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  • Extreme Networks Names New Chief Financial Officer

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Extreme Networks Inc® (“Extreme”) (Nasdaq: EXTR), a software-driven networking company, announced today that Rémi Thomas will join the company as its new Chief Financial Officer, reporting to Ed Meyercord, President and Chief Executive Officer. Thomas has 25+ years of finance experience, and comes to Extreme from CA Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller for the past year and a half. His start date is November 26, 2018.

    “Coming off a successful first quarter with record cash collection and a strong balance sheet, we are extremely excited to welcome Rémi Thomas to the Extreme family to drive continued, positive momentum. He is a business-oriented, global finance executive from top pedigree technology firms. He has strong M&A experience and a deep understanding of the software business, which is a key engineering focus for our company. There is no doubt that he is the right person to help us monetize our development and productization efforts moving forward,” said Meyercord.

    While at CA Technologies, Thomas led the organization in the preparation of financial statements, financial reports and SEC and Regulatory filings, and provided executive leadership on all operational accounting activities. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President of Finance at HPE Software, a business unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Thomas also worked for Alcatel-Lucent for close to eight years – mostly in Paris and Shanghai – in various finance leadership roles including CFO for Enterprise and Strategic Industries, CFO for APAC, CFO for Wireless Networks and finally, head of M&A and Corporate Development. In this last role, Thomas drove negotiations that led to the announcement of the merger between Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia.

    Thomas has a Master of Business Administration from University of Warwick in the UK, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Toulouse Business School in France.

    Matt Cleaver, Extreme’s Vice President of Finance, has been the interim CFO since September when the company’s CFO left the company. Cleaver will resume his position as part of Thomas’ staff and will play a key role in helping him transition into his new role at Extreme.

    Meyercord added, “Matt did an excellent job during these past three months. I want to thank him for the work he did as interim CFO as we made steady progress on our financial goals under his leadership.”

    About Extreme Networks

    Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) delivers software-driven solutions from the enterprise edge to the cloud that are agile, adaptive, and secure to enable digital transformation. Our 100% in-sourced services and support are number one in the industry. Even with 30,000 customers globally, including half of the Fortune 50 and some of the world’s leading names in business, hospitality, retail, transportation and logistics, education, government, healthcare and manufacturing, we remain nimble and responsive to ensure customer and partner success. We call this Customer-Driven Networking™. Founded in 1996, Extreme is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information, visit Extreme’s website or call 1-888-257-3000.

    Extreme Networks and the Extreme Networks logo are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Extreme Networks, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

  • Protego Spearheads Launch of the OWASP Official Serverless Top 10 Project

    Report to Educate Application Security Practitioners on Serverless Application Risks and Mitigation Techniques

     Baltimore, Maryland – The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released today the official OWASP Serverless Top 10 project initiated by Protego Labs. The project launch begins with a provisional report designed to be a first look into the leading risks in serverless security and to serve as a baseline for official OWASP Serverless Top 10.

    The OWASP Top 10 is the de-facto guide for application security practitioners to understand the most common application attacks and risks. Its data spans vulnerabilities gathered from hundreds of organizations and over 100,000 real-world applications and APIs. The Top 10 items are selected and prioritized according to this data, in combination with consensus estimates of exploitability, detectability, and impact into providing The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks.

    “Since serverless applications are vastly different, security risks have changed,” said Tal Melamed, project leader. “With serverless, hackers must try different vectors and approaches for attacks; developers cannot employ traditional perimeter protections and need to change their way of thinking, as almost none of the mitigations suggested for traditional applications would fit in the serverless world, which is why we’re working on the OWASP serverless Top 10 project.”

    Similar to the OWASP Top 10, the final Serverless Top 10 will be based on data collected from real industry input through an open call. The OWASP Serverless Top 10 is the first and only OWASP report that examines the main risks in serverless security. It also serves as a baseline for creating the official OWASP Serverless Top 10 security risks to educate organizations about the unique security landscape of serverless applications.

