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  • Thoma Bravo to Acquire Veracode Software from Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO)

    Partnership Will Create Leading Independent Cybersecurity Company Focused on Providing Application Security Testing Globally

    SAN FRANCISCO and BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Veracode, the leading provider in next-generation application security testing (AST), from Broadcom Inc. for $950 million in cash. Currently, a division of Broadcom Inc. Veracode’s SaaS platform and integrated solutions help security teams and software developers find and fix security-related defects at all points in the software development lifecycle.  The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018, subject to usual and customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

    This acquisition reinforces Veracode’s long history of market leadership and innovation, and the partnership with Thoma Bravo is expected to support Veracode’s future operational and product development plans.

    With broad language, framework, and testing technology coverage, the Veracode Application Security Platform offers a holistic, scalable way to manage security risk across an entire application portfolio. Leveraging a wide range of security testing and threat mitigation techniques, combined with best practices derived from the most innovative application security programs in enterprises globally, customers are given the keys to transforming how they build and buy software by deeply integrating security into their software development lifecycles and enabling DevSecOps processes. Veracode’s Application Security Platform has received consistent industry recognition.

    “Software security is one of the most consequential issues facing companies as they look to compete in the digital economy. We are proud that our SaaS security platform combines multiple application security testing solutions, helping our customers around the world secure the software powering their companies and enabling them to focus on their core business objectives,” said Sam King, current Senior Vice President and General Manager of Veracode, who will become the CEO of Veracode following the close of the transaction. “Partnering with Thoma Bravo, a proven security software investor, is expected to extend our market reach and further fuel our innovation so that we can offer the broadest software security platform and empower us to accelerate growth — all to allow us to transform the way companies achieve their software security goals.”

    “As long-term investors in cybersecurity software, we are impressed with the speed and quality of innovation at Veracode,” said Seth Boro, a managing partner at Thoma Bravo.  “Sam King and her team are seasoned, proven operators addressing a critical security problem in application development and delivering best in class products to a rapidly growing customer base for over 10 years. We are excited to be partnering with the Veracode leadership team to build upon this strong foundation and continue to drive innovation for customers.”

    Securing this software is a critical part of growing the digital economy. Veracode’s pure SaaS platform is positioned to address this market opportunity. Veracode serves more than 2,000 customers across a wide range of industries, including nearly one-third of the Fortune 100, and more than 20 of Forbes’ 100 Most Valuable Brands.

    “In today’s digital economy practically every company is turning into a software company through their own digital transformation.  As these companies continue to build complex applications, many of which contain sensitive data, the applications themselves increasingly become the target of more sophisticated and omnipresent cyber-attacks.  As such, applications need to be built with security in mind day one, and we see a significant, growing market opportunity for Veracode’s product offerings,” said Chip Virnig, a partner at Thoma Bravo.

    Thoma Bravo has extensive experience investing in the cybersecurity software sector, and has completed more than 30 total acquisitions of enterprise security companies to date, including SailPoint (NASDAQ: SAIL), Barracuda Networks, LogRhythm, Bomgar, BlueCoat Systems, SonicWall and Entrust. The firm also has years of experience effectively executing software “carve-outs” and driving growth and productivity in newly created platform companies, including Digital Insight, McAfee, Kofax and Dynatrace.

    Kirkland & Ellis is serving as Thoma Bravo’s legal advisor.

    About Thoma Bravo, LLC

    Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sectors. With a series of funds representing more than $30 billion in capital commitments, Thoma Bravo partners with a company’s management team to implement operating best practices, invest in growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings, with the goal of increasing the value of the business. Representative past and present portfolio companies include industry leaders such as ABC Financial, Blue Coat Systems, Deltek, Digital Insight, Frontline Education, Global Healthcare Exchange, Hyland Software, Imprivata, iPipeline, PowerPlan, Qlik, Riverbed, SailPoint, SolarWinds, SonicWall, Sparta Systems and TravelClick. The firm has offices in San Francisco and Chicago. For more information, visit thomabravo.com.

