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  • New Relic Introduces New Relic One, Empowering Teams to Accelerate Innovation and Deliver More Perfect Software Faster

    New features include monitoring for AWS Lambda, new dashboards, programmability, global search, and cross-account service maps — all designed to help distributed teams centrally manage and automate the complexity of modern software

    SAN FRANCISCO – May 14, 2019 – New Relic (NYSE: NEWR), the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based instrumentation platform built to help customers create more perfect software, today introduced New Relic One. An extension of the New Relic platform, New Relic One helps DevOps teams with complex environments quickly find, visualize, and understand their data so they can take immediate action, deliver better digital experiences to customers, and drive revenue. With New Relic One, enterprises now have the ability to connect their teams to the real-time health of their customer experience, so they can accelerate their digital business.

    For modern software teams, there are numerous challenges to successfully managing the performance of their increasingly complex environments. Many large enterprises have hundreds of siloed teams, responsible for managing interdependent systems. These systems are increasingly complex, often composed of containers or microservices, running on-premise and in the cloud. When service issues arise, teams often struggle to quickly and definitively pinpoint the issue, and fix the problem before their customers experience a disruption.

    “DevOps teams continue to struggle with a fragmented view of their complex environments due to data about customer experiences residing in multiple systems, dashboards, and organizations. New Relic One is the industry’s first entity-centric observability platform, unifying all of a customer’s data across multiple accounts so teams can see a pan-enterprise view of all of the relationships and dependencies,” said Lew Cirne, CEO and founder of New Relic. “New Relic One solves an important set of problems for our customers today, and it’s also our platform for delivering the next decade of innovation to our customers. We’re just getting started on our mission to help companies deliver more perfect software faster with New Relic One.”

    Introducing New Relic One

    New Relic One is purpose-built to transform how DevOps teams manage the performance of their digital systems. New Relic One unifies all of a customer’s data across multiple accounts so each team can see a pan-enterprise, shared view of everything they instrument. In addition to seeing all their data in one place, New Relic One also empowers teams to quickly drill down into the services they are responsible for managing.

    Defining Entities

    New Relic One treats everything that needs to be instrumented as an “entity” and indexes entities to track their relationships and dependencies to each other so teams have context in addition to metrics. New Relic defines entities as anything that needs to be instrumented for the success of digital business, including a microservice, mobile app, Kubernetes cluster or Lambda function to name a few. An entity emits data, and that data provides context — including upstream and downstream dependencies — about the internal state of the entity. During critical moments, it’s no longer enough for teams to measure metrics. Teams also need to quickly understand the relationships between entities and their interdependencies, so they can pinpoint issues faster and deliver better customer experiences. Unlike the fragmented tools that companies use today, New Relic One and its entity-centric approach to observability provides a clear, connected view of all systems, teams, and technology across a single customer’s environment.

    New Relic One delivers:

    • A unified, pan-enterprise view of complex environments — New Relic One introduces new cross-account Service Maps that can automatically visualize up- and down-stream dependencies of entities, making it easy to quickly identify the root cause when troubleshooting an incident.
    • A connected search and discovery platform — New Relic One provides new global search and universal tag filtering, so teams can quickly and easily find entities across their enterprise.
    • Easy-to-create, powerful dashboards — New Relic One introduces new and improved dashboarding capabilities, enabling users to quickly create information-rich, custom dashboards that connect technical efforts and business impact. A brand new feature called chart builder makes it easy to create powerful queries with a point-and-click curated tool, complementing New Relic Query Language (NRQL). Customers’ existing dashboards in New Relic Insights will automatically appear in New Relic One for viewing and editing.
    • Programmability for creating business-specific views — New Relic One introduces the ability to quickly extend the visualizations for business- and domain-specific needs. For example, it is easy to combine store point-of-sale system data with real-time telemetry, all overlaid on a map. Operations teams can see a bird’s-eye view of their store performance across a geographic area, and they can also drill down to see the performance of a specific store that’s giving off an alert. With programmability, New Relic One can be embedded into managing the performance of an enterprise’s business.
    • Unified user experience and global home page — New Relic One delivers a new home page experience, empowering customers to see all of their performance data in one place. New Relic One sits above the existing New Relic platform of products, where users can continue to quickly zero in on problem areas for deeper exploration.

    New Relic One is the home for New Relic’s latest innovations, including:

    • Monitoring for AWS Lambda — delivers the ability to monitor, visualize, troubleshoot, and alert on Lambda functions. Pro customers can now monitor Lambda performance in aggregate, or drill down into individual Lambda invocations to see traces, errors, end-to-end traces, and other troubleshooting information.
    • Kubernetes cluster explorer — provides a multi-dimensional representation of a Kubernetes cluster that allows teams to drill down into Kubernetes data and metadata in a high-fidelity, curated UI that simplifies complex environments. This existing feature is now available in the New Relic One interface.
    • Distributed tracing global search — provides a simple yet potent tool for finding traces using custom attributes or tags. As a result, teams can now work faster to solve performance issues in distributed software environments.

    New Relic also announced that it plans to deliver log management and AIOps solutions in New Relic One by the end of the fiscal year.

