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  • New Redgate SQL Prompt release addresses technical debt in legacy SQL code

    Cambridge UK, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 – The latest release of Redgate Software’s most popular tool, SQL Prompt, elevates it from helping to develop and standardize new code to discovering problems in legacy code. The winner of the Visual Studio Magazine 2017 Reader’s Choice Gold Award in the productivity tools category, SQL Prompt plugs into SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio and enables developers to write, format, refactor and analyze SQL code.

    When SQL Prompt v9 launched in November 2017, it introduced a code analysis feature which spots code issues and hidden pitfalls as users type. It parses the code, as a compiler would, but rather than compile the code, it checks the syntax for compliance with a built-in set of over 90 rules. It then highlights each issue, or ‘code smell’, by underlining the offending line of code with a green squiggle.

    Developers can see immediately any issues they’ve introduced, and clear explanations and suggestions to improve their code and fix the errors are provided, along with links to further reading online. This ensures that all code committed to source control complies with a common set of coding standards and practices, and prevents issues from creeping into the build that might, now or eventually, cause performance, maintenance or security problems.

    That’s not the end of the story. The latest update to SQL Prompt allows users to analyze an entire script of legacy code, no matter how large, and see a list of all the issues contained within it. If users double-click on an issue, they’ll see that line highlighted in the code and can view more details. Code issues can also be grouped by type and exported to a CSV file which can be shared across a team or attached to a ticket in bug-tracking or task management software.

    This makes it easy to learn about the health of certain sections of the database code, or assign clean-up tasks, with each developer on a team assigned a set of issue types. By acting as a worklist for improving overall code quality, it makes it much easier to do code reviews, discover technical debt, and resolve small errors before they become big problems.

    It thus helps teams prevent technical debt from entering the code base, remove it from existing code, and ensure that released code conforms to the team’s defined coding standards.

    As Grant Fritchey, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, concludes: “When code analysis was introduced to SQL Prompt less than a year ago, it was a big move. As well as helping you write SQL code faster, it helped you write SQL code better. Extending the feature to legacy code means anyone can now use it to improve code that was written months, even years ago, as well as the code they’re working on right now.”

    Existing users of SQL Prompt can start using the new functionality immediately by updating to the latest version using the Check for Updates link in the Help menu. New users can explore the feature by downloading a fully-functional trial version of the software from the Redgate website. Once installed, SQL Prompt will appear in the standard menu of SQL Server Management Studio or Visual Studio and can be used just like any other feature of the IDE.

     

  • Postman Announces Team Plan for Free Users

    New Features Improve Collaboration and Teamwork for All API Developers

    SAN FRANCISCO — August 9, 2018 — Postman, provider of the only complete API development environment (or ADE), today announced major updates to its ubiquitous Postman app. Starting immediately, all Postman free users will be able to create Postman teams, use team workspaces and use all of Postman’s valuable collaboration features. Prior to this update, teams were available exclusively to customers of Postman’s paid plans, Pro and Enterprise. With today’s release, all Postman users will be able to use the same features of Postman previously enjoyed by paid users and in quantities scaled for individuals and small projects.

     

    In addition, Postman 6.2 includes a new feature called Sessions, which allows teams to work more effectively through the addition of session-specific collection, environment and global variables. Session variables are not synced to the cloud, allowing developers to work comfortably with sensitive information while knowing it will stay local to their Postman instance. This gives developers more flexibility in working with APIs in Postman and reduces security concerns.

     

    “Teams are the foundation of API development,” said Abhinav Asthana, CEO and co-founder of Postman. “Now, every developer can invite their entire team to Postman, improving collaboration and making their API workflow more effective.”

    “We were one of the original beta testers when Postman first introduced the team collaboration feature,” said Todd Parsnick, technical supervisor at UCSF, Eureka. ”Our team has found collaboration invaluable, so it’s great to see this feature available to individuals and small teams via the free Postman app.”

    About Postman

    Postman is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. Postman is an elegant, flexible tool used to build connected software via APIs — quickly, easily and accurately. Postman is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at http://www.getpostman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @postmanclient.

