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VMware IT has deployed a private cloud based on the vCloud Suite. Dev and Ops teams are one tenant using the cloud to automate dev test provisioning and streamline application development. Automated provisioning has improved how these teams work together. And here is how.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – CloudPassage, the leader in Software Defined Security (SDSec) and creator of Halo, today announced that CEO and co-founder Carson Sweet will discuss cloud security in the wake of Edward Snowden at AGC Partners’ 10th Annual Information Security & Technology Growth Conference on Monday, February 24. Later that week at RSA Conference 2014, CloudPassage’s Senior Director of DevOps Andrew Storms and Eric Hoffmann, Director of QA, will both lead a discussion on building a model for shared responsibility between security and DevOps teams.
In his panel discussion, Sweet will discuss the security challenges and considerations for hosting data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. As businesses migrate to cloud environments at a rapid pace, many struggle to understand the different regulatory and legal requirements that come with hosting data outside of their organization as well as what is needed to retain more control of their data in the cloud.
At AGC Partners’ 10th Annual Information Security & Technology Growth Conference:
What: Data Protection in a Cloudy World
When: Monday, February 24, 2014 from 2:15-3:00 p.m.
Where: Westin San Francisco Market Street
Metropolitan III – 2nd Floor
50 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
At RSA Conference 2014, Storms and Hoffman will discuss how the self-service and on-demand nature of the cloud allows developers to work fast faster than security operations teams can keep up. Security professionals are tasked with ensuring compliance without slowing down their increasingly agile DevOps teams.
At RSA Conference 2014:
What: Secure Cloud Development Resources with DevOps
When: Friday, February 28, 2014 at 9:00am
Where: San Francisco Moscone Center West Room 2002
About CloudPassage
CloudPassage is the leading Software Defined Security (SDSec) company and creator of Halo, the industry’s first and only security and compliance platform purpose-built for elastic cloud environments. Halo’s patented architecture operates seamlessly across any mix of software-defined data center, public cloud, and even hardware infrastructure. Industry-leading enterprises trust Halo to protect their cloud and software-defined datacenter environments. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudpassage.com
CloudPassage® and Halo® are registered trademarks of CloudPassage, Inc.
SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwired – Feb 12, 2014) –Chef™, the leader in IT automation, today announced surging adoption of its Chef™ IT automation platform. In 2013, the company’s total sales grew 188 percent year over year, while recurring revenue quadrupled. The number of new customers adopting Chef reached record levels in 2013, with nearly 70 percent of sales coming from Fortune 1000 organizations. The company’s European operations also achieved significant momentum, with total sales growing more than 400 percent, compared to 2012.
Interviews with a range of Fortune 1000 brands detailing their use of Chef to solve today’s hardest IT challenges can be viewed here.
“Our continued, strong sales and revenue growth coincides with the acceptance of Chef as the de facto standard for delivering speed and scale for both web innovators and forward-leaning enterprises,” said Barry Crist, CEO, Chef. “This is a special time for Chef and our community; as our business grows larger, our growth rate is also accelerating.”
Leading Industry Research Spotlights Transformative Shift in Enterprise IT
Recent research points to massive change and upheaval, as well as vast new opportunities, in enterprise IT. The Gartner Research document entitled, “Taming the Digital Dragon: The 2014 CIO Agenda,” (Dave Aron, Graham Waller), Dec. 31, 2013, states:
“Now we are entering a third era of enterprise IT, where these new trends are not only improving what businesses do with technology to make themselves faster, cheaper and more scalable, but fundamentally changing businesses with information and technology, changing the basis of competition and the portfolio of businesses people are in, and in some cases creating new industries.”
Today, the enterprise is rapidly adopting IT automation in response to these immense pressures. The Gartner Research document entitled, “Predicts 2014: Automation Brings Promise to IT Operations Management, but at What Cost?” (Jarod Greene, Ronni J. Colville, Ian Head, George Spafford, Jeffrey M. Brooks, Robert Naegle), Dec. 12, 2013, states:
“By 2015, 75% of large enterprises will have more than four diverse automation technologies within their IT management portfolio, up from less than 20% in 2013.”
