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  • Todyl Raises $28 Million in Funding and Launches Todyl Security Platform with Integration of SIEM, EDR/NGAV, and MXDR into Existing SASE Platform

    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:

    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.

  • Rafay Systems Powers AI and Machine Learning Applications at the Edge by Streamlining Operations for GPU-based Container Workloads

    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.

    GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

    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.

  • Reshaping Business Priorities for Planet and Profit

    Business decision makers and knowledge workers agree that at least 50% of the data their company uses on a day-to-day basis should be focused on doing good for the communities it serves

    Santa Clara, CA, March 16, 2022 — New research from Cloudera, the enterprise data cloud company, reveals more than one quarter (26%) of business decision makers are now putting increasing investment in environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) ahead of developing new products/services (24%) or accelerating financial growth (21%). Additionally, knowledge workers believe as much as 49% of the data their business uses on a day-to-day basis should be focused on doing good for the communities it serves. This is a sentiment 52% of business decision makers agree with — a clear indication that profit and ESG are no longer mutually exclusive pursuits.

    These findings are revealed in Cloudera’s Limitless: The Positive Power of AI Study, which surveyed 2,213 enterprise business decision makers — including 54% C-Suite representation — and 10,880 knowledge workers in the USA, EMEA, India and APAC. It shows that ESG is identified as a top priority for business leaders and those who fail to act for the good of communities put business growth and talent  at huge risk. The study also examines the shift in attitude towards AI, Machine Learning (ML) and Data Analytics across enterprise decision makers, including C-Suite, and knowledge workers. The data shows that all the pieces are in place for this to be the right moment for companies to accelerate their AI/ML strategy.

    Failing to act for social good puts business growth, and talent, at risk

    Almost a quarter (24%) of business decision makers and over one in five (22%) knowledge workers believe that their company should be publicly supporting sustainable business practices. In addition, the vast majority of knowledge workers (81%) argue there is a need to use AI to deliver more sustainable business practices that benefit both their organization and the communities it serves.

    But that said, less than a third (31%) of business decision makers are active regarding the implementation of these technologies and have a limited understanding of how they work. Companies that address these gaps now gain a real competitive advantage in the battle for customers and talent. If businesses truly want to embed sustainability at their core, leaders must start to use data to deliver more sustainable outcomes – and quickly. Failure to act and 23% of knowledge workers and 27% of business decision makers believe employees would leave the business. This could be a business destroying move amidst a global talent shortage, especially if all of a company’s competitors are addressing the gap.

    “It’s my sincere belief that using big data and AI to make more sustainable business decisions will be a critical aspect of future competitiveness,” said Erica Orange, VP at The Future Hunters. “A core part of this will come down to rethinking business success metrics to go beyond profit-driven metrics and focus on real environmental impact.”

    Fear of losing jobs to AI is replaced by a focus on investment in reskilling

    The research findings also dispel the long-held belief that workers were afraid of AI taking their jobs. An explosion in the volume of data now available to businesses has made AI/ML a common thread to many job roles and a powerful ally. Over half of knowledge workers say their daily tasks have been augmented or automated by AI (55%), ML (51%) and Data Analytics (63%) in the last 12 months. The biggest benefits of this have been saving time (37%) and allowing them/their team to focus more on strategic work (35%). What’s more, 80% of knowledge workers are now comfortable taking on a new role due to AI/ML/Data Analytics.

    To capitalize on this, businesses have to do more and invest in employee reskilling. Nine in ten (91%) business decision makers said their organization will commit to continuous investment in reskilling employees as more tasks are automated. But the investment in people can’t stop there. Companies also need to make employees partners in the upskilling and reskilling processes to ensure a level playing field for staff.

    “The results of this study reveal a new wave of economics, focused on doing equally great things for profit, planet, and people – driven by automation and AI – is emerging,” said Mick Hollison, President, Cloudera. “For business leaders this means it’s time to refocus how they think about technology investment — identifying not only the data that will support growth, but also the technology that will help employees and communities gain meaningful access to it. At Cloudera, we work with our customers to transform their economic output with Data Analytics and AI.”

