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  • EDB Accelerates Innovation with World’s First Openly Governed Postgres Operator for Kubernetes

    Releases CloudNativePG to Power Modern Cloud Applications with Unprecedented Flexibility 

    Bedford, Mass. May 16, 2022 – EDB, the world leader in accelerating Postgres in the enterprise, announced the release of CloudNativePG, the first open source operator optimized for Kubernetes, and the submission of a Sandbox application to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Built on cloud native principles, CloudNativePG enables senior IT decision makers to build the foundation for a microservices-based cloud native architecture. The new open source Kubernetes operator simplifies integration of the Postgres database platform in enterprise Kubernetes deployments, speeding up application and service delivery and accelerating enterprise innovation.

    Kubernetes has transformed the way enterprises globally create, deploy, and manage large scale applications via containers. With the growth of containerization adoption, the challenge of managing and leveraging data within containerized applications has become a barrier to using Kubernetes in some application scenarios. CloudNativePG brings in a community-managed, open source solution for data-centric applications on Kubernetes. 

    “This is the first collaboration between the Kubernetes and Postgres communities, and the possibilities of combining these two foundational technologies are exciting,” said Marc Linster, chief technology officer, EDB. “As the founding member of the CloudNativePG community, we are committed to supporting open source and elevating the power of the cloud for modern applications by leveraging our deep understanding of both communities. With expertise, enhanced enterprise-grade capabilities, global support and Kubernetes certifications, we are uniquely qualified to help end users accelerate infrastructure standardization, modernization, and cloud transformation.”

    The open source Kubernetes operator was designed with DevOps and Agile development in mind to help end users add technological versatility to their projects and achieve a faster time-to-market. EDB is a CNCF Kubernetes Certified Services Provider, Silver Member of CNCF & Linux Foundation, founding sponsor of the Data on Kubernetes Community, and has a certified operator for Red Hat OpenShift. End users who leverage the community version will be able to get support for CloudNativePG from EDB with EDB’s Community 360 Subscription offering. 

    “Ninety percent of people believe Kubernetes is ready for stateful workloads, but many cite challenges with operators as a key hurdle to adoption,¹” said Melissa Logan, director of the Data on Kubernetes Community.” “I applaud EDB’s effort to make the data on Kubernetes system more open and to give Postgres users an easy onramp for managing data-intensive workloads on Kubernetes.”

    Organizations globally are recognizing the power of running Postgres in Kubernetes. “At Boehringer, we made a strategic decision to standardize on open source technologies, and we selected Postgres Operator CloudNativePG for rapid development projects,” said Simon Adamczyk, global lead for containerization and Kubernetes, Boehringer Ingelheim. “While our Kubernetes adoption is at an early stage, we’re planning to go to production in the near future. It is vital for us to have uncomplicated solutions ready to quickly deploy and deprecate without having to think about licensing and lock-in issues.”

    To assist enterprise end users with tooling, enhanced features, and support, EDB also offers EDB Postgres for Kubernetes which leverages CloudNativePG to enable end users to utilize the enterprise-grade capabilities and support. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes provides the following features and benefits:

    • Easy access: The Kubernetes Operator covers the full lifecycle of a Postgres database cluster with a primary/standby architecture, using native cloud streaming replication.
    • Control over deployment: On premises or in the Cloud, EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs identically everywhere, giving end users consistent and reliable experiences. This also includes Red Hat OpenShift. 
    • Automated healing and administration: If Postgres breaks, EDB Postgres for Kubernetes restores functionality, protecting failover, switchover, backup, recovery, and rolling updates

    “The EDB PostgreSQL operator helps our DevOps engineers build applications based on open source technologies on our Kubernetes Cloud Native platform,” said Eduard Diner, IT product owner, hybrid cloud and data centre architecture, Mercedes-Benz AG. “Kubernetes helps us in accelerating the build of new applications and in the modernization of existing ones.”

    (¹) Data on Kubernetes Report 2021: https://dok.community/dokc-2021-report/ 

    About EDB 

    EDB is a leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing Postgres community, with more than 300 technologists, community contributors, founders and thought leaders. EDB drives innovation with enterprise-class software and services that enable businesses and governments to harness the full power of Postgres. With deep database expertise, EDB ensures high availability, reliability, security, 24×7 global support and advanced professional services, both on premises and in the cloud. This empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs, and scale efficiently. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com. 

