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  • Catchpoint Bundles Proactive Synthetic Monitoring Capabilities With Free Real User Monitoring

    Combined Tools Give Customers Automatic Access to the Most Comprehensive, Actionable Digital End-User Experience Performance Data Sets

    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Catchpoint™, the digital experience monitoring (DEM) expert, announced today that effective immediately, all customers will receive access to the company’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) solution along with their existing proactive Synthetic Monitoring as one unified Software as a Service (SaaS) platform.

    “Coupled together, synthetic and real user data provide the most unified and complete picture of end-user experience for our customers to understand and optimize their web performance (speed, availability, and reliability) and accelerate time to insight,” says Mehdi Daoudi, CEO, Catchpoint. “Our RUM capabilities leverage many of the same key features as our Synthetic Monitoring, including the ability to measure real end-user performance from anywhere in the world; rich analytics enabling faster, more accurate issue resolution; and business-impact analysis. Our Dataviews capabilities empower customers to create various data preparation models, allowing them to spend time optimizing their digital experiences rather than wasting time filtering and optimizing queries or hiring expensive consultants.”

    Catchpoint continues to innovate in the RUM space with the introduction of two powerful features relying on an algorithmic approach: Outage Analyzer, which learns from historical traffic patterns to predict outages, and User Engagement Estimator which helps both business and IT understand the impact of proposed changes on performance and conversions by simulating “what-if” scenarios. Catchpoint also leverages its scalable RUM ingestion platform to extend beyond web pages and into single page apps, mobile apps, IoT, and infrastructure telemetry.

    “Catchpoint’s RUM tool stands out from all others that we evaluated because it allows us to send our own custom metric from the page to our portal, enabling us to see what the actual customer experience looks like from different parts of the world. In the past, data has loaded more slowly on the page than we would like, from regions like APAC and South America,” says Alpesh Shah, Senior Manager, Application Development, AppNexus. “Catchpoint RUM helps us better understand latency by providing a more granular view of its cause, whether it’s an application or ISP, or something we can improve within our own network.”

    Catchpoint’s RUM tool captures real end-user interaction data once site visitors enter a site or application, enabling customers to identify their most critical landing pages and conversion paths and prioritize these for performance optimization. The RUM solution allows customers to correlate bottlenecks identified by synthetic monitoring to real end-user behavioral outcomes (for example, transaction abandonments).

    Catchpoint’s RUM complements its leading Synthetic Monitoring solution which proactively measures the speed and availability of APIs, web, and mobile applications from over 750 global locations on the internet backbone, broadband, last mile, mobile and cloud. Customers can also deploy Synthetic Monitoring on-premise to monitor their digital workforce toolsets such as Salesforce, Office 365 and Workday, where performance issues can become enterprise productivity bottlenecks. Customers can achieve faster time-to-value by implementing their monitoring strategies in minutes, giving them round-the-clock assurance that their digital properties and services are consistently available and fast.

    “Our decision to provide a Real User Monitoring solution for free to all our Synthetic Monitoring customers as part of one platform is a very natural step,” continues Daoudi. “Our company prides itself on providing the most extensive data and analytics for both synthetic monitoring and RUM in one unified platform. Our customers will have a stereo vision into their end-users’ experiences by combining synthetic monitoring data – which proactively detects and preempts technical problems affecting the digital delivery chain – with RUM data, which quantifies the bottom line impact.”

    More information can be found here: https://www.catchpoint.com/real-user-monitoring/

    About Catchpoint

    Catchpoint is revolutionizing end-user experience monitoring to help companies deliver amazing digital experiences. Our platform provides complete visibility into your users’ experiences from anywhere – and real-time intelligence into your applications and services to detect and fix issues faster. We are proud to partner with digital innovators like Google, L’Oréal, Verizon, Oracle, LinkedIn, Honeywell, Priceline, and Qualtrics, who trust Catchpoint to improve their brand experience and drive their business success. See how Catchpoint can reduce your Mean Time to Detect at www.catchpoint.com/freetrial.

