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  • Adaptiva Introduces OneSite Cloud — Enabling Secure Internet P2P Content Delivery to Empower Enterprises With Remote Workforces

    Adaptiva Leverages Cloud Elasticity To Deliver Unprecedented Agility and Resilience 

    SEATTLE – June 3, 2020 – Adaptiva, a leading, global provider of endpoint management and security solutions for enterprise customers, today announced OneSite Cloud as enterprises accelerate digital transformation and the move to modern management. This latest OneSite offering enables users to receive software and other content updates at unprecedented speed and scale from wherever they are without overwhelming the corporate VPN and WAN/SD-WAN links or compromising network performance — only an internet connection is required.

    OneSite Cloud debuts as leading enterprises increasingly recognize the benefits of cloud-based solutions, including greater flexibility, lower costs, and the ability to modernize their endpoint management systems. Many view the move to modern management as vital for the future of their business; however, substantial concerns about the scalability and reliability of software delivery have slowed digital transformation. Adaptiva’s OneSite Cloud effectively addresses these issues, clearing a path for enterprises to move forward.

    OneSite Cloud quickly and reliably delivers content — Win32 patches and software — to endpoints, no matter where they are in the world.

    The introduction of OneSite Cloud also comes amid a newfound sense of urgency as enterprises look to support their remote workforce without sacrificing security or performance. Adaptiva’s global customer base has reported that in just the past two months, the number of employees who are working remotely has grown exponentially, placing an enormous strain on corporate VPN infrastructure that could be alleviated with a responsive cloud-based solution, such as OneSite Cloud.

    “We’ve worked closely with our customers to design solutions around their emerging needs, and OneSite Cloud effectively delivers enterprise agility while unburdening the existing corporate networks,” said Adaptiva CEO and Founder Deepak Kumar. “They see that modern management is the future, and Adaptiva provides a path to get there without compromise.”

    OneSite Cloud Benefits 

    Adaptiva OneSite is a single-download content delivery solution that dramatically speeds software deployment, increases distribution reliability, and reduces network impact by leveraging Adaptiva’s industry-leading, highly secure peer-to-peer technology. Through support for Azure, the new OneSite Cloud offering provides a number of distinct performance benefits and industry-first capabilities that solve customer pain points, including:

    • Software delivery everywhere: Whether working in an office, at home, from Starbucks or on-site with a customer, employees can still receive content, such as software, updates and patches, on their machines and devices as soon as it is deployed.
    • Internet P2P content sharing capabilities: Now, with dual-mode communications — UDP and HTTP — endpoints can share content without a VPN regardless of where they are located in the world.
    • VPN offload: OneSite Cloud supports split tunnel VPN architecture, enabling endpoints to get content directly from other internet-facing computers or from the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) rather than overloading the corporate VPN concentrators by downloading software over the VPN.
    • WAN offload: OneSite Cloud endpoints can get content directly from other internet-facing computers or from the Azure CDN, completely eliminating the need for content delivery on the corporate network and VPN.
    • BYOD support: OneSite Cloud supports BYOD and does not require the endpoint to be joined to a Microsoft domain. Instead, an admin can simply email a link to the Adaptiva client to enable any machine to work with the network. This is particularly important for employees who are relying on home computers, personal devices, or new machines that have not been configured by corporate IT during the pandemic. Users can get up and running quickly while networks stay protected.

    “Legacy remote access technology is failing to meet the needs of today’s dynamic remote work scenarios,” said ESG Senior Analyst Mark Bowker. “Adaptiva is helping businesses eliminate their reliance on VPNs for secure access with a modern approach that aligns with the agility IT requires to deliver a reliable and secure end-user experience.”

    OneSite for Every Architecture — from Traditional to Modern

    Adaptiva also announced that starting today, OneSite Cloud customers will be able to leverage any version of OneSite that fits their current business needs at no additional cost — whether it is traditional on-premise, OneSite VMware Edition, OneSite Intune Edition or OneSite Cloud. This ensures that OneSite will expand seamlessly as business needs change and companies transition to modern management.

    “Adaptiva has innovated quickly during this turbulent time to partner with our customers every step of the way,” added Kumar. “We’ve designed our products to work dynamically, regardless of where an enterprise wants to go and how it wants to get there. As an increasing number of global enterprises transition to the cloud, our product lines will offer compelling solutions that solve real problems.”

    To learn more about Adaptiva’s commitment to serve the needs of enterprises today and tomorrow, please visit https://adaptiva.com/.

    About Adaptiva 

    Adaptiva is a leading, global provider of endpoint management and security solutions. The company’s products, including OneSite, Endpoint Health and Evolve VM, empower enterprises to manage and secure endpoints at unparalleled speed and massive scale using the power of peer-to-peer technology. Leading global Fortune 1000 organizations, including T-Mobile, Nokia, HSBC, Walgreens, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, use Adaptiva products to eliminate the need for a vast IT infrastructure and automate countless endpoint management and security tasks. Learn more at https://adaptiva.com/, and follow the company at LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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  • IBM continues momentum in AI and trust leadership

    The AI Fairness 360 toolkit is becoming even more accessible for a wider range of developers

    By Willie Tejada
    Published June 3, 2020

    The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is making progress as it looks to improve industries and society. But, while the technology continues advancing, the idea of “build for performance” will no longer suffice as an AI design paradigm. We are now in an era where AI must be built, evaluated, and monitored for trust.

