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  • Carwash Success: New DHS Privacy Policy Requires Carwash for all Mobile Applications

    Carwash is a Rugged DevOps SaaS solution developed by Blackstone Technology Group and the Department of Homeland Security. The new DHS policy requires all mobile application developers to use Carwash when proposing, developing, implementing or changing any OHS Mobile Apps

    Arlington, VA (PRWEB) April 13, 2016

    Blackstone Technology Group (Blackstone), in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is proud to announce that Carwash has received the DHS Chief Privacy Officer’s seal of approval and is now required for all mobile application development.

    Carwash provides a standardization of mobile application security across DHS. Blackstone and DHS’ partnership to design and build the application security framework has resulted in a valuable shared service to the DHS Enterprise that focuses on delivering secure and compliant applications to the Federal government and saves individual DHS agency components the time and expense of running their own security testing environment.

    Carwash was initially developed in 2013 by Blackstone Technology Group in partnership with DHS to serve as a cloud-enabled framework for developers and teams to deploy safer applications. The solution reduces time to market and increases the security of applications by providing scan results to development teams throughout the SELC lifecycle. Identifying application vulnerabilities and issues early in the lifecycle reduces the risk of deployment delays and costly re-work.

    “This is the first centralized mobile application scanning resource across DHS. There is a huge opportunity for security teams to use Carwash, and to share evaluations across organizations through the reciprocity report,” says Chris Drew, Senior Manager at Blackstone.

    According to the new DHS policy, mobile app developers are responsible for, “Engaging and coordinating with the OCIO Carwash team to ensure that OHS Mobile Apps are sent through OHS Carwash process when proposing, developing, implementing or changing any OHS Mobile Apps.”

    The Rugged DevOps solution Carwash is built on is capable of scanning more than just mobile apps and continues to evolve to include the latest technology and potential threats. Blackstone can tailor the framework to any app and just rolled out the ability to scan 3rd party Java libraries. “We have recently integrated this scanning solution within a pre-existing development process for two DHS agency teams,” says Anthony Glynn, Blackstone Architect and Carwash lead. “This empowers development teams to modify the version of their libraries to reduce vulnerabilities of the application and risk to the enterprise.”

    Blackstone Technology Group (http://www.bstonetech.com) is a privately-held, global IT services and solutions firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Influenced by disruptive technology of Silicon Valley, Blackstone Federal Services helps clients adapt to the demands of a digital world.

    Established in Arlington, Virginia in 2002, Blackstone Federal Services has grown to over 100+ employees. With a specialization in Cloud, Cyber Security, Agile and DevOps, our experienced technologists bring digital expertise and innovative technologies to clients, faster.

    Blackstone Federal has a proven track record of delivering results for many U.S. Federal Agencies such as Homeland Security, civilian and healthcare agencies. Our team members have received the Industry’s top certifications including AWS, CISSP, SAFe, PMI-ACT and PMP.

  • DevOpsDays Returns to Washington DC

    DevOpsDaysDC returns to Washington DC June 7 and 8, 2016. Come share ideas on high velocity IT with peers in private sector and government; Call For Presentations on Continuous Improvement Extended to April 18.

    WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) April 14, 2016

    DevOps Days will return to the DC metro area, June 7 and 8, at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, Virginia. This event will bring together a diverse audience of professionals and industry leaders from the public and private sector who are adopting DevOps practices and principles.

    The deadline for proposals to present on Continuous Improvement and better collaboration has been extended to Monday April, 18, 2016, just like the Federal Tax filing, to give you three days to get your returns filed and talks submitted.

    “A house divided against Itself cannot stand,” this year’s theme, will be exemplified through two days of scheduled presentations, ignite talks, and open space conversations. This event is designed for executives, program managers, and engineers considering or actively implementing DevOps at their organization.

    The second annual two-day event is sure to invite many in­-depth discussions on how to continuously improve DevOps practices across the businesses and missions of attendees serving both private and public sector. Organizers are encouraging attendees, speakers, and sponsors of the event to openly discuss the successful milestones and changes their organizations are implementing along their path to DevOps.

