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  • DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Conference Agenda Released, Speakers Added from ING Bank, KPMG, Microsoft, Ticketmaster, T-Mobile and US Bank

    Event programming emphasizes the evolving business, technical and architectural practices needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations. 

    PORTLAND, Ore., August 27, 2019 — IT Revolution, the industry leader for advancing DevOps, released its full conference agenda and next round of business and technology leaders presenting at DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 (https://cvent.me/D49MZ?RefId=c11). Hosted at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from October 28-30, DevOps Enterprise Summit is the premier industry conference for business and technology leaders to learn how to develop and deploy software faster and to win in the marketplace.

    Now entering its sixth year in the United States, DevOps Enterprise Summit is expected to bring together more than 2,000 attendees, feature more than 100 speakers, and host over 50 sponsors in Las Vegas. The conference agenda includes three full days of keynotes, industry panels, breakout sessions, DevOps workshops, speaker Q&A sessions, book signings, and expo hall.

    To attend DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019, register at (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register) before the conference sells out.

    “Make sure to join DevOps Enterprise Summit to learn from real user experiences and network with the best in the field,” said Rosalind Radcliffe, distinguished engineer at IBM. “It’s the one DevOps event you can’t afford to miss.”

    Attendees will experience the unfolding documentary of ongoing business and digital transformations and exchange insights with leading DevOps practitioners and subject matter experts in the technology industry.

    The next round of confirmed speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas include:

    • Matthew Acors, Lead Consultant/Associate Engagement Manager, Excella
    • Joe Aho, CFO, Compuware
    • Shaaron Alvares, Senior Agile Transformation Coach & Trainer, T-Mobile
    • Zack Ayers, Scrum Master, Excella
    • Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef, DataKitchen
    • Ross Clanton, Executive Director, Arunya Technologies LLC
    • Jordan Edwards, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
    • Jeffrey Fredrick, co-author of Agile Conversations
    • Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner, Azure DevOps, Microsoft
    • Daniel Koo, Senior Director, DevOps Products & Engineering, FINRA
    • BMK Lakshminarayanan, Solutions Architect, DevOps Advocate, Bank of New Zealand
    • Yosef Levine, Managing Director, Global Technology Controls, Confidentiality & Privacy, Deloitte
    • Dapeng Liu, Senior Vice President, Development, DBS Bank
    • Shaun Norris, Field CIO, Asia-Pacific and Japan, Pivotal
    • Chris O’Malley, CEO, Compuware
    • Shivani Patel, Program Manager, Microsoft
    • Stacie Peterson, Senior Vice President, Agile Product Acceleration, US Bank
    • Mihai Popa, Head of Continuous IT Operations, Belgium and Netherlands, ING Bank
    • George Proorocu, OPS Chapter Lead – Cybersecurity & Fraud, ING Bank
    • Caleb Queern, Director, Advisory Practice, KPMG
    • Jeff Roberts, Senior Manager, Advisory Services, Ernst & Young
    • Mihai Roman, DEV Chapter Lead – Cybersecurity & Fraud, ING Bank
    • Douglas Squirrel, co-author of Agile Conversations
    • Cat Swetel, Senior Engineering Manager, Ticketmaster
    • Wayne Wang, Senior Manager, DevOps, JB Hunt Transport, Inc.
    • John Willis, Founder, Botchagalupe Technologies
    • Michael J. Wolf, Managing Director- Modern Delivery Lead, KPMG

    “Our goal is to help the DevOps Enterprise Summit community achieve their goals,” 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’ve always been amazed at how much this comIT Revolutionmunity helps each other — to help further enable this, we have created many different ways for people to connect and learn from each other, including experience reports, many different types of networking and peer-learning formats.”

    To learn more about DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019, visit (https://events.itrevolution.com/us).

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    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.

     

  • Sematext Introduces Real User Monitoring

    Sematext announces the addition of Sematext Experience, an easy-to-use Real User Monitoring solution, to Sematext Cloud thus allowing software-based businesses to seamlessly add browser-side monitoring to their observability tool-belt.