    Contact
    Adil Jaouhari
    EDB Communications Manager
    adil.jaouhari@enterprisedb.com

  • Kubecost Expands Open Source Project, Community Involvement, and Enterprise Customers in 1H of 2022

    Running across clouds or on-prem, Kubecost provides the spend visibility and allocation necessary to significantly and continually optimize Kubernetes costs

    San Francisco, CA and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022, May 16, 2022 – Kubecost, a solution for monitoring, managing, and optimizing Kubernetes spend at scale, today announced it has more than doubled adoption recently as developers, engineers, and FinOps teams seek to control runaway cloud costs and unnecessary spend.

    Enterprise use of Kubernetes continues to scale quickly as organizations modernize application development. The most recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey on Kubernetes and container deployment trends found that 96% of businesses are now using or actively evaluating containers in production environments. For many businesses, Kubernetes-related cloud expenses have been rising even faster. A separate CNCF report specific to Kubernetes spending underscored how significantly costs have been increasing. While most enterprises reported higher cloud bills attributed to Kubernetes in the past year, 35% of all respondents said their Kubernetes costs have gone up dramatically, with costs climbing more than 20%.

    “With the right data, organizations can confidently scale their container deployments knowing precisely where their budget is going,” said Stacy Tumarkin, head of operations at Kubecost. “Kubecost is built to ensure teams aren’t paying for resources they don’t need, and they can do so without impacting the speed of development or the performance of their applications. Kubernetes is an incredibly powerful platform and the future of development—but enterprises can use and scale it without overpaying the cloud costs that so many of them are right now.”

    Kubecost highlights year-to-date heading into KubeCon EU include:

    • The community continues to rally around the Kubecost open source project: Community involvement with the Kubecost open source project is accelerating. Membership on GitHub is up 60% over the past year and activity on GitHub from non-Kubecost contributors now makes up 40% of all activity. Nearly 1,600 individuals are currently active in the Kubecost community Slack channel, up 40% from October 2021.
    • New enterprise customers include Under Armour and Broadcom. Kubecost continues to pick up new enterprise users. Companies including Under Armour and Broadcom have recently joined other enterprise users such as Adobe, Capital One, and Allianz. Kubecost’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) has tripled in the past 12 months, as its paying customer count has doubled.
    • Kubecost announced its Series A. In February, Kubecost announced $25 million in Series A funding in a round, led by Coatue Management, with participation from seed investors First Round Capital and Afore Capital. This follows the 2021 seed round of $5.5 million to help teams monitor and reduce their Kubernetes spend.

    About Kubecost

    Kubecost, launched by Stackwatch in 2019, helps developers and other stakeholders, including CFOs, understand and optimize Kubernetes spend. More than 2,000 companies use Kubecost across all major cloud providers and in on-prem and air-gapped environments. Visit www.kubecost.com

  • Ambassador Labs Announces New Ambassador Cloud Team Edition

    New capabilities and pricing model to unlock developer productivity for entire teams using Kubernetes     

    KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, BOSTON — May 16, 2022 — Ambassador Labs, the cloud native developer experience leader, today announced the newest release of Ambassador Cloud. Built on leading open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, including Emissary-ingress, Telepresence, and Argo, Ambassador Cloud includes new capabilities that foster developer team productivity with the freedom to leverage the technologies and tools they already use for full application lifecycle for Kubernetes. New capabilities include a Docker Extension for Telepresence for distributed team developer productivity and collaboration with the power to code, debug, and deploy applications faster than ever before. Additionally, a new pricing and packaging model makes it easier than ever for entire teams to accelerate their Kubernetes adoption as they code, test, ship, and run cloud native applications at scale. 

    To reinforce Ambassador Labs’ commitment to Kubernetes developer education, the company also unveiled a new free technical lunch-and-learn event to help teams adopt Kubernetes using proven architectural patterns and trusted open source tools. Helmed as ‘The Golden Path Pizza Party’, this is the latest program available to organizations worldwide and designed to address specific technical challenges that cloud native teams face as they chart their “Golden Path”. To learn more and request a session, go here.

    About Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Labs, the cloud native developer experience leader, enables developers to code, ship, and run applications faster and easier than ever. Maker of top Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source projects, including Emissary-ingress and Telepresence, Ambassador Labs delivers a developer control plane for Kubernetes that integrates the development, deployment, and production infrastructure for developers and organizations worldwide including Microsoft, PTC, NVidia, and Ticketmaster. Ambassador Labs is backed by top investors including Insight Partners and Matrix Partners. Learn more and get started for free at www.getambassador.io.

