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  • Electric Cloud Unveils ElectricAccelerator 11.0, the Build and Test Acceleration Platform that Saved Customers 2 Million Developer Hours in One Month

    New plug-and-play support for Android Open Source Project, accelerated embedded Linux builds based on the Yocto project, and cloud bursting for AWS and Kubernetes help businesses shrink development cycles and improve software quality

    SAN JOSE, Calif., January 30, 2019 — Electric Cloud (https://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced ElectricAccelerator® 11.0, the leading build and test acceleration platform for software delivery. The new release introduces out-of-the-box support for accelerating embedded Linux builds based on the Yocto project, buildroot and Android platforms. In addition, a new cloud bursting feature for both AWS EC2 and Kubernetes environments enables customers to optimize infrastructure utilization and control costs without compromising performance.

    Download a 30 day free trial of ElectricAccelerator 11 at (https://electric-cloud.com/products/electricaccelerator/).

    With more and more devices becoming “smart,” even traditional hardware companies are finding themselves competing more at the software level. Electric Cloud’s ElectricAccelerator helps organizations create more time for experimentation and iteration by accelerating build times and shortening QA & security testing cycles.

    “In the month of December alone, just 20 of our customers reported saving more than 2 million developer hours on 291,000 builds,” said Eric Melski, Chief Architect for the ElectricAccelerator product. “For these organizations, getting innovation out the door fast matters, and giving teams the time they need to iterate on and test their software before release is also important!”

    Device manufacturers like Visteon, Zebra Technologies and Hyundai Mobis use ElectricAccelerator to ‘eliminate the wait’ for their developers, and stay ahead of the competition. “We’ve been using ElectricAccelerator for years to get 2-3x acceleration for over 800 engineers in our Linux devices group,” said the Build and Integration Manager at a Chicago, Illinois-based communication solutions provider. “It lets us build as fast as possible, using on-demand AWS infrastructure, without inflating our cost structure.”

    Join the upcoming webinar “ElectricAccelerator: Buying More Time” and learn about the new capabilities that can help dramatically shrink development cycles (https://electric-cloud.com/resources/webinars/electricaccelerator-buying-more-time/). 

    Additionally, businesses using ElectricAccelerator have been able to:

    • Shorten AOSP and Linux build times by a factor of 20
    • Reduce hardware costs by almost 60 percent by creating a private build cloud
    • Dramatically reduce late-stage issues by running tests and security scans more frequently as part of the CI cycle
    • Speed up Visual Studio/nmake/cygwinbuild times by a factor of 20
    • Easily migrate build clouds to Amazon EC2, and,
    • Replace slow starting VMs with dynamically created containers for each build

    The latest release of ElectricAccelerator also adds support of the latest version of Android Pie. Kernel builds and incremental builds are now even faster with this release. In addition, the platform now supports the following platforms:

    • CentOS 7.4 and 7.5 (64-bit)
    • Debian 9 (64-bit)
    • RHEL 6.10

    To learn more about how ElectricAccelerator is proven at enterprise scale, visit: (https://electric-cloud.com/products/electricaccelerator/).

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    About Electric Cloud, Inc. 

    Electric Cloud helps software-driven companies like E*TRADE, GM, Hyundai, Intel and Samsung build and release applications and devices at any speed the business demands, with the acceleration, orchestration and insight needed to continuously improve their results.

  • SmartBear Leads Innovation for Behavior-Driven Development with End-to-End Test Automation

    SmartBear Announces TestComplete 14.0 with Native BDD Support, Making Test Automation Easier and Faster for All Users, Regardless of Technical Expertise

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Jan. 24, 2019 — SmartBear, the innovator behind the industry’s highest impact tools to build, test, and monitor great software, announced TestComplete 14.0, which features native support for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), bridging the gap between technical and non-technical users. This release also includes a seamless integration with HipTest, the only native BDD collaborative platform to define test cases and generate living documentation. With HipTest and TestComplete, SmartBear is leading innovation for BDD test automation, improving collaboration across stakeholders, and enabling organizations to move toward faster and higher-quality software delivery.

