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  • CloudPassage Halo Now in Solution-Specific Packages

    SAN FRANCISCO – August 23, 2016 – CloudPassage today announced new packaged offerings for CloudPassage Halo to more cost-effectively address enterprises’ need for workload security. Award-winning CloudPassage Halo is now comprised of three packages–Halo Protect, Halo Segment and Halo Detect–which can be purchased separately or in any combination to provide workload protection, microsegmentation, compromise detection, compliance, DevSecOps and AWS EC2 security. At one-third the full platform pricing, the new packages provide enterprises with a more cost-effective entry point to workload security and the flexibility to add fully integrated functionality as the need arises.

    “While most of our customers eventually use the full range of security controls in CloudPassage Halo, many are initially looking for a more tailored solution to a specific security problem,” said Jack Marsal, Product Marketing Director, CloudPassage. “These solution-focused packages allow enterprises to address their most acute security problem in the most cost-effective manner while giving them flexibility to add a broader range of security controls as their security needs evolve. Customers can evolve their security systems and posture at the pace which is right for them.”

    The new CloudPassage Halo packages are designed to meet specific security challenges:

    Halo Protect reduces the software attack surface of workloads by ensuring proper security configuration, discovering software vulnerabilities, and controlling administrative access.  

    • Configuration Security Monitoring (CSM) automatically monitors operating system and application configurations, processes, networks services, and privileges and compares them to the latest policies and standard industry benchmarks.
    • Software Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) automatically scans servers and cloud workloads to check for software vulnerabilities and to maintain continuous exposure awareness in the cloud and across all environments.
    • Server access management lets IT security managers monitor, audit and evaluate account access and privileges of all servers in any operating environment though a single online management console.

    Halo Segment  reduces the network attack surface through traffic discovery, host firewall orchestration, and multi-factor network authentication.

    • Traffic discovery and visualization lets IT security managers visualize the IP connection patterns and listening ports of workloads and servers, both between Halo-protected systems as well as connections to and from remote systems. This makes it easy to create dynamic firewall policies that prevent unwanted lateral movement of threats.
    • Workload firewall management lets IT security managers easily deploy and manage dynamic host firewall policies across all environments. Policies are based on the server tags, not the IP addresses, so changes to host firewall tables are made automatically as new servers are added, retired, or as IP addresses change.
    • Multi-factor network authentication lets IT security managers keep server ports and IP addresses hidden and secure while allowing temporary on-demand access for authorized users.

    Halo Detect alerts you if any of your workloads have been compromised by monitoring whether important files have changed and by monitoring important server log files.

    • File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) protects cloud server integrity through constant monitoring for unauthorized or malicious changes to important system binaries or files.
    • Log-based Intrusion Detection (LIDS) continuously monitors key server log files for suspicious activity that could indicate misuse, misconfiguration or compromise.

    Additional details specific to CloudPassage Halo solutions can be found at https://www.cloudpassage.com/solutions/.

    CloudPassage Testimonials

    “Xero moved to a Security-as-a-Service model based on three principles: repeatable security automation, security at speed, and security on-demand,” said Aaron McKeown, Lead Security Architect, Xero. “CloudPassage Halo fits those principals, and for workload protection, we’ve mandated that Halo be included with every new EC2 instance we deploy. This has enabled our hundreds of developers to securely build and release over 800 new features last year alone.”

    “Qualpay has been using CloudPassage for two years, primarily to monitor our servers for compromise detection,” said Todd Troutman, System Administrator, Qualpay. “Halo has become critical to our PCI compliance posture. With Halo, we can rapidly meet new PCI requirements as well as new interpretations of existing requirements. We’ve recently started leveraging CloudPassage Halo’s traffic discovery and visualization functions in order to microsegment workloads and add visibility.”

