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  • Nylas Raises $120 Million to Accelerate Productivity APIs for Work Automation

    Led by Tiger Global and investments from elite entrepreneurs, new fundraise to emphasize developer experiences and innovation as businesses continue prioritizing API-driven digital transformation 

    San Francisco, CA, June 17, 2021 — Nylas, the communications API platform for modern email, scheduling, and work automation tools for developers and enterprises, today announced it has raised $120 million in Series C funding. The investment brings Nylas’ total funding to $175 million, further accelerating the growth of both Nylas and the API economy.

    The round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from existing investors Citi Ventures, Slack Fund, 8VC, Round13 Capital, Scale Asia Ventures, and more, as well as new investors including Owl Rock Capital, a division of Blue Owl, Blue Cloud Ventures, and individual contributions from Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe, and his brother John Collison, President and Co-Founder of Stripe, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, and Tony Fadell, Founder of Nest and Principal at Future Shape. John Curtius, Partner at Tiger Global, will join the Nylas Board of Directors.

    “The fundamental shift towards digital communications and connectivity has companies across all industries increasingly leaning on developers to solve critical business challenges and build engaging product experiences. APIs have become core to modern software development and digital transformation,” said Gleb Polyakov, Co-Founder and CEO, Nylas. “Through our suite of powerful APIs, we give developers the tools needed to meet customer and market needs faster, create competitive differentiation through powerful and customized customer experiences, and generate huge operational savings through more productive, secure, and intelligently-automated development cycles. We’re thrilled to advance our mission to make the world more productive and are honored to have the backing of distinguished world-class investors and entrepreneurs.”

    Nylas will leverage the funds to further invest and scale its integrated and productivity-driven developer experience as well as support the influx of developers and companies using Nylas through the scaling of its go-to-market teams, product advancement, engineering, and customer support organizations. Nylas will also look to accelerate its continued investment in disruptive technologies that automate workflows and seamlessly integrate technologies such as conversational AI/ML, sentiment analysis, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and cross-system intelligent automation.

    “Companies are rapidly adopting APIs as a way to automate productivity and find new and innovative ways to support modern work and collaboration,” said John Curtius, Partner at Tiger Global and Nylas board member. “This trend has become critical to creating frictionless and meaningful data-driven communications that power digital transformation. We believe Nylas is uniquely positioned to lead the future of the API economy.”

    The fundraise comes on the heels of remarkable growth for Nylas, with more than 3x new revenue growth and doubling in employee headcount over the last 12 months, while also furthering its expansion into sectors such as salestech and martech, healthcare, financial services, real estate, automotive technology, HR and recruiting, and more.

    For more information on Nylas’ Series C and plans for future growth, please visit: https://www.nylas.com/blog/nylas-raises-120-million-c-round

    About Nylas

    Developers around the world use Nylas to quickly and securely build email, scheduling, and work automation features into their applications. With Nylas, developers at innovative companies like Upwork, Wix, Freshworks, Lever, Dialpad, Ceridian, and Move.com get unprecedented access to rich communications data from their end-users, pre-built workflows that automate everyday tasks, embeddable UI/UX components for fast front-end development, and comprehensive security features – all delivered via a suite of powerful APIs that make integration easy.

    Learn more at www.nylas.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

  • Leading Financial Services Companies Use Applitools Visual AI to Deliver Better Apps Faster

    Seven of the top 10 banks in North America and three of the top four banks in Australia deliver flawless brand experiences and improved consumer access to digital products with Applitools

    San Mateo, CA, June 17, 2021 — Applitools (https://applitools.com/), provider of a next generation test automation through Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, today announced it has grown its annual recurring revenue in the financial services sector by more than 200 percent year-over-year. Applitools serves the world’s largest commercial banks, credit card providers, insurance companies, stock brokerages, financial technology (FinTech) companies and more.

    The sharp rise in Applitools Visual AI usage among the global financial services (FinServ) industry is obvious. Like many large corporations, FinServ companies must reliably test and validate mobile apps, online web portals and pages, and PDF documents at scale with greater velocity and with compliance requirements in mind. Delivering a flawless customer experience became even more business-critical in 2020 as mobile apps and websites became the face of financial brands and ultimately the only interaction point between banks and their customers.

