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  • Rackspace Technology Announces Moogsoft AIOps Platform Integration into Rackspace Fabric

    Enhancing Rackspace Technology’s comprehensive multicloud platform with AIOps

     

    SAN ANTONIO – August 20, 2020 – Rackspace Technology™ (NASDAQ: RXT) announced today the latest release of Rackspace Fabric™ now includes the Moogsoft AIOps Platform, which applies artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to log, metric, trace and alert data to help resolve IT incidents faster and more effectively. The integration into Rackspace Fabric means Rackspace customers will experience increased uptime and fewer incident alerts by utilizing machine learning to solve IT problems.

    Rackspace Fabric is a comprehensive platform that provides a unified approach to administrative tasks across multicloud environments. Many companies struggle to manage complex cloud environments with disjointed authentication systems, unreliable support, and disparate management capabilities. Rackspace Fabric simplifies the administration of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and VMware environments by providing consistent administrative and support capabilities across these technologies.

    Rackspace Fabric provides common billing, governance, support, monitoring, incident and change management services while still embracing the distinctive features of each cloud. Processing over a billion automated actions per month, Rackspace Fabric delivers a faster, more consistent approach to consuming and managing cloud resources from multiple providers, enabling customers to realize the transformational capabilities of the cloud much faster.

    “Rackspace Fabric takes everything we’ve learned over the last 20 years about operating mission critical applications, combines it with the latest cloud technologies, and weaves it all together into one platform — one fabric — which we use as the foundation for our service delivery,” said Tolga Tarhan, Chief Technology Officer at Rackspace Technology. “The integration of Moogsoft AIOps incorporates comprehensive AI and ML capabilities enabling cross-services visibility to enhance incident response and increase uptime across our customers’ cloud environments. As these cloud environments become increasingly self-healing, the pace of innovation increases, and customers are freed to focus more resources to build and deliver more quickly for their end-users.”

    “Digital transformation introduces unprecedented scale and complexity as organizations deploy new services into multicloud environments, and this requires the assistance of AI and ML to complement IT operations’ capacity to innovate,” said Moogsoft Founder and CEO Phil Tee. “This is precisely what Rackspace Technology has done by integrating Moogsoft AIOps into Rackspace Fabric. With AIOps, Rackspace Technology customers can focus more of their time on developing the digital services that drive today’s business, and less on fixing them.”

    About Rackspace Technology

    Rackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company. We can design, build and operate our customers’ cloud environments across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize applications, build new products and adopt innovative technologies.

    About Moogsoft

    Moogsoft is a pioneer and leading provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter. With patented AI analyzing billions of events daily across the world’s most complex IT environments, the Moogsoft AIOps Platform helps the world’s top enterprises avoid outages, automate service assurance, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Founded in 2012, Moogsoft has more than 140 customers worldwide including American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Fiserv, HCL Technologies, SAP SuccessFactors, and Verizon Media. It has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and outsourcing organizations including AWS, Cisco, HCL Technologies, TCS and Wipro. Moogsoft® and the Moogsoft logo are proprietary trademarks of Moogsoft Inc. All other products and names may be trademarks of their respective companies.

    For more information about Moogsoft’s AIOps platform and its customers’ success, visit www.moogsoft.com.

  • Cyara Partners with Twilio to Accelerate Contact Center Cloud Migrations with Automated Quality Assurance for Twilio Flex

    New integration enables Cyara to test Twilio Flex agent routing and data passing functionality – reducing project timelines and risk while improving CX quality.

    REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. (PRWEB) AUGUST 20, 2020

    Cyara, provider of the award-winning Automated CX Assurance Platform today announced a partnership with Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform, that addresses contact centers’ need to quickly migrate operations to the cloud while not only maintaining but improving the quality of the customer experience (CX). Cyara joins the coveted ranks of Twilio’s partner ecosystem as a leading CX assurance platform and will provide innovative capabilities to customer service teams around the globe.

