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Mirco Hering shares a roadmap for successful IT transformations that focuses on empowering people in addition to improving process

PORTLAND, Ore., March 21, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the availability of its latest book, Devops for the Modern Enterprise – Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations (https://itrevolution.com/book/devops_modern_enterprise/). Authored by Mirco Hering, a leading consultant for managing IT within legacy systems, the book offers advice for IT managers who want to drive end-to-end organizational success. It also provides instruction to readers on how to create an effective ecosystem, empower teams and leverage the right technology.

Print and Kindle editions of the book will be released April 3, but can be pre-ordered now: (https://itrevolution.com/book/devops_modern_enterprise/). The book also will be available in audio format. To learn more, visit: (https://itrevolution.com/book/devops-modern-enterprise-audiobook/)

“We are excited to share new work from Mirco Hering, who is one of leading thinkers of how to bring DevOps into the modern enterprise,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook. “This is an important book for every technology leader responsible for complex technology organizations and landscapes, and bringing these organizations into the future to ensure its viability.”

 

About the Book

DevOps for the Modern Enterprise confronts the uphill battle that many organizations face when it comes to the modernization of their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by learning lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing, such as creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks and by allowing organizations to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success. Using principles from Agile, Lean and DevOps, as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

To download a free excerpt of DevOps for the Modern Enterprise, please visit: (https://itrevolution.com/book/devops_modern_enterprise/).

“Any IT leader that is facing organizational transformation can benefit from this book by learning why they need to leverage proven practices where people and process come together to drive success in the enterprise,” Hering noted.

About the Author:

Micro Hering is the Principal Director of APAC DevOps and Agile at Accenture. He has worked on accelerating software delivery through innovative approaches (DevOps) for more than 10 years. He supports major public and private sector companies in Australia and overseas in their search for efficient IT delivery. Mirco also blogs about IT delivery at NotAFactoryAnymore.com and speaks globally at conferences about Agile, DevOps and organizational psychology.

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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 IT professionals.

Program additions for June event include technology and business leaders from Barclays, Capital One, Accenture, NatWest, bol.com and more

PORTLAND, Ore., March 21, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced its second round of speakers for its DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 (https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/). The event will take place at the Intercontinental London – The O2 from 25-26 June, 2018. Attendees can expect in-depth experience reports and educational sessions led by technology practitioners, extensive networking opportunities, and more.

Tickets can be purchased for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 at: (https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/register/). Attendees are encouraged to register early as the event is expected to sell out.

The second round of speakers includes:

• Aimee Bechtle, Senior Manager Advanced Engineering, Capital One
• Nicole Bryan, VP of Product, Tasktop
• Cornelia Davis, Sr. Director of Technology, Pivotal
• Carmen DeArdo, Technology Director, Nationwide Insurance
• Dominica DeGrandis, Director, Digital Transformation, Tasktop
• Damon Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Rundeck
• Mirco Hering, APAC DevOps & Agile Lead, Accenture
• Nick Funnell, GTIS CTO Hosting Development Lead, Barclays
• Mik Kersten, CEO, Tasktop
• Charity Majors CEO and Co-Founder, Honeycomb
• Tapabrata “Topo” Pal, Senior Director & Sr. Engineering Fellow, Capital One
• Frederieke Ubels, Director, bol.com
• John Willis, VP of Devops and Digital Practices, SJ Technologies
• Jennifer Wood, Head of Performance & Business Management, Technology, NatWest

“This new group of speakers represents technology leaders who have boldy inspired change and overcome complex organizational challenges,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook. “We are eager to hear the transformation stories and best practices that encompass all things DevOps – from the pipeline, to the processes, to the people.”

About the DevOps Enterprise Summit
The DevOps Enterprise Summit is a vendor-neutral conference for technology and business leaders who are transforming how large, complex organizations deliver and operate software to help their organizations win in the marketplace.

Entering its third year in Europe and fifth year in the US, its goal is to accelerate DevOps adoption and increase the likelihood of those initiatives succeeding, enabling the cultural norms, technical practices and architectures that help organizations achieve the highest levels of performance.

