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  • Test Automation University Upskills 35,000 Test Automation Engineers through 33 Free Online Courses in 2019

    Global demand for test automation skillsets fuels growth of free online learning hub led by Angie Jones and many of the world’s foremost dev, test and QA experts

    SAN MATEO, Calif., – December 19, 2019 – Applitools, the leading provider of Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing Through Visual AI, today announced Test Automation University has surpassed the 35,000 student mark. Since announcing its first course less than one year ago, Test Automation University’s world-class instructors have produced a curriculum of 33 courses and 12 unique Learning Pathways. These resources make up one of the world’s most vibrant open source, upskilling communities filling a vital need for the R&D teams looking to manage quality in the era of CI-CD and Digital Transformation.

    Test Automation University offers a variety of free test automation courses covering web, API, mobile, visual, AI, and codeless automation frameworks and provides free training in multiple programming languages, such as Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Ruby, and Swift. The organizers also host a growing Slack channel of more than 4,000 members to help students get started with courses, answer questions and stay engaged with the test automation community.

    “We wanted to build a free and friendly place where anyone can learn about test automation from industry experts,” said Raja Rao DV, senior director of growth at Applitools and head of Test Automation University. “I think we’ve only scratched the surface and I expect a lot more in the next year.”

    “I am so proud of the work we are doing to give anyone the opportunity to learn new software engineering skills for free,” said Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools, head of content and instructor relations at Test Automation University, and instructor of five courses including one of the most popular courses of 2019, ‘Automated Visual Testing with Java’. “It is a strong and vibrant community where new courses are added regularly by world-class instructors who share our goal of increasing test automation success rates globally.”

    How Test Automation University Began

    Created as a community-driven, one-stop-shop for people interested in test automation, Test Automation University helps improve skillsets for QA engineers and developers with varying levels of experience and know-how.

    Initially launched in January 2019, Test Automation University has aggressively expanded its curriculum to 33 courses covering subjects such as:

    “Test Automation University is incredible and offers an ever-growing catalog of insightful courses on all things test automation provided by well-known instructors. The quality of the content is amazing. I’ve heard the whole range from fresh beginners to very experienced practitioners confirm that they’ve learned a lot. Many would have loved to have such a learning resource earlier in their career, myself included,” said Lisi Hocke, principal agile tester and instructor of The Whole Team Approach to Continuous Testing.

    “Test Automation University stands out from many other online learning platforms for a number of reasons. All the content is of very high quality, created by industry experts and tailored exclusively to test automation, which means there’s no dilution or confusion: if you’re a tester or automation engineer, you’ll learn something useful from each and every course. I’m proud to be one of the contributors,” said Bas Dijkstra, freelance test automation trainer and instructor of Automating Your API tests with REST Assured.

    “Test Automation University is a platform that enables the modern tester to be equipped with the latest and greatest armor to tackle the technical world of testing. I am proud to have shared my bit on Test Automation University and help others increase their skillset to make a difference in their careers and immediate output regarding test automation in their jobs,” said Toyer Mamoojee, head of QA and instructor of Jest JavaScript Testing Framework.

    Have Fun Upskilling Your Quality Engineering

    Of the 35,000 enrolled students, Test Automation University continuously tracks the ‘TAU Top 100’ students based on the number of credits these students have earned on the platform. Test Automation University also awards ranks and badges to everyone based on their accomplishments. These superstars hail from all over the world and their roles range from testers, junior to senior automation engineers, developers, team leads, and test managers.

    “Thanks to Test Automation University and its broad range of courses and lessons, it helped me improve my technical skills and be part of a great community,” said Diana Gospodinova, QA automation developer from DEGIRO.

    “It was one of the best things that happened to me in 2019. [Test Automation University] helped me to be better at QA,” said Amit Jain, QA manager at Tata ELXSI.

    “There is no place like Test Automation University if you want to up your game in test automation. Trust me, I’ve been looking,” said Massimo Giltrelli, senior test engineer at Infineon.

    “My favorite thing about Test Automation University is the variety of courses offered in different programming languages that help build a well-rounded test automation profile,” said Aleksandar Zeljković, lead QA engineer at Bridgewater Labs.

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design testing, Cross-Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI-CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Micro Focus Announces Major Enhancements to DevOps Governance in Latest ALM Octane 15 Release

    Update Introduces New Capabilities for Enterprise Readiness and Application Delivery

     

    Santa Clara, Calif. – December 17, 2019   Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced the general availability of ALM Octane 15, the comprehensive DevOps governance solution for high-quality application delivery. The newly improved Micro Focus ALM Octane 15 release provides added capabilities for SDLC analytics, continuous quality, lean requirements management, DevOps support, usability and enterprise readiness to better support enterprise application delivery with first-class criteria and continuous visibility across the application lifecycle.

