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  • Hazelcast Simplifies Streaming for Extremely Fast Event Processing in IoT, Edge and Cloud Environments

    Hazelcast Jet is a lightweight, scalable, real-time streaming engine for continuous intelligence applications

    Palo Alto, Calif., April 16, 2019 – Hazelcast, the leading in-memory computing platform company, today announced the general availability of Hazelcast Jet, the only streaming engine with no external system dependencies. The result is the industry’s fastest stream processing engine that dramatically simplifies implementation from the smallest to largest deployments.

    Whether deployed in constrained environments, such as IoT sensors, or cloud-scale applications, Hazelcast Jet ingests, categorizes and processes vast amounts of data with ultra-low latency to support continuous intelligence practices.

    “SigmaStream specializes in high-frequency data and works with some of the world’s largest companies that operate in the most constrained environments. By integrating Hazelcast Jet’s high-performance streaming engine with our Hummingbird visualization and processing platform, we process high-frequency data from dozens of channels and address inefficiencies in real-time,” said Hari Koduru, CEO of SigmaStream. “The performance and optimization at such a fine level enable SigmaStream’s customers to shrink the time spent on a project, ultimately saving them millions of dollars.”

    Single System Design

    Normally, deploying other streaming engines requires enterprises to invest the time and endure the complexity of integrating multiple components from different sources. For example, a Flink implementation would necessitate integrating a combination of Kafka, ZooKeeper, RocksDB, Hadoop File System and resource managers to ingest, categorize and process data.

    Hazelcast Jet significantly simplifies deployment because it is a single, lightweight system that elegantly addresses a complex set of architectural requirements. Hazelcast Jet’s unique single-system design enables rapid time-to-value, eliminates costs and complexity associated with multi-component architectures, and reduces the need for multiple skill sets.

    Industry’s Fastest Streaming

    Internal benchmarks demonstrate Hazelcast Jet’s ability to maintain millisecond speeds at extreme scale, where other open source-based projects drop into the seconds. Hazelcast Jet maintains its ultra-low latency, regardless of scale, due to a distributed architecture and in-memory processing.

    “Hazelcast has once again delivered a powerful leap forward for the industry, this time by radically simplifying how stream event processing is implemented,” said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Hazelcast. “Time is money, and the ability to process data at the moment it is generated — wherever it is generated — produces measurable business benefits whether at a financial trading desk or edge-based sensors. When time matters, companies choose Hazelcast and now they have a compelling and flexible streaming solution for fast data processing in Hazelcast Jet.”

    Importantly, Hazelcast Jet delivers low-latency performance regardless of scale, whether running at the IoT edge in small-format hardware or as a massive cluster in data centers and clouds.

    Run Anywhere

    Hazelcast Jet’s architecture is simultaneously lightweight and highly scalable, allowing it to run wherever customers need high-performance stream processing. Its small file size and architecture provide numerous deployment options, including in Kubernetes microservices environments, private data centers, public clouds or embedded in applications.

    Furthering the deployment simplicity of Hazelcast Jet, it is Kubernetes-ready to support containerized workloads and validated to run in Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift cloud environments.

    Elastic and Resilient

    As workloads increase, Hazelcast Jet’s clustering model scales up and down without job interruption.

    Hazelcast Jet clusters can be taken offline without losing data and jobs can be upgraded without interrupting processing, a significant benefit for long-running continuous streaming applications. In the event of an outage, in-memory data replication provides a robust yet performant means of fault tolerance, with Hot Restart for fast recovery. The in-memory data can also be continuously persisted to disk for maintenance shutdowns or lights-out events.

    Machine Learning Modeling

    Whereas most streaming engines use batch processing to manage data, Hazelcast Jet is capable of processing the event upon ingestion. With real-time processing, Hazelcast Jet is a reliable solution for serving machine learning models that require the latest information to inform decisions.

    Furthermore, Hazelcast Jet integrates with TensorFlow to run real-time classification and prediction workloads at scale. Customers can choose whether they want to use the embedded, in-process Java runner or a remote TensorFlow Serving option.

