Cloudify offers Belgium’s largest mobile telecom provider cloud-native orchestration

for deployment of latest networking technology

NEW YORK, October 10, 2017—Belgium’s largest telecommunication company has chosen Cloudify’s cloud-native orchestration platform in its adoption of network functions virtualization (NFV). Proximus, the leading provider of telephony, internet, television and network-based ICT services in Belgium, selected Cloudify as a part of a multi-vendor team tasked with helping the company implement a next-generation, virtualized cloud network.

Cloudify’s role is to provide the NFV management and orchestration and assist with the onboarding and deployment of virtualized network functions (VNFs).

The goal of the Proximus NFV adoption initiative is to transform the company’s traditional hardware-centric networks into virtualized, cloud-native, software-driven domains that are simpler to operate and cost less to maintain. With these more agile and efficient networks, Proximus will be able to react rapidly to market trends, deploy new services, enhance network security, and quickly scale services to meet customers’ changing needs.

Cloudify brings to the project its open source cloud management and network orchestration software, which is used by large telecoms and Tier 1 network operators for cloud automation and NFV.  Cloudify software features a robust set of features, NFV-specific plugins and blueprints to model virtualized network functions (VNFs) and service function chaining (SFC) based on the telecom-friendly TOSCA standard. As the only open source NFV MANO leveraging TOSCA’s native multi-VIM interoperability capabilities, Cloudify has built-in support and blueprints for OpenStack as well as the entire VMware stack, including vCloud Director, VMware Integrated OpenStack and vSphere. It also enables extensibility of hybrid stacks, workloads and microservices, as well as bursting to public clouds for disaster recovery applications.

Proximus’s NFV adoption project, which began last year, is currently in the design, VNF onboarding and acceptance-testing phase. Others contributing to the project include Cisco, F5, HPE, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Spirent and Tech Mahindra. Proximus aims to begin delivery of virtualized production services to customers in 2018.

Supporting Quotes

Alex Thomas, program manager Cumulus & LPWan, Proximus

“NFV adoption is a key component of our strategy for digital transformation, and Cloudify is helping us transform from traditional to virtualized networks that are simpler to operate, cost less to maintain and enable us to deliver better customer experiences.”

Nati Shalom, CTO, Cloudify

“We’re lowering the adoption barriers for NFV by leveraging open source software that accelerates VNF onboarding while reducing technology risk. Working with Proximus, we’re deploying an NFV technology stack that is community-supported and interoperable with multiple cloud environments. As a result, Proximus will have better control of their destiny, costs and competitive advantage.”

William Fellows, research vice president, 451 Research

“Cloudify’s approach supports both physical network functions and VNFs—in software. This enables operators to optimize existing technologies while migrating toward the benefits of automation and DevOps best practices without having to discard existing technology investments.”

Arpit Joshipura, general manager, networking and orchestration, ONAP

“Open source projects like ONAP and ARIA are essential to network automation. Cloudify is contributing both code and expertise to our rapidly growing community that is working on the ONAP orchestration platform for enterprises and service providers that are creating IoT, 5G, edge computing and other next-generation applications.”

Cloudify Supporting the Linux Foundation’s ONAP Project

NFV is a major undertaking—technically and operationally. Uniting more than 50 members, including major service providers like AT&T, Bell Canada, China Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, and Veon, the ONAP project is developing an end-to-end, closed-loop automation of network services to allow end users to design, orchestrate, automate and manage services within any environment. The result of the February 2017 merger of open source ECOMP and Open Orchestrator (OPEN-O) projects, ONAP represents a major step toward industry convergence around a common operating framework. For this reason, Cloudify is a founding platinum member of ONAP, which is addressing the challenges of broad NFV adoption via industry-wide collaboration on standards-based solutions. Cloudify also participates in several other open initiatives, including OpenStack, the Linux Foundation, ETSI, OASIS TOSCA and the Apache Software Foundation.

About Cloudify

Cloudify specializes in IT operations automation technology that manages application and network services through open orchestration. The company’s Cloudify software enhances the velocity and reliability of software deployment, lifecycle management and network functions in cloud-native environments. Built and maintained by an open source community, Cloudify is used by telecoms, internet service providers, financial services firms, e-commerce companies and others for NFV operations and cloud management & orchestration.

Cloudify is spearheading open standard initiatives in cloud management and NFV and is the leading orchestration provider behind the TOSCA specification. Cloudify is a founding member of ONAP, a consortium defining open source, next-generation network automation standards, and an active member in OASIS and ETSI standard bodies.

Cloudify has corporate offices in the US, Europe and Asia. More at cloudify.co.

