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  • Devo Technology Announces Devo Service Operations to Address Enterprise Monitoring Gap

    New machine learning-based solution addresses monitoring gap created by complex, multi-cloud application architectures for IT and DevOps teams

    Cambridge, Mass., May 21, 2019 – Devo Technology, the data operations company, today announced the tech preview of its Service Operations solution purpose-built for complex IT and application environments. In an era where enterprises are becoming completely instrumented across their ecosystems, Devo Service Operations empowers IT Ops to easily visualize complex, multi-cloud application environments, and predict issues and remediate them quickly when they do arise. In addition, the solution reveals relationships between business impact and IT performance.

    Built on the Devo Platform, Devo Service Operations leverages cloud-scale analytics, interactive visualizations, and machine learning, delivering operational prediction and automation across the enterprise. The solution was built to alleviate customers’ pain points around a growing monitoring gap that lacks the visibility to connect the dots between technology and business in the face of too much data and noise.

    Devo Service Operations applies insights gained from both real-time and historical enterprise log data across hundreds of IT elements, reduces noise with machine learning, and automates the remediation workflow to deliver service insight and impact analysis in the form of business KPIs. Devo Service Operations offers these individual capabilities:

    • Real-time impact assessment: The Experience Viewer and Service Navigator enable operational teams to visualize complex service stacks, map dependencies, seamlessly pivot from an application view to infrastructure elements, detailing impact on end-users and business services.
    • ML-powered analytics: From time series anomaly detection to root-cause analysis and capacity forecasting, machine learning-powered analytics reduces noise and predicts and detects problems so operations teams can take timely, accurate actions.
    • Root Cause Analysis with streamlined remediation: Devo Service Operations includes a decision engine that defines behavior-driven alerts and links those alerts to automated next-best-action recommendations and workflows to ultimately restore services.
    • Cloud-scale data analytics platform: Devo Service Operations is built on the Devo platform – a real-time, cloud-native, multi-tenant analytics platform built for the massive scale of logs, metrics, events, and machine data prevalent in today’s operational environments. The platform provides real-time insight into both streaming and historical data from across the entire enterprise technology stack – users, devices, applications, and infrastructure.

    “Devo Service Operations represents a milestone in the company’s growth trajectory, as we continue to build capabilities that connect IT performance and business impact,” said Colin Britton, Chief Strategy Officer, Devo. “Ensuring the availability and performance of applications is more critical than ever for businesses, but the scale and complexity of modern application architectures and infrastructures make monitoring applications increasingly difficult. We are excited to preview the Service Operations solution for ITOps and DevOps professionals and work with our customers to deliver a high-performing solution that meets their needs.”

    “Ironically, one of the most significant challenges facing organizations as they seek to establish the connection between business context and the real-time technical components that support the digital experience is the abundance of data itself. Organizations are now awash in data — and it’s made it almost impossible for human operators to make sense of it all. Within all of that data, however, are the seeds of the solution. The real-time nature of machine data and the fact that it contains markers that organizations can use to connect disparate interactions means that they can also use machine data to help human operators turn all that data noise into context,” said Charles Araujo, Intellyx, in the paper Machine Data: The Secret to Winning the Digital Experience Arms Race.

    Devo Service Operations comes on the heels of inclusion as a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring, Q2 2019, as well as inclusion in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for AIOps.

    For more information about Devo Service Operations, please visit www.devo.com.

    About Devo

    Devo is the data engine behind today’s digitally-driven enterprises, helping organizations maximize the economic and operational value of their machine data. The Devo Data Operations Platform delivers real-time analytics on streaming and historical data to turn machine data into actions that help enterprises achieve sustained performance and growth. By collecting, enhancing and analyzing machine data, Devo provides business-driving insights for IT, security, and business teams at the world’s largest organizations. For more information visit www.devo.com.

     

     

  • Tricentis Disrupts RPA Market with Resilient Model-Based Automation

    Model-based automation technology trusted by 1600+ enterprise organizations now drives a dedicated Tricentis RPA offering

    Mountain View Calif., May 22, 2019 – Tricentis today announced the availability of Tricentis RPA, which is differentiated by its award-winning model-based automation technology and radically simplified bot pricing model. Tricentis’ model-based automation technology has over 12 years of research and development behind it and is currently leveraged by 1600+ enterprise organizations. It is best known for delivering highly-resilient end-to-end automation of complex business processes—supporting over 150 enterprise technologies, from legacy applications to the most modern SaaS-based apps.

