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  • Solo.io Launches the WebAssembly Hub to Empower Users to Add New Functionalities to Their Service Mesh to Best Fit Their Business Needs and Enhance Security

    CAMBRIDGE, MA, Dec. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Solo.io, the software company that helps organizations adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies, today announced WebAssembly Hub https://webassemblyhub.io. The WebAssembly Hub is a service for building, sharing, discovering and deploying WebAssembly (Wasm) extensions for Envoy Proxy-based service meshes. Wasm simplifies the development and deployment of Envoy Proxy extensions.

    “At Solo.io, we believe that extending the functionality of your service mesh should be simple and secure,” said Idit Levine, founder and CEO of Solo.io. ”This is why we’re excited about integrating Wasm with Envoy Proxy. We built the WebAssembly Hub to help end users develop extensions and consume them.”

    With WebAssembly Hub, users can:
    • Build: the WebAssembly Hub is where users can take their code in their favorite supported language and build it into a Wasm Envoy extension with a single command.
    • Share: the WebAssembly Hub is a registry for Wasm Envoy extensions where users can store and share their extensions.
    • Discover: the WebAssembly Hub is a meeting place for the community to share and consume Wasm Envoy extensions.
    • Deploy: the WebAssembly Hub provides all the configuration updates that users need in order to add an extension to Envoy, Istio, Gloo and any other Envoy-based products that support Wasm.

    WebAssembly Hub use cases include:
    • Security: users can enhance the security of their service mesh environments by discovering and deploying Web Application Firewall (WAF) extensions in just a few steps.
    • API Transformation: users can modernize legacy SOAP backends by building and consuming transformation extensions that expose REST APIs to their consumers.
    • Collaboration: developers can build and publish their custom extensions to potential users.

    Wasm is currently supported by the service mesh Istio and by Solo.io’s Gloo Enterprise 1.0, a production-ready enterprise-grade API gateway, as well as by Envoy Proxy itself. Other Envoy-based service meshes are expected to offer Wasm support in the near future.

    Additional Resources
    • Try the WebAssembly Hub https://webassemblyhub.io
    • Read the technical blog post on WebAssembly Hub https://medium.com/solo-io/introducing-the-webassembly-hub-a-service-for-building-deploying-sharing-and-discovering-wasm-d461719383ca
    • Join the December 12th 10am PT online WebAssembly Hub meetup that will feature an overview and live demonstration https://www.meetup.com/Solo-io-Online-Meetup/events/266727616/

    About Solo.io
    Solo.io develops open source and enterprise software that helps enterprises adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies like microservices, serverless and service mesh. Founded in 2017 in Cambridge, MA, Solo.iois backed by Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures. For more information, visit https://www.solo.io/ or follow @soloio inc.

  • WalkMe™ Raises $90 Million to Empower Organizations to Realize the Full Promise of Their Software Investments

    Latest Investment Will Drive International Expansion and Operational Growth for the Digital Adoption Technology Unicorn

    SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — WalkMe™, the leading digital adoption platform and one of the fastest-growing software companies globally, announced today that it has closed a $90M round of funding led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from previous investor Insight Partners. With this latest funding round, WalkMe will continue to scale and help leading enterprises realize the full potential of their software assets and empower digital transformation across their organization.

    With over $307 million in funding raised to-date, almost doubling its valuation in the last year and more than 2,000 customers across the globe, WalkMe has experienced exponential growth since its launch in 2011. In Q2 of 2019, WalkMe crossed $100 Million in ARR, and in Q3 of 2019 WalkMe’s new business bookings grew 100% compared to Q3 of 2018. WalkMe will use the investment to drive expansion into new markets, including Latin America, and will continue to invest in and rapidly scale its Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) to meet growing customer demand. WalkMe’s DAP makes it effortless to use any software, website or app – analyzing and automating processes so users can complete tasks faster and easier.

    “This latest round of funding speaks to our success and to the untapped potential of digital adoption,” said Rafael Sweary, Co-founder and President of WalkMe. “WalkMe transforms how organizations gain visibility into their end-to-end business processes, driving workforce productivity, increasing customer satisfaction, and achieving higher operational efficiencies.”