    Protego is backed by a group of security industry investors, including Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Glilot Capital Partners, and former RSA CTO, Tim Belcher. Earlier this year, Protego won the Startup Competition for the most innovative cyber initiative at the Cybertech Tel Aviv 2018 Conference. Additionally, Protego is currently nominated for Best Cybersecurity Startup in the Cyber Excellence Awards, and was listed as a 2019 company to watch by SD Times.

     About Protego 

    Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional application security paradigms, Protego Labs designed the first comprehensive solution built with the unique constraints and opportunities of serverless in mind. Through continuous serverless security posture, dynamic serverless intelligence, and elastic defense, Protego helps organizations achieve control over the security of their applications. For more information, visit http://www.protego.io.

     About OWASP 

    OWASP is a worldwide free and open community focused on improving the security of application software. There are over 200 OWASP Local Chapters world-wide that are free and open to anyone to attend. OWASP tools and documents can be used to detect and to guard against security-related design and implementation flaws, as well as to add security-related activities into your Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). For additional detail about OWASP, leadership, and corporate details, visit https://www.owasp.org.

  • Databricks Unified Analytics Platform Simplifies Distributed Deep Learning

    Unified Analytics Leader Supports New Apache Spark 2.4; Introduces New Feature to Simplify Distributed Deep Learning

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Databricks, the leader in unified analytics and founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, today announced support for the newly released Apache Spark 2.4.0 within Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform. Databricks is the first unified analytics vendor to support Apache Spark 2.4. It is supported as part of Databricks Runtime 5.0, which is now generally available. Databricks also introduced a key feature, HorovodRunner, within Runtime 5.0 to further simplify distributed deep learning.

    The Apache Spark community made multiple valuable contributions to the Spark 2.4 release which was introduced on November 8, 2018. In this release, Project Hydrogen substantially improves the performance and fault-recovery of distributed deep learning and machine learning frameworks on Spark. Project Hydrogen directly addresses the challenges data teams face because there is a significant difference between how big data jobs and deep learning jobs are executed. Whereas Spark excels at data processing at massive scale, deep learning assumes complete coordination and dependency among tasks which is optimized for constant communication rather than scalability and fault tolerance.

    “Innovation continues to thrive within the Apache Spark community. Project Hydrogen is the most recent major initiative with an aim to provide first-class support for popular distributed machine learning frameworks on Apache Spark,” said Reynold Xin, co-founder at Databricks, Apache Spark PMC member and the top contributor to the project.

    Within Apache Spark 2.4, Project Hydrogen introduces Barrier Execution, a new scheduling mode that allows practitioners to properly embed distributed deep learning training as an Apache Spark workload. Added Xin, “This is the largest change to Spark’s scheduler since the inception of the project. At Databricks, we also found additional opportunities to simplify the complexity of machine learning workloads. Within Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform, which is powered by Spark 2.4, we created further optimizations to simplify distributed deep learning.”

     Databricks Simplifies Distributed Deep Learning in Runtime 5.0

    Model experimentation usually takes place on a single-node machine, locally or in the cloud, before scaling out computation as needed. Migrating from single-node workloads to distributed training on a CPU or GPU clusters can often times require a full code rewrite, increasing the complexity of moving to distributed training. To accelerate migration to distributed deep learning, Databricks just released HorovodRunner. The new feature provides a simple way to scale up deep learning training workloads from a single machine to large clusters, reducing overall programming and training time from hours to minutes.

    To help simplify deep learning further, Databricks also provides native integration with the most popular frameworks including TensorFlow, Keras, and Horovod, as well as a performance edge with the most popular machine learning algorithms from MLlib and GraphFrames. This provides practitioners with a convenient way to get machine learning clusters started in seconds, pre-configured with the latest machine learning frameworks, libraries, and their dependencies.

