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Author: Jules Louis

  • CA Technologies Completes Acquisition of Veracode

    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Veracode, a leader in securing web, mobile and third-party applications across the software development lifecycle. The acquisition establishes CA Technologies as a leader in the Secure DevOps market, bridges its Security business with its broad DevOps portfolio and adds to its growing SaaS business.

    With the completion of the transaction, Bob Brennan, former chief executive officer, is now general manager of the Veracode business in the company’s product development organization reporting to Ayman Sayed, CA president and chief product officer.

    Under the terms of the agreement, the transaction is valued at approximately $614 million in cash.

    CA will provide detail regarding the acquisition’s impact to guidance when it reports fourth quarter earnings in May.

    About CA Technologies

    CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business in every industry. From planning, to development, to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.

    — Jules Louis

  • Webinar: Microservice Monitoring and Quality Management for Modern Apps and Infrastructures

    Webinar: Microservice Monitoring and Quality Management for Modern Apps and Infrastructures

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  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation Kicks Off Berlin Event with Five New International Members

    BERLIN – CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe – March 29, 2017 – T​he Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is sustaining and integrating open source technologies to orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture, today announced that Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technology LTD, QAware, Solinea, SUSE and TenxCloud have joined the Foundation as its newest members. These new members will join the 1,500 cloud native developers, users and experts in Berlin for CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe.

    Based in U.S, China and Europe, the new members represent fast-growing regions for cloud native activity and are committed to investing in, contributing to and sponsoring the development of applications based on microservices, containerization and dynamic orchestration.

    “The cloud native movement is increasingly spreading to all parts of the world, which is on display this week at our flagship event in Berlin,” said Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “We’re excited to welcome new members from Europe and Asia and showcase some of the most prolific cloud native developers and users in the world at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon. As we gain more international members, CNCF is able to have a broader, deeper impact on the future of the cloud native ecosystem.”

    About the newest gold member:

     SUSE, headquartered in Germany, is a pioneer in open source software working to facilitate applications and developers as it provides reliable, interoperable Linux, cloud infrastructure and storage solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. Twenty-five years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help SUSE’s customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. SUSE provides customers a holistic approach to orchestration and management by providing Kubernetes-as-a-Service capabilities in SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, a Kubernetes-integrated container OS delivered with SUSE Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) Platform, and the convergence of CaaS and PaaS with the soon-to-be-released SUSE solution based on Cloud Foundry with Kubernetes as a key component.

    “Modern business is moving to the software-defined data center to optimize mission-critical availability and quickly deliver new services,” said Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO at SUSE. “SUSE solutions enable innovative open source technologies that are hardened for software-defined infrastructure-based enterprise operations, backed by outstanding support. This move toward software-defined infrastructure includes a growing emphasis on container and cloud technologies, and CNCF has become the natural home for many of the leading open source projects that will enable the software-defined data center of the future. This the ideal time for SUSE to join the CNCF community as a gold member, as SUSE is focused on providing customers with a holistic approach to orchestration and management.”

     About the newest silver members:

    HarmonyCloud, based in Hangzhou, is a container-based cloud platform provider focused on building enterprise PaaS platforms on open source projects like Kubernetes. The company provides enterprise clients with enhanced features on runtime security, networking and storage, and enabling microservice-based applications, distributed tracing and automated CI/CD.
    “The core HarmonyCloud team, which is from SEL Lab Zhejiang University, has made great contributions to Kubernetes and the cloud native space,” said Aoyu Wang, CEO of HarmonyCloud. “We’ve used our knowledge and expertise to automate and optimize the deployment of cloud applications based on container technologies, and this makes CNCF membership a perfect fit for us. We look forward to making continued contributions to the container-based technologies fostered and incubated by CNCF.”

    QAware, based in Germany, is an independent software manufacturer and consultancy – analyzing, renovating, developing and implementing software systems and cloud native applications for customers whose success heavily depends on IT. These applications provide enterprises with a decisive advantage, as they make processes and products possible that were previously unimaginable.

    “Building cloud native applications is a revolutionary way of making systems possible that were previously unimaginable,” said Josef Adersberger, CTO at QAware. “We love to share our experience, drive discussions with other cloud native experts and contribute to leading open source technology, which is why we are very happy to join forces with the CNCF.”

