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  • Alluxio Names Bob Wiederhold Executive Chairman to Help Drive Strategy and Meet Growing Demand

    Veteran enterprise software executive, former Couchbase CEO, brings Global 2000 open source software success and expertise to Alluxio leadership team

    SAN MATEO, Calif., May 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed with venture backing by Andreessen Horowitz, today announced that Bob Wiederhold has been named executive chairman of the company. Wiederhold also serves as executive chairman at Couchbase, where he held the title of chief executive officer (CEO) from 2010 to 2017.

    “It’s exciting to work with a company as promising as Alluxio with its strong community of developers and already-impressive roster of enterprise customers around the world,” Wiederhold said. “I look forward to working closely with CEO Haoyuan Li and his executive team as they expand their role in the big data ecosystem and help enterprises access all of their data for insight and competitive advantage. It’s a huge opportunity for our customers as they leverage a virtual data layer to simplify their infrastructure and drive innovations in analytics and machine learning.”

    “Alluxio is at an inflection point after two years of amazing growth supporting the scaling demands and data access requirements of some of the largest businesses in Europe, Asia and North America,” said Haoyuan Li, CEO and co-founder of Alluxio. “Bob is a great addition to our team and his proven track record of success in open source and in enterprise technology will guide us forward as we grow into a world leader in enterprise software.”

    Prior to Couchbase, Wiederhold was chairman, CEO and president of Transitive Corporation, the worldwide leader in cross-platform virtualization with over 20 million users before IBM acquired the company in 2008. Previously he was president and CEO of Tality Corporation, the worldwide leader in electronic design services. Earlier in his career Wiederhold was a senior executive with Cadence and CEO at High Level Design Systems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MS from Cornell University in Electrical Engineering.  Bob also currently serves as Chairman of Synthace, a company focused on automating biological research.

    Alluxio solutions help customers in a wide range of use cases to maximize the value of their data. Alluxio enables a flexible data infrastructure that meets the volume, variety and velocity challenges of data-driven enterprises with a scalable virtual data layer in the cloud, on-premise or hybrid. With Alluxio, customers can scale beyond petabytes across storage silos, geographic locations and cloud providers allowing concurrent access to shared data sources without modifying applications. Alluxio provides standard access to multiple object or file data sources concurrently to deliver data at memory speed regardless of physical location.

    About Alluxio

    Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the world’s first system that unifies data at memory speed. Alluxio provides a single source virtual data layer connecting applications in any format running on premises or in public clouds. Intelligent caching and data management deliver fast performance, data consistency and high availability to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project. For more information, contact info@alluxio.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

    Editorial Contact

    Lonn Johnston for Alluxio

    +1.650.219.7764

    lonn@flak42.com

     

  • Instaclustr Announces Apache Kafka Managed Service

    Instaclustr’s Kafka-as-a-Service gives enterprises the easiest, fastest way to take advantage of the real-time data streaming platform

    Palo Alto, California – May 21, 2018 – Instaclustr, offering scalable open source technologies delivered as completely managed solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its new Apache Kafka managed service. The release follows an Early Access Program that saw a handful of Instaclustr customers successfully deploy the Kafka-as-a-Service solution to manage high volume data streams in real-time.

    Apache Kafka is an open source project providing powerful distributed processing of continuous data streams – and is currently trusted in production by thousands of enterprises. With the addition of Kafka to the suite of solutions available through Instaclustr’s Open Source-as-a-Service platform, organizations using Instaclustr-managed Kafka are selecting an experienced provider distinguished by more than 20 million node hours under management and available technical teams that bring deep Kafka-specific expertise.

    The managed Kafka offering follows the robust provisioning and management patterns used to deliver other leading open source technologies provided through the Instaclustr platform – including Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Apache Lucene, and Elassandra. The Kafka platform itself is also backed by advanced data technologies designed to deliver easy scalability, high performance, and uninterrupted availability. Additionally, Instaclustr provides customers with a SOC2-certified Kafka managed service, further ensuring secure data management and safeguarding client privacy.

    Kafka can be run as a standalone managed service or integrated with the other open source data management technologies that Instaclustr provides. It is available within a choice of cloud environments, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud.