     

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

    Program expands to next generation IT operations and how to span the business and tech divide, features prominent domain experts and leaders from Nike, IBM, CSG International and more

    PORTLAND, Ore., July 25, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced its next round of speakers for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/). IT Revolution and founding partner, Electric Cloud, are hosting the event at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas from October 22-24, 2018. The DevOps Enterprise Summit features world-class learning opportunities, inclusive networking sessions, and a collaborative platform to exchange insights with leading business and technology leaders from around the globe.

    Register now at: (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register/). Attendees are encouraged to register early, as the event is expected to sell out.

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

    • Ann Bradley, Chief Privacy Officer and Global Counsel for Nike Direct
    • Ann Corrao, Distinguished Engineer, CTO for Cloud Managed Application Services, IBM
    • Chad Dunavant, SVP Product Management, CSG International
    • Damon Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Rundeck
    • Olivier Jacques, Principal, DevOps Transformation, DXC Technologies
    • Mik Kersten, Founder and CEO of Tasktop
    • Erica Morrison, Executive Director, Software Engineering, CSG International
    • Scott Prugh, SVP Software Engineering, CSG International
    • Joseph Wilson, Executive Director, Global Information Security, CSG International

    “I’m very much looking forward to another incredible learning experience for technology leaders who are transforming their organizations at the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. “Our focus areas this year are joint presentations from business leaders and technology leaders who are helping their organizations win, and exploring next-generation Operations and infrastructure. Without a doubt, there’s been no better time to be in technology than now, where it can help organizations achieve its survival and thrive in the marketplace.”

    Want more resources from the DevOps Enterprise Summit community? Past presentations, videos, and research papers are available below for free.

    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.

    Share This: #DevOps Enterprise Summit #LasVegas 2018 announces 2nd round of speakers! Register now & learn alongside these industry pros: @ojacques2, @damonedwards, @chaddunavant @ScottPrugh @ericamorrison @mik_kersten and more! https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register/ @DOES_USA #DOES18

    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 IT professionals.

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  • Ada and Zendesk Unite to Improve Chatbot Experience for Customer Service

    Ada and Zendesk will bring new functionality to chatbot and live chat services to improve customer and agent experiences

    TORONTO—July 25, 2018—Ada, the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) customer service chatbots, along with Zendesk, a customer service and engagement platform, today announced a deep integration that will greatly improve customer and agent experiences by enabling a symbiotic relationship between AI and human agents.

    Ada brings value as a chatbot provider with:

    • Simple user experience – Ada’s intuitive authoring environment makes it easy to create content without the need for a deep understanding of AI.
    • Rapid deployment – The ability to quickly go live in 30 days or less, versus multiple months.
    • Simple and complex use cases – While other chatbots can handle only simplistic requests, Ada also supports use cases that authenticate users and provide them with personalized information such as account balance, order information and more.
    • Multi-lingual support – Ada’s chatbot can be trained in one language and propagates the machine learning across multiple languages.

    The integration between Ada and Zendesk Chat involves the use of Ada’s AI technology to train chatbots to fulfill simple tasks while also identifying when a user needs to be transferred to a live agent. The bot-to-live-agent handoff occurs when more complex or sensitive issues arise, and the chatbot will direct the user to a customer support representative, providing the agent with the full bot conversation history to ensure a seamless transition. For example, if a customer is seeking to cancel their account, the chatbot will direct them to a live agent to increase the probability of retaining the customer.

    “As customers become more familiar with chatbot experiences across platforms, the need to enable a more fulfilling self-service experience is paramount for us. Frustrating interactions for a customer lead to a less beneficial engagement with a live agent, and often results in duplicate conversations,”said Mike Murchison, CEO of Ada. “We look forward to our continued partnership with Zendesk to better serve customers at any stage in their lifecycle by providing seamless, pleasant conversations. This is the new wave of customer service and we are proud to power it.”

