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New continuous delivery pipeline functionality enables delivery teams to establish traceability and visibility of continuous testing workflows at scale

Santa Clara, Calif. –  JAN. 11, 2018 – Application release delays costing billions of dollars are being caused by poor management of complex enterprise test environments, according to Plutora, the continuous delivery management experts. A major new release of Plutora Environments, available today, enables organizations to manage multiple test environments to eliminate conflict and configuration challenges and enhance visibility, traceability and control. The solution provides a consolidated view of the availability, usage and configuration of enterprise-scale application testing to minimize the cost of testing delays and deliver DevOps efficiencies.

Enterprise test environment management encompasses a complex range of components and architectures, but traditionally there has not been a solution that provides a consolidated view of environment availability, usage and configuration detail. Without this view, large enterprise customers who can have up to thousands of test environments, struggled to avoid conflicts and mis-configurations, leading to significant financial loss for the business, which can total billions of dollars yearly.

“In a recent survey, over 40% of companies noted that they struggle with test environment availability as a barrier to test automation adoption, which ultimately causes delays in software releases. Conquering the challenges that managing test environments brings is a huge obstacle to achieving DevOps efficiencies in enterprises today,” said Bob Davis, CMO, Plutora. “Plutora Environments, now with new CD Pipeline functionality, is the unsung hero of optimizing software release processes by increasing the utilization that is inherent with maintaining large enterprise test environments.”

Plutora Environments provide real time visibility across the enterprise portfolio to establish a single source of truth to align teams and identify and resolve resource conflicts. Using an interactive environment map, and the new functionality of CD Pipeline, enterprises can create a structure to converge fast-moving continuous delivery activities, helping delivery teams to streamline the progression of code through each phase of a release. The CD Pipeline links GitHub versions, Jenkins jobs, test environments and original change requests to establish visibility of continuous testing workflows at scale.

Analysts agree with the importance of the new capabilities in Plutora Environments, specifically pointing out in Six Trends That Will Shape DevOps Adoption In 2017 And Beyond, an August 2017 Forrester report by analysts Rob Stroud and Eveline Oehrlich, that “the automated [continuous integration and continuous delivery] pipeline is a critical success factor for velocity.” The report goes on to note that, “45% of respondents are automating this pipeline…automated CI/CD pipelines dramatically reduce the time, risk, and expense of software and infrastructure delivery by frequently releasing small batches of changes with excellent visibility and traceability.”

Benefits for Quality Assurance Teams and Test Environment Managers

CD Pipeline allows QA teams to understand specific changes addressed in each build in high velocity release pipelines and remove roadblocks to move code through to delivery as fast as possible by:

• Quickly associating new code commits with the features or fixes the code contains
• Ensuring accuracy of test coverage in high-velocity, multi-application releases
• Tracing updated code to fix defects or original requirements to accurately assign test cases
• Automatically linking change requests to associated test cases to ensure accurate test coverage

Benefits for Release Managers

Plutora Environments new CD Pipeline enables release managers to gain visibility and bring accuracy to fast-moving CD pipelines at scale. It also creates traceability supporting business requirements within DevOps environments by:

• Monitoring product quality in fast-moving, multi-pipeline CD environments
• Providing dashboards that highlight how new code is progressing along the delivery pipeline, providing visibility from inception to production
• Establish traceability of test cases and results to original change requests and associated builds

About Plutora

Plutora, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA is a leading provider of continuous delivery management for enterprise IT. The Plutora Platform, which includes release, environment, test and deployment management, transforms IT release processes by correlating data from existing tool-chains and automating manual processes providing a single view of releases and associated metrics, such as testing quality. Plutora benefits organizations by providing predictability in the software release process, improving the speed and frequency of releases, better aligning IT software development and business strategy. For more information, visit us http://www.plutora.com/.