Former EMC and Commerce Cloud Executive, Steve Barrett, Appointed Head of EMEA to Continue PagerDuty’s Strong European Presence and Growth

LONDON–(Oct 5, 2017) – PagerDuty, the global leader in Digital Operations Management, today announced the launch of its local presence in Europe with the opening of a London office, led by the appointment of former EMC executive, Steve Barrett. This launch further strengthens the company’s global momentum and rapid growth including top talent, customer wins and new capabilities in machine learning and advanced response automation.

“The launch of PagerDuty UK is a natural next step supported by exceptional existing customers across the region. The UK has long been a market of early adopters and innovators and we are excited to help continue to drive that,” said Jennifer Tejada, PagerDuty CEO. “I am humbled to see our team grow, continue to exceed expectations and deliver world-class technology impacting hundreds of thousands of people daily.”

According to the PagerDuty State of Digital Operations: United Kingdom report, there is a significant opportunity for organisations to improve operational support for the complex challenges faced by IT and DevOps teams, in order to meet the rising expectations consumers expect from digital services. In fact, 81.2 percent of UK consumers reported they would wait just one minute or less for a slow or unresponsive application before leaving to use a different app or service. Even more detrimental to a business’s bottom line, 67.1 percent of respondents said they were likely to never use a slow or unresponsive app or website again. Meanwhile, nearly all IT personnel — 87.4 percent — said their organisations take more than five minutes to resolve IT incidents that impact consumer-facing digital services. This discrepancy in expectations and ability to resolve a disruption means major impact to business. IT respondents ranked “Loss in Revenue” as the primary source of downtime costs and more than one third of respondents (35.5 percent) said that on average, one hour of downtime costs their organisation between £500,000 to £5 million.

With more than 1,700 enterprise customers across EMEA, with 600 in the UK alone, and the key insights from PagerDuty’s recent UK survey, it is clear there is a strong demand for a proactive approach to empowering IT and DevOps with the right tools to meet the rising expectations of customer experiences.

Joining PagerDuty as Head of EMEA, Steve Barrett brings more than 20 years of leadership and enterprise software sales. He has proven success leading fast-growth teams and will lead PagerDuty’s expansion in the region to grow and scale support for European customers locally. Previously, Barrett was Regional Vice President of Salesforce Commerce Cloud UK, and prior to that lead direct and channel sales for Dell EMC and Bottomline Technologies.

“PagerDuty’s customer-first approach to Digital Operations Management is already bringing significant value to our UK customers, and with the release of event intelligence and machine learning into our technology, I believe PagerDuty is uniquely positioned in EMEA to handle the rapid expansion of organisations’ digital services and operational needs,” said Steve Barrett, PagerDuty’s Head of EMEA. “I’ve been fortunate in my career to see first-hand the digital transformation in the payments, finance, manufacturing and commerce industries across EMEA. Such transformation has helped me understand the pressures this puts on IT operations and the developer communities. The rapid expansion of digital services in the region has been driven by an exponential increase in consumer expectations. This has created an urgency in the EMEA market to digitise operations in an attempt to keep ahead of consumer demands. I am thrilled to join PagerDuty and lead this charge across the entire EMEA region.”

With more than 10,000 customers globally, PagerDuty helps companies around the world deliver exceptional customer experiences through Digital Operations Management. With the most recent announcement addressing the new challenges resulting from the complexities of the increasing digitalization across all touchpoints of the business, PagerDuty allows organisations split-second action to restore interruptions to critical services in minutes, significantly reducing customer abandonment and revenue impact.

To learn more about PagerDuty please visit www.pagerduty.com. If you’d like to attend the launch party on October 5, please register on the guest list.

New support for Python Boto3 framework and Scala to ensure static application testing in software development for secure coding practices

BURLINGTON, Mass. – October 4, 2017 – Veracode, a leader in securing the world’s software, and acquired by CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA), today announced support for security testing in applications built with the Scala language, as well as the Python Boto3 framework within the Veracode Static Analysis solution. With this announcement, Veracode becomes the only application security vendor to support static analysis testing for Boto3, which is used to develop cloud applications that directly leverage Amazon Web Services. These enhancements help developers conduct high-quality security testing earlier in the software development process.

“Scala has been rising in popularity in recent years because of its relative interoperability with Java, with which many of today’s large organizations and enterprises have significant strategic investments,” said Scott Crawford, research director, 451 Research. “Scala’s scalability makes it particularly attractive to development teams, as it lends itself well in supporting the trend toward the microservices-based application architectures today’s DevOps environments require.”

Veracode Static Analysis supports an approach to application security that is in alignment with today’s software development paradigms. With support for Boto3, Veracode improves the speed of innovation and ensures the security of that innovation for organizations using these modern programming languages. The solution leverages Veracode’s experience scanning more than six trillion lines of code and continuous improvement processes, resulting in low false-positive rates without resorting to manual suppression. Additionally, Veracode Software Composition Analysisidentifies risky open source components in Scala applications, allowing teams to identify, in the same scan, vulnerabilities in both their own code and in the third party components used by their applications.