    Solinea, headquartered in San Francisco, is the leading professional services partner that accelerates enterprise cloud adoption. The company works with enterprises and service providers to help them achieve their agile, secure and transformational objectives by developing multi and hybrid cloud adoption strategies, driving cloud native enablement through the integration of containers and microservices, and accelerating application delivery to the cloud through innovative DevOps solutions.

    “Partnering with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is the right decision as we look ahead at how best to architect and deploy open, vendor-agnostic cloud solutions for our current and future clients,” says Francesco Paola, CEO of Solinea. “As we work with leading global enterprises and service providers to architect and deploy cloud, container and microservices solutions at scale, to drive agility into the organization, it is important for us to work with an exceptional team that understand our clients’ needs. CNCF is the right choice.”

    TenxCloud, based in Beijing, is an innovation-driven cloud computing company founded in 2014. It is the first Kubernetes-based enterprise-class container cloud platform in China. The platform provides application-centric container cloud products and solutions that cover lightweight container virtualization, microservices, DevOps, continuous delivery and more.

    “At the end of 2015, TenxCloud released China’s first enterprise-based container cloud platform based on the open source project Kubernetes, we want to help enterprises to achieve rapid delivery of business applications and continuous innovation,” said Jerry Huang, CEO of TenxCloud. “The development of TenxCloud benefits from the open source community, so it’s our pleasure to promote the development of container technology and we look forward to making contributions to CNCF’s projects.”

    Additional Resources

    About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of those software stacks including Kubernetes, Fluentd, Linkerd, Prometheus, OpenTracing, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, and rkt; brings together the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors; and serves as a neutral home for collaboration. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about CNCF, please visit: https://cncf.io/.

    — Jules Louis

  • Moogsoft Announces Innovative AIOps Platform for Enterprise IT Ops and DevOps Following Year of Record Growth

    SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2017 – Moogsoft, a leading provider of Algorithmic IT Operations (AIOps) technologies, today announced a series of significant platform releases alongside record growth results following its Series C financing in June 2016. In addition to its new AIOps platform, Moogsoft also announced marquee customer success, global expansions and key hires who will ensure Moogsoft’s technology innovations remain at the forefront of the digital transformation occurring across enterprise businesses around the globe.

    The Moogsoft AIOps™ platform has received major updates for enterprise IT Ops and DevOps use cases. By utilizing real-time machine learning algorithms, Moogsoft AIOps helps customers reduce operational noise, proactively detect service-impacting issues across their ecosystem, streamline collaboration and workflow across teams and toolsets, and codify knowledge for future re-use.

    Specific new platform capabilities include a Real-Time Service Dashboard, Agile Workflows, Team Rooms, Kanban Boards and Global Search to help teams streamline their collaboration for service impacting incidents. A new Algorithmic Clustering Engine (ACE) has also been released, which allows event data to be correlated in real-time using an array of supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms. Additionally, this new version of Moogsoft AIOps will be available on mobile devices, allowing customers to quickly detect and resolve service-impacting issues regardless of physical location. These new features will be available to customers on April 12.

    “In the modern enterprise, IT operations is a space that requires continual innovation,” said Phil Tee, CEO and co-founder of Moogsoft. “We have released several new features based on customer feedback, which we value greatly. Moogsoft is continually working with our customers to develop new innovations that help businesses successfully transition to more intelligent and automated workflows by eliminating mundane operational tasks and freeing human beings up to do what they do best – ideate, create and innovate.”

    Customer Impact

    Since the founding of Moogsoft in 2011, the company’s mission has been to help enterprise customers achieve a higher quality of customer experience, become more agile and lower their cost of operations. Within the past nine months, Moogsoft’s customer base has expanded across all business verticals spanning from digital entertainment to banking and government. Customers such as Intuit, Royal Bank of Canada, GoDaddy and SuccessFactors report an average reduction of IT alerts of more than 90 percent immediately after implementing Moogsoft AIOps. After GoDaddy migrated to Moogsoft, for example, the company experienced a 99 percent reduction in workload and 66 percent reduction in help desk calls.

    Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) year-old implementation of Moogsoft AIOPs also has resulted in a 35 percent reduction in Mean-Time-To-Detect (MTTD) and a 43 percent reduction in Mean-Time-To-Restore (MTTR). With the early detection that Moogsoft AIOps provides, RBC now delivers new product features in days, as opposed to weeks or months.

    “SAP SuccessFactors has challenged itself to revolutionize the cloud experiences for the enterprise via our cFWD initiative,” said Mike McGibbney, SVP Service Delivery & Operations at SAP SuccessFactors. “For the SAP SuccessFactors SDO team, part of this is ensuring a better cloud through highly reliable availability of the cloud environment. In order to best support our customers and significantly elevate our ability to deliver, we chose to partner with Moogsoft to take the seal of real-time operational data and turn it into real-time action to safeguard an uninterrupted cloud experience.”

    Company Expansion

    In 2016, Moogsoft raised $30M in an oversubscribed Series C funding, was awarded five patents for their technology, on-boarded new resellers and strategic channel partners, and closed multiple seven-figure deals with enterprise customers across verticals. Moogsoft also released multiple new ecosystem integrations with leading companies such as AppDynamics, Splunk and New Relic. The company aggressively expanded operations into Europe, as well as deepened its reach in North America. To support this expansion, Moogsoft grew to more than 100 employees across the globe and made several additions to its executive suite including Bob Marshall, who joined as Vice President of engineering, Monique Ho, who joined as General Counsel, Matt Wilkinson, who joined as Vice President of Worldwide Services and Colin Gray, who joined as Vice President of Sales in EMEA.

    About Moogsoft
    Moogsoft provides AIOps technology to help enterprise IT Operations and DevOps teams become faster, smarter and more effective. Moogsoft helps companies such as Intuit, Royal Bank of Canada, HCL and GoDaddy achieve agility and automation through the application of algorithmic technology in complex production environments, allowing IT Ops and DevOps teams to focus their resources intelligently and ensure a higher quality customer experience. To learn more visit www.moogsoft.com.

    — Jules Louis

  • Webinar: Sandstorm or Significant: The evolving role of context in Incident Management

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  • New Add-on by SmartBear Unifies Industry-Leading Test Management and Issue Management Tools

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Mar. 28, 2017 – SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for teams, announced a new add-on to unify SmartBear’s QAComplete test management application with Atlassian’s JIRA issue management tool. The QAComplete add-on for JIRA Software allows teams to easily design, plan, execute and track testing progress.

    Atlassian JIRA Software is the most popular tool used by development and QA teams to capture, track and resolve bugs and issues throughout the entire development cycle. As an Agile project management tool, JIRA Software is not primarily aimed at test case management. For QA and development teams using JIRA Software, having a comprehensive test case management strategy is critical to reduce costs incurred from unnecessary tests, while accounting for risk and planning for coverage. A dedicated test case management tool working with JIRA Software helps teams plan, track and proactively manage manual as well as automated tests, thereby enabling them to develop and deliver software more rapidly.

    The QAComplete add-on for JIRA Software on the Atlassian Marketplace empowers application development and delivery (AD&D) teams to combine JIRA Software’s issue and bug tracking expertise with the flexible test case management capabilities of QAComplete, providing the best of both worlds. With the new add-on, team members using JIRA Software can be kept up-to-speed on any testing activities taking place in QAComplete. Any changes made are automatically reflected across user stories, tasks, bugs or even custom issue types in JIRA Software. The add-on also provides real-time access to test steps, helping teams reproduce scenarios without switching context and jumping between separate tools.

    “SmartBear’s new real-time, two-way integration of QAComplete into JIRA Software allows users to easily map JIRA Software Stories to QAComplete and vice-versa,” said Reggie Moore, Quality Assurance Specialist at LifeWatch. “This is particularly helpful in keeping both tools up-to-date in real-time, no matter where we make changes. The real-time two-way sync works even for screenshots and attachments, allowing us to speed up the testing and in turn linking defects and tests back to user stories. Finally, the ability to bring test steps back to JIRA Software is helpful in easily reproducing test scenarios.”