    Additional key features of Instaclustr’s Kafka-as-a-Service include:

    • High Throughput and High Availability – Customers benefit from high throughput and high availability due to a distributed cluster of servers.
    • Integrations – The service allows for integrations with external stream processing layers, such as Spark Streaming.
    • Zero Downtime – Because the managed service uses load balancing and data replication to allow failure or planned maintenance of individual nodes without downtime, there are no service interruptions.
    • Built-in Monitoring – The service is run as a cluster on one or more servers, with Instaclustr’s management console providing immediate access to the monitoring statistics required to understand customer data streams in real-time.
    • Intuitive and Flexible API – Kafka uses distributed technology and a Java codebase similar to Apache Cassandra. At the same time, Instaclustr’s managed Kafka leverages the robust provisioning and management patterns Instaclustr already uses in deploying and managing other open source technologies.
    • Choice of Cloud Provider Account – Customers can use managed Kafka within Instaclustr’s cloud account or their own.

    “We believe providing Kafka-as-a-Service will be uniquely beneficial to enterprises looking to take advantage of this powerful data streaming technology,” said Peter Nichol, CEO, Instaclustr. “Our expertise with Kafka combined with our 20 million node hours under management make Instaclustr the most trusted and experienced Kafka service provider in the market. We’re excited to invite all customers and interested organizations to get the most out of what Kafka has to offer by leveraging our newest managed service.”

    “We see Apache Kafka as a core capability for our architectural strategy as we scale our business,” said Glen McRae, CTO of Lendi, a home loan platform using Instaclustr’s Kafka-as-a-Service during the Early Access Program. “Getting set up with Instaclustr’s Kafka service was easy and significantly accelerated our timelines. Instaclustr consulting services were also instrumental in helping us understand how to properly use Kafka in our architecture.”

    “As very happy users of Instaclustr’s Cassandra and Spark managed services, we’re excited about the new Apache Kafka managed service,” said Mike Rogers, CTO of SiteMinder, a cloud platform for hotels. “Instaclustr quickly got us up and running with Kafka and provided the support we needed throughout the process.”

    About Instaclustr

    Instaclustr is the Open Source-as-a-Service company, delivering reliability at scale. We operate an automated, proven, and trusted managed environment, providing database, analytics, search, and messaging. We enable companies to focus internal development and operational resources on building cutting edge customer-facing applications.

    For more information, visit Instaclustr.com and follow us @Instaclustr.

     

  • DevOps Luminary Gene Kim Joins Atomist as An Advisor

    San Francisco, CA – May 16, 2018 – Atomist, the software delivery automation company, today announced Gene Kim has become an advisor to the company bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge about how teams deliver software.

    Kim, a leader in the DevOps movement, is a multi-award winning CTO, researcher, and author. He was the founder of Tripwire and served as CTO for thirteen years. His books include The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, Beyond the Phoenix Project, and Accelerate. He is passionate about how DevOps can enable technology organizations to transform from “good to great.”

    “We know from our research that automation is a critical enabler for high performance, both for developer and infrastructure concerns,” Kim said. “I’m excited about the vision that Rod and the Atomist team are working to achieve, elevating the notion of what is possible through software APIs, liberating us from YAML files and bash scripts. Their notion of a software delivery machine promises to increase developer and team productivity, better enable using global patterns and expertise, as well as improve operational and security objectives.”

    “Gene’s deep understanding of the daily experience of developers and operators brings a wealth of insight to Atomist,” said Atomist founder and CEO Rod Johnson. “Gene Kim is a true leader in our industry. He has played a key role in defining the DevOps movement and helping organizations embrace modern approaches to developing software. Gene shares our vision of transforming software delivery and we’re thrilled to have him onboard as an advisor.”

    About Atomist

    Atomist is how teams deliver software. Founded in 2015, Atomist is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Accel and Matrix Partners. For more information, visit atomist.com or @atomist.

  • Instantly Generate OpenAPI 3.0 Definitions with Swagger Inspector

    SmartBear Announces OpenAPI Specification 3.0 Support for Swagger Inspector, Making It Fast and Easy to Reap the Benefits of Standardization Using a Single Tool to Test and Instantly Generate OpenAPI 3.0 Definitions for Existing APIs

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – May 16, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, announced OpenAPI Specification 3.0 support in Swagger Inspector. This allows individuals and teams to use a single tool to test their existing APIs and instantly generate OpenAPI 3.0 definitions, which makes it fast and easy to reap the benefits of standardizing on the OpenAPI Specification. Swagger Inspector’s support for OpenAPI Specification 3.0 reaffirms SmartBear’s commitment to empower individuals and teams to easily leverage the benefits of the latest version of the OpenAPI Specification.