    Contacts

    The Medialink Group for Catchpoint:
    Kristina LeBlanc, 508-930-5636
    kristinawleblanc@gmail.com
    or
    Frank Cioffi, 415-893-1570
    frankc@medialinkgroup.com

  • DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) Announces the ‘2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey’

    In collaboration with Google Cloud, the survey gathers data to supply the world’s foremost investigation into what drives software delivery and organizational performance

    San Francisco — May 10, 2018 — DevOps Research and Assessment, leaders in helping high performing organizations move faster, and build more secure and resilient systems, today announced it has launched the “2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey” in collaboration with Google Cloud (https://bit.ly/2w6xOEP). This data will supply research into understanding what issues matter most to technical professionals and unlock new findings to provide guidance for improving resource management, productivity and quality of IT teams.

    “Our goal is to help organizations understand how they can be high performers,” said Dr. Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO of DORA. “We are at the state of work that drives technology transformations and changes the world. This year’s survey builds on the last four years of work to give us the most comprehensive view of IT impacts on the industry yet.”

    This year’s survey will dive further into:

    • IaaS and PaaS: understanding how cloud computing is shaping work for software delivery
    • Monitoring and observability: understanding how people are “seeing” their systems
    • Databases: understanding how they are impacting our work
    • Testing: understanding how it is evolving to meet increasing demands for fast feedback and quality
    • Workflow: understanding how to review change approvals to improve work
    • Culture: understanding what leadership behaviors impact feelings of trust and voice
    • Security: understanding how we are integrating security and its impacts
    • Reliability: understanding how we think about system dependability
    • And so much more!

    Additional sponsors of the “2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report” include: Amazon Web Services, CA Technologies, CloudBees, Datical, Deloitte, Electric Cloud, IT Revolution, Microsoft, Redgate, Sumo Logic and XebiaLabs.

    To participate in the “2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey,” please visit: (https://bit.ly/2w6xOEP). Survey respondents who complete the survey will be entered for a chance to win:

    • One of two $500 gift cards (VISA)
    • One iPad Pro
    • One ticket to DevOps Enterprise Summit (London or Las Vegas)
    • One of five IT Revolution Press book bundles

    Additional resources:

    (https://devops-research.com/2018/03/dora-google-cloud-collaboration/)

    About DORA

    DevOps Research and Assessment, founded by Jez Humble, Gene Kim, and Dr. Nicole Forsgren, conducts research into understanding high performance in the context of software development and the factors that predict it. DORA’s research over four years and more than 25,000 data points serves as the basis for a set of evidence-based tools for evaluating and benchmarking technology organizations. Learn more at devops-research.com.

    Media Contact:

    Jeremy Douglas

    Catapult PR-IR

    303-581-7760

    jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

     

  • SmartBear Accelerates Continuous Testing With Acquisition Of Hiptest

    Hiptest Empowers Agile and DevOps Teams to Collaborate on an Idea, Test Code Continuously, and Generate Living Documentation from Real-time Insights
    SOMERVILLE, Mass. and BESANCON, France — May 09, 2018 —SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, has acquired continuous testing platform Hiptest. Hiptest empowers Agile and DevOps teams to deliver high quality software, faster, by collaborating on an idea, testing code continuously, and generating living documentation. Hiptest was built by an Agile team, for Agile teams, to address the needs of modern software development – and is currently used by over 25,000 users in 140 counties. Hiptest directly complements existing SmartBear tools, and together, will help modern software development teams accelerate continuous testing.

    “We founded Hiptest to enable Agile and DevOps teams to get to market faster with the product they actually imagined,” said Laurent Py, co-founder and CEO at Hiptest. “We felt strongly that SmartBear was the ideal partner for us moving forward because of our shared vision for empowering modern software development teams to go from idea to production, faster.”

