Partnership results in enhanced customer offerings powered by Digital Solutions and Cloud

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group company and leader in Digital Engineering services, and Akamai, the cloud company that powers and protects life online announced a strategic partnership intended to make a broad range of enterprise technology solutions available to customers globally. As a member of the Akamai Partner Program, GlobalLogic will design and build innovative products, platforms, and digital experiences for customers worldwide leveraging Akamai's cloud computing services, security, and content delivery network (CDN). GlobalLogic will collaborate with Akamai to offer system integration, managed services, and professional services to mutual customers globally.

Through the partnership, GlobalLogic and Akamai will serve customers across industries including media & entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, automotive and e-commerce, all of which have a well-established need to quickly bring to market high-performing applications where security and cost efficiencies are imperative. GlobalLogic's end-to-end product engineering and build-at-scale capabilities complement Akamai's ability to scale, protect, and deliver digital experiences online via its massively distributed Akamai Connected Cloud.

"Bringing together GlobalLogic's cutting-edge design and delivery of products, platforms and digital experiences with Akamai's cloud computing and security solutions worldwide, we are shaping the future of digital transformation," said David Wolf, Group Vice President of Communication, Media, and Entertainment at GlobalLogic. "Our strategic partnership is intended to drive modern success to the organizations and customers we serve together."

"Akamai's partnership with GlobalLogic combines nearly 50 years of building, integrating and scaling enterprise technology solutions to solve complex business challenges," said Paul Joseph, executive vice president, global sales and services, Akamai. "We're harnessing that power to help organizations that are building modern applications, which require contemporary approaches to development, cloud computing and security.

The company was named for exceptional customer relations in Cloud Computing/SaaS industries

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by AI, has been named a winner of Inc.'s Power Partner Awards. LogicMonitor was selected in the Cloud Computing/SaaS category as the awards honor B2B organizations across the globe that have proven track records supporting entrepreneurs and helping startups grow. The list recognizes firms across 35 categories of business.

LogicMonitor received top marks from clients for being instrumental in helping leadership navigate the dynamic world of startups. These B2B partners support entrepreneurs across various facets of the business, including hiring, compliance, infrastructure development, cloud migration, fundraising, etc., allowing founders to focus on their core missions.

"We truly strive to embody this award's mission of helping companies do their best and be great. Anyone can be a vendor, but we are deeply focused on being strategic partners to our customers. As a strategic partner we work on shared values, benefits and risks together," said Christina Kosmowski, CEO of LogicMonitor. "This means that our teams are heavily invested in helping customers grow their business and career value within their own organizations - to be great. We're especially honored to be recognized in this way."

Customers like Loyola University of Maryland contributed to LogicMonitor's winning submission.  "With consolidation, the big benefit is for multiple teams to have consistent visibility across a range of technical infrastructure. When we have to talk to each other, we're now comparing apples to apples because LogicMonitor is giving us consistent metrics for reference points," said Senior Systems Engineer Mike Dieter. "Using LM Envision, LogicMonitor's platform, is a very tangible return on our investments."

The County of Henrico was happy to sing LogicMonitor's praises to Inc., as well. The county has seen an estimated 90% reduction in alert noise since starting with the company. Robert Aungst, who oversees the Network Infrastructure teams for Henrico said, "For me, it's no extraneous alerts. That's the biggest thing, getting the alerts down to only stuff that's actionable is fantastic. You can't ask for anything better than that."

"Trusted B2B partners provide guidance and expertise that founders rely on at various steps of their organization's journey. Partners that possess a demonstrated ability to deliver quality support are at the core of entrepreneurship and help bring big ideas to life," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. Business Media.

Fibocom (Stock Code: 300638), a global leading provider of IoT (Internet of Things) wireless solutions and wireless communication modules, took center stage at BBWF 2023 with its up-to-date showcase. Located at Booth #G8 in the Porte De Versailles from October 24^th to October 26^th, 2023. Fibocom Illuminates the full empowerment of the FWA ecosystem by demonstrating a series of 5G FWA dedicated modules and solutions, together with multiple FWA devices.

