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  • Jenkins 2.0 Advances Continuous Delivery with Native Pipeline Support and Usability Enhancements

    New major release accelerates software delivery with focus on pipeline-as-code, software pipeline stage views and usability essentials for new and existing Jenkins users

    SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Jenkins project, comprised of the community of practitioners using open source Jenkins, today announced the availability of Jenkins 2.0. The first major release after 10 years and 655 weekly releases, Jenkins 2.0 addresses the demands of teams challenged with matching the pace of continuous software delivery while ensuring quality and providing visibility across the full software delivery process. Updates to core Jenkins capabilities include first-class support for continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, clear visibility of delivery stages and enhancements to help users get started more quickly.

    “These new features will ultimately enable us to implement robust continuous delivery process automation and deliver higher quality software faster than before.”

    Tweet this“As Jenkins user adoption continues to grow into millions of users, the community has responded with core updates to assure continued, long term success,” said Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins and CloudBees CTO. “The Jenkins 2.0 release helps new and existing users implement continuous delivery with the most flexible way to model, orchestrate and visualize the entire delivery pipeline.”

    Jenkins 2.0 Updates

    Continuous Delivery Pipeline Support:
    The Pipeline plugins provide orchestration of all stages of the software delivery process, with enhanced visibility and feedback. Jenkins 2.0 has several updates to support continuous delivery pipelines.

    • Pipeline-as-Code enables teams to quickly create and collaborate on simple to advanced CD pipelines using code.
    • Stage View enables teams to visualize, collaborate and act on the application delivery value stream in real time (see Figure 1, above).
    • Pipeline Durability ensures that long-running pipelines withstand outages by resuming at the point of interruption, significantly improving productivity.
    • Multibranch provides automatic, zero-configuration of CD pipelines for new branches and pull-requests.

    Usability Enhancements:
    Jenkins 2.0 includes several enhancements that make it easier to use, and enable users to quickly be more effective.

    • Get started more quickly with community-recommended plugins: A new quick start UI provides solution-oriented plugin bundles. These are the most commonly-used plugins, selected from the more than 1,000 available plugins, to enable a fast start for new installations (see Figure 2, above).
    • Better user experience: Jenkins 2.0 includes enhanced configuration pages and other UI updates to make configuring and using Jenkins more efficient.
    • Upgrade confidently: Today millions of users depend on Jenkins, making backwards compatibility a primary concern. Jenkins 2.0 is designed as a drop-in replacement for Jenkins 1.x.
    • New community website: In response to the rapidly growing Jenkins community, the new Jenkins website makes it easier for new users to get started with Jenkins, encourages user contribution and increases visibility into Jenkins events.

    “By providing pipeline-as-code capabilities and visualization of software pipeline status within Jenkins, Jenkins 2.0 allows me to define both simple and complex pipelines,” said Shashikant Jagtap, DevOps and automation engineer, Jenkins user and lead for the London-based Jenkins Area Meetup. “These new features will ultimately enable us to implement robust continuous delivery process automation and deliver higher quality software faster than before.”

    Additional Resources:

    About Jenkins and the Jenkins Community
    Jenkins is the leading open source automation server supported by a large and growing community of developers, testers, designers and other people interested in continuous integration, continuous delivery and other modern software delivery practices. Built on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), it provides more than 1,000 plugins that extend Jenkins to automate with practically any technology software delivery teams use.

    The Jenkins community advocates the use of Jenkins to the global development community, serving as a central source for tutorials, forums and other helpful resources for Jenkins users of all experience-levels. By recognizing the numerous contributors to the Jenkins project, the Jenkins project creates and fosters a community-powered infrastructure for maintaining and further developing Jenkins. You can follow the Jenkins community on Twitter (@JenkinsCI).

