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  • DevRev Launches with $50 Million in Seed Funding and a Dev-Centric CRM for the Product-Led Growth Era

    Led by former Nutanix co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey, the startup’s investors include Mayfield Fund and Khosla Ventures

    Palo Alto, CA, July 14, 2021 — DevRev, a new business software company focused on bringing developers closer to customers and revenue, emerged from stealth mode today, to work with early adopters in making the product generally available in 2022. The startup launches with $50 million in seed funding and a highly experienced leadership team headed by Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix co-founder and former CEO and current board member at Adobe.

    Pandey is DevRev’s co-founder and CEO, alongside co-founder Manoj Agarwal, former Nutanix SVP of engineering. Backed by investors including Mayfield Fund, Khosla Ventures, and several industry luminaries, DevRev has already recruited more than 75 people and is relentlessly focused on making itself “customer zero” this year.

    “Today, every company is a software company, yet we isolate developers (dev) from customers and revenue (rev),” said DevRev CEO Pandey. “By removing the bureaucracy between makers and consumers — with APIs, design, and an opinionated engagement model — we will empower devs to create customer-conscious products and businesses. That’s our mission: bring dev and rev together!”

    DevRev aims to make life meaningfully simpler for developers so they no longer have to work across silos of systems. Driven by design-first, API-first, and machine intelligence culture, DevRev will enable developers and customers to communicate and collaborate with each other socially and in real-time.

    “Being product builders ourselves, Dheeraj and I have both felt the pain in leaving developers in the back-office,” said DevRev Co-founder Agarwal. “With a headless dev-centric CRM vision, we are looking to bring developers to the forefront of decision-making and real-time customer collaboration.”

    Using the platform DevRev is creating, the developer will be able to connect their code to production issues and customer interactions in a singular unified experience. The company’s offering will help developers create modern product-led growth (PLG) companies that are cloud-centric and service-oriented.

    “As People-first investors who partner with entrepreneurs at the inception stage, we are honored to support Dheeraj, Manoj and the team at DevRev with seed funding,” noted Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha. “We believe their focus on elevating developers to business leaders by removing the barriers to revenue leverages the Rise of the Individual movement, and will help them grow into an iconic company. We look forward to watching them build an innovative new category and a long-lasting developer community.”

    “Often the code, which developers end up writing or modifying, has little to no input on how customers use their product and its features,” said Khosla Ventures Founder and Partner Vinod Khosla. “DevRev’s bold, yet simple vision to bring developers closer to customers is one of those groundbreaking ideas we feel will impact every single company in the future.”

    A true post-pandemic company, DevRev is remote-friendly and maintains purely digital operations, using social platforms to recruit talent, generate ideas, and build a community around its product. With automation, search, and a unique product-led candidate experience, the company has built a stellar team of DevRevelers in less than six months. The company is building its team in Austin, Bangalore, Ljubljana (Slovenia), and the San Francisco Bay area.

    About DevRev

    DevRev is a business software company that brings developers and customers together in the era of product-led growth. The company is building an API-first dev-centric CRM that leverages data, design, and machine intelligence to empower developers to build, support, and grow their business. In times of anemic NPS and high customer churn, DevRev strives to create the world’s most customer-centric companies led by happy developers. Grok and grep more on DevRev via the web, Twitter and LinkedIn.

  • SAIC Launches CloudScend to Accelerate Agencies’ Move to the Cloud

    Proven approach combines platform automation, analytics, and security tools to help agencies continuously modernize to transform how they meet mission priorities

    Reston, VA, July 14, 2021—Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) today announced the launch of CloudScend™, a cohesive solution of integrated platform automation tools, security protocols and processes to help federal agencies plan for and accelerate the migration of large-scale workloads to the cloud and innovate further once they’re there.

    CloudScend leverages SAIC’s deep experience in helping government organizations obtain the benefits of the cloud to determine the best way to prioritize the migration of strategic workloads. The comprehensive framework enables agencies to map requirements to mission needs and achieve a clear view of their path to the cloud with detailed insights and a proven methodology.

