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  • Druva Raises $130 Million to Power Data Protection for the Cloud Era

    The investment enables rapid global expansion and continued innovation of the industry’s first and most complete data protection technology built for the cloud

    SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 20, 2019 – Druva, Inc., the leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, today announced a $130 million investment led by Viking Global Investors, pushing total capital raised to $328 million. The round also included participation from new investors including certain funds advised by Neuberger Berman and Atreides Management, as well as existing investors including Riverwood Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. The investment will be used to fuel growth and global expansion, as well as drive new product innovations.

    Druva’s success has been fueled by the rapid growth of enterprise cloud adoption, a massive proliferation in data, and an evolving regulatory landscape. At the same time, the data protection industry has continued to expand significantly, with a market size expected to reach $55 billion by 2020 according to IDC*. Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Druva is a SaaS solution in a market dominated by legacy hardware vendors, enabling customers to eliminate complexity and drive down costs by up to 50 percent. Druva’s patented technology delivers all-in-one backup, disaster recovery, archival and analytics solutions that deploy in a single click and provide 360-degree visibility and control across all environments. To date, over 4,000 enterprise customers have placed their trust in Druva, including 10 percent of the Fortune 500, such as Pfizer, Flex, Marriott, Live Nation, and Hitachi.

    “Riverwood is thrilled to be increasing its investment in Druva,” said Harish Belur, Managing Director, Riverwood Capital. “Since our original investment around two years ago, the company’s growth and success has surpassed our expectations. Druva’s unique approach to the large and growing data protection market is transformative to the industry and is validated by some of the world’s largest companies and the most demanding customers. We look forward to Druva’s next phase of growth and are excited to be a part of the journey.”

    “The line between data and business is blurring. The data management market is forecasted to be worth $55B next year, yet the landscape is dominated by solutions that are 20 years old. Druva is disrupting the way enterprises protect and leverage their data with a modern, cloud-native SaaS platform,” said Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO, Druva. “Today’s funding will help Druva to power data protection for the cloud era, and accelerate our momentum to better serve the needs of enterprise customers.”

    Additional quotes from the industry

    “Druva is a leading Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network,” said Mike Clayville, Vice President Worldwide Commercial Sales, and Business Development, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Druva’s solutions powered by AWS are changing the way data is managed and protected at thousands of companies globally. We’d like to congratulate Druva on its latest fundraise, and look forward to innovating with Druva to create new solutions that benefit our customers.”

    “The challenges of data management continue to grow as enterprise data becomes more distributed across hosted SaaS, branch offices, public clouds and endpoints; as well as the traditional datacenter,” said Steven Hill, Senior Analyst, 451 Research. “Hybrid IT is rapidly becoming the norm, and companies like Druva that focus on reducing complexity, protecting data and managing information regardless of a physical location can offer strategic advantages over those that are not as evolved.”

    “As Druva’s first investor, Sequoia India saw great potential in Jaspreet and the transformative nature of the product the Druva team was building,” said Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital (India) Singapore. “Druva’s product capabilities and market adoption have continued to surprise us ever since. We remain excited about Druva’s cloud-native architecture for enterprise data protection at scale and believe it will be a category-defining company for data protection in the cloud era.”

    Additional information

    *IDC Market Glance: Copy Data Management, 2Q18, doc # US43745318 April 2018

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    About Druva

    Druva delivers Data Protection and Management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva is trusted worldwide by over 4,000 companies at the forefront of embracing the cloud. Druva is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and is funded by Sequoia Capital, Viking Global Investors, Tenaya Capital, Riverwood Capital and Nexus Partners. Visit Druva and follow us @druvainc.

     

  • Contrast Security Launches Next Generation Open Source Software Security Platform for DevOps

    Fortune 100 Financial Services Company Immediately Adopts Contrast OSS to Reduce Open Source Risk

    Contrast Security, the pioneer in enabling “self-protecting” software by embedding vulnerability analysis and exploit prevention directly into modern software, continues to re-invent application security with the launch of Contrast OSS. Contrast OSS is offered as a solution to help organizations building modern software solve the security, legal and compliance risks associated with their use of open source software (OSS).

