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  • Capsule8 Adds Significant Funding from Intel Capital

    Strategic Investment to Fuel Expansion of Capsule8’s Go-to-Market Efforts

    BROOKLYN, New York – August 7, 2019 – Capsule8 today announced a multimillion-dollar investment from Intel Capital. The rapidly growing company will apply the funds to drive a range of sales, marketing, product development and customer-facing initiatives. Intel joins existing investors ClearSky Security, Bessemer Venture Partners and other strategic investors, bringing the total funds raised by Capsule8 to $30 million.

    Capsule8 delivers high-performance attack protection for Linux production environments – whether containerized, virtualized or bare metal, deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Safe for the busiest workloads in the largest clusters, the company’s flagship platform,Capsule8 Protect, replaces multiple legacy controls with a single solution that detects and prevents exploits in real-time – while preserving the performance and reliability of production infrastructures. Scalable and cloud-agnostic, Capsule8 Protect features an “API-first” architecture for seamless technology integration, enabling enterprises to capitalize on existing investments.

    “Joining the Intel Capital portfolio, as well as the confidence they’ve shown in our team and our market, is a huge boost for us,” said Capsule8 Co-founder and CEO John Viega. “We’ve seen incredible momentum so far this year and have no doubt this latest investment is going to help fuel Capsule8’s evolution.”

    “Containers and cloud-native security offerings solve a critical piece of the enterprise protection puzzle,” said Intel Capital Managing Director Sunil Kurkure. “While other vendors address pieces of the problem, Capsule8 addresses the urgent need organizations have for security across their entire production infrastructures.”

    This week, Capsule8 executives will lead several sessions at Black Hat USA 2019. Vice President of Product Strategy (and Pwnie Award judge) Kelly Shortridge spoke at theCISO Summit, and will team with Nicole Forsgren, Research and Strategy at Google Cloud, to present Controlled Chaos: The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security on Wednesday, August 7 from 4:00-4:50 p.m. PDT. Additionally, Co-founder and Chief Scientist Brandon Edwards and Research Scientist Nick Freeman will explore A Compendium of Container Escapes on Thursday, August 8 from 3:50-4:40 p.m. PDT.

    About Capsule8

    Founded in fall 2016 and headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, Capsule8 is the only company providing high-performance attack protection for Linux production environments – whether containerized, virtualized, or bare metal. Capsule8 frees up SecOps teams, while being safe for even the busiest workloads, on the busiest networks. Founded by experienced hackers and seasoned security entrepreneurs, and funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, ClearSky and Intel Capital, Capsule8 is making it possible for Linux-powered enterprises to modernize without compromise. Learn more atwww.Capsule8.com.

    About Intel Capital  

    Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, datacenter and cloud, 5G, next-generation compute and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.6 billion in more than 1,560 companies worldwide, and 677 portfolio companies have gone public or participated in a merger. Intel Capital curates thousands of business development introductions each year between its portfolio companies and the Global 2000. For more information on what makes Intel Capital one of the world’s most powerful venture capital firms, visit www.intelcapital.com or follow @Intelcapital.

    All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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  • DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Adds Speakers from Auto Trader UK, UnitedHealth Group, Vanguard and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

    Hosted at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from October 28-30, DevOps Enterprise Summit spotlights heroic IT transformation journeys of large, complex organizations

    PORTLAND, Ore, August 6, 2019 — IT Revolution, the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced its next round of business and technology leader speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/speakers/).

    In 2018, DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas brought together more than 1,700 attendees, featured over 100 speakers, hosted 50-plus sponsors and programmed three full days of informative sessions and industry networking opportunities. Now entering its sixth year in the United States, DevOps Enterprise Summit is the premier conference for business and technology leaders who are transforming how large, complex organizations deliver software to help their organizations win in the marketplace.

    “DevOps Enterprise Summit is the best event to hear first-hand about large scale transformations and practices in DevOps,” said Scott Prugh, Chief Architect & VP Software Development at CSG International. “DevOps Enterprise Summit gives you great opportunities to network with some of the best minds in DevOps. I always leave exhilarated and exhausted with great new insights.”

