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  • InfluxData launches InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 – the first serverless time series platform-as-a-service

    Elastic scalability and advanced analytics enable organizations to make cost-effective decisions for observability and analytics applications

    SAN FRANCISCO — September 10, 2019 — InfluxData, creator of InfluxDB and pioneer of the modern time series database, today announced the general availability of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0, the first serverless time series platform, purpose-built to meet the specialized requirements of today’s time-sensitive workloads. InfluxDB Cloud was designed to improve the entire developer experience – so they can work faster and be more productive. The new product includes a free rate-limited tier, transparent usage-based pricing and advanced analytic capabilities that allow customers to convert data into actionable information.

    Organizations are trying to gain a competitive edge by tracking, measuring and analyzing every metric possible. The amount of data being produced worldwide is expected to grow nearly fivefold by 2025 to 175 zettabytes per year (IDC), driven by the proliferation of IoT sensors,

     serverless infrastructure, containerization and microservices. Most of this is time-stamped data generated at high-frequency and in great volumes that requires rapid ingestion and real-time querying to extract maximum value. Relational and non-serverless databases and monitoring services struggle to handle the scale of these workloads in a cost-effective manner.  

    “InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 provides a cost-disruptive, highly customizable time series platform that allows developers and operators the flexibility they need to scale their applications while keeping our brand promise of ‘time to awesome,’” said Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData.

     “Just point your collection agent at Influx and start working with your data.”  

    “Time series data is becoming increasingly important across a range of applications, notably operational and IoT analytics. Cloud and web developers today expect convenient access to specialist data engines,” said James Governor, analyst and co-founder at RedMonk. “InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 is designed for developer experience, to make time series data easier to work with.”

    InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 is a purpose-built platform that collects, stores, queries, processes and visualizes raw, high-precision, time-stamped data. With rapid ingestion rates (millions of metrics per second), and highly efficient compute, downsampling and compression functions, InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 can outperform non-specialized time series solutions by up to 100x. It provides customers real-time observability into their systems and supports a wide range of customer applications, including SLA-related monitoring around key business metrics for e-commerce sites, real-time monitoring of wind turbines for business insights to refine operations, click-stream analysis and real-user monitoring for better customer experience and dynamic pricing based on usage patterns and resource availability. 

    ”We are in the business of creating a better email experience for our customers,” said Dylan Ferreira, lead site reliability engineer at FuseMail. “InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 features a unified API, for seamless integration of our applications across all environments. We can now react faster to changes in customer demand on our application, which helps us to meet customer SLAs.”

    “As a growing cloud company, we can’t afford for our service to go down,” said Alfi Delacruz, director of product development at Cascadeo. “InfluxDB Cloud is incredibly scalable, so our engineers spend less time supporting storage infrastructure and more time driving product development that is critical to our business.” 

    InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 also features Flux, the new data scripting and query language, which can extract more complex and valuable insights from data, better detect anomalies and enable real-time action with alerts and notifications. The new user interface and getting-started process were designed around developer happiness and faster time to productivity, and include native client library collections and pre-built dashboards and scripts for common monitoring projects, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, Redis and more. 

    Learn how to get started for free on InfluxDB Cloud at www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-cloud

    The product will also be available as an integrated solution on the Google Cloud Platform later this year.

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  • Exadel Launches Adobe Experience Manager Authoring Toolkit as Open Source Tool for Digital Marketing Community

    AEM Authoring Toolkit lets anyone take advantage of new Adobe authoring capabilities

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., September 10, 2019 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global leader in digital software engineering solutions, today announced the availability of its Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Authoring Toolkit. An open source project developed and maintained by the Exadel Digital Marketing Technology team, the Toolkit is available as a packaged, fully supported solution to Exadel’s enterprise clients and as an open source tool for the community. The Toolkit supports an automatic yet versatile and extendable generation of UI elements for AEM authors and provides a next-gen authoring experience in Adobe’s Coral UI-powered environment.

