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  • DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 Conference Agenda Set, Final Speakers Announced by IT Revolution

    Conference agenda now available featuring business and technology leaders from AGCO, Google, Intel, Lloyds Banking Group, Target, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Verizon and more

    PORTLAND, Ore., August 28, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the final round of speakers to be added to the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/) agenda. The conference takes place from October 22-24, 2018 at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. IT Revolution and founding partner, Electric Cloud, will offer expansive education opportunities covering all phases of IT transformation for business and technology leaders at large, complex organizations.

    Review the full DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 conference agenda at: https://events.itrevolution.com/us/schedule/

    To receive a $300 discount on a full conference pass, register with discount code “DEVOPS300” at: (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register/). Discount ticket pricing is extremely limited. Attendees are encouraged to register as soon as possible as the event is expected to sell out early.

    Maximize your interactions with fellow attendees by staying at the conference hotel, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Specially priced rooms are available via link below.  Room block is limited, so make your reservation early: (https://bit.ly/2BbjlKs).

    The final group of speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 includes:

    • Manish Aggarwal, Software Engineering Manager, Intel
    • Nicole Bryan, Vice President Product Development, Tasktop
    • Brent Chapman, Principal, Great Circle Associates
    • Ross Clanton, Executive Director – Technology Modernization, Verizon
    • Dan Cuniff, Principal Engineer, Target
    • Gabrielle Davelaar, Data Platform Solution Architect/A.I., Microsoft
    • Chris Doucet, Solutions Engineer, Electric Cloud
    • Jeffrey Dowds, Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology and Security, Vanguard
    • Jordan Edwards, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
    • John Esser, Sr. Director Datacenter Operations and SaaS, AdvanceMD
    • Kevin Fisher, Associate Vice President of Program and Application Services, Nationwide
    • Levi Geinert, Director of Engineering, Target
    • Mark Howell, DevOps Lead, Lloyds Banking Group
    • Jian Ma, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Google
    • Erik Maziarz, IT System Administrator II, AGCO
    • Gary McKay, Scrum Master and Release and Deployment Manager, Somos
    • Ken Moser, Special Assistant to the Applied Technology Division, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
    • Shozab Naqvi, Solution Architect, Electric Cloud
    • Chris Nowak, Founder, FlowStates
    • Wesley Pullen, Chief DevOps Strategist, Electric Cloud
    • Melinda Solomon, Agile Training Lead, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
    • J. Paul Reed, Managing Partner, Release Engineering Approaches
    • Andrew Shafer, Senior Director of Technology, Pivotal
    • Jan Schilt, CEO, GamingWorks
    • Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director, Hybrid Cloud, Software Defined, Infrastructure and Machine Learning, EMA Research
    • Anders Wallgren, CTO, Electric Cloud
    • Paula Watson, Director DevSecOps, DXC Technologies

    “I’m so delighted at the breadth of industries represented by the speakers for our Las Vegas conference,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. “Attendees will discover emerging DevOps practices, connect with industry pioneers and will sure leave energized to apply what they’ve learned in their own organization.”

    Get a sneak peak of the DevOps Enterprise Summit from speakers. A special edition of Electric Cloud’s Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) video podcast will take place on Tuesday, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. PDT. Learn more at: (http://electric-cloud.com/c9d9-devops-podcast/)

    About the DevOps Enterprise Summit
    The DevOps Enterprise Summit is a conference for technology and business leaders who are transforming how large, complex organizations deliver and operate software to help their organizations win in the marketplace.

    Entering its fifth year in the USA, its goal is to accelerate DevOps adoption and increase the likelihood of those initiatives succeeding, enabling the cultural norms, technical practices and architectures that help organizations achieve the highest levels of performance.

     

    The event features experience reports and subject matter expert talks from technology and business leaders at top global brands that leverage DevOps to thrive within today’s software-driven economy. Through keynotes, breakout sessions, collaborative workshops and space to interact within an expo hall, attendees gain insights into the evolving technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations.