    Organizations have turned toward BDD to quickly align and accelerate team collaboration across the delivery pipeline – allowing for business, development, and QA teams to speak a universal language while they build and test new features. Previously, test scenarios written in Gherkin had to be generated in code or test scripts to be used in TestComplete, leaving implementation and maintenance to a limited group of technical teammates. Now, test cases designed and written using the Gherkin syntax can be easily created, maintained, and converted to automated UI functional tests with the industry leading object recognition and Record & Replay technology found in TestComplete, without the need for additional plug-ins or third-party tools.

    “BDD provides a major leap forward for software teams looking to transform their organizational processes and culture toward a more collaborative, united mindset for software development,” said Anand Sundaram, Vice President of Products at SmartBear. “SmartBear continues to lead the BDD marketplace with tools, that include HipTest, CrossBrowserTesting, TestLeft, and now TestComplete, to accelerate software delivery.”

    TestComplete 14.0 also includes a native integration with Jenkins Pipeline in addition to Freestyle to accelerate your CI/CD pipeline, support for web testing components such as Shadow DOM and custom elements, and support for all the latest browser versions and mobile platforms. Native BDD support and other enhancements in TestComplete will optimize test automation efforts for all teams thereby paving a more direct and seamless path to Agile and DevOps.

    To learn more about the latest release of TestComplete and to view the Accelerate Continuous Testing with TestComplete webinar, visit:

    https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/accelerate-continuous-testing-with-testcomplete/

    About SmartBear Software

    SmartBear is behind the software that empowers developers, testers, and operations engineers at over 20,000 of the world’s most innovative organizations including Adobe, JetBlue, MasterCard, and Microsoft. More than 6 million people use our tools to build, test, and monitor great software, faster. Our high-impact tools are easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to use. These tools are backed by a team of people passionate about helping you create software that transforms our world. Those tools are SmartBear tools. That team is SmartBear. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook

  • WhiteHat Security Launches New ‘Essentials’ Product Line for High-speed, Fully-automated Security Testing with Comprehensive Code Coverage

    AN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WhiteHat Security, the leading application security provider committed to securing digital business, today announced the general availability (GA) of its new ‘Essentials’ product line, with the launch of two solutions: Sentinel Source Essentials Edition and Sentinel SCA Essentials Edition. The streamlined ‘Essentials’ products have been created to help organizations meet the needs of the DevOps build/test phase by offering high-speed and fully-automated security testing with comprehensive code coverage. The ‘Essentials’ high-speed solutions cut down scan times, helping developers get the vulnerability assessment results they need faster.

    The ‘Essentials’ product line currently includes:

    1)

    Sentinel SCA Essentials Edition, a standalone, fully-automated software composition analysis (SCA) service that rapidly and accurately identifies third-party and open source components used in an organization’s applications, delivering what is known as the software Bill of Materials. For each of these components, Sentinel SCA Essentials Edition identifies any open security common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), licenses, and out-of-date library versions.

    2)

    Sentinel Source Essentials Edition, provides high-speed, fully-automated static application security testing (SAST). These findings are comprehensive and highly accurate due to the use of WhiteHat’s Attack Vector Intelligence (AVI) technology. Discovered vulnerabilities are prioritized according to their severity, thus providing guidance on what should be remediated first.

    The new ‘Essentials’ product line will complement WhiteHat’s existing flagship Sentinel Source Standard Edition solution, which includes fully-verified findings and unlimited access to WhiteHat Threat Research Center engineers.

    According to WhiteHat’s 2018 Application Security Statistics Report, up to 70 percent of every application is comprised of reusable software components (e.g. third-party libraries, open source software (OSS), etc.). That translates to applications also “inheriting” the vulnerabilities in those software components. Thus, securing software requires technologies capable of detecting vulnerabilities in the code and components.

    “With the ‘Essentials’ line of products, we continue executing on our strategy to provide a specific, dedicated flavor of application security testing and SCA products for each DevOps persona: programmers with WhiteHat Scout, builders and testers with Sentinel Source and Sentinel SCA Essentials Editions, and deployment specialists with Sentinel Source Standard Edition,” said Joseph Feiman, chief strategy officer at WhiteHat Security. “With more applications being pushed out than ever, the ‘Essentials’ product line gives organizations technology options that enable security teams to earn quick wins by having developers rapidly detect and remediate security vulnerabilities – a major step in achieving DevSecOps.”

