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  • Tricentis Named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation for Fourth Year in a Row

    Tricentis is positioned furthest to the right on the completeness of vision axis

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, November 29, 2018 – Tricentis, leader in Continuous Testing and software test automation, today announced that it has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation research report for the fourth consecutive year. Tricentis is the only company that has appeared in the Leaders quadrant in each of the last four years.

    Complimentary report access: Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation.

    According to the report, “Cloud and digital business demand a shift toward continuous quality. Application leaders must support their teams in integrating and effectively utilizing test automation tools in their DevOps toolchain, to enable continuous delivery.”

    “Digital transformation is all about ensuring an exceptional customer journey, and you simply cannot deliver that without Continuous Testing,” explained Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri. “Whether you’re evolving a customized user experience via a mobile app or migrating SAP workloads to the cloud (e.g., with SAP S/4HANA), it all comes down to the speed at which you can deliver software. As both research and practice have shown, Continuous Testing is critical for rapidly assessing whether each release meets your expectations or could negatively impact your business.”

    Tricentis was positioned furthest to the right on the completeness of vision axis for the second consecutive year. In its explanation of completeness of vision, the report notes, “Leaders having a Completeness of Vision are strong in their ability to reach the market via a compelling message and in delivering a solid solution globally. As enterprises engage in multiyear transformations involving agile, DevOps and bimodal practices, the ability of a vendor to create a vision of test automation that consistently creates value along the way and drives positive change will be crucial. The key messages now are around productivity and the ability to aid in technology and process transformation.”

    “Achieving optimized Continuous Testing isn’t as simple as selecting the ‘best’ test automation tool; it’s a journey that involves people, processes, and technologies,” explained Tricentis Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Wolfgang Platz. “At Tricentis, we’ve had the pleasure of guiding hundreds of top enterprises along this journey—in collaboration with many exceptional quality leaders.  We believe this recognition belongs to them as well; we feel that we could not have achieved this recognition without their continued support and collaboration.”

    The Latest Addition: New Tricentis Agile Dev Testing

    Tricentis was in the process of adding qTest Agile Dev Testing to its portfolio as Gartner was researching and producing the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation. This means that Tricentis qTest was not included in the scope of this report.

    For Agile teams, Tricentis qTest adds a suite of software testing tools designed to improve speed, efficiency and collaboration throughout the software testing lifecycle. It provides:

    • Agile Test Management through manual and automated test traceability to Atlassian Jira issues, bugs, and releases in real-time.
    • Shift Left Quality Strategies with open source test automation management (making open source testing tools more productive), test script scheduling, and support for BDD.
    • Predictive Test Analytics to gauge release readiness through executive level dashboards and portfolio level reporting.

    These new Agile Dev Testing capabilities complement the company’s flagship Tricentis Tosca continuous testing, which provides resilient end-to-end regression testing across any architecture or application stack (150+ technologies). Additionally, Tricentis Flood integrates with both Tricentis Tosca and Tricentis qTest, giving developers and testers instant access to cloud-based performance labs for on-demand load testing.

    The complete platform enables:

    • Continuous Testing across all enterprise systems (web, SAP, mainframes, APIs, mobile…)
    • Test orchestration across teams, projects, and applications
    • Centralized visibility and traceability across all teams

     

    About Tricentis
    With the industry’s No. 1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through risk-based testing, scriptless end-to-end test automation, and the industry’s most extensive technology support, Tricentis breaks through the barriers experienced with conventional software testing methods. Our innovative technologies simplify testing for even the most complex enterprise applications—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 800+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Lexmark, Merck, Sentry Insurance, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vantiv (now WorldPay), Vodafone, and Whole Foods. These 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.

    Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation,” Joachim Herschmann, Thomas E. Murphy, Jim Scheibmeir, 27 November 2018.

