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  • CloudBees Names Shawn Ahmed As Chief Marketing Officer

    CloudBees, the enterprise software delivery company, today announced Shawn Ahmed as chief marketing officer. The appointment comes at a time of rapid growth in the company’s history as CloudBees surpasses $100M in revenue and elevates its go-to-market strategy to help enterprises and government agencies accelerate innovation and streamline the complexities of software delivery. Ahmed joined CloudBees in 2018 and has served as senior vice president and general manager, products and solutions marketing. Ahmed played an integral role in repositioning the company’s individual products to a software delivery platform uniquely suited to the needs of global enterprises.

    In his role as CMO, Ahmed will focus on strengthening the CloudBees brand and establishing a powerful demand generation engine to fuel sales and customer satisfaction at every stage of the customer journey. “Shawn’s years of experience in tech-forward companies and his deep knowledge of the DevOps industry make him the ideal marketing leader to help accelerate our growth to $200M and beyond,” said Stephen DeWitt, CEO of CloudBees. “Shawn has spent a great deal of time with our customers and has a unique lens through which to envision the future of our marketing organization with a customer-first mindset. Our goal is to help customers create increased business value through their investments in software and Shawn’s role is critical to our long term success and growth.”

    Prior to CloudBees, Ahmed was CEO and president of Pivotus (acquired by Kony), head of business analytics at Splunk and vice president and head of enterprise information management at SAP.  “Enterprises are facing tremendous pressure to deliver powerful software capabilities faster than ever before, but with heightened quality, security and governance requirements,” said Ahmed. “CloudBees is the strategic partner to help our customers unravel the complexities of software delivery to make them more nimble, more profitable and more competitive in a rapidly changing world. The DevOps industry is at a watershed moment and I’m excited to create and lead a best-in-class marketing organization to meet this moment and help our customers deliver more value to their customers through the power of software.”

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  • Perfecto by Perforce Advances Shift-Left Mobile Testing at Scale, Powers Early Detection of Issues and Faster Feedback With Virtual Devices

    With virtual device testing available in the Perfecto’s cloud-based Intelligent Test Automation platform, businesses can accelerate release velocity by empowering developers with fast feedback

    MINNEAPOLIS, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, announced today the availability of virtual devices (Android emulators and iOS simulators) as part of the comprehensive device lab within Perfecto’s Intelligent Test Automation platform.

    “By strategically testing on virtual devices, organizations give developers faster feedback, so they can catch and fix issues quickly without interrupting their workflows,” said Eran Kinsbruner, DevOps evangelist at Perforce. “Virtual devices complement real device testing later in the cycle to deliver a powerful, comprehensive combination for getting feedback quickly without compromising application quality.”

    With Perfecto’s new iOS simulators and Android emulators, mobile app developers and testers can perform manual and Appium-based test automation in parallel, in the cloud, and across different geographies.

    The feature is announced following highly successful implementations with several Perfecto customers.

    “Combining real device testing along with emulators and simulators at the appropriate phases in the development cycle allowed us to maintain app quality and speed up our testing efforts,” said one Perfecto Fortune 500 customer. “The scale and reliability we have achieved with Perfecto is remarkable.”

    With Perfecto, the fast feedback enabled by virtual devices is accelerated by intelligent dashboards. Teams testing on virtual devices within Perfecto have the same access to the platform’s AI-driven reporting and analytics, which reduce the noise created by false positives, detect root causes, and provide a single place for managers, QA, and developers to align on all quality metrics.

    This latest release comes only weeks after Perfecto announced support for the developer-friendly Cypress framework and scriptless testing as part of its expanded E2E web testing capabilities.

    To learn more, visit perfecto.io.

    About Perforce  
    Perforce powers innovation at unrivaled scale. Perforce solutions future-proof competitive advantage by driving quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed – across the technology lifecycle. We bring deep domain and vertical expertise to every customer, so nothing stands in the way of success. Our global footprint spans more than 80 countries and includes over 75% of the Fortune 100. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions to even the toughest challenges. Accelerate technology delivery, with no shortcuts. Get the Power of Perforce.

     

  • Nylas Welcomes New CFO, CRO, and CISO to Executive Team Amid Rapid Growth

    Waifa Chau, Lou Salfi, and David Ting to support pioneering of Productivity Infrastructure market through Nylas’ financial growth, revenue-generating operation, and product innovation

    SAN FRANCISCO – May 4, 2021 – Nylas, a pioneer and leading provider of Productivity Infrastructure solutions for modern software development teams, today announced the appointment of three key executives as the company continues its explosive growth into the new year. The company named Waifa Chau as Chief Financial Officer, Lou Salfi as Chief Revenue Officer, and David Ting as Chief Information Security Officer and senior vice president, engineering.

    “With the number of developers and businesses leveraging our platform rapidly growing, it became imperative that we expand our leadership team to further support our growing market presence, increased adoption, and expansion of our global team,” said Gleb Polyakov, Nylas Co-Founder & CEO. “Along with sharing in our company values and vision of helping developers solve modern software challenges and build productivity; Waifa, Lou, and David bring a wealth of unmatched experience and proven track records to their roles at Nylas.”

    • Waifa Chau brings more than two decades of industry experience to Nylas from major brands such as Gap, Banana Republic, Walmart, and DocuSign. Most recently he served as CFO at experience marketing platform BirdEye. As Nylas CFO, Chau will be leading the company’s financial strategies, initiatives, performance, and growth.

    • Lou Salfi previously served as Nylas’ Vice President of Revenue. Before joining the company, Salfi was Vice President of Revenue at Cloud Elements which was recently acquired by UiPath and Blazent, acquired by ServiceNow, as Senior Vice President of Global Sales. As CRO of Nylas, he will be responsible for all revenue-related activities, including overseeing revenue-generating organizations such as sales, customer success, and strategic alliances, along with developing and executing the company’s overall growth strategy.

    • David Ting joined Nylas in January 2020 as Vice President of Engineering. In his new role as CISO and Senior Vice President of Engineering, Ting will lead Nylas’ engineering, product, and support organizations and will be responsible for all product development, technical execution and data security. Prior to joining Nylas, Ting held key executive positions at Flexport, NetEase and Newscorp and has 6 US patents.

    The expansion of Nylas’ executive team follows incredible growth over the past year as the leader in Productivity Infrastructure. Notable achievements include a $25M Series B funding round led by 8VC and Round13 Capital, the acquisition of June.ai, new product innovations such as intelligent workflow automations, UI/UX components, on-premise enterprise offerings, and the first-ever program to simplify the Google OAuth verification process and security assessment. The company has also seen rapid domestic and international team growth, with an 89% increase in headcount in the past year alone.

    “When developers have a full suite of modern tools at their fingertips, things like digital transformation, increased productivity, and modern experiences can come to life overnight. It is why Nylas has seen such tremendous adoption and growth over the past year, as more and more companies are seeing the direct connection between investing in their developers and the business results that can come from it,” said Marc Boroditsky, Twilio CRO and Nylas board advisor. “The additions of Waifa, Lou, and David further strengthen Nylas’ leadership allowing them to accelerate their operational efficiencies, product innovation, and market expansion.”

    For more information about Nylas and its recent achievements, please visit www.nylas.com.

    About Nylas

    Nylas is a pioneer and leading provider of productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Over 60,000 developers worldwide use the Nylas platform to quickly and securely build productivity features into their applications. With Nylas, developers get unprecedented access to rich communications data from their end-users, pre-built workflows that automate everyday tasks, embeddable UI/UX components for fast front-end development, and comprehensive security features – all delivered via a suite of powerful APIs that make integration easy.


    Nylas was founded in 2013 and has raised over $55 million to date from 8VC, Spark Capital, Slack, Citi Ventures, Round13 Capital, ScaleUP, Data Collective, Fuel Capital, and SV Angel. Nylas customers span large enterprises such as Ceridian, Hyundai, Fox News Corp, Hubspot, and Move.com to high-growth startups such as Dialpad, Pipedrive, Lexicata, and Qualia. Learn more at www.nylas.com

  • Logi Analytics Research Outlines Critical Business Advantages for Data Leaders Investing in Analytics

    The Path to Data Leadership: Embracing Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics report explores indicators and impacts of organizational maturity with data literacy

    RALEIGH, N.C. — May 4, 2021 — Logi Analytics, an insightsoftware company and the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software teams, today released findings from a recent survey of business professionals, The Path to Data Leadership: Embracing Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics. This research explores the continued investments and improvements required to fully capitalize on analytics to reach maximum business impact. Research was conducted and gathered by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

    According to the findings, 75% of data leaders feel that the use of business intelligence and analytics is critical to informed decision-making within their organization, and 98% will increase spending on business intelligence over the next year. Among the business objectives driving the adoption of business intelligence are elevated operational efficiency, improved business decisions and strategy, and heightened forecasting accuracy. But continued investment is required to fully exploit the benefits and achieve desired business objectives.

    While users feel that analytics are critical within their business, the research found, only 37% leverage real-time streaming, 36% leverage embedded analytics, 35% leverage augmented analytics, 23% leverage low-code/no-code and 22% leverage natural language querying.

    However, 70% of data leaders plan to increase spending on embedded analytics throughout 2021. A key challenge in increasing this spend is that companies fall on vastly different data literacy curves, with 42% citing a skills gap and lack of employee training as a key challenge in the use of analytics.

    “As companies seek to accelerate the adoption of analytics to drive critical business decisions, business professionals are recognizing that the most effective approach is embedding analytics within the applications they are already using,” said Brett Hansen, CMO at Logi Analytics. “While challenges including the skills gap, cost, lack of security and lack of support still exist within the use of analytics for informed decision-making, data leaders are embracing embedded analytics to deliver insights within application workflow. This study validates that traditional BI and data discovery continue to fall short in delivering the experience and capabilities that users are seeking to make quicker, better-informed decisions.”

    Of those with high data literacy, the research found, 49% are taking more action across the board, including investing in new analytics vendors and self-service to help close the gap. User-friendly dashboards and reports are critical to data literacy, and 66% claim their users want to consume data from a specific application, a capability only embedded analytics can provide.

    Other key findings include:

    • 93% of data leaders broadly use business intelligence across most/all business units.
    • Data leaders are 3.5 times likelier to have significantly more people involved in buying decisions.
    • Data leaders are 3.7 times likelier to believe they are maximizing investment in analytics.

    “Working with Logi Analytics, this report uncovered the substantial need for continued investment in analytics and business intelligence capabilities,” said Mike Leone, senior analyst at ESG. “To flatten the data literacy curve, more businesses need to take advantage of functionalities already available and continue to explore opportunities to implement more advanced features like embedding analytics directly into applications.”

    Various professionals at organizations with more than 500 employees across the U.S. and Canada responded to the survey. Responses came from an array of industries, including financial services, technology and manufacturing.

    To learn more about the research and Logi Analytics, visit www.logianalytics.com/

    About Logi Analytics

    Logi Analytics, an insightsoftware company, empowers the world’s software teams with the most intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions, along with a group of dedicated people invested in your success. Logi leverages your existing tech stack so you can quickly build, manage and deploy your application. And because Logi supports unlimited customization and white-labeling, you have total control to make the application uniquely your own. Over 2,400 application teams have trusted Logi to help power their businesses with sophisticated analytics capabilities. Logi Analytics was recently awarded the 2020 “Best Business Intelligence Solution” Proddy award by Product School, in addition to being named a leader in Business Application Research Center’s (BARC) BI & Analytics Survey 21 across several categories, including Operational BI, Embedded BI, and Cloud BI.

    Logi Analytics is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices in Ireland, England, Ukraine, and China. Learn more about what’s possible with Logi at LogiAnalytics.com.

    About insightsoftware

    insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise performance management software. We enable the Office of the CFO to connect to and make sense of their enterprise data in real time so they can proactively drive greater financial intelligence across their organization, which is how best-in-class finance teams operate. Over 25,000 organizations worldwide rely on insightsoftware’s portfolio of best-in-class reporting, analytics, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and tax solutions to provide them with increased productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance. Visit insightsoftware.com for more information.

  • DevOps Institute Announces Upcoming SKILup Days Virtual Conference Lineup to Upskill IT Professionals, DevOps Practitioners and Decision-Makers

    One-day conferences focus on the ‘how-to’ of site reliability engineering and low-code/no-code sponsored by organizations like Harness, Instana, Epsagon, Stack Pulse and more

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – May 4, 2021– DevOps Institute, a global professional association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the lineup for SKILup Days in the second quarter of 2021. A SKILup Day is a one-day virtual micro-conference focused on DevOps upskilling, a deep-dive into technology trends, and career advancement. These events feature experts from the industry as well as enterprise DevOps leaders.

    SKILup Days include a variety of interactive elements designed for networking and career advancement opportunities. These elements include an expo hall with virtual sponsor booths, raffles and scavenger hunts, attendee chats, and a networking lounge to interact with speakers.

    Learn more and register for upcoming SKILup Days: https://devopsinstitute.com/skilupdays/

    “The Q2 SKILup Days will celebrate and connect Humans of DevOps from around the world while expanding how-to knowledge around the topics of SRE and low-code/no-code,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “From the networking lounge to presentations from top enterprise and industry thought leaders on a wide range of DevOps-related topics, there are a variety of opportunities for attendees to learn, network and advance their careers.”

    Q2 2021 SKILup Day Schedule

    Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
    May 20, 2021
    Learn how SRE incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems to create scalable and highly reliable software systems. The conference is sponsored by Harness, Instana, Epsagon, JFrog, StackPulse, Gremlin, Accurics, and Splunk.

    Current confirmed speakers include:

    • Santanoo Bhattacharjee, Solutions Expert – DevSecOps and Hybrid Cloud, Accenture
    • Ryan Doherty, Staff Site Reliability Engineer, LinkedIn
    • Shivagami Gughan, Chief Technology Officer, CX Tech Unicorn
    • Ravi Lachhman, Evangelist, Harness
    • Mikolaj Pawlikowski, Author and Engineering Lead, Bloomberg
    • Dinesh Sekar, SRE Transformation and Competency Development, Standard Chartered Bank
    • Shlomo Bielak, DevOps Institute Ambassador, Benchmark
    • Chris Harding, Solution Engineer, Epsagon
    • Marcel Birkner, Staff Reliability Engineer, Instana
    • Jason Yee,  Director of Advocacy, Gremlin
    • Sven Ruppert, Developer Advocate, JFrog
    • Dongfang Xu, Site Reliability Engineer, Splunk Inc.

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/sre-2021/

    Low-Code/No-Code
    June 24, 2021

    Discover how low-code and no-code platforms enable business analysts, office administrators, small-business owners and other people who are not software developers to build and test applications.These platforms free application creators from having to know anything about traditional programming languages, machine code or the development work that has gone into building the platform’s configurable components.

    Speakers coming soon!

    Registration is now open: https://devopsinstitute.com/lcnc-2021/

    Become a DevOps Institute Member

    DevOps Institute now offers a tiered professional membership model. Membership levels include Basic, Premium, Government/Nonprofit, Educator, and Enterprise Membership options, with Student and In-Transition member tiers to follow. DevOps Institute Professional Membership offers exclusive access to leading DevOps resources, discounted certification exams, DevOps capability assessments, premium content, discounted DevOps simulation experiences, members-only networking opportunities, career center access, and more. Join or learn more at https://devopsinstitute.com/membership

    About DevOps Institute
    DevOps Institute is a professional member association. Our mission is to advance the human elements of DevOps.

    We create a safe and interactive ecosystem where members can network, gain knowledge, grow their careers, lead and initiate, and celebrate professional achievements.

    We inspire thought leadership and knowledge by connecting and enabling the global member community to drive human transformation in the digital age.

    Web | https://devopsinstitute.com/
    Twitter | @DEVOPSINST
    LinkedIn | /devops-institute
    YouTube | DevOps Institute
    Instagram | @humansofdevops
    Facebook | Humans of DevOps

  • Former Google Energy CTO Joins AI Startup Olea Edge Analytics

    AUSTIN, Texas—May 4, 2021—Olea Edge Analytics, an intelligent edge computing platform for the water utility industry, today announced the addition of Ben Wilson as Chief Operating Officer. Wilson, the former Chief Technology Officer – Energy at Google, will build out Olea Edge Analytics’ growing technology team and guide the technical development of new products.

    Wilson brings 30 years of experience working with the world’s top technology companies. He began his career working on the space station and space shuttle programs at IBM and later served as Chief Information Officer of Siemens Energy and CTO at GE Oil & Gas and P2 Energy Solutions. He joined Google in 2017, heading up Google – Energy’s technical efforts to bring cloud services to the energy sector and use big data to help clients become more efficient.

    “The demand for innovation and smart water capabilities is growing as cities face limitations on their budget, workforce and operations,” said Dave Mackie, Olea Edge Analytics’ founder and CEO. “Having Ben join Olea at this point in our growth is ideal. We’ve proven that our solution can have an immediate and long-lasting impact, and Ben’s combination of technical and strategic expertise was a perfect fit for us.”

    Earlier this year, Olea Edge Analytics announced an expanded $3.9 million partnership with the City of Atlanta – Department of Watershed Management that is expected to recover millions of dollars in revenue for the utility by monitoring high-value water meters. The company’s success in Atlanta is attracting other cities interested in additional revenue, better asset management and operational efficiency.

    “Olea is one of the very few start-ups I’ve seen that when a customer uses the product they make more money. This is impressive AI technology for an industry that hasn’t seen a lot of innovation,” Wilson said. “ I’m looking forward to hiring the best software engineering team around and energizing the company for its next level of growth.”

    Olea Edge Analytics recently expanded beyond sensors that continually manage meters to provide a Smart Water Management Platform, a single dashboard that gives cities and utilities complete visibility of all their managed assets.

    To learn more about Olea Edge Analytics, visit oleaedge.com.

     

    About Olea Edge Analytics

    Olea’s proven technology empowers utilities to optimize water delivery, billing and conservation so cities can generate millions more in revenue. Committed to helping water utilities combat aging infrastructure, meet greater demand and limit rate increases, Olea’s patented solution combines IoT and edge computing capabilities to bring transparency, accuracy and reliability to the delivery of the world’s most precious resource. For more information, visit www.oleaedge.com.

  • Zammo.ai Revolutionizes Customer Engagement for Businesses with the Introduction of the World’s First No-Code, Cross-Platform Conversational AI Solution

    Transformative voice-first technology works across voice assistants, IVR/telephony, and chatbots, accelerating business transition to and adoption of the voice economy

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 4, 2021 – Zammo.ai, the company accelerating the transition to the voice economy, announced today the world’s only no-code, conversational AI platform. The Zammo conversational AI platform allows businesses to engage and transact with customers on voice assistants, interactive voice response (IVR)/telephony, and popular chatbot channels. The platform eliminates time-consuming and cost prohibitive service contracts that until now, have prevented businesses from embracing conversational AI technology.

    According to Juniper Research, the total transaction value of smart home payments, payments that occur via smart home devices, will exceed $164 billion in 2025, from $22 billion in 2020. They also noted that increasing use of voice assistants via smart speakers for eCommerce, propelled by rising user and merchant acceptance, will drive dramatic growth of over 630% in total value over the next five years.

    “Voice-enabled communication is better for everyone. Not only is it more efficient for the business, but it also makes information more accessible, creating a more inclusive society,” said Alex Farr, CEO of Zammo.ai. “Until now, the problem has been how to get businesses there. Zammo makes conversational AI a reality for all organizations.”

    Zammo’s Transformative No Code SaaS Platform

    As a no-code SaaS platform, Zammo allows any business user to design and deploy conversational AI, across all channels without coding or technical expertise. This includes IVR/telephony, voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, SMS/text, chatbots from web and mobile, Facebook Messenger, and more.

    “Zammo is disruptive but at the same time it is a very simple no code SaaS solution. What Zammo disrupts is the status quo, enabling businesses to leverage the power of conversational AI. Zammo can be leveraged by non-technical people across the organization, from contact centers to sales and marketing.  With powerful data analytics, teams can measure and improve user interactions across all channels. This is what the market has been waiting for,” said Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst, ZK Research.

    True no-code solutions like Zammo provide any business team with autonomy to execute against business goals and not be held back by already overwhelmed IT teams. With conversation modules tailored for specific use cases, Zammo delivers operational efficiency in contact centers, as well as across marketing, sales, HR, and customer service.

    Zammo delivers additional value through unified data analytics across all channels, leveraging insights from user engagement for business-led learning and continuous improvement.

    A Voice-First Contact Center

    Zammo is the only no-code way to incorporate conversational AI into an IVR system. The platform transforms contact centers by:

    • Creating happier agents and reducing churn
    • Alleviating training needs and reducing the burden on HR
    • Improving customer experience as customers can get things done quickly, 24/7, through any channel they prefer
    • Providing ADA-compliant information accessibility solutions for differently-abled employees and customers
    • Increasing productivity and efficiency by automating queries with voice

    “Zammo’s no-code development platform has enabled us to deploy voice-first conversational AI across voice and chat channels in a matter of days. That is true digital transformation. The benefits were immediate, but the performance of the solution is in a state of continuous improvement thanks to the integrated and deep user analytics,” said Chad Green, Bauen Studios CEO, Denver, Colorado. “Zammo.ai handles approximately 70 percent of our general business inquiries through the voice assistants and website chatbot, resulting in an annual cost savings of more than $20,000.”

    Recent Momentum

    • Zammo was recently recognized at the Project Voice Awards for the Microsoft AI Use Case of the Year
    • Zammo was Microsoft AI Solution of the Month for April 2021
    • Customers have validated Zammo’s solution at Microsoft’s biggest AI eventsand in feature videos
    • Notable investors and advisors include Miguel Forbes, Christian Rockefeller, and Kevin Mcquillan

    To learn more about the Zammo conversational AI platform or to schedule a custom demo, where you see and hear your specific content and workflow on voice assistants, a chatbot and on dial-in telephony, please visit https://zammo.ai/#bookdemo

    About Zammo

    Zammo.ai is revolutionizing the conversational AI landscape with a no-code, voice-first platform to help businesses from SMB to global enterprise quickly transition to the voice economy. Any organization can now take advantage of the rapid growth of conversational AI utilizing voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, chatbots, IoT devices, interactive voice response (IVR)/telephony and much more, scaling to reach customers wherever they are. Whether a simple prototype or a business-critical app, Zammo.ai’s fully managed platform, recognized as the 2021 Microsoft AI Use Case of the Year by the Project Voice Awards, delivers a fast and efficient conversational AI solution for creating exceptional customer experiences. Find out more at: https://zammo.ai

  • Datadobi Streamlines and Accelerates Proximus Group’s Data Storage Infrastructure Transformation

    Premier Provider of Telephony, Internet, Television, and Network-Based ICT Services Deploys DobiMigrate to Move Everything from Home Directories to Business Operations and Customer Relations Data onto Dell EMC Isilon

    Leuven, Belgium, May 4, 2021 – Datadobi, a global leader in unstructured data management software, today announced Proximus Group, a premier provider of telephony, internet, television, and network-based ICT services in Belgium, has deployed DobiMigrate to accelerate and help ensure the success of its data storage infrastructure transformation.

    To bolster its position as the leading digital service provider and maintain delivery of a superior customer experience, Proximus recently embarked upon a refresh initiative of its NAS data storage infrastructure. It recognized that in order to help its customers to reap the benefits of digital transformation, it too needed to transform. Wanting to avoid the hurdles that commonly delay and derail data migrations, and smooth the transition to the new systems, Proximus turned to its storage vendor, Dell EMC, for guidance. Dell EMC recommended they evaluate DobiMigrate enterprise-class software and test its ability to migrate file or object data between any storage platform, on-premises or in the cloud – safely, quickly, easily, and cost effectively, for themselves.

    “Late last year, we installed DobiMigrate to test its ability to migrate and sync between our legacy and new storage platforms. We also wanted to see whether it could support an active-active storage environment, as we knew during the migration, we wanted to have both controllers available to maintain critical operations and business services continuity,” said Pascal De Cock, Team Manager, Proximus. “Datadobi exceeded our expectations. In particular, we have been impressed with its 100% replication accuracy, which is so important for our high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). The way DobiMigrate handles permissions and access control lists is also quite different from other solutions and a big advantage for us for managing access and authentication. Of course, its ability to also virtually eliminate any chance of corruption occurrences when moving customer data was also key.”

    De Cock concluded, “Having now officially selected DobiMigrate, we are utilizing it to move both production and non-production data — everything from all home directories, to all of the data associated with the management of business operations and customer relations onto our new Dell EMC Isilon storage.”

    “Proximus puts the customer at the heart of everything it does. It’s why they continue to invest in transformative technology as it enables them to provide customers with a world of new possibilities,” said Matthias Nijs Regional Territory Manager, EMEA, Datadobi. “With Datadobi, Proximus will be able to accelerate its move to its new data management environment, realizing faster ROI and lower TCO. However most importantly, they will be able to say goodbye to time-consuming migration tasks and focus instead on its core competency — offering products and services tailored to the needs of every customer, so that they can live better and work smarter.”

    To learn more about DobiMigrate, please visit: https://datadobi.com/migrate/.

    Tweet this: @Datadobi Streamlines and Accelerates @ProximusGroup Data Storage Infrastructure Transformation https://datadobi.com/news/ #Telephony #Internet #Television #ICTServices #DataMigration

    About Proximus

    Proximus Group (Euronext Brussels: PROX) is a provider of digital services and communication solutions operating in the Belgian and international markets. Delivering communication and entertainment experiences for residential consumers and enabling digital transformation for enterprises, we open up a world of digital opportunities, so people live better and work smarter. Thanks to advanced interconnected fixed and mobile networks, Proximus provides access anywhere and anytime to digital services and data, as well as to a broad offering of multimedia content. Proximus is a pioneer in ICT innovation, with integrated solutions based on IoT, Data analytics, cloud and security. Proximus has the ambition to become the reference operator in Europe through next generation networks, a truly digital mindset and a spirit of openness towards partnerships and ecosystems, while contributing to a safe, sustainable, inclusive and prosperous digital Belgium.

    In Belgium, Proximus’ core products and services are offered under the Proximus and Scarlet brands. The Group is also active in Luxembourg as, under the brand names Tango and Telindus Luxembourg, and in the Netherlands through Telindus Netherlands. The Group’s international carrier activities are managed by BICS, a leading international communications enabler, one of the key global voice carriers and the leading provider of mobile data services worldwide. With 9,613 employees, all engaged to offer customers a superior experience, the Group realized an underlying Group revenue of EUR 5,479 million end-2020.

    For more information, visit www.proximus.com and www.proximus.be.

     

    About Datadobi

    Datadobi, the global leader in unstructured data management software, enables enterprises to realize the value of their expanding universe of data. Datadobi helps customers to migrate and protect data while discovering insights and putting them to work for their business. Founded in 2010, Datadobi is a privately held company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with subsidiaries in New York, Melbourne, Dusseldorf, and London. For more information, please visit datadobi.com. Follow and connect with Datadobi on Twitter and LinkedIn.

     

  • Red Hat Makes DevOps a Reality with OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines

    New Red Hat OpenShift features provide fully-integrated CI/CD pipeline for organizations to deliver applications more consistently and with greater predictability across the open hybrid cloud

    RALEIGH, N.C. — —

    Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, new features of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. These capabilities help organizations to further reduce friction between development and operations teams by streamlining application development and deployment across the hybrid cloud.

    DevOps methodologies promote a cultural shift by linking the work of development and operations teams into a more unified approach rather than separate silos, helping to bring applications to production more quickly. But many organizations still struggle in fully converting to DevOps, especially as much of the associated tooling is workflow- or software-specific, leading to disparate approaches across teams. OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines help better unite application development and IT operations by enabling the teams to work together earlier in the development process while helping to deliver greater security, predictability and visibility throughout the entire application lifecycle.

    With OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, we are working to remove the false wall between developers and IT operations, enabling the teams to work together earlier in the application development process. This not only helps to find and prevent defects more quickly in the software delivery process, but also streamlines the process as a whole by providing increased visibility and security across the lifecycle.

    Ashesh Badanisenior vice president, Cloud Platforms, Red Hat

    Faster, more scalable development

    DevOps is the culture most IT organizations are striving for and CI/CD is a tool that can help them get there — but a bridge is still needed between the two. OpenShift GitOps helps to provide that bridge.

    GitOps takes a developer-centric approach to building applications, using the Git repository as the single source of truth for both developers and operations teams. OpenShift GitOps, built from the open source Argo CD project, enables IT teams to implement GitOps workflows for cluster configuration and application delivery. By implementing a GitOps framework, updates and changes are pushed through declarative code, automating infrastructure and deployment requirements, and CI/CD, helping organizations to realize faster, more secure, scalable software development.

    Additionally, OpenShift GitOps increases visibility into the state of clusters and applications and corrects deviations from the desired state if needed. The capability enables teams to have full visibility and traceability into changes rolled out to clusters, as every change is represented in the Git repository. This makes it easier to achieve consistency across Kuberenetes clusters spanning the open hybrid cloud.

    Complete control over Pipelines

    Based on the Tekton open source project, OpenShift Pipelines is designed to run each step of the CI/CD pipeline in its own container and allows each step to scale independently to meet the demands of the pipeline. For an operations team that is trying to optimize its infrastructure resources, limiting the resources required to support pipelines during quiet periods helps reduce the cost and overhead for running the pipeline the developers need.

    OpenShift Pipelines provides a streamlined experience, enabling full control over a team’s delivery pipeline, plugins and access control with no central CI/CD server to manage.

    Availability
    OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines are now available through the OperatorHub for subscribers to all Managed OpenShift services and the self-managed OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Platform Plus running Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 and higher.

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    Ashesh Badani, senior vice president, Cloud Platforms, Red Hat
    “With OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, we are working to remove the false wall between developers and IT operations, enabling the teams to work together earlier in the application development process. This not only helps to find and prevent defects more quickly in the software delivery process, but also streamlines the process as a whole by providing increased visibility and security across the lifecycle.”

    Nikolas Philips, DevOps engineer, Baloise Group
    “We are long time users of the Argo CD open source project which enables us to take a GitOps approach to application development and deliver applications more consistently. We’re looking forward to using OpenShift GitOps so that we have an enterprise version of the tool we already leverage, helping us to further scale our application development.”

    Stefan Luthardt, tribe lead, Container Services, Fiducia & GAD IT AG 
    “We have around 500 active developers working on our Vertriebsplattform application suite alone, so leveraging Git repositories as a single source of truth is imperative to our application development process. As long-time OpenShift users, we look forward to taking advantage of the capabilities that OpenShift GitOps provides.”

    Tobias Denzler, DevOps solution architect, Helvetia
    “As we continue to scale our use of Kubernetes and containers in production we need to ensure our developer and IT operations teams are in sync every step of the way. We are excited about the release of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines to help our teams align earlier in the process to streamline our application development processes.”

     

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  • Dgraph Labs Partners With Capventis To Advance Digital Transformation Through Graph Database Integration

    Industry Partnership Increases Rollout of Dgraph’s Graph Database Technology Through Capventis’ Expansive Global Network 

    PALO ALTO, Calif. and DUBLIN – April 29, 2021 – Dgraph Labs (“Dgraph”), the #1 open source graph database, today announced its partnership with UK-based integration and analytics consulting company Capventis to expand the data unification of global brands. The partnership will extend Dgraph’s reach as Capventis leverages its integration options with key clients in the UK and Europe. 

    “Dgraph has been looking for an ideal partner to expand enterprise-level data unification for leading brands, and Capventis was a clear fit for our business and our team. Not only is Mike Hawkes an impressive brand evangelist for Dgraph, but the technology his team has built speaks volumes for the customer engagement and revenue generation capabilities made possible through analytics derived from uniting siloed data in real time,” said Gary Hagmueller, CEO at Dgraph. “The UK and Europe are key markets for Dgraph, and this partnership will facilitate conversations with leading organizations that already appreciate the value Capventis adds to their business.”

    Today, Capventis serves some of the largest global brands in delivering integrated solutions around analytics, customer engagement, and experience management. Capventis helps businesses derive value from their data and has developed software to help with migration, integration, and orchestration between systems. 

    This software, called Glu, sits on top of Dgraph, which is used to unify diverse data sources when revealing insights. Dgraph’s GraphQL-native graph database streamlines the process of uniting siloed data, even with terabytes of data. 

    Capventis analysis and analytics teams can help plan, design, and develop end-to-end solutions or services. From initial blueprint through to large-scale integrations and migrations, Capventis collaborates with its clients to improve customer engagement and experience management across the business. 

    This partnership will allow the Capventis team to leverage their understanding and use of Dgraph when working with clients who need support with their digital transformation. In the same way that Capventis helps clients with other partner integrations, they can help clients achieve data unification with Dgraph. 

    Similarly, when Dgraph is working with enterprises that need further support and integration for analytics or experience management, they can leverage the Capventis partnership to provide companies with the insights that they need. 

    “I have been following Dgraph since its first release, and I have been continually impressed by how easy Dgraph makes it to ingest unstructured data and yield unique and delightful insights for clients. Dgraph underpins the proprietary Glu technology that the Capventis team has developed, helping us offer superior analytics and customer understanding to our clients,” said Mike Hawkes, CTO at Capventis. “I’m thrilled to be officially partnering with another innovative technology solution to forge forward with digital transformation across leading brands and organizations.” 

    About Dgraph Labs 

    Dgraph Labs is the graph database that powers data unification for real-time decision-making. The only GraphQL-native graph database, Dgraph underpins the digital transformation of terabytes of data for businesses that depend on complex data structures. A vibrant open source community downloads Dgraph over 1.5 million times per month, with the database executing over 100 billion queries; Dgraph is the #1 graph database on GitHub with over 15,000 stars. Dgraph’s customers include companies from the Fortune 500 as well as rapid-growth startups. Dgraph Labs was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley. 

    For more information, visit dgraph.io, and follow Dgraph Labs on LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, and YouTube. 

    About Capventis 

    Capventis is a specialist business and technology consultancy company based in Ireland and the UK, focusing on the areas of business intelligence (BI), customer relationship management (CRM) and customer experience (CX). Partnering with the best technology vendors, Capventis works side by side with their clients to modernize their businesses for success in the digital age. For more information about Capventis, visit: http://www.capventis.com.