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  • IBM Boosts On-Premises Clouds with Cloud-Native Development Capabilities

    IBM Cloud Managed Application Services synchs with IBM Cloud Private for Next-Gen Application Development

    ARMONK, NY – 21 June 2018: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced that for the first time, its industry-leading IBM Cloud Private application platform, will be made available to run on the company’s enterprise Cloud Managed Application Services (CMAS).

    Hundreds of world-leading banks, airlines and government organizations already rely on IBM Cloud Managed Application Services for managing enterprise applications on security-rich clouds. IBM is now enabling its CMAS customers to help extend their capabilities and maximise existing investments by synching with IBM Cloud Private – a new solution based on Kubernetes containers designed to rapidly build, modernize and deploy applications in client-managed environments.

    By bringing the two together, clients taking advantage of the security rich and production-ready cloud environment that CMAS offers, can now reap the benefits of the latest cloud-native DevOps capabilities of IBM Cloud Private, accelerating time to market for innovative, cloud-native applications.

    “We see that organizations are aggressively transforming to respond faster to changing market, customer and competitive demands,” said Mark Slaga, GM for IBM Cloud Managed Application Services. “To support them in their journeys, IBM is continuously innovating and adapting its cloud offerings. By combining the power of IBM Cloud Managed Application Services and IBM Cloud Private, customers will be able to benefit from a highly-secure and versatile environment for managing and modernizing apps and turning decades of data into competitive advantage.”

    Launched late last year, IBM Cloud Private is front and center of IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy. Thanks to the flexibility of container technology, it can be installed on a wide range of enterprise systems to create a private cloud with an architecture and capabilities consistent with the public IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud Private’s combination of innovation, flexibility and control is particularly important to companies in regulated industries such as finance with high standards for security and reliability.

    Coupled with CMAS’ built-in security, disaster recovery, and automated infrastructure and application management, IBM’s clients can now have a powerful combination that  helps provide the security, flexibility and speed they need to compete in the most dynamic markets.

    The solution uses the power of Kubernetes container technology to add self-service Platform-as-a-Service capabilities to IBM’s managed CMAS cloud infrastructure. In addition, IBM’s CMAS clients can benefit from faster access to IBM’s analytics, data, middleware and Watson portfolios available through the IBM Cloud Private platform.

    IBM Cloud Private running on CMAS will be fully operational by July 2018 and will be fully supported by IBM services.

    Contacts:

    Jonathan Jessop Batty
    IBM Europe
    jjbatty@ibm.com
    +44 7741 113871

    Scott Cook
    IBM US
    scotty@us.ibm.com
    +1-312-669-4743

     

  • DevOps pioneers DevOpsGuys becomes DevOpsGroup, announces latest £3 million funding round, appoints board and acquires Agile Snap

    • £3m investment from BGF added
    • DevOpsGuys changes name to DevOpsGroup to reflect growing diversity
    • Coco Brown, Adam Hale, Alex Garfitt and Paul Heywood join board
    • Acquisition of Agile Snap bolsters training capabilities

    20th June 2018 – Cardiff and London, UK – DevOpsGuys, a UK professional services company specialising in DevOps engineering consultancy and training, is rebranding to DevOpsGroup to reflect the growing diversity in its team who are at the forefront of the DevOps movement, and the group’s wider focus on expansion. The consultancy that empowers digital transformation through high-performing IT capabilities for both enterprises and scale-ups recently secured a £3 million investment from BGF, has strengthened its leadership team, and announced a key acquisition to bolster its DevOps training offering.

    James Smith, founder and CEO of DevOpsGroup, stated: “When Steve Thair and I started this company in 2013, we were two technologists from Development and Operations, with a belief that we could make a real difference to the way companies delivered IT services by putting people, process, and technology at the heart of digital transformation. Now with over 70 people, we want our brand to truly reflect our passion to be an inclusive company and embody our bold desire to scale. Our new name is reflective of who we are today, but one thing remains unchanged which is our passion for enabling IT transformation at the speed of disruption.”

    The moves are all important steps towards delivering on its growth journey. In five years, the business has grown to a team of more than 70 specialists based across the UK.  Clients range from small and mid-sized companies who want to become digital leaders, to blue-chip enterprises including ASOS, Admiral Insurance, BAE Systems, and Vodafone, who are focused on transforming to unlock business agility and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

    To strengthen its position as a fast-growing business, DevOpsGroup has appointed Adam Hale as Chairman bringing nearly 30 years of experience working with technology-centric businesses to help them become global leaders. Coco Brown, former President, COO and Board Director of Taos and now CEO of The Athena Alliance, an organisation dedicated to advancing diversity in the boardroom, has been appointed as the group’s first international board advisor. Paul Heywood, Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Business Strategy at Oracle, is a long-standing advisor to the group and becomes a Non-Executive Director.