    As organizations set out on their digital transformation journey, lacking a digital adoption strategy can strongly impact both employee and customer experience. C-suite executives of global organizations rely on the WalkMe platform to significantly improve the ROI on costly enterprise software investments, ensuring that all users get the maximum value out of these tools. With WalkMe automation, for example, employees have an 81% higher success rate for completing certain business processes, gaining the agility to complete three times as many tasks in the same amount of time.

    “In a few short years, WalkMe has emerged as the category-defining market leader in the fast-growing Digital Adoption Solutions space,” said Mike Risman, Managing Partner of Vitruvian Partners. “We are excited to partner with WalkMe as an investor during this pivotal time of accelerated growth and global expansion as the company capitalizes on its market leadership. WalkMe helps the world’s most forward-looking enterprises deliver on their digital transformation strategy. The company’s platform delights employees with more efficient software interactions, empowers business process owners to steer and re-engineer workflows and provides analytics to help CIOs manage the complexity of the digital transformation proactively.”

    For more information, please visit https://www.walkme.com/.

    About WalkMe:

    WalkMe provides a digital adoption platform that simplifies the user experience and drives action using insights, engagement, guidance and automation capabilities. Using artificial intelligence/machine learning, analytics and automation, WalkMe’s context-intelligent platform anticipates users’ needs and provides help exactly when and where they need it. WalkMe is used by over 2,000 companies globally, including more than 30 percent of Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit: https://www.walkme.com/.

    About Vitruvian Partners:

    Vitruvian is an independent growth capital firm headquartered in London with offices across London, Stockholm, Munich, Luxembourg, San Francisco and Shanghai. Vitruvian focuses on dynamic situations characterized by rapid growth and change across industries spanning information technology, financial services, life sciences & healthcare, media, and business and consumer services. Vitruvian is currently investing from its third fund, the €2.4 billion Vitruvian Investment Partnership III, which is among the largest pools of capital in Europe supporting innovative and higher growth companies. Vitruvian Funds have backed over 45 companies and have assets under management of approximately $5.5 billion. Notable investments to date include global market leaders in their field such as Just Eat, FarFetch, Darktrace, Trustpilot, Marqeta, TransferWise, Skyscanner and others. The Firm’s previous investments in software innovators include companies such as Snow Software, Bitdefender, Pindrop, Unifaun, Accountor and Benify. More information can be found at: www.vitruvianpartners.com.

  • Katalon Makes Test Automation Accessible for Teams of any Scale with Newest Release

    ATLANTA, Ga., November, 2019 – Katalon LLC released its first-ever model of Katalon Studio 7 for large, medium, and small teams to automate their Web, API, Mobile, and Desktop application testing. This new version helps Katalon Studio shift to the next level of an all-in-one automation tool, promising to deliver the most enjoyable automation experience for testers.

    Katalon Studio 7 comes with a host of advanced features and enhancements for all testing platforms. This new version allows testers to scale project scopes, enhance team collaboration, save maintenance cost and effort, and optimize product quality. Katalon Studio 7 also marks a significant milestone in Katalon’s growth journey after more than three years.

    Katalon Studio 7 solves problems arising not only in small teams but also in mid-size organizations and enterprises. Its capabilities focus on the key automation trends in 2019 and in the next two years: compatible test script maintenance, self-healing capability, AI-assisted analytics, Selenium-based automation tool, record and playback, and end-to-end testing.

    Some of the highlight features of Katalon Studio 7 include:

    • Smart Execution

    The cutting-edge Smart Wait function is developed to address a common pain point of Selenium: high flakiness and instability of results due to timing issues. This mechanism can ensure all front-end processes – including Javascript or Ajax – are static without any additional codes.

    • Test Artifact Sharing

    Test artifacts include test cases, test objects, profiles, and keywords. With this new feature of Katalon Studio 7, users can export these test artifacts into ZIP files and import them to any other projects in Katalon Studio. This means more streamlined teamwork, increased flexibility, and better control over test projects.

