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  • Kaminario Launches New Storage as a Service Offerings

    Expands storage as a service platform with three new offerings and unified licensing

     

    NEEDHAM, Mass., June 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kaminario, a leading cloud storage software company, today announced three new offerings and a unified licensing framework aligned to its vision of delivering Storage as a Service (STaaS) for business critical data.  These solutions present Kaminario customers with new alternatives for building application infrastructures that achieve the simplicity and agility of public cloud with the control and performance of dedicated storage.  Kaminario leverages its software composable storage technology to offer consumption-based acquisition models for its cloud-scale application provider customer base, which includes leading software as a service (SaaS), fintech, healthtech, eCommerce, and cloud service providers.

    Kaminario Storage Utility enables consumption-based hardware acquisition.
    Kaminario’s Storage Utility combines its existing consumption-based software subscription model with pay-as-you-go hardware acquisition.  Kaminario runs on certified, industry standard hardware available as pre-integrated building blocks from strategic partner Tech Data.  Under the storage utility model, the hardware expense is converted to a consumption-based monthly payment determined by actual storage consumed.  Hardware usage metering is tied directly to Kaminario’s software usage with billing integrated into Kaminario Clarity’s analytics platform. Unlike a traditional lease, this acquisition can be treated as true operating expense (OPEX).

    The Kaminario Storage Utility can be purchased through Tech Data’s Technology as a Service (TaaS) offering.  The combination of consumption-based pricing, industry-standard hardware and Tech Data’s TaaS financing program makes Kaminario’s Utility highly economically efficient with all-inclusive baseline pricing of $100 per usable TB (terabyte) per month.

    Kaminario Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers fully managed DR services within capacity-based monthly expense framework.
    Kaminario DRaaS offers customers a fully managed, cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) solution as a month-to-month expense based on protected capacity.  Subscribers have the option of choosing from a list of Tier 4 datacenter locations for their DR site or to leverage an existing remote site they already operate.  Data is replicated using Kaminario’s native replication utility or a third party solution if the primary site is non-Kaminario storage.  Kaminario and its managed service partners can support a range of service levels and recovery time objectives while delivering the service as a true OPEX based subscription service.

    Kaminario for Public Cloud enables workload mobility from dedicated infrastructure to public cloud.
    With the boundaries between on-premise and public cloud infrastructures blurring, Kaminario will offer the capability to implement Kaminario storage instances on major public cloud platforms, including AWS (Amazon Web Services), GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Microsoft Azure.  Kaminario VisionOS software running on public cloud services will deliver the full stack of dataservices available to on-premise resources.  Kaminario’s native snapshot and replication utility can be used to move data from on-prem datacenters to the cloud to support development, disaster recovery or cloud bursting use cases. Kaminario cloud instances will be managed within the same framework and software stack as on-premise implementations.  Kaminario Clarity will provide management and analytics utilities across all environments.  Kaminario Flex will provide orchestration and automation utilities across all environments.

    Kaminario’s unified licensing scheme spans all acquisition and deployment models.
    Kaminario customers can choose to acquire infrastructure under any combination of acquisition models under a unified software licensing scheme.   A customer can now purchase an enterprise-wide license for some amount of capacity and deploy storage resources on purchased hardware, on utility hardware, at a DR site or in the public cloud.  As capacity requirements evolve over time and different environments scale up or down, Kaminario Clarity provides a transparent calculation of consumed capacity behind any bill.

    Kaminario’s modern and flexible STaaS platform is made possible by a unique software composable storage architecture, coupled with advanced analytics, orchestration and automation capabilities.  As IT organizations adopt a cloud-first model, they are encountering challenges deploying cloud strategies for business critical application data.  Kaminario’s focus on delivering STaaS solutions for business critical data is unique in the industry. With its  highly differentiated technology and business model, Kaminario has received recognition as a top performer relative to traditional enterprise storage array technologies.   Gartner rated Kaminario in the top 3 products for all use cases in the 2018 Critical Capabilities Report for Solid State Arrays.

    Availability
    Kaminario Utility Storage and Kaminario DRaaS are available immediately.  Kaminario for public cloud will be available in 1H 2020.

