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  • Delphix and Datical Extend Global Partnership, Bring New DataOps Solutions to Modern Enterprises

     One-half of all Fortune 50 companies work with Delphix, Datical to deliver high quality software – faster and more securely – to close Data Velocity Gap

     REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 23, 2018 – Delphix, the company accelerating innovation through DataOps, today announced it has extended its partnership with Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, to bring new DataOps solutions to market that unlock the potential of data to drive business transformation. Already in use by  one-half of the Fortune 50, Delphix and Datical are driving the emerging DataOps ecosystem that will enable more Global 2000 companies to open up the flow of fast, secure data to move fast and compete in today’s Digital Economy.

    With worldwide enterprise data expected to grow to 163 zettabytes (ZB) by 2025 (Data Age 2025, IDC), software development and DevOps teams are drowning in data; unable to use it to deliver innovation that keeps pace with ever-changing consumer demands. Delphix and Datical offer proven solutions that eliminate delays through automation to achieve 100x faster high-quality software releases, 10x less cost and no production outages.

    “As large enterprises look to accelerate their digital businesses, two of the biggest challenges they face are the incredible volumes of data being generated and the related lack of velocity from their database layer,” said Stephen O’Grady, Principal Analyst with RedMonk. “While application development has been revolutionized by the DevOps phenomenon, database management has lagged behind. This issue is what’s created the demand for an equivalent ‘DataOps’ style movement, and is why Delphix and Datical are focusing on these needs so intently.”

    “Businesses are feeling the debilitating effects of data friction, challenging their ability to move fast and confidently compete in today’s digital economy,” said Tony Orlando, SVP of Global Field Operations, Delphix. “Through our partnership with Datical and the DataOps ecosystem at large, we are enabling the secure, continuous flow of data within the world’s most complex enterprises, empowering them to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, increase quality and lead in their markets for years to come.”  

    Modern Enterprises Rely on DataOps to Unlock the Potential of Data

     “Data remains locked in legacy systems, and is holding [CEOs] back,” said Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in a recent earnings call. Over the last three years, Delphix and Datical have worked with some of the most important brands in the world to help them unlock data to accelerate software development and close the costly data velocity gap.

     Together, Delphix and Datical enable enterprises to dramatically accelerate software development and testing. The unique combination of these solutions reduces the amount of time it takes to provision production-quality data from days or weeks to just minutes, while also eliminating manual tasks, such as reviewing and validating database schema and logic changes. Integrating these solutions into a software development toolchain is at the heart of the DataOps approach that transforms how businesses deliver new releases.

    A Top 5 investment management firm based in the US (with over $2 trillion in assets under management) uses Delphix and Datical to increase the speed and quality of application releases that are the backbone of its digital transformation efforts. In a short period of time, the global brand achieved:

    • A 100% increase in rate of application deployments;
    • A 90% reduction in data provisioning times;
    • Dramatic improvement in quality from eliminating data-related defects.

    Pioneers in the DataOps movement, Delphix and Datical are at the forefront of building the platforms and technologies that support this emerging discipline. As Gartner recently recognized in its Hype Cycle for Data Management for 2018, DataOps is the next chapter in the DevOps story that will accelerate business and help create the modern data enterprise.

    “Software is reshaping all industries and the pace of change is accelerating. Companies must speed up innovation in order to survive in the digital era,” said Derek Hutson, CEO and President of Datical. “To achieve their goals of faster time-to-market, companies continue adopting faster, more iterative development methodologies to be able to change and adapt more quickly – but data has become the new constraint slowing them down. Datical and Delphix are in the perfect position to help enterprise leaders remove that constraint and modernize the way data is managed throughout the software delivery lifecycle.”

    About Delphix

    Delphix’s mission is to free companies from data friction and accelerate innovation. Fortune 100 companies use the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform to connect, virtualize, secure, and manage data in hybrid cloud environments. For more information visit www.delphix.com.

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    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.

