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  • LF Deep Learning Delivers First Acumos AI Release Making it Easier to Deploy and Share Artificial Intelligence Models

    First Acumos AI release enables deployment of AI applications in private/public cloud environments, and enhances the platform user interface experience

    SHANGHAI (KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON CHINA) – November 14, 2018 – The LF Deep Learning Foundation, a project of The Linux Foundation that supports open source innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL), today announced the availability of its first software release of the Acumos AI Project – Athena.

    Acumos AI is a platform and open source framework that makes it easy to build, share and deploy AI applications. Acumos AI standardizes the infrastructure stack and components required to run an out-of-the-box general AI environment. This frees data scientists and model trainers to focus on their core competencies and accelerate innovation.

    “The Acumos Athena release represents a significant step forward in making AI models more accessible for builders of AI applications and models along with users and trainers of those models and applications,” said Scott Nicholas, senior director of strategic planning at The Linux Foundation. “This furthers the goal of LF Deep Learning and the Acumos project of accelerating overall AI innovation.”

    Major highlights of the Athena release include:

    • One-click deployment of the platform utilizing Docker or Kubernetes;
    • The ability to deploy models into a public or private cloud infrastructure or in a Kubernetes environment on users’ own hardware including servers and virtual machines;
    • A design studio, which is a graphical interface for chaining together multiple models, data translation tools, filters and output adapters into a full end-to-end solution;
    • Use of a security token to allow simple onboarding of models from an external toolkit directly to an Acumos AI repository;
    • Decoupling of microservices generation from the model onboarding process to easily repurpose models for different environments and hardware; and
    • An advanced user portal with the ability to personalize marketplace view by theme, data on model authorship as well as to share models privately or publicly and user experience upgrades.

    All of these features are designed to make it quick and easy to get started deploying and sharing Acumos AI applications.

    Full release notes can be accessed at https://wiki.acumos.org/display/REL/Athena+Release.

    “LF Deep Learning members, including Amdocs, AT&T, Orange, Tech Mahindra and others, are contributing to the evolution of the platform to ease the onboarding and the deployment of AI models,” said LF Deep Learning Outreach Committee Chair Jamil Chawki. “The Acumos AI Marketplace, a catalog of community-contributed AI models with common APIs that can be shared securely across multiple systems, remains open and accessible to anyone who wishes to download or contribute models and applications.”

    “The LF Deep Learning Foundation is focused on building an ecosystem of AI, deep learning and machine learning projects, and today’s announcement represents a significant milestone toward achieving this vision,” said LF Deep Learning Technical Advisory Council Chair Ofer Hermoni of Amdocs.

    “We’re already inspired and energized by the progress of the Acumos AI Project since its initial launch earlier this year,” said Mazin Gilbert, Vice President of Advanced Technology and Systems at AT&T and Governing Board Chair of LF Deep Learning. “Athena is the next step in harmonizing the AI community, furthering adoption and accelerating innovation.”

    What’s Next for Acumos AI

    The developer community for Acumos AI is already working on the next release, which will be available in mid-2019, introducing convenient model training as well as data extraction pipelines to make models more flexible. Additionally, the next release will include updates to assist closed-source model developers, including secure and reliable licensing components to provide execution control and performance feedback across the community.

    Organizations interested in contributing projects and more information about LF Deep Learning Foundation, can go to www.deeplearningfoundation.org.

    Supporting Quotes

    “Amdocs is proud to be an active member of The Linux Foundation, and in particular, a Founding Member of the Acumos AI project. The Acumos AI Athena release is a big milestone for open source AI and its role in driving intelligence, automation and machine learning in the communication and media industries.  Acumos AI is positioned to become the de-facto marketplace for machine learning models, both for open source as well as peer to peer (company to company) models, delivering faster time to innovation.” – Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President of Amdocs Technology

    “As one of the founding members of LF Deep Learning Foundation, Huawei is excited to see this growing AI developer ecosystem continue to help the Acumos AI platform mature, and reach the first major technical milestone – the Acumos Athena release! The Acumos project offers significant value to Huawei SoftCOM AI strategy – building autonomous networks with the goal of automation, self-optimization, and self-healing to help operators significantly improve network utilization and maintenance efficiency. Huawei is proud to be part of this project and will continue to work with the Acumos developer community to further enhance the Acumos AI platform and unleash the power that AI can bring to our operators.” – Xiaoli Jiang, GM, Cloud Open Source Development Team, Huawei