    The world is rapidly moving to standardize on version 3.0 of the OpenAPI Specification because it brings rich expressive capabilities to describe APIs, including callbacks to support asynchronous API calls, new and expanded security definitions, and links. In addition, OpenAPI 3.0 definitions can automate API lifecycle processes, including creating interactive, consumer friendly documentation, prototyping client SDKs, and generating test cases. However, while defining a new API in OpenAPI Specification 3.0 is a well-known process, generating the OpenAPI 3.0 definition from existing APIs is a tedious process, and involves manually annotating existing code against each resource and method. Swagger Inspector eliminates all the guesswork and monotonous labor from defining APIs in OpenAPI Specification 3.0, and streamlines the API development process by providing a single tool to both test APIs and instantly generate OpenAPI 3.0 definitions. Swagger Inspector also allows users to generate OpenAPI definitions for large APIs with many endpoints by combining them into a single OpenAPI definition file, and ensure an API’s implementation always matches its documentation.

    “OpenAPI is central to defining a common API vocabulary across all of our internal teams,” said Coenraad Mulder, Solutions Architect at Markinson Business Software Solutions. “Moving forward, our company will be standardizing on OpenAPI Specification 3.0 for all of our APIs, and it’s imperative for us to also be able to easily create OpenAPI 3.0 definitions for our APIs, both new and old. Swagger Inspector’s ability to validate OpenAPI 3.0-defined APIs on the cloud and automatically generate OpenAPI 3.0 definitions for our existing API endpoints can be a great starting point for moving this process forward in a quick and easy way.”

    In order to further accelerate the API lifecycle using the OpenAPI, Swagger Inspector is tightly integrated with SwaggerHub, the design and documentation platform for teams. The integration lets development teams host their OpenAPI 3.0 files on SwaggerHub, where they can continue working on their API development workflow as a team, generate client SDKs, and catalog their API definitions on a single location for discovery and consumption.

    “Standardizing on OpenAPI Specification 3.0 to document new APIs is a relatively trivial task, but retrofitting your existing APIs can be time consuming and tedious,” said Christian Wright, EVP and GM, API Business at SmartBear. “With full support for the OpenAPI Specification 3.0, Swagger Inspector makes documenting existing APIs as seamless and smooth as possible.”

    The latest support for OpenAPI Specification 3.0 in Swagger Inspector builds on the commitment of SmartBear to providing world-class tooling to accelerate API development using the OpenAPI Specification. Unlike some other API tools, SmartBear aims to always support open standards like the OpenAPI Specification to drive software development forward. SmartBear also provides several other API lifecycle tools that help create and deliver great APIs with OpenAPI Specification 3.0, including SwaggerHub for designing, developing, and documenting APIs, SoapUI and SoapUI Pro for REST and SOAP functional testing and test automation, LoadUI Pro for API load testing, ServiceV Pro for API and database virtualization, and AlertSite for monitoring APIs.

    To see a video of Swagger Inspector in action, visit: https://swagger.io/blog/convert-oas-3-swagger-inspector/

    About SmartBear Software

    Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

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    Contact:

    Tracy Wemett

    BroadPR

    +1-617-868-5031

    tracy@broadpr.com     

  • DBmaestro Expands its New Database Automation Platform to Support Microsoft SQL

    Survey Reveals that the Database can be a Roadblock for Continuous Integration

    BOSTON, MA, May 16, 2018 – DBmaestro, the pioneer and leading database DevOps solution provider announced today that it has expanded its database automation platform to enable CI/CD (continuous integration/ continuous development) through version control and release automation for Microsoft SQL. Now DBmaestro’s database automation platform speeds up release delivery, improves productivity, minimizes errors, and increases security for SQL and ORACLE databases.

    DBmaestro’s database automation platform is designed to enable database changes to be made quickly, easily and with confidence enabling successful end-to-end CI/CD. Many enterprises worldwide struggle with bringing their databases into their agile work processes. A global DBmaestro survey conducted recently polling close to 250 companies revealed that 48% of respondents experienced a significant database problem (crash, downtime, etc) in the last 3 months, and 47% of the respondents were afraid to push database changes most of the time.