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

    Newly confirmed speakers presenting at DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas include:

    • David Blair, OIT Transformation Delivery Chief, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
    • Klaudia Breslavets, Program Manager, Investment IT Learning Academy, Vanguard
    • David Cherryhomes, Vice President, Software Engineering, Optum UnitedHealthcare
    • Scott Havens, Director of Software Engineering, Jet.com and Walmart Labs
    • Scott Kellerman, Digital Transformation Lead, Technology Speed Bump Program, Vanguard
    • James Lloyd, Branch Chief of Innovation in Field Operations, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
    • Dr. Stephen Magill, CEO, MuseDev
    • Heather Mickman, Vice President, Platform Engineering and Practices, Optum UnitedHealthcare
    • Manuel Pais, co-author of “Team Topologies: Evolving Organization Design for Business and Technology”
    • Matthew Skelton, co-author of “Team Topologies: Evolving Organization Design for Business and Technology”
    • Melinda Solomon, Agile Training Lead, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
    • Russell Warman, Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Auto Trader UK
    • Dave Whyte, Operations Squad Lead, Auto Trader UK

    “In addition to enabling learning, our experience report format at DevOps Enterprise Summit helps to negate objections that ‘DevOps can’t be done here’,” 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. “Over the past six years, we’ve assembled over 250 experience reports from some of the most recognized brands, across nearly every industry vertical. Our newly confirmed speakers for 2019 will continue to show that DevOps principles and patterns are universal.”

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

    Share This: DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Adds #Business and #Technology Leaders from @AutoTrader_com, @Vanguard_Group and @USCIS to Program https://events.itrevolution.com/us @DOES_USA @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.

  • 14th Annual State of Agile Study Commences at Agile 2019 and Attendees are Invited to Participate

    Report provides the industry insights on Agile, DevOps and more

    Washington D.C. – Agile 2019 #Agile2019 – August 6, 2019 – CollabNet VersionOne (www.collab.net), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps, today announced the opening of the 14th Annual State of Agile Report, the industry’s longest-running and most widely cited data on Agile software development adoption and trends. Software professionals are invited to participate and share experiences at www.stateofagile.com.

    The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and gathers valuable input on the adoption of Agile, emerging practices, insights on culture, DevOps and more. Each year the State of Agile Report is used and cited by industry leaders and publications as a benchmark on the evolution of Agile. The 14th annual State of Agile report will be published in Spring 2020.

    The most recent State of Agile Report released this year revealed the primary driver for organizations to adopt Agile, what is required to make DevOps successful, how the industry views the importance of Value Stream Management and much more. To download the 13th annual State of Agile Report, please visit www.stateofagile.com.

    “Our State of Agile research is globally recognized and has been in continuous use for more than a decade as a source of information and decision support resource for businesses and IT leaders making important decisions about software innovation, development and delivery,” said Flint Brenton, CEO at CollabNet VersionOne. “We are honored to launch the 14th annual survey here at Agile 2019 and encourage wide participation in this year’s questionnaire from software professionals at all different stages of Agile adoption.”

    CollabNet VersionOne is a Title Sponsor at Agile 2019 — the largest Agile event of the year, hosted by Agile Alliance, August 5 – 9 in San Washington D.C. If you are attending please visit booth #102 to learn more about the State of Agile Report or to find out how organizations can achieve Agile plus DevOps success through Value Stream Management. For more information about the event, please visit:

    https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2019

    Share This: Take the 14th Annual #StateofAgile survey at www.stateofagile.com today! #Agile #DevOps #ValueStream @CollabNetV1

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

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    CollabNet VersionOne is a Vector Capital Company. Company trademark and logo details available here: https://www.collab.net/legal.

  • DeepCode Raises $4M Seed Round Led by Earlybird to Improve Software Development With AI-Powered Code Reviews

    The bot is now free for enterprise teams of up to 30 developers, open source software, and educational use

    Zurich, Switzerland – August 6, 2019 – DeepCode, the platform for AI-powered code reviews, today announced that it has raised $4 million (CHF3.92 million) in seed funding led by Earlybird, with participation from 3VC and existing investor btov Partners. DeepCode has previously raised CHF1.1 million.

