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  • Aqua Security Introduces Industry’s First Serverless Function Assurance for Securing Serverless Environments

    Aqua 4.0 release also tightens Linux host protection and compliance on the heels of recent vulnerability disclosures

    Boston, MA – 4 March 2019 – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, announced today the availability of version 4.0 of the Aqua cloud native security platform, introducing new security and compliance controls for serverless functions and Linux hosts. As enterprise development and deployment of cloud native microservices-based applications continue to accelerate, Aqua enables security teams to manage and enforce security policies across a blend of VM-based containers, Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) spanning both multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

    Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst, Neil MacDonald, notes that “securing serverless will force information security and risk professionals to focus on the areas we retain control over. Specifically, the integrity and assurance of the code, identities of the code and developers, permissioning, and serverless configuration, including network connectivity.”

    (Gartner, Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Serverless PaaS, 4 September 2018, by Neil MacDonald)

    Aqua’s comprehensive serverless security solution now includes a full chain of controls to discover functions across multiple cloud accounts, scan them for vulnerabilities, detect excessive permissions and configuration issues, and provide function assurance – preventing the execution of untrusted or high-risk functions based on defined policies. The key controls for serverless environments include:

    • Functions discovery: Creating an inventory of functions stored across cloud accounts.
    • Vulnerability scanning: Deep scanning of a functions packages and dependencies for known vulnerabilities (CVEs), based on multiple sources and supporting multiple programming languages.
    • CI/CD Integration: “Shifting left” beyond scanning existing functions, Aqua provides development teams with plug-ins for Continuous Integration environments to detect security issues as functions are being built.
    • Permissions Assessment: Identifying use of excessive or over-provisioned permissions specific to the serverless cloud environment, and monitoring for unused permissions –reducing the potential attack surface of a function.
    • Sensitive Data Assessment: Detecting secrets and hard-coded keys within the functions themselves, or within environment variables, specific to the cloud environment – for instance AWS credentials or Azure Authentication keys.
    • Function assurance: Security teams can set policies to determine the risk threshold to allow or disallow function execution, based on a variety of factors including CVE severity, CVSS score, sensitive data, and permissions.
    • Function anomaly detection: Monitoring of function usage patterns and alerting on sudden spikes in the frequency or duration of function execution.

    Another significant addition to the Aqua platform is tighter controls to secure the Linux hosts that run containers. This addresses potential risks from vulnerabilities such as the one discovered earlier this year when a severe new vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) was disclosed in runc, a component used in most container runtimes which is part of Linux OS distributions, highlighting the need for securing the container stack at both the workload and host levels.

    “The new technologies supporting cloud native applications require a holistic approach to security and compliance, across the application lifecycle as well as up and down the stack, and this has become more evident in recent months with significant vulnerabilities discovered in Kubernetes and runc for example,” notes Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder at Aqua Security. “With this new release from Aqua, our customers can protect their applications against those, as well as yet undiscovered vulnerabilities by implementing tight compliance and whitelisting-based zero-trust security.”

    Aqua 4.0 builds on previous Aqua host protections that already included testing hosts according to CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, scanning hosts for known vulnerabilities, and monitoring user logins, to provide:

    • Malware Scanning: Detecting malware in the host OS, or any of its components.
    • Vulnerability scanning: Scanning for CVEs found in the host OS, or any of its components.
    • Whitelisted and Blacklisted Users and OS Packages: Security teams can specify which types of users and OS packages are either allowed or forbidden from being used on a host.
    • User Activity Monitoring: Aqua now logs all user commands on the host OS for security and compliance tracking (in addition to the previously available user logins and login attempts tracking).
    • CIS Benchmarks Testing: Having achieved CIS certification for its Kubernetes benchmark, Aqua now provide detailed information on each benchmark test success/failure to provide teams with remediation information.
    • Custom Benchmark Scripts: Enabling the upload of scripts that customize benchmarks to account for configurations that aren’t supported in the standard CIS benchmarks, including Kubernetes clusters on Red Hat OpenShift.
    • Host Assurance: Allowing to set policies that will determine a threshold for host compliance and security risk based on the results of the above scans and checks and generate alerts and audit events upon policy violations.

