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  • Cockroach Labs Releases CockroachDB 20.1 With New Features For Simpler, Faster Cloud Application Development

    Newest version of leading distributed SQL database helps developers more quickly, efficiently, and securely build elastically scalable and ultra-resilient applications in the cloud

    NEW YORK, May 12, 2020 — Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, today announced the release of CockroachDB 20.1, the newest version of the cloud-native, distributed SQL database. With new features designed to simplify and accelerate the development, deployment, and management of cloud-native applications, CockroachDB 20.1 enables organizations to build the resilient and scalable global data architectures required to successfully compete in today’s digital economy.

    CockroachDB is widely used as an elastically scalable and outage resistant system of record, particularly for globally- or regionally-distributed applications. CockroachDB combines a familiar relational structure, traditional SQL, and ACID transactions with a cloud-native, distributed architecture for maximum durability and ease. The product has been gaining momentum in recent months among streaming entertainment, gaming, and retailers facing dramatically increased demand due to stay-at-home orders. The updates in version 20.1 further position CockroachDB as the ideal database for anyone looking to more easily build and manage data-intensive applications in the cloud.

    With online primary key changes, monitoring updates, and enhanced support for popular development tools and languages (ORMs), CockroachDB 20.1 is more accessible, while also enabling developers to be more productive and efficient. Additional improvements to multi-region performance and security empower users to build more resilient apps and services that effortlessly scale with today’s evolving demands.

    “The Cockroach Labs mission remains the same – to make operating data-intensive applications easy at any scale,” said Co-Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, Spencer Kimball. “CockroachDB 20.1 gives developers a database that works the way they work and takes away the operational headaches of scaling and recovering from outages. Our distributed nature already eliminates the need for manual sharding and complex schemes for failover, and makes multi-cloud deployment easy. This latest release makes the product usable by even more developers, improves monitoring, and simplifies changing the database to support changing applications.”

    CockroachDB 20.1 expands the reach and capability of Cockroach Labs’ industry-leading cloud-native, geo-distributed database. More specifically:

    • Data structure can now evolve alongside applications with zero downtime.
      Developers often need to change primary keys as applications grow and evolve, which can be time-consuming. Now, developers can effortlessly change the way data is organized without needing to take an application offline. CockroachDB designates how data is organized, including where it lives geographically to reduce latency and support compliance.

    • Developers can more easily monitor application issues and resolve them quickly.
      Developers can view slow queries, troubleshoot queries that aren’t performing well, and monitor database stats. CockroachDB 20.1 allows you to visualize latencies between data centers to better understand performance and identify issues faster and more efficiently.

    • Applications can be built without compromise.
      As part of our mission to support the greatest variety of workloads and applications, CockroachDB 20.1 empowers developers with access to a broader variety of SQL functions, including the commands that enable them to manipulate data, tables, and organization.

    • Support for more programming languages.
      Traditionally developers communicate with CockroachDB in SQL. Object-relational-mapping (ORMs) are tools that enable developers to communicate with the database in other languages, including Django and SQLAlchemy for Python developers; Hibernate and jOOQ for Java developers; and GORM for Go developers. With new compatibility for ORMs, developers can now use more of their preferred tools with CockroachDB.

    • Performance and Security Updates for Resilient Apps

     CockroachDB 20.1 also expands on existing capabilities that let customers easily build secure single- and multi-region applications by enhancing encrypted, full-cluster distributed backups and adding more granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to CockroachDB Enterprise, and by making RBAC available in the open-source CockroachDB Core for improved security controls. Security enhancements to CockroachCloud include adding VPC peering and achieving SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

     

    To experience CockroachDB for yourself, we’re offering a free 30 day trial of CockroachCloud. For more information about CockroachDB 20.1 and how it can support your applications, visit our website.

     

    About Cockroach Labs

    Cockroach Labs helps organizations migrate and manage critical transactional data in the cloud with their next-generation SQL database. CockroachDB uses distribution and replication of data to deliver bulletproof resilience, effortless scale, and can tie data to a location to deliver optimal performance and regulatory compliance. It is architected to run a broad range of applications on and across clouds, on-premise, or in hybrid environments – all as a single store. Headquartered in New York City, Cockroach Labs is backed by Benchmark, GV, Firstmark, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Capital and Workbench. For more information, please visit www.cockroachlabs.com.