    To learn more about ‘Essentials,’ visit https://www.whitehatsec.com/products/static-application-security-testing/software-composition-analysis/
    https://www.whitehatsec.com/products/static-application-security-testing/.

    About WhiteHat Security

    WhiteHat Security has honed its 17 years of experience in the application security space to provide developers with the tools and services they need to write and deliver the most secure software at the speed of business. The award-winning WhiteHat Application Security Platform, which has been featured on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing for the last five years, is empowering DevSecOps by continuously assessing the risk for organizations’ software assets and helping them to embed security throughout the software life cycle (SLC). The company is based in San Jose, California, with regional offices across the U.S. and Europe. For more information on WhiteHat Security, please visit www.whitehatsec.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

  • Clearlake Capital-Backed Perforce Software to Acquire Rogue Wave Software

    Strategic acquisition expands Perforce’s DevOps solutions portfolio to include developer tools and components that optimize the application development process

    MINNEAPOLIS, MN and SANTA MONICA, CA – January 22, 2019 — Perforce Software (“Perforce”), a global provider of enterprise-grade DevOps-focused software solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Rogue Wave Software (“Rogue Wave”), a leading independent provider of cross-platform software developer tools and embedded components.

    The combination of Perforce and Rogue Wave delivers a full suite of solutions that measurably improves developer productivity while fueling DevOps at scale. This is the sixth acquisition by Perforce in the last two years since embarking on an aggressive growth strategy to expand its portfolio across the technology development lifecycle. Terms are not being disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close in early February of this year.

    Rogue Wave provides market-leading solutions that help enterprises optimize software development and build, connect, and secure applications while reducing risk. The company is a leading provider for enterprise organizations and has relationships with more than 5,600 customers across industries including financial services, technology, healthcare, government, entertainment, and manufacturing. Rogue Wave is based in Louisville, Colorado and has 16 offices throughout the world.

    “This transformational acquisition further expands our global footprint and broadens our offerings.  Rogue Wave’s software suite strengthens Perforce’s existing static code analysis and automated test offerings, and also adds new capabilities in the areas of dynamic code analysis, API management, project visualization, developer productivity, and embedded analytics,” said Mark Ties, Perforce CEO. “Together with Rogue Wave, Perforce will continue to drive value for enterprises that value scalability, speed, and security.”

    Perforce continues to build out its DevOps-focused software portfolio that uniquely meets the needs of technology development teams that are challenged with multiple dimensions of scale but still must deliver products securely at a rapid pace.

    “The momentum at both Perforce and Rogue Wave is impressive and we look forward to capitalizing on the significant market trends around enterprise DevOps at scale,” added Prashant Mehrotra and Paul Huber of Clearlake. “We are excited to continue to support Mark and the collective management team as they drive consolidation in the industry and increase the breadth of their platform, both organically and inorganically.”

    “Software development is growing increasingly complex, driving the need for platforms and solutions that can help enterprises simplify their applications and shorten cycle times. With continuously evolving customer demands, it has never been more important for enterprises to deliver high-quality products and solutions quickly. Rogue Wave is a software platform of choice for enterprise clients that value stability and security,” said Brian Pierce, Rogue Wave CEO. “Our team and technology are a great fit with Perforce and we look forward to providing our combined customer base with solutions for more of their DevOps needs.”

    Financing for the acquisition was led by Antares Capital with joint lead arrangers Ares Capital Management, AB Private Credit Investors, Barings Finance, PennantPark Investment Advisers, and Varagon Capital Partners. William Blair and Shea & Company acted as financial advisors to Rogue Wave.

    About Perforce

    Perforce is a leading provider of enterprise scale software solutions to technology developers and development operations (“DevOps”) teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale during all phases of the development lifecycle. Enterprises across the globe rely on its agile planning and ALM tools, automated mobile and web testing, developer collaboration, static code analysis, version control and repository management solutions as the foundation for successful DevOps at scale. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft, and VMware. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com.