    • Comprehensive Data-driven Testing

    Katalon Studio supports data-driven testing in which users can define custom data sources, compose and implement test scripts using these data sets. This tool also offers a Data file object, which can query data from external sources such as CSV file, Excel file, Relational DB, and so on.

    • Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Testing

    BDD has become a prevalent method for Agile teams to utilize in their testing process. Katalon Studio offers BDD testing capability with multiple Feature Files that are stored and located in project folders. Additionally, Katalon Studio can automatically locate the according Step Definitions whenever a feature file is executed.

    • Advanced Reports 

    Katalon Studio utilizes Grid – TestOps Cloud to perform tests entirely in the cloud and automatically deliver results to Katalon Analytics. The AI-assisted platform of Katalon Analytics can provide users with detailed dashboards and reports on their test execution. Therefore, users can have a big picture of your test quality, review, and centralize data to identify and fix bugs faster.

    • Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and DevOps Practices

    Testing is a large part of CI/CD process because even if you are able to make your integrations and delivery faster, it would mean nothing if it was done so without quality in mind. Also, the more steps of the CI/CD pipeline that can be automated, the faster quality releases can be accomplished. With a system of built-in integrations with various platforms, Katalon Studio supports continuous testing through seamless Jira Agile integration and native CI/CD integration with the most popular CI tools (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure, and CircleCI). The plugins in Katalon Store can help you extend automation capabilities and easily integrate with other CI/CD software.

    Besides these benefits, Katalon Studio 7 also launches a new set of product combinations. Now teams and projects of any complexity can be flexible in allocating their budget, licensing, and scalability for testing projects:

    • Katalon Studio: free IDE, requires online activation with no limitations on quota.
    • Katalon Studio Enterprise: paid IDE with exclusive features, basic support, all Katalon plugins, and options to activate offline.
    • Katalon Runtime Engine: paid engine to execute tests in CI/CD infrastructures or via the command-line interface with options to activate offline. Compatible with Katalon Studio and Katalon Studio Enterprise.

    The combination of Katalon Studio Enterprise and Runtime Engine is the best cost-competitive solution for medium and large teams with the needs for network security policy compliance, as well as exclusive features to support team operation and performance.

    “Making test automation accessible for businesses of any size is mission-critical for us at Katalon,” said Uy Tran, Product Owner of Katalon. “Since the test automation landscape continues to evolve, it is a must for test automation solutions to stay agile. I believe the end-users can leverage Katalon Studio 7 distinctive capabilities to achieve automation success with minimal investment possible.”

    About Katalon 

    Katalon is a well-known provider in software test automation industry. The company provides a robust and flexible platform for web, API, mobile, and desktop testing that suits teams and projects of any size, for any purposes. Furthermore, Katalon Studio can integrate with the most common CI/CD tools in the industry. With native built-in integrations, Katalon Studio can allow users to create, plan, execute automated tests, analyze reports, and integrate with their desired CI/CD pipeline.

    Katalon is widely adopted by a global community of users across 160+ countries. It is recognized as an ultimate automation tool by prestigious reports such as Gartner, SmartBear, Capterra, and more. Katalon solutions include Katalon Studio, Katalon TestOps (beta), Katalon Recorder, Katalium, and Katalon plugins. For more information, visit https://www.katalon.com.

     

  • WhiteSource and Codefresh Combine Forces to Offer Built-in Open Source Management in CI/CD Pipelines

    The collaboration will allow Codefresh customers to detect and fix issues earlier in the development process

     

    TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — WhiteSource, the leader in open source security and license compliance management, announced today a new integration with Codefresh, the Kubernetes-native CI/CD solution. The new integration offers customers to build-in open source security and license management within their native Codefresh CI/CD pipeline.

    CI/CD pipeline efficiency has become a critical parameter in today’s software development processes, allowing teams to create and ship high-quality software more quickly. Unfortunately, many choose to compromise on pipeline security, seeing it as a hindrance to swift deployment.

    This integration enables Codefresh customers to continuously secure and manage their applications’ dependencies and Docker images as part of their native Codefresh CI/CD workflow.

