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  • Illumio Introduces Adaptive User Segmentation as the Newest Weapon in the Battle to Reduce Cyber Attack Surface

    Illumio’s Adaptive User Segmentation capabilities dynamically integrate Microsoft’s Active Directory entitlements for hundreds of millions of users, dramatically expanding the reach of the Adaptive Security Platform
    SUNNYVALE, Calif.—February 17, 2016—Illumio today announced it has extended the capabilities of its industry-leading Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)Ô through integration with Microsoft’s Active Directory groups. The new capability, known as Adaptive User Segmentation, dynamically calculates and provisions connectivity rules based on user identity to prevent unauthorized communications with, and access to, any Illumio-protected applications. Illumio ASP now can govern how hundreds of millions of users connect to applications across data centers, clouds or hybrid-cloud compute environments.
    Adaptive User Segmentation is the latest step in Illumio’s core mission to secure data anywhere it resides:
    ·      When Illumio launched in October 2014, it introduced a complete range of adaptive segmentation models to reduce the attack surface, from environmental separation to micro-segmentation. It also introduced “MRI-like” visualizations of data center and cloud environments, as well as policy-driven transport layer encryption.
    ·      During RSA 2015, the company introduced its nano-segmentation capability, which provides process-level segmentation among both physical servers and virtual machines and reduces the surface area of server-to-server communications by over 99 percent. Illumio also extended its policy-driven segmentation model to incorporate F5 Local Traffic Manager and Application Firewall Modules.
    ·      Later in the year, Illumio announced partnerships with Docker and Mesosphere to extend adaptive security capabilities to fast-growing Linux container deployments.
    Illumio’s Adaptive User Segmentation extends to all of these environments and delivers the most meaningful reduction in the cyber attack surface area in computing history. The company has fused governance of both workload-to-workload communications and user-to-workload communications through this technology breakthrough, strengthening the traditional entitlement model in a way never possible before today. According to statcounter.com, Windows 7—the target OS for VDI desktops/laptops connecting to the data center—accounts for just under 50 percent of all desktop operating systems in operation.
    Today, users within an organization can see and connect to most, if not all, applications within the data center or cloud environment, regardless of their Active Directory entitlements. Given heightened challenges to deliver trust and security, relying on central systems of record like Active Directory to ensure users only have access to the appropriate assets is no longer sufficient. The breaches that occurred in the past few years in large enterprises and government agencies underscore that entitlements and authentication alone are unable to provide the protection required by high-value applications and data.
    Leveraging the Illumio ASP approach of writing and delivering a dynamic policy using a whitelist model, the integration of Illumio ASP and Active Directory allows an organization to ensure that only the correct users can connect to the appropriate workloads and applications in the data center, public cloud, private cloud or hybrid compute environment.
    “Illumio’s mission since our founding has been to help our customers regain control over their applications and data,” said Andrew Rubin, co-founder and chief executive officer of Illumio. “With the introduction of Adaptive User Segmentation, Illumio once again is dramatically reducing computing attack surface through dynamic, policy-driven enforcement that allows users to only connect to the data center and cloud compute they are entitled to access.”
    “Illumio’s new capabilities will resonate with security professionals assessing their security posture,” said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Security leaders must deal with both sides of the user/data center equation and are well served to do it together rather than separately.”
    About Illumio
    Illumio delivers adaptive security for every computing environment, protecting the 80 percent of data center and cloud traffic missed by the perimeter. The company’s Adaptive Security Platform™ visualizes application traffic and delivers continuous, scalable, and dynamic policy and enforcement to every bare-metal server, VM, container, and VDI within data centers and public clouds. Using Illumio, enterprises such as Morgan Stanley, Plantronics, NTT, King Entertainment, NetSuite, and Creative Artists Agency have achieved secure application and cloud migration, environmental segmentation, compliance, and high-value application protection from breaches and threats with no changes to applications or infrastructure. For more information, visit www.illumio.com or follow @Illumio.
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    Amber Rowland

  • Application Analytics for DevOps will be Presented by Nastel Technologies at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas

    Join us and learn about analyzing shared metrics and tracking transactions in order to reduce support costs and deliver continuously. Visit Nastel in booth #660

    Melville, NY (PRWEB) February 18, 2016

    Nastel Technologies, a global provider of software for Application Performance Monitoring (APM), delivering real-time application analytics, transaction tracking and forensics will present “Application Analytics for DevOps” at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas. The presentation will be delivered on February 22nd at 7 pm in the Expo Theater in the Mandalay Bay Solution Expo.