     

  • SmartBear Acquiring Zephyr to Expand its Market Leading Test Management Portfolio and Strengthen Atlassian Marketplace Alliance

    The Addition of Zephyr for Jira, the No. 1 Grossing App on the Atlassian Marketplace, to the SmartBear Portfolio Creates the Most Comprehensive Set of Test Management Solutions

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. and SAN JOSE, Calif. – Aug. 28, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, will acquire Zephyr, to create the most comprehensive set of test management solutions in the market. With this acquisition, SmartBear reinforces its commitment to provide software development teams with the most innovative tools to build, test, and monitor great software, faster. The popularity of Zephyr for Jira has catapulted itto become the No. 1 grossing app on Atlassian Marketplace with 18,000 teams using its tools to execute over 40
    million tests. SmartBear will continue to extend and deepen the Zephyr product line and strengthen its relationship with Atlassian by leveraging SmartBear tools to bring more value to the users of the Atlassian Marketplace.

    “We are thrilled to have Zephyr join the SmartBear team,” said Justin Teague, CEO of SmartBear. “The acquisition of Zephyr will establish SmartBear as a leader in test management and broaden our portfolio of high-impact, easy-touse tools, which includes SoapUI, TestComplete, SwaggerHub, CrossBrowserTesting, Collaborator, and AlertSite.”

    Test management is a critical component of being able to develop, test, and deploy high quality software at the speed digital businesses demand. However, each software development teams’ test management requirements are unique, depending on their development methodology, organizational structure, and processes. By adding Zephyr to the portfolio, SmartBear now offers the most comprehensive set of test management offerings in the market. Zephyr for Jira supports Atlassian customers that want native test management inside Jira, Hiptest supports Agile and DevOps
    teams embracing Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Continuous Testing, and Zephyr Enterprise supports enterprises looking for a modern replacement for HP Quality Center.

    “We created Zephyr to help organizations continuously improve efficiencies and collaboration for their software testers and developers,” said Scott Johnson, CEO of Zephyr. “By leveraging the industry expertise and array of SmartBear solutions, our customers will continue to benefit from the tools they know and love, while now being able to solve additional software development challenges related to building, testing, and monitoring software applications across the UI and API layer.”

    “The Atlassian Marketplace makes it seamless for Atlassian’s more than 125,000 customers to extend the functionality of their Atlassian tools,” said Scott Farquhar, CEO of Atlassian. “We are thrilled to work more closely with SmartBear moving forward to advance the Zephyr product line and also bring more SmartBear industry-leading software development and testing tools into the Atlassian Marketplace.” “There is a growing need for integrated lifecycle management tools to support a variety of software development environments,” said Carl Lehmann, Principal Analyst at 451 Research. “SmartBear’s acquisition of Zephyr is representative of the accelerating trend we see in modern digital enterprises to strengthen support for diverse development and testing toolchains.”

    About SmartBear Software
    Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best SmartBear Acquiring Zephyr to Expand its Market Leading Test Management Portfolio and Strengthen Atlassian Marketplace Alliance performing software  possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the Twitter or Facebook.

  • Atomist Releases Sdm 1.0.0-M.1, Enables Local Development Automation For All

    Latest Version of Open Source Software Delivery Machine Provides All Developers the Benefits of Software Delivery Automation in Local Mode

    San Francisco, CA – August 27, 2018 – Atomist, the software delivery automation company, today announced that the latest version of its open source Software Delivery Machine (SDM) project, version 1.0.0-M.1, now provides a fully local mode. With this release, the API for software is available to every developer everywhere, enabling them to use their coding skills to achieve unprecedented control over their code and how it’s delivered.

    Atomist has demonstrated the power a software delivery machine gives developers with its programmable, event-driven approach to software delivery. With its new local mode, the Atomist SDM means all developers, everywhere can use a software delivery machine to develop their development experience on their own laptop. The event driven model provides a revolutionary approach to software delivery, and now developers can try it for themselves.

    “The core ideas that drive Atomist are relevant for everyone developing software,” said Atomist founder and CEO, Rod Johnson. “We made Atomist SDM open source so that every developer can experience the way of working that Atomist enables. Once you’ve used a software delivery machine, it’s hard to accept working any other way.”

    With Atomist SDM local mode, developers get the power of a software delivery machine on their laptop. Developers can automate their software development and delivery locally, get consistent project creation for any technology stack, and enable “code transforms” to automate common changes such as updating dependencies across projects. Projects are kept consistent and up-to-date automatically with “autofixes”. Project changes can be automatically deployed locally for individual developer testing.

