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New Appliances Deliver True All-in-One Security Management

CPX 360, BARCELONA, SPAIN  —  Thu, 25 Jan 2018

Check Point^® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber-security solutions globally, today announced three new Smart-1 security management appliances.

This follows on the heels of the company’s announcement of Check Point Infinity Total Protection, a unique New Security Model to prevent ‘Gen V’ threats and attacks.  The new appliances enable centralized, unified policy management, and advanced log and threat analysis for real-time, enterprise-wide security monitoring and control, for Gen V (5^th Generation) cyber-protection.

All business sectors are now experiencing Gen V cyber-attacks, defined as large-scale and fast moving attacks across mobile, cloud and on-premise networks.  These sophisticated attacks easily bypass the conventional, static detection-based defenses being used by most organizations today.  The new Smart-1 appliances, deliver management storage capacity of up to 48TB, logging rates of up to 100,000 logs/sec and a performance boost of up to 8x compared to previous models. This enables  unprecedented security management performance across network, cloud and mobile environments for efficient Gen V cyber protection.

The three new appliances, Smart-1 525, Smart-1 5050 and Smart-1 5150 provide enterprise IT teams with holistic, single-console security management and the ability to correlate, store and analyze huge amounts of new and historic data from thousands of network devices.  This streamlines and accelerates security management processes, and strengthens organizations’ security postures in response to the current Gen V cyber-attack landscape.

“The Smart-1 Appliance family gives customers an agile, high-capacity security management solution that delivers in-depth visibility into their security posture,” said Gabi Reish, VP product management and product marketing at Check Point.  “This makes it even easier for organizations to keep themselves fully protected against Gen V cyber-threats, by deploying and managing security with unrivaled performance, all on a single device.”

The new Smart-1 appliances are part of the Check Point Infinity architecture, which combines real-time threat prevention, shared intelligence and the most advanced security across networks, cloud and mobile.

The appliances were announced at CPX 360 Barcelona, Check Point’s annual cyber-security summit and expo for customers and partners.  CPX 360 is dedicated to addressing today’s most pressing cyber security challenges and helping customers of all sizes develop strategies to stay one step ahead of new and emerging cyberthreats and sophisticated hackers.

Read more about the new Check Point Smart-1 appliances.

Check Point Blog: http://blog.checkpoint.com/
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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/checkpointsoftware
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/check-point-software-technologies
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CPGlobal

 

About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading provider of cyber security solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally. Its solutions protect customers from cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks. Check Point offers a multilevel security architecture that defends enterprises’ cloud, network and mobile device held information, plus the most comprehensive and intuitive one point of control security management system. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.

By Don Boulia, GM for Cloud Developer Services, IBM

Technical complexity and other roadblocks shouldn’t prevent organizations from using advanced cloud services. So IBM and Mendix, a leader in low-code platforms, are partnering to make sure they don’t.

According to IDC, cloud computing is now a substantial part of new IT spending and is expected to grow from $96.5 billion in 2016 to more than $195 billion by 2020, more than doubling in the next four years.

In 2017, 60 percent of the growth in IT spending was estimated to come from cloud computing alone. As cloud adoption grows, the need for moving applications to the cloud also increases, as well as the drive to connect more data workloads into the advanced tools that cloud offers to fuel AI.

However, many businesses face challenges when trying to embrace these new opportunities. They include:

• Lack of agility, as competitive and unique apps today require rapid experimentation and close collaboration among developers, data scientists, business analysts and IT teams.
• Technical complexity, which often causes teams to struggle to master the increasingly complex landscape of app development.
•  A skills shortage. The demand for developers exceeds the supply. Many companies struggle to find the right skills when hiring, or cannot afford the increased resources required to keep up with demand.

Low code, a fast-growing category of app development, addresses these obstacles by bridging the gap between technology and business needs.

The collaboration between IBM and Mendix will combine the ease of Mendix’s low-code environment with the advanced services available on IBM Cloud, including AI, blockchain, data analytics, mobile and Internet of things (IoT) services. This significantly accelerates the speed at which developers from all backgrounds, from highly skilled coders to professionals expanding their roles, can build and deploy cloud-native innovation.

