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  • CLOUDBEES ACCELERATOR NOW OFFERS CLOUD BURSTING AND ANDROID Q BUILD ACCELERATION: TWO MORE WAYS TO GET PRODUCTS IN MINUTES INSTEAD OF HOURS

    New enhancements in CloudBees Accelerator version 11.1 cut build and test cycle times even further

    DEVOPS WORLD | JENKINS WORLD – SAN FRANCISCO, CA. – August 14, 2019 – CloudBees®, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today introduced new enhancements for its CloudBees Accelerator™ platform that will help IT teams get products to market even faster. For the first time, teams can use the industry-leading acceleration platform to burst workloads to all three major cloud providers and shorten build and test times for devices running the new Android Q operating system from hours to minutes.

    CloudBees Accelerator 11.1 dramatically accelerates build, QA and testing cycles by distributing the build over a large cluster of inexpensive servers. Adding support for cloud bursting on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform and for the development of Android Q devices, it will help organizations get to market quicker and create more time for experimentation and iteration.

    Trying to accelerate build and test cycles with dedicated build clouds is inefficient. CloudBees Accelerator previously enabled developers to burst workloads from a data center or private cloud onto an AWS cloud platform, enabling them to cut build and test times in those environments. Now, with support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, teams can shift workloads to any of the three major cloud providers on-demand, giving them greater efficiency and eliminating vendor lock-in.

    Meanwhile, Android device makers are under huge time – and cost – pressures to release new devices concurrently with Android Q, the new Android operating system now in beta and scheduled for release in Q3 2019. Using CloudBees Accelerator, they can shorten their build and test times to minutes instead of hours, allowing them to get to market faster and potentially avoid fines for releasing devices after the delivery date of a new Android system.

    CloudBees Accelerator 11.1 also includes the following new features:

    • Support for the SSL and TLS cryptographic protocols – This ensures secure communication between EMake tools – which control executables and other non-source files of a program from the program’s source files – and agent components, making CloudBees Accelerator public-cloud ready. This enables security-sensitive organizations in financial services and other vertical industries to ensure their builds aren’t hacked or intercepted.
    • Improvements to CloudBees Electrify™ – This allows users to accelerate non-EMake build tools, such as MSBuild and Scons.
    • Improvements for the Linux Foundation’s Yocto Project – The Yocto Project is an open source project aimed at producing tools and processes that enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded and IoT software that are independent of the underlying architecture of the embedded hardware. CloudBees Accelerator enables developers to at least triple the speeds of builds usingBitBake build tools or Buildroot files and patches.
    • Improvements to out-of-the-box CloudBees Accelerator support for Windows with native support for distributing and caching Visual Studio projects.

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    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 CLOUDBEES FLOW PLATFORM RAISES THE BAR FOR CUSTOM-BUILT RELEASE PROCESSES

    Application resource orchestration platform aims to eliminate anxiety across software delivery chain

    DEVOPS WORLD | JENKINS WORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – AUGUST 14, 2019 – CloudBees®, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced version 9.1 of CloudBees Flow™ – the industry’s first unified Application Release Orchestration (ARO) platform built for DevOps at enterprise scale. The new release builds on the strength of the former ElectricFlow orchestration platform CloudBees acquired in the recent purchase of Electric Cloud, adding a series of enhancements that make it easier than ever to eliminate release anxiety across the entire software delivery chain.

    CloudBees Flow helps drive IT efficiency by automating and orchestrating software releases, pipelines and deployments with the analytics and insight to measure, track and improve results. New features will smooth and customize the orchestration process further, offering more personalized dashboards, new data archiving and more real-time visibility into a release’s path to production.

    CloudBees Flow 9.1 includes the following new features:

    • Release Command Center customization – Fully customizable dashboards that allow users to display their own custom data, highlight a given release pipeline and more effectively report on their own release process.
    • Data archiving – Ability to archive older data to the system of their choice for regulatory and compliance purposes.
    • Path to production with inventory – Full visibility into how a release is progressing, including a way to accurately view the inventory that is being deployed to a given environment.
    • Release portfolio feedback – Better insights into the overall release and all sub-pipelines with the ability to distinguish between various legends and color-coded views using a new, intuitive interface.
    • Release pipeline execution – Greater flexibility and full control for release pipeline execution with the ability to:
      • Run tasks out of order
      • Pre-run tasks in future stages for flexibility in running tasks out of order, improving efficiency and control
      • Prevent conflicts and errors by marking application deployment processes to require exclusive access to an environment
      • Ensure one deployment is run at a time

    CloudBees Flow is positioned as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation, 2018 1. The product was also positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Application Release Orchestration Magic Quadrant 2.

