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  • Next-Generation Technologies Drive Widespread Adoption of Modern IT Service Delivery Solutions

    New industry study explores the State of IT Service Delivery and importance of monitoring for optimized performance

    LogicMonitor, Jul 18, 2018

    Santa Barbara, Calif., July 18, 2018 — Cloud-to-the-edge, digital transformation (DX), artificial intelligence (AI), and the proliferation of the subscription economy will impact the future of IT service delivery according to The State of IT Service Delivery Survey conducted by LogicMonitor. Driving this shift will be next-generation technologies (NGTs) and performance monitoring.

    LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT, sponsored the survey which polled 100 IT service delivery professionals at the ServiceNow Knowledge18 event, and current LogicMonitor customers to explore this topic. “Our customers continue to ask for guidance in planning their IT service delivery strategies,” said Jeff Behl, Chief Product Officer for LogicMonitor. “So we launched this survey to understand the dynamics fueling service delivery, and to provide our customers and prospects with the insights they need to plan for this shift.”

    Next-Generation Technologies Lead the Way

    Survey participants highlighted impactful NGTs that will fuel their ability to provide quality IT service delivery:

    • 60 percent believe cloud-to-the-edge, data processing at the edge of the network, will improve IT efficiency
    • 60 percent also believe the proliferation of the subscription economy will impact their IT service strategy
    • AI will have a major impact as well according to 57 percent of surveyed respondents
    • 56 percent believe DX will have significant implications

    Monitoring is Critical

    Seventy-six percent of respondents cite the delivery of a better customer experience as a key factor driving their IT Service Delivery investment. “Customer experience can be quickly degraded by faulty systems or errors produced by a poor NGT integration, so performance monitoring is crucial,” said Steve Francis, Founder and Chief Evangelist, LogicMonitor. “Organizations need an end-to-end monitoring solution that automatically monitors both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure, as well as services, applications and even IoT devices to truly understand what’s going on, so they can implement and leverage these NGTs.”

    Eighty-four percent of survey respondents listed the monitoring of devices, applications, and services as critical to successful IT service delivery. This makes sense since effective monitoring allows for improved efficiency, better decision-making, and a better customer experience.

    Survey respondents also identified the core types of monitoring most important to IT service delivery: infrastructure performance monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management. Finally, respondents described two core components of a monitoring solution: it should provide context-rich alerts so the response process is straightforward and efficient (82 percent), and automated synchronization between the monitoring platform and the CMDB (77 percent). “The LogicMonitor platform was built to monitor the technologies customers are using today and the NGTs they’ll implement to future-proof IT investment,” said Behl.

    To view the full report, “State of IT Service Delivery” please visit the LogicMonitor website.

    About LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor® is the leading SaaS-based, performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT. With coverage for thousands of technologies, and integrations with key business applications, LogicMonitor provides granular visibility into infrastructure, cloud and application performance across hybrid and cloud infrastructures. LogicMonitor’s automated device discovery, preconfigured alert thresholds and rich, customizable dashboards, come together to give IT teams the speed, flexibility and actionable insights required to succeed in today’s competitive markets.

  • PagerDuty Now Available on AWS Marketplace

    Over 2,600 AWS customers are using PagerDuty to manage cloud services health and respond to incidents in real time

    SAN FRANCISCO – July 16, 2018 – PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, today announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is now available on AWS Marketplace. This enables AWS customers to purchase subscriptions to PagerDuty more easily and quickly. PagerDuty’s real-time platform for action enables DevOps and ITOps teams to manage the health of their cloud services and take action to respond to any incidents, as well as address any opportunities. This allows them to accelerate cloud migration, deliver high-quality user experiences, prevent costly downtime and increase productivity and agility using the DevOps model.

    All PagerDuty subscription purchases on AWS Marketplace are integrated into a customer’s AWS account and bill, and customers can customize pricing for PagerDuty and other terms based on their needs using AWS Private Offers. AWS customers who are enrolled in AWS Enterprise Contracts also can purchase PagerDuty subscriptions using established, pre-approved enterprise licensing terms, simplifying the procurement process.

