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Author: Miles Blatstein

  • New Alluxio Release Accelerates Cloud Deployments for Analytics and Machine Learning

    Customers can Improve performance and reduce cost with location aware data management — new object storage optimizations eases migration from HDFS to cloud

    SAN MATEO, Calif., July 31, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced the release of Alluxio 1.8 to accelerate cloud adoption for analytics and machine learning workloads. Location-aware data management tools provide a wide range of policy-based control within hybrid cloud environments and within cloud availability zones. Optimizations for object storage, and each major cloud provider, close semantic differences with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and ease application portability between cloud platforms. The new Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) interface enables machine learning frameworks to access cloud data as if it were in a local file system.

     

    Additionally, developers now have superior insight into data metrics within an Alluxio cluster as well as expanded visibility into the application and persistent storage layer. Increased metrics coverage within the Alluxio cluster, the application layer and underlying storage systems makes it easier to connect and manage multiple data sources. A new dashboard in the UI provides overall health and utilization metrics with accompanying command line interface (CLI) tools for live cluster statistics. All remote procedure call (RPC) requests are recorded, providing a detailed set of machine-consumable metrics with API-based statistics generation for third party tools such as Grafana and Prometheus. Developers can quickly diagnose storage system performance issues with new tools that include latency histograms and capacity utilization. The application configuration checker provides a one-click integration check for third party applications such as Hive, MapReduce, Spark, and more.

     

    “Innovative companies are looking for new ways to interact with data in a complex ecosystem with a wide variety of application frameworks, heterogeneous storage systems, and hybrid cloud environments,” said Haoyuan Li, co-founder and CEO of Alluxio. “Alluxio is innovating rapidly and leveraging the open source model to give developers new capabilities to extract value from their data and build new services as enterprises navigate the digital transformation.”

     

    Developing for cloud environments (public, private, and hybrid) is paramount for modern application deployment. New data management features in Alluxio include location-aware data capabilities so that companies can set policies and control data placement across availability zones as well as simplifying tiered data placement. These features help organizations ensure business continuity and also boost performance by putting data close to compute resources for cloud workloads. Department isolation can be enforced, and expensive data transfers between zones can be avoided via a single persistent data source. Alluxio can be deployed in a container and is certified with Kubernetes container orchestration.

     

    This release includes optimizations that apply object storage semantics to the interfaces for major public cloud providers. A standard Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 interface ensures broad support for independent storage vendors. Applications connect to Alluxio and can access data from cloud storage without code changes. The standard interface also ensures application portability across cloud vendors.

     

    Object storage optimizations ease migration from expensive HDFS storage solutions to more cost-effective object storage. This also helps decouple compute and storage in Big Data deployments by making it easier to move live datasets to HDFS when required and putting the rest of the data in object storage. Performance optimizations include intelligent metadata services to speed up critical big data operations such as ‘ls’ and ‘rename’. Alluxio implements POSIX-style security to maintain compatibility with frameworks such as Access Control Lists (ACLs) when moving to the cloud.

     

    The new Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) interface brings the power of Alluxio to data scientists and analysts without involving IT operations while providing improved insight and control for both developers and administrators. Data sources mount like a local filesystem, a key feature simplifying self-service data access and particularly useful for applications like TensorFlow.

     

    To help developers and data scientists take advantage of Alliuxio faster, the latest release of Alluxio includes a new starter kit. The kit Includes:

    • Alluxio pre-built binaries;

    • Quickstart guide for local machine installation;

    • Tutorial to mount an S3 bucket and accelerate data access with Alluxio;

    • Video walk-through;

    • Whitepaper: Accelerating On-Demand Analytics with Alluxio;

    • Introduction to performance tuning for Alluxio.

     

    To improve usability, the new release simplifies cluster configuration management. Centralized configuration settings can be applied at the master and propagated automatically through the cluster. Different client applications, such as Spark jobs, can initialize their configuration by retrieving the default from the master. Improved journaling and snapshot provide guaranteed data consistency, faster restart, and disaster recovery support.

    Alluxio solutions help customers in a wide range of use cases to maximize the value of their data. Alluxio enables a flexible data infrastructure that meets the volume, variety and velocity challenges of data-driven enterprises with a scalable virtual data layer in the cloud, on-premises or hybrid. With Alluxio, customers can scale beyond petabytes across storage silos, geographic locations and cloud providers allowing concurrent access to shared data sources without modifying applications. Alluxio provides standard access to multiple object or file data sources concurrently to deliver data at memory speed regardless of physical location.