    The new funding will enable DeepCode to support additional integrations and programming languages (Java, JavaScript, and Python are currently supported), improve the scope of code recommendations, and grow the team internationally.

    DeepCode brings the knowledge of the global development community to every software developer. The bot uses machine learning to process millions of commits in open source software projects and learns how to find serious coding issues. Because the platform determines the intent of the code—and not only the syntax mistakes—DeepCode identifies many more critical bugs and vulnerabilities than other tools.

    The bot is now free for enterprise teams of up to 30 developers, open source software, and educational use. Developers get started by connecting DeepCode with their GitHub or Bitbucket accounts. No configuration is required: DeepCode immediately starts reviewing each commit and identifies issues in seconds.

    DeepCode is a spin-off of ETH Zurich, which is known as the MIT of Europe. Members of the founding team previously worked at Google and IBM, and they have developed 30 patents and hundreds of research papers related to program analysis, security, AI, and machine learning. DeepCode is used by developers worldwide for personal projects, enterprise software, and everything in-between.

    “For all industries and almost every business model, the performance and quality of coding has become key. DeepCode provides a platform that enhances the development capabilities of programmers,” said Christian Nagel, partner and co-founder of Earlybird. “The team has a deep scientific understanding of code optimization and uses artificial intelligence to deliver the next breakthrough in software development.”

    “We appreciate having investors that fully understand the opportunities for AI and machine learning in software development,” said Boris Paskalev, CEO and co-founder of DeepCode. “Knowledge gained from open source software helps developers write clean and secure code in a fraction of the time that it would normally take.”

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    About DeepCode

    DeepCode uses AI to learn from open source software and help developers write better code. By determining the intent of the code—and not only the syntax mistakes—DeepCode identifies many more critical bugs and vulnerabilities than other tools.

    For more information, visit https://www.deepcode.ai.

    About Earlybird

    Earlybird is a venture capital investor focused on European technology companies. Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all growth and development phases of a company. Amongst the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic and operational support as well as access to an international network and capital markets. Earlybird manages different funds with focuses on digital technologies in Eastern and Western Europe as well as health technologies.

    With over EUR 1 billion under management, seven IPOs and 24 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most successful venture capital firms in Europe.

    For further information: www.earlybird.com, Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/EarlybirdVC, LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/earlybird-venture-capital or Facebook: www.facebook.com/EarlybirdVC.

  • CollabNet VersionOne Demonstrates Major New Agile and DevOps Capabilities at Agile 2019

    Users can unify Agile and DevOps workflows to manage value streams

    WASHINGTON D.C. – Agile 2019 #Agile2019 – August 5, 2019 – CollabNet VersionOne (www.collab.net), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps,  introduces its latest VersionOne for Agile management and Continuum for DevOps offerings, as well as it’s VS solution that combines both. The releases offer enhanced support for Agile at scale and Agile frameworks such as SAFe, and Value Stream Management.

    New capabilities of the products make it easier for organizations to unify Agile planning and management, and DevOps and software delivery into an integrated workflow that supports Value Stream Management. Unifying visibility and data flow makes it easier for software organizations to manage development and processes based on priorities and value potential.

    “High performing software organizations are bridging Agile and DevOps initiatives together through common goals that focus on business value,” said Flint Brenton, CEO for CollabNet VersionOne. “To help customers deliver software that impacts the bottom-line, we continue to add new functionality that supports teams and the need for organization-wide, data-driven workflows.”

    With its heritage in enterprise software collaboration and integration, CollabNet VersionOne brings high-level management and the industry’s most complete level of visibility for organizations adopting Value Stream Management. Its latest enhancements help customers improve data-driven decision making, the ability to capture and realize key KPIs that deliver business value, and unmatched capabilities to create a single workflow across the entire software delivery lifecycle.

    As a founding sponsor of the Agile Conference spanning more than a decade, CollabNet VersionOne is demonstrating its new software in booth #102 at Agile 2019 being held now in Washington, DC.

    To help customers improve software delivery performance in the face of continuous change, CollabNet VersionOne’s award-winning and analyst validated leadership in the areas of Agile management, DevOps and Value Stream Management come together in its VS solution. It blends the strengths of the VersionOne and Continuum platforms to beyond ‘done,’ by orchestrating delivery pipelines, bringing together disparate DevOps tools – version control, CI/CD, infrastructure, testing and more into one unified platform.

