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  • Avaya Delivers the Next Big Thing for Developing Digital Business Communications and Customer Service Smart Apps

    Avaya Breeze Provides a Next-Generation Technology Platform With a Framework, Development Environment, and the Industry’s First eCommerce Delivery Mechanism for Embedding Open, Mobile Digital Communication

    ORLANDO, FL – Enterprise Connect 2016 – Booth #1707 — More than two-thirds of IT executives plan to increase spending on mobile, customer-facing and cloud migration applications over the next two years as part of digital transformation initiatives. But first, IT executives must overcome a significant skills gap that will affect their ability to carry out such initiatives at customer speed.

    It’s a conundrum Avaya has solved with Avaya Breeze™, an entirely new way to develop business communications applications.

    At Enterprise Connect, Avaya will showcase Avaya Breeze, the next generation of the Avaya Engagement Development Platform — the technology platform that profoundly simplifies application development while delivering built-in capabilities for enhanced mobile, customer-facing and hybrid/cloud requirements. Avaya will also unveil the Avaya Snapp Store – the first eCommerce app store for business communications.

    Components of the Avaya Breeze technology platform include:

    • An open framework that brings the necessary attributes for communication in the digital age: embedded, multi-platform, mobile, fast, low risk, and workflow enabled — a key requirement to automate previously manual processes to improve digital experiences.
    • A development platform for rapid creation of new workflow-based applications within a matter of hours or days versus months.
    • A delivery mechanism — the Avaya Snapp Store — that allows a single integrated experience via browsers and native smart apps for entirely new customer experiences.
    • Open connectors/APIs that enable simple, integration with existing business communications services and access to the billions of devices in the Internet of Things.

    The Avaya Snapp Store is a focused, ecommerce-enabled marketplace for Avaya Breeze applications — or Snap-ins — from Avaya and 3rd party developers. Snap-ins — easily consumable, prebuilt connectors, fit-for-purpose apps and/or developer code — enable companies to quickly build workflows, customer journeys and other unique applications. The Avaya Snapp Store makes it easy to find, access and download Snap-ins by simply using a credit card for purchase. Developers can create Snap-ins and be on-boarded in the store within weeks.

    Gary Barnett, SVP and GM, Avaya Engagement Solutions, said:

    “Now, Avaya delivers on the promise of open, mobile engagement with a platform that allows companies to easily design and embed applications into workflows via a powerful, simplified, software-defined architecture and infrastructure for communications. This game-changing technology is built for digital business where companies need the flexibility, speed and the freedom to easily create unique value for their customers. Avaya Breeze liberates them from the confines of monolithic, vendor-locked platforms.”

    Avaya is issuing a challenge to the industry to creatively address the major challenges facing businesses and consumers today by developing new apps on Avaya Breeze to help resolve them. To date, thousands of developers from global enterprises have participated in Avaya Breeze Bootcamps and webinars, and are using their lab systems and Avaya Collaboratory accounts to design, build and test Avaya Breeze applications. This week, five of the growing list of third party developers will showcase their Avaya Snap-ins in the Avaya booth at Enterprise Connect, including:

    • eGain’s Knowledge Snap-In sends a contextual SMS link to customers on IVR so they can easily use web self-service, without losing their place in the phone queue. 
    • WEBTEXT uses its global network of SMS messaging gateways to seamlessly connect Avaya contact centers to their customers and the carriers.
    • Moxtra’s mobile-first business messaging and document sharing service Snap-In enables rich, persistent collaboration across teams, providing continuity as customers increasingly move between devices.
    • Verbio’s Voice Authentication Snap-In addresses increasing concerns about security and identity theft by authenticating users in a fluid and unobtrusive way.
    • Approved Contact’s Snap-In provides a worker with more control over who can contact them and when, acting as a personal gatekeeper.

    Those interested in developing to Avaya Breeze and/or creating Snap-Ins can learn more by going to the Developer portal at:http://bit.ly/20ZwM0T. For a list of Avaya Breeze Bootcamps and hackathons being held globally, visit: https://www.avaya-learning.com/lms/#/training/catalog/edp

    QUOTES:
    “I sat there, and I’m not an engineer, but I was dragging and dropping, building a whole workflow for a Web calling service, saying, ‘When this happens, play this IVR message.’ I recorded the message myself, put that in there … and in about two minutes we had a Web calling service Snap-In.”

