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  • Jerusalem Venture Partners Leads $22.5M Round in Quali to Accelerate Delivery of Public and Private Cloud Environments-as-a-Service

    Funding to Go Towards Boosting Digital Transformation and Automation Initiatives

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., December 11, 2018 – Quali, the leader in delivering environments-as-a-service for cloud and DevOps automation, today announced a $22.5M Series-C funding round led by venture firm Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and with participation from existing and new investors. With more than 200 customers worldwide including several Tier-1 enterprises, service providers and technology vendors, Quali’s CloudShell platform is the industry leader in self-service environments for a variety of use-cases including DevOps automation, technical sales demos as well as cyber security and compliance.

    The funding allows Quali to further increase their momentum in the enterprise accelerating growth in cloud, security and DevOps use-cases. Over the past two years, the company has demonstrated high double digit annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth and expanded into the enterprise. It has added new customer logos across a variety of segments, including the likes of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Department of Defense and IBM, among others. The company has also transitioned to a subscription-led offering from a perpetual license-based sales approach with more than 70 percent of its revenues coming from subscription. Finally, the company has been able to dramatically expand the use-cases that are enjoying significant ROI and lower TCO as a result of implementing CloudShell. With this investment JVP joins the Quali board with Yoav Tzruya, JVP’s General Partner, taking on the role of Board Chairman. Lior Koriat, CEO and Boaz Dinte, Managing Partner at Evergreen Ventures will continue to serve on the board. The board observers would also include representation from Dell Ventures and Kreos Capital.

    “Quali is a proven category leader in the Public and Private Cloud Automation category. With multiple companies addressing the global trend of digital transformation, we constantly witness organizations struggling with streamlining ever-increasing complex deployments. We believe the need for CloudShell will continue to grow,” said Yoav Tzruya, General Partner at JVP. “We are encouraged to see existing customers re-engage to deploy more use-cases, as well as additional industries and geographies that are
    engaging with the company.”

    Quali’s Cloudshell-based solutions improve productivity of dev/test engineering organizations, accelerate the sales cycles for selling organizations and help improve the security and compliance
    posture for security teams. Its blueprint-based, self-service approach has been demonstrated to increase productivity by 30 percent, cut down costs by 40 percent and increase infrastructure efficiency by more than 30 percent.

    “We’re seeing a strong uptake of our solutions with hundreds of customers globally as they invest in digital transformation initiatives,” said Lior Koriat, CEO of Quali. “We’re quite pleased to raise this new round of funding and welcome the investment from JVP that has a demonstrated track record of building great companies. The Quali CloudShell platform is a proven leader in the industry and this new round allows us to accelerate our go-to-market and increase our innovation velocity.”

    In addition to JVP, existing investors including Dell Ventures, Kreos Capital, Evergreen Ventures, Gemini Israel Ventures and ORR Partners participated in the round.
    As part of this expanded funding, Quali intends to expand its sales footprint in the United States with new offices in the city of Austin.

    About Quali
    Quali is a software company focused on automation and orchestration software to deliver environments-as-a-service for digital transformation initiatives aligned with cloud, DevOps and Security. Its industry-leading CloudShell platform delivers helps enterprises and service providers increase productivity and efficiency for engineering, sales and security organizations while cutting costs dramatically. Quali’s customers include several of the Fortune 500 and the Global 100. More information about Quali is available at www.quali.com.

    About Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP):
    Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an internationally renowned venture capital fund based out of Israel. Established in 1993 by Dr. Erel Margalit, JVP has raised to date $1.3 billion across 9 funds, and has been ranked numerous times by Preqin as one of the top-ten consistently performing VC firms worldwide. JVP has built over 130 companies, leveraging a broad network of partners and market expertise to help companies to become global market leaders. Among the pioneering firms of the Israeli venture capital industry, JVP has been instrumental in building some of the largest companies out of Israel, facilitating 12 Initial Public Offerings on NASDAQ and numerous industry sales. With a view to building industry leaders, JVP invests in early through growth stage companies in the spaces of Cybersecurity, Big Data, Fintech, Enterprise Software, Storage, Mobile, Media and IoT. More information
    about JVP is available at www.jvpvc.com

  • AQUA CONTAINER SECURITY PLATFORM AWARDED CIS BENCHMARK CERTIFICATION

    Industry’s first commercial solution to be certified for the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark

    Seattle, WA – 10 Dec. 2018 –KubeCon/CloudNativeCon – Aqua Security announced today that its Aqua Container Security Platform (CSP) has been certified by CIS Benchmarks™to compare the configuration status of Kubernetes clusters against the consensus-based best practice standards contained in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. Organizations that leverage Aqua CSP can now ensure that the configurations of their critical assets align with the CIS Benchmarks consensus-based practice standards.