    Additional Resources

    About Databricks

    Databricks’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying Data Science, Engineering and Business. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. Users achieve faster time-to-value with Databricks by creating analytic workflows that go from ETL and interactive exploration to production. The company also makes it easier for its users to focus on their data by providing a fully managed, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure that reduces operational complexity and total cost of ownership. Databricks, venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Battery Ventures, among others, has a global customer base that includes Viacom, Shell and HP.

    Apache, Apache Spark and Spark are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation.

  • Redis Introduces RedisGraph and Streams to Support a Zero Latency Future

    Redis Enterprise Strengthens its Position as the Leading Database for the Instant Economy

     

    Redis, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, today announced at Redis Day London the latest release of Redis Enterprise with two key functionalities: RedisGraph and Streams. RedisGraph is a new module designed to solve complicated, practical graph problems in real-time. Streams is a new data structure that enables ingestion and analysis of huge volumes of unstructured data that are generated at extremely fast rates. Both of these functionalities support faster decision-making by businesses and are poised to accelerate the arrival of zero latency apps and services for their customers.

     

    “There are numerous emerging environments that require zero latency to deliver on their promise—autonomous vehicles, facial recognition, smart homes, and many more,” said Manish Gupta, CMO at Redisf. “However a key piece holding these innovations back from mass consumer adoption is the speed at which the databases can process data. RedisGraph and Streams will help companies make their apps, devices, and systems deliver the instantaneous experiences consumers expect.”

     

    Introducing the World’s Fastest Graph Database: RedisGraph

    Built on GraphBLAS, an open-source library that employs linear algebra including matrix multiplication, RedisGraph can complete calculations up to 600 times faster than any alternate graph solution according to benchmark results.

     

    RedisGraph’s key capabilities and use cases include:

    • The first application of GraphBLAS to focus on real-world problem-solving such as tracing contaminations or analyzing traffic flow, by performing calculations at an unprecedented speed.
    • Designed to make performing critical graph-based calculations easy and efficient, and to empower enterprises to make decisions to solve problems quickly.
    • Minimizes the need for specialized databases to address different use cases.
    • Eliminates the need for manual, step-by-step calculations and permits users to store values, search millions of graph nodes and edges, and perform multiple calculations simultaneously.
    • Sample use cases include tracing the source of contamination in a complex supply chain, tracking user behaviors to boost efficiency of recommendation engines or analyzing traffic flow on multiple roadways at once.

     

    “RedisGraph is an extremely performant graph database,” said Daniel Howard, senior researcher at Bloor. “Thanks to the matrix representation it uses and the linear algebra algorithms it implements, it is able to create over one million nodes in under half a second, and form three million relationships in the same time frame. Early benchmarks performed by Redis suggest that their graph processing times are orders of magnitude faster than their competitors.”

     

    “We’re looking forward to building upon our existing implementation of Redis Enterprise. We anticipate that RedisGraph will open up new possibilities in rapid detection, advanced warning, and exploration of malware data,” says Mark Patton, senior vice president of engineering at Malwarebytes. “We believe that RedisGraph will accelerate real-time insights into threat mitigation and overall security posture.”

     

    “We’ve been using Redis for over a decade and it has been great to see the success our teams are achieving with it,” said Emre Sokullu, CEO and founder at Grou.PS. “With the simplicity and scale that RedisGraph is able to deliver with its multi-tenant architecture and the compactness of the data storage, we’ve been able to reduce our infrastructure footprint quite considerably. With support for the Cypher Query Language, the switch from our existing graph implementation in favor of RedisGraph was straightforward. Now, with the expected increase of the speed of our queries, we can get the insights we rely on faster than ever.”

     

    A New Data Structure Supporting Fast Processing and Analysis: Streams

    Streams is a new data structure that was introduced with open source Redis 5.0 and is now available in the latest version of Redis Enterprise. With the power of Streams, simple monitoring tools can be transformed to process and act upon data that is being generated in real time. For example, a baby monitor could go from streaming the live feed of a baby’s crib to analyzing the real-time status and health of the infant including sounding an alarm if the child’s breathing or heartbeat is irregular.