    According to a recent RedHat report, 99% of IT leaders in surveyed enterprises see adoption of open source software as important for their organization, and a majority of organizations plan to increase their use of open source over the next 12 months. As companies around the world rely more on leveraging open source software, there is also a growing understanding of the risks that come with it. First generation tools used by these organizations to assess open source components struggle to provide effective security analysis and are not keeping up with high-velocity software development. These scan-based tools do not produce the accurate and actionable insight teams need to pinpoint true risks and quickly eliminate those risks early in the development phase. Moreover, legacy tools do not provide protection against attempts to exploit open source vulnerabilities in production applications. This leaves companies exposed to evolving threats, with poor visibility into the real risks introduced by these components.

    Created with patented security instrumentation technology, Contrast OSS is the only solution on the market that can continuously identify vulnerable open source components, determine how they are actually used by the application, and then prevent exploitation at runtime. Contrast OSS capabilities function as a solution that can work alongside Contrast Assess and Contrast Protect as part of the Contrast Security Platform. Contrast OSS provides the ability to:

    • Automatically create and maintain an organization-wide inventory of open source components mapped to applications, servers and environments.
    • Provide real-time correlation of vulnerabilities, OSS license information, and additional library metadata.
    • Continuously assess open source components for known and unknown vulnerabilities across all software development and delivery pipelines.
    • Continuously evaluate open source components for license compliance and intellectual property risk across all software development and delivery pipelines.
    • Automatically enforce custom policies and provide real-time feedback to security, compliance and development teams.
    • Prioritize and focus developer remediation efforts on critical vulnerabilities by accurately identifying whether vulnerable open source components are actually used by the application.
    • Continuously monitor production applications and block attacks on vulnerable open source to prevent runtime exploitation.
    • Maintain centralized visibility and point-of-control for all customer and open source software risk, portfolio-wide, through a single automated platform.

    This new offering by Contrast Security is already witnessing demand in market, and has recently been selected by a Fortune 100 financial services company to secure the company’s software portfolio and growing use of open source software. The Fortune 100 company selected Contrast Security to gain better visibility across their entire application stack, including all open source components introduced into their codebase by their development and digital transformation teams. With Contrast Security, the customer was looking for one platform that can deliver immediate and actionable feedback loops to developers to enable faster remediation and risk reduction procedures, while also driving down overall cost and operational complexity.

    “Contrast Security has a long and successful track record of helping organizations secure their applications,” said Surag Patel, Chief Strategy Officer, Contrast Security. “The increasing dependence on open source is undeniable and the ability for enterprises to leverage open source software without risk to the business, remains a top priority for VPs of Development, CISOs and CIOs. We are excited to offer the first complete solution that enables real-time inventory, assessment of security risk, assessment of licensing compliance risk and security exploit prevention for open source software. In an era of accelerated software delivery, customers can now embed automated controls into their software development and delivery pipelines, and monitor all of their applications and open source dependencies continuously. Leveraging the Contrast Security platform, organizations now have an embedded security solution that is built for the modern software era, without having to deploy and orchestrate multiple tools.”

     

  • Appery.io Adds Ionic 4 Integration to Help Developers Build High-Performing Hybrid and Mobile Web Apps

    Exadel’s low code application development platform, Appery.io, now integrates with popular Ionic 4 framework

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., June 18, 2019 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global leader in digital software engineering solutions, today announced its leading low-code application development platform, Appery.io, now integrates with Ionic 4. A powerful UI design system and app framework, Ionic 4 is used by web developers to create modern, high performing web and mobile applications.

    Appery.io is used by more than 500,000 developers globally and makes creating hybrid mobile apps, web apps and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) simple in a low-code environment. The latest version, Ionic 4, gives developers flexibility in the tools and other frameworks they choose to use on top, making it easier to manage. Additionally, Appery.io Ionic 4 framework supports the latest Angular version 7 and Cordova 8 and includes overall performance improvements, modern web platform features, CSS variables, and more. Appery.io users can take advantage of these benefits along with the full MBaaS offered by the platform and build an Ionic app in Appery.io.

    Try Appery.io for free: https://appery.io/

    “Ionic 4 has been well received by the web developer community,” said Dmitry Binunsky, VP Products and Platforms Practice at Exadel. “Now Appery.io users can seamlessly build an Ionic 4 app directly in the platform. Appery.io is dedicated to helping developers effortlessly build quality, high-performing applications and the Ionic 4 integration is our continuation of this commitment.”

