Spectro Cloud completed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from existing Spectro Cloud investors.
Scott Rodgers, CEO of Monza Cloud, has joined the DEVOPSdigest Vendor Forum.
Rodgers is an expert at helping organizations standardize around the cloud's core best practices while saving time and money in all aspects of application development and operational management. He drives strategic direction and growth with the Monza Cloud executive team. Before joining Monza in December of 2017, he spent the last 17 years at Avanade, a $2B+ global business technology, cloud and managed services solutions firm. Avanade is majority owned by Accenture, founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Most recently, Rodgers was SVP and GM of Avanade’s South Central Region charged with all aspects of operating the business and driving the company’s growth in Digital and Cloud based solutions. In addition, he provided Client Leadership to several of the company’s largest clients supporting their business and technology objectives in these areas. Previously, Rodgers led Avanade’s North America Infrastructure Services Service Line where he had accountability for all Sales Support, Offerings, Delivery, and Operations within this Service Line. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Texas.
Monza Cloud delivers solutions and products around cloud-centric application development, and addresses the unique needs of cloud-centric DevOps challenges. Monza Cloud helps your enterprise focus on standardizing around cloud’s core best practices, future-proofing you with a cloud-ready development approach all while saving time and money in all aspects of application development and operational management. Headquartered in Atlanta, Monza Cloud builds development tools that support companies mid-market to enterprise in all industries including: financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and federal, and state and local government.
Industry News
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, has announced significant momentum around cloud native training and certifications with the addition of three new project-centric certifications and a series of new Platform Engineering-specific certifications:
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Salesforce announced agentic lifecycle management tools to automate Agentforce testing, prototype agents in secure Sandbox environments, and transparently manage usage at scale.
OpenText™ unveiled Cloud Editions (CE) 24.4, presenting a suite of transformative advancements in Business Cloud, AI, and Technology to empower the future of AI-driven knowledge work.
Red Hat announced new capabilities and enhancements for Red Hat Developer Hub, Red Hat’s enterprise-grade developer portal based on the Backstage project.
Pegasystems announced the availability of new AI-driven legacy discovery capabilities in Pega GenAI Blueprint™ to accelerate the daunting task of modernizing legacy systems that hold organizations back.
Tricentis launched enhanced cloud capabilities for its flagship solution, Tricentis Tosca, bringing enterprise-ready end-to-end test automation to the cloud.
Rafay Systems announced new platform advancements that help enterprises and GPU cloud providers deliver developer-friendly consumption workflows for GPU infrastructure.
Apiiro introduced Code-to-Runtime, a new capability using Apiiro’s deep code analysis (DCA) technology to map software architecture and trace all types of software components including APIs, open source software (OSS), and containers to code owners while enriching it with business impact.
Zesty announced the launch of Kompass, its automated Kubernetes optimization platform.
MacStadium announced the launch of Orka Engine, the latest addition to its Orka product line.
Elastic announced its AI ecosystem to help enterprise developers accelerate building and deploying their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications.
Red Hat introduced new capabilities and enhancements for Red Hat OpenShift, a hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, as well as the technology preview of Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed.
Traefik Labs announced API Sandbox as a Service to streamline and accelerate mock API development, and Traefik Proxy v3.2.