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  • Flux7 Named to 2016 Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards

    Takes Honorable Mention in AWS Consultant/Integration Partner Category

    Austin, TX (PRWEB) January 22, 2016

    Flux7, an IT consultancy providing cloud architecture and migration services and solutions to help businesses modernize their IT practices, today announced it was named for the second year running to the Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards 2016. Judged by the Modern Infrastructure e-zine editorial staff, in conjunction with users, readers and industry experts, the Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards recognize two products in each of six categories. Flux7 was given Honorable Mention in the AWS Consultant/Integration Partner category.

    The Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards recognize the top cloud and data center products, services and technologies making a difference for IT shops. Voters praised Flux7 for its extremely committed team, highly technical leadership, customer-driven focus and ability to change with the times.

    Aater Suleman, CEO of Flux7 and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, said, “Our aim is to always set our customers up for success with their AWS infrastructure. As a result, it’s really encouraging to hear customers’ resounding vote for the quality of work and focus on technical excellence that we pride ourselves on at Flux7.”

    Echoing Suleman’s comments was Shilo Rohlman, a software developer at Medallion Learning based in Denver, Colo. who was quoted as saying, “They are very technically capable, up-to-date with the latest AWS technologies, and responsive whenever we have questions or need assistance with our DevOps infrastructure.”

    Focused on optimizing their clients’ AWS infrastructure and training internal IT teams to manage their own infrastructure, Flux7 is one of six award-winning tools and services in essential areas of technology that Modern Infrastructure awarded with the Impact Awards today.

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    ABOUT FLUX7

    Flux7 architects cloud infrastructure frameworks that help businesses to modernize and optimize their IT systems, bridging the gap between a managed environment and independent system management. We enable companies in a wide variety of industries around the world to quickly create production-ready, secure, compliant and highly scalable environments by using automation, DevOps and best practices from hundreds of implementations. Unlike other cloud consulting groups, Flux7 emphasizes the transfer of knowledge to internal IT teams, helping them to become self-sustaining and improving their agility. For more information, please visit http://flux7.com

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  • SaltStack Data-Driven Orchestration on Display at SCALE 14x

    SaltStack sponsors the Southern California Linux Expo with talks and demonstrations highlighting event-driven infrastructure automation.

    Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) January 21, 2016

    SaltStack®, the creators of data-driven orchestration software for the management of any infrastructure or application stack at scale, today announced it is a sponsor of the Southern California Linux Expo for the fifth year in a row. SaltStack will demonstrate the power of data-driven orchestration for event-driven infrastructure through talks and demonstrations delivered by speakers from Adobe and SaltStack. Also, SaltStack can be found in the expo hall in booth #117. SCALE 14xwill be held this year in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 21-24, 2016.

    Don’t miss these Salty talks from Christer Edwards, Adobe senior systems administrator, and David Boucha, SaltStack software engineer, highlighting SaltStack for data-driven orchestration:

    Christer’s talk titled, “Ops Tools for Infrastructure Hardening,” will highlight how Adobe Systems is leveraging SaltStack for full system auditing, reporting and compliance. His presentation outlines how Adobe automates infrastructure hardening for FedRamp compliance and highlights the custom tools and modules we’ve created for SOC-2 and beyond. The initiative also includes components for HIDS, FIM and CIS compliance auditing with extensions that include osquery integration for SQL-like querying capabilities across the entire Adobe data center.

    Dave’s talk titled, “Beyond Configuration Management with SaltStack for Event-Driven Infrastructure,” will show how SaltStack is so much more than just a configuration management tool. Specifically, Dave will outline and demonstrate SaltStack intelligent, data-driven orchestration for event-driven infrastructure automation. SaltStack is built to help optimize the entire infrastructure and application stack via dynamic adjustment of resources based on monitored data, changes and events. Dave will provide an overview and demonstration of SaltStack Beacons combined with the SaltStack Reactor for proactive and autonomic system monitoring and management.