    Agile and DevOps practices are becoming increasingly mainstream as organizations strive to embrace digital transformation and get to market faster. However, teams embracing Agile and DevOps work differently than traditional software development teams, and therefore require tools that support their development workflows and enable continuous delivery. Hiptest has gained rapid popularity because it fosters collaboration between business and technology teams with native support for Behavior Driven Development (BDD), integrates seamlessly into development workflows, and enables continuous testing.

    “Hiptest has become an integral piece of our development toolkit,” said Raphaël Citeau, Software Project Manager at Flowbird. “The Jira plugin and native support for BDD make it easy for us to leverage Hiptest in our workflow, and the use of living documentation gives us real-time insight into how our software behave in production.”

    “The addition of Hiptest to the SmartBear product portfolio complements all of our test automation tools that are loved by development teams today, including TestLeft, CrossBrowserTesting, SoapUI Pro, and Swagger Inspector,” said Ryan Lloyd, Vice President of Products, Test and Development at SmartBear. “Hiptest is an exciting, fast growing business, and is aligned with SmartBear’s strategy of delivering easy-to-use and easy-to-consume tools in support of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).”

    All Hiptest employees, including co-founders Laurent Py, Séverine Darlot, Joan Racenet, Vincent Pretre, and Christophe Bliard, have joined SmartBear to continue to grow the Hiptest product and business. SmartBear will continue to develop Hiptest in Besancon, France, and intends to grow operations there. The Hiptest SaaS platform is available for a free 30-day trial, and offers flexible pricing options ranging from free plans for small teams, up to enterprise offerings.

    “As Agile development, DevOps programs, and CI/CD automation accelerate in enterprises, so too does quality control challenges,” said Carl Lehmann, Principal Analyst at 451 Research. “This trend calls for a comprehensive automated testing architecture like that now being crafted by SmartBear with its recent acquisition of Hiptest.”

    To learn more, attend a live webinar on May 22, 2018 to hear from Hiptest co-founder and CEO Laurent Py and see the product in action. Register for the webinar: https://hiptest.com/continuous-testing-webinar/

    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.

  • Typemock Launches C/C++ Mocking Framework for Linux

    Tel-Aviv, May 2nd, 2018 – Typemock, the leader in unit testing solutions, today announced the launch of Isolator++ for Linux. For over a decade, Typemock has been the smart way for developers to unit test .NET and C/C++ on Windows, and with this new release, developers will be able to easily unit test their code on Linux as well.

    Isolator++ for Linux includes all the features which established Typemock as the leading unit testing solution.  With Typemock, there is no need to change your production code for testing. Developers can mock fields, members and concrete classes, as well as non-virtual, private and static methods without the need to use templates or redefined classes. Typemock Isolator++ for Linux also provides more coverage with a powerful mocking framework that supports testing legacy code.

    “Supporting Linux was high on our customers’ wish list and we’re delighted to release this new version to answer their need.” commented Eli Lopian, Typemock‘s founder and CEO. “This release will allow organizations that develop on Linux, Windows or both Operating Systems, to benefit from a single mocking framework, while finding and rapidly fixing bugs.”

     

    About Typemock

    Typemock was founded in 2006 to help companies prevent bugs and become Agile through unit testing. The company has since established itself as a leading unit testing innovator by offering the first mocking framework for legacy code and the first AI-generated test suggestions. Thousands of companies around the world from a wide range of sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, technology enterprises and others rely on Typemock solutions. These companies demand exceptionally high standards of code quality and minimal errors. http://www.typemock.com

     

     

    Source: Typemock

    Leah Grantz

    00972-3-681 51 77

    leah@typemock.com

  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 to Accelerate Customer Software-Defined Infrastructure Deployments

    SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, based on OpenStack Pike, delivers improved interoperability, scalability and flexibility to better enable IT transformation and meet today’s business challenges

    NUREMBERG, Germany, May 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — SUSE® today unveiled SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, its latest enterprise-ready OpenStack Cloud platform. Based on OpenStack Pike, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 is the first release to integrate the best of SUSE OpenStack Cloud and HPE OpenStack technology, which was acquired by SUSE last year. In addition to accelerating the deployment of software-defined infrastructure, it delivers better interoperability, scalability and flexibility to enable the IT transformation enterprise customers need to conquer today’s competitive market and business challenges.

    SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 joins a portfolio of solutions that are developed in collaboration with customers, partners and open source communities to deliver reliable innovation that helps simplify IT transformation and reduce cost.

    “Throughout SUSE’s 25 years of open source experience and leadership, we’ve learned to continuously adapt to the requirements of customers, partners and the market,” said Gerald Pfeifer, vice president of Products and Technology Programs at SUSE. “We have applied that know-how to SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 with new and updated features that will enhance its reputation as the open source cloud of choice for enterprise business. For customers, the speed, ease and flexibility of deployment make SUSE OpenStack Cloud stand out. The breadth of hardware certification and hypervisor support that SUSE OpenStack Cloud offers is unmatched in the market, giving customers more choice in how they deploy their software-defined infrastructure.”

    Gary Chen, IDC research manager, Software Defined Compute, said, “Enterprise IT organizations are under significant deployment pressures as new, modern application and cloud models take hold and grow in adoption. With more organizations moving to a software-defined infrastructure such as OpenStack, streamlining operations through simplified maintenance and upgrades will be key to success by reducing complexity while coping with an expanding skills gap.”

    To help customers overcome the skills gap and jump-start their SUSE OpenStack Cloud deployment, SUSE Select Services are now available. With the fixed-priced, flexible offering that combines consulting, maintenance services and knowledge transfer, customers are able to more quickly realize a return on their private cloud investment.

    Enhancements to SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 include:

    • Greater flexibility for customers with full support for OpenStack Ironic which provides the ability to quickly and easily provision bare metal servers for end users who want to deploy a workload image to a physical machine instead of a virtual machine instance on a hypervisor.
    • Expanded interoperability with new support for VMware NSX-V for software-defined networking.
    • Enhanced scalability to support large deployments.
    • Support for OpenStack Freezer to give distributed backup/restore DRaaS platform capabilities to customers who want to automate data backup and restore.
    • Two lifecycle tool options for deploying, maintaining and upgrading customers’ OpenStack environments, including the traditional Crowbar tool and the Cloud Lifecycle Management tool based on Ardana.
    • Extended three-year lifecycle support to accommodate enterprise customers’ longer maintenance and rollout timeframes.
    • A pre-integrated, fully scalable enterprise-grade monitoring solution that simplifies the monitoring and management of SUSE OpenStack Cloud environments and workloads.

    Craig Parker, head of Integrated Systems Business at Fujitsu in EMEIA, said, “Customers looking to extend their on-premises environments by leveraging rapidly evolving, flexible and secure technologies from Fujitsu and SUSE will find that the new functionality in this latest release of SUSE OpenStack Cloud enables them to build the software-defined infrastructure they need to deliver on their business promises, while maintaining the business agility and flexibility that enterprises need.”

    For additional information about SUSE OpenStack Cloud, visit www.suse.com/cloud.

    About SUSE
    SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 25 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed – today and tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

    Copyright 2018 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved. SUSE and the SUSE logo are registered trademarks of SUSE LLC in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

  • SUSE Ready Certification for SUSE CaaS Platform Now Available for Partners’ Containerized Applications

    Enterprise customers can confidently deploy ISV containerized offerings that are tested and supported on SUSE’s container management solution

     

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon) SUSE® today introduced SUSE Ready certification for SUSE CaaS Platform, expanding its respected application-certification program for independent software vendors (ISVs). ISVs building containers that use the open source docker container format can now certify their containerized application on SUSE CaaS Platform, an enterprise-class container management solution that enables IT and DevOps professionals to more easily deploy, manage and scale container-based applications and services. SUSE Ready verifies for customers that partner solutions are tested and supported on SUSE software, so they can confidently use compatible and supported third-party solutions that best meet their business requirements, without being locked in to a single vendor.

