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  • HashiCorp Names Brandon Sweeney as Chief Revenue Officer

    Sweeney to Help Company Scale Globally to Support Growing Customer Base

     

    SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HashiCorp®, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, today announced that it has appointed Brandon Sweeney as its first Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

    “As demand for the HashiCorp suite of products increases, I am delighted to have Brandon join us as CRO, to help take us to a new stage of growth and of scaling our field operations around the world,” said David McJannet, chief executive officer, HashiCorp. “Brandon brings to HashiCorp a unique breadth of experience in building and leading field operations — exactly what’s needed for a fast growing technology company that’s leading a generational shift in the infrastructure market.”

    Prior to HashiCorp, Sweeney spent 16 years at VMware where he held various senior leadership roles across its sales organization, helping to grow VMware into a multi-billion-dollar, globally recognized brand with a product footprint in the IT departments of nearly every major organization worldwide. Most recently, Sweeney was SVP of worldwide cloud sales, where he was responsible for field operations and customer success for VMware Cloud offerings. This included VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as the Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM joint cloud offerings, and the ecosystem of 4,000+ cloud providers and MSP partners. Previously, Sweeney built and ran the multi-billion-dollar worldwide commercial, partner, and Dell businesses at VMware.

    “There are very few technology companies that surpass the growth milestones or have the kind of global impact that HashiCorp has achieved, and that do so in such a short period of time,” said Sweeney. “As the Global 2000 enterprises and SMBs leverage HashiCorp’s solutions to help them simplify and realize the full benefits of their multi-cloud IT infrastructure, I am excited to help scale the company and field organization. I believe HashiCorp can help our customers unlock a common cloud operating model — a challenge every organization is facing today.”

    As a result of the global impact and demand for its suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products, HashiCorp experienced more than 100 percent year over year revenue growth during its fiscal year 2020, which ended on January 31, 2020. During the past year, HashiCorp’s footprint across enterprise customers grew significantly, which now includes more than 200 of the Global 2000 and 100 of the Fortune 500 as customers.

    About HashiCorp
    HashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorp’s open source tools Vagrant™, Packer™, Terraform™, Vault™, Consul®, and Nomad™ are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Mayfield, GGV Capital, Redpoint Ventures, True Ventures, IVP, and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, visit https://www.hashicorp.com or follow HashiCorp on Twitter @HashiCorp.

  • Instana Launches Mobile End User Monitoring Beta Program

    Chicago, IL – February 5, 2020 – Instana, the leader in automated application performance management solutions for microservice applications, today announced a new Beta program for End User Monitoring of Mobile Applications. Users can submit requests to become Beta testers at https://instana.com/mobilebeta. The new mobile EUM capabilities center on problem identification and resolution.

    “Mobile App providers focus on the mobile experience, including the nuances of performance at the point of access,” said Chris Farrell, Instana Technical Director and APM Strategist. “Extending Instana’s End User Monitoring to include Mobile Apps helps application owners optimize every aspect of their application performance.”

    Instana’s End User Monitoring is included with the company’s APM solutions for no additional charge, providing client level details and traces from the browser (and now the App) making requests. Since the solution captures every single request, troubleshooting unique customer issues is easier.

    Instana is designed specifically to handle the challenges associated with cloud-native, microservice and  containerized applications. The solution is also able to automate visibility into Kubernetes-orchestrated application environments.

    Unlike other APM solutions, Instana fully automates the entire lifecycle of application monitoring including application discovery and mapping, monitoring sensor and agent deployment, and application infrastructure health monitoring. Whenever an application or infrastructure change occurs within dynamic applications, Instana recognizes the change in real time, instantly adjusting its application service maps, monitoring thresholds and health dashboards.

    The closed Beta program is available to individuals responsible for Mobile Apps that want to understand their application’s makeup, identify bottlenecks and optimize performance. More information is available at https://instana.com.

  • InfluxData announces availability of the leading time series platform on Google Cloud

    The strategic partnership empowers Google Cloud customers with InfluxDB Cloud for powerful analysis of high volumes of time-sensitive data

    SAN FRANCISCO — February 4, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced the availability of InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud. The strategic collaboration, originally announced in April 2019, is part of a major Google Cloud initiative to make the most powerful open source technologies more accessible to its customer base. InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud delivers the leading time series platform to developers and businesses, with unified billing, support and integration with other Google Cloud services, such as BigTable, PubSub and Stackdriver.

    InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud is a serverless, purpose-built time series database-as-a-service with advanced analytics that provide real-time observability into IoT and DevOps workloads. Modern application development requires specialized tools to drive faster, more agile innovation, and general-purpose databases — both relational and non-relational — can’t handle the scale of these workloads in a cost-effective manner. InfluxDB Cloud empowers users to derive new insights from their data, and with usage-based pricing, ensures customers never have to worry about added costs of overprovisioning or risk their application being unavailable when they need it.

    “Data has gravity, and open source technologies are increasingly critical for building next-generation applications,” said Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData. “Through this strategic partnership, Google Cloud is creating a marketplace for developers to thrive — with options for specialized workloads and access to the most powerful open source tools at their fingertips. It’s a continuation of our shared commitment to deliver solutions that help drive new data insights and applications.”

    “We began partnering with InfluxData with the goal of delivering best-in-class, open-source centric data solutions to customers,” said Manvinder Singh, Director, Partnerships at Google Cloud. “We’re delighted for InfluxDB to now be available for all customers on Google Cloud. Organizations can now leverage InfluxDB’s leading time series platform on Google Cloud, with unified billing and support, and integrations with key Google Cloud technologies.”

    The amount of data being produced worldwide is expected to grow nearly fivefold by 2025 to 175 zettabytes per year (IDC), driven by the proliferation of IoT sensors, serverless infrastructure, containerization and microservices. Most of this is time-stamped data generated at high frequencies and in great volumes that require rapid ingestion and real-time querying to extract maximum value.

    InfluxDB Cloud is the first and only serverless time series platform, and it is purpose-built to collect, store, query, process and visualize raw, high-precision, time-stamped data. With rapid ingestion rates (millions of metrics per second) and highly efficient compute, downsampling and compression functions, InfluxDB Cloud can perform up to 100x better than non-specialized time series solutions. InfluxDB Cloud features flexible and transparent usage-based pricing and a free tier to increase accessibility to all developers. InfluxDB Cloud leverages Flux, a new data scripting and query language that uses less code to extract more complex and valuable insights from data, better detect anomalies and enable real-time action with alerts and notifications.

    InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud is available now; learn how to get started on InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud for free at www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-cloud.

    About InfluxData

    InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the open source time series database. Our technology is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes of time-stamped data produced by IoT devices, applications, networks, containers and computers. We are on a mission to help developers and organizations, such as IBM, Visa, Siemens, Tesla and NASA, store and analyze real-time data, empowering them to build transformative monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications quicker and to scale. InfluxData is headquartered in San Francisco with a workforce distributed throughout the U.S. and across Europe. For more information, visit www.influxdata.com and follow us @InfluxDB.

     

  • IBM Cloud Annotations Tool eases the process of AI data labeling

    A new automated labeling tool in the open source Cloud Annotations project makes it easier for developers to label data without having to manually draw…

    Faced with the daunting task of hand labeling thousands of images, developers are looking for an easier way to train their object detection models. Currently, it takes 200-500 samples of hand-labeled images for a model to detect one specific object. Autolabeling images speeds the process and gives developers back valuable time to work on other innovative projects.

    A new automated labeling tool in the open source Cloud Annotations project makes it easier for developers to label data without having to manually draw labels on an entire dataset of images. The new feature takes advantage of AI to assist in the labeling process.

    You can access the tool now when using the Cloud Annotations GUI. You simply have to select the “Auto label” button and it will autolabel the images you’re uploading.

    Cloud Annotations is a fast, easy, and collaborative open source image annotation tool. Backed by IBM Cloud Object Storage, Cloud Annotations enables you to store as much data as you need, access the data from anywhere and share across multiple collaborators in real-time.

    Cloud Annotations enables multiple people to collaborate in real-time, access the data from anywhere, as well as store and back up the data through IBM public cloud.

    How it works

    To take advantage of the new tool:

    1. A user uploads and labels a subset of photos via the Cloud Annotations GUI.
    2. The user then trains a model following these instructions.
    3. The tool uses that model to label more photos. Simply select “Auto label” in the GUI and the tool will take over the task of labeling photos.
    4. User reviews new labels.

