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  • Nimble Storage Predictive Flash Is Now App-Centric

    Nimble Storage Predictive Flash Is Now App-Centric

    SAN JOSE – Sept. 12, 2016 –Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), the leader in predictive flash storage, today announced a comprehensive suite of features that are optimized around fast and predictable application delivery. The Nimble Predictive Flash platform allows IT to deliver applications confidently with Quality of Service (QoS) and secure multi-tenancy across VMware, OpenStack, KVM and now Docker Containers. With app-centric management within InfoSight Predictive Analytics businesses now have more visibility and control of application performance. App-based Storage on Demand provides a cloud-like pricing model where enterprises only pay for the storage consumed by each application. This app-centric approach provides greater predictability and ease of management for applications across the enterprise.

    “Infrastructure exists only to meet the demands of applications,” said Ajay Singh, vice president of product management, Nimble Storage. “We recognize the need to bridge the gap between the application and storage owner. By taking an app-centric approach, IT teams are better positioned to meet the service level demands of the business. With new features like QoS and secure multi-tenancy we are providing enterprises with predictable performance, simplicity of management, and secure isolation of applications across the enterprise.”

    Quality of Service and Secure Multi-Tenancy Deliver Predictable Application Performance 

    To meet application service level agreements (SLAs), Nimble Storage enables customers to consolidate infrastructure and easily manage applications with predictable performance through secure multi-tenancy and QoS. Multi-tenant storage allows secure application management and isolation while QoS prevents rogue workloads from impacting critical applications.

    Application Delivery Model Options Now Include Docker Containers

    Businesses want the flexibility to deliver applications using the framework of their choice without increased complexity. Nimble now supports native persistent storage for Docker Containers. Nimble already delivers app-level granularity through VMware VVols and native support for OpenStack Clouds. The depth of the app-centric integration across these platforms – policy-based application provisioning, clones, snapshots, replication and encryption – is the core of modern application delivery support.

    App-Centric Management through Predictive Analytics

    Nimble Storage InfoSight VMVision gives customers clear visibility across the storage-to-VM infrastructure stack. VMVision allows organizations to automatically identify noisy VM neighbors by narrowing down the exact application that is draining resources from other workloads. Where traditional storage based insights do not provide granular data for capacity planning and forecasting, VMVision provides IT with app-level capacity data for accurate storage planning.

    “InfoSight allows us to identify issues throughout the entire infrastructure stack – not just storage. Through VMVision we’ve been able to track down host or network latency when experiencing poor performance on a particular VM or group of VMs. We’ve also tracked down ‘misbehaving’ VMs simply by using the ‘Top VMs’ tabs to show their utilization in IOPS.  We’re instantly able to see that one VM is way above others,” said Andrew Stock, senior systems engineer, Modern Health. “InfoSight provided this in-depth level of detail when no other tool gave me the basic information I needed.”

    App-based Pricing for Storage on Demand Provides Cloud-like Agility

    Nimble Storage on Demand ensures users only pay for the application storage that they use, whether usage goes up or down. Now customers can consume storage based on application usage exactly as they do in a cloud environment.  Based on a pre-set app-specific SLA customers can pay for what they consume starting from 6.8 ¢ per GB per month for All Flash storage*.

    “With SOD we no longer have to predict how much storage we need to satisfy the business – we only pay for the storage we actually use. As we add new applications there is always enough storage and Nimble proactively delivers additional arrays and storage shelves as needed,” said Paul Einarson, chief information officer, Catalyst Paper. “Essentially our storage systems behave just like the cloud.”

    For more information on Nimble Predictive Flash platform, please visit www.nimblestorage.com.

    *Based on U.S. pricing only. Pricing and availability vary by application, SLA, and region.

    Nimble Storage Resources

    About Nimble Storage

    Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL) is the leader in predictive flash storage solutions. Nimble offers a Predictive Flash platform that combines flash performance with predictive analytics to predict and prevent barriers to data velocity caused by complex IT infrastructure. Nimble customers experience absolute performance, non-stop availability and cloud-like agility that accelerate critical business processes. More than 8,850 enterprises, governments, and service providers have deployed the Nimble Predictive Flash Platform across more than 50 countries. For more information, visit www.nimblestorage.com and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.

    Nimble Storage, the Nimble Storage logo, CASL, InfoSight, SmartStack, Timeless Storage, Data Velocity Delivered, Unified Flash Fabric and NimbleConnect are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimble Storage, Inc. Other trade names or words used in this document are the properties of their respective owners.

