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  • PagerDuty Services Group Capability Simplifies Incident Management of Critical Applications and Services

    New Services Group feature simplifies how IT Ops and DevOps teams resolve incidents, delivering increased uptime and performance
    May 11, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PagerDuty, the leader in modern incident management, announces the immediate availability of PagerDuty Services Group. Services Group fundamentally changes the way IT Ops and DevOps teams manage and monitor critical apps and services by mirroring the organization and components of these services in PagerDuty. Services Group aggregates all events related to these individual services from the monitoring stack and renders a comprehensive view of the organization’s application and service infrastructure. This new functionality delivers the fastest way to organize, monitor and manage critical apps and services as they relate to the business.

    “The PagerDuty Services Group feature makes it easier to resolve incidents as they occur in our critical applications and services,” said Andy Domeier, director of systems operations, SPS Commerce, the retail industry’s largest trading community with more than 60,000 customers in over 60 countries. “By re-creating a service in PagerDuty, as it exists in our systems, our team members are more aware of service-level health, allowing us to resolve an incident faster.”

    With the new PagerDuty Services Group, IT Ops and DevOps teams immediately benefit from:

    • Consistent Views – A service in PagerDuty is structured identically to how it is deployed in the IT infrastructure. Teams no longer view the monitoring and management layer of a service, instead they see a comprehensive view as it relates to overall service delivery, such as e-commerce portals, payment processing systems, websites or other key applications.
    • Simplified Management and Collaboration – The monitoring and management layers are aggregated into one view at the service level from multiple vendors. IT service management (ITSM), log management and application performance management (APM) tool views are consolidated, creating better collaboration between different teams and technologies required to support the service.
    • Faster Incident Resolution – Teams work together to resolve disruptions at the service level rather than in technology silos.

    “PagerDuty Services Group greatly simplifies incident management to better support business-critical services,” said Jonathan Wilkinson, vice president of product, PagerDuty. “By bringing together an organization’s application and service infrastructure in a central view, PagerDuty Services Group empowers IT Ops and DevOps teams to resolve incidents as quickly as possible.”

    PagerDuty Services Group is now available to all PagerDuty customers and to learn more, read our blog post.

    About PagerDuty

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

  • ELECTRIC CLOUD HELPS ORGANIZATIONS SCALE THEIR DEVOPS EFFORTS WITH NEW RELEASE OF ELECTRICFLOW

    New features give enterprises an easier way to scale DevOps initiatives across projects and teams with end-to-end automation, cross-functional visibility and consistent processes

    SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10, 2016 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced the latest release of its industry-leading ElectricFlow DevOps Release Automation platform. The new release supports the company’s mission to advance DevOps in the enterprise by helping customers scale software delivery pipelines and DevOps best practices throughout the organization.

    “The industry discussion has evolved from ‘how do I get started with DevOps?’ to ‘how do we scale our DevOps initiatives while addressing security, compliance and governance?’” said Steve Brodie, Electric Cloud’s CEO. “We are laser-focused on helping enterprises turn their software pathway to production from a laborious, slow and painful process into a competitive advantage. ElectricFlow offers new features designed specifically for the needs of the largest and most complex organizations on the planet – with some of our customers releasing updates from 40,000+ developers across 20,000+ applications on a single platform.”

    In order to succeed with DevOps, large organizations need an end-to-end solution that allows them to standardize and automate their software deployment tools and processes as much as possible. This provides enterprises with consistent build, test and deployment procedures to speed up cycle times, eliminate configuration drift and bottlenecks in the pipeline, while also reducing IT capital expenditure and operating costs.

    ElectricFlow provides even greater enhancements to further improve the orchestration and automation of an organization’s ‘Pathway to Production.’ New features include new artifact staging, automated rollbacks and simplified manual steps creation capabilities. Click here to learn more about ElectricFlow (http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow).

    The platform’s proven scalability and extensibility, which allows organizations to automate any workflow and plug-in any tool or technology stack, has led many customers to set up ElectricFlow as a shared internal service that powers their software delivery across all teams and releases worldwide.  This is consistent with observations from leading industry experts and research analysts who recommend a centralized DevOps Release Automation platform. “Automation adoption in any form is good,” noted Robert Naegle and Ronni J. Colville in a May 2015 Gartner Research report*, “but, ultimately, to deliver significant business value automation initiatives must be centralized, with common governance, leadership and management constructs.”