    Teams will be able to quickly and seamlessly integrate open source security tracking into their Codefresh pipeline, keeping up with the pace of development and deployment without slowing down for the sake of security.

    “We are always working to provide development teams with the tools that allow them to easily fuse security into their DevOps pipelines,” said David Habusha, WhiteSource VP of Product. “We’re happy to partner with Codefresh to provide all of our customers with an integration that provides an open source security scan in one simple click. Now, even more development teams and organizations can harness the power of open source and be confident that their CI/CD processes remain swift and secure.”

    An upcoming webinar will discuss this integration on December 6th.

    About WhiteSource 

    WhiteSource is the pioneer of open source security and license compliance management. Founded in 2011, its vision is to empower businesses to develop better software by harnessing the power of open source. WhiteSource is used by more than 800 customers worldwide, from all verticals, and sizes, including 23% of Fortune 100 companies, as well as industry leaders such as Microsoft, IBM, Comcast and many more. For more information, please visit www.WhiteSourceSoftware.com

  • ShiftLeft and CircleCI Strengthen DevOps Security by Inserting Code Analysis as Far Left as Developer Pull Requests

    New Partnership and Product Integration Delivers the Industry’s Fastest and Most Accurate Vulnerability Scanning at One of the Earliest Stages in the CI/CD Pipeline

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec 04, 2019

    ShiftLeft Inc., an innovator in automated application security, today announced a partnership and deep integration with CircleCI that enables organizations to insert security directly into developer pull requests from code repositories. ShiftLeft Inspect is the first static application security testing (SAST) vendor to partner with CircleCI to provide these capabilities.

    Today’s organizations are working to insert security as far left in their DevOps process as possible, but many struggle to achieve the speed and accuracy necessary to automate security quality decisions. To date, the only tools that can run in the build phase take hours or days to scan, dramatically reducing developer velocity. These tools are also known to produce a large number of false positives, which means organizations aren’t willing to automatically fail builds without manually triaging results, which adds further delay.

    Pull requests represent a critical phase for developers, as it is the phase in which new individual developer code is integrated into the overall codebase. By enabling SAST at pull requests, the right developer gets the right vulnerability information at the right time. Developers can more efficiently address vulnerabilities in their respective code, improving the overall security of the final build.

    The partnership and integration enables CircleCI users to run ShiftLeft Inspect on CircleCI builds and pull requests from any code repository integrated with CircleCI. Pull requests and builds can then automatically be escalated, alerted upon or failed based on security criteria. Hence, CircleCI users can mirror their DevOps initiatives with DevSecOps goals.

    “As a technology company with multiple products available on many platforms, we are always looking for the best ways to ensure our code is the highest quality and the most secure. We are excited to be working with ShiftLeft and in partnership with CircleCI to ensure our code pipeline produces secure code. The time and resources we save working with this product allows us to be more agile and more productive.” Rick Bohm, Vice President, Information Security, HomeAdvisor.

    As part of the partnership, ShiftLeft Inspect will be free to CircleCI users for an unlimited number of applications and frameworks, totaling no more than 200,000 lines of code and 300 scans per year. The free license will include one programming language and enable CircleCI users to scan up to two applications concurrently.

    “Today’s developers are building and delivering software at incredibly high velocity, which is required to meet the demands of organizations and customers,” said Tom Trahan, Vice President of Business Development, CircleCI. “Historically, security has been viewed as a step that slows down that velocity. CircleCI is excited to partner with ShiftLeft to enable developers to insert security further left in the CI/CD pipeline, for accurate vulnerability scanning.”

    “When it comes to source code analysis, most of what’s being delivered today in application security is automation for automation’s sake. The tools on the market today aren’t actually enabling organizations to make the right decisions automatically,” said Alok Shukla, Vice President of Product Management, ShiftLeft. “With ShiftLeft and CircleCI, organizations and developers are able to make accurate, fast decisions when it comes to their release quality, further left in the development lifecycle than ever before. By inserting security as far left as the pull requests, we’re delivering industry-first SAST capabilities that will help our customers harness the benefits modern CI/CD pipelines without leaving security behind.”