    “Orange has been actively involved in Acumos since April 2018 through a Project Team Leader for the model onboarding module to manage and drive evolutions in the onboarding capabilities. This involvement shows the willingness of Orange to take part and promote the AI ecosystem in the telecom domain. Orange also considered the coherency of integrating Acumos in the continuity of all the works performed in the network automation LFN/ONAP project. Acumos is seen as a common platform that can bridge existing AI technologies and new ones through its openness. It can also favor cross business AI-based developments through its federative approach and thanks to its marketplace.” – François Jezequel, Head of ITsation, Procurement and Operators, Orange

    “As a key contributor to the Acumos Athena release we are excited to foster a collaborative ecosystem through the Acumos AI Marketplace. It is also a testimony to our COPA framework (Co-Create using Open Source to create Platforms and bring in Automation and AI). With companies and customers increasingly adopting Acumos, industrialization of AI through a common standard and marketplace like Acumos is bound to gain more traction.” – Dr. Satish Pai Sr. Vice President, Americas Communications, Media and Entertainment, Tech Mahindra

    About LF Deep Learning

    The LF Deep Learning Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, accelerates and sustains the growth of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning open source projects. Backed by many of the world’s largest technology leaders, LF Deep Learning is a neutral space for harmonization and ecosystem engagement to advance AI, DL and ML innovation. To get involved with the LF Deep Learning Foundation, please visit https://www.deeplearningfoundation.org.

    About The Linux Foundation

    The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

  • XM Cyber Closes $22 Million in Series A Funding

    Cybersecurity Disruptor will Use New Investment to Fuel Continuous Growth and Innovation

    HERZLIYA, Israel, Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ —  XM Cyber, multi-award winning provider of the first fully automated APT simulation and remediation platform, today announced that it has closed a $22 million Series A funding round with the participation of Macquarie Capital, Nasdaq Ventures, Our Innovation Fund, LP and UST Global, among others. The company has now raised a total of $32 million, following a previous seed round of $10 million from Swarth Group.

    XM Cyber will use the funding to accelerate its strong growth through expanded sales, marketing and engineering programs. The company, a leader in the “Breach and Attack Simulation” category, has already received 16 industry awards this year on the strength of its HaXM platform, including being recognized as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum. XM Cyber’s customers include leading financial institutions and critical infrastructure organizations across North America, Europe, Israel and Australia.

    “In this era of hyper-sophisticated cybercrime, our solution demonstrates that organizations should be asking themselves ‘Are my critical assets really secure?’ as there is a plethora of ways hackers can compromise them,” said XM Cyber CEO and Co-Founder Noam Erez. “2018 has been an incredible year for XM Cyber, and this funding round will help us expand our footprint in 2019. We are grateful to our investors for this vote of confidence and look forward to their continued strong support.”

    Even when an organization has deployed and configured modern security controls, hackers can infiltrate the network in a wide variety of ways to compromise critical assets. They capitalize on human errors such as misconfigurations, shadow IT and faulty security practices, and use attack techniques and methods that circumvent cyber defenses — often by employing legitimate tools and leveraging real user behavior. HaXM continuously leverages a multitude of offensive methods to rapidly expose the most critical blind spots and uncover hidden attack vectors. It then provides data-driven remediation focused on the organization’s critical assets, thus reducing the company’s IT risk and enabling it to optimize its cyber resources. In effect, HaXM operates as an automated purple team that fluidly combines red and blue teams’ processes.

    “As cyber-threats continue to evolve, we believe XM Cyber is addressing an important need, particularly for financial services and market infrastructure companies,” said Gary Offner, Head of Nasdaq Ventures. “We believe our investment in XM Cyber will help continue new developments in advancing breach simulation and detection technology and processes. This is an important, developing area of cyber security innovation and we’re pleased to be supporting its growth and expansion.”

    “We are proud to be part of this round of funding, coming at a critical juncture in XM Cyber’s rapid expansion,” said UST Global Chief Cyber Officer Yuval Wollman. “This investment includes a strategic sales and integration agreement with CyberProof, UST’s managed security services subsidiary, to manage cyber risk as a measured outcome. The joint solution will appeal to many of our clients who are seeking to cost effectively reduce their cyber risk exposure.”

