstep

    Lightstep enables teams to detect and resolve regressions quickly, regardless of system scale or complexity. We integrate seamlessly into daily workflows, whether you are proactively optimizing performance or investigating a root cause so you can quickly get back to building features.

  • Attivo Networks® Enhances AD Security for Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Active Directory with Deception and Misdirection Capabilities

    Together, ADSecure and Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Active Directory Help Prevent Attackers from Gaining Access to Critical Cloud-Based AD Information

    FREMONT, Calif – March 31, 2020 – Attivo Networks®, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, today announced the availability of its ADSecure solution for Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD). The Google Cloud team has reviewed the Attivo solution that operates and reduces the risk of attack escalation for organizations running Active Directory with Google’s managed service.

    Active Directory is estimated to be used by over 90% of businesses to organize users, computers, and services. Attackers target it frequently because it is a centralized directory that they can use to understand the network and gain the privileges that they need to advance their attacks. The requirement for open access and the availability of automated tools designed to help attackers break into AD make protecting this environment a challenge.

    The Attivo ADSecure solution detects unauthorized queries within the managed AD service to reduce the risk of successful enumeration. The solution alters the query response and returns deceptive objects that misdirect attackers to a decoy when they try to use them. By detecting unsanctioned access to AD, security teams receive alerts early in the attack lifecycle, and the attacker is less likely to get the critical AD information they were seeking. Additionally, the ADSecure solution reduces the attack surface by misdirecting attackers into a deception environment that safely gathers TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) to aid in the development of company-specific threat intelligence and accelerated response. Further, the solution operates without altering the production AD, eliminating a critical adoption barrier presented by alternative security solutions.

    “With more and more organizations moving to the cloud, there is a heightened need to protect their directory services located in the cloud,” said Marc Feghali, VP of Product Management for Attivo Networks. “For Google Cloud customers that are using a managed Active Directory service, the additional protection of ADSecure helps keep attackers from successfully querying Cloud Service Objects, domain controllers, Cloud OU resources like privileged users, computer groups, service accounts, and built-in privileged groups.”

    “Customers are using our service to simplify AD deployment, management, and security in the cloud without managing infrastructure,” said Siddharth Bhai, Product Manager for Google Cloud. “They can now leverage ADSecure to further reduce the risk of attack escalations against their deployments.“

    Learn more about Attivo Networks ADSecure here.

    About Attivo Networks

    Attivo Networks®, the leader in deception technology, provides an active defense for early detection, forensics, and automated incident response to in-network attacks. The Attivo ThreatDefend® Detection Platform provides a comprehensive and customer-proven platform for proactive security and accurate threat detection within user networks, data centers, clouds, and a wide variety of specialized attack surfaces. The portfolio includes extensive network, endpoint, application, and data deceptions designed to misdirect and reveal attacks efficiently from all threat vectors. Advanced machine-learning makes preparation, deployment, and operations fast and simple to operate for organizations of all sizes. Comprehensive attack analysis and forensics provide actionable alerts and native integrations that automate the blocking, quarantine, and threat hunting of attacks for accelerated incident response. The company has won over 125 awards for its technology innovation and leadership. For more information, visit www.attivonetworks.com.

  • Prometheus Group Launches Master Data as a Service

    Transforming master data governance in the enterprise asset management sector

    Raleigh, NC, MARCH 31, 2020 – Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset management operations and optimization software, today announced the introduction of Prometheus Master Data as a Service (MDaaS). The solution provides heavy asset enterprises with all data cleansing and sustainment done as a subscription service and includes a standardized industry taxonomy. This is the first master data governance solution available as a service and will help organizations end the repetitive and expensive cycle of data cleanse and sustainment projects.

    Enterprises overlook and underestimate master data management and it can quickly spiral and become an expensive and time-consuming process. Recent research found that 95% of organizations see negative impacts resulting from poor data quality.

    Heavy asset organizations are struggling to find an effective way to manage data cleansing and sustainment. With the Prometheus MDaaS service, organizations no longer need to define taxonomies, carry out time-consuming and expensive data cleansing projects, and allocate resources to master data governance.

    Maintenance decisions will now be made based on accurate information enabling teams to have increased confidence in their data. This will drive better decisions, including the tracking of equipment reliability and inventory levels of critical spare parts.

    “Data governance is a key cog in the march towards predictive maintenance,” said Jeff Kinard, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Prometheus Group. “Our MDaaS platform delivers continuous data cleansing, guaranteeing that master data never becomes dirty. This will transform data governance in the enterprise asset management space allowing companies to focus on their core business rather than having to funnel significant resources to data cleansing and sustainment initiatives. As a result, maintenance will be more efficient and effective, delivering a competitive advantage to asset-intensive organizations.”

    Key features of Prometheus MDaaS include:

    • Standardize and cleanse existing master data: Track and remove duplicates, organize records with standardized taxonomy, and ensure the organization can quickly and easily find any record it needs.
    • Standardize taxonomy across every plant and organization: This enables enterprises to quickly and easily analyze inventory across all locations, helping ensure more effective inventory management, including the sharing of critical spare parts.
    • Ensure the continuous integrity of your data: Any changes or new record requests are handled through a governance workflow that includes checkpoints and approvals tailored to your organization
    • Benefit from being part of the Prometheus aggregate database:

    Standardized data allows us to provide important information, including accurate and updated BOMs, optimized maintenance plans and task lists, as well as equipment reliability measurements.