Fostering the 5G FWA Connectivity through Fibocom's Dedicated Modules and Solutions

As one of the enablers in 5G adoption, 5G FWA technology has harnessed 5G networks to deliver high-speed internet services to households and businesses. The growing proliferation of the IoT, and smart home devices also amplifies the demand for high-speed broadband connectivity, further propelling 5G FWA solution providers to continuously innovate for these surging needs. Fibocom, as a pioneer in IoT commercialization, has always been steadfastly attuned to the ever-evolving technological landscape and kept advancing connectivity solutions for the 5G FWA market. The complete range of modules and solutions has been presented at this significant broadband connectivity event as well as various success cases.

Designed to deliver outstanding cellular performance for 5G FWA applications, Fibocom presented modules including FG160/FM160、FG170、FG180、FG190、FG360、FG370. All of those modules enable most typical FWA applications like CPE, ODU, and Mobile Hot Spot ensuring a plug-and-play FWA experience featured with fast and stable connections and powerful edge-computing capability. Both modules and devices are presented in a home-look stand at Fibocom's booth.

In addition, several FWA-dedicated solutions integrated with Fibocom's latest 5G modules like FG180, FG190, and FG370 are also demonstrated. Again, those solutions address the majority of common FWA applications and refine the 5G experience to a new level.

Empower the Great Diversity of the 5G FWA Ecosystem with All Industrial Partners

Through several highly interactive activities at this annual gathering of broadband connectivity, Fibocom also poses an invitation to all partners to empower the great diversity of the 5G FWA ecosystem.

For a one-in-kind event experience, Fibocom's stand features a visualized 5G experience of the cellular plus Wi-Fi integrated FWA solutions for all visitors for the very first time, which indicates the capability for swift product integration. Furthermore, Fibocom experts present the latest industry sharing and cutting-edge FWA solutions on-site daily, where partners could dive into any discussions on new products and market insights.

Gluware executives and partners to showcase industry trends, new platform capabilities, and the importance of the automated network as the platform for digital transformation

Gluware, Inc., the leader in intelligent network automation and ONUG Thought Leader sponsor, today announced its sessions and activities for ONUG Fall 2023, which will demonstrate the transformative impact of pre-built intelligent network automation for enterprises. 

Scheduled for October 24-25, ONUG Fall 2023 will feature a keynote from Gluware and World Wide Technology, a Gluware partner and IT services provider. The keynote will explore real world case studies that are transforming networks at some of the largest enterprises across the pharmaceutical, retail, professional and financial services industries. Additionally, Gluware will deliver several presentations and demonstrations highlighting platform capabilities and industry trends in network security and hyperautomation.  

"Intelligent network automation capabilities are a prerequisite for enterprises seeking to advance digital transformation and ensure a healthy, resilient network," said Bob Olwig, Executive Vice President of Global Partner Alliances, World Wide Technology. "We are thrilled to partner with Gluware to deliver this pivotal technology to our valued customers."

The ONUG Fall 2023 presentations coincide with Gluware's launch of its first-ever Network Health Awareness Month. Through the month of October, Network Health Awareness Month has highlighted the pivotal role of the network in overall business health and advanced network best practices across industries through advocacy and thought leadership.

"Gluware has an unwavering focus on understanding our customers' goals and developing the pre-built capabilities to make them achievable rapidly and at scale," Ernest Lefner, Chief Product Officer, Gluware. "ONUG attracts the best and the brightest in our field, and we look forward to sharing, alongside World Wide Technology, the network automation technologies enabling digital transformation and the best practices we've observed through our customers' groundbreaking projects." 

The complete list of Gluware ONUG sessions includes: 

• Gluware Keynote: An Insider's Look at Automation Trends and Best Practices in Enterprise Networking – Join Ernest Lefner, Chief Product Officer at Gluware, and Tom Whaley, Chief Technology Advisor at World Wide Technology, as they discuss intelligent network automation adoption and the practices network leaders across industries are using to implement and optimize automation. Lefner and Whaley's insights will prepare your organization for network and digital transformation success through real world insights, outcomes and lessons learned.
  
  
• Gluware Proof of Concept: Automate a Cisco TrustSec Network Using Gluware – Join Tim Silverline, VP of Security at Gluware, and Olivier Huynh Van, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of Gluware, to see how enterprises can accelerate their microsegmentation implementations, leveraging TrustSec and Gluware automation for the onboarding of network switches and wireless controllers. The pair will use a combination of API calls and network automation that builds an easy-to-use workflow to ensure the proper configuration is applied to Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) and to every network device to establish a baseline CTS environment. They will then demonstrate how Gluware can further manage the security group tag (SGT) lifecycle by creating a new SGT and validating propagation to the CTS network.
  