“Digital transformation initiatives have necessitated the adoption of new languages and models of development, but legacy application security technologies don’t always keep up,” said Tim Jarrett, director of security strategy, Veracode. “Just as increased time-to-market pressure is pushing security testing into the development process, application security needs to align with development to support the languages they’re using today. These enhancements ensure that developers and application security managers can meet delivery requirements and properly secure the applications that power their businesses.”

Veracode Static Analysis support for Scala and the Python Boto3 framework, and Veracode Software Composition Analysis support for Scala, are immediately available through integrations, including JIRA, Jenkins, Microsoft Visual Studio, HPE Application Lifecycle Manager, Eclipse, IntelliJ and Visual Studio. To learn more about Veracode’s supported integrations, please visit the Veracode SDLC Integrations datasheet.

About Veracode

Veracode, now part of CA Technologies, enables the secure development and deployment of the software that powers the application economy.

With its combination of automation, process and speed, CA | Veracode becomes a seamless part of the software lifecycle, eliminating the friction that arises when security is detached from the development and deployment process. As a result, enterprises are able to fully realize the advantages of DevOps environments while ensuring secure code is synonymous with high-quality code.

CA | Veracode serves more than 1,400 customers worldwide across a wide range of industries. The CA | Veracode Platform has assessed more than 6 trillion lines of code and helped companies fix more than 27 million security flaws.

Learn more at www.veracode.com, on the CA | Veracode blog and on Twitter.

Copyright © 2017 CA | Veracode, Inc. All rights reserved. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders

Company’s inclusion based on ability to execute and completeness of vision

NEW YORK – O’Reilly Velocity (BOOTH #19) – October 2, 2017 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation and Continuous Delivery, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a leader in its 2017 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation (ARA).* In its Magic Quadrant (MQ) for ARA research, Gartner analysts evaluated companies for their ‘Ability to Execute’ and ‘Completeness of Vision.’ Electric Cloud was positioned the highest for their ‘Ability to Execute.’ Download the full report at:

(http://electric-cloud.com/resources/whitepapers/gartner-magic-quadrant-application-release-automation/).  

“We feel it is quite an honor to be named by Gartner as an ARA leader two years in a row,” said Steve Brodie, CEO of Electric Cloud. “We continuously add new features that our customers request with our sights set on providing the most complete, unified ARA platform in the industry.”

Automation, Modeling and Release Coordination

Gartner’s highly sought-after 2017 Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for ARA considered vendors based on a minimum of three product-related functions, namely 1) Automation 2) Environment Modeling and 3) Release Coordination. From Electric Cloud’s perspective, these elements support the goal of end-to-end DevOps toolchain orchestration, which enables greater release agility, faster time to market, consistent methods for continual deployment, quality through automation and constant feedback loops.

“The primary objective for DevOps toolchain orchestration is to ensure the DevOps delivery pipeline is managed in line with business priorities,” noted George Spafford and Joachim Herschmann in a July 2017 Gartner research report.* “This means releases must be visible to all members of the DevOps team, including business stakeholders. This visibility is also used to identify bottlenecks and delays, as well as areas where effort, cost and time can be saved. The orchestration of the pipeline should still provide the flexibility to embrace agile practices. It should also provide a level of control that ensures that activities adhere to corporate business guidelines (for example, security and compliance regulations).”

Accelerate Digital Transformation

“As organizations scale their DevOps efforts, some of the main pain points we hear is the need to consolidate islands of automation without inhibiting pockets of innovation, while simultaneously increasing collaboration and governance,” Brodie adds. “The unified nature of ElectricFlow allows customers to address these challenges by providing a common, flexible platform to orchestrate the entire Continuous Delivery pipeline with deployment automation, release coordination, pipeline modeling and analytics in an easy-to-consume push-button fashion for enterprise use. We believe these factors, along with recent recognitions from leading industry analysts, have contributed to a growing roster of new customers – on track to triple in 2017.”

“At SOMOS, we decided to move off of our 30-year-old mainframe application, responsible for managing over 41 million toll-free numbers in North America. One of many challenges was how to modernize and build a DevOps culture and environment for SOMOS while simultaneously moving to a microservices architecture,” said Gary McKay, scrum master at SOMOS. “We chose Electric Cloud’s ElectricFlow because of its support for both containerized and mainframe workloads, and because it can coordinate delivery of those workloads safely across all our development and production environments. The results have been stunningly positive.”

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

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About Electric Cloud, Inc.

Electric Cloud is the leader in DevOps Release Automation and Continuous Delivery. We help organizations like E*TRADE, Gap, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin deliver better software faster by accelerating development, automating deployments, and coordinating releases.