    “Bold moves require confident blueprints, and nowhere is that more true than when speaking of transitioning to the cloud,” said Sanjay Sardar, senior vice president, Digital Transformation and IT Modernization, at SAIC. “The CloudScend solution helps federal customers quickly and securely migrate large-scale workloads and future-proof cloud environments to incorporate new waves of emerging technologies.”

    CloudScend incorporates a wide range of security controls and automated processes, so agencies can seamlessly migrate systems and applications while monitoring the health of code and team performance at every step. With CloudScend, federal customers can flexibly apply continuous modernization practices to meet evolving mission requirements.

    CloudScend, designed with five key phases, offers a consistent repeatable approach to cloud migration – customized to meet the unique needs of government organizations regardless of where they are in their modernization journey. The five key phases are:

    • Explore: Use specific business, technical and financial criteria and tools to determine an organization’s future state, architecture, and roadmap.
    • Automate: Manage complex cloud environments through a proven, automated multi-cloud managed services delivery platform.
    • Secure: Leverage SAIC’s proven zero trust architecture approach to secure assets, applications, and data to the expected classification levels.
    • Migrate: Rapidly and securely develop and deploy applications with a highly-orchestrated software engineering pipeline, automate testing and quality control, and continuously monitor application performance.
    • Optimize: Actively measure and manage the performance of multi-cloud environments in support of the mission.

    CloudScend provides the tools to help government organizations with enterprise-level planning and migration, zero trust security with automated processes, and multi-cloud capability – all adaptable to evolving mission needs and tailorable to unique agency requirements. For more information on SAIC CloudScend and to explore how to anchor your future to a cloud foundation that will operate at the speed of technology, visit www.saic.com/cloudScend.

    About SAIC

    SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation’s technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers’ missions.

    We are more than 26,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has pro forma annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion.​​​​ For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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  • Attivo Networks Launches CIEM Solution, Expanding its Identity Detection and Response (IDR) Portfolio

    New IDEntitleX Solution Delivers Unprecedented Visibility to Identity Risks Across Endpoint, Active Directory Environments, and Cloud Infrastructures

    Fremont, CA, July 14, 2021 — Attivo Networks®, the leader in identity detection and response, today announced a new Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) solution, IDEntitleX, designed to deliver visibility and reduce the attack surface for identities and entitlements in the cloud. IDEntitleX expands the company’s leadership position in providing unprecedented visibility and prevention of identity privilege escalation and lateral movement threat activity. With this new product introduction, Attivo becomes the only solution of its kind to provide end-to-end analysis of identity and entitlement exposures and risks on endpoints, Active Directory (AD), and the cloud.

    Organizations are moving to the public cloud in record-setting numbers, but with this growth comes unanticipated security challenges with user identity management and the explosion of “non-human” identities such as applications, databases, and data stores. Gartner, Inc. estimates that “By 2023, 75% of security failures will result from inadequate management of identities, access, and privileges, up from 50% in 2020”1. Unfortunately, traditional security tools are ill-equipped to handle this explosion of resource management and, as a result, over-provision access and exasperate security risks.

    The new IDEntitleX solution reduces this risk by providing security teams with a unified view of identities and exposures across the organization to address provisioning management challenges while maintaining operational effectiveness. This includes multi-cloud support for AWS and Azure and provides detailed entitlement visibility for users, applications, virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and other objects which attackers seek to target.

    “As organizations continue to adopt cloud infrastructure at an ever-increasing rate and human and non-human identities expand to match, CISOs must focus on identity-first security solutions that can keep pace with this growth,” said Venu Vissamsetty, VP of Research at Attivo Networks. “This CIEM solution gives security teams the optimal flexibility and visibility they need for continuous monitoring of identities, entitlements, as well as correlation across standard cloud-based services.”

