Author: Miles Blatstein

SmartBear Presents on DevOps Testing at Better Software West

SOMERVILLE, Mass.–(Business Wire)–Nikhil Kaul, Product Marketing Manager, Testing Products at SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, is presenting, “Where’s Test in DevOps?” at Better Software West, taking place on Sunday, June 5 – Friday, June 10, 2016 in Las Vegas. SmartBear is also exhibiting its industry leading test automation solutions and dev collaboration tools including, TestComplete, TestLeft, LoadComplete and Collaborator in booth #13.


WHAT
&WHEN:					SmartBear at Better Software West:
					• “Where’s Test in DevOps?” Presented by Nikhil Kaul on Thursday, June 9, 2016, 3:00 p.m. PDT
					• SmartBear’s Automated Test Solutions and Dev Collaboration Tools Exhibited in Booth #13 on Wednesday, June 8 – Thursday, June 9, 2016

WHERE:					Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada

As organizations try to meet faster delivery schedules and improve collaboration between development and operations, DevOps has become a hot topic. And with Apple, Google and Microsoft making it easier for Dev and Ops to build and deploy cross-platform apps, there is more to test in less time. The question then arises, where does testing fit in such a DevOps strategy? Nikhil Kaul gives an overview of recent trends in DevOps, specifically changes that have taken place in the testing industry over the past year. He explores why testing is becoming more important than ever and how testing can facilitate the transformation to DevOps. Finally, Nikhil touches upon ways to build a scalable testing framework and important reusability practices that can be applied—from development and test to operations—to reduce post-deployment debugging time.

Prior to SmartBear, Nikhil served Digité, a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management solutions, in various roles including Senior Software Executive. There, he gained insights into software development and testing market. Nikhil received a master’s degree in business administration from Georgetown University. He is very involved in discussions taking place in development and testing communities. His most recent thoughts can be found in Forbes and CIO.com. Follow him on Twitter @kaulnikhil or read his blog.

SmartBear has a suite of testing automation tools, including automated testing platform,TestComplete, LoadComplete, the industry leading performance and load testing tool for Web and mobile assets, its newest developer focused test automation tool, TestLeft and test management tool, QAComplete. For more information, visit:https://smartbear.com/products/testing/.

Collaborator is the only tool available that allows teams to peer review code, user stories and test plans in a transparent, collaborative framework – instantly keeping the entire team up to speed on changes made to the code. For more information, including a free trial of Collaborator, visit: http://smartbear.com/product/collaborator/overview/. On Twitter, follow @CollaboratorSB.

The Better Software West Conference keeps industry professionals current on the entire development lifecycle. SmartBear is a Silver Sponsor of the event. For more information, visit: https://bscwest.techwell.com/.

About SmartBear Software

As the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, SmartBear supports more than four million software professionals and over 25,000 organizations in 194 countries that use its products to build and deliver the world’s greatest applications. With today’s applications deploying on mobile, Web, desktop, Internet of Things (IoT) or even embedded computing platforms, the connected nature of these applications through public and private APIs presents a unique set of challenges for developers, testers and operations teams. SmartBear’s software quality tools assist with code review, functional and load testing, API readiness as well as performance monitoring of these modern applications. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.

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June 3, 2016

Sonatype Strengthens Continuous Delivery with New Atlassian Integrations
FULTON, Md.–(Business Wire)–Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation, today announced new integrations with Atlassian’s product portfolio to better support Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices. Following up on its previous integrations with Atlassian’s Bamboo and HipChat products, Sonatype is announcing four Nexus integrations with Atlassian products:
- Nexus Lifecycle, Nexus Firewall, and Nexus Auditor integration with Atlassian JIRA Software
- Nexus Repository Pro integration with Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines
Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle, Firewall, and Auditor Integration with JIRA Software

High velocity DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices depend on automated policies to identify the best open source and proprietary components to use in software builds. Sonatype Nexus solutions enable teams to monitor applications at every stage of the software development lifecycle so they can reduce application defects and security vulnerabilities. By integrating Nexus Lifecycle, Nexus Firewall, and Nexus Auditor with Atlassian’s JIRA Software, enterprise development organizations can now automatically initiate JIRA tickets from the Nexus products to initiate defect alerts, track remediation efforts, and reduce mean time to repair.