     

    Streams’ benefits and features include:

    • Processes data in real time that is being generated in huge volumes and at extremely fast rates.
    • Enables the creation of queues to share information among different applications and systems or to unify logs from different systems.
    • Sample use cases include real-time sentiment analysis of social media feeds, processing data from the environment and other surroundings to inform and guide the actions of autonomous vehicles, facial recognition technology, machine learning, evaluating real-time events to spot fraud or a cyber attack, and supporting better IoT and Smart Home devices.

     

    Additional Resources

    For an introduction to the new RedisGraph module please visit here and find a performance benchmark study on the company’s blog.

     

    Additionally a summary on RedisGraph is available from independent analyst firm, Bloor Research.

  • Anaxi Enhances Development Intelligence Tool, Helps Maintain Delivery Schedules with Added Support for Atlassian Jira

    App provides greater reporting and analysis capabilities

    SAN FRANCISCO, November 15, 2018 — Anaxi, maker of software that helps engineering organizations gain control over the development process, announced today its iPhone app has added support for Atlassian Jira Server and Cloud versions to its current support for Github,  giving engineers and managers increased visibility and intelligence on their software development projects and processes.

    “By aggregating data from different tools, we’re able to provide metrics that provide a holistic view of the development process — not piece parts,” said Marc Verstaen, co-founder and CEO of Anaxi. “Now, for the first time, there is a system of record for software engineering to better control the process and keep development schedules on track.”

    Anaxi’s app now integrates data from both GitHub and Jira, the leaders in code versioning and issue tracking, respectively. The company intends to expand the number of tools it supports in the coming months.

    The Anaxi software development intelligence app analytics include productivity reports on individual, as well as team performance, providing more transparency and delivering actionable insights.

    Currently, Anaxi offers a free version of its app for the iPhone that is available on iTunes. The company is planning to make available in the coming weeks a beta version of its web app followed by an Android version. The company’s plans include a paid version for users who want premium reporting and communication features.

    The newly added capabilities for the Anaxi free app on the iPhone include the following.

    • Issue and Pull Request Metrics

    Users can look into their pull request and issue data to better understand how their projects are evolving. Users can use any filtering and sorting options to surface the items of interest to them and save them as new reports for quick access. Also, Anaxi created an evaluation of complexity for pull requests, as an additional consideration for users in terms of assessing which pull requests to review first.

    • Productivity Metrics

    Analysis of project commits provides metrics on individual and team productivity, including a breakdown of the effort in terms of code added and removed, refactoring, code churn, and more on a weekly basis.

    • Project Management

    From their iPhone, users can edit their issues and pull requests. All edits are synchronized back to their GitHub and Jira projects.

    • Data Confidentiality

    To protect the need for confidentiality and access to users’ GitHub and Jira accounts,  the Anaxi app is designed to connect directly to the users’ Github repositories and/or Jira projects. Then, the app builds the reports using the data, which remains secure and inaccessible, even from Anaxi itself.

    For more information go to www.anaxi.com/features.

    About Anaxi

    Co-founded by Marc Verstaen (previously executive vice president of product development at Docker) and John Lafleur (previously CEO at CodinGame) in December 2017, Anaxi is the system of record for software engineering organizations that need to facilitate decision processes. Anaxi will open a new data-driven era to engineering organizations, empowering them to better allocate their development time and resources.

  • SentryOne Expands Software Development Engineering Team Into EMEA

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. – November 15, 2018 – SentryOne has onboarded a new Software Development Engineering team out of its Dublin City Centre, Ireland, office to accommodate their rapidly growing EMEA footprint. Since opening in May 2018, the Irish subsidiary has quickly become entrenched in the EMEA Microsoft Data Platform community.

    “Dublin was an obvious choice for the location of our EMEA office due to Ireland’s high-quality talent, its inviting culture of commerce, and IDA Ireland’s invaluable support,” said SentryOne CEO Bob Potter. “Our presence in Dublin provides increased access to and collaboration with the Microsoft Inside Sales Team, Solution Sales Professionals, and Technology Solutions Professionals responsible for Data Platform and premier channel partners throughout EMEA.”