    Daniel Bergan, Head of Strategy and Transformation, Westpac

    “More than half of the companies are using or planning to use APIs to embed communications capabilities into their apps, while another 25% are looking at using them to build custom apps. Platforms like Avaya Breeze offer organizations the ability to deliver enhanced business value and execute on their digital strategies by integrating communications and collaboration into workflows, business processes and existing applications.”
    Irwin Lazar, VP and Service Director, Nemertes Research

    Tags: Avaya, customer engagement, applications development, contact center, digital transformation

    About Avaya
    Avaya is a leading provider of solutions that enable customer and team engagement across multiple channels and devices for better customer experience, increased productivity and enhanced financial performance. Its world-class contact center and unified communications technologies and services are available in a wide variety of flexible on-premises and cloud deployment options that seamlessly integrate with non-Avaya applications. The Avaya Engagement Environment enables third parties to create and customize business applications for competitive advantage. The Avaya fabric-based networking solutions help simplify and accelerate the deployment of business critical applications and services. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.

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  • Are databases part of Agile? The new partnership between Redgate and DevOpsGuys points the way

    Cambridge UK, 7 March 2016 – DevOpsGuys, the Cardiff-based company that builds, deploys, and manages enterprise-scale web applications for blue-chip companies and the public sector, has become Redgate Software’s first Certified Partner in the UK. The move brings advantages for both businesses, with DevOpsGuys given the support and expertise to enable them to include the database in Agile processes like continuous delivery.

    With a growing roster of clients including ASOS, BAE Systems, the Government, and Fitness First, DevOpsGuys is gaining a reputation for delivering practical engineering solutions which revolutionize the way businesses work. Typically called on to improve software delivery processes, speed deployments, and reduce both cost and risk, DevOpsGuys are experts in improving IT performance using DevOps practices.

    Redgate, meanwhile, makes the world’s most trusted tools for shipping changes to enterprise databases. The tools are technically challenging to make, but intuitive to use – a philosophy Redgate calls ingeniously simple. As a direct result, the company has more than 650,000 users worldwide and 91% of the Fortune 100 use Redgate software.

    DevOpsGuys joins other noted software consultancies like Northwest Cadence in the USA and GDS Business Intelligence in Germany in becoming a Redgate Certified Partner.

    Certified Partners are given inside knowledge of Redgate’s products, training in advanced deployments, and expert advice and support so that they can offer a premium service to their own clients. As James Smith, CEO of DevOpsGuys, says: “We’re on the inside track, if you like. We can talk directly to the people creating the software we’re recommending to clients. It’s a big advantage because if we have an issue, we can resolve it with one phone call.”

    The relationship works for clients as well. DevOpsGuys were recently shortlisted by private gym chain, Fitness First, to introduce a standardized IT infrastructure to make software delivery faster, reduce errors, and cut costs. As Smith continues: “Our close working relationship with a key vendor like Redgate demonstrated our capability far better than a PowerPoint slide. It was evidence of our commitment to industry-leading standards and helped us win the business.”

    Redgate’s Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) products were included in the solution to source control database development and automate database deployments for Fitness First. As a direct result, it is now quick and simple for the gym chain to copy databases into new environments – something that was extremely difficult and time-consuming before.

    DevOpsGuys are now organizing a series of training workshops in London UK to teach developers and DBAs best practice for database source control, database continuous integration, and automated database deployment using Redgate tools.

    As Smith concludes: “Redgate have a portfolio of world-leading database products that make continuous delivery for the database a reality. The big thing for clients is understanding how they can work alongside tools for application development, and what new Agile processes need to be adopted to make it possible. That’s where we come in.”

    As part of Redgate’s ongoing commitment to DLM and continuous delivery for databases, DevOpsGuys will be joined in the future by further Certified Partners in the UK as well as America, Europe, and Australasia.

    – ENDS –

    Further information from:
    Michaela Murray
    Regional Partner Manager, Partner Program
    Redgate Software
    michaela.murray@red-gate.com

    About Redgate Software
    Redgate Software makes ingeniously simple software used by 650,000 IT professionals who work with SQL Server, .NET, and Oracle. More than 100,000 companies use Redgate products, including 91% of the Fortune 100. Redgate’s philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools which elegantly solve the problems that developers and DBAs face every day.