    “Our customers want easy-to-use SaaS solutions like PagerDuty to prevent downtime and digital disruptions, and now that PagerDuty is listed on AWS Marketplace, they can enable rapid incident response in a seamless, accelerated manner,” said Barry Russell, general manager of AWS Marketplace and service catalog business development, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We are excited that PagerDuty has decided to extend their offering on AWS Marketplace.”

    With PagerDuty’s solution, AWS customers gain full-stack visibility across their applications, services, and hybrid environments to address business-impacting issues in real time. PagerDuty’s enterprise-grade incident management solution enables DevOps and IT Ops teams to automatically mobilize responders and orchestrate the ideal response, based on machine learning and human response data. As enterprises continue to migrate critical workloads to AWS to take advantage of scale and flexibility, PagerDuty also helps cloud migration projects move quickly.

    “Integrating Amazon CloudWatch with PagerDuty really gives us the peace of mind that we will always be able to get the right information to the right someone,” said Steve Hunt, senior director, infrastructure, FanDuel. “With millions of customers watching, issues can hit us hard—combining PagerDuty and Amazon CloudWatch has been invaluable to us in getting our people online to fix any issues as fast as possible. The importance of Amazon CloudWatch and PagerDuty in connecting Support to Engineering during their off hours can’t be overstated.”

    This latest collaboration between PagerDuty and AWS builds on PagerDuty’s existing support for Amazon CloudWatch. AWS customers currently use monitoring information from Amazon CloudWatch with PagerDuty to minimize business disruptions by automatically identifying incidents, enabling responders to respond and resolve quickly and effectively. Many AWS customers also use PagerDuty with third-party monitoring and application performance management tools, using PagerDuty as the central hub for all events and incidents.

    “We are thrilled to expand our collaboration with AWS and make it even easier for AWS customers to start improving their digital operations with PagerDuty,” said Jukka Alanen, senior vice president of business development and corporate strategy at PagerDuty. “Thousands of AWS customers have realized the value of using PagerDuty with AWS to empower their DevOps and ITOps teams to collect all relevant signals in one place and address incidents as they arise, in real time. By helping operations teams take advantage of automation, agility and flexibility, PagerDuty increases productivity, saves time, and enables smooth and confident migration to the cloud.”

    PagerDuty has also earned Advanced Technology Partner status in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and achieved AWS DevOps Competency status in Monitoring, Logging and Performance by demonstrating proven experience, technical proficiency and success in helping enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

    Find out more information about PagerDuty’s collaboration with AWS on AWS Marketplace or at www.pagerduty.com/partners/amazon-aws/.

     

  • DB-Engines’ Latest Industry Results Reveal InfluxData’s Continued Leadership Position in Rapidly Growing Time Series Database Category

    InfluxData Maintains Industry Lead by Increasing Popularity More than 44 Percent – More than 3 Times More than Closest Competitor

     

    SAN FRANCISCO — July 17, 2018 — InfluxData, the modern Open Source Platform built specifically for metrics, events and other time series data that empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics and IoT applications, today announced its continued position as the overwhelming leader among Time Series Database management systems, according to DB-Engines’ latest results published this month.

    According to DB-Engines’ July results, InfluxDB continues its unquestioned lead, outpacing the competition with its popularity increasing more than 44 percent over the past 12 months and more than 160 percent over the past two years. InfluxDB is InfluxData’s Time Series Database used as a data store for any use case involving large amounts of timestamped data – including DevOps monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics. The DB-Engines results included rankings of the leading vendors in the Time Series Database category, with InfluxDB’s user popularity ranking more than three times more than the nearest competitor.

    DB-Engines is an initiative to collect and present information on database management systems (DBMS). DB-Engines also ranked the overall Time Series Database Management System category, which continues to grow in popularity with a 33 percent year-over-year increase, and a more than 100 percent two-year increase. Overall, InfluxDB continues to show strong popularity among all databases ranked, maintaining its ranking of number 36.