    “As companies are looking to increase the agility and speed required to deliver their products and applications faster, they are in need of a platform that can define, manage and govern activities while gaining insight from conception to production,” said Tal Levi Joseph, Vice President of Product Management for Application Lifecycle Management, Micro Focus. “With this latest release of ALM Octane 15, we added new unique features that were suggested directly by our customers to continue increasing the speed, quality and scale of their software delivery.”

    Micro Focus ALM Octane 15 New Features and Benefits:

    • New capabilities allow users to track the cycle time of features and resolution time of defects. In addition, insight cards can be opened from the widget with helpful trends and comparison data.
    • Enhanced test planning now allows users to target a specific milestone when planning and running both manual and automated tests. You can now track quality and testing progress per milestone and to release.
    • Support for Azure DevOps Services as a CI server and for Gherkin test injection in Bamboo, giving the ability to sync Azure Boards backlog into ALM Octane. Also included is enhanced Bamboo support with gherkin support, multi branch and multi shared-spaces capabilities.
    • Ability to create a customizable Word or PDF report with information about your ALM Octane entities.
    • Scale Agile Management with enhanced auditing, board printing, URL attachments and more flexible commenting on tasks.

    The latest version of Micro Focus’ ALM Octane technology enables companies to accelerate Agile transformations for high-quality application delivery at enterprise scale while leveraging their existing investments.

    Micro Focus ALM Octane 15 is now available to customers.

    Additional Information

    For more information on the release of Micro Focus ALM Octane 15, visit our product page.

    Join Micro Focus on LinkedIn and follow @MicroFocus Twitter.

    About Micro Focus
    Micro Focus helps organizations run and transform their business through four core areas of digital transformation: Enterprise DevOps, Hybrid IT Management, Predictive Analytics and Security, Risk & Governance. Driven by customer-centric innovation, our software provides the critical tools they need to build, operate, secure, and analyze the enterprise. By design, these tools bridge the gap between existing and emerging technologies—enabling faster innovation, with less risk, in the race to digital transformation.

     

  • ShiftLeft Advances DevOps with Industry’s Most Developer-Friendly Automated Application Security Platform

    New Offering Enables Developers to Secure up to 200,000 Lines of Code and Perform 300 Scans Per Year at No Cost

    Santa Clara, Calif. – December 17, 2019 – ShiftLeft Inc., an innovator in automated application security, today launched a new version of its Inspect static application security testing (SAST) solution, designed specifically for developers. Available for free, the new version of ShiftLeft Inspect provides developers with the fastest and most accurate SAST solution combined with key workflow integrations such as code repositories, build and bug-tracking tools to insert security into earliest stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

    More organizations are embracing DevOps processes than ever before, with developers being tasked with releasing software into production at incredibly high velocity. This means security is often overlooked in favor of faster CI/CD pipelines and software products are delivered with undiscovered or unresolved vulnerabilities.

    “It is now well accepted that security needs to be shifted as far left as possible, but the lack of developer-friendly code analysis tools is a key inhibitor,” said Manish Gupta, CEO of ShiftLeft. “ShiftLeft Inspect is designed to give developers the speed, accuracy and seamless CI/CD pipeline integration they need. Yet, developers are the ultimate ‘try before you buy’ consumers so we’re now offering security to them through a truly usable, self-service and free version so they can see exactly what Inspect can do for them.”

    ShiftLeft Inspect delivers the industry’s leading SAST capabilities, including the ability to insert security directly into developer pull requests through a recently announced partnership with CircleCI. By leveraging ShiftLeft Inspect, developers can scan code and automate acceptance decisions based on security criteria. This ensures the right developers get the right vulnerability information at the right time, which leads to more efficient mean time to remediation (MTTR) and ultimately getting applications to production faster, without sacrificing security.

    The new free version of ShiftLeft Inspect permits up to five users to perform 300 scans annually on 200,000 lines of code or less, which is significant given the fact that the average application has 7,200 lines of code.*

    The offering supports applications written in Java, C#, Golang and Scala. It also allows developers to run two scans concurrently and analyze an infinite number of dependencies and frameworks. Additionally, ShiftLeft Inspect integrates with tools needed to streamline application security workflows, including bug-tracking tools, build tools, deployment tools, code repositories and security information and event management tools (SIEMs).

    To learn more about the free version of ShiftLeft Inspect, visit the ShiftLeft website and sign up for free here: www.shiftleft.io/register.