    About DevOpsGuys
    DevOpsGuys deliver DevOps-as-a-foundation to underpin digital transformation, achieving greater customer enablement and unlocking new revenue streams. Their DevOps Education, Automation, and Transformation solutions make enterprise organizations agile, scalable, and responsive to rapidly changing business requirements.

     

  • Appvance Raises $5 Million Led by Javelin Venture Partners

    Latest Funding Round Drives Continued Growth in Disruptive DevOps-Ready QA Automation

    SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Mar 2, 2016) – Appvance has closed a $5 million round of venture capital funding led by Javelin Venture Partners to continue its mission to reinvent enterprise software and application testing with the world’s first “DevOps-ready” software quality assurance solution. Appvance’s Unified Test Platform (UTP) helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of all their applications as much as 10 times faster and for far less costly than traditional, siloed testing tools.

    Appvance provides the first unified enterprise software and application testing platform that answers the needs of both DevOps and quality assurance teams by eliminating redundancies of traditionally siloed approaches to software quality assurance. Appvance’s “write it once” test scripting methodology is designed to seamlessly align with the ways modern applications are developed today — DevOps, agile development processes, continuous integration, frequent releases, rapid test development methods and time-challenged delivery environments.

    “As more enterprises adopt rapid development methodologies, QA automation quickly becomes the bottleneck. Everyone knows the legacy tools on the market are not up to the task,” said Appvance CEO Kevin Surace. “Our customers are global 5000 companies that require a complete and robust test automation platform that answers the need for velocity with quality. When enterprises move to agile and DevOps, they need Appvance.”

    “We led the investment in Appvance because we recognize the need for DevOps-ready test automation in every enterprise,” said Javelin Managing Director Noah Doyle. “As application development moves to DevOps, agile and continuous delivery, the old siloed tools quickly become a critical bottleneck. Appvance is the only technology we have seen that attacks that problem head-on, delivering speed and productivity improvements, while enhancing quality and security.”

    Appvance combines best-of-breed testing modules, including functional, performance, load, app penetration, compatibility, database, DDOS, mobile and more, into a single unified platform that allows test teams to write or record use cases once as well as test apps the way users encounter them, beginning-to-end including UX and API-level tests. This repeatable automation yields real-world results that are superior to protocol-level testing alone.

    Appvance will use the funding to expand operations including product development, sales and customer support. In addition to Javelin Venture Partners, the latest round also included H. Barton Investments and Three Bridges Ventures. This is the second round of funding for Appvance, bringing the total amount raised to $7 million.

    About Appvance Inc.
    Appvance provides the only DevOps-ready unified test automation platform. Built from the ground up with agile and cloud services in mind, Appvance offers true Beginning-to-End data-driven unified functional, performance, compatibility, and synthetic APM testing, enabling users to quickly uncover client-side and server-side issues in a fraction of the time of traditional testing solutions. The Appvance platform drives quality and velocity for DevOps-oriented or traditional development shops, showing 5x to 10x productivity improvements over siloed QA tools. Founded in 2012, Appvance is a venture-backed technology company headquartered in San Jose, CA, with offices in Costa Rica and India and funded by Javelin Ventures, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

    Learn more at http://www.appvance.com. Follow Appvance on Twitter and on Facebook.

    About Javelin Venture Partners
    With $335 million under management, Javelin Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm specializing in technology based start-ups that leverage key innovations to create scalable, high-growth companies. Javelin Venture Partners’ investment professionals are proven new-technology entrepreneurs who focus on identifying exceptional businesses and management teams, and helping them achieve great success. The firm operates with the culture of a start-up and with an emphasis on being a true partner to entrepreneurs. Javelin Ventures Partners is located in San Francisco, CA, but invests in start-ups throughout the world.

  • Conformiq Launches New Transformer for Automated Software Testing

    Transforms Tests for Execution, extending the Conformiq 360ᴼ Test Automation Solution

    San Jose, CA (PRWEB) February 23, 2016

    Conformiq™, transforming software testing with 360ᴼ Test Automation™, today announced Conformiq Transformer™, which helps automate software testing across all markets by transforming tests for execution. The new offering extends the Conformiq 360ᴼ Test Automation solution for complex system testing at the speed of development.

