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  • Sauce Labs Announces First Wave of Speakers for SauceCon 2020; Early-Bird Registration Now Open

    Leading automation experts headline premier annual user conference for continuous testing

    SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sauce Labs, Inc., provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud, today announced the first wave of confirmed speakers for SauceCon 2020, with a diverse group of automated testing experts and practitioners set to present at the premier annual user conference for continuous testing. The company also officially opened early-bird registration for prospective attendees.
    On the heels of its largest audience ever in 2019, SauceCon returns to Austin, Texas from April 28-29, 2020, with an additional day of optional hands-on training and workshops on April 27. The first wave of confirmed speakers for SauceCon 2020 includes keynote addresses from Aled Miles, recently appointed CEO of Sauce Labs, and Diego Lo Giudice, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. Prospective attendees can now purchase early-bird tickets online and secure a spot in one of the limited-seating workshops.
    “We’re thrilled to have so many accomplished automated testing experts and practitioners already confirmed to present at SauceCon 2020, and are especially excited to have Diego back by popular demand to deliver a keynote address,” said Terri Avnaim, CMO, Sauce Labs. “What sets SauceCon apart is an agenda that offers practical, hands-on insight to help testing practitioners automate testing at enterprise scale, and that will again be the case in 2020.”
    Content for SauceCon 2020 will focus on the themes and challenges impacting today’s automated testing practitioners. Whether they’re beginners just getting started with automated testing, experienced practitioners looking to scale testing across their organization, or automation experts seeking tips and tricks for optimization in the mobile era, practitioners will find a wide range of sessions that align with where they are on their continuous testing journeys. Additional speakers of note already confirmed include:
    • Richard Bradshaw, Head of the Ministry of Testing
    • Jenny Bramble, Software Test Engineer, WillowTree
    • Titus Fortner, Senior Solutions Architect, Sauce Labs
    • Ashley Hunsberger, Director of Release Engineering, Blackboard
    • Angie Jones, Senior Developer Advocate, Applitools
    • Marcus Merrell, Director of Technical Services, Sauce Labs
    • Wim Selles, Solutions Architect, Sauce Labs
    • Hilary Weaver-Robb, Software Quality Assurance Architect, Quicken Loans
    The call for additional presenters for SauceCon 2020 remains open through November 3, 2019.
    SauceCon brings together the Sauce Labs user community and continuous testing experts from around the world. It provides attendees with practical learnings and live coding examples they can put into practice immediately in their own organizations. Following record attendance in 2019, more than 600 automated testing leaders, experts, and practitioners are expected to attend to share best practices and network with industry peers.
    For more information or to register to attend, visit the SauceCon 2020 website.
    About Sauce Labs
    Sauce Labs ensures the world’s leading apps and websites work flawlessly on every browser, OS and device. Its award-winning Continuous Testing Cloud provides development and quality teams with instant access to the test coverage, scalability, and analytics they need to rapidly deliver a flawless digital experience. Sauce Labs is a privately held company funded by Toba Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Centerview Capital Technology, IVP, Adams Street Partners and Riverwood Capital. For more information, please visit https://saucelabs.com.

  • Sauce Labs Announces Leadership Transition; Appoints Aled Miles as New CEO

    SAN FRANCISCO – October 1, 2019 – Sauce Labs Inc., provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud, today announced it has appointed Aled Miles, a technology industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Miles replaces Charles Ramsey, who is stepping aside to focus on family and personal interests after nearly 5 years of successful stewardship.

    Miles joins Sauce Labs at a time of unprecedented growth, with the company’s revenues growing by roughly 650% percent over the course of the past five years. Sauce Labs now counts more than 700 enterprise customers, and nearly 3 million tests are run each day across its continuous testing cloud platform, which spans thousands of browser/OS, mobile emulator, simulator and real device combinations.

    “I’m excited to lead Sauce Labs at a time when digital transformation has created an unprecedented market opportunity,” said Miles. “Sauce Labs has a diverse and passionate team and a loyal customer base that has made it the established leader in the growing continuous testing market. I look forward to empowering this team to continue delivering solutions that help organizations create flawless digital experiences for their customers.”

