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Progress VP of Strategy Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Mark Troester, VP of Strategy at Progress, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Troester helped guide the strategic go-to-market efforts for Progress before transitioning into a leadership role for Progress Chef, longtime vendor in the DevOps space. He has extensive experience in helping organizations optimize their application delivery process by bringing together the different constituents required to deliver high-impact business applications — designers, developers, QA, data scientists, security professionals, and IT Ops: He is especially interested in the evolution of DevOps and DevSecOps. Previously, he worked with both up-starts and stalwarts like Sonatype, SAS, and Progress DataDirect. Before these positions, he worked as a developer and developer manager for start-ups and enterprises alike. Troester has extensive speaking experience on topics at the intersection of business and technology, including industry events hosted by Gartner, Forrester, TDWI, and more.

Progress helps businesses drive faster cycles of innovation, fuel momentum and accelerate their path to success. Progress enables customers to develop the applications and experiences they need, deploy where and how they want and manage it all safely and securely.

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Progress VP of Strategy Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Mark Troester, VP of Strategy at Progress, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Troester helped guide the strategic go-to-market efforts for Progress before transitioning into a leadership role for Progress Chef, longtime vendor in the DevOps space. He has extensive experience in helping organizations optimize their application delivery process by bringing together the different constituents required to deliver high-impact business applications — designers, developers, QA, data scientists, security professionals, and IT Ops: He is especially interested in the evolution of DevOps and DevSecOps. Previously, he worked with both up-starts and stalwarts like Sonatype, SAS, and Progress DataDirect. Before these positions, he worked as a developer and developer manager for start-ups and enterprises alike. Troester has extensive speaking experience on topics at the intersection of business and technology, including industry events hosted by Gartner, Forrester, TDWI, and more.

Progress helps businesses drive faster cycles of innovation, fuel momentum and accelerate their path to success. Progress enables customers to develop the applications and experiences they need, deploy where and how they want and manage it all safely and securely.

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Misaligned architecture can lead to business consequences, with 93% of respondents reporting negative outcomes such as service disruptions, high operational costs and security challenges ...

A Gartner analyst recently suggested that GenAI tools could create 25% time savings for network operational teams. Where might these time savings come from? How are GenAI tools helping NetOps teams today, and what other tasks might they take on in the future as models continue improving? In general, these savings come from automating or streamlining manual NetOps tasks ...

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