  • Auth0 Partners with Datadog to Deliver Mission-Critical Identity Data in Near Real-Time

    New log streaming capabilities deliver 10x the amount of logs for enhanced monitoring and alerting 

    BELLEVUE, Wash. – May 12, 2020 – Auth0, the identity platform for application builders, today announced that it has partnered with Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, and business users in the cloud age, to provide security, engineering, and infrastructure teams with mission-critical identity information in near real-time. The integration is powered by Auth0’s new log streaming capabilities, giving customers the ability to continuously deliver Auth0 logs to their existing monitoring and alerting dashboards, making operations easier and more effective.

    Containing valuable information and intel about user activity, tenant logs are events that are generated every time an action is performed in near real-time within Auth0, providing critical identity information including what the event was, who performed that event, and when and where the event was performed. The Datadog integration now allows all Auth0 customers to seamlessly forward all tenant logs to their Datadog account without additional development time.

    Enabled by Auth0’s new log streaming capabilities, a more efficient and reliable, and even faster delivery mechanism, the platform now delivers 10x more logs and guarantees seamless delivery, giving customers up-to-date information about their Auth0 tenant, for enhanced monitoring and alerting, auditing and compliance, data analysis, workflow automation, and serverless functionality capabilities. Used by thousands of enterprises worldwide, Datadog is a critical tool that brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make the stack entirely observable.

    “We’re pleased to partner with Auth0, a known leader in identity and security, and an expert in making identity simple and secure for any use case,” said Deniz Tortop, VP of channel and alliances at Datadog. “This new integration combines our teams’ proven capabilities and provides mission-critical data as it occurs to our customers for enhanced, seamless monitoring, and alerting operations.”

    The new integration allows customers to easily and effectively visualize Auth0 data without extra development time, make informed decisions about system architecture and development by easily monitoring identity performance, and quickly respond to performance and security incidents with automated alerts based on identity data.

    “Our new log streaming capabilities uniquely position Auth0 logs for greater usability and enable customers to seamlessly extend and customize their platforms with high-value integrations like Datadog,” said Bill Lapcevic, VP of business development at Auth0. “This integration increases customer visibility into their Auth0 logs, making it easy for teams to visualize critical identity data that is essential to business operations.”

    More details on Auth0’s integration with Datadog can be found on Auth0’s blog and Datadog’s website.

    About Auth0

    Auth0 is the first identity management platform for application builders, and the only identity solution needed for custom-built applications. With a mission to secure the world’s identities so innovators can innovate, Auth0 provides the simplicity, extensibility, and expertise to scale and protect identities in any application, for any audience. Auth0 secures more than 100 million logins each day, giving enterprises the confidence to deliver trusted and elegant digital experiences to their customers around the world.

    For more information, visit https://auth0.com or follow @auth0 on Twitter.

     

     

  • Catchpoint Is First to Integrate User Sentiment into its Digital Experience Monitoring Platform

    Also released, free user sentiment monitoring solution to provide vendor visibility and speed up outage recovery

    (New York, USA) – May 12, 2020 – Catchpoint™, the leader in next-generation Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), today announced it has added ‘user sentiment’ to its advanced monitoring platform, combining Synthetic, Network, Endpoint and Real User Monitoring capabilities, making it the most comprehensive digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform available. This new integrated capability provides enterprises with broader insights into the overall health and performance of all their digital services and applications, ensuring excellent user experiences.

    “In this rapidly expanding global digital economy, companies must deliver great user experiences to their customers and employees to be commercially successful. Business success is synonymous with high quality of user experience. For that reason, improving that experience is a top business priority,” said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “User sentiment is all about monitoring and analyzing what users say and feel about your service, so it’s a critical component of DEM. With the integration of user sentiment into our platform, companies can now leverage the most complete telemetry, to increase visibility and context, resulting in fewer blind spots and a faster way to resolve digital performance degradation.”

    Blog: Integrating User Sentiment into the Digital Performance and User Experience Monitoring

    APM and other network monitoring tools mostly ignore the user and the last mile of a digital transaction. The quality of the user experience is the ultimate measure of success of the digital performance of a company. Measuring it requires the collection and analysis of multiple sources of telemetry. By monitoring user sentiment, alongside Synthetic, Network, Endpoint and Real User Monitoring, enterprises can cast a broad telemetry net and listen to the opinions and feelings of their customers as they are consuming digital services and apps.

