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  • groundcover Launches OSS Cluster Map

    Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, January 9, 2023 – groundcover, a start up with a mission to reinvent the cloud-native application monitoring domain with eBPF, launches Caretta today: an OSS tool which helps teams instantly create a visual network map of the services running in their cluster. Caretta leverages eBPF technology to collect data in an efficient way and is equipped with a Grafana Node Graph dashboard to quickly display the dynamic map of the cluster.

    The main idea behind creating Caretta is gaining a clear understanding of the inter-dependencies between the different workloads running in the cluster which is an otherwise very complicated task.
    Caretta maps all service interactions and their traffic rates, leveraging Kubernetes APIs to create a clean and informative map of any K8s cluster which can be used for on-demand granular observability, cost optimization, and security insights, allowing teams to quickly reach impactful insights such as identifying central points of failure or pinpointing security anomalies.

    Caretta is part of the mission of cloud-environment observability tools – no APM product is complete without network tracing capabilities, and the aggregated data from these traces can help answer many critical questions. Carreta does exactly that and fits those cases where you want a minimal, fast and ad-hoc solution that can help you right now.

    To read more about Caretta, groundcover’s new OSS Kubernetes service dependency map tool, read this blog post.

     About groundcover

    groundcover is a K8s application monitoring solution that reinvents the domain with eBPF. Built for modern production environments, it covers everything yet stores only what matters, allowing teams to scale away without worries. Founded in 2021 by Shahar Azulay (previously ML Manager, Apple) and Yechezkel Rabonivich (previously Chief Architect, CyberMDX). The two served together in an elite cyber unit in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office where they dealt with frustration caused by APM issues. The company has raised $24.5M to date from VCs such as Zeev Ventures, Angular Ventures, Heavybit and Jibe Ventures.

  • Bitrise Acquires Flare.Build to Provide Companies of Any Size an Integrated Solution for Bazel

    The Acquisition Will Give More Than 6,000 Companies The Ability to Implement the Resource-Prohibitive Google Software, Previously Only Accessible by Enterprise Teams

    San Francisco, CA (October 13, 2022) — Bitrise, the Mobile DevOps company whose platform maximizes the overall business impact of apps for the world’s most sophisticated mobile organizations, today announced the acquisition of Flare.Build. Flare Build Systems, Inc. is the first company outside of Google to provide the backend services needed to realize the full potential of the Bazel build system. Bitrise will integrate Flare’s product suite and expertise into its Mobile DevOps Ecosystem, continuing Flare’s work to increase developer productivity at enterprises and startups alike. This acquisition is part of Bitrise’s larger mission to equip mobile product organizations with the tools to manage and automate mobile operations and core workflows, all from a single platform. 

    While Bazel has seen widespread adoption among mobile-first technology companies including Pinterest, LinkedIn, Lyft, Uber, Slack, Tinder and Reddit, it is time and resource intensive to adopt, and challenging to scale. Even after a successful migration to Bazel—a process that can take an entire dedicated team up to a year to accomplish—there’s still much work to be done on building and operationalizing the backend services necessary to power Bazel’s key features. Building these services, which include shared build cache and distributed builds, is daunting for smaller development teams and often not cost effective even for large enterprises.

    Bitrise is solving this multi-million dollar problem for businesses by tying together each of the individual components necessary to deliver on the promise of Bazel in one integrated solution. In adding this solution to Bitrise’s existing Mobile DevOps platform, development teams of all sizes, across various industries, can now reap the benefits of Bazel quickly and effectively, whether they have used the tools before or not. The simplified process also improves developer experience (DevX), boosts engineering productivity, and increases ROI. 

    With the integration of Flare.Build, Bitrise is now also providing benefits for mobile teams through other build tools, such as Gradle, Tuist, and Xcode, even without Bazel. By adapting Flare.Build’s advanced caching and CDN technology to these other tools, Bitrise users will have the ability to speed up feedback loops, iterate faster, and multiply their app build performance by up to 10x. 

    “Flare.Build’s technology, alongside our existing solutions, puts us one step closer to giving mobile product organizations everything they need to expand their mobile app capabilities from one platform, and positively influence the impact that apps have on their organizations,” said Barnabás Birmacher, CEO of Bitrise. “With this new expertise, we are providing access to the performance gains that Bazel users expect without the drastic cost usually associated with the powerful but complex tool.”

    Bitrise is now eight years into building a mobile ecosystem that closes the chasm between the world’s growing demand for mobile products and the ability of today’s mobile organizations to deliver on that demand. In addition to the acquisition of Flare.Build, Bitrise has been furthering this mission by releasing other solutions to help development teams overcome barriers in the build process. For example, Bitrise  recently built and released the world’s first virtualized Apple silicon CI/CD environment to help development teams transition to M1 as Intel is phased out. The company also introduced Build Pipelines, a solution that allows developers to organize the entire CI/CD process, and multiple other products designed to address the challenges that uniquely plague mobile teams. 

    “Faster build and test pipelines enable both higher quality and more frequent releases, allowing mobile companies to iterate quickly and deliver a better product to end-users,” said Zach Gray, Founder of Flare.Build. “Bazel has made a major impact in this area for Google and other industry leaders, but has remained out of reach for the majority of engineering teams. It is clear that the wider mobile industry is ready for a true Bazel-native CI platform that combines scalable macOS compute infrastructure, CI pipelines, build insights and distributed builds all into one cohesive integrated solution. We are thrilled to be working on this as part of Bitrise.”

