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WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HAProxy Technologies, provider of the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer, today announced that the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times since its introduction in June 2019. The popular HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller supercharges Kubernetes environments and enables organizations to route traffic to and from containers faster, more reliably, and with improved security compared to any other ingress controller.

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The adoption of both container architectures and Kubernetes as the framework for those environments continues to grow. According to a survey conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in 2019 84 percent of organizations had deployed containers. This was an increase of 15 percent from 2018. In that same report, 78 percent of respondents said that their software of choice for deploying containers was Kubernetes.

In June of 2019, HAProxy Technologies introduced a high-performance Ingress Controller for Kubernetes-hosted applications with TLS offloading, Layer 7 routing, rate limiting, and IP safelisting.

In the intervening months, the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller has been recognized for its high performance and reliability, among other features. In Kubernetes, high amounts of traffic are expected, and the environment is highly dynamic because of the high number of pods creation, deletion and relocation that is typical. HAProxy, with its Runtime API and Hitless Reloads, excels in such an environment. Having the HAProxy software load balancer as the engine provides the utmost performance, security, and observability at any scale and in any environment.

“The continued popularity of our Ingress Controller is no surprise to HAProxy Technologies,” said Andjelko Iharos, Director of Engineering at HAProxy Technologies. “The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller gives organizations the power, speed and flexibility necessary to build and maintain Kubernetes applications in today’s most progressive Cloud environments.”

See how HAProxy stacks up against the competition: HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller Benchmark.

About the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller

The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller is built to supercharge your Kubernetes environment by adding advanced TCP and HTTP routing that connects clients outside your Kubernetes cluster with containers running inside. The controller is maintained as a distinct open source project, with a regular release cycle, a growing community of developers, and an increasing number of advocates who favor it over other ingress controllers.

About HAProxy Technologies

HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy, the world’s fastest and most widely-used software load balancer. Organizations rapidly deploy HAProxy products to deliver websites and applications with the utmost performance, observability, and security at any scale and in any environment. ​HAProxy Technologies is headquartered in Waltham, MA, with multiple offices across the US and Europe. ​Learn more at HAProxy.com.

Media Contact:

Daniel Corbett
HAProxy Technologies, LLC
[email protected]
+1 (844) 222-4340 x7512

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SmarTech Analysis, the leading market research firm in the 3D printing/additive manufacturing space just issued a new edition of its market-leading analysis of AM adoption in the eyewear manufacturing segment, comprising sunglasses, eyewear frames, ophthalmic lenses, professional and sporting gear and smartglasses.

In the new report, titled, “Markets for 3D Printing Eyewear 2021”, the firm analyzes the current market landscape and forecasts the next decade of business opportunities, projecting that AM-specific yearly revenue opportunities in the eyewear industry will amount to $2.26 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 20% from 2020.

This figure includes revenues generated by three primary AM-industry specific segments: AM hardware, AM materials and AM services. Overall revenues, including 3D capturing eyewear and software as well as all 3D printed applications, will amount to over 5 billion yearly.

Extensive interviews with key market innovators and drivers were conducted in order to provide this most up-to-date market scenario.

Further details of this report including a detailed description, table of content and excerpt can be found at: https://www.smartechanalysis.com/reports/3d-printing-in-eyewear-from-mass-customization-to-smartglasses-2021/ . Members of the press can receive an executive summary and schedule an interview with the report’s author, Davide Sher, Senior Industry Analyst at SmarTech Analysis.

About the Report:

The report provides an unprecedented analysis deep into the revenue opportunities offered by the global eyewear segment, reflecting advancements in all three key segments where 3D printing technologies are impacting footwear production: prototyping, tooling and final parts. The report also provides an updated analysis of how AM hardware, AM materials, AM service and AM software are impacted by the evolving eyewear industry scenario.

Entirely new in this report, is a full geographic breakdown and localized forecast of the eyewear AM market, for each key segment (hardware, materials, applications).

End-use part production is identified as the key application for eyewear, not just in the long term but in the current market as well. Powder bed fusion processes are dominant, with some alternative technologies also emerging. AM services such as Materialise, with specialized eyewear production lines, are standing out as the clear market leaders and the most ideally suited to reap the benefits from eyewear AM. The application analysis thus focuses on the opportunity around final parts, providing the most accurate data analyses and projections to date of the number and revenues associated with eyewear mass customization, smartglasses advancements and on-demand production.