  • StackPath Begins Providing Free Private SSL Certificates

    Partnership with Sectigo (Comodo CA) helps developers secure websites and applications

    DALLAS — November 5, 2018 — StackPath, a leading platform of secure edge services, today announced it has partnered with Sectigo, formerly Comodo CA, the global innovator of security solutions, to include private SSL certificates for no additional cost with StackPath content delivery network (CDN), web application firewall (WAF), and Edge Delivery subscriptions. StackPath customers can receive a private SSL certificate for each CDN or WAF site they create on the StackPath platform, ensuring their end users’ traffic is encrypted from the web browser to the content or web application.

    “We’re on a mission to make the internet safe, and offering free SSL certificates is one of many ways we’re doing it,” said Ben Gabler, StackPath Senior VP of Product. “SSL encryption has long been expected on login forms and checkout pages, but today it’s essential to have SSL encryption for your entire website or application. It makes the internet more secure as a whole, as modern browsers warn users if an SSL certificate is not present.”

    “Recently, Google began marking sites without SSL certificates as ‘not secure’, so it’s more important than ever for companies to ensure their sites are now protected,” said Tim Callan, Senior Fellow at Sectigo. “We are thrilled that our partnership with StackPath is helping make the internet safe for consumers, especially with the holiday shopping season and Black Friday right around the corner.”

    The free private SSL certificates are an extension of StackPath Edge SSL suite, complementing the platform’s ability to provide shared SSL encryption or for customers to use third-party SSL certificates that they already own. StackPath Edge SSL serves the SSL certificates from StackPath edge nodes around the world, accelerating authentication, increasing end user security, and taking the burden of SSL authentication and validation off of a website, application, or cloud service’s origin servers.

    New and existing StackPath customers can request their free private Edge SSL certificates through the StackPath customer portal. Private Edge SSL certificates are automatically renewed when they reach their expiration date; customers who already have third-party SSL certificates can request and use a free private Edge SSL server and no longer worry about keeping their certificates valid.

  • Extreme Networks Brings Agile Mindset and Automation to New Data Center Solutions

    Mitigate Risk, Simplify Management of Data Center Upgrades with Cross-Domain IT Automation, Single Pane of Glass Management, Pervasive Visibility and Analytics for Multi-Vendor Networks

    SAN JOSE, Calif., November 5, 2018 – Data center operations teams are feeling the pressure to keep pace with business demands for services at cloud speed, but monolithic technology stacks, limited visibility and manual processes are holding them back. To help customers overcome these challenges, Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR) today announced the path to the new, agile data center – one that allows organizations to automate at their own pace with cross-domain IT automation, management, visibility and analytics tools that work in any vendor environment.

    New hardware and software in Extreme’s Agile Data Center™ solution provides organizations with the tools they need to embrace automation, wherever they are on their journey. Secure, plug-and-play technology combines the best of acquired data center networking and automation tools with Extreme’s powerful management, analytics and security capabilities to reduce the risk and mitigate the complexity – and manual labor – involved in deploying and managing multi-vendor environments and transitioning legacy architectures.

    Benefits include:

    • Cross-domain IT automation: Extreme Workflow Composer, powered by Extreme’s StackStorm™ platform, enables customized cross-domain, multi-vendor IT automation, enabling full integration of compute, storage, security and network resources.
    • Automation at your pace: Extreme Embedded Fabric Automation enables plug-and-play data center fabric creation within seconds for a fabric of any size – with no need for additional software or servers. Customers can automate at their own pace with customizable workflows using popular tools such as Ansible, as well as the ability to move to full IT automation with Extreme Workflow Composer.
    • Single pane of glass management: The Extreme Management Center™ platform delivers end-to-end, multi-vendor management and monitoring capabilities across the entire network – from the wired/ wireless edge and campus to the data center—reducing administration time and speeding issue resolution.
    • Insights where and when you need them: The ExtremeAnalytics™ dashboard provides end-to-end application visibility and telemetry across the campus, data center, between VMs on hosts and to the cloud, enabling administrators to support the business with real-time information to make informed decisions. A virtual sensor captures traffic information on and between VMware virtual instances, without slowing down the network. The guest VM capability of Extreme’s SLX family of switches and routers gives network administrators distributed analyzer capabilities for on-box analysis.
    • Network adaptability and agility: Extreme’s open and vendor agnostic architecture eliminates lock-in and forms the basis for a network that easily and quickly adapts to ever-changing business needs fueled by digital transformation. Seamless VMware vCenter integration accelerates application deployment through zero-touch VM discovery, VM mobility and VM server migration.
    • Hardware for any use case: Extreme’s SLX switching and routing platforms provide the foundation for the modern data center. New SLX 9030 leaf switches, designed for enhanced Top of Rack switching, and the SLX 9640 router for scalable, high performance border routing and data center interconnect (DCI), strengthen an already robust and comprehensive portfolio.