    Read the SCALE 14x speaker interview with Dave to learn that Dave expects presentation attendees to bring and use cell phones during his talk and encourages group participation during his demonstration of SaltStack data-driven orchestration.

    Register for SCALE 14x now using promo code “SALT” to receive 40% off the registration price.

    SaltConf16

    The 3rd annual SaltStack user conference is coming back to Salt Lake City, April 19-21, 2016. Attend to hear how organizations like Adobe, Aetna, Dun & Bradstreet, Dutch Government Data Centers, Lyft, Pure Storage, National Instruments, TD Bank, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and many more are using SaltStack to orchestrate and automate any infrastructure or application stack at scale. SaltConf16 is the most effective and economical way to get Salted but the best discounts are available for a limited time only. Register now.

    SaltStack recently announced new SaltStack Support offerings to provide Salt Open users and SaltStack Enterprise customers with dedicated, prioritized access to the Salt brain trust for any Salt implementation. Customers that subscribe to a SaltStack Support package by Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 receive complimentary SaltConf16 passes.

    About SaltStack

    SaltStack is a complete systems management software platform for scalable orchestration and automation of any infrastructure or application stack. SaltStack is used by IT operators, system administrators and DevOps engineers to automate configuration management, private cloud building, public cloud orchestration and event-driven infrastructure. The Salt open source project was launched in February of 2011 and is now one of the fastest growing, most-active communities in the world. SaltStack was founded in August 2012 to support the Salt project and to deliver SaltStack Enterprise packaged for the world’s most dynamic large and small businesses, web-scale applications and clouds. SaltStack won the Best of VMworld Gold Award for virtualization management, won an InfoWorld 2014 Technology of the Year Award, won the 2013 GigaOm Structure LaunchPad competition, was named a Linux Journal Reader’s Choice product in five categories, was named a Gartner 2013 Cool Vendor in DevOps, and was included on the GitHub Octoverse list for 2012 and 2013 as one of the largest, most-active open source projects in the world. For more information, please visit http://www.saltstack.com

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  • Sendachi Launches with $30M Initial Funding Commitment to Help Enterprises Worldwide Harness the Transformative Power of Modern Technologies and Methodologies

    New company unites experts in the US and UK to provide enterprise IT project teams with hands-on guidance to achieve self-sufficiency in DevOps and continuous delivery.

    SEATTLE – January 21, 2016 – Sendachi, a technology services firm created to facilitate vibrant, modern software development cultures within corporate IT departments, officially launched with a $30 million investment commitment from venture financier, Columbia Capital. Sendachi was formed through the merger of like-minded IT services companies, Clutch (based in Seattle) and Contino (based in London). Sendachi will be led by former Clutch CEO, Steven Anderson.

    Sendachi is tackling one of the most vexing problems facing enterprise IT departments today. Specifically: how to accelerate deployment of new services and service enhancements to gain the agility and velocity that lets entrepreneurial and customer-centric approaches flourish. Achieving this goal is not trivial in the enterprise, where internal development teams are burdened by existing responsibilities to legacy applications and a technology stack that has grown, layer by layer, over multiple decades.

    Many of the world’s biggest brands have begun to view software as a strategic differentiator, but creating the next wave of digital products and services requires experience with technologies such as cloud and containers, microservices architectures, and methods like Agile and DevOps. The most disruptive internet-age companies have demonstrated how harnessing these techniques can enable exponential growth and secure competitive advantage. Established enterprises want to follow suit, but need hands-on guidance and technical support to get there.

    That’s where Sendachi excels. Its expert teams work alongside clients, mentoring them, so internal staff can experience modern systems and methodologies in a material way, and learn to replicate those strategies and tactics. “Our biggest differentiator,” says Anderson. “Is that we don’t train internal teams in an abstracted way, we participate with them, showing them how by executing their real-world work. It’s not academic; it’s absolutely practical. We show them how to use new stack technologies and work differently to achieve acceleration and quality.”