    About Rogue Wave

    Rogue Wave helps thousands of global enterprise customers tackle the hardest and most complex issues in building, connecting, and securing applications. From API management, web and mobile, embeddable analytics, static and dynamic analysis to open source support, the company provides the software essentials to innovate with confidence. More than 2,000 global organizations partner with Rogue Wave to power new opportunities and remove risk from strategic initiatives. For more information about Rogue Wave, visit www.roguewave.com.

    About Clearlake Capital

    Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a leading private investment firm founded in 2006. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core target sectors are software and technology-enabled services; industrials and energy; and consumer. Clearlake has managed over $8 billion of institutional capital since inception and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 100 investments. More information is available at www.clearlake.com.

     

  • InfluxData Names New Engineering and Sales Executives to Accelerate Growth and Continue Time Series Database Category Leadership

    Former Salesforce and Algolia leaders fill integral roles on company’s executive team

    SAN FRANCISCO – January 17, 2019 – InfluxData, creator of the modern open source purpose-built time series database InfluxDB, today announced Jim Walsh as its new Senior Vice President of Engineering and Will Paulus as its new Vice President of Sales. The addition of Walsh, former Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Salesforce, and Paulus, former Head of U.S. Sales at Algolia, will propel the company’s plans for growth and expansion.

    “Jim and Will each bring entrepreneurial initiative and a breadth of experience in their respective fields that will strengthen our senior leadership team,” said Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData. “We experienced tremendous growth in 2018 and are well-positioned to continue this momentum through 2019. Appointing these accomplished executives in such pivotal roles at the company will support our overall push to innovate, expand and increase profitability.”

    As SVP of Engineering, Walsh will focus on scaling the InfluxDB technology and introducing new features to expand DevOps and IoT functionalities, in addition to building and leading the engineering team. In his new role, Paulus will drive global customer acquisition and build out the team to support international sales operations.

    “InfluxDB is an innovative open source platform with applications that span DevOps and IoT, areas with near-unlimited potential,” said Walsh. “InfluxData has an amazingly strong and talented group of engineers and I look forward to leading and further building out the team and keeping the technology on the cutting edge.”

    “InfluxData has shown impressive and steady growth year over year and with industry-leading technology, it’s well-positioned to accelerate that growth,” said Paulus. “As more enterprises recognize the power of time series data, there’s a huge opportunity to further expand InfluxData’s market share to customers around the world.”

    At Salesforce, Walsh led the company’s data platforms and services, and storage clouds, building and operating its reliable and highly scalable data storage and processing platforms. He established the company’s operations in Bellevue and drove its expansion from 110 to 500+ employees. Before Salesforce, he served in leadership roles at Microsoft, including co-founder of the Bing engineering team and founder of the Cosmos data platform, and was a founding member and VP of Engineering at Versive, a machine learning-based cybersecurity startup.

    Before InfluxData, Paulus served as Head of U.S. Sales at Algolia, a search and discovery API provider. Company revenue quadrupled during the two years under his leadership. Previously, he led U.S. and international sales initiatives and built teams to support exponential growth for Google’s G Suite and Mixpanel, where revenue increased 10x in four years, establishing a firm footprint in the market.

    InfluxData is the leader in time series databases, the fastest growing database category for the last two years, according to DB-Engines. As time-based data is generated at exponential rates from increased use of DevOps and IoT sensors, companies are requiring more advanced performance tools to analyze their complex environments. InfluxData has built a solid developer and customer base across industries – including manufacturing, financial services, energy, and telecommunications – by delivering a sophisticated open source platform that delivers real-time analytics for better business insights and real-time decision making.

    About InfluxData

    InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, delivers a modern open source platform, built from the ground up, for analyzing metrics and events (time series data) for DevOps and IoT applications. Whether the data comes from humans, sensors, or machines, InfluxData empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster, easier, and to scale delivering real business value quickly. Based in San Francisco, InfluxData has more than 450 customers including Cisco, eBay, IBM and Siemens. For more information, visit www.influxdata.com. Twitter: @influxdb.