    Executive Perspectives

    Jon Dyson, Vice President of Network Infrastructure, Piksel

    “We’ve been using Extreme’s carrier-class SLX data center solutions for border routing, for providing cloud connectivity to various public cloud providers for our customers, and to enable interconnectivity between our own data centers. We’ve found that Extreme’s innovative network automation capabilities and SLX products address the increasing agility and analytics needs of digital organizations.”

    Mike Leber, Owner, Hurricane Electric

    “We’ve been using Extreme Networks’ SLX products in our global internet backbone to provide IP transit and layer 2 transport services to over 185 major exchange points and 7,200 networks in 40 countries around the world. The new SLX 9640 provides us with a highly scalable routing platform, in a small form factor, that will allow us to continue our expansion into new markets, while dramatically reducing our space and power requirements.”

    Brad Casemore, Vice President of Research for Datacenter Networks, IDC

    “Data center networks typically comprise both legacy and new infrastructure, often from multiple vendors, and that poses a complexity challenge for network operators seeking to leverage visibility to manage proactively. Without pervasive visibility into what’s happening on the network, as well as the ability to automate and orchestrate network operations, network administrations are locked into a reactive posture. Extreme’s Agile Data Center portfolio is designed to make it possible for network operators at enterprise and cloud-service providers to be proactive in areas such as business-level SLAs, transforming the network – and those who manage it – into a facilitator of business outcomes rather than a cost center.”

    Nabil Bukhari, Senior Vice President of Products, Extreme Networks

    “For Extreme, interoperability means more than just a myriad of APIs. It means delivering real, multi-vendor capabilities that meet the needs of the modern enterprise – the types our competitors don’t like to talk about. With our new Agile Data Center Solution, we are walking the talk. Extreme’s Management Center allows for full visibility and management of multi-vendor networks, and Extreme’s Workflow Composer enables cross-domain, multi-vendor IT automation. Further, our adaptable data enter fabric gives customers the ability to build once and re-use it many times. All of this gives organizations the ability to digitally transform their data centers to quickly adapt and respond to new service demands quickly for greater business advantage.”

    Webinar: The Path to the New Data Center—Reduce the Risk and Realize the Benefits

    Join Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst at ZK Research and Dan DeBacker, Director of Data Center Product Management at Extreme Networks, to learn about the new, agile data center on Thursday, November 15 at 10:00 am EDT. Register here.

    Additional Resources

    About Extreme Networks

    Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) delivers software-driven solutions from the enterprise edge to the cloud that are agile, adaptive, and secure to enable digital transformation. Our 100% in-sourced services and support are number one in the industry. Even with 30,000 customers globally, including half of the Fortune 50 and some of the world’s leading names in business, hospitality, retail, transportation and logistics, education, government, healthcare and manufacturing, we remain nimble and responsive to ensure customer and partner success. We call this Customer-Driven Networking™. Founded in 1996, Extreme is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information, visit Extreme’s website or call 1-888-257-3000.

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  • Flux7 Announces Landing Zones For Secure, Scalable AWS Adoption

     Highly automated solutions for migrating essential services and production accounts help enterprises start right, scale fast

    Austin, TX — November 1, 2018 — Flux7, a services and technology company that specializes in extreme automation on top of Amazon Web Services, today announced Flux7 Landing Zones on AWS, a cloud implementation service that provides enterprise companies with a rapid route to a secure foundation in AWS.  Based on proven best practices and lessons learned from hundreds of projects, Flux7 Landing Zones on AWS enable organizations to start application migration to AWS and gain valuable skills through comprehensive training in as little as 10 days. With this foundation, enterprises gain assurance that the infrastructure is secure and configured properly for future scale.