    “Customer and employee experience and the performance of our applications is critical to our success. Delivering the best experience possible requires that we have a complete view of the user experience,” said Samy Senthivel, Senior Digital Enterprise Monitoring Services Manager at Autodesk, Inc. “A missing piece of the monitoring puzzle from vendors has been user sentiment data. Having this analysis baked into Catchpoint’s platform will help us optimize the user experience, quickly solve performance issues and improve business performance.”

    Launch of WebSee

    Additionally, Catchpoint announces WebSee.com a free resource that leverages the same user sentiment capabilities designed to help organizations and users respond to, and better deal with, service outages. WebSee collects and analyzes global user sentiment data that is then verified by Catchpoint’s platform. Users can self-report issues with a website directly on the site or download a Catchpoint browser extension, which collects user metrics for any web app, and can report these metrics in real-time. This free solution is delivered through three core capabilities:

    1. User sentiment analysis: Collects and analyzes global user sentiment data
    2. User self-reporting: Users can self-report outages or performance issues directly on the WebSee site or via a free browser extension
    3. Verified by Catchpoint: Significant outages or performance degradations reported by users will be verified by Catchpoint and will be reported on WebSee.com

    Availability:

    • Catchpoint DEM platform customers will have access to the new user sentiment capability in mid-summer 2020.
    • com is available now for anyone.
    • WebSee browser extension will be available in the Google App Store within the next few days.

    Connect with Catchpoint

    Twitter: @Catchpoint

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/catchpoint/

    Connect with WebSee.com

    Twitter: @websee_com

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/websee-by-catchpoint/

    About Catchpoint

    Catchpoint, the global leader in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), empowers business and IT leaders to protect and advance the experience of their customers and employees. In a digital economy, enabled by cloud, SaaS and IoT, applications and users are everywhere. Catchpoint offers the largest and most geographically distributed monitoring network in the industry – it’s the only DEM platform that can scale and support today’s customer and employee location diversity and application distribution. It helps enterprises proactively detect, identify and validate user and application reachability, availability, performance and reliability, across an increasingly complex digital delivery chain. Industry leaders like Google, L’Oréal, Verizon, Oracle, LinkedIn, Honeywell, and Priceline trust Catchpoint’s out-of-the box monitoring platform, to proactively detect, repair, and optimize customer and employee experiences. Learn more at www.catchpoint.com

     

  • Liquid.com Bolsters Security for Cryptocurrency Exchange with Sumo Logic

    Company Adopts Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM to Secure More than One Billion Platform Transactions Per Day and Support Globally Distributed Team and Multi-cloud Technology Stack

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sumo Logic, the leader in continuous intelligence, today announced that global cryptocurrency platform, Liquid.com (Liquid), has chosen Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM to provide real-time security intelligence and insights to bolster application security and compliance for its leading platform which processes more than one billion transactions a day. By leveraging Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM, Liquid is able to maintain full visibility of its global cryptocurrency exchange and detect any potential threats, while supporting a globally distributed team and multi-cloud technology stack.

    Founded in 2014, Liquid provides trading, exchange and next-generation financial services powered by blockchain technology. With a mission to elevate cryptocurrency as a mainstream form of payment, the platform offers 180 different cryptocurrencies and powers 1.3 billion transactions daily through its platform. As a thoroughly modern organization, Liquid doesn’t operate any on-premise hardware or software. All of its technology is developed and deployed in the cloud through Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Heroku.

    “Our platform receives more than a billion visitors each week from our website and mobile app,” said Michael Mullins, chief information security officer, Liquid. “While the vast majority of our traffic is legitimate, a significant percentage comes from cyber groups who are looking for opportunities to breach our platform. We needed to add real-time security intelligence to monitor and analyze our log data as part of our already robust security program to protect our operations and extensive application portfolio and that’s where Sumo Logic comes in.”

    After an extensive evaluation, Liquid selected Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM solution because of its extensive integration capabilities, easy setup, competitive pricing and outstanding support. Today, various teams across Liquid leverage the continuous intelligence delivered by Sumo Logic to ensure transaction legitimacy and security. With Sumo Logic, Liquid is able to automate its data analytics and log monitoring processes to quickly identify, investigate and remediate fraudulent transactions and potential API vulnerabilities before it can be exploited. With the time and resources saved because of Sumo Logic, Liquid’s security team is now able to be more proactive in identifying potential threats.

    “As we continue to operate in a very challenging environment, Sumo Logic provides us with critical information we need to defend our systems, data and customers,” said Mullins. “Cloud SIEM has become an essential part of our business and technology architecture that has enabled us to give our customers confidence as a highly secure regulated exchange.”

