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  • LogiGear Launches Continuous Testing Solution and Service to Enable Faster High Quality Testing 

    New solution is an addition to the company’s evolving frameworks and technologies

    Foster City, CA, July 12, 2016— LogiGear, a world leader in software testing solutions, today announced the launch of its Continuous Testing (CT) solution and service to enable improvements in automated testing in DevOps environments. LogiGear’s Continuous Testing solution and its full-range of testing automation services will help customers with the transformation from manual to continuous testing methods.

    Continuous Testing is a process of executing automated tests at every stage of the software delivery pipeline. CT allows for fixing errors quickly, enhancing the speed of delivery, thereby reducing time to market, allowing firms to save time and resources. CT is an integral part of Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices and LogiGear’s experts help companies achieve maximum ROI by supporting the transformation to Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps initiatives.

    “DevOps and Continuous Delivery are gaining traction because of its potential to deliver high quality results faster. Continuous Testing is essential to achieving success. However, many companies face challenges in completing the transformation,” said Hung Nguyen, CEO of LogiGear. “With the Continuous Testing solution and services, LogiGear will ease the pain of transformation for them.”

    LogiGear’s CT solution and service helps solve common challenges associated with Continuous Testing, including creating a unified platform for quality reporting and collaboration as well as enabling companies to achieve Continuous Testing with Legacy systems. LogiGear’s solution also removes high start-up costs, a popular challenge associated for most firms looking to adopt DevOps.

    For additional information on Continuous Testing Solution, or on the full range of software testing and development services provided, visit LogiGear.com.

    About LogiGear

    LogiGear Corporation (http://www.logigear.com) provides leading-edge software testing technologies and expertise, along with software development services that enable companies to accelerate business growth while having confidence in the software they deliver. Founded in 1994 by top thought leaders in the software testing industry, LogiGear has completed software testing and development projects for prominent companies across a broad range of industries and technologies.

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  • Every (Data)dog Has its Day

    Every (Data)dog Has its Day

    Bienvenido, Datadog! You have truly made it to the big leagues, as you join a growing list of reputable companies that have suffered an apparent data breach/security incident. Many people view this as a dreaded moment, one that should always be avoided. However, it’s almost as though nowadays it’s a rite of passage for a company to be hacked at some point in its lifespan. Call them growing pains, if you will.

    Datadog is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that helps monitor and collect analytics for customers, which include the likes of Facebook, Spotify, Salesforce and Citrix.

    As with any data breach, Datadog is recommending users change their credentials immediately—a common practice among down-on-their-luck dogs. This recommendation applies only to stored passwords; however, those enlightened few who use Google Auth or SAML should be OK. The notice also directs admin users to revoke or change credentials stored in the Datadog system to prevent fur-ther security breaches and unauthorized access.

    Obviously, data breaches should be avoided at all costs, and can be seen as a hit to a company’s bottom line. But Datadog stands on solid ground here following the attack. Its ruff-and-tuff password storage method, bcrypt, which uses a unique salt, is one of the strongest ways to keep credentials and slow decryption efforts, according to Datadog Chief Security Officer Andrew Bechere.

    Fur-tunately for Datadog, at least right now, its security procedures and bcrypt system have prevented what could have been a major disaster. The company has informed its customers that the “known” attack vectors used by the hackers have been patched.

    It is my utmost opinion that we throw Datadog a bone here as we continue to see hacks and breaches become commonplace among tech companies. Not only has it become quite common, but Datadog cur-tailed the damage of the breach by implanting bcrypt security encryption.

    Oh, you’re a stickler for your information remaining private? I hate to break it to you, but it’s the internet. Nothing is sacred and private once it goes online. However, you can take measures and increase security to make it extremely difficult and lengthy for hackers to obtain information. Still not good enough for you? Let’s just take a look at other companies that have suffered hacks.

    Sony suf-fur-ed a tremendous hack last year that listed executive emails and personal information including addresses and salaries. Home Depot suffered a hack in September 2014 that compromised 53 million email addresses. And let’s not forget about the JP Morgan hack affecting 83 million customers, the eBay hack that compromised 145 million active users (including login credentials and physical addresses) and the 2013 hack of Target, which exposed personal and financial information of 110 million customers.

