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  • JFrog Announces swampUP 2016 Agenda and Keynote Speakers

    SANTA CLARA, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/29/16 — JFrog today announced the agenda for its second annual swampUP user conference, featuring keynote speakers Sully Sullenberger, former airline captain and aviation safety expert, and Adrian Cockcroft, DevOps visionary at Battery Ventures. Taking place May 23-24 in Napa, Calif., the two-day event will also include sessions led by several DevOps industry experts and Fortune 500 customers of JFrog.

    swampUP 2016 will gather leading developers and DevOps engineers from around the world to exchange knowledge, new ideas and best practices around continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and provide a unique opportunity for attendees to meet and build relationships with fellow users and community leaders, with a glass of Napa Valley wine in hand.

    Captain Sullenberger will share his experience managing a real disaster, when he successfully executed an emergency water landing of a commercial flight in the Hudson River, at the swampUP community gala on the evening of May 23. With the data center as their cockpit, developers and DevOps pros will learn how to avoid and recover from their own disasters. Watch the trailer: “Will You be Ready When Your Server Crashes?”

    swampUP 2016 sessions include:

    • “Will You Be Ready When Your Server Crashes?” – Capt. Sully Sullenberger
    • “The Future of DevOps” – Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures
    • “Managing Huge Files on the Right Storage with Git LFS” – Tim Pettersen, Atlassian
    • “Best Practices in Docker Continuous Delivery” – Carl Quinn, Riot Games
    • “Astrid: Artifactory-Sourced Dependency Insight at Netflix” – Jon Schneider and Nadav Cohen, Netflix
    • “Automated Distribution of Open Source and Private Components with JFrog Bintray” – Allen Reese and Jack Weaver, Yahoo!
    • “Docker at Scale” – Viraj Purang, Oracle and Jagan Subramanian, JFrog
    • “Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and Artifactory at Cars.com” – Keith Kreissl, Mac Heller-Ogden, Zlatko Sisic and Deep Mistry, Cars.com
    • “DevOps Journey at IBM Research” – Christian Vecchiola, IBM
    • “GitHub + Artifactory – A Match Made in Heaven (Or at Least in the Cloud)” – Cynthia Rich, GitHub and Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog
    • “How Bintray Saved My Marriage: Scaling WebJars with Bintray” – James Ward, Salesforce.com
    • “Bringing Android Content to the Big Screen with Google Cast” – Kevin Nilson, Google
    • “Bot-driven Development with Artifactory” – Jim Clark, Atomist
    • “Are Open Source Vulnerabilities Hiding Out in Your Repository?” – Bill Ledingham, Black Duck
    • “JFrog Artifactory as the Automated Backbone for a Global CD Tool Chain” – Craig Vosburgh, CA Technologies
    • “Building the System of Systems – Creating a Universal CI/CD Pipeline for Legacy Applications” – Mark Maxey, Raytheon
    • “Make Artifactory Dance: Automate Data Center Management Using Artifactory’s REST API and Groovy Plugins” – Bryan Belanger, Autostructure
    • “Continuous Delivery for the Cloud Native Java Developer” – Josh Long, Pivotal and Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog
    • “Leveraging JFrog Artifactory to Empower Developing Ideas in a Restricted Environment” – Alex Coto, University of Havana
    • “Does Size Matter? CI/CD in a Large Scale Infrastructure” – Loreli Cadapan and Rohit Kumar, Oracle
    • “Continuous Deployment into the Unknown with Artifactory, Bintray, Docker and Mesosphere” – Gilad Garon and Kiril Nesenko, VMware
    • “Writing Performance User Plugins for an HA Environment” – Daryl Spartz, Yahoo!
    • “Pragmatic Scalability: Under the Hood of Artifactory HA” – Viktor Gamov, Hazelcast

    To learn more about what swampUP 2016 will offer and what’s new to this year’s event, watch this video: https://youtu.be/57Zy7tu58sA.

    For additional information and to register for the event, visit:https://swampup.jfrog.com.