    Notes to Editors

    About the Limitless: The Positive Power of AI Study
    Both the business decision maker and knowledge worker portions of the research were conducted by Sapio Research, an independent market research consultancy based in London, UK. 2,213 business decision makers, including 54% from the C-Suite, working at companies with 1,000+ employees, 400 IT decision makers, completed an online study during August 2021. At the same time, the knowledge worker — end users who are in full-time employment with access to technology as part of their day-to-day jobs — study was also conducted amongst those employed at organizations with 1,000+ employees during August 2021.

    The following number of respondents were consulted in each mentioned market:

    Knowledge workers:
    USA 1007
    UK 1003
    Germany 1000
    France 1000
    Italy 1001
    Spain 1006
    Korea 204
    Japan 1005
    China 1005
    Singapore 200
    Indonesia 200

    Australia 163
    New Zealand 37
    India 1008
    South Africa 513
    UAE 528

    Business decision makers:
    USA 200
    UK 200
    Germany 200
    France 200
    Italy 150
    Spain 150
    Korea 107
    Japan 100

    China 202
    Singapore 100
    Indonesia 101
    Australia 113
    New Zealand 37
    India 200
    South Africa 78
    UAE 75

    Limitless: The Positive Power of AI Study Media Assets:

    About Cloudera
    At Cloudera, we believe that data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises. Learn more at Cloudera.com.

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

  • Contrast Security Releases New Capabilities to Secure Enterprise Software Supply Chains

    Leading AppSec provider combines vulnerability testing for custom and third-party code across build, test, production and cloud-native environments

    Los Altos, CA, March 15, 2022 — Contrast Security (Contrast), the leader in code security that empowers developers to secure-as-they code, today announced that its Secure Code Platform now integrates software supply chain security across the development lifecycle, from the developer desktop to production systems. The new integration makes Contrast the first platform on the market that allows enterprises to identify their biggest supply chain risks and defend against them.

    As a direct response to the 2021 ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline, President Joe Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order imposes strict standards for any software sold to federal agencies. More recent zero-day events such as the log injection vulnerability embedded in the popular Log4j Java library have also forced businesses in the private sector to re-evaluate the security standing of software imported, built and consumed by developers.

    “Together, open-source and custom code are the ingredients to the applications that businesses build, buy and ship,” said Jeff Williams, co-founder and CTO at Contrast Security. “Testing these software ingredients separately lacks context and leads to both false positives and false negatives. To accurately identify vulnerabilities organizations must perform security testing on the entire integrated application or API, which reveals how custom code and open-source interact.”

    Contrast integrates software composition analysis (SCA) with each of its security testing and protection solutions including its industry-leading interactive application security testing (IAST), runtime application self-protection (RASP) and Serverless Application Security solutions. Integration with Contrast’s static application security testing (SAST) solution is coming soon. The Contrast Secure Code platform helps businesses close security gaps in their software supply chain by:

    • Testing for custom and third-party code vulnerabilities simultaneously within native CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments.
    • Producing a comprehensive software bill of materials (SBOM) to help benchmark software supply chain risk and satisfy regulatory and compliance requests.
    • Removing the need to chase fixes for inactive libraries pulled in from code repositories by flagging libraries that are actually called at runtime.
    • Finding third party security issues in cloud-native workloads like serverless functions (e.g., AWS Lambda)
    • Protecting production applications and APIs from targeted attacks with no patching or code changes required.

    Jeff Williams, Co-Founder and CTO at Contrast is scheduled to participate in a virtual, fireside chat with Melinda Marks, Senior Analyst with ESG Research, at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, April 6, 2022 to discuss how recent events like Log4j have prioritized software supply chain security, the role of SBOMs and other techniques businesses need to consider to embed secure coding practices for third-party components. To register for the upcoming joint ESG Research and Contrast webinar, please visit https://www.contrastsecurity.com/webinar-esg.

    About Contrast Security

    Contrast Security secures the code that global business relies on. It is the industry’s most modern and comprehensive Code Security Platform, removing security roadblock inefficiencies and empowering enterprise developers to write and release secure application code faster. Embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software with instrumentation, the Contrast platform automatically detects vulnerabilities while developers write code, eliminates false positives, and provides context-specific how-to-fix guidance for easy and fast vulnerability remediation. Doing so enables application and development teams to collaborate more effectively and to innovate faster while accelerating digital transformation initiatives. This is why a growing number of the world’s largest private and public sector organizations rely on Contrast to secure their applications in development and extend protection to cloud and on-premise applications in production.