    Aqua CSP v4.0 will be generally available in mid-March for existing customers and new deployments.

    About Aqua Security

    Aqua Security enables enterprises to secure their container and cloud-native applications from development to production, accelerating application deployment and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security. Aqua’s Cloud native Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks in real time. Integrated with container lifecycle and orchestration tools, the Aqua platform provides transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance. Aqua was founded in 2015 and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft Ventures, TLV Partners, and IT security leaders, and is based in Israel and Boston, MA. For more information, visit www.aquasec.com or follow us on twitter.com/AquaSecTeam

     

  • Tricentis Delivers Powerful, Intelligent Automation Features for Azure, SAP, and DevOps Environments

    Enterprise customers will accelerate cloud migration, SAP S/4HANA adoption, and DevOps expansion with resilient Continuous Testing

    Mountain View, CA — February 26, 2019 —Tricentis today announced the latest release of Tricentis Tosca, the cloud’s number one Continuous Testing platform. As legacy testing tools from Micro Focus and Worksoft have failed to scale in DevOps environments, Tricentis Tosca delivers resilient Continuous Testing to over 1,600 enterprise customers.

    Tricentis’ industry-leading technology was recently recognized by Gartner in their Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation 2018 report. Gartner gave Tricentis the highest product scores among 13 total vendors for the use cases “Enterprise End-to-End Testing” and “Progressive Web/Responsive Web/Native Apps.”

    “Organizations that have not transformed their software testing processes simply do not achieve their desired business results from DevOps and agile initiatives,” said Dr. Gerd Weishaar, Chief Product Officer for Tricentis. “Our 12.1 release includes a number of features that are critical to the success of cloud, DevOps, and digital transformation initiatives. The top software testing analysts recognize Tricentis as the leader each year, due to industry-leading advancements like those found in this latest release.”

    Tricentis Tosca 12.1 provides enterprises with:

    Greater scalability and collaboration via the Cloud
    Tricentis Cloud Repository (TCR) runs on Microsoft Azure’s highly-reliable infrastructure to deliver reduced maintenance and improved collaboration. TCR also leverages other reliability features such as point-in-time backups and geographic redundant services.

    Increased support for SAP digital transformation initiatives
    Tricentis extends the #1 Continuous Testing platform for SAP with the ability to extract and mask stateful test data from SAP NetWeaver. This added functionality and enhanced user interface expands Tricentis Tosca’s integration with SAP Solution Manager.

    Distributed Continuous Load Testing
    Tricentis Flood provides a continuous view of performance impacts as applications evolve. Flood gives every developer and tester a full-featured performance lab at their fingertips so teams can test, analyze, and improve their applications in real-time. This release adds new integrations with popular DevOps pipeline tools from Github, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, Jenkins, and more.

    Intelligent Automation for BI/Datawarehouse Testing
    Quality assurance for Big Data, BI, and Data Warehouses requires deep technical understanding and excellent SQL skills. That is why this field… so far… has been reserved for developers and specialists. Tricentis Tosca 12.1 introduces a new SQL editor that can be seamlessly integrated into your favorite test IDE.  You can test run your queries, reduce errors with syntax highlighting, and use a translation view to see the actual data used during your test.

    Find out more about these updates and additional functionalities by checking out what’s new in Tricentis Tosca Continuous Testing Platform 12.1.

    About Tricentis
    With the industry’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through agile test management and advanced test automation optimized to support over 150+ technologies, we provide automated insight into the business risks of your software releases—transforming testing from a roadblock to a catalyst for innovation. The result is accelerated software delivery speed, improved cost efficiency, and reduced business risk.

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown.”) This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1600+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

    Tricentis has a global presence in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Poland, United States and the UK. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

     

  • Database Release Automation Market Growth Continues as Datical Secures $10 Million in Series C Funding

    Investment from River Cities Capital Funds, S3 Ventures and Mercury Fund Highlights Growing Demand for Database Release Automation

    AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 28, 2019 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced $10 million in Series C funding led by new investor River Cities Capital Funds, with participation from existing investors S3 Ventures and Mercury Fund. Additionally, Adam Midkiff, vice president at River Cities, has joined Datical’s board of directors.