    Miles brings three decades of experience in enterprise IT, with an extensive focus on the development and implementation of SaaS delivery models. Miles was previously CEO at TeleSign, where he helped transform the company into a leading provider of platform-as-a-service-based customer identity and engagement solutions, and guided it through its successful sale to BICS, a telecommunications provider jointly owned by the Proximus Group, Swisscom and MTN.

    Previous to TeleSign, Miles was a senior vice president on the executive committee for Symantec Corp., where he oversaw the largest global enterprise accounts for the company and its flagship Norton business. He was also responsible for Symantec’s IoT and SaaS strategies. He currently sits on the board of directors for the leading Australian cybersecurity company Sapien.

    “Aled is the right leader to capitalize on the momentum we’ve built and propel Sauce Labs through the next phase of its growth,” said Ramsey. “I have every confidence that he will provide outstanding strategic direction, continue cultivating a diverse and empowered team of employees, and further the incredible customer-driven culture that sets Sauce Labs apart. I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished during my tenure and I look forward to the company’s continued growth under Aled’s leadership.”

    About Sauce Labs

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

     

  • BMC Appoints Technology Leader Ayman Sayed as President and CEO

    HOUSTON – October 1, 2019 – BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today announced that Ayman Sayed has joined BMC as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Sayed succeeds Bob Beauchamp, who joined BMC as interim CEO in April 2019 and will continue his service to the company as Chairman of the Board.

    Sayed recently served as the President and Chief Product Officer of CA Technologies, where he was responsible for the vision, strategy, and development of the company’s portfolio of products and solutions, and led CA’s significant transformation into higher growth businesses. Previously, Sayed was a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for the software on which nearly every Cisco networking product runs.

    As CEO, Sayed will accelerate BMC’s focus on the disruptive technologies and innovations that drive BMC customers’ ongoing digital modernization, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, the convergence of IT service and IT operations management, and delivering self-managing mainframe environments.

    “I’m honored to join BMC, an iconic enterprise technology company. By delivering total value across an entire portfolio, BMC is uniquely positioned to help its customers navigate how to both run and reinvent their businesses to better serve their customers,” said Ayman Sayed, President and CEO, BMC. “Having been both a competitor and a customer, I’ve been impressed with the company’s innovation and growth over the years. I look forward to working with our dedicated leadership team and employees across the globe, and with Bob and our entire board of directors as we continue to innovate our portfolio and deliver the solutions and services that create value for our customers to help them succeed – today and well into the future.”

    “As a seasoned technology leader with sharp business acumen, Ayman is poised to take BMC to the next phase of its evolution. With Ayman at the helm, BMC is well-prepared to accelerate its already unprecedented growth,” said Herald Chen and John Park, members of BMC’s Board of Directors.  “We appreciate Bob’s leadership over the last few months and look forward to continuing to work with him as our Chairman of the Board.”

    For additional resources and assets, please visit the BMC media library.

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    About BMC

    BMC delivers software, services, and expertise to help more than 10,000 customers, including 92% of the Forbes Global 100, meet escalating digital demands and maximize IT innovation. From mainframe to mobile to multi-cloud and beyond, our solutions empower enterprises of every size and industry to run and reinvent their businesses with efficiency, security, and momentum for the future.

    BMC, the BMC logo, and BMC’s other product names are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc. or its affiliates, are registered or pending registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ©Copyright 2019 BMC Software, Inc.

     

     

     

  • Compuware Takes Mainframe Software Delivery Quality, Velocity and Efficiency to the Next Level with Topaz Advancements and OpenLegacy Integration

    Advanced Topaz for Total Test Reporting and Direct Access to OpenLegacy Platform from Topaz Workbench Speeds Software Delivery, Improves Application Quality, and De-risks Modernization Efforts

    – Improved Topaz for Total Test reporting, zAdviser dashboards and new support for complex programs that simplify test result analysis and improve software quality.

    – OpenLegacy integration with Topaz provides an end-to-end framework for modernizing cross-platform applications, speeding software delivery and enabling more accurate microservices-based API creation and comprehensive application analysis, debugging and testing.

    – Previously announced Day One support of the IBM z15, IBM z/OS V2.4, IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V6.3 and PL/I for z/OS V5.3.

    – These improvements enable large enterprises to overcome mainframe resource constraints, keep up with Agile software delivery requirements and build a mainframe-inclusive DevOps toolchain.