     

    • Sematext releases a new Real User Monitoring solution to the public after soft-launching earlier this summer.
    • Sematext Experience is part of Sematext Cloud, a full stack observability solution that encompasses Log Management, Tracing, Infrastructure Monitoring and now, Real User Monitoring.
    • Driven by customer feedback, the new RUM solution is part of Sematext vision to offer a complete observability solution to help their customers benefit from actionable insights and troubleshoot faster.
    • Later this year Sematext will integrate crash reporting, crash report lifecycle, source maps, as well as the ability to group crash reports in order to spot patterns in continuous errors.

     

    New York — August 27th, 2019 — Sematext announced the release of Sematext Experience, an easy-to-use Real User Monitoring solution, enabling software-based companies to unify their monitoring efforts under Sematext Cloud – a platform for Log Management, Infrastructure Monitoring, Transaction Tracing and now, Real User Monitoring.

    Real User Monitoring, or RUM, is a type of monitoring technology for digital businesses that analyzes customers’ digital experiences by looking at exactly how online visitors are interacting with a website or application, analyzing everything from page load events to HTTP requests to frontend application crashes.

    In today’s ever-changing landscape organizations are frequently shifting to cloud, hybrid, and other distributed environments.  Due to this, it’s becoming increasingly important to monitor customers’ digital experiences from within the client itself. Real user monitoring plays an important part in monitoring efforts as organizations are continuously seeking ways to convert online customers faster, reduce churn and improve customers’ overall digital experience.

    “Today’s consumers have lots of options to choose from, but limited time,  patience, and attention. Whether they choose to buy from you or your competition depends, in no small part, on their experience with your site or application. If your site or application is slow or crashes, chances are they will go elsewhere and you will lose their business,” said Otis Gospodnetić, Founder at Sematext.

    Sematext Experience helps organizations of all sizes improve their customers’ digital experiences by making it easy to spot bottlenecks, slow interactions, and errors in your UI, before your users do. Sematext Experience offers support for monitoring website and web applications. This includes:

    • Page load events including support for single page applications (SPAs)
    • HTTP requests
    • Alerts based on Apdex score and/or page load times
    • URL grouping
    • Sessionization
    • Filter data by release version, browser, version, geo-location, etc.
    • Location-based heatmap

    In addition to load times, Sematext Experience also records the loaded resources (images, fonts, stylesheets, javascript files) and the associated loading times.

    Having soft-launched Sematext Experience earlier this summer, many customers have already benefited from incorporating Sematext Experience into their monitoring stack.

    Sematext will continuously release updates of existing and new features of Sematext Experience and, later this year will integrate crash reporting, crash report lifecycle, source maps, as well as the ability to group crash reports in order to spot patterns in continuous errors.

    Driven by customer feedback, the new RUM solution is part of Sematext vision to offer a complete observability solution to help their customers benefit from actionable insights and troubleshoot faster.

    For more information on Sematext Experience click here.

     

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    About Sematext

    Sematext Group offers a unified infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, tracing, log management, and real user monitoring solution – both in the cloud (Sematext Cloud) and on-premise (Sematext Enterprise). Sematext enables businesses to easily collect application & server logs, metrics, traces, events, and user experience data, thus delivering full-stack visibility through a single access point. The Sematext platform helps businesses extract value from logs and metrics and turn them into real-time, actionable, insights. Founded in 2010, by Otis Gospodnetić, Sematext has been profitable & self-funded since day one and has served over 6,000 users worldwide.

     

  • Puppet Delivers New Product for Vulnerability Remediation

    With vulnerabilities and security breaches on the rise, the latest Puppet product helps IT teams find, prioritize and remediate mission-critical vulnerabilities.

    Portland, ORE.—Aug. 21, 2019—Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today announced its first vulnerability remediation solution, Puppet Remediate, with initial channel partners, Bitbone and Fishtech.