Meanwhile, the continued adoption of cloud computing across businesses of all sizes is helping drive a new wave of automation platforms. As a recent Forrester Research, Inc. report, “Predictions for 2014: Cloud Computing” (Dec. 4, 2013), states:
“Chef and Puppet will usurp commercial automation solutions… Open source server configuration automation is quickly becoming the de facto cloud service automation approach and will dominate the management of elastic cloud workloads.”
Enterprise Chef Sales Surge
Chef’s sales in Q4 2013 alone nearly equaled sales for all of 2012. Fortune 500 companies in media, transportation, manufacturing, Big Web, retail, and financial services have all deployed Chef to maximize the benefits of DevOps strategies in accelerating time to market.
Enterprise Chef™ models IT infrastructure and application delivery as code. Enterprise Chef provides the integrated automation platform needed to succeed in today’s customer-propelled economy. Chef delivers the power and flexibility to move faster in a complex world — from rapid provisioning and deployment of IT resources to the automated delivery of applications and services — at any scale.
Chef Skills Footprint On the Rise
The Open Source Chef community grew more than 200 percent across all primary metrics in 2013, including millions of Chef downloads, hundreds of thousands of monthly Chef Cookbook downloads, and thousands of individual contributors. With tens of thousands of registered users contributing code and solving IT challenges every day, the Chef community is building a new generation of skilled automation professionals worldwide.
Continuing its commitment to the wider Chef community, Chef is sponsoring Ada Developers Academy, an intensive software developer training school for women. As part of its sponsorship, Chef will be providing an internship for an Ada Developers Academy student beginning in May. In the internship, the student will spend six months learning about and contributing code for the Chef IT automation platform. More information on Ada Developers Academy can be found here.
“The Chef Community is all about helping each other solve complex IT automation challenges, while transforming traditional IT to something focused on automation, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery,” commented Nathen Harvey, Community Director, Chef. “The Chef Community has always been a very open, welcoming community. Our participation in the Ada Academy is one example of how we’re bringing automation skills to IT professionals everywhere.”
#ChefConf 2014
#ChefConf 2014 is taking place at the Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco, April 15-17, 2014. Chef’s annual user conference is the largest, most vibrant gathering of New IT andDevOps practitioners, featuring three days of inspired discussions, collaborative presentations, technical training, and hands-on labs focused on automating business to hyper-speed. View the agenda here and register now to take advantage of early bird pricing before February 28.
#learnchef
About Chef
We are Chef — the leader IT automation. We give you a model for automating IT infrastructure and applications that drive self-reliance across your development and operations teams. We are the Chef community. We are tens of thousands strong. We are helping your businesses become faster, safer and more flexible, so you win in today’s 24×7 digital economy. Join our movement today. www.getchef.com
BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JumpCloud™, the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, today announced the general commercial availability of its automated server management solution. JumpCloud launched its automated server management solution last September at the prestigious TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco event as a Startup Battlefield finalist. Since that time, hundreds of organizations have deployed JumpCloud, and requests for additional features have helped to iterate, refine, and optimize the solution for DevOps and IT professionals.
“JumpCloud has had a major impact on our daily routine. After automating with JumpCloud, we don’t have to spend cycles on many of our daily manual server management tasks such as managing users and tracking privileged commands”
“The cloud’s elasticity and agility has enabled several new operational models such as DevOps, an IT model that blurs the lines between development and IT operations, as well as consolidates historically segregated management functions to improve efficiency and responsiveness,” said Rich Mogull, CEO of Securosis, in What CISOs Need to Know About Cloud Computing.
JumpCloud’s mission is to automate the manual, tedious tasks of managing servers so that DevOps and IT pros can focus on what makes their business tick: innovation. JumpCloud has built a platform to execute these tasks, including SSH/privileged user management, admin activity monitoring, patch detection, and compliance. JumpCloud supports servers in the cloud, data center, colo, or hosted as VMs.
JumpCloud customers can now choose to extend their access to critical server management functionality for as little as $10 per month per server, as well as benefit from an hourly pricing rate per server should that be a better match for their scalable infrastructure. As part of the commercial plans, JumpCloud customers receive access to its best-in-class functionality, extended data retention, and phone support.