    With each new addition to its ecosystem, Bitrise enables companies, ranging from visionary SMBs to established enterprises, to elevate their mobile product proficiencies and capabilities to compete in the mobile space. 

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    About Bitrise
    Bitrise is a Mobile DevOps company, whose platform is used by more than 6,000 businesses to maximize the business impact of their mobile apps. Working with Bitrise, the world’s most sophisticated mobile organizations get their apps to market faster, improve security and keep up with constantly changing mobile requirements.  Bitrise enables organizations 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, Marks & Spencer, Tag Heuer, 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, Boston and Osaka.

  • Cloudera Continues Rapid Pace of Data Fabric and Data Lakehouse Innovation to Extend Data Management Leadership

    Introduces unique new hybrid data capabilities that allow companies to move data at scale across clouds for optimal performance, cost and security

    Santa Clara, CA Oct. 12, 2022 — Cloudera, the hybrid data company, today announced new hybrid data capabilities that enable organizations to more efficiently move data, metadata, data workloads and data applications across clouds and on premises to optimize for performance, cost and security. Cloudera’s portable data services enable simple, low-risk data workload and data application movement for ultimate data lakehouse optionality. The company’s new secure data replication simplifies and secures movement of data and metadata, the latest SDX enhancement in Cloudera’s unified data fabric. And Cloudera universal data distribution delivers the first data ingestion solution built for hybrid data. These new capabilities are key to getting control  of hybrid data through a data-first strategy. When companies do right by their data, the entire business can access and analyze it without limitations.

    “As data continues to grow exponentially, enterprises must identify the critical tools that enable rapid business transformation in an increasingly hybrid and multi-cloud environment,” said Daniel Newman, founding partner and principal analyst, Futurum Research. “Cloudera has a long proven track record for handling large and complex data volumes in even the most highly regulated and compliance intensive industries. With these updates, Cloudera is further advancing its position as a leader for data-first enterprises seeking to leverage AI, ML, and hybrid architectures to drive their businesses forward.”

    The volume of data businesses collect and store from on-premises, cloud and streaming locations continues to soar. Statista projects the total amount of data generated globally to hit more than 180 zettabytes by 2025. This is the challenge of hybrid data. Adding to the pressure that require organizations to derive insights from their data at an ever-faster pace are economic and market forces. Furthermore, industry experts agree that getting control of data at scale is the only way to drive continuous business transformation with ML and AI. Cloudera’s new data analytics and data management innovations for hybrid data are specifically designed to help organizations manage data at scale across data centers and public clouds, helping make ML and AI business transformation possible.

    “Cost or performance is not a choice companies want to make, especially since–as enterprises move to a hybrid, multi-cloud world–these two things are tightly interlinked, ” said Sudhir Menon, Chief Product Officer at Cloudera. “Organizations that choose a data-first strategy can focus on how they deliver value, not just how they spend money. A huge piece of this is the ability to move data and workloads whenever and wherever throughout a modern data architecture to meet evolving business requirements. Cloudera has always provided consistent data security and governance across hybrid cloud, and with these updates will do so between all data services across all infrastructures.”  

    The new Cloudera data analytics and data management innovations for hybrid data include:

    Portable Data Services enable data analytics and the data applications that are built with them to be moved quickly and efficiently between different infrastructures without costly redeveloping or rearchitecting the data applications. CDP Data Services–Data Engineering, Data Warehousing and Machine Learning–are each built on a unified code base and offer identical functionality on AWS, Azure and on-prem Private Cloud. Using data services that run identically across different clouds–yes the same bits–makes it easier for users, administrators and developers to turn data into value and insight. Users have the same data experience, irrespective of where the data is stored or where the data applications run–the same data analytics functions, same Cloudera SDX security and governance, tailored to run seamlessly with the cloud-native storage on the preferred cloud. Only Cloudera delivers true hybrid data analytics that enables organizations to easily move data workloads and data applications across clouds to optimize for performance, cost and security.

    Secure Data Replication enables data and the metadata to be copied or moved quickly and securely between different Cloudera deployments in data centers and public clouds. Data is often created in different places from where it’s needed. Secure data replication is enabled by the replication manager, the latest addition to Cloudera SDX. Only Cloudera’s Replication Manager moves the metadata that carries data security and governance policies with the data wherever it goes, eliminating the need to reimplement them. Replication manager is a data movement service that moves data and metadata from on-premises to cloud or cloud to cloud in real time with an easy policy driven interface, enabling hybrid data flexibility.

    Universal Data Distribution enables companies to take control of their data flows, from origination through all points of consumption both on-premises and in the cloud, in a universal way that’s simple, secure, scalable and cost-effective. Universal data distribution is enabled by Cloudera DataFlow, the first data ingestion solution built for a hybrid data world. Unlike dumbed-down, target-system-specific, wizard-based connector solutions, Cloudera DataFlow provides indiscriminate data distribution with 450+ connectors and processors across an ecosystem of hybrid cloud services including data lakes, lakehouses, cloud warehouses, on-premises and edge data sources. Cloudera DataFlow, is a true hybrid data ingestion solution that addresses the entire diversity of data movement use cases: batch, event-driven, edge, microservices and continuous/streaming. With Cloudera DataFlow, streaming is treated as a first-class citizen, turning any data source into a data stream, supporting streaming scale, and unlocking hundreds of thousands of data-generating clients.

