SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.(DevOps Enterprise Summit, Table #19) – November 8, 2016 — CollabNet^®, a global leader in enterprise software development and delivery solutions that help customers create high-quality applications at speed, and Clarive Software, a leading provider of DevOps software that serves global organizations with critical and complex systems are pleased to announce a strategic partnership. This global partnership grants CollabNet the right to offer Clarive solutions globally. CollabNet will also be the exclusive representative of Clarive Software and its solutions United States and Canada. The integrated solution will be available as both a hosted service and an on premise solution.

“This partnership is another milestone in Clarive’s rapid growth and the company’s intention to increase trust and collaboration between development and operations through automation, integration and DevOps Intelligence,” says Rodrigo Gonzalez, CEO at Clarive Software. “CollabNet is an ideal partner because they understand the complexities and challenges of enterprise software development and their solutions focus on increasing collaboration, and transparency across tools and processes.”

Together Clarive and CollabNet can deliver a new level of value to organizations that want to bring Development and Operations closer together through increased collaboration, integration, automation and visibility, across all platforms, all environments, and all development methodologies.

“We are pleased to announce this new partnership with Clarive,” said Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet. “Software development is a critical success component for all organizations. Private and public sector organizations alike are looking for effective solutions to align software development with operations. CollabNet has long been at the forefront of delivering market leading solutions that enable the delivery of high quality software at speed.  The combination of Clarive and CollabNet solutions will now help organizations achieve their goals for continuous delivery by enabling the rapid deployment of releases.”

Clarive Software is the leading provider of a DevOps solution for organizations that are evolving, rebalancing their application architectural landscape from a few highly interconnected architectures, to a number of loosely coupled micro services and adjusting the end-to-end delivery processes accordingly. CollabNet helps enterprises and government organizations develop and deliver high-quality software at speed.  Its flagship product, TeamForge®, is the industry’s leading open platform for enterprise software development, delivery, and collaboration.

The companies will go to market this year and customers in North America can contact CollabNet for information on Clarive solutions available to them.

 

About Clarive

Clarive Software provides a DevOps lifecycle management platform for the evolving enterprise across every platform and environment. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Spain and today has offices in the Brazil, UK, and Belgium. Its senior management team has close to 25 years of practical experience in ALM, release and deployment management. Clarive has been named as Gartner COOL Vendor DevOps 2015 and its product gets great recognition from analysts within OVUM, Gartner, and Forrester as well as within its rapidly growing customer community.

About CollabNet

CollabNet helps enterprises and government organizations develop and deliver high-quality software at speed. CollabNet is winner of the 2016 Best of Interop Award and the “Best in Show” winner in the ALM and Development Tools category of the SD Times 100 for 13 consecutive years, recognizing TeamForge for its innovation. Also a gold winner of the 2016 Golden Bridge Awards, CollabNet offers innovative solutions, provides consulting and Agile training services, and proudly supports more than 10,000 customers with 6 million users in 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.collabnet.com.

— Jules Louis

— Jules Louis

San Diego, CA, Nov. 03, 2016 – Trace3, the premier provider of IT solutions and consultation services, was named Partner of the year for 2016 at it’s annual Partner Summit Trace3, the Transformative IT Authority, received the highest honor from Cisco as the U.S. West Partner of the Year. Trace3 was also distinguished as the and U.S. West Architectural Excellence Collaboration Partner of the Year for 2016. Cisco announced all the award winners this week during the annual Cisco Partner Summit in San Francisco.

“It gives me great pleasure to recognize our partners’ incredible accomplishments, breakthroughs, and innovations that address our customers’ most pressing business issues,” said Wendy Bahr, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Organization, Cisco.

Awarded to exemplary channel partners, the Cisco Partner Summit awards are designed to recognize best-in- class business practices and serve as a model to the industry. Areas of consideration include innovative practices, architecture-led approach successes, strategic business outcome-focused programs, seizing new opportunities and sales approaches.

“Being honored with the Western U.S. Partner of the Year award truly underscores the commitment Trace3 has made to build a strategic, long-term partnership with Cisco. The award confirms and acknowledges the tremendous effort our elite engineers provide every day to design and deliver best-in- class Cisco solutions.  Through our Innovation & Research, CIO services, and Elite engineering we truly believe everything is possible through IT.”  said Kristin Struttmann, Vice President of Strategic Relationships at Trace3.