    About Alluxio

    Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the world’s first system that unifies data at memory speed. Alluxio provides a single source virtual data layer connecting applications to data in any format running on premises or in public clouds. Intelligent caching and data management deliver fast performance, data consistency and high availability to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project. For more information, contact info@alluxio.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

     

    — Miles Blatstein

  • New Survey Identifies Major Gaps in Fast Data Use Despite Large Corporate Investments

    Findings highlight overwhelming recognition by enterprises that how quickly they can react to data is critical to their success

    PALO ALTO, CA. July 25, 2018 – Streamlio, the intelligent platform for fast data, today announced results of a new “Speed of Data” survey conducted with Dimensional Research. The survey of hundreds of corporate decision makers worldwide found near universal agreement about the criticality of faster data processing, along with a huge gap between where companies need to be and where they are today. Specifically, while 99 percent of respondents said processing and acting on data as quickly as possible is important, more than 80 percent admit they need to do that more quickly than they currently do and nearly three quarters still rely primarily on antiquated batch data processing. Even industries known for quickly acting on data said they can do better, with 95 percent of financial services and 86 percent of technology companies saying they want to act on data faster.

    “Despite companies recognizing the need to process data immediately, there are still major barriers to doing so, with most still acting on information in batch the same way they did since the 1960s,” said Lewis Kaneshiro, CEO and co-founder of Streamlio. “There’s near universal recognition that speed is critical to business success. However, companies are struggling mightily with the demands of new initiatives to enable immediate reactions to customers, markets and systems by using machine learning, artificial intelligence, the cloud, microservices and more.”

    The survey highlights the struggle in stark terms:

    • There’s no debate about the importance and value of processing data immediately: More than 80 percent of companies have an immediate need to process data faster and more than three quarters track how quickly they can act on data. Larger companies are more likely to closely monitor immediacy of data processing, and speed is considered “critically important” by respondents in healthcare, energy and financial services in particular.
    • But there’s a huge gap between where companies need to be and where they are today: 99 percent have scenarios that would benefit from faster data processing. Top scenarios include business intelligence/reporting (60 percent), system and application monitoring (54 percent), security and fraud detection (52 percent), and customer interaction (51 percent). Top benefits include increased efficiency (68 percent), enabling real-time customer interaction (60 percent), and responding to changing business and market dynamics (50 percent).
    • Technology and people are barriers to fast data adoption: more than 90 percent of companies are currently investing in technology to bridge this gap, with almost 40 percent making “significant investments.” The top challenges include difficulty making changes to existing solutions and infrastructure (53 percent), finding people with the required skills (48 percent), and scalability (45 percent).

    “What became clear in our survey is that nearly every company recognizes how critical it is to put data to use faster and have current initiatives driving immediate demand for fast data,” said Diane Hagglund, principal researcher at Dimensional Research. “What also jumped out is the tangible business benefits from speeding up data processing, with more than half highlighting increased customer satisfaction and new business applications.”

    Methodology

    Dimensional Research conducted the survey of 307 decision makers on behalf of Streamlio in May and June 2018. 39 percent of respondents came from companies with 1,000 to 5,000 employees, 34 percent with more than 5,000 employees and 27 percent with 100-1,000 employees. Respondents spanned every industry from retail to government to manufacturing with financial services and technology being the most represented.

    For detailed findings about the “Speed of Data” survey, the report is here.

    About Streamlio

    Streamlio delivers the first intelligent platform for fast data, allowing organizations to readily build the data-driven applications they need to react to data as it arrives. Its platform is built on leading open source technologies for messaging, processing, and storage of streaming data that have been proven at scale in companies including Twitter and Yahoo. Founded by industry veterans and funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Streamlio helps organizations build the data-driven applications they need to react to data in real-time. Learn more online at streaml.io.

    About Dimensional Research

    Dimensional Research provides practical market research to help technology companies make their customers more successful. Our researchers are experts in the people, processes and technology of corporate IT. We understand how technology organizations operate to meet the needs of their business stakeholders. We partner with our clients to deliver actionable information that reduces risks, increases customer satisfaction, and grows the business. For more information, visit dimensionalresearch.com.

     

    — Miles Blatstein

  • Quali CloudShell 7.0 Helps Businesses Deliver Applications Faster with Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Support and Powerful Sandboxing Features

    Quali Cloud Sandbox Software Allows Full-stack Application Blueprinting and

    Easy Integration with DevOps Tools

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 27, 2016 – Quali, the leading Cloud Sandbox software for DevOps automation, today announced the release of CloudShell 7.0 which introduces support for deploying applications into sandboxes and expands the Quali Developer Community to allow more rapid full-stack integrations with cloud and infrastructure resources.