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    About JFrog
    More than 1,500 paying customers, 50,000 installations and millions of developers globally rely on JFrog’s world-class infrastructure for software management and distribution. Customers include some of the world’s top brands, such as Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, MasterCard, Netflix, Tesla, Barclays, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe and VMware. JFrog tools, comprising open-source, on-premise and SaaS cloud solutions, are revolutionizing the way companies and individuals develop, release and distribute software. JFrog Artifactory, the Universal Artifact Repository, and JFrog Bintray, the Universal Distribution Hub, are used by millions of developers and DevOps engineers around the world. The company is privately held and operated from California, France and Israel. More information can be found atwww.jfrog.com.

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  • Electric Cloud Announces Four Events To Advance DevOps Release Automation In The Enterprise

    SAN JOSE, Calif., March 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced four upcoming industry events taking place in April and early May. These events focus on advancing DevOps and Continuous Delivery in the enterprise by discussing tips and learnings for implementing modern IT practices across a wide range of industries and organizations.

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    Event #1:

    Live Video Podcasts: Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Episode 38: CI Acceleration

    Continuous Discussions is a live video podcast for discussing Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Each episode focuses on a different topic relating to modern software delivery, and features different speakers from the DevOps community.

    Join us on Tuesday, April 5, to discuss tips for accelerating your CI efforts.

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    Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 10 a.m. PT

    https://plus.google.com/events/cp4f4ch4f7iijfo5nskm1bgr2n4

    Event #2:

    Avantika Mathur to speak about strategies for managing Microservices at scale at MERGE 2016

    At MERGE 2016, the Perforce Conference, over 400 developers, executives and thought leaders will come together in San Francisco to discuss the future of DevOps. During three days of breakout sessions, speakers and lively discussions, attendees will learn about the current state of the industry and discuss where DevOps is headed.

    Join Electric Cloud’s Avantika Mathur as she discusses strategies and best practices for managing Microservices at scale. Using a real use case example and a live demonstration of Perforce Helix, Docker and Selenium, Avantika will share patterns and tips for enabling a robust, scalable and extensible pipeline to support today’s modern app delivery with microservices.

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    Event #3:

    Live Video Podcast: Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Episode 39: CD Automation

    On Tuesday, April 19, join DevOps experts to discuss tips for automating your CD pipelines.

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    Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 10 a.m. PT

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    Anders Wallgren to speak about patterns and processes for Continuous Delivery of Microservices at Continuous Lifecycle London

    Continuous Lifecycle London brings together experts and decision-makers in Continuous Delivery and DevOps to help reveal the potential and scope out the obstacles ahead of time. The conference’s holistic approach addresses concepts, processes and tools that are essential to Continuous Delivery and DevOps, as real world experts share their practical experience with attendees.

    Join Electric Cloud CTO Anders Wallgren as he outlines modern requirements for creating, deploying and managing multiple microservices both independently and as a collection in order to satisfy end user requirements and allow for Continuous Delivery.

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    Continuous Delivery of Microservices: Patterns and Processes:http://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/continuous-delivery-of-microservices-patterns-and-processes/

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    For more information, contact Hilary Livingston at 303-581-7760 ext. 19 or via email at hlivingston@catapultpr-ir.com

     

    About Electric Cloud
    Electric Cloud is the leader in DevOps Release Automation. We help organizations developing enterprise web/IT, mobile and embedded systems applications 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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  • Cloud on the customers’ terms: iland offers maximum flexibility with new ReST API and software development kits

     iland cloud API empowers developers to tap the advanced security, disaster recovery, compliance, management and big data functionality of iland’s enterprise-class cloud 

    HOUSTON – March 29, 2016 – iland, an award-winning enterprise cloud hosting provider, today announced its new iland cloud API, enabling customers to easily access cloud data, deploy workloads, and integrate the iland cloud into their own management tools. By releasing the API along with Python, Java and Golang software development kits (SDKs), iland gives DevOps, IT Operations and managed service providers yet another vector of customizability and flexibility to interface with cloud on their own terms.

    “From day one, we designed the iland cloud to give companies the fastest possible path to the scalability, cost efficiency and agility benefits of cloud while also ensuring customers never sacrifice transparency or security,” said Justin Giardina, CTO at iland. “By leveraging ReSTful endpoints, we’ve been able to rapidly integrate advanced security, disaster recovery and other features that set us apart from the competition. With the new API, we’re now giving customers the ability to directly access and build on top of that integration so they can focus on designing and delivering new capabilities for their business.”

