Tag: DevOps

Platform provides enterprise developer teams greater flexibility and control over data leading to faster, higher quality, and the most secure feature management and deployment

Oslo, NORWAY & New York, USA, March 24, 2022 — Unleash, the largest open source feature management platform, announced a $14 million Series A led by Spark Capital with participation from Frontline Ventures, firstminute capital, Alliance Venture, and Arkwright X. The new capital will be used to expand in the United States and Europe and scale product development and go-to-market organization including marketing, sales and customer success. Unleash also announced that Spark Capital’s Natalie Sandman has joined its Board of Directors.

Unleash is the largest open source feature management platform available to enterprise developers. The technology allows enterprises the ability to release, test and validate new features more effectively and to targeted groups of users. By open sourcing feature flags, full-stack and infrastructure developers can more easily identify any possible negative impact and collect user reactions to the change before rolling it out enterprise-wide. The platform provides greater flexibility, versatility and speed than existing closed source platforms and allows teams to:

Save time and reduce stress: The fear of introducing a bug or deploying code that isn’t quite ready and the endless sprints for complex releases are eliminated. Unleash’s fit-for-purpose activation strategies decouple release-to-production from release-to-customer, so ​​developers may roll out new features gradually.

• Target rollouts: Users decide how to roll out new features based on geographical region, tenantID, operating system or any attribute of their choice.
• Get peace of mind: Born and headquartered in Europe, Unleash is developed with strict data privacy protection in mind. The flexible delivery model allows the platform to be hosted in Unleash’s cloud, a private customer cloud, or even on premise if required. No end-user PII is ever sent back to the Unleash servers.

“Unleash was created to bring freedom back to developers so they can focus on creating, testing and deploying software. Today’s engineers are constantly bogged down with unnecessary processes, keeping them from doing what they love most: experimenting with and creating software to better their products,” said CEO and co-founder Egil Østhus. “This new investment invigorates Unleash and will help us scale our open source offering and continue helping engineers across the globe faster and more securely.”

According to the State of the Opencloud Report, the 2021 feature management industry is a $7 billion market. That same year, the Unleash global customer base grew 3X and today the company’s customers span financial, telecom and healthcare/life science industries, and include: Medidata Solutions, CreditOne Bank, Yousician, Superside, and Zain Telecom. Docker pulls – or downloads – of Unleash open source grew by 548% to over 12 million, helping to drive 8x year-over-year revenue growth from January 2021 to January 2022.

“By taking an open-source approach to feature management, Unleash gives developers more flexibility, especially when it comes to retaining full control of their data through self-hosting – an increasingly important trend with data privacy regulations like Europe’s GDPR,” said Natalie Sandman, General Partner at Spark Capital. “Egil, Ivar, and the Unleash community have created a product that developers love and I’m excited to work with their team to continue scaling the product to reach as many developers as possible.”

In early 2015, CTO Ivar Østhus launched Unleash on GitHub. As Unleash grew in popularity on the platform, Ivar and his brother Egil officially created the company in 2019 out of Oslo, Norway. Currently, Unleash’s remote-first team operates globally in Norway, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Germany, U.S., Tunisia, and South Africa. The team is looking to expand in 2022, both in US and EU.

About Unleash

Unleash is an enterprise-ready open source feature management platform allowing developers and enterprises to have control over their product features and subsequent roll-out. Its feature management platform lets developers turn new features on/off in production with no need for redeployment and allows teams to gradually roll out a feature to as little as 1% of a user population, giving unpresented flexibility. Founded and headquartered in Europe, Unleash is developed with strict data privacy protection in mind. To learn more visit: https://www.getunleash.io/

Leading strategic service provider increases global reach and services through most recent acquisition

San Jose, CA and St. Louis, MO, March 24, 2022 – InterVision, the leading IT strategic service provider, today announced the acquisition of Virtuosity Consulting, a technology firm with a strong global presence and extensive experience with Digital Transformation services. This transaction is yet another step forward in InterVision’s strategy to expand territory, grow technical depth, add innovative offerings, and deliver even more value to clients.