    Many organizations struggle with adopting DevOps. These businesses have invested in a large assortment of tools to make this work and yet there is still finger-pointing instead of collaboration. Nastel AutoPilot provides forensics for IT. Analyze the data from multiple sources, compare behavior across different times and locations, create metrics and search for the patterns that emerge.

    Join Nastel Technologies and learn how AutoPilot can help by providing: continuous monitoring, tracking and analytics. Nastel AutoPilot creates and analyzes shared metrics across HDFS, Logstash, Flume, Syslog, Kafka, MQ, Spark, Log4j, JMS, Java and other data sources; tracks transactions across applications; and provides an easy-to-use natural language to inquire or subscribe to live metrics.

    Nastel is also exhibiting at IBM InterConnect 2016 in booth 660. Nastel will be demonstrating its new AutoPilot Insight solution and end-user monitoring capabilities. AutoPilot Insight helps businesses gain instant insight into application performance by providing: a unified application analytics platform, automated transaction tracking, a wide array of data collectors and an English-like query language. All of this is built on an elastic architecture using clustered computing and NoSQL.

    jKool will also be presented in the Nastel booth and show a solution that provides real-time analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT).

    “2015 was an outstanding year for Nastel, with large wins, happy customers and new product innovation. Our laser focus on ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction combined with our relentless technical innovation has been the key to our revenue growth. With the addition of our new cutting edge analytics and forensics capabilities we are excited to provide continued competitive advantage to our global customer base” said Charley Rich, VP Product Management at Nastel Technologies.

    Recently, Nastel was honored by Gartner’s recognition of its accomplishments in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring Suites

    The chosen APM solution for over 200 Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporations, Nastel AutoPilot has earned a reputation for helping companies significantly reduce the frequency and duration of costly application outages. By providing real-time analytics and transaction tracking across multiple event sources, Nastel AutoPilot is able to evaluate situations in IT Operations as a whole as opposed to just individual events. This powerful approach can infer a root-cause from multiple events and deliver meaningful, actionable alerts at the same time it prevents false alarms.

    About Nastel Technologies

    Nastel Technologies is a global provider of application performance monitoring solution with real-time analytics, comprehensive transaction tracking and forensics. Nastel is a privately held company headquartered in New York, with offices in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and Mexico, and a network of partners throughout Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. For more information, visit us at http://www.nastel.com.

  • Red Hat Brings DevOps to the Network with New Ansible Capabilities

    Red Hat extends Ansible’s agentless automation framework to network infrastructure devices; At launch, Ansible supports devices from Arista, Cisco, Juniper, and more

    RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it is bringing DevOps to networking by extending Ansible – its powerful IT automation and DevOps platform – to include native agentless support for automating heterogeneous network infrastructure devices using the same simple human and machine readable automation language that Ansible provides to IT teams. With expanded Ansible networking capabilities, Red Hat is aiming to help customers orchestrate entire application infrastructures, including network devices, with one automation tool.

    The 2015 “SDx Cloud Management Report: OpenStack and More,” highlighted the results of a recent survey on cloud architectures and platforms, stating, “When asked what they felt was the most immature component in cloud management, the overwhelming response was the network at 76%.” By including network devices as part of the overall architecture of Ansible, Red Hat customers can benefit from increased IT agility through operational efficiency, bridging the traditional divide between IT operations and networking teams, and advancing agility and modernization efforts.

    Using Ansible’s simple, powerful, and agentless approach, organizations will have the ability to unify operational methodologies across their IT infrastructure in a new way – by orchestrating compute, applications, virtualization, and now, networking. This approach offers many customer benefits, including:

    • For network teams looking to apply more agile DevOps methodologies to network infrastructures, Ansible can enhance their ability to build and operate heterogeneous network devices, freeing them up to focus on evolving the network to meet the changing business needs instead of manually pushing network configuration.
    • For systems and applications teams that wish to include network devices in a holistic approach to application workload management, Ansible’s native network device support enables them to extend their DevOps tools and practices to heterogeneous network devices.
    • For executives and senior management concerned about their organization’s ability to automate and orchestrate solutions in an increasingly complex IT environment, Ansible provides a framework that integrates diverse network devices without introducing vertically integrated, vendor specific applications and operational methodologies.