  • 1Password Launches Developer Tools to Enhance Experience and Productivity

    New features will help developers code and deploy safer software to production with less friction

    Toronto, ON, March 15, 2022 – 1Password, the leader in human-centric security and privacy, today launched Developer Tools – a set of features created to help developers easily and securely generate, manage and access secrets within development workflows, starting with Git. Developer Tools will help simplify complex processes and improve security practices to ensure data is protected, without slowing down the development pipeline. It will also provide developers with secure access to the secrets they need wherever they are, regardless of the device they are using.

    “Developers encounter a lot of complexity when building and deploying secure software, and it can often seem like security and convenience are irreconcilable,” said Akshay Bhargava, Chief Product Officer and GM of Emerging Solutions at 1Password. “1Password Developer Tools aims to make their lives easier by making complex security processes more convenient, and making doing the secure thing, the easy thing.”

    Findings from our ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ research report found that one in four (25%) employees at IT/DevOps companies have secrets in ten or more different locations and have shared them with colleagues via insecure channels, such as email and Slack. Additionally, 61% of projects are delayed due to poor secret management, and one in three (36%) IT/DevOps workers say they will share secrets over insecure channels to increase productivity and speed.

    Cutting corners for the sake of efficiency can be tempting, but doing so can expose individuals and businesses to potential security breaches. In addition to protecting personal passwords and information, Developer Tools will enhance developer productivity, enabling quick generation of SSH keys, seamless access to data via the command line interface (CLI) using biometric authentication and secure secrets management in one app. 1Password customers who tested these features during beta had positive feedback to share:

    • “All the hassle of exchanging keys on different machines, adding and removing keys from the agent, entering passphrases from keys, is now just one biometric authentication. This is the way SSH should be, awesome!” – Marcel Kersten, Software Developer at ComLine GmbH

    • “The new 1Password CLI allowed our web development team to save time synchronizing passwords and API keys in a much more secure manner than previously possible. I’d strongly recommend any web development team look into using the 1Password CLI tools to boost security and efficiency.” – Craig Haseler, Project Manager at TechSource

    • “SSH key management is the 1Password feature I’ve been asking for for years! Thank you team!” – Christina Warren, Senior Cloud Advocate

    SSH Key Management

    Developers can generate, store and use SSH keys with just a few clicks. To help avoid errors, 1Password for the browser will autofill their public keys into popular sites, including GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket and Digital Ocean. Then, with a built-in SSH agent, users can push code to GitHub and authenticate other SSH workflows in a terminal by simply scanning their fingerprint, increasing security with less effort. Developers no longer need to remember or type key passphrases, manually copy keys to new devices, or store files on their disk, thereby avoiding weak encryption of SSH keys and other security risks.

    CLI 2.0 with Biometric Unlock

    With a revamped CLI (including improved syntax) and new biometric unlock capabilities, developers can quickly manage secrets, provision users or automate workflows in a terminal without switching from their development tools or manually typing passwords. Developer Tools also simplifies key management with CLI inject and run commands, allowing developers to code with secret references that are substituted for actual API keys from their vault at runtime.

    Secrets Management

    Instead of hardcoding secrets or storing them in unsecure plaintext, configuration files or spreadsheets, developers can manage and access their secrets in one place within their preferred tools and workflows. Storing secrets in encrypted vaults, and as one of several default item types – including API credential, AWS account, database, server, or SSH key – will help prevent breaches caused by leaked secrets. Developer Tools also facilitates collaboration by providing secure access to secrets across a team. For organizations looking to automate infrastructure secrets, these tools continue to build on Secrets Automation.

    To learn more about Developer Tools and the included feature sets, visit our website. You can also visit our new Developer Documentation portal for more information.

    About 1Password

    1Password’s human-centric approach to security keeps people safe, at work and at home. It’s the only solution built from the ground up to enable anyone – no matter the level of technical proficiency – to navigate the digital world without fear or friction. The company’s password management and credentials security platform is trusted by over 100,000 businesses, including IBM, Slack, Snowflake, Shopify, and Under Armour. 1Password protects the most sensitive information of millions of individuals and families across the globe, helping consumers and businesses get more done in less time – with security and privacy as a given. Learn more at 1Password.com.