  • Clastix Launches Kamaji, a New Open Source Tool for Managed Kubernetes Service

    Run Kubernetes clusters at scale with a fraction of the operational burden.

    KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022, May 16, 2022 — Clastix, the Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy experts, today announced Kamaji, a new open-source tool to build and operate Managed Kubernetes Services with unprecedented ease.

    Kubernetes adoption has grown rapidly. A recent report by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) found that more than 96% of organizations are either using or evaluating Kubernetes – a record high since early surveys began in 2016. With this de-facto status, Kubernetes is now going “under the hood” similar to Linux, with more organizations leveraging managed services and packaged platforms from Cloud and Service providers.

    Global hyper-scalers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and a few others are leading this market, while regional cloud providers, as well as large corporations, are struggling to offer the same level of experience to their developers because of the lack of the right tools. Also, the Kubernetes solutions for the on-premises are designed for an enterprise-first approach and they are too costly when deployed at scale, requiring a management effort that is not competitive. Project Kamaji aims to solve this pain by leveraging multi-tenancy and simplifying how to run clusters at scale with a fraction of the operational burden.

    Anatomy of a Managed Kubernetes Service

    One of the most structural choices while building a managed Kubernetes service is how to deploy, manage, and operate multiple clusters at scale. As all these clusters must be: resilient, isolated, and cost-optimized, managing them can put too much pressure on the Ops teams.

    So, at Clastix, we went with the idea to use Kubernetes itself to orchestrate other Kubernetes clusters. This idea, also known as “kube inception”, is not a new idea, but we’re just trying to move it to the next level. To achieve this goal, Kamaji turns any conformant Kubernetes cluster into an “admin cluster” to orchestrate other Kubernetes clusters called “tenant clusters”.

    As with every Kubernetes cluster, the tenant clusters have a set of nodes and a control plane, composed of several components: APIs server, scheduler, and controller manager. What Kamaji does is to deploy those tenant cluster components as a pod running in the admin cluster. So now we have all the stateless components of the tenant clusters control plane running as a lightweight pod instead of multiple virtual machines. We haven’t mentioned etcd, the key-value datastore keeping the state of the cluster, as we will discuss it later.

    And what are the tenant worker nodes? They are just worker nodes: regular instances, e.g. virtual or bare metal, connecting to the APIs server of the tenant cluster. Our goal is to manage the lifecycle of hundreds of clusters, not only one, so how can we add another tenant cluster? As you could expect, Kamaji just deploys a new tenant control plane as a new pod in the admin cluster, and then it joins the new tenant worker nodes.

    All the tenant clusters built with Kamaji are fully compliant CNCF Kubernetes clusters and are compatible with the standard toolchains everybody knows and loves.

    Save the state

    Putting the tenant cluster control plane in a pod is the easiest part. Also, we have to make sure each tenant cluster saves the state to be able to store and retrieve data. All the question is about where and how to deploy etcd to make it available to each tenant cluster.

    Having each tenant cluster its etcd seems initially like a good idea. However, we have to take care of etcd resiliency and so deploy it with quorum replicas, with each replica having its own persistent volume. But managing data persistence in Kubernetes at scale can be cumbersome, leading to the rise of the operational costs to mitigate it.

    A dedicated etcd cluster for each tenant cluster doesn’t scale well for a managed service since users are billed only according to the resources of worker nodes they consume. It means that for the service to be competitive it’s important to keep under control the resources consumed by the tenant control planes.

    So we have to find an alternative keeping in mind our goal for a resilient and cost-optimized solution at the same time. As we can deploy any Kubernetes cluster with an external etcd cluster, we explored this option for the tenant control plane. On the admin cluster, we can deploy a multi-tenant etcd cluster storing the state of the tenant clusters.

    With this solution, the resiliency is guaranteed by the usual etcd mechanism, and the pods count remains under control, so it solves the main goal of resiliency and costs optimization. The trade-off here is that we have to operate an external etcd cluster and manage the access to be sure that each tenant cluster uses only its data. Also, there are limits in size in etcd, defaulted to 2GB and configurable to a maximum of 8GB.

    At Clastix we’re solving this issue by pooling multiple etcd and sharding the tenant control planes. First benchmarks showed that we can serve several tenant clusters with several etcd of an order of magnitude lower.