    DevOpsDays events bring unbelievable value for the $100 ticket price that covers both days and evening social events. Its aim is to bring together practitioners to share immediately useful insights and practices. What’s it like to attend DevOpsDays? See last year’s talks online at:http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-washington-dc/program.

    “Last year had over 400 amazing attendees and DC area companies and federal agencies have continued to adopt the faster, more collaborative, delivery-oriented DevOps culture. We are really excited to see and share the latest developments in this adopt or be left behind space.”, stated Nathen Harvey, Conference Chair, DevOpsDays DC and Community Director, Chef Software, Inc.

    Event Details:

    ● Dates: June 7 and 8

    ● Location: United States Patent and Technology Office (USPTO), Alexandria, VA

    ● Registration is open at http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-washington-dc/

    ● Call for Presenters (CFP) is open through April 18, 2015

    https://devopsdaysdc2016.busyconf.com/proposals/new

    ● Follow us online at @DevOpsDaysDC, #DODDC

    ● Additional sponsorships are available at:

    https://devopsdaysdc2015.busyconf.com/bookings/new?discount=SPONSOR

    Early registrants include professionals from organizations such as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Fannie Mae, CSC Global, and US Department of Justice (DOJ). DevOpsDays DC is honored to have these sponsors: USPTO, Excella Consulting, Pivotal, GlobalTech, Capital One, Cloud Passage, Netuitive, Solar Winds, Chef, CSRA, Docker, Comcast and Sonatype.

    About DevOps and DevOps Days

    DevOps (a portmanteau of “development” and “operations”) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration (information sharing and web service usage), integration, automation and measurement of cooperation between software developers and other information­ technology (IT) professionals. DevOps acknowledges the interdependence of software development, quality assurance, and IT operations, and aims to help an organization rapidly produce software products and services and to improve operations performance.1

    DevOpsDays is a technical conference, aimed at developers, sysadmins, architects and anyone else involved in technology, whether expert or beginner. The term “DevOps” was popularized through a series of DevOps Days starting in 2009 in Belgium. Since then, there have been DevOpsDays conferences held in many countries worldwide.2http://www.devopsdays.com

    About USPTO

    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. The USPTO advises the president of the United States, the secretary of commerce, and U.S. government agencies on intellectual property (IP) policy, protection, and enforcement; and promotes the stronger and more effective IP protection around the world. The USPTO furthers effective IP protection for U.S. innovators and entrepreneurs worldwide by working with other agencies to secure strong IP provisions in free trade and other international agreements. http://www.uspto.gov

    For More Information

    Nathen Harvey

    (202) 368-7264

    nharvey(at)chef.io

  • Platform.sh Provides PaaS Technology to Magento Commerce

    Global commerce provider Integrates Platform.sh Into its New Enterprise Cloud Offering

    Paris, France (PRWEB) April 12, 2016

    Today, Platform.sh, the Continuous Delivery Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Cloud Hosting company, announced that Magento Commerce has chosen the company’s second generation PaaS for its newly launched Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition product. The flagship open-source Magento platform is already the worldwide leader in e-commerce, powering more than 250,000 sites globally and supporting over $50 billion in gross merchandise volume annually.

    Magento wanted a strategic PaaS partner for their cloud offering and a solution that would help remove the traditional burden of managing multiple environments through the development and release management cycles. These capabilities allow businesses to reduce overall development costs and accelerate site development velocity, whilst at the same time de-risking a much higher rate of change to production services.

    “It’s an incredible validation to our technology to see such a powerful force in the global eCommerce industry make such a steep change in their product portfolio to offer their customers greater business advantage,” said Fred Plais, CEO at Platform.sh. “This is exactly what we designed Platform.sh to do, something well beyond a public Platform-as-a-Service, and we’re excited that the impact will be so far-reaching”

    Among the notable Platform.sh features which attracted Magento is the on-the-fly cloning technology which eliminates system administration chores and enables byte-for-byte copies of entire live sites, keeping the code, files, services and data in lockstep. Going beyond DevOps this “NoOps” approach maintains perfect consistency between branched environments, which in itself is valuable for live site support, but even more so for development teams, who now have on-demand access to perfectly consistent copies of production environments. This means every new feature can be developed and tested in parallel and in isolation in its own exact copy of the live system, removing end-of-sprint bottlenecks and giving CTO’s and CMO’s confidence that it will behave exactly as expected when it goes to production.