    “We are thrilled to have our platform certified by the CIS for the Kubernetes Benchmark,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder at Aqua. “This certification is a testament to the rigorous security testing performed by our platform, and our commitment to providing enterprise customers with solutions that enable them to meet CIS best practice standards and maximize the security posture of their Kubernetes clusters.”

    Aqua’s platform is used by more than 100 of Global 1000 companies, securing their container-based and cloud native applications, on-prem and in the cloud, supporting both Linux and Windows runtime environments, across Kubnernetes as well as other orchestrators. The Aqua platform drives DevSecOps automation, and provides visibility and runtime protection for cloud native workloads, including both host-level and network-level controls.

    This certification is issued by CIS®(Center for Internet Security, Inc.) and reflects proven guidelines that are continuously refined and verified by a volunteer, global community of experienced IT professionals. “Cybersecurity challenges are mounting daily, which makes the need for standard configurations imperative. By certifying its product with CIS, Aqua Security has demonstrated its commitment to actively solve the foundational problem of ensuring standard configurations are used throughout a given enterprise,” said Curtis Dukes, CIS Executive Vice President of Security Best Practices & Automation Group.

    In order for a product to receive the CIS Benchmarks Certification, a vendor must adapt its product to accurately report to the security recommendations in the associated CIS Benchmarks profile. CIS Certified Security Software Products demonstrate a strong commitment by the vendors to provide their customers with the ability to ensure their assets are secured according to consensus-based best practice standards.

    The CIS Benchmarks program is a trusted, independent authority that facilitates the collaboration of public and private industry experts to achieve consensus on practical and actionable solutions. CIS Benchmarks are recommended as industry-accepted system hardening standards and are used by organizations in meeting compliance requirements for Federal Information Security Management Act, PCI, Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act and other security requirements.

    About CIS

    CIS®(Center for Internet Security, Inc.) is a forward-thinking, non-profit entity that harnesses the power of a global IT community to safeguard private and public organizations against cyber threats. The CIS Controls™and CIS Benchmarks™ are the global standard and recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data against the most pervasive attacks. These proven guidelines are continuously refined and verified by a volunteer, global community of experienced IT professionals. Our CIS Hardened Images™ are virtual machine emulations preconfigured to provide secure, on-demand, and scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to both the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center®(MS-ISAC®), the go-to resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center™ (EI-ISAC™), which supports the cybersecurity needs of U.S. State, Local and Territorial elections offices.  To learn more, visit CISecurity.org or follow us on Twitter: @CISecurity.

    About Aqua Security

    Aqua Security enables enterprises to secure their container and cloud-native applications from development to production, accelerating application deployment and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks in real time. Integrated with container lifecycle and orchestration tools, the Aqua platform provides transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance. Aqua was founded in 2015 and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft Ventures, TLV Partners, and is based in Israel and Boston, MA. For more information, visit www.aquasec.com or follow us on twitter.com/AquaSecTeam.

  • Optimizely and Atlassian Unveil New Integration That Enables Developers to Track the Status of Every Product Experiment In Real Time

    Optimizely with Jira Software helps teams build their best-in-class technology stacks and go from shipping volume to launching products with value

    SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4, 2018 — Optimizely, the world’s leader in digital experience optimization, and Atlassian, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, are today unveiling a new integration between Optimizely Full Stack and Jira Software that allows developers to move faster, mitigate launch risk and measure the impact of every product release. Together, the brands continue to provide software development teams with the best tools to build and launch new products, faster.

    Leading software development teams today are using data to experiment and build the digital experiences and products that matter most to their customers. Jira Software continues to help teams plan, track and release products on time, while Optimizely’s Full Stack provides A/B testing and feature management for product development teams, including feature flags to minimizing launch risk. With the Optimizely Full Stack and Jira Software integrated workflow, users of both services will have better visibility into the entire product development cycle. Together, teams can now link feature flags from Optimizely Full Stack into Jira Software, so that engineers can see the status of the experiments they are running, live and in real time. This means more quickly and efficiently seeing the status of their flags and rollouts, resulting in smaller and more frequent feature and product shipments.

    “Our goal is to build the best products for our customers, which means integrating with the best-of-breed solutions that will power winning user experiences in today’s evolving digital landscape,” said Claire Vo, SVP of Product at Optimizely. “We are thrilled to combine our services with Atlassian’s premium technology solution as a way to help our customers make quicker decisions, iterate faster and drive loyalty.”

    This partnership will also be integrated across other Optimizely products including Web and Program Management over the coming months. Optimizely Full Stack customers can integrate with Jira today by visiting our help page here.