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  • Humio Drives Real-Time Observability for Lightbend Fast Data Platform

    Streaming Log Management Solution Integrated with Fast Data Platform Enables Customers to Ingest Large Data Volumes Efficiently On- Prem

    London – October 22, 2018 – Humio, the only log management solution offering real-time, limitless logging capabilities with instant accessibility to users, today announced integration with Lightbend Fast Data Platform. Humio’s dynamic log engine provides immediate observability for application and infrastructure level data for Lightbend Fast Data Platform.  With the Humio and Lightbend integration, users can aggregate, interact and gain visibility with live log data in one solution by querying, developing dashboards and creating custom alerts. Humio’s streaming, real-time dashboards, alerting and high data volume ingest capabilities now provides customers the flexibility to scale up.

    Lightbend Fast Data Platform is a curated distribution of open source and commercial technologies for designing, building, and deploying streaming fast-data applications and microservices.  Humio’s integration with Lightbend provides a complimentary on-premises log management solution to provide deeper context, visualization and real-time analysis.  Lightbend users can easily send logs from a variety of sources such as their streaming applications, microservices, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Apache Kafka for aggregation and analysis in one view.  Lightbend users often generate large, multi TB/Day volumes of data and Humio’s ability to conduct further analysis, visualization and retention of the data easily and immediately provides unprecedented value for incident management, troubleshooting, audit scenarios as well as enabling an overall understanding of organizations’ systems.

    “Customers depend upon Lightbend Fast Data Platform to deliver streaming applications which impact the bottom line. The applications are distributed by nature with many moving parts generating large amounts of operational data.  This data requires aggregation and analysis in real-time to prevent business disruptions,” said Craig Blitz, Lightbend Senior Product Director. “At the heart of Humio’s solution is a time-series database engine that is optimized as an efficient, on-premises solution, and we are thrilled to extend these capabilities to Fast Data Platform customers to ensure system insights are efficient, fast and scalable for large data volumes.”

    “Lightbend continues to provide solutions to unleash customers’ ability to take advantage of streaming applications and data and we are thrilled to announce the Humio integration with the Fast Data Platform,” said Geeta Schmidt, Humio CEO. “Organizations we are servicing through this partnership require an on-premises solution and generate massive amounts of log data and we are excited to make it possible for them to aggregate all their data into one solution – Humio.”

    By providing an on-prem log management solution integrated with Lightbend Fast Data Platform, customers now gain real-time streaming, dashboard and query capabilities from system and application log data.  Humio’s efficiency allows Lightbend customers to ingest large multi TB/day data volumes efficiently, resulting in a significantly increased hardware TCO versus other solutions on the market.

    About Humio:

    Humio is a solution for aggregating, exploring, reporting, and analyzing log data in real-time. It gathers log data from a range of sources and can be deployed in both Cloud and On-Premises environments. Humio’s innovative data storage and in-memory search/query engine technologies provide a cost-competitive log management and analysis solution that requires significantly less hardware, engineering resources, and licensing costs vs. competing solutions. Humio has offices in London, San Francisco, and Aarhus, DK. For more information visit https://www.humio.com/or follow @MeetHumio.

     About Lightbend:

    Lightbend (Twitter: @Lightbend) provides the leading Reactive application development platform for building distributed applications. Using microservices and fast data on a message-driven runtime, enterprise applications scale effortlessly on cloud computing architectures. Many of the most admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with our platform, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world.

  • SignalWire Launches Twilio Alternative with Disruptive Pricing

    Palo Alto, Calif., – Oct. 18, 2018 – SignalWire, Inc., proprietors of FreeSWITCH, the leading global communications platform, today announcedSignalWire CLOUD now offers Legacy Antiquated Markup Language (LāML, pronounced “lame-ul”), a markup language that is feature-to-feature compatible with Twilio’s TwiML, and allows developers to easily migrate communication application traffic to the SignalWire CLOUD platform and take advantage of significantly lower voice and messaging rates.

    SignalWire is taking aim at massive disruption in the space, with prices that are often pennies on the dollar compared to the competition. A phone number on SignalWire CLOUD costs $.08 per month compared to $1.00 per month from Twilio. With the LāML offering, customers with applications developed using Twilio’s TwiML can access those rates by changing as little as one line of code.

