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  • Unravel Data Earns Certification for Cloudera Data Platform

    Unravel supports Cloudera Data Platform in the public cloud, on-premises and in hybrid environments, continuing Unravel’s mission to simplify and optimize modern data applications wherever they exist

    PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA – March 25, 2020– Unravel Data, the only data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations to drive more reliable performance in modern data applications, today announced that it has been certified on the Cloudera Data Platform. Cloudera Data Platform manages data in any environment, including multiple public clouds, bare metal deployments, private clouds and hybrid clouds. The certification further advances Unravel’s mission to simplify and optimize modern data apps wherever they exist, with this move particularly bolstering Unravel’s support for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.

    “Data apps, especially AI and ML apps, are increasingly being spread across a mix of on-premise and public cloud environments. These highly distributed hybrid cloud deployments provide unique advantages and greater flexibility compared to all-in approaches that put everything either in the cloud or in a private datacenter,” said Kunal Agarwal, CEO, Unravel Data. “Organizations are also deploying more data apps in multiple clouds, which allows them to leverage the specific strengths of each cloud and provides unique app functionality. However, the growing distribution of data apps in hybrid and multi-cloud settings introduces operational complexity and naturally makes it harder to optimize and monitor these apps. Unravel ensures that enterprises have both a clear line of sight into these apps and automated recommendations to troubleshoot and maximize their performance, no matter where the apps are located.”

    In order to earn this certification, Unravel maintained their silver partnership status through the Cloudera Connect partner program, built new integrations for Cloudera Data Platform (for both the public cloud and on-premise versions), then documented and tested those integrations. Cloudera worked closely with Unravel during the entire process.

    The certification is the latest milestone in a long relationship between Unravel and Cloudera. Unravel was previously certified on Cloudera Enterprise and the two share many joint customers. This integration will ensure legacy CDH and HDP customers who migrate to Cloudera CDP will continue to enjoy Unravel’s solutions to simplify data operations on AWS, Azure and GCP, in addition to on-premises.

    About Unravel Data 

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

    Copyright Statement

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

  • WaveMaker Enables Deeper Integration with SpotCues to Accelerate Pace of Mobile Application Development and Delivery

    Micro-App Container Platform Eliminates Long Wait Times for App Creation, Publishing and Certification

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 25, 2020 – WaveMaker, a leading enterprise low-code platform announced its next phase of integration with SpotCues, an intelligent Enterprise Mobile App productivity Platform, to provide customers with a seamless application delivery mechanism for mobile applications.

    “Enterprises are struggling to deliver against their mobile initiatives due to the complexity of developing and delivering cross platform mobile applications at scale,” said Deepak Anupalli, Co-Founder and VP Products, WaveMaker. “In addition, enterprise IT teams are challenged with the number of apps they are required to develop and manage and additionally enterprise users are currently forced to switch between these apps, signing in multiple times and leading to poor experience and loss of productivity.”

    The integration of WaveMaker and SpotCues addresses all these challenges, leveraging WaveMaker’s low-code approach to developing cross platform micro-applications and a single distribution channel for all apps through SpotCues’ ‘mobile container’ concept. Micro-apps are purpose-built apps with a simplified experience to perform user tasks or workflows through various systems within an enterprise. All micro-apps developed using the WaveMaker low-code platform can be automatically bundled within a single enterprise-branded SpotCues app along with an integrated sign-in experience. This approach dramatically reduces the time to develop new apps and significantly improves user experience.

    To enable this approach, WaveMaker customized its existing visual – WYSWYG interface to extend support for development of micro-apps and ‘1-Click publish’ experience to instantly push the micro-apps to users without an app store for publishing or approval. This means less burden on development teams and reduced wait times for app publishing and certification across App Stores for multiple platforms.

    With this integration in place, WaveMaker enables Customers to:

    • Rapidly develop micro-applications on top of any enterprise system and instantly publish each app to users in real time without App Store approval
    • Distribute and provide a single point of access for all micro-apps from within a single application using Single Sign-On and facilitate analytics on adoption and usage of enterprise applications.
    • Group together Contextual micro-apps based on role, department, location, etc and enable a Google-like search experience for enterprise apps to conduct quick searches.
    • Instantly get a Pre-Built suite of ‘ready-to-consume’ micro-apps for different Industry verticals and foster real collaboration while using the apps, with Pre-built suite of communication and messaging capabilities.