    Try the open source version of AEM Authoring Toolkit here: https://github.com/exadel-inc/aem-authoring-toolkit

    “Open source-based product development has been at the heart of what Exadel does from day one, and we are excited to extend this dedication to our AEM Authoring Toolkit,” said Lev Shur, President of Exadel Solutions. “Adobe is a clear leader in digital marketing solutions, but keeping up with the AEM ecosystem can be challenging. This Toolkit brings speed, reliability and automation to the AEM authoring experience, helping clients and users ultimately create more powerful, robust and beautiful sites.”

    The AEM Authoring Toolkit:

    • Generates rich and versatile AEM components dialogs and in-place editing facilities based on annotations added to backend Java classes and/or their fields.
    • Relieves AEM developers from writing down the complex XML markup for the authoring interface, preventing difficult-to-trace errors.
    • Allows “inheriting” certain features and markup specificity across components, reducing the amount of Java code to store and maintain.
    • Supports reusing and fine-tuning available authoring widgets and redefining their attributes.
    • Little to no Java code refactoring is needed.  It also decreases UI team effort for developing the “authoring” side of AEM installation.
    • Highly configurable via both annotation values and Maven configuration.
    • Works with AEM 6.4 and newer on JDK 1.8+ in any operating system.

    For a full list of AEM Authoring Toolkit features and functions visit here: https://github.com/exadel-inc/aem-authoring-toolkit

    Additional open source projects Exadel has developed include Exadel Developer Studio, which became the foundation of the Red Hat CodeReady Studio and Exadel RichFaces, which then became JBoss RichFaces. Exadel has contributed to dozens of other open source projects as well.

    Tweet this: .@exadel brings AEM Authoring Toolkit as a solution to enterprise digital marketing technology initiatives and as an #opensource solution

    About Exadel

    For more than 20 years, Exadel has been developing enterprise and custom software solutions for Fortune 500 clients, including AT&T, Samsung, Bank of America, eBay, and GE. With 20 locations and delivery centers across the US and Eastern Europe, Exadel solves the most complex software engineering problems, offering a scalable and skilled mix of onshore and offshore resources at the industry’s most competitive price. Our Digital Software Engineering Solutions (DSES) help chart new digital strategies that are built upon creative thinking, cutting-edge design, and technical innovation. DSES embraces the strengths of diverse global software engineering talent to create and implement strategic, cost-effective services for the new epoch of connected technology.

     

  • Jama Software Offers Cloud Edition of Tasktop Integration Hub Expands Partnership in Place Since 2014; Offers Customers Hosted Solution Benefits

    VANCOUVER, BC , Sept. 9, 2019 – Tasktop, the leader in Value Stream Integration, today announced that Jama Software is now offering the cloud version of its Tasktop Integration Hub for Jama Connect™ to automate and visualize the flow of product-critical information across the software delivery value stream.

    This expands the already successful partnership the two companies have had since 2014, providing hundreds of Jama Software customers with integration to third-party systems like Jira, Azure DevOps, Micro Focus ALM, Rally, qTest and many more. The cloud version of Hub for Jama Connect provides the automation and traceability advantages of Tasktop’s on-premises solution plus speed of deployment, reduced costs and the elimination of maintenance and upgrading efforts.

    Jama Connect enables engineering, software development and leadership teams to stay clear and current (in real-time) about their requirements and test plans throughout the project lifecycle. Through Hub, teams can integrate Jama Connect with their ALM, PLM, development and QA tools. Jama Connect requirements and test cases flow automatically and bi-directionally between tools, extending traceability, visibility and collaboration across the organization. It enables everyone to work in their tool of choice and gain access to updates other team members make in theirs. This eliminates manual re-keying of information, mistakes caused by old or incomplete information and interminable email threads and status meetings.

    “The successful partnership with Tasktop has allowed Jama Connect customers to enjoy Hub’s ease of use and unlock added value from our platform,” said Scott Roth, CEO, Jama Software. “The new cloud-integration option for Tasktop Hub helps more of our customers avoid dealing with infrastructure requisitions and maintenance costs. With this partnership, our customers can further realize the power of integrating Jama Connect with a variety of other leading product development tools like Jira.”

    “We’re thrilled that our cloud-based Hub offering is now available for all Jama Connect customers,” said Mik Kersten, CEO, Tasktop. “This expansion of our partnership opens up integration to more Jama Software customers, enabling them to connect all of their software delivery and operation tools to automate information flow. Thanks to this and the accelerated time-to-value for connecting value streams, the hosted edition of Tasktop Hub is already proving very popular with our joint customers.”

