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  • XebiaLabs Opens Sold-Out DevOps Leadership Summit

    BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – Jun 16, 2016) –  XebiaLabs (http://www.xebialabs.com), a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced the opening of its DevOps Leadership Summit at the iconic EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    The DevOps Leadership Summit is a full day event bringing together some of the most advanced DevOps experts sharing best practices and enterprise case studies. The event features industry thought leaders and authors Dave Farley and Andrew Phillips, along with DevOps experts from companies such as ING, KPN, NJM Insurance Group, Rabobank, DUO, Stater and Wirecard.

    “We are excited to bring together such an exceptional group of industry experts and welcome our customers from around the world,” said Derek Langone, CEO of XebiaLabs. “Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced Continuous Delivery experts, discuss complex enterprise DevOps use cases and network with their peers throughout the event.”

    The event opens today, June 16th 2016 at 9am. To view the full agenda and learn more about the DevOps Leadership Summit, please visit www.xebialabs.com/devops-leadership-summit/.

    About XebiaLabs
    XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale Continuous Delivery and DevOps software, providing companies with the visibility, automation and control they need to deliver software faster and with less risk. Global market leaders rely on XebiaLabs to meet the increasing demand for accelerated and more reliable software releases. For more information, please visit http://www.xebialabs.com.

    Media Contact:

    Victor Cruz
    Principal
    MediaPR
    vcruz@mediapr.net

  • CA Technologies Delivers First Integrated and Open Continuous Delivery Ecosystem, Enabling Organizations to Deliver Applications Faster and More Efficiently

    CA Automates Complete Application Lifecycle for Improved Deployment Times and Testing Efficiency

    New York, June 15, 2016 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the availability of CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition, and several new integrations across CA’s DevOps portfolio and third party solutions creating the first integrated, fully automated and open continuous delivery ecosystem. Organizations can now connect and automate the entire app pipeline progression from development, to test, to production, to accelerate deployment times of applications by as much as 20 times* and improve testing efficiency by up to 25 percent**.

    “To thrive in the application economy, digital transformation must be driven by continuous delivery—the ability to rapidly and reliably release applications that meet the demands of external and internal customers alike,” said Jeff Scheaffer, general manager, Continuous Delivery, CA Technologies. “CA is the only DevOps solution provider that currently bridges development, testing, release management and operations in an open, seamless tool chain that helps organizations achieve entirely new levels of application delivery speed and quality.”

    Develop Swiftly, Test Agilely and Release Reliably 

    As organizations progress on their digital transformation journey, the volume, velocity and complexity of applications continues to grow. “Businesses no longer have the luxury of time. Rising customer expectations, competitive threats, and increased consumer choice have turned rapid delivery and iteration of software applications into a competitive differentiator. Optimizing the delivery value chain has become the new means to better business outcomes,” according to Forrester Research.***

    For application owners tasked with rapidly delivering innovative and inspiring applications, but struggling with constraints and dependencies across the software development lifecycle, CA helps eliminate these challenges by providing continuous delivery capabilities that enable organizations to improve release planning and orchestration, use agile testing to test less and cover more, provision data on demand and deploy simulated environments – all with zero touch workflow.

    This is accomplished through:

    “With CA’s continuous delivery solutions we’re standardizing our application products, achieving consistency between server environment platforms and are able to easily integrate CA Release Automation with other continuous integration applications such as Jenkins,” said Matt McComas, AVP Critical Applications, GM Financial. “As a result, we are quickly identifying and resolving inconsistencies in our application environments and have been able to cut deployment times down to two and a half minutes for a 98% reduction in deployment time.”

    Furthermore, to help organizations leverage existing investments, CA’s continuous delivery solutions integrate easily with market tools such as HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Atlassian’s JIRA Software, Jenkins, Docker, Perfecto, Chef and Puppet for an open and fully integrated continuous delivery solution stack.

    “By using different CA tools as part of the software development lifecycle, testing is no longer a gatekeeper, but rather an operational quality door opener that helps simplify the development of new releases,” said, Arnold Hoogerwerf, IT strategy advisor at KPN, a leading telecommunications company in the Netherlands. “The tools we use from CA’s set of continuous delivery solutions have allowed us to reduce our investment and increase our agility in testing and helped us discover defects earlier so we can continually improve the quality of our applications in a shorter timeframe.”