    So enough pup-arazzi for Datadog, don’t terrier yourself up about it. Every once in a while a company suf-fur-s a data breach. What can I say? The puggle is real out here.

    I’m sorry for all the puns. In related news, Datadog issued a press release, which you can find here.

  • Datadog Expands Monitoring Solution Across Stack for Microsoft Customers

    • The leading cloud-monitoring service Datadog announced their latest integrations with Microsoft Azure Resource Manager and Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    • Datadog agent allows customers to seamlessly monitor their stack, from cloud hardware down to custom metrics for their application

    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Datadog, the essential monitoring service for dynamic cloud infrastructure, today announced expanded support for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Following the release of Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) – the latest way to deploy virtual machines on the platform – Datadog will now support Microsoft Azure SQL Database as well as cloud servers deployed through ARM. This will empower large enterprise companies running their infrastructure in the cloud to correlate metrics from these new services with application performance. The new capabilities will be demonstrated in the Datadog booth 1724 at the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference taking place July 10-14 in Toronto, Canada.

    “We make it a top priority to build out integrations for new services from major cloud platforms as they are released,” said Amit Agarwal, Chief Product Officer, Datadog. “By utilizing Datadog, enterprise customers are now able to effectively manage the performance of their large scale Microsoft Azure-hosted applications.”

    Datadog already boasts a number of Microsoft integrations, from monitoring the virtual machines deployed on Azure, to collecting metrics and events from native windows services such as Windows Management Instrumentation and Event Viewer.

    Datadog is compatible with the following Microsoft hardware and middleware:

    Hardware

    • Classic Virtual Machines
    • VMs deployed through Azure Resource Manager
    • SQL Database

    Middleware

    • Windows
    • Internet Information Services
    • SQL server
    • Windows Event Viewer
    • Windows Management Instrumentation

    Application Custom Metrics

    • StatsD for C#

    “Datadog is a key monitoring tool for enterprise companies embracing the cloud,” said Eduardo Enciso, Global Business Strategist, Microsoft Corp. “Their new integrations with Microsoft Azure allow our mutual customers to use the capabilities in Microsoft Azure VM and Microsoft Azure SQL Database, with full visibility across multiple Azure services and applications.”

    Datadog is available for one-click deployment through the Azure Marketplace and also from the Microsoft Azure Portal. They will be demoing their latest integrations at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.

    About Datadog

    Datadog is the world’s leading monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, bringing together data from servers, databases, tools and services to present a unified view of your entire stack. These capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based data analytics platform that enables Dev and Ops teams to work collaboratively to avoid downtime, resolve performance problems, and ensure that development and deployment cycles finish on time. Since launching in 2010, Datadog has been adopted by thousands of enterprises, including Twilio, Airbnb, Netflix, EA, Spotify, Warner Bros. Games and AdRoll.

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  • PagerDuty Introduces Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge for Seamless Collaboration and Dynamic Incident Response

    New features facilitate coordinated response by bringing together the right people and information

    San Francisco – July 11, 2016 – PagerDuty, the leader in modern incident management, announces the availability of Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge, two new features that enable seamless collaboration between responders for dynamic incident response and faster resolution. Using PagerDuty’s new Response Moblizer feature, customers can notify and enlist additional experts and critical stakeholders to an incident.  With the PagerDuty Response Bridge, customers can share a conference bridge for real-time collaboration on open incidents. Together, these features allow customers to respond at scale with the right people and contextual information for faster incident resolution.