    IBM® continues to serve as an industry leader in advancing what we call Trusted AI, focused on developing diverse approaches that implement elements of fairness, explainability, and accountability across the entire lifecycle of an AI application.

    The IBM AI Fairness 360 toolkit

    Under our Trusted AI efforts, IBM released in 2018 the AI Fairness 360 toolkit (AIF360), which is an extensible, open source toolkit that can help you examine, report, and mitigate discrimination and bias in machine learning models throughout the AI application lifecycle. It contains over 70 fairness metrics and 11 state-of-the-art bias mitigation algorithms developed by the research community, and it is designed to translate algorithmic research from the lab into the actual practice of domains as wide-ranging as finance, human capital management, healthcare, and education.

    Adding new functionalities to AI Fairness 360

    Now, IBM is adding two new ways in which AIF360 is becoming even more accessible for a wider range of developers, as well as increased functionality: compatibility with scikit-learn and R.

    R users can now use the AI Fairness 360 toolkit

    AI fairness is an important topic as machine learning models are increasingly used for high-stakes decisions. Machine learning discovers and generalizes patterns in the data and therefore, could replicate systematic advantages of privileged groups. To ensure fairness, we must analyze and address any cognitive bias that might be present in our training data or models.

    We are pleased to announce the release of the AI Fairness 360 R package, an open source library containing techniques to help detect and mitigate bias in data sets and machine learning models throughout the AI application lifecycle. Read “The AIF360 fairness toolkit is now available for R users” for details.

    AI Fairness 360 now has compatibility with scikit-learn

    The scikit-learn data science library is enormously useful for training established machine learning algorithms, computing basic metrics, and building model pipelines. In fact, many example notebooks in AI Fairness 360 already use scikit-learn classifiers with pre-processing or post-processing workflows. However, switching between the AI Fairness 360 toolkit algorithms and scikit-learn algorithms breaks the workflow and forces you to convert data structures back and forth. You’re also unable to use some of the powerful meta-programming tools from scikit-learn like pipelines and cross validation.

    So, the AIF360 team added a new aif360.sklearn module to the latest version release of AIF360, 0.3.0. This module is where you can find all of the currently completed scikit-learn-compatible AIF360 functions. Get all of the information about this update in “The AIF360 team adds compatibility with scikit-learn.”

    Moving trusted AI forward

    Users can use AIF360 to detect fairness issues at training time from Watson Studio and use Watson® OpenScale™ to detect fairness at runtime. Watson OpenScale already supports some of the AIF360 metrics, and longer term we are working on integrating more AIF360 metrics into Watson OpenScale at both design time as well as runtime. AIF360 will also be made available through the IBM Cloud Pak for Data Open Source catalog.

  • Checkmarx Accelerates Vulnerability Remediation for Open Source Code with New Software Composition Analysis Solution

    CxSCA harnesses Checkmarx’s best-in-class automation capabilities to enable developers to find, prioritize, and remediate critical open source vulnerabilities earlier and faster

    RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL – June 2, 2020 – Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, today announced the launch of Checkmarx SCA (CxSCA), the company’s new, SaaS-based software composition analysis solution. CxSCA leverages Checkmarx’s industry-leading source code analysis and automation capabilities, empowering security and development teams to easily identify vulnerabilities within open source software that present the greatest risk and enable developers to focus and prioritize remediation efforts accordingly. This dramatically reduces time spent from the point of vulnerability detection to remediation and increases developers’ overall productivity.

    Existing approaches to securing open source within software often produce lengthy vulnerability reports riddled with inaccuracies, making it difficult for developers to understand where best to allocate their time and attention. CxSCA alleviates these challenges with its unique automatic triage capabilities, generating scan results with the greatest possible accuracy and delivering these findings directly to developers. With this insight, development teams can prioritize remediation efforts based on the level of risk presented by found vulnerabilities and accelerate remediation processes to deliver high-quality, more secure software faster.

    CxSCA delivers industry-leading open source security risk awareness, visibility, and prioritization capabilities, while also increasing operational efficiency for DevOps and AppSec teams. When coupled with Checkmarx SAST (CxSAST), organizations can secure both custom and open source code with one powerful, cohesive solution that provides unified management for project creation and scans, including the ability to run automated scans in source code repositories, such as GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket, among others.