    Modern software development is complex, and the tools that worked well in the previous era aren’t keeping up with the demands of cloud native applications and their myriad pipelines and static configuration files. Developers need new tools to deal with these new problems, and by making Atomist SDM open source, Atomist is making those tools available to everyone who needs them.

    The Atomist SDM with local mode 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.

  • SmartBear Appoints Chief Revenue Officer to Drive the Next Phase of Global Growth

    With 25 Years of High-Growth Software Industry Experience, Frank Roe Now Leads SmartBear’s Revenue Operations

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Aug. 23, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, appointed Frank Roe as the company’s new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). He comes most recently from Oracle as Area Vice President of U.S. – East Sales for its Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud Business Unit. Roe is responsible for the strategy, planning, and execution of global revenue operations at SmartBear. He will drive revenue growth, international expansion, and acquisition integration. He has 25 years of experience in software with a highly successful career in scaling sales, services, and marketing operations globally for SaaS applications, development, deployment, and integration markets.

    “SmartBear is in the middle of a rapid growth phase,” said Justin Teague, CEO of SmartBear. “As we take the company to the next level, we need leadership that can help us expand globally, work with our channel partners, and better serve our customers. Frank brings an innovative perspective with 25 years of experience leading high performing sales teams in a similar frictionless, high velocity model, and I’m confident he will be a tremendous asset to the team.”

    Prior to Oracle, Roe was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Rogue Wave Software where he drove double digit organic revenue growth and integrated multiple acquired companies, capitalizing on cross selling opportunities. He worked at RSD as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales where he transformed the 35-year organization, moving it from an archiving centric solution company into becoming the global and recognized leader of the new and emerging information governance market. He was Director, Global Sales at Progress Software for more than six years, and held various sales roles at Incentive Systems and Deloitte Consulting. He began his career as a strategy consultant at Andersen Consulting. He has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst – Isenberg School of Management.

    “Software quality is job No. 1 in today’s fast paced world of development, and SmartBear is committed to providing a frictionless experience for software developers and testers with world class tools that are easy to try, buy, and use,” said Roe. “SmartBear is leading the industry with great tools, a passionate customer base, and a strong executive team – and they are backed by the strong private equity firm, Francisco Partners.”

    About SmartBear Software

    Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

     

  • Targetprocess Appoints Former Rally Software Executive Richard Leavitt to Board of Directors

    BUFFALO, N.Y.— August 21, 2018—Targetprocess, provider of a visual management platform for Agile teams and organizations, has appointed Richard Leavitt, a longtime Agile software industry veteran and past executive at Rally Software, to its board of directors.

    Leavitt brings more than 20 years of experience building B2B software companies, including AlchemyAPI, which was acquired by IBM Watson; Rally Software, which had its IPO in 2013 on the NYSE and was later acquired by CA Technologies; and Insightful Corporation, which was acquired by TIBCO. In his prior roles, Leavitt has led product management and marketing, and driven sales organizations, partner networks and go-to-market efforts for a string of venture-backed software startups.

    “Richard is an experienced leader in business management and a trusted expert in how companies build and manage software products,” said Andrey Mihailenko, co-founder of Targetprocess. “We look forward to his insights, and will lean on his knowledge in sales, marketing and technology as we continue to scale.”

    “Targetprocess has grown profitably since day one by helping the more nimble, mid-sized companies see how well work is flowing across their teams and projects. Customers love them, the company has a great roadmap, and they are becoming a strong, independent voice in the work management market,” said Leavitt. “I’m honored to be asked to join Targetprocess and look forward to working and growing with this talented team.”

    Founded in 2004, Targetprocess provides an Agile management platform that enables its customers to visualize work across the organization, identify bottlenecks and make informed decisions about what to prioritize in the business. The company raised $5M Series A in May 2018, in part to speed its growth of sales, marketing and customer support in North America.

    About Targetprocess

    Targetprocess provides a visual Agile management solution that enables customers to scale Agile from a single team to the enterprise level. Teams can customize Targetprocess to match their ways of working, visualize work from multiple angles to understand the big picture, and present a unified view of progress up to the portfolio levels to drive smarter investment decisions. Founded in 2004, Targetprocess has been selected by more than 1,000 customers and 51,000 licensed users in 80 countries around the world. The company has offices in Buffalo, Toronto, Berlin and Minsk. For more information, visit www.targetprocess.com.