    The board is completed by the addition of Chief Financial Officer, James Henderson, who brings more than 20 years of experience from PricewaterhouseCoopers and venture capital investors, and Alex Garfitt from BGF, who are considered to be the UK’s most active investor and the first investment company to win the Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

    Adam Hale, Chairman, DevOpsGroup comments on his new role at the Group: “I see this as the end of the beginning for DevOpsGroup. It has been a great five years and we are now setting it up for the path to global leadership. Certainly, getting external investment is part of that. But it is also about building on the partnerships it already has in place with organisations such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft and to continue to develop its talent. DevOpsGroup has a unique ability to help organisations such as Admiral Insurance achieve their digital transformation agenda and to help digital companies such as Skyscanner become truly Global leaders.”

    As part of its continued expansion, DevOpsGroup has acquired AgileSnap, a Cardiff based British Computer Society (BCS) accredited training organisation, specialising in Agile delivery methods and practices. The acquisition expands the groups’ capability to deliver certified Agile and DevOps training. Agile Snap CEO, James Harvey, will lead DevOpsGroups’ Academy Business Unit, to deliver on its’ commitment to close the IT skills gap across the industry.

    Agile Snap founder, James Harvey stated: “We’re absolutely thrilled to become part of the DevOpsGroup. Agile Snap and DevOpsGroup have always had extremely aligned core values and after working in partnership for over 18 months, this was a natural progression. We are committed to providing the very best learning opportunities to develop excellent IT talent and we’re incredibly excited to be a part of evolving this vision as part of the DevOpsGroup Academy.”

  • Positive Technologies finds 44 percent of web applications place users’ personal data at risk of theft

     

    Positive Technologies assessment finds vulnerabilities in 100 percent of applications tested

    June 19, 2018 — Web application assessments performed by Positive Technologies revealed that attackers would be able to obtain personal data from 44 percent of applications handling such information, such as bank websites, ecommerce stores, and telecoms companies. Seventy percent of applications were vulnerable to leaks of critical information.

    Attacks on web application users were possible in 96 percent of applications, while one in two applications (48 percent) were also vulnerable to unauthorized access. Furthermore, a sixth (17 percent) were found to contain vulnerabilities that would allow an attacker to take full control over the application.

    Every tested web application contained vulnerabilities. However, analysts noted an encouraging trend: the percentage of web applications with critical vulnerabilities has declined for the second year in a row. In 2017, 52 percent of applications had high-severity vulnerabilities, compared to 58 percent in 2016. However, the number of applications harboring low-severity vulnerabilities rose to 74 percent, compared to 67 percent in 2016.

    Out of the ten most common vulnerabilities in 2017, four were classed as critical. Cross-Site Scripting, which remains the most common vulnerability, was detected in 74 percent of applications, while OS Commanding, Path Traversal, and XML External Entities were present in nine percent of applications. Other common vulnerabilities that enable attacks on users include Cross-Site Request Forgery (39 percent) and URL Redirector Abuse (17 percent).

    In a quarter of applications, experts were able to exploit SQL Injection, which in a real attack would allow sensitive database information, including user credentials to be obtained. In nine percent of applications, dangerous vulnerabilities such as OS Commanding, XML External Entities, and Path Traversal were present.

    Most of the detected vulnerabilities (65 percent) were caused by errors in application development (coding errors), while incorrect configuration of web servers accounted for another third of the total.

    Positive Technologies cybersecurity resilience lead, Leigh-Anne Galloway commented: “Web application security is still poor and, despite increasing awareness of the risks, is still not being prioritized enough in the development process. Most of these issues could have been prevented entirely by implementing secure development practices, including code audits from the start and throughout.

    “It’s also important to remember that having access to source code makes security assessment much more effective. Through manual code audits, we were able to find critical vulnerabilities in 100 percent of tested applications, which may otherwise have been missed.”

    Download a copy of the full report at https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/premium/web-vulnerabilities-2018/

    About Positive Technologies

    Positive Technologies is a leading global provider of enterprise security solutions for vulnerability and compliance management, incident and threat analysis, and application protection. Commitment to clients and research has earned Positive Technologies a reputation as one of the foremost authorities on Industrial Control System, Banking, Telecom, Web Application, and ERP security, supported by recognition from the analyst community. Learn more about Positive Technologies at ptsecurity.com.