    “What Twilio is doing is not fair to customers,” said Anthony Minessale, CEO of SignalWire. “The markups are enormous with little value-add to justify them. SignalWire is focused on innovation and moving the programmable communications space forward, not on how much margin we can squeeze for minutes.”

    SignalWire CLOUD is a new platform for building advanced communications products, applications, and enterprise infrastructure with simple-to-use and disruptively-priced APIs.

    SignalWire CLOUD enables rapid application development and elastic cloud resource management, eliminating the complexity and cost required to develop, maintain, and scale low-level communications infrastructure.

    “Legacy communications APIs are based on outdated technology and are terrible for the true real-time interactions required by modern applications,” said Evan McGee, CTO of SignalWire. “With LāML we are making it easy for customers to come to SignalWire CLOUD, immediately save money, and then build advanced features and applications with support that only our technology can provide.”

    Customers interested in migrating to SignalWire can sign up for free at http://signalwire.com/laml-apis. SignalWire is also offering a $50 account credit to all new sign-ups with a promo code available on the site.

    “The days of price-gouging proxied carrier services are over,” said Sean Heiney, COO of SignalWire. “Voice and messaging traffic is becoming commoditized, and we’re accelerating the inevitable. API providers who are essentially middle-men for minutes and messages should be nervous.”

    About SignalWire

    SignalWire delivers a cloud platform for building advanced communications products, applications, or enterprise infrastructure. Our APIs, built for developers of all skill sets, enable rapid application development on a managed elastic framework. SignalWire technology is proven and trusted, already deployed by over 5000 commercial enterprises around the world. For more information, visit www.SignalWire.com.

  • Panaya Offers Best-In-Class Integrations to Better Support Modern Software Development and Delivery

    Support for over 150 leading industry tools and services adds essential visibility and reporting capabilities to its Enterprise Agile Delivery Platform

    Hackensack, NJ – October 16, 2018 – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery, today announced the integration of over 150 leading application development and delivery tools and services into Panaya Release Dynamix (RDx), its Enterprise Agile Delivery (EAD) platform. Users can now take advantage of the tools they already employ every day to increase visibility, collaboration and communication among all stakeholders – the business, development, operations and test teams. With these new RDx integrations, organizations can now deliver application changes from ideation to realization in one unified platform.

    Digital transformation requires enterprises to adopt a continuous delivery model where release cadences are measured in days, not quarters, and quality is guaranteed. To get there, organizations need to apply agile methodologies, but are often limited by existing tools and technologies that create siloed work environments. These best-in-class integrations now offered by Panaya include many of the leading applications for software delivery, such as Jira, ServiceNow, Tricentis Tosca, CA Rally, Bugzilla, Salesforce and more, allowing Panaya’s RDx and Panaya’s test acceleration platform, Panaya Test Dynamix, to fully support continuous integration and continuous delivery.

    The new RDx integrations offer end-to-end visibility and connect the fragmented delivery tool chain to better address the risks associated with business-critical application delivery. From initial business change requests to testing and production, these RDx integrations ensure application development and delivery, project management and business teams can continue to leverage the tools they choose with greater visibility into where items are on the delivery pipeline, while delivering on time and without sacrificing quality. Additionally, open channels and better alignment with business objectives and requirements allows application development and delivery teams to gain a better understanding of the value of each delivery.

    “The pace of delivery in today’s development ecosystems is daunting, and delivering quality releases is hampered by a truly fragmented toolchain ecosystem. There is a plethora of solutions and tools in use today, and rather than force users into yet another solution and cause even more multiplicity, we opened the door to allow customers to use what they already have, seamlessly with Panaya Release Dynamix,” said Jake Klein, CEO of Panaya. “This is what Panaya’s Enterprise Agile Delivery is all about, ensuring all stakeholders involved in the business process have the tools they need in a single, holistic platform that proves the business value faster by managing changing priorities, all while juggling shorter release cycles to meet the continuously evolving needs of the business.”

    These new integrations also cover the gaps left from one tool to another, such as development teams needing to manually provide dev execution and backlog data since there is no visibility between the disparate tools. With extended visibility, IT teams and business managers can make more informed decisions and achieve greater business agility through collaboration.

