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  • Pentest as a Service Impact Report: 2020” finds organizations are expanding pentesting scope and frequency

    Study finds that top driver for pentesting has shifted from compliance and customer requirements to a desire to make applications and services more secure;Organizations report pentesting for their entire application portfolio, with more frequent testing on critical apps

    SAN FRANCISCO, May 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cobalt.io, the first Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform, today released findings from “Pentest as a Service Impact Report: 2020,” a new study that aims to unravel and understand the specific benefits and challenges of deploying a PtaaS solution in a modern software development environment, as well as compare the SaaS model with traditional, legacy pentest services. Conducted by Dr. Chenxi Wang, founder of Rain Capital, the study reveals that since 20171, there has been a noticeable shift in application security as a top priority. Companies also report expanding the scope and frequency of pentesting, conducting testing for their entire application portfolio instead of only crown jewel or business-critical applications.

    Key findings from the study include:

    • Application security is a top business priority. When asked about their company’s motivation for pentesting, organizations cited the desire to make their applications and services more secure as the top driver — a noticeable shift from 2017, when compliance and customer requirements were cited as the top drivers for pentesting.
    • Companies are expanding pentesting scopes and frequency. In 2020, companies report conducting pentesting for their entire application portfolio, with higher frequency testing on business-critical apps; whereas in 2017, companies were more inclined to conduct annual testing only for crown jewel applications.
    • PtaaS enables more agile testing and closer collaboration between security and development teams. In 2017, application security responsibility was viewed to be exclusively managed by infosec. In 2020, organizations said they viewed it as a shared responsibility between infosec and development teams, a model that seeks to harmonize the goals of the two teams by rewarding development teams with completing appsec tasks while rewarding appsec teams for helping engineering release features securely.
    • PtaaS has a lower overhead than traditional, services-based pentesting. Testing that is both location-agnostic and horizontally-scalable removes the geographic location bias involved in traditional pentesting services, which results in overhead in delivery. PtaaS also leads to better communication between security and development, which reduces overhead due to constant back and forth through the platform.

    “To be successful in today’s digital economy, modern software companies must evolve quickly without compromising security,” said Caroline Wong, Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt.io. “Pentest as a Service provides agile and scalable pentesting to identify and resolve security vulnerabilities across application portfolios in accordance with frequent software releases.”

    “I am glad to see that many companies are prioritizing application security, which is one of the smartest ways to spend your security investments,” said Dr. Chenxi Wang, founder of Rain Capital. “This study shows how organizations, large and small, implement application security within the backdrop of DevOps and cloud native development. It’s not surprising to see pentesting as a critical element in modern application security initiatives.”

    About Pentest as a Service Impact Report: 2020

    The study is conducted by Dr. Chenxi Wang, founder of Rain Capital. In-depth interviews were conducted with Cobalt.io customers, which consist primarily of SaaS and Enterprise software providers and represent both publicly-held, global companies with thousands of employees and privately-held, mid-sized companies with hundreds of employees. To see full findings, view the report here.

    About Cobalt.io

    Cobalt.io’s Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform transforms yesterday’s broken pentest model into a data-driven application security engine. Fueled by a global talent pool of certified pentesters, Cobalt.io’s platform delivers actionable results that empower agile teams to pinpoint, track, and remediate software vulnerabilities. Hundreds of organizations, including the new generation of software companies, now benefit from high-quality pentest findings, faster remediation times, and higher ROI for their pentest budget.

    Visit cobalt.io to learn how Cobalt.io is securing apps for companies such as HubSpot, Palo Alto Networks, GoDaddy, Vonage, and Axel Springer, and join us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    2017 refers to a similar study conducted by Cobalt.io and Dr. Chenxi Wang. The objectives of that study were different, but we explored some of the same topics and compare the 2017 and 2020 responses throughout the 2020 report.

