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FinOpsly is the Value Control™ platform for Cloud, Data, and AI economics. It helps enterprises move beyond cost visibility to actively control spend and business outcomes through explainable, policy-governed AI automation. Unlike reporting-only FinOps tools, FinOpsly unifies cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), data (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery), and AI costs into a single system of action — enabling teams to plan spend before it happens, automate optimization safely, and prove value in weeks, not quarters. FinOpsly enables enterprises to: Map spend to business value across products, teams, customers, and workloads Explain cost drivers clearly with AI-generated context and root-cause analysis Automate optimization safely using policy-driven, explainable agents Prevent drift and overages before they impact budgets or performance

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.

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.

StackAI is an enterprise AI automation platform to build end-to-end internal tools and processes with AI agents in a fully compliant and secure way. Designed for large, regulated organizations, it enables teams to automate complex workflows across operations, compliance, finance, IT, and support without heavy engineering. With StackAI you can: • Connect knowledge bases (SharePoint, Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, databases) with versioning, citations, and access controls • Publish AI agents as chat assistants, advanced forms, or APIs integrated into Slack, Teams, Salesforce, HubSpot, or ServiceNow • Govern usage with enterprise security: SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google), RBAC, audit logs, PII masking, data residency, and cost controls • Route across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or local LLMs with guardrails, evaluations, and testing • Deploy in multi-tenant cloud, dedicated cloud, private cloud, or on-premise

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.

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is a comprehensive solution from Google Cloud designed to help organizations build, scale, govern, and optimize AI agents. It represents the evolution of Vertex AI, combining advanced model development with new capabilities for agent orchestration and integration. The platform provides access to over 200 leading AI models, including Google’s Gemini series and third-party options like Anthropic’s Claude. It enables teams to create intelligent agents using both low-code and code-first development environments. With features like Agent Runtime and Memory Bank, businesses can deploy long-running agents that retain context and perform complex workflows. The platform emphasizes security and governance through tools like Agent Identity, Agent Registry, and Agent Gateway. It also includes optimization tools such as simulation, evaluation, and observability to ensure consistent agent performance.

Fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server with rich extension collections, configuration flags, and developer ecosystems. New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Cloud SQL. You won’t be charged until you upgrade. Reduce maintenance costs with fully managed MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases. Ensure business continuity with reliable and secure services backed by 24/7 SRE team. Data encryption at rest and in transit. Private connectivity with Virtual Private Cloud and user-controlled network access with firewall protection. Compliant with SSAE 16, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Scale your instances effortlessly with a single API call whether you start with simple testing or you need a highly available database in production. Simplify database operations with AI-powered assistance in Gemini, now in preview on Cloud SQL. It streamlines development, performance optimization, fleet management, governance, and migration.

Setyl is an IT asset and license management platform (ITAM) that combines hardware and software asset management in one. The platform integrates with 100+ systems, including Microsoft, Google, MDM, RMM, IAM, SSO, HR, helpdesk tools, and more. Use Setyl to gain full visibility and control over your IT assets, SaaS applications, software licenses, users, vendors, and spend in one place — helping you: ✓ Automate and scale daily IT operations, including inventory management and user on/offboarding. ✓ Identify and cut wasted IT spend. ✓ Prepare for audits and stay compliant, including with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. With an intuitive interface, native integrations, and one-on-one support at every step, the platform is fast to deploy, easy to use, and built for collaboration. Features include: IT asset and license inventory, full asset lifecycle management, software renewal management, license rightsizing, employee onboarding and offboarding, vendor audits, and spend tracking.

SCIKIQ Data Fabric makes enterprise data AI-ready, without rebuilding the data stack, In weeks and months or years SCIKIQ is an AI-native Data & Intelligence Platform that helps enterprises connect, contextualize, govern and activate their data for analytics, Generative AI and intelligent agents. Instead of adding another disconnected tool, SCIKIQ creates a unified intelligence layer across the technology you already use from SAP, Oracle and Salesforce to Snowflake, Databricks, cloud platforms, data lakes and enterprise applications. The result is trusted, contextualized and AI-ready enterprise data — in weeks, not years. What makes SCIKIQ Data Fabric different is its ability to bring the entire data-to-AI journey into one platform. Data integration, transformation, data quality, governance, catalog, lineage, semantic models, knowledge graphs, conversational analytics, AI/ML, data products and AI agents work together rather than as separate tools. At the heart of SCIKIQ is Contextual Intelligence. SCIKIQ connects technical metadata with business definitions, KPIs, ownership, relationships and rules so that people and AI understand what enterprise data actually means. This semantic foundation helps create more trusted analytics and better-grounded AI responses. Business users can simply ask questions of their enterprise data in natural language, explore KPIs and root causes, and receive contextual answers without depending on SQL or waiting for another report. For data and technology teams, SCIKIQ provides a governed foundation with 200+ connectors, active metadata, multi-hop lineage, data quality, role-based governance and multi-cloud support across AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid and on-prem environments, and you don't have to rip and replace your existing investments. SCIKIQ works with your stack, not against it. SCIKIQ has been recognized by Forrester, NASSCOM, YourStory, Inc42 and DataIQ, providing independent validation of its innovation in enterprise data and AI. If your enterprise already has data but is struggling to turn it into trusted AI, SCIKIQ is where that journey begins

OpenMetal delivers hosted private cloud and bare metal infrastructure that gives organizations a real alternative to building their own private cloud or committing to a hyperscaler. Our private cloud platform is built on OpenStack and Ceph, giving customers full access to a proven, open source cloud stack without the overhead of managing it themselves. That means more control, more transparency, and a predictable cost structure that public cloud pricing rarely offers at scale. For organizations that need dedicated infrastructure without the operational burden, we offer fully hosted bare metal servers that can run standalone or integrate directly with an OpenMetal private cloud. Deployment is fast, hardware is dedicated, and pricing is fixed so you can focus on the work, not the bill.