    Disclaimer:

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

     

  • Alert Logic Teams with Amazon Web Services to Deliver Bring Your Own Language Capabilities to AWS Lambda

     

    Additional Language Support Extends AWS Lambda to Erlang and Elixer Developers, Creating a Larger Community Footprint of AWS Lambda Users 

     

    Las Vegas, NV – November 29, 2018 – Alert Logic, the SIEMless Threat Management™ company, today announced it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to release support for two new native runtimes for AWS Lambda—Erlang and Elixer—adding Bring Your Own Language (BYOL) functions to AWS Lambda, allowing a larger pool of developers to leverage the platform. Developed by Alert Logic, this new support will allow Erlang and Elixer languages to run natively as AWS Lambda functions.

    By using native AWS Lambda runtimes to build platform and products, Alert Logic can now migrate the entire workload of its customer log search service from physical data centers to 100 percent serverless architectures. As a result, Alert Logic customers are able to improve service performance and scalability while reducing the company’s operational costs.

    “Many software developers use AWS Lambda to build and deliver innovative and useful applications, instead of worrying about backend provisioning or management,” said David Richardson, Vice President, AWS Serverless Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “With Alert Logic’s release of Elixir and Erlang runtimes for AWS Lambda, developers who code in these languages can start leveraging the benefits of serverless computing and innovative faster on their customer’s behalf.”

    “The support of AWS Lambda native runtimes fits squarely into our strategic roadmap, as it will help Alert Logic migrate more workloads onto AWS Lambda in the future,” said Chris Noell, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Alert Logic. “Alert logic continually innovates to advance our offerings so that we can provide security and peace of mind for organizations across the breadth of technology environments, even as those environments evolve. As is the case with our support for Erlang and Elixer, we are excited when our innovations also contribute to the larger developer community.”

    The Erlang native runtime support for AWS Lambda functions delivers integrated build and packaging support using rebar3, and the Elixer native runtime support provides integrated build and packaging support using mix These native runtimes for AWS Lambda functions will allow Erlang & Elixir developers at Alert Logic to deploy with AWS Lambda implementations as quickly and easily as other supported language runtimes, such as Node.js.

    For additional details about this announcement, visit Alert Logic at AWS re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas, NV on November 26-30 at Booth 1610.

    About Alert Logic

    Alert Logic seamlessly connects an award-winning security platform, cutting-edge threat intelligence, and expert defenders – to provide the best security and peace of mind for businesses 24/7, regardless of their size or technology environment. More than 4,000 organizations rely on Alert Logic SIEMless Threat Management to ensure the right level of security and compliance coverage at a lower total cost than point solutions, SIEM tools, or traditional MSSP outsourcing. Founded in 2002, Alert Logic is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Austin, Seattle, Dallas, Cardiff, Belfast, London and Cali, Colombia. For more information, visit www.alertlogic.com.

     

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  • Priority Software Partners with Anvizent to Rapidly Enable Real-Time Analytics for Priority ERP Customers

    Rockaway, New Jersey, November 29, 2018 – Priority Software Ltd., a leading global provider of business management solutions, today announced its collaboration with Anvizent Analytics, the Atlanta based purpose-built manufacturing and ERP analytics solution. The partnership allows Priority customers to enable advanced dashboards and analytics on their Priority ERP system.

    Anvizent is a fully integrated, fully automated end-to-end analytics solution that simplifies the entire analytics process. With its patent-pending automated data warehousing technology, customers can rapidly access and analyze data with zero coding. The Anvizent solution for Priority ERP comes with pre-built integration for all Priority ERP modules along with 100+ pre-built dashboards across sales, customer service, manufacturing, logistics, finance, and other key business functions.

    Priority Software provides flexible, end-to-end business management solutions for organizations of all sizes – from accounting software for small businesses, to a full featured ERP platform serving multi-national corporations, serving 75,000 companies in 40 countries. Priority’s ERP solution is a refreshing alternative to traditional complex ERP solutions, meeting the unique needs of organizations who are primed and ready to grow, increase profitability, and improve efficiency. Priority’s functionality covers all the core elements of ERP, all via a modern platform with cross-functional capabilities, such as graphical BPM, Mobile Application Generator, Web SDK, Open APIs, and more.