    Earlier this year, Appery.io also announced support for Progressive Web Apps. New and existing users are able to turn apps into PWAs seamlessly with a few clicks, and without having to change any code.  

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    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 18 locations and delivery centers across the US and Eastern Europe, Exadel solves the most complex software engineering problems, offering a scalable and skilled mix of onshore and offshore resources at the industry’s most competitive price. Our Digital Software Engineering Solutions (DSES) help chart new digital strategies that are built upon creative thinking, cutting-edge design, and technical innovation. DSES embraces the strengths of diverse global software engineering talent to create and implement strategic, cost-effective services for the new epoch of connected technology.

     

  • Applitools Launches Free Open Source Software Licensing, Partners with Open Source Apprentice Program

    The company supports diversity in tech initiative, makes automated visual testing available for all open source libraries

    SAN MATEO, Calif., June 18, 2019 — Applitools, a provider of AI Powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring, today announced a version of its flagship product, Applitools Eyes, is now available for open source libraries. Now, open source projects can add the leading automated visual testing solution to their library at no cost. For more information about Applitools’ open source licensing, visit (https://applitools.com/open-source).

    In addition, Applitools began working with This Dot’s Open Source Apprentice Program to give junior-level developers from a range of backgrounds a path to contributing to open source. This initiative allows Applitools to invest in open source and enable energetic and passionate junior developers to achieve its vision of supporting tech diversity through open source programs and beyond.

    “Applitools is committed to nurturing greater diversity in tech and supporting open source initiatives, and programs with organizations like This Dot help us achieve both outcomes,” said Moshe Milman, co-founder and COO at Applitools. “By making our technology freely available for anyone in the world to use, we can help mentor generations of developers and technologists through more inclusivity.”

    Below are a few of the open source libraries Applitools and This Dot have worked with via the program:

    “Visual testing tools have come a long way from pixel-to-pixel matching,” said Prateek Bhatnagar, Preact Core team member. “Working with Applitools to integrate this into Preact Material has given us the ease of testing we always wanted for this project.”

    Mentorship First

    Gil Tayar, frontend development architect at Applitools, serves as the lead on the integration of this program and works closely with each apprentice. Together, they help accomplish 3 key goals:

    • Provide a platform to teach junior developers visual testing
    • Show how easy it is to integrate visual testing into an open source library
    • Work with open source maintainers to get pull requests merged into real-world projects

    Apprentices have a support system so they never feel alone in their journey, which creates a positive environment to further their development skills. “The apprentice program gave me an opportunity to work on an amazing visual testing tool,” said Megha Sachdev, an open source apprentice. “This program helped me explore a lot of new things like visual testing, handling the front end, and more. It was fun working as a part of this program as it was an ice breaker for me into front end development after a gap of one year in my career.”

    Apprentices are able to dig deeper into the world of testing and provided a reason to familiarize themselves with the Applitools’ visual AI capabilities.

    Open source apprentice Marien Scott, said, “Being a part of this program helped me explore new zones which were completely new to me. I am a backend developer and this program has opened new opportunities for me, for which I’m really thankful.”

    “We’ve been happy to see more underrepresented minorities show interest in furthering their careers in testing and development after the program,” continued Milman. “We hope that these stories help inspire other companies to run similar programs internally because diversification of the tech world is the key to building a better, healthier community.”

    Do you have an open source project that you’d like to start visually testing? Get your free Applitools account at (https://applitools.com/open-source).

    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 https://applitools.com/

     

  • Datical Adds Support for AWS Database Platforms, Enabling Enterprise Cloud Application Development and Migration

    Leader in Database Release Automation Announces Expanded Platform Coverage for Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB Postgres and PostgreSQL Community Edition

    AUSTIN, Texas – June 18, 2019 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced its enterprise-class platform now supports the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Postgres families of cloud and on-premises databases, including Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. This enables enterprises to build greenfield cloud-native applications in AWS and PostgreSQL to move on-premises legacy applications to the cloud.

    Moving to the cloud makes it easier to provision and manage the lifecycle of database instances. However, this leads to a vast increase in the number of database instances under management. Database automation that’s built to work with the other tools in the DevOps and cloud application development toolchain is absolutely critical to maintain the consistency and security of datastores. Datical’s solution not only helps enterprises move their database workloads to the cloud, it also solves the new problems and complexities that come with moving applications to the cloud.