  • Applause Launches Industry’s First Integrated Functional Testing Solution to Give Enterprises a Holistic View of Quality

    New solution to increase clients’ development velocity and digital superiority

    Boston– May 6, 2020 – Applause, the worldwide leader in digital quality and crowdsourced testing, today launched its Integrated Functional Testing solution. The new solution integrates manual and automated testing to help brands accelerate development velocity and improve digital quality. Applause is the first and only testing services company to offer this coordinated solution, as well as a single dashboard to view all results.

    A balance between manual and automated testing is an essential part of any company’s testing strategy. However, test automation and manual testing often function on separate paths, leading to redundancy and a failure to maximize test coverage. Integrated Functional Testing solves this problem by combining a real-world, crowdsourced approach for manual testing with an automation framework that integrates seamlessly into enterprises’ CI/CD pipelines for increased release velocity and digital superiority.

    “Integrated Functional Testing is a first for the testing industry, in that it is a holistic solution for both manual and automated testing. Unlike automation tools that are built for a singular purpose, Integrated Functional Testing gives brands insight and visibility into the complete range of testing methods, workflows and results,” said Doron Reuveni, Founder and CEO of Applause. “This holistic approach to testing and quality saves time by eliminating the burdens of working across multiple systems, and saves money by quickly and fully evaluating the risk of each release – these are benefits typical automation tools cannot offer.”

    Manual and automated testing approaches are often siloed within an organization, leading to fragmented reporting and forcing teams to spend additional time and effort to gain a holistic view of quality. Applause’s Integrated Functional Testing allows clients to understand the health of each product, feature or function at any point in time.

    Leading brands like Priceline are already leveraging Applause for both manual and automated testing.

    “Because Priceline is a world leader in travel, our customers expect and trust us to provide an exceptional experience, where they can easily find and book great travel deals,” said Eric Goldberg, VP of Quality Assurance at Priceline. “Since we are constantly making improvements to that experience and our underlying systems, having an effective quality assurance program is essential. The new Applause integrated functional testing approach helps us accomplish this in an efficient and scalable manner.”

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  • Three Promising Call for Code Solutions to Help in the Fight Against COVID-19