The event features experience report and subject matter expert talks from technology leaders at top global brands that leverage DevOps to thrive within an increasingly software-driven economy. Through keynotes, breakout sessions, collaborative workshops and space to interact within an expo hall, attendees gain insights into the evolving technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations.

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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 IT professionals.

Rockaway, NJ  – March 20, 2018 – Priority Software Ltd., a leading provider of ERP solutions, today announced that it has been included as a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Companies for the second year in a row.

Priority’s ERP solution provides organizations with secure data access, reduced administrative costs and increased overall stability and agility to respond to fast-paced business changes.

The Gartner Market Guide includes 21 Cloud ERP providers with objective information on each vendor’s offering. According to the Market Guide, “The market is heating up as vendors seek to push clients to new-generation cloud ERP solutions. This means that many organizations face a choice between well-proven on-premises products or new solutions that are still early in their life cycles. Cloud ERP solutions for product-centric companies are maturing and, over the next three years, will be adopted by many midsize organizations and some larger organizations. ”

Today, over 8,700 companies across a wide range of industries have come to rely on Priority ERP to manage and grow their business, 1,900 of which successfully use Priority’s cloud-based ERP solutions. In addition to the core elements of traditional ERP, including finance, manufacturing, logistics, human resources, business intelligence, project management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Priority ERP also offers enablers to integrate and customize the system using built-in BPM tools, REST APIs, and a Mobile Application Generator.

“We are honored to again be included in this year’s Market Guide for Product-Centric Cloud ERP,” said Andres Richter, CEO at Priority Software. “We believe our ERP systems are flexible to allow for business agility, with the goal of enabling customers to manage their own ERP systems independently for quick, reliable software changes to accelerate business process optimization.”

Gartner, “Market Guide for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Companies,” Denis Torii, Mike Guay,
5 March 2018. The report was formerly titled Market Guide for Product-Centric Cloud ERP Solutions.

Gartner Disclaimer

Gartner Disclaimer Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Priority Software

Pioneers in the global ERP solutions market, Priority Software empowers companies and organizations of all sizes, by providing the most comprehensive, flexible and affordable ERP solutions on the market today. With the mission of making ERP easier, Priority offers a more accessible alternative to complex, costly solutions to increase profitability and efficiency. Today, over 8,700 companies across a wide range of industries in 40 countries have come to rely on Priority ERP to manage and grow their business. Priority is offered both as on premise and cloud solutions, both of which deliver 100% system functionality, enabling users to access their data in real-time from mobile devices and tablets. To date, 1,900 customers successfully use Priority in the cloud. Backed by cutting-edge technologies and a skilled and talented team of professionals, Priority is supported by offices in the US and the UK and a network of business partners around the globe. Visit www.priority-software.com.

Investment to Accelerate Radically Disruptive Cybersecurity Solutions &

Expand Global Headquarters to North America

San Francisco, Calif., March 14, 2018 – Solebit, a transformative cyber security company delivering ground-breaking and the most effective evasion proof approach to the identification and prevention of zero-day malware and unknown threats, today announced the closing of an $11 million Series A funding round led by ClearSky Security. Solebit will leverage these funds to accelerate adoption and deployment of the SoleGATE Security Platform, and immediate growth in sales and marketing capabilities as Solebit establishes its new global headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. Additional investors participating in this funding round include MassMutual Ventures and Glilot Capital Partners.

Targeted attacks continue to grow at an exponential pace through a variety of vectors. Other than Solebit’s patented technology, there are no other commercially available technologies and approaches in the market today that enable evasion-proof real-time detection and prevention of embedded malicious code.

“Solebit provides the most effective, real-time, and accurate cyber-attack prevention platform that is incredibly simple to use, integrate and manage,” said Peter Kuper, Managing Director, ClearSky Security. “As organizations struggle to better manage risk against unknown threats, Solebit is ideally positioned to be a trusted partner to both enterprise and large-scale security vendors as they contend with ever increasingly sophisticated attackers. We are confident that Solebit has identified an attractive growth market that is currently suffering from ineffective sandbox technologies.  Our investment will augment Solebit’s world-class team of engineering, sales and customer care professionals to further promote its standing amongst the world’s great cyber security companies.”