    Release automation goes hand-in-hand with DevOps practices and Cloud technologies to ensure that organizations can deliver apps that provide the very best customer experiences and drive competitive advantage in today’s app-driven, cloud-connected, mobile-everything world. The open and flexible architecture of CA’s continuous delivery solutions can help organizations deploy applications to modern Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Skytap as a standard part of their app delivery practices.

    To learn more, join InformationWeek, CA Technologies and a team of industry experts on Wednesday, June 15 from 11 a.m. ET to 1 p.m. ET for the live virtual event, Automation, Speed and Quality: The Keys to Your Continuous Delivery Journey. To register for the event or watch the replay visit,http://cainc.to/Wfn25T.

    Resources

    • The Total Economic Impact™ Of CA Release Automation, Forrester Research, December 2015

    **The Total Economic Impact™ Of The CA Technologies Test Data Manager Solution, Forrester Research, December 2015

    ***TechRadar™: Continuous Software Delivery, Q2 2015, Forrester Research, May 1, 2015

    About CA Technologies

    CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business in every industry. From planning, to development, to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. Learn more at www.ca.com. 

     

    Press Contact 

    Michelle Laidlaw

    Public Relations

    (631) 342-4701

    michelle.laidlaw@ca.com

  • Automic Software Announces Record Q4 and Fiscal Year 2016

    Strong Growth Drives Global Expansion with Opening of Innovation Lab in Austin, Texas and New Offices in Paris

    VIENNA & SEATTLE – 14 June 2016 — Automic Software, the leader in Business Automation, today announced a record Q4 and fiscal year driven by significant customer acquisitions, strategic partnerships and continued product innovation. In addition, the company is expanding its offices with the grand opening last week of a new Paris location in La Defense and confirmed plans to open an Innovation Hub in Austin, Texas.

    Enterprises of all sizes are looking at digital transformation to drive agility and speed while managing risk.  This is driving the demand for Automic’s business automation products.  Automic closed its largest ever year in FY16 with a stellar Q4 performance (new licenses up 48 percent year-on-year), including the two largest deals in the history of the company.  All product lines grew, with Automic Release Automation growing +250 percent. Additionally all regions accelerated, with Americas and APAC leading +100% license growth for the fourth quarter and fiscal year, respectively.

    Customer satisfaction and commitment to future roadmaps was strong with contract renewals coming in at an industry best-in-class 96 percent, including former Orsyp customers, the company acquired by Automic in 2014, resulting in 2,700 customers actively using Automic’s leading business automation software. During FY17 the company will be investing substantially in sales expansion, product development and future M&A.

    FY16 Product and Corporate Milestones

    Product Innovation

    Industry Recognition

    • Gartner acknowledges Automic Software as Representative Vendor in Application Release Automation. Company is listed as a representative ‘established and active vendor’ in Gartner’s recent Market Guide for Application Release Automation (ARA) Solutions.
    • Automic was named a ‘Leader’ in Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) best-in-class Workload Automation (WLA) 2016 Radar Report. The report endorses Automic’s best-in-class pedigree, positioning the company as a global market leader. Automic was also bestowed the prestigious ‘Best Integration Portfolio’ award.
    • Automic was recognized as a ‘Leader’ in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution, 2016-2017. The report highlights the value DevOps release management solutions provide to organizations wanting to enhance the adoption of agile principles to accelerate application delivery by reducing manual errors as well as breaking down walls between IT silos.
    • In October, Automic won the 2015 Ventana Research Technology Innovation award for its finance automation solution. The company was selected for its innovation and ability to help a wide array of organizations reach new goals and generate more value from these finance functions.

    Supporting Quotes

    “We were on a roll this year,” said Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic Software. “The demand for automation around complex business processes, applications, big data and infrastructure has grown dramatically and Automic is uniquely positioned to help enterprises overcome this complexity to drive real digital transformation. We stand out as a global leader that supports organizations of all sizes to not only realize this transformation, but also simplify their journeys to it. We look forward to continued success in the months and years to come.”