    Contacts

    PAN Communications
    Gaby Berkman / Sarah Grucza, +1-617-502-4300
    cloudbees@pancomm.com

  • Evident.io Secures $15.7 Million in Series B Funding

    Venrock Leads the Round; Doug Dooley Joins Board; Jeff Williams Leads Sales

    DUBLIN, CA–(Marketwired – April 28, 2016) – Evident.io, the leading provider of cloud infrastructure security and compliance automation, announced today that they completed a Series B funding round with Venrock valued at $15.7 million. Venrock is a premier venture capital firm with an impressive portfolio of companies including Checkpoint, Imperva, CloudFlare, PGP, Vontu and Niara.
    “Venrock is one of the most successful and well respected venture capital firms in the technology sector,” said Tim Prendergast, cofounder and CEO of Evident.io. “Their support affirms our company’s high value pedigree and validates that our solutions are truly defining a new era for cloud infrastructure security, incident response, and compliance.”
    Evident.io enjoys a unique competitive advantage in the market by providing organizations with unparalleled continuous monitoring and remediation capabilities by way of an agentless vulnerability and configuration management solution that automates security and compliance requirements.
    As organizations of all sizes are continuing to accelerate the adoption of public cloud offerings, there is increasing demand for innovative cloud-native tools to manage an entirely new category of risks. The investment by Venrock will empower Evident.io to expand on its current offerings as well as develop new capabilities for securing sensitive workloads while satisfying compliance demands on multiple cloud platforms, all through a single solution.
    “Effective security orchestration and management of public cloud infrastructure requires new technologies that are not only designed in the cloud, but also specifically for the cloud,” said Justin Lundy, cofounder and CTO of Evident.io. “Our team’s extensive history of being on the front lines of security for Fortune 500 companies combined with our passion for innovation allows us to accelerate the development of the advanced security capabilities organizations need today.”
    Venrock’s investment, along with those made previously by Bain Capital and True Ventures, allows Evident.io to expand this unique offering beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include other leading cloud provider platforms, enabling organizations to better protect their increasingly diverse workload deployments in spite of a serious cloud security skills shortage.
    “Two of the biggest challenges businesses face in information security are a lack of security talent and the risks associated with migrating sensitive data to cloud environments, and Evident.io has delivered a security platform that address both of these challenges,” said Doug Dooley of Venrock. “The depth of visibility through automation provided by Evident.io represents a significant force multiplier for existing security talent, and the breadth of risk management capabilities that the team has developed is nothing less than impressive.”
    Dooley will join the Evident.io Board of Directors, which includes Bain Capital’s managing director and former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem, and True Ventures partner Puneet Agarwal.
    “Evident.io has emerged as the clear leader in cloud infrastructure security, with plans to grow and expand far beyond their current value proposition,” said Agarwal. “We’re thrilled to continue our support of the Evident.io team as they continue to innovate around cloud security and compliance.”
    Evident.io also announced that veteran security executive Jeff Williams, Operating Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, has joined the company’s executive team as interim Senior Vice President of Sales to lead sales strategy and execution globally.
    Well-known for his success at FireEye, IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco in 2007), IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee in 2003) and GlobalCenter (acquired by Exodus Communications in 2001), Williams joined Evident.io as part of a strategy for pursuing aggressive expansion commensurate with the rapidly growing Cloud Infrastructure Security market.
    Williams’ expertise focuses on infrastructure software and security, with more than 25 years of operating experience in assisting early-stage enterprise security companies to scale rapidly. He has assumed numerous board of director roles while partnering with management teams to develop aggressive go-to-market strategies and efficient sales engines designed to engage large enterprise customers.
    “Evident.io is uniquely positioned to extend its leadership in public cloud security and compliance automation, with a value proposition that no other competitor can match,” said Williams. “With this new round of funding, and an expanded board of directors and executive team, we believe that Evident.io has the ideal combination of financial stability, leadership talent and exceptional technology to deliver tremendous value to the market.”
    About Evident.io
    Evident.io is the pioneer and leader in security and compliance automation for public cloud. The Evident Security Platform (ESP) enables organizations of all sizes to proactively manage cloud security risk — minimizing attack surface and improving overall security posture, all from a single dashboard. ESP continuously monitors an organization’s entire AWS footprint, identifying and assessing security risks, providing security staff with expert remediation guidance, and enabling painless security auditing and compliance reporting. Built on Amazon Web Services APIs, ESP is agent-less and can be deployed to even the most complex environments in minutes. Evident.io is a privately held company based in Dublin, CA and backed by Bain Capital Ventures and True Ventures. For more information, please visit: www.evident.io. Evident.io is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner (the highest tier of partnership with Amazon Web Services), a corporate member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and a participating organization of the PCI Security Services Council (SSC).