    Learn more about automated testing for Financial Services and sign up for a demo at https://applitools.com/financial-services-lpdr/.

    Customer expectations for how an application functions, how it appears on any screen, and how accessible it is puts pressure on engineering teams to build and deploy CI/CD pipelines for faster feedback cycles and time to market capabilities. Integrating Visual AI into a FinTech stack is rapidly decreasing cycle times and increasing the quality of digital properties across individual consumer accounts and wholesale business accounts alike.

    “Thanks to Applitools Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, we are able to quickly catch browser specific defects that our functional tests cannot,” said Joe Emison, co-founder and CTO of Branch Financial, Inc. “Applitools has proven to be essential in validating that our application is production ready and that our customers’ experience is unrivaled.”

    According to the Top 4 Emerging Trends in Financial Services from Gartner Research, “The focus on customer digital experience will continue to increase” and “Investments in artificial intelligence will continue to increase sharply.”* Applitools Visual AI is computer vision technology built upon machine learning algorithms with data from more than one billion images analyzed. This automation technology helps FinServ product and engineering teams rapidly deliver high-impact features and flawless user experiences faster than ever before.

    “Financial services companies differentiate through an ultra-responsive approach toward delivering new products and services,” said Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director at EMA Research. “Applitools leverages AI to accelerate the release lifecycle, maximizing team productivity for app development.”

    FinServ customers save time, money and resources with Applitools Visual AI. Below are some examples:

    “Accelerating time to market without sacrificing quality has become table stakes for Agile and DevOps professionals,” said Igor Draskovic, VP, Developer Specialist at BNY Mellon. “While traditional cloud testing platforms are subject to false positives and slow execution times, Applitools’ unique ability to run Visual AI in parallel containers can give your team the unfair advantage of stability, speed, and improved test coverage. This modern approach to testing is something that all DevOps professionals should strongly consider.”

    *Source: Gartner Research, Infographic: Top 4 Emerging Trends in Financial Services, 2019.

    About Applitools

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

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

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

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

  • Ironclad Launches New Ironclad Community 2.0

    New network and resource platform dedicated to digital contracting unveiled at State of Digital Contracting Summit.

    San Francisco, CA, June 17, 2021 — Ironclad, the leading digital contracting platform, today unveiled the new Ironclad Community 2.0 at its State of Digital Contracting Summer summit. The new community focused on digital contracting will be led by Ironclad’s new Chief Community Officer, Mary O’Carroll.

    Ironclad is doubling down on investments to elevate, educate, and connect customers with Ironclad Community 2.0. It will bring members together through forums, events, and groups to support peer-to-peer based learning, share advice and best practices, and connect as professionals. Members will have access to a premier training experience that connects the right content to the right moment in the customer journey, so that content may be presented in-product via micro learning, included in Ironclad’s digital success management program, and more.

    “Digital contracting is the future of how work gets done quickly, and done well — it’s for not just legal teams, but businesses as a whole. But a mindset shift and organization change like this is only possible through community,” said O’Carroll. “Ironclad Community 2.0 is building on the incredible power and potential I’ve already seen in the Ironclad and legal ops communities. Together, our wide breadth of backgrounds, perspectives, and skill sets will enable us to support and elevate each other in our careers, as well as catalyze a change in how contracting and work are done in our industries.”

    The news was shared at Ironclad’s latest State of Digital Contracting summit in which attendees attended sessions on adopting a “maker mindset” from O’Carroll, Ironclad’s General Counsel Chris Young, and former Mythbusters host, Kary Byron. In addition, leading legal innovators and Ironclad customers provided hands-on, interactive demos of the platform.

    To learn more about Ironclad Community 2.0 or the State of Digital Contracting summit, visit ironcladapp.com.

    About Ironclad

    Ironclad is the leading digital contracting platform. L’Oréal, Staples, Mastercard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It’s the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. The company was named one of the 20 Rising Stars on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, and is backed by leading investors like Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, and BOND.