    See it in action

    The following video shows you how the autolabeling function works.Cloud Annotations now has auto labeling. It’s an early beta, but you can now upload a model to your project and let it do the labeling for you!

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    Get started

    The Cloud Annotation auto labeling feature is currently live on GitHub, available for anyone to use and take advantage of as a massive time saver. Start using the tool and let us know what you think!

  • Instana Adds Vsphere Support To Automated Microservice Application And Infrastructure Monitoring Solution

    Leading APM Solution for Orchestrated Containers Now Able to Monitor Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments.

    Chicago – January 29, 2020 – Instana, the leading provider of automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for microservice applications, today announced new capabilities for monitoring the VMware vSphere Suite, as well as applications running on vSphere infrastructure.

    Known for the ability to correlate infrastructure and application performance metrics and deliver actionable information to all stakeholders from development to operations, Instana’s latest release includes the ability to discover, map and monitor components running on VMware’s vSphere suite. Like the other supported infrastructure components Instana supports, application performance metrics are analyzed along with the new vSphere metrics.

    “As organizations evolve their application environment to leverage the latest advancements in application and infrastructure, it’s critical that their operational tools provide the broadest flexibility and intelligent analysis, regardless of the infrastructure chosen,” said Chris Farrell, Technical Director and APM Strategist at Instana. “The addition of vSphere support to our cloud, container, orchestration and microservice platform monitoring allows users to understand how different architectural and infrastructure choices impact overall service levels and application performance.”

    The vSphere announcement continues Instana’s legacy of excellence in monitoring applications and their underlying infrastructure together. Whether organizations run hosts physically, virtually or in the cloud, Instana enables them to quickly and easily see exactly how applications are performing and how the infrastructure is impacting those applications. With the ability to trace distributed requests end-to-end, the ability to see any and every possible infrastructure stack provides a complete picture of performance to Instana users.

    Unlike other APM solutions, Instana fully automates the entire lifecycle of application monitoring including application discovery and mapping, monitoring sensor and agent deployment, and application infrastructure health monitoring. Whenever an application or infrastructure change occurs within dynamic applications, Instana recognizes the change in real time, instantly adjusting its application service maps, monitoring thresholds and health dashboards.

    “Application migration is one particular use case for which Instana’s broad infrastructure and architectural support are a perfect combination to add value,” continued Farrell. “Whether migrating from monolith to microservices, physical to virtual hosts, or private to hybrid clouds, Instana’s automated discovery and performance monitoring provides the absolute quickest way to capture and compare different deployment options.”

    The vSphere support and monitoring capabilities are available today as part of Instana’s automated APM solution. Learn more about Instana and their application monitoring solution at https://instana.com.

     

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  • Itential Democratizes Network Automation with Release of Automation Studio

    Itential Automation Platform expands cross-functional participation through its rapid, low-code environment for easy creation and management of end to end network automations 

    BARCELONA and ATLANTA, JANUARY 28, 2020 /PRWeb/ — ItentialÒ, the leader in intelligent automation for multi-domain networks, today announced at Cisco Live EMEA the availability of Automation Studio, a low-code environment for rapid development of end to end automations across multi-vendor and multi-domain networks. Automation Studio, a part of Itential’s Network Automation Platform, can be used by developers and network engineers alike regardless of tribal network engineering knowledge or coding skills. With capabilities that enable users to quickly and easily design, build, and visualize automations leveraging its drag and drop interface and built-in network intelligence, further equipping IT and networking teams to contribute toward network automation goals.

    With the introduction of network programmability and APIs for everything from management systems to devices themselves, the modern network landscape has evolved to being managed like software. This shift from hardware-focused networks to software-centric functions has had a profound effect on network management techniques and skillsets required to keep pace with the changing complex ecosystem. By democratizing the skills needed to manage increasingly complex networks and saving time and money in the process, Itential is making the journey toward automated networks attainable in ways not previously possible.

    “Itential’s primary mission is to provide software that enables network engineers, software developers and IT operations to participate in network automation, bridge the skills gap and enable the largest participation needed to rapidly and efficiently execute their day to day network management activities,” said Chris Wade, Chief Technology Officer, Itential. “Automation Studio’s drag and drop low-code interface combined with out of the box pre-built automations enable organizations to shift from manual, CLI approaches toward programmable network management without needing to re-tool and re-train their workforce.”