    Zendesk Chat, the largest live chat and messaging provider in the world, provides an open and customizable chatbot platform via the Conversations API. Designed to seamlessly integrate with bot partners like Ada, this solution lets businesses leverage the power of artificial intelligence to augment their customer interactions and quickly resolve simple tasks. Their chatbot solution provides businesses flexibility to build and extend their customer experiences based on their unique needs.

    Ada builds chatbots that can be used with Zendesk Chat.. To learn more about Ada’s integration with Zendesk, go to the company website.

    About Ada

    Ada is the leading provider of AI customer service chatbots, automating millions of conversations per month for clients such as Telus, Ultra Mobile and Coinbase. Using the power of machine learning, Ada enables businesses to provide 24/7 customer service that saves time, reduces costs and improves the customer experience.

    About Zendesk

    The best customer experiences are built with Zendesk. Zendesk’s powerful and flexible customer service and engagement platform scales to meet the needs of any business, from startups and small businesses to growth companies and enterprises. Zendesk serves businesses across a multitude of industries, with more than 100,000 paid customer accounts offering service and support in more than 30 languages. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zendesk operates worldwide with 15 offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.

     

  • Rainforest QA Rolls Out New Features to Enhance Testing Visibility

    Reporting feature allows development teams to monitor overall health of test suite, Results Categorization adds test categorization capabilities

    SAN FRANCISCO – JULY 24, 2018 – Rainforest QA, the leader in on-demand quality assurance (QA) solutions, today announced new features that provide businesses with a robust set of tools to maximize visibility into their testing workflows. Through platform enhancements powered by Domo’s chart-building capabilities, Rainforest’s new Reporting feature allows development teams to instantly access and download reports, charts and graphs depicting the overall state of their test suite. This gives them the data necessary to make informed decisions on what, how much, and how often to test. In addition, the company launched Results Categorization, a new feature that allows customers to categorize each individual test outcome, adding clarity into what action needs to take place next while increasing visibility into the overall testing suite.

    As companies continue releasing new apps at the speed of continuous delivery, development teams need to remain apprised of testing conditions at all times to quickly address potential problems and bugs before code hits production. At the same time, as the number of tests and data amassed scales, aggregate insights into testing speed, coverage and predictability are crucial for improving the QA process without creating unnecessary delays. By incorporating reporting functionality directly into Rainforest, customers can instantly access, consume and interact directly with their data to gain visibility and evaluate how their product and QA teams are performing.

    “In order for us to continue delivering exceptional employee experiences for today’s modern, digital workplace, we need to ensure there are no discrepancies in our system,“ said Jason Poland, Software Developer at iOffice. “Our development teams use Rainforest’s various reporting tools to conduct health checks at a glance. Plus, they provide all the analytics we need to get the most out of our QA processes and deliver a superior user experience for our customers at all times.”

    In addition, by expanding Rainforest’s testing platform with the new Results Categorization feature, companies can easily review and label each test result to help them understand and quantify the amount of bugs addressed. Team members no longer need to repeatedly interrupt their workflow for status updates and can spend more time collaborating on getting new features and products to market faster.

    “Development teams today are moving quickly in the era of continuous delivery, and a common pain point we find among them is the lack of a quick and convenient method for gaining a comprehensive view of their testing suite,” said Derek Choy, CIO at Rainforest. “With Reporting and Results Categorization built right into the testing workflow, customers no longer need to feel in the dark about their QA processes and can continue focusing on scaling the business.”

    About Rainforest

    Rainforest is changing the way QA is done in an era of continuous delivery. Our on-demand QA solution improves the customer experience by enabling development teams to discover significantly more problems before code hits production. Hundreds of companies including Adobe, Oracle, and Solarwinds use Rainforest to automate their QA testing process and easily integrate it with their development workflow via a simple API. Headquartered in San Francisco, Rainforest is a 2012 Y Combinator graduate funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and SVB Capital among others. For more information, visit https://www.rainforestqa.com.

     

     

     

     

  • Forrester Study Reveals Software Quality Metrics that Differentiate DevOps Leaders from Laggards

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Results from new Forrester Consulting research reveal the 20 most important Agile and DevOps quality metrics that separate DevOps/Agile experts from their less advanced peers. The study, which publishes today, was commissioned by Continuous Testing leader Tricentis and was led by Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Diego Lo Giudice.

