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  • Forescout Commences Litigation Against Advent International

    SAN JOSE, Calif., May 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Forescout Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSCT), the leader in device visibility and control, filed a complaint with the Delaware Court of Chancery asserting that affiliates of Advent International Corporation (“Advent”) have violated the terms of their merger agreement with Forescout. Forescout is asking the Court to compel Advent to honor its commitments and immediately complete the pending acquisition of Forescout.

    On May 15, 2020, Advent notified Forescout that it would not consummate the acquisition on May 18, 2020, as scheduled. Advent’s purported excuse for its wrongful conduct is that a closing condition to the transaction has not been satisfied because a “material adverse effect” has occurred at Forescout. Forescout believes that no material adverse effect has occurred, that all closing conditions are satisfied, and that Advent is obligated to close the transaction. Forescout believes that Advent has relied on meritless excuses to support its position.

    The merger agreement explicitly allocated the risk of any impacts from COVID-19 to Advent. Since announcing the transaction, Forescout shareholders overwhelmingly approved the transaction.

    “We have satisfied all conditions to closing under our merger agreement, and a material adverse effect has not occurred,” said Theresia Gouw, Chair of the Forescout Board. “The only change since the merger agreement was jointly executed in February is the deepening of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has significantly impacted global macro-economic conditions. All companies have been challenged by this pandemic, and it is highly disappointing that Advent would attempt to exploit market volatility to renege on its contractual obligations, particularly when the merger agreement explicitly excludes the effects of a pandemic as a material adverse event. Advent is required to promptly complete the transaction. We are taking immediate action to enforce Forescout’s rights and ensure that Advent fulfills its obligations. We are confident that the steps that we are taking are in the best interests of Forescout and its shareholders.”

    “I remain confident in the strength of Forescout and its incredible team,” said Michael DeCesare, CEO and President of Forescout. “Forescout is in a strong financial position, with $100 million of cash on hand as of March 31, 2020. We are well positioned for success and the fundamentals of our business have not changed. Customers around the world trust Forescout to help solve their most pressing security challenges, and that’s exactly what we are doing.”

    Prior to announcing the Advent transaction on February 6, 2020, the Forescout Board conducted a robust and comprehensive process with the assistance of independent legal and financial advisors. Advent is a sophisticated and experienced investor, and over the course of its due diligence investigation – which lasted hundreds of hours over multiple months – Forescout shared with Advent all relevant information, including detailed financial and technical information as well as Forescout’s internal estimates and projections. The Forescout Board and management team dedicated significant time and resources to providing Advent with detailed and transparent information in response to its every request, ensuring that Advent had a complete picture of Forescout’s business and market opportunity.

    About Forescout

    Forescout provides security at first sight. Our company delivers device visibility and control to enable enterprises and government agencies to gain complete situational awareness of their environment and orchestrate action. Learn more at forescout.com.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding the pending acquisition of Forescout by Advent. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if any of our assumptions prove incorrect, Forescout’s actual results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include risks associated with: the risk that the conditions to the closing of the transaction are not satisfied; litigation relating to the transaction; uncertainties as to the timing of the consummation of the transaction and the ability of each party to consummate the transaction; risks that the proposed transaction disrupts the current plans and operations of Forescout; and the risks described in the filings that Forescout makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including the risks described under the headings “Risk Factors” and “Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 28, 2020, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A to our Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed the SEC on April 29, 2020, and which should be read in conjunction with our financial results and forward-looking statements, and is available on the SEC filings section of the Investor Relations page of our website at https://investors.Forescout.com. Additional information is set forth in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, which was filed with the SEC on May 11, 2020. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we do not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made, except as required by law.

     

  • Report: COVID-19 Crisis is Driving Digital Accessibility Awareness

    Survey Shows Resurgence in Digital Transformation Efforts Offering Opportunity for Organizations to Become More Accessible to People with Disabilities

    HERNDON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Deque Systems, a leading software company specializing in digital accessibility, today announced results of a survey showing how the COVID-19 crisis has heightened awareness of the impact of accessibility on the digital channel.

    The survey, conducted in partnership with the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) and G3ict Research, also showed that accessibility practitioners expect increased workloads in the coming months to make their digital assets more accessible.

    “Where would we be without the conveniences of online delivery, teleworking and online entertainment during this time of crisis?” says Preety Kumar, CEO of Deque Systems. “COVID-19 is causing a second wave of digital transformation efforts. Organizations who are already practicing accessibility early in their development process are best positioned to help to ensure people with disabilities are not excluded from the essential services the Internet provides. But, with the majority of websites being inaccessible to assistive technologies, we still have a long way to go.”