    CloudShell 7.0’s new application deployment feature allows developers to create application templates that can be deployed within sandboxes and which remain agnostic of where the application runs – whether datacenter, public or private cloud. Application stacks can be easily created and added to sandboxes without having to code, allowing rapid design and deployment of complex sandbox environments. CloudShell provides out of the box support for VMWare vCenter as well as support for AWS, OpenStack, and Azure, and Docker via the Quali Community. In addition, advanced VLAN features make it easier to connect virtual and physical endpoints.

    The Quali Developer Community has been expanded to include new standards for Shells, which are the building blocks of Sandboxes. The standards include sample code, templates and guidelines for creating new Shells, allowing rapid integrations with heterogeneous infrastructure and accelerating time to market. In addition, by leveraging a broad set of tool, cloud, and infrastructure integrations, the new Shell standards make it easy for developers to create and share Shells within the developer community.

    With the 7.0 release, Quali’s Shells become Python-based and open sourced via GitHub. This gives Python programmers complete support to rapidly build, modify and extend Shells. Using Python and CloudShell’s object-based modelling rather than just scripts, developers can create more robust and reusable Shell integrations that include custom orchestration commands and metadata such as prerequisites, attributes, and policy data.

    Quali CloudShell 7.0 features a new Sandbox API along with the Python API, enabling integration with DevOps tools like Jenkins and Jira, allowing sandboxes to be used in a fully automated DevOps workflow. In this way, CloudShell allows organizations to create full continuous integration and deployment processes that automate complex, hybrid, production-like sandbox environments.

    “In today’s application economy, every business is a software company, and Quali’s support for full stack automation from applications to infrastructure to hybrid cloud in sandboxes is essential for speeding application delivery,” said William Fellows, Research Vice President of 451Research.

    “We are continuously working to enable our customers to reproduce even the most complex infrastructure – from datacenter to public and hybrid clouds – in a sandbox,” said Joan Wrabetz, CTO of Quali. “Our new application support also means that customers can automate the creation of a full stack environment from network to applications for all of their DevOps activities.”

    Quali CloudShell 7.0 Enterprise Edition is available immediately as a free upgrade for existing customers; Enterprise Edition is available for new users as a subscription of $30,000 per year plus $3000 per concurrent sandbox per year. In addition, the Free Developer Edition is available for immediate download at http://info.quali.com/cloudshell-developer-edition-download

    Links:

    Quali Developer Community: http://www.quali.com/community/

    Quali GitHub: https://github.com/QualiSystems

    Quali CloudShell Free Developer Edition: http://info.quali.com/cloudshell-developer-edition-download

    451 Research Report: http://info.quali.com/451-research-devops-and-cloud-are-now-the-focus-for-quali

    Quali Blog: http://www.quali.com/blog/

     

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    About Quali

    Quali is the leading provider of Cloud Sandboxes for automating the DevOps lifecycle. We give innovators control over their world by enabling them to create personalized replicas of even the most complex production environments. The Global 100 depend on Quali to help them deliver their products and services to market faster with better quality and reduced costs.

    Contact:

    JoAnn Yamani

    Quali@GutenbergPR.com

    408-781-5719

     

  • cPrime Introduces ‘Software Services Lifecycle Management’ to Help Organizations Align and Unify Services for Agile Teams, Tools and Processes

    New industry approach aims to provide greater visibility and coordination across the software delivery lifecycle

    ATLANTA (Agile2016 Conference), July 25, 2016 – cPrime, a global provider of software services for Agile-based organizations, today introduced Software Services Lifecycle Management (SSLM), a new industry approach that addresses the fragmented way software services, including training, coaching and consulting, are used to support Agile, DevOps and ALM initiatives. It includes practical steps to help organizations align services around the teams, processes, tools and business objectives that impact the success or failure of software projects. To learn more about SSLM, please visit cPrime at Agile 2016 booth 303, or visit www.cprime.com.

    “Software Services Lifecycle Management addresses the siloed nature of how software services are delivered and consumed in today’s increasingly complex software environments,” said Zubin Irani, CEO for cPrime. “It promotes an integrated and more strategic approach that supports the software goals of an organization. We feel this approach is long overdue as we see many software organizations using services in disconnected ways that lead to increased chances of software failure.”

    As Agile matures across the enterprise, and DevOps emerges as the next software innovation wave, the need to connect and integrate disparate teams and processes is a must. SSLM looks to advance the manner and value with which software services are used, and how a more unified approach can support the larger strategic goals of the business. cPrime sees today’s software services – from developer training and manager coaching to strategic executive consulting – deployed as separate initiatives and focused only on specific areas of the software delivery process.