    Panaya RDx provides a holistic and integrated environment that enables collaboration with all stakeholders involved in the business process, and the visualization, management and risk assessment of application delivery and value streams, while monitoring investment buckets to ensure strategic alignment. By providing real-time insight into risk and quality, corrective actions can be automatically generated, allowing for safe allocation relief and the continual flow of value. Panaya RDx also offers complete visibility of the entire delivery pipeline, so users can save time without having to sacrifice quality.

    Since 2008, over 2,000 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, have used Panaya to delivery quick quality change to enterprise applications. Customers are from a variety of sectors including automotive, pharmaceutical, retail, manufacturing and more.

    For more information on available integration within the Panaya Enterprise Agile Delivery platform, visit www.panaya.com/agile-delivery/integrations.

    About Panaya

    Panaya, an Infosys company, enables organizations to accelerate application change and continuously deliver innovation with its Enterprise Agile Delivery Platform. Panaya provides cloud-based application delivery, and testing solutions that ensure collaboration between Business and IT. Enabling enterprise agility with faster release velocity and uncompromising quality, Panaya delivers an optimized user experience with end-to-end visibility of the application lifecycle. Since 2008, 2,000 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, have been using Panaya to deliver quick quality change to enterprise applications.

  • Canonical announces release of Ubuntu 18.10 ‘Cosmic Cuttlefish’

    Ubuntu 18.10: Multi-cloud, new desktop theme and enhanced desktop snap integration

    London, UK, 18th October 2018; Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 18.10, focused on multi-cloud deployments, AI software development, a new community desktop theme and richer snap desktop integration.

    “Ubuntu is now the world’s reference platform for AI engineering and analytics” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. “We accelerate developer productivity and help enterprises operate at speed and at scale, across multiple clouds and diverse edge appliances.”

    This year, the financial services industry has engaged significantly with Canonical and Ubuntu for infrastructure efficiency on premise and to accelerate their move to the cloud. The push for machine learning analytics and of fintech efforts around blockchain, distributed ledger applications and cryptocurrencies are current drivers of Ubuntu investments and deployments.

    Optimised for multi-cloud computing

    Ubuntu Server 18.10 images are available on all major public clouds, including minimal images popular for container workloads with a small footprint and fast boot time. For private clouds, Ubuntu 18.10 ships with OpenStack Rocky for AI and NFV hardware acceleration and Ceph Mimic to reduce storage overhead. Ubuntu Server 18.10 includes the latest Kubernetes version 1.12 which brings increased security and scalability by automating the provisioning of clusters with transport layer encryption and is more responsive to dynamic workloads through faster scaling.

    Snap momentum strengthens 

    Ubuntu’s secure Linux app store sports 4,100 snaps published by 1,700 developers and supported across 41 Linux distributions. Official desktop snaps from Spotify, Plex and Skype are popular, and major public cloud and server applications are now available including Google Cloud SDK, AWS CLI, and Azure CLI. The new release enables native desktop controls to access files on the host system.

    Improved gaming performance 

    The Linux 4.18 kernel together with updates in Mesa and X.org significantly improve game performance. Graphics support expands to AMD VegaM in the latest Intel Kabylake-G CPUs, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, B+ and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845.

    Ubuntu 18.10 introduces the GNOME 3.30 desktop and Yaru, the new community-developed default theme. Fingerprint unlock functionality is featured for compatible PCs and the latest versions of Firefox, LibreOffice, and Chromium are included.

    About Canonical

    Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the leading OS for cloud operations. Most public cloud workloads use Ubuntu, as do most new smart gateways, switches, self-driving cars and advanced robots. Canonical provides enterprise support and services for commercial users of Ubuntu. Established in 2004, Canonical is a privately held company.