    Enterprises can now benefit from a true agile, mobile app development and delivery mechanism with WaveMaker and SpotCues integration. This can help enterprises achieve mobile digital transformation more effectively and at a faster pace, bringing all the benefits of a low code platform.

    To learn more about WaveMaker, please visit: https://www.wavemaker.com/.

    To learn more about SpotCues, please visit: https://www.spotcues.com/.

    About WaveMaker

    WaveMaker’s software platform revolutionizes how enterprises build, deliver, and manage modern custom applications, improving business agility and fostering innovation. WaveMaker leverages the latest trends and technologies in low-code such as multi-device auto-responsive interfaces and componentized app assembly, Docker for app-optimized container deployment on private infrastructures, and APIs and Microservices Architecture (MSA) for scalable integration. For more information, visit www.wavemaker.com, or like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or connect with us on LinkedIn.

    In summary, Please email us at info@wavemaker.com to learn more.

     

  • Split Adds Data Integration with Google Analytics to Reduce Software Development Risks

    Unique integration will allow import and export of data, providing instant feedback on page load performance and other critical metrics from new features

     

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–To reduce risk in the development process, Split Software, the leading feature delivery platform, today announced a two-way data integration with Google Analytics that can instantly detect performance issues caused by new features. This integration is unique to Split and includes the ability to ingest data from and export data to Google Analytics.

    Pairing web performance data with feature flag data gives engineering teams a direct understanding of how key service level objectives – such as page load time – are impacted by each new feature they release.

    Used by 86 percent of top websites to report on web analytics, including performance and business metrics, Google Analytics is the industry standard for web performance. Now, companies using Split won’t need to track data a second time. Instead, they can measure the impact of every feature shipped to customers using web performance data already collected in Google Analytics.

    “The strength of Split’s platform is the power to measure performance and outcomes of feature flags. Through our integration with Google Analytics, we are helping businesses to respond faster to any issue that may impact the customer experience,” said Trevor Stuart, head of product and co-founder at Split. “By closing the feedback loop from the features built, development teams deliver quantifiable customer and business value.”

    Additionally, companies can run experiments or A/B tests that prove which features drive the best results for the business. Using Split’s javascript SDK, teams can automatically collect Google Analytics metrics instantly as a user is browsing their website. Other product capabilities include:

    • Send web performance, conversion and business data from Google Analytics to Split to understand the impact of new features
    • Use average revenue per cart to see if a new feature improves business outcomes
    • Send a record of every feature flag in Split – called an impression – to Google Analytics for segmentation analysis
    • Send feature data from Split to Google Analytics to segment session or goal completion data by exposure to a new feature
    • Instantly kill any feature in Split that causes a degradation in performance indicators measured by Google Analytics

    To learn more about Split’s integration with Google Analytics, please visit: https://www.split.io/blog/google-analytics-integration-feature-flags-javascript/

    About Split

    Split is the leading Feature Delivery Platform for engineering teams that want to confidently release features as fast as they can develop them. Split’s fine-grained management, real-time monitoring, and data-driven experimentation ensure that new features will improve customer experience without breaking or degrading performance. Split ingests performance data and runs real-time statistical analyses on every new feature so that engineering teams can respond immediately to bad releases, measure changes in user experience, and build high-quality software. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay trust Split to power their feature delivery. Get started for free at www.split.io/signup.

  • Instana Announces APM Integration with LogDNA Log Analysis Solution

    One-Click Navigation from Automated APM Solution Into LogDNA Analysis Tool

    Chicago, IL – March 17, 2020 – Instana, the leading provider of real-time application performance management (APM) solutions for cloud-native microservice applications, today announced an extension of the company’s one-click integration with Log Analysis tools to now support LogDNA.

    The Instana / LogDNA integration provides a seamless experience for Dev and Ops teams when troubleshooting microservices and cloud native applications. When application problems occur, Instana automatically isolates the service in trouble, as well as the triggering event and problematic application code, microservice or infrastructure platform causing the problem.