Second annual State of Database DevOps Survey points to compliance, speed of delivery and freeing up developer time as key business benefits

Cambridge UK, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 – Organizations are increasingly turning to DevOps within their development and database teams according to the 2018 State of Database DevOps Survey, conducted by Redgate Software with SQL Server professionals. 82% of the 700 organizations surveyed say they have either already adopted DevOps or plan to do so in the next two years, up from 80% in 2017. Over half (52%) have already implemented DevOps process on some or all of their projects, a jump from 47% last year.

However, a significant number of laggards are turning their backs on DevOps. While 60% of respondents in the retail and IT Services industries are already using DevOps, less than 40% of those in the government/education and not-for-profit sectors have adopted it – and over a third (36%) say they have no plans to implement DevOps within the next two years.

The research also pinpoints the benefits that DevOps is delivering. 63% of those surveyed feel that DevOps has a positive impact on regulatory and compliance requirements – a vital issue given the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), with its May 25 2018deadline. This rises to 69% among those who have already adopted DevOps – showing that the further down the implementation path organizations are, the greater the compliance benefits.

Databases are increasingly central to business operations, with over a third (35%) of organizations deploying database changes either daily or more than once a week. This is reflected in the key benefits that respondents see from adopting database DevOps – 28% say that increasing speed of delivery is the biggest advantage, up from 26% in 2017, followed by freeing up developers and allowing them to handle more added value work. This is cited by 23% of people in 2018, a big jump from last year’s figure of 17%.

Skills shortages are the biggest challenge to successfully adopting DevOps, identified by 24% of respondents, followed by disruption to existing workflows and the business (20%). The survey found that DevOps is increasingly seen as a business priority – just 12% cite lack of awareness of the business benefits as the main obstacle to adoption, a fall of a third from 17% in 2017. However, 40% of the laggards who have no plans to adopt DevOps blame a lack of awareness of the business benefits as their main challenge, demonstrating a need to educate management on the advantages that DevOps brings.

Commenting on the findings, Mary Robbins, Redgate Product Marketing Manager, says: “It’s heartening to see how DevOps adoption is accelerating, with organizations moving forward significantly since our last research a year ago. This is changing the challenges they face – having demonstrated the business benefits of database DevOps, organizations are now looking to overcome implementation challenges, such as skills gaps and changing how they operate. However, while the majority are pushing forward with DevOps, a significant proportion risk being left behind, missing out on the advantages this new way of working delivers in an increasingly data-driven world.”

The survey also found that traditional barriers between developers and database administrators (DBAs) are breaking down, a key cultural requirement for DevOps to succeed. 58% of organizations say that collaboration between these teams is either good or great, rising to 68% amongst those who have already adopted DevOps. Over three quarters (76%) of teams have developers who are responsible for both database and application development, showing an increasingly collaborative approach. 75% say developers typically build database deployment scripts, with this group responsible for deploying database changes to production in 47% of organizations.

While teams are working more closely together, the survey found they are not yet adopting common practices. For example, 81% of organizations use version control in application development, but just 53% within database development. A similar gap exists in other areas, such as continuous integration, with 40% using it within application development and 21% in the database.

The key challenges to integrating the database into DevOps remain similar to 2017, with nearly a third (31%) citing synchronizing application and database changes as the biggest issue, followed by overcoming different development approaches (23%).

Demonstrating the close relationship between databases and development, two thirds (67%) use production data in their development, test or QA environments. This use of ‘real’ data helps speed development, but also brings compliance and privacy concerns. 57% of respondents recognize that data will need to be modified or masked before being used in non-production environments.

Mary Robbins concludes: “To realize the full benefits of DevOps, it’s vital to incorporate the database. This can be a longer term process, but standardizing practices and tools, and ensuring that production data is masked to protect privacy are the first steps to delivering end-to-end DevOps workflows. Given the momentum between 2017 and 2018 we expect this integration between teams and tools to take another step forward over the next 12 months.”