    Tweet this: .@Automic closes record Q4 and FY16, expands global offices in Paris & plans to open Innovation Hub in Austin http://bit.ly/1PtI8YX

    Supporting Resources

    About Automic

    Automic, the leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,700 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

    For More Information:

    Courtney Glymph
    Global PR and Communications
    +44 (0) 7584058886
    Courtney.glymph@automic.com

    U.S. Media Contact

    Tanaya Lukaszewski
    Kulesa Faul for Automic
    (916) 712-3791
    automic@kulesafaul.com

  • XebiaLabs Unveils “Periodic Table of DevOps Tools” v.2

    Highly Popular Free DevOps Market Landscape Tool Updated With New Members and More Features

    BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – Jun 14, 2016) – XebiaLabs (www.xebialabs.com), a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced the release ofThe Periodic Table of DevOps Tools v.2, a major update of its free, industry recognized DevOps landscape tool. The latest release of this highly popular tool provides an updated DevOps landscape and users can now dive deeper into each tool, finding tool descriptions, Twitter handles, plugins and related tools.

    Understanding the DevOps tooling landscape is a major pain point for IT professionals as enterprises are looking to deploy DevOps tools and practices to increase competitiveness and deliver better software faster and with less risk.

    With its unique market overview and simple format, the Periodic Table of DevOps Tools has become a standard reference tool for IT professions.

    “We have seen interest from hundreds of thousands of users across our website and in social media since we launched the first version of the Periodic Table of DevOps Tools,” said Gottfried Sehringer, Chief Marketing Officer at XebiaLabs. “Version 2 has been highly anticipated and we are delighted to have had the help of the entire DevOps community to update this free tool, and provide an easy to understand overview of the complex and fast moving DevOps market.”

    The second generation of the Periodic Table of DevOps tools adds some new members, provides a new look into the world of DevOps and adds more in-depth visibility into its various tools and categories therein. It also introduces new animations, a completely responsive platform for visibility on any device, and a tooling repository.

    The Periodic Table of DevOps Tools v.2 has been updated based on the crowd-sourced interactive tool “DevOps Hot or Not,” as well as community and industry expert feedback.

    The Periodic Table of DevOps Tools v.2 is available for free today and can be viewed at:https://xebialabs.com/periodic-table-of-devops-tools/

    About XebiaLabs
    XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale Continuous Delivery and DevOps software, providing companies with the visibility, automation and control they need to deliver software faster and with less risk. Global market leaders rely on XebiaLabs to meet the increasing demand for accelerated and more reliable software releases. For more information, please visit http://www.xebialabs.com.

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  • Chef Launches Habitat, New Open Source Project to Automate Applications

    After Nine Months in Stealth Development, First of Its Kind Open Source Project Packages Automation with Application for Deployment Anywhere, from Bare Metal to Containers

    SEATTLE – June 14, 2016 – Chef<https://www.chef.io>, the leader in automation for DevOps<https://www.chef.io/solutions/devops>, today announced Habitat<https://habitat.sh>, an open source project that introduces a new approach for application automation. Applications packaged with Habitat have the intelligence to self-organize and self-configure. Habitat makes applications independent of underlying infrastructure, so it is easy to run applications across increasingly diverse environments such as containers, PaaS, cloud infrastructure and on-premise data centers.

    Companies today have extensive digital presence with many custom applications. As these applications have grown in complexity, so has the burden of managing them. Traditionally, infrastructure has dictated the design of the application. Habitat takes the opposite view and, for the first time, puts the application front and center. As a result, companies can focus on business value and planning features that will make their products stand out rather than on the constraints of infrastructure and particular runtime environments.

    Whether greenfield or legacy, any application that is deployed using a Habitat package has the intelligence to be aware of and react to its environment. Habitat’s novel approach to packaging allows the application to be independent of any particular infrastructure environment. Habitat also provides a well-defined interface that simplifies common tasks such as monitoring, safe deployment of new features and the creation of peer relationships that are required for production systems.

    From a developer’s perspective, by wrapping applications in Habitat packages, application teams don’t have to worry about a particular runtime until they’re ready to deploy. Because Habitat flexibly handles the management of the application, teams are no longer responsible for creating their own management solutions over and over again. With Habitat, developers can focus on new products and features that move the business forward.

    Chef’s co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob will unveil Habitat via livestream<https://bignews.chef.io/> at 8:30 a.m. PT today. The presentation will include a live demo and be followed by live Q&A on Twitter. Tweet questions to @chef using the tag #habitat.