With Mendix on IBM Cloud, non-technical users can easily assemble software components and connect into datasets to build complex apps. The Mendix low-code development platform enables software creation through point-and-click interfaces instead of computer programming, reducing the amount of hand coding required to bring an app to production.

Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix, explained why this partnership is so important: “The apps of the future cannot be built with the tools of the past. Businesses across all industries are finding new ways to innovate, and today’s market leaders are putting low-code development at the core of their digital strategy. The partnership between IBM and Mendix enables customers to accelerate time to value and gain competitive advantage, leveraging IBM Cloud and IBM Watson services.”

The IBM and Mendix partnership presents a powerful combination of the IBM Cloud, which integrates public and private clouds and traditional data centers through a single architecture. Combining the data in these systems builds a foundation for AI workloads, and running the low-code platform of Mendix on top brings a single collaborative and simple user environment to business and technology teams.

Customers who use Mendix on IBM Cloud will benefit from:

• Accelerated time to value, delivering applications up to 10 times faster
•  Native integration of IBM Watson IoT and AI services for low-code app building
• Cloud-native architecture supporting high availability and scalability
• Flexible cloud deployment across IBM Cloud options from public, to private and hybrid, including the option to deploy models such as Cloud Foundry or Docker/Kubernetes
• Increased collaboration and agility across business and technology teams

To get started, access the Mendix platform directly on top of IBM Cloud. There you will have the flexibility to consume rapid app building tools, cloud services and cloud runtimes under a single subscription.

Try it now and start innovating.

5^th annual report demonstrates social media’s impact on the visibility of software failures

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (January 24^th, 2018) — Tricentis, the leader in Continuous Testing, today announced the release of their fifth annual Software Fail Watch report.

Download the 5^th Annual Software Fail Watch report here.

The Software Fail Watch is a detailed analysis of the software failures, defects, and vulnerabilities covered by news organizations from around the globe. Tricentis analyzed each failure to reveal industry-specific trends as well as impacts to stock prices, market share, and customer trust and loyalty. This year’s report investigates 606 failures that affected over 3.6 billion people and caused $1.7 trillion in lost revenue.

“Reports like the Software Fail Watch provide a much needed ‘reality check’ for those of us in the testing world,” remarked Wolfgang Platz, Tricentis founder and CPO. “Today, software plays a larger part in consumer and business interactions than ever before, and, yet, the number of news stories of reports of bugs being released into production only continues to grow. However, with the right strategies, approaches to automation, and better alignment with the business, I am confident that trend will change.”

Some highlights of this year’s Software Fail Watch include:

• Software failures resulted in 268 years of downtime
• The number of reported failures was 10 percent higher in 2017 than in 2016
• Retail and consumer technology industries experienced the most software failures of any industry analyzed

This year’s report features a month-by-month breakdown of media coverage for select industries, a visualization of how quickly failures can spiral out of control, a new “Brand Erosion Index” that quantifies the impact of lost consumer trust, and a catalog of the biggest hacks, attacks, and exploits of 2017.

About Tricentis

Tricentis provides a Continuous Testing platform that accelerates testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps. With the industry’s most innovative functional testing technologies, Tricentis breaks through the barriers experienced with conventional software testing tools — achieving test automation rates of over 90%. Our integrated software testing solution, Tricentis Tosca, consists of a unique Model-based Test Automation and Test Case Design approach, encompassing risk-based testing, test data management and provisioning, service virtualization, and more. Prominent analysts have recognized us as a Leader in both Software Test Automation and in Functional Automation Tools. We are established as a reliable enterprise partner, helping to deliver significant performance improvements to testing projects.

Tricentis’ 700+ customers include global names from the Top 500 brands such as HBO, Toyota, Allianz, BMW, Starbucks, Deutsche Bank, Lexmark, Orange, A&E, Vantiv, Vodafone, Telstra and UBS. For regular news and information about Tricentis and the automated testing market, like and follow the company on: www.tricentis.com.

©Tricentis and Tosca are registered trademarks of Tricentis.  Other trade names used in this document are properties of their respective owners.