    The industry is taking note. Recently, Ovum Research recognized Electric Cloud as a market leader for DevOps Release Management. Forrester Research also recognized Electric Cloud in its 2015 ARA Wave Report as a Strong Performer, with clear leadership in strategy as defined by vision, planned enhancements, scalability, extensibility, controllability and out-of-the-box, third-party plug-ins. The company recently announced record sales for its DevOps Release Automation solutions, and also has closed multiple large contracts over the last two quarters with several leading Financial Services firms, including a Fortune 10 bank, two leading electronic stock trading companies and one of the industry’s largest mortgage originators. It also secured a multi-year, multi-million dollar enterprise agreement with one of the largest networking companies in the world.

    To learn more about Electric Cloud, please visit: (http://electric-cloud.com).

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    *Gartner, Survey Analysis: The Realities, Opportunities and Challenges of I&O Automation, May 27, 2015.

    About Electric Cloud, Inc.

    Electric Cloud is the leader in DevOps Release Automation. We help organizations developing enterprise web/IT, mobile, and embedded systems deliver better software faster by automating and accelerating build, deployment, and release processes at scale. Leading organizations like Cisco, E*TRADE, Gap, GE, HP, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Sony and Qualcomm use Electric Cloud solutions and services to boost DevOps productivity and Agile throughput, while providing a scalable, auditable, predictable, and high-performance pathway to production.

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    Contact:

    Jeremy Douglas

    Catapult PR-IR

    303-581-7760

    jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

  • SourceClear Launches Free Security Product for Development Teams Building with Open-Source Libraries and Frameworks

     Offering Supports Popular Languages and Connects to Leading Development Tools; Identifies and Prioritizes Vulnerabilities and Licensing Issues; Gives Detailed Fixes

    SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2016 – SourceClear, the security company for software developers, today announced a free security tool, SourceClear Open, for teams building with open source. Available immediately at no cost and delivered as a cloud service, the new tool enables developers to identify what open-source libraries they are using, what vulnerabilities exist, which vulnerabilities actually matter, and what needs to be done to fix them. SourceClear Open complements SourceClear’s products that are currently deployed by some of the world’s largest companies, including BAE Systems, The Gap, DataStax and Zendesk.

    “I have spent 15 years watching talented, hardworking developers reinvent the world and then roll their eyes when asked to use traditional security tools. Developers always want to do the right thing, but have been faced with tools that generate more noise than signal. It became increasingly hard not to be frustrated by the status quo, so I decided to do something about it,” said Mark Curphey, CEO of SourceClear. “We’ve designed the SourceClear products specifically for teams of developers. With this release, we are ‘giving back’ to the community that helps us all build amazing software.”

    SourceClear connects easily with existing tool chains (languages, frameworks and build tools), and is a critical component of modern development processes. Powered by data science, a dedicated research team and a community research program, SourceClear identifies vulnerabilities well beyond those found in public and government databases. Tracking thousands of threat sources and analyzing millions of open-source library releases, SourceClear detects disclosed and emerging security threats.

    “Open source and DevOps have transformed the way we build software, and developers are being held even more accountable for security. With that responsibility, developers want tools that bring immediate value and don’t slow them down,” said John Viega, author of many security books, including the first book for developers on how to write secure software. “SourceClear delivers the information that developers need to view, understand, prioritize, and fix vulnerabilities that matter. That’s a powerful value proposition.”

    Integrated with developer tools like GitHub and Jenkins and supporting popular languages such as Java, Ruby, Python and JavaScript, SourceClear can be connected to repos, build systems or a developer’s desktop in minutes. SourceClear offers teams the flexibility to look at their code base or drill into specific repos, builds, branches or tags. Teams can share data and send results to issue tracking systems like JIRA. Developers and their security teams always have complete control as source code never leaves their networks, and analysis and results are always encrypted when being transmitted and stored.

    In addition to GitHub and Jenkins, SourceClear integrates with other leading source control management systems, including Bitbucket Server, GitHub Enterprise and OSS Git. SourceClear’s native build plugins for Gradle, Jenkins and Maven, as well as package managers like Bower, Bundler, NPM and PIP, ensure complete coverage every time a build is run.