    According to Gartner, “the combination of SAST and SCA can help deliver higher-fidelity results. The addition of SCA capabilities within an existing suite of testing tools can simplify installation, integration, administration, and maintenance.” 1

    “While the open source vulnerability landscape continues to expand, organizations are also increasingly shifting security responsibilities onto developers, creating a dire need for innovative SCA solutions that accelerate developer remediation cycles,” said Nir Livni, VP of Products, Checkmarx. “With CxSCA, Checkmarx enables development organizations to address open source vulnerabilities earlier in the SDLC and cut down on manual processes by reducing false positives and background noise, so they can deliver secure software faster and at scale.”

    CxSCA can be used independently or as part of the broader Checkmarx Software Security Platform that also includes SAST, IAST, and integrated developer AppSec training and awareness, giving development teams a single, unified approach to managing their application security posture.

    Additional CxSCA features include:

    • Extensive Database of Open Source Libraries and Vulnerabilities: Cultivated by the Checkmarx Security Research Team, CxSCA’s exclusive database of open source libraries and vulnerabilities – even those with no corresponding CVE at the time of discovery – provides greater security and risk awareness above and beyond the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
    • Seamless DevOps Integration: CxSCA easily integrates into the entire SDLC offering relevant, actionable open source vulnerability insight and remediation guidance to streamline developer workflows and expedite delivery timelines.
    • Scalability & Flexibility: CxSCA’s secure, SaaS-based flexible deployment model gives developers the scale and speed needed to meet their most demanding requirements, allowing them to remain focused on developing secure software rather than managing infrastructures.

    Availability: 

    CxSCA is available today. For more information and to schedule a demo, visit here.

    Additional Resources:

    1 – Gartner, Technology Insight for Software Composition Analysis, Dale Gardner, 1 November 2019

    About Checkmarx

    Checkmarx is the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development. Checkmarx delivers the industry’s most comprehensive Software Security Platform that unifies with DevOps and provides static and interactive application security testing, software composition analysis, and developer AppSec awareness and training programs to reduce and remediate risk from software vulnerabilities. Checkmarx is trusted by more than 40 of the Fortune 100 companies and half of the Fortune 50, including leading organizations such as SAP, Samsung, and Salesforce.com. Learn more at www.checkmarx.com.

     

     

  • JFrog Drives “DevOps With a Mission,” Brings Community Together Online for Annual swampUP Conference

    Two-Day Event Combines Innovative DevOps Training and Thought Leadership Tailored to the Developer Community, With Proceeds Donated to COVID-19 Research

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — JFrog, the Universal DevOps technology leader known for enabling “Liquid Software” via continuous software release flows, today announced the lineup for its annual DevOps community and JFrog user conference swampUP, which will take place online June 23 and 24 for the Americas and June 30 and July 1 for EMEA & APAC. Notably, all conference registration proceeds will be donated to COVID-19 charities.

    “Since JFrog’s inception, we’ve partnered with the community to bring top tools and methodologies to the market, always with the developer in mind,” said Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog. “Community safety also means we can’t all be together in the usual way, but the need to share is still there. We wanted to partner again with the open-source and DevOps communities and deliver not only the top-shelf content they’re used to from swampUP, but also to give back to our global communities as we collectively accelerate the cure for this virus.”

    All-virtual this year, swampUP will “fast-forward” the current DevOps landscape with visionary keynote addresses and thought‑provoking sessions from industry experts covering the latest trends and best practices around software distribution, containers, automation, security, and package management.

    JFrog is bringing together an impressive list of industry thought leaders and DevOps luminaries to offer a unique combination of insight, entertainment and inspiration, including:

    • Kohsuke Kawaguchi, co-CEO, Launchable, Inc., and creator of Jenkins
    • John Willis, vice president of DevOps and digital practices, RedHat
    • Wayne Chatelain, senior manager of software engineering, Capital One
    • Jessica Deen, Azure Avenger

    The annual conference is divided into two parts, with the first day focused on delivering hands-on DevOps training alongside other practitioners and peers. Specialized courses led by DevOps experts are designed to empower attendees to fast-forward their DevOps or DevSecOps knowledge and abilities. The second, full conference day will begin with an industry keynote address followed by breakout sessions following four separate streams: Cloud Native, DevSecOps, Enterprise DevOps and Digital Transformation. Over 30 sessions will be delivered from thought leaders from global companies including Google, Microsoft, Adobe and more.

    “These may be unprecedented times, but we can come together in unprecedented ways to both advance our DevOps skills and contribute towards the race to a cure at the same time,” added Ben Haim. “We’re proud to do our part, and we invite the community to partner with us in this conference with a purpose.”

    Registration for swampUP is open and spots for both training and the conference are filling quickly. Secure your spot today to ensure you don’t miss this exciting virtual event.

    To learn more, visit https://swampup.jfrog.com.

    About JFrog
    The interactive, digital experience of the modern world is constantly improved through software updates. Software updates are constantly delivered by JFrog. We’re on a Liquid Software mission to power all the software updates in the world by enabling developers to code applications that flow – like liquid – to end-users securely and without downtime. As a leading universal, highly available enterprise DevOps platform, the JFrog Platform empowers customers with trusted and expedited software releases from code-to-production. Growing rapidly, JFrog is trusted by more than 5,600 enterprises across all industries, and top global brands depend on JFrog to revolutionize their software build-to-delivery processes. Some JFrog products are available as open-source, with all commercial subscriptions available both self-managed and in the cloud on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. JFrog is privately held with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Learn more at jfrog.com.

