“A developer at his core, Peder’s background lines up perfectly with the DNA of MongoDB. Peder has worked in the cloud since its inception, helping companies deliver open source technologies that transform rigid, legacy infrastructures into flexible and scalable platforms allowing developers to bring new products to market quickly. MongoDB is reinventing how developers work with data to build modern applications and helping companies innovate more quickly. Adding Peder to this equation will dramatically accelerate our efforts to become the world’s pre-eminent application data platform.”

Ulander joins MongoDB from Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he was Head of Enterprise and Developer Marketing. During his tenure, Peder helped improve AWS’s engagement and reputation with open source communities through his work leading the open-source marketing and strategy team. A veteran technology executive across multiple industries, he brings a rich history of helping brands, from start-ups like Cobalt Networks and Cloud.com to multi-billion dollar enterprises like Cisco and AWS. He will navigate and take advantage of the company’s major market transitions. An expert in managing all phases of the customer journey and product growth, Ulander thrives on educating organizations on using disruptive technologies to capture new market opportunities and differentiate themselves from the competition. Ulander also noted:

“As the world is moving from data centres to centres of data, customers need to rethink their data platform to accommodate the requirements of modern applications and new user experiences.

Peder Ulander, the new Chief Marketing Officer, also mentioned that companies like MongoDB that maintain tenets aligned to the new market need are going to be the winners. Ulander concluded that he look forward to joining MongoDB’s incredible team on its journey.

Kubernetes observability requires manually instrumenting application code. Integrating Pixie into New Relic One eliminates that requirement, allowing engineers to debug faster and observe data without having to move it off of the cluster. Engineers can use AI/ML models to send relevant subsets of Pixie data to New Relic’s Telemetry Data Platform for intelligent alerting and long-term storage and to correlate the data with other services.  New Relic CEO Bill Staples commented in a statement.

“Our mission is to make observability a daily practice for millions of engineers by putting the power of telemetry data in their hands at every stage of the software lifecycle, so they can deliver great digital experiences to their customers.”

New Relic announced earlier this month that it’s contributing Pixie Open Source as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project under the Apache 2.0 license. The company also recently announced it’s providing Pixie observability on Amazon Web Services.

Kubernetes native in-cluster observability will become more important as organizations continue to adopt containerized applications.

Auto-Telemetry with Pixie is available here, for free as an open beta. New Relic made a series of other announcements on Wednesday, as part of FutureStack 2021, its annual developer conference. First, its new error tracking features in the New Relic Errors Inbox, which provides rich, correlated data across the application stack.

Additionally, New Relic is partnering with the network observability company Kentik to extend its capabilities into New Relic One. The company is also enabling DevOps teams to use open source or proprietary libraries to create custom charts and other visualizations via the Custom Visualizations launcher.

New Relic is also launching two new community initiatives: New Relic for Startups provides discounts and credits for startups, while the New Relic Student Edition is a free package for students and teachers, offering up to 500 GB of telemetry data per month and three Full-Stack Observability users.

While this partnership symbolizes the confluence between telecoms and Silicon Valley, concerns about customer data processing still remain crucial.

The deal between mobile operator Vodafone Group Plc and Alphabet Inc’s Google Cloud is set to last for six years. Representatives of both companies from Britain, Spain and the USA, will create a new cloud-based storage and analytics portal to host Vodafone’s data – a “Nucleus”.

Vodafone state that “Nucleus” will have the capability to process around 50 terabytes of data each day within the cloud. According to the statement, “Both companies will drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, insights, and learning to support the introduction of new digital products and services for Vodafone customers simultaneously worldwide”.

Along with the storage and analytics portal, both companies will also develop a system called ‘Dynamo’ with the ability to extract and transport data across all the countries where Vodafone operates.