Author: Veronica Haggar

  • Zerto Joins AWS ISV Workload Migration Partner Program to Accelerate Adoption of its Cloud Data Management and Protection Solutions

    Ensuring Enterprise-class Protection and Recovery of VMs, Amazon EC2, and Amazon EKS Workloads

    BOSTON, MA – August 10, 2022 – Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, today announced it joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ISV Workload Migration Partner Program, allowing it to drive and deliver AWS workload migrations and accelerate the adoption of its cloud data management and protection solutions.

    Zerto customers will benefit from enhanced technical enablement which accelerates migrations with a repeatable and scalable methodology, automations, and tools that leverage AWS best practices. The program also provides access to AWS promotional credits to offset migration costs, including labor, training, and running parallel environments. In addition, Zerto will receive go-to-market support.

    Whether migrating or protecting virtual machines (VMs) or containers on-premises, to the cloud, or within the cloud, the Zerto solution utilizes the flexible capacity of AWS while minimizing downtime and helping protect against data loss. This allows users to achieve their recovery point and recovery time objectives with ease.

    Zerto’s software-only solution ensures enterprise-class protection and recovery of VMs, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) workloads. This includes easily scalable, cloud-based appliances that manage replication for application-centric protection and recovery or workload migration and continuous data protection with journal-based replication for on-premises to cloud or cloud to cloud.

    “Zerto is proud to work with AWS to help customers protect all of their data,” commented Christina Rauscher, global public cloud alliances director at Zerto. “By working together, we can help customers better leverage AWS with added migration, disaster recovery, ransomware recovery, backup, and long-term retention capabilities.”

    About Zerto

    Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, empowers customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto’s cloud data management and protection platform eliminates the risks and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption across private, public, and hybrid deployments. The simple, software-only platform uses continuous data protection at scale to converge disaster recovery, backup, and data mobility. Zerto is trusted by over 9,500 customers globally and is powering offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and more than 350 managed service providers.

  • Open Mainframe Project Announces Schedule for the 3rd Annual Open Mainframe Summit on September 21-22 in Philadelphia, PA

     The first-ever in-person Summit will focus on security, training, AI, Linux on Z and Cloud Native  and will be accessible online for attendees around the world

    San Francisco, CA, July 13, 2022 – The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, announces the schedule for the 3rd annual Open Mainframe Summit, which will be in-person in Philadelphia, PA, and streaming online for global attendees. This year’s theme focuses on security, which is top of mind for every company that uses mainframes. 

    Critical enterprise systems are more connected than ever, which means vulnerabilities have increased. In fact, according to The Essential Holistic Security Strategy, a recent report by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Open Mainframe Project Silver Member BMC, 81 percent of organizations surveyed are prioritizing the integration of security functions and improving security detection and response. 

    This year will highlight security as it relates to all aspects of mainframes and beyond including cloud native services, automation, software supply chain management and more. The Summit will also highlight projects such as Zowe and COBOL, education and training topics that will offer seasoned professionals, developers, students and thought leaders an opportunity to share best practices and network with like-minded individuals.

    Some of the security sessions include:

    Additionally, David Wheeler, Open Source Supply Chain Security Director at the Linux Foundation, will also give a keynote.   

    Other highlights include: 

    See the full conference schedule here. 

    Open Mainframe Project would like to thank this year’s Open Mainframe Summit planning committee including Alan Clark, CTO Office and Director for Industry Initiatives, Emerging Standards and Open Source at SUSE; Donna Hudi, Chief Marketing Officer at Phoenix Software; Elizabeth K. Joseph, Developer Advocate at IBM; and Michael Bauer, Staff Product Owner at Broadcom, Inc. 

    Early bird pricing ($500 US) for in-person attendees ends on July 15. Registration for academia is $50 for in-person and $15 for a virtual pass. Register here. 

    Open Mainframe Summit is made possible thanks to Platinum Sponsors Broadcom Mainframe Software, IBM, and SUSE and Gold Sponsors BMC, Micro Focus and Vicom Infinity, a Converge Company. For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here by August 5.  

    Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact Maemalynn Meanor at maemalynn@linuxfoundation.org. 