All key operators in this segment have been identified and classified, all major technologies and all AM material classes have been analyzed for their potential on eyewear part production in order to assess the associated revenue opportunities from all angles. Key stakeholders highlighted include: Materialise, EOS, HP, BASF, Luxexcel, HOYA, Luxottica, Safilo, Facebook and dozens of startups and design studios.

From the Report:

SmarTech Analysis expects that AM-specific yearly revenue opportunities in the eyewear industry will amount to $2.26 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 20% from $327 million in 2020. This figure includes revenues generated by three primary AM-industry specific segments: AM hardware, AM materials and AM services.

Powder bed fusion (PBF) is by far the most common AM technology in eyewear production today, producing as much as 80% to 85% of all final parts (including full end-use products). The technology is also used for prototyping.

The most common material used in eyewear production remains nylon. This material—in particular PA12—is the most versatile and effective material used in all powder bed fusion technologies. In the future it is possible that other nylon materials (such as PA6 and PA66 form BASF) or composite powders containing carbon or glass chopped fibers may become more common as 3D-printed eyewear demand increases and along with the requirements for more advanced material properties. Variations already exist today mainly in terms of finishing treatments.

3D scanners are part of the digital additive manufacturing workflow in a multitude of adoption verticals. Both Apps (that leverage the 3D vision capabilities of the latest mobile devices) and dedicated 3D scanners are now being implemented in the eyewear industry as this consumer product segments moves toward digital production and mass customization. Some of the start-ups offering these services have closed but the majority is growing and evolving its product offers.

SmarTech Analysis expects that future adoption of 3D printing in manufacturing will evolve through two different major pathways. One is by providing the means for several smaller studios to challenge the larger groups by expressing new ideas and offering new customization options. The other is by large groups such as Luxottica and Safilo (among others) to expand their prototyping and product development activities, bringing production in-house to respond even more rapidly to changing fashion trends and client demands. In both cases the value proposition of 3D-printed eyewear is going to significantly affect both production cycle and supply chain dynamics.

About SmarTech Analysis

Since 2013 SmarTech Analysis has published reports on all the important revenue opportunities in the 3D printing/additive manufacturing sector and is considered the leading industry analyst firm providing coverage of this sector. Our company has a client roster that includes the largest 3D printer firms, materials firms and investors in the 3DP/AM sector.

For more details on our company go to www.smartechanalysis.com

AMS 2021, the most focused conference on business intelligence for the additive manufacturing industry will be back for its fourth year, February 9 – 10, 2021. It will be an online event and we will be adding a day of discussion on software and automation for additive manufacturing and a day of discussion on bioprinting to our usual coverage: metals/new materials and medical/dental. As always, our objective for the AMS is that participants will come away highly knowledgeable on the very latest trends in additive manufacturing and full of innovative ideas that they can take back to their organizations. We anticipate 40+ speakers AMS 2021 and will host an online Exhibition Hall where attendees will be able to see the latest 3D printing products.

Contact:

[email protected]

San Diego, CA, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tesoro Enterprises, Inc. (OTC Pink: TSNP) (“Tesoro”) announced today that the company’s CEO and President, Brian Foote, has agreed to convert over 318 million shares recently purchased by him out of the retail market to a new class of Preferred shares.

The conversion will be transacted following the imminent completion of the merger between Tesoro and HUMBL LLC, which will coincide with the redomiciling of the corporation to Delaware.

Upon completion of the conversion, Tesoro’s issued and outstanding number of common shares will have been reduced by over 860 million shares since Mr. Foote became President of Tesoro.

The company does not anticipate that the number of common shares outstanding will increase during the remainder of 2020 and throughout 2021.

About HUMBL

The mission of HUMBL^® and HUMBL Hubs^™ is to deliver high quality, low cost digital payments and financial services. The HUMBL network was designed to disrupt entrenched regional banks, wire services and roadside finance providers in emerging markets such as Latin America, Caribbean, Asia and Africa to help reduce costs and improve settlement speeds for customers.

The HUMBL^® Mobile App delivers borderless transactions, by integrating multiple currencies, payment methods, banks, blockchain and financial services providers into one-click for the customer. HUMBL^® provides greater access and portability than US only mobile wallet providers, such as Venmo^® and Zelle^®.