     

     

     

  • Flux7 Introduces New Solutions to Modernize Common Business Applications

    Flux7 Renovate solutions simplify and accelerate common business application provisioning on AWS Cloud

    AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Flux7, a services and technology company that specializes in extreme automation on top of cloud today announced Flux7 Renovate™,  solutions designed to accelerate modernization projects with best practices-based application deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  While most organizations have plans to adopt cloud, many are unsure of where or how to start. Beginning with a first application provides an opportunity to learn, test and better understand a broader modernization strategy, improving long-term success.

    Based on experience with hundreds of cloud migrations, Flux7 Renovate solutions are pre-defined deployment templates, scripts and consulting services for provisioning infrastructure for common business applications on AWS. By standardizing and automating key application configurations and processes based on best practices, enterprises can reduce migration complexity, meet compliance needs and better manage infrastructures to reduce risk, lower costs, shortening times to market and improve service levels.

    “Many common business applications including CRM, CMS, and Data Analytics are reaching the limits of their capabilities because they simply were not built to withstand the rapid pace of change and the requirements of today’s cloud environments,” said Flux7 CEO Aater Suleman.  “We saw a gap in the market to provide a solution that better fit the needs of enterprises seeking to balance security and consistency with rapid progress.  Flux7 Renovate solutions provide an easy way to migrate key applications to AWS, make minimal code changes and maximize the benefits of a modern runtime platform without extensive re-coding.”

    Flux7 Renovate solutions
    Enterprises can use Flux7 Renovate solutions to speed the mean time to value and gain the benefits of Infrastructure-as-Code instead of simple lift-and-shift migrations. Pre-packaged configurations enable IT operations and development teams to quickly gain value without compiling, modifying the application code, or modifying its features and functions.

    Automated deployments are now available for:

    • Data analytics apps: Cloudera
    • Search services: Solr, Elasticsearch
    • CRM applications: SugarCRM
    • Ecommerce solutions: Magento, SAP Hybris
    • Content Management Systems: Enterprise WordPress Platform, Drupal, Adobe Experience Manager

    Flux7 Renovate solutions are available in bronze, silver, gold and platinum tiers. Each tier provides increased functionality and compliance, moving from simple single account environments with best practices built-in to extreme automation, enterprise-grade solutions.  Flux7 plans to add other applications to the Renovate solutions as customer needs evolve.

    Flux7 Renovate solutions are part of Flux7’s portfolio of technology and services built on the company’s Enterprise DevOps Framework, a patented 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. Flux7 is a Premier AWS Consulting Partner that has helped hundreds of enterprises achieve breakthrough performance through infrastructure modernization  at scale.

    To learn more about Flux7 Renovate please visit: 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.

     

  • Semmle Launches Globally with $21 Million Series B Investment Led by Accel Partners

    Google, Microsoft, NASA and Nasdaq use Semmle’s software engineering analytics to secure the software that runs the world

    SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, 2018 — Semmle, a software engineering analytics platform, is launching globally today alongside the announcement of its $21 million Series B, led by Accel Partners. Developers and IT leaders at Capital One, Credit Suisse, Google, Microsoft, NASA and Nasdaq trust Semmle to help them create more secure and reliable code without slowing down. The investment, which brings Semmle’s total funding to $31 million, will be used to accelerate its go-to market efforts serving large technology and financial services companies around the world. As part of the investment, Accel’s Ping Li and Vas Natarajan will join the board of directors.

    Building and securing modern software applications and operating systems has become exponentially more expensive and complex to manage. Windows contains tens of millions of lines of code; the software in connected cars includes approximately 100 million lines; and Google’s portfolio of internet services includes about two billion lines. Today, it’s difficult for CIOs and engineers to trust that their code is secure and reliable, much less to have a view into who is working on what or where problems exist in the development pipeline. Critical vulnerabilities and 0-days that can expose their customers’ data and do irreparable damage to their brand —  like the Semmle-discovered Apache Struts vulnerability, similar to the one that led to the Equifax breach — are often imperceptible.

    Semmle solves the intractable problem of making code semantically searchable by taking a unique approach that combined two distinct and seemingly incompatible disciplines — object-oriented programming and database logic.