    “To satisfy rapidly-changing customer expectations, organizations must be able to change existing processes and applications with both agility and confidence,” explained Tricentis Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Wolfgang Platz.  “They need to know that the automation will work—that it’s resilient, with the ability to recover from frequent application changes without requiring technical resources.  With this degree of resiliency, organizations are able to scale automation at a much faster rate. This equates to a greater number of unattended bots.”

    Tricentis is known for enabling business users to achieve unprecedented test automation rates across highly-complex and rapidly-evolving processes. The core technology that drives these high automation rates is now being featured in a broader platform that directly addresses the unique requirements of RPA, enabling organizations to achieve equally high levels of process automation across the enterprise.

    Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri noted, “Tricentis is the first vendor to provide a purpose-built enterprise RPA solution as well as a comprehensive continuous test automation platform. Organizations looking to boost operational efficiency in terms of software testing have been trusting Tricentis for years. Now, they’re also applying our industry-leading automation to many other critical business processes in the production environment. This is a strategic business benefit which accelerates enterprises on their end- to-end automation journey.”

    Tricentis RPA Product Details

    Tricentis RPA consists of Tricentis RPA Studio and Tricentis Orchestrator. RPA Studio is a workspace to design, implement, and test bots. RPA Orchestrator enables users to run bots on-demand, distribute bots to agents, monitor and maintain agents, and generate reports as well as audit logs. Both are designed specifically for business professionals, and do not require any scripting or coding.  Tricentis RPA supports a wide array of technologies including SAP, Salesforce.com, Oracle, ServiceNow, and Pega as well as core banking applications like Finacle, Temenos, and Avaloq.

    Tricentis is the first vendor to offer highly-simplified pricing for RPA. Organizations only pay for running bots. This low cost to entry helps organizations achieve operational efficiency without the barriers associated with cumbersome licensing.

    Tricentis RPA Studio and Tricentis RPA Orchestrator are offered for free. Customers can download the solution on-demand and immediately start creating bots for their RPA projects without limitations or cost. Tricentis charges for bot execution on a subscription basis.

    About Tricentis

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

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown.”) This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1600+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

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

     

  • NS1 Launches DDI for Modern Distributed Enterprise Application Infrastructure

    Next Generation DDI Reduces Friction and Complexity in Deploying and Delivering Applications in Distributed Environments at Scale

    NEW YORK –May 22, 2019– NS1, the leader in next generation DNS and application traffic management solutions, today announced its new Enterprise DDI solution. Designed for modern distributed application-centric computing infrastructure, NS1 Enterprise DDI reduces the friction and complexity of deploying and delivering applications across a diverse mix of multi-cloud, edge and on-premise environments.

    Legacy DDI appliances are not application-centric, creating challenges for teams delivering dynamic and distributed applications across complex multi- or hybrid-cloud environments, edge networks and microservices platforms. These outdated DDI appliances feature complex UI and workflows, expensive hardware, and outdated, poorly performing APIs. Slow, centralized IP management and DNS record propagation cause change control bottlenecks that can delay deployments by days or even weeks, impeding DevOps teams and modern continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflows.

    NS1 Enterprise DDI reduces the friction and complexity of application delivery in rapidly changing, hybrid enterprise environments. It is built for DevOps, delivering to those teams the autonomy they need to safely manage updates. A modern, API-first architecture supports high-scale automation and unifies service discovery across complex infrastructure. And because NS1 is the only provider offering global managed DNS solutions and self-hosted DDI, a single management plane eliminates the need for network teams to jump between different consoles as part of a multi-cloud infrastructure — delivering a single NS1 management experience across internal and external infrastructure.

