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There are an estimated 25 million engineers in the world across dozens of distinct functions. As every company becomes a software company, engineers are using New Relic to gather real-time insights and trending data about the performance of their software so they can be more resilient and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only New Relic provides an all-in-one platform that is built and sold as a unified experience. With New Relic, customers get access to a secure telemetry cloud for all metrics, events, logs, and traces; powerful full-stack analysis tools; and simple, transparent usage-based pricing with only 2 key metrics. New Relic has also curated one of the industry’s largest ecosystems of open source integrations, making it easy for every engineer to get started with observability and use New Relic alongside their other favorite applications.

Anaconda is an AI-native development platform that helps teams move from experimentation to production with trusted open-source packages, governed environments, and production-grade orchestration. The platform provides a secure foundation for Python, data science, machine learning, and AI development across the full model lifecycle. Anaconda Core helps teams manage complex Python dependencies with validated packages, automated security scanning, and intelligent conflict resolution. The Anaconda Platform supports governed AI development so organizations can reduce broken environments, stalled deployments, and unmanaged open-source risk. Its trusted distribution is used by millions of users, developers, contributors, organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. Built for enterprise AI teams, Anaconda helps organizations accelerate open-source AI innovation while maintaining control, security, and governance.

FinOpsly is an AI Cost Governance platform. It brings AI, cloud, data platform and SaaS spend into one attribution, policy and control layer, so enterprises can price a workload before building it, attribute every dollar to an owner, hold spend inside budget under policy, and prove what landed in run-rate. Your AI invoice is not what your AI costs. One request draws on model tokens, retrieval, warehouse queries, GPU capacity and storage, and only the first shows up on the AI bill. FinOpsly resolves all of it, plus the seats in procurement and the compute in an untagged cloud account, to the same dimensions: owner, team, application, line of business, customer and tenant. An AI initiative's full cost becomes one figure, charged back through one hierarchy in one cycle. Workforce AI is the tools employees use: seats and per-user token draw across GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Application AI is the AI your product ships: tokens, compute and data joined into cost-to-serve across OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, SageMaker and Databricks. PLAN. Price a workload from its architecture before any resource exists, across model APIs, GPU capacity, data platform consumption and storage, with assumptions visible. Compare it across candidate models on your measured usage. EXPLAIN. Attribute spend to owner, team, application, line of business and business unit across 9+ hierarchy levels. Unified tagging reconciles providers that tag inconsistently, and AI-driven bulk labeling closes large key estates. Unattributed spend is reported in dollars. ACT. Budgets per project, team and API key, with daily burn-rate monitoring. Anomaly detection with root cause, routed to the owner. Waste detection using FinOpsly's own algorithms and ML models. Commitment planning across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Policy-driven parking of idle compute. PROVE. Chargeback across AI, cloud, data and SaaS in one cycle. Realized savings tracked into run-rate against a no-action baseline. Cost per call, cost per active user, and cost-to-serve per customer and tenant. proof: 100% attribution of AI spend; chargeback from 12.4 days to under one day across 9+ levels; 26% realized savings in AWS and 17%+ in Azure at a payments client. Built for CIOs, CTOs and platform leaders accountable for technology spend, FinOps and finance teams running chargeback, and engineering teams who need cost signal before they decide

Gemini platform is an enterprise AI development and machine learning platform from Google Cloud that enables organizations to build, customize, deploy, and manage AI agents and intelligent applications. Formerly known as Vertex AI, the platform provides access to more than 200 foundation models from Google, third-party providers, and open-source communities. Its Agent Studio and Agent Development Kit allow developers to create autonomous agents, design multistep workflows, and integrate artificial intelligence with enterprise data and external tools. The platform also supports custom model training, fine-tuning, machine learning pipelines, model evaluation, and scalable inference infrastructure. Enterprise capabilities include agent identity management, centralized governance, security policies, persistent memory, and monitoring tools for evaluating agent performance. Gemini platform integrates with BigQuery, Google Antigravity, Google Cloud infrastructure, and developer frameworks to support generative AI applications, predictive analytics, and automated business workflows.