    The research examined 94 quality metrics that were classified into four categories. As a high-level summary, the research uncovered the following:

    • Understanding of business risk is the most important determining factor of DevOps and Agile maturity.
    • Experts focus primarily on contextual metrics (e.g., requirements coverage) while others focus on “counting” metrics (e.g., number of tests).
    • Experts are more likely to measure the user experience across an end-to-end transaction while others rely on application-specific or team-specific metrics.

    Detailed results and analysis are available in the complete report: The Definitive Software Quality Metrics for Agile+DevOps.

    Agile/DevOps Leaders vs Laggards
    The study also found that companies with the most successful Agile and DevOps initiatives do a number of things differently:

    • They are transforming software testing into Continuous Testing by adopting five core practices, such as automating end-to-end functional testing and integrating testers into cross-functional teams.
    • They are almost twice as likely to consider automating the software quality process to be a “critical business differentiator” (53% vs. 27%).
    • They are significantly more likely (by 23 percentage points) to have high levels of automation for key testing and QA processes (test case design, functional test automation, test data management, etc.).

    “Organizations adopt DevOps to accelerate the delivery of innovative software that creates positive user experiences,” explained Clark Golestani, Managing Director of C Sensei Group and former President, Emerging Businesses and Global CIO of Merck. “If you start accelerating delivery without also rethinking your approach to quality, you will end up rapidly delivering updates that drive your customers to competitors. Automated, continuous testing is the gate that allows you to protect your organization from significant risk as you innovate at the speed modern business demands.”

    The Risk “Blind Spot”
    Risk is a prevalent thread throughout the various parts of the report. Most firms (80%) believe they deliver within acceptable business risk, but fewer than a quarter state that their QA and testing processes completely cover business risk. Moreover, just 15% of respondents say that their test suites reliably provide a good indication of business risk.

    Interestingly, although risk-related metrics do not rank high in overall popularity, Agile and DevOps experts measure them significantly more frequently than the non-experts do. In fact, Agile and DevOps experts consistently rank risk-related metrics among their top 3 most valuable metrics in different phases and categories.

    Additional Findings
    Other notable findings include:

    • Only 26% of firms with active Agile/DevOps adoptions are currently practicing the five core Continuous Testing practices shown to separate Agile/DevOps leaders from laggards.
    • Many CXOs and high-level decision makers are vastly overestimating the maturity of their firms’ Agile and DevOps practices.
    • Firms that rely on manual testing are more than twice as likely to report that testing is a bottleneck (59%), compared to those with more automated quality processes (26%).

    The complete Definitive Software Quality Metrics for Agile+DevOps report is available for complimentary download on the Tricentis web site.

    About Tricentis
    With the industry’s No. 1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through risk-based testing, scriptless end-to-end test automation, and the industry’s most extensive technology support, Tricentis breaks through the barriers experienced with conventional software testing methods. Our innovative technologies simplify testing for even the most complex enterprise applications—transforming testing from a roadblock to a catalyst for innovation. The result is accelerated software delivery speed, improved cost efficiency, and reduced business risk.

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown”). This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 800+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Lexmark, Merck, Sentry Insurance, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vantiv (now WorldPay), Vodafone, and Whole Foods. These customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

    Tricentis has a global presence in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Poland, United States and the UK. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

  • Redlock Announces New Innovations And Enhanced Adoption For Google Cloud Platform

    New features enable deeper security visibility into Google Cloud Platform, real-time network monitoring, and improved compliance with industry-specific and other mandates

    From Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, CA (July 23, 2018) – RedLock, the Cloud Threat Defense company, today announced major enhancements to the RedLock Cloud 360 platform that deliver significantly greater interoperability and insights with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Among other benefits, the new features in RedLock Cloud 360 offer integration with GCP Flow Logs, support for GCP Orgs, improved compliance packs, and greater backing for other Google Cloud services such as Kubernetes. The new package offers a range of new capabilities and enhanced support to organizations leveraging the public cloud for their computing and applications requirements.