    “Some of the biggest challenges organizations face when getting started in the cloud are overcoming integration obstacles and architecting for scale without compromising security, all while faced with an increasing shortage of cloud architecture expertise and DevOps skills that are needed to effectively shepherd the process,” said Aater Suleman, CEO and co-founder of Flux7. “We created Flux7 Landing Zones on AWS to help customers not only gain modern infrastructure, but also to better understand how to use AWS to meet business and technical goals.”

    Flux7 Landing Zones on AWS can be used to launch an initial pilot project, or to establish a solid foundation in preparation for mass application migration and DevOps at Scale. According to Gartner, “Through 2020, more than 90% of the organizations that plan a cloud IaaS strategy, without first running pilot projects and reviewing lessons learned, will fail to identify benefits, risks and costs correctly.” Gartner, Inc., How to Begin Using Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Lydia Leong, Raj Bala, July 26, 2018.

    An AWS Premier Consulting Partner, the Flux7 Landing Zone solutions build on AWS native services  to deliver configuration-as-code, automated provisioning, infrastructure design and deployment guidance, and includes essential services and production accounts to enable organizations to quickly and securely adopt, implement and operate their AWS environments.   Based on experience with over 300 infrastructure and DevOps projects, the Flux7 Landing Zone solution includes multi account deployment and setup, network design, hardened security and pipeline creation and automation. Landing Zones can be customized to meet enterprise compliance requirements.

    To further help enterprises navigate their journey to cloud, Flux7 also published today a new  white paper titled How to Create a Secure, Scalable AWS Foundation for Successful Cloud Adoption. This white paper is one of several new resources Flux7 has published to help enterprises make informed decisions about DevOps-enabled cloud transformation. Download the paper here.

    Flux7 Landing Zones solutions are part of Flux7’s portfolio of technology and services built on the company’s Enterprise DevOps Framework, a patent-pending method for accelerating IT and process modernization that is bolstered by advanced cloud services to enable transformative efficiencies and breakthrough performance. Flux7 includes leading technology solutions in their DevOps tool chain including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, HashiCorp, Ansible, Jenkins and others to help customers gain infrastructure and processes to improve scalability and uptime, increase security, reduce maintenance time and costs and to better meet customer demand and market opportunities.

    Learn more about Flux7 solutions at: https://www.flux7.com/solutions/

    About Flux7

    Enterprises bring solutions to market faster and provide better customer experiences with Flux7 services and technologies for extreme automation. Gain access to knowledge experts in cloud, containers, CI/D and configuration management to adopt approaches including DevOps and Agile, in order to improve the security and efficiency with which IT services are delivered. Flux7 customers accelerate DevOps adoption and IT modernization projects through our modular service structure and Enterprise DevOps Adoption Framework and platform which provides guidelines and principles to consistently meet business and technical requirements.  Learn more at https://www.flux7.com, get real-world information about IT modernization and DevOps at https://blog.flux7.com/ or follow us on Twitter @Flux7Labs.

     

     

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  • Rockset Reimagines Data-Driven Applications in the Cloud

    SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rockset, the serverless search and analytics company, today formally launched and unveiled the industry’s first cloud service that runs SQL directly on raw data. Rockset offers developers and data scientists the shortest path from data to applications. The company was founded by engineers who built the online data and search infrastructure that supported Facebook’s growth from 40 million to 1.5 billion users. They experienced the challenges of building data products first hand and subsequently set out to simplify data-driven applications.

    Rockset also announced $21.5 million in seed and Series A funding from Greylock and Sequoia: https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/ReleaseNg/2571442 

    “Everyone is collecting more data today, but it is still incredibly difficult to go from useful data to useful apps,” said Venkat Venkataramani, co-founder and CEO of Rockset. “Typical data infrastructures have pipelines resembling Rube Goldberg machines, with a series of specialized tools and databases stitched together. We built Rockset to empower developers and data scientists to go from any raw data, residing anywhere, to apps and live dashboards in a matter of minutes.”