    Availability
    Available today in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

    Additional Resources 
    AI at scale isn’t magic its data – hybrid data
    The Future is Hybrid Data, Embrace It
    Announcing Data Flow Functions
    Serverless NiFi Flows with DataFlow Functions

    About Cloudera

    At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. Cloudera taught the world the value of data, creating an industry and ecosystem powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community. We empower our customers, leaders in their industries, to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Through our hybrid data platform, organizations are able to build their data-driven future by getting data, no matter where it resides, into the hands of those that need it. Learn more at Cloudera.com.

    Cloudera and associated marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

  • Immersive Labs Secures $66 Million in New Capital and Expands its Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth

    New Raise Led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with Participation from Existing Venture Investors, Strengthens Immersive Labs’ Leadership Position in the Cyber Workforce Resilience Category

    Cybersecurity Leader Appoints Sandra McDevitt, Chief Human Resources Officer, and Lucian Lui, Chief Marketing Officer; Ten Eleven General Partner Dave Palmer to Join its Board of Directors

    Bristol, UK & Boston, US, October 12, 2022 — Immersive Labs today announced it has raised $66 million in capital to continue its growth and investment in its Cyber Workforce Resilience platform. Ten Eleven Ventures led the latest raise supporting the company’s efforts to help organizations around the world assess, build, and prove their resilience to cyber threats of all kinds. Existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Summit Partners, Insight Partners, Menlo Ventures, and Citi Ventures all participated in the round.

    The company also announced new strategic additions to its executive leadership team, including Sandra McDevitt as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Lucian Lui as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Ten Eleven General Partner and Darktrace Founder and former Chief Product Officer Dave Palmer will join the company’s Board of Directors, while Jack Huffard, Tenable Co-Founder and current Non-Executive Director of Immersive has become Chair of the Board.

    Accelerating Growth and Enterprise Adoption

    Immersive Labs, which provides realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities, will use the additional capital to accelerate its growth in the Cyber Workforce Resilience category and deliver solutions that give enterprise customers innovative ways to prove their cyber capabilities across the business, from executive decision making to hands-on cyber defense teams. Today, enterprise and government customers like Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Pfizer, Daimler, Humana, Atos, and the UK National Health Service rely on Immersive Labs to demonstrate their cyber resilience by measuring their cyber defense and crisis management capabilities compared to industry benchmarks, building rapid team collaboration, and showing risk reduction and compliance with data-backed evidence.

    “Attracting new investment during a difficult time overall for the tech sector underscores the incredible demand for Immersive Labs’ disruptive, people-centric approach to cybersecurity,” said James Hadley, CEO, Immersive Labs. “Proving cyber resilience has increasingly become a Board and C-level consideration. Our customers rely on us because we offer a trusted and effective approach to upskilling and measuring team and individual cyber defense capabilities.”

    “As we see more focus on proving cyber resilience across public and private sectors, Immersive Labs stands to play a key role in the future of cybersecurity,” said David Palmer, General Partner, Ten Eleven Ventures. “The company’s product innovation and strategic leadership hires further secure the company’s top position in the Cyber Workforce Resilience category.”

    Additions to Immersive Labs’ Executive Leadership Team

    Immersive Labs expanded its management team with strategic hires and additions, including a new CMO and CHRO, as well as a new member of its Board of Directors. The latest additions provide the company with valuable expertise, insights, and experience to usher the company into its next phase of rapid growth.

    • Sandra McDevitt, CHRO: McDevitt oversees all people-related operations globally. Prior to joining Immersive Labs, she served as Chief People Officer at Quantcast and Patreon and held several people operations leadership roles at Google in Europe and US. Prior to Google, she served as a Group General Manager at Irish Life Financial Services and as Director of Human Resources for Ireland and Online Sales for EMEA at Oracle.

    • Lucian Lui, CMO: Lui joins the company overseeing its marketing efforts globally. He is a commercial business leader with over 25 years of experience growing publicly traded and Forbes-ranked commercial companies for world class brands like Microsoft, Iron Mountain and Rapid7. Throughout his career, he has led a broad set of commercial disciplines including branding, product marketing, enterprise sales, demand generation, customer experience, corporate communications, and emerging markets strategy.

    • Dave Palmer, Non-Executive Director: Palmer is a General Partner of Ten Eleven Ventures. Prior to joining Ten Eleven, he was the Chief Product Officer at Darktrace, overseeing the mathematics and engineering teams. Palmer has also worked across UK intelligence agencies GCHQ and MI5, where he was responsible for delivering mission-critical infrastructure services, including replacing and securing entire global networks, the developing of operational internet capabilities, and the management of critical disaster recovery incidents.

    About Immersive Labs

    Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats. Organizations can now prove their cyber resilience by measuring their readiness compared to industry benchmarks, building team capabilities, and demonstrating risk reduction and compliance with data-backed evidence.

    Immersive Labs is trusted by the world’s largest organizations and governments, including Citi, Pfizer, Daimler, Humana, Atos, HSBC, and the UK National Health Service. We are backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Summit Partners, Insight Partners, Citi Ventures, and Menlo Ventures. Learn more at: https://www.immersivelabs.com/

    About Ten Eleven Ventures

    Ten Eleven Ventures is the original cybersecurity-focused, global, stage agnostic investment firm. The firm finds, invests, and helps grow top cybersecurity companies addressing critical digital security needs, tapping its team, network, and experience to help build successful businesses. Since its founding, Ten Eleven Ventures has raised over $US 1 billion and made over 40 cybersecurity investments across stages worldwide, including KnowBe4, Darktrace, Twistlock, Verodin, Cylance, and Ping Identity. For more information, please visit www.1011vc.com or follow us on Twitter @1011vc.

  • Zayo Launches Comprehensive Portfolio of Edge Network Solutions

    Investments in edge strategy further enable network performance, security, and reliability for improved digital experience

    Boulder, CO, Oct. 12, 2022 — Today, Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., a leading global communications infrastructure platform, announced the launch of its Edge Network Solutions portfolio to help enterprises enhance the user journey from end user to cloud, enabling better network performance, security and reliability.

    “Multi-cloud network demand is the basis of Zayo’s Edge Network Solutions,” said Frank Cittadino, SVP of Edge Services at Zayo. “As industries continue to digitally transform, expand hybrid and remote work environments, and adopt emerging technologies, they need an agile and borderless network that fuels around-the-clock operations. Zayo has designed an edge solution to do just that. By connecting the edge to the core to the cloud, we help relieve IT headaches and meet our customers’ business needs now and in the future.”

    Introducing Zayo Edge Network Solutions

    Built on the backbone of Zayo’s leading network, cloud connectivity solutions, and deep edge expertise enabled through the company’s recent acquisition of QOS Networks, Zayo’s new portfolio of Edge Network Solutions delivers one of the most robust and agile edge-to-core-to-cloud networking solutions and services in the market.

    Zayo’s Edge Network Solutions allow for true wide-area network (WAN) transformation, spanning all the way from the local-area networks (LAN) to the cloud, including:

    • Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): Enhance application performance by connecting users and the cloud with a unified security posture and resilient network technology regardless of location or technology.

    • Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS): Collaborate more effectively and optimize productivity with a communication system that integrates voice, chat, meetings, and video into a simple user experience.

    • Comprehensive Security Options: Secure every step of the multi-cloud journey from end user to cloud including zero trust, SASE, cloud access security broker (CASB), Network Firewall and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection.

    • Remote-Access-as-a-Service: Increase security, performance and responsiveness of enterprise applications regardless of where they are hosted (software as a service (SaaS), cloud, on-premises using zero trust, ephemeral edge deployed onto user devices).

    • Managed Circuit Aggregation: Access a multitude of service options to service locations, from Long-Term Evolution (LTE) to 400G optimized for diversity and cost, all on one bill and one network operations center (NOC).

    “With our business operations becoming increasingly distributed, we needed a solution that would allow us to maintain the critical functions of our business and digital experience for our end users,” said Michael Braine, Chief Technology Officer at Public Storage. “We knew that implementing edge solutions the traditional way was costly and time-consuming, but Zayo was able to design and manage a solution that was unique to our needs and provides all of the insight and information we need to ensure our network performance.”

    Edge computing continues to be a point of emphasis and investment for Zayo with nearly 200,000 devices and circuits managed in customer edge networks across 51 countries; 250,000 UCaaS endpoints; and over 2 million voice lines deployed. In addition to acquiring QOS Networks, Zayo has also strengthened its portfolio of edge network offerings through the acquisitions of Education Networks of America (ENA) and Allstream.

    Delivering End User-to-Cloud Digital Experience and Network Intelligence

    Central to Zayo’s Edge Networking Solutions portfolio is the zInsights Portal which enables an enhanced digital experience through network intelligence, visibility and control of network health and performance by providing customers with a comprehensive view across multiple platforms, domains and silos — from edge to core to cloud — with access to problem discovery, alerting and resolution recommendations.

    The zInsights Portal leverages an Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) approach to drastically reduce operational workload and improve incident outcomes, enabling a true end-to-end solution that’s essential for optimizing digital experiences.

    Enhancing Customer Flexibility and Choice Through Partnerships

    Zayo’s new Edge Network Solutions are powered in part through partnerships with VMware, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Versa. Investment in Zayo’s partnership ecosystem not only expands the core capabilities of Zayo’s Edge Network Solutions but also ensures customers don’t feel vendor-stuck by providing them with flexibility and choice when selecting a vendor.

    Zayo has also signed a new partnership with Cloudbrink, which enables Zayo to extend the ultra-low latency network experience to the end user. With Cloudbrink technology, Zayo can proactively provision software-only edges based on user demand and predicted use, ensuring end users are never more than 5 to 20 milliseconds away from enterprise access points and applications. Since there’s no reliance on proprietary edge hardware, Zayo has the utmost flexibility on where and when software edges are deployed, allowing for expansion into new regions within minutes and guaranteeing edges closest to end users to ensure the highest quality of experience and security.

    “Cloudbrink provides secure, high-performance connectivity to deliver an in-office experience to the modern hybrid workforce,” said Prakash Mana, CEO of Cloudbrink. “By using the thousands of on-demand Cloudbrink points of presence (POPs) and Zayo’s robust network, organizations can provide their hybrid workers with a 25x performance boost based on a dark network security model. Cloudbrink is excited to partner with Zayo to bring our customers faster and more secure business connectivity.”

    A Powerful Combination: Edge Solutions and Services on the World’s Leading Network

    “If you think you know Zayo, it’s time to take another look. Zayo is no longer just your typical telecom provider,” said Cittadino. “We are innovating and expanding our product set through an innovative digital experience, best-of-breed original equipment manufacturer (OEM) solutions and comprehensive managed services, enabling our customers to use data more efficiently than ever before. Starting with the user to the software-defined layer to the cloud, Zayo connects customers from edge to edge, edge to cloud, cloud to edge and everywhere in between.”

    With accelerated edge adoption, the need for enhanced bandwidth and network reliability has dramatically increased. Zayo’s large-scale, highly resilient and diverse fiber network is uniquely positioned to support the growth of the network edge. This year, Zayo has invested more than $250 million into expanding its fiber footprint across the globe, marking the company’s largest organic network expansion to date in both long-haul dark fiber builds and 400G upgrades. So far, nearly half of Zayo’s 75,000-mile backbone network is 400G enabled and the remaining network is scheduled for completion by the end of 2022.

    To learn more about Zayo’s Edge Network Solutions, visit https://www.zayo.com/edge-network-solutions/.

    About Zayo Group Holdings, Inc.

    Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. is the leading global communications infrastructure platform, delivering a range of solutions, including fiber & transport, packet and managed edge services. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone spanning 134,000 miles across North America and Europe. By providing this mission-critical bandwidth to its category-leading customers across the wireless, hyperscale, media, tech and finance industries, Zayo is fueling the innovations that are transforming society. For more information, visit https://zayo.com.

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  • Canonical Works with NVIDIA and BT to Unlock Infrastructure Scalability for Data Scientists, Technical and Creative Professionals

    October 11, 2022—Ubuntu KVM — an industry-leading hypervisor — extends its reach to AI/ML applications and graphics-intensive applications with native support for NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software products, including NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (vCS) and NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS). Canonical has been working closely with NVIDIA to ensure frictionless integration and a best-in-class user experience. This allows all Ubuntu users, from those in data science to those working on high-end professional graphics, to benefit from powerful GPU performance across the entire spectrum of cloud infrastructure.

    “By processing data closer to the end device, edge computing has the potential to minimise the amount of data that must be transported across our core network.” said Paul Veitch, Senior Manager of Software Based Networks Research at BT. “However, we must avoid cancelling out these network cost savings due to additional operational complexity. The introduction of NVIDIA virtual GPU support in Ubuntu means that we not only can consistently and cost-effectively leverage the same monitoring and maintenance tools in core and edge deployments, we can also unlock differentiated services for our customers”.

    Support of NVIDIA vGPU software products in Ubuntu KVM follows the Ubuntu 21.10 announcement from October 2021, where Canonical introduced support for NVIDIA vGPU software 13.1 in Ubuntu Server. During the last Ubuntu development cycle, Canonical collaborated with NVIDIA to expand vGPU capabilities beyond KVM, allowing developers to provision virtualised GPU resources through a self-service cloud portal. As a result, all Canonical customers who have current NVIDIA vGPU software licences can now receive commercial support under regular Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure (UA-I) conditions.

    “NVIDIA has long been a leader in data science and computer graphics, delivering performance-optimised chips, systems, and software that significantly accelerate all types of compute and visualisation workloads.” said Cindy Goldberg, VP, Silicon Alliances at Canonical. “By collaborating with NVIDIA on engineering efforts, Canonical delivers a future-proof cloud platform that serves as a foundation for next-generation AI/ML and visualisation.”

    The future-proof cloud platform mentioned by Goldberg is based on Charmed OpenStack– Canonical’s enterprise-grade OpenStack distribution. The support for NVIDIA vGPU software products includes rich lifecycle management capabilities available on the platform. Organisations can quickly deploy enterprise-grade, cost-effective infrastructure and integrate it with NVIDIA vGPU software, benefitting from full automation available in Charmed OpenStack. This eliminates technology barriers and allows more organisations to enter AI/ML and visualisation spaces faster.

    “Telcos, manufacturing, and research institutions need a reliable infrastructure to run modern compute and visualisation workloads with high performance and affordable cost — whether in data centres or at the edge,” stated Anne Hecht, senior director of product marketing, Enterprise at NVIDIA. “Charmed OpenStack, with its price-performance-optimised architecture and built-in support for NVIDIA vGPU software products, fulfils this need.”

    NVIDIA vGPU Software enables data scientists, as well as technical and creative professionals, to break through the constraints of hardware scalability, making highly performant GPU resources available on demand for all cloud users. While physical limitations dictate the maximum number of GPUs that can be installed on hypervisors, the virtualisation layer democratises these constraints, allowing resources to be shared. This improves energy efficiency of the platform and helps reduce the negative climate impact of data centres.

    “BT has been a leader on climate and sustainability action for almost 30 years and we’ve pledged that our operations will be net zero emissions by 2030,” said Christian Lafferty, Research Manager of Software Based Networks at BT. “Reproducing existing data centre technology at the edge is not enough. We need new, lean algorithms that can fully exploit the benefits of virtualisation and containerisation,” he added. “There is currently a huge demand for GPU technology due to the rapid growth in data science, machine learning, and video analytics. We need to meet this demand while driving energy efficiency and minimising our impact on the environment. NVIDIA GPU virtualisation on Canonical Ubuntu provides us with a bedrock for this sustainable research.”

    Learn more about NVIDIA vGPU support on Ubuntu

  • Gigamon Delivers Pivotal Advancements Across Deep Observability Pipeline with GigaVUE 6.0 Release

    IT organizations applaud next-generation container network visibility, application metadata integration, and cloud-scale performance for centrally processing network telemetry data

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.- October 11, 2022 — Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, today announced an expansive set of new capabilities to the Gigamon Hawk Deep Observability Pipeline. GigaVUE 6.0, the software powering Gigamon Hawk, democratizes security delivery across networking, security, and cloud operations teams while dramatically reducing cross-platform cost and complexity. Gigamon Hawk helps IT teams scale up and scale out with confidence, eliminate security and performance blind spots across cloud traffic and unmanaged hosts, and gain application transparency to secure against threats-in-motion across distributed hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. Gigamon Hawk amplifies the power of observability by accessing network traffic at the source, whether virtual, container, or physical, and efficiently aggregates, optimizes, and enriches it while serving actionable, network-level intelligence to any tooling, anywhere.

    Changing Requirements in a Cloud-First World

    According to Flexera, 92 percent of large organizations have embraced a multi-cloud infrastructure strategy. In addition, according to market research firm EMA, 96 percent of large organizations expect to integrate network packet and observability intelligence, with 77 percent planning to use network-level intelligence to fortify hybrid cloud security. Consequently, 81 percent of organizations have experienced a cloud-related security incident in the past year.

    A New Frontier: Deep Observability

    Today’s release introduces a series of major advancements including:

    ●  Next-Gen Container Network Visibility – GigaVUE now enables the acquisition of container traffic, delivering the industry’s first universal container tap (UCT) solution deployable with any container network interface (CNI) and any container orchestration, powered by the enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) for network-level observability with minimal overhead. Deep observability for security and performance can now follow the workload no matter the ephemerality or scale of container-based micro-services.

    ●  Application Metadata Integration Framework – Gigamon Hawk application metadata engine integrates directly with leading observability platforms, including Dynatrace, New Relic, and Sumo Logic, using JavaScript object notation (JSON) and Kafka. This integration enables existing observability tools to perform new security functions, such as identifying rogue services, activities, and illegal crypto mining.

    ●  Cloud-Scale Network Telemetry Processing – The new GigaVUE-HC1 Plus visibility appliance, an underlying component of Gigamon Hawk, delivers twice the pipeline processing performance in half the physical footprint and power requirements, compared to the previous generation. This purpose-built appliance can efficiently and economically process network telemetry by aggregating telemetry from physical, virtual, and/or container workloads, including telemetry from public cloud workloads.

    “We’re excited about the new universal container tap (UCT) solution in the latest release of GigaVUE Cloud Suite as it shows how Gigamon is continuing to innovate to stay current with modern software architectures, including a wide range of Kubernetes-based container deployments,” said Steve Watt, principal, president at Layer8. “Gigamon is heading in the right direction.” Layer8 is a leading value-added Gigamon channel partner that provides comprehensive strategy, design, implementation, staffing, and support services for IT applications and infrastructure.

    “As we have moved workloads to the cloud over the last few years, one of the challenges has been maintaining visibility into key applications no matter where they are running,” said Jerry Hulbert, senior vice president of high impact technology solutions at Sev1Tech. “The Gigamon Hawk Deep Observability Pipeline brings actionable network-level intelligence to all our SIEM, observability, and performance tools, speeding up our troubleshooting and lowering operational costs to secure complex hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructure.”

    “IT organizations are increasingly relying on multiple sources of telemetry, including metrics, events, logs and traces to analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructure,” said Akhil Kapoor, vice president of cloud and product partnerships at New Relic. “Our partnership with Gigamon enriches our telemetry data platform with application metadata intelligence that spans more than 5,000 attributes to provide cloud and security operations teams with the deep observability they need to identify and eliminate security blind spots and performance bottlenecks between virtual machines, containers, and within and between on-premises, public, and private clouds.”

    “Today’s GigaVUE 6.0 software release provides IT organizations with next-generation, actionable network-level intelligence that delivers granularity up to the application layer for all workloads including private and public cloud and all container environments,” said Michael Dickman, chief product officer at Gigamon. “Our deep observability pipeline is the realization of our vision to bring rich, ‘ground truth’ network intelligence to our customers, allowing them to solve their most pressing security and operational challenges to manage distributed hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure efficiently and effectively.”

    Join the immersive, virtual deep dive technical sessions at Gigamon Visualyze Bootcamp to learn more about the latest innovations and how they bring deep observability to hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

    About Gigamon

    Gigamon® offers a deep observability pipeline that harnesses actionable network-level intelligence to amplify the power of observability tools. This powerful combination helps IT organizations to assure security and compliance governance, speed root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and lower operational overhead associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures. The result: modern enterprises realize the full transformational promise of the cloud. Gigamon serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide. To learn more, please visit gigamon.com.

    © 2022 Gigamon. All rights reserved. Gigamon and the Gigamon logo are trademarks of Gigamon in the United States and/or other countries. Gigamon trademarks can be found at www.gigamon.com/legal-trademarks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

  • Checkly Announces Business Milestones, SOC 2 Compliance, New Playwright Test Runner, GitHub Sync, Enhanced Alert Notifications, and More

    Boston, MA, October 11, 2022—Today Checkly Inc., the only company with a synthetic app and API monitoring platform made for developers that bridges the gap between Dev, Ops, and QA, announced that over 600 customers and thousands of developers have adopted its platform to seamlessly integrate with their existing development workflows. The company has surpassed 3.5 Billion checks run by users implementing Checkly’s end-to-end monitoring at speed and scale. The company also announced that it is updating the Checkly platform with a host of new product features, including a new Playwright test runner integration, mobile alerting improvements, and general availability of its new GitHub Sync feature to update and control Browser check code.

    Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to customer privacy, security, needs for data availability, and responding to growing requests from enterprise customers, the company is also now fully compliant with SOC (System and Organization Controls) 2 Type 1. SOC 2 is widely recognized as one of the most important and rigorous compliance standards related to managing customer data.

    “Development teams at companies like Airbus, Vercel, 1Password, Deno, and the Schwarz IT are choosing Checkly because our programmable, monitoring-as-code approach gives developers confidence that issues will be quickly identified,” says Checkly CEO and co-founder Hannes Lenke. “We’ve hit a number of business milestones and doubled-down on support for Playwright, the leading open-source automation framework. We’ve also achieved SOC 2 Type 1 compliance and shipped a number of new product features, all in support of our singular vision of creating the best synthetic app and API monitoring platform for developers.”

    Checkly Business Highlights:

    • The Checkly synthetic app and API monitoring platform has been adopted by development teams at top brands and organizations globally, including 1Password, Airbus, commercetools, Deno, Hays, Joyn, Prisma, Schwarz IT, Vercel, Yext, and more.
    • Demonstrating the deep value of the platform to developers, Checkly has already run more than 3.5 Billion API and browser checks with a monthly rate of 343 Million checks and 400,000 alerts—and growing.
    • In a research study by Digital Enterprise Journal entitled “Top 20 Emerging Vendors for Managing IT Performance in 2022“, analyst Bojan Simic found Checkly to be a leader across eight categories aligned with key user requirements.
    • Checkly won the Flexible Work Award in the category of “The Leading Remote-First Company” out of a group of more than 50 top remote-first and remote-friendly global companies.
    • Cinthia Portugal joins Checkly from CrowdStrike where she served as VP and global head of Humio marketing. As Checkly’s CMO, Cinthia will lead marketing strategy globally and be instrumental in scaling the company’s growth in new and existing markets, and broadening its global industry reach.

    Checkly Product Updates:

    • Native support for Playwright Test brings existing customer E2E scripts directly into Checkly with support for expect, trace files, video recordings and more.
    • Enhanced native integration with leading providers that support Checkly’s Monitoring-as-Code (MaC) workflow, including Terraform, Pulumi, and the newly-announced GitHub Sync.
    • New alerting enhancements provide additional transparency about Checkly alerts, while new mobile improvements optimize the Checkly experience for tablets and smartphones. GitHub Sync—to update and control browser check codes—is now also generally available.
    • To better support the needs of enterprise customers, the Checkly platform completed a migration from Heroku to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to benefit from better database scalability, better observability, and full control over cross regional backups for disaster recovery.
    • To announce new platform features and functionality on a regular basis, Checkly will be holding quarterly Launch Weeks—beginning with Checkly Launch Week 1—which starts today, October 11th, at 9:00am PT / Noon ET / 9:00pm CET.

    “We’ve been using Checkly’s newest features, GitHub Sync and integration with Playwright Test, and we see great value in both,” said Eric Matthys, Principal Software Engineer at Plex, Inc. “GitHub Sync lets us remove complexity related to managing Terraform with CI, which previously required an additional service. With Checkly it’s much simpler now and there are fewer pieces that contributors need to understand. Checkly’s Playwright Test Integration allows us to write our end-to-end tests and run them locally in (almost) the same way as our other tests. We have found the async assertions in particular helpful and valuable to our efforts.”

    About Checkly Checkly is the advanced synthetic app and API monitoring platform that bridges the gap between development, operations, and QA. Checkly’s programmable, monitoring-as-code approach seamlessly integrates with existing development workflows, provides end-to-end monitoring at speed and scale, and gives developers confidence that issues will be quickly and reliably identified. Checkly Inc. was founded in 2018 and is funded by CRV, Accel, and Mango Capital. Visit Checkly on the web (http://www.checklyhq.com), on Twitter (https://twitter.com/checklyHQ), and on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkly/).

  • LightBeam Democratizes Privacy Compliance Opening New Markets for Startups and Enterprises

    Company announces a completely free path for assisting organizations in efforts to comply with state, national and international privacy regulations

    Palo Alto, CA, October 10, 2022 — LightBeam.ai, a pioneer in data security and privacy automation, is announcing a new PrivacyOps Pro module at no cost1 to help organizations of all sizes and industries meet specific requirements of international, national and state data privacy laws.

    Data Privacy regulations have become a critical bottleneck for businesses, limiting their ability to expand into newer markets and geographies. While the regulations themselves are welcomed universally among consumers, and are a massive step in the right direction, the disparate nature of these regulations have left businesses confused and apprehensive of expanding their operations. Case in point is the United States where lack of a federal privacy law has resulted in states such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia promulgating their own privacy regulations. Often, businesses have to rely on third-party consultants to figure out the paperwork needed and checkboxes to be filled in.

    This situation becomes even murkier as businesses look to grow internationally. While General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) covers many European countries, the UK, Canada, United Arab Emirates (UAE) among others have their own data privacy regulations and requirements creating a variety of layers to be navigated and synchronized into a complete privacy program.

    “A fragmented privacy regulatory environment has encouraged rent-seeking behavior from unscrupulous groups looking to maximize this complexity to their advantage,” said Mark Pilon, Vice President of Business Development at ITI, Canada. “It is ludicrous that businesses are often asked to pay tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars just for the privilege of  filling out forms every quarter. LightBeam’s offer empowers businesses to pursue growth with the confidence of complying with data privacy regulations.”