  • Xentaurs Announces a Strategic Partnership with Mesosphere to Build Next Generation Big Data Analytics and DevOps Platforms

    Strategic partnership formed to accelerate adoption of container based architectures

    SANTA ANA, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2016

    Xentaurs, a next generation systems integrator and solutions provider announces a strategic partnership with Mesosphere, creators of the world’s first data center operating system. The partnership combines Xentaurs’ enterprise experience designing and implementing digital architectures with Mesosphere’s leading platform for running microservices, data-driven applications and other modern IT workloads.

    Mesosphere is at the core of the digital platforms we recommend to our customers. DC/OS is the leading distributed operating system out there and provides the modern architecture framework that enterprises need, said Juan Guevara, Chief Strategist for Xentaurs.

    “Enterprise IT understand that to stay relevant and competitive in this new digital world they need to disrupt themselves and adopt new technology platforms that remove the traditional silos and monolithic systems. These digital platforms need to be designed with a common foundation capable of supporting many type of workloads but most importantly, need to be open and enjoy a rich and diverse ecosystem to allow a smooth transition from the traditional systems to new modern architectures,” commented Guevara.

    “Xentaurs is at the forefront of helping businesses recognize unprecedented ROI with modern architectures,” said Mark Musselman, Head of Business Development for Mesosphere. “Our open source DC/OS platform is designed specifically for such environments, and we are honored to partner with a team that shares our dedication of empowering organizations to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology landscape.”

    Together, Mesosphere and Xentaurs will help enterprises looking for big data analytics, devops, and other agile business transformation platforms, with their world-class consulting methodology and professional services teams.

    About Mesosphere

    Mesosphere (Twitter: @Mesosphere) is leading the enterprise transformation toward distributed computing and modern applications with its Datacenter Operating System, and is the principal founding member of the DC/OS open source project. DC/OS is a production-proven datacenter-scale platform for container operations and simple installation of complex distributed systems — including HDFS, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra and more. Mesosphere was founded in 2013 by the architects of hyperscale infrastructures at Airbnb and Twitter, along with the co-creator of Apache Mesos. Backed by A Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Fuel Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle Peak Partners and Microsoft, Mesosphere is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York and Hamburg, Germany.

    About Xentaurs

    Xentaurs (Twitter: @Xentaurs) is a next generation systems integrator and solutions provider specializing on making digital business transformation a reality. Just like the half-horse half-human creature of mythology its name is derived from, it represents the seamless interaction between human and technology at the center of this new digital world. The company’s biggest value is embedded at the core of their engineering-centric culture. From its internal organization structure to their customer consulting methodology, Xentaurs practices a modern and agile operating model to facilitate the new needs of a digital world. A complete culture based on human merit and technology excellence. The company’s expertise and offerings covers advanced analytics, big data, devops, and digital platforms.

  • Accelerance Reaches Significant Milestones, Rapidly Expanding Its Footprint in the Global Software Development Outsourcing Market

    Global software development outsourcing leader successfully matched hundreds of client teams with outsourcing partners

    Redwood City, CA. ­— April 27, 2016 — Accelerance, a leader in global software development outsourcing, today announced it has hit significant milestones in overall growth, having established partnerships with over 50 software development firms across 30 countries and connected hundreds of client teams with outsourcing partners.

    With its transparency and an unbiased approach, Accelerance empowers independent software vendors (ISVs) and software-enabled businesses by quickly connecting them with a global network of highly curated, world-class software development partners. It is the only provider to carefully select, visit and certify partners from among thousands of software development firms to ensure that its clients are matched with the best partners available.

