New Operations Command Console and Intelligence Applications provide comprehensive digital-stack visibility enabling teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences

San Francisco – November 17, 2016 – PagerDuty, the global leader in modern incident management, today announced new products in digital operations management, extending its market-leading platform beyond alerting, notification, on-call automation and triage to event intelligence, and end-to-end response orchestration. PagerDuty’s new Operations Command Console and Intelligence Applications unify and provide actionable insights on all relevant dimensions of customer experience including application performance, infrastructure health, and incident response. Intelligent insights enable teams to collaborate efficiently, resolve disruptions quickly and focus on continuous development and delivery of services.

“Digital channels are the lifeblood of businesses and can fundamentally transform a company’s value proposition and accelerate revenue growth. Delivering predictable experience across the digital channels is the opportunity for businesses to elevate their brand by conquering a complex infrastructure environment that is fast moving, filled with various stakeholders and mixed with modern and traditional technology,” said Jennifer Tejada, Chief Executive Officer, PagerDuty. “By having full-stack visibility across complex environments, companies can significantly reduce the cognitive load, the time it takes to align teams and identify and resolve customer-impacting issues. PagerDuty is doubling down on delivering one view of digital operations so companies can coordinate the best technical and business response. With new investments in pattern detection, PagerDuty is empowering practitioners and businesses to focus more on learning and innovating to deliver amazing customer experiences.”

“As businesses adopt increasingly complex architectures, they discover that their systems produce an unmanageable volume of events and data, impacting visibility across an entire business service,” said Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst, 451 Research. “With these services becoming more critical, organizations require contextual information that allows teams to mobilize quickly. Solutions that provide both the insight and the workflows people require to react quickly to service disruptions will only become more essential given the complexity of today’s service architectures.”

Operations Command Console and Intelligence Applications – The new Operations Command Console provides a unified view of application, service and infrastructure health, and the orchestration of incident response workflows. Smart service alerting and interactive intelligence applications enable developers, operations, IT and business stakeholders to gain actionable full-stack visibility required to mobilize, coordinate and orchestrate both technical and business responses to incidents. The Operations Command Console can be customized with the following applications:

• Infrastructure Health Application – Operations teams can understand the state of infrastructure health through actionable, time-series visualizations of correlated events and the common context of service disruptions. This reduces the mean time to resolution and proactively manages issues before they impact the business. Continuous visibility into the infrastructure enables teams to develop, test and deploy more code with confidence.

• Service Health Application –  Insights from the Service Health Application reduce cognitive load and allow managers and responders to quickly understand the overall health of their digital business. Operations teams can quickly identify services that require immediate triage, those with incident response in progress, and services in a healthy state that have no open incidents.

• Major Incident Application – View major incidents as they occur in real-time and determine the relationship with impacted services and infrastructure for faster root cause analysis and resolution. Response teams can group related alerts and alert context into a single incident for simplified management and apply suppression rules to receive significantly fewer notifications.

• Responders Application – Mobilize the right resources and collaborate with any subject matter expert from the organization to resolve an open incident faster. With the native relationship with Major Incidents Application, a business stakeholder can identify responders working a high urgency incident for continuous updates and communication flow.

“The Operations Command Console is a very promising enhancement to PagerDuty that provides a unified view of monitoring tools and immediate correlation of alerts to help us manage our services better and prevent outages. With the Operations Command Console, we can see issues coming before they hit!” said Pablo Beck, Senior Tools Engineer, Autodesk.

“We have multiple teams on-call and Suppression makes maintenance windows much less disruptive to all of our teams by only sending actionable events to the correct people,” said Mary Moore-Simmons, Engineering Operations Manager, SendGrid. “The morale of our on-call teams is very important to us so this has become a must-have feature for us as we manage growing and complex services.”

The PagerDuty Operations Command Console and supporting Intelligence Applications are generally available for purchase. To learn more about a 14-day free trial visit our website and read our blog.

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty is the leading incident management platform for digital businesses. PagerDuty empowers developers, DevOps, IT operations and business leaders with the insight to intelligently respond to critical disruptions for exceptional customer experience. Over 8,000 small, mid-size and enterprise global customers such as Comcast, eHarmony, Slack and Lululemon use and trust PagerDuty to increase business response and efficiency. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was recently listed in the 2016 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 500 and Forbes Cloud 100 lists. Try PagerDuty for free at www.pagerduty.com. Follow our blog and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn,YouTube and Facebook.

