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  • Ciena Intros Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit to Deliver Greater Agility and Give Network Operators Enhanced Control of SDN and NFV Enabled Networks

    Enhancement allows network operators to add network resources and program new services, at the speed their business demands 

    HANOVER, Md. – May 24, 2016 – Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) today unveiled a new enhancement to its Blue Planet network and service orchestration platform that will give network operators a powerful DevOps-style approach that speeds up the creation and delivery of new on-demand, virtualized services within their SDN and NFV enabled networks. Ciena’s Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit features a set of software development tools that can be utilized by network operators’ in-house personnel, and in collaboration with ecosystem partners, to modify new services and add new virtual and physical network resources more quickly and easily. The result is a significant reduction in cost and dependence on professional services associated with monolithic, vendor-controlled back-office systems.

    For example, with the Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit, network operators can utilize their own product development, IT and network operations teams to collaborate in the creation and on-boarding of new virtual network functions (VNFs) such as virtual firewalls, physical network domains such as Layer 2 metro networks, and virtual domains such as a third party cloud, and ultimately deploy these resources as components of new service offerings. 

    Key Facts:

    • Today, developing and deploying new telecom services can be a tedious, time-consuming and operationally inefficient process. One that is heavily dependent on vendor-specific, hard-coded back-office systems. It also typically requires professional services which results in slow service delivery, high costs, and decreased competitiveness for network operators.
    • With a DevOps approach, network operators gain greater control and self-sufficiency in service creation and delivery to meet today’s business challenges. Propelled by the ongoing transformation to SDN and NFV, DevOps enables better collaboration among product development, IT and network operations teams to improve operational efficiency, accelerate innovation, and accelerate “concept-to-revenue” for new services.
    • Ciena’s Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit consists of a set of software development tools and community resources that allow operators to integrate network resources such as devices, functions, or domains (physical or virtual), as well as customize service templates, with the Blue Planet Network and Service Orchestration software. It is also complemented with the Blue Planet Developer Community portal that facilitates open source-like collaboration between Blue Planet customers and ecosystem partners, online documentation and training tools, and features “libraries” of available resource adapters and service templates.
    • Available in June 2016, the Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit offers a number of benefits to Ciena customers, including reduced operational costs, less network complexity and a level of service programmability that was previously unachievable. The DevOps Toolkit is being utilized by a number of leading global network operators today.

    Executive Comments:

    • “Open, multi-vendor, multi-domain networks unlock an operator’s full potential of delivering disruptive user-enabled services, and at ADTRAN, we are committed to leveraging partnerships and programs that help make this a reality. We see real value in how Ciena’s Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit in concert with open solutions like our software-defined access portfolio are helping our mutual customers accelerate their transformation to more open, programmable and scalable networks.”

    Robert Conger, Associate Vice President, Cloud and Portfolio Strategy, ADTRAN

    • “The DevOps approach to networking will be instrumental to network operators because it allows them to significantly improve service velocity, reduce costs and strengthen their ability to compete in today’s challenging business environment. As a recent addition to Ciena’s Blue Orbit ecosystem, LightRiver Technologies looks forward to leveraging our software investments, and the new Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit, as it will allow us to provide greater value to our joint customers, delivering software automation and virtualization specific to their needs.”

    Dean Campbell, Chief Technology Officer, LightRiver Technologies

    • “Network providers are increasingly competing as digital service providers, not simply communications service providers, in the wider digital economy. As a result, they strive to improve network operations and service creation and launch by shifting to a more nimble DevOps approach. Developer communities and tools like Ciena’s Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit give network providers more control over software build/buy decisions; limit custom development requirements; and facilitate faster deployments by streamlining internal and third-party collaboration.”

    Dana Cooperson, Research Director, Analysys Mason

    • “Customers have made it clear that the ‘old way’ of doing business is unsustainable. Blue Planet and the DevOps Toolkit have been selected for key global engagements recently because choice, openness, empowerment, and self-service are key components of our software. Ciena is leading this revolution and our Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit allows network operators to integrate their IT, product development and operations to create an interconnected ecosystem that reduces the time required to offer new services and quickly adapt their network to changing market needs.”

        Kevin Sheehan, Vice President, Global Customer Operations, Blue Planet Division, Ciena

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    About Ciena
    Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. Ciena leverages its deep expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software automation to deliver solutions in alignment with its OPn architecture for next-generation networks. We enable a high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified, virtualized environment. For updates on Ciena news, follow us on Twitter @Ciena or on LinkedIn.

  • Datadog Adds Hadoop and Spark Integration to Leading Cloud-Scale Monitoring Platform

     Users can now monitor the four most widely-used technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem: HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, and Spark

    NEW YORK – May 24, 2016 – Datadog, the leading SaaS-based monitoring platform for cloud applications, today announced support for Hadoop, bringing its unified view of applications to the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop users can now benefit from Datadog’s rich dashboards, full stack visibility and correlation, sophisticated and targeted alerts, collaborative tools and integrations, and easy setup with no maintenance. Integrations can be turned on immediately, adding to the long list of technologies DevOps teams can monitor easily and collaboratively with Datadog.

