Compliance is not just for apps and data. Infrastructure, whether on premises or in the cloud, must also adhere to corporate policies. Unfortunately, after resources are spun up for development or production, they often are not checked or audited frequently enough—or at all—to ensure they continue operating in compliance with the rules. Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Global Giving turned to Fugue to address infrastructure governance, automation, and policy compliance needs.

Fugue has unveiled new capabilities for preventing cloud misconfiguration errors. Benefits include total visibility of cloud workloads, more control over infrastructure, and increased speed. "Mistakes are far less likely with Fugue’s infrastructure governance automation technology,” said Josh Stella, co-founder and CEO of Fugue.

Even in these days of rapid innovation and heightened security awareness, there’s little that can stop human mistakes from leading to disastrous consequences for businesses. This is especially true when we rely on manual processes and practices in developing complex applications. Fortunately this is also a time of smart, scalable automation, and we now have the tools we need to stop these disasters in their tracks.

Fugue prevents configuration drift or the introduction of out-of-compliance resources across the entire cloud deployment, ensuring an accurate reference architecture as well as the ability to audit every aspect of the deployment.

AWS announced a host of new cloud services and features at its massive, annual re:Invent conference. Several AWS Partner announcements stood out as well, including Fugue's cloud infrastructure governance and automation capabilities.

At AWS re:Invent, the CUBE's John Furrier discussed cloud security, compliance, and governance with Fugue CEO Josh Stella and Unisys Federal VP of Application Services, Peter O'Donoghue. Josh and Peter offer solution and market insights, including how partnerships like this one can protect enterprises and government from misconfigurations and human error.

The reality is that modern enterprises are more complex than ever before – they use a myriad of different infrastructure patterns and managing all of that is hard. I’ve also been a critic of current management and monitoring offerings as they tend to (in my view) only deliver half of the equation: they expose the issues but don’t automate the actions. Or they automate actions, but not with a tie-in to monitoring intelligence. This is where Fugue comes in – created by some folks with deep AWS experience, Fugue is all about policy-driven automation.

In an age of cloud-based infrastructure and software services, the vestigial reliance on legacy systems makes little sense either from an efficiency standpoint or a financial perspective. Here are three ways IT professionals can update their technology for a more simplified and unified infrastructure with more uptime and lower costs.

Fugue's latest release is purpose-built to help organizations go faster in the cloud and reduce risks and vulnerabilities associated with reliance on reactive legacy ops practices. Architected with a proactive approach, Fugue continuously assures policy compliance throughout the entire infrastructure lifecycle.

Cloud is one of the most pervasive disruptors—discussed everywhere—yet still one of the least well understood. For most companies, its use is inevitable. Being on the strategic edge, with a view of what’s really happening and armed with knowledge that compels you to act, is probably the best place for the C-Suite to be.

In recent months, Fugue has been successful in attracting rules-driven, policy-oriented sectors, such as financial services, healthcare and government, where human errors can be costly. The company’s offering of full runtime system enforcement in an automated mode appears to be gaining traction.

Building a cloud infrastructure that works is hard enough, but for government agencies or financial institutions, strict rules and regulations make for a particularly complicated governance challenge. Fugue CEO, Josh Stella, visited with John Walls and Stu Miniman, co-hosts of theCUBE, during this week’s AWS Summit in New York City to discuss how Fugue helps enterprises meet C-suite expectations.

We speak with Josh to find out about the top cloud challenges that businesses and agencies face and also about Fugue—a company founded to democratize cloud computing with single-system interfacing and automated governance.

You’ve heard of Forbes’ 30 Under 30, but what about the movers and shakers who are still rocking it in their careers after 45? Josh Stella is included as one of the top entrepreneurs from a variety of industries—the list celebrates the work they’re doing to change the world.

Fugue has been named one of the top 10 IT Ops companies in the 2017 SD Times 100. The walls separating segments of what has become the modern software development life cycle have come a-tumblin' down. So development managers need to know more about infrastructure than ever before, and these are the companies leading the way.

In significant numbers across the board, survey respondents cited cloud complexity, compliance and security, cost control, speed of delivery, and domain expertise as the cloud problems their organizations were working to overcome this year.

Only one in five organisations are getting the most out of their cloud investments with 96% saying it could do with a ‘makeover’, according to new survey results from Fugue.

A new Fugue survey, fielded to over 300 IT operations professionals, executives, and developers, found that most respondents believe that the cloud is not living up to expectations because of compliance and security concerns, unexpected downstream costs, and the glut of cloud management tools available in the market.

Fugue, Inc., has today released the results of its 2017 State of Cloud Infrastructure Operations Survey.

A large majority of enterprises said they’re not getting enough benefits from their move to the cloud, according to a new survey from cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc.

Rules are important in the computing world, but they are everything for a government agency. That’s why Fugue Inc. has built a new kind of cloud-native automated operating system designed to mitigate risk and streamline system governance.

Fugue, a provider of automated cloud infrastructure management solutions, announced June 8 that its service is available in AWS GovCloud.