    Customer Quote:

    “New Relic One’s improved dashboard capabilities provide much needed visibility into the dependencies across all of the entities we measure. Other tools give me data, New Relic One gives me context,” said Matthew B. Vaughan, lead software engineer at Cox Automotive. “There is great power and comfort in being able to see how cross-functional data is correlated in a centralized platform. When we identify a risk of failure, it is critical that we can pinpoint the root cause rapidly, and New Relic One delivers a whole new level of granularity that helps us deliver better customer experiences.”

    Analyst Quote:

    “The demand for microservices and cloud-based services continues to aggravate complications across enterprise technology teams. Untangling these complications requires a thoughtful approach that simplifies the process of observing and measuring software applications,” said Stephen Elliot, Program Vice President, I&O at IDC. “These requirements have never been optional, and are more important than ever as the pace of change accelerates with modern application architectures, DevOps, and Agile approaches.”

    Pricing and Availability

    New Relic One will go live on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 to Pro subscribers for no additional cost. Monitoring for AWS Lambda support is now generally available for Pro customers via the New Relic One interface at no charge for a limited time and in accordance with the product documentation. Kubernetes cluster explorer and distributed tracing global search are generally available for Pro customers. Additional solutions, including log management and AIOps and additional programmability features are expected to be delivered by the end of New Relic’s fiscal year.

    Additional Resources

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains “forward-looking” statements, as that term is defined under the federal securities laws, including but not limited to statements regarding market trends and opportunities, the timing and benefits of anticipated new products, the value proposition of New Relic’s products and features to customers, and benefits from and investments in New Relic One. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements are based on New Relic’s current assumptions, expectations, and beliefs and are subject to substantial risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that may cause New Relic’s actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Further information on factors that could affect New Relic’s financial and other results and the forward-looking statements in this press release is included in the filings New Relic makes with the SEC from time to time, including in New Relic’s most recent Form 10-Q, particularly under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Copies of these documents may be obtained by visiting New Relic’s Investor Relations website athttp://ir.newrelic.com or the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. New Relic assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

    About New Relic

    New Relic is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based instrumentation platform built to help customers create more perfect software. The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. Learn why more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust New Relic to make the world’s software run at newrelic.com

  • Adobe Collaborates With Amazon To Accelerate Growth for Third-Party Merchants

    Magento Commerce Branded Stores for Amazon Sellers Becomes Merchant Solution for Standalone Storefronts

    LAS VEGAS, NV — May 14, 2019 — Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Magento Commerce branded stores for Amazon sellers, a new offering available through Magento, part of Adobe Experience Cloud, that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution is designed to give sellers a seamless way to grow their business and manage their online presence across Amazon.com and their own storefront. Native integration with Amazon.com merchant tools like Amazon Pay and Fulfillment by Amazon provide the added convenience of secure payments and fast shipping services for shoppers.

    With Magento Commerce, the new offering is built to deliver faster page load times and better conversions, as well as the ability to scale for peak shopping periods such as Cyber Monday. Serverless operations means new features such as one-click checkout and dynamic media can be quickly deployed. Functionality from Amazon Pay provides the same secure payment experience as Amazon.com, with security and compliance baked in. Fulfillment by Amazon gives customers trusted shipping options that are fast and reliable via Amazon’s proven logistics operation.

    “Small and mid-market businesses are taking direct ownership over how they manage customer experiences to differentiate, grow and build loyalty,” said Jason Woosley, vice president of commerce product and platform, Adobe. “Our work with Amazon empowers this large community of sellers to get closer to their customers while saving them time and money on development.”

    “We are excited to support Magento Commerce branded stores for Amazon sellers, which builds on our long running collaboration with Adobe,” said Terry Wise, vice president, channels and alliances, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Powered by AWS, this launch will provide sellers a seamless way to grow their business and scale for peak shopping periods.”

    “We are a top seller on Amazon.com for GPS trackers, helping customers keep an eye on things that matter most,” said Fernando Alegria, CEO of Optimus GPS Tracker. “A standalone storefront will fuel our growth and help build closer relationships with customers. With the new Magento Commerce offering, we were open for business in just a few weeks.”

    Magento Commerce branded stores for Amazon sellers helps deliver a fully operational storefront in record time, as well as access to an ecosystem of over 300,000 Magento developers and over 4,600 commerce extensions on the Magento Marketplace. Native integrations automatically sync product specs and attributes stored in Amazon Marketplace. Amazon.com merchant tools such as payments processing from Amazon Pay, hosting by AWS and more, can eliminate the need for custom development and integration work, saving sellers time and money. With Magento Business Intelligence, merchants can also measure success from the start and take action on data insights.

    Pricing and Availability

    The new offering is available now in North America and will extend to customers in Europe in the coming months. This offering complements the Amazon Sales Channel in Magento Commerce, which allows Magento customers looking to expand their footprint in the Amazon Marketplace to quickly integrate their catalog and start managing listings directly from their Magento admin panel. It is available today for free download on the Magento Marketplace for Magento Commerce Pro and Magento Open Source 2.2.4 (and later) customers.

    About Adobe 

    Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

     

     

  • Unravel Data Grows Revenue 500% Year-Over-Year, Secures $35M in Series C Funding

    Point72 Ventures leads funding round to address performance and complexity challenges of modern data applications and cloud migration initiatives

    PALO ALTO, Calif.,—May 14, 2019—Unravel Data, the only data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations to drive more reliable performance in modern data applications, today announced it has raised $35 million in an oversubscribed Series C funding round. Point72 Ventures, founded by renowned hedge fund investor Steve Cohen, led the round with participation from Harmony Partners, and existing Unravel investors Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures).