    “Customers across all industries and functions complain about a lack of data quality and visibility across their organizations,” said Ann Marie Gray, VP, ASUG. “In particular, the enterprise asset management space must address this issue, given the amount of data it generates. It’s time to rethink how to clean your data, or you won’t be able to benefit from the data-driven decision-making you can achieve from mobile applications, artificial intelligence, and other advancements coming down the road.”

    The service is being rolled out to help customers with data governance as part of their SAP S/4HANA transformation.

    About Prometheus Group

    Prometheus Group is a leading global provider of comprehensive and intuitive plant maintenance operations and optimization software, with a broad platform of solutions addressing the unique idiosyncrasies and requirements of heavy asset operators. Prometheus’ interconnected platform allows changes to be communicated in real-time across an organization, improving manpower efficiency and driving production uptime. The company is trusted by the largest asset-intensive organizations spanning oil & gas, chemical, pulp & paper, mining & metals, and utilities industries across the globe.

  • Olive Raises $51M to Accelerate its AI Workforce for Healthcare

    COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Olive, the company creating the AI workforce for healthcare, today announced the close of its $51 million funding round led by General Catalyst.  The funding will enable Olive to accelerate its growth and further its mission of automating healthcare’s administrative processes so hospital employees can focus on delivering high-quality, cost-effective care. Ron Paulus, former president and CEO of Mission Health, a $2 billion integrated health system, will join the Board of Directors at Olive. Existing investors include Drive Capital, Oak HC/FT, Ascension Ventures and others.

    Olive’s AI workforce automates healthcare’s most repetitive, high-volume administrative processes, across departments such as Revenue Cycle, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Clinical Administration, Human Resources and more, to deliver improved efficiency, reduced costs, and increased employee capacity. Driving efficiency in non-clinical work enables hospitals and healthcare leaders to focus more resources on the actions and activities that improve care.

    The announcement comes on the heels of record growth for the company, with Olive’s presence growing in 2019 to over 500 U.S. hospitals across 41 states, including 25 of the nation’s largest health systems.

    “As a recent health system CEO, I appreciate the duress our hospitals are under as they focus on delivering the best patient care possible under challenging circumstances all while needing to keep the lights on,” said Dr. Ronald A. Paulus. “Olive’s reliable automation of essential back-office processes saves time, reduces errors and allows staff to focus on higher-order work. I am excited to be working closely with Olive’s management team to maximize the outsized positive impact we can have in healthcare on both the administrative and clinical fronts.”

    Recent data reported by Olive found that nearly two-thirds of healthcare leaders plan to adopt automation technologies in the next two years, a significant uptick from the report issued less than 12 months ago.

    “The AI workforce is here, and the days of disconnected bots that don’t learn from each other are over,” said Sean Lane, CEO of Olive. “The time is now and this investment enables us to accelerate our vision of the internet of healthcare – where when one Olive learns, all Olives learn.  We’re on a mission to radically change the way healthcare leverages and views an AI workforce.”

    To learn more about Olive, visit www.oliveai.com.

    About Olive
    Olive is deploying the AI workforce built specifically for healthcare, delivering hospitals and health systems increased revenue, reduced costs and increased capacity. Olive automates repetitive, high-volume tasks and workflows, monitoring their performance, identifying improvements and finding opportunities for new work. Olive gives power back to providers through her ever-growing, unparalleled intelligence made up of shared memories, collective wisdom and global awareness, learning like a network so hospitals never have to solve the same problem twice. To learn more about Olive and our healthcare organization partners visit oliveai.com.

    About General Catalyst
    General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures — for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our people, and society.  We support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that withstand the test of time. With offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York City, and Boston, the firm has helped support the growth of businesses such as: Airbnb, Canva, Gitlab, Gusto, Hubspot, Kayak, Monzo, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, and Warby Parker. For more: www.generalcatalyst.com.

    About Drive Capital
    Founded late in 2012, Drive Capital invests funds and expertise in promising companies with global market opportunities in the IT, financial services, consumer, and healthcare services industries, and helps those entrepreneurs build the next generation of innovative businesses. Drive Capital’s investments will be focused on the Heartland that stretches from Pittsburgh to Kansas City to Minneapolis and back.

    Drive Capital’s founding partners, Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen, are experienced venture capitalists, and have participated in several venture capital firms prior to founding Drive Capital.

    About Ascension Ventures
    Ascension Ventures is a strategic healthcare venture firm with four funds and more than $800 million in capital under management. The firm was launched in 2001 by Ascension, one of the nation’s leading Catholic and non-profit health systems, and today invests on behalf of thirteen of the nation’s leading community health systems. These health system limited partners collectively operate more than 460 hospitals, have 572,000 employees and generate $96 billion in annual revenue. AV collaborates with these partners to identify, invest in, and support strategically aligned private companies that are transforming the healthcare industry and enhancing the experience for patients, their families and caregivers. For more information visit www.ascensionventures.org.

