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  • Armory Launches Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service Product

    Service allows developers to focus on building code rather than deploying it

    San Mateo, CA, June 16, 2022 – Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company empowering development teams to easily, reliably, safely and continuously deploy software at any scale, has announced general availability of Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service. The product delivers declarative deployments across multiple environments that support advanced progressive strategies, allowing developers to focus on building great code rather than deploying it, enhancing their customers’ experience and avoiding outages.

    “Our goal is to give companies a solution that’s simple to use but will grow with them as complexity increases,” said Jim Douglas, Armory president and CEO. “The new product enables development teams to confidently deploy their software every time without worrying about reliability and security.”

    Operational downtime can result in hundreds of thousands of lost revenue for many companies. Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service prevents this type of loss, both as a standalone product for cloud-first companies and as an extension of a leading Continuous Delivery (CD) solution — Spinnaker™. Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service provides easy-to-use, environment-specific controls and advanced deployment strategies such as blue/green and canary to specify how much traffic is exposed to new changes and when to automatically roll back if needed.

    This enables development teams to automatically and continuously verify a service is healthy before routing all traffic to the new version, limiting risk exposure, avoiding outages and protecting the customer experience.

    Upwave, a marketing analytics company, has embraced Armory’s new product. Previously, Upwave leaders said CD solutions were too cost-prohibitive and too heavy-weight for the relatively small company but decided to implement the new Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service because of its scalability. Upwave has since enabled continuous deployment and increased to over 100 deployments per week with a mean lead time of less than 20 minutes.

    “The main benefit is that we have converged on a simpler model of continuous integration/continuous deployment, enabling us to do more. It’s easier, it’s simpler, and we have more functionality,” said Christopher Baldwin, chief architect, Upwave. “Simply put, it raises the bar for quality across our engineering organization as a whole. Isn’t that part of the software development dream?”

    You can sign up for Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service here.

    About Armory

    Armory makes continuous deployment achievable and effortless, at any scale, for all developers. Easy-to-use continuous deployment solutions eliminate the need to migrate away from existing tools and minimize disruptions to an existing software delivery lifecycle. Developers can easily and confidently deploy updates that improve and protect their customer experience.

    Founded in 2016, Armory is funded by B Capital, Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Mango Capital, Y Combinator, and Javelin Venture Partners. Learn more at www.armory.io.

  • ShiftLeft Announces Strategic Investment from and Go-to-Market Partnership with Wipro

    Funding from Wipro Ventures is part of a go-to-market partnership to drive ShiftLeft into new markets and verticals

    Santa Clara, CA, June 16, 2022 — ShiftLeft, an innovator in automated application security testing, announced an investment from and go-to-market partnership with Wipro Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO). With this investment, Wipro, with its strong global presence, will become a key partner in ShiftLeft’s continued growth.

    The ShiftLeft CORE platform combines both static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) solutions to create a unified view of potential application vulnerabilities. As a modern, cloud-native application built to make both application security and development teams’ lives easier, ShiftLeft scans whole applications in minutes, allowing customers to scan their code with every software release. ShiftLeft’s unique Code Graph technology combines, analyzes and prioritizes SAST and SCA results to map actual data flows through applications to validate “attackability” — indicating whether security flaws can be reached by attackers. This innovative approach gives ShiftLeft the lowest false positive rate in the industry compared to other accepted OWASP application security benchmarks.

    “Wipro has repeatedly demonstrated that it is a leader when it comes to bringing new technological innovations to customers,” said Manish Gupta, CEO, ShiftLeft. “Equally important, Wipro is a ‘shift left’ organization leading the way in empowering developers to improve code security throughout the software development cycle. ”ShiftLeft makes it intuitive for Wipro’s hundreds of Cybersecurists and tens of thousands of software developers to build security into the DNA of every software release. With this new partnership with Wipro, customers from various sectors, including healthcare, industrials, manufacturing, retail, hospitality and government, will be able to deploy and operate ShiftLeft.

    “ShiftLeft is a cutting-edge solution that enables teams to integrate security at scale without slowing them down,” said Tony Buffomante, SVP and Global Head, Wipro Cybersecurity & Risk. “Our global clientele will now be able to take advantage of ShiftLeft SAST and SCA and help them remediate code flaws before they become attackable. We are looking forward to playing a significant role in ShiftLeft’s rapid global expansion.”

    About Wipro Limited

    Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 240,000 employees and business partners across 66 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

    About ShiftLeft

    ShiftLeft empowers developers and AppSec teams to dramatically reduce risk by quickly finding and fixing the vulnerabilities most likely to reach their applications and ignoring reported vulnerabilities that pose little risk. Industry-leading accuracy allows developers to focus on security fixes that matter and improve code velocity while enabling AppSec engineers to shift security left. A unified code security platform, ShiftLeft CORE scans for attack context across APIs, OSS, internal microservices, and first-party business logic by combining results of the company’s and Intelligent Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Using its unique graph database that combines code attributes and analyzes actual attack paths based on real application architecture, ShiftLeft then provides detailed guidance on risk remediation within existing development workflows and tooling. Teams that use ShiftLeft ship more secure code, faster. Backed by SYN Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Blackstone, Mayfield, Thomvest Ventures, and SineWave Ventures, ShiftLeft is based in Santa Clara, California.