    Outages in the digital economy have serious customer experience and revenue implications that push ITOps and DevOps teams to constantly seek better tools and processes to mitigate the impact on their business. Critical incidents typically require a greater level of organization because the impact can span across multiple teams and business units, however, delays in enlisting the right subject matter experts cross-functionally can be detrimental for a time-sensitive resolution. Beyond the standard on-call schedules, PagerDuty Response Mobilizer allows customers to rapidly bring the right people together with the right contextual information to address business-critical issues in real-time. By helping customers recruit the right responders, PagerDuty reduces mean-time-to-resolve (MTTR) by minimizing the amount of time spent searching for responders . After gathering the right responders and key stakeholders, PagerDuty Response Bridge enables teams to collaborate via their existing conference bridge or chat tools. With custom messages that include critical incident context for new responders, PagerDuty provides a single incident view to coordinate the ideal response.

    PagerDuty Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge enables customers to:

    • Notify the Right People: Easily select and invite individuals by name or escalation policy to collaborate directly on any PagerDuty incident
    • Mobilize Teams Immediately: Decrease response times by customizing how team members are notified (phone, push notifications, SMS), and identify their response status in real-time and escalate if necessary
    • Access Contextual Information: Include a brief message to responders detailing why they are needed and leverage the rich, contextual details already embedded inside every incident so all responders are immediately aligned
    • Conferencing Support: Include meeting details in any PagerDuty incident and invite responders to collaborate in a meeting, dramatically reducing MTTR
    • Leverage existing Conferencing Platform: PagerDuty supports multiple conferencing providers, including Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, and Blue Jeans, so teams can operate within their established communication channels

    “Many companies take 30-60 minutes just to get the right people on a conference bridge during business-impacting outages or incidents,” said Tim Armandpour, senior vice president of product development, PagerDuty. “When down-time is your business’s enemy, how fast you respond to an incident matters to the bottom line. PagerDuty Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge drastically reduce the amount of time and effort needed to collaborate and resolve an incident, but more importantly, mitigate a business issue.”

    PagerDuty Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge are available to all Standard and Enterprise customers today. To learn more, read our blog posts about Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge.

    About PagerDuty

    PagerDuty is an agile incident management solution that integrates with IT Ops and DevOps monitoring stacks to improve operational reliability and agility. From enriching and aggregating events to correlating them into actionable alerts, PagerDuty streamlines the incident management lifecycle by reducing noise and resolution times. With hundreds of native integrations with operations tools, automated scheduling, advance reporting and guaranteed reliability, PagerDuty is trusted by over 7,000 organizations globally to increase business and employee efficiency. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, and Ignition Partners. Try PagerDuty for free at www.pagerduty.com.

  • DATICAL DEBUTS CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION SOLUTION FOR THE DATABASE

    Datical DB 4.0 keeps database administrators from having to review vast majority of database changes

    Austin, Texas – July 7, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile database automation solutions, today announced Datical DB 4.0. This latest release seamlessly maps development-driven database change management to proven continuous integration (CI) workflows. These modernized database change workflows closely parallel the way application code is managed in highly automated environments.

    Datical DB 4.0 includes a new Automated Deployment Packager that allows database changes to be continually validated, packaged and integrated via more pervasive, hands-off automation. Datical DB’s automation capabilities drastically reduce the amount of time database administrators (DBAs), developers and QA teams spend managing these changes from ideation to production deployment.

    The Automated Deployment Packager empowers DBAs to keep pace with accelerating application releases by offloading the majority of manual review, approval and deployment activities each time a database change is requested by development. By employing Datical’s Automated Deployment Packager, database developers are now able to check change scripts for popular database platforms like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server or IBM DB2 into source code control solutions like Git, Apache Subversion or Team Foundation Server. This triggers a process that automatically accepts or rejects the proposed changes based on validation routines defined and customized by seasoned DBAs.

    Validation routines ensure that changes are well designed and compliant with organizational standards and best practices. The routines keep DBAs from being involved, unless there is a particularly important reason for them to be.

    “Upwards of 90 percent of developer scripts and database changes don’t need to be touched by a DBA, and with Datical 4.0, DBAs only need to involve themselves with the small subset of changes that do require their attention and expertise,” said Pete Pickerill, co-founder and VP of product at Datical. “This release is giving DBAs back their time, focus and sanity in helping them return to the role they were meant to play.”

    Over time, automated validation and detailed reporting help developers build an understanding of the difference between an acceptable change and a change that will break the build.