    By adding the power of Datadog to Hadoop, users can now see hundreds of Hadoop metrics alongside their hosts’ system-level metrics, correlating what is happening within Hadoop with what is happening throughout their stack. Users can also avoid problems by setting alerts when critical jobs don’t finish on time, on outliers or any other problematic scenarios.

    This product update supports:

    HDFS: Using the HDFS integration, users can monitor the number of data nodes and blocks, disk space remaining on each host and cluster, as well as namenode load and lock queue length.

    • MapReduce: The MapReduce integration includes metrics for map and reduce jobs pending, succeeded and failed, bytes read by job or in total, as well as input/output records.
    • YARN: The YARN integration gives visibility to nodes, applications, cluster cores and cluster memory.
    • Spark: With the Spark integration, users can see driver and executor, RDDs, tasks, job stages and more.

    Since launching in 2010, Datadog has been adopted by thousands of enterprises, including Twilio, Airbnb, Netflix, EA, Spotify, Warner Bros. Games and AdRoll. For additional information on Datadog, please visit www.datadoghq.com.

    Supporting Resources

    Company Blog

    Twitter: @datadoghq

    About Datadog

    Datadog is a monitoring service that brings together data from servers, databases, applications, tools, and services to present a unified view of the applications that run at scale in the cloud. 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.

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    Media Contact

    Mindshare PR

    Heather Fitzsimmons, 650-279-4360

    heather@mindsharepr.com

  • JFrog Introduces Xray – Makes DevOps Omniscient

     

    JFrog Xray provides organizations a new standard of Radical Transparency and Deep Impact Analysis

    NAPA, Calif. – May 23, 2016 – JFrog today introduced its 4th and newest product, JFrog Xray, which gives organizations unprecedented visibility into the contents of software components. The announcement – made at swampUP, JFrog’s annual user conference – represents a major advancement in improving development, DevOps and InfoSec teams’ effectiveness and accelerating the continuous delivery pipeline.

    JFrog Xray is the first universal impact analysis product, giving organizations an unparalleled level of understanding about all of their container images, software packages and binary artifacts, even with the huge volume and variety of components that development teams share in the software build and distribution process.

    JFrog Xray is the only product on the market that provides radical transparency into every component an organization has ever used. It includes:

     

    • Impact analysis that indicates how production and CI environments are impacted
    • A full dependencies graph on which users can easily zoom in to find vulnerability or compliance issues
    • An open API that enables integration with all current and future types of component-scanning technology to allow custom scanning capabilities for performance, quality, popularity or any other criteria required
    • A universal solution that integrates with vulnerability and license compliance databases such as VersionEye, BlackDuck and WhiteSource
    • A powerful integration with user’s registry and repository to allow full sync through all the CI/CD flow.

    Through tight integration with JFrog Artifactory and access to the exhaustive metadata that Artifactory indexes, JFrog Xray is in a unique position to analyze the relationships between binary artifacts across an entire organization and analyze the impact that one component has on any other. In addition to security vulnerabilities, JFrog Xray can also analyze the potential impact of performance issues or architectural changes.

     

    “JFrog Xray responds to a profound pain of our users and the entire software development community for an infinitely expandable way to know everything about every component they’ve ever used in a software project – from build to production to distribution,” said Shlomi Ben Haim, CEO of JFrog. “While container technology revolutionized the market and the way people distribute software packages, it is still a ‘black hole’ that always contains other packages and dependencies. The Ops world has a real need to have full visibility into these containers plus an automated way to point out changes that will impact their production environment. With JFrog Xray, you can not only scan your container images but also to track all dependencies in order to avoid vulnerabilities and optimise your CI/CD flow.”

     

    JFrog Xray is a fully automated platform with a powerful REST API allowing integration and automation with an organization’s continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline, and enabling other inspection and security tools to fit into the full build-to-production automated flow.

    JFrog Xray includes the VersionEye technology and database. VersionEye, a startup company based in Mannheim, Germany, improves developer productivity through a system that tracks open-source libraries and alerts developers in real time to key information such as security vulnerabilities, license violations and outdated dependencies.

    “VersionEye technology monitors over a million open source projects on a daily basis,” said Robert Reiz, CEO and co-founder of VersionEye. “Integrating the VersionEye technology with the JFrog platform creates an unparalleled capability for deep understanding of the quality and provenance of the software components organizations depend on. JFrog has leveraged its Universal approach, supporting all type of components, into a leadership position with its artifact repository and addresses a real community pain with JFrog Xray. We are excited to be part of the solution.”