    In-Memory Computing Platform

    Combining Hazelcast Jet with Hazelcast IMDG enables enterprises to deploy a high-performance and scalable in-memory computing platform that handles data in motion and at rest.

    Hazelcast uniquely presents customers with the ability to utilize a common architecture and skill sets to ingest and process streaming data, while also providing storage and computation of data, all at industry-leading low latency.

    Availability and Resources
    Hazelcast Jet 3.0 is available today for download.

    For more information on Hazelcast Jet 3.0, please visit these additional resources:

    About Hazelcast, Inc.
    Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Hazelcast is the leading in-memory computing platform company which addresses the growing demand for enhanced application performance, data processing speed and scalability.

    Hazelcast’s in-memory computing platform is comprised of two core products: Hazelcast IMDG and Jet. Hazelcast IMDG is an in-memory data grid proven to provide the performance at scale required by the world’s largest organizations. Hazelcast Jet is an ultra-fast, application embeddable, stream and batch processing engine capable of supporting real-time streaming data. The company also offers Hazelcast Cloud, a fully managed, low latency data layer for cloud-based workloads at any scale.

    Hazelcast’s customers include six of the world’s 10 largest banks and 36 of the Fortune Global 500; its technology is deployed at nearly every major credit card company, five of the world’s largest e-commerce companies and four of the largest telecommunications companies.

    For more information, visit hazelcast.com or follow us on Twitter @Hazelcast.

     

  • Exadel Provides Cloud, DevOps and QA Automation Capabilities to Accelerate Digital Transformation in the Enterprise

    Cloud, DevOps and QA Automation services allow enterprise clients to stay ahead of increasing demands from customers and the business

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., April 16, 2019 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global leader in digital software engineering solutions, today announced new updates to its Digital Transformation Practice (DTP). The Exadel Digital Transformation Practice brings together expertise in modern application design and development (ADD) and now includes cloud-first and cloud-hybrid design, microservices architecture support, and DevOps and QA Automation services.

    From decades of experience working with clients on software development projects, Exadel has developed a packaged solution focused on addressing modern technologies associated with successful digital transformation initiatives. This solution includes best practices around building a Kubernetes-based model for application development complete with automated deployments using the popular open source infrastructure-as-code software tool, Terraform, and baked-in best practices for QA automation and microservices development.  Because it uses Terraform, the solution can be deployed to multiple cloud providers – it currently supports AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

    It is available as a one-size-fits-all solution including:

    1. Firewall – using Bastion as a secure layer between the public internet and Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
    2. DMZ – public subnet protecting internal resources
    3. Kubernetes-based App Infrastructure – deploy Kubernetes and container infrastructure including auto-scaling
    4. QA Automation Templates – containers hosting Selenium and QA automation technology
    5. Microservice Development Template – templates for global application service and local application service discovery
    6. Data Service Connectors – separate subnet for hosting data services for specific cloud providers

    Each of these components can also be separated out and deployed independently to accelerate a more traditional DevOps engagement.

    “We are excited to expand our Digital Transformation capabilities to better support our enterprise clients and their digital transformation journeys,” said Jonathan Fries, VP Engineering and Digital Transformation at Exadel. “Software engineering trends like cloud migration, decoupling legacy architecture, DevOps tools and practices, and QA Automation must be considered for any organization undergoing a digital transformation. Through more than 20 years of experience, Exadel is able to provide clients a packaged solution aimed at solving their toughest software engineering challenges. We understand that every organization is unique and can custom-fit our services to align with each client’s goals and needs.”

    Learn more about Exadel’s DTP capabilities and clients: https://exadel.com/services/digital-transformation/

    Tweet this: .@exadel announces #DevOps, #Cloud, #Microservices and #QA capabilities to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise

    About Exadel

    For more than 20 years, Exadel has been developing enterprise and custom software solutions for Fortune 500 clients, including AT&T, Samsung, Bank of America, eBay, and GE. With 18 locations and delivery centers across the US and Eastern Europe, Exadel solves the most complex software engineering problems, offering a scalable and skilled mix of onshore and offshore resources at the industry’s most competitive price. Our Digital Software Engineering Solutions (DSES) help chart new digital strategies that are built upon creative thinking, cutting-edge design, and technical innovation. DSES embraces the strengths of diverse global software engineering talent to create and implement strategic, cost-effective services for the new epoch of connected technology.

