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  • BigID Introduces Native Data Access and Masking Control for Snowflake

    New York, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel, June 9, 2021 — BigID, the leader in data discovery and intelligence for privacy, protection and perspective, today introduced a new app that integrates with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, enabling BigID customers to reduce their risk, improve the security of their sensitive data, and achieve continuous compliance.

    Organizations can now natively enforce data access and masking within Snowflake’s Data Cloud based on data discovery and policy controls inside BigID. Joint customers can get even more value from their Snowflake data with BigID providing an extra layer of protection to identify and secure personal, sensitive and privileged data.

    The new BigID Data Access App for Snowflake can help organizations identify, restrict and secure sensitive crown jewels:

    • Automatically identify and classify sensitive PII, PHI, NPI, IP, and other hard to find sensitive and regulated data stored in Snowflake

    • Define access rules in BigID enforced by Snowflake for who gets access to the data

    • Dynamically mask sensitive data without a proxy

    • Automate and enforce policies in a unified metadata catalog

    • Define, apply, and enforce access policies based on role, sensitivity, and category

    • Reduce risk and address data privacy and protection regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, NIST, and others

    “This new application allows customers to define their data access and masking policies in BigID and enforce them within Snowflake,” said Jon Mayer, VP, Business Development & Partnerships at BigID. “This gives regulated organizations and companies in geographies with data sovereignty, privacy and security obligations a more streamlined experience for managing data in Snowflake.”

    “Snowflake Data Cloud provides secure and governed access to an entire network of data, empowering users to share and consume data across business units and with customers, suppliers, and partners,” said Snowflake Head of Product Management – Security Vikas Jain said. “The BigID Data Access Application for Snowflake allows our joint customers to discover, classify, and automate protection of sensitive and regulated data using Snowflake’s native security and governance policies. The integration runs on auto-pilot allowing customers to spend more time using the data and less time implementing data protection.”

    To learn more:

    • Get a 1:1 demo with cloud security experts

    • Read more about the integration between Snowflake and BigID

    About BigID

    BigID’s data intelligence platform enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective. By applying advanced machine learning and deep data insight, BigID transforms data discovery and data intelligence to address data privacy, security, and governance challenges across all types of data, in any language, at petabyte-scale, across the data center and the cloud. BigID has raised $146 million in funding since its founding in 2016 and has been recognized for its data intelligence innovation as a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, named to the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100, a Business Insider 2020 AI Startup to Watch, and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner. Find out more at http://bigid.com

  • Protegrity Announces Continued Platform Innovation With New Dynamic Data Masking Capabilities

    Customers Can Now Monitor, Mask, or Tokenize Data – All Within a Single Data Store – Allowing Greater Flexibility to Secure Data at the Speed of Business

    Salt Lake City, UT, June 9, 2021 – Protegrity, a global leader in data security, today announced the release of the latest version of the Protegrity Data Protection Platform. Version 8.1 of Protegrity’s industry-leading platform introduces dynamic data masking and monitoring capabilities, providing customers with multiple data-protection methods all within a single data store. The company also introduced: enhanced support for language-preserving Unicode tokenization; the Protegrity Cloud API, which allows businesses to easily embed data-protection capabilities into cloud ETL workflows; and a redesigned logging architecture to provide more granular auditability over data-privacy initiatives.

    “Companies need to use their data to drive innovation yet keeping data secure often delays access, which can significantly impact mission-critical AI, ML, and analytics initiatives,” said Rick Farnell, President and CEO of Protegrity. “Our latest platform innovations provide expanded choice and control over data-protection methods – effectively expanding the tools available to safeguard data in a way that accelerates innovation.”

    Monitoring and Dynamic Data Masking Provide Visibility and Control for Sensitive Data Access

    With monitoring and dynamic data masking functionality, version 8.1 of the Protegrity Data Protection Platform provides customers with greater choice and control over the level of data protection they implement to meet the needs of the business. Monitoring capabilities give customers baseline visibility into how data is being accessed and used across the organization. For a higher level of control over sensitive data, businesses can utilize Protegrity’s dynamic data masking, which enforces data-visibility rules at the point of user access to hide or “mask” sensitive data for unauthorized users – without changing the data at rest.

    “For less-sensitive data and lightweight use cases, monitoring and dynamic data masking can provide a powerful baseline level of security to reduce risk immediately,” said Jeffrey Breen, EVP of product and strategy at Protegrity. “As an organization’s security and privacy posture matures, we continue to offer stronger protection methods, such as tokenization, which can easily be implemented from the same policy. This ensures that Protegrity can help organizations of any size, of any industry protect their sensitive data no matter where they need to be on the data-privacy continuum.”