    “The increased adoption of cloud computing is driving uptake for cloud-based databases as enterprises begin to develop, migrate and run even their most mission-critical applications in the cloud,” said Matt Aslett, research vice president of Data, AI and Analytics, 451 Research. “The flexibility to spin-up new database instances in the cloud makes it easier for application teams to grow their databases as their needs grow. However, it can also mean an order of magnitude increase in the databases under management. Database automation – rather than hiring more and more DBA resources –  is the key to addressing this challenge. Datical’s launch of cloud database support provides a solution that helps its customers meet this challenge.”

    Key Features and Capabilities

    Organizations building greenfield cloud-native apps can leverage Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB Postgres, or PostgreSQL Community Edition, while organizations working to “lift and shift” legacy application database workloads to the cloud can do so through Amazon RDS for Oracle.

    Enterprises using these platforms can now benefit from Datical’s core capabilities:

    • Change Management Simulator – Datical’s newly patented technology that eliminates database downtime by simulating the impact of database changes before they are deployed.
    • Dynamic Rules Engine – Automatically applies database administrator rules during the application build and release process.
    • Database Code Packager – Automates and integrates database change management into the same application release process seamlessly, with zero downtime.
    • Deployment Monitoring Console – Tracks and reports the status of every database deployment across the enterprise, making audits a breeze.

    “Datical is the first commercial offering of its kind that truly embraces the future of where databases live,” said Robert Reeves, CTO and co-founder of Datical. “We are delivering a future-proof solution that strongly aligns with where our customers are headed in the long term. Ultimately, we are dedicated to helping our customers build software better and faster, and enabling their success with Cloud is an essential component of that.”

    Availability

    Datical support for the additional AWS and PostgreSQL platforms will be generally available in Q3 2019. Demos on all these platforms are available today. Please contact sales@datical.com for demos and more information.

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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.

  • Aqua Security Announces Vulnerability Shield™, Industry-first Solution for Detecting and Blocking Attempts to Exploit Container Vulnerabilities

    Latest Aqua release also introduces advanced runtime protection for serverless applications

    Boston, MA and Tel Aviv, Israel – 18 June 2019 – Aqua Security, the market leader in protecting container-based, serverless and cloud native applications, announced today version 4.2 of its cloud native security platform (Aqua CSP). In April this year, Aqua announced that it had raised $62M in Series C funding, led by Insight Partners. The company has since accelerated its growth, investing heavily in research and development, and increasing its employee headcount by 30%. Aqua CSP 4.2 introduces the innovative Aqua Vulnerability Shield, a technology that detects and prevents attacks targeting known vulnerabilities in containers.

    “As organizations increase their use of containers, CI/CD pipelines, and open source components, managing vulnerabilities is increasingly challenging,” notes Fernando Montenegro, Senior Analyst, Information Security at 451 Research. “Vulnerability scanning has been a key component of container security, and is largely automated. But patching remains a manual process, creating backlogs and leaving organizations running vulnerable applications, for lack of other choices.”

    Aqua Vulnerability Shield (Aqua vShield) is a patent-pending technology that uses automated vulnerability and component analysis, combined with expert security research, to generate runtime policies that can detect and block access to vulnerable components in containers. While the container image code remains unchanged, this form of “virtual patching” acts as a shield against exploitation of the vulnerabilities. Aqua vShield can be activated for vulnerabilities found in scan results, and will automatically enable the relevant targeted runtime controls. Benefits of Aqua vShield include:

    • Mitigating the risk of running vulnerable containers
    • Easier prioritization of vulnerable images to be patched by development teams
    • Gaining visibility into vulnerability exploit attempts
    • Improving compliance posture based on the use of compensating controls

    “Aqua is a key component in our security stack to secure our applications from development to production,” said Ross Hosman, Head of Information Security at Recurly, a leading subscription billing platform. “The new Vulnerability Shield virtual patching capability will allow us to optimize our patching process to reduce exposure to known threats, while providing the flexibility to address the underlying issues when it best fits our development schedule.”