    The global IT outsourcing market accounted for $314.92 billion in 2015 and is expected to grow to $481.37 billion by 2022, according to a Stratistics MRC report. As software development needs continue to become more in demand, Accelerance aims to better connect organizations with well-matched software development teams by helping them save time and money during procurement, scale rapidly, shorten their time to market and grow their businesses. Designed with its clients in mind, Accelerance¹s matchmaking services are free of charge to ISVs and software-enabled businesses.

    ³Over the years, we have seen the demand for software development outsourcing grow significantly, making it more critical than ever to expand our global footprint in an effort to best service our clients,² said Steve Mezak, founder and CEO of Accelerance. ³As we continue to grow, our goal is to better connect organizations with well-matched software development teams, allowing companies to make better, more informed decisions about who they decide to partner with ­ ultimately leading to more long-term, successful partnerships.²

    Since launching in 2001, Accelerance has achieved the following milestones:

    • Established partnerships with over 50 software development firms in 30 countries, representing 5,000 highly qualified software engineers, offering more than 60 technologies
    • Connected hundreds of clients with outsourcing partners
    • Received more than 6,000 software development team applications for its certified partners network
    • Evaluated over 1,400 international software development teams
    • Arranged work for more than 1,000 engineers
    • Continues to grow its client base by 50 to 100 percent annually

    “Prior to working with Accelerance, our company was in need of adding resources to build an internal, web-based tool for our distributors to use for business management purposes,² said Troy Hiltbrand, chief digital officer of Kyäni Corporation. “Not knowing where to start, I discovered Accelerance, was pleasantly surprised to learn the service was free of charge to us and we were able to start work just a month after partnering. I credit Accelerance’s personal commitment to matchmaking for the seamless transition we’ve experienced, and we look forward to exploring additional opportunities to leverage Accelerance across other sectors of our business in the future.”

    Combining deep experience in software development outsourcing and a proven track record of client service, Accelerance closely works with its clients to help them better understand the costs and benefits of various outsourcing engagements, including onshore, nearshore and offshore and compare specific regions and countries.

    Accelerance recently announced its newly appointed advisory board, comprised of five industry veterans who have decades of IT and software development expertise to help further the company¹s thought leadership in the market. To learn more, visit http://www.accelerance.com/accelerance-advisory-board-and-team-members

    About Accelerance: 
    Accelerance, Inc. is a leader in global software development outsourcing that empowers independent software vendors (ISVs) and software-enabled businesses by connecting them with its global network of highly curated, world-class software development partners. Founded in 2001, Accelerance aims to transform how small and medium-sized organizations discover and connect with high-quality software developers around the world. Through its rigorous certification process, Accelerance maintains a global partner network of software development firms in more than 30 countries, helping clients efficiently identify, evaluate and engage outsourced software development teams. Combining deep experience in software development outsourcing and a proven track record of client service, Accelerance helps companies identify and engage world-class software development teams quickly, thus enabling organizations to scale rapidly and save time and money. For more information, visit http://www.accelerance.com, or follow on Twitter: @accelerance.

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    CHRISTINE MULQUIN

    GABRIEL MARKETING GROUP (FOR ACCELERANCE)
    PHONE: 301-910-2289
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  • SessionM Selects the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform TM for Visibility into Rapidly–Expanding Cloud Environment

    BOSTON – April 28, 2016 – Threat Stack, a leader in cloud security and compliance management, announced today that SessionM, pioneers in mobile marketing cloud technology, selected the Threat Stack Cloud Security PlatformTM (CSP) to secure and protect the company’s cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) and engagement platform.

    SessionM chose Threat Stack’s cloud-native, fully integrated security platform to achieve real-time workload visibility across its cloud infrastructure and to protect against threats and data loss. With Threat Stack’s “trust but verify” approach to cloud security, SessionM can confidently provide production access to development teams with complete visibility to better identify risky user error or activity. By enabling SessionM’s secure-but-fast approach to development, Threat Stack is helping the company to continue to support its rapidly growing customer base, which includes several category-leading Fortune 500 clients.