    Data-driven applications are quickly becoming the new normal, from personalized portals to connected devices. But they consume different types of data from different sources. Traditional SQL databases cannot handle the fluid shape or scale of streaming machine-generated data, while NoSQL systems do not support complex queries. As a result, software teams have been forced to use a variety of tools for storing, processing, and serving data, resulting in complex data pipelines that are hard to build and use. Rockset eliminates that complexity with a single easy-to-use service that enables data-driven apps without pipelines.

    Shortest Path from Data to Apps

    Rockset is designed to serve applications and live dashboards directly from raw data, in real-time. Rockset allows fast SQL on JSON, XML, CSV, and Parquet, without requiring any data preparation. Its patent-pending Converged Indexing™ is backed by RocksDB, which, combined with its Distributed Query Processing Engine, delivers the performance and scale necessary for operational applications and interactive data science.

    • Operate directly on raw data:Rockset ingests raw data from multiple sources, such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3, and makes them instantly queryable, without any upfront schema definition or data modeling.
    • Use fast SQL:Rockset supports standard SQL on different types of data, so developers and data scientists are not required to learn a new query language. It provides millisecond-latency SQL to join, group, sort, and filter across multiple data sets.
    • Scale without servers:Rockset scales transparently to handle bursty ingest and query loads. As a fully managed cloud service, Rockset removes the overhead of managing servers, shards, or indexes.

    Experience Rockset

    About Rockset

    Rockset’s vision is to build a data-driven future. Rockset provides a serverless search and analytics engine, making it easy to go from data to applications. The team comprises data and distributed systems experts who co-created the Hadoop Filesystem, the Gmail backend, and the online data and search infrastructure that powers all user-facing apps at Facebook. Rockset is backed by Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more information, go to https://rockset.com or follow Rockset at @RocksetCloud.

  • Public Sector Organizations look to Delphix, DataOps to Accelerate Innovation, Secure Cloud Adoption

    New certifications for Microsoft Azure Government Speed Up Cloud Migrations, Streamline Regulation and Compliance Around Data

     

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif, November 1, 2018 – Delphix, the company accelerating innovation through DataOps, today announced the expansion of the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform (DDDP) to support Microsoft Azure Government, enabling public sector organizations to accelerate their digital transformation and cloud adoption as core IT competency.

     

    According to Gartner, half of the public sector actively uses cloud services and this number is expected to see double-digit growth until 2021. The need to analyze ever-growing volumes of data while meeting stringent privacy compliance and regulations is a major challenge for government cloud adoption. Azure Government offers cloud services specifically tailored to the security and compliance needs of the government sector. Customers can use the Delphix platform to seamlessly move applications and tailor cloud solutions depending on their needs.

     

    “Public sector organizations are undergoing massive digital transformation projects in hopes of delivering important new innovation to people that positively impacts society and our quality of life,” said Chris Cook, CEO of Delphix. “We are thrilled to build on our existing relationships with leaders like Microsoft to provide fast, secure data to these important organizations to accelerate the delivery of new innovation and ensure fast, secure migrations to the cloud.”

     

    The Delphix Dynamic Data Platform helps public sector organizations move their applications to Azure Government which lowers their cost while not exposing them to data privacy and compliance risk. Delphix solutions are available through Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider ™.

     

    “As government agencies continue to seek ways to reduce cost and drive public transparency and responsiveness, they are moving critical applications and data to the cloud. Maintaining data privacy and regulatory compliance while migrating that data is a key priority for all agencies. The Delphix Dynamic Data Platform makes this possible and we’re pleased to offer this solution to our government customers and reseller partners,” said Michael Adams, who manages the Delphix team at Carahsoft.

     

    “Microsoft Azure Government provides a complete cloud for government organizations aiming to be more productive, agile, and efficient as they go through their digital transformation,” said Lily Kim, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Government. “The Delphix platform supports our public sector customers by helping them to streamline their cloud migration projects and benefit from Azure Government more quickly.”

