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  • Catchpoint Adds Industry-First Site Reachability Diagnostics to its Real User Monitoring Capabilities

    First-of-its-Kind Feature Provides Real-Time Identification and Root Cause

    Analysis of Site Visitors Experiencing Downtime

     

    New York, NY – (September 27, 2018)  Catchpoint™, a pioneer in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), today announced it is adding site reachability diagnostics to its Real User Monitoring (RUM) solution. This industry-first feature, available October 8, enables organizations to instantly know when real users cannot reach a web site, helping them quickly and proactively repair site availability problems for their users.

     

    Organizations previously had no way of knowing if a given web site visitor could not access a site. Using Catchpoint RUM with Reachability Diagnostics, they can immediately learn when these events occur, as well as the root cause of the outage. If a site is unreachable through Google Chrome, it will automatically grant permission for reachability diagnostics to be relayed to the customer’s RUM data repository. This could include, for example, information such as a DNS outage in a particular region, a 404 error, or third-party outage.

     

    “Site reachability diagnostics enriches our RUM data, helping organizations consistently stay a step ahead in detecting unplanned downtime,” says Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder of Catchpoint. “When used in concert with our Synthetic Monitoring, our customers can make powerful correlations to root out availability problems with superior accuracy and precision.”

     

    Catchpoint’s RUM solution measures the interactions and behaviors of real users once they enter a website or application, helping organizations identify and prioritize areas for optimization. RUM data can reveal which are the most popular landing pages and conversion paths, and how performance patterns impact user behavior. For example, RUM data can reveal if a particular step within a multi-click conversion process is too slow, and how this impacts shopping cart abandonment rates.

     

    Site reachability has traditionally been a blind spot within RUM, since measurements are only gathered once a real user has entered a site or application. This is why Catchpoint recommends combining RUM with synthetic monitoring – which simulates end-user traffic generated from the cloud to confirm reachability across geographies – to deliver the most comprehensive web performance (speed, availability) information.

     

    The new feature requires no additional code deployments for Catchpoint RUM customers. It can be used alone or in concert with Synthetic Monitoring for maximum insights; for example: cross-referencing synthetic monitoring data with RUM reachability diagnostics to reinforce certainty of downtime in a particular region, and what factor is causing it.

     

    “These new capabilities validate our mission to provide the richest, most contextual and actionable data and insights on digital service performance,” continues Daoudi. “As today’s end users grow increasingly intolerant of downtime, site reachability diagnostics within RUM offer another dimension for identifying and rectifying availability problems, thus reducing mean-time-to-repair (MTTR).”

     

    Learn more about Catchpoint’s RUM with Reachability Diagnostics feature here: http://blog.catchpoint.com/2018/09/27/identify-website-availability-issues-with-real-user-monitoring/

     

    About Catchpoint

    Catchpoint is revolutionizing end-user experience monitoring to help companies deliver amazing digital experiences. Our platform provides complete visibility into your users’ experiences from anywhere – and real-time intelligence into your applications and services to detect and fix issues faster. We are proud to partner with digital innovators like Google, L’Oréal, Verizon, Oracle, LinkedIn, Honeywell, Priceline, and Qualtrics, who trust Catchpoint to improve their brand experience and drive their business success. See how Catchpoint can reduce your Mean Time to Detect at www.catchpoint.com/freetrial.

     

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  • ShiftLeft Announces Code-Informed Runtime Protection for Microsoft’s .Net Framework

    .Net developers can now automatically create custom security for every version of every software release

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 26, 2018 — ShiftLeft™ Inc., an innovator in application security, today announced the general availability of its security-as-a-service platform for Microsoft’s .Net Framework (.Net). .Net developers can now leverage the commercial source code analysis solution with a highest-ever OWASP Benchmark Score of 75 percent [1] to automatically create custom security profiles that protect their applications in runtime.