    “Enterprises across the board are looking to leverage new technologies, vendors, and topologies in service of better performance, reliability, and time to market. But the velocity gains are often offset by the overhead that comes with managing a diverse and complex mix of infrastructure that spans everything from mainframes to microservices across multiple clouds,” said Jonathan Sullivan, co-founder and CTO of NS1. “NS1 Enterprise DDI was designed to provide a modern, unified management plane across these disparate environments in order to simplify and automate increasingly complex development processes. It removes the friction and burden of having to both manage and build your apps against a legacy DDI platform, and instead turns DDI into a weapon in your DevOps arsenal that provides innovative new functionality that will impact the scale and velocity of your application-driven business.”

    NS1 Enterprise DDI is built on the same software platform that powers NS1 Managed DNS, which is used by the most demanding customers and applications on the internet today. It includes:

    • Integrated DHCP and IPAM to gain workflow efficiency and visibility across complex, hybrid infrastructure
    • World’s most advanced traffic steering technology that automatically routes traffic across your WAN or LANs in order to boost performance and reduce infrastructure costs
    • Fast API performance that scales for high rates of API calls even in the most demanding automation-driven environments
    • Next-generation DNS, with real-time DNS change propagation that delivers service discovery in seconds
    • Wide set of integrations, including with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and TSDBs, for out-of-the-box integration with your tools and vendors.

    “There’s tremendous pressure to deliver business applications quickly and embrace new internet-like cloud platforms, yet network operations teams still need to maintain an integrated legacy infrastructure,” said Eric Hanselman, chief analyst of 451 Research. “A new generation of software-based orchestration capabilities from providers like NS1 is accelerating digital modernization by unifying the application management stack to deliver all the benefits of internet innovation, simplicity, and automation across even the most diverse enterprise infrastructure environments.”

    Visit https://ns1.com/products/enterprise-ddi for more information.

    About NS1

    NS1 is the leader in next-generation DNS and traffic management solutions that orchestrate the delivery of the world’s most critical internet and enterprise applications. Only NS1’s purpose-built platform, which is built on a modern API-first architecture, transforms DNS into an intelligent, efficient and automated system, driving dramatic gains in reliability, resiliency, security and performance of application delivery infrastructure. Many of the highest-trafficked sites and largest global enterprises trust NS1, including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Nielsen, Squarespace, Pandora and The Guardian. Visit www.ns1.com to learn more.

     

     

  • Jama Connect Risk Management Center Expands to all Industries and Platforms

    Integration of FMEA and ISO standards, as well as regulatory requirements, provides a comprehensive system of record to manage risk and help companies manage product development complexity  

    Portland, Ore., May 21, 2019 – Jama Software, the leading product development platform provider for building complex products and integrated systems, announced they have expanded the Jama Connect™ Risk Management Center to all industries and platforms – both cloud and self-hosted. Until today, the center was piloted exclusively for medical device companies and was only available on the cloud.

    “From working with hundreds of customers in regulated industries, we realized that risks are requirements,” said Jama CEO, Scott Roth. “There are nuances in how risk is handled from industry to industry, but risk management is a core principle of product development, just like requirements. When you bring risks directly into requirements management, they are much easier to control.”

    Aerospace, automotive, semiconductor and other industries face a growing risk management dilemma. Mistakes can endanger lives and permanently mar a company’s reputation. In addition, product safety regulations are getting stricter and recalls are on the rise. At the same time, risk management can be cumbersome, frustrating and inefficient. Many companies use multiple spreadsheets, paper records or software that is ill-suited for risk management and requirements tracking, as well as for following industry standards such as FMEA and ISO 14971.

    In a recent white paper, Frost & Sullivan noted:

    Legacy systems struggle to keep up with changing regulations, which can lead to compliance costs down the road. They can also introduce challenges with version control and be prone to errors. Due to their complicated functionality, legacy systems also inadvertently promote silos, forcing teams to prioritize the accuracy and timeliness of specific tasks in a way that can inhibit collaboration with other teams.

    Jama Connect Risk Management Center addresses these challenges by providing industry-standard customizable templates, enhancing collaboration, and offering a single system of record for risks and requirements. The platform enhances risk analysis, giving teams better tools to identify and mitigate issues and move rapidly through the development process. Specifically, the center helps teams:

    • Participate in risk assessment, including preliminary hazard analysis (PHA) and risk mitigation;
    • Incorporate FMEA and ISO 14971- aligned risk management templates;
    • Connect verifications to requirements; and,
    • Export plans for approval.