    At launch, Red Hat’s Ansible networking framework provides support for:

    • Arista Networks – Arista EOS;
    • Cisco Systems – Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI); Cisco IOS-XE®; Cisco IOS-XR®; and Cisco NX-OS;
    • Cumulus Networks – Cumulus Linux;
    • OpenSwitch.net – OpenSwitch; and
    • Juniper Networks – Junos OS.

    Availability

    Support for automating network infrastructure devices in Ansible is available immediately.

    Supporting Quotes

    Todd Barr, general manager, Ansible, Red Hat

    “Today’s networks are complicated, and largely comprised of multi-vendor solutions, making them rather inflexible and slow to react to business changes. Bringing a DevOps mindset and approach to the network gives customers the ability to make network operations a repeatable, more predictable, and automated process. By bringing the power of Ansible, the popular open source IT automation solution, to the network, we’re giving customers the ability to solve their complicated networking automation and workflow problems in a new way.”

    Jay Lyman, research manager, Cloud Management and Containers, 451Research

    “The cloud and automation offer a significant opportunity to evolve and advance the network, bringing together once disparate technologies and teams. Through Ansible’s new networking automation capabilities, Red Hat is bringing the benefits of DevOps to a new area of IT, and aiming to help customers do a better job with their networks.”

    Joe Hielscher, director of Business Development and Alliances, Arista Networks

    “Red Hat and Arista share a goal of enabling joint customers to focus on improving their businesses, rather than learning complex proprietary tools. Arista EOS and CloudVision, combined with Ansible by Red Hat, deliver standards based tools for datacenter administrators, enabling enhanced operational efficiency and application of DevOps methodologies for cloud networking.”

    Mike Cohen, director of product management, Cisco

    “The trends of cloud, big data, and microservices demand ever increasing speed, scale, and flexibility in network infrastructure. By building on Cisco’s open software architecture and open APIs at the core of our IOS-XE, NX-OS and ACI platforms, Ansible offers our customers an extremely powerful IT automation tool to pave the way for adopting the DevOps model.”

    Brian Ortbals, vice president, Advanced Technology, World Wide Technology (WWT)

    “Ansible is an integral part of World Wide Technology’s network automation strategy. Network automation and programmability using Ansible is a key component of the training curriculum of WWT professional services Cisco ACI deployment engineers. WWT has developed a solution using Ansible to consistently and efficiently configure Nexus 9000 series switches to customer specifications in our Integration Technology Center (ITC). This announcement further solidifies the relationship between WWT and Red Hat to help realize the operational efficiency of #netdevops for our customers.”

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    About Red Hat, Inc.

    Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more athttp://www.redhat.com.

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  • Preview of IBM InterConnect Speakers

    Preview of IBM InterConnect Speakers

    Next week devopsy.kinsta.cloud will be in Las Vegas to cover IBM’s InterConnect Conference. With over 200 DevOps related sessions, there is something for just about everyone on the schedule.

    We thought it would be useful to give you a peek at some of these presenters. Below are interviews of some InterConnect speakers from their recent appearances at the DevOps Enterprise Summit this past October.  While most will be presenting on different topics, there will still be a DevOps angle.

    So here is Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief at devopsy.kinsta.cloud, with several InterConnect scheduled presenters:

    First is an interview with DevOps leader, author and researcher, Gene Kim. Gene is the host of the DevOps Enterprise Summit and will be at InterConnect in several sessions.

    Next up is Mustafa Kapadia, IBM practice leader and devopsy.kinsta.cloud contributor.

    CJ Paul and David Myers join Jayne Grohl, founder of the DevOps Institute who was scheduled to speak at InterConnect but had to withdraw to an injury.

    Of course how can you talk IBM DevOps without Rosalind Radcliffe, distinguished engineer and multi-speed IT expert.