    “We look forward to working with Priority Software to help Priority ERP users unlock the value of their data in the fastest and most cost-effective manner,” said Raj Koneru, President & CEO, Anvizent, Inc. “With Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics in the pipeline, we have an exciting roadmap ahead and will continue to evolve our solution to provide added value to our customers.”

    The Anvizent solution will effectively reduce reporting times from months and days to hours. Business users can instantly drill into any aspect of their business and get a real-time dashboards view of performance: from sales pipelines and inventory levels to production schedules and cash flow. In addition, they will be able to analyze both current and historical data in order to better understand trends and identify potential risks and opportunities.

    “This partnership represents an important initiative for both our companies,” said Avi Troub, VP International Sales & Channel, Priority Software. “We take pride in Priority’s open platform that supports a wide ecosystem, enabling hyper-connected ERP between core business processes, external data, IoT devices, and third-party applications such as Anvizent. Priority customers will benefit from Anvizent’s broad solutions offering that will allow them faster, easier access to actionable business insights in their Priority ERP system.”

     

    About Anvizent

    Anvizent is the result of 20 years of data warehousing and data management expertise implementing various data warehouses at several companies around the globe. Anvizent is the Purpose-Built Manufacturing and ERP Analytics Solution. Anvizent integrates your entire data including ERP Data, CRM Data, Shop Floor Data, and any other data into one platform. Anvizent is a fully integrated end-to-end analytics solution that comes with 50+ ERP Integrations, Built-In Automated Data Warehouse, and Self-Service Visualization with 100+ Pre-Built Dashboards. Visit https://www.anvizent.com/.

    About Priority Software

    Priority Software provides flexible, end-to-end business management solutions for organizations of all sizes – from accounting software for small businesses, to a full featured ERP platform serving multi-national corporations. Recognized by top industry analysts and professionals for its product innovation, Priority improves business efficiency and the customer experience, providing real-time access to business data and insights in the cloud, on premise and on-the-go. With offices in the US, UK and Israel, and a global network of business partners, Priority enables 75,000 companies in 40 countries to manage and grow their business. For more information, visit www.priority-software.com.

  • SmartBear Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation

    SmartBear Recognized as the Vendor Positioned Highest on the Ability to Execute Axis in the Magic Quadrant

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Nov. 29, 2018 – SmartBear, the innovator behind the industry’s highest impact tools to build, test, and monitor great software, was named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation.[1] Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, recognized SmartBear for the fourth consecutive year, and its first year as a Leader. The company believes this position is recognition of the commitment SmartBear has made to accelerate delivery by enabling continuous testing.

    The criteria used by Gartner to evaluate companies in the Magic Quadrant include completeness of vision and ability to execute. This Magic Quadrant examined 11 software test automation vendors across a range of criteria and positioned SmartBear as a Leader.

    “We’re proud to be recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant,” said Christian Wright, Chief Product Officer and Executive GM at SmartBear. “We believe our Leader position reaffirms our vision of enabling quality throughout the software development lifecycle through a comprehensive test automation portfolio. We see Gartner’s recognition reflects the excellent feedback we receive from our vast customer base and our teams’ ability to deliver open, collaborative, and easy-to-use tools to our users.”

    SmartBear has continued to push continuous testing across the entire software delivery lifecycle, providing a portfolio of tools that enable business stakeholders, developers, QA professionals, and operations teams to easily design, test, and monitor at both the API and UI layer. Their strong support for open source communities like the OpenAPI Initiative, Swagger, SoapUI, and Selenium has been a catalyst behind their bottoms-up growth throughout organizations of every size – including Wistia, Discover, and JetBlue.