  • Electric Cloud Introduces ElectricFlow 8.5, Unveils Industry-First Support for Both SaaS and On-Premises Delivery

    Flexible Enterprise SaaS Delivery Model, Kanban-Style Pipeline View and Object Tagging with a Continuous Integration Dashboard Allow Teams of Any Size to Start Fast and Adapt Easily

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 18, 2018 – Electric Cloud (https://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced a new SaaS consumption option for the industry’s first Enterprise SaaS and on-premises Application Release Orchestration (ARO) offering, ElectricFlow. ElectricFlow now includes a Kanban-style pipeline view, object tagging for custom reporting and enhanced searchability, and CI dashboarding capabilities to track and analyze build processes, failures and successes.

     For more information about ElectricFlow and to download the free Community Edition, please visit: (https://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow). 

    ElectricFlow SaaS allows DevOps teams of all sizes to get up and running without incurring on-premise implementation costs, and gives teams developing cloud-native or serverless applications a way to keep all their development pipelines and tools in the cloud. Most enterprises also have on-premise assets that they need to manage. ElectricFlow SaaS seamlessly connects to on-premise servers and tools to enable deployment automation, pipeline and environment management, and release orchestration inside and outside of the firewall.

    “More and more, large enterprises are exploring ways to include cloud-native applications and tool chains in their on-premises digital transformation projects,” said Torsten Volk, managing director at Enterprise Management Associates. “It’s important for DevOps tools vendors to make their offerings available on a variety of platforms to support those efforts. I’m glad to see Electric Cloud getting ahead of the market with this new release of ElectricFlow.”

     DevOps Your Way

    The new Kanban view in ElectricFlow 8.5 provides a familiar, easy-to-use management and execution view of pipelines, stages and individual tasks on one screen. Connected directly to the automation and orchestration, users can approve and observe release progress with real-time pipeline and application deployment status. 

    “Moving to a DevOps culture and adjusting to a new pace, new processes, and new toolsets has been a challenge for many of our people,” said Gary McKay, Scrum Master at global toll-free registry service Somos. “ElectricFlow’s new Kanban view coupled with comprehensive pipeline-as-code means everyone on the team gets exactly the kind of working environment they need to help us accelerate our digital transformation.”

    New tagging functionality on all objects allows release managers and product owners to quickly and easily create more granular, real-world reports. Universal data segmentation is now possible across any object type (applications, pipeline stages, environments, etc.) and replaces code-based report creation.

    New CI Dashboarding creates data-driven visibility into CI processes and bottlenecks, so that architects and application teams have clear understanding of builds from within the release pipeline. ElectricFlow works with all CI tools, including Jenkins, Bamboo and Git to give teams unprecedented insight into the value, cost and risk associated with every release, eliminating the need for difficult, extensive custom coding with tools like Hygeia.

    “This release further solidifies our position as the de facto standard for ARO by doubling down on giving customers the flexibility to unleash the power of ElectricFlow for anyone – wherever and however they need it,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO of Electric Cloud. “This allows us to meet our customers where they are, and simply ‘plug-in’ unified governance and orchestration across an ever-changing array of tools, stacks, and processes. Adapting to change more quickly than your competition is a competitive advantage, and ElectricFlow eliminates much of the anxiety associated with releasing software when adopting new processes or trying new technologies.”

    Share This: .@electriccloud’s Adaptive Release Orchestration Platform, ElectricFlow, Now Available as #SaaS with new #Kanban view, Tagging functionality and #CI Dashboard to let you Do #DevOps Your Way! https://electric-cloud.com/blog/2018/10/electricflow-8-5-devops-your-way/ 

    About Electric Cloud, Inc.
    Electric Cloud’s Adaptive Release Orchestration platform helps organizations like E*TRADE, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin confidently release new applications and adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business, with the analytics and insight to measure, track, and improve their results.  

  • BMC Modernizes the Mainframe with Automated Mainframe Intelligence

    BMC AMI places machine learning, predictive analytics, domain expertise, and intelligent automation at the core to help enterprises achieve self-managing mainframes

    HOUSTON – October 18, 2018 – BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today announced BMC AMI, automated mainframe intelligence solutions that will deliver higher performing, self-managing mainframe environments to meet the growing demands created by digital business growth. Extending BMC’s leadership in mainframe innovation, BMC AMI solutions combine built-in domain expertise, machine learning, intelligent automation, and predictive analytics to help enterprises automatically manage, diagnose, heal, secure, and optimize mainframe processes.