    Likewise, cPrime feels tool and process services are equally disconnected, and that this traditional approach falls behind in the face of increased complexity and end-to-end software automation. As Agile and DevOps reach further into the enterprise, SSLM establishes the need to look at how all tools and processes complement each other, and provides practical steps to create a unified services strategy.

    The tenets of the SSLM approach are:

    • Align Business Value with Software Services:

    Software services, including training, coaching and executive consulting, must be elevated as a strategic initiative to help connect the full software lifecycle and support top-line business objectives. In lieu of focusing on cost, the business must instead focus on value when driving software and service decisions. This is a revolutionary change in the industry’s mindset.

    • Integrate Teams, Process and Technology Software Services

    Aligning process and tool implementation into a single effort is essential to enabling high performing teams, and yielding maximum value and impact on delivery. SSLM calls for all process and tool services to be treated as a singular initiative.

    • Establish an SSLM Advisor to Manage all Software Services

    The SSLM approach calls for a Software Services Advisor to own the process of aligning training, coaching and consulting services with all teams, processes and tools. They must lead the journey and manage expectations as the software services lifecycle is reengineered.

    • Include Specialized Technical Experts

    SSLM includes tangible technical software and service tool chain implementations that intersect teams, software and services. Therefore, SSLM requires the help of technical specialists who can collaborate and help guide how software services can add value throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

    • Create Focused Success Metrics

    Inspecting what and how work gets done on frequent and consistent intervals is a core tenet of Agile development, and similarly to SSLM. This leads to improvement and tangible action items, but is only possible through the diligent collection and analysis of metrics.

    “We believe that SSLM will benefit individuals, teams, organizations and the industry alike,” said Zubin. “SSLM represents our collective best thinking – and we view this as our own industry contribution that adheres to the spirt of open source.”

    SSLM benefits enterprise organizations because it adds more value and purpose to the services provided. It will also increase the visibility, productivity and efficiency of the entire software organization. Teams also are more fulfilled since there is better alignment that leads to faster software delivery. For the industry, SSLM adds structure and strategic value to the entire software services ecosystem.

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    About cPrime

    cPrime provides the greatest breadth of software services in the industry – to streamline and connect the entire application lifecycle. With business objectives always a priority, cPrime helps customers implementing Agile and DevOps align teams, processes and tools into a cohesive, unified strategy. With cPrime, organizations have a partner that provides visibility, context and strategy into the entire software delivery lifecycle through the creation of an integrated services strategy. It also leads the industry in integrated technical software services, and is a platinum partner of Atlassian. It also supports CloudBees Jenkins, SAFe and more. For more information, please visit: http://www.cprime.com.

    Contact:

    Terri Douglas

    Catapult PR

    tdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

    (303) 581-7760

  • NodeSource Announces Containerized N|Solid Deployment for Kubernetes

    Developers can now deploy enterprise-grade Node.js on Kubernetes

    San Francisco, CA – July 26, 2016 – NodeSource, the Enterprise Node Company™, today announced at Node Summit 2016 the beta launch of its containerized N|Solid™ deployment for Kubernetes. With this release, NodeSource is offering the first version of Node.js with production-ready continuous performance and security monitoring within a Kubernetes cluster.

    A recent Node.js Foundation survey found that 45 percent of developers use Node.js with container technologies such as Docker. As companies look to build out their next-generation architectures, Node.js and containerization are emerging as two key components for powering rapid technical innovation.

    Kubernetes makes deploying, scaling and managing containerized services fast and simple. With an N|Solid deployment for Kubernetes, developers get real-time performance monitoring and vulnerability scanning of Node.js applications running in a Kubernetes cluster.

    “Node.js is ideal for containers because it allows developers to quickly build, iterate and scale cloud-native APIs, apps and microservices,” says Aparna Sinha, Product Manager, Kubernetes & Google Container Engine. “It is great to see NodeSource offering a Kubernetes deployment for Node-specific monitoring and security, allowing companies to scale with confidence.”

    N|Solid combined with Kubernetes orchestration provides developer and operations teams with:

    • Efficient scaling of microservice/distributed architectures

    • Node-specific performance insights and analyses

    • Continuous Node.js package security vulnerability scanning

    • Expedited deployment of new Node applications

    • Automated rollouts and rollbacks

    • Service discovery and load balancing

    • Horizontal application scaling

    “We are seeing a popular trend emerging among our enterprise customers with the adoption of containerization for Node.js and Kubernetes for cloud orchestration,” says Joe McCann, CEO and co-founder of NodeSource. “Adding the powerful monitoring and security features of N|Solid, we are creating the trifecta for high-performance Node.js services.”