    Supporting Quotes
    “We continue to see how the public cloud is reshaping IT leaders’ strategies for delivering storage infrastructure that meets the needs of business critical applications,” said Dani Golan, CEO, Kaminario. “Kaminario is focused on building Storage as a Service solutions that help de-risk the growth of our customers with storage solutions that bridge the world of cloud and dedicated infrastructure.”

    “The IT value chain is rapidly transforming into a services-oriented supply chain,” said John O’Shea, senior vice president, Global Lifecycle Management, Tech Data. “We partner with datacenter technology vendors like Kaminario to enable this transformation with traditional channel services like financing, logistics and distribution. Tech Data is also uniquely able to provide lifecycle management services such as integration, field service and support that are aligned to the as-a-service economy.”

    “STaaS offerings from solution providers like Kaminario deliver immediate availability to storage services for their business projects and applications rather than the constraints of acquiring traditional on premises datacenter infrastructure technologies,” said John Webster, senior partner and analyst, Evaluator Group.

    About Kaminario
    Kaminario delivers a Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) platform for business-critical applications hosted on and off premise. Its software composable architecture combined with advanced analytics and automation allows  customers to realize the agility and simplicity of public cloud, while gaining the performance and control of dedicated infrastructure. With disruptive economics, Kaminario delivers flexible, consumption-based licensing that aligns with our customers business priorities. Headquartered outside of Boston, Kaminario works with a network of strategic partnerships, globally. For more information, please visit www.kaminario.com.

  • DevOps Institute Strengthens Research Team with Addition of Digital Transformation Analyst, Eveline Oehrlich

    DevOps Institute continues to invest in upskilling the humans of DevOps by expanding research program to provide a comprehensive view of the critical digital transformation skill sets across the global enterprise IT community

    BOCA RATON, Fla., June 10, 2019 — DevOps Institute (https://devopsinstitute.com/), a member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the addition of Chief Research Analyst, Eveline Oehrlich, to its growing global team. Oehrlich led the research and analysis for the “2019 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report” (https://hubs.ly/H0gJb190) and will drive the overall research strategy for DevOps Institute’s future 2020 Upskilling Report, among other projects. Oehrlich’s new role is to support the SKIL Framework, comprised of Skills, Knowledge, Ideas and Learning, by providing “Knowledge” in the form of research, case studies and other industry content.

    DevOps Institute is committed to advancing the human elements of DevOps success by providing IT practitioners and the DevOps community a holistic framework that’s needed to advance their careers and support their organization’s transformation. From accredited certifications and research to live events and continuous learning programs, DevOps Institute is 100 percent focused on providing the “know-how” to make DevOps possible.

    “We are building a powerhouse team to support and empower the successful skills transformation for the humans of DevOps,” said Jayne Groll, CEO at DevOps Institute. “Eveline will play a critical role in enhancing our continuous learning communities by researching and analyzing the IT skill sets that are in demand globally. Her expertise in digital transformation aligns closely with our vision and I look forward to the incredible value she brings to the DevOps Institute.”

    Oehrlich is an industry analyst, author, speaker and business advisor focused on digital transformation. Previously, she worked at Forrester Research as research director and principal analyst helping large and small IT organizations with challenges. Prior to Forrester Research, she worked for New Relic and Hewlett-Packard Software.

    “It is an important time for the IT community to upskill in order to both remain competitive in today’s job market, while also helping their organizations drive business transformation in the age of digital disruption,” said Oehrlich. “I am honored to join DevOps Institute and guide the direction of research that will help support IT professionals who are not only needed today, but are prepared to break through the technology and business challenges of tomorrow.”

    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.

     

  • Cisco announces its intent to Acquire Sentryo, the Pioneer of Cybersecurity Solutions For The Industrial IoT

    Lyon, France, June 7th – Cisco announced today its intention to acquire Sentryo. With organizations digitizing and connecting their industrial operations, the combination of Cisco network architecture and Sentryo capabilities of giving visibility into industrial control systems will help companies deploy Industrial IoT at scale, achieve new levels of flexibility, and better protect their assets and data.

    “We are very proud that the technology developed by Sentryo has been chosen by Cisco to become the cornerstone of the group’s IoT security offering. This is an important sign of recognition for the entire Sentryo team that we will continue to grow to offer the best technology enabling global organizations to ensure continuity, resilience and safety of their industrial operations.” said Thierry Rouquet and Laurent Hausermann, Sentryo’s co-Founders.