    The technology solves a critical problem for companies as they increasingly use container technology and make open source a mainstay of their development strategies. With so many open source components available, it has become extremely difficult, if not impossible, for application builders to know pertinent information about each one and avert security issues, such as the Heartbleed bug in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library that put user passwords at many popular websites at risk.

    JFrog Xray will be demonstrated at swampUP, taking place May 23-24 in Napa, Calif. The product will be generally available on June 30, 2016.

    Resources

    About JFrog

    More than 2,000 paying customers, 60,000 installations and millions of developers and DevOps engineers globally rely on JFrog’s world-class infrastructure for software management and distribution. Customers include some of the world’s top brands, such as Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, MasterCard, Netflix, Tesla, Barclays, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe, Intel and VMware. JFrog tools – comprising open-source, on-premise and SaaS cloud solutions – are revolutionizing the way companies and individuals develop, release and distribute software. JFrog Artifactory, the Universal Artifact Repository, and JFrog Bintray, the Universal Distribution Hub platform, are used by millions of developers and DevOps engineers around the world. The company is privately held and operated from California, France and Israel. More information can be found at www.jfrog.com.

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    Media Contact

    Danielle Salvato-Earl

    Kulesa Faul for JFrog

    (650) 922-7287

    danielle@kulesafaul.com

     

  • Perfecto Releases Ultimate Digital Testing Toolkit to Guide Data-Driven Testing Decisions – New set of free resources

    New set of free resources helps enhance mobile and web testing strategies

    LONDON – May 18, 2016 – Perfecto Mobile, the market leader in empowering enterprises to deliver high-quality digital experiences, today announced the availability of their Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit, a free “starter package” that guides Test, DevOps and Product Development teams to make better-informed decisions about their web and mobile test strategies across devices and geographies. The Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkit helps practitioners reduce risk associated with digital quality by identifying the right mix of mobile devices and browsers to test on across geographies; how to set up and maintain a robust and scalable test lab; and what device/browser platforms to pay particular attention to in 2016.

    According to Criteo’s State of Mobile Commerce report, 40 per cent of transactions today take place on multiple digital platforms – from mobile devices and desktops to wearables. Ensuring that dev/test teams are using the best combination of mobile devices, browsers and operating systems for their target user base is crucial to delivering a great digital experience, yet the diverse digital landscape and rapid pace of releases causes challenges when strategising test plans. A recentForrester Wave™ (Mobile Front-End Test Automation Tools, Q2 2016) report noted the most successful mobile apps are tested on many device models and under a variety of conditions; however anticipating and mitigating the unknown means testing an app “on tens, hundreds, and even thousands” of different devices, operating systems and browsers.

    “A common challenge for teams developing or scaling their test strategies across web and mobile is making the decision of which devices, browsers and geographies to include in their test plans,” said Eran Kinsbruner, Technical Evangelist at Perfecto. The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit aims to simplify the digital landscape by showing users how to maximise test strategies, guide users to make data-driven decisions about test coverage, and deliver great user experiences across digital channels.”

    Powered by regularly updated market and proprietary data, the Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkitenables users to stay ahead of the curve and consistently deliver great digital experiences to their customers through a variety of features and resources, including:

    • A free, online interactive tool to answer, “Which mobile devices and platforms should you test on?” With the five most popular devices and operating systems accounting for more than 500 possible browser and device combinations alone, the new Digital Test Coverage Optimiser tool enables teams to discover the optimal device/system mix for maximising test coverage with the fewest devices possible.
    • Resources and data to inform ongoing coverage strategy. The Test Coverage Toolkit includes a number of resources to help app developers, testers and product managers develop a strategy for multi-device interactions that will cover all target markets and user profiles. The Digital Test Coverage Index Report combines data from 4,000+ device profiles, mobile market usage data and proprietary Perfecto analysis to help teams determine the level of digital quality testing required to cover all relevant target markets and customers on an ongoing basis.
    • A comprehensive guide for implementing a digital test strategy. To round out the Toolkit, Perfecto published a step-by-step test coverage e-book that gives practical advice on how to approach, build and maintain a successful digital test strategy, and is based on exclusive enterprise cloud usage data and the experiences of Perfecto’s most-valued customers.

    The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit is the first of many information hubs within Perfecto’s new Ultimate Guide to Continuous Quality, a premiere resource centre for practicable, actionable strategies and tips for delivering Continuous Quality to improve digital experiences. To learn more about Perfecto’s Test Coverage Toolkit tune into the webinar “How to Create the Right Mobile & Web Test Strategy” taking place on May 26 at 2 p.m. ET. To register, visit here:http://info.perfectomobile.com/ultimate-test-coverage-webinar.html.

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    About Perfecto
    Perfecto enables exceptional digital experiences. We help you transform your business and strengthen every digital interaction with a quality-first approach to creating web and native apps, through a cloud-based test environment called the Continuous Quality Lab™. The CQL Lab is comprised of real devices and real end-user conditions, giving you the truest test environment available.