    “The greatest scientific and technological breakthroughs throughout history resulted from combining different disciplines, such as the use of computer science and biology to sequence the human genome,” said Dr. Oege de Moor, CEO of Semmle. “We built Semmle on this same principle, bringing together our 100+ patents in database technology and programming to enable deep semantic code search. With Semmle, CIOs, developers and security researchers can finally answer previously unanswerable questions about their code to find coding mistakes and 0-days that would otherwise be invisible.”

    Software Engineering Analytics that Developers Love and CIOs Trust

    Semmle’s LGTM analytics platform combines deep semantic code search and data science insights from its community of 500,000 developers to help them better understand their code, engineering processes and people. LGTM stands for, “Looks Good to Me,” a term commonly used by developers to sign off on each other’s work. LGTM is powered by QL, a query engine that lets developers and security researchers turn their source code into searchable relational data in order to spot critical errors and variants virtually impossible to find any other way. The platform also uses AI techniques to present actionable recommendations for improvement to developers and managers, building on the data from the user community.

    “My team needs to take advantage of the best tools available to keep Google Ads running and avoid exposing this critical system to risk,” said Google VP of Engineering and Semmle customer Asim Husain. “With Semmle, we are able to track down not only the most serious vulnerabilities, but also their logical variants in our entire codebase so we can shut them down before they shut us down. Semmle is the only solution that can do this and plays an important role in our engineering and security strategy.”

    CIOs and development managers also use LGTM’s analytics to see how their engineering teams and individual developers are performing, and can benchmark the vulnerabilities in their code bases against other projects.

    Backed by 10 years of development, 100+ Patents and 30+ PhDs

    Semmle was co-founded by De Moor, a distinguished computer scientist and 20+ year Oxford professor, and his former PhD students, Pavel Avgustinov and Julian Tibble. Together, they’ve built a team of more than 60 cross-functional experts: computer scientists, biochemists, astrophysicists, clinical scientists and mathematicians, more than half of whom hold PhDs. The Semmle team spent 10 years researching and creating the solution that is now the QL engine behind Semmle’s LGTM platform; they now hold 82 technology patents, with an additional 25 patents pending.

    “The stakes have never been higher for securing the world’s software,” said Accel’s Ping Li. “By making code searchable in a database, Semmle is redefining what’s possible in terms of fidelity of the analysis. It’s why Semmle is already trusted by the most innovative and valuable organizations in the world like Google and Microsoft.”

    To learn more about Semmle, please visit https://www.semmle.com

    About Semmle

    Semmle secures the software that runs the world with analytics developers love and CIOs trust. Software engineering and security teams at Credit Suisse, Dell, Google, Microsoft, NASA and Nasdaq depend on the Semmle analytics platform to create more reliable and trustworthy code without slowing down. Headquartered in San Francisco, Semmle is a privately held company funded by Accel, with additional offices in Copenhagen, New York City, Oxford, Seattle and Valencia, Spain. For more information, visit https://www.semmle.com.

  • BlazeMeter Launches Mainframe Continuous Testing: Mainframe Testers Can Now Shift Left

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 7, 2018: BlazeMeter launches new groundbreaking plugin, enabling continuous testing for the mainframe.

    CA BlazeMeter, the leader in agile continuous performance testing, has just announced the release of a new JMeter plugin for mainframe testing. The RTE plugin was developed as part of the organisation’s strategy to offer open-source based solutions for continuous testing.

    Supporting IBM mainframe protocols TN5250 and TN3270, the JMeter RTE plugin simulates a mainframe terminal sending actions and keystrokes to the mainframe server. By using the plugin, developers and testers can simulate filling forms or calling processes, specify the position of fields on the screen and the text to set on them, and simulate the keyboard attention keys.

    Finally, developers can easily utilize open source technology to run both load and functional performance tests on mainframe servers. Instead of having to use complex legacy tools or waiting for engineers in Centers of Excellence, this new BlazeMeter-developed plugin enables all developers to easily run continuous performance tests, automatically and on-demand. JMeter can also be integrated with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, etc.. This shift left to agile testing and development makes testing easy and frees up development resources.