    About Optimizely
    Optimizely is the world’s leader in digital experience optimization, allowing businesses to dramatically drive up the value of their digital products, commerce and campaigns through its best in class experimentation software platform. By replacing digital guesswork with evidence-based results, Optimizely enables product and marketing professionals to accelerate innovation, lower the risk of new features, and drive up the return on investment from digital by up to 10X. Over 26 of the Fortune 100 companies choose Optimizely to power their global digital experiences. Optimizely’s impressive customer list includes eBay, FOX, IBM, The New York Times and many more global enterprises. To learn more, visit optimizely.com.

  • Trend Micro Demonstrates Strength of Relationship with Amazon Web Services Through Integrated Technology, Channel and Diversity Programs

    DALLAS – November 29, 2018 –Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today demonstrated the strength of its relationship with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) through integration with technology, the channel and workforce diversity.

    “A strong alignment with AWS has contributed to businesses increasingly choosing Trend Micro to protect hybrid cloud environments,” said Kevin Simzer, chief operating officer, Trend Micro.“We proudly reported a 69 percent year on year growth in our cloud business across all platforms this last quarter, which let us punch through our goal of securing over 3 million hybrid cloud workloads.”

    “Trend Micro is quick to leverage new features in AWS Marketplace to simplify and accelerate secure customer application migrations. Together we have a common vision to innovate the automation of software procurement via AWS Marketplace for Containers,” said Dave McCann, Vice President, AWS Marketplace Service Catalog and Migration Services, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “With over 200,000 active buyers on AWS Marketplace, we’re continuing to focus on making it easier for organizations to find the solutions that can help them innovate on AWS and meet their growing business needs.”

    Trend Micro is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Launch Partner on the following programs launched at AWS re:Invent 2018:

    Technology Programs

    • AWS Container Competency: Trend Micro has achieved AWS Container Competency status. Criteria included having two strong customer references and meeting a strict set of requirements, collectively reinforcing Trend Micro’s leadership role in container security and demonstrating proven success with AWS customers. This is validated by 20 percent of Trend Micro’s enterprise hybrid cloud security customers already securing their containers with the company’s technology.
    • AWS Container Marketplace: AWS announced support for software products built on Docker containers. As an APN Advanced Technology Partner, Trend Micro is extending its solutions in AWS Marketplace with its automated build-time and container image registry scanning. This will detect vulnerabilities and malware prior to deployment, helping customers reduce threats and risk early in the CI/CD pipeline with frictionless security.
    • AWS Security Hub: Trend Micro can now send key security events to the new AWS Security Hub. AWS Security Hub is designed to provide users with a comprehensive view of their high-priority security alerts and compliance status by aggregating, organizing, and prioritizing alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS services, such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and Amazon Macie as well as from other APN security solutions. The findings are then visually summarized on integrated dashboards with actionable graphs and tables. This will allow Trend Micro users to gain a stronger security posture while accomplishing more with less.

    Channel Programs

    • AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner Private Offers: Trend Micro is an APN Launch Partner of a new program that will benefit its channel partners. The program allows an AWS Marketplace customer and an AWS Marketplace ISV to negotiate custom price and end user licensing agreement (EULA) terms for a software purchase. The result will help the channel accelerate cloud migrations and streamline technology procurement and deployment.

    Diversity Programs

    • Trend Micro Gender Diversity Program supported by AWS: Trend Micro expanded its diversity initiative by launching a campaign to reduce the gender gap within the IT and cybersecurity workforce. This Close the Gap initiative is supported by AWS who co-hosted 30 young women of Girls in Tech, who otherwise might not be able to attend re:Invent 2018. Trend Micro sponsored a number of other initiatives including the AWS diversity track reception.

    Since 2012, Trend Micro has been dedicated to safeguarding customers’ cloud environments. This leadership has led  to  a close relationship with AWS, which is confirmed by Trend Micro being an APN Advanced Technology Partner, an AWS Security Competency Partner, an AWS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Partner, an AWS Government Competency Partner, and an AWS Marketplace seller.

    To find out more, please visit www.trendmicro.com/aws.

    About Trend Micro

    Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information.  Our innovative solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments provide layered security for data centers, cloud workloads, networks, and endpoints. All our products work together to seamlessly share threat intelligence and provide a connected threat defense with centralized visibility and investigation, enabling better, faster protection. With over 6,000 employees in 50 countries and the world’s most advanced global threat research and intelligence, Trend Micro enables organizations to secure their connected world.  For more information, visit www.trendmicro.com.