  
• Gluware Panel: Full-Stack Observability: Building Integrated Solutions for Network and Security Operational Landscapes – Join Ernest Lefner, Chief Product Officer at Gluware, for a panel discussion with industry thought leaders on full-stack analytics and the need for an integrated platform that combines endpoint and network security telemetry for holistic threat detection. The panel will explore the transformative role of AI and ML in bolstering real-time intelligence across multiple layers and domains, enhancing predictive analytics and anomaly detection.
  
  
• Hyperautomation Working Group Update: The Age of Hyperautomation: Redefining Enterprise Efficiency – Join Michael Haugh, VP Product Marketing at Gluware, for an enlightening session that explores the transformative power of hyperautomation, AI/ML, and full stack analytics in shaping the future of business. Users will gain practical insights and best practices for adoption and implementation to unleash the potential of these technologies and drive innovation, growth and data-driven decision-making.
  
  
• Gluware Open Session: Rapid Multi-Vendor CLI/API Automation and Integrations (Online Only) – Join Mike Haugh, VP of Product Marketing at Gluware, to learn how Gluware can help enterprises automate multi-vendor CLI and API-based networking solutions, expand your network drift monitoring and audits to include config and operational state, and simplify API integrations to achieve hyperautomation.
  
  
• ONUG Collaborative Birds-of-a-Feather: Network Orchestration & Automation (Online Only) – Join Mike Haugh, VP of Product Marketing at Gluware, and the other members of the Hyperautomation Working Group for a discussion on the group's recent activities. Attendees will participate in an open Q&A that explores how businesses are transforming for the digital age.

Volumez, a revolutionary modern cloud data infrastructure company, today announced its availability in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which provides services and solutions for managing Azure cloud data infrastructure.

Through the Azure Marketplace, users can select Volumez' composable data infrastructure software-as-a-service (SaaS) to set up direct Linux-based data paths via a simple declarative interface for Azure Kubernetes environments (AKS) and Azure virtual machines (VMs).

This disruptive approach bypasses traditional storage controllers, thereby enabling significantly higher and predictable throughput of up to 2 million IOPS and 200 microseconds low latency, per volume. Volumez provides a scalable approach that maximizes existing compute power and enables fast provisioning for Kubernetes environments, up to 20 volumes in less than 40 seconds for multiple volumes with fast snapshots. As a result, applications can be scaled quickly in the cloud with enterprise-quality performance exceeding on-premises capabilities. 

"With our presence on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, customers can now access and deliver enterprise grade storage for large numbers of their most demanding workloads," said John Blumenthal, Volumez chief product and business officer.  "Our composability service creates the highest performing data infrastructure in market, delivering unrivaled IOPS, latency, and throughput for databases and complex applications like AI/ML."

"Through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, customers around the world can easily find, buy, and deploy partner solutions they can trust, all certified and optimized to run on Azure," said Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. "We're happy to welcome Volumez composable Data Infrastructure solution to the growing Azure Marketplace ecosystem."

Expanded alliance brings complementary skillsets to strengthen client outcomes

Today, IBM and KPMG LLP announced they are expanding their alliance to help enable business transformations for clients implementing SAP S/4HANA^® across the energy and utilities industry. Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects run the potential risk of failing without the right technology in place and the right business expertise to fully integrate it. IBM Consulting and KPMG together are bringing a breadth of consulting, operations, tax, risk and finance experience to the ERP implementation process to help energy and utilities companies automate and manage core business processes for optimal performance.

IBM Consulting is a global leader in SAP transformations, delivering cohesive collaborative solutions based on in-depth industry experience, AI, and hybrid multi cloud deployment. IBM has well-established technology and deep experience within a broad partner ecosystem, including a 50-year history partnering with SAP. KPMG brings business-led, SAP-enabled functional transformation experience in more than 25 countries while leveraging deep energy and utility industry knowledge to deliver business value.

"As companies across industries accelerate the shift to cloud and contemplate the move to SAP S/4HANA, they will need the support from trusted experts to help achieve success in any transformation project," said Bill Piotrowski, Americas SAP Leader for IBM Consulting. "We're excited to partner with KPMG to provide Energy & Utilities clients access to industry insights that will help them capitalize on their SAP investment supported by experience in supporting numerous SAP S/4HANA transformations worldwide."