    DETROIT, Oct. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Compuware today announced enhancements to Topaz for Total Test and a partnership with OpenLegacy to help large enterprises speed mainframe software development and delivery while improving quality.

    This quarter also marks Compuware’s 20th consecutive delivery of new software, as well as enhancements to classic offerings and/or integrations every quarter since January 2015. During that time, Compuware has:

    • Evolved Topaz from an enterprise data management product to a full suite of force- multiplying solutions widely adopted by software developers
    • Forged collaborations with 18 state-of-the-art DevOps partners, including SonarSource, XebiaLabs, CloudBees (Jenkins) and BMC to enable customers to build mainframe-inclusive DevOps toolchains with their preferred tools of choice
    • Successfully integrated and advanced five acquisitions, further enabling customers’ ability to enhance their mainframe assets with cutting-edge solutions designed for today’s digital economy

    Ease, Speed and Improve Testing with Advanced Reporting, Dashboards and Complex Program Support

    Topaz for Total Test provides unit, functional, integration and regression testing, enabling application leaders to adopt a “shift left” approach to testing to improve application quality and development velocity and efficiency. When testing large, complex applications, the job of reviewing test results can be arduous and time-consuming. A new Eclipse-based report summarizes only the errors and failures so developers and testers can focus on understanding and resolving specific problems.

    zAdviser, a free service for Compuware customers, now provides advanced analytics for Topaz for Total Test users. A new dashboard provides a macro view of mainframe testing efforts. Development managers can quickly see what is being tested, if the tests are being leveraged within a DevOps pipeline, and success and failure rates—enabling teams to identify risks and continuously improve mainframe software development and delivery outcomes.

    The new release of Topaz for Total Test also includes improvements that enable unit testing to be applied to a larger range of programs. New support is included for complex programs that make advanced use of pointers, as well as virtualization for CICS APIs, return-codes, and accept statements.

    Speed On-platform Modernization with Topaz and OpenLegacy Integration

    OpenLegacy automates and accelerates microservices-based API creation, deployment, testing and maintenance for core systems. The OpenLegacy platform can now be accessed directly from Topaz Workbench, a familiar Eclipse-based IDE, providing developers with a common framework to create the API and to visualize, understand, debug and maintain their mainframe-connected applications.

    Using OpenLegacy and its microservices-based approach to create REST APIs on top of existing mainframe systems improves the reusability of an organization’s mainframe applications, allowing them to be used natively in modern architectures without complex intermediate layers of technology.

    Using the Topaz suite of products in conjunction with the OpenLegacy platform, developers can see exactly what mainframe code and data is available, understand code structure and logic, and visualize data relationships, so that the OpenLegacy-created REST API can be more precisely defined. Once created, developers can seamlessly debug and analyze the modernized code and data using Compuware’s full suite of Topaz products.

    “OpenLegacy’s microservices-based API platform provides more than a façade, as developers can work directly with the microservices in Compuware Topaz,” said Jason Bloomberg, president of analyst firm Intellyx. “The combination of the two vendors’ offerings thus gives mainframe developers unprecedented control and flexibility into their API implementations. This partnership empowers mainframe customers to incorporate mainframe applications into the modern, cloud-native world.”

    “The Compuware partnership is an example of the rapid expansion of OpenLegacy through horizontal, vertical, partner, and ISV channels, demonstrating how we can open doors for any company whose clients suffer legacy innovation issues,” said Zeev Avidan, Chief Product Officer, OpenLegacy.

    Day One Support for IBM Enterprise Software, Hardware and New Operating System

    Compuware previously announced Day One support for IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V6.3 and PL/I for z/OS V5.3 as well as the IBM z15 and IBM z/OS V2.4.

    Compuware collaborated with IBM to ensure that its solutions—including Abend-AID, File-AID, ISPW, Strobe, ThruPut Manager, Topaz and Xpediter—work for customers installing or upgrading to the new releases and hardware.

    “Compuware‘s Product Management and Engineering teams leverage Agile, DevOps, Lean and Value-Stream methods to create a continuous stream of value and integrations our customers care about,” said Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. “We are 100 percent focused on helping our customers mainstream the mainframe. After an unprecedented 20 consecutive quarters of keeping our bold promises to customers, it should be clear we are and always will be The Mainframe Software Partner for the Next 50 Years.”