    “At first glance, application performance management (APM) may seem like a problem that has been addressed by the APM and log management vendors such as AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk, and DataDog. The reality is that these solutions were not initially built for modern data systems. By being natively built with modern IT in mind, Unravel can cost-effectively deliver the data application awareness and AI-powered recommendations, resolutions, and answers that organizations demand,” said Mike Leone, senior analyst at ESG. “Additionally, as workloads migrate to cloud platforms, the complexity of multiple systems, locality of services and technologies, different operating and pricing models, and constantly changing dependencies throughout the data pipeline add higher levels of risk to migrations, performance optimization challenges, and cost concerns.”

    “Most industry-leading companies are now software businesses, and a majority of those businesses are running on top of mission-critical big data applications,” said David Dubick, Partner, Point72 Ventures. “These big data tailwinds have created a demand for tools to monitor, optimize and secure these systems, and Unravel is uniquely positioned to address this need in the marketplace.”

    “CIOs in our network told us story after story of traditional application monitoring tools failing in a big data context because those tools were designed for the world of the past. And we didn’t just hear this problem from third parties, we were seeing it at Point72 as well,” said Matthew Granade, Chief Market Intelligence Officer at Point72 and Managing Partner of Point72 Ventures. “This new architecture requires a different product, one built from the ground up to focus on the unique challenges posed by big data applications. Unravel is poised to capture this emerging big-data APM market.”

    Company Momentum Highlights

    Today’s funding news follows a year of significant momentum for Unravel as evidenced by a series of milestones:

    • Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth of 500%
    • Cloud Services Product and Partner Momentum
      • Microsoft Azure Cloud Partner Ecosystem — Unravel introduced support for Azure services and uses operational data from Azure HDInsight, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, and HBase to automatically troubleshoot on-going issues that reduce confidence and performance on customers’ clusters. Unravel also correlates this full-stack data to help in migration to Azure. Unravel is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and is co-sell ready.
      • AWS Cloud Partner Ecosystem — Unravel introduced its platform across the Amazon ecosystem supporting Amazon AWS, Amazon EMR, Cloudera EDH for AWS, Hortonworks Data Cloud on AWS, and MapR CDP on AWS, providing critical operational intelligence. Unravel is an AWS Advanced Partner and is available in the AWS marketplace
    • Industry Accolades – Gartner named Unravel Data to its list of “Cool Vendors” for 2018 in Performance Analysis; Analytics and Containers. CRN awarded Unravel as a ‘Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Company,’ and Unravel made CNBC’s Upstart 100 list.

    “Every business is becoming a data business, and companies are relying on their data applications such as machine learning, IoT, and customer analytics, for better business outcomes using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, and NoSQL,” said Kunal Agarwal, CEO, Unravel Data. “We are making sure that these technologies are easy to operate and are high performing so that businesses can depend on them. We partner with our customers through their data journey and help them successfully run data apps on various systems whether on-premises or in the cloud.”

    Customer Validation

    See https://unraveldata.com/customers/

    Unravel Reviews on Gartner Peer Insights:

    “Key Software Product for Today’s Modern Data Applications And Systems” March, 2019

    https://www.gartner.com/reviews/review/view/785382#

    Market Validation

    “Enterprises are turning to technologies like Spark, Kafka, MPP, and NoSQL to embrace a data-centric approach to their business. The challenge is that there are massive skills shortages associated with architecting, managing, and optimizing all these integrated tools supported by numerous vendors across a data pipeline. In fact, on average, organizations work with 37 different vendors across their data pipeline today. Many of the technologies they rely on have their own monitoring and management tools, and this exacerbates the problem, creating operational silos and ultimately preventing end-to-end insight,” said Mike Leone, senior analyst at ESG. “How can organizations effectively utilize a wide range of applications like customer analytics, fraud prevention, and predictive maintenance that rely heavily on next-generation technology like AI and machine learning? By turning to a comprehensive data operations platform. Unravel allows customers to manage and optimize all their data pipelines from one location. By using AI-driven recommendations and automation, a high percentage of manual troubleshooting can simply be eliminated, enabling data operations teams to be proactive in preventing future issues.”

    “As enterprises of every size choose the Azure Cloud platform to build and deliver their modern data applications,  Unravel has proven an important tool to help operationalize this data and drive tangible value to the business” said Rashmi Gopinath, partner, M12 Ventures. “Azure and Unravel have worked closely on product development and go-to market execution and are well positioned to meet this market demand.”

    Investor Quotes

    “There’s a tremendous need to enable organizations to maximize the value of their data infrastructure investments,” said Mark Lotke, founder and managing partner, Harmony Partners. “Unravel fills that gap perfectly as the only company that is truly using machine learning and an AI-driven platform to optimize and operationalize data-driven applications and the data systems they depend on at scale. The Unravel team demonstrated incredible growth in 2018 and is poised for an even bigger year in 2019 as demand for data operations solutions accelerates.”

    “It’s clear that enterprises continue to struggle with dealing with the enormous amount of data that fuels their businesses. Legacy approaches have failed and they need to modernize their systems or risk being made irrelevant. Unravel is leading the pack in providing technology innovations that provide this competitive edge and fuel the next generation of cloud and hybrid cloud data services,” commented Venky Ganesan, managing director, Menlo Ventures.