    “With Platform.sh under the hood of Magento Cloud and our continuous deployment capabilities, CTOs and CMOs can really make a difference all year-long but especially during hot sales period when you really need that competitive edge, when everybody else is fighting for the same seasonal buck.” said Kieron Sambrook-Smith, Chief Commercial Officer at Platform.sh. “Whoever would have thought a PaaS provider could do that!”

    Platform.sh accelerates many common development and deployment processes, resulting in:

    • Up to 90% reduction in support ticket volumes and SysAdmin / DevOps,
    • better developer productivity (over 20%),
    • dramatically improved approvals and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) – because each feature branch has its own URL to be circulated (40% faster),
    • new levels of Continuous Integration (CI) through end-to-end process automation, as many common testing and tracking tools are now able to initiate activity within any Platform.sh project, requesting instant copies of environments for various purposes through the API.

    “We evaluated many PaaS providers for Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition, but Platform.sh was the obvious choice for us given their focus on the PHP community, background in eCommerce and the innovative continuous cloud integration tools provided by their PaaS,” said Peter Sheldon, Head of Strategy at Magento Commerce. “The speed and ease with which you are able to test features or even the entire application against new versions of common services is game changing, and the more components there are, or the bigger and more complex the project becomes, the value Platform.sh brings becomes exponentially greater.”

    The Platform.sh PaaS has been designed with continuous delivery and 99.99% high availability in mind. Scaling compute and storage resource up or down is both quick and seamless, whilst making critical changes to stack and core application components goes unnoticed by the shopping customer. In fact, over the 4 day Black Friday weekend last November, we were able to announce that not a single Platform.sh customer experienced any application downtime whatsoever, despite all the usual problems (and 70% of those are online merchants). Which tends to show the values that Platform.sh delivers: superior control to stem revenue loss, and the ability to make real-time revenue optimisation changes during peak traffic periods. This fine-grained control affords online retailers enormous competitive advantage exactly when they need it.

    About Platform.sh

    Platform.sh is a ground-breaking hosting and development tool for web applications. It extends a branch-merge workflow to the whole infrastructure so that every new feature can be tested as if it were in production. Live sites scale effortlessly to serve the most demanding traffic. 24/7 follow-the-sun support combined with a unique, triple-redundant architecture based on micro-containers and an innovative cloud control technology allow the service to propose 99.99% SLAs on even the most complex use-cases. The company offers its services both directly to end-customers on it’s publichttps://platform.sh and through third parties. Based on Open Source technologies, Platform.sh is ideal for agile software development, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).

    A VC backed startup based in Paris, France, the company has technical, support, and sales staff throughout Europe, the United States and Asia, and provides cloud services to thousands of companies in various areas including fashion, publishing, retail, travel, engineering and the public sector.

    Website: http://www.platform.sh

    Follow us on @platformsh

  • IT Revolution AnnoUNCES EARLY BIRD TICKETS FOR DevOps Enterprise Summit LONDON 2016

    Gene Kim to keynote, encourages IT leaders and software delivery practitioners from large enterprises in Europe to join the premier DevOps Enterprise event

    PORTLAND, Ore., April 11, 2016 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced Early Bird ticket sales for DevOps Enterprise Summit London (DOES16), the premier industry conference for the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps in the UK and Continental Europe (http://events.itrevolution.com/eu/). Tickets for the conference, which is scheduled for June 30-July 1 at the Hilton London Metropole, can be found at (http://bit.ly/doesldnreg). Early Bird registration ends on May 2 and is highly encouraged, as the popular DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco event has sold out the past two years, while doubling in attendance.

    To start the event, Gene Kim will present the “Top Lessons Learned from DevOps Enterprise Summit” where he will deliver key highlights and takeaways from the stories of large-scale DevOps transformations and amazing results from companies all over the world. Want to join Gene in the speaker lineup? The call for presentations for DOES16 London closes on April 18 (http://bit.ly/LDNCFP) and abstract submissions should address the conference theme of “Leading Change,” and its sub-topics of organizational design in the enterprise, the functions of people, modern processes and technology adoption, and addressing security and compliance.