  • Ahana Announces Additional $7.2 Million Funding Led by Liberty Global Ventures and Debuts Free Community Edition of Ahana Cloud for Presto for the Open Data Lakehouse

    Only SaaS for Presto now available for free with Ahana Community Edition; Additional capital raise validates growth of the Open Data Lakehouse market

    San Mateo, CA, June 16, 2022 — Ahana, the only Software as a Service for Presto, today announced an additional investment of $7.2 million from Liberty Global Ventures with participation from existing investor GV, extending the company’s Series A financing to $27.2 million. Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications services. This brings the total amount of funding raised to date to $32 million. Ankur Prakash, Partner, Liberty Global Ventures, will join the Ahana Board of Directors as a board observer. Ahana will use the funding to continue to grow its technical team and product development; evangelize the Presto community; and develop go-to-market programs to meet customer demand.

    Ahana also announced today Ahana Cloud for Presto Community Edition, designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine, for the Open Data Lakehouse. Ahana Community Edition is immediately available to everyone, including users of the 100,000+ downloads of Ahana’s PrestoDB Sandbox on DockerHub. It provides simple, distributed Presto cluster provisioning and tuned out-of-the-box configurations, bringing the power of Presto to data teams of all sizes for free. Instead of downloading and installing open source Presto software, data teams can quickly learn about Presto and deploy initial SQL data lakehouse use cases in the cloud. Community Edition users can easily upgrade to the full version of Ahana Cloud for Presto, which adds increased security including integration with Apache Ranger and AWS Lake Formation, price-performance benefits including multi-level caching, and enterprise-level support.

    “Over the past year we’ve focused on bringing the easiest managed service for Presto to market, and today we’re thrilled to announce a forever-free community edition to drive more adoption of Presto across the broader open source user community. Our belief in Presto as the best SQL query engine for the Open Data Lakehouse is underscored by our new relationship with Liberty Global,” said Steven Mih, Cofounder and CEO, Ahana. “With the Community Edition, data platform teams get unlimited production use of Presto at a good amount of scale for lightning-fast insights on their data.”

    “Today we’re seeing more companies embrace cloud-based technologies to deliver superior customer experiences. An underlying architectural pattern is the leveraging of an Open Data Lakehouse, a more flexible stack that solves for the high costs, lock-in, and limitations of the traditional data warehouse,” said Ankur Prakash, Partner, Liberty Global Ventures. “Ahana has innovated to address these challenges with its industry-leading approach to bring the most high-performing, cost-effective SQL query engine to data platforms teams. Our investment in Ahana reflects our commitment to drive more value for businesses, specifically in the next evolution of the data warehouse to Open Data Lakehouses.”

    Details of Ahana Cloud for Presto Community Edition, include:

    • Free to use, forever
    • Use of Presto in an Open Data Lakehouse with open file formats like Apache Parquet and advanced lake data management like Apache Hudi
    • A single Presto cluster with all supported instance types except Graviton
    • Pre-configured integrations to multiple data sources including the Hive Metastore for Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon Redshift
    • Community support through public Ahana Community Slack channel plus a free 45 minute onboarding session with an Ahana Presto engineer
    • Seamless upgrade to the full version which includes enterprise features like data access control, autoscaling, multi-level caching, and SLA-based support

    “Enterprises continue to embrace ‘lake house’ platforms that apply SQL structures and querying capabilities to cloud-native object stores,” said Kevin Petrie, VP of Research, Eckerson Group. “Ahana’s new Community Edition for Presto offers a SQL query engine that can help advance market adoption of the lake house.”

    Supporting Resources:

    Get Started with the Ahana Community Edition

    Join the Ahana Community Slack Channel

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    About Ahana

    Ahana is the only SaaS for Presto on AWS with the vision to be the SQL engine for the Open Data Lakehouse. Presto, the open source project created by Meta and used at Uber, Twitter and thousands more, is the de facto standard for fast SQL processing on data lakes. Ahana Cloud delivers the easiest Presto SaaS and enables data platform teams to provide high performance SQL analytics on their S3 data lakes and other data sources. As a leading member of the Presto community and Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation, Ahana is also focused on fostering growth and evangelizing open source Presto. Founded in 2020, Ahana is headquartered in San Mateo, CA and operates as an all-remote company. Investors include GV, Leslie Ventures, Lux Capital, Third Point Ventures, and Liberty Global Ventures. Follow Ahana on LinkedIn, Twitter and Presto Slack.

