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  • Octopus Deploy Reimagines How Config as Code Should Be Done

    Octopus Deploy launches Config as Code that combines the power of Git with a developer-friendly interface to streamline the deployment process  

    Brisbane, AUSTRALIA, March 30, 2022 – Octopus Deploy, a leading provider of continuous deployment orchestration software, today announced the launch of its long-awaited Config as Code feature, delivering the power of Git for tracking changes with the usability of Octopus’s UI.

    DevOps engineers often lack visibility and traceability in their CI/CD pipeline configurations. This restricts them from evolving their configuration with new features. Many modern IT and DevOps systems offer “as code” implementations that allow developers to specify their build configuration as code, but these solutions compromise on usability, and require developers to learn a new language just to use them.

    Octopus Deploy has set the standard for Config as Code by including all the benefits developers love about Config as Code without the downsides, namely poor user experience. With Config as Code, Octopus Deploy built a robust Git-persistent layer alongside the existing database implementation. Developers can see their deployment process in Git next to their application code and evolve them side-by-side.

    “Config as Code has been one of the most requested features from our community. But when we asked customers about Config as Code in other products, we heard positives and negatives. They spoke about the power of Git and version controlling their processes, but also about their reduced user experience and the frustration of hand-writing YAML. So we set out to build something better. We wanted to give customers all the upsides of Config as Code, with none of the downside,” said Paul Stovell, founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy. 

    “With this feature, customers get the benefits of Config as Code, but with a UI that still makes it easy for the entire team to collaborate on the deployment process, and without the frustrations of hand-writing YAML.”

    Some developers prefer to edit their CI/CD configuration with a web UI, whereas others prefer to use a text editor. Octopus provides a no-compromise solution, so you can work where you’re most productive. You can configure your Git repository, select your branch, commit changes, and more, all from the Octopus UI. Octopus also built a Visual Studio Code extension to make editing Octopus configuration files a great experience, with syntax highlighting, code snippets, and fast navigation.

    Config as Code allows developers to:

    • Support multiple versions of their deployment process with branches
    • Review, approve, and merge changes to their deployment process with pull requests
    • View the history of changes to their deployment process, including who performed changes and when
    • Revert to a previous version of their deployment process

    About Octopus Deploy 

    Founded in 2012, Octopus Deploy helps DevOps teams at over 25,000 companies accelerate reliable, repeatable, and traceable deployments across clouds and on-premises infrastructure. Octopus provides an API-first approach, built-in multi-tenancy, security, release management, and deployment and runbook automation across all teams, projects, and tech stacks. Octopus customers get best practices with access to 500+ automation step templates. Octopus also integrates with hundreds of technologies, including Azure, AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. Companies use Octopus Deploy to minimize downtime, deliver more features, and meet their compliance needs.

    Octopus is based in Brisbane, Australia, and is growing fast with a team spread across Australia, New Zealand, USA, and the UK.

  • Techstrong Live! Days, DC: Upskilling DevOps, Cloud-Native and Cybersecurity

    Techstrong Live! Days, DC: Upskilling DevOps, Cloud-Native and Cybersecurity

    DevOps and cloud-native are key for organization looking to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Techstrong Live! Days, a two-day, in-person event, explores the latest DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud-native technologies and trends that are shaping the way we do business. The first stop of the Techstrong Live! Days conference tour will take place in Washington, DC on April 13-14 at the Convene Event Center. The in-person event offers educational sessions, demos and hands-on training sessions (certification available) led by top industry experts.

    Day One: DevOps/Cloud-Native Live!

    DevOps/Cloud-Native Live! is day one of the conference. The agenda for day one features a mix of topics, including API security, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, cloud security, observability and more.

    The sessions include keynote presentations, educational talks and hands-on training with leading DevOps and cloud-native tools.

    DevOps/Cloud-Native Live! features an outstanding lineup of innovators, practitioners and thought leaders, including:

    • John Willis, senior director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat
    • Mike Rothman, president at Securosis
    • Jennifer Minella, founder and principal advisor, security architecture at Viszen Security
    • Sanjeev Sharma, senior vice-president, head of emerging tech and platform engineering at Truist
    • Andi Mann, CTO at Qumu
    • Steve Klugherz, vice-president of engineering at Qumu
    • Tracy Bannon, software architect and DevOps advisor at The MITRE Corporation
    • Charlene O’Hanlon, COO at Techstrong Group
    • Mitch Ashley, principal at Techstrong Research

    Day Two: Cybersecurity Live!