    N|Solid is available for download as a native package (Linux and Mac), Docker images and now as a pre-configured Kubernetes deployment. For more information, visit <landing page>.

    About NodeSource:

    NodeSource is a technology company dedicated to delivering enterprise-grade solutions in support of a sustainable ecosystem for the open source Node.js project. We aim to drive and expand the Node.js ecosystem by providing best of breed solutions that specifically target the needs of the enterprise. Customers include NASA, HomeAway, Condé Nast, Craftsy,  and other progressive Node.js adopters who are leading the charge in microservices via server-side JavaScript instead of maintaining legacy monolithic applications like Java. We are a Distributed by Design organization – our teammates report to work from all corners of the world: Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, as well as NY, SF and Austin. NodeSource is backed by RRE Ventures, Crosslink Capital and Resolute.vc and our AngelList Open Source Syndicate. For more information visit www.nodesource.com and follow @nodesource.

  • Electric Cloud Announces Industry’s First End-to-End DevOps Release Automation Platform with Native, Push-Button Rolling Deployments

    Easy access to rolling and other advanced deployment patterns makes large-scale, mission-critical application releases safe, reliable and repeatable throughout the entire lifecycle

    SAN JOSE, Calif., July 19, 2016 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced its latest version of ElectricFlow, now the industry’s first and only end-to-end DevOps platform to provide native, push-button support for advanced deployment strategies (such as Blue/Green, Canary, and Rolling Deployments). This enables IT to frequently and reliably deploy mission-critical applications at scale and avoid service interruptions to their end users.

    “DevOps implementations are highly individual, and what works for one may not work for another, creating disparate DevOps tool portfolios and resulting in a need for greater investment and skills,” wrote David Paul Williams and Thomas E. Murphy in a March 2016 Gartner Research Report*.

    “We appreciate the effort it typically takes for Application Support teams to provide superior quality of service and zero-downtime for their hundreds or millions of demanding end-users,” said Steve Brodie, CEO of Electric Cloud. “This latest version of ElectricFlow fully automates the process of creating and executing advanced deployment strategies, making them error-free, easy to adopt, and simple to use.”

    As a significant upgrade to what is otherwise achieved with cumbersome scripting or complex, ad hoc, and environment-specific workflows, the new Rolling Deployment capability in ElectricFlow provides a robust, model-based approach and intuitive GUI, making it easy to configure and re-use Rolling Deployments across many projects and pipelines in the enterprise.

    Today, Rolling Deployments are mostly confined to Production environments, where the scale (and risk) of application deployment is the largest. By providing Rolling Deployments as an integral capability, ElectricFlow enables teams to “practice” rolling deployments even in lower environments (such as QA, Staging, or Pre-Production), without requiring additional management overhead or investment in specialized resources. The result is faster, more reliable and rehearsed deployments at enterprise scale, with zero-downtime.

    “Our customers expect always-on access to high-quality applications,” said Marc Priolo, Software Configuration Manager at Urban Science, a global high-tech consulting firm. “Being a leader in this competitive market means we need to release feature-rich software updates more often and at less cost. ElectricFlow’s intuitive approach to application and environment management has allowed us to reduce deployment times, costs and increase visibility across many client environments. Extending this approach to include advanced deployment strategies will help us not only release faster and safer, but allow us to do so with zero-downtime and less risk to our clients.”

    In addition to the breakthrough push-button Rolling Deployments capability, the new version of ElectricFlow includes a number of other new features, such as:

    • Environment Reservation and Calendaring – increases visibility and reduces the chance for cross-team conflict during deployments through a new rich calendar view. This allows users to reserve environments for applications, pipelines and releases; define black-out/maintenance windows; and, offer policy-driven prioritization and conflict handling.
    • Automated Environment Discovery – reduces onboarding time and effort while eliminating errors. A “one-click” automated process accelerates modeling; automatically populates resource and environment parameters; and, offers a new extensible plug-in architecture.
    • Full-stack Dependency View – provides IT-Ops and App Support teams a way to model and visualize dependencies among applications, middleware and infrastructure. Users can define middleware and their infrastructure requirements per application; capture and report on infrastructure/middleware capabilities across environments; and, ensure dependencies are met.
    • Built-in IDE for ElectricFlow DSL with Object Export enhancements – makes it easy to define, debug, version and store your “Process as Code” in any Source Control Management system. The built-in IDE provides an efficient way to modify application models, deployment processes and release pipelines as code and instantly see the changes reflected in the graphical interface.

     

    The new version of ElectricFlow with Rolling Deployments is now available through Invitation Program and will be generally available in August 2016.

    To learn more about ElectricFlow, download the Community edition at http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow.