    To learn more, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

  • ZoomInfo Partners with Beyond Codes to Provide Best-In-Class Intelligence to India and East Asia

    Beyond Codes Expands ZoomInfo’s Global Reach as Authorized Seller of ZoomInfo’s Products in India and Asia

    Vancouver, WA, June 17, 2021 – ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI), a global leader in go-to-market intelligence solutions, today announced a partnership with Beyond Codes, Inc., a leading B2B demand generation company serving customers in India and globally. This new strategic partnership provides companies in India, as well as other countries in Asia, with direct and unprecedented access to ZoomInfo’s leading sales intelligence platform.

    Beyond Codes becomes the exclusive authorized seller of ZoomInfo’s sales intelligence products for India and Asia. As Indian and Asian technology companies continue to make significant impacts globally, they will be able to deliver their products to even more customers by using their ZoomInfo subscriptions to locate new prospects worldwide.

    “We’re excited to partner with Beyond Codes to make the ZoomInfo platform available to businesses in India and Asia,” said Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo’s Founder and CEO. “Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to effectively locate and connect with their ideal customers. This partnership opens the door for these businesses to harness a reliable source for best-in-class sales intelligence.”

    Beyond Codes is ZoomInfo’s first international Solution Partner under the new ZoomInfo Partner Program, which debuted in March. The program helps companies supercharge their go-to-market motions by enabling partners to build custom engagements with the ZoomInfo platform to help them generate new revenue and grow their businesses. Solution Partners help other businesses increase their network by connecting them with other customers, industry influencers, integrators, sales and marketing consultants, and other organizations.

    “ZoomInfo is the world’s most reputed intelligence platform for sales teams,” said Gaurav Kumar, Beyond Codes’ Founder and CEO. “Our partnership will offer more opportunities for businesses in India and across Asia to make more informed data-driven decisions. Together, ZoomInfo and Beyond Codes will help companies increase their pipelines, win more business, and ensure revenue growth.”

    For more information, visit the ZoomInfo and Beyond Codes landing page.

    About Beyond Codes

    Beyond Codes is a leading demand generation organization that helps businesses connect with relevant prospects through appointment setting and research-driven contact development programs for leading IT, ITeS, and product companies in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Canada, and Asia-Pacific. With experience in appointment setting and lead nurturing campaigns that spans across industries, Beyond Codes has capabilities in next-generation offerings like machine learning, digital transformation, analytics, and artificial intelligence. For more information, visit www.beyondcodes.com.

    About ZoomInfo

    ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI) is a Go-To-Market Intelligence Solution for more than 20,000 companies worldwide. The ZoomInfo platform empowers business-to-business sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals to hit their number by pairing best-in-class technology with unrivaled data coverage, accuracy, and depth of company and contact information. With integrations embedded into workflows and technology stacks, including the leading CRM, Sales Engagement, Marketing Automation, and Talent Management applications, ZoomInfo drives more predictable, accelerated, and sustainable growth for its customers. ZoomInfo emphasizes GDPR and CCPA compliance. In addition to creating the industry’s first proactive notice program, the company is a registered data broker with the states of California and Vermont. Read about ZoomInfo’s commitment to compliance, privacy, and security. For more information about our leading Go-To-Market Intelligence Solution, and how it helps sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals, please visit www.zoominfo.com.

  • Render Releases Enterprise Features As 100,000s of Services Are Created on Its Zero DevOps Cloud

    Autoscaling and Read Replicas Empower Developers to Build Applications That Are More Resilient and Responsive to Heavy Workloads and Traffic Spikes.

    San Francisco, CA, June 17, 2021 — Render, the Zero DevOps Cloud, today announced the general availability of autoscaling, the #1 requested feature from customers. Autoscaling offers the ability to automatically scale applications in response to varying workload levels and traffic so that customers can increase their services’ reliability and uptime and improve the overall end user experience while keeping costs in check.

    Today Render also announced the general availability of read replicas which allow customers with heavy database or analytics usage to offload processing to a fully-managed real-time replica of their primary database, keeping their primary database responsive at all times.