    News Highlights:

    Habitat is a first of its kind open source project that offers an entirely new approach to application management. Habitat makes the application and its automation the unit of deployment. When applications are wrapped in a lightweight “habitat,” the runtime environment, whether it is a container, bare metal, or PaaS, is no longer the focus and does not constrain the application. Features of Habitat include:

    •   Support for the Modern Application: Habitat packages include everything that an application needs to run, throughout its lifecycle. Habitat’s core components are:

    •   Packaging format. Applications in a Habitat package are atomic, immutable and auditable.

    •   Supervisor. The Habitat supervisor runs application packages with awareness of the packages’ peer relationships, upgrade strategy and security policies. The Habitat supervisor configures and manages the application for whatever environment is present.
      The Habitat ecosystem also provides a build service that takes a Habitat build plan, creates the Habitat package, and publishes it to a depot.

    •   Run Any Application, Anywhere: With Habitat applications can run, unmodified, in any runtime environment, from bare metal and virtual machines, to containers like Docker and cluster-management systems like Mesosphere or Kubernetes, and PaaS systems like Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

    •   Easily Port Legacy Applications: When legacy applications are wrapped in a Habitat package, they become independent of the environment for which they were originally designed. They can quickly be moved to more modern environments such as the cloud and containers. Also, because Habitat packages have a standard, outward-facing interface, legacy applications become much easier to manage.
    •   Improve the Container Experience: Habitat reduces the complexity of managing containers in production environments. By automating application configuration within a container, Habitat addresses the challenges developers face when moving container-based applications from development environments into production.
    •   Integrate into Chef’s DevOps Workflow: The Habitat project is sponsored by Chef. Habitat leverages Chef’s deep experience with infrastructure automation to bring unprecedented automation capabilities to applications. Chef will offer commercial support for Habitat and ensure seamless integration between Habitat and Chef Delivery to fully automate the application release cycle, from development to deployment.

    Availability:
    Habitat is an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license. You can download Habitat immediately athttps://www.habitat.sh/docs/get-habitat/. Chef offers commercial support for the Habitat supervisor through its Chef Enterprise subscription.

    Supporting Quotes
    “We must free the application from its dependency on infrastructure to truly achieve the promise of DevOps. There is so much open source software to be written in the world and we’re very excited to release Habitat into the wild. We believe application-centric automation can give modern development teams what they really want — to build new apps, not muck around in the plumbing.”

    •   Adam Jacob, co-founder and CTO, Chef

    “Each year we’ve seen steady progress in taming the challenges of application management at scale,
    but I think we have to pay particular attention to technologies that continuously deliver desired end-states,
    and across diverse production environments, otherwise we’re just speeding up over-the-wall procedures.”

    •   Mark Burgess, Technologist, author, creator of CFEngine, Emeritus Professor of Network and System Administration, Oslo University College

    “Open source projects like Habitat embrace the ability to help DevOps teams run their applications in containers everywhere. The community can take advantage of Habitat’s application-centric automation on CoreOS Linux, the lightweight OS designed for containers, and Tectonic, the premier infrastructure platform for running distributed applications using Kubernetes, across all their environments while benefiting from security, reliability and scalability.”

    •   Wei Dang, head of product, CoreOS

    “Traditional enterprise applications have limited proliferation into the hybrid cloud. By making it easy to build applications that run anywhere, the value of hybrid cloud platforms, containers, and their management can be fully realized. Habitat is an important step forward in enabling enterprise IT to fully benefit from the portability and efficiency of cloud computing.”

    •   Jonathan Donaldson, vice president of Software Defined Infrastructure, Data Center Group, Intel

    “Open source is at the core of the modern application principles powering today’s digital economy. Together, Habitat and DC/OS enable organizations to apply these principles — including autonomy, portability, and scale — to new and legacy applications alike, making it even easier to automate the application stack in any environment.”

    •            Tobi Knaup, co-founder and CTO, Mesosphere

    “Modern application teams want the freedom to make infrastructure choices without worrying about the impact of those choices on their applications. Habitat’s application automation combined with our container management platform gives development teams the ability to easily build, deploy, and manage their containerized applications on everything from bare metal to the cloud.”