     

     

  • StreamSets Extends DataOps to Snowflake

    New Partnership and StreamSets for Snowflake Bring Simple and High-Performance Data Integration to Leading Cloud-Built Data Warehouse 

    SAN FRANCISCO – January 15, 2019 – StreamSets®, provider of the industry’s first DataOps platform for modern data integration, announced today a technology partnership agreement with Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud. In conjunction with the partnership, StreamSets also unveiled StreamSets for Snowflake. Now, StreamSets customers can easily create at-scale data pipelines for batch and streaming data from edge, on-premises and cloud systems directly into Snowflake, while automatically mitigating impact of data drift and ensuring data availability, quality and protection through continuous monitoring and Data SLAs.

    Snowflake’s enterprise data warehouse is designed to easily amass all of their data, enabling rapid analytics that quickly make data insights available to all users, consumers and systems that need them. Snowflake customers enjoy benefits such as instant elasticity, secure data sharing and per-second pricing across multiple clouds for data analytics.

    StreamSets for Snowflake greatly simplifies development of any-to-any pipelines that include Snowflake while affording continuous visibility and control over pipeline performance to ensure data availability, integrity and protection. Enterprises can use StreamSets for Snowflake to continuously flow data in real-time from relational databases, data lakes, search stores, logs, APIs and numerous other sources into Snowflake for use cases such as bulk upload/database migration, change data capture (CDC) and streaming data ingest across a hybrid multi-cloud architecture.

    “As the only data warehouse built for the cloud, Snowflake brings a compelling combination of performance, scalability and simplicity to the enterprise. A data warehouse must integrate with enterprise data sources and other data platforms to form a cohesive architecture that best serves the business,” said Jobi George, vice president of business development and strategic alliances at StreamSets. “StreamSets for Snowflake helps enterprises extend their architecture to Snowflake with efficiency, performance and resilience in the face of change. Through our new partnership we look forward to extending the benefits of DataOps to Snowflake customers.”

    StreamSets for Snowflake includes the following capabilities:

    • Visual pipeline designer; configuration not coding
    • High-performance synchronous and asynchronous data movement
    • Change data capture (CDC) for more efficient update of Snowflake objects
    • Automatic table creation and multi-table upload without prior schema specification
    • Data drift handling: monitors for and automatically propagates source data schema and semantic changes to Snowflake

    It also includes these additional DataOps features:

    • Ability to integrate Snowflake with myriad data sources and other storage platforms, whether on premises or in the cloud
    • Ability to perform numerous pre-built or custom data transformations on data-in-motion
    • Centralized end-to-end monitoring of multi-platform dataflows with enforcement of Data SLAs for availability and quality
    • Policy-based detection and protection of sensitive data before it lands in the Snowflake data warehouse

    “Our customers are continuously looking to add big data and streaming sources to the datasets in their cloud platforms,” said Walter Aldana, vice president of alliances at Snowflake. “Our partnership with StreamSets and their new StreamSets for Snowflake integration gives enterprises an efficient and reliable way to deliver all of their data, traditional or modern, into Snowflake and maximize the potential for analytic insights.”

    Red Pill Analytics, an analytics services company, relies on StreamSets and Snowflake to deliver the best elements of the cloud for agile development-as-a-service and continuous delivery to its customers.

    “We are excited for both StreamSets and Snowflake, who together enable our customers’ big data modernization projects,” said Stewart Bryson, CEO of Red Pill Analytics. “StreamSets’ intelligent data pipelines, now integrated with Snowflake’s unique architecture, mean our customers can accelerate insights delivery from the premier cloud-built data warehouse.” 

    Availability

    StreamSets for Snowflake is available immediately in StreamSets DataOps Platform version 3.7 and is included as part of a StreamSets Standard or Enterprise subscription.