    © 2018 Positive Technologies. Positive Technologies and the Positive Technologies logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Positive Technologies. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

    www.ptsecurity.com

    CONTACT: 

    Paula Dunne

    CONTOS DUNNE COMMUNICATIONS

    +1-408-893-8750 (m)

    +1-408-776-1400 (o)

    paula@contosdunne.com

     

  • DigiCert Joins the Sovrin Foundation as a Founding Steward

    In addition to operating a node on the Sovrin Network, DigiCert will contribute developer resources

    LEHI, Utah and SALT LAKE CITY (June 19, 2018) — DigiCert Inc., the leading global provider of SSL and other public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions for securing web traffic and the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Sovrin Foundation, a private-sector international nonprofit, today announced the addition of DigiCert as a Steward of the Sovrin Network. As a Steward, DigiCert will operate a validator node and contribute developer resources, helping to ensure the validity, accessibility and security of the distributed ledger at the heart of the foundation’s self-sovereign identity technology.

    Self-sovereign identity refers to digital identity that is decentralized, secure, portable, private and completely trustworthy.

    “At DigiCert, we have spent nearly two decades as a public certificate authority, and recently for connected devices, refining our processes and improving industry standards for providing scalable encryption and authentication,” said DigiCert Chief Technology Officer Dan Timpson. “Our initiative with the Sovrin Foundation builds upon that experience and provides real value in advancing reliable identity and trust for today’s and tomorrow’s connected technologies seeking to use blockchain.”

    Timpson noted that DigiCert is also contributing developer resources to the open source Sovrin codebase, which is administered by Hyperledger as Project Indy. According to Timpson, DigiCert plans to lean on its extensive experience building large-scale PKI-based authentication systems to improve the security of the data written to the Sovrin ledger.

    “DigiCert is a company built upon the premise that the challenges of digital security and identity can be solved in intuitive and human ways,” said Heather C. Dahl, executive director of the Sovrin Foundation. “This is the essence of what we are doing at Sovrin — building a network that enables trusted and intuitive interactions among people, organizations and even connected devices. Both the Sovrin Network and those who use it will benefit enormously from the depth of experience that DigiCert brings to us, and we are very happy to add them as a Steward.”

    The Sovrin Network uses a purpose-built distributed ledger — technology frequently known as blockchain — to enable the secure exchange of cryptographically signed credentials. The diffuse trust model embodied in Sovrin Stewards ensures the network’s independence and protection from outside interference — further placing individuals in control of their identities and at the center of their digital interactions.

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    About DigiCert, Inc.

    DigiCert is a leading provider of scalable security solutions for a connected world. The most innovative companies, including the Global 2000, choose DigiCert for its expertise in identity and encryption for web servers and Internet of Things devices. DigiCert supports SSL/TLS and other digital certificates for PKI deployments at any scale through its certificate lifecycle management platform, CertCentral®. The company has been recognized with dozens of awards for its enterprise-grade management platform, fast and knowledgeable customer support, and market-leading growth. For the latest DigiCert news and updates, visit digicert.com or follow @digicert.

    About the Sovrin Foundation

    The international, nonprofit Sovrin Foundation is governed by a constitutional Trust Framework that ensures its independence from government or industry influence and codifies its dedication to providing self-sovereign digital identity for all. The Sovrin Network is operated by independent Stewards and uses the power of a hybrid distributed ledger as a fast, private and secure framework for providing every person, organization, and connected device a permanent identity with which to transact online and operate securely online in everyday life. Learn more about the Trust Framework underlying the Sovrin Network here.

     

  • Crate.io Secures $11M in Series A Funding to Accelerate Development and Adoption of the New Crate Machine Data Platform and Open Source CrateDB 3.0

    Commercial offering of leading database for IoT and machine learning enables enterprises to take action based on machine data-driven insights

    SAN FRANCISCO – June 19, 2018 – Crate.io, developer of CrateDB, a leading open source SQL database for real-time machine data and IoT applications, today announced $11 million in series A funding, along with the commercially-available Crate Machine Data Platform and version 3.0 of the open source CrateDB. The new funding was led by Zetta Venture Partners and Deutsche Invest Equity with participation from Chalfen Ventures, Momenta Partners and Charlie Songhurst. Existing investors Draper Esprit, Vito Ventures and Solomon Hykes also participated in the round, which will be used to accelerate development and adoption of both the commercial and open source offerings.