    “Many enterprises invest in DevOps tools for app development and testing, only to find that the database is inflexible and holding them back,” said Yaniv Yehuda, CTO at DBmaestro. “DBmaestro is the DevOps platform that provides databases with both agility and security, enabling IT to streamline releases faster and more frequently while managing risk. DBmaestro helps databases keep pace with business change.”

    Key platform features include:

    • Role management and access control to enhance security and governance
    • Implementation of customizable organizational policies in the database and full audit trail of all activities
    • Configuration drift detection and prevention
    • Robust enforced check-in/check-out version control system

    DBmaestro is holding a joint webinar this month with MSSQLTips, a global hub for SQL Server professionals, entitled SQL Continuous Integration Horror Stories. The webinar will include tips for delivering more consistent and bug-free SQL software deployments, with some lessons learned from real-life database horror stories. The webinar will be held live on May 24, at 7:00 PM UTC | 3:00PM EDT. Click here for more information.

    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. The platform combines several key features for the database, including: pipeline release automation, database version control, governance and security modules and a business activity monitor. For more information, visit www.dbmaestro.com.

    Contacts:

    DBmaestro

    Minnie Katzen Mayer

    t: +1-978-405-3368

    1. minniek@DBmaestro.com

  • Kaspersky Lab moving core infrastructure from Russia to Switzerland; opening first Transparency Center

    By the end of 2019, data from customers in Europe will be stored and processed in Zurich

    LAGOS, Nigeria, May 15, 2018/ — As part of its Global Transparency Initiative, Kaspersky Lab (www.Kaspersky.co.za)  is adapting its infrastructure to move a number of core processes from Russia to Switzerland. This includes customer data storage and processing for most regions, as well as software assembly, including threat detection updates. To ensure full transparency and integrity, Kaspersky Lab is arranging for this activity to be supervised by an independent third party, also based in Switzerland.

    Global transparency and collaboration for an ultra-connected world

    The Global Transparency Initiative, announced in October 2017, reflects Kaspersky Lab’s ongoing commitment to assuring the integrity and trustworthiness of its products. The new measures are the next steps in the development of the initiative, but they also reflect the company’s commitment to working with others to address the growing challenges of industry fragmentation and a breakdown of trust. Trust is essential in cybersecurity, and Kaspersky Lab understands that trust is not a given; it must be repeatedly earned through transparency and accountability.

    The new measures comprise the move of data storage and processing for a number of regions, the relocation of software assembly and the opening of the first Transparency Center.

    Relocation of customer data storage and processing

    By the end of 2019, Kaspersky Lab will have established a data center in Zurich and in this facility, will store and process all information for users in Europe, North America, Singapore, Australia, Japan and South Korea, with more countries to follow. This information is shared voluntarily by users with the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) (http://KSN.Kaspersky.com) an advanced, cloud-based system that automatically processes cyberthreat-related data.

    Relocation of software assembly

    Kaspersky Lab will relocate to Zurich its ‘software build conveyer’ — a set of programming tools used to assemble ready to use software out of source code. Before the end of 2018, Kaspersky Lab products and threat detection rule databases (AV databases) will start to be assembled and signed with a digital signature in Switzerland, before being distributed to the endpoints of customers worldwide. The relocation will ensure that all newly assembled software can be verified by an independent organisation and show that software builds and updates received by customers match the source code provided for audit.

    Establishment of the first Transparency Center

    The source code of Kaspersky Lab products and software updates will be available for review by responsible stakeholders in a dedicated Transparency Center that will also be hosted in Switzerland and is expected to open this year. This approach will further show that generation after generation of Kaspersky Lab products were built and used for one purpose only: protecting the company’s customers from cyberthreats.

    Independent supervision and review

    Kaspersky Lab is arranging for the data storage and processing, software assembly, and source code to be independently supervised by a third party qualified to conduct technical software reviews. Since transparency and trust are becoming universal requirements across the cybersecurity industry, Kaspersky Lab supports the creation of a new, non-profit organisation to take on this responsibility, not just for the company, but for other partners and members who wish to join.

    Kaspersky Lab’s commitment

    As a leading global cybersecurity solutions provider, Kaspersky Lab has always been committed to the most trustworthy industry practices, including strong protection for transmitted data, strict internal policies for data access, ongoing security testing of its infrastructure, and more. With this new set of measures, Kaspersky Lab aims to significantly improve the resilience of its IT infrastructure to any trust risk – even theoretical ones – and to increase its transparency to current and future clients as well as to the general public.