  • Indoor Robotics Raises $15 Million in Series A to Revolutionize Building Monitoring and Security Practices

    Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, June 15, 2022 – Indoor Robotics, an indoor drone technology company that recently launched Tando™ drone, announced the closing of a $15 million in series A funding. The round of funding was led by Pitango and included Target Global, European Innovation Council Fund, and Spider Capital. This round enables Indoor Robotics to boost product development and enable intelligent indoor security worldwide.

    Developing an autonomous indoor security robot has challenged robotics designers for years. While some ground-based robots are commercially available, ordinary items like a chair or a step can prevent them from fully securing an area. Indoor Robotics’ Tando™ uses multiple sensors and proprietary algorithms to accurately map and navigate in any indoor space, allowing it to autonomously navigate above or around any items in its path, enabling it to secure and monitor large areas.

    “We reimagined what a drone was capable of and combined human-like capabilities with AI tools to enable next-generation security and monitoring,” said Doron Ben David, co-founder, and CEO of Indoor Robotics. “Tando has already been deployed by the world’s leading enterprises and security monitoring companies and is making a tangible impact on safety and security.”

    Tando™ docks on the ceiling and functions as a security camera when not in flight. In addition to office buildings, it is currently being used to secure and monitor warehouses, data centers, malls, and retail establishments by well-known enterprises.

    These funds will enable Indoor Robotics to move into full production and develop its go-to-market strategy. “We seized the opportunity to increase our investment in Indoor Robotics following the successful launch of Tando™ and the team’s demonstrated ability to surpass critical milestones,” said Rami Kalish, managing partner at Pitango. “Indoor Robotics’ proven capabilities have generated exciting demand from the market, which the investors are excited to facilitate.”

    In addition to security functions, Tando™ drives significant safety and operational improvements. It is capable of collecting thermal imaging data and environmental data, as well as recording temperatures of rooms and identifying leaks. It also enables preventive maintenance, identifying areas in buildings that require care.

    Doron Ben David and Amit Moran founded Indoor Robotics in 2018. Ben David had left his role as CTO of Israel Aerospace Industries’ Space Division when he began to collaborate with Moran, former Head of Robotics Innovation at Intel. They set their attention to drones, looking for areas where they could outperform human beings. They recognized that drones were ideal for security, an industry that suffers from 300% employee turnover, is vulnerable to fatigue and human error, and pays minimum wage to guards tasked with protecting valuable assets.

    The drone fits in line with the company’s mission to boost the quality of life by enabling a seamless, comfortable indoor experience through task-oriented robots.

  • InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Edge Data Replication

    New capabilities combine the power of cloud with the precision of the IoT edge to optimize time series data processing

    San Francisco, CA, June 15, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced Edge Data Replication, a new capability for centralized business insights in widely distributed environments. Edge Data Replication enables developers to collect, store and analyze high-precision time series data in InfluxDB at the edge, while replicating all or subsets of this data into InfluxDB Cloud. With Edge Data Replication, InfluxData delivers on both platform breadth and simplicity, scaling time series data processing in a new way that embraces the precision of the edge and the power of the cloud.

    Modern applications are highly distributed across architectures and produce enormous volumes of time series data at the edge. Effectively managing the data in these applications and associated assets is a time-consuming, resource-intensive process, and developers often don’t have the capabilities or budgets to manage hundreds or thousands of data pipelines. InfluxDB Edge Data Replication changes the way developers and operators process time series data across distributed environments using a new edge database configuration that durably queues and mirrors select datasets to the cloud. The availability of Edge Data Replication marks a critical first step in InfluxData’s journey to solve key time series data integration and orchestration challenges for customers building distributed Industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) applications in energy, manufacturing, aerospace, and other high-tech industries.

    “Data has gravity, and much of it is created far from clouds and data centers. This pulls applications out to the edge, where the data is born and produces its greatest value. Unfortunately, most databases don’t acknowledge or respect these emerging hybrid edge-cloud environments,” said Rick Spencer, Vice President of Products, InfluxData. “Edge Data Replication sets a new benchmark for time series platforms by combining the power of cloud with the precision of the edge – a best of both worlds solution that’s key to tomorrow’s distributed applications.”

    According to Gartner®, “Enterprises are now employing machine learning models and computing at the edge in order to preprocess data rather than just migrating data to the cloud. Rather than one-way archiving, early adopters are doing multidirectional synchronization of data between edge, core data center and public cloud. Two-way synchronization allows enterprises to make use of the elastic nature of the compute infrastructure found among cloud service providers. Furthermore, with the upcoming expansion of edge computing, there will be a growing need for solutions that enable data workflow among edge, storage and multiple public cloud providers.”