    “Our goal is to help accelerate the rate of DevOps adoption in large, complex organizations and to increase the probability of those transformations succeeding. One of the ways we do this is to understand the top obstacles in these transformations,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win.” “A great community is one that helps one another — by having leaders share how they’re overcoming the top obstacles identified last year, my hope is that we can quickly elevate the state of the practice.”

    IT Revolution and Premier Sponsor HPE Software are excited to present the inaugural DOES16 London event. DOES16 London programming will emphasize the evolving technical and architectural practices, and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations. The goal is to provide leaders in the UK and Continental Europe the tools and practices needed to deliver software innovation faster. DevOps Enterprise London provides keynotes, panels, breakouts, an “unconference” community space for spontaneous gatherings and an expo hall. Sessions will be led by leaders who are pioneering these practices in large and complex organizations across a wide range of industries.

    “As premier sponsor of the DevOps Enterprise Summit London, we are thrilled to be an integral part of the event,” said Tony Caine, vice president and general manager, EMEA, at HPE Software. “Now more than ever, DevOps is playing a crucial role in enabling businesses to become better at ensuring quality, maximizing speed and reacting to market changes, and for those looking to understand how to implement a successful strategy this event is a perfect opportunity for them to learn more and hear from experts within the industry.”

    For more information about DOES16 London, please visit: (http://events.itrevolution.com/eu/).

    Share This: Now Available: #DevOps Enterprise Summit London Early Bird Tickets! Register now: http://bit.ly/doesldnreg @DOESsummitEU #DOES16 

    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 one million IT professionals by 2017.

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    Contact:

    Jeremy Douglas

    Catapult PR-IR

    303-581-7760, ext. 16

    jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

  • New Node.js Foundation Survey Reports New “Full Stack” In Demand Among Enterprise Developers   

    New Node.js Foundation Survey Reports New “Full Stack” In Demand Among Enterprise Developers   

    Nearly 50 percent of Node.js developers surveyed using container technology, strong growth emerges in cloud, front end, mobile and devices

    SAN FRANCISCO, April, 12, 2016 — The Node.js Foundation, a community-led and industry-backed consortium to advance the development of the Node.js platform, today announced its first ever Node.js User Survey Report.

    With over 3.5 million users and an annual growth rate of 100 percent, the Node.js Foundation survey identified that Node.js is emerging as an universal platform/language used for web applications, IoT, and enterprise. It features insights on emerging trends like microservices architectures, real-time web applications, Internet of Things (IoT), and also paints a detailed picture of the technologies that are being used with Node.js in production and language preferences (current and future) for front end, back end and IoT developers.

    Node.js and Containers Take Off Together

    Both Node.js and containers are a good match for efficiently developing and deploying microservices architectures. And, while the surge in container use is relatively new, 45 percent of developers that responded to the survey use Node.js with the technology. Other container-related data points:

    • 58 percent of respondents that identified as IoT developers use Node.js with Docker.

    • 39 percent of respondents that identified as back end developers use Node.js with Docker.

    • 37 percent of respondents that identified as front end developers use Node.js with Docker.

    Node.js — the Engine that Drives IoT

    JavaScript and Node.js have risen to be the language and platform of choice for IoT as both are suited for data intensive environments that require parallel programming without disruption. JavaScript, including Node.js and frameworks, such as React, have become the de facto choice of developers working in these connected, device-driven environments with 96 percent of IoT respondents indicating they use JavaScript/Node.js for development.

    These environments are challenging, and the survey revealed that on average, IoT developers using Node.js have more experience than their front end and back end counterparts with over 40% percent of IoT developers surveyed having over 10+ years of development experience.

    Additionally, although Docker is a server technology, many IoT developers (58%) are using Node.js with Docker compared to only 39% of back end developers. This metric is significant as it means that the new IoT world also is quickly adopting containers and microservices.

    Node.js Becoming Universal Language

    The full stack is no longer “front end and back end,” but rather “front end, back end and connected devices,” which is a combination of everything from the browser to your toaster all being run in JavaScript and enabled by Node.js. The survey revealed that 62% of respondents are using Node.js for both front end and back end development, and nearly 10% are using Node.js for front end, back end, and IoT development.