    About DataOps

    DataOps is the application of DevOps practices to data management and integration to reduce the cycle time of data analytics, with a focus on automation, collaboration and monitoring. DataOps is essential for a data landscape marked by architectural complexity with accelerating change. DataOps is characterized by the following core capabilities:

    • Cross-platform data integration that enables flexible selection of fit-for-purpose storage and compute platforms
    • Data SLAs for continuous monitoring, measurement and enforcement of business standards for data availability, quality and protection
    • Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) of dataflows for agility (proactive change management)
    • Data drift resilience — automated detection and response to unexpected changes to schema and semantics (reactive change management)

    About StreamSets

    StreamSets built the industry’s first multi-cloud DataOps platform for modern data integration, helping enterprises to continuously flow big, streaming and traditional data to their data scientists and data-intensive applications. It uniquely handles data drift, those frequent and unexpected changes to data that break pipelines and damage data integrity. The platform combines the open source StreamSets Data Collector™ for execution of any-to-any pipelines (the data plane) with a cloud-native StreamSets Control Hub™ for the design, monitoring and performance management of multi-pipeline topologies (the control plane). Founded in 2014 by Girish Pancha, former chief product officer of Informatica, and Arvind Prabhakar, a former engineering leader at Informatica and Cloudera, StreamSets is backed by top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms, including Battery Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Accel Partners. For more information, visit www.streamsets.com.

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  • New MariaDB Platform X3 Now Available in the Cloud as a Managed Service

    MariaDB Platform X3 shatters age-old barriers between transactional and analytical, cloud and on-prem

    MENLO PARK, Calif. and HELSINKI – January 16, 2019 – MariaDB® Corporation today announced the general availability of MariaDB Platform X3, the first open source database that unites transactional and analytical workloads at scale, and a new MariaDB Managed Service supporting public and hybrid cloud deployments. MariaDB Platform X3 is tailored to a world where businesses need to monetize more of their data in practical ways and in real time.

    “Public cloud service offerings have fallen short in helping companies succeed across their diverse cloud and on-prem environments,” said Michael Howard, CEO, MariaDB Corporation. “Unlike Amazon RDS and Aurora, MariaDB delivers a wide range of flexibility for our customers. Flexibility in the types of workloads supported, in how MariaDB is deployed, in how the database is configured, and now with MariaDB Platform X3, the flexibility to use any combination of transactions and analytics. Nothing else comes close.”

    The traditional data management approach divides infrastructure into transactional (OLTP) systems and analytical (OLAP) systems. This approach creates complexity. It mandates two administrative environments. It prohibits fast insights on transaction data at scale. It also prevents application users from seeing and querying historical data. MariaDB Platform X3 brings together MariaDB TX and MariaDB AX in one platform that can uniquely scale out transactions or analytics to support business growth goals. With a single unified product, MariaDB Platform X3 reduces complexity and increases operational and analytical efficiency, giving application users full visibility and analytical access to historical data.

    Raising the Bar for Relational Database Service: MariaDB Managed Service

    To help customers take their cloud strategies to the next level, MariaDB has launched a Managed Service for public and hybrid cloud deployments. The MariaDB Managed Service goes beyond standard database implementation, backup and recovery, and regular upgrades by providing proactive monitoring, migration, schema changes, query optimization, performance tuning and security updates. Leveraging MariaDB’s cloud architects and certified remote database administrators to deliver complete around-the-clock coverage, the MariaDB Managed Service ensures that customer databases are running optimally, that databases are tuned properly to save on unnecessary cloud infrastructure costs and that technical experts can always be reached in real time. Unlike cloud vendors that limit technical support to database operations issues, MariaDB Managed Service goes the extra mile to accurately diagnose issues, identify root causes and work with customers to prevent recurrent problems. The Managed Service offers three best practice starter configurations for transactions, analytics (standalone or to complement an existing on-prem transactional implementation) or hybrid transactional/analytical (HTAP).

    MariaDB Platform X3 and the MariaDB Managed Service are available now. To learn more, join the upcoming webinar or attend MariaDB’s annual user conference, MariaDB OpenWorks on February 25-27, 2019 in New York for live demos and technology deep dives.

    Additional Resources

     

    About MariaDB Corporation

    MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional or analytical use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, The Home Depot, ServiceNow and Verizon – MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it’s the fastest growing open source database. Real business relies on MariaDB™.