For those customers without a smartphone, HUMBL Hubs^™ will allow participating merchants to deliver contactless payments, text ordering and money services across the full pyramid of end-users in these markets.

 “We didn’t build HUMBL for the 450 million digital customers using Apple Pay^®, but for the 7 billion people for whom money has a totally different set of global pathways, access points and cost structures,” according to the CEO of HUMBL, Brian Foote.

The HUMBL corporate website features global brand videos, product tours, market research, white papers and network architecture at www.HUMBLpay.com.

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CONTACT:

HUMBL, LLC
[email protected]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Xendoo, a fintech company offering innovative online accounting and bookkeeping solutions with data-driven insights for small business owners, is now fully integrating QuickBooks into its proprietary platform.

QuickBooks helps more than 3.2 million businesses in the U.S. manage their income and expenses, keeping everything organized in one place. With the deep linking of QuickBooks API into Xendoo’s platform, Xendoo’s team helps QuickBooks users save money on taxes by organizing and syncing all of their critical financial information.

“Following the economic challenges of this year, small business owners are continuously looking for ways to save time and money, and cloud-based accounting is no longer a luxury; it’s a necessity,” said Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo. “By integrating with QuickBooks, businesses now have a great solution to manage all of their finances and prepare for tax season within one platform.”

QuickBooks is the latest software provider Xendoo has added to its suite of integrations. Xendoo also syncs with Xero, A2X, Gusto, Stripe, Fattmerchant, TaxJar and Veem to help clients save time, improve accuracy and keep books up to date.

“Our partnership aids all QuickBooks users and is especially beneficial to its legacy customers – business owners that have been in business for more than five years,” continued Roberts. “This integration seamlessly brings small businesses to the cloud, which isn’t possible with most traditional CPAs. In a world of automation, Xendoo is bringing a personalized experience to QuickBooks customers in need of online, accurate financial visibility, without sparing them of the personal touch of a real human that cares.”

For more information on Xendoo, visit www.xendoo.com. Visit www.quickbooks.intuit.com for more information on QuickBooks.

About
Xendoo

Launched in 2017, Xendoo is an innovative cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting platform focused on helping small businesses. The fintech company provides small business owners with accessibility to CPAs, predictability of pricing, and speed to their numbers delivered through a technology foundation. Xendoo is reshaping the accounting industry, leveraging technology to deliver financial peace of mind to small business owners so they can focus on doing what they do best – running their business. For more information, visit www.xendoo.com.

About Intuit

Intuit’s mission is to power prosperity around the world. We are a mission-driven, global financial platform company with products including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint and Turbo, designed to empower consumers, self-employed and small businesses to improve their financial lives. Our platform and products help customers get more money with the least amount of work, while giving them complete confidence in their actions and decisions. Our innovative ecosystem of financial management solutions serves more than 50 million customers worldwide. Please visit us for the latest news and in-depth information about Intuit and its brands and find us on social.

Media Contact

Elsa Anschuetz
Uproar PR for Xendoo
[email protected]
321-236-0102 x233

BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Auth0, the identity platform for application teams, today announced it has been selected as the identity provider to power authentication for Salesforce Customer 360 Identity, its best-in-class consumer identity and access management (CIAM) technology, providing a single, trusted identity for more streamlined user management. Salesforce Customer 360 Identity will go into a pilot phase at the end of the year and will be generally available in early 2021.

Salesforce Customer 360 Identity is one of four products that comprise Customer 360 Truth, a set of data and identity services that enables companies to build a single source of truth for relevant and lasting customer relationships. The leading CIAM, data management, customer data platform, and privacy tools available in Customer 360 Truth provide a unified customer view to maintain customer privacy, security, connect siloed data systems, and harness new digital business.

Driving the frictionless login experiences for all Customer 360 Identity users, Auth0 will provide a seamless signup to drive better conversions, the ability to scale to any size, and a single customer login across all users’ digital properties, eliminating siloed data and providing a single source of truth for IT departments.

“The need for digital transformation has reached new heights, challenging companies to deliver simple, connected, and trusted experiences online,” said, Patrick Stokes, EVP, Platform Shared Services at Salesforce. “Customer 360 Truth delivers just that. And, combined with Auth0, companies will be able to engage with their customers like never have before—authenticating millions of users quickly and securely.”