    Additional Resources

    1 The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation, 2018, Q4 2018, November 26, 2018

    2 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration, Colin Fletcher, Laurie Wurster, Christopher Little, 10 September 2018. The report was previously titled Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation

    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.

     

     

  • Codefresh’s More Robust, Open Source Marketplace Makes Coding Easier, Faster, More Secure

    SAN FRANCISCO (JENKINS WORLD), August 13, 2019 – Codefresh has dramatically improved its open source marketplace with features that underscore the company’s commitment to removing barriers to faster code deployment, saving developers frustration, time, and money. The news was announced at Jenkins World, where Codefresh is exhibiting from August 13 – 15 in San Francisco at Moscone West, Booth #1031.

    First deployed in December 2018, the Codefresh Marketplace makes it easier for code developers to find commands without having to learn a proprietary API – every step, browsable in the pipeline builder, is a simple Docker image. The Marketplace contains a more robust set of pipeline steps provided both by Codefresh and partners, such as Blue-Green and Canary deployment steps for Kubernetes, Aqua security scanning, and Helm package and deployment.  All plugins are open source and users can contribute to the collection by creating a new plugin.

    Additional new functionality includes the ability to create private steps for a specific team, a new section for items maintained by Codefresh, and automatic scanning and security checking of Marketplace additions.

    “Our steps Marketplace provides building blocks for your pipelines. It is very easy to search for a keyword and see if there is a step for that method,” said Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist for Codefresh. “We look forward to communities adding more plugins as the adoption of Docker within companies skyrockets and the benefits of Docker-based tooling become more clear.”

    The Marketplace can be found at https://steps.codefresh.io/. To learn more about Codefresh, view What is Codefresh that explains the ease of use to get code into production faster without the need to reinvent the wheel.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After GA 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.

  • Catchpoint Digital Experience Monitoring Adds “More Eyes in More Places” With Continuing Expansion of Category’s Largest Monitoring Network

    New Backbone, Last Mile, Cloud Vantage Points Challenge Cloud-only Industry Trend; Monitoring End-User Experiences with Less Noise and Greater Accuracy

    New York, NY – (August 13, 2019) Catchpoint™, the leader in next-generation Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), today announced a further expansion of its Global Monitoring Network, the largest, most diverse network of locations in its category, to 825 locations extensively covering backbone, broadband, cloud, last mile and wireless infrastructure.

    Catchpoint’s ongoing expansion, with 75 nodes added in 2019, highlights its commitment to improving digital experiences by monitoring from as many geographic, network and infrastructure vantage points as possible. This approach runs counter to some performance monitoring vendors which track user experiences only from public cloud locations.

    “The breadth and diversity of our infrastructure make us the system of record for end user experience telemetry. Our expansive footprint is necessary to protect and advance enterprise customer and employee digital experiences,” says Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder of Catchpoint. “Organizations are facing an increasingly diverse and mobile user base, requiring a solution which can support that scale. Catchpoint is committed to the growing need for ‘more eyes in more places’ because limiting monitoring locations to the public cloud does not reflect real user presence and behavior.”

    Now covering 200 cities worldwide, Catchpoint focused its recent deployment of new monitoring nodes in Mexico and China. Catchpoint now has a total of 140 nodes in mainland China, comprising 16 percent of its global footprint – vital as businesses increasingly target the Chinese market.

    Powered by its advanced synthetic and real-user solutions for both customer and employee experience monitoring, Catchpoint offers organizations a unique advantage with more monitoring locations in geographic proximity to end users.

    “Other monitoring tools are looking at things internally and are reactive. With its expansive node network, Catchpoint represents the User Experience and allows us to proactively identify problems before they impact our customers,” says Gary McKay, Director of Agile Service Delivery at Somos, the leader in registry management and data solutions. “Catchpoint alerts us to the first sign of trouble for all of our products. Without their backbone nodes, we would miss issues that could disrupt our customers’ experience.”

    In addition to monitoring critical backbone locations, Catchpoint’s 133 public cloud locations offer the largest regional cloud provider coverage, with nodes on AWS, Google, Oracle, Tencent, AliCloud and others. New cloud nodes were added in Mumbai, Dubai, Stockholm, Sydney, Johannesburg and other locations in Europe and the United States.