KPMG and IBM Consulting bring complementary skillsets across SAP technology implementation, cross-sector business processes, regulatory, risk, finance, and tax considerations, and operational issues. The combination of the firms' skills and experience can strengthen outcomes for the benefit of clients, and successful enterprise resource planning transformation across the energy and utilities sector.

"Identifying the potential value created by financial considerations up front in the planning of an ERP implementation can significantly improve the likelihood of success," said Brad Stansberry, Energy & Chemical Industry Advisory Leader at KPMG. "Working with IBM Consulting and the business and technical expertise they bring will expand our ability to help our joint clients accelerate productivity and unlock growth opportunities."

Together, KPMG and IBM have already delivered a comprehensive business transformation program at Liberty Utilities, a leading provider of local utility management, service and support across the United States and Canada. The four-year program builds on Liberty's "Customer First" project to revolutionize the company's Customer, Finance, Asset Management, Field Services, and Supply Chain Operations.

"IBM Consulting has been our trusted partner, and we continue our collaboration to accelerate our remarkable transformation journey," said Jody Allison, Vice President, Transformation at Liberty Utilities. "IBM's unique relationship with KPMG brings valued finance and advisory expertise which will help extend our 'Customer First' platform into every aspect of our organization, allowing us to deliver to our customer's expectations, enable our employees to serve, and facilitate growth as we will be able to easily integrate acquired businesses and assets in the future."

IBM Consulting helps accelerate business transformation for our clients through hybrid cloud and AI technologies, leveraging our open ecosystem of partners. With deep industry and business expertise spanning strategy, experience design, technology, and operations, we have become a trusted partner to the world's most innovative and valuable companies, helping them modernize and secure their most complex systems. Our 160,000 consultants embrace an open way of working and apply our proven co-creation method, IBM Garage, to scale ideas into outcomes. As the only major global systems integrator inside a technology company, we don't just advise -- we invent and build what's next together with our clients.

Indianapolis-based Ground Game Ventures leads the round to help businesses communicate effectively with non-desk employees

Yourco, the pioneering SMS-based platform designed to bridge the communication gap between non-desk employees—those who work in the field, on the plant floor, or frontlines rather than behind a desk to do their job— and the front office, successfully raised $2 million in a seed funding round. Indianapolis-based Ground Game Ventures led the round with additional support from Allos Ventures, Start Something Ventures, Elevate Ventures and Flywheel Fund. The investment will accelerate the company's mission to empower the 2.7 billion employees working outside an office setting with effective workplace communication and automation tools.

Non-desk employees are the backbone of the global economy, making up 80% of employees worldwide. Yet, these professionals often do not have the consistent, clear and accessible communication channels vital for long-term success. A staggering 55% of these employees engage with internal communications fewer than once a month, leaving many invaluable workers disengaged and dissatisfied.

Yourco co-founders Brodie and Benjamin Meyer have witnessed firsthand the disproportionate communications between the front office and the frontline. The brothers founded the business out of a need for stronger employee communications and automation tools to improve businesses' bottom lines. By offering a tiered pricing structure, including a newly introduced free plan, Yourco caters to businesses of all sizes. The platform is used by companies like Clyde's Donuts, ThreeBond, and the Indianapolis Airport Authority.

"We initially built Yourco as a communication solution for my Grandparent's family print shop," said Brodie Meyer, co-founder and CEO of Yourco. "As we acquired additional customers, we quickly realized Yourco was having a transformative impact on SMB, midmarket, and enterprise businesses alike. This funding round will allow us to accelerate our growth and product development so that we can continue to transform the way businesses engage with their non-desk employees."

Since its inception in 2021, Yourco has seen rapid growth with a 2,668% increase in monthly recurring revenue, and hundreds of customers in fields like manufacturing, construction, transportation and agriculture. By addressing employees who often lack access to computers, company emails or internet connectivity, Yourco's innovative solution eliminates the barriers associated with traditional communication and automation tools, such as downloads, passwords, internet access and data plans.

"Yourco has helped to change the way we communicate at McCarthy Auto Group," said Felisha Parker, VP of HR at McCarthy Auto Group. "We have nearly 700 employees, and 80% are non-desk based; communication is a challenge. Yourco provides a quick and easy way to reach everyone within our organization and a secure way for employees to reach HR and leadership without a computer."

