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  • AppViewX Appoints Ryan Windham as CEO

    Former Cedexis CEO and F5 executive to drive the next phase of company growth

    AppViewX, a global leader in the management, automation, and orchestration of network services, today announced that Ryan Windham has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Windham’s background in Enterprise IT and history of driving market-leading products and services will bolster AppViewX’s vision of providing an automation platform to transform NetOps and SecOps.

    Former CEO Anand Purusothaman will continue as Chairman of the Board. Purusothaman will partner with Windham and the rest of the leadership team to further accelerate AppViewX’s growth in the network automation marketplace.

    “We are excited to have Ryan join us at this pivotal point in our journey to become the automation platform that enables digital transformation for the Enterprise,” said Anand Purusothaman, Chairman, AppViewX. “He brings proven industry experience and will align the company to capitalize on the current dynamics in the marketplace.”

    “AppViewX is an innovative company with a track record of solving big customer problems,” said Ryan Windham, CEO, AppViewX. “The company achieved triple digit growth in subscription revenue over the past year and I look forward to building on this momentum.”

    Ryan Windham was previously CEO at Cedexis, which was acquired by Citrix Systems in February. Prior to Cedexis, Windham was VP of Product Management at F5 Networks, where he drove product and business strategy. Before joining F5 Networks, Windham spent 10 years at Websense where, among other roles, he led Product Development and Cloud Operations for the company’s market-leading Security-as-a-Service platform.

    You can read the original press release here –https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180613005538/en/AppViewX-Appoints-Ryan-Windham-CEO

  • Dropbox Pioneers Future of Cloud Infrastructure with SMR Technology Deployment

    Company will be first to deploy SMR at exabyte scale; to provide open-source software enabling other enterprises to follow suit

    SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – June 12, 2018 – Dropbox, a leading global collaboration platform, today announced a new chapter in the evolution of Magic Pocket, its custom-built storage infrastructure. The company is successfully deploying Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive technology, which will increase overall storage density, reduce the company’s physical data center footprint, and provide significant cost savings—without sacrificing performance or reliability. Dropbox will be the first company to test and deploy SMR technology at this scale.

    Dropbox anticipates approximately a quarter of its Magic Pocket infrastructure will be on SMR drive capacity by 2019. In the coming months, the company also plans to open source the test software it created in the process, which will let other companies qualify SMR technology for their own enterprise storage environments.

    “Creating our own storage infrastructure was a huge technological challenge, but it’s already paid dividends for our customers and our business,” said Quentin Clark, SVP of Engineering, Product, and Design at Dropbox. “As more teams adopt Dropbox, SMR technology will help us scale our infrastructure by providing greater flexibility, efficiency, and cost savings. We’re also excited to make this technology open-source so other companies can benefit from it.”

    The move to SMR technology has been a significant undertaking: Dropbox sourced SMR disk drives from third-party suppliers, designed a bespoke hardware and component ecosystem around it, and created new software to ensure its compatibility with existing Magic Pocket architecture. The company ultimately chose SMR technology for its unique ability to expand storage capacity from 8TB to 14TB per disk, while still delivering the performance and reliability the company expects.

    This process is another example of the company’s engineering expertise in building large distributed systems. By the end of 2018, Dropbox will have an infrastructure footprint spanning 29 facilities in twelve countries and four continents, including storage for users inside and outside the U.S.

    Expanding the impact of Magic Pocket 

    In 2016, Magic Pocket set a new standard in the industry by introducing an exabyte-scale storage infrastructure that was exceptionally reliable and secure, and could meet the dynamic workloads of more than 500 million registered users. The system was designed to provide annual data durability of over 99.9999999999%, and availability of over 99.99%. This move to SMR technology is the next phase in the company’s development of its cutting edge, custom-built infrastructure.

    For more information on how Dropbox engineering is successfully deploying SMR disk drives at scale in Magic Pocket, please visit our SMR technology blog.

    To read more about how Dropbox created Magic Pocket please visit our original blog post.

    About Dropbox

    Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that’s transforming the way people and teams work together. With more than 500 million registered users across 180 countries, we’re on a mission to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and has 12 offices around the world. For more information on our mission and products, visit dropbox.com.

