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  • Unravel Data Introduces the Industry’s First AI-Powered Cloud Platform Operations and Workload Migration Solution for Data Applications

    Unravel Delivers New AI-powered and Unified Performance Optimization  for Planning, Migrating, and Managing Modern Data Applications on  AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platforms

    PALO ALTO, Calif.,—March 26, 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 a new portfolio of capabilities that help customers plan, migrate, and manage modern data applications running on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. This release leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics to baseline on-premises big data deployments and then determine which apps are the best candidates to move to the cloud based on customer defined criteria. Unravel can also help validate the success of a cloud migration and predict capacity based on the customers’ application workloads.

    “All indications point to a massive shift in data deployments to the cloud,” said Kunal Agarwal, CEO, Unravel Data. “But there are too many unknowns around cost, visibility and migration that have prevented this transition to the cloud from occurring more quickly. We’re excited to introduce the industry’s only full-stack, AI-powered solution for migrating and managing data apps in the cloud.”

    Public cloud providers have gained considerable momentum, driven in part by increasing data applications adoption. Organizations have found the cloud to be an ideal place to run modern data apps due to big data’s elastic resource requirements. Additionally, the scarcity of data talent has driven organizations to adopt managed cloud services. However, cloud-based data pipelines still suffer from complexity challenges and lack of visibility into cost and resource usage at the application and user level. Organizations have limited insight into which applications and data pipelines are best suited for the cloud and how to size cloud instance requirements. Furthermore, these enterprises usually have no guidance on how to properly configure apps and resources once they’re in the cloud, where applications can behave very differently.  In short, companies are migrating to the cloud with insufficient data to ensure performance service level agreements (SLAs) and cost targets are not placed at risk.

    Unravel has addressed these challenges with its latest release, delivering unprecedented visibility, insights, recommendations and automation for optimizing data workloads in the cloud. Unravel uses AI, machine learning and advanced analytics to determine the cloud infrastructure needs, the appropriate server instance sizes, and provide automated troubleshooting and auto-tuning of Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and SQL/NoSQL powered data pipelines running on cloud platforms.

    Unravel’s offering helps customers better migrate modern data pipelines to the cloud, establish and meet stringent SLAs for data apps in the cloud, and gain accounting and governance metrics for chargeback, capacity planning, and budget forecasting. Unravel’s Cloud Operations capabilities include:

    • Recommendations for the best apps to migrate – Unravel baselines on-premises performance of the full big data stack and uses AI to identify the best app candidates for migration to cloud. Organizations can avoid migrating apps that aren’t ideal for the cloud and having to repatriate them later.
    • Full stack  visibility – Unravel uses automation to provide detailed reports and metrics on app usage, performance, cost and chargebacks in the cloud.
    • Unified management of the full big data stack on all deployment platforms – Unravel Cloud Migration covers AWS, Azure and Google clouds, as well as on-premises, hybrid environments and multi-cloud settings. Customers get AI-powered troubleshooting, auto-tuning and automated remediation of failures and slowdowns with the same user interface.
    • Mapping on-premises infrastructure to cloud server instances – Unravel helps customers choose cloud instance types for their migration based on three strategies:
      • Lift and shift – A one-to-one mapping from physical servers to virtual servers, matching memory, storage and CPU/vCore footprints. This ensures that a  cloud deployment will have the same (or more) amount of resources available as a  current on-prem environment and minimizes any risks associated with migrating to the cloud.
      • Cost reduction – Provides the most cost-effective instance recommendations based on detailed dependency understanding for minimizing wasted capacity and overprovisioning.
      • Workload fit – Takes into account data collected over time from the on-premises environment, making recommendations for instance types based on the actual workload of applications running in a  data center. These recommendations will be based on the VCore, memory, and storage requirements of a customer’s typical runtime environment.
    • Cloud capacity planning and chargeback reporting – Unravel can predict cloud storage requirements up to six months out and can provide a detailed accounting of resource consumption and chargeback by user, department or other criteria.
    • Migration validation – Unravel can provide a before and after assessment of cloud applications by comparing on-premises performance and resource consumption to the same metrics in the cloud, thereby validating the relative success of the migration.

    Cloud services supported by the Unravel platform today include IaaS deployments on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform and PaaS services on Azure HDInsight and AWS EMR.  Supported services as part of Unravel’s early access program include AWS Redshift and AWS Athena.