    Over the last year, SmartBear product development efforts and acquisitions continue to lead and shape the market:

    • SmartBear now offers the most comprehensive set of test management offerings with its acquisition of Zephyr. Zephyr has two main products: Zephyr for Jira which supports Atlassian customers that want native test management inside their project management solution and Zephyr Enterprise that helps enable enterprise testing teams looking for a modern replacement for HP Quality Center.
    • SmartBear also acquired HipTest, the first continuous testing platform with native BDD support. HipTest empowers Agile and DevOps teams to deliver high quality software, faster, by collaborating on an idea, testing code continuously, and generating living documentation for real-time insights.
    • SmartBear added Artificial Intelligence to TestComplete to feature the industry’s first hybrid object recognition engine that marries property-based recognition with AI-powered visual recognition. This new addition eliminates common accuracy and reliability issues for UI test automation engineers when testing charts, PDFs, consoles, mainframe, and packaged applications.

    To access a complimentary copy of the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation, visit https://smartbear.com/resources/white-papers/gartner-magic-quadrant-2018/.

    1Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation, by Joachim Herschmann, Thomas E. Murphy, Jim Scheibmeir, November 27, 2018.

    About the Magic Quadrant

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications,

    and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    About SmartBear

    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.

     

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  • Eggplant delivers ‘one click’ performance testing for organizations without in-house specialists

    Eggplant strengthens solutions for enhanced performance monitoring

     

    November 29 LONDON & BOULDER, Colo. Eggplant, the customer experience optimization specialist, today announced the latest release of Eggplant Performance, which gives enterprise teams the opportunity to reap the business benefits of performance testing, without the need for in-house skills.

     

    With Eggplant Performance, organizations can run ‘one click’ performance testing, without relying on highly experienced specialists. Using it alongside an Eggplant AI test model, anyone can execute performance tests quickly and easily. Eggplant’s technology then creates a large number of users in the cloud, executes paths based on the model, records page load speeds, and develops a comprehensive performance report.

    Eggplant has also added capabilities to Real Customer Insights (RCI), which now includes a chart that illustrates the optimum page load speed for maximum conversions and minimum bounces.

    RCI is now able to pinpoint where site performance currently fails different groups of visitors and provides enhanced alerts and notifications that highlight which parts of the website are negatively impacting conversions. Eggplant RCI works alongside Eggplant Performance to gather data to provide businesses with focused user information in order to deliver better user and business outcomes.

    To help organizations understand the performance of their online estate, Eggplant has also released Agent 10 in Monitoring Insights. Agent 10 provides deep insight into what is happening on the client-side as well as the server-side to give a complete understanding of the customer experience.

     

  • LogDNA Announces New Log Management Capabilities on IBM Cloud

    LogDNA enables developers to quickly locate faults and debug code within terabytes of data on the IBM Cloud to reduce downtime

    Mountain View, CA: LogDNA today announced a new offering that enables developers to troubleshoot coding bugs and quickly fix development errors in applications, potentially saving businesses millions of dollars in development hours, downtime and associated revenue loss. IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA integrates LogDNA services to allow developers to aggregate all their log data across applications in the IBM Cloud. LogDNA features such as Live Tail, multi-channel alerting, and natural language queries enable developers to more easily query, filter and gain insight from their log data, helping them quickly identify and resolve issues to reduce downtime and quickly fix performance issues.

    “As businesses’ application and cloud environments grow, they shouldn’t have to sacrifice service availability while the IT team processes vast quantities of log data,” said LogDNA co-founder and CTO Lee Liu. “IBM Cloud customers will now be able to find, debug and fix production issues in their applications faster than ever before so there’s no lag in service for the end users.”

    IBM Cloud developers will be able set up and configure their log sources and retention plans directly within their IBM Cloud console. LogDNA’s fast, responsive, and intuitive interface will provide users with the ability to view and search through their logs to effectively find and isolate issues within the applications they build and run on the IBM Cloud.

    “The availability of LogDNA on IBM Cloud offers leading cloud-native log analysis capabilities,” said Jason McGee, Vice President and CTO, IBM Cloud Platform. “Our clients can now more quickly gain insights from their increasingly complex cloud applications.”

    For more on the LogDNA and IBM Cloud integration, read the IBM blog post: https://ibm.co/2ybcxZw.