     

  • Denim Group’s ThreadFix Provides Application Security Scalability to the Enterprise

    Vulnerability Resolution Platform Enhances Performance for High Volume Testing

    San Antonio, TX – June 12, 2018 – Denim Group, the leading independent application security firm, today announced the availability of the latest version of ThreadFix, the company’s application vulnerability resolution platform for developers and security professionals. ThreadFix 2.6 offers customers the ability to actively maintain a high volume of applications, while exponentially reducing automated scanner findings, saving time and helping security teams focus on remediating the most important vulnerabilities.

    With enterprises onboarding thousands of applications, vulnerabilities have the capacity to reach millions within a single organization. ThreadFix’s latest performance enhancements allow for enterprises to onboard more applications with the significantly higher frequency of scans per day required by organizations shifting security testing “left” into DevOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. ThreadFix utilizes a combination of automation, threat modeling, manual security testing, and manual code review to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities, reducing an organization’s overall exposure.

    “We are very proud of the advancements made to ThreadFix and are excited to offer our enterprise customers the ability to reduce their vulnerabilities, en masse, in order to achieve actionable results,” said CTO of Denim Group, Dan Cornell. “With our latest enhancements to the platform, we have seen customers reporting productivity gains of 2x-5x from their ThreadFix use and integration, fulfilling our mission of enabling our clients to build more secure software, faster.”

    ThreadFix 2.6 merges and deduplicates vulnerabilities from multiple scan engines, thereby decreasing automated scanner findings by 15-35% on average, with some examples reaching 50%. Additionally, the updated version is able to ingest 100 vulnerability scans in under 9 minutes. Managers can now more effectively use existing tools to save time and minimize reporting noise. The ThreadFix dashboards allow application-level views of vulnerability trends, most vulnerable applications, and recent scan activity and collaboration. ThreadFix accelerates application security from vulnerability identification to remediation, securing applications up to 40% faster.

    For more information on the ThreadFix platform, please visit our website: https://threadfix.it/.

     

     

  • Splunk Agrees to Acquire VictorOps

    Addition of Incident Management Leader to Create Collaborative, Analytics-Driven Platform for DevOps

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), first in delivering “aha” moments from machine data, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire VictorOps, Inc., a leader in DevOps incident management. Under the terms of the agreement, Splunk will acquire VictorOps for a total purchase price of approximately $120 million, subject to adjustment, to be paid in cash and Splunk securities. The acquisition is expected to close during Splunk’s fiscal second quarter, subject to customary closing conditions.

    “The combination of machine data analytics and artificial intelligence from Splunk with incident management from VictorOps creates a ‘Platform of Engagement’ that will help modern development teams innovate faster and deliver better customer experiences,” said Doug Merritt, President and CEO, Splunk. “This gives on-call technical staff an analytics-driven platform to monitor issues, resolve incidents and continuously improve. We are thrilled to welcome the VictorOps team to the Splunk family as we extend Splunk’s vision of using data as the backbone of IT.”

    “We founded VictorOps to give teams a naturally collaborative way to quickly resolve incidents,” said Todd Vernon, CEO, VictorOps. “By combining VictorOps incident management capabilities and the Splunk platform, organizations will be able to quickly resolve and even help prevent issues that degrade customer engagement. We look forward to joining Splunk and working together to help solve these complex challenges facing every Development and DevOps team.”

    AI for Collaborative Incident Management

    Customers around the world are demanding innovative digital experiences that place a burden on development teams to innovate faster than ever before; however, challenges such as vague alerts, reactive operations and siloed teams often get in the way of delivering high-quality customer engagements and fully embracing an IT strategy fueled by AIOps.

    To combat this, organizations are increasingly turning towards artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions to help them focus on critical aspects of the customer experience. By applying ML and AI to monitoring, event management and incident management data, Splunk and VictorOps will enable DevOps teams to speed resolution and learn from past actions to make proactive recommendations.

    Thousands of customers use Splunk® Enterprise to proactively monitor, visualize and get answers from their machine data. The combination of Splunk Enterprise and VictorOps will deliver a ‘Platform of Engagement’– combining monitoring, event management, on-call management and ChatOps. Ultimately, this enables modern engineering and operations teams to quickly solve problems in high-velocity deployment environments to maximize customer success.

    Nearly all of the purchase price consideration will be paid in cash, funded from Splunk’s balance sheet.