    Unicode Tokenization Delivers Language-Preserving Data Security for Global Businesses

    Unicode is an international standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in the world’s writing systems. With version 8.1, Protegrity now brings all the advantages of its industry-leading tokenization to all text encoded in the one- and two-byte Unicode standards. The improved capabilities deliver character-encoding and length-preserving tokenization without performance penalties, allowing organizations to easily tokenize text from all Western alphabets.

    Breen continued, “Existing tokenization methods can be taxed to support larger alphabets, so we are proud to be able to offer our customers an innovative new approach to Unicode tokenization. This new capability is an important milestone in Protegrity’s continuing mission to offer no-compromises options to global organizations to protect their most sensitive data.”

    New Cloud API and Logging Architecture Enhance Platform Functionality

    In addition to new data-protection methods such as monitoring, data masking, and Unicode tokenization, Protegrity has unveiled the following key platform enhancements:

    • Protegrity Cloud API: A “function-as-a-service” tokenization offering for popular cloud services such as AWS and Azure, the Protegrity Cloud API allows organizations to easily embed Protegrity’s data-protection capabilities into ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows, native cloud services, and custom applications. Built on serverless architecture, the Protegrity Cloud API delivers elastic scaling and cost efficiency, regardless of data volume requirements.

    • Redesigned Logging Architecture: Protegrity’s redesigned logging architecture is the continuation of a multi-release capability that was first introduced in version 8.0 with the establishment of a new storage data store for audit logs using Elasticsearch.

    To learn more about Protegrity’s latest platform advancements, please visit Protegrity.com or register for the company’s BrightTALK webinar on June 17.

    Learn More

    Website: protegrity.com

    Twitter: @Protegrity

    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/protegrity/

    About Protegrity 

    Protegrity, a global leader in data security, protects sensitive data everywhere and future-proofs businesses as data-privacy regulations evolve. Maintaining privacy today across distributed data has become impossibly complicated. With Protegrity, enterprises can secure data wherever it resides, control how it’s protected, and have confidence that data is safe, even if a breach occurs. The Protegrity Data Protection Platform is a modern alternative to traditionally complex data-protection methods that leave gaps in security. Whether encrypting, tokenizing, or applying privacy models, Protegrity protects data at the speed of business. Deep integrations with Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Teradata, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Cloudera, Databricks, and many other enterprise applications ensure that data remains fully protected in hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments without performance penalties. The platform’s fine-grained data protection anonymizes personally identifiable information (PII) that’s used in AI and machine learning models, providing faster access to critical analytics data and dramatically shortening the time to business insights. Protegrity protects the sensitive data of more than two billion individuals across global enterprises, including four of the world’s 15 largest banks, four out of 10 of the top health insurance providers, and three of the world’s leading multinational companies. With more than two decades of industry-leading innovation, Protegrity allows businesses to finally tap into the value of their data and accelerate digital transformation timelines – without jeopardizing individuals’ fundamental right to privacy.

  • Commvault Announces Managed Service Provider and Aggregator Partner Programs

    Enhanced programs provide MSPs and Aggregators with innovative Intelligent Data Services; dedicated, partner-focused support; a modern, profitable, and predictable program tailored for partner success

    Tinton Falls, NJ, June 9, 2021 – Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a recognized global enterprise software leader in the management of data across cloud and on-premises environments, today announced enhanced Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Aggregator Partner Advantage Programs, tailored and refined to support the way Commvault’s MSP and Aggregator partners operate while fulfilling their unique needs for delivering “Commvault Powered” Intelligent Data Services to customers of all sizes around the world.

    With a fundamental shift in the IT landscape, organizations are increasingly looking toward managed service providers for consumption-based solutions that span the entire IT stack and  are cost-effective, scalable, and easy to consume. Seeing this as a fast-growing and clear market direction, Commvault has further evolved its industry-leading Partner Advantage Program to now offer MSPs and Aggregators the critical elements they seek to be successful – multiple ways to partner and earn incentives that drive profitability, deep ecosystem relationships centered around joint selling, and tools like in-region support, expansive training, and marketing resources to drive partner growth and win more deals.

    “One of Commvault’s main objectives is to always provide our partners with Intelligent Data Services that help organizations protect and manage data and applications in an increasingly hybrid and multi-cloud world,” said John Tavares, Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances. “The enhancements to our MSP and Aggregator programs help our partners achieve these goals, meet challenges head-on, and future-proof their business. Our solutions are industry-leading and we provide the tools, benefits, experience, and support that enable partners to help their customers safely protect and manage their data in any environment – on-prem, cloud, or SaaS.”