    •            Sheng Liang, CEO, Rancher Labs

    Additional Resources

    About Chef
    Founded in 2008, Chef Software is changing the way companies build and deliver software to delight customers. Chef is the leader in automation for DevOps, a cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners. Built on a strong open source foundation, we have distilled the proven patterns and practices for fast and scalable software development into our leading IT automation platform. Chef automates the continuous and unified delivery of applications and infrastructure, enabling enterprises worldwide to deliver software much faster with minimal risk. With hundreds of commercial customers and tens of thousands of open source community members, we are leading one of the strongest technology movements in the world today. Join us atwww.chef.io<http://www.chef.io>.

    Shelby Lichliter
    Revere | Shelby.Lichliter@revereagency.co<mailto:Shelby.Lichliter@revereagency.co> | 925.216.5303

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  • Loggly Closes $11.5M of New Financing

    Cloud-based log management solution follows 2,000 customer milestone with funding round led by True Ventures

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA—June 14, 2016—Loggly, the leading cloud-based, enterprise-class log management solution provider, today announces an $11.5 million funding round. Led by True Ventures, the new round enables Loggly to continue to innovate as well as to expand sales and marketing activities. Additional investors include Matrix Partners, Cisco, Trinity Ventures, Harmony Partners and Data Collective Venture Capital.

    “Following record growth and customer adoption, including reaching the 2,000 paid customer accounts milestone in Q1 2016, this next round of funding marks continued momentum for Loggly. True Ventures – and all Loggly investors – have set the stage for us to build on these achievements,” said Charlie Oppenheimer, CEO, Loggly. “This funding enables Loggly to further accelerate innovation in powerful analytics, alerts, search capabilities and other key areas so our customers can find root causes faster, spot anomalies earlier and monitor the health of their applications and infrastructure.”

    Loggly has become increasingly cash efficient as a result of significant growth in recurring revenues, gross margin and reduction in customer acquisition costs. Combined with record revenue growth from both new and existing customers, the company expects to achieve cash-flow positive operations during 2017.

    “True Ventures believes in taking bold risks and supporting our companies through their entire lifecycles,” said Puneet Agarwal, Partner, True Ventures. “We are excited to lead this next stage with Loggly and look forward to the continued innovation and growth.”

    Customers in the gaming and entertainment industry, consumer services, technology as well as marketing and finance platforms, use Loggly as their cloud-based log management service to aggregate all logs in one central place and turn large amounts of log data into valuable insights in real-time.

    About Loggly
    Loggly aims to empower the creators and operators of cloud-based services to operate flawlessly and deliver great user experiences by knowing what’s going on with their applications and why. Our cloud-based log management solution shows you what matters by crunching through huge volumes of log data that no human could possibly read. Loggly is the world’s most popular cloud-based, enterprise-class log management solution. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, the company is backed by True Ventures, Matrix Partners, Cisco, Trinity Ventures, Harmony Partners, Data Collective Venture Capital, and others. Loggly is an official AWS Config partner and a Docker Ecosystem Technology Partner. Visit us at www.loggly.com or follow @loggly on Twitter.

    Press Contact:
    Matt Trocchio
    SHIFT Communications
    512.792.2555
    loggly@shiftcomm.com

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  • DBmaestro Releases TeamWork Version 5.1 with Increased Automation Capabilities  

     

    New version widens database release automation to provide significantly higher interoperability 

    Houston, Texas – June 13, 2016 – DBmaestro (www.DBmaestro.com), the pioneer and leading provider of DevOps for Database solutions, announced the release of TeamWork Version 5.1, which improves its industry leading database release automation interoperability to support seamless integration with all sources of database changes, while predicting the success of database deployments and alerting for configuration drift. Additionally, Version 5.1 includes dozens of security upgrades and improvements to integrations with solutions such as Jira, Jenkins and CA Release Automation.

    DBmaestro’s DevOps for Database solution offers a comprehensive approach to the database development life cycle, providing enterprises the ability to deliver changes faster. DBmaestro has been at the forefront of Continuous Delivery for the Database, with a solution that provides complete database source control, governance, and compliance, and ultimately reduces application downtime caused by database-related human errors by 80%, while speeding up the time to market of database driven business applications tenfold.

    DBmaestro V5.1 enhanced interoperability empowers customers to turn any existing change process into a stable, predictable and reliable release automation process. Any update package or database update script can be managed by DBmaestro’s release automation solution, and leverage its risk evading smart validators and drift detectors before and after deployments. TeamWork provides support for smart deployments between different environments, labels and user stories, as well as support for rollbacks in case of need.