    Node.js Pervasive in Enterprises

    Node.js is increasingly used in the enterprise, and used within huge enterprises like PayPal, Go Daddy, Capital One, and Intel. The Node.js Foundation survey respondents backup Node.js’s growing role in the enterprise:

    • More than 45 percent already using the Node.js Long Term Support release (v4) geared toward medium to large enterprise users who require stability and high performance.

    • Of those who haven’t upgraded, 80 percent report definite plans to upgrade to v4, with half of respondents planning to do so this year.

    • Strong interest in enterprise tooling among 34 percent of tech leaders.

    Full “MEAN” Stack Explodes

    The popularity of real-time, social networking and interactive game applications is pushing a new stack among developers. The MEAN stack is able to handle lots of concurrent connections and extreme scalability, which these applications demand. Node.js, in combination with MongoDB, Express, Angular.js, allows developers to tackle the needs of front end and back end development. Not surprisingly, all of these technologies were commonly used alongside Node.js. Express, cited the most, used by an average of 83% of developers.

    Popularity of JavaScript and Node.js

    JavaScript and Node.js were popular among back end, front end, and IoT developers. Other languages that were popular for all three developer types included PHP, Python and Java. However, when looking to the future, back end, front end and IoT developers planned to decrease their use of Java, .Net and PHP (PHP averages a 15% decrease) and increase the use of Python and C++.

    About the Survey

    The survey was open for 15 days, from January 13 to January 28, 2016. During this time, 1,760 people from around the world completed the survey. Seventy percent were developer’s, 22 percent technical management and 64 percent run Node.js in production. Geographic representation of survey covered: 35 percent from United States, 22 percent from Continental Europe, 6 percent India, and 6 percent from United Kingdom with the remaining respondents hailing from Asia, Latin America, Africa, Russia and the Middle East.

    Additional Resources

    • Node.js Foundation User survey infographic

    • Report summarizing Node.js Foundation User Survey 2016

    About Node.js Foundation

    Node.js is used by tens of thousands of organizations in more than 200 countries and amasses more than 3 million active users per month. It is the runtime of choice for high-performance, low latency applications, powering everything from enterprise applications, robots, API engines, cloud stacks and mobile websites.

    The Foundation is made up of a diverse group of companies including Platinum members Famous, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Microsoft, PayPal and Red Hat. Gold members include GoDaddy, NodeSource and Modulus/Progress Software, and Silver members include Apigee, AppDynamics, Codefresh, DigitalOcean, Fidelity, Groupon, nearForm, New Relic, npm, Opbeat, RisingStack, Sauce Labs, SAP, StrongLoop (an IBM company), Sphinx, YLD!, and Yahoo!. Get involved here: http://nodejs.org.

    The Node.js Foundation is a Linux Foundation Project, which are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org

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    *Node.js Foundation is a licensed mark of Node.js Foundation. Node.js is a trademark of Joyent, Inc. and is used with its permission.

  • AppNeta to OEM Technology to SevOne to Provide Global Customers with the Most Complete End­User Infrastructure Monitoring

    AppNeta to OEM Technology to SevOne to Provide Global Customers with the Most Complete End­User Infrastructure Monitoring

    The World’s Largest Digital Infrastructures Will Now Have Comprehensive Capabilities to Ensure Optimal User Experience