    Unlike most cloud infrastructure offerings, iland Enterprise Cloud Services-Advanced Security (ECS-AS) platform integrates advanced security, compliance, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring and resource management functionality to ease cloud adoption and ensure rapid success. Further, iland ECS is built on the open source Apache Cassandra global data warehouse, giving iland and its customers a powerful Big Data back-end that fuels intelligent control, automation and reporting capabilities. iland’s cloud console allows companies to manage all of this functionality from a single web-based interface, which is ideal for many cloud infrastructure customers.

    Now with the new iland cloud API, customers also have the option of programmatically interfacing with the iland cloud and all of its advanced features – from security information to disaster recovery to the vast resources in the Big Data back-end. This straightforward gateway to comprehensive data and services enables customers to further benefit from the unmatched transparency, granular resource control of vApps, clear pricing and nuanced alerting of the iland cloud. The API and SDKs provide seamless access to the complete functionality integrated into the iland cloud, assembled into a single stack of accessible services. The iland API is built using the ReST architecture, which, due to its usability, is the industry-leading approach to exposing functionality.

    iland’s global customers will deploy this API towards a host of innovative uses, but some initial approaches include:

    • DevOps and Operations automation:Developers and systems engineers can rapidly spin up virtual machines or configure systems using their existing deployment tools. There is no need for extended training or a deep understanding of the data structure and workflow to add a connector. The straightforward SDKs mean creating the lightweight cloud interfaces can be simple.
    • Operations integration: Operations teams can access and visually integrate cloud data alongside their other monitoring tools in a single display or network operations center.
    • Reporting Flexibility: Whether delivering billing reports or assembling executive updates, the API can ensure IT can easily and accurately demonstrate cloud success.
    • Data to fuel innovation: With access to the iland Big Data back-end, customers can leverage performance, capacity, usage, security and compliance information about their systems to drive decision-making, prioritization, and IT innovation.

    For more information on iland Enterprise Cloud Hosting or to access the iland cloud API and SDKs, go to:

    About iland

    With data centers in the U.S., U.K. and Singapore, iland delivers the only enterprise cloud solutions in the market today with true innovation, transparency, intelligent management and advanced security built in. iland’s technology and consultative approach mean anyone– regardless of expertise, location or business objective–can benefit from a hassle-free cloud. From scaling production workloads, to supporting testing and development, to disaster recovery, iland’s secure cloud and decades of experience translate into unmatched service. iland has been recognized as Veeam’s Service Provider of the Year as well as VMware’s Service Provider Partner of the Year, Global and Americas. iland is also part of the Cisco Cloud Managed Service Provider Program for IaaS and DRaaS and partners with other industry leaders including Zerto, Trend Micro, Hytrust and Nimble Storage. Visit www.iland.com.

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  • Serena Software Releases Latest OEM Versions of Tasktop Sync and Tasktop Dev Integrations for DevOps Tools

    Enable Organizations to Standardize on SBM in the Enterprise, Gain Automated Visibility, Reporting, Traceability Across Development Tools

    SAN MATEO, CA and VANCOUVER, BC (PRWEB) March 28, 2016

    Serena Software, the leading independent provider of application development and delivery solutions throughout the SDLC for the most highly regulated large enterprises (HRLEs), and Tasktop, the leader in Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tool, today announced a new OEM version of Tasktop Dev and the Tasktop Sync DevOps integration platform for Serena Business Manager (SBM).

    SBM is the leading process management platform for IT development and operations to orchestrate processes across an organization, including software development, delivery and operations.

    Tasktop Sync Pro for SBM

    Tasktop Sync Pro for SBM is based upon Tasktop Sync Version 4.5, and provides fully automated enterprise-grade synchronization between SBM and third-party tools used by practitioners in various specialized roles. This integration enables organizations to standardize on SBM in the enterprise while gaining the automated visibility, reporting and traceability across multiple development tools that is essential for HRLEs. Key third-party integrations for SBM include Atlassian JIRA, HPE ALM & Quality Center, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Zendesk.