     

    As enterprises modernize their software development practices (such as agile methods, cloud infrastructure, open source libraries, DevOps automation and microservice architectures), their efficiency gains in feature release velocity strain traditional security practices, which have remained largely manual. “.Net Core’s cutting edge developer toolset has attracted development teams that want the latest and greatest,” said Gabe Monroy, Lead Program Manager for Cloud Native Compute at Microsoft Azure. “ShiftLeft’s ability to remove manual security bottlenecks by fully automating continuous application security across development and production gives .Net developers another leg up on the competition.”

     

    The most prevalent vulnerability for .Net applications is information leakage, such as inadvertently pushing critical data to external logs, code repositories or databases [2]. Unlike traditional approaches to identifying data leakage, which rely on highly inaccurate pattern-matching, ShiftLeft plots data flows from inside the application. ShiftLeft identifies which objects and variables are critical and plots their path across sources, transforms and sinks whether they be microservices, open source libraries, commercial SDKs or third-party APIs.

     

    “With Europe’s GDPR, and states like California adopting similar privacy laws, data protection is no longer just finance and healthcare’s problem. The types and volume of data that must be treated as critical is skyrocketing for all industries,” said Chetan Conikee, ShiftLeft CTO and Co-Founder. “ShiftLeft now enables .Net developers to automatically determine whether or not the new release is inadvertently leaking data, such as logging device tokens in Splunk or unencrypted credit card numbers in S3.”

     

    As .Net Core and Azure have embraced open source, the adoption of open source libraries in .Net applications is growing rapidly. Based on recent statistics from NuGet (package manager for .Net), there exist 127,558 unique packages at a peak of 11 billion downloads to date initiated by application developers/vendors.

     

    Vulnerabilities discovered in open source packages may affect the applications that include them. Upon the disclosure of every new vulnerability, the application developer has to assess whether such a vulnerability is exploitable in the particular usage context of their applications—a task that is manual and can take several hours per vulnerability.

    ShiftLeft’s information flow tracker is designed to analyze both the source code of the application and its libraries as a single unit in order to determine if an untrusted/tainted input can (or cannot) trigger a specific vulnerability. This is accomplished within minutes of ShiftLeft analyzing a new release.

     

    “Until now, .Net security teams have been faced with a terrible choice: slow down innovation or release insecure code,” said Manish Gupta, ShiftLeft CEO and Co-Founder. “In less than 10 minutes, the Code Property Graph can identify why and where an application is vulnerable during the build process and block exploit attempts in production, if a vulnerability is not fixed. This means that even the most advanced CI/CD environments can now release as fast as they want to without ever worrying about security slowing them down.”

     

    About Shiftleft

    ShiftLeft™ Inc. is an innovator in application-specific cloud security, delivering the industry’s first fully automated Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) solution that understands the unique security needs of each version of each application and creates custom security and threat detection for it. With ShiftLeft, DevOps can make threat detection part of their CI/CD process. ShiftLeft’s approach allows teams to both protect their applications immediately and enhance the security posture of their code. The company was founded by a team with extensive backgrounds in security and cloud infrastructure who were early innovators of technologies such as sandbox, Next Generation Firewall, Next Generation Electronic Payment Network and Fraud Modeling, and several open source initiatives. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ShiftLeft is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Mayfield. For more information, see https://www.shiftleft.io/.

     

    [1] https://www.shiftleft.io/press/shiftleft-achieves-highest-ever-sast-score-on-owasp-benchmark/

    [2] https://www.veracode.com/sites/default/files/Resources/Reports/state-of-software-security-focus-on-application-development.pdf

  • Aqua Security Provides Core Security Component for Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform


    Aqua Security expands its Aqua Link Partner Program to include Managed Service Providers delivering protection for cloud-native workloads

     

    BOSTON, MA – September 26, 2018– Aqua Security, a leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud-native applications, today announced Hitachi Vantara has integrated Aqua security capabilities into the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC) Container Platform. HEC Container Platform delivers a public cloud experience for organizations that use data services, DevOps and microservices architectures on premises in a private or hybrid cloud. Hitachi Vantara selected the Aqua platform in part for its ability to deliver runtime security for multi-tenant cloud Container-as-a-Service environments.