    About Jama

    Jama Software provides the leading platform for requirements, risk, and test management. With Jama Connect and industry-focused services, teams building complex products, systems and software improve cycle times, increase quality, reduce rework and minimize effort proving compliance. Representing the forefront of modern development, Jama’s growing customer base of more than 600 organizations includes SpaceX, Boston Scientific, Lyft, Deloitte, Alight, Samsung and Caterpillar.

    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. Some 57 integrations with software delivery tools enable organizations to leverage a best-of-breed tool network that also provides end-to-end visibility and traceability. 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 top 25 banks in the world, the top six health plans and four of the top 10 US insurance companies. For more information about Tasktop, please visit: http://tasktop.com

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  • Instana Adds APM and Microservices Industry Veteran As Chief Marketing Officer

    Former Dynatrace and Docker, Inc. Executive to Lead Company’s Marketing Efforts

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – September 5, 2019 – Instana, the leading provider of automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for microservice applications, announced today that APM and Microservices industry veteran Laurent Séraphin has joined its executive leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

    Séraphin has over a decade of experience between the APM, Containers and Microservices industries. In his new role at Instana, he will leverage his expertise in both areas to lead all corporate, product solutions and revenue growth marketing as the company accelerates down the path of delivering a modern, automatic APM solution for microservices.

    “Instana is delighted to welcome Laurent to our leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “We’ve seen consistent growth in demand for the APM solution we deliver, and Laurent is well equipped to help us drive this momentum with his prior experience and invaluable marketing expertise, as he’s spent years in the APM space, as well as for Docker, Inc., one of the companies at the forefront of enterprise containers and modern microsevices technologies.”

    Prior to joining Instana, Séraphin was with Docker, Inc. where he was in charge of Growth Marketing. Previous to this, he was Senior Director EMEA Marketing at MuleSoft. Before that, Séraphin worked at Dynatrace for over six years as their Vice President of Marketing.

    “With the exponential increase to IT complexity and rate of change, Instana continues to step into the management gap and provide leadership for delivering and operating Cloud-Native and microservice-based services,” said Laurent Séraphin, Instana CMO. “I’m excited for the opportunity to continue to add to Instana’s growth, building on the tremendous technical and business differentiation in the company’s solutions.”

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

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  • TPG Acquires CollabNet VersionOne

    Large-scale technology investor to create leading enterprise DevOps platform

    San Francisco; Fort Worth, Texas; and Atlanta – September 4, 2019 – TPG Capital, the private equity platform of global alternative asset firm TPG, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CollabNet VersionOne (“CollabNet”), a leading platform provider for Agile planning, DevOps, and Value Stream Management (VSM), from Vector Capital. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

    The investment marks the first step in a broader strategy in which TPG Capital will commit up to $500 million of equity capital to build a leading, integrated, enterprise-focused DevOps platform company. TPG Capital and CollabNet management will work together to accelerate the growth of the company’s existing portfolio, as well as aggressively pursue acquisitions in strategic adjacencies that complement Agile planning and delivery, as well as testing, release management, and the emerging market for VSM.

    “We have studied the software delivery and DevOps space for several years. The space is highly fragmented with several smaller vendors addressing the low end of the market,” said Nehal Raj and Art Heidrich of TPG. “As large companies across industries continue to prioritize in-house software development and digital transformation initiatives, we see a compelling opportunity to build an integrated DevOps company focused on larger enterprises. CollabNet’s strong product footprint and commitment to enterprise customers make the company the right starting point from which to build and consolidate. We look forward to working together with management to create a leading, enterprise-focused DevOps platform.”

    “We are grateful for Vector’s partnership over the past five years and look forward to continuing to expand the CollabNet platform with the resources and growth vision of TPG. This commitment will rapidly build on our success through organic innovation and outside acquisition,” said Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet. “We have served large global customers with an integrated, enterprise-scale software planning and delivery offering since our inception, along with some of the largest government accounts in the industry. Together with TPG we will continue to lead in Agile, DevOps, and VSM.”