    More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto, visitwww.perfectomobile.com, join our community or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

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    Account Manager
    Laura.Eardley@text100.com
    +44 208 846 0778

  • Perfecto Releases Ultimate Digital Testing Toolkit to Guide Data-Driven Testing Decisions

    New set of free resources helps enhance mobile and web testing strategies

    BOSTON – May 17, 2016 – Perfecto Mobile, the market leader in empowering enterprises to deliver high-quality digital experiences, today announced the availability of theirUltimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit, a free “starter package” that  guides Test, DevOps and Product Development teams to make better-informed decisions about their web and mobile test strategies across devices and geographies. The Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkit helps practitioners reduce risk associated with digital quality by identifying the right mix of mobile devices and browsers to test on across geographies; how to set up and maintain a robust and scalable test lab; and what device/browser platforms to pay particular attention to in 2016.

    According to Criteo’s State of Mobile Commerce report, 40 percent of transactions today take place on multiple digital platforms – from mobile devices and desktops to wearables. Ensuring that dev/test teams are using the best combination of mobile devices, browsers and operating systems for their target user base is crucial to delivering a great digital experience, yet the diverse digital landscape and rapid pace of releases causes challenges when strategizing test plans. A recent Forrester Wave™ (Mobile Front-End Test Automation Tools, Q2 2016) report noted the most successful mobile apps are tested on many device models and under a variety of conditions; however anticipating and mitigating the unknown means testing an app “on tens, hundreds, and even thousands” of different devices, operating systems and browsers.

    “A common challenge for teams developing or scaling their test strategies across web and mobile is making the decision of which devices, browsers and geographies to include in their test plans,” said Eran Kinsbruner, Technical Evangelist at Perfecto. The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit aims to simplify the digital landscape by showing users how to maximize test strategies, guide users to make data-driven decisions about test coverage, and deliver great user experiences across digital channels.”

    Powered by regularly updated market and proprietary data, the Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkit enables users to stay ahead of the curve and consistently deliver great digital experiences to their customers through a variety of features and resources, including:

    • A free, online interactive tool to answer, “Which mobile devices and platforms should you test on?” With the five most popular devices and operating systems accounting for more than 500 possible browser and device combinations alone, the new Digital Test Coverage Optimizer tool enables teams to discover the optimal device/system mix for maximizing test coverage with the fewest devices possible.
    • Resources and data to inform ongoing coverage strategy. The Test Coverage Toolkit includes a number of resources to help app developers, testers and product managers develop a strategy for multi-device interactions that will cover all target markets and user profiles. The Digital Test Coverage Index Report combines data from 4,000+ device profiles, mobile market usage data and proprietary Perfecto analysis to help teams determine the level of digital quality testing required to cover all relevant target markets and customers on an ongoing basis.
    • A comprehensive guide for implementing a digital test strategy. To round out the Toolkit, Perfecto published a step-by-step test coverage e-book that gives practical advice on how to approach, build and maintain a successful digital test strategy, and is based on exclusive enterprise cloud usage data and the experiences of Perfecto’s most-valued customers.

    The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit is the first of many information hubs within Perfecto’s new Ultimate Guide to Continuous Quality, a premiere resource center for practicable, actionable strategies and tips for delivering Continuous Quality to improve digital experiences. To learn more about Perfecto’s Test Coverage Toolkit tune into the webinar “How to Create the Right Mobile & Web Test Strategy” taking place on May 26 at 2 p.m. ET. To register, visit here: http://info.perfectomobile.com/ultimate-test-coverage-webinar.html.

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    About Perfecto

    Perfecto enables exceptional digital experiences. We help you transform your business and strengthen every digital interaction with a quality-first approach to creating web and native apps, through a cloud-based test environment called the Continuous Quality Lab™. The CQL Lab is comprised of real devices and real end-user conditions, giving you the truest test environment available.

    More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto, visit www.perfectomobile.com, join our community or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

  • New F5 Software Advances Application Security, Management, and Orchestration

     Industry-leading service programmability promotes flexible deployment capabilities, policy-based controls, and hybrid cloud support

    VIENNA, AUSTRIA, MAY 17, 2016 – F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today introduced software-based solutions that enable customers to seamlessly integrate availability and security services, simplify device management, and better orchestrate IT infrastructure. To lower costs and boost efficiency, organizations are evolving toward more dynamic infrastructure models that combine physical, virtual, and cloud components. Supporting this transition, F5’s innovative, versatile solutions give customers the ability to take advantage of the benefits provided by traditional data center, cloud, and hybrid architectures.