    “Since we led the company’s B round, we have been blown away by the market momentum that Unravel has achieved in a short space of time.There is clearly an unmet need in large enterprises for solving the complexity and operational challenges they face as they transition to being data driven and cloud first,” said Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner, GGV Capital. “Current approaches are failing these data ops teams and Unravel has come to market with technology innovation and go-to-market execution that is solving real world problems, today.”

    About Unravel Data

    Unravel radically simplifies the way businesses understand and optimize the performance of their modern data applications – and the complex pipelines that power those applications. Providing a unified view across the entire stack, Unravel’s data operations platform leverages AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to offer actionable recommendations and automation for tuning, troubleshooting, and improving performance – both today and tomorrow. By operationalizing how you do data, Unravel’s solutions support modern big data leaders, including Kaiser Permanente, Adobe, Deutsche Bank, Wayfair, and Neustar. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is backed by Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, M12, Point72 Ventures, Harmony Partners, Data Elite Ventures, and Jyoti Bansal. To learn more, visit unraveldata.com.

    Copyright Statement

    The name Unravel Data is a trademark of Unravel Data™. Other trade names used in this document are the properties of their respective owners.

     

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  • Game-changing cloud management application launched by Kumoco at their first ever Knowledge exhibit

    We are Kumoco, an Agile and cloud consultancy company based in London. We drive change and help our clients realize measurable business value fast.

    What is Kumoco Cloud Manager?

    Kumoco Cloud Manager is a game-changing Cloud Management platform that allows firms to reduce their cloud spend by up to 80%, automate up to 90% of workflows, and monitor compliance against PCI, CIS, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP. 

    Paul O’Shea, CEO of Kumoco, commented:

    “We’re delighted to launch Kumoco Cloud Manager at Knowledge 2019 and to meet with customers, partners, and thought leaders to learn more about emerging trends in ITSM/ITOM.

    We know users want cloud services to be safe, cost-effective, and simple to use, so we’ve developed a tool to realize these goals.”

    • Kumoco Cloud Manager helps you understand, visualize, and control your whole cloud estate from a dashboard, any time, from any device.
    • The tool automates up to 90% of your workflows, including continuous cost and usage optimization processes.
    • In real terms, this means that Cloud Manager automatically makes usage and cost recommendations and flags related issues so you can take action fast.
    • This could be to leverage spot instances which save on operating costs, make your cloud estate work harder, and could result in savings of up to 80%.
    • Cloud Manager also automates security and compliance monitoring, so that risks are automatically flagged for review and your cloud platform is as secure as possible.
    • If your organization acts as an IT Services provider, you can utilize our comprehensive billing and recharge engine.
    • Kumoco Cloud Manager is a certified native application available now in the App store.

    Why Cloud Manager?

    Gartner predicts that “through 2020, 80% of organizations will overshoot their cloud IaaS budgets due to a lack of cost optimization approaches”[1], and, that by 2020 “45% of organizations that perform lift-and-shift to cloud IaaS without optimization will be over-provisioned by as much as 55%, and will overspend by 70% during the first 18 months”[2]

    Better provisioning of cloud estates is where Cloud Manager really adds value, because we monitor the fluctuations in your cloud utilization and make recommendations based on your actual capacity requirements. Then, we help you provision what you actually need taking maximum advantage of variations in spot instances instead of paying higher on-demand rates.

    Come and see us at Knowledge 2019

    Please join us at Booth E37 for demos of Cloud Manager. Knowledge 2019 attendees can arrange demo sessions or one-to-one meetings by emailing cloud@kumoco.com.

    About Kumoco

    Kumoco is a London-based firm which helps companies take advantage of the Cloud in a lean and efficient way. We were founded in 2013 by Paul O’Shea and Terry Benge, who both have backgrounds in Agile and deep experience across multiple sectors. At Kumoco, we believe that business should drive technology, so we provide the tools you need to help your business to deliver measurable value.

    More Info/Contact us

    To learn more about Kumoco and Kumoco Cloud Manager, visit us at:

    https://kumoco.com/cloud

    cloud@kumoco.com

    https://www.linkedin.com/company/kumoco/

    On Twitter @WeAreKumoco

    Kumoco will be at Knowledge 2019 in Las Vegas from May 4th – 9th, 2019.

    [1] https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/apac/infrastructure-operations-cloud-australia/why-attend/event-resources/research-lower-aws-costs

     

    [2] https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/modernize-it-infrastructure-in-a-hybrid-world/

  • Evident Raises $20 Million for Secure, AI-Powered Identity Verification

    The financing will allow Evident to respond to demand for its platform, which uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, facial recognition, and end-to-end cryptography to meet customers’ increasingly strict privacy requirements

    ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Evident ID, Inc., the revolutionary platform that powers identity and credential verification for many of the world’s fastest-growing companies, has raised $20 million in a Series B financing led by Aspect Ventures; with participation from existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Internet Security Systems founder Tom Noonan; as well as new investor Blue Cloud Ventures. The financing will enable Evident to broaden its existing, robust technical infrastructure including deepening its investment in AI and machine learning, computer vision, and facial recognition technologies. Evident will also expand its team to meet the explosive demand for identity verification as enterprises increasingly rely on efficient, remote onboarding.