    “Today’s enterprise IT landscape is full of new technologies and methodologies centered on agility and efficiency to help organizations address time, scale, business, competitive and other challenges,” says Jay Lyman, Research Manager, Cloud Management and Containers, 451 Research. “However, the reality is organizations must build on the infrastructure, process and people they already have in place in order to transform effectively and that means leveraging innovative software as well as intensive support to initiate and build out successful DevOps initiatives, applications and services.”

    Sendachi is focused on customers in the upper midmarket and large enterprise across industries. Its staff has extensive experience in DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery, having worked with Fortune 50 companies in the US and Europe. Sendachi has its global headquarters in Seattle, with its European head office in London. Contino cofounders Benjamin Wootton and Matt Farmer remain with the new company, Wootton as vice president of technology for Europe and Farmer as GM of Europe and former Clutch principal Jerome Gagner has been appointed vice president of technology for the Americas, and former CA Technologies global digital transformation lead Justin Vaughan-Brown has been named vice president of marketing. The firm will hire aggressively over the next year on both continents.

    “Across industries, from banking to media and even taxis, the threat or pain of software-based disruption is being felt. Enterprises have to make increasingly bold bets to stay ahead,” comments Wootton. “Over the next two years we will see more reorganizations, more insourcing, more re-platforming and more re-architecture than we saw in the previous decade as companies race to move from software legacy, to software as a competitive advantage. With a growing team on both sides of the Atlantic, we are looking forward to empowering more organizations with the skills, tools and culture to deliver that advantage.”

    “Both Contino and Clutch are demonstrating that their enterprise customers can incrementally build from accomplishing low risk projects with new technologies and methods to strategic, enterprise-wide transformations,” says Jason Booma, Partner at Columbia Capital. “Together as Sendachi, the company will continue its different approach to the application outsourcing market where a key customer benefit is an improved technology development capability, not just a great application. We’re excited to work with Steven and the team to collaborate on a business with this customer mission.”

    About Sendachi
    Sendachi is a technology and services company specializing in DevOps, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and transformational programs. The company’s Rapid Prototyping and DevOps Acceleration services help organizations speed time-to-market for high quality new and re-tooled applications. From strategy and operations to culture and technology, Sendachi helps business and technology leaders identify and address opportunities for growth and profitability. Sendachi provides training, development, deployment and optimization services for the full stack of DevOps and Agile technologies including application lifecycle management (ALM), modern development and continuous delivery tools, micro-services architecture, containerization, security, analytics, testing and cloud infrastructure platforms. Learn more at www.sendachi.com.

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    Media contact:
    Kevin Wolf
    TGPR
    (650) 327-1641
    kevin@tgprllc.com

    Source: RealWire

  • Datical Raises $8 Million in Series B Funding to Automate Database Management for DevOps

    Investment will accelerate product development and scale marketing, sales and support

    AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Datical, the leading provider of agile database automation solutions, today announced $8 million in Series B funding, led by S3 Ventures with participation from existing investors Mercury Fund and Austin Ventures. The company will use funding to expand its platform, which provides the automation necessary for enterprises to keep up with the increasing speed of application rollouts. In addition to growing its product development team, Datical will continue to ramp up global sales, marketing and support resources and activities.

    “As the market turns to Datical to solve this problem, partnering with S3 enables even greater investment in our technology and provides our current and future customers with ever-increasing value.”

    Datical DB is the only solution that automates database change management in application release cycles, which are becoming more frequent as organizations shift toward continuous delivery models and DevOps methods to meet demands from the digital enterprise. Automation at every level is a critical element of DevOps, but the database is often overlooked or becomes an afterthought when companies adopt this modern approach to software delivery.

    “Whether our customers are using cloud or on-premise databases, we enable them to increase the speed, accuracy and security of database change,” said Derek Hutson, CEO of Datical. “As the market turns to Datical to solve this problem, partnering with S3 enables even greater investment in our technology and provides our current and future customers with ever-increasing value.”