Sonatype Nexus Repository Integration with Bitbucket Pipelines

The release of Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, and its integration with Sonatype’s OSSRH— a cloud-based service powered by Nexus Repository Pro — enables development teams to fully automate continuous builds. The integrated solutions offer end-to-end visibility from coding new components to publishing them for global consumption. This new integration leverages Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Pro to provide a repository hosting service for open source project binaries. Development teams can use Nexus Repository Pro running OSSRH to deploy development version binaries (snapshots), stage and promote release binaries, and sync them to the Central Repository.

“Sonatype and Atlassian have been working together and using each other’s tools for years. All four Nexus integrations were built for developers by our developers who use Atlassian’s Bamboo, HipChat, JIRA Software, and Bitbucket every day,” said Wayne Jackson, CEO, Sonatype. “We engineered our integrations with Atlassian to accelerate build and release capabilities, reduce the variability of outcomes, and dramatically decrease mean times to repair…all key metrics of successful DevOps practices.”

“In an era where everything is continuous, the best organizations understand that speed and quality are not opposing forces,” said Bryant Lee, Head of Ecosystem for Software Teams, Atlassian. “We are working very closely with Sonatype to deliver new integrations into products like Bamboo, JIRA Software, and Bitbucket that help our customers unlock their next level of efficiency.”

Sonatype Nexus integration with Atlassian JIRA Software will be available on June 15, 2016.

Resources
- Video: Introduction of Nexus Lifecycle, Firewall, and Auditor integration with JIRA Software
- Video: How Sonatype uses Atlassian Bamboo and Nexus Lifecycle for continuous integration
- Video and blog: Introducing OSSRH integration with Bitbucket Pipelines
- Video: Publishing components from Atlassian Bamboo to Nexus Repository
- Video: How Atlassian uses Nexus Repository Pro at scale
- Video: How Atlassian integrates Bamboo with Nexus Repository for continuous delivery
- Case Study: How Atlassian HipChat helps Sonatype’s distributed development team stay agile
- Blog: Details of Nexus Lifecycle integration with Atlassian Bamboo
About Sonatype

Last year developers requested 31 billion components from the Central Repository to manufacture the software applications that run the world. Additionally, with more than 100,000 installations, companies around the globe use Sonatype’s Nexus solutions to manage reusable components and improve the quality, speed and security of their software supply chains. Sonatype is privately held with investments from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Bay Partners and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit:www.sonatype.com

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June 3, 2016
WaveMaker Jump-Starts Delivery of “No Coding” Apps for Mobility
Pro and Non-Pro Developers Alike Can Combine Visual, No-Coding RAD (Rapid Application Development) with Enhanced WaveMaker Professional Services to Bring Mobile Apps to Life in a Matter of Days

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 1, 2016 – WaveMaker, Inc., a leading enterprise Rapid Application Development Platform software company, today announced the most comprehensive professional services available for rapid mobile-app development. With the new services, professional and non-professional developers alike can speed the deployment of new apps, allowing their companies to enhance their competitive position, accelerate revenue capture, and relieve their overburdened IT departments.

WaveMaker addresses the mounting challenge of enterprises to reduce the complexity of application development – and, in particular, applications that must be developed for a variety of platforms or OS’s in parallel. As an example, WaveMaker professional services address the increasing demand for mobile access to apps, and on platforms including Android, iOS, and Windows. Modernizing the front-ends of existing apps to add mobile capabilities using web technologies is more efficient and cost-effective than building native apps for each mobile platform.

Three components are especially critical to improving app delivery times in today’s market:
- Enterprises are demanding a best-practices approach to Agile development, to reduce development times and to ensure reusability of core app components
- Developers expect to use micro-services architecture in app development, using individual pretested micro-services to simplify app design, testing, and go-live
- Developers are demanding new tools to enable quicker service integrations by automating creation of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
The new services are designed to help enterprises propel development projects ahead, leveraging the inherent advantages of rapid app development. At the core of RAD is rapid prototyping, which allows developers to create “real looking” apps in a matter of days, and without slowing the full development lifecycle. In traditional services delivery, prototyping is intrusive and diverts development efforts from actual software development. With RAD, prototypes reveal the core functionality of an app rapidly, without necessitating a long approval and budgeting process.

