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  • Aiven bets on time series with release of first of kind Aiven for M3

    Aiven for M3 meets market demands for a time series database as data volume and complexity increase.

    HELSINKI, Finland — October 12, 2020 — Aiven, a leading technology company that combines the best open-source technologies with cloud infrastructure, announced its 11th managed service, Aiven for M3. With a unique and purpose-built architecture, M3 enables large-scale time series workloads. Likewise, it will be the first of its kind as a managed service: an open-source, highly-available, horizontally-scalable time series database that opens new possibilities for all organizations, regardless of their size.

    “Launching Aiven for M3 reflects our promise to provide Aiven customers the latest, most advanced technologies that’ll enable them to not only strengthen their respective business processes and use cases, but to evolve them,” said Hannu Valtonen, co-founder and chief product officer at Aiven. “What’s more, Aiven for M3 could be to time series data what Aiven for Apache Kafka was to data streaming, that providing accessible tech will increase the speed at which we push the underlying use case forward.”

    Data volumes continue to balloon as forward-looking concepts and technologies like IoT and containerization are created and developed, revealing a growing market appetite for a time series database to manage the data scale and complexity rooted in monitoring and analytics workloads.

    Built to handle Uber’s massive scale, M3’s battle-tested capabilities were what initially piqued Aiven’s interest in the technology because its own growth required a stronger monitoring backbone for the customer nodes under its management, which have grown exponentially — fivefold in the last year alone.

    “The exponential growth of our business and the underlying operations metrics and monitoring infrastructure that is critical to our fully-automated, self-healing functionality requires a robust solution, said Aiven VP of Tech Ops Mika Eloranta. “We selected M3 because it’s truly Open Source, properly implements clustering, and is highly adaptable to various high-throughput, real-world use cases.”

    This virtuous circle, whereby Aiven can improve its service offering with the very tech that it provides as managed services means that its customers have unmatched access to a cohesive mix of advanced open-source tech that can be used to develop comprehensive solutions to evolving data challenges.

    Aiven for M3 exemplifies this with out-of-box support for Prometheus, InfluxDB and Graphite protocols, integrations with popular visualization and metrics platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus and Jolokia, and advanced features such as multi-az placement, Terraform support and VPC peering.

    Currently in Beta, Aiven for M3 will be generally available in mid-November.

    To learn more about Aiven for M3, visit: landing.aiven.io/beta/m3.

    About Aiven

    Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and with offices in Berlin, Germany and Sydney, Australia and Boston, MA, Aiven is an ISO 27001 certified cloud data platform provider, operating managed open-source database, event streaming, cache, search, and graphing solutions for customers worldwide.

    You can visit https://aiven.io for more information or follow Aiven on Twitter: @aiven_io.

  • Lightstep Announces New GitHub Action, Bringing Observability Data Directly to GitHub to Avoid Problematic Code Deploys

    • GitHub Actions is modernizing the developer workflow by automating tasks in the same place developers code and collaborate on pull requests
    • Lightstep will surface relevant Observability data within the existing GitHub workflow to ensure developers are shipping high-quality software

    cdCON — October 7, 2020 — Lightstep, the cutting-edge distributed tracing tool founded by former Google engineers, today announced their new GitHub Action called the Lightstep Pre-Deploy Check. By automatically bringing relevant Observability data directly into the development workflow on GitHub, software developers can ensure the quality and performance of their software, before it’s actually deployed.

    “This is a big shift left for how developers think about Observability,” said Daniel Spoonhower, Co-Founder and CTO of Lightstep. “DevOps is about acknowledging that it’s not good enough to ship code without worrying about how it performs in the real world. I very much believe in ‘you build it you own it’ — but I also believe that we need to make this easier by baking solutions into existing development workflows as much as possible, by automating as much as possible.”

    According to the State of Software Quality 2020 report produced by OverOps, two out of three developers spend at least a day per week troubleshooting issues in their code, and are frustrated by the unknowns that come with deploying new code into cloud-based, distributed architectures. Despite the 87M+ merged pull requests per GitHub’s annual Octoverse report, to date there has been zero visibility into the health status of a system within a pull request.

    “Automatically confirming production systems and services are healthy before deploying code that can impact them is a great step towards ensuring reliability, without compromising developer velocity,” said Chris Patterson, Product Manager for GitHub Actions at GitHub. “By bringing Observability data directly into the pull request process on GitHub, developers can avoid context switching, gain more ownership of how their code performs in production, and better support DevOps within their organization.”

    The Lightstep Pre-Deploy Check leverages publicly-available APIs from Lightstep to provide a deployment risk summary ahead of a code change going to a production environment. The information from the risk assessment is then automatically pulled directly into the GitHub pull request through a GitHub Action.

    Lightstep has also partnered with Rollbar and PagerDuty to bring even more information directly into GitHub. For example, if Lightstep completes a risk assessment and determines that the system is unhealthy, it can automatically take a snapshot of the production behavior in real-time and send it to PagerDuty, so the full details of the issue can be examined even if the developer was not there at the moment the issue started.