    SentryOne Founder and CTO Greg Gonzalez realized that the company could exponentially accelerate engineering productivity by tapping into the high-quality pool of engineers residing in EMEA. A significant portion of the company’s future EMEA headcount expansion will be in software engineering, in addition to other business functions such as marketing and finance.

    “Our collaboration with Microsoft has strengthened since we opened SentryOne EMEA, and we’re eager to see where our continued growth in EMEA takes our partnership,” said Gonzalez.

    The company’s EMEA team expansion follows the recent Microsoft announcement that it’s adding 200 new jobs to its Dublin campus, bringing the total number of Ireland-based Microsoft team members to more than two thousand.

    “IDA Ireland’s high-growth businesses like SentryOne represent an increasingly important part of Ireland’s high-tech business ecosystem,” said Mary Buckley, Executive Director IDA Ireland. “Today’s expansion is further evidence of Ireland’s ability to attract high-value investments from leading companies as they grow their international businesses from Ireland.”

  • Nokia Releases Upgraded CloudBand Infrastructure Software to Secure 5G Cloud Deployments, Enhance Service Delivery and Reduce Costs for Customers

    • New converged CloudBand Infrastructure Software delivers secure, unified virtual infrastructure management software to secure 5G cloud deployments
    • The new release includes OpenStack directly from the open source community in order to move new capabilities to customers faster and to support the smaller footprint required for edge deployments
    • Enables management of virtual machines (VM) and containers in the cloud to ease the transition to the multi-vendor, cloud-native environments of the 5G era

    15 November 2018

    Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced its latest CloudBand Infrastructure Software to give communication service providers (CSPs) and other customers sharper cloud management solutions that improve service delivery and significantly reduce operating costs as 5G deployments get underway.

    CloudBand Infrastructure Software gives CSPs the capability to unify their Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure/Virtualized Infrastructure Manager, or NFVI/VIM, in order to support centralized and distributed edge cloud deployments and workloads.

    The CloudBand Infrastructure Software upgrade streamlines operational procedures by providing a single NFVi/VIM for all cloud deployment needs, such as support and management for both VM and containerized workloads. In a 5G digital services era, there is greater dependence on containers in the cloud and Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure allows CSPs to gain experience with cloud-native architectures without introducing completely different tool chains.

    Addressing a combination of IT and Telco use cases enables Nokia CloudBand customers to reduce cost and complexity compared to proprietary siloed approaches.

    “Operators risk unwanted complexity and costs in their OpenStack infrastructure by creating new virtualized silos, and they stand to benefit from a unified approach ,” Peter Fetterolf, CTO of ACG Business Analytics. “By streamlining process definition, execution, and maintenance across multiple vendors for activities like onboarding Virtual Network Functions, deploying and updating software, and troubleshooting using disparate tool chains, operators can reduce the cost of managing and maintaining cloud infrastructure by 92% over a five-year period and total cost of ownership by 56% over the same period.”

    Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software includes OpenStack software directly from the open source community to address several challenges facing OpenStack adopters; for example, providing timely maintenance and feature updates and localized infrastructure security compliance. It also includes full Software Defined Networking domain controller pre-integration to give customers an end-to-end solution with lower integration costs and improved time-to- market.

    Guy Shemesh, Head of CloudBand at Nokia, said: “Nokia’s latest CloudBand Infrastructure Software improves on OpenStack’s operational state and removes risk and complexity for CSPs. CloudBand Infrastructure Software supports a combination of IT and Telco network cloud deployments, including stringent radio requirements, as well as Enterprise cloud needs. It is the best-in-class solution for converged cloud management solutions. This next-level solution is being swiftly rolled out for Nokia customers.”