WaveMaker’s new and expanded professional services offer complete, turn-key application development services. Services include:
- Development Services offer design, development and hosting of custom applications for enterprise customers.
- Jumpstart Services are short-term consulting projects to jumpstart application development with help of WaveMaker experts at any stage of the delivery lifecycle.
- Training Services offer flexible options to get customers up to speed on WaveMaker RAD.
“Mobile devices across a range of platforms are invading the enterprise at an unprecedented rate,” said Vijay Pullur, CEO of WaveMaker. “And the apps that will drive productivity of users on those devices are overwhelmingly revenue-producing apps, such as those required in eCommerce. This has created a challenge in the enterprise to define, develop, and deploy new apps at light speed. For many enterprises, the only viable option has been to outsource development, and at considerable cost and the loss of direct control over quality. WaveMaker’s no-coding RAD platform, together with comprehensive professional services, empowers internal developers to take control of their own destiny.”

For more information on RAD application development or professional services from WaveMaker, visit http://www.wavemaker.com/get-started

About WaveMaker

WaveMaker’s software platform revolutionizes how enterprises build, deliver and manage modern custom applications, improving business agility and fostering innovation. WaveMaker leverages the latest trends and technologies in Rapid App Development (RAD) such as multi-device auto-responsive interfaces and componentized app assembly, Docker for app-optimized container deployment on private infrastructures, and APIs and Microservices Architecture (MSA) for scalable integration. WaveMaker, Inc., a Pramati Technologies company, is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with offices in Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit www.wavemaker.com, or like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or connect with us on LinkedIn.
June 1, 2016
Lightbend Closes $20 Million in Series C Funding Led by Intel Capital

Pioneer in Reactive Systems accelerating growth as more and more Global 2000 enterprises move to cloud-first business models built on microservices

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – (Marketwired – May 26, 2016) – Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), the company behind the Reactive Platform that includes the Akka, Play and Lagom Frameworks as well as the Scala programming language, today announced it has closed a $20 million Series C funding round led by Intel Capital. Blue Cloud Ventures also joined Intel Capital as a new investor, with full participation from previous investors Bain Capital Ventures, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Vibhor Rastogi, Director for Enterprise Software at Intel Capital, will join Lightbend’s board of directors.

Enterprises including Walmart, Verizon, iHeartRadio, William Hill, and Samsung (see case studies) have adopted the Lightbend Reactive Platform to build low latency, fast data applications based on modern microservice architectures. Lightbend’s platform and professional services have become a popular option for enterprises that leverage the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and JVM-languages like Java and Scala – and that seek the characteristics of application resiliency and extreme scale defined by the Reactive Manifesto.

“Lightbend is very excited that Intel Capital and Blue Cloud Ventures have invested as we continue to deliver technology, services and expertise to Global 2000 companies that are refactoring their application architectures for Agile development cycles and extreme scale on-prem and in the cloud,” said Mark Brewer, CEO of Lightbend. “Enterprises come to Lightbend because of our track record enabling teams to ship better code faster, and in an operations model that stands up to the most extreme scale.”

“Mobile and IoT use cases are driving enterprises to modernize how they process large volumes of data,” said Doug Fisher, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Services Group at Intel Corporation. “Lightbend provides the fundamental building blocks for developing, deploying and managing today’s large-scale, distributed applications.”

“These changes are happening because application requirements have changed dramatically in recent years,” said Jonas Bonér, founder and CTO at Lightbend, and creator of Akka. “Only a few years ago a large application had tens of servers, seconds of response time, hours of offline maintenance and gigabytes of data. Today, applications are deployed on everything from mobile devices to cloud-based clusters running thousands of multi-core processors. Users expect millisecond response times and 100% uptime. Today’s demands are simply not met by yesterday’s software architectures.”

About Lightbend

Lightbend (Twitter: @lightbend) is dedicated to helping developers build Reactive applications on the JVM. With the Lightbend Reactive Platform, developers can create message-driven applications that scale on multicore and cloud computing architectures by using technologies like Lagom, Play Framework, Akka, Apache Spark, Scala, and Java. To help our customers succeed, Lightbend partners with technology pioneers such as Databricks, IBM, and Mesosphere. Lightbend is venture backed by Intel Capital, Blue Cloud, Bain Capital and Shasta Ventures with headquarters in San Francisco.

About Intel Capital

Intel Capital, Intel’s strategic investment and M&A organization, backs innovative startups targeting computing and smart devices, cloud, datacenter, security, the Internet of Things, wearable and robotic technologies and semiconductor manufacturing. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$11.7 billion in 1,445 companies in 57 countries, and 595 portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired. Through its business development programs, Intel Capital curates thousands of introductions each year between its portfolio executives and Intel’s customers and partners in the Global 2000. For more information on what makes Intel Capital one of the world’s most powerful venture capital firms, visit www.intelcapital.com or follow @Intelcapital.