    Built on Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform™, the Cloud SIEM and Cloud SIEM Enterprise solutions address the challenges facing today’s modern security operations center (SOC). Its cloud-native, multi-tenant, elastic scale approach helps break silos which hinder modern security workflows by enabling security, IT and DevOps teams to collaborate with common analytics and workflow.

    “The financial services industry is a highly regulated environment and cryptocurrency exchanges are responsible for a substantial amount of sensitive data that needs to be secured,” said Greg Martin, VP and general manager, security business unit, Sumo Logic. “Our work with Liquid illustrates the value of continuous intelligence for scaling modern businesses with ever-expanding digital surfaces, to provide a holistic view of the threat landscape allowing them to quickly mitigate risk so they can continue to accelerate their processes and conduct business effectively.”

    Additional Resources

    • Read the Liquid case study
    • Learn more about Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM
    • Sign up for Sumo Logic for free

    About Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is a leader in continuous intelligence, a new category of software, which enables organizations of all sizes address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ automates the collection, ingestion, and analysis of application, infrastructure, security, and IoT data to derive actionable insights within seconds. More than 2,000 customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic to build, run, and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. Only Sumo Logic delivers its platform as a true, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, across multiple use-cases, enabling businesses to thrive in the Intelligence Economy.

    Founded in 2010, Sumo Logic is a privately held company based in Redwood City, California, and is backed by Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, DFJ Growth, Franklin Templeton, Greylock Partners, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Tiger Global Management. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

    Sumo Logic is a trademark or registered trademark of Sumo Logic in the United States and in foreign countries. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

    Any information regarding offerings, updates, functionality, or other modifications, including release dates, is subject to change without notice. The development, release, and timing of any offering, update, functionality, or modification described herein remains at the sole discretion of Sumo Logic, and should not be relied upon in making a purchase decision, nor as a representation, warranty, or commitment to deliver specific offerings, updates, functionalities, or modifications in the future.

  • MemSQL Fuels Growth with $50M Hercules Capital Partnership

    Non-Dilutive Financing Provides Tech Company with Added Fuel to Accelerate Growth

    SAN FRANCISCO – May 11, 2020 – MemSQL, the No-Limits Database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, has signed a debt facility that provides up to $50 million of new capital. Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC), the largest non-bank venture debt provider with more than $2.4 billion in total assets, served as underwriter for the financing.

    “This is a strong vote of confidence for MemSQL’s future. Our FY20 financial performance concluded with an impressive 70% growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR), and with a single-digit cash burn, our current ARR vs. cash outlay ratio is less than one,” remarked MemSQL co-CEO Raj Verma. “We are a well-run, well-capitalized business. As we move forward, our charter remains the same. MemSQL will always prioritize our customers’ success by delivering world-class products and services, increasing shareholder value, and contributing to our community in every way we can.”

    MemSQL delivers breakthroughs for modern data workloads spanning transactions, analytics, and AI for leading businesses undergoing digital transformation. MemSQL is a converged data platform leader with hundreds of enterprise customers, including many within the Fortune 500. In 2019, the company launched Helios, its cloud database available on AWS, GCP and Azure.  MemSQL is proud to work with leading partners such as IBM/Red Hat, Fiserv, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Virtusa to deliver innovative solutions to its customers.

    Headquartered in San Francisco, and with offices in Portland, Seattle, Sunnyvale, London, Lisbon, and Kyiv, MemSQL is backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Glynn Capital, Accel, Khosla Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Data Collective, and IA Ventures.

    “This structured investment represents a significant commitment from Hercules and provides an example of the breadth of our platform and our ability to finance growth-orientated, institutionally-backed technology companies at various stages. We are impressed with the work that the MemSQL management team has accomplished operationally and excited to begin our partnership with one of the promising companies in the database market,” said Steve Kuo, senior managing director technology group head for Hercules.

    About MemSQL

    MemSQL is The No-Limits DatabaseTM, powering modern applications and analytical systems with a cloud-native, massively scalable architecture for maximum ingest and query performance at the highest concurrency. MemSQL envisions a world where every business can make decisions in real time and every experience is optimized through data. Global enterprises use the MemSQL distributed database to easily ingest, process, analyze, and act on data in order to thrive in today’s insight-driven economy. MemSQL is optimized to run on any public cloud or on premises with commodity hardware. Visit www.memsql.com or follow us @memsql.

    About Hercules Capital, Inc.