    “With the increased need to improve time to market, budget tightening and tolerances for database downtime approaching zero, companies of all shapes and sizes are ready to make a change when it comes to implementing continuous delivery for the database,” said Yaniv Yehuda, DBmaestro’s co-founder and CTO. “With our new upgrade, DBmaestro is allowing customers to substantially improve the performance, scalability, reliability and cost-efficiency of their DevOps for database solution.”

    Right now, you can join a free demo of DBmaestro TeamWork’s Version 5.1 with the first-of-its-kind pipeline builder. Click here to sign up for a demo. 

    About DBmaestro

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

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

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

  • SecureWorks Counter Threat Platform Brings New Security Layer to Customer Workloads on AWS with Expanded Monitoring Capabilities

    Organizations can add security bolstered by threat intelligence as they pursue the potential of cloud computing and hybrid IT.

    Atlanta, June 13, 2016 – SecureWorks Corp. (NASDAQ: SCWX) is expanding the capabilities of its vendor-agnostic, data analytics engine — the Counter Threat Platform (CTP) TM — to now provide security monitoring of client applications and data being hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solutions are designed to enhance the security of an organization’s applications and data being hosted on AWS.

    For 17 years, SecureWorks has helped protect on-premises environments across the globe. Now, SecureWorks is leveraging its up-to-the-minute threat intelligence, the expertise of its Counter Threat Unit TM research team, and the native logging features of AWS to extend its portfolio of security solutions to the cloud.  The first of its offerings, which are purpose-built for AWS, include:

    • Monitored AWS EC2 server instances
    • Monitored Firewall and Web Application Firewall on AWS (support for multiple industry-leading firewall and web application firewall technologies)
    • iSensor Intrusion Prevention System TM on AWS

    SecureWorks’ iSensor Intrusion Prevention System on AWS can inspect both outbound and inbound traffic to an organization’s cloud environment and block new and emerging threats.

    SecureWorks also takes advantage of AWS-specific data sources and collects logs and telemetry from the technologies running in AWS, including when they spin up and down. SecureWorks supports multiple sources of log data, including logs from Amazon CloudWatch and CloudTrail.

    These new offerings, combined with the company’s award-winning on-premises security solutions  and Emergency Cyber Incident Response service on AWS, offer a comprehensive answer for security considerations for both on-premises environments and in the cloud, allowing  organizations to pursue hybrid environments. Organizations benefit from a comprehensive view into the security of their data and applications regardless of where they reside.

    “Organizations need to understand they have to play an active role in securing their cloud assets too,” said Frost & Sullivan Research Director Frank Dickson. “Moving to the cloud is not a binary decision; it is not all or nothing. Every enterprise will have some portion of its enterprise resources on-premises and some portion in the cloud, a hybrid reality that needs to be proactively addressed.  Security providers like SecureWorks who bring a mix of threat intelligence and security expertise to customers that is applied across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments provide critical value to customers as they further embrace the opportunities enabled by the cloud.”

    As organizations continue to pursue hybrid environments with data and applications both on premises and in the cloud, the new solutions will allow the SecureWorks CTP to deliver security from the data center to the cloud.  The CTP aggregates over 180 billion events a day from SecureWorks’ clients and blocks those determined to be cyberattacks. With the CTP, SecureWorks can deliver countermeasures and generate valuable intelligence, as well as context about the intentions of the attackers, that can then be applied to secure cloud environments.

    “As the leader in New Zealand, Australia and the UK in cloud accounting software for small businesses, we take security seriously,” said Aaron McKeown, Lead Security Architect at Xero. “The protection of sensitive financial data of our 700,000 global subscribers is our most important priority. Working closely with SecureWorks technology provides us with the advanced threat intelligence and integrated visibility we need for seamless security and scale on Amazon Web Services.”

    “We hear every day that security is top of mind as organizations migrate to the cloud,” said Matt Eberhart, executive director of global product management at SecureWorks. “Our new solutions enable our clients to confidently embrace the cloud by extending security visibility and protections alongside cloud workloads and the traditional datacenter environments we have been protecting for 17 years. Our Counter Threat Platform will seamlessly extend your security program into the cloud with visibility across your traditional security controls, enabling your business to feel confident about your cloud security position as well as your cloud security posture.”