  • Pega Introduces Pega Process Fabric – The “Platform for Platforms” That Streamlines Work Across Enterprise Siloes

    New cloud software weaves together disparate technologies to improve customer, employee, and partner experiences

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – June 2, 2020 – Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering digital transformation at the world’s leading enterprises, today announced Pega Process Fabric™, a new cloud-based software architecture designed to radically streamline how organizations drive work across distributed enterprise technologies. With minimal deployment effort, this “platform for platforms” breaks down technology silos to unify work across the enterprise and help improve user experiences for employees, customers, and partners.

    Even in today’s hyperconnected world, organizations still suffer from disconnected software systems that prevent them from reaching their full potential. With trillions spent on enterprise software every year, organizations are often left with bloated tech stacks or disjointed cloud systems full of incompatible point solutions. As a result, frustrated employees hop from app to app just to complete basic tasks while equally frustrated customers face slow and inconsistent service.

    Available through Pega Platform™, Pega Process Fabric combines the power of dynamic APIs, an open UX framework, UI components, robotic automation, and data virtualization to bridge connectivity gaps from end to end. This silo-busting software weaves together enterprise technology from different vendors into a unified “platform for platforms.” While the individual components still operate independently behind the scenes, they act as one cohesive whole to users and customers.

    This approach changes the way work gets done across an organization by:

    • Enabling employees to work smarter: With interwoven experiences, employees can work across Pega and non-Pega applications within a single user interface – which helps eliminate inefficient screen switching. An Interwoven Worklist consolidates tasks for each employee in one place and uses AI to help ensure the most important work gets top priority.
    • Providing leaders with better visibility into work: Managers and executives can see how and where work is being done across the entire enterprise. Process insight analytics give leaders a full view into in-progress and completed work across systems and business units.
    • Connecting partners into workstreams: As organizations increasingly expand their ecosystems, Pega Process Fabric helps them and their partners tie their systems together and operate as a unified team. This allows everyone to track progress, share data, and automate work across organizational boundaries.
    • Freeing IT teams from inefficient development work: With Pega’s low-code model-driven architecture and software reuse, businesspeople can easily connect systems into Pega Process Fabric themselves in just minutes. This takes pressure off of IT teams to continuously connect new software to the fabric to meet the latest market needs.

    How It Works: The Power of Center-out 
    The difference lies in Pega’s unique business architecture approach. Rather than recoding each siloed channel from the top-down or reengineering complicated backends from the bottom-up, Pega Process Fabric cuts through IT complexity from the Center-out™. Pega applies business logic and intelligence in this new, more agile center layer to weave workstreams together without disrupting the existing infrastructure. This effectively creates a new type of platform that helps other platforms run better together. Now organizations can unite and optimize their enterprise stack to do better work for their stakeholders.

    Availability
    Pega Process Fabric capabilities will be rolled out in stages through Pega Platform. Many are available today, including dynamic APIs and data virtualization. Interwoven Worklists and process insight analytics are expected in Q3 this year. Additional updates, including interwoven experiences, are scheduled for early next year. Some Pega Process Fabric elements may require additional product licensing. For more information, visit www.pega.com/process-fabric.

    In addition, pre-built adaptors will shortly be available for download on Pega Marketplace. These adaptors connect Pega Process Fabric with specific applications, including enterprise applications from Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, and Google, as well as open robotic automation APIs from UiPath and Blue Prism.

    Today’s news was announced this morning at PegaWorld® iNspire, Pega’s annual conference now in its 18th year and first as a virtual event. All sessions and features are live today and available for replay at www.pegaworld.com.

    Quotes & Commentary:
    “Too often, organizations looking at digital transformation face a false choice,” said Alan Trefler, founder and CEO, Pegasystems. “They either settle for a temporary band-aid such as robotic automation, or they are forced into expensive process reengineering that demands massive organizational change. Pega Process Fabric offers a revolutionary alternative: a lightweight, cloud-native approach that can easily connect technology and processes from end to end across an enterprise and beyond. We believe this will transform how employees get work done and how customers experience their preferred brands.”

    About Pegasystems

    Pega is the leader in cloud software for customer engagement and operational excellence. The world’s most recognized and successful brands rely on Pega’s AI-powered software to optimize every customer interaction on any channel while ensuring their brand promises are kept. Pega’s low-code application development platform allows enterprises to quickly build and evolve apps to meet their customer and employee needs and drive digital transformation on a global scale. For more than 35 years, Pega has enabled higher customer satisfaction, lower costs, and increased customer lifetime value.

    Additional Resources

  • BMC Completes Acquisition of Compuware to Mainstream Mainframe DevOps

    Customers to benefit from an integrated DevOps toolchain with unparalleled mainframe operations management and agile application development and delivery

    HOUSTON, June 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, today announced the close of its acquisition of Compuware, a leading provider of mainframe application development, delivery, and performance solutions.