     

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  • Anodot Accelerates Time To Value with True Self-Service Autonomous Analytics in Real-Time

    New York –  November 29, 2018 – Anodot, the autonomous analytics company, today announced the enhancement of its AI/ML solution with the addition of dozens of inbound data collectors which enable its ecosystem of customers to benefit from true self-service detection of business incidents in real-time.

    Detection of incidents in data and root cause analysis can provide critical business information, but the insight is only valuable if reported early enough that it’s actionable. Anodot’s patented algorithms and machine learning ensure higher true positives and lower false positives with accurate insights regarding seasonality while in real-time, alerting customers instantly and accurately. Anodot’s dozens of inbound data collectors mean analysts can add new data streams and new analytics use cases, and be up and running in the same day.

    The company’s ecosystem of integration partners is quickly growing 1000 percent year over year, with integration partners including PagerDuty, Slack, mPartical, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, MySQL, AWS S3, Google cloud storage, Adobe Analytics and many others. This growth is attributed to Anodot’s expanding customer base including Via, Overstock, and Openx which depend on its autonomous analytics solution to monitor business data at a highly granular level in real-time for faster detection and resolution of business issues, ensuring businesses avoid problems that can affect company reputation and ROI.

    “Anodot’s tools are simple to integrate, and provide our analyst teams alerts instantly for any discrepancies or spikes in data,” said Rich Galan, the Director of Analytics for Rubicon Project, “The technology is also easy to use and we never have trouble learning and using Anodot’s autonomous analytics platform. ”

    “PagerDuty welcomes Anodot into its Integration Partner Program. The combination of PagerDuty’s real-time operations management platform and Anodot’s real-time anomaly detection, autonomous analytics platform can help customers achieve faster time to detection and resolution of business incidents,” said Steve Gross, the  Strategic Business Development & Alliances Executive for PagerDuty.

    Unlike tools which require the user to manually upload or fire data to an API endpoint, Anodot has automated the process, enabling true self-service. Anodot’s data integrations are secure, fully controlled and completely transparent to the end user, providing visibility and better control over data and budget.

    “Time to value was defined as a key pillar for Anodot in 2018, as part of our ongoing commitment to continually improve both use of product and benefits to customers,” said Amit Levi, Anodot’s VP, Head of Product. “Over the past few months we invested heavily in developing state-of-the-art collectors to reduce friction to value and, as a result, I’m proud to announce that the average integration is now 30 times faster than it was just a few months ago.”

    About Anodot

    Anodot empowers companies to run healthy businesses, at scale. Unlike humans, machines are built to scan big data. Anodot’s Autonomous Analytics platform leverages advanced machine learning techniques to constantly analyze and correlate every business parameter, providing real-time alerts and forecasts in their context, to lower time to detect anomalies and resolve incidents. We’ve got your back, so you can play offense and grow your business. We work with companies like Microsoft, Waze, Pandora, Appnexus, Wix and King. Anodot is headquartered in Silicon Valley and Israel, with Sales offices worldwide. To learn more, visit us at http://www.anodot.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

  • Datical Announces Support for Liquibase™ Workflow, Making Enterprise Database Release Automation Capabilities Accessible to Liquibase Users

    Market Leader’s Move Makes Critical, Enterprise-Class Database Release Capabilities Readily Accessible to Millions

    AUSTIN, Texas – Nov. 28, 2018 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced a new feature to allow Liquibase users easier access to its enterprise-class platform for automating database releases. The millions of software professionals that use the Liquibase open source project can now seamlessly upgrade to an enterprise-class solution offering greater efficiency, speed and risk reductions for all database deployments without having to change their existing process or workflow.

    With more than five million downloads, Liquibase is the leading open source solution helping application teams version and track database changes. While the versioning and tracking provided by Liquibase is sufficient for small teams and projects, as organizations grow and look for an enterprise-scale database release automation solution, Liquibase is not enough. Organizations are left with two options: 1) dedicate resources to expand, customize, integrate and maintain Liquibase or 2) shift to an enterprise, commercial offering, such as Datical.

    “The database release process is a critical piece to the agility of an overall business, no matter the size. Liquibase was a great first step. However, as our enterprise needs grew, we needed more. At the time, we were faced with two difficult options – either diverting a ton of time, money and resources from customer-facing applications to expanding and customizing Liquibase, or disrupting our development workflow with a commercial solution,” said Russell Webster, senior manager of Development and Test Services at Zions Bancorporation. “Now our teams have the flexibility to retain the development workflow they are used to with Liquibase while taking advantage of the enterprise-class database release automation solution from Datical and getting the commercial support and capabilities they need. It’s a win-win.”

    Datical is built on top of Liquibase and is the primary maintainer of the open source project. Datical brings important enhancements to Liquibase, including pipeline-based workflows, out-of-the-box integrations with all major application release automation solutions, and a powerful rules engine and change simulator that enable application teams to safely automate database code through the software pipeline just like application code.