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    Hard Multi-tenancy

    With Kamaji, cloud providers and large organizations can create a Managed Kubernetes service providing their users the same experience of Public Cloud providers in the simplest and most automated way. Tenant worker nodes are kept isolated by the infrastructure while the control planes run in different Kubernetes namespaces of the admin cluster. Network Policies and policy engines can be used to further isolate the control planes of different tenant clusters. A client should see no difference between a Kamaji built cluster and a dedicated cluster. At the end, Kamaji implements a full hard multi-tenant environment where each tenant acts as admin of his clusters and shares nothing with other tenants. We’re extremely excited about the Kamaji project as it looks promising and looking forward to the support of the community to make it even better.

    About Clastix

    Clastix is the leader in Kubernetes multi-tenancy solutions. Clastix products help organizations of any size to overcome Day 2 challenges and confidently run infrastructures based on Kubernetes. Clastix is the author of Capsule, an open-source operator for implementing multi-tenancy in Kubernetes, currently used in production by customers such as Fastweb, Wargaming, and many others. For more information on Clastix multi-tenancy solutions, visit clastix.io or drop a message to hello@clastix.io.

    Media Contact
    Marcello Lustro
    marcello@clastix.io

  • The World’s Most Advanced Embedded Security Solution

    San Francisco, CA, Rome, ITALY, May 16, 2022 — Exein is an innovative company and leading provider of Embedded Security Solutions for IoT Devices. With proprietary AI algorithms, their product detects and mitigates cyber threats to protect your customers and devices from malicious attacks.

    Pulsar is Exein’s modular agent framework that provides reactive defence capabilities with low runtime costs while being optimised for performance on edge computing systems. It has been developed using state-of-the-art practices in Rust, a language which was specifically developed to keep up with today’s pace of innovation.

    This revolutionary idea has an immense amount of room for growth. If you believe McKinsey, there will be 43 billion IoT-connected devices in the next five years – which is over 10 times higher than now!

    “It’s not just about thwarting ransom threats,” says their CEO, Gianni Cuozzo. “The exploitation of embedded devices can affect our safety too. Aviation, automobiles and home safety systems can all be targeted. Pulsar is a world-changing product that represents an entirely new way of approaching IoT security.”

    Their organisation was created to build a new ecosystem for embedded security, focused on technologies that bridge between mobile networks and industrial equipment. 

    Their team of engineers and researchers works towards creating malware detection systems so that they can keep up with today’s challenges – where every company must stay safe from external threats as well as internal ones. 

    One example of such an external threat is protection against advanced cyber-attacks often seen in firms producing satellite communications equipment. Although there are many methods used by other agencies – such as PKI or Firewalls – which allow these firms to guard themselves against hackers intent on hijacking an IP address, they believe Pulsar can do it more efficiently while still preserving optimum responsiveness. 

    In addition to developing original technologies aimed at securing companies against vulnerabilities they are also actively committed to training people in cybersecurity techniques through their community.

    For more information: https://www.exein.io 

  • Novu Raises $6.6 Million to Build Open Source Notification Infrastructure for Developers

    New solution creates a state-of-the-art notification experience for customers that until now was reserved for offerings from only the largest tech companies 
    TEL AVIV, May 11, 2021 — Novu, the leading open source solution for notification infrastructure for developers, today announced it has raised $6.6 million in seed funding led by Crane Venture Partners, Eniac, Entrée Capital, Ariel Maislos and a variety of individual angel investors. Novu’s open source infrastructure removes the time and complexity of building and maintaining these systems and delivers a state-of-the-art notification experience for users.

    “Notifications are the primary channel of communication in most digital business offerings and can have a very positive – or negative – impact on customer engagement and retention,” said Krishna Visvanathan, co-founder and partner, Crane Venture Partners. “We’re excited by Novu’s innovative use of open source to deliver a competitive solution to developers and engineering teams who can simply plug this into their existing systems without having to build from scratch.”

    The complexity and domain expertise required for building product-to-consumer or user communication is increasing because of burgeoning channels, digests, languages and user preferences, among other factors. In the time of proliferation among communication channels and more, the task of orchestrating product notifications has fallen on the engineering teams to solve. Novu provides the standards, tools and best practices to implement meaningful product communications while saving engineering teams time otherwise spent on building again and again. Developers can quickly set up robust infrastructure to enable product-to-consumer communication across email, SMS, notification centers, Slack and more while maintaining full visibility of their systems.