    Centered around Commvault’s four key pillars for a winning partnership, the MSP Partner Advantage Program offers a range of benefits that allow partners to easily build on existing services and create new ones for their customers. The simple, modern program offers two tiers with clearly identified tier promotional requirements and incentives, rewarding partners for driving consumption. MSP partners are also provided with flexible licensing and consumption options that include both subscription and utility agreements to align with customer demand. With partner success as a key foundation, Commvault offers free training resources and curriculums designed to build competency, helping both MSPs and Aggregators operate and grow their “Commvault Powered” practice.

    In addition, Commvault plans to add Metallic for MSPs to its Partner Advantage Program later this year, enabling its MSP partners to broaden their service catalogs and grow their business with the agility of SaaS.

    Commvault’s MSP partners see the value in partnering with Commvault:

    • Tim deLisle, President, Meridian IT said, “Working with an industry leader like Commvault has benefitted our customers dramatically, providing us with the tools and resources to maximize the Commvault portfolio of Intelligent Data Services and helping our customers solve their very real data management challenges. Whether its on-prem or in the cloud, together with Commvault, we can close the Business Integrity Gap for our customers with solutions that store, protect, and optimize their data.”
    • Mikhail Soloviev, Product Development Director, DataLine shares these same sentiments. He said, “Commvault provides proven, easy scalable solutions that ensure continuous backup and data protection. With the help of our proprietary technologies and the broad functionality of Commvault solutions, our clients receive the best data protection, as well as reliability and flexibility for their business.”
    • Thierry Moreaud, Commercial Director, Syage commented, “Commvault’s portfolio offers unique coverage in the market and is based on a reliable and flexible architecture. We can reduce the risks for our customers with a single unified data protection platform, which creates an intelligent data service.”

    To learn more about Commvault’s offerings for MSPs and Aggregators, please visit www.commvault.com/managed-service-providers.

    About Commvault

    Commvault liberates business and IT professionals to do amazing things with their data by ensuring the fundamental integrity of their business. Its industry-leading Intelligent Data Services platform empowers these professionals to store, protect, optimize, and use their data, wherever it lives. Delivering the ultimate in simplicity and flexibility to customers, its Intelligent Data Services platform is available as a software subscription; integrated appliance; partner-managed, and software-as-a-service—a critical differentiator in the market. For 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations have relied on Commvault, and today, every quarter, Metallic is doubling the number of customers who leverage it to modernize their environments as they look to SaaS for the future. Driven by its values—Connect, Inspire, Care, and Deliver—Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) employs more than 2,700 highly-skilled individuals around the world. Visit Commvault.com or follow us at @Commvault.

  • ThoughtSpot Launches Support for Snowpark to Bring the Modern Analytics Cloud to AI Workloads

    Developers and data professionals can use their preferred programming language to create models, uncover insights, and build data apps with Snowflake and ThoughtSpot

    Sunnyvale, CA, June 9, 2021 — ThoughtSpot, the Modern Analytics Cloud company, announced support for Snowpark, the new developer experience for Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company. With Snowpark, data engineers, data scientists, and developers can use their preferred language to take advantage of Snowflake’s powerful platform, and use ThoughtSpot to make these predictions, models, and data accessible to every business user through the ease of search and AI.

    Changing consumer dynamics and rapid technology innovation have set a new standard for how companies leverage their data if they want to compete. Data and analytics stacks built on legacy technology fail to deliver. They require users to learn multiple complex environments, create data and process siloes, introduce data latency issues, and are only accessible through static, inflexible dashboards. This limits the impact of analytics, while preventing business users from leveraging the outputs of investments in AI, machine learning, and data science. Instead, businesses need a simple interface to put these cutting-edge data capabilities in the hands of every employee, including developers, data professionals, and business people, quickly and at scale.

    ThoughtSpot for Snowpark helps make this a reality by mobilizing the world’s data and making it easy to unlock powerful data insights for every person. Snowpark gives users the ability to write and deploy code in the language of their choice, without having to leave the Snowflake environment, improving efficiency and reducing maintenance. With ThoughtSpot, these same users can expose powerful insights directly to business users through search, or build robust data applications leveraging the combination of ThoughtSpot and Snowflake, without ever having to leave their Snowflake environment.

    ThoughtSpot for Snowpark enables customers to:

    • Accelerate moving AI and ML use cases into production: With support for other languages and ML runtimes, data and business leaders can put the power of AI and ML in the hands of business users and decision makers, driving better decisions and ROI from AI investments.