     

    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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  • Public Sector Organizations look to Delphix, DataOps to Accelerate Innovation, Secure Cloud Adoption – New certifications for Microsoft Azure

    New certifications for Microsoft Azure Government Speed Up Cloud Migrations, Streamline Regulation and Data Compliance

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Delphix, the company accelerating innovation through DataOps, today announced the expansion of the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform (DDDP) to support Microsoft Azure Government, giving public sector organizations new options to securely accelerate cloud adoption to support important digital transformation initiatives.

    According to Gartner, half of the public sector actively uses cloud services and this number is expected to see double-digit growth over the next few years. The need to analyze ever-growing volumes of data while meeting stringent privacy compliance and regulations is a major challenge for government cloud adoption. Azure Government offers cloud services specifically tailored to the security and compliance needs of the government sector. Enterprises rely on the Delphix platform to quickly and securely move applications and tailor cloud solutions that fit a variety of needs.

    “Public sector organizations are undergoing massive digital transformation projects in hopes of delivering important new innovation to people that positively impacts society and our quality of life,” said Chris Cook, CEO of Delphix. “We are thrilled to build on our existing relationships with leaders like Microsoft to provide fast, secure data to these important organizations to accelerate the delivery of new innovation and ensure fast, secure migrations to the cloud.”

    The Delphix Dynamic Data Platform helps public sector organizations move their applications to Azure Government which lowers their cost while not exposing them to data privacy and compliance risk. Delphix solutions are available through Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider™.

    “As government agencies continue to seek ways to reduce cost and drive public transparency and responsiveness, they are moving critical applications and data to the cloud. Maintaining data privacy and regulatory compliance while migrating that data is a key priority for all agencies. The Delphix Dynamic Data Platform makes this possible and we’re pleased to offer this solution to our government customers and reseller partners,” said Michael Adams, who manages the Delphix team at Carahsoft.

    “Microsoft Azure Government provides a complete cloud for government organizations aiming to be more productive, agile, and efficient as they go through their digital transformation,” said Lily Kim, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Government. “The Delphix platform supports our public sector customers by helping them to streamline their cloud migration projects and benefit from Azure Government more quickly.”

    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.

    Follow Delphix on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

  • AI and Machine Learning from GigaSpaces InsightEdge harnessed by Magic Software’s SaaS integration platform

    Fast Streaming and Advanced Analytics Provide Magic Customers Real Time Insights to Action Required for Increased Operational Efficiency, Competitiveness and Innovation

    New York, NY — October 31, 2018 — GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, a leading in-memory real-time analytics platform for instant insights to action announced today that InsightEdge has been selected by Magic Software Enterprises to power their Magic xpi end-to-end integration platform.  This integration will enable companies to make faster and smarter data-driven decisions to boost revenues, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and outperform competitors.

    Providing the free flow of data between leading ERP, CRM, finance, MES and other systems, Magic xpi now leverages InsightEdge which unifies real-time analytics and AI to achieve lean manufacturing, perform predictive maintenance and automate operational workflows. Machine learning models run with sub-second latency on hot data as it’s born, while being enriched with historical context from data lakes, resulting in accurate real time actionable insights for improved decision making.

    “InsightEdge enables our customers to generate insights for C-level executives and line of business management and optimizes automated processes from an unprecedented amount of data generated by sensors and GPS readings from machines, products, employees, as well as inputs from shop floor apps, and back office systems,” said Yuval Lavi, VP Product Innovation at Magic Software.  “The combination of integrated data from multiple sources, extreme data processing and real-time analytics provides insights that impact leaner operations and an improved customer experience.”

    Magic xpi running with InsightEdge enables several data driven processes, for example, using sensors to monitor equipment to predict breakdowns, performing predictive analytics to determine which and how many quality tests should be performed, and sharing  supplier production data with partners and customers to identify delivery delays and adjust processes accordingly.

    McKinsey has noted that predictive maintenance initiatives can show a 10% reduction in annual maintenance costs and a 20% reduction in downtime with a 25% reduction in inspection costs for AI-driven predictive maintenance models.