    Render founder and CEO Anurag Goel said: “Developers have now created hundreds of thousands of services on Render, more than doubling in the last 6 months. The rapid adoption of our platform continues to inspire us to bring state-of-the-art features to our customers without any additional engineering investment on their part. Ultimately, features like autoscaling and read replicas help developers improve application reliability, control cloud costs and increase shipping velocity, delivering significantly better products to their users.”

    Render offers an innovative public cloud alternative that developers love; it gives them the best of both worlds: instant setup and incredible ease of use, coupled with the power and flexibility previously afforded only by large cloud providers. It does this by offering an intuitive hosting platform that requires zero knowledge of servers and infrastructure and combining it with powerful containerization technology which enables customization, cost reduction and reliability at scale.

    Autoscaling
    Autoscaling can be used for any web service, private service or task processor running on the platform and features a built-in, convenient dashboard to configure and view autoscaling events and workload performance. Render is the first platform-as-a-service to offer native autoscaling based on CPU and memory usage. Unlike platforms that restrict autoscaling to expensive enterprise plans, autoscaling is available to all Render customers at no cost; Render only charges for actual compute usage, prorated by the second.

    Marc Köhlbrugge, founder of BetaList and Startup Jobs, said: “Autoscaling on Render is so much better than anything I’ve used before; we moved multiple services to Render from Heroku where autoscaling is only available on more expensive plans, and relies on application response times. This can often make things worse when the performance bottleneck is outside the application, for instance in the database. Render looks at real time CPU and memory consumption for my services so I’m able to use it for background workers in addition to web apps and keep costs in check across all my services.”

    Autoscaling on Render is based on precise real-time compute and memory usage instead of metrics like application response times which are often inaccurate approximations of actual resource consumption. This doesn’t just make Render autoscaling significantly more responsive and effective; it also enables use cases unsupported by other Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers. These include autoscaling for applications with a wide variance in response times, or for applications that don’t serve HTTP traffic but still need to scale based on load, like asynchronous queue processing tasks.

    Read Replicas
    Read replicas for PostgreSQL offer enhanced performance and resilience to customers using Render’s fully managed PostgreSQL databases. With read replicas, users can create a read-only copy of their production database with the click of a button, and Render automatically keeps the copy in sync with the primary database at all times. Customers can use read replicas to perform business critical functions such as data analysis, reporting, migrations, and upgrades seamlessly and without impacting the performance or availability of their production database.

    About Render
    Render offers the easiest cloud to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely free up developers and startups from managing cloud infrastructure by building a cloud that offers the best developer experience coupled with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds of applications. Render is backed by General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund and based in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://render.com or follow @render.

  • Bitrise Releases New Mobile Devops Platform to Get App Updates to Market Up to 50% Faster

    Compass and other Early Trial Users See Double-Digit Speed Improvements to App Development Processes and Releases Cycles Using the Enterprise-Grade Mobile CI/CD Infrastructure

    San Francisco, CA, June 17, 2021 — Bitrise, the mobile DevOps company that the world’s most well-known companies rely on to get mobile apps and updates to market faster, today announced the release of its new enterprise-grade mobile DevOps platform. The company collaborated with 12 companies, including real estate market disruptor Compass, in private beta for six months to increase the speed of every continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process that runs on Bitrise. The result is Bitrise’s second-generation platform, which is now available to the company’s more than 6,000 global customers and over 100,000 users.

    Over the past year, the rate of mobile adoption has accelerated the equivalent of two to three years. Mobile technology requirements are also changing rapidly, increasing the need for speed and constant adaptation by mobile organizations. The pressure on these companies is compounded by the fact that app store rankings and visibility are directly influenced by frequency of release cycles: the more frequent the releases, the better. All of this has cemented mobile as the platform where markets are won and lost.

    To outpace this accelerated rate of progression, Bitrise set out to increase the speed of all of its automated processes–or builds–by up to 50%. These processes include everything from building an app and running regular tests to understanding how new pieces of code affect apps and testing new updates before shipping to the app store.

    Considering that larger companies can run tens of thousands of builds per month, and that each build can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to two hours, increasing the speed of these processes can save thousands of hours of developers’ time.