“Customer data is the cornerstone of Customer Success and hinges on the ability to have a comprehensive view of your customers,” said Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight. “As a customer of both Auth0 and Salesforce, I’m excited about their integration to help streamline how we access and map user data.”

Auth0’s deep developer roots and the ability to provide a superior pro-code developer experience offers a natural integration into Salesforce’s platform. Auth0’s platform provides the out-of-box experience that most customers need. Developers can easily customize their login flows via code, and also utilize the large library of integrations readily available from Auth0 Marketplace.

“Persistent challenges B2C customers face—scale, needing a holistic view of the customer, and enhanced security—are consistent across the industry, especially with the urgent speed in which companies are prioritizing their transformation efforts,” said Shiven Ramji, Chief Product Officer at Auth0. “This need is only going to accelerate as more businesses are forced to transform and we will be there every step of the way with Salesforce customers going through this process.”

In July 2020, Salesforce Ventures was the lead investor in Auth0’s $120 million Series F round, bringing Auth0’s valuation to $1.92 billion and total capital raised to more than $330 million.

About Auth0

Auth0 provides a platform to authenticate, authorize, and secure access for applications, devices, and users. Security and development teams rely on Auth0’s simplicity, extensibility, and expertise to make identity work for everyone. Safeguarding more than 4.5 billion login transactions each month, Auth0 secures identities so innovators can innovate, and empowers global enterprises to deliver trusted, superior digital experiences to their customers around the world.

For more information, visit https://auth0.com or follow @auth0 on Twitter.

Media Contacts:

Global Communications
Auth0
[email protected]

Hannah Carroll
Matter for Auth0
[email protected]

LAKE MURRAY, S.C., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The World Food Championships (WFC) just announced a new partnership with Capital City/Lake Murray Country, South Carolina to host a Super Regional qualifying event on March 4, 2021. Through the charitable event called “Taste of Lake Murray,” local chefs will be invited to compete for six Golden Tickets and the chance to represent the first-ever Team Columbia/Lake Murray at the 2021 WFC next fall.

“Lake Murray makes up parts of metropolitan Columbia, historic Newberry, rural Saluda and the County of Lexington, which is one of the most vibrant and fastest-growing counties in South Carolina,” states Miriam Atria, President/CEO of Capital City/Lake Murray Country. “This area continues to experience growth in the culinary scene and our regional tourism board wants to encourage and promote our food scene on a national scale through this partnership with WFC. This event will allow us to focus and showcase our regional restaurants/chefs, who have suffered during this pandemic.”

The “Taste of Lake Murray” event will be an intense culinary battle for local cooks and restaurants to claim their spot on the newest WFC Regional team. The event will be hosted at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Columbia, SC, where more than 20 chefs are expected to create samples for the event’s 800 patrons. The categories that will be up for grabs through the WFC Golden Ticket process are Bacon, Barbecue, Burger, Chef, Dessert, Recipe, Sandwich, Seafood, Soup and Steak. Thanks to WFC’s growing state and regional partnerships, the development of competitive teams from a strategic area has continued to grow. This latest team addition for South Carolina will join a robust and experienced group of teams from Alabama, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Maryland and Indiana, where the previous Final Table event was held and Lidia Haddadian was named the 8th World Food Champion. 

“We really look forward to learning more about the cuisine and talent from Lake Murray Country,” said Mike McCloud, WFC President and CEO. “These strategic qualifiers not only highlight the great local cuisine from America’s diverse regions, but they end up giving new groups of chefs and cooks a chance to develop life-long friends at WFC that share the same passion and purpose of food through competition.”

More information on Taste of Lake Murray can be found at lakemurraycountry.com. To stay up-to-date on all things Food Sport, follow the World Food Championships on Twitter (@WorldFoodChamp), Facebook and Instagram (@WorldFoodChampionships).

About World Food Championships

The World Food Championships (WFC) is the highest stakes food competition in the world. This multi-day, live event culinary competition showcases some of the world’s best cooks who compete for food, fame and fortune in 10 categories. In 2019, more than 450 culinary teams from 11 countries and 42 American states competed in WFC’s Main Event. In August, the 10 Category Champs faced-off in the $100,000 challenge that determined a new World Food Champion at The Final Table: Indianapolis.