    “In today’s heady atmosphere of accelerated app delivery, security is all too often remaining an afterthought,” said Rik Turner, principal analyst at Omdia. “The rapid enterprise adoption of cloud computing has revealed a latent threat of ‘permission sprawl,’ and this challenge is driving an emerging technology segment that prioritizes visibility and reduces the attack surface for identities and entitlements in the cloud. With the introduction of IDEntitleX, Attivo Networks is well-positioned to emerge as a major player in the CPM or CIEM market.”

    The Attivo Networks IDEntitleX solution meets the challenges of identity and entitlement management with the following benefits:

    • Broadest Range of Cloud Visibility: Understand exposures with identity and entitlement summaries across all platforms.
    • Platform-Specific Cloud Visibility: Monitor entitlements to key cloud services, such as AWS S3 and Azure Key Vault.
    • End-to-end Visibility: View endpoint, Active Directory, and cloud exposures from a centralized management console.
    • Object-specific Risk Assessment: Isolate objects by risk and analyze the details of their entitlements.

    To learn more about IDEntitleX for identity protection, visit https://attivonetworks.com/product/IDEntitleX or read the full solution brief here: https://attivonetworks.com/documentation/Attivo_Networks-IDEntitleX_Solution_Brief.pdf

    Visit https://attivonetworks.com/solutions/identity-security for additional information about the solutions.

    About Attivo Networks
    Attivo Networks®, the leader in identity detection and response, delivers a superior defense for preventing privilege escalation and lateral movement threat activity. Customers worldwide rely on the ThreatDefend® Platform for unprecedented visibility to risks, attack surface reduction, and attack detection. The portfolio provides patented innovative defenses at critical points of attack, including at endpoints, in Active Directory, and cloud environments. Data concealment technology hides critical AD objects, data, and credentials, eliminating attacker theft and misuse, particularly useful in a Zero Trust architecture. Bait and misdirection efficiently steer attackers away from production assets, and deception decoys obfuscate the attack surface to derail attacks. Forensic data, automated attack analysis, and automation with third-party integrations serve to speed threat detection and streamline incident response. ThreatDefend capabilities tightly align to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and deception and denial are now integral parts of NIST Special Publications and MITRE Shield active defense strategies. Attivo has 150+ awards for technology innovation and leadership. www.attivonetworks.com.

    1 Gartner, “Managing Privileged Access in Cloud Infrastructure”, Paul Mezzera, June 9, 2020.

  • Mediafly Grows ‘Flyer Movement,’ Increases Workforce By Over 40% During Pandemic

    Sales enablement leader doubles down on digital transformation to elevate employee, customer experiences

    Chicago, IL, July 13, 2021 — Mediafly, a leading sales enablement technology provider dedicated to interactive presentations, content management and value-based selling experiences, announced today significant milestones as it continues to enhance its leadership position in the sales enablement market. Since the start of the pandemic, Mediafly has exponentially grown its headcount of “Flyers,” while strategically investing in its sales enablement platform and adding to its roster of market-leading customers.

    “At Mediafly, we understand the changing needs of our employees and are building a culture around them,” said John Evarts, president and chief operating officer of Mediafly. “We have the technology in place to accommodate a remote, hybrid or in-person team, but we’re giving our employees the flexibility to build their work around their lives. We’re passionate about growing a “Flyer Movement” that attracts and retains talent, while empowering our employees to engage in meaningful conversations and make lasting connections.”

    According to a PwC study, 83% of employers say the shift to remote work has been successful for their companies. As many businesses move back to in-person or hybrid work environments, Mediafly is further investing in a culture around digitally enabled experiences, equipping customers and employees with best-in-class technology to drive efficiency and ensure success. Through these efforts, Mediafly continues to attract top talent across all areas of the business and has increased its headcount by more than 40% since March 2020.