    OpenLegacy
    OpenLegacy accelerates delivery of innovative digital services from legacy systems in days or weeks versus months. Our microservices-based API integration and management software reduces manual effort by automating API creation, simplifies the process by avoiding layers of complexity, and improves staff efficiency and API performance. Our software directly accesses and extends business logic to web, mobile or cloud innovations in the form of java objects, or as Rest APIs or SOAP. Most importantly, this process is not only fast, easy and secure, but also does not require special staff skills or changes to existing systems or architecture. Together, business and IT teams can quickly, easily and securely meet consumer, partner or employee demands for digital services without modernizing or replacing core systems. Learn why leading companies choose OpenLegacy at http://www.openlegacy.com.

    Compuware Corporation
    Compuware empowers the world’s largest companies to excel in the digital economy by fully leveraging their high-value mainframe investments. We do this by delivering highly innovative solutions that uniquely enable IT professionals with mainstream skills to manage mainframe applications, data, and platform operations. Learn more at compuware.com.

     

  • Micro Focus Advances Capabilities for DevOps in Latest Deployment Automation Release

    Update Enables Rapid Enterprise-wide Adoption for Release Teams and DevOps Transformation Projects

    Santa Clara, Calif. – September 30, 2019   Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced the general availability of Deployment Automation 6.3, offering new deployment improvements for its Release Orchestration solution set. The newly enhanced Micro Focus Deployment Automation product provides essential tooling for IT teams that are embracing the DevOps movement, as well as those actively looking to increase their software application release cadence.

    “As DevOps has become a primary driver for IT organizations delivering business critical software applications, the speed and frequency with which applications get enhanced directly impact how quickly a business can respond to customer requests, competitive moves and changing market conditions,” said Tal Levi Joseph, Vice President of Product Management for Application Lifecycle Management, Micro Focus. “With the latest release of Deployment Automation, teams can orchestrate complex deployments across all delivery environments with greater ease while also cutting down on costs and time.”

    Micro Focus Deployment Automation 6.3 New Features and Benefits:

    • Simplified, intuitive navigation helping novice users become productive in less time
    • Rapid enterprise-wide adoption among release teams with minimal training, reducing the time to automate application releases
    • Updated user interface with a consistent look and feel between other Micro Focus Application Delivery Management solutions
    • New plugin supporting Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Manager that provides seamless integration and a single source of truth ensuring deployed components are identical to those tested in preproduction environments

    The latest version of Micro Focus’ Deployment Automation technology enables companies to easily and quickly automate the deployments of application releases across physical, virtualized, and cloud environments.

    Micro Focus Deployment Automation 6.3 is now available to customers and will be demonstrated at booth 400 of the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas on October 28th.

    Additional Information

    For more information on the release of Micro Focus Deployment Automation 6.3, visit our product page.

    Join Micro Focus on LinkedIn and follow @MicroFocus Twitter.

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

     

  • Catchpoint Expands Executive Team With Veteran Sales and Marketing Hires

    New York, NY – (September 25, 2019) Catchpoint™, the leader in next-generation Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), today announced three new appointments to its executive team. Nik Koutsoukos is Catchpoint’s new Vice President of Product Marketing; Bill Eastman assumes the role of Vice President, Solution Engineering; and Josh Delisle has been appointed Vice President of Global Business Development.

    “The addition of Nik, Bill and Josh to our team rounds out our extensive bench and will help us maintain our category leadership in the months and years ahead,” says Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder of Catchpoint.

    Nik Koutsoukos is a 25-year veteran with extensive experience in marketing, product management, strategy development and GTM execution. He was previously Vice President of Product Marketing at Riverbed Technology, a position he held for over five years. Prior to Riverbed, Nik held senior-level positions at Empirix, Crossbeam Systems (acquired by Blue Coat) and 3Com. He is based in Catchpoint’s Boston office and reports to Catchpoint CEO Mehdi Daoudi.

    “Managing customer and employee digital experiences is more business critical and at the same time much more difficult than ever before, with services and applications more widely distributed and with end-user performance expectations very high and growing,” comments Nik Koutsoukos. “Catchpoint’s monitoring platform is purpose-built to cope with this growing complexity as our solution is as distributed as the services and end users it monitors. I am excited about the opportunity to help customers benefit from the value Catchpoint can deliver.”