    Unlock Centralized Business Insights with Edge Data Replication

    InfluxData’s Edge Data Replication creates a new and intuitive experience for developers building at the edge by allowing data from an InfluxDB instance to automatically replicate to InfluxDB Cloud with a simple configuration setting. By leveraging Edge Data Replication in tandem with the full power of the InfluxDB platform, including Flux, InfluxDB’s native data scripting language, users can: Integrate edge and cloud DataOps: Connect edge and cloud workloads to automatically mirror data from InfluxDB edge sources to InfluxDB Cloud instances in real-time.

    • Reduce cloud ingress and egress costs: Filter and aggregate data intelligently from InfluxDB at the edge before replicating it to InfluxDB Cloud. Downsampling data with Edge Data Replication delivers faster processing and reduced transfer costs.
    • Transform data before transfer: Dynamically add context to edge data that is needed for processing in the cloud. Cloud processing may require extra dimensions to query on or feature engineering.
    • Enforce edge/cloud consistency: Withstand planned and unplanned disruptions in network connectivity by queueing data at the edge until it can be safely transferred to the cloud.
    • Full data workflow at the edge: Full support for applications at the edge by enabling data preprocessing close to the data sources.

    “Loft Orbital’s mission is to deliver space infrastructure as a service to give our customers rapid access to space,” said Caleb MacLachlan, Head of Software Integration, Loft Orbital. “Our network edge extends onto our spacecraft in low Earth orbit, requiring real-time access to highly distributed mission-critical data. With Edge Data Replication, it’s easier than ever for us to centralize our time series data while ensuring we don’t lose data from edge storage locations.”

    “Every year there are 10 times more IoT edge devices deployed. Developers know that expectations for consistency, efficiency, and reliability are growing at a similar rate,” said Rick Spencer, InfluxData. “With this kind of scale, IoT developers need excellence in local operations, taking advantage of granular data for real-time insights and control, while also having a centralized view across all of the edge operations, sometimes at an enormous scale. The combination of Edge Data Replication, InfluxDB at the edge, and InfluxDB Cloud makes building such IoT applications not only possible, but also incredibly simple.”

    Edge Data Replication is available immediately for InfluxDB users. For more information to get started, visit the InfluxData website.

    Gartner, “Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud Storage,” Julia Palmer, Raj Bala, 3 May 2021. 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 InfluxData

    InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading time series platform. We empower developers and organizations, such as Cisco, IBM, Siemens and Tesla, to build real-time IoT, analytics and cloud applications with time-stamped data. Our technology is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes of data produced by sensors, systems or applications that change over time. Easy to start and scale, InfluxDB gives developers time to focus on the features and functionalities that give their apps a competitive edge. InfluxData is headquartered in San Francisco, with a workforce distributed worldwide. For more information, visit www.influxdata.com.

  • Rockset Adds Snowflake Connector for Real-time Analytics Across Streaming and Historical Data

    New integration gives developers highly efficient sub-second search, aggregations and joins across real-time and historical data.

    San Mateo, CA, June 15, 2022 — Rockset, the Real-time Analytics Platform Built for the Cloud, today announced a new Snowflake connector which enables low-latency, high-concurrency analytics across streaming data from sources such as Apache Kafka, Amazon DynamoDB or MongoDB and historical data from Snowflake.

    Data warehouses like Snowflake are used by analysts and data scientists to store and analyze historical business data, often at petabyte-scale, with data loaded in infrequent batches to save costs. In contrast, developers use real-time analytics platforms like Rockset to combine historical data from Snowflake with real-time event streams from sources like Apache Kafka, and serve user-facing applications and operational analytics use cases.

    Rockset efficiently organizes data in a Converged Index™, which is optimized for real-time data ingestion and low-latency analytical queries. Rockset’s ingest rollups enable developers to pre-aggregate real-time data using SQL, without the need for complex real-time data pipelines. As a result, customers can reduce the cost of storing and querying real-time data by 10-100x. In addition, Rockset is built for the cloud, with independently scaling compute and storage to maximize resource efficiency without any operational overhead.

    “The world is moving from static dashboards to real-time, interactive user-facing analytics such as customer recommendations, logistics tracking, and risk analytics, which demand efficient performance,” said Venkat Venkataramani, CEO and co-founder at Rockset. “Rockset’s integration with Snowflake enables users to search, aggregate and join historical data with real-time event streams, to power sub-second queries. Another common usage pattern is to build and train your machine learning model on historical data in Snowflake, and use Rockset to provide real-time features and signals during model serving.”

    This release enables organizations using Snowflake to:

    • Search, aggregate and join data across historical data from Snowflake and real-time event streams or change data capture streams from Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server and more.

    • Use Rockset’s Converged Index for achieving better performance at lower costs, enabling low-latency, high-concurrency queries to serve user-facing analytics on historical data from Snowflake.

    • Use Rockset for real-time model serving as part of the machine learning pipeline with Snowflake.