    One of today’s issues is that with new technologies such as model-based testing, software testers now spend about 30% in test design, and 70% in test execution. The transformation required is to shorten the time and decrease the resources needed for test execution, while maintaining the integrity of the existing software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools flow. The new Conformiq Transformer software platform automates the execution of new and existing tests, improving the productivity of the entire quality assurance organization.

    The new Conformiq Transformer solution shortens the path to test automation, simplifies model-based testing (MBT) adoption using existing methods, and automates manual test execution. It builds upon Conformiq Creator™, the automated test design solution.

    While Conformiq Creator generates executable test cases, scripts and documentation from models, Conformiq Transformer enables the transformation of tests for automatic execution, both for automatically generated test cases and for manual or existing test cases. Conformiq Transformer helps integrate the SDLC process, without requiring any changes to popular tools, standards and flows. It extends the value of a wide range of industry-standard test automation tools (commercial and open source) for automated test execution.

    New Conformiq Transformer helps save up to 70% of the required effort to automate test execution, and supports DevOps, continuous integration (CI), in-sprint, and Agile processes.

    “Conformiq Transformer technology was developed to address the key bottleneck in software testing. Companies need a way to automate test execution, the most significant cost and time sink in today’s SLDC flow. Transformer automates execution of existing, legacy, manual tests as well as automatically-generated tests from Conformiq Creator.” commented Mark Creamer, CEO of Conformiq. “Every software organization can benefit from this new solution, expanding our market and providing significant new value for our customers.”

    “Customers expect significant reductions in testing cost through automation, which traditional test automation approaches failed to deliver. Conformiq Transformer changes that by allowing dynamic generation of automated test scripts directly from the model,” stated the program manager at an international testing services provider.

    Conformiq Transformer reduces testing effort and the need for test execution expertise by automating functional testing and test execution, minimizing manual involvement, programming and scripting. It directly links to automated execution frameworks and SDLC tools and processes and leverages existing test assets – test cases, requirements, and prototypes. Now, testers can eliminate their test automation backlog and gain control, automation, integration and speed across the software testing cycle.

    Features of the new Conformiq Transformer software platform include:

    •     Automated execution of new and existing tests- provides the only integrated link between automated test case generation, and automated test case execution.
    •     Automated manual test case execution – imports manual tests for automation, and transforms manual tests into automatically executable tests.
    •     Automated execution of automatically- generated tests – extending the power of Conformiq Creator.
    •     Extension of industry-standard test automation tools to improve the productivity of the entire QA organization – the only solution that fully automates text execution for every major SDLC and execution framework and platform: Application Lifecycle Management, Test Management, Automated Test Execution, and Requirements Management systems.
    •     Automated test execution without programming – eliminating time-consuming, unmaintainable scripting with the ability to create and automate tests using drag and drop, form-based test suites, test case and keyword editors, assisted keyword automation, and live-check of test suites.
    •     Consolidated view of automated test case design, creation, execution, management and validation – Eclipse integration for a consolidated view for the tester; with support for existing and / or open source test execution tools.

    With new Conformiq Transformer, transforming tests for execution, Conformiq 360ᴼ Test Automation further accelerates and automates the end-to-end testing process across all markets, including enterprise IT, communications and embedded software, and is especially effective for web-based applications. Please contact Conformiq about getting started with Conformiq 360ᴼ Test Automation.

    Availability

    Conformiq Transformer is available immediately. For more details and pricing information, please contact sales(at)conformiq(dot)com.

    About Conformiq

    Conformiq is transforming software testing with Conformiq 360ᴼ Test Automation™, providing the most sophisticated and comprehensive automated test design solution in the industry. The unique Conformiq 360ᴼ Test Automation technology enables the next generation of testing: transforming, streamlining and automating even the most complex system-level testing environments. Conformiq 360ᴼ Test Automation improves efficiency with a 40% faster test case development cycle; enables delivery of higher quality code through 50% more defects found; increases manageability with 50% better collaboration: and reduces costs with a 400% return on investment. Conformiq serves enterprise IT, communications and embedded software markets worldwide. Privately-held Conformiq is headquartered in San Jose, California, with a worldwide delivery and support organization including offices in Finland, Germany, Sweden, and India. Visit Conformiq athttp://www.conformiq.com

  • xMatters Boosts DevOps in the Enterprise with New Integration Platform

    Next-Generation Intelligent Communications Technology Integrates Processes and Systems for Enterprise DevOps Stakeholders

    London, UK. — 23rd February, 2016 — xMatters, inc., a leader in communication-enabled business processes, today announced the release of its integration platform – enhanced connectivity technology designed to help enterprises overcome key hurdles in DevOps adoption.