    Highlights of CollabNet VersionOne’s new software capabilities include:

    • VersionOne ECHO – VersionOne to ALM Synchronization
    • VersionOne Portfolio Level Dependency Board
    • VersionOne Progress Data Visibility in Continuum
    • VS Exchange – Marketplace for custom and preconfigured Continuum and VersionOne extensions and workflows.
    • Continuum TestDrive improvements to streamline provisioning.

    To learn more about VersionOne for Agile, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/versionone

    To learn more about Continuum for DevOps, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/continuum

    To learn more about VS, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/vs

    Share This: Stop by booth #102 at #Agile2019 to learn more about @CollabNetV1’s latest product announcements – an end to end solution for leveraging Agile and DevOps.

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

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    CollabNet VersionOne is a Vector Capital Company. Company trademark and logo details available here: https://www.collab.net/legal.

     

  • BlazeMeter Adds Additional Functionality to Evolve From a Continuous Testing Tool to a Continuous Testing Platform

    Broadcom Inc. announced today the availability of BlazeMeter Continuous Testing, a single platform for complete continuous testing at enterprise scale.

    BlazeMeter, already a market leader in performance testing, has expanded the capabilities of their platform to cover additional functionalities to enable full continuous testing. Now, development teams have full 360 degree visibility into their internal and public facing applications from pre-development stages through to post development monitoring.

    BlazeMeter’s new Continuous Testing platform enables developers, testers and DevOps engineers to control all aspects of testing in one place for ultimate collaboration. This includes creating and managing test assets, creating mock services, running GUI Functional tests, performance tests, API testing and API monitoring.

    BlazeMeter continues to be a significant contributor to open source development, and the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform supports the integration of over 20 popular open source tools, including JMeter, Selenium, WireMock and many others.

    “Businesses need to deliver innovation faster, with quality, in order to provide exceptional end-customer experiences that set them apart in the marketplace. To do this they need to embrace digital transformation and agility at scale. Traditional methodologies and legacy tools cannot keep pace with agile teams. BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform helps organizations shift left with a single application that allows teams to work the way they want to work, and collaborate for greater efficiency and quality,” said Ashok Reddy, SVP and GM of the Broadcom Enterprise Software Division.

    BlazeMeter was acquired by Broadcom as part of their acquisition of CA Technologies in November 2018.

    About Broadcom:

    Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise and mainframe software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com. Broadcom, the pulse logo, Tomahawk and Connecting everything are among the trademarks of Broadcom. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc., and/or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

    For more information, sign up for our free tier plan at www.blazemeter.com, join our webinar to learn more, or visit our blog.

  • droidcon London 2019: The return of Europe’s biggest Android conference

    • Europe’s largest annual Android developer conference returns this October.
    • Headline keynotes with acclaimed Android experts — Chet Haase, Google’s
      Chief Android advocate, Romain Guy, Google’s team lead for Android Toolkit, Pinterest developer Christina Lee, and Stacey Devino of Nike s23NYC Labs.
    • The conference is held at the Business Design Centre in Angel, London, from Thursday 24 to Friday 25 October 2019.

    Europe’s largest Android conference is set to return this Autumn: droidcon London 2019, one of the most heavily anticipated tech events of the year.

    With Android advancements constantly evolving, it’s vital for developers to keep up-to-date with the latest innovations: droidcon London 2019 is the ideal platform for this. Passionate developers can connect with experts from the Android community, whilst expanding their skills. The chance to share knowledge and experiences with fellow mobile developers is one of the main reasons why it draws a crowd of 2,000+ developers each year. “It always comes down to the people,” says Pinterest’s Christina Lee, the conference’s opening keynote speaker. “I can’t wait to see all of the developers on the other side of the pond that I don’t usually get to speak with.”