    Cyara’s new integration with Twilio Flex is the first of its kind to simulate Twilio Flex agent actions for the purpose of testing and will support Twilio Flex customers by automating time-consuming manual tasks and enabling faster cloud migrations. Through the partnership, Cyara brings the following benefits to Twilio customers:

    ●    Accelerated contact center cloud migrations resulting in increased speed to market by 70%, while reducing testing time by 80% and increasing test coverage by 800%
    ●    Automated discovery and documentation of existing interactive voice response (IVR) applications
    ●    Automated functional, regression, and load testing as well as automated CX monitoring, for interactive voice response (IVR), outbound dialing, and agent routing and data passing, applications built on Twilio products

    “Twilio is a leader in the space and they’ve continued to gain more momentum as companies turn to them to transform their digital communications at accelerated rates in order to address current business challenges,” said James Isaacs, President of Cyara. “We’re proud to support Twilio and their customers in delivering enhanced customer experiences made possible by the digital age.”

    Cyara simulates real-world customer interactions and engages with the Twilio and Twilio Flex contact center voice and digital applications to ensure they are performing as designed. Cyara takes an outside-in approach to contact center testing by emulating customer and agent actions to replicate defined customer flows. Cyara ensures that all the systems involved in a customer journey, such as routing, data passing, IVR, or outbound dialing, work holistically without issues in voice quality, connections, prompts or latency. Every test call placed by Cyara is intelligent and documents test results automatically to provide real-time insights into performance and any potential issues that could impact CX. These functions enable customers to receive the highest level of experience.

    “Twilio is thrilled to welcome Cyara to Build, the Twilio partner program, as a trusted ecosystem partner,” said Elliot Goldwater, director of technology partnerships at Twilio. “With Twilio, Cyara’s automated CX assurance platform and testing capabilities deliver confidence, so that Twilio Flex users can deploy call center systems more quickly, while ensuring the highest quality of customer experience.”

    Cyara’s automated testing integration with Twilio Flex is currently available through Cyara’s suite of test automation solutions. Twilio Flex customers seeking to leverage Cyara’s capabilities can find more information HERE.

    About Cyara
    As the world’s leading Automated CX Assurance platform provider, Cyara accelerates the delivery of flawless customer journeys across digital and voice channels while reducing the risk of customer-facing defects. Every day, the most recognizable brands in the world trust the Cyara Platform to deliver customer smiles at scale. For more information, please visit cyara.com.

  • Rockset Transforms Real-Time Analytics with New Tools for Developer Velocity

    New developer tools make it faster than ever before to build applications that search and analyze real-time data

    SAN MATEO, Calif. – August 20, 2020 – Rockset, the real-time indexing database company, today released a new ecosystem of developer tools that integrate with industry-standard workflows to increase developer velocity for real-time analytics projects. Modern real-time data applications — such as customer 360, real-time A/B experiments, fraud detection and personalization — help companies accelerate growth and revenue in the digital economy. Rockset enables real-time analytics at cloud scale, without operational burden, and was founded by the creators of open source RocksDB.

    Rockset is uniquely focused on enhancing the developer experience. Rockset builds Converged Indexes™ for low latency analytical queries on semi-structured data. Unlike first generation tools like Elasticsearch and Apache Druid, Rockset takes an entirely new serverless approach to real-time analytics in the cloud, shattering operational barriers. With the new release, companies can deploy real-time applications in record time, often reducing many weeks of effort to a few hours.

    eGoGames, Europe’s leading eSports platform, selected Rockset over Elasticsearch, according to a recent case study. “eGoGames is a gaming company, so speed is important to us. We need to analyze our data in real time, and Rockset is critical to making this possible,” said eGoGames CDO David Serna. “Using Rockset was one of the best decisions for our company. We now use Rockset for everything we do. It’s the perfect solution for building out real-time analytics without incurring a lot of effort and cost on our part.”

    Query Lambdas, released by Rockset earlier this year, run developers’ saved queries in response to events. Today’s release includes a new ecosystem of developer tools intended to help users edit, execute, and deploy Query Lambdas from their local development environment, while integrating seamlessly with Version Control and CI/CD systems. With this release, developers building real-time applications can:

    • Version control queries: Query Lambdas allow developers to build powerful data APIs simply using SQL. With this release these Query Lambdas can be created, updated and managed from existing version control systems such as Git.
    • Manage Query Lambdas right from the IDE: A Visual Studio Code extension for managing Query Lambdas right from the IDE.
    • Use tags for CI/CD: Tags allow developers to safely automate your Query Lambda deployments using industry-standard CI/CD tools.