    The world’s largest organizations rely on Datical to efficiently and effectively manage their database releases. Many customers, including Athene, MedImpact and Zions Bancorporation, originally started with Liquibase and moved to Datical when needs changed and teams expanded.

    “Increasingly it’s application developers who have to make database code changes, and most strongly prefer working with an object model for database changes instead of writing SQL,” said Nathan Voxland, founder of the Liquibase open source project and architect at Datical. “With the latest release, the millions of developers that have come to rely on the XML changeset model that Liquibase provides can continue efficiently working with the same model while taking advantage of Datical when their needs expand.”

    Liquibase users can benefit from a number of functional capabilities by moving to Datical:

    Enterprise-class support

    By upgrading to Datical, Liquibase users can go from: a public online forum to dedicated phone and email support; reading online documentation to having a dedicated implementation and training team; from making one-off pull requests or internally forking and maintaining an open source project to relying on Datical for key features and fixes as a part of the ongoing subscription. 

    Enterprise scale

    As organizations scale, so do their needs. Manually checking what has been deployed to a given environment with Liquibase can become a nightmare as teams and environments grow. By moving to Datical, users benefit from automatically generated reports and can easily access a centralized web interface that tracks what database changes have been deployed across all environments. As an added bonus, Datical’s web interface has rich features for searching and filtering on a variety of parameters so that any stakeholder can quickly trace or troubleshoot issues with database deployments.

    Enterprise automation

    While Liquibase can collect changes from developers and apply changes to a database to get it to the next version, it lacks rigorous validation that can lead to lots of rework and major deployment issues as teams and environments scale. Datical has a robust rules engine that enables developer self-service. Developers are notified immediately if their change needs to be reworked or reconciled against other work. Additionally, Datical simulates the impact of proposed database changes so deployments are much more successful as any errors are caught and can be addressed prior to deployment.

    Learn more about how Datical makes it easy to keep your existing Liquibase workflow and take advantage of enterprise class automation capabilities

    Resources

    About Datical, Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to transform the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation, organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 737-402-7187 or connect via @datical.

  • Yellowfin Receives Top Rankings in World’s Largest Business Intelligence Survey

    Yellowfin BI is top-ranked for Embedded BI and Operational BI and recommended by 100% of surveyed end users in The BI Survey 18 by BARC

    In The BI Survey 18 by BARC, Yellowfin is:

     

    • Recommended by 100% of surveyed end users
    • Ranked first for Embedded BI among self-service reporting-focused products
    • Ranked first for Operational BI among data discovery-focused products
    • Ranked as a leader in 21 further categories
    • Chosen by 78% of surveyed end users because of its price-performance ratio, compared to 38% for the average BI tool

    Ketchum, Idaho Nov 28, 2018 – Yellowfin BI, a world-leading business intelligence (BI) and analytics vendor, has received top rankings for Embedded BI and Operational BI in The BI Survey 18 by BARC and is also recommended by 100% of Yellowfin’s end users. This recognition in the world’s largest and most comprehensive survey of business intelligence platform end users shows Yellowfin’s continued leadership in the industry.

    Glen Rabie, CEO of Yellowfin, said, “It’s fantastic to keep hold of our leadership position among the world’s top business intelligence and analytic vendors. We constantly strive to solve real business problems through a sophisticated analytics suite that meets the needs of the business users, analysts, and IT. So, we’re thrilled that our customers have declared the Yellowfin analytics suite to be outstanding in the market.”

    This is the fifth year in a row that Yellowfin is top-ranked or leading  for Operational BI in The BI Survey, demonstrating their consistency in delivering business intelligence that solves real customer problems. Alongside their two top rankings and 100% recommendation rate, Yellowfin was also declared a leader in 21 other categories across four different peer groups, including innovation, product satisfaction, ease of use, price-to-value, and data volume. In addition, 78% of surveyed users chose Yellowfin because of its price-to-performance ratio, which vastly exceeds the 38% average for all BI tools.

    BARC, in The BI Survey 18 Yellowfin Highlights, stated, “Some of the results for particular product-related problems are also impressive: Not one of our surveyed customers reported missing key product features, facing security limitations, or finding the software too difficult to use or not flexible enough.”

    BARC continued, “Rather than blindly following market hype, Yellowfin keeps a close eye on current trends and works to provide new and well thought-out innovations and features for its users.”

    For further details on Yellowfin’s positioning in The BI Survey 18, you can download the Yellowfin Highlights Report by BARC here.

