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CircleCI Launches Native Support for GitLab SaaS Enhancing Flexibility and Speed for Developers

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

CircleCI , the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced the general availability of support for GitLab SaaS customers.

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  • CircleCI , the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced the general availability of support for GitLab SaaS customers.
  • Now, joint customers can enjoy interoperability between tools from GitLab Inc. , The One DevOps Platform for software innovation, and CircleCI.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220726005124/en/
    Teams using GitLab SaaS can now build, test, and deploy on CircleCI, and access CircleCIs most popular features.
  • With native support for GitLab SaaS, joint CircleCI and GitLab customers have access to:
    GitLab-based triggers: Developers can decide when to trigger pipelines in CircleCI from GitLab forked merge requests, only merge requests, and commits for specific branches.

SAP Announces Q2 2022 Results

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

The Q1-Q2 2022 results were also impacted by other effects.

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  • The Q1-Q2 2022 results were also impacted by other effects.
  • Customers continue to expand their SAP landscape: Microsoft invested in "RISE with SAP", while GlobalFoundries, HeidelbergCement, Malaysia Airlines, and Mapletree Investments combined the "RISE with SAP" offering with further solutions.
  • On May 4, SAP and Google Cloud announced an expansion of their relationship, unveiling new integrations between Google Workspace and SAP's flagship cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
  • On May 18, SAP announced that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of SAP SE approved all proposals of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board.

JumpCloud Announces Its 2022 Customer Award Winners

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

LOUISVILLE, Colo., July 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud today announced the winners of the inaugural JumpCloud Customer Awards (Jumpies), recognizing the incredible things IT teams and their organizations are doing with JumpCloud.

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  • LOUISVILLE, Colo., July 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud today announced the winners of the inaugural JumpCloud Customer Awards (Jumpies), recognizing the incredible things IT teams and their organizations are doing with JumpCloud.
  • The 2022 Jumpies Award winners are:
    AkitaBox | Best Use Case: AkitaBox uses JumpCloud to secure, streamline, and transform their business in a wide variety of ways, including SSO, JumpCloud Protect, MDM, and RADIUS.
  • Best Use Case is an award created to highlight the customer using JumpCloud in a way that fundamentally transforms their business in a mission-critical way the award winner was chosen based on community voting plus the scores of JumpClouds judging panel.
  • JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike.

JumpCloud and HiBob Integrate to Improve HR and IT Workflows, Security, and the End User Experience with Instant Resource Access

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The integration between HiBob and JumpCloud provides HR and IT teams significant enhancements to productivity, security, and ultimately an improved employee experience.

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  • The integration between HiBob and JumpCloud provides HR and IT teams significant enhancements to productivity, security, and ultimately an improved employee experience.
  • Improves the security implications related to employee joiner/mover/leaver scenarios and the related modifications to resource access instigated by HR teams and required to be executed by IT.
  • Employee productivity, security, and experience are critical elements of business success today, said Doug White, head of strategic alliances, JumpCloud.
  • IT and HR administrators can see instant value in efficiencies and employees will have a far superior experience from their initial log on.

Yugabyte and UL Systems Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Cloud-Native Transactional Database Adoption

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Yugabyte , the leading open source distributed SQL database company, today announced that it has signed a strategic partner agreement with leading Japanese strategic IT consulting company, UL Systems, Inc.

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  • Yugabyte , the leading open source distributed SQL database company, today announced that it has signed a strategic partner agreement with leading Japanese strategic IT consulting company, UL Systems, Inc.
  • Together, Yugabyte and UL Systems will accelerate the adoption of cloud-native transactional database technology for enterprise digital transformation initiatives in Japan.
  • UL Systems brings a wealth of experience in cloud adoption, SQL and NoSQL database implementation, and digital transformation.
  • Yugabytes partnership with UL Systems has been fuelled by an emerging market opportunity, along with the demand and ambition of UL Systems to help businesses fully capitalize on modern cloud-native databases.