    “The SUSE Ready certification program has been well received by partners and customers,” said Frank Rego, director of the ISV Partner Program at SUSE. “The ISV community is pleased because it allows them to use their existing test methodology to ensure compatibility with SUSE products. Customers appreciate having confidence their solutions are supported by the application experts – the partners who create them. SUSE Ready certifications have grown sharply over the last year, and extending SUSE Ready to SUSE CaaS Platform will further expand the ecosystem and create value for more partners and customers.”

    Containers speed application delivery, facilitate application portability, and enable a new class of high-performing cloud native applications. As container use grows, ISVs are increasingly offering a container deployment option for their applications, according to a recent survey of the SUSE ISV ecosystem. SUSE CaaS Platform uses open source Kubernetes to provide enterprises with production-grade container orchestration at scale, answering the ISV need for a platform to manage their containerized software at customer locations.

    SUSE Ready is a certification program that allows ISVs to test their applications with SUSE products to ensure interoperability. ISVs perform the testing required for them to support their solution in a SUSE environment. SUSE Ready applications are listed in the SUSE Partner Software Catalog, the primary source for customers looking for supported solutions to run with SUSE software. This searchable database of partner solutions allows ISVs to showcase applications that have been tested and certified with SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE OpenStack Cloud and SUSE Enterprise Storage. With the addition of SUSE CaaS Platform to the catalog, ISVs now have a central place to showcase all of their SUSE Ready applications and deployment options, whether physical, virtual, cloud or containerized.

    A number of ISVs delivering applications that add value to container deployments are already SUSE Ready certified for SUSE CaaS Platform, including SAP, Micro Focus, Aqua Security, Avi Networks, Datadog, Dynatrace, JFrog, Minio, NeuVector, Pachyderm, Tymlez, Univa and XebiaLabs.

    Rahul Tripathi, vice president of Product Management for Micro Focus, said, “As we continue with container delivery of our applications, SUSE Ready certification for SUSE CaaS Platform will be important to make sure customers can deploy Micro Focus containerized applications into a trusted environment. Having our containerized applications listed in a centralized location alongside our existing catalog entries will not only be great for exposing our customers to their various deployment options but also for leveraging our solutions to manage other SUSE Ready applications.”

    Fei Huang, co-founder and CEO of NeuVector, said, “Customers want to be able to deploy Kubernetes applications with confidence, fully secured for production. SUSE Ready certification for SUSE CaaS Platform provides the confidence that the NeuVector multi-vector container firewall has been fully tested on SUSE CaaS Platform, giving them the ability to protect east-west container traffic, monitor containers for suspicious activity, and scan for vulnerabilities from a single security solution.”

    ISVs can easily get started with SUSE Ready certification for SUSE CaaS Platform by joining the SUSE Partner Program, which also provides partner downloads, support, training and joint marketing opportunities for SUSE ISV partners. ISVs can work with SUSE to deploy their containerized applications in a SUSE CaaS Platform test environment for partners. For more information, visit www.suse.com/partners/isv/caas-platform.