    Any unreleased services, features or functions referenced in this document, our website or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Nimble Storage’s discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Nimble Storage’s products and services should make their purchase decisions based upon services, features and functions that are currently available.

     

  • DevOps Leader HashiCorp Announces $24 Million in Growth Funding

    NAPA, CA–(Marketwired – Sep 7, 2016) – HashiConf User Conference — HashiCorp, the DevOps infrastructure company, today announced $24 million in Series B funding, bringing the total raised to date to $34 million. The round was led by GGV Capital with Mayfield, True Ventures, and new investor Redpoint also participating. HashiCorp plans to use the funding to accelerate its rapid growth and continue open source and enterprise product development to support its millions of users.

    Also today HashiCorp announced Vault Enterprise, a complete solution for DevOps security:http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=1275720.

    HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management across development, operations, and security. As organizations transform themselves to be successful in the software economy, they invest in DevOps infrastructure. HashiCorp DevOps infrastructure enables companies to align and empower developers, operators, and security teams to accelerate application delivery and increase their competitiveness in the software economy.

    “Armon and I founded HashiCorp to make development, operations, and security easier so organizations could focus on building the applications of the future. The rate of open source and commercial adoption of our technology has been tremendous,” said Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp. “The productivity of the HashiCorp team is inspiring and I’m excited to continue the journey together to bring DevOps infrastructure to even more organizations.”

    This year:

    • HashiCorp had its first 7-figure revenue quarter after only nine months of enterprise sales. Customers include enterprises like Conde Nast, Cisco, and Mozilla.
    • Weekly open source downloads are up 125 percent in the first six months of this year, adding to the community of several million monthly active users. HashiCorp’s open source user base includes technology leaders such as Stripe, Uber, Twitch, OpenAI, Pinterest, and Capital One.
    • HashiCorp’s modular and open product design fostered a rich ecosystem of partners including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, VMware, and GitHub.
    • HashiCorp was named a Cool Vendor in DevOps by Gartner and an MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase finalist. Also this year, Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar were named to Inc’s 30 Under 30 list.
    • HashiCorp hired its 50th employee, growing from six employees just two years ago.

    Beyond these milestones, the next stage for HashiCorp is bringing its DevOps vision to more users across open source and enterprise communities. In the software economy companies win by bringing applications to market faster than their competitors. HashiCorp’s DevOps infrastructure accelerates application delivery by aligning developers, operators, and security. This holistic view and widespread adoption defines HashiCorp as a leader in DevOps with a clear trajectory ahead.

    “HashiCorp builds world-class tools for development, operations, and security teams to manage distributed applications and infrastructure. The adoption of these tools in global enterprises has been tremendous,” said Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner at GGV Capital and a HashiCorp Board Member. “We are extremely pleased to continue our partnership with them as they continue their mission to accelerate software application delivery.”

    About HashiConf
    HashiConf is HashiCorp’s annual user conference to bring together the community to define the future of infrastructure. Speakers this year include Home Depot, Target, Verizon, PayPal, and Microsoft, and sponsors include AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, and Bridgewater Associates. HashiConf is taking place this year in Napa, California September 6-8. For more information, visit: https://hashiconf.com or follow HashiConf on Twitter @hashiconf.

    About HashiCorp
    HashiCorp is the DevOps infrastructure company. HashiCorp technology aligns development, operations, and security to accelerate application delivery. The company manages seven open source tools (Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Serf, Consul, Vault, and Nomad) that span runtime, infrastructure, security management. Enterprise versions of Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad enhance the respective open source tools with enterprise features that promote collaboration, policy-validation, and intelligent automation. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Mayfield, GGV Capital, Redpoint, and True Ventures. For more information, visit: https://hashicorp.com, or follow HashiCorp on Twitter @hashicorp.

  • Webinar: ROI is the True Measurement of DevOps Success

    Webinar: ROI is the True Measurement of DevOps Success

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  • IT Revolution Announces Program for 2016 DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco, Opens Discounted Registration for Limited Time

    PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 29, 2016 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the conference program for the 2016 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES16). The event, which aims to identify and amplify DevOps best practices for technology leaders of large enterprises, will be held in San Francisco from November 7-9 (http://events.itrevolution.com/us/).  For a limited time only, attendees can receive a 20 percent discount when they register to attend with the promo code: VOTEDEVOPS (http://bit.ly/votedevops). The discounted registration period endsSeptember 14, when registration rates will return to full price.