    In addition to Open, SourceClear includes:

    • Registry: A free database of security knowledge in the world’s open-source libraries and frameworks, including a complete list of all publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.
    • Pro: Combines all of the functionality in Open with additional premium features and support to help both developers and security teams prioritize, manage and fix real security issues – drastically reducing false positives.
    • Enterprise: Extends the features found in Pro for large enterprise implementations with complex requirements.

    About SourceClear

    SourceClear is the security company for software developers. We are a team of software and security engineers helping software engineering teams build software, safely. We take care of security for open-source and third-party code so our customers can focus on their business: shipping features and delighting users. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, and with an office in Singapore, SourceClear is backed by Index Ventures and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit us at: https://srcclr.com.

  • RightBrain Networks Appoints Hemant Kishan As Chief Operating Officer And Dave Thompson As Chief Technical Officer

    RightBrain Networks, a software development and cloud consulting firm, today announced that Hemant Kishan has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Dave Thompson has been hired as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Previously serving as CTO, Jamie Begin has assumed the CEO role and will continue to set the vision for the company.

    Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) May 06, 2016

    RightBrain Networks, a software development and cloud consulting firm, today announced that Hemant Kishan has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Dave Thompson has been hired as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Previously serving as CTO, Jamie Begin has assumed the CEO role and will continue to set the vision for the company.

    Begin said, “Establishing an executive team is a significant step in our growth, and the fact that Dave and Hemant have chosen to continue their careers at RightBrain Networks is a testament to what we’re doing here.”

    Both Thompson and Kishan bring long and distinguished technology careers to RightBrain Networks. Prior to joining the company in May of 2015 as Vice President of Client Engagement, Kishan was the Director of Emerging Technology for General Motors, where he was responsible for enterprise strategy, IT transformation, and program management. Kishan’s previous experience also includes serving as early employee and eventual Vice President at Sapient and Senior Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation.

    RightBrain Networks is also thrilled to welcome Ann Arbor native Dave Thompson to its executive team. Dave has a proven track record of building, motivating, and retaining top-performing systems engineering teams. Dave’s professional background includes increasingly senior roles at industry-leading tech companies including Netflix, where he was one of the first hires on their Cloud Operations and Reliability Engineering (CORE) team. Post Netflix, Thompson held senior technical leadership roles at several other high-growth startups.

    These changes establish an executive team for RightBrain Networks – just one sign of the company’s maturity. It is also experiencing record growth. At the end of 2015 RightBrain had 23 employees with a goal to reach 40 by the end of 2016. As of May 2, RightBrain has increased to 30 employees and is still actively growing with several vacant engineering positions. Begin now expects to exceed 40 employees by the end of the year.

    RightBrain, which was recently awarded Michigan 50 Companies to Watch by Michigan Celebrates Small Business (MCSB), attributes this phenomenal growth to the overall global adoption of the cloud. According to IDC, spending on public cloud IT infrastructure will increase by 14.1% in 2016 to $24.4 billion.

    “Our experience and expertise are also contributing factors, as our engineers have a diverse skill set and have built an excellent reputation executing many projects,” said Begin.

    RightBrain was among the first firms certified as an Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner and one of the first six, audited AWS Managed Service Partners worldwide. The firm is also a Microsoft Partner Silver Cloud Platform.

    About RightBrain Networks

    RightBrain Networks is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team of software engineers (development) and site reliability engineers (operations) building SaaS, infrastructure and managing applications for companies using public cloud platforms. The company’s DevOps philosophy, agile software development process and Cloud Development Life Cycle™ dramatically accelerate development and deployment cycles, resulting in faster time-to-market. RightBrain Networks specializes in Amazon Web Services cloud deployments and is a certified AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and Managed Service Partner, and Microsoft Silver Cloud Platform Partner. For more information visithttp://www.rightbrainnetworks.com.

  • CloudPassage Named “Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company”

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – May 05, 2016) –  CloudPassage today announced it has been recognized as the “Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company” in the 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, which are voted on by the more than 300,000 security professionals who participate in the LinkedIn Information Security Community. From nearly 200 cybersecurity vendors that were nominated, CloudPassage was selected as the winner of the mid-size company category, focused on the most innovative organization that has between 101 and 1,000 employees.