    This release includes Tasktop’s market-leading Artifact Relationship Management (ARM) capability that mirrors not only artifacts in other systems but also manages the complex relationships between them for sophisticated traceability across systems. Other enhancements include new support for complex status workflow configuration, the ability to support massive scale deployments with one instance, and numerous usability and performance improvements.

    “Many of our customers assemble a best-of-breed development tool stack with SBM as the central system of record where one or more third-party tools are also required by specialized practitioners,” said David Easter, director, Product Management at Serena Software. “Tasktop enables Serena customers with these mixed environments to create an integrated tool chain and automate the necessary information flow for collaboration, reporting and visibility throughout the lifecycle. By deploying premium DevOps integration technology from Tasktop, these customers can still move fast without breaking things.”

    Tasktop Dev for SBM

    The latest version of Tasktop Dev for SBM is based upon Tasktop Dev Version 4.5, and provides integrated access to SBM from within the Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse and Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for software developers. This integration makes it easy for developers to view, update and create SBM artifacts without leaving their development environments so that project status information in SBM is timely and accurate for better decision making.

    “Serena has long been a leader in highly regulated industries, and is also well positioned to help customers excel as the new wave of IOT takes hold,” said Wesley Coelho, senior director, Business Development at Tasktop. “Software traceability across development tools is essential in these areas, and we’re excited to work with Serena to provide the powerful combination of SBM and Tasktop.”

    The latest OEM versions of Tasktop Sync for SBM and Tasktop Dev for SBM are available from Serena Software immediately. Interested parties should contact their Serena Software representative for more information.

    About Tasktop

    Over one million users employ Tasktop’s DevOps integration technology to transform software development and delivery. Tasktop not only unifies the software development and delivery team, but also provides unprecedented visibility into the business critical processes of software delivery. Tasktop customers are the global leaders in financial services, insurance, government and manufacturing, and include 34 of the Fortune 100, 11 of the top banks in the world and five of the top ten US insurance companies. Partners, including Serena, CA, HP and IBM, rely on our independent, vendor-neutral role to connect their customers’ software delivery disciplines via OEM distributions of our products. For more information about Tasktop, please visit: http://tasktop.com

    Twitter: @tasktop

    Blog: http://blog.tasktop.com/

    About Serena Software

    Serena Software provides orchestrated application development and release management solutions to the Global 2000. The company is the largest independent ALM vendor and the only one that orchestrates DevOps, the processes that bring together application development and operations. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Serena serves enterprise customers across the globe. Learn more at serena.com.

    Twitter: @SerenaSoftware

    Blog: http://www.serena.com/blog/

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    +1 650-481-3494

    kparker(at)serena(dot)com

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    +1 781-771-3112

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  • Twistlock Announces Accelerated Business Momentum, Expands Executive Team Amidst Multiple Industry Accolades

    Company Appoints Dr. Gene Kim to Advisory Board and Taps Jacinta Tobin for Chief Revenue Officer Role

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Mar 28, 2016) – Twistlock, the leading provider of virtual container security solutions, today announced that its business momentum heading into 2016 has surpassed the company’s revenue goal for the first half of the year, delivering sales far above planned expectations. The company also announced the appointment of Gene Kim as a strategic advisor and Jacinta Tobin as Chief Revenue Officer.

    Twistlock’s Container Security Suite has experienced strong adoption since the company announced its general availability in November 2015. The product is now deployed at leading financial services, insurance, healthcare centers, as well as in highly secured military and defense environments.

    This momentum has resulted in numerous prestigious industry acknowledgements; Twistlock has been named a “CyberSecurity company to watch in 2016” by both Dark Reading and Momentum Partners. SC Magazine selected Twistlock as a finalist for the prestigious “Best Emergent Technology” Award. The company received Virtualization Review’s Editor’s Choice Award, and was named as one of CRN’s Top 10 Coolest Security Startups of 2015.

    Today, the company announced the appointment of Gene Kim, an award-winning CTO, researcher, and author, and a prominent authority in DevOps and security, as a strategic advisor. Kim was the co-founder and CTO of Tripwire, and co-authored “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win” and the upcoming “DevOps Handbook.” Kim will advise the company on its product direction, as well as serve as a sounding board for the company’s overall strategies.

