New partnership announcement with Databricks

Bitrock announces new partnership with Databricks

Artificial intelligence ceased a while ago to represent only and exclusively the future, playing a key role in the technological development of businesses already today. Bitrock is aware of this, and starting this year it has decided to launch its new Data, AI & ML Engineering area, precisely to apply next-generation technologies to one of the activities that most affect business growth: the proper management of data. A topic dear to the 100% Made in Italy consulting company, but also to the entire reference Group (Fortitude), which with its sister company Radicalbit has been dealing with streaming data analysis for several years now.

Collecting the information at hand, cataloging, and exploring it, training a model, running it and maintaining it, are all steps in an extremely complex cycle that, if completed correctly, yields countless benefits: from the ability to make timely decisions to the ability to minimize the waste of energy and raw materials, with related impact on business costs. With this in mind, and to give the new unit greater momentum, a partnership has been signed with Databricks, the company known for creating Apache Spark, MLflow and the data lakehouse with Delta Lake: a combination of data warehouse and data lake in a single, simple platform to better manage all types of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.

Antonio Barbuzzi has been appointed to Head the unit. The manager, who has a degree in telecommunications engineering and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, has always been involved, including abroad, in everything related to data analytics, both for large companies and emerging startups. After several years in France and the UK, he returned to Italy at the end of 2019, to Unicredit Services, as Head of GCC CBK Branch Tools and Head of ICT CRM and later as technical manager of the integration of the bank's new CRM. He joins Bitrock, precisely as Head of Data, AI & ML Engineering, in September last year.

"I am delighted to have joined such an innovative company as Bitrock. Helping the company in this new path will certainly be a difficult challenge but also a very compelling one. - declares Barbuzzi, Head of Data, AI & ML Engineering Area at Bitrock - Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning technologies, together with the Cloud, are crucial for our clients' business development, particularly when applied to data management and analysis. The goal will, therefore, be to provide them with tools and skills that can support them in the most congenial way, creating tailor-made services from time to time."

"Automation, simplification, and Artificial Intelligence are in our view the pillars of the future on which we base our work to ensure speed of development, cost reduction, and overall increase in efficiency for businesses. - Adds Leo Pillon, CEO of Bitrock - This is the vision of the entire Fortitude Group, as well as of Bitrock as it begins this new journey. The hope is that in a short time we can become an authoritative reference in a specific sector that is becoming more and more important day by day."

Scenario

According to recent estimates by Expert Market Research (2022), investment in data management-related activities amounts to about $70 billion, one-fifth of the total spending used for infrastructure creation in 2021 according to Gartner. A fast-growing trend that is also reflected in the job market, where data scientist, data engineer and machine learning engineer are among the most sought-after figures globally. A similar scenario is expected for the future. According to McKinsey, by 2025 companies will base all kinds of decisions on data analysis, relying on real-time processing for increasingly precise insights.

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Bitrock & CNCF

Bitrock joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

We are thrilled to announce that Bitrock has recently joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing projects on GitHub (including Kubernetes and Prometheus) that fosters the collaboration between the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors.

Kubernetes and other CNCF projects have quickly gained adoption and diverse community support in recent years, becoming some of the most rapidly-moving projects in the open-source history.

The CNCF, part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, creates long-term ecosystems and fosters a community around a collection of high-quality projects that orchestrate containers as part of microservice architectures.

Cloud Native

Organizations can use cloud native technologies to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments including public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach.

These techniques enable resilient, manageable, and observable loosely-coupled systems. They allow developers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal effort when combined with robust automation.

The CNCF aims to accelerate adoption of this paradigm by cultivating and maintaining an ecosystem of open source, vendor-neutral initiatives that democratize cutting-edge patterns and make them available to everybody.

Bitrock’s New Membership

Bitrock has recently joined the CNCF community with a Silver Membership: a community that includes the world’s major public cloud and enterprise software firms as well as innovative startups. 

The choice to join this community was based on Bitrock Team's intention to build and influence the cloud native ecosystem alongside industry peers.

By providing governance, thought leadership, and engineering resources to shape and influence the development of the cloud-native ecosystem, Bitrock helps CNCF achieve its mission of making cloud-native computing ubiquitous.