    CollabNet, a recognized leader in enterprise Agile planning and VSM by leading analyst firms Gartner and Forrester, focuses on enabling enterprises to develop and deliver high-quality software that drives business outcomes. CollabNet’s core products include VersionOne for enterprise Agile planning and management, VS for connected workflows and visibility throughout the entire delivery value stream, and TeamForge for enterprise-scale source code management and application lifecycle management. CollabNet also recently introduced Ossum, a SaaS DevOps offering that integrates and streamlines software development from idea to release.

    “Under Vector’s ownership, through a combination of accelerated organic development and strategic M&A, we successfully transformed CollabNet from a point provider of developer tools to a leading enterprise-grade DevOps platform,” said Rob Amen, Managing Director at Vector Capital.  “We are proud of the outcome we achieved for our investors and wish the management team and TPG continued success during the company’s next chapter.”

    Barclays and RBC Capital Markets acted as financial advisors to TPG, and Ropes & Gray LLP served as legal counsel. KeyBank Capital Markets, Inc. served as financial advisor to CollabNet, and Sidley Austin LLP served as legal counsel to CollabNet and Vector Capital.

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is a leading platform provider for Value Stream Management, Agile planning, DevOps and source code management. Its offerings provide global enterprise and government industry leaders a cohesive solution that enables them to ideate, create and orchestrate the flow of value through continuous delivery pipelines with measurable business outcomes. To learn more visit:  www.collab.net.

    About TPG

    TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with more than $108 billion of assets under management and offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, and Singapore. TPG’s investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, real estate, credit, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio. For more information, visit www.tpg.com.

    About Vector Capital 

    Vector Capital is a leading global private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses. With more than $4 billion of capital under management, Vector actively partners with management teams to devise and execute new financial and business strategies that materially improve the competitive standing of businesses and enhance value for employees, customers, and all stakeholders. For more information, visit www.vectorcapital.com.

  • IT Revolution Invites Readers to Join All-New, Immersive Book Club

    New Book Club offers 360-degree reading sprints for deeper learning and collaboration between authors and readers in the enterprise IT community.

    PORTLAND, Ore., August 29, 2019 — IT Revolution, a leading book publisher for identifying and amplifying innovative practices in the digital age, today announced the IT Revolution Book Club, which aims to expand the repository of knowledge available to technology and business professionals while strengthening their sense of community. IT Revolution authors include top industry thought leaders working to elicit positive change for IT professionals around the world.

    To kick-off, Book Club members will read the upcoming release, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, the groundbreaking thought leaders on team and organizational design. This Book Club reading begins on September 19 and ends October 3, 2019. Team Topologies offers a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. The authors will provide Book Club members with a guided two-week read-along experience alongside the book.

    Sign up here to join the IT Revolution Book Club and receive an Amazon discount coupon for the book: (itrevolution.com/team-topologies-book-club/).

    “IT Revolution Book Club is an incredible opportunity to advance knowledge among the technology community through our growing library of book publications,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution, author of the upcoming book The Unicorn Project and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. “I highly encourage readers to join this engaging event. Book Club is our virtual space to get together, accumulate knowledge, work through challenges and bridge the gaps between IT and business to deliver better value through software faster, safer, and happier.”

    Book Club Format

    IT Revolution Book Club members will work through the book in sprints, reading a chapter each day and participating in discussions on a private Slack channel. Participants will have special access to the authors, who will join the Slack conversation to answer questions, expand on their writing, and offer additional guidance and learning.

    Follow these steps to join Book Club:

    1. Sign up for the book club. (itrevolution.com/team-topologies-book-club/)
    2. Purchase Team Topologies by September 18th. (Use Amazon discount coupon emailed after sign up.)
    3. Reply to sent email with proof of purchase.
    4. On September 18th, we’ll send out invites to the private Slack channel.

    Share This: IT Revolution Book Club has launched! Join the club to read “Team Topologies”  along with authors @matthewpskelton and @manupaisable in the Book Club’s private Slack channel! Sign up here: (itrevolution.com/team-topologies-book-club/) #TTOP @ITRevBooks

    About IT Revolution
    IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of technology professionals.