    “Today’s IoT and DevOps metric workloads are unique and are best served by a time series database for collection and analysis, instead of a traditional database,” said Mark Herring, InfluxData CMO. “Growth in the time series database segment is proof that users are turning to these databases to collect and store data that shows metrics and events for IoT sensors, DevOps monitoring, and real-time analytics. Purpose-built time series databases are more efficient and work well for today’s workloads – other databases require a lot of overhead to get them to handle this data.”

    Metrics, events, and other time-based data are being generated at an exponential rate, as there is a growing requirement for analyzing today’s complex environments. The InfluxData Platform provides a comprehensive set of tools and services to accumulate metrics and events data, analyze the data, and act on the data via powerful visualizations and notifications. InfluxData’s unique features enable customers to quickly build:

    • Monitoring, alerting and notification applications supporting their DevOps initiatives
    • IoT applications supporting millions of events per second, providing new business value around predictive maintenance and real-time alerting and control
    • Real-time analytics applications that are focused on streaming data and anomaly detection

    InfluxData has rapidly built its developer and customer base across industries – including manufacturing, financial services, energy, and telecommunications – by delivering the fastest growing Open Source Platform that enables customers to derive better business insights, data-driven real-time actions, and a consolidated single view of their entire infrastructure – from applications to microservices, and from systems to sensors. More than 420 customers, including Cisco Systems, Coupa Software, IBM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nordstrom, and Tesla, have selected InfluxData as their modern data platform for metrics and events. InfluxData is pioneering the shift to time series in a modern metrics and events platform, and is making it possible for customers to become data-driven and take on digital transformation initiatives.

    About InfluxData

    InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, delivers a modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for analyzing metrics and events (time series data) for DevOps and IoT applications. Whether the data comes from humans, sensors, or machines, InfluxData empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster, easier, and to scale delivering real business value quickly. Based in San Francisco, InfluxData’s more than 420 customers include Cisco, eBay, IBM and Siemens. Visit https://www.influxdata.com/. Twitter: @influxdb.

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  • Digital Defense, Inc. Announces Integration with ForeScout Technologies

    Provides Organizations with Accurate and Complete Visualization of Network Risks

    SAN ANTONIO, TX – July 17, 2017 – Digital Defense, Inc., an industry recognized provider of security assessment solutions, today announced the integration of their proprietary platform, Frontline Vulnerability Manager (Frontline VM™), with ForeScout Technologies, Inc. CounterACT®. As a member of the ForeScout Technology Partner Program, Digital Defense will work with ForeScout to enable real-time assessment, host analysis and policy-based mitigation of endpoint security risks.

    “We are pleased to partner with Digital Defense and offer our joint customers a leading integrated security solution that reduces risk and helps to keep threats out,” said Amy De Salvatore, VP, global strategic alliances, ForeScout. “Together, we are delivering highly accurate network assessments and intelligent automation of workflow processes and policies.”

    The integration will provide joint customers with:

      • Continuous visibility of connected devices
      • Prompt response to block or quarantine endpoints with critical vulnerabilities
      • Automated remediation actions
      • Ability to provide on-demand scans based on ForeScout CounterACT policies

    “The Frontline VM integration with ForeScout CounterACT streamlines remediation efforts and improves organizational processes and efficiencies by automating the workflow process of identifying hosts, scanning for known vulnerabilities and risk of hosts,” said Rosanna Pellegrino, SVP, sales and business development, Digital Defense. “The assimilation of data through the two platforms bolsters security with real-time visibility of managed and unmanaged devices.”