“Virtuosity is an established, global consultant with over 150 talented employees across the US, Europe and India,” said Jonathan Lerner, President and CEO of InterVision. “Committed to client success, we want to expand our global reach to address customers’ growing needs, to provide exemplary, follow-the-sun support and to continue to deepen our technical expertise and solutions. Virtuosity’s experience with top-tier hyperscalers, adds valuable services focused on business and process automation, software engineering, system integration, Web 3.0 technologies, and digital intelligence, to our already well-established IT consulting and professional services portfolio. This strategic acquisition accelerates our plan to provide greater value to our customers and prospects.”

In 2021, enterprise software spending hit $601 billion globally. As the technology market continues to accelerate, working with global managed service providers with deep expertise in both Microsoft and AWS will be crucial to long-term business success. “With the acquisition of Virtuosity, InterVision is even better equipped to provide greater value to enterprises along their innovation journeys,” said Lerner.

“Virtuosity is excited to be part of InterVision’s continuing quest to innovate with the best in the industry to bring big-time technology solutions and services to our customers. This partnership elevates the already renowned InterVision brand as recognized leader in the managed services space by bringing a combination of disruptive agility, a 24-hour development capability, and a platform for launching InterVision into the Web3.0 evolution,” shared Brent Lazarenko, Managing Partner at Virtuosity Consulting.

InterVision was founded in 1993 and has a national presence with 14 offices and 450+ employees, servicing more than 1,500 clients from coast to coast. The company’s principal shareholders include MidOcean Partners, Huron Capital and members of management. Over the last five years, InterVision has acquired a number of leading firms to expand its territory, its portfolio of offerings, and drive value to its customers.

“InterVision is paving the way for what it means to provide real value to customers,” shared Elias Dokas, Managing Director at MidOcean Partners. “The recent acquisition of Virtuosity is a testament to InterVision’s dedication to its customers, and we firmly believe in the direction, vision and future of this growing and innovative organization.”

To learn more about InterVision and its services visit www.intervision.com.

About InterVision Systems

InterVision is the leading strategic services provider, delivering and supporting complex IT solutions for mid-to-enterprise and public sector organizations throughout the US. With more than 25 years of experience, coupled with one of the most comprehensive product portfolios of managed IT service offerings available, the company is uniquely positioned to guide clients through any stage of their technology journeys. InterVision drives business outcomes with an unparalleled focus on the customer experience to help organizations be more competitive, compliant, and secure. To learn more, visit www.intervision.com.

About Virtuosity

Virtuosity is a global technology services and consulting firm executing Digital Transformation and technology initiatives for all levels of sizes of enterprise. With locations throughout North America as well as development and support centers in India across Navi Mumbai, Chennai, and Bangalore, our services focus on business and process automation, Software Engineering, System Integration, Web3.0 technologies, and Digital Intelligence.

For more information contact info@virtuositycg.com or 425-999-4044, or visit https://www.virtuositycg.com/

Led by Insight Partners, joined by Stripes and Sequoia, new capital validates the success and customer uptake of Island’s cybersecurity and employee productivity game-changer

Dallas, TX, March 23, 2022 — Island, creator of the Enterprise Browser, today announced that it has raised $115 million in its Series B financing round at a $1.3 billion valuation. The round was led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, which led Island’s prior financing round. Existing investors Stripes and Sequoia Capital also participated in this round, bringing Island’s total funds raised to over $200 million.

This round follows Island’s emergence from stealth on Feb. 1 when it introduced the world’s first Enterprise Browser. By building the core needs of the enterprise into the browser itself, the Island Enterprise Browser provides organizations with complete visibility and last-mile control, producing unprecedented improvements in security, IT, and productivity, all while delivering the same Chromium-based experience end-users expect.

“Island has created a whole new way of thinking about enterprise work. By fundamentally transforming the work environment to be secure-by-design, the Island Enterprise Browser enables organizations to achieve entirely new levels of security, productivity, and IT efficiency. The enthusiasm from our customers and the IT community has been extraordinary.” said Mike Fey, Island CEO and Co-founder. “New investment from Insight Partners and increased investment from our original funding partners validates our product-market fit, accelerates our momentum, and highlights the huge opportunity in front of us.”

“When we set out to build the Enterprise Browser, we aimed to deliver tremendous value to security professionals from day one,” said Dan Amiga, co-founder and CTO, Island. “And it’s exciting to see that we’re already accomplishing that. But what we’re noticing now is the huge opportunity to solve previously insurmountable problems not only in the security space, but across productivity and IT as well. This new funding ensures we will be able to harness even more of this amazing potential.”

The Enterprise Browser

The Enterprise Browser is the desktop of the future, enabling organizations to protect users and data at the very point where they interact with SaaS and internal web applications. By using the Island Enterprise Browser, security teams can fully control the last mile, from basic exfiltration protections such as copy, paste, download, upload, and screenshot capture, to more advanced security demands such as smart network routing and multi factor authentication insertion. This opens up unprecedented opportunities across a growing number of enterprise use cases, including securing critical SaaS and internal web applications from data leakage, safe access for contractors and BYOD workers, and full governance over privileged user accounts. It also delivers a native user experience for the hybrid worker in contrast to costly and poor-performing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), while supporting built-in safe browsing, web filtering, web isolation, exploit prevention, and Zero Trust network access at much lower cost and with a significantly better user experience.

Our Investment Partners

“When a revolutionary product meets a real market need, it is essential to capitalize on that momentum and continue to expand the opportunity,” said Jeff Horing, co-founder and Managing Director, Insight Partners. “Island is in a position to significantly change the industry, and this capital infusion will help drive continued leadership and innovation in the emerging Enterprise Browser category.”

“Stripes believes that amazing products are the foundation upon which every successful business is built, and we seek investment opportunities with that core focus,” said Ken Fox, founder and partner, Stripes. “Our market research on this space shows a real need and robust customer response to the Island Enterprise Browser category, which naturally led us toward a substantial increased investment in this significant opportunity.”

“The potential for the Island Enterprise Browser to disrupt and fundamentally improve the cyber security and IT landscape is significant.” said Doug Leone, global managing partner, Sequoia Capital.

About Island

Island, the Enterprise Browser is the ideal enterprise workplace, where work flows freely while remaining fundamentally secure. With the core needs of the enterprise naturally embedded in the browser itself, Island gives organizations complete control, visibility and governance over the last mile, while delivering the same smooth Chromium-based browser experience users expect. Led by experienced leaders of the enterprise security and browser technology space and backed by leading venture funds – Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Stripes – Island is redefining the future of work for some of the largest, most respected enterprises in the world. Island is based in Dallas with research and development in Tel Aviv and can be reached at info@island.io or (866) 832-7114.

Proven best practices create integrity and trustworthiness. 

Palo Alto, CA, March 22, 2022 – Trustero, an innovator in Compliance as a Service for emerging enterprises, announced that it has exited stealth mode and has raised $8 million in seed funding. Zetta Venture Partners led the round with participation from Engineering Capital and Vertex Ventures. 

The past two years have seen a rapid shift to remote and hybrid offices. Unfortunately, the statistics show that hackers welcomed that shift and took advantage of businesses’ vulnerabilities and gaps in security. While many large businesses suffered breaches, small and medium businesses were easier targets for hackers because of their lack of resources and security expertise. 

SOC 2 compliance can help companies develop and maintain robust defenses against cyber threats and significantly increase trustworthiness. However, committing to SOC 2 compliance requires clearly defined, consistently enforced internal controls, policies, and procedures, as well as regular, independently conducted audits. Trustero Compliance as a Service streamlines the audit process, bridges the communication gap with auditors, and helps businesses discover their source of truth with intelligent controls and policies mapped to a specific security framework. As a result, 100s of hours are saved by automating hundreds of tasks, easing, and speeding the path toward credible, sustainable compliance and trustworthiness. 

“As software industry veterans and entrepreneurs recognized for both innovation and expertise, we understand the challenges fast-growing companies face, including the investment in time and effort needed to maintain strong security and compliance postures,” said Phillip Liu, CEO, and founder of Trustero. “Trustero is designed and built to help businesses create trust amongst their customer and partner ecosystem.” 