    “Enterprises are in the middle of a massive transformation of their IT infrastructure designed to let them move faster and stay competitive,” said Robert Thomas, CEO of CloudPassage. “Agile IT delivery models involve lots of automation, high rates of change, mixed environments and on-demand IT services. But traditional security tools don’t work with these modern IT environments. We’re winning recognition as a leader in the space because CloudPassage Halo is now a proven platform that enables this transformation.”

    CloudPassage Halo is an on-demand, security-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that deploys in minutes and automates a comprehensive set of security and compliance controls for servers in any combination of public cloud, private cloud or data center environments. The result is fast, effective security that solves problems of visibility, microsegmentation, compliance and speed of deployment.

    The 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards honored individuals, products and companies that have demonstrated excellence, innovation and leadership in information security. Winners were selected based on the content of their nominations and the popular vote by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn, one of the largest online networks of cybersecurity professionals with over 300,000 members.

    As part of the company’s efforts to remain innovative, CloudPassage was recently awarded three patents that extend the scope of its original, agent-based, agile security model, making it the first company to obtain a U.S. patent for universal cloud infrastructure security.

    About CloudPassage

    CloudPassage® Halo® is the world’s leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload – servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.

  • XebiaLabs Innovates Pipeline Orchestration, Adds New Release Dashboards and Introduces DevOps ChatBot

    New Version of XL Release Helps Enterprises Orchestrate and Control Large and Complex Releases, so They Can Produce Software More Quickly and With Fewer Errors

    BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – May 3, 2016) – XebiaLabs, a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced the launch of XL Release version 5.0 as well as XL Deploy version 5.5 and a new DevOps ChatBot.

    XL Release allows companies to automate, orchestrate and gain visibility into their software release pipelines at enterprise scale. XL Release 5.0 simplifies the way stakeholders get insight into the software delivery process — from IT executives to program managers to developers. The new configurable dashboards and productivity features are designed to help manage complex, multi-level and interdependent software release pipelines.

    “As releases happen faster and pipelines grow more complex, enterprises know they need to do more than automate their release processes. Just as importantly, they need a way to understand, organize, manage and monitor large amounts of interdependent release information,” said Derek Langone, CEO at XebiaLabs. “We designed the new capabilities to meet the needs of large enterprises that are focused on achieving business results — whether they are working with existing middleware and big data systems, or implementing new container or IoT initiatives.”

    XL Release 5.0 Highlights

    • Customizable Release Dashboard: Release teams now have new, easy-to-use dashboards that show what’s in each release at a glance. The dashboards can be custom-configured to display a team’s most important status indicators and metrics, such as overall release progress, compliance and audit details, features delivered, issues found, and open tickets resolved. They can also show information from other tools that play a part in the software delivery pipeline, such as JIRA, Jenkins, XL Deploy or ServiceNow. XL Release’s new dashboards provide a new level of visibility to everyone who has a stake in the release, from the CIO to the Risk Management team to the Release Manager or the DevOps team.
    • Advanced Release Pipeline Orchestration: XL Release 5.0 delivers the unique ability to manage interconnected pipelines as a whole unit, so it’s easy to determine when a delay in one pipeline will affect delivery for an entire business feature.  New releases can now be automatically launched from within another release, releases become automatically linked and teams can quickly see how all releases fit together. This capability helps organizations manage more complex release patterns: they can automatically orchestrate dozens of related releases, manage dependencies between releases, group related releases, and easily divide the work between teams. XL Release 5.0 also adds a new expanded table view that lets teams better organize and manage complex, interdependent releases.

    Release Orchestration Delivers Business Results
    Unlike other release orchestration tools, XL Release 5.0 automatically tracks the impact of dependent releases on the current release, so delays at any level of the process can be quickly discovered and fixed.

    By automating even more of the release process and automatically managing dependencies, enterprises can release software faster, with fewer errors. Organizations get the detailed visibility they need to monitor the process and keep track of their features throughout the software development lifecycle with a unified view that spans third party tools. With XL Release’s added visibility and control, DevOps and Continuous Delivery initiatives become more effective and efficient.

    Enhanced Cloud Provisioning Options for XL Deploy
    In conjunction with XL Release 5.0, XebiaLabs also released version 5.5 of its popular XL Deploy product, which provides enterprise-scale deployment automation for any environment, from Docker to mainframes. The new version integrates provisioning of cloud environments as part of the deployment process, eliminating the need to wait days or even weeks to get the cloud resources that teams require. Developers can now more easily “self-service”: they can spin-up and tear down cloud environments as part of their automated deployment, and the system ensures that necessary controls are met. This capability helps teams save money by making the most efficient use of cloud resources. It also gives them deeper visibility into — and better control of — deployments for both applications and environments.

