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  • Meroxa Launches Real-Time Data Platform as a Service, Announces Series A Funding

    Meroxa Platform Automates Data Integration, Slashing Data-Services Projects from Months to Minutes

    SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)April 13, 2021

    Meroxa launched today with the release of the Meroxa Platform, its real-time data Platform as a Service.

    Today Meroxa also announced their $15M Series A funding round led by Drive Capital with participation from existing investors Root, Amplify, and Hustle Fund. The Series A follows a previously-undisclosed $4.2 million seed round co-led by Root and Amplify, with participation from Hustle Fund, Village Global, Meritech Capital, Sequoia, Kleiner, Addition, Menlo, and Index Ventures. Strategic angels participating in the seed round included industry luminaries Adam Gross (former CEO of Heroku), Jason Warner (CTO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen former (CTO of Segment), & Nick Caldwell (VP of Engineering at Twitter). With today’s news, Meroxa is making an enthusiastic entrance into the red-hot data-services market.

    Meroxa was founded by industry veterans, DeVaris Brown (CEO) and Ali Hamidi (CTO). Both leaders have long track records in data engineering, including a run at Heroku, where the founders met. Meroxa already has a team of 24 remote employees and is headquartered in San Francisco.

    “You know what gets me excited about Meroxa? Everyone on this team is at the absolute top of their game,” said DeVaris Brown, CEO and co-founder of Meroxa. “When we show our technology to customers, they’re stunned at what we’ve already accomplished. That’s a testament to the caliber of our people and the incredible hustle we have from top to bottom. We’re thrilled to launch today and get our technology into the hands of more customers.”

    Meroxa is a real-time data Platform as a Service designed to empower data teams with the tools they need to build real-time infrastructure in minutes, not months. By reducing complexity and enabling self-service capabilities, Meroxa frees teams to spend less time on mundane tasks and more time focusing on impactful projects.

    “Meroxa is such an exciting company because they are a critical component of the data stack of the future,” said Andy Jenks, Partner, Drive Capital. “We were blown away by the team and the technology in our very first meeting, and we’re particularly excited about what comes next. What Meroxa is building is nothing short of a force multiplier for data engineering and orchestration at every major enterprise on the planet. They will have a massive impact on the most transformative and valuable asset in any business – data.”

    The Meroxa platform currently includes:

    • Managed Data Platform: The Machine Learning powered rules engine automates repetitive tasks and ensures that your data is secure and optimized for performance.
    • Change Data Capture Service: The change data capture service securely connects cloud-deployed data sources to Meroxa, bringing order to fragmented and siloed data infrastructures.
    • Meroxa Dashboard: Developers can easily build real-time infrastructure from the visual dashboard, which automates surface action items to help preserve the stability of data pipelines.
    • Auto-Generated API: Auto-generated, real-time, API endpoint frees developer teams to focus on building features instead of configuring infrastructure.

    “Our priority since the founding of Meroxa has been to work hand-in-hand with customers, data engineers, and developers to build something that solved their most intense pain points,” said Ali Hamidi, CTO and co-founder of Meroxa. “Today, we’re thrilled to deliver on that vision the launch of the Meroxa platform, a solution that gives businesses the power to orchestrate their data services across countless systems and sources with unprecedented ease.”

    The Meroxa platform is commercially available today. For more information, please visit https://meroxa.com/

    About Meroxa
    Meroxa is a real-time data Platform as a Service. We empower data teams with the tools they need to build enterprise level data pipelines in minutes not months.

    At Meroxa, we aim to automate the heavy lifting of change data capture, monitoring, and data loading so that companies can easily evolve from data integration to data orchestration. Meroxa enables them to quickly maximize the power of their data.

    Meroxa was founded in October 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

    To learn more, please visit: https://www.meroxa.com/

  • Masergy Enhances AIOps to Help Companies Improve Cloud Application Performance

    With AI and machine learning applied to cloud applications, IT teams can automate management and ensure availability

    DALLAS — April 13, 2021 — Masergy, the software-defined network and cloud platform for the digital enterprise, enhanced its Masergy AIOps feature by applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to optimize Software as a Service (SaaS) applications on global networks. The advancements help companies of all sizes to more quickly and easily solve the problems of application management while also automating IT processes and preventing performance degradation.