    “Consensus Corporation chose CloudPassage for initial use in compliance,” said Dmitriy Dunavetsky, Director of Information Security, Consensus Corporation. “We were first focused on finding a solution that was easy to use and automated. We also wanted to make sure our decision was future-proofed for our evolving security needs. CloudPassage was the only automated, on-demand security platform we found that provided a broad range of security controls for compliance as well as workload protection, microsegmentation, compromise detection and DevSecOps and could work on any infrastructure.”

    About CloudPassage

    CloudPassage® Halo® is the world’s leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload – servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.

    For more information, visit www.cloudpassage.com.

    CloudPassage® and Halo® are registered trademarks of CloudPassage, Inc.

  • Cypherpath, Quali Partnership Provides Portable Containerized Infrastructures That Support Virtual Sandboxes and Cyber Ranges

    SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Aug 23, 2016) – Quali, the leading Cloud Sandbox software platform for DevOps automation, andCypherpath, the leader in on-demand containerized infrastructure solutions, today announced the integration of the Cypherpath Virtual Container Platform (VCP) with the Quali CloudShell solution. Through this partnership, joint customers are using on-demand containerized infrastructures to create and manage cyber ranges and private cloud sandboxes. Through full infrastructure and IT environment virtualization, customers are saving millions of dollars in costs associated with creating, delivering and managing the full stack of physical compute, network and storage resources in highly secure containers.

    A cyber range, or cloud sandbox, gives enterprises the ability to rapidly reconfigure IT environments for use by individuals and teams to conduct offensive and defensive cyber-mission rehearsal training, tool-specific training, software evaluation, and configuration testing. Most organizations lack the budget and manpower resources required to deploy large scale, non-production cyber environments using existing enterprise tools and many solutions available to them do not include the ability to rapidly change, add, modify and control the environments.

    By leveraging the partnership, value added reseller (VAR) TSI was able to provide ManTech International Corporation the technology needed to give DISA a fully virtualized lab infrastructure, complete with integrated virtual sandboxing and cyber range capabilities. With this full stack, DISA is able to use the lab to develop, test and run infrastructure in private clouds or bare-metal servers without requiring the agency to adopt proprietary tools, saving both time and money.

    “DISA is responsible for supporting a critical element of our national defense strategy, which is the sharing of information between joint warfighters, national leaders, and other mission and coalition partners,” said Ernest McCaleb, ManTech technical director and DISA Cyber Security Range chief architect. “This fast, simple and cost effective solution provides us with the ability to fulfill our mission without sacrificing performance or security, and deliver the Multiprotocol Label Switching stack at a fraction of the cost.”

    Through this partnership, joint customers can:

    • Use on-demand infrastructure to support private cloud sandboxes in mission ready cyber ranges
    • Define, deploy and manage fully containerized IT infrastructure on-demand while providing the agility to share and collaborate between nodes, networks, bare-metal servers and private clouds
    • Significantly reduce investment in new physical data center resources and technologies by virtualizing their underlying IT infrastructure

    “Public and private sector organizations need agility and security to compete, which is forcing them to look for solutions that bypass all of the roadblocks caused by legacy infrastructure,” said Danial Faizullabhoy, president and CEO, Cypherpath. “Through this partnership, our joint customers have access to innovative on-demand solutions that provide IT infrastructures to support testing, training, and experimenting in sandboxes and cyber ranges at scale.”

    “The modern enterprise needs to be extremely vigilant and responsive to sophisticated security threats. Cyber ranges are a great tool to simulate real-world attack scenarios in a controlled environment and strengthen the security posture,” said Lior Koriat, CEO, Quali. “Quali cloud sandboxes help organizations build cyber ranges and other portable on-demand environments in a cost effective manner to model, orchestrate and test advanced threats. We’re excited to partner with Cypherpath to offer this solution to our defense and enterprise customers.”