    Nokia’s CloudBand management and orchestration (MANO), including CloudBand Infrastructure Software, have been key components in several multi-year customer deployment agreements in 2018. These have included StarHub to accelerate mobile data speeds to 1Gbps; BSNL to support the roll out of 4G and Voice over LTE services in India; and T-Mobile to support their nationwide, multi-band 5G network rollout across the United States.

    Resources

    • Web page: Nokia Cloudband Solutions
    • Press release: StarHub Accelerates Mobile Data Speeds to 1Gbps
    • Press release: Nokia and T-Mobile leading the way with nationwide 5G multi-band network rollout across the United States
    • Press release: Nokia and BSNL to roll out 4G and Voice over LTE services in India

    About Nokia We create the technology to connect the world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry’s most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing.

    We adhere to the highest ethical business standards as we create technology with social purpose, quality and integrity. Nokia is enabling the infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things to transform the human experience. nokia.com.

    Media Inquiries: Kelly Stone The Hoffman Agency for Nokia Software Communications Phone: +1 206-618-2028 Email: kstone@hoffman.com

    Nokia Communications Phone: +358 10 448 4900 Email: press.services@nokia.com

  • Digital Defense Announces Frontline Active Threat Sweep™

    Fast, Easy to Deploy, Cost-Effective Alternative to Threat Hunting Platforms

    San Antonio, TX – November 15, 2018 – Digital Defense, Inc., a leading security technology and services provider, today announced the availability of their next generation Threat Detection technology, Frontline Active Threat Sweep™ (Frontline ATS™), an optional addition to Frontline.Cloud.

    Frontline ATS – underpinned by Digital Defense’s patented security assessment technology – operationalizes threat intelligence.  The solution fills a unique need in the threat arena by offering an agentless malware detection solution that quickly and reliably analyzes assets across the enterprise for threat activity and indicators of compromise that may have bypassed traditional security defenses.

    Time is of the essence when protecting digital assets from cybercriminals.  Changing out existing endpoint protection programs in favor of Next Generation Anti-Virus (NGAV) or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) offerings requires significant time and investment.  Frontline ATS immediately shores-up existing defenses and provides visibility as to where organizations need to selectively deploy tools on endpoints when greater levels of forensic analysis is needed.  With Frontline ATS, organizations:

    • benefit from highly-targeted rapid response to possible malware infections
    • minimize operational disruption and capital expenses
    • optimize resources with minimal to no training requirements

    “Whether you need to sweep millions of nodes or just a few, Frontline ATS quickly determines if malware has evaded cybersecurity defenses deployed to protect your information assets,” said Mike Cotton, SVP of Engineering at Digital Defense, Inc.  “And as with all Digital Defense solutions, Frontline ATS is a cloud-based offering hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Frontline ATS provides clients with the most powerful and configurable threat sweeping solution in the marketplace.”

    Any organization looking to bolster existing endpoint protection, NGAV, or EDR investments will find Frontline ATS provides a compelling alternative to expensive, difficult to deploy threat hunting platforms.

    Learn more about Frontline ATS

    Contact sales@digitaldefense.com

    About Digital Defense

    Serving clients across numerous industries, Digital Defense’s innovative and leading-edge technology helps organizations safeguard sensitive data and eases the burdens associated with information security. Frontline.Cloud, the original Security SaaS platform, delivers unparalleled accuracy and efficiencies through multiple systems including Frontline Active Threat Sweep™ (Frontline ATS™), Frontline Vulnerability Manager (Frontline VM™), Frontline Web Application Scanning (Frontline WAS™) and Frontline Pen Test™, while SecurED®, the company’s security awareness training, promotes employees’ security-minded behavior. The Digital Defense Frontline suite of products, underpinned by patented technology and complemented with superior service and support, are highly-regarded by industry experts, as illustrated by the company’s designation as 2018 Global Vulnerability Management Customer Value Leadership Award, #10 ranking in Black Book Market Research’s list of Compliance & Risk Management Solutions, five-star review in SC Magazine, and inclusion in CRN’s MSP 500.

