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Acquia, the leader in open digital experience software, is announcing that Acquia Cloud Next—the enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-native Drupal hosting platform—has achieved Authorized status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This achievement reflects Acquia’s investment in the public sector as the only commercial Drupal hosting company to meet U.S. federal government security standards, according to the company.

Venafi, a CyberArk company, is unveiling a series of new functionalities for its Control Plane for Machine Identities, the solution for standardizing machine identity management and accelerating digital transformation. Introducing enhancements designed specifically for the multi-cloud and post-quantum future, Venafi empowers organizations to manage their most critical machine identity security challenges and future-proof their businesses, according to the vendor.

Cube, the company bringing consistency, context, and trust to the next generation of data experiences, is debuting a series of innovations for Cube Cloud—Cube’s universal semantic layer—geared around enhancing data management and consumption. The new capabilities—from a next-gen data modeling engine to new data access policies, Cube Copilot, and more—address the present modeling, governance, productivity, and collaboration needs of enterprises.

Enabling the collection and utilization of data is crucial to successfully supporting AI projects at enterprise scale. From data integration to data pipelines, AI performance, data governance, compliance, and more, adhering to data engineering best practices has never been more prudent for enabling an AI-powered future.

Rocket Software, Inc., a global technology leader in modernization software, is announcing an expansion of its Hybrid Cloud solutions with generative AI (GenAI) capabilities engineered to streamline modernization. Aimed at enhancing organizational agility and decision making, Rocket Software’s latest updates serve to close the operational gap between enterprises and an AI-powered future.

Qpoint, the provider of comprehensive visibility and control over external service dependencies and traffic flows for modern, highly connected applications, is announcing the close of its pre-seed funding, having raised $4 million. This funding—which was led by Mango Capital with participation from Preface Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta—will fuel Qpoint’s product development for its eBPF-based external dependency and traffic flow monitoring technology.

Sidero Labs, a leading software developer focused on providing innovative solutions to help lower the friction in managing Kubernetes and containerized applications, is announcing the completion of a recent investment round, having raised $4 million. This funding—led by Hiro Capital with participation from Sony Innovation Fund —will boost Sidero Labs’ product development, focusing on solving the operational challenges of running production Kubernetes clusters.

Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, is announcing that it has received a strategic investment from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP), serving to accelerate Flexential's growth and go-to-market efforts.

Cofense, the leading provider of intelligence-driven phishing defense solutions, is unveiling new AI-powered capabilities for its Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform that work to ease SOC analyst workloads with AI spam reduction. SOC analysts, plagued by heavy workloads and alert fatigue, benefit from the ability to sort through alert noise and focus on genuine threats with Cofense’s new AI functionality.

At its latest developer conference, GitHub unveiled a series of new innovations that emphasize developer choice, control, and ease of use for the AI era. Culminating in three key announcements-the now multi-model GitHub Copilot, the introduction of GitHub Spark, and additional updates across Copilot and GitHub Models-GitHub continues to innovate, motivated by its ambition to reach 1 billion developers.