    “To date, real-time analytics has never been built with developers in mind. Query Lambdas are an industry-first shift to better serve the developer community and accelerate API development. With this release, real-time analytics elegantly fits with modern serverless apps and GraphQL. It allows developers to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of SQL,” said Venkat Venkataramani, co-founder and CEO of Rockset. “As we realize a more data-driven future, we have to remove the operational burden and simplify the process of building modern applications that need real-time analytics. Developers should be bottlenecked only by their own creativity and not what their underlying data infrastructure can do.”

    To learn more about today’s announcement, read the blog: “Announcing the New Rockset Developer Tools”

    Supporting Resources

    About Rockset

    Rockset is a real-time database in the cloud, built by a team of industry veterans with decades of experience in web-scale data management and distributed systems at companies including Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Oracle and VMware. Rockset is backed by Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more information, go to rockset.com or follow @RocksetCloud.

  • Applitools Announces Future of Testing 2020 Live Virtual Event

    Experts from Twitter, Salesforce, Microsoft Playwright, Cypress.io, Selenium Project, and Test Automation University Director Angie Jones Lead a Diverse Lineup of Live Sessions

    SAN MATEO, Calif., August 19, 2020 — Applitools (https://applitools.com/), provider of a next generation test automation platform through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, today announced open registration to Applitools prestigious Future of Testing | 2020 Event.

    Experts from Twitter, Salesforce, Cypress.io and Microsoft are confirmed for the September 17 event, with more sessions and industry-leader speakers soon to be announced. Eight live sessions on a state-of-the-art platform are now scheduled, including the following highlights:

    • Where’s My Flying Car: Test Automation in the Space Age — keynote session from Angie Jones, Automation Architect at Applitools and Director of Test Automation University.
    • The Future of Test Frameworks — an expert panel featuring Arjun Attam, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Playwright, Amir Rustamzadeh, Head of DX Engineering at Cypress.io, and Manoj Kumar, Selenium Committer and member of the Project Leadership committee, and moderator Gil Tayar, Sr. Architect at Applitools.
    • Accessibility Testing 101 — live session with Crystal Preston-Watson, Quality and Accessibility Engineer at Salesforce.
    • Decentralized Testing— live talk by Omose Agala, Software Engineer in Test II at Twitter, and Nupur Pallavi, Sr. Test Engineer at Twitter.
    • Successful Test Automation Practices from Innovative Brands — an expert panel featuring Abel Wang, Principal Advocate, DevOps Lead at Microsoft, Omose Ogala, Software Engineer in Test II at Twitter, and moderated by Angie Jones.

    See What You Missed: Excerpts From the Future of Testing – Spring 2020

    This is the second Future of Testing event Applitools has hosted this year.

    In May 2020, an invite-only private event was held with 300 engineers. “Based on the success of this event and the amazing feedback from attendees, we decided to organize a second event with free, open access  to everyone in the global engineering community,” said Moshe Milman, co-founder and COO of Applitools.

    To learn first-hand what this event is like, feel free to view a series of 2-minute videos from the previous Future of Testing virtual event, held in May 2020. Visit (https://info.applitools.com/uINp) to experience highlights from talks by Angie Jones (Applitools & TAU), Abel Wang (Microsoft), and Bijoya Chatterjee & Shantanu Prasade (Sony PlayStation).

    The event will be hosted by Joe Colantonio, Founder of TestGuild, and available for live stream viewing on multiple platforms.

    Unlike other virtual events that simply move the offline event to a series of pre-recorded presentations — all talks on Future of Testing are presented 100% live, and are highly interactive via polls, live Q-and-A, and chat, which facilitate learning and discussion among the quality engineering community.

    “Applitools is truly committed to promoting excellence in the global engineering community,” said Joe Colantonio. “Expanding on their industry leadership role with initiatives such as Test Automation University and the Visual AI Hackathons, they are now adding Future of Testing Virtual Events to the mix. It’s an incredible event with amazing sessions by leading industry experts, which I am proud to be a part of and host — please join us!”

    To learn more about The Future of Testing Live Virtual Event, visit https://info.applitools.com/uIIS

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers a Next Generation Test Automation Platform through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid. We enable engineering teams to release high quality web and mobile apps at incredible speed at a reduced cost.

    Applitools Visual AI modernizes important test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design Testing, Cross Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI/CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Tech, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharma, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • DevOps Institute Opens Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Survey

    The third annual survey aims to gather data on global DevOps skillsets and hiring trends to reshape the future of DevOps Humans 

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – August 20, 2020 – DevOps Institute (https://devopsinstitute.com/), a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the launch of the “Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report” community survey. The Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report will examine DevOps career trends, hiring challenges, and skillset requirements that have emerged in the past year. It is the only vendor-neutral survey of its kind.
    To participate in the “Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills” survey, please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2021pressrelease.   

    “The Upskilling 2020 report revealed that DevOps transformation is still very difficult for over half of survey respondents,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “It also highlighted the need for Human Transformation as we learned that finding and attracting skilled DevOps Humans is a top challenge. As we enter the third year of the upskilling report during a global pandemic, it is more important than ever to gather deeper insights around these trends and skillset requirements to help create a more clear path to DevOps transformation success. We also need to understand new business challenges and opportunities around remote work as the ‘new normal’ starts to reveal itself.”

    The 2021 survey focuses on critical DevOps skills required for modern software delivery environments. Further, it examines how these skillsets have changed as remote work and digital footprints drive business transformation. By exploring the role of the “E-shaped” DevOps professional, survey data will demonstrate how DevOps Humans must up-skill, up-knowledge and up-perform to inspire DevOps humans to boost their career.

    “As the 2021 survey evolves, it is essential to capture an increasingly diverse representation of data around critical DevOps skillsets,” said Eveline Oehrlich, chief research director at DevOps Institute. “The more inclusive data we have, the better we can understand how DevOps talents need to be reshaped in the future to help companies leverage technology to be agile in the face of disruption, and to create the new digitally enabled business models for a new normal. We anticipate that skills categories like process and knowledge skills, human skills and automation skills will remain high-value, but we may see a shift in how they rank with the advent of remote work in 2020.”

    The Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills survey is active through December 14, 2020, and the third annual report will be published in early 2021.

    If your organization is interested in sponsoring the Upskilling 2021 survey, please contact ​Marc Halcrow at: marc@devopsinstitute.com

    To access the Upskilling 2020: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, download it for free at: (https://devopsinstitute.com/upskilling-2020/).

    To access more DevOps resources, connect with more Humans of DevOps and continue your upskilling journey, become a free DevOps Institute community member: https://devopsinstitute.com/become-a-community-member/.

    Share This: The @DEVOPSINST  #Upskilling 2021: Enterprise #DevOps Skills Report Survey just launched. Participate in the survey and share which #skills essential to the #IT community: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2021pressrelease

    About the DevOps Institute
    DevOps Institute is dedicated to advancing the human elements of DevOps success. As a global member-based association, DevOps Institute is the go-to learning hub connecting IT practitioners, education partners, consultants, talent acquisition and business executives to help pave the way to support digital transformation and the New IT.

    We help advance careers and support emerging practices within the DevOps community based on a human-centered SKIL framework, consisting of Skills, Knowledge, Ideas, and Learning.  All of our work, including accreditations, research, events, and continuous learning programs – is focused on providing the “human know-how” to modernize IT and make DevOps succeed.

    Web | https://devopsinstitute.com/
    Twitter | @DEVOPSINST
    LinkedIn | /devops-institute
    YouTube | DevOps Institute

  • ZEDEDA Launches Open Edge Ecosystem to Scale Global Enterprise Digital Transformation

    • Open Edge Ecosystem empowers technology and domain-expert service providers to connect and develop on ZEDEDA’s open edge orchestration foundation; transforms an industry cluttered by proprietary software, complex integrations and vendor lock-in

    • Offers the developer community and enterprises a choice of pure-play ingredients and market-leading solutions delivered by industry experts, combined with customized support for industry sectors that would otherwise struggle to implement Edge and IoT solutions

    • Network effect maximizes value for both customers and participating ecosystem partners across edge and IoT markets to address business challenges and drive new revenue opportunities

    • The network effect produced by ZEDEDA’s Open Edge Ecosystem will be on display at ZEDEDA Transform, August 19. Leading technology providers including Advantech, Agora, Arrow, Buildings IoT, ClearBlade, Crosser, Dianomic, Dispersive, FogHorn, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, IOTech, Lanner, Latent AI, Microsoft, Mirasys, Nozomi, OSIsoft, Rockwell Automation, VyOS, SAS, ServerLi, SkyFoundry and Supermicro will present example solutions for building automation, energy, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, safety and security and beyond

    SAN JOSE, Calif. & ZEDEDA Transform—August 19, 2020—ZEDEDA, the leader in IoT edge orchestration, today announced the launch of its Open Edge Ecosystem of technology and services partners backed by the company’s open edge orchestration solution.

    ZEDEDA has demonstrated a commitment to openness and standardization in the Edge and IoT market since its inception. The company’s open edge orchestration solution is based on Project EVE, which it contributed to LF Edge in early 2019 as a founding member. The project now has nearly 50 unique contributors from ZEDEDA, Xilinx, Intel, Global Logic, Atomic, GE Research and Timesys. LF Edge, a vendor-neutral open source organization backed by The Linux Foundation, is working to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing.

    In a parallel to the open Android ecosystem, which represents close to 90% of the global market share for mobile, the EVE open computing engine seeks to drive the same scale and choice for IoT Edge solutions. ZEDEDA’s open ecosystem is unified through the vendor-neutral EVE foundation, which supports customer choice of hardware, applications and cloud while mitigating lock-in.

    Open Edge Ecosystem to be Announced at ZEDEDA Transform

    ZEDEDA founder and CEO Said Ouissal will discuss the partner ecosystem in greater detail at Transform, ZEDEDA’s inaugural technology and business conference for professionals interested in digital transformation enabled by edge and IoT solutions. The free, virtual event features solution breakouts and thought leadership panels presented by numerous leading technology providers, analysts and influencers. Free registration is open through Wednesday morning.

    “An open model always wins for scale while eliminating vendor lock-in and maximizing business potential over time,” Ouissal said. “Our open ecosystem enables customers to choose best-in-breed technology and services providers that offer turn-key solutions, or that can augment their own in-house development.”

    Joining ZEDEDA are leading technology providers Advantech, Agora, Arrow, Buildings IoT, ClearBlade, Crosser, Dianomic, Dispersive, FogHorn, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, IOTech, Lanner, Latent AI, Microsoft, Mirasys, Nozomi, OSIsoft, Rockwell Automation, VyOS, SAS, ServerLi, SkyFoundry and Supermicro that will be presenting example solutions for building automation, energy, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, safety and security and beyond. These sessions will be alongside thought leadership panels on various hot topics in the Edge and IoT space, including Edge AI, Digital Twin, OT/IT Convergence and innovating with managed services.

    “Enterprises across multiple industries are driving digital disruptions by deploying artificial intelligence at the edge,” said Jason Mann, Vice President of IoT at SAS. “Innovation with long-term technology planning, combined with open ecosystem collaboration, is critical.”

    Creating a Network Effect to Maximize Value Enabled by Edge and Solutions

    Over the past five years, the emerging Edge and IoT markets have produced a dizzying landscape of proprietary platforms—each with wildly different methods for data collection, orchestration and security. ZEDEDA’s Open Edge Ecosystem solves these disparities by bringing market-leading hardware and software providers together with industry experts in verticals such as buildings, energy, manufacturing, oil and gas and retail to support the unique technological and domain-specific needs of each sector.

    “The new product mindset is about continuous innovation and being part of something bigger than your own organization,” said Jason Shepherd, ZEDEDA’s VP of Ecosystem. “Whether you build one or join one, it’s more important than ever in this world of digital transformation to be part of an ecosystem to maintain a competitive edge. Ultimately, it’s about creating a network effect for maximizing value, both for customers and the bottom line, and leveraging an open-source foundation is the fastest path to scale.”

    Before joining ZEDEDA, Shepherd was CTO of Edge and IoT at Dell Technologies and led the creation of Dell’s award-winning IoT ecosystem and the formation of the open-source EdgeX Foundry project, ushering in vendor-neutral interoperability for IoT edge computing. EdgeX recently hit 5 million downloads since launching in 2017.

    For more information about ZEDEDA and its ecosystem, visit zededa.com.

     

    About ZEDEDA

    ZEDEDA, the leader in IoT edge orchestration, delivers visibility, control and security for the distributed enterprise, with the freedom of deploying and managing any app on any hardware at scale and connecting to any cloud or on-premises systems. IoT edge solutions require a diverse mix of technologies and domain expertise and ZEDEDA enables customers with an open, vendor-agnostic orchestration framework that breaks down silos and provides the needed agility and futureproofing as they evolve their connected operations. Customers can now seamlessly orchestrate intelligent applications at the IoT edge to gain access to critical insights, make real-time decisions and maximize operational efficiency. ZEDEDA is a venture-backed Silicon Valley company, headquartered in San Jose, CA, with offices in Bangalore and Pune, India. For more information contact info@zededa.com.

  • Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise Streamlines Application Modernization Projects Utilizing Multi-Cloud Architectures

    Multi-cloud in-memory application acceleration now available on-premises, AWS and now Microsoft Azure

    San Mateo, Calif., August 19, 2020 – Hazelcast, the leading open source in-memory computing platform, today announced updates to its managed service that enables enterprises to simplify the delivery of multi-cloud capabilities to application modernization projects. Previously available only on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise is now available on Microsoft Azure and includes a new WAN Replication capability to easily connect multiple clouds, regardless of the provider.

    According to research in collaboration with Intel1, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud are one of the top 5 technologies or trends identified as the most disruptive by IT decision makers. In addition to avoiding vendor lock-in and improving availability, multi-cloud strategies provide the ability to deploy resources closer to the end-user to deliver a better overall experience.

    With Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise, Hazelcast maintains the software deployment as a managed service for customers, enabling rapid uptime and freeing customers to focus on developing innovative, business-critical applications. Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise runs the Hazelcast IMDG Enterprise edition, providing customers with advanced features that include high-density scale, over-the-wire encryption and replication/failover capabilities that provide extra protection across zones, regions and cloud vendors.

    “Hazelcast’s managed service solves performance and reliability issues that prevent enterprises from migrating to the cloud and the addition of Microsoft Azure provides more flexibility in deployment options,” said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Hazelcast. “Factor in the WAN Replication capability for multi-cloud applications and customers can act instantaneously on data anywhere.”

    Edge to Cloud to Data Center

    Facilitating a connection between clusters, WAN Replication is a proven feature of Hazelcast IMDG Enterprise which allows customers to synchronize data across data centers. Now a part of Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise, WAN Replication opens new possibilities to support data and applications regardless of location. More importantly, it enables customers with multi-cloud strategies to leverage a consistent in-memory computing platform regardless of the application’s location.

    The addition of WAN Replication opens new opportunities for enterprises related to customer experience, availability and scalability. While business requirements like disaster recovery (DR) and load balancing may be among the first that leverage this feature, the ability to replicate data across the different clouds also opens up the ability to deploy applications closer to customers and to data sources. With edge computing starting to become mainstream, Hazelcast is the only data storage and processing platform that can be deployed at the edge, cloud and on-premises, resulting in a significant reduction of latency and an overall improvement in application performance, providing an enhanced customer experience.

    Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise and Microsoft Azure             

    Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise, now available on Microsoft Azure, is already available on AWS where it has SOC2 Type 1 compliance and with Type 2 expected by the end of the year. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and IBM Cloud are currently on the roadmap.

    Additional Resources

    Footnotes

    (1) “Infinity Data” by Hazelcast and Intel, November 2019

    About Hazelcast, Inc.

    Hazelcast delivers the in-memory computing platform that empowers Global 2000 enterprises to achieve ultra-fast application performance – at any scale. Built for low-latency data processing, Hazelcast’s cloud-native in-memory data store and event stream processing software technologies are trusted by leading companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Charter Communications, Ellie Mae and National Australia Bank to accelerate data-centric applications.

    Hazelcast is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices across the globe. To learn more about Hazelcast, visit https://hazelcast.com.

  • JumpCloud University and Certification Now Available for IT Admins

    LOUISVILLE, CO – Aug. 18, 2020 – JumpCloud, the world’s first Directory-as-a-Service®, today announced a certification program for IT admins through the newly launched JumpCloud University.

    JumpCloud, with over 100,000 organizations enrolled worldwide, designed JumpCloud University™ and certification to provide essential knowledge to its rapidly-growing base of IT admins, system administrators, MSPs, and DevOps engineers. Now JumpCloud admins can gain essential knowledge of the concepts and application of JumpCloud’s unified identity access and device management platform, and receive official certification demonstrating JumpCloud expertise.

    JumpCloud University is a free education hub that provides IT administrators, MSPs, and DevOps engineers interactive and self-paced training at every skill level to better manage IT infrastructure through the JumpCloud platform. Admins select the content most relevant to their use case along one of three learning paths: for admins evaluating JumpCloud, for active admins of JumpCloud, and for MSPs who use JumpCloud to manage client organizations. With online courses, guided simulations, recorded webinars, and tutorial videos, JumpCloud University is the go-to resource for everything JumpCloud.

    The JumpCloud Core Certification is available now; Advanced and Expert certifications will be available by the end of 2020. Certification assessments will be available through the JumpCloud University platform; the fee for the Core assessment will be waived for the remainder of 2020. While JumpCloud University courses will prepare admins for certification assessments, the courses are not required for the assessments, as many IT admins may have already developed extensive knowledge of the JumpCloud platform through direct experience or separate training.

    There are 12 courses currently available, including:

    • Build Your Own Directory™
    • Configuring SSO
    • Configuring RADIUS
    • User Lockouts and Password Management
    • Provisioning and De-Provisioning Users
    • Leveraging User and System Groups

    “Our mission has always been to make the lives of IT admins and MSPs easier,” said Nicole Petruccione, customer education manager at JumpCloud. “We’re thrilled to launch JumpCloud University and certifications to help admins validate their expertise of JumpCloud for the world to see.”

    Customers worldwide have chosen JumpCloud for its consolidated platform that easily and securely connects users to all of their needed resources including files, applications, networks, and devices across macOS, Linux, and Windows systems.

    About JumpCloud
    JumpCloud® Directory-as-a-Service® is Active Directory® and LDAP reimagined. JumpCloud securely manages and connects users to their systems, applications, files, and networks. Try JumpCloud today.

  • Cognizant and Tricentis Integrate Testing Solutions to Simplify and Accelerate SAP S/4HANA Implementation

    • Cognizant’s quality assurance and testing expertise and Tricentis’ AI-enabled, automated, continuous testing tools reduce enterprise resource planning (ERP) migration time, cost, and uncertainty
    •  Companies will offer large enterprises a one-source continuous, automated testing solution for moving applications from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA

    Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and Tricentis are collaborating to offer an integrated testing solution for companies transitioning and modernizing critical business applications from SAP Enterprise Core Components (ECC) to SAP S/4HANA. The solution, available globally and across industries, is the first of its kind to utilize automated, AI-enabled tools for continuous testing, providing a complete set of services for modernizing core ERP applications.

    The SAP S/4HANA ERP system includes built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. It transforms business processes with intelligent automation and runs on SAP HANA – a market-leading in-memory database that offers real-time processing speeds and a dramatically simplified data model.

    The breadth of innovative features, combined with continuous optimization attributes of SAP S/4 HANA, introduces changes faster and with more frequency than with the older SAP ECC. Tricentis’ AI-driven continuous testing platform automates labor-intensive tasks and has been shown to enable 10x faster testing compared to traditional methods, which helps ensure smoother releases and improve business outcomes.