    Bill Eastman is a solution engineering expert, having led teams in network (NPM), application (APM) and digital experience (DEM) monitoring. Bill was previously Director of Solutions Engineering, West, at Riverbed Technology. Before this, Bill was Associate Vice President, Solutions Engineering, at OPNET Technologies. Bill is based in Boise, Idaho and reports to Chief Revenue Officer Tim Blunt.

    “Digital Experience Monitoring is vital to ensure customer and employee success and brand integrity,” says Bill Eastman. “Recent internet instability shows how essential it is that organizations monitor their services from everywhere, including cloud, backbone, and last mile. Catchpoint’s eyes-everywhere approach enables our customers to be proactive and see how their applications are performing wherever end users are located.”

    Josh Delisle is an experienced sales leader with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Previously, he had been Director of Sales and North American New Business at Oracle; VP of Sales at FlowTraq, a Riverbed company; and VP of Worldwide Sales at CustomerGauge.  “As demand for Catchpoint’s solutions increases  worldwide, I am excited to help the company scale its world-class sales organization,” notes Delisle, who is based in Bedford, New Hampshire and also reports to Chief Revenue Officer Tim Blunt.

    About Catchpoint

    Catchpoint, the global leader in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), empowers business and IT leaders to protect and advance the experience of their customers and employees. In a digital economy, enabled by cloud, SaaS and IoT, applications and users are everywhere. Catchpoint offers the largest and most geographically distributed monitoring network in the industry – it’s the only DEM platform that can scale and support today’s customer and employee location diversity and application distribution. It helps enterprises proactively detect, identify, and validate user and application reachability, availability, performance and reliability, across an increasingly complex digital delivery chain. Industry leaders like Google, L’Oréal, Verizon, Oracle, LinkedIn, Honeywell, and Priceline trust Catchpoint’s out-of-the box monitoring platform, to proactively detect, repair, and optimize customer and employee experiences. Learn more at www.catchpoint.com/

  • Codefresh Revenue Grew 340% Year Over Year

    Codefresh surging on cloud-native migration tsunami

    Mountain View, CA, September 25, 2019 – Codefresh is on a steep growth curve, with a 340% increase in revenue over last year. An industry-wide sprint to cloud/hybrid-cloud, powered by cloud-native technology like Kubernetes, is driving dev teams to abandon legacy CI/CD for a modern automation platform. The first Kubernetes-native CI/CD, Codefresh has also doubled employees and expanded its global footprint over the past year. 

    With recent updates, Codefresh improved platform performance 20x. Codefresh is running millions of workflows and users are pushing hundreds of thousands of images equaling more than 200 Terabytes, not including on-prem customers using their own Docker registry providers.

    Much of the growth can be attributed to teams leaving legacy CI/CD tools like Jenkins. Teams moving to Codefresh can automate more of the CI/CD process, eliminate management headaches, and create scalable pipelines over their legacy counterparts. Increasingly, they choose Codefresh for its integrations into serverless, Kubernetes, and other microservices deployment environments.

    And there’s room for more growth as Codefresh’s recent survey, taken by hundreds of software engineers, operations managers, C-level executives, security engineers, DevOps engineers/administrators, software engineering managers, QA engineers, and software architects, indicated a plurality of engineering teams have automated less than 10% of the process from Git commit to code running in production. And every single respondent said automation was a major reason they don’t deploy faster.

    “Businesses are putting much more pressure on engineering teams to deliver software faster. In order to deliver on that promise, they have to adopt cloud, microservices, and automation,” said Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist for Codefresh. “As a result, customers are migrating to our Codefresh CI/CD platform because we have a great user experience and a simple migration path to faster development cycles.”

    Codefresh’s CI/CD platform provides automation for building, testing and deploying modern applications using Kubernetes, serverless and more. Development teams often see 24x faster engineering cycles when using Codefresh.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After launch in 2017, Codefresh has gained tens of thousands of users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.

  • 6 New Members Join The New Continuous Delivery Foundation Showcasing Broad Industry and Organizational Support

    Integration Platform-as-a-Service provider Boomi; DevOps platform Cycloid; the Association of DevOps Professionals, the DevOps Institute; Global commerce leader eBay; leading global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase; and Open Source components management company Whitesource increase membership to 33 members total

    SAN FRANCISCO, September 25, 2019 – The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous delivery, today announced the addition of six new members, spanning a wide range of expertise, with industry leaders in finance and e-commerce, cloud-based integration services, a DevOps professionals association, and specialists in DevOps and open source software management expertise.