    HEC Container Platformis a fully managed end-to-end solution for deploying data services such as Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, and HDFS. Kubernetes container orchestration is also included out of the box, alongside Docker and the native Marathon orchestrator, to provide customers with simplified single-click deployment of Marathon and Kubernetes. HEC Container Platform users can run containers on demand without having to provision or manage virtual machine instances.

    “Integrating the Aqua Solution enables us to deliver a far more comprehensive and granular way of securing customer data, applications and workloads at every stage of the DevOps process,” said John Murphy, vice president of global solutions at Hitachi Vantara. “In addition, Aqua’s multi-tenancy solution allows us to automatically segregate customer content and apply policy-based security controls consistently throughout varied environments. Aqua helps us provide a hassle-free experience for our customers to move and securely manage their workloads in the HEC Container Platform environment.”

    “We’re excited to partner with Hitachi in enabling organizations to leverage the advantages that containers and cloud-native environments present, without having to manage complex infrastructure or worry about securing these environments,” said Upesh Patel, VP Business Development at Aqua. “Together with Aqua Link partners, we are committed to incorporating security best practices throughout the container environments, delivering the best available defense against cyber threats, and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security”.

    Aqua Link Partner Program Expands To Include MSPs

    As a leader in container and cloud-native application security, Aqua works closely with global partners who understand the importance of securing and monitoring containerized applications and strive to enhance their solutions portfolio with enterprise-grade technology. The Aqua Link Partner Program spans a broad spectrum of partnership models, including Technology Alliance Partners with integrated offerings in the cloud-native stack, Solutions Providers that offer Aqua products and deliver technical services to deploy and manage Aqua in customer environments, and System Integrators & Consultants with expertise and trained staff worldwide to support Aqua implementations.

    By introducing support for managing multi-tenant environments, with the required segregation of policies, enforcement, monitoring and reporting, Aqua is uniquely positioned to deliver deeply integrated solutions through Managed Service Providers such as Hitachi Vantara.

    For more information on the Aqua Link Partner Program, click here.

    About Aqua Security

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

     

     

     

  • Instana Secures $30 Million Series C Investment Led By Meritech To Extend Automated Monitoring

    Funding to Fuel New Levels of Automation in APM Solution and Accelerate Global Expansion

    San Francisco, September 26, 2018 – Instana, the first monitoring solution to fully automate all aspects of application performance monitoring (APM), today announced it has raised $30 million in Series C investment led by Meritech Capital with participation from existing investor Accel, bringing the company’s total funding to $57 million. The investment will be used to fulfill increasing demand for Instana’s automated monitoring solution for containerized microservice applications across global markets and expand its product line.

    “Instana has a steadfast commitment to delivering innovative monitoring built for modern dynamic application environments,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana founder and CEO. “The addition of Meritech to Instana’s existing investors, Accel and Target Partners, is a tremendous endorsement of our strategy and success, highlighted by rapid customer adoption and global annual sales growth of more than 600% in our last fiscal quarter. We’re thrilled to have such a strong set of investors and thought leaders supporting Instana.”

    Instana’s customers include large enterprise brands across multiple industry verticals such as Audi, ClearScore, Sixt Rent a car, Edmunds.com, Yahoo Japan, Macmillan Learning and Franklin American Mortgage. Instana has made several major product updates in the past few months including automatic Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring (an industry first), an APM plug-in for Grafana and a personalization of the APM experience with its new Application Perspectives Capabilities, which ease DevOps teams’ ability to monitor their specific microservice within the application.

    “Macmillan Learning is building digital innovations that are transforming the way students acquire knowledge and master new subject matter. Our innovation pipeline iterates quickly, so the faster we can get new services up, the better. To facilitate delivery speed, we built a universal CI/CD pipeline tied to a dynamic cloud infrastructure stack,” said David Merryweather, VP of Infrastructure and Site Reliability at Macmillan Learning.