     

    Contact Digital Defense at 888-273-1412; visit www.digitaldefense.com, our blog, LinkedIn, or follow @Digital_Defense on Twitter.

  • Build Global Applications in Minutes & Lower Storage Costs Up To 70% with Alfresco Digital Business Platform

    Alfresco Software first vendor in content services market with support for Amazon EKS and Amazon Glacier; delivering capabilities that lower storage costs while increasing speed and scalability

    SAN MATEO, Calif.—November 15, 2018 — Alfresco Software, a leading enterprise open source provider of process automation, content management, and information governance software, today announced major product updates to their Digital Business Platform including support for Amazon EKS and Amazon Glacier.  Alfresco’s support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) empowers solution architects to build modern, cloud ready applications in record time.  Alfresco makes it easy to move fast, deploy efficiently, and operate securely at an unprecedented scale and to “go global” in just minutes with new enhanced capabilities:

    • Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) Support – With Alfresco’s support for Amazon EKS, customers can easily deploy, scale and manage large Alfresco production implementations – going global in minutes while eliminating single points of failure.  The ability to do product upgrades and patches is simpler and faster.
    • Amazon Glacier Support – Integration with Amazon’s long-term, durable and secure storage solution makes a range of use cases dramatically less expensive to support.  For example, Alfresco customers wanting to intelligently optimize the storage costs associated with regulatory compliance and legal discovery can now do so at a significant cost savings over on-premise storage.
    • The New Alfresco Digital Workspace – Architecture matters, but user experience is paramount.  This simple new “out of the box” interface is backed by the power of the Alfresco Application Development Framework (ADF) and designed to accelerate end-user adoption of Alfresco solutions. Providing for the most commonly used functions, it can be easily extended with a vast library of pre-built modular UX components and robust open APIs, allowing Alfresco developers and partners to rapidly create the custom, fit-for-purpose applications their users need.

    Its real: Reduce product onboarding time from three days to five seconds

    Pitney Bowes leveraged a combination of technologies including Alfresco and AWS in the development of their Commerce Cloud platform.  Alfresco running on AWS significantly accelerated client onboarding by coordinating a provisioning flow that launches credit checks, sets up a payment account, generates a payment token, and then puts the token in all the right places in all the right systems. The company slashed the onboarding time for a postage payment product offered by Pitney Bowes Global Financial Services from three days to five seconds. New clients can start running mail almost immediately after signing up for an account.

    See Alfresco at re:Invent 2018

    Alfresco will be exhibiting their Digital Business Platform solutions at AWS re:Invent 2018 in The Quad at the Aria Hotel, November 26-30, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The company invites attendees to stop by their booth (#330) to learn more about how their Digital Business Platform helps make business flow for organizations of all sizes.  One-on-one meetings and product demonstrations are being scheduled upon request. To reserve a meeting time, please go to https://www.alfresco.com/events-and-webinars.

    About Alfresco Software, Inc.

    Alfresco Software, Inc. (“Alfresco”) is an enterprise open source software company focused on advancing the flow of digital business. The company provides a better, more effortless way for people to work, making sure they have the information they need, exactly when they need it most. The Alfresco Digital Business Platform is used to digitize processes, manage content and securely govern information. Alfresco helps over 1,300 industry-leading organizations, including Cisco, Bank of NY Mellon, Capital One, US Department of Navy, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and NASA, be more responsive and competitive. Founded in 2005, Alfresco has its U.S. headquarters in San Mateo, California, and European headquarters in Maidenhead, UK. For more information on Alfresco, please visit http://www.alfresco.com.