    • Create efficient data to decision pipelines: Snowpark makes it easy to build data pipelines that use familiar constructs and third-party data libraries, while ThoughtSpot provides a new consumer-grade experience for business users to engage with those pipelines at scale, helping both technical and nontechnical easily and efficiently go from data to decisions.

    • Build smart and interactive data apps: Product leaders can build, test, iterate, and launch interactive data apps or embed search-driven analytics in their products with ThoughtSpot Everywhere that leverage Snowpark and subsequently drive richer analytics experiences.

    Soaring customer adoption of ThoughtSpot and Snowflake

    The announcement comes on the heels of significant customer adoption of ThoughtSpot and Snowflake. Over the last quarter, ThoughtSpot saw a 200% increase in the number of net new customers  sold in partnership with Snowflake over the previous quarter.

    “Enterprises are actively seeking to transform their businesses by leveraging the power of data and insight. With ThoughtSpot for Snowpark, companies can harness this incredibly powerful combination to revolutionize how their business uses data,” said Jayant Prabhu, VP & Global Head, Data & Analytics, Wipro Limited. “Our elite partnership with Snowflake and ThoughtSpot, along with our deep industry and domain expertise, help us provide clients with rich analytics experiences and accelerate their Intelligent Enterprise journey.”

    “More powerful, nuanced data experiences, fueled by machine learning, AI, and analytics are the competitive edge for modern companies. The key is getting them into the hands of business users” said Seann Gardiner, SVP Business Development, ThoughtSpot. “Snowflake has made it easier to put these technologies to work through a variety of programming languages with the launch of Snowpark. ThoughtSpot is now taking this a step further, making these use cases tangible for the business people who make decisions, engage with customers, and ultimately chart the course for their organizations.”

    “We live in a world where rich data experiences, powered by the cloud, AI, and machine learning, are crowning the winners in today’s market. ThoughtSpot and Snowflake work together to help individuals from all levels of an organization use, learn from, and take action with data efficiently and effectively,” said Harsha Kapre, Product Manager, Snowflake. “As companies look to bring analytics to their business users, or build data applications to engage with customers and partners,  partnership with ThoughtSpot  can help joint customers realize the promise of data democratization.”

    Learn more about ThoughtSpot for Snowflake, or try it for yourself.

    About ThoughtSpot

    ThoughtSpot is the Modern Analytics Cloud company. Our mission is to create a more fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform. With ThoughtSpot, anyone can leverage natural language search and AI to find data insights and tap into the most cutting edge innovations the cloud data ecosystem has to offer. Companies can now put the power of their modern data stack in the hands of every employee, extend the value of their data to partners and customers, and automate entire business processes. ThoughtSpot’s web and mobile applications improve decision-making for every employee. With ThoughtSpot’s low-code development platform, customers can also embed consumer-grade analytics into their SaaS offerings or build entirely new interactive data apps that engage users and keep them coming back for more. Organizations like Walmart, BT, Daimler, Medtronic, Hulu, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, OpenTable, Metromile, Workato, and Nationwide Building Society rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data. See for yourself and try ThoughtSpot today.

  • Honeywell Introduces Advanced Monitoring And Incident Response Service to Help Improve OT Cybersecurity and Increase Operational Resilience

    Delivers 24/7, real-time capabilities that help industrial organizations identify and mitigate emerging cyber threats, manage overall risk and demonstrate compliance

    Atlanta, GA, June 9, 2021 — Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON), a global leader in industrial cybersecurity, announced today the introduction of the Honeywell Advanced Monitoring and Incident Response (AMIR) service. The service provides 24/7 operational technology (OT) cybersecurity detection and rapid response for current and emerging cyber threats.

    AMIR is a cost-effective, easy to deploy, scalable cybersecurity service that is tailored to help IT and OT security teams that may struggle to keep up with the continuing evolution of today’s cyber-attacks that target industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology networks due to a lack of expertise or budget constraints.

    AMIR is part of Honeywell Forge Managed Security Services (MSS), an end-to-end security as a service solution that helps protect OT environments, control systems and operations. In comparison, other third-party MSS providers and in-house solutions may rely either on basic monitoring that doesn’t employ a proactive approach to securing critical OT assets and operations or on IT security operation centers that lack OT domain knowledge and expertise in different industrial protocols and assets.