    Bitrise selected a dozen of the world’s most advanced mobile-first organizations to trial its second-generation platform before releasing it widely. Early trial users, including real estate platform Compass, reported speed improvements to their app development processes and release cycles, ranging from 30% – 50%.

    For sophisticated mobile organizations, which release new updates, on average, once every two weeks, a botched update can cost millions of dollars. As a result, these companies don’t only rely on Bitrise for increased speed-to-market; they also use the platform to minimize potential negative end-user experiences by continuously merging and testing changes, and creating environments from which they can confidently submit updates to app stores.

    “Mobile teams are increasingly responsible for driving business success. Our mission at Bitrise is to continuously make our infrastructure faster, more scalable, more secure and better equipped to support them,” said Arpad Kun, VP of Infrastructure at Bitrise. “The initial ideas for our second-generation infrastructure began taking shape over a year ago, then we challenged ourselves with a very ambitious goal: Make the platform 50% faster. This triggered our team’s competitive side and kicked everyone into high gear, making the new platform even better than we had originally anticipated.”

    “Switching to Bitrise’s Gen-2 machines has increased the speed of our builds by 30%, by decreasing our average build times from 21.3 minutes to 14.8 minutes,” said Thomas Baji, the iOS engineer who led the migration at Compass. “Additionally, the improved machine performance decreased our yearly CI costs by 71%. This cost saving and improved performance has allowed us to move faster and deliver bold changes to our customers.”

    The second generation infrastructure is part of Bitrise’s growing Mobile DevOps Ecosystem, which includes its CI/CD platform, partner network and user community. It’s available in Bitrise’s Enterprise Build Platform and its newly launched Velocity Plan.
    In 2021, Bitrise will focus on customer co-creation and collaboration as one of the main methods of advancing its products.
    Bitrise recently joined the newly formed Mobile Native Foundation, and has a number of upcoming launches slated for the rest of the year.

    About Bitrise
    Bitrise is a mobile devops company, whose CI/CD platform is used by more than 6,000 businesses to get apps to market faster, improve security, and keep up with constantly changing mobile requirements. Bitrise enables the world’s most sophisticated mobile organizations, including half of all mobile unicorn startups, to automate testing, accelerate build times, and quickly understand how new pieces of code will affect live apps. Customers such as Transferwise (now “WISE”), Virgin Mobile, Grindr, Tonal, Compass, Mozilla, Philips Hue, Babbel and others use Bitrise to rapidly respond to the changing mobile landscape. Bitrise is a Y Combinator company, headquartered in Budapest, with offices in London, San Francisco and Boston.

  • TigerGraph Announces Center of Innovation in San Diego, Launches R&D and Recruitment Efforts in Fast-Growing Tech and Data Science Markets

    Graph Leader Plans to Tap Local UC San Diego Engineering Talent and Hire 100+ Engineers to Accelerate Product Development.

    Redwood City, CA, June 17, 2021 – TigerGraph, provider of the leading graph analytics platform, today announced plans to open a research and development-focused center of innovation in San Diego and recruit from the area’s extensive technology talent pool. The company aims to hire 100+ area engineers to work on TigerGraph’s core product platform components. TigerGraph will partner with UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) as a member of HDSI’s Industry Partner Alliance, and the Institute’s alumni and career development centers to attract top candidates interested in driving graph, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation.

     San Diego is a fast-growing technology market and home to disruptive technology innovators. In fact, the city was ranked the sixth fastest-growing city for software and tech professionals. TigerGraph has deep roots in the area: TigerGraph’s CEO, Dr. Yu Xu, and COO, Todd Blaschka, are UC San Diego alumni; and TigerGraph’s Chief Technologist, Dr. Alin Deutsch, is a professor in UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering department. In addition to its recruitment efforts, the company will make an investment in HDSI’s Industry Partner Alliance program

    “San Diego is an obvious choice for TigerGraph to choose for an innovation center. The city has a rich array of talented engineers, many of them graduates of UC San Diego, one of the premier research universities in the world,” said Dr. Alin Deutsch, Chief Technologist at TigerGraph. “TigerGraph has deep roots in the San Diego area and we are delighted to be bringing new high-impact job opportunities to the city. Our contribution to the HDSI is to help support data science scholarship programs for highly promising students.”