     

  • CHAOSSEARCH Launches Industry-First Search and Analytics Platform for Cloud Storage

    New patent-pending technology that unlocks cloud storage to rapidly search and analyze data within a company’s own Amazon S3 environment

    BOSTON, MA – April 16, 2019 – CHAOSSEARCH, Inc., creator of the first solution to make cloud storage searchable, today announced the general availability of their industry-leading search and analytics platform. Using scalable elasticity and disruptive cost economics, the CHAOSSEARCH platform gives customers the ability to store, search and query all the data they need within their own Amazon S3 environment.

    The CHAOSSEARCH platform delivers rapid search and analytics through a managed service, based on simple, elastic storage. As the data companies need to store grows exponentially, the current solutions and services available become more and more cost prohibitive and difficult to manage. The CHAOSSEARCH platform helps combat these challenges by eliminating the need to move or transform data into specific siloed databases via our patent pending Data Edge technology. Data Edge automates this process by fully indexing datasets with its built-in schema detection, normalization, and compression algorithms. Customers can dynamically and seamlessly combine storage with indexing for live and historical analysis.

    “Deriving insight from data is critical—for a company and its customers,” said Andrew Kenney, VP Engineering at Klaviyo. “As a data science platform for e-commerce brands, we work with thousands of customers globally. It’s critical that we have fast, reliable access to all of our logs and event telemetry to allow us to make decisions faster. CHAOSSEARCH is helping us improve the service we deliver.”

    The CHAOSSEARCH platform allows users to unlock their data and query it in a meaningful way. Key benefits include:

    • Fully-managed service based on your Amazon S3 storage
    • No data movement or external storage of your private data
    • Built-in data cataloging and organizing services for S3 management
    • One-click schema detection, normalization, and indexing at any scale
    • Data refinery console for advanced data transformations, no re-indexing
    • Elasticsearch compatible API with fully integrated Kibana visualization
    • Multi-tenancy and Account Management for optimized usage/capacity planning
    • Separation of storage from compute, enabling infinite data retention at any scale

    “The cloud has unleashed incredible complexity to data search, analytics, and management, causing organizations to face an ongoing tradeoff between storing the data they need and the astronomical costs associated with it,” said Thomas Hazel, founder and CTO at CHAOSSEARCH. “We’ve taken a new approach that enables organizations to dramatically increase data scale while, at the same time, dramatically reducing infrastructure and operational costs of text search and relational analytics.”

    “One of the most valuable and strategic assets an organization has is its data,” said Mike Leone, senior analyst at ESG. “However, the investment required to store, manage and access data quickly carries significant upfront infrastructure and ongoing operational costs that often limits the data an organization can analyze for potential insight. CHAOSSEARCH offers a new approach to analytics and business intelligence with a disruptive model that lets customers make use of all of their data for better, faster insights.”

    To learn more about how the CHAOSSEARCH platform and its industry-first storage, search and query capabilities can transform your cloud storage, contact us today.

    About CHAOSSEARCH

    CHAOSSEARCH  is the creator of the first solution to make cloud storage searchable. The platform enables organizations to store, search, query and visualize terabytes of data within their own Amazon S3 infrastructure with disruptive cost economics. CHAOSSEARCH gives customers a multi-tenant, service-model designed to accelerate innovation and drive business growth.Founded in 2017, CHAOSSEARCH is a privately held, Boston, MA, company backed by .406 Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, and Stage 1 Ventures. For more information, visit us at CHAOSSEARCH.io or follow us @CHAOSSEARCH.

     

     

  • DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 Adds Next Round of Business and Technology Leaders to Speak at Three-Day Conference in June

    IT Revolution announces new speakers from Adidas, American Airlines, Auto Trader, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, ING, Lloyds Banking Group, KeyBank, and more to help large, complex organizations implement DevOps and IT transformation practices
    PORTLAND, Ore., April 16, 2019 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the third round of speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 (https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/speakers/). From 25-27 June, technology practitioners, business leaders, and subject domain experts from across the world will convene at the InterContinental London – The O2 for three full days of immersive learning about IT and DevOps transformation patterns and practices.