    “We had reached a point in the growth of SessionM where we knew that we needed a cloud security solution that would not only make our operation more secure, but would not slow us down as we continue to develop our cloud-based services,” said Scott Weller, CTO, SessionM. “Threat Stack has delivered in every capacity straight out of the gate, and we’re continually seeing the benefits from the visibility and security that Threat Stack provides us.”

     

    The SessionM team has also benefited from Threat Stack’s webhook integration with group and private chat service, HipChat. By extending security across this platform, the company is further able to gain insight and act swiftly and collaboratively when issues or alerts occur.

     

    “We are thrilled that SessionM chose Threat Stack as its partner in securing and supporting its cloud environment and rapidly growing customer base,” said Brian M. Ahern, chairman and CEO, Threat Stack. “We purpose-built the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform to enable cloud-centric companies like SessionM who need to scale quickly, remain secure and compliant at the same time.”

     

    Threat Stack’s Cloud Security Platform supports security insight across all environments, cloud security providers and containers, eliminating the need for fragmented solutions and reducing the complexity of security concerns facing IT leaders and CISOs. With integrated security data from all aspects of the cloud environment, customers achieve a faster time to resolution and an overall lower total cost of ownership. Threat Stack’s CSP is used by companies in the healthcare, fintech and SaaS sectors, among others.

    For more information on Threat Stack, please visit https://threatstack.com.

     

    About Threat Stack

    Threat Stack enables growth-driven companies to scale with confidence by identifying and verifying insider threats, external attacks and data loss in real-time. The only fully integrated, cloud-native continuous monitoring solution that gives customers instant visibility and automatically responds to changes in their environment, Threat Stack provides the coverage needed to run secure and compliant, in all environments, without sacrificing speed and efficiency. For more information, or to start a free trial, visit threatstack.com.

     

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  • Red Hat Launches Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, Introducing Collaborative Open Source Cloud and DevOps Residency Program

    Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is designed to enable customers to jumpstart innovation and software development initiatives the open source way

    AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the creation of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, a consulting service that helps companies integrate people, methodology, and technology to solve business challenges in an accelerated fashion. As part of an Open Innovation Labs consulting engagement, customers will work collaboratively in a residency-oriented lab environment with Red Hat experts to jumpstart innovation and software development initiatives using open source technology and DevOps methods.

    Digitalization is increasingly connecting people, process, data and devices and enabling new business innovation platforms. Software is powering this shift and enabling companies to build innovation-driven advantages. The Red Hat Open Innovation Labs service helps customers rapidly develop and integrate applications using microservices, deploy them in containers, and deliver them using DevOps methodologies across physical, cloud and mobile environments that can quickly scale up or down on-demand. With Red Hat, customers can innovate with speed, agility, scalability and increased security.

    Red Hat Open Innovation Labs aims to help customers achieve this transformation, enabling them to:

    • Work on real business problems from day one, using Red Hat’s push-button infrastructure and automated development environments, teams can more quickly start development once the residency begins, enabling quicker time to value.
    • Learn how to take advantage of modern application development technologies and methodologies, including migrations, microservice architectures, container application platforms, DevOps, application and data integration, mobile and hybrid cloud strategies.
    • Re-platform existing applications for scale-out with OpenStack and public cloud infrastructures.
    • Bridge legacy and new application development efforts on one platform, helping teams design and develop solutions to modernize applications, or take on entirely new challenges.
    • Learn to innovate the Red Hat way by engaging with the Open Source community and collaborating in upstream projects.
    • Innovate onsite and virtually, meeting new requirements as a result of digital transformations, offering distributed teams access to environments in different locations. Red Hat provides a more secure cloud environment so authorized team members can work together, and development can happen on your site, in a Red Hat lab environment, or virtually.

    Availability

    Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is available immediately in North America, with full global availability planned within the year.