    TigerGraph’s San Diego expansion and recruitment news follows steady, significant company growth and continued graph analytics and AI market momentum. TigerGraph recently expanded its product functionality with new TigerGraph Cloud support for Google Cloud Platform workloads, making TigerGraph Cloud the only distributed graph database-as-a-service available on all three major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and GCP). Also, the company announced a $105 million Series C funding round in February, the largest funding round to date within the graph database and analytics market. For its San Diego-area recruitment efforts, the company will target UC San Diego recent grads (B.S./M.S./Ph.D.), UC San Diego alumni and local talent.

    “We’re always happy when our alumni succeed in their careers and happier to see them engage with the university,” said Distinguished Professor Rajesh K. Gupta, Founding Director of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. “We have strong ties to TigerGraph, given my colleague Dr. Alin Deutsch’s contribution to the company. TigerGraph has evolved to a recognized graph analytics market leader. I am pleased to learn the company is opening a center of innovation in our city, which will strengthen San Diego’s ever-expanding tech ecosystem. We look forward to a close partnership in the years ahead.”

    TigerGraph’s San Diego center of innovation will open in Q3 2021 and will offer a hybrid workspace that is compliant with COVID-19 safety guidelines. Dr. Alin Deutsch will consult with a team within the center of innovation that will develop fundamental research that will underpin product offerings for the next generation of analytics and machine learning.

    Those interested in building the future of advanced analytics and machine learning for connected data can visit TigerGraph’s jobs page here.

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    About TigerGraph

    TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360, recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.

  • Perforce Releases Free, Turnkey Solution for Game Dev and VFX Studios on Microsoft Azure

    Turnkey Cloud Solution Streamlines the Deployment of Industry-Leading Development Tools to Help Studios Innovate Faster, Get to Market Quickly, and Scale as Their Projects Grow.

    Minneapolis, MN, June 17, 2021 — Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to teams requiring security, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, announces partnership with Microsoft to deliver the free Enhanced Studio Pack, providing the industry’s best development tools in a click-to-start model on the Azure cloud.

    By providing enterprise tools in a simple, pre-configured environment — with the infrastructure needed to support large files, numerous iterations, and remote team members — any studio can get up and running fast. This makes it possible for studios to develop high-quality, game-changing experiences quickly.

    For studios looking to capitalize on cloud benefits and avoid a costly hardware investment, the Enhanced Studios Pack combines the world-class development tools trusted by the largest AAA game development studios to enable creativity, collaboration, and speed, with Microsoft Azure, the cloud provider trusted by 95% of Fortune 500 companies. To help jumpstart innovation, Azure is offering $500 credits to the first 200 customers who sign up for the Enhanced Studio Pack on https://www.perforce.com/perforce-and-cloud.

    “At Microsoft, we’re on a mission to help unlock technical, creative and economic opportunities for game developers everywhere through our tools and services. By providing best-in-class DevOps solutions for game studios of all sizes, Perforce is an important partner on that journey. With the Perforce Enhanced Studio Pack now running on Microsoft Azure, we are expanding our solutions for the specific development needs of game creators with battle-tested gaming services, backed by the most trusted and secure enterprise cloud,” said James Gwertzman, GM Gaming Cloud at Microsoft.

    The click-to-start Enhanced Studio Pack Azure deployment can be used by small creative studios looking to accelerate and win in an ever-competitive market, or large entertainment companies that need to quickly spin up new projects.

    To help studios scale quickly and efficiently, Perforce also offers remote administrative services. Helix Remote Admin (HRA) allows studios to focus on their work while a team of Perforce experts optimize their cloud deployment and protect against the risks associated with downtime.

    Perforce Software continues to expand its cloud offerings to give teams the flexibility they need to accelerate their time to market and easily scale resources to match demand, with no limitations.