    The integration is immediately available to ShiftLeft customers and CircleCI users via CircleCI Orb that can be found at https://circleci.com/integrations/.

    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/.

  • Test Automation Is the Single Most Important Factor in Accelerating Innovation, Say 90% of IT Leaders

    Independent Survey Finds Manual Testing a Major Impediment to Business Success,Yet Only 7% of Organizations Automate Tests on Mainframe Code

    • 77% of organizations find it increasingly difficult to increase quality, velocity and efficiency to meet innovation goals when developing and testing mainframe application code.
    • 53% of application development managers say the time required to conduct thorough testing is the biggest barrier to integrating the mainframe into Agile and DevOps.
    • 82% said that unless they can automate more test cases, they won’t be able to meet their business’ need for speed, and innovation and customer experiences will suffer.

    DETROIT—December 4, 2019—Compuware today announced the findings of a global survey of 400 IT leaders, which reveals that manual testing practices, still in widespread use, are one of the biggest challenges large organizations face as they attempt to accelerate digital innovation.

    The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Compuware, examines the processes that organizations have in place to deliver innovation on the mainframe as quickly as in their distributed environments—which are highly reliant on the mainframe.

    The survey also explores the methods used to support testing on the mainframe and the challenges businesses face in simultaneously increasing quality, velocity and efficiency during the application development and delivery process.

    Key findings of the global survey of application development managers revealed:

    • Manual testing is a drain on resources

    o   77% of organizations find it increasingly difficult to simultaneously increase quality, velocity and efficiency to meet business innovation goals when developing and testing mainframe application code.

    o   92% of respondents said their organization’s mainframe teams are spending more time testing code than was required in the past, due to growing complexity in their application environments.

    o   On average, development teams spend more than half (51%) of their time on testing during the release of a new mainframe application, feature or functionality.

    • The pressure to cut corners creates business risk

    o   85% of application development managers say that it is becoming harder to deliver innovation faster, without compromising on quality and increasing the risk of bugs in production.

    o   The biggest concerns that respondents have over the pressure to cut corners when testing mainframe code to deliver innovation faster are: introducing potential security flaws (50%); impacting customer experience (38%); disrupting operations (36%); draining operations team resources to find bugs (31%); wasting development teams’ time in war-rooms to fix problems (30%); and revenue impact (28%).

    • Test automation is critical to success

    o   82% of respondents said that unless they can automate more test cases, they won’t be able to meet the need for speed from the business, so innovation and customer experiences will suffer.

    o   90% say that automating more test cases could be the single most important factor in their success as the pressure increases on IT to accelerate innovation.

    o   80% of respondents say it is inevitable bad code will make its way into production unless they can automate more test cases.

    o   87% also stated that they believe automating mainframe test cases will be crucial to overcoming the growing skills shortage in that area of their business.

    • Challenges of test automation are holding businesses back

    o   Despite the recognized benefits, 86% of respondents said they find it difficult to automate the testing of mainframe code.

    o   At present, only 7% of respondents said they automate the execution of test cases on mainframe code to support their ability to accelerate innovation.

    o   75% of organizations do not have automated processes that test code at every stage of development.

    o   Less than a quarter (24%) of organizations perform both unit and functional testing on mainframe code, to ensure its quality before it is released into production.

    The research shows that organizations see test automation as the key to their ability to deliver innovation faster while maintaining quality, but many still use manual testing practices when it comes to the mainframe. Given the central role that the mainframe continues to play in powering modern digital services, these manual testing practices are creating a bottleneck. Ultimately, this is hindering the delivery of innovation and preventing organizations from meeting their business goals.

    According to the report, by “shifting left” with automated testing—automated unit testing in particular—organizations can gain “fast feedback” on the mainframe, supercharging innovation without fearing the risk of introducing problems that disrupt operations, introduce security risks, hinder customer experiences or impact business revenues. Better still, they can improve quality, velocity and efficiency on the mainframe in spite of the growing shortage of experienced developers; giving themselves a major advantage as they look to drive a competitive advantage through supercharged digital innovation.