    Commenting on the process move and transparency center opening, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, said; “In a rapidly changing industry such as ours we have to adapt to the evolving needs of our clients, stakeholders and partners. Transparency is one such need, and that is why we’ve decided to redesign our infrastructure and move our data processing facilities to Switzerland. We believe such action will become a global trend for cybersecurity, and that a policy of trust will catch on across the industry as a key basic requirement.”

    For further information please contact:

    Nicole Allman| Orange Ink

    Cell: +27 83 251 2769 Tel: +27 11 465 4075; +27 11 465 4030

    Nicole@OrangeInk.co.za

    About Kaspersky Lab

    Kaspersky Lab (www.Kaspersky.co.za) is a global cybersecurity company celebrating operating in the market for over 20 years. Kaspersky Lab’s deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into next generation security solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments and consumers around the globe. The company’s comprehensive security portfolio includes leading endpoint protection and a number of specialized security solutions and services to fight sophisticated and evolving digital threats. Over 400 million users are protected by Kaspersky Lab technologies and we help 270,000 corporate clients protect what matters most to them. Learn more at www.Kaspersky.co.za

     

  • Couchbase Unveils Latest Release of Couchbase Data Platform for the Massively Interactive Enterprise

    New Capabilities Help Developers Build Secure and Highly Collaborative Applications for Improving Customer and Employee Experiences

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 10, 2018– Couchbase, Inc., creator of the world’s first Engagement Database, today announced the latest version of the Couchbase Data Platform with Couchbase Server 5.5. The latest release combines the power of SQL and the flexibility of JSON to offer simplified application management and operational agility. With new features including ANSI joins, Eventing, and Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes, enterprises can easily develop and deploy applications across multi-cloud environments to create exceptional experiences for customers and employees.

    With the Couchbase Data Platform, organizations can seamlessly transition workloads from relational databases and accelerate deployment of applications in multi-cloud environments. The platform’s built-in enterprise security features also offer field-level encryption to protect sensitive user data, in addition to the flexibility to meet new data regulations such as GDPR. The Couchbase Data Platform includes recently-launched Mobile 2.0, which extends business critical applications to the edge securely and easily, regardless of Internet connectivity.

    Some of the new features and associated benefits in Couchbase Server 5.5 include:

    Unmatched agility and flexibility

    • ANSI joins in N1QL: The Couchbase Data Platform is the only platform that extends SQL to support JSON data natively via N1QL queries. N1QL now has support for ANSI joins, making it easier to migrate applications from relational databases to Couchbase. Developers are also more productive as they can leverage their SQL knowledge to develop applications on Couchbase.
    • Eventing: Eventing is a highly available, performant and scalable service that enables user-defined business logic to be triggered in real-time on the server when application interactions create changes in data. Eventing makes it easy to develop, deploy, debug and maintain data-driven business logic from a centralized platform.

    Unparalleled performance and responsive application design

    • Index partitioning: Index partitioning enables users to index a large number of documents and horizontally scale out an index as needed. The system will transparently partition the index across a number of index nodes using hash partitioning, increasing the performance and data capacity of the cluster.
    • Aggregate optimization: Since the introduction of N1QL, Couchbase has improved the query performance by orders of magnitude, and with aggregate optimization, the query engine leverages the indexes to perform aggregate calculations to improve the performance of queries by another order of magnitude.

    The easiest platform to manage

    • Autonomous Operator: The Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes enables cloud portability and automates operational best practices for deploying and managing the Couchbase Data Platform.
    • Security compliance: Couchbase continues to extend its support for security to enable enterprises to meet increasing security compliance requirements such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). X.509 certificate authentication is extended beyond key-value data access to query and search services for all SDKs.

    Quotes:

    “In data-driven organizations, developers need to create information rich applications with speed and agility to meet fast-changing data requirements. With the Couchbase Data Platform extending SQL to support JSON data natively via N1QL queries, organizations can empower their developers to leverage their SQL skill sets to create engaging applications with multiple access methods from a single platform.”