    Three Promising Call for Code Solutions to Help in the Fight Against COVID-19

    By Bob Lord, SVP of Cognitive Applications, Blockchain and Ecosystems, IBM
    Imagine you’re driving to the local grocery store to pick up necessities for your family during the COVID-19 pandemic. As soon as you arrive in the parking lot, you notice the line to enter the store is endless. People are huddled closely together waiting to enter, barely adhering to the social distancing guidelines issued by the government. Now, imagine avoiding the line to enter the store, saving your space within a virtual queue, and waiting in the comfort of your own vehicle—all with the click of a button –social distance intact.
    We are facing unprecedented challenges and believe that emerging technology can help solve such problems across the globe. We launched the Call for Code Global Challenge to take on society’s most pressing issues. Since 2018, this movement has grown to over 300,000 developers and problem solvers across 168 countries who have answered the call. While we originally focused this year’s competition on addressing climate change, we quickly recognized the opportunity to dedicate the ingenuity of this developer community to respond to COVID-19 as well. These are two pressing issues that have the power to compromise our health, our planet, and our survival. We recognize the urgency to act, so we also created an accelerated timeline for the Call for Code COVID-19 track. Today, we’re excited to share three outstanding solutions, like Safe Queue which addresses the scenario mentioned above, that have the potential to change the way we react to the pandemic.
    Together with Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, today I announced the top three solutions that have the potential to help mitigate the devastating impact of COVID-19:
    Are you Well?– [video] The “Are You Well?” app, created by a team from Altran in India, is designed to be a comprehensive medical assistance system that could reduce the stress on over-taxed medical systems. A mobile app would help individuals evaluate their symptoms, aided by IBM Watson Assistant. The solution would then leverage a global dashboard that assigns cases a high, medium, or low level of risk based on thresholds set by healthcare providers, and connect them with medical professionals who could use the data to prioritize cases and offer care in a safer manner.
    COVID Impact– [video] COVID Impact was created by a global team that came together at the University of British Columbia, hailing from Canada, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, and Mexico. The solution aims to reduce the financial impact of COVID-19 on small businesses. A predictive assessment tool, created with IBM Watson Tone Analyzer linguistic analysis and IBM’s ILOG CPLEX rules engine for decision making, could forecast businesses’ financial risk levels. COVID Impact offers a curated list of federal resources for small businesses, and a real-time news feed of sentiment-analysis evaluated articles. The solution also offers an economic impact heatmap that visualizes where need is greatest, which can help officials direct business aid to specific regions or industries.
    Safe Queue – [video] Safe Queue, created by a single developer in Los Angeles, is a community-driven mobile app that is intended to replace physical lines at shopping centers, small businesses, and polling places with on-demand virtual lines, to enable a safer way to manage entry during COVID-19. Safe Queue uses GPS location data to create a virtual queue of those within 1000 feet of a location, allowing employees to control the queue digitally, and validating entry with a randomly generated QR code for each customer. This solution builds on IBM Cloud Foundry for web app hosting, HERE technologies for geolocation, and IBM Cloudant to store data. The developer grabbed the Call for Code Community Cooperation starter kit and ran from there.
    Medical professionals, first responders, and essential workers are rising to the challenges we’re faced with today and are leading the way. IBM and David Clark Cause have led a broad ecosystemincluding the Linux Foundation, UNHR, Verizon, Persistent Systems, Arrow Electronics, Ingram Micro, Cognizant, ICBC, Altran, and celebritiesto do our part. President Bill Clinton announcedour partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative University for the second year, with a dedicated University Edition within Call for Code. Even Lady Gaga recognized the scope and urgency of the issues we’re facing and urged “tech rock stars” to lend their time and talent to the cause. In fact, the developer who created Safe Queue joined Call for Code after seeing her shout-out on a local broadcast.
    The response for the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge has been tremendous. So, we are honored that some of the most eminent leaders in human rights, disaster risk reduction, business, and technology are serving as judges to decide the winners, including President Clinton, Mark Cuban, Mami Mizutori of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Laurent Sauveur of United Nations Human Rights.
    We are excited to work quickly in partnership with the Linux Foundation, Anthem, and these teams to get their innovations deployed in communities where they’re needed most to help mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Anthem will work closely as an active partner with Altran’s “Are you Well?” team to explore how their idea could scale on the Anthem digital platform. Through Code and Response, we bring open source solutions to life through real-world deployments to help first responders in their efforts to save lives. In the past 18 months this has included deployments of Project Owl and DroneAidin hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, and Prometeoin areas of Spain prone to wildfires.
    There is still an opportunity to join the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. Register and get all the resources you need here, including exclusive access to a new disease tracker APIfrom The Weather Company. We’ll continue to accept submissions for both climate change and COVID-19 through July 31, and plan to announce our global challenge winners in October.
    I can’t wait to see what happens next… and to safely wait for groceries in a virtual queue sometime soon!

  • Bettercloud And Onelogin Partner To Transform How Enterprises Access, Manage And Secure Saas Environments

    Integration drives operational efficiency by automating end-to-end User Lifecycle Management, from securing identity and access to managing IT administrative tasks 

    NEW YORK, MAY 5, 2020 — BetterCloud, the leading SaaSOps platform for managing and securing the digital workplace, today announced a strategic partnership and technology integration with OneLogin, a leader in identity and access management. Together, BetterCloud and OneLogin automate end-to-end User Lifecycle Management (ULM), from identity and access workflows — like user provisioning, single sign-on and multi-factor authentication (MFA) — to operational management and security tasks such as advanced onboarding / offboarding, activity-based alerts, and content scanning.

    “Given the majority of companies have gone fully remote due to the current climate, it’s more important than ever that IT gain full control over their SaaS environments — and our partnership gives them the capabilities to do just that,” said Shreyas Sadalgi, Chief Business Strategy Officer, BetterCloud. “OneLogin authenticates user identity and secures user connections to SaaS applications; BetterCloud manages and secures user data and interactions within those same applications. Together, we maximize operational efficiency for joint customers, and give them the confidence and peace of mind to enable their workforces without compromising data and user security.”