“JumpCloud has had a major impact on our daily routine. After automating with JumpCloud, we don’t have to spend cycles on many of our daily manual server management tasks such as managing users and tracking privileged commands,” said Scott Brown, CEO of Bounce.IO. “JumpCloud is simple and efficient, yet powerful. And, because we can focus on delivering our product and not on tedious maintenance tasks, its return on investment was almost immediate.”
“Commercially releasing JumpCloud has meant countless hours of team effort interacting with amazing customers, learning about their problems, and the best ways to solve them. I’m incredibly proud of our team’s results and honored to work with such great customers,” said Rajat Bhargava, President & CEO, JumpCloud. “JumpCloud is solving an incredibly difficult and important problem: how to enable companies to innovate faster.”
JumpCloud is available immediately. For a free 30-day trial, sign-up at www.jumpcloud.com.
About JumpCloud
JumpCloud automates manual, tedious server-management tasks from the cloud for DevOps and IT pros. Complementary to and integrated with Chef and Puppet, JumpCloud picks up where they leave off by automating management of users, patches, security, and compliance. JumpCloud returns days to DevOps and IT admins’ lives while increasing security. An automated SaaS-based offering, JumpCloud installs in seconds and deploys on physical, virtual, or cloud servers. For more information visitJumpCloud.com.
Mastercard Israel renews contract with DBmaestro to provide its Database Enforced Change Management Solution for a third year
Tel Aviv, February 18, 2014 – DBmaestro, the pioneer and leading provider of DevOps for Database solutions has announced that Isracard, Israel’s leading credit card company and member of the worldwide MasterCard group, will be renewing their contract with DBmaestro for a third year. DBmaestro streamlined Isracard’s development process by providing Database Enforced Change Management capabilities (DECM) which enforce best practices and prevent accidental code overwrites.
In 2011 Isracard was struggling with a number of challenges including failures during production deployments and frequent unintentional code overwrites which forced developers to spend time backtracking and re-implementing changes. Isracard’s problems were a lack of insight into change histories, difficulty undoing changes and rolling back to previous versions, an inability to properly prioritize developers’ work, and a lack of formal documentation of planned and completed changes. The company wanted to enforce consistency and coordination for database development in the same way that its tools and methodologies did for native application code. These issues were draining valuable time and resources from the company.
After evaluating a number of solutions, Isracard chose DBmaestro and quickly experienced an eightfold increase in its productivity in promoting changes. A deployment script that took as much as two hours to be developed before DBmaestro was now completed in just 15 minutes. DBmaestro also provided a full audit trail of all changes, which made it easier for the change manager to control all projects throughout their lifecycle – from development through pre-production, to production. This drastic improvement was achieved with the help of DBmaestro’s Database Enforced Change Management capabilities (enforcement of version control best practices), which prevent accidental code overwrites and eliminates the rework associated with such errors. Developers at Isracard were now able to see if someone else was already working on the same object, improving communication and minimizing the risk of redundancies and conflicts.
“Our development processes were inefficient, and we often found ourselves working on versions that were different from production versions,” said Ronen Zaretsky, CIO of Isracard. “DBmaestro changed all that. It has helped us streamline and coordinate our activities across code and database development. Now, we can work smarter and faster, and everything runs smoothly, from start to finish.”
“We are delighted to continue supporting Isracard for the 3rd year in a row, following an already successful two year partnership,” Said Yaniv Yehuda, CTO of DBmaestro. “This is the perfect demonstration of the value our solution provides our partners. Isracard approached us in 2011 seeking a way to improve development processes, maintain stability and promote changes to production daily instead of monthly. To ensure the availability of production systems, they also needed to ensure separation between development and production environments. After evaluating a number of solutions Isracard chose DBmaestro because it integrated seamlessly with the company’s existing proprietary deployment tool, and helped to rapidly and effectively bridge the gap between code and database development methodologies.”
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About Isracard
Isracard is a fully-owned subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest banking group. Isracard was founded in 1975 and is Israel’s leading Credit Card Company. Isracard has some 100 thousand merchant agreements and approximately 2 million credit card holders.