    Unravel is available today for free trial on the Azure Marketplace and the AWS Marketplace.Share this:  https://ctt.ac/516HA

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  • Sauce Labs Secures $50 Million in New Funding to Accelerate Rapid Growth Trajectory

    Investment from Riverwood Capital enables continuous testing leader to drive strategic growth; fuels efforts to evolve portfolio beyond functional testing  

    SAN FRANCISCO – March 26, 2019 – Sauce Labs Inc., provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud, today announced that it has secured a $50 million growth investment from Riverwood Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Jeff Parks from Riverwood Capital will join the Sauce Labs Board of Directors.

    Already the industry leader with more than 2 million tests per day running on its award-winning Continuous Testing Cloud platform, Sauce Labs will leverage this investment to further accelerate core business growth and evolve its portfolio beyond functional testing, giving customers a 360-degree view of the application experience they deliver to users. The company plans to accelerate its investment in research and development, as well as aggressively pursue strategic growth opportunities.

    “As leading digital brands increasingly emphasize rapid delivery of flawless web and mobile applications, the global continuous testing market continues to grow and evolve,” said Charles Ramsey, CEO, Sauce Labs. “With this new round of funding from Riverwood, Sauce Labs is well positioned to continue its rapid growth. We look forward to expanding our solution set, delivering innovations that define the future of continuous testing, and accelerating our customers’ digital journeys.”

    The investment comes at a time when digital transformation is driving a massive shift to DevOps-oriented, agile development processes. According to IDC, the DevOps software market is forecast to reach $8 billion by 2022, with an approximate CAGR of 15.7 percent.[1] As organizations undergo this fundamental change to the way they build and deliver applications, continuous testing has emerged as the lynchpin of the modern software delivery lifecycle. According to Forrester, 68 percent of agile teams now include testers, and quality has become by far the most important success metric that dev teams use.[2]

    This broader market growth mirrors that of Sauce Labs, which surpassed the 2 billion test milestone and achieved record total annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2018, bolstered by a nearly 40 percent year-over-year increase, its fourth consecutive year of double-digit ARR growth. In 2018, Sauce Labs was named to the prestigious Inc. 5000, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and San Francisco Business Times’ Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies lists for the third, fourth and fifth consecutive years, respectively.

    “From day one, we were impressed by Sauce Labs’ history of market leadership, its commitment to engineering excellence, the passion of its employees and the loyalty of its customers,” said Jeff Parks, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Riverwood Capital. “We envision a day in the not-too-distant future in which every company in the world invests heavily in continuous testing, and we’re thrilled to partner with Charles and his world-class management team to help take Sauce Labs and its customers to new heights.”

    Helpful Links

    Sauce Labs Website

    SauceCon Website

    Sauce Labs Blog

    About Sauce Labs
    Sauce Labs ensures the world’s leading apps and websites work flawlessly on every browser, OS and device. Its award-winning Continuous Testing Cloud provides development and quality teams with instant access to the test coverage, scalability, and analytics they need to rapidly deliver a flawless digital experience. Sauce Labs is a privately held company funded by Toba Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Centerview Capital Technology, IVP, Adams Street Partners and Riverwood Capital. For more information, please visit https://saucelabs.com.

    About Riverwood Capital

    Riverwood Capital is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, middle-market companies in the technology, technology-enabled, and other related industries. Riverwood offers a unique combination of operational, strategic, technology, and financial insight to portfolio companies that typically need growth capital and expertise to scale globally. The firm invests in established businesses with dynamic management teams, a proven technology and business model, and the proper fit in terms of culture and values. Riverwood invests globally and participates in both minority and control deals. The firm has offices in Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Please visit www.riverwoodcapital.com.

     

     

  • SmartBear Automates Performance Testing in CI/CD Pipelines with New LoadNinja API, Extending Revolutionary Load Testing Approach

    For the First Time Ever, Agile and DevOps Teams Can Test Continuously Using Tens of Thousands of Real Browsers for Unprecedented Load Testing Accuracy

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Mar. 25, 2019 — SmartBear, the innovator behind the industry’s highest impact tools to build, test, and monitor great software, released a new REST API for LoadNinja, enabling software testers and developers to integrate performance testing into their continuous development and deployment workflows. With the addition of this API, teams cannot only playback recorded test scripts immediately without any modification and load test accurately using real browsers at scale, but now, they can automate their entire performance testing process, instilling confidence in the quality of every release.