    According to Forrester’s 2018 security survey published in 2018, 58% of enterprise organizations suffered a breach at least once in the previous year, and over 41% of those external breaches exploited some software vulnerability. The problem is that the vulnerability management workflow⁠—from vulnerability reports run by security teams to vulnerability remediation done by IT operators —is fragmented and manual, making vulnerability remediation slow and leaving IT infrastructure exposed to external attacks for too long. A 2018 report by the Ponemon Institute found organizations spend around 320 hours a week on vulnerability responses.

     

    “The vulnerability management process most organizations use today is not sustainable for reducing the security risk of external attacks. There is a major gap between sophisticated scanning tools that identify vulnerabilities and the fragmented and manual, error-prone approach of fixing these vulnerabilities,” said Matt Waxman, Head of Product at Puppet. “Puppet Remediate closes this gap giving IT the insight they need to end the current soul-crushing work associated with vulnerability remediation to ensure they are keeping their organization safe.”

    Puppet Remediate dramatically reduces the time from vulnerability detection to remediation across a company’s infrastructure through key integrations with security partners to unify infrastructure and vulnerability data, quick identification of what infrastructure resources are impacted by vulnerabilities, and the ability to take immediate action to remediate vulnerable packages without requiring any agent technology on the vulnerable systems on both Linux and Windows through SSH and WinRM.

    Key features of Puppet’s latest product include:

    Shared vulnerability data between Security and IT Ops. Puppet Remediate unifies infrastructure data with vulnerability data from Tenable, Qualys and Rapid7 to prioritize vulnerabilities. This also allows IT Ops to get access to vulnerability data in real-time, reducing delays and eliminating risks related to manual handover of data.

    Risk-based prioritization. IT can prioritize the most mission-critical systems and identify vulnerabilities within the organization’s systems to separate signal from noise based on infrastructure context. With a dashboard that lists the most critical vulnerabilities, IT Ops can quickly learn what assets have vulnerabilities at a glance and determine what to fix first.

    Agentless remediation. In 2018, 8 out of the Top 10 CVEs reported could be remediated with a package update. Puppet Remediate includes four pre-built tasks, including the ability to update packages. Remediate can also load modules from the Puppet Forge where a vast community of IT operators, security analysts, developers, and partners share ready-to-automate solutions as Bolt Tasks. IT Ops can take immediate action to remediate a vulnerability without leaving the application or having to use a CLI or write scripts—and, without requiring any agent technology on the vulnerable systems.

    Channel Partners Provide an Established Infrastructure and InfoSec Practice

    Initial channel partners were selected based on their established infrastructure and InfoSec practices and ability to bridge the gap that exists between security and IT practices in enterprises. The channel partners already sell into the vulnerability assessment market with products from Qualys, Rapid7 and Tenable. A 2018 report from IDC valued the vulnerability assessment market at $1.7 billion.

    “Puppet Remediate offers real added value with its new functions to our customers,” said Sebastian Scheuring, CEO Bitbone AG. “It drastically automates the workflow of vulnerability remediation through taking out the manual, mundane and error-prone steps that are required to remediate vulnerabilities. Continuous scans, remediation tasks and short cycles of update processes significantly increase the security level of IT environments.”

    Learn More

    More about this new product from Puppet on our website. If you need to continuously enforce your security standard and comply with numerous regulatory policies check out Puppet Enterprise.

    Attending VMWorld? Come to booth #759 to learn more about Puppet Remediate.

    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.

     

  • The U.S. Navy’s NIWC Pacific Selects Checkmarx to Accelerate Application Development, Bolstering Nation’s Security Posture Against Adversaries

    Strategic partnership will speed up the process of making new naval applications available from 24 months to 24 hours, while strengthening software security within C2C24 program

    NEW YORK – August 19, 2019 – Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific to accelerate the development and delivery of secure software applications. Following a competitive evaluation process, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC) selected Checkmarx due to the solution’s ability to fully support a DevSecOps culture through quickly and incrementally scanning software source code from its inception to deployment.