    The company will use the funds to sustain its tremendous growth by expanding its research and development, customer success capabilities, and sales and marketing functions. This latest round brings the total investment in the company to $27 million to date.

    “We are the market leader and have seen enormous growth in the last three years. This funding provides fuel for further innovation and expansion as Datical’s remarkable momentum has proven that modernizing the database release process is a necessary step in any digital transformation journey,” said Derek Hutson, CEO of Datical. “We’re honored to have River Cities on board as we enter this next phase of growth and begin an exciting new chapter of transforming software development.”

    As enterprises continue to embrace Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices to bring applications to market faster, the manual process of deploying database changes creates a bottleneck for development teams. Datical enables enterprises to keep up with the rapidly accelerating application release cycle by automating database releases, while eliminating risks that cause application downtime and data security vulnerabilities.

    “Datical is solving a critical, yet often overlooked problem facing development teams today,” said Adam Midkiff, vice president of River Cities. “The company is uniquely positioned to change the way that organizations improve the customer experience through software, and we’re excited to work with such an innovative team on achieving this mission.”

    Datical closed 2018 increasing annual subscription revenue by 94 percent and growing its customer base by 30 percent year-over-year, including enterprises such as MedImpact, Freddie Mac, Anthem, Colonial Life and Zions Bancorporation. Additionally, in 2018 the company relocated its Austin headquarters to accommodate an aggressive employee growth trajectory.

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    About Datical, Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to transform the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation, organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 737-402-7187 or connect via @datical.

     

  • Lifeboat to Distribute Diamanti, Leader in Bare Metal Container Infrastructure

    Partnership will help Diamanti develop a vibrant partner community and implement a rewarding channel program

    Eatontown, NJ (February 28, 2019) — Lifeboat Distribution, a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTG) and international value-added distributor that focuses on disruptive and emerging technologies within the data center announced today a new distribution agreement with Diamanti, the leader in bare-metal container infrastructure.
    This partnership authorizes Lifeboat to distribute Diamanti’s breakthrough solution, an enterprise class, bare-metal container platform with high performance compute, plug-and-play networking, persistent storage, Docker and Kubernetes all integrated in one simple solution with full stack support.

    Diamanti was the winner of the 2018 Container Trailblazer category by the Tech Trailblazers awards and named a Gartner “Cool Vendor” for its bare-metal container platform. Diamanti was also named by Database Trends and Applications as a 2018 “Trend-Setting Product in Data Management.”
    “Everyone wants to use containers, but the reality is that it can be complex and challenging to deploy” said Dale Foster, Executive VP of Lifeboat Distribution. “Diamanti offers a simplified deployment and hyperconverged experience for containers.”
    “We are very excited about our partnership,” said Bill Cordero, VP of WW Channels, Diamanti. “Lifeboat’s unique business model that incubates emerging technologies and accelerates the execution of a channel strategy makes it a perfect distribution partner for Diamanti.”

    “We are very excited about our partnership,” said Bill Cordero, VP of WW Channels, Diamanti. “Lifeboat’s unique business model that incubates emerging technologies and accelerates the execution of a channel strategy makes it a perfect distribution partner for Diamanti.”

    Those interested in distribution services and solutions should contact Lifeboat by phone at +1.800.847.7078 (US), or +1.888.523.7777 (Canada), or by email at sales@lifeboatdistribution.com.