— Jules Louis

Acquisition Expands Portfolio of Developer and Designer Productivity and Collaboration Tools

Minneapolis, MN, November 17, 2016—Perforce Software, a leader in version control and source code management, today announced its acquisition of Seapine Software, a leading provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, based in Mason, Ohio.

This acquisition expands the Perforce portfolio of developer and designer tools beyond enterprise class version management and code review, and provides customers with additional capabilities across the development pipeline. Seapine’s ALM solution accelerates development and delivery cycles through more efficient management of the product development process.

“The Seapine suite of products strongly complements the Perforce portfolio and both companies address many of the same enterprise product development needs including traceability, auditability, and predictability of the development process for high value assets,” says Janet Dryer, Perforce CEO. “The depth and experience the Seapine team has in ALM and building efficiency and quality into the development pipeline is a welcome addition to the Perforce team.”

Seapine’s ALM solutions help companies manage the process of developing high-quality complex products—often in regulated industries, such as life sciences, automotive and financial services.  Seapine’s solution consists of scalable team-based tools for superior requirements management, issue tracking, software configuration management, automated software testing, load testing, and test case management. When used together, these tools provide end-to-end traceability of artifacts, resulting in increased product quality and development predictability.

“We found the technology, teams, and application development expertise at these two companies to be a great fit,” says Rick Riccetti, CEO, Seapine Software. “Our leadership team is excited about the opportunity to expand the capabilities and the reach of the Seapine portfolio with the resources and support of an organization like Perforce.”

About Perforce

Enterprises across the globe rely on Perforce to build and deliver complex digital products faster and with higher quality. Perforce is best known for its highly scalable version management and collaboration platform that securely manages change across all digital content – source code, art files, video files, images, libraries – while supporting the developer and build tools your teams need to be productive, such as Git, Visual Studio, Jenkins, Adobe, Maya and many others. Perforce also offers complete project lifecycle management tools to accelerate a project’s delivery cycle by linking the requirements, test plans, source code, and helpdesk in an integrated platform. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, EA, Ubisoft, and VMware. The company has offices in the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Australia, and sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com

— Jules Louis

Next-Generation Security Automation and Vulnerability Remediation Solution Ushers In New Era of DevSecOps – Security at the Velocity of DevOps

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cybric today announced the launch of its breakthrough Continuous Security-as-a-Service platform – the first to drive cybersecurity at the velocity of DevOps. This new platform is the first to make DevSecOps a reality by integrating application security testing into the Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline without impacting the productivity and speed of development teams. The release comes one month after Cybric closed $6.3 million in seed funding to launch this fully developed SaaS platform solution to the global marketplace.

Organizations are already relying on Cybric’s platform to dramatically improve their cybersecurity posture by enabling a proactive and continuous approach to application security scanning that works on-premises or in the cloud without impacting the production environment. This next-generation approach to cybersecurity automation and vulnerability remediation works by rapidly orchestrating exact replicas of an application environment and aggressively scanning for security vulnerabilities by containerizing and automating leading security solutions. It also applies predictive analytics to consolidate security scan results and provides proactive remediation plans through a single dashboard.

“Enterprise users expect new features to be continuously introduced and added to their applications, and while the DevOps culture is helping to make that happen, security is being left behind. When you look at how applications are being rolled-out or updated without proper testing, and then consider the growing sophistication and ‘always-on’ nature of cybercriminals, it’s a bad combination. There’s clearly a big need for continuous vulnerability management,” said Cybric CEO and founder Ernesto DiGiambattista. “That is why enterprises are coming to Cybric – because we can offer them true real-time vulnerability identification and proactive remediation to keep their assets more secure than ever before.”

The Cybric platform aligns application security with the DevOps culture, which to date have been fragmented and siloed, leaving applications and data in jeopardy while security teams grapple with post-production issues caused by an explosion of exploits and breaches. Today, only 20 percent of DevOps initiatives include security throughout the development cycle, according to HPE’s “Application Security and DevOps: What is the True State of Security in DevOps” study. With the rise of DevOps initiatives worldwide, enterprises now must tightly couple security with the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) and ensure that vulnerability scanning is continuous.

“By integrating continuous application security testing into the CI/CD pipeline without impacting the production environment, Cybric is enabling DevSecOps automation that moves security upstream,” said Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Senior Analyst Doug Cahill. “Incorporating security into DevOps methodologies allows enterprises to successfully drive automated security testing across development and production applications, providing more consistent protection regardless of application and DevOps maturity with an adaptive platform that evolves with them.”

