Hackensack, NJ – January 25, 2016 – Video technology pioneer Vidyo today announced the launch and general availability of its Vidyo.io Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS), which lets application developers and enterprises quickly and easily embed high-quality, reliable, scalable, multiparty video collaboration into any WebRTC, mobile or native application.

A differentiated, enterprise-grade video CPaaS with a global footprint, Vidyo.io makes embedded video far more accessible for developers who are looking to rapidly integrate visual real-time communications into their own applications. Across an array of platforms, Vidyo.io helps enterprises bring their human-to-human interactions to life, by providing developers with all of the necessary infrastructure to make real-time, reliable and resilient multi-party video collaboration possible.  

With no costly on-premises hosting or deep technical knowledge of video coding required, Vidyo.io provides SDKs for web browsers (WebRTC and plugin), iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows, with a consistent API that speeds time to market and lowers development cost. Vidyo.io allows for any combination of video participants, from simple two-person video chat to a multi-party conference.

Vidyo.io is ideal for all types of network environments. Vidyo.io uses its own industry-leading scalable video technology, a key differentiator, at global scale to deliver the best possible video quality with the lowest latency. Vidyo’s cloud-based infrastructure shapes and routes video streams in real-time, with automatically-discovered access points all over the globe. The platform and SDK seamlessly provide all of the necessary components, such as firewall traversal and resource management, to minimize connectivity issues and maximize uptime and quality connections, especially for challenging platforms such as mobile.

Hundreds of enterprise customers and thousands of developers, to date, have video-enabled their applications using Vidyo APIs. Vidyo.io uniquely provides unparalleled scalability, error resiliency, and simplicity unmatched in the market today, by leveraging the same patented Scalable Video Coding routing technology that has been used by Vidyo’s enterprise customers and service providers for years to deliver industry-leading RTC reliability and quality over virtually any network and device.

Developers can use Vidyo.io to video-enable “see what I see” applications across key areas such as telehealth, enterprise collaboration, customer engagement, field services, distance learning and more.

OnCall Health:

“Video consultations that suffer from lag, dropped calls or poor audio/visual quality are simply not an option in healthcare. We recently replaced a competing platform, that could not deliver the reliability or quality that we needed, with Vidyo.io. In less than a week, we were able to get back up and running with Vidyo.io. We needed an API platform that would ‘just work’ with smartphones and tablets used over the personal networks that people of all ages are using to connect face-to-face with their doctors,” said OnCall Health CEO Nicholas Chepesiuk.

PlusGuidance:

“After switching over from a competitor, starting with Vidyo.io was fast and easy – we got set up in just about two weeks. Being able to easily embed video that performs great across different browsers has been the key difference for PlusGuidance – lots of folks don’t use Chrome, and it’s tough to get loyal users to switch browsers. We like the flexibility of Vidyo.io because we are passionate about giving clients who are receiving care as much control and security as possible. We are looking forward to implementing multiparty video conferencing for group therapy sessions, and we know that Vidyo can provide reliable, scalable, multiparty video too,” said PlusGuidance CEO Nathaniel Smithies.

Circl.es:

“Vidyo.io creates the possibility to flexibly customize video experiences. We used Vidy.io to quickly prototype an environment designed around people first – not content, curriculum or an expert at the front of a class. We chose Vidy.io over the competition for its reliability. It’s key that our customers have a consistent learning experience from any device, on any network. Our face-to-face social learning app needs to be immersive, but mobile and convenient enough not to pull people out of their daily lives and workflow,” said Circl.es founder Dan Hoffman.

According to Mark Winther of IDC: “Interactive video with business-grade quality is hot again because, across industries, we need sustainable, inclusive and transparent ways of connecting face-to-face from mobile devices – recreating the in-person experience over any network. Vidyo.io is well-positioned to address the U.S. Video Communications Platform-as-a-Service market, which is expected to grow from $44 million in 2016 to $1.7 billion in 2020.”

Availability and Promotion:

Getting started with Vidyo.io is fast and easy: new users receive  4,000 free minutes (100,000 with the limited time offer below), and there is no credit card required for initial sign-up, creating a no-risk development environment that easily allows developer to quickly move from ideation through development phases.

Enterprise solution providers with mission-critical applications, like telehealth, can work with a Vidyo business development specialist on go-to-market, pricing and support models that align with their existing business model and solution needs.