Bitrock also upholds the community's key values as a member - find out more by accessing the CNCF charter:

  • Fast is better than slow 
  • Open 
  • Fair
  • Strong technical identity
  • Clear boundaries 
  • Scalable 
  • Platform agnostic

As a result of this new membership, Bitrock will be able to demonstrate thought leadership in the cloud native space, provide a first-class experience with Kubernetes and other CNCF projects in collaboration with the CNCF and its community, and design and maintain the technologies that are at the forefront of the industry.

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HashiCorp and Bitrock sign Partnership

HashiCorp and Bitrock sign Partnership to boost IT Infrastructure Innovation

HashiCorp and Bitrock sign Partnership to boost IT Infrastructure Innovation

The product suite of the American leader combined with the expertise of the Italian system integrator are now at the service of companies

Bitrock, Italian system integrator specialized in delivering innovation and evolutionary architecture to companies, has signed a high-value strategic partnership with HashiCorp, a market leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation and member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

HashiCorp is well-known in the IT infrastructure environment; their open source tools Terraform, Vault, Nomad and Consul are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and enable organizations to accelerate their digital transformation, as well as adopt a common cloud operating model for HashiCorp’s portfolio of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products for infrastructure, security, networking, and application automation.

As companies scale and increase in complexity, enterprise versions of these products enhance the open-source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality. They must also rely on a trusted partner that is able to guide them through the architectural design phase and who can grant enterprise-grade assistance when it comes to application development, delivery and maintenance.

Due to the highly technical nature of the HashiCorp portfolio, being a HashiCorp partner means that above all, the Bitrock DevOps Team has the expertise and know-how required to manage the complexity of large infrastructures. Composed of highly-skilled professionals who can already count on several “Associate” Certifications and attended the first Vault Bootcamp in Europe - Bitrock are proudly one of the most certified HashiCorp partner in Italy. The partnership with HashiCorp represents not only the result of Bitrock’s investments in the DevOps area, but also the start of a new journey that will allow large Italian companies to rely on more agile, flexible and secure infrastructure. Especially when it comes to the provisioning, protection and management of services and applications across private, hybrid and public cloud architectures.

“We are very proud of this new partnership, which not only rewards the hard work of our DevOps Team, but also allows us to offer Italian and European companies the best tools to evolve their infrastructure and digital services” – says Leo Pillon, Bitrock CEO.

“With its dedication in delivering reliable innovation through the design and development of business-driven IT solutions, Bitrock is an ideal partner for HashiCorp in Italy. We look forward to working closely with the Bitrock team to jointly enable organizations across the country to benefit from a cloud operating model. With Bitrock’s expertise around DevOps, we are confident in the results we can jointly deliver to organizations leveraging our suite of products” – says Michelle Graff, Global Partner Chief for HashiCorp.

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Bitrock DevOps Team joining HashiCorp EMEA Vault CHIP Virtual Bootcamp

Bitrock DevOps Team joining HashiCorp EMEA Vault CHIP Virtual Bootcamp

Bitrock DevOps Team joining HashiCorp EMEA Vault CHIP Virtual Bootcamp

Another great achievement for our DevOps Team: the possibility to take part in HashiCorp EMEA Vault CHIP Virtual Bootcamp.

The Bootcamp – coming for the first time to the EMEA region – involves the participation of high-skilled professionals that already have experience with Vault and want to get Vault CHIP (Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner) certified for delivering on Vault Enterprise.

Our DevOps Team will be challenged with a series of highly technical tasks to demonstrate their expertise in the field. A 3 full-day training, that will get them ready to implement in a customer engagement.

This comes after the great success of last week, which saw our DevOps Team members Matteo Gazzetta, Michael Tabolsky, Gianluca Mascolo, Francesco Bartolini and Simone Ripamonti successfully obtaining HashiCorp Certification as Vault Associate. A source of pride for the Bitrock community and a remarkable recognition of our DevOps Team expertise and know-how worldwide.

With the Virtual Bootcamp, the Team is now ready to raise the bar and takes on a new challenge, proving that there’s no limit to self-improvement and continuous learning.


HashiCorp EMEA Vault CHIP Virtual Bootcamp

May 5–May 8, 2020

https://www.hashicorp.com/

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