    With QAComplete add-on for JIRA Software, teams can easily track and manage their tests along with other aspects of the software development cycle such as bugs, tasks and more. In addition to the QAComplete Test Management integration, SmartBear’s CrossBrowserTesting solution is also available on the Atlassian Marketplace. CrossBrowserTesting enables teams to get instant access to more than 1,500 real desktop and mobile browsers for functional and visual cross browser testing in the cloud.

    For more information, visit: https://smartbear.com/product/qacomplete/overview/.

    SmartBear is hosting the free webinar, “JIRA for Test Management: Bridging the Gap between Test Design and Issues,” on Thursday, March 30, 2017. Attendees learn how to take advantage of JIRA’s project management capabilities within their overall test management strategy. To register, visit:
    http://www2.smartbear.com/outbound-qacomplete-jira-test-case-webinar.html.

    About SmartBear Software
    Supporting more than five million software professionals and over 20,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.

    — Jules Louis

  • Webinar: The Human Side of DevSecOps

    Webinar: The Human Side of DevSecOps

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  • ControlUp Raises $10 Million Series B

    Sunnyvale, Calif. — March 28, 2017 – ControlUp, the leading provider of an ITOps analytics and management platform, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by K1 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners, and brings the company’s total funding to $13.3 million.

    With thousands of customers worldwide, ControlUp spearheads the Collective IT Analytics revolution.
    By harnessing the power of big data to analyze operational IT data from a global customer base to find patterns, detect problems, establish dynamic baselines and generate actionable targeted insights, ControlUp reshapes ITOps to open the door for smarter IT.

    “We’re happy to announce our Series B and to further cement our place in the IT community,” said Asaf Ganot, Founder and CEO of ControlUp. “After a year of significant accomplishments in 2016, we’re expanding our global footprint and are excited to use these funds to continue innovating, growing our company, and enlarging our client base worldwide.”

    The announcement comes on the heels of a hot year for ControlUp. In September 2016, the company announced the launch of ControlUp 6, which provides unsurpassed troubleshooting and issues remediation capabilities in enterprise grade hybrid-cloud datacenters. In August, ControlUp joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance, extending its tools to support Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure-based workloads that reside in the datacenter or in hybrid clouds. The company also launched ControlUp Insights in April, a new platform that empowers IT administrators to deliver interactive reports with unprecedented visibility and control of hybrid cloud workloads.

    About ControlUp
    ControlUp is the leading provider of a powerful, yet easy-to-use ITOps analytics and management platform. Used by thousands of companies worldwide, ControlUp helps ITOps teams to monitor, analyze and directly remediate problems in their on-premise, hybrid cloud and cloud infrastructures. ControlUp is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D in Israel, and is backed by Jerusalem Venture Partners and K1 Capital. For more information, visit us at www.controlup.com.

    — Jules Louis

  • Webinar: Sandstorm or Significant: The evolving role of context in Incident Management

    Webinar: Sandstorm or Significant: The evolving role of context in Incident Management

    Providing Situational Context to first responders is one of the most nuanced and critical success factors teams need as they manage and resolve incidents. It’s critical at all stages of incident management, from alert detection through postmortem. Provide no context, and you’ll materially impede resolution efforts. Overwhelm a team with data, and chaos ensues.

    Understanding the evolving role of context will differentiate your incident management abilities and prepare you for ongoing success.

    In this webinar, we gained an understanding of the evolving role of situational context as teams move from beginner to advanced in their incident management maturity. We honed in on the factors you need to calibrate the optimal level of context, and learned how to deliver that context in the most effective way.

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  • Open Source is Not Enough for Modern Application Delivery

    Open Source is Not Enough for Modern Application Delivery

    It’s the same everywhere you turn. Companies are trying to transform their digital experiences and increase customer engagement all while improving customer experience. This is giving rise to a whole new generation of modern applications that are built fast, scale out, are mobile-first and go global on public cloud infrastructure.

    Developers building modern applications depend on:

    • An evolving set of DevOps needs
    • Modern architectural principles
    • Pervasive use of open source frameworks and tools

    Forrester Analyst, Jeffrey Hammond, and CloudBees DevOps Evangelist, Brian Dawson, discussed how developers are meeting the demand for speed without blowing budgets. They shared the best practices they have seen companies use to take full advantage of open source tools and frameworks.

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