    Businesses need enterprise cloud applications to be readily available to their employees no matter where they are, and yet it remains difficult for IT teams to ensure a high-performance user experience. Complex IT infrastructures and multi-cloud environments obscure visibility, requiring AI analytics to effectively identify and solve the root causes of performance degradation.

    “Unplanned downtime is still largely due to manual processes and human error. AIOps eliminates these challenges, revolutionizing IT operations,” said Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst, ZK Research. “The value of Masergy’s AIOps stems from its ability to evaluate bandwidth usage patterns, identify anomalies, and predict outages all within a fully managed SD-WAN or SASE service. It’s unique because it’s native to the network and security platform, offering prediction and propensity features.”

    “Masergy created the industry’s first AI-based network intelligence service that analyzes the network and makes recommendations to enhance reliability. And we remain the only SD-WAN and SASE provider with a fully integrated AI-based network, security, and application optimization solution,” said Terry Traina, CTO, Masergy.

    “This is the next innovation and another step forward on Masergy’s path to offering a fully autonomous network,” said Chris MacFarland, CEO, Masergy. “While our clients benefit from the automated analysis and intelligent recommendations of AIOps, Masergy is delivering on the future faster than our competitors. Our AI-powered cloud networking platform is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.”

    “Masergy is a visionary in the arena of SD-WAN and AIOps, and has a clear plan for delivering secure, highly available, self-managed IT and fully autonomous networks,” said Paul Constantine, Executive Vice President of Supplier Services – Digital Distribution at Intelisys. “As Masergy’s largest Master Agent, we are always pursuing opportunities to bring innovative technologies to our sales partner community, and combined with support from our best-in-class sales engineers, we can together provide industry-leading solutions that address the challenges that business leaders face in the evolving distributed work environment.”

    AIOps Predictive Intelligence and Proactive Optimization

    Masergy AIOps is deeply embedded into the network, security, and application layers and was developed using an unprecedented amount of historic data patterns, leveraging the company’s 20 years of network and security logs. As a result, Masergy is uniquely positioned to provide a more mature AIOps algorithm and therefore the deepest insights for its SD-WAN and SASE solutions.

    Because Masergy embedded AIOps into the application layers of its software-defined network, the AI engine now has direct access to more of the data it needs to deliver advanced performance optimization. AI analytics enriched from traffic flows, applications, and log data offer proactive recommendations for application performance. Here are some of the added features and business benefits:

    • Accelerate application troubleshooting and management: Masergy AIOps observes application service quality and provides insights that isolate and identify the cause of performance degradation.
    • Make data-driven decisions around resource allocation: Masergy AIOps observes application propensity for bandwidth consumption, helping IT managers intelligently manage application policies as well as forecast bandwidth and network capacity needs.
    • Prevent potential application outages and performance degradation: Masergy AIOps evaluates historic patterns of bandwidth consumption, providing predictions, proactive recommendations, and real-time alerts on application bandwidth utilization.

    As a built-in feature, Masergy AIOps is included with all SD-WAN and SASE solutions and delivers insights inside the unified management portal, where clients have real-time visibility and control over bandwidth. Masergy AIOps was first released in November 2019 as the industry’s first integrated AI-based, digital assistant for network optimization.