    What is Digital Accessibility? Digital Accessibility is the practice of making digital documents, web and mobile apps accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. Many people with visual, auditory, motor, speech or cognitive disabilities rely on various forms of assistive technology or usability features to experience the full benefit the web has to offer. Without the continuous use of features like captions, alt-text for screen readers, zoom functions, simple presentation layouts and more, digital content may be inconvenient or impossible to use.

    Survey Key Findings: The majority of survey respondents are senior-level, U.S.-based accessibility practitioners working in industries including education, financial services, government, healthcare, pharmaceutical services and more. Among the key findings:

    • 83 percent reported that COVID-19 has raised the profile and importance of digital channels within their organizations.
    • 62 percent say it has increased awareness of the impact of accessibility on digital channels.
    • 90 percent expect the volume of their work to increase or stay the same in the next three months.
    • More than one-third of respondents have heard reports that users with disabilities are having increased difficulty accessing services during this time of crisis.
    • When asked how employees with disabilities are able to work remotely with digital platforms, 63 percent said they have some or great difficulty.

    “While we are pleased to see greater attention being paid to accessibility, we’d also like to see organizations further empower those responsible to fulfill this critical mission,” continues Kumar. “Addressing accessibility will help close the digital divide and allow everyone to access critical services during times of crisis and stability alike.”

    This survey of 292 accessibility practitioners was conducted by Deque Systems during March and April of 2020 in cooperation with the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) and G3ict Research. For the complete survey report, visit: https://www.deque.com/covid-19-digital-accessibility-report/.

    About Deque Systems

    Deque (pronounced dee-cue) is a web accessibility software and services company, and our mission is Digital Equality. We believe everyone, regardless of their ability, should have equal access to the information, services, applications, and everything else on the web.

    We work with enterprise-level businesses and organizations to ensure that their sites and mobile apps are accessible. Installed in over 250,000 browsers and with over 1,000 audit projects completed, Deque is the industry standard.

  • Humio accelerates its momentum with extended collaboration with IBM

    Humio  delivers streaming observability at scale to more customers around the globe with integration with IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management

    Humio is pleased to announce that we signed an agreement with IBM to make the Humio log management platform available as part of the IBM Multicloud Management Pak.

    Humio, the only log management platform enabling complete observability for all streaming logs in real time, self-hosted or in the cloud, today announced the signing of an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with IBM that will allow the companies to collaborate on solutions that can help clients continually ingest data across their infrastructure, and help identify a variety of problems from application service down-time to cyberattack.

    The agreement enables IBM and Humio to create solutions that combine Humio’s log management platform with IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management. Humio minimizes the challenge of sifting through the rapidly, ever-growing volume of event and data logs by enabling users to log all data — structured or unstructured — in real time and at scale. As a result, IBM will offer clients a suite of products to provide complete data observability and management.

    Keeping up with today’s complex environments can overwhelm even well-staffed IT teams, especially since traditional log management tools present significant incremental costs, data storage problems, and search challenges. Customers leveraging Humio’s platform through IBM will have access to its additional support services including but not limited to global IT support, implementation services, predictive analytics, system developers, augmented reality, multi-vendor processing, and a single point of contact interface.

    “Observability is critical for organizations of all sizes, and we are thrilled to join IBM in helping businesses to gain instant visibility of all of their data at scale through our unlimited pricing plan that removes the single biggest barrier to effective log management. The collaboration with IBM further validates Humio’s technology and allows us to quickly expand our global reach to provide even more customers with our modern log management platform.”
    Morten Gram, EVP at Humio

    With this first OEM relationship, Humio can further increase its market share and more quickly deliver its platform to more customers across the globe. IBM plans to go to market with Humio’s platform directly.

  • GigaSpaces InsightEdge AnalyticsXtreme Wins the Gold in Stevie 2020 American Business Awards

    Stevie winners will be celebrated during virtual awards ceremony on August 5

     

    New York, NY—May 18, 2020 —GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory real-time analytics and data processing platform, announced today that InsightEdge AnalyticsXtreme was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Big Data Solution category in the 18th Annual American Business Awards® today.  The awards will be virtually presented to winners during a live event on Wednesday, August 5.  