    Learn more about the advantages of the integration.  For more information, contact sales@digitaldefense.com

    About Digital Defense

    Serving clients across numerous industries, Digital Defense’s innovative and leading edge technology helps organizations safeguard sensitive data and eases the burdens associated with information security. Frontline Vulnerability Manager™, the original Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) platform, delivers consistently accurate vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, while SecurED®, the company’s security awareness training, promotes employees’ security-minded behavior. The Digital Defense Frontline suite of products, underpinned by patented technology and complemented with unparalleled service and support, are highly-regarded by industry experts, as illustrated by the company’s designation as Best Scan Engine by Frost & Sullivan, #10 ranking in Black Book Market Research’s list of Compliance & Risk Management Solutions, five-star review in SC Magazine, and inclusion in CRN’s MSP 500. Contact Digital Defense at 888-273-1412; visit www.digitaldefense.com, our blog, LinkedIn, or follow @Digital_Defense on Twitter.

     

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  • Rookout lets developers remotely debug live Electron apps while they run

    Tel Aviv – July 17, 2018 – Rookout, the rapid production debugging company, announced today its remote live debugging solution for Electron. The baked-in tool lets software engineers get full visibility into the data and code context from a live Electron app on the end-user’s machine, instead of relying on local testing.

    Electron is one of the most popular frameworks for building desktop apps for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Originally created by GitHub, it’s also used by leading vendors such as Slack, Discord and WordPress to make more feature-rich desktop versions of their browser-based webapps. Electron apps are quick to build and typically go through many rapid deployments directly to end-users’ computers.

    Electron, despite being based on web technologies, has to face the challenges of desktop software; every user’s computer is its own unique ‘production environment’, making troubleshooting tricky, especially at a distance. Electron apps often interact with devices on the user’s system like webcams, microphones or more exotic inputs, increasing the possibility of unusual bugs.

    Traditionally, debugging Electron apps means relying on users’ bug reports and exception management tools to report problems, and then trying to recreate the production environment on the developers’ local computers. Often, though, an unusual issue won’t be reproduced, making it very challenging to identify the cause.

    Using Rookout, a software team can get debugger-level visibility from an Electron desktop app running live on an end-user’s computer. With Rookout’s IDE, a developer can remotely set non-breaking ‘breakpoints’ to see the full state of the live app or any variable state at any point in the code’s execution, while the app runs as normal.

    Rookout’s solution means software companies can debug their Electron apps live and remotely. They can be alerted to a problem by an exception manager like Sentry (Rookout can also send alerts to Sentry itself), trace the issue in the live software using Rookout in record time, and then develop and push a fix as usual, with no need to install any extra software to the end-user’s computer or send anyone on-site.

    “End-user software like Electron has to run in literally millions of distinct production environments,” said Or Weis, CEO and co-founder of Rookout. “Combined with a very rapid deployment cycle, it’s challenging to see exactly what’s going on inside a single install or reproduce an exotic bug. Rookout brings instant visibility to Electron, giving developers an unprecedented deep access to the full state of an app on an end-user’s computer, with just a few clicks of a mouse.”

    Aidoc, which makes a healthcare AI solution for analyzing medical images, uses an Electron-based app to deliver their solution to doctors.

    “Aidoc’s app runs on a hospitals’ local network and doesn’t constantly send data back to our servers, so it’s not always easy to trace a bug for a client on a different continent,” said Guy Reiner, VP R&D at Aidoc.

    “Rookout makes it possible to find bugs without spending hours on log-collection and trying to simulate the unique real-world environment of a particular hospital network”.

    “Desktop software was the classic example of something that couldn’t really be debugged in production because every install was different,” said Liran Haimovitch, Rookout CTO, and co-founder. “Being able to remotely debug live Electron apps means developers can find and fix bugs quickly, freeing up R&D resources to work on creating new features instead.”

    About Rookout

    Rookout is the Rapid production debugging solution which collects data on-demand from live code and pipelines it immediately to any destination, such as alerting and monitoring tools.

    With Rookout’s real-time instrumentation technology, a company can tackle bugs and issues without any need for coding, re-deploying or restarting the application. Rookout currently supports Python, JVM, and NodeJS on all cloud environments, including serverless applications.

