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  • Atomist SDM 1.0 Is Released, Enabling Software Defined Delivery

    San Francisco – Nov 21, 2018 – Atomist, the software delivery automation company, today announced the release of Software Delivery Machine (SDM) 1.0. Three months ago, the company open-sourced SDM and made the engine for automating software delivery available to every developer globally. SDM has now been widely deployed by developers and companies around the globe, enabling teams to modernize their software delivery, gain greater visibility and control, and helped developers take control over their own delivery experience.

    “Atomist has been our delivery automation platform for over a year. Now, with SDM, we’re using it to automate deployment all the way through staging and integration to prod. We’re very excited to see SDM 1.0 ship,” said Brian Conneen, CIO/CTO Marlette Funding

    Atomist SDM, the first software delivery machine, arrives at 1.0 signaling the maturity of the project and includes feature updates and enhancements created in response to community feedback. SDM now includes enhanced approvals, an extension pack model, and log streaming, in addition to further enhancements to Goals, the fundamental action in SDM. SDM 1.0 also includes built-in goals for inspecting and fixing common coding issues, performing Docker builds and deploying to common targets like Kubernetes.

    “The big idea of SDM is that actions like builds or deployments should be driven from events and defined in code rather than a cringe worthy mix of YAML definitions and Bash scripts typical of legacy CI/CD tools. The SDM provides a framework for developing delivery and the runtime for executing it,” said Christian Dupuis, VP Engineering

    Similar to business applications, software delivery must continuously evolve to provide developers the tools they need. Modern applications drive new requirements for modern delivery approaches. With SDM, Atomist makes those tools available to improve and evolve software delivery for everyone.

    “We are extremely excited about the progress of the SDM project, and helping as many software teams as possible. We look forward to the next phase of SDM, with participation from the community, our fellow developers, and the ever-growing list of SDM users who put automation to the test every day,” said Rod Johnson, Atomist CEO and co-founder. “Developers deserve a better way to deliver, defined in code and supremely programmable. This is our mission and we look forward to building the future of delivery and automation with developers.”

    “The core of what SDM enables – integrated, engineered, event-driven delivery – is foundational to what I call progressive delivery. Modern software delivery is changing dramatically. Engineering the delivery of software is now strategic. Atomist is paving the way toward better delivery. SDM 1.0 is a hugely important milestone on that path,” said James Governor, co-founder Redmonk.

    The Atomist SDM 1.0 is available now from https://github.com/atomist/sdm. The Atomist subscription service is available free of charge to open source projects. For more information, visit atomist.com.

    About Atomist

    Atomist is how teams deliver software. Founded in 2015, Atomist is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Accel and Matrix Partners. For more information, visit atomist.com or @atomist.

     

  • Delphix Bolsters Executive Team to Support Surging Global Demand for DataOps

    New Chief Marketing Officer and First-Ever Global Practice Director for Data Transformation join Delphix to help enterprises around the world accelerate digital innovation

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 16, 2018 – Delphix, the company enabling the largest enterprises in the world to accelerate digital innovation through DataOps, today announced a significant expansion to its executive team with the addition of Monika Saha as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Sanjeev Sharma to lead its newly-established “Data Transformation” team. In use by nearly one-half of Fortune 50 global leaders, Delphix is bringing on these seasoned executives to help scale operations to meet the increased demands of today’s burgeoning DataOps market, which Gartner expects to hit the mainstream in five years.

    Rapid and secure access to data is a tremendous bottleneck for companies that are in a race to monetize new digital services and deliver personalized experiences to customers. The friction between an organization’s obligation to maintain compliance with data security and privacy regulations, and the need to quickly and simply feed crucial digital initiatives with the right data is slowing companies down. It is also inhibiting adoption of emerging technologies like advanced machine learning and AI to drive deeper understanding of customer behavior. This friction is leading to an emerging data management practice called DataOps, recently recognized by Gartner as one of its new “innovation triggers” in its data management and security Hype Cycles. In a soon-to-be-released new report, 451 analyst Matt Aslett found that 86 percent of IT leaders surveyed intend to implement DataOps initiatives to improve cloud migration, address security concerns and boost innovation.

    “In a world where the fast eat the slow, every single industry is in a race to develop and monetize digitally-enabled services in the market faster and faster each day,” said Chris Cook, CEO, Delphix. “Monika and Sanjeev bring with them decades of experiences in building brands and categories. They will be integral to Delphix as we enter the next phase of our journey and take our DataOps platform to more enterprises around the world.”

    An 18 year veteran of the Software/SaaS space, Monika Saha joins Delphix after nearly decade at Zuora, where she was most recently the GM of Zuora’s Finance product line. During her time at Zuora, she held multiple leadership roles across sales, marketing, and product management and led a number of initiatives that propelled Zuora from an early stage Series B funded start-up through its successful IPO in 2018. She was instrumental in crafting Zuora’s leading market position in Forrester’s now-established “Recurring Customer and Billing Management” and IDC’s “Subscription Relationship Management” category, each of which serve as proof points of Zuora’s evangelism of the rise of the Subscription Economy(R).