    ABOUT LIFEBOAT DISTRIBUTION
    Lifeboat Distribution, a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSTG), is an international value-added distributor for virtualization and cloud, storage & HCI, security, data management, connectivity, software & application lifecycle, and other technically sophisticated products. The company helps vendors recruit and build multinational solution provider networks, power their networks, and drive incremental sales revenues that complement existing sales channels. Lifeboat Distribution services thousands of solution providers, VARs, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and consultants worldwide, helping them power a rich opportunity stream and build profitable product and service businesses. For additional information visit
    www.lifeboatdistribution.com, or call 1.800.847.7078 (US), +1.732.389.0037 (International), +1.888.523.7777 (Canada), or +31.20.210.8005 (Europe).
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    ABOUT DIAMANTI
    Diamanti is the technology leader in bare-metal container infrastructure. Purpose-built for modern cloud and open-source environments, Diamanti’s container platform gives infrastructure architects, IT operations, and application owners the speed, simplicity, efficiency, and control they need to run stateful containerized applications in production. Based in San Jose, California, Diamanti is backed by venture investors CRV, DFJ, GSR Ventures, Northgate Capital, Translink Capital, and Goldman Sachs. For more information visit www.diamanti.com or follow @DiamantiCom.

  • Veriflow Delivers CloudPredict™ SaaS, Industry’s First Network Visibility and Assurance Platform for Multi-Cloud Environments

    CloudPredict™ SaaS Extends Veriflow’s Network Verification Solution with a Service Offering for Public Cloud

    San Jose, Calif. – Feb. 28, 2019 – Veriflow, the pioneer in intent-based network verification, today announced CloudPredict™ SaaS, which offers comprehensive visibility and assurance across public cloud network deployments. Built on the Veriflow verification and analytics platform, CloudPredict™ SaaS delivers a stand-alone solution for public cloud environments that users can deploy in minutes.

    Enterprises are expected to invest $214 billion in cloud services and apps this year, up 17.5 percent from 2018. Multi-cloud implementation within existing networks is becoming increasingly complex, thus exacerbating existing network problems such as lack of visibility, non-compliance and lengthy time to resolve issues.

    A Dimensional Research report, also released today by Veriflow, reveals that 77 percent of respondents’ companies regularly have problems with the public cloud portions of their networks. Fifty-four percent require three hours or more to resolve public cloud network problems – a huge liability for businesses.

    “Public cloud adoption has gone mainstream with businesses operating around the globe,” said Shamus McGillicuddy, research director at Enterprise Management Associates. “However, many organizations struggle to properly secure these public cloud architectures. The cloud often creates new vulnerabilities within the network. This can result in more frequent network security vulnerabilities, unexpected downtime and loss of revenue.”Veriflow’s industry-first offering of intent verification for multi-cloud environments now provides networking teams with a consistent, established feedback loop that enables them to pinpoint and resolve network vulnerabilities and outages. Key features of CloudPredict™ SaaS enable network teams to:

    • Visualize and search for paths and objects in public cloud deployments and across multi-cloud environments
    • Verify segmentation of cloud applications and thus predict network infrastructure vulnerabilities without impacting the agility of application teams
    • Assure compliance and track changes across snapshots of the network, including on-premises, standalone cloud and multi-cloud networks
    • Ensure intended end-to-end reachability is met across multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure

    “The adoption of public cloud is absolutely critical for companies to remain agile. However, without the right verification tools, cloud deployments can lead to significant network problems that can put businesses at serious risk,” said James F. Brear, president and CEO of Veriflow. “CloudPredict™ SaaS is the first solution that provides networking teams with complete visibility and predictive verification of public cloud networks.”

    CloudPredict™ SaaS is available now. For more information, please visit: https://www.veriflow.net/cloudpredict-saas/

    For more industry insights from Dimensional Research’s report, download a free copy here.

    About Veriflow
    Veriflow brings formal verification to network infrastructure for the first time, continuously ensuring your network operates as intended. Veriflow predicts outages before they impact the business, and vulnerabilities before they are exploited, allowing IT teams to operate secure and resilient networks. Veriflow is backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Menlo Ventures, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California. To learn more, visit veriflow.net and follow us on Twitter @veriflowsystems.

  • CenturyLink Announces New Threat Research and Operations Arm, Black Lotus Labs

    Black Lotus Labs reveals global distribution, hiding technique of multitool botnet Necurs

    MONROE, La., Feb. 28, 2019 – Furthering its dedication to helping protect the internet from malicious actors, CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) is sharing intelligence on the Necurs botnet uncovered by its new threat research and operations division, Black Lotus Labs.