    In this clip, CJ Paul and Rosalind Radcliffe are joined by Gary Gruver, author of Leading the Transformation and well known DevOps expert.

    Finally, Rachel Reinitz CTO Bluemix Garage and IBM VP Angel Diaz and Kristal York talk about innovating like a startup, scaling like an enterprise.

    We are bringing the video gear to InterConnect and hope to have lots of new video interviews for you in the coming weeks!

  • New Context Pioneers Concept of Lean Security with Book Debut

    SAN FRANCISCO–(Business Wire)–New Context Services, Inc., the leading provider of Lean Security for software and infrastructure development, today announced the forthcoming publication of the book “Lean Security” by New Context CEO, Daniel Riedel, and New Context vice president of security services, Andrew Storms.

    Lean Security applies the “lean” management concept to the world of cybersecurity. New Context has now implemented Lean Security practices and processes with its clients in the United States and abroad, and its experiences with these implementations inform the book’s subject matter and takeaways.

    “The ‘lean’ concept has proved incredibly effective for organizations from manufacturing facilities to startups,” said Riedel. “When these principles are harnessed for security, the result is a cohesive environment that ensures continued innovation within a secure framework. Considering that cyberattacks will never cease to exist, this is the only viable model for the future.”

    Storms added: “It’s been a long-standing misconception that it is nearly impossible for a company’s software development team to meet the trifecta of being able to push code to production faster, develop more secure code and still reduce costs within the software development lifecycle. Our Lean Security practices buck that notion and are proving to be an effective model for our clients to meet their strategic goals.”

    The book is co-authored by longtime security journalist Ericka Chickowski and will be published later this year. Available via www.leansecurity.com, it will explore the five principles of Lean Security, which include:

    • Environmental Awareness: In order to adopt Lean Security principles, everyone – from engineers to architects, line-of-business managers to the C-suite – must keep IT security considerations in mind throughout the entire development lifecycle.
    • Automate or Die: Just as with DevOps, automation is the keystone to Lean Security. In order to establish a continuous delivery pipeline, organizations must develop an entire automated tool chain to push bite-sized pieces of code to production through automated integration, test and deployment. Automated security testing and approval processes must be built into this tool chain to achieve Lean Security.
    • Measure Everything: Feedback is crucial for developing quality applications and eliminating waste from the engineering process. As a result, developers, security teams and operations personnel need to be able to measure application and related infrastructure performance on a continuous basis in order to constantly improve the application accordingly.
    • Simplify Engineering: Complexity is the enemy in development. It makes code messier, more expensive and less secure. The goal of Lean Security is to simplify engineering through more savvy use of third-party components and less frequent reinvention of the wheel.
    • Lean Security Is Not Invisible Security: Security should never be opaque to the user. Users are increasingly aware of security risks today, and it is incumbent upon engineers to show them that security measures are baked into their software.

    “If we shift software engineers’ thinking to focus on building security deep into their developmental practices, then we stand a better chance of maintaining operational resiliency when we run,” said Craig Rosen, CSO of FireEye. “I’m excited about Lean Security because it is a model that creates a sustainable environment where engineers, product and finance people can cultivate innovation together amid an increasingly turbulent and dangerous threat landscape.”

    Doug Rhoades, director of information security at Sempra Energy, added: “As someone who understands how Andrew and Daniel work and build infrastructure, I’m excited to see them push Lean Security against the current status quo. Cybersecurity is one of the biggest challenges facing critical infrastructure, and it’s key that everyone involved in the development process is included and that it is automated into the business infrastructure. Lean Security does both.”

    New Context currently provides Lean Security consulting and services to financial services, energy, infrastructure protection and healthcare organizations. Its partners include thrv, Apigee and Delphix, among others.

    About New Context

    New Context delivers Lean Security™ through hands-on technical and management consulting. We are a team of experts with extensive backgrounds in information security and scalable, secure application development. Our tools and processes streamline development frameworks to ensure transparent and secure IT software development within DevOps processes. New Context is headquartered in San Francisco.