May 27, 2016
IBM Offers Watson Services on Twilio Marketplace
More than one million registered developers will have access to new cognitive capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO – 24 May 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is collaborating with Twilio, the cloud communications platform for developers, to introduce two new offerings, IBM Watson Message Sentiment and IBM Watson Message Insights, which will be available as Add-Ons in Twilio’s recently announced Marketplace.

Pre-integrated with Twilio’s APIs, the new Watson offerings are now readily accessible as “Add-ons” to the more than one million registered developers in Twilio’s community, in addition to the developers who currently access Watson technology via Bluemix, IBM’s Cloud platform.

The new Watson Add-ons offer additional message enhancement capabilities through natural language processing to help understand sentiment, keywords, entities and high-level concepts from text messages. The insights gleaned from this unstructured data will give businesses actionable insights. The capabilities include:
- IBM Watson Message Sentiment: using sentiment analysis, the new service allows users to retrieve sentiment from SMS in a scalable manner. For example, a customer service manager would be able to easily analyze customer SMS messages to determine whether they are positive, negative, and neutral, to help to assess a customer’s satisfaction with a brand, service or product.
- IBM Watson Message Insights: using a combination of sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, entity extraction and concept tagging, this capability allows developers to distill key meanings from SMS. For example, a developer would be able to extract trending topics and match specific products or services to certain sentiments.
Add-ons are pre-integrated technologies available through the Twilio Marketplace that allow developers do more with the Twilio API, and are designed to make it easier for developers to integrate with other platforms and technologies. The new offerings complement the more than thirty Watson services

currently available from IBM. Future plans include extending these offerings on third party platforms like the Twilio marketplace, bringing cognitive to where developers work. Watson Speech to Text Add-on, as part of the Recording Add-on category, is up next for Twilio developers.

“We are committed to equipping all developers, everywhere, with self-service AI and IBM’s cognitive capabilities, backed by the best science, ease-of-use and scalability. We are motivated by what developers are creating with Watson technology, and are constantly seeking new ways to help them build and innovate,” said David Kenny, general manager, IBM Watson. “By joining the Twilio Marketplace, we have opened another avenue for many more developers to harness the power of Watson.”

“Add-ons make it possible for developers to do more with their Twilio applications using less code,” said Patrick Malatack, VP of Product at Twilio. “The IBM Watson Add-ons apply Watson’s sentiment analysis capabilities to customers’ text messages at scale, better equipping businesses with insights into how their customers feel. We’re pleased that customers can now add the functionality of IBM Watson in a single click.”

These new services are the latest example of IBM’s commitment to empowering the developer community to build cognitive-enabled apps and businesses with Watson. They build upon IBM’s open Watson platform that offers cognitive APIs in the areas of Language, Speech, and Vision available through BlueMix, IBM’s Cloud platform.

IBM Watson: Pioneering a New Era of Computing
Watson represents a new era in computing called cognitive computing, where systems understand the world the way humans do: through senses, learning, and experience. Watson continuously learns from previous interactions, gaining in value and knowledge over time. With the help of Watson, organizations are harnessing the power of cognitive computing to transform industries, help professionals do their jobs better, and solve important challenges.

To advance Watson, IBM has three dedicated business units: Watson, established for the development of cloud-delivered cognitive computing technologies that represent the commercialization of “artificial intelligence” or “AI” across a variety of industries; Watson Health, dedicated to improving the ability of doctors, researchers and insurers and other related health organizations to surface new insights from data to deliver personalized healthcare; and Watson IoT, focused on making sense of data embedded in more than 9 billion connected devices operating in the world today, which generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data daily.

For more information on IBM Watson, visit: ibm.com/Watson and ibm.com/press/watson. Join the conversation at #ibmwatson.