    “Enterprise IT teams are experiencing complexity at an accelerating rate, and data and transaction volumes are exploding – all while trying to manage a changing workforce, close the skills gap, and optimize costs,” said Bill Miller, President of ZSolutions at BMC. “With AMI, we are freeing up IT staff to work on high-value initiatives by removing manual processes through intelligent automation. BMC AMI will automatically analyze dozens of KPIs and millions of metrics a day, and proactively identify, predict, and fix problems before they become an issue.”

    According to Gartner, by 2020, thirty percent of data centers that fail to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning effectively in support of enterprise business will cease to be operationally and economically viable.1 The BMC AMI solutions enhance mainframe systems through intelligent automation by predicting outages before they occur, solving performance degradations, and mitigating cost increases.

    With BMC AMI, customers benefit from BMC’s expertise in collecting deep and broad z/OS® operational metrics from a variety of industry data sources, built-in world-class domain expertise, and multivariate analysis. The new offerings include:

    • BMC AMI Autonomous Solutions
    • enable IT operations to automatically anticipate and repair performance degradations and disruptive outages before they occur, without manual intervention. This
    • set of intelligent, integrated solutions extends to BMC AMI for Security Management, BMC AMI for DevOps, BMC AMI for Performance and Availability Management, and BMC AMI Cost and Capacity Management.
    • BMC AMI Enterprise Connectors
    • connect business-critical data from the mainframe to the entire enterprise and simplify the enterprise-wide management of business applications. These offer a truly
    • holistic view of enterprise data by streaming
    • mainframe metrics and related information in real-time to a variety of data receivers, including leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions
    • such as Splunk, IBM® QRadar®, ArcSight, LogRhythm, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager, and others. The BMC AMI Data Extractor
    • for IMS solution is available now, and additional solutions will
    • be available early in 2019.

    “BMC has been instrumental in helping us grow our business, deliver innovative solutions, and increase customer satisfaction, all while ensuring costs are kept at optimal levels,” said Gregg Kimbrough, Senior Manager Hosting Services, Thrivent Financial. “We look forward to seeing how AMI will help us move closer to achieving a self-managing mainframe so that we can continue to keep up with the demands of today’s digital business.”

    Earlier this month, BMC announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire assets of CorreLog, Inc., which provides real-time security management to mainframe customers.  The announcement furthers BMC’s commitment to the security space, expanding the data connectors that are available to clients and accelerating BMC AMI for security offerings.

    To learn more about BMC AMI solutions, visit www.bmc.com/ami

    To register for a webinar on the self-managing mainframe using BMC AMI on October 24, visit https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1209255&tp_key=ec7b8500cb

    To learn more about BMC’s mainframe solutions, visit http://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/mainframe.html

    1 Gartner Report: The IT Implications of the 2018 CIO Survey for I&O Leaders by Dave Russell, Hank Marquis Published : 8 March 2018

  • Denim Group’s ThreadFix 2.7 Supports Flexible Structuring of Application Security Programs

    Company’s Vulnerability Resolution Platform Amplifies Resources for Maximum Effectiveness

     Denim Group, the leading independent application security firm, today announced availability of the latest version of ThreadFix, the company’s application vulnerability resolution platform for developers and security professionals. ThreadFix 2.7 unites Denim Group’s ThreadFix platform with their professional and managed services, providing customers the ability to request services directly from ThreadFix User Interface (UI) and have the results of these services delivered directly to their ThreadFix platform upon completion. This most recent update allows Denim Group’s customers to receive actionable data, rather than a stagnant PDF, enhancing communication effectively with their development teams for accelerated remediation of vulnerabilities.

    ThreadFix 2.7 provides the flexibility and capability for any organization to tune their program for maximum effectiveness. Customers who require support to maintain an efficient application security program can seamlessly assign tasks, such as assessments and source code review, to Denim Group’s highly qualified team who provide on-demand testing and application vulnerability resolution. This enhanced service reduces the friction associated with implementing testing programs by allowing customers to request QuickCheck assessments directly through the platform. These assessments go beyond the simple automation that scanning vendors provide to include false positive culling and time-boxed manual testing.