    Safe Harbor Statement

    This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding the expected benefits of the acquisition of VictorOps, the impact of the acquisition on Splunk’s existing and future products and services, and the capabilities of VictorOps’ products and services, including when combined with Splunk’s. There are a significant number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from statements made in this press release, including: difficulties encountered in closing and integrating the merged business, technologies, personnel and operations; costs related to the acquisition; market acceptance of the acquisition and resulting products and services; Splunk’s inability to realize value from its significant investments in its business, including product and service innovations; and general market, political, economic and business conditions.

    Additional information on potential factors that could affect Splunk’s financial results is included in the company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2018, which is on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Splunk does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

    About Splunk Inc.

    Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges. Join millions of passionate users and discover your “aha” moment with Splunk today: http://www.splunk.com.

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    Splunk, Splunk>, Listen to Your Data, The Engine for Machine Data, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Light and SPL are trademarks and registered trademarks of Splunk Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective owners. © 2018 Splunk Inc. All rights reserved.

    Contacts

    Media Contact
    Splunk Inc.
    Bill Bode, 415-706-1236
    bbode@splunk.com
    or
    Investor Contact
    Splunk Inc.
    Ken Tinsley, 415-848-8476
    ktinsley@splunk.com

  • Datical Expands Leadership Team, Relocates Headquarters to Support Rapid Growth

    Leader in Database Release Automation Adds CRO to Executive Team and Opens New Headquarters Location to Accommodate Continued Expansion

    AUSTIN, Texas – June 7, 2018 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation, today announced the appointment of Hyrum M. Smith as chief revenue officer (CRO) and the opening of its new corporate headquarters, signifying the company’s upward momentum and setting the stage for continued expansion.

    As CRO, Smith will drive integration and alignment between sales, marketing, revenue management and business development worldwide. Smith comes to Datical with an impressive 20-year track record as a software sales professional. Prior to Datical, he served as senior vice president of North America enterprise sales at OpenText, an enterprise information management software and solutions provider.

    “I’m very excited to have joined the Datical team. We’re solving a really hard problem and doing something very special,” Smith said. “Today, every business is a software business. It doesn’t matter if you sell insurance, run a bank, sell athletic apparel or manage a supply chain. To behave like a software company, enterprises are executing on massive digital transformation initiatives in an effort to bring new innovation to market faster and more often. Savvy business leaders are turning to IT automation to help them deliver software innovation faster, but data management is the new constraint grinding delivery of software innovation to a halt. Using automation, Datical is reinventing the way data is managed throughout the software delivery process.”

    Datical has witnessed rapid growth, tripling its customer base and team size over the last two years, requiring a larger office space to accommodate this aggressive growth trajectory. Centrally located at 9211 Waterford Centre Blvd., Suite 100, in Austin, Texas, the new headquarters represent a strategic move in attracting and retaining top talent in the area.

    “This growth – both from the executive team standpoint and headquarters expansion – represents the next phase for Datical,” said Derek Hutson, CEO of Datical. “We’re thrilled to welcome Hyrum, as he’s a key addition to our leadership team at this point of the company’s evolution to continue to scale revenue growth. Our new headquarters will allow us to continue growth and innovation as we help customers transform their businesses. Our new headquarters location accommodates growth all while providing a collaborative work environment reflecting our company culture and values.”

    Datical is transforming the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. The company strategically guides some of the world’s most admired organizations through their digital transformation and database deployment modernization efforts. The Datical database release automation solution is designed to break the application release logjam created by today’s manual database deployment processes. Datical improves productivity and performance, allowing development, test and DBA staff to focus on more important projects and initiatives.

    Datical is actively recruiting for a variety of positions in customer success, software development and sales. To learn more about employment opportunities at Datical, visit https://www.datical.com/company/careers/.

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    About Datical, Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to transform the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 737-402-7187 or connect via @datical.

    Contact

    Danielle Salvato-Earl

    Offleash for Datical

    datical@offleashpr.com

     

  • Instana Announces First Ai-Powered Monitoring Solution For Aws Lambda; Available On Aws Marketplace – Automated Monitoring Expanded

    Company’s Automated Monitoring Expanded to S3, SQS, RDS, Dynamo, and Kinesis

    Berlin at the AWS Summit – June 6, 2018 – Instana, the leader in APM solutions for monitoring dynamic containerized microservice applications, today announced the extension of performance monitoring support to a broad range of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products including AWS Lambda, Amazon’s premier Serverless Computing platform. In addition to the release of the new monitoring sensors for AWS native platforms, Instana also announced that their AI-powered APM solution is now available through the AWS Marketplace.