    BOSTON – April 12, 2016​­ AppNeta, a leader in performance insight for business­critical web applications announced an OEM agreement with SevOne, a worldwide leader in digital infrastructure management. SevOne will leverage key elements of the AppNeta technology stack to deliver new and differentiated products to major telecommunications and enterprise customers in order to provide unprecedented insight into their end users’ online experience. SevOne is the digital infrastructure management provider of choice to many of the world’s largest service provider and enterprise organizations. By adding AppNeta’s core application performance monitoring (APM) technology, SevOne can offer entirely new capabilities and business value to current and future customers. “SevOne provides critical digital infrastructure management for service providers and very large enterprises who all have incredibly large and complex networks,” said Jack Sweeney, CEO for SevOne. “We’ve been very impressed with AppNeta’s unique technology and by adding it to our existing platform, we can now solve end­user experience challenges at a scale and level of granularity never before possible.” AppNeta’s technology stack covers end­to­end performance insight for production business­critical applications through a patented combination of active and passive monitoring technology designed to be near zero­impact in production while also providing sub­minute granularity with up to one year of performance history. “Earning SevOne’s confidence is a tremendous validation of AppNeta’s technology and our vision of providing next generation end user experience performance management” said Matt Stevens, CEO and president of AppNeta. “This is the first time we have partnered at the code level with another technology company—we think adding this additional performance context to SevOne’s award­winning infrastructure management stack will provide a truly unique combination of performance insight available in a single platform.” This is the second overall OEM partnership for AppNeta. The company reached an OEM agreement with Polycom to provide users with high­quality insight into the performance of their unified communications solutions. 800.508.5233 | 285 Summer Street, 4 th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 | appneta.com About SevOne SevOne provides the leading digital infrastructure management platform for companies delivering on the “promise of now” for today’s connected, mobile world. Many of the world’s largest enterprises and service providers rely on the SevOne Cluster™ technology to monitor, analyze, and optimize their massive, dynamic, and infinitely complex digital infrastructure ­­ including components such as network, compute, storage, power and cooling. By enabling companies to harness the power of their digital infrastructure, SevOne provides real­time insights for any scale environment. For more information, visit www.sevone.com. About AppNeta AppNeta is the only application performance monitoring (APM) company to provide solutions for all applications ­ applications you develop internally, business­critical SaaS applications you use and the networks that deliver them. AppNeta’s SaaS­based solutions give Development, DevOps and IT Operations teams essential performance data to see across their web, mobile and cloud­delivered application environments as well as pinpoint tough performance bottlenecks. With AppNeta, customers have all of the performance data they need to assure continual and exceptional delivery of business­critical applications and end­user experience.

    For more information, visit www.appneta.com.

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    Contact: Kristin Bassett

    781­263­4273

    kbassett@appneta.com

     

  • Automic Software and Forest Technologies Announce Strategic Devops Partnership

    SEATTLE & VIENNA–(Business Wire)–Forest Technologies, the leading DevOps and Digital Transformation Consultancy headquartered in London, and Automic, the leader in Business Automation, today announced, a strategic partnership wherein Automic will leverage Forest’s experienced DevOps consulting and enablement capabilities to support their customers’ adoption of Application Release Automation and Continuous Delivery solutions, as well as provide input into their product roadmap.

    This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here:http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160411005949/en/

    Under this partnership, Forest will include Automic solutions in its reference continuous delivery tool chain for their customers’ DevOps and digital transformation engagements. Every business relies on software to deliver value to its customers, and DevOps is the perfect catalyst for innovation in software development, and more importantly, a powerful tool for organizations looking to stay relevant in an ever-changing digital-led market. Software is more critical than ever.

    “Building on their 20 year heritage of automation in production environments for some of the largest companies in the world, Automic have delivered a truly Enterprise Class Release Automation product” said Andy Cureton, Founder and CEO of Forest Technologies. “We are excited to extend our existing relationship with Automic and are confident that by combining our expertise in delivering continuous delivery and transformation initiatives with Automic Release Automation we can ensure greater value.”

    “Forest Technologies shares the same strategic vision as Automic in terms of providing our customers with comprehensive Application Release Automation and DevOpssolutions. Working together, we enable synergies in our clients’ business processes and underlying IT infrastructure”, stated Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic Software.

    DeLaughter continued, “As an industry leader, Automic is solely focused on empowering businesses through automation, helping them to become more agile and responsive in this digital age. Our customers have been very clear about their intentions to align their business and IT needs, and as a result, we are proud to partner with Forest Technologies in order to jointly provide complete Application Release Automationsolutions to meet their needs.”

    The partnership enables Automic and Forest Technologies clients to enhance continuous delivery through end-to-end automation, while achieving greater agility and control. The expertise provided by both organizations will enable clients to adopt the necessary tools to begin their DevOps journey.