    “Driven by the need for increased agility, containers and DevOps are increasingly being used by large, complex organizations, across all industry verticals. There is the potential to not only increase productivity, but to also increase security and reliability,” said Kim. “Container security is a powerful enabler to build quality and security into how we develop and deploy software.”

    In addition, Twistlock announced the appointment of Jacinta Tobin as Chief Revenue Officer. Tobin comes to Twistlock with many years of experiences driving hyper-growth businesses. She is known for her customer-focused execution strategies, which have consistently delivered results to help Fortune 500 customers and large operators achieve technology visions and goals. Tobin will oversee sales, market expansion, and channel practices for the company.

    “Gene brings a unique blend of experiences in entrepreneurship, security innovations and DevOps thought leadership,” said Ben Bernstein, CEO of Twistlock, “Jacinta is one of the most successful high tech sales executives in the field. The addition of Gene and Jacinta comes at an important moment as we expand our market presence and the breadth of our offerings to customers. We look forward to working with them both and leverage their vast expertise to enable innovations and business success for our customers.”

    Bolstering the general availability of its Container Security Suite, Twistlock also announced strategic integrations with two of the largest cloud platforms — Google Cloud Platform’s Container Engine and the Amazon EC2 Container Registry Service. As part of these integrations, Twistlock’s technologies are now easily available to help identify vulnerabilities, detect anomalies and enforce run-time policies for containers in and across both AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

    Twistlock’s Container Security Suite is the only dev-to-production security product on the market today. It has been adopted by more than 30 organizations, spanning financial services, health care, media, hospitality, consumer technology services and government agencies. Many of these customers have deployed Twistlock in both development and mission-critical production environments, protecting live services and valuable customer data in containers.

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    About Twistlock
    Twistlock is the industry’s first enterprise security suite for container security. Twistlock’s technologies addresses risks on the host and within containers, enabling enterprises to consistently enforce security policies, monitor and audit activity, and identify and isolate threats in the container environment. Twistlock’s mission is to provide an enterprise-grade security stack for containers, enabling organizations to maximize the benefits of adopting containers. For more information, please visit www.twistlock.com

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  • NetEnrich Teams with Microsoft to Drive Azure Adoption

    IT infrastructure & operations management services provider will offer and deliver Azure deployment services to Microsoft partners in exclusive pilot project. San Jose, CA—March 22, 2016—NetEnrich announces it has been selected as a Microsoft® Technology Partner to deliver services for setup, migration and management of Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery and applications to Microsoft partners and Cloud Solution Providers around the globe. NetEnrich has created a set of white-label services that a partner can incorporate as part of its Azure cloud offerings. The two companies expect to accelerate deployment and management of Azure services while also saving partners significant time and cost.

    NetEnrich Teams with Microsoft to Drive Azure Adoption Microsoft Azure revenue and compute usage more than doubled year-over-year, with Microsoft Office 365™ revenue growing nearly 70%, according to the company’s latest quarterly earnings release. As businesses migrate rapidly to Office 365, many also need help moving to Azure, giving Microsoft partners a huge opportunity for new revenue streams. Yet many partners are still not up to speed on the Azure platform and don’t have enough in-house staff, expertise or automation technology to respond to customer demand. NetEnrich, however, has nearly 500 engineers, high competency in Microsoft technologies, deep expertise in automation and all components of Azure, and several years of experience in private and public cloud deployments.

    Microsoft partners globally will benefit from a proven, high-caliber service offering, including the ability to begin migration for a customer within 24 hours, round-the-clock support, and management services. Additionally, partners will benefit from NetEnrich’s highly scalable automation platform that enables services for backup, migration and management, speeds time-to-market for partners, and minimizes costly errors during deployment.

    “Microsoft is focused on empowering customers to capitalize on the benefits of cloud, and our partners are key to providing the expertise and support they need to plan their strategy and maximize their Azure investments,” says Hyder Ali, CTO for Worldwide SMB, Microsoft. “NetEnrich will provide a valuable service in a predictable and scalable way to those partners seeking best practices and standard approaches to an Azure migration and deployment, which will mean faster time to value for our customers.”