    Cybersecurity Live! is day two of the conference. The agenda for day two features a mix of topics, including AppSec, software supply chain security, SBOM adoption, cloud security, DevSecOps, cybersecurity threats, 5G security and more.

    The sessions include keynote presentations, educational talks and hands-on training on forensics/hacking (certification available) and API security. By attending and participating for a full day at Cybersecurity Live!, attendees will receive a certificate in-person or via email granting seven contact hours for the appropriate CEU/CPE Credits.

    Cybersecurity Live! features an outstanding lineup of security experts, including:

    • Aaron Rinehart, co-founder and CTO at Verica
    • Stephen Hendrick, vice-president of research at Linux Foundation
    • JC Herz, CEO at Ion Channel
    • Adam Fisher, principal security engineer at Salt Security
    • Carlos Asuncion, senior solutions engineer at Salt Security
    • Mike Rothman, president at Securosis
    • Charlene O’Hanlon, COO at Techstrong Group
    • Tunde Oni-Daniel, head of technology operations and engineering at OneMain Financial
    • Mike Jones, founder at H4UNT3D HACKER
    • Saad Farooq, customer success/support engineer at Traceable AI
    • Dan Gordon, director, technical evangalism at Traceable AI
    • Mark Franklin, API security solution engineer at Traceable AI
    • Brian Mengwasser, vice-president at MarketPlace & Apps Design, DISH Wireless

    Attendees will also have the opportunity to attend networking receptions each day to connect with other IT professionals, exchange ideas and learn from one another. Breakfast, lunch and snacks will also be provided to all attendees.

    Join us at Techstrong Live! Days in Washington, DC to level up your existing skills, discover new cloud-native and DevOps tools, improve the security of your APIs and network with experts and peers.

    For more information on DevOps/Cloud-Native Live! and to register, please visit the DevOps/Cloud-Native Live! website.

    To learn more about Cybersecurity Live! and to register, please visit the Cybersecurity Live! website.

  • Unleash Raises $14 Million Series A to Scale Open Source Feature Management Platform in the U.S. and Europe

    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/

  • InterVision Expands Onshore and Offshore Capabilities with Acquisition of Virtuosity

    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/

  • Island Raises $115 Million in Series B Funding to Enable Massive Innovation on Enterprise Browser

    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.

  • Latest ServiceNow Platform Release to Accelerate Productivity and Digital Transformation with Modern Design, Expanded Hyperautomation Tools

    Leading organizations like British Telecom, Becton Dickinson, City of Los Angeles, City of Santa Monica, Fujitsu, Rogers Communications, and University of California San Diego are leveraging the Now Platform to benefit from new levels of productivity, automation, and connectivity 

    Santa Clara, CA, March 23, 2021— ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company making the world work better for everyone, today announced its Now Platform® San Diego release. With an upgraded, more modern visual design and new Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities that deliver on the promise of hyperautomation, the latest version of the Now Platform is designed to help organizations address the most pressing challenges facing every industry, in every region, and transform businesses for a new economy.   

    “From the great resignation, to supply chain disruption, to the new world of hybrid work, seismic shifts in our global workforce and economy underscore that the technology strategy has become the business strategy,” said Chirantan “CJ” Desai, chief operating officer at ServiceNow. “With our Now Platform San Diego release, we are empowering digital-first leaders to create smarter, faster, better ways of working, and unlock the true potential of hyperautomation across their organizations.”

    Organizations are grappling to find more agile and employee-led ways of working to keep their people productive and engaged. The Now Platform San Diego release helps customers across all industries drive productivity, accelerate the value of hyperautomation, and create better, smarter experiences for a new world of work, all on one platform for digital business.

    Revolutionizing work with smarter experiences 

    With the introduction of Next Experience in the Now Platform San Diego release, ServiceNow is streamlining the experience for the 70M+ annual active platform users, who use ServiceNow every day to get their work done. Platform users will see all their most important work at their fingertips, across all their applications, so they can quickly dive into what’s important. Next Experience delivers a modern, streamlined navigation that brings every application together under one consistent experience, and elevates Favorites and History so that people can jump back into their most important work.

    Next Experience delivers an upgraded, modern visual design, including a completely redesigned component library, new iconography, typography, and illustrations. The experience delivers enhanced personalization, such as accessibility preferences, information density and layout preferences, and a choice between light or dark mode. 