    “The cloud computing model lives up to its undeniable potential when concerns around security and compliance are no longer obstacles, and it’s always been our mission at RedLock to help achieve that goal,” said Ankur Shah, VP of Products at RedLock. “That’s why we’ve delivered recent benefits such as enhanced integration as a launch partner for Google Cloud Security Command Center (Cloud SCC). Now, we’re proud to offer even more advanced integration with GCP, including greater visibility into network traffic, enhanced support for key features and additional backing for industry-specific regulations. We also pledge to continue developing products and services that further ease and secure operations in the cloud.”

    New features include the following.

    Integration with GCP Flow Logs: RedLock provides real-time visibility into north-south and east-west network traffic, which comes through intuitive network visualization, enabling faster identification of network security threats such as access to sensitive workloads from malicious IPs; data exfiltration; crypto mining; and host compromise. It’s also now easier to identify and remediate network security risks by creating custom policies/rules, and integrating with enterprise security automation tools.

    Support for GCP Orgs: This capability provides central visibility and control over every resource that belongs to an organization. GCP provides specific resource containers—such as Organizations, Folders and Projects—that allow customers to group and hierarchically organize other Cloud Platform resources. This makes it easier to manage common aspects of internal resources such as access control and configuration settings. With RedLock’s new support for GCP Orgs, customers can automatically onboard thousands of projects and underlying resources within minutes, and gain centralized governance across their GCP environment.

    Improved support for HIPAA, PCI and GDPR compliance: HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which covers virtually all of the healthcare industry), PCI (for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which encompasses credit card usage in industries such as retail), and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, which protects EU citizens’ online activities) represent major compliance mandates. The new feature eases cloud adoption by offering enhanced compliance both at the infrastructure and application layers through the shared responsibility model.

    Support for Additional Google Services for Security/Compliance: Additional configuration and compliance monitoring for services such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and BigQuery are now available in RedLock Cloud 360. In addition to greater visibility, it accelerates the adoption of these Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) models by providing continuous security governance and monitoring.

    “Just as we advocate shared responsibility for security in cloud environments, we also need shared innovation, and that’s why we’re excited to see the latest advances from RedLock,” said Vineet Bhan, Head of Security Partnerships, Google Cloud. “RedLock has long been committed to supporting Google Cloud Platform, and we look forward to continued collaboration with the company.”

    For more information and to see a live demo of the RedLock Cloud 360 Platform, please visit the RedLock booth (S1431) at Google Cloud Next, or access https://redlock.io/platform/google-cloud-security-compliance.

    About RedLock

    RedLock enables effective security governance across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud environments. The RedLock Cloud 360™ platform takes a new AI-driven approach that correlates disparate security data sets including network traffic, user activities, risky configurations, and threat intelligence, to provide a unified view of risks across fragmented cloud environments. With RedLock, organizations can ensure compliance, govern security, and enable security operations across cloud computing environments.

    Global brands across a variety of verticals trust RedLock to secure their public cloud computing environments. The company is backed by Sierra Ventures, Storm Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, and other high profile investors. RedLock has received a number of industry accolades including finalist for Most Innovative Startup at RSA 2017, CRN Emerging Vendors in Security 2017, and TiE50 Winner 2017.

    All names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

     

  • Investing in the high-performing IT professionals of the future: DevOpsGroup Academy aims to eradicate the UK’s tech skills shortage

     DevOpsGroup Academy launches graduate internship scheme & carefully selected portfolio of agile and DevOps courses, delivered by specialists

    • DevOpsGroup Academy’s mission is to address the major talent shortage in UK tech
    • Half of UK-based technology companies believe there’s a skill shortage
    • New website launches this week at devopsgroup.com
    • Launch of new summer placement internship with National Software Academy
    • Piloting an innovative new scheme for DevOps ‘bootcamps’ for both enterprises and scale-ups, with new government funding available for Welsh SMEs

    23rd July 2018 – Cardiff and London, UK – DevOpsGroup, one of the world’s leading organisations for DevOps engineering consultancy and training, launches the DevOpsGroup Academy, with a mission to eradicate the UK’s tech skill shortage and invest in the high-performing IT professionalsof the future. DevOpsGroup empowers digital transformation through high-performing IT capabilities for both enterprise and scale-ups, with DevOpsGroup Academy developing a range of new courses, graduate internships and innovative educational collaborations between universities, government and the commercial sector.