    At Delphix, she will be responsible for shaping and influencing the company’s position in the market, leading the company’s global corporate and product marketing functions, and helping bring Delphix to the largest data-driven enterprises in the world across banking, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and other key vertical industries.

    “Enterprises today are confronted with the dual challenge of accelerating digital innovation in a climate of unprecedented market disruption, while at the same time facing an increased burden of keeping up with a growing number of data security and compliance regulations”, said Monika Saha, Delphix CMO. “The intersection of these competing forces has created a strong demand for Delphix. Some of the largest brands in the world today rely on the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform to accelerate the pace at which they are delivering and monetizing new services without compromising on the security and privacy standards that govern the very data that fuels their innovation and livelihood.”

    Sanjeev Sharma is a best-selling author of “DevOps Adoption Playbook” and joins Delphix as its first-ever Global Practice Director for Data Transformation. For the past two decades, Sanjeev worked at tech giants IBM and Rational Software as an executive and Distinguished Engineer on his way to becoming a foremost authority on the issues of digital transformation, DevOps and the cloud. In this newly established role at Delphix, he will be tasked with helping enterprise organizations leverage data and DataOps practices and technologies to accelerate mission-critical transformation initiatives. An early pioneer in the DevOps movement, Sharma will play a lead role in helping to define the burgeoning DataOps category and build out its ecosystem.

    “We are in the midst of a massive IT shift, driven by three main forces: application modernization, cloud adoption, and AI and machine learning. Data sits at the core of this shift as major bottleneck to achieving the speed and scale needed to get ahead in an increasingly digital world,” said Sanjeev Sharma, Global Practice Director for Data Transformation at Delphix. “DataOps is the next frontier of this IT transformation and will help more organizations around the world unlock the power of data to accelerate innovation and win in today’s modern IT landscape.”

    About Delphix

    Delphix’s mission is to free companies from data friction and accelerate innovation. One-half of Fortune 50 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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  • Sumo Logic Strengthens Executive Team with Appointments of First-Ever Chief Financial, Marketing, Development and Communications Officers and General Counsel

    Leader in Continuous Intelligence and Machine Data Analytics Deepens Leadership Bench Across Key Functions to Execute Multi-Year Growth Strategy

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Nov. 15, 2018 – Sumo Logic, the leading cloud-native, machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence, today announced the expansion of its executive bench with strategic hires and appointments across finance, marketing, communications, legal and engineering to help lead the company through its next growth phase. Sydney Carey, most recently chief financial officer (CFO) of Duo Security, and Kiki Haar, former general counsel and chief privacy officer (CPO) at Informatica, have joined Sumo Logic as CFO and general counsel, respectively.

    “Sumo Logic is executing on a multi-year strategy to be the category leader in continuous intelligence to ultimately democratize machine data for our customers,” said Ramin Sayar, president and CEO, Sumo Logic. “As part of this journey, we’re growing the business and our teams considerably to scale operations, bring new innovations to market, and meet the processes and requirements demanded of high-growth category leaders. I am honored to have Sydney and Kiki join our executive team, and look forward to working closely with them to accelerate our momentum and continue to deliver on our core purpose of empowering the people who power modern business.”

    Carey is an accomplished and highly regarded executive with deep expertise in public markets, corporate finance and accounting, and has extensive experience in leading public companies and pre-IPO organizations, as both an executive and a board member. Prior to Duo Security, Carey served as CFO of Apttus, Zscaler, MongoDB and TIBCO. A San Francisco Business Times’ Bay Area CFO of the Year, Carey’s broad financial experience includes two decades of operational and strategic leadership roles.

    “Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of helping lead several of the fastest growing and innovative SaaS companies through phases of high growth, and in my view, Sumo Logic is executing at every level to be the next market disruptor,” said Carey. “Significant investments in the platform, talent and go-to-market strategy are a strong indication of the company’s plans for continued global success and I look forward to working with the leadership team to take Sumo Logic through its next phase of growth.”

    Kiki Haar is an established privacy and financial executive with nearly 20 years of experience, most recently serving as senior vice president, general counsel and CPO at Informatica. Prior to that, she spent nearly a decade at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati law firm.

    The company also announced the appointment of John Coyle as vice president of business development. Coyle brings more than 20 years of industry experience and insight across security, DevOps, open source software and mobility. He comes to Sumo Logic from Sauce Labs and also held similar positions at MobileIron, Symantec and more.

    Additionally, the company announced other key appointments, including Suku Krishnaraj as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Aaron Feigin as Chief Communications Officer (CCO) and Sandeep Khanna as Chief Development Officer (CDO). These appointments are a reinforcement of Sumo Logic’s commitment to doubling down on developing a differentiated and world-class machine data analytics platform, driving ongoing growth into enterprise markets and continuing to build a global brand affinity with new and existing customers.