Cisco Partner Summit awards reflect the top-performing partners within specific technology markets across all geographical regions. All award recipients are selected by the Cisco Global Partner Organization and regional executives.

Visit the Trace3 website to learn more about Enterprise Services.

About Trace3

As an integrated Transformative IT Authority, Trace3 is the premier provider of IT solutions and consultation services. Through elite engineering and dynamic innovation, we empower executives and organizations to keep pace within the IT/corporate landscape through the transformative power of IT. Please visit our website at www.Trace3.com.

— Jules Louis

New Extensions Enable Easier Management of Private and Public Endpoints

OPENSTACK SUMMIT BARCELONA – October 26, 2016 – Platform9, the open source-as- a-

service company making cloud infrastructure easy, today announced that it has made significant

contributions to OpenStack to enable hybrid cloud management by integrating with public cloud

endpoints. These extensions enable OpenStack APIs to be the single, open standard for

managing cloud infrastructure across private and public endpoints, and enables developers to

focus on solving core business problems and not worry about configuring and managing

backend infrastructure. These extensions are immediately available to the OpenStack

community.

 

As an increasing number of businesses look to implement or expand hybrid cloud deployments,

OpenStack now provides a platform-agnostic — and cost-effective — alternative to avoid being

locked into a specific vendor ecosystem. Centralizing hybrid cloud deployments on OpenStack

allows IT teams to freely integrate with other best-of- breed cloud platforms while maintaining a

private cloud-like level of visibility and control. IT can now enable developer agility by allowing

rapid provisioning of resources across different cloud platforms via OpenStack’s self-service

portal, while still maintaining an organization’s policies around capacity and quota management.

“While hybrid cloud models have emerged as a best practice for digital transformation initiatives

at businesses both large and small, the lack of an open standard to manage public and private

cloud environments has been a major pain point,” said Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and vice

president of product at Platform9. “By contributing these extensions to the OpenStack

community, we help enterprise IT break through the public and private siloes and drive

exponentially higher success rates for hybrid cloud projects.”

 

The extensions include OpenStack drivers for Amazon Web Services to integrate OpenStack

projects such as nova, glance, neutron, and cinder with AWS. This represents the first set of

drivers of its kind, and promises to provide support for other popular public clouds in the future.

 

“Providers like Platform9 have shown enterprises the utility of a consumption model that delivers

OpenStack innovation through a multi-cloud approach,” said Mark Collier, chief operating officer

at the OpenStack Foundation. “It’s helping to bring new users into the community, proving the

value of OpenStack as the standardized platform for private, hybrid and public clouds tuned to

each unique application use case.”

 

Platform9’s Managed OpenStack Service now fully integrates with these extensions. Platform9

is now the first OpenStack solution to manage private and public cloud environments, providing

a single pane of glass management across virtual machines and containers, across multiple

regions and hybrid environments.

 

Platform9 Announces Hybrid Cloud-as- a-Service for OpenStack Community

 

Platform9 at OpenStack Summit Barcelona

Platform9 is currently showcasing this technology in its booth #A6 at OpenStack Summit

Barcelona, taking place October 25-28, 2016.

 

Learn More About Managing Hybrid Cloud OpenStack with Platform9

● Platform9 co-founder Madhura Maskasky on OpenStack for hybrid cloud environments

● Access Platform9’s OpenStack-as- a-service hybrid cloud on GitHub

 

About Platform9

Platform9 provides open source-as- a-service for enterprises that need faster and easier ways to

manage cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms. Unlike do-it- yourself or legacy solutions,

Platform9 delivers best-of- breed cloud infrastructure like OpenStack and Kubernetes as SaaS-

managed solutions to reduce cost and time to value, all while avoiding being locked into a single

vendor ecosystem. Platform9 helps DevOps and IT teams focus on solving core business

problems while automating much of the set-up and management process on the back end. It

has enabled customers like Box, Blue Cross Blue Shield and PlayStation to realize a greater

than 99 percent success rate with OpenStack projects. Founded in 2013 by a team of early

VMware engineers, Platform9 is backed by Menlo Ventures and Redpoint Ventures, and

headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, visit www.platform9.com.