    Other keynotes include legendary Android advocate Chet Haase and current Google Toolkit lead Romain Guy, who co-headline day two; and Nike App maker Stacey Devino, who will speak about how developers can shape their personal brand. Her little secret? “The superstars of the developer world didn’t get there on pure talent alone! There are concrete steps that you can take to be recognised for the work you are already doing at every level and stage in your career. Personal branding and fulfilling that promise is worth real money, real happiness, real success in your work, and keeps building on itself.”

    Over 2 days, more than 60 other speakers will deliver tech talks including Buffer’s Joe Birch who will share his journey on building an accessible “Smart Guitar” for the deaf, blind and mute, and Nexmo’s Britt Barak who will be speaking about the experimental Kotlin Multiplatform.

    Attendees will also have the opportunity to get hands-on with workshops led by industry experts including Miriana Itani, Marcin Moskala, and Jorge Ortiz Fuentes, who regularly instructs the best iOS and Android Bootcamps in both the USA and Europe.

    Visit the website for more information: http://uk.droidcon.com/

     

  • Test Automation University Enrollment Surges to 20,000 in Six Months as Engineers Skill Up to Advance Career Paths – Fueled by pent-up demand.

    Fueled by pent-up demand to learn test automation skill sets, the free online educational hub expands to 23 courses, launches leaderboard of top 100 test automation experts

    SAN MATEO, Calif., – Applitools, the leading provider of AI-Powered end-to-end Visual Testing and Monitoring, today announced Test Automation University has surpassed the 20,000 student mark since announcing its first course in January 2019. In addition, Test Automation University has identified the top 100 students based on scores from its 23 courses.

    To see the full list of the Top 100 Test Automation University superstar students, visit: (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/tau100.html)

    Created as a community-driven collection of free educational training resources, Test Automation University (TAU) helps improve test automation skill sets for test engineers and developers. Test Automation University offers video courses with transcripts, quizzes to earn course credits, rankings and badges for more than 20 beginner and advanced test automation courses. The curriculum is provided for free by a faculty of more than 20 expert instructors with a shared goal of increasing test automation success rates globally.

    “For me, the best part of Test Automation University is that it brings the biggest personalities in our field together in one open and easily accessible corner of the internet,” said William de Witt, Test Lead at Western Cape Government. “Also, I can’t express how happy I am that there is no cost to register. This allows everyone in the testing community and those who are interested in QA to see what it is all about. I think that TAU will also play a huge part in raising the standard of test automation globally.”

    To learn, build, identify, aggregate and amplify test automation strategies and techniques for free, enroll at Test Automation University today by visiting (https://testautomationu.com).

    “In looking at the failure rate of test automation initiatives globally, we realized that there was a great need to build a centralized learning platform and a community for test automation engineers,” said Raja Rao DV, Director of content and growth at Applitools and Head of TAU. “What we’ve seen is the creation of an ecosystem where conversations and collaboration can occur freely and openly. We also provided a Slack channel so students can connect with each other and it’s really taken on a life of its own. Not only are people learning from the courses themselves, but they are learning from each other as well. Taking self-paced online courses can be lonely, so it’s been incredible to see TAU students go on the learning journey together.”

    “When we first started Test Automation University, it was to create a one-stop-shop for people interested in test automation because the information was scattered all over the web,” said Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools and director of TAU. “As we’ve moved forward, we’ve discovered a lot about how people learn and use the platform and we’re constantly making it better. Today, we’re working to curate different paths to help people who are interested in particular subjects, programming languages or technologies to help them advance their knowledge more efficiently. The result is a more clearly defined process that helps our students learn. It’s been amazing to watch the enrollment grow in response.”

    To read more about some of the incredible students of TAU, visit Applitools blog by Angie: (https://applitools.com/blog/test-automation-superstars)

    “In the small company I work for, I’m the one who wrote automated UI tests,” said Penny Howard, QA automation analyst at Flex Rental Solutions. “I didn’t know anyone to ask, or even what to ask when I started, so Google was my best friend. Google tells you everything – the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Java Programming course on Test Automation University has shown me better ways of doing things. The API courses have shown me things about API testing that I simply didn’t know. The most important thing to me is that it is slowly, but surely raising my confidence in my abilities.”