    Hercules Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HTGC) is the leading and largest specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured venture growth loans to high-growth, innovative venture capital-backed companies in a broad variety of technology, life sciences and sustainable and renewable technology industries. Since inception (December 2003), Hercules has committed more than $10.2 billion to over 500 companies and is the lender of choice for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms seeking growth capital financing. Companies interested in learning more about financing opportunities should contact info@htgc.com, or call 650.289.3060.

  • Catchpoint Expands Executive Team with Internet and Infrastructure Industry Expert

    Tony Ferrelli joins as Vice President, leading IT Operations, advancing Catchpoint’s IT operational excellence

    (New York, USA) – May 07, 2020 – Catchpoint™ the leader in next-generation Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), today announced the appointment of Tony Ferrelli as Vice President of Technology Operations. In his role, Tony will oversee the design, delivery, maintenance, operations, and support of Catchpoint’s Global Monitoring Infrastructure.

    More than 450 global enterprises rely on Catchpoint’s ever-expanding global monitoring infrastructure of over 850 monitoring locations, spanning over 85 countries around the globe. This unique infrastructure operates reliably and securely 24/7. Tony and his organization will spearhead the management and operations of all Catchpoint monitoring data centers, supporting Catchpoint’s expanding corporate strategy, delivering stable, secure, and reliable operations.

    “We are excited to have Tony and his expertise and deep network operations knowledge. As we continue to expand our footprint globally and offer more network visibility, his wealth of experience in data center, internet infrastructure technology and network peering, will be a key component to our future growth. Adding Tony rounds out our extensive executive team bench and will help us maintain our category leadership in the months and years ahead at Google’s Scale,” says Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder of Catchpoint.

    Tony is a 25-year Internet industry veteran who has served in various Network Engineering and Operation leadership roles, including Google and DoubleClick and will report directly to Catchpoint CIO and co-founder Dritan Suljoti.

    “Catchpoint is at the cutting edge of internet and user experience monitoring technology. Internet services, systems and infrastructure are becoming more sophisticated and complex,” said Tony Ferrelli. “I am excited to oversee and further advance this innovative and expanding global monitoring platform. Having more eyes in more places than any other internet monitoring vendor offers Catchpoint a unique advantage in today’s digital world. We will continue delivering the most reliable, secure, and stable platform that all our global customers rely on for their business operations.”

    About Catchpoint

    Catchpoint, the global leader in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), empowers business and IT leaders to protect and advance the experience of their customers and employees. In a digital economy, enabled by cloud, SaaS and IoT, applications and users are everywhere. Catchpoint offers the largest and most geographically distributed monitoring network in the industry – it’s the only DEM platform that can scale and support today’s customer and employee location diversity and application distribution. It helps enterprises proactively detect, identify, and validate user and application reachability, availability, performance, and reliability, across an increasingly complex digital delivery chain. Industry leaders like Google, L’Oréal, Verizon, Oracle, LinkedIn, Honeywell, and Priceline trust Catchpoint’s out-of-the box monitoring platform, to proactively detect, repair, and optimize customer and employee experiences. Learn more at www.catchpoint.com/

  • ScyllaDB Announces 4.0 Release of Its Open Source NoSQL Database

    New release adds DynamoDB-compatible API along with advanced features for consistency, streaming and management

    PALO ALTO, Calif., May 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB today announced Scylla Open Source 4.0, the latest major release of its high-performance NoSQL database for real-time big data workloads. This release marks a significant milestone, as the company has moved beyond feature parity with Apache Cassandra, now also serving as an open source drop-in, no-lock-in alternative to Amazon DynamoDB.

    Scylla Open Source 4.0 builds on Scylla’s close-to-the-hardware design, which enables optimal use of modern server infrastructure. Written from the ground-up in C++, Scylla delivers performance of millions of OPS on a single node, scales out to hundreds of nodes and consistently achieves a 99% tail latency of less than one millisecond.

    As a drop-in replacement for Cassandra and, now, DynamoDB, Scylla delivers better, more consistent performance, a significant reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) and greater deployment flexibility. The production-ready new features in Scylla Open Source 4.0 extend an already impressive set of advantages over Cassandra, including scaling up to any number of cores, streaming data to 60TB meganodes, built-in schedulers, unified cache and self-tuning operations.

    Performance comparisons show Scylla Open Source 4.0 delivers more than 5X higher throughput and nearly 10X lower P99 latencies than the upcoming Apache Cassandra 4.0 release. Additionally, benchmarks illustrate that Scylla is roughly 1/8 the total cost of Amazon DynamoDB.