    “The CDF is built on the strengths of our members. Each organization brings unique expertise and strengths that are critical to increasing our ability to reach an ever larger audience and guide the development of open source CD/CI and DevOps technologies moving forward,” said Dan Lopez, CDF program manager. “With this group of new members, we’ve significantly increased our reach in industry and in organizations that support DevOps development. Strong organizational support is key to extending support to open source projects and communities.”

    The six new General Members join Premier Members CapitalOne, CircleCI, Cloudbees, Google, Huawei, IBM, jFrog, Netflix and Salesforce in working together to make continuous delivery tools and processes as accessible and reliable as possible and grow the overall ecosystem.

    “Boomi has already adopted many continuous delivery practices and tools to empower development teams to achieve a faster, more frequent release cycles,” said Steve Wood, Boomi’s Chief Product Officer. “As a CDF member, Boomi will help shape industry specifications around pipelines, workflows and other CI/CD areas, as well as provide foundational support for CI/CD tools. We are honored to be a part of the foundation.”

    “As a DevOps platform, we are thrilled to join the CDF since Open Source and Continuous Delivery are keys in modules that we embed. At Cycloid, we believe in empowering people through our end-to-end DevOps platform in the respect of the prerogative of everyone: Dev, Ops, DevOps, Solution Architect, Presales, Project Manager. We simplify, centralize and generate the management of any tools, any apps and any platform to scale DevOps and Cloud adoption across the company. We care about decreasing time to delivery and improving software development,” Benjamin Brial, CEO and Founder at Cycloid.

    “DevOps Institute feels it is really important to support an initiative like the Continuous Delivery Foundation because we want to help nurture the human factors of Continuous Delivery success,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “If our goal is to help enable fast production flow – from ideas all the way to realization – we need to continuously upskill humans to deliver on the promise of innovation and disruption that automation and process improvement bring into the equation.”

    “eBay is very excited to join the CD Foundation, and we look forward to partnering with them to bring the benefits of CI/CD technology and DevOps mindset to developers everywhere,” said Gail Frederick, VP of Mobile and Developer Ecosystem. “Continuous delivery enables software development teams to increase velocity and maintain high quality. We can’t wait to work together to push technology forward.”

    “Increasing the velocity of our software delivery lifecycle is what enables development teams to iterate faster and, in turn, increase our output of innovative products and services for our customers and clients,” says A.J. Lang, JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Technology Officer. “Open source toolchain projects like Spinnaker and Jenkins are helping us achieve these efficiencies and have become increasingly relevant as we adopt modern development practices and execute our multi-cloud strategy. Our firm recognizes the power of open source and we look forward to collaborating closely with the CDF and influencing this community for the years to come.”

    “In today’s world, software development teams simply cannot develop software at today’s pace without using open source. We’re excited by the opportunity to join the industry’s top developers, users, and vendors to further CI/CD best practices and industry specifications, especially around open source usage and management.” Rami Sass, CEO of WhiteSource.

    Open source technologies such as Jenkins, JenkinsX, Spinnaker and Tekton, which are hosted by the CDF, help development teams from companies of all sizes and industries improve their speed and productivity when creating cloud-native, legacy infrastructure, mobile, IoT, and bare metal applications.

    CDF members have hosted multiple Continuous Delivery Summits this year, including events co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China, and the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019.

    Join us for the Continuous Delivery Summit (November 18-21, San Diego), details available soon.

    Additional CDF Resources

    About the Continuous Delivery Foundation

    Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time. The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) serves as the vendor-neutral home of many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous delivery, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker, as well as fosters collaboration between the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors to further continuous delivery best practices. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation.

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  • 2019 State of DevOps Report Reveals Shifting Security Left is Insufficient; Organizations Must Fundamentally Change How They Work Earlier in the Software Delivery Cycle

    Latest DevOps research provides guidance on how companies can improve security posture while releasing software faster

    PORTLAND, ORE.—September 25, 2019—Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today announced the findings of the 2019 State of DevOps Report. Over the past eight years, Puppet has surveyed over 33,000 technical professionals to develop the longest-standing and most widely referenced DevOps research in the industry. This year, nearly 3,000 respondents from around the world participated in the report, which was written by Puppet, CircleCI and Splunk Inc.