    About XM® Cyber

    XM Cyber provides the first fully automated APT simulation platform to continuously expose attack vectors, above and below the surface, from breach point to any organizational critical asset. This continuous loop of automated red teaming is completed by ongoing and prioritized actionable remediation of security gaps. In effect, HaXM® by XM Cyber operates as an automated purple team that fluidly combines red team and blue team processes to ensure that organizations are always one step ahead of the attack.

    XM Cyber was founded by the highest caliber of security executives from the elite Israeli intelligence sector. Together they bring a proven track record in both the offensive and defensive cyber security domain. The company has offices in the US, Israel and Australia.

    For more information: www.xmcyber.com

  • Twistlock Releases Cloud Discovery Open Source Tool for Cloud Native Services

    A simple, powerful way for audit and security practitioners to discover all ‘unknown unknowns’ across cloud environments

    PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Twistlock, the leader in container and cloud native cyber security, today announced the release of the open source Cloud Discovery tool. Cloud Discovery gives enterprise infrastructure, operations, and security teams the ability to easily understand and quantify the size of their environment, and get a birds’ eye view of what cloud native services are running and where. The first release supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with more platforms to be announced.

    Cloud Discovery connects to cloud providers’ native platform APIs to discover services such as container registries, managed Kubernetes platforms, and serverless services, and requires only read permissions. Other key features include:

    • Network discovery to discover cloud native infrastructure and applications, such as Docker Registries and Kubernetes API servers
    • Instantly identify weak settings and authentication
    • Easily integrated into DevSecOps processes
    • Provided as a simple Docker container image that can be run anywhere and requires only read permissions to cloud accounts
    • Works well for both interactive use and automation
    • Outputs data into standard JSON for easy integration with other tools
    • Written in Go

    “In many organizations, IT ops, security, and audit personnel need to discover all the cloud native entities being used at their organizations,”  said John Morello, Chief Technology Officer, Twistlock. “This is often a result of development teams starting up resources and deploying cloud native applications, but the security or operations team may not always know exactly where they’re deploying them. We want to make that easy without creating any new security gaps.”

    “Since our founding, we’ve been committed to enhancing security efforts for the cloud native community through upstream contributions to open source projects,” said Ben Bernstein, Chief Executive Officer, Twistlock. “From creating the authorization framework within Docker and Openshift and secrets management for Docker Swarm, to the release of Cloud Discovery — open source is in our DNA. We hope Cloud Discovery helps the community and look forward to adding new features and components that benefit everyone.”

    View the Cloud Discovery repo (https://github.com/twistlock/cloud-discovery) on Github to get started or contribute to the project.  To learn more, visit Twistlock (https://www.twistlock.com/2018/11/13/open-source-cloud-discovery-tool/).

    About Twistlock
    Trusted by 25% of the Fortune 100, Twistlock is the most complete, automated, and scalable cloud native cybersecurity platform. From precise, actionable vulnerability management to automatically deployed runtime protection and firewalls, Twistlock protects applications across the development lifecycle and into production. Purpose built for containers, serverless, and other leading technologies, Twistlock gives developers the speed they want, and CISOs the control they need. For more information, please visit www.twistlock.com

  • Cognigo Secures $8.5 Million Series A Round to Transform Data Protection & Privacy via AI

    Funding includes OurCrowd.com, Prosegur (BME: PSG), and State of Mind Ventures

    Tel Aviv – Nov 13th, 2018 – Cognigo, the world’s first AI-driven enterprise platform for data protection and compliance, today announced the completion of a $8.5 million Series A round. The round was led by OurCrowd, with Prosegur (BME: PSG), and State of Mind Ventures. The new funding will be used to support Cognigo’s global sales and marketing expansion and product development, as well as further fuel investment in its Cognitive Computing technology, which helps organizations achieve data protection and privacy regulatory compliance (such as GDPR, PIPEDA, California Consumer Privacy Act and others).