    “We are extremely pleased to have achieved several critical fiscal and technical milestones today, all of which reflect our steadfast commitment to meet the needs of our customers as they move into the next generation of machine data,” said Christian Lutz, CEO of Crate.io. “I would like to thank Zetta Venture Partners, Deutsche Invest Equity and our other investors, whose funding is being used to expand the capabilities of CrateDB well beyond its roots. The introduction of the Crate Machine Data Platform and the innovations in CrateDB 3.0 truly move us up the stack to enterprise actionability, making us a critical component of their data infrastructure and positioning us well for the future.”

    Introducing the Crate Machine Data Platform

    Progressive companies are racing to build new systems that harness data generated by internet-connected factories, vehicles and smart buildings and put it to work immediately. These systems ingest streams of sensor data, analyze it and then trigger alerts or actions in order to optimize the behavior of “things.” They can change factory machine settings to improve output, direct failing vehicles off the road to increase safety, or disable access credentials to reduce fraud.

    Based on its years of experience working with machine data innovators, Crate.io is introducing the Crate Machine Data Platform. The Crate Machine Data Platform helps companies put machine data to work even faster, by simplifying the time-consuming job of building and operating the data management “plumbing” that forms the foundation for IoT systems. It gives commercial IoT platform companies and enterprises major advantages by eliminating the time and cost required to build data infrastructure from the ground up. The platform is a cloud-native stack available as a fully-managed offering on Microsoft Azure, or as an on-premises solution.

    ALPLA, Inc., a leading global manufacturer of plastic packaging products for Coca Cola, Unilever and other brands, uses the new platform to continuously improve its overall factory equipment effectiveness (OEE). Data from tens of thousands of sensors, with 900 different types in each of its factories, is fed into the Crate Machine Data Platform and used to inform a central mission control room overseeing production performance across all the factories. With this insight, ALPLA can identify developing issues and immediately support machine operators remotely.

    “We are running visual inspection systems in about every line of our plants. Having people constantly monitor these systems on the factory floor and react to any error is almost impossible,” said Jodok Schaeffler, General Manager of ALPLA. “By using the Crate Machine Data Platform to collect and analyze sensor data from all our factory equipment in real time, we can actually direct people on the floor to the ‘hot spots’ and, with that, improve the waste rate and efficiency of production.”

    Crate Machine Data Platform functionality includes:

    • High velocity data loading — Scalable service ingests millions of SQL, JSON and MQTT data points per minute into the platform with any data structure, even complex JSON objects with nested objects and arrays.
    • Data enrichment — As raw data streams into the platform, user-defined logic is executed to convert it (within milliseconds) into a clean, consistent, analytic data set enriched with computed values, aggregates and views.
    • Real-time data analysis — Postgres-compatible SQL syntax supports real-time time series, location, text search and user-defined machine learning analyses.
    • Data visualization — Grafana, Klimt, or any other user-specified data visualization software can be hosted and scaled within the platform.
    • Operational triggers and alerting — User-defined rules trigger workflows and alerts that can improve operational efficiency in the moment.
    • Data platform administration
      • Platform scaling and orchestration — The Crate Machine Data Platform is based on a cloud-native microservices architecture, managed and secured via a Kubernetes environment.
      • Data aging and archiving — As data ages and loses relevance (especially in real-time systems), the platform can automatically archive data in inexpensive cold storage. This data can be easily restored in order to perform new analyses of historic data.
      • Data backup and restore — Incremental database backups are automatically archived.
      • Monitoring and logging — All access to the platform is logged and can be monitored in real time.
      • Data security — Role-based access control is provided by the platform and all access from within and without is encrypted and authenticated.

    CrateDB 3.0
    CrateDB is as an open source SQL database for real-time processing of IoT and machine data such as manufacturing sensor data, logs, messages and device-generated GPS data. CrateDB makes machine data applications that were previously only possible using NoSQL solutions available to mainstream SQL developers. It is designed to scale query throughput of complex data structures linearly with cluster size, making capacity both more predictable and affordable than other solutions.

    CrateDB 3.0, introduced today, introduces a number of enhancements, including:

    • Enhanced security features including user administration and role-based access control
    • Up to 100x faster query performance via hash joins, HyperLogLog and other new algorithms
    • Support for virtual tables (SQL VIEWs) and sub-queries with Update and Delete statements
    • Shard Visualizer to make database administration easier

    The Crate Machine Data Platform and CrateDB 3.0 are available immediately. For more information on both, please visit https://crate.io/products/.