    *Based on Java applications in GitHub as of December 2019

    About ShiftLeft

    ShiftLeft is a continuous application security platform, purpose-built for the modern software development life cycle. It combines next-generation static code analysis (to quickly and accurately identify vulnerabilities) with application instrumentation (to protect the application) in an automated workflow. This combination of runtime-informed code analysis and code- informed runtime protection delivers the most accurate, automated, and comprehensive application security solution. To learn how ShiftLeft keeps application security in sync with the rapid pace of DevOps, see https://www.shiftleft.io/.

  • Instana Augments Real-Time Application Performance Management Solution with Three Acquisitions

    Company Acquires BeeInstant, Signify and StackImpact to Augment its Capabilities for Providing Automated Insights for all Application Stakeholders

    Chicago, IL and Solingen, Germany – December 17, 2019 – Instana today announced that the company has acquired three technologies in the advanced application performance management area to continue to enable Instana’s customers to build, deliver and operate better performing software and services faster. The acquisitions augment Instana’s next-generation microservices and Kubernetes performance management solution to deliver high-frequency cloud application metrics, recognize and analyze complex system signals, perform code-level profiling and further automate root-cause analysis.

    Some of these innovations include:

    • StackImpact – the first polyglot production application profiler
    • BeeInstant – a leading solution in the emerging area of high-frequency metrics analysis in large scale cloud environments
    • Signify – a forward-looking solution to provide insight into complex system signals

    “Organizations of all sizes must deliver better software faster while creating more complex systems, involving more stakeholders in continuous services operations and striving for quicker business changes and more frequent software release cycles,” said Mirko Novakovic, co-founder and CEO of Instana. “The addition and integration of StackImpact, BeeInstant and Signify into our APM platform allows Instana to build upon our leadership in providing automated application insights to the broadest set of application stakeholders, including developers, DevOps, SRE, IT Ops and Service delivery teams.”

    Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers application service components and application infrastructure, including Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Pivotal Application Services and Container Services. The application management solution 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 changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in real-time.

    “To make the best possible ROI on our applications, our goal is to speed up our entire CI/CD pipeline,” said Jeff Newton, Head of DevOps at iOffice.com. “Instana’s abilities to automate monitoring configuration, adjust in real-time to application changes and provide value to all application stakeholders give our teams the insights needed to deliver higher quality services at a faster delivery rate.”

    The three acquisitions consist of two companies, BeeInstant Ltd and StackImpact GmbH, and the Signify technology from JINSPIRED B.V., which will be integrated with Instana’s leading APM solution for microservice applications, providing critical functionality to enhance the ability of Application Delivery teams to monitor and trace high-frequency applications without sampling and deep automated analysis of complex interdependent systems.

    You can learn more about Instana and their application management solution for dynamic applications at www.instana.com.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains “forward-looking” statements, including but not limited to the intention of Instana to bring the acquired technologies to market and the potential benefits to customers of the acquired technologies as well as any benefits of the purchase and integration of the acquired technologies by and into Instana’s product suite, which timing remains at the sole discretion of Instana. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements are based on Instana’s current assumptions, expectations, and beliefs and are subject to substantial risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that may cause Instana’s actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement.

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    ABOUT INSTANA

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana has developed the automatic monitoring and AI-based analysis DevOps needs to manage the performance of modern applications. Instana is the only APM solution that automatically discovers, maps and visualizes microservice applications without continuous additional engineering. Customers using Instana achieve operational excellence and deliver better software faster. Visit https://instana.com to learn more.

  • DigiCert Launches CT Log Monitoring, Now Available in Secure Site Pro

    With access to DigiCert CertCentral® for easy certificate management, Secure Site Pro provides advanced brand and website threat protection, as well as a new PQC test kit

    LEHI, Utah (December 10, 2019) — DigiCert, Inc., the world’s leading provider of TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI solutions, today released a new CT log monitoring service for advanced brand protection. The service is available in DigiCert Secure Site Pro, the first TLS product to offer CT log monitoring along with other industry-leading features such as DigiCert’s recently unveiled post-quantum computing (PQC) test kit.

    Secure Site Pro’s CT log monitoring service will help companies protect their brands from online fraud. Logging and monitoring the issuance of TLS certificates via CT log monitoring is quickly becoming mandatory for protecting government agencies and large organizations, said DigiCert Chief of Product Jeremy Rowley.

    “No other Certificate Authority product includes default access to CT log monitoring services for quick and easy visibility,” Rowley said. “DigiCert Secure Site Pro is offering an API cloud-based service that continuously monitors CT logs, escalates certificates issued outside of a company’s approved accounts and notifies them of suspiciously issued certificates.”

    CT log monitoring helps enterprises

    • gain visibility of every domain with global monitoring and tracking against multiple CT logs,
    • cut down on time and effort by using automated checks for non-compliant certificates, and
    • ensure every domain is trusted, with full oversight of which authority issues each certificate.