    About LogDNA:
    LogDNA provides detailed insights into the production environment. With LogDNA, development teams are free to focus on in-the-cloud or hybrid solutions. LogDNA enables engineering and DevOps professionals to easily and quickly gather all system and application logs into one intuitive platform and get back to focusing on what is most important: building great products. For more information visit LogDNA.com

    LogDNA is an IBM Business Partner in PartnerWorld, IBM’s premier partner program that empowers ecosystem members with the tools and resources that help transform clients into industry leaders.

  • Open Legacy Raises $30 Million from Worldwide Strategic & Financial Investors

    Major Investors Include CommerzVentures; C. Entrepreneurs, VC of BNP Paribas Cardif and Cathay Innovation; and Silverhorn Investment Advisors

    November 28, 2018 – OpenLegacy, the leader in microservices-based API integration for back-end applications, has closed a funding round of $30 million. The investment will further strengthen its premier market position of enabling established enterprises to go truly digital.

    OpenLegacy is mission critical for organizations with complex legacy environments, as experienced by its global tier 1 customers. It helps organizations quickly launch digital innovations by automating and standardizing the process of creating digital services using microservices-based APIs. With OpenLegacy, legacy systems can be integrated, leveraged, and extended in a fraction of the time compared to other solutions, all without changing the underlying systems.

    The funding round brings together major global investors with added value in both funding and promoting the technology. Round participants include: Silverhorn Investment Advisors (lead investor); CommerzVentures, the VC unit of Commerzbank; C. Entrepreneurs, the VC created by BNP Paribas Cardif with Cathay Innovation; Leumi Partners; O.G. Tech Ventures – Eyal Ofer’s VC arm; Prytek-GFS Group; and RDC, a major investor from the seed stage, which is a joint venture between Elron and Rafael.

    “We have a clear perspective on OpenLegacy’s advantages,” said Patrick Meisberger, CommerzVentures Managing Director. “We understand the size of the potential market because we can see first-hand the challenges of adopting new technologies in legacy environments. OpenLegacy helps with a variety of use cases, from creating APIs quickly for any backend system all the way to a full, phased cloud migration.”

    “As partners with BNP Paribas Cardif, a recognized global specialist in personal insurance, we are aware of the issues facing the insurance industry and the fact that you can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s middleware solutions,” said Jacky Abitbol, Partner at Cathay Innovation, the venture capital fund managing C. Entrepreneurs. “OpenLegacy’s unique and innovative solution has the potential to become the new standard of the industry thanks to the prestigious syndicate gathered for this new round. We are looking forward to help OpenLegacy’s team in its upcoming cross-border developments.”

    “This high quality, broad-based group of financial and strategic investors validates our market approach,” said Ron Rabinowitz, OpenLegacy’s CFO & COO. “This funding strongly supports our worldwide expansion and will enable OpenLegacy’s platform to increase its market share in the Forbes Global 2000.”

    OpenLegacy was founded by Romi Stein (CEO) and Roi Mor (CTO). Their many years of experience at major tech companies like IBM and Software AG have resulted in deep understanding of the digital transformation issues faced by large enterprises.

    “With its strong leadership team, modern approach, and advanced innovation, OpenLegacy will soon become the standard solution for financial institutions that aim to rapidly adopt digital technologies. Having backed OpenLegacy since inception, we believe that OpenLegacy reflects the unique advantage of Israel’s exclusive knowledge base and human capital. We see a massive opportunity in moving core legacy systems through digital transformation,” said Yaron Elad, Elron’s CFO and RDC Director.

    OpenLegacy was represented in the transaction by Michael A. Heller and Amir Yariv of Goldfarb Seligman & Co.

    OpenLegacy is a flagship company of “The Floor,” a global innovation platform, in partnership with leading banks such as HSBC, Santander, RBS, Intesa SanPaolo, Deutsche Bank, and SMBC alongside Intel, and Accenture.

    About OpenLegacy

    OpenLegacy helps organizations quickly launch innovative digital initiatives by automating and standardizing the process of creating digital services. With OpenLegacy’s microservice-based APIs, even the most complex organizations can accelerate the delivery of new innovations without changing their back-end systems.