    “As engineers, we’ve built notification systems from scratch at all of our previous companies. After speaking with other engineers, it was evident that there is no off-the-shelf solution available,” said Tomer Barnea, co-founder and CEO, Novu. “Novu is a turn-key, open source foundation for engineering teams who will be able to dramatically improve the notification experience for their users. All of this enables a consistent and easy channel for communications between enterprises and their users.”

    Because Novu is open source, it provides visibility and extendability for engineers to create their own custom workflows. Novu customers will benefit from the collective wisdom and collaboration among a worldwide open source community.

    About Novu
    Novu is the only open source notification infrastructure. It’s simple to use and can be embedded in any product platform. Its management dashboard allows developers to understand exactly what is happening and enhances communications between enterprises and their customers for a long-term relationship. For more information, please visit https://www.novu.co/

  • Domino 5.2 Accelerates Model Velocity and Enables More Efficient Data Science Across the MLOps Lifecycle

    New capabilities accelerate data preparation, model development, and enable model deployment in Snowflake’s Data Cloud

    New York City, NY, May 5, 2022 — Today at the Rev 3 conference, Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise MLOps platform trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100, announced its latest platform, Domino 5.2. This powerful release continues Domino’s progress towards helping enterprises become model-driven by allowing data science and IT teams to develop and deploy more models faster, slash data and infrastructure complexity and costs, and extend autonomous model performance monitoring to Snowflake’s Data Cloud. 

    Throughout the lifecycle of a model, data science teams must contend with non-data science tasks, workarounds caused by inflexible tools and complex processes, as well as rising tensions with IT. Domino 5.2 helps reduce this complexity and alleviate friction with IT over costs — allowing teams to accelerate the MLOps lifecycle.

    New capabilities will recommend the optimal size for a development environment, thereby improving the model development experience for data science teams and delighting IT with reduced cloud storage costs. Integrated workflows in Domino 5.2 automate model deployment to Snowflake’s Data Cloud and enable the power of in-database computation, as well as model monitoring and continuous identification of new production data to update data drift and model quality calculations that drive faster and better business decisions.

    “Data science teams make their biggest impact on business and humanity when they focus on building, deploying and improving models on their own terms, without fear of vendor lock-in, rising costs or risk,” said Nick Elprin, CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab. “Domino 5.2 enables our customers to maximize model velocity across the MLOps lifecycle using powerful tools of their choice and scalable infrastructure like the Snowflake Data Cloud.”

    “Our teams demanded a machine learning platform that would give us the freedom to leverage a variety of data platforms while managing cost and risk,” said Stig Pedersen, head of machine learning at Topdanmark. “Domino’s Snowflake Data Cloud integration helps our team focus on data science, not complicated data regulatory requirements, with improved efficiencies, such as rapidly discovering model drift to minimize the potential business impact of suboptimal predictions.”

    With powerful capabilities across each critical stage of the MLOps lifecycle, this release solidifies Domino’s position as the most open and flexible Enterprise MLOps platform in the industry:

    Smarter model development with a new data preparation and visualization option, and IntelliSize for development environments

    It is widely acknowledged that data scientists spend significant time building, preparing, and cleansing data before modeling. With Domino 5.2, they can now overcome this hurdle using a native SQL-based environment based on Apache Superset. This fully integrated option for data visualization delivers to teams a deeper understanding of the breadth and quality of their data to be modeled.

    As data scientists use more software and compute, IT needs to manage more cost and operational burden. Domino’s Durable Workspace development environments are now smarter and more efficient with a new IntelliSize capability that will recommend the optimal size for an environment. For data science teams, this means less complexity and more productivity. For IT, eliminating excess workspace capacity and automatically deleting abandoned workspaces can significantly reduce monthly cloud storage costs. 

    Flexible model deployment using Snowflake for in-database computation

    Orchestrating the movement of data takes custom development work and forces manual workarounds that consume valuable time for data scientists and ML engineers, and introduce unnecessary risk. Domino has partnered with Snowflake to integrate end-to-end workflows across the MLOps lifecycle. Domino 5.2 combines the flexibility of model building in Domino with the scalability and power of Snowflake’s platform for in-database computation. Customers can train models in-database using Snowflake’s Snowpark, then deploy those models directly from Domino to the Snowflake Data Cloud for in-database scoring – simplifying enterprise infrastructure with a common data and deployment platform across IT and data science teams.

    Streamlined real-time model monitoring in Snowflake Data Cloud Environments

    Models most often decay as soon as they are put into production due to changes in business conditions, customer preferences, and other factors. Without proactive monitoring for data drift and accuracy, companies risk making bad business decisions based on outdated models. 