    “As customer demand for a constant cycle of new and improved digital services and experiences continues to grow unabated, speed and innovation have become the rallying call for IT departments across every industry,” said Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. “Automation and the shift to Agile and DevOps are crucial to improving the pace of innovation without compromising quality and efficiency, in response to the always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied customers that organizations are striving to serve as a means to growth.”

    The complete research whitepaper, entitled “Test Automation: The Key to Increasing Velocity, Quality and Efficiency,” is based on a global survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development in organizations with a mainframe and 1,000+ employees, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Compuware.

    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.

  • The ApacheⓇ Software Foundation Welcomes CloudBees as its Newest Targeted Sponsor at the Platinum Level

    Donation of Continuous Delivery Software Services Helps Support Apache Infrastructure, Projects, and Communities

     

    Wakefield, MA, and DevOps World | Jenkins World Lisbon, Portugal — 4 December 2019 — The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that CloudBees has become an ASF Targeted Sponsor at the Platinum level.

    “We are pleased to welcome CloudBees as a Targeted Platinum Sponsor,” said ASF Vice President Fundraising Daniel Ruggeri. “ASF Sponsors help offset our day-to-day operating expenses, from Accounting to Infrastructure to Legal to Marketing and more. Targeted Sponsorship provides contributions aimed at activities and programs that support specific ASF operations as well as designated Apache projects and their communities. Among the many benefits towards Apache Infrastructure, Targeted donations include development/collaboration tools, co-location space, cloud services, monitoring systems, and more. We are excited to add continuous delivery software services to the list, courtesy of CloudBees.”

    “CloudBees is a strong advocate of Open Source. As major contributors to many Open Source projects, including Jenkins and Jenkins X, we see the value organizations derive from using Open Source every day,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder, CloudBees. Our contribution to The Apache Software Foundation will enable it to continue its mission to develop Open Source projects and support the use of Open Source all over the world. We are proud to be a Targeted Sponsor.”

    The ASF Infrastructure Team keeps the Foundation’s global services running 24x7x365 at near 100% uptime at less than US$5,000 per project. Performance statistics that reflect more than seven million weekly checks and project mail volume across 2,059 lists are available at http://status.apache.org/

    “Every day, billions of users of Apache projects benefit from the many services provided by ASF Infrastructure,” added Ruggeri. “Our sponsors’ generosity helps bolster the support provided to more than 350 Apache projects and their communities. We look forward to expanding the Targeted Sponsorship program to meet the growing demand for Apache projects that build upon our mission of providing software for the public good.”

    CloudBees joins the following Targeted Sponsors:

    • Platinum — DLA Piper, JetBrains, Microsoft, OSU Open Source Labs, Sonatype, and Verizon Media;
    • Gold — Atlassian, The CrytpoFund, Datadog, PhoenixNAP, and Quenda;
    • Silver — Amazon Web Services, Hotwax Systems, and Rackspace;
    • Bronze — Bintray, Education Networks of America, Google, Hopsie, No-IP, PagerDuty, Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation, Sonic.net, SURFnet, and Virtru.

    To become an ASF Sponsor, please visit http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html

    About CloudBees

    CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product teams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation. CloudBees is the CI, CD and application release orchestration (ARO) powerhouse, built on the commercial success of its products as well as its open source leadership. CloudBees is the largest contributor to Jenkins and Jenkins X, and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.

    Over 3,500 of the world’s best-known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500 depend on CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom. CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts, helping thousands of companies harness the power of “continuous everything” and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.

    Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures, Delta-v Capital, Golub Capital and Unusual Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

    About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

    Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server —the world’s most popular Web server software. Through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as “The Apache Way,” more than 760 individual Members and 7,400 Committers across six continents successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation’s official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Anonymous, ARM, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Inspur, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, Oath, ODPi, Pineapple Fund, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, and Union Investment. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF

    © The Apache Software Foundation. “Apache”, “Apache HTTP Server”, and “ApacheCon” are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

  • Signal Sciences Releases Industry-First Application Protection Solution for Istio Service Mesh

    Integration expands company’s cloud-native security capabilities; Provides complete layer 7 protection for microservices architecture (MSA) applications

    Las Vegas — December 3, 2019 — Signal Sciences, the fastest growing web application security company in the world, today announced the general availability of the first application protection solution for Istio, the industry-leading open source service mesh for microservices architecture (MSA) applications. Signal Sciences continues to offer the first and only next-gen web application firewall (WAF) and runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration with both Envoy and Istio, protecting today’s modern applications in any cloud.