    “While applications continue to grow in complexity, individual infrastructure platforms and microservices are also their own complex ecosystems,” said Chris Farrell, Technical Director and APM
    Strategist at Instana. “The integrated solution of Instana and LogDNA provides the full range of monitoring, tracing and log analysis that enables any application stakeholder to identify, isolate and fix application problems before service levels are impacted.”

    Instana’s integration with LogDNA is the latest one-click navigation from the automated APM solution into a log analysis tool, handled via buttons in the Instana GUI on key component dashboards (such as Servers, Containers and Kubernetes). When the button is clicked, Instana starts up an instance of the log analysis tool, along with a pre-executed analysis filter into the exact logs of the application components and associated infrastructure needing examination. Timing is synchronized, meaning users won’t have to search for the specific log or timeframe needed to solve problems.

    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 Azure, orchestration infrastructure like Kubernetes and Docker, application services and DevOps processes. Instana automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack and traces all application requests – 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 impacts to performance in seconds.

    The integration with LogDNA and other log analysis tools is available today in all Instana APM solutions. Additional information can be found at https://www.instana.com.

  • Dremio Closes $70 Million in Growth Funding to Accelerate Global Expansion

    Rapid Growth Fueled by Demand for Cost Effective Technology to Power Cloud Data Lakes

    Santa Clara, CA – March 26, 2020 – Dremio, the data lake engine company, today announced the company has closed $70 million in Series C funding. The round was led by new investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors  Cisco Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners,  Norwest Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures. Teddie Wardi, managing director, Insight Partners will also join the Dremio Board of Directors.

    Dremio has grown annual recurring revenue (ARR) over 3.5x over the past year and partnered with many of the world’s leading Global 2000 companies, to power their cloud and hybrid data lakes. With this investment, the company will continue fueling its rapid growth by investing in expanded product capabilities as well as scaling go-to-market and engineering operations across the globe.

    “Data is an integral part of every business, and in today’s market, cost-efficient approaches to data analytics are critical,” said Billy Bosworth, CEO, Dremio. “Dremio’s Data Lake Engine makes analytics directly on data lake storage fast, efficient, and secure, which drives down cloud infrastructure costs while giving data consumers what they need, when they need it.”

    According to International Data Corporation (IDC) Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide, BDA revenues will maintain this pace of growth throughout the 2018-2022 forecast with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2%. By 2022, IDC expects worldwide BDA revenue will be $274.3 billion. Data lakes allow for the cost-effective storage of large amounts of data in various formats as opposed to relational databases and other data stores. However, the exploding rate of data growth coupled with low query performance from traditional SQL engines means access to that data remains difficult — typically forcing complex data copying and movement into much more expensive data warehouses and cumbersome data marts. Dremio is addressing these challenges by helping data teams drastically decrease their cloud costs and increase their analytics performance at the same time.

    “Dremio addresses the key challenges enterprises face with data moving to the cloud at rapidly increasing volumes,” said Teddie Wardi, managing director at Insight Partners. “The open architecture, high performance, and low cost are benefits that all resonate strongly with customers. Catering to the needs of data teams, business users and IT alike, we believe Dremio is a foundational piece in building modern data platforms.”

    Dremio’s Data Lake Engine delivers fast query speeds and a self-service semantic layer that operates directly against data lake storage. With Dremio, enterprise analytics and data teams connect directly to data sets stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, Microsoft ADLS, and on-premises Hadoop — without having to send their data to Dremio or copy and move it into proprietary data warehouses.

    For more information about what Dremio’s funding announcement means to its customers and the company’s product vision, visit the Dremio blog.

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    About Dremio

    Dremio’s Data Lake Engine delivers fast query speed and a self-service semantic layer operating directly against data lake storage. Dremio eliminates the need to copy and move data to proprietary data warehouses or create cubes, aggregation tables and BI extracts, providing flexibility and control for Data Architects, and self-service for Data Consumers. For more information, visit www.dremio.com.