    Mediafly also accelerated product innovation in recent months with the introduction of Broadcaster, self-authoring capabilities for marketers, Jumpstart Presentations and more. Moreover, Mediafly expanded its platform through a strategic acquisition of Presentify, and key integrations with Zoom and SAP. These enhancements have accelerated Mediafly’s standing in the market and improved the overall net promoter score among customers. In fact, enterprise clients like PepsiCo, Okta and Sealed Air leveraged Mediafly’s market-leading technology to achieve up to 50% increases in competitive win rates, 15% reductions in stalled opportunities and 70% increases in deal sizes.

    “From the outset of COVID-19, we’ve stepped up our efforts to help our customers navigate the changing sales landscape,” said Andrew Miehl, chief customer officer of Mediafly. “We’ll continue to do this as revenue teams transition to hybrid settings by delivering a differentiated in-person and digital sales experience that keeps customers satisfied and loyal to our product. We’re excited to further strengthen relationships with our customers and enable them to achieve their desired sales outcomes.”

    Today’s announcement highlights Mediafly’s recent momentum following its $25 million growth funding round. Additionally, G2 recently recognized Mediafly as a leader in 10 different 2021 Summer Grid Reports in the sales enablement, digital asset management and presentation categories. Mediafly has also received several accolades to date in 2021, including being named to Built-In’s 2021 Chicago Companies to Watch, Crain’s Chicago Business’ Best Places to Work and Inc.’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies lists.

    For more information, visit www.mediafly.com.

    About Mediafly
    Mediafly is a leading sales enablement and content management technology platform that creates interactive, value-based selling experiences. By using Mediafly’s technology, marketing and sales teams at companies including PepsiCo, Disney, GE Healthcare, Sealed Air, are able to deliver custom, interactive and dynamic sales presentations quickly and efficiently, engaging customers with insights that are relevant to them. Mediafly’s Evolved Selling™ solution enables sellers to be more flexible, insightful and interactive in their sales interactions, resulting in increased sales and stronger customer relationships. Mediafly has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies for seven years consecutively in addition to being named Crain’s ‘Best Places to Work’ for four years consecutively. Visit Mediafly.com or follow @Mediafly for more information.

  • Datadobi Enhances DatadobiDriven Program with New Training Portal

    Enables Channel Partners to Increase Customer Satisfaction, Enjoy Optimum Revenue, and Accelerate Time to Profitability
    End Customers Can Now Eliminate Pain and Risk Associated with Complex Data Migrations
    LEUVEN, Belgium, July 13, 2021 — Datadobi, a global leader in unstructured data management software, today announced the launch of a new DatadobiDriven Training Portal, intended to provide strategic partners and end customers with tailored technical certification, support, and on-going communication. The new portal is an enhancement to the DatadobiDriven Program, which is focused on adding value for Sales Engineers, Professionals, and Administrators that helps to drive business success.
    Over a decade ago, Datadobi raised the bar for data migration solutions with the launch of DobiMigrate, enterprise-class migration software for NAS (network-attached storage) and object data. With DobiMigrate, channel solutions providers and end customers now have a solution that is proven and can be trusted in the most complex and demanding environments to deliver fast, efficient, secure, accurate, and verifiable migration to new storage and/or the cloud.
    “With the launch of the DatadobiDriven Training Portal, we continue to set new industry standards. It is now faster and easier than ever for channel partners to be trained and prepared to sell, deploy, and support Datadobi solutions. As a result, our partners are able to increase customer satisfaction, enjoy optimum revenue, and accelerate time to profitability,” said Michael Jack, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder, Datadobi. “Likewise, for end users the portal facilitates direct access to information, training, and solutions for eliminating the pain and risk associated with seemingly straightforward, but more often than not, complex data migrations.”
    In related news today, Datadobi announced it has partnered with CLIMB Channel Solutions to provide DatadobiDriven Program benefits to its Climbing Club members. “The Climbing Club is an exclusive group of valued reseller partners that we reward for their efforts in working with Climb and its partners,” said Charles Bass, Vice President of Alliances and Marketing, Climb. “We are delighted with the opportunity to extend the DatadobiDriven Program to our partners as it will enable them to further expand their market reach, enhance their trusted advisor status, and dramatically improve profitability.”
    To learn more and register for DatadobiDriven certification, please visit: https://info.datadobi.com/datadobidriven.
    About Datadobi
    Datadobi, a global leader in data management software, brings order to heterogeneous unstructured storage environments in the cloud and the data center so that the enterprise can realize the value of their expanding universe of data. Their software allows customers to migrate and protect data while discovering insights and putting them to work for their business. Datadobi takes the pain and risk out of unstructured data management and does it faster and more reliably than any other solution at the best economic cost point. Founded in 2010, Datadobi is a privately held company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with subsidiaries in New York, Melbourne, Dusseldorf, and London. For more information, visit www.datadobi.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