Trustero includes pre-packaged intelligent controls mapped to SOC 2 Trust Services. Trustero automatically checks controls and evidence for compliance and sends alerts if any become non-compliant. Unlike any other platform, Trustero uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide remediation suggestions on fixing the problem. In addition, Trustero can pinpoint what other companies have presented to auditors that enabled them to meet compliance. 

For companies with few or no formal policies in place, Trustero includes access to a library of pre-packaged, auditor-vetted policies as well as customizable policy templates. These features significantly reduce the time to become “audit-ready.” In addition, where SOC-compliant

controls and policies are in place, Trustero can easily import them and map them to the compliance framework. 

Trustero also automates evidence discovery, mapping, and validity testing with integrations to the most popular SaaS applications. In addition, AI-supported control evidence suggestions and test observations from cohort SOC 2 reports reduce time to achieve audit readiness. 

The Trustero solution is built and supported by a team of technology industry veterans. CEO Philip Liu has previously served as Chief Architect Server Automation and Distinguished Technologist at HP Software, a Software Architect at Facebook, and Founder, CTO, and Board of Directors member at SignalFx, among other distinguished positions. CTO Bo Adler holds a Ph.D. in computer science that he completed while working at Facebook and is co-inventor on more than 20 patents. 

Trustero Compliance as a Service is available now and priced on an annual subscription. Contact sales@trustero.com. 

Investor Quotes: 

“Zetta supports startups solving business problems with AI,” said Jocelyn Goldfein, managing director at Zetta Venture Partners. “Trustero is pioneering the use of modern NLP and other ML techniques to automate audit preparation and compliance, addressing immediate pain points for both tech companies and auditors. Long term, Trustero can build the platform for enterprise trust on foundations of data and models.” 

“Compliance with proven best practices such as SOC 2 is both increasingly critical and daunting for many organizations,” said In Sik Rhee, General Partner at Vertex Ventures. “Trustero’s Compliance as a Service offering can help make it easier and faster to achieve and sustain compliance than more traditional approaches.” 

“As an early investor in Phil Liu’s previous startup, SignalFx, I’ve had the privilege of watching him build a billion-dollar company from scratch. I am honored he has again chosen me to be his investor,” said Ashmeet Sidana, founder and chief engineer at Engineering Capital. “Phil’s experience and CTO Bo Adler’s technical insights is the perfect combination to help emerging enterprises achieve and sustain compliance credibly and efficiently.” 

About Trustero 

Trustero delivers the solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. Trustero Compliance as a Service establishes and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure that all business processes and systems remain fully compliant. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies mean you have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into your compliance across the extended enterprise. More transparency means increased trust by your customers and partners and greater operational efficiencies for your business. To learn more, visit https://www.trustero.com.

Palo Alto, CA, March 22, 2022 – Trustero, an innovator in Compliance as a Service for emerging enterprises, announced that it has completed the System and Organization Controls (SOC 2) Type 1 audit for its compliance platform. 

A widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), SOC 2 compliance confirms that Trustero’s controls and processes meet AICPA’s Trust Service Criteria, verified through a rigorous and independent audit. 

The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) platform establishes and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure that all business processes and systems remain fully compliant. 

“We’re pleased to have achieved the validation that SOC 2 Type 1 examination provides and the confidence it gives customers and prospects in our Compliance as a Service solution,” said Phil Liu, CEO, and founder at Trustero. “Taking this extra step demonstrates that we take stringent measures to ensure the safety and confidentiality of our customer’s data and underscores our commitment to continue to invest in our security controls.” 

About Trustero 

Trustero delivers the solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. Trustero Compliance as a Service establishes and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure that all business processes and systems remain fully compliant. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies mean you have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into your compliance across the extended enterprise. More transparency means increased trust by your customers and partners and greater operational efficiencies for your business. To learn more, visit https://www.trustero.com.