JumpCloud Announces Amy Moynihan as Chief People Officer

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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

LOUISVILLE, Colo., July 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud today named Amy Moynihan as its chief people officer.

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  • LOUISVILLE, Colo., July 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud today named Amy Moynihan as its chief people officer.
  • Moynihan is a seasoned people leader, with more than 20 years of HR leadership experience across public, private, and startup technology organizations.
  • Im incredibly excited to join JumpCloud during such monumental times in the companys growth journey, said Moynihan.
  • JumpCloud University , where admins can enroll in free courses for all skill levels and earn official JumpCloud certification.

YugabyteDB 2.15 and New Migration Engine YugabyteDB Voyager Effortlessly Power the Widest Range of Apps and Simplify Cloud Adoption

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

YugabyteDB Voyager, the new cloud database migration service, accelerates cloud native adoption by making the move to a distributed database simple and efficient.

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  • YugabyteDB Voyager, the new cloud database migration service, accelerates cloud native adoption by making the move to a distributed database simple and efficient.
  • YugabyteDB 2.15 offers dynamic workload optimization enabling organizations to effortlessly deploy and run the widest range of cloud native transactional applications in a single consolidated database, with predictable performance.
  • YugabyteDB Voyager delivers a powerful migration engine that helps to effortlessly migrate critical data from legacy on-premises or cloud databases to a distributed, multi-cloud data fabric powered by YugabyteDB.
  • YugabyteDB Voyager further breaks down barriers at the data layer that often hinder or complicate the journey to the cloud.

Yugabyte Announces Fourth Annual Distributed SQL Summit to Accelerate Cloud Native Initiatives in Any Future

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Developers, system architects, open source community members, and technology leaders will explore the critical role that distributed SQL plays in enabling modern, cloud native applications, and helping organizations transform into future-proof data-driven enterprises.

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  • Developers, system architects, open source community members, and technology leaders will explore the critical role that distributed SQL plays in enabling modern, cloud native applications, and helping organizations transform into future-proof data-driven enterprises.
  • The Distributed SQL Summit offers a place for developers, operators, technology leaders, and practitioners to discuss their achievements and challenges, and gain the expertise they need to realize the full potential of their distributed SQL databases.
  • The virtual Distributed SQL Summit will serve as the kick-off for a series of regional in-person DSS Day events throughout September and October.
  • Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the open source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications.

JumpCloud Wins Gold for IDaaS in 2022 Information Technology World Awards®

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

LOUISVILLE, Colo., June 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud announced today that The Globee Awards, organizers of worlds premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named the JumpCloud Directory Platform a winner in the 17th Annual 2022 Information Technology World Awards.

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  • LOUISVILLE, Colo., June 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud announced today that The Globee Awards, organizers of worlds premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named the JumpCloud Directory Platform a winner in the 17th Annual 2022 Information Technology World Awards.
  • The JumpCloud Directory Platform won gold in the Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) category.
  • The Information Technology World Awards are open to all information technology and cybersecurity organizations from all over the world and their end users of products and services.
  • Globee Awards are conferred in nine programs and competitions: the American Best in Business Awards, Business Excellence Awards, CEO World Awards, Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards, Disruptor Company Awards, Golden Bridge Awards, Information Technology World Awards, Sales, Marketing, Service, & Operations Excellence Awards, and Women World Awards.

JumpCloud Customers Help It Expand Lead in Identity, Device, and Directory Categories in G2 Summer 2022 Grid® Reports

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

1 position in the Grid Report for Cloud Directory Services the only vendor to consistently hold the position since the advent of the report.

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  • 1 position in the Grid Report for Cloud Directory Services the only vendor to consistently hold the position since the advent of the report.
  • With directory services as its foundation, JumpClouds platform includes SSO, MDM, multi-factor authentication (MFA), PAM, conditional access policies, and more.
  • To try the JumpCloud Directory Platform, free forever for up to 10 users, sign up here .
  • JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike.