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  • ScyllaDB Secures $10 Million in Series C Funding

    High-Performance Distributed Database Company Continues Rapid Growth, Powers Real-Time Big Data for Organizations across Industries and Geographies

    PALO ALTO, Calif. — April 25, 2018 — ScyllaDB, the real-time big data database company, today announced that it has closed a $10 million Series C funding round led by TLV Partners. Previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, and Western Digital also participated in the round. This latest round raises ScyllaDB’s total funding to $35 million. In conjunction with the new funding, ScyllaDB will add Shahar Tzafrir of TLV Partners to the company’s board of directors.

    “ScyllaDB has quickly built a thriving community of users who recognize the architectural advantages of the Scylla database,” said Shahar Tzafrir of TLV Partners. “Beyond its distinct performance advantages, Scylla is unique in its ability to fully exploit available hardware resources, leading to a dramatic reduction in TCO. That’s one of the reasons so many organizations are migrating to Scylla from Cassandra, MySQL, Hbase, MongoDB, Redis and others. We are very excited to join the team and to guide the company as it moves forward.”

    Scylla is an open source drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra. Its unique,  close-to-the-hardware design delivers scale-up performance of 1,000,000 IOPS per node, scale out to hundreds of nodes, and a 99% tail latency of less than 1 msec. As a result, Scylla users can significantly reduce the hardware resources they require, lowering both the total cost of ownership and complexity of their systems.

    ScyllaDB has continued its strong momentum with customers and partners over the past year. Scylla is in production at hundreds of leading organizations, including AppNexus, AdGear, CERN, Discord, IBM, Nauto, Ola Cabs, Samsung and Ytel. It is used for a variety of business-critical purposes, including as a key value store, time-series database, large blob store, and graph database backend. The company is also partnering with industry leaders such as Qualcomm, IBM Compose, Samsung SDS, and many more.

    “Scylla delivers tremendous value in a number of industries and a wide variety of use cases,” said Amit Karp, partner at Bessemer Ventures. “The company has quickly taken a technology leadership role in the industry, having pioneered a highly performant database that’s built from the  ground up for real-time big data systems. Rapid adoption by leading companies like IBM speaks to the architectural superiority of the Scylla database.”

    ScyllaDB will use the additional financing to help accelerate its entry into the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) market, leveraging the early success of the Scylla open source database and the company’s acquisition of DBaaS intellectual property in October of last year.

    “Organizations are looking for their development teams to spend less time on the database and more time focused on their business,” said Dor Laor, CEO of ScyllaDB. “We will continue to add more functionality to our product set, and later this year we will launch our database-as-a-service offering as the next logical step for our high-performance NoSQL database. We’re pleased to see that our investors share our excitement for the future of our company.”

    About ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB is the real-time big data database company. Fully compatible with Apache Cassandra, Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity to 10X that of Cassandra. AppNexus, Samsung, Olacabs, Grab, Investing.com, Snapfish, Zen.ly, IBM’s Compose and many more leading companies have adopted Scylla to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs. ScyllaDB was founded by the team responsible for the KVM hypervisor and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Wing Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, Western Digital Capital, Samsung Ventures, and TLV Partners. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

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  • Jelastic Shield 5.4 Upgraded Cloud Protection with Firewall Management and Private Network Isolation

    Gaining more cloud security and managing access to the applications with improved user experience

    Palo Alto, Calif., March 24, 2018 – Jelastic, Inc., Multi-Cloud DevOps PaaS, announced a new product release named Shield 5.4, highlighting its main target on security enhancements. Within this release, the platform was upgraded with a new firewall management system, private network isolation and a set of other features demanded by customers.

    “The guarantee of security is considered as one of the main requirements among our cloud customers, and that’s why we keep improving Jelastic platform in this direction by adding private network isolation and enhanced functionality for firewall management,” Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic CEO.

    One of the major features of Jelastic 5.4 release is a newly implemented possibility to manage inbound and outbound firewall rules on the container level through a convenient graphical interface. A number of default rules is automatically added to the inbound section to make the node operable.

    “5.4 version bought us possibility to more fully satisfy our customers, especially financial industry, with security level and access management. Also, it is worth mentioning the added capacity to use post and pre-deploy script that simplifies DevOps processes. Jelastic become even more complete and powerful solution for developers! We love it,” Matthieu Robin, Hidora CEO.

    Also, an automatic network isolation was implemented to prohibit any unallowed connections between different environments. This results in another essential newly added possibility to create secure environment groups, intended to isolate environments of a single account from each other. Platform automatically creates a dedicated IP set for each isolated group, which is composed of the appropriate containers internal addresses. This allows to control access between nodes of each environment.

    “Security is one of our main concerns as a cloud hosting company. We want to provide the best security features for our users and that is why we are glad to make this new Jelastic platform release available at Canadian market,” Alexandre Barfuhok, Sphere48 CEO

    In confines of Jelastic Shield version, there were added a number of other demanded features and improvements, among them:

    • Extra Environment Layers for All Supported Middleware Stacks
    • Go Language Support via a Specially Packaged Middleware Container
    • Webhooks for Application Build and Deploy Operations
    • Built-In Web SSH Console
    • HTTP 2.0 Support for Jelastic Shared and Dedicated Load Balancers
    • UI/UX Improvements
    • Deployment Improvements
    • Cloud Scripting Engine Optimization for Improved Serverless User Experience

    “The released features provide the functionality to apply appropriate security policy to container environments. So now the companies and users can block all types of access for more effective protection of their applications. We are excited about a new platform version launch and a possibility to reach the highest level of customers satisfaction,” Sidimar Carniel, Saphir CEO.

    A full list of the Jelastic 5.4. release features, improvements and bug fixes with detailed description can be reviewed in Release Notes. A newly launched product version can be already tried out by registering at one of the upgraded Jelastic service providers.

    About Jelastic

    Jelastic is a robust solution for hosting providers, enterprises and developers combining the benefits of PaaS and CaaS in a single turnkey package. Its rich interface simplifies complex cloud deployments by automating the creation, scaling, clustering and security updates of microservices or monolithic applications. Jelastic has a unique pay-as-you-use pricing model and is available as public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud in more than 60 data centers worldwide. The platform provides support of Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go environments and custom Docker containers. More info is at https://jelastic.com

  • Yahoo Japan US Subsidiary Actapio Takes Cloud Native Approach to Upgrade On-Premise Infrastructure to Manage High Scale Web Workloads through Heptio Partnership

    Partnership exemplifies YOY growth highlighted by scores of new customers and accelerated employee hiring

    Seattle, Wash. ‒ April 23, 2018 at 6 am Eastern Time ‒ Today, Heptio, in collaboration with Actapio, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation, announces Gimbal, an open source initiative to unify and scale the flow of network traffic into hybrid environments consisting of multiple Kubernetes clusters and traditional infrastructure technologies including OpenStack.

    Gimbal removes obstacles for companies looking to adopt Kubernetes in their environments by routing high volume traffic into both Kubernetes clusters and existing solutions like OpenStack that often live side by side in the enterprise infrastructure. This cloud native solution is tailored for the highly dynamic nature of managing Kubernetes workloads, which expensive, existing solutions are not designed to do. By using Gimbal, companies can leverage the agility of cloud native systems to modernize legacy infrastructure, giving them faster time-to-market at reduced cost.

    The advantages of Gimbal include:

    • Cost effectiveness. Gimbal is a software solution that runs on commodity hardware and serves the same function as much more expensive purpose built hardware solutions. This creates a significantly more affordable solution for real world environments.
    • Simplicity and flexibility. Gimbal scales for multi-team Kubernetes clusters of all sizes with reduced complexity and increased reliability. Being API driven, it integrates easily with legacy and cloud native systems.
    • Cloud Native first; legacy friendly. Existing solutions were not designed to support dynamic, rapidly scaling cloud native deployments. Gimbal was built from the ground up to seamlessly integrate with Kubernetes and handle dynamic workloads. It also integrates with existing systems to create a unified traffic tier that can span new and old back-end systems.
    • Multi-cloud ready. Gimbal enables load balancing on any cloud on-premises, on cloud platforms where Kubernetes is deployed, and as a network across multiple clouds. It can serve as an alternative to cloud provided load balancers as a way to ensure that workloads are fully decoupled from the infrastructure they run on.

    “We approached Heptio to help us modernize our infrastructure with Kubernetes without ripping out legacy investments in OpenStack and other back-end systems,” said Norifumi Matsuya, CEO and President at Actapio. “Application delivery at scale is key to our business. We needed faster service discovery and canary deployment capability that provides instant rollback and performance measurement. Gimbal enables our developers to address these challenges, which at the macro-level helps them increase their productivity and optimize system performance.”

    “This collaboration demonstrates the full potential of cloud native technologies and open source as a way to not only manage applications, but address broader infrastructure considerations,” said Craig McLuckie, founder and CEO of Heptio. “Kubernetes is a natural starting point, but integrating it fully into the real world is still an evolving story. Systems like Gimbal help to pragmatically bridge existing systems and new cloud native infrastructure like Kubernetes. We have been thrilled to work with Actapio to look more broadly at traffic management.”

    The Actapio implementation underscores Heptio’s business momentum since emerging from stealth in November of 2016. Backed by Accel Partners and Madrona Venture Group, the company saw revenue grow 140 percent from Q4 2017 to Q1 2018 ‒ part of its year over year momentum of onboarding scores of new customers. The company also quadrupled its employee headcount from Q1 2017.

    Gimbal is currently in alpha and under active development. Heptio and Actapio look forward to working with the open source community to build a flexible system.

    • Download here link
    • Technical details of the project are available here

    Attendees of KubeCon Europe can also connect with Heptio for:

    • 1:1 expert conversations and demos at Heptio booth S-C29
    • Boothside Q&A with Actapio
    • Boothside book signing for “Cloud Native Infrastructure”
    • Sessions start on Tuesday with “How We Built Contour” and run through Friday (all nine talks here)

    About Heptio

    Heptio unleashes the technology-driven enterprise with products and services that help customers realize the full potential of Kubernetes and transform IT into a business accelerator. The company’s training, support and professional services speed integration of Kubernetes and related technologies into the fabric of enterprise IT, while its products reduce the cost and complexity of running these systems in production environments. To learn more visit heptio.com.

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  • Pivotal Software, Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering

    April 20, 2018 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pivotal Software, Inc. (“Pivotal”) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 37,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $15.00 per share. Pivotal is offering 33,117,000 shares of its Class A common stock and General Electric, the selling stockholder, is offering 3,883,000 shares of Class A common stock (which represents approximately 20% of General Electric’s position in Pivotal). Pivotal shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on April 20, 2018 under the ticker symbol “PVTL.” The offering is expected to close on April 24, 2018, subject to customary closing conditions.

    Pivotal has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 5,550,000 shares of its Class A common stock.

    Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Citigroup are acting as lead book-running managers for the offering. BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit Suisse, RBC Capital Markets, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities are acting as book-running managers. KeyBanc Capital Markets and William Blair as well as Mischler Financial Group, Inc., Ramirez & Co., Inc., Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C. and The Williams Capital Group, L.P. are acting as co-managers.

    The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. A copy of the final prospectus may be obtained from Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014 or Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, Attn: Prospectus Department.

    A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with, and declared effective by, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

    About Pivotal

    Founded in 2013, Pivotal Software, Inc. combines our leading cloud-native platform, tools, and methodology to empower the world’s largest organizations to adapt to change and build great software. Our technology unleashes developer productivity, while fulfilling our mission to transform how the world builds software.

     

  • GuardiCore Enables Secure Rapid Container Deployment

    GuardiCore Centra Security Platform Reduces Compliance Risks, Enforces Security Policies Within Containerized Applications and Workloads

    SAN FRANCISCO and TEL AVIV, Israel, April 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — GuardiCore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced several new capabilities within the GuardiCore Centra Security Platform designed to help security architects visualize, segment, detect and remediate threats in containerized applications or workloads while maintaining development agility, application performance and scalability.

    Leveraging its pedigree in data center and cloud security innovations, GuardiCore protects containerized applications, empowering DevSecOps teams with various critical capabilities without hindering speed or hampering creativity. The GuardiCore Centra Security Platform secures the production and operational elements of containers by enabling IT security teams to see every container, pod and service, visualize their communication flows and secure them with micro-segmentation policies, while also detecting attacks and demonstrating compliance at scale in any infrastructure without any performance impact.

    “As enterprises race to shift their data and applications to low cost, highly agile and scalable cloud platforms, they are increasingly relying on containers to help fuel that agility and scalability. However, the lack of visibility into containers impairs their ability to secure applications and workloads in run-time/production environments,” said Pavel Gurvich, Co-founder and CEO, GuardiCore. “Just as virtual machines and virtual servers changed how security looks into and protects networks and servers, containers pose even more challenges for those charged with securing them. The addition of container-specific capabilities to GuardiCore’s award-winning cloud workload protection platform enables the modern enterprise to deploy containers as much as, and as fast as, they want, without sacrificing security. Applying the innovative capabilities of our platform to address specific security challenges presented by containers, GuardiCore provides the visibility and scalability enterprises and service providers need to enforce security controls, solve compliance challenges, detect, investigate and contain threats.”

    Support for Container Security in Complicated Cloud Workloads

    “Cloud workload protection platform vendors need to be able to provide visibility into containers and to distinguish and apply policies, based on individual containers, including network segmentation. This is an emerging critical requirement for organizations using containers to support microservices-style architectures and rapid DevSecOps workflows,” wrote Neil MacDonald, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner in the report, Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms.

    GuardiCore extends Centra’s real-time visibility capabilities to include containers, including the ability to fully incorporate container orchestration, metadata and the ability to leverage native pod labels. Security and application development teams can view communication flows down to the process-level within pods and deploy granular micro-segmentation policies to protect and control communication flows against attacks and misconfigurations. In addition, the platform provides the ability to detect threats within individual containers and, in the event a container is compromised, quarantine it and prevent the spread of the attack. With these added capabilities, GuardiCore broadens its already extensive platform support to include Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes containers, providing an integrated solution for all data center and cloud environments.

    Operationalizing Cloud Workload Protection and Micro-Segmentation

    In addition to capabilities that secure containerized applications, GuardiCore is making available new features in the Centra Security Platform which enable enterprises and service providers to operationalize cloud workload protection and micro-segmentation. These features include role-based access controls and the ability to save, share and recall visualization maps. Role-based access control allows administrators to tailor the scope of access based on specific labels such as a business unit, business application or workload. Save, share and recall visualization maps allow security operations personnel to save commonly used maps of communication flows, saving time and effort, enabling collaboration, and accelerating incident investigation.

    Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms,” Neil MacDonald, 26 March 2018. 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 GuardiCore 

    GuardiCore is an innovator in data center and cloud security focused on delivering more accurate and effective ways to protect critical applications from compromise through unmatched visibility, micro-segmentation and real-time breach detection and response. Developed by cyber security experts in their field, GuardiCore is changing the way organizations are fighting cyber attacks. For more information, visit www.guardicore.com.

     

  • Tripwire Debuts Early Access Program for Container Analyzer Service

    Security solution expands vulnerability visibility across DevOps life cycle

    PORTLAND, Ore. – April 16, 2018 – Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, today announced the debut of its Container Analyzer Service. This DevOps solution for scanning vulnerabilities in the build phase is now available for beta customers.

    The early access program for Tripwire’s Container Analyzer Service now embeds security at the beginning of the DevOps process. During the build phase, it can be used to perform complete vulnerability analysis of Docker images, systematically approving images or preventing further use of them.

    “With the new Container Analyzer Service, Tripwire helps address security needs throughout the entire DevOps life cycle – from build to production,” said Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire. “It’s critical that security controls work at the speed of DevOps, and we’re excited to provide security teams with the tools that help them address the continuous and rapid release of new applications and services.”

    Images are built earlier in the DevOps process and are the basis for building a container – a runtime instance of an image. The Container Analyzer Service combines with continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools to perform vulnerability scanning at each layer of the Docker image.

    This new capability builds upon Tripwire’s existing capabilities for scanning online, offline and non-running Docker containers later in the DevOps life cycle. Scanning for vulnerabilities throughout the life cycle is important as change happens frequently and rapidly through the DevOps process.

    In addition to delivering this enhanced visibility into vulnerabilities, Tripwire also provides integration with the DevOps toolchain for initiating scans, securing the build pipeline infrastructure, and monitoring for changes throughout the continuous deployment life cycle.

    To learn more about the early access program for Tripwire’s Container Analyzer Service, please visit: https://www.tripwire.com/solutions/container-security/container-analyzer-service/

    About Tripwire

    Tripwire is a leading provider of integrity assurance solutions that improve security, compliance and IT operations for enterprises, industrial organizations, service providers and government agencies. Tripwire solutions are based on high-fidelity asset visibility and deep endpoint intelligence combined with business context; together, these solutions integrate and automate security and IT operations. Tripwire’s enterprise-class portfolio includes file integrity monitoring, configuration management, asset discovery, vulnerability management and log collection that supports all widely used industry-standard frameworks.

    Learn more at www.tripwire.com get security news, trends and insights at www.tripwire.com/blog, or follow us on Twitter @TripwireInc.

    Contact:

    Tripwire, Inc.

    Ray Lapena, +1 714-624-8862

    PR Manager

    rlapena@tripwire.com

     

  • Rainforest QA Brings Simple and Secure Online Payment Testing to Ecommerce Industry with Virtual Credit Cards

    Ecommerce brands like Delivery.com, Volusion and RocketLawyer trust Rainforest QA to deliver their customers a seamless digital payment experience

    SAN FRANCISCO – April 17, 2018 – Rainforest QA, the leader in on-demand quality assurance (QA) solutions, today announced Virtual Credit Cards (VCC), a new, patent-pending innovation allowing companies to rapidly and reliably test credit card payments on their web or mobile app. VCC was designed to help ecommerce developer teams move at the speed of continuous delivery by securely testing their payment flow in minutes, so they can focus on getting new features to market faster.

    As ecommerce companies scale their business, it is essential for them to have a reliable means of processing credit card transactions. However, testing credit card functionality for ecommerce websites and mobile apps is critical and yet a very time-consuming process for development teams. Without a reliable credit card testing solution that keeps pace with their needs, development teams risk shipping bugs that lead to failed payments and lost revenue. VCC allows customers to test payment flows by linking virtual credit cards generated by Rainforest QA to real, dedicated accounts from which the credit balance is drawn, replicating a real buyer’s shopping experience. This innovative approach empowers development teams to securely test their entire transaction flow, from point of sale to payment completion, in minutes instead of several days when compared to manual methods.

    VCC is currently patent pending. Once issued, the patent will cover Rainforest’s advanced proprietary payment functionality, making VCC the only on-demand, automated online payment testing solution that scales with the pace of production.

    “As an all-in-one ecommerce platform provider, the ability for us to test our checkout system with live transactions is critical,” said Taylor Martin, Software Analyst at Volusion. ”Our community of over 180,000 entrepreneurs trust our software to help build their companies, and with Rainforest QA’s Virtual Credit Cards, we no longer need to worry about buggy payment flows that could potentially disrupt their business.”

    “Credit card testing needs to adapt with the the rapid growth of ecommerce and shift towards continuous delivery,” said Derek Choy, CIO at Rainforest. “Rainforest QA Virtual Credit Cards represents an important step in closing this gap by giving ecommerce development teams the ability to integrate credit card testing directly into their workflows. As a result, they can assure their business an online payments experience that meets their customers’ expectations.”

    To find out more about Rainforest and the Virtual Credit Cards feature, click here. To explore how some of Rainforest’s customers are using it today, click here.

    Resources

    About Rainforest

    Rainforest is changing the way QA is done in an era of continuous delivery. Our on-demand QA solution improves the customer experience by enabling development teams to discover significantly more problems before code hits production. Hundreds of companies including Adobe, Oracle, and Solarwinds use Rainforest to automate their QA testing process and easily integrate it with their development workflow via a simple API. Headquartered in San Francisco, Rainforest is a 2012 Y Combinator graduate funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and SVB Capital among others. For more information, visit https://www.rainforestqa.com.

     

  • Applitools Raises $31M to Advance Application Visual Management (AVM) Category

    Digital Transformation drives rapid market expansion of Visual AI from automated UI testing and monitoring to holistic support of all visual aspects of software applications

     

    SAN MATEO, Calif., April 17, 2018 – Applitools (https://applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced it has raised $31 million in Series C funding led by OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, with participation from its existing investors Sierra Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, iAngels, and La Maison. Applitools will use this investment to fuel market expansion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Visual Testing and Monitoring solution by scaling its R&D, Operations, and Sales. With tens of thousands of users across more than 300 companies, Applitools Eyes recently crossed a total of 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations. Since it was founded in 2013, Applitools has raised more than $46 million.

     

    Read more about the next phase of Applitools’ company journey at: (https://applitools.com/the-next-phase-of-the-applitools-journey).

     

    “Our mission is to help customers automate all visual aspects of application delivery, and address the growing importance of providing exceptional digital experiences across any device, browser, operating system, and language,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “We are excited to partner with OpenView to scale our enterprise-grade platform to support digital transformation with the velocity and quality that businesses demand.”

     

    Applitools developed the first and only Visual AI Engine that mimics the human eye and brain in a reliable and scalable fashion. Applitools Eyes (https://applitools.com/features), the company’s Automated Visual AI Testing and Monitoring Platform, leverages the largest data set of UI validations in the world and achieves 99.999 percent accuracy, i.e. less than 10 false detections in a million comparisons. The company’s AI engine continues to evolve through machine learning by analyzing millions of new images on a daily basis.

     

    Applitools’ Automated Visual AI Testing and Monitoring Platform v10 is available now. To learn more and open a free trial account, visit: (https://applitools.com/users/register).

     

    “If there’s a single commonality of the fastest growing companies it’s that they understand their brand is the sum of every experience a customer has with you,” said Bill Macaitis, former CMO at Slack, Zendesk and SVP Marketing at Salesforce. “The need to deliver delightful, incredible digital experiences to millions of customers, 24/7, on a breadth of devices, browsers, and operating systems can be daunting. Applitools makes it easy via their Application Visual Management (AVM) approach, which enables automated validation of every aspect of the visual user experience. Applitools is a game changer.”

     

    “OpenView is thrilled to partner with the Applitools team as they solve for one of the few remaining bottlenecks in the continuous delivery process – visual testing,” said Jim Baum, Venture Partner at OpenView who joins the Applitools board. “For modern enterprises, a web or mobile application is the face of their brand and Applitools provides a crucial protective layer.” Jim will bring world class operational experience to Applitools’ Board of Directors, as he was CEO of Netezza and took the company public and later drove its acquisition by IBM in 2010 for nearly $2B.

     

    To help guide Test Automation Engineers, DevOps Teams, Front End Developers, Manual QA experts, and Digital Transformation executives, Applitools created Application Visual Management – a new category framework that simplifies and automates all visual aspects of application creation, testing, delivery and monitoring. The goal is to help shorten application delivery cycles and improve software quality because what the customer sees is what matters most. By helping prevent visual flaws from occurring in the application delivery process, teams can avoid the issues that frequently result from events such as browser and operating system updates, new devices penetrating the marketplace, and the effects of dynamic content on the web.

     

    Today’s DevOps toolchain only supports the functional aspects of modern application delivery in areas like testing, monitoring, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), accessibility, security, bug tracking, collaboration, source control, and more. AVM applies Visual AI technology to add automated visual validation of all the visual aspects of application delivery to the DevOps toolchain, allowing acceleration and full automation of the entire delivery process. Fortune 100 companies have already realized significant benefits through the use of Visual AI technology and those benefits can now be offered to any Enterprise or SMB. This round of funding will be used to expand the offering with new capabilities and to target users across the entire software development, delivery, and monitoring toolchain.

     

    To learn more about AVM, download the Application Visual Management whitepaper for free at: (http://go.applitools.com/AVM-Category-Whitepaper.html).

     

    About Applitools

    Applitools is on a mission to help Test Automation Engineers, DevOps Teams, Frontend Developers, and Digital Transformation Executives release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way that enables Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI-CD). Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems and screen sizes. Applitools has more than 300 customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and more. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

    About OpenView

    OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, helps build software companies into market leaders. Through its Expansion Platform, OpenView helps companies hire the best talent, acquire and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets. Their focus on the expansion stage makes OpenView uniquely suited to provide truly tailored operational support to its portfolio companies. Learn more about OpenView at openviewpartners.com.

     

  • Akamai Announces New Enhancements to World’s Largest and Most Trusted Cloud Delivery Platform

    Strategic platform updates designed to support secure cloud adoption, superior web and application performance and availability, high-quality and scalable video streaming and streamlined application development

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – April 16, 2018 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, today announced significant enhancements that are designed to improve website, app, and network security without compromising the performance of digital applications. With these additions, Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is architected to serve as a crucial foundation for digital business, with security and agile deployment capabilities supporting digital transformation, next-generation network architectures, and increasingly popular DevOps workflows.

    Today’s modern enterprise organization is operating within a digital landscape full of risk and uncertainty. To maintain productivity, security and competitive differentiation, organizations must take steps to evolve their overarching network architecture.

    “Akamai has spent the last twenty years building and improving the largest, most reliable cloud delivery infrastructure on the market,” said Ashutosh Kulkarni, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Web Security and Performance, Akamai. “We understand that our customers are operating in an increasingly competitive, fast-moving digital environment. To help them drive differentiation and value with their customers, the Akamai platform is providing automation, tools and technology to securely move more applications to the cloud, streamline the delivery of seamless web and mobile experiences, and improve developer agility without compromising security or quality across hybrid environments.”

    New Enhancements to Combat Security Risks, Including Those From Bots

    As businesses move their digital operations to the cloud, systems are exposed to the risk of DDoS attacks, application-level attacks, and the increasing number of threats posed by bots. Akamai’s 2017 State of the Internet Security Report found that more than 40 percent of online login attempts are malicious, and the Ponemon Institute reports breaches based on this attack vector can, on average, cost a digital business $60 million a year.

    New enhancements to the Akamai platform are designed to manage the growing challenge posed by bots and mitigate the threats posed by credential abuse. Akamai Bot Manager has added capabilities to protect apps and APIs, including a client SDK for mobile applications. For larger botnets that threaten to overwhelm organizations’ apps and infrastructure through volumetric DDoS attacks, Akamai is deploying additional capacity to its scrubbing centers to mitigate the ever-growing volume of DDoS attacks that have been threatening digital businesses.” Akamai offers secure browsing and support for HTTPS everywhere with TLS 1.3 and unparalleled visibility into evolving threats and threat actors via enhanced security analytics.

    Secure access in a Zero Trust era

    As the traditional corporate security perimeter dissolves and enterprise applications move to the cloud, secure unified access and single sign-on have become an imperative. Akamai’s Enterprise Application Access is designed to enable IT and security teams to move towards a Zero Trust security architecture, while simplifying secure access and reducing the attack surface associated with cloud migration, the dissolving corporate perimeter, and an increasingly mobile workforce. 

    Fast, secure web and mobile experiences

    According to data from Akamai’s Retail Performance Report, a two-second delay in web page load time increases bounce rates by 103 percent, and 53 percent of mobile browsers will leave a page that takes more than three seconds to load.

    As application architectures evolve and digital applications become more complex, it is increasingly challenging for businesses to ensure consistently high customer experiences. Akamai’s newly-deployed features have enhanced its platform’s ability to monitor, optimize, and validate application performance with the addition of perceived performance, page construction, and application delivery metrics to its mPulse real user monitoring solution.

    Once issues are identified, features inherent to several solutions are designed to ensure the integrity of application engagement and experience, including: the script management and resource optimization features of the Ion acceleration solution, digital asset optimization capabilities and support for the Brotli compression algorithm, Image Manager optimization, and network optimization capabilities in an enhanced mobile application performance SDK.

    “Customer experience is critical for our business and we are excited to be working with Akamai to understand how web performance is impacting and driving our key business metrics across our many global sites,” said John Paris, Service Manager, Skyscanner. “We can now monitor and optimize the digital experience using actionable insights from mPulse RUM that help us prioritize fixes and enhancements that will deliver the most business impact.”

    The intersection of DevOps and Security: DevSecOps

    Additional new platform features address the need for infusing security into DevOps, as more enterprises work to find that balance between accelerated development cycles and the mindset that “security is everybody’s responsibility”. Akamai has added support for scripting to automate application security using its flagship web application firewall, Kona Site Defender, as well as improved management and versioning support for API protection. In addition, the Akamai API Gateway provides an integrated solution architected to accelerate, secure, and manage APIs, including the ability to expose, authenticate, and manage access to APIs to maximize revenue and prevent misuse and abuse.

    Quality at scale for OTT Content and Advertising

    Akamai continues to focus on bringing the quality, performance and reliability of traditional broadcast television to the Internet, while protecting pay-TV and OTT service providers, broadcasters and consumers from a growing number of cyber threats. Recent innovations in streaming media delivery, monetization and security include: Media Services Live, featuring liveOrigin™ functionality, which significantly drives down latency while maintaining exceptional video quality; its Broadcast Operations Control Center real-time monitoring and issue detection service; Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) capabilities to help scale addressable advertising; and security solutions designed to help ensure service and content availability.

    “Building trust is at the core of Akamai’s offerings. Not only trust that we are delivering the highest possible performance for web or media content, but also that the content is secure against theft and disruption,” said Rick McConnell, President & General Manager, Web Division at Akamai. “As our customers digitally transform their businesses and meet the demands of their users for rich, high-quality content, Akamai is committed to helping them deliver an exceptional and secure experience.”

    To learn more about the Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform, visit: https://www.akamai.com/spring2018.

    About Akamai

    As the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai’s massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, giving customers superior performance and threat protection. Akamai’s portfolio of web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions are supported by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring. To learn why the top financial institutions, e-commerce leaders, media & entertainment providers, and government organizations trust Akamai please visit www.akamai.com,blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter.

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  • NeuVector 2.0 Automates Kubernetes Security Incident Detection and Response

    Release enables enterprises to deploy Kubernetes with confidence by automating security and adding protection from new threat vectors

    San Jose, CA – April 12, 2018 – NeuVector, the leader in Kubernetes security delivering the first and only multi-vector container firewall, today announced NeuVector 2.0. The enhanced security solution further protects Kubernetes environments by building on the unique NeuVector run-time security automation, which combines east-west traffic visibility with container process monitoring and vulnerability scanning. NeuVector 2.0 adds important new capabilities that include a Kubernetes incident response system alongside advanced process and file system protections to secure against new attack vectors.

    NeuVector 2.0 will be available for demo at RSA Conference 2018 in San Francisco, April 16-20 (booth #4910).

    Enterprises require fast and decisive responses when security incidents and potential attacks occur within Kubernetes deployments. NeuVector 2.0 deploys within an organization’s existing security processes to rapidly address and mitigate ongoing container threats. When NeuVector detects threats and vulnerabilities, the new auto-response rules – built to address common container attacks and security alerts – instantly provide response actions to protect containers and generate alerts.

    These rules can also be customized to match criteria such as specific container vulnerability profiles, or set to address suspicious activity across multiple threat vectors – including the container network, processes, or file system. NeuVector 2.0 provides a unique range of incident responses, with full capabilities to quarantine compromised containers, generate custom notifications, and whitelist non-critical events. Using NeuVector 2.0, enterprises can fully address container security events and protect their applications, container services, and infrastructure from multi-vector attacks.

    NeuVector 2.0 also adds new automated protections that detect exploits within containers, such as suspicious processes or file system activities. The security solution automatically calculates a baseline of container processes, whitelists legitimate activity, and alerts on any deviation from the baseline. Any installation of malicious packages, libraries, or new executables – or any modification to sensitive files – triggers NeuVector to scan the container for vulnerabilities and alert on the suspicious activity. These automatic protections do not require configuration but do allow for easy customization of whitelist/blacklist rules as desired. The new capabilities bolster NeuVector’s multi-vector firewall by adding deeper insights into activities within Kubernetes deployments, further safeguarding containers from process and file system attack vectors.

    “The highly dynamic nature of Kubernetes environments makes robust and responsive threat automation a critical requirement to enterprise security,” said Fei Huang, CEO, NeuVector. “The release of NeuVector 2.0 offers rapid detection and response that addresses security threats as they occur, while protecting systems from process and file system-based attacks. We focus on continually automating the real-time security of Kubernetes deployments for enterprises using our solution.”

    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-prem 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, and the company is partners with AWS, Docker, IBM, Rancher, Red Hat, and others. Founded by industry veterans from Fortinet, VMware, and Trend Micro, NeuVector has developed patent-pending behavioral learning for container security.

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