     

  • The Eclipse Foundation Releases Eclipse Theia 1.0, a True Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

    Leading open source adopters for Eclipse Theia include ARM, Arduino, EclipseSource, Ericsson, Gitpod, Google Cloud, IBM, Red Hat, SAP, and TypeFox

    OTTAWA, March 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source foundations, today announced the release of Theia 1.0, a true open source alternative to Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) software. Eclipse Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud and Desktop Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) with state-of-the-art web technologies that enable developers, organizations, and vendors to create new, extensible developer experiences. Early contributors and adopters span a broad variety of industries and applications, and include companies like ARM, Arduino, EclipseSource, Ericsson, Gitpod, Google Cloud, IBM, Red Hat, SAP, and TypeFox.

    “We are thrilled to see Eclipse Theia deliver on its promise of providing a production-ready, vendor-neutral, and open source framework for creating custom and white-labeled developer products,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “Visual Studio Code is one of the world’s most popular development environments. Not only does Theia allow developers to install and reuse VS Code extensions, it provides an extensible and adaptable platform that can be tailored to specific use cases, which is a huge benefit for any organization that wants to deliver a modern and professional development experience. Congratulations to all the Theia committers and contributors on achieving this milestone.”

    Started as a project by Ericsson and TypeFox in 2016, the Theia project has become an integral part of enterprise cloud solutions around the world. Its momentum and distribution became significant enough that last year, the project approached the Eclipse Foundation as a potential host and vendor-neutral foundation that could further guide the project’s growth. Today, Theia is one of the Eclipse projects encompassed by the Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group (ECD WG), an industry collaboration focused on delivering development tools for and in the cloud.

    The most significant differences between Eclipse Theia and VS Code are:

    • Theia’s architecture is more modular and allows for significantly more customizations
    • Theia is designed from the ground to run on both Desktop and Cloud
    • Theia is developed under the community-driven and vendor-neutral governance of the Eclipse Foundation.

    Eclipse Theia is designed to work as a native desktop application as well as in the context of a browser and a remote server. To support both situations with a single source, Theia runs in two separate processes. Those processes are called frontend and backend respectively, and they communicate through JSON-RPC messages over WebSockets or REST APIs over HTTP. In the case of Electron, the backend, as well as the frontend, run locally, while in a remote context the backend would run on a remote host.

    Both the frontend and backend processes have their dependency injection (DI) container to which extensions can contribute. Similar to VS Code’s online marketplace for code extensions, Eclipse Theia 1.0 also has a marketplace that is available today and, in the spirit of true open source community, allows for even non-VS Code applications to use these extensions.

    The Eclipse Foundation has a proven track record of enabling developer-focused open source software collaboration and innovation earned over more than 15 years. Home to critical cloud native open source projects, including Jakarta EE, Eclipse Che, and more, the Foundation’s more than 375 collaborative projects have resulted in over 195 million lines of code — a $10 billion shared investment.

    To get involved with the Eclipse Theia Project and begin contributing, please visit https://theia-ide.org/.

    For more information about the Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group, view the Charter and ECD Working Group Participation Agreement (WPGA), or email membership@eclipse.org. You can also join the ECD Tools mailing list.

    Quotes from Eclipse Theia Project Adopters and Contributors

    Arduino
    “As one of the world’s largest open source ecosystems for hardware and software, we fully support extending vendor-neutral governance to every aspect of software development,” said Luca Cipriani, CTO of Arduino. “Eclipse Theia is another important step in that direction. Our community has been eagerly advocating for functionality for some time.”

    EclipseSource
    “We actively support an increasing number of customers in adopting Eclipse Theia and in migrating their existing tool chains to the cloud,” said Dr. Jonas Helming, principal software architect and general manager of EclipseSource. “The 1.0 release formally reflects what is already a fact; Theia is a mature, stable, and powerful platform for building cloud-based IDEs and tools.”

    Ericsson 
    “Eclipse Theia is an extensible open source platform for creating and maintaining custom IDE and IDE-like applications. A huge benefit of Theia is that it allows developers to start with a desktop application and easily transition it to run in the cloud without having to rewrite it,” said Gunnar Nilsson, Ericsson’s open source strategist. “Having a truly open source solution is why we helped to start this project more than three years ago. We’re very pleased that the Eclipse Foundation has helped us guide this first official release and look forward to many more in the years to come.”

    Gitpod
    “As one of the creators for the Eclipse Theia project, this first official release is the realization of years of work from a fantastic community,” said Sven Efftinge, co-founder of both Gitpod and TypeFox and current CEO of Gitpod. “Finally we have a true open source alternative for desktop and cloud IDEs that rivals the best the industry has to offer. We firmly believe this is just the beginning for Eclipse Theia.”

    Red Hat
    “At Red Hat we believe that developer teams need great tools to succeed in the new open hybrid cloud world,” said Thomas Mäder, Red Hat’s principal software engineer and committer to the Theia project. “Eclipse Che is one of the fastest growing open source cloud IDEs and for version 7, we replaced our own IDE code with Eclipse Theia. The results have been great. We have a more modern IDE that is compatible with Visual Studio Code extensions and a vibrant, vendor-neutral community. Red Hat sees a lot of potential in Eclipse Theia and is committed to grow the editor as part of the community.”

