Firefly Named a Cool Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors in Platform Engineering for Abstracting Infrastructure Complexity

Written by Mark Johnson

NEW YORK — Firefly, the leader in Cloud Asset Management, has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the 2024 Cool Vendors in Platform Engineering for Abstracting Infrastructure Complexity report. As cloud architecture grows more distributed and multi-cloud strategies become the norm, solutions like Cloud Asset Management are a necessity for ensuring reliability, operational efficiency, security, and cost control across sprawling infrastructures.

Firefly’s platform enables Platform Engineering and Cloud teams to discover their entire cloud footprint and detect unmanaged, misconfigured, or inefficient resources. Firefly detects and automatically remediates cloud issues, to boost team efficiency and ensure the cloud remains reliable and secure.

“Cloud Asset Management becomes a must-have solution in the modern cloud attack. We’re excited to see the industry recognition, and to be named as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Platform Engineering,” said Ido Neeman, CEO and Co-Founder of Firefly.

According to Gartner, “Developers using cloud-native and generative AI technologies need to self-serve, provision, manage and scale infrastructure on demand. Platform engineering managers can engage the cool vendors in this research to simplify infrastructure-related workflows for software engineering teams.” Firefly addresses challenges in Platform Engineering by leveraging AI-driven remediations to instantly detect and fix infrastructure drifts, misconfigurations, and inefficiencies, which ensures comprehensive governance across cloud environments without the need for manual intervention.

Gartner predicts that “by 2026, organizations using multiple cloud providers without a consistent governance strategy will experience 25% more security incidents and incur 45% higher costs.” Firefly’s platform supports enterprises in mitigating these risks by delivering a unified governance solution that helps ensure cloud assets are compliant, secured, and cost-efficient across diverse cloud environments.

According to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, 2024 (SRE), “AI assistants are aimed at the productivity of engineers writing IaC code. They help accelerate the adoption of IaC by making it more accessible to more engineers, providing a mechanism to actively learn to write better IaC. As AI tools for IaC evolve, they can improve the consistency of code and reduce misconfigurations, adding more capabilities as they mature. The tools can be augmented to learn organization-specific best practices and codify them to ensure teams are coding with organizational, technical consistency.”

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