    “Most service providers want to ramp up quickly on Azure as it offers many advantages on price, flexibility and features,” says Raju Chekuri, CEO of NetEnrich. “Our 11-plus years of experience delivering highly scalable, infrastructure & operations management services to hundreds of partners – both onpremise and cloud, along with our super-efficient automation tools for migrations, monitoring & management, makes this a reality for partners. We’re excited to help grow industry awareness and adoption of Azure.”

    About NetEnrich

    NetEnrich combines industrialized services and a proprietary automation platform to deliver next-gen IT infrastructure & operations management services from on-premise to cloud. This new world approach to IT operations reduces costs while mitigating risk, providing control, and driving innovation. NetEnrich has over 150 channel partners and over 1,400 clients spanning SMBs, mid-markets, and enterprises. NetEnrich is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. To learn more about NetEnrich, visit www.netenrich.com.

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  • Puppet Labs Launches Fifth Annual State of DevOps Survey

    PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Mar 22, 2016) –  Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software, today announced that it has opened the survey for the fifth annual State of DevOps Survey and Report (http://bit.ly/2016DevOpsSurvey). This one-of-kind, comprehensive industry study provides enterprises with insights into how DevOps, automation, IT and organizational performance impact the world’s leading organizations. The 2015 report revealed the critical role that IT leaders play in a company’s DevOps transformation, affirmed that through the power of DevOps and automation, high-performing organizations have 60 percent fewer failures and recover 168 times faster, and demonstrated that DevOps provides a powerful competitive advantage.

    This year’s report is being conducted in partnership with DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), founded by IT and development experts Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren. The survey will examine a number of new research areas, including:

    • ROI of IT performance. Exploring the ROI of IT performance and technical practices to better understand how throughput, stability and quality measures affect the bottom line.
    • Security and compliance. Security and compliance are top of mind in the DevOps space. This year’s survey investigates the role security plays in a DevOps environment.
    • Quality. Past reports have revealed the impact of DevOps practices on key IT performance metrics for throughput and stability. This year’s survey will help to better understand how quality is affected by DevOps practices.
    • Containers. Containers are no doubt changing the IT landscape. The survey will make clear how much containers are truly affecting IT performance.
    • Lean. Last year’s report found that lean management practices such as limiting work in process and creating and maintaining visual displays showing key quality and productivity metrics predict IT performance. This year’s survey will continue diving into lean practices to boost productivity and performance.

    “As DevOps practices have been increasingly adopted in all industries, we hope to have even more people in IT share their experiences through this year’s DevOps survey,” said Nigel Kersten, CIO of Puppet Labs. “We’re looking to get more information on how well DevOps practices actually pay off for organizations that make this investment, and which practices lead to more effective IT and more successful organizations.”

    “DORA is honored to participate in this year’s survey,” said Gene Kim, one of the co-founders of DORA and co-author of The Phoenix Project. “Organizations in all industries increasingly adopt DevOps because the business value is so high. More than ever, this research helps us understand what organizational and technical practices are required to make DevOps work, as well as how to measure its value.”

    In addition, for the first time in the survey’s history, Puppet Labs and DORA have opened sponsorship to a consortium of companies that are both leaders and innovators within the DevOps space. Current sponsors of the report include Atlassian, Automic, CA Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, IT Revolution, Splunk, and ThoughtWorks.

    To participate in the 2016 DevOps Survey and Report, visit (http://bit.ly/2016DevOpsSurvey)

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    About Puppet Labs
    Puppet Labs, Inc. is the leader in IT automation. Puppet Labs software provides system administrators the operational agility, efficiency and insight they need to proactively manage dynamic infrastructure, scaling from tens of servers to thousands, both on premise and in the cloud. Thousands of the world’s leading organizations use Puppet Labs software to configure and manage their IT infrastructure, including Bank of America, Cisco, NYSE, Salesforce.com and WebEx. Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs employs more than 360 people. The company is backed by investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, VMware, Cisco, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and Emerson Street Partners. To learn more, please visit PuppetLabs.com.