    DEM Transition Program: Catchpoint underpinned its global monitoring commitment with the recent announcement of its DEM Transition Program, following Dynatrace’s news of retiring their Gomez and Keynote products. The program provides free and seamless migration for companies looking to adopt next-generation DEM with the automation, scalability and velocity demanded by modern organizations. As part of Catchpoint’s white-glove services, customers receive best-in-class support with a dedicated customer success manager who will work closely to develop and execute a monitoring migration strategy. Customers may also receive some monetary relief in certain circumstances.

    For a complete list of nodes, visit: https://www.catchpoint.com/global-node-network .

    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/

     

  • Humio Redefines Total Cost of Ownership and Launches TCO Estimator Tool

    Quick and easy to use, the online tool enables users to estimate the costs of a Humio

    San Diego, CA., August 12, 2019 – Humio, a purpose-built live observability log management solution that is easily scalable and deployed on premises and in the cloud, today, at Gartner Catalyst Conference, announced the launch of the TCO Estimator. The estimator is a quick and easy to use online tool useful in obtaining estimated costs of a Humio configuration that meets organizational needs.

    All organizations and departments have budgets. One of the most commonly asked questions in log management is, “how much would it cost to ingest all of our data in real-time”? Many organizations struggle with cost constraints dictating their log strategies. Humio removes the limitations present in traditional logging solutions with unlimited ingest, reduced infrastructure costs and lower operational costs and the TCO Estimator is a quick and easy way to demonstrate this to users.

    We developed a quick four step process. Users enter their information and then simply click a selection and move the sliders to estimate costs.

    • Daily ingest amount
    • Duration of searchable history
    • Amount of users
    • Query type: heavy, medium, light

    Fixed or flexible, every organization has expectations about what the costs are for deploying a solution. Whether they are just curious about the costs of utilizing new deployments or they are wanting to compare pricing against existing options, Humio’s pricing estimator can help.

    “Knowing what the costs are up front can help both developers and operations professionals ensure they have a handle on their spend while ensuring the business is protected, secure, and able to be restored quickly in the event of a planned or unplanned interruption,” said Geeta Schmidt, Humio CEO. “The Humio TCO Estimator was designed to help customers and partners quickly determine an estimation of costs based on ingest needs, users, and expected query pattern.”

    For more details on how Humio is redefining log management TCO please visit https://info.humio.com/humio-redefines-log-management-tco. Please visit us at booth #505 at the Gartner Catalyst Conference to discuss our TCO and try our TCO Estimator tool.

    About Humio: Humio’s live observability platform enables data aggregation, exploration, reporting and analysis from a range of sources ingesting massive volumes of log data instantly and is deployable on any infrastructure including both in the cloud and on-premises. The purpose-built, innovative data storage and in-memory search/query engine technologies provide developers, security teams and operations managers a cost-competitive log management and analysis solution, all while requiring significantly less hardware and engineering resources. For more information visit https://www.humio.com/or follow @MeetHumio.

  • DevOps Institute Announces Ambassador Program to Advance the Humans of DevOps

    the Humans of DevOps

    The volunteer-based program connects passionate leaders with global DevOps Institute community members through the SKIL Framework.

    SAN FRANCISCO, August 12, 2019 – DevOps World | Jenkins World – DevOps Institute (https://devopsinstitute.com/), a  global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the introduction of its DevOps Institute Ambassador program. The program invites and acknowledges accomplished volunteers from across the globe who are committed to leading and empowering the DevOps Institute member community with the SKIL Framework to advance the Humans of DevOps with Skills, Knowledge, Ideas and Learning.

    To learn more about the DevOps Institute Ambassador program, visit: (https://devopsinstitute.com/become-a-community-member/devops-institute-ambassador/)

    “The DevOps Institute is committed to equipping the global and diverse DevOps community with skills and knowledge to confidently compete in today’s digital workforce, while nurturing connections and a sense of belonging,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “DevOps Institute Ambassadors are passionate DevOps visionaries who support our mission and are willing to serve as public-facing local, national and regional representatives to assist the Humans of DevOps in the global DevOps Institute community.”