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  • SmartBear Expands Breadth of Innovation in Native Mobile Testing Automation with Acquisition of Bitbar

    Company expands into CI/CD pipeline integration for mobile test automation and bolsters an already robust device cloud offering

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Aug. 29, 2019 – SmartBear, the driver behind the industry’s best tools for ensuring quality software delivery, today announced the acquisition of Bitbar, provider of the world’s most advanced mobile app test automation platform and device cloud. The addition of Bitbar’s innovative technology to the SmartBear product portfolio extends the company’s ability to empower organizations to fully embrace automation in order to deliver higher quality software faster. Bitbar offers customers the highest level of performance and scalability and is the most configurable among mobile app test platforms, allowing organizations to more easily integrate with CI/CD pipelines using APIs. Bitbar is a natural complement to the SmartBear CrossBrowserTesting solution and strengthens the company’s ability to help customers ensure their web and mobile apps will run properly anywhere. With
    this acquisition, SmartBear will be able to spread the value of the Bitbar platform to the large and growing set of software development teams who are SmartBear customers.

    Another level of coverage

    Enterprises building software are struggling to meet the requirements of their customers. The need to deliver high quality mobile apps and web applications across operating systems, browsers, desktops, and devices has never been bigger, and to meet this challenge, organizations are looking to accelerate their automation rates to keep up with rapidly changing business demands. By allowing development and test teams to continue using their preferred technologies and processes, SmartBear simplifies this challenge.

    Bitbar also supports a wide variety of frameworks used by developers (such as XCUITest and Espresso) and QA automation engineers (such as Appium), allowing them to automate tests with their framework of choice. Simply put, Bitbar lets customers do things they can’t do with other solutions, making it the clear choice to bring into the SmartBear portfolio. “Bringing the Bitbar IP technology, along the innovators who built them, into the SmartBear family is a big win for our customers,” said Christian Wright, Chief Product Officer and Executive GM at SmartBear.
    “With support for any test automation framework, unlimited device concurrency, and flexible deployment models, Bitbar enhances our customers’ ability to release better, higher-quality software
    faster.”

    “We built Bitbar to make developers’ lives easier, helping software organizations to be agile and flexible,” said Marko Kaasila, CEO and Co-Founder of Bitbar. “Joining SmartBear means bringing the most flexible web and mobile app testing platform to more forward-thinking DevOps teams. Combining forces with an organization so committed to open source was just a natural next step. Our customers will continue to enjoy the platform they know and love, while now being able to leverage the broad range of SmartBear tools to make better software and deliver value faster.”
    Today’s announcement follows the company’s acquisition of Cucumber earlier this year, and bolsters an already strong commitment to the support for popular open source offerings like Selenium, Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest.

    About Bitbar
    Bitbar is the most flexible cloud-based testing platform to automate continuous software delivery. Empowering DevOps teams of all sizes – including Mozilla, WeWork, Google, PayPal, Deutsche Telekom, Square, CBS Interactive, and TomTom. Bitbar Device Cloud is also offered through IBM Cloud as part of its Rational Test Workbench. Bitbar solutions help companies to optimize CI/CD workflows, leverage AI to accelerate software development lifecycle, and accelerate their transformation into a New Software Organization. Learn more at https://bitbar.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or YouTube.

    About SmartBear Software
    SmartBear is behind the software that empowers developers, testers, and operations engineers at over 20,000 of the world’s most innovative organizations including Adobe, JetBlue, MasterCard, and Microsoft. More than 6 million people use SmartBear tools to build, test, and monitor great software, faster. Our high-impact tools are easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to use. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

  • SparkPost Introduces New Recipient Validation Capabilities for Improved Email Deliverability

    SparkPost protects email sending reputation by automatically culling bad addresses

    SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, 2019 – SparkPost (www.sparkpost.com), the #1 email delivery and analytics service, today announced the next generation of its SparkPost Recipient Validation service, its email validation solution that uses sending data from its footprint of trillions of emails. SparkPost Recipient Validation achieves the industry’s best sender reputation protection by leveraging the world’s largest email data footprint, derived from SparkPost’s delivery of 37 percent of all B2C and B2B email. By leveraging its massive dataset, SparkPost can eliminate over 31% of the harmful bounces that go undetected by other recipient validation providers, before they impact email deliverability.