    All Secure Site Pro certificates come with access to the award-winning DigiCert CertCentral management platform, which features automation solutions such as ACME, SCEP, EST and GraphQL protocols, to handle certificate issuance, installation, discovery, renewal, revocation, remediation and other tasks. CertCentral also supports multiple orchestration layers.

    Other unique premium features of Secure Site Pro certificates include priority support and validation, a $2 million warranty, and the most recognized trust marks in the world: the Norton Seal and the DigiCert Seal.

    “Managing and maintaining multiple website security solutions is time-consuming, complicated and expensive for IT teams,” said Rowley. “DigiCert Secure Site Pro is an all-in-one website security solution that saves companies time and energy. Secure Site Pro is the industry’s best TLS solution for securing important websites, where complete crypto awareness is a necessity.”

    Additionally, DigiCert has conducted extensive testing on post-quantum cryptography, leading to its recent release of a PQC test kit for customers. Organizations purchasing Secure Site Pro certificates can use the kit to test their systems for PQC compatibility and future-proof their long-lasting applications. Customers may create their own private hybrid certificates, which implement post-quantum encryption together with classical cryptographic algorithms to preserve backwards compatibility.

    “Quantum computing threats to today’s encryption protocols may be years away, but companies need to plan now, especially for Internet of Things devices and applications built today and expected to be safe in 10 years or less,” said Rowley. “Our work with technology partners is making it possible.”

    To learn more about Secure Site Pro’s features and benefits, visit digicert.com.

    About DigiCert, Inc.

    DigiCert is the world’s leading provider of scalable TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI solutions for identity and encryption. The most innovative companies, including 89% of the Fortune 500 and 97 of the 100 top global banks, choose DigiCert for its expertise in identity and encryption for web servers and Internet of Things devices. DigiCert supports TLS and other digital certificates for PKI deployments at any scale through its certificate lifecycle management platform, CertCentral®. The company is recognized for its enterprise-grade certificate management platform, fast and knowledgeable customer support, and market-leading security solutions. For the latest DigiCert news and updates, visit digicert.com or follow @digicert.

  • The Eclipse Foundation Launches The Edge Native Working Group to Deliver Production-Grade Code for Open Source Edge Computing

    • New Working Group includes founding members

    ADLINK, Bosch, Edgeworx, Eurotech, Huawei, Intel, Kynetics, and Siemens –

     

     – New Working Group Showcased at Edge Computing World –

    SAN JOSE, Calif. – DECEMBER 10, 2019 – The Eclipse Foundation today announced the launch of the Edge Native Working Group, a vendor-neutral and code-first industry collaboration that will drive the evolution and broad adoption of open source software for edge computing. With edge computing code from the foundation already deployed in production environments, the Edge Native Working Group is focused on the near-term creation of an end-to-end software stack that will support deployments of today’s most transformative technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, and more. Founding members of the Edge Native Working Group include ADLINK, Bosch, Edgeworx, Eurotech, Huawei, Intel, Kynetics, and Siemens.

     

    “Edge computing has emerged over the past few years as the way to process data and deliver services for AI, autonomous vehicles, 5G, IoT, and important industrial use cases by leveraging distributed, localized compute,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “Within the Eclipse community, we already have a mature code base of open source edge computing platforms with production deployments in the field. The Eclipse Foundation is happy to host this vendor-neutral industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of distributed applications at the edge.”

     

    Edge computing, a distributed computing architecture that brings compute power and storage physically closer to applications in order to improve performance and increase efficiency, is forecast to generate a market worth $16.5 billion within the next five years (Allied Market Research, 2019). The Eclipse Foundation already hosts production-ready code that enables developers to quickly build, deploy, and manage applications at the edge at enterprise scale.

     

    The working group’s purview will encompass the two flagship projects currently at the Eclipse Foundation including Eclipse ioFog and Eclipse fog05, as well as other projects that are yet to be announced. In addition to the code that the Eclipse Foundation has already released, the Edge Native Working Group will focus on the development of various layers of software at the network edge that will enable others to build customized applications for their own specific implementations. This includes applications for retail, carrier environments, 5G, IoT, and Industry 4.0 or smart manufacturing deployments. Regardless of the applications needed, the Edge Native Working Group will help to solve the challenges endemic to edge computing; a heterogenous hardware landscape, low bandwidth, latency, limited power, and security.

     

    “The Eclipse Foundation is doing the same thing for edge computing that it did for IoT,” said Kilton Hopkins, co-founder and CEO for Edgeworx, Inc. and Eclipse ioFog project lead. “We’re acknowledging that edge computing has its own requirements, challenges, and industry-wide concerns that are different from those found in all other sectors. There’s enough going on in the industry that it’s time to address the particular challenges associated with edge computing in a very focused way.”

