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  • Tricentis Named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation for Fifth Year in a Row

    Tricentis is positioned furthest to the right on the completeness of vision axis

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, December 2, 2019 – Tricentis, leader in Continuous Testing and software test automation, today announced that it has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation* research report for the fifth consecutive year. Tricentis is the only company that has been recognized as a Leader in each of the last five years. Tricentis was positioned furthest to the right on the completeness of vision axis for the third consecutive year.

    Complimentary report access: Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation.

    Digital Transformation Requires a Deep-Seated Transformation—Beyond Tools

    According to Gartner, “Application leaders driving DevOps initiatives require effective test automation to succeed.”*

    “Achieving optimized Continuous Testing isn’t as simple as selecting the ‘best’ test automation tool; it’s a journey that requires commitment to change,” explained Tricentis Founder and Chief Product Officer Wolfgang Platz. “At Tricentis, we’ve had the pleasure of guiding hundreds of top enterprises along this journey—in collaboration with many exceptional quality leaders.  In our opinion, being recognized as a Leader in software testing is shared equally with our customers and partners.  We feel that we would not have been recognized without their continued support and collaboration.”

    Additional Recognitions for Tricentis

    Tricentis was also was recognized as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Software Test Automation and scored the highest in the 2018 Gartner Critical Capabilities report for Software Test Automation for the Enterprise End-to-End Testing (3.84/5) and Progressive Web Apps/Responsive Web/Native App (3.83/5) Use Cases.

    “Over 1600 global organizations have adopted the Tricentis Continuous Testing Platform to accelerate Digital Transformation,” stated Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri. “In a market that’s dominated by testing tools, our approach to customer success is focused on testing transformation.  The reason for Tricentis’ strong growth is that we partner with our customers to transform their testing process—versus just selling them point tools. These leading enterprises are now consistently delivering differentiating customer/user experiences through software while their less advanced competitors are living on borrowed time.”

    *Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation,” Thomas E. Murphy, Joachim Herschmann, Jim Scheibmeir, November 25, 2019

    Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-user reviews, ratings, and data applied against a documented methodology; they neither represent the views of, nor constitute an endorsement by, Gartner or its affiliates.

    About Tricentis

    With the industry’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through agile test management and advanced test automation optimized to support over 150+ technologies, we provide automated insight into the business risks of your software releases–transforming testing from a roadblock to a catalyst for innovation. The result is accelerated software delivery speed, improved cost efficiency, and reduced business risk.

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “Leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown”). This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1600+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent–increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

    Tricentis has a global presence in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Poland, United States and the UK. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

     

  • Tricentis Founder Wolfgang Platz Releases Book, Enterprise Continuous Testing

    The book introduces a Continuous Testing strategy that helps Global 2000 enterprises transform software testing to meet the needs of fast-paced Agile and DevOps initiatives

     

    Vienna, Austria and Mountain View, Calif. – December 2, 2019 – Tricentis announced the publication of Enterprise Continuous Testing: Transforming Testing for Agile and DevOps, written by Tricentis Founder Wolfgang Platz and Cynthia Dunlop. This book is targeted to senior quality managers and business executives who need to achieve the optimal balance between speed and quality when delivering the software that drives the modern business. It provides a roadmap for how to accelerate delivery with high confidence and low business risk.

    “Even with the most extreme automation, the ‘test everything’ approach is not feasible…but actually, it’s not necessary or even desirable,” explained Wolfgang Platz. “If you rethink your approach to testing, you can get a thorough assessment of a release candidate’s business risk with much less testing than you’re probably performing today.”

    Enterprise Continuous Testing: Transforming Testing for Agile and DevOps introduces a Continuous Testing strategy that helps enterprises transform testing to meet the needs of fast-paced Agile and DevOps initiatives. Software testing has traditionally been the enemy of speed and innovation—a slow, costly process that delays releases while delivering questionable business value. This new strategy helps organizations test smarter, so testing provides rapid insight into what matters most to the business.

    All Profits to Benefit Specialisterne Austria, a Non-Profit Committed to Inclusion through Neurodiversity

    Tricentis is donating all proceeds from Enterprise Continuous Testing to Specialisterne Austria, a non-profit committed to identifying, qualifying, and enabling the employability of talent in the autism spectrum. Under the umbrella of the globally-active Specialisterne Foundation, they partner with corporations, training, and educational institutions to unlock the full potential of neurodiversity for innovation and business excellence.