    SAP
    “SAP has been providing cloud-based development tools based on Eclipse open source projects since 2014,” said Michael Wintergerst, SVP, SAP Cloud Platform Core at SAP. “SAP Business Application Studio, based on Eclipse Theia 1.0, provides our customers with an efficient business application development environment for their Intelligent Enterprise for both public and private cloud. We see our customers benefiting from the rich set of add-on tools that will be available in the free, vendor-neutral extensions marketplace.”

    About the Eclipse Foundation
    The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable, and commercially focused environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. The Foundation is home to the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE, and over 375 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, and frameworks for a wide range of technology domains such as IoT, edge computing, automotive, geospatial, systems engineering, and many others. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit organization supported by over 300 members, including industry leaders who value open source as a key enabler for business strategy. To learn more, follow us on Twitter @EclipseFdn, LinkedIn, or visit eclipse.org.

    Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

  • ModelOp Raises $6 Million in Series A Funding from Valley Capital Partners to Meet Increasing Demand for Foundational ModelOps Capabilities for Enterprise AI

    New Funding Solidifies and Extends Leadership in Operationalizing AI and Machine Learning Models at Enterprise Scale

    CHICAGO, March 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ModelOp, the pioneer of ModelOps software and services for major enterprises, today announced that it has closed a $6 million Series A round of funding, led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from Silicon Valley Data Capital, and expands the company’s board with the addition of Steve O’Hara, Managing Partner at Valley Capital Partners. Aligned with its funding objectives, ModelOp has expanded its executive team with three new appointments: Sheau-ming Ross, as chief financial officer; Mark LeMonnier, as vice president of software engineering; and Linda Maggi, as vice president of marketing. ModelOp today also announced general availability for ModelOp Center Version 2, its flagship software platform that automates model deployment, monitoring and governance.

    Since its founding in 2016, ModelOp has maintained a singular focus on the challenge of ModelOps, which is increasingly recognized as a foundational capability necessary for enterprises to operationalize and gain business benefits from AI technology. Much in the way that DevOps has become a fundamental discipline for developing and delivering software, ModelOps is the inevitable response by enterprises to the unique technical and business challenges inherent in operationalizing data science and machine learning models.

    Undeployed and ungoverned DS/ML models cost enterprises millions in unrealized value and expose them to millions more in governance and compliance risks. ModelOps addresses the growing “Model Debt” accumulating in the many companies that have invested heavily in data science and machine learning (DS/ML) but have yet to realize the full value of those investments.

    “As enterprise Model Debt grows quickly, the emphasis is now on getting AI models out of pilot and into production, and this is driving rapid growth in the market for ModelOps,” said Pete Foley, CEO of ModelOp. “With this latest round of funding, we’re well positioned to grow and ensure that our platform and delivery capabilities stay well ahead of competitive offerings and can accommodate the evolving regulatory landscape.”

    ModelOp’s flagship software platform – ModelOp Center – enables organizations to put their models into production faster, with full control and visibility into critical model-based business assets, and with full transparency and auditability. ModelOp’s customers include five of the top 10 largest financial institutions, as well as Fortune 500 manufacturers, insurers, and credit bureaus.

    ModelOp was named by Gartner* in the February 2020 “Assessing DevOps in Artificial Intelligence Initiatives” report. According to the report, “ModelOps (model operations) is an emerging platform for DevOps in AI initiatives that focus on moving and facilitating AI and/or ML models through a standard life cycle.” Further, “Organizations continue to struggle getting their AI and data science models deployed to production and managed once they are there. ModelOps aims to reduce the burden of deploying and managing models in production.”

    “ModelOp has made a tremendous impact on our business and the way we deliver on client experience and transparency across all areas of capital markets,” said Joe Squeri, CTO/COO at Exos, former CIO of Barclays and managing director, technology, at Goldman Sachs. “ModelOp has enabled us to focus on our priority models to deliver maximum value while equipping us with the necessary governance and control capabilities to manage compliance and risk requirements. Exos is all-in as a model-driven enterprise, and ModelOp has proven itself to be the trusted partner we’ll continue to rely upon as we advance our business and data science capabilities.”

    The new investment by Valley Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Data Capital validates the unique position of ModelOp and underscores the indicators that ModelOps is on the trajectory to become a market as big or as bigger than DevOps. DevOps has been valued by IDC to reach $8 billion by 2022. This funding round will be used to support rapidly growing demand,as well as additions to engineering, services, sales, operations and customer success.

    “We’re extremely compelled by the growing recognition among enterprises that they need to invest in ModelOps to realize the value of AI,” said Steve O’Hara, Managing Partner at Valley Capital Partners. “ModelOp is pioneering a major new category and we’re looking forward to working with the leadership team in the next phase of the company’s growth.”