    DevOps Institute Ambassadors are DevOps thought leaders and subject domain experts who will contribute to the DevOps Collective Body of Knowledge through local community engagement and visibility. Each Ambassador has the unique opportunity to realize their personal vision, establish connections and pursue new skills, all while mentoring and serving DevOps Institute community members. Ambassadors lead in several ways with contributed content, participation in forums and online groups, organizing local community events known as SKILups, and creating other avenues to engage learning pathways with the community.

    Current DevOps Institute Ambassadors Include:

    • Garima Bajpai, Executive Board Member, Capital Carbon Consulting (Canada)
    • Helen Beal, Devopsologist, Ranger4 (United Kingdom)
    • Enrique Carbonell, DevOps Advocate, DevOpsDays Cuba (Cuba, Ecuador)
    • Niladri Choudhuri, Founder and CEO, Xellentro (India)
    • Paul Colmer, Digital Coach/Architect, ALC Group (Australia)
    • Sean Davis, Chief Transformation Evangelist, Equifax (USA)
    • Rose Dyson, DevOps and ITIL Lead Instructor, DDLS (Australia)
    • Aymen El Amri, Founder and CEO, Era Labs (France)
    • Sam Fell, AVP Enterprise Marketing, CloudBees (USA)
    • Karen Ferris, Author, Speaker and Thought Leader (Australia)
    • Suresh GP, Managing Director, Taub Solutions (India)
    • Marudhamaran Gunasekaran, Senior Security Consultant, DevOn (Netherlands)
    • Forest Jing, DevOps Times Community Co-Founder, DevOpsDays China Co-Organizer,  Jenkins User Conference China Organizer, GreatOps (China)
    • Donna Knapp, Curriculum Development Manager,  ITSM Academy (USA)
    • Alex Lichtenberger, Founder, Impact Matters (Switzerland)
    • Amanda Mattos, DevOps/Software Consultant at ThoughtWorks (Brazil)
    • Daniel Oh, Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat (Korea)
    • Amanda Pinto, Co-Founder DevOps Bootcamp, DevOps Consultant and Agile Coach (Brazil)
    • Suman Saurav, VP – Security Architecture & Projects – Lazada Group, Co-organizer DevSecCon (Singapore)
    • DJ Schleen, DevSecOps Advocate – Sonatype (USA)
    • Sanjeev Sharma, Vice President, Global Practice Director – Data Modernization, Delphix (USA)
    • Diyaa Zebian, Co-Founder & CEO, Archinova (Dubai)

    DevOps Institute will continue to add more Ambassadors in the near future either by application or recognition.

    “We’ve got an amazing group of Ambassadors from every region across the world with common passion and willingness to contribute towards the Humans of DevOps community by DevOps Institute,” said Dheeraj Nayal, Global Community Ambassador at DevOps Institute. We are really excited that each Ambassador will be contributing significantly to advance our new and existing community members with relevant and broad skill sets, knowledge, ideas & learning with the human-centered SKIL Framework.”

    Share This: The @DEVOPSINST just announced the #DevOps Institute Ambassador program that gives passionate #leaders an opportunity to contribute and empower the #HumansofDevOps. Learn more at https://devopsinstitute.com/become-a-community-member/devops-institute-ambassador/

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

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

    Web | https://devopsinstitute.com/
    Twitter | @DEVOPSINST
    LinkedIn | /devops-institute
    YouTube | DevOps Institute
    Facebook | @DevOpsInstitute
    Instagram | @devopsinstitute

  • Exadel Announces New Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Delivery to Support Growing Practices and Solutions Portfolio

    Igor Landes and Mikhail Andrushkevich bring decades of industry experience to Exadel

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Aug. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global leader in digital software engineering solutions, today announced Igor Landes as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Mikhail Andrushkevich as Vice President of Delivery. Both Landes and Andrushkevich bring deep experience and expertise to their respective new positions that will strengthen Exadel’s software delivery excellence for a growing roster of global customers.

    Prior to his current position, Landes served as Chief Delivery Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Exadel. As CTO, Landes’ primary focus will be to provide support to the sales team, along with promoting technical excellence across all parts of the organization. In addition, he will be responsible for:

    • Identifying technology trends and aligning applications with Exadel Business objectives
    • Defining and implementing the technology innovation strategy, including support for the Innovation Lab
    • Supporting solutions marketing and verticalization

    With more than 25 years of extensive experience in the software industry, Landes has the expertise to fulfill the role of CTO.