    “Monitoring containerized microservice applications has become a critical requirement for today’s digital enterprises,” said Alex Kurland, Meritech Capital. “Instana is packed with industry veterans who understand the APM industry, as well as the paradigm shifts now occurring in agile software development. Meritech is excited to partner with Instana as they continue to disrupt one of the largest and most important markets with their automated APM experience.”

    “Since our early investment in Instana, we have been consistently impressed by the team’s unrelenting commitment to driving the next era of the APM market. Instana’s highly-technical and knowledgeable team have built a best-in-class monitoring solution and are seeing tremendous sales acceleration. We are excited to continue supporting them on this journey as they scale their product offering and expand into new markets,” said Harry Nelis, Partner at Accel.

    “Instana is an outstanding example of a German deep tech startup that has built its customer base in over twenty countries within two years. We are proud to have been the first venture investor of this highly successful team,” said Berthold von Freyberg, Partner at Target Partners.

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    About Instana:

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Monitoring solutions for containerized microservice applications, Instana leverages automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility and actionable information needed to manage today’s dynamic applications and infrastructure across the DevOps lifecycle. Instana’s automated application monitoring enables application delivery teams to accelerate their CI/CD cycle and deliver high performance, impactful business applications. Visit us at https://instana.com to learn more.

    About Meritech Capital:

    Meritech Capital is a leading provider of growth stage venture capital to category-defining private technology companies, and has been one of the top performing venture firms of the past two decades. With over $4 billion under management, Meritech primarily leads investments into companies with proven and differentiated technology, rapidly-growing revenue and experienced management teams. Meritech investments in industry-leading companies include Alteryx, Anaplan, Box, Cloudera, Coupa, Datadog, Facebook, Looker, Mulesoft, NetSuite, Proofpoint, Riverbed and Tableau. Meritech is located in Palo Alto, CA and can be found at www.meritechcapital.com.

    About Accel:

    Accel is a leading venture capital firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Algolia, Avito, Celonis, Cloudera, Crowdstrike, Deliveroo, DJI, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Funding Circle, Kayak, Kry, QlikTech, Rovio, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, UIPath and WorldRemit are among the companies the firm has backed over the past 30 years. The firm seeks to understand entrepreneurs as individuals, appreciate their originality and play to their strengths. Because greatness doesn’t have a stereotype. For more, visit www.accel.com, www.facebook.com/accel or www.twitter.com/accel.

    About Target Partners:

    With €300 million under management, Target Partners is one of the leading early-stage venture capital firms in Germany. Target Partners invests in seed and early-stage technology companies and supports them with venture capital during their build-out and expansion phases. With many years of experience as managers, entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, the team at Target Partners supports entrepreneurs in developing and marketing products and services, building organizations, raising money and taking companies public in Europe and the United States. For more details: targetpartners.de and twitter.com/targetpartners.

     

  • Eggplant announces significant ARR growth, adds global brands and expands internationally

    Award-winning customer experience optimization specialist is disrupting testing market with AI-driven CXO vision, and adding significant headcount to support customers globally

    London, UK and Boulder, Colorado [26 September 2018] Eggplant, the customer experience optimization specialist, today announced a series of new global customer wins, international expansion and growth in the US, European, Asian and Australasia markets, as well as significant developments to its Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence product suite and the addition of a new Customer Experience Insights suite.

    The company has doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) year-to-date and expanded its customer portfolio year-on-year by 70%, including new engagements with the US Army, Cerner, Sephora, Auto Trader, Chick-fil-A and Manhattan Associates. Eggplant has also received both industry and analyst recognition in the past quarter. As part of its global expansion plan, Eggplant has expanded its team by 70% in the past six months.