     

    The Eclipse Foundation has a proven track record of enabling developer-focused open source software collaboration and innovation earned over 15 years. The Foundation’s IoT community alone represents one of the largest open source collaborations in the world spanning 41 projects from more than 40 members and over 4 million lines of code produced. Overall, the Foundation’s more than 370 collaborative projects have resulted in over 195 million lines of code — a $10 billion shared investment.

     

    To learn more about getting involved with the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group, please review the charter and the Edge Working Group Participation Agreement (WPGA), visit us at https://edgenative.eclipse.org/, or email us at membership@eclipse.org. Individually, developers can join the Edge WG mailing list where the Eclipse Foundation will be sharing the progress of the working group.

     

    The Eclipse Foundation will also be showcasing the Edge Native Working Group at the Edge Computing World conference, taking place in San Jose, California at the Computer History Museum from Monday, December 9 through Thursday, December 12.

     

    Quotes from Eclipse Edge Native Working Group Members

     

    ADLINK

    “Edge Native technologies are an instrumental enabler for the next wave of innovations in telecommunications, transportation, energy, robotics, and IoT in general,” said Angelo Corsaro, PhD, CTO at ADLINK Technologies Inc. “The Eclipse Foundation’s Edge Native Working Group will have a pivotal role in establishing the open source Edge Native reference platform and, as such, accelerate the adoption of edge native architectures. ADLINK is thrilled to be part of this team — let’s shape the future of Edge Computing together.”

     

    Bosch

    “The Eclipse Edge Native Working Group provides an excellent opportunity

    for Bosch to collaborate on standard technology for implementing

    solutions in this trending market segment,” said Stefan Ferber, CEO, Bosch Software Innovations. “We consider this to be a logical next step in addition to our ongoing efforts within the Eclipse IoT Working Group.”

     

    Eurotech

    “Whether it’s healthcare, energy, transportation or Industry 4.0, edge computing is transforming the way data is processed and acted upon to deliver innovative services across myriad industries,” said Marco Carrer, Eurotech’s CTO. “As a founding member of the Eclipse IoT Working Group, we’re excited to contribute to this new initiative of the Eclipse Foundation and to shape the future of edge technology. The Edge Native Working Group will help to drive open collaboration and speed adoption for the entire ecosystem.”

     

    Kynetics

    “The creation of this edge computing-focused working group is an important step forward for the industry and in particular for us and our next OS products. One important innovation that edge computing is bringing to the industry is its agnostic-distributed deployment model. That model will be a great step ahead for embedded systems,” said Nicola La Gloria, CEO of Kynetics. “I have no doubt the Edge Native Working Group will have as much visibility and market presence in developing and shipping great code as the Eclipse Foundation has had with the IoT. We look forward to collaborating with our fellow members to support this important market.”

     

    Huawei

    “Building a strong open ecosystem community for the emerging geo-distributed Edge Native platform is fundamentally important to the success of IoT across various industry sectors,” said Evan Xiao, vice president, Strategy and Industry Development, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. “While edge devices are heterogeneous and domain specific, they share much common decentralized software characteristics towards IT, CT, and OT convergence. We are thrilled to participate in the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group  as contributors to building a unified open distributed edge framework for discovering, sharing, and moving data, as well as storage, analytics, and governance across heterogeneous clients, edges, and clouds.”

     

    About The Eclipse Foundation

    The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable and commercially-focused environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. The Foundation is home to the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE, and over 375 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, and frameworks for a wide range of technology domains such as IoT, automotive, geospatial, systems engineering, and many others. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit organization supported by over 275 members, including industry leaders who value open source as a key enabler for business strategy. To learn more, follow us on Twitter @EclipseFdn, LinkedIn or visit eclipse.org.

     

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  • Compuware Announces Intent to Acquire INNOVATION Data Processing Assets

     

    • INNOVATION Data Processing is a leader in enterprise data protection, business continuance and storage resource management solutions, serving the mainframe market since 1972.
    • The addition of INNOVATION’s robust data and backup solutions complements Compuware’s existing product line, focused on empowering enterprises to leverage their modern mainframes with ease and effectiveness.
    • This acquisition will be Compuware’s sixth in the last three years.

    DETROIT and LITTLE FALLS, N.J.—December 10, 2019—Compuware Corporation, the leading provider of software for mainframe DevOps, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of INNOVATION Data Processing, a market leader in enterprise data protection, business continuance and storage resource management solutions serving the mainframe market.

    The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close within the next quarter. It will be Compuware’s sixth mainframe software or services acquisition in the last three years.

    The addition of INNOVATION’s flagship data management and protection solutions product lines FDR, FDRPAS and IAM, as well as segment leading solutions including UPSTREAM and FATSCOPY, complements and extends Compuware’s portfolio of mainframe software including Abend-AID, COPE, File-AID, Hiperstation, ISPW, Strobe, ThruPut Manager, Topaz and Xpediter.