    Registration is expected to sell out early. To attend DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019, visit: (http://bit.ly/DOES19EUR).

    “The program for DevOps Enterprise Summit London is nearly complete with the addition of these amazing speakers who are showing how technology and business leaders are working together to win in the marketplace,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. “We continue to strive to make this event the best DevOps Enterprise Summit ever. I’m thrilled with the quality of the content being shared at the event, on track to hosting representatives from more than 500 organizations across the globe who share a common goal.”

    The third round of speakers announced for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 are:

    • Saki Arkoudopoulos, Portfolio Manager, Cyber Security, NXP Semiconductors
    • Helen Beal, DevOpsologist, Ranger4
    • Jan-Joost Bouwman, Risk Manager, ING
    • Fernando Cornago, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Adidas
    • Neil Crawford, Head of Technology, Findmypast
    • Dr. Holly Cummins, Worldwide Development Leader, IBM Cloud Storage
    • Carmen DeArdo, Senior Strategist VSM Consulting, TaskTop
    • Jonas Elmqvist, Unit Manager, Swedish Migration Agency
    • Daniel Franzen, Architect, Swedish Migration Agency
    • Fin Goulding, Co-Founder & CIO, Flow Academy
    • Benjamin Grimm, Senior Director – .COM, Adidas
    • Rasmus Hald, Head of Cloud Center of Excellence, Maersk
    • Mark Howell, DevOps Centre of Excellence Lead, Engineering Transformation, Lloyds Banking Group
    • Leon Janson, Manager Risk & Control, ING
    • Phillip Knezevich, Senior Manager Architecture/Infrastructure, American Airlines
    • Duncan Lawie, Infrastructure Enterprise Architect, Credit Suisse
    • Chris McFee, SVP Enterprise DevOps, KeyBank
    • Mick Miller, Director – Enterprise Monitoring and Feedback, KeyBank
    • Carl Molyneux, Lead Application Management Engineer, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
    • Paul Shepheard, Head of Delivery Platforms & Services, Deutsche Bank
    • Matty Stratton, DevOps Advocate, PagerDuty
    • Russell Warman, Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Auto Trader
    • Dave Whyte, Operations Squad Lead, Auto Trader

     

    Attendees will experience the unfolding documentary of the ongoing transformations that these leaders are helping drive in large, complex organizations. In addition, the programming for DevOps Enterprise Summit focuses on identifying patterns and practices for:

    • Spanning the Business and Technology Divide
    • Next Generation Operations and Infrastructure
    • Overcoming Old Ways Of Working (e.g. Infosec, Compliance, ITIL, Project Management, Audit)
    • Dynamic Learning Organizations
    • Leadership Lessons, Transformational Leadership, Recognition, and Human Resources

    For more information about DOES19 London, please visit: (https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/).

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    About IT Revolution
    IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of technology professionals.

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  • SmartBear Further Strengthens Leadership Position by Bringing New Test Automation Capabilities to the Atlassian Ecosystem

    SmartBear Announces New Product Integrations and Functionality to Streamline Development by Bringing Together the Power of Test Automation and Test Management with Native Jira Experience

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. — April 10, 2019 — SmartBear, the innovator behind the industry’s highest impact tools to build, test, and monitor great software, announced four new product integrations between its test management solution, Zephyr, and its leading test automation tools, SoapUI Pro, TestComplete, CrossBrowserTesting, and LoadNinja. The recent acquisition of Zephyr, the world’s most widely used test management solution, represents the company’s initiative to unify test automation and test management with a native Jira Solution. Recently, SmartBear was named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation1.

    SmartBear is continuing the Zephyr team’s commitment to the Atlassian ecosystem with a focus on integrating the entire SmartBear portfolio with the Atlassian tool stack, including commonly used tools like Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence. As software teams increasingly adopt Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian products into their everyday workflow, SmartBear is leading the charge in extending the functionality of Atlassian tools into the test automation space.