    Since it was founded in 2012, Datical’s business has been growing steadily (300% in 2015) as it provides critical software to developers and database administrators at the likes of Fidelity Investments, GE Transportation, eBay Enterprise, Deloitte and the State of North Dakota.

    “The role of the DBA has always been as the protector of the database. However, accelerated speed and constant change are the new reality, as organizations adopt DevOps and continuous delivery practices to remain competitive,” said Julie Craig, research director at Enterprise Management Associates. “The ‘do not change’ paradigm that has surrounded databases since the 80s is now creating a bottleneck that is not compatible with organizational mandates to accelerate the speed of software delivery.”

    “Datical rounds out the continuous delivery automation story with an integrated approach to the packaging, validation and deployment of database changes,” Craig continued. “‘Out of the box’ integrations with popular code repository, version control and release management solutions round out that story.”

    “As enterprises continue to adopt DevOps as the ideal approach for application delivery, we recognize the database is quickly becoming the next area of focus for automation in IT,” said Brian R. Smith, managing director at S3 Ventures. “Datical’s combination of a leadership position in a growing market, innovative technology and an experienced team make this a natural fit for S3.”

    By adding S3 Ventures to its bench of investors, Datical gains a strategic advisor that has a history of successful enterprise technology investments and exits, including Gravitant (now part of IBM), Alkami Technology and Pivot3.

    About Datical Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to radically improve and simplify the application release process by automating database management. Datical solutions deliver the database automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical agile database automation organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 949-DATICAL or connect via @datical.

    About S3 Ventures

    S3 Ventures is an early, expansion and growth stage venture firm with $225 million under management. S3 is focused on information technology solutions that solve large business problems. Further, S3 also invests in medical devices that improve the human condition. S3 partners with each investment and helps focus methodically on what it takes to build a successful company.

    Contacts

    For Datical
    Aaron Motsinger, 512-590-9366
    aaron@thedialoglab.com

  • Electric Cloud Announces Record Sales And Strong Momentum As Growing Roster Of Enterprise Customers Look To Speed Software Delivery With DevOps Release Automation

    Company helps lead the adoption of next-generation DevOps and Continuous Delivery with its ElectricFlow platform to simplify complex enterprise software release processes

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced it closed 2015 with its strongest sales quarter in the company’s history – driven by strong demand for its ElectricFlow DevOps Automation platform and new Fortune 500 customers within financial services, retail and government sectors. The company’s record sales are due to its technical innovation and continued industry thought leadership, along with the maturity of DevOps initiatives that call for the streamlined automation of processes across the entire software delivery lifecycle.

    “Electric Cloud had a breakout year as our products and expertise met the growing market need to deliver software applications faster as part of strategic Agile and DevOps initiatives in large enterprises,” said Steve Brodie, CEO for Electric Cloud. “From the successful launch of ElectricFlow Release, to introducing our ElectricFlow Community Edition, to co-hosting the second annual DevOps Enterprise Summit, the company really hit on all cylinders, resulting in the best Q4 and 2H in our history. This momentum bodes well for even stronger growth in 2016.”

    Electric Cloud helps software organizations speed software delivery by automating and accelerating critical DevOps Release Automation functions through its ElectricFlow and ElectricAccelerator platforms. ElectricFlow addresses key DevOps processes through: ElectricFlow Release, to manage release processes with full transparency and predictability; ElectricFlow Deploy, to automate complex software deployments at the push of a button; and ElectricFlow Build-Test, to automate continuous integration and test processes to amplify feedback loops and accelerate the pace of innovation. ElectricAccelerator speeds builds and tests by up to 20X, improving software time-to-market, infrastructure utilization and developer productivity.