The 2018 State of Database DevOps Survey was based on a survey of 700 SQL Server professionals from around the world. 57% were based in North America, with 27% in Europe. In terms of size, there was an equal split between organizations employing up to/over 500 staff, with 14% of respondents working for companies with 10,000+ employees.

To download the full 2018 State of Database DevOps Study please visit Redgate online.

New buy and build platform investment in leading software solution for enterprise scale DevOps teams

San Antonio, TX—January 9, 2018—Digital Defense, Inc, a security technology and services provider, is awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 North America Customer Value Leadership Award for the security risk solutions market. The selection factors contributing to the company receiving the Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award include Digital Defense’s proprietary network and application security scanner and vulnerability management system, Frontline Vulnerability Manager™, as well its innovative security awareness training product, SecurED™.

Danielle Van Zandt, Aerospace, Defense & Security Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said, “Digital Defense empowers companies to protect their networks through its industry-leading Frontline Vulnerability Manager system, which delivers a multitude of benefits, superior value, and a significant return on investment.”

Digital Defense was also cited for its partner- and client-centric operations. Larry Hurtado, president and CEO at Digital Defense, said how pleased he is to receive this prestigious award. He is grateful that Frost & Sullivan commended Digital Defense for its focus on innovation that results in the optimal value for its customers. “Our team’s number one priority is helping clients proactively protect their information assets with effective solutions that rapidly deploy and streamline cybersecurity operations,” stated Hurtado.  “We believe our solutions offer customers high value and we are proud to be recognized in this category.”

A copy of the Frost & Sullivan 2017 North America Customer Value Leadership Award for the security risk assessment solutions market can be downloaded here.

About Digital Defense

Serving clients across numerous industries from small businesses to very large enterprises, Digital Defense’s innovative and leading edge technology helps organizations safeguard sensitive data and eases the burdens associated with information security. Frontline Vulnerability Manager™, the original Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) platform, delivers consistently accurate vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, while SecurED®, the company’s security awareness training, promotes employees’ security-minded behavior. The Digital Defense Frontline suite of products, underpinned by patented technology and complemented with unparalleled service and support, are highly-regarded by industry experts, as illustrated by the company’s designation as Best Scan Engine by Frost & Sullivan, top 20 ranking (#16) in Cybersecurity Ventures’ list of the World’s 500 Hottest Cybersecurity Companies, five-star review in SC Magazine and inclusion in CRN’s MSP 500.

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

DTV Focuses on Present and Future Technology Trends with Practical Insights

SANTA CLARA, California – January 9, 2017 – Digital first solutions provider Infostretch announced the launch of DTV – a new YouTube channel for Digital Transformation focused on current and future technology trends in software development and delivery. DTV is now available onYouTube.

DTV will feature firsthand accounts from digital transformation frontlines from Fortune 1000 companies and experts across the globe. Topics run the gamut of information technology’s most timely and business-critical trends including digital strategy, digital development, DevOps, quality engineering, cloud, IoT, data analytics and mobility.

DTV kicks off today with “Going from Ideas to Implementations,” a discussion with Dr. Katy Ring, Research Director of 451 Research, and “How to really achieve change management in digital transformation,” with Tim Daniel, Executive Vice President of International SOS. Following the launch, we will hear from The Founder Institute’s CEO Adeo Ressi on the best practices of building the next generation of companies.

The Digital Transformation theme continues with a “Fireside Chat” featuring Avery Lyford, Chief Customer Officer of Infostretch. A veteran of IBM and McKinsey & Co., Lyford served as CEO of two venture-backed startups focused on virtualization and cloud storage.

In addition to these initial discussions, other scheduled topics will include AI and Machine Learning, the new era of digital medicine, automated testing, and more.