    “Honeywell’s Advanced Monitoring and Incident Response solution provides a combination of advanced cybersecurity software, experts, and playbooks with remediation guidance in order to better detect, prevent, analyze, evaluate and coordinate the response to cybersecurity threats occurring within OT environments,” said Jeff Zindel, vice president and general manager, Honeywell Connected Enterprise Cybersecurity. “Staffed by cybersecurity experts with specific OT experience, AMIR offers a tremendous resource to complement any existing IT/OT cybersecurity program and help ease the burden of cybersecurity challenges.”

    AMIR continuously monitors OT environments by “hunting” for anomalous behavior, including both known and emerging cybersecurity threats. It analyzes indicators of compromise and alerts operators to potential problems before significant damage can occur. Through the use of proprietary technology, AMIR collects, correlates, prioritizes and analyzes security events and log data from multiple sources, providing a comprehensive approach to better minimize cyber risk and support cybersecurity compliance.

    The AMIR offering is already being deployed at multiple sites worldwide to help companies boost their cybersecurity maturity.

    AMIR is integrated with the broader Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity portfolio designed to help further strengthen cyber defenses for operating environments. For more information about Honeywell’s AMIR service, visit https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/honeywell-forge/cybersecurity

    About Honeywell
    Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable.  For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.

  • Cybrary Announces Kevin Hanes as New CEO

    Former Secureworks Executive Takes the Helm as Company Enters Next Phase of Growth

    College Park, MD, June 9, 2021 — Cybrary, the world’s leading online cybersecurity workforce development platform, today announced that Kevin Hanes will join the company as CEO. In his new role, Hanes plans to grow, operationalize and further expand Cybrary’s mission to solidify the company as the leading platform for individuals and teams to develop their cybersecurity skills.

    Companies need help transforming the skillsets of their workforce and enabling those who have the drive to become skilled cybersecurity professionals. Cybrary positively impacts lives and helps companies solve a consequential pain point and minimize their risk. In his new role, Hanes is squarely focused on Cybrary’s continued growth and development.

    “Ryan and Ralph have done a tremendous job taking Cybrary from an idea to an industry leader. I am honored to join such a strong, purpose-driven company that I know can make a difference in the cybersecurity community,” said Hanes. “The demand for cybersecurity professionals is exploding, and the skills gap keeps increasing. Our growth trajectory and an opportunistic landscape puts Cybrary in a tremendous position to become the de facto standard for cybersecurity skill development.”

    Hanes, a seasoned technology veteran of more than 20 years, comes to Cybrary from Secureworks where he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) since March 2013. While at Secureworks, he led the company from a hyper-growth stage through an IPO and built one of the world’s strongest, most respected cybersecurity operations teams, with Secureworks being consistently recognized by industry analysts as a market leader. Hanes also served as an executive sponsor for the company’s Women in Action initiatives, and helped champion leadership training, professional development, and networking opportunities for women in the industry.

    Hanes will replace Ryan Corey, who served as CEO since co-founding the company in 2015. Corey will serve as Advisor to the CEO and will continue to serve on the Cybrary Board of Directors.

    “The leadership team is very excited to have Kevin join Cybrary. His deep technical, business and leadership experience, as well as his passion for culture and people are what will take Cybrary to the next level,” said Corey. “Our team has grown significantly in the last year, and I’m excited for what’s in store for Cybrary in this new era of leadership.”

    For more details on this leadership appointment, as well as Hanes vision for Cybrary’s continued growth, please visit https://www.cybrary.it/blog/cybrary-poised-for-growth-with-hanes-at-the-helm/

    About Cybrary

    Cybrary is the leading cybersecurity workforce development platform, putting the collective knowledge of the industry’s top experts at your fingertips. Cybrary combines courses on the most in-demand cybersecurity skills with real, hands-on learning experiences and guidance from a community of dedicated cybersecurity professionals. Cybrary enables its more than 3 million learners, small businesses, and Fortune 1000 organizations to earn industry certifications, work with cutting-edge tools and technologies, and advance their cybersecurity goals. Learn how Cybrary is helping to build a cybersecurity-enabled workforce at www.cybrary.it.

  • HCL Software Launches its Cloud-Native, Web and Mobile-Ready Version of Domino Application Development Platform

    Domino powers 10 million apps that run the busines of more than 15,000 companies worldwide

    NEW YORK, US and NOIDA, India, June 8, 2021 – HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company announced the general availability of the latest version of Domino, the secure enterprise application-development platform. The newest version is cloud-native, web- and mobile-ready and includes low code capability — all out of the box. It marks a major milestone to enrich the application development ecosystem from business users to professional IT developers and provides essential business value with low total cost of ownership. Domino powers 10 million apps that run the business of more than 15,000 companies worldwide, including global giants in the automotive, financial and retail industries.