    Highlights of 2015 for Electric Cloud include:

    • The largest bookings quarter in the company’s history in Q4 2015, aided by strong growth in the ElectricFlow Deploy and Release business, and the closing of the company’s first multi-million dollar ElectricFlow Deploy contract since the product was released last year.
    • Grew ElectricFlow Deploy revenue by 140 percent from 1H 2015 to 2H 2015.
    • ElectricFlow Deploy selected as the standard Application Release Automation (ARA) solution by several leading Financial Services companies, including a Fortune 10 bank, two leading electronic stock trading companies and one of the industry’s largest mortgage originators. Two of these four customers selected Electric Cloud to replace outdated systems from two very large competitors.
    • In Q4 2015 alone, the company secured four customer contracts greater than $700K each.
    • Closed a multi-year, multi-million dollar enterprise agreement with one of the largest networking companies in the world.
    • Recognized in Forrester Research’s 2015 ARA Wave as the emergent market leader, with clear leadership in strategy as defined by vision, planned enhancements, scalability, extensibility, controllability and out-of-the-box, third-party plug-ins. Forrester predicts that ARA license revenue will grow at a rapid 45 percent CAGR during the next five years
    • Co-hosted and conducted the second annual sold-out DevOps Enterprise Summit in October, together with partners Gene Kimand IT Revolution. The event had nearly 1,200 attendees, 47 sponsors and received rave reviews, helping establish the conference as the premiere industry DevOps event for enterprise companies.
    • Selected by TopWorkPlaces.com as one of the best places to work in the Bay Area.

    “The accomplishments of 2015 are a testament to the outstanding people, partners and customers that collectively drive Electric Cloud forward within a highly competitive market,” said Brodie. “I expect the coming year to be even more successful for Electric Cloud as we help a growing number of customers adopt ElectricFlow as their enterprise standard to automate DevOps processes.”

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    About Electric Cloud, Inc.
    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.

    Contact:
    Jeremy Douglas
    Catapult PR-IR
    303-581-7760
    jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

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  • VictorOps Announces New Enterprise and Standard Product Offerings

    Organizations of any size can now benefit from VictorOps’ advanced, tailored approach to incident management

    BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VictorOps, the real-time incident management company for DevOps teams, today announced the availability of both VictorOps Standard and VictorOps Enterprise to support organizations of all sizes. The new products provide on-call teams with a virtual environment where they can resolve incidents quickly and seamlessly regardless of location or device. Unlike other offerings currently in market, both products support the entirety of the DevOps incident lifecycle by allowing teams to prepare for, react to and recover from each incident.

    “Both products provide basic alerting as well as collaborative problem solving, making the entire process easier for on-call teams from first alert to final retrospective. However, our Enterprise tier specifically addresses the needs of companies with large on-call teams that require advanced incident routing and automated documentation.”

    “Our customer base is dramatically moving toward large-scale, enterprise rollouts, often involving huge segments of their software teams,” said Joni Klippert, Vice President, Product, VictorOps. “Both products provide basic alerting as well as collaborative problem solving, making the entire process easier for on-call teams from first alert to final retrospective. However, our Enterprise tier specifically addresses the needs of companies with large on-call teams that require advanced incident routing and automated documentation.”

    In addition to the all of the functionality included in VictorOps Standard, VictorOps Enterprise features include:

    • The Transmogrifier – Users can maintain and append continuous documentation to alarms, quiet alert noise and assign route keys to page the appropriate people based on alert content.
    • Enterprise Integrations – In addition to the more than 50 integrations available in VictorOps Standard, VictorOps Enterprise users will have access to integrations with StatusPage.io, designed to inform internal stakeholders of IT/Ops issues, and ServiceNow, which allows for integration with legacy incident management and reporting practices.
    • Single Sign On (SSO) – This feature enables more efficient user management for large organizations.
    • Built-In Voice Conferencing – Users can open a bridge and talk to all the right people inside the application with just a few clicks, while capturing call information for SLA and post-mortem reporting.
    • Unlimited API Calls – Users have unlimited access to VictorOps’ newly released public API endpoints to build custom solutions for their organization. VictorOps Standard includes 500 API calls per month.
    • Advanced Reporting – In addition to the post-mortem reporting included in VictorOps Standard, VictorOps Enterprise users have access to advanced user metrics and incident frequency reports detailing their noisiest alarms.
    • Premium Success Management – VictorOps is dedicated to providing all customers with exceptional support. Those customers leveraging the Enterprise solution will receive added support to ensure both the roll-out and utilization of the advanced features of the product are seamless.