    Cognigo CEO and Founder Guy Leibovitz said, “Data breaches are constantly expanding, and some have a disastrous impact on both the privacy of users and the security posture of the organization. In today’s era data has become the new currency. Regulations like California’s new privacy laws slated to come in effect in January 2020 and the GDPR, require organizations to up their data privacy and protection methodologies. Cognigo’s technology combines cognitive science, AI, and machine learning to reveal dark data at scale in real time and automatically enforce data privacy and protection regulations. We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Prosegur which will help us expand our reach and deliver our unique solutions to an even wider audience.”

    “We are excited to be working with this impressive team of professionals,” said Alejandro Alonso, Managing Director of Prosegur’s Cybersecurity business. “Cognigo’s technology and solutions introduce a new and innovative approach for organizations to manage their data to comply with data privacy regulations such as the GDPR. We see the market’s demand for a practical and extremely efficient approach to GDPR. We are keen to kick-off this partnership with Guy and his talented team and together deliver innovative solutions that address a real and growing market challenge.”

     OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved said, “Data is today’s most valuable asset for both individuals and companies. Cognigo provides companies with the critical tools and systems they need to get control of their data. With today’s new privacy regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA, control and protection of data Is crucial not only to avoid regulatory fines, but also to avoid embarrassment and business disruption.”

    About Cognigo
    Cognigo is the world’s first AI-driven platform for data protection and compliance, offering a single point of control to manage and secure critical data, sensitive assets and PIIs. Cognigo’s AI-driven solution provides a human-free data discovery, classification and protection platform, which supports structured and unstructured data – both for on-premise and cloud data silos.  For more information and to schedule a demo visit: https://www.cognigo.com

  • Mphasis Acquires Stelligent, the DevOps Automation Services Specialist in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ecosystem

    • Mphasis Stelligent boosts Mphasis’ end-to-end capabilities in public cloud with a focus on DevOps and Containerization; further augmenting its managed services capabilities
    • Mphasis Stelligent combines best-in-class DevOps and DevSecOps solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and delivery at scale with customer-centric digital transformation and hyper-personalization to enterprise clients

     New York / Bangalore, November 8, 2018

    Mphasis (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS), an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services announced today its acquisition of Stelligent Systems LLC, a technology services company specializing in DevOps automation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Headquartered in Reston, VA, Stelligent provides DevOps and DevSecOps solutions on AWS. The company is a Premier Consulting Partner on AWS Partner Network (APN) and holds both AWS DevOps and Financial Services expertise in deploying their customers’ applications on AWS with greater speed, agility, and security. The acquisition is an all-cash deal valued at USD 25 million.

    Since inception in 2007, Stelligent’s driving mission is to ‘help their customers gain the ability to continuously deploy their software when they want to and with confidence’. The company has been providing leading enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, with continuous integration and delivery solutions on AWS and has built its brand as a pioneer and visionary within the AWS ecosystem.

    “The advent of public cloud infrastructure and SaaS software has elevated the importance of rapid automation in product development and product engineering for enterprises moving to the cloud. Together with Stelligent and its community heroes in the AWS ecosystem, we believe we are uniquely positioned to take advantage of this market opportunity. This allows us to join forces with an equally technically-deep company, bringing innovative, in-depth cloud solutions to enterprises in all Mphasis client segments,” said Nitin Rakesh, CEO and Executive Director, Mphasis.

    “Stelligent is very excited to further its DevOps capability across a broader range of clients and become central to Mphasis’ AWS go-to-market strategy. Our engineers will greatly benefit from being part of a larger, complementary tech-centric community; as well as serve enterprises in end-to-end AWS DevOps, DevSecOps and additional AWS cloud services,” said Bill Santos, CEO, Stelligent. 

    Stelligent’s team of over 50 engineers hold over 100 certifications and significant experience and expertise in DevOps Automation as well as one of a select few consulting partners with two AWS Heroes – an AWS Community Hero and an AWS Hero for Containerization.

    Safe Harbor: 

    Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT services, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, war, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies, and general economic conditions affecting our business and industry. We may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf.