    The news comes hot on the heels of its recognition as a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Omnichannel Functional Test Automation, Q3 2018. Eggplant was cited for “connecting its recently-acquired performance management and user experience (UX) monitoring technology to functional testing, giving testers the opportunity to model business outcomes with Eggplant AI and validate them before releasing the apps into production.”

    Earlier this year, the company acquired NCC Group’s Web Performance division, expanding its intelligent test automation offering with customer experience insights—monitoring how real customers use applications, diagnosing problems and highlighting opportunities to improve business outcomes. The acquisition formed a key part of Eggplant’s vision to deliver optimal digital experiences for its customers—making it easy to monitor, analyze and enhance the online customer journey, as well as accelerating the speed of delivery, quality and effectiveness of new digital products and services.

    “This opening three quarters of 2018 has been tremendous for Eggplant, with exciting growth, new talent, great new brands in our portfolio, and recognition for our product development and roadmap,” said CEO Dr John Bates. “We are changing the traditional testing market and delivering value by driving the best digital experiences and outcomes for our client’s customers.”

    Eggplant was also recognized in the SD Times 100 ‘Best in Show in Software Development’ category for its Digital Automation Intelligence Suite that is disrupting the testing market and putting the user back at the center of customer experience. In June, Eggplant was also recognized by TechMarketView as a Great British Scaleup for its market strategy, product developments and customer delivery.

    About Eggplant

    Eggplant, the fastest growing test automation provider and a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, provides user-centric, intelligent testing and performance solutions designed to optimize the digital experience, delight customers, and drive business success. Only Eggplant enables organizations to test, monitor, analyze, and report on the quality and responsiveness of software applications across different interfaces, platforms, browsers, and devices, including mobile, IoT, desktop, and mainframe.

    Learn more at www.eggplant.io

  • Atomist Announces Spring Extension Pack for Software Delivery Machines

    SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Atomist, the software delivery automation company, today announced the release of its software delivery machine (SDM) extension pack for Spring. The Atomist Spring extension pack provides an automated and customized approach to creating Spring applications by enabling developers to deliver to their chosen deployment environments, keeping up to date, and following best practice.

     

    “I’ve spent my career helping developers’ lives better, and the Spring community is near and dear to me. So, I’m excited to apply Atomist’s unique automation capabilities to helping the daily work of Spring developers,” said Rod Johnson, Atomist CEO and co-founder and creator of the Spring Framework. “The Spring extension pack is fully compatible with the open source SDM in local mode, so developers can have the full capabilities of the Spring extension pack when developing on their own laptop, a server in the cloud, or anywhere in between.”

     

    With the Spring SDM extension pack, developers can quickly and easily create new Spring Boot projects, directly in a new git repo, and easily add and experiment with Spring Boot starters. During development, projects stay consistent, using Atomist automations to upgrade Spring Boot versions, autofixes to correct known errors, and code transforms for tasks like renaming classes, moving packages, or adding Spring Boot starters.

     

    Because all SDMs use the Atomist API for Software, Spring projects can tap into the rich context provided by Atomist to understand the code throughout its development lifecycle, all the way from transforming code locally, through commit, build, testing, and into production.

     

    The extension pack adds Spring Boot functionality to an Atomist SDM, and includes:

    • Code inspections to help projects stay in line with Spring Boot best practice, such as by removing unnecessary annotations
    • Commands to add and configure Spring Boot starters, based on the Spring Guides
    • Local deployment support for Spring Boot projects, using Maven or Gradle
    • Support for deploying Spring Boot applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

     

    Find the Spring SDM extension pack on GitHub at https://github.com/atomist/sdm-pack-spring and start using the API for Software today. Learn more about Atomist and Spring at https://atomist.com/spring.

  • Electric Cloud Scores Highest in Three Out of Three Use Cases in Gartner’s   2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration  

    Critical Capabilities are Release Orchestration, Pipeline and Environment Management, and Deployment Automation and the Use Cases are Release Manager, Application/Product Owner and DevOps/Application Operations Team Member

    SAN JOSE, CA, September 25, 2018 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced it received the highest scores for three out of three use cases as defined in Gartner’s 2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration*.