  • Kyndryl and Cloudera Announce Global Partnership to Accelerate Customer Data Transformation Projects Across Hybrid Cloud Environments

    New York, NY and Santa Clara, CA, March 15, 2022 — Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, and Cloudera today announced a global partnership to help customers enable and drive their mission-critical hybrid cloud, multicloud and edge computing data initiatives.

    Kyndryl and Cloudera plan to establish a joint innovation center to develop integrated industry solutions and delivery capabilities designed to help customers accelerate their move and migration to the cloud platform and environment of their choice, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

    The companies will immediately focus on:

    • Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Migrations and Upgrades:  The companies will partner to streamline customer migration and upgrades by leveraging technology and expertise to help customers overcome barriers and shorten time to market.
    • Managed Services: Kyndryl will leverage their deep data center modernization and platform management skills to provide state of the art Managed Service capabilities to increase reliability and customer satisfaction.

    Kyndryl will apply its three decades of experience of advising, implementing and managing mission critical IT platforms with Cloudera’s hybrid data cloud platform to help companies modernize their data ecosystems and achieve their digital transformation goals. To expand and solidify their technical proficiency with Cloudera products, Kyndryl professionals plan to participate in the CDP certification program.

    The companies also plan to focus on delivering large scale transformation capabilities to customers across multiple industries and geographies. The firms plan to leverage Kyndryl’s data framework, toolkits, and global team of data management and AI experts alongside Cloudera’s data, analytics and AI capabilities.

    “Customers in all industries around the globe are seeking new ways to unlock insights from their business data in the cloud so they can become digitally savvy organizations,” said Nicolas Sekkaki, Applications, Data & AI global practice leader for Kyndryl. “We will work with Cloudera to unleash our respective expertise and enable companies to realize data and AI transformation in on-prem, public and hybrid cloud environments, while maximizing the return on their investments in enterprise data analytics.”

    “Together with Kyndryl, we are tackling one of the biggest challenges customers face in their data journey today – complexity,” said Gary Green, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Cloudera. “It is heavier ‘lift’ now than it has ever been for enterprises and their partners to move to the cloud because of increased regulations, technology considerations and the acceleration of a hybrid, multi-cloud world. In aligning with Kyndryl, we are excited to continue to provide end-to-end support to mutual customers as they invest in the business value of the cloud.”

    For more information about Kyndryl and Cloudera’s partnership, please visit: https://www.kyndryl.com/about-us/alliances/cloudera

    About Kyndryl
    Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider. The company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl’s nearly 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60 countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

    About Cloudera
    At Cloudera, we believe that data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open-source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises. Learn more at Cloudera.com.

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

  • HeadSpin Partners with Tricentis, Bringing Together Extensive AI, Global Edge and Device Infrastructure to Significantly Improve Software Quality of Experience

    Palo Alto, CA, March 15, 2022 – HeadSpin, the leading enterprise-grade, data-driven testing platform, has entered into a partnership with Tricentis, an industry leader in test automation for modern cloud and enterprise applications, to help enterprises achieve digital transformation goals and perfect digital experiences at speed through HeadSpin’s data science platform and globally deployed real-world infrastructure. 

    Under the partnership, HeadSpin will offer end-to-end continuous testing and AI-led autonomous solutions on Tricentis’ AI-based, scriptless, no code, automation platform, Tricentis Tosca. HeadSpin will provide a large edge of hosted and on-premise devices for Tosca users to test, debug, collect performance data, and detect build regressions to rapidly iterate and meet their quality, development, and monitoring goals. 

    The partnership also allows HeadSpin to use Tricentis’ market-leading agile test management platform, Tricentis qTest, to improve efficiency and ensure collaboration for agile and DevOps teams. Tricentis solutions help enterprises increase software release speed exponentially and cut application development and deployment cost and significantly improve software quality. 

    This partnership strengthens HeadSpin’s testing and performance monitoring capabilities and pushes forward its mission to help organizations across the globe assure flawless digital experiences. 