    The appointments of Ross, LeMonnier and Maggi speak to the demand of ModelOp’s growing customer base and product innovation drive. All three individuals bring a proven track record of achievements and deep industry expertise. Ross was most recently chief financial officer for the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and prior chief financial officer for three growth-stage technology companies, including Mattersight and EPAY Systems; LeMonnier was vice president of engineering with Ancestry.com; and Maggi was senior director of world wide field and partner marketing with BMC Software. Collectively, their extensive experience in IT and understanding of the challenges that today’s enterprise face with AI and data science will support the company as it defines and leads the category of ModelOps.

    For more information about ModelOp’s unique approach and its solutions portfolio, please visit https://www.modelop.com/.

    For more information about ModelOp Center – Version 2.0, please visit https://www.modelop.com/product/.

    *Gartner Inc., Assessing DevOps in Artificial Intelligence Initiatives, Carlton Sapp, Feb. 21, 2020.

    About ModelOp:

    ModelOp enables large enterprises to address the critical scale and governance challenges necessary to fully unlock the transformational value of enterprise AI and Machine Learning investments. The ModelOp Center platform is the essential business accountable software solution that automates the complete life cycle for models, regardless of where they are  created or deployed. Fortune1000 companies in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare and other industries rely on ModelOp to put their models into business.

    About Valley Capital Partners

    Valley Capital Partners is an early stage venture capital firm investing in technology-based companies. We back entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming enterprise infrastructure and deep tech companies that create new categories and change industries.  We get involved at the earliest stages of company creation and stay committed throughout the life of the company.  Valley Capital Partners is based in Menlo Park, California.

    About Silicon Valley Data Capital

    Silicon Valley Data Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in premier next-generation enterprise software companies.

  • Forty8Fifty Labs Receives Atlassian Partner of the Year 2019: Technology Innovator Award

    Recognized for Exceptional Efforts in Developing New Business, Thought Leadership and Product and Services that Complement Atlassian

     ATLANTA, March 30, 2020 – Forty8Fifty Labs, the Agile and DevOps consultancy and subsidiary of Veristor Systems, today announced that it has been recognized as the Atlassian Partner of the Year 2019: Technology Innovator for the company’s outstanding contribution and achievements to the Atlassian market during the calendar year 2019.

    Forty8Fifty Labs was one of 13 recipients honored as Partner of the Year 2019. The award is given to recognize exceptional efforts in developing new business, thought leadership and products and services that complement Atlassian.

    “Atlassian is thrilled to recognize and honor our 2019 Partner Award recipients,” said Martin Musierowicz, Atlassian’s Head of Global Channels. “Solution Partners are instrumental to our customers’ success and we are excited to be able to highlight some of our top partners who are going above and beyond to support customers and provide Atlassian services.”

    “Since our inception, Forty8Fifty Labs has put Atlassian tools at the center of our portfolio of software and solution offerings,” said Rashad Neloms, Vice President, Technology and Strategy, Forty8Fifty Labs. “In doing so, we’ve crafted innovative ways to get the most out of Atlassian software, while helping our customers work more efficiently, more creatively and more productively. This recognition is a testament to the quality and commitment of the entire Forty8fifty team and validates our mission to help customers collaborate and innovate with Atlassian.”

    “It’s a particular honor to be recognized by Atlassian, especially for Technology Innovation,” said Steve Bishop, Executive Director of Forty8Fifty Labs and CTO of Veristor. “We are closely aligned with the Atlassian team and our enterprise Atlassian customers as we continue to build out additional solutions and services. We are especially excited about our joint solutions around IT Service Management (ITSM) and Compliance, Privacy and Security. Together, Forty8Fifty Labs and Atlassian are working to better enable agility and innovation through collaboration for teams across the country.”

    Forty8Fifty Labs is an Atlassian Enterprise Platinum Solution Partner. The company was first named an Atlassian Solutions Partner in 2016 and was soon named Atlassian Partner of the Year 2017, Rising Star for its outstanding contribution and achievements during Atlassian’s Fiscal Year 2017.

    Forty8Fifty Labs delivers world-class Atlassian consulting, support, and training that’s custom designed to suit the needs of enterprise organizations. For more information, visit:

    https://www.forty8fiftylabs.com/atlassian.

    About Forty8Fifty Labs

    Forty8Fifty Labs is the DevOps and Agile Consulting, Services and Software Development subsidiary of Veristor Systems, Inc.  With decades of field-proven experience in solving the toughest challenges for today’s CIOs and the Development/Operations teams they lead, the Forty8Fifty Labs team unlocks the secrets to bringing your IT tools and your people together; accelerating your DevOps journey, improving collaboration, streamlining development, and reducing time to revenue.  Let us help you supercharge your business with our team’s unparalleled expertise, extensive partnerships, and custom tools and integrations. Learn more at www.forty8fiftylabs.com.  

     

  • SIIA Announces Business Technology Finalists for 2020 CODiE Awards

    150 business technology products recognized in peer-reviewed awards program

    WASHINGTON, March 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announced the 150 business technology finalists. These finalists were selected by judges from a pool of 577 entries and represent the most innovative and impactful applications and products from software developers, content, media, online learning services and related technologies.

    The 2020 CODiE Award program features 41 business technology categories, several of which are new or updated to reflect the latest industry trends.