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    About Masergy

    Masergy is the software-defined network and cloud platform for the digital enterprise. Recognized as the pioneer in software-defined networking, Masergy enables unrivaled, secure application performance across the network and the cloud with Managed SD-WAN, UCaaS, CCaaS and Managed Security solutions. Industry-leading SLAs coupled with an unparalleled customer experience enable global enterprises to achieve business outcomes with certainty. Learn more and follow us on our blog Transforming Enterprise IT, Twitter @Masergy, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

     

  • Chorus.ai’s Conversation Intelligence Platform Receives North America Customer Value Leadership Award

    Frost & Sullivan identifies Chorus’ proprietary artificial intelligence as a unique competitive differentiator that leads to greater sales velocity for the enterprise

    SAN FRANCISCO – April 13, 2021 – Chorus.ai, the No. 1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high performing Revenue teams, announced today the company has received a 2021 North America Customer Value Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan, a global growth partnership company. Based on an analysis of the North American Conversation Intelligence market, Frost & Sullivan concluded that Chorus provides immediate value across enterprise Revenue Teams and enables Sales Teams to win more deals with greater velocity. 

    “Revenue leaders, from enterprise to SMB, are beginning to understand the necessity of AI-driven intelligence and insights to better understand the contextual relationship they have with their clients,” said Jim Benton, CEO at Chorus.ai. “This distinction by Frost & Sullivan is validation by the market that Conversation Intelligence aligns large enterprise to the voice of their customers at scale. We’re honored by this recognition and will continue to deliver value to our customers while providing unparalleled visibility into relationships through the Momentum Suite.”

    In Frost & Sullivan’s analysis, Chorus and its Conversation Intelligence platform stand out from competitors in key ways: 

    • Understanding the voice of the customer. Chorus puts the “R” in the CRM by prioritizing relationships. Chorus seamlessly brings the customer’s voice to every system and decision, enabling enterprises to transform traditional practices into next-level customer-centric operations.

    • Delivering real-time intelligence. Chorus recently released Momentum Insights, a first-of-its-kind, feature suite that enables users to monitor every interaction in a client relationship. It empowers Revenue Teams to make decisions and forecast more accurately with direct visibility to the full relationship context all from within a CRM or through Chorus’ platform. 

    • High-growth potential. Chorus differentiates itself through its advanced machine learning and models, as well as its approach to harnessing the voice of the customer. Since Conversation Intelligence is a fast-growing segment in sales technology, Chorus’ focus further positions the company for growth counting key enterprise customers such as DocuSign Inc., Zoom, and UberEats.

    “The company developed a unique way of capturing all interactions and leveraging them for keen insights into critical areas,” said Samantha Fisher, Best Practices Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “Much of its differentiation is found in Chorus’ patent portfolio, with some patents involving how its AI automatically learns unique customer aspects. The company’s proprietary algorithms combined with its AI turn out unique results that have little to no competitor.”

    Frost & Sullivan’s Customer Value Leadership Award is presented yearly to companies demonstrating excellence in creating value for customers. This award is one of many that the company has already received in 2021, with other accolades including placement on three of TrustRadius’ 2021 Top Rated Awards lists, including Best Sales Coaching Software, Top Rated Sales Enablement Product, and Best Call Recording Software.

    For more information on Chorus’ award-winning Conversation Intelligence platform, visit Chorus.ai. Access the Frost & Sullivan Award write-up by visiting the company’s award page.

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    About Chorus.ai
    Chorus.ai is the No.1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high-growth sales teams. Founded in 2015, Chorus.ai’s Conversation Intelligence Platform identifies and helps teams replicate the performance of top-performing reps by analyzing their sales meetings. These insights serve as the foundation of an effective coaching strategy for sales and customer success teams and provide insight into the voice-of-the-customer across the entire organization. Customers like Zoom, Mavenlink, Qualtrics, Adobe, TripActions, and GitLab ramp new hires to productivity 30-50% faster and see an increase in quota attainment from 20-to-100%. Chorus.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, Toronto, and Salt Lake City. 