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

  • Vulcan Cyber Introduces Risk Prioritization Based on Business Asset Security Posture

    Vulcan Cyber risk scoring model now prioritizes remediation activities based on a new macro-level IT asset risk compliance KPI

    Tel Aviv, Israel, June 17, 2021 — Vulcan Cyber®, developers of the industry’s only risk remediation platform, today announced it has added a new way for IT security organizations to measure risk compliance via IT asset health scores across logical business groupings. For the first time ever, enterprise cyber security teams can measure business risk against customizable security compliance KPIs while tracking remediation progress against prioritized risks. This new Vulcan Cyber risk prioritization model provides a consolidated view of asset health based on vulnerability criticality and asset priority to help proactively protect businesses from various exploits such as data breach and ransomware attacks.

    Get hands on with the new Vulcan Cyber risk model by requesting access to Vulcan Free, the industry’s only risk-based vulnerability management and prioritization tool available for free.

    Traditional approaches to vulnerability risk prioritization lack critical business context and often only assess risk at the atomic, or individual, asset level. Vulcan Cyber customers already have an advantage with the ability to leverage custom risk parameters and enhanced vulnerability prioritization scores weighted with business asset data. These latest additions to the Vulcan Cyber risk model further enhance the industry’s only risk remediation orchestration platform and are an essential second step after vulnerability scanning.

    A risk-compliant asset KPI is now the driving measure underpinning Vulcan Cyber remediation campaign priority and is defined by customer risk tolerance for a particular business group of assets. Vulnerable, non-compliant assets are prioritized for remediation helping IT security teams scale remediation resources while providing a meaningful assessment of holistic business risk.

    “As cyber risk escalates for all businesses in every industry, and as vulnerabilities continue to put pressure on security and IT teams, businesses must refine the way they identify, prioritize and remediate risk. The Vulcan Cyber asset health KPI is both meaningful and actionable, offering enterprise security teams a new way to assess risk and to proactively protect their businesses from data theft, ransomware attacks and more,” said Yaniv Bar-Dayan, Vulcan Cyber CEO and co-founder. “A prioritized focus on driving risk and vulnerability remediation outcomes, not just creating more cyber hygiene to-do lists, is critical if the cyber security industry wants to help protect business operations in a meaningful way.”

    Almost all exploited vulnerabilities are known by security and IT teams before they are exploited at the time of the incident. Vulnerability remediation windows currently span months or years giving bad actors an unacceptable amount of time to exploit enterprises with limited capacity to defend themselves.

    The Vulcan Cyber risk remediation platform orchestrates scan-to-fix workflows to automate the work of cyber hygiene at scale across security, IT and DevOps teams and their existing tools. Vulcan Cyber is used to prioritize vulnerabilities, get the right remedies to the right people, integrate with dozens of best-of-breed tools, automate remediation tasks at scale, and measure risk across the entire process to ultimately get fix done.

    Availability

    New risk modeling with asset health KPIs are now available to Vulcan Cyber customers by request.

    Learn More

    For more information, and to see a demo of the new Vulcan Cyber risk model and asset health KPI, join our webinar, “Reduce Security Risk – Prioritize Remediation With IT Asset Compliance KPIs,” on June 24, 2021 at 11am Eastern.

    Also, join Vulcan Cyber and leading minds in enterprise cyber security for The Remediation Summit 2021, a free, virtual conference focused on enterprise risk remediation, on Thursday, July 22, 2021. Learn from Vulcan Cyber experts and customers like Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and FireEye.

    Get Fix Done Now

    For more information about Vulcan Cyber, please visit https://vulcan.io/ to request a demo or try Remedy Cloud today. In addition, Vulcan Free is now available as the industry’s only free vulnerability prioritization tool. Apply for Vulcan Free access today.

    About Vulcan Cyber

    Vulcan Cyber has developed the industry’s first vulnerability remediation orchestration platform, built to help businesses reduce cyber risk through measurable cloud and application security. The Vulcan platform orchestrates and tracks the remediation lifecycle from scan to fix by prioritizing vulnerabilities, curating and delivering the best remedies, and automating processes and fixes through the last mile of remediation. Vulcan Cyber helps IT security teams collaborate and “get fix done” at scale. Vulcan Cyber is proud to offer Remedy Cloud and Vulcan Free as freemium SaaS solutions for businesses of all sizes. The unique capability of the Vulcan Cyber platform has garnered Vulcan Cyber recognition as a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor and as a 2020 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox finalist. https://vulcan.io.