    “We have another fantastic program for attendees at DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of “The Phoenix Project” and upcoming “DevOps Handbook.” “Attendees will have the unique opportunity to learn from other technology leaders who are transforming their organizations, as well as some of the best experts in topics that the community has expressed interest in.”

    The next round of speakers added to the DOES16 conference program include:

    • John Allspaw, Chief Technology Officer at Etsy
    • Matthew Barr, Architect at Akamai Technologies
    • Aimee Bechtle, Sr. Manager Card Technology Advanced Engineering at Capital One
    • Ed Blankenship, Product Manager for Visual Studio Team Services at Microsoft
    • Dominca DeGrandis, Director of Training & Coaching at LeanKit
    • Damon Edwards, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DTO Solutions
    • Kevina Finn-Braun, Director of Product Infrastructure and Service Management at Intuit
    • Jayne Groll, President of ITSM Academy
    • Sam Guckenheimer, Group Product Planner at Microsoft
    • Kaimar Karu, Head of Product Strategy and Development at Axelos
    • Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for DevOps for z Systems at IBM
    • J. Paul Reed, Managing Partner at Release Engineering Approaches
    • Brian Timmeny, Sr. Director Card Technology Advanced Engineering at Capital One

    The full program is available online and can be found here:  (http://events.itrevolution.com/us/schedule/).

    IT Revolution and founding partner Electric Cloud have coined the DOES16 conference theme as “Leading Change.” Attendees can expect to gain a clear understanding of the intricacies of large-scale DevOps implementations and best practices for leading IT transformations at scale. In addition, on November 8, there will be a special DOES16 party and cocktail reception centered on the theme of “Vote DevOps” for attendees to network and celebrate.
    Join the #DOES16 Conversation
    DOES16 organizers will be hosting several online events in September featuring many of the presenters and offering insights into the topics and questions at the core of this year’s conference:

    For more information about DOES16, please visit: (http://events.itrevolution.com/us/).
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    About IT Revolution
    IT Revolution (www.itrevolution.com) researches and amplifies the best practices of high-performing technology organizations. Founded by Gene Kim, the company publishes books, hosts events and supports the adoption of DevOps practices in the IT community.

  • Jelastic Boosts Cloud Hosting Union with SaveInCloud

    PALO ALTO, CALIF, (PRWEB) AUGUST 25, 2016

    Jelastic, the leading Cloud Platform for DevOps with Docker container support announced SaveInCloud as their new partner from Paraguay.

    This alliance aimed to provide an intuitive, cost-effective and flexible platform for developers in LATAM. From now on, SaveInCloud customers can set up their Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, .NET or Python environments in seconds and save up to 70%, paying only for resources in use.

    “By partnering with SaveInCloud, Jelastic provides a powerful platform with an extensive set of features for DevOps. SaveInCloud perfectly complements the Jelastic Cloud Union, allowing customers to experience high availability, robust performance, full automation and intuitive UI,” commented Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic CEO.

    IP Company, parent company of SaveInCloud is located in Latin America and provides internet services since 1998. The company has 3 highly-efficient data centers in Latin America and Canada, and hosts more than 10k domains.

    “This partnership helps us to offer a progressive hosting services for LATAM DevOps, enabling low latency due to available locally data servers, proficient technical support and high-level of performance. We expect to provide the ultimate PaaS for local developers. In the nearest time we also plan to provide SaveInCloud within more LATAM countries”, said Fabio Vieira, SaveInCloud CEO and founder.

    Chief benefits, provided by SaveInCloud platform:

    • Low latency for LATAM Users
    • 100% SSD disks in infrastructure
    • Dell Servers
    • .NET and MSSQL Nodes support
    • Spanish/Portuguese localization and technical support

    Customers have an opportunity to try SaveInCloud hosting powered by Jelastic for free to admit the benefits of fully automated DevOps platform with advanced orchestration of containers.

    About Jelastic
    Jelastic is a DevOps PaaS and CaaS for business that can be deployed on bare metal hardware or any IaaS. The platform provides certified containers for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and .NET and the ability to use custom Docker containers. Jelastic offers agile deployment models without coding to proprietary APIs, flexible automatic scaling for stateless and stateful applications, collaboration, access control, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, built-in billing and business analytics tools, while driving down TCO with high density and hardware utilization. For more information, visit us at http://www.jelastic.com

    About SaveInCloud
    The SaveInCloud is a hosting provider company focused on Cloud solutions in Latin America.
    Headquartered in Asuncion, Paraguay, it has the advanced infrastructure, that provides high quality services with technical support in Spanish, Portuguese or English to all customers and ensures superior efficiency and security. The SaveInCloud infrastructure is located in LATAM data centers, providing the highest redundancy in all systems – from the air conditioning to the networks that helps to meet the highest demands of company`s clients.
    http://saveincloud.com

  • Shippable Launches Industrialized Continuous Deployment Platform

    SEATTLE, WA (Aug 25, 2016) Shippable has announced the next generation of its continuous deployment platform. The enhanced platform adds key features like release management, multi-cloud capabilities, a declarative pipeline language and a unified view across all application pipelines. These features help software-powered organizations further streamline the process of shipping software and accelerating innovation.

    Today, most organizations find it challenging to innovate fast enough to satisfy consumers. DevOps is a set of principles that tries to solve this problem. However, the workflow required to get applications from source code to running in production is complicated and riddled with fragmented technology solutions. The only way to achieve rapid, iterative innovation is to cobble these fragments together in one continuous pipeline. Unfortunately, these custom, homegrown pipelines are rigid, inflexible and hard to maintain. The do-it-yourself approach is a distraction and takes valuable cycles away from product engineering.

    Shippable’s integrated platform is built from the ground up to defragment and streamline the process of shipping applications, so that software-powered organizations can accelerate innovation.

    Figure: Continuous deployment maturity model

    The heterogeneous platform integrates with all popular tools and cloud infrastructures, as well as cutting-edge technologies like Docker, AWS Elastic Container Service, Google Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure Container Service, Joyent Triton and Apache Mesos DC/OS. As a result, organizations can evolve fearlessly and adopt modern technology while continuing to leverage their existing investments. In addition, since Shippable supports traditional and cloud-native applications, organizations can mature from L1 to L4 across their entire application portfolio at their own pace.

    Some of the key features in the new platform include:

    Application release automation: Semantic versioning of applications is built-in with complete control over deployment of versions to dev vs. test vs. prod environments. Deployments can be automatic or with an approval gate.

    Declarative pipeline language: The entire process of shipping software is expressed in a declarative yml configuration. This alleviates the need for imperative scripts that are fragile, error prone and hard to maintain. This language abstracts non-standardized vendor APIs into a common, human-readable configuration, making complex workflows easy to create.

    Multi-cloud deployments: Leveraging declarative pipelines, the same application can be deployed into a multi-cloud or a hybrid topology with a few lines of yml configuration. This makes it very easy to implement disaster recovery across multiple clouds. Teams can also develop and test in the cloud while running their production environment on-premises without maintaining multiple deployment pipelines.

    Single pane of glass: The flow of shipping software from code to production can be visualized in an unified interactive view across one or many applications in the organization. This view is updated in real-time and errors or bottlenecks in the workflow can be quickly identified and rectified.

    “We’ve been using Shippable for over a year and it ‘just works,’ no matter how complex our test framework gets!” says Shamasis Bhattacharya, VP Engineering at Postman. “It has ensured that we never ever ship out a bad piece of code.”

    “We’ve used Shippable to ship Shippable the past couple of years. Initially, we added features mainly for ourselves. In the last year, as our customer base grew tremendously and as containers gained mainstream acceptance, our roadmap became customer driven and this has helped us make the platform generic. We run over three million deployment workflows a year for our customers and I think that by itself speaks for the battle readiness, resilience and scale of the platform,” says Avi Cavale, co-founder and CEO at Shippable. “With this new release, customers can leverage our declarative language, easily compose fungible pipelines, and start the process of rapid innovation in a matter of hours.”

    Availability and Pricing

    Shippable Hosted is a freemium SaaS offering. The free plan includes unlimited builds for open source projects and 150 builds a month for private projects. Paid plans get unlimited builds for all repositories and start at $25 for each parallel build.

    Shippable Server is currently in private beta.

    About Shippable

    Founded in 2013, Shippable’s mission is to help companies ship code faster and focus on innovation by removing all friction in the software development and delivery workflows. For more information visit www.shippable.com.

  • Automic Enables Continuous Delivery for Informatica PowerCenter

    VIENNA & SEATTLE – August 24 2016 — Automic Software, the leader in Business Automation, today announced new capabilities to its release automation product to enable continuous delivery for Informatica PowerCenter. Customers can now automate data integration and processing into their application production deployment pipelines.