Alli Sparks
World Food Championships
[email protected]

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Puppet, the industry standard for infrastructure automation, today announced its evolution to an integrated automation platform to enable key business initiatives such as scaling DevOps, risk reduction, policy as code, and evolving cloud strategies. The Puppet Enterprise Platform integrates Puppet’s flagship product, Puppet Enterprise with the recently introduced event-driven automation platform, Relay by Puppet.

The company also announced Puppet Connect, a stand-alone solution which will connect people and teams through a self-service user interface to run agentless tasks and orchestration to deliver and operate cloud and on-premises applications.

Puppet Enterprise Platform is the first to provide all three styles of automation: task-driven orchestration, model-driven infrastructure as code and API event-driven workflow in a single platform. The Puppet Enterprise Platform offers extensibility through thousands of pre-built automation modules and hundreds of API integrations from the Puppet Forge. As enterprises adopt platform team strategies and expand their cloud strategies, infrastructure stacks, tools and processes are getting more complicated, not less. Puppet Enterprise Platform helps ensure those platform teams can take advantage of the automation expertise of Puppet and expand it to others within their organizations.

“As a company and a community of infrastructure enthusiasts, we have always sought to simplify the complexity of managing infrastructure at scale through abstractions and automation. Our goal is to help our customers solve higher-order problems,” said Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO at Puppet. “With the Puppet Enterprise Platform, we give our customers the ability to automate everything: simple tasks, complex systems both on-prem and in the cloud and, with Relay, workflows that have sprung up in cloud-native environments.”

Introducing Puppet Connect

Arriving in early 2021, Puppet Connect empowers Cloud, Application and Platform teams to codify and scale their unique automation expertise by publishing and sharing content for self-service use by others within their organization. This offers beneficiaries of shared content a safe, simple and easy way to run expert-built automation on their own. Puppet Connect is based on the Bolt engine, which means it comes out of the box ready to run high-quality task-based content available today from Puppet Forge.

“As various IT infrastructure and application teams adopt cloud-native tools and strategies, they often see isolated success. That success does not propagate evenly to other teams in the organization. Additionally, given the sheer number of cloud-native tools available, different teams often choose different tools to achieve their goals. This creates a tool sprawl problem for organizations that further silos teams and their successes,” said Abby Kearns, CTO of Puppet. “This is where Puppet Connect comes in, it gives teams a better way to connect their tools and codify their processes that can be shared with others in the organization through self-service.”

The latest State of DevOps report revealed a platform approach to software delivery helps organizations standardize and scale DevOps practices, with 63 percent of respondents stating their company has at least one self-service internal platform. Even more revealing was that self-service capabilities were seen at higher levels of DevOps evolution — more evolved organizations are almost twice as likely as mid-level organizations to have high usage of internal platforms with self-service capabilities.

Relay Integrates with Puppet Enterprise

Relay was born to solve the integration complexities of today’s enterprise infrastructure environment, making it simple to automate the explosion of tools, technologies, and API events created in cloud-native environments. This integration allows Puppet Enterprise customers to connect to cloud-native environments via Relay workflows and helps put environments in a good known state more quickly with event-driven automation. Event-driven responses can include automatically informing individuals on Slack, integrating with different ticketing systems, or triggering incident response tools like Splunk On-Call.

“The acceleration of digital transformation across all businesses and the management of highly distributed resources around the globe has accelerated the need to adopt modern architectures including microservices, hybrid clouds, and the virtualization of the enterprise. This rapid transformation makes it increasingly more difficult to manage all the complexities of hybrid environments, automation of manual processes, and the complexities of geographically dispersed teams and resources,” said Stan Chan, Senior Software Engineer at Uber. “Relay delivers solutions for enterprises to solve these problems and more. It delivers the promise of an automated future by enabling organizations to build smarter in order to solve real-world business processes in a modern, elegant, and effective way.”

To learn more about Puppet Connect and Relay, please visit our website or join us at Puppetize Digital on November 19 for keynotes from Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO at Puppet, as well as Abby Kearns and Deepak Giridharagopal, both CTOs at Puppet.