    Web | http://www.newcontext.com/
    Twitter | @newcontext
    LinkedIn | New Context

    for New Context
    Brenda Patterson, 440-623-9581
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  • Jelastic Partners with Tech Equity to Deliver an Advanced DevOps Platform for Cloud Applications

    Jelastic Cloud Union expands with Tech Equity, offering a turnkey cloud platform for easy application lifecycle development and management

    Palo Alto, Calif (PRWEB) February 16, 2016

    Jelastic, Inc., a well-recognized leader in cloud orchestration and DevOps announced a strategic partnership with Tech Equity, presenting the ultimate, cost-effective cloud hosting platform for applications.

    Jelastic enables DevOps teams to develop and run their applications and gain full benefits from resource autoscaling, providing cost optimization at the same time. Users can focus on their core tasks, not caring about maintenance and management issues. Jelastic platform supports a wide choice of software stacks by default, Docker containers, plugins for NetBeans IDEs, Eclipse and other technologies, providing a turnkey cloud with a complex solution. Jelastics highly advanced user-friendly platform simplifies greatly applications development and provides truly flexible pricing due to its pay-as-you-go feature.

    “More and more companies worldwide are showing a high interest in containers and DevOps integration to their businesses. To meet these demands, we keep expanding Jelastic Cloud Union and now partner with Tech Equity.” said Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic CEO.

    Tech Equity currently offers two cloud domains. The entry level Tech Equity DevOps cloud provides an opportunity to develop, test and integrate the applications with out-of-the-box transaction processing capabilities.Dr Linus Etube, Tech Equity’s Director of Financial Technology and former Chief Investment Officer in the City of London led the design of the Swifin transaction exchange that enables any ISV and any developer to integrate their applications with Swifin, providing the opportunity for instant access to new customers and revenue opportunities for ISVs and developers.

    “Through our partnership with Jelastic, we are able to deliver an advanced enterprise cloud platform with integrated transaction processing capabilities that enabled rapid adoption of cloud services by a wide range of users, including those without access to bank accounts and credit cards,” commented Dr Shiyghan Emmanuel Navti, Tech Equity’s founder, a technology industry veteran who previously led the IBM Europe private cloud platform technical sales team, as well as the developing key elements of the IBM’s African expansion strategy.

    Dr. Linus Etube who is also the Founder of Sedel Capital LLP, which has recently obtained regulatory approval from the UK Financial conduct authority for eMoney issuance and the provision of related payment services commented that the flexibility offered by the Jelastic cloud platform makes it possible to use cloud technology and the Swifin transaction service exchange to ensure secure delivery of Financial Services to millions of people including the unbanked in a way that makes it possible for any person or any business to access and pay for cloud technology services from anywhere using any mobile phone or network. This will open up opportunities for greater participative engagement by all in the real economy and for increased use of technology to refine and optimise key business processes for many businesses to support greater wealth creation.

    Commenting on the launch of the Tech Equity cloud, CEO of the Natural Enterprises Finance and Marketing Agency Ltd, Callistus Mubangizi stated that the flexibility and efficiency of the Swifin cloud platform create unprecedented opportunities to deliver a range of services to its network of over 900 loans and savings communities across Uganda.

    Tech Equity selected Jelastic as a partner due to its ability to address key requirements from ISVs, DevOps teams, enterprises and financial services organizations migrating to the cloud. Jelastic provides a production-ready solution with a package of benefits like advanced Docker containers support, smart distribution, automatic vertical and horizontal scaling, high availability, security and full isolation. The partnership with Jelastic enables Tech Equity to support the most popular programming languages – PHP, Java, Python, Ruby and Node.js.

    About Tech Equity

    Tech Equity is a managed cloud platform services provider focused on enabling application developers and service providers to access new revenue opportunities by serving clients who previously were unable to pay for their services. The Tech Equity cloud has been designed in partnership with Jelastic, and with the support of Microsoft and IBM. Tech Equity enables ISVs and cloud application developers to grow their customers base and generate more revenue through the use of an efficient application hosting platform, integrated with transaction processing services. Tech Equity is based at Europe’s largest FinTech accelerator in London, UK. For more information about Tech Equity, visit http://techequity.company. For information on the Swifin financial services, visit http://swifin.com.