  • WaveMaker Enhances its Low-Code Platform for High-Impact Modernization

    WaveMaker 10 offers the most advanced low-code platform, providing top-notch application performance, a hybrid coding experience, and robust security capabilities

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – November 28, 2018 – WaveMaker, Inc., the leading low-code powered modernization platform, today released WaveMaker 10, its enhanced platform for enterprises seeking high-impact returns from their modernization and digital transformation projects.

    This latest edition of the WaveMaker platform leverages a new front-end technology stack to deliver greater application performance, advanced tools to facilitate developer productivity and collaboration, enhanced security and accessibility, and a built-in artifact repository for accelerated development.

    “WaveMaker 10 underlines our ongoing commitment to helping enterprise IT teams capitalize on the cutting edge of low-code innovation,” said Vijay Pullur, CEO of WaveMaker. “Enterprises remain competitive by effectively combining the latest technologies with their unique application development and deployment environments. Our open standards-based low-code platform allows enterprise developers to leverage the speed of low-code with control over custom coding capability.”

    WaveMaker 10 offers:

    A highly-advanced application stack – Angular 7: Developers can leverage Angular 7, the industry’s most robust and scalable web front-end technology, to build responsive web and mobile apps. These applications have greater performance and efficiency, type safety, and modern User Experience.

    Enhanced Developer Productivity & Collaboration: A new IDE synchronization feature offers a unique developer experience where programmers can mix and match Java code written in their favorite IDEs, like Eclipse or Intellij, with low-code platform components. This way, WaveMaker 10 provides sophisticated, granular customization capabilities to enterprise application development teams.

    The new platform also introduces an integrated artifact repository where developers can share reusable application elements like service prefabs, templates, themes, and data models. Such collaborative features promote standardization, consistency, and reuse-driven productivity to streamline large enterprise modernization and digital transformation projects.

    As WaveMaker expands its developer base across global IT teams, the platform also now allows localization in a regional language, positioning teams of enterprise developers across multiple language zones to build applications more collaboratively and productively.

    Increased Enterprise Security and Accessibility: As more and more enterprise IT teams go cloud native, they are seeking fine-grained user controls to reduce security vulnerabilities. In response, WaveMaker 10 can create multiple developer personas with unique permission sets, enabling teams to have specialized roles in the modernized application. Authentication and Single Sign-on capabilities utilize OpenID mechanisms, and all WaveMaker 10 applications are protected from OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities to ensure greater security against threats and malicious injections. WaveMaker 10 applications also support Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, making them more accessible to users with disabilities.

    “The latest version of WaveMaker has given our application modernization efforts a fillip by helping us leapfrog to the latest Angular 7 stack. This release not only helps us to go to market faster but also greatly helps future-proof our low-code technology investments,” said Hans Don, Director of Software Development at Vanenburg Software.

    To learn more about WaveMaker 10, please visit: https://www.wavemaker.com/whats-new/.

    ABOUT WAVEMAKER

    WaveMaker’s software platform revolutionizes how enterprises build, deliver, and manage modern custom applications, improving business agility and fostering innovation. WaveMaker leverages the latest trends and technologies in low-code such as multi-device auto-responsive interfaces and componentized app assembly, Docker for app-optimized container deployment on private infrastructures, and APIs and Microservices Architecture (MSA) for scalable integration. For more information, visit www.wavemaker.com, or like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or connect with us on LinkedIn.

  • PagerDuty Announces New AWS Integrations for for CloudWatch, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and Personal Health Dashboard

    PAGERDUTY LAUNCHES NEW AWS INTEGRATIONS FOR CLOUDWATCH, GUARDDUTY, CLOUDTRAIL, AND PERSONAL HEALTH DASHBOARD

    by Andrew Marshall

    As you may expect from a company founded by former Amazon employees, PagerDuty has been helping AWS users automatically turn any signal into the right insight and action for years. Our Amazon CloudWatch integration enables teams to proactively mitigate customer-impacting issues, which in turn allows organizations to innovate and scale both their AWS and hybrid environments with confidence.

    Earlier this year, we announced that PagerDuty subscriptions are now available for AWS customers through the AWS Marketplace and Enterprise Contracts for AWS Marketplace. This week at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, we’re excited to share that PagerDuty is launching brand-new AWS integrations for CloudWatch Events, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and Personal Health Dashboard.

    Amazon CloudWatch (Events and Alarms): The Gateway to AWS Services

    AWS users count on Amazon CloudWatch to provide the performance data they can use to monitor the status of the AWS services they have deployed as part of their overall AWS ecosystem. Leveraging public cloud resources doesn’t mean users can ignore the status and performance of the servers that underpin them; in fact, keeping tabs on the various tools used becomes increasingly important as companies migrate critical apps to AWS.