    Supporting Quote

    John Allessio, vice president, Global Services, Red Hat

    “We’ve heard from customers around the globe who want to get new initiatives off the ground quickly – whether they are talking about application modernization, or cloud, mobile and microservices – to help them meet their goals and stay ahead of competitors. To these customers, Red Hat Open Innovation Labs offers the ability to innovate faster and to solve business problems alongside Red Hat experts, and the open source way – through collaboration, and using DevOps methodologies and open source technologies.”

    Additional Resources

    Connect with Red Hat

    About Red Hat, Inc.

    Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.

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    Contacts

    Red Hat, Inc.
    Stephanie Wonderlick, +1 571-421-8169
    swonderl@redhat.com

  • Resin.io Teams Up With Samsung to Deliver Benefits of DevOps Management to the SAMSUNG ARTIK™ Platform

    CEO & Co-Founder Alexandros Marinos to Demo the Resin.io Platform During the Opening Keynote Session at Samsung Developer Conference 2016

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 27, 2016) – (Samsung Developer Conference) — Resin.io, provider of a modern DevOps management platform for connected devices, today announced that it has teamed up with Samsung to make it easier for developers to build, deploy and manage software for the IoT using open emerging standards such as Docker and Git . This collaboration is designed to help provide developers and device fleet owners with everything they need to build and scale their IoT projects. With Resin.io and the SAMSUNG ARTIK™ platform, developers benefit from the ability to develop with fast feedback, deploy software iteratively to production-class modules and collect and analyze data from within an IoT environment.

    As part of the collaboration, Resin.io will integrate its management platform with the SAMSUNG ARTIK™ Cloud, an open data exchange platform that collects and standardizes machine and sensor data from remote environments. Resin.io CEO and co-founder Alexandros Marinos, will be giving a live demonstration of Resin.io’s management platform capabilities during the opening keynote session at the Samsung Developer Conference at 9:15 a.m. PT on April 27 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

    “Resin.io has built a highly robust and elegant management platform that solves a real problem for companies struggling to deploy and manage IoT software with both speed and security,” said Curtis Sasaki, vice president of Ecosystems, Samsung Electronics. “Through this collaboration, software developers will have an easier experience building, deploying and managing a wide range of IoT applications, whether it’s an early hackathon project or a complex deployment to a fleet of thousands of IoT devices.”

    “Samsung is a driving force behind making the promise of the IoT a reality for consumers and businesses alike. As more devices become connected devices, the ability to seamlessly push live updates over-the-air becomes a critical business requirement,” said Alexandros Marinos, Founder & CEO of Resin.io. “We are confident that developers will love both the agility and the control that Resin.io brings to their businesses.”

    Resin.io’s support for SAMSUNG ARTIK modules and its integration with the SAMSUNG ARTIK Cloud are available today as open source code. Developers also have access to Resin.io’s device fleet management capabilities, including simple provisioning, device-specific configurations, build logs, phased deployments and device status dashboards.

    A collection of resources including tutorials, a getting started guide, and videos of the integration can be found at: http://www.resin.io/artik

    More information about SAMSUNG ARTIK, partners and development tools can be found at artik.io.

    About Resin.io

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

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    • Press Contact for Resin.io
      Robert Nachbar
      Kismet Communications
      206-427-0389
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  • Site24x7 Supports Nagios, Custom Plugins to Monitor Entire App Stack

    Site24x7 Supports Nagios, Custom Plugins to Monitor Entire App Stack

    Site24x7 Plugins Drive Customized, Detailed Monitoring of IT Resources

    • Supported plugins: Nagios, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, NGINX, HAProxy, ZooKeeper, WordPress, Apache, Memcached
    • Users can create their own plugins using Python or shell scripts
    • Access Site24x7 Plugins at http://ow.ly/109LDi

    PLEASANTON, Calif — April [26], 2016 — Site24x7, the cloud infrastructure monitoring service for DevOps and IT operations, today announced Site24x7 Plugins. Available now, the new feature lets IT pros use third-party and custom-built plugins for detailed monitoring of their IT resources — all within the Site24x7 control panel. Site24x7 Plugins let users customize the set of monitored attributes for the hosts, devices, services, protocols, applications and all other resources in their environments, providing deep performance visibility into the entire application stack.