    About Jelastic

    Jelastic delivers an advanced enterprise Public, Private, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud platforms in partnership with ISVs, hosting service providers, systems integrators, outsourcing companies. The Jelastic cloud platform provides certified containers for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and .NET and the ability to use custom Docker containers. Jelastic offers an agile deployment model with no proprietary APIs, flexible automatic scaling for stateless and stateful applications, collaboration, access control, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, built-in billing and business analytics tools. Jelastic enables its partners to drive down TCO with high density, hardware utilization. Its multi-cloud functionality enables customers to achieve high-availability through geo-distribution across different data centers or clouds. For more information visit us at http://www.jelastic.com

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  • Relus Cloud Expands East Coast Footprint with Senior Solutions Architect Hire

    Ferzan Rizvi brings strategic expertise in Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and Amazon Web Services.

    Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 16, 2016

    Relus Cloud, a leading cloud solutions provider in Atlanta, announced today that it will expand the organization’s footprint into the New York and Pennsylvania markets with the addition of a new Senior Solutions Architect, Ferzan Rizvi. The expansion and Rizvi’s role will assist Relus in providing robust solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Continuous Delivery (CD) to organizations of all types. Rizvi brings a wealth of experience in AWS, architecture, development, and agile methodologies.

    “This exciting expansion will allow us to better serve organizations throughout our East Coast markets,” said Michael Campbell, Vice President of Sales at Relus Technologies. “Ferzan’s vast knowledge of AWS, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps will allow Relus to provide even greater expertise to organizations making cloud transitions or optimizing existing cloud environments.”

    Ferzan brings the organization over ten years in Continuous Delivery, DevOps and software engineering. Before joining Relus, Ferzan worked at Scripps Networks Interactive, Siemens, and eBay Enterprise. In previous roles, Rizvi was responsible for managing Continuous Delivery teams, solving challenging technical problems, and ensuring compliance with Federal and industry regulatory requirements.

    As Senior Solutions Architect, Rizvi will work closely with customers to deliver innovative cloud solutions and architecture. He will also support clients in developing cloud strategies and initiatives that align with the overall goals and objectives of the organization. “My goal is to bring the highest subject matter expertise to Relus clients,” said Rizvi. “I am excited to solve complex technical challenges and deliver quality results to Relus Cloud customers.”

    About Relus Cloud

    Relus Cloud is an Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner based in Atlanta, GA. Our core competencies include Cloud Strategy & Planning, Cloud Architecture & Design, DevOps Consulting, Managed Services, and Big Data Consulting. Our expertise and capabilities in cloud technologies positions us as a true business partner to the most profitable and impactful organizations around the country. Our experienced team develops tailored solutions aimed at minimizing costs, maximizing investment, building compliance, and simplifying the cloud technology environment. For more information, visit http://www.reluscloud.com.

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  • TechWell Announces Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps West in Las Vegas

    Over One Hundred Learning and Networking Sessions To Be Held Over Six Days

    Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) February 15, 2016

    Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps West will be held June 5–10, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada at the iconic Caesars Palace. The conference offers access to more than one hundred learning and networking sessions over six days, details of which are now available to view online.

    “We are excited to announce the full 2016 Agile Dev, Better Software and DevOps West schedule. This year’s event offers speakers from companies including Spotify, Whole Foods, ThoughtWorks, Autodesk, DirectTV, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Agile Institute, and others.”, said Stasi Richmond, Director of Marketing for TechWell.

    At Agile Dev West, discover the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and leadership principles. Better Software West explores what is needed to build better software now; and, at DevOps West, learn from industry experts how your organization can apply DevOps concepts to improve deployment frequency and time to market, reduce lead time, and more successfully deliver stable new features.

    This year’s keynotes presentation lineup will feature industry experts like Jez Humble on DevOps and the Culture of High-Performing Software Organizations and Linda Rising on The Power of an Agile Mindset—plus other internationally-known speakers. Concurrent sessions offer attendees the flexibility to customize their learning experience by following a specific track or explore various track topics throughout the week. Session Tracks include, but are not limited to:

    ● Agile Leadership

    ● Agile Techniques

    ● DevOps

    ● Going Mobile

    ● Internet of Things (IoT)

    ● Projects & Teams

    ● Software Quality

    ● Test & QA

    Finally, attendees can take part in the Agile Leadership Summit at Agile Dev West. Participants in the Agile Leadership Summit work with and learn from experienced agile leaders that have led lasting change and produced a thriving agile culture. Learn ways to challenge personal leadership growth and lead in your organizational challenges including communication interpretation, anti-fragile approaches, visual data information radiators, and more.