    ChatOps – a ChatBot for DevOps
    To help DevOps teams better communicate, XebiaLabs recently introduced a new ChatOps feature. Many DevOps teams already use chat tools extensively to work more efficiently and bring together distributed teams. The new plugin for XL Deploy facilitates communication and increases productivity by letting teams monitor deployment activity, trigger deployments and troubleshoot incidents from inside their chat tool of choice, such as HipChat or Slack. More details are available on the XebiaLabs blog at:http://blog.xebialabs.com/2016/04/22/xebialabs-launches-chatops-automation-software/

    XebiaLabs customers are eager to use the new product features. “The new version of XL Release offers interesting new dashboarding functionality that will help us see what’s in each release and get better visibility into release status. Also, the advanced release orchestration will let us automatically manage parent/child relationships between different releases,” said Sander Ettema, Manager, Linux Unix at Rabobank ICT. “These new features provide a lot of value in a complex environment like ours.”

    Availability
    XL Release 5.0 and XL Deploy 5.5 are available now. Download a free trial:
    www.XebiaLabs.com/XL-Release
    www.XebiaLabs.com/XL-Deploy

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

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  • Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) “Maturing DevOps” Panel Discussion – An Educational and Networking Opportunity for Financial Information Technology Professionals

    The WSTA will host a panel discussion on “Maturing DevOps” on May 11th in New York City for Financial Information Technology Professionals.

    New York, NY (PRWEB) May 02, 2016

    The WSTA will host a panel discussion on “Maturing DevOps” on May 11th in New York City for Financial Information Technology Professionals. Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder, Nemertes Research will provide industry perspectives and moderate this session. “DevOps makes you more responsive and more successful, and not just in application development,” Johnson notes. “Anyone just starting out or even just considering the idea should come hear first-hand how others have made it work, so they can succeed—and succeed faster.” Panel sponsors for this event are Compuware, New Relic, Quali, and Red Hat.

    Panel Discussion Overview

    Taking DevOps and Agile Practices to the Next Level! It’s been several years since the DevOps software methodology has arrived in financial services firms. How are companies succeeding in implementing DevOps? What is the best blueprint for engaging in these practices? What can companies expect as the cultural shifts specific to DevOps and Agile take root in their organizations? Join this insightful panel of experts that have implemented DevOps in their organizations. Learn the benefits of the methodology, and uncover and avoid the pitfalls in scaling it across the enterprise.

    Profile

    For almost 50 years, the Wall Street Technology Association (http://www.wsta.org) has provided financial industry technology professionals, vendors, service providers, and consultants forums to learn from and connect with each other. The WSTA facilitates educational seminars and networking events where members meet and exchange ideas and best practices that assist them in effectively capitalizing on technology advances and dealing with financial industry business challenges. Founded in 1967, the WSTA is a not-for-profit association with a long history of evolving to meet the needs of its members.

    The WSTA hosts seminars, roundtables, panel discussions, and social events. These events offer many opportunities to stay on top of leading technologies, as well as network and share information with industry colleagues. The WSTA’s quarterly educational Ticker e-Zine and LimeLight e-Newsletter provide additional content and information about the WSTA and industry-related activities. The website is a dynamic resource for keeping on top of the latest information and offers access to additional resources including webinars, white papers, blogs, videos, and information about other industry events.

    Financial Firm Members

    WSTA financial firm members are employed at banks, brokerages, hedge funds, insurance companies and other financial firms. The WSTA currently has about 2,400 members from over 50 different firms; 81% of the members hold senior titles such as CIOs, CTOs, Vice President, Director and Manager. The remaining 19% hold other titles such as analysts, engineers, architects, etc. The WSTA also reaches over 2,200 prospective financial firm technology professionals with information about educational and networking opportunities.

    Affiliates and Sponsors

    The WSTA currently has over 100 technology firms that participate in the WSTA as an affiliate or sponsor. Companies that provide cloud, big data, mobility, security, software, infrastructure, networking, social, telecom and other industry-related solutions find the WSTA an invaluable forum to create awareness, educate and develop relationships with financial industry professionals.

