The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the Golden Kubestronaut program, a distinguished recognition for professionals who have demonstrated the highest level of expertise in Kubernetes, cloud native technologies, and Linux administration.
Gartner has selected BigPanda as a “Cool Vendor.”
Gartner, the world’s premier information technology research and advisory company, published its evaluation of BigPanda in its April 19, 2016 Cool Vendors in Availability and Performance, 2016 report. This recognition builds upon significant momentum for BigPanda over the past year and the addition to its customer roster of several Fortune 1000 companies, including News Corp, Cisco and Gap.
BigPanda’s data science platform helps IT teams operate and troubleshoot large and dynamic data centers – where scale, speed and fragmentation have expanded beyond the ability of IT operators to keep up.
BigPanda helps companies in a wide variety of industries – from retail to technology to media – minimize service disruptions or prevent them in the first place. BigPanda automatically analyzes all of an organization’s IT events and turns them into actionable insights. This helps IT and DevOps teams detect and resolve issues nearly 90 percent faster than with traditional methods.
“BigPanda is honored by Gartner’s selection,” said Assaf Resnick, CEO of BigPanda. “We believe it validates our unique approach to improving the health of modern applications. Our goal is to make it easy for businesses to quickly detect and resolve IT issues in order to minimize downtime. As a result, our growth continues to accelerate, with customer wins and product innovation driving our momentum.”
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