Most modern cyber-attacks use data files to take advantage of vulnerabilities and active content (macros, JavaScript, etc.) to deliver malicious code into the organization. The SoleGATE Security Platform is anchored by DvC™, a patented, real-time, signature-less engine, which conclusively identifies malware threats regardless of evasion technique, file type, operating system, and client-side application whether on-premise or in the cloud. The Solebit engine processes millions of transactions every day and does not rely on heuristics, patterns or behaviors, which makes it evasion-proof for today’s modern attacks and future ready as well.

“Attackers still possess the edge, particularly in zero-day attacks, despite considerable security investment,” said Boris Vaynberg, CEO of Solebit. “DvC™ assumes that there is no legitimate reason for executable code to be present in any data file. DvC™ also accurately identifies and blocks malicious active content using advanced flow analysis, de-obfuscation techniques and deep content evaluation, to reveal threat intent within any data file covering machine, operating system and application levels, thereby rendering such sandbox-evading malware harmless to the enterprise.”

About Solebit

Solebit provides the fastest, most accurate and cost-effective approach for the identification and prevention of zero-day malware and unknown threats. Solebit was founded in 2014 by a team of world-class cyber security experts, all graduates of the elite technology units in the Israel Defense Forces with years of experience in offensive and defensive security. It counts a variety of leading US and European financial organizations, tech, defense contractors, security vendors, cloud and telecom service providers as active customers. For more information, please visit‫ ‪solebit.io

Cloud Cost Optimization Platform Expands Powerful Automation Engine for Maximum Savings on Cloud Resources

 

March 13, 2018 (Dulles, VA) – ParkMyCloud, the leading enterprise platform for continuous cost control in public cloud, announced today that it has released SmartParking for Microsoft Azure, allowing Azure users to automate cloud cost optimization.

The ParkMyCloud platform helps Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform customers save money on cloud resources by automatically integrating cost control into their DevOps processes. ParkMyCloud saves money by scheduling cloud resources to turn off when they are not needed – which they call “parking”.

The newly released expansion of SmartParking — which was first released for AWS in January — uses Azure Monitor data to find patterns in virtual machine utilization. ParkMyCloud then uses that data to automatically recommend specific parking schedules for each virtual machine to turn them off when they are typically idle. This minimizes idle time to maximize savings on cloud resources.

Using ParkMyCloud’s recommendations, some AWS customers are saving more than 80% on the cost of their cloud resources. Now, Azure users — which make up the fastest-growing portion of the cloud market — can get the same cost reduction, saving huge portions of cloud spend  that would have otherwise been wasted.

“With this release, we extend the powerful SmartParking technology to Azure, allowing users to optimize their spend and savings,” said ParkMyCloud CTO Bill Supernor. “Our AWS customers have been excited about SmartParking, and we’re glad to now deliver it to our Azure users as well.”

ParkMyCloud customer Sysco Foods has more than 500 users across 50 teams using ParkMyCloud to manage their AWS environments. “When I’m asked by a team how they should use the tool, they’re exceedingly happy that they can go in and see when systems are idle,” Kurt Brochu, Sysco Foods’ Senior Manager of the Cloud Enablement Team, said of SmartParking. “To me, the magic is that the platform empowers the end user to make decisions for the betterment of the business.”

ParkMyCloud plans to release SmartParking for Google Cloud in April.

About ParkMyCloud

ParkMyCloud is a SaaS platform that automatically identifies and eliminates public cloud resource waste, reducing spending by 65% or more — think “Nest for the cloud.” AWS, Azure and Google users such as McDonald’s, Sysco Foods, Unilever, Avid, and Sage Software have used ParkMyCloud to cut their cloud spending by millions of dollars. ParkMyCloud helps companies like these optimize and govern cloud usage by integrating cost control into their DevOps processes. For more information, visit https://www.parkmycloud.com.