  • Moz Unveils Moz Group, New Product Ideas at MozCon

    New tools will live within Moz products as the company continues to innovate

    Seattle, WA, July 12, 2021 – Moz, Inc., a leader in search engine optimization technology, kicked off the first day of the 16th annual MozCon, a leading SEO conference, with a keynote by Sarah Bird, Moz CEO, introducing the Moz Group, a collection of marketing technology brands, including Moz, iContact, Campaigner, Kickbox, SMTP, eVoice, Line2, and eReceptionist, which together operate as a subsidiary of J2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM).

    As part of the Moz Group, Moz will continue to build new solutions to meet the needs of the SEO and digital marketing industry, with three new product innovations being announced.

    “We’re at an incredible point in Moz’s history, as we expand our toolset further to help marketers solve some of their biggest challenges,” said Bird. “We’re thrilled to be coming together again with customers and our community at MozCon to share our latest innovations while also challenging old ways of thinking, digging into new approaches for solving different SEO and digital marketing problems, and introducing attendees to new voices in the industry.”

    In addition to the Moz Group, Moz will be announcing the upcoming general release of Performance Metrics, a product beta currently live in Moz Pro, as well as sharing new product ideas and innovations, including:

    • A competitive research suite coming soon to Moz Pro that helps identify true SERP competitors, as well as keywords and content areas that need improvement to catch up with the competition.

    • An on-page keyword grouper that helps SEOs and content strategists identify page topics to determine if the content should be broken out into multiple pages.

    • A topical link finder that allows digital marketers to input a specific URL and its targeted keywords to identify domains with topically relevant links for link building opportunities.

    These new innovations are live within Moz Lab, with exclusive access being offered to MozCon attendees and additional Moz prospects and customers receiving invites in the coming weeks.

    For more information on the upcoming product innovations, stay tuned and visit Moz.com.

    About Moz

    Moz is one of the most trusted authorities in online search with powerful SEO and Local Search platforms to help marketers improve the position of their brands, business locations and competitive rank in search results. Moz’s platforms are powered by quality data, both robust and fresh enough that can serve as the foundation upon which crucial business decisions are made. For both large enterprises looking to gain an edge in the increasingly complex and ever-changing world of search or an agency seeking an SEO platform to accelerate client growth, Moz expects to have a solution. Check it out at www.moz.com.

  • A Special Message from Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian for TechStrong Con

    A Special Message from Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian for TechStrong Con

    As TechStrong Con approaches, Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian has shared an inspiring message for all developers and tech enthusiasts attending the virtual event. In the Cameo clip below, he reflects on his own journey in the tech realm and gives high praises to all the developers who spend every day doing the often “thankless” work that is building the technical infrastructure of the future.

    Tech innovation continuously showcases how it can revolutionize society. Alexis expressed how grateful he is to be a part of the tech community and to build things that are shaping the world we live in. Reddit is a prime example of tech’s ability to transform people’s lives. It blossomed from a small startup 16 years ago to this globally-recognized social hub today, where people can go to communicate about shared passions and ideas. 