    These executive hires and new promotions come on the heels of record company growth for Sumo Logic as well as the appointment of new independent board members, BJ Jenkins, CEO of Barracuda and Chuck Robel, current chairman of the board for GoDaddy, former chairman of McAfee and veteran board member at AppDynamics, Informatica, Palo Alto Networks and Autodesk. The continued addition of proven and experienced executives enable the company to strengthen its ability to scale all functions across the business that are critical for the company’s go-to-market strategy and ability to continue deliver on its mission to empower the people who power modern businesses.

    Other Recent Corporate Milestones Include:

    • Achieved record revenue for fiscal year 2018.
    • Broadened global footprint with recently established Japan subsidiary, Sumo Japan KK.
    • Announced the industry’s first-ever cloud SIEM solution built for DevSecOps.
    • Added marquee customers and upgrades to its growing customer base, including Hudl, Major League Baseball, Marriott, Pitney Bowes, Salesforce, Samsung SmartThings, the Pokemon Company International, Thomson Reuters, USA TODAY NETWORK, Xero, and more.
    • Hosted Illuminate, the company’s second annual user conference that brought together over 600 Sumo Logic customers, partners and industry thought leaders for 40+ sessions and trainings over two days.
    • Named to the Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 list for a third consecutive year and to the JMP Securities’ ninth annual Hot 100 report of The Best Privately-Held Software Companies in 2018.

    About Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 1,600 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic for the analytics and insights to build, run and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. With Sumo Logic, customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.

    Founded in 2010, Sumo Logic is a privately held company based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Accel Partners, DFJ, Greylock Partners, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

  • Collaboration is up but automation may not be delivering on its promise as people remain a key software QA investment

    DevOps is changing the role of testing yet 66% struggle with merely deciding what to test

     

    Hackensack, NJ –   NOVEMBER 15, 2018 – New data from Panaya suggests the role and scope of quality assurance is evolving, and today’s digital transformation efforts may be seeing bigger gains from human capital than automating processes. This is according to a recent survey of senior enterprise IT decision makers in the U.K. and U.S. for their thoughts on quality assurance and software testing.

     

    There is no question the adoption of Agile methodologies and DevOps has shifted development away from traditional silos, but as the role of QA moves closer to the end user, the definition of testers has changed, illustrated by these key findings:

     

    • Struggle testing faster with quality, clarity: 90% find testing faster, while achieving better quality, is problematic. As much as two-thirds (66%) are still stumped by what to test.
    • Impact of DevOps on testing: 53% see testers focusing more on quality when asked how it will change over the next three years. This is up 13% compared to a similar Panaya survey conducted in 2017.
    • Greatest effect Agile has on testing: Collaboration is key as 28% said testers are working more closely with developers and other team members, and 20% note test teams are now involved earlier in the project lifecycle.
    • Automation still low: 61% say they automate 50% or less of their functional testing, 47% only automate up to 40% and just under a third (32%) automate up to 30% of tests.
    • Correlation for Risk-based Testing emerges: Deciding what to test and the benefits of risk-based testing (RBT) is intertwined as 32% find RBT improves efficiency, helping to better allocate test efforts, and 26% see it improving shift-left efforts with earlier detection of issues.

    When peeling back the layers, the amount of functional testing automated in today’s organizations is a key indicator of the increasing importance and investment in human involvement in the QA process. While this is often considered a way to reduce costs in the QA process, a clear majority demonstrated a surprising level of support for the manual process.

    Likewise, highlighting the correlation between deciding what to test and the benefits associated with RBT in today’s organizations is enlightening. As testing moves closer to the end user, RBT is more than just a way to improve efficiently and reduce costs, its helping create better user experiences.

     

    “Despite threats of artificial intelligence and automation, greater collaboration and investment on the human side of QA is an area helping to encourage more positive differentiation,” said Rafi Kretchmer, chief marketing officer at Panaya. “The companies that see this are making the investment to get them past the QA bottleneck without sacrificing velocity or quality.”

    “Risk-based testing offers a variety of key benefits, but by helping solve the issue of what to test, organizations can better allocate test efforts, eliminating wasted time and expenses testing what is out of scope,” continued Kretchmer.

     

    Panaya Test Dynamix, a test acceleration platform helping organizations speed testing processes for all stakeholders, helps solve these issues and more through one unified platform. Designed with the needs of all stakeholders in mind, the intuitive UI enables technical and business users to adopt the same testing platform to gain real-time visibility over all test cycles. Through standardized testing processes, built-in collaboration and communication functions, including risk-based testing, Test Dynamix can improve overall software quality while effectively reduced overall testing efforts by 30 to 50%.

    Since 2008, over 2,000 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, have used Panaya to delivery quick quality change to enterprise applications. Customers are from a variety of sectors including automotive, pharmaceutical, retail, manufacturing and more.

    The survey was conducted by Vanson Bourne in August 2018 and polled over 300 Enterprise IT decision makers in the U.S. and U.K. For more information on how Panaya TDx can help your organization, visit: www.panaya.com/product/test-dynamix.