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Puppet
• Follow Puppet on Twitter and LinkedIn

About Puppet

Puppet makes infrastructure actionable, scalable and intelligent. From the data center to the cloud, Puppet helps enterprises modernize and manage their infrastructure to deliver innovation and efficiency through continuous automation. More than 40,000 organizations — including more than 80 percent of the Global 5000 — have benefited from Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to ensure business continuity, optimize costs, boost compliance and ensure security — all while accelerating the adoption of DevOps practices and delivery of self-service. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Puppet is a privately held company with offices in London, Belfast, Singapore and Sydney. Learn more at puppet.com.

Media Contact
Zibby Keaton
Head of External Communications @ Puppet
[email protected]

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The law firm of Kirby McInerney LLP is investigating potential claims against MultiPlan Corporation (“MultiPlan” or the “Company”) (NYSE: MPLN). The investigation focuses on whether the Company issued false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose information pertinent to investors.

On November 11, 2020, Muddy Waters Research (“Muddy Waters”) released a report entitled “MultiPlan: Private Equity Necrophilia Meets The Great 2020 Money Grab.” Among other issues, the Muddy Waters report asserted that MultiPlan is “in financial decline, and its financial statements were engineered to obscure this existing deterioration” and that the Company “is in the process of losing its largest client, UnitedHealthcare (‘UHC’),” which “has formed a competitor to MPLN that offers significantly lower prices and fewer conflicts of interest.”

On this news, MultiPlan’s stock price fell $1.72 per share, or 19.7%, to close at $7.01 per share on November 11, 2020.

If you purchased or otherwise acquired MultiPlan securities, have information, or would like to learn more about these claims, please contact Thomas W. Elrod of Kirby McInerney LLP at 212-371-6600, by email at [email protected], or by filling out this contact form, to discuss your rights or interests with respect to these matters without any cost to you.

Kirby McInerney LLP
is a New York-based plaintiffs’ law firm concentrating in securities, antitrust, whistleblower, and consumer litigation. The firm’s efforts on behalf of shareholders in securities litigation have resulted in recoveries totaling billions of dollars. Additional information about the firm can be found at Kirby McInerney LLP’s website: http://www.kmllp.com.

This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.

Contacts
Kirby McInerney LLP
Thomas W. Elrod, Esq.
212-371-6600
https://www.kmllp.com
[email protected]

BERLIN, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Garden, creators of an open source-based development automation platform for Kubernetes and cloud native applications, today announced €3.1M in funding and new technology that reimagines the future of cloud native developer workflows. The seed funding was led by Crowberry Capital with participation from byFounders. Pre-seed funding was led by Fly Ventures, and included System.One, Tiny.vc, as well as angels Renaud Visage (founder, Eventbrite), Chad Fowler (former GM Developer Advocacy, Microsoft), Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog) and David Helgason (founder, Unity). Garden will use the funds to build out its engineering, sales and marketing teams, and to support its growing user and customer base.

Available today, Garden Enterprise is the first solution to unify development, testing and CI for cloud native applications with a single platform that works across all stages. Garden provides developers with production-like environments for every step of the cycle, enabling in-cluster development, efficient integration and end-to-end testing, reliable code review, QA and more. Available as an open source product since 2018 and with a vibrant user community, Garden Core provides highly efficient workflows for Fortune 500 companies and other organizations with complex software systems.

Garden was founded by a team of engineers who recognized an urgent need for a development automation platform for the cloud native era. The widespread adoption of containers and Kubernetes, expected to account for $8.2B in spend by 2025, has made it easier than ever to operate and scale applications. However, these new technologies have added lots of complexity to the day-to-day development process, and important workflows such as environment management and testing have been largely overlooked. As a result, many developers find that they’re less productive now than they were before the adoption of cloud native technologies.

“Developers today are wasting as much as 25 percent of their time waiting on CI pipelines and repeatedly solving the same boilerplate problems when building cloud native applications,” said Jon
Edvald
, CEO and co-founder of Garden Technologies. “W
e founded Garden to deliver better solutions to Kubernetes developers with a fresh approach that unifies dev, testing and CI workflows. Garden Enterprise operates as a hybrid dev and automation platform, eliminating the need for customers to maintain multi
ple tools and configurations for the same application,
and enabling
them to be much more efficient and productive.”