    “Over the last year our customer base has been instrumental in the development and validation of these features,” said Klippert. “As a result, we decided to upgrade all existing customers to our top tier of service, VictorOps Enterprise, at no additional cost.”

    Users that need more features than those included in VictorOps Enterprise can contact a sales representative to incorporate custom add-ons, which include:

    • Custom Onboarding & Implementation
    • DevOps Training and Education
    • Custom Service-Level Agreements
    • Accessibility for Internal Non-Technical Audiences

    VictorOps Standard is available for $29 per user, per month and VictorOps Enterprise for $49 per user, per month. For access to the product or to learn more visit www.victorops.com/pricing/ or email product@victorops.com.

    About VictorOps
    VictorOps is the real-time 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

    VictorOps
    Lauren Bocci, 303-478-0870

  • JFrog Secures $50 Million to Disrupt the DevOps Market

    Kicking 2016 Off With One of the Largest Investments in DevOps

    SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Jan 20, 2016) – As all companies in every industry deliver more of their value through software, they are sharing the pain of moving to a modular software architecture in order to deliver software faster. Automating the continuous delivery pipeline is the only proven way to achieve rapid software delivery cycles. The world’s most innovative organizations are building their continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines on the JFrog platform, the only way to automate end-to-end software delivery from developers all the way to consumers and devices.

    JFrog has secured a $50 million investment round from new investors Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Battery Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners and Qumra Capital, as well as participation from existing investors. The company will use the funds to realize its vision by investing in the talent, technology advancements and global expansion needed to meet the growing demand for its DevOps and software automation platform.

    “The software world is tired of domain dictators and demands a universal powerful solution that supports all technologies and software packages,” said Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog. “DevOps and developer teams deserve more — they demand a multi-package, highly available and secured end-to-end solution. JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Bintray are not just a Docker registry, or an npm or Maven repository; it’s how the world’s biggest organizations choose to host, manage and distribute their software.”

    “This $50 million is one of the largest VC investment rounds in the entire DevOps market history,” continued Ben Haim. “This investment will allow us to keep leading the market and push our products to a new level, with a user journey 10x better than Docker, Amazon or other single technology solutions. We are the binary people; it’s either One or Zero. No half-baked solution is good enough for our community and customers. With enough capital secured, we will continue to provide them with class A, enterprise level products and services.”

    Atlassian and GitHub have revolutionized how developers manage source code. JFrog is revolutionizing how developers and DevOps team manage binary artifacts. JFrog Artifactory, the only universal Artifact Repository, is an essential component of the Continuous Integration pipeline.

    “JFrog is at the epicenter of the merger between dev and ops teams,” said Andy Vitus, partner at Scale Venture Partners. “JFrog is automating a large number of processes that previously were tedious, prone to introducing bugs in production code and highly insecure. As we spoke to our portfolio companies, we found that a large number of them were adopting JFrog’s products. Across the board, from our early stage companies to those preparing to go public, the engineers running operations were citing JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Bintray as core parts of their infrastructure.”

    “Release fast or die!” has become the mantra for many organizations as mobile, cloud computing and social media technologies drive transformation in every industry. A primary aspect of software development is managing binary artifacts, the basic building blocks that development teams share in the build process and that include everything from Docker images to Node.js packages to RubyGems, Maven, Python, NuGet and more. Artifact repositories that automate key activities of the end-to-end software delivery process are becoming essential to software development and DevOps teams under pressure to release software faster.