    Tweet this:

    Enable continuous delivery w/@Automic & @foresttechltd. Agility, speed & security are now part of your DevOps journey bit.ly/1Mmrx4x

    Additional Information:

    Connect with Automic on Twitter and LinkedIn

    Connect with Forest Technologies on Twitter and LinkedIn

    About Forest Technologies:

    Forest Technologies, a leader in automation, helps enterprises deliver software and software related services faster and at a lower cost through the adoption of DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices. Fanatical about customer service FOREST consultants are hired as much for their DNA as their ability. Established in 2003 with headquarters in London and offices in Singapore FOREST has over 100 customers from start-ups to enterprises across sectors including finance, retail, telco, and online gambling. More information can be found at www.forest-technologies.co.uk

    About Automic:

    Automic, a leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,600 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.Automic.com.

    Automic
    Courtney Glymph
    Global PR and Communications
    +44 (0) 7584058886
    Courtney.glymph@Automic.com

  • SendGrid Reaches 1 Billion Emails Per Day Milestone 

    Customer Communication Messages Delivered via SendGrid’s Platform Engage 1.6 Billion Unique Email Addresses Every 90 Days
    BOULDER, Colo., April 11, 2016 — SendGrid, the leading delivery platform for customer communication, today announced that it has reached the milestone of sending 1 billion emails per day on behalf of its customers.  These customer communication messages reach more than 1.6 billion unique email addresses every 90 days and drive engagement and business growth for the 80,000 active SendGrid customers.
     
    “We’re proud of reaching this milestone and extremely grateful to all of our customers, partners, investors and employees who have helped us get here in the nearly 7 years since SendGrid was founded by Isaac, Jose and Tim,” said Sameer Dholakia, CEO of SendGrid. “As we celebrate this achievement, we are excited to continue building on our foundation of providing industry-leading email deliverability, scalability and support and striving ahead toward our vision of becoming the world’s most trusted communication platform.”
     
    With developer DNA at its core, SendGrid was founded in 2009 by 3 developers who set out to build a better way to send email. Together, they pioneered the transactional email category and today SendGrid is a leader in email infrastructure, having delivered nearly 600 billion emails to date.  The founders still write code every day and SendGrid’s scale, expertise and resources continue to help make its customer-senders successful. SendGrid offers strong inbox delivery rates, best-in-class scalability, and the largest support and account management services team in the industry.
     
    With the launch of Marketing Campaigns in December of 2015, SendGrid extended its customer communication platform. The new email marketing service empowers senders to deliver promotional emails that drive meaningful and lasting engagements, at a fraction of the cost of competitors.  SendGrid enables customers to execute and scale both their marketing and transactional email campaigns on one single platform. Since the launch, 9,000 active Marketing Campaigns customers have collectively sent over 500 million emails. 
     
    After graduating from TechStars in 2009, SendGrid has grown from 3 employees to 300. As part of its growth, the company now has:
    • 29 Support Agents who provide 24/7 global customer support via chat, email, and phone
    • 25 Delivery and Customer Success Managers 
    • 100 Engineers who contribute to a blistering pace of innovation and feature enhancement 
    • 350 customers who send 100 million emails or more via SendGrid per month
    • 8 Community Development Evangelists committed to helping the next generation of startup developers and founders grow their business across the globe  
    About SendGrid
    SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 23 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco. For more information, visit www.sendgrid.com.
     
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  • Full Stack Fest in Barcelona on September 5-9th

    Full Stack Fest will be held in Barcelona on September 5-9th, 2016. It will be comprised of two main blocks with a gap day™ in between.

    Let’s not forget that technology is made by people. That’s why we’re putting so many efforts in confirming industry leaders who will be speaking about topics such as the Erlang language & platform, the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), EcmaScript 6, Cycle.js, Functional Reactive programming, the Unison programming platform, Unikernels, scalable distributed systems, the Physical Web project, Web Assembly, CSS4, the Elm architecture and Serverless Framework, with many more to come!

    Call For Papers is open until May 14th with 16 speaker slots!

    You can read the details of our call for papers at our website —where people can submit their talk too.

    Also, here you have an online PDF with more information about the CFP’s press release.

