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  • StackPath Launches Next Generation of Platform and Services Announces New Network, Customer Portal, Services and More to Push the Cloud’s Edge Further

    DALLAS—July 2, 2018—To transform internet security and the cloud’s edge, StackPath, the world’s only secure edge platform, today unveiled multiple launches, updates, and upgrades. This includes:
    a new network of highly-scalable, advanced edge Points of Presence (PoPs)

    new secure edge services
    a new customer portal with self-service signup and simplified service setup and management
    a new platform model and pricing
    new branding and corporate web site

    “Our founding mission is to make the Internet safe. The cloud’s edge is the strategic location for doing just that, but it’s been overlooked and under-developed. It has to evolve,” said Lance Crosby, StackPath co-founder and CEO. “That’s why I’m proud to unveil StackPath 2.0. It’s more than just the next generation of our platform and services. It brings, for the first time, cloud-scale and design all the way to the edge, transforming this critical dimension of the internet.”

    Since its founding in late 2015, StackPath has acquired six companies with key security and edge-centric technologies. StackPath 2.0 marks the integration and advancement of these technologies into a unified, frictionless platform that delivers multiple, inherently-secured edge services, including edge delivery (for CDN, API acceleration, file distribution, media streaming, and more), a web application firewall, managed DNS, website monitoring, and DDoS mitigation. The design and implementation of the new platform also paves the way for StackPath to enable customers to use its services and technologies to build their own innovative edge services and solutions.

    “StackPath is building for the future in a sector that is undergoing significant change,” said Philbert Shih, research analyst and managing director at Structure Research. “There are many CDNs and traditional infrastructure service providers that were built in a way and at a time when things like scalability and extensibility were less of a factor. Today, it is crucial to build a platform in a way that is easy to upgrade, scalable and allows new products to be built on top. The openness and flexibility to partner with third parties is a big part of the overall value proposition as well. This is the direction StackPath is moving in as it looks to build a unified secure cloud infrastructure services delivery platform”.

    New Network
    The new StackPath network was built from the ground up using cloud design principles that until now have not been used by edge service providers. These include extensive automation, virtualization capabilities, and industry-leading computing, storage, and networking configurations. Moreover, each StackPath network point of presence features multiple connections with tier-1 network carriers , premium peering, and a full infrastructure deployment—as opposed to other providers’ PoPs that might be just a single collocated server. The result is a global platform that is more secure, performant, scalable, and reliable, capable of delivering every secure edge service from every location and providing rapid deployment of future services.

    Key details include:
    •         40 Tbps of global bandwidth on a single platform, with additional planned by end of year
    •         45 advanced secure edge PoPs in prime locations, with aggressive expansion scheduled
    •         full hardware acceleration capabilities deployed in every node

    “We’ve focused on scaling the technologies that came from each acquisition and deploying them in a virtualized, flexible manner. When you look at other edge platforms, they’re a Frankenstein of old, single-service architectures,” said Wen Temitim, StackPath CTO. “We insisted on creating an architecture that supports all of our services and technologies in a single platform that is extensible for all of the services we have in the works. It’s the only way to deliver a better experience for our more than one million customers already on the platform, and establish the scalability needed to meet the threats of tomorrow.”

    New Secure Edge Services
    Available today, StackPath has released new and expanded versions of the company’s secure edge services, as well as new services the company has not previously offered. These include:

    • New Content Delivery Network (CDN)
      The new StackPath CDN consolidates the powerful features and performance of Highwinds’ enterprise-grade CDN; the speed, flexibility, and self-service features of MaxCDN and StackPath SecureCDN; and the built-in security features of SecureCDN such as platform-level DDoS protection and integrated WAF. While integrating the services, the delivery technology was further engineered to make it even more adaptable for developers’ wide and growing range of delivery needs beyond CDN, including API delivery, file/firmware distribution, and video delivery.
    • New Web Application Firewall (WAF)
      The industry-leading StackPath WAF has been updated with even more advanced functionality, including a custom rules engine that allows WAF administrators to create and manage their own traffic management rules. In addition, for the first time, customers can use StackPath WAF with infrastructure and applications running outside of the company’s platform, providing StackPath protection for third -party services.
    • Managed DNS
      StackPath now provides global, managed DNS for secure, fast, and reliable domain name resolution from the edge. Engineered in-house, StackPath DNS leverages the same global, geographically-distributed Anycast network as other StackPath services, running within the company’s new advanced infrastructure network. As with all StackPath services, the DNS service is easy to set up and configure, and inherently secure.
    • Monitoring
      StackPath introduces a new monitoring service built on industry-leading technologies created by Server Density (Server Density joined StackPath in June of this year). At launch, the new service provides exceptional website monitoring to help customers maintain the best performance and end-user experiences, with the ability to choose one or many monitoring locations to finetune create customized monitoring maps. The service will grow to monitor additional endpoint types and include even more features as Server Density technologies are completely integrated into the StackPath platform in the coming weeks.

    New Customer Portal
    StackPath has launched an all new customer portal that supports the cloud scale and speed of the new infrastructure network and makes it easier than ever for customers to manage StackPath accounts and services. It features intuitive, streamlined workflows that make setup and management simple, and for services to be configured and running immediately. Perhaps most important, the new portal is built on a modular application framework and fully leverages StackPath platform and service API, abstracting the web app from the services it manages. This architecture will significantly accelerate the time to market of future StackPath services and features.

     

    “It doesn’t matter whether you are talking about services in the middle of the cloud or at the edge—developers demand control and they expect it to be fast and well-documented,” said Ben Gabler, StackPath VP of Product Engineering “That’s why we built everything in our platform API first. We have built the customer portal around the same customer-facing API to surface all that functionality in the simplest, easiest-to-use user interface imaginable.”

    New Platform Model and Pricing
    A key dimension of the new StackPath platform and customer portal is “stacks,” a new way to deploy and manage StackPath services. A stack is a collection of one or more StackPath services, configured specifically for that stack’s use case, such as content delivery, API distribution, or even standalone WAF.

    Simple workflows walk customers through creating and deploying their stacks. Services can be added to or removed from a stack at any time, or further customized, as needs change. Customers are able to build their own stack from the ground up, selecting and configuring their individual services. Or they can use a stack template, preconfigured to deploy multiple services, based on common use cases and best-practices security and performance configurations.

     

    StackPath CDN, WAF, Managed DNS, and Monitoring are individually priced at $10/month, each with a generous level of included monthly consumption. At launch, three stack templates preconfigured for Edge Delivery are available, each including CDN, DNS, WAF, and Monitoring with bundled pricing starting at only $20/month. More stack templates will be introduced in the coming weeks.

     

    All packages are available month-to-month and with cost-effective rates for additional consumption, with the first month of a single-service package or the $20/month Edge Delivery package free for new accounts. Customers that need StackPath services at significantly higher volumes than included in any of these packages are encouraged to contact StackPath sales for a custom quote.

    MaxCDN, Highwinds, and StackPath SecureCDN Transitions
    The StackPath platform now meets and exceeds the performance and capabilities of the legacy MaxCDN, Highwinds, and StackPath SecureCDN platforms and services. Starting today, new StackPath accounts will only be onboarded to the new platform. Existing MaxCDN, Highwinds, and SecureCDN customers’ services, pricing, and customer portals are unchanged; existing customers may continue using and accessing their services as before. Existing Highwinds accounts may add and access the new platform capabilities with their existing accounts (new services and functionality are available through the new customer portal). At a later date a seamless migration path will be provided for legacy MaxCDN and SecureCDN accounts, but customers are welcome and invited to try the new platform at any time.

     

    “Today is the biggest single milestone for any company I’ve ever been a part of. It’s the result of countless hours of strategy, development, and execution from every StackPath department and team,” said Crosby. “I’m not exaggerating when I say that this is not just a milestone for our company. We won’t stop short of transforming the industry’s definition of the edge.”

    To learn more about all of today’s announcements and see details on the new products and pricing, visit www.stackpath.com.

    StackPath®
    Protect your edge.™

    StackPath is a platform of secure edge services that enables developers to protect, accelerate, and innovate cloud properties ranging from websites to media delivery and IoT services With an innovative global edge network infrastructure, StackPath delivers enterprise-grade security and performance in a frictionless, on-demand platform with cloud-scale control and flexibility. More than one million customers, including early-stage and Fortune 100 companies, use StackPath services. StackPath is headquartered in Dallas and has offices across the U.S. and around the world. For more information, visit stackpathcom and follow StackPath at www.fb.com/stackpathllc and www.twitter.com/stackpath

    For more information, media and analysts may contact:
    Susie McDonald
    StackPath
    VP, Corporate Communications
    susan.mcdonald@stackpath.com
    503-806-3841

    Bill Lessard
    PRwithBrains for StackPath
    wlessard@prwithbrains.com
    914-476-6089

  • NS1 Accelerates Enterprise Digital Transformation and IT Automation With New Private DNS

    Delivers the same scale, performance and automation advantages required by the largest internet companies to enterprises embracing modern application infrastructure

    June 28, 2018 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NS1, the leader in next generation DNS solutions, today unveiled Private DNS, a new enterprise solution that unlocks the infrastructure performance, automation and scale advantages already used by the largest Internet companies. Private DNS is self-hosted and ideal for organizations that are modernizing their application infrastructure and embracing everything from clouds to containers.

    NS1 unveils Private DNS, a self-hosted DNS platform that is ideal for organizations that are modernizing #application infrastructure.

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    Organizations are undergoing widespread digital transformation, infrastructure automation and application modernization. New, highly distributed and dynamic applications are created by agile DevOps teams and delivered through a diverse mix of on-premise, public and private clouds, content delivery networks (CDN) and microservices platforms. At the same time, years of technical debt — including that created by homegrown or traditional appliance-based DNS solutions — hold back enterprise modernization initiatives by hindering automation, performance and scaling.

    NS1’s next generation Private DNS is the only DNS infrastructure solution designed from the ground up for modern application delivery. It can help eliminate decades of technical debt and dramatically reduce manual processes and inefficiencies that increase costs and slow application and network changes. Private DNS delivers fine-grained and automated traffic routing for the best application experiences; an API-first approach for rapid global change propagation and high-velocity application and infrastructure automation; vendor-agnostic DNS load balancing; and service discovery at cloud scale — all critical for successful modern enterprise application delivery.

    “DNS plays a vital role in modernizing the application delivery stack, yet there has been a glaring lack of DNS solutions designed to work in increasingly automated enterprise infrastructure and complex hybrid environments,” said Kris Beevers, co-founder and CEO of NS1. “NS1’s Managed DNS platform is already used by the largest, most trafficked internet and cloud companies in the world. Private DNS delivers those same next generation DNS advantages in a self-hosted solution to accelerate transformation of the legacy stacks of enterprises.”

    Unique Benefits of NS1’s Next Generation Private DNS in the Enterprise

    • Control and Automatically Optimize Traffic Performance– Enterprise networks are becoming more complex and widely distributed, requiring advanced traffic management capabilities to ensure availability and performance. NS1’s data-driven platform tracks the availability and status of all the application points of presence across the enterprise then quickly and automatically reacts to changes. The unique Filter Chain provides an easy and flexible way to optimize routing decisions, resulting in more reliable and responsive applications.
    • Dynamic Infrastructure and Autoscaling – A primary advantage of cloud infrastructure, both private and public, is its ability to auto-scale in response to demand. This empowers modern enterprises to quickly spin up new services and capacity to dramatically improve user experiences. Such dynamic change requires a DNS platform that supports high API call rates and fast change propagation, neither of which can be facilitated by traditional DNS systems. NS1’s Private DNS delivers a 10X improvement in API capacity and reduces propagation times from days or hours to just seconds.
    • Service Discovery at Cloud Scale – As organizations deploy applications into dynamic, cloud-based environments, they need an effective service discoverymechanism to connect new application instances to other applications and users. NS1’s Private DNS ensures that your DNS moves at high velocity to manage discovery of services atop this globally available, canonical service discovery protocol, supporting the scale and performance requirements of modern infrastructure while seamlessly integrating with existing applications.
    • DevOps Ready– An “API first” architecture allows DevOps teams to programmatically integrate DNS changes into their CI/CD deployment processes and tool stack, including Terraform and Ansible. This eliminates the need to send change request tickets to DNS administrators, and is just one of the many benefits unlocked by automation.
    • Cloud Native and Built for Microservices– Traditional platforms are not designed to meet the autoscaling and performance needs of dynamic infrastructure. Private DNS has a modular architecture comprising components that are packaged for deployment into Docker containers. This deployment model reduces resource consumption, enables easy, high-velocity change management, and unlocks more flexible scaling.
    • DNS Global Server Load Balancing– Private DNS enables enterprises to intelligently manage workloads across distributed data centers and virtual private clouds. Its open data feeds enable Private DNS to track availability and workloads at every facility and intelligently shift traffic to ensure the best application performance and capacity utilization. This open, vendor-agnostic approach delivers global server load balancing (GSLB) across multi-vendor, heterogenous data center and cloud infrastructures.
    • Modernization Without Downtime – Capable of supporting both modern and legacy systems, NS1’s Private DNS provides traffic management controls that enable easy and stable migration to new infrastructure. By moving fractions of traffic at a time to new cloud or hybrid infrastructure, Private DNS reduces the risk of service interruption and compromised performance.
    • Single DNS Platform and Integration for Simplified Management– Private DNS is built for modern infrastructure but at the same time fully supports legacy environments. Enterprises can choose to standardize and train their teams to use the management GUI or the API, or to interface with the NS1 platform via the tools they already use to manage their server, storage and networking.

    Learn How Enterprises Accelerate Modern Application Initiatives

    “NS1’s Private DNS is a welcome addition to the enterprise DNS landscape. Organizations need to stop chipping away on isolated instances of technical debt, and upgrade infrastructure elements that can unlock and accelerate sweeping digital change to remain competitive in today’s digital economy,” said Brandon Butler, senior research analyst, Network Infrastructure, IDC. “DNS is a critical foundational element to not just the internet, but any connected enterprise application or service. Modernizing DNS to deliver an API-first platform for automation and innovation, and advanced traffic management capabilities to boost performance and reliability, can deliver a broad reduction in technical debt and pave the way for large leaps in enterprise digital transformation.”

    To download the IDC report, register online.

    NS1 offers exceptional customer support, including a suite of professional services to assist customers with design, migration and deployment. For more information about NS1 Private DNS, visit https://ns1.com/products/private-dns.

    About NS1

    NS1 is the leader in next generation DNS solutions that orchestrate the delivery of the world’s most critical internet and enterprise applications. Only NS1’s purpose-built platform, which is built on a modern API-first architecture, transforms DNS into an intelligent, efficient and automated system, driving dramatic gains in reliability, resiliency, security and performance of application delivery infrastructure. Many of the highest-trafficked sites and largest global enterprises trust NS1, including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Nielsen, Squarespace, Pandora and The Guardian. Visit www.ns1.com to learn more.

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    Look Left Marketing, LLC

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    knichols@lookleftforgrowth.com

     

  • Compuware Topaz Removes Go-To-Market Friction by Giving DevOps Fast, Efficient and Secure Access to Enterprise Data

    Advanced Data Visualization, Masking and Conversion Ensure Agile, Compliant Delivery of Apps and Analytics

    • Enterprises often find themselves unable to tap the full potential business value of their diverse data because DevOps teams can’t get all the data they need, when they need it, in the format they require.
    • Compuware Topaz for Enterprise Data takes labor, complexity and risk out of the data-to-value pipeline with powerful extraction, masking and visualization for the mainframe and other platforms.
    • With Topaz for Enterprise Data, enterprises can empower DevOps staff across skill/experience levels to more quickly, efficiently and securely leverage all available data sources to deliver high-value apps and analytics.

    DETROIT, June 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Compuware today released the new Topaz for Enterprise Data, which provides a powerful combination of data visualization, extract and load, and advanced data masking capabilities. With it, DevOps teams can more quickly, efficiently and securely access and leverage data from the mainframe and other platforms.

    Fast, streamlined access to high-value data has become an urgent concern as businesses seek competitive advantages in a digital economy, while fulfilling increasingly stringent compliance requirements. Topaz for Enterprise Data empowers developers, QA staff, operations teams and data scientists at all skill and experience levels to ensure they have immediate, secure access to the data they need, when they need it, in any format required.

    Data masking is a top concern, given the importance of protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and complying with regulatory mandates such as GDPR—even during development and testing, especially when outsourcing these functions.

    Topaz for Enterprise Data’s capabilities are particularly important for enterprises with large, diverse datasets of high business value residing on the mainframe that contain sensitive business or personal information. As senior mainframe professionals retire, large enterprises must transfer responsibility for stewardship of this data to a new generation of DevOps artisans with less hands-on mainframe experience.

    Topaz for Enterprise Data empowers these artisans to:

    • Readily understand relationships between data even when they lack direct familiarity with specific data types or applications, to ensure data integrity and resulting code quality.
    • Quickly generate data for testing, training or business analytics purposes that properly and accurately represents actual production data.
    • Ensure that any sensitive business or personal data extracted from production is properly masked for privacy and compliance purposes, while preserving essential data relationships and characteristics.
    • Convert file type as required.

    Topaz users can access all these capabilities from within a familiar Eclipse development environment.

    “Testing with production-like obfuscated data helps us develop and deliver better quality applications, as well as remain compliant with data privacy requirements,” said Lynn Farley, Manager of Data Management at TCF Bank. “Topaz provides our developers with a way to implement data privacy rules to obfuscate multiple data types across platforms and with consistent results.”

    “Leveraging a modern interface for fast, simple access to data for testing and other purposes is critical to digital agility,” said Rich Ptak of IT analyst firm Ptak Associates. “The latest version of Compuware Topaz for Enterprise Data delivers a benefits trifecta to resolve the long-standing challenge of rapidly getting value from the reams of data from disparate sources and formats that are critical to DevOps and continuous improvement.”

    Today’s announcement marks the 15th consecutive quarter that Compuware has delivered essential innovation to help large enterprises master Agile and DevOps tasks on a mainstreamed mainframe, so they can best leverage the platform’s unmatched performance, scalability, reliability, efficiency and security.

    “The wealth of data that should give large enterprises a major competitive advantage in the digital economy often instead becomes a hindrance due to the complexity of sourcing across platforms, databases and formats,” said Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. “With Topaz for Enterprise Data, Compuware is removing these hindrances—so there’s far less friction between enterprise data and business wins.”

    Compuware Corporation
    Compuware empowers the world’s largest companies to excel in the digital economy by fully leveraging their high-value mainframe investments. We do this by delivering highly innovative solutions that uniquely enable IT professionals with mainstream skills to manage mainframe applications, data, and platform operations. Learn more at compuware.com.

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  • Global Survey: Companies Turning to Multi-Platform Strategy to Digitally Transform Their Businesses

    Nearly forty percent of respondents are using PaaS, containers and serverless technologies together for flexibility and interoperability

    SAN FRANCISCO — June 27, 2018— Companies are using different cloud-native technologies side-by-side at an increasing pace to build both new cloud-native applications and to refactor traditional applications, according to the latest report released today by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the most widely-adopted open source cloud technologies in the world.

    “As IT Decision Makers settle into their cloud journey, they are more broadly deploying a combination of available platforms, including PaaS, containers and serverless,” said Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation. “In this multi-platform world, it should come as no surprise that, as they become more comfortable with these tools, IT decision makers are searching for a suite of technologies to work together. They want technologies that integrate with their current solutions in order to address their needs today—but are flexible enough to address their needs in the future.”

    Key Findings include:

    • A Multi-Platform World:Technologies are being used side by side more than ever before. IT decision makers report 77 percent are using or evaluating Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS), 72 percent are using or evaluating containers and 46 percent are using or evaluating serverless computing. More than a third (39 percent) are using a combination of all three technologies together.
    • A Mix of New Cloud-Native and Refactoring Legacy Applications:57 percent of IT decision makers report their companies do a mix of building new cloud-native applications and refactoring existing applications, an increase of nine percentage points from late 2017.
    • Containers Have Crossed the Chasm: For companies choosing to develop new or refactor existing applications, they are choosing containers.
    • Serverless is on the Upswing: Serverless computing is being evaluated with rapid momentum. Only 43 percent of respondents are not using serverless and 10 percent more companies are evaluating serverless than in 2017.
    • PaaS Usage Continues to Swell: PaaS is being more broadly deployed than ever before and companies are developing new cloud-native applications at increased momentum. It stands to reason that these two upsurges happen in tandem. This growth in usage is bolstered by the 62 percent of IT decision makers who report their companies save over $100,000 by using a PaaS.
    • Flexibility and Interoperability are Key: IT decision makers ranked “Integration with existing tools” and “Flexibility to work with new tools” in the top five attributes in a platform, alongside Security, Support, and Price.

     

    Less than six months ago, the Foundation’s 2017 report “Innovation & Relevance: A Crossroads on the Cloud Journey” indicated IT decision makers were advancing in their cloud journeys. In 2016, IT Decision Makers reported a lack of clarity around IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) technologies, and most were still in the evaluation stages. By late 2017, they had progressed to selection and broader deployment of cloud solutions. Twenty percent report of IT decision makers report primarily building new cloud-native applications, up five percentage points from last year, while 13 percent say they are primarily refactoring, a drop of 11 points. As an increasing number of companies are developing new cloud-native applications, PaaS is being broadly deployed by more companies than ever. It stands to reason that these two upsurges happen in tandem.

    Cloud Foundry Application Runtime is a mature and growing cloud application platform used by large enterprises to develop and deploy cloud-native applications, saving them significant amounts of time and resources. Enterprises benefit from the consistency of Cloud Foundry Application Runtime across a variety of distributions of the platform, thanks to a Certified Provider program. Cloud Foundry Container Runtime combines Kubernetes with the power of Cloud Foundry BOSH, enabling a uniform way to instantiate, deploy and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters on any cloud, making deployment, management and integration of containers easy.

    To receive a copy of the survey, go here. The survey was conducted and produced by ClearPath Strategies, a strategic consulting and research firm for the world’s leaders and progressive forces.

    Cloud Foundry is an open source technology backed by the largest technology companies in the world, including Dell EMC, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Pivotal, SAP and SUSE, and is being used by leaders in manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. Only Cloud Foundry delivers the velocity needed to continuously deliver apps at the speed of business. Cloud Foundry’s container-based architecture runs apps in any language on your choice of cloud — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, VMware vSphere, and more. With a robust services ecosystem and simple integration with existing technologies, Cloud Foundry is the modern standard for mission critical apps for global organizations.

    About Cloud Foundry Foundation

    The Cloud Foundry Foundation is an independent non-profit open source organization formed to sustain the development, promotion and adoption of Cloud Foundry as the industry standard for delivering the best developer experiences to companies of all sizes. The Foundation projects include Cloud Foundry Application Runtime, Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, BOSH, Open Service Broker API, Abacus, CF-Local, CredHub, ServiceFabrik, Stratos and more. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications, and is used by more than half the Fortune 500, representing nearly $15 trillion in combined revenue. Cloud Foundry is hosted by The Linux Foundation and is an Apache 2.0 licensed project available on Github:https://github.com/cloudfoundry. To learn more, visit:http://www.cloudfoundry.org.

     

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  • CollabNet VersionOne Combines Agile Lifecycle Management and DevOps Continuous Delivery to Enable Enterprise Value Stream Management

    Combined solution gives organizations implementing Agile-plus-DevOps a better understanding of the value delivered through visibility and traceability across the product delivery pipeline

    LONDON – DevOps Enterprise Summit #DOES18 – June 25, 2018 – CollabNet VersionOne, a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, ALM, and Agile-plus-DevOps, today announced its Enterprise Value Stream Management (EVSM) solution at the DevOps Enterprise Summit: London 2018. CollabNet EVSM combines its Agile and DevOps Continuous Delivery platforms (VersionOne and Continuum) to help visualize, measure and optimize delivery pipelines and value streams across the entire application lifecycle, giving customers the ability to make their Agile-plus-DevOps environments into realized digital business drivers.

    “Business leaders need complete visibility to spot bottlenecks or waste in the product development lifecycle or delivery pipeline to optimize workflows, priorities, teams and processes to better meet business objectives,” said Flint Brenton, CEO at CollabNet VersionOne. “DevOps continues to evolve from a movement based on empathy and teamwork, to business value throughput and ensuring customer satisfaction and faster time-to-market. CollabNet VersionOne is committed to deliver complete visibility, collaboration, responsiveness and quality — from source code integrity all the way to delivery and customer satisfaction— as the core of our company.”

    CollabNet has played an active role in defining the new Value Stream Management category that centers on a business value-centric approach to the product development and delivery lifecycle. Its product portfolio addresses the three pillars of Value Stream Management – value creation, capture and delivery – by providing greater transparency, context and measurement abilities for the high-performing, digital enterprise. CollabNet VersionOne offers Enterprise Value Stream Management solutions through the combination of its leading Agile ALM, DevOps Continuous Delivery and Enterprise Version Control platforms that came together when CollabNet acquired VersionOne last year. No other company offers a more complete or flexible approach to connect the disparate tools, activities and teams that comprise today’s large enterprise software and IT organization.

    CollabNet VersionOne will be demonstrating all of its Value Stream Management offerings at DevOps Enterprise Summit: London 2018, running June 25-26. Attendees can visit the company at booth G17.

    To learn more about how CollabNet EVSM can help support enterprise DevOps transformations please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/vs.

    The fourth annual DevOps Enterprise Summit London is Europe’s premier gathering of DevOps practitioners, leaders, authors and thinkers. The conference includes executives, directors and managers from more than 500 organizations. The event programming emphasizes both evolving technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations. The goal is to give leaders the tools and practices they need to develop and deploy software faster and to win in the marketplace. To learn more please visit https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/about/ or search for #DOES18 on Twitter.

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    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enables them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of value throughout their application development and delivery lifecycles.

    www.collab.net

    CollabNet VersionOne is a Vector Capital Company.

  • Applitools Wins 2018 Red Herring Top 100 Award

    Company recognized as a top startup for its AI powered visual UI testing and monitoring approach to Application Visual Management

    SAN MATEO, Calif., June 26, 2018 — Applitools (https://applitools.com/), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced it won the 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America award The Red Herring Top 100 identified Applitools as one of this year’s most promising private ventures from the North American business region out of a group of approximately 1,200 privately financed companies.

    “We are honored to receive the Red Herring Top 100,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the Applitools team as we continue to grow our R&D and our sales teams to rapidly drive the market expansion of Visual AI and its utility for automated visual UI testing and monitoring.”

    Applitools developed the first and only Visual AI Engine that mimics the human eye and brain in a reliable and scalable fashion, and continues to evolve through machine learning by analyzing millions of new images on a daily basis. Applitools Eyes, the company’s Automated Visual UI Testing and Monitoring Platform, achieves 99.999 percent accuracy and leverages the largest data set of UI validations in the world – a total of 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations.

    With tens of thousands of users from more than 300 customers around the globe, Applitools helps Test Automation Engineers, Developers, Manual QA experts, DevOps Teams, and Digital Transformation executives holistically support all visual aspects of software applications. With increasing demand of digital products and experiences, companies must leverage Application Visual Management (AVM) as a strategic advantage to shorten application delivery cycles while improving software quality.

    About Red Herring Top 100 North America

    Red Herring’s editors have been evaluating the world’s startups and tech companies for over two decades. It gives them the ability to see through the industry’s hype, to pick firms that will continue on a trajectory to success. Brands such as Alibaba, Google, Kakao, Skype, Spotify, Twitter and YouTube have all been singled out in Red Herring’s storied history.

    “2018’s crop of Top 100 winners has been among our most intriguing yet,” said Red Herring chairman Alex Vieux. “North America has led the way in tech for so many years, and to see such unique, pioneering entrepreneurs and companies here in California, which is in many ways the heartland of the industry, has been a thrilling experience.”

    “What has excited me most is to see so many people forging niches in high-tech and cutting edge sectors,” added Vieux. “Some of the technical wizardry and first-rate business models on show here at the conference has been fantastic to learn about. We believe Applitools embodies the drive, skill and passion on which tech thrives. Applitools should be proud of its achievement: the competition was incredibly strong.”

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    About Applitools

    Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

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  • Electric Cloud Takes Analytics into the Future with ‘DevOps Foresight’

    ‘ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight’ uses deep learning to identify patterns in release pipelines, gauge the likelihood of software release success, and will offer recommendations based on improving pipelines

    SAN JOSE, CA, June 25, 2018 — Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, announced a new predictive analytics solution, ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight (http://electric-cloud.com/solutions/devops-foresight/). DevOps Foresight applies machine learning algorithms to the massive amounts of data generated by tool chains to develop a risk score metric that predicts the outcomes of releases before they head into production. Taking predictive analytics even further, it will also illustrate where to improve pipelines based on developer influence, code complexity influence, etc.

    ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight provides DevOps teams with the necessary steps to eliminate further sources of “release anxiety” by having clearer insight into existing development practices and release patterns. Now, bottlenecks and inefficiencies throughout the software delivery process are easier to find and correct. The ability to understand resource allocation for new and complex application and environment requirements also helps ensure the best path toward successful software releases.

    To arrange a demo of ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight, visit: (http://electric-cloud.com/solutions/devops-foresight/)

    Based on deep insights into past patterns of success and failures, DevOps Foresight predicts the likelihood of a release’s success. Much like a credit score, the creation of a release’s risk score numerical value is based on developer, code and environment profiles and gives stakeholders an easy, visual way to interpret the likelihood of success for a particular build or pipeline. If the score is high, DevOps teams can look at those profiles to determine what, specifically within those profiles, is driving up the risk.

    In order to illustrate areas for improving the pipeline, DevOps Foresight looks at contributing factors and what has helped to improve them in the past, and will suggest appropriate changes in teams, code or environments.  Managers will be able to proactively answer questions like:

    • Are we going to finish our release on time?
    • Can we move faster or can we do more?
    • Will this release cause more or less quality issues?
    • What’s the likelihood of a production deployment failure?

    “Electric Cloud long established great ways for its customers to gain insights into releases that are moving through the pipeline, but it’s been a challenge for organizations to understand the risks of releases before they’re finalized or even started,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO of Electric Cloud. “Improving the pipeline is often based on trial and error or best guesses. What we aim to do with ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight is provide data-driven insights much earlier in the process by looking at past successes, build complexity, author profiles and more, and then show where the pipeline can be improved based on facts. I’m proud to say the team at Electric Cloud has built a tool that can save our customers hundreds of hours of work and relieve unnecessary release anxiety for each and every product they deliver.”

    To learn more about ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight and how it can help your organization ease release anxiety, visit: (http://electric-cloud.com/solutions/devops-foresight/).

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    About Electric Cloud, Inc.

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

     

  • Tencent Supports Open Source Community With Linux Foundation Platinum Membership

    SAN FRANCISCO and BEIJING (LinuxCon China) – June 25, 2018 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announces Tencent has become the latest Platinum member of the foundation. Tencent is a leading provider of Internet value added services in China, offering some of China’s most popular websites, apps and services including QQ, Qzone, Tencent Cloud and Weixin/WeChat.

    Tencent has demonstrated a growing dedication to open source in recent years. It has used Linux extensively for many years, was one of the first companies to leverage the OpenDaylight SDN controller and was a founder of the China Open SDN (COS) committee. Tencent sponsors dozens of open source projects on GitHub, and is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Hyperledger, LF Networking and the Open Networking Foundation. In addition, Tencent is a founding Premier member of the recently-launched LF Deep Learning Foundation, which is focused on supporting various technical efforts in artificial intelligence. Tencent has previously announced it intends to contribute its Angel project, a high-performance distributed machine-learning platform tuned for big data/models, to the LF Deep Learning Foundation.

    Tencent’s Liu Xin will join The Linux Foundation Board of Directors. In addition to a seat on the board, as a Platinum member, Tencent will be able to take advantage of the foundation’s expertise in areas such as open source governance, legal and compliance, events, marketing and more. As a Platinum member, Tencent will be able to offer further support and resources to a wide variety of open source projects and their communities.

    “Becoming a Platinum member of The Linux Foundation clearly reinforces the importance of open source to Tencent, and its commitment to the open source community,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. “As Tencent’s contributions to open source continue to accelerate, The Linux Foundation is thrilled to work more closely with the company to provide more resources and support to the community. We look forward to collaborating with Tencent to enable more innovation and development to spur the creation of new and exciting technologies in the days ahead.”

    “We are honored to be a Platinum member of The Linux Foundation. Open source is core Tencent’s technical strategy,” said Liu Xin, general manager of the Mobile Internet Group, Tencent. “We look forward to strengthening our relationship with the international open source community and promoting innovation in cutting edge technology. As a first step, we are contributing our open source microservices project TARS, and open source name service project Tseer, to The Linux Foundation. In addition, we plan to contribute our open source AI project Angel to the LF Deep Learning Foundation. Together, we will help to build a welcoming and energized global open source ecosystem.”

    More than 800 organizations are members of The Linux Foundation and the open source projects it hosts. AT&T, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, Samsung and VMware are also Platinum members. To learn more about Linux Foundation membership or to join the organization, visit https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/.

    About The Linux Foundation

    The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

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  • Zenoss Launches Next-Generation SaaS Platform for Intelligent IT Operations Management

    Company Announces Zenoss Cloud, Powered by Google Cloud Platform

    AUSTIN, TX – June 21, 2018 – Zenoss Inc., a leader in software-defined IT operations, today announced Zenoss Cloud, the intelligent IT operations management platform. The company’s next-generation cloud-native offering enables businesses to prevent IT outages and optimize cloud and on-premises systems as they undergo digital transformation, a business requirement for the survival of most companies across all industries.

    Vendors across many segments have long endeavored to help prevent IT service outages and improve overall IT performance. These vendors have taken different approaches, including infrastructure monitoring, artificial intelligence operations, log analytics and more. Some approaches collect performance data from systems directly, some rely on events, some rely on logs, while others rely on data sent from agents. Zenoss Cloud represents one of the first platforms that encompasses all of these approaches.

    The key to successfully achieving this strategy was developing the unique ability to collect and analyze all types of structured and unstructured data in the same context. Zenoss Cloud introduces an operations data plane that streams and normalizes all machine data, uniquely enabling this emergence of context for preventing IT service disruptions in complex, modern environments.

    “The ability to capture and contextualize machine data is becoming increasingly crucial to identifying and solving performance problems,” said Nancy Gohring, senior analyst at 451 Research. “This capability only grows in importance for businesses that need to manage the insane complexity of modern IT environments.”

    Zenoss Cloud enables businesses to:

    • Preventthe risk associated with accelerating digital transformation
    • Support new business models
    • Transition IT to event-driven outcomes
    • Apply consistent monitoring policies across all cloud and on-premises systems
    • Evolve from availability and performance to capacity and optimization
    • Deliver management as a service for DevOps
    • Streamline across teams with collaboration workflows (ChatOps)
    • Drive new efficiencies with Smart View, the machine learning–powered intelligent, dynamic user interface

    “Zenoss is an incredibly innovative company that truly understands the challenges of managing today’s massive IT environments,” said Steven Palmese, senior vice president of managed services operations at Presidio. “Zenoss Cloud is a huge advancement in empowering companies like ours as we undertake digital transformation initiatives that are critical for the future of our company.”

    Zenoss Cloud is powered by the cutting-edge Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging the most powerful machine learning and real-time analytics of streaming data to give companies the ability to scale and adapt to the changing needs of their businesses. All components of GCP are also FedRAMP certified, taking advantage of Google Cloud’s world-class security, delivering a best-in-industry security posture.

    Key Zenoss Cloud features:

    • Collection and contextual analytics for all data types, including metrics, model data, events, logs, agent data, application performance data, network performance data and ad hoc data
    • Virtually unlimited scale, including streaming and analytics capacity for machine data volumes and number of systems that can be monitored
    • Powerful machine learning capabilities to automate issue root cause, helping to predict and preventIT outages for cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments
    • Unmatched 99.9975 percent reduction in alert noise and false positives, immediately isolating actionable events and eliminating fatigue
    • Management of dynamic environments driven by ephemeral systems like containers and microservices with out-of-boxsupport for Docker, Kubernetes and more
    • Seamless integration with other ITOM technologies to accelerate and automate resolution
    • Built-in security at the chip level
    • Continuous innovation and enhancements through a true multitenant cloud platform

    “Zenoss Cloud is the most important product release in Zenoss history,” said Greg Stock, chairman and CEO of Zenoss. “Our customer-driven approach showed us a clear path — that the most critical elements of our next-generation IT solution must provide intelligence, simplicity and scale. Above all else, these three concepts are essential to managing the challenge of modern IT environments for both enterprises and service providers. With the Zenoss Cloud intelligent IT operations management platform, we are delivering on our vision of software-defined IT operations.”

    To learn more about Zenoss Cloud and experience a live demo, tune in to our webinar Wednesday, June 27, 11 a.m. CDT. Visit https://www.zenoss.com for more information, or register here for the webinar.

    About Zenoss

    Zenoss works with the world’s largest organizations to ensure their IT services and applications are always on. As the leader in software-defined IT operations, Zenoss uniquely collects all types of machine data to build real-time IT service models that train machine learning algorithms to predict and eliminate outages in hybrid IT environments, dramatically reducing downtime and IT spend. https://www.zenoss.com

     

  • DigitalOcean Appoints Mark Templeton as Chief Executive Officer

    Former Citrix CEO will bring new leadership to help company achieve its vision of simplifying the cloud for developers and teams

    NEW YORK, NY – June 20, 2018 – DigitalOcean, the cloud platform for developers and their teams, today announced that it has appointed accomplished technology leader Mark Templeton as chief executive officer, effective July 1. He will also join the company’s board of directors.

    “When we first founded DigitalOcean, we did so with a single focus: to make the lives of developers easier,” said Ben Uretsky, founding CEO, DigitalOcean. “With this vision, we’ve become one of the largest and fastest-growing cloud providers in the world, with a $200 million run rate and a community that is more than 3.5 million developers strong. As we enter into our next chapter, I am confident Mark is the right leader to inspire and scale our team, accelerate and grow our business, and most importantly, uphold our commitment to our customers and the developer community at large.”

    As the former president and CEO of Citrix Systems, Templeton helped grow the business from a $15 million organization with one product, one customer segment and one go-to-market path, to a global industry leader with more than 100 million users and annual revenue of over $3 billion. Templeton joined the company prior to its initial public offering and served in a leadership capacity throughout his 20 plus years with the organization. Over that time, he created a design-centric culture based on the values of respect, integrity and humility. Under his leadership, Citrix also earned multiple “best places to work” awards, and Templeton himself was honored with several awards including a coveted spot on Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs list in 2013.

    “Ben and his team have carved out a unique position in the $153.5 billion public cloud services market by delivering the industry’s simplest cloud computing platform and building one of the world’s largest developer communities,” said Templeton, incoming CEO, DigitalOcean. “I am inspired by the team’s passion and innovative culture, and by the enthusiasm of the developers and teams who rely on DigitalOcean’s products. It is an honor to join DigitalOcean as CEO to help lead the company during this next phase of growth.”

    Templeton is a CEO mentor and an early-stage investor in a variety of new technology areas. He is chairman of the board of both Instart Logic and Adaptive Insights, and serves on the board of directors for Equifax, Keysight Technologies and Arista Networks. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in product design from North Carolina State University’s College of Design, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

    About DigitalOcean

    Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean provides the easiest cloud platform to deploy, manage and scale applications of any size, removing infrastructure friction and providing predictability so developers and their teams can spend more time building software that customers love. DigitalOcean has a $200 million run rate and a community of 3.5 million developers with 12 data centers across the globe. In addition to its headquarters in New York, DigitalOcean has an office in Cambridge, Mass. and remote employees around the world. For more information, simply visit https://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean on Twitter.