For a limited time only, sign up for Vidyo.io here, and get 100,000 free minutes (see terms and conditions in the sign-up process). To learn more, go to Vidyo.io or follow @Vidyo_io on Twitter and on Facebook.

About Vidyo, Inc.

Millions of users around the world visually connect every day with Vidyo’s secure, scalable technology and cloud-based services. Vidyo offers video collaboration solutions for companies that require the highest-quality video interaction available. Recognized with over 120 patents, the company’s software platform and APIs are used by enterprise customers, service providers, ecosystem partners and developers to create innovative HD quality video-enabled applications embedded into application workflows and emerging IoT devices. Learn more at http://www.vidyo.com, on the blog, or follow Vidyo @vidyo and Vidyo.io @vidyo_io  on Twitter and on Facebook.

— Jules Louis

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Platform9, the open-source-as-a-service company making cloud infrastructure easy, today announced the general availability of its Managed Kubernetes service, the industry’s first infrastructure-agnostic, SaaS-managed offering. Unlike legacy software distribution models, Managed Kubernetes is deployed and managed entirely as a SaaS solution, across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure. The company also introduced Fission, a new, open source, serverless framework built on Kubernetes. These offerings feature a drastically simplified operational and consumption model that eliminates the steep learning curve currently associated with Kubernetes, and allow DevOps and IT teams to focus on solving core business problems.

“SaaS-managed delivery makes Kubernetes accessible to a much larger audience at a time when many development teams are committing to microservices as their cloud-native development paradigm,” said Sirish Raghuram, chief executive officer at Platform9. “We have built our reputation on our OpenStack-as-a-service offering, which remains a core focus — and propelled 400 percent customer growth for Platform9 in 2016 alone. While enterprises will be running virtualized workloads on OpenStack for years to come, though, there’s growing demand for platforms that offer a choice of virtualization, microservices or both. Microservices in particular require a more intuitive, managed approach that reduces time-to-value for Kubernetes projects and work on any choice of infrastructure: on-premises, in the cloud or across multiple clouds.”

Kubernetes has emerged as the standard for container orchestration and microservices, but projects are often hampered by the prohibitively steep learning curve required to effectively use Kubernetes, and the technical complexity needed to fully integrate and manage production Kubernetes environments. Platform9’s Managed Kubernetes service is fully integrated, truly infrastructure-agnostic and introduces a much faster, more manageable way to leverage Kubernetes. It saves considerable time and capital for DevOps and IT teams, allowing them to integrate across any combination of cloud platform or on-premises infrastructure without re-engineering a single line of code — or worrying about backend configuration and maintenance.

“Platform9 Managed Kubernetes is a positive addition to the ecosystem in helping make Kubernetes run anywhere,” said David Aronchick, Kubernetes Product Manager at Google. “This illustrates the innovation and momentum from the thousands of contributors to the project that are moving Kubernetes forward as the standard for cloud-native and containerized applications.”

“A significant challenge with running containerized applications in production is managing the container orchestration software stack. For instance, engineers need to watch upgrade of the Docker runtime or the cluster orchestration agent to ensure that there is no downtime for production applications during upgrade,” said Kuldeep Chowhan, cloud architect at Expedia. “Managed Kubernetes provides significant value to companies that are serious about use of containers because it eliminates the complexity of managing the container orchestration layer, while running on any infrastructure.”

Managed Kubernetes Features

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes features a number of important capabilities, making it truly enterprise-grade:

• Pure-Play Kubernetes, SaaS-Managed: Managed Kubernetes packages upstream releases as a “SaaS managed” solution, meaning it will always be 100% pure-play, avoiding vendor lock-in. Because the solution is deployed, monitored, supported and upgraded as SaaS, users can focus on using Kubernetes without the management overhead.
• Fully Integrated, Runs Anywhere: Several Kubernetes integrations are included out-of-the-box: end-to-end security, multi-tenant controls for user quotas w/ SSO integration, integration with external persistent storage and load-balancers, making it easy to use in any infrastructure from on-premises to public cloud providers (such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine).
• Highly Available: Managed Kubernetes creates highly available, multi-master, multi-etcd Kubernetes clusters that can span across availability zones in your private or public cloud environment. This means your Kubernetes environment can tolerate local failures across one or more availability zones.
• Runs Side-by-Side with OpenStack: Managed Kubernetes is offered as a peer service to Platform9 Managed OpenStack, giving customers the freedom of choice across both. Microservices developers can use Kubernetes independent of OpenStack, virtualized application developers can use OpenStack, and IT/Operations can manage across both frameworks through a single management pane.