    About Mphasis 

    Mphasis (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS) applies next-generation technology to help enterprises transform businesses globally. Customer centricity is foundational to Mphasis and is reflected in the Mphasis’ Front2Back™ Transformation approach. Front2Back™ uses the exponential power of cloud and cognitive to provide hyper-personalized digital experience to clients and their end customers. Mphasis’ Service Transformation approach helps ‘shrink the core’ through the application of digital technologies across legacy environments within an enterprise, enabling businesses to stay ahead in a changing world. Mphasis’ core reference architectures and tools, speed and innovation with domain expertise and specialization are key to building strong relationships with marquee clients. Click here to know more.

    About Stelligent 

    Stelligent provides DevOps automation professional services on AWS, enabling engineering teams to focus on creating software users love. Our goal is to work closely with customers to develop fundamentally secure infrastructure automation code, deployment pipelines, and feedback mechanisms for faster, more consistent software and infrastructure deployments. For more information, please visit: www.Stelligent.com.

  • IT Revolution Announces New Technology Book, ‘Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework’

    Value Stream Network pioneer Dr. Mik Kersten introduces the Flow Framework as a new way of building an infrastructure for innovation to change the way enterprises approach software delivery

    PORTLAND, Ore., November 8, 2018 — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the availability of its latest book, Project to Product – How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Authored by Dr. Mik Kersten, founder and CEO of Tasktop, the book presents a new concept called the Flow Framework, which is aimed at unraveling the enigma of enterprise software delivery. Based on his work with Fortune 100 enterprises, Kersten provides a new managerial approach to help organizations better understand the human and system dynamics that underpin their IT infrastructure.

    Paperback and eBook editions of Project to Product will be released November 20. To pre-order, visit: (https://itrevolution.com/book/project-to-product/). More information forthcoming about the Audiobook version can be found at: (https://itrevolution.com/book/project-product-audiobook/).

    “We are thrilled to share this important work from Dr. Kersten, one of leading thinkers on bringing back developer productivity and enabling value stream networks in large enterprises,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and Accelerate. “As truly great books do, Project to Product changes how one thinks about software delivery. I think this book is vitally important for every technology leader responsible for helping their organizations survive and thrive in the age of digital disruption.”

    About the Book

    As tech giants and startups disrupt every market, those who master large-scale software delivery will define the economic landscape of the 21st century, just as the masters of mass production defined the landscape in the 20th. Unfortunately, business and technology leaders are woefully ill-equipped to solve the problems posed by digital transformation. At the current rate of disruption, half of S&P 500 companies will be replaced in the next 10 years. A new approach is needed.

    In Project to Product, value stream network pioneer and technology business leader Kersten introduces the Flow Framework—a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery. The Flow Framework will enable your company’s evolution from project-oriented dinosaur to product-centric innovator that thrives in the Age of Software. If you’re driving your organization’s transformation at any level, this is the book for you.

    To download a free excerpt or the audiobook companion of Project to Product, please visit: (https://itrevolution.com/book/project-to-product/).

    “Project to Product has been a 20-year journey that started with a decade of learnings as an open source developer, and applying those learnings to my last ten years working with IT leaders,” explained Kersten. “I hope anyone who reads my book gains the inspiration to drive the digital innovation initiatives that the industry needs to move beyond ad hoc heroics toward a unified view of software delivery value streams. As IT organizations continue to scale at an incredible pace, Project to Product offers a new approach and business framework for gaining control and thriving in the Age of Software.”

    Book Review Supporting Quotes:

    “During our transformation to a “100% Agile” BMW Group IT organization, we discovered early on that the former project portfolio approach did not sufficiently support our journey. Therefore, we started with a transition from “project to product.” The exchanges with Mik on the topic of product orientation and the Flow Framework was very helpful and a real inspiration for me. The fact that Mik is now sharing his vast knowledge in this book makes me particularly happy. It provides the motivation and the toolset necessary to help create a product portfolio based on a value driven approach. For me it is a must read—and indeed it is also a fun read.”

    —Ralf Waltram, Head of IT Systems Research & Development, BMW Group

    “If you want to get rid of obsolete practices and succeed with the new digital, read this book.”

    —Carlota Perez, author of Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

    “Every now and then, a body of work comes along with such timely precision that you think hallelujah! Mik’s book Project to Product is the perfect antidote for those businesses struggling with digital transformation, broken Agile implementations, and the onslaught of enterprise disruption. In fact, it’s a really important component in the world of flow which is at the forefront of business agility. Not only will this framework help your teams ignite their software delivery cadence but to do it at scale, with high quality, reduced costs, and increased value. And more importantly, with happy teams—with the metrics to prove it.”