    Through the strategic integration of the complementary platforms, BetterCloud and OneLogin help IT admins address the following use cases:

    • Advanced Onboarding and Offboarding: BetterCloud and OneLogin work together seamlessly to fully automate end-to-end user onboarding and offboarding. As the unified cloud directory, OneLogin performs the initial identity actions such as provisioning user accounts and assigning the appropriate access permissions and security policies to end users. BetterCloud workflows monitor changes being made in OneLogin and perform a wide range of advanced onboarding and offboarding administrative actions natively within specific SaaS applications. By leveraging BetterCloud and OneLogin, organizations can ensure that users automatically have the correct level of access and permissions to applications, data, groups, files and other in-app configurations throughout their lifecycle.
    • Mid-Lifecycle Management: With BetterCloud and OneLogin, IT teams can easily update user access rights and automate IT processes around cross-boarding, such as when an employee changes roles or is promoted at the company. OneLogin updates user access permissions, applications (within their login portal), and security policies based on the employee’s new role in real-time. BetterCloud completes the cycle by automating the workflows for executing ongoing changes within applications for all users. Together, the joint solution dramatically reduces time spent on managing individual accounts and minimizes risk of misconfiguration errors.
    • Enhanced Security & Data Protection: BetterCloud and OneLogin work together to implement a least privilege access model by granting users the minimum amount of permissions needed to complete a task, ensuring the security of users and their actions at both a macro and granular level. OneLogin provides comprehensive and centralized reporting for all user management and authentication events. BetterCloud leverages identity context from OneLogin, and data from specific SaaS applications, to provide IT teams with greater visibility into user behavior and data management across their users. BetterCloud also enables IT teams to protect their company data from the risk of insider threats, both malicious and negligent, by monitoring and enforcing policies across files, users and groups, as well as scanning for sensitive content.

    “Bringing together OneLogin’s Trusted Experience Platform with BetterCloud’s SaaSOps solutions is a powerful partnership that will continue to transform the ways companies manage and secure their environments,” said Matt Hurley, VP of Global Channels, Strategic Alliances, and Professional Services, OneLogin. “BetterCloud’s technology automates daily IT admin tasks while securing and monitoring user data and interactions, and joining forces will let us provide greater IT operational efficiency for organizations.

    Dozens of joint BetterCloud and OneLogin customers are the first to benefit from the new partnership and integration:

    “Both BetterCloud and OneLogin have been indispensable to helping our IT team keep our employees productive, while protecting our critical business data,” said Shams Mansoor, Sr. Manager of IT, Evernote. “Now that they’re partnering, we will be able to streamline IT administrative tasks to boost operational efficiency.”

    “Managing user permissions, privileges and activity used to be a Herculean task,” said Sarah Bly, Head of IT Operations, N3TWORK Inc. “Today, OneLogin helps us control who is trying to access our systems, while BetterCloud automates all IT admin activities and lets us see exactly how our employees are handling files and other pieces of important business data. Together, they are a powerhouse and provide a must-have solution for any company running their business on SaaS.”

    BetterCloud and OneLogin have established a close go-to-market partnership and structured partnership program, enabling their respective teams to cross-sell their best-in-class solutions to provide greater value to joint customers.

    For more information, please visit the BetterCloud and OneLogin partnership resource pages.

  • Humio Joins the IBM Edge Ecosystem to Bring Real-Time Insights to Organizations Deploying Edge Computing

    Humio’s live streaming log management platform adds scalability and real-time analytics to the IBM Edge Ecosystem

    Already a member of IBM’s Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management ecosystem, Humio is pleased to announce it is now part of the IBM Edge Application Manager Ecosystem, a platform designed to remove the complexity of the scale and variability of edge deployments, an initiative designed to  help enterprises capture the opportunities of edge computing with a variety of solutions built upon IBM’s technology. Humio’s log management platform streams event data in real time to give insights on data from edge computing for retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and any other industry.