    Founded in 2015, Dremio is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Investors include Cisco Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners,  Norwest Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with Dremio on GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

     

     About Insight Partners

    Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Our mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to foster long-term success. Across our people and our portfolio, we encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit www.insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.

     

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  • Accedian Announces Enhanced Skylight Capabilities, Industry’s First Solution to Bring High-definition Active Testing and Passive Packet Analysis into a Unified View

    Skylight’s single pane of glass view allows for augmented data correlation and analytics, resulting in faster identification and resolution of network issues

    MONTREAL, Canada – March 24, 2019 – Accedian, the leader in performance analytics and end user experience solutions, today announced that its cloud-native performance monitoring and analytics platform, Skylight, has added significant new capabilities enabling increased performance visibility across application, cloud, and network infrastructure in a unified view. This release combines full stack end user experience visibility with deep passive and active network infrastructure insights.

    Skylight generates and analyzes huge volumes of active, high-definition network testing data and passive, traffic-based service experience data in real time to provide levels of visibility and flexibility that are not possible or available in a singular solution today. Third party data can also be added to augment Skylight sensor analysis and insights.

    With Skylight, organizations will have pervasive visibility of their entire environment and the added value of enhanced analytics and data correlation, resulting in faster root cause identification of network issues, the ability to drill-down to microsecond granularity for network events, and predictive problem identification. Cloud native and orchestrated, Skylight is the complete user experience and network optimization system enterprises need today.

    According to recent Vanson Bourne research, almost half (46%) of all CIOs surveyed said that migrating IT environments to deliver industry-leading performance and customer experience is a top priority for the coming two years. However, 35% of these same CIOs surveyed believe they are not equipped with the resources and tools needed to meet customer demands. They face challenges around the ability to analyze data from disparate systems, as well as the costs associated with data storage. Skylight attacks these issues head on, offering a software-based tool that is both flexible and economical—Skylight’s compact, structured and intelligent metadata technology makes it both scalable, to empower enterprises to monitor small to extremely large deployments, and able to retain historical data without the costs associated with storage of full packet captures. As a result, IT teams can gain a unified view of application and network performance across the entire organization, from headquarters and central on-premises data centers, to the cloud and remote locations.

    “Enterprises are moving applications to the cloud faster than ever before but they struggle with visibility into complex, multi-tier applications. We are proud of the advances we have made to help our customers overcome these challenges by delivering the industry’s first unified network tool that provides both active and passive insights at this level of granularity and scale,” said Tom Foottit, VP Product Management, Accedian. “Skylight leverages cutting-edge technologies to offer highly accurate analysis to our customers so they can continue innovating at the accelerated pace required for leading modern businesses.”

    “In an increasingly competitive landscape, it’s critical for us to continue providing industry-leading solutions to our customers so they, in turn, are able to deliver seamless digital experiences to their customers,” said Gareth Humphreys, Solution Manager at Solution Performance Group. “We’re excited about the new capabilities delivering valuable insights into both application and network performance in a unified view that is unique in the industry. IT teams cannot be better equipped than with Skylight to help them identify and solve performance issues quickly before they impact the customer experience.” 

    “Network operations teams are desperate for this kind of consolidation because it can streamline operations and improve their visibility into application performance, end user experience, and security events,” added Shamus McGillicuddy, Vice President of Research, Network Management, for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). 

    About Accedian

    Accedian is the leader in performance analytics and end user experience solutions, dedicated to providing our customers with the ability to assure their digital infrastructure, while helping them to unlock the full productivity of their users.

    We are committed to empowering our customers with the ability to see far and wide across their IT and network infrastructure and a microscopic ability to dive deep and understand the experience of every user, helping them to delight their own customers each and every time.

    Accedian has been delivering solutions to high profile customers globally for over 15 years.

    For more information, visit accedian.com
    Follow us on Twitter: @Accedian

  • Enterprise Agile DevOps Platform, Jile™, is Now Available Free to Agile Teams Worldwide

    Jile is committed to helping Agile teams stay connected and deliver better software by offering a free one-year subscription for up to 50 users

    March 25, 2020: Jile™ is an enterprise Agile DevOps platform from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that enables software teams to manage, automate and measure the end-to-end software delivery value stream from ideation to deployment. The on-the-cloud solution is ideal for multiple, geographically distributed teams charged with delivering innovative and critical software. Its collaboration features keep teams connected, it’s easy to use, and teams can be up and running with their current products or projects quickly.

