Aqua Security has raised $62 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12, TLV Partners, and Shlomo Kramer. “The adoption of cloud native technologies provides an opportunity for security to be redefined, addressing the chronic cybersecurity skills shortage through automation, and … continue reading
Data warehousing is one of the core sources of enterprise information, but most organizations are still unable to unlock the potential value of their investments. For one thing, traditional data warehouses require significant domain experience and manually-configured rules to enable the extraction of useful data. Modern data warehouses add machine learning, AI and deep learning … continue reading
Ascend empowers everyone to create smarter products. Ascend provides a fully-managed platform for data analysts, data scientists, and analytics/BI engineers to create Autonomous Data Pipelines that fuel analytics and machine learning applications. Leveraging the platform, these teams can collaborate and adopt DataOps best practices as they self-serve and iterate with data and create reusable, self-healing … continue reading
After watching application teams, security teams and operations teams get the -Ops treatment, data engineering teams are now getting their own process ending in -Ops. While still in its very early days, data engineers are beginning to embrace DataOps practices. Gartner defines DataOps as “a collaborative data manager practice, really focused on improving communication, integration, … continue reading
Software development and IT teams use all manner of analytics, to assess work progress, feature use, application performance and so much more. Today, there comes an analytics solution that measures developer skills and roles, to make sure teams have what it takes to be more productive, speed organizational innovation and deliver great software. Pluralsight today … continue reading
Elastic has released version 1.0 of its Elastic Common Schema (ECS) specification. Initially announced in February, ECS is an open-source specification that “provides a consistent and customizable way for users to structure their event data in Elasticsearch.” ECS will enable data scientists to seamlessly analyze data from various sources. “ECS is designed to support uniform … continue reading
Redis Labs is introducing two new data models and a new data programmability paradigm for multi-model operations. RedisTimeSeries collects and stores high volume and high velocity data, and organizes that data by time intervals. The solution also allows organizations to point out specific data points using capabilities such as downsampling, aggregation, and compression. According to … continue reading
Gremlin has announced a new integration with Spinnaker that will enable it to help companies automate chaos engineering. Gremlin is a company that specializes in helping companies implement chaos engineering, while Spinnaker is a continuous delivery platform first created by Netflix. According to Gremlin, chaos engineering can now be automated across platforms like AWS EC2, … continue reading
Visual testing solution provider Applitools today released Ultrafast Visual Grid, software for managing an application’s functional and visual quality. Before Applitools, UI testing was done manually and serially, as pages were examined and changes compared one page at a time. Today, the company said, Visual Grid farms out screenshot jobs to a grid of browsers … continue reading
How much fun is it for a developer to be in an elevator, peek over the shoulder of the person next to them and see them using an app on their phone that the developer built? That’s just what happened to Matthew Jafarian, vice president of Digital Strategy & Innovation at the NBA team, Miami … continue reading
Application organizations have morphed into digital organisms. They evolve through changes in their people, practices and technology. Digital disruptions, like artificial intelligence (AI), provide new and immediate opportunities, forcing application organizations to change faster than ever before. As Darwin taught us, the fastest-adapting organisms will survive. Gartner finds that top-performing organizations expect to develop 40 … continue reading
The latest issue of SD Times is now available. The April issue features insight on why continuous testing is so important, with microservices more isn’t always better, and how AI and ML are the future of RPA. Read on to learn more. … continue reading