By implementing a strategy that enables security to operate at the speed of DevOps, enterprise organizations can:

• Automate the use of the security tool stack
• Analyze and prioritize all of the data to speed remediation
• Continuously monitor and remediate production applications
• Drive frictionless integration with security, development and DevOps processes

Research Supports Need for Better Security Automation and Vulnerability Remediation:
New research supports the need for a better approach to security automation and vulnerability remediation. The annual Ponemon Cost of Data Breach 2016 report from the Ponemon Institute found that the average cost of breaches at organizations has jumped past $4 million per incident, a 29 percent increase since 2013 and a 5 percent increase since last year. The study also found that average dwell time for breaches stands at 201 days with organizations requiring another 70 days to contain breaches once they’d been identified.

According to ESG, 22 percent of all cybersecurity jobs are going unfilled, and 51 percent of IT and information security professionalsindicate the increase in applications deployed on the network has made network security more difficult. In this challenging environment, an automated tool that proactively finds and remediates software vulnerabilities before they can become an issue, has become increasingly critical for organizations of all sizes.

Cybric’s Continuous Security-as-a-Service platform is available immediately. For more information, go to www.cybric.io

About Cybric
Cybric delivers the only Continuous Security-as-a-Service platform that enables enterprises to protect their critical applications and data without impacting the production environment. The company’s patent-pending technology platform rapidly orchestrates exact replicas of an application environment and aggressively scans for security vulnerabilities by containerizing and automating security solutions. Predictive analytics are applied to the consolidated security scan results, providing proactive remediation plans through a single dashboard. To learn more visit www.cybric.io.

— Jules Louis

Company reports rapid customer adoption and hires VP of Sales Bridget Gleason, formerly of Sumo Logic, to fuel international growth

TEL AVIV, Israel and BOSTON, MA, Nov. 15, 2016 — Logz.io, the AI-powered log analytics platform, today announces the closing of a $16 million Series B financing round led by OpenView with continued support from existing investors 83North and Giza.

Jim Baum, venture partner at OpenView, joins the Logz.io board of directors. Baum currently serves as Executive Chairman of the board for Dyn and previously served as President and CEO of Netezza (NYSE IPO 2007, acquired by IBM 2010).

“We have been impressed with the traction Logz.io managed to achieve in such a short time,” said Baum. “Dyn relies on the Logz.io service in our global network operations team every day. Being actively involved with Dyn, I saw first hand how instrumental Logz.io was in our ability to quickly respond to and mitigate the recent unprecedented DDoS attacks we experienced, helping us assess the source, target, and protocols used.”

Logz.io has also hired Bridget Gleason as VP of Sales to expand its world wide sales organization. Gleason was most recently VP of Corporate Sales as well as Executive Advisor at Sumo Logic. Prior to Sumo Logic, she was VP of Worldwide Sales at Yesware and Senior VP of Worldwide Sales at Engine Yard.

Logz.io currently services more than 1,000 companies from 80 countries internationally. Over the past four quarters, the company has consistently doubled its revenue and number of customers, which include Dyn, Turner Media, British Airways, ServiceNow, and Electronic Arts.

“We are excited to partner with OpenView to propel our continued worldwide expansion as we reinvent the log analytics space by combining the open source ELK Stack and artificial intelligence,” said Logz.io co-founder and CEO Tomer Levy. “Additionally, we’re thrilled to have Bridget join our executive team as VP of Sales. Her proven track record of success and ability to scale global high performance teams will be integral to our continued growth as we bring our AI-driven, open source analytics platform to more customers.”

Company Timeline

– Founded in October 2014.

– Released the Logz.io enterprise-grade ELK cloud service in October 2015. The company announced $8 million in seed and Series A funding at the same time.

– In May 2016, Logz.io has become the only ELK-based SOC II, ISO 27001 with EU data locality compliant log analytics platform.

– Released the AI-driven Cognitive Insights™ in August 2016. Cognitive insights is a new AI platform that combines machine learning and human interaction with log data. It transforms manual DevOps and IT Operations into an automated scientific process that uncovers otherwise overlooked events and enriches them with actionable data about context, severity, relevance, and next steps.

About Logz.io

Logz.io is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as a cloud service with machine learning technology. Visit the the company’s blog on DevOps, log analysis, and ELK and follow Logz.io on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+.

— Jules Louis

— Jules Louis