    “Enterprises are feeling the pressure to release faster, which is driving a DevOps mindset to iterate more quickly between the business and the customer,” said Donnie Berkholz, research director at 451 Research. “Versioning every release artifact is a critical piece of this transition, and JFrog is aggressively pursuing this opportunity.”

    “Sapphire Ventures is excited to partner with JFrog to help them become the standard for artifact management and delivery in the DevOps community,” said Jai Das, managing director of Sapphire Ventures. “JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Bintray are the most widely adopted solutions for managing and distributing artifacts in the CI/CD pipeline. In fact, we feel they are really the only solutions that enterprises with large software teams depend on because they are secure, highly available, and support multiple packages and container registries. We look forward to connecting the company with DevOps teams in our vast enterprise network in order to help them continually innovate and accelerate growth.”

    Underscoring the market momentum JFrog has achieved since its founding are multiple milestones and awards the company has recently announced and received. Significant wins include:

    • More than 1,500 paying customers including seven of the top 10 financial services companies, seven of the top 10 telcos, and eight of the top 10 internet and software companies
    • More than 700 million software package downloads a month
    • Growth to more than 100 employees worldwide
    • 2015 recognition including naming as one of the 100 fastest-growing software companies in the U.S. in the Inc. 5000, naming as the 15th fastest-growing company by the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Fast Private Awards, and making the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in EMEA and Fast 50 in Israel.
    • SD Times Best In Show award and finalist in the DevOps Dozen.

    Resources

    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, Intel 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 platform, 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 at www.jfrog.com.

    CONTACT INFORMATION

    • Media Contact
      Danielle Salvato-Earl
      Kulesa Faul for JFrog
      (650) 922-7287
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  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 Beta now available

    Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 7 beta.

    JBoss EAP is part of JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio of software. It’s Red Hat’s Java EE application server that’s used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services. The beta brings containers and microservices closer to the Java EE application server, in addition to integrating the WildFly Application Server 10.

    The comprehensive list of new features and enhancements is available here. Some of the major highlights of the release include:

    Optimized for container and cloud deployments: Built for containers and resource-conscious virtualized or cloud environments such as OpenShift by Red Hat. JBoss EAP 7 also offers a newly designed web subsystem, Undertow, which uses the latest non-blocking I/O features of Java to provide improved scalability and performance. It supports the latest Web standards such as HTTP/2, HTTP Upgrade, and WebSockets.

    Support for Java EE 7 and Java SE 8: JBoss EAP 7 is a certified Java EE 7 application server and supports Java SE 8.

    Upgrade support featuring interoperability: Red Hat said in the press release that it has prioritized straightforward upgrade processes so customers can quickly upgrade from older versions of JBoss EAP or Wildfly.

    Enhanced administration and management: JBoss EAP 7 also enhances management command line interface (CLI) functionality by giving administrators the ability to see configuration and logging information, configure subsystems, and manage JBoss EAP servers offline. And, now, administrators can perform minimally disruptive maintenance on JBoss EAP 7 servers by using the new server suspend mode to gracefully shut down servers only after completing in-flight transactions.

    Customers can download the beta here and share feedback with Red Hat.

  • F5 Releases 2016 ‘State of Application Delivery’ Customer Survey Results

    SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), today released the results of its second annual State of Application Delivery customer survey. Expanded to include feedback from more than 3,000 customers worldwide, this year’s report details how they are delivering applications successfully, how they keep data and users secure, and how hybrid cloud, software-defined networking (SDN), and DevOps are changing IT. In addition, F5 executives will host a series of live panel sessions and a webinar that will offer attendees deeper insights into the data. The first live panel session is on January 28, 2016, and will be hosted by F5’s CTO and EVP of product development, Karl Triebes. Sign up for the panels and webinar, and download the full report at: http://f5.com/SOAD.