    The mission of Black Lotus Labs is to leverage CenturyLink’s network visibility to help protect customers and keep the internet clean. Among the ways Black Lotus Labs does this is by tracking and disrupting botnets like Necurs, a prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware distribution botnet which has recently demonstrated a hiding technique to both avoid detection and quietly amass more bots.

    Read the Black Lotus Labs report on Necurs: https://www.netformation.com/our-pov/casting-light-on-the-necurs-shadow/.

    “Necurs is the multitool of botnets, evolving from operating as a spam botnet delivering banking trojans and ransomware to developing a proxy service, as well as cryptomining and DDoS capabilities,” said Mike Benjamin, head of Black Lotus Labs. “What’s particularly interesting is Necurs’ regular cadence of going dark to avoid detection, reemerging to send new commands to infected hosts and then going dark again. This technique is one of many the reasons Necurs has been able to expand to more than half a million bots around the world.”

    Key Takeaways

    • Beginning in May of 2018, Black Lotus Labs observed regular, sustained downtime of roughly two weeks, followed by roughly three weeks of activity for the three most active groups of bots comprising Necurs.
    • Necurs’ roughly 570,000 bots are distributed globally, with about half located in the following countries, in order of prevalence: India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey and Iran.
    • Necurs uses a domain generation algorithm (DGA) to obfuscate its operations and avoid takedown. However, DGA is a double-edged sword: because the DGA domains Necurs will use are known in advance, security researchers can use methods like sinkholing DGA domains and analyzing DNS and network traffic to enumerate bots and command and control (C2) infrastructure.
    • CenturyLink took steps to mitigate the risk of Necurs to customers, in addition to notifying other network owners of potentially infected devices to help protect the internet.

    Additional Resources

    About CenturyLink
    CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is the second largest U.S. communications provider to global enterprise customers. With customers in more than 60 countries and an intense focus on the customer experience, CenturyLink strives to be the world’s best networking company by solving customers’ increased demand for reliable and secure connections. The company also serves as its customers’ trusted partner, helping them manage increased network and IT complexity and providing managed network and cyber security solutions that help protect their business.

     

  • Database Release Automation Market Growth Continues as Datical Secures $10 Million in Series C Funding – Growing Demand for Database Release Automation

    Investment from River Cities Capital Funds, S3 Ventures and Mercury Fund Highlights Growing Demand for Database Release Automation

    AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 28, 2019 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced $10 million in Series C funding led by new investor River Cities Capital Funds, with participation from existing investors S3 Ventures and Mercury Fund. Additionally, Adam Midkiff, vice president at River Cities, has joined Datical’s board of directors.

    The company will use the funds to sustain its tremendous growth by expanding its research and development, customer success capabilities, and sales and marketing functions. This latest round brings the total investment in the company to $27 million to date.

    “We are the market leader and have seen enormous growth in the last three years. This funding provides fuel for further innovation and expansion as Datical’s remarkable momentum has proven that modernizing the database release process is a necessary step in any digital transformation journey,” said Derek Hutson, CEO of Datical. “We’re honored to have River Cities on board as we enter this next phase of growth and begin an exciting new chapter of transforming software development.”

    As enterprises continue to embrace Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices to bring applications to market faster, the manual process of deploying database changes creates a bottleneck for development teams. Datical enables enterprises to keep up with the rapidly accelerating application release cycle by automating database releases, while eliminating risks that cause application downtime and data security vulnerabilities.

    “Datical is solving a critical, yet often overlooked problem facing development teams today,” said Adam Midkiff, vice president of River Cities. “The company is uniquely positioned to change the way that organizations improve the customer experience through software, and we’re excited to work with such an innovative team on achieving this mission.”

    Datical closed 2018 increasing annual subscription revenue by 94 percent and growing its customer base by 30 percent year-over-year, including enterprises such as MedImpact, Freddie Mac, Anthem, Colonial Life and Zions Bancorporation. Additionally, in 2018 the company relocated its Austin headquarters to accommodate an aggressive employee growth trajectory.

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    About Datical, Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to transform the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation, organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 737-402-7187 or connect via @datical.