    Evident’s 300% YoY customer growth and comprehensive identity verification solution were key drivers for investor participation. Unlike existing solutions, Evident verifies identity holistically, encompassing both online and offline factors such as business licenses, biometrics, insurance, criminal history, and more. The platform allows businesses to easily implement step-up and continuous identity verification techniques, a key consideration given the increasing amount of fraudulent activity online. Evident enables companies to confidently know who they are registering, hiring, onboarding or verifying for a wide variety of applications while leveraging end-to-end cryptography and machine learning to meet increasingly strict privacy requirements.

    “Increasing data privacy regulation, data breaches, and online-offline interactions facilitated via the internet require companies to become arbiters of trust. To reliably fulfill that role, they are seeking solutions to verify personal information for their stakeholders without having to handle personal data themselves,” said Lauren Kolodny, Partner at Aspect Ventures. “Evident is helping businesses verify identity and a wide range of credentials with less friction today – and they’re on the way to building the identity platform for the internet.”

    “Evident is solving the most complex identification problems for high-volume businesses with sensitive applications by verifying millions of attributes in a secure and efficient way,” said David Thomas, CEO of Evident. “With this new infusion of capital, we can scale to meet the increasing demands of current customers and marketplaces, as well as continue to grow in additional markets and industries including insurance, healthcare and financial services.”

    “Identity verification has never been more important, especially as businesses consider the conflict of mitigating fraud while prioritizing growth and streamlined user experiences,” said Vanessa Larco, Partner at NEA. “Evident is solving these crucial challenges while maintaining the highest standards of privacy and security. Their ongoing market penetration combined with the strength and extensibility of their platform addresses key issues that all businesses are trying to solve.”

    About Evident

    Evident is revolutionizing the way personal data is shared. Evident’s simple, secure Identity Assurance Platform lets businesses confidently know who they are dealing with without handling sensitive personal data. With connections to thousands of authoritative sources through a single API, Evident is the only platform that enables comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date identity and credential verifications without the risk and liability of holding personal information. For more information, visit www.evidentid.com.

  • Delphix Drives Significant Growth Across its Business, Driven by the Demand for Data to Accelerate Innovation

    Fortune 100 companies use Delphix to deliver data quickly and securely to fuel critical digital transformation initiatives

    REDWOOD CITY, C alif. , May 8, 2019 – Delphix , the company helping enterprises accelerate innovation through DataOp s, today announced continued momentum across its portfolio of top
    global enterprises. During its fiscal year 2019, Delphix reported significant expansion amongst its customer use cases, t he addition of sophisticated talent to the company’s leadership team
    and executive board, and industry validation from global partners like Capgemini, Accenture, AWS, Microsoft, SAP, and more.

    In a world where every company must become a data company , the ability to leverage data as a strategic asset is the key to continuous innovation and establishing market leadership. However,
    the confluence of the increase in the size and complexity of data volumes, regulation and security concerns, and the speed at which innovators now need to consume data is overwhelming to most organizations. Waiting days, weeks, or even months to deliver data starves innovation and jeopardizes the future of the business. “ Despite the best-laid plans, most companies fail to leverage data as a strategic asset. The conflict between managing and securing vast amounts of disparate data and the free flow distribution of data to those who need it to drive business velocity is stifling innovation ,” said Delphix CEO Chris Cook. “Delphix provides the speed and security enterprises need to keep pace with the demands of today’s data-driven economy. The growth and expansion of our customers’ success underscore how fundamentally invaluable Delphix is for enterprises navigating mission-critical digital transformation initiatives.”

    The cycle of modern application development and innovation is only getting faster and more complex. The majority of organizations are quickly recognizing the dire need for a new
    paradigm. Enter: DataOps, the alignment of people, process and technology to enable more agile and automated approaches to data management. Both Gartner and 451 Research recently
    called DataOps an emerging top solution for enabling data transformation and allowing companies to innovate at the speed necessary to stay competitive.

    The Industry’s Secret Weapon
    Delphix customers include category leaders across industries—from retail to finance and healthcare. At the end of 2018, Delphix saw a significant boost in new customers with over $500K in revenue (a 21 percent increase from the previous year) and $1 million in revenue (a 28 percent increase from the previous year). Delphix customers represent the most successful, cutting-edge companies in the world including:
    ● One-third of companies in the Fortune 50;
    ● Four of the top five banks;
    ● Two of the top five telecommunications companies;
    ● Two of the top five retailers.

    Delphix customers have significantly expanded usage of the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform over the past year. Since 2018, weekly active users have increased by nearly 50% and the
    number of data sources on the platform has risen by 100%. In April of 2019 alone, Delphix’s customers deployed 50,000 Data Pods to speed up application releases. Today Delphix
    currently powers 14,000 TB of data for companies—nearly 1000 times the size of all data stored in the United States Library of Congress. “No matter what industry you work in, access to fresh, secure data is the only way to keep up with the demands of today’s digital economy,” said Glenn Di Biasi, the CIO of NYU’s Stern School of Business. “Solutions like Delphix empower teams to become more agile without sacrificing security and privacy compliance. Fast moving, secure data allows you to keep pace with the speed of innovation, deliver value to your customers, and stay competitive in the last mile of digital transformation.”
    “The extent to which companies are able to transform digitally to respond to changing customer demands and competitive threats will define their ability to survive and thrive,” said Matt Aslett,
    Research VP, 451 Research. “Data is the fuel of intelligence-driven digital transformation and Delphix has demonstrated that it can help enterprises accelerate application development as
    well as manage data security regulations to provide them with the potential to lead in their respective markets.”

