IT spend management vendor Apptio offers Cloudability, a Cloud Cost Management (CCM) and optimization product that provides visibility into cloud costs for IT, finance, and DevOps teams.

Cloudability supports FinOps efforts with cloud planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities for any cloud environment, as well as Kubernetes in the cloud.

The product enables organizations to understand and... [Read more]

When we first interviewed Armory in September 2019, it was focused on commercializing the open-source Spinnaker continuous delivery platform.

It still supports Spinnaker, but now Armory focuses on its continuous deployment (CD) offering that provides cross-environment orchestration.

Armory takes a YAML-based declarative approach to configuring deployment environments. For example, it automatically sets up canary and blue/green environments for modern production testing and... [Read more]

When we last covered Arrcus in September 2021, the company focused on networking for edge computing.

Today, edge is still part of its offering, but now Arrcus focuses on leveraging routing technologies to implement a global abstraction over data center and telco provider IP networks as well as edge computing, in particular, 5G networks – while abstracting connections to... [Read more]

The AWS Mainframe Modernization offering from Amazon Web Services helps mainframe customers complement their mainframe capabilities with AWS cloud services.

The offering consists of a set of managed tools providing both infrastructure and software for migrating, modernizing, and running mainframe applications.

When customers want to migrate... [Read more]

When we covered Couchbase in 2018, they were still within the tooth-and-nail battle of competing for market share in the increasingly crowded NoSQL database market, and in 2021 they grew SQL-native functionality to make them a hybrid competitor to RDBMS vendors as well.

Early-adopter cloud geeks liked Couchbase because of its superior data caching capabilities, which impact performance, cost and environment footprint considerations. With the launch of their Capella DBaaS offering, Couchbase meets newer customers where they are, offering... [Read more]

DuploCloud enables developers and DevOps engineers to provision and deploy applications consisting of cloud services workflows and Kubernetes-based microservices.

DuploCloud’s rule-based platform either supplements or replaces traditional Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code approaches by representing deployment workflow configurations internally within its platform or... [Read more]

Endor Labs combines the analysis of repository metadata with static code analysis to identify hidden open-source dependencies for both vulnerability management and engineering support.

Software supply chain attacks became the center of attention in cybersecurity circles because of the Log4j vulnerability. As a result, organizations are now justifiably concerned that some open-source component or... [Read more]

Fermyon offers a platform and development tools for building serverless-style capabilities leveraging WebAssembly for ultra-low latency provisioning and service-to-service interactions.

WebAssembly is a language-independent execution model that serves as a compilation target for the Web. Originally conceived as a JVM-style execution environment for browsers, Fermyon extends the technology to its... [Read more]

Flexera provides visibility into IT assets, compliance and license management for those assets, cloud cost optimization, and cloud migration and management capabilities.

Flexera runs the Technopedia IT Asset Management (ITAM) database which keeps track of all license versions of most IT products on the market. The company leverages this database to help its customers understand which products require... [Read more]

Kion offers a single platform for managing cloud account setup and provisioning, financial management, and compliance across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Kion’s customers specify the characteristics of cloud accounts they want their people to access. Upon approval, Kion sets up accounts accordingly, mapping the accounts to how... [Read more]

Kubecost helps organizations manage and optimize their Kubernetes costs, even for complex, multicluster and multitenant deployments.

The product monitors and allocates costs at all levels of Kubernetes infrastructure, including... [Read more]

MiT Systems offers a cloud native, Kubernetes-based suite of business products for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies.

Included in the suite is enterprise resource planning (ERP), comprising sales and distribution, route planning, and production planning and... [Read more]

Propel has been exceedingly busy since our last update in 2021, building and integrating new product information and quality capabilities, recasting its PLM (product lifecycle management) suite as a PVM (or product value management) platform, bringing on new executives, and refocusing its market around customer-facing product optimization concerns.

The PLM space arose within the SCM (or supply chain management) arena more than 2 decades ago as a way to... [Read more]

ResQSoft transforms legacy application source code into well-architected modern code via semantic transformation that generates high-quality, maintainable code.

As opposed to other code modernization technologies that focus on functional equivalence but deliver poor quality, difficult to maintain code, ResQSoft generates maintainable code that competes roughly 85% of the... [Read more]