    PagerDuty’s integration with CloudWatch Alarms, which our shared customers have used for some time, has allowed users to monitor resource utilization (such as memory optimization) by setting up custom high-resolution alarm thresholds. When these alarms are triggered, any resolution automation you need can be kicked off via PagerDuty. It’s an extremely powerful combination—and there’s no surprise why it’s one of the, if not the most, popular integrations PagerDuty offers.

    While a very useful tool, a CloudWatch alarm only watches a single metric over a specified time period and performs one or more specified actions, based on the value of the metric relative to a threshold over time. In other words, an alarm takes place once, at a specific point in time. This week at AWS re:Invent, we’re excited to launch CloudWatch Events, a new AWS integration that complements our Amazon CloudWatch Alarms integration.

    CloudWatch Events is a stream of system events describing changes in AWS resources, which augment the metrics CloudWatch collects. You can think of an “event” as any change to your AWS environment, along with the services that underpin it.

    For modern ITOps and DevOps teams, keeping tabs on changes is critical to maintaining the continuity and performance of your ecosystem. For example, teams need to know if an EC2 instance changes state from “pending” to “running.” They also need to know how much “scale” is actually taking place with “autoscale.” Additionally, AWS CloudTrail, in conjunction with Amazon CloudWatch, enables you keep tabs on things like API calls.

    Elasticity and the ability to rapidly scale are key value propositions for public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. As a “pay for what you use” service, keeping tabs on your AWS bill is pretty important to most teams as well. With the CloudWatch integration, PagerDuty can alert you if your AWS bill passes a certain threshold, helping teams avoid costly unplanned scaling.

    By adding the CloudWatch Events integration on top of CloudWatch Alarms, PagerDuty enables teams to automate their digital operations based on a much more robust set of AWS data. It also allows PagerDuty customers to leverage data from many more AWS services, including:

    • Amazon EC2 instances
    • AWS Lambda functions
    • Streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
    • Delivery streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
    • Amazon ECS tasks
    • Systems Manager Run Command
    • Systems Manager Automation
    • AWS Batch jobs
    • Step Functions state machines
    • Pipelines in AWS CodePipeline
    • AWS CodeBuild projects
    • Amazon Inspector Assessment Templates
    • Amazon SNS topics
    • Amazon SQS queues

    Whether your company uses on-prem servers, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or any combination of a hybrid infrastructure, PagerDuty is able to collect critical signals from your infrastructure and use them to power real-time operations.

    Amazon GuardDuty

    These days, it’s pretty common to hear the phrase “security is everyone’s responsibility,” which aligns nicely with AWS’ “shared responsibility” model. Security is everybody’s job—and PagerDuty’s integration with Amazon GuardDuty helps bring security ownership to developers by automating response workflows, as well as reducing the friction of escalating to a security expert. Amazon GuardDuty allows users to continuously monitor for any malicious or unauthorized behavior that could potentially impact an organization’s AWS ecosystem and the apps built on it. For example, while an unexpected API call or potentially compromised instance might be nothing to worry about, it’s better to collect that information so a deeper analysis can take place.

    That’s where PagerDuty and DevSecOps come in. Collecting machine-oriented outputs in CloudWatch is only the first step—you still need a workflow to determine the nature of a threat, its overall impact, and the correct action to take. When a threat is detected by Amazon GuardDuty, PagerDuty automatically notifies the right people about a critical security issue, based on your rules for response. Additionally, your team can cut through the noise by using PagerDuty Event Intelligence to group threats with other issues, giving you the right context to address an issue rather than getting buried in similar alerts. All of this can be done with seamless integration with your various systems of record (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, Remedy, or Cherwell.).

    Amazon Personal Health Dashboard

    AWS has a lot of services. And they’ll probably launch a few more this week at re:Invent. While these new services provide AWS users with greater flexibility and power to build and support new software, it can make keeping tabs on the current state of the AWS services, regions, and zones that your organization cares about much easier. Here’s a scroll through of the AWS Service Health Dashboard for just North America.

    AWS understands this issue, which is where the AWS Personal Health Dashboard comes in. The overall Service Health Dashboard provides you with a view into the general status of AWS services, but the Personal Health Dashboard provides a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services your team uses everyday. These alerts on the services you actually care about are helpful—but you still need to do something with that knowledge.

    The new PagerDuty AWS Personal Health Dashboard integration lets you ingest this data and then automate how, when, and with whom you need to take steps to resolve any issues. Teams can then augment support plays and tickets with the precise AWS service causing the issue, giving everyone in the organization the information they need to address AWS service disruptions quickly.

