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Today, I’m excited to announce that Gerald Combs, the original creator and lead maintainer of Wireshark, has joined Sysdig. In addition, Sysdig is becoming the primary sponsor of Wireshark.

At PagerDuty, we are committed to championing the customer — it’s a core company value. Our product has to provide great value, we have to provide excellent service, and we need to make it simple to do business with us. The Winter 2022 G2 Grid for AIOps Platforms Relationship Index showcases these values and highlights PagerDuty as a leading player in the AIOps space.

Today we had an exciting announcement at Elastic. Below is part of an internal email that we shared with our fellow Elasticians. First, hear from Shay: Almost two years ago, I decided to move to Israel because it was better for my family (that took time to happen, Covid!). At that time, I started thinking about how to do what is right for my family while being able to be a meaningful part of Elastic. Those of you who know me, know that Elastic is my life’s work. And we have only just begun.

I am excited to announce today that BigPanda has secured $190 million in financing at a $1.2 billion valuation. This financing was led by Advent International and Insight Partners, together with our other existing investors. BigPanda is now officially a unicorn, and the clear leader in the rapidly growing AIOps market!

Netreo, the award-winning provider of IT infrastructure monitoring and observability solutions and one of Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies, today announced that the Netreo full-stack IT infrastructure monitoring and Retrace by Netreo full lifecycle APM solutions have both earned Veracode Verified Standard recognition for proven security practices in application development.

OpsRamp was one of only two vendors to be recognized in 451 Research’s Market Map for Application and Infrastructure Performance Monitoring (AIPM) in the categories of Infrastructure Monitoring, Event Correlation and Alerting. 451’s AIPM Market Map offers a holistic perspective on key emerging categories in the IT monitoring and observability space.

Grafana Labs has had a long commitment to educating our customers and community about all of our open source technologies and products, with our community Slack, webinars, conferences, documentation, and of course, this blog. In 2021, we decided that it was time to create a formal education program to provide more structured, repeatable, and scalable learning experiences – all while providing the same compelling and quality content our community is accustomed to.

The channel has spoken! A total of 7,000 MSPs, VARs, resellers, and distributors voted in 13 vendor categories at this year's ICT Channel Awards, choosing NinjaOne (formerly NinjaRMM) as the #1 MSP software. "We are very proud to have achieved first place in the MSP category at the ICT Channel Awards," says André Schindler, General Manager EMEA at NinjaOne.

I am excited to announce today that we have raised an additional $350M at a valuation of $2.5B, more than doubling our valuation and bringing our cumulative funding since inception to ~$750M. This funding reflects investor conviction in our ability to be the dominant cloud and container security platform, and brings us closer to our vision of helping every organization to confidently run modern, cloud-native applications.

I’m excited to announce that, for the first time, ServiceNow has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2021. This complements our recognition as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms for Professional Developers, Q2 2021. We attribute this recognition to our latest low-code innovations in ServiceNow® Creator Workflows and our purpose-built automation components to cover all enterprise processes.