    The 2019 State of DevOps Report reveals patterns and practices that help organizations integrate security into the software development lifecycle. The report found that teams at higher levels of DevOps evolution have automated their security policies, and they involve the security experts in their organizations very early in the software development lifecycle — actually, from the planning and design phases. Twenty-two percent of the firms at the highest level of security integration have reached an advanced stage of DevOps evolution compared to only 6 percent of the firms with no security integration. These firms have achieved not only the ability to ensure customer data stays safe but also to drive new products to market faster.

    “The DevOps principles that drive positive outcomes for software development — culture, automation, measurement and sharing — are the same principles that drive positive security outcomes,” said Alanna Brown, Senior Director of Community and Developer Relations at Puppet and author of the State of DevOps report. “Organizations that are serious about improving their security practices and posture should start by adopting DevOps practices.”

    The survey found:

    • Security doesn’t have to take a back seat to feature delivery. Firms at the highest level of security integration are able to deploy to production on demand at a significantly higher rate than firms at all other levels of integration — 61 percent are able to do so. Compare this with organizations that have not integrated security at all: Fewer than half (49 percent) can deploy on demand.
    • Time to remediate vulnerabilities did not dramatically decrease at higher levels of security integration but it did slightly decrease. While very few firms are able to remediate vulnerabilities in less than one hour (7 percent of total respondents could), 11 percent of firms at the highest level of security integration are able to.
    • Cross-team collaboration builds confidence in an organization’s security posture. Eighty-two percent of survey respondents at firms with the highest level of security integration said their security policies and practices significantly improve their firm’s security posture. Compare this with respondents at firms with no security integration — just 38 percent had that level of confidence.
    • The more security is integrated into the software delivery lifecycle, the more delivery teams see security as a shared responsibility. Firms integrating security throughout the lifecycle are more than twice as likely to be able to stop a push to production for a medium security vulnerability to ensure their customers are protected from the risk or releasing insecure code.
    • Security integration is messy, especially in the middle stages of evolution. In these middle stages, security and delivery teams experience higher friction while collaborating, software delivery slows down, and audit issues both increase and require immediate attention. Friction is even higher for respondents who work in security jobs than those who work in non-security jobs. But, if they stick with it, security teams will reap the rewards of that hard work and start seeing quicker results —79 percent of the companies surveyed were in this stage.

    “It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that integrating security into the software delivery lifecycle requires intentional effort and deep collaboration across teams,” said Michael Stahnke, VP of Platform Engineering, CircleCI. “What did surprise me, however, was that the practices that promote cross-team collaboration had the biggest impact on the teams’ confidence in the organization’s security posture. Turns out, empathy and trust aren’t automatable.”

    “This year’s report reinforces Splunk’s belief on how important it is to take a collaborative and integrated approach to service delivery,” said Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate, Splunk. “The 2019 State of DevOps Report proves that aligning Development, IT Operations, SRE, Incident Response, Security, and Business Analytics teams across organizations enables all stakeholders to deliver improved, more secure software services.”

    Firms that have integrated security at all stages of delivery collaborate early, often and most importantly, deeply. The survey revealed the top five practices that improve security posture are:

    • Security and development teams collaborate on threat models.
    • Security tools are integrated in the development integration pipeline so engineers can be confident they’re not inadvertently introducing known security problems into their codebases.
    • Security requirements, both functional and non-functional, are prioritized as part of the product backlog.
    • Security experts evaluate automated tests, and are called upon to review changes in high-risk areas of the code (such as authentication systems, cryptography, etc.).
    • Infrastructure-related security policies are reviewed before deployment.

    The full 2019 State of DevOps Report is available for download at http://puppet.com/state-of-devops.

    *Report Methodology
    The survey collected data from technical professionals with a working knowledge of their IT operations and software delivery process. A third-party research firm, OnResearch, hosted the survey and conducted the data analysis. The resulting report was written by Puppet, CircleCI and Splunk. Splunk participation involved providing analysis and commentary to the report findings. All other opinions and writings in the report were completed by Puppet and CircleCI.