    Network and server administrators often require specific monitoring data that goes beyond the scope of vendors’ standard monitoring solutions. Acquiring such data typically requires users to extend the functionality of their existing tools with third-party and custom plugins designed to provide detailed monitoring metrics of individual resources. With Site24x7 Plugins, IT admins can now access that data using thousands of supported, pre-built plugins or create their own.

    “The new Site24x7 Plugins for server monitoring will help DevOps teams to monitor the full application stack,” said Gibu Mathew, director of product management, Site24x7. “With support for custom scripting and out-of-the-box integrations to provide additional, system-level metrics, Site24x7 Plugins extend the end-user monitoring and application troubleshooting capabilities that Site24x7 customers around the world rely on daily.”

    Out-of-the-Box Plugins Support – Site24x7 Plugins supplement Site24x7 monitoring with precise, resource-specific metrics that an IT team deems critical to the monitoring of its particular environment. For example, installing the Site24x7 MySQL plugin will let users analyze key details such as total number of used connections, number of slow queries, total aborted connections and other metrics needed to tune and troubleshoot apps that rely on MySQL.

    Nagios Plugins Without Nagios Servers – With support for Nagios, users can execute thousands of Nagios plugins in Site24x7 without the need to run a Nagios server. This means that there is no need to maintain a dedicated server for Nagios and Nagios server software, yet users can still take advantage of Nagios community scripts. Nagios plugins can be executed with a simple configuration file while the other pre-built plugins work out of the box.

    Create Your Own Plugins – Users can also create custom plugins using Python or shell scripts and analyze the performance of databases, Web servers and more with a simple script.

    In addition to MySQL, Nagios and custom plugins, Site24x7 Plugins support a wide range of out-of-the-box integrations, including Redis, MongoDB, NGINX, HAProxy, ZooKeeper, WordPress, Apache and Memcached. Site24x7 Plugins will support additional modules going forward.

    All plugin data is passed through to the Site24x7 alerting and reporting engines, so users can set threshold values for individual attributes and configure alerts if values exceed the set limit. Performance charts for custom attributes can be viewed on the Site24x7 dashboard.

    “We have been using Site24x7 for more than a year, and I should say that we are more than just satisfied,” said Aleksander Andrijenko, IT infrastructure at Marcura Group in Dubai. “Site24x7’s broad feature offerings and price point made it an obvious choice over other vendors. The product is easy to set up, and you can start monitoring your environments in just minutes. The instant alerts using [the Site24x7] Plugins feature ensures we’re on top of issues all the time.”

    Pricing and Availability

    Site24x7 Plugins is available as a standard feature along with Server Monitoring, priced at $9/month for 10 servers in the Standard pack.

    For more information about Site24x7, please visit http://www.site24x7.com/; follow the blog at http://blogs.site24x7.com/, on forums at http://forums.site24x7.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Site24x7, and on Twitter @Site24x7. For information on upcoming Site24x7 webinars, visit https://www.site24x7.com/webinars.html.

    About Site24x7

    Site24x7 offers unified cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations. Monitor the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices. In-depth monitoring capabilities enable DevOps teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers and network infrastructures, including private and public clouds. End-user experience monitoring is done from 50+ locations across the world and various wireless carriers. For more information about Site24x7, please visithttp://www.site24x7.com/.

  • Supermicro Total Solutions for Private, Public Cloud Accelerate Open Infrastructure Growth

    April 25, 17:00 UTC+3

    Complete End-to-End Integration, Validation, Deployment and Services Maximize ROI through Agile, Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Total Solutions

    AUSTIN, Texas, April 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing showcases its total solutions for public, private and hybrid cloud at OpenStack® Summit this week in Austin, Texas. Business success today requires adaptability, flexibility, and security. The Cloud promises to address these challenges by providing an open standards-based infrastructure that enables rapid workload deployment. Supermicro Total Solutions for OpenStack® enable cloud and hyperscale growth with the most comprehensive OpenStack certified compute, storage, networking and management node components. Supermicro’s Total Solutions for OpenStack takes into account design considerations across performance, density, redundancy, and serviceability down to the component level to build exactly the best reference architecture addressing use cases such as DevOps, Big Data and Service Providers.