    “Scylla is faster and easier to manage than the other NoSQL databases we evaluated,” said Devin Rose, Principal Software Engineer at robotics pioneer KUKA. “We considered several other options, but Scylla proved to be much more cost-effective. We’re excited about the new features Scylla is adding. Their new DynamoDB-compatible API will make it even easier for users to enjoy Scylla’s benefits of performance, affordability and more flexible deployment options.”

    New Capabilities in Scylla Open Source 4.0

    • Alternator, a DynamoDB-compatible API: Scylla 4.0 provides a production-ready Amazon DynamoDB-compatible API that lets DynamoDB users switch to Scylla without changing a single line of application code. Scylla significantly reduces the total cost of ownership, delivers lower and more consistent latencies and expands the limitations DynamoDB places on object size, partition size, etc. Developers are no longer locked in to a platform and have new open source options available to them. They can run on-premises, on their preferred cloud platforms or on Scylla’s fully managed database as a service, Scylla Cloud. They are free to access their data as they like, without pay-per-operation fees, and with more deployment options, including open source Docker and Kubernetes.
    • Lightweight Transactions (LWT): Scylla’s Lightweight Transactions (LWT) extends Scylla’s options for data consistency. By employing Paxos two-phase-commit, Scylla LWT makes operations strongly consistent.
    • Change Data Capture (Beta): Allows users to track changes in their data, recording both the original data values and the new values to records. With CDC, Scylla streams changes to a standard CQL table that can be indexed or filtered to find critical changes to data. The new API offers functionality that’s superior to both Cassandra and DynamoDB.
    • Kubernetes Operator for Scylla (Beta): Kubernetes enables automated provisioning of cloud-native containerized applications, supporting the entire lifecycle of deployment, scaling and management. Scylla Operator, now in beta with Scylla 4.0, is a Kubernetes extension for Scylla cluster management. It currently supports deploying multi-zone clusters, scaling up or adding new racks, scaling down and monitoring Scylla clusters with Prometheus and Grafana.

    “Scylla 4.0 is our largest release ever, with improvements ranging from ease-of-use to new APIs and functionality and performance,” said Dor Laor, CEO and co-founder, ScyllaDB. “We welcome developers to discover the great performance Scylla offers out of the box, at a reasonable price and without lock-in.”

    For more information on Scylla Open Source 4.0, please visit scylladb.com.

    Upcoming Webinar: Introducing Scylla Open Source 4.0
    On May 21, join Scylla co-founders Dor Laor and Avi Kivity for an overview of Scylla Open Source 4.0, including comparisons with the upcoming Apache Cassandra 4.0. To register: https://go.scylladb.com/wbn-scylla-open-source-4.0-registration.html

    About ScyllaDB
    Scylla is the real-time big data database. API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity as much as 10X that of Cassandra. Comcast, Starbucks, Ola Cabs, Samsung, IBM, Grab, MediaMath, AppNexus, Investing.com and many more leading companies have adopted Scylla to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs. ScyllaDB was founded by the team responsible for the KVM hypervisor and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Wing Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, TLV Partners, Magma Venture Partners, Western Digital Capital and Samsung Ventures. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

  • New Low-Code Innovations for Building the Apps You Need, Fast

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    The digital imperative has accelerated for every CIO. Organizations must build apps fast to respond to ever-evolving business and economic changes. This is where the power of the Salesforce Platform shines, empowering everyone to innovate fast and scale with confidence using low-code builders. Drag, drop and deliver modern apps that increase employee productivity with Lightning App Builder. Automate processes that improve operational efficiency with Flow Builder. Ultimately, delight every employee and customer with modern experiences that do not sacrifice enterprise quality, all without having to code.

     

    At Salesforce, our roadmap is driven by listening to our customers. And today, we are delivering two new highly requested capabilities to Lightning App Builder — Dynamic Forms and Dynamic Actions.

     

    What are Dynamic Forms and Dynamic Actions?

    Dynamic Forms is the ability to configure the behavior of forms as people fill them out.  With Dynamic Forms, every engagement is data driven and responsive in real time to user input.  Dynamic Actions further guide people through the experience with intuitive next steps. These features are a powerhouse of innovation for businesses to easily build and scale productive and engaging experiences that surface the right information at the right time to the right person without code.

     

    Why are Dynamic Forms and Dynamic Actions Important?