      Read the IBM announcement: IBM and Red Hat Help Telcos and Businesses Capitalize on Edge Computing in the 5G Era

    IBM blog post: Get more out of your 5G, edge computing and AI solutions — Join the ecosystem

    Organizations are deploying edge computing strategies to extend compute and move data storage closer to where the data is being created, and to protect a rapidly-growing number of distributed endpoints. Humio is able to manage hundreds of terabytes of logs, events, and other data a day, in real time, to monitor performance, security, and business metrics, and search for threats, incidents and errors to discover the root cause.

    Trifork operates more than 250,000 edge devices in a battlefield with IT security threads, OTA firmware updates and network infrastructure changes. We use Humio as the central component to monitor all edge devices and servers. The platform’s capabilities to drill down in data reduces the time from issue detection to solution minimizing the impact of cyberattack or unforeseen changes in network infrastructure. – Søren Eskildsen, CCO of IoT, Trifork

    IDC predicts that by 2023, half of the newly deployed on-premises infrastructure will be in critical edge locations rather than corporate datacenters, up from less than 10% today.1 Humio enables customers to prepare for this transformation with a modern, scalable log management platform and its unlimited ingest plan to allow users to store any amount of data from across distributed systems. And Humio’s index-free design leverages principles of mechanical sympathy, reducing CPU power demand and making it suited for a system made up of less-powerful, decentralized servers.

    Humio collects machine data from edge devices, gateways, and servers to monitor the health of the entire infrastructure, detect security incidences, and reveal insights into the customer experience.

    Humio CEO Geeta Schmidt explains how IBM and Humio provide unique business value.

    We are excited to be part of the IBM Edge Ecosystem to provide observability and deliver valuable insights for data coming from every part of the enterprise. Collaborating with IBM allows us to be part of the industry-leading movement to gain intelligence from an ocean of data. While most organizations struggle to understand what’s happening at the edge, Humio’s ability to log everything at scale makes it possible for customers to monitor the performance and use of all endpoints in real time, and designed to dramatically improve their experience. – Geeta Schmidt, CEO Humio

    With the expansion of edge technologies, data will be created at unprecedented rates. IDC’s DataSphere forecasts that the amount of data generated will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.8% through 2023.”1 Made with an index-free architecture and 10-20x compression technology for log and event data, Humio is situated to meet the future data scalability needs of the IBM Edge Ecosystem, providing an affordable means of observability for complex distributed systems.

    Humio helps secure the infrastructure and its endpoints by providing actionable, real-time alerts and the ability to instantly search streaming or historical data. Humio helps security response teams to quickly discover the root causes, and address problems that may otherwise prevent users from taking advantage of edge technologies.

    Humio offers a view into what is happening across the network and at the edge in real time, or at any point in the past, at scale. Users can deploy Humio at a central location, or in locations near the edge.

    Learn more about how Humio supports an unlimited flow of data: Why Unlimited?

    See Humio in action by scheduling a 30-minute live demo with one of our product experts, or get started with a free 30-day trial.

    1. IDC, The Importance of Effective Operations in Unlocking Edge IT Value, January 2020, Jennifer Cooke Richard L. Villars Mukesh Dialani

  • Deque Introduces Automated Source Code Accessibility Checker

    Axe Linter Requires Minimal Effort to Detect and Suggest Accessibility Fixes; New GitHub App is Free for Personal Repositories

     

    HERNDON, VA – May 5, 2020  – Deque Systems, a leading software company specializing in digital accessibility, today introduced axe Linter, an automated GitHub-based app which checks source code for common accessibility issues, automatically finding and suggesting fixes.

    Developers can supplement existing accessibility testing efforts by using axe Linter to catch accessibility problems early in the development process, significantly reducing future testing and remediation efforts. Once axe Linter is enabled for a GitHub organization, it can be installed or enforced on every repository, running automatically on every change or pull request without further input or processes from the development team.