    SmartBear recognizes that for many teams, Jira has become the central place for work. By leveraging Zephyr and creating new integrations, SmartBear provides Atlassian users with a native Jira experience for all their development activities from defining a user story, implementing the user story, writing tests for that user story, identifying a bug, managing defects, resolving an issue, and continuing with development and testing activities through operations and production. These new integrations complement those workflows by enabling integration of functional and performance test automation efforts across UI, API, and data layers, as well as across a range of mobile devices and browsers.

    “We are excited to be following our acquisition of Zephyr so quickly to help Jira users extend their workflows,” said Justin Teague, CEO of SmartBear. “With these new integrations, SmartBear continues to lead the way in software development and testing by being the first to provide a completely integrated test automation solution—extending the native Jira experience in Zephyr. This continues to highlight our belief in the Atlassian ecosystem and commitment to those 130,000 customers.”

    SmartBear has also expanded its Behavior Driven Development (BDD) capabilities with the introduction of a new Living Documentation Jira plug-in, enabling all team members to collaborate through discussion, comments, and review of feature files by publishing test results and documentation from an existing source control and CI environment directly into Jira.

    SmartBear is attending the Atlassian Summit as a Diamond sponsor on Monday, April 8 – Thursday, April 11, 2019 in Las Vegas—demonstrating these new product features and more. SmartBear has their top executives present to meet with customers and gather direct feedback. For more information about the new product integrations by SmartBear, check out: www.getzephyr.com

    [1] Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation, by Joachim Herschmann, Thomas E. Murphy, Jim Scheibmeir, November 27, 2018.

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    About SmartBear Software

    SmartBear is behind the software that empowers developers, testers, and operations engineers at over 20,000 of the world’s most innovative organizations including Adobe, JetBlue, MasterCard, and Microsoft. More than 6 million people use our tools to build, test, and monitor great software, faster. Our high-impact tools are easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to use. These tools are backed by a team of people passionate about helping you create software that transforms our world. Those tools are SmartBear tools. That team is SmartBear. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

  • Cequence Security Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) To Collaborate On Projects That Will Strengthen Application Security

    Cequence’s container-based, microservices application security architecture leverages open source technologies supported by CNCF members worldwide

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 9, 2019 — Cequence Security, a provider of innovative application security solutions for today’s hyper-connected enterprises, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF is a global, vendor-neutral organization with a clear mission: make cloud native computing ubiquitous by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of open source, vendor-neutral projects that contribute toward that goal.

    “Moving to cloud-native and particularly the continuous integration and continuous development that goes along with that is the most important process that you can do to help secure your infrastructure,” explained Dan Kohn, Executive Director at CNCF. “The technology developed by Cequence Security aligns perfectly with this process and we welcome them as CNCF’s newest members.”

    Cequence Security provides today’s hyper-connected organizations with a cloud-native, container-based software platform that enables its patented, AI-based security to be “baked in” to the web, mobile, and API application services that customers rely on to connect customers, partners, and suppliers.  Its award-winning CQ botDefense is one example of a cloud-native security application that can be rapidly deployed in multiple private and public clouds, as well as on-premises data centers. CQ botDefense solution runs on the Cequence Application Security Platform and features an unmatched ability to automatically detect and defend against malicious bot attacks, including account takeover, business logic abuse, financial fraud, application DDoS, denial of inventory and other potentially catastrophic business disruptors.

    “We’re seeing most large organizations transitioning very quickly from legacy monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures where these apps run as container-based microservices,” said Shreyans Mehta, CTO of Cequence Security. “We’ve developed an application security architecture specifically for this cloud-native environment.  And we joined CNCF so that we can collaborate with other members that share our vision.  We seamlessly integrate our application security capabilities with Kubernetes and Envoy to help ease the transition for customers adopting these cloud-native architectures.”