About Twilio

Twilio’s mission is to fuel the future of communications. Developers and businesses use Twilio to make communications relevant and contextual by embedding messaging, voice and video capabilities directly into their software applications. Founded in 2008, Twilio is privately held and has over 500 employees, with headquarters in San Francisco and other offices in Bogotá, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Mountain View, Munich, New York City, Singapore, and Tallinn.
May 27, 2016
Program Set For DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016, Last Round Of Speakers Added As Ticket Sales Ramp Up

Overwhelming number of quality submissions led organizers to add an additional eight-session track

PORTLAND, Oregon, May 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the final program and speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit London (DOES16), the premier industry conference for the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps in the UK and Continental Europe (http://events.itrevolution.com/eu/). In addition, IT Revolution has closed Early Bird registration for DOES16 London, but, tickets for the conference can still be found at (http://bit.ly/doesldnreg). The event is expected to sell out and is scheduled for June 30-July 1 at the Hilton London Metropole.

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“We had so many compelling submissions of real-world DevOps transformations in large, complex organizations that we added an additional track of eight more sessions than originally planned,” noted Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win.” “We wanted to enable every attendee to hear relevant stories of how DevOps can help them succeed. The phenomenal speaker lineup and remarkable stories being shared in late June shows how much innovation is happening in DevOps.”

The final round of speakers added to the program include:

·         Helen Beal, DevOps Director, Ranger4

·         Kevin Bowman, Head of Operations, Sky Betting and Gambling

·         Tom Clark, Head of Common Platform, ITV

·         Charlotta Croiset Van Uchelen, Chief DNA Officer, Schuberg Philis

·         Martin Croker, Managing Director, Accenture Technology Architecture and DevOps, Accenture

·         Margo Cronin, Head of Technology Architecture, Zurich Insurance

·         Darren Hague, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, SAP

·         Simon Parkes, Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Ordnance Survey

·         Scott Potter, (former) Head of Digital, News UK

·         Pat Reed, Principal Consultant, iHoriz Inc.

·         Robert Scherrer, Head Application Engineering, SIX

·         Jan Schilt, Owner Founder, GamingWorks BV

·         Jonathan Smart, Head of Development Services, Barclays

·         Gebrian Uit De Bulten, DevOps lead Gallia (Netherlands, France, Belgium, Luxembourg), Ingenico ePayments/ Accenture

·         Vincent Van Kooten, Domain Manager Front Office, Ingenico ePayments

·         Benjamin Wootton, Co-Founder, Sendachi

The full program is available online and can be found here: (http://bit.ly/doesldnagenda).

IT Revolution and Premier Sponsor HPE Software are excited to present the inaugural DOES16 London event. As a vendor-neutral conference, DevOps Enterprise Summit curates stories from the enterprise point-of-view. Most of the presentations follow a very specific “experience report” structure—each speaker describes their organization and their industry, the business problem they faced, where they started their transformation, what they did, and the business outcomes. It’s a simple yet powerful format that reveals solutions to shared problems and new practices that can be used in other business contexts.

Join the #DOES16 Conversation

Interested in joining DevOps Enterprise speakers for an online social media chat? DOES16 organizers will be hosting aCrowdChat 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/).

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About IT Revolution

IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of one million IT professionals by 2017.

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May 27, 2016
Jelastic Partners with Packet to Offer an All-Inclusive PaaS + CaaS Solution
Jelastic announces a partnership with Packet, the leading bare metal cloud provider, to offer a turnkey package of software and infrastructure for hosting providers and ISVs

Palo Alto, Calif. (PRWEB) May 25, 2016

Jelastic, an advanced DevOps PaaS and CaaS with automation of DevOps processes and multi-cloud distribution, announced a partnership with Packet, the leading provider of bare metal cloud servers for developers in the US and Europe. The goal of the partnership is to offer an all-inclusive PaaS and CaaS solution for hosting service providers and ISVs.

“Ease of use and speed of deployment getting a bare metal performance without limitation on the network level significantly simplifies the entry point for many service providers and ISVs that want to benefit from container automation. In combination with really attractive price, Jelastic solution on top of Packet infrastructure makes the move to the cloud and containers orchestration really smooth and cost-efficient,” said Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic’s CEO.

Jelastic and Packet have released special packages that enable service providers to offer container hosting solutions and generate superior ROI without significant infrastructure investments. Full production clusters start at just $12 per day, while a second offering targeted at the ISVs market and provides a turnkey private cloud package for DevOps teams for just $5 per day.