    The Monitored AWS EC2 server instances, Monitored Firewall and Monitored WAF solutions are available globally except in Japan. The Managed iSensor service is expected to be available in the fall of 2016. Language support is in English at this time.

    “SecureWorks is a partner we trust to keep our cloud infrastructure secure as we evolve and expand our banking customer base and ensure valuable financial data is protected,” Greg Judy, senior vice president and information technology officer at Colony Bank.

    About SecureWorks

    SecureWorks is a leading global provider of intelligence-driven information security solutions exclusively focused on protecting our clients from cyberattacks. Our solutions enable organizations to fortify their cyber defenses to prevent security breaches, detect malicious activity in real time, prioritize and respond rapidly to security breaches and predict emerging threats. As of April 29, 2016, SecureWorks served over 4,300 clients across 59 countries. For more information, individuals can also visit www.secureworks.com.

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    Media contacts:

    Brian Prince

    SecureWorks

    bprince@secureworks.com; 201-406-2657

    www.secureworks.com

    or

    Elizabeth W. Clarke

    Director of Media Relations

    eclarke@secureworks.com; 404-486-4492

  • IT REVOLUTION TO OFFER PREVIEW COPIES OF SOON-TO-BE-RELEASED ‘DEVOPS HANDBOOK’ TO ATTENDEES AT DEVOPS ENTERPRISE SUMMIT LONDON 2016

    Gene Kim to Host DevOps ‘Luminaries Night’ Reception During Conference

    PORTLAND, Ore., June 9, 2016 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced it will be offering the first look of its soon-to-be-released “DevOps Handbook” as a special bonus to all attendees at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016 (http://events.itrevolution.com/eu/). As the premier industry conference for leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps in the UK and Continental Europe, DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES16) London is expected to sell out and is scheduled for June 30-July 1 at the Hilton London Metropole. Tickets for the conference are going quickly, but are still available at: (http://bit.ly/doesldnreg).

    Following in the footsteps of the popular book, “The Phoenix Project,” this fall, Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis will release “The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations.” The book is designed to be a prescriptive guide, describing the technical practices, cultural norms and architecture required to replicate the amazing transformation that Bill Palmer and team performed at Parts Unlimited in “The Phoenix Project.” Co-authors Gene Kim, Patrick Debois and John Willis will be in attendance at the conference, and IT Revolution will host a signing in its booth at the event.

    “We are excited to offer the first look of the upcoming “DevOps Handbook” for the attendees of DOES16 London,” said Kim. “Registrants of the conference will be the first to own a preview copy before its official release later this fall. It promises to reinforce all the great real-world examples of DevOps in action that registrants will see during our upcoming two-day Summit.”

    In addition, on Thursday, June 30, IT Revolution will host a “Luminaries Night” during the conference’s evening reception. “We’re assembling some of the people that the industry admires most who have helped shape the DevOps movement since the very beginning,” Kim said. In addition to the outstanding conference speakers, Dominica DeGrandis, Patrick Debois, Damon Edwards, Simon Morris, Dan North, James Smith, Steven Thair, John Willis and more will be available to meet and speak with attendees. The event will take place in the Monarch Suite of the Hilton London Metropole Hotel from 5 to 7 p.m. BST.

    IT Revolution also is hosting a chance to win a one-hour “Ask Me Anything” session with Gene Kim during DOES16 London. Attendees can spend the hour asking any questions they wish, such as, “Where did the stories from The Phoenix Project come from?” or “If there was one thing you could change about DevOps, what would it be and why?”

    IT Revolution and Premier Sponsor HPE Software are excited to present the inaugural DOES16 London event, a conference for the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. The goal is to give leaders the tools and practices they need to develop and deploy software faster and to win in the marketplace. The full program is available online and can be found here: (http://bit.ly/doesldnagenda).

    Join the #DOES16 Conversation

    Interested in joining DevOps Enterprise speakers for an online social media chat? DOES16 organizers will be hosting a CrowdChat on Thursday, June 9 at 11am EDT / 4pm BST. To join the conversation, please visit: (https://www.crowdchat.net/chat/c3BvdF9vYmpfMjE0Nw).

    For more information about DOES16 London, please visit: (http://events.itrevolution.com/eu/).