Application security testing leader saw a 70 percent year-over-year sales growth and added 350 new customers

SmartBear Announces Swagger Inspector for Individuals and Teams to Easily Generate OpenAPI Documentation and Validate APIs

SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Jan. 23, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, today announced the release of Swagger Inspector, a free cloud-based API testing and documentation tool to simplify the validation of any API and generate its OpenAPI documentation. Swagger Inspector builds on the Swagger team’s commitment to provide tools that reduce friction throughout the API lifecycle and leverage open standards based development.

The API economy has captured the attention of business and technology leaders alike with organizations trying to leverage APIs to achieve financial growth through digital channels. As more applications start to depend on APIs, there’s an increased focus on integrating with APIs that are easy to work with and function as intended. With the increasing need for building quality, consumable APIs, developers must be able to easily validate their APIs and make sure they are accurately documented without adding unnecessary overhead into their existing workflow and complicating their development.

Swagger Inspector was built to make it as easy as possible for developers to check if any API, be it REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and more, works as intended. In addition, developers can automatically generate OpenAPI documentation to make their API readable and easy to work with. Swagger Inspector can create the OpenAPI documentation for any API with the click of a button and host the documentation on SwaggerHub, the design and documentation platform for teams, used by over 100,000 architects and developers.

“Our company is trying to successfully position ourselves in the API economy by standardizing with the OpenAPI Specification,” said Matthieu Delmas, a web developer at microDon and a beta user of Swagger Inspector. “Swagger Inspector has become an important part of our API strategy, in that we can easily test and auto-generate the OpenAPI documentation for any of our APIs, all during the development process itself.”

Swagger Inspector was designed to have practically no learning curve and allows developers to validate if their APIs work as intended and create API documentation without having to learn a new tool or add components into their existing code or processes.

“As APIs are increasingly playing a pivotal role in digital transformation, it becomes imperative to deliver quality, consumable APIs at a faster pace,” said Christian Wright, EVP and GM, API Business at SmartBear. “We built Swagger Inspector to simplify the API development process by empowering developers to easily test and auto-generate their OpenAPI documentation with a single, cloud-based Swagger tool.”

For more information, visit: https://swagger.io/blog/announcing-swagger-inspector

About SmartBear Software
Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

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• New release of Toad Edge supports MariaDB and MySQL on Azure
• Latest release of Toad Data Point further simplifies data access, integration and data preparation with new pivot grid and enhanced automation capabilities
• New release of Toad Intelligent Central streamlines data sharing processes with health check reporting and cross-query analysis

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – January 22, 2018— Quest Software, a global systems management and security software provider, today announced three new updates to the Toad product family, including Toad Edge v1.2, Toad Data Point v4.3 and Toad Intelligence Central v4.3.

The new release of Toad Edge simplifies the development and management of next-generation open source database platforms, with added support for MariaDB and MySQL instances running on Microsoft Azure. Toad Data Point v4.3 and Toad Intelligence Central v4.3 feature several new capabilities designed to simplify and automate data preparation, visualization and provisioning for data analysts, regardless of data source or location, on premise or in the cloud.

Expanded Open Source RDBMS Support
Open source database management systems (OSDBMSes) are being implemented at a fast rate.

According to the DB-Engines Ranking system, the popularity of open source systems increased from 35% five years ago to 47% today. The DB-Engines Ranking is a list of DBMS ranked by their current popularity that is updated monthly.

Toad Edge is a lightweight, flexible and extensible commercial toolset designed to minimize the learning curve for developers and database administrators (DBAs) working in open-source relational database environments. Features like object and user management, query monitoring, schema compare and sync, database snapshots and data import/export make it easy to develop and manage open source relational database environments; while a Continuous Integration plug-in compatible with Jenkins, one of the leading DevOps automation servers, allows users to easily integrate database tasks with DevOps workflows.

The newest release of Toad Edge v1.2 includes added support for multiple result sets and spatial data types. Support for MariaDB v10.1, in addition to MySQL instances running in Microsoft Azure, has also been added for greater platform flexibility.

Enhanced Data Prep, Querying & Reporting for Analyst Teams

Real-time access to data, whether on premise or in the cloud, is paramount to business growth. Traditional self-service data preparation has traditionally been at odds with IT data governance, auditability, and transparency requirements.  The new Quest Toad capabilities deliver the self-service capabilities data analysts need for easy data preparation in secure and governed workflows – bridging the gap between IT teams and the business.