    About Cequence Security

    Cequence Security delivers an award-winning, game-changing application security platform for today’s hyper-connected organizations that rely on web, mobile, and API application services to support business processes and enable customer engagements. The platform leverages an AI-powered analytics engine to consolidate multiple functions that strengthen the security posture of these organizations against a broad range of application attacks. The automation within the analytics engine also improves the productivity and efficiency of IT resources. Cequence’s management team includes Larry Link, CEO, Ameya Talwalkar, CPO and Shreyans Mehta, CTO. Larry led the worldwide sales team for Palo Alto Networks from 2007 to 2012. Ameya and Shreyans led the development of Symantec’s anti-malware platform. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. Learn more at www.cequence.ai.

     

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  • Announcing General Availability of NGINX Plus R18

    Simplify configuration workflows for DevOps and enhance the security and reliability of your applications at scale

    San Francisco, CA – April 9, 2018 – NGINX, Inc., the company based on the popular open source project and offering a suite of technologies designed to develop and deliver modern applications, today announced general availability of NGINX Plus R18. NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, proxy, API gateway and Kubernetes Ingress Controller. This versatility enables you to simplify your architecture for delivering both traditional applications and new ones based on microservices.

    NGINX’s flexibility, portability and seamless integration with CI/CD automation tools help accelerate enterprise adoption of DevOps. NGINX Plus R18 advances this objective by simplifying configuration workflows and enhancing the security and reliability of your applications.

    New capabilities introduced in R18 include:

    • Simplifying configuration workflows:

    ○ Dynamic certificate loading: NGINX Plus introduces lazy loading of TLS certificates. With lazy loading, TLS certificates are only loaded into memory when a request is made for a matching hostname. This simplifies the NGINX Plus configuration and reduces its size as multiple certificates can be handled within a single server block. Furthermore, you can save time and effort by automating the upload of certificates and private keys into the key-value store using the NGINX Plus API. This is especially ideal for deployments with large numbers of certificates or when there are a high frequency of configuration reloads.

    ○ Support for port ranges for server configurations: With this release, users can specify port ranges rather than just specific ports. Port ranges can be specified for both HTTP and TCP/UDP applications (Stream module). This also allows NGINX Plus to act as a proxy for an FTP server in passive mode.

    ○ Simplified cluster management: NGINX Plus R15 introduced synchronization of runtime state across a cluster of NGINX Plus instances. This release enhances clustering by enabling a single configuration to be used for each member of the cluster. This is particularly suitable for dynamic environments such as auto-scaling groups or containerized clusters.

    ○ Modular code organization with the NGINX JavaScript module: The NGINX JavaScript module now supports the JavaScript import and export modules, enabling you to organize your JavaScript code into multiple function-specific files instead of a single file as before. This greatly improves readability and simplifies maintenance, particularly if multiple teams are contributing JavaScript code.

    • Enhanced Security: 

    ○ Minimizing exposure of certificates: When managing TLS/SSL certificates for secure sites and applications, users configure NGINX Plus to specify the certificate and associated private key as files on disk. With this release, NGINX Plus loads certificates directly from the key-value store where they reside in memory. Keeping secrets off the filesystem makes it difficult for an attacker to obtain the private key for a server certificate.

    ○ Support for opaque session tokens: NGINX Plus supports OpenID Connect authentication and single sign-on for backend applications. With this release, NGINX Plus supports opaque session tokens issued by OpenID Connect. Opaque tokens contain no personally identifiable information about the user so that no sensitive information is stored at the client.

    • Improved Reliability: 

    ○ Enabling clients to reconnect upon failed health checks: NGINX Plus active health checks continually probes the health of upstream servers to ensure traffic does not get forwarded to servers that are offline. With this release, existing client connections can be terminated when an active health check fails. This enables client applications to reconnect, at which point they are proxied to a healthy backend server, thereby improving the reliability of your applications.

    For an in-depth look at these features and to learn more about additional features in R18, please read our blog. To start your free trial of NGINX Plus R18 along with NGINX Controller, visit https://www.nginx.com/free-trial-request-nginx-controller.

    About NGINX, Inc. NGINX, Inc. is the company behind the popular open source project trusted by more than 450 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices-based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation. NGINX investors include: Blue Cloud Ventures, e.ventures, Index Ventures, Goldman Sachs, MSD Capital, NEA, Runa Capital, and Telstra Ventures.