    Tricentis is a leader in continuous testing technology and recently announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with SAP to become SAP’s recommended testing solution. Cognizant, one of the world’s largest professional services companies, is an SAP Global Strategic Service Partner.

    Quotes:

    Andreas Golze, Global Head, Quality Engineering and Assurance, Cognizant

    “In our digital economy, market conditions are more dynamic than ever, and businesses are challenged to use the latest AI technologies to keep pace in their supply chain management and new product testing and release cycles. Combining Tricentis’ world-class AI testing and automation technology with our expertise in implementing enterprise-wide, global SAP projects creates one source large companies can rely on for a seamless transition to all of the SAP S/4Hana features with the confidence of a ‘first time right’ approach to testing. We are pleased to be working with Tricentis and enriching our SAP capabilities.”

    Sean Thompson, Senior Vice President of Global Channels, Tricentis

    “The ability to adapt to a fast-moving, ever-changing business environment is a key differentiator. The number of SAP updates has increased in recent years, and enterprises are finding traditional, manual testing methods can’t keep pace in order to meet the market pressure to rapidly launch new products and services. Our alliance with Cognizant means that, together, we’re even better positioned to help clients address this challenge with a simplified and flexible approach to testing and speed their releases.”

  • Puppet Enters Compliance Partnership with Center for Internet Security (CIS)

    Puppet doubles down on compliance with new relationship

    PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 18, 2020 — Puppet, the industry standard for infrastructure automation, today announced a partnership with the Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®). By formally partnering with CIS, Puppet is able to harness the power of CIS’s global community of security and compliance professionals to build better solutions for customers.

    “CIS literally wrote the rule book on compliance – their Benchmarks have become industry standard for compliance across the IT industry,” said Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO of Puppet. “With this partnership, we’ll be able to unite CIS’s extensive body of knowledge with Puppet’s deep IT and automation expertise, making it easier for our customers to achieve the enforcement of compliance they need across their increasingly complex infrastructure environments.”

    Most companies — from financial firms to healthcare institutions — must adhere to certain regulatory standards, but it can be difficult to keep up with the ever-increasing amount of rules and regulations needed to stay compliant. IT teams need better and faster ways to ensure compliance without requiring multiple different tools, solutions, or manual effort.

    In May, Puppet announced a service offering aimed at alleviating this compliance pain point, ensuring that customers are equipped to pass audits quickly through the enforcement of CIS Benchmarks, CIS’s best practices for securing IT systems and data.

    According to a report from Ponemon Institute, “the average cost for organizations that experience non-compliance problems is $14.82 million, a 45 percent increase from 2011.” However, companies that incorporate automation and continuous compliance policies into their infrastructure can save thousands of dollars and countless hours by reducing the complexities of audits, as well as hardening their systems against exploits and vulnerabilities. By leveraging CIS Benchmarks, Puppet is able to provide an end-to-end compliance solution for customers that enforces CIS standards across all systems and addresses gaps as they are identified.

    “We are excited to work closely with Puppet to bring compliance best practices and CIS Benchmarks to its large customer base while also advancing our mission to make the connected world a safer place,” said Curt Dukes, CIS Executive Vice President & General Manager, Security Best Practices. “This partnership reinforces our commitment to helping others improve their compliance and overall security posture.”

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    About Puppet

    Puppet makes infrastructure actionable, scalable and intelligent. From the data center to the cloud, Puppet helps enterprises modernize and manage their infrastructure to deliver innovation and efficiency through continuous automation. More than 40,000 organizations — including more than 80 percent of the Global 5000 — have benefited from Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to ensure business continuity, optimize costs, boost compliance and ensure security – all while accelerating the adoption of DevOps practices and delivery of self-service. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Puppet is a privately held company with offices in London, Belfast, Singapore and Sydney. Learn more at puppet.com.

    About The Center for Internet Security

    The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments. We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously refine these standards to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the cybersecurity needs of U.S. elections offices. To learn more, visit CISecurity.org or follow us on Twitter: @CISecurity.