    The AnalyticsXtreme module enables companies to generate smarter, faster insights for better business intelligence on big data.  Providing a unified in-memory speed layer over different data storage technologies such as Hadoop, Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage across cloud, on-premise, hybrid and multi-cloud, InsightEdge AnalyticsXtreme powers analytics and machine learning on mutable streaming, transactional and historical data simultaneously, without requiring a separate data load procedure or data duplication. By co-locating business logic and data, events are processed as they enter the system resulting in a reduction of multiple network hops and overhead.  Using AnalyticsXtreme, access to data stored on data lakes is accelerated by up to 100X and batch analytics can run in minutes instead of hours.

    Faster transactional and analytical processing of real-time data enriched with historical data improves the accuracy of time-sensitive applications and services such as predictive maintenance, risk analysis, fraud detection, dynamic pricing, personalized services, customer 360 and location-based advertising.

    More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

    “Enterprises across almost every industry are striving to leverage big data to boost business performance, but they are limited by complex architectures which bring with them, speed, scale and TCO challenges,” said Karen Krivaa, VP Marketing at GigaSpaces. “InsightEdge AnalyticsXtreme simplifies big data and analytics architectures to help our customers leverage their data when its value is highest, in real-time, for time-sensitive and business-critical, data-driven decisions. We are proud to provide organizations with the computing power they need to respond more quickly during these times of business uncertainty.”

    “Despite the toughest business conditions in memory, American organizations continue to demonstrate their commitment to innovation, creativity, and bottom-line results,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher.  “This year’s Stevie-winning nominations are full of inspiring stories of persistence, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and compassion.  We celebrate all of their stories and look forward to showcasing them during our virtual awards ceremony on August 5.”

    Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2020 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.    

    About GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces provides the fastest in-memory computing platforms for real-time insight to action and extreme transactional processing.  With GigaSpaces, enterprises can operationalize machine learning and transactional processing to gain real-time insights on their data and act upon them in the moment.  The always-on platforms for mission-critical applications across cloud, on-premise or hybrid, are leveraged by hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations worldwide across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more. GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia.  

    For more information, visit www.gigaspaces.com and www.gigaspaces.com/blog/, follow us on Twitter, or  visit our YouTube and LinkedIn channels.

  • IBM launches Equal Access Toolkit to help developers build accessible websites and applications

    Increase the accessibility of your application and website from the start with the open source IBM Equal Access Toolkit.

    By Si McAleer, Program Director, IBM Accessibility

    Although nearly 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. face some type of disability, an industry sample has found that in 2020 over 98 percent of home pages had a detectable accessibility error. Accessibility can be forgotten or left until too late in the process when it is difficult to retrofit the site or application. Knowledge, discipline, and tools are all essential to building in accessibility throughout a development process.

    As we near Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I am excited to announce a new open source offering and design toolkit that give designers and developers the tools they need to make their websites and applications accessible.
    The Equal Access Toolkit and Checkerare tools for developers and testers to use to embed accessibility directly into their workflow.

    ·        The IBM Equal Access Toolkitis a public set of guidelines that deliver phase-based guidance about accessibility to all members of a team creating an enterprise offering.
    ·        The Accessibility Checker is part of an open suite of automation tools. It is a browser extension that allows developers or auditors to evaluate a web-based component or solution for accessibility issues.
    Specifically our project offers:
    ·        Clear guidance on what’s needed at each stage of development, from initial research through planning, design, development, verification and launch
    ·        A prioritized breakdown of accessibility requirements at each stage
    ·        Test automation
    ·        Browser-based accessibility checking with powerful navigation and built-in help that supports learning exactly the right information, at exactly the right time

    Ensuring all team members are responsible for accessibility
    All of the tools are built on the same rules engine that is kept up to date to meet the latest accessibility standards and share guidance elements so that all team members can be responsible for accessibility. Each guideline comes in bite-sized snippets to highlight where team members should focus their attention and get the most value at the most efficient pace.
    The toolkit enables product teams to create accessible tools along the way without the need for an accessibility expert or formal education. At the same time, designers and developers can fill in gaps as they go without a loss of continuity.

    See the checker in action
    The tool offers a full accessibility evaluation of the web page which you can use to understand any potential violations by either looking at the page element or the accessibility checklist item.

    Get started
    Access the checker via GitHub or get the browser extension through you’re the Chromeor Firefoxstores.
    If you want to run the checker in a batch configuration, you can get the checker through the NPM repository. Because the toolkit is technology-agnostic, you can use it in a variety of Node.js-based environments for automated testing.