    “Now in their 35th year, the CODiE Awards once again place a global spotlight on the most exciting and transformative products for the education technology, B2B software, information and media industries,” said Jeff Joseph, President of SIIA. “These finalists join a long and distinguished list of products that have revolutionized the B2B market. We send our congratulations to each of the honorees.”

    The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Senior executives, analysts, media, consultants and investors are responsible for evaluating nominated products during the first-round review which determines the finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products, and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. With an abundance of caution in light of the COViD-19 pandemic, SIIA has decided to move the 2020 CODiE Awards online. Business Technology category winners will be announced during an online winner announcement celebration May 18, 2020.

    Details on the finalist products are listed at https://www.siia.net/codie/2020-Finalists

    2020 CODiE AWARDS BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY FINALISTS

    Best Artificial Intelligence Driven Technology Solution

    • ANTstein SQUARE, AntWorks
    • Collective[i], Collective Intelligence
    • Even Financial API, Even Financial
    • Jumio, Jumio
    • Kount’s AI, Kount
    • Context, LexisNexis / RELX Group
    • Conversation Builder, LivePerson, Inc.
    • Engati, PeopleHum Technologies Pte Ltd

    Best Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Content Solution

    • Accenture Digital Video Services – Metadata Intelligence, Accenture
    • Anna – AI Virtual Assistant, HansaWorld
    • Checkpoint Edge, Thomson Reuters

    Best Big Data Reporting & Analytics Solution

    • Accenture Resources Industry Solutions (ARIS), Accenture
    • CPA Global’s Better Decisions Solution, CPA Global
    • Definitive Healthcare, Definitive Healthcare
    • SpendHQ, SpendHQ

    Best Big Data Tools & Platforms

    • Qubole Data Platform, Qubole
    • SpendHQ, SpendHQ
    • StreamSets Transformer, Streamsets

    Best Business Information or Data Delivery Solution

    • Factiva, Dow Jones & Company
    • Nexis, LexisNexis Group
    • Continuous Digitization and Reinvention (CDAR), Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
    • VAI S2K Enterprise 6.1, VAI

    Best Business Intelligence Solution

    • AppFolio Property Manager PLUS, AppFolio
    • Direct Data Mapping, Incorta

    Best Cloud Management Solution

    • CloudBolt 9.0, CloudBolt Software
    • SurPaaS®, Corent Technology, Inc.
    • Commander, Embotics

    Best Collaboration Solution

    • Studycast by Core Sound Imaging, Core Sound Imaging, Inc.
    • GoToConnect, LogMeIn
    • CCH Axcess Client Collaboration, Wolters Kluwer

    Best Compliance Solution

    • BigID Enterprise, BigID
    • ComplianceMate, Creative Compliance Software Solutions
    • OneTrust, OneTrust
    • Sovos Sales & Use Tax Filing, Sovos Compliance
    • Checkpoint Engage PCR, Thomson Reuters
    • TrustArc Privacy Platform, TrustArc

    Best Content Management Platform

    • Imagen – Video Management Platform, Imagen
    • Sitecore Content Hub 3.3, Sitecore
    • Widen Collective, Widen
    • ftwilliam.com Distribution Tracking Software, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US

    Best Content Search & Discovery Solution

    • Nexis Newsdesk, LexisNexis
    • Sinequa Intelligent Search, Sinequa

    Best Corporate / Enterprise Learning Solution

    • Adobe Captivate Prime, Adobe Systems, Inc.
    • MCAT Official Prep Hub, Association of American Medical Colleges
    • Global eTraining Knowledge Management Platform, Global eTraining
    • MobyMax, MobyMax
    • Thought Industries platform, Thought Industries

    Best CRM Solution

    • Collective[i], Collective Intelligence
    • Gale Engage, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
    • CRM for SYSPRO, Syspro Group USA
    • UpHabit, UpHabit

    Best Customer Data Platform (CDP)

    • Amperity Customer Data Management Platform, Amperity
    • Arm Treasure Data enterprise CDP with Treasure Boxes, ARM Treasure Data
    • Omeda’s Customer Data Platform (CDP), Omeda
    • Strikedeck, Strikedeck, a Medallia company

    Best Customer Service Solution

    • Freshdesk, Freshworks
    • Enterprise Customer Service Platform, Gladly
    • Conversation Builder, LivePerson, Inc.
    • Strikedeck, Strikedeck, a Medallia company

    Best Customer Success Management Solution

    • ClientSuccess Customer Success Growth Platform, ClientSuccess
    • Strikedeck, Strikedeck, a Medallia company
    • Totango Spark Customer Success Solution, Totango

    Best DevOps Tool

    • Cyara CX Assurance Platform, Cyara
    • Digital Automation Intelligence Platform, Eggplant
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat, Inc.
    • xMatters, xMatters

    Best Digital Process Automation Solution

    • ProcessMaker, ProcessMaker
    • Red Hat Process Automation, Red Hat, Inc.
    • SalesPreso, SalesPreso
    • ftwilliam.com Distribution Tracking Software, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US

    Best eCommerce Solution

    • Avangate Monetization Platform, 2checkout
    • BlueSnap, BlueSnap
    • Reflektion, Reflektion, Inc.