Isracard is continually developing and implementing advanced technologies to widen the variety of its products, and to improve customer service. The company is developing new activities in various areas, including P2P and B2B, which the current partnership is a major basis for its further development.
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) announced today offerings and reference architectures that extend its F5 Synthesis™ framework and bring new benefits to service providers. F5 will be showcasing these reference architectures and demonstrating the benefits of its service provider offerings at Mobile World Congress, taking place next week in Barcelona.
F5 Synthesis provides an elastic services platform to help service providers effectively scale their networks and realize the benefits of emerging technologies such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) by delivering Software Defined Application Services™ (SDAS™). SDAS leverage F5’s fabric-based approach by efficiently and intelligently combining virtualization, scalability, programmability, orchestration, and other capabilities.
The F5 Synthesis vision leverages core F5 technologies—including those announced earlier this week—and enhanced service provider solutions focused on the data, signaling, and application planes to further enable the secure, optimized, and orchestrated delivery of application services. F5 helps service providers adopt service-driven business practices, empowered by policy, subscriber identity, Diameter signaling, and other context- and application-aware solutions. Moreover, by delivering services in an efficient, unified manner, innovative service provider products aid organizations in managing and monetizing the way services are introduced to the market.
As an architectural framework, F5 Synthesis:
KEY BENEFITS
New F5 technologies and solutions continue to augment the company’s traffic and signaling management solutions portfolio, enabling service providers to cost-effectively build and scale their networks, achieve high service velocity and quality of experience for customers, and further monetize the network by introducing innovative services and business models. The unified F5 Synthesis architectural framework transforms the economics, experience, and enablement of application services for service providers by:
DEPLOYMENT GUIDANCE WITH SERVICE PROVIDER-FOCUSED REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES
As a complement to its Synthesis framework, F5 provides a growing library of reference architectures designed to help service providers address some of the industry’s most pervasive challenges. Individual reference architectures provide prescriptive guidance focused on efficiently deploying SDAS to achieve a specific business purpose.
F5 reference architectures designed for service providers include:
SUPPORTING QUOTES
“S/Gi network simplification, LTE roaming, voice over LTE, security, and NFV are very important topics for service providers to look at over the next few years in considering their next-generation mobile network deployments. We are pleased to see F5 Synthesis addressing important issues within the industry.”
Vic McClelland, Managing Director of Networks, Optus
“As mobile operators continue to deploy LTE (4G) and look further towards 5G networks, scaling and securing the data, signaling, and application planes become increasingly important. F5 Synthesis binds these three realms to provide an architectural framework to address critical issues for mobile operators.”
Dimitris Mavrakis, Principal Analyst, Telecoms & Media, Informa
“Service providers are going through a fundamental architectural shift to SDN and NFV, which increases the importance of automating the scalability, security, virtualization, and programmability of their networks. In our view, F5 is the first in the industry to focus this shift on the mobile broadband segment across the data, signaling, and application planes, with the aim of helping providers with flexible scaling and rapid service introductions. We believe that service providers will want to look at how F5 software can help them develop new service and business models that will increase their ability to monetize mobile broadband.”
Michael Howard, Principal Analyst, Infonetics Research
“Service providers have traditionally deployed many stateful session-based devices on their S/Gi network, which are inherently not high capacity or are very expensive to scale to sufficient levels to meet growing bandwidth demands of 4G/LTE and 5G/Advanced LTE networks. With F5’s S/Gi network simplification solution, service providers can consolidate these disparate functions into one platform and scale to meet future bandwidth demands, in turn reducing TCO by 36 percent over five years compared to their traditional approach.”
Dr. Ray Mota, Managing Partner, ACG Research
“The explosive growth of always-connected devices running thousands of applications is requiring service providers to rethink how services are offered, scaled, and monetized. Virtualization and orchestration within a flexible architectural framework will become increasingly important as service providers look to build seamless Application Delivery Networks.”
Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
“Changes in the service provider market are being driven by the desire for services that better address new economic models and customers’ evolving interests. The F5 Synthesis framework provides a unified technology fabric and intelligent services orchestration, enabling service providers to accelerate the transition from just providing connectivity to delivering enhanced, differentiated mobile experiences for subscribers.”