    Investor Quotes

    “Crate allows companies to see their operations in high resolution with the best time series storage and analytics solutions in the market,” said Ash Fontana at Zetta. “Crate strikes the right balance between scalability, flexibility and SQL compliance to fill a very real need for large industrial and technology companies with lots of machine-generated data. The Crate team solved very tough technical problems to strike this balance and we’re proud to support them as they go to market.

    “We found Crate’s solution to be the engine of digitization for industrial projects,” said Torsten Kreindl, Managing Partner of DIVC Deutsche Invest Venture Capital. “The capability for real-time processing of machine data us a key constraint in many Industry 4.0 endeavors that Crate has successfully solved for key industrial clients.”

    “I love partnering with teams combining grit and genius,” said Mike Chalfen, Chalfen Ventures. “I look for products that can take a strategic position in an important market. I’m excited to back Crate to make it the foundation for the most advanced industry 4.0 projects and platforms.”

    About Crate.io

    Crate.io develops data management solutions that help companies put IoT and machine data to work. CrateDB is an open source distributed database offering the scalability and performance of NoSQL with the power and ease of standard SQL. The Crate.io Machine Data Platform is a turnkey data layer, offered as a hosted cloud service, enabling faster development of IoT platforms and data-driven smart factories. Crate.io is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Berlin, New York City, and Dornbirn, Austria.

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    Media Contact

    Mindshare PR

    Wilson Craig

    +1 650-516-6182

    wilson@mindsharepr.com

     

     

  • DBmaestro Expands its New Database DevOps Platform to Support DB2

    Provides“zero friction“ to manage multi-vendor environments with DB2, SQL, and ORACLE

    BOSTON, MA, June 13, 2018 – DBmaestro, the pioneer and leading database DevOps solution provider announced today that it has expanded its database automation platform to enable CI/CD and release automation for IBM DB2. Due to DB2’s industry leading performance, scale, and reliability, it is a preferred database for stock markets, investment banks, insurance firms, and pension funds worldwide.
    DBmaestro’s Database DevOps Platform speeds up release delivery, improves productivity, minimizes errors, and increases security for MS-SQL, ORACLE and now, DB2. The DBmaestro platform is fully operational on both DB2 z/OS and DB2 LUW.

    DBmaestro is fulfilling the vision of becoming the go-to database DevOps provider, with solutions suited to multiple databases. Providing an overarching solution for CI/CD adoption across platforms and operating systems, DBmaestro meets the evolving needs of enterprises across industries and borders.

    DBmaestro’s zero-friction solution provides the ability for system administrators to manage multiple databases more easily without having to change existing processes. The diverse platform includes a Security & Governance Module that protects the integrity of the database and prevents data loss, which is critical for financial instutions. By tracking database changes across all environments, DBmaestro facilitates seamless deployments while enabling organizations to build and ship better products faster supporting increasingly shorter product release cycles.
    “Our banking and insurance customers require the ability to perform robust and flexible database activity that can be managed with a high level of confidence, minimal risk and maximized efficiency,” said Yaniv Yehuda, CTO at DBmaestro. “DBmaestro is the DevOps platform that provides databases with both agility and security, enabling financial business to keep pace with business change while complying with regulations and protecting their customer’s personal data.”

    Key platform features include:
    • Release automation capabilities for automatically deploying versions through all environments
    • Role management, access control and customizable organizational policies to enhance security and governance
    • Business Activity Monitor to meet KPIs and measure success
    • Out-of-the-box connectivity via APIs and adaptors for tools in the DevOps ecosystem (such as Jenkins, JIRA, CyberArk and more)

    About DBmaestro
    DBmaestro brings DevOps best practices to the database, delivering a new level of efficiency, speed, security and process integration for databases. DBmaestro’s platform enables organizations to run database deployments securely and methodically, increase development team productivity and significantly decrease time-to-market. The solution enables organizations to implement CI/CD practices for database activities, with repeatable pipeline release automation and automatic drift prevention mechanisms. For more information, visit www.dbmaestro.com.

    Contacts:
    DBmaestro
    Minnie Katzen Mayer
    t: +1-978-405-3368
    e. minniek@DBmaestro.com

    Spicetree Communications
    Wes Rogers
    t: +1-912-506-0869
    e. wes.rogers@spicetreecom.com

  • InfluxData Launches New “Metrics First” Approach to Log Analysis Enhancing Observability and Enabling Faster Problem Resolution

    Company Delivers High-Speed Ingestion and Parsing via Syslog and New Log Visualization to Speed Correlation of Application, Infrastructure and Business Metrics with Log Data

     

    LONDON (InfluxDays London 2018) — June 14, 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 at InfluxDays London 2018 released new capabilities targeted at speeding the visualization and analysis of structured application and system events captured via log files. Now by correlating business, server and application metrics with structured logs, InfluxData provides faster and more precise problem investigation and root-cause analysis capabilities.