    Once a set of changes is approved, it is packaged and labeled for easy deployment to other environments through tight integrations with popular build and release automation tools like Jenkins, IBM UrbanCode, XebiaLabs XL Deploy or Electric Cloud ElectricFlow, or by using Datical’s graphical or command line interfaces. Database change management becomes a self-service experience for development, test and operations teams. As a result, DBAs are freed up for more strategic pursuits like performance tuning, capacity planning and the evaluation of new technologies and data platforms.

    Lastly, Datical’s Automated Deployment Packager also eliminates the painful task of reconciling partially-updated database environments by ensuring that the environment always reflects the latest approved version or else reverts back to the most recent wholly-approved, backed up and stored version, all with minimal downtime.

    “As we’ve looked to involve the database in continuous integration, we’ve found that Datical represents the ideal pathway,” said Devon Siegfried, database architect at Radial, formerly eBay Enterprise. “There’s honestly no substitute for the way that Datical allows us to deploy database changes in such an effective, closely tracked and controlled manner. To top it all off, Datical’s implementation and product teams have been unmatched.”

    To learn more about Datical DB 4.0 or to request a demo, please visit: www.datical.com.

    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.

     

  • Scrum Co-Creators Unveil New Version of the Scrum Guide

    Community Input Contributed to Addition of Scrum Values to Official Scrum Body of Knowledge

    Boston – July 6, 2016 – Scrum.org, the mission-based organization dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, and Scrum Inc., the world’s premier Scrum training and consulting provider, today announced Scrum co-creatorsKen Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland’s updates to The Scrum Guide, a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.

    In a webcast earlier today, the pair came together to unveil the new version to the industry.  The Scrum Guide now includes a section on Scrum Values, which are Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Openness.

    “When the values of Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness and Respect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation come to life,” explained Schwaber. “We added these values to The Scrum Guide because successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these five values.”

    This is the first update to The Scrum Guide since July 2013. While refinements are made at their discretion, Schwaber and Sutherland encourage community feedback via The Scrum Guide User Voice website, where people can post ideas for changes and vote on them. The addition of Scrum Values to The Scrum Guide was the most popular request on the User Voice site.

    “Ken and I regularly read and support the User Voice forum, taking into consideration each suggestion from the community,” said Sutherland. “This update to The Scrum Guide officially recognizes the significance these values have to any Scrum team.”

    The recording of the webcast will be made available soon by both organizations. The Scrum Guide can be found at http://www.scrumguides.org/. Offered for license under the Attribution Share-Alike license of Creative Commons, its copyright allows for reuse as long as it is credited back.

    About Scrum.org

    Based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery. Throughout the world, our solutions and community of Professional Scrum Trainers empower people and organizations to achieve agility through Scrum.  Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, founded Scrum.org in 2009 as a global organization, dedicating himself to improving the profession of software delivery by reducing the gaps so the work and work products are dependable.

    Visit Scrum.org for further information on the organization’s Professional Scrum assessments, training and global community; follow us on Twitter @scrumdotorg and read more from our community of experts on the Scrum.org blog.

    About Scrum Inc.
    Scrum Inc. is the world’s leading authority on Scrum. They provide training, consulting, and counsel to individuals and companies across industries including energy, finance, defense and technology. They are thought leaders in the community publishing books, scientific papers, case studies, blogs, and creating online educational content. Founded by Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum, Scrum Inc. has helped hundreds of companies fundamentally re-shape themselves to face a changing world, dramatically increase productivity, and drive profound growth. Jeff’s most recent book is Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, which has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.

    Visit ScrumInc.com to learn about our services and explore our online learning resource ScrumLab. Follow us on Twitter @ScrumInc or contact us throughinfo@scruminc.com, we would love to hear from you!