    Performance is a business critical KPI. Now more than ever, organizations are critically aware of the consequences of poorly performing apps, from business losses to negative brand perception. Even though teams are eager to incorporate performance testing into their agile and DevOps workflows, outdated protocol-based load testing tools hinder their ability to move quickly, as testers and developers spend an inordinate amount of time correlating and programing test scripts.

    “This release marks an important milestone in our mission to transform how organizations load test modern applications, empowering teams to run load tests with real browsers and efficiently scale their performance testing processes,” said Anand Sundaram, VP of Products at SmartBear. “The LoadNinja API makes it easier than ever to integrate load testing into agile and DevOps workflows and to maximize test coverage without sacrificing time or quality.”

    The LoadNinja API is the tip of the iceberg in terms of capabilities that help teams rapidly load test web apps. Customers are realizing the benefits of the LoadNinja InstaPlay recorder, as reflected in their ability to create tests in a few minutes; a stark contrast to the hours and days it took to create these tests previously. LoadNinja gives users the ability to parameterize tests to support a variety of use cases to match an application’s needs, and together with the most realistic load generation, engineers and developers can use real browser-based performance data to pinpoint and debug issues in real time. Additionally, the reporting in LoadNinja supports performance baselining and comparison over time to provide insights into deviations that need to be corrected before the application goes live.

    For additional information on the LoadNinja platform and API, register for the webinar on Wednesday, March 27: https://loadninja.com/resources/webinars/accelerating-load-testing-with-automation-loadninj/

    Try LoadNinja for free: https://loadninja.com/free-trial/

    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.

  • Attivo Networks Powers up with Energy Impact Partners

    Utility-backed venture capital firm invests in company to secure energy operations and security infrastructure

    Fremont, CA – March 21, 2019 – Attivo Networks®, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, today announced that Energy Impact Partners(EIP), a leading utility-backed energy investment and innovation firm, has become a strategic investor in the company. The funding enables Attivo Networks to expand its portfolio of energy sector-specific deception technology and increase its go-to-market activities to broaden its customer base of utility companies around the world.

    “Operational technology environments present their own unique set of challenges associated with securing devices, which often cannot run anti-virus software, be patched, or are simply not designed to be interconnected,” said Tushar Kothari, Attivo Networks CEO. “Deception technology provides early detection and misdirection of in-network threat actors attempting to tamper with operational technology environments. Attackers will unknowingly attempt to compromise a decoy asset, providing the highest caliber alert backed by the adversary intelligence required to quickly isolate and remove the threat.”

    Cybersecurity continues to be a top priority for the energy sector given the potential economic and human safety impact of an outage to critical infrastructure.  The rapid digitization of the energy industry has brought many operational benefits but has also increased the potential attack surface and the need for enhanced visibility and detection of cybersecurity threats.

    “The threat landscape facing industrial customers continues to grow at a relentless pace,” said Sameer Reddy, Partner at Energy Impact Partners. “Attivo Networks’ deception platform provides operators with a high-fidelity detection layer to better secure enterprises and industrial control systems of all sizes.”

    Attivo Networks provides deception technology based on decoys and lures, which are designed to efficiently detect and misdirect in-network attacks. The decoys seamlessly deploy in operational technology environments and appear identical to industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA). With one mistaken touch, the attacker reveals their presence and arms security teams with ultra-high-fidelity alerts. Once an alert is raised, the solution’s built in attack analysis engine automates the process of gathering threat intelligence, correlating attack data, and responding to an alert. This reduces the investigation and response time from hours to minutes.

    Energy Impact Partners joins Bain Capital, ForgePoint Capital, and Singtel Innov8 in the company’s Series C funding round. Visit attivonetworks.com/solutions/energy for more on deception technology for the energy sector.