    The UK’s technology sector is currently worth around £184 billion to the British economy, having increased by £14 billion over the past year alone and currently outgrowing other industries by 2.6 times, according to the latest Tech Nation report. Yet half of UK-based technology companies believe that there’s a shortage of highly skilled professionals. Additionally, a recent study from Computer Weekly claims that there’ll be 800,000 unfilled IT jobs in the UK by 2020, signaling that much more needs to be done to train the next generation of technology professionals.

    “DevOpsGroup has always been driven by a passion for enabling IT transformation at the speed of disruption,” says James Harvey, Head of Academy. “DevOpsGroup has ran a fantastic, forward-thinking internship scheme, since 2015, which we plan to take to the next level with the DevOpsGroup Academy, providing a mixture of formal and practical training to those looking to forge a career in the technology sector. We will build on the fine work that’s been done to date in developing technology talent in South Wales and accelerating Cardiff’s tech ecosystem.

    “Working with a range of local universities and the British Computing Society, we are uniquely able to provide enterprises, SMEs and universities and further education institutions a unique and unbeatable mixture of technical and non-technical courses, internship schemes and summer placements. Our real USP is sharing expert, practical knowledge, which accelerates textbook-based learning and allows us to run public training courses that are focused and specific. We are also launching a new summer placement internship with the National Software Academy at Cardiff University, as well as piloting a really innovative DevOps ‘bootcamps’ programme, for which Welsh SMEs can claim back 50 per cent of the cost from the government.”

    The DevOpsGroup Academy currently runs schemes that are centered on Agile and Davos practices, from foundation upwards. These are all technology-agonistic, role-agnostic and framework-agnostic ran in conjunction with all major technical partners, including Microsoft, AWS and Github, to ensure all training is consistently up-to-date and relevant.

    “STEM learning can quickly become outdated. Which is why DevOpsGroup Academy is on a mission to change that and act as a finishing school for computer science graduates,” James Harvey explains. “There’s always a clear disparity between what’s taught in the classroom and what the commercial world is looking for. We’re trying to bridge this gap by running these commercial, industry-recognised courses for people at any level.”

    www.devopsgroup.com/academy

  • Logz.Io Teams Up With Aws To Expand Global Access To Ai-Driven Machine Data Analysis

    First ELK Solution on AWS Marketplace Gives Cloud Customers Easier Cloud Monitoring and Flexible Subscriptions

    Boston and Tel Aviv–July 19, 2018–Logz.io, the leading provider of AI-powered log analysis, announces the release of its intelligent log analysis platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. The Logz.io platform is the first and only ELK solution offered on the AWS Marketplace, giving AWS customers worldwide access to powerful capabilities for extracting actionable insights from machine data.

    “With our AI-driven platform that combines data-driven insights with human knowledge, organizations are mining deeper analytics from all parts of their infrastructure and finding greater operational benefits and cost-efficiency,” says Tomer Levy, Logz.io CEO. “Being available on AWS enables us to better serve our customers in strategic international markets as well as offer more flexibility in subscriptions.”

    Logz.io offers an AI-powered log analytics platform that combines advanced machine learning with the powerful open-source ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack. The scalable platform synthesizes machine data, user behavior, and community knowledge into actionable insights that help organizations extract critical information from terabytes of data.

    With Logz.io on AWS Marketplace, AWS customers can take advantage of a more flexible subscription model while gaining a deeper understanding of  the performance of various AWS services such as CloudWatch, S3, CloudTrail, and RDS using Logz.io’s built-in integrations. In addition, users are able to ship data from an S3 bucket or use AWS Lambda and built-in Kibana dashboards to start analysis.  Logz.io’s advanced machine learning is another key feature available, which enables customers to pinpoint events taking place in their AWS environment that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.