  • Latest Release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform Provides Next Step in Data Fabric Adoption

    Self-service analytics capabilities coupled with expanded functionality for implementing data fabric initiatives provide business users with unparalleled access and exploration of distributed enterprise data

    Cambridge, MA, June 17, 2021 — InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, today announced the latest release of its InterSystems IRIS® data platform, which includes Adaptive Analytics capabilities and additional SQL extensions for analytics to improve the process of implementing an enterprise data fabric architecture.

    Announced last year through its partnership with AtScale, Adaptive Analytics within InterSystems IRIS provides business users with superior ease of use and self-service analytics capabilities to visualize, analyze, and interrogate live data from multiple sources in a consistent format. This empowers users to get the information they need to make timely and accurate business decisions, regardless of the source, format, velocity, or age of the data, without needing to be experts in data design or data management.

    The latest release of InterSystems IRIS speeds up and reduces the complexity of implementing enterprise data fabrics, a modern architectural approach to data management that integrates and harmonizes dissimilar, distributed data from across the enterprise and makes it available on-demand.

    Self-Service Adaptive Analytics Capabilities

    Adaptive Analytics extend these capabilities further, making the fabrics ‘smarter’ to enable business user self-service and making data usable for a large number of applications to meet a wide range of critical business requirements, including risk management, business management reporting, decision support, and regulatory compliance.

    A core component of smart data fabrics, InterSystems IRIS also provides faster time to value and powers intelligent predictive and prescriptive services.

    “One of the biggest data challenges facing businesses today is integrating their data from across multiple systems and silos and turning it into actionable insights,” said Scott Gnau, Vice President of Data Platforms at InterSystems. “Enterprise data fabrics have emerged as the solution to this issue as they allow data to stay where it is, enabling businesses to maximize the value from their previous technology investments, including data lakes and warehouses, without having to “rip-and-replace” any of their existing technology. The latest update to InterSystems IRIS then incorporates the critical capabilities organizations need to implement a data fabric quickly and easily to meet their most challenging business requirements and fully leverage their data.”

    Monica Summerville, Head of Capital Markets, Celent, an Oliver Wyman business, said, “There has been significant interest in the financial services sector for an approach like data fabrics to help meet the rapidly evolving needs of sector participants. By embedding analytics directly into the data management platform, smart data fabrics take these initiatives one step further by eliminating the need to move the data to different environments and reducing latencies to support real time and near real time use cases. Celent research has found that financial services firms are looking to self-service approaches and advanced data management technologies to increase efficiency, comply with risk and regulatory reporting, and deliver value to customers.”

    Additional SQL File Extensions for Analytics

    As part of the latest release, additional SQL Extensions for Analytics make it easier for data teams to access data for machine learning, BI, and reporting use cases more quickly and efficiently, while InterSystems continued investment in powerful embedded analytics capabilities will increase query performance by up to 30% for InterSystems IRIS users.

    A next-generation data platform, InterSystems IRIS provides powerful database management, integration, analytics, application development, and API management capabilities all in a single product built from the ground up – to speed time to value, simplify architectures, and lower total cost of ownership.

    Learn more about why leading analysts are predicting that data fabrics are the future of data management, and how a modern data platform can speed and simplify these kinds of initiatives. Register for the upcoming webinar, “Implementing Your Data Fabric with InterSystems IRIS.”

    About InterSystems

    Established in 1978, InterSystems provides innovative data solutions for organizations with critical information needs in the healthcare, finance, and logistics sectors and beyond. Our cloud-first data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for organizations around the globe. InterSystems also develops and supports data management in hospitals through the world’s most proven electronic medical record, as well as unified care records for health systems and governments through a powerful suite of healthcare data integration solutions. The company is committed to excellence through its award-winning, 24×7 support for customers and partners in more than 80 countries. Privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems has 25 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit InterSystems.com.