     

    About Panaya

    Panaya, an Infosys company, enables organizations to accelerate application change and continuously deliver innovation with its Enterprise Agile Delivery Platform. Panaya provides cloud-based application delivery, and testing solutions that ensure collaboration between Business and IT. Enabling enterprise agility with faster release velocity and uncompromising quality, Panaya delivers an optimized user experience with end-to-end visibility of the application lifecycle. Since 2008, 2,000 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, have been using Panaya to deliver quick quality change to enterprise applications.

     

  • Test Automation University, a Free Education Platform Focused On Globally Increasing Test Automation Success Rates, Now Open For Enrollment

    Led by Applitools newcomer Angie Jones, ‘Test Automation U’ aims to be a top collective for anyone to access information needed along the pathway to test automation success

    SAN MATEO, Calif., November 15, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com/), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced Test Automation University – a community-driven collection of educational training resources to help improve test automation skill sets. With initial offerings by test automation experts Angie Jones, Dave Haeffner, Jonathan Lipps, Joe Colantonio, Amber Race, Elisabeth Hocke, Manoj Kumar,Jason Arbon, Raja Rao, and Gil Tayar, ‘Test Automation U’ aims to bring a community of technical professionals – including testers, engineers and developers – together to build, identify, aggregate, and amplify best practices in test automation strategies and techniques. Additional experts will be added throughout 2019 with courses offered for syndication and live training through global industry events. Full details of the initiative including descriptions of initial courses, curriculum, and community engagement opportunities will be unveiled in an upcoming webinar hosted by Angie Jones.

    Enroll here for free to join Test Automation U, get involved with the community, and register for the webinar with Angie Jones detailing the initiative at (http://go.applitools.com/181129-Test-Automation-U-Unveiled.html)

    “We feel it is in everyone’s best interest to invest in people’s understanding of test automation and how to implement it the right way from the very beginning,” said Angie Jones, former automation engineer at Twitter and now a senior developer advocate at Applitools. “Providing a quality source of community-driven, vetted information – for all stages of skill sets and career paths within test automation – will help individuals and companies alike close the talent gap in automation engineering. I am thrilled to join the Applitools team, which is committed to a collaborative and self-learning education program for all to benefit and all to be involved.”

    Jones is the most recent test automation expert to join the growing Applitools’ roster, as the company continues to expand its operations globally in support of best-of-breed test automation practices. Angie, an internationally recognized thought leader and technology mentor, joins recent hire Dave Haeffner, author of The Selenium Guidebook, veteran Gil Tayar, senior architect and evangelist, and former Salesforce developer evangelist Raja Rao as initial collaborators on the Test Automation U project. “The goal is to encourage a wide range of expert contributions to help businesses create a world with higher quality applications, released faster with better customer experiences than ever before,” Jones continued. “With a growing demand for test automation and the advent of testing practices shifting left in the software delivery lifecycle, we want to create a shared space to support the top practices needed for successful test automation.”

    Test Automation U Curriculum: More Than 10 Free Courses Planned In Next Six Months

    Over the course of the next several months, collaborators will unveil courses and associated curriculum to aid in the development of skill sets related to test automation. While the first courses will launch on January 2019, eleven initial courses have been identified including:

    Foundational Test Automation Courses

    Setting a Foundation for Successful Test Automation (Angie Jones)

    A Guide to Codeless Test Automation (Dave Haeffner)

    Performance Testing Tools and Techniques: Preparing For The Masses (Amber Race)

    The Whole Team Approach to Continuous Testing (Elisabeth Hocke)

    Automated Visual Testing Courses

    Automated Visual Testing: A Fast Path To Test Automation Success (Angie Jones)

    How To Visually Validate Your Mobile Applications (Jonathan Lipps)

    CI/CD, UI Version Control and Root Cause Analysis: An Advanced Course In Automated Visual Testing (Raja Rao)

    Visual Validation For Frontend Developers (Gil Tayar)

    Test Automation for Real World Problems

    Testing In The Real World: Success Stories You Can Learn From (Joe Colantonio)

    An Inclusive Web for Everybody: Test Automation for Accessibility (Manoj Kumar)

    AI for Element Selection: Erasing the Pain of Fragile Test Scripts (Jason Arbon)

    An initial course from Angie Jones entitled “Setting a Foundation for Successful Test Automation” will launch Test Automation U in January 2019 focusing on training and tutorials in seven chapters including:

    How to Design an Automation Strategy

    Creating a Culture of Success in your Organization

    Developing for Testability

    Tooling for Testability

    Future-proofing your Test Automation Efforts

    Test Automation Optimization and Scaling

    Quantifying and Sharing the Value of Test Automation

    “The talent gap is huge when it comes to test automation initiatives, and many programs get delayed or even fail because of this,” explained Jones. “What is great about Test Automation U is that we’re opening the doors to all schools of thought, capturing the knowledge, and distributing it openly in relevant locations. No matter what role you’re playing in the software development process, it’s extremely important for everyone to collaborate and work together.”