    John Willis of Red Hat, Ian Khan of Futuracy, Tracy Ragan of DeployHub, Stephen DeWitt of CloudBees, Caroline Wong of Cobalt and many other industry luminaries will also share their stories and lessons learned at TechStrong Con, on July 14 and 15.

    At this year’s virtual event, attendees will learn all about DevOps, AppSec, cloud-native technologies, digital transformation, the future of hybrid and the many ways in which technology continues to improve the human experience. There will be an expo hall lined with booths featuring interactive chats and downloadable resources. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with peers, participate in giveaways, join a yoga class, check out a mixology demo and more.

    To see the full agenda and secure your free spot at the virtual event, visit the TechStrong Con website.

  • No More Status Quo: Disruption and Reinvention through The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche

    No More Status Quo: Disruption and Reinvention through The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche

    Everyday we’re reinventing ourselves. Whether we’re reinventing knowledge through learning, or technology through development, nothing stays stagnant and disruption makes sure of that.

    In a TechStrong TV segment, MediaOps Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel sits down with Brad Feld, current managing director at Foundry Group and author of “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors” to discuss this reinvention and the importance of disruptors. 

    If you’re not familiar with Brad Feld, he’s a well known venture capitalist and author who’s had his hand in the startup community as an author and founder of TechStars, a capital market company. He teamed up with Dave Jilk, a former partner of Feld Technologies, Brad’s very first company. 

    To cycle back to the word “disruptor,” it’s one Brad wants you to hang on to. He says, “Anybody who is involved in being a disruptor of an industry whether you’re a founder or a leader or an employee of a company, we like to think this is applicable to what you’re doing.” 

    Because of their focus on disruptors, it’s only fitting that Brad and Dave chose to concentrate on one of the most disruptive philosopher’s in history: Friedrich Nietzche. As Brad says, “In the 1860s to the 1890s, when he wrote the body of his work, Nietzsche was very disruptive to the status quo – of everything.” Like Nietzche, if you’re an entrepreneur or in the tech community today, you’re challenging conformity and reinventing the world.

    While this book is intended for entrepreneurs, you certainly don’t have to be one to enjoy this book. “Entrepreneurial thinking is valuable for everybody in all aspects of life. Doesn’t mean you have to be an entrepreneur but the kind of mindset of an entrepreneur is powerful to understand,” says Feld. If you’re a disruptor, or simply enjoy learning, you’ll get a lot from this book.

    And if you’re worried about not understanding the philosophy component, fear not. “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors” is incredibly accessible. Brad uses very small quotes (one to three sentences) from Nietzsche and translates it into contemporary English. After each quote is a short essay intended to “provoke thought, not tell you the answer.” As Brad says, “One of the meta goals of this book is not to tell people what to do. It’s to stimulate thinking.”

    As a bonus to most quotes and essays, there’s actually a narrative written by an entrepreneur (some famous, some not-so-famous) discussing their experience and what they thought of when Brad and Dave gave them the quote. 

    With 52 different topics, this book is not meant to be gobbled down. While you can, you’ll get a lot more out of it when you dip-in and dip-out of areas that you’re interested in. Feld and Jilk’s hope is to simply get people to think: “We’re trying to help people stimulate thought around these ideas. Presumably any one of these topics is something you can ponder and meditate on.”

    “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche” isn’t an untouchable academic piece, rather a relatable reflection of the human experience. Talking about the importance of including his own experience in the book, Brad emphasizes, “I don’t write books for a living. I’m a venture capitalist for a living. I write books because I love to write, I love to read and I love to think. My motivation for the writing is part of my own experience learning.” 

    Whether you choose to read a chapter a week or every few weeks, Brad and Alan recommend you take each chapter on its own. Think about it and internalize it before moving on. And if you’re able to re-read chapters, that’s even better. “Today, what I find myself doing when I do these talks is I’m reading these quotes again and I’m discovering new things in the quotes and what they make me think,” says Brad. “Again, not trying to tell me the absolute truth from the quote, but the thought that it then stimulates.”