    “Given our mission to modernize every aspect of mainframe software delivery, the inclusion of INNOVATION’s talent, expertise, and leading backup and data protection solutions is a natural extension of our company’s culture and portfolio of leading mainframe software,” said Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley. “Like Compuware, INNOVATION has a rich heritage of innovation that empowers customers to leverage their mainframe with ease and effectiveness. With the growing importance of data and compliance mandates, our customers will now have access to a full set of proven solutions already in use by hundreds of large enterprises worldwide.”

    “Compuware is the perfect home for INNOVATION’s products and customers,” said INNOVATION’s CEO and Founder Anthony Mazzone.  “Compuware has demonstrated a unique understanding of the new challenges mainframe owners face and I believe that this acquisition will best serve the needs of the mainframe storage management worldwide customer base.”

    INNOVATION Data Processing

    INNOVATION Data Processing is a leading international provider of enterprise data protection, business continuance and storage resource management solutions satisfying business information security concerns since 1972. Combining high-performance design with non-disruptive virtualization, easy-to-use and extremely reliable backup, recovery, data replication and privileged information protection, INNOVATION solutions seek to eliminate business downtime while addressing data security concerns. By actively partnering with leading storage vendors, to ensure technological currency, INNOVATION is the choice of thousands of enterprise customers worldwide for their business resiliency needs. The company is headquartered in Little Falls, New Jersey.

    Compuware Corporation

    Compuware empowers the world’s largest companies to excel in the digital economy by taking full advantage of their mainframe investments. We do this by delivering innovative software that enables IT professionals with mainstream skills to develop, deliver and support mainframe applications with ease and agility. Our modernized solutions uniquely automate mainframe work, integrate into a cross-platform DevOps toolchain and measure software delivery quality, velocity and efficiency. Learn more at compuware.com.

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  • Sauce Labs Announces Next Wave of Speakers for SauceCon 2020; Confirms Additional Keynote

    Leading industry experts join speaker lineup at premier annual user conference for continuous testing

     

    SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sauce Labs, Inc., provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud, today announced the next wave of confirmed speakers for SauceCon 2020, with experts from Walmart Labs, SAP, Mozilla, Cabify, and Magenic joining an already robust roster of industry presenters. The latest additions to the speaker lineup include a keynote address from Aanan Contractor, vice president of customer experience engineering at Walmart Labs. Named a 2018 Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Contractor brings vast technical expertise in the retail and financial spaces, having driven cultural and technology transformation for some of the world’s most well-known brands, including American Express, Paypal, and now Walmart. She joins Aled Miles, recently appointed CEO of Sauce Labs, and Diego Lo Giudice, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, as keynote speakers.

    Other newly confirmed presenters at SauceCon 2020 include:

    • David Burns, engineering manager, Mozilla
    • Helene Doumenc, QA engineering manager, and Jonathan Chacón, senior accessible software engineer, Cabify
    • Paul Grizzaffi, principal automation architect, Magenic
    • Claude Jones, senior director, software engineering, Walmart Labs
    • Sarah Mueller, developer, and Damian Lion Maring, associate development architect, SAP SE

    Following record attendance in 2019, SauceCon returns to Austin, Texas from April 28-29, 2020 with a full slate of sessions spanning the most relevant challenges facing today’s automated testing practitioners, as well as an additional day of optional hands-on training and workshops on April 27. Whether they’re beginners just getting started with automated testing, experienced testers looking to scale testing across their organization, or automation experts seeking tips and tricks for optimization in the mobile era, practitioners will find a wide range of content that aligns with where they are on their continuous testing journeys.

    “The speaker lineup for SauceCon 2020 is shaping up to be the strongest yet,” said Terri Avnaim, CMO, Sauce Labs. “We’re especially excited to welcome Aanan as a keynote presenter. Pairing her hands-on experience driving change and delivering quality for one of the largest retail brands in the world with Diego’s extensive industry research and expert guidance creates a rich combination of actionable content for today’s modern testers.”

    Additional confirmed speakers for SauceCon 2020 include:

    • Richard Bradshaw, Head of the Ministry of Testing
    • Jenny Bramble, Software Test Engineer, WillowTree
    • Angie Jones, Senior Developer Advocate, Applitools
    • Alan Richardson, Agile Coach & Consultant, EvilTester.com
    • Hilary Weaver-Robb, Software Quality Assurance Architect, Quicken Loans

    Now entering its fourth year, SauceCon brings together the Sauce Labs user community and continuous testing experts from around the world. It provides attendees with practical learnings and live coding examples they can put into practice immediately in their own organizations. More than 600 automated testing leaders, experts, and practitioners are expected to attend in 2020 to share best practices and network with industry peers.