    About Attivo Networks

    Attivo Networks®, the leader in deception technology, provides an active defense for early detection, forensics, and automated incident response to in-network attacks. The Attivo ThreatDefend™ Deception Platform provides a comprehensive and customer-proven platform for proactive security and accurate threat detection within user networks, data centers, clouds, and a wide-variety of specialized attack surfaces. The portfolio includes expansive network, endpoint, application, and data deceptions designed to efficiently misdirect and reveal attacks from all threat vectors. Advanced machine-learning makes preparation, deployment, and operations fast and simple to operate for organizations of all sizes. Comprehensive attack analysis and forensics provide actionable alerts, and native integrations that automate the blocking, quarantine, and threat hunting of attacks for accelerated incident response. The company has won over 75 awards for its technology innovation and leadership. For more information, visit www.attivonetworks.com.

    About Energy Impact Partners
    Energy Impact Partners (EIP) is an investment firm focused on the conversion of the energy industry towards a decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and electrified future. EIP brings together leading innovators with some of the world’s most valuable, forward-looking energy and operating companies to create a cleaner, more secure and resilient future. Through close collaboration with its investor base, EIP seeks to bring the best companies, buying power and vision in the industry to bear on the emerging energy landscape. EIP’s utility partners include Southern Company, National Grid, Xcel Energy, Ameren, Great Plains Energy, Fortis Inc., AGL, Avista, MGE Energy Inc., TEPCO, PTT Public Company Limited, OGE Energy Corp., TransCanada, and Alliant Energy. For more information, visit www.energyimpactpartners.com.

  • Instana Releases Performance Monitoring and Tracing Support for NGINX and Envoy

    Instana Is First APM Solution to Automatically Tie Traces of Every Application Request at the Proxy Layer to End-to-End Tracing

     

    March 21, 2019 – San Francisco, CA and Solingen Germany – Instana, the leading provider of Automatic APM solutions for container-native applications, today announced the availability of monitoring and tracing support for NGINX and Envoy Application Proxies. With the current release of Instana’s APM service, Developers and DevOps get performance visibility and individual traces for every transaction from the browser through every service and down to the proxy layer. All this new data is captured automatically and integrated with the rest of Instana’s sensor and tracing technologies.

     

    “While Application Proxies are an important part of creating on-demand scalability for microservice applications, they create a performance visibility gap since they operate as black boxes,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “Instana’s ability to trace application requests through these foundation systems will improve overall application quality and provide the most comprehensive application performance visibility in the business.”

    Instana’s NGINX and Envoy monitoring and tracing capabilities include the ability to tie performance metrics and tracing through proxy servers to the end-to-end application traces captured by Instana’s AutoTrace technology. By tracing across the proxies, the front end user traces are followed through to the back end microservice requests without having to add any custom tracing code. Instana becomes the only APM solution available that can do this automatically.

    “As the technology and architectures underpinning applications continue to evolve, monitoring solutions must keep up with those changes,” said Peter Abrams, Co-founder and COO. “Instana’s ability to monitor performance and trace requests through NGINX and Envoy is indicative of the company’s commitment to provide complete coverage of microservice applications.”

     

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, 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.

    Instana will be showcasing its new proxy and service mesh monitoring at several technology conferences around the world, including Cloud Expo Europe, Google Cloud Next, Red Hat Summit and DockerCon. Learn more by visiting www.instana.com

    ABOUT INSTANA

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana leverages automation and AI to deliver immediate actionable information that DevOps and Developers need to manage cloud-native 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.

  • ForgeRock Launches Sandbox-as-a-Service for Open Banking and PSD2 Compliance

    Cloud-based Testing Environment for APIs Enables Banks to Accelerate Compliance with Open Banking and PSD2 Deadlines

    LONDON – March 18, 2019 – ForgeRock®, the leading platform provider of digital identity management solutions, today announced the availability of a new Sandbox-as-a-Service, designed to help banks achieve compliance with Open Banking and the Revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2). The sandbox is already in production for several European banks that provide apps and services to more than 35 million consumers.

    Ensuring Trust and Consent in the API Economy

    The primary goal of PSD2 and Open Banking is to encourage greater innovation and competition within financial services. To facilitate this, account providers are required to provide open APIs that enable Third Party Providers (TPPs) to enter the banking and payment ecosystem. At the same time, account providers must also meet a series of technical requirements to ensure customer data is secure and only accessible with the appropriate authorization and consent.

    To comply with these technical requirements, account providers must provide a facility for TPPs to test new services and applications before the next enforcement date of September 14 for Regulatory Technical Standards. ForgeRock’s Sandbox-as-a-Service offers a solution to satisfy these requirements and can made available in a matter of hours.