    Nemertes Research is a research-advisory and consulting firm that specializes in analyzing and quantifying the business value of emerging technologies. You can learn more about Nemertes Research at our Website, http://www.nemertes.com, or contact us directly at research(at)nemertes(dot)com

    Red Hat is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

  • North Carolina May Meeting: DevOps – From the Hype to the Bottom Line

    DevOps is generally defined as software development movement that encourages automation, integration and greater collaboration between software developers and operations staff. By bridging the gap between those two sometimes warring factions, DevOps establishes a consistent, repeatable way for IT to manage its production environment, resulting in faster time to market, higher productivity levels and smoother server and application deployment.
    What does this definition really mean? Does the DevOps movement really deliver on the bottom line? Are organizations buying in to DevOps at all levels, or is it just the latest in a long line of the latest and greatest software development methodologies? What are the key elements of a successful DevOps initiative? What skillsets should IT professionals grow to be successful in a DevOps environment? Should organizations replace existing successful best practices with DevOps methodologies?
    Our panel discussion of IT leaders in May will answer these questions helping sort through misconceptions about DevOps and its impact on the software development and delivery cycle.  Panelists with links to their bios include:·
    Frank Isaacs DevOps Engineer at IBM
    Salill Soman  Director, Application Development at MetLife
    Josh Wyatt    Director, Global DevOps at LogicNow.

    The meeting will be on May 12 at The NC State University Club, 4200 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh.  Registration and networking starts at 5:30 p.m., dinner is at 6:30. The feature presentation will be from 7:15 pm to 8:30 p.m.

    Attention Job Seekers: Bring your resume

    http://rtp-aitp.org/next-meeting/

  • Sqreen raises $ 2.3 million in seed funding to bring app protection to all developers.

    PARIS – April 29, 2016 – Paris-based startup Sqreen.io raised a $2.3 million seed round to ship app “protection-as-a-service”. It provides every developer a simple way to get the security their applications deserve.
    The company was founded in 2015 by two security experts who spent 10 years hacking and assessing product security at Apple.

    Security has been kept away from products for decades as an experts reserved arena. Developers have equated it to constraints that limit their freedom to code and to painful processes.

    Like New Relic is for app performance monitoring, Sqreen is focused on pleasing developers. It only takes 30 seconds to install. No source code modification or special skills are required. With Sqreen, applications are automatically instrumented in order to diagnose the vulnerabilities when they occur. Applications also benefit from additional protection logic. Issues are spotted directly in the code base. Sqreen is the perfect approach to security in continuous integration.

    Sqreen provides real-time defenses that continuously adapt and learn from millions of attacks sourced from the community. Thousands of security threats are supported – including SQL injection, cross site scripting, code/command/file injections, and cryptographic weaknesses.

    “Conventional approaches to security haven’t done much to make applications stronger and the complexity intimidates most developers. We have been attacking products for years and have experienced firsthand the disconnect between diagnosis and remediation. Our goal is to put security back into products and let the developers embrace this role again. It is pretty obvious that products should now be embedding their own security logic to protect themselves”, said Pierre Betouin, CEO of Sqreen.

    “Security is overlooked by early-stage companies growing fast, but it quickly becomes a high priority once they are more mature. Few developers are enthusiastic about the extra workload and rigour involved in securing applications, so a tool like Sqreen is a real boon for the industry. We are bullish on all solutions saving time for developers and Sqreen is definitely one of them”, said Rodolphe Menegaux from Alven.

    Alven Capital is leading the round. Point Nine Capital, Kima Ventures, 50Partners and several well known angels also participated, including Marc Verstaen, EVP Product Development at Docker, Thibaud Elziere, former CEO at Fotolia, Francis Nappez, cofounder of Blablacar, Philippe Plichon, head of southern Europe at Dropbox, and Justin Ziegler, cofounder of PriceMinister.

    About Sqreen

    Sqreen is a SaaS protection platform for web-based applications that installs in 30 seconds seconds without modifying the source code and provides detection and prevention logic to offer real-time protection and monitoring.

    Once deployed, the protection provides real time defenses that continuously adapt to and improve from millions of attacks sourced from the community.

    The company’s mission is to embed security logic into every connected application. It was founded in July 2015 by product and security experts and is currently headquartered in Paris, France.

