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Company: Gluware Inc., Sacramento, CA
Company Description: Gluware is the leading intelligent network automation suite for the cloud era. Gluware automates the networks of the world's largest and most complex enterprises by simplifying how multi-domain networks are discovered, analyzed, and maintained. The company's code-free, intent-based approach to network automation reduces business risk while elevating the performance of people and systems.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: Software Defined Infrastructure
 Nomination Title: Gluware 4.2
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
10/19/21
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
Total 346 words used.
Gluware 4.2’s multi-engine architecture delivers code-free, intelligent, intent-based automation capabilities at a global scale to enhance enterprise network agility, performance and security in multi-domain, multi-vendor and multi-cloud networks. As highly-complex network environments are becoming increasingly common in enterprises, this new solution addresses the needs of businesses to protect IP and ensure business continuity.
Gluware’s intuitive, intent-based automation solution offers the unique ability to quickly integrate new physical network locations and eliminate the need for manual network management tasks while proactively identifying and remedying issues. This reduces human errors that open the door to costly, unplanned downtime or outages.
The capabilities in Gluware 4.2, the latest update to the company's intent-based, no-code/low-code automation suite, enable enterprises to improve the implementation and maintenance of security and compliance by delivering an out-of-the-box solution with new applications for vulnerability reporting, config drift and audit, and syslog messaging.
According to the Cloud Security Alliance, network security is the top enterprise concern when adopting the cloud. Given the complexity and chaos introduced into enterprise networks by cloud adoption and digital transformation, Gluware 4.2 is designed to enhance enterprise IT and network teams' ability to maintain an aggressive security posture and audit confidence. Its newest capabilities include:
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Integration with the NIST National Vulnerabilities Database to correlate its multi-vendor vulnerabilities with devices in network infrastructure
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Enhancements to config drift and audit capabilities for more complex auditing of network configurations and evaluating compliance and security rules
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Updates to syslog messaging that enable messages related to automation activities to be sent to collectors to enhance visibility, auditing, and security.
In addition to a suite of applications, Gluware’s integrated development environment, Gluware Lab, delivers unparalleled customization. It enables DevOps approaches to NetOps, including rapid development capabilities and integration with CI/CD pipelines, improving business continuity, network agility, performance, and security for enterprises actively embracing digital transformation and modernization strategies.
Gluware facilitates the growing need of organizations to shift from costly, error-prone and time-consuming network management to code-free intent-based network automation. Ultimately, this enhances network security, reduces time-to-value, improves agility and boosts return on IT investment.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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In October 2021, Gluware announced $43 million in funding to continue building out its business from a growth round led by Bain Capital with participation from Acadia Woods Partners and other existing investors. In a period where a number of enterprises have put the gas on network growth and operations to handle both increased traffic, but also new working architectures for its people, Gluware’s ARR growth in the last year has been around 400%.
Its services now integrate, by way of APIs, to cover network operations across more than 30 different platforms and operating systems. This coverage is estimated to enable a $10.8 billion addressable market. The Gluware platform is deployed in the networks of Global 2000 leaders across industries from Pharma to Finance such as EY, Mastercard, Merck, Terracon, Acuity and First Bank.
Gluware customers have experienced definitive ROI, including:
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$16M NPV generated over five years
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99% implementation of global changes within 24 hours
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99.9% reduction in configuration drift
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80% reduction in major outages
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40% reduction in time needed per change
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0% defect rates for change implementation
Testimonial from Salvatore Rannazzisi, Associate Director, Engineering, Merck:
“With Gluware, we can handle QoS in under two hours across the global backbone worldwide. In the past, we would try network automation with Python or Ansible, but it could not scale due to disparate platforms or versions of code in our network.”
Testimonial from Nick Lippis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, ONUG:
“Gluware continues to introduce new capabilities that directly address the pain points many NetOps teams are experiencing right now - a lack of data visibility and intelligence, the overburdening of IT teams with obsolete networking management solutions; vendor lock-in with limited extensibility; and, most critically, automation solutions that require extensive coding plus months of ramp time before they deliver value. Gluware takes these issues head-on to deliver a network automation solution that every enterprise can use out-of-the-box for immediate impact.”
EY customer success video: https://gluware.com/onug-spring-2021-keynote/
Acuity Insurance customer success video: https://gluware.com/onug-fall-2020-midday-keynote-acuity-success-story/
Mastercard customer success video: https://vimeo.com/337654329
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As noted on the Gluware Customer and Industry Perspectives web page, Gluware is highly acclaimed and valued by its customers for being a vital tool for their organizations. Gluware’s networking automation services have helped accelerate business and IT processes and reduced time spent troubleshooting and testing networks, and this has equated to saving organizations time, resources, and costs.
Gluware Customer and Industry Perspectives: https://gluware.com/reviews/
Gluware 4.2 press release: https://gluware.com/gluware-to-highlight-new-security-innovations-for-intelligent-network-automation-at-onug-fall-2021/
Product page: https://gluware.com/
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