    Initially launched with just a few courses in January 2019, TAU has aggressively expanded its curriculum to now more than 20 courses covering subjects such as:

    These courses are created by world-class instructors who are some of the best and brightest minds in the test automation space. A few of the newest faculty members delivering free video courses on TAU includeAlan Richardson, author of books Java for Testers and Automating and Testing a REST API,  Aparna Gopalakrishnan, Quality Engineering Consultant at Wipro Limited, Tariq King, Head of Quality at Ultimate Software, Meaghan Lewis, Engineering Manager at GitHub, Jonathan Lipps, Architect of the Appium project and Nikolay Advolodkin, CEO of Ultimate QA.

    To join the thousands of people in the Test Automation University community on Slack, visit (https://tauslacksignupapp.herokuapp.com/).

    With more than 20 courses in its current curriculum and additional courses being added every couple of weeks, the growth of TAU seems to just be beginning. “The best part is that the growth of TAU is really exponential,” said Jones. “As more students enroll, we will continue to create even more content to meet their needs — which in turn will lead to more students and an even more vibrant community. We are incredibly excited about where this road will lead to.”

    To learn more about Test Automation University, visit (https://testautomationu.com)

    About Applitools

    Applitools provides a state-of-the-art AI-powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring platform for Developers, Test Automation, Manual QA, DevOps, and Digital Transformation teams. Our Visual AI technology transforms how organizations approach quality by ensuring web and mobile applications appear and operate exactly as designed across any device, browser, OS, or native application. Applitools is fast, quick to integrate with any DevOps environment, easy to use by anyone on the team, and scalable to any size organization looking to increase speed and quality with every release – an outcome necessary to compete in today’s challenging business environment.

    Hundreds of companies from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 firms in software, banking, insurance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to their customers. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

  • CollabNet VersionOne to Showcase Agile Management and Scaled Agile Advancements as Title Sponsor at Agile 2019

    VersionOne platform ties Agile initatives to business value

    ATLANTA – August 1, 2019 – CollabNet VersionOne (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps, will continue its support of the Agile community as a Title Sponsor at the Agile 2019 conference in Washington D.C., August 5 – 9. The company will demonstrate its latest VersionOne platform that provides teams with better visibility into the value Agile initatives deliver. Attendees can visit the company at booth #102  to learn more and see how they can increase business value throughout the product lifecycle, and adopt improved strategies for scaling Agile.

     

    CollabNet VersionOne will make announcements at this event, including the 14th annual State of Agile report, the longstanding and popular industry study. It also will announce the new functionality for VersionOne, its award-winning Agile Management platform, and how it scales Agile using frameworks such as SAFe.

     

    “Our brand has been a leading voice at the Agile conference for many years and we look forward to gathering with this vibrant community in Washington D.C. next week,” said Flint Brenton, CEO and President at CollabNet VersionOne. “We’ve seen how Agile transformations enable enterprises to carry out digital transformation initiatives and now with Value Stream Management, organizations are more empowered to make value-driven decisions throughout the product development lifecycle.”

     

    CollabNet VersionOne will also host an event to celebrate its customers. The event will include a special party featuring live music at Agile 2019 on Tuesday, August 6. “We wouldn’t be able to innovate as an organization without our dedicated customers and their valuable feedback,” Brenton said. “We look forward to honoring their successes at this festive event. This will be a more relaxed and fun summer event and I look forward to see our customers there.” 

     

    Agile 2019 is presented by Agile Alliance. There are 279 sessions scheduled across a wide range of Agile topics. Every year thousands of Agile professionals from more than 40 countries gather at the conference to exchange ideas, learn about cutting-edge Agile practices, and engage with others trying to solve the same types of problems they are. To learn more about the conference or to register, please visit: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2019/.

     

     

    Share This: Join title sponsor @CollabNetV1 at #Agile2019 Aug. 5 – 9 in Washington DC, where we will be rocking out at booth #102 sharing strategies for Enterprise Value Stream Management and demonstrating solutions for scaling Agile.

     

     

    About CollabNet VersionOne

     

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

     

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    CollabNet VersionOne is a Vector Capital Company. Company trademark and logo details available here: https://www.collab.net/legal.