     

  • Rollout.io Ends the Feature Delivery Guessing Game, Is First to Provide Full Visibility Into Production Feature Deployment

    With Rollout Visibility, Companies Scaling Up Feature Flag Usage Can Now Eliminate a Major Barrier to Growth and Agility

    San Francisco, July 17, 2018 – Rollout.io, an organic feature delivery company, today announced the preview release of Rollout Visibility – a major addition to the popular Rollout.io platform. For the first time, organizations will have real-time access to the status of feature deployment, eliminating guesswork and allowing for smarter business and technical decisions.

    Feature delivery is no longer tied to distinct software versions. Instead, today’s software developers release new features continuously. However, this complexity can create challenges when multiple stakeholders are involved.

    “We’ve heard countless stories from organizational leaders that features they believed were released to a certain user group, in fact, were not. The ability to gradually release features and roll them back if they don’t perform as expected, is critical to true agile deployment,” explained Erez Rusovsky, CEO and co-founder of Rollout.io.

    Rusovsky continued, “Most customers start with one or two feature flags which quickly grows to tens or hundreds. Then, add-in the subset of users a feature is deployed to, and you end up with hundreds of permutations of production deployments. With Rollout Visibility, we’ve taken our already powerful feature delivery platform and added a real-time dashboard so that engineers, developers and product managers never have to wonder if a feature is truly rolled out, or if it is just a phantom feature caught in limbo.”

    Rollout has helped numerous organizations speed up application delivery and reliably push, test, and modify new features without the risk of deploying new code. The platform has helped some of the world’s iconic brands enable delivery of features to specific users at a granular level, while letting them test and measure feature impact to make smarter business and technical decisions; and modify the values of application constants and variables on the fly, remotely, in highly configurable ways.

    Now, Rollout Visibility provides customers with complete visibility, flexibility, and agility to monitor all aspects of feature deployments and ensure its operation meets KPIs.  The result is “organic feature delivery” – features behaving like dynamic organisms that evolve independently and provide the ultimate agility.

    Other powerful features already supported by Rollout.io include:

    • Flag dependency: By allowing a flag value to be dependent on another flag value, customers have advanced and smarter, more targeted feature release
    • Unified solution: By unifying remote configuration and feature management into one platform, customers can control both features and configurations from the same dashboard, with the same capabilities around segmentation and deployment
    • Rollout offers enterprise-grade security and privacy and is SOC 2 Type II certified.

    Rollout supports multiple clients and backend platforms. It adds feature level support across an organization’s entire stack. The company also recently announced its integration with Atlassian’s Jira Software.

    To learn more, please visit Rollout Visibility.

    For information on feature flags, check out Rollout’s eBook The Ultimate Feature Flag Guide or follow Rollout’s blog, or on Twitter @RolloutIO and LinkedIn.

    About Rollout.io

    Rollout.io is an organic feature delivery company that accelerates software development and release and minimizes the risk of deploying new code. It is the only unified platform for feature delivery, experimentation, and application-layer remote configuration. Built for engineers, developers and product managers, to rollout, rollback, test and adapt features at scale, in real time. Rollout gives teams full visibility and control of all application features to deliver the right feature to the right user at the right time. Founded in 2014, Rollout has offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Israel. Learn more at www.rollout.io.

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  • Platform9 Presents Best Practices for Serverless Applications at O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Google Cloud Next ‘18

    Using Fission, the open source Serverless framework on Kubernetes, experts highlight new approaches for composing serverless functions, and how to minimize the risk of Serverless application release with Canary deployments

     

    Sunnyvale, CA – July 11, 2018 – Platform9 (https://platform9.com/), the leader in SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, today announced it will present at two industry events in July: O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) and Google Cloud Next.

     

    1. Soam Vasani and Smruthi Venkatesh Present Serverless, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), and Canary Deployments at OSCON 2018

     

    OSCON is back in Portland, bringing the best of open source innovation across a variety of technologies and projects – from AI, infrastructure, blockchain, edge computing, architecture, emerging languages, and more.

