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Intellyx BrainCandy -- April 8, 2025 | |
Here we are, showered with an abundance of springtime event season vendor briefs, including a huge batch from Jason from KubeCon EU in London. Want to appear in an upcoming #BrainCandy brief with Intellyx B.V., or invite us to your upcoming (virtual) event? Email us at pr@intellyx.com. | |
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We last covered Akuity in April 2023. Akuity is the primary champion of the open-source project Argo, a popular suite of open-source tools for GitOps, including continuous integration and delivery or CI/CD, running DevOps workflows and managing clusters.
Akuity is now championing Kargo, an open-source project that delivers a continuous promotion orchestration layer that complements Argo ... [Read more] | |
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By now we’re all familiar with the advantages of using caching and CDNs to move the warmest possible data closer to its intended workload for high-volume applications such as analytics, media delivery, and retail.
Since our last coverages of Alluxio in 2023, 2021 and 2019, this cloud native distributed cache vendor has found itself a new lane in the exploding AI/ML space, as model training runs and AI inference workloads can benefit the most from access to speedier local NVMe drives and streams … [Read more] | |
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Besides getting a cooler logo, Appvance has AI-enhanced their automated test writing, test execution and application digital twin creation capabilities since our last coverage in 2019. Many enterprises already have huge inventories of manually documented test cases, and long benches of testers and contractors working on manual testing, making it hard to continue to develop new features atop existing test coverage without incurring additional technical debt ... [Read more] | |
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Bedrock Security provides comprehensive data security and data management capabilities leveraging its AI-powered ‘metadata lake’ – a graph-based metadata store that tracks the syntax, semantics, and context of all enterprise data.
Bedrock uses a parallel serverless architecture to rapidly scan all enterprise cloud-based data (on prem data is on the roadmap) ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered Chronosphere is May 2023. At that time, it offered a SaaS cloud native observability platform for cloud native infrastructure that leveraged telemetry including logs, metrics, and traces across all cloud native sources, including all flavors of Kubernetes and serverless functions.
Since that time, the company has been improving its developer experience, including the introduction of a differential diagnosis capability. This capability enables developers to leverage Chronosphere’s observability data to locate … [Read More] | |
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Collibra adds AI governance to their data governance platform, receiving ISO 42001 certification, and signing on to the European Commission’s AI Pact. They also provide an AI Pact assessment tool.
Collibra’s platform helps customers manage data using a data catalogue, tracking data owners, ensuring data quality and lineage, tracking who’s accessing the data, setting entitlements, and ensuring data privacy ... [Read more] | |
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ConfidentialMind offers a platform for building generative AI (genAI) applications and AI agents.
The platform supports the creation and deployment of large language models (LLMs), databases, connectors, and business logic, giving developers all the tools they need to build and manage genAI applications ... [Read more] | |
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Since we last covered Cosmonic in November 2022, WebAssembly (WASM) has turned a corner in the marketplace. What was a paradigm-shifting but confusingly complex architectural approach has become a must-have for enterprises who require greater efficiency and cost savings than Kubernetes and containerization can provide alone.
Cosmonic has been driving the growth of WASM since its early days. Now the company is rolling out Cosmonic Control, and enterprise-class WASM platform that brings multitenancy, enterprise-grade security, Functions-as-a-Service ... [Read more] | |
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Crogl leverages several types of AI and an autonomous enterprise knowledge engine to normalize alerts and other security-related data, facilitating the analysis and remediation of security threats and other issues by leveraging the enterprise’s existing security tooling.
Crogl includes a compound AI system that includes LLMs and smaller models as well as agentic AI orchestration, unlike other security tools with LLMs bolted on ... [Read more] | |
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According to its web site, OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools that engineers can use to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to analyze software performance and behavior.
While OTel is popular, its adoption has been growing slowly, as observability vendors must either rework their offerings or provide an integration layer ... [Read more] | |
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When we last covered Fermyon in November 2023, the company was expanding the capabilities of its WebAssembly delivery platform and cloud deployment service.
Fermyon is now partnering with Akamai, the leading cloud computing platform and edge network ... [Read more] | |
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Future AGI provides an agentic AI platform that enables developers to build agents and agentic workflows. It then evaluates the applications for accuracy and compliance with business requirements, observes the behavior of generative AI (genAI) applications, and optimizes them via iterative self-correction.