    For more information or to register to attend, visit the SauceCon 2020 website.

    About Sauce Labs
    Sauce Labs ensures the world’s leading apps and websites work flawlessly on every browser, OS and device. Its award-winning Continuous Testing Cloud provides development and quality teams with instant access to the test coverage, scalability, and analytics they need to rapidly deliver a flawless digital experience. Sauce Labs is a privately held company funded by Toba Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Centerview Capital Technology, IVP, Adams Street Partners and Riverwood Capital. For more information, please visit https://saucelabs.com.

  • 2019 Postman “State of the API” Report Reveals APIs Expanding Beyond Developers

    A new survey of more than 10,000 respondents found that more non-developers now work with APIs than ever before as the API ecosystem expands.

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Postman, the leading collaboration platform for API development, today released the results of its annual 2019 Postman “State of the API” Report. The report is based on a survey of more than 10,000 API developers, users, testers, and executives. The respondents provided insights on everything from how their time with APIs is spent to what they see as the most significant issues and opportunities for APIs in 2020.

    While the survey reports that more developers work with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) than anyone else in a typical organization, the reach of APIs is increasingly touching more people than just those who code. Only 46.6% of respondents identified as being either a front-end or back-end developer (compared to 58.6% last year), with QA engineers, technical team leads, API architects, DevOps specialists, and others rounding out the field.

    “This year’s survey data reveals that the API ecosystem is expanding beyond developers,” said Abhinav Asthana, Postman’s co-founder and CEO. “Working directly with APIs has become part of a surprising number of positions, including non-developers such as executives and technical writers, which we think is an intriguing trend.”

    Key data highlights from the survey include:

    API Security: While API security is a hot topic—driven by frequent reports of API security breaches and misuse—respondents feel confident in their API security postures. Nearly three-quarters feel that their APIs are “very secure” or have “above-average security.” Only 2.4% stated that their APIs were not at all secure.

    API Documentation: The most helpful enhancement that API producers can make is to provide better examples in the documentation (63.5%), followed by standardization (59.4%) and sample code (57.8%). API consumers also find real-world use cases, better workflows, additional tools, and SDKs helpful, although to a lesser extent.

    Additional data points:

    • Experience: 78.2% of developers have 5 or fewer years of experience developing APIs; 12.2% have 10 or more years of experience
    • Team Size: 72.6% work on teams of 10 members or less, 25.7% on 22-50 member teams, and 1.7% on 50+ member teams
    • Time Spent: 26.1% of time is spent on development, 22.2% on debugging and manual testing, 11.4% on automated testing, 11.2% on designing and mocking, 9.1% on managing others, 7.3% on documentation, 5.7% on monitoring, 3.6% on publishing, and 3.3% on writing about APIs (NOTE: 70% spend more time on manual testing and debugging than they thought they should)
    • Number of APIs: 39% generally work with 1-5 APIs, 22% with 6-10, 14% with 11-20, 11% with 20-50, and 13% work with more than 50 APIs
    • Internal vs. External: 52.8% of APIs used are internal, 28.4% used were shared only among integration partners, and 18.8% used are public
    • Performance: 47.6% feel that their APIs do not break, stop working, or materially change specification often enough to matter, 28.4% said it happens monthly, 15.7% weekly, and 3.2% daily
    • Industry: 52.3% work in technology, 41.2% in business and/or IT services, followed in order by banking and finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, government/defense, advertising/agencies, nonprofits, and a variety of other industries
    • Technology: 53.9% said microservices is the most exciting technology for developers in the next year, while 45.5% said containers and 44.0% said serverless architecture (NOTE: OpenAPI 3.0, GraphQL, HTTP 2.0, and WebSocket were also considerations)

    The complete “State of the API” report can be found here: https://www.getpostman.com/resources/infographics/api-survey-2019/

    About Postman:

    Postman is the leading collaboration platform for API development, used by more than 8 million developers and 400,000 companies worldwide. Postman is an elegant, flexible platform that is used to build connected software via APIs – quickly, easily, and accurately. Postman is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners and CRV. Learn more at http://www.getpostman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.

  • Virtana Expands Monitoring Coverage and Enhances Infrastructure Capacity Planning with Latest Version of VirtualWisdom

    Hybrid Infrastructure Management and AIOps Platform Builds on Customer Requirements to Deepen Infrastructure Visibility, Simplify Capacity Management, and Better Control Infrastructure Costs

    San Jose, Calif., December 10, 2019 – Today Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, introduced the latest version of VirtualWisdom, the premier hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform for mission-critical workloads. VirtualWisdom 6.3 is the first product launch since Virtana’s rebrand in October 2019 and continues the company’s push into capacity management with global storage array analytics, an expanded range of integrations, and new portable reports and dashboards.