    Through the implementation of its industry-leading software composition analysis (CxOSA) and static application security testing (CxSAST) solutions, Checkmarx will help to measurably improve software security during the continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipeline for the Naval Information Warfare Center – Pacific and Naval Research and Development Establishment (NRDE) ecosystem. Using Checkmarx, more than 5,000 Navy developers and contractors now have the ability to identify, triage and remediate security vulnerabilities in their software applications throughout the software development life cycle.

    Traditionally, organizations across the U.S. Department of Defense have grappled with time constraints when developing new software applications. Every federal application in development has to undergo an Authority to Operate (ATO) approval process, which historically caused delays of 18-24 months when deploying a new application.

    To address this obstacle, the U.S. Navy recently released a NAVADMIN message mandating adoption of Compile to Combat in 24 Hours (C2C24), a program designed to improve operational efficiency by scaling up the ability to deliver software at the speed of relevance. Through Checkmarx’s integration into the C2C24 program, the U.S. Navy benefits from its contracted developers using the same set of testing tools to harden its CI/CD pipeline and release more secure software faster.

    “The stark reality is that it takes an adversary less than 24 hours to weaponize an exploit that targets a newly discovered vulnerability in a deployed application. In order to properly combat against these evolving threats, speed, along with accuracy and security, is critical when developing government software applications,” said Rich Wajsgras, Vice President of US Federal, Checkmarx. “We’re proud to be working closely with NIWC PAC and integrating into its already impactful C2C24 program. Together, we’ll pave the way to faster, more-secure application development while influencing the entire U.S. government sector.”

    The U.S. Navy will benefit from CxOSA combined with CxSAST as part of the Checkmarx Software Security Platform, improving overall software security posture while reducing total cost of ownership. The Checkmarx platform tightly integrates SAST, SCA, IAST and developer training via a unified management and orchestration layer to mitigate risk across the entire software development life cycle.

    For more information on CxOSA and CxSAST, request a free demo of the Checkmarx Software Security Platform today.

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    About Checkmarx

    Checkmarx is the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development. Checkmarx delivers the industry’s most comprehensive Software Security Platform that unifies with DevOps and provides static and interactive application security testing, software composition analysis and developer AppSec training to reduce and remediate risk from software vulnerabilities. Checkmarx is trusted by more than 40 percent of the Fortune 100 and half of the Fortune 50, including leading organizations such as SAP, Samsung and Salesforce.com. Learn more at www.checkmarx.com.

  • 2019 DEVOPS WORLD | JENKINS WORLD AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

    15 organizations and individuals honored for outstanding DevOps achievement, open source contributions and channel partner performance

    DEVOPS WORLD | JENKINS WORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – AUGUST 15, 2019 – CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced the winners of the 2019 DevOps World | Jenkins World Awards. The awards recognize achievement in three categories: Jenkins Community Awards, honoring those who have made significant contributions to the Jenkins project; CloudBees Innovation Awards, recognizing organizations who have achieved outstanding results in their DevOps transformations; and CloudBees Channel Partner Awards, highlighting partners who have excelled at revenue generation and in enabling organizations in their DevOps transformations.

    CloudBees Innovation Award winners include organizations of all sizes, from a small venture-funded startup to global technology giants. Jenkins Community Awards were given to four individuals for their contributions to the Jenkins community. Finally, five channel partners were recognized for industry excellence.

    JENKINS COMMUNITY AWARDS

    The Jenkins community award winners were chosen by a panel made up of Kohsuke Kawaguchi, founder of Jenkins and chief scientist at CloudBees, and the Jenkins Ambassadors. Jenkins Ambassadors are nominated annually and are influential Jenkins enthusiasts who have the passion to share their Jenkins technical expertise with others.

    “The 2019 Jenkins community awards honor the efforts of community members, those who are making significant contributions to advance the Jenkins project in several key areas,” said Kawaguchi. “The quality of the submissions this year was better than ever, across the board.”