  • New Formstack Report Finds Only 18% of People Understand “No-Code”

    Formstack, a no-code workplace productivity platform, released its inaugural report on “The Rise of the No-Code Economy.” The report highlights proprietary data from the company’s 2021 No-Code Economy Survey showing that despite massive growth in the no-code space since the start of 2021, no-code adoption and awareness is still relatively limited to the developer and tech community.
    Some of the key findings include:
    • 82% of people are unfamiliar with the term “no-code”
    • 20% use no-code tools today
    • 56% of those who know how to write code use no-code tools
    • 10% of those who do not know how to code use no-code tools
    • 81% of those who work in IT are familiar with the idea of no-code tools
    • 71% of those who use no-code tools within IT adopted them within the last year
    Despite current adoption rates, the report also shows huge potential in the space. With exploding IT workloads and developer shortages, Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies. In line with this prediction, Formstack’s survey found that 33% of people across industries expect to increase no-code usage over the next year, with 45% in computer & electronics manufacturing, 46% in banking and finance, and 71% in software. The survey also found that 66% of respondents have adopted no-code tools in just the last year and 41% in the last six months, suggesting COVID-19 has driven growth across the industry that could exceed Gartner’s expectations.
    “No-code is creating a new revolution in tech (and the world) because it’s giving the power of software development to the masses. It’s no longer the small percentage of the world that can code that can develop their idea. Now anyone with an internet connection can build software. Think of all the ideas and solutions we’re missing because it’s been inaccessible to develop software,” said Lacey Kesler, Head of Education at Adalo and Founder of Women in No-Code.
    In addition to growing usage rates, many believe their organizations and industries will begin hiring for no-code roles within the next year, showing that the no-code economy is not just limited to the tools but is instead creating an entirely new industry of workers.
    For more information, you can check out the interactive report here. You can also join Formstack’s Rise of the No-Code Economy Panel on April 13, 2021 at 12:00pm ET with moderator Lacey Kesler and panelists from Formstack, Bubble, and Webflow.
    Methodology
    Formstack surveyed 1,000 workers across various industries, job levels, and company sizes to gather comprehensive data on the understanding, usage, and growth of no-code. External sources and data points are included throughout the report to further define and explain the no-code economy.

  • Broadcom and Google Cloud Collaborate to Accelerate Digital Transformation for the Enterprise

    SAN JOSE and SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 13, 2021 – Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) and Google Cloud today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate innovation and strengthen cloud services integration within the core software franchises of Broadcom. Under this partnership, Broadcom will deliver its suite of security and enterprise operations software on Google Cloud, enabling businesses to deploy Broadcom solutions in security, DevOps and more on Google Cloud’s trusted, global infrastructure.

    Google Cloud has been a key partner in accelerating Broadcom’s growth strategy. Broadcom has successfully migrated Symantec Web Security Service (WSS) and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) onto Google Cloud, and will soon complete the migration of its other cloud cyber security solutions. Broadcom has also modernized the security stack and standardized service delivery processes and offerings on Google Cloud infrastructure, which enables Broadcom to scale and operate more efficiently to better serve enterprise customers.

    Other benefits of migrating Broadcom software onto Google Cloud include:

    • ●  Accelerated development of new, transformational cloud-native services
    • ●  Reduced latency for service-to-service communications
    • ●  Increased scale and improved resiliency
    • ●  Strengthened infrastructure compliance certifications
    • ●  Reduced reliance on congested public internet routes

    Additionally, Google’s data cloud will support Broadcom’s business-wide data and analytics strategy, helping transform the way the company uses data to make better business decisions and support its customers. Broadcom will deploy multiple services internally onto Google’s data cloud, including Dataproc, Cloud SQL, and Bigtable, helping modernize its infrastructure and analytics capabilities to deliver a more secure, reliable and scalable data platform in support of its customers.

    “Leveraging Google Cloud enables Broadcom Software to scale and innovate faster to meet the growing needs of digital businesses globally,” said Tom Krause, President, Broadcom Software Group. “This collaboration is fundamental to delivering secure access to cloud applications and providing enterprises with increased performance, continuous compliance, and enhanced security that empowers an organization’s cloud adoption journey.”

    “Companies around the world turn to software and services from Broadcom to run their businesses securely and to power their digital transformations,” said Rob Enslin, President at Google Cloud. “We are proud to be Broadcom’s cloud partner as it expands the global availability of these critical security and operations services and to support Broadcom’s own digital transformation.”