    "IT support and service management tools are largely automated today for maximum efficiency, but ultimately people must be involved to move processes forward. Enterprises need to integrate real human activity into the service management and DevOps processes to continue to gain agility. To do that effectively, it makes sense to connect — in context — to systems that run these processes where people spend their time interacting. Using xMatters’ DevOps approach to integrate these systems with an intelligent communication platform will enable enterprises to achieve their business goals — by meeting SLAs and better time to value in deployments,” said Daniel Conde, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

    xMatters’ award-winning cloud platform accelerates business processes through intelligent communication. The technology pinpoints and proactively alerts the individuals, teams and external service providers required to work together to quickly manage any business scenario along with resolving incidents, such as service disruptions and technical issues that interrupt the flow of day-to-day operations.

    Enterprises have long faced challenges in embracing DevOps – which Gartner defines as “a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach” – because the agility of modern systems conflicts with the strict compliance, stability and reliability requirements of legacy systems.

    Successful DevOps requires a wide range of stakeholders to efficiently communicate, collaborate and stay aligned with the business so they can build, test and release new software more rapidly, frequently and reliably. When companies engage in high-velocity software release cycles, it’s easy for key information to slip through the cracks or not get communicated to the right individuals, putting software delivery times or quality standards at risk.

    "Intelligent communications is an essential part of an Enterprise DevOps toolset,” said Doug Peete, SVP of Product Management at xMatters. “As IT organisations embrace DevOps initiatives, they need to empower both technical and business constituents to drive key processes forward. As the leader in intelligent communications for the enterprise, xMatters is in a unique position to enable DevOps initiatives while still supporting the specific business needs of ITSM and major incident management.”

    The xMatters Integration Platform connects modern and legacy systems and business processes to fundamentally alter the way development and operations teams work together in a DevOps environment. By doing so, standard IT service management processes can be managed in conjunction with DevOps processes.

    The new technology operationalises, contextualises and automates communications within key DevOps processes to drive personalised communication at scale so individuals and teams can collaborate effectively and efficiently.

    In September 2015, xMatters launched an expanded Global Partner Program designed to advance its platform for rectifying business disruptions in today’s always-connected enterprise. The company boasts more than 200 integrations and partnerships, including ServiceNow, Splunk, BMC Software, AppDynamics, New Relic, Salesforce and many more.

    Supporting Partner Quotes:
    “DevOps is an agile, collaborative approach to IT service delivery that brings together siloed teams, technologies and processes. xMatters’ new Integration Platform acts as a system of engagement, and helps empower enterprise IT teams to better manage communication and collaboration across these silos. It ensures the right information gets to the right people at the right time – and brings that information and context in Cherwell Service Management as the system of record. In that regard, intelligent communications driven by xMatters is an essential piece of the enterprise DevOps toolset.”
    – Jarod Greene, Vice President of Product Marketing, Cherwell Software

    "Moogsoft’s anomaly detection and event correlation across the production stack, combined with xMatters’ intelligently targeted alerting technology allows enterprise DevOps to identify and resolve incidents faster than ever before. This integration allows for better collaboration across DevOps teams through Moogsoft’s Situation Room and xMatters intelligent communication to engage the right resources with rich situational context."
    – Stephen Hart, CTO, Moogsoft

    "Our vision for New Relic is to be the first and best place to look to understand your digital business. Communications plays a huge role in delivering this experience and showing customers that everything is working – the health of the software, the quality of the customer experience and the business outcomes. We are excited about xMatters’ new Integration Platform which makes it even easier for New Relic customers to receive critical alerts, and also ensure that the right people are being notified on the right device with the right data at the right time.”
    – Nate Heinrich, Product Manager, New Relic