    Gartner’s process evaluates products on a 5-point scale. Electric Cloud received highest scores from Gartner across all use cases in the 2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration*:  Release Manager (4.9/5), Application/Product Owner (4.88/5), DevOps/Application Operations Team Member (4.84/5).

    Download a complimentary copy of the full report: (http://bit.ly/2OQaKPB)

    “ARO tools provide a combination of deployment automation, pipeline and environment management, and release orchestration capabilities to simultaneously improve the quality, velocity and governance of application releases,” noted Colin Fletcher, Laurie Wurster and Christopher Little in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration*. “ARO tools enable enterprises to scale release activities across multiple, diverse and multi-generational teams (DevOps, etc.), technologies, development methodologies (e.g., Agile), delivery patterns (continuous, etc.), pipelines, processes and their supporting toolchains.”

    “According to estimates, fewer than 20 percent of global enterprises have today implemented an ARO solution, but I bet they are all feeling pressure to deliver better, more secure software faster,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO of Electric Cloud. “Electric Cloud has a deep understanding of the difficulties involved in coordinating and governing complex enterprise releases, and we’re very focused on helping organizations solve that problem. I believe this focus is paying off: Electric Cloud achieved the highest scores across all use cases. And, as a third-time Leader in Gartner’s associated 2018 Magic Quadrant for Automation Release Orchestration, we believe Electric Cloud also stands out with our positioning this year as furthest for completeness of vision this year.”

    This vision and current production leadership, along with our notable large enterprise customer successes, makes Electric Cloud the defacto standard for Enterprise ARO. Market leaders including TIAA, Samsung, Qualcomm, Motorola, Cisco, and GM choose ElectricFlow because it provides:

    • A way to implement and share secure, repeatable and adaptable pipelines to deliver mainframe, monolithic and microservices applications
    • Unprecedented, actionable insight into the health and status of enterprise releases, without requiring manual data collection and analysis
    • A solution that will reliably scale as they roll out DevOps processes across their entire organization

    For more information about ElectricFlow and to download the free Community Edition, please visit: (https://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow).

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    *Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration; Published: 10 September 2018 ID: ID: G00343556; Analyst(s): Colin Fletcher, Laurie Wurster, Christopher Little

    **Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration; Published: 10 September 2018 ID: ID: G00343560; Analyst(s): Colin Fletcher, Laurie Wurster, Christopher Little

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    About Electric Cloud, Inc.

    Electric Cloud’s Adaptive Release Orchestration platform helps organizations like E*TRADE, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin confidently release new applications and adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business, with the analytics and insight to measure, track, and improve their results.

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  • StackRox Appoints Security Industry Veteran Kamal Shah as CEO

    Former Executive at Skyhigh Networks, Shah Joins to Lead the Company Through Rapid Growth Amid Accelerating Demand for its Container Security Platform

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — September 25, 2018 —StackRox, a leader in security for containerized, cloud-native applications, today announced Kamal Shah has been named president and CEO of StackRox, and he will also join the company’s board of directors. Shah was formerly senior vice president of products and marketing for Skyhigh Networks, where he helped establish the company as a market-leader in cloud security with more than 600 enterprise customers prior to its acquisition by McAfee.

    StackRox co-founders Ali Golshan and Sameer Bhalotra highlighted Kamal’s mix of technical depth, domain knowledge, and market savvy as particularly helpful in guiding StackRox through its high growth and noted that the entire StackRox leadership team is excited to partner with Kamal.

    Microservices and containers are amongst the fastest growing application development technologies ever adopted. Providing agility, faster time to market, and environment portability, containers are estimated to represent a $1.2 Billion market this year, according to ReseachAndMarkets.com. The market research firm estimates the market will grow at a compound annual rate of nearly 33% over the next five years, reaching $4.98 Billion by 2023. StackRox enables enterprises to adopt containers without sacrificing the security they need to protect their business operations.