    “More business applications are operating in a hybrid environment, incorporating traditional monolithic applications, wrappered with a new microservice stack, and using native AWS services. It’s now also common to see customers starting to use AWS Lambda Functions for specific microservices as well,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana CEO. “This level of complexity requires the ability to monitor the whole environment with a single solution that can give DevOps the required observability to see and address problems, no matter where they reside.”

    Instana’s new Amazon capabilities include continuous automatic discovery of specific AWS components, including Lambda, the collection of configuration, performance and health information for each platform and application performance across the entire environment, including AWS Lambda. Additional Instana AWS monitoring sensors now being monitored include:

    • S3 – Amazon’s Simple Cloud Storage Service, a web scale storage solution for web applications
    • SQS – the AWS messaging middleware platform
    • RDS – the AWS native relational database
    • Dynamo – the AWS NoSQL database
    • Kinesis – a streaming optimization platform for AWS-based applications.

    Instana’s AI Powered APM solution automates the management of critical business applications, even those running in cloud, containers, microservices or serverless environments. This automation empowers the optimization of application and service delivery within IT organizations by increasing the speed and efficiency of service and application delivery. The company’s solution leverages automation and AI to automatically monitor, visualize and understand application performance for dynamic containerized microservice applications. Continuous discovery and mapping provides real-time infrastructure and application service visualization, even under constant change.

    By adding AWS Lambda support, Instana extends its microservice and container-based application monitoring to include code running in the Amazon Function as a Service (FaaS) platform. The additional platforms supported as part of Instana’s next-generation monitoring solution extend the power of multi-cloud application monitoring to include both traditional components such as SQS messaging and RDS database instances, as well as non-traditional components like Kinesis (video streaming) and AWS Lambda (FaaS). This flexibility gives application developers the autonomy to pick the exact platforms desired, knowing that DevOps has the ability to effectively monitor anything selected.

    Demos of Instana’s new Amazon features available at the AWS Summit in Berlin at the company’s booth (B-04). Or check out Instana’s Amazon demos on YouTube.

    Media Contacts:
    Cinthia Portugal
    Guyer Group
    Cinthia.Portugal@guyergroup.com
    +1 206 619 8183

     

  • Instana Announces First Ai-Powered Monitoring Solution For Aws Lambda; Available On Aws Marketplace

    Company’s Automated Monitoring Expanded to S3, SQS, RDS, Dynamo, and Kinesis

    June 6, 2018 – Berlin at the AWS Summit – Instana, the leader in APM solutions for monitoring dynamic containerized microservice applications, today announced the extension of performance monitoring support to a broad range of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products including AWS Lambda, Amazon’s premier Serverless Computing platform. In addition to the release of the new monitoring sensors for AWS native platforms, Instana also announced that their AI-powered APM solution is now available through the AWS Marketplace.

    “More business applications are operating in a hybrid environment, incorporating traditional monolithic applications, wrappered with a new microservice stack, and using native AWS services. It’s now also common to see customers starting to use AWS Lambda Functions for specific microservices as well,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana CEO. “This level of complexity requires the ability to monitor the whole environment with a single solution that can give DevOps the required observability to see and address problems, no matter where they reside.”

    Instana’s new Amazon capabilities include continuous automatic discovery of specific AWS components, including Lambda, the collection of configuration, performance and health information for each platform and application performance across the entire environment, including AWS Lambda. Additional Instana AWS monitoring sensors now being monitored include:

    • S3 – Amazon’s Simple Cloud Storage Service, a web scale storage solution for web applications
    • SQS – the AWS messaging middleware platform
    • RDS – the AWS native relational database
    • Dynamo – the AWS NoSQL database
    • Kinesis – a streaming optimization platform for AWS-based applications.

    Instana’s AI Powered APM solution automates the management of critical business applications, even those running in cloud, containers, microservices or serverless environments. This automation empowers the optimization of application and service delivery within IT organizations by increasing the speed and efficiency of service and application delivery. The company’s solution leverages automation and AI to automatically monitor, visualize and understand application performance for dynamic containerized microservice applications. Continuous discovery and mapping provides real-time infrastructure and application service visualization, even under constant change.