    Rockset has an extensive library of data connectors for schemaless ingestion from existing event streams, databases and lakes and stays in sync with the data source, enabling fast analytics within 1-2 seconds of new data being generated. Built by the team behind the online data infrastructure that powers Facebook Newsfeed and Search, Rockset is inspired by the same indexing systems that power real-time analytics at cloud scale.

    To learn more about Rockset’s latest integration, visit Rockset booth #1113a at the Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas, see Rockset’s Snowflake documentation, or schedule a demo at https://rockset.com/.

    Supporting Resources

    About Rockset

    Rockset, the Real-time Analytics Platform Built for the Cloud, delivers fast analytics on real-time data with surprising efficiency. Search, join and aggregate any data at scale with sub-second responses. Scale efficiently with Rockset’s cloud-native converged indexing and built-in connectors. Build data apps in weeks, not months, regardless of the shape of your data. For more information, go to rockset.com.

  • Zebrium Launches Root Cause as a Service Enabling Popular Observability Tools to Automatically Find the Root Cause of Software Problems and Outages

    RCaaS Slashes Mean-Time-to-Resolve by 90 percent and has a validated accuracy rate of over 95 percent

    Santa Clara, CA – June 15, 2022 – Zebrium, the leader in the use of machine learning to automatically find the root cause of software problems, today announced that it has launched Zebrium Root Cause as a Service (RCaaS), a new solution that adds the capability for monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Elastic, Dynatrace, Grafana, AppDynamics, ScienceLogic, and others to automatically find the root cause of software and infrastructure incidents. 

    When an incident with production software occurs, Zebrium RCaaS automatically finds the root cause and presents a summary of the problem directly on existing monitoring dashboards, alongside other charts showing metrics, traces and APM data. This allows Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), DevOps personnel and developers to reduce the Mean-Time-to-Resolve (MTTR) software or infrastructure problems by 90 percent. 

    Today, when technical teams encounter a new service outage or problem, they typically rely on observability tools to facilitate the troubleshooting process. Without Zebrium, this involves looking at metrics to determine “when” the problem started, drilling-down on traces or APM data to narrow down the source of the problem (the “where”), and finally combing through large volumes of logs from the application and infrastructure stack to determine the root cause (the “why”). This process can take many hours and requires extensive team resources while critical services remain impacted. Now with Zebrium RCaaS, the painstaking process of digging through logs is automated. The end-result is that RCaaS quickly uncovers the root cause indicators that technical teams would have eventually found by manually combing through logs. 

    RCaaS has a validated accuracy rate of finding the correct root cause in over 95% of incidents. “The Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) spends thousands of hours each month analyzing software logs to find the root cause of customer incidents,” said Koree Mires, Director, Global TAC Innovation, Automation and Disruption at Cisco Systems.  “We had been investigating ways to help automate this process for many years. When we came across Zebrium, we were immediately impressed. In order to validate its effectiveness, we tested RCaaS with four product lines and 192 actual customer incidents. We were astonished to find that RCaaS correctly found the root cause automatically over 95 percent of the time. We are now leveraging the technology to speed-up customer incident resolution and will continue rolling it out to more product lines throughout the year.”

    Zebrium RCaaS is designed to make the details of root cause available in the same tools and workflows that SREs, Devops engineers and developers are already using. RCaaS has complete “out-of-the-box” integrations with popular observability and monitoring tools, including Datadog, New Relic, Elastic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, ScienceLogic and others. It also natively integrates with incident management and response platforms including PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Victorops, Slack, Teams and email systems. Additional 3rd party tools can also easily be integrated through a set of open-APIs.

    “The cost of downtime keeps rising, and throwing engineers at the problem is not a scalable solution,” said Ajay Singh, CEO, Zebrium. “Since speed and accuracy are essential when software teams need to resolve application incidents, the only way forward is an automated approach to Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Zebrium RCaaS is a proven way to do this. Since our platform does not require any manual training or rules, customers can get started in just a few minutes, and leverage RCaaS almost any kind of observability tool already in place.”

    Zebrium RCaaS is now available for purchase directly from Zebrium or in the Datadog and AWS marketplaces. For more information or to sign-up for a free trial, visit https://www.zebrium.com. 

    Supporting quotes from Zebrium partners:

    Alex Vetras, Senior Product Manager at Datadog.

    “We are thrilled to have Zebrium as a Marketplace partner. Zebrium’s native Datadog app helps organizations identify the root cause behind outages by analyzing ingested logs to detect anomalies. Together with Datadog’s Watchdog capabilities, DevOps and SRE teams can now be notified of what went wrong and why, automatically.”