    “I am excited to get started in my new role as CTO,” said Landes. “Combining my background in leading globally distributed software development projects along with this increased responsibility gives me the opportunity to pursue my passion for providing software solutions to our customers.”

    “We are very excited to have Igor in the CTO office at Exadel,” said Fima Katz, founder and CEO at Exadel. “He has a proven track record of delivering complex projects in a high-pressure environment and an extensive background in leading globally distributed software development projects.”

    Andrushkevich has been at Exadel for more than 13 years and has held positions such as Program Manager, Senior Delivery Manager, Department Manager, ​Scrum Master and Project Manager before his appointment to Vice President of Delivery. In this new role, Andrushkevich is responsible for the delivery of Exadel solutions for clients, improving the quality of these solutions, enhancing the software development processes, and developing new leaders within Exadel. He also provides senior leadership and supervision for all delivery management staff at Exadel. Andrushkevich has more than 18 years of professional experience working on large products as well as in services.

    “Software delivery is at the core of what Exadel provides,” said Andrushkevich. “As VP of Delivery, I am eager to help ensure all products and projects delivered to customers are of the highest quality. We strive for excellence in all we do at Exadel and I look forward to being a steward of this promise.”

    “Mikhail has proved himself as a successful leader of multiple international teams,” said Katz. “The company has established itself as a leader in agile software delivery, but the expertise he brings in project and product management, using Agile approaches, and creating successful teams, was the missing link we needed to connect our customers and our solutions effectively.”

    With the promotion of these two individuals, Exadel is looking forward to helping enterprises build complex software products and projects, stay ahead of the innovation curve and ensure that digital transformations are successful and agile.

    Tweet this: .@exadel announces new #CTO, Igor Landes and new VP of Delivery, Mikhail Andrushkevich to drive software development solutions that solve complex business challenges

    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 Services (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.

  • Datical Announces Support for Liquibase™ 3.7, Furthering Ongoing Commitment to Open Source Community for Database Change

    Additional Plans Include Strategic Partnerships with Database Vendors, Personnel Hires Dedicated Exclusively to Liquibase

    AUSTIN, Texas – August 8, 2019 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced support for Liquibase 3.7 in a continued effort to empower the millions of software professionals who use the open source project for managing database schema changes. Additionally, Datical is investing in strategic partnerships with database vendors including Cassandra, Cockroach Labs, Couchbase, and SAP HANA, among others, to increase community contribution. Datical also currently employs multiple engineers devoted solely to Liquibase, with plans to hire more engineers and a community manager this year.

    Liquibase is the leading open source solution enabling application teams to version and track database changes. Version 3.7 includes DB2 for z/OS bug fixes and improvements, as well as developments to State Based Management and Change Set Generation. It also features support for NOVALIDATE keywords on Oracle Constraints, so users have the ability to create or recreate constraints without incurring the cost of validation of existing data.

    “Liquibase is the undisputed leader for open source database change, and Datical is 100% dedicated to continue its ongoing efforts to support the Liquibase community,” said Nathan Voxland, founder of Liquibase and architect at Datical. “Datical has multiple engineers who focus on Liquibase, whether that’s regarding updates or bug fixes—and there will be a lot more community updates in the coming months. We’re excited about partnering with fellow leaders in the database market and hiring a community manager to better bolster these efforts as new versions are released. We are committed to increasing our investment in Liquibase by increasing the capabilities, news, documentation and community contribution.”

    Users who rely on Liquibase’s capabilities to reconcile environments, or to generate change sets for database migrations, will benefit from key issue fixes and improvements in Liquibase 3.7, including:

    • Increased atomicity of changes in generated change logs. The diffChangeLog operation now returns one—and only one—change in each generated change set. This increased atomicity makes it simpler for users to recover from deployment errors, as they don’t have to worry about the additional overhead of manually correcting their change log and tracking changes in the databases to which they have deployed.
    • Improvements to snapshots of multiple catalog/database projects. Users who manage change to multiple databases (or catalogs) for a single project or application will benefit from improvements to capabilities across catalogs. Improvements in dependency ordering and the accuracy of change sets produced by comparing two environments (online or offline) make it easy to understand and reconcile differences across the application pipeline.
    • Support for NOVALIDATE keywords on Oracle Constraints. This update allows users to create or recreate constraints without incurring the cost of validation of existing data.