    Attracting Top Tier Executive Talent
    Delphix has taken its leadership to the next level with the addition of top talent to the company’s executive team and board. This includes the recent appointments of Monika Saha as Chief
    Marketing Officer and technology veterans Betsy Atkins, Penny Herscher, Dan Rogers, and Liz Tinkham as board members and advisors. Most recently, Lisa Dallmer joined Delphix in April as the company’s new SVP of Business Operations. Dallmer is a seasoned, customer-centric growth expert, with nearly 20 years of experience managing operations and business strategies for multimillion-dollar enterprises. Most recently, Dallmer served as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of BlackRock’s Global Technology and Operations Group. Prior to BlackRock, Dallmer was the COO and EVP of NYSE Euronext in Paris, a division of the New York Stock Exchange, where she was responsible for all aspects of the commercial operating model and technology services delivery.

    Premier Partner Validation
    In the past six months alone, Delphix has received significant industry validation from partnerships with global leaders. This includes Capgemini, Accenture, AWS, Microsoft Azure, SAP and more. This widespread industry buy-in enhances Delphix’s ability to help customers modernize their data infrastructure in the cloud, on-prem, and in hybrid environments. Integrations with other leading solutions allow Delphix to deliver the speed, agility and predictability needed to accelerate application development and embrace DataOps practices. The Delphix Dynamic Platform has now been extended to support all major data sources including AWS, Microsoft Azure and other hybrid cloud environments.

    For more information on Delphix’s partner program, please visit: Delphix.com/Partners .

    About Delphix
    Delphix’s mission is to free companies from data friction and accelerate innovation. Fortune
    100 companies use the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform to connect, virtualize, secure and
    manage data in the cloud and in on-premise environments. For more information, visit
    www.delphix.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

  • Instana Releases Automatic Application Monitoring Agent Operator for Red Hat OpenShift

    New Operator Provides Deployment Flexibility for Instana’s Full-Stack Kubernetes Application Performance Monitoring Solution

    Boston at the Red Hat Summit – May 8, 2019 – Instana, the leader in Automatic Application Monitoring solutions for containerized applications, is making it easier for DevOps teams to manage orchestrated applications with its first release of agent technology as an Instana Agent Operator and has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification. This new deployment option offers deployment flexibility to users, who can also run the agent as its own container, host process or microservice.

    “The Instana Operator makes it easier and more efficient for companies to deploy and operate their microservice applications,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “Instana’s ability to deploy monitoring agents as Operators on Red Hat OpenShift allows DevOps teams to leverage Instana’s ability to automate monitoring configuration and application root cause analysis on top of OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform.”

    Instana’s Automatic APM solution for microservices is the only automated application monitoring solution that provides full-stack visibility automatically and collects end-to-end traces of every user request. The solution not only recognizes the presence of containers and orchestration, it has automatically deployed monitoring sensors for those infrastructure components.

    Unlike conventional monitoring solutions, Instana’s automatic APM solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack and traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    “Kubernetes Operators are appealing because they help encode the human operational logic normally required to manage services running on a Kubernetes-native application and aim to make day-to-day operations easier,” said Julio Tapia, director, Cloud Platforms Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat. “We are thrilled that the Instana Agent Operator is Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certified. By providing Operators on Red Hat OpenShift users can begin experiencing the next level of benefits from a Kubernetes-native infrastructure, with services designed to ‘just work’ across any cloud where Kubernetes runs.”

    Instana’s microservice monitoring capabilities include deep visibility into almost a dozen different languages and over 100 different microservice application infrastructure technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, NGINX, AWS and many more. Monitoring for each technology component includes correlated application level visibility, as well as information tied to each individual request in traces.

    The correlated monitoring of applications and infrastructure extends to the OpenShift Kubernetes distribution, providing automated visibility into mission critical applications, their dependencies and their performance.

    Instana will be demonstrating its APM solution for OpenShift Applications at Red Hat Summit in Boston (Booth 310) – as the second stop on Instana’s annual Kubernetes Roadshow. Learn more about the company’s automatic APM and Application Infrastructure monitoring solution by visiting www.instana.com.

    Red Hat and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries.

    ABOUT INSTANA

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

  • Sumo Logic Completes $110 Million Funding Round to Further Fuel Growth and Expansion

    Battery Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Franklin Templeton Sign on to Back Sumo Logic’s Industry Leading Continuous Intelligence Platform

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 8, 2019 – Sumo Logic, the leading cloud-native, machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence, today announced a $110 million funding round led by Battery Ventures, with contributions from new investors including Tiger Global Management and Franklin Templeton, as well as participation from existing investors.  With a current valuation over $1 billion, a record FY19 achievement of more than $100 million in revenue, and over 2,000 customers worldwide leveraging its service, Sumo Logic is firmly positioned as the SaaS machine data analytics leader of choice for the cloud era.