    Itential’s Automation Studio capabilities include:

    • Graphical Automation Canvas for arranging and connecting tasks in a workflow to define operations and maintenance processes, mitigating the complexity of software development and further simplifying network automation.
    • Form Driven Automation for simplifying data gathering processes that are essential for automations; enables users to leverage drag and drop methodology or dynamically generate forms based on standard modeling languages such as YANG, TOSCA and YAML.
    • Intelligent Templates to enable NetOps teams to define robust and rigorous Pre and Post checks for network changes as well as create configuration models that leverage data to dynamically generate device configurations.
    • Open APIs and standards compliant data structures for allowing large teams to rapidly and easily collaborate and develop network automation workflows.
    • Built-In Network Intelligence for eliminating the complexity required to build agnostic automations across multi-domain networks and technologies.
    • Pre-Built Automations for dozens of common use cases such as software upgrade, golden config and compliance, SD-WAN branch turnup and more to help NetOps teams jump start their network automation efforts and embed automation design best practices to ensure modularity and reusability.

    Itential is currently showcasing their solution at booth #24A in the World of Solutions at Cisco Live EMEA. To learn more about Itential’s Automation Studio, reserve your spot at the upcoming webinar or contact us to schedule a personalized demo.

    About Itential

    Itential provides powerful network automation software to companies worldwide, from Fortune 500 telecommunications and financial service companies to enterprises of all sizes. We are committed to building world-class products that accelerate the move toward software-driven networks and next generation, agile network operations. Itential’s solutions leverage the latest thinking, open standards, open architectures, partners and best practices to drive network operations and maximize the impact of automation. Learn more at www.Itential.com

     

  • Unravel Data Platform Earns SOC 2 Certification from the American Institute of CPAs

    PALO ALTO, Calif. – January 21, 2020 – Unravel Data, a data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations to drive more reliable performance in modern data applications, announced the Unravel data operations platform has earned the prestigious Service Organization Control (SOC) 2, Type II certification from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA).

    The SOC 2 certification process is governed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). According to the organization, the SOC 2 certification is “intended to meet the needs of a broad range of users that need detailed information and assurance about the controls at a service organization relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity of the systems the service organization uses to process users’ data and the confidentiality and privacy of the information processed by these systems.” The SOC 2, Type II certification focuses on “management’s description of a service organization’s system and the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of controls.”

    “We understand our enterprise customers look to Unravel to ensure the right policies and procedures are in place to keep users safe from cyberattacks and vulnerabilities,” said Bala Venkatrao, Chief Product Officer at Unravel Data. “As we aim to remain a trusted steward of our customer’s data, pursuing this certification is part of our ongoing commitment to help organizations better understand and improve the performance of their data-based applications, and to maintain the privacy of their customers’ data.”

    To achieve the SOC 2 certification, cybersecurity and compliance firm, A-LIGN Assurance performed a thorough test of the Unravel Data Platform and examined the company’s operations to ensure Unravel has adequate safeguards to prevent or mitigate any security threats. During this audit, A-LIGN evaluated Unravel’s:

    • Organization and management
    • Communications
    • Risk management and design and implementation of controls
    • Monitoring of controls
    • Logical access controls
    • System operations

    To learn more about AICPA’s Trust Services Criteria, visit: https://www.aicpa.org/interestareas/frc/assuranceadvisoryservices/aicpasoc2report.html

    About Unravel Data – Unravel radically simplifies the way businesses understand and optimize the performance of their modern data applications – and the complex pipelines that power those applications. Providing a unified view across the entire stack, Unravel’s data operations platform leverages AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to offer actionable recommendations and automation for tuning, troubleshooting, and improving performance – both today and tomorrow. By operationalizing how you do data, Unravel’s solutions support modern big data leaders, including Kaiser Permanente, Adobe, Deutsche Bank, Wayfair, and Neustar. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is backed by Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, M12, Point72 Ventures, Harmony Partners, Data Elite Ventures, and Jyoti Bansal. To learn more, visit unraveldata.com.