    –John L. Myers, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates

    “As a Couchbase solution partner, Infosys continues to be impressed with the Couchbase Data Platform strategy and the extension of its capabilities in the recent GA of Mobile 2.0 and now Server 5.5 beta announcement.  In particular, the new Eventing Service in 5.5 is a significant addition to the product. Infosys believes the ability to apply business logic with Couchbase Functions will enable powerful new use cases across a number of industry solutions.”

    –Gautam Khanna, VP and Global Head – Open Source CoE, Infosys

    “We are pleased to see Couchbase continue to deliver against their innovation roadmap, working closely with customers. Couchbase Server 5.5 addresses various agility and flexibility challenges so developers can iterate over applications at the pace required in today’s environment.”

    –Brant Burnett, Systems Architect, CenterEdge Software

    “Couchbase Server 5.5 takes developer agility to a new level by enabling them to build enterprise grade applications with significant new capabilities. In addition, with the GDPR compliance deadline around the corner, we’ve addressed operational robustness in areas such as data manageability and security as customers increasingly put more and more mission-critical data into the Couchbase Data Platform.”

    –Ravi Mayuram, CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering, Couchbase

    Couchbase Server 5.5 will be generally available in the Summer; Couchbase Mobile 2.0 is generally available today.

    Additional Resources

    Couchbase Server

    Eventing

    N1QL

    Couchbase Data Platform Interactive Architecture Graphic

    About Couchbase

    Couchbase’s mission is to be the data platform that revolutionizes digital innovation. To make this possible, Couchbase created the world’s first Engagement Database to help deliver ever-richer and ever more personalized customer and employee experiences. Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, the Couchbase Data Platform was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise. Our geo-distributed Engagement Database provides unmatched developer agility and manageability, as well as unparalleled performance at any scale, from any cloud to the edge.

    Couchbase has become pervasive in our everyday lives; our customers include industry leaders Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, Marriott, Neiman Marcus, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, United, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com.

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  • Couchbase Simplifies the Journey to the Cloud with the Launch of Couchbase Managed Cloud

    New Managed Service Enables Customers To Focus On Delivering Exceptional Customer Experiences

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 10, 2018 — Couchbase, Inc., creator of the world’s first Engagement Database, today announced the launch of Couchbase Managed Cloud. Offered in partnership with Rackspace, the solution is a fully-managed database service that allows IT teams to solve cloud and database infrastructure challenges and reallocate resources towards business initiatives that drive growth. With Couchbase Managed Cloud, Couchbase combines the world’s most powerful NoSQL technology with the capabilities and expertise of Rackspace, which provides true transformation as a service across applications, data, security, and infrastructure, to deliver a single solution for a unified customer experience.

    Enterprises today are experiencing an explosion of data, and maintaining and managing that data in the cloud is no small feat. Couchbase Managed Cloud is designed to eliminate the tedious, time-consuming processes of managing database infrastructure in the cloud, enabling IT teams to focus on driving innovation. With Rackspace, Couchbase Managed Cloud delivers the database infrastructure that is backed by the leader in managed cloud services, along with its application services expertise and results-obsessed customer service known as Fanatical Support®.

    Available this Spring, Couchbase Managed Cloud can be deployed directly within an organization’s public cloud environment alongside their other mission-critical applications–versus within a vendor’s public cloud environment–which will lead to reduced latency, increased performance and enhanced security. In addition, Couchbase Managed Cloud will deliver a unified data platform across multi-cloud architectures using Couchbase’s cross datacenter replication technology.

    Key benefits include:

    • Free up resources to drive innovation and accelerate time to market: Outsourcing the administration of database infrastructure frees up resources to drive business initiatives.
    • Mitigate risks: Improve reliability with proactive maintenance, optimizations, and on-demand scaling of resources as needed; eliminate downtime with a single point of contact and 24/7/365 support model.
    • Reduce costs: Reduce DevOps/DBA staffing while still getting access to cloud and DB experts. Scale out when needed and avoid idle infrastructure.

    Quotes:

    “Very commonly, software vendors offer managed services within their own cloud environments.  Couchbase Managed Cloud is different in that it is deployed alongside an organization’s mission-critical applications in a public cloud. This approach provides businesses with greater control over how they use their data and where it resides; a key element as sensitivities around data security and privacy are heightened, especially with the looming GDPR deadline.”

    –Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management, IDC

     “Rackspace is excited to partner with Couchbase to bring Engagement Database technology to enterprises looking to streamline operations and focus on driving exceptional experiences for customers and employees. By combining Couchbase’s powerful NoSQL technology with Rackspace’s managed cloud and application services expertise, we’re able to deliver significantly greater value to customers.”