     

  • Instana Releases First EUM Solution To Provide Unbounded Analytics™ Of Browser Response Time Automatically Correlated To Microservice Performance

    First APM Solution to Include Free EUM Empowers Developers to Precisely Determine Response Time Contributions and Immediately Optimize End-User Experience

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – January 16, 2019 – APM provider Instana has removed the boundaries of performance analytics to provide an infinitely flexible way to analyze and understand end user experience. Instana’s Unbounded Analytics is now available in the company’s latest release of End User Monitoring (Insana EUM), included with the Instana APM service. The latest Instana EUM release captures 100% of all user requests, provides easy filtering to find all page loads from specific user IDs, and enables detailed performance analysis of every request from the browser frontend through the server-side backend.

    “With today’s applications growing in complexity, the ability to analyze every request, with no limits on how to slice and dice the data set, from the browser through all the microservices is critical for DevOps and CI/CD,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “In fact, since end user monitoring is a critical part of overall performance management, Instana is providing this functionality in our APM solution for free! The new Instana EUM is included with our APM offering.”

    Instana’s Unbounded Analytics allows users to apply filters to the Trace data set, in effectively unlimited combinations, enabling developers to find the exact Request or Trace needing attention. Since all Traces, which now include the web performance data, are available automatically, finding challenging performance issues is easier for the whole DevOps organization.

    Instana EUM includes a multitude of browser-side data such as page loads, resources, HTTP requests, and JavaScript errors, allowing Site Reliability Engineers and Developers to identify and analyze a variety of situations including:

    • Identify browser-side performance regressions for specific types and versions of web browsers
    • Analyze every request from a specific user session to understand the exact conditions that resulted in errors or performance issues
    • Immediately understand if a problem is in the browser or server-side and identify the root cause of any poor performing user request

    “With the new EUM analytics capability, combined with the amazing fact that Instana captures every single end-user request, our devops team is able to understand exactly how our customers are experiencing the Edmunds.com service,” said Stephanie Byrd, Cloud Services Technical Lead at Edmunds.com. “For example, we can analyze the performance experienced from Seattle in the last two hours and correlate that to our microservices performance, helping us isolate issues and optimize our customer experience and retention. It is quite powerful to have every request in the Instana data set at our fingertips.”

    For frontend developers, Instana EUM collects the same data available on the network tab of browser-side Developer Tools, but records this information historically for every user request. With Instana, developers will never need to struggle with re-creating problems by guessing how users were making web requests. Instead they will have the actual diagnostic data readily available in the Instana UI to quickly understand the root cause of any slow or erroneous user request.

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to users in seconds.

    The new Instana EUM capabilities are included for free with the company’s APM solution. Learn more at https:instana.com/eum.

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  • Instana Releases First Eum Solution To Provide Unbounded Analytics™ Of Browser Response Time Automatically Correlated To Microservice Performance

    First APM Solution to Include Free EUM Empowers Developers to Precisely Determine Response Time Contributions and Immediately Optimize End-User Experience

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – January 16, 2019 – APM provider Instana has removed the boundaries of performance analytics to provide an infinitely flexible way to analyze and understand end user experience. Instana’s Unbounded Analytics is now available in the company’s latest release of End User Monitoring (Insana EUM), included with the Instana APM service. The latest Instana EUM release captures 100% of all user requests, provides easy filtering to find all page loads from specific user IDs, and enables detailed performance analysis of every request from the browser frontend through the server-side backend.

    “With today’s applications growing in complexity, the ability to analyze every request, with no limits on how to slice and dice the data set, from the browser through all the microservices is critical for DevOps and CI/CD,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “In fact, since end user monitoring is a critical part of overall performance management, Instana is providing this functionality in our APM solution for free! The new Instana EUM is included with our APM offering.”

    Instana’s Unbounded Analytics allows users to apply filters to the Trace data set, in effectively unlimited combinations, enabling developers to find the exact Request or Trace needing attention. Since all Traces, which now include the web performance data, are available automatically, finding challenging performance issues is easier for the whole DevOps organization.