    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.

    About Google Cloud

    Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

    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.

  • Perforce Releases New Drag-and-Drop Interface to Centralize Version Control for Creatives and Developers

    Helix Sync Connects Cross-Functional Teams to Centralize and Version Digital Assets Quickly, Streamlining Workflows Between Creative and Developer Teams

     

    MINNEAPOLIS, April 13, 2021 – Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring security, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, announces its new version control desktop client — Helix Sync — enabling non-coders such as artists and designers to version digital assets, with a simple drag-and-drop UI.

     

    Creative assets are critical to development. Industries looking to drive new innovations need to manage the ever-increasing file size, while enhancing collaboration between developers and non-technical contributors. Traditionally, creative digital assets are managed separately, slowing down teams and delaying critical feedback. Helix Sync is an alternative interface for Perforce Helix Core — the game and media development standard for version control — that centralizes digital asset management for builds. There is nothing to buy or integrate, teams simply choose the interface that works best for them.

     

    “Even if your team is small, it doesn’t mean your challenges or files are. Helix Sync was built to help teams go faster,” said Gerhard Krüger, Cloud Architect and Product Manager at Perforce.  “Securely versioning design assets alongside code removes complexity and accelerates development.”

     

    With Helix Sync, artists and designers can version any asset using their preferred tools. They get all the benefits of Helix Core — superior performance, automated workflows, and more. Breaking down silos in development, Helix Sync creates a single source of truth, promoting reuse across teams. Join a discussion with industry experts to learn more and see Helix Sync in action.

     

    Perforce Software continues to expand on existing industry-leading products to optimize workflows across and unite global teams.

     

    About Perforce
    Perforce powers innovation at unrivaled scale. Perforce solutions future-proof competitive advantage by driving quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed – across the technology lifecycle. We bring deep domain and vertical expertise to every customer, so nothing stands in the way of success.  Our global footprint spans more than 80 countries and includes over 75% of the Fortune 100. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions to even the toughest challenges. Accelerate technology delivery, with no shortcuts. Get the Power of Perforce.

     

  • Rocket Software Extends Its Technology and Global Reach with Agreement to Acquire ASG Technologies

    WALTHAM, Mass. – April 12, 2021

    News summary

    • Rocket® announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ASG Technologies
    • Acquisition furthers Rocket’s commitment to its customers and partners to continue to grow its portfolio of enterprise software solutions
    • The combination of portfolios will drive a more holistic approach to generating value

    Full story

    Rocket Software (“Rocket®”), a global technology leader that develops enterprise modernization and optimization solutions for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ASG Technologies (“ASG”), a leading provider of solutions for the information-powered enterprise.

    This acquisition furthers Rocket’s commitment to its customers and partners to continue to grow its portfolio of enterprise software solutions that increase the value of legacy platforms across the technology domains of core infrastructure, security, data & AI, application development, open source, and hybrid cloud.

    “We know ASG well and are pleased to add their competencies and expertise in and around structured and unstructured data, content management, and systems management to our combined company,” said Andy Youniss, CEO, Rocket Software. “This is an important milestone in our journey of investing in global enterprise IT solutions and in our ongoing commitment to our customers. We will continue to enable our customers to evolve their core applications, take advantage of the power of their data, and operate their IT environments.”

    The combination of these portfolios will drive a more holistic approach to generating value from the vast data capabilities of extensive applications at the core of their business. Decades of innovation in the content management space from ASG will continue under Rocket leadership to address the shifting challenges of integration and transparency across legacy, cloud, and SaaS environments. The systems management solutions will continue to support the efficient operation of these critical environments.

    “Digital transformation has taken on a new level of priority for organizations across industries and geographies in the past year, and the urgency with which it has been embraced in the enterprise has further solidified ASG’s mission to improve the way people, information processes and systems work together to deliver business outcomes,” said Charles Sansbury, President and CEO, ASG. “With our combined expertise and shared vision, together Rocket and ASG will bring industry-leading innovation to our customer base worldwide.”