    2019 Jenkins Community Award Winners:

    • 2019 Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor – Oliver Gondža
    • 2019 Jenkins Security MVP – Victor Gazdag
    • 2019 Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate – Zhao Xiaojie
    • 2019 Most Innovative Jenkins X Implementation – Vincent Behar

    CLOUDBEES INNOVATION AWARDS

    CloudBees Innovation Award winners were chosen by a panel of judges made up of Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder, CloudBees; Alan Shimel, editor-in-chief and founder of DevOps.com; and Aparna Sinha, director of product management, Google Cloud.

    “We’re pleased to have the opportunity to celebrate the outstanding achievement displayed regularly by CloudBees customers,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder of CloudBees. “The 2019 DevOps World | Jenkins World Award winners are five examples of outstanding leadership in the DevOps industry.”

    2019 CloudBees Innovation Award Winners:

    • DevOps Scalability Achievement – AIG
    • DevOps Scalability Achievement – Accenture
    • DevOps Automation Excellence – American Express Global Business Travel
    • DevOps Automation Excellence – Broadridge Financial Solutions
    • DevOps Rising Star (Honorable Mention) – Pinger

    CLOUDBEES CHANNEL PARTNER AWARDS

    CloudBees Channel Partner Awards were selected by the CloudBees channel team. Awards were presented to select CloudBees channel partners in five partner categories. Winners demonstrated a proven expertise in DevOps while also excelling within their partnership categories.

    2019 Channel Partner Award Winners:

    • 2019 Americas Partner of the Year – Zivra
    • 2019 Rookie Partner of the Year – ThunderCat
    • 2019 Channel Marketing Partner of the Year – Fierce Software
    • 2019 Public Sector Partner of the Year – Fierce Software
    • 2019 APAC Partner of the Year – TechMatrix

    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, invest in 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.

     

  • New Research Shows How “The Internet is Unavailable” to Blind Users

    Study Commissioned by Deque Systems Finds 70 Percent of Internet Websites in Certain Industries Inaccessible to the Vision-impaired, Missing a $6.9 Billion Market

    HERNDON, VA – August 15, 2019 – Deque Systems, a leading accessibility software company specializing in digital equality, today announced the results of a study conducted by Nucleus Research showing a pervasive “digital divide” for blind persons accessing the internet, as well as a missed market opportunity for the websites in question.

    The study, which conducted in-depth interviews with 73 U.S. adults who are blind or have severe visual impairments, revealed that two-thirds of the Internet transactions initiated by people with vision impairments end in abandonment because the websites they visit aren’t accessible enough. Ninety percent of those surveyed said they regularly call a site’s customer service to report inaccessibility and have no choice but to visit another, more accessible site to make the transaction.

    The Nucleus study also scanned hundreds of websites in the e-commerce, news and information, and government categories and found that 70 percent had certain “critical blockers” that rendered them inaccessible to visually impaired users.

    “Besides the moral dilemma and legal risk, businesses with inaccessible websites are missing a huge revenue opportunity by ignoring an untapped market,” says Preety Kumar, CEO of Deque Systems. “Among internet retailers specifically, two-thirds of the top ten online retailers had serious accessibility issues, meaning they are leaving $6.9 billion in potential North American   e-commerce revenues on the table.”

    Web accessibility refers to the ability of people with disabilities to independently gather information, complete transactions, or communicate on the Internet. Most visually impaired Internet users rely on assistive technologies like screen readers or screen magnifiers to render sites perceivable and operable. However, these assistive technologies require that websites be built with accessibility in mind and optimized to interface with assistive technology, in order to convey information in an accurate and understandable manner.

    Critical accessibility blockers can vary across industries. In e-commerce, problems include issues like missing form and button labels (thereby making forms or the “checkout” button invisible without context). Amazon, Best Buy and Target were found to be accessibility leaders in this space. Additionally, the study found:

    • Eight out of ten news sites had significant accessibility issues.
    • Seven out of ten blind persons reported being unable to access information and services through government websites, including Medicare’s site.