    Visit Signal Sciences at the AWS re:Invent conference Booth #3707 on December 2-5, 2019, in Las Vegas to learn more. For more information, visit  https://www.signalsciences.com/blog/join-us-at-aws-reinvent-2019/.

    In today’s software-driven world, some high performing companies are deploying new code thousands of times a day, according to DORA’s 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps report. Microservices usage has skyrocketed as these teams look to facilitate shorter development cycles, continuous releases and greater agility. Meanwhile, security management and visibility between services in a cloud-native application has become an increasingly complex task.

    By integrating Signal Sciences at the service mesh, organizations can easily gain visibility into both east-west and north-south traffic, and protect their MSA applications without requiring development teams to implement code changes. Furthermore, Signal Sciences’ attack detection — based on proprietary SmartParse technology — makes highly accurate, instantaneous decisions and does not need the constant tuning or configuration that legacy WAFs require. These integrations drastically simplify the deployment of Signal Sciences on containerized applications in Kubernetes environments and enable organizations to scale their protection easily.

    “Development teams are migrating their monolithic application architectures over to highly distributed, microservices foundations en masse,” said Jonathan DiVincenzo, vice president of product management at Signal Sciences. “While this industry-wide shift enables faster innovation and reduces time-to-market for new applications and features, the increased speed also means security capabilities must keep up rather than slow down engineering teams. Our integrations with Istio and Envoy empower these teams, enabling them to deliver quick value without sacrificing their security or visibility.”

    The Signal Sciences next-gen WAF and RASP technology delivers the only application security solution that works across any architecture and offers the most flexible deployment options. Fast and easy to implement, it protects close to 30,000 cloud-native, legacy, and serverless applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Organizations across all industries deploy Signal Sciences to protect their most important web applications, APIs, and microservices against the full spectrum of threats.

     

     

  • NTT DATA Services to Acquire Flux7 an AWS Premier Consulting Partner

    PLANO, Texas – Dec. 3, 2019 – NTT DATA Services, a recognized leader in global technology services, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Flux7, an IT services firm that improves business agility through IT delivery optimization and cloud-native application migration and modernization.

    Flux7, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner, provides cloud implementation and migration, automation, and DevOps consulting services for enterprises with significant experience in the financial services, pharmaceuticals, software, manufacturing and retail industries. As a result of the acquisition, NTT DATA will add a team of highly specialized experts, as well as scalable, proprietary DevOps intellectual property from Flux7, which was recently included on the Inc. 5000 list for the third consecutive year.

    “The acquisition of Flux7 will enhance the value we can deliver in AWS, DevOps, and Agile development capabilities, while aligning with our focus to drive digital services for our clients,” said Bob Pryor, CEO, NTT DATA Services. “With an excellent brand, industry recognition and impressive client base, as well as a strong record of growth, Flux7 is a strategic fit for our business and part of our ongoing strategy of growth through acquisition.”

    Flux7 brings an application-centric approach to cloud implementation projects with a focus on DevOps, Agile application development and migration. Coupled with NTT DATA’s established cloud lifecycle expertise, Flux7’s consulting and implementation capabilities will extend NTT DATA’s strength in public cloud to deliver clients the benefits of the AWS platform.

    “This opportunity will allow Flux7 and our clients to take advantage of NTT DATA’s expanded portfolio and resources, as well as the depth and expertise of a top 10 global IT services provider,” said Aater Suleman, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of Flux7, who will continue to lead the company’s day-to-day operations as part of NTT DATA. “Access to NTT’s global R&D, applications, infrastructure, and investments in digital transformation and innovation will also enable us to leverage complementary resources that accelerate modernization initiatives for our clients and bring improvements to our employee culture.”