    The deal is expected to close later this calendar quarter, subject to receipt of applicable regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed at this time.

    Bank of America Securities and Barclays are acting as joint financial advisors to ASG. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is acting as legal counsel to ASG.

    About Rocket Software

    Rocket Software empowers organizations to create legendary impact in the world through innovation in legacy technologies. With deep expertise in IBM Z, IBM Power, and database and connectivity solutions, Rocket provides solutions that power tens of thousands of global businesses, solving real problems and making real-world impact. Rocket is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Rocket is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity.

    Legacy Powers Legendary™

    About ASG Technologies

    ASG Technologies is an award-winning, industry-recognized, and analyst-verified global software company providing the only integrated platform and flexible end-to-end solution for the information-powered enterprise. ASG’s Information Management solutions capture, manage, govern, and enable companies to understand and support all types of information assets (structured and unstructured) and stay compliant. ASG’s IT Systems Management solutions ensure that the systems and infrastructure supporting that information lifecycle are always available and performing as expected. ASG has over 3,500 customers worldwide in top vertical markets including Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance and Government. Visit ASG on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. ASG is a portfolio company of Evergreen Coast Capital, Elliott Investment Management’s technology-focused Menlo Park affiliate.

     

    Cautionary Information Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

    This release contains “forward-looking statements.” Forward-looking statements represent management’s current expectations and are based upon information available to the Company at the time of this release. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond the Company’s control, that may cause the actual results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise forward looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

     

  • DoControl Launches with $13.35M in Funding to Automate SaaS Data Access Controls

    Helps enterprises prevent data breaches on SaaS applications with minimal or no impact on business enablement

     

    New York, NY – April 12, 2021 – DoControl today introduced a fully Automated SaaS Security Platform, providing data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation across major SaaS applications, such as Google Drive, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, Salesforce, Slack, Jira, BambooHR, GitHub and more. The company also announced $10 million in Series A funding, led by Datadog investor RTP Global with participation from StageOne Ventures, Cardumen Capital and global cybersecurity leader CrowdStrike’s early stage investment fund, the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund. DoControl brings together a world-class roster of advisory board members including Andy Brown, board of directors at Zscaler; Shawn Henry, president of CrowdStrike Services and chief security officer at CrowdStrike; Justin Somaini, chief security officer at Unity; and Nadir Izrael, co-founder and chief technology officer at Armis.

    “While leading cybersecurity product management at Google Cloud, I saw firsthand how enterprises struggle with preventing unauthorized access to data stored in the cloud,” said Adam Gavish, DoControl co-founder and chief executive officer. “This becomes more complex with SaaS applications serving the entire workforce. Identity providers and zero trust solutions manage users and secure remote access, but security/IT teams have no simple way to dynamically monitor and restrict access to data by former employees, private accounts, external vendors, customers or partners. This creates a huge amount of unmanageable data access, posing significant risks to organizations and increasing the likelihood of data breaches. DoControl solves one of the most complex operational challenges – monitoring and restricting data access to the wrong personnel without slowing down business enablement. We’re giving enterprises an efficient platform to balance this operational equation through automation and frictionless, modern user experience.”

    Andy Brown, board of directors at Zscaler, said: “With so much business data moving outside the network perimeter into SaaS applications, this is becoming a blind spot for CISOs and security teams. It’s time for a solution that gives enterprises not only visibility on such data movements but also control on how it is used and shared to drive business without increasing the risk of data breaches.”

    The DoControl platform is integrated with major SaaS applications to provide three main capabilities: Comprehensive Asset Management providing critical business insights across users, external collaborators, assets, sharing breakdown, and third-party domains; Security Policy Enforcement through intuitive, no-code workflows applied consistently to prevent data breaches at scale; and Slack/Teams Bot engaging with end-users on behalf of security/IT teams to enable a self-service remediation path for human errors, malicious activity, and data leakage.