    —Fin Goulding, International CIO at Aviva and co-author of Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers, Mavericks, Innovation Activists, Leaders: Digital Transformation Simplified and 12 Steps to Flow: The New Framework for Business Agility

    About the Author:

    Dr. Mik Kersten started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he created the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development tools with Agile and DevOps as part of his Computer Science Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. Founding Tasktop out of that research, Mik has written over 1 million lines of open-source code that is still in use today, and has brought seven successful open-source and commercial products to market.

    Kersten’s experiences working with some of the largest digital transformations in the world has led him to identify the critical disconnect between business leaders and technologists. Since that time, he has been working on creating new tools and a new framework for connecting software value stream networks and enabling the shift from project to product.

    Share This: Pre-order your copy of “Project to Product” by @mik_kersten and learn about the #FlowFramework—a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery. Coming November 20th! https://itrevolution.com/book/project-to-product/ @ITRevBooks @tasktop

    About IT Revolution

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

  • DataStax Announces DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra

    Continues Commitment and Engagement with Open Source Community with Industry-Leading Code Contributions, Coaching and Conference

     SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DataStax, the leading provider of the always-on, Active Everywhere distributed hybrid cloud database built on Apache Cassandra™, today announced DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra (DDAC). DDAC is a new subscription offering designed for running a certified version of open source Apache Cassandra for development and production use cases that do not have the higher enterprise demands better served by DataStax Enterprise.

    The DDAC release reinforces DataStax’s engagement with the open source community. DataStax enables and supports data professionals who want to build applications on Apache Cassandra. DataStax does this by hosting frequent community events nationwide and by also hosting the premier Apache conference—DataStax Accelerate—where Cassandra practitioners, experts, and developers come to learn and share ideas.

    DataStax is now making it easier for professionals and enterprises to obtain and use the production-certified version of Apache Cassandra from DataStax.

    DDAC consists of a production-certified release of Apache Cassandra with drivers, bulk load utilities, and professional support. It combines the benefits of open source software with professional software maintenance and the expert support needed by customers who wish to deploy open source software in less critical production or development environments.

    Deploying DDAC enables enterprises to:

    • Apply premium features and performance with no lock-in while standardizing on open source software (OSS).
    • Scale environments and manage costs effectively to compete in a dynamic marketplace.
    • Streamline operations and support by removing a patchwork quilt of in-house, regional integrators or partners and third party vendors providing Apache Cassandra support and services.
    • Access the best-in-class Apache Cassandra software, support and services from the experts.

    “Many organizations are interested in using open source software when there are concerns about cost, vendor lock-in and availability of developer skills, but most organizations also want to use products that are backed by commercial support,” said Doug Henschen, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research. “DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra addresses both concerns, building on open source software while leveraging the company’s experience and expertise supporting high-scale Apache Cassandra-based database deployments.”

    “We’ve put DDAC through rigorous testing to offer enterprises a production-ready release of Apache Cassandra with maintenance management and support from DataStax and our team of Apache Cassandra experts,” said Amit Chaudhry, Vice President of Product Marketing at DataStax. “We believe DataStax is the only company that has deployed the world’s best distribution of Apache Cassandra at hundreds of real-world enterprises. Our expertise, services, and support are unmatched in the industry when it comes to Cassandra.”

    DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra includes:

    • A certified version of Apache Cassandra that goes through the same rigorous quality assurance (QA) and certification testing process as DataStax Enterprise.
    • Business day, 8×5 support or 24×7 worldwide support.
    • DataStax Bulk Loader Utility for making data loads and migrations easy.

    “When enterprises deploy just open source Cassandra, we find that over time they run into security, support and compliance issues. DDAC solves this. Enterprises now have an option to deploy a production-certified release of Apache Cassandra with DDAC,” concluded Chaudhry.

    DDAC is available for download now at:
    https://academy.datastax.com/quick-downloads

    To learn more about DDAC, please join DataStax at DataStax Accelerate, The World’s Premier Apache Cassandra Conference, on May 21-23, 2019 in the Washington D.C. Area. To register, please visit https://www.datastax.com/events/datastax-accelerate.