    Today, F5 is introducing:

    • BIG-IP® 12.1 software, delivering leading application services with enhanced public cloud integration and more sophisticated security policies for on-premises and hybrid cloud environments
    • BIG-IQ® Centralized Management 5.0, providing expanded management for F5’s BIG-IP solution portfolio with significant scalability and performance advances
    • iWorkflow™ 2.0, enabling the orchestration of F5 services with SDN-focused solutions like Cisco ACI and VMware NSX, as well as continuous deployment scenarios using DevOps tools from vendors such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet

    Programmable Application Services for Ultimate Flexibility

    With the release of BIG-IP version 12.1 software, no other Application Delivery Controller (ADC) vendor offers F5’s level of programmability across traditional, cloud, and hybrid architectures. F5’s new iRules LX™ technology marks a substantial advance in programmability, providing the ability to manipulate and selectively deploy service capabilities via Node.js, and includes easy access to over 250,000 community Node.js packages. These capabilities are especially important in delivering advanced functionality for web applications that require optimized throughput, scalability, and unique traffic steering services. In addition, a new plug-in for the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE)—commonly supported by other enterprise technology vendors (e.g., CA, Google, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, and SAP)—enables the rapid delivery of reusable code that drives advanced functionality.

    Strong Policy-Based Security with Protection for Applications Everywhere

    The proliferation of Internet-facing applications has led to pervasive threats on business-critical web services, along with an increase in the sophistication of attacks. F5’s security enhancements allow organizations to more effectively ensure application availability and performance, resolve critical app protection gaps, and strengthen overall defenses. Today’s announcement reflects a number of new security capabilities, with highlights including:

    –          BIG-IP 12.1 enhances industry-leading web application defense via BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM) with unique, customizable bot detection methods that enable detailed analysis and extensive device ID tracking.

    –          BIG-IP ASM accelerates the blacklisting of malicious IPs in hardware at high rates for layer 7 threats, providing coverage until feed lists are updated.

    –          F5 gives visibility into HTML 5 WebSocket connections for comprehensive policy protection where other WAFs fail.

    –          BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager™ now offers enhanced capabilities that automatically mitigate L3–7 attacks upstream in the ISP realm and control SSH channel user-initiated actions with simple custom policy enforcement.

    Tight Integration with Leading Public Cloud Environments

    Application architects and developers must rapidly implement apps and services as part of a continuous deployment pipeline, while ensuring that they remain fast, highly available, and secure throughout. F5 solutions are designed to let customers use the same services in the cloud that they can in the data center. New technologies offer expanded support for AWS and Azure environments, including integration with AWS autoscale to dynamically scale app services, active/standby high availability across availability zones, and added F5 WAF capabilities for Azure Security Center.

    Powerful Management and Orchestration Capabilities for Simplified Operations

    For network architects and administrators, F5 has updated its BIG-IQ Centralized Management solution. The platform provides visibility, reporting, licensing, and management capabilities that simplify operations for F5 BIG-IP products, and now includes support for F5’s award-winning BIG-IP Access Policy Manager®. F5 is the only vendor that combines centralized, role-based management for application delivery, security, and identity management into a united framework. In addition, with this new version of BIG-IQ, customers can now simultaneously manage, update, and configure application services for up to 200 physical and virtual devices, and handle up to 5,000 BIG-IP licenses.

    F5’s new iWorkflow platform accelerates the deployment of applications by enabling the orchestration of network services, such as traffic management and security. Available as a virtual appliance, iWorkflow™ is a multi-tenant solution for deploying application delivery policies with BIG-IP solutions to support a variety of IT environments, including hybrid clouds. Using smart templates, policies can be deployed directly via the iWorkflow GUI, via third-party management solutions such as Cisco ACI or VMware NSX through connectors, or via other orchestration technologies such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet with an SDK.

    Supporting Quotes

    “To better meet the needs of customers, we have made significant investments in security, management, and orchestration, along with the feature-rich software that supports our flagship BIG-IP product line,” said Karl Triebes, EVP of Product Development and CTO at F5. “Giving organizations the ability to integrate F5 with vendors and solutions such as AWS, Azure, Cisco, and VMware is certainly a priority, but we also have an eye toward making sure our offerings resonate with those using open source technologies like OpenStack, and agile infrastructure from emerging ‘born in the cloud’ companies.”

    “As application services and resources are abstracted across increasingly diverse environments, the ability to easily unify functionality and enforce policies throughout vendors’ offerings becomes essential,” said Brad Casemore, Research Director, Datacenter Networks, IDC. “Similarly, the ability for enterprise IT to programmatically tailor performance and orchestrate services is a necessity for organizational success with multi-vendor SDN and cloud deployments.”

    Availability

    BIG-IP version 12.1 software, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0, and iWorkflow 2.0 will be available in the second quarter of calendar year 2016. Please contact a local F5 sales office for additional product and service availability information pertaining to specific countries.