  • CollabNet VersionOne Value Stream Management Solutions Help Teams Meet and Exceed Agile and DevOps Business Objectives

    Enterprise Value Stream Management enables CollabNet VersionOne customers bridge software delivery and business value with latest release

    ATLANTA – February 27, 2019 – CollabNet VersionOne (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps, today announced the latest release of its product suite. New capabilities to VersionOne for Agile Management, Continuum for DevOps and TeamForge for secure development and CI, all support Value Stream Management to better align business objectives with software innovation.

    “We are pleased to introduce new features and functionality for our entire family of solutions that help organizations practice Value Stream Management and seamlessly scale Agile and DevOps transformations,” said Flint Brenton, CEO at CollabNet. “2018 was a breakout year for Value Stream Management as more of the world’s greatest software innovators adopt this model to ensure they deliver value that matters most to customers and benefits the business.”

    The Winter 2019 Release, promotes a theme of intelligent collaboration and productivity. In addition, this new release with VersionOne, the company’s award-winning solution for scaling enterprise Agile, TeamForge, a secure development and CI platform and Continuum, the company’s intelligent release management offering, also strengthens and reinforces CollabNet VersionOne’s Enterprise Value Stream Management offering.

    Strategically, this release provides additional capabilities for business leaders across IT and operations to look at the entire scope of their development pipeline, optimizing value not only in the development stages, but going much further in mapping value through strategic planning, budgeting, road mapping, release and iteration planning all the way to release automation and deployment.

    New enhancements around intelligent feature and work visibility in this release include:

    • Template creation of re-occurring portfolio initiatives, or common work in feature development; which reduces mistakes and errors when generating portfolio items and associated work items.
    • Epic/Feature awareness adds a level of intelligent tracking of a workitem such as a story or defect in VersionOne, Jira, and Visual Studio Team Services and automatically link that work item to a parent epic/feature trace that is traceable downstream across your entire DevOps tool chain through delivery.
    • Tighter integration between VersionOne and Continuum allow for more advance intelligent value stream scenarios that boost productivity across teams. For instance, the ability to prevent a member for promoting or deploying code, ability stop moving forward on build if the user story is not ready, or failed compliance checks, or the ability to have automated activities configured to execute at a time in the future, instead of instantly.
    • TeamForge baselining which adds a huge productivity enhancement for users to create a project from an approved project baseline, which can contain tracker artifacts, document versions, file releases, source code files, and/or binaries that are part of the selected baseline.  Also, a new baseline association feature that provides the ability to associate source code commit files to Jira workitems.
    • Managed Replica Servers which allow users to manage all replica server/repository associations for a project in one view; this saves time as there is no need to configure replicas for each repository individually.
    • Enhanced Git Code Reviews which keeps track of files that have already been reviewed; this helps improve CI/CD productivity and security when a change under review contains changes to many files and touch points.

    To learn more about VersionOne, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/versionone.

    To learn more about Continuum, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/continuum.

    To learn more about TeamForge, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/teamforge-alm.

    These updates to the CollabNet VersionOne product family were customer driven and seek to better meet the needs of today’s software organizations that are driving change through enterprise business agility and value stream management.

    Enterprise Value Stream Management provides a holistic approach to application development and delivery by applying the principals of Agile-plus-DevOps to the entire product delivery pipeline. The practice of Enterprise Value Stream Management has had a significant impact on some of the world’s largest organizations and with the help of CollabNet VersionOne, brands are able to transform the trajectory of their business all by aligning software development and delivery with business objectives.

    Solutions like VersionOne, Continuum and TeamForge enable organizations to reap the benefits of Value Stream Management.

    Share This: Read more about the @CollabNetV1 Winter 2019 product release and learn how enterprise value stream management aligns software teams and business objectives. #Agile #DevOps #VersionControl

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

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  • Leading Brands Turn to Moogsoft AIOps to Build Continuous Service Assurance into Their Digital Transformation Initiatives

    Pioneer of AIOps doubles customer base by more than 2X year-over-year

    SAN FRANCISCO – February 27, 2019 – Moogsoft, a pioneer and leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), announced today that it had completed its fiscal year ending January 31, 2019 with significant milestones – doubling its customer base year-over-year to more than 120 total customers, including 20 of the Fortune 1000. The company expanded its AIOps platform with new innovations to deliver continuous service assurance to its customers as they accelerate their digital transformation. Marquee customers include American Airlines, Charles Schwab, DirecTV, Dimension Data, Fannie Mae, First Data, KeyBank, McAfee, Navy Federal Credit Union and Qualcomm.