    With 25 purpose-built workspaces that feature a next-generation visual design, surface insights with dashboards, and use machine learning to assign tasks and recommend the next best action, Next Experience also helps platform users immediately get the information they need and move priority tasks forward more quickly. New workspaces include new CSM Configurable Workspace, Dispatcher Workspace, HR Agent Workspace, Cloud Operations Workspace, Service Operations Workspace, and Hardware Asset Manager Workspace, so teams across customer service, HR, field service, and IT can more intelligently and efficiently respond to requests or issues.

    Notable among the new workspace experiences is Service Operations Workspace. Initially available in San Diego for IT Service Management teams, and later expected to be available for IT Operations Management teams in Q2 2022, this new workspace will redefine how these two previously siloed organizations can work and collaborate within a single experience.  While these two groups were historically treated as separate functions within the IT organization, Service Operations Workspace brings them together to deliver more proactive, seamless employee experiences and empowers IT knowledge workers such as service desk agents and operations teams with AI-powered guidance to help resolve issues fast.

    Accelerating the value of hyperautomation on a single platform with new RPA capabilities

    Organizations must adopt new digital business models so they can respond quickly to changing market conditions and customer demands. However, disconnected, critical systems and dependence on specialty Centers of Excellence create islands of automation, resulting in expensive, repetitive, and manual work for employees that impedes digital transformation. 

    Hyperautomation presents the solution – combining technologies like low-code application development, artificial intelligence, integration, and robotic process automation (RPA) to connect modern, legacy, or unstructured data sources and accelerate digital transformation.  

    Within its Now Platform San Diego release, ServiceNow is adding the final ingredient to its existing technologies to deliver on hyperautomation with the introduction of Automation Engine. Automation Engine is a complete automation and integration solution that combines Integration Hub with all-new RPA capabilities, delivering an average of 3X faster time to value. Together with ServiceNow’s native low-code app development product, App Engine, Automation Engine brings turn-key solutions that are easily accessible with no learning curve for ServiceNow developers, allowing employees to automate manual, repetitive actions and connect to any system, modern or legacy.

    Automation Engine also features the brand-new RPA Hub, which provides a centralized command and control center to monitor, manage, and deploy digital robots, so organizations can automate any repetitive, manual tasks, streamline business processes, and help boost employee productivity, while reducing human errors. 

    RPA Hub features 1300+ pre-built components to accelerate time to value for automation initiatives, and an RPA Desktop Design Studio, allowing users to design, test and publish both attended and unattended bots as they scale automation quickly. No code access to RPA Hub is built into Flow Designer via the RPA Hub Spoke, enabling any ServiceNow developer to leverage RPA Hub alongside Integration Hub, all in a familiar interface.

    Introducing new out-of-the-box industry solutions 

    Different industries need dedicated solutions to advance their digital transformation efforts. The Now Platform San Diego release includes vertical solutions that address the distinct digital needs of banks, insurance companies, and telecommunications and technology providers.

    • Banking: ServiceNow is helping banks create more transparent, repeatable processes to improve the end-customer experience. New Deposit Operations for Banking automates common checking, savings, and certificate of deposit requests to help bank employees complete work fast, and Client Lifecycle Operations for Banking manages onboarding, account updates, KYC updates, and notice of death processes in a fast, more compliant manner.
    • Insurance: ServiceNow is modernizing insurance operations with its first ever solution suited specifically for the demands of carriers and their customers. This includes Personal and Commercial Lines Servicing capabilities to enable policy servicing across personal and commercial lines of business between carriers and their customers, policyholders, and distribution partners, informed by ACORD standards to improve consistency and collaboration.  
    • Technology Providers:  ServiceNow is launching its first targeted solutions for technology providers to streamline customer and ecosystem experiences, and launch new services quickly so they can keep up with the pace of change and increasing demand for cloud-based and managed services. New products include Technology Provider Service Management to combine care and operations together with AI-powered self-service and support for more proactive customer and ecosystem experiences. Order Management for Technology Providers helps grow revenue by launching and delivering products and services quickly and with greater control.

    ServiceNow continues to invest in industry solutions to help organizations drive value fast, including introducing new telecommunications solutions like Order Management, Service Management and Operations Management for telecom providers. 

    “Organizations today are increasingly competing on experience, both when it comes to their employees and customers, in order to retain talent, grow revenue and drive resilience,” said Dr. Lara Greden, Research Director for IDC’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) practice. “Streamlining how work happens across teams and functions, with intelligent, connected experiences and by bridging together disparate systems, siloes and processes on a single platform, will be a strategic advantage. We anticipate that ServiceNow’s new solutions will help organizations deliver more productive, collaborative employee experiences, better value for customers, and overall result in a faster return on their technology investments.”