    This release expands the functionality of the InfluxData platform with support for high-speed parsing and ingestion using the syslog protocol, custom log parsing, and pre-built log visualization components. InfluxData believes in a “metrics first” approach that provides developers and operators with the means to easily ingest, correlate, and visualize all time series data, including data from infrastructure metrics (applications, databases, systems, containers), business metrics and now log events.

    Each log message represents an event in time and the same metadata that accompanies metrics can be used to pinpoint the valuable contextual information contained within those files. By starting with metrics and their associated metadata, operators and developers can rapidly understand where and how to interrogate the large volumes of event data contained within logs without performing expensive search queries. This reduces much of the guesswork and prior knowledge required to sift through log data that is typically present when using logs as the initial and primary source of anomaly detection.

    “Providing powerful visualizations and integrations allowing the correlation of business, system and infrastructure metrics with log data has been something our hundreds of thousands of community members have been asking for,” said Paul Dix, InfluxData Founder and CTO. “We are excited to release these capabilities in the platform and see this solution as a more natural and complete way to approach log data, ensuring faster time to awesome for developers building next-generation monitoring and real-time analytics applications.”

    With InfluxData, users can uniquely capture metadata at the collection point, allowing the developer to map elements across systems and supplement additional information when and where required, providing consistency and richness to the logs being transmitted via the syslog protocol. It provides an improved workflow for log visualization within the same environment where they have constructed metrics dashboards, which allows a developer to easily analyze the captured log events for a specific time interval and narrow data down by the important metadata elements, such as host, application, subsystem, and more. Starting the problem investigation at the specific time interval and with a specific set of metadata highlighted by captured metrics reduces process noise and allows developers to identify the root cause faster.

    Read more about the new solution details here: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdata-log-release/

    InfluxData’s InfluxDB Database is the overwhelming leader among Time Series Database management systems, according to DB-Engines’ latest results published earlier this quarter. Its 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.

    Availability

    InfluxData’s new logging functionality is available today for download and is available as part of the Chronograf, InfluxDB and Telegraf projects. For more information, see:

    https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdata-log-release/.

    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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    InfluxData, InfluxCloud and InfluxDB are all trademarked by InfluxData. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

     

  • IT Revolution Announces First Round of Speakers, Early Bird Registration for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018

    World-class speaker lineup features technology leaders, DevOps practitioners and subject matter experts from Hearst, The Walt Disney Company, Nike, Capital One, Microsoft and more

    PORTLAND, Ore., June 14, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced its first round of speakers for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/). The event will take place at a new location – The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas from October 22-24, 2018. The DevOps Enterprise Summit offers a collaborative and inclusive atmosphere for business and technology leaders facilitating transformational journeys for the largest and most complex organizations in the world.

    Early Bird pricing is now available for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018. Register before July 13 for discounted pricing: (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register/). Early registration is highly recommended as this event has sold out all prior years.

    The first round of speakers for the Las Vegas agenda includes:

    • Pauly Comtois, Vice President, Development and Operations, Hearst
    • Jason Cox, Director, Systems Engineering, The Walt Disney Company
    • Dr. Nicole Forsgren, CEO and Chief Scientist, DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
    • Courtney Kissler, Vice President, Nike Digital Platform Engineering, Nike
    • Thomas Limoncelli, SRE Manager, Stack Overflow, Inc.
    • Charity Majors, CEO and Co-Founder, Honeycomb
    • Dr. Topo Pal, Senior Director & Sr. Engineering Fellow, Capital One
    • Jeffrey Snover, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect for Azure Storage & Cloud Edge, Microsoft
    • Dr. Steven Spear, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, Principal, High Velocity Edge

    “We are thrilled to reveal our exciting, first round of speakers for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. “This year, we are focusing on many of the challenges that technology leaders face as they transform how work is done, often facing obstacles outside of Dev and Ops. These include project management and funding models, product management, compliance officers and regulators. It’s an exciting time to be a part of this movement as we broaden our sessions to focus on what leaders most need to know to succeed.”