    To learn more about Electric Cloud, please visit: (http://electric-cloud.com).

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    *Gartner, Avoid Failure by Developing a Toolchain That Enables DevOps, March 16, 2016.

    About Electric Cloud, Inc.

    Electric Cloud is the leader in DevOps Release Automation. We help organizations developing enterprise web/IT, mobile, and embedded systems deliver better software faster by automating and accelerating build, deployment, and release processes at scale. Leading organizations like Cisco, E*TRADE, Gap, GE, HP, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Sony and Qualcomm use Electric Cloud solutions and services to boost DevOps productivity and Agile throughput, while providing a scalable, auditable, predictable, and high-performance pathway to production.

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    Contact:

    Jeremy Douglas

    Catapult PR-IR

    303-581-7760

    jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

     

     

  • WaveMaker Extends Lead in Enterprise Rapid Application Development with Out-of-the-Box RAD-based App Security

    Expanded Security Functionality Lets Developers Focus on Developing Great Apps, With Assurance of Protection Against Network Breaches

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – July 14, 2016 – WaveMaker, Inc., a leading enterprise Rapid Application Development Platform software company, today announced two major enhancements to its enterprise-class Rapid App Development platform. Built with a strong foundation in application security, the WaveMaker platform now supports Single-Sign On for WaveMaker-built and deployed applications using Central Authentication Server (CAS), which permits users to access multiple applications by providing credentials such as UserID and password only once. WaveMaker also announced today that it meets the standards addressing the top ten list of web application vulnerabilities published by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).

    Enterprises are increasingly challenged by the need to deliver new web applications rapidly while ensuring compliance with enterprise IT security teams. In response, WaveMaker built application security natively into the initial release of its RAD platform, and subsequently strengthened its security with enterprise-class, RAD-based application security. And now, WaveMaker’s announcement of CAS-based Single Sign-On furthers the company’s commitment to provide the highest level of application security while simplifying application access for users.

    For its part in pinpointing major network vulnerabilities, OWASP has become a critical, yet often overlooked, asset to application developers. The OWASP Top 10 represents a broad consensus of the most critical web application security flaws – gaps in security that are often easy for malicious actors to detect and exploit. By certifying compliance with the OWASP Top 10 list, WaveMaker assures developers that the applications they create with WaveMaker will comply with the directives of OWASP.

    “In the heat of the battle to expedite new apps to market, ‘rapid’ has become the mantra of many developers, both professional and non-professional,” said Didier Tournier, Product Marketing Manager, Gemalto. “But developers can’t afford the risk of sacrificing security for speed. From the beginning, WaveMaker’s RAD platform has encompassed security, not as a bolt-on, but as part of an integrated whole. We’re confident that our developers using WaveMaker can focus on creating great apps, and won’t have to obsess over the latest security risks.”

    Unlike other vendors of RAD platforms, WaveMaker’s focus on security extends beyond the application and to the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that allow multiple applications to link and interoperate. WaveMaker is the only RAD platform that allows developers to build native microservices-based applications, and today’s release introduces token-based authentication for APIs, allowing API keys to be generated rapidly for consumption by other applications.

    “Security was once an afterthought in application design, but those days are long past,” said Vijay Pullur, CEO of WaveMaker.   “Still, vestiges of those days remain, as the primary objective of application design, in the eyes of most developers, is to ensure that the application performs continuously and under heavy demand. But security cannot be exempted from that objective. That’s why WaveMaker believes that security must be a cornerstone of good application design, and a major component in ensuring software quality before an app goes live.”

    For more information on RAD application development or professional services from WaveMaker, visit http://www.wavemaker.com/get-started

    About WaveMaker

    WaveMaker’s software platform revolutionizes how enterprises build, deliver and manage modern custom applications, improving business agility and fostering innovation. WaveMaker leverages the latest trends and technologies in Rapid App Development (RAD) such as multi-device auto-responsive interfaces and componentized app assembly, Docker for app-optimized container deployment on private infrastructures, and APIs and Microservices Architecture (MSA) for scalable integration. WaveMaker, Inc., a Pramati Technologies company, is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with offices in Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit www.wavemaker.com, or like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or connect with us on LinkedIn.