    “Sumo Logic’s growth is driven by the shift to digital business and cloud adoption across all industries and companies of all sizes,” said Ramin Sayar, president and CEO, Sumo Logic. “We have proven that we are the platform of choice for not only cloud-native companies, but also enterprise companies and their cloud migration initiatives. It’s great to have such a powerful set of leading investors and ecosystem partners as we accelerate our category leadership.”

    This $110 million in funding brings total funding to date to $345 million. The investments will continue to fuel Sumo Logic’s business – spanning engineering, sales, and global operations – with an emphasis on extending the platform analytics capabilities of its service to further address the operational, security and business requirements of modern businesses as they rapidly adopt new multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure, architecture, tools, and processes.

    “We have been tracking the Sumo Logic team for some time, and admire the company’s early understanding of the massive cloud-native opportunity and the rise of new, modern application architectures,” said Dharmesh Thakker, general partner, Battery Ventures. “The company’s fast-growing business dovetails with Battery’s larger thesis on “OpenCloud”—open-source and cloud-native technologies working with, not against, new cloud distribution models—and we are thrilled to partner with the team to capture the significant opportunity ahead.”

    “We are excited to join Sumo Logic at this important moment in the industry-wide transition to cloud computing,” said Jonathan Curtis, Vice President, Franklin Templeton. “As the only cloud-native DevSecOps platform built to address the challenges of digital businesses, we believe Sumo Logic is well positioned to capture a significant share of its market.”

    Since the last funding round in June 2017, Sumo Logic’s business has scaled significantly as a result of its focused multi-year growth strategy including:

    Rapid revenue growth and customer acquisition – The company increased its customer count to over 2,000 globally, representing every major vertical and company size, from born-in-the-cloud leaders like Airbnb, Pinterest, The Pokemon Co. International, Samsung SmartThings, and Zuora, to digital transformation enterprises such as ABinBev, Adobe, Alaska Airlines, BBC, Genesys, Hearst Media, Infor, Levi’s, Marriott, Pitney Bowes and USA TODAY NETWORK.

    Platform innovation and company expansion – The Sumo Logic service is among the most sophisticated multi-tenant, cloud-native, analytics platforms in the world. The company has continued to drive innovation of the platform to help meet the ever-changing needs of its customers. A few notable highlights:

    • Unveiled beta cloud SIEM solution to democratize security analytics across traditional IT and new cloud models including DevSecOps
    • Introduced a new category of analytics insights with Global Intelligence Service, designed to extend machine learning and benchmarking data to new teams and use cases across the enterprise
    • Differentiated platform enhancements to better monitor and troubleshoot distributed microservices-based architectures such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS to drive better customer experiences
    • Scaled number of employees to more than 500 and expanded global footprint in Europe, Japan and across Asia-Pacific (APAC) to meet the growing demand for cloud-native machine data analytics

    Addition of key executive leadership – In the past 12 months, Sumo Logic has welcomed a number of new leaders to the team. These include the company’s first independent board members Randy Gottfried, Chuck Robel and Barracuda CEO BJ Jenkins. In addition, Sumo Logic added Sydney Carey as chief financial officer, and Kiki Haar as general counsel, among others.

    Industry recognition – Sumo Logic continues to garner significant industry recognition including: 2019 Best Workplaces in Technology by Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE, Forbes Cloud 100 List, JMP Securities’ 2018 Hot 100 List, Wealthfront 2019 Career Launching Company, CRN 20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendor and Business Analytics Company and more.

    Additional Resources

    • Attend Illuminate 2019, Sumo Logic’s User Conference September 11-12. The event is expected to attract 1,000 experts who build, run and secure modern applications and cloud infrastructure
    • Sign up for a free trial of Sumo Logic

    About Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. Nearly 2,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic for the analytics and insights to build, run and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. With Sumo Logic, customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.

    Founded in 2010, Sumo Logic is a privately held company based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, DFJ, Franklin Templeton, Greylock Partners, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tiger Global Management. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com

     

  • Tricentis Adds New Capability for Accelerating Digital Transformation with SAP Applications

    Tricentis signs agreement to acquire IntelliCorp LiveCompare: Smart DevOps software for SAP applications

    Mountain View Calif., May 8, 2019 – Tricentis, #1 in SAP application testing, today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire IntelliCorp LiveCompare. IntelliCorp’s LiveCompare provides a deep analysis of an organization’s “as-is” and “to-be” SAP application environments—identifying the differences that impact business processes, system integrations, custom code, security and governance, and end users.  LiveCompare is used by 100+ of the world’s leading companies to upgrade SAP applications 85% faster and 30X cheaper.

    “Adopting the latest generation of SAP applications is essential for driving digital transformation initiatives—but it’s only the start,” explained Tricentis Founder and Chief Product Officer Wolfgang Platz. “Projects like SAP S/4HANA migrations are a critical component of a broader digital transformation. They enable a more rapid and continuous innovation cycle. Yet, to truly take advantage of these new platforms for innovation, enterprises need to eliminate the delays associated with deploying changes or upgrades to SAP applications.”

    IntelliCorp CTO Chris Trueman continued, “Traditionally, SAP customers relied on time-consuming, error-prone manual tasks from development, testing, and operations to update their SAP applications. They were already struggling to keep up when SAP upgrades were an annual occurrence,  and now that pace is accelerating dramatically. LiveCompare helps enterprises get their SAP updates up and running as fast as possible—so they can focus on taking advantage of new capabilities. We offer fast, automated insight into exactly what changed and how to accommodate those changes. This helps teams deploy SAP projects 85% faster.”