    People with an autism spectrum condition are often great software testers because of their structured and analytical approach, detail-orientation, and perseverance. They quickly identify patterns and tend to find aberrations and mistakes that others miss. Yet, despite these strengths, between 60-80% of adults with autism are unemployed. Specialisterne has made it their mission to change that. Tricentis has been partnering with Specialisterne Austria since 2018 to provide state-of-the-art Software Tester Training for these talented individuals who are otherwise easily overlooked.

    “The exceptional involvement of Wolfgang Platz and his team allows our candidates to acquire sought-after testing skills that build on their individual strengths and meet market needs,” explained Markus Kalbhenn, Member of the Managing Board of Specialisterne Austria. “The quality of this training has been instrumental to the incredible success of this program. We are very honored to have Tricentis as our partner and to see this joint commitment strengthened yet again.”

    Book Publication Details

    • Print copies can be purchased from com, Amazon.de, and other Amazon marketplaces.
    • Kindle versions can also be purchased from the same Amazon marketplaces. For the remainder of this week, digital copies are priced at 1.99 USD or EUR.
    • The PDF can be downloaded for free from the Tricentis Enterprise Continuous Testing site.

     

    About Wolfgang Platz

    Wolfgang Platz is the Founder and Chief Product Officer of Tricentis. Wolfgang is the force behind innovations such as model-based automation and the linear expansion test design methodology.  The technology he developed drives Tricentis’ Continuous Testing Platform, which is recognized as the industry’s #1 solution by all top analysts. Today, he is responsible for advancing Tricentis’ vision to make resilient enterprise automation a reality across Global 2000 organizations.

    Prior to Tricentis, Wolfgang was at Capgemini as a group head of IT development for one of the world’s largest IT insurance-development projects. There, he was responsible for architecture and implementation of life insurance policies and project management for several projects in banks.

    Wolfgang holds a Master’s degree in Technical Physics as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Technology.

    About Tricentis

    With the industry’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through agile test management and advanced test automation optimized to support 150+ technologies, we provide automated insight into the business risks of your software releases—transforming testing from a roadblock to a catalyst for innovation. The result is accelerated software delivery speed, improved cost efficiency, and reduced business risk.

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown.”) This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1600+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

    Tricentis has a global presence in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Poland, United States and the UK. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

     

  • Accenture Launches myNav, Cloud Platform to Help Enterprises Navigate the Cloud Landscape

    myNav assesses, designs and simulates cloud solutions to accelerate business transformation

    NEW YORK; Nov. 26, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today launched myNav, a cloud platform that helps organizations design and simulate different cloud solutions to identify the ones that best fit their specific business requirements.

    Identifying the right cloud solution can be complicated, as there are multiple cloud providers and cloud models, including public, private, multi and hybrid. Further, many companies spend significant time and money migrating applications and data centers to the cloud only to find that the applications don’t always operate optimally. Accenture research shows that nearly two-thirds of companies are not seeing the expected benefits from their cloud migration initiatives.

    myNav evaluates multiple variables — including an organization’s technology infrastructure, applications, data, operational model and business outcomes — to identify the right solution for enterprises, then simulates it at scale to confirm its viability and refine the business case. By providing a customized roadmap, myNav enables organizations to maximize the return on their current and future cloud technology investments. For example, myNav recommends the application transformation approach for clients to accelerate their innovation in the cloud.

    “We built myNav based on our knowledge repository of more than 30,000 cloud projects and over 80 industry solutions deployed worldwide in nearly every industry,” said Bhaskar Ghosh, group chief executive of Accenture Technology Services. “myNav uses this repository to simulate optimal and scalable cloud architectures and solutions. By providing a more informed view and a calibrated cloud strategy for business transformation, myNav helps clients compete more effectively in today’s data-driven, cloud-enabled economy.”

    myNav provides a recommended cloud target through a three-step process:

    • Scanning and assessing the client’s existing infrastructure, application and data landscape and recommending the most appropriate cloud architecture and solution;
    • Using an automated artificial intelligence (AI) engine to interact with Accenture’s library of collective cloud expertise and recommend an enterprise architecture and solution; and
    • Simulating and testing the scaled-up model of the client’s recommended cloud solution to identify the value and help build the business case for an optimal solution for their business requirements.

    “Enterprises need solutions to not only ease their initiatives of ‘migrate to and transform in the cloud but also bring certainty in their cloud journey,” said Yugal Joshi, vice president at Everest Group. “They are struggling in deriving value from cloud as they are not able to deeply assess what will work for them. As multi-cloud strategies become increasingly important, enterprises will need to have better migration approaches to ensure ROI from cloud initiatives. The key is to bring conviction in cloud adoption by learning from other adopters, leveraging advanced data insights, and creating contextualized cloud adoption strategies that can predict and guide what will work, what will not, and what are the changes needed for a transformative cloud journey.”