     

    Soam Vasani, software engineer at Platform9 and the creator of the open source Fission.io Serverless framework, will be presenting four different approaches to coordinating and composing serverless functions, and defining the underlying workflows. He will share examples and live demos for each approach and compare them with regard to expressiveness, performance, fault tolerance, and ease of doing upgrades and of monitoring the overall application’s performance.

     

    Smruthi Venkatesh, software engineer at Platform9, will explain how to do Canary deployments with the open source Fission Serverless framework, by routing partial traffic to different versions of functions. She will walk attendees through using service meshes to observe the behavior of these different versions. Attendees will learn how to make changes to functions and monitor the system. Venkatesh will also analyze the benefits of canary deployments to FaaS functions, outline the kinds of functions that this technique works well for, and discuss the limitations of the technique for certain kinds of functions.

     

    1. Platform9 Sponsors Google Cloud Next ’18, Presents Best Practices for Serverless Functions’ Orchestration

     

    Google Cloud Next ’18 is a three-day global exhibition of inspiration, innovation and education where attendees learn from one another on how the cloud can transform how they work and power everyone’s successes. The conference will be held July 24–26, 2018 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

     

    Soam Vasani and Madhura Maskasky, Platform9’s co-founder and VP of Product, will present a joint talk on “Function Composition in a Serverless World.” As serverless applications grow more complex, function composition, or the ability for functions to call each other, becomes important. Vasani and Maskasky will present key patterns for composing Serverless functions together to form large applications, their pros and cons, and discuss best practices for functions orchestration and serverless application design.

     

    Platform9 is also sponsoring Google Cloud Next. Stop by booth #W3319 for a demo of the industry’s only SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, to see how you can deliver a unified cloud experience with any infrastructure, for any application stack.

     

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    About Platform9

    Platform9 (platform9.com) delivers a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud solution. We help large enterprises drive digital transformation by taking advantage of a self-service, simple and unified experience for managing their infrastructure across complex hybrid environments and technologies – on premises, in the private/public cloud, containers, serverless applications, and more. Customers such as Cadence, Autodesk, Splunk, EBSCO, Bitly, LogMeIn and Aruba see upwards of 300 percent improvement in IT efficiency, 33 percent faster time to market, and 50-80 percent improvement in data center utilization and cost reduction. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Canvas Ventures and HPE.

     

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  • Apica Announces Next Generation Scripting Tools

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden-July 11, 2018–Apica, a leading synthetic monitoring and performance testing provider, today announced its latest version of Apica Scripting Tools. New capabilities include two tools for creating scripts that meet the testing demands from modern DevOps and QA teams.

    New trends of DevOps and automation are driving the need for an easy to use and API focused testing tool. Apica’s new suite of tools is a direct result of customer feedback requesting a user-friendly tool that leverages a modern GUI based web application, while delivering scripts in a more developer style by describing what the script should do in YAML.

    Apica Scripting IDE

    The new GUI based scripting tool includes a modern design which allows customers to create scripts by entering requests manually or by recording a session using a web browser. Apica Scripting IDE has complete functionality for extracting and assigning dynamic data and parameter files for much-needed correlation. Advanced scripting with Java plugins is supported for owners of IT and Development. Validated scripts can be uploaded to Apica Synthetic Monitoring and used/ran as monitoring checks.

    Apica Scripting YAML

    Application owners often use YAML to help store and transmit data. With Apica Scripting YAML customers can create scripts without a GUI in a “developer style.” The script is first described in YAML including the data correlation. Next, the described YAML determines what the script should do and then the script is generated. The YAML syntax includes full support for extracting and assigning dynamic data using for example JSONPath, XPath, Regex, etc. The advantage is that created scripts can then be used for both synthetic monitoring and performance tests.