    More info: https://bit.ly/2QT2XCE

    About Sentryo
    Sentryo is the pioneer in solutions dedicated to managing the cyber risk of M2M networks and industrial control systems. Sentryo’s ICS CyberVision empowers operation engineers as the front line of defense to ensure integrity, continuity and security of their industrial processes. It leverages unique AI algorithms to give them comprehensive visibility on their industrial assets so they can easily identify vulnerabilities, detect anomalies in real time and work with IT to fight cyber-attacks. Sentryo’s ICS CyberVision is used every day by large corporations in the energy, manufacturing and transportation markets. Sentryo is headquartered in France and has a worldwide presence including offices and partners in Europe, North and South America, Middle-East and Asia. More info at www.sentryo.net

     

  • Imperva to Acquire Distil Networks, the Industry-Recognized Leader in Bot Management

    Imperva will integrate the Distil Networks’ solution into the Imperva security stack to deliver complete protection for applications and APIs, wherever they reside

    REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — June 4, 2019 — Imperva, Inc., the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Distil Networks, the global leader in Bot Management. The acquisition reinforces Imperva’s market leadership in the application security market and furthers the company’s mission to protect business-critical data and applications no matter where or how they are deployed.

    “Distil Networks is a globally recognized leader in automated attack mitigation, and this deal perfectly aligns with our vision of delivering best-in-class cybersecurity solutions that protect businesses throughout their cloud journey,” said Chris Hylen, CEO of Imperva. “Distil Networks gives us a comprehensive Bot Management solution that identifies, responds to and manages a full range of automated attacks no matter where these applications or APIs are deployed. We believe Imperva and Distil Networks will create the most comprehensive security platform on the market and we’re excited to make this available to our customers worldwide.”

    Imperva provides a highly scalable, layered application security solution to protect companies’ most valuable assets and deliver security insights that businesses can act on. Imperva is a recognized leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls, and is a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q2 2018, The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017 and The Forrester New Wave™: Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), Q1 2018.

    From her research and depth of understanding of the application security market, Forrester VP and Research Director Amy DeMartine writes in the Forrester New Tech: Bot Management, Q3 2018 report that “bot management will become the predominant application defense.”[1]

    An early innovator in mitigating automated attacks, Distil Networks is a leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Bot Management, Q3 2018. According to the report, “Distil Networks excels with robust detection, response, user interface and reporting.” Integrating Distil Networks with Imperva will provide customers with the critical elements they need [to provide a fully comprehensive, layered solution] to protect their applications and APIs.

    “Bots are an evolving attack vector that has become a threat to all organizations, no matter the size or location,” said Tiffany Olson Kleeman, CEO of Distil Networks. “We have been leading the charge to find solutions to better understand, detect and mitigate automated attacks since 2011. Today’s announcement serves as a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of Distil Networks’ team over the past eight years to solve this problem for our customers. We are excited to enter into a new chapter with a company that shares our passion for protecting critical business applications and delivering best-in-class security solutions for all customers.”

     

  • Flexera acquires RISC Networks: breakthrough cloud migration analytics platform accelerates digital transformation for enterprises

    SaaS-based platform enables companies to chart most efficient path to cloud

    Maidenhead, UK – June 4, 2019: Flexera, the software company that helps organisations realise technology’s power to accelerate their business, today announces it has acquired RISC Networks. Headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, RISC Networks’ groundbreaking SaaS-based analytics platform helps companies speed their migration to the cloud.

    Adding a cloud readiness dimension to the Flexera portfolio

    “Our Cloud Management Platform optimises cloud usage for our customers, and is well regarded by key industry analysts, including Gartner and Forrester,” noted Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “But we’re always seeking to strengthen our capabilities in cloud migration—an area that’s becoming more of a focus for IT executives and analysts.

    “With our acquisition of RISC Networks,” Ryan continued, “we can help our customers even earlier in their journey to the cloud. We can now help them assess, prioritise and price which on-premise workloads they should migrate to the cloud.”