About Infostretch

Infostretch is a digital-first professional services firm. By combining in-depth experience with ready-made tools, frameworks, technologies and partnerships, Infostretch helps enterprises get digital right, the first time. With an experienced team of digital technologists, Infostretch offers Digital Strategy, Digital Development, DevOps, Quality Engineering, Cloud, IoT, Data Analytics and Mobility services. The company is trusted by leading Fortune 100 companies as well as emerging innovators to deliver solutions that work seamlessly across channels, leverage predictive analytics to optimize the software lifecycle, and support continuous innovation. For more information on how solutions and services from Infostretch accelerate digital transformation, visit www.Infostretch.com.

Funding to Fuel Growth of AI-Driven APM Solution and Accelerate Global Expansion

San Francisco, CA, US and Solingen, Germany – December 14, 2017 – Instana, the first monitoring solution to apply both automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to fully automate all aspects of application performance management (APM), today announced it has raised a $20 million Series B investment led by Accel, with participation from existing investor Target Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $27 million to date. The funding will be used to grow the company’s ability to fulfill the demand from across global markets and expand the development of its products.

Companies are increasingly relying on container and cloud technologies to deploy highly dynamic software applications, which require new management solutions. Since its inception, Instana has received strong interest from enterprises worldwide that have become frustrated with the limitations of current solutions’ abilities to keep up with the high rate of application change, visualize containerized environments, understand performance and analyze impact.

Through innovations in real-time analysis and the application of AI, Instana has delivered a solution that represents the new era of APM monitoring designed from the ground up to work in modern application environments. By facilitating high speed agile development and operations, Instana is leading the way into the next-generation of management tools, enabling IT to deliver services more quickly and efficiently, and better manage business-critical applications in containerized environments.

The APM market grew 13% in 2016, according to Gartner Market Share Analysis: Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2016. * As enterprise businesses continue to rapidly adopt cloud technologies and with the wave of IoT firmly on the horizon, the APM industry is expected to reach $5.6 billion by 2020, Gartner reported in Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2014-2021, 1Q17 Update.**

“Since our incubation in Germany, Instana focused on delivering to the needs of monitoring today’s modern dynamic application environments,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana founder and CEO. “By providing a unique AI-powered solution, we’ve succeeded in driving rapid customer adoption, having been deployed at nearly 100 enterprise customers globally in just 10 months. The addition of Accel to our existing investor, Target Partners, is another strong endorsement; their guidance and support will be critical as Instana continues to scale, mature and succeed.”

Instana’s customers are large organizations across multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, communications and cloud-based service providers such as Edmunds.com, Sixt, iOFFICE, Audi, Trusted Shops and ClearScore. Instana recently announcedintelligent analysis of AWS products and AI-powered health management of the increasingly ubiquitous container orchestration platform, Kubernetes.

“Through the use of Instana’s AI powered monitoring solution, Audi’s DevOps team was given immediate and precise visibility into our new containerized fast data platform,” said Florian Schwensfeier, Audi Executive of Development car2x, Dataplatform and Dataanalytics. “Instana’s unique solution is allowing our teams to rapidly deliver next generation services to our consumers and confidently deliver them with high quality.”

“Across industries, businesses large and small continue to make application monitoring and engineering for speed top priorities. Instana’s solution delivers the capabilities organizations need to accelerate the development of customized software to optimize and grow their business. Highly-technical and knowledgeable experts with decades of experience in the APM market, the Instana team collectively shares a vision of what is needed to manage the performance of today’s dynamic applications,” said Harry Nelis, Partner, Accel, who will join the board. “We look forward to partnering closely with Instana to help drive further growth.”

“Instana’s founders had a global vision from inception of how to effectively manage today’s dynamic applications. This vision combines core research and R&D capabilities from the team in Germany with an experienced sales and marketing team in Silicon Valley.  Through this holistic approach, the company addresses the key requirements of global enterprises seeking to leverage dynamic applications as part of their business growth strategy. We could not be happier with the market’s response to Instana,” said Target Partners co-founder and partner Dr. Berthold von Freyberg. 

• Gartner Market Share Analysis: Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2016,Federico De Silva, June 2, 2017.

** Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2014-2021, 1Q17 Update, March 20, 2017.

SUNNYVALE, CA — (December 12, 2017)— Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), an industry leader in
automated, scalable and secure networks, today further bolstered its support for open standards during
its annual NXTWORK user conference, by announcing its intent to move the codebase for
OpenContrail™, an open-source network virtualization platform for the cloud, to the Linux Foundation.
Juniper first released its Juniper® Contrail® products as open sourced in 2013 and built a vibrant user
and developer community around this project. Earlier this year, Juniper expanded the project’s
governance, creating an even more open, community-led effort to strengthen the project for its next
growth phase. Adding OpenContrail’s codebase to the Linux Foundation’s networking projects will
further its objective to grow the use of open-source platforms in cloud ecosystems.
OpenContrail is a scalable network virtualization control plane. It provides both feature-rich software-
defined networking (SDN) and strong security. OpenContrail has been deployed by various
organizations, including cloud providers, telecom operators and enterprises, to simplify operational
complexities and automate workload management across diverse cloud environments, including
multicloud.

Juniper firmly believes that open source and open standards foster greater innovation and for years has
carried out this work to support a variety of open source communities. Once the Linux Foundation takes
over governance of OpenContrail’s codebase, Juniper’s mission to ensure the project truly remains
community-led will be fulfilled. The Linux Foundation and its projects form the most ambitious and
successful investment in the creation of shared technologies. The Foundation has created a successful
collaborative model that is powering new innovations at a rapid pace, benefiting organizations and
individuals globally. The addition of OpenContrail’s codebase to the Foundation’s open-source projects
will accelerate pioneering advancements, community adoption and further enable easier and secure
migration to multicloud.

Supporting Quotes

“We are excited at the prospect of our growing global community being able to broadly adopt, manage
and integrate OpenContrail’s codebase to manage and secure diverse cloud environments. Having this
addition to our open-source projects will be instrumental in achieving the level of technology
advancements our community has become known for.”
-Arpit Joshipura, vice president of networking and orchestration at the Linux Foundation
“Juniper’s focus on cloud-grade networking means delivering on the promises of open and scalable
multicloud networking options. OpenContrail is a key part of that strategy. Our goal of placing
OpenContrail’s codebase with the Linux Foundation shows Juniper’s commitment to open networking
and open source overall. Over the past year, we have been working closely with the community to
transition the governance for OpenContrail’s codebase because we believe it has the unique opportunity
to be a ubiquitous cloud-grade network fabric used everywhere. We look forward to continuing our close
participation with the community once this project takes on new life under the Linux Foundation.”

-Randy Bias, vice president of technology – cloud software at Juniper Networks
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Webinar to Feature Real-World Case Studies on How IT Administrators Can Automate Tedious Daily Tasks and Speed Time to Application Delivery

ATLANTA – December 7, 2017 – Veristor Systems, Inc., a leading provider of transformative business technology solutions, and its DevOps and software development subsidiary Forty8Fifty Labs, today announced that it will be presenting the webinar, “Feeding the Beast: Managing DevOps Environments,” hosted by Red Hat and Intel. Featuring Forty8Fifty Labs DevOps Solutions Architect Allen Vailliencourt, the webinar will provide real-world case studies for managing DevOps environments with Red Hat Ansible Automation. 

“When it comes to DevOps, the one thing IT administrators never have enough of is time,” said Vailliencourt. “This can impact application delivery and time to value. This webinar will outline how Red Hat Ansible Automation and Intel Xeon processors can deliver greater workload densities and dramatically improve development efficiency without sacrificing performance, security or existing investments.” 