    To learn more about Liquibase 3.7, visit: https://www.liquibase.org/2019/07/liquibase-3-7-0-released.html

    To learn more about the open position of Liquibase community manager, visit: https://www.datical.com/company/careers/?gh_jid=1803669

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     About Datical, Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to transform the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation, organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 737-402-7187 or connect via @datical.

  • Instana is First Automatic Performance Monitoring Solution to Provide Jenkins Monitoring for Builds and the Jenkins Stack

    Automatic APM Solution Provider Adds CI/CD Management Capabilities

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – August 8th, 2019 – Instana continues to change the way organizations think about delivering and monitoring business applications with the addition of Jenkins monitoring to the company’s automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solution. The leader in providing automated Application Monitoring solutions, Instana has started adding performance management for systems in other steps of the application delivery process.

    “A common theme amongst Instana customers is the need to deliver and deploy quality applications faster, and Jenkins is a critical component of that delivery process,” said Peter Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “The latest monitoring addition to Instana’s automated APM solution for dynamic microservice applications moves up the deployment process to tackle application builds and deployment.”

    Instana’s automatic Jenkins monitoring capabilities include providing performance visibility of individual builds and deployments, as well as health monitoring of the Jenkins tool stack itself – including the hosts and JVMs running Jenkins. This gives Agile Development and DevOps teams the data they need to understand exactly where they can optimize their application delivery process.

    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.

    Instana will be showcasing their new Jenkins infrastructure and build monitoring capabilities at the DevOps World / JenkinsWorld conference on August 12th in San Francisco. Learn more by stopping by the Instana’s Booth (Booth Number 1002) or visiting https://instana.com.

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    About Instana

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

     

  • Tricentis Acquisition Extends Selenium and Appium Test Automation in the Cloud

    TestProject expands Tricentis’ support for the open source community, scaling and simplifying test automation for any tester—from startup to Global 2000 enterprise

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PETAH TIKVA, Israel — August 7, 2019 — Tricentis announced that it has acquired TestProject, a first-of-its-kind community-powered test automation platform designed for Agile teams. As part of its commitment to TestProject, Tricentis will be investing in research and development to advance the product, extend the community, and help testers master best practices for web, Android, and iOS test automation.

    TestProject is built on the leading open source test automation tools: Selenium and Appium. It supports all major operating systems, and enables any software team to test web, Android, and iOS apps using a “low-code/no-code” approach. With the community-driven approach, automation building blocks are shared with the entire community—reducing the time required to construct robust test automation. AI-based matching automatically analyzes the application under test and recommends addons that will enhance the tests.

    “Tricentis is a company that has always placed the tester first,” said Sandeep Johri, CEO of Tricentis. “By joining forces with TestProject, we strengthen our commitment to democratizing test automation, providing an open platform for innovation. Working with enterprises, we’ve witnessed a distinct need to scale open source testing frameworks across the enterprise. TestProject, with its cloud-based, community-driven technology, delivers a scalable and collaborative solution.”

    TestProject will retain its free, community-based offering and will operate independently, providing an open platform for all testers in all industries. Testers can continue using the programming languages, tools, and operating systems of their choice for their projects.  Moreover, TestProject users can enhance their test automation with additional Tricentis capabilities for Agile test management, load testing, and end-to-end testing. Tricentis will leverage its partnerships with leading cloud providers like Microsoft and AWS to extend its current lead in cloud testing.

    TestProject’s current CEO, Mark Kardashov, will become Managing Director of TestProject and the TestProject team will continue driving TestProject’s innovation within Tricentis.

    “I’m extremely proud of what TestProject and our community have accomplished over the past several years, and I can’t wait to see what lies ahead,” Kardashov said. “Testing is a critical piece of any software development pipeline, and I’m thrilled to be joining forces with the market leader, Tricentis, to ensure every tester is empowered. Tricentis’ focus on the tester aligns perfectly with our own, and Tricentis’ scale, tools, and global brand will play a huge role in making TestProject the leader in community-powered test automation.”

    About TestProject

    TestProject is the world’s first cloud-based, community testing platform. TestProject makes it easier for testers to do their jobs quickly, and to collaborate using popular open source frameworks (e.g., Selenium and Appium) to ensure quality with speed. By fostering a collaborative community that can come together — as individuals and in teams — TestProject is shaping the future of software testing. Founded in 2015, TestProject is headquartered in Petah-Tikva, Israel. Learn more at https://testproject.io.

    About Tricentis

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

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown.”) This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1500+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent–increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

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