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    • Fewer than one in three websites have clear contact information or instructions for blind persons to seek help if they encounter accessibility issues, meaning many have low levels of success in reporting and solving these problems.

    “A focus on accessibility needs to be a core part of the website design and development process,” continues Kumar. “Considering accessibility as early as the conception phase, and proactively building and testing sites for accessibility as they move towards production, is significantly more effective than remediating it later, helping organizations save significant time and resources while avoiding unnecessary customer grievances.”

    To download the report, visit: https://accessibility.deque.com/nucleus-accessibility-research-2019

    About Deque Systems

    Deque (pronounced dee-cue) is a web accessibility software and services company, and our mission is Digital Equality.  We believe everyone, regardless of their ability, should have equal access to the information, services, applications, and everything else on the web.

    We work with enterprise-level businesses and organizations to ensure that their sites and mobile apps are accessible. Installed in over 250,000 browsers and with over 1,000 audit projects completed, Deque is the industry standard.

     

  • Instana Pipeline Feedback™ Integrates Automated APM with CI/CD Application Releases

    DevOps and Developers Get Immediate Feedback on New Release Performance

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – August 15, 2019 – Instana, the leading provider of automated Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for dynamic microservice applications, announced application release tracking and feedback capabilities that make it the first APM solution to include automatic release tracking.

    The new capabilities are part of Instana Pipeline Feedback™, an application delivery pipeline performance tracking and analytics solution, directly integrated with Instana’s automated APM solution. In addition to the new Pipeline Feedback system, today’s announcement covers specific new functionality:

    • Automatic tracking and performance feedback of Application Releases
    • Integration with Jenkins for automatic identification of new releases

    “As application teams strive for higher velocity in their deployment processes, they require immediate feedback whenever changes occur,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “Instana Pipeline Feedback tracks and isolates application release performance, notifying developers and DevOps of issues within seconds.”

    Pipeline Feedback is included with Instana’s automated APM solution that maps, visualizes and manages microservice applications, delivering the actionable data that application teams need to provide high quality applications. The new CI/CD process management capabilities are included at no additional cost.

    Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers application service components and application infrastructure, including Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker. The tool automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack and traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    For deployment teams, the full system is a powerful tool to understand the quality of new software deployments. Whenever an official release is deployed, Jenkins notifies Instana Pipeline Feedback, which will isolate each new service or piece of code, provide Instana performance reports, and deliver a comparison of service and application performance and health, compared to the previous release.

    Like other Instana capabilities, Pipeline Feedback is automatic and provides actionable data in seconds – providing DevOps and Developers the immediate feedback they need to know that new releases are performing as expected. The new functionality is being showcased at the JenkinsWorld / DevOps World Conference. Learn more at instana.com.

    ABOUT INSTANA

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

     

  • DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Announces Speakers from Adidas, American Airlines, Comcast, PNC Bank, Verizon and Walmart

    Technology leaders emphasize the evolving business, technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to successfully lead widespread change efforts in large organizations

    PORTLAND, Ore, August 14, 2019 — IT Revolution, the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the latest round of business and technology leaders presenting at DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/speakers/).

    Hosted at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from October 28-30, DevOps Enterprise Summit is a conference for the business and technology leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. Its goal is to give these leaders the tools and practices they need to develop and deploy software faster and to win in the marketplace.

    “I attend DevOps Enterprise Summit because it is the only DevOps conference that goes well beyond just the tools and technologies and delves into people, culture, leadership, collaboration and overall digital transformation,” said Tapabrata Pal, Senior Director & Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One. “I get to hear real stories about successes as well as failures to learn from.”

    To attend DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019, register at (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/register) before the conference sells out.