    To learn more about test automation practices from the Applitools team, visit: (https://applitools.com/blog)

    About Applitools

    Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Instana Adds Automatic Python Instrumentation and Tracing

    Company’s Automatic APM Solution First to Automatically Trace Python Applications

    SOLINGEN, GERMANY, AND SAN MATEO, CALIF. – NOVEMBER 15, 2018

    Instana, the first monitoring solution to fully automate all aspects of application performance monitoring (APM), today became the first APM solution to provide automated zero-touch instrumentation for Python application and service visibility. Instana’s AutoTrace™ technology has been extended to Python to automatically trace distributed application requests through Python services.

    “Application monitoring is no longer just about visibility into one or two programming languages,” said Fabian Lange, co-founder and VP of Engineering at Instana. “Instana’s goal is to take the instrumentation burden off of developers creating microservices using a polyglot of languages so they can focus on coding their business logic. AutoTrace further enhances monitoring automation to provide a zero-touch method of gathering traces for every single application request.”

    Automatic monitoring allows DevOps to optimize their application and service delivery, ultimately increasing their CI/CD speed. Instana’s Automatic APM solution for dynamic applications automates the full management lifecycle of critical business applications, especially those running in cloud, containers, microservices or serverless environments. Instana’s solution automatically monitors, visualizes and understands application performance for dynamic containerized microservice applications.

    Instana’s release now makes automatic instrumentation available for Python, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, .NET and PHP, enabling 100% zero touch visibility into these languages. To instrument in Ruby, Crystal, Go and Node.js, users simply add 1 line of code. After instrumentation is enabled, AutoTrace takes over, tracing every request across the entire application – service to service, platform to platform – and analyzed to give actionable information needed to solve application performance issues.

    “Automating monitoring results in a strong ROI, especially for organizations that embrace CI/CD, where it’s critical to keep the process flowing smoothly,” said Pete Abrams, Instana COO. “Manually configuring code instrumentation or having developers write monitoring code is time consuming and takes developers away from their primary mission of building new business services. That’s why Instana continues to invest in automation technology.”

    Instana’s automatic Python code instrumentation is available today at https://instana.com/trial/ where users can try the solution free for a limited time.

    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.

  • SignalFx Delivers Next Generation of Application Performance Monitoring The first to enable directed troubleshooting for applications and microservices

    November 15, 2018 — San Mateo, CA – SignalFx, the leader in real-time cloud monitoring for infrastructure, microservices, and applications, today unveiled SignalFx Microservices APM, the industry’s first real-time application performance monitoring solution designed to accelerate troubleshooting for DevOps teams through advanced real-time analytics, instantly identifying problems wherever they may lie.

    Powered by the NoSample™ distributed tracing architecture, SignalFx Microservices APM observes every single transaction — not just a small random sample — and reports on every anomaly. With the new Outlier Analyzer™, the most challenging issues can now be pinpointed and resolved with a single click.

    SignalFx Microservices APM is built on top of SignalFx’s advanced streaming analytics platform for metrics which applies unsurpassed data science in real-time to identify the root cause of the most critical application problems. Advanced automation workflows can remediate issues in seconds.

    “Microservices have changed the game for companies, allowing them to move faster by breaking up applications into modules that can be developed and changed independently.  A consequence is that it is now exponentially more difficult to identify and triage problems as they span hundred of services and evolve rapidly,” said Arijit Mukherji, Chief Technology Officer of SignalFx. “SignalFx Microservices APM is the only end-to-end monitoring solution designed to tackle this problem head-on, dramatically reducing mean time to repair by enabling instant troubleshooting.”

    Traditional APM systems are not designed to handle the scale, complexity and dynamic nature of today’s microservices environments. The probabilistic sampling and batch processing approach worked for legacy monolithic applications, but falls short in a microservices world leaving developers in the dark and customers frustrated.

    “The world happens in real-time and if something goes wrong, finding problems minutes later just doesn’t cut it,” said Karthik Rau, CEO and Founder of SignalFx.  “Customers expect technology and applications to just work.  Their tolerance for failure is next to zero with the value of their brand held in the balance.”

    “The collateral damage of disappointing customers far outstrips and outlasts the monetary impact. People remember,” said Trevor Rundell, Director of Engineering at Drift. “The key to keeping our customers happy is finding the root cause of the problem and fixing it — preferably before they even notice.

    “Being able to capture 100% of traces is very important to us.  SignalFx NoSample architecture means we no longer have to ‘hope we can find the problem’ because now we ‘know we will find the problem,’” Rundell said.

    Adam Nutt, Engineering Manager at Nike said, “With SignalFx Microservices APM we now have all the traces we need to immediately get to the root cause of any problem. That means more successful product launches — and happier customers.”