    “The xMatters Integration Platform is a welcome solution for enterprises that are aiming to adopt DevOps, but are struggling with the mammoth communications challenge inherent in rapidly delivering new IT services, while making sure everything is stable, reliable and secure. xMatters’ new offering makes it easy to connect with services such as API monitoring that are essential to maintaining platform health.”
    – Neil Mansilla, Vice President of Developer Relations, Runscope

    Resources

    About xMatters, inc.
    xMatters’ cloud-based communications solutions enable any business process or application to trigger two-way communications (push, voice, email, SMS, etc.) throughout the extended enterprise during time-sensitive events. With over a decade of experience in rapid communication, xMatters serves more than 1,000 leading global firms to ensure business operations run smoothly and effectively during incidents such as IT failures, product recalls, natural disasters, dynamic staffing, service outages, medical emergencies and supply-chain disruption. xMatters is headquartered in San Ramon, CA with additional offices in London and Sydney.

  • DBmaestro Raises $3M in Series A Funding to Expand DevOps for Database

    Financing came after DBmaestro tripled subscription revenue in 2015 

     Houston, Texas, February 24, 2016 – DBmaestro (http://www.dbmaestro.com/), the pioneer and leading provider of DevOps for Database solutions, announced today it raised $3 million in Series A funding from a number of venture capital firms including StageOne Ventures, lool Ventures and iAngels. The financing will be used to grow DBmaestro’s global sales and marketing and to seal its place as the leading database automation solution.

    The funding round came after a banner year for the company. In 2015, DBmaestro tripled their subscription revenue and signed many high-profile brands, including Barclays, Bank of the West, Allianz, and VISA. These achievements were driven by the success of their flagship product, TeamWork, which enables agile development, Continuous Integration, and Delivery for the Database.

    DBmaestro’s DevOps for Database solution offers a comprehensive approach to the database development life cycle, providing enterprises need to deliver changes faster. DBmaestro has been at the forefront of Continuous Delivery for the database, with a solution which brings innovative methods for safe database automation and ultimately reduces costs in development and deployment. Subsequently, it was named to the 2015 SD Times 100 for its Innovation in the Database and was also recognized as a prominent vendor of the DevOps tools market in Technavio’s Global DevOps Tools Market 2015-2019 report published in August 2015.

    The company’s growth led to the hiring of Danny Neuberger as Senior VP of Sales EMEA & APAC and Roy Lauzon as VP of R&D. Neuberger brings over 20 years of executive experience at Microsoft and EMC, while Lauzon has led software development teams at Celebros for almost 10 years. Said Lauzon: “Having worked for a decade on the software development side, I can attest to the critical need to adopt the best practices we’ve been implementing for software to the database as well.”

    “I believe that the success we have seen underscores the need in the community for our solution,” said Yariv Tabac, CEO and co-founder of DBmaestro. “Our customers are in highly competitive markets and the ability to implement continuous delivery and integration for the database is crucial. We are proud of our achievements and excited to bring on a number of experienced executives to continue to support each of our growing number of clients as they navigate the journey towards complete database automation.”

    About DBmaestro

    DBmaestro is a pioneer and leading DevOps for database solution provider. Its flagship product, DBmaestro TeamWork, enables agile development, Continuous Integration and Delivery for the Database.

    TeamWork supports streamlining of development process management and enforcing change policy practices. The solution empowers Agile team collaboration while fostering regulatory compliance and governance. With DBmaestro, organizations can facilitate DevOps for database by executing deployment automation, enhancing and reinforcing security as well as mitigating risk.

    DBmaestro’s solutions are deployed at many major international companies, including Visa, Isracard (MasterCard), Barclays, Bank of the West, Allianz, Frost Bank, Thomson Holidays, Bank Leumi, and others.

  • Mobile-Disruptor Simgo Launches World’s First eSIM

    BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Mobile-disruptor startup, Simgo® today announced the availability of an SDK for it’s award winning virtual eSIM cloud-platform (vSIM™) for cellular devices. Simgo’s v-SIM SDK, simgoinside™ is the world’s first fully functioning e-SIM for smartphones, tablets, wearables, connected cars and the exponentially expanding universe of IoT.  The simgoinside™ SDK is available for implementation by manufacturers and OEMs today at no cost to partners. A v-SIM implementation enables remote provisioning and automated, dynamic instant connectivity to any available mobile network based on user-defined rules such as QoS and cost, among others.