    With Domino 5.2, data science teams can now automatically set up prediction data capture pipelines and monitoring for models deployed to the Snowflake Data Cloud. Domino will also now continuously update data drift and model quality calculations to drive increased model accuracy and ultimately better business decisions.

    Domino 5.2 will be generally available to customers in June 2022.

    Additional Resources

    About Domino Data Lab 

    Domino Data Lab powers model-driven businesses with its leading Enterprise MLOps platform trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100. Domino accelerates the development and deployment of data science work while increasing collaboration and governance. With Domino, enterprises worldwide can develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, and build better cars, and much more. Founded in 2013, Domino is backed by Coatue Management, Great Hill Partners, Highland Capital, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital and other leading investors. For more information, visit www.dominodatalab.com

  • Citrix® and Google Cloud Simplify Shift to Flexible Work

    New Citrix DaaS solutions available on Google Cloud Marketplace deliver cost and time-savings in making transition from procurement to deployment.

    Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 4, 2022 — Last year, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) and Google Cloud announced their commitment to helping customers accelerate and embrace hybrid work models through Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solutions. And they’re delivering on it. The companies today announced that two new Citrix DaaS solutions are available for purchase in the Google Cloud Marketplace, making it easier than ever for organizations with Citrix VDI solutions to transition to Citrix DaaS on Google Cloud.

    And the timing couldn’t be better.

    “Organizations are rapidly moving to adopt hybrid work, and IT needs a way to get there that’s efficient, cost-effective, secure, and flexible,” said Carisa Stringer, Vice President of Product Marketing, Citrix.

    Simplifying Procurement

    Google Cloud Marketplace makes it easy for companies to quickly purchase and deploy market-leading digital workspace solutions designed to enable secure remote work, including Citrix DaaS solutions purpose-built for Google Cloud:

    • Citrix DaaS Standard for Google Cloud – Designed for organizations or departments that are newer to DaaS or VDI and need an affordable, yet comprehensive hybrid work solution to deliver virtual apps and desktops quickly, easily and securely.
    • Citrix DaaS Premium for Google Cloud – Ideal for organizations with existing VDI investments that need to modernize their deployments, Premium edition provides IT admins with rapid migration and provisioning tools, streamlined management of Google Cloud and/or on-premises resources, advanced security capabilities and exceptional monitoring and cloud optimizations.

    Citrix DaaS spend purchased through Google Cloud Marketplace counts towards a customer’s Google Cloud commitment and is included in their Google Cloud invoice, simplifying the transaction to just one bill.

    Enabling the Future of Work

    Citrix Systems Integrator and Google Cloud partner Wipro is looking forward to using the solutions to help advance the future of work.

    “Wipro is very excited and keen to position the DaaS solution from Citrix and Google Cloud by deploying a true hybrid cloud solution for hybrid work,” said Seshu Venkata, General Manager and Global Head of Wipro VirtuaDesk, Cloud and Infrastructures services.

    Speeding to the Cloud

    In addition to these new offerings and simplified transaction process, Citrix and Google Cloud are continuing to develop tools and resources to make it easier than ever for customers to transition from on-premises VDI deployments to DaaS with Google Cloud, including:

    • Image Portability Service for Google Cloud – Automates the deployment of a master image from an existing on-premises PVS/MCS-provisioned Citrix environment, targeting a Citrix DaaS resource location hosted within Google Cloud to reduce re-work when moving to the cloud, as well as burst-to-cloud capabilities for capacity management, improved disaster recovery and business continuity plans, and streamlined image management.

    “Transitioning to the cloud is a top priority for IT, and it takes a lot of careful planning and considerations,” Stringer said. “Together with Google, we are committed to providing solutions and resources that simplify and speed the process and deliver results.”

    Citrix and Google Cloud have been helping organizations make work more accessible, flexible and secure for more than a decade. Click here to learn more about their partnership and the value they can deliver for your organization.

    About Citrix

    Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) builds the secure, unified digital workspace technology that helps organizations unlock human potential and deliver a consistent workspace experience wherever work needs to get done. With Citrix, users get a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.