    Only ten months since inception, the company has raised $13.35M total in financing and is trusted by a wide range of organizations globally sharing millions of files, folders, repositories, and other assets with over 10,000 external companies. The funding round will help the company execute its go-to-market strategy by doubling its headcount across R&D, sales, and marketing to accelerate global expansion while delivering an enterprise ready product that supports hundreds of customer feature requests.

    Investor Quotes:

     

    Luke Page, partner at RTP Global, said: “The DoControl team is redefining an emerging category affecting almost every company worldwide – SaaS security. We were immediately impressed with the product and engineering background of the founding team, and quickly realized this customer-focused team is driven to solve real-world challenges with a differentiated technology that works at scale. With automated security workflows, DoControl makes data access control painless for enterprises of all shapes and sizes to improve security and operational efficiency.”

     

    Shawn Henry, president of CrowdStrike Services and chief security officer at CrowdStrike, said: “CrowdStrike is delighted to participate in DoControl’s funding rounds. Their innovative approach reduces the complexities of security maintenance, compliance and data access across SaaS applications, allowing enterprises to strike a better balance between security and business enablement while optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of their security operations.”

     

    About DoControl:

    Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, DoControl is an automated data access controls platform for SaaS applications, improving security and operational efficiency with ease for enterprises. DoControl is backed by investors RTP Global, StageOne Ventures, Cardumen Capital and global cybersecurity leader CrowdStrike’s early stage investment fund, the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund. The company’s leadership team combines product, engineering and sales experience across cybersecurity, enterprise and SaaS innovators. For more information, please visit https://www.docontrol.io. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

     

  • ScaleOut Software Announces On-Premises Version of its ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service™

    New On-Premises Support for Streaming Analytics with Real-Time Digital Twins Offers a Full Suite of Analytics and Visualization Tools with Complete Infrastructure Control

    BELLEVUE, Wash – April 6, 2021 – ScaleOut Software today released the on-premises version of its ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service™ with all of the analytics and visualization tools available from its Azure-hosted cloud version. Called ScaleOut StreamServer® DT, this new software solution lets organizations develop and deploy streaming analytics applications on servers hosted within their infrastructure. This deployment model overcomes potential security and performance concerns associated with cloud-hosted services and can simplify the integration of real-time streaming analytics into existing on-premises architectures.

    With innovative support for the “real-time digital twin” model, ScaleOut StreamServer DT offers a breakthrough approach to streaming analytics. Real-time digital twins enable applications to analyze data in motion in milliseconds from thousands of data sources. They also maintain dynamic, contextual information about each data source to enable deeper introspection. In addition, ScaleOut Software’s in-memory, streaming analytics platform continuously aggregates and visualizes analytics results from real-time digital twins to identify emerging trends and boost situational awareness. This new technique offers the potential to fundamentally change the way industries like telematics, security monitoring, healthcare, logistics, retail, and financial services process live data streams and make critical decisions in the moment.

    “We are excited to extend the reach of our real-time streaming analytics platform by adding an on-premises version of our Azure cloud service,” said Dr. William Bain, ScaleOut Software’s CEO and founder. “It was essential that we deliver all of the industry-leading visualization features and capabilities from our ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service, while enabling organizations to have complete infrastructure control with ScaleOut StreamServer DT.”

    Benefits of ScaleOut StreamServer DT 

    Key benefits of ScaleOut StreamServer DT include:

     

    • Secure Control of All Software and Hardware Resources: To meet their specific security requirements, many organizations cannot take advantage of public cloud-hosted software services. Because ScaleOut StreamServer DT runs on virtual or physical servers controlled by the organization, it overcomes this key security limitation.
    • High Performance: Performance-sensitive applications need to minimize the delay in processing messages from their data sources. By avoiding Internet delays in communicating with a cloud-hosted service and running in close proximity to data sources, ScaleOut StreamServer DT can deliver streaming analytics results with the best possible performance.
    • Ease of Integration: ScaleOut StreamServer DT offers significant new capabilities for analyzing incoming telemetry from data sources in real time instead of waiting for offline, batch analytics. Organizations that currently host on-premises big data platforms, but lack real-time streaming analytics, can easily expand their in-house architectures to incorporate ScaleOut StreamServer DT and boost their capabilities.
    • Advanced Container Technology: To simplify deployment of its graphical user interface and visualization tools, ScaleOut StreamServer DT also uses highly modular and portable container technology. This technology enables fast installation on commodity servers.