    This is not the first collaboration between Magic and GigaSpaces. Magic has been using GigaSpaces’ XAP In-memory computing platform for years to deliver fast data streaming, aggregation and calculations, and last year announced an InsightEdge integration leveraging InsightEdge as an IoT Hub.  Magic xpi customers will now have an option to run InsightEdge to experience the benefits of real time analytics.

    “Data integration combined with real-time advanced analytics is needed to fuel the factory of the future,” said Yoav Einav, VP of Products for GigaSpaces. “With the incorporation of InsightEdge capabilities into Magic xpi, we are bringing the power of machine learning to the shop floor and the back office to help companies optimize processes to maximize efficiencies and exceed their revenue goals.”

    GigaSpaces and Magic Software are presenting “The Insight-Driven Organization: Leverage AI to Transform Your Data into Revenue” on November 6th at the Design Offices in Munich Germany, starting at 8:30AM.  The event will include case studies and discussions about market challenges, trends and real-world best practices for enterprises to innovate with confidence and become insight-driven.  For more information on the event click here.

    About GigaSpaces
    GigaSpaces provides leading in-memory computing platforms for real-time insight to action and extreme transactional processing.  With GigaSpaces, enterprises can operationalize machine learning and transactional processing to gain real-time insights on their data and act upon them in the moment.  The always-on platforms for mission-critical applications across cloud, on-premise or hybrid, are leveraged by hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations worldwide across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more. GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia.

    More at www.gigaspaces.com and blog.gigaspaces.com.

    About Magic Software Enterprises
    Magic Software Enterprises is a global provider of powerful and versatile end-to-end, on-premises and cloud-based integration and low-code application development platforms.  With over 30 years of experience, 24 regional offices, millions of installations worldwide, and strategic alliances with global IT leaders, Magic enables its customers to seamlessly adopt new technologies and maximize business opportunities. Magic collaborates closely with its customers and thousands of business partners in 50 countries to accelerate their business performance.

     

  • Instana Integration Helps Accelerate Application Delivery with Splunk

    Instana App Delivers Problem Resolution Information Directly Into Splunk IT Service Intelligence

    San Francisco – October 30, 2018 – Instana announced a new integration with Splunk ® IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), to solve challenges that can arise as organizations embrace a Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) application delivery strategy. The new Instana App delivers integrated access to Instana’s full-stack infrastructure and application monitoring information for Splunk users. Connected directly to Splunk ITSI, the Instana App for Splunk delivers Instana’s performance and configuration data, as well as events and automatic analysis of service issues.

    “As organizations implement a CI/CD strategy, the continuous change of code and infrastructure causes performance visibility gaps in their dynamic microservice applications,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “Instana’s integration with Splunk goes beyond performance data to include application delivery events, service issues and problem analysis – which all become part of the integrated analysis with Splunk.”

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

    Available today on Splunkbase, the new Instana integration provides Splunk users with the most complete data and analytics to achieve observability of dynamic applications, allowing correlation of Instana’s data with other data in Splunk.

    When service issues occur, automatic analysis takes over, leveraging AI and machine learning to isolate any issues, identify the probable cause of the problem and show users where to start their investigation. Service incidents, correlated events and the probable triggering event are all part of the information sent from Instana to Splunk ITSI.

    “There are two related constants in today’s IT Operations environment – new technologies emerge and as they’re adopted, application complexity scales,” said Nancy Gohring, senior analyst for application and infrastructure performance at 451 Research. “The typical result is chaos for IT Operations, especially in the area of performance management. However, new tools and processes are available that maximize visibility while providing immediate feedback to the whole application delivery organization. The outcome is enabling teams to quickly identify and solve problems, even in these dynamic and complex environments.”

    The Instana App provides unique value to Splunk ITSI customers via out-of-the-box APM and End User monitoring KPIs that enable faster MTTR, reduced downtime and increased productivity for DevOps teams. Unique functionality includes:

    • Application service metrics, including KPIs
    • Performance Data for the full application stack, including infrastructure
    • Flexibility to funnel any Instana metric into Splunk, including rich event data and problem resolution recommendations

    With this broad set of combined performance data, event data, incident information and recommendations of where to look and how to resolve issues, AI Ops is becoming a reality.