    –Brannon Lacey, Vice President Product, Enterprise Applications Services, Rackspace

    “We developed Couchbase Managed Cloud to alleviate the time and cost burdens associated with cloud database infrastructure, and instead help organizations focus on developing the applications and experiences core to their business. With this offering, organizations can outsource the administration of their database infrastructure so they can free up resources and drive key business initiatives.”

    –Scott Anderson, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Business Operations, Couchbase

    Additional Resources

    Couchbase Managed Cloud

    Couchbase Managed Cloud Datasheet

    About Couchbase

    Couchbase’s mission is to be the data platform that revolutionizes digital innovation. To make this possible, Couchbase created the world’s first Engagement Database to help deliver ever-richer and ever more personalized customer and employee experiences. Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, the Couchbase Data Platform was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise. Our geo-distributed Engagement Database provides unmatched developer agility and manageability, as well as unparalleled performance at any scale, from any cloud to the edge.

    Couchbase has become pervasive in our everyday lives; our customers include industry leaders Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, Marriott, Neiman Marcus, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, United, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com.

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  • Value Stream Integration Leader Tasktop Offering Complimentary Copy of Independent Report on Value Stream Management

    Report Notes Tasktop Provides Core VSM Capability, Enabling Traceability, Visibility, Connections Between People, Process, Technology

     

    VANCOUVER, BC, May 10, 2018 – Tasktop, the leader in Value Stream Integration, today announced that it is making available at no cost the April 20, 2018 Forrester report Elevate Agile-Plus-DevOps With Value Stream Management by Christopher Condo and Diego Lo Giudice.

    Despite a decade of implementing the tools and practices of application life cycle management (ALM), Agile and DevOps, there are many gaps when it comes to visibility and traceability across all of an enterprise’s software assets.  Value stream management (VSM) enables companies to deliver on the real business promise of Agile and DevOps. With VSM, organizations implementing Agile-plus-DevOps will better understand the value they deliver, the efficiencies they gain and the further optimization possibilities for each software product in their delivery pipeline. The report introduces application development and delivery (AD&D) pros to VSM and maps some vendors converging on this new market.

    “DevOps initiatives are accelerating in the largest enterprises and agencies in the world,” said Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten. “Unfortunately, the value stream management layer has been missing for many of these organizations, which has made it very difficult to connect the business to DevOps. I highly recommend this report to anyone involved at a leadership level with an Agile or DevOps transformation.  I vividly remember reading the first reports on ALM, which Forrester introduced a decade ago, and how impactful they were.  I believe that we are about to see the same kind of impact from the VSM category that this report defines.”

    According to the authors, “Value stream management provides greater transparency, measurement, and control of the software delivery pipeline. It allows product managers to view progress and coordinate features to a schedule, it allows AD&D leaders to find waste in their software delivering tool chain and reduce or remove it using automation, and it allows release teams to manage and govern the release process.”

    The authors also report that “Tasktop provides integration capabilities across a broad range of DevOps tooling — a core VSM capability that enables traceability, visibility, and connections between the people, process, and technology.”

    Among key takeaways of the report, Tasktop believes, is the critical nature of VSM. The authors strongly suggest that organizations take the initial steps toward VSM immediately. They note that many offerings can provide immediate help with driving greater value delivery in the software delivery process. They say that experimenting with VSM is a must-do for AD&D pros who want to mature their organization’s Agile-plus-DevOps journey.

    In addition, they suggest the following specific steps to get started:

    • Get educated on VSM. Chief technology officers or CIOs should familiarize themselves with VSM and its ability to provide a connected, business-oriented view of the capability and performance of the software delivering pipeline.
    • Conduct a VS mapping exercise. This will help organizations understand where their current software delivery pipeline generates waste and value. They will soon realize the value that comes from this exercise.
    • Evaluate your vendor’s VSM offering. Look at your current vendor’s VSM offerings and compare them to the Forrester definition of a fully capable VSM tool. AD&D leaders often don’t realize they can leverage this capability using what they have. How much effort exploiting VSM will take depends on the extent to which their vendors have supported VSM.

    Full Report Available at No Cost from Tasktop

    To obtain the full report from Tasktop, interested parties should click here.