    Axe Linter is available now on GitHub at https://github.com/apps/axe-linter or on the Deque website at axe-linter.deque.com, and is free for all personal repositories. Axe Linter currently supports the React (JSX / TSX), Vue, HTML and Markdown formats.

    “Axe Linter saves time and money by shifting inspection to the earliest phase of development, so accessibility problems can be identified and repaired before code even gets merged,” says Dylan Barrell, Chief Technology Officer of Deque Systems. “Once installed in your GitHub repository, it requires no further developer effort to get feedback on code changes. Axe Linter only analyzes new or changed code and makes suggestions on how to resolve accessibility issues. We expect it will become a must-have element of our axe DevTools solutions.”

    Axe Linter is built upon a growing list of rules based on WCAG 2.1 as well as a number of best practices. The application has been refined to return zero false positives.

    Axe Linter can have an immediate impact on the accessibility of development efforts, helping to make websites and applications more accessible for all, including those with disabilities.

    “Axe Linter offers easier-than-push-button accessibility checking for source code, ensuring accessibility checks are in place for every change or pull request. When combined with the popular Free axe Browser Extension for testing within the browser, or any of Deque’s Enterprise offerings, development teams have everything they need to make a huge impact on making their apps more accessible to people with disabilities,” says Preety Kumar, CEO of Deque Systems.

    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.

  • Deque Unifies Accessibility Software Offerings Under The Axe Brand

    HERNDON, VA – May 5, 2020  – Deque Systems, a leading software company specializing in digital accessibility, today announced the unification of its enterprise accessibility testing products under the axe brand.

    Deque’s WorldSpace Suite of enterprise products, all built on the axe-core accessibility rules library, will now be repackaged using the “axe” name.

    With 37 million downloads of its rules library, 100,000 weekly axe Chrome extension users and 8,000 axe beta users, axe has become a trusted industry standard for accessibility testing worldwide.  Google, Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and many others use axe-core as their accessibility standard.

    “We’re grateful to everyone who reached out, completed our surveys and interacted with our tools. The feedback has been clear – driving us to rename our solutions under the well-known axe brand,” comments Dylan Barrell, Chief Technology Officer at Deque Systems. “This should bring clarity to those making the jump from our free axe browser extension to our paid enterprise tools.”

    Intelligent Guided Testing: The first significant change in this transition is within axe DevTools, formerly WorldSpace Attest, with the inclusion of Intelligent Guided Testing, now out of beta.

    “Intelligent Guided Testing enables developers of any experience level to easily identify accessibility issues not previously detectable by automated testing alone,” continues Barrell. “We’re thrilled to make this available to customers today. They are a huge driving force behind our repackaging efforts.”

    Rebranded Axe Enterprise Solutions:

    • WorldSpace Attest is now known as axe DevTools, which enables automated accessibility testing to be integrated into an organization’s existing test processes.
    • WorldSpace Assure is now known as axe Auditor, which enables testers to perform comprehensive WCAG audits of all content and applications.
    • WorldSpace Comply is now axe Monitor, which dynamically monitors and reports on the accessibility status of a website.

    The rebranding and repackaging is effective immediately. Explore the axe suite of products today at: https://www.deque.com/axe/.

    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.

  • GigaSpaces Announces $12 Million Financing Led by Fortissimo Capital to Accelerate Rapid Expansion

    Increasing Demand for In-Memory Computing Drives Exponential Growth 

    New York, NY —May 5, 2020 —GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory real-time analytics and data processing platform, announced today that it closed a round of funding of $12 million. Fortissimo Capital led the round, joined by existing investors Claridge Israel and BRM Group.

    Following record breaking results in 2019 including doubling annual recurring revenues (ARR), tripling the InsightEdge customer base, and achieving record profitability, GigaSpaces continues to demonstrate growth, completing Q1 2020 with record ARR. Increased demand for GigaSpaces solutions is expected during the current COVID-19 crisis, when digital service usage is skyrocketing, market trading volume continues to be volatile and real-time analytics capabilities are required. GigaSpaces is perfectly positioned to address these speed, scale, resilience and TCO challenges.