    About the Open Mainframe Project

    The Open Mainframe Project is intended to serve as a focal point for deployment and use of Linux and Open Source in a mainframe computing environment. With a vision of Open Source on the Mainframe as the standard for enterprise class systems and applications, the project’s mission is to build community and adoption of Open Source on the mainframe by eliminating barriers to Open Source adoption on the mainframe, demonstrating value of the mainframe on technical and business levels, and strengthening collaboration points and resources for the community to thrive. Learn more about the project at https://www.openmainframeproject.org.

    About The Linux Foundation

    Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, Hyperledger, RISC-V, and more. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

    The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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    maemalynn@linuxfoundation.org

  • MinIO Industry-Leading Multi-Cloud Object Storage Delivers Superior Intel Optimized Performance for Customers

    MinIO’s high performance, multi-cloud object store delivers against AI/ML, database and advanced analytic workloads for Intel customers

    Palo Alto, CA, Aug. 22, 2022 — MinIO Inc., creators of the MinIO Multi-Cloud Object Storage suite, today announced a deeper strategic collaboration with Intel to deliver superior performance across mission critical workloads, creating optimized infrastructure options for customers.

    MinIO is a high-performance, Kubernetes-native, S3-compatible object store. It is optimized for 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors at a granular level, including built-in Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) single instruction multiple data (SIMD) acceleration capabilities. The enhanced performance characteristics have made MinIO a leading object store for machine learning frameworks, analytics applications, databases, web applications and other performance-oriented workloads. MinIO’s architecture is renowned for its simplicity and scales from terabytes to exabytes easily.

    “Intel has been a strategic partner of MinIO since the inception of the company. We continue to expand the partnership and collaborate on R&D, benchmarking and customer success opportunities. We share a technology vision that is informed by machine learning, is multi-cloud, containerized, orchestrated and increasingly edge oriented,” said Garima Kapoor, co-founder and COO of MinIO. “Our work together continues to push the boundaries of innovation and our continued optimization on Intel platforms have resulted in record-setting performance benchmarks.”

    “Every enterprise today is a data enterprise, and every enterprise today needs mature multi-cloud experiences. Intel sees this across our portfolio, and is excited to work with MinIO to address the need in this environment,” said Arijit Bandyopadhyay, CTO – Enterprise Analytics & AI, Head of Strategy – Enterprise & Cloud Group at Intel Corporation. “We’re bullish about our collaboration with MinIO because performance at scale is critical for AI and Augmented Analytics workloads. MinIO, with its software-defined, high performant S3 object storage optimized for 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, helps enterprises overcome challenges of large primary storage across a range of use cases from Kubernetes-powered cloud applications to AI/ML/advanced analytics workloads.”

    Intel Architecture is Continually Enhanced for AI Applications

    In addition, MinIO is a member of the Intel Disruptor Initiative, where Intel collaborates with select cutting-edge technology ISVs and startups to accelerate the adoption of modern architectures on Intel platforms for Data, Augmented Analytics, and AI-infused workloads to propel customer success.

    The world’s data centers run on Intel platforms for their outstanding performance, security, scalable storage, and memory. Since its launch in July 2017, Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built-in accelerators and hardware-enhanced security are ushering in a golden age of software-defined storage where sophisticated features such as erasure coding, hashing, encryption, and bitrot protection are optimized by advantages such as Intel AVX-512 SIMD instruction sets and Intel DL Boost technology. And removing compute throughput bottlenecks enables companies to use the same enterprise systems for machine learning, deep learning, and traditional enterprise workloads.

    To learn more about MinIO’s and Intel’s work together visit https://resources.min.io/intel.

    Helpful Links
    MinIO blog: https://blog.min.io/
    Product overview: https://min.io/product/overview
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Minio
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/minio-inc-

    About MinIO
    MinIO is pioneering high performance, Kubernetes-native object storage for the multi-cloud. The software-defined, Amazon S3-compatible object storage system is used by more than half of the Fortune 500. With 950M+ Docker pulls, MinIO is the fastest-growing cloud object storage company and is consistently ranked by industry analysts as a leader in object storage. Founded in 2014, the company is backed by Intel Capital, Softbank Vision Fund 2, Dell Technologies Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, General Catalyst and key angel investors.