    About SUSE
    SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 25 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed – today and tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

    Copyright 2018 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved. SUSE and the SUSE logo are registered trademarks of SUSE LLC in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

     

  • NeuVector Extends Red Hat OpenShift Availability with Role-Based Access Controls for Automated Run-Time Container Security

    The container firewall leader also adds Red Hat Container Registry scanning and a Jenkins plugin to automate vulnerability scanning during development

    SAN FRANCISCO – RED HAT SUMMIT – May 8, 2018 – NeuVector, the leader in Kubernetes security delivering the first and only multi-vector container firewall, today announced an expansion to its support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform by adding availability for role-based access controls (RBACs). The new capability can instantly enable developers, architects, DevOps personnel, and security teams to achieve more complete security visibility and management for Red Hat OpenShift-deployed containers. Enterprises can now deploy Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with added confidence knowing that the same access controls created for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can also be applied to the management of the NeuVector multi-vector firewall. NeuVector is among the first Red Hat Certified firewall containers available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and it is listed in the Red Hat Container Catalog.

    A sponsor of Red Hat Summit 2018, NeuVector will demo its new Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform capabilities at booth #333, where Red Hat OpenShift customers can also receive a free container security visualization tool to discover network connections and run-time container vulnerabilities.

    NeuVector provides a highly integrated and automated security solution for safeguarding Kubernetes environments against container threats, violations, and vulnerabilities throughout the entire application lifecycle – including protections against sophisticated insider attacks. Proper controls for limiting access to Red Hat OpenShift and NeuVector resources are a critical requirement for preventing insiders with bad intentions from executing unauthorized operations. With this extension of its capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift, NeuVector now fully utilizes Red Hat OpenShift RBACs to help defend container tools from insider threats.

    Additionally, the NeuVector capabilities now enable Red Hat Container Registry images to be easily scanned for vulnerabilities using NeuVector’s container security solution. With this new capability, enterprises can have automated image scanning integrated into their CI/CD processes from day one. NeuVector is also making a Jenkins plugin available that introduces automated scanning in the image build process. Customers using Jenkins in their integration and build processes can set policies for allowing or failing builds based on whether vulnerabilities are detected in the images. The automated registry and image build-time scanning is designed to ensure that known vulnerabilities are not introduced into the application development and deployment lifecycle. The NeuVector multi-vector container firewall is designed to further protect Red Hat OpenShift containers during run-time, guarding against zero-day attacks and even exploits of yet unknown vulnerabilities.

    “Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is an enterprise Kubernetes platform designed to bridge the needs of developers and IT operations teams and provide a consistent application and service experience across hybrid cloud infrastructures,” said Chris Morgan, global technical director, OpenShift Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat. “We are happy to collaborate with NeuVector to offer these users more confidence and more choice for added container security as they deploy container-based apps in production with OpenShift.”

    “Organizations developing and deploying applications through the OpenShift container management platform require thorough and automated container security,” said Gary Duan, CTO, NeuVector. “With these enhancements to the NeuVector for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, we’re proud to strengthen security automation by leveraging role-based access and by incorporating image scanning which helps safeguard the integrity of container-based applications throughout the entirety of their lifecycles.”

    About NeuVector

    NeuVector is the leader in Kubernetes security and delivers the first and only multi-vector container firewall – which enables the confident deployment of enterprise-wide container strategies across multi-cloud and on-premise environments. NeuVector provides east-west container traffic visibility, container protection, and host security in a highly integrated, automated security solution. Customers include global leaders in financial services, healthcare and publishing. Founded by industry veterans from Fortinet, VMware, and Trend Micro, NeuVector has developed patent-pending behavioral learning for container security.

  • PagerDuty Helps Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Customers Manage Incidents in Real Time and Migrate Confidently to the Cloud

    PagerDuty’s real-time operations management platform integrates with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services to enable Microsoft enterprise customers to enhance the customer experience, mitigate business disruption and improve employee productivity

    SAN FRANCISCO and SEATTLE – May 7, 2018 – Today at Microsoft Build 2018, PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, announced integration of PagerDuty’s real-time operations management platform with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services, Azure’s integrated suite of DevOps services. These integrations enable Microsoft’s enterprise customers to manage incidents in real time, helping minimize business disruption, migrate confidently to the cloud and bridge the gap between development and operations teams. Today, hundreds of companies and their DevOps teams are already using PagerDuty with Azure to automatically monitor their cloud services’ health and quickly respond to incidents.