    Dynamic Forms and Actions are important for every company looking to transform into the digital world and embrace modern architectures. Apps of the past were static, trigger based, batch updated, and hard coded. Apps of today are dynamic, event driven, real-time, and responsive. Dynamic Forms and Actions further the power of the Salesforce Platform with its seamlessly integrated event, identity, and security model and its ability to build apps from components that serve as interchangeable building blocks. They can be combined with other platform services, including Flow, Einstein, Mobile, and Collaboration, and unlock the possibilities of a composable enterprise.

     

    In fact, automation by Flow Builder has been surging on the Salesforce Platform. In March 2020, we’ve seen 3.25B+ processes automated, an increase of 25% YOY, and 161M+ visual screenflows launched, an increase of 83% YOY, to help with repetitive tasks like closing cases or onboarding new hires. This helps increase productivity, improve efficiency, increase data quality, and provides peace of mind for security and governance.

     

    How do Dynamic Forms and Dynamic Actions Work?

    Dynamic Forms transform static data entry forms into responsive experiences that are intuitive and easy to use. You can place fields and sections anywhere on the page to provide structure and organization for the information. Further, you can ensure people stay focused by setting rules to only show certain fields based on other field values, for example only when a checkbox is selected or when a picklist has a certain value. Experiences can be personalized further by only showing data to people based on their role, location, or other identifying information.

     

    Dynamic Actions allow you to control the set of next steps, or actions, that are available in an experience. As with Dynamic Forms, you set the rules for when actions are shown based on field values or user information. This ensures that people only see actions relevant to them at the right time.

     

    Here’s an example of how these innovative capabilities can be used. Job candidates provide multiple documents and pieces of information when applying for a role – including salary information, resumes, job history, legal status and references – but not everyone in the hiring process needs to see it all. Using Dynamic Forms, you can quickly add visibility rules that surfaces different candidate information to the recruiter, HR department, hiring manager and interviewers. And with Dynamic Actions, you can assign specific actions for each person involved in the hiring process to ensure they are aware of next steps to move the candidate along. After the candidate is hired, users can leverage flow automation to create an onboarding journey that helps hiring managers assign the right equipment to their new hire, ensure they receive necessary training, and provide them with credentials to access online tools.

     

    “This is huge,” said Amber Boaz, Trailblazer and Salesforce MVP. “Dynamic Forms and Actions will allow me to create pages once and reuse them multiple times, all without any custom coding, managing permissions or moving between environments to get an app built. This won’t just make my life easier – it will make my organization more efficient overall.”

     

    Tune into Salesforce’s #LowCodeLove event today, May 7, 2020, at 11am PT to learn more. Event registration information can be found here.

     

  • GoodData Updates Accelerator Toolkit to Enhance Data Analytics in Applications

    New Capabilities Added to the Accelerator Toolkit, UI Library to Enable Customized and Faster Data Analytics

     GoodData®, a leader in end-to-end analytics solutions, announced today several new capabilities have been added to their Accelerator Toolkit, which is used by leading enterprise companies to add data analytics into the natural flow of applications versus older, bolt-on Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.

    The enhanced capabilities are another step in the process of making data understandable, relevant and actionable across product lines and entire companies.

    “Achieving actionable insights from data is the make-it-or-break-it competitive advantage that all companies need, and GoodData continues to push innovation to make analytics everywhere possible,” said Zdenek Svoboda, co-founder and VP of product, GoodData.

    New tools make the recently released React.js components library, GoodData.UI, even easier and faster to use. GoodData.UI was released last year to give GoodData customers more options to build analytical user interfaces in a way that no dash-boarding tool in the world does out of the box.

    With GoodData.UI, developers build applications from ready-made and custom React components, and customize visualizations in just a few lines of code. No iframes are involved in the process. That means product engineers can more easily create analytics that blend into applications, and their UIs — but still with advanced capabilities. The user interfaces can also be domain specific, as opposed to the general purpose analytics tools that dominate the market.

    With enhancements to the Accelerator Toolkit and continuous additions to the well- documented components in the GoodData.UI library, more companies and product designers, not just engineers, can build highly analytical applications, giving companies ultimate flexibility while cutting development time and implementation costs. Traditional embedded analytics and dashboards are not enough to drive uptake of analytics.

    Additionally, with GoodData.UI, you can now display insights or existing visualizations from the GoodData platform using visual components as well as create new visual components to address specific analytical needs.