The joint package provides the following options:

Jelastic PaaS and CaaS platform
- Automated continuous integration, delivery and upgrade processes
- More than 50 certified containers out-of-the-box and support of custom Docker containers with full orchestration within self-service portals
- Automatic vertical and horizontal scaling according to applications load
- Multi-cloud and multi-region management of workloads distribution
- Comprehensive billing engine, quotas and access control policies
- Integration with WHMCS, Odin Service Automation and custom billing systems
- Metering, monitoring and troubleshooting tools
- 24×7 premium support and go-to-market services
Packet bare metal infrastructure
- Dedicated hardware servers, powered by All-SSD storage
- Reliable SAN storage (PAYG)
- Multi datacenter location – New York, Sunnyvale (California) and Amsterdam
- Fully redundant network connection
- Anycast for high availability across multiple locations
- BYO IPs segment
Built from the ground up to service DevOps forward organizations, Packet’s automation platform provisions powerful bare metal servers, elastic networking, and block storage in less than 10 minutes. Currently available in three strategic locations (New York, California and Amsterdam), all Packet services can be deployed and managed via API, portal, or dozens of integrations.

“We’re thrilled to flex the muscles of our platform with Jelastic’s best-in-class private and cross-cloud management software.” said Zachary Smith, CEO of Packet. “Backed by our innovative global network, which offers native IPv6 support and the ability to announce your own IP space, our on-demand servers are a natural fit for Jelastic and its performance-oriented customers.”

About Jelastic

Jelastic is a DevOps PaaS and CaaS for business that can be deployed on bare metal hardware or any IaaS. ISVs, hosting service providers, systems integrators, outsourcing companies, DevOps teams and enterprises, can choose between Jelastic Public, Private, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud options. The platform provides certified containers for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and .NET and the ability to use custom Docker containers. For more information, visit us athttp://www.jelastic.com

About Packet

Packet provides a better internet by supercharging the container revolution with smart, API-driven bare metal and a never-congested network. The platform brings public cloud style automation to bare metal: deploy dedicated servers in just minutes; always available, and program against them via API, cloud-init, and dozens of integrations. Learn more at http://www.packet.net.

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May 27, 2016
Sumo Logic Enables DevOps With Deep Data Insights Into AWS Lambda
New Integrations With AWS Lambda Offer Developers Improved Monitoring and Correlate Key Performance Indicators for Better Visibility Into Building Serverless Applications
REDWOOD CITY, CA–(Marketwired – May 25, 2016) – Sumo Logic, a leading cloud-native, machine data analytics service, today announced the availability of its Sumo Logic App for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda allowing DevOps and developers to monitor the health of all AWS Lambda functions and better manage the associated costs. In addition, the Sumo Logic Lambda blueprint is now available to route Amazon CloudWatch logs to Sumo Logic for advanced analysis and real-time visualization. The Sumo Logic App and integration enable deeper, real-time visibility into building serverless applications and optimizing AWS deployments.

“At The Washington Post, it’s critical that we can get a real-time picture of our app performance and stability since the user experience is paramount,” said Hardip Singh, mobile development manager for The Washington Post. “With the AWS Lambda function built from the blueprint for Sumo Logic, we were able to trigger and route our Amazon CloudWatch logs to Sumo Logic for analysis, accelerating our ability to connect with users to troubleshoot potential issues that arise.”

AWS Lambda lets developers run code at scale with high availability, without provisioning or managing servers. Users pay only for the compute time they consume, while running code for virtually any type of application or backend service with zero administration. Integration with Sumo Logic’s cloud-native machine data analytics platform allows developers to:
- Analyze operational and performance trends across all the AWS Lambda functions in an account;
- Gain visibility into the costs of AWS Lambda functions and optimize resources where appropriate;
- Track the adoption and performance for different versions of a single AWS Lambda function such as resizing an application to fit a mobile device, tablet or laptop, which can help evaluate the impact of that particular function.
“AWS Lambda changes the way developers design and scale their dynamic applications built on the AWS Cloud,” said Tim Wagner, General Manager, AWS Serverless Compute, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Sumo Logic has made it even easier for DevOps teams and developers to troubleshoot and monitor modern applications. With today’s release, they can analyze large volumes of data at scale, gaining top-to-bottom visibility in both development and production environments for serverless applications. Using the Sumo Logic app for AWS Lambda, developers can monitor the health of their AWS Lambda functions while easily gaining insights into usage and costs.”

Sumo Logic helps developers and DevOps teams accelerate the development and deployment of applications in a modern software delivery lifecycle. Its machine data analytics platform is the industry’s first to natively ingest, index and analyze structured metrics data and unstructured log data together in real-time, transforming a variety of data types into real-time continuous intelligence for modern applications and business insights.