    The latest confirmed speakers presenting at DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas include:

    • Leslie Chapman, Distinguished Engineer, Comcast
    • Fernando Cornago, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Adidas
    • Jaclyn Damiano, Associate Director, Verizon
    • Damon Edwards, Co-Founder, Rundeck
    • Bryan Finster, Delivery Systems Engineer, Walmart
    • Benjamin Grimm, Senior Director – .COM, Adidas
    • Phillip Knezevich, Senior Manager, Architecture and Infrastructure, American Airlines
    • Kate Meeuf, Director of Dojo, PNC Bank
    • Jonathan Moore, Chief Software Architect & Senior Fellow, Comcast
    • Ranga Muvavarirwa, VP, Entertainment Technology, Comcast
    • Corey Quinn, Cloud Economist, The Duckbill Group
    • John Rzeszotarski, SVP, PNC Bank
    • Roger Servey, Senior Manager, Systems Engineering, Verizon
    • Josh Stone, Senior Architect/Evangelist, Verizon
    • Michael Winslow, Director, Comcast

    “For years, one of our main programming objectives has been to gather experience reports that show the best working relationships between business and technology leadership,” 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. “By having these leaders share their experience reports, we hope others can learn from them and emulate them to achieve similar outcomes; that helps their own organizations win in the marketplace.”

    With events in both the United States and Europe, DevOps Enterprise Summit provides keynotes, panels, breakouts, DevOps workshops, speaker Q&A sessions, book signings, and an expo hall. Sessions will be led by leaders who are pioneering these practices in large and complex organizations across a wide range of industries. The keynotes will feature industry luminaries as well as speakers from well-known companies who will share the learnings from their enterprise DevOps initiatives.

    To learn more about why you should attend DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019, visit (https://events.itrevolution.com/us).

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    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.

  • CLOUDBEES AND GOOGLE CLOUD PARTNER TO ACCELERATE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ON ANTHOS

    Respective leaders in DevOps and cloud computing are partnering to provide end-to-end application development automation from source to production, enabling enterprises to build and modernize applications in a hybrid environment

    DEVOPS WORLD | JENKINS WORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – AUGUST 14, 2019 – CloudBees®, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, and Google Cloud, today announced that the two companies are collaborating to deliver a modern DevOps platform based on open source technologies powered by Google Cloud’s Anthos.

    CloudBees provides companies large and small with Jenkins-based continuous delivery solutions that are secure, open toolchain-enabled and scalable to transform software delivery processes across hybrid computing environments.

    Google Cloud is delivering to enterprises a secure, open, intelligent and transformative enterprise cloud platform. Anthos, a hybrid and multi-cloud platform, is built on open source technologies pioneered by Google Cloud and enables consistency between on-premise and cloud environments.

    Together, Google Cloud and CloudBees are helping to accelerate application development and strategically enable businesses with transformational technologies like continuous delivery automation, service mesh, containers and microservices.

    CloudBees and Google Cloud have a deep commitment to open source. CloudBees has been one of the leading companies to support the Jenkins and Jenkins X projects, and Google Cloud is a key leader for projects like Kubernetes and Tekton. Both companies believe that open source is the future of application development and the long-term success of the public cloud.

    In addition, CloudBees and Google Cloud were founding members of the newly formed Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), an open source foundation that fosters vendor-neutral collaboration between the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors to further continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) best practices and industry specifications.

    “Developers need to build and run applications in a manner that best suits their business, regardless of whether the app will live on-prem or in the cloud. Increasingly, this means adopting a hybrid approach with Anthos, which allows developers to run critical applications in the cloud without entirely eliminating their on-premises infrastructure,” said Rayn Veerubhotla, Director of Hybrid Cloud Partnerships at Google Cloud. “We’re delighted to expand our partnership with CloudBees to accelerate application development in hybrid and public cloud environments.”

    The companies are using transformational technologies like Jenkins X, Kubernetes and Tekton to create a unified, end-to-end software delivery system.

    Earlier in the year, CloudBees announced the availability of CloudBees Jenkins Distribution, a certified distribution of open source Jenkins, in the GCP Marketplace.