  • Cohesive Networks Customers Validate VNS3 4.0 Elevates AWS Security

     Newly Released 5-Star Rated Application-Layer Network and Security Software Now Available
    AWS SUMMIT – LONDON, UK – 6 July, 2016 – Cohesive Networks, a cloud-native security and networking company, today announced the availability of VNS3 version 4.0 in the AWS Marketplace, and all cloud environments. Cohesive Networks’ innovative approach to application-focused security differentiates VNS3 as the first software-only virtual network appliance that offers end-to-end encrypted networking capabilities at the application layer. VNS3 4.0 includes a new, hardened underlying Operating System (OS), delivering deeper insight into network security, and elevating the level of application protection beyond what was previously available.
    “We went from 90% on-premises to 99% in the cloud in about 30 – 45 days,” said Chris Cata, Manager Network Operations at Foley Carrier Services. “Our cloud migration project almost didn’t happen without Cohesive Networks. VNS3 helped us achieve the flexible, multi-site VPN connectivity we needed, while Amazon’s built in VPN products did not.”
    Over 2,000 VNS3 users have shaped the direction of the product, from an encrypted IPsec VPN device to a more robust product family that offers network management, cross-cloud connectivity, and high availability. VNS3 customers have been successfully running cloud networks for over 800 million hours without any major, reported outages.
    “Years of experience in enterprise networking and security have taught us to look further into the future, beyond predictions or fears,” said Patrick Kerpan, CEO of Cohesive Networks. “5-star sentiment in the AWS Marketplace validates that VNS3 offers the end-to-end control cloud users need to flexibly connect and secure their applications.”
    VNS3 4.0 Update Includes:
    With VNS3 4.0 customers can build secure overlay networks on top of AWS cloud networks to enable network capabilities such as transitive routing, multicast protocols, as well as networking functions including reverse proxy network intrusion detection (NIDS) and load balancing.
    VNS3 version 4.0 includes security focused updates for VNS3:net, VNS3:ms, and VNS3:ha software products. The VNS3 virtual appliance is built on Ubuntu Linux and incorporates Docker container systems.
    Availability:
    VNS3 is available in over 20 public, private, and hybrid clouds. Cloud and virtual environments that feature VNS3 products include: Amazon EC2 and VPC, Microsoft Azure, CenturyLink Cloud, VMware vCloud, IBM Softlayer, Google Compute Platform, ElasticHosts, and Rackspace.
    VNS3 4.0 is available in beta on the cloud Marketplaces of Amazon AWS, and will soon be available on Microsoft Azure, and ElasticHosts. Contact Cohesive Networks to get started today: sales@cohesive.net
    Release notes: find out more about the technology behind VNS3 at Cohesive.net/support/release-notes
    About the VNS3 Product Family:
    VNS3 products help enterprises secure and connect their critical applications deployed to the cloud. VNS3 secures and connects applications above hypervisors, infrastructure, or data centers control. All Cohesive Networks products are software-only virtual appliances, available for most public, private, and hybrid clouds.
    VNS3 has recently won the 2016 Network Computing Awards Network Project of the Year – Private Sector Award, the 2015 Cloud Innovation World Cup for Industry 4.0, a finalist in the Cyber Security Awards for Best Security Company of 2015, listed in the CIO Review’s Top 20 Most Promising Enterprise Security Companies of 2015, won the 2014 EuroCloud Awards for Best Offering IaaS/PaaS, and won the 2014 Cloud World Series Best Security Solution Award.
    About Cohesive Networks:
    Cohesive Networks provides cloud-class security and networking software for enterprises. Over 2,100 customers use VNS3 virtual appliances to secure products and services at the application layer. With VNS3, enterprises can extend networks into public, private and hybrid clouds to provide security, connectivity, and integration.
    Cohesive is a member of the Amazon Partner Network, an Amazon Marketplace Seller, a member of the Microsoft Partner Network, Microsoft Azure certified, a Google Cloud Platform Authorized Technology Partner, a CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace Provider, certified HPE Helion Ready, and an IBM Business Partner. To find out more, visit www.cohesive.net
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  • Groundbreaking Technology for DevOps Omniscience; JFrog Announces Immediate Availability of JFrog Xray

    SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 5, 2016) – JFrog, the worldwide leader in infrastructure for software management and distribution, today announced the immediate availability of JFrog Xray, its pioneering product for accelerating software delivery by giving organizations unprecedented insight into their software packages and containers.