    Unique in the market, myNav is the only platform that enables organizations to discover, assess, design and simulate end-to-end cloud solutions at scale.

    Accenture has supported cloud computing projects for 80% of the Fortune Global 100 across 68 countries and has trained more than 84,000 professionals on cloud technologies and architectures. The company has been innovating in cloud technology for a decade and holds more than 300 granted patents and pending applications across its global cloud portfolio.

     

  • Fugue Announces Free Tier to Empower Engineers to Build and Operate Secure Cloud Systems

    Fugue Developer provides automation tools to visualize cloud infrastructure, identify misconfiguration risks, and demonstrate compliance

    Frederick, Md. – November 21, 2019 – Fugue, the company delivering autonomous cloud infrastructure security and compliance to the enterprise, today announced Fugue Developer, a free tier that puts engineers in command of cloud security through the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Fugue Developer provides automation tools to visualize cloud infrastructure, detect misconfiguration risks and policy violations, understand infrastructure change, and demonstrate compliance.

    Cloud misconfiguration is the number one cause of cloud-based data breaches, and traditional cloud security has failed to address it while frustrating developers with overbearing constraints and time-consuming manual processes. Fugue recognizes that engineers own the security of their cloud infrastructure, and Fugue Developer empowers them with the tools they need to build and operate securely in highly dynamic and regulated cloud environments.

    “A lot of attack vectors are exploited via cloud misconfiguration, said Carl Alleyne, senior DevOps engineer at New Light Technologies. “Fugue gives DevOps engineers and administrators a leg up on cloud asset management and configuration drift detection.”

    Fugue Developer enables engineers to:

    • Auto-generate visualization diagrams of cloud infrastructure and inspect resource configurations and relationships
    • Identify cloud misconfiguration risks and policy violations at every stage of the SDLC and get rich feedback to quickly correct them
    • Demonstrate cloud infrastructure compliance for CIS Foundations Benchmarks, Fugue Best Practices, and custom policies
    • Monitor changes to cloud infrastructure to understand the impact on the security and compliance posture of their environment
    • Protect security-critical cloud resources with drift detection and automated remediation without the burdens of scripts and bots

    “The cloud upended traditional IT security, forcing hard tradeoffs between agility and security that results in neither while impeding those in a position to make a difference—software developers,” said Phillip Merrick, CEO of Fugue. “Fugue Developer puts cloud security in the hands of the developers building and maintaining cloud-based systems so they can free themselves of these frustrations once and for all.”

    Fugue Developer provides an API and CLI to automate infrastructure policy validations and integrate cloud security in CI/CD pipelines, and a rich GUI for dynamic, exportable visualizations that can handle at-scale cloud environments. Fugue Developer supports custom rules using the open source Rego policy language and Open Policy Agent (OPA) engine. Out-of-the-box support is provided for CIS Foundations Bechmarks for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, and the Fugue Best Practices Framework for identifying advanced cloud misconfiguration vulnerabilities.

    Fugue Developer is available now for individual engineers here. Customers receive a 30-day free trial of Fugue Enterprise, after which they can choose to purchase Fugue Enterprise or transition to Fugue Developer. Fugue Enterprise supports unlimited users and environments, and additional out-of-the-box support for NIST 800-53, PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001. Fugue is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product.

    About Fugue

    Fugue is enterprise cloud security developed for engineers, by engineers. Fugue prevents cloud misconfiguration, ensures continuous compliance with enterprise security policies, and provides full visibility into the security posture of AWS and Azure cloud environments. Fugue automates compliance validation for CIS Foundations Benchmarks, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, PCI, and SOC 2. Customers such as PBS, Sparkpost, SAP NS2, and TrueCar trust Fugue to protect their cloud environments. Fugue’s investors include New Enterprise Associates, Future Fund, and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Fugue is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner and a Launch Partner in the AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency Program in the Governance category. Fugue has twice been named a CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award winner and a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing. To learn more, visit www.fugue.co.

  • Tasktop Announces More Than 23,000 Copies of Dr. Mik Kersten’s Best-Selling Project to Product Book Sold in First Year

    Founder & CEO’s Book Defines the Roadmap for Digital Transformation

     

    VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 20, 2019 — Tasktop, the leader in Value Stream Integration and Management, today provided first-year sales figures for Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, the best-selling book by Tasktop Founder & CEO Dr. Mik Kersten.