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

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

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

    Share This: #DevOps Enterprise Summit #LasVegas 2018 announces 1st round of speakers: @jsnover @chawklady @jasonacox @mipsytipsy @yesthattom @TopoPal @nicolefv @paulycomtois & @StevenJSpear! Register now for early bird pricing: https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register/ @DOES_USA #DOES18

    About IT Revolution

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

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    Contact:

    Jeremy Douglas

    Catapult PR-IR

    303-581-7760, ext. 16

    jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

     

  • InfluxData Expands Global Partner Ecosystem to Meet Growing Worldwide Demand for Time Series Database Metrics and Events Platform

    Network of InfluxData Partners Expands Delivery and Integration of Leading Platform Enabling Real-time Decision Making by Monitoring and Analyzing Volumes of Data Stream

    SAN FRANCISCO — June 13, 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 it is growing its global partner ecosystem to meet growing worldwide demand for its leading time series database platform.

    InfluxData’s ecosystem of Technology, Consulting and OEM partnerships features more than 35 certified partners. Partners align their products with the industry-leading data platform built specifically for time series data, an emerging category for DevOps monitoring and IoT, and gain access to InfluxData’s large developer community, including a strong and growing open source community. Customers are assured that InfluxData has certified integration with the most popular enterprise technology stacks – including Amazon Web Services, Red Hat and Microsoft – and can integrate InfluxData across a variety of different products and services. Customers can also draw on the expertise of partners to leverage InfluxData in their unique environments.

    “By partnering with InfluxData, we are able to bring their leading time series data platform to IBM Cloud customers,” said Walter Falk, Head of Business Development for IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. “We continue to work with InfluxData to optimize the developer experience, making it easy to discover, buy and deploy from the IBM Cloud and across multiple IBM products.”

    “As organizations undergo digital transformations, container technologies are enabling them to build and deploy flexible, cloud-native applications at scale,” said Julio Tapia, director, OpenShift Ecosystem, Red Hat. “Enabling enterprise customer success in this area often requires a broad ecosystem working together to advance industry standards and to certify solutions that have been tested to work together. By collaborating with companies like InfluxData, Red Hat is aiming to help customers accelerate their path to innovation with cloud-native apps.”

    Partners joining the growing ecosystem directly team with InfluxData to optimize and document how their products integrate and operate with InfluxData’s open source and commercial products. This includes drawing upon InfluxData’s in-house engineering expertise and InfluxData’s dedicated partner integration team to design, experiment, test and validate their technical solutions. Partners also join a thriving open source community of dedicated developers surrounding InfluxData’s projects. They can also accelerate their go-to-market efforts with InfluxData’s marketing team, including having access to weekly webinars, joint blog posts, social media and developer meetups around the world.

    “Our mission is to enable data-driven operational improvement within industrial environments,” said Frederik Van Leeckwyck, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Factry.io. “Partnering with InfluxData allows us to introduce their leading time series data platform to our manufacturing customers, and the InfluxData partner enablement team helps those customers get underway quickly and efficiently.”

    The growing InfluxData partner ecosystem includes Technology, Consulting and OEM partnerships:

    • Technology – InfluxData’s ecosystem includes marquee partners such as Google, AWS, Red Hat, Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Pivotal. With tangible technical integration between products, technology partners usually jointly create technical content, connectors, plug-ins and reference architectures. InfluxData has more than 160 plug-ins through partner integration with its open source architecture, making it ready for a variety of different products and services customers are already using.
    • Consulting – The ecosystem is made up of system integrators, technology consultancies and professional services firms building custom solutions leveraging InfluxData’s time series data platform. Made up of firms such as Bonitoo, Factry, and xOps, consulting partners understand the benefits of InfluxData’s time series data platform, and recommend it to their customers.
    • OEM – OEM partners build InfluxData products into their own proprietary commercial solutions, either into a SaaS offering on-premise or private cloud software offering. InfluxData works closely with OEMs during design and development, and provides backline support once the solution is released to the OEM’s customers. Current OEM partners include Device42, Aporeto, and LiveData Utilities.

    “Together with our partners, we aim to deliver value to a broad technology ecosystem and reach an expanding vibrant community of developers and enterprises,” said Brian Mullen, InfluxData VP of Business Development. “Through our technology partnerships, we can test our solution on a variety of different products and services to optimize the customer experience. Consultants and OEMs enable more customers to quickly realize the data collection and analysis benefits of InfluxData to improve their DevOps and IoT projects.”