    If you’re into learning, disrupting or the entrepreneurial mindset, check out “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors” and attend Brad’s session at TechStrong Con 2021 Virtual Summit, on June 14, to enter his book giveaway.

  • DevOps Institute Announces Upcoming Virtual Conference Lineup to Upskill IT Professionals, DevOps Practitioners and Decision-Makers

    One-day conferences focus on the ‘how-to’ of DevOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps and Observability sponsored by Harness, RedHat, Accurics, GitLab, Splunk and more

    Boca Raton, FL, June 24, 2021 – DevOps Institute, a global professional association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced its virtual conference lineup through the third quarter of 2021. Upcoming conferences include SKILup Days and bespoke events presented by DevOps Institute and MediaOps. A SKILup Day is a one-day virtual micro-conference focused on DevOps upskilling, a deep dive into technology trends, and career advancement. These events bring in leading IT experts to upskill DevOps students, practitioners and decision makers.

    Learn more and register for upcoming SKILup Days: https://devopsinstitute.com/all-events/

    “DevOps Institute virtual conferences provide the Humans of DevOps continuous value as we upskill on the topics that are critical to every DevOps journey,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “The inclusive and interactive nature of these events present new opportunities to connect with other industry professionals, SKILup on important IT practices and advance the global DevOps community.”

    Q3 2021 Event Schedule

    Open Source: The Evolution with Logz.io

    June 30, 2021
    Did you know open source is moving faster than ever with new observability projects? Is Kubernetes here to stay? DevOps Institute and MediaOps are proud to present this deep dive into these topics and more at Open Source: The Evolution with Logz.io.

    Current confirmed speakers include:

    • Jonah Kowall, CTO – Product Strategy and Execution, Logz.io
    • Dotan Horovits, Product Evangelist, Logz.io
    • Alan Shimel, CEO and Founder, MediaOps

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/open-source/

    Splunk DevOps ASEAN Day

    July 8, 2021
    This virtual event presented by Splunk, DevOps Institute and MediaOps, is designed to bring an educational experience to the Southeast Asian DevOps Community. Attendees will learn about the latest in software development and IT operations, increase developer productivity, create better user experiences and reduce operational uncertainty.

    Current confirmed speakers include:

    • Dave McAllister, Sr Technical Evangelist, Splunk
    • Mani Govindan, Sales Director – Observability, Splunk
    • Andrew Bearsley, Certified Architect – AIOPS, Splunk
    • Jayne Groll, CEO, DevOps Institute
    • Donnie Prakoso, Sr Developer Advocate, ASEAN, AWS
    • Mike Moore, Sr Manager, Observability Sales Engineering, APAC, Splunk
    • Greg Leffler, Observability Practitioner Director, Splunk
    • Ram Jothikumar, Sr Manager, Cloud Infra, SRE & QE for Observability, Splunk
    • Jakub Barc, Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Splunk

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/splunk-devops-asean-day/

    CI/CD SKILup Day

    July 22, 2021
    In software engineering, CI/CD or CICD generally refers to the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment. Join this SKILup Day to learn how CI/CD bridges the gaps between development and operation activities and teams by enforcing automation in building, testing and deploying applications.

    Event sponsors include Harness, Red Hat, Accurics, CloudBees, Basis, Instana, Redgate, and Moogsoft.

    Current confirmed speakers include:

    • Dave Farley, Independent Software Developer and Consultant, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.
    • James Barter, DevOps for SAP Solution Director
    • Grant Fritchey, Redgate Software
    • Ravi Lachhman, Evangelist at Harness
    • Anders Wallgren, VP of Technology Strategy at CloudBees
    • John Jarboe, Developer Advocate, Accurics
    • Chris Engelbert, Senior Developer Advocate at Instana, an IBM Company

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/cicd-2021/

    DevSecOps SKILup Day

    Aug. 12, 2021
    This full day of learning will examine how DevSecOps is an augmentation of DevOps to allow for security practices to be integrated into the DevOps approach. Sessions will explore how the traditional centralized security team model must adopt a federated model allowing each delivery team to factor in the proper security controls into their DevOps practices.