    “Working with Kamal over the past 10 years, I’ve consistently been impressed with his instincts, judgement, and market insights,” noted Aaref Hilaly, partner at Sequoia Capital and StackRox board member. “His successful track record navigating enterprise security markets and experience scaling teams through rapid growth will serve StackRox well.”

    Tomasz Tunguz, Redpoint Ventures general partner and StackRox board member, added “Kamal’s experience scaling companies like Clearwell and Skyhigh is uniquely applicable to StackRox, and he’ll provide great additional leadership.”

    StackRox customers span cloud-native start-ups to Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies. The StackRox Container Security Platform protects assets throughout the container life cycle, providing the industry’s first feedback loop that leverages runtime intelligence to proactively identify and address security risks earlier in the build and deploy phase of the container life cycle. The platform also protects against orchestrator-based threats, and its multi-factor risk profiling reduces the attack surface. The company recently announced upgrades to the StackRox Container Security Platform and an investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel.

    “Ali’s vision for building a new approach to cloud-native security here at StackRox sits at the core of the company’s success,” said Shah. “As I spent this year looking at various technologies and teams, I found myself drawn to StackRox, sitting at the nexus of two compelling markets and driven by a talented, committed, and passionate team. I look forward to accelerating the momentum StackRox is enjoying as it pioneers the most comprehensive container security platform available.”

    StackRox also recently brought on Ophir Rachman as vice president of engineering. Ophir brings more than 20 years’ experience leading engineering teams at security companies including Fortscale, heading up security products for VMware, and building the McAfee IPS product and team via acquisition. His experience spans start-ups to global organizations, and he brings deep technical expertise in detection, user behavioral analytics, and machine learning.

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    About StackRox

    StackRox helps enterprises secure their containerized, cloud-native applications at scale. The StackRox Container Security Platform enables security teams to discover the full container environment and ensure they adhere to security policies, and it detects and stops malicious activity. StackRox customers span Global 2000 enterprises, including in financial services, technology, and E-Commerce industries, as well as government agencies. StackRox is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. To learn more, visit www.stackrox.com and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

     

     

  • SentryOne Cloud Sync 18.4 Enhances Web-Based Access to SQL Server Monitoring Data

    CHARLOTTE, NC – Sept. 25, 2018 – SentryOne announced the release of SentryOne Cloud Sync v18.4 (formerly SentryOne Cloud), which adds significant functionality and user experience enhancements to the company’s cloud-based monitoring solution. SentryOne Cloud Sync—available to all SentryOne customers—provides secure, easily configurable, and highly customizable access to performance data of SQL Server instances running in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. With the SentryOne cloud solution, data is automatically synchronized between the SentryOne Platform Repository and SentryOne Cloud Sync so that data teams can monitor and diagnose performance data on any Web browser.

    Improvements include a new responsive user interface, the ability to toggle between views of database servers, and a new Top SQL view of high-impact queries that shows key performance information, including completed queries, statements, and query execution history.

    “Our Web-based product continues to be easily accessible, shareable, and digestible,” said Christina Burgess, SentryOne product manager. “With this release, we’ve made it easier for users to find data and toggle between various summary views, dashboards, and reports. These upgrades make understanding the data on the screen more intuitive for busy DBAs who want to access their database performance information without having to install a thick client.”

    The new release simplifies SQL Server database monitoring while continuing to ensure data security. SentryOne Cloud Sync gives data professionals control over the types of monitoring data synchronized to the cloud as well as options to set alias names of computers, servers, and databases before they’re synchronized. SentryOne Cloud Sync uses SSL connectivity, and data is encrypted and compressed.