The webinar will explore how organizations can harness the power of Red Hat Ansible Automation and Intel Xeon processors so that smart people have more time to focus on strategic projects, rather than daily tasks. Specifically, the session will share:

·       How automation ends repetitive tasks and frees up DevOps teams for more strategic work

·       Why automation is an essential and strategic component of modernization and digital transformation

·       How to easily scale automation, manage complex deployments, and speed productivity

·       What you need to do to bridge the gap between traditional IT environments and newer, agile implementations

The one-hour interactive event will be hosted on Thursday, December 14 at 10:30 a.m. EST. To attend, Register here.  

About Veristor Systems, Inc.

A leading provider of transformative business technology solutions, Veristor helps its customers accelerate the time-to-value for the software, infrastructure and systems they deploy. We do this by harnessing deep expertise in today’s most advanced data center, security, networking, hybrid cloud, and big data technologies and guiding businesses to the right solutions for their most pressing challenges. And with a full suite of design, deployment, support, and managed service offerings, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with our customers at every step of their technology journey to make technology truly work for them. IT’s just who we are. Learn more at veristor.com.

About Forty8Fifty Labs

Forty8Fifty Labs is the DevOps and Agile Consulting, Services and Software Development subsidiary of Veristor Systems, Inc.  With decades of field-proven experience in solving the toughest challenges for today’s CIOs and the Development/Operations teams they lead, the Forty8Fifty Labs team unlocks the secrets to bringing your IT tools and your people together; accelerating your DevOps journey, improving collaboration, streamlining development, and reducing time to revenue.  Let us help you supercharge your business with our team’s unparalleled expertise, extensive partnerships, and custom tools and integrations. Learn more at www.forty8fiftylabs.com. 

Alcide emerges from stealth, unveiling first universal security platform designed to meet the complex needs of modern data centers

Tel Aviv, Israel December 6th, 2017 — Alcide today emerged from stealth mode launching the industry’s first universal network security platform designed to meet the complex needs of the modern data center, including hybrid, multi-compute and multi-cloud data environments. The seed funding round of $5.2 million, led by Intel Capital and Elron, is indicative of a pressing need in the market, tied to the rapid evolution of data centers.

Alcide is also announcing its exclusive preview program, which already includes select mid and large scale U.S. enterprise software companies. You can apply here. Alcide will be demonstrating its groundbreaking solution at KubeCon in Austin, Texas (December 6-8, 2017, booth #S4).

“The modern data center is where the world’s most critical data is stored and where the most lucrative information lives, yet it has evolved so rapidly and is now so complex that it’s become

The Wild Wild West of Cyber Security,” said Ranny Nachmias, CEO and Co-Founder of Alcide. “The evolution of the modern data center calls for a parallel evolution in the approach enterprises take to secure and manage their data centers. Alcide is leading that revolution.”

“Alcide offers great depth and breadth of visibility and protection for cloud operations. We believe in its potential and the need for such a solution in the market” said Rick Echevarria, Vice President of Intel’s Platforms Security Division.

According to Gartner, worldwide spending on information security will top 113 billion dollars by 2020. And yet, the odds of an organization falling victim to a data breach are now 1 in 4, according to the Ponemon Institute.

Alcide addresses a gaping hole in existing data center security solutions, finally offering a product that meets the needs of all stakeholders responsible for operating and protecting the data center: the development, operations and security teams. It seamlessly integrates with all combinations of legacy and emerging platforms, including cloud, container, VMs and bare metals.

Alcide unites SecOps and DevOps, breaking them free of their silos. By providing real-time panoramic and granular visibility of operations, along with deep analysis and control to manage and secure the rapidly evolving data center, Alcide empowers DevOps and SecOps teams with the tools they need to more efficiently and effectively protect the modern data center from malicious attacks, including internal threats and data exfiltration.

“Enterprises have reached a breaking point that calls for a new kind of solution,” said Alcide CTO and Co-Founder Gadi Naor. “One that works with any platform, built specifically for the complex hybrid data center, to keep their most sensitive data safe.”