    “Mainframe, which has lived in the Waterfall development methodology for over 60 years, needs to transition to agile to enable more frequent releases without compromising on performance and quality to support modern application and delivery methodologies. This cannot be achieved without the right tools to enable the agile teams to own full responsibility for their applications.

    By contributing the JMeter RTE Plugin to the OpenSource community – BlazeMeter enables agile teams to write their functional and performance scenarios to ensure the next feature or hotfix will comply with the quality and performance required,” says Refael Botbol Weiss, Software Engineering Director at BlazeMeter.

    Learn more about continuous testing for the mainframe system from this webinar. Sign up here.

    About BlazeMeter

    CA BlazeMeter was acquired by CA Technologies in September 2016. The BlazeMeter solution ensures faster delivery of applications by enabling DevOps teams to quickly and easily run performance tests on-premises, in the cloud or on virtual private cloud against any app, website or API at massive scale to validate performance at every stage of software delivery. The rapidly growing CA BlazeMeter community has more than 100,000 developers and includes prominent global brands such as Adobe, Gap, NBCUniversal, Pfizer and Walmart as customers.

     

    For more information, sign up for our free tier plan at www.blazemeter.com, visit our blog, find us on Twitter @BlazeMeter, on LinkedIn, or on Slack.

  • Instaclustr Announces $15 Million Growth Equity Investment from Level Equity

    Investment will support the expansion of Instaclustr’s managed platform for open source big data technologies

    Palo Alto, California – August 16, 2018 – Instaclustr, the leading provider of completely managed solutions for scalable open source technologies, today announced it has raised $15 million from Level Equity, the New York City-based private investment firm. The funding provides Instaclustr with capital to accelerate expansion of its managed platform of core open source technologies. Instaclustr – now serving more than 100 customers from various industries – will double its headcount over the next year. Instaclustr’s revenues have grown 300% over the last 24 months and this pace is expected to continue.

    Instaclustr’s Open Source-as-a-Service platform delivers fully hosted and managed big data technology solutions in their 100% open source form, providing customers the data capabilities and reliability required to scale with absolute freedom from vendor or technical lock-in. Core technologies currently provided by the managed platform include Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.

    Instaclustr will use this funding to expand its automated and proven management environment for database, analytics, search, and messaging services to include additional open source technologies such as Elasticsearch, Apache Ignite and Apache Flink. The company will also be adding other data-centric open source technologies that integrate well and that are ideally suited for supporting the scale, high availability, and performance demanded from next-gen applications and solutions. All technologies will continue to be made available through a single platform capable of handling customers’ entire data layer.

    “We allow customers to get the most production value from an array of powerful open source data solutions – and to do so within a fully managed environment that frees up their IT resources and budget,” said Peter Nichol, CEO, Instaclustr. “The new investment from Level Equity will accelerate our platform’s expansion, grow our sales and support teams, and allow us to reach more organizations seeking to optimize their data-related performance, reliability, security, and scalability.”

    “Instaclustr has earned its reputation as a trusted enterprise partner through its unwavering dedication to 100% open source technologies and fast, expert support,” Ben Levin, Founder and Partner, Level Equity. “Demand for flexible solutions capable of addressing mission-critical data infrastructure is growing exponentially, and this is reflected in the outstanding financial performance Instaclustr has demonstrated in the last several years. The comprehensive managed platform Instaclustr offers is well positioned as a singular backend answer to meet the entire scope of customers’ requirements when it comes to managing the data layer.”

    “Because of Instaclustr’s robust platform and readily-available support, we’re able to focus our attention where it belongs: on our product and growing our business,” said Jason Wu, CTO, AdStage. “Working with Instaclustr has given us certainty that our open source deployment is being expertly managed, scaled, and optimized on our behalf. We look forward to continuing to benefit from our relationship with Instaclustr as it expands its managed data technologies.”

    Level Equity joins existing investors Bailador Technology Investments, ANU Connect Ventures, and Our Innovation Fund, LP.

    About Instaclustr

    Instaclustr is the Open Source-as-a-Service company, delivering reliability at scale. We operate an automated, proven, and trusted managed environment, providing database, analytics, search, and messaging. We enable companies to focus internal development and operational resources on building cutting edge customer-facing applications.