    “The world is ‘Powered by Domino,’ and with v12 we continue to deliver on our commitment in ensuring the future of Domino is one that is low-code, mobile and secure,” said Darren Oberst, Corporate Vice President and Head of HCL Software. “Even just a year ago, most CIOs would not believe me if I told them Domino apps are accessible anywhere and on any device. But they are, and we’re just getting started.”

    Highlights of HCL Domino v12 include:

    • Now cloud-native with flexible backup deployment options and enhanced security.  Deploy anywhere — on-prem, hybrid or any cloud and back up Domino with any backup solution in the market. New security features include Time-Based One-Time Password, automating certificate management and biometric authentication.
    • Eliminate desktop client upgrades. With Nomad web, Domino apps and mail experiences are now on a browser and always up to date.
    • Anyone can build apps faster with low code. Business users can create modern apps and workflows using the same infrastructure, governance and security.

    “Dun & Bradstreet has relied on the HCL Domino application for more than 20 years to fulfill workflows for our client files,” said Jim Martone, Vice President of Engineering at Dun & Bradstreet. “The investment and innovation that HCL Software has put into the Domino platform over the years has allowed us to automate once manual functions, improving the efficiency and faster turnaround of batch files so our clients receive their business-critical information in a timely and secure manner.”

    “It’s been fascinating to watch HCL Software take a mature IT solution family with a strong heritage and move it forward into a capable new story,” said Dion Hinchcliffe, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “As I cite in my Constellation ShortList, HCL Software is one of the leading enterprise IT stack vendors that can form the foundation of their customers’ digital transformation.”

    For more information, visit https://www.hcltechsw.com/wps/portal/products/domino/launch.

    About HCL Software

    HCL Software, a division of HCL Technologies (HCL) that operates its primary software business. It develops, markets, sells and supports over 20 product families in the areas of DevSecOps, Automation, Digital Solutions, Data Management, Marketing and Commerce, and Mainframes. HCL Software has offices and labs around the world to serve thousands of customers. Its mission is to drive ultimate customer success with their IT investments through relentless innovation of its products.

  • Rollbar Rounds Out First Half of 2021 With Strong Growth and New Features

    Company’s Momentum Affirms Strength of Its Continuous Code Improvement Approach

    San Francisco, CA, June 8, 2021 – Rollbar, the Continuous Code Improvement Platform, today announced that it has already achieved a record-breaking first half that included the addition of new customers, partnerships, programming languages, and its best ever usage numbers. This is the result of the continuous and ongoing improvements to Rollbar’s AI and machine learning tools via its automation-grade grouping features that help customers separate out the noise of irrelevant error alerts to transform their DevOps approaches at scale.

    “Going into the pandemic, we knew that businesses were going to take a hard look at their spend and only keep essential services. So, we made it our business to be essential,” said Rollbar CEO and Co-founder Brian Rue. “We redoubled our commitment to our customers and took an all-hands approach to making our platform better to fulfill our vision of painless development through continuous code improvement. The accelerating growth we’ve seen is a result of our team’s excellent work.”

    A Constellation of Small Feature Releases Make a Big Impact

     Rollbar used the first half of 2021 to expand its presence across multiple languages and frameworks, and to strengthen its presence within the mobile space for both Android and Apple. The company also made a number of improvements to its Continuous Code Improvement Platform that will enable more Rollbar clients to automate development workflows and responses to code issues. For example, the company:

    • Improved the grouping accuracy of its automation-grade grouping, adding more than 3,000 identified error types and patterns across six languages (Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP and C#) into its grouping engine. All machined-identified error types and patterns are tested and validated by Rollbar’s intelligence team before being pushed into production.
    • Launched new Flutter SDK.
    • Launched a new Apple SDK that supports tvOS and watchOS (in addition to iOS and macOS) and will automatically support any new OS.
    • Released local variable support for Node.js to help developers debug faster and more easily with enhanced trace data.
    • Added telemetry support for both Node.js and Go to help developers find the root cause of errors faster with critical information on user behavior, network activity, and more.
    • Released HashiCorp Terraform Verified Provider for Rollbar (built in partnership with HashiCorp), so organizations can provision and manage Rollbar accounts automatically through Terraform, the most widely used multi-cloud provisioning product.
    • Launched a new integration with GitHub Enterprise, so developers can access critical contextual information and debug faster directly within the Rollbar UI.