Fugue announced support for AWS GovCloud, which will help federal agencies work faster and get cloud operations right across “DevSecOps.”

With the launch of the Fugue Team Conductor, the company delivers centralized control, advanced governance, and secure collaboration for operating on the cloud at scale.

Here’s the not-so-surprising moral of this story: The key to cloud productivity lies in automating — not only an application’s build, but its provisioning, operations, monitoring processes, in fact, the application’s entire software development life cycle.

Fugue, a leading provider of automated cloud infrastructure management solutions, announced today its inclusion on the "Cool Vendors" list in the 2017 Cloud Computing report published by Gartner, Inc.

Automated cloud infrastructure management system solves cloud operations complexity and helps control business risk.

Fugue updated its cloud infrastructure management platform, adding features the company said make it easier to scale out enterprise Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud operations.

Fugue platform helps cloud architects and DevOps teams manage cloud infrastructure to control drift, mitigate policy risk and reduce cloud costs.

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Getting to cloud today is not difficult. If you’re an individual looking to spin up a test environment in the cloud, for instance, the barrier to entry is quite low.

As the cloud grows more nimble, so must the concept of disaster recovery. Blueprinting roadblocks into the system is the next step.

It looks like Frederick-based Fugue has landed $41 million in its latest funding round, bringing its total funding to an eye-popping $74 million.

The round brings Fugue’s total funding to more than $75 million.

Cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc. has just closed on a juicy $41 million Series D funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $75 million.

Frederick, Md.-based cloud data infrastructure startup Fugue has picked up about $41 million in a new funding round. The Series D round was led by Washington, D.C.-based New Enterprise Associatesand included investment from the Maryland Venture Fund, a previous investor, the Future Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Australia.

Fugue Inc., a Frederick software company, has raised about $41 million to accelerate development of its cloud technology programs and expand its market reach.

Cloud infrastructure startup Fugue (formerly known as Luminal), announced today a funding round of $41 million.

Fugue, based in Frederick, Md., is looking to innovate around the management of cloud infrastructure for hosting legacy and cloud-native apps.

With the free version of Fugue, you can provision multiple cloud environments and enforce infrastructure configurations across AWS regions in a single account.

Cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc. has just introduced a free version of its flagship cloud orchestration tool at Amazon Web Services’ AWS re:Invent conference.

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Frederick, Maryland-based Fugue hopes to make Amazon Web Services cloud deployments run at scale as harmoniously as a symphony.

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The polyphonic weavings of a fugue in baroque music is a beautiful thing and an apt metaphor for how we want orchestration on cloud infrastructure to behave in a harmonic fashion. Unfortunately, most cloudy infrastructure is in more of a fugue state, complete with multiple personalities and amnesia.

Fugue (pronounced few-g) has launched what it calls the “first cloud-native technology that manages the full lifecycle of cloud infrastructure to enterprise IT standards.”

A new way to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure is appearing on the horizon, spearheaded by startups.

In a new report, research firm Gartner Inc. noted that the depth and complexity of Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) offerings — and the pace of new service introductions — lend themselves to professional assistance for optimized use by enterprises.

Fugue announced today the availability of its cloud-native solution for fully automating the deployment, operations and enforcement of cloud infrastructure at scale.

Fugue, Inc. announced today the availability of its cloud-native solution for fully automating the deployment, operations and enforcement of cloud infrastructure at scale.

A former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer co-founded a company — Fugue — which today announced its cloud infrastructure automation product, also named Fugue. The software is designed to help AWS customers simplify their use of the cloud.

Looking to accelerate the arrival of a new age of “serverless computing” in the cloud, Fugue today unveiled a management framework designed from the ground up to unify the management of widely distributed IT infrastructure resources.

Fugue (the company previously known as Luminal), today announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The Frederick, MD- and Washington, DC-based company’s previous investors, including Core Capital, are also part of this round.

After spending almost two decades creating album covers for artists like the Rolling Stones and Talking Heads, Stefan Sagmeister wanted to branch out. Enter Jessica Walsh. Initially joining as a designer in 2011, two years later, at the age of 27, she was made partner. The duo announced the news with a nude photo together—something Sagmeister is famous for. Now, the New York-based firm boasts a diverse range of clients, from Levi's to the Guggenheim Museum to Columbia University.

Luminal, a stealthy startup that’s developed what its chief executive describes as a new model for deploying and operating cloud infrastructure, announced today a $10 million round of new funding.

Cybersecurity startup Luminal has been awarded $600,000 from the Maryland Venture Fund’s InvestMaryland, an economic development initiative set up by the state government and various venture capital firms, following its recent move from West Virginia to Frederick, Maryland.

Maryland's cybersecurity sector got a big boost on Monday with the news that cybersecurity startup Luminal has moved to Frederick, Md. from West Virginia.

The state’s InvestMaryland program has awarded a cyber security startup $600,000 just months after it moved to the state.

Governor Martin O’Malley launched the InvestMaryland program last year as an economic development initiative administered by the State’s Maryland Venture Fund.