    Best Emerging Technology

    • Adobe XD Amazon Alexa Integration and Voice Prototyping, Adobe
    • Talent Data Exchange (TDX), Brightfield
    • Stern, Limelight Health
    • ListenFirst Brand Reputation Index, ListenFirst Media
    • ManagedMethods, ManagedMethods
    • Quarkus, Red Hat, Inc.
    • CCH Axcess™ Knowledge Coach, Wolters Kluwer

    Best Event Technology Solution

    • Bizzabo, Bizzabo
    • EventsAIR Version 10, Centium Software
    • Nerdery for Google Cloud Next, Nerdery

    Best Financial & Market Data Solution

    • The Advantage Data Workstation, Advantage Data
    • The PitchBook Platform, PitchBook Data, Inc.
    • Visible Alpha Insights, Visible Alpha LLC
    • Market Data Cloud Platform, Xignite, Inc.

    Best Financial Management Solution

    • Anaplan for Finance, Anaplan
    • OneStream XF platform, OneStream Software LLC
    • Prophix Software’ Virtual Financial Analyst Solution, Prophix
    • Market Data Cloud Platform, Xignite, Inc.

    Best FinTech Solution

    • dxTrade, Devexperts Inc.
    • MDSL Index License Manager (ILM), MDSL
    • OneSpan Secure Agreement Automation, Onespan
    • TradingView, Inc., TradingView

    Best Healthcare Technology Solution

    • Ambra Health Suite, Ambra Health
    • Definitive Healthcare, Definitive Healthcare
    • Pulsara, Pulsara
    • vLife Platform, Virtusa Corporation

    Best Human Capital or Talent Management Solution

    • AllyO Connect AI-Powered HR Communications Platform, AllyO
    • MyVista, iWorkGlobal
    • Phenom Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform, Phenom People
    • Sage People, Sage Software plc

    Best Identity & Access Management (IAM) Solution

    • CloudKnox Cloud Security Platform, CloudKnox Security
    • Idaptive Next-Gen Access Cloud, Idaptive
    • LastPass Identity, LastPass
    • AD360, ManageEngine

    Best Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

    • Boomi, Boomi, a Dell Technologies Business
    • Red Hat Integration, Red Hat, Inc.
    • SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform, SnapLogic

    Best IoT Platform

    • Accenture Resources Industry Solutions (ARIS), Accenture
    • Losant, Losant

    Best IT Management Solution

    • SolarWinds Service Desk, SolarWinds
    • SysAid, SysAid
    • TeamDynamix, TeamDynamix

    Best Legal Solution

    • Cobalt, Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP
    • Context, LexisNexis / RELX Group
    • ftwilliam.com Distribution Tracking Software, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US
    • Sexual Harassment & Workplace Compliance Suite on Cheetah™, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US

    Best Marketing Solution

    • Arm Treasure Data enterprise CDP with Treasure Boxes, ARM Treasure Data
    • CleverTap, CleverTap
    • PandaDoc, PandaDoc
    • Priority Engine, TechTarget

    Best Network Security Solution

    • AppGate SDP, AppGate
    • Awake Security Platform, Awake Security

    Best Payments Solution

    • Avangate Monetization Platform, 2checkout
    • BlueSnap, BlueSnap
    • RYCOR, Rycor

    Best Platform as a Service

    • SurPaaS®, Corent Technology, Inc.
    • Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat, Inc.
    • VANTIQ Platform, Vantiq

    Best Project Management Solution

    • Buildertrend, Buildertrend
    • Decision Lens Accelerate, Decision Lens
    • Mavenlink, Mavenlink
    • Project Insight, Project Insight

    Best Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution

    • 6sense Account Based Orchestration Platform, 6Sense
    • Collective[i], Collective Intelligence
    • PandaDoc, PandaDoc
    • Priority Engine, TechTarget

    Best Sales Enablement Platform

    • Bigtincan Hub, bigtincan
    • PandaDoc, PandaDoc
    • Seismic, Seismic

    Best Software Defined Infrastructure

    • SurPaaS®, Corent Technology, Inc.
    • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15, Red Hat, Inc.

    Best Subscription Billing Solution

    • Avangate Monetization Platform, 2checkout
    • BillingPlatform, BillingPlatform
    • Zuora Central, Zuora, Inc.

    Best Vendor Management System (VMS) Platform

    • goLance Online Management and Payment Platform for Freelance Talent, goLance
    • PRO Unlimited’s Wand VMS, PRO Unlimited

    About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
    The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

    About Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)
    SIIA is an umbrella association representing 800+ technology, data and media companies globally. Industry leaders work through SIIA’s divisions to address issues and challenges that impact their industry segments with the goal of driving innovation and growth for the industry and each member company.  This is accomplished through in-person and online business development opportunities, peer networking, corporate education, intellectual property protection and government relations. For more information, visit siia.net.

    SOURCE Software & Information Industry Association

  • OpenTelemetry Announces First Wave of Beta Releases for Java, Go, JavaScript, Python, and .Net Components

    SAN FRANCISCO—OpenTelemetry, an open source project created to provide a complete toolkit for cloud-native software observability, today announced the beta release of the first wave of supported languages, – including Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, and .Net – as well as the OpenTelemetry Collector.