    “Risk management should not be siloed away from product requirements,” added Roth. “There must be a streamlined mechanism for all teams to work together towards common goals. We believe the Risk Management Center equips companies with the tools they need – to identify mistakes before they become serious regulatory and reputational problems, and to rapidly develop successful, sustainable products.”

    About Jama Software

    Jama Software is a leading product development platform provider for companies building complex products and integrated systems. The Jama Product Development Platform helps companies establish a Predictive Product Development process — to mitigate risk, improve quality, identify opportunities and decrease time to market — via an integrated solution for guiding the product lifecycle from idea to launch. More than 600 innovative companies use Jama Software to modernize their product development process. The company is headquartered in Portland, Ore. To learn more, visit www.jamasoftware.com.

  • HSBC BANKS ON DEVOPS, INVESTS $10M IN CLOUDBEES

    Leading DevOps Provider Has Raised More than $120M in Funding Since 2010

    LONDON – May 21, 2019 – CloudBees, an enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced that it has secured a $10 million capital investment from HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. Today’s announcement is a follow-on to CloudBees’ recent $62 million growth capital round last year, bringing total funding in the company to over $120 million.

    HSBC currently uses CloudBees Core platform technologies to accelerate its overall software delivery system. HSBC said the investment in CloudBees underscores the importance of DevOps in the bank’s business and technology future.

    “We invest in technologies which are strategically important to our business, and which help us serve our customers better,” said Dinesh Keswani, chief technology officer, Shared Services, HSBC. “The DevOps market is growing fast, as organizations like us drive automation, intelligence and security into the way we deliver software. CloudBees is already a strategic business partner of HSBC; we are excited by our investment and by the opportunity to be part of the story of continuous delivery.”

     

    The $4.61 billion1 DevOps industry is growing rapidly as companies rely more and more on software to continuously improve their products and overall business. CloudBees serves growing enterprise demand for governance, flexibility and scale by offering an end-to-end continuous software delivery system designed to accelerate development and delivery while minimizing risk. An estimated 15+ million2 software developers use Jenkins to automate their software delivery pipelines, and 46 of Fortune 100 enterprises, including three of the Fortune 10, use the CloudBees Suite to transform their businesses for the continuous economy.

    “This investment is indicative of the importance leading companies, such as HSBC, are placing on DevOps,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder of CloudBees. “DevOps is the new way to deliver software, enabling organizations to deliver software at the speed of ideas, and allowing organizations to respond more quickly to customer needs and market demands.”

    Labourey said CloudBees will use the funding by HSBC to bring new innovation to the DevOps market through its modern software delivery suite, grow its strategic partnerships and accelerate its global business growth organically and through M&A.

    1 Growth estimates from Grandview Research in their Development to Operations (DevOps) Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report 2018-2025.

     

    2 A recent Datanyze analysis showed that 68 percent of continuous integration is being done on Jenkins. With an estimated 23 million developers, globally, according to Evans Data in its Global Developer Population and Demographics Study, approximately 15 million developers are using Jenkins.

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    About CloudBees

    CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product teams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation.

    CloudBees is the CI, CD and application release orchestration (ARO) powerhouse, built on the commercial success of its products as well as its open source leadership. CloudBees is the largest contributor to Jenkins and Jenkins X, and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.

    Over 3,500 of the world’s best-known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500, invest in CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom. CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts, helping thousands of companies harness the power of “continuous everything” and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.

    Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures, Delta-v Capital, Golub Capital and Unusual Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

     

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  • Siemplify Closes $30M in Series C Financing

    Investment drives Siemplify’s global expansion and product innovation, cementing its leadership in the fast-growing SOAR market

    NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel – May 20, 2019 – Siemplify, the leading independent provider of security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR), today announced that it has secured $30 million in Series C funding led by Georgian Partners.

    Siemplify will use these new funds to drive significant expansion of its global go-to-market strategy, as well as further enhance its market-leading security operations platform. Siemplify’s existing investors – 83North, G20 Ventures and Jump Capital – also participated in the round. The Series C investment brings Siemplify’s total funding to date to $58 million, a testament to the company’s growing dominance in the SOAR space.