    RISC Networks’ primary products—Foundation and CloudScape—help fast-growing companies like Morningstar, Verizon, Volvo and World Bank Group more effectively move from on-premise to the cloud by:

    • fully discovering all of a company’s IT infrastructure
    • automatically organising the information into the relevant business services that are essential to the enterprise
    • evaluating, prioritising and costing the applications to be moved to the cloud

    More comprehensive and actionable IT insights

    RISC Networks’ innovative platform extends Flexera’s ability to deliver IT insights and spend optimisation. The patented technology adds an essential “business service” view to existing visibility into software, hardware and cloud assets.

    “This acquisition enables us to help our customers chart the most efficient and effective path to the cloud, avoiding costly missteps that can set back their digital transformation,” said Ryan. “It will allow us to identify the best route forward. Adding RISC Networks to our portfolio will also help us build stronger relationships with cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, which will offer additional benefits to our customers.”

    About Flexera

    Flexera helps executives succeed at what once seemed impossible: getting clarity into, and full control of, their company’s technology “black hole.” From on-premises to the cloud, Flexera helps business leaders turn IT insights into action. With a portfolio of integrated solutions that deliver unparalleled technology insights, spend optimisation and agility, Flexera helps enterprises optimise their technology footprint and realise IT’s full potential to accelerate their business.

    For over 30 years, our 1,300+ team members worldwide have been passionate about helping our more than 50,000 customers fuel business success. To learn more, visit flexera.com

  • Exadel Named a Leader in Midsize Agile Software Development Service Providers Report by an Independent Research Firm

    Company achieves the highest score in ‘Current Offering’ category and customers praised Exadel’s consistently high quality and productivity

     

    WALNUT CREEK, CA – June 3, 2019 – Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global leader in digital software engineering solutions, today announced it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Midsize Agile Software Development Service Providers, Q2 2019, by Forrester Research Inc. In the Midsize Agile Software Development Service Providers Wave, Forrester evaluated companies based on “Current Offering,” “Strategy” and “Market Presence,” with Exadel achieving the highest score in the Current Offering category.

    Download the full report here: (https://exadel.com/agile-wave/)

    The report is designed to help application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals select the right Agile service provider for their needs. In the report, author Duncan Jones (Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving Sourcing and Vendor Management Professionals) led an evaluation of 13 providers and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

    “Customer references praised Exadel’s people, not only for their consistently high quality and productivity but also for their willingness to proactively contribute to co-innovation,” the report states. “One reference told us ‘their software performs better and is easier to manage’ Exadel is a strong choice for AD&D leaders who need to accelerate their firm’s product development and want a partner at the lower end of the midsize range.”

    “We believe being named a Leader in Forrester’s report and achieving the highest score in the ‘Current Offering’ category supports Exadel’s strong commitment to Agile innovation,” said Fima Katz, CEO of Exadel. “To remain competitive in today’s market, digital organizations must move quickly, but cannot sacrifice quality in the process, and Agile is a proven way to blend the two. Exadel is rooted in Agile application development and delivery, and our developers continue to take tremendous pride in the work they produce with clients.”

    As noted in the report, Exadel has differentiated, proprietary solutions like low-code development platform Appery.io and the Innovation Lab. Per Katz, “With the Innovation Lab, we are combining our Agile expertise with a virtual experience where IT leaders can move from vision to decision with emerging technologies – building and testing proof of concepts in an Agile environment in days.”

    Get started with the Innovation Lab here: (https://exadel.com/innovation-lab/)

    Exadel’s focus on attracting and retaining high-quality developers, collaborating and co-innovating with clients, and providing differentiated proprietary solutions makes the company a trusted choice for Agile AD&D. Market leaders including UBS, GHX and Deloitte have chosen to partner with Exadel on some of their toughest digital software engineering projects, requiring top tier Agile services.

     

    For more information on Exadel’s full services and capabilities please visit: (https://exadel.com/services/)

    Tweet this: .@exadel named a ‘Leader’ in @forrester’s 2019 Midsize #Agile Software Development Service Providers Wave https://exadel.com/agile-wave/

    About Exadel

    For more than 20 years, Exadel has been developing enterprise and custom software solutions for Fortune 500 clients, including AT&T, Samsung, Bank of America, eBay, and GE. With 18 locations and delivery centers across the US and Eastern Europe, Exadel solves the most complex software engineering problems, offering a scalable and skilled mix of onshore and offshore resources at the industry’s most competitive price. Our Digital Software Engineering Solutions (DSES) help chart new digital strategies that are built upon creative thinking, cutting-edge design, and technical innovation. DSES embraces the strengths of diverse global software engineering talent to create and implement strategic, cost-effective services for the new epoch of connected technology.