    For more information, please visit www.scaleoutsoftware.com and follow @ScaleOut_Inc on Twitter.

    Additional Resources:

     

    • Deploying Real-Time Digital Twins On-Premises with ScaleOut StreamServer DT  Blog Post
    • ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service Product Page

    About ScaleOut Software

    Founded in 2003, ScaleOut Software develops leading-edge software that delivers scalable, highly available, in-memory computing and streaming analytics technologies to a wide range of industries. ScaleOut Software’s in-memory computing platform enables operational intelligence by storing, updating, and analyzing fast-changing, live data so that businesses can capture perishable opportunities before the moment is lost. It has offices in Bellevue, Washington and Beaverton, Oregon.

     

  • Applitools Introduces Automation Cookbook and Test Kitchen to Help Engineers Break Down Coding Recipes

    Automation Cookbook is the industry’s first resource to compile short how-to videos focused on teaching engineers how to complete necessary day-to-day tasks for test automation

    SAN MATEO, Calif., April 8, 2021 — Applitools, provider of a next generation test automation through Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, today announced the launch of its “Automation Cookbook,” featuring free bite-sized videos aimed to upskill developers and test engineers of all experience levels. Anyone looking for quick answers to their test automation questions can use recipes to solve everyday challenges and also practice in the Test Kitchen for free. The initiative is led by Angie Jones, Senior Director of Developer Relations at Applitools and Test Automation University, with contributions from Colby Fayock, Developer Advocate at Applitools.

    For more information and to use the Automation Cookbook, visit: https://applitools.com/cookbook/

    The Automation Cookbook is the latest test automation resource Applitools is releasing to increase its supply of free and accessible learning resources online for the dev community. It is supplementary to Test Automation University, which has surpassed more than 80,000 students to date and is the flagship resource for engineers to learn new tools and programming languages across various topics in automation.

    Since Test Automation University launched in 2019, Applitools has received requests for additional resources to help people quickly find answers to frequent day-to-day questions. Now, with the Automation Cookbook, there is a place to serve bite-sized content in one place without needing to sift through an endless web of long video tutorials, online forums, and Q&A threads just to end up with broken code examples.

    “Based on feedback from the community, our goal with the Automation Cookbook is to help engineers get answers to frequently asked questions with a visual coding recipe,” said Fayock.

    The launch of the Automation Cookbook includes 12 videos featuring two of the most prominent test automation frameworks for functional testing of web apps, Selenium WebDriver and Cypress. Each framework has six total videos to start. New videos will be added regularly with additional frameworks planned to be featured in the future. The videos range anywhere from 3-10 minutes in length.

    Initially, recipes for both Selenium WebDriver in Java as well as Cypress in JavaScript are available:

    • Uploading Files
    • Interacting with Alerts
    • Selecting from Dropdowns
    • Verifying Sortable Tables
    • Interacting with Browser Notifications
    • Taking Screenshots

    Unlike Test Automation University, which focuses on long-form education of complete learning pathways, the Automation Cookbook focuses only on specific tasks. To help engineers practice, Applitools created an open source website, Test Kitchen, with common web widgets to allow anyone to hone their test automation skills and knowledge.

    For a pantry full of web components that can be used for automated testing, visit the Test Kitchen: https://kitchen.applitools.com/

    “For many engineers, it’s common to run into a problem while writing a test. Whether you’re trying to work with alerts or upload a file, you may not be looking for an entire end-to-end course, but a quick solution to a single problem,” said Jones. “We have designed this short-form education program to answer your questions accordingly.”

    About Applitools

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

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

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

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