    For Citrix Investors:

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  • vFunction Launches the First AI-Based Modernization Assessment Solution to Quantify and Identify the Root Cause of Technical Debt in Applications

    vFunction Assessment Hub enables enterprises to prioritize app modernization efforts, in order to restore engineering velocity, boost scalability, and gain actionable insights on the impact of technical debt

    Palo Alto, CA, May 3, 2022 — vFunction, the first and only platform to apply AI to application modernization, today announces the availability of the vFunction Assessment Hub, a product that uses AI to accurately calculate the effect of technical debt across applications, their negative impact on innovation, predict the benefits of refactoring, and then integrate seamlessly into an automated refactoring platform. Companies can now identify the most egregious innovation killers in their application estate, build more accurate and impactful business cases to modernize complex apps, and increase the success rate of their application modernization projects.

    The top inhibitor to innovation velocity in organizations today is the debilitating cost and load of technical debt in large and complex applications. Current manual assessment approaches are slow, overwhelmingly complex, costly, and often fail to deliver positive business results. In order to increase innovation velocity and scalability, companies must address and eliminate accumulated technical debt across their application estate head-on. But, understanding the actual cost of technical debt and building a business case for modernization is elusive to most enterprises today. To address this, companies need to be able to accurately assess and measure the negative impact that technical debt has on the ability to innovate, compete, and scale.

    Introducing vFunction Assessment Hub 

    The new vFunction Assessment Hub, which integrates seamlessly with the vFunction Modernization Hub, is the first modernization assessment solution to analyze the technical debt of a company’s legacy applications, accurately identify the source(s) of that debt, and measure its negative impact on innovation. The AI-powered solution measures app complexity based on code modularity and dependency entanglements, measures the risk of changes impacting stability based on the depth and length of the dependency chains, and then aggregates these to assess the overall technical debt level. It then benchmarks debt, risk, and complexity against the organization’s own estate, while identifying aging frameworks that could pose future security and licensing risks.

    With too many of today’s assessment projects mired in complexity, risk, fatigue, and impracticality,  vFunction Assessment Hub allows enterprises with a broad portfolio of applications to accurately identify and prioritize which apps to modernize, construct an actionable roadmap for refactoring, and build a compelling business case for modernization that increases innovation velocity, scalability, and lowers costs. vFunction Assessment Hub is the first assessment solution that directly leads to refactoring, re-architecting, and rewriting applications with the vFunction Modernization Platform. vFunction’s AI-powered, data-driven approach to app modernization equates to accurate higher quality results, and more actionable conclusions than the manual approaches that exist today.

    “Technical debt and innovation are two sides of the same TCO coin—and debt has an inverse effect on innovation—you can’t solve one without addressing the other,” said Moti Rafalin, CEO and Co-founder, vFunction. “Traditionally, app modernization has been risky, costly and slow, but it doesn’t need to be. Our top priority is to provide customers and partners with a powerful, automated and low-cost assessment solution that helps to democratize the way legacy app assessment, planning, and modernization is addressed today.”

    “Given the complexity and interdependence of today’s multi-layered application estates, CIOs and technology leaders need to prioritize their modernization efforts before they start pulling on threads that can unravel further complexity,” said Jason English, Principal Analyst, Intellyx. “The vFunction Assessment Hub provides an entry point for evaluating the ROI of breaking down legacy monoliths and decoupling dependencies, so refactoring efforts can be better aligned with business goals.”

    “As people look to migrate to the cloud, ‘lifting and shifting’ monolithic applications is not sufficient,” said Steven Dickens, Senior Analyst, Futurum Research. “This vFunction announcement, which focuses on capabilities that make it easier for development teams to analyze and assess the task of migrating applications to cloud-native microservices architecture hosted on the public cloud, is much needed right now.”

    The vFunction Assessment Hub, packaged in 10-application packs and priced below less functional automated static code analysis tools, is now available for enterprises, in the AWS Marketplace, and through vFunction partnerships with leading Systems Integrators and Cloud Providers. To learn more and request a free trial, please visit: https://vfunction.com/assessment-hub-free-trial/.

    About vFunction
    vFunction is the first and only AI-driven platform for developers and architects that intelligently and automatically transforms complex monolithic applications into microservices, restoring engineering velocity and optimizing the benefits of the cloud. Designed to eliminate the time, risk and cost constraints of manually modernizing business applications, vFunction delivers a scalable, repeatable factory model purpose-built for cloud native modernization. With vFunction, leading companies around the world are accelerating the journey to cloud-native architecture and gaining a competitive edge. vFunction is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Israel. To learn more, visit www.vfunction.com.