    The strategic combination of the two companies builds on the success of BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware’s Topaz suite, ISPW technology, and classic product portfolios to modernize clients’ mainframe environments. BMC with Compuware now enables automation and intelligent operations with agile development and delivery – empowering the next generation of mainframe developers and operations teams to excel when working with mainframe programming languages, applications, data, infrastructure, and security.

    “Adding Compuware’s Topaz software development environment to the BMC portfolio is another step in the direction of targeting the enterprise developer. With Topaz, developers take a modern approach to building, testing, and deploying mainframe applications. This move should allow BMC to spread the word that modern tools matter for the mainframe engineer,” wrote Christopher Condo, Chris Gardner, and Diego Lo Giudice at Forrester Research.

    Fifty percent of respondents in a 2019 Forrester study shared that they plan to grow their use of the mainframe over the next two years¹ and 93% of respondents in the 2019 BMC Mainframe Survey believe in the long-term and new workload strength of the platform. To support customer needs, the unified portfolio will enable enterprises to:

    • Leverage the robust processing power, stability, security, and agile scalability of the mainframe
    • Scale Agile and DevOps methods with a fully integrated DevOps toolchain – allowing for mainframe applications to get to market more quickly and efficiently without compromising quality
    • Combine the self-analyzing, self-healing, and self-optimizing power of the BMC AMI suite of products to increase mainframe availability, efficiency, and security while mitigating risk, along with the Compuware Topaz suite, to fully empower the next generation of developers to build, analyze, test, deploy, and manage mainframe applications
    • Create a transcendent customer experience to meet the business demands of the digital age – jumpstarting their Autonomous Digital Enterprise journey

    “BMC continues to apply automated intelligence to modernize the mainframe, meeting the growing demands created by digital business growth. With market needs disrupting business models more rapidly than ever before, it’s the ideal time to bring Compuware to our portfolio and help our customers embrace Agile and DevOps practices for the modern mainframe,” said Bill Miller, President of ZSolutions at BMC. “We are thrilled to welcome Compuware and, together, accelerate our customers’ journeys to becoming Autonomous Digital Enterprises.”

    “Compuware remains committed to mainstreaming the mainframe and empowering our customers to leverage the platform with ease and agility so they can deliver quality digital services that exceed their customers’ and their business’ expectations,” said Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. “We stand at the threshold of a broad mainframe revival and customers need a passionate, perserverant and courageous mainframe innovation partner for the next 50 years. We are excited to join forces with BMC to be the best, brightest, and most collaborative partner for our customers and continue to build innovative mainframe solutions that will help them thrive now and in the future. And, the best part? We’re just getting warmed up!”

    Compuware is now a part of the BMC ZSolutions organization that serves the mainframe industry. This is one of the largest acquisitions in BMC’s history and the company’s third acquisition in less than two years.

    Additional Resources:

    1“Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware,” Forrester blog post, Forrester Research, March 3, 2020

    About BMC
    From core to cloud to edge, BMC delivers the software and services that enable over 10,000 global customers, including 84% of the Forbes Global 100, to thrive in their ongoing evolution to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise.

    BMC, the BMC logo, and BMC’s other product names are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc. or its affiliates, are registered or pending registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ©Copyright 2020 BMC Software, Inc.

  • Delphix Accelerates Shift to Digital for Global Enterprises

    Data Platform Now Provides Comprehensive Coverage From Kubernetes to Mainframes

    REDWOOD CITY, California, May 28, 2020 — Delphix, the industry leader in DataOps, announced the completion of its original mission to provide a comprehensive data platform to accelerate digital and customer experience transformation for global enterprises.

    With physical lockdowns rolling across the world, companies have accelerated the shift from physical to digital business models and operations. Enterprises need to adapt quickly to these changing market conditions or risk being disrupted by more agile competitors.

    “With our latest platform release, we’ve completed our original mission,” said Jedidiah Yueh, Delphix Founder and CEO. “In order to drive digital or customer experience transformations, companies need to harness data across a multi-generational range of systems, from ERP implementations to apps running on the mainframe. Our platform collects data across these systems to fuel cloud, AI, and other digital transformation programs—cutting time and cost by more than 20%.”

    Delphix was founded in 2008, during the last financial crisis, to help companies do more with their data. The Delphix DataOps Platform started with support for Oracle databases and applications. Early customers quickly loaded ERP systems like SAP and Oracle EBS onto the platform, achieving dramatic results.

    “We tried a new technology and won big,” said a senior IT manager at KLA-Tencor, a Fortune 1000 manufacturer and the first company to deploy Delphix. “Delphix provides the elasticity to expand our project infrastructure when we need it.” KLA-Tencor used Delphix to go from two to eleven SAP projects a year, while reducing data footprint by 94% and saving over $400K in infrastructure costs.

    “Data is the key constraint for complex projects like SAP releases,” said Ashwin Ballal, former CIO at KLA-Tencor. “SAP projects cost millions and are critical for managing core business processes like order to cash.”

    After Oracle databases and applications, Delphix added support for Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, SAP ASE, SAP HANA, and other major applications and database platforms. “Customers need a comprehensive data platform to help drive transformations,” said Yueh. “Otherwise, it’s like trying to fly a plane without sufficient instrumentation. With our most recent platform release, we have completed everything on our initial roadmap.”

    In 2019, Delphix made its data platform SDKs available to ISVs. Since launching its SDKs and the DataOps marketplace, Delphix data coverage has expanded to include:

    • Legacy platforms: mainframe, Informix, etc.
    • New data platforms: MongoDB, CouchDB, MariaDB, etc.
    • Cloud platforms: Aurora, RedShift, Azure SQL, etc.
    • Workflow, monitoring platforms: ServiceNow, Splunk, etc.
    • Automation platforms: Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, etc.

    In addition, over the last decade, the Delphix platform has achieved a series of significant scale milestones, while supporting many of the world’s largest companies on their transformation programs:

    • Over 100,000 development, testing, and analytics environments;
    • Over 30,000 customer applications released per year;
    • Over 2 million automated data operations;
    • Over 2 exabytes of customer data across private and public clouds.

    “We have customers managing thousands of releases and approaching a million monthly CI pipeline runs on our platform,” said Jason Grauel, Delphix VP of Product Management. “That would be impossible without API-driven access to a range of sophisticated data operations.”

    The Delphix DataOps Platform provides critical features that instrument data across the application lifecycle including:

    • Virtualization, which radically shrinks data footprint;
    • Time machine to travel to any point in time;
    • Version control, which lets developers and data scientists manage data like code;
    • Compliance, which includes profiling, templates, and automated data masking;
    • Integration to enable fast data synchronization across systems;
    • Replication to move data across private and public clouds;
    • Automation to integrate with DevOps and CI/CD tools.

    It took Delphix a decade to achieve its original mission, which laid the foundation for enterprise-wide data coverage. Over that period Delphix also built a profitable business with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Now Delphix is looking to the future.

    “We use Delphix to synchronize and extract student data from on-prem to AWS for the CSU Chancellor’s Office,” said Rudy Gonzales, Unisys Program Director at California State University. “Now that we have a super-fast data bridge to the cloud, we’re able to harness AI technologies to drive better student outcomes. I’m excited to see where Delphix takes its data platform next.”

    “The ability to quickly and securely collect and distribute data across the entire spectrum of multi-generational systems is compelling,” said Jim Mercer, research director, DevOps, IDC. “It can help enterprises accelerate digital transformation programs and more easily embrace disruptive technologies like AI and cloud.”

    “With the foundation in place, the next 10-year horizon is focused on unlocking the full value of the data in our platform,” said Yueh. “Cloud, AI, and the regulatory horizon are forming the perfect storm. Our native data operations, APIs, and SDKs make it increasingly easy for customers and ISVs to weave data across their compliance and transformation programs. And we’ll continue to invest in building out that ecosystem.

    “In the end, we believe that every company is a data company if it wants to survive. And if companies want to master data operations, they’ll need a purpose-built platform to manage data across the ongoing transformation lifecycle.”

    • Delphix will host the first-ever (virtual) Data Company Conference on June 25th, 2020, highlights of which include:
    • Opening Keynote by Jedidiah Yueh: 7 Deadly Sins in the Age of AI;
    • Leaders from the world’s largest brands will share their experiences of mastering data operations to accelerate innovation;
    • Experts will be on hand all day to discuss key topics such as cloud adoption, CX; transformation, data privacy, and AI/ML;
    • A preview of the future vision for the Delphix DataOps Platform.

    Register for the event here.

    About Delphix
    Delphix is the industry leader in DataOps and provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for leading companies around the world. The Delphix DataOps Platform supports a broad spectrum of systems—from Oracle databases to mainframes, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Delphix provides a comprehensive range of data operations and APIs to enable modern CI/CD workflows and automates data compliance for privacy regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, and the New York Privacy Act. In addition, Delphix helps companies sync data from private to public clouds, accelerating cloud migrations, customer experience transformation, and the adoption of disruptive AI technologies. In a world where every company is becoming a data company, Delphix provides a critical platform to enable data-driven transformation. For more information, visit www.delphix.com or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

  • Okera Launches No-Code Policy Creation for Fine-Grained Access Control with De-Identification

    Empowers data owners and stewards to easily create and manage complex policies including data obfuscation without any coding 

    SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2020 — Okera today introduced no-code, fine-grained access control (FGAC) policy creation with de-identification to its secure data access platform. The elimination of coding creates a highly flexible, easy-to-use access control management environment, allowing any data owner or steward to create custom policies based on a combination of attributes. The enterprise-scale de-identification functionality includes dynamic masking and tokenization. A new user inactivity reporting capability simplifies access reviews for compliance purposes and enables a “least privilege” access control strategy.

    Large organizations have a variety of access control use cases and require flexible, attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies that can combine multiple attributes, including user, tool, type of data, and location, to enable self-service analytics while ensuring secure, compliant, and agile access to data. Organizations also require the ability to add de-identification and privacy functions, such as dynamic masking and tokenization, without coding. Rather than creating multiple copies of data with and without data transformation, organizations want to automate these functions and enforce these policies dynamically.

    “Self-service analytics is the holy grail of enabling enterprises to take full advantage of their data for digital transformation initiatives related to the customer experience, end-to-end business processes, and improved business decision making,” said Nick Halsey, Okera CEO. “By eliminating the need for coding, we have put access control management into the hands of the data stewards and governance and privacy professionals who understand the intricacies of regulations and internal data privacy policies. This democratization of secure, compliant access to data is critical to making true self-service analytics a reality.”

    Extending ABAC to support enterprise-scale de-identification and privacy functions dramatically simplifies the process of provisioning data access. The simple point-and-click user interface of the enhanced Okera policy builder lets data owners and stewards create and manage fine-grained ABAC policies involving row-level filtering and sophisticated de-identification and privacy functions without writing a single line of code. The policies can be edited and are enforced dynamically, allowing for maximum agility in ensuring security and governance.

    Benefits of the New Okera Features

    ABAC with de-identification

    • Faster response time to the changing compliance and regulatory needs of the organization, without impeding analysts’ workflow.
    • Use custom, user-defined functions to support organization-specific and industry-specific controls, such as for financial services firms and healthcare organizations.
    • Simplify management by leveraging attributes from other systems, such as Active Directory or business metadata, and attribute classifications that already exist in enterprise data catalogs.
    • Eliminate the need to copy data for different access control use cases, reducing cost and complexity of access control management.

    No-code data access policy definition

    • Offers non-technical data owners and stewards the ability to manage policies with incredible granularity and de-identification without any coding.
    • Gain incredible speed and flexibility with how organizations can respond to any new information that would require them to change their policies. Since Okera enforces policies at runtime, the analysts do not need to stop working if a policy changes.

    Inactivity reporting

    • Gain visibility into users who may have access to certain data but have not used that access for a specified amount of time.
    • Reduce risk using a least-privilege access strategy that ensures only those who actually need access to the data retain it.
    • Simplify periodic data access reviews for compliance purposes.

    You can read more about it in this blog by Nong Li, Okera CTO and co-founder.

    For more information, visit http://www.okera.com.

    About Okera
    Okera provides secure data access at scale so that data teams have the confidence to unlock the power of their data for innovation and growth. By ensuring that appropriate data access controls are in place and meet the evolving data privacy landscape, the Okera Active Data Access Platform can automatically discover and audit data lakes, create access policies using its visual policy engine, and enforce fine-grained access in hybrid and multi-cloud environments such as AWS and Azure. Okera is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, ClearSky Security, and Felicis Ventures. For more information, visit www.okera.com, contact info@okera.com, or connect with the team on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.

     

  • Unravel Data Expands Support for Modern Data Workloads in the Cloud with Introduction of Unravel for AWS Databricks

    New Offering Accelerates Unravel’s Mission to Support Big Data Workloads Wherever they Reside, Including on-Premises, Public Cloud, Multiple Cloud and Hybrid Environments 

    PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA – May 27, 2020– Unravel Data, the only data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations to drive more reliable performance in modern data applications, today announced Unravel for AWS Databricks, a solution to deliver comprehensive monitoring, troubleshooting, and application performance management for AWS Databricks environments. Unravel for AWS Databricks leverages Unravel’s AI-powered data operations platform to accelerate performance of Spark on AWS while providing unprecedented visibility into runtime behavior, resource usage, and cloud costs.

    “As business needs evolve, data workloads are moving to a growing variety of settings, stretching across on-prem environments, public clouds, multiple clouds and a hybrid mix of all of these. It’s important that organizations can get the same performance, reliability and value out of their data applications no matter where they are,” said Kunal Agarwal, CEO, Unravel Data. “Unravel for AWS is our latest effort to expand the platform to accommodate Big Data wherever it exists. With this addition, Unravel now supports Databricks in both AWS and Azure, and the Unravel platform is broadly available in every major public cloud as well as on-premises and in hybrid settings. We were always committed to being infrastructure-agnostic and this is another milestone in that mission.”

    The announcement is the latest development in a long relationship between Unravel and AWS. Unravel already supports Amazon EMR, as well as Cloudera/Hortonworks on IaaS for AWS. This release provides further support for customers deploying modern data apps on AWS. In addition, Unravel is an existing member of the AWS Partner Network and member of AWS global startup program.

    AWS Databricks is a unified data analytics platform for accelerating innovation across data science, data engineering, and business analytics, integrated with AWS infrastructure. Unravel for AWS Databricks helps operationalize Spark apps on the platform: AWS Databricks customers will shorten the cycle of getting Spark applications into production by relying on the visibility, operational intelligence, and data driven insights and recommendations that only Unravel can provide. Users will enjoy greater productivity by eliminating the time spent on tedious, low value tasks such as log data collection, root cause analysis and application tuning.