    Accelerating Compliance

    The ForgeRock Sandbox is fully compliant with Open Banking and PSD2, and meets the agreed standard for testing the functionality of Account Information Service Providers (AISPs) and Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISPs). The cloud-based solution can be deployed rapidly, empowering organizations in the ecosystem to achieve full compliance in line with required deadlines while also accelerating the development of web and mobile applications for payment service users.

    Developers and architects can gain immediate access to test the public version of the

    ForgeRock Open Banking Sandbox, which supports the key components that application developers require when testing consent, onboarding and access, including:

    • Account and Transaction API: The endpoint requests and responses for account requests.
    • Payment Initiation API: The endpoint requests and responses for payment requests.
    • Security Profile: The security standards that underpin the APIs.

    Nick Caley, Vice President Financial Services & Regulatory at ForgeRock, said, “Opening up APIs will completely change the financial services landscape by driving new competition, collaboration and innovation. However, with tight timescales to meet the upcoming PSD2 deadlines, financial institutions are facing significant challenges to ensure success with this wide-ranging set of regulations. The ForgeRock Open Banking Sandbox can provide financial institutions with a compliance-ready, managed service that can prevent significant technical headaches, and save time and money, both now and in the future.”

    More information on ForgeRock’s Open Banking and PSD2 offerings is available here.

    Identity Live Conferences coming to Nashville, Berlin, Sydney and London

    ForgeRock is pleased to announce the return of its wildly successful Identity Live Summits. The first summit will be April 30 & May 1 in Nashville, TN with events also taking place in Germany, Australia and the UK later in the year. These events enable customers, prospects and partners to interact with the most influential, innovative identity professionals and IT executives – all focused on accelerating their digital transformation journey. To register or learn more information, visit the Identity Live website.

    About ForgeRock

    ForgeRock® is the Digital Identity Management company transforming the way organizations build trust and interact securely with customers, employees, devices, and things. Organizations adopt the ForgeRock Identity Platform™ as their digital identity system of record to monetize customer relationships, address stringent regulations for privacy and consent (GDPR, HIPAA, FCC privacy, etc.), and leverage the Internet-of-Things. ForgeRock serves hundreds of brands, including Morningstar, Vodafone, GEICO, TomTom, and Pearson, as well as governments such as Norway, New Zealand, and Belgium, among many others. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, ForgeRock has offices in Austin, London, Bristol, Grenoble, Munich, Paris, Oslo, Singapore, Sydney and Vancouver, Washington. ForgeRock is privately held, backed by leading global venture capital firms Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, Meritech Capital and KKR. For more information and free downloads, visit www.forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on social media:

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    Copyright ©2019. ForgeRock is a registered trademark of ForgeRock, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Tricentis Recognized as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Software Test Automation

    The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Distinction is based on positive customer reviews and ratings

    Tricentis, the cloud’s #1 Continuous Testing Platform, announced today that it was recognized as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Software Test Automation. In addition to being named a Customers’ Choice, Tricentis was also recently positioned as a Leader in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation for the fourth year in a row and scored the highest in the 2018 Gartner Critical Capabilities report for Software Test Automation for the Enterprise End-to-End Testing and Progressive Web Apps/Responsive Web/Native App use cases.

    Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice selections are based on recognition of vendors submitted by verified end-user professionals. Gartner maintains rigorous criteria for recognizing vendors with a high customer satisfaction rate.

    “Over 1600 global organizations have adopted the Tricentis Continuous Testing Platform to accelerate Digital Transformation,” stated Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri. “In a market that’s dominated by testing tools, our approach to customer success is focused on testing transformation.  The reason for Tricentis’ strong growth is that we partner with our customers to transform their testing process—versus just selling them point tools. These leading enterprises are now consistently delivering differentiating customer/user experiences through software while their less advanced competitors are living on borrowed time.”

     

    Numerous customer reviews for Gartner Peer Insights cited how Tricentis’ innovative model-based test automation has enabled them to rapidly transform their enterprise testing processes for Agile and DevOps. Here’s what some customers had to say:

     

    “Brought us from Zero to hero in QA automation” — IT Leader SDLC and QA tools in the Finance Industry

     

    “Tosca is an extremely powerful tool that can help you change your way of testing.” — Head Competence Center Testing in the Finance Industry

     

    “The future of Test Automation in the DevOps era” — Head of Solution Architecture – Air in the Manufacturing Industry

    “Innovative ideas, fast implementation of new features and very good support” — QA Staff in the Finance Industry

    “Quick adoption for a rapid start and early results.” — Specialist Test Manager in the Transportation Industry

    Read more reviews or share your own Tricentis review (Tosca or qTest)

    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.