    By adding AWS Lambda support, Instana extends its microservice and container-based application monitoring to include code running in the Amazon Function as a Service (FaaS) platform. The additional platforms supported as part of Instana’s next-generation monitoring solution extend the power of multicloud application monitoring to include both traditional components such as SQS messaging and RDS database instances, as well as non-traditional components like Kinesis (video streaming) and AWS Lambda (FaaS). This flexibility gives application developers the autonomy to pick the exact platforms desired, knowing that DevOps has the ability to effectively monitor anything selected.

    Demos of Instana’s new Amazon features available at the AWS Summit in Berlin at the company’s booth.

    Or check out Instana’s Amazon demos on YouTube.

     

    ABOUT INSTANA:

    As the leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions for containerized microservice applications, Instana applies automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility needed to effectively manage the performance of today’s dynamic applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Founded by Application Monitoring veterans, Instana provides true AI-powered APM to help organizations deliver high performance applications today and in the future. Visit us at

    https://instana.com to learn more.

  • Vulnerable Serverless Applications are Open to a New Wave of Crypto-Jacking Attacks

     

     Security researchers demonstrate that serverless apps can be converted into virtual crypto-mining farms by hackers

    Tel Aviv, June 5, 2018 – PureSec, serverless security pioneers and maker of the world’s leading Serverless Security Runtime Environment (SSRE), today released a report which details how hackers can now turn a single vulnerable serverless function into a virtual crypto-mining farm by taking advantage of the scalable nature of serverless architectures.

    By exploiting the auto-scaling capabilities of serverless*, a single attack could hijack serverless resources in order to run hundreds to thousands of instances of popular tools that mine cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero.

    Researchers from leading serverless security company PureSec were able to force serverless functions, which were vulnerable to remote code execution, to download an off-the-shelf crypto-miner during function execution. The miner performed its crypto-mining computations in parallel to the application’s normal execution tasks, making the hijack invisible to the end user. The targeted company might only discover the issue when they get a monthly serverless bill of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    Significantly, during a simulated attack, the PureSec team also caused the serverless platforms to scale, running the same function repeatedly until they reached the platform’s limit for concurrent operations. The PureSec team effectively turned one single vulnerable function into a virtual crypto-mining farm.

    The details were revealed in a report published by PureSec today. The report highlights that serverless applications are ideal territory for crypto-mining attacks and are often poorly-protected.

    The researchers tested the attack successfully on three leading public-cloud serverless platforms. PureSec stressed that this is not a flaw in the platforms, but a result of the auto-scaling nature of serverless architectures and vulnerable application code.

    Cryptocurrencies rose sharply in price at the end of 2017, and hackers are constantly seeking new ways to steal computing resource in order to illicitly crypto-mine. Common tactics include Javascript miners hidden in webpages and hijacking corporate cloud infrastructures. More and more crypto-jacking attacks are reported every week.

    “Serverless applications are a crypto-jackers dream,” said Ory Segal, PureSec co-founder and CTO. “They scale automatically, and a hacker can easily turn a single vulnerable function into a virtual crypto-mining farm almost instantly. The same strengths and benefits that make serverless ideal for many software companies also attract malicious actors. Like any new technology, serverless brings new security challenges.”

    “Because serverless architectures are so new, companies are still struggling to learn how to protect their applications from attacks,” said Shaked Zin, PureSec co-founder, and CEO. “Traditional application security solutions have become irrelevant since the infrastructure is gone. We developed our Serverless Security Runtime Environment to defend against application-layer vulnerabilities like remote code execution which our research team used in this simulated attack. Crypto-mining attacks aren’t going away, so serverless users need to be prepared.”

    You can download the complete report here.

    *What is serverless?

    Serverless is a new form of cloud computing. Instead of having to manage servers to run code, serverless lets developers upload functions’ code directly to the cloud. Whenever the function is triggered by an event, like opening a web-page or uploading a file, the cloud starts executing the function. If the function is triggered a hundred times, the cloud provider will run a hundred functions concurrently. This scalability means that a company is only paying for the computing time and resources they need, when they need them, without the costs or overheads of servers and without the need to manage any infrastructure.

    About PureSec

    As the global leader in serverless architecture security, PureSec enables its customers to build and maintain secure and reliable serverless applications. The company’s end-to-end serverless security solution is the industry’s first and most comprehensive Serverless Security Runtime Environment (SSRE).