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    Editorial Contact

    Michael Porter

    10Fold

    wavemaker@10Fold.com

    415-800-5373

     

  • DigitalOcean Releases Block Storage, Enabling Developers and Businesses to Build and Scale Larger Applications 

    Highly Available and Flexible SSD-Based Storage Enables Teams of Developers to Scale Production Workloads, Add Disk Space, and Build Distributed Applications Without Changing Droplet Size
    NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Jul 13, 2016) – DigitalOcean, provider of the cloud computing platform designed for developers, today released Block Storage, the number one product request from customers. Block Storage is a highly available and scalable SSD-based offering that will enable developers to easily attach extra disk space to DigitalOcean Droplets (cloud servers). DigitalOcean’s Block Storage costs $0.10/GB per month and is based on provisioned capacity only, therefore there is no need for complicated formulas to determine the overall cost for transactions or IOPs limit.
    DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 with the mission to simplify the complexities of infrastructure by offering one simple and robust platform for developers to easily launch and scale their applications. The company has taken a “developer first” mentality and is now evolving its platform to further support the business needs of the developer. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft. More than 700,000 registered customers have launched more than 18 million Droplets combined on DigitalOcean, nearly doubling from 10 million six months ago.
    “We set out on a mission to build a simple and robust cloud computing platform so that engineering teams can spend less time configuring and automating their infrastructure and more time focused on software development,” said Ben Uretsky, co-founder and CEO, DigitalOcean. “By adding a highly performant Block Storage offering to our platform, developers can easily deploy and manage their SaaS applications and businesses as they scale. This is one step closer to building the next generation platform.”
    The Easiest Way for Developers to Attach and Scale Storage to Support Their Businesses and Applications
    Block Storage is a complementary product to DigitalOcean’s Droplets, which provide compute power and local storage, by making them more expandable and flexible. By attaching Block Storage to DigitalOcean Droplets via the control panel or API, developers can achieve the following benefits:
    • High Availability: Block Storage stores data on hardware that is separated from the Droplet, replicating it multiple times across different racks and reducing the chances of data loss in the event of hardware failure.
    • Scalable and Flexible: Developers can easily scale and resize SSD-based Block Storage volumes from 1GB to 16TB and move it between Droplets. The ability to attach extra Block Storage to Droplets dramatically increases their flexibility, enabling developers to scale applications, databases, binary assets, shared and distributed filesystems and more.
    • Reliable and Secure: All the data is encrypted at rest and transmitted to the Droplets over isolated networks.
    Supporting Quotes
    • GitLab developer Patricio Cano said: “Storage is a very real challenge for big teams or teams that work with lots of data. Storing assets will always take a lot of space which usually forces people to prioritize what they want to store or spend increasingly more money for each additional unit of storage. Using GitLab’s GitHost as an example, without Block Storage, the amount of disk space an instance has is tied together with the plan the customer selects. With Block Storage, customers can now choose the right plan based on their team’s needs (amount of RAM and processors) without having to worry about limited disk space, because they can now add up to 16TB of extra storage. For GitLab and our customers this is great news. We’re excited to see how Block Storage in conjunction with Git LFS will enable users to easily store and version control their files.”
    • Mesosphere Co-founder and Chief Architect Benjamin Hindman said: “Developers across all platforms want simple, high-performance cloud storage like what DigitalOcean offers with its new Block Storage service. We’re excited to work with DigitalOcean as part of the open source DC/OS storage interest group, in an effort make Block Storage available for DC/OS users, and to improve the overall storage experience for developers.”
    Additional Resources
    About DigitalOcean 
    Founded in 2011, DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplifying web infrastructure for software developers. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft.com. The company has raised $123 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Access Industries, IA Ventures, CrunchFund, and Techstars. The company is headquartered in New York City with data center regions throughout the world. For more information, simply visit https://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean

  • DigitalOcean Releases Block Storage, Enabling Developers and Businesses to Build and Scale Larger Applications

     

    Highly available and flexible SSD-based storage enables teams of developers to scale production workloads, add disk space, and build distributed applications without changing Droplet size

    NEW YORK – July 13, 2016 – DigitalOcean, provider of the cloud computing platform designed for developers, today released Block Storage, the number one product request from customers. Block Storage is a highly available and scalable SSD-based offering that will enable developers to easily attach extra disk space to DigitalOcean Droplets (cloud servers). DigitalOcean’s Block Storage costs $0.10/GB per month and is based on provisioned capacity only, therefore there is no need for complicated formulas to determine the overall cost for transactions or IOPs limit.

    DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 with the mission to simplify the complexities of infrastructure by offering one simple and robust platform for developers to easily launch and scale their applications. The company has taken a “developer first” mentality and is now evolving its platform to further support the business needs of the developer. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft. More than 700,000 registered customers have launched more than 18 million Droplets combined on DigitalOcean, nearly doubling from 10 million six months ago.

    “We set out on a mission to build a simple and robust cloud computing platform so that engineering teams can spend less time configuring and automating their infrastructure and more time focused on software development,” said Ben Uretsky, co-founder and CEO, DigitalOcean. “By adding a highly performant Block Storage offering to our platform, developers can easily deploy and manage their SaaS applications and businesses as they scale. This is one step closer to building the next generation platform.”