    “Siemplify is rapidly solidifying its position as the leading independent SOAR provider, with a differentiated offering and a clear vision of enabling organizations to manage security operations from end to end,” said Steve Leightell, partner at Georgian Partners. “We are excited to lead the Series C funding round and to support Siemplify as it continues its fast growth.”

    This funding round comes amid rapid growth of the SOAR category and on the heels of Siemplify’s market-leading momentum, which includes:

    • 1,000% year-over-year growth in 2017 and 280% growth in 2018, further outpacing the competition.
    • 250% growth in annual recurring revenue in the first quarter of 2019.
    • Continued success with leading global enterprises, underscored by recent wins with a Fortune 50 logistics giant, a Fortune 100 media and entertainment conglomerate, a Top 20 European bank and a Fortune 100 technology distributor.
    • Widening leadership in the managed security service provider (MSSP) segment. Siemplify now serves 24% of the companies featured in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Security Services, Worldwide.

    Faced with a steady increase in the volume of security alerts, disparate security tools not designed to work together and a global cybersecurity talent shortage, security teams are constantly under pressure to do more with less. Siemplify serves as a 10x force multiplier for security teams: the Siemplify platform is an intuitive workbench that enables them to manage security operations from end to end, automate repetitive tasks and integrate security tools to respond to cyberthreats with speed and precision, while getting smarter with every analyst interaction.

    “Our security operations platform alleviates the most pressing pain points faced by security operations teams,” said Amos Stern, CEO and co-founder of Siemplify. “This significant investment and expertise from Georgian will allow us to expand our global presence and drive further innovation to make security operations smarter, more efficient and more collaborative. And as we continue our journey, nothing makes us more grateful than working alongside and solving challenges for the people to whom we owe our success: our customers and partners.”

    About Siemplify

    Siemplify, the leading independent security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider, is redefining security operations for enterprises and MSSPs worldwide. The Siemplify platform is an intuitive workbench that enables security teams to manage their operations from end to end, respond to cyberthreats with speed and precision, and get smarter with every analyst interaction. Founded in 2015 by Israeli Intelligence experts with extensive experience running and training security operations centers worldwide, Siemplify has raised $58 million in funding to date and is headquartered in New York, with offices in Tel Aviv. Visit us at siemplify.co or follow us on Twitter at @Siemplify.

    About Georgian Partners
    Georgian Partners is a thesis-driven growth equity firm investing in business software companies leveraging applied artificial intelligence, trust and conversational AI. Founded by successful entrepreneurs and technology executives, Georgian Partners uses its global software expertise to directly impact the success of companies. For more information, visit www.georgianpartners.com or follow us on Twitter at @GeorgianPrtnrs.

    Products, service names, and company logos mentioned herein may be the registered trademarks of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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  • Tricentis to Livestream Accelerate SF: Automation @ the Speed of Change

    Two days of continuous testing insights will be shared with the global community of software testing professionals, free of charge

    Mountain View Calif., May 16, 2019 – Tricentis, the cloud’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, today announced that sessions from the Accelerate SF keynote stage will be livestreamed for free.

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    On May 22-23, the global community of software testing professionals can join the San Francisco attendees to discuss what’s needed to meet the changing expectations associated with digital transformation. This year’s conference theme is Automation @ the Speed of Change. Conference highlights include:

    • The Next Great Debate, “AI: You Can’t Handle the Truth!” where a panel of industry leaders explore whether AI is a dream or a nightmare for software testers
    • Gartner analyst Tom Murphy’s perspective on the future of automation for the enterprise, including the convergence of RPA and software test automation
    • The “Automation Imperative” CIO panel with executives from BNP Paribas and T-Mobile
    • Be Agile – hack your space, Steelcase’s unique take on accelerating Agile transformations via spatial re-design
    • Software testing insights from Ash Coleman, Paul Grizzaffi, Keith Klain, Adam Satterfield, and leaders from Merck, Disney Streaming, Chick-fil-A, Fannie Mae, Nationwide, Toyota, Tasktop, and more

    “In the application development and delivery world, the only constant is change,” noted Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri. “Today’s software testing professionals have already witnessed seismic shifts in business expectations, development methodologies, system architectures, and more. And, the new focus on digital transformation means that the rate and scope of change will only increase.  At Accelerate SF, we’re excited to share the latest trends, best practices, and innovations that will help leading enterprises keep pace.”

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    About Tricentis

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

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown.”) This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1600+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

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

     

     

  • Solo.io Unveils First Industry Service Mesh Hub to Accelerate Adoption, Advance Innovation and Foster Collaboration

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Solo.io, the software company that helps organizations adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies, today announced the first industry hub dedicated to service mesh: https://servicemeshhub.io. Service Mesh Hub makes it easy for end users to adopt and operate mesh architecture in any environment including hybrid and multi-cloud and enables community collaboration to build and share tools that enhance the functionality of meshes including Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, AWS App Mesh, HashiCorp Consul and more. The Service Mesh Hub will be showcased next week at KubeCon EU 2019 in Barcelona.

    Service mesh is an innovative cloud native technology for application level networking of microservices. End users looking to adopt service mesh are facing challenges including which mesh to choose, how to set them up, manage different use cases, which tools to use with their mesh and how to operate them across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

    “We believe that an active community and ecosystem is critical in helping organizations adopt modern technologies. The vision for Service Mesh Hub is more than technology, it is to support the end user through their entire adoption lifecycle from exploration, proof of concept, integration and through to production for their service mesh environment,” said Idit Levine, founder and CEO of Solo.io.

    The core elements of the Service Mesh Hub announced today, include:

    • Service Mesh Dashboard: A single pane of glass for the end user to view and operate all of their meshes across vendors and clouds, configurations, health status, ecosystem extensions and services deployed to the meshes.
    • Service Mesh Installation and Discovery: Automatically discovers existing mesh environments and their configurations or makes new mesh implementation easier with an installer.
    • Service Mesh Configuration: Simplify and automate the configuration management workflow across different mesh providers and environments.
    • Service Mesh Extensions Catalog: Enables the 3rd party vendor and open source community to share their tools with end users that extend their environment with a mesh aware recommendation engine and extensions installer.

    Additional Resources

    About Solo.io
    Solo.io develops open source and enterprise software that helps enterprises adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies like microservices, serverless and service mesh. Founded in 2017 in Cambridge, MA, Solo.io is backed by Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures. For more information, visit https://www.solo.io/ or follow @soloio_inc.

  • Tealium Raises $55 Million in Series F Funding

    New investment to accelerate global expansion and product innovation

    Funding solidifies Tealium as the industry’s most comprehensive customer data orchestration solution

    SAN DIEGO, May 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Tealium, the trusted leader in real-time customer data orchestration, has closed $55 million in Series F funding led by Silver Lake Waterman, Silver Lake’s late-stage growth capital fund, with participation from ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund, Declaration Partners, Parkwood and existing investors. The funding will be used to expand the company’s data integration ecosystem, accelerate new product development and further scale global go-to-market activities, while continuing its mission to expand data freedom across the enterprise while safeguarding privacy. Tealium has received more than $160 million in total funding to date.

    The Tealium AudienceStream customer data platform (CDP), which launched in 2013, has experienced accelerated growth in recent years, notably seeing a 300% year-over-year increase in visitor profiles created. This purpose-built platform is designed to provide enterprises with a single view of their customers, serving as a secure central point of management across the entire data supply chain. Tealium connects customer data across technology stacks and digital assets, including websites, mobile applications, point-of-sale (POS) systems and call centers, enabling data freedom and agility across the organization. Enterprises can integrate this data with any technology, retail channel or marketing platform to build better customer experiences, invest in analytics and machine learning, and act on real-time decisions.

    Tealium has focused on building a real-time customer data platform that meets the industry’s most stringent requirements for protecting the integrity and privacy of customer data. The company’s robust data governance and compliance portfolio allows global organizations to manage diverse regulations in countries around the world. This helps enterprises build consumer trust, enhance customer data and continue to bring innovative customer experiences to market.

    “Our customer data platform is the vendor-agnostic foundation that allows data to flow freely and securely across the organization — rendering it accessible and useful to every team and technology, and solving departmental or technological silos that limit opportunity for data agility,” said Jeff Lunsford, CEO of Tealium. “By democratizing the data collection and delivery process, we help organizations meet the changing needs of their business and customers and protect the integrity of their data.”

    “Tealium enables companies to overcome challenges related to customer data fragmentation by integrating and enriching data across sources in real time, while providing data governance and fidelity,” said Shawn O’Neill, Managing Director of Silver Lake Waterman. “Jeff and his team have built a robust platform, and we are excited to support the company’s continued growth and investment in innovation.”

    “As a long-time Tealium customer, we’ve seen the benefit of the technology first hand,” said Frank Verkerk, Chief Digital Officer of ABN AMRO. “Tealium has helped us streamline and standardize our data flows, and has given us the tools we need to make better marketing and business decisions.”

    To learn more about Tealium and the company’s leading universal data solutions, visit www.tealium.com.

    About Tealium
    Tealium revolutionizes today’s digital businesses with a universal approach to customer data orchestration – spanning web, mobile, offline and Internet of Things devices. With the power to unify customer data into a single source of truth, Tealium offers a turnkey integration ecosystem supporting more than 1,000 client-side and server-side vendors and technologies. The Tealium Universal Data Hub encompasses tag management, API hub, customer data platform, and data management solutions that enable organizations to leverage real-time data to create richer, more personalized digital experiences across every team, technology, and customer touchpoint.

    About Silver Lake Waterman
    Silver Lake Waterman is part of Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing with over $43 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of approximately 100 investment and value creation professionals located in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Hong Kong. Silver Lake Waterman focuses on providing flexible expansion capital to later-stage growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries. For more information about Silver Lake Waterman and Silver Lake, please visit www.silverlake.com.

    About ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund
    The ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund is the ABN AMRO corporate venture fund and invests in innovative companies specializing in the digitalization of financial products and services. We are a Dutch bank for retail, corporate and private banking clients. We are a relationship-driven, knowledgeable and digitally savvy bank, active in Northwest Europe and with expertise in selected sectors globally. Our purpose is Banking for better, for generations to come. Headquartered in Amsterdam, ABN AMRO employs around 19,000 people worldwide. Please visit us at www.abnamro.com.

  • SecureAge Integrates Artificial Intelligence Powered APEX Anti-Malware Engine in VirusTotal

    SecureAge’s APEX engine uses machine learning to recognize zero-day and mutated threats that are traditionally undetectable

    (NEW YORK) (May 14, 2019) — SecureAge Technology, an data security and encryption solution provider for enterprise businesses and end users, today announced the integration of its APEX anti-malware engine into VirusTotal, a Chronicle product, and free online service that aggregates many anti-malware products and other scanning engines to check for malware and malicious content. The submission of files, URLs, domains, etc. to VirusTotal helps to raise global cyber security understanding.

    SecureAge APEX is an anti-malware scanning engine powered by artificial intelligence, designed to extend the detection capabilities of the SecureAge SecureAPlus endpoint protection platform (EPP). The APEX engine provides next-generation endpoint detection alongside other SecureAPlus features, such as Application Control, Application Whitelisting, multi-cloud anti-virus, fileless attack protection and more. To deal with advanced threats like zero-day malware, APEX goes beyond traditional scanners by using machine learning to identify unseen and mutated malware types and variants from day one of their release.

    “As part of the VirusTotal network, our priority is to champion the value that the APEX engine can bring to users in keeping them informed and protected from existing and unknown malware types,” said Dr. Teow-Hin Ngair, CEO, SecureAge Technology. “We hope that this integration is also a testament to our commitment to become a major contributor to the overall cybersecurity community.”

    As part of VirusTotal, the APEX engine combines deep learning technology to better understand potential threats independent of a reliance on signatures. Within VirusTotal, APEX will target WindowsPE files.

    For more information about SecureAge Technology and the company’s approach to creating the APEX AI, please visit: https://www.secureage.com/products/secureaplus/

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    About SecureAge Technology:

    Placing real security and usability on equal footing, SecureAge Technology is a data security company headquartered in Singapore and historically known for protecting government and enterprise data from the most advanced and persistent cyber threats. The user-centric and simple solutions arising from the SecureAge philosophy offer clarity and calm within the most complex security environments. SecureAge’s patented technologies provide total data protection, leveraging advanced encryption techniques designed to provide the world’s highest level of data security for everyone.