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OpsRamp, a service that helps IT teams discover, monitor, manage and — maybe most importantly — automate their hybrid environments, today announced that it has closed a $37.5 million funding round led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, with participation from existing investor Sapphire Ventures and new investor Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

OpsRamp last raised funding in 2017, when Sapphire led its $20 million Series A round.

At the core of OpsRamp’s services is its AIOps platform. Using machine learning and other techniques, this service aims to help IT teams manage increasingly complex infrastructure deployments, provide intelligent alerting and eventually automate more of their tasks. The company’s overall product portfolio also includes tools for cloud monitoring and incident management.

The company says its annual recurrent revenue increased by 300% in 2019 (though we obviously don’t know what number it started 2019 with). In total, OpsRamp says it now has 1,400 customers on its platform and alliances with AWS, ServiceNow, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

OpsRamp co-founder and CEO Varma Kunaparaju

According to OpsRamp co-founder and CEO Varma Kunaparaju, most of the company’s customers are mid to large enterprises. “These IT teams have large, complex, hybrid IT environments and need help to simplify and consolidate an incredibly fragmented, distributed and overwhelming technology and infrastructure stack,” he said. “The company is also seeing success in the ability of our partners to help us reach global enterprises and Fortune 5000 customers.”

Kunaparaju told me that the company plans to use the new funding to expand its go-to-market efforts and product offerings. “The company will be using the money in a few different areas, including expanding our go-to-market motion and new pursuits in EMEA and APAC, in addition to expanding our North American presence,” he said. “We’ll also be doubling-down on product development on a variety of fronts.”

Given that hybrid clouds only increase the workload for IT organizations and introduce additional tools, it’s maybe no surprise that investors are now interested in companies that offer services that rein in this complexity. If anything, we’ll likely see more deals like this one in the coming months.

“As more of our customers transition to hybrid infrastructure, we find the OpsRamp platform to be a differentiated IT operations management offering that aligns well with the core strategies of HPE,” said Paul Glaser, vice president and head of Hewlett Packard Pathfinder. “With OpsRamp’s product vision and customer traction, we felt it was the right time to invest in the growth and scale of their business.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving from Palo Alto to San Jose. The company will relocate 1,000 employees to a 220,000-square-foot space in late 2018. HPE was spun-off from Hewlett-Packard in 2015 and is focused on servers and storage.

This news comes months after HPE announced a different plan in which the company was moving to Santa Clara, where Aruba Networks, a company it previously acquired, is headquartered.

HPE is going to occupy six floors in San Jose’s America Center, which is located near a forthcoming Berryessa BART station.

This move is the latest win for San Jose. Google recently announced it would move in the coming years. According to a report in The Mercury News, the city of San Jose did not offer HPE any financial incentives.

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The afternoon sessions at Percona Live 2016 are just as intriguing as the morning sessions. I’m trying to hit as many as I can, especially talks on interesting and upcoming technologies that are improving deployments and manageability. One of the talks I saw in this vein was MySQL and Docker Strategies, given by Patrick Galbraith, Senior Systems Engineer at Hewlett Packard, and Giuseppe Maxia, Quality Assurance Director at VMware.

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The countdown is on for Europe’s largest annual MySQL event, Percona Live London 2014. The two days of technical tutorials and sessions, November 3-4, will focus on the latest MySQL industry trends, news, best practices – and a look at what’s on the near- and long-term horizon within the global MySQL ecosystem.

Percona Live London 2014 will bring attendees up to date on key areas including MySQL 5.7, database security, database as a service (DBaaS), Hadoop and high availability (HA), disaster recovery, replication and backup, performance and scalability, WebScaleSQL and much, much more.

Team Oracle will be in London, led by Tomas Ulin, vice president of Oracle’s MySQL engineering team, who will explain why MySQL just keeps getting better with the latest news for the MySQL Database, MySQL Cluster, MySQL Workbench… and more. Oracle’s Luis Soares, principle software engineer, and Andrew Morgan, MySQL HA product management, will provide insight into what’s in the latest 5.7 development milestone release and also what’s going on in the labs… particularly around MySQL replication. Seize the opportunity to learn how to leverage MySQL 5.7 replication to grow your business from their session, “MySQL Replication: What’s New in 5.7 and Beyond.”

If anything keeps DBAs up at night it’s database security – especially with recent revelations of vulnerabilities like the POODLE SSLv3 security flaw (CVE-2014-3566) and “Bash Bug,” also known as Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271). Attendees will have the opportunity to talk face-to-face with database security expert David Busby of Percona, who will also lead a session titled, “Security it’s more than just your database you should worry about.”

The official Percona Live London 2014 t-shirt!
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Observe how to incorporate semi-synchronous replication to achieve failover – without data loss. Facebook’s Yoshinori Matsunobu and Santosh Banda will share how they did it at scale (across data centers) by extending MySQL internals along with some handy new self-made tools.

Meet the next-generation C connector for MySQL: libAttachSQL. It’s a new lightweight async C connector library for MySQL being developed from scratch by HP’s Advanced Technology Group. Andrew Hutchings, principal software engineer at Hewlett-Packard, will be on hand to share the latest on libAttachSQL.

Successful applications often become limited by MySQL performance. But tracking down and fixing those issues can be a huge drain on time and resources. Unless you think smart – spending time on what gives you the best return. Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev will explain how in his session, “Practical MySQL Performance Optimization.”

Percona Live London attendees will also learn from the real-life experiences of MySQL experts who share case studies. Shake hands with Art van Scheppingen, head of database engineering at Spil Games, who will explain how to serve out any page with an HA Sphinx environment.

Save yourself a quarter century by absorbing Tim Callaghan’s MySQL performance benchmarking tips, tricks and lessons learned. Tim, vice president of engineering at Tokutek, with share what he’s learned in the past 25 years maintaining the performance of database applications.

And of course there will be a MySQL community dinner! But be sure to register now for the dinner because space is limited – especially if you want to enjoy a ride to the restaurant on a vintage double-decker London bus (you do not need to attend the conference to join the dinner).

Register now for Percona Live London 2014 and save £30 with discount code “MPB30“. See you in London!

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