    Aqua 4.2 also introduces advanced runtime protection for serverless functions, providing security teams with the ability to detect and prevent potential misuse and abuse of cloud-based serverless functions. Using the new Aqua NanoEnforcer technology, these runtime controls are suited to the ephemeral nature of functions, with negligible impact on function invocation time or memory footprint. Key features include:

    • Function drift prevention, blocking malicious code injection (“child processes”) from being added to a running function
    • Blacklisting of forbidden executables, allowing security teams to control the types of executables that developers are allowed to include in functions
    • Protecting serverless “/tmp” directories from unauthorized access and abuse
    • Honeypots that detect malicious intent by luring attackers to access functions without any risk or threat to real assets or cloud accounts

    “We are committed to continue investing in innovation, expanding our platform and leading the way forward for cloud native security,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder of Aqua. “With these new comprehensive serverless protections, Aqua is now the only solution on the market with unified and consistent controls across containerized and serverless applications.”

    The new offering rounds out Aqua’s serverless security functionality, which already includes scanning functions for vulnerabilities, permissions, and secrets; usage trend analysis and anomaly detection; and function assurance policies that prevent unapproved functions from running. Advanced runtime protection is currently available for AWS Lambda, with support for Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions planned later this year.

    Aqua 4.2 includes dozens of other new features and enhancements, among them:

    • Container image scanning by layer, allowing developers to more easily isolate the root sources of security issues and vulnerabilities
    • New Infrastructure view enables quick identification of unprotected clusters and hosts
    • Native integration with Prometheus, the open source monitoring tool, and Harbor, the open source image registry

    For more information:

    About Aqua Security

    Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. For more information, visit www.aquasec.com or follow us on twitter.com/AquaSecTeam

     

  • Testim Raises $10 Million After 700 Percent Market Growth

    Additional capital will allow the company to scale operations, headcount and accelerate autonomous testing

    San Francisco, June 12, 2019 – Testim, a leading provider of AI based software testing, today announced it has closed $10 million in Series B funding to address the global demand for continuous testing allowing development teams to move at the speed of business without compromising software quality. This funding round was led by SignalFire. Meron Capital and existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, NHN Ventures and Spider Capital also participated in the round, bringing the total amount of capital Testim has raised to $19.5 million.

    “To remain competitive, software teams must move faster than ever,” said Oren Rubin, founder and CEO of Testim. “We are helping them test more with much less effort, reducing their release risk and increasing their velocity to market.”

    Software releases that were once planned on a monthly basis now occur weekly with updates almost every day. Application development organizations are using AI-enabled test automation to streamline the software testing process at each stage of the DevOps lifecycle. The shift to AI-based testing is being driven by the need for continuous and faster development that does not compromise the quality of the delivered software.

    Rubin continued, “When Testim was founded, our goal was to enable software teams to author tests 20 times faster than before. No one believed it was possible but by continuously innovating and leveraging new technologies, we met that goal. Now, we have a more ambitious one – to author 150 times faster through autonomous testing.”

    Testim’s platform, which uses artificial intelligence to speed up test authoring and dramatically reduce test maintenance, ensures that companies can sustain a fast release cadence with the highest quality software. The new funding will also bring to market Testim’s mobile app test automation platform, which is in early access.

    “We invested in Testim early because we recognized its leadership and innovation in the fast-growing test automation space,” said Ilya Kirnos, founding partner and CTO of SignalFire. “We’ve already seen Testim win customers like Autodesk, NetApp, LogMeIn, Sprinklr and JFrog. With 700 percent market growth in less than two years, Testim is on track to disrupt the $37 billion testing market with its technology innovation.”

    Ronit Belson recently joined Testim as its chief operating officer. She brings startup and enterprise experience from the DevOps space, leading companies and teams at Cloudmeter (acquired by Splunk), OpTier (acquired by SAP) and Rollout.io. Belson’s background in scaling high performing teams will support Testim’s plans to grow operations in North America and attract new hires across all departments including engineering, product, sales, marketing and customer success.

    Company accomplishments:

    • First to introduce AI-based test authoring for native mobile applications
    • Achieved goal of allowing customers to author 1000 tests in a single month
    • 2019 SD Times 100 ‘Best in Show’ in Software Development for Testing

    Customer quotes

    JFrog

    “As an Agile software development organization, at JFrog, we rely on automated code testing coverage. This allows us fast releases while ensuring our customer experience and software quality,” said Eli Givoni, QA and release manager at JFrog. “Writing a reliable UI functional test is an art and requires experience. Using Testim, engineers that have never written a single Selenium test can easily create stable quality tests with the right coverage that we need.”