Delivering Protection That Doesn’t Wait for Detection, Glasswall Desktop Freedom Enables Organizations to Trust Every File

London, EN, March 17, 2022 — Glasswall, a global leader in Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology, today announced the availability of Glasswall Desktop Freedom, a freemium version of its market-leading desktop CDR application. Developed to help protect organizations across both public and private sectors from the risks of file-based threats such as malware and ransomware, it delivers protection that doesn’t wait for detection so users can trust every file. The freemium version is available to users for 12 months from their initial download date.

Glasswall CDR technology offers proactive protection from file-based cybersecurity threats hidden within today’s most popular file formats. In contrast to detection-based security, such as antivirus and sandboxing that must play catch up with new threats, Glasswall Desktop Freedom instantly cleans and rebuilds every file to match its ‘known good’ industry specification – automatically removing potential risks and closing the ‘protection gap’ that can be up to 18 days with detection-based security.

Glasswall Desktop Freedom is available as a freemium download for Microsoft Windows 10 and 11, and enables organizations to analyse, sanitise and protect up to 20 files per day, with a maximum file size of 5MB. Sanitization can be applied across a range of the most widely used file and document types, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Adobe PDF. Users can upgrade from Glasswall Desktop Freedom to unlock additional features and protection capacity by purchasing a licence from Glasswall’s range of Desktop CDR products.

The download offers organizations a quick and easy way to sanitize files from the safety of the user’s computer and secure network infrastructure. Designed to be simple to deploy and use, with easy drag and drop functionality to ensure every document entering the organization is safe without sacrificing productivity. The solution also offers users an offline file processing and sanitization option, enabling them to clean and rebuild files without sending them outside of established trust boundaries.

Glasswall CDR has been developed for a variety of use cases, including zero-day threat defence, sanitizing new files entering the organization, as a solution for legacy file clean-up, and to protect against threats contained in website downloads and uploads. After each file is processed, users are provided with a File Analysis Report, detailing the original file risk level, active content that has been removed, and objects and structures that have been repaired.

Users can also set policies for each of the supported file formats, allowing them to specify whether active content is removed from the file, allowed (left in the file), or disallowed (the file is not rebuilt). It can also interact with files on removable media such as a USB drive or memory card.

“At this time of heightened concern around the cyber defences of organizations in every sector, Glasswall is offering this freemium solution to help better protect against one of the most common and successful cyber attack strategies – the use of files and documents,” explained Danny Lopez, CEO of Glasswall. “It will also help IT and security teams to evaluate and understand the major impact CDR can have on their ability to deliver proactive protection and address zero-day vulnerabilities.”

For further information and to download Glasswall Freedom, click here.

About Glasswall
Glasswall is a cybersecurity company that keeps businesses moving with instant file protection. Its leading Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology instantly removes potential file-based threats so that organizations can trust every file. Deployed by intelligence agencies and loved by businesses, Glasswall is the simple way to protect against sophisticated file-based threats. Learn more at glasswall.com.

Investment supports further development of Todyl’s comprehensive, unified security and networking platform

DENVER, CO, March 17, 2022 — Todyl, an industry-leading security and networking company, announced a $28 Million Series A investment round led by Anthos Capital, with Tech Operators, Blu Ventures, and StoneMill Ventures increasing their existing investments to support Todyl’s mission of enabling businesses of any size to operate a complete, end-to-end security program.

The additional capital supports further development and expansion of the Todyl Security Platform. The platform launched this week with a suite of new modules, including:

• Endpoint Security that combines Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) and Next-Generation Anti-Virus (NGAV) into the single-agent platform
• A unique, personalized 24×7 Managed Extended Detection & Response (MXDR) service focused on prevention, detection, and response
• A completely overhauled Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) with new reporting and dashboards

The Todyl Security Platform empowers channel partners serving the SMB and Mid-Market with capabilities previously reserved for the enterprise. It puts world-class security and networking within reach of every business. “The unification of SASE, Endpoint Security, SIEM, MXDR, and GRC into a single platform is revolutionary in the security space. We’re helping our partners streamline operations, simplify architectures, and most importantly, deliver powerful and comprehensive security for every budget,” said John Nellen, Founder and CEO at Todyl.

“Our partners no longer need to stitch together dozens of products and tools to deliver comprehensive security. With one platform and one agent, they can calibrate our powerful capabilities to fit their client’s exact needs,” said Darrin Swan, Channel Chief at Todyl.