    The proceeds from the financing will be used to fuel rapid growth, scale global expansion, further develop collaboration with partners, and accelerate product innovation.

    The investment underscores GigaSpaces impact on helping companies drive the largest enterprises digital transformation initiatives that demand real-time insights, acceleration of cloud application performance and operationalizing machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).

    GigaSpaces introduced InsightEdge, a unified analytics, ML and transactional data processing platform in 2017 to address the market needs for real-time data-driven insights. Recognized by top analysts as a leader in the industry, including the latest Q4 2019 Forrester Wave™ Translytical Data Platform citing  “GigaSpaces makes you faster and smarter at the speed and scale of business strengths in transactions, platform, multi model, customer adoption, development tools, extensibility, and customer support.”

    “Data is a critical strategic asset that must be managed and leveraged correctly to provide insights, intelligence and actions for modern services and applications such as real-time fraud detection, risk analysis, instant payments, personalized offers, customer 360, dynamic pricing and more,” said Adi Paz, CEO of GigaSpaces.  “This funding will help us drive accelerated growth to help more customers deliver on their data-driven promise.”

    “Today, organizations must remain competitive, and require the agility to develop and deploy real-time data-driven services and applications that improve customer experience while optimizing their business operations,” said Yoav Hineman, Partner at Fortissimo Capital. “GigaSpaces’ modern data platform and impressive track-record of driving the digital transformation initiatives at tier-1 enterprises from Fortune 500 companies such as financial services, insurance, health services, eCommerce and transportation, confirm GigaSpaces proficiency in addressing today’s and tomorrow’s customer challenges.”

    Fortissimo Capital was advised by GCA Altium and Meitar. GigaSpaces and existing investors were advised by Meitar.

    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.

    About Fortissimo Capital

    Fortissimo Capital is a private equity fund, established in 2004, that invests primarily in Israeli-related technology and industrial companies to expedite growth. Fortissimo raised $1.6 billion across five funds. A few notable portfolio companies that the fund exited include: Kornit Digital (Nasdaq:KRNT),  AOD (sold to Primus), SodaStream (SODA, later sold to Pepsi),  Dip-Tech (sold to Ferro), Nur Macroprinters (sold to HP),  Cadent (sold to Align) and Starhome (sold to Tomia Global). Fortissimo has invested in several software companies, including IncrediBuild Software, Priority Software and One Hour Translation.

    More information about Fortissimo Capital is available at www.ffcapital.com

  • Instana Provides First Continuous Production Profiling for Node.js and Go; Extends Automatic Lambda Tracing to Include Python Functions

    Only Always-On Production Profiler and Lambda Tracing Solution Enhances Developer Experience for Application Monitoring

    Chicago and San Francisco – May 5, 2020 – Instana, the leading provider of real-time application performance management (APM) solutions for cloud-native microservice applications, today announced a set of enhanced troubleshooting and monitoring capabilities for developers with new always-on production profiling solutions for Node.js and Go applications, as well as automatic tracing of Python Serverless functions running on AWS Lambda.

    “As companies continue to accelerate their development pipelines, developers are more critical to the overall delivery cycle, as evidenced by the large number of Instana users from development organizations,” said Chris Farrell, Instana Technical Director and APM Strategist. “Instana’s always-on profiling allows any service owner to have code-level visibility at the exact time a problem occurred.”

    Instana’s new profiling functionality for Node.js and Go, available for free to all Instana APM users, automatically captures profiles for every process in production without impacting resource overhead or application performance. Like other performance entities inside Instana’s solutions, profiles are available to Instana’s Unbounded Analytics™ engine, allowing patterns across multiple profiles to be discovered and analyzed collaboratively.

    In addition to the new profiling capabilities, Instana also extended its unique AutoTrace™ features to automatically trace Python functions on Lambda AWS. The new native tracing capability collects a trace for every request independent of X-Ray, all without code modifications.

