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"For businesses around the world and across all industries, cloud transformation is one of their most important technology initiatives and closing the growing cloud skills gap is their single biggest challenge in meeting it. As the leader in technology skill development for large enterprises around the world, we are determined to be their trusted partner to solve it," said Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight. "With our acquisition of A Cloud Guru, we are now positioned to deliver the most comprehensive solution for driving cloud maturity at scale through an all-in-one solution for cloud skill development."
Axonius launched a new business unit focused on innovation and growth avenues beyond the existing core solution already used by hundreds of companies worldwide. After doubling its staff during the pandemic and achieving triple-digit annual recurring revenue growth in 2020, Axonius continues its rapid-growth trajectory, expanding globally and maintaining its commitment to product innovation.
SmartBear has released a new plug-in for SwaggerHub API design to support IntelliJ IDEA, the popular Java-based integrated developer environment. API developers familiar with IntelliJ IDEA now have ready access to the OpenAPI compliant SwaggerHub API design platform to create, organize, and document APIs.
Software industry veteran Adrian Szwarcburg has joined DigitSec, provider of the AppSec testing platform purpose-built for Salesforce, as senior vice president of business development. "They offer the first solution to fully address the major Salesforce DevOps challenge today, reducing false positives during security testing. DigitSec allows developers to focus on faster and more secure development by automating and integrating multiple security tests and eliminating many tedious manual processes and delays while enhancing security."
Premier technology growth equity investor Full In Partners announced that it has led a significant follow-on investment in existing portfolio company, AutoRABIT. The leading provider of Salesforce release management platform for regulated industries, AutoRABIT is trusted by top development organizations at Anthem, Wells Fargo, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Intuit, and many others. The $14.5M in new funding is a combination of equity from Full In and debt from Bridge Bank and comes on the heels of a transformative year for AutoRABIT. The company recently acquired CodeScan, a premier player in code quality, compliance and security analysis for the Salesforce developer community and is seeing net new ARR growth of upwards of 100% from 2020.
The new funds will accelerate development of the Cortex platform, which enables engineering leaders and site reliability engineers to move beyond manual processes to gain visibility and control of rapidly expanding microservices. "But microservices proliferation has side effects: engineering and SRE leaders are challenged to track what services exist, how they depend on one another and what their quality is. The Cortex platform puts all that information at their fingertips, and makes it easy to launch team-wide initiatives to improve service quality."
The CMMC Accreditation Body announced the selection of Melanie Kyle Gingrich as the CMMC-AB's first vice president for training and development. In this role, Ms. Gingrich will oversee the day-to-day development and management of the CMMC-AB training, education, and curricula management programs to support and ensure the successful growth of the CMMC ecosystem.
Auth0 announced the Auth0 identity operating system, a cloud-native, adaptable platform for development teams. Built with extensible building blocks, the Auth0 identity OS enables organizations to manage the complexities of today's identity management, while also prioritizing the security, privacy, and convenience of their end users.
The investment aligns with HID Global's strategic direction to embed facial recognition into solutions for a seamless and highly secure user experience in a variety of identity verification and authentication applications, including access control. "In partnership, HID and Paravision have already cooperated on projects and we look forward to further advancing our collaboration across a number of different markets and use cases," said Björn Lidefelt, EVP and Head of HID Global.
Microsoft has reportedly paused the development of Windows 10X, its Chrome OS competitor for single-screen and dual-screen devices. Unlike Windows 10, Windows 10X was supposed to be simple, sleek, faster, and more secure.