    Kersten has become the global authority on helping enterprise organizations transition from project management to product-oriented software innovation. His book introduces the Flow Framework™ as a new way of building an infrastructure for innovation to change the way enterprises approach software delivery. Based on his work with Fortune 100 enterprises, he provides a new managerial approach to help organizations better understand the human and system dynamics that underpin their IT infrastructure.

    The book has sold 23,000 copies in the past year and remains on Amazon’s Top 10 Information Management bestseller list.

    Kersten, along with other employees of Tasktop, has delivered presentations about concepts in Project to Product at more than 56 events worldwide within the past year. All author proceeds from the book go to supporting non-profit programs focused on diversity, women, and minorities in technology.

    Reflecting on the past year, Kersten said, “I have been amazed by the reception of Project to Product. Working with IT Revolution Press, we set a goal of ten thousand lifetime copies of the book, and more than doubled that in the first year. This speaks to the urgency and the need for enterprise organizations to get their digital transformations on track and become software innovators before it is too late. I am thrilled that my experience in the trenches and the Flow Framework are arming so many technology leaders with new tools to fight and win on the battleground of digital disruption.”

    Anna Noak, editorial director, Publishing at IT Revolution Press, LLC added, “IT Revolution acquired Project to Product because it is a game-changing book and, as a publisher who strives to get cutting edge content to our readers, we knew that this book would become a must-read for those who are on the front lines of the Digital Revolution. We are incredibly proud to have this book in our list and are pleased to be a part of getting it into the hands of readers.”

    More information about upcoming presentations can be viewed here, as well as how to request Dr. Kersten as a keynote at a conference or internal corporate event here. To download an excerpt from Project to Product, click here.

    About Tasktop

    Tasktop — a leader in Value Stream Integration and Management — automates and visualizes the flow of product-critical information across the software delivery value stream, from initial customer request to delivery, and back through the customer feedback loop for continuous improvement. Tasktop Hub integrates 60 best-of-breed tools, breaking through silos such as business planning, development, support and operations, and turns those weeks of wait time into seconds. Tasktop Viz allows enterprise organizations to see where the bottlenecks are across thousands or tens of thousands of IT staff, and to remove those bottlenecks with Tasktop Hub. Together, the two tools provide the data-driven visibility and infrastructure needed to survive and thrive through a large-scale digital transformation. The backbone of the most impactful Agile and DevOps transformations worldwide, the company’s customers are the global leaders in financial services, insurance, government and manufacturing, many of whom are in the Fortune 100, including 11 of the world’s top banks, the top six health plans and four of the top 10 US insurance companies.

     

  • DevOps Institute Announces ‘Global SKILup Day’ Agenda For December 10

    New speakers confirmed to lead ‘how-to’ DevOps sessions on SRE, BizDevOps, Agile service management, soft skills and much more at the world’s first continuous learning virtual upskilling event

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – November 20, 2019 – DevOps Institute, a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, has finalized the agenda for Global SKILup Day on December 10. Global SKILup Day is the world’s first open and continuous non-stop virtual learning event, streamed across geographies and time zones around the globe. The event is dedicated to upskilling and is based on the S-K-I-L Framework: Skills, Knowledge, Ideas, and Learning.

    See the full agenda at (https://devopsinstitute.com/globalskilupday/schedule/).

    Presentations aim to advance the human elements of DevOps through unique and actionable ‘how-to’ sessions. Domain experts and DevOps practitioners will lead sessions that cover the most needed areas for skilling today, such as Cloud-native, Microservices, Kubernetes, digital transformation, value stream mapping, DATAOps, ITSM, SRE and more.

    “Global SKILup Day is a unique opportunity for Humans of DevOps around the globe to team up and spend a day getting upskilled,” said Jayne Groll, CEO at DevOps Institute. “Our committee worked hard to cultivate an agenda that offers ‘how-to’ sessions on the most in-demand soft and technical skills. Global SKILup Day empowers DevOps practitioners and professionals to not only advance their skillsets but to become well-equipped with the knowledge that drives business transformation.”

    Register and save your virtual seat at (https://devopsinstitute.com/globalskilupday/).

    In addition, Global SKILup Day organizers and speakers are hosting a CrowdChat today, November 20, at 7:00am PT / 10:00am ET / 3:00pm GMT. To spend an hour previewing the live event and to discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding upskilling, join the conversation by visiting (https://www.crowdchat.net/chat/c3BvdF9vYmpfMzAzOQ==).