    Additional Resources

    About F5

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

    You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on LinkedIn and Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technologies.
    F5, BIG-IP, BIG-IQ, iWorkflow, iRules LX, Application Security Manager, Advanced Firewall Manager, Access Policy Manager, and DevCentral are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

    This press release may contain forward looking statements relating to future events or future financial performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue,” or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number of factors including those identified in the company’s filings with the SEC.

  • CircleCI Secures $18 Million in Series B Led by Scale Venture Partners

    Industry Shift Toward DevOps Propels CircleCI as It Scales to Meet Rising Demand for Unified Web and Mobile CI/CD Solution

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA –(Marketwired – May 16, 2016) – CircleCI, the leader in continuous integration and continuous delivery, today announced it raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners. Existing investors DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal also participated in the round, bringing total financing for the company to $28 million. Timed with the investment, Andy Vitus, Partner at Scale Venture Partners, has joined the CircleCI Board of Directors.

    Founded in 2011, CircleCI helps software teams rapidly release code they trust by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Built for developers, CircleCI offers a modern software delivery platform that lets teams ramp up quickly, scale easily, and build confidently every day. Thousands of technology-driven companies including Facebook, Sony, Kickstarter, and Spotify rely on CircleCI to accelerate delivery of their code, helping software developers focus on creating business value fast.

    The company plans to use the funds to drive product development, expand operations to support a growing global customer base, and to scale sales and infrastructure to support new and existing customers of both the SaaS and Enterprise solutions.

    CircleCI joins an impressive list of Scale Venture Partners portfolio companies, companies including Chef, Box and DocuSign. “We are in the midst of a transformation to the software delivery pipeline, mainly driven by the demands for speed as enterprises move toward releasing code daily and hourly. As complexity rises, enterprises large and small have new demands for speed, assurances of quality, and automation, making the software delivery phases a critical business driver,” said Andy Vitus, CircleCI Board Member and Partner at Scale Venture Partners. “CircleCI is at the core of helping modern organizations build software across languages in a single interface. We look forward to working with them as they continue their rapid growth.”

    CircleCI will use the investment to continue the tremendous momentum it experienced over the past year including:

    Key Product Launches

    • CircleCI Enterprise on-prem deployment further expands options for modern software teams who want powerful CI/CD behind their firewall. CircleCI Enterprise enables customers to maintain complete control over access to their secure source code, test databases, and other resources.
    • CircleCI for OS X enables mobile app developers to test and deploy iOS apps quickly and easily. After a successful public beta and limited release, the new hosted OS X testing platform is now available for companies of all sizes and across industries to purchase and use.

    Employee Accolades

    • CircleCI was recognized as a winner of the 2016 Bay Area Best Places To Work, an awards program presented by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. CircleCI was among the top 30 small Bay Area companies whose employees rate them as the highest on such values as fun, collaborative culture, solid compensation and benefits offerings, and other amenities as well as management practices.

    “The market is shifting with a keen eye toward DevOps and developer-centric solutions for good reason,” said Jim Rose, Chief Executive Officer, CircleCI. “We provide the velocity developers need to turn the release cycle from days to minutes without sacrificing quality. We are experiencing incredible momentum and we are eager to continue to bring the best possible solution to market for our customers and partners.”

    About CircleCI

    CircleCI helps software teams rapidly build code they trust. Thousands of technology-driven companies rely on CircleCI’s modern continuous integration and delivery platform to automate the build, test, and deploy processes. CircleCI empowers developers to focus exclusively on creating business value fast.

    CircleCI is a Bay Area Best Places to Work 2016 award winner. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, CircleCI is venture backed by Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital.

    Follow CircleCI on Twitter. Visit circleci.com to get started.

    About Scale Venture Partners

    Scale Venture Partners invests in technology companies with a focus on SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure. We partner with entrepreneurs, from their first dollar in revenue and invest to accelerate growth and establish market leadership. ScaleVP has$1B in assets under management and is investing its fifth fund. Representative investments include: Box, Chef, Cloudhealth, DataStax, Demandbase, DocuSign, ExactTarget, HubSpot, PubNub, Omniture and WalkMe. ScaleVP is located in Silicon Valley and invests nationwide. For more information, visit www.scalevp.com or follow us on Twitter at @scalevp or LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/scale-venture-partners.

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  • Automic Recognized as a Market Leader in Ovum DevOps Research

    VIENNA & SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Automic, a leader in Business Automation software, today announced it has been named as a “leader” in the new “Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution, 2016–17” research report. Automic is ranked as a key vendor, based on the organization’s ability to offer ‘enterprise-strength release management and automation features’.

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    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. Ovum observes that tools used within the DevOps ecosystem, such as release automation, benefit businesses by increasing the frequency of release and assuring the quality of new customer facing apps and services.