    OpenLegacy is a trademark of OpenLegacy, Inc. Any other products or software are trademarks of the respective vendors.

     

  • Delphix Brings Even More Speed, Security to Amazon Relational Database Service

    Leading hospitality company Choice Hotels, other global enterprises rely on the Delphix DataOps platform leveraging Amazon Relational Database Service to quickly, securely migrate data to the cloud, fuel mission-critical digital transformation initiatives

     

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. @ AWS re:Invent 2018, November 28, 2018 – Delphix, the company accelerating innovation through DataOps, today announced the availability of the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform (DDDP) leveraging Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Building on the long-standing relationship between Delphix and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), this innovative solution will provide cloud development teams at global enterprises with the fast, secure data they need to bring cloud-native applications to market with the speed required to win in today’s digital economy.

     

    According to PWC’s 2018 “Innovation Benchmark” report, nearly three-quarters of businesses say they are being out-innovated by competitors. Applications are rapidly becoming more complex, intelligent, and data-intensive, leaving companies struggling with legacy data infrastructure, unable to use it to deliver innovation that keeps pace with ever-changing consumer demands.

     

    Development teams need easy access to data in on-demand cloud environments, but operations are mired in manual tasks like database provisioning and data redaction – forcing development teams to wait days or weeks for data. As these organizations migrate more workloads to the cloud, they are faced with the painful reality that their data can’t move at the speed enabled by the cloud. The explosion of demand required to support a data-driven enterprise creates intense friction with the ever-increasing cost, complexity, and risk of managing, distributing, and securing that data.

     

    Amazon RDS was created to simplify this process, enabling teams to quickly and easily create new production environments, as needed, in a scalable and manageable manner. The Delphix Dynamic Data Platform was created to allow for ready access to data in non-production development and test environments so teams can move faster at lower cost, without compromising data privacy. This powerful combination gives customers a solution that will help them deliver continuous innovation to the market quickly and securely, at a fraction of the time and cost.

     

    “Many of our customers trust Amazon RDS to manage their databases at scale,” said Anurag Gupta, Vice President, Analytics, Aurora, and RDS, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “By working with Delphix, we can not only make database management easier for enterprises, but also provide the performance enhancements these organizations need to accelerate mission-critical initiatives and win in their respective markets.”

     

    As part of today’s announcement, the Delphix platform on Amazon RDS offers:

     

    • High scalability, availability, and manageability of production databases on AWS;
    • On-demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provisioning of production database copies in minutes, bringing the speed and agility of the cloud to databases;
    • Self-service controls to refresh, branch, bookmark, and share so developers can treat data as code, integrated with DevOps tools and the Delphix Automation Framework;
    • Integrated data masking to identify and mitigate risk in downstream environments;
    • Extensible plugins that support Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL – with more to come.

     

    “Digital transformation initiatives are being undertaken by enterprises to deliver innovative, new experiences to customers faster than ever before. This increased rate of application refresh places dramatically more pressure on developers and the development process,” said Al Gillen, group VP, Software Development and Open Source, IDC. “With the Delphix DataOps platform on Amazon RDS, companies now have a new target platform to host data for development and testing, reducing friction to help development teams accelerate delivery of next-generation applications.”


    “As we look to shift more and more workloads to the cloud to bring greater efficiency and agility to our business, governance and managing data for modern software development lifecycles has become one of our top issues as we fully adopt cloud,” said Nick Suwyn, Principal Systems Engineer at Choice Hotels. “The Delphix platform minimizes security concerns and provides automated data environments in the cloud to drive software innovation faster and faster each day.”

    DataOps Goes Cloud-Native

    In use by nearly one-half of the Fortune 50, Delphix is deplyed by some of the largest brands in the world to fuel and accelerate mission-critical transformation initiatives. By opening up the flow of data, the Delphix platform works with Amazon RDS to help enable the creation of secure data environments in just minutes. What’s more, the ability to automate data environment provisioning is at the heart of a DataOps approach that has accelerated both software development and cloud migration projects. Fast gaining momentum in the market, DataOps was recently identified as the latest “Innovation Trigger” in three Gartner “Hype Cycles” for 2018 (Data Management, Enterprise IT Management, and Data Security) and is expected to achieve mainstream adoption in five years.