    Unlike traditional APM tools, Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers all application service components and application infrastructure, including Cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Lambda, orchestration infrastructure like Kubernetes and Docker, application services and DevOps processes. Instana automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack, traces all application requests and profiles every process – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects application and infrastructure changes in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and any performance impact in seconds.

    Instana’s always-on profiling capabilities automatically attaches to Node.js, Go, and Java processes, with no restarts or manual configuration. This allows all application stakeholders across development organizations to get the exact data they need, when they need it, to understand how their code impacts overall service performance and where the opportunities to optimize performance and scalability exist.

    More information on Instana’s commercial continuous profilers for Node.js and Go can be found here: Instana.com/profiling. Additional information on AWS Lambda Tracing for Python can be found here: Instana.com/lambdatracing.

  • Mphasis Partners with Sauce Labs to Reduce Testing Time and Power DevOps Initiatives for Clients Globally

    The collaboration reduces test time by 75% to improve speed, quality and scalability

    New York, NY, May 04, 2020

    Mphasis (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS), an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today announced the continued success of its partnership with Sauce Labs Inc, the leading provider of continuous testing solutions that deliver digital confidence. The partnership between Mphasis and Sauce Labs delivers modern continuous testing technology and best practices enterprises need to build scalable, reliable, high-performance web, and mobile applications necessary for success in the digital era.

    The partnership between Mphasis and Sauce Labs continues to drive significant business results for joint customers across all verticals, particularly those with User Interface (UI)-reliant applications. Customers using the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud in combination with services from Mphasis achieve up to a 75% reduction in testing time per release. All this, while reducing costs on an average of 30-40% as a result of no longer needing to maintain on-premise testing infrastructure or mobile device labs. Besides, by testing across thousands of browser, OS, and device combinations, and leveraging test analytics, customers increase release velocity by an average of 40%. This translates from one release a month to weekly or even daily releases.

    With an applied technology mindset, Mphasis is focusing on optimizing software agility and speed by implementing transformational practices. Mphasis’ proven strength in providing an end-to-end solution is combined with Sauce Labs’ ability to make testing fast, reliable, and easy. This has enabled enterprises to deliver high-quality applications at speed, maximizing business value, and accelerating time to market leading to significant market advantage for customers including one of the largest brokerages and banking firms in the U.S.

    “Mphasis is excited about the success this collaboration with Sauce Labs has brought to our clients,” said Dinesh Venugopal, President, Mphasis Direct and Digital. “Automated testing with Sauce Labs fits seamlessly as part of the Mphasis vision of Zero QA, and we continue to leverage it throughout development cycles to ensure delivery of high-quality web and mobile applications. By enabling organizations to make quick and quality releases in today’s fast-changing digital landscape, Mphasis is evolving into an agile partner for our clients while using knowledge sharing sessions to scale opportunities to other enterprises. We look forward to continuing to work closely with Sauce Labs to help businesses drive their DevOps initiatives to the next level.”

    “Our partner ecosystem plays a key role in helping customers grow their digital businesses,” said Jon Mills, Vice President of Global Channels, Sauce Labs. “Continuous testing continues to grow in strategic importance for organizations that focus on creating and delivering the best possible user experience for their customers. We’re excited to partner with Mphasis to help organizations deliver the highest quality web and mobile applications to their customers.”

    About Mphasis                                                                                                                                                                                      

    Mphasis (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS) applies next-generation technology to help enterprises transform businesses globally. Customer centricity is foundational to Mphasis and is reflected in Mphasis’ Front2Back™ Transformation approach. Front2Back™ uses the exponential power of cloud and cognitive to provide a hyper-personalized (C=X2C2 TM=1) digital experience to clients and their end customers. Mphasis’ Service Transformation approach helps ‘shrink the core’ through the application of digital technologies across legacy environments within an enterprise, enabling businesses to stay ahead in a changing world. Mphasis’ core reference architectures and tools, speed and innovation with domain expertise and specialization are key to building strong relationships with marquee clients. Click here to know more.