Future AGI’s core innovation is how it is able to evaluate the results of genAI without a human in the loop or an awareness of external ‘ground’ truth ... [Read more] | |
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When we last covered Giant Swarm in December 2023, the company offered a management and operating platform for hybrid and multicloud deployments that extended to fleets of Kubernetes clusters.
Since that time, the company has gone all-in on platform engineering, leveraging its Kubernetes platform to enable organizations to build their own internal developer platforms (IDPs) ... [Read more] | |
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When we last covered Gravitee in March 2022, it provided an API management platform that supported end-to-end real-time streaming in a cloud-native environment.
Since that time, the company has doubled down on its ability to manage and abstract event streaming technologies, most notably Kafka ... [Read more] | |
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With lots of buzz but little fanfare, Honeycomb has built up a fan base as the “developer’s best friend” in observability, giving engineers the ability to rapidly dive from exploratory identification of anomalies in an event stream, into root causes within distributed infrastructure and their own code.
Since our last briefing in 2021, we’ve seen plenty of vendor consolidation in the observability space, the widespread adoption of OpenTelemetry, massive activity in streaming data pipelines, and now the insertion of AI elements into development tool chains. This has caused Honeycomb to stretch its core resolution strengths ... [Read more] | |
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Huvr provides an AI-driven integration layer for ingesting and processing data signals from a wide variety of devices and sensors, while using machine learning algorithms to progressively recognize contextual patterns and alerts based on real-world conditions.
One of the most intractable hurdles to achieving true business value from IoT technologies is that once you hoover up feeds from countless cameras, audio sources, temperature and chemical sensors, it’s really hard to wring useful insights out of so much data ... [Read more] | |
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IndyKite onboards your data sources, graphs the relationships among data items, and uses identity to control access to the data. The IndyKite graph retrieves data relevant to an identity in real time, within the context of an application (including AI applications), and uses identity to implement policies guarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance ... [Read more] | |
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Have you ever been humiliated in production? Want to look hacked? This is something AI was born to do. Just sit back and let Jankify-AI do the janking. With just a text prompt and a digital token, this agentic AI will vibecode key components of your application, while introducing unvalidated packages and borrowed code snippets. Hopefully your underlying site keeps humming along fine and service customers under the nanometer-thin Jank-iFabric distributed hybrid cloud network eBPF wrapper ... [Read more] | |
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Jozu offers a DevSecOps platform for AI agents, applications and models. It helps developers track, audit, and optimize security-scanned models across the development lifecycle.
Jozu champions the KitOps open-source project. KitOps provides secure packaging for AI projects ... [Read more] | |
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Katalon offers a hybrid testing platform that allows developers and test engineers to validate new requirements, generate and run tests, and take in results, while using Agentic AI to zip together and execute routines from developer code and integration testing frameworks alongside visual and business-driven test design and automation tools ... [Read more] | |
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Kinnami offers a secure, resilient data mesh for connecting multiple peer-to-peer edge devices and distributed systems, offering high availability and data recovery capabilities, whether or not a web connection is available.
Since our last coverage in 2023, Kinnami has improved upon its AmiShare platform with enhanced network visualization, management, and automation ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered Kubermatic in March 2024, as it increased its focus on its multicluster Kubernetes deployment automation capabilities.
Kubermatic is now adding the Kubernetes Developer Platform (KDP) to its deployment (day 1) and management (day 2) multicluster offering ... [Read more] | |
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martini.ai leverages AI to generate daily risk ratings for 3.5M companies, analyzes those ratings in the context of public and private data, and produces dashboards and reports as input to risk related decisions for private credit and investment services.
Their set of 35 AI agents evaluate credit risk for a broad range of comparable businesses and “what if” scenarios, and do so rapidly ... [Read more] | |
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Since we last covered OpsMx in March 2024, the company has completed its pivot from open-source CI/CD vendor to offering full lifecycle application security.
OpsMx’s application security capabilities span multiple product categories, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Mobile Application Protection (MAP), as well as DevOps-focused security capabilities that leverage the company’s heritage as an open-source CI/CD vendor ... [Read more] | |
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A lot has changed at New Relic since we last wrote about them in February 2021. The veteran observability vendor has now moved all-in on agentic AI with its ‘intelligent observability’ strategy.