    Conclusion
    IBM’s long and storied history with diversity and accessibility has taught us that incorporating those aspects into our work creates better innovation and outcomes. We understand it is not always easy to find the best practices or guidance to fully understand or test accessibility solutions. This is why we wanted to establish an open source platform that empowers offering teams to conceive, design, develop, ship, and report on their accessible offerings regardless of their accessibility expertise.
    In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we encourage you to visit https://ibm.com/ableto access the IBM Equal Access Accessibility Toolkit and Checker and make accessibility an inherent part of your development process.

  • Mediaops Announces Techstrong Con: A Free 12-Hour Global Tech Conference Presenting Shared Experiences Of Resilience, Collaboration And Leadership To Overcome The Global Pandemic

    Featuring more than 30 distinguished speakers across four tracks, including Emerging Technologies, Digital Transformation, Cyber/DevSecOps and Spotlight Solutions

    May 18, 2020 – Boca Raton, Fla. – MediaOps today announces TechStrong Con, a free, 12-hour global tech conference focused on celebrating the tech community and its best practices during these extraordinary times. The virtual conference features thought leaders, innovators and the builders of tomorrow’s latest innovations in the areas of Digital Transformation, DevOps, Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. Attendees will hear from the brightest minds in our community about how technology is making a difference, while gaining practical strategies they can use within their own organization to survive and thrive in the COVID-19 world and beyond.

    TechStrong Con will take place June 4, 2020, starting at 10:00 GMT. The 12-hour event features more than 30 speakers in four separate tracks, two exhibit halls including an AWS partner pavilion, live Q&A with speakers, peer-to-peer chat sessions, ask the expert sessions and more. To register, please visit https://techstrongcon.com.

    Amid a global pandemic, the IT community continues to shine as a beacon, demonstrating how humans are leveraging technology to overcome the many challenges we face. TechStrong Con celebrates everyone on the front lines of technology—those working to transform the world and move it forward. It also celebrates the courage of our frontline workers and healthcare professionals who risk their lives every day to care for the sick among us. A portion of sponsor proceeds from TechStrong Con are being donated to COVID-19-related charities globally.

    “It is both our challenge and mission to help define what the future will look like moving forward. Although many of us are battling the emotional, social and economic impacts of COVID-19 while working from home, the tech industry remains unbowed. We collaborate. We communicate. We develop. We deploy. We are strong, TechStrong,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “Where would the world be without the internet, the cloud and other technology today? Yes, we are TechStrong and this event will be a celebration of it.”

    The speakers for this event were hand-picked by the chairman of the speaker committee, renowned technologist John Willis, and represents a diverse field of leaders from around the world. A partial list includes:

    • William Hurley, CEO, Strangeworks
    • Andrew Shafer, Vice President Transformation, Red Hat
    • Liz Rice, CNCF Board Member & Technology Evangelist, Aqua Security
    • Patrick Debois, Director of DevOps Relations, Snyk
    • Chenxi Wang, Managing General Partner, Rain Capital
    • Cat Swetel, Engineering Manager, Ticketmaster
    • Abby Kearns, CTO, Puppet
    • Mik Kersten, CEO, Tasktop
    • Mitch Ashley, CEO and Founder, Accelerated Strategies Group
    • Jessica Deen, Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
    • ShannonLeitz, Director, Intuit
    • Sanjeev Sharma, Co-founder and Principal Analyst, Accelerated Strategies Group

    A complete list of speakers is available at https://techstrongcon.com.  Free registration for the event is also available on the site. Registration is limited.

    “For this event I reached out to many of the technology leaders I admire most and would personally like to see present. I feel this is the strongest lineup of speakers assembled for one show that I have ever seen,” said John Willis, chairman of the speaker committee for TechStrong Con. “I am humbled that so many of my friends and colleagues are joining me on this virtual stage to present at this event. I am genuinely excited to see them speak myself.”

    In addition to the four tracks of speakers, TechStrong Con features:

    State-of-the-Art Virtual Environment

    • Live Q&A with keynotes– Unique chance to participate in live Q&A chats with our brilliant keynote speakers. Jump in right after the session and extend the conversation.
    • Educational environment– One-of-a-kind virtual expo hall with booths and chat rooms. Get educated, download infinite resources instantly, and interact directly with sponsors and attendees.
    • Giveaways and Donations– Attendees get the opportunity to join forces and help raise funds that will be donated to COVID-19-related charities globally.