    Press Resources

    Apica website: http://www.apicasystems.com

    Apica on Twitter: http://twitter.com/apicasystems

     

    About Apica

    Apica is the leading provider of Performance Monitoring for the Enterprise Business. Our customers are typically large global companies with a complex IT infrastructure and a need to monitor business-critical applications. We ensure that our customers can deliver high-quality applications, API, IoT and mobile performance while maintaining speed, visibility and control in the delivery process. Our performance monitoring platform includes global synthetic monitoring enhanced with comprehensive scripting and load testing capabilities to quality assure user experience. Apica’s Performance Monitoring Solution is integrated with leading vendors such as AppDynamics, New Relic/ Dynatrace and ServiceNow. Apica’s suite – available as SaaS, on-premise and hybrid solutions – is trusted by 300+ leading brands globally. To learn more about Apica, visit www.apicasystems.com

  • HarperDB Brings Geographical Data Analysis and Storage Optimization to Edge Computing

    New Features Enhance Utilization and Analysis of IoT Initiatives with Zero Increase to Storage Footprint

    Denver, CO July 10, 2018 – HarperDB, an enterprise class database company, today announced new features to HarperDB that allow real-time geo-analysis, storage optimization for edge devices and the ability to run massive data analysis. As a result, companies tackling complex IoT projects can achieve a truly intelligent edge without incurring further storage or hardware costs.

    “In IoT projects, many devices on the edge have limited storage hardware and the data is only valuable for a short period of time. With the ability to replicate and store data in the cloud, users can optimize their on-device storage for the most impactful analytics,” said Zach Fowler, Chief Product Officer of HarperDB. “It’s important that we constantly evolve the HarperDB solution to meet industry demands. With enhanced geo-analysis and the ability to concurrently run large data sets in the background, our customers have a competitive advantage they can exploit for success.”

    New features include:

    Geographical Data Analysis: HarperDB’s dynamic schema allows for geo analysis and reaction to constantly evolving IoT data in real-time, directly from the edge. As more IoT sensors are deployed, the complexity around data analysis will increase dramatically. With this new feature, companies can now gain deep analysis by intelligently parsing geo data in an HTAP database and eliminate the need for multiple database products, which will reduce complexity.

    Utilizing the industry standard of GEOJSON users can out-of-the-box integrate with MapBox, Google Maps, and many other GIS applications. Traditionally, geo data would be analyzed in a GIS or spatial database. With HarperDB, companies can now combine workloads for applications, data warehousing, and spatial analysis into a single product.

    “It is especially critical in IoT for companies to be able to immediately identify where systems need attention in real-time as their data is transacting or to understand where it trends overtime. With HarperDB’s geo-analysis functions, users have the ability to visualize and understand their data as it occurs in the real world by gaining insights into specific locations, regions or their entire topology,” said Kyle Bernhardy, Chief Technology Officer of HarperDB.

    Time to Live: This new feature gives companies the ability to run the full power of HarperDB on IoT devices. Developers can now make better decisions about what data needs to be stored on the edge without incurring further storage or hardware costs. With Time to Live auto expire data, users can store the most important information on the edge while retaining full access to all historical data in the cloud.

    Jobs: Data scientists and developers migrating to HarperDB can perform large operations and expand the capability to ingest data from flat files, backup and recovery. Additionally, with the Jobs feature, users can now run massive and timely data sets to ensure transparency and continuity of operations.

    “We’re seeing a rapid increase in the deployment of IoT devices in nearly every industry from oil and gas, logistics, military defense, telecommunications, agriculture and more. As these organizations continue to expand their IoT and edge computing strategies, they need a database built to handle the amount of data they’re producing,” said Kyle Bernhardy, Chief Technology Officer of HarperDB. “The addition of these features allow data scientists and developers, in any field, to migrate existing data into the HarperDB platform while capturing and analyzing large data sets on smaller hardware footprints.”

    Availability

    The new features are available now on HarperDB’s community and enterprise editions. The community edition is available for free download here for prototyping and building smaller scale projects. For those looking to tackle larger scale projects, HarperDB offers an enterprise edition which includes clustering and analytics drivers. Contact HarperDB at sales@harperdb.io for the enterprise edition.

    About HarperDB

    HarperDB was founded to deliver a simple solution that could be used by any developer of any skill level without sacrificing scale or performance. The HarperDB database solution is being used for IoT project development, app development and enterprise data warehouses. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Denver, HarperDB’s founding team has spent many years working in enterprise architecture, software integration, software development, and software sales.

     

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  • Priority Software included in 2018 Market Guide for Service-Centric Cloud ERP Solutions

     

    Rockaway, NJ – July 3, 2018 – Priority Software Ltd., a leading provider of ERP solutions, today announced that it has been included as a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Service-Centric Cloud ERP Solutions. This is the second time this year that Priority has been included in a Gartner publication. Earlier this year, Priority was included as a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s March 2018 Market Guide for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Companies for the second year in a row.

    Priority ERP thrives on innovation, delivering the tools and functionality to meet organizations’ constantly changing needs. Fueled by flexibility, system openness and mobility tools, Priority believes that ERP systems should and can be easier to use, easier to implement and easier to maintain and enhance. Priority offers the necessary tools to achieve this flexibility, including Business Process Management (BPM), mobile application generator, user-level personalization, business rules generator, REST APIs, and more.

    The Market Guide includes 16 Cloud ERP providers with objective information on each vendor’s offering, with a focus on vendors who all actively sell and market service-centric cloud ERP solutions to midsize and large organizations. Key findings in this important industry publication include that service-centric cloud ERP solutions have matured and are increasingly being adopted by midsize and large organizations. According to the Market Guide, “By 2021, at least 40% of new service-centric ERP deployments in large enterprises will be cloud SaaS. By 2025, at least 50% of large enterprises in service-centric industries will successfully implement an “all in” cloud SaaS strategy.”

    Today, close to 9,000 companies across a wide range of industries have come to rely on Priority ERP to manage and grow their business, 2,000 of which successfully use Priority’s cloud-based ERP solutions. In addition to the core elements of traditional ERP, including finance, manufacturing, logistics, human resources, business intelligence, project management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Priority ERP also offers enablers to integrate and customize the system using built-in BPM tools, REST APIs, and a Mobile Application Generator.

    “We are pleased to once again be included as a Representative Vendor in this publication,” said Andres Richter, CEO at Priority Software. “This is another important milestone for Priority, as we continue to further expand in the global ERP market. We understand our customers’ needs and are therefore committed to delivering more innovations to our flexible and open systems, to support our customers and enable them to grow their business.”

    Gartner, “Market Guide for Service-Centric Cloud ERP Solutions,” Paul M. Schenck, Robert P. Anderson, Denis Torii. Published: 21 June 2018.

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    About Priority Software

    Pioneers in the global ERP solutions market, Priority Software empowers companies and organizations of all sizes, by providing the most comprehensive, flexible and affordable ERP solutions on the market today. With the mission of making ERP easier, Priority offers a more accessible alternative to complex, costly solutions to increase profitability and efficiency. Today, over 9,000 companies across a wide range of industries in 40 countries have come to rely on Priority to manage and grow their business. Priority is offered both as on premise and cloud solutions, both of which deliver 100% system functionality, enabling users to access their data in real-time from mobile devices and tablets. To date, 2,000 customers successfully use Priority in the cloud. Backed by cutting-edge technologies and a skilled and talented team of professionals, Priority is supported by offices in the US, UK and Israel and a network of business partners around the globe.

    As of January 2018, Priority has extended its ERP software services to small business owners, with the acquisition of US-based software developer, Acclivity, provider of the popular AccountEdge business accounting solutions for SMEs. Over 75,000 customers worldwide now deploy the two companies’ collective offering. For more information, visit the website at: www.priority-software.com.

    For more information, contact:

    Wes Rogers

    Spicetree Communications

    t: +1 404 969 6849

    e: wes.rogers@spicetreecom.com

     

    Rose Wolfe

    Priority Software

    1. +972.3.925.1000
    2. rosew@priority-software.com