    In these trying times, with social distancing practices commonplace, it may be difficult for remote Agile development teams to collaborate and achieve desired outcomes. We are offering a 1-year free subscription of Jile to all Agile teams worldwide for up to 50 users to help improve the productivity of potentially millions of Agile team members that are now working remotely. Jile enables teams to work together effectively, reduces downtime, and increases the number of successful product releases.

    We are committed to helping software development teams around the world stay connected. For more information, and to register for the free subscription, visit www.jile.io.

    Terms and Conditions:

    • This free Jile one-year subscription is available for Agile teams up to 50 Users.
    • All Jile Agile and DevOps features and capabilities are included in the subscription.
    • This limited time offer is valid until April 30, 2020, for new subscribers only.
    • Any registration for the free one-year subscription during this offer timeframe will be valid until April 30, 2021.
    • This offer replaces the current free Jile trial with 10 user licenses included.

    About Jile™

    Jile is the first Agile DevOps platform on cloud to help enterprises in building and shipping reliable software faster to market. Jile enables enterprises in any stage of their Agile transformation journey to grow and continuously evolve by making it easier to plan, develop, and deliver high quality software—which accelerates value delivery—and supports innovation, reduces time to market, increases efficiency, and aligns software delivery with business initiatives. Jile is a product offering from Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Visit www.jile.io for more information.

    To stay up to date on Jile global news, follow @TCS_Jile.

  • Data Theorem Delivers Advanced API Security through Google Cloud Marketplace

    Data Theorem’s API Security Solutions Give Customers Ability to Uniquely Automate Continuous API Security Analysis and Vulnerability Inspection on Google Cloud Platform

    PALO ALTO, Calif., March 24, 2020 – Data Theorem, Inc., a leading provider of modern application security, today announced its availability on Google Cloud Marketplace (GCP Marketplace), providing customers with differentiated API security solutions that enable them to uniquely automate continuous API security analysis and vulnerability inspection on Google Cloud.

    Google Cloud Marketplace lets users quickly deploy functional software packages that run on Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Marketplace allows customers to easily start up a familiar software package with services such as Compute Engine or Cloud Storage, with no manual configuration required.

    Data Theorem delivers API Discover and API Inspect, which address security concerns such as shadow APIs, serverless applications, and API gateway cross-check validation by conducting continuous security assessments on API authentication, authorization, encryption, availability, cloud storage, databases, serverless functions, and policy compliance. The API security solutions discover modern APIs; enumerate the specification using standards such as Swagger and Open API 3.0; and support Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure platforms.

    “We are pleased to have Data Theorem’s solution available on the Google Cloud Marketplace,” said Manvinder Singh, Director, Partnerships at Google Cloud. “With just a few clicks, customers can leverage its capabilities to automate continuous API security analysis and vulnerability inspection.”

    “With built-in integration on Google Cloud, customers can quickly onboard, trial and enable continuous API discovery and security analysis of their applications and microservices built on Google Cloud,” said Doug Dooley, COO at Data Theorem. “Additionally, Google Cloud customers now have access to Data Theorem’s API security products to uncover leaky APIs, cloud security posture management (CSPM), compliance violations, policy enforcement, and auto remediation to fix vulnerabilities.”

    Availability and Pricing

    Data Theorem’s API security solutions are available today on the GCP Marketplace at https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/datatheorem-public/api-discover-and-inspect for a free 30-day trial with a GCP account.

    About Data Theorem

    Data Theorem is a leading provider of modern application security. Its core mission is to analyze and secure any modern application anytime, anywhere. The Data Theorem Analyzer Engine continuously scans APIs and mobile applications in search of security flaws and data privacy gaps. Data Theorem products help organizations build safer applications that maximize data security and brand protection. The company has detected more than 300 million application eavesdropping incidents and currently secures more than 4,000 modern applications for its enterprise customers around the world. Data Theorem is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., with offices in New York and Paris. For more information visit www.datatheorem.com.