    Supporting Quotes

    “Puppet’s State of DevOps report provides outstanding insights into the ongoing challenges of integrating security and DevOps teams,” said Andrew Plato, CEO, Anitian. “While the report outlines many problems, it also highlights the gains that arise when DevOps and security are fully integrated. These benefits include increased security effectiveness, more robust risk management, and tighter alignment of business and security goals. These insights mirror our experiences at Anitian implementing our security automation platform. We are proud to be a sponsor of the State of DevOps report as well as a technology partner with Puppet. We anticipate referencing this report regularly in our engagement with our customers as well as the DevOps and security communities.”

    “Integrating security into CI/CD pipelines is the most critical, as well as the most challenging and overlooked aspect of rapid deployment of applications,” said Geng Lin, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, F5 Networks. “Empowering organizations to accelerate the time it takes to go from code to customer, while effectively mitigating risk, drives tremendous business value and a competitive edge.”

    *Sponsors of the report include Anitian, F5 and ServiceNow. 

    Additional Resources

    About Puppet

    Puppet is driving the movement to a world of unconstrained software change. Its revolutionary platform is the industry standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. More than 40,000 companies—including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 10 —use Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to adopt DevOps practices, achieve situational awareness and drive software change with confidence. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Puppet is a privately held company with more than 500 employees around the world. Learn more at puppet.com.

     

  • InterVision Expands its Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Offerings with Acquisition of SeyVu

    SeyVu’s machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities help clients transform raw data into actionable insights

    Santa Clara, Calif. and St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 24, 2019 – InterVision, a leading IT strategic service provider, today announced the acquisition of SeyVu and all of its related interests, assets and intellectual properties. The acquisition aligns with InterVision’s goal to provide insightful technology-enabled services and solutions that solve complex business challenges.

    “Machine learning and artificial intelligence are fast-growing technologies, disrupting industries as we know them today,” said Aaron Stone, president and CEO of InterVision. “Our clients need to quickly transform their data into actionable solutions and accelerate their digital transformation journey to stay competitive. SeyVu has the methodology and experience to help our clients shift from being retrospective and reactive in analysis of data to being predictive, prescriptive and proactive.”

    SeyVu’s machine learning and artificial intelligence implementations include fraud prevention, voice of customer, supply chain, market research, investment research, brand management and other data-intensive applications. InterVision clients can utilize ML/AI consulting services to:

    • Transform raw data into actionable insights
    • Bridge the gap between data and decisions
    • Solve specific domain and industry vertical problems
    • Grow revenue and reduce costs
    • Increase efficiency and reduce risk

    “SeyVu is committed to implementing advanced analytics, AI and data science applications across industries ranging from high-tech, consumer, manufacturing, education and government,” said Harsha Gopianandan, CEO and founder of SeyVu. “Joining forces with InterVision opens new opportunities to work on leading-edge projects to help clients improve business outcomes in this exciting time for the IT industry.”

    With its acquisition of Infiniti last year, InterVision provides a range of cloud services including architecture, design, application development migration, storage and support. The company has one of the deepest benches of AWS and Azure cloud architects and technical specialists in the U.S., along with experience delivering advanced cloud services to hundreds of organizations across industries. SeyVu’s ML/AI expertise complements InterVision’s cloud services practice.

    “The world of ML/AI is a fast-growing and massive new market that is strategically important to InterVision and its clients,” said Jamie Lee, Chief Revenue Officer. “Organizations are looking to embed more intelligence into their existing enterprise applications and service offerings. Adding SeyVu’s machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities provides immediate value to InterVision clients and is pivotal to maintaining our leadership position in cloud services.”

    This is the fifth acquisition InterVision has completed in the past three years, including those of Bluelock and Infiniti Consulting Group. With an aggressive growth strategy in place, InterVision remains focused on its efforts to drive value to its clients.

    To learn more about InterVision and their services visit www.intervision.com.

    About InterVision Systems

    InterVision’s mission is to transform business through the evolutionary power of technology.  The company delivers IT managed services, on-premise solutions, professional services, cloud solutions, automation services, and consulting that organizations need to thrive in today’s dynamic IT market. InterVision’s vendor-certified sales and engineering staff have specialized expertise in all areas critical to IT environments. The company has headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. and St. Louis, Mo., and offices and data centers in the Central and Western U.S. Learn more at www.intervision.com.