For a more detailed technical overview of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, click here.

Fission: De Facto Open Source Alternative to AWS Lambda

Fission represents the fastest, simplest way to start developing applications for Kubernetes. It provides a simple, serverless interface to leverage Kubernetes, enabling DevOps and IT teams to write REST-based application backends, event-driven automation or custom application controllers. Instead of taking weeks to realize the value from Kubernetes’ powerful abstractions, developers can now deploy simple REST functions to Kubernetes within hours.

Fission, which is fully open source, is similar to AWS Lambda in providing an intuitive serverless developer experience. However, Fission differs from AWS Lambda in several important ways:

• Runs anywhere: Fission decouples serverless from the underlying infrastructure. It can be run anywhere Kubernetes can run, which ranges from developer’s laptops, to datacenters in enterprises and service providers, and public clouds such as Google Container Engine or Amazon Web Services.
• Open and extensible: Fission is an open-source project (under inception with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), thereby enabling a wide ecosystem of contributors and users to collaborate under the umbrella of open-source. The framework is extensible to various languages and runtimes.
• Makes Kubernetes more user-friendly: Fission provides a more intuitive first experience for anyone new to Kubernetes or microservices, and will accelerate time-to-utility for Kubernetes. In addition, Fission makes it easy to integrate other Kubernetes services, enabling greater automation and flexibility for applications being built using the leading micro-services framework.

Additional Resources

• Contribute to Fission: https://github.com/fission/fission
• Learn more about simplifying Kubernetes with Platform9: http://www.platform9.com/managed-kubernetes
• Request a free trial of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes: http://platform9.com/free-trial

About Platform9

Platform9 provides open source-as-a-service for enterprises that need faster and easier ways to manage cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms. Unlike do-it-yourself or legacy solutions, Platform9 delivers best-of-breed cloud infrastructure like OpenStack and Kubernetes as SaaS-managed solutions to reduce cost and time to value, all while avoiding being locked into a single vendor ecosystem. Platform9 helps DevOps and IT teams focus on solving core business problems while automating much of the set-up and management process on the back end. It has enabled customers like Box, Blue Cross Blue Shield and PlayStation to realize a greater than 99 percent success rate with OpenStack projects. Founded in 2013 by a team of early VMware engineers, Platform9 is backed by Menlo Ventures and Redpoint Ventures, and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, visit www.platform9.com.

— Jules Louis

Deadline for submissions closes at midnight GMT on 3 February 2017

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10, 2017 — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced it has opened its Call for Papers for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2017 (DOES17 London). The event, brought to you by IT Revolution and Premier Sponsor HPE Software, takes place 5–6 June 2017 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London. The call for paper submissions will close on Friday, 3 February 2017 (bit.ly/DOES17LDNcfp). Abstracts should address the conference themes of Cost vs. Speed, Low Trust vs. High Trust, Manual vs. Automation, Fragile vs. Resilient and Fixed Careers vs. Lifelong Learning.

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In addition, IT Revolution has opened Blind Bird pricing for early ticket purchases for the London event and can be obtained via its website for only £550+VAT, a 25 percent discount from regularly priced tickets (http://bit.ly/DOES17LDNreg). Blind Bird pricing will close on 3 February 2017. For further details, please visit: (events.itrevolution.com/eu).

“We’re so excited to be returning to London to host the second DevOps Enterprise Summit in Europe,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of ‘The Phoenix Project’ and ‘The DevOps Handbook.’ “Last year’s event was a huge success by all measures, and this year will be even better. We’re lining up another two days full of brilliant speakers, experience reports, subject matter experts, forums for networking, so attendees can get the insights and practical takeaways they need. You’ll hear from fellow practitioners in large, complex organizations sharing concrete examples of improvements and transformations as a result of their DevOps initiatives.”

The DevOps Enterprise Summit is the premier industry conference for leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices around the world. The event features presentations from leading global brands that leverage DevOps to thrive within an increasingly software-driven economy. DevOps Enterprise provides keynotes, panels, breakouts, workshops and an expo hall. Sessions are led by leaders who are pioneering these practices in large and complex organizations across a wide range of industries. The keynotes feature industry luminaries, as well as speakers from well-known companies who share the learnings from their enterprise DevOps initiatives.

About IT Revolution

IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of IT professionals.

— Jules Louis