Preparing, provisioning, analyzing and reporting on data has become an increasingly time-consuming and costly process due to the growing volume and complexity of data and data sources the average organization produces, processes, and consumes each day.

With Toad Data Point and Toad Intelligence Central, Quest gives data analysts the one-two punch needed to simplify this process by providing limitless data connectivity, visual query building, data integration, and flexible import/export reporting. All of this is enabled via workflow automation across data platforms – from relational databases and non-database sources to non-SQL systems and the cloud.

Featuring a re-architected pivot grid, expanded automation capabilities, and the ability to manage published items directly through a web browser, the enhanced Toad Data Point v4.3 and Toad Intelligence Central v4.3 make it even easier for analysts to prep and report on data across all of their database platforms and sources.

Key features and benefits for Toad Data Point v4.3 include:

• Re-architected pivot grid provides a much simpler workflow that allows analysts the ability to add calculated columns.
• Enhanced Excel export capabilities enable the user to export data directly to an Excel Pivot table on demand or with automated actions.
• Enhancements to dimensional viewer make it easier than ever to group, filter, aggregate, and pivot one query result set into multiple meaningful views.

Key features and benefits of Toad Intelligence Central 4.3 include:

• Web console-based editing: Allows for simple and convenient revision of published and shared diagrams, visual queries, automation, SQL files and other artifacts.
• New administrative health check reporting: Makes it simple for customers to manage Toad Intelligence Central deployments and ensure data integrity.
• Dynamic cross-query enhancements: Increases the performance of Toad Intelligence Central and reduces response times for complex cross platform/database queries.

“Today’s IT teams – from DBAs to developers to data analysts – are facing a continuously shifting and unpredictable database management environment, making it difficult to manage both on premise and heterogeneous, cloud-based databases that power their organizations business-critical applications,” said Patrick O’Keeffe, Executive Director, Software Engineering, Quest Software. “No one understands this better than Quest and the new Toad product releases prepare database and data pros with the toolset needed to successfully manage their ever-changing database landscape.”

 

Availability & Additional Information

• Toad Edge v1.2 is generally available. For more information go here.
• Toad Intelligence Central v4.3 is generally available. For more information go here.
• Toad Data Point v4.3 is generally available. For more information go here here.

Join the Toad World community by registering here.

About Quest Information Management
Quest Information Management boasts a market leading portfolio of database management and performance monitoring solutions that support a variety of applications and database platforms, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, DB2, and SAP/Sybase. Our easy-to-use products help organizations better manage, protect, and ensure optimal performance of mission critical workloads across multi-database environments – on premise and in the cloud – from a common view. Flagship products include: Toad, Foglight for Databases, Spotlight and SharePlex.

About Quest Software
Quest Software helps customers solve complex technology problems with simple solutions. At Quest, we believe the right technology eliminates the need to choose between efficiency and effectiveness. With Quest solutions, companies of all sizes can reduce the time and money spent on IT administration and security, so you have more time to focus on and invest in business innovation. Quest has more than 100,000 customers worldwide across its portfolio of software solutions spanning information management, data protection, endpoint systems management, identity and access management, and Microsoft platform management. For more information, visit www.quest.com

Leader in Database Release Automation Continues Dramatic Growth

AUSTIN, Texas – Jan. 18, 2018 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, announced it closed 2017 with tremendous growth, nearly doubling annual subscriptions to its flagship product – Datical DB, and increasing customer growth by 30 percent. Datical continued to see large enterprises rollout Datical DB to help accelerate their digital transformation and DevOps initiatives.

According to Forrester’s Principal Analyst Robert Stroud in a recent blog, 2017 was projected to be the year of DevOps. Forrester states that “with our data confirming that 50% of organizations are implementing DevOps, DevOps has reached ‘Escape Velocity.’”

While organizations have realized the benefits of deploying DevOps across their enterprise and begin to embrace automation in an effort to accelerate the pace of software delivery, a large hurdle still remains – bringing data into the continuous delivery process. This past year, Datical helped its customers remove this barrier via expanding its support for new database platforms, releasing new features that foster communication and collaboration across applications teams and building a DevOps ecosystem through the Datical Partner Program.