    “Data is a major impediment to achieving the speed needed to win in today’s digital economy,” said Chris Cook, CEO, Delphix. “Building on our long-standing relationship with AWS, Delphix on Amazon RDS helps secure data on AWS to enable more enterprises to accelerate innovation, move to the cloud, and lead their respective markets.”

    About Delphix

    Delphix’s mission is to free companies from data friction and accelerate innovation. Fortune 100 companies use the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform to connect, virtualize, secure, and manage data in hybrid cloud environments. For more information visit www.delphix.com.

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  • Seagate Launches New Data-Readiness Index Revealing Impact Across Four Global Industries As 30 Percent Of Data Forecasted To Be Real-Time By 2025

    Leading Market Research Firm Concludes Enterprise to Become World’s Data Steward, Healthcare Primed to Become the Fastest Growing Sector

    CUPERTINO, CA – The global datasphere1 could grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025, and industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Media and Entertainment are helping to define this new era of data growth. This is according to an IDC White Paper The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core,sponsored by global data and storage leader Seagate Technology, which examines impending shifts to the global data model. While Healthcare currently has the smallest share of the global enterprise datasphere among key industries examined in the study, it is primed to grow the fastest, far surpassing the Media and Entertainment sector and matching the Financial Services sector by 2025. The growth reflects advancements in healthcare analytics and imaging technology, as well as the increasing amount of real-time data created in medical care.

    The study, The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core, assesses data-readiness of the four critical industries that encompass nearly half of the global enterprise datasphere. It does so by using DATCON (DATa readiness CONdition), an index that evaluates management, usage and monetization of data to help inform today’s business leaders on their level of data-readiness. Ranging from 1 (Critical) to 5 (Optimized), DATCON scores are calculated across a number of metrics, including data growth, criticality, security, investment, management, skills and C-level involvement.

    DATCON: evaluating global data readiness by sector

    Industries are in various states of readiness and should take action to prepare for, and capitalize on, data growth. Using the DATCON index, the study identifies the most pressing initiatives businesses must consider as they approach 2025:

    • Manufacturing and Financial Services scored the best overall at 3.3 each, representing the greatest use of edge computing in the four industries, with opportunity for blockchain, analytics and AI.
    • Despite its rapid growth, at 2.4, healthcare has room for improvement as well in data readiness. Survey results indicate blockchain will be important for the industry, but nearly 60 percent lack a strategy or have yet to implement any initiative.
    • Media and Entertainment received the lowest DATCON score of 2.0, showing the sector ripe for advanced data technologies; particularly in data security and data management.

    “We are at the beginning of an era where both data creation and data utilization are forecasted to grow rapidly over the next decade. While some industries are more prepared for digital transformation than others, all businesses need to be ready to act on a solid digital strategy in order to be successful in the data age,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate’s chief executive officer. “Data technologies are becoming central for productivity expansion, data monetization and value-creation. We are excited to be part of this transformation and be a strong supporter to enable these opportunities for the years to come.”

    Enterprise out in front

    The enterprise is fast becoming the world’s primary data steward in today’s connected world. The Digitization of the World study predicts that the installed bytes across the enterprise is to represent over 80 percent of total installed bytes worldwide in 2025. This trend will only continue to amplify the data protection responsibilities of companies around the world.

    The cloud is the new core

    Also revealed by The Digitization of the World study, almost half (49%) of the world’s stored data could reside in public cloud environments by 2025. The shift to the public cloud is largely being driven by a world filled with IoT sensors that are constantly capturing, recording, and analyzing data in business environments. With businesses looking to centralize data management and delivery, there is an increased reliance on the connectivity, performance and convenience that cloud services provide. As companies continue to pursue the cloud for increasing data processing and storage needs, cloud data centers are becoming the new enterprise data repository. In essence, the cloud is becoming the new core.