    Sources: Gartner Inc, “Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation,” Joachim Herschmann, Thomas E. Murphy, Jim Scheibmeir, 18 December 2018. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation Joachim Herschmann, Thomas E. Murphy, Jim Scheibmeir November 27, 2018.

    Gartner Disclaimer: 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, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

     

     

  • Progress Raises the Bar for Low-Code Development with First-of-Its-Kind Platform for Professional Developers

    Progress Kinvey platform delivers productivity gains businesses want and code control developers require to deliver consumer-grade, strategic business applications; Progress also named a ‘Strong Performer’ in low-code app development report by leading independent research firm

    BEDFORD, MA—March 14, 2019—Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today revealed its strategy and approach for enabling high productivity application development. As part of this strategy, Progress announced the latest release of the Progress® Kinvey™platform, delivering a combination of high productivity, full developer control over the app experience, and operational efficiency for modern workloads with dynamic scale. In addition, Progress has gained industry recognition for its low-code strategy, including being named a “Strong Performer” in The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019. Click to view.

    As businesses are tasked to deliver high-quality apps at an increasing pace, they are turning to low-code development options to improve speed and efficiency. While traditional low-code offerings are effective for simple apps, they often fall short for more complex apps and handcuff developers to a proprietary framework that may be ineffective or could stifle innovation.

    Expanding upon Progress’ history for delivering the tools and technology that enable professional developers to work how they want, Progress has brought to market a new form of low-code – one that’s focused on the professional developer – delivering new high productivity capabilities that speed the app development process, but still enable the delivery of differentiated multi-channel experiences that run natively across devices and platforms

    The Progress Kinvey High Productivity Platform

    Based on JavaScript, the Progress Kinvey platform enables businesses to deliver app experiences across a variety of channels – native iOS and Android, web, chat and more. It provides a modern serverless backend for operational efficiency, full control of the application code and the end-to-end data management capabilities required to build robust enterprise business applications.

    “Traditional low-code platforms are adequate for helping companies rapidly roll out many tactical apps. However, they lack the ability to deliver high scale, truly engaging, consumer-grade experiences that offer consistency across channels,” said Dmitri Tcherevik, CTO, Progress. “At the other end of the spectrum, DIY development projects deliver high-touch experiences, but are highly inefficient, slow to market and costly to maintain. IT teams need to focus on innovation, not infrastructure. Our focus on high productivity for professional developers changes all of that by bringing a solution to market that offers the best of both worlds, low-code development that results in flexible, scalable, omni channel apps.”

    The Progress Kinvey platform offers:

    • Kinvey Studio: A visual development tool that provides a low-code development environment for rapidly building mobile, web and chat-based apps, without sacrificing full developer control over the application and code. It is built on open standards and enables round-trip code generation, so developers can move in and out of the low-code environment seamlessly. It works with existing source control, testing and other dev processes, and offers access to all application source code for inspection and alteration.
    • Serverless Platform Architecture: The first and only serverless high productivity cloud platform, Kinvey manages and auto-scales secure business app infrastructures across data, authentication, microservices and functions, and supports both deploying and scaling modern apps – all of which are necessary to remain competitive.

    • Kinvey Chat: An innovative, artificial intelligence-driven technology for rapidly creating and deploying guided task chatbots that easily integrate with existing enterprise and legacy systems.

    • Kinvey Data Pipeline: Providing end-to-end data and authentication management from device to source enterprise systems; engineered to protect, virtualize and synchronize data and authentication layers from disparate enterprise systems, this capability includes cloud caching, offline data management with delta synchronization, identity integrations and no-code/low-code microservices to access external data.

    • Native Multi-channel: Building off the popularity of JavaScript, NativeScript and Angular, the Kinvey platform enables the development and delivery of native iOS, Android and web apps to create beautiful, consumer-grade UX while providing significant code reuse between the web and mobile tiers. It also provides direct access to all native platform APIs and third-party iOS and Android code, ensuring apps built on Kinvey offer a no-compromise native experience.