    Current confirmed Sponsors include: Palo Alto Networks, Bridgecrew, Harness, Accurics, HCL, and GitLab.

    Speakers coming soon!

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/dso-2021/

    DevOps: Straight Talk for Government

    Sept. 9, 2021

    More details coming soon!

    Observability

    Sept. 23, 2021

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  • FIS Launches First in a New Series of AI-Enabled Risk Solutions with C3 AI for Financial Services Industry

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    • FIS AML Compliance Hub is the first in a new line of AI-based solutions from FIS for capital markets firms.
    • New solution uses artificial technology to aggregate and analyze client data across financial crime detection systems such as know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) to improve outcomes.
    • The FIS AML Compliance Hub leverages technology from C3 AI and is the first in a new line of solutions to be developed under a new agreement between the two companies.

    Jacksonville, FL, June 17, 2021 – Financial technology leader FIS® (NYSE: FIS) today announced the first in a new series of solutions developed in partnership with C3 AI (NYSE: AI) to help capital markets firms tap into the power of their organizational data to increase efficiency and better manage regulatory compliance and risk.

    The AML Compliance Hub leverages C3 AI’s advanced machine learning technology, combined with the deep financial industry domain expertise of FIS, to dramatically improve the efficiency of financial crime detection. Designed to help capital markets firms fight the increasing threat of financial crime, the machine learning-based platform aggregates and analyzes client data across disparate systems to enhance AML and KYC processes, improving decision-making and reducing false positive alerts.

    “As an early adopter of AI technology in our solutions, FIS is accelerating our investment in machine learning to help our clients better take advantage of the vast amount of structured and unstructured data within their systems,” said Nasser Khodri, Head of Capital Markets at FIS. “From cost savings through AI-powered automation to enhanced decisioning and analysis, AI offers great promise for forward-looking financial institutions that want to tap into their data for competitive advantage.”

    Recent research from the FIS Readiness Report shows that 78% of capital markets firms plan to invest in AI in 2021 to advance their strategic goals.

    “We predict that AI will increasingly be a vital tool for capital markets firms in a wide range of use cases and applications,” said Sidhartha Dash, research director at Chartis Research. “AI has significant potential in the fight against financial crime through its ability to aggregate data and apply learnings from past events to automate decisioning. The technology also has great potential in streamlining workflows and cutting costs associated with onerous, manual data review processes.”

    The FIS Compliance Hub provides a dashboard view where users can view reports and receive alerts as to key risk drivers, suspicious activity, and AML scoring. By reducing false positives, organizations can focus on true threats that require dedicated attention and timely action.

    “Money laundering and other illegal activities are dynamic, fast-moving challenges for the financial services sector, and the data necessary to identify financial crimes are segregated across numerous disparate systems,” said Ed Abbo, president and chief technical officer at C3 AI. “Existing rules-based detection systems generate an excessive stream of false positives that require costly and inefficient manual review and increase the risk of missed investigations. By leveraging C3 AI’s advanced capabilities to unify and analyze all relevant data using machine learning, The FIS AML Compliance Hub is a next-gen solution that can accurately identify, prioritize, and report suspicious activity, while simultaneously reducing the number of false positives.”

    The partnership with C3 AI is reflective of FIS’ focus on partnering with innovative companies to accelerate its ability to deliver disruptive new technologies and solutions into the market.

    About FIS

    FIS is a leading provider of technology solutions for merchants, banks and capital markets firms globally. Our employees are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests by applying our scale, deep expertise and data-driven insights. We help our clients use technology in innovative ways to solve business-critical challenges and deliver superior experiences for their customers. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (@FISGlobal).

    About C3.ai, Inc.

    C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) is a leading provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products: C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, a suite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of the C3 AI offering is an open, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data science and application development. Learn more at: www.c3.ai.