     

  • Datical Announces Issuance of Patent for Database Change Management Simulator

    Database Release Automation Leader’s New Patent Proactively Prevents Application Downtime and Security Vulnerabilities Related to Bad Database Changes

    AUSTIN, Texas – May 30, 2019 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced the issuance of United States Patent number 10,268,709 for its Database Change Management Simulator.

    The patented technology proactively forecasts and determines the impact of database schema and stored procedure changes before they are deployed. With Datical’s ability to intelligently analyze pending changes, software teams know how their database changes will affect application performance and security in advance, without actually making changes to the database. Datical’s Database Change Management Simulation involves three phases that help ensure database changes adhere to corporate standards – pre-simulation, simulation and post-simulation.

    Enterprises recognize the vital role of application software in driving the customer experience. Delivering new innovation to delight customers is important, and time to market is a major competitive differentiator. Because of this, application development teams, processes and tools are evolving in an effort to optimize for speed. Although application developers can now create and deploy front-end code changes in minutes, database code changes still take days or weeks due to complexity, risks associated with the manual process of reviewing, validating and deploying back-end changes.

    Today application and data teams must customize and manually deploy database changes in each environment of a software delivery pipeline to identify bad changes and minimize application performance and security risks. Datical’s patented technology addresses these inefficiencies by enabling a standard, safe, repeatable and automated process for database releases.

    “Without our patented technology, enterprises either release software slow to reduce risk, or try to release faster and risk application performance issues or even data loss – neither one is a good option,” said Derek Hutson, CEO of Datical. “The pressure is on application teams to deliver high-quality code fast, and it’s also on the database team to make sure its changes are made safely so nothing breaks. With Datical, IT leaders can have both, so they can deliver error-free application experiences faster and safer.”

    To learn more about the patented approach to Database Change, please visit the Datical blog: https://www.datical.com/blog/a-patented-approach-to-database-change/

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    About Datical, Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to transform the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation, organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 737-402-7187 or connect via @datical.

  • Cockroach Labs Launches Broad Multi-Cloud Database Partnership Program

    Distributed SQL Database Provider partners include AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure

    NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2019 − Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, the leading enterprise-grade distributed SQL database, today announced one of the broadest public cloud partnership programs to date. Cockroach Labs now has partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Oracle Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Openshift. These partners enable customers to deploy hybrid/multi-cloud databases that take advantage of the industry-leading advances in consistency, scalability, resilience and data locality delivered by CockroachDB.

    Experts are aligned on the future of database management. Santhosh Rao, Gartner Senior Director Analyst explains, “Multi-cloud is no longer a matter of ‘if’ — it’s a matter of ‘when’… Multi-cloud computing lowers the risk of cloud provider lock-in, and can provide service resiliency and migration opportunities, in addition to the core cloud benefits of agility, scalability and elasticity.”

    The partner program highlights Cockroach Labs’ ability to maximize IT flexibility for businesses by allowing companies to deploy CockroachDB on-premise, in the cloud, or even across clouds. This enables enterprises to replicate or partition data across cloud vendors, or specifically target the most appropriate vendor for the job at hand – leading to the mitigation of risks associated with a single cloud vendor.

    “For growth-stage companies built around cloud offerings over the past decade, multi-cloud capabilities have been viewed as impractical and unnecessary. However, the demand for multi and hybrid cloud is now skyrocketing because established enterprises are beginning to move to the cloud in earnest,” explains Cockroach Labs CEO and co-founder, Spencer Kimball. “Larger companies are less comfortable with the concentration risk inherent in a single cloud vendor, and are especially wary of consuming proprietary services offered by one vendor. Even assuming that risk, the complexity of existing legacy deployments mandates hybrid solutions which consolidate technologies across private and public clouds.”