    For more information visit – https://www.sqreen.io
    Twitter: @SqreenIO

    About Alven Capital

    Alven Capital is an independent venture capital firm with over €250 million under management and investments in fast-growing startups in the internet and technology industries.

    For more information visit – http://www.alvencapital.com
    Twitter: @AlvenCap

    About Point Nine Capital

    Point Nine is a leading VC based out of Berlin, that invests in promising SaaS firms, online marketplaces and mobile. The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz, have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio, Shiftplanning, Vend, Westwing and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

    For more information visit – http://www.pointninecap.com
    Twitter: @PointNineCap

    Contact information

    press@sqreen.io
    +33 6 32 16 04 65

    Press: https://www.sqreen.io/press
    Press Kit: https://www.sqreen.io/press/Sqreen_press_kit.zip

  • One Month After Announcing Intentions to Bring OpenStack on Kubernetes, CoreOS Introduces “Stackanetes”

    Innovator in container-enabled infrastructure leads effort to simplify OpenStack deployments with Kubernetes container management to deliver GIFEE for enterprises 

    OpenStack Summit Austin – April 26, 2016 –  A month after announcing intentions to bring OpenStack as an application on Kubernetes, CoreOS today introduces “Stackanetes”, an initiative to deploy and manage OpenStack as an application on Kubernetes. “Stackanetes” containerizes OpenStack and includes upstream Kubernetes and upstream OpenStack to deliver dynamic management, self-healing deployments and painless upgrades. CoreOS, an innovator in the security, deployment and management of container-enabled infrastructure, will work with the OpenStack community to integrate “Stackanetes” into upstream OpenStack. Today a prototype is available for Kubernetes managed OpenStack on Tectonic, the universal enterprise solution for Kubernetes.

    “We’ve seen the power of Kubernetes firsthand in the OpenStack community,” said Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer at OpenStack Foundation. “Our recent OpenStack User Survey showed that Kubernetes is a popular method of managing apps on OpenStack clouds. We are excited that CoreOS is helping to bring together the Kubernetes and OpenStack communities and contributing their extensive container expertise.”

    Today at the OpenStack Summit Austin keynote, Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, is demonstrating the power of “Stackanetes” with Tectonic, following on a collaboration with Intel. With “Stackanetes” on Tectonic, enterprises get the benefits of consistent deployments of OpenStack together with the robust application lifecycle management of Kubernetes. Tectonic helps enterprises to achieve GIFEE (Google’s Infrastructure for Everyone Else), a hyperscale, application-focused style of managing infrastructure that focuses on distributed systems, security and availability.

    “Cloud native computing patterns, as embodied by Kubernetes, offer remarkable benefits for application management,” said Craig McLuckie, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Chair, and Google Group Product Manager. “Cloud native apps are more efficient, more scalable and easier to operate. By bringing a first class cloud native management framework to OpenStack, ‘Stackanetes’ brings this power to the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and to all classes of applications.”

    Tectonic, CoreOS’ completely supported technology stack for deploying containers in production, is built on CoreOS Linux and the Kubernetes cluster management platform that packages an array of tools for deploying, monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure. With “Stackanetes” on Tectonic, enterprises benefit from:

    • Simplified lifecycle management of OpenStack services from deployments to upgrades
    • Single platform for consistently managing both IaaS and container workloads
    • Ability to easily scale, operate and ensure resilience of OpenStack IaaS within their data center environments

    “‘Stackanetes’ is our first big stride in bringing GIFEE to the OpenStack community,” said Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS. “With this next step of development for OpenStack on Kubernetes via Tectonic, enterprises can begin to evaluate and bring their OpenStack environments along their journey to GIFEE.”

    CoreOS is showcasing Tectonic at OpenStack Summit Austin, April 25-29, 2016. Contact sales@coreos.com to set up a meeting.

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    About CoreOS, Inc.

    CoreOS, Inc. runs the world’s containers securely on CoreOS, Tectonic and Quay. CoreOS is the creator of Tectonic, the universal Kubernetes solution, that combines Google’s Kubernetes and the CoreOS stack to deploy, manage and secure containers anywhere. CoreOS’ Quay technology allows companies to securely store Linux containers in private hosted repositories or behind customer’s firewalls. In addition, CoreOS is the creator and maintainer of open source projects CoreOS Linux, etcd, fleet, flannel and rkt. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience. Learn more at https://coreos.com/ or follow CoreOS on Twitter @coreoslinux.