    Several speakers have been added to finalize the agenda for Global SKILup Day:

    • Enrique Carbonell, operations engineer & DevOps advocate, Pyxis –  LATAM*
    • Niladri Choudhuri, founder and CEO of Xellentro – India*
    • Paul Colmer, digital architect, coach and trainer, ALC Training and Consulting – Australia*
    • Sean Davis, chief transformation evangelist, Equifax – USA*
    • Felipe Dueñas, consultor en alineación estratégica negocios-procesos-tecnología, agile-fd – LATAM
    • Rose Dyson, lead instructor for DevOps and ITIL, DDLS – APAC*
    • Aymen El Amri, founder, Faun – Europe*
    • Suresh GP, managing principal, CC&C Solutions –  APAC*
    • Jayne Groll, CEO, DevOps Institute – Americas
    • BMK Laskshminarayanan, solutions architect, Bank of New Zealand – APAC
    • Amanda Mattos, DevOps/software consultant, ThoughtWorks – LATAM*
    • Dheeraj Nayal, global community ambassador, DevOps Institute – APAC
    • Shaun Norris, field CIO, APJ at Pivotal Software – APAC
    • Daniel Oh, principal technical product marketing manager, Red Hat – APAC*
    • DJ Schleen, DevSecOps, Sonatype – USA*
    • Sanjeev Sharma, VP, global practice director – data modernization and strategy, Delphix*
    • Anders Wallgren, VP of technology strategy, CloudBees – Americas

    *DevOps Institute Ambassador

     

    More Ways to Contribute to Upskilling

    The DevOps Institute’s “2020 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills” Survey is open until December 22, 2019. For every completed survey, the DevOps Institute will donate $1 to Teach for All to support underserved pockets of youth around the world. Completed surveys help the DevOps community better understand DevOps skilling and cross-skilling among the global IT community. Take the survey at https://info.devopsinstitute.com/2020-upskilling-survey.

     

    Share This: Drop everything and check out the @GlobalSKILupDay agenda! You don’t want to miss this full-day of FREE non-stop continuous learning: https://devopsinstitute.com/globalskilupday/schedule/ #Upskilling #DevOps #GlobalSKILupDay

     

    About the DevOps Institute
    DevOps Institute is dedicated to advancing the human elements of DevOps success. As a global member-based association, DevOps Institute is the go-to learning hub connecting IT practitioners, education partners, consultants, talent acquisition and business executives to help pave the way to support digital transformation and the New IT.

    We help advance careers and support emerging practices within the DevOps community based on a human-centered SKIL framework, consisting of Skills, Knowledge, Ideas, and Learning.  All of our work, including accreditations, research, events, and continuous learning programs – is focused on providing the “human know-how” to modernize IT and make DevOps succeed.

  • Cloudbees Is A Launch Partner For Google Cloud Run As Product Goes Ga

    Industry Leaders Collaborate to Offer Streamlined Deployment of Containerized Applications, Better Access to CloudBees Solutions on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace

     

    GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT, LONDON AND SAN JOSE, CA. – November 20, 2019 – CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced an extension of its partnership with Google. As a Google Cloud Run launch partner, CloudBees will offer developers more flexibility in their deployment of containerized applications. Additionally, the availability of four CloudBees solutions – CloudBees Core, CloudBees Jenkins Distribution, CloudBees Jenkins Support and CloudBees Accelerator – on GCP Marketplace makes it easier than ever to acquire cutting-edge CloudBees and Google Cloud DevOps technologies to create, deploy and manage high-quality software.

    GroupM has implemented CloudBees Core and GCP technology to accelerate its DevOps transformation. “In our business, we have to be agile to ensure we are always serving the right ad to the right person,” said Moshiur Khondokar, director of engineering at GroupM. “Combining the unlimited scalability of Google Cloud with CloudBees’ speed, quality and security gives us an advantage as we continuously grow our addressable advertising capabilities to support our clients globally.”

    Google Cloud Run is a serverless compute platform that abstracts away infrastructure management, freeing up developers to concentrate on building great applications. For the first time, CloudBees Core users can deploy stateless containers to Google Cloud Run directly from Kubernetes. This streamlines the development process, reducing time and stress. Additionally, because Google Cloud Run charges only for resources used, customers can now deploy easily and avoid unnecessary costs from overprovisioned resources.

    “CloudBees is delivering key DevOps capabilities to empower developers to write code their way, and we’re delighted to offer their solutions via Google Cloud Platform Marketplace,” said Manvinder Singh, director, partnerships at Google Cloud.

    GCP Marketplace offers more than 160 popular development stacks, solutions and services optimized to run on Google Cloud Platform and instantly accessible. CloudBees has also announced the availability of CloudBees Core, CloudBees Jenkins Distribution, CloudBees Jenkins Support and CloudBees Accelerator on GCP Marketplace. Making these offerings available on the Marketplace removes another layer of complexity, enabling customers to deploy applications quickly as well as consolidate payment for GCP services and CloudBees solutions onto one bill.