    Next Generation of Real-Time Cloud Monitoring

    The SignalFx Real-Time Cloud Monitoring Platform for Infrastructure, Microservices, and Applications is unique in Four Key Areas:

    • Flexible, open instrumentation – SignalFx makes it easy to ingest metrics, traces and events from any source across the stack. DevOps can flexibly use the best tool for the job choosing from a wide range of supported instrumentation options – APIs, Smart Agent, Telemetry Adapters, Function Wrappers, Code Auto-instrumentation. SignalFx instrumentation is based on open standards (such as collectd, statsd for metrics and OpenTracing, OpenCensus, Zipkin for distributed tracing) and therefore agnostic to how developers choose to collect data. Thanks to 150+ pre-built integrations and the auto-discovery and auto-configuration capabilities of the SignalFx Smart Agent™, Ops teams can start monitoring popular systems in minutes.
    • Real-time problem detection – SignalFx is the only cloud monitoring solution based on a streaming metrics architecture with mutable metadata. Thanks to this unique SignalFlow™ architecture, SignalFx delivers consistent low-latency problem detection and high-resolution visualization (1 sec metrics) — even in high-cardinality use cases typical of digital business applications. In today’s digital economy, companies cannot afford to wait minutes for their monitoring solution to identify and alert on a problem anywhere in the stack. Anomalous conditions have to be identified in real-time, and alerts have to fire in seconds to avoid impacting revenue and the customer experience. The SignalFx streaming architecture is the only platform capable of detecting problems in seconds no matter the amount of data generated by modern, short-lived infrastructure and distributed microservices.
    • Directed troubleshooting– SignalFx shortens problem resolution in a microservices environment by capturing all anomalies and directly assisting the operator during the triage process. Thanks to its unique NoSample architecture, SignalFx observes every transaction and identifies every anomaly via a complete view of system behavior over time. Through features like Outlier Analyzer, SignalFx applies powerful analytics that guide DevOps to the root cause of issues in seconds.
    • Built for DevOps velocity– SignalFx is an API-driven solution, designed to be easily integrated with the DevOps toolchain. Every aspect and functionality of the platform can be controlled and programmed through code leveraging well-defined APIs. This enables SRE teams to be more productive by automating monitoring services through code.

    What Analysts are Saying

    IDC

    “A shift to faster, more agile software delivery is requiring the adoption of Monitoring and APM tools that provide real-time alerting, dashboards, and automation for auto-remediation and auto-scaling.” Stephen Elliott, Program Vice President, Management Software and DevOps, IDC

    Gartner

    “Microservice-based applications are highly complex and dynamic, and they generate large volumes of data. This renders traditional monitoring approaches inadequate at best and dangerously oblivious at worst.” Gartner, Advance Your Application Performance Monitoring Strategy to Support Microservices, 6 March 2018

    Availability and Pricing

    SignalFx Microservices APM is now available for trial and purchase. Pricing starts at $45 per host per month. Usage-based pricing options are also available. For more information visit signalfx.com/pricing

    About SignalFx

    SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. The platform discovers and collects metrics across every component in your cloud environment, replacing traditional point tools and providing real-time predictive analytics. The massively scalable SignalFx architecture is optimized for cloud infrastructure and microservices-based applications and provides powerful visualization, proactive alerting, and collaborative triage capabilities for organizations of all sizes. SignalFx is used by leading enterprises across high tech, financial services, consumer products, retail, communications, media, entertainment and web-scale players like Yelp, HubSpot, Acquia, and Kayak. SignalFx is venture-funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and General Catalyst.

     

     

     

  • New Global IT Research Report Shows Public Cloud Only is not a Panacea; 91% State Hybrid Cloud is Ideal IT Model

    Research Suggests Cloud Interoperability and App Mobility Outrank Cost and Security for Primary Hybrid Cloud Benefits

    SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 15, 2018 – Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced the findings of its first annual global Enterprise Cloud Index, measuring enterprise plans for adopting private, hybrid and public clouds.* The new report found enterprises plan to increase hybrid cloud usage, with 91% stating hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model, but only 18% stating they have that model today. The findings also revealed that application mobility across any cloud is a top priority for 97% of respondents – with 88% of respondents saying it would “solve a lot of my problems.” Additionally, the report found public cloud is not a panacea; IT decision makers ranked matching applications to the right cloud environment as a critical capability, and 35% of organizations using public clouds overspent their annual budget. When asked to rank the primary benefits of hybrid cloud, interoperability between cloud types (23%) and the ability to move applications back and forth between clouds (16%) outranked cost (6%) and security (5%) as the primary benefits.

    Nutanix commissioned Vanson Bourne to survey IT decision makers about where they are running their business applications today, where they plan to run them in the future, challenges in setting up their cloud environments and how their cloud initiatives stack up against other IT projects and priorities. The survey resulted in approximately 2,300 respondents from multiple industries, business sizes and geographies in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) regions.