    Peter Pezaris, SVP, Strategy and User Experience at New Relic:

    “Application issues are frequently discovered in production and require all hands on deck to triage and resolve the problem. When an outage occurs, engineers also need to be able to get to the root cause of why, when, and where the service failed in order to prevent future incidents. With the Zebrium quickstart for New Relic, we’re providing our customers with a valuable tool that helps them avoid manually searching for root cause indicators in logs, and surfaces the root cause right in their New Relic dashboard. This helps engineers reduce their MTTR and find the root cause of software incidents faster.”

    Erik Rudin, Vice President of Technical Alliances and Ecosystems at ScienceLogic:

    “The Zebrium integration for ScienceLogic complements our AIOps and monitoring platform by automatically finding the root cause of incidents that would otherwise require manual log analysis.”

  • CyberGRX and Google Cloud Collaborate to Enhance Cloud Customers’ Third-Party Risk Management and Accelerate Digitization

    Google Cloud to satisfy risk and procurement needs across wide customer base and deliver a more efficient onboarding process

    Denver, CO, June 07, 2022 – CyberGRX, provider of the world’s first and largest global cyber risk exchange, today announced a joint collaboration with Google Cloud to enable Google Cloud customers’ and prospects’ risk management and regulatory compliance needs. Google Cloud customers can leverage CyberGRX’s third-party validated cyber risk assessment to gain in-depth access to Google Cloud’s risk profile, which details compliance with industry standards and security protocols built into its infrastructure.

    As more organizations undergo digital transformation initiatives and migrate to the cloud, business critical workloads are entrusted to cloud service providers such as Google Cloud. In an effort to help customers and prospects better understand and manage the risks associated with outsourcing business critical workloads, Google Cloud is collaborating with CyberGRX to provide transparency into its security posture and support customers on their third-party cyber risk management journeys. As a result, current or prospective customers of Google Cloud can easily request and immediately access validated risk profiles of Google Cloud on the CyberGRX Exchange. This will be the fourth consecutive year of CyberGRX performing independent validation of Google Cloud Services.

    “Our collaboration with CyberGRX is yet another way Google Cloud demonstrates its commitment to be the industry’s most trusted cloud provider,” said Rani Urbas, Global Head of Enterprise Trust at Google Cloud.  “CyberGRX’s platform provides an effective and flexible solution for helping organizations meet their due diligence, risk management, and regulatory compliance needs.”

    The CyberGRX platform produces standardized and actionable data that goes well beyond the results of traditional security assessments. CyberGRX takes into account inherent risk, industry-specific threat intelligence, real-world attack scenarios. This gives Google Cloud customers an ability to validate Google’s posture with outside-in evidence in order to generate results that are focused on risk, as opposed to simple compliance.  Both customers and third parties, such as cloud providers, benefit from the CyberGRX Exchange model. CyberGRX eases the assessment burden placed on third parties, as well as provides comprehensive cyber risk data to both customers and their third parties.

    “Historically, organizations have approached third-party risk management with outdated methods that include static spreadsheets and bespoke assessments. While waiting for assessments that may never be returned, companies are still vulnerable. And, even when these assessments are collected, the data is not standardized, meaning that little can be done with it from an analysis perspective,” said Fred Kneip, CEO, CyberGRX. “Through our collaboration with Google Cloud, we are able to propel organizations away from risk assessment chasing to gaining immediate insight into diverse analytics and cyber risk data that can be mapped against common and customized frameworks.”

    To learn more about CyberGRX, please visit https://www.cybergrx.com/

    About Google Cloud

    Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

    About CyberGRX

    CyberGRX standardizes vendor risk management, making it possible to achieve insights, prioritize risks and make smarter decisions across your third-party ecosystem. Driven by sophisticated data analytics and automation, real-world attack scenarios, and real-time threat intelligence, CyberGRX provides customers complete and ongoing analysis of their vendor portfolio. Third parties can understand and regain control of their cyber risk by proactively utilizing the CyberGRX Exchange to complete and share a single assessment with multiple upstream partners. Based in Denver, CO, CyberGRX was designed with partners including Aetna, Blackstone and MassMutual. For more information: https://www.cybergrx.com/

  • CD Foundation Announces State of CD in 2022 Report, Opens Third Annual cdCon with New Project CDEvents, New Members

    CD Foundation veteran Fatih Degirmenci joins as General Manager

    San Francisco, June 7, 2022 – The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced its State of CD Report in 2022, a new project called CDEvents building a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data, new members, and more. The announcement comes at the start of CDF’s third annual cdCon (June 7-8, 2022). cdCon 2022 is being run as a hybrid event from Austin, TX.

    State of CD Report in 2022

    A key function of CDF is providing vendor-neutral data on key DevOps and development metrics showing where continuous delivery stands in 2022 and beyond. The Continuous Delivery Report Series started last year; this is the third report in the series.

    Key findings include:

    • As of Q1 2022, less than a quarter (23%) of developers are not involved in any DevOps-related activities, indicating continued growth in the adoption of practices that increase an organization’s ability to deliver software at high velocity.