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    Data Theorem and TrustKit are trademarks of Data Theorem, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

     

  • Devops World Opens Call For Papers, Extends 2020 Conference With Dedicated Leadership Track

    CloudBees, the enterprise software delivery company, announced today the DevOps World 2020 Call for Papers (CFP) is now open. DevOps practitioners are encouraged to submit an abstract to speak at the conference on topics such as: continuous integration/continuous delivery best practices, feature delivery automation, test automation, DevOps at scale, data-driven change, KPIs and metrics, organizational and culture change and open source. DevOps World will be held September 21-24 at Aria Resort, Las Vegas.

    DevOps World provides opportunities for attendees to learn, network and explore the future of software development through learning techniques, best practices and processes in sessions delivered by industry experts. The event is the largest gathering of DevOps practitioners and Jenkins users in the world.

    DevOps World Extends Content to Dedicated Leadership Forum

    New this year is the addition of the Software Delivery Leadership Forum, with a program chaired by Accelerated Strategies Group, an independent analyst firm. The Leadership Forum is designed to provide attendees access to strategic business thinking and deep technical expertise, delivered via a mix of presentations, panels, hands-on exercises and interaction with peers. The Leadership Forum will run throughout the entire conference to educate and equip a whole new generation of digital leaders.

    “Accelerated Strategies is excited to chair the Software Delivery Leadership Forum at this year’s DevOps World, in partnership with CloudBees,” said Mitch Ashley, CEO of Accelerated Strategies Group. “As the pace of digital transformation increases, we believe a greater emphasis on educating the executives responsible for leading the transformation will help organizations find the fastest path to success.”

    In addition to Call for Papers, registration is also open, with Super Early Bird pricing of $799 in effect until April 9.

    In light of the global health concerns due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), CloudBees is monitoring public health guidance in relation to in-person events. We are not taking decisions lightly, but the health and well-being of our employees, partners, customers and other guests remain our ultimate priority. We will continue to monitor and make any necessary changes as the situation evolves. If the conference must be canceled at a later date due to guidance from public health authorities, the event will be held virtually and all CFP submissions will be reviewed for potential inclusion.

    Sponsors to date include the following organizations: CloudBees, Sonatype, MacStadium, Sauce Labs, Go2Group, LogDNA, NowSecure, Plutora, SmartBear, WhiteSource, Compuware, GitLab, LaunchDarkly, Synopsys, Xray, ZeroNorth, FOSSA, Gradle, Zimperium.

    Important Dates and Resources for DevOps World

    • CFP Opens: March 18, 2020
    • CFP Closes: April 24, 2020
    • CFP Notification: On or about May 22, 2020
    • Agenda Announced: June 1, 2020
    • Registration is Open Now
      Super Early Bird Pricing of $799 in effect (until April 9); Early Bird Pricing of $1,199 in effect from April 10 (until July 10). Regular conference admission is $1,499.
    • Sponsorships
      A variety of packages available; inquire for details.
    • Visit the Conference Website
      Las Vegas | Aria Resort | September 21-24, 2020

  • Sysdig Provides the First Cloud-Scale Prometheus Monitoring Offering

    Company focuses on scale, workflows and enterprise access controls for cloud application monitoring

    SAN FRANCISCO — March 24, 2020 — Sysdig, Inc., the secure DevOps leader, today announced cloud monitoring at scale with full Prometheus compatibility. Sysdig addresses the issues of scale, data retention, and enterprise access controls that hold teams back from organization-wide adoption of Prometheus monitoring. Sysdig also introduces support for creating dashboards, alerts, and metric analytics based on PromQL, the query language for Prometheus. Sysdig is the only enterprise monitoring solution to be fully compatible with Prometheus. This allows customers to retain their investment in existing Prometheus exporters, configurations, alerts, and dashboards. With Sysdig, DevOps and cloud teams can scale their visibility, security, and troubleshooting capabilities with a supported platform that simplifies management.

    In a separate release today, the company announced PromCat.io, a free repository of curated Prometheus exporters, dashboards, and alerts to monitor any infrastructure, application, and services running in the cloud. Sysdig offers documentation and suggested configurations for PromCat integrations.