“We are excited to announce another year of phenomenal growth for Datical.” said Derek Hutson, CEO of Datical. “As we start 2018, we will continue delivering innovation to our customers to help them increase the velocity of software releases by removing the barrier of the database. As our customers continue pursuing digital transformation, migration to the cloud and DevOps, we will ensure their database release process is fast, safe and secure.

Datical 2017 Corporate, Product, Customer and Partner Milestones

Corporate momentum

• Increased customer base growth by 30 percent with leading enterprises, such as AIG, LabCorp and The U.S. Department of Treasury
• Supported the delivery of new innovation by increasing investment in R&D by 70 percent
• Launched the Datical Partner Program to unite and empower the DevOps ecosystem, and bring together system integrators and the world’s most popular DevOps vendors such as Delphix, IBM,XebiaLab and CA to bring continuous delivery to the database.
• Developed integrations with Pivotal, CA and Jenkins 2.6 to bring DevOps to the database
• Received industry accolades, including being named as finalists to the DevOps Dozen in the “Top DevOps Evangelist” and Best DevOps Commercial Solution” categories, and to the Database Trends and Applications Readers’ Choice Awards in the “Best Database Development Solution.” Datical also was honored by Database Trends and Applications on the DBTA 100 2017 list as one of the companies ‘that matters most in data.’

Product innovation

• Unveiled a new capability to the Datical platform, Datical Deployment Monitoring Console (DMC), that automatically monitors the status of every database deployment across the enterprise and provides unprecedented visibility into the outcomes of all database deployments.
• Announced support for Db2® for z/OS®, the undisputed leader for storing and harnessing mission-critical data – a move that brings automation to the mainframe as enterprises continue to digitally transform.
• Launched support for Oracle Exadata, the most powerful database platform, to modernize organization’s database deployment process, shorten application release times, drive better security, and have more productive application developers, testers and DBAs.

Tweet this: #database #releaseautomation leader @Datical closes 2017 w/ record customer growth, product innovation & partner expansion. Read about it here: http://ow.ly/cpvO30hQj1s

Resources

• Datical website: http://www.datical.com
• Blog: http://www.datical.com/blog/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Datical
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datical

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, 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.

Contact

Danielle Salvato-Earl

Offleash for Datical

(650) 922-7287

datical@offleashpr.com

Portworx and HPE Release New Solution for Rapid Deployment of Containerized Applications on HPE Synergy

 

New Reference Configuration to Automate and Manage Enterprise Applications Running Kubernetes at Cloud Scale

 

Los Altos, Calif. – Jan. 18, 2018 – Portworx, the solution for running stateful containers in production, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced a solution based reference configuration that allows enterprises of all sizes to easily deploy, scale, and manage stateful container workloads. This new solution enables IT teams to deploy a scale out container platform on bare metal using a combination of HPE Synergy composable system, Kubernetes and Portworx’s cloud native storage platform. The result is a solution that can be rapidly deployed in 30 minutes or less, is highly container and storage elastic, and can scale to many nodes with bare metal performance.

As on-demand applications, such as Uber and Netflix, set the new standard for providing instantaneous responses to user needs, enterprises are moving to more efficient cloud-native and container-centric application architectures in order to meet increasing user demands for speed, reliability and performance. Moving applications to this architecture gives enterprises more agility and the ability to quickly deliver innovative services to their customers. Working together, HPE and Portworx have encapsulated the best practices for deploying such an architecture along with deployment automation scripts and playbooks.

The reference configuration leverages:

• Kubernetes as a scale-out and efficient container orchestrator and scheduler
• Portworx PX-Enterprise as the highly reliable, cloud-native, and container centric storage platform to run stateful container workloads
• HPE Synergy as the composable infrastructure that offers flexible compute and storage to the container applications and enables infrastructure as code for automation

“Running enterprise container workloads at scale requires compute and storage that are highly flexible, scalable and available,” said McLeod Glass VP Production Management, HPE. “Together Portworx and HPE deliver a fully integrated cloud native storage layer on top of HPE Synergy’s composable infrastructure, enabling scalable data and compute services for containers on a Kubernetes cluster.  This will vastly simplify the customer’s ability to deliver stateful container services through deployment automation and running native container storage on HPE’s composable systems.”