     

  • InterVision Appoints Jim Zaloudek as Chief Financial Officer

    Accomplished Executive Will Help Drive InterVision’s Next Phase of Efficiency and Growth

    Santa Clara, Calif. and St. Louis, Mo., November 8, 2018 – – InterVision Systems, LLC today announced that Jim Zaloudek has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Jim will oversee the company’s finance, operations, mergers & acquisition, investor relations, legal and human resources functions.

    “Jim’s experience in finance, investor relations, strategic planning and risk management in the technology industry is precisely what InterVision needs at this stage in our growth,” said Aaron Stone, President and CEO at InterVision. “Jim’s proven track record leading private equity-funded technology companies will be a huge asset as we complete the financial integration and tackle the many opportunities to improve our efficiency, growth and performance.”

    In less than a year, InterVision has acquired three companies —Independent Technology Group, Bluelock and Infiniti Consulting Group — highlighting an aggressive strategy for growth. Zaloudek has more than 30 years of experience in finance, executive management, operational management and M&A, which will bolster these continued efforts for long-term success. He has a deep knowledge of investor relations, ERP transitions and implementations, corporate FP&A initiatives and strategic planning. His public accounting experience includes audit, corporate income tax and consulting services.

    “InterVision is making waves in the IT service provider industry through its client-centered approach of serving business needs with a comprehensive set of technologies and services that can be delivered in client datacenters, InterVision datacenters or the public cloud,” said Zaloudek. “I was impressed by the company’s broad IT services portfolio and strong management. With multiple, large-scale deals secured in the last year, I know I’m joining a visionary team that will continue to fuel its growth.”

    About InterVision Systems InterVision’s mission is to unlock value by delivering innovative technology through a consultative approach. The company delivers innovation through a broad portfolio of IT managed services, on- premise solutions, professional services, cloud solutions, automation and consulting services that organizations need to thrive in today’s dynamic IT market. InterVision’s vendor-certified sales and engineering staff have specialized expertise in all areas critical to IT environments. The company has regional headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. and St. Louis, Mo., as well as offices and data centers in the Central and Western U.S. For more information on InterVision’s offerings, visit www.Intervision.com.

  • InfluxData Time Series Database Extends Industry Lead with Performance and Data Compaction Enhancements in Latest Release

    Company Also Launches Technical Preview of Industry’s First Purpose-Built Functional Query Language for Time Series Data Ready for Developer Community Trial and Feedback

    SAN FRANCISCO — Nov. 7, 2018 — InfluxData, the modern Open Source Platform built specifically for metrics, events and other time series data that empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics and IoT applications, today announced the release of InfluxDB 1.7, delivering important query performance and data compaction enhancements to the leading Time Series Database. Announced at InfluxDays SF 2018, this new functionality gives developers powerful tools they have been asking for to query and process time series data used for monitoring IoT, DevOps, cloud, containers, and real-time analytics data.

    InfluxDB is InfluxData’s Time Series Database used as a data store for any use case involving large amounts of time-stamped data – including DevOps monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics. These enhancements announced today, as recommended by the community, further the gap between the functionality of InfluxDB – recognized as the overwhelming leader among Time Series Database management systems, according to DB-Engines’ latest results – and the competition.

    InfluxData has also announced the technical preview of Flux, the industry’s first purpose-built functional query language for time series data. Flux combines data query and processing in a single powerful and extensible open source language, which is enriched through user contributions. Developers are encouraged to use Flux and provide feedback to help shape the future of the time series data scripting.

    “InfluxDB is one of the most popular data sources for Grafana, and Flux is a powerful query processing engine, so we were excited to develop a first-class integration for Flux,” said David Kaltschmidt, Director, UX, Grafana Labs. “The Flux plugin comes with a new query environment which includes syntax highlighting, tag completion, raw table preview, and inline function documentation to help you get the most out of using Flux with Grafana.”

    The open source InfluxDB 1.7 delivers major improvements around query performance and throughput when using the Time Series Index (TSI), which supports large numbers of unique time series data that is ephemeral and stored in Time Series Databases.