    “In today’s fast-paced business environment, enterprises are looking for any way they can to reduce friction,” said Jason Mero, vice president of business development and strategic alliances at CloudBees. “Partnering with Google Cloud, we have cleared the way for organizations to build and run applications their way, using the best technologies, operating with optimal efficiency. Developers can work with the peace of mind that they can build and deploy containerized applications on their platform of choice while accessing all the benefits of CloudBees’ turnkey, elastic, Jenkins as a Service resource.”

     

    Additional Resources

    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.

     

  • Vista Equity Partners Acquires Majority Interest in DevOps Leader Sonatype

    Partnership to Accelerate Global Growth and Innovation for Automating Open Source Governance and Software Supply Chain Hygiene

    FULTON, MD., Nov. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sonatype, the company that scales DevOps through open source governance and software supply chain automation, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a leading investment firm focused on empowering and growing enterprise software, data and technology-enabled companies that are reinventing industries and catalyzing change. The partnership with Vista will allow Sonatype to further fast-track growth and enhance its Nexus product portfolio. Several of Sonatype’s existing investors will retain a stake in the company.

    “Vista’s standing as the preeminent investment firm and their commitment to growth and innovation perfectly aligns with our passion for helping businesses build software faster and more securely,” said Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype. “This acquisition is a testament to our outstanding team and clear validation of our vision, strategy, and execution in empowering developers to leverage the power of open source, while optimizing the hygiene of their software supply chain.”

    Sonatype has been one of the fastest growing companies in North America, with annual revenue growth close to 250% over the past three years. More than 60 of the Fortune 100 companies depend on Sonatype’s Nexus products and OSS solutions to automate the modern software supply chain including, 8 of the top 10 US and European banks, 8 of the top 10 US credit card companies, 7 of the top 10 US tech companies, and 4 out of 5 U.S. Armed Forces.

    Sonatype is the world’s premier provider of open source health and hygiene data, called Nexus Intelligence. This data is aggregated from a vast number of public and private sources utilizing sophisticated machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is then curated with human expertise and infused into a suite of Nexus products to help software engineering teams make better decisions, innovate faster, and rest comfortably knowing that their applications always consist of the highest quality open source components.

    “Open source tools are an invaluable resource that enable companies and developers to keep up with the demand to deliver software applications at a rapidly accelerating pace,” said Patrick Severson, Principal at Vista Equity Partners. “Wayne and his team have built an impressive business and an innovative portfolio of products that empower software development teams to continuously innovate responsibly and with the highest quality and most secure open source across every stage of the digital supply chain. We are pleased to partner with Sonatype as they continue to grow their company in the large and rapidly expanding DevOps market.”

    Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Sonatype, and King & Spalding LLP and Morrison & Foerster LLP served as the company’s legal advisors. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Vista, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to the firm.

    About Sonatype

    Sonatype is the leader in software supply chain automation technology with more than 300 employees, over 1,000 enterprise customers, and is trusted by over 10 million software developers.  Sonatype’s Nexus platform enables DevOps teams and developers to automatically integrate security at every stage of the modern development pipeline by combining in-depth component intelligence with real-time remediation guidance.

    For more information, please visit Sonatype.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

    About Vista Equity Partners

    Vista is a U.S.-based investment firm with offices in Austin, Chicago, New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco and more than $52 billion in cumulative capital commitments. Vista exclusively invests in enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled organizations led by world-class management teams. As a value-added investor with a long-term perspective, Vista contributes professional expertise and multi-level support towards companies to realize their full potential. Vista’s investment approach is anchored by a sizable long-term capital base, experience in structuring technology-oriented transactions, and proven management techniques that yield flexibility and opportunity.

    For more information, please visit www.vistaequitypartners.com.

  • Memfault Emerges from Stealth, Announces $2.5M Funding Led by Uncork Capital and Launch of the First Cloud-Based Monitoring Solution for Hardware Devices

    Memfault Tackles IoT Bug Issues Head-on with First to Market Automated Diagnostics Solution for Embedded Software Developers; Early Customer Includes Hardware Giant Logitech

    San Francisco, CA – November 15, 2019 – Memfault, which provides the first cloud-based monitoring solution for hardware devices, announced the official launch of its platform as well as a seed round of $2.5M in funding led by Uncork Capital. S28 Capital and Y Combinator also participated in the round.

