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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

I wrote The Future of DevSecOps in June 2019 after gathering insights from IT professionals who foresaw: greater adoption, security being ingrained in development, and, AI/ML-driven automation. When developing an application, user experience needs to be a top priority as end users are among the most important stakeholders.

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The Cloud Cost-Conscious Conundrum

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Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Most public cloud offerings can solve for the latter, it is the application owner’s decision to pursue the active/active component. We can also consider an example of application metrics and logging. There, I said it!

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