    “Our goal is to provide our customers with the freedom to easily build the application security programs they want,” said Dan Cornell, CTO and Principal of Denim Group. “ThreadFix 2.7 provides organizations with the viable option to outsource components of their programs in order to free up time and resources, enabling teams to focus on developing strategy, interacting with executives to get buy-in on managing software risk, developing security architecture around CI/CD pipelines, and working with development teams to threat model new applications.”

    Additionally, the ThreadFix platform offers application portfolio reporting characterized by risk, along with information on the most recent assessment activity, in order to provide organizations with a program-oriented view of the applications being managed. This allows teams to clearly define risk as it relates to criticality of application, how severe the vulnerabilities are, when the last time the user ran a scan/assessment, and what vulnerabilities should be fixed first. This risk-centric view ensures that the organization can quickly identify the most serious issues and the most glaring blind spots.

    The structuring of application security programs is challenging for organizations who are limited by budget, talent and knowledge. Through enhancements to ThreadFix, Denim Group is putting power back in the hands of the businesses, enabling them to grow their application security initiatives by amplifying the value of their team’s resources. ThreadFix 2.7 delivers a clearly defined view application portfolio risk and brings knowledgeable outsourcing resources so that all organizations can address software security.

    For more information on the ThreadFix platform, please visit our website: https://threadfix.it/.

    About Denim Group

    Denim Group is the leading independent application security firm, serving as a trusted advisor to customers on matters of application risk and security. The company helps organizations assess and mitigate application security risk. Denim Group’s flagship ThreadFix platform accelerates the process of application vulnerability remediation, reflecting the company’s rich understanding of what it takes to fix application vulnerabilities faster.

  • Blockchain Startup RNDR Surpasses GPU Capacity of Public Cloud Tech Giants with World’s Largest GPU Cloud Rendering Network

    Blockchain-based graphics rendering platform beta surpasses the cumulative on-demand GPU rendering power on the public cloud; Offers partners unlimited, scalable GPU rendering, AI, and compute on the cloud

    LOS ANGELES, October 17, 2018 – Blockchain-based rendering platform RNDR has revealed data from its Q2 beta testing survey, supporting the conclusion that its global decentralized network of graphics processing units (GPUs) is powering is the world’s largest cloud network of its kind. Topping the cumulative capacity of all GPU instances from major public cloud providers, this discovery came as a result of a survey taken by over 1,200 individuals during beta testing for the RNDR platform with regard to their contribution to the network and the amount of processing power they are collectively lending from their devices.

    Survey results showed that in total, the RNDR network is harnessing the power of over 14,000 GPUs, with 11,000 GPUs currently compatible with the platform, and a combined GPU rendering power of 1.5 million OctaneBench (OB). OctaneBench is a GPU benchmarking utility created by OTOY for its application, OctaneRender. For comparison, a .60 cents/hour G2 instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers around 37 OB, and a centralized version of the RNDR service, which launched in 2013 on Amazon G2 instances in partnership with AWS, Autodesk, and later, Google and other major cloud providers, is capacity limited  at under 1 million OB. RNDR’s decentralized technology allows the network to utilize the computing power of everyday GPU owners distributed across the world, eliminating ceilings related to capacity and network speed that exist within systems currently offered by the biggest cloud players.

    RNDR is an advancement of established cloud-based rendering company OTOY, which leverages blockchain technology and a distributed network of idle GPUs to render graphics more quickly and efficiently. The project has received early support from industry luminaries such as Hollywood producer JJ Abrams, and famed talent agent Ari Emanuel.

    Jules Urbach, CEO of OTOY, said “We have been working for quite some time now to build the RNDR network and have reached unprecedented levels in cloud computing, putting us at the top with the largest tech companies in the world. Our vision when we first began this journey was to scale and democratize rendering, creating more efficient processes and to reach not only high-power Hollywood studios, but also everyday content creators who might not otherwise have access to this technology. RNDR is the key to ushering in the increasingly virtual future of entertainment – from AR to VR to video games to film. This significant milestone further demonstrates that we are that much closer to reaching our goal, and we can’t wait to show the world what our platform can do in the near future.”