  • Clubhouse Raises $25 Million to Replace the Atlassian Suite for Modern Software Teams

    NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Clubhouse, the collaborative home for modern software teams, today announced $25 million in Series B funding, bringing the total raised to $39 million. The round was led by Greylock Partners with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures and Lerer Hippeau. Clubhouse will use the new funding to accelerate its product innovation and scale the team as it looks to surpass the one million user milestone next year.

    “Building great software is the basis of competition for more businesses in more industries than ever before,” said Sarah Guo, general partner at Greylock and Clubhouse board member. “Yet the aging tools used to organize software development often make the process harder, not easier. With their blazingly fast, simple yet powerful software project management, Clubhouse is reinvigorating a huge but long-stagnant market. They’ve demonstrated both scalability and developer love that we believe has enormous potential. We’re thrilled to partner with the entire team as they grow and provide companies with a better, collaborative home for software teams.”

    “The hard truth is that we haven’t seen a modern vendor emerge in the last decade in the project management software space – despite huge changes in the overall software-development process,” said Neeraj Agrawal, general partner at Battery and Clubhouse board member. “We think Clubhouse is the new market entrant that can really shake up the sector. We have been extremely impressed with the company’s rock-solid team, innovative mindset and revenue traction to date, and we have high hopes for continued growth.”

    Software project management tools are either too simple and do not scale as teams grow, or they are overly complex to the point where the only choice is to adopt multiple tools such as Atlassian’s Jira and Trello. These complex project management tools create silo effects that minimize collaboration and visibility between engineering teams and the rest of the organization.

    “We recently moved off multiple project management tools to all lock arms in Clubhouse,” said Christine Spang, co-founder and CTO of Nylas. “With Clubhouse, we are able to track issues and collaborate successfully across departments. The team works faster and with less friction because managers and execs can trust the latest information is in Clubhouse without interrupting the team.”

    From day one, Clubhouse’s philosophy has been to deliver products and features that are fast and enjoyable so teams can focus on what matters – working together to create quality software their customers love. Clubhouse is the first and only software project management platform that successfully bridges collaboration across high-growth businesses. The platform provides the perfect balance of simplicity and structure so product and engineering teams can effectively plan, collaborate and manage their work across the entire organization and it scales as their teams grow, without friction and bloat to slow them down.

    “Clubhouse is built by engineers for engineers,” said James Turnbull, VP of Engineering at Glitch. “The workflow of the tool fits perfectly – we were able to get set up in less than 15 minutes. It makes my life easier and doesn’t get in the way and allows me to focus on my team and my goals.”

    “Clubhouse is redefining how quality software is created,” said Kurt Schrader, co-founder and CEO of Clubhouse. “We’re continuing to invest in building a faster and more powerful platform that will power modern software teams and their collaborators to do their best work, while being a joy to use.”

    Major Company Milestones

    Awards and Accolades
    In the last 12 months, Clubhouse has been named one of 57 startups that will boom in 2019 in Business Insider, one of 12 companies to watch in 2020 by SD Times, one of 10 tech startups for 2020 that will help the world build more resilient, secure and observable software by Packt and an MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase finalist.

    About Clubhouse
    Clubhouse is the collaborative home for modern software teams. Thousands of companies from all over the world use Clubhouse to plan, collaborate and build better software together. The company is headquartered in New York City and backed by Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures and other top tier investors. For more information, visit https://www.clubhouse.io or follow Clubhouse on Twitter @Clubhouse.

     

  • Applitools Announces Winners of the Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon

    More than 3,000 applicants competed to win 100 cash prizes and to be recognized as the top functional and visual test automation engineers on the planet 

    SAN MATEO, Calif., – January 23, 2020 – Applitools, the leading provider of Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing Through Visual AI, today announced the 100 winners and 10 Grand Prize winners of the Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon (applitools.com/hackathon). The hackathon’s objective was to see which of the participants could comprehensively catch and fix functional and visual bugs using both their preferred code-based approach and Visual AI.

    Out of 3,000 participants and 300 finalists, the top 100 winners received cash prizes. The winners were comprised of a diverse group of QA engineers, QA managers and software developers from 38 countries. These participants wrote automation tests against a pre-built Hackathon app for five common use cases in both the traditional approach and the Visual AI approach. They used Selenium or Cypress test runners and several programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, and C# to write their tests. The $42,000 prize pool recognized those who delivered the most test coverage and the highest quality test results.