    About Cockroach Labs

    Cockroach Labs is the company behind CockroachDB, the ultra-resilient SQL database for global business. With a mission to Make Data Easy, Cockroach Labs is led by a team of former Google engineers who have had front row seats to nearly two decades of database evolution. The company is headquartered in New York City and is backed by an outstanding group of investors including Benchmark, G/V (formerly Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Redpoint, and Sequoia. Learn more at www.cockroachlabs.com.

     

  • Logz.io Raises $52 Million in Series D Funding Led by General Catalyst

    Dedicated to Building a New Open Source Experience for Developers, Logz.io will Use Funds to Extend Product Portfolio and Expand Internationally

    Boston and Tel Aviv – May 29, 2019 – Logz.io, an intelligent and scalable machine data analytics platform based on open source ELK and Grafana, today announced it has raised $52 million in Series D funding led by General Catalyst with participation from OpenView Ventures, 83North, Giza Venture Capital, Vintage Investment Partners, Greenspring Associates and Next47. The funding will be used to further develop and enhance the company’s product offering, increase their global presence and invest in its partner ecosystem.

    Dedicated to building a better open source experience, Logz.io has grown rapidly–more than doubling their business in 2018–and now serves more than 700 customers such as Unity, British Airways, Bleacher Report, Symantec, and Schneider Electric.

    Founded in 2014 by two engineers dedicated to alleviating the pains of operating and securing large distributed workloads, Logz.io empowers engineers to focus their efforts on building better software rather than maintaining difficult to scale open source monitoring stacks. Originally built to enhance ELK by adding increased cloud scalability, a variety of enterprise-grade features and machine learning capabilities, the company has expanded their open source offering by adding new products for security analytics based on Kibana and announced the upcoming time-series analytics using Grafana.

    Designed for monitoring modern applications, Logz.io combines cloud-native simplicity and scalability with crowdsourced artificial intelligence to help engineers identify critical issues before they occur and enable them to monitor, troubleshoot and secure mission-critical applications using one unified platform.

    “Before switching to Logz.io, my engineers were spending over 20% of their time managing our self hosted logging platform; it could not reliably scale during a crisis when we needed it and integration with our heterogeneous environments was very tricky,” said Jujhar Singh, Global Head of DevOps at The Economist.  “Since moving to Logz.io, our teams spend much more of their time building better code, and I know the Logz.io platform will scale to any level we need. Plus, the additional AI capabilities Logz.io provides makes it much easier for my engineers to find and fix problem areas before they affect production.”

    “The role machine data analysis plays in maximizing performance and minimizing downtime is unquestionable, but increasingly distributed environments and massive volumes of data make it nearly impossible for developers to keep up. We are enabling engineers to consume open-source in a completely new way to meet the growing challenge of machine data analysis efficiently and at any scale, allowing them to focus their time and energy on driving value for the business.” Says Tomer Levy, co-founder and CEO of Logz.io. “This new funding will enable us to double down on our product leadership to better serve our customers as well as enable more companies around the world to benefit from different open-source with Logz.io through our growing go-to-market and strategic partnerships.”

    In addition to expanding their product offering, Logz.io plans to use the funding for expanding their partnerships with global technology leaders. The company recently announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure enabling customers to easily use open-source ELK on Azure. This partnership enables Logz.io to quickly address this underserved market and expand globally through the Microsoft sales team in six global regions. In addition, Logz.io recently expanded their AWS regional coverage across North America, Europe, and Australia. The company has offices in Tel Aviv and Boston and recently opened their European headquarters in London.

    “Managing service reliability and security is a real resource sinkhole for technical teams,” said Larry Bohn, Managing Director at General Catalyst. “Logz.io uses crowdsourcing and ML to up-level the efficiency and effectiveness of those teams. Customers rave and we think Logz.io has the potential to transform infrastructure management in the enterprise on down to early-stage startups.”

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    About Logz.io

    Logz.io is an intelligent and scalable machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana that empowers engineers to monitor, troubleshoot, and secure mission-critical applications more effectively. Customers like Turner Broadcasting, Intel, and Rent-A-Center use Logz.io to analyze machine data at scale, driving higher reliability and spending less time troubleshooting issues while decreasing overall costs.