    Availability

    The Now Platform San Diego release is generally available today.

    Additional information:

    • Watch a demo of Next Experience
    • Watch a demo of Automation Engine
    • Read thoughts from Chief Innovation Officer, Dave Wright on the Now Platform San Diego release
    • ServiceNow’s Chief Operations Officer, CJ Desai, shares additional insights and innovations in his blog

    What customers and partners are saying about the Now Platform San Diego release:

    British Telecom 

    “ServiceNow telecommunications solutions help BT accelerate and simplify our digital transformation by bringing a single platform to replace many complex tools and systems,” says Gary Wright, Head of ServiceNow Platform Engineering for British Telecom. “Using both ServiceNow Telecommunications Service Management and Order Management for Telecommunications, we provided a simple and powerful workspace agents love to use, and we accelerated time to market, launching order management workflows in just 5 weeks.”

    City of Santa Monica

    “ServiceNow has been an essential partner for the City of Santa Monica throughout our digital transformation journey, helping us innovate quickly for our citizens and employees,” said Joseph Cevetello, Chief Information Officer, City of Santa Monica. “We expect that the new capabilities within the San Diego release – such as Next Experience and Automation Engine – will help organizations like ours provide support and critical services to residents even more efficiently and seamlessly, so we can raise the bar for 21st century citizen experiences.”

    Becton Dickinson

    “ServiceNow has been a crucial digital transformation partner to us for more than a decade,” said Trisha Johnson, Sr. Manager, Service Technologies, Global Services at Becton Dickinson. “We started our journey together with ServiceNow’s ITSM solution back in the Berlin release and it’s amazing how far we’ve come to now San Diego! While digitizing IT processes was the first step to making work truly work better across our business, we’ve continued to expand our usage of the Now Platform to deliver more seamless and proactive experiences for both employees and customers and accelerate innovation across our entire organization, through one end-to-end platform for digital business. We’ve seen how ServiceNow can help organizations realize the untapped potential of digital transformation and look forward to taking advantage of the latest innovations within the Now Platform San Diego release to drive new levels of productivity, connectivity and automation at scale.”

    Fujitsu

    “At Fujitsu, we are focused on powering human-centric innovation for our customers to create a more sustainable world,” said Carey Blunt, Global Head of ServiceNow Offerings at Fujitsu. “The Now Platform makes it easy to launch new services and deliver them seamlessly both internally and for our customers, helping us stay ahead of the fast pace of change in today’s digital-first world. We are excited about the new Technology Industry-focused products in San Diego and how they will help us both improve the service experience for our customers and bring exciting new services to market.”

    Insight

    “As a design partner, we asked ServiceNow to make it easy for solutions integrators like Insight to deliver our products and services to clients leveraging the Now Platform,” said Mike Gaumond, senior vice president of strategy, Insight. “A new service request solution in San Diego enables seamless integration with our clients’ ServiceNow instances to deliver full digital engagement, and it has the potential to solve in minutes what traditionally has taken days or weeks.”

    About ServiceNow

    ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNowTM. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com.  

    © 2022 ServiceNow, Inc. All rights reserved. ServiceNow, the ServiceNow logo, Now, and other ServiceNow marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ServiceNow, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other company names, product names, and logos may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

  • Harness Expands Software Delivery Platform With Acquisition of ChaosNative and Launches Two New Modules to Help Developers Rapidly Deliver Resilient, Reliable, Secure Software

    Acquisition of ChaosNative– Original Creator of CNCF Project LitmusChaos–  
     Expands Harness Software Delivery Platform With Chaos Engineering Capabilities to Help Enterprises Achieve Resiliency Goals

    New Module, Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM), Embeds Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in the CI/CD Pipeline so Developer Teams Move Faster While Assuring Unreliable Code Doesn’t Get to Production
    New Module, Harness Security Testing Orchestration (STO), Automates Security Scanning and Governance to Fix Vulnerabilities Before Deployment
    San Francisco, CA, March 22, 2022—Harness Inc., the software delivery platform company, today announced major platform expansions with the acquisition of ChaosNative Inc., the original creator of the popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source project LitmusChaosTM, and provider of ChaosNative LitmusTM, the highly scalable and secure enterprise platform for chaos engineering. Harness also launched two new modules to enable developers to more rapidly deliver reliable and secure software.
    Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) module enables teams to adopt modern software reliability practices, using SLOs to actively govern the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC). As the first solution to actively manage SLOs in CI/CD pipelines, Harness SRM helps reliability teams eliminate the friction that comes from reliability issues like SLO violations or low error budgets. These problems force engineering teams to focus on stabilizing services, or even stopping deployments altogether, rather than on their core charter—adding new features at velocity to drive business value.