    As organizations move toward digital transformation, the need for fast and agile data management across systems increases. Data is a critical component of not only business intelligence, but also for many development and test stages within the application lifecycle. However, testing often requires specific types and amounts of data, which are not readily available from production. As a result, data must be transformed, aggregated and loaded into the test database before certain tests can begin to run.

    Automic has enhanced its Release Automation product with a new action pack for Informatica PowerCenter that ensures data is available at each stage of the development lifecycle (development, testing and production) to increase agility of the entire development-test and release process.

    Key features of the new Automic Action Pack for Informatica PowerCenter include:

    • Adds an out-of-the-box integration point to Informatica and enables users to include creation, execution and rollback of Informatica interactions as an integral part of the application release automation model
    • New built-in Automic actions (including domains, repositories, integration services, repository services and administration console) increase agility of development-test and release process by supporting automation of sophisticated workflows within Informatica PowerCenter
    • Ensures that any Informatica activity (as part of a deployment or stand alone) is always available for monitoring and all outputs are kept in context for debugging and compliance needs

    Availability and pricing:

    The Automic action pack for Informatica PowerCenter is available for immediate download, free of charge for all Automic Release Automation customers in the Automic marketplace. Pricing is on demand for non-Automic Release Automation customers.

    Supporting Quote

    “Even though data is front and center of any and all applications, too often it is overlooked when it comes to the development and test stages of the application lifecycle. In fact, data preparation for testing is frequently the weak spot of deployments,” said Chris Boorman, CMO, Automic Software. “Automic’s new Informatica action pack enables customers to automate Informatica PowerCenter and ensure that needed data flows into and out of the environment exactly at the right stage and ensure continuous delivery.”

     Tweet this: .@Automic announces new @Informatica PowerCenter action pack w/in online marketplace http://bit.ly/2bFWgSn #releaseautomation #agility

    Supporting Resources

    About Automic

    Automic, the leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,700 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

     

     

  • How Maersk Uses Service Virtualization to Shift Left and Avoid Test Downtime

    How Maersk Uses Service Virtualization to Shift Left and Avoid Test Downtime

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  • TestPlant and Undo partner to deliver superior continuous integration testing

    London, UK – August 17, 2016 – TestPlant, the maker of the eggPlant range of software quality tools, today announced a technology partnership with Undo. The partnership will see TestPlant’s flagship test automation tool,eggPlant Functional, integrated with Undo’s record, rewind and replay technology, allowing developers to identify, diagnose and respond to the failures that continuous integration misses.

    Continuous integration makes regressions easier to fix by notifying developers that their test has failed but finding the failure’s origin isn’t always a simple process. Undo enables Linux and Android developers to see exactly what their program did at every step in its execution so that developers can respond quickly to failures in continuous integration environments, increase their debugging productivity and improve software quality.

    eggPlant Functional helps companies test their applications better, faster, and with less effort by automating the execution of functional testing. When integrated with Undo’s latest product, Live Recorder, eggPlant users can generate complete records of their program’s execution in a highly optimized way, capturing failures in their entirety but with minimum resource usage. These recordings can then be debugged offline and shared among developers who can collaborate on resolving the most pressing software issues.

    “When a test fails, our technology captures an exact replica of the failure as it occurred and automatically sends that recording to the development team for analysis,” said Greg Law, CEO and co-founder of Undo. “This cuts out the effort involved in thinking about where an error lies, permits QA and engineering to communicate clearly as the recording captures all the information necessary to fix the problem, and reduces the time, stress and cost associated with finding and fixing bugs.”

    Ideally suited to continuous integration environments and companies undertaking digital transformation projects, eggPlant Functional uses a patented image-based approach to GUI testing that allows it to interact with any device by looking at the screen, in the same way a user does.

    “Testing is vital to the success of continuous integration, and enhancing eggPlant’s capabilities with Undo’s technology provides developers with the ability to rapidly respond to failures in production and test environments,” said Antony Edwards, CTO, TestPlant. “With this integration, we are providing Linux and Android developers with the ability to increase their debugging productivity by at least 50% and significantly improve software quality.”