    “PagerDuty gives Microsoft customers a best-in-class platform to automatically manage incidents and orchestrate action,” said Jukka Alanen, senior vice president of business development and corporate strategy at PagerDuty. “In today’s environment, the price businesses pay for failing to deliver a great customer experience is extremely costly, resulting in lost revenue, customer churn and compromised brand value. With PagerDuty, Azure and Visual Studio Team Services customers can quickly address critical issues that arise throughout the software delivery lifecycle while improving productivity of their DevOps teams.”

    In order to meet escalating customer expectations for cloud-based services, enterprises must be able to manage digital operations in real time, requiring automated processes for incident management and cross-functional team orchestration across the software delivery lifecycle. With PagerDuty, Azure and Visual Studio Team Services users can leverage the platform’s sophisticated automation capabilities to empower their teams to quickly and accurately orchestrate the right response for any incident—all while ensuring developers who do not need to be mobilized can focus on innovation rather than operational maintenance.

    PagerDuty with Azure and Visual Studio Team Services supports the full DevOps lifecycle, from code development, to build, testing and deployment, as well as incident response across all critical processes of the delivery pipeline. PagerDuty’s Azure alerting integration combines signals from Azure with PagerDuty to identify and manage incidents that require an orchestrated response, and its Visual Studio Team Services integration helps DevOps teams manage and track incident resolution in their development tools.

    “Agile incident response is an essential practice to enable a successful DevOps culture,” said Sam Guckenheimer, product owner, Visual Studio Team Services and curator, DevOps at Microsoft. “VSTS integration with PagerDuty helps manage incidents and mobilize the right people to accelerate resolution and complete the DevOps loop.”

    As part of the relationship with Microsoft, PagerDuty has become a Premier partner in the Visual Studio Partner Program, launching in both the Visual Studio Marketplace and the Azure Marketplace. It has also joined the Microsoft Partner Network.

    “At Vibrato, our vision is one of a world where everyone’s life gets a little easier each day,” said Pete Gatt, CEO at Vibrato, an IT consulting firm. “In the DevOps arena, these new integrations between VSTS and PagerDuty provide an amazing development and IT feedback loop that makes our clients’ lives a little easier.”

    Azure and Visual Studio Team Services customers can learn more about the PagerDuty solution and try PagerDuty for free through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace or Visual Studio Marketplace.

    Learn more at www.pagerduty.com/solutions/microsoft.

    More about PagerDuty:

    PagerDuty is a digital operations management platform for businesses that allows teams to optimize their digital operations and resolve incidents faster. The firm has 10,000 customers worldwide, including over 50 of the Fortune 100 firms. Customers include IBM, Groupon, Panasonic, Google and Conde Nast.

  • SmartBear Recognized in First Entry in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management

    SmartBear Recognized by Gartner for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – May 7, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, is recognized in the Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management[1] published by Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. This is the first time SmartBear is included in this Magic Quadrant due to the company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute, offering its expanding portfolio of best-of-breed API tools, including Swagger, SoapUI, ServiceV Pro and AlertSite.

    The API economy has captured the attention of business and technology leaders alike with organizations trying to leverage APIs to meet business demand and drive innovation through digital channels. To satisfy various consumer needs and create strategic value through APIs in an increasingly competitive ecosystem, organizations must approach their API strategy with discipline, focus and consistency across every phase of the API’s lifecycle, from planning and design, to testing and deployment. But challenges like easy reuse of API infrastructure across various lifecycle phases, standardization of easy-to-use tools, and governance of lifecycle processes can hinder an organization’s speed to market for new API products and services.

    SmartBear tools have ease of use as their foundation while being tightly integrated with each other for facilitating openness, standardization of collaborative processes, and reuse across various API lifecycle phases. SmartBear’s API lifecycle tools include some of the biggest names in the API market, including Swagger open source tools, SwaggerHub, Swagger Inspector, SoapUI, ServiceV Pro, and AlertSite. These tools can be purchased and used individually or together, making plug-and-play into various lifecycle phases a frictionless process without any vendor lock in, allowing customers to only use the best-of-breed tools that fit their business and engineering needs.

    “With the rise of the API Economy, APIs have become foundational building blocks in both business and technology strategies,” said Christian Wright, EVP and GM, API Business at SmartBear. “Organizations of all sizes are looking to improve the development and management of their APIs across their lifecycle. SmartBear has a long track record of delivering products that help users, teams, and enterprises improve their API initiatives. We are thrilled that Gartner has recognized SmartBear.”

    For more information, visit:

    https://blog.smartbear.com/development/driving-the-api-lifecycle-forward-with-smartbear-and-the-openapi/

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    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.

    Contact:

    Tracy Wemett

    BroadPR

    +1-617-868-5031

    tracy@broadpr.com     

  • PureSec Unveils First Serverless Security Solution for MS Azure Functions

    PureSec’s intelligent serverless protection solution comes to Microsoft Azure

    TEL AVIV, Israel, – PureSec, maker of the world’s leading Serverless Security Runtime Environment (SSRE), is today launching a beta version of their serverless application security solution for Microsoft Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless platform.

    The security solution is being demonstrated today live at Microsoft Build 2018 in Seattle WA.

    The adoption of serverless architectures on cloud providers like Microsoft Azure is growing exponentially, at an estimated annual rate of 700%. Organizations adopting serverless are still responsible for designing robust applications and making sure that application code doesn’t introduce application-layer vulnerabilities. However, since organizations that use serverless architectures do not have access to the physical (or virtual) server or its operating system, they can’t deploy traditional security layers such as endpoint protection, host-based intrusion prevention, Web application firewalls, or RASP (runtime application self-protection) solutions.

    PureSec’s SSRE platform is designed exclusively for serverless applications and can defend against application layer attacks such as NoSQL/SQL injections, remote code execution, attempts to subvert function logic and unauthorized malicious actions. Founded by security veterans Shaked Zin (CEO), Avi Shulman (VP of Engineering) and Ory Segal (CTO), PureSec is the acknowledged global leader in serverless architecture security.

    PureSec’s beta Serverless Security Runtime Environment for Azure Functions marks a new and significant partnership with Microsoft, one of the biggest cloud providers. This makes PureSec the world’s first Multi-Cloud Serverless Security Runtime Environment. “Our solution doesn’t require customers to re-apply security protections, or use different technologies to secure their multi-cloud serverless applications. It just works wherever it is deployed” Said Ory Segal, PureSec CTO. “PureSec’s technology was developed to support any kind of serverless environment.”

    The SSRE is serverless in itself and requires no installation of appliances, or maintenance of cloud infrastructure. It seamlessly integrates into all serverless functions and scales together with customer serverless applications. PureSec provides DevSecOps teams with unparalleled deep visibility into serverless functions behavior and security events in real time.

    “We are excited to partner with PureSec on securing Serverless applications” said Nir Mashkowski, Microsoft’s Director of Program Management for Azure Functions. “Defending apps can be a challenging in the new, serverless paradigm. We’ve worked closely with the PureSec team to ensure their solution is tightly-integrated with Azure Functions, so while Microsoft secures the underlying infrastructure, PureSec’s SSRE secures the application layer.”

    “PureSec is excited to be working with Microsoft, deploying our SSRE to protect serverless code built for Azure Functions,” said Ory Segal.“Serverless has grown rapidly, and companies are now beginning to understand that traditional models of cloud security don’t apply. PureSec’s integrated security platform installs in minutes and is ready to protect your application logic, code and data on Azure Functions against known and unknown threats.”

    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 to secure their serverless applications, please visit www.puresec.io, and follow @PureSecTeam on Twitter.