    Share This: Only 3 Weeks Away from #DOES16 London! Register now to get a preview copy of #DevOps Handbook: http://bit.ly/doesldnreg @DOESsummitEU #IT 

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  • CrowdStrike Integrates Falcon Platform with Orchestration and Automation Partners

     

    Combined Endpoint Visibility and Automatic Breach Investigation Workflow Will Allow Customers to Orchestrate Response with Greater Speed and Accuracy

    Irvine, CA – June 7, 2016 – CrowdStrike Inc., a leader in cloud-delivered next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and response services, today announced a new initiative to integrate  CrowdStrike Falcon™ Platform with orchestration and automation solutions which allow enterprise customers to manage and automate the entire incident response lifecycle. The combined offering from CrowdStrike and its partners will allow customers to operate their security efforts in a more efficient and effective manner responding to security threats faster and with greater accuracy.

    The CrowdStrike Orchestration and Automation initiative builds on CrowdStrike’s recently established Elevate Partner Program, along with the introduction of new and updated APIs via CrowdStrike Falcon Connect, making it easier for partners to seamlessly integrate their solutions with CrowdStrike’s Falcon Platform. This results in advanced capabilities that leverage all of the existing assets within a customer’s environment.

    The joint solution allows customers to: 

    • Automate breach investigation workflows with enhanced endpoint visibility –  Security administrators can quickly leverage the power of Falcon Host with historical and real-time queries into endpoint activity, as well as investigating any and all threats leveraging the rich data from Falcon Intelligence. This combination provides customers with smarter and deeper visibility when investigating potential breaches.
    • Orchestrate rapid threat response – Customers can respond to breaches in an automated fashion with improved accuracy and speed. Leveraging Falcon Connect, customers can contain endpoints to only the resources necessary to remediate and protect them from further damage. Falcon Intelligence gives greater visibility throughout the entire incident response lifecycle.
    • Continually reveals new threats utilizing CrowdStrike threat data – Enhances customer threat detection capabilities. CrowdStrike’s Falcon Host endpoint integration allows customers to unfold potential threats more quickly and accurately by leveraging information from the CrowdStrike Threat Graph™  database. Enriching that information with CrowdStrike’s Falcon Intelligence threat feed data enables a level of protection previously not achievable.

    “CrowdStrike’s partners share the same goal as we do, which is to stop breaches,” said Upesh Patel, vice president, Business and Corporate Development for CrowdStrike. “This new initiative helps our shared customers manage the entire security lifecycle more efficiently and effectively in the midst of a cyber attack.”

    CP Morey, vice president of Products, Phantom:

    “The speed and sophistication of today’s threats demand more automated security functions to help contain and remediate breaches,” said CP Morey, vice president of Products at Phantom.  “By integrating CrowdStrike’s unique cloud-delivered model with Phantom’s security automation and orchestration platform, customers can now achieve what used to take minutes or even hours, and instead, accomplish the same tasks in a matter of seconds.”

    Cody Cornell, Co-Founder of Swimlane

    “Security teams need better visibility into their overall security posture,” said Cody Cornell, co-founder of Swimlane. “Integrating with a leader in endpoint protection gives security teams a single response platform with complete visibility into their endpoints, allowing them to respond to incidents and threats more rapidly and targeted.”

    The CrowdStrike Orchestration and Automation ecosystem includes partnerships with Demisto, Hexadite, Phantom, SwimLane and Syncurity.

    About CrowdStrike

    CrowdStrike is the leader in next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and response services. CrowdStrike’s core technology, the CrowdStrike Falcon™ platform, stops breaches by preventing and responding to all types of attacks – both malware and malware-free.  CrowdStrike has revolutionized endpoint protection by combining three crucial elements: next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and a 24/7 managed hunting service — all powered by intelligence and uniquely delivered via the cloud in a single integrated solution. CrowdStrike Falcon™ uses the patent-pending CrowdStrike Threat Graph™ to analyze and correlate billions of events in real time, providing complete protection and five-second visibility across all endpoints. Many of the world’s largest organizations already put their trust in CrowdStrike, including three of the 10 largest global companies by revenue, five of the 10 largest financial institutions, three of the top 10 health care providers, and three of the top 10 energy companies. CrowdStrike Falcon is currently deployed in more than 170 countries.

    We Stop Breaches.  Learn more: www.crowdstrike.com

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    Cris Paden

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