     LogMeIn

    “We picked what we thought was the most mature product of all those we had evaluated. Testim actually made record and playback work for modern web apps, making it easier for non-technical team members to author tests. It is quite easy to use and straightforward,” said Tamir Daniely, software development engineer in test at LogMeIn.

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    “Testim.io’s mobile product is so intuitive that we’re able to create a good test suite for our Android app that integrates with our CD process using very little effort,” said Rotem Itzhak, head of mobile at Figure8. “Testim is also easy to manage by our QA team, leaving our dev teams more time to add features and change our app at a faster pace.”

    To learn more about Testim or to schedule a demo, please visit www.testim.io.

    About Testim

    Founded in late 2014, Testim helps companies accelerate time-to-market, improve software quality and integrates into agile processes. With offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company is a pioneer in using AI for the authoring, execution and maintenance of automated tests. Included in the 2019 SD Times 100: ‘Best in Show’ in Software Development for Testing, the Testim platform learns and adapts automated tests to code changes, reducing 90 percent of maintenance time and 70 percent of authoring time. NetApp, Autodesk, Swisscom, LogMeIn, and others run over 2,000,000 tests using Testim every month.

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  • CloudBees Acquires Rollout, Adding Feature Flag System to Manage Deployment Risk and Accelerate Software Feature Delivery

    DevOps Leader Adds Feature Flagging Capability, to Help Development Teams Release Software With More Flexibility, Less Risk

    SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 11, 2019 – CloudBees, Inc., the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced the acquisition of Rollout, a secure feature management company providing software specifically targeted for developers and product teams. The deal further strengthens CloudBees’ leadership in the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) market, giving customers the ability to deliver new features safely, securely and quickly into production.

    The benefit of continuous software delivery is clear for high-performing software developers and teams who want to separate code deployments from feature releases. Customer relationships are enhanced by safely testing features in production environments, gathering valuable feedback and releasing new and improved features continuously. An increased number of incremental feature releases enables fast and early learning. This helps speed up feature adoption and ultimately helps organizations avoid the “big-bang-or-bust” infrequent feature release syndrome. This type of continuous release feature drip is the hallmark of successful continuous software delivery.

    According to Forrester, “Getting ideas in front of users faster — ‘continuous discovery’ — is the new normal. Experimentation platforms let teams test out minimum viable products (MVPs) in real-world scenarios with precise control. Feature flags let AD&D teams develop code as they normally would, allowing them to version control, test and deploy the same as always. However, feature flags give those teams complete control of when to expose a particular feature to users, allowing administrators to turn it on and off at the flip of a switch.”1

    By bringing the Rollout team and their feature flag software into the CloudBees family, CloudBees is taking a big step in the direction of enabling developers and teams to ship changes with freedom. The Rollout solution allows developers to continuously deliver changes, by enabling them to control both the roll out and roll back of features instantly on any platform, including mobile, regardless of deployment restrictions.

    “Our goal is to help organizations deliver great, feature-rich software efficiently while minimizing risks associated with the deployment process,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder of CloudBees. “The acquisition of Rollout gives CloudBees customers the flexibility to decouple features from software versions. Using Rollout on their trusted enterprise platform allows developers to test and merge changes with more confidence than ever before.”

    “We’re thrilled to be part of the CloudBees team,” said Erez Rusovsky, CEO and co-founder of Rollout, who will take on the role of product director for the Rollout offering. “CloudBees has set the standard for excellence in CI and CD. Rollout joining forces with CloudBees is genuinely the case where 1+1=3. Feature flags and CI/CD combined help companies truly become continuous and increase the pace of innovation.”

    1Forrester Research, AD&D Pros: Stop Guessing And Start Experimenting, Christopher Condo and Bill Seguin, January 15, 2019

    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, as well as 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, Unusual Ventures and HSBC, 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.

  • Humio Announces Enhanced Enterprise-Grade Controls and Visibility

    Updated Platform Delivers New Features And Capabilities In Live and Unconstrained Logging

    SAN JOSE, June 11, 2019 Humio, a purpose-built live observability solution that is platform agnostic and delivers fast, efficient and easily scalable log management, today announced a large set of new features designed to help enterprise users expand interactivity and visibility of system data. Humio enhanced its powerful log management platform with enriched capabilities to help data driven DevOps, Operations and Security professionals by unlocking their ability to log limitlessly without adding complexity and with unlimited ingest pricing.