    “The new version of our cloud monitoring solution is a major step forward in our mission to provide a convenient way to view and share database monitoring information,” said Burgess. “We’ll continue to enhance SentryOne Cloud Sync based on customer feedback to provide the optimal solution for data pros who need secure, Web-based access to their monitoring data.”

    Jason Hall, SentryOne VP of Product, said that the release of SentryOne Cloud Sync is part of the company’s mission to ease customers’ migration to a cloud environment.

    “We see enterprises migrating more and more business-critical databases to the cloud,” said Hall. “SentryOne Cloud Sync ensures that data professionals can maintain the deep analytics they’ve come to trust from SentryOne as their own performance management tools start to migrate as well.”

    For more information about SentryOne Cloud Sync, visit sentryone.com/cloud-overview and see the blog post “SentryOne Cloud Sync Updates.”

     

  • Chef Accelerates Cloud Migration Velocity through Microsoft Azure Integrations

    New automation tools give customers confidence when modernizing their workloads and applications
    on Azure

     

    ORLANDO, Fla. – September 25, 2018 – Today at Microsoft Ignite 2018, Chef, the leader in Continuous Automation, announced several new offerings that help customers migrate legacy applications onto and manage configuration and compliance of their Microsoft Azure infrastructure. These include a public preview of Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure, seamless integration of Chef Workstation with Azure Cloud Shell, and new compliance automation capabilities for InSpec by Chef when used with with Azure.

     

    The integration of Chef’s suite of automation tools with Azure gives users the computing power needed to continuously automate infrastructure, applications and compliance across their environments, regardless of their size. This results in increased velocity with reduced risk.

     

    Today’s announcements include:

    • Public preview of Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure accelerates organizations’ time-to-value by removing the effort of deploying and managing Chef Automate on their own. This includes full support for Chef Automate 2.0 as a fully-managed service including automatic updates.

     

    • Chef Workstation integration with Azure Cloud Shell provides a quick method for applying configuration changes to users’ systems, regardless of whether they are managed by Chef, and without requiring any pre-installed software — all within the Azure portal. Access to Chef Workstation in Azure Cloud Shell, coupled with InSpec, lets users run configuration commands and compliance checks on nodes that were previously not managed by Chef for continuous automation across their entire Azure platform.

     

    • Integration of InSpec with Azure’s cloud infrastructure (beta), in combination with Chef Automate 2 compliance profiles for Azure’s CIS Benchmark, gives users the ability to automate compliance audits for all application environments directly from Azure Cloud Shell. Microsoft’s newly released Azure Policy Guest Configuration uses InSpec for all Linux VMs that are managed by Azure Policy.

     

    “Chef gives companies the tools they need to confidently migrate to Microsoft Azure so users don’t just move their problems when migrating to the cloud, but have an understanding of the state of their assets before the migration occurs,” said Corey Scobie, senior vice president of products and engineering at Chef. “Being able to detect and correct configuration and security issues to ensure success after migrations gives our customers the power to migrate at the right pace for their organization. Today’s news builds on our long-established collaboration with Microsoft and our commitment to delivering new automation solutions that will help Azure and Azure Stack customers accelerate digital transformation.”

     

    Jeremy Winter, Director, Azure Management & Portal at Microsoft said, “Chef automation is a critical component of many customers automation environments. This new and deeper Chef integration with Microsoft Azure helps our mutual customers get going faster with less focus on configuring up infrastructure and more focus on automating consistent configurations at scale.”

     

    Customers can apply to participate in the public preview of Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure, by visiting chef.io/automate-for-azure.

     

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    About Chef

    Chef is the leader in Continuous Automation software, an innovator in cloud native operations and one of the founders of the DevOps movement. Chef works with more than a thousand of the most innovative companies around the world to deliver their vision of digital transformation, providing the practices and platform to deliver software at speed. Chef Automate is Chef’s Continuous Automation Platform which is powered by an awesome community and open source software engines: Chef for infrastructure, Habitat for applications, and InSpec for compliance. For more visit http://www.chef.io

     

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