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula, VP of Service Provider and Cloud Solutions, F5 Networks
F5 AT MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS
F5 will be exhibiting its service provider technologies in Hall 5, Stand 5G11, at this year’s Mobile World Congress event, taking place February 24–27 in Barcelona. In addition, the F5 Traffix™ Signaling Delivery Controller™ has been shortlisted for recognition in the Best Mobile Infrastructure segment of the Global Mobile Awards 2014, presented at the event.
SUPPORTING RESOURCES
AVAILABILITY
The F5 solutions and reference architectures mentioned in this announcement are generally available now. Please contact a local F5 sales office for product availability in specific countries.
[1] ACG Research, Business Case for S/Gi Network Simplification, February 2014
ABOUT F5
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications 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 data center 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.
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F5, F5 Synthesis, Software Defined Application Services, SDAS, Traffix, Signaling Delivery Controller, iRules, 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.
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Stuttgart, GERMANY/San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2014: Polarion Software, creator of the world’s fastest enterprise scale web-based Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution, and OpenMake, a global leader in delivering Dynamic DevOps to the enterprise, announced that they will be working together to align software development with the operational needs of the enterprise.
Said Stephen King, CEO, OpenMake Software, “Large enterprises are craving a standard DevOps solution that goes beyond what a single development team can download and script from the Open Source community. We are excited to work closely with Polarion to deliver a DevOps solution that meets this new standard – one that is model-driven, cross platform and transparent. We’re looking forward to helping enterprises achieve a quick and easy turnover between their developers and operations team.”
Said Stefano Rizzo, SVP of strategy and business development, “More and more Polarion customers are realizing the power of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) as a powerful tool for Development teams and are quickly adopting this technology as a crucial part of their DevOps Ecosystem. Working together, both OpenMake and Polarion will help organizations work with an even greater sense of urgency to get their products to market on time.”
“In partnering with OpenMake Software, Polarion will offer enhanced capabilities that take advantage of OpenMake’s continuous build through deploy platform,” added Rizzo.
Polarion Software develops and markets fully integrated, web-based solutions for requirements management, test management/Quality Assurance (QA), and ALM — providing full traceability and transparency throughout the product lifecycle. Polarion’s browser-based solutions improve the efficiency of product development and help organizations identify and mitigate risks, improve quality and achieve compliance with safety, risk and quality standards in record time.
OpenMake® Software delivers a dynamic solution for streamlining, accelerating, and standardizing build to deploy activities that can flex to meet the ever increasing operational demands of an organization. The company’s solutions automate tasks for over 400 companies worldwide.
About Polarion Software
Polarion Software’s success is best described by the hundreds of Global 1000 companies and over one million users who rely daily on Polarion’s Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions. Polarion is a thriving international company with offices across Europe and North America, and a wide ecosystem of partners world-wide. For more information, visit http://www.polarion.com
About OpenMake
OpenMake Software has been the authority on the build to release process since 1995, providing Global 2000 companies with solid solutions for managing the enterprise development to operations hand-off challenge. Our experience has taught us that streamlining the enterprise build to deploy process cannot be done by each team cobbling together static scripts around open source tools. Instead we offer a dynamic DevOps solution that reduces cost through a reusable model-driven design that minimizes errors, achieves repeatability and openly communicates process through shared, community developed knowledge. For more information visithttp://www.openmakesoftware.com
Survey of Attendees at JumpCloud and SoftLayer Hosted DevOps Conference Confirms High Adoption of DevOps Driven by Demand for Automation of IT & Time Constraints
February 10, 2014 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JumpCloud™, the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, today published survey results from its DevOps Conference hosted in conjunction with SoftLayer. The survey confirms that the rapid adoption of DevOps is driven by the need for increased automation and constant pressure to complete tasks. When asked to describe their greatest challenges and most time consuming tasks, leading responses referenced deployment and patching activities. User management and log file analysis and forensics were also near the top of responses by the DevOps Conference attendees.