    To learn how PureSec solutions and its team of serverless security experts are helping businesses secure their serverless applications, please visit http://www.puresec.io and follow @PureSecTeam on Twitter.

  • Rookout Announces First Production Debugging Solution for AWS Lambda

    Rookout provides unprecedented access to the live states of serverless functions while they run

    Tel Aviv – June 4, 2018 –  Rookout, the rapid production debugging company, today announced the first production debugger for AWS Lambda, Amazon’s leading serverless computing platform. For the first time, software engineers will now be able to painlessly debug their live serverless functions.

    Serverless is the latest major innovation in computing infrastructure, growing at an estimated 700% annually as companies seek to take advantage of the flexibility and convenience it offers. In serverless, functions are executed in the cloud without any need for developers to create or maintain virtual machines or containers. Serverless infrastructures are scalable, cheap and easy to use, with Amazon Web Services Lambda leading the market.

    The same things that make serverless useful are also barriers when it comes to development and deployment; each function runs in its own instance in the cloud, making it hard to monitor exactly how it is operating. Lambda functions communicate with various sources, from third-party APIs that can change any time to Internet-of-Things devices with unpredictable real-world inputs. To debug serverless apps, a developer has to create a test environment and try to simulate these varied sources, using guesswork and hoping for the best.

    Rookout works like a debugger on the live serverless code on Lambda in production. Using its friendly IDE, a developer can simply click on the part of code they want to instrument and then get a full stack trace or any variable state, all from the live code without stopping or changing anything in the environment. Rookout gives an unprecedented level of visibility to serverless code and how it actually behaves in the real world, not just in a simulated environment.

    “Serverless is a natural evolution path for cloud computing,” said Rookout co-founder and CEO Or Weis  “But it presents new challenges when it comes to debugging. Rookout lifts the veil and lets developers get full debug data from their production Lambda functions while they run serverlessly.”

    “The sheer speed of serverless development means that complex bugs occur in production,” said Liran Haimovitch, Rookout co-founder and CTO. “Bugs happen, and they cost a lot of money. Now with Rookout, serverless doesn’t have to be a black box; developers can see inside Lambda and find out exactly what’s really happening in production, letting them take full advantage of the new serverless infrastructures.”

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

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

     

  • ParkMyCloud Announces Scale Group Parking for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

    Leading Cloud Cost Optimization Platform Expands Savings on Public Cloud Resources

    June 1, 2018 (Dulles, VA) – ParkMyCloud, the leading enterprise platform for continuous cost control in public cloud, announced today that it has released cost optimization support for Microsoft Azure virtual machine scale sets and Google Cloud Platform managed instance groups.

    The ParkMyCloud platform helps Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers save money on cloud resources by automatically integrating cost control into their DevOps processes. ParkMyCloud saves money by scheduling cloud resources to turn off when they are not needed – which they call “parking”.

    Azure scale sets and GCP managed instance groups are groups of cloud resources that are frequently used for redundancy and scaling purposes. For testing and development, common practice is to set up a non-production network architecture that mirrors production. All too often, the non-production environment is left running, wasting money on resources that aren’t being used. With ParkMyCloud cost control in place, users can automate “off” or “scaled down” schedules for these resources, ensuring that they only pay for services they are actually using.

    “Customers using scale groups in public cloud are typically savvy users who are increasingly cost conscious,” said Bill Supernor, ParkMyCloud CTO. “With each release, we are expanding ParkMyCloud’s automation engine to support the cloud resources our customers are using.  This allows them to easily incorporate cost optimization with their DevOps process.”

    Earlier this year, ParkMyCloud released automated usage-based cost optimization called “SmartParking” for AWS, Azure and GCP. In the coming months, ParkMyCloud plans to release support for Alibaba Cloud as well as additional resource types  in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

    About ParkMyCloud

    ParkMyCloud is a SaaS platform that automatically identifies and eliminates public cloud resource waste, reducing spending by 65% or more — think “Nest for the cloud.” AWS, Azure and Google users such as McDonald’s, Sysco Foods, Unilever, Avid, and Sage Software have used ParkMyCloud to cut their cloud spending by millions of dollars. ParkMyCloud helps companies like these optimize and govern cloud usage by integrating cost control into their DevOps processes. For more information, visit https://www.parkmycloud.com.

     

    Contact

    Katy Stalcup

    kstalcup@parkmycloud.com

    (571) 334-3291