BAND builds enterprise-grade interaction infrastructure for distributed AI agents. Its platform enables real-time, multi-peer collaboration across agents and humans, while providing a runtime control plane that enforces policy, authority boundaries, and visibility across heterogeneous systems. BAND supports developers, engineering teams, and enterprise platform leaders operating multi-agent ecosystems across internal systems, SaaS platforms, and partner environments.

NeuBird is the governed center of agentic operations: one secure, audited connection to your telemetry and your LLMs, with a memory of every investigation, so your engineers, your leaders, and your own agents all start from what the company already knows.

CloudZero is the leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency. We enable engineers to build cost-efficient software without slowing down innovation. CloudZero's next-generation cloud cost optimization platform automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of cloud costs to uncover savings opportunities and improve unit economics. We are the only platform that enables companies to understand 100% of their operational cloud spend and take an engineering-led approach to optimizing that spend. CloudZero is used by industry leaders worldwide, such as Coinbase, Klaviyo, Miro, Nubank, and Rapid7.

Grafana Labs delivers the leading AI-powered observability platform, built around Grafana—the world’s most widely adopted open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms (3x) and furthest in Completeness of Vision (2025, 2026), Grafana Labs supports more than 25 million users and thousands of organizations, from startups to the Fortune 500. Grafana Cloud is the open observability cloud, built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems. Powered by the LGTM stack—Grafana (visualization), Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs) & Tempo (traces)—it unifies telemetry in one platform for full-stack visibility across applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences. With the AI-powered Grafana Assistant and Adaptive Telemetry suite, teams detect and resolve issues faster, reduce wasteful telemetry spend, and gain real-time insights to ensure reliability. Native OTel support and 100s of integrations mean you can plug in existing tools & data sources.

DataHub Cloud is an event-driven AI & Data Context Platform that uses active metadata for real-time visibility across your entire data ecosystem. Unlike traditional data catalogs that provide outdated snapshots, DataHub Cloud instantly propagates changes, automatically enforces policies, and connects every data source across platforms with 100+ pre-built connectors. Built on an open source foundation with a thriving community of 13,000+ members, DataHub gives you unmatched flexibility to customize and extend without vendor lock-in. DataHub Cloud is a modern metadata platform with REST and GraphQL APIs that optimize performance for complex queries, essential for AI-ready data management and ML lifecycle support.

Chainstack is a blockchain node platform that powers global Web3 applications across fintech, DeFi, wallets, custodians, gaming, AI agents, trading, and analytics. Chainstack's core products include Global Node, low-latency RPC endpoints for everyday workloads; Dedicated Node, single-tenant nodes with guaranteed resources for heavy workloads; reliable infrastructure built for trading bots and MEV strategies; and Unlimited Node, an add-on for unmetered request scaling. Together with Chainstack Self-Hosted for teams that need infrastructure on their own premises, these products cover every stage from prototyping to institutional-scale deployment. Chainstack supports major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Polygon, Hyperliquid, Arc, Robinhood Chain, and other EVM-based and non-EVM chains, with elastic (auto-scaling) and dedicated node instances across mainnet and testnet. For Solana-focused trading and MEV operators, Chainstack offers the Yellowstone gRPC Geyser plugin for real-time on-chain data streaming and Jito ShredStream for low-latency transaction propagation. Deployment options span the public cloud, preferred service providers, or fully self-hosted infrastructure, all managed through a single console with standardized node management across chains and environments. Core infrastructure features include global load-balanced RPC endpoints, blockchain data APIs, node monitoring, and request-unit-based usage tracking, keeping performance predictable and costs transparent as usage grows. Chainstack offers a free Developer plan alongside paid Growth, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans, so teams can start building at no cost and scale into preferred infrastructure setup as usage grows. Teams cut time-to-market, cost, and risk with a single platform for blockchain nodes, whether in the cloud, through a preferred service provider, or self-hosted. Standardized node management across chains and environments puts reliability on autopilot and keeps performance predictable. Operators get control and transparency, while developers get a consistent way to build and scale. Fintech companies, DeFi protocols, wallets, custodians, trading firms, analytics platforms, and Web3 service providers running fleets use Chainstack as the fastest way to run reliable, predictable blockchain nodes at scale.