    The following sponsors and their support ensure this conference is available to the IT community at no cost.

    • Premier Sponsors: AWS, CloudBees, Harness and Palo Alto Networks
    • Supporting Sponsors: Accurics, ConnectALL, Contract Security, GitLab, InfluxData, Instana, Lightstep, NewVector, ScienceLogic and Snyk
    • AWS Pavilion Partners: Checkmarx, CloudBees, Monday.com, New Relic and PagerDuty

     

    Share This: Let’s Get Stronger #TechStrongCon! Join Forces with @ashimmy, @botchagalupe, @whurley, @lizrice, @littleidea, @chenxiwang, @patrickdebois and more. For more info, visit https://techstrongcon.com/#register | #TechStrongCon

    About MediaOps

    MediaOps is the place to tell your story. devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, Container Journal, Digital Anarchist and TechStrong TV are the brands that comprise a premier global media platform for technical communities regarding digital transformation, DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud native. Each of its brands attract and engage a thriving online community of technology professionals around the world. Resources include award-winning editorial, creation of high-quality custom content, and multimedia production and distribution. As the leaders in these emerging segments, MediaOps’ properties are powerful, integrated marketing and communication platforms to help clients maximize campaign ROI and paid media investments. https://mediaops.io

  • Grafana 7.0 Delivers Major Visualization Upgrades and Makes Significant Progress in Uniting & Transforming Data from All Sources ranging from Metrics and Logs to Traces and Beyond

    Today, Grafana Labs is announcing the general availability of Grafana 7.0 with significant enhancements to simplify the development of custom plugins and drastically increase the power, speed and flexibility of visualization. The latest release helps organizations realize their monitoring, visualization and observability goals even faster. Open source Grafana is among the world’s most popular dashboard solutions and boasts more than 500,000 active installations and millions of dashboards in use across the globe. Grafana 7.0 is an accumulation of effort commencing after 6.0 spanning nearing 18,000 commits and 3,699 pull requests from 362 contributors around the world. Additionally, there are hundreds of company, commercial, and community data-source plugins and thousands of sample/starter dashboards supporting users’ needs both on-premise and in the cloud.

    The Grafana 7.0 enhancements heavily focus on helping users and organizations across these key areas:

    • (Easier to) Connect and Unify All Your Data
      • New plugins as a result of partnerships across Google (Stackdriver/Cloud Monitor), Microsoft (Azure Monitor), and Amazon (Cloudwatch), plus logs support with Open Source Loki and tracing inputs from Zipkin and Jaeger. These augment Grafana’s existing community and enterprise commercial plugins ranging from popular open source projects like Prometheus, Graphite and Elasticsearch to proprietary sources such as Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, Zabbix, Oracle, ServiceNow and including your own custom data sources/API.
      • New component libraries, tools, data structures and a completely rebuilt common and unified data and plugin framework based on Apache Arrow provides consistent data structure and significantly reduces the effort required to develop plugins.
    • (Much more power and control to) Process and Transform Your Data
      • A shared set of common data operations that were previously duplicated as custom features in many panels or data sources are now an integral part of the Grafana data processing pipeline and something all data sources and panels can take advantage of.
      • Transformations include renaming, summarizing, combining, and performing calculations from different panels, putting time series labels into columns, reusing and refining query results across other panels, and more.
      • New data inspection feature lets users see, export (CSV), and perform simple transformations on the underlying source data for a panel. They can also drill into query execution details for faster troubleshooting.
    • (Faster ways to) Visualize Your Data… Even Traces
      • A new tracing viewer to complement the existing support for metrics and logs enables users to trace the path of a single request through a distributed system.
      • A range of automatic and easy-to-use rendering options drastically simplifies effort and results in dashboard panels in a variety of formats including tables, non-time-series charts and more. This augments the significant library of existing panel plugins including maps, pie charts and gauges.
      • New panel options, new edit experience, and new table panel along with easier resizing.
    • Search, Discover, and Secure Your Dashboards with new Enterprise Features
      • Okta and SAML team syncs.
      • Out-of-the-box searching and dashboard reporting for usage trends to more easily identify inactive and popular dashboards.
      • Ability to identify concurrent dashboard users for faster collaboration.