    For more information and to access the full conference program, visit https://bscwest.techwell.com.

    About TechWell Corporation:

    TechWell—through its conferences, training, consulting, community websites, and online resources—helps people and organizations develop and deliver great software. For more information, visithttp://www.techwell.com.

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  • Perforce Adds Emerasoft to Its Global Channel Program

    Partnership Helps Companies in Italy Adopt DevOps Practices and Bring Products to Market Faster

    Wokingham (UK) and Rome, (Italy), February 16, 2016 – Perforce Software today announced a partnership with Emerasoft, the leading distributor of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions and consulting services in Italy. The agreement allows Emerasoft to sell and support thePerforce Helix version control and collaboration platform as part of its extensive product portfolio.

    Based in Turin, Italy, Emerasoft has been providing products and services that enable agile development, continuous delivery and DevOps for more than 10 years.

    “The advanced capabilities of Perforce Helix are exactly what our customers have been asking for—a collaborative version control solution that also meets enterprise needs for scalability and security,” said Riccardo Bernasconi, CEO at Emerasoft. “We are particularly impressed with Helix GitSwarm and its ability to provide Git users with a much more comprehensive Git experience while making Git enterprise-ready. This makes Helix an incredibly strong addition to our product mix.”

    Emerasoft joins a growing community of Perforce sales partners across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa, India and the Americas.

    “We are excited to add a partner of Emerasoft’s caliber to our expanding partner ecosystem,” said Philip O’Hara, EMEA partner manager at Perforce Software. “Emerasoft’s track record of creating solutions for complex environments and their strong understanding of the Italian application development market makes them the perfect partner to expand our footprint to new geographies.”

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    About Emerasoft
    Emerasoft is an Italian company providing IT products and services. Founded in 2005 Emerasoft provides products and services in the areas of Application Lifecycle Management, Software Testing, DevOps, Security, Business Intelligence and Process Discovery. Its mission is to develop, select, and integrate the best technologies for customer satisfaction. Emerasoft has expertise in the Automotive, Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Bank and Insurance industry sectors, serving innovative customers, including Ferrero, CNH Industrial, Lombardia Informatica, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Finmeccanica, Ferragamo, Juventus. For more information, please visitwww.emerasoft.com.

    About Perforce Software
    Perforce Software helps companies build complex products more collaboratively and securely. Its highly scalable source code management (SCM) and collaboration platform, Perforce Helix, enables global teams to collaborate on any type or size of file. It supports both centralized and distributed (DVCS) workflows while safeguarding intellectual property with advanced behavioral analytics. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including adidas, Samsung, NVIDIA, Intuit, Pixar, Salesforce, EA, Ubisoft and VMware. The company is headquartered in Alameda, California, with offices in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com.

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    Ivana Gaspic
    Perforce Software
    Ph: +1 510-473-3186
    Mob: +1 415-955-7483
    igaspic@perforce.com

    US
    Michael Thomas
    Edelman
    Ph: +1 312-233-1361
    Mob: +1 773-822-6182
    michael.thomas@edelman.com

    UK/EMEA
    Maxine Ambrose/Nicola Males
    Ambrose Communications
    Ph: +44 1491 412944
    perforce@ambrosecomms.co.uk

  • Devops freestyle friday

    Devops freestyle friday

    Following up with yesterday, today marks my favorite day of the work week.  It’s Friday, which means another round of #DevOpsFF (Devops Freestyle Friday).  In order to be considered to win you must create a captivating/funny/intelligent short freestyle/rhyme, in a style of your choosing.  Whether that be a meme or a text tweet to display your creativity  You can use https://imgflip.com/memegenerator as an easy source for generating memes if you would like to submit in that style.

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

    Here’s a quick freestyle to help you:

    Bob is stuck in his old ways, he doesn’t like to continuously deliver. He’ll be rethinking his outdated behavior when he’s sent downriver. #DevOpsFF @DevOpsDotCom