    Memfault’s founders are engineers from Fitbit, Oculus and Pebble, and its lead investor, Uncork Capital, is run by Jeff Clavier, whose investments include Fitbit, Sendgrid, Eventbrite, and Mint among others. With decades of hardware experience between its founders and investors, the company was uniquely positioned to build the first cloud-based monitoring tool to help hardware teams catch, triage, and fix bugs in the field before they are discovered by end users.  Early customers using the platform include hardware companies Logitech and Proxy.

    “Memfault is providing us with detailed performance analytics on our devices and is able to give us valuable insight such as identifying the number of devices affected by the same issue so we can understand the scale of a problem, something that was impossible to determine beforehand,” said Karthik Rajagopal, Director of Software Engineering at Logitech.  “Memfault can also pinpoint down to the line of code where the problem lies so we don’t waste time trying to determine how to fix the issue once it’s already in the hands of customers.  Before Memfault, we could only learn the symptoms of the issue without details on the origin of it, making it harder and slower to fix bugs.   We’ve just begun working with Memfault, but we can tell its tool will save our developers many hours each week and put better performing products in the hands of our end users.”

    Most hardware companies today do not find out something is wrong until a customer calls or tweets. This is enormously labor intensive, and often raises the alarm too late to contain the damage. As IoT continues to grow, with 20 billion connected devices projected for 2020, manually monitoring every device in the field and triaging every issue reported by customers becomes intractable.

    “As the number of devices and the complexity of software grows, hardware teams need more advanced diagnostics tools,” said Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital,  “We have spent a long time in this industry working with hardware companies managing millions of devices in the field, and no one but Memfault is targeting the critical diagnostic issue they are facing.  We are excited to work with Memfault’s executive team who hail from leading hardware companies to tackle the issue of automatically catching and fixing bugs on hardware devices before they impact end users.”

     

    How it Works

    Memfault acts as an early alert system; companies use Memfault’s software to incrementally roll out their firmware updates and immediately get notified of issues before they impact the entire fleet.

    The company’s SDK connects into low level diagnostics features available in all connected devices and streams that data back to their cloud where it is analyzed.  Memfault’s backend identifies, classifies, and deduplicates error reports so engineers know what issues are most prevalent, and where the fault lies exactly, without needing to collect affected devices back from customers.

    “Memfault gives us detailed event recording and visual metrics analytics for our device performance so we can proactively address any issues,” said Lance Cohen, Director of Engineering at Proxy.  “Prior to Memfault we relied on Slack to communicate about product issues, but the Memfault dashboard makes it very easy to identify issues at a quick glance and collaborate with teammates on resolutions.   What mobile app developers have had for performance and stability analytics is finally now coming to hardware devices, and we’re excited to see new features like alerts rolled out on the Memfault platform in the coming weeks so we can continue to be proactive in putting the best performing devices for mobile access in the hands of our customers.”

    “Great engineers gain leverage through great tooling,” said Andrew Miklas, Partner at S28 Capital and Co-Founder of PagerDuty.  “Despite the explosion of the IoT market, the tools available to firmware engineers severely lag those used by their software engineering counterparts.  Memfault is changing this by making rapid iteration possible in the firmware development process.  We’re very excited to join François and his team on this journey.”

    “At Memfault, we treat hardware companies like they are software companies and have built diagnostic tools specifically for developers,” said François Baldassari, CEO of Memfault.   “Our years of experience at major hardware companies gave us insight into the widespread problem of firmware bugs for these businesses.  With the proliferation of connected devices and more complex applications squeezed onto chips, it has become nearly impossible for hardware firms to keep up with bugs and get them fixed before the software is rolled out.  Memfault can come in and automatically detect and fix those bugs before they ever reach end users, which can save thousands if not millions of dollars for hardware companies. We are excited for the support of industry veteran Jeff Clavier and his team, as well as S28 Capital and Y Combinator as we quickly scale this business to meet the needs of these growing device companies.”

    About Memfault

    Memfault is the first cloud-based monitoring solution for hardware devices. The company helps hardware teams catch, triage, and fix bugs in the field before they are noticed by end users. Consumer electronics, industrial automation, and IoT businesses rely on Memfault to move faster without compromising on stability and reliability. The company was founded by engineers with decades of experience from Fitbit, Oculus, and Pebble. Memfault is backed by Uncork Capital, S28 Capital and Y Combinato

  • Memfault Emerges from Stealth, Announces $2.5M Funding Led by Uncork Capital and Launch of the First Cloud-Based Monitoring Solution for Hardware Devices

    Memfault Tackles IoT Bug Issues Head-on with First to Market Automated Diagnostics Solution for Embedded Software Developers; Early Customer Includes Hardware Giant Logitech

    San Francisco, CA – November 15, 2019 – Memfault, which provides the first cloud-based monitoring solution for hardware devices, announced the official launch of its platform as well as a seed round of $2.5M in funding led by Uncork Capital. S28 Capital and Y Combinator also participated in the round.