    To learn more about the joint solution, please visit: http://info.quali.com/cypherpath-quali-joint-on-demand-cyber-range-solution

    For more details on Cyber Infrastructure Security with Virtual Sandboxes and Cyber Ranges, please visit:http://www.quali.com/blog/cyberranges/

    About Quali
    Quali is the leading provider of Cloud Sandboxes for automating the DevOps lifecycle. Quali gives innovators control over their world by enabling them to create personalized replicas of the most complex production environments. The Cloud providers, Telcos, Technology vendors and Enterprises including the Global 100 depend on Quali to help them deliver their products and services to market faster and with better quality. Learn more at: http://www.quali.com.

    About Cypherpath
    Enterprises rely on Cypherpath to create, deliver and manage containerized on-demand infrastructure at the lowest possible cost while providing container security and simplified control of the entire stack. Cypherpath’s industry-leading enterprise software platform encapsulates virtualized compute, network, and storage resources into software containers running on commodity hardware. Learn more athttp://www.cypherpath.com.

    About TSI
    TSI is a systems integrator and value added reseller focusing on providing innovative automation, orchestration, test, and virtualization solutions for network centric environments. TSI has been Quali’s Partner and Service Provider since 2010 integrating tools like those from Cypherpath. For information go to our website www.tsieda.com or email at sales@tsieda.com.

  • Securosis Identifies Benefits of Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) in New Report

    MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IMMUNIO, the industry leader in runtime application self protection (RASP), today announced the launch of a research report authored by information security and research firm Securosis entitled, “Understanding and Selecting Runtime Application Security and Protection.” The independent report explores how DevOps teams are addressing today’s current application security issues and where RASP can provide immediate and measureable benefits within the agile development process.

    According to Securosis, “For [DevOps] teams, security products must do more than address application security issues; they need to mesh with continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) approaches, while offering automated capabilities and better integration with developer tools.” The research paper summarizes how RASP has emerged as a tool that can examine requests at the application layer to detect attacks and misuse in real time, fitting into the agile development process and behaving as its own code — running anywhere the application does.

    “We’ve been examining DevOps for several years now and figuring out how to embed security into the development process is a huge goal for most organizations today. RASP is a technology many are exploring for this very reason, and most teams we talked to for this report were either considering RASP or already engaged in a proof-of-concept project,” said Adrian Lane, senior security strategist, Securosis. “RASP solutions are much more effective at attack detection than web application firewalls (WAFs) because — being embedded within the application at runtime — they actually see what’s really happening, and can more effectively apply security controls. Couple that with the ability to scale right along with the application, and it’s not hard to see why developers and operations teams are embracing this technology.”

    The research paper defines RASP and covers the following topics related to the technology:

    • Use Cases: details the primary function of RASP while providing an overview of how it works as it relates to today’s market drivers
    • Overview of the Technology: highlights the technical facets of RASP, including deployment models, application integration, detection and blocking capabilities, language support, performance, maintenance and training
    • Integration: outlines how RASP fits both into the technology stack and development process to deliver applications

    “Based on Securosis’ findings, it’s obvious DevOps teams are facing new challenges when implementing fast, agile development processes and WAFs, manual pen testing and static analysis of source code require a lot of manual effort and niche expertise to be effective at detecting vulnerabilities and attacks,” said Zaid Al Hamami, CEO and co-founder, IMMUNIO. “RASP is a completely different approach to application security and one the industry is still getting familiar with. The more teams realize how it can benefit them and begin piloting RASP software, the closer we’ll get to environments that truly protect applications in real time. Application security technology has evolved, and now you can have both effective security and agile development.”

    The research report also features a detailed buyers guide for individuals and teams looking to understand how to best evaluate RASP solutions, and avoid the pitfalls that can come with new technologies. The paper is now available for free download athttps://www.immun.io/securosis-runtime-application-self-protection-report.

    About IMMUNIO
    IMMUNIO is a pioneer in runtime application self-protection (RASP), providing automatic detection and protection against application security vulnerabilities. The company’s mission is to make truly effective real-time web protection technology easily available and widely deployed, and by doing so, stop the biggest source of breached data records. For more information, visithttps://www.immun.io/ or follow @immunio.