    The technical preview for Flux is available today for developers’ trial and feedback. A getting started guide is available now from https://bit.ly/2qph9Xx which provides specific examples along with a reference for the language semantics. Developers are encouraged to use the InfluxData community site (https://community.influxdata.com) to ask questions and share experiences. To launch the Flux technical preview, InfluxData will host Office Hours today at InfluxDays SF 2018 to continue efforts towards finalizing the language, address questions, and take additional feedback.

    “Performance, data compaction and Time Series Index improvements help InfluxData maintain its leadership position in this category by delivering superior performance and meeting the advanced needs of the developers,” said Tim Hall, VP of Products. “InfluxData has been working closely with the developer community in defining the Flux language. We look forward to developers downloading Flux, using it and providing us with useful feedback to help make the language a success.”

    Metrics, events, and other time-based data are being generated at an exponential rate, as there is a growing requirement for analyzing today’s complex environments. The InfluxData Platform provides a comprehensive set of tools and services to accumulate metrics and events data, analyze the data, and act on the data via powerful visualizations and notifications.

    InfluxData has rapidly built its developer and customer base across industries – including manufacturing, financial services, energy, and telecommunications – by delivering the fastest growing Open Source Platform that enables customers to derive better business insights, data-driven real-time actions, and a consolidated single view of their entire infrastructure – from applications to microservices, and from systems to sensors. More than 450 customers, including Cisco Systems, Coupa Software, IBM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nordstrom, and Tesla, have selected InfluxData as their modern data platform for metrics and events. InfluxData is pioneering the shift to time series in a modern metrics and events platform, and is making it possible for customers to become data-driven and take on digital transformation initiatives.

    Availability

    InfluxDB 1.7 is available today. It is available for download at https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads .

    About InfluxData

    InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, delivers a modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for analyzing metrics and events (time series data) for DevOps and IoT applications. Whether the data comes from humans, sensors, or machines, InfluxData empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster, easier, and to scale delivering real business value quickly. Based in San Francisco, InfluxData’s more than 450 customers include Cisco, eBay, IBM and Siemens. Visit https://www.influxdata.com/. Twitter: @influxdb.

     

  • Former Google Sr. Software Engineer and Kythe Project Lead to Join Company Enabling Machine Learning for Code Analysis

    Michael Fromberger joins source{d} to lead Programming Language Analysis efforts

    San Francisco, November 7, 2018 — Today source{d}, the company enabling Machine Learning for large scale code analysis, announced that Michael Fromberger, former senior software engineer at Google, and technical lead/manager for the Kythe open source project (internally named Grok at Google), will join the company to lead its Language Analysis efforts.

    source{d} is now uniquely positioned to be the first independent company that brings the power of Kythe to developers in the open source community and enterprise. By combining the power of Kythe with the source{d} Engine, source{d} offers the most extensive Code As Data product in the market.

    “source{d} has developed some unique, powerful, and insightful open-source projects for language-agnostic source code analysis. After spending the past eight years designing and developing the Kythe project at Google, source{d} is a really compelling opportunity for me,” said Fromberger. “Historically, developers and engineering teams have had to reinvent a lot of the same wheels. As someone who’s passionate about both developer tools and open-source, I’m very excited to help address that issue. I believe the source{d} code-analysis and retrieval projects, combined with Kythe integration, will help boost developer productivity substantially.”

    Prior to joining source{d}, Michael spent eight years at Google working full-time on the Grok project, a high-quality graph-structured semantic index of source code. He was instrumental in re-designing and releasing Grok as an open-source project named Kythe.

    “Michael joining is a major milestone and vote of confidence for the company considering that Kythe is the data layer that powers all of Google’s static analysis over code,” said Eiso Kant, source{d} CEO. “With him on board, source{d} will be able to leverage Kythe’s capabilities to further help companies analyze and modernize their codebases, making it a more productive asset and facilitating the adoption of Inner Source practices.”

    About source{d}

    source{d}, the only open core company to turn code into actionable data and business intelligence, is building the tech stack that enables large-scale code analysis and machine learning on code. Used by top engineers at world leading companies, source{d} develops projects transparently, collaborating with the broader community of Machine Learning on Code researchers. Headquartered in Madrid, with US offices in San Francisco, source{d} has raised $10 million from Otium, Sunstone Capital and others. To learn more, visit sourced.tech.