     

  • IT Revolution Announces Third Round of Speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018

    Organizers reveal a powerful lineup of business and technology leaders from Walmart, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, American Express, Lockheed Martin, Jaguar Land Rover, Delta Airlines and more

    PORTLAND, Ore., Aug.15, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the third round of speakers for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/). The conference takes place from October 22-24, 2018 at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. IT Revolution and founding partner, Electric Cloud, will host an immersive learning program for identifying and amplifying top DevOps transformation practices with business and technology leaders from large, complex organizations.

    To receive a $300 discount on the full ticket price, register with discount code “DEVOPS300” at: (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register/). Discount ticket pricing is limited to the first 200 registrants. Attendees are encouraged to register as soon as possible as the event is expected to sell out early.

    The third round of speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 includes:

    • Chad Avery, DevOps Program Manager, American Express
    • Dan Barker, Chief Architect, National Association of Insurance Commissioners
    • Aimee Bechtle, Senior Manager Advanced Engineering, Capital One
    • Jill Campbell, Principal Group Program Manager, Windows Engineering, Microsoft
    • Aimee Cardwell, VP Consumer Product Development, American Express
    • Christophe De Boeck, Technical Delivery Manager Core and Lending, Kiwibank
    • Dominica DeGrandis, Director, Digital Transformation, Tasktop
    • Rob England, Managing Director, Teal Unicorn
    • Laura Fay, VP Research, XaaS Product Management, TSIA
    • Bryan Finster, Staff Software Engineer, Walmart
    • Dana Finster, Sr. Software Engineer, Walmart
    • Jim Grafmeyer, Director, IT Architecture, Nationwide
    • Abbie Gray, Product Manager in Credit Card Channels Product & Platform, Capital One
    • Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner, Microsoft
    • Chris Hill, Head of Systems Engineering, Infotainment, Jaguar Land Rover
    • Shannon Leitz, DevSecOps Leader, Intuit
    • Dr. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology, Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
    • Dr. Steve Mayner, SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant, Scaled Agile
    • Kenneth McLeish, Global Head of Equity Technology, JP Morgan Chase Asset Management
    • Danny Myers, Head of Equities Production Management, JP Morgan Chase Asset Management
    • Shaun Norris, Global Head, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Standard Chartered Bank
    • John Rzeszotarski, SVP, Director of Continuous Delivery and Feedback, KeyBank
    • Dylan Smith, DevOps Architect, Microsoft
    • Jared Speno, Senior Technical Consultant, Nationwide
    • Dr. Cherry Vu, CEO, Teal Unicorn
    • James Wickett, Head of Research, Signal Sciences
    • Keanen Wold, Manager, DevOps Transformation, Delta Airlines
    • Robin Yeman, Lockheed Martin Fellow, Lockheed Martin

    “The 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas program includes some of the most exciting technology transformation stories from large enterprise organizations that we’ve seen to date,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. “Technology leaders will get tremendous value from these sessions, as well as learning from domain experts in all the fields we draw upon to help our organizations win.”

    Book your room at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas now for a special reduced rate. The room block is limited, so make your reservation early at: (https://bit.ly/2BbjlKs).

    To get a preview of what’s to come at the DevOps Enterprise Summit, watch a special edition of Electric Cloud’s Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) video podcast on Tuesday, Aug. 21 at 10 a.m. PDT. Gene Kim, Cornelia Davis, Damon Edwards, Mik Kersten, and Tom Limoncelli will hold a discussion on “Next Gen Operations and Infrastructure” ahead of the event. Learn more at: (http://electric-cloud.com/c9d9-devops-podcast/).

    About the DevOps Enterprise Summit
    The DevOps Enterprise Summit is a conference for technology and business leaders who are transforming how large, complex organizations deliver and operate software to help their organizations win in the marketplace.

    Entering its fifth year in the USA, its goal is to accelerate DevOps adoption and increase the likelihood of those initiatives succeeding, enabling the cultural norms, technical practices and architectures that help organizations achieve the highest levels of performance.

    The event features experience report and subject matter expert talks from technology and business leaders at top global brands that leverage DevOps to thrive within today’s software-driven economy. Through keynotes, breakout sessions, collaborative workshops and space to interact within an expo hall, attendees gain insights into the evolving technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations

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    About IT Revolution

    IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of technology professionals.

     

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