    Survey Highlights

    This year’s report goes bigger and broader with input from F5 customers in the Americas (AMER); Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. A variety of industries are represented, with the widest participation from customers in finance, technology, telecom companies, and government entities. Key takeaways include:

    • Application services are essential and pervasive: Ten or more application services are used by well over half of respondents, who recognize that slow, unresponsive, and unsecured applications can have a substantial negative impact on revenue and operations.
    • Hybrid cloud is the new normal: The vast majority of respondents (81 percent) are moving toward a hybrid cloud environment to leverage the flexibility and potential cost savings it offers, especially for small and mid-sized organizations.
    • Security focus is on protecting users, data, and applications:Security professionals who have the highest level of confidence in their ability to ward off attacks are protecting clients, requests, and responses—the critical points at which data can be easily compromised.
    • DevOps and SDN are key to improving operational efficiency:Because DevOps and SDN enable automation and orchestration, they are both seen as key factors for reducing operating costs and improving time to market.

    “Applications are vital to business success. Used by every employee, applications contribute to greater efficiency, lower costs, and increased margins,” said Triebes. “Without the correct services to support applications, they won’t be available, secure, or fast enough to meet companies’ needs. The results of this year’s State of Application Delivery survey offer valuable insights into how customers are managing and implementing their application services within dynamic and complex IT environments.”

    Additional Resources

    The following items are available at: http://f5.com/SOAD

    • Download the full 2016 State of Application Delivery report
    • Summary infographic
    • Register for the free online live panel sessions and webinar

    About F5

    F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications and services to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. The world’s largest businesses, service providers, government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.

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  • Middleware360 Partners with CloudBees

    Partnership brings strength of technology along with continuous delivery & DevOps expertise to enterprise customers.

    Vancouver, British Columbia (PRWEB) January 14, 2016

    Middleware360 Solutions, experts in business automation, system integration solutions, and custom application development, today announced a services partnership with CloudBees, the Enterprise Jenkins Company and continuous delivery (CD) leader. Middleware360 Solutions will provide implementation and training services to its clients who want to adopt continuous delivery practices and are implementing the CloudBees Jenkins Platform as the foundation to do so.

    “We are pleased to be working closely with CloudBees, as they support our goal to offer clients continuous delivery solutions that are stable, scalable, flexible and fast,” said Derek Marley, CEO for Middleware360 Solutions. “The CloudBees Jenkins Platform enables enterprises to accelerate the software development process through automation, giving them the ability to build and deploy software faster, while saving time and money,” said Marley.

    The CloudBees Jenkins Platform is the industries most proven, fully featured technology platform for implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). It extends open source Jenkins with key CloudBees-developed features and capabilities that meet the unique security, scalability and manageability needs of enterprises.

    “With Jenkins adoption accelerating, strategic partners like Middleware360 are essential to delivering the enterprise-scale Jenkins solutions customers are seeking,” said Durga Sammeta, senior director of global alliances and channels, CloudBees. “We are excited to partner with Middleware360 as they are uniquely positioned in having the expertise necessary to guide customers through continuous delivery and DevOps transformations, supported by the CloudBees Jenkins Platform.”

    Offering end-to-end IT services, Middleware360 is helping clients streamline business processes, increase business flexibility, and decrease system complexity. “We are seeing more organizations looking to invest in continuous delivery as a way to seize opportunities quicker and stretch dollars further, and CloudBees helps to automate and streamline this process. Using the Jenkins platform, we are now capable of innovating in light speed bursts while remaining flexible to try different approaches to solve our client’s challenges. We look forward to many years of collaboration with CloudBees,” said Marley.

    About Middleware360 Solutions, Inc.

    Middleware360 Solutions is a dynamic full service partner focused on business automation & integration solutions, custom application development, and IT managed support that delivers accelerated results for cross-industry organizations. Middleware360 offers flexible services encompassing solutions & architecture, project delivery, and application & integration managed support. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, we work with organizations across Canada to achieve greater business efficiency. Learn more at http://www.middleware360.com

    For more information, please contact:

    Adam Edwards

    1-844-236-0360

    info(at)middleware360(dot)com

    For the original version on PRWeb visit:http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/01/prweb13162477.htm