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CrowdStrike Named Overall Leader in KuppingerCole Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Leadership Compass

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) today announced that it has been named an Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) 2024: IAM Meets the SOC .

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  • CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) today announced that it has been named an Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) 2024: IAM Meets the SOC .
  • CrowdStrike earned a Leader position in every category: Product, Innovation and Market, positioned furthest to the right and highest in Innovation among all vendors evaluated, achieving the overall highest position in the report.
  • The AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform unifies endpoint and identity security to speed response time, lower overall cost of ownership and stop breaches.
  • CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection has shown to deliver up to 85% faster detection of identity attacks and $2 million in savings over three years.

Qmulos Enhances Q-Compliance Platform, Adds Support for CMMC Level 3 Requirements, NERP CIP, OSCAL Interoperability, NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 Migration Capabilities, and Creates Technical Add-Ons for OpenShift and Microsoft Azure

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

ARLINGTON, Va., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Qmulos, a next-generation compliance, security, and risk management automation provider, today announced significant updates to its flagship compliance automation platform, Q-Compliance. Q-Compliance V4.5.0, now generally available, features added support for the recently released CMMC level 3 compliance requirements; NERC CIP support for North American electric utility companies; and enhanced data migration capabilities to help security and risk management teams migrate NIST 800-53 rev. 4 objectives and results to rev. 5 objectives.

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  • Qmulos has also created support for technical add-ons OpenShift® and Microsoft Azure, enabling security and risk management teams to run and manage containerized applications.
  • These scorecards will encompass various criteria, including the mapping of CISA's memorandum to CSF, alignment with NIST 1800.35E ZTA, and a third based on OMB M-22-09.
  • Zero Trust operates under the assumption that no entity, whether inside or outside the network, should be trusted by default.
  • For more details on our latest releases, supporting apps, and technical add-ons, visit https://www.qmulos.com/ .

CAST Highlight accelerates refactoring of Schneider Electric’s major applications for Microsoft Azure

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

NEW YORK and PARIS, April 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation solutions, has leveraged CAST Highlight to accelerate the refactoring of its major applications for migration to Microsoft Azure.

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  • NEW YORK and PARIS, April 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation solutions, has leveraged CAST Highlight to accelerate the refactoring of its major applications for migration to Microsoft Azure.
  • With CAST Highlight, the team was able to pinpoint which components required refactoring, the blockers to be addressed, and the effort involved in these tasks.
  • Furthermore, CAST Highlight provided essential insights into the risks associated with open-source components used in the applications and suggested strategies for their remediation.
  • Additionally, the product's Green Software Insights helped Schneider Electric identify opportunities to develop more sustainable applications, aligning with their commitment to environmental stewardship.

Snowflake Launches Arctic: The Most Open, Enterprise-Grade Large Language Model

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market.

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  • Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market.
  • The Snowflake Arctic LLM is a part of the Snowflake Arctic model family, a family of models built by Snowflake that also include the best practical text-embedding models for retrieval use cases.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240424761970/en/
    Snowflake Arctic adds truly open large language model with unmatched intelligence and efficiency to the Snowflake Arctic model family (Graphic: Business Wire)
    “This is a watershed moment for Snowflake, with our AI research team innovating at the forefront of AI,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake.
  • Now with the launch of Arctic, Snowflake is delivering a powerful, truly open model with an Apache 2.0 license that permits ungated personal, research, and commercial use.

Demand Grows for Sustainability Skills as ESG Sentiment Shifts and Regulatory Pressures Rise

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

By comparing these trends with emerging skills gaps, Udemy identifies opportunities to meet course demand while supporting organizations and learners in an increasingly adaptive global workplace.

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  • By comparing these trends with emerging skills gaps, Udemy identifies opportunities to meet course demand while supporting organizations and learners in an increasingly adaptive global workplace.
  • Specifically, sustainability within supply chains and ESG-related topics continue to top the list of in-demand professional skills.
  • GenAI continues to be in high demand, driving a need for skills to build new models.
  • “Skills like sustainable supply chain management and meeting global ESG reporting standards have become paramount to successful business strategy.

SymphonyAI announces IRIS Foundry, an AI-powered Industrial Data Ops Platform

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Monday, April 22, 2024

IRIS Foundry, powered by SymphonyAI's award-winning predictive and generative EurekaAI platform , uses AI-enabled data contextualization at enterprise scale and is both open and composable.

