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  • Tasktop Doubles Year-on-Year Subscription Revenue in First Half Fiscal Year 2018

    Reflects Strong Demand for Its Value Stream Integration Solution

    VANCOUVER, BC, May 1, 2018– Tasktop, the leader in Value Stream Integration, today announced that during the record-setting first half of fiscal year (FY) 2018 — covering the reporting period Oct. 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 – the company doubled its year-on-year subscription revenue vs. the same period of the prior fiscal year. New customer brands from its direct business increased by 60 percent compared to last year’s FY, while revenue from partners remained strong as well.

    Tasktop’s strong revenue growth has been driven by a market that increasingly understands the value of Value Stream Integration. For example, an April 2018 report from Forrester (Elevate Agile-Plus-DevOps With Value Stream Management by Christopher Condo and Diego Lo Giudice) noted that “Practicing value stream management (VSM) allows companies to make their Agile plus development and operations (DevOps) development environments into real digital business drivers. 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 further noted 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.”

    According to Neelan Choksi, Tasktop president and COO, “We’ve had an incredibly strong start to our year, which reflects the growing demand for value stream management solutions. More and more organizations are realizing that Agile and DevOps aren’t enough to provide the visibility CIOs need to align the software they’re delivering with critical business needs. For organizations seeking to transform their development environments into real digital business drivers, Tasktop is clearly the way to go.”

    Q1 2018 highlights included the following:

    Employee Growth

    Tasktop increased its global staffing, with significant growth in both its Vancouver headquarters and Austin (U.S. headquarters) offices. Overall, headcount grew by more than 30 percent during the past twelve months (from April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018), while go-to-market team staffing increased by 50 percent during this period.

    Leadership

    Dominica DeGrandis joined the company as director of Digital Transformation. In this role, she helps grow market awareness of Tasktop within the DevOps community and assists organizations to better understand, visualize and optimize their value streams. DeGrandis is a regular speaker at global DevOps and Lean events and her latest book: Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow, was published in November 2017.

    Integrations

    In the first half of FY 2018, Tasktop augmented its Tasktop Integration Hub with an integration with Intland’s codeBeamer ALM, an application lifecycle management tool that enables teams to manage their requirements, software development, testing and quality assurance, risk management, variants management and more. Driven by a number of Tasktop’s automotive, medical and defense customers, this codeBeamer integration with Tasktop guarantees real-time stakeholder collaboration across the lifecycle to enhance productivity and reduce costs and time to market.

    Awards/Charity

    During this period, Tasktop was once again named to the 2018 Ready to Rocket list. The company also launched the Tasktop Community program to give back to the communities in which its employees live and work.

    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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  • InfluxData Releases Updated Prometheus Support; Selected to Present at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018

     

    InfluxData Founder and CTO Paul Dix to Discuss Latest Product Releases around Application Monitoring and Store/Record Developer Tools for Prometheus and Kubernetes

    SAN FRANCISCO — May 1, 2018 — InfluxData, the modern Open Source Platform built specifically for metrics, events and other time series data that empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics and IoT applications, today announced that Founder and CTO Paul Dix has been selected to present at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 conference being held in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week.

    Mr. Dix will lead the session titled “Integrating Prometheus and InfluxDB” on May 4 from 11:55 am CEST – 12:30 pm CEST in the Auditorium 11+12 room.

    In the session, attendees will learn methods for a long-term store of record for their Prometheus data. Mr. Dix will describe how InfluxDB can fill this role with recent additions adding support for Prometheus standards and protocols. This talk will show how InfluxDB supports the pull and Prometheus metrics format, and will examine Prometheus’ remote/read and write interfaces and how they can be used to integrate with InfluxDB. Attendees will discover how InfluxDB’s new open source query engine allows Prometheus users to perform federated queries against any number of Prometheus and InfluxDB servers.

    InfluxData will unveil this new functionality this week at its Booth S-C42, demonstrating new functionality around Kubernetes, as well as providing an early view of the new functional query language IFQL.

    InfluxData has rapidly built its developer and customer base across industries – including manufacturing, financial services, energy, and telecommunications – by delivering the fastest growing Open Source Platform that enables customers to derive better business insights, data-driven real-time actions, and a consolidated single view of their entire infrastructure – from applications to microservices, and from systems to sensors. More than 400 customers, including Cisco Systems, Coupa Software, IBM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nordstrom, and Tesla, have selected InfluxData as their modern data platform for metrics and events. InfluxData is pioneering the shift to time series in a modern metrics and events platform, and is making it possible for customers to become data-driven and take on digital transformation initiatives.

    About Paul Dix

    Mr. Dix is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations such as Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. Mr. Dix is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 he wrote the book Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 Mr. Dix started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has more than 7,000 members. He holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.

    About KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018

    The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2 – 4. Join Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, gRPC, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF, Vitess, CoreDNS, NATS, and Linkerd as the community gathers for three days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

    About InfluxData

    InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, delivers a modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for analyzing metrics and events (time series data) for DevOps and IoT applications. Whether the data comes from humans, sensors, or machines, InfluxData empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster, easier, and to scale delivering real business value quickly. Based in San Francisco, InfluxData’s more than 400 customers include Cisco, eBay, IBM and Siemens. Visit https://www.influxdata.com/. Twitter: @influxdb.

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  • Kublr Empowers Advanced Kubernetes Users with Flexible Cluster Configuration Capabilities

    Advanced cluster configuration capability provides customers with flexibility to create
    Kubernetes clusters to meet specific use cases

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark – May 1, 2018 – Kublr, a comprehensive Kubernetes platform for the enterprise, unveiled today at KubeCon 2018 its advanced cluster configuration capability designed to provide customers with the flexibility to create Kubernetes clusters that meet specific use cases. The advanced cluster configuration capability is included in Kublr v1.9, with full Kubernetes v1.9 and above support, and being showcased at KubeCon 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

    The Kublr Control Plane will now allow advanced users to take advantage of the full set of Kubernetes capabilities and extensibility features through the Kublr UI and create custom clusters. Use cases include GPU-enabled nodes for Data Science applications, hybrid clusters spanning data centers and clouds, custom Kubernetes tuning parameters, and meeting other advanced requirements.

    “Kublr has already made the creation and operation of secure and scalable Kubernetes easy for the enterprise. But as use cases continue to evolve, we wanted to provide advanced users with the ability to leverage Kublr while fully utilizing Kubernetes extensibility and flexibility,” explained Kublr CEO Slava Koltovich.

    Users can customize the default configuration that Kublr provides while maintaining those preconfigured features they need, such as multi-factor security; built-in multi-cluster, centralized log collection and monitoring; backup and disaster recovery; audit; and automated configuration management across multiple environments.

    “Built on top of upstream vanilla Kubernetes, Kublr gives you complete control over the deployment, scaling, monitoring, and management of your containerized applications. This update brings Kubernetes 1.9.6 and a new dashboard; improved backups in AWS with full cluster restoration, centralized monitoring, IAM (Identity Access Management), custom cluster specification and more,” Koltovich continued.

    Connect with Kublr at KubeCon 2018; visit us in the sponsor showcase! Kublr invites you to download the Kublr-in-a-Box demo to test drive Kublr and deploy real Kubernetes clusters on your machine. Kublr is also an active member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and passed the CNCF Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program in November 2017.

    About Kublr
    Headquartered in Washington, DC, Kublr’s Kubernetes platform speeds the management of containerized applications on any infrastructure.  Without tying users to a single cloud, PaaS, OS, or limiting technology stack, Kublr empowers enterprises to run and manage their applications wherever they want, disrupting the prevailing cloud and vendor lock-in. Built on an open platform with a pluggable architecture, Kublr provides built-in multi-factor enterprise security, configuration management, backup and disaster recovery, and logging and monitoring providing the reliability and flexibility large organizations need.

    We are a proud contributor to the Kubernetes codebase, an active member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and completed the CNCF Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program. Follow @Kublr and the Kublr blog to learn more about Kublr’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes and on LinkedIn, Facebook and kublr.com.

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  • Splunk Disrupts IT Infrastructure Monitoring With New Inexpensive Product to Keep Businesses Running

    Splunk Insights for Infrastructure Unifies Metrics and Logs to Monitor IT Performance at Low Cost and Free for Small Environments up to Approximately 50 Servers

    SAN FRANCISCO – May 1, 2018 – Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), first in delivering “aha” moments from machine data, today announced the general availability of Splunk® Insights for Infrastructure. The new product answers the call for a low-cost way to easily enable systems administrators and DevOps teams to automatically correlate metrics and logs to monitor IT. Splunk Insights for Infrastructure takes minutes to get up and running and is free for small environments up to approximately 50 servers (200GB in total storage). Additional storage capacity can be purchased incrementally, starting at only $3,750 per year.

    “Splunk Insights for Infrastructure provides a simple and effective entry point for teams that are just beginning to unlock the power of Splunk Enterprise,” said Todd Kulick, vice president of technology, TiVo. “Splunk Insights for Infrastructure provides a clear and powerful way to view our entire infrastructure or to ‘zoom into’ views of a single machine or small portion of our service, so we can find and fix problems before they affect customers.”

    “Splunk is credited with inventing IT monitoring, and Splunk Insights for Infrastructure reinvents the entire market by making it faster, easier and more affordable than ever for systems administrators and site reliability engineers to identify and correct infrastructure problems,” said Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager, IT Markets, Splunk. “Splunk Insights for Infrastructure redefines what customers should expect from monitoring and enables them to provide their customers with a positive digital experience while keeping their budgets to a minimum.”

    Reduces Complexity in IT Monitoring

    In many cases, the underlying infrastructure makes it difficult for IT Operations and DevOps teams to quickly and easily identify and correct problems. By automatically correlating metrics and logs in one product, Splunk Insights for Infrastructure provides immediate visibility into system performance, enabling customers to quickly detect problems and identify trends.

    “Splunk Insights for Infrastructure cleverly combines metrics and logging for a more complete view of infrastructure performance,” said Daryl Robbins, senior cloud architect, Entrust Datacard. “We can use this product to see unusual behavior such as a CPU spike and correlate it with logs to troubleshoot problems much more quickly.”

    Easy to Download and Buy – Accessible and Inexpensive Route to Splunk Enterprise

    As part of the Splunk Insights product series, which is designed to address use cases with a customized experience that makes it easy for customers to start quickly and affordably, Splunk Insights for Infrastructure bases pricing on storage and includes a free tier (up to 200GB of storage) sufficient for many small teams. As needs grow, all Splunk Insights provide an upgrade path to Splunk Enterprise to leverage machine data and artificial intelligence for multiple use cases.

    New customers have the flexibility to download Splunk Insights for Infrastructure directly from Splunk or through authorized Splunk Partner+ partners.

    “Splunk Insights for Infrastructure offers partners an excellent opportunity to engage with prospects in a positive first experience,” said Matt Rochford, vice president, technology & alliances, Arrow ECS, North America. “It also permits the customer to expand their use cases as their data driven strategy matures.”

    “Splunk Insights for Infrastructure gives us a compelling, easy-to-implement offering that allows our prospects to get up and running with infrastructure monitoring quickly while setting the stage for us to solve additional digital transformation problems,” said Judd Robins, executive vice president, sales, TekStream. “This is a business approach that creates a win-win-win for our prospects, our business, and Splunk by reducing the complexity of deployment and bringing value in a very short period of time.”

    Splunk Insights for Infrastructure will also be made available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on the AWS Marketplace soon.

    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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    For more information, please contact:

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  • ScienceLogic Launches Industry-First Context Infused AIOps Platform

    New ScienceLogic SL1 enables Ops to move at the speed of Dev, so enterprise can move at the speed of opportunity 

    • SL1 levels the field between the pace which Dev creates and Ops deploys and maintains services
    • Two powerful new technologies aided by AI/ML to bring real-time context to operational data and scale automations at machine speed 
    • Innovation allows enterprises to manage Business Service health in real-time by connecting applications to underlying infrastructure for an end-to-end service view  

    Reston, Va. – May 1, 2018 – ScienceLogic, a leader in providing IT operations with actionable insights from IT operational data, today announced the launch of ScienceLogic SL1, its new, industry-defining AIOps platform.

    IT operations is the last great frontier in search of resilient digital experiences. For modern Ops, keeping pace in an increasingly ephemeral world exceeds human cognition, where application and infrastructure workloads traverse multi-cloud architectures and rapidly transition technology landscapes. To thrive, Ops must retool itself, ready to support the demands for service agility, onboarding of new lines of business and ongoing M&A.

    Enter ScienceLogic SL1, which was designed and developed with the specific goal of leveling the playing field between the pace at which Dev can create great digital experiences, and the ability of Ops to make them resilient experiences.

    “Ten years ago, we saw enterprises moving to a state of ephemeral operations, motivated by speed and agility. It started at the infrastructure layer but evolved quickly towards DevOps movements emphasizing service development and rapid release.  Today’s performance management systems must provide operational insights in real-time derived from a deep understanding of dependency mapping between applications and its underlying infrastructure,” said ScienceLogic CEO, Dave Link.

    SL1 understands how mission-critical applications connect to the underlying infrastructure by deriving topology maps, which enable real-time service health views that inform, analyze and act. This context allows businesses to bring meaning across various data silos and generate insights that drive automated actions like never before.

    “As IBM continues to grow our ecosystem around the IBM Services Platform with Watson, it is critical we work with other leading companies who can assist in delivering solutions that augment human intelligence to help improve service provider operations and free up professionals to focus on driving higher value results,” said Bridget Karlin, IBM Services CTO and Vice President of Technology, Innovation & Automation. “In working with ScienceLogic to utilize AI to help enterprises predictively ensure IT success before business services are impacted, we are better enabling our clients to create a resilient digital experience.”

    ScienceLogic SL1 Core Capabilities

    • See– Automated real-time discovery inclusive of applications and infrastructure across IT silos and multi-cloud environments
    • Contextualize– Automated topology maps to establish real-time relationships between disparate data sets bringing context to data
    • Act– Automated issue discovery and subsequent remediation across a diverse range of technologies including CMDB (Configuration Management Database), DevOps and APM (Application Performance Management)

    SL1 Innovative Technologies at Work

    • PowerMap– If context is king for AIOps, PowerMap is what provides that context. PowerMap creates a multi-dimensional topological map of dependencies in real-time between all components and across all layers of technology – providing immediate context to the underlying raw data. This becomes a crucial input source for Machine Learning engines to provide actionable insights and automations.
    • PowerSync– If automation is the endgame of AIOps, PowerSync is the engine that powers it.  By providing a universal communication bridge to get data in, share data out and keep data synchronized, PowerSync breaks down the data silos that currently limit automation.   It provides multi-directional and intelligent data transformations asynchronously and concurrently among any number of platforms.  PowerSync completes the story with a powerful automation engine to enact change to the environment.

    Early Customer Feedback

    “Our partnership with ScienceLogic plays a key part in our expanding digital workplace offering, ensuring resilient customer experiences through intelligent discovery, data normalization and proactive management of edge to data center services,” said Norihisa Takayama, General Manager for Digital Workplace at Konica Minolta. “Within Workplace Hub, our scalable IT ecosystem that helps organisations orchestrate their physical and digital resources, SL1 provides service health visibility through automated discovery of IoT edge devices to service cognition via real-time ephemeral application to infrastructure mapping. In addition, SL1 can analyze and connect millions of metrics per second, enabled by a horizontally scalable NoSQL architecture and a topology-based analytics engine. This enables automated root cause analysis, proactive remediation, and smart provisioning to millions of edge devices via our AI enabled management platform.”

    “Flexential is a long-time partner of ScienceLogic, focused on helping customers optimize their IT transformation journey,” said Jim Parks SVP, Central Operations at Flexential. “ScienceLogic’s SL1 will help us become more competitive and address new opportunities by creating new advanced services that combine business service visibility with applications and infrastructure views – while giving our operations team greater levels of automation to help us deliver outstanding service quality.”

    “T-Systems is solving major enterprise challenges by partnering with ScienceLogic,” said Thorsten Meyer, Product Manager at T-Systems. “ScienceLogic SL1 helps enterprises to manage business services cost-effectively. Through real-time Business dashboards, our customers can understand application and service health across the underlying transient infrastructure of clouds, microservices, and containers. The unified business service, applications and infrastructure visibility in ScienceLogic SL1 will enable us to create compelling new managed services for business-critical functions”.

    Industry Analysis

    “Modern IT systems — with their modularity, dynamism, and distributedness — require a multi-perspective approach even to understand what is happening as they are being observed, let alone to project their future or to determine the causes that got them to where they are. Hence, enterprises should select those AIOps platforms that are capable of ingesting and analyzing data from a multiplicity of sources.”

    • Gartner Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, August 2017

    ScienceLogic recorded a video podcast with Forrester Principal Analyst Charles Betz, who discussed the importance of Cognitive Ops and Information Management:

    “There have been some real limitations with how we’ve approached the problem of infrastructure management. You have silos of data in the CMDB, APM, log managers, and aggregation, end-user experience monitoring and more. But it’s not really being effectively brought together, let alone with the human-to-human telemetry. We need cognitive operations in a closely human-partnered way to enable operators to dig down very quickly […] and pursue specific hypothesis in real-time and at high-tempo in high-consequence situations.”

    –      Charles Betz, Forrester

    Additional Resources 

    Learn more about ScienceLogic SL1

    Podcast: “Cognitive Ops and Information Management” with Forrester Principal Analyst Charles Betz

    Schedule a demo today!

    SL1 Patent – Component Detection and Management using Relationships (DCM-R)

    About ScienceLogic

    ScienceLogic is a leader in IT Operations Management, providing modern IT operations with actionable insights to resolve and predict problems faster in a digital, ephemeral world. Its solution sees everything across cloud and distributed architectures, contextualizes data through relationship mapping, and acts on this insight through integration and automation. Trusted by thousands of organizations, ScienceLogic’s technology was designed for the rigorous security requirements of United States Department of Defense, proven for scale by the world’s largest service providers, and optimized for the needs of large enterprises.

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    Brian Kelley

    703-533-1618

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  • Other Code Review Tools Left Behind as Collaborator Streamlines Workflows with Unified Code and Document Review

    SmartBear Announces 2 New Microsoft Integrations in Latest Release of Collaborator, Making It Easy for Teams to Streamline Workflows by Standardizing Code and Document Reviews with One Tool

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – April 30, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, today announced new integrations with Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Visio in the latest release of Collaborator. These new integrations build on existing document and code review capabilities, making it easy for teams to streamline and speed-up their workflows by standardizing code and document reviews with one tool.

    Process-conscious development teams conduct peer reviews on changes that could introduce defects into their code base, requirements, design documents, test cases, and user stories. Currently, those reviews for most teams are scattered across email threads, chat tools, document review tools, and code review tools – which slows down productivity and introduces risk into the review process. Collaborator is the only peer review tool with the standardization capabilities necessary to drive meaningful process improvement, such as custom templates, checklists, and detailed reporting, all in a central peer review platform. With the release of v11.3, Collaborator adds PowerPoint and Visio to its list of native Microsoft integrations, joining Word, Excel, Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server.

    The 2017 State of Code Review Report revealed that 91percent of teams are conducting document reviews as part of their development process. Other peer code review tools are not designed to incorporate collaborative document review, especially not at scale. For organizations eager to streamline workflows and consolidate tools, the robust document review capabilities enhanced in the latest release of Collaborator offer a compelling alternative to managing separate peer review solutions for code and documents.

    “This release of Collaborator makes it easier to manage peer reviews across the software development lifecycle as we continue to add support for additional document types,” said Ryan Lloyd, VP of Products, Test and Development at SmartBear. “Teams that have benefited from standardizing their code review process with Collaborator can now easily add PowerPoint and Visio files into their review. This is really valuable for highly-regulated companies that would otherwise need to manually document these reviews.”

    Collaborator 11.3 also introduces “light mode” and “dark mode” UI themes, the ability to create JIRA tickets within the Diff Viewer, and LDAP/AD syncing to easily port over user and group configurations from an existing directory. As development teams continue to adopt new tools and accommodate legacy systems, interoperability has never been more important. Collaborator offers the most connected peer review solution on the market with 21 actively-supported integrations.

    For more information on Collaborator, join the “What’s New in Collaborator 11.3” webinar on May 2, 2018, showcasing all major features in this release. Sign up for the webinar at:

    https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/whats-new-in-collaborator-11-3/

    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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  • Helix Core From Perforce Chosen to Support Agile and DevOps for Transurban’s IoT Urban Road Infrastructure Projects

    With Helix Core, Transurban Can Now Release Larger Deployments Faster – 75% Faster

    MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 26, 2018 – Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, announced that Helix Core is the chosen version control system to support Transurban’s extremely large DevOps-based development projects. Transurban’s projects include express lanes and tunnels in the US and Australia, which incorporate extensive deployment of IoT smart sensors to support their innovative “smart” roads vision.

    Transurban’s technology collects vehicle information from the roadside, then integrates with third-party payment and customer servicing systems. The sophistication of Transurban’s solutions means that development projects involve large amounts of code and other assets. To release large deployments quickly and efficiently, Transurban uses Helix Core to manage all digital content securely in a single source of truth. Large releases now take just a couple of hours.

    Helix Core also supports Transurban’s transition toward Agile and DevOps-based development, including integrations with other systems in the stack, such as Jenkins. Said Matthew de Vanny, Technical Environment Specialist at Transurban, “With Helix Core, our teams can now deploy major releases rapidly, efficiently, and securely. Late in 2017 we had an enormous release when we brought the systems from our Queensland office on board. We completed that release in a weekend, and with our previous methodologies, it wouldn’t have even been deployable,” said de Vanny.

    About Transurban

    Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Transurban develops and manages urban toll road networks in Australia and the USA. A top 20 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), the company has been in business since 1996 and partners with governments to provide infrastructure solutions. Projects include the NorthConnex tunnel in Sydney, the West Gate Tunnel Project in Melbourne, and the 395 Express Lanes in Virginia. The company has 2,000 employees, of which approximately 200 of which use Helix Core.

    About Perforce

    Enterprises across the globe rely on Perforce to build and deliver digital products faster and with higher quality. Perforce offers complete developer collaboration and agile project management tools to accelerate delivery cycles — from agile planning tools to requirements, issues and test management, which then link to all source code, binary assets and artifacts for full build and release tracking and visibility. The company’s version control solutions are well known for securely managing change across all digital content — source code, art files, video files, images, libraries — while supporting the developer and build tools your teams need to be productive, such as Git, Visual Studio, Jenkins, Adobe, Maya and many others. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft, and VMware. The company has offices in Minneapolis, MN, Alameda, CA, Mason, OH, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Germany, and Australia, and sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com.

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  • Rookout Launches Rapid Production Debugging Solution With $4.2m Funding

    The solution collects data on-demand from live code with just a few clicks

    Tel Aviv, 26 April 2018 – Rookout, the rapid production debugging solution, today announced their launch and $4.2 million funding by TLV Partners and Emerge.

    Using Rookout, a company can tackle bugs and understand issues by collecting and pipelining data on-demand, without any need for coding, re-deploying or restarting their applications.

    Tackling a bug or an issue often means writing extra code, testing it, getting it approved, pushing it to production and then often discovering that it still didn’t produce the data needed to solve the problem. This makes bug-hunting and data-exploration a long and complicated process that consumes R&D resources.

    Rookout solves this problem by letting dev teams set up ad-hoc rules inside their production code. These rules work like non-breaking breakpoints, collecting the required data without prior instrumentation. The application keeps running as normal, while the data is collected and then sent immediately to any destination such as alerting systems, monitoring, logging and analytics applications or any generic webhook. The collected data can also be viewed on Rookout’s IDE, allowing the user to close the loop within a single view.

    Already, over a dozen software companies have joined Rookout’s early adopter program and are using it on their production environments. Rookout currently supports Python, JVM and NodeJS; on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and local servers. Rookout can be used with serverless and containerized applications, providing a vital debugging option for cloud-native code.

    Rookout was founded by two Israeli low-level software engineers, Or Weis and Liran Haimovitch. They drew inspiration from their time in elite cyber-units in Israel’s security services where they discovered that visibility of code is key for both attackers and defenders.

    While being challenged by production debugging in other projects they ran, they realized that this practice of visibility could be applied to software development more generally.

    “Fixing bugs has become coupled with the process of deploying new software,” said Rookout CEO Or Weis. “It doesn’t have to be like that. We realized that by separating debugging from the broader development process, dev teams can gain real visibility into their live code, enabling the agility and speed modern software demands.”

    Rona Segev of TLV Partners and Dovi Ollech of Emerge, joined hands to invest $4.2 million in Rookout.

    When we met the founders of Rookout, we were blown away by their vision and product depth,” Said Segev, “The shift to microservices, coupled with the rise of containers and serverless has presented new challenges and opportunities. Rookout presents a completely new approach to data collection.”

    “Rookout’s ability to grab exactly the data you need when you need it answer the challenge of production debugging across platforms” added Ollech.

    About Rookout

    Rookout is the Rapid production debugging solution which collects data on-demand from live code and pipeline 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 on all cloud environments, including serverless applications.

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    Lazer Cohen

    WestRay Communications

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  • Morpheus Data Expands Multi-Cloud DevOps Automation and Enables MSPs

    Industry’s broadest set of integrations provides unified orchestration and self-service provisioning for hybrid IT

    Greenwood Village – April 26, 2018 – Today, Morpheus Data announced updates to its cloud management platform which will help customers reduce tool sprawl while getting more value from existing investments.

    News highlights: 

    • Enhanced automation for Kubernetes, Terraform, and Microsoft ARM
    • New and enhanced cloud connectors for Oracle, Azure, and T-Systems
    • Increasing momentum with managed service providers

    The cloud management platform (CMP) market has evolved in recent years with narrow feature sets giving way to providers who address heterogeneous environments and broad issues including cost optimization, secure self-service provisioning, data protection, and day-2 operations such as logging and monitoring.  Now, customer needs are expanding to include DevOps initiatives.

    According to recent Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research 71 percent of enterprises are leveraging automation as part of IT modernization projects.  “Declarative automation, as found in technologies like Kubernetes and Terraform, is the best way to abstract apps from infrastructure but exposes skill gaps between developers and infrastructure teams”, says Torsten Volk, managing research director at EMA.

    The Morpheus unified multi-cloud orchestration platform combines simple and standardized cloud management with application-centric DevOps automation giving it a unique opportunity to bridge this gap.  Today it extended its lead with several tool and cloud enhancements which expose developer-friendly features with ops-friendly interfaces.

    “Traditional infrastructure-centric CMP offerings have stopped short of truly addressing DevOps needs,” said Brad Parks, VP of Business Development, Morpheus Data.  “With Morpheus, everybody gets what they want – developers, operations, and executives all get to manage their hybrid cloud their way.”

    Improving developer agility with automation enhancements

    Speed of application deployment is driving adoption of automation and container technologies such as Kubernetes (K8s).  However, EMA research indicates less than 10 percent of enterprises plan to leverage Kubernetes in its raw form, without commercial management software on top.  That’s because, maintenance of these tools falls to infrastructure teams without the right skills.   In fact, 43 percent of enterprises list integration with existing tools and skill sets as the number 1 requirement for adoption of containers[i].

    Morpheus helps customers meet this requirement with powerful infrastructure-as-code application blueprints which are completely infrastructure and cloud agnostic, blending the power of declarative scripting with an intuitive graphical interface (GUI) designed for everyday administrators needing a single point of control.   Morpheus also helps corporate IT extract the most value from K8s by enabling teams to easily deploy and manage K8s alongside other technologies.

    With today’s updates, customers can now utilize native K8s scripting as part of Morpheus workflows.  This announcement also extends Morpheus’ own JSON/YAML scripting framework to third party infrastructure-as-code platforms starting with HashiCorp Terraform and Microsoft ARM.   All of these new integrations enable customers to leverage the full power of third-party tools while consolidating analytics, reporting, governance, monitoring, logging, and data protection across all clouds in an easy to manage interface.

    Giving infrastructure more flexibility for multi-cloud and hybrid IT

    In addition to automation, Morpheus reduces complexity by helping customers standardize app-stack deployment across any public or private cloud both on-premises and off.  This balance of standardization and flexibility is critical given that 68 percent of enterprises are pursuing a multi-cloud strategy[ii].

    The latest Morpheus software release brings more multi-cloud options including support for Oracle customers running hybrid IT operations across Oracle VM and Oracle’s public cloud offering.  Morpheus also augmented its native scaling engine for customers who want to utilize native Microsoft Azure Scale Sets in Azure and AzureStack deployments.  For customers in Europe, the company added integration with T-Systems Open Telecom Cloud which blends public-cloud flexibility with private-cloud compliance.  These updates are on top of what is already the broadest set of cloud connectors in the industry.

    Momentum with managed service providers and technology partners

    As the digital transformation landscape continues to accelerate, organizations are recognizing the difficulty of managing an increasingly unpredictable array of cloud options and automation technologies.   Getting it right can mean a significant investment in tools, education, training and skill development.

    This is why many enterprises are turning to managed service providers to fast track transformation projects.  In fact, according to recent research, the global market for managed IT services is growing at 11.5% CAGR and expected to exceed $250 billion by 2021[iii].

    Joining the Morpheus family of MSPs is Exponential-e, a leading provider of high-speed connectivity and managed application services for over 2,800 customers in the United Kingdom.  In combination with Pivotal and Dell Technologies, Exponential-e has selected Morpheus as the core enabler for its innovative cloud services.

    “To create a truly unified service experience, you need to harness the power of a multi-cloud and software-defined operating model”, says Jon Bridges, Head of Cloud for Exponential-e. “Morpheus will help us orchestrate on-premises, private and public cloud services for our customers so they become next-generation internal service providers.”

    Morpheus enables internal IT to simplify service delivery and abstract the complexity of underpinning infrastructure and vendor specific IaaS and PaaS interfaces.  Morpheus is not only 100 percent infrastructure and platform agnostic it’s also multi-tenant and supports white labeling, enabling solution providers to deliver hosted multi-cloud orchestration for their customers.  Exponential-e joins MSPs such as OneNeck, Technologent, Telia, and Ficolo who already utilize Morpheus to power their cloud service offerings.

    For more information, visit www.morpheusdata.com

    Upcoming Events

    For those in the United States you can find us at several events over the next couple of months including Dell Technologies World, ServiceNow Knowledge and HPE Discover.  If you’d like to setup time for a demo please contact us at www.morpheusdata.com/demo or on Twitter @MorpheusDude.

    About Morpheus Data, LLC

    Morpheus Data, LLC is the entity behind the Morpheus unified orchestration platform, the only enterprise software solution to provide a systematic approach to cloud optimization, multi-cloud governance, DevOps automation, and application modernization.  As a one-hundred percent infrastructure and platform agnostic solution, Morpheus provides IT Operations and Developers fully self-service and automated provisioning of bare metal, VM, and containerized applications running on-premises or in the public cloud.  With more built-in integrations and native functionality than any other platform, customers can standardize workflows and reduce tool sprawl while orchestrating existing tools to protect investments.

    [i] Ten Priorities for Container Management and DevOps in Production and at Scale in 2018, Enterprise Management Associates

    [ii] 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise, Cloud Transformation, Vendor Evaluations, 2017

    [iii] Managed IT Service Providers:  Global Markets to 2021, January 2018, ResearchAndMarkets.

  • Catchpoint Releases Free Benchmarking Service to Provide Competitive Performance Comparisons Across Industries

    New York, NY – (April 23, 2018) Catchpoint™, the digital experience monitoring expert, today announced that its new free benchmarking service is now available, allowing any organization to gain a glimpse into the performance (speed, availability) of its website, mobile site or web applications compared to industry-specific leaders.

    “One of the biggest challenges facing IT teams is establishing benchmarks for their digital performance,” says Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and Co-Founder, Catchpoint. “How are you supposed to set goals and know what needs to be improved without first knowing where you stand against the competition? This service will establish these baselines for all organizations as they strive to improve key performance indicators and thus their digital customer experience.”

    Catchpoint’s benchmarking service addresses the growing complexity of modern digital service delivery systems, measuring and providing snapshots of real-time performance data across key metrics including DNS response, server response, webpage load time and more. Catchpoint will also provide industry-specific benchmarking reports on a quarterly basis to further help organizations better understand web performance trends within their respective industries.

    Catchpoint is purpose-built for digital transformation initiatives, giving organizations an accurate view of the end-user digital experience combined with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled analytics to precisely and proactively identify and fix issues before end users are impacted.

    “Performance standards and challenges can vary from industry to industry,” says Daoudi. “By providing more data and context to organizations, this benchmarking service will help them understand their own performance in relation to their industry standard and identify areas in need of improvement, ultimately helping drive their business success and be part of the customer-centric IT changes happening.”

    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.