    The report emphasizes the Automic Release Automation (ARA) capabilities and strengths as:

    • Enabling users to benefit from using a common UI, a common set of integrations, as well as a unified platform, that provides end-to-end visibility and control of all automation processing.
    • Delivering scalability, resiliency, security with full auditable tracking and reporting of activities.
    • Providing a robust deployment undo capability to return an environment to its pre-deployment state.
    • Offering the choice of agentless or agent-based deployment technologies.

    “We are delighted to be recognized as a Leader in Ovum’s latest DevOps Release Management report” stated Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic Software. “Application Release Automation powers the agility and speed demanded by clients undergoing Digital Transformation. Inclusion in this report validates our approach in providing a best-in-class Release Automation technology to meet their needs.”

    Ovum analyst Michael Azoff commented “Automic solutions go beyond the coverage of DevOps release management by enabling users to benefit from using a common UI, a common set of integrations, as well as the underlying platform, and achieving comprehensive automation in the IT operations space”1.

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    You can download a free copy of the Ovum Decision Matrix: DevOps Release Management Research

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    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 2,600 customers including AMC Theatres, Bosch, Carphone Warehouse, eBay, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Netflix, NHS SBS, Société Générale, Swisscom IT and Vodafone. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

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  • RightScale Releases New DevOps and Docker Trends in Follow-Up to State of the Cloud Report

    SANTA BARBARA, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/11/16 — RightScale® Inc., a demonstrated leader in enterprise universal cloud management,today announced the results of the RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Survey: DevOps Trends. The fifth annual RightScale State of the Cloud Survey was announced in February. This follow-up report provides new data and analysis in a deep dive on DevOps, Docker, and container trends. The RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report series is the result of a survey to 1,060 technology professionals at large and small enterprises across a broad cross-section of industries.

    The survey results are available in the RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report: DevOps Trends, which can be downloaded at www.rightscale.com/2016-devops-trends-report.

    “The survey shows that the vast majority of enterprises are adopting DevOps and this usage is being driven from the bottom up by projects, teams, business units, and divisions,” said Kim Weins, vice president of marketing at RightScale. “Companies are using a portfolio of DevOps technologies that include configuration management tools as well as containers. While Chef and Puppet are still the most widely used DevOps tools, Docker has seen extraordinary growth, more than doubling in the past year. Companies report a lack of experience with containers and have made educating themselves a top priority in the coming year.”

    Highlights of the RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report: DevOps Trends include:

    • DevOps is growing, especially in the enterprise: DevOps adoption increased from 66 percent in 2015 to 74 percent in 2016. DevOps adoption is strongest in the enterprise (81 percent of enterprises adopting DevOps compared to 70 percent in SMBs). Enterprises are adopting DevOps from the bottom up: Adoption of DevOps by projects or teams (29 percent) and business units or divisions (31 percent) is more common than company-wide adoption (21 percent).
    • Docker usage doubles while Chef and Puppet are neck and neck: Overall, Chef, Puppet, and Docker are the top three DevOps tools used by respondents (32 percent, 32 percent, and 27 percent, respectively). Among enterprises, more use Puppet (42 percent) vs. Chef (37 percent) and Docker (29 percent). Docker is the fastest growing DevOps tool, with adoption more than doubling year-over-year from 13 percent in 2015 to 27 percent in 2016. In the enterprise, Docker also saw more than 2x growth (from 14 percent to 29 percent) while Ansible nearly tripled (from 8 percent to 23 percent). Docker could soon be the most used DevOps tool in the enterprise as 38 percent of enterprises have plans to use it. This compares to 20 percent who plan to use Chef and 19 percent who plan to use Puppet.
    • DevOps users use multiple tools: Less than half (43 percent) of companies are using a configuration tool such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt. Use of multiple configuration tools is more common (25 percent) than a single configuration tool (18 percent) and 67 percent of companies using Chef or Puppet also use the other tool. Configuration tools are also often used with Docker; 80 percent of Docker users also leverage at least one configuration tool.
    • Container adoption is maturing, especially in enterprises: Overall, 26 percent of respondents have workloads already running in containers (8 percent in development, 18 percent in production). 36 percent of respondents are experimenting with containers, while 25 percent are learning about containers. Enterprises are using containers more than SMBs. 29 percent of enterprises have workloads running in containers versus 24 percent of SMBs, and 41 percent of enterprises are experimenting as compared to 33 percent of SMBs.
    • Docker seeing greatest adoption in Europe, with tech companies, and with enterprises: Evaluating Docker adoption across different geographies, industries, and roles, RightScale found that current use of Docker is heaviest among tech organizations (32 percent), enterprises (29 percent), and developers (28 percent). Use of Docker in Europe (34 percent) is also well above average.
    • Significant interest in containers on bare metal. Containers are currently being deployed primarily on virtual machines (29 percent) versus bare metal (12 percent). There is significant interest in deploying containers on bare metal with 24 percent of respondents having plans to do so in the future. Most containers are built using traditional Linux distributions such as Ubuntu (43 percent), CentOS (39 percent), and Red Hat (37 percent). CoreOS (12 percent) is the most widely adopted of the minimalist operating systems, which are designed specifically for containers.
    • Biggest challenge with containers is lack of experience for newbies: For respondents who are not currently using containers, lack of experience was by far the top challenge (39 percent). The top challenges cited by respondents who are already using containers were security (29 percent) and immature technology (29 percent).
    • Container focus in 2016 is education and experience: The top container initiative in 2016 will be getting more educated (62 percent), followed by conducting more experiments with containers in dev/test (44 percent) and production (28 percent), as well as expanding container use in dev/test (28 percent).