  • Puppet Ignites Era of Constantly Modern Software

    PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Apr 7, 2016) – Software underpins every part of modern life and commerce. Organizations rely on it to drive growth in all aspects of their business. According to market estimates, a $200 billion software infrastructure market is emerging as a result of mass migration to the cloud; pressure on IT to meet the demands of billions of consumers and business users; and the growing requirement to continually deploy and manage software to meet business goals.

    To help organizations compete effectively and thrive in a software-defined world, Puppet today announced its vision to give every organization the shortest path to better software. The company’s commitment to helping enterprises take full advantage of the movement towards constantly modern software is fulfilled by its industry-standard Puppet Enterprise platform. More than 30,000 companies around the world, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100, rely on Puppet Enterprise to continually deploy and manage software across their IT infrastructure, whether it’s physical, virtual, or in the cloud.

    “Software powers everything around us, from the devices on our wrists and our walls to the work we do, the fun we have, and everything in between. Modern cars are powered by millions of lines of code, our financial world is entirely mediated by software to enable speed and throughput, and it’s critical to delivery of core functions like medicine, utilities, and food. Nevertheless, most businesses take weeks, months, and even years to deliver everything from simple upgrades to the latest innovations, and too much of this software is out of date, insecure, and thus a barrier to progress rather than an enabler of it,” said Luke Kanies, Puppet founder and CEO. “With Puppet, customers build highly efficient DevOps practices that automate manual processes and get control of the entire infrastructure and application stack, eliminating constraints on innovation, securing critical capabilities, and maximizing the business potential from their software investments.”

    Opening the Gates to the Shortest Path to Better Software
    As part of the company’s strategic plan to make the shortest path to better software a reality for enterprises, Puppet also announced today new leadership, product updates, integrations, resources, and branding. All these elements support the company’s mission to help every organization significantly reduce the time it takes to provide both their internal and external customers with the most effective and modern software to achieve business goals.

    • Company name and brand refresh – The company is changing its name from “Puppet Labs” to simply “Puppet” to reflect the fact that the tight-knit Puppet community — tens of thousands of individual open source users and Puppet Enterprise customers — all refer to the company, the technology, and the community itself as “Puppet.” The new name, and a new brand identity to go with it, also reflect Puppet’s mission: helping every organization get on the shortest path to better software in service of its own customers and mission. For complete details, visit the new website at puppet.com.
    • First president and COO – Sanjay Mirchandani is the first executive to hold this position at Puppet. The former senior vice president of VMware will be responsible for Puppet’s go-to-market execution, including marketing, pre-sales engineering, sales, customer support, and services. For complete details, read our press release< (https://goo.gl/tKtnDO).
    • Project Blueshift and Puppet Enterprise 2016.1 – Blueshift represents Puppet’s engagement with leading-edge technologies and their communities — technologies like Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes — and Puppet’s commitment to giving organizations the tools to build and operate constantly modern software. The new Puppet Enterprise 2016.1 gives customers direct control of — and real-time visibility into — the changes they need to push out, whether to an app running in a Kubernetes cluster or a fleet of VMs running in AWS. For complete details, (https://goo.gl/RTMS2v).
    • Atlassian HipChat integration – This new integration makes it possible for DevOps teams to direct change with the Puppet Orchestrator, see change as it occurs, then discuss and collaborate on changes in process — all right in HipChat. For complete details, read our press release (https://goo.gl/Xk2CrX).
    • Splunk integration – Proactive monitoring of infrastructure and applications is a key DevOps practice, enabling continuous improvement. The Puppet Enterprise App for Splunk now extends the Splunk platform to Puppet customers to diagnose issues and solve problems faster, so they can deploy critical changes with confidence. For complete details, read our press release (https://goo.gl/Fi9BFd).

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    About Puppet
    Puppet is driving the movement to a world of unconstrained software change. Its revolutionary platform is the industry standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. More than 30,000 companies — including more than two thirds of the Fortune 100 — use Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to adopt DevOps practices, achieve situational awareness and drive software change with confidence. Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet is a privately held company with more than 400 employees around the world. Learn more at puppet.com.

    Press Contact:
    Justin Dorff
    (510) 875-9608
    pr@puppet.com