Enterprises are increasingly moving to the cloud, and the cloud itself is becoming increasingly more complex. IDC predicts worldwide cloud spending will reach 122 billion dollars this year, with 85 percent of enterprises employing a multi-cloud strategy. Data is stored on multiple types of cloud servers, including both private and public systems. Enterprises have essentially moved their company’s and their customer’s most sensitive information to a place that is nearly impossible to secure. The complexity of how that information is stored and the pace with which the cloud is evolving means that the security safeguards that worked 2 years ago, or even 1 year ago, are no longer capable of managing the security threats of today.

Many of the newest security solutions cater specifically to securing containers, which represent just a small fraction of the modern enterprise data center. Alcide is the first solution built to secure the complex reality of the modern data center, a differentiator that led Intel and Elron to back the Israeli startup with a seed round of $5.2 million.

About Alcide

Alcide delivers a cloud workload protection platform designed for any combination of container, VM and bare metal data centers operated by multiple orchestration systems. Alcide empowers DevOps, Security and Engineering teams with simplified and autonomous control to manage and secure the evolving data center and hybrid cloud, at any scale.  Offering real-time, aerial visibility and granular perspectives of both infrastructure and applications, Alcide secures the data center against cyber attacks, including malicious internal activity and data exfiltration. For more information visit www.alcide.io

Solution Adds Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Support 

Company to Exhibit Extended Capabilities for Containers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 Demonstrating Intelligent Analysis of Highly Orchestrated Environments 

San Francisco—DEC 5, 2017— Ahead of their participation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 this week, Instana today announced full-stack monitoring support for Kubernetes-orchestrated applications, including those managed by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. By leveraging its AI capability, Instana has delivered a powerful solution for managing today’s dynamic applications running in containerized environments through its unique ability to analyze and report performance in real-time. 

Instana now provides full stack monitoring of Kubernetes-powered applications through extended capabilities into the Kubernetes platform. Instana’s AI-powered APM solution now monitors the most complex components of an application stack, adding the ability to discover, analyze and monitor between the different tech stacks. These added capabilities will work in-between Kubernetes orchestration layers to provide operators with an inclusive image and complete observability of their applications. Applying intelligent analysis, Instana provides Kubernetes administrators with comprehensive visibility and performance management of their orchestrator and the impact actions have on applications. Instana’s support augments Kubernetes capabilities to provide enhanced service quality management and increase the understanding of an application’s running condition.

“Kubernetes is seeing continued adoption, from customers who are digitally transforming and building high speed application development organizations and the industry. We viewed this as an opportunity to create capabilities that could work complementary to, and in unison with such a successful and useful platform,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana founder and CEO. “We are thrilled to leverage Instana’s solution to augment the Kubernetes platform and provide our customers with full stack monitoring and understanding of dynamic orchestration environments.” 

“We think Instana’s innovations in real-time analysis and the application of AI are a powerful addition to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform ecosystem,” said Julio Tapia, director, OpenShift ecosystem, Red Hat. “As customers choose OpenShift as their enterprise Kubernetes platform of choice, we are committed to delivering broad choice for supported containers through our work with ecosystem partners like Instana.” 

“We use Instana’s real-time visibility to manage our Red Hat OpenShift orchestrated applications,” said David Deuchert, Principal Architect/Director of Software Development at Follett School Solutions. “Our team appreciates Instana’s unique ability to automatically and intelligently analyze real-time application performance in our orchestrated environments which has allowed us to monitor a growing number of applications at a fixed cost.  OpenShift’s flexibility to update deployments combined with Instana’s ability to provide instant feedback has allowed us to make performance adjustments quickly and seamlessly.” 

Visit Instana at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Austin, TX this week at booth #23

About Instana:

As the leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions for containerized microservice applications, Instana applies automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility needed to effectively manage the performance of today’s dynamic applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Founded by application monitoring veterans, Instana provides true AI-powered APM to help organizations deliver high performance applications today and in the future. Visit us athttps://instana.com to learn more.

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