    “To address the challenges around performance and root cause analysis introduced by emerging technologies like microservices, we teamed up with experts in telemetry to standardize observability – making it much more accessible for development teams working in complex environments.”

    By integrating tracing and metrics into a single system, OpenTelemetry provides a framework for building next generation observability platforms. OpenTelemetry simplifies the instrumentation of cloud-native software. Rich correlations between tracing and metrics help developers effectively conduct root cause analysis in distributed systems.

    By qualifying for the beta launch, each component meets the following requirements:

    • The implementation of all features contained in the OpenTelemetry Specification, v0.3 or higher. This includes implementation of all API features, including traces, metrics, context propagation, and semantic conventions.
    • Support for exporting to OTLP, Jaeger, and Prometheus.
    • Instrumentation for at least one HTTP, gRPC, SQL, and web framework per language.
    • API, SDK, and getting started documentation.
    • Implementation of OTLP (an OpenTelemetry-native data format) in the OpenTelemetry Collector.

    “At LightStep, we conducted research that found that 91 percent of developers are using or plan to use microservices, and almost all developers reported challenges in using microservices,” said Ben Sigelman, a member of the governance committee of OpenTelemetry and CEO of LightStep. “To address the challenges around performance and root cause analysis introduced by emerging technologies like microservices, we teamed up with experts in telemetry to standardize observability – making it much more accessible for development teams working in complex environments.”

    “We’ve made significant progress on OpenTelemetry in the last few weeks as we’ve successfully added more languages for inclusion in the beta launch. We’ll continue to add more language-specific components to the project as we move forward, bringing us closer to our mission of instrumenting the world,” said Morgan McLean, co-founder of OpenCensus and OpenTelemetry and product manager at Google.

    About OpenTelemetry

    A CNCF Sandbox member, OpenTelemetry is an open source project that aims to make observability more accessible for all. Formed through the merger of Google’s OpenCensus and the CNCF’s OpenTracing, the project is currently comprised of 82 companies, including LightStep, Google, Microsoft, Splunk, Postmates, and Uber. For more information, please visit opentelemetry.io.

     

    About LightStep

    LightStep’s mission is to deliver confidence at scale for those who develop, operate and rely on today’s powerful software applications. Its products leverage distributed tracing technology – initially developed by a LightStep co-founder at Google – to offer best-of-breed observability to organizations adopting microservices or serverless at scale. LightStep is backed by Redpoint, Sequoia, Altimeter Capital, Cowboy Ventures, and Harrison Metal and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit https://lightstep.com or follow @LightStepHQ.

     

     

  • DevOps Institute Announces Open Testing Program for DevOps Certifications

    To support the many learning styles of the Humans of DevOps, DevOps Institute adds the option to test for most of its certifications without formal prerequisites 

    BOCA RATON, Fla., March 30, 2020 — DevOps Institute, a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced a new Open Testing program that removes the prerequisite of leveraging formal courseware to achieve certifications from DevOps Institute’s extensive portfolio. These accredited certifications focus on modern competencies and hireable skills required by today’s organizations adopting DevOps.

    “We still strongly believe that participation in structured and instructor-led courses through one of our accredited Global Education Partners is the best path to gaining the knowledge necessary to pass the examination and provide real-world value to your organization,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of the DevOps Institute. “However, we also recognize that today’s Humans of DevOps may learn in many ways, from many sources, particularly under the daily constraints of the current health crisis. We, therefore, want to remove the barriers of entry to our certifications for any individual who believes they have the skills, knowledge, ideas and learning (SKIL) experience to pass the certification examinations.”

    Finding and attracting skilled DevOps and IT professionals remains a huge challenge in 2020, according to the Upskilling 2020: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report. Certifications empower DevOps Humans to demonstrate their accomplishments and SKILup to advance their careers and potential in the DevOps job market.
    Examinations now available for Open Testing include:

    For more information on DevOps Institute certifications, visit: https://devopsinstitute.com/certifications/

    As part of the Open Testing program, individuals can purchase and schedule online-proctored certification examinations directly through DevOps Institute or through a participating local Global Education Partner. There are no prerequisites to take the examination. Registered exam candidates will receive a self-study guide that includes the exam requirements document, a sample exam and a glossary of terms that will enable candidates to prepare by defining the scope of the examination. The approach to DevOps Institute’s Open Testing program is similar to those of other major certification programs in the market today.

    Successful candidates will receive a digital badge and certificate from the DevOps Institute acknowledging their achievement.

    About the DevOps Institute

    DevOps Institute is dedicated to advancing the human elements of DevOps success. As a global member-based association, DevOps Institute is the go-to learning hub connecting IT practitioners, education partners, consultants, talent acquisition and business executives to help pave the way to support digital transformation and the New IT.

    We help advance careers and support emerging practices within the DevOps community based on a human-centered SKIL framework, consisting of Skills, Knowledge, Ideas, and Learning.  All of our work, including accreditations, research, events, and continuous learning programs – is focused on providing the “human know-how” to modernize IT and make DevOps succeed.

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