  • Diamanti Accelerates Continuous Integration Pipeline at MemSQL with New Container Networking and Storage Capabilities

    LINUXCON, TORONTO — (Marketwired – August 22) — Diamanti, creators of the industry’s first purpose-built turnkey container appliance that brings guaranteed networking and storage performance levels to Linux containers, announced today at LinuxCon that MemSQL has joined Diamanti’s beta program to achieve high-volume, consistent test automation for their continuous integration (CI) pipeline.

    CI is a popular development methodology that validates code with automated build and test processes to quickly identify and resolve defects.  While CI dramatically improves developer productivity, organizations often find that high-volume automated testing creates computing challenges that require customized test platform environments.

    MemSQL, a leading database platform provider for real-time analytics, is at the forefront of CI and automated verification.  MemSQL began its verification cluster with several Linux nodes in the earliest days of the company and has since expanded to hundreds of servers powering thousands of tests per hour to maintain very high quality code releases.

    “As a distributed, in-memory database optimized for speed and scale, it’s critical that MemSQL deliver a rock-solid platform that exceeds our users’ expectations and works across many customer environments,” said Carl Sverre, principal architect at MemSQL. “MemSQL has millions of test scenarios in complex configurations.  We have found Diamanti’s container appliance assists us to rapidly validate new features and software updates in the context of realistic environments, ultimately allowing MemSQL to out-innovate other distributed databases.”

    Diamanti launched earlier this year to solve network and storage challenges in Linux containerized environments. MemSQL, an early Diamanti beta site, has reported notable benefits in their CI automated test environment:

    OPERATIONAL AUTOMATION – The Diamanti appliance allows rapid network and storage configuration for high-volume test scenarios through an API, rather than manually configuring infrastructure or relying on fixed configurations. This allows new degrees of control and automation in creating isolated networks and storage volumes to scale verification more easily than before.

    WORKLOAD PRIORITIZATION AND GUARANTEED PERFORMANCE – Not every test scenario carries the same priority or duration. Some tests are more I/O-intensive, some are more critical, and some last only seconds while others require hours. Diamanti simplifies workload prioritization, keeps tests isolated from each other, and guarantees that long-running tests are not interrupted by short-running tests.

    RAPID SIMULATION OF STORAGE AND NETWORKING CONFIGURATIONS – Robust software platforms like MemSQL must be verified against many permutations of customer environments. In so-called “four-corner testing,” where multiple conditions are simulated at their extremes, code is evaluated in worst-case conditions. Diamanti enables organizations like MemSQL to quickly emulate many different networking and storage variables in their CI pipeline. Rather than having to build out a massive hardware lab, organizations can virtualize the network and storage environments using Diamanti.

    “Being lightweight and fast to deploy, container technology is ideal for the rapid pace of a modern continuous-integration methodology,” said Mark Balch, vice president of products and marketing at Diamanti. “Diamanti delivers agile container network and storage capabilities through an automated deployment process that is tightly integrated with mainstream open-source container stacks.  We connect to existing networks without costly rearchitecting, and eliminate manual infrastructure tuning that slows down application lifecycles.  Diamanti is pleased to welcome MemSQL into our beta program and help advance their innovative analytics platform.”

    Visit Diamanti at LinuxCon to see a product demonstration and learn more.  Diamanti is now available for new beta users.  Sign up at www.diamanti.com to take a test drive and try it yourself.

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    About Diamanti

    Diamanti solves the most challenging networking and storage requirements that organizations face when moving containerized workloads from development into production. The Diamanti appliance plugs into existing environments and delivers guaranteed performance and 10X improvements in I/O throughput and latency, allowing developers and operators to predictably deploy, scale, and manage containers without time­ consuming customization. Based in San Jose, California, Diamanti is backed by venture investors CRV, DFJ, GSR Ventures, and Goldman Sachs. For more information visitwww.diamanti.com or follow @diamanticom.