    About TestPlant

    TestPlant is an international software business based in London. It has development centers in the USA and the UK with sales and support centers in the USA, the UK, Germany, China and Japan as well as an extensive network of business partners. TestPlant’s products are used in over 40 countries by well over 350 enterprise customers in sectors which include Financial Services, Automotive, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Media and Entertainment, Retail and Defense and Aerospace. The eggPlant range is a set of tools which supports the design, development, test and management of software applications for mainframe, desktop and mobile use in any technology platform environment. The tools are relevant in agile, mobile, web and DevOps deployments. eggPlant use improves and reports on the quality and responsiveness of software systems, reduces time to market and lowers costs by introducing process automation. The eggPlant tools have been granted patents in the USA and in Europe. TestPlant is a Red Herring Global Top 100 company, a Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and EMEA 500 business, a member of the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 and is the recipient of three Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. The Carlyle Group is a major investor in the company. www.testplant.com

  • Citrix Releases Free Developer Version of NetScaler Load Balancer for Microservices App Developers

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digital business transformation is driving line of business (LOB) to adopt rapid application development and deployment methodologies, such as DevOps. To stay ahead of the competition and adapt to rapidly changing customer and market demands, businesses and governments must automate and continuously adjust key processes. To do so, companies are increasingly developing their own applications to improve internal productivity and enhance customer engagement. Today, Citrix announced NetScaler CPX Express, a free developer version of NetScaler CPX, which is a NetScaler in a container form factor that delivers a battle-tested load balancer for developers to create microservices applications.

    Unlike Free and Open-Source Software (F/OSS) alternatives, NetScaler CPX Express is a full-featured microservices-aware load balancer that gives developers the same enterprise-grade, secure functionality of the market-leading NetScaler platform which is deployed in more than 20,000 enterprise customers and the largest public clouds worldwide. NetScaler CPX Express has the same codebase, REST API, and operations interface as the NetScaler ADC, enabling a seamless transition of application delivery infrastructure from development to deployment cycles. NetScaler CPX Express provides microservices application developers with:

    Application-savvy load balancing capabilities
    Easy, in-service upgrades with no disruption to microservices
    Advanced security capabilities such as SSL offload and protection against network, transport, application-layer DDoS threat vectors and API rate limiting for DDOS attack mitigation
    Service discovery and auto reconfiguration with Google Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and Apache Mesos container management systems
    Real-time visibility, management and analytics through integration with the NetScaler Management and Analytics System
    The ability to get up and running in less than five minutes
    Quotes

    Brad Casemore, Research Director, Data Center Networks, IDC

    “With the rise of DevOps and microservices, developers increasingly are concerned with reliable application delivery as well as with application development. Unfortunately, at the inception of many projects, developers do not always have access to a full-featured ADC. With the introduction of the NetScaler CPX Express, Citrix is responding to that developer need and helping to accelerate the speed at which microservices-based applications can advance from development to deployment.”

    Anthony Shaw, Head of Innovation, Dimension Data ITaaS

    “Citrix continues to drive innovation forward with the introduction of NetScaler CPX Express. It offers developers and DevOps engineers a free containerized load balancer for layer 4-7 services based on NetScaler, which is ideal for creating microservices or containerized applications. Developers can pave the way for the conversion of monolithic applications into containerized or microservices applications by using the same NetScaler functionality that exists in production in the datacenter for application development and all the way through to production.”

    Ash Chowdappa, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler, Citrix

    “Citrix is continually innovating to deliver solutions for traditional IT as well as emerging ADC requirements of DevOps and developer communities. With our market-leading NetScaler ADC platform, we are empowering developers to build, test and deploy apps all on a single integrated, scalable and secure platform. NetScaler CPX Express enables developers to drive applications into full-scale production quicker than any other alternative available today.”

    Availability

    NetScaler CPX Express is available for free download today at https://www.microloadbalancer.com

    Related Links

    Blog: Getting to a Multi-Cloud Application Delivery Architecture
    Blog: Citrix + Kubernetes = Home Run
    Blog: Why is Citrix Offering a Free Container-based ADC for Developer
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    NetScaler product page
    NetScaler CPX Express microsite
    Twitter: @Citrix @NetScaler
    Facebook: Citrix
    About Citrix

    Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. Its technology makes the world’s apps and data secure and easy to access, empowering people to work anywhere and at any time. Citrix provides a complete and integrated portfolio of Workspace-as-a-Service, application delivery, virtualization, mobility, network delivery and file sharing solutions that enables IT to ensure critical systems are securely available to users via the cloud or on-premise and across any device or platform. With annual revenue in 2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations and over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

    For Citrix Investors

    This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the impact of the global economy and uncertainty in the IT spending environment, revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products and services, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company’s key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion and is subject to change without notice or consultation. The information provided is for informational purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions or incorporated into any contract.

    © 2016 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Citrix, NetScaler and NetScaler CPX Express are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.