Broadcom announced the general availability of VMware Tanzu Platform 10 that establishes a new layer of abstraction across Cloud Foundry infrastructure foundations to make it easier, faster, and less expensive to bring new applications, including GenAI applications, to production.
Pliant, a workflow automation platform for API-driven enterprise and service provider infrastructures, has launched out of stealth and secured over $2.5 million in funding, led by former SevOne tech startup exec, Vess Bakalov. Backed by Newfund Capital, New Stack Ventures, Leading Edge, and other angel and family investors, the funding will be used to launch the RPA company.
“In today’s on-demand and fast-paced economy, Pliant lets you build sophisticated workflows to automate complex business and IT processes in minutes, not weeks,” said Vess Bakalov, Pliant CEO. “Our technology allows ITOps/SecOps/DevOps to automatically respond to events by connecting their current run books to the infrastructure, limiting the human intervention required to keep your enterprise running at peak performance.”
Pliant helps teams quickly create sophisticated and robust workflows across all of their systems without having to spend the time and money on building traditional fragile integrations. Pliant’s novel approach takes ease of use and goes beyond most low-code systems without sacrificing power. Combining our approach with an industry leading execution engine, which is also horizontally scalable to process millions of requests, allows Pliant to emerge as a leader in this fast-growing niche.
“Every wave of IT innovation creates a new set of infrastructure challenges,” said Henri Deshays, Partner at Newfund Capital. “Pliant's platform was specifically designed to apply RPA to orchestrate communication between virtually any type of application and IT stack. The founders are seasoned entrepreneurs with deep expertise in enterprise software, we are thrilled to be part of their new journey.”
Nick Moran, Managing Partner, New Stack Ventures: “Pliant is solving expensive IT problems with a versatile and easy to implement solution. There are many players in the RPA space but no one has brought this code-light approach to IT operations.”
Jeff Davison, General Partner at Leading Edge Ventures, adds: “The experienced entrepreneurial team at Pliant is once again building a leading edge technology that delivers immediate value to the businesses they serve. Low-code automation from Pliant will dramatically speed up the way IT Ops, SecOps, and DevOps teams deliver results to the organization.”
Industry News
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Redgate is introducing two new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) powered capabilities in its test data management and database monitoring solutions.
Upbound announced significant advancements to its platform, targeting enterprises building self-service cloud environments for their developers and machine learning engineers.
Edera announced the availability of Am I Isolated, an open source container security benchmark that probes users runtime environments and tests for container isolation.
Progress announced 10 years of partnership with emt Distribution — a leading cybersecurity distributor in the Middle East and Africa.
Port announced $35 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $58M to date.
Parasoft has made another step in strategically integrating AI and ML quality enhancements where development teams need them most, such as using natural language for troubleshooting or checking code in real time.
MuleSoft announced the general availability of full lifecycle AsyncAPI support, enabling organizations to power AI agents with real-time data through seamless integration with event-driven architectures (EDAs).
Numecent announced they have expanded their Microsoft collaboration with the launch of Cloudpager's new integration to App attach in Azure Virtual Desktop.
Progress announced the completion of the acquisition of ShareFile, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, providing a SaaS-native, AI-powered, document-centric collaboration platform, focusing on industry segments including business and professional services, financial services, industrial and healthcare.
Incredibuild announced the acquisition of Garden, a provider of DevOps pipeline acceleration solutions.
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced an expansion of its free course “Developing Secure Software” (LFD121).
Redgate announced that its core solutions are listed in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
LambdaTest introduced a suite of new features to its AI-powered Test Manager, designed to simplify and enhance the test management experience for software development and QA teams.