    Company Growth Speaks to the Success of the Continuous Code Improvement Approach

    Continuous code improvement is about giving developers more time to spend writing new code by decreasing the amount of time they need to spend finding and fixing errors. Rollbar’s recent usage growth illustrates that more and more companies are seeing the value in this approach. In the first half of 2021, the company:

    • Saw a 70% YoY increase in the number of errors processed daily, which speaks to the new customers the company has attracted and existing customers using Rollbar software across mission-critical applications.
    • Recorded a consistently high net promoter score (NPS). Rollbar’s NPS was 43.2 in Q1 and 44.9 in Q2—well above the SaaS industry average of 31.
    • Added several new banner customers, including leading health and wellness brand Plexus Worldwide.
    • Surpassed the 1 billion unique bug benchmark, meaning that Rollbar customers have now caught more than 1 billion unique bugs.

    “Unlike our competitors, we believe that hardcoded algorithms cannot adapt to the diversity of errors and group them accurately, so we decided to use machine learning to identify patterns in stack traces. Our grouping engine treats each error differently, supported by modern AI technologies, and trained on billions of stack traces,” explained Arpad Tamasi, Rollbar principal product manager. “We work constantly to scale and refine the training process to increase grouping accuracy. I’m excited about what we’re achieving, and how much it benefits our clients.”

    “Before Rollbar, we only had Loggly and New Relic, so we had to jump through hoops to see what the customer was experiencing. That led to substantial time spent looking through proxy logs and error captures. With Rollbar, we have so much more visibility,” said Ethan Salisbury, principal software engineer at Plexus Worldwide.

    Mark George, director of software development at Plexus Worldwide, added some additional context: “Our cost savings thanks to Rollbar are well north of $100,000, potentially $250,000, because of how much it used to cost us to track down issues.”

    Rollbar has helped more than 5,000 customers process more than 100 billion errors – resulting in a 9x increase in releases per year. The Continuous Code Improvement Platform has been a game changer for Rollbar customers. With Rollbar, customers are able to resolve errors within minutes, significantly increasing team productivity. Rollbar enables developers to spend less time monitoring, investigating and debugging, and more time creating new products and features that will delight their customers.

    To get free access to Rollbar forever, click here.

    About Rollbar

    Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that enables developers to proactively discover and resolve issues in their code. Rollbar integrates with a development team’s existing toolchain to give greater coverage and insights into broken code, across the software lifecycle. With Rollbar, developers focus on deploying better software faster, knowing they can quickly recover from critical errors as they happen. Thousands of companies, including Twilio, Salesforce, Twitch, and Duolingo, use Rollbar for their most critical applications, ensuring happier customers and more productive development teams. Learn more at https://rollbar.com/ or follow us @Rollbar.

  • Zenoti Receives $80 Million Investment from TPG to Further Revolutionize the Beauty, Wellness, and Fitness Industries

    The investment comes less than six months after Zenoti’s Series D funding round; Company plans to dedicate $200 million towards growth and M&A

    Bellevue, WA, June 07, 2021 — Zenoti, a leading enterprise cloud platform for the beauty, wellness, and fitness industries, announced today it has raised an additional $80 million as an extension to its Series D funding round. The additional investment was led by TPG, a global alternative asset firm that has invested in leading technology companies such as Airbnb, Kajabi, Toast, and Uber. The investment increases Zenoti’s valuation to almost $1.5 billion.

    Powering more than 12,000 businesses in over 50 countries, Zenoti is a leading software for salon and spa businesses. The company has recently expanded into the fitness industry through partnerships with CorePower Yoga and other fitness leaders. Zenoti’s touchless and mobile solutions serve all aspects of consumer engagement, allowing for easy appointment scheduling, self-check-ins, automatic payments, and more.

    “We are privileged to have the trust, confidence and support of TPG as we continue our growth journey,” said Sudheer Koneru, CEO and Founder at Zenoti. “Zenoti remains committed to helping beauty, wellness, and fitness businesses reach their full potential and set the standard for the customer experience.”

    The additional investment builds on a time of significant momentum for Zenoti, having achieved 100 percent year-over-year growth in 2020. The additional capital will enable the company to continue to expand its platform through forthcoming M&A, while also providing some liquidity to its employees for their commitment and hard work to the organization over the last decade.

    “Zenoti has created the go-to cloud-based platform for leading beauty and wellness brands looking to grow their businesses and create better experiences for their customers,” said Arun Agarwal, Managing Director at TPG. “As consumers across the globe continue to prioritize self-care, we believe the company is well-positioned for strong growth.”