    “We see direct value to developer effectiveness with the Lightstep Pre-Deploy Check,” said Steve Gross, Sr. Director, Strategic Ecosystem Development at Pagerduty. “Now developers automatically have PagerDuty on-call details inside of a pull request, alongside system health details, at their fingertips in one screen.”

    About Lightstep

    Lightstep’s mission is to deliver confidence at scale for those who develop, operate and rely on today’s powerful software applications. Its products leverage distributed tracing technology – initially developed by a Lightstep co-founder at Google – to offer best-of-breed observability to organizations adopting microservices or serverless at scale. Lightstep is backed by Redpoint, Sequoia, Altimeter Capital, Cowboy Ventures, and Harrison Metal and is headquartered in San

    Francisco, CA. For more information, visit https://lightstep.com or follow @LightstepHQ

  • Mendix and Deloitte Canada Announce Strategic Alliance to Build Low-Code Digital Solutions for Enterprise Customers

    World’s leading professional services firm will create Canadian-based Centers of Excellence to train and certify 50 Mendix software developers

    BOSTON – OCTOBER 8, 2020 – Mendix, a Siemens business and global leader in low-code application development for the enterprise, today announced a strategic alliance with Deloitte Canada, a member firm of the world’s largest professional services firm, to utilize the Mendix low-code software development platform on behalf of enterprise customers seeking business transitions enabled by technology. To build capacity and expertise, Deloitte’s system engineering group has established centers of excellence (CoE) across the country to certify and deploy 50 Mendix rapid software developers to work on large-scale application development for customers in the financial services, insurance, logistics, public sector, and energy resource markets.

    “In order to thrive, companies we serve need to transform ongoing business operations, to increase efficiencies or to target new revenue streams,” says Anthony Chan, a partner and the national systems engineering leader at Deloitte Canada. “Deloitte is a champion when it comes to embracing the trend of using low-code to develop enterprise software for key business operations. The demand for IT services is rapidly increasing, and this strategic alliance helps us bridge the low-code talent gap and unlocks our ability to bring digital solutions quickly to market.”

    A paradigm shift for global system integrators

    One challenge facing legacy enterprises originally chartered in the 20th century is to engineer new ways to provide value and tailored services in the 21st century marketplace. Widespread adoption of next-generation technologies such as cloud-based software deployment, mobile access, microservices architecture, AI enablement, and chatbots has heightened expectations for frictionless user experiences across multiple channels by enterprise customers and workforce employees.

    Low-code has proven itself to be a platform that readily supports integration of these and other next-generation technologies, while at the same time facilitating tremendous cost efficiency throughout the application lifecycle. A recent Forrester: Total Economic Impact (TEI) Report highlighted the financial benefits for a hypothetical composite organization — an amalgam of four real-life enterprises using Mendix low-code for an average of almost six years — gained by building and deploying software with the Mendix low-code platform. Those benefits include an estimated $8.1 million in savings over three years for application delivery and an additional $3.3 million in profits from accelerating the time to market for new products and services.

    Future-proofing legacy enterprises with low-code deployment

    Nick Ford, chief technology evangelist at Mendix, added, “Our alliance, and Deloitte’s commitment as manifest in the new Centers of Excellence, will empower Deloitte to deliver all of the benefits of the Mendix low-code platform to its enterprise clients. A wider pool of developers, enhanced collaboration, accelerated time-to-impact, automation of routine IT maintenance and ‘plumbing’ chores, and greater efficiency throughout the entire application lifecycle combine to deliver real enterprise digital transformation.”

    The strategic collaboration between Deloitte Canada and Mendix builds on the successful alliance in other regions of the world, including the U.S. Recently, Deloitte participated in the Mendix World 2.0 conference that explored groundbreaking uses of Mendix’s low-code software development platform. On September 2, Peter Fever, managing director, Deloitte U.S., moderated an executive roundtable discussion with finance executives on “Banking’s Perpetual Digital Transformation.”

    Click here to access content free of charge from Mendix World, the world’s largest virtual low-code conference, featuring more than 60 sessions, including more than 20 by customers, and covering the gamut of low-code application development topics from strategy to practical, hands-on platform training.

    Learn more about the Mendix Platform and pricing and availability.

    Background

    In a pandemic-disrupted world, software is the new lifeblood of our daily lives and the connective tissue holding together the global economy. However, traditional software development takes far too long and very often fails to deliver the results business needs and users love. Even prior to COVID-19 there were simply not enough professional software developers in the world to build all the software currently required. The global pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated what was already a software and business crisis. Enter low-code software development. Low-code from Mendix is a powerful enterprise-grade visual development approach empowering citizen and professional developers to make cloud-native applications more than 10X faster for web and mobile using drag-and-drop components and model-driven logic – all through an intuitive graphical user interface.

     

    Connect with Mendix

    About Deloitte

    Deloitte provides audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. Deloitte serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies through a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries and territories bringing world-class capabilities, insights, and service to address clients’ most complex business challenges. Deloitte LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership, is the Canadian member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms.

    Our global purpose is making an impact that matters. At Deloitte Canada, that translates into building a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. We believe we can achieve this Purpose by living our shared values to lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.

    To learn more about Deloitte’s approximately 312,000 professionals, over 12,000 of whom are part of the Canadian firm, please connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

     

    About Mendix

     

    Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in enterprise low-code, is fundamentally reinventing the way applications are built in the digital enterprise. With the Mendix platform, enterprises can ‘Make with More,’ by broadening an enterprise’s development capability to conquer the software development bottleneck; ‘Make it Smart,’ by making apps with rich native experiences that are intelligent, proactive, and contextual; and ‘Make at Scale,’ to modernize core systems and build large app portfolios to keep pace with business growth. The Mendix platform is built to promote intense collaboration between business and IT teams and dramatically accelerate application development cycles, while maintaining the highest standards of security, quality, and governance — in short, to help enterprises confidently leap into their digital futures. Mendix’s ‘Go Make It’ platform has been adopted by more than 4,000 leading companies around the world.

     

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  • Gitpod Raises $3M USD Seed Funding, Announces Native Integration with GitLab

    Native integration allows developers on GitLab to automatically spin up ready-to-code development environments via Gitpod’s open source platform

     

    KIEL, GERMANY – October 8, 2020 — Gitpod, the first open source developer platform to automate the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments, today announced $3M USD seed funding from Crane Venture Partners, Speedinvest, and Vertex Ventures US, as well as a partnership and native integration with GitLab, the DevOps platform delivered as a single application. Gitpod is an open source GitOps solution that leverages the version control system as the canonical source of truth to automate everything a developer needs to start coding. Gitpod frees engineering teams from the friction of manually setting-up local dev environments, saving dozens of hours and enabling a new level of collaboration to create applications much more quickly than ever before.
    “This is an exciting time in Gitpod’s history teaming up with experienced investors in the world of developer tools and open source software as well as working together with GitLab to provide developers with critical cloud-based dev environment automation,” said Sven Efftinge, Co-Founder and CEO of Gitpod. “Gitpod’s first mover advantage and vibrant open-source community enables developers today to treat development environments as automated (yet customizable) resources they can spin up whenever they need them and close down and forget about when they are done with their task.”

     

    Setting up and maintaining dev environments is tedious and requires lots of time. With Gitpod’s integration into GitLab, code reviews, bug fixes, building new features and exploring new projects is frictionless while increasing development productivity, efficiency and velocity. Developers can easily launch fresh dev environments for each new task directly from the GitLab interface via a new dropdown option from any project or merge request.

     

    Gitpod is a true open source solution powered by the community, spins up magically fast, can be self-hosted and is the only solution that works with almost any cloud provider and code-hosting platform including GitLab, GitHub Enterprise, and Bitbucket.

     

    “GitLab is excited to build a partnership with Gitpod,” said Brandon Jung, vice president of alliances at GitLab. “Gitpod’s expertise in automating cloud-based dev environments on GitLab combined with their focus on cloud native development workflows makes them a great fit for our customers helping enable them on their digital transformations.”

     

    Gitpod’s $3M USD seed round was led by Speedinvest with participation from Crane Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures US. Previously bootstrapped, this marks Gitpod’s first fund raise. The funding will be used to further refine the leading platform for development environment automation, as well as to expand Gitpod’s open source community and relevant ecosystem partnerships.

     

    “As a developer, I am more than excited to team-up with Gitpod. Moving the last missing piece in the DevOps pipeline into the cloud is the logical next step to streamline software development,” said Dominik Tobschall, Principal at Speedinvest. “The push towards remote work will only accelerate this.”

     

    “Gitpod’s developer-centric obsession has enabled them to build the best-of-breed technology in the rapidly growing market around dev environment automation. We are proud to back this exceptional team building a category defining company,” said Krishna Visvanathan, Co-Founder and Partner at Crane Venture Partners.

     

    “Gitpod’s team has a track record of creating multiple open-source developer tools used by millions of engineers. With software engineering moving to remote but collaborative work, we see Gitpod securely allowing multiplayer mode for developers while saving VPs of Engineering hundreds of hours of tool setup-time. This will be an integral part of any professional software delivery pipeline.” said Sandeep Bhadra, Partner at Vertex Ventures US.

     

    Gitpod is available today as an open source solution free to any developer seamlessly integrating with different cloud-providers and git-hosting-platforms. Visit https://www.gitpod.io/docs/gitlab-integration/ for more information about Gitpod’s native integration on GitLab or email contact@gitpod.io.

     

    About Gitpod
    The team at Gitpod.io is driven to enable all professional development teams to immediately start working and collaborating in a fully prebuilt, secure dev environments on any project, any branch and any device. Gitpod invented the notion of prebuilds allowing developers to describe dev environments as code and get an immediately productive development environment for any GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket project. The company is founded by experienced developer tools experts that worked together for 10+ years creating programming languages and growing open source communities (Xtext, Theia). Gitpod operates a flight-proven product and leads the pack of fully-functional Cloud Dev Environments with more than 250k registered developers. www.gitpod.io

     

    About Crane
    Crane is a London-based VC firm focused on early-stage investments in European start-ups that are solving real problems for the enterprise and enterprise workers. We back ambitious founders building category defining companies who are redefining the enterprise stack. Crane’s portfolio includes 7Bridges, Axiom, Foundries, Harbr, Onfido, Shipamax, Tessian and Virtuoso.

     

    About Speedinvest
    Speedinvest is a European venture capital fund with €400M+ AUM and more than 40 investment professionals working from Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Employing a sector-focused investment structure, we fund innovative early-stage technology startups in the areas of Fintech, Digital Health, Consumer Tech, Network Effects, Deep Tech and Industrial Tech. Speedinvest actively deploys its global network and dedicated team of in-house operational experts to support our 150+ portfolio companies, including with US market expansion. Learn more: www.speedinvest.com

     

    About Vertex Ventures US
    Vertex US is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs companies transforming industries through software and data. With investments including LaunchDarkly, PerimeterX, and Desktop Metal, Vertex US brings pioneering experience to pioneering enterprises. In Sik Rhee and Jonathan Heiliger co-founded Vertex US in 2015. For more information, visit vertexventures.com.

     

    Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

  • Equinix Unveils Fully Automated and Interconnected Bare Metal Service

     

    Equinix MetalTM Empowers Digital Leaders to Deploy Physical Infrastructure at Software Speed

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 6, 2020 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company, today announced the availability of Equinix Metal™, a fully automated and interconnected bare metal service. Equinix Metal provides digital businesses with an automated, “as-a-service” deployment method to build their foundational infrastructure and take advantage of the global reach, interconnected ecosystems and trusted partners available on Platform Equinix®. Equinix Metal is available today in Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across four global metros (Amsterdam, New York, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.), and is expected to be available in 14 global metros by early 2021.

    With this new service, companies have the option to deploy the physical infrastructure of their choice at software speed across Equinix’s trusted platform. Together with other digital infrastructure building blocks in the Equinix portfolio, customers now have a broad range of physical and virtual deployment alternatives to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect to everything they need to succeed.

    Featuring native integration with Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric®, which has been renamed Equinix Fabric™, Equinix Metal helps enterprises seamlessly deploy hybrid multicloud architectures and quickly access thousands of networks, enterprises and clouds on Platform Equinix. By delivering high-performance dedicated servers in minutes via popular developer tools in both on-demand and reserved models, Equinix Metal helps businesses extract greater value from Platform Equinix’s rich ecosystems more quickly, more easily and in more places than ever before.

    Building upon the recent acquisition of Packet—as well as technologies developed at Equinix—the addition of Equinix Metal expands Equinix’s ability to help more companies gain digital advantage. By combining Packet’s expertise in API-first, hardware automation and provisioning with Equinix’s global reach, interconnection prowess and proximity to valuable ecosystems, Equinix Metal offers a powerful infrastructure building block on which digital leaders can deploy and scale their preferred infrastructure with agility and confidence.

    Highlights/Key Facts:

    • With Equinix Metal, digital leaders can gain competitive advantage by building foundational infrastructure to directly and securely connect people, locations, clouds and data that matter most to their business. Key features of Equinix Metal include:
    • Automated: Equinix Metal is a fully programmable, easy-to-use and scalable solution. Businesses can click-and-configure, provision via API and common libraries, or leverage popular tools to quickly and reliably deploy and manage hybrid multicloud
    • Interconnected: Equinix Metal includes industry-first native integration to Equinix Fabric, a global, software-defined interconnection service available in 46 strategic markets. In under 15 minutes, users can deploy dedicated bare metal infrastructure across global locations and connect to Equinix Fabric for low-latency access to thousands of networks, enterprises and clouds.
    • Production Ready: With the acquisition of Packet in March 2020 and the integration of organic technology, Equinix Metal launches with a proven track record of performance, security and reliability trusted by hundreds of SaaS companies, enterprises, global service providers and open source projects.
    • Ecosystem Friendly: By focusing on automating foundational hardware and supporting integrations to DevOps, hybrid cloud and open-source software solutions like Kubernetes, Equinix Metal extends the company’s strategy of enabling customer choice through supporting neutral ecosystems.
    • Equinix Metal can address a broad set of use cases that value global reach and participation within digital ecosystems, including:
    • Hybrid Cloud—Deploy secure infrastructure that is proximate to ecosystems and enables reduced CAPEX and incremental scaling at software speed.
    • DevOps Automation—Rapidly provision physical infrastructure with robust, well-documented APIs and immediate access to supported ecosystem integrations.
    • Global Edge Delivery—Reduce latency, expand global reach and accelerate time to market to drive better end-user experiences.
    • Security & Compliance—Benefit from single tenancy and private connectivity, with access to hardware level security protocols.

     

    Additional Resources

    About Equinix 
    Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.

    Forward-Looking Statements 
    This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX data centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and solutions, including Equinix Metal; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; a failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

  • CD Foundation Opens First Annual CDCon with New Members and Community Growth

    Open-source community veteran Tracy Miranda joins as Executive Director, announces four new members and strong community growth 

    San Francisco, October 7, 2020 – The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open-source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced new members, community growth, and more at the start of their first annual CDCon. The event will be run fully virtually, broadening participation globally.

    CDCon Starts Today

    CDCon is a two-day virtual event running October 7-8, 2020, focusing on improving the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. Industry leaders are giving talks and interacting with attendees online, covering an extensive range of software delivery and DevOps topics. CDCon is sponsored by CloudBees, JFrog, Armory, CircleCI, Lightstep, OpsMx, Deployhub, Harness, Huawei, Shipa, Stackhawk, DevOps Institute. Media partners include Learnk8s, MediaOps, and North American DevOps Group.

    The full CDCon schedule is available here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/program/schedule/

    “Our first annual CDCon shows how important continuous delivery is to industries as they navigate industry and global changes. The response and support for CDCon have been overwhelming, and CDF is committed to providing a clear path for companies to participate in a vendor-neutral structure that can greatly improve organizations’ abilities to deliver software securely and quickly,” said Tracy Miranda, Continuous Delivery Foundation Executive Director. “Come join us at CDCon, there’s still time to register and participate!”

    Keynotes include industry experts and well-known specialists Isaac Mosquera, CTO, Armory, Yasemin Blanton, Head of Technology Delivery, BMO Financial Group, John Mark Walker, Director, Open Source Program Office, Capital One, Rob Zuber, CTO, CircleCI, Christie Wilson, Software Engineer, Google, Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Cofounder, LaunchDarkly, Abby Kearns, CTO, Puppet, and Tracy Miranda, Executive Director, Continuous Delivery Foundation, The Linux Foundation.

    For a full-featured speaker list, see https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/program/speakers/

    CD Foundation Welcoming New Members

    Codefresh, Fidelity Investments, Octopus Deploy, and Shipa are joining the CD Foundation as new members. They join premier members Capital One, CircleCI, Cloudbees, Fujitsu, Google, Huawei, IBM, JFrog, Netflix, and Salesforce, as well as the broader open source CI/CD community, in helping to strengthen the growth and evolution of continuous delivery models.

    “We welcome our new members and look forward to including their expertise and guidance in helping to build CI/CD processes that benefit the industry as a whole. It’s not easy work, but it’s incredibly important, and it cannot be accomplished by one company alone,” said Dan Lorenc, Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Chair. “CDF is the way to help guide technical development and governance structures to make sure that CI/CD and DevOps continue to develop quickly and efficiently.”

    Codefresh – Codefresh is a continuous delivery and collaboration platform for containers and microservices. It is a modern CI/CD platform designed for software development teams building and deploying cloud-native applications using Docker, Serverless, and Kubernetes. Container-based pipelines provide better flexibility, easier pipeline creation, and dozens of speed optimizations.

    “We are excited to join the CD Foundation. Codefresh is built specifically for microservices and cloud-native apps, and by contributing to the direction of open-source CI/CD development through the CD Foundation, our customers will benefit now and into the future,” said Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist, Codefresh. “No team can effectively practice DevOps for microservices without a cohesive strategy and the right tools, and we are focused on making it easier to get the right strategy and informative tools that our customers can implement and trust.”

    Fidelity Investments – Fidelity Investments offers a range of services including fund distribution and investment advice, wealth management, life insurance, retirement services, and securities execution and clearance. It manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutional investors. It is one of the largest investment management firms in the United States, with over 26 million customers, $6.5 trillion in total customer assets, and more than $2.4 trillion in global assets under management. Fidelity will help build industry specifications and guidance around pipelines, workflows and other CI/CD areas, as well as provide foundational support for CI/CD tools.

    Octopus Deploy – Octopus Deploy automates application deployment with both on-prem or cloud solutions. It takes over where your CI server ends, providing release management, deployment automation, and operations tools. Octopus Deploy helps developers and operations teams automate software deployments. It also covers audit and compliance requirements.

    “Application deployment goes hand in hand with CI/CD, and we are pleased to join the CD Foundation to help support and strengthen the community. Becoming a member allows us to guide the roadmap and continue to move CI/CD forward, which directly benefits Octopus users,” said Paul Stovell, CEO and Founder of Octopus Deploy. “We’ll be at CDCon if you want to find out more about release management, come by and say hello.”

    Shipa – Shipa provides a cloud-native application management framework for running mission-critical applications on Kubernetes. Shiga provides centralized control over configurations to reduce the risk of misconfigurations and provides an application-centric way to develop, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications without requiring Kubernetes expertise.

    “We at Shipa believe in the mission of the CD Foundation which is this strong vision of vendor-neutral governance with a focus on efficiency and security. By becoming a member and participating actively, including recently open sourcing our own deployment engine, we are both improving the ecosystem for our customers and supporting the broader CI/CD community. This is a win-win for Shipa customers,” said Bruno Andrade, CEO, Shipa. “Looking forward to participating in CDCon!”

    New Executive Director

    CI/CD open source community leader Tracy Miranda has joined the CDF as its new Executive Director. Miranda has worked closely with the CDF since the creation of the foundation. She will work closely with the CDF hosted projects Jenkins, Jenkins X, Spinnaker, Screwdriver, and Tekton, and help members and the wider Continuous Delivery CI/CD community improve their software development security and speed when creating cloud-native, legacy infrastructure, mobile, IoT, and bare-metal applications.

    To see the full executive director announcement, see: https://cd.foundation/blog/2020/09/15/tracy-miranda-joins-cd-foundation-as-new-executive-director

    Community Growth

    Community growth in 2020 has been extremely strong across the board. Of the four founding projects, Jenkins moved to Graduation status, Jenkins X started a Linux Foundation training course (LFS268 CI/CD with Jenkins X) to introduce the fundamentals of Jenkins X, Tekton moved to beta, and Spinnaker held its Spinnaker LIVE event, boasting 1,183 contributors in the last year. And Screwdriver, simplified interfacing for Jenkins originally developed by Yahoo, now Verizon Media, joined as our first Incubation Project.

    Our CI/CD meetups are now at 27,000+ members in 68 groups spread across 30 countries! There’s probably a CI/CD meetup nearby you. Come participate!

    The CDF Community Ambassador Cohort of 2020 has 50 confirmed ambassadors and plans to announce an additional 50 by the end of the year. The goal is to round out the 2020 cohort to 100!

    We also have Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in Interoperability, Security, and Machine Learning (MLOps) as ways for people to participate in specific areas of expertise or interest.

    And, this year for the first time, the CD Foundation produced our first CD Foundation Interactive Landscape to communicate the state of the community and clarify the tools needed to adopt a fully automated CD process.

    Additional CDF Resources

    About the Continuous Delivery Foundation

    The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The CDF is a vendor-neutral organization that is establishing best practices of software delivery automation, propelling education and adoption of CD tools, and facilitating cross-pollination across emerging technologies. The CDF is home to many of the fastest-growing projects for CD, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation.

    The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

  • BetterCloud Report Reveals Operational Complexity and Risk Concerns as Organizations Reach Tipping Point in SaaS Adoption

    Responses from nearly 700 IT leaders and practitioners confirm organizations are embracing SaaSOps as a proven framework for their SaaS challenges

    NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BetterCloud, the leading SaaSOps platform for managing and securing the digital workplace, today released its first SaaSOps report: “2020 State of SaaSOps.” Among its many significant findings, the report found that a rise in SaaS adoption is prompting concerns over operational complexity and risk.

    Since 2015, the number of IT-sanctioned SaaS apps has increased tenfold, and it’s expected that by 2025, 85 percent of business apps will be SaaS-based. With SaaS on the rise, nearly half (49 percent) of respondents are confident in their ability to identify and monitor unsanctioned SaaS usage on company networks—yet more than three-quarters (76 percent) see unsanctioned apps as a security risk. And when asked what SaaS applications are likely to hold the most sensitive data across an organization, respondents believe it’s all apps including cloud storage, email, devices, chat apps, password managers, etc.

    Respondents also highlighted slow, manual management tasks as a prime concern when managing SaaS environments. IT organizations spend over 7 hours offboarding a single employee from a company’s SaaS apps, which takes time and energy from more strategic projects.

    “In the earlier part of the year, organizations around the world were faced with powering their entire workforces from home and turned to SaaS to make the shift with as little disruption to productivity as possible,” said David Politis, CEO, BetterCloud. “Up until this point, most companies were adopting a cloud-first approach for their IT infrastructure — that strategy has now shifted to cloud only. But SaaS growth at this scale has also brought about challenges as our 2020 State of SaaSOps report clearly outlines. The findings also show increased confidence and reliance on SaaSOps as the path forward to reigning in SaaS management and security.”

    Click here to download the report.

    Among the key findings:

    • On average, organizations use 80 SaaS apps today. This is a 5x increase in just three years and a 10x increase since 2015.
    • The top two motivators for using more SaaS apps are increasing productivity and reducing costs.
    • Only 49 percent of IT professionals inspire confidence in their ability to identify and monitor unsanctioned SaaS usage on company networks—yet more than three-quarters (76 percent) see unsanctioned apps as a security risk.
    • The top five places where sensitive data lives are: 1. Files stored in cloud storage, 2. Email, 3. Devices, 4. Chat apps, and 5. Password managers. But because SaaS apps have become the system of record, sensitive data inevitably lives everywhere in your SaaS environment.
    • The top two security concerns are sensitive files shared publicly and former employees retaining data access.
    • IT teams spend an average of 7.12 hours offboarding a single employee from a company’s SaaS apps.
    • Thirty percent of respondents already use the term “SaaSOps” in their job title or plan to include it soon.

    For the report, BetterCloud surveyed nearly 700 IT leaders and security professionals from the world’s leading enterprise organizations. These individuals ranged in seniority from C-level executives to front-line practitioners and included both IT and security department roles. The respondents’ companies represented a wide range of company sizes and industries—most were established businesses with significant experience using SaaS apps. Almost all of those surveyed use either G Suite or Office 365 as their primary cloud productivity suite.

    To learn more about the growing SaaSOps market and how to prepare, download the full report from the BetterCloud website.

    About BetterCloud
    BetterCloud is the leading SaaSOps platform that enables IT professionals to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications in the digital workplace. Thousands of forward-thinking organizations like Zoom, Walmart, and Square now rely on BetterCloud to automate processes and policies across their cloud application portfolio. A pioneer of the SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud has built a community of more than 45K IT professionals who are embracing the new role of SaaSOps within IT organizations.

    BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA.  The company’s total amount raised to date is $187 million. Investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Greycroft Partners. For more information, please visit www.bettercloud.com.

    SOURCE BetterCloud

  • Humio Named A 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor

    Humio Recognized in the 2020 Gartner Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis Report

    Seattle, WA Oct 7, Humio, the only log management platform enabling complete observability for all streaming logs in real time and at scale, self-hosted or in the cloud, today announced that Gartner has recognized it as a Cool Vendor based on the October 5, 2020 report titled “Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis”* by Padraig Byrne, Federico De Silva, et all.

    Gartner writes, “Performance analysis vendors increasingly provide advanced analytics, AIOps and improved scalability in response to the growth in velocity and data complexity in IT environments. I&O leaders should consider how innovative vendor approaches can deliver enhanced insight into their IT environments.”

    “We consider Humio’s inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner confirmation of our modern, innovative architecture and approach to log management and as a sign of our growing adoption with enterprise customers,” said Geeta Schmidt, CEO of Humio. “As organizations move towards highly dynamic architectures, the requirements for monitoring and processing increasing amounts of data change dramatically. The amount of data collected by customers should never be limited. Humio changes the game by enabling customers to collect all of their data thanks to our lowest total cost of ownership, industry-leading unlimited plans, minimal maintenance and training costs, and remarkably low compute and storage requirements.”

    The importance of collecting and querying all log data has proven more imperative than ever with increasing threats and attacks such as the recently announced Zerologon. The bug, which has been around since at least Windows Server 2008, allows an attacker to take control of any part of an enterprise Windows infrastructure or the entire network–in a matter of seconds. With the Humio query, customers can easily query all of their Windows logs to determine, also in a matter of seconds, whether they’ve ever been impacted by the Zerologon vulnerability. Humio’s in-memory state machines enable sub-second search results for thousands of concurrent live queries allowing analysts, developers, and security personnel to interact with their data as it arrives in real time.

    Humio’s customers are large enterprises and organizations across varying industries including financial services, education, healthcare, communications, and cloud-based service providers such as Aruba HPE, Bloomberg, Decisiv, Michigan State University, Netlify, SpareBank 1, and Vijilan. To further increase interoperability and performance, the company has expanded its ecosystem to include AWS, Corelight, Instana, Kloia, Netic, Pondurance, SOC Prime, Tines and many others.

    *Gartner “Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis,” Padraig Byrne, at el, October 5 2020

    Gartner Disclaimer: 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 Humio

    Humio’s log management platform offers the lowest total cost of ownership, industry-leading unlimited plans, minimal maintenance and training costs, and remarkably low compute and storage requirements. Humio is the only log management solution that enables customers to log everything to answer anything in real time — at scale, self-hosted or in the cloud. Humio’s modern, index-free architecture makes exploring and investigating all data blazing fast, even at scale. Founded in 2016, Humio is headquartered in London and backed by Accel and Dell Technologies Capital. For more information, visit www.humio.com and follow @MeetHumio on Twitter.

  • New Training Course Helps Gain Expertise with Jenkins CI/CD

    Course to help SREs, software developers, software architects and other DevOps professionals use Jenkins to improve their CI/CD practices

    SAN FRANCISCO, October 6, 2020 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the availability of a new training course, LFS267 – Jenkins Essentials.

    LFS267, developed in conjunction with the Continuous Delivery Foundation, is designed for DevOps engineers, Quality Assurance personnel, SREs as well as software developers and architects who want to gain expertise with Jenkins for their continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) activities.

    Jenkins is an open source automation server that provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. Since its inception in 2004, Jenkins continues to be the most popular CI server in the world.

    In this course, students will learn how to set up Jenkins in a Kubernetes cluster, automate Jenkins installation using IaC concepts, set up a highly available Jenkins server, scale Jenkins infrastructure by leveraging static and dynamic build agents, automate various routine Jenkins tasks using CLI and RestAPI, secure Jenkins jobs by implementing fine-grained security controls, set up effective CI/CD feedback loops, set up complex multi-branch pipelines simulating real-life scenarios, and automate pull request workflow using GitOps principles. These skills will prepare you for SRE, DevOps, and release engineer roles.

    Before enrolling, students should have a basic understanding of Jenkins, Kubernetes and Docker. Those unfamiliar with these projects should first consider enrolling in free training courses from The Linux Foundation including Introduction to Jenkins, Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies, and Introduction to Kubernetes.

    The new course was developed by Himanshu Gautam and Deepika Gautam. Himanshu is an author, trainer, speaker, and problem solver with 20+ years of experience in software engineering. He is also an avid reader and a DevOps evangelist focused on creating elegant cloud-native architectures. He has also authored the CI/CD with Jenkins X (LFS268) course. Deepika is an author, speaker, trainer, and DevOps evangelist with almost two decades of experience in the software industry who specializes in implementing DevOps toolchains in multi cloud environments. She has also authored the Introduction to Jenkins (LFS167x) course. They together founded Aplima Inc., a CI/CD solution provider.

    The course is available to begin immediately. The $299 course fee provides unlimited access to the course for one year to all content and labs. Interested individuals may enroll here.

    About the Linux Foundation

    Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

    About the CD Foundation

    The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The CDF is a vendor-neutral organization that is establishing best practices of software delivery automation, propelling education and adoption of CD tools, and facilitating cross-pollination across emerging technologies. The CDF is home to many of the fastest-growing projects for CD, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation.

    The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

     

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  • Flexential® Announces Continued Investment in Data Protection with Scalable, Cost-Effective Solution for Storing Long-Term Data

    Flexential Archive Storage powered by Wasabi expands to serve growing data needs across the U.S.

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Oct. 6, 2020 – Flexential, a leading provider of data center colocation, cloud and connectivity, today announced the addition of Flexential Archive Storage to the company’s growing family of data protection offerings. The new solution, designed to enable businesses to store long-term unstructured data from any source in an affordable, fast and straightforward way is powered by Wasabi, the cloud storage platform that is 80 percent less expensive than its nearest competitor. This new solution marks Flexential’s continued investment in data protection and the evolution of products designed to help businesses during this new “Working from Home” era.

    “At Flexential, we understand that not all data is created equal,” said Chief Operating Officer of Cloud and Managed Services, Mike Fuhrman, Flexential. “Our ultimate promise to our customers is to give them flexibility when it comes to their data. With Flexential Archive Storage, we are fulfilling that promise by extending our data protection portfolio, making it possible to store data according to its criticality to the business.”

    Flexential Archive Storage is specially designed for unstructured data such as video footage, backup solution tape replacement, images and documents that are not retrieved often but need to be stored safely and securely. Many businesses and organizations store data not accessed frequently due to data retention policies or legal mandates that govern how long data must be retained. 

    Flexential Archive Storage provides a scalable and cost-effective option that meets regulations for data protection and retention while also keeping the data accessible as needed. Unlike other providers in this space, the billing model is simple. Customers pay only for the space reserved and pay no charges for API requests or additional network fees, making the service simple and predictable. This cost savings is critical as the requirement to store data will likely multiply for businesses in the coming years as Gartner predicts1(Gartner subscription required), “By 2024, enterprises will triple their unstructured data stored as file or object storage from what they have in 2019.” 

    Flexential and Wasabi are also announcing a joint offering located in Flexential’s Dallas – Plano data center, to expand the Wasabi service to the southern and central parts of the United States. This new Central Region will service expanding data needs in the central and southern U.S. and complement Wasabi’s existing footprint in the west in Oregon and in the east in Virginia.  The combined solution empowers enterprises to store more data for less and reduce IT budgets, so businesses can focus their time and capital on other core objectives. Flexential also offers customers the ability to connect directly to the Wasabi Vaults in the West, Central and Eastern regions through the FlexAnywhereTM network providing a faster, lower latency and more reliable connection. 

    “With Wasabi, Flexential can offer hot storage performance for archival storage with really simple pricing. Storing large amounts of archival data can be a burden for any company, particularly those where data must be stored for long periods of time to meet regulatory requirements. Since there’s less need for complex tiers of storage, applications and architecture are greatly simplified,” said David Friend, Wasabi CEO. “Flexential is one of the first data center providers to add cloud storage as a core service for their data center customers. Every customer needs some amount of storage and Flexential can now provide that storage at a cost that is lower than owning and operating traditional hardware storage.”

    Flexential Archive Storage is part of a broader portfolio of object-based storage options that gives customers the flexibility to subscribe to the storage solution that best suits their data needs according to its criticality to the business and retrieval and compliance requirements. This enhancement to the portfolio makes Flexential a one-stop shop for data protection requirements, outfitting a wide range of data protection use cases.

    For more information on Flexential Archive Storage and the complete suite of Flexential Cloud products, please visit https://www.flexential.com/cloud. 

    1Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, September 30, 2019 by Julia Palmer, Raj Bala and Chandra Mukhyala. 

    About Wasabi

    Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an infinite amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured $110 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston. Follow and connect with Wasabi on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and our blog.

    About Flexential

    Flexential empowers the IT journey of the nation’s most complex businesses by offering flexible and tailored solutions in colocation, cloud, data protection, managed and professional services. The company builds on a platform of three million square feet of data center space, in 20 highly connected markets, and on the FlexAnywhereTM 100GB private backbone, to meet the most stringent challenges in security, compliance and resiliency. See how Flexential goes beyond  the four walls of the data center to empower IT in an interactive map of the Flexential colocation, cloud and DRaaS data centers, PoPs and cloud on ramps, visit www.flexential.com. 

     

    Flexential is a registered trademark of the Flexential Corp. Follow Flexential on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.