“MSPs and MSSPs are uniquely positioned to help defend SMB and Mid-Market companies against the exponential growth of cyberattacks while helping them navigate the increasingly complex regulatory and compliance landscape.  We are excited to partner with this world-class management team as they launch Todyl’s unified approach to security, bringing powerful capabilities to businesses of all sizes via an efficient, single-agent platform,” said Jeff Stapleton, Anthos Capital.

The Todyl Security Platform is a cloud-first, comprehensive solution, delivering the flexibility needed to connect and protect businesses as the modern workspace continues to evolve. With a global footprint of 29 Points of Presence (PoP)s, Todyl provides a consistent, secure experience for staff both in and out of the office while simplifying operations, strengthening posture, and reducing both complexity and cost.

Todyl is expanding with new Security Operations Centers (SOCs) in the US and internationally to further enhance its unparalleled MXDR service. “Our growing team and new locations enable us to deliver faster responses, deeper insights, tailored threat hunting, and more, to provide best-in-class security services to organizations of all sizes. Backed by the capabilities of Todyl’s platform, we are providing visibility and control beyond anything available. Our team helps partners strengthen posture, ensure detection coverage, and quickly identify and respond to activities occurring in their environments,” said Aaron Goldstein, Head of Security Operations and Incident Response at Todyl.

Follow Todyl’s Journey:

Blog: https://blog.todyl.com/blog

Twitter: https://twitter.com/todylprotection

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/todylprotection/

About Todyl

Todyl unifies SASE, Endpoint Security, SIEM, MXDR, and GRC into a cloud-first, single-agent platform. The Todyl Security Platform spans prevention, detection, and response. Todyl empowers organizations to implement an incredibly effective security program calibrated to their unique needs. It delivers unmatched visibility and control across, helping organizations stay one step ahead of threat actors.

About Anthos Capital
Anthos partners with exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive, high-growth companies in the technology and consumer sectors. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, Anthos invests in and helps guide businesses to reach their full potential.

About Tech Operators
TechOperators Venture Capital invests in early-stage cybersecurity and B2B SaaS companies. Founded in 2008, the TechOperators’ team of former founders, startup executives, and technologists leverage deep domain experience to support entrepreneurs in the journey to build great companies. TechOperators investments include Phantom Cyber, Endgame, Flashpoint, Vocalocity, and Automox. For more information, visit www.techoperators.com.

About Blu Ventures
Founded in 2010, Blu Ventures has deployed $96MM in capital in early-stage cyber and enterprise software companies. The firm is heavily focused on cybersecurity where it is invested in 35 companies including ID.me, Cybrary, Huntress Labs, Ostendio, and ThreatQuotient. As a primary source venture capital firm, Blu’s partners bring expertise across a variety of industries and an investment perspective closely aligned with entrepreneurs. For more information, visit https://bluventureinvestors.com.

About StoneMill Ventures
StoneMill Ventures provides early-stage capital for entrepreneurs ready to disrupt key components of the cybersecurity ecosystem. We are active investors and look for founding teams that can benefit from our experience building pioneering companies. StoneMill Ventures was founded in 2018 by Michael Sutton following Zscaler’s successful IPO and has invested in 30+ companies to date.

Quickly launch and easily manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters for AI and machine learning applications at scale with Rafay

Sunnyvale, CA, March 17, 2022 — Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Operations, announced the expansion of the industry’s only turnkey solution for operating Kubernetes clusters with GPU support at scale by adding powerful new metrics and dashboards for deeper visibility into GPU health and performance.

The Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) now features a fully integrated GPU Resource Dashboard that visualizes critical GPU metrics so developers and operations teams can seamlessly monitor, operate, and improve performance for GPU-based container workloads – all from one unified platform.

Kubernetes has rapidly become the preferred orchestration layer for enterprises that need the ability to provision and operate GPU-enabled, AI and machine learning applications in the cloud and at edge/remote locations.