    Key features of Unravel for AWS Databricks include:

    ·       Application Performance Management for AWS Databricks – Unravel delivers visibility and understanding of Spark applications, clusters, workflows, and the underlying software stack

    ·       Automated root cause analysis of Spark apps – Unravel can automatically identify, diagnose, and remediate Spark jobs and the full Spark stack, achieving simpler and faster resolution of issues for Spark applications on AWS Databricks clusters

    ·       Comprehensive reporting, alerting, and dashboards – AWS Databricks users can now enjoy detailed insights, plain-language recommendations, and a host of new dashboards, alerts, and reporting on chargeback accounting, cluster resource usage, Spark runtime behavior and much more

    About Unravel Data 

    Unravel radically simplifies the way businesses understand and optimize the performance of their modern data applications – and the complex pipelines that power those applications. Providing a unified view across the entire stack, Unravel’s data operations platform leverages AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to offer actionable recommendations and automation for tuning, troubleshooting, and improving performance – both today and tomorrow. By operationalizing how you do data, Unravel’s solutions support modern big data leaders, including Kaiser Permanente, Adobe, Deutsche Bank, Wayfair, and Neustar. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is backed by Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, M12, Point72 Ventures, Harmony Partners, Data Elite Ventures, and Jyoti Bansal. To learn more, visit unraveldata.com.

    Copyright Statement

    The name Unravel Data is a trademark of Unravel Data™. Other trade names used in this document are the properties of their respective owners.

     

  • DevOps Institute Announces First Playbook to Ignite The DevOps Journey

    The DevOps Journey Playbook is the first of DevOps Institute’s new SKILup Playbook Library to share a dynamic collective body of knowledge that aligns thought leadership from industry experts with curated research and pragmatic guidance regardless of where you are on the journey

    BOCA RATON, Fla., May 28, 2020 — DevOps Institute, a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the introduction of its SKILup Playbook Library, a dynamic collective body of knowledge (cBok) that aligns thought leadership from industry experts with a set of dynamic, orchestrated artifacts, research and assets.

    The first in the DevOps Institute SKILup Playbook Library is aptly named “The DevOps Journey” with chapter contributions by industry thought leaders Shaaron Alvares, Helen Beal, JP Garbani, Andi Mann, Eveline Oehrlich, Matthew Skelton and Karen Skiles. To access the DevOps Journey Playbook, visit: (https://devopsinstitute.com/devops-journey-playbook/)

    Recognizing that DevOps is indeed a journey, The DevOps Journey Playbook chapters support a “start where you are” approach that meets different levels of DevOps maturity and different areas of interest such as:

    1. Explore and Discover: This section includes key topics around the vision, mission and objectives of the DevOps Human journey. It examines what success looks like through different case studies and vertical markets focusing on challenges, solutions and results. It also provides a landscape of the “State of DevOps” today and other key understandings of the market and the role of DevOps professionals.
    2. Understand and Learn: This section provides frameworks for understanding DevOps and other related industry practices. It highlights different principles and concepts which are necessary for a successful DevOps transformation journey and also provides functional and technical content related to the DevOps Human with glossary and certification information.
    3. Plan, Practice and Do: This section outlines the cultural aspects of the DevOps Journey related to core skills, job descriptions/roles and draws cultural development connections to assessing and developing a workplace structure. It provides content across key functional and process-oriented tasks and focuses on automation with links to resources from industry research, associations and practices.
    4. Optimize and Improve: This section focuses on performance management specifically to spotlight measurement and metrics around key performance indicators, objectives and key results. This includes a library of resources contributed from the community to support discussions and movements associated with improving daily work performance.

    Led by Eveline Oehrlich, DevOps Institute’s Research Director, additional DevOps Institute Playbooks are in the planning stage including DevOps Engineer Playbook, Site Reliability Engineering Playbook and the DevOps Human Playbook.

    “Now more than ever, the DevOps community needs a dynamic body of knowledge that captures the latest thinking, orchestrates artifacts and assets from other sources and provides actionable guidance and resources,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of the DevOps Institute. “DevOps Institute has always advocated for a Collective Body of Knowledge (cBok) and I am particularly proud that the DevOps Institute SKILup Playbook Library can create a holistic series of playbooks with contributions from leading industry analysts, practitioners, vendors, thought leaders and others with extensive, practical experience.”

    “Playbooks are critical to improving the efficacy of teams and the lives of many individuals because, through an assembly of data and information connected to industry-renowned patterns and practices, people can adopt action plans for improving how they go about a new journey and how to progress successfully,” said Eveline Oehrlich, Chief Research Director at DevOps Institute. “The DevOps Journey Playbook is the first of such publications to lay the foundation for how individuals and organizations can initiate or navigate their DevOps transformation journey to achieve success for their business teams and ultimately for their customers or clients.”

    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.

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