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Building World Class Solutions Together

With the launch of the Cycle Partner Program, we are committing to making it easier for companies to work with Cycle by creating more transparent and predictable relationships, offering training, resources, incentives, and benefits, some of which will roll out over time as the program evolves. Interested in partnering with Cycle? Contact our partner lead to schedule a meeting.

Announcing HIPAA compliance for Upsun

If you’ve worked with us before, you know we take security seriously. We take measures necessary to safeguard your sensitive and personally identifiable information and comply with a variety of compliance standards. These include maintaining best security practices and aligning with regulations such as SOC-2, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.

Cloud Spend Is Now A Board-Level Issue, Survey Finds

According to Gartner, organizations spent $410.9 billion on cloud services in 2021. In the same year, executives estimated that as much as 30% of their cloud spend was wasted. That’s an aggregate $123.27 billion of waste — money that could go toward innovation, or that could help insulate companies from one of the worst market downturns in years. Organizations face a dilemma: The cloud is essential to modern business, and it’s only getting costlier.

The Improved xMatters Group Experience: Product Feature Updates

We’re constantly looking for new ways to help DevOps, SREs, and operations teams automate operations workflows, secure infrastructure and applications, and rapidly deliver their products at scale. This commitment to our customers — and yours! — led us to redesign the way you experience groups in xMatters.

Making the wrong choice on build vs buy

A few years ago I’d just moved to London and started out at my first software job. I was having a great time building things and making new friends, and one evening a friend and I decided there was a new problem we wanted to solve: we really didn’t like the expenses software. We thought it was confusing and over-complex, and decided we could do better.