    Industry Recognition

    Progress’ strategy for high productivity application development has already gained significant momentum and has recently received positive positioning from leading independent analyst firms.

    “Digital disruption across industries is driving businesses to seek streamlined methods of building modern apps and digital experiences. While businesses need to rapidly transform themselves digitally to remain competitive, they cannot afford to sacrifice the quality, differentiation and security of the apps and experiences they build,” said Arnal Dayaratna, Research Director, IDC. “Progress’ strategy for high productivity app development empowers developers to accelerate the development of production-grade consumer and business apps while preserving the freedom and control that developers typically desire.”

    The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019, released on March 13, evaluated the top 13 vendors in the market and named Progress a “Strong Performer”. According to the report, “…areas of leadership for the [Progress Kinvey] platform include UX development tools, mobile application development tools, integration development tools and adapters, and AI development tools.”[1]

    The Kinvey platform is available currently. For more information about Progress’ high productivity strategy and/or the Kinvey platform, go to www.progress.com. To view The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019, click here.

    Additional Resources

    • Read the Progress blog

     

    About Progress

    Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or touchpoint, award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive capabilities to be a part of any application, the flexibility of a serverless cloud to deploy modern apps, business rules, web content management, plus leading data connectivity technology. Over 1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or +1-800-477-6473.

  • StackPath Releases New Edge Computing VMs

    Delivers Increased Edge Computing Customization and Control

    DALLAS — March 19, 2019 — StackPath, the world’s first secure edge platform, today announced new StackPath Edge Computing Virtual Machine (VM) options, providing developers increased customization and control over their edge computing environments. StackPath Edge Computing VMs can be deployed in any or all StackPath edge locations around the world in one click or API call. StackPath customers can then directly connect to each VM via SSH to further configure the OS and install and manage their own software.

    “Every workload is different. Developers need to be able to tailor edge computing to fit their application’s profile,” said Lance Crosby, StackPath co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “That’s why we offer a full-range of edge computing types. And with the release of additional VM capabilities, developers can truly select or mix edge computing types to strike their ideal balance of performance, flexibility, and management.”

    Today’s release introduces seven VM sizes spanning a range of CPU and RAM combinations, each with 25GB of SSD-based persistent storage. Like StackPath Edge Computing Containers, StackPath Edge Computing VMs feature:

    • Streamlined setup
      Customers simply select the type, size, number, and location of instances, via CLI or the StackPath customer portal.
    • Global deployment
      Instances are instantly deployed in all selected locations.
    • Anycast IP space
      Customers can also choose to allocate an Anycast IP address to the instances to load balance and route traffic down the shortest path to end users.

    With 45 StackPath edge locations worldwide, developers are able to put their workloads closer to more end users than centralized public cloud providers can, for higher security and as much as 2.6 times faster response times.

    StackPath Edge Computing VMs deliver additional customization and control over the edge computing environment. With StackPath containers, developers only need to upload the image they want deployed in their containers and the platform takes care of the rest. With StackPath Edge Computing VMs, customers choose whether they want the platform to deploy their VM with CentOS or Ubuntu installed using best-practices for security and performance. After deployment, the customer then has full access to each VM via SSH, to customize the OS and install any software they desire, leveraging 25GB of persistent storage included with every size VM.

    This flexibility is critical to a wide range of organizations and use cases, particularly companies with legacy applications that are not optimized or suited to run in containers. They can move their workloads right to the edge without the time and financial costs of redevelopment.

    “We’ve seen incredible demand for StackPath Edge Computing since our initial release last month. Every day customers share new use cases and application ideas with our team. That’s inspired us to iterate and advance the services even faster,” said Ben Gabler, StackPath Chief Product Officer. “The flexibility of our VMs really expands the possibilities for what developers will do at the edge, and will accelerate the time to market for those innovations.”

    StackPath Edge Computing services include the aforementioned containers and VMs and StackPath EdgeEngine, a serverless script engine that provides always-on computing at the edge.

    StackPath Edge Computing Virtual Machines start at $0.10/VM/hour, with same pricing for each StackPath edge location and 25GB of persistent storage included with each instance (see full pricing details online). The VMs can be self-service ordered and managed on-demand—get started in the StackPath Customer Portal today, or contact the expert StackPath sales and solutions team to learn more.