“The HPE-Portworx solution for containerized workloads strikes an important balance for enterprise IT, between automation and control,” said Murli Thirumale, CEO, Portworx. “HPE Synergy automates hardware provisioning while Kubernetes and Portworx automate the application lifecycle management, a boon to enterprise IT. At the same time, PX-Enterprise enables IT to maintain full control over their storage environment using Portworx’s configurable class-of-service, encryption and backup policies.”

From an application perspective, the HPE Synergy solution for Kubernetes and Portworx PX-Enterprise provides the following benefits:

• Performance: container applications and back-end databases can either run on bare metal or on VMs on HPE Synergy SY 480 hardware ensuring blazing performance for containerized compute and storage.
• App Services: Kubernetes provides load balancing, DNS and built-in services.
• Rapid deployment: Synergy image streamer for seamless expansion and contraction of compute and storage resources to optimize resource needs of the container infrastructure.
• Self-healing: containers get replaced and rescheduled based on server and app-level checks by Kubernetes.
• Highly Available Data: Portworx creates container-granular volumes that are replicated and kept highly available, including across maintenance operations.
• Container Data Lifecycle: container volumes can be automatically encrypted, snapshotted and backed-up to object storage by Portworx PX-Enterprise.

For more information on this reference configuration based solution, click here.

About Portworx

Portworx is the solution for running stateful containers in production, designed with DevOps in mind. With Portworx, users can manage any database or stateful service on any infrastructure using any container scheduler, including Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS, and Docker Swarm. Portworx solves the five most common problems DevOps teams encounter when running stateful services in production: persistence, high availability, data automation, security, and support for multiple data stores and infrastructure. Portworx is ideally suited for solution verticals such as databases, messaging queues, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD), big data, and content management. Customers include Lufthansa Systems, TGen, eight companies in the Fortune Global 500, and other Fortune 1000 customers in healthcare, global manufacturing, telecom, and federal.

— Funding will accelerate product deployment and enhancements of

advanced data breach protection solution —

SANTA CLARA, CA – January 17, 2018 – Baffle, Inc., developer of the BaffleManager™ Application Data Protection Service, today announced that it has closed $6 million in Series A funding led by Envision Ventures, with participation from ServiceNow Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and Industry Ventures. Current Baffle investors True Ventures and Engineering Capital also participated in the round. This funding will be used to accelerate product development across additional databases expanding the market opportunity and supporting additional sales and marketing efforts.

The BaffleManager™ Application Data Protection Service offers a comprehensive data protection capability that unifies enhanced data access monitoring and access control with end-to-end encryption.  Baffle’s data protection solution enables secure computing for cloud applications and integrates at the SQL layer as a gatekeeper to constrain how applications access sensitive data and help thwart attacks that were the causes of the latest high profile data breaches.  Baffle’s data protection solution employs an AES 256-bit encryption method that protects sensitive data while it is in memory without breaking the application.  This groundbreaking secure data processing model guarantees data protection even in light of the recent revelations about processor vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre because memory contents remain encrypted while being processed.

“Baffle’s solution helps organizations accelerate their cloud migration by securing data in a way that has never been done before.  We believe that they are the leader in this emerging category targeting a significant market opportunity, namely cloud service adoption, and are well positioned to deliver true breach protection for enterprise data in the cloud,” said Daniel Ahn, Managing Partner with Envision Ventures. “We also have strong confidence in the Baffle management team, who have exceptional technical expertise and experience in building successful businesses from technically challenging ideas.”

“Baffle’s unique approach for protecting data is attractive because it integrates into existing workflows—such as ServiceNow—without altering the application layer,” said Dominic Phillips, head of ServiceNow Ventures. “Our experience working with the Baffle team convinced us to participate in their funding, and we look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship.”

“As enterprises accelerate their migration of critical applications to the cloud, the biggest pain-point identified by Chief Security Officers is protection of their sensitive data. Baffle provides an innovative and comprehensive data security solution to address this enterprise need,” said Umesh Padval, Partner at Thomvest Ventures who focuses on cybersecurity investments. “We are excited about our investment in Baffle led by a successful serial entrepreneur in Ameesh Divatia, as well as their unique application aware data security model that enables secure computing for cloud workloads accelerating enterprise migration to the cloud.”