    Today’s mission-critical hybrid applications combine resources in public clouds, with physical or virtual resources residing in private data centers. For these crucially important workloads, operating at web-scale, managing cost, performance, and capacity has never been more complex or important. To gain the insights and operational control that deliver efficient, cost-effective operation, organizations need real-time visibility, automated discovery, AI-powered analytics, and immediate access to best-practice solutions that proactively solve infrastructure-related performance and capacity issues for critical applications.

    VirtualWisdom provides real-time, data-driven lifecycle recommendations to assure performance, speed problem resolution, automate workload optimization, free-up capacity, and ensure resource availability. AI-powered capacity forecasting helps organizations avoid capacity-driven problems before they can happen, and AI-powered workload optimization keeps applications operating within SLAs.

    “To provide organizations with a competitive advantage, IT needs to use and manage their resources efficiently. IT professionals need tools to enable them to quickly resolve problems, even as the infrastructure becomes increasingly more complex. They also need to automate as many of the mundane IT tasks as possible,” said George Crump, President and Founder of Storage Switzerland. “Powered by AI/ML capabilities, VirtualWisdom offers recommendations and automated problem resolution, providing customers with deep infrastructure visibility.”

    The new VirtualWisdom release features the new Capacity Auditor, a global storage array analytic that offers a unique approach to global capacity management designed to provide app-centric insights and intelligence across hybrid infrastructure and multi-vendor data storage environments. With Capacity Auditor, organizations have a broad view of storage usage and trends across all storage arrays, applications, locations, physical storage assets, and effective capacity.

    Other key features of the new VirtualWisdom 6.3 release include:

    • New infrastructure integrations: Support for Oracle’s Solaris, Red Hat KVM, and Pure Storage solutions that provide all the power of the VirtualWisdom platform to applications using infrastructure within these environments, and management of infrastructure elements that live within them.
    • Dynamic entity insights: Enhances VirtualWisdom’s continuous real-time infrastructure discovery with simple, intuitive dashboards and reports for servers, storage, and networks. Enabling immediate insights into critical relationships between infrastructure elements, visibility into vital statistics, and the capability to automatically apply customizable information sets for identification and cost.
    • Portable reports: Empowers users to share collective insights, dashboards and reports across the VirtualWisdom community. Customers and partners can easily exchange best-practice monitoring reports and visualizations unique to specific environments and applications.
    • Hybrid Application Definition: Hybrid, real-time application views make it easy to visualize hybrid applications that cross multiple technology boundaries in one view – including applications that span multiple clouds (AWS, Azure), virtual environments (VMware, KVM, HyperV, PowerVM) as well as physical systems.

    “The Virtana VirtualWisdom platform has been a fundamental enabler of our mission-critical manufacturing technology solutions and services for many years now,” said Todd Weeks, Plex Systems Global VP of Cloud Operations. “Our ability to offer our customers nearly 100% business continuity in a highly efficient cloud infrastructure relies on the real-time infrastructure visibility and AI-powered analytics that are unique to the VirtualWisdom platform.”

    “Digital transformation is driving exponential data growth as today’s enterprises must have global visibility into all storage resources to continuously meet these ever-growing demands. Point solutions to managing data sets across multiple vendor storage environments result in highly fragmented, manual and wasteful practices and resources – and can put entire applications at risk,” said Tim Van Ash, SVP of Products at Virtana. “With application aware, predictive insight into the underlying digital infrastructure, VirtualWisdom offers the industry’s first and only global infrastructure capacity auditor and forecaster that can providing real-time visibility into mission-critical digital workload infrastructure.”

    The latest version of VirtualWisdom is currently being showcased at the Gartner Infrastructure Operations and Cloud Summit in Las Vegas. Todd Weeks, Plex Systems Global VP of Cloud Operations will be speaking on December 11th at 11:15am on “How Virtana Empowers Peak Performance for the Plex Manufacturing Cloud”.

    To learn more about Virtana’s award-winning hybrid infrastructure management platforms, please visit: www.virtana.com/whyvirtana. To experience the free VirtualWisdom trial version, visit: www.virtana.com/try-now/

    About Virtana

    Virtana is a leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, providing comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring and real-time, AI-powered analytics for the modern enterprise data center. The company’s solutions give IT operations teams deep workload visibility and actionable insights into their end-to-end systems that support mission-critical applications. Virtana customers include leaders in enterprise IT, cloud service providers and federal agencies, that are leveraging the company’s platforms to maximize the performance, health and utilization of their hybrid IT infrastructure. The privately-held company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information, please visit www.virtana.com.

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