    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 in today’s age of instrumentation. 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 is the overwhelming leader among Time Series Database management systems, according to DB-Engines’ latest results published earlier this quarter. Its 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 the InfluxData Partner Program

    InfluxData teams with collaborative partners to jointly build unique technology and enablement programs that enhance the developer experience. To sign up to become an InfluxData partner, see: https://www.influxdata.com/partners-signup/. For more information on the overall partner programs, see https://www.influxdata.com/partners/.

    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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  • BrowserStack Announces its Open Source Program to Drive Community Innovation

    Free Testing on Real Device Cloud Now Available for Open Source Projects, including jQuery and AngularJS

    SAN FRANCISCO – June 13, 2018 — BrowserStack, the most reliable web and mobile app testing platform on the market, today announced its enhanced open source program, offering free testing of open source software on the BrowserStack Real Device Cloud. BrowserStack is doubling down on its support for open source projects with full and unlimited access to the BrowserStack platform and its capabilities. The goal is to empower open source developers with the tools and infrastructure necessary to test with speed, accuracy and scale.

    “BrowserStack is committed to strengthening our ties with the open source community and is dedicated to giving back to the developers that rely on open source projects,” said Ritesh Arora, co-founder and CEO of BrowserStack. “The open source community remains an important wellspring of some of the most innovative ideas impacting software development. We believe that, through access to powerful tools like BrowserStack, more open source projects come to fruition and succeed.”

    BrowserStack has supported thousands of open source projects, sponsors groundbreaking projects like Selenium (through Software Freedom Conservatory) and jQuery (through the JS Foundation), and is relied upon by top technology companies such as Mozilla and Google for in-house open source projects. All types of open source projects—including web frameworks, web libraries, web applications, mobile apps and more— leverage BrowserStack for their testing needs every day.

    BrowserStack envisions a world in which all software is thoroughly tested and every developer can deliver amazing user experiences. The launch of an enhanced program for open source developers is a strategic step towards fulfilling that vision and advancing BrowserStack’s position as the world’s most trusted testing infrastructure.

    Through BrowserStack’s enhanced open source program, developers can test and debug code earlier in the development cycle and ship releases faster with the confidence that their websites and apps will work seamlessly across every user interface. Results include bug-free releases and higher quality software, leading to higher rates of adoption and ultimately a better customer experience. Using BrowserStack, developers can focus on innovation and building better software, rather than maintaining cumbersome and costly in-house device labs.

    New features of BrowserStack’s open source program include:

    • Access to All Products.Get free, unlimited access to all BrowserStack products by default: Live, Automate, App Live, Screenshots and App Automate, a newly launched solution for automated testing of mobile apps.
    • More Users and Parallels.Speed up testing by inviting more project contributors and running more concurrent manual and automated tests. User and parallel limits are increased to five.
    • Real Device Testing.Leverage the full scale of BrowserStack’s cloud of more than 1,200 real iOS and Android devices, and achieve more accurate testing results by testing on real devices instead of emulators.
    • Lifetime Access.Test continuously for the duration of your project.

    BrowserStack Open Source Program in Action:

    Zurb Foundation (27,036 GitHub Stars)

    Zurb Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world, providing complete, customizable components to developers. The Zurb Foundation uses BrowserStack across 18 browser versions to support both manual and automated testing to ensure quality before every release. BrowserStack helps Zurb Foundation run continuous testing across all of its supported browsers.

    Discourse (25,030 GitHub Stars)

    Discourse is an open source forum and community discussion platform that has been used to create more than 3.3 million posts and serve 245 million page views over the last 30 days. Discourse is a fully remote team, with hundreds of contributors, and uses BrowserStack to track down hard-to-find issues that apply only to certain OS and browser combinations. With BrowserStack, it is able to quickly test without the need for VMs or outside devices, without ever leaving the browser.

    Video.js (21,177 GitHub Stars)

    Video.js is an extensible JavaScript and CSS library that makes it easier to work with and build on HTML5 video. The Video.js project uses BrowserStack for manual testing with Travis Continuous Integration for running tests via the Karma test runner. Tests run over a wide variety of browsers (particularly older browsers) and BrowserStack has helped with bug prevention prior to release.

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    About BrowserStack

    BrowserStack is the most reliable web and mobile app testing platform on the market today. Founded by developers, for developers, BrowserStack allows users to quickly and easily test their mobile and web applications across thousands of devices and desktop browsers in order to ensure their software meets and exceeds organizational and customer expectations. More than 25,000 customers around the globe rely on BrowserStack. Founded in 2011, BrowserStack’s North American headquarters are located in San Francisco. The privately held company is backed by Accel.

    For more information visit https://www.browserstack.com.