  • Moogsoft AIOps 7.2 Optimizes Ease of IT Operations with New Transparency, Efficiency & Customization Enhancements

    AIOps Platform Pioneer and Leader Transforms Service Assurance with Workflow Engine, other New Features

     

    SAN FRANCISCO – May 29, 2019 – Moogsoft, a pioneer and leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), announced today the release of Moogsoft AIOps 7.2, the latest version of its enterprise platform. Release 7.2 features groundbreaking new capabilities that ease the burden of IT Operations and DevOps teams by optimizing service assurance. Significant new transparency, efficiency, and customization enhancements include: a new workflow engine, AI visualizations, performance dashboards, and new tool integrations.

    “Operations teams seek ways to tame the complexity of their IT environments and make sense of frequent alert storms,” said Nancy Gohring, senior analyst for application and infrastructure performance at 451 Research. “Applying sophisticated analytics, including machine learning, is useful for improving the correlation of alerts and delivering better visibility. Automation enabled by this visibility will have a positive effect on incident response time and increase overall ops team productivity.”

    David Bell, Managing Director of Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Management at American Airlines, says, “With the AIOps system, we have cut the average time it takes to resolve technical snafus by 50 percent. The Moogsoft platform, used at the company’s 24/7 IT Global Situation Center, analyzes 5 million IT error notices and warnings a month, or about 2 every second, as it scans for IT hiccups that could disable a luggage-scanning system, delay a flight, or trip up some other core function.” (source: Wall Street Journal, 14 May 2019)

    New Moogsoft AIOps 7.2 Features

    New Workflow Engine Manages Workloads, Automates Ticketing & Notifications

    Moogsoft AIOps 7.2’s new Workflow Engine provides IT Ops teams the ability to visually create sophisticated custom workflows using a simple but powerful user interface. A rich set of workflow options can trigger actions both within Moogsoft and to external systems for actions such as notifications, ticket creation, and other automated tasks. The Workflow Engine simplifies conditional event processing with enrichment of event alert data, enabling automation of incident management workflows as well as integration with automated remediation tools.

    Situation Visualization Increases Transparency, Understanding of How Algorithms Work

    Situation Visualization provides powerful new visual tools for understanding the operation of Moogsoft’s alert clustering algorithms and, if needed, for fine-tuning them. Similarity clusters are presented as radar charts for each Situation. They provide a window into how the system’s automated decision making works. Users can understand at a glance the matching criteria for those events that have been correlated together into a single Situation. Together with Probable Root Cause, Topology, and other visualizations, Moogsoft’s Situation Room offers real-time situational awareness to IT Ops and DevOps teams. 

    Customization Features Conform to Customers’ Unique Organizational Needs

    Moogsoft AIOps 7.2 introduces a number of new features that personalize and configure the platform for a customer’s unique environment and organizational requirements. These comprise:

    • Situation Room Headers. The information presented in Situation Room headers can be easily customized to improve operational efficiency. Team members can understand the Situation at a glance and decide on next steps.
    • Individual Statistics. A new analytics dashboard called Individual Statistics allows managers to drill down from the team level to better understand the workload and key performance indicators of each individual team member. This insight allows team leaders and all members to optimize work distributions and overall operational effectiveness.
    • New Tool Integrations. Moogsoft AIOps platform continues to expand its broad suite of out-of-the-box integrations for faster time to value. New integrations include connectors to New Relic Insights, Microsoft Teams, and proxy support for all polling integrations (e.g. Zenoss, Zabbix, vCenter, vSphere, Solarwinds, Spectrum, and SevOne).

    “AIOps is gaining momentum streamlining IT Operations as well as DevOps,” explains Phil Tee, Chairman and CEO of Moogsoft. “We’ve built the AIOps market from the beginning, pioneered the way with over 50 patents, and now help over 120 of the largest corporations transform their IT service assurance. Today we’re delivering the next-generation platform to democratize the use of AIOps at all organizations. Our goal is to make Moogsoft the solution of choice for all enterprises – large and small – for agile, proactive event resolution. To this end, release 7.2 empowers enterprises to avoid outages, meet service level agreements, and accelerate digital transformation.”

    For more information about Moogsoft’s AIOps 7.2, visit Moogsoft.com, read our Blog or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    About Moogsoft

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