    • 47% of developers use either continuous integration or deployment but only one in five use both continuous integration and deployment approaches to automate all building, testing, and deployment of code to production.

    • There is an increase in DevOps adoption in every development sector. Mobile app development has now even leapfrogged desktop development, such is its shift in embracing DevOps approaches.

    The full report is available for free: View the Report (PDF)

    New Project CDEvents Hosted by CD Foundation

    CDF recently announced it is hosting the CDEvents project, a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data to provide interoperability across services, platforms and systems. Today’s CI/CD systems do not talk to each other in a standardized way. Defining a standard set of specifications is critical in solving the interoperability issues across the continuous delivery (CD) ecosystem. Having a common format for events in the CD space will enable an ecosystem of tools to collect, store, visualize and analyze events across CD platforms. This will cover use cases like measuring DevOps metrics and performance and visualizing end-to-end workflows, from the initial development all the way to operations and remediation flows. The current release of the CDEvents specification is available here: https://github.com/cdevents

    cdCon Kicks Off Today in Austin, TX

    cdCon is a two-day virtual event running June 7-8, 2022, focusing on improving the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. This year’s sessions are grouped into 3 channels: Technology Teams, Enterprise Leadership, and Open Source Communities. cdCon is sponsored by IBM, JFrog, Armory, CircleCI, OpsMx, Camunda, Capital One, CloudBees, Cloudsmith, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Liquibase, Spacelift, and more.

    The full cdCon schedule is available here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/program/schedule/

    “We’re excited to have our first physical event in two years. The pandemic has shown more than ever how important continuous delivery is to industries as they navigate industry and global changes. cdCon generates passionate participation and is a great platform for connecting with peers and understanding best practices,” said Fatih Degirmenci, Continuous Delivery Foundation General Manager. “CDF is committed to providing a clear path for companies to participate in a vendor-neutral structure that can greatly improve organizations’ abilities to deliver software securely and quickly. Come join us at cdCon, there’s still time to register and participate virtually!”

    Keynotes include industry experts and well-known specialists like Isaac Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Activist, and Journalist; Joe Sepi, Program Director of Open Tech, IBM; Melissa McKay, Developer Advocate, JFrog; Michael Stahnke, Vice President of Platform, CircleCI; Gopal Dommety, CEO, OpsMx; Brian Behlendorf, General Manager, Open Source Security Foundation; Grace Francisco, Vice President, Developer Relations Strategy & Experience, Cisco; Stephen Atwell, Principal Product Manager, Armory; Isaac Mosquera, Principal GTM Leader, Serverless, AWS; and Fatih Degirmenci, Continuous Delivery Foundation General Manager, The Linux Foundation.

    CD Foundation Welcoming New Members

    Cloudsmith, Spacelift, Stackhawk and Tenable are joining the CD Foundation as new members. They join premier members AWS, Armory, CloudBees, Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Huawei, JFrog, Netflix, and Red Hat, as well as the broader open source CI/CD community, in helping to strengthen the growth and evolution of continuous delivery models.

    Cloudsmith – Cloudsmith is a cloud-native, global, universal artifact management platform for engineers looking to set up a secure artifact repository in 60 seconds. Cloudsmith is a Belfast-headquartered startup that has raised $15 million in Series A funding. This is the largest ever Series A funding round in Northern Ireland.

    “We are delighted to join the CD Foundation. How companies deliver software securely and quickly is key to their success, and we believe joining will provide even more value to our customers by connecting us to the broader community of continuous delivery companies and developers around the world,” said Lee Skillen, Co-Founder & CTO, Cloudsmith. “The future of cloud-native software delivery, artifact management and the whole supply chain is critical to industries everywhere, so we are excited to contribute our knowledge of continuous packaging to it.”

    Spacelift – Spacelift focuses on collaborative infrastructure for modern software teams to manage cloud, infrastructure, or services. Its platform uses Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Kubernetes offering features such as runtime configuration, version management, and state management. They are backed by Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures and Inovo Venture Partners.

    “We are excited to join the CD Foundation. Spacelift provides a collaboration and automation layer for infrastructure as a code, and we focus on openness, flexibility, and customization. We believe this fits well with the CD Foundation, and by contributing to the direction of open-source CI/CD development through the CD Foundation, our customers will benefit,” said Sean O’Dell, Head of Developer Relations at Spacelift. “By inviting infrastructure, security, compliance, and platform teams to collaborate on and approve workflows and policies, you can improve your infrastructure delivery platform.”

    StackHawk – StackHawk helps developers find and fix application security bugs as part of software delivery. StackHawk makes security part of the developer workflow by running automated security testing in CI/CD and notifying developers immediately about new security issues as they emerge. StackHawk recently announced it has raised $20.7 million as part of a series B funding round.