    Harness Security Testing Orchestration (STO) module helps enterprises deliver business value more quickly by increasing security in deployments and reducing vulnerabilities and conflicting aims between developer and security teams in the software deployment process. Harness STO not only eliminates the pain and risk of manually tracking security issues, but minimizes the rework that delays deployment.

    ChaosNative’s chaos engineering capabilities will be available in the Harness platform this quarter. Harness SRM and Harness STO are both tightly integrated with the Harness Software Delivery Platform. Customers can deploy each module independently with their existing tooling or use all of the Harness modules together to build a powerful, unified modern software delivery pipeline that spans CI, CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, SRM, STO and Chaos Engineering.

    “Developers are under intense pressure to deliver highly resilient, secure and reliable software with velocity to increase business value, grow revenue, and delight end users. However, reliability, resiliency and velocity have been seen as conflicting goals– and the toil and stress of attempting to optimize for all degrades the developer experience,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO, Harness. “With the acquisition of ChaosNative and the addition of Harness SRM and Harness STO, the Harness platform bridges the chasm of velocity, resiliency, reliability and security, empowering developers to rapidly and reliably deliver on business objectives while providing an unmatched developer experience.”

    Harness Chaos Engineering Brings the Power of Chaos Engineering to the Harness Software Delivery Platform
    Harness is integrating ChaosNative Litmus into the Harness Software Delivery platform, providing customers with a proven chaos engineering solution. Harness Chaos Engineering improves application reliability across distributed environments, tracks reliability improvements, avoids costly unplanned downtime, reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR), and provides a better end-user experience for customers. Combining ChaosNative’s advanced testing capabilities with Harness’s software delivery platform enables developer teams to take control of their service reliability. The acquisition of ChaosNative is complete and the integration will be generally available this quarter.

    Harness SRM Solves the Problem of Balancing Velocity With Reliability 
    Engineers and reliability teams ultimately share the same goal: protecting their organization from downtime and reputation damage resulting from unreliable deployments, while delivering value and new features to end users as rapidly as possible. The two teams must balance the needs of software engineers striving to deliver software faster to achieve business value with reliability teams prioritizing cautious deployments to avoid rollbacks and maximize uptime. Both velocity and reliability are required to achieve customer satisfaction, so Harness SRM offers a solution to:
    1. Reduce the workload of manually tracking service level indicators (SLIs), SLOs, and error budgets by automating the process.
    2. Enable deployment of highly-reliable software by providing quality and reliability feedback at every stage of software development, with reliability checks such as error tracking and latency analysis.
    3. Give developer teams the freedom to move faster, while ensuring that unreliable code doesn’t get into production, by establishing reliability guardrails.
    For more information on Harness SRM please visit:
    Harness STO Automates Security Scanning and Governance Throughout the Software Delivery Lifecycle 
    Harness STO enables developers to produce deployments with fewer and less severe security vulnerabilities. This can accelerate time to market because potential problems are discovered and fixed before they reach deployment, where the security team would normally discover them. Moreover, detecting vulnerabilities in development, prior to deployment, can significantly reduce rework required when security teams discover vulnerabilities in deployment, which risks slowing time to market for new apps and features.

    Harness STO:
    1. Enables the delivery of highly secure software by automating proactive security scanning and governance throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
    2. Empowers DevSecOps teams to customize governance configuration and establish consistent policies and procedures using policy as code and the Open Policy Agent.
    3. Eliminates time-consuming manual analysis by normalizing, deduplicating and correlating mountains of data from all scanners, delivering a prioritized list of vulnerabilities.
    For more information on Harness STO please visit:
    About Harness
    Harness is the only end-to-end platform for complete software delivery. It provides a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight, giving engineers their weekends back. Harness Inc. is based in San Francisco. More on Twitter @harnessio and at harness.io.

  • Trustero Exits Stealth Mode and Launches its Compliance as a Service Platform

    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.

  • Trustero Completes SOC 2 Type 1 Certification for its Compliance as a Service

    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.

  • Glasswall Launches Freemium Version of its Desktop Content Disarm and Reconstruction App to Protect Against File-Based Cybersecurity Threats

    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.