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  • IRIS Foundry, powered by SymphonyAI's award-winning predictive and generative EurekaAI platform , uses AI-enabled data contextualization at enterprise scale and is both open and composable.
  • “IRIS Foundry is a powerful industrial data operations platform designed to transform the way industries manage and use their data for real-time AI-powered insights, optimized operations, and decision-making processes,” said Prateek Kathpal, president of SymphonyAI’s industrial division.
  • “With industrial domain expertise, SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry enables faster access to contextualized industrial data across the enterprise,” said Indranil Sircar, CTO, Manufacturing at Microsoft.
  • To learn more about SymphonyAI and the IRIS Foundry platform, visit SymphonyAI at the Microsoft booth #G06 in Hall 17 during the conference.

Clazar Raises $10M Series A to Modernize SaaS Sales Across Cloud Marketplaces

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

In less than a year, Clazar is already serving a hundred paying customers, underscoring the high demand for its comprehensive GTM automation solution for cloud marketplaces.

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  • In less than a year, Clazar is already serving a hundred paying customers, underscoring the high demand for its comprehensive GTM automation solution for cloud marketplaces.
  • For sellers (ISVs), cloud marketplaces offer access to the locked-in spend of over $340 billion that buyers have committed with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
  • Applying these spends by routing procurement through marketplaces allows for simplified budgeting, speeding up sales cycles by up to 40%.
  • As we’re seeing cloud marketplaces increasingly drive billions in purchases annually, we’re excited to double down on our investment in Clazar and continue to work alongside their top-notch team.”
    “We are excited to support Clazar as they empower SaaS companies to leverage cloud marketplaces.

Insurity Delivers Unmatched Claims Efficiency and Integration Capabilities to Personal and Commercial Line P&C Carriers with Claims Solution

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Insurity , a leading provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, has announced that its cloud-based claims solution, unmatched in its support for personal and commercial lines in the P&C industry, reaffirms Insurity's commitment to delivering a comprehensive, contemporary, and cloud-native claims solution for multiline carriers across all tiers.

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  • Insurity , a leading provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, has announced that its cloud-based claims solution, unmatched in its support for personal and commercial lines in the P&C industry, reaffirms Insurity's commitment to delivering a comprehensive, contemporary, and cloud-native claims solution for multiline carriers across all tiers.
  • Insurity's claims solution aims to reduce the high costs traditionally associated with adapting to changing claims conditions, enabling carriers to extend their claims systems rapidly and adjust loss assignments, business rules, automated correspondence, and more in hours instead of days.
  • Insurity’s claims solution can also integrate with over 50 third-party services across supported lines of business for faster, lower-cost implementations.
  • Insurity’s claims configuration and integration flexibility represents a pivotal advancement in streamlining the insurance claims process, positioning it as a transformative development for the industry.

IntelePeer Integrates with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to Deliver AI Automation Solutions to Significantly Improve Customer Service

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

With this integration, IntelePeer is delivering advanced solutions to fully automate customer interactions and improve operational efficiencies for businesses while creating a faster and easier customer experience.

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  • With this integration, IntelePeer is delivering advanced solutions to fully automate customer interactions and improve operational efficiencies for businesses while creating a faster and easier customer experience.
  • “Integrated with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, IntelePeer’s Communications Automation Platform is transforming customer service, fully automating more than 80 percent of voice and messaging customer interactions,” commented IntelePeer CEO, Frank Fawzi.
  • This is merely the tip of the iceberg of the impact that AI will deliver to communications automation and customer service."
  • Ali Dalloul, Vice President, Azure AI, said, “By working with Microsoft Azure, IntelePeer can significantly accelerate its generative AI innovation while streamlining AI model management.

Fortanix Announces General Availability of Key Insight to Help Organizations Future-Proof Their Data Security

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Key Insight delivers visibility of keys across multicloud environments and enables organizations to identify risks and future-proof data security against the looming threat of the post-quantum computing era.

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  • Key Insight delivers visibility of keys across multicloud environments and enables organizations to identify risks and future-proof data security against the looming threat of the post-quantum computing era.
  • “The release of Fortanix Key Insight is an important step in helping organizations improve their security and lower the risk to their sensitive data, now and in the future."
  • Fortanix Key Insight bridges a key gap between data security posture management (DSPM), which classifies data but doesn’t provide solutions to protect it, and cloud security posture management (CSPM), which identifies configuration security issues in the cloud.
  • For more information on the Fortanix Key Insight and to sign up for a free trial, visit the product website .