According to 2022 Gartner® Emerging Technologies: Edge Technologies Offer Strong Area of Opportunity — Adopter Survey Findings*, “The primary objectives for respondent organizations investing in and adopting edge technologies are to improve employees productivity (41%) and automate business processes (39%). This aligns with existing Gartner research (see Emerging Technologies: Use-Case Patterns in Edge AI) that edge AI is being used to improve business processes, delivering automation and productivity gains that translate into measurable ROI, such as cost savings.”*

However, as enterprises rapidly increase the number of AI and machine learning workloads, addressing several challenges such as visibility and monitoring helps prevent significant delays in application deployment and wasted costs associated with idle or underperforming GPUs in the clusters.

For example, a factory that increasingly relies upon real-time video detection applications powered by AI needs a standardized approach for cross-functional teams to manage the IT infrastructure and applications. The following challenges often result in operational fragility and lack of repeatability that hinders productivity:

• Flawed or overly restrictive access and visibility for developers and operational personnel that need GPU metrics on demand to tune and optimize GPU workloads.
• The struggle of hiring or training a team of experts and spending months to develop, operate and maintain a customized monitoring infrastructure to scrape and centrally aggregate GPU metrics.
• The complexity of developing and maintaining an integration with corporate single sign-on (SSO) systems to provide role-based access to metrics and dashboards.
• Accounting for the organizations’ GPU-enabled workloads that are developed and maintained by external entities (e.g., partners and ISVs). These entities also need visibility to GPU metrics to ensure the workloads are performing optimally.

Rafay KOP solves these challenges by providing enterprises and trusted external entities with a zero touch experience for automated and centralized aggregation of critical operational metrics for GPUs for the entire fleet of Kubernetes clusters. Rafay’s Zero-Trust Access Service with SSO integration enables seamless role-based access to ensure only authorized developers, external partners and operational personnel can gain secure access and visibility into GPU metrics from the console.

View this video to see the Rafay KOP with the new GPU Resources Dashboard in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcXAA-r4hOw

“Rafay makes spinning up GPU-enabled Kubernetes clusters incredibly simple. In just a few steps an enterprise’s deep learning and inference projects can be fully operational,” explained Mohan Atreya, SVP Product and Solutions at Rafay Systems. “Not only do we provide the fastest path to powering environments for AI and machine learning applications, but the combination of capabilities in Rafay KOP enables scalable edge/remote use cases with support for zero-trust access, policy management, GPU monitoring and more across an entire fleet of thousands of clusters.”

The new GPU Resource Dashboard that streamlines the orchestration of GPU-based container workloads has been fully integrated into the Rafay KOP and teams can take advantage of many additional benefits of the SaaS platform today including:

• AI/ML Application Deployment Automation: Rafay KOP allows organizations to avoid spending months or years developing a custom platform just to provision and manage GPU-enabled Kubernetes clusters for bare metal, virtualized and cloud environments.
• AI/ML Cluster and Workload Standardization and Consistency: Rafay KOP’s Cluster Blueprints standardize and govern clusters and workload configurations across a fleet. Enterprises can detect, be notified, and/or block configuration changes to Kubernetes clusters.

Unleash the power of AI and machine learning applications at the edge with Rafay KOP: https://rafay.co/start/

*Gartner, “Emerging Technologies: Edge Technologies Offer Strong Area of Opportunity — Adopter Survey Findings,” by Danielle Casey, Vibha Chitkara, 1 March 2022.

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About Rafay Systems

Rafay Systems offers the industry’s first Kubernetes Operations Platform to help enterprises maximize the value of containerized applications that deliver today’s business innovation. With Rafay’s unified platform teams can operate modern application infrastructure at scale across public clouds, data centers, and the Edge. A full suite of turnkey services helps streamline deploying apps across multiple environments and deliver enterprise-grade control and governance to application deployment workflows. This breakthrough approach brings a new and much-needed operations mindset to the increasingly outdated Kubernetes Management market. With the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, platform teams enjoy centralized visibility, management and automation across once disparate processes and systems, resulting in the improved delivery of modern applications. Rafay’s growing customer roster includes clients such as Verizon, SonicWall and Guardant Health. For more information, please visit www.rafay.co.