    “KeyBank selected Moogsoft based on its proven ability to significantly impact a number of objectives,” said Mick Miller, Senior DevOps Architect, Continuous Delivery and Feedback at Key Bank. “We want to reduce mean time to customer resolution, support our journey to reduce alert fatigue by reducing event noise down to only actionable alerts, and use Moogsoft’s best in class Machine Learning and AIOps approach to IT Operations. Going forward, KeyBank aims to detect critical events faster and improve team collaboration and workflow – thanks to Moogsoft’s focus on quality service assurance.”

    Moogsoft highlights over the past year include:

    • Strong Year-Over-Year Growth: Total bookings increased 60 percent year-over-year, with annual recurring revenue (ARR) also growing by 60 percent during the period. Moogsoft’s average contract value (ACV) is approaching $0.5M.
    • Accelerated Global Customer Growth: Moogsoft grew its global customer base by more than 2X over the past fiscal year. Customers include global leaders in a diverse range of industries. Some recent customers leveraging Moogsoft AIOps platform include: Bharti Enterprises, Deloitte, Johnson & Johnson, Loblaws, Merck & Co., Navy Federal Credit Union, NTT, Quest Diagnostics, Uber, and Under Armor.
    • Deepened AIOps Capabilities: Moogsoft announced version 7.0 of the Moogsoft AIOps platform introducing Vertex Entropy and Situation Topology Visualization — two innovative AI-based technologies that help IT teams understand the root cause of any problem impacting customers through a visually rich system topology map. Together, Vertex Entropy and Situation Topology Visualization provide unparalleled insights into the root cause of any problem and full visibility into the complex relationships across IT processes, applications, and devices.
    • Strengthened Executive Team: Moogsoft made strategic hires of industry veterans focusing on product innovation, customer success, and long term growth. These include CFO Raman Kapur, COO Amer Deeba, SVP of Engineering Ranvir Wadera, SVP of Products Dan Grigsby, and CMO Sonu Agarwal.
    • Growing Channel Relationships: Moogsoft expanded key partnerships with managed service providers including HCL Technologies, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services. The company signed an OEM partnership with Cisco to package AIOps with its Virtual Managed Services (VMS) service creation and delivery platform for managed service providers. Moogsoft AIOps was added to the Cisco general price list.
    • Expanded Customer Support and Success Team: Moogsoft launched a global services delivery program to onboard new customers and to continue supporting existing customers throughout their AIOps Journey. The program includes free online training, best practices on AIOps implementation and adoption, a named technical account manager, and ongoing support and training.
    • Doubled Engineering and Product Teams: To continue supporting customer growth and product innovations, Moogsoft doubled its engineering and product teams between US, UK, and most recently with the addition of a development team in India. This growth allows the company to respond to customer demands and deliver new AIOps capabilities with agility and quality assurance.

    “Today’s digital business depends on continuous innovation and demands all customer-facing services and applications to be ‘always-on’,” said Amer Deeba, Moogsoft COO. “At Moogsoft we are helping customers attain this goal by giving them real-time visibility across all data from their numerous services and applications. This helps to surface relevant events and automate event-to-resolution workflow, resulting in earlier detection of incidents, fewer tickets, and happier customers. New product innovations and strategic partnerships remain a big focus for us in 2019 and beyond as we continue helping customers achieve continuous service assurance for their digital transformation initiatives.”

    Other milestones of Moogsoft’s year included securing $40M in Series D funding led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity with participation from existing investors including HCL, Northgate Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Singtel Innov8, STTelemedia and Wing VC. In addition, the company was named one of the best workplaces by Inc. Magazine.

    Artificial intelligence for IT operations has exploded in recent years, with roughly 50 percent of enterprises on track to leverage AIOps technologies by 2020, according to Gartner.