  • HYCU® Launches New Cloud-Native Backup as a Service for AWS – Free Tier for Life

    Cloud professionals can now further protect their Amazon EC2 instances in minutes with a free SaaS offering

    Boston, MA, August 22, 2022 — HYCU, Inc.,  a pioneering enterprise backup as a service (BaaS) company specializing in hybrid and multi-cloud data protection as a service, today announced a free tier of HYCU Protégé for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new solution is a cloud-native backup and disaster recovery service that offers additional protection for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. It delivers a fully managed backup service that offloads and automates data protection tasks. HYCU leverages Amazon Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots to create an impact free, application consistent copies of the data. Cloud admins can now protect their data in minutes instead of spending days on data protection operations. Customers can subscribe and immediately protect their workloads and get back to doing what they do best – accelerating application development.

    Many companies are challenged with having a reliable data protection solution. Although native functionality and scripts provide extensive features, they can require significant time on the part of cloud architects, administrators, and even DevOps teams to configure, deploy and manage, with increasing complexity as organizations grow their use of cloud workloads. HYCU believes

    cloud-native backup and disaster recovery does not have to come at the expense of application development and innovation. 

    “In a perfect world, every organization would have data protection and backup as a core pillar within their organization. HYCU is committed to creating solutions that make data backup and recovery more accessible, limiting the threat of ransomware attack and human error,” said HYCU Founder and CEO Simon Taylor. “By releasing a free tier of HYCU Protégé for AWS, we have created the first cloud-native backup solution purpose-built for cloud and DevOps teams. HYCU has a mission of building a safer world, and above all else, we aim to deliver life-changing solutions to protect data, organizations and people.”

    The free tier of HYCU Protégé for AWS removes the need for multiple interfaces and provides greater visibility and control of AWS workloads. It converges backup and recovery into a simple user experience for all AWS backups. Customers can now back up Amazon EC2 workloads in minutes. HYCU provides backup as a service for free, customers only pay for their AWS consumption used to protect their data. 

    HYCU Protégé for AWS is packed with key capabilities to ensure that data protection is a simple process, yet comprehensive and scalable to organizations and teams using it. New features and benefits include: 

    • Live view of your protection status at all times
    • 1-click automation of backups 
    • Simple granular file restores 
    • Cross-regional disaster recovery 
    • Daily notifications and proactive alerts
    • 100% ownership of their data – including backups.

    This announcement comes on the heels of HYCU’s Series B funding in June 2022, accelerating innovation-focused solutions and services delivery, such as HYCU Protégé for AWS.

    For more information on the free tier and to subscribe, please visit: HYCU Protégé for AWS – Free Tier or follow @hycuinc and connect with HYCU on LinkedIn.

    About HYCU
    HYCU is the fastest-growing leader in the multi-cloud backup and recovery as a service industry. By bringing true SaaS-based data backup to both on-premises and cloud-native environments, the company provides unparalleled data protection, migration and disaster recovery to more than 3,200 companies worldwide. HYCU’s award-winning, purpose-built solutions eliminate the complexity, risk and high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity in a hyper-connected, multi-cloud world. Customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data backup and recovery, no matter where their data resides. Based in Boston, Mass., the company employs 300 people across the globe. Learn more at www.hycu.com.

  • ShiftLeft Appoints Prevention-First, Cybersecurity Visionary and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Pioneer Stuart McClure as Chief Executive Officer

     Serial Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Leader and Industry Veteran joins ShiftLeft to Drive Growth and AI/ML Innovation Globally

    Santa Clara, CA, August 2, 2022 —  ShiftLeft, a disruptor and innovator in the world of DevSecOps and NextGen SAST and SCA, today named Stuart McClure as CEO. With more than 30 years in security, vulnerabilities and prevention technology, McClure will leverage his experience to enable growth and expansion for the company while advancing AI/ML in the DevSecOps and application security market.

    “I am honored to join ShiftLeft as CEO, and build on the company’s stellar foundation of innovation and thought leadership around vulnerability detection and prevention in the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) landscape,” stated Stuart McClure, CEO of ShiftLeft. “I have been waiting almost 30 years to shift the entire discussion left and take prevention to the root cause of cybersecurity vulnerabilities: source code. And with their recent $29M financing round ShiftLeft is set up for success.”

    The ShiftLeft platform integrates with the CI/CD pipeline and developer community to quickly identify the known and unknown vulnerabilities that matter most to your organization. Cybersecurity threats begin with code, making them completely preventable if you identify and address them in real time, and before they become part of your product. ShiftLeft’s solution has been built from the ground up to solve the core of this problem and enables developers and application security teams to collaborate together to fix what matters most, quickly.

    “As a board member, Stuart has been instrumental in promulgating the value ShiftLeft brings to the development and security community which will now go to scaling the business,” says Jay Leek, Managing Partner & Co-founder at SYN Ventures. “We are extremely grateful to Manish Gupta for building a tremendously valuable company and solution and look forward to where Stuart will take it.”

    “Stuart’s background and command of the cyber landscape makes him the perfect leader for ShiftLeft’s next evolution,” says Manish Gupta, Founder and Former CEO who will continue as Advisor to ShiftLeft and the board.

    “Stuart has long been among the very few that I would go into any foxhole with in the cybersecurity industry,” said Malcolm Harkins, former CISO of Intel and Cylance. “His experience in the world of prevention will apply extremely well to tackling the final place to take prevention, that of code.”

    Prior to joining ShiftLeft, McClure led Cylance as its Founder and CEO and was acquired by Blackberry in 2019, driving a revolutionary new AI/ML-based approach to threat prevention, detection and response. Prior to Cylance, he was Global CTO for McAfee/Intel, Founder/President/CTO of Foundstone which sold to McAfee in 2004, and at Ernst & Young he was a founding team member of their cybersecurity practice. Finally, Stuart’s knowledge of how the attacker works is well known as the founding author of the world’s most popular cybersecurity franchise called Hacking Exposed and later Web Hacking.

    About ShiftLeft

    ShiftLeft empowers developers and AppSec teams to dramatically reduce risk by quickly finding and fixing the vulnerabilities most likely to reach their applications and ignoring reported vulnerabilities that pose little risk. Industry-leading accuracy allows developers to focus on security fixes that matter and improve code velocity while enabling AppSec engineers to shift security left. A unified code security platform, ShiftLeft CORE scans for attack context across custom code, APIs, OSS, containers, internal microservices, and first-party business logic by combining results of the company’s and Intelligent Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Using its unique graph database that combines code attributes and analyzes actual attack paths based on real application architecture, ShiftLeft then provides detailed guidance on risk remediation within existing development workflows and tooling. Teams that use ShiftLeft ship more secure code, faster. Backed by SYN Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Blackstone, Mayfield, Thomvest Ventures, and SineWave Ventures, ShiftLeft is based in Santa Clara, California.

  • Security Luminary Mike Rothman Joins Techstrong Group as Chief Strategy Officer and GM of Techstrong Research

    Security Luminary Mike Rothman Joins Techstrong Group as Chief Strategy Officer and GM of Techstrong Research

    Long-time analyst, author and industry leader brings thought leadership to Techstrong Group’s distribution channels for impactful insights into cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native and digital transformation.

    Boca Raton, FL, July 12, 2022 — Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Mike Rothman as chief strategy officer (CSO) and general manager of Techstrong Research. Rothman will help lead Techstrong Group in all aspects of its business, bringing impactful perspectives and a clear strategic vision to the wide distribution channels Techstrong Group has established. Rothman also will manage the Techstrong Research business unit that provides cutting-edge industry research and strategic advisory expertise.

    Rothman joins Techstrong Group after spending 12 years as president of Securosis, a boutique information security research firm. Mike also co-founded DisruptOps, a cloud security operations platform, and served as its president until the company’s acquisition by Firemon in September of 2021. He brings 30+ years of experience as a research analyst and security leader and is recognized as a voice of reason for business leaders in an often over-hyped and extremely complex security industry.

    “I am elated to work with Mike Rothman to help Techstrong Group achieve its full potential,” said Alan Shimel, CEO and founder of Techstrong Group. “I am looking forward to Mike taking an active role in leading our company, driving groundbreaking research and working with our entire team, our communities and sponsors.“

    Rothman’s wide-ranging experience includes nearly every security market over his career, recently specializing in security operations, cloud security and DevSecOps. Time spent in CMO and VP of strategy roles at security companies gives Rothman unique insights on go-to-market planning, messaging architecture, selling strategies and making technology relevant to the business.

    In 2007 Rothman published The Pragmatic CSO to introduce technically-savvy security professionals to the nuances of what is required to be a senior security professional. He has an engineering degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

    “I could not be more excited to join Alan and the team at Techstrong Group,” said Rothman. “With a laser-focus on DevOps, security and cloud-native infrastructure—the most important markets in technology—and an audience of hundreds of thousands of subscribers and attendees, Techstrong Group is perfectly positioned to be the leading voice of the evolution to this new computing model.”

    Rothman will join Techstrong Group immediately to begin helping Techstrong Group’s audience navigate the current market and technology landscape. He will be contributing content and analysis across all Techstrong Group brands, including devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, Container Journal, DigitalCxO, Techstrong TV and, of course, Techstrong Research.

    About Techstrong Group
    Techstrong Group is the power source for people and technology. Techstrong Group accelerates understanding of technologies that drive business. With a broad set of IT-related communities and offerings, Techstrong Group is the only media company serving the needs of IT leaders and practitioners with news, research, analysis, events, education, certifications and professional development. Our focus areas are digital transformation, DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud and cloud-native. Techstrong Group business units include: Techstrong Media, Techstrong Research and Techstrong Live!. For technology providers, Techstrong Group business units offer many ways to reach IT professionals and tell their stories.

    Techstrong Group is based in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information, visit us on the web and follow us on Twitter,LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

    Media Contact
    Leah Van Zee
    Call: +1 (561) 430-3347
    Email: leah@techstrongroup.com

  • DevOps Connect: DevSecOps — Building a Modern Cybersecurity Practice

    DevOps Connect: DevSecOps — Building a Modern Cybersecurity Practice

    Malicious actors are constantly looking for new ways to gain access to sensitive data and corrupt systems. As software supply chain attacks are on the rise, security has become a top priority and a growing area in the regulatory and standards landscape. DevOps teams need to approach security as an ongoing part of the software development cycle by implementing DevSecOps practices at scale to improve the security of their software supply chain and ensure the components of the application code are trustworthy.

    At DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Virtual Summit, on July 12, we’ll share exclusive content from our RSAC 2022 event to help DevOps teams integrate security in their process from the start. Internationally recognized DevOps and security leaders will examine the supply chain risk landscape, market trends and practical solutions, and provide strategic insights on emerging regulatory topics.

    Attendees will gain valuable insider knowledge, tips and tricks they can share with their team and immediately put into practice to build a modern cybersecurity practice within their company.

    Things You’ll Learn

    The agenda features a mix of DevOps and cybersecurity topics, including:

    • AppSec and DevSecOps best practices
    • SBOMs and security regulations
    • API, open source and supply chain security
    • Cloud and Kubernetes security risks
    • Pentesting at scale
    • The three ways of DevOps
    • Shift-left security
    • Open Zero Trust
    • And more

    Meet the Speakers

    The speaker lineup features some of the foremost innovators in the DevSecOps community, including:

    • Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation
    • Chenxi Wang, founder and general partner at Rain Capital
    • Jennifer Czaplewski, senior director of cybersecurity at Target
    • John Willis, senior director of the global transformation office at Red Hat
    • Caroline Wong, chief strategy officer at Cobalt
    • Priyanka Sharma, executive director at CNCF
    • Dr. Amit Elazari, director of global cybersecurity policy at Intel Corp
    • Cherilyn Pascoe, senior technology policy advisor at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
    • Larry Maccherone, DevSecOps transformation architect at Contrast Security
    • Tracy Bannon, senior principal at The MITRE Corp
    • And many others

    Visit the Exhibit Hall

    In addition to the sessions, attendees can visit the virtual exhibit hall to interact with partner sponsors including Sysdig, Sonatype, Check Point Software Technologies, Prisma Cloud, SUSE, Qualys, Traceable AI and more. The expo hall will be open throughout the event, giving attendees the opportunity to chat with the sponsors and download information at any time.

    Registered attendees will also receive a link to access the virtual environment on-demand. To see the full agenda and to register for free, please visit the DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Virtual Summit website.

  • Allego® Launches Allego 7 to Power Sales Enablement that Wins Sellers and Buyers

    One quarter of Dow Jones Industrial Average companies rely on Allego to equip sellers for success in a digitally-centered hybrid era

    Waltham, MA, June 23, 2022 — Allego, the leading sales enablement platform provider, today launched the latest generation of its product – Allego 7. The platform introduces multiple groundbreaking innovations across the entire spectrum of enablement to help companies win over their sellers and buyers. These latest product enhancements and Allego’s ongoing commitment to helping companies succeed in a hybrid environment has led to increased demand for the platform by its customers, who comprise 14 of the top 20 financial services asset managers, five of the largest medical device companies, half of the top 10 banks and three of the top five insurance companies.

    Allego 7 enhancements help organizations address the comprehensive set of challenges typically siloed across multiple sales enablement applications. According to Allego’s research, The Sales Enablement Technology Report, which surveyed 330 B2B sales leaders earlier this year about their use of sales tools, 50% of companies deploy up to 5 tools to support sales efforts – with another 39% using more than 5 tools. An overwhelming 76% of companies say that poor adoption of sales tools is a top reason teams miss their sales quotas.

    “This latest release brings numerous innovations that are first to market, providing sellers and buyers with what they need to truly win in the hybrid environment,” said Andre Black, Chief Product Officer at Allego. “It’s exciting to see our vision of supporting the modern sales enablement process across content management, sales training, and conversation intelligence become a reality. Reps can now practice buyer conversations with virtual actors, engage buyers with highly personalized digital sales rooms, and directly measure how content shared with buyers impacts their win rates – all in a single platform. We want sellers to spend their time orchestrating better buying journeys, not trying to become experts on multiple tools. Allego 7 is the platform they can depend on for sales success.”

    With Allego 7, sales professionals can:

    Strengthen engagement with richer seller and buyer content experiences

    Allego 7 transforms sales teams’ content experiences to be more engaging while making customer-facing teams more efficient than ever before. Teams can now upload content that is more interactive, such as 3D product viewers or interactive calculators. They can also customize channels and digital sales rooms with new capabilities that deliver context, personality, and convenient cross-linking. And teams can deploy flexible presentations and documents that support guided personalization for each sales interaction.

    Analyze learner progression and prove enablement impact

    Allego 7 gives teams an immediate understanding of sales conversations and ensures messaging is being delivered effectively by automatically summarizing call moments into bite-sized highlight reels—an Allego first-to-market innovation. And, with improvements to AI-powered coaching and a new comprehensive view of learner progression, sales organizations can better prepare their customer-facing teams to handle any situation with confidence.

    Deliver next generation learning and coaching that drives behavior change

    Allego 7 delivers the next generation of virtual learning and coaching for the hybrid environment. Sales managers, trainers, and customer success teams can now practice two-way dialogs with the Dialog Simulator feature, an AI-generated virtual actor, to gain experiential learning prior to real conversations with customers. Plus, reps will be able to apply more focus during customer conversations by having Allego automatically summarize meeting notes and actions–ensuring they’ll never miss a key customer interaction. And, sellers can continually improve their selling skills on their own with instant access to new coaching-as-a-service that gives them professional feedback from a live coach right within the platform when they need it.

    “One of the features I’m most excited about in Allego 7 is the Dialog Simulator. We do a lot of role playing and recording exercises for our new financial professionals (FPs) as part of our onboarding program that requires them to practice on their own,” said Molly Caven, program operations at Thrivent Financial.  “This new tool will help our FPs participate in more meaningful role plays by hearing AI responses. We can give our FPs more challenging role plays that are more realistic to what the real world will give them, and best of all, they can practice on their own time.”

    The Allego platform’s product features and customer satisfaction recently earned Allego a spot on Selling Power’s Top 5 Sales Enablement Vendors in 2022 list. Vendors on the list were selected based on criteria including platform overview and features; onboarding, analytics, and ROI; customer support and platform security; and strength of client satisfaction and general feedback collected from customers. Allego is also the only platform ranked as a Leader across five major G2 categories including sales enablement, training and onboarding, sales coaching, conversation intelligence, and digital sales rooms.

    “Customers want fewer and more capable tools, and there are simply too many narrowly defined sales tools available right now,” said Yuchun Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Allego. “We know sales enablement is headed toward more comprehensive platforms that span sales content management, virtual selling, modern learning, and coaching. With Allego 7, we’re simplifying rep workflows while helping organizations build an easier to use, more efficient, and cost-effective sales tech stack.”

    Availability:

    Allego 7 is available now. Select features will be made available in upcoming months. To learn how Allego can help you win with your sellers and buyers, schedule a demo or visit Allego.com.

    About Allego
    Allego provides a complete sales enablement platform with patented technology that ensures sellers have the skills, knowledge, and content they need to engage buyers in a hybrid world. In place of traditional training and content enablement tactics, which are rapidly outdated and often ineffective, Allego empowers reps with the activated content they need to close deals faster, and the personalized coaching and learning they require for continuous improvement – all in the flow of their daily work. More than 750,000 professionals use Allego every day to revolutionize the way they manage seller and buyer content, train and upskill teams, and collaborate with buyers digitally. To learn more about Allego and how it can help you win with your sellers and buyers, please visit Allego.com.

  • Starburst Acquires Varada To Deliver The New Standard Of Data Lake Analytics

    Joint solution increases query performance on AWS up to 7X and reduces cloud compute costs up to 40%

    Boston, USA and Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, June 23, 2022 — Starburst, the analytics anywhere company, today announced the acquisition of Varada, a data lake analytics accelerator. While Starburst’s best-in-class query engine already leads the industry in both performance and cost-efficiency, combining Varada’s proprietary and patented indexing technology sets a new benchmark in data lake analytics, empowering organizations to more quickly and efficiently derive greater insights from their data.

    In addition to its technology, Varada engineering and product leadership will be joining the Starburst team. The integration of the technology is expected to roll out to select customers in the next 30 days, with general availability by fall 2022. Companies using Trino can try the Varada Community Edition connector for free.

    Current economic dynamics are forcing IT leaders to find cost efficiencies wherever possible. The move to the cloud and the pay-as-you-go consumption models give IT managers more flexibility to scale expenses upward or reduce them downward. However, when running an application in the cloud, you’re not only running the application, but also the underpinning data, network resources, infrastructure resources, storage, and security that are part of the application’s total workload. With the acquisition and integration of Varada’s technology, customers using Starburst for their analytical workloads can reduce cloud compute costs by 40%+ and query response times by up to 7x.

    Varada was one of the analytics query accelerators recognized in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Analytics Query Accelerators. Gartner states that “data and analytics leaders should use these offerings to accelerate time to value of their data lake initiatives.”

    Varada’s core technology is a proprietary and patented caching and indexing solution which helps customers:

    1. Speed query performance with autonomous indexing. Varada splits the data to be processed into blocks and then automatically chooses the most effective index for each block based on the data content and structure. This ensures data is available for fast analysis, reducing query response times up to 7x.

    2. Adapt to business requirements with elastic resource management. Varada’s solution includes a smart cache which caches frequently accessed data to speed performance, but also provides data teams with the tools to adjust settings to meet performance & budget requirements. With the integration, Starburst Enterprise and Varada can elastically scale together to optimize for cost and performance.

    3. Reduce operational costs with workload-level monitoring. Varada’s workload-level monitoring detects hot data and bottlenecks, alerting data engineering teams to areas for improvement. With the solution overall reducing the need to move & model data, customers see up to 40% cloud compute cost reduction on AWS.

    “This acquisition is about helping customers take their data lake analytics to the next level, helping them move faster with critical decision-making while reducing data management costs,” said Justin Borgman, Starburst Co-Founder and CEO. “With the addition of Varada’s indexing technology, we can help data teams better serve the business, providing the right data right now. This powerful combination couldn’t come at a better time when an uncertain economy is forcing companies to re-evaluate their budgets, as business demands only increase.”

    “We are pleased to join Starburst and bring our innovative technology to a global audience,” said Roman Vainbrand, Varada Co-Founder & VP R&D. “We believe the combined Starburst & Varada solution will deliver the best performance and cost benefits in the analytics query market, enabling organizations to accelerate the time-to-insight, while optimizing infrastructure operations and investments.”

    “At Varada, we had to place a bet on which data lake query engine would win the data lake analytics race,” Said Eran Vanounou, Varada CEO. “Trino stood out immediately for its flexibility, vibrant community, and success as the query engine of choice for the largest internet-based businesses like Netflix, Lyft, and LinkedIn. Not only was it the perfect fit for Varada’s smart indexing technology, but now Starburst and Varada can join forces and deliver a new standard for speed and cost savings for data lake analytics.”

    Starburst is also announcing the “Starburst Warp Speed Analytics Tour” where companies can learn more and see Varada first-hand. The tour kicks off with a virtual event on June 29th with Analytics on the big stuff: Starburst gives Tableau “Any Size, Anywhere Powers”, followed by AWS Summit NY on July 12th where attendees can learn more at the Starburst booth. The tour wraps up at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit where attendees can see live demos on August 22-25th. Check out more of the tour dates and locations here.

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    About Starburst

    Starburst is the analytics engine for all your data. We provide the fastest, most efficient analytics engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or data mesh. We unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. Starburst queries data across any database, making it instantly actionable for data-driven organizations. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, prevent vendor lock-in, and use the existing tools that work for their business. Trusted by companies like Comcast, FINRA, and Condé Nast, Starburst helps companies make better decisions faster on all data.

    About Varada

    The Varada mission is to enable data practitioners to go beyond the traditional limitations imposed by data infrastructure and instead zero in on the data and answers they need—with complete control over performance, cost and flexibility. In Varada’s world of big data, every query can find its optimal plan, with no prior preparation and no bottlenecks, providing consistent performance at a petabyte scale. Varada was founded by veterans of the Dell EMC XtremIO core team and is dedicated to leveraging the data lake architecture to take on the challenge of data and business agility. Varada has been recognized in the Cool Vendors in Data Management report by Gartner, Inc.

  • TechStrong Con 2022: Exploring What’s Next in Tech

    TechStrong Con 2022: Exploring What’s Next in Tech

    We have become increasingly reliant on technology and it’s hard to imagine life without all the great tech inventions we use in our daily lives. As technology keeps progressing, more is expected of IT teams, and security is a top priority.

    While we are still trying to get used to the new normal, the IT community continues to shine as a beacon, demonstrating how humans are leveraging technology to overcome the many challenges we face. On June 21, business and tech leaders who are working on transforming the world and moving it forward will come together at TechStrong Con Virtual Summit to celebrate the power of technology, share their stories, provide practical insights and lend valuable advice to help other professionals succeed in their careers. More than a virtual event, it is a community gathering that offers learning, networking and upskilling opportunities. Now in its third year, TechStrong Con continues to serve as a testament to the ways in which technology can improve human existence.

    Things You’ll Learn

    The agenda features a mix of topics including live coding, cloud-native, cybersecurity, digital transformation, observability, DevOps, open source and more. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry about:

    • Managing the security of APIs
    • Key observability trends for 2022
    • How to accelerate digital transformation
    • Habits that will help improve your security posture
    • The state of the software supply chain post-Log4Shell
    • The distributed cloud
    • The future of data engineering
    • Building a diverse cybersecurity workforce
    • Crypto and NFTs
    • Low code and citizen development
    • The value of feature flags
    • How DevOps must be part of your future to attract the right talent
    • Managing and motivating teams in a hybrid environment

    Meet the Speakers

    The speaker lineup features globally recognized business leaders, DevOps, cybersecurity and IT experts including:

    • Sholmi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO at JFrog
    • Chenxi Wang, founder and general partner at Rain Capital
    • John Willis, senior director of the global transformation office at Red Hat
    • Caroline Wong, CSO at Cobalt
    • Thomas Krane, principal at Insight Partners
    • Lisa Plaggemier, executive director at National Cyber Security Alliance
    • Tami Mazel Shackar, CEO at Incredibuild
    • Tom Sweet, VP in IT solutions at GM Financials

    Visit the Exhibit Hall

    In addition to the sessions, attendees can visit the virtual exhibit hall to interact with partner sponsors including Chronosphere, ConnectALL, Tidelift and TechStrong Research. The expo hall will be open throughout the event, giving attendees the opportunity to chat with the sponsors and download information at any time.

    Registered attendees will also receive a link to access the virtual environment on-demand. To see the full agenda and to register for free, please visit the TechStrong Con website.