    The LightBeam PrivacyOps module addresses the need for a global data privacy compliance solution and removes commercial impediments in complying with data privacy regulations worldwide. The PrivacyOps Pro module provides businesses the following capabilities:

    1. Quarterly Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) reports – Keeping RoPA reports up to date helps businesses comply with GDPR Article 30 and helps strengthen their compliance for other jurisdictions as well. The RoPA reports can be generated as per the nature of individual businesses and their roles in the business processes, e.g. whether a business is a controller or a processor, or if there is a cross-border data transfer, among other considerations.

    2. Data Subject Rights (DSR) Requests – Multiple privacy regulations including the GDPR in Europe, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Quebec’s Law 25 empower consumers (and in some cases, employees) to access, and erase their personal data. To be prepared, businesses have to license expensive software just to be ready to respond to such requests. With the LightBeam PrivacyOps Pro module, businesses can respond to up to 25 requests per year at no charge, eliminating the need for many businesses to ever spend resources on privacy tools.

    “As information security leaders, we are always concerned about sensitive data getting exposed. A typical financial institution could have many applications with both structured and unstructured data,”, stated Matt Davis, Manager Information Security at ESL Federal Credit Union. “LightBeam’s approach of providing a holistic sensitive data operating system gives us visibility, helps contain exposure, and automates compliance.”

    “Our goal is to enable every business to expand and grow to its fullest potential. CEOs and CXOs should not have to study the fineprints of privacy regulations, assess vendors, spend money – all just to be ready for an eventual data subject request,” said Himanshu Shukla, Co-Founder and CEO at LightBeam. “We welcome leaders to fully realize their potential and dreams, and not let lack of data privacy regulation readiness be a blocker to market expansion.”

    Customers can register to get on-boarded on the LightBeam PrivacyOps module starting October 10, 2022 by sending an email to complynow@lightbeam.ai. Additional information including valuable resources on privacy regulations is available at www.lightbeam.ai/privacyops.

    For more information, please visit booth 506 at the IAPP PSR summit in Austin, TX where LightBeam subject matter experts will be available to answer any questions from Oct 12 – Oct 14, 2022.

    About LightBeam

    LightBeam is on a mission to create a secure privacy-first world helping customers automate compliance against a patchwork of existing and emerging regulations. A leader in the security and privacy automation category, LightBeam has rapidly gained customers’ trust by pioneering a unique identity-centric and automation-first approach to data security and privacy compliance. LightBeam’s self-learning AI platform natively secures sensitive data, and keeps customers in continuous compliance for audits. Unlike siloed solutions, LightBeam ties together sensitive data discovery, cataloging, and governance providing a unified solution for observability, access control and compliance.

    © 2022 LIGHTBEAM.AI, INC.. All rights reserved.

    1LightBeam PrivacyOps Pro module is being made available at no cost to qualified customers where customer qualification is at the sole discretion of LightBeam. LightBeam reserves the right to withdraw this offer at any time without notice. Terms and conditions apply.

    Company Contact
    Jessie Adams-Shore
    complynow@lightbeam.ai

  • Bonitasoft introduces New Tools that Offer Visualization and Monitoring with Business Process Automation

    A brand-new set of visualization and monitoring capabilities and a new reporting application come with the Bonita Digital Process Automation platform for deeper understanding of business process performance and results

    San Francisco, CA, October 5, 2022 – Bonitasoft, the leading open-source digital process automation company, today announced the first release of the Bonita Digital Business Process Management platform that includes native integration with tools produced by the Process Analytics project. With these tools, users can better customize their visualization of processes and cases for improved process monitoring, giving businesses a deeper understanding of how processes are performing as they run.

    The Process Analytics project is an open source project, distributed under the Apache license, that is developing tools to help developers to visualize and monitor process execution data using the BPMN2 standard notation. After two years of development, the Process Analytics project is now advanced enough to offer a set of re-usable, embeddable libraries that can be easily integrated into other existing BPM, RPA, iPaaS, and process mining applications and platforms.

    “We see process analytics as a sub-segment of the Data Analytics market, in which the data model is related to process execution use cases,” said Charles Souillard, CEO and co-founder of Bonitasoft. “The more data about business processes that the platform can mine and offer to business users in an easy-to-consume format, the better decisions they can take about where to optimize, improve, and innovate.”

    The current release of Bonita 2022.2 also has a brand-new Reporting Application that includes process execution reports, with relevant historical data of processes and cases, for analysis of past process performance that will aid in pinpointing areas for improvement.

    Further, Bonitasoft also announces that it has achieved ISO 27001 certification for its Bonita Cloud development, user support, and operations. 27001 certification was confirmed by Bureau Veritas, the world leader in certification, after performing a successful audit of Bonitasoft’s information security practices.

    “We are pleased to have earned this certification for Bonita,” added Nicolas Chabanoles, Chief Product & Technology Officer for Bonitasoft. “We are committed to providing highly secure business process automation for our Bonita customers, partners, and users.”

    The Bonita Community open-source edition includes all capabilities required to develop and deploy process automation projects, and can be downloaded here.

    About Bonitasoft
    Bonitasoft fully supports digital operations and modernization of information systems with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes. The Bonita platform accelerates development and production with a clear separation between visual programming and coding capabilities. Bonita integrates with existing information systems, orchestrates heterogeneous systems and provides deep visibility across all enterprise processes.