    The Zenoti leadership team’s firsthand experience with industry challenges, combined with their deep fluency in enterprise software, has resulted in a powerful, cloud-based solution engineered for reliability and scale that harnesses the power of enterprise-level technology for the benefit of beauty and wellness businesses of all sizes. Zenoti is proud to serve the growing needs of the industry and support a successful portfolio of global brands including European Wax Center, Hand & Stone, Massage Heights, Rush Hair & Beauty, Sono Bello, Hair Cuttery, Profile by Sanford and, most recently, Toni&Guy.

    To learn more about Zenoti visit https://www.zenoti.com.

    About Zenoti
    Zenoti provides an all-in-one, cloud-based software solution for the beauty, wellness, and fitness industries. The Zenoti platform is engineered for reliability and scale, harnessing the power of enterprise-level technology for businesses of all sizes.

    Zenoti powers thousands of spas and salons in more than 50 countries. Zenoti allows users to seamlessly manage every aspect of the business in a comprehensive mobile solution: online appointment bookings, POS, CRM, employee management, inventory management, built-in marketing programs and more. Zenoti helps clients streamline their systems and reduce costs, while simultaneously improving customer retention and spending. To learn more about Zenoti visit us online at https://www.zenoti.com.

    About TPG
    TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with more than $91 billion of assets under management and offices in Beijing, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, and Washington D.C. TPG’s investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, impact investing, real estate, secondaries, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio. For more information, visit http://www.tpg.com or @TPG on Twitter.

  • PagerDuty and JFrog Announce Integrations for DevOps and Security Lifecycle

    New integrations provide customers with faster incident resolution, improving uptime, enhancing customer experience and driving revenue generation.

    San Francisco, CA, June 8, 2021 — PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD), a global leader in digital operations management, today announced new integrations with JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG), the liquid software company. The integrations with JFrog Xray and JFrog Pipelines – both part of the JFrog DevOps Platform – allow customers to observe their entire software delivery lifecycle, understanding any changes, and identifying security issues throughout the process. This end-to-end DevOps solution includes DevSecOps, DevOps Observability and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Monitoring for on-prem hybrid and Multi-Cloud deployments.

    “Traditionally, information security was a bottleneck in software delivery,” said Timm Hoyt, global vice president of partners & alliances at PagerDuty. “This new integration will not only help remove this bottleneck but help organizations thrive when resolving incidents. We’re proud to partner with JFrog and provide a solution that helps teams manage urgent, mission critical work that is essential to keeping digital services always on.”

    With the JFrog Xray-PagerDuty integration, DevSecOps teams can receive PagerDuty notifications for open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance violations detected by Xray’s continuous scanning of packages and container images to quickly fix the issues. PagerDuty can then turn any security or license policy alert into an incident report. This is useful to proactively manage security and compliance across the software development and release lifecycle, customize notifications, and receive a continuously updated list of impacted components and their associated dependencies.

    With JFrog Pipelines and PagerDuty, users can simplify and streamline how to identify faulty builds that impact production environments. IT operators can quickly detect incidents, determine root causes, roll back builds and shrink resolution time. This helps IT operators and developers become more productive, determine what has changed within their environment, and makes them better able to prevent outages and increase the uptime, stability and reliability of business-critical applications and digital services.

    “We are excited to partner with PagerDuty. The integration of our leading solutions — the end-to-end, universal DevOps Platform from JFrog, and PagerDuty’s digital operations management capabilities — enable DevOps teams with powerful observability and incident management throughout the DevOps lifecycle,” said Steve Chin, Vice President of Developer Relations, JFrog.

    To learn more about the integration of JFrog and PagerDuty products, register for PagerDuty Summit from June 22-25, 2021 and tune in for the session “The Power of AIOps” by Mitra Goswami.

    About PagerDuty, Inc. 

    PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. In an always-on world, organizations of all sizes trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time. Teams use PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them in the future. Notable customers include GE, Cisco, Genentech, Electronic Arts, Cox Automotive, Netflix, Shopify, Zoom, DoorDash, Lululemon and more. To learn more and try PagerDuty for free, visit www.pagerduty.com. Follow our blog and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.

    About JFrog

    JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG) is on a “Liquid Software” mission to enable the flow of software updates seamlessly and securely from the developer’s keystrokes to production. JFrog’s end-to-end, Universal, Hybrid DevOps Platform provides the tools and visibility required by modern software development organizations to fully embrace the power of DevOps. JFrog’s Platform is available as open-source, self-managed, and SaaS services (with free tier) on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. JFrog is trusted by millions of developers and thousands of customers, including the majority of the Fortune 100 companies that depend on JFrog solutions to manage their DevOps pipelines. Learn more at jfrog.com.