    “With the rapid pace of software development, security teams are finding it more difficult to test for vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis. At StackHawk, we are placing the ability to resolve vulnerabilities in the hands of the developer, and we see the CD Foundation as a key partner to helping us expand our reach and more broadly address this issue of shifting security left in the development cycle,” said Joni Klippert, co-founder and CEO at StackHawk. “We see the CD Foundation’s ability to guide changes in software development as a strength that will help drive the reduction in security vulnerabilities that make it to deployment.”

    Tenable – Tenable is a cybersecurity company known as the creator of the vulnerability scanning software Nessus. Approximately 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Tenable customers include approximately 60 percent of the Fortune 500, approximately 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies.

    “As security is a critical component of open source software development and delivery, Tenable will provide expertise and guidance to the CD Foundation,” said Glen Pendley, chief technology officer, Tenable. “The CD Foundation is uniquely positioned to help steer the course of security-focused development in the continuous delivery space. Tenable looks forward to collaborating with this community to enable end users to influence better solutions that drive value for our customers.”

    New General Manager Lead

    CI/CD open source community leader Fatih Degirmenci has joined the CDF as its new General Manager. Fatih is not new to the CD Foundation. He participated in the very first public meeting during the Open Source Leadership Summit in California in March 2019 when the CD Foundation was announced. Since then, he’s been heavily involved in the community including special interest groups (SIG) like the Interoperability SIG and Software Supply Chain SIG. He also served on the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) as an end-user representative.

    Fatih will work closely with the eight CDF-hosted projects CDEvents, Jenkins, Jenkins X, Ortelius, Shipwright, Screwdriver, Spinnaker, and Tekton, and help members and the wider Continuous Delivery CI/CD community improve their software development security and speed when creating cloud-native, legacy infrastructure, mobile, IoT, and bare-metal applications.

    Additional CDF Resources

    About the Continuous Delivery Foundation

    The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The CDF is a vendor-neutral organization that is establishing best practices of software delivery automation, propelling education and adoption of CD tools, and facilitating cross-pollination across emerging technologies. The CDF is home to many of the fastest-growing projects for CD, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation

    The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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  • Netskope and Deloitte Announce Strategic Alliance to Help Clients Accelerate SASE Adoption with Leading SSE Technology

    Santa Clara, CA, June 6, 2022 – Deloitte has formed a strategic alliance with global Security Service Edge (SSE) and zero trust leader Netskope to help their mutual clients adopt the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and SSE security frameworks which aim to protect users, applications and data from cyber threats, while preserving user experience.

    Netskope has been recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SSE. And, Deloitte is ranked No. 1 in security consulting services by revenue in the Gartner Market Share Analysis: Security Consulting Services, Worldwide, 2021.

    Through the alliance, clients that Netskope and Deloitte share will be able to leverage Netskope SSE with Deloitte’s cybersecurity services to help secure people and data in the cloud while increasing speed and agility, without degradation of user experience.

    Netskope SSE users can benefit from a singular architecture that simplifies security, reduces risks, offers inline visibility, provides granular control of data, and creates preventative measures through advanced analytics capabilities. Deloitte can help organizations assess, implement and efficiently integrate Netskope into their existing infrastructure.

    “As organizations continue to advance their digital transformation efforts, it’s common for either security considerations or user experience to be addressed – not always both,” said Criss Bradbury, a Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory data protection Leader and Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “Our alliance with Netskope will assist our shared clients to pursue often multi-phased digital transformations that include SASE and SSE adoption, so that security of both organizational and user assets are protected in a way that also prioritizes user experience.”

    “Our alliance with Deloitte will help organizations better navigate the challenges they face on their SASE, Zero Trust, and cloud journeys,” said Dave Rogers, Vice President of Global Alliances, Channel Sales, Netskope.

    “This relationship is an extension of ongoing efforts to better serve both Netskope and Deloitte’s clientele, which include many Fortune 2000 companies. As more organizations realize the need for SSE as a core inspection point that gets as close as possible to where and how data is accessed, Netskope is prepared to support this demand with its own solutions, accompanied by key relationships such as this one.”

    To learn more about the integrated consulting services and SSE solutions from Netskope and Deloitte, visit this page.

    About Netskope

    Netskope, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining cloud, data, and network security to help organizations apply zero trust principles to protect data. The Netskope Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE) platform is fast, easy to use, and secures people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Netskope helps customers reduce risk, accelerate performance, and get unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private application activity. Thousands of customers, including more than 25 of the Fortune 100, trust Netskope to address evolving threats, new risks, technology shifts, organizational and network changes, and new regulatory requirements. Learn how Netskope helps customers be ready for anything on their SASE journey, visit netskope.com.

    About Deloitte

    Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 7,000 private companies. Our people come together for the greater good and work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today’s marketplace — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthier society. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them. Building on more than 175 years of service, our network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte’s more than 345,000 people worldwide connect for impact at www.deloitte.com.

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