Newest version also adds multiple address capability for a single container  

Palo Alto, CA – September 28, 2017 – Jelastic, the advanced PaaS that simplifies complex cloud deployments and provides unique usage-only pricing, today announced the availability of version 5.3 (Cerebro), offering new features to support IPv6 and the latest containerization technologies.

“Our newest Jelastic PaaS lets users incorporate up-to-date IP technologies into their applications, providing more freedom in building microservice and monolithic architectures,” says Ruslan Synytsky, CEO of Jelastic. “We are committed to continually evolving our product, helping users benefit from these innovations in concert with their PaaS strategies.”

Support for Public IPv6, the most recent version of Internet Protocol, was highly requested by customers to fulfill the need of more addresses, simplify processing by routers, eliminate NAT (Network Address Translation) issues and private address collisions. Currently, the 6th IP version can be used alongside IPv4, easily enabled via environment topology UI or via an API.

In addition, Jelastic PaaS users can now attach multiple IP addresses (IPv6 and IPv4) to a single container, adjust their number or swap them if required. This allows even greater utility from the cloud, for example, by running several websites on a single node.

“Jelastic keeps bringing improvements and flexibility to the platform. We are already using the new IPv4 and IPv6 management features from the latest release. Keep them coming!” says Richard Lingsch, President of eApps Hosting.

Jelastic Cerebro 5.3 also includes other new features and  improvements:

●      Deployment Manager enhancements for easier management of projects with source code in Git/SVN repositories

●      Support for new API methods to manage personal access tokens for secure authentication, as well as variables in containerized environments

●      Unlocked environment management within the UI during ongoing long executing reconfigurations 

●      New dockerized templates of GlassFish, Tomcat, Spring Boot, Node.js and MariaDB.

 For additional details, please see the latest release notes.

About Jelastic

Jelastic is a robust solution for the cloud market – hosting providers, enterprises and developers – combining the benefits of PaaS and CaaS in a single turnkey package. Its rich interface simplifies complex cloud deployments by automating the creation, scaling, clustering and security updates of microservices or monolithic applications. Jelastic has a unique pay-for usage-only pricing model and is available as public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud in more than 55 data centers worldwide. The platform provides support of Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET environments and custom Docker containers. More info is at https://jelastic.com

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms Mine Data to Optimize Software Testing

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 28, 2017 – Enterprise digital solutions provider Infostretch today announced a new suite of services to harness the power of data analytics for more intelligent, efficient software test automation. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, Infostretch’s Predictive and Prescriptive QA services not only help organizations leverage test automation data, but also help anticipate defects early to speed cycle time and improve quality.

In the age of digital enablement, delivering quality at speed in the software lifecycle is a business imperative. Accelerating digital transformation requires organizations to clearly define requirements, utilize the right infrastructure, apply proven processes and deploy analytics, all in record time. Infostretch’s Predictive and Prescriptive QA harnesses the power of analytics to help organizations streamline and speed up test automation and accelerate their digital maturity. It allows organizations to take full advantage of the insights held in the large volumes of structured and unstructured data available from defect management tools and test automation results.

Infostretch’s Predictive and Prescriptive QA leverages Quality Engineering expertise, processes and tools such as QMetry Wisdom to help organizations:

•    Reduce testing cycles by optimizing testing processes
•    Predict defect ranges and the risk of modules for next versions
•    Assess application lifecycle efficiency drivers
•    Prioritize under-performing test use cases for greatest impact
•    Identify the right types of testing and resources needed for optimization
•    Convert unstructured data to usable information to optimize test automation.

“Machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques are rapidly re-defining the technology landscape. Now there is a way for organizations to leverage these techniques to speed up the software lifecycle and improve quality of outcomes,” said Rutesh Shah, Infostretch Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder. “With Predictive and Prescriptive QA, enterprises can take full advantage of powerful data analytics and intelligence to maximize test automation efficiency and effectiveness.”

“AI technologies are profoundly disrupting software development,” said Katy Ring, Research Director, 451 Research. “Technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, deep analytics and business rules are enhancing what’s possible at every stage of the lifecycle. Infostretch’s Predictive QA has been developed with enterprise test automation in mind to enable them to leverage a range of AI technologies.”

“A combination of AI technologies like advanced machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and business rules will have an impact on all steps of the software development life cycle, helping developers build better software faster. AI will disrupt how developers build applications and the nature of the applications they build.” – Diego Lo Giudice, How AI Will Change Software Development And Applications, Forrester Research, Inc., October 13, 2016.

To find out more about Predictive and Prescriptive QA visit https://www.infostretch.com/predictive-quality-assurance/ or contact us.

To get a free, no-obligation QE maturity model assessment, visit http://resources.infostretch.com/qe-assessment.

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.