    To learn more about Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon, read our blog (https://applitools.com/blog/hackathon-winners)

    “This challenge propelled me into digging for alternative ways to traditional testing,” said Grand Prize Winner, Corina Zaharia. “While solving the challenge, I realized that a tool like Applitools will save time on the proposed scenarios while still delivering the same value as other traditional frameworks.”

    “The Visual AI Hackathon was a fun way to discover the limitations of current ‘traditional ways of testing’ versus what Applitools provides,” said Grand Prize Winner, Ioan Cimpean. “From simple image comparisons, broken layouts, intended changes to broken sort algorithms, dynamic content and JIRA integrations, the bottom line is that you still need the screenshot anyway (for bug reporting and collaboration) around the issue.”

    “The response we received to the first-ever Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon was phenomenal,” noted Raja Rao, Sr. Director and Head of Growth Marketing at Applitools. “Participants used Applitools in so many diverse and unique ways for their test automation submissions — it was enlightening to see the increased usage of Visual AI technology and ways it can be applied in the real world.”

    For a full list of the Top 100 Winners, visit: (applitools.com/hackathon).

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves 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 Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, 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.

  • Accelerated Strategies Group Launches Mission to Disrupt the Technology Analyst Model

    Bringing an Open Source Native Model to the Technology Analyst Industry, Accelerated Strategies Group Wants to Set Knowledge Free and Open for Digital Transformation, DevOps,

    Cloud-Native and Cybersecurity

    Boca Raton, FL, January 23, 2020 — Accelerated Strategies Group (AccelST) has launched with the mission of disrupting the technology analyst market by utilizing the same principles of the open source, free model now prevalent in the greater technology/software market. AccelST will focus on the areas of Digital Transformation, DevOps, Cloud-Native and Cybersecurity.

    The last few years have seen a revolution in the go-to-market and consumption of software powered by the cloud, Cloud-Native, DevOps, Agile and similar methodologies. Free, open source software has become the dominant component in most applications today, bringing disruption and change throughout the sales and distribution model. AccelST will use this same model to disrupt the outdated models of publication and distribution of technology analysis information.

    “It is amazing to me that even with the triumph of open source business models, the analyst industry has insulated itself from the basic proposition that information and knowledge want to be free,” said Mitchell Ashley, CEO and founder of Accelerated Strategies Group. “We intend to make all of our research, analysis and work open and free to end users. Our consulting and sponsored activities will fully fund our organization.”

    Accelerated Strategies Group is a joint venture by Mitchell Ashley, a respected technology industry veteran, and MediaOps Inc., the company behind DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Container Journal and Digital Anarchist and co-founders of the DevOps Institute. “Working with Mitchell is amazing because he is consistently on the forefront of changes we see in our target markets—he walks the walk and talks the talk,” said Alan Shimel, CEO and founder of MediaOps. “Adding key industry and community leaders to the lineup really positions Accelerated Strategies Group as a firm that understands today’s markets and can help others with their transformations.”

    The Voices of Experience

    Accelerated Strategies Group experts don’t just regurgitate what others tell us; we use our expertise and experience to offer insightful, intelligent, useful information in a variety of formats relevant to technology builders and vendors: digital events, videos, reports, assessments, workshops and implementation projects with tech vendors, IT organizations and business leaders. And, similar to the open core model of open source companies, we widely and openly share our work products, often for free. Our analysts are industry leaders and authors including Mitchell Ashley, Sanjeev Sharma, Gary Gruver, Helen Beal, Jayne Groll, Eveline Oherlich, Bob Reselman, Ross Clanton, Marc Hornbeek, Donald Lutz and Frank Ohlhorst.

    For more information and to request a free 30-minute briefing, visit accelst.com. Because knowledge wants to be free.

    About MediaOps, Inc.

    MediaOps is a premier global media platform for technical communities including DevOps, Security and Containerization. Its brands, which include DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, attract and engage a thriving onlinecommunity of technology professionals around the world. Resources include award-winning editorial, creation of high-quality custom content, multimedia production and distribution. As the leaders in these emerging segments, MediaOps’ properties include powerful, integrated marketing and communication platforms to help clients maximize their campaign ROI and paid media investments.

    For more information, visit https://accelst.com and https://mediaops.io

    Press Contact: Send email to press@accelst.com