At the heart of this strategy is the New Relic intelligence engine, which adds an agentic orchestrator, a RAG-based context connector, and agent-based predictions to its existing AI-rich engine that already included generative AI (genAI), predictive AI, as well as anomaly detection, event correlation, and other common features of other observability platforms on the market ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered Nirmata in March 2024. Since that time, the company has rolled out Cloud Control Point to bring admission control to the cloud.
Nirmata’s flagship product, Nirmata Control Hub, is a Kubernetes policy engine that enables operators to configure and enforce policies for Kubernetes configurations for security and compliance. Control Hub is based on the Kyverno open-source policy-as-code engine ... [Read more] | |
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Since we last covered Privacera in October 2023, the company has released the open-source Privacera AI Governance (PAIG) platform. PAIG leverages diverse LLMs to support enterprisewide security, privacy, and access governance across the enterprise’s entire AI landscape.
PAIG provides a holistic approach to AI governance, enabling organizations to manage risk, enforce policies, and provide visibility across all AI applications, agents, and workflows ... [Read more] | |
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Sanas uses AI to remove accents and noise in near real-time, facilitating communication between call center personnel around the world and customers in the US.
Sanas’s goal is to foster better speech understanding. Today, it can translate many accents into a generic American accent while also enabling call center reps around the world to understand callers better ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered Spectro Cloud in May 2022, when the company expanded its full stack Kubernetes management to any cloud and any cluster, including on the edge.
To support its edge computing efforts, Spectro Cloud champions two open-source efforts: Kairos custom-bootable OS images for edge devices and LocalAI, an alternative to OpenAI ... [Read more] | |
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Information about the supply chain composition of software and the many CVEs that may be touched off by underlying open source and vendor-contributed code and components has become more complex than the software itself.
Spektion approaches this problem from a different perspective by discovering distributed software endpoints and actively reviewing software behavior through runtime data collection, which helps enterprises zero in on high-risk vulnerabilities ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered Vantiq in October 2023. Since we last spoke with them, they have added gen AI and agentic AI capabilities.
Vantiq’s platform provides a low code GUI to build and deploy data streaming integrations that connect enterprise applications with IoT devices to orchestrate responses to real time events ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered VictoriaMetrics in November 2022 when it was demonstrating an open-source time-series observability database optimized to meet the demands of fast-scaling Kubernetes application environments.
As its name would suggest, VictoriaMetrics has historically focused its observability solution on metrics. The company is now adding log support to the mix ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered WSO2 in October 2022 when it was promoting its internal developer platform offering. The company also offers open-source API management and identity and access management solutions – either on-premises or in the cloud.
WSO2 is now rolling out Bijira, its new open-source AI-powered SaaS API management solution. Bijira enables organizations to manage all APIs across both cloud and private data planes with governance ... [Read more] | |
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We last covered Zededa in February 2019. In the intervening time, the company has matured its platform as edge computing has come into its own.
Today, Zededa offers an edge computing orchestration and management platform that delivers applications and other workloads to various edge devices ... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx analyst Jason English “JE” to attend and cover in person. Contact us at pr@intellyx.com to arrange a briefing or booth visit after April 1st, note that these spots will fill up fast!
At RSAC 2025, you’re not just attending a conference—you’re stepping into a vibrant, thriving community of thinkers, innovators, and achievers. Though we come from different corners of the cybersecurity world, we are united by a common mission: to foresee risks, counter threats, and embrace the challenges ahead. Together, we shape the future of security. Together, we shine as one.
Join us to be a part of something bigger. Many Voices. One Community. [Register for the event here] | |
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Intellyx analyst Eric Newcomer to attend and cover for Intellyx and The New Stack. Contact us at pr@intellyx.com to arrange a briefing or an interview.
AI Agent Conference 2025 unites 300+ world-class AI Leaders, Senior Executives and Top Founders to New York City to connect, share ideas and shape the future of the agentic AI world. ...[Register for the event here] | |
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Join the industry’s biggest alliance as we face challenges, delve into solutions, and deliver real change together.
The Pathways to Growth are Here: Find Yours at DTW Ignite Jason Bloomberg will be attending DTW Ignite and is available to meet in person. Please email him to set up a meeting ... [Register for the event here] | |
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