  • Teleport Raises $110 Million Series C at $1.1 Billion Valuation Led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Participation from New Investor Insight Partners

    Funding follows dramatic revenue growth as identity-based access requirements skyrocket

    Oakland, CA, May 3, 2022 – Teleport, the leading provider of Identity-based Infrastructure Access Management, today announced it has raised $110 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Insight Partners and existing investors Kleiner Perkins and S28 Capital. This investment brings Teleport’s total funding raised to $169 million at a current valuation of $1.1 billion, and comes after the company nearly tripled its revenue and doubled its customer base from 2020 to 2021.

    As a part of the investment, Bessemer Venture Partners’ Mary D’Onofrio will take a seat on Teleport’s board, and Insight Partners’ Matt Koran will be a board observer. In August 2021, Teleport announced its $30 million Series B round led by S28 Capital and Kleiner Perkins.

    “Growing complexity of modern cloud environments has led to a situation where managing secure access to infrastructure begins to break, as evidenced by increased frequency and severity of breaches.,” said Ev Kontsevoy, co-founder and CEO, Teleport. “Our customers are forward thinking organizations that are scaling quickly. They realized that the right way to scale access is consolidation across all protocols and environments. Our platform, the open-source Teleport Access Plane, addresses these challenges by giving every engineer, every piece of hardware and every application an identity. With identity based access for everyone and everything, more security threats are neutralized and the impact of breaches is dramatically reduced without impacting developer productivity.”

    As organizations deal with complexity because of shifts to the cloud, modernization of IT stack and growth of mixed infrastructure environments, Teleport’s open-source Access Plane technology consolidates the four essential capabilities every security-conscious organization needs: connectivity, authentication, authorization and audit. By providing the only cloud-native, identity-based infrastructure access solution for humans and machines, Teleport eliminates network perimeter security issues, reduces attack surface area, cuts operational overhead, enforces security & compliance, and improves developer productivity, all at once.

    With this latest funding, Teleport will expand its go-to-market organization to serve its fast-growing, global customer base. Teleport will also bolster its R&D organization to solve the most complex security challenges faced by organizations of all sizes.

    “Now, more than ever, is the time to make it easy for any company to employ world class security practices as global cyber attacks become more and more sophisticated,” said Mary D’Onofrio, partner and co-founder of growth investment practice, Bessemer Venture Partners. “With Teleport, security becomes stronger *and* simpler for both humans and machines, making it possible to deploy and enforce security and compliance best-practices throughout all organizations. We’re excited to lead this round and I am looking forward to working closely with Ev and his team to offer elegant cybersecurity solutions to a growing customer base of household names.”

    Customers including Doordash, Elastic, Nasdaq, Snowflake and others use Teleport to secure digital infrastructure access for remote and hybrid workforces and combat the ever-increasing cyber threats.

    “Speed is key to our business. But so is security,” said Luke Christopherson, Software Engineer at Doordash. “The Teleport Access Plane allows our engineers to securely access the infrastructure they need to do their jobs without getting in the way of productivity. Everybody wins.”

    Teleport recently announced Teleport 9, the latest edition of the open-source Teleport Access Plane. This release introduced Teleport Machine ID which delivers identity-based access and audit capabilities for resources including servers and databases, CI/CD automation, service accounts and custom code in applications such as microservices. Teleport 9 also included Teleport Connect, a secure, developer-friendly browser for cloud infrastructure. The browser solves the issues posed by terminals optimized for local environments when a majority of development now happens in the cloud.

    Steven Dickens, Senior Analyst, Futurum Research commented, “As digital transformation takes hold from the core to the edge, security becomes more critical. The team at Teleport are focused on delivering cloud-native, identity-based infrastructure access solutions for both humans and machines. The announcement today take the company one step closer to its mission of eliminating the need for secrets when accessing infrastructure, and as a result delivering both simpler, stronger identity-based authentication.”

    To learn more about Teleport and today’s news, visit the company’s website or most recent blog about the funding.

    About Teleport
    Teleport, leading provider of Identity-based Infrastructure Access Management, consolidates the four essential infrastructure access capabilities every security-conscious organization needs: connectivity, authentication, authorization, and audit. Teleport’s unique approach is not only more secure but also improves developer productivity. Teleport is used by leading companies including Elastic, Snowflake, Doordash, and NASDAQ. The company is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and S28 Capital. Headquartered in Oakland, California, the company embraces a remote-first work culture.

    About Bessemer Venture Partners
    Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio includes Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has $9 billion of capital under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, London, Boston, Beijing and Bangalore. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio).