Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms (ESP).
Michael P. Morris, CEO of Topcoder, has joined the BIZDEVOPS Blog on DEVOPSdigest.
Morris is CEO of Topcoder and Global Head of Crowdsourcing for Wipro. Morris has served in leadership roles at Topcoder since 2002. A gig economy expert, he speaks worldwide about cultivating a passionate workforce to drive the transformative nature of digital innovation across every industry imaginable. Previously a GM|SVP at Appirio, Morris led its crowdsource offering (Cloudspokes) through the acquisition of Topcoder, and then managed customer, sales and services teams to solidify the Topcoder brand as the largest open workforce provider in the world. He was an integral part of Topcoder becoming a Wipro company through the acquisition of Appirio in 2016.
An active Boston College alumnus, Morris guest lectures at institutions like Harvard University, MIT, New York University and University of California Berkeley, as well as at industry events like DAVOS and US News & World Report’s Workforce of Tomorrow Conference. An engineer at heart and frequently quoted media/analyst source, he continues to lead the open workforce revolution by empowering organizations with limitless software development possibilities and unprecedented access to Topcoder’s talented multinational technologists.
Topcoder is an on-demand digital talent network of 1.6M+ remote technologists in 190+ countries.
Industry News
Progress announced its partnership with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the world’s largest member association representing the CPA profession.
Kurrent announced $12 million in funding, its rebrand from Event Store and the official launch of Kurrent Enterprise Edition, now commercially available.
Blitzy announced the launch of the Blitzy Platform, a category-defining agentic platform that accelerates software development for enterprises by autonomously batch building up to 80% of software applications.
Sonata Software launched IntellQA, a Harmoni.AI powered testing automation and acceleration platform designed to transform software delivery for global enterprises.
Sonar signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift, a provider of software supply chain security solutions that help organizations manage the risk of open source software.
Kindo formally launched its channel partner program.
Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), Red Hat’s foundation model platform for more seamlessly developing, testing and running generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) models for enterprise applications.
Fastly announced the general availability of Fastly AI Accelerator.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch and general availability of Amazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz in the AWS Management Console.
vFunction released new capabilities that solve a major microservices headache for development teams – keeping documentation current as systems evolve – and make it simpler to manage and remediate tech debt.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced that Infinity XDR/XPR achieved a 100% detection rate in the rigorous 2024 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations.
CyberArk announced the launch of FuzzyAI, an open-source framework that helps organizations identify and address AI model vulnerabilities, like guardrail bypassing and harmful output generation, in cloud-hosted and in-house AI models.
Grid Dynamics announced the launch of its developer portal.
LTIMindtree announced a strategic partnership with GitHub.