    On Thursday, August 15, at DevOps World | Jenkins World, Dave Stanke, developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform, will deliver a keynote titled, So Long, Sheepdog: Towards a Cloud Native CI/CD, where he will review the hallmarks of a healthy DevOps practice and describe how to achieve key capabilities across a range of strategies, from incremental modernization of established systems to the brave new world of a greenfield, cloud native CI/CD platform.

    “Our partnership with Google Cloud brings amazing new capabilities to application developers that want to accelerate application development in a modern hybrid environment,” said Francois Dechery, chief strategy officer, CloudBees. “Meanwhile, enterprises will be able to modernize applications on-premise or in the cloud with Anthos using existing skills and a consistent platform to get products to market faster, and maximize resource utilization.”

    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, invest in 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.

     

     

  • CLOUDBEES PRESENTS SOFTWARE DELIVERY MANAGEMENT (SDM) – A VISION FOR TURNING SOFTWARE DELIVERY INTO A CORE BUSINESS PROCESS

    Software Delivery Management solves the most challenging problems for organizations –  continuously delivering software efficiently across all teams, tools and technologies while integrating wider business functions

    DEVOPS WORLD | JENKINS WORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – AUGUST 14, 2019 – CloudBees®, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today gave DevOps World | Jenkins World attendees an advance look at the emerging category of Software Delivery Management (SDM). At the same time, the company demonstrated an early preview of its CloudBees SDM Platform along with its Product Hub and Value Stream Management modules. CloudBees also announced access to an early preview program that will enable attendees to start to adopt SDM. The CloudBees solution will uniquely integrate CloudBees’ advanced DevOps capabilities with new features designed to create the industry’s first end-to-end SDM system.

    While most DevOps teams have made significant strides through the implementation of CI/CD and application release orchestration (ARO) automation to power software delivery, many organizations still operate with siloed development and delivery teams that are disconnected from broader business functions. Disparate and disconnected tools and processes within, across and beyond the DevOps tool chain also get in the way of the organization treating software delivery as a core business process and enabling value creation efforts to create maximum business impact. CloudBees is responding to this challenge by introducing a set of capabilities to support SDM. The capabilities bi-directionally tie together all artifacts, data and events across an organization’s DevOps tool chain into a unified system of record. Doing so enables meaningful collaboration between all teams through universal insights, common connected processes, workflows and governance to truly develop and deliver software at an elite level.

    The key pillars of SDM are:

    • ALL FUNCTIONS COLLABORATING – All functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization work together to amplify value creation efforts.
    • UNIVERSAL INSIGHTS – Visibility and insights enable understanding and continuous learning from data across, up-and-down and throughout all functions in the organization.
    • COMMON CONNECTED PROCESSES – Processes orchestrate software delivery and connect functions together to efficiently bring ideas to market with maximum value and adoption.
    • COMMON DATA – All information within and around software delivery activity is captured and stored with a consistent domain model to enable and facilitate connected processes, shared insights and collaboration.

    At DevOps World | Jenkins World today, CloudBees announced availability of a preview program for its Cloudbees SDM Platform, along with the Product Hub and Value Stream Management modules, and demonstrated some of the new, integrated capabilities that CloudBees will offer to support SDM, including:

    • Product Hub – a central place for integrated visibility and orchestration of all data, resources, development and delivery activity around products
    • Policy Engine – to provide a flexible, general purpose policy and rules engine with automated suggestions allowing alerting and enforcement to support scenarios ranging from team-based continuous improvement to regulatory compliance
    • Efficiency dashboard – to support continuous product team improvement and retrospectives
    • Contributions dashboard – to give developers and other product team members unique insights into work prioritization and blockers
    • Real-time value stream management – to provide immediate visibility and awareness into feature and contribution status and value delivery blockages
    • Integrated feature flag management – to enable policy-driven progressive delivery and rollout control based on business and operational metrics

    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.