    Instana EUM includes a multitude of browser-side data such as page loads, resources, HTTP requests, and JavaScript errors, allowing Site Reliability Engineers and Developers to identify and analyze a variety of situations including:

    • Identify browser-side performance regressions for specific types and versions of web browsers
    • Analyze every request from a specific user session to understand the exact conditions that resulted in errors or performance issues
    • Immediately understand if a problem is in the browser or server-side and identify the root cause of any poor performing user request

    “With the new EUM analytics capability, combined with the amazing fact that Instana captures every single end-user request, our devops team is able to understand exactly how our customers are experiencing the Edmunds.com service,” said Stephanie Byrd, Cloud Services Technical Lead at Edmunds.com. “For example, we can analyze the performance experienced from Seattle in the last two hours and correlate that to our microservices performance, helping us isolate issues and optimize our customer experience and retention. It is quite powerful to have every request in the Instana data set at our fingertips.”

    For frontend developers, Instana EUM collects the same data available on the network tab of browser-side Developer Tools, but records this information historically for every user request.  With Instana, developers will never need to struggle with re-creating problems by guessing how users were making web requests. Instead they will have the actual diagnostic data readily available in the Instana UI to quickly understand the root cause of any slow or erroneous user request.

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to users in seconds.

    The new Instana EUM capabilities are included for free with the company’s APM solution. Learn more at https:instana.com/eum.

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    About Instana

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Monitoring solutions for microservices, Instana leverages automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility and actionable information DevOps teams need to manage dynamic applications. Instana enables application delivery teams to accelerate their CI/CD cycle and deliver high performance business services with confidence. Visit us at https://instana.com to learn more.

     

  • Redgate Software’s new data privacy approach endorsed with major awards

    Cambridge UK, Tuesday 15 January 2019 – As the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor, Redgate Software constantly updates and develops its software further to keep pace with changes in technology and market conditions. Two years ago, it embarked on an initiative to help customers comply with increasingly stringent data privacy regulations, and its efforts in developing its new SQL Provision solution have been recognized with two major awards.

    SQL Provision received a gold in the Security & Copy Protection category at the 2019 Visual Studio Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards, and Redgate was also revealed as the Best Performing Company in Security & Infrastructure Software in the recent Megabuyte50 Awards.

    Launched in January 2018, SQL Provision offers companies a new way to provision copies of production databases for use in development and testing. Many developers like to work with such copies to test their changes against and ensure they are not breaking changes. Those copies, however, often contain personal data which legislation like the GDPR and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard require to be safeguarded.

    SQL Provision resolves the problem by masking sensitive data with data that is truly representative of the original and retains its referential integrity and distribution characteristics. It then uses the tried and tested virtualization technologies built into the Windows operating system to create copies, or clones, of the masked database in seconds. The clones are only around 40MB in size for a 1TB database, work just like normal databases and can be connected to and edited using any program.

    Importantly, the masked clones can be provisioned repeatably, reliably and quickly, and SQL Provision also provides an audit trail to demonstrate compliance with data privacy legislation. Hence the popularity of the solution with readers of Visual Studio Magazine, and recognition of Redgate’s contribution to security software by independent research provider, Megabuyte.

    As Simon Galbraith, Redgate CEO, comments: “The really good news for me is that the votes of Visual Studio Magazine readers for SQL Provision were backed by an independent and objective view of Redgate as a company which is actively developing new solutions to help customers develop databases faster, yet also keep the data within those databases safe. New data protection legislation is making compliant database DevOps an important approach for many companies, and as a leading software vendor, we think it’s our responsibility to research and develop solutions that can help.”

    Alongside the gold award for SQL Provision, Redgate also won some other notable Visual Studio Magazine awards. SQL Toolbelt received a gold for the fourth year running in the Databases and Data Development and Modeling category, SQL Prompt won a gold for the second year running in the Productivity Tools category, and Redgate’s ANTS Performance Profiler won a silver in the Performance, Profiling and Debugging Tools category for the fourth time.

    Redgate continues to develop SQL Provision to make it more valuable to users, and the product team is currently researching areas like masking templates which can be applied ‘off-the-shelf’, and providing alerts when databases are updated and new sensitive data needs to be masked.