    “HeadSpin is working with global enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to solve the challenges in developing high quality, next-generation software in intensely competitive markets. AI-led autonomous testing solutions powered by the Tricentis automation platform help achieve phenomenally higher test automation rates of 90%, along with seamless identification and resolution of ‘quality of experience’ issues for revenue-generating and mission-critical digital applications,” said HeadSpin CEO Rajeev Butani. 

    The partnership also provides HeadSpin with access to NeoLoad, which is the top load-testing solution for enterprise applications, such as SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow,

    Oracle, Microsoft, Citrix, Avaloq, Guidewire, etc., from thick-client desktop apps to APIs and web interfaces. It’s a next-generation replacement for archaic load-testing tools that hold back modern delivery processes. NeoLoad provides unparalleled support for legacy and modern applications, and it is built expressly for today’s fast-paced DevOps processes. It can be deployed in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid. Moreover, it integrates seamlessly into CI tools, APM systems, containers, and other elements of the DevOps toolchain. 

    “Tricentis has been at the forefront of continuous testing. Our products and solutions leverage AI and cloud to accelerate software delivery and can support over 170 technologies and enterprise applications. Tosca can provide resilient test automation for any use case,” said Chaim Frenkel, senior director of alliances at Tricentis. 

    The HeadSpin and Tricentis partnership comes at a time when businesses are revving up their digitalization initiatives and are adopting advanced technologies to build products and features that meet increasing customer expectations. Gartner forecasts that through 2025, AI and ML capabilities will emerge and mature in test automation tools to deliver faster time-to-market and reduce overall test creation and maintenance cycles. 

    About HeadSpin 

    HeadSpin is the world’s first Digital Experience AI Platform combining cloud-hosted and on-prem global device infrastructure, test automation, and ML-driven performance and quality of experience analytics for mobile, web, audio, and video. HeadSpin empowers engineering, QA, operations, and product teams to assure optimal digital experiences throughout the development lifecycle. Learn more at www.HeadSpin.io.

  • OpenMetal Creates a New Cloud Segment with the First On-Demand, OpenStack Private Cloud

    OpenMetal, a division of InMotion Hosting (IMH), launches a disruptive new platform that transforms the risk and pain of private clouds by enabling IT teams, regardless of size or cloud expertise, to deploy private OpenStack clouds in under 45 seconds.

    Virginia, VA, March 15, 2022 — OpenMetal is seeking to transform the IaaS and cloud landscape by rolling out OpenMetal On-Demand Private Clouds (powered by OpenStack) designed to deliver a true “as-a-service” private cloud that is accessible and affordable to small teams and enterprise organizations.

    Incubated from InMotion Hosting’s Flex Metal Cloud solution, this next-generation OpenMetal platform challenges OpenStack’s common perceptions of setup complexity, mass IT staff resource allocation for operation, and high risks of failure. OpenMetal On-Demand Private Clouds start off with a 3 server hyper-converged cloud core already warmed up and ready to be deployed for service in under 45 seconds and billed on an hourly basis. This makes builds and deployments, even very small clouds on OpenStack, trivial to deploy and easy to scale up and down on-demand.

    “When it comes to choosing cloud, private clouds have always been the gold standard for greater control over security and costs, but complicated to set up,” said Todd Robinson, President of OpenMetal. “When these setups fail, it weakens the open source community around OpenStack. To drive greater adoption of open source systems, we felt it was imperative to simplify setup and ease the adoption of OpenStack. With OpenMetal, any company, regardless of size or skill, can now spin up on-demand private clouds with no risk or wait.”

    OpenMetal’s commitment to the open source community includes a Silver Foundation Membership in the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and serving as an Infrastructure Donor to support projects like Zuul, a Project Gating System. OpenMetal will continue collaborating with the open infrastructure community to add new features and functionality. Together we plan to further simplify private cloud deployments, increase infrastructure flexibility, and ensure it remains as a cost-effective open source choice over the mega public clouds.

    “The mission of the Open Infrastructure Foundation is to build the next decade of open infrastructure software, through a community of more than 100,000 members who know how to build software like OpenStack that runs in production,” says Mark Collier, COO, OpenInfra Foundation. “Solving the problem of making dedicated infrastructure available to smaller organizations that might lack the confidence to deploy on their own is something OpenMetal has designed these on-demand private clouds to address, and we’re excited to learn about their experiences implementing OpenStack Ironic as a service for bare metal, and bring those learnings back to the community.”