    “I can’t wait to get this in the hands of our users. This is truly a major release for us — not just a .0 or laundry list of features, but a fundamental, system-wide advancement. With this release, users are going to experience an increase in speed to visualization, along with a host of capabilities that will give them one place, at the user level to perform simple and complex functions and transformations on their data. For example, by chaining a simple set of point-and-click transformations, users will be able join, filter, re-name, and calculate to get the results they need. Grafana is becoming an ideal tool to speed and ease essential data transformations and reduce the need to perform disjointed transformations through a variety of query languages outside the dashboard.” — Torkel Ödegaard, creator of Grafana and co-founder and CGO of Grafana Labs

    “We believe vendors shouldn’t own observability strategies; users and organizations do. We are focused on helping them in their journey through an open and composable framework for uniting an organization’s complex environments that can range from their own custom APIs and open source metrics like Prometheus or Graphite and Loki for logs, to merging open source and proprietary systems like Elasticsearch, Datadog, Splunk, Oracle, and ServiceNow.” — Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs.

    Grafana 7.0 is available immediately for Grafana Cloud customers or through a free 30-day cloud trial and for download.

    Reference links from several 7.0 sneak peek blogs/tweets :

    New History Explorer: https://grafana.com/blog/2020/04/30/grafana-7.0-sneak-peek-query-history-in-explore/ (Tweet: https://twitter.com/grafana/status/1255891305525362689)

    New Table Panel

    https://grafana.com/blog/2020/04/28/grafana-7.0-sneak-peek-new-table-panel-for-dashboards/ Tweet: https://twitter.com/torkelo/status/1254027987323965441)

    New Auto Grid Layout

    https://grafana.com/blog/2020/04/23/grafana-v7.0-is-coming-soon-check-out-this-sneak-peek-of-the-auto-grid-layout/ (Tweet: https://twitter.com/grafana/status/1253370370914242560)

    New Icons:

    https://twitter.com/grafana/status/1256317203214991362

  • Render Now Serving More Than One Billion Web Requests Monthly; Expands Into Europe With Easiest Cloud for Hosting Any App or Website

    SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Render, the easiest cloud provider for developers and startups, today announced that it served more than one billion HTTP requests in April which is more than two times the number of requests in March. Today Render also announced that it has launched early access to its first hosting region in Europe, delivering on the number one request from users.

    When it comes to hosting applications in the cloud, developers and startups have traditionally had to pick between large cloud infrastructure providers like AWS which are prohibitively complex and difficult to use or inflexible Platform-as-a-Service solutions like Heroku which are expensive and hard to scale.

    Render launched in April 2019 with an innovative alternative that developers and startups love. Render gives them the best of both worlds: instant setup and incredible ease of use, coupled with the power and flexibility previously afforded only by large cloud providers. It has done this by creating an intuitive hosting platform that requires zero knowledge of servers and infrastructure and combining it with powerful containerization technology which enables customization, cost reduction and reliability at scale.

    Render went on to compete against thousands of startups and won TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield for being the most promising early-stage and fundamentally disruptive startup.

    Today Render has thousands of customers that include startups like Gatsby to larger organizations like Stripe.

    “Render is a fantastic product! We moved from another cloud provider because we wanted easier deployments, managed databases and an intuitive interface. Setup took minutes, thanks to simple and clear documentation, and their customer service is unparalleled. Render removes a lot of complexity around managing a backend so we can focus our time on building features. Highly recommended!” said Amos Elliston, who is currently building Placement, an online talent management platform shared, after serving as CTO of Flexport.

    Render even hosted a major presidential campaign. Shreyes Seshasai, technical lead for the Pete Buttigieg presidential campaign, said: “We moved to Render from a major cloud provider because it was the best solution that could help our small team of four software engineers meet the massive scaling and flexibility needs of the campaign. We were able to deploy over 20 services on Render with their incredible platform and support, including our main website which reached tens of millions of Americans.”

    Render’s first hosting region in Europe, which is in Frankfurt, Germany, reduces network latency for all Render customers with a Europe-based audience by as much as 70 percent. It also satisfies EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), making Render available for the first time to customers subject to GDPR.

    Ferruccio Balestreri at Al.ta Cucina, the largest online recipe sharing community in Italy, said: “Leveraging Render’s EU hosting region will make Al.ta Cucina’s site even faster, providing a better user experience for the nearly one million visitors we serve every month. We’ll be able to reduce our hosting costs by as much as 30 percent and redirect internal resources currently spent managing GDPR-related processes. Render gives our team a big leg up towards achieving our business goals.”