    With the acquisition of Flux7, NTT DATA will strengthen its ability to refactor and replatform applications, while enhancing its modern development practices, such as microservices and serverless application architecture. Earlier this year, NTT DATA was also named a Leader in application modernization and migration services, as identified in the recent The Forrester WaveTM: Application Modernization and Migrations Services, Q3 2019.

    NTT DATA Services, which also recently announced acquisitions of Sierra Systems Group, Inc. and Cognosante Consulting, LLC, is a division of NTT DATA Corporation, a top 10 global business and IT services provider with more than 120,000 global employees, and part of NTT, a $107 billion company recently ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500.

    Layer 7 Capital served as Flux7’s exclusive financial advisor for this transaction. The acquisition is expected to close by Dec. 31, 2019 and is subject to customary closing conditions.

    About Flux7

    Flux7 is an IT services firm helping businesses to improve agility by designing, implementing and transferring knowledge to customers. By collaborating with customers to implement cloud automation using the latest technologies and strategies, Flux7 accelerates projects to support digital software innovation and operational excellence. Founded in 2013, Flux7 has delivered over 400 projects using DevOps strategies to over 170 enterprise companies spanning life sciences, automotive, manufacturing, financial, retail and other sectors. Learn how Flux7 helps businesses bring solutions to market faster.

  • Instana Delivers Automated Node.js Tracing for AWS Lambda Functions With Zero Code Modification

    Company to Provide End-to-End Tracing Across Multiple Serverless Functions and Server-Based Microservices

    Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent – December 3, 2019 – Instana, the leading provider of real-time application performance management solutions for microservice and cloud-native applications, today announced the ability to trace serverless Node.js functions running on AWS Lambda. The new capabilities, which require zero code modification, deliver superior native serverless tracing automatically, providing performance metrics beyond, and independently from, X-Ray.

    “As companies continue to push the envelope in creating smaller, more dynamic services, developers will use serverless functions more often, and in more critical applications,” said Mirko Novakovic, co-founder and CEO of Instana. “By providing Native Node.js tracing on AWS Lambda, Instana helps application stakeholders like DevOps see how individual functions are performing call by call, but also provides the necessary details developers need to make their code perform as expected.”

    The new capabilities are an extension of Instana’s unique AutoTrace™ feature, which captures end-to-end distributed traces of all requests with no sampling. The new serverless monitoring and tracing feature is included with Instana’s Application Performance Management solution for microservice and cloud-native applications, with no additional cost.

    “Application environments and the technologies utilized in these environments are always going to improve with advancements in platforms,” said Pavlo Baron, Instana CTO and co-founder. “Instana is committed to providing the most comprehensive visibility into applications and application platforms, all with the same best-in-class automation that our users have come to expect.”

    Instana AutoTrace for AWS Lambda is a big step forward for developers and DevOps teams responsible for developing, deploying and maintaining applications that include serverless functions built with Node.js. Key capabilities include:

    • Automated native tracing for AWS Lambda functions written in Node.js for all supported Node.js libraries and frameworks
    • Zero code modification, representing huge productivity gains for development, DevOps and operations teams
    • Tracing through other programming languages, platforms and deployments

    All data from Lambda function traces is seamlessly integrated into all Instana analysis capabilities including End User Monitoring, Unbounded Analytics™ and  Application Perspectives™. New functionality also includes out-of-the box contextual Lambda Function Overview Dashboards that include function name, function version, AWS region, interdependencies with other functions and services along with all other critical Lambda runtime metrics. Information from Instana’s Lambda Node.js tracing is combined with other performance information, including CloudWatch to provide the most comprehensive view of service health and performance.

    Unlike other APM solutions, Instana fully automates the entire lifecycle of application monitoring including application discovery and mapping, monitoring sensor and agent deployment and health monitoring of application infrastructure. When any changes occur to dynamic applications, Instana recognizes that a change has occurred, automatically makes the appropriate adjustments to maps, monitoring thresholds and health dashboards.

    Instana is highlighting the new Lambda serverless tracing capabilities at Amazon re:Invent in Las Vegas (booth #511). Visit https://instana.com/serverless for more information.

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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.