    About DevOps Research and Assessment, LLC
    DevOps Research and Assessments (DORA) brings together the leading DevOps experts and researchers to help technology and business leaders create world-class technology organizations, leveraging insights from Gene Kim and Jez Humble, renowned experts in the space of IT operations and development, and Nicole Forsgren, PhD, an expert in metrics and psychometrics in software delivery and IT impact.

    In the last three years, DORA has compiled tens of thousands of respondents from technology organizations around the world. By doing this, DORA can benchmark organizations against their industry peers, and provide guidance to leaders on how they can address any gaps to achieve their technology and organizational goals.

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  • Micro Focus Announces Intent to Acquire Serena Software, Inc.

    Leading Infrastructure Software Vendor Further Strengthens Solution Set to Help Customers Build and Deploy Business Applications and Services Faster, with Greater Reliability and Less Risk

    ROCKVILLE, Md., March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Micro Focus announced today its intent to acquire Serena Software, Inc., a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software, in a transaction valued at $540 million. The acquisition is expected to close in early May 2016, subject to receipt of competition clearances in the US and Germany.

    “Today’s announcement marks another significant milestone for Micro Focus, bringing together two highly complementary solution sets that enable customers to build better applications, adapt to changing business conditions more rapidly and maximize the value of existing investments to drive further innovation within their business,” said Stephen Murdoch, CEO, Micro Focus. “With Serena, we are further positioned to deliver richer solutions for the complex business demands customers are solving today – with greater reliability, predictability and less risk of failure.”

    Enterprises globally have increasing demands to build and deploy high-quality business applications to support employees, customers, partners and other third-parties. They require solutions that help them increase the quality of their applications and speed the delivery of change. The combination of Micro Focus and Serena allows companies to better:

    • Design and build business applications and services with greater accuracy, reliability and predictability;
    • Continuously deploy existing core business applications on a wider variety of platforms to meet changing business needs; and
    • Improve the speed and efficiency of new business services through automated release and deployment solutions.

    Serena has extensive expertise in software application development; software configuration and change management; and business process management. Additionally, Serena is a pioneer in processes and solutions that bridge application development and operations to create true DevOps, an increasingly critical area of focus for enterprise customers looking to develop applications and services faster, with greater accuracy and agility that fully meet business demands.

    “This is an exciting announcement that promises to offer substantial value to Serena customers and partners,” said Greg Hughes, president and CEO of Serena. “Our complementary strengths in software development and IT Operations will only serve to provide a stronger foundation for the next-generation of applications and services they require to meet ongoing business demands.”

    About Serena

    Serena is the largest independent Application Lifecycle Management vendor with more than 2,500 enterprise customers. Serena helps the highly regulated large enterprise move fast without breaking things – increasing velocity of the software development lifecycle while enhancing security, compliance, and performance. More information is available at www.serena.com.

    About Micro Focus

    Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L) is a global enterprise software company helping customers innovate faster with lower risk. Our software helps customers build, operate and secure IT systems that bring together existing business logic and applications with emerging technologies to meet increasingly complex business demands. For more information, visit: www.microfocus.com.

  • VictorOps Announces DevOps Roadtrip to Impart Industry Best Practices Across the Country

    New event series provides practical tips for implementing and enhancing DevOps strategies

    BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VictorOps, the real-time, agile incident management company for DevOps teams, today announced its DevOps Roadtrip, a series of events designed to help software development and IT professionals across the country to better implement DevOps practices. The half-day events will focus on tactics and strategies to streamline processes specific to incident management and resolution.

    The first stop in Denver on March 29 will be held at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium and will feature guest speakers from Forrester,Craftsy, and SendGrid. The half day event includes fast-paced TED style talks, topical breakout sessions, and a keynote presentation all aimed at helping others progress in their DevOps journeys.

    “DevOps can be an intimidating topic to many in IT. VictorOps wanted to create a welcoming forum where technology professionals can engage with DevOps experts in the industry,” said Jason Hand, DevOps Roadtrip MC and DevOps Evangelist, VictorOps. “Throughout the country, we’ll spotlight notable speakers in an effort to share DevOps wisdom amongst those tasked with the hard job of maintaining uptime. Our hope is that attendees can head back to their teams with actionable tactics to not only improve their organizations, but also simplify their own lives.”