  • IT Revolution Announces New Speakers For DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 San Francisco

    PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced its next round of speakers for its 2016 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES16) being held in San Francisco November 7-9 (http://events.itrevolution.com/us/). DOES16 San Francisco is the premier industry conference for the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. The event features presentations from industry pioneers and technology leaders who have successfully implemented DevOps transformations at large, Fortune 1000-type organizations. Hosted at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, early registration for DOES16 is highly encouraged, as the event has sold out the past two years (http://bit.ly/doessfo16reg).

    This next round of speakers join already announced presenters from American Airlines, Disney and Equifax on this year’s agenda. New speakers selected include:

    • Alexa Alley, DevOps Program Manager at Hearst Business Media
    • Charles Betz, Instructor at University of St. Thomas
    • William Evans, Chief Design Officer at PraxisFlow
    • Mark Imbriaco, Technical Operations Leadership formerly of GitHub, Heroku and 37signals
    • Mark Landy, VP Enterprise Architecture at Johnson & Johnson
    • Steven Mayner, SAFe Senior Program Consultant at Scaled Agile, Inc.
    • Jeffrey Payne,  Chief Executive Officer at Coveros
    • Opal Perry, Divisional Chief Information Officer, Claims at Allstate
    • Terri Potts, Technical Director at Raytheon
    • Julia Wester, Improvement Coach at LeanKit

    “I’m so excited about this latest group of DevOps practitioners who will share their experience reports and expert talks at DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco. The program is shaping up to be our most compelling yet,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of “The Phoenix Project” and upcoming “DevOps Handbook.” “These technology leaders, who represent a wide range of industries, are responsible for leading large-scale IT transformation efforts across their organizations. Through their heroic stories, attendees will gain real-world advice for adopting best practices of high-performing organizations.”

    IT Revolution and founding partner Electric Cloud are coining the theme of DOES16 San Francisco as “Leading Change.” Attendees can expect to gain clear understanding of the intricacies of large-scale DevOps implementations and best practices for leading IT transformations.

    Join the #DOES16 Conversation
    Interested in gaining insights from DevOps Enterprise Summit speakers ahead of the event? DOES16 organizers will be hosting a live video chat on Wednesday, September 7 at 11:30 a.m. PDT. To watch the event online, please visit: (http://bit.ly/2aRPrdX).

    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.

  • Algolia Releases Algolia For Magento 2.0

    August 22, 2016 – San Francisco, CA – Algolia, the hosted search provider, today released Algolia For Magento 2.0, helping ecommerce companies improve the search engine experience for their customers. Algolia replaces Magento’s default search engine, which uses simple SQL queries, but does not handle features like autocomplete, fuzzy search or partial matches. Delivering “Search-as-a-Service,” Algolia lets Magento developers easily incorporate a great search experience, and helps ecommerce customers quickly find what they are looking for.

    Expanding upon Algolia For Magento 1.0, the update features improved synchronization with Algolia in real time, and adds the most commonly-used Algolia features directly onto the Magento dashboard – making life easier for developers and online shoppers.

    Algolia For Magento Features:

    • Out-of-the-box autocomplete: Find-as-you-type, making search more intuitive
    • Instant-search results page: Automatically filtered with every letter of a search query
    • Synonyms: Manage synonyms directly from your ecommerce store’s admin interface
    • Out-of-the-box indexing: Synchronize indices only once, without having to do it again

    The new iteration was based heavily on feedback from Algolia’s active Magento community. Since launching Algolia for Magento 1.0 last year, the company has seen usage from more than 180 companies, with more than 5.5 million queries from Magento stores around the world.

    Algolia For Magento 2.0 is completely synchronized with Magento 1.0, making it simple for ecommerce customers who want to migrate their store(s) to the newer platform. To learn more about Algolia For Magento, please visit https://community.algolia.com/magento/.

    About Algolia

    Founded in 2012, Algolia provides a hosted search API that allows websites and mobile applications to increase user engagement and conversions. Algolia returns search results in milliseconds, with a search-as-you-type experience for their end users. Algolia allows any developer to build the search engine they want quickly and easily. Algolia customers include: A Little Market an Etsy company, Crunchbase, HackerNews, Genius.com and Livestream. To learn more about Algolia visit www.algolia.com.

  • REAN Cloud Acquires Opex Software to Strengthen it’s DevSecOps Practice

    REAN Cloud (“REAN”), an Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) Premier Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), has acquired Opex Software (“Opex”), a DevOps company focused on Dev and Test Automation to fortify REAN’s already strong suite of Infrastructure Automation capabilities.

    To get the complete benefit of the cloud platform, organizations need a fluid approach in which deployment from development to production is a continuous, ongoing process so that it can meet the demanding and constantly evolving customer requirements.  With the Opex acquisition REAN adds Automated Application Deployment and Testing Capabilities to its existing suite of Automated Infrastructure Operations and SecOps solutions which are fine-tuned for the AWS cloud environment, making it an extremely powerful addition to the REAN Cloud DevSecOps arsenal.

    “REAN Cloud is focused on using DevSecOps on AWS Cloud to continuously improve processes while witnessing huge savings of time and money. Opex Software mirrors REAN’s focus, which was originally formed by senior members of former BMC, Sun Systems with deep domain expertise and a robust understanding of developing customized DevOps tools for the cloud platform,” said Sekhar Puli, Managing Partner, REAN Cloud.

    “Opex team’s expertise and background in product development is perfectly aligned with REAN’s philosophy of accelerating enterprise cloud adoption by rolling out more packaged solutions” explains Sri Vasireddy, Managing Partner, REAN Cloud.

    “We are excited to be part of REAN and advance our leadership in the DevOps space at an accelerated pace by working together,” says Sanju Burkule and Gunanand Nagarkar (GG), Co-Founders, Opex Software.

    About Opex Software

    Opex Software, based in Pune, India, is a young organization that caters to the niche market of DevOps and clean Cloud/Infra Solution integrations. DevOps implementations and Integrations in this area have proven to help companies achieve double-digit revenue growth. Opex provides proven DevOps Accelerators that help organizations adopt DevOps with best practices and world class tools and frameworks. To know more, please visithttp://www.opexsoftware.com/

    About REAN Cloud

    REAN Cloud, a Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) and AWS Managed Services Partner, is a cloud-native firm with deep experience supporting enterprise IT infrastructures and implementing continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines. With its presence in USA, Israel and India, the company has implemented complex and highly scalable architectures which support secure, compliant operations in highly regulated industries such as the Financial Services, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Education, and Public Sector verticals. The company’s team has extensive AWS expertise and DevSecOps experience that ensures quick, secure and reliable launch of clients’ solutions with no capital investments needed to procure hardware or services. REAN Cloud team has worked with global organizations including Ditech Mortgage, Brainloop, Ellucian, Ozy Media and Sentient Energy. REAN Cloud solutions are bundled with advanced security features to help address clients’ compliance needs. For more information, please visit www.reancloud.com, email at info@reancloud.com or call +1 (844) 377-7326 or 040-42000303.

  • Orchestrating Continuous Delivery to Amazon ECS with Jenkins

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  • Michael Brenner Joins GigaSpaces to Lead NFV Standardization Strategy

    NEW YORK—August 17, 2016—GigaSpaces, provider of software for cloud application orchestration and scaling of mission-critical applications on cloud environments, today announced that Michael Brenner, veteran of telecommunications industry leaders Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent, has joined the company as chief architect for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

    Brenner’s role at GigaSpaces will be to lead the standardization strategy for NFV and Software Defined Networking (SDN) and accordingly influence the product strategy for Cloudify and the ARIA project. Cloudify is an open source, TOSCA-based cloud orchestration framework that provides full lifecycle automation (provisioning, deployment, monitoring and remediation) of enterprise and NFV applications. ARIA is an open-governance reference implementation of TOSCA and is used as the engine behind Cloudify.

    “Michael brings to GigaSpaces a unique blend of experience in product architecture, development, management and standardization which will help drive our leadership in the fast-growing NFV-directed orchestration segment. His first task will be to tackle the cooperation between TOSCA and YANG, in order to achieve increased automation leading to OPEX reduction”, said Nati Shalom, founder and CTO of GigaSpaces.

    Brenner comes from ClearPath Networks, where in his role as SVP product strategy he drove product management, standardization and open source strategy for the company’s platform for virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) use cases. Prior to ClearPath Networks, he was senior architect and director in the CloudBand Business Unit of Alcatel-Lucent, responsible for CloudBand’s NFV platform architectural vision and NFV standardization strategy. During his 25 years with Alcatel-Lucent, Brenner also led development for Service/Network/Policy Management systems and mobile application enablers standardization efforts, including the development of over 20 RESTful API standard specifications, before moving to cloud and virtualization-related projects.

    “GigaSpaces is a company that is pushing the envelope of NFV standardization with its innovative orchestration products and commitment to open source initiatives, which are perfectly in sync with my passions and experience,” said Brenner. “I look forward to contributing significantly to the effort as GigaSpaces expands its leadership and market presence in NFV and SDN, and as we collaborate with others to bring about transformative advancements in the industry.”

    Until recently, Brenner served as vice-chair of the Network Functions Virtualization Industry Specification Group (NFV-ISG) of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI),  an industry group that develops architectural studies and normative specifications impacting NFV. In this capacity, he focused on advancing collaboration with open source communities (e.g., OPNFV, OpenStack and OpenDaylight) and championing the advancement of NFV’s motivators for service agility, OPEX reduction, CAPEX reduction and efficiency via automation. He plans to continue driving the Multi-SDO information and data modelling industry efforts towards attaining a common information and data model for NFV, both inside and outside ETSI NFV-ISG.

    Brenner has received a number of industry awards and accolades, including an ICIN Best Presentation Award (2009), an Open Mobile Alliance Excellence Award for Outstanding Contributions (2007) and a National Technology Team Award (1981). Most recently, in November 2014, he was awarded the first ETSI NFV-ISG Excellence Award for contributions to the forum, specifically related to the resolution of Management and Orchestration issues. He has also published numerous technical papers, and co-authored the book “The Open Mobile Alliance – Delivering Service Enablers for Next-Generation Applications” (John Wiley and Sons, 2008).

    About GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces Technologies provides software for cloud application orchestration and scaling of mission-critical applications on cloud environments. Hundreds of tier-one organizations worldwide are leveraging GigaSpaces technology to enhance IT efficiency and performance, including top financial firms, e-commerce companies, online gaming providers, healthcare organizations and telecom carriers. GigaSpaces has offices in the US, Europe and Asia. More at www.gigaspaces.com and getcloudify.org.

     

  • Jenkins World to Offer Multiple Opportunities to Expand Jenkins and DevOps Knowledge

    SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Jenkins community, the community of practitioners using open source Jenkins, and lead organizing sponsor CloudBees, Inc., the enterprise Jenkins company and continuous delivery (CD) leader, today announced a full program of add-on training, workshops and the ability to take a Jenkins certification exam for free at the upcoming Jenkins World conference, to be held September 13 – 15 in Santa Clara, CA.

    Jenkins Certification Training and Free Certification Exam: September 12-13
    This course, delivered by experts from |opensourcearchitect| and Nebulaworks, will prepare attendees for the Jenkins certification exam. It will cover all exam topics and there will also be a series of labs on several subjects addressed throughout the course. Attendees will:

    • Learn from Jenkins experts: Both |opensourcearchitect| and Nebulaworks are certified to deliver Jenkins training and teach courses about Jenkins on an ongoing basis.
    • Prepare for certification: Get ready for the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) and Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJPE) exams.
    • Take the training, then stick around for the conference: Jenkins World offers 50 sessions across a variety of topics and skill levels.
    • Take a free certification exam: Offered at convenient times throughout the conference, and free, as long as you sign up for it at the time of conference registration.

    Fundamentals of Jenkins Pipeline and Docker Training: September 12
    This course is an introduction to the Pipeline plugin, used in combination with Docker. Following an overview of Pipeline and Docker, participants will:

    • Learn about the need for Pipeline: Understand key use cases, structure/syntax and execution control.
    • See how to prepare Docker environments: Get exposure to key Docker tools and learn how to create a deployment lifecycle with Pipeline and Docker.
    • Gain hands-on experience: Watch and learn, live, as you work on two actual projects with Pipeline and Docker experts.

    Workshops: September 13

    • The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit Workshop
      This workshop will cover the entire microservices development lifecycle, from architecture design through to production and beyond.
    • Let’s Build a Jenkins Pipeline!
      Jenkins Pipeline is a game-changing way to write automation jobs with Jenkins. Come learn how.
    • Preparing for Jenkins Certification
      Assess your readiness for the Jenkins certification exam.
    • Introduction to Plugin Development
      This workshop will introduce developers to the Jenkins plugin ecosystem and terminology, as well as identify the developer resources available.
    • CD and DevOps Maturity Workshop for Managers
      In this workshop, we will review the definition of DevOps, its relationship to continuous delivery (CD) and explore a simple, lightweight model for measuring organizational DevOps maturity.

    Thanks to the leading technology vendors who are supporting the Jenkins community by sponsoring Jenkins World. Sponsors include: CloudBees, the premier sponsor and lead organizer, joined by: BlazeMeter, Red Hat, Codenvy, cPrime, JFrog, Sauce Labs, SOASTA, Sonatype, Black Duck Software, Cisco, GerritForge, IncrediBuild, MacStadium, Perforce, XebiaLabs, Infostretch, Mobile Labs, OpenMake Software, pCloudy, Perfecto Mobile, Rainforest QA, Site24x7, Undo Software and ZeroStack.

    Training Partners include: |opensourcearchitect| and Nebulaworks.

    Media sponsors include: devopsy.kinsta.cloud, DZone, PAN Communications, TechTarget SearchSoftwareQuality and TechTarget TheServerSide.com.

    Additional Resources for Jenkins World 2016

    About Jenkins and the Jenkins Community
    Jenkins is the leading open source automation server supported by a large and growing community of developers, testers, designers and other people interested in continuous integration, continuous delivery and other modern software delivery practices. Built on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), it provides more than 1,200 plugins that extend Jenkins to automate with practically any technology software delivery teams use.

    The Jenkins community advocates the use of Jenkins to the global development community, serving as a central source for tutorials, forums and other helpful resources for Jenkins users of all experience levels. By recognizing the numerous contributors to the Jenkins project, the project creates and fosters a community-powered infrastructure for maintaining and further developing Jenkins. You can follow the Jenkins community on Twitter (@JenkinsCI).

    About CloudBees
    CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com), the Enterprise Jenkins Company, is the continuous delivery (CD) leader. CloudBees provides solutions that enable DevOps teams to respond rapidly to the software delivery needs of the business. Building on the strength of Jenkins, the world’s most popular open source continuous delivery hub and ecosystem, the CloudBees Jenkins Platform provides a wide range of CD solutions that meet the unique security, scalability and manageability needs of enterprises. The CloudBees Jenkins Platform supports many of the world’s largest and most business-critical deployments. Follow CloudBees onTwitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.