    As the industry’s first universal artifact analysis product, JFrog Xray works with all software package formats and a multitude of databases as it deeply and recursively scans every type of binary component ever used in a software project and points out changes or issues impacting the production environment.

    “The early response to JFrog Xray has been phenomenal,” said Shlomi Ben Haim, founder and CEO of JFrog. “We’re excited that more and more organizations will now be able to benefit from this pioneering technology for gaining radical transparency into the huge volume and variety of binary components used in development. The combination of validating with security databases, along with acquiring metadata from JFrog Artifactory makes JFrog Xray the only tool in the world that not only scans the container or software package, but also provides a full dependency graph and impact analysis to the user. Our goal is to address the real DevOps pain and not just to send another scanner to the market!”

    As organizations increasingly transform from isolated teams and role-specific tools to common delivery pipelines shared by global teams and driven by seamlessly interoperating tools, they need to understand all the binary artifacts they produce, across all product lines and geographies, and taking into account changes to global application deployment and distribution over time.

    JFrog Xray addresses this need by providing deep recursive scanning to repeatedly peel back the layers of software components and their accompanying metadata to uncover security vulnerabilities or other issues down to the most fundamental binary component no matter what binary packaging format the organization uses. This deep scanning of the dependency graph provides organizations the ability to perform impact analysis on changes to their package structure.

    JFrog Xray is a fully automated platform with a powerful REST API, enabling integration with an organization’s CI/CD pipeline as well as with all current and any future types of component-scanning technology.

    It integrates with a universal range of databases and security platforms so that critical necessities such as security vulnerability analysis, license compliance and component version analysis and assurance become possible not only at build time but across all of the enterprise’s binary digital assets.

    JFrog Xray is available now at https://www.jfrog.com/xray/free-trial with a special webinar on JFrog Xray on July 14 — http://bit.ly/23gL143. More information about JFrog Editions —https://www.jfrog.com/pricing

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    More than 2,500 paying customers, 60,000 installations and millions of developers globally rely on JFrog’s world-class infrastructure for software management and distribution. Customers include some of the world’s top brands, such as Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, MasterCard, Netflix, Tesla, Barclays, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe and VMware. JFrog Artifactory, the Universal Artifact Repository, JFrog Bintray, the Universal Distribution Platform, JFrog Mission Control, for Universal Repository Management, and JFrog Xray, Universal Component Analyser, are used by millions of developers and DevOps engineers around the world and available as open-source, on-premise and SaaS cloud solutions. The company is privately held and operated from California, France and Israel. More information can be found at www.jfrog.com.

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  • Blue Medora Announces VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for F5 BIG-IP Solutions

     

     GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. June, 27 2016 – Blue Medora, a leading innovator in enterprise cloud and data center management, today announced the release of the VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for F5 BIG-IP™.

    Working together, F5 Networks and Blue Medora simplify and automate the process of provisioning BIG-IP Software-Defined Application Services™. In addition, organizations can seamlessly provision BIG-IP services as part of the natural workflow of provisioning applications and networks with NSX.

    The BIG-IP® system from F5 Networks helps secure and improve the reliability of applications in the cloud, data centers, and software-defined networking environments. The vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Plug-In for F5 BIG-IP is part of Blue Medora’s VMware portfolio that consolidates IT management across VMware vRealize to optimize health, reduce risk and increase efficiency.

    “By integrating vRealize Orchestrator with F5 BIG-IP, IT administrators are accelerating the application deployment process and decreasing deployment time from days to minutes,” said Mike Kelly, CTO at Blue Medora. “With the new Blue Medora vRO extension, administrators have full control of BIG-IP objects and commands through the well-established iControl® API. Easy-to-use vRO workflows, provided out-of-the-box, standardize and streamline application deployment.”