    SparkPost Recipient Validation solves a major problem facing marketing and email managers of sending to too many “bad” email addresses that cause ISPs to reduce their visibility in inboxes and potentially mark email as spam. To learn more about SparkPost Recipient Validation please visit: https://www.sparkpost.com/docs/tech-resources/recipient-validation-sparkpost/

    “Our customers benefit from a data-driven approach. Recipient Validation brings the

    intelligence of global email behavior and delivery patterns to improve the reputation and

    deliverability of their email programs,” said Charlie Reverte, Chief Product Officer of SparkPost. “Optimizing email engagement based on predictive data analytics and machine learning is a top priority for our company, and SparkPost Recipient Validation is our latest offering that supports our strategy to transform email delivery through Email Intelligence.”

    New with this release, SparkPost has enhanced its Recipient Validation with additional data, doubling the number of bad addresses it can detect. Using historical bounce data from SparkPost’s footprint of trillions of emails, it automatically identifies bad addresses based on the sending behavior of other customers, so Recipient Validation customers can filter bad emails before they are sent to protect their reputation with ISPs and improve overall deliverability.

    SparkPost’s world’s largest email data footprint is the key to making its Recipient Validation more effective than competitive offerings, which have less data and often rely on a technique known as SMTP ping to check addresses. This is akin to ringing the doorbell and running away — and ISPs hate it. Also, the SMTP ping approach is too slow for use cases like signup flows where customers are kept waiting for the validation response. Using SparkPost data, customers achieve better deliverability results without SMTP ping and can return results in under 30 milliseconds. SparkPost’s latest offering also includes new typo detection capabilities that identify common mistakes users make while typing their email address into signup forms, along with suggestions for the right address, plugging a top source of lead loss for customers.

     

    SparkPost now offers the most integrated approach to predictive email intelligence through its

    SparkPost Signals platform for email engagement and delivery health, and SparkPost Recipient

    Validation for email reputation. The company understands how high-performing email programs are increasingly fragmented and complex, and that data-centric, predictive models

    are needed to help organizations stay ahead of technical challenges and meet customer

    expectations. SparkPost continues to lead the email delivery and deliverability market, with

    customers like Zillow, The New York Times, Booking.com, Rakuten (formerly Ebates) and Zynga.

    For more information about SparkPost Recipient Validation, please visit: https://www.sparkpost.com/docs/tech-resources/recipient-validation-sparkpost/

    For more information about SparkPost Signals, please visit: http://sparkpost.com/signals

    Share this: SparkPost Recipient Validation uses the industry’s largest dataset to ensure email

    addresses enhance deliverability and performance. #email #emailvalidation #SparkPost

    About SparkPost

    SparkPost is the world’s #1 email sender, trusted by customers like Zillow, The New York

    Times, Booking.com, Ebates and Zynga to dramatically increase email performance. SparkPost

    sends more than 37% of the world’s business to consumer email, more than 5 trillion messages a year. SparkPost’s unmatched data footprint and email analytics help leading enterprises break through the email noise to drive top-line results.

     

    Follow us on Twitter @SparkPost or visit http://www.sparkpost.com.

     

  • Opsview Announces New Splunk Results Exporter

    New Exporter Extracts, Filters and Reformats Raw Opsview Monitor Data, in Real Time, for Secure Integration with Splunk Enterprise Security and Other SIEM Tools

     

    BOSTON — August 28, 2019—Opsview, the company that unifies cloud and infrastructure monitoring, today announced availability of the Opsview Monitor Splunk Results Exporter. The new toolkit easily and securely exports high volumes of event data in real time to security information and event management (SIEM) tools including Splunk Enterprise Security. Using Opsview event data, Splunk and other SIEMs are able to identify unusual activity for data breach detection and expose patterns of inefficient cloud resource usage to reveal opportunities for cost savings.