“Development teams are adopting real-time analytic technologies that are integrated with the modern DevOps toolchain to improve all aspects of their application lifecycle,” said Bruno Kurtic, Founding VP of Product and Strategy at Sumo Logic. “As experts in helping organizations build, run and secure modern applications, Sumo Logic delivers a cloud-native, machine data analytics platform that gives AWS users operational insights into their AWS Lambda functions as well as other application components running on AWS so they can quickly and cost-effectively monitor, troubleshoot, and scale their applications.”

Additional Resources
- Read the blog to get a deeper look at how the Sumo Logic App for AWS Lambda works
- Learn more about the Sumo Logic App for AWS Lambda
- Sign up for a free trial of Sumo Logic
About Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 1,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic for the analytics and insights to build, run and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. With Sumo Logic, customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.

Founded in 2010, Sumo Logic is a privately held company based in Redwood City, CA and is backed by Accel Partners, DFJ, Greylock Partners, IVP, Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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May 27, 2016
Iron.io Named an IDC Innovator in Platform as a Service (PaaS) Market
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – May 26, 2016) – Iron.io, a leading provider of enterprise-grade job processing solutions, has been named as an IDC Innovator in the IDC Innovators: Platform as a Service, 2016 (doc #US41166516, May 2016) report. Companies (under $50M) chosen as an IDC Innovator offer an innovative new technology, a groundbreaking approach to an existing issue, and/or an interesting new business model.

“Iron.io has the future of computing in their crosshairs: hybrid cloud environments, microservices, containers enabling scale, continuous delivery, and API-driven workload management,” according to IDC’s press release¹.

For architects and developers alike, Iron.io’s event-driven job processing solution is backboned by the Ironworker platform. With IronMQ message queuing and IronCache key/value data store, both of which are managed with the IronDashboard, customers receive superior serverless computing for the modern enterprise.

“We are honored to be named an IDC Innovator for Platform as a Service,” said Chad Arimura, co-founder and CEO of Iron.io. “By building the Iron.io platform from a microservices approach delivering components into individual functions, we are addressing the needs of our customers who require high-availability, agility and cloud growth.”

“Iron.io offers a serverless platform for enterprises confronting the challenges of digital transformation,” said Larry Carvalho, IDC Research Manager, Platform as a Service. “Strengths of Iron.io included its microservices/microcontainer capabilities and asynchronous job-based processing, combined with the fact that it supports public, private and multitenant cloud environments.”

About Iron.io
Iron.io’s job processing platform delivers and processes hundreds of millions of messages and tasks every day. Its microservices architecture, delivered via Docker containers, enables the world’s most innovative companies to transform large data sets into job processing that drives their revenue. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments, meeting enterprise requirements for flexibility, control and security-friendly solutions. Iron.io is leveraged by some of the world’s most exciting companies such as Turner, Twitter, HotelTonight, Untappd and Google. Learn more atwww.iron.io or follow on Twitter @getiron.

About IDC Innovator Research
IDC Innovators reports present a set of vendors chosen by an IDC analyst within a specific market that offer an innovative new technology, a groundbreaking approach to an existing issue, and/or an interesting new business model. It is not an exhaustive evaluation of all companies in a segment or a comparative ranking of the companies. IDC INNOVATOR and IDC INNOVATORS are trademarks of International Data Group, Inc.

¹ International Data Corporation (2016). IDC Innovators for the 2016 Worldwide Platform as a Service Market [Press release]. Retrieved from http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS41288616
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Brocade Advances Automation Leadership with Open Network Automation Platform
Brocade Workflow Composer Transforms IT Operations with DevOps-Inspired, Cross-Domain Network Automation to Increase Business Agility
SYDNEY, Australia — May 26, 2016 — Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced Brocade Workflow Composer, a new server-based network automation platform that enables enterprises and cloud service providers to improve their IT operations and drive greater business agility. Brocade Workflow Composerprovides DevOps-style network automation for provisioning, validation, troubleshooting and remediation of multivendor networks — while integrating with workflows across multiple IT domains for end-to-end automation.

As companies move to digitise their business, they need an underlying network architecture, including automation, which supports business agility. This New IP architecture enables the network to become a platform for innovation and for developing, delivering and securing new applications. According to a global CIO survey [1], 75 percent of respondents stated that the network is impacting their organisations’ ability to achieve business goals. The lack of network automation and integration of the network with other IT operations and tool chains is the single biggest inhibitor to capitalising on digitisation.