    “While endpoints continue to be the primary location for data creation in the short term, the fastest growth is forecasted to happen at the core and the edge – with more data stored in the core than in the world’s endpoints by 2025. This will be particularly true for major industries as edge computing continues to be a key driver of business-critical factors and digital transformation,” said David Reinsel, senior vice president at IDC.

    For more information on “The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core” and DATCON index, download the study: www.DataAge2025.com.

    About Seagate

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    1 The global datasphere is the quantification of the amount of data created, captured, and replicated across the world.

  • WaveMaker enhances its low-code platform for high-impact modernization

    WaveMaker 10 offers the most advanced low-code platform, providing top-notch application performance, a hybrid coding experience, and robust security capabilities

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – November 28, 2018 – WaveMaker, Inc., the leading low-code powered modernization platform, today released WaveMaker 10, its enhanced platform for enterprises seeking high-impact returns from their modernization and digital transformation projects.

    This latest edition of the WaveMaker platform leverages a new front-end technology stack to deliver greater application performance, advanced tools to facilitate developer productivity and collaboration, enhanced security and accessibility, and a built-in artifact repository for accelerated development.

    “WaveMaker 10 underlines our ongoing commitment to helping enterprise IT teams capitalize on the cutting edge of low-code innovation,” said Vijay Pullur, CEO of WaveMaker. “Enterprises remain competitive by effectively combining the latest technologies with their unique application development and deployment environments. Our open standards-based low-code platform allows enterprise developers to leverage the speed of low-code with control over custom coding capability.”

    WaveMaker 10 offers:

    A highly-advanced application stack – Angular 7: Developers can leverage Angular 7, the industry’s most robust and scalable web front-end technology, to build responsive web and mobile apps. These applications have greater performance and efficiency, type safety, and modern User Experience.

    Enhanced Developer Productivity & Collaboration: A new IDE synchronization feature offers a unique developer experience where programmers can mix and match Java code written in their favorite IDEs, like Eclipse or Intellij, with low-code platform components. This way, WaveMaker 10 provides sophisticated, granular customization capabilities to enterprise application development teams.

    The new platform also introduces an integrated artifact repository where developers can share reusable application elements like service prefabs, templates, themes, and data models. Such collaborative features promote standardization, consistency, and reuse-driven productivity to streamline large enterprise modernization and digital transformation projects.As WaveMaker expands its developer base across global IT teams, the platform also now allows localization in a regional language, positioning teams of enterprise developers across multiple language zones to build applications more collaboratively and productively.

    Increased Enterprise Security and Accessibility: As more and more enterprise IT teams go cloud native, they are seeking fine-grained user controls to reduce security vulnerabilities. In response, WaveMaker 10 can create multiple developer personas with unique permission sets, enabling teams to have specialized roles in the modernized application. Authentication and Single Sign-on capabilities utilize OpenID mechanisms, and all WaveMaker 10 applications are protected from OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities to ensure greater security against threats and malicious injections. WaveMaker 10 applications also support Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, making them more accessible to users with disabilities.

    “The latest version of WaveMaker has given our application modernization efforts a fillip by helping us leapfrog to the latest Angular 7 stack. This release not only helps us to go to market faster but also greatly helps future-proof our low-code technology investments,” said Hans Don, Director of Software Development at Vanenburg Software.

    To learn more about WaveMaker 10, please visit: https://www.wavemaker.com/whats-new/.

    ABOUT WAVEMAKER

    WaveMaker’s software platform revolutionizes how enterprises build, deliver, and manage modern custom applications, improving business agility and fostering innovation. WaveMaker leverages the latest trends and technologies in low-code such as multi-device auto-responsive interfaces and componentized app assembly, Docker for app-optimized container deployment on private infrastructures, and APIs and Microservices Architecture (MSA) for scalable integration. For more information, visit www.wavemaker.com, or like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or connect with us on LinkedIn.

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