“We are grateful and excited to work with all of our investors, who see Baffle as embodying great promise for future growth at the convergence of key industry trends: the rise of data theft, data breaches, theft of intellectual property, compliance with regulations, and newly evolving industry standards and expectations for stronger data protection,” said Ameesh Divatia, Baffle co-founder and CEO. “Baffle is already leading this emerging space and will continue to deliver industry-leading technology as this market grows.”

BaffleManager™ is already available for deployment on Amazon Web Services Marketplace and Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The service is available for a free 90-day trial and pricing is available on request. For more information, visit http://baffle.io.

About Baffle

Baffle has released the world’s first end-to-end application data protection solution on Amazon Web Services Marketplace and Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Baffle has the ability to protect data at all times from production through processing, including when in use, with a simple delivery mechanism to help any organization accelerate the migration of data stores and workflows to the cloud without breaking applications.  For more information, visit http://baffle.io.

Changes Boost Clarity, Emphasize Criticality of Done at Scale and Extend the Worldwide Reach of Nexus

Boston – January 17, 2018 – Scrum.org, the mission-based organization dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, today announced that it has made updates to the Nexus Guide, the body of knowledge for using its Nexus framework to scale Scrum. The Nexus Guide was initially released in August 2015.

The updates, which were determined in part through the Scrum community feedback via the Scrum Guide User Voice website, the Scrum.org community and its Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs), were announced and published today by Scrum.org. An emphasis on increasing clarification around the Nexus Integration Team and the purpose of its role, asserting the importance of transparency at scale for integration and defining when “Done” is at scale are some of the major changes Scrum practitioners will find in the updated version of the Nexus Guide.

In addition, the Nexus Guide now includes a Creative Commons license, which will allow teams and organizations, globally, to reuse the guide’s content and broaden its reach. In conjunction with the updated guide, Scrum.org has released a new book, The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum: Continuously Delivering an Integrated Product with Multiple Scrum Teams, available now.

“We are excited to see the changes in Nexus,” said Lee Cunningham, Sr. Director of Enterprise Agile Strategy at CollabNet. “Organizations using the Nexus framework will enjoy the full support of VersionOne Lifecycle, which provides unmatched visibility and collaboration at scale.”

As organizations began adopting the Scrum framework and growing from single Scrum Teams to multiple Scrum Teams working together to deliver an integrated product, Scrum co-creator and Scrum.org founder Ken Schwaber, along with the Scrum.org community, created Nexus. They did so to enable them to more easily develop and sustain scaled product and software development initiatives using Scrum. Working with organizations implementing Nexus, they learned how Nexus is used, and the difficulties and successes that drove direct feedback leading to this revision.

“Nexus enables multiple Scrum Teams to work together to deliver an integrated increment one or more times per Sprint, because most scaled efforts delay integration. And that’s what fails,” said Schwaber. “It takes what’s already in place and successful in a team’s implementation of Scrum and extends it. Nexus is essentially just Scrum. It can fit the needs of pre-existing Scrum Teams and enable them to work better together, making it the preferred option for scaling Scrum.”

Nexus has become a globally accepted and used framework for scaling Scrum, with more than 40 Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) Professional Scrum Trainers qualified to teach Nexus worldwide. Scrum.org offers Nexus training and certification with its Scaled Professional Scrum With Nexus course and certification exam. Patricia Kong, Scrum.org Product Owner of Enterprise Solutions and co-creator of Nexus, will provide an overview of the Nexus framework and its updates in a webinar on February 14, 2018.

The Nexus Guide can be found at https://www.scrum.org/resources/nexus-guide and is available in 30 languages today. Offered for license under the Attribution Share-Alike license of Creative Commons, its copyright allows for reuse as long as it is credited back.

 

About Scrum.org

Based on the values and principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery. Throughout the world, our solutions and community of Professional Scrum Trainers empower people and organizations to achieve agility through Scrum.  Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, founded Scrum.org in 2009 as a global organization, dedicating himself to improving the profession of software delivery by reducing the gaps so the work and work products are dependable.

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