    Experience OpenMetal On-Demand Private Clouds for Yourself
    Experience the ease and speed of building an OpenMetal On-Demand Private Cloud on OpenStack. Request an online test drive and limited-time trial at: https://openmetal.io/free-trial/.

    Looking for a Custom Open Source Private Cloud? 
    OpenMetal offers large deployment and private pod solutions, customized to meet unique needs of your organization by our engineering team. Explore the broader business benefits of OpenMetal by requesting a consultation and/or demo with our Customer Success team at https://openmetal.io/schedule-meeting/.

    Learn more about OpenMetal at openmetal.io and on LinkedIn and Twitter.

    About OpenMetal
    OpenMetal, a division of InMotion Hosting (IMH), is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company delivering cloud and cloud-based technology services that enable easy use of complex open source options to provide greater performance, productivity, and profitability for companies of all sizes. As a strategic member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), OpenMetal is committed to empowering individuals – by themselves or within teams – to meaningfully contribute to the larger open source community to foster innovation that benefits all.

  • Quali Announces Enhanced Support for Helm to ImproveContainer Governance While Accelerating Deployment

    Quali’s infrastructure automation platform increases value and helps businesses achieve scale in DevOps by simplifying deployment and management of Helm Charts

    Austin, TX, March 15, 2022 — Quali, a leading provider of Environments-as-a-Service infrastructure automation solutions, announced today that its Torque platform now supports seamless integration with Helm. Helm Charts allow engineers to define their applications for Kubernetes with all the requisite microservices and networking components – in essence, acting as a package manager for Kubernetes.

    “Many IT organizations are struggling with managing complexity, costs and accountability for container infrastructure,” said Edan Evantal, CTO of Quali. “Our aim is to help organizations gain greater value and control using Helm to add speed and reliability to development and test processes. At the same time, we allow them to maintain governance and reduce friction by reusing proven, existing Helm Charts, so they can innovate quicker while mitigating business risks associated with scale.”

    With native support for Helm Charts in Torque, customers can now:

    • Protect and extend their existing Helm investment with complete application environments
    • Gain greater control and accountability over new and existing Helm Charts in one or more environment blueprint
    • Deliver value in scaling container adoption and usage by making Helm Charts easily reusable and combining infrastructure components outside of containers into manageable environments
    • Provide greater control over Helm usage, by visualizing and reporting Helm usage as part of a blueprint and tying container usage to an outcome, without inhibiting Helm capabilities
    • Better optimize resources by giving people the ability to use containers, no matter their skill level. This enables more skilled developers to create Helm Charts and extend environments to include elements beyond the container while benefiting from governance and control inherent with Torque
    • Create containers on-demand with self-service capabilities that remove the requirement to create and manage charts

    Torque has been adopted by leading enterprises to accelerate software development and deployment pipelines while providing frictionless management and governance. With Torque, organizations can define complete application environments, including infrastructure, data, services and application tools into unified reusable blueprints to support automated deployment of the infrastructure required in software delivery pipelines and QA/Test environments.

    Torque also supports security mandates with self-service access controls that allow centralized DevOps teams to define which elements of environments end users are free to configure and which elements can’t be changed, providing both flexibility and governance. Torque achieves this through built-in features including auto-tagging, custom tagging and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC).

    About Quali  
    Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Quali provides the leading platform for Environments-as-a-Service infrastructure automation solutions, helping companies achieve freedom from infrastructure complexity, so they can operate with velocity. Global 2000 enterprises and innovators everywhere rely on Quali’s award-winning CloudShell and Torque platforms to create self-service, on-demand automation solutions that increase engineering productivity, cut cloud costs, and optimize infrastructure utilization. For more information, please visit quali.com and follow Quali on Twitter and LinkedIn.