    Anurag Goel, Render’s founder and CEO said: “Render usage and revenue continue to increase faster than we’d ever imagined, and we’ve doubled our team to build on this momentum and support our users. Users trust us with their most critical workloads, especially as many more companies move to the cloud and to Render given the macro environment. As we expand Render to Europe and even more locations in the future, we maintain our relentless focus on UX, on meeting our customer needs and on keeping the cloud accessible and scalable for everyone.

    Steve Herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst who invested in Render and the former CTO of VMware, said: “Render is doing an amazing job of capturing developers’ hearts and minds, and our astronomical growth reflects that. The next few months will surely be even more impressive as Render’s world-class team expands the product and more businesses of all sizes adopt the platform.”

    About Render
    Render offers the easiest cloud to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely free up developers and startups from managing cloud infrastructure by building a cloud that offers the best developer experience coupled with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds of applications. Render is backed by General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund and based in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://render.com or follow @getrender.

  • Sauce Labs Launches New Machine Learning-Based Analytics Solution to Improve Test Quality

    • 2020 Continuous Testing Benchmark Report reveals 27 percent of all test failures are traceable to a single common failure pattern
    • New Failure Analysis offering leverages AI and ML to rapidly analyze test data and use pattern recognition to surface most common causes of test failure
    • Enables developers to quickly address the most pervasive issues impacting test quality

     

    SAN FRANCISCO – May 12, 2019 – Sauce Labs Inc., the leading provider of continuous testing solutions that deliver digital confidence, today announced the launch of Failure Analysis, a new analytics solution that applies sophisticated machine learning to customers’ pass/fail data in order to surface the most common reasons a given set of tests fail. Failure Analysis gives developers, testers, and QA managers insight into how often the same type of failure repeats itself across a given test suite, enabling them to move quickly to address the most pervasive issues and drive rapid improvement in test quality.

     

    The newly released Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Benchmark Report for 2020 reveals that a significant portion of test failures can be traced to a small number of underlying issues impacting a test suite. Based on anonymized data from millions of tests run on the Sauce Labs platform, the benchmark report found the single most common failure pattern was responsible for 27 percent of all failures within a test suite. The top three most common failure patterns accounted for 48.2 percent of all failures, and the top five most common failure patterns accounted for 59.3 percent of all failures. By finding and aggregating the most common failure patterns, developers can remedy the majority of test failures with just a few fixes, eliminating much of the costly and time-consuming manual follow up traditionally required to determine the source of failed tests.

     

    “Testing is critical to delivering flawless applications and creating great user experiences, yet the task of maintaining a high-quality test suite has only become more difficult as organizations accelerate the pace of development and automate testing at scale,” said Matt Wyman, chief product officer, Sauce Labs. “With Failure Analysis, developers finally have a machine learning-driven tool to help balance the demand for faster deployments with the heightened need to maintain a reliable test suite. We’re excited to deliver this new resource to aid in the testing community’s collective efforts to improve test quality, increase developer productivity, and build digital confidence.”

     

    Improving test quality is a critical need

    The release of Failure Analysis comes as many development teams reach an inflection point in their digital journeys. Though more organizations than ever have shifted to agile development methodologies and implemented continuous testing throughout the software development cycle, poor test quality continues to undermine many efforts to deliver quality applications at speed. Poor test quality also increases the occurrence of false failures, frustrating testers and developers responsible for manually following up on those failures, and eroding confidence in the overall automated testing process.

     

    The findings of the 2020 Continuous Testing Benchmark Report underscore just how prevalent poor test quality is among most enterprise organizations. The report found that only 24.37 percent of organizations pass at least 90 percent of their desktop tests, while only 25.45 percent of organizations pass at least 90 percent of their mobile tests.

     

    Failure Analysis from Sauce Labs addresses this increasingly urgent need by helping testers and developers better understand why tests are failing and enabling them to prioritize remediation accordingly. Leveraging powerful machine learning algorithms to analyze an organization’s pass/fail data and its Selenium and Appium command logs, Failure Analysis gives testers and developers visibility into precisely where and how often failure patterns recur within a test suite, all from a single dashboard view within the Sauce Labs UI. Using the learnings provided by Failure Analysis to improve test quality, organizations can also dramatically lower the occurrence of false failures, ensuring that failed tests carry a high signal-to-noise ratio and developers feel confident that a failed test has truly detected a breaking change as opposed to the flaky noise of an unreliable test suite.