    If you’re attending re:Invent and want to learn more about Personal Health Dashboard and the PagerDuty integration, check out the following sessions presented by AWS:

    Session: Optimize Performance and Reduce Risk Using AWS Support Tools (ENT316-R)
    Date and Time: Monday, November 26 at 4 p.m.
    Location: Bellagio, Level 1, Grand Ballroom 6

    Session: Optimize Performance and Reduce Risk Using AWS Support Tools (ENT316-R1)
    Date and Time: Tuesday, November 27 at 11:30 a.m.:
    Location: Mirage, Mirage Event Center C3

    Amazon CloudTrail

    Another shared responsibility between AWS and the end user is compliance, governance, and operational auditing. Just because the servers aren’t in your data center doesn’t mean you can wash your hands of those workstreams. AWS CloudTrail helps users enable the governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of their AWS ecosystem.

    By enabling teams to save logs of the various events that take place in their AWS ecosystems, Amazon provides a powerful tool to manage compliance, including the actions taken through AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. As you can imagine, based on the above text, that’s only half the battle.

    Through PagerDuty’s new AWS CloudTrail integration, teams can collect the entire AWS event history to use for DevSecOps plays, automating actions as needed and seamlessly integrating with systems of record like Jira and SNOW. PagerDuty enables correlation and grouping alongside other ongoing issues, giving DevOps and DevSecOps teams the context they need to cut through operational noise. Teams can, for example, identify when a potential data exfiltration is taking place in Amazon S3 or be alerted instantly when a security group rule is changed in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. In both examples, PagerDuty can be used to automate the correct response in real time.

    Come Talk to Us at re:Invent

    As an Advanced Partner in the AWS Partner Network with the DevOps Competency, PagerDuty is pleased to join AWS at re:Invent to share these exciting new integrations with our shared customers. If you’re in Las Vegas this week, come see us at Booth 1023. Not going to re:Invent? PagerDuty offers a free 14-day trial and can be procured through the AWS Marketplace. Also, you can read more about these integrations for AWS here.

    Get started with these AWS integrations:

    https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/aws-cloudwatch-integration-guide
    https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/aws-guardduty-integration-guide
    https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/aws-cloudtrail-integration-guide
    https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/aws-personal-health-dashboard

  • StackPath Launches EdgeEngine Serverless Computing

    Create Your Own Services with Computing at the Edge

    DALLAS—November 27, 2018—StackPath, a leading platform of secure edge services, today announced StackPath EdgeEngine™, a simple yet powerful serverless computing service that lets developers run code at the cloud’s edge without a server, virtual machine, or container.

    “The edge is the new frontier in cloud computing,” said Lance Crosby, StackPath co-founder and CEO. “EdgeEngine gives developers the power to customize workloads at the edge without the burden or overhead of managing infrastructure. It’s just the first in a number of edge computing solutions we have in the works, and an unprecedented opportunity for businesses to control how data and traffic is handled right up to the point it reaches their end users, or where it hits their workloads.”

    StackPath EdgeEngine is built on the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine and lets StackPath customers simply compose or paste scripts into the StackPath customer portal and assign them to routes on their delivery sites. The script is immediately deployed in all of StackPath’s advanced edge PoPs worldwide, ready to execute at the PoP closest to an end user whenever the designated script URL is called. The service is currently available as an add-on to StackPath CDN and Edge Delivery packages but will soon be available for use with any StackPath service, or as a standalone, and will support a wide number of languages.

    “Having the ability to create a dynamic user-experience at the edge is a total game changer,” said Ben Gabler, StackPath Senior Vice President, Product. “At StackPath, we can’t always predict every feature or use case that we will support, but today that’s no longer an issue. With the power of EdgeEngine the customer possibilities are endless.”

    EdgeEngine is ideal for a wide range of use cases, including:

    • Delivering personalized, dynamic and unique content based on request data: Modify end user experience directly from the edge instead of relying on client-side execution
    • Customizing security measures: Deploy scripts that execute before a request reaches content, such as blocking or allowing WordPress Administration
    • Building an API entry point or entire API gateway: Create scripts that designate specific routes (as many as desired) to a delivery site
    • Reducing total cost of operations: Handle computing tasks at the edge instead of sending them back to the origin, reducing origin compute workloads and data transfer
    • Improving overall end-user experiences: Process data from and reply to end users from the nearest edge PoP, lowering response time and enabling near-real-time network applications

    EdgeEngine is available now for existing StackPath customers. To begin using it, StackPath customers can simply add it to a CDN or Edge Delivery stack through the StackPath customer portal. EdgeEngine is competitively priced at $10/month per stack for 15M requests ($0.60 for each additional 1M requests) with no limit on number of scripts or delivery domains per stack, unlike competing serverless edge computing services.

     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