    The Instana App for Splunk is available today – learn more at ​www.instana.com​ and on ​Splunkbase​.

    About Instana:

    As the leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions for containerized microservice applications, Instana applies automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility needed to effectively manage the performance of today’s dynamic applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Founded by Application Monitoring veterans, Instana provides true AI-powered APM to help organizations deliver high performance applications today and in the future. Visit us at https://instana.com to learn more.

  • Breakthrough Technologies Releases Loco v1.3, Adding Slack Integration to No-Code App Development Platform

    EVANSTON, IL (October 29, 2018) – Today, Breakthrough Technologies announced the release of Loco v1.3, which adds Slack integration as a major new feature to its no-code app development platform. By adding the Loco App from Slack’s App Directory, Loco users can now instantly access data from their custom-built Loco apps directly within the Slack interface.

    “This is a very exciting milestone for Loco because it gives a dynamic new functionality to the eight million people who currently use Slack on a daily basis,” said Doug Wilson, Managing Partner of Breakthrough Technologies. “Slack users now can seize the opportunity to become citizen developers, building their own applications using Loco and accessing the information in those apps from their Slack channels.”

    “This is combining the collaborative potential of Loco with the collaborative realities in Slack, pushing the boundaries for how teams achieve their goals and get work done today,” Wilson continued.

    Loco was launched earlier this year as a new way to empower every person to become a citizen developer, building their own applications with no software development or coding knowledge necessary. Loco is the easiest way on the planet to create databases, either from scratch or directly from the library of pre-built apps.

    Loco is available at https://loco.build/ and the Slack app is available at https://slack.com/apps/ACPPEJBB9-loco.

    Loco integrates with Slack to allow conversational commands to user data, including a simple structured find operation. Loco apps can also utilize Slack as a notification mechanism. Users can let their data tell them what they and their team need to know, instead of always having to query their data.

    Recent updates have added several new features, including a suite of pre-built HR apps, including apps designed to facilitate performance reviews, salary tracking, and employee information; private decks that allow data to be seen only by their author and the app administrator; a better look and feel in the iOS view of the Loco app; and the ability to import data directly from the cloud using Google Sheets.

    Organizations today have more data than ever to manage, compile, track, aggregate, sort, collate, and tabulate. In the past, citizens who needed a custom app solution to achieve these tasks were forced to hire developers to build it, even though the problem they were looking to solve only required a simple digital solution. Loco gives these citizen developers the power to take app development into their own hands, building and customizing apps to their own specifications.

    Loco is completely customizable, allowing users to build the app they need to solve the problem they have. Apps can be designed within minutes from any device without any formal programming training, then deployed to the cloud in seconds and made available to teams immediately. Basic usage plans for Loco start at $100 per month, with a cost of $400 per month for unlimited usage.

    “We built Loco from the ground up with the realization that the apps our customers need begin and end with their data,” Wilson said. “That’s because most business applications are really about two things: allowing users to manage data and allowing users to manage documents. Loco was built to streamline and integrate both processes.”

    Because Loco is completely customizable, the apps that can be developed are restricted only by the user’s imagination. Since the user invents the data and the structure, there are no limits to the types of apps that they can construct. Each app is available to team members of the user’s choosing, or can be designed for private use.

    About Breakthrough Technologies

    For 20 years, Breakthrough Technologies has helped associations, nonprofits, small businesses, and other clients build web applications, websites, mobile applications, and enterprise solutions to address the complex problems they face. Breakthrough Technologies combines proven and emerging technologies with innovative thinking and high-functioning teams. The company has completed more than 800 projects ranging in value from $10,000 to $10 million, and its work has been recognized by organizations like Technology in Motion, Inc5000, Crain’s Fast 50, the CODiE Awards, and the Stevie Awards. Breakthrough Technologies focuses on open-source solutions and modular, forward-thinking architecture. They leverage proven platforms like Drupal, TAO, and Jaspersoft to deliver .NET, Cloud Services, and other end-to-end services. Breakthrough Technologies is 100 percent based in the United States with offices north of Chicago, next to Northwestern University.