    “Businesses are operating in various types of environments, incorporating traditional monolithic applications, transitioning towards a new microservice stack, and going cloud-native with Kubernetes. This level of complexity requires the ability to monitor the whole environment, in real-time, with a single solution that can give DevOps teams the required observability to see and address problems, no matter where they reside,” said Geeta Schmidt, Humio CEO. “The updated platform delivers innovation specifically in the areas of High Availability and Cluster Management UI, Role Based Access Control, and Faster Regular Expression Engine and other technologies that underpin leading logging practices. With these new enterprise-grade features, we are excited to provide customers with improved capabilities to easily manage our fast, scalable platform needed to effectively log everything and miss nothing.”

    New features included:

    • High Availability – Humio offers high availability along the entire datapath, from parsing and digesting to storing the data. High Availability enables an administrator to easily configure redundancy through the Cluster Nodes Administration user interface. To supplement the Storage Rules, the company has introduced Digest Rules that allows the administrator to easily specify which Digest nodes are redundant for each other.
    • Primary/Secondary storage – Humio can be configured to have Primary and Secondary storage, also known as Hot/Cold storage. This on-prem capability allows a Humio Administrator to configure and take advantage of low-cost storage technologies for older data and use the Primary Storage only for the most recent data. This is done to get the best possible query performance from the Primary Storage.
    • Role Based Authentication and Access Control – Based on group memberships, a group can have a number of permissions and access to specific repos and views. This allows an administrator to assign various permissions and access rights to the users of Humio and can be done either through a permissions file or through the Administration UI. It also allows for reading group memberships from e.g. SAML, LDAP or Auth0, simplifying the management of a large amount of users.
    • Delete Events API – Individual events can be deleted from the Humio Storage through the Delete Events API, available to both on-prem and cloud customers, enabling users to get rid of data that, for whatever reason, should no longer be in the log. Access to this ability requires special permissions that are assigned by an administrator.
    • Event Context – Humio improved the way users work with events. The platform enables the ability to show the Event Context for a given event enabling visibility of the log entry leading to the event in its original context. Through a simple right click on a given event, users can now see it in its original context.
    • Infinite Scroll – Through the user interface allowing for scrolling as far back as required, the result of a query is no longer limited to the first 200 events. This, in combination with the new Event Context feature, is a powerful way for users to examine their log files and is available for all customers now.

    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.

  • Cisco Unleashes the Capabilities of the New Network

    Bringing software skills and software practices to networking and IT with Cisco Certifications and DevNet

    News Summary:

    • Evolution of Cisco’s professional certification program embracesboth the network professional and now the software developer into one community to create the IT team of the future.
    • Cisco’s certification and training program now includes DevNet certifications and is designed for both the network professional and software developer to optimize and write applications for the new network and choose the technology skills they want to develop. 
    • Network automation is one of IT’s biggest challenges. The DevNet Automation Exchange provides shared code repositories which solve use cases for network automation and guides teams through their journey with a walk-run-fly methodology. Code is developed by the community and curated by Cisco as network automation best practices are developed by industry experts. 

    SAN DIEGO, California – Cisco Live U.S.- June 10, 2019 –Today Cisco is revolutionizing the role of network professionals and software developers to drive technology innovation and accelerate business. As Cisco reinvents the future of networking, DevNet (Cisco’s developer program) is bringing together software developers and certified network professionals into one community to enable unparalleled collaboration and best practice sharing and to pioneer new levels of automation capabilities. In addition, Cisco is introducing an industry-changing expansion of its professional certification program that embracesboth the network professional and software developer and adding a new community-based developer center to accelerate adoption and success with network automation.

    Cisco’s intent-based networking has led to a fundamental shift in the role networks play in business and changes how networking is done. The role of the networking professional has changed as it moves away from manual, time intensive tasks and into the world where IT, DevOps and application and cloud developers work together. To fully leverage the capabilities of this new network, organizations must leverage software practices, networking and software skills and an engaged community that solves technology challenges together.

    “Networking technology has evolved significantly over the last five years and the new network can accelerate business, catalyze new applications, and bring DevOps practices to networks,” said Susie Wee, SVP/CTO and founder of Cisco DevNet. “We are bringing software skills to the networking industry with new Cisco DevNet certifications. In addition, we are bringing software practices to networking by having a community of networkers and developers work together to solve tough network automation problems through shared code repositories. This will allow the industry to take full advantage of the capabilities of the new network to accelerate business.”