    For more information about Moogsoft’s AIOps platform and its newest addition of customers, visit www.moogsoft.com, read our Blog or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    About Moogsoft

    Moogsoft is a pioneer and leading provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter. With patented AI analyzing billions of events daily across the world’s most complex IT environments, the Moogsoft AIOps platform helps the world’s top enterprises avoid outages, automate service assurance, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Founded in 2011, Moogsoft has more than 120 customers worldwide including SAP SuccessFactors, American Airlines, GoDaddy, Yahoo!, and HCL Technologies. It has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and outsourcing organizations including AWS, Cisco, HCL Technologies, TCS and Wipro. Moogsoft® and the Moogsoft logo are proprietary trademarks of Moogsoft Inc. All other products or names may be trademarks of their respective companies.

     

  • Applitools Brings AI Powered Visual Testing to Selenium IDE

    Artificial Intelligence supercharges widely-used record and playbook test platform with Visual Testing capabilities to help dev teams release visually perfect web apps with unsurpassed speed and quality

     

    SAN MATEO, Calif., February 26, 2019 – Applitools, the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced an integration between Selenium IDE (seleniumhq.org/selenium-ide), a popular free and open source record and playback testing tool, and its AI powered Visual Testing and Monitoring platform, Applitools Eyes. The integration enables QA and development teams to check responsive software applications using Visual AI across dozens of browsers and devices. Applitools Eyes also provides Root Cause Analysis (applitools.com/root-cause-analysis) to help point developers to the exact locations of bugs in the code and fix them immediately without spending valuable time on debugging efforts.

     

    To get started with Selenium IDE and the Applitools Eyes extension, visit: (applitools.com/tutorials)

     

    Once integrated with Applitools via a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox, Selenium IDE users can visually validate complete UI pages at any step of their test. Each visual checkpoint captures a snapshot of the page, then sends it to the Applitools Ultrafast Visual Grid (applitools.com/visualgrid), which renders the page concurrently across multiple browsers (e.g. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, etc.), device screen sizes and orientations (portrait and landscape). “The ability to run record and playback tests across any browser, and not just the one it was recorded on, is one of Selenium IDE’s new killer features,” said Dave Haeffner Selenium IDE Contributor and Software Developer at Applitools. “Testers love having this capability as it saves valuable time while also expanding test coverage dramatically.”

     

    Applitools Visual AI analyzes each screenshot to find only the visual differences detectable by the human eye — eliminating the false positives that plague traditional pixel-based visual testing tools and frustrate front-end developers. With Root Cause Analysis, Applitools Eyes identifies the handful of lines of DOM and CSS that underpin each visual difference, enabling developers to reduce bug fix times from hours to minutes.

     

    “By integrating Selenium IDE and Applitools Eyes, QA teams (including manual testers) now have an easy and intelligent way to find more bugs faster, and make it dramatically easier to partner with front-end development teams to pinpoint and debug lines of code,” said Adam Carmi, co-founder and CTO of Applitools. “Development teams now have much of the power of Selenium WebDriver, without having to learn how to write test automation code.”

     

    To learn how the new Selenium IDE can turbo-charge your testing efforts, watch a replay presentation and demo from Dave Haeffner and Tomer Steinfeld (full-time contributors to Selenium IDE) at (https://goo.gl/H43LuZ).

     

    Share This: Instantly test responsive web apps & find the root cause of visual bugs with new @Applitools integration with #Selenium IDE applitools.com/tutorials/selenium-ide

     

    About Applitools

    Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies deliver visually perfect web and native mobile apps in a fully automated way, starting with its visual testing and monitoring solution. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes.

    Applitools Visual AI mimics the human eye and brain to avoid reporting undetectable visual bugs, minimizing the false positives that make traditional visual testing tools unusable. Applitools Eyes can instantly validate entire application pages and detect layout issues on even the most complex and dynamic pages. When development teams are confident they can fix visual bugs faster, they are unleashed to deliver more customer-facing features than ever before.

    Hundreds of companies from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 firms in software, banking, insurance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to their customers. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visitapplitools.com.