     

  • Trifacta Extends Data Preparation to DataOps with New Functionality for Data Engineers

    New features including RapidTarget and Automator allow data engineers to more efficiently operationalize data preparation workflows in production

    SAN FRANCISCO, 14th of November 2018 — Trifacta, the global leader in data preparation, today announced a new set of capabilities designed to enable data engineers within data operations (DataOps) practices to more efficiently develop, test, schedule and monitor data preparation pipelines in production. With RapidTarget, Trifacta customers can utilize an existing data model to intelligently guide transformations and accelerate the process of generating a new  output dataset that matches the predefined schema. Automator provides end-to-end management of scheduling, monitoring and refining preparation workflows. These new features, along with the new Deployment Manager framework, facilitate the work of data engineers in administering data pipelines that feed analytics, machine learning and data science initiatives.

    “Today’s organizations are increasingly adopting DataOps to more efficiently scale their analytics and data management practices ,” said Wei Zheng, VP of Products at Trifacta. “Data engineers are at the center of this shift, playing a critical role in the data preparation practices that form the backbone of their data efforts. Our team has extensively studied the emerging role of data engineers within our customers’ organizations and focused these latest enhancements on improving their ability to transition data prep workflows into scalable, repeatable data pipelines. Our introduction of these new capabilities demonstrates the expanding role Trifacta is playing within the data management practices of our customers.”

    DataOps is clearly on the rise, with 73 percent of organizations indicating they planned to invest in the methodology in 2018. In light of this growing adoption of DataOps practices, the role of the data engineer in configuring, managing and scaling data pipelines has risen as a critical position within data management. Trifacta, through its work with large-scale enterprises including New York Life, GlaxoSmithKline and Deutsche Boerse, has seen first-hand how data engineers are a driving force behind the maturation of data preparation from an ad-hoc activity to a standard enterprise data management process. These new features in the Trifacta platform further support the role that data engineers perform in promoting data preparation flows developed by analyst end users into scalable data pipelines that deliver value to the broader organization.

    “Data engineering is a critical function at Malwarebytes—ultimately, we’re the ones responsible for the secure adoption of new analytics use cases across the organization,” said Manjunath Vasishta, Director of Data Science and Engineering, Malwarebytes. “Trifacta’s data preparation platform has been instrumental to that objective, allowing us to provide our business users with increased accessibility to data, while also maintaining governance. As data preparation usage continues to grow, the platform’s functionality provides data engineers with even further assurance to scale and operationalize data prep workflows in order to keep pace with the demands of the business.”

    The new features from Trifacta to further support data engineers and DataOps-focused organizations include:

    • RapidTarget: Allows data engineers to set a predefined schema target that provides automated guidance for how diverse data sources must be prepared and joined together in order to map to that target. Aligning the transformation process to an existing data model is critical when integrating unfamiliar or external data into an analysis. RapidTarget offers intelligent suggestions to accelerate how users prep and blend data sources in order to align their output to fit a desired data model.
    • Automator: Trifacta’s system to intelligently manage the scaling, scheduling and monitoring of data prep workflows in production. Users can set the schedule for flows to automatically run in production at a given time, when data updates or programmatically using APIs. Upon scheduling, users can define parameters or variables to customize what data is input into a workflow and how outputs are published.  Finally, they can monitor the status and performance of jobs, and set alerts when input data changes or anomalies occur.
    • Deployment Manager: Provides a framework for testing, versioning and managing data preparation workflows as they transition into enterprise-wide data pipelines. Before a new workflow can bring value to the broader organization, the flow must be tested at scale. With Trifacta’s Deployment Manager, data engineers can seamlessly test new workflows across development, testing and staging environments prior to being transitioned into production pipelines. The framework also allows data engineers to manage the versioning of flows and even rollback to prior versions of flows if needed.

    According to a recent Gartner report, “Providing the right data to the right people at the right time is a constant challenge. Data engineers are emerging as a crucial role in addressing this challenge. Data and analytics leaders must therefore develop a data engineering discipline as part of their data management strategy.”*

    Learn more about how data engineers are using Trifacta as part of broader adoption of DataOps practices on Trifacta’s blog here.

    *Gartner, Data Engineering Is Critical to Driving Data and Analytics Success, Roxane Edjlali, Nick Heudecker, Ehtisham Zaidi, 4 October 2018

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