    Over 100 leading companies worldwide rely on LiveCompare to accelerate SAP application updates while reducing cost and risk. Here is a sampling of customer testimonials (the complete case studies and additional success stories are available on the IntelliCorp site):

    “LiveCompare ensures we’re testing the right things and spending resources in the right places. When developing a regression test plan, the data received from LiveCompare allows us to more accurately tailor each plan to an individual release. Instead of testing everything we test only what’s impacted. That has translated into a direct resource savings of 30-40%.”

    – Ray Berry, Application Development Lead for the SAP platform at The Coca-Cola Company

    “Bentley was able to quickly and automatically obtain essential SAP system information to speed up the upgrade project, when it would have taken months of manually scrutinizing the environment to understand its configuration, custom code and data.”

    –Andy Millward, Business Analyst at Bentley

    “LiveCompare enabled us to drill down and see specific differences in SAP code that would have a significant impact on our environment. An in-depth understanding of our master data and how to manage it let us know what we were dealing with, so we didn’t need to test certain things, while we were quick to identify what did need to be reviewed.”

    – Kevin J. Caldecott, Senior Manager of SAP IT at Bentley Motors

    “The benefits of LiveCompare reach far beyond just support packs. We also use LiveCompare for enhancement packs and version upgrades. LiveCompare has enabled us to adopt a proactive attitude to SAP change. Using LiveCompare, we can be confident that custom change introduced to our production systems will not have any negative impact.

    – Frank Schmitz, Senior Manager, SAP Infrastructure at Kimberly-Clark Australia

    “With the help of IntelliCorp’s LiveCompare, we were able to estimate the scope of the project more accurately and without taking risks. We decided to do it ourselves with the help of LiveCompare, and we finished it all in two months, needing only five external consultants. With these five consultants we managed to execute the whole project because LiveCompare reduced the effort by telling us exactly where impacts would be. We reduced project consulting costs by 82%.”

    – Ricardo Calderon, Director of SAP at Sky

    “IntelliCorp’s applications are great tools to conduct a fully automated SAP analysis to support technical and functional upgrades, support pack installations and system synchronizations…

    If we didn’t have LiveCompare, we’d have to write an ABAP program to try and capture all that it can, and that would take extensive time and dollars…IntelliCorp software is flexible, well designed, and reduces the costs and risks associated with many SAP lifecycle events.”

    – Art Murray, Information Services Quality Assurance Team at The Hershey Company

    About IntelliCorp

    IntelliCorp is an international company with primary offices in San Jose, California, and Bristol, United Kingdom. IntelliCorp’s smart DevOps software for SAP applications is used by the world’s leading companies to help them turn ideas into working software, 30X cheaper, 85% faster and with zero defects.

    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.

     

     

     

     

  • Cloudbees AWS Quick Start Solution Slashes Continuous Delivery Deployment Time And Cloud Computing Costs

    CloudBees Core Integration with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Offers Developers and DevOps Teams Productivity Improvements

    AWS SUMMIT LONDON – May 8, 2019 – CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced at the AWS Summit in London the availability of the CloudBees AWS Quick Start solution comprised of CloudBees Core™ and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Spot Instances. Tighter integrations between CloudBees and AWS will enable customers to deploy CloudBees Core in an AWS environment in a matter of minutes and cut cloud consumption costs up to 90 percent by leveraging Spot Instances.

    CloudBees Core is a cloud native, continuous delivery (CD) solution that can be hosted on-premise or in the cloud. It provides a shared, centrally managed, self-service experience for development teams. Leveraging AWS best practices for security and high availability, the CloudBees Core AWS Quick Start solution simplifies deployment to the cloud by reducing hundreds of manual processes to just a few steps.

    “Enterprises that find ways to reduce friction in their CD processes gain a huge competitive edge in the marketplace,” said Jason Mero, vice president of business development and technical alliances, CloudBees. “Using the CloudBees AWS Quick Start solution, they can launch CD pipelines in the cloud more quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before.”

     

    “We are pleased to add the CloudBees Core AWS Quick Start solution to our program,” said Joshua Burgin, general manager, Compute Services, AWS. “Continuous delivery workloads are tailor-made for containers and for EC2 Spot, our innovative discount pricing option. CloudBees Core meets the needs of enterprises looking to develop mission-critical software by using Kubernetes and Spot to provide a scalable, cost-effective way to deploy these workloads in the cloud.”

    Amazon EC2 Spot Instances offer spare compute capacity available in the AWS cloud at steep discounts compared to On-Demand Instances. They enable CloudBees Core customers to optimize costs on the AWS cloud and scale CD throughput up to 10X for the same budget. The CloudBees Core Quick Start for AWS is the first CD solution to integrate with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances using new AWS features such as multi-instance auto scaling groups, combined with a Kubernetes-specific architectural style. It can be used for trial purposes or for longer-term production use cases.Additional Resources

    Visit us at Booth G28 at the AWS Summit in London, May 8th

    Visit the CloudBees website to learn more

    Download the datasheet

    Try the CloudBees Core Quick Start for AWS solution

    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 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.