    OTOY’s sophisticated cloud-rendering technology has been used to create visuals in some of the past decade’s most notable works including Westworld, Star Wars, Avatar, AntMan and the Wasp, and many other films and tv shows, along with four out of five Emmy Nominees in this year’s Outstanding Title Design category. OTOY has also partnered with Facebook to provide post-processing tools for projects created with The Manifold camera, and Unity to enable game developers to create advanced cinematic graphics. As the entertainment space continues to evolve, applications requiring high-quality renderings in real-time will require more computing power than what is currently available. RNDR’s platform will enable the acceleration of this graphics creation, providing speed, massive data storage, instant software updates, and heavy-duty processing without the massive hardware or infrastructure costs that come with other current options.

    RNDR’s distributed blockchain GPU compute network provides the scale to make the rendering of stunning content displays widely available for the first time. The RNDR platform is currently in beta testing, with a full release set to go live later this year.

    For more information, visit www.rendertoken.com, read the whitepaper here, and join RNDR’s Telegram channel here.

  • WhiteSource Raises $35M to Mainstream Open Source Security Management

    Accelerated revenue growth, tripling YoY, underscores rapid market adoption of automated Open Source management

    TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — WhiteSource, the leader in continuous open source security management, announced a $35 million funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, with participation by existing investors 83North and M12 – Microsoft Ventures. This $35 million Series-C adds to the $11 million raised by WhiteSource in previous financing rounds.

    Founded in 2011, WhiteSource was created with the mission to help businesses harness the power of open source without compromising on security or slowing development. With the latest funding, WhiteSource plans to double down on serving the enterprise market where leading customers such as Microsoft, IBM, Comcast and KPMG already leverage the WhiteSource platform.

    Open source has become the main building block in modern applications, and it is almost impossible to develop software at today’s pace without it.  However, as the open source community grows, and the number of reported vulnerabilities keeps climbing, manually verifying the security and compliance of open source components can no longer provide the necessary control over the security of these components.

    “We are now at a stage where the question is not whether or not to use open source components, but how to put in place the solutions and policies to manage them well,” said Rami Sass, Co-Founder and CEO of WhiteSource. “Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub for $7.5B showcases that companies have accepted open source as crucial to the software development process, but incidents such as the Equifax data breach underscore the necessity for all companies to protect their products from attacks that would exploit the open source components they are using.”

    This reality is the fuel behind the incredible growth of the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) market which automates open source components management. This market quickly transitioned from early adopters to the early majority over the last 18 months and is now becoming mainstream. Serving more than 500 customers today, WhiteSource has established itself as the leader in the SCA space with the first continuous, automated open source management platform.

    WhiteSource continues to gain attention for its ability to think beyond the abstract concepts of security and compliance and has delivered capabilities that answer the business needs of development and security teams alike, as it has proven with its latest revolutionary offering, Effective Usage Analysis, which reduces open source vulnerabilities alerts by 70%.

    “WhiteSource has established the standard for open source security solutions with its strong leadership and breakthrough innovation,” said Martin Angert, Director at Susquehanna Growth Equity. “We are excited to join WhiteSource on their journey to help businesses develop better software, faster.”

    With offices in New York, Boston, and Tel Aviv, WhiteSource is planning to further expand its reach with the opening of sales, marketing and customer support operations in London and San Francisco as well as additional locations for global expansion.

    About WhiteSource

    WhiteSource is the pioneer of open source security management. Founded in 2011, its vision is to empower businesses to develop better software by harnessing the power of open source. WhiteSource is used by more than 500 customers worldwide, from all verticals, and sizes, including 23% of Fortune 100 companies, as well as industry leaders such as Microsoft, IBM, Comcast and many more. The company has been recognized by Forrester as the best current offering in its Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Wave™ report. For more information, please visit www.WhiteSourceSoftware.com