Intelligently pools resources across clouds and automates operations for a broad range of workloads to empower the enterprise with personalization, machine learning and IoT applications

SAN FRANCISCO – March 8, 2018 – Today, Mesosphere — the creators of DC/OS, the premier platform for building and running data-intensive, containerized applications — announced the availability of Mesosphere DC/OS 1.11. The latest release enables edge and multi-cloud operations with new features to intelligently pool resources, schedule a broad range of workloads, and manage dynamic, distributed infrastructure from a single management interface. Driven by demand from enterprise customers like athenahealth and Royal Caribbean, DC/OS uniquely automates the underlying infrastructure so that teams can deliver high-value services, like personalized experiences, machine learning, and IoT applications, faster and more efficiently.

“Mesosphere DC/OS powers the real-time decision-making engine that allows millions of our mobile users to automatically and seamlessly switch between cellular and Wi-Fi networks for the best possible customer experience,” said Thorsten Mueller, SVP Products, Group Innovation, Deutsche Telekom AG. “We’re thrilled to see Mesosphere continue to make it easy to run containerized applications and open source data tools elastically, across data centers and multiple cloud providers simultaneously.”

New features in DC/OS 1.11 include a new unified control plane to enable seamless edge and multi-cloud operations. This consistent management experience, on-premise or at the edge, enables business continuity, disaster recovery, and cloud-bursting capabilities. DC/OS 1.11 greatly simplifies the deployment and management of hybrid and multi-cloud operations: unlike other solutions, DC/OS can span multiple cloud environments so workloads can be deployed to cloud X or cloud Y automatically. Production Kubernetes-as-a-Service on DC/OS is also now generally available with one click, allowing operations teams to deploy, scale and upgrade Kubernetes. The release also adds multi-layer security features to help secure the entire application stack, including data pipelines.

“In a hurry to modernize the stack, enterprise companies sometimes turn, first, to public providers to get as-a-service capabilities that come at a high price, both monetary and technological, since any application developed on these services is tied to proprietary APIs,” said Rhett Dillingham, vice president and senior analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy. “Not only does DC/OS power those same data services, but the platform also allows the enterprise the freedom to choose any combination of infrastructure — public clouds, private clouds, or datacenter — with truly elastic scale.”

“As we’ve seen from our customer base of Global 1000 companies, the enterprise has a tremendous opportunity in front of them: take control of their data, a business’ greatest asset, and turn it into insight and actions that drive profit and growth,” said Florian Leibert, CEO and co-founder, Mesosphere. “DC/OS provides the platform to power real-time, data-driven applications, like those for connected cars, personalized experiences, and machine learning, all with the right infrastructure on your terms.”

Edge and Multi-Cloud Operations

DC/OS 1.11 provides the ability to pool any combination of cloud, datacenter and edge compute infrastructure into a single logical resource pool and intelligently schedule workloads anywhere from a unified user interface. Operators can focus on the services they need, and not the underlying infrastructure.

New features in DC/OS 1.11 enable the following:

• Edge and multi-cloud federation: A single DC/OS interface can be linked to multiple clusters for consistent management. A DC/OS cluster can also stretch beyond local nodes, which means remote offices or edge infrastructures can have minimal footprint.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery: Deliver highly available services using fault domains to enable services that are resistant to outages within racks, availability zones or even cloud regions.
• Cloud bursting: Easily add or remove remote capacity to on-premise clusters from regional datacenters or public clouds to accommodate rapid demand spikes and optimize infrastructure utilization.

Kubernetes-as-a-Service

DC/OS makes it effortless to set up and operate a pure, open source, and production-ready Kubernetes cluster on any infrastructure. With a single click, DC/OS automates more than 20 distinct steps and many hours of work required to set up a secure and highly-available Kubernetes cluster. The same is true for scaling up, scaling down, and upgrading without any service disruption. DC/OS 1.11 is certified with the latest Kubernetes 1.9 release by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Since DC/OS has a modular architecture, and uses a pure open source Kubernetes implementation, the latest version of Kubernetes will always be quickly available on DC/OS.

Enhanced Security

Data-rich applications have many components, and securing all of them can be hard. Containerized microservices are dynamically scheduled, discovered, load-balanced, killed and restarted by design, compounding security challenges even more.

DC/OS 1.11 adds new layers of security for data services, which simplifies regulatory compliance. First, sensitive information in transit is now encrypted. Second, DC/OS provides data services integration with common authentication, authorization, and access control mechanisms such as Kerberos, LDAP, and Active Directory. Additionally, DC/OS 1.11 improves secrets management, which is used by authorized applications to share sensitive information. Also included is new support for hierarchies and multi-team isolation to make it easier to manage which secrets can be accessed by applications or teams.

Availability

Mesosphere DC/OS 1.11 is available now at https://dcos.io/install/. Learn more by visiting Mesosphere’s DC/OS 1.11 launch blog or sign up for an upcoming webinar.

About Mesosphere

Mesosphere is leading the enterprise transformation toward distributed computing and hybrid cloud. Mesosphere DC/OS is the premier platform for building, deploying, and elastically scaling modern applications and big data. DC/OS makes running containers, data services, and microservices easy across your own hardware and cloud instances. Mesosphere was founded in 2013 by the architects of hyperscale infrastructures at Airbnb and Twitter and the co-creator of Apache Mesos. Mesosphere is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York; Hamburg, Germany; and Beijing. Mesosphere investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Microsoft.

Tel Aviv, Israel – March 7, 2018 – Epsagon, a provider of automated end-to-end performance monitoring technology for serverless architectures, announced today the completion of a $4.1 million seed round. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, StageOne Ventures and Ariel Maislos, the capital will be used to expand R&D efforts as well as build out Epsagon’s marketing and sales units.

While serverless architecture eliminates the need to have access to the infrastructure, typical serverless architectures are highly distributed, event-driven and contain many managed elements, including databases, storage and third-party SaaS-based APIs. This in effect takes control away from the DevOps and R&D teams, making it very difficult to properly monitor the system and understand where potential problems exist.

Epsagon, founded in 2017 by veterans of the Israel Defense Forces’ cyber intelligence unit, has built an AI-powered performance monitoring platform for serverless architectures that can predict performance issues before they occur, allowing any company – from SMBs to large enterprises – to eliminate downtime by proactively identifying and flagging potential problems.

Epsagon’s AI technology can quickly understand where the trouble spots are located, providing customers with 100% visibility into their systems, enabling them to understand how different events are connected as well as the ability to quickly troubleshoot, and eliminate, issues.

“For serverless architecture, the name of the game today is all about understanding what is going on inside your system in a manner which not only gives you the ability to easily troubleshoot when needed, but that can predict problems you don’t even know exist yet,” said Nitzan Shapira, Co-Founder and CEO of Epsagon. “We have built a dedicated solution that answers the unique needs that serverless architectures demand – and the feedback we have received from our pilot customers indicates that we are solving a major challenge for their respective businesses.”

As opposed to older APM providers that only offer support for monolithic applications, or newer startups that can’t provide a dedicated solution for serverless architecture, Epsagon focuses on delivering an automated end-to-end analysis for distributed applications, giving the company a unique opportunity to quickly capture significant market share.

“Serverless architecture will become a dominant platform in the years to come and Epsagon is addressing a major challenge faced by companies adopting serverless”  said Yoni Cheifetz of Lightspeed Venture Partners. “From our first time meeting with the founders, the Epsagon team has exceeded our expectations and we are very excited to be working together.”

“The growing number of companies moving to serverless architectures, along with the parallel increase in applications, has made managing the systems extremely tedious and challenging,” said Yoav Samet of StageOne Ventures. “Epsagon’s solution is perfectly suited to meet the demands of today’s cloud-first, application-heavy enterprise environments.”

Container orchestration system widely deployed at scale with numerous global organizations

SONOMA, Calif., March 6, 2018 – Open Source Leadership Summit – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes® and Prometheus™, today announced that Kubernetes is the first project to graduate. To move from incubation to graduate, projects must demonstrate thriving adoption, a documented, structured governance process, and a strong commitment to community success and inclusivity.

“Kubernetes led to the creation of the CNCF as the first project accepted by the Technical Operating Committee (TOC) a little over two years ago,” said Chris Aniszczyk, COO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “With the project’s rapid growth, broad participation from numerous organizations, cloud providers and users, and proven ability to operate at scale, the TOC readily endorsed Kubernetes moving on from incubation to graduate. It signals that Kubernetes is mature as an open source project and resilient enough to manage containers at scale across any industry in companies of all sizes.”

For more Kubernetes milestones and its tenure at CNCF, read this blog.

Established, global organizations like Uber, Bloomberg, Blackrock, BlaBlaCar, The New York Times, Lyft, eBay, Buffer, Squarespace, Ancestry, GolfNow, Goldman Sachs and many others use Kubernetes in production at massive scale. Furthermore, according to Redmonk, 71 percent of the Fortune 100 use containers and more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies use Kubernetes as their container orchestration platform.

To officially graduate from incubating status, the project also adopted the CNCF Code of Conduct, defined its own governance structure and established a Steering Committee. Today committers come from multiple companies and lists who have designated responsibility over different parts of the Kubernetes codebase.

Additionally, Kubernetes also had to earn (and maintain) a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge. Completed in August of 2016, the CII badge shows an ongoing commitment to code quality and security best practices.

“The Kubernetes project is proud to graduate into a full CNCF project as well as to have helped the organization launch and grow into the industry-leading position it has today. This project and company ecosystem has changed the face of infrastructure in the cloud. The Kubernetes community looks forward to maturing the impact cloud native development has had in the industry as a whole,” said Sarah Novotny, Open Source Strategy Lead, Google Cloud.

“Kubernetes has become transcendent in its ability to shatter assumptions about what is possible in an open source project. Ascending from incubation to a full-fledged CNCF project puts the finishing touches on a lighthouse built with care to guide other communities toward conscientious success,” said Jaice Singer DuMars, Kubernetes Project Ambassador, Microsoft

Availability and Oversight

The open source container orchestration system includes apps, services, network storage, cluster management and performance and stability features. Kubernetes is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. The 13-person Steering Committee guides the project’s day-to-day management, including community development and technical processes. For downloads, documentation, and how to get involved, visit https://github.com/kubernetes, https://kubernetes.io/ and https://twitter.com/kubernetesio.

Additional Resources

• Learn about Graduation
• CNCF Blog
• Join the CNCF Conversation on Slack

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of cloud native software stacks, including Kubernetes and Prometheus. CNCF serves as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors – including the world’s largest public cloud and enterprise software companies as well as dozens of innovative startups. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about CNCF, please visit www.cncf.io.

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Critical bugs were eliminated and testing accelerated while upgrading to SAP HANA

HACKENSACK, NJ, March 7th, 2018 – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery, announced today that Eissmann Group Automotive, cut test cycles in half and eliminated critical errors while upgrading to SAP HANA and EPH7 using Panaya Test Center.  Eissman, a global leader in the manufacturing of high-quality shifter modules, trim components and full car interiors, used Panaya Test Center to keep their supplier system running 24/7 during the upgrade to enable just-in-time delivery, across time zones in three continents.

Using Panaya Test Center, Eissmann Group Automotive were able to define testing priorities, ensuring the most efficient use of IT resources and comprehensive test coverage. With both technical IT and business users able to adopt the same testing platform, Eissmann successfully increased their visibility into test cycles.  By automating manual testing methods and leveraging advanced dashboards and collaboration functionalities, testing efforts were reduced by 50%.

“With Panaya, especially in the automotive sector, you have a very high level of quality as well as time savings thanks to detailed reporting,” stated Martin Spiegler, Project Manager at Eissmann Group Automotive. “In total, we achieved 50% time savings on all regression tests and the upgrade tests, as we recorded our test cases and can re-use them every time.”

“We are proud to enable Eissmann to tackle complexity and ensure business continuity while managing software changes,” said Rafi Kretchmer, Panaya EVP. “With test management capabilities that are business process-centric, delivering real-time visibility, control and collaboration, Panaya Test Center enables customers to accelerate and standardize testing without compromising on scope or quality.”

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, 1,600 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, have been using Panaya to deliver quick quality change to enterprise applications.