Automation has been a long-standing hallmark of Brocade solutions, starting with storage networking in 1995. In 2009, Brocade extended its automation leadership with the industry’s first Ethernet fabric comprised of Brocade® VDX switches featuring Brocade VCS® Fabric technology. Earlier this year, Brocade expanded its data centre fabric portfolio with Brocade IP Fabrics, an open, standards-based design that leverages cloud-proven BGP-based architectures, with automation delivered by the new Brocade Workflow Composer. More recently, Brocade acquired StackStorm, an innovator in event-driven automation software, to help bring DevOps-style automation capabilities to the network. StackStorm technology is now a foundational element of Brocade Workflow Composer.

“Embarking on the digital transformation journey can be overwhelming for most organisations requiring changes to the network infrastructure, organisational and operational models and new skill sets,” said Phillip Coates, systems engineer manager for ANZ, Brocade. “However, when broken down into digestible and evolutionary steps, organisations can navigate the journey at their own pace. One of the first places to start is to bring a new approach to network automation. With Brocade Workflow Composer, Brocade is bridging IT silos and enabling end-to-end automation of cross-functional IT workflows.”

A Workflow-Centric Approach to Automation Increases Business Agility
To enable cross-domain automation, organisations must think in terms of workflows. Workflows have emerged as a fundamental part of IT operations within hyperscale cloud providers because they are proven mechanisms for converting business rules and policies into IT services delivered at scale. Since a workflow is a collection of tasks that are often executed manually and routinely, it serves as a strong foundation for developing automation.

Workflows can be single-domain, such as provisioning a network device, or cross-domain, such as detecting a network device issue and automatically creating and assigning a help desk ticket to a network operator. With cross-domain workflow automation, the manual steps of detecting an issue, identifying the potential cause, performing remediation actions and even creating a trouble ticket or paging a senior engineer can all be eliminated. As a result, IT can minimise human-induced errors, improve operational efficiency and greatly reduce time-to-resolution. According to ZK Research, human error accounts for 35 percent of network downtime. Network automation can reduce that downtime to zero.

Key Features of Brocade Workflow Composer
Unlike other network automation solutions that are often monolithic, proprietary and only address the network, Brocade Workflow Composer features:

Software-driven lifecycle management. Brocade Workflow Composer automates the entire network lifecycle ranging from initial provisioning and validation to troubleshooting and auto-remediation.

Cross-domain integration. Brocade Workflow Composer leverages customisable integration points to recognise events from any network device, cross-domain platform or application, and then invoke action by other tools and applications to execute an automated workflow. Brocade Workflow Composer provides more than 1,900 customisable integration points for popular platforms and applications, such as Linux, Windows, vSphere, AWS, Azure, CloudFoundry, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, FireEye, New Relic, Sensu, Splunk, ChatOps, PagerDuty and VictorOps.

Flexible workflow automation for multivendor networks. Brocade Workflow Composer enables IT agility and choice with turnkey, customisable or do-it-yourself network workflow automation—all supported in multivendor network environments.

DevOps-inspired methodologies. Workflow execution is provided by the Brocade Workflow Composer’s open, extensible, microservices-based framework. This framework leverages StackStorm, a variety of other popular, open source DevOps technologies, as well as a thriving community for peer collaboration and innovation.

Organisations that need help in transforming their network engineering and operations team can utilise Brocade NetDev Professional Services. Staffed with experienced network software developers, Brocade NetDev leverages solutions from Brocade and other vendors to help customers accelerate their automation journey.

Packaging and Availability
Acquired by Brocade in March 2016, StackStorm built a thriving open source project and community which Brocade will continue to support and contribute to under the StackStorm name. StackStorm cross-domain integrations are available today on GitHub.

Brocade Workflow Composer leverages StackStorm open source technology as well as other organic and open source technologies, while adding enterprise-class features and support. A trial version of Brocade Workflow Composer is available today. The product is currently scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2016.

Additional Resources

Blog: Network Operators: Evolve or Get Left Behind

ESG Report: Leveraging Network Automation for Greater IT Agility and Operational Efficiency

Brocade Workflow Composer At-A-Glance

About Brocade
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world’s leading organisations turn their networks into platforms for business innovation. With solutions spanning public and private data centres to the network edge, Brocade is leading the industry in its transition to the New IP network infrastructures required for today’s era of digital business. (www.brocade.com)
May 27, 2016

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