  • OneLayer Steps Out of Stealth with $8.2M Seed Round to Protect Private 5G Networks

    With more companies implementing their own LTE/5G networks, providing robust cyber defenses for these networks is becoming a foundational piece of enterprise security

    Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, March 15, 2022 — OneLayer, a pioneer in securing private LTE/5G networks for enterprises, announced today its launch out of stealth along with an $8.2 million seed funding round led by Grove Ventures and Viola Ventures. Additional investments were made by angel investors from leading cyber and cloud companies, including Avi Shua, founder and CEO of Orca Security, Ariel Zeitlin, founder of Guardicore, Gonen Fink, Head of Palo Alto Networks Israel R&D Center and the founders of Epsagon, Nitzan Shapira, CEO and Ran Ribenzaft, CTO, among others. OneLayer will use the funds to build its product suite for the desired enterprise-grade security and deploy it for customers internationally. Additionally, the company will create a cyber risk assessment and validation lab based on private LTE and 5G technology in collaboration with tier 1 players.

    For enterprises, the establishment of private LTE/5G networks enables a true connectivity revolution, providing significant benefits such as a jump in connectivity reliability, a dedicated bandwidth with capacity and range and connectivity of IoT devices across vast areas. Over the last several years, increasing numbers of enterprises have begun implementing private LTE/5G networks, a number that is expected to increase significantly over the upcoming years. Security for these networks, however, has lagged significantly behind. While traditional enterprise security tools have evolved over the last decade to achieve their desired standard, most of those tools are not applicable to the cellular domain as they tend to overlook the changes and advancement of the relevant standards and protocols that different cellular networks demand.

    OneLayer was built to provide organizations with enterprise-grade security on par with the standards of protection that IT and OT networks have access to, but without requiring them to become cellular experts. The company’s technology enables network administrators to limit device exposure to those registered on the network by exploring and listing the enterprise domain’s existing security tools, integrating them with the enterprise’s authorization, authentication and accounting tools (AAA) and extending their capabilities to the organization’s cellular domain. By doing so, OneLayer provides a simple, LAN-like way to control their private 5G networks.

    “OneLayer combines our deep knowledge of both cybersecurity and cellular technology and was formed with the mission to help enterprise companies close a significant vulnerability in their networks,” said Dave Mor, co-founder and CEO of OneLayer. “Our solution efficiently and effectively addresses the unique challenges facing cellular security for enterprises, giving our customers the ability to build expansive private networks with the highest levels of security tailored for their specific needs and, and beyond the current standards and capabilities of IT and OT networks.”

    “Until the advent of private LTE/5G networks, enterprise security and cellular security have existed in parallel, but different, orbits,” said Renana Ashkenazi, General Partner at Grove Ventures. “That reality is now changed and it demands a new solution. OneLayer is taking on an incredible challenge in addressing this gap in enterprise and cellular security and is building a solution for a very large addressable market. By approaching security challenges from a cyber perspective as well as with the team’s collective cellular expertise, OneLayer delivers a solution that will protect organizations from attacks while allowing them to operate within their LTE/5G networks. OneLayer is giving organizations the ability to safely leverage the benefits of a private 5G cellular network.”

    “We strongly believe that the emergence of private cellular networks will play a major role in the future of wireless technologies for enterprise connectivity,” said Zvika Orron, General Partner, Viola Ventures. “Along with providing enterprise companies the flexibility and control to design networks best suited to their specific business needs, private cellular networks also shift the responsibility for protecting those networks to the enterprises themselves. This requires a unique security solution to address the new attack surfaces, which is what makes us so excited to partner with OneLayer. The company is addressing a growing market while approaching the challenge with a deep understanding of both the cybersecurity and cellular industries, perfectly positioning it as a partner for enterprise companies building private networks.”

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    About OneLayer

    OneLayer provides enterprise-grade security for private LTE/5G networks. Its platform and IoT security toolkit can be implemented in private cellular networks to provide better visibility and protect organizations from security attacks, creating one identity, one policy rule, and one security approach which covers every IoT device in an organization. The company was founded by Dave Mor and Or Turgeman, world-class cybersecurity experts with a deep understanding of both cellular protocols and IoT security needs, and veterans of the IDF’s 81 intelligence unit. OneLayer’s founding team includes a strong bench of cyber experts from Israel’s 8200 and 81 units and is backed by industry-leading advisors from both the cybersecurity and the telecom industry. To learn more about OneLayer please visit one-layer.com.