    Survey Methodology

    RightScale conducted its annual State of the Cloud Survey and RightScale State of the Cloud Report: DevOps Trends in January 2016. The survey questioned technical professionals across a broad cross-section of organizations about their adoption of cloud computing. The 1,060 respondents range from technical executives to managers and practitioners and represent organizations of varying sizes across many industries. Their answers provide a comprehensive perspective on the state of the cloud today. The margin of error is 3.07 percent.

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    RightScale Universal Cloud Management enables leading enterprises to accelerate delivery of cloud-based applications that engage customers and drive top-line revenue while optimizing cloud usage to reduce risk and costs. With RightScale, IT organizations can deliver instant access to a portfolio of public, private, and hybrid cloud services across business units and development teams while maintaining enterprise control. RightScale Consulting Services help companies develop cloud strategies, deliver cloud projects, and optimize cloud usage. RightScale was named a “100 Best Places to Work in 2015” by Outside Magazine and was listed in “The Best Enterprise Cloud Computing Startups to Work For in 2015” by Forbes. Since 2007, leading enterprises including Audi, Pinterest, and Yellow Pages Group have launched millions of servers through RightScale.

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  • Rancher Labs Secures Series B Funding of $20M for Container Management Platform

    Led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, with participation from existing investors, funding will help Rancher Labs maintain momentum, and meet sales and marketing goals

    Cupertino, Calif. – May 10, 2016 – Rancher Labs, a provider of container management software, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, with participation from existing investors, Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. As the container market continues to experience significant growth, Rancher Labs’ open source platform for managing containers is seeing demand grow exponentially. Last month the company announced the general availability of Rancher, a container management platform that supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, making it possible for hundreds of organizations to run containers in production. This funding will be used in support of sales and marketing initiatives to keep pace with demand for the product.

    “We are seeing a lot of attention and demand for our Rancher platform and feel it is due to our unique approach to container management,” said Sheng Liang, CEO of Rancher Labs. “Containerization has enabled organizations to do amazing things to improve application performance, availability and cost. The next piece of this puzzle, which will really help to perfect container technologies, are the tools around the management of containers. We are excited to continue efforts in furthering our goal of providing users with the right tools to take advantage of container technologies, and the financial and organizational benefits they promise.”

    Unlike other container management platforms, Rancher is open source, easy to use and designed to make it simple for users to harness the power of containers. Rancher’s unique ability to rapidly spin up and manage Kubernetes and Docker Swarm environments, while maintaining a single management experience, makes it ideal for enterprise deployments. Rancher is the only container management platform to implement a cloud-agnostic infrastructure services layer that works across any public or private cloud, or traditional data center.

    “Containers are rapidly disrupting software development and IT operations,” said Dr. James Zhang, partner at GRC SinoGreen. “Rancher Labs has shown through its amazing open-source adoption, that organizations see container management as critical to accelerating software development, and running applications reliably and efficiently in production.”

    DevOps teams use Rancher to automate all aspects of running containers throughout the application lifecycle. From developers writing code on their laptops, to building and packaging software, deploying test environments, and deploying and upgrading applications in production, Rancher allows DevOps teams to improve development velocity and reliability.

    “We are thrilled to continue our support of Sheng and the team at Rancher as they enable enterprises to truly unlock the potential of software containerization and transform IT infrastructure,” said Jishnu Bhattacharjee, managing director at Nexus Venture Partners.

    “The success Rancher Labs has experienced since launch is incredible, and we look forward to our continued partnership,” said Ursheet Parikh, Mayfield partner and former CEO of StorSimple, which was acquired by Microsoft. “Their dedication and level of innovation is second to none.”

    Product Information and Availability

    For additional information on Rancher and to learn more about Rancher Labs and the company’s suite of open source products, please visit http://www.rancher.com.

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    About Rancher Labs

    Rancher Labs builds innovative, open-source container management software for enterprises leveraging containers to accelerate software development and improve IT operations. With native support for Docker Swarm and Kubernetes orchestration, our flagship Rancher platform allows users to manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments. For additional information, please visit www.rancher.com.

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