    The ease-of-use created by the Accelerator Toolkit and GoodData.UI library dovetails with broader GoodData efforts to drive analytics everywhere, including with introduction of Freemium pricing last year, intended for smaller companies diving into analytics.

    For more information on GoodData’s Accelerator Toolkit and GoodData.UI library, please visit https://www.gooddata.com/blog/gooddataui-components-library-gets-even-better-accelerator-toolkit .

    About GoodData
    GoodData is the only platform that provides the creation, delivery, and automated management of analytics at massive scale. We enable companies to embed analytics within their products to deliver insights for their customers, partners, and other users to make business-critical decisions.

    More than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 are using GoodData to achieve actionable insights. GoodData is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Intel Capital, TOTVS, and others. For more information visit our website and follow GoodData on Twitter and LinkedIn.

     

  • LogMeIn Announces New Edition of GoToMeeting For Healthcare to Help Support Shift to Telehealth During Coronavirus Pandemic

    BOSTON, May 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LogMeIn, Inc. (Nasdaq:LOGM) today announced a new addition to its GoTo Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC) portfolio with a new version of GoToMeeting designed with the needs of telehealth professionals in mind. GoToMeeting for Healthcare ​is an easy-to-use video conferencing platform ​that comes pre-configured with robust technical, organizational, and physical security measures so that telehealth professionals can safely and securely transmit patient data and continue to meet their own HIPAA compliance obligations.

    GoToMeeting for Healthcare is ​designed to easily connect providers across a wide range of healthcare organizations such as hospitals, assisted living ​centers, ​urgent care and general medical facilities, ​behavioral health​ offices, social workers, ​dental practices, and more with their patients, faculty and staff during the stay-at-home mandate caused by COVID-19. GoToMeeting for Healthcare allows organizations to continue to provide valuable services remotely while protecting patient information and helping keep users safe by eliminating unnecessary in-person contact and travel.

    “During the COVID-19 pandemic we know that it’s more important than ever to have access to healthcare workers ​so patients can get the medical attention they need in the safest way possible. As the ​Coronavirus pandemic pushes organizations to enact procedures to keep staff and patients safe, we’re here to help with the launch of our new GoToMeeting for Healthcare product,” said Mark Strassman, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Unified Communications and Collaboration at LogMeIn. “LogMeIn has long been a trusted provider in remote work technology, and we are committed to helping healthcare providers with a pre-configured solution that supports their HIPAA compliance needs and reduces unnecessary risk by offering safe and secure virtual face-to-face ​meetings anytime a patient needs to connect with their provider.”

    Healthcare providers can host both ad-hoc and recurring virtual visits with HD webcams, high quality audio, screensharing, and more from a laptop or mobile device. GoToMeeting for Healthcare also gives meeting organizers the option to use security features such as meeting locks and password protection. For patients who may not regularly participate in video conferencing calls, they are able to join easily from their desktop without downloading an application. Additional features such as drawing tools, keyboard mouse controls, and HD faces align with accessibility standards to further provide an optimal clinician-patient online meeting experience. GoToMeeting for Healthcare can also be integrated with any Electronic Health Record (EHR) or Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system such as Epic and Athena.

    To help with the disruption caused by COVID-19 LogMeIn is offering three months free of GoToMeeting for Healthcare. Customers will receive 15 months of use for the price of 12 months. GoToMeeting for Healthcare is available for $16 per month, per user for unlimited sessions and minutes  

    For more information please visit www.gotomeeting.com/meeting/healthcare.

    About LogMeIn’s Unified Communications and Collaboration Portfolio
    A recognized market leader in Unified Communications and Collaboration and remote work, LogMeIn has the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of UCC solutions that create simpler, more intelligent ways for people to meet, connect, market, sell and train, from home, in the office or on-the-go. These include award-winning products under the GoTo portfolio brand, such as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, Grasshopper and Jive, as well as the recently announced GoToConnect and GoToRoom solutions. LogMeIn’s combined UCC products support over 28 million users per month, with over 1.5 billion conferencing minutes a month contributing to over 8 million meetings per month, and nearly 20 billion voice minutes per year.

    About LogMeIn, Inc.
    LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM) simplifies how people connect with each other and the world around them to drive meaningful interactions, deepen relationships, and create better outcomes for individuals and businesses. One of the world’s top 10 public SaaS companies, and a market leader in unified communications and collaboration, identity and access management, and customer engagement and support solutions, LogMeIn has millions of customers spanning virtually every country across the globe. LogMeIn is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional locations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.