    “Many of our teams started with Prometheus. However, scaling and retention became difficult. When looking for a monitoring solution, I wanted something that fit well into the ecosystem and supported Prometheus,” said Jason McGee, vice president and chief technology officer for IBM Cloud Platform at IBM. “Central context, to see all of the components of your application in one place, is a requirement. Before adopting Sysdig, we had a very distributed environment, like islands of monitoring. Each team could only see their service. There was no way to see what was going on overall.”

    Organizations are moving to the cloud and DevOps workflows to ship applications faster. However, meeting customer expectations requires complete visibility into infrastructure, services, and applications across multi and hybrid clouds and on-premises data centers.

    Developers are rapidly adopting open source Prometheus to monitor the performance of their applications. With more than 13,500 code commits and 6,300 contributors, Prometheus adoption is accelerating. However, as organizations transition to full-scale production, they encounter scaling and workflow issues. Additional requirements — including the need for centralized and scalable metric stores, a unified view across clusters and services, and out-of-the-box insights — are needed in order to reduce risk and maintain application availability. Without a macro view of the environment, it is difficult to anticipate issues with microservices that have cross-platform dependencies.

    New Features

    Fully Compatible Prometheus Monitoring: As organizations scale cloud deployments, they want to retain the industry-standard monitoring approach their developers prefer. Sysdig is the only cloud-scale monitoring solution fully compatible with Prometheus and the PromQL query language. This enables DevOps teams to retain their investment in existing Prometheus exporters, configurations, alerts, and dashboards. The Sysdig platform enhances their existing capabilities with greater scale, visibility, security, troubleshooting, and support.

    Cloud Scale: With microservices and Kubernetes, scaling is a major hurdle. With Kubernetes, there is an increase in the number of objects and labels to track. With microservices, there is a dramatic increase in instances to monitor and therefore, the number of metrics to collect. Additionally, with Prometheus, companies are forced to monitor each Prometheus server on its own, making it difficult to view trends that would be visible from a unified view. Issues on microservices that have cross platform dependencies may go unnoticed.

    The Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform provides a scalable system that can handle more than 100 million metrics per second, and retain up to 13 months of data. Sysdig is the monitoring solution for IBM Cloud Platform, one of the largest Prometheus monitoring deployments today. With Sysdig, teams can adopt Prometheus compatible monitoring using an enterprise-ready platform.

    Other enhancements 

    • Long-Term Datastore: With Sysdig’s data storage, Prometheus metrics are stored for 13 months, instead of just days or weeks. This gives DevOps teams access to long-term analysis to make better informed capacity planning and resource usage decisions.
    • Out-of-the-Box Kubernetes Dashboards: Sysdig reduces complexity and time to production with out-of-the-box Kubernetes dashboards. By bringing together platform monitoring and workload monitoring, DevOps teams can resolve issues faster.

    “Prometheus brings tremendous value to developers which is why we standardized our monitoring approach on the open source project,” said Payal Chakravarty, vice president, product management at Sysdig. “There are, however, scaling challenges for the enterprise. By extending Prometheus monitoring, we’re able to help enterprises to use the Prometheus monitoring approach they love, while also giving them the scale, workflows, controls, and insights they need to maximize performance and availability.”

    The Sysdig Approach

    To date, Sysdig is the only security company to support a secure DevOps approach by integrating monitoring and security into a single platform. Cloud teams can embed security, maximize availability, and ensure compliance. By integrating security into the DevOps process, teams can realize the business goals in their transition to cloud native. Sysdig is a strong advocate for open source technologies, including three open source technologies created by the company, sysdig, Sysdig Inspect, and Falco, an open source cloud-native runtime security project. Currently, Falco is an incubation-level hosted project in the CNCF.

    Availability

    The features announced today are available to Sysdig customers now. Cloud scale will be available at the end of April.

    About Sysdig

    Sysdig enables companies to confidently run cloud-native workloads in production. With the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform, cloud teams embed security, validate compliance and maximize performance and availability. The Sysdig platform is open by design, with the scale, performance, and usability enterprises demand. The largest companies rely on Sysdig for cloud-native security and visibility. Learn more at www.sysdig.com.