“We decided to hold this DevOps conference with Foundry Group, TechStars, and Bullet Time Ventures companies in order to gain some base level insight and understanding into the state of the DevOps movement”
Regardless of the specific challenges or tasks identified, attendees of the event unified around an increasing lack of time with expanding responsibilities and accelerated production cycles. Survey results pointed specifically to manual tasks as hurdles to time management. In order to address this issue, DevOps focused organizations are searching for ways to automate tasks and more effectively manage the explosion of online infrastructure.
“We decided to hold this DevOps conference with Foundry Group, TechStars, and Bullet Time Ventures companies in order to gain some base level insight and understanding into the state of the DevOps movement,” said Rajat Bhargava, CEO, JumpCloud. “The conference aimed to advance the DevOps movement through the sharing of best practices and a compilation of survey data from a highly targeted respondent group of leading voices in the DevOps movement. We could not have been happier with the over 200 leaders in the field from over 100 companies who were able to attend and help us to gain and share some insight into this increasingly important movement.”
Over three quarters of respondents classified themselves as DevOps organizations. Another 15% were on their way to becoming DevOps organizations.
When asked which cloud providers respondents utilized:
AWS – 55%
Rackspace – 14%
SoftLayer – 6%
Digital Ocean – 6%
Heroku – 6%
Misc. – 13%
When asked about steps to increase automation in their organizations:
Over 75% reported using some form of configuration automation tool such as Chef or Puppet.
Approximately one-third reported using some form of patching solution.
Over half are utilizing pre-built images.
When asked which tasks most commonly required manual management processes
1. Deployment and patching tied for first
2. User management
3. Log file analysis and forensics
The DevOps Conference was co-founded and sponsored by JumpCloud and SoftLayer. Gold sponsors included Authentic8, DH Capital, and VictorOps. Silver sponsors were Cooley, Pantheon, PivotDesk, SendGrid, and Silicon Valley Bank. For more information about the DevOps conference please contact info@jumpcloud.com. Conference organizers are planning to implement multiple events in 2014 in conjunction with devopsy.kinsta.cloud. The conference videos are available here. Full results of the survey are available here.
About JumpCloud
JumpCloud automates manual, tedious server management tasks from the cloud for DevOps and IT pros. Complementary to and integrated with Chef and Puppet, JumpCloud picks up where they leave off by automating management of users, patches, security, and compliance. JumpCloud returns days to DevOps and IT admins’ lives while increasing security. An automated SaaS-based offering, JumpCloud installs in seconds and deploys on physical, virtual, or cloud servers. For more information visit JumpCloud.com.
Ravello adds new Apache Maven plug-in and announces availability of Ruby and Python bindings for integration with build automation tools.
PALO ALTO, Calif. – February 12, 2014 – Ravello Systems, the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor provider, today announced it has added new plug-ins and RESTful APIs to provision entire multi-virtual machine environments, along with networking and storage, in the cloud. Ravello has added a new Apache Maven plug-in, and programming language bindings for Ruby and Python, with support for Continuous Integration (CI) systems including Jenkins, Bamboo, and Teamcity. With one API call, developers can instantly provision a complete clone of their existing on-premise production application and deploy it in the public cloud.
Ravello enables CI on production replicas in the cloud
To achieve successful agile development and test processes, enterprises are quickly adopting DevOps principles, and using CI is a key practice. The goal with CI is to get as reliable feedback as quickly as possible, resulting in higher quality software delivered faster. However, most DevOps practitioners encounter constraints when implementing CI due to (1) difficulties in automating the infrastructure, making it problematic to provision clones of multi-tier production applications, and (2) capacity restraints in the datacenter, making it impossible to deploy these clones for every code commit. Automating CI processes can be very painful, time-consuming and fraught with configuration nightmares.
With Apache Maven, the vastly popular build automation tool, developers are able to manage a project’s build, deployment, testing, reporting and documentation from a central repository. Recognizing the value of Maven as a build automation tool, the Ravello Maven plug-in is designed to help integrate Maven-based projects with Ravello Systems’ rich APIs. This integration makes it easier to automatically configure the build, testing and deployment processes, resulting in smoother operations.
Ravello’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering allows enterprises to spin up clones of their existing multi-tier enterprise applications in the public cloud – without any changes to the virtual machines (VMs), networking or storage. With the addition of a new Maven plug-in and