Yourco's groundbreaking technology streamlines internal communication and enhances employee engagement, information dissemination and overall workplace efficiency. Additionally, the platform reduces legal risk in businesses by helping them keep personal cell phone numbers private and automatically documenting all employee communications for future reference.

The communication and automation platform is already turning heads. Earlier this year, Yourco was selected as one of five finalists in the Future of Work category for the 15th annual SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator).

Aman Brar, founding partner of Ground Game Ventures, who is also joining Yourco's board, expressed enthusiasm for the company's potential.

"We believe Yourco is the solution deskless workers and front offices need," Brar said. "Yourco is poised to revolutionize everyday industries that have long been overlooked. The platform's potent combination of communication and automation tools is well on the way to becoming the de facto operating system for blue collar workers and front offices. We look forward to Yourco's accelerated impact on SMB, midmarket and enterprise businesses and their valued employees."

Highlights include support for new cloud hosts, ServiceNow and Atlassian integrations, support for ephemeral instances, and more

Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, today announced a series of updates that expand the platform's enterprise-grade capabilities to help customers do more in the cloud, securely. Lacework is extending its platform support to new cloud providers in order to give customers more choice as they secure their multicloud environments, adding integrations into leading project management tools to increase operational efficiency around risk management, and enhancing agentless workload scanning, among other updates.

Expanded Enterprise Multicloud Support

Enterprises implement multicloud strategies for various economic, technical, and legal reasons, and Lacework is committed to supporting its customers' cloud or clouds of choice. Lacework has extended cloud security posture management to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving teams visibility into their OCI resources and their associated risks. Whether enterprises are using Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, OCI or a combination, the unified Lacework platform gives them visibility from a single location, resulting in better context, better outcomes, and faster investigations.

"We are excited that Lacework has added support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It gives us the opportunity to utilize Cloud Security Posture Management capabilities across our multicloud environment with a single platform," said Karen Prichard, Managing Director Group Security, Liberty Global. "Our team can continue to reduce our risk and address our threats quicker with the added visibility and context provided by this new integration."

Additionally, the Lacework platform is expanding its industry-leading attack path analysis to Google Cloud and Azure. Attack path analysis from Lacework allows security teams to see their cloud environment through the eyes of an attacker, identifying targets and mapping out how each threat could be exploited to breach a cloud environment. Now Lacework customers leveraging Google Cloud or Azure can gain attack path analysis that is bespoke to each cloud's unique environment.

"My colleague already had the chance to identify configuration issues, it immediately flagged something we had to look at — giving us the opportunity to fix it," Simen Kildahl Eriksen, Security Engineer at Cognite, shares. "It provides an invaluable means of identifying potential configuration problems before they escalate into more significant security breaches."

In the cloud, organizations routinely create and tear down services and containers quickly in order to meet changing demands. Whether testing-development or running batch jobs, ephemeral workloads and containers are opportunities for bad actors to gain access. It's important that security teams do not lose sight of these short-lived instances.

To meet this growing need, Lacework agentless workload scanning has been upgraded to check customer workloads every five minutes for new instances. This granular visibility of what is running and its associated risk assures teams that they have comprehensive visibility into rapidly changing environments and gives confidence that short-lived instances are not falling through the security cracks.

Operationalized Risk Management with ServiceNow and Jira Integrations

It's not enough for an organization to have a list of vulnerabilities, they need to be able to quickly fix them. To enhance its industry-leading threat visibility tools, the Lacework platform now features integrations with ServiceNow and Jira that improve the process of mitigating vulnerabilities. Now, security and development teams have the premium vulnerability feeds with all the context Lacework is known for integrated into their ticketing system of choice. By connecting these systems to streamline response efforts, the appropriate teams can move faster when securing vulnerabilities.

"With the rise of cloud adoption and migration, securing the enterprise has never been more important for organizations," said Deepak Kolingivadi, Head of Security Products at ServiceNow. "The Lacework integration with ServiceNow Vulnerability Response enables our enterprise customers to streamline their response processes by simplifying assignment, collaboration, and remediation of critical vulnerabilities. Using business context in ServiceNow, customers can detect and report the security posture of IT and application environments within the Now Platform. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Lacework and helping mutual customers address cybersecurity threats more quickly and efficiently."