    “Combined development work between Blue Medora and F5 continues to pay dividends for shared customers,” said Calvin Rowland, senior vice president of Business Development at F5 Networks. “Collaboration with industry leaders like Blue Medora in our partner ecosystem helps ensure that integrations and plug-ins are designed to optimize joint deployments. With today’s announcement, vRO and BIG-IP provide an agile services framework to support SDN technologies.”

    The vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for F5 BIG-IP is immediately available from Blue Medora and resellers. Blue Medora and F5 Networks will host a webinar on June 29th to demonstrate the benefits of VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for F5 BIG-IP.

    About Blue Medora

    Blue Medora software solutions tie together data from virtualized and cloud-based databases, applications and services with the critical underlying compute, storage and network infrastructure to create a unified view of the infrastructure. These capabilities are delivered as value-added platform extensions for VMware’s vRealize Operations, New Relic and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control platforms.

    Blue Medora’s products enable administrator teams to work collaboratively on the infrastructure to avoid downtime, resolve performance problems and make predictive insights using advanced analytics. Blue Medora believes true visibility into business critical applications is only achieved when enterprise cloud management systems communicate without barriers.

    For more information, visit www.bluemedora.com

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  • Resin.io Secures $9 Million in Funding to Accelerate Growth of Next Generation IoT DevOps Platform

    DFJ, GE Ventures, Ericsson, and Aspect Ventures Make Strategic Investment in Emerging Start-Up to Modernize Deployment to Connected Devices

    SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwired – Jun 27, 2016) – Resin.io, provider of a modern DevOps management platform for connected devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million in funding from DFJ, GE Ventures, Ericsson, and Aspect Ventures. Resin.io was founded in 2013 with a mission to use linux containers and other open technologies to simplify the way developers build, deploy, and manage software for IoT devices. Since then, businesses across a range of vertical industries have adopted the resin.io platform to safely and iteratively deliver software over the air for security patches, new feature deployments and device configuration changes. The new round of funding will be used to expand the company’s product footprint, grow its open source community, and broaden its global reach through new strategic partnerships and channels.

    “As billions of complex devices come online, IoT project leaders are faced with the dual challenges of safety and speed. They must securely maintain mission-critical remote devices, while also delivering new software features and functionality to their customers,” said Alexandros Marinos, Founder & CEO of resin.io. “Resin.io is a modern software deployment and management platform that builds on Docker, Git, Yocto and other open technologies to solve these challenges. With the support of GE Ventures and Ericsson we are exceptionally well positioned to help IoT project leaders use software as a strategic advantage.”

    The management challenge for IoT devices is impacting companies across every major industry. Whether it’s a major retailer employing industrial lighting systems across hundreds of stores, a manufacturing firm struggling to keep track of expensive inventory in real-time, or the next generation of connected home devices that require frequent firmware updates, the massive scale and complexity of these connected devices is causing a slew of new problems for companies with wide-scale IoT deployments. With resin.io, device fleet owners can corral all of their connected devices into a unified console, enabling developers to iterate faster, securely push updates to hundreds or thousands devices at once, and gain ongoing visibility into the overall health of their device fleet.

    “Advancing the Industrial Internet requires the ability to deploy and manage software in remote environments,” said Sam Cates, Director at GE Ventures, a unit of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). “Resin.io is uniquely positioned to bring the speed and safety of DevOps to the Industrial Internet and we are excited to help them do so.”

    “In a world of end-point liberation, software becomes the means of innovation and where billions of connected devices perform increasingly complex tasks, traditional over the air (OTA) update approaches are simply not enough,” said Diomedes Kastanis, VP, and Head of Technology and Software Solutions for Ericsson. “We are thrilled to support resin.io as it helps transform entire industries with the ability to safely deploy new software containers whenever and wherever is necessary.”

    About Resin.io

    Resin.io brings modern DevOps tools and practices to the Internet of Things. Resin.io’s software deployment and management platform makes it simple to deploy, update, and maintain code running on Linux-based connected devices regardless of their location. With Resin.io, businesses and developers can jumpstart their IoT projects and applications quickly, slashing development time, cost and management overhead. Resin.io has offices in Seattle, Washington, London, England and Athens, Greece. For more information go to https://resin.io

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