    About Tasktop

    Over one million users employ Tasktop’s Value Stream Integration technology to transform software development and delivery. Tasktop not only unifies the software development and delivery team, but also provides unprecedented visibility into the business critical processes of software delivery. Tasktop customers are the global leaders in financial services, insurance, government and manufacturing, and include 43 of the Fortune 100, 11 of the top banks in the world, six of the top six health plans and four of the top ten US insurance companies. Partners, including CA, Micro Focus and IBM, rely on our independent, vendor-neutral role to connect their customers’ software delivery disciplines via OEM distributions of our products. For more information about Tasktop, please visit: http://tasktop.com.

     

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  • Inaugural Devops India Summit To Hold In Bengaluru

    Xellentro organises the first ever DevOps summit in India to be held on the 1st of September in Bengaluru

    Bangalore – 11th May, 2018 – DevOps India Summit 2018 is the first of its kind summit organised by emerging global provider of project, program and portfolio management consulting and training services, Xellentro, with the aim of bringing DevOps into the spotlight and envisage the future of DevOps in India. The global conference will be organised in Bangalore on 31st August and 1st September 2018, featuring renowned Industry Stalwarts from across the world.

    Organised by Xellentro in partnership with devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Crevise Technology, and Confinity Consulting, PEOPLECERT and GitLAB, the event will be bringing together industry heavyweights from across the world on a single platform for the first time in India.

    The main objective of the conference is to address unique opportunities and challenges of “How to” DevOps, with speakers and other such attendees sharing their unique perspectives, concepts, experience.

    The one-day conference will include keynote speeches from eminent speakers, panel discussions, Lightning Talks and Table Talk sessions. This will provide a great opportunity for the DevOps community in India to hear from experts and network on an international platform. Speaking about the upcoming event, Niladri Choudhuri, Founder, and CEO of Xellentro who ideated the summit said, “We would like the Indian DevOps Community to get the opportunity to hear the best and to meet them in person for the first time and learn from their experience. Global experts and thought leaders will share their latest research, practices, and strategies concerning DevOps and software which will benefit the IT industry in India.”

    “I have attended and spoken at several DevOps events across the globe. I think I can proudly state that the DevOps India Summit 2018 will be the largest conf in India and one of the most happening conferences globally! We are hoping that at this conf everyone would be able to walk away by not just growing their knowledge/awareness about DevOps but also be able to build a strong community and network of DevOps practitioners and thought leaders,” says Mukta Aphale, Founder & CEO, Crevise Technologies Pvt Ltd.

    The pre-event and conference will cover practical approaches that have been proven to help in the accomplishment of DevOps cultures and continuous delivery pipelines effectively. It will also serve as an opportunity for DevOps service and tool providers to exhibit the capabilities that accelerate implementations of continuous delivery pipelines.

    Sharing his views on partnering with DevOps summit, Marc Hornbeek, Author of Continuous Delivery Architect and DevOps Test Engineering  said, “Xellentro and Confinity Consulting believe that DevOps together with continuous delivery and “Site Reliability Engineering” provide excellent foundation practices for successful software across all modern enterprises.“

    The event has a line-up of A-list speakers such as John Willis – President, DevOps and Digital Practices, SJ Technologies as keynote speaker, Alan Shimel – Editor-in-chief, devopsy.kinsta.cloud, and Sanjeev Sharma – Author of The DevOps Adoption Playbook. Other speakers that will grace the podium are Marc Hornbeek – Author of Continuous Delivery Architect and DevOps Test Engineering, Jayne Groll – CEO, DevOps Institute and Ashish Kuthiala – Director of Product Marketing – GitLabs among others.

    Interested sponsors are invited to be a part of this landmark event. Organisers of the event have also offered speaker opportunities to Indian Corporates and IT firms. The event also currently invites papers from experts in DevOps from both individual professionals and organizations.

    More details on sponsorship opportunities, speaker opportunities, and paper submission, can be found here – https://www.xellentro.com/devops-india-summit-2018/

    For more information, contact:

    Rajeshwari Channakrishna
    9980274676
    rajeshwari@marc-works.com

    Media Contact
    Company Name: Xellentro Consulting Services LLP
    Contact Person: Niladri Choudhuri
    Email: Send Email
    Phone: +91 8105966200
    Country: India
    Website: https://www.xellentro.com/devops-india-summit-2018/