— Jules Louis

PALO ALTO, Calif., October. 25, 2016 — Wavefront, the leading metrics monitoring service for cloud and modern application environments, today announced that it has secured $52 million in a Series B funding round. Existing investors Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures were joined by new investor Tenaya Capital, and other equity holders. The funding comes as the company is experiencing hyper-growth since its Series A funding, and the company’s valuation increased by 4x from the Series A. The new capital will be used to accelerate research and development to expand its product offerings, as well as expansion of Wavefront’s sales, marketing and support operations across all global regions.

“Cloud-enabled companies adopting Wavefront get crucially valuable insights that no other monitoring platform can offer, so their business experiences less degradation, fewer outages and more customer success,” said Pete Cittadini, President & CEO of Wavefront. “We surpassed key milestones this past year, so it became the ideal time to raise this round, and fuel our already impressive adoption into the SaaS 250, as well as into digital enterprises and e-commerce companies that are fully embracing the cloud.”

In addition to closing its Series B funding, Wavefront has achieved several notable milestones since its Series A funding:

• Increased the aggregate metric data ingestion rate into its service by more than 10x.
• Moved key customers wins into production including Workday, Box, Intuit, Lyft, Groupon, Okta, British Gas, Citrix, Doordash, Xactly, Edmunds.com, and Medallia.
• Developed 30+ data plugins to ingest metrics across leading application, cloud, and infrastructure sources.
• Introduced new product functionality including intelligent alerting, expanded query functions, quick start configuration wizards and a suite of default dashboards.
• Attracted CEO, CFO, CMO, VP Sales, and VP Engineering executives with over 100 years of experience in systems monitoring, enterprise software, and hyper-growth startups.

“In the previous decade, the engineering team at Google faced operational challenges driven by growing complexity,” said Bill Coughran, Sequoia partner and former Google SVP of Engineering. “Today a whole new generation of companies are operating at scale and running into these same issues. At Google, we needed to build our own solution. Now companies can just use Wavefront.”

“We have been impressed with Wavefront’s innovative technology solutions, category creation leadership and impressive growth,” said Brian Melton, Managing Director at Tenaya Capital. “Tenaya Capital has helped build successful IT infrastructure companies including New Relic, Hortonworks, and Palo Alto Networks, and we are looking forward to accelerating Wavefront’s new phase of global growth via this partnership.”

Any enterprise with modern applications and agile infrastructure built on software—including SaaS offerings, digital enterprise platforms, consumer web platforms (e-commerce sites and mobile apps), and IoT systems—can employ Wavefront to improve its performance, availability and customer experience, and also extend beyond operations management to:

• Prevent, detect and diagnose outages to maintain service continuity.
• Surpass traditional monitoring to manipulate data with powerful analytics in real-time.
• Promote enterprise agility with better capacity planning and resource utilization.
• Eliminate silos and standardize analytics with a unified big data analytics platform across the TechOps, DevOps, and Development functions.
• Gain insights faster about the relationship between device, software, and end user.

Metrics monitoring as a service is a new and disruptive approach to cloud application monitoring, helping cloud-enabled companies to thrive in the age of big data and the constant need to maintain high performance at scale. It allows users to visualize and query a wide range of metrics, from cloud computing load to application and business performance data. Across every layer of the enterprise, a metrics monitoring platform needs to deliver scale and reliability in real-time. Wavefront’s metrics monitoring service unifies and processes millions of data points per second, delivering insights at the speed of thought, for enterprises at scale.

 

About Wavefront

Wavefront is the ultimate metrics monitoring service for cloud and modern application environments. Its observability and analytics tools enable DevOps functions at SaaS companies where power, scale, performance, and reliability are essential to their business. The company helps software leaders like Workday, Box, Lyft, Microsoft, Intuit and Groupon to ensure superior customer experience with the combination of the most powerful query language in monitoring running against a unified, full detail, big data metric store in real-time with no limits. Visit Wavefront’s blog at https://www.wavefront.com/blog/, and follow us on Twitter, @WavefrontHQ.

— Jules Louis