    “We’re glad the GSMA recognized the need for an e-SIM and implicitly validated Simgo’s work in the space. Unfortunately, however, the specification does not go nearly far enough,” said Eyal Shmueli, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Simgo. “The e-SIM does much for subscription management, but nothing for device manufacturers or subscribers, who need connectivity management. e-SIM simply gets rid of the need to swap out a physical card, but it doesn’t help any user, enterprise or otherwise, manage their connectivity based on real requirements like signal strength, or managing roaming, which are two major issues for connected cars for example.”

    “Our decision to make the v-SIM SDK available for integration for free reflects constant discussion within the industry to address the palpable frustration among enterprise IoT players that the industry is not keeping up with the momentous technological changes occurring in economy and culture,” said Avi Ben Shlush, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Simgo. “We know an open source, cloud-based solution is aggressive but we want to help catalyze evolution for businesses and consumers alike.”

    In other news at Mobile World Congress, Simgo announced that industry veteranMasahiro Inoue is joining the Simgo board of directors. Founding CEO of Yahoo!Japan, Inoue was formerly the Director of Softbank who was instrumental Softbank’s Vodaphone acquisition, taking it to the number 2 position behind NTT DoCoMo.

    Simgo will be demonstrating its award-winning vSIM™ product range at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona February 22-25, in Hall 5, Stand 5D81 and in the Intel Booth at 4YFN To schedule a meeting, click here or go tohttps://simgo.typeform.com/to/mqDHuD

    About Simgo
    Simgo® provides the world’s leading cloud-based virtual SIM (vSIM™) platform for cellular devices, developed from its patented and award-winning technology.  By moving SIM management to the cloud, Simgo is shifting the paradigms of the mobile world and opening doors to new and exciting opportunities for users, operators, service providers and device manufacturers. Simgo is a 2016 partner in the Intel® Ingenuity Partner Program, “a carefully selected group of startups, chosen for their vision, innovative technology, and potential to create transformative solutions and products.” Simgo was awarded the first place in theMobile Enterprise Innovation category of the 2015 CTIA MobITs awards.

    For more information, visit www.simgo-mobile.com

  • 451 Research and Actifio Announce DevOps and Test Data Management Best Practices Webinar

    BOSTON, Feb. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, today announced its participation in an upcoming webinar featuring Jay Lyman, an analyst at 451 Research, and Chandra Reddy, VP of product marketing at Actifio, to discuss best practices for accelerating application development with DevOps, and copy data virtualization strategies.

    Webinar overview:

    This live webinar explores some of the most pressing issues in the world of application development, including test data management. Lyman and Reddy will discuss challenges facing teams moving towards a DevOps model and how new approaches and technologies such as Copy Data Virtualization can help:

    • Accelerate release cycles by drastically reducing test data provisioning, enabling faster time to market
    • Free test and development teams from the constraints of siloed infrastructure and processes with self-serve access to test data
    • Release higher-quality code by testing through the dev cycle against real, current, high-fidelity production data that is masked according to business requirements

    Who:

    • Jay Lyman, Research Analyst, 451 Research
    • Chandra Reddy, VP of Product Marketing, Actifio

    What: Crush Your Application Release Cycles – Get 5 Quarters in a Year

    When: Wednesday, February 24, 2016; 1:00-2:00p.m. ET | 10:00-11:00a.m. PT

    Where: Register here

    About Actifio
    Actifio virtualizes the data that’s the lifeblood of businesses in more than 30 countries around the world. Actifio’s Virtual Data Pipeline™ technology enables customers to protect, access, and move their data faster, more efficiently, and more simply by decoupling data from physical storage, similar to hypervisor technology decoupling compute from physical servers. For enterprise-class backup modernization, self-serve instant data access, or service provider business transformation, Actifio is the first and only choice for radically simple copy data virtualization. For more visit Actifio.com, or follow us on Twitter @Actifio.

    About 451
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  • Devops meme mondays

    Devops meme mondays

    Today starts a new week and a new round of entertaining memes.  Again this week we will leave the creativity open to a meme of your choosing.  Simply find a picture and create a funny and/or cunning devops themed meme. You can use https://imgflip.com/memegenerator as an easy source for generating memes.