    Product Features:

    The Opsview Results Exporter offers simple and flexible integration with Splunk, and other SIEM, analytics solutions, only exporting and passing relevant data to Splunk to optimize usage costs. By leveraging an easy-to-use toolkit, users can extract, filter and reformat raw data directly from Opsview Monitor’s event bus and forward it via HTTP to the target SIEM. Users have the power to filter and reformat data flexibly prior to egress to optimize both analytics and storage consumption. Key benefits include:

    • Generates multiple outputs in parallel, each with its own custom field mapping and filtering so several use cases can be supported at once.
    • Reformats and filters data for each output method and requirements including the ability to flexibly define specific fields.
    • Gracefully supports common interfaces including REST and Syslog.
    • Flexibly enables use of custom tooling for use cases the require tools such as filebeat for ELK or custom scripts.
    • Tested for real-world Splunk readiness including use with Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise and environments that use Splunk Forwarders, with particular adherence to the use of https for optimal security.

    The Opsview Results Exporter is an ideal solution for adding sophisticated security, network traffic-shaping, cost analytics and other operational enhancements in a secure and non-disruptive way. The Opsview Monitor is a comprehensive, best-of-breed monitoring tool designed to provide unified insight across IT operations on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. When used with the Opsview Results Exporter for Splunk, it gives IT operations teams the ability to search and analyze rich IT events and metrics, using pre-built heuristics and machine learning to expose security issues, inefficiencies, utilization errors and other opportunities to optimize IT spend.

    About Opsview

    Opsview provides unified insight into dynamic IT operations on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. Opsview is a modern, scalable monitoring platform that enables digital transformation. Opsview is trusted by hundreds of businesses, government organizations and service providers globally. Customers include Sky, Cisco, IBM, Comcast, Telefónica, PayPal, BT, Norfolk Southern, CIT, Fujitsu, HMRC and AAA. To find out more, visit www.opsview.com. 

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  • Qualitest Appoints Yoav Ziv as Chief Transformation Officer

    London, England,  28 August 2019 – Qualitest, the world’s largest independent software testing and quality assurance company, today announced that Yoav Ziv will be joining its executive leadership team as its first Chief Transformation Officer. In this new role, Mr. Ziv will focus on operationalising and evolving a strategic framework for the organisation, while identifying and implementing a range of initiatives that will speed growth and add further value for Qualitest’s clients.

    Mr. Ziv joins the company from Amdocs, where he served as General Manager of its largest account, a global communications and media provider. Prior, he served as Head of Amdocs’ Testing Business Unit where he transformed a traditional testing organisation into a market-leading DevOps driver with more 3,000 global professionals.

    Mr. Ziv is also a transformation specialist and a renowned expert in using operations methods that improve organisational performance, such as Lean, Theory of Constraints, DevOps and other operational research practices.

    Commenting on the appointment, Norm Merritt, CEO at Qualitest, said: “The creation of the new role of Chief Transformation Officer is a substantial step forward for Qualitest. We are committed to making significant investments in our people, processes and footprint that reinforce our delivery excellence and our position as an employer of choice. I’m delighted to welcome Yoav to the team to continue to drive our momentum forward.”

    Yoav Ziv added: “I’m looking forward to joining the Qualitest team at such an important time as it continues to invest and expand across multiple regions and industries. There is real potential for the future as we focus on driving long-term growth by helping the world’s most innovative brands transform their testing efforts into strategic, quality engineering operations.”

    Yaron Kottler, Qualitest’s Chief Operations Officer said: “Yoav brings with him an impressive track record of identifying robust and sustainable growth strategies for complex, global professional services organisations. He has a deep understanding and knowledge of today’s industry landscape, as well as proven leadership skills and the ability to transform multifaceted strategies into meaningful results, ultimately fortifying our customer’ success and enhancing our growth.”

    Based in New York, Yoav will start with Qualitest on 1 September and will be a member of its executive leadership team.

    About Qualitest

    Qualitest is the world’s largest independent managed services provider of quality assurance and testing solutions.  As a strategic partner, Qualitest helps brands move beyond functional testing to adopt new innovations such as automation, AI, and crowd-sourced UX testing.  It leverages its domain expertise across industries, including financial services, media and entertainment, retail, consumer goods, technology, gaming, telecom, among others. Qualitest’s global service delivery platform includes the United States, Israel, UK, India and Romania. To learn more about Qualitest, visit www.qualitestgroup.com.