    We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with our EMEA head office in Cork, Ireland and APAC head office in Singapore. Learn more at https://www.nginx.com/ or join the conversation by following @nginx on Twitter.

     

  • Bacula Announces Fully Integrated Backup and Recovery for Docker

    Delivers world’s first fully automated backup and recovery solution for containers

    April 9, 2019, Wilmington, DE – Increasing its leadership in high performance backup and recovery for enterprises and managed services providers, Bacula Systems today announced its Docker Container module, making it the first backup and recovery software vendor to offer fully automated, integrated and comprehensive backup of Docker. Aimed at easing the workloads of IT and DevOps departments using container technology based on Docker, SUSE CaaS or OpenShift, this is the first of a series of significant technology announcements Bacula Systems will make in the first half of 2019 regarding Containers, including Kubernetes, continuing its growing influential role in data backup and recovery.

    In a further disruptive move to ease adoption into agile, progressive IT environments, Bacula Systems also announced that the module would be made available free with its Bacula Enterprise Edition Bronze level subscriptions and above.

    “DevOps and other IT departments urgently need a complete, enterprise-grade backup and restore solution for Containers. Bacula is the first to market with its fully automated solution for Docker and it brings a variety of functions and features, all of which result in saved time, saved money, and more power to organizations already exploiting containers in their business”. More announcements providing a breadth of backup solutions in the orchestration of containers will be coming soon” said Frank Barker, CEO, Bacula Systems.

    “Today, Bacula is the only solution in the world that can back up the full container image including all the read only and writable layers into a single image archive in a fully automated fashion. It is even possible to back up defined Docker images only. Today’s announcement puts Bacula Enterprise firmly at the forefront of modern, highly scalable backup and recovery technology” said Reiner Jung, CTO of Mtier.

    “Bacula Enterprise Edition is already the most broadly compatible, scalable backup solution in the industry for virtual environments. Today’s announcement takes Bacula exceptional flexibility even further” said Aristide Caraccio, VP of Sales and Marketing for Bacula.
    Bacula Enterprise software is designed so that organizations can deploy this solution for their entire physical, virtual, Cloud and hybrid environments, regardless of architecture, all from a single platform.

    The main features of Bacula Docker Module are:
    • Backup and Recovery of Docker containers configuration, volumes and images
    • Fully integrated solution, adhering to Docker philosophy and methodology.
    • Complete automation for rapid roll-out of container protection strategies
    • Fully effective integration, using Docker API
    • Free of charge with Bronze Level Subscriptions and above
    • Image saving, image rollback and backup of image changes
    • Fine grained control over what containers and images to back up
    Bacula Systems customers include NASA, Texas A&M University, Swisscom, Sky and many more.

    About Bacula Systems:
    Bacula Enterprise Edition is a highly scalable backup and recovery software for large organizations, data centers and MSPs. http://www.baculasystems.com/

  • World’s Largest Quality and Business Assurance Company, Qualitest, Grows its Global Service Delivery Platform, Adding One-Third to Headcount

    London/India/Romania/Tel Aviv/New York (9 April 2019) – Qualitest, the world’s largest independent quality assurance company, is growing, fast. Having been named a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services for the fifth year in a row and expanded its customer base globally, the company has hit another inflection point in its growth and evolution.

    In the first quarter of 2019, Qualitest has opened a new $6 million office in Bucharest, Romania to support core clients within the gaming, technology and financial services sectors; doubled capacity at its Bangalore, India Technology Campus; and expanded its offices in Israel. These three large increases in company infrastructure will be the basecamp for expanding the global service delivery platform of the organization, tapping into the world’s best QA and software engineers in labor markets where tech talent is in abundance. In addition, Qualitest signed a new and expanded lease in its London base of operations.

    In total, Qualitest is recruiting for over 800 positions globally, an increase in headcount by 25% and a very deliberate step to accommodate for the growing demand for first class quality assurance and testing engineers around the world.

    “It’s an exciting time,” said Einav Lavi, SVP of Global People & Talent. “We are growing our teams in the heart of four separate tech hotbeds, giving our clients access to some of the best talent the world has to offer. As our expansion continues, we remain impressed with the high quality of candidates we can recruit to fuel our growth.”