    “Supermicro offers the industry’s strongest server, storage and networking solutions for high scalability OpenStack deployments,” said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. “Supermicro’s OpenStack Reference Architecture leverages our SuperServer, SuperBlade, SuperStorage and high-throughput network switches to deliver ready to deploy complete rack solutions. With our Total Solution advantage, Supermicro offers full integration, validation, deployment, service, and support worldwide”.

    Supermicro Showcase

    • Supermicro Reference Architecture for OpenStack® – Balanced configuration for enterprise grade DevOps system with high-availability on data path. Leverages a pre-validated design that integrates compute, storage, networking and software into an efficient, application-centric cloud solution that is simple to deploy and easy to scale. Standard and Advanced Reference Architecture configurations are also available. For more information email Total_Solutions@supermicro.com.
    • Supermicro (Mirantis) Unlocked Appliance – Supermicro and Mirantis are bringing the best of cloud and converged infrastructure together to simplify OpenStack deployments and reduce the time-to-value of your private cloud, allowing you to focus on your business and your applications. Together our goal is to ensure the success of your OpenStack cloud, enabling you to achieve Agile IT. www.supermicro.com/SUA

    Visit Supermicro at OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, April 25 through the 29 at the Austin Convention Center, Booth #B25.

    For more information on Supermicro’s complete range of high performance, high-efficiency Server, Storage and Networking solutions, visitwww.supermicro.com.

    Follow Supermicro on Facebook and Twitter to receive their latest news and announcements.

    About Super Micro Computer, Inc. 
    Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its “We Keep IT Green®” initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.

    Supermicro, Building Block Solutions and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

    All other brands, names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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    CONTACT:

    Media Contact, David Okada, Super Micro Computer, Inc., davido@supermicro.com

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  • Global DevOps Platform Market to Grow 19.42% – Shift Toward PaaS – Research and Markets

    April 25, 2016 10:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time

    DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global DevOps Platform Market 2016-2020” report to their offering.

    The global DevOps platform market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 19.42% during the period 2016-2020.

    PaaS is built where the entire IT environment is designed to support test and development processes. Instances of PaaS on public cloud include IBM Bluemix, CloudFoundry from Pivotal, and the Google App Engine whereas for PaaS on private cloud include hosted CloudFoundry. Cloud platform vendors usually offer automation and management tools to consolidate and integrate applications directly into their cloud platforms. As a result, IT organizations get better automation features in the same turnkey cloud platform. This has made PaaS essential for those organizations who approached DevOps and want to automate, test, and develop services.

    According to the report, software development processes require standardized platforms to bridge the gap between software developers and operational teams. Earlier, software development processes were not subject to intermediary technologies (that help to synchronize the work of developers and IT administrators). DevOps is a solution that helps software developers to connect with the operational process, thus helping to speed up the software development process.

    Further, the report states that Technical glitches during DevOps application deployment hinders the market growth.

    Companies Mentioned:

    • CA Technologies
    • IBM Corp.
    • Puppet Inc.
    • Rackspace Inc.
    • Red Hat Inc
    • CFEngine
    • Chef
    • Cisco
    • Clarive
    • CollabNet
    • DBmaestro
    • Dell
    • Docker
    • HP
    • Inedo
    • Infosys
    • Microsoft
    • SaltStack
    • VersionOne
    • VMware

    Key Topics Covered:

    PART 01: Executive summary

    PART 02: Scope of the report

    PART 03: Market research methodology

    PART 04: Introduction

    PART 05: Market landscape

    PART 06: Market segmentation by end-user

    PART 07: Geographical segmentation

    PART 08: Market drivers

    PART 09: Impact of drivers

    PART 10: Market challenges

    PART 11: Impact of drivers and challenges

    PART 12: Market trends

    PART 13: Vendor landscape

    PART 14: Key vendor analysis

    For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/mtsz8v/global_devops

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