Today, organizations need to invest heavily in internal tooling in order to stay productive when working on cloud native applications, especially as projects and teams grow in size. Garden greatly reduces the amount of custom tooling and education required for teams, while retaining a high degree of flexibility and customizability, resulting in a predictable and efficient pre-production pipeline for even the most complex of applications.

“We use Garden to provide more than 50 engineers with an isolated development environment in a shared Kubernetes cluster. Our team can develop their microservices remotely and more quickly test changes and
iterate on their services in a production-like environment,” said Mitchell Friedman, engineer at
OakNorth
Bank. “Garden also powers our continuous integration pipeline, where we run all of our image builds, unit and integration tests. Sharing cached result
s for images and tests reduces cycle time for developing features and getting our work merged and ready to release.”

Garden Enterprise, built on top of the open source Garden Core, enables DevOps engineers to quickly and securely roll out Garden to development teams. Garden Enterprise allows organizations to:

• Reduce operating cost and resource waste by automatically halting unused environments and resources. Today, 44% of cloud compute is used for non-production environments, which are used 40 hours a week yet accrue 168 hours per week in costs.
• Simplify developer onboarding by centrally provisioning and managing keys for different environments and individual users. As organizations around the globe go remote, secure and efficient employee onboarding becomes a critical capability.
• Automatically st
  art and tear down preview environments for pull requests, to enable both technical and non-technical stakeholders to see and interact with a production-like replica of the application before pushing to production.
• Gain a central view of all environments, log all activity in one place and visualize the performance of your builds and tests. This high-level view makes it easy to identify bottlenecks in the testing and development pipeline and to optimize them.

“Across our portfolio, we’ve observed the challe
nges around developer productivity, and they only seem to be growing,” said Jenny Ruth, founding partner at Crowberry Capital. “The Garden team, some of whom we’ve worked with previously, are exceptionally talented engineers, and we’re excited to support t
hem in solving this massive problem for enterprises around the globe.”

Availability

Garden is distributed as a free, open source Core edition as well as a commercial Enterprise edition. Installation instructions for the Core edition are available in the documentation. Access to the Enterprise edition is available on request.

About Garden

Garden is a development automation platform for cloud native applications. Based on an open source core, Garden provides developers with on-demand, production-like Kubernetes environments with powerful workflows for in-cluster development, efficient integration testing, QA and code reviews and more. Fortune 500 companies and other organizations with complex software systems trust Garden to keep their development teams focused so they can ship better tested and higher quality software, and to do so faster than ever before.

To learn more, please visit https://garden.io/ and follow us at https://twitter.com/garden_io.

Media Contacts

Jessica Jaffe or Jill Reed
Sift Communications for Garden.io
[email protected]

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AbacusNext^®, a leading technology provider for legal, accounting and compliance-focused professionals, today announced the launch of Amicus Cloud to bring sophisticated but simple-to-use cloud practice management to law firms worldwide.

Amicus Cloud is a cloud-based practice management tool that allows firms to access information about their practice 24/7 using any device from any location. The product’s new dashboard makes it easy to get to the most used features – Calendar, Email, Tasks, Time and Billing and Matter Management. In addition, there is a secure client portal that includes APX electronic payments (Abacus Payment Exchange), so client communications and compensation for legal services are handled seamlessly.

“Amicus Cloud is easy to use and requires little training. It is more important than ever for law firms of all sizes to have a secure way to manage their practice from anywhere. In a recent study, 69% of solo practitioners are not using practice management effectively, and almost 50% of 2-20 attorney firms are not using practice management at all. That’s why we’re thrilled to release the new Amicus Cloud as it’s designed to help increase firm productivity and profitability,” states Tomas Suros, global product marketing director – legal, AbacusNext.

For more information on Amicus Cloud (formerly Amicus Online), visit www.amicusattorney.com/cloud.

About AbacusNext

AbacusNext is a leading vertical SaaS provider for compliance-focused professional services markets. Our purpose-built cloud infrastructure puts customers’ business data and vital applications into a virtual workspace that is accessible anywhere, anytime and from any device, enabling small and midsize legal and accounting firms to grow an efficient, secure, client-focused practice.

More than 100,000 users worldwide benefit from the most complete product portfolio in the industry, including practice management and case management solutions, tailored cloud options, document automation and payment processing. To learn more visit abacusnext.com.

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