    Failure Analysis is available now as a standard capability for enterprise customers as part of the Insights package within the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud. Sauce Labs provides a host of analytics capabilities that provide intelligent views into test data, including a new test overview and trends dashboard, interactive visualizations that enable customers to drill down on granular data sets, and a powerful REST API that allows users to aggregate data into their home-grown quality dashboard or test analytics tools. For more information, visit the Insights landing page.

     

    The 2020 Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Benchmark Report is also now available as a free community resource.

    About Sauce Labs

    Sauce Labs is the leading provider of continuous testing solutions that deliver digital confidence. The Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud delivers a 360-degree view of a customer’s application experience, ensuring that web and mobile applications look, function, and perform exactly as they should on every browser, OS, and device, every single time. Sauce Labs is a privately held company funded by Toba Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Centerview Capital Technology, IVP, Adams Street Partners, and Riverwood Capital. For more information, please visit https://saucelabs.com.

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  • GigaSpaces and OpenLegacy Partner to Help Customers Perfect their Legacy Strategy

    Princeton, New Jersey – May 13, 2020 – OpenLegacy, the pioneer in digital-driven integration for legacy and core systems, has announced a partnership with GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory real-time analytics processing platform.

    As businesses embark on digital transformation initiatives and modernize their business operations, requirements are growing for strengthening business performance to enhance customer experiences and reduce costly operations.

    “Customers are looking to modernize their enterprise architecture and simplify the connectivity to any data source (CRM, ERP, DB, DWH, Mainframe, and more) across any environment, to accelerate transactional processing and analytics,” said Yoav Einav, Vice President of Products. “GigaSpaces provides a 360-degree view of the data, meeting the growing requirements for speed, scale, and analytics while offloading from the mainframe to reduce TCO.  Partnering with OpenLegacy expands our offering’s options for mainframe modernization initiatives.”

    OpenLegacy’s ability to automatically generate microservices-based APIs from legacy environments gives users an easier way to incorporate legacy data into their innovations and analytics. GigaSpaces InsightEdge allows the consumption of legacy data and processes as digital assets in a secure in-memory data and analytics platform. In-memory data management accelerates transaction processing, database offloading, and advanced analytics for mission-critical applications requiring speed and scale. The related caching also reduces the number of requests to the mainframe, thus reducing consumption and related costs.

    With OpenLegacy, GigaSpaces users can leverage the existing legacy stack in a modern microservices architecture to reduce time-to-market for new digital initiatives.

    With GigaSpaces, OpenLegacy users can scale data usage easily, unify mainframe data with the enterprise data lake and data warehouse and run analytics, machine learning and BI on the combined data sources.

    The combined technologies accelerate innovation and optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO):

    • Modernize legacy stacks with a microservices architecture that accelerates time to market

    • Dramatically lower TCO by reducing MIPS consumption with in-memory access to data from any datastore

    • Reduce the risk and simplify legacy to cloud migrations

    “OpenLegacy’s platform combined with the GigaSpaces’ platform is a natural fit for enterprise customers as they seek to maximize the value of their data trapped in mainframes and other core legacy systems, while optimizing the underlying infrastructure costs,” said Bo Luongo, Global SVP Alliances and Business Development. “Our platform and code-generation approach enhances GigaSpaces’ advanced analytics and in-memory computing platform, further extending the data readiness and reducing the time to business value for GigaSpaces’ customers.”

    About OpenLegacy

    OpenLegacy’s Digital-Driven Integration enables organizations with legacy systems to release new digital services faster and more efficiently than ever before. It connects directly to even the most complex legacy systems, bypassing the need for extra layers of technology. It then automatically generates APIs in minutes, rapidly integrating those assets into exciting new innovations. Finally, it deploys them as standard microservices or serverless functions, giving organizations speed and flexibility while drastically cutting costs and resources. With OpenLegacy, industry-leading companies release new apps, features, and updates in days instead of months, enabling them to truly become digital to the core. Learn more at www.openlegacy.com

    About GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces provides the fastest in-memory computing platforms for real-time insight to action and extreme transactional processing.  With GigaSpaces, enterprises can operationalize machine learning and transactional processing to gain real-time insights on their data and act upon them in the moment.  The always-on platforms for mission-critical applications across cloud, on-premise or hybrid, are leveraged by hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations worldwide across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more. GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia.

    For more information, visit www.gigaspaces.com and www.gigaspaces.com/blog/, follow us on Twitter, or  visit our YouTube and LinkedIn channels.