    In roles centered on agility and digital transformation, IT teams understand that runtime environments for enterprise apps change constantly. Respondents indicated a need for greater orchestration and application mobility across cloud environments, as they seek flexibility to move apps to the “right” cloud on a more dynamic basis.  In addition, shadow IT practices that circumvent enterprise IT teams are posing a significant challenge to forecasting and controlling public cloud spend with well over half of respondents (57%) reporting one or more incidents of shadow IT.

    Other key findings of the report include:

    • Hybrid cloud better addresses business needs over single public cloud, including the price tag: 87% of respondents said that hybrid cloud as an IT trend is having a  positive impact on their businesses, and more hybrid cloud users reported all their needs were being met (49%) compared to single public cloud users (37%). Furthermore, organizations that use public cloud spend 26% of their annual IT budget on public cloud.  Perhaps most striking is the fact that only 6% using public cloud came in under budget, while nearly six times as many (35%) overspent in their use of public cloud resources
    • Security is top of mind for determining workloads: 71% of respondents surveyed for the report ranked data security and regulatory compliance as the top factor in determining where to provision their workloads. This was followed by performance at 62%, ease of management at 53%, and cost at 52%.
    • App developers today are circumventing IT: 57% of respondents said their developers are circumventing IT when it comes to deciding where applications run, putting the organization at potential risk.
    • Finding hybrid IT talent is difficult: With clear benefits to a hybrid model, respondents say scarcity of hybrid experts is a challenge, with 54% claiming talent retention is part of the problem.
    • EMEA is expected to surpass the Americas with hybrid cloud adoption: Regionally, the Americas reported greater use of hybrid clouds now (22%) and within 12 months’ time (31%). However, the two-year outlook has EMEA (43%) surpassing the Americas’ hybrid plans (39%) and APJ (39%) catching up.

    “As enterprises demand stronger application mobility and interoperability, they are increasingly choosing hybrid cloud infrastructure,” said Ben Gibson, chief marketing officer for Nutanix. “While the advent of public cloud has increased IT efficiency in certain areas, hybrid cloud capabilities are the next step in providing the freedom to dynamically provision and manage applications based on business needs. However, the findings of this study reveal an important gap in the market: organizations need IT talent to manage their hybrid cloud models, especially in the next 12 to 24 months.”

    To learn more about the report and findings, please download the full “Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index 2018”, here.

    *For the purposes of this study, hybrid cloud “describes the combined use of at least one private cloud and at least one public cloud service, with some degree of integration between the two cloud environments.”

    About Nutanix

    Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application owners a true cloud-like experience. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter @nutanix.

    © 2018 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all product and service names mentioned herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).

     

  • Bugcrowd Disrupts the Multi-Billion Dollar Pen Test Market With Its Next Gen Pen Test Solution

    Bugcrowd’s global Crowd of experienced pen testers and whitehat hackers help customers find 7x more critical vulnerabilities than traditional pen tests

    SAN FRANCISCO – November 14, 2018 – Bugcrowd, the #1 crowdsourced security platform, today announced Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test, a new product with unique platform capabilities to meet organizations’ evolving security needs as attack surfaces grow at an accelerated pace. Bugcrowd helps  organizations around the world level the cybersecurity playing field by cost effectively harnessing the creativity of a global Crowd of trusted pen testers and whitehat hackers to identify vulnerabilities before adversaries – something you can’t get through traditional security testing alone.

    Organizations spend  millions of dollars  a year today on compulsory  pen tests with minimal results and ROI. The  traditional pen test model incentivizes pen test providers to apply limited resources resources,  with limited depth of skills, on a limited schedule. According to a recent survey, nearly 60% of security leaders are highly dissatisfied with current penetration test efforts, with more than 70% reporting they do not believe their current penetration testing methodology uncovers high priority security vulnerabilities. In fact, according to Gartner’s June 2018 Emerging Technology Analysis: Bug Bounties and Crowdsourced Security Testing, pen testing “adds limited value in improving application security, and is out of step with DevSecOps-based approaches that rapidly iterate on applications.”

    Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test is the only scalable model for sidestepping the operational handcuffs of traditional testing approaches. By leveraging a global Crowd of thousands of uniquely skilled and trusted pen testers, companies are able to rapidly build and incentivize the perfect team for every engagement – providing continuous testing, with less overhead, in less time, and with more predictable results. Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test goes a step above traditional pen testing to provide coverage assurance, comprehensive methodology and reporting, and deep integration into the software development lifecycle. Bugcrowd customers find more critical vulnerabilities with Next Gen Pen Test than traditional pen tests, dramatically improving their security posture.

    “Planning a traditional penetration test is a painful process. There are a lot of hoops to jump through, not to mention, scoping is difficult and the methodology is strict,” said Richard Rushing, CISO, Motorola Mobility. “Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test leverages the crowdsourced security model to bring me 10x the security coverage needed for today’s application and the cost savings. You can’t beat it.”

    “As I speak to CSOs around the world, they’re looking for better ways to protect their organizations than the traditional pen testing approaches that have not changed in more than 20 years – and have in fact failed to reduce overall security risk,” said Ashish Gupta, CEO, Bugcrowd. “The solution can only be addressed by a radical shift in pen test design, which lends itself exceptionally well to the crowdsourced security model. Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test brings together the needed variety of experience and technical specialization on an ongoing basis to handle the complexity of constantly changing attack surfaces companies will face in the coming years.”

    Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test combines the continuity of 24/7/365 testing and the methodology and reporting needed to meet compliance and audit requirements. Included in Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test are unique platform capabilities, including:

    • CrowdMatch™: Unparalleled knowledge of the behaviors, performance, and skills of a crowd of thousands of uniquely skilled pen testers to rapidly and dynamically build the perfect team for every engagement.
    • BugHunter Methodology™: Proven approach to pen testing that brings together leading industry testing standards, such as OWASP Top 10, PCI, NIST, and others, with incremental tests from a hacker mindset to drive risk reduction and compliance.
    • ResearcherDirect™: Direct researcher engagement and oversight to foster relationships and knowledge through a secure portal not available via traditional pen testing.
    • Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT): A community-driven, open source guide provides quick ID of high priority vulnerabilities, reducing overhead.

    To learn more about Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test, tune in to the upcoming webinar on Thursday, November 15, 2019 featuring Bugcrowd CSO, David Baker, and Vice President of Researcher Growth, Jason Haddix.

    About Bugcrowd

    Bugcrowd is the #1 crowdsourced security platform. More enterprise organizations trust Bugcrowd to manage their bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, and next gen pen test programs. By combining the largest, most experienced triage team with the most trusted whitehat hackers around the world, Bugcrowd generates better results, reduces risk through remediation advice, and empowers organizations to release secure products to market faster — with no hidden fees. Based in San Francisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners. Bugcrowd. Outhack Them AllTM. Learn more at www.bugcrowd.com.

     

     

  • Sysdig Now Available on AWS Marketplace

    Sysdig solutions help enterprises monitor and secure cloud-native applications 

    SAN FRANCISCO, November 14, 2018–Sysdig, Inc., a cloud-native intelligence company, today announced that Sysdig is available on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Marketplace. AWS customers can now purchase and deploy Sysdig Monitor, Sysdig Secure, and the entire Sysdig Cloud-Native Intelligence Platform directly through AWS Marketplace. Sysdig has created one of the first platforms to unify container security, monitoring, and forensics with native Kubernetes, Prometheus, and AWS services.

    Enterprises that choose to purchase Sysdig through AWS Marketplace get the peace of mind of knowing that the two are easily deployable together and they can save time by simplifying tasks, including procurement and billing. This announcement comes on the heels of Sysdig being recognized as an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN)and demonstrates the commitment by both companies to continue working together.

    “Our customers want proven, easy-to-use, and reliable SaaS solutions to secure their environment and to prevent downtime or disruptions,” said Garth Fort, Director, AWS Marketplace and Catalog Services, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Solutions that combine security and monitoring, like the Sysdig Cloud-Native Intelligence Platform, can simplify cloud-native operations, and we’re delighted to extend their availability to the 190,000 buyers using AWS Marketplace.”

    For enterprises to be successful in deploying cloud-based infrastructure, they need the ability to monitor and secure their applications in real world, large-scale deployments. Effective container security and monitoring hinge on response teams being able to quickly detect, analyze, and respond to threats both during development and in live containers – from detection, to remediation, to forensics.

    Sysdig monitors and secures at the container, host, and application level all from a low-resource, single point of instrumentation, which provides more data than other approaches. As enterprises continue to migrate business-critical workloads to AWS to take advantage of the scale and flexibility of cloud-native architectures, Sysdig can help enterprises avoid common operational pains, making the migration and production management easier. By pairing Sysdig with AWS, customers gain full visibility and protection into their environment, including applications, services, and hybrid environments.

    “This is another step in our mission to drive container and microservices adoption. Sysdig is able to help enterprises take advantage of modern environments by giving users access to the data necessary to understand their environment, and then take action when something isn’t right,” said Loris Degioanni, Chief Technology Officer, Sysdig. “This new solution running on AWS simplifies the process for AWS users from beginning to end so that enterprises operating in the cloud can focus on delivering the ideal customer experience rather than tracking down and resolving problems.”

    Sysdig will be demonstrating the Sysdig Cloud-Native Intelligence Platform at the upcoming AWS user conference, AWS re:Invent2018, happening November 26-30, 2018, in Las Vegas at Booth #281. Come meet the Sysdig team and learn more about how Sysdig is working with AWS and other APN Partners in order to make modern architectures more reliable and secure.

    About Sysdig
    Sysdig is the cloud-native intelligence company.

    Enterprises depend on Sysdig to deliver reliable, secure containerized applications. We have created the only unified platform to deliver container security, monitoring, and forensics in a microservices-friendly architecture. Our open source technologies have attracted a community of over a million developers, administrators, and other IT professionals looking for deep visibility into applications and containers. Our cloud-native intelligence platform monitors and secures millions of containers across hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies and web-scale properties. Learn more at www.sysdig.com