    BRINGING SOFTWARE PRACTICES TO NETWORKING: ACCELERATING NETWORK AUTOMATION WITH THE POWER OF COMMUNITY

    The network is the backbone of today’s digital business, but network automation remains one of the biggest challenges for IT. Cisco’s intent-based networking portfolio enables secure network automation at scale with a new community-based developer center called Cisco DevNet Automation Exchange. DevNet Automation Exchange features sharedcode repositories of use cases for network automation. Cisco’s community of developers, networking professionals, partners and customers can actively contribute software to create the industry leading repository for network automation code.

    DevNet Automation Exchange guides teams through their journey to implement network automation and intent-based networking with a Walk-Run-Fly methodology.

    • Walk: Get visibility and insights in their networks. This enables use cases such as gathering telemetry and insights from running networks, and performing auditing to ensure ongoing security of the network.
    • Run: Activate policy and intent across different network domains. This enables use cases such as providing self-service network operations that comply with security policies and operational guidelines.
    • Fly: Proactively manage applications, users, and devices with DevOps workflows. This enables use cases such as deploying applications in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines while configuring the network in accordance with new application policies.

    DevNet Automation Exchange builds on the deep expertise of Cisco’s community of network experts and software developers, allowing them to collaborate and create automation best practices for their industries.

    BRINGING SOFTWARE SKILLS TO NETWORKING: NEW CISCO CERTIFICATIONS TO BUILD IT TEAMS OF THE FUTURE 

    A growing opportunity for innovation is applications that utilize a programmable network infrastructure to solve business challenges. However, in order to take advantage of this opportunity, partners and customers have to build teams with the appropriate software practices and networking background to optimize their networks and drive innovation.

    “With networking technology changing at an unprecedented pace, the world of infrastructure engineers and software developers must come together to build the IT team of the future,” said Mike Adams, Vice President of Cisco’s training and certification business. “For over 25 years, Cisco certifications has helped over 1.7 million network professionals around the world to launch their careers, demonstrate their technology capabilities and build a career path with the right skills to compete in the market. Now, the Cisco Certification program is designed so IT teams can optimize network and application performance, giving their businesses an edge in today’s dynamic digital world.”

    Cisco is evolving its certification and training program, with a focus on educating network engineers and now software developers to optimize the new network. The new training and certification program fast-tracks professionals to the knowledge they need to thrive in this new landscape under the key principles of leadership, agility and value. The new Cisco Certifications include:

    • New DevNet Certifications to validate software professionalswith DevNet Associate, DevNet Specialist, and DevNet Professional certifications. DevNet certifications are intended for software developers and network engineers who develop software proficiency to develop applications and automated workflows for operational networks and infrastructure.
    • Streamlined Cisco Certifications to validate engineering professionalswith Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA®) and Cisco Specialist certifications as well as Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP®) and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE®) certifications in enterprise, data center, service provider, security, and collaboration.
    • Expansion of Cisco Networking Academy offerings to train entry level network professionals and software developers.Courses prepare students to earn Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA®) and Certified DevNet Associate certifications, equipping them for high demand jobs in the IT industry.

    The new Cisco Certifications help organizations build teams with software expertise and infrastructure expertise to allow them to take full advantage of the capabilities of the new network to accelerate business. DevNet Automation Exchange brings a software-driven, community-based approach to building network automation solutions while leveraging the strength of Cisco’s community of networking professionals and software developers. Cisco Networking Academy will grow the workforce for Cisco’s partners and customers by training students to develop software and networking skills that leverage the new network.

    For all of the details on the certification and program changes, check out the Learning at Cisco featured page. For resources to get started with the DevNet certifications, check out the DevNet page.

    Availability: 

    • DevNet Automation Exchange is available now.
    • New courses will begin rolling out in June 2019 and exams will be available in February 2020. Learning materials applicable to the new DevNet certifications is available now on the DevNet developer site.
    • New certification exams will be available in February 2020.
    • For Cisco Networking Academy, updated CCNA® courses, assessments and tools will be available in English by November 2019, additional languages will follow the first half of 2020.

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    Some of the offerings and features described above remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis.  Any such items are subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco, and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the offerings or features set forth in this document.