  • Armory Raises $28M in Series B Funding to Drive Enterprise Digital Transformation with Spinnaker, the De Facto Standard for Software Delivery At Scale

    New Funding to Power “Software-First” Innovation via Accelerated Software Delivery; Insight Partners’ Lonne Jaffe Joins Armory Board of Directors

    SAN MATEO, Calif. – August 1, 2019 – Armory, the enterprise software company commercializing Spinnaker, the leading open source continuous delivery platform from Netflix and Google, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B financing round led by Insight Partners. This new round brings the company’s total funding raised to date to over $42 million. The company also announced that Lonne Jaffe, managing director at Insight Partners, has joined Armory’s board of directors. The funding will be used for increased research and development around Spinnaker as well as investments in sales, marketing, support, and training.

    “The most progressive Fortune 500 companies recognize they must invest in software delivery infrastructure to thrive in the coming decade,” said Daniel R. Odio, CEO of Armory. “A company’s ability to innovate is now dictated by its level of competency in DevOps and adoption of hybrid and public cloud infrastructure. Spinnaker is the only continuous delivery platform backed by Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Pivotal, and Armory is the only provider of an enterprise-grade version with full support and services. We welcome Lonne Jaffe from Insight Partners to our board to help unlock enterprise value for the Spinnaker community and Armory’s customers.”

    “Spinnaker is quickly emerging as the world’s leading continuous delivery platform,” said Lonne Jaffe, managing director at Insight Partners. “Armory is bringing Spinnaker’s powerful open source technology – including capabilities like canary deployments that limit the blast radius of production errors, one-click rollback capabilities, and immutable deployments across multiple public and private clouds – to enterprises across the world. We’re excited to work with the seasoned executive team of Armory and to provide them with capital and support to rapidly scale-up.”

    Spinnaker: The Battle-Tested, Open Source Standard for Cloud-Native Software Delivery

    Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing quality software quickly and efficiently. It is the only open source continuous delivery platform being actively contributed to by all of the major cloud providers for releasing quality software with safety and velocity. The platform was developed and open sourced by Netflix and Google and has been tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. Spinnaker’s core functions are application management and application deployment; application management allows users to view and manage cloud resources while application deployment manages continuous delivery workflows. Spinnaker, which unites a pipeline management system with multiple cloud integrations, is compatible with most major cloud providers, including AWS EC2, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure and more.

    Armory: Modernizing the Way Industry-Leading Companies Deliver Software

    Armory is helping some of the world’s leading companies unlock innovation by accelerating safe, efficient, and fast software delivery. Armory’s platform is built on Spinnaker and incorporates its continuous deployment best practices. This funding validates the importance of effective software delivery as well as Armory’s approach to empowering companies – including Global 2,000 customers with a combined market capitalization of $1.32 trillion – to achieve true digital transformation.

    “Amory understands how data powers both cloud and digital transformation, which is important to Informatica as we help our customers unleash the power of their data to accelerate innovation,” said Bill Burns, chief trust officer and VP of cloud business transformation strategy at Informatica. “Armory’s expertise, training, and support have been valuable to help us jumpstart our Spinnaker journey. Armory’s Platform helps us boost development productivity, reduce risk and ensure our deployments are more trustworthy.”

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    About Armory

    Armory is the company driving modern digital transformation with its enterprise version of Spinnaker. Armory’s scalable, flexible and secure platform automates software delivery, enabling software teams to ship better software, faster. The core of Armory’s platform is powered by Spinnaker, the continuous delivery platform developed and open-sourced by Netflix and Google to help companies quickly and safely deploy software into multiple clouds. Armory builds on open-source Spinnaker’s foundation, adding proprietary features for bolstered enterprise scale, along with 24×7 enterprise-grade support. Armory’s platform is trusted by dozens of Global 2000 customers in financial services, technology, retail, healthcare and entertainment. Armory is also a proud sponsor of, and contributor to, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the vendor-neutral home of the fastest-growing projects for continuous delivery.

    Founded in 2016, Armory is funded by Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, YCombinator and Javelin Venture Partners. Armory is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. Learn more at www.armory.io and follow at @cloudarmory.

    About Insight Partners

    Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Our mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to foster long-term success. Across our people and our portfolio, we encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit www.insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.