    About StackPath

    StackPath is a platform of secure edge services that enables developers to protect, accelerate, and innovate cloud properties ranging from websites to media delivery and IoT services. With an innovative global edge network infrastructure, StackPath delivers enterprise-grade security and performance in a frictionless, on-demand platform with cloud-scale control and flexibility. More than one million customers, including early-stage and Fortune 100 companies, use StackPath services. StackPath is headquartered in Dallas and has offices across the U.S. and around the world. For more information, visit stackpath.com and follow StackPath at www.fb.com/stackpathllc and www.twitter.com/stackpath

  • Rockset Announces General Availability; Unleashes Power Of Real-Time SQL On Raw Data

    Industry’s First Serverless Search and Analytics Engine Gives Developers and Data Scientists Freedom from ETL

    SAN MATEO, CALIF – March 19, 2019 – Rockset, the serverless search and analytics company, today announced general availability of the industry’s first cloud service that allows developers and data scientists to put complex data sets to use in minutes instead of weeks.

    Current trends in technology — smart devices, digital lending, fraud detection, omni-channel retail, machine learning, microservices and real-time business dashboards — all require clean data from a multitude of sources. However, businesses are struggling with tons of high-value, low-quality data in fragmented systems like data lakes, NoSQL databases and data streams. Increasingly, data comes from many different sources and tends to be machine data in JSON, CSV, XML and Parquet formats or business data like XLSX and PDF. Rockset empowers teams to serve data-intensive applications using a wide range of data formats from multiple sources, without having to model schemas or manage fragile extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines.

    “Modern data sets are messy and unstructured. Traditional data management systems force teams to spend more than 50 percent of their time just preparing and loading these data sets,” said Venkat Venkataramani, co-founder and CEO of Rockset. “What’s the point of collecting new data if you cannot use it immediately and iterate quickly? Rockset has reimagined the stack in a new developer-friendly way, with fast SQL on raw data — so you can go from data to applications in a few minutes.”

    Rockset is the industry’s first serverless data backend that continuously ingests raw data as it is generated and delivers real-time SQL queries at scale. Its patent-pending Converged Indexing™, which combines an inverted index, columnar index and document index, is optimized for key-value, time-series, document, search, aggregation and graph type queries out of the box. It is backed by RocksDB, which combined with its Cloud Native Distributed Query Engine, delivers the performance and scale necessary for real-time operational applications and interactive data science.

    This release delivers new functionalities including:

    • Continuous schema-less ingest from data lakes, databases and streams including Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
    • Smart schemas for JSON, XML, CSV, Parquet, Excel and PDF
    • SQL, including JOINs, with 1,000+ QPS
    • SDKs for Java, Python, Node.js, Golang and REST API
    • Delivered as-a-service with self-serve access

    Developer and Data Scientist Communities Embrace Rockset

    “We need to carefully monitor our growth in real-time. Is a certain product suddenly selling more? Is there a fraudulent transaction? We easily generate 20-30 million events per day, all captured in Kafka streams. Our applications query the data every few seconds. By sending our raw event data directly from Kafka to Rockset, we save a lot of time and energy. We track over 40 metrics in real time and constantly take immediate actions.”

    -Amboj Goyal, principal engineer at Fynd, a leader in online-to-offline retail with a fashion e-commerce portal that helps millions of customers find fashion from local stores.

    “We receive data from many different sources in many different formats – each with different delimiters, headers and escape characters. It is time consuming to load the data to multiple systems, individually infer the schema and handle malformed data. We also deal with constantly changing schemas as new versions of the data are received. Rockset has the potential to free our data scientists to run ad-hoc SQL queries on raw data while minimizing ETL work and maintenance.”

    -Alex Izydorczyk, head of data science at Coatue, a technology sector hedge fund — known for its data prowess — that invests in public and private equity markets.

    General Availability

    Rockset was created by a team of industry veterans with decades of experience in web-scale data management and distributed systems at companies including Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Oracle and VMware. In November, the company emerged from stealth and announced $21.5 million in funding. Rockset is generally available immediately. For more information, contact Rockset at hello@rockset.com.

    About Rockset

    Rockset is a serverless search and analytics engine that makes it easy to go from data to applications. Founded by former engineering leaders at Facebook, Rockset is backed by Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more information, go to rockset.com or follow Rockset at @RocksetCloud.