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• Free Trial (http://www.panaya.com/enterprise-agile-delivery-demo/ )
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Organizations can enjoy a new way to reduce risk and remediation costs when delivering file transfer-centric business services inside their company and outside, both in the cloud or on-premises, with a single platform view

CIOs and IT professionals can further rely on BMC’s market-leading digital business automation platform to realize and accelerate digital transformation

HOUSTON – March 6, 2018 – BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today expanded its market-leading Control-M Managed File Transfer offering to include support for all file transfers – internal and external, in the cloud or on-premises – from a single, end-to-end digital business automation platform. With BMC’s Control-M solution, companies have instant visibility into the status of file transfers and business application workloads, increasing efficiency and control of business services.

Digital business demands having fully integrated and automated operations across entire workflow process
As companies navigate their digital business transformations, they need to ensure seamless processes across both their multi-cloud and on-premises applications. File transfers are a critical part of the business process and must be managed as part of the business process.

Modern enterprise operations are dependent upon file transfers with different applications and systems, yet using multiple methods prevents companies from having fully integrated and automated operations. As file transfers continue to rise, companies need a solution that delivers enterprise-level automation to file transfers, provides a single point of control that lowers risks and remediation costs, and expedites issue resolutions that are critical for business continuity.

“There is an automation mandate underway as businesses grapple with the growing challenges brought about by digital transformation,” said Gur Steif, president, digital business automation at BMC. “Companies rely on file transfers to accelerate their internal, partner ecosystem and customer transactions across multi-cloud and on-premises applications, where speed, security, and audit reporting are absolute requirements. With the latest extension of our Control-M Managed File Transfer capabilities, our customers are realizing bottom-line benefits, including breaking down silos, reducing costs and errors, scaling the business faster, and improving file transfer transparency with graphical reporting and audit functions.”

“Managing heterogeneous data flows is one of the fundamental challenges for today’s IT administrators,” states James Kobielus, lead analyst for big data at Wikibon. “Enterprises increasingly need to work with data that is stored, managed, and processed in two or more internal and external environments. Traditionally, this has required separate tools for each of the various data movement pipelines, such as file transfers, database replications, distributed updates, and real-time streams. We expect that more organizations will seek greater efficiencies by converging these flows into unified backbones. This will allow those jobs to be automated around the clock from end to end without sacrificing security, visibility, and control.”

Control-M Managed File Transfer empowers IT professionals with the right solutions to support the challenges organizations face with diverse infrastructure, disparate data sources, and accelerated applications while on their digital transformation journey.

Simplify and automate file transfer management

With organizations managing an increasing number of business applications, it is critical to maintain status visibility to business service delivery and related file transfers. By combining traditional managed file transfer capabilities with application workflow automation in a single platform view across the entire enterprise, companies can streamline organizational silos resulting in fewer errors, faster problem remediation, and higher quality digital service delivery.   Businesses are no longer required to integrate multiple file transfer solutions or manually script or trace transfers across multiple solutions to resolve issues.

Today, with Control-M Managed File Transfer, BMC gives users control of file transfers with a dashboard that gives instant visibility into the status of internal and external file transfers with a unified view, enhanced security with encryption options, and reduced risk of downtime with automated monitoring and recovery features.

The Control-M Managed File Transfer solution helps customers visualize file transfer status, understand application workflow impact, and deliver mission critical business services dependent on file transfers. The solution allows customers to:

• Integrate file transfers from a central automation platform
• Proactively manage service level agreements with robust dashboards and analytics
• Easily address compliance requests with comprehensive reporting tools
• Safely transfer files in and out of cloud environments, internally and externally

Driving innovation in Control-M, the market-leading digital business automation solution

The addition of Managed File Transfer enhancements to the Control-M solution highlights BMC’s continued commitment to add new innovations to the industry’s leading digital business automation platform.

Today’s announcement complements additional capabilities recently introduced for Control-M, which help customers build, deploy, and manage their business application workflows faster, and with continuity and confidence.

To learn more about BMC’s Control-M Managed File Transfer, visit

https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/control-m-managed-file-transfer.html

To learn more about additional recent capabilities added to Control-M, visit http://newsroom.bmc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=253321&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2327817

To learn more about BMC’s digital business automation solutions, visit https://www.bmc.com/digitalbusinessautomation

To read BMC blog posts about digital business automation, visit https://www.bmc.com/blogs/categories/workload-automation/