    Memfault’s founders are engineers from Fitbit, Oculus and Pebble, and its lead investor, Uncork Capital, is run by Jeff Clavier, whose investments include Fitbit, Sendgrid, Eventbrite, and Mint among others. With decades of hardware experience between its founders and investors, the company was uniquely positioned to build the first cloud-based monitoring tool to help hardware teams catch, triage, and fix bugs in the field before they are discovered by end users.  Early customers using the platform include hardware companies Logitech and Proxy.

    “Memfault is providing us with detailed performance analytics on our devices and is able to give us valuable insight such as identifying the number of devices affected by the same issue so we can understand the scale of a problem, something that was impossible to determine beforehand,” said Karthik Rajagopal, Director of Software Engineering at Logitech.  “Memfault can also pinpoint down to the line of code where the problem lies so we don’t waste time trying to determine how to fix the issue once it’s already in the hands of customers.  Before Memfault, we could only learn the symptoms of the issue without details on the origin of it, making it harder and slower to fix bugs.   We’ve just begun working with Memfault, but we can tell its tool will save our developers many hours each week and put better performing products in the hands of our end users.”

    Most hardware companies today do not find out something is wrong until a customer calls or tweets. This is enormously labor intensive, and often raises the alarm too late to contain the damage. As IoT continues to grow, with 20 billion connected devices projected for 2020, manually monitoring every device in the field and triaging every issue reported by customers becomes intractable.

    “As the number of devices and the complexity of software grows, hardware teams need more advanced diagnostics tools,” said Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital,  “We have spent a long time in this industry working with hardware companies managing millions of devices in the field, and no one but Memfault is targeting the critical diagnostic issue they are facing.  We are excited to work with Memfault’s executive team who hail from leading hardware companies to tackle the issue of automatically catching and fixing bugs on hardware devices before they impact end users.”

    How it Works

    Memfault acts as an early alert system; companies use Memfault’s software to incrementally roll out their firmware updates and immediately get notified of issues before they impact the entire fleet.

    The company’s SDK connects into low level diagnostics features available in all connected devices and streams that data back to their cloud where it is analyzed.  Memfault’s backend identifies, classifies, and deduplicates error reports so engineers know what issues are most prevalent, and where the fault lies exactly, without needing to collect affected devices back from customers.

    “Memfault gives us detailed event recording and visual metrics analytics for our device performance so we can proactively address any issues,” said Lance Cohen, Director of Engineering at Proxy.  “Prior to Memfault we relied on Slack to communicate about product issues, but the Memfault dashboard makes it very easy to identify issues at a quick glance and collaborate with teammates on resolutions.   What mobile app developers have had for performance and stability analytics is finally now coming to hardware devices, and we’re excited to see new features like alerts rolled out on the Memfault platform in the coming weeks so we can continue to be proactive in putting the best performing devices for mobile access in the hands of our customers.”

    “Great engineers gain leverage through great tooling,” said Andrew Miklas, Partner at S28 Capital and Co-Founder of PagerDuty.  “Despite the explosion of the IoT market, the tools available to firmware engineers severely lag those used by their software engineering counterparts.  Memfault is changing this by making rapid iteration possible in the firmware development process.  We’re very excited to join François and his team on this journey.”

    “At Memfault, we treat hardware companies like they are software companies and have built diagnostic tools specifically for developers,” said François Baldassari, CEO of Memfault.   “Our years of experience at major hardware companies gave us insight into the widespread problem of firmware bugs for these businesses.  With the proliferation of connected devices and more complex applications squeezed onto chips, it has become nearly impossible for hardware firms to keep up with bugs and get them fixed before the software is rolled out.  Memfault can come in and automatically detect and fix those bugs before they ever reach end users, which can save thousands if not millions of dollars for hardware companies. We are excited for the support of industry veteran Jeff Clavier and his team, as well as S28 Capital and Y Combinator as we quickly scale this business to meet the needs of these growing device companies.”

    About Memfault

    Memfault is the first cloud-based monitoring solution for hardware devices. The company helps hardware teams catch, triage, and fix bugs in the field before they are noticed by end users. Consumer electronics, industrial automation, and IoT businesses rely on Memfault to move faster without compromising on stability and reliability. The company was founded by engineers with decades of experience from Fitbit, Oculus, and Pebble. Memfault is backed by Uncork Capital, S28 Capital and Y Combinator.