    On the AWS Marketplace, Logz.io subscriptions are available for one, 12 and 24 month periods, with pricing determined by the amount of data shipped daily. For information, contact lauren@logz.io, or visit AWS Marketplace.

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    About Logz.io

    Logz.io is an intelligent log analytics platform that combines the popular ELK stack as a cloud service and sophisticated machine learning. Logz.io derives insights from machine data, user behavior and community knowledge in a scalable, production-ready platform that enables organizations to resolve issues faster and take operations to the next level.

     

  • Catchpoint Expands Industry-Leading Monitoring Network…Again

    New Cloud Nodes Available on All Six Major Cloud Providers,

    Revamped Enterprise Nodes Offer Fast-Start Monitoring from Any Location

    New York, NY – (July 19, 2018)  Catchpoint™, the digital experience monitoring (DEM) expert, today further expanded its industry-leading network of monitoring location options with Cloud Nodes, which monitors in multiple regions of the six major cloud providers, and an updated Enterprise Nodes offering, for fast-start monitoring from any location.

    These solutions address the challenges of ensuring stellar performance (speed, reachability, reliability, and availability) of digital services when cloud migrations, agile and continuous development are the norm. They can be used standalone or as part of a holistic approach utilizing Catchpoint’s internet backbone, broadband, last mile, and wireless monitoring infrastructure, now comprising more than 700 vantage points worldwide, the largest and most diverse monitoring network in its category.

    Catchpoint now has 111 Cloud Nodes deployed on the six major cloud providers: 16 in AWS, 28 in Azure, 17 in Google, 20 in IBM; plus in China, 15 in Alibaba and 15 in Tencent. Cloud Nodes now cover 62 cities in 25 countries worldwide, the largest regional cloud provider coverage available.

    “A huge and growing amount of internet traffic flows to, from, and between cloud service providers, making the cloud a pivotal element in the delivery chain,” says Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “Our expansive Cloud Nodes service measures the speed and availability of digital services from the vantage point of the cloud, supplementing our backbone and broadband monitoring which canvases the broader internet infrastructure. Catchpoint helps IT operations correlate their monitoring goals with business results by focusing on end-user experience and customer journeys. These actionable insights help our customers detect suboptimal experiences from anywhere in real time.”

    “Customers use central clouds to drive innovation with Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform, so monitoring the connectivity between these environments is critical to customer success,” says Tom Daly, Vice President of Infrastructure at Fastly. “Catchpoint’s Cloud Nodes are a great way to monitor, as they allow us to preempt performance challenges from global cloud providers on the same platform where we test performance on global ISP networks and wireless providers.”

    Catchpoint’s Enterprise Nodes offering has been updated to include a new Linux distribution and a consumption-based option. This product is available as either agentless software or as a portable device which can be installed in a datacenter, office, or literally anywhere customers are located. Utilizing Catchpoint’s advanced synthetic monitoring, with over 20 pre-packaged monitor types, Enterprise Nodes are designed to accelerate resolution of problems inside the firewall. A node can also be deployed within a datacenter or a cloud environment to monitor network connectivity and application performance.

    Enterprise Nodes include a new custom monitor feature which allows organizations to deploy their own monitoring code and reuse existing scripts to monitor virtually any type of application or service (VoIP, SNMP, Databases, LDAP, Twitter Sentiment, etc.). Enterprise Nodes include robust security features andcan be installed and fully functional in minutes.

    “Close proximity to end-users is critical for accurate monitoring of their digital experiences. Catchpoint’s monitoring infrastructure is the industry’s broadest in terms of sheer number, geographic expanse, amount of data generated (synthetic and real user), and node types,” says Daoudi. “Our customers have an unsurpassed range of flexibility and options to meet their monitoring needs, including our unique ability to offer insight into cloud or other third-party elements, moving them toward optimal availability and performance.”

    Find more information on Cloud Nodes (here) and Enterprise Nodes (here).

    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.