    To submit your meme for a chance to win a t-shirt (top 5 memes receives a t-shirt), simply post it to twitter tweeting @DevOpsDotCom and using the hashtag #DevOpsMM.

    Last week was a holiday, so we do not have any winners from last week.

    Here are some examples of DevOps memes to help get the wheels spinning:

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  • Avalon Consulting, LLC Announces “Getting Started” Workshop for Walmart Labs OneOps

    Custom engagement designed to empower enterprises to quickly assess open-sourced application lifecycle management platform from Walmart Labs

    PLANO, Texas, Feb. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Avalon Consulting, LLC, a leader in delivering business value through information technology, today announced the launch of a high-impact workshop for enterprises interested in evaluating Walmart Labs’ OneOps, a continuous application lifecycle management (ALM) platform for cloud-based workload.  Avalon’s 3-day workshop will enable organizations to reduce cost, time, risk and uncertainty related to suitability of OneOps for their ALM needs. The workshop furthersAvalon’s commitment to supporting full circle DevOps.

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    OneOps, the most comprehensive open-source ALM product available, allows developers to build and launch new products and features faster, forklift legacy applications to the cloud easily and maintain applications throughout their entire lifecycle with advanced auto-healing and auto-scaling capabilities. ALM products, such as OneOps, seek to alleviate the friction between business, technology and operations groups in organizations entering the Digital Economy and adopting cloud computing.

    “The promise of executing DevOps consistently and efficiently is in enabling IT to deliver breakthrough business results; OneOps is an innovative, comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management platform that will make that promise a reality for many,” said Brian Johnson, Sr. Director of Engineering, @Platform, Walmart Labs. “A primary challenge an enterprise will face in exploring OneOps due to its comprehensive nature is simply getting started. Workshops, like the one being offered by Avalon, are an excellent way to overcome that challenge in a cost-effective and timely manner and start off down the right path.”

    Avalon’s 3-Day Workshop for OneOps, offered onsite and customized for each client delivery, is designed to guide an organization in assessing OneOps within the context of that organization’s unique business operations and technology environment. The highly interactive workshop offers a guided, hands-on experience with OneOps combined with a facilitated discovery session to capture the organization’s current applications delivery practices. Additionally, the workshop identifies opportunities for optimizing existing Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline and DevOps practices. Where appropriate, the conclusion of the workshop will include a high level outline of tasks and work effort required to achieve successful implementation of the OneOps platform.

    “The tools and techniques used to implement and manage applications in a hybrid multi-cloud architecture like OneOps are nascent and evolving. Technology and training environments that offer education and assistance to do so would be a welcome and valuable resource for those so charged,” said Carl Lehmann, a hybrid IT analyst with 451 Research.

    The tactics required to achieve success with DevOps initiatives are increasingly complex.  Aligning system architects, developers, administrators and business stakeholders to rapidly deliver new features with no downtime but a great return on investment is a growing challenge. Avalon provides expert leadership to guide clients in realizing the benefits of DevOps through accelerated adoption of, and enhancements to, agile development, continuous delivery, architecture, and cloud management processes.  OneOps is designed to offer all stakeholders in a DevOps initiative the easy-to-manage control truly needed to succeed. Avalon’s 3-Day Workshop for OneOps is designed to ensure organizations can get started in a fast and cost-effective manner.

    About Avalon Consulting, LLC

    Avalon Consulting, LLC is a technology consulting leader providing support for businesses of all sizes to maximize and utilize data and analytics in order to grow revenue, drive profit, and compete in a fast-paced global economy. Avalon specializes in enabling full spectrum DevOps. As a result, clients are able to turn data investments into actionable results. Avalon has benefitted over one-hundred organizations, primarily Global 2000 companies, through its four core service offerings: Continuous Delivery, Cloud Automation & Management, Agile Delivery, and Architecture. The volume and variety of data that organizations need to manage and analyze is changing rapidly and Avalon is plays a critical role in enabling our clients to navigate through it all. Headquartered inPlano, Texas, Avalon also maintains offices in cities across the US. For more information, please visit www.avalonconsult.com.

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