    In September 2018, Qualitest brought on veteran CEO Norm Merritt to lead the company in this high growth period. “Companies are adopting agile and DevOps to take a more strategic approach to software development and quality engineering, with a priority on high velocity, high-quality deployments.  I’m proud of the central role we are playing at some of the world’s most innovative brands supporting their journey towards evolved testing.”

    Already working with hundreds of customers worldwide including Avaya, Microsoft, GiffGaff, Nobia and Playtika, Qualitest is aggressively pursuing several large-scale partnerships, with multiple announcements in the pipeline for 2019, specifically focused on improvements in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, and 5G.

    About Qualitest

    Qualitest is the world’s largest independent managed services provider of quality assurance and testing solutions.  As a strategic partner, Qualitest helps brands move beyond functional testing and Quality Assurance to adopt Quality Engineering practices, helping them introduce innovations such as automation, AI, and crowd-sourced UX testing.  Qualitest leverages domain expertise across industries, including financial services, media and entertainment, retail, consumer goods, technology, gaming, telecom, among others. Qualitest’s global service delivery platform includes the United States, Israel, UK, India and Romania. To learn more, visit www.qualitestgroup.com.

     

  • Finastra to launch FusionONE Hackathon with Microsoft Azure

    Teams will collaborate to innovate in first FusionFabric.cloud public hackathon

    London, UK, April 9, 2019, Finastra today announced the first public hackathon on its FusionFabric.cloud open development platform, underpinned by Microsoft Azure. The FusionONE Hackathon will take place over the weekend of May 17-19 in London. Teams from banks, Fintechs, integrators and independent developers are invited to join the event and create innovations grounded in Open Banking. Mentors from Microsoft, Accenture and VC INNOVATIONS (the company behind FinTECHTalents) will be on site to support the participating teams and will be part of the judging panel to select the winners.

    Teams will be granted access to Finastra’s Open APIs – providing a window to Finastra’s core solutions, and allowing them to build new capabilities on top of trusted systems already in use at hundreds of banks globally. Using FusionFabric.cloud’s rapid development environment and integrated API management tools, teams are invited to create new solutions in one of five challenges:

    • Engagement – apps for the next generation of financial services customers
    • Machine learning insights – apps to better serve customer needs
    • Data visualization – displaying results, recommendations and learning intuitively
    • Inclusion – building a more inclusive financial ecosystem for customers
    • Sustainable finance – promoting financial well-being

    Once fully tested, successful apps will be made available to banks through Finastra’s FusionStore – an online marketplace for banks to search for and consume applications.

    “The FusionONE Hackathon will encourage teams to collaborate and co-innovate in building the next generation of financial applications – with a particular focus on areas that will make a real difference to people’s lives, such as customer engagement, financial inclusion and sustainable finance,” said Eli Rosner, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Finastra. “Running the event over 48 hours reflects how a platform-based approach can accelerate innovation in financial services and allow banks to rapidly deliver new products and services that evolve in line with changing customer needs.”

    Eric Boyd, CVP, Azure AI, Microsoft, said, “With initiatives such as Open Banking and PSD2 spurring increased competition and innovation in financial services, this hackathon gives participating teams a fantastic opportunity to showcase their ideas and build prototypes. The use of APIs and cloud platforms is crucial in changing the way banks deploy new applications and engage with a new generation of developers that can help them innovate from the outside-in.”

    Gareth Wilson, global Payments lead for Accenture, said, “We are thrilled to be working with Finastra to bring together the industry and ensure technology is at the heart of change in financial services. Open Banking is still at the start of its revolution, and it’s vital we keep building an ecosystem of partners to transform the banking landscape for consumers. We are delighted to be supporting FusionONE and look forward to seeing the next generation of ideas come to life.”

    The FusionONE Hackathon is a pre-cursor to the FusionONE open API developer conference, May 21-22 in London – four of the best apps at the hackathon will then pitch live on stage at FusionONE for the crown.

    See further information about the #FusionONEhack or the FusionONE conference here.