    In addition to benefiting from a wide range of DevOps expertise and know-how, attendees will:

    • Hear real-life DevOps implementation stories from local companies
    • Learn about industry trends from renowned analysts
    • Network with others searching to implement real-time, agile incident management best practices
    • Have the opportunity to ask questions during an interactive Q&A session
    • And receive practical suggestions to take back to their teams

    By putting these teachings into practice, attendees can help their own companies become more efficient and ultimately more effective.

    “Organizations face an existential threat: deliver more value to customers faster than their competitors, or die. In the past, faster delivery usually meant lower quality and higher risk,” wrote Diego Lo Giudice and Kurt Bittner, Forrester Principal Analyst and DevOps Roadtrip Denver speaker in the December 2015 Forrester report entitled Agile and DevOps Adoption Drives Digital Business Success. “Leading organizations have shown how applying Agile and DevOps practices enables faster delivery with higher quality and lower risk.”

    Other stops on the 2016 DevOps Roadtrip include Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and New York.

    For more information about the DevOps Roadtrip, visit VictorOps.com/DevOps-Roadtrip, and to sign up for the Denver event, visitVictorOps.com/DevOps-Roadtrip-Denver.

    About VictorOps
    VictorOps is the real-time, agile incident management platform focusing on incident lifecycle management and collaboration for IT and DevOps teams. The solution combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day. Privately held, VictorOps is backed by Costanoa Venture Capital and Foundry Group. For more information, visit www.victorops.com and follow the company on Twitter @VictorOps.

    Contacts

    For VictorOps
    Mackenzie Kreitler, 978-518-4536
    victorops@matternow.com

  • goPaddle goes Google Cloud and Kubernetes v1.2 friendly

    SEATTLE, March 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Bluemeric Inc, a Cloud & DevOps company, today announced the release of the next version of goPaddle v2.0, a DevOps platform for micro-services.

    goPaddle optimised for Google Cloud and Kubernetes v1.2

    2016 being the year of DevOps, IT organizations are already looking at scale-out and economies of scale, while e-commerce companies have understood the impact of agile delivery and zero downtime of their applications. As Gartner predicted, it is becoming a mainstream strategy employed by 25 per cent of Global 2000 organisations. While the need for DevOps is building up, micro-services based architecture is becoming the key enabler for rapid application delivery. Micro-services are sizable units of execution that are independent, polyglot and reusable. Independent teams / developers can make versions of these micro-services, package them as container such as Docker and deploy them on an infrastructure of their choice. Container Clusters like Kubernetes provide a distributed and portable platform that can manage the lifecycle of these containers and provide consistent environments so that applications can be moved painlessly across datacenter and clouds.

    While a spectrum of DevOps ready solutions are emerging in the market, a platform that is focused on continuous build, integration and deployment for micro-services will be a huge cost & time saving solution for businesses.

    Customers have been using goPaddle, for continuous build and deployments since last year. With the new release, goPaddle is optimized for Google Cloud, thus making authentication, on-boarding micro-services and cluster provisioning simple and seamless for Google Cloud Developers. goPaddle provides a powerful yet simple designer interface, that developers can use to drag drop components to create micro-service designs and generate container/cluster specifications on the fly. These designs can then be deployed on to Google Container Engine (GKE) or to a cluster of their choice. Developers can leverage Google Container Registry (GCR) or use Docker Hub for storing/retrieving the container images. As these features signify, goPaddle has moved the infrastructure management hassles away from the developers, while the developers can focus on building their applications.

    While adding simplicity, goPaddle also gives the traceability and control to audit and monitor the applications. In general, log aggregation platforms like fluentd have greatly been in use by the developers and system administrators to monitor the system, application and access logs. goPaddle v2.0 brings in the support for fluentd leveraging the newest features in Kubernetes v1.2. With goPaddle, fluentd can be deployed on selective cluster infrastructure to aggregate logs from micro-services running within those infrastructure.

    goPaddle is available as a hosted version at https://gopaddle.io and as enterprise ready on-premise version with extended support. For more information, get in touch with the Bluemeric team at info@bluemeric.com.

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