    The Easiest Way for Developers to Attach and Scale Storage to Support Their Businesses and Applications

    Block Storage is a complementary product to DigitalOcean’s Droplets, which provide compute power and local storage, by making them more expandable and flexible. By attaching Block Storage to DigitalOcean Droplets via the control panel or API, developers can achieve the following benefits:

    • High Availability: Block Storage stores data on hardware that is separated from the Droplet, replicating it multiple times across different racks and reducing the chances of data loss in the event of hardware failure.
    • Scalable and Flexible: Developers can easily scale and resize SSD-based Block Storage volumes from 1GB to 16TB and move it between Droplets. The ability to attach extra Block Storage to Droplets dramatically increases their flexibility, enabling developers to scale applications, databases, binary assets, shared and distributed filesystems and more.
    • Reliable and Secure: All the data is encrypted at rest and transmitted to the Droplets over isolated networks.

    Customer Quotes

    • GitLab developer Patricio Cano said: “Storage is a very real challenge for big teams or teams that work with lots of data. Storing assets will always take a lot of space which usually forces people to prioritize what they want to store or spend increasingly more money for each additional unit of storage. Using GitLab’s GitHost as an example, without Block Storage, the amount of disk space an instance has is tied together with the plan the customer selects. With Block Storage, customers can now choose the right plan based on their team’s needs (amount of RAM and processors) without having to worry about limited disk space, because they can now add up to 16TB of extra storage. For GitLab and our customers this is great news. We’re excited to see how Block Storage in conjunction with Git LFS will enable users to easily store and version control their files.”
    • Mesosphere Co-founder and Chief Architect Benjamin Hindman said: “Developers across all platforms want simple, high-performance cloud storage like what Digital Ocean offers with its new Block Storage service. We’re excited to work with Digital Ocean as part of the open source DC/OS storage interest group, in an effort make Block Storage available for DC/OS users, and to improve the overall storage experience for developers.”

    About DigitalOcean

    Founded in 2011, DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplifying web infrastructure for software developers. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft.com. The company has raised $123 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Access Industries, IA Ventures, CrunchFund, and Techstars. The company is headquartered in New York City with data center regions throughout the world. For more information, simply visit https://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean.

  • Jelastic PaaS Doubles CPU Power for the Same Price

    Jelastic Cloud hosting becomes more cost effective and optimized in terms of computing performance

    Palo Alto, Calif, (PRWEB) July 12, 2016

    Jelastic Cloud Platform for DevOps and hosting business is thrilled to announce that CPU power for all computing environments has been doubled, and the price for the resource unit stays the same.

    Each Jelastic cloudlet (dynamic and reserved) now has 2x more CPU power than before. A new Jelastic cloudlet size equals to 128 MiB RAM and 400 MHz of CPU.

    “We’ve decided to provide such bonus for developers after a deeper research of their applications needs. The increased cloudlet power makes Jelastic even more high performing and affordable. From now end users get twice more CPU resources and their invoices remain unchanged.” said Ruslan Synytsky, CEO of Jelastic.

    So, what does this mean for Jelastic PaaS users?

    The CPU performance of each container within Jelastic cloud environments is increased by 100%. A new cloudlet sizing became more suitable for a wider list of applications and workloads, including web and game projects, analytic servers and databases, builds and batch processing, and others.

    These changes will significantly speed up the cloud applications that intensively use CPU. Therefore, Jelastic Cloud hosting becomes even more cost effective and optimized in terms of computing performance.

    “Many web applications are not obviously CPU heavy, and therefore we found that customers would deploy them with quite minimal cloudlet limits.” said Damien Ransome, Service Director ofLayershift, a Jelastic Platinum partner offering service from the UK and USA. “Our tests revealed that increasing the peak CPU power often provides a substantial performance benefit. As we only charge for average CPU consumption over an hour, this throttling effect was not necessarily apparent to our customers – but just because you CAN run something on a slow CPU does not mean that you SHOULD! Doubling the CPU power offered per cloudlet ensures that all of our customers now benefit from this extra performance boost by default, and at no additional cost. Let’s be honest; who doesn’t want better performance for free?”

    All changes are applied automatically to the existing and newly created environments, so no manual steps are required to take advantage of these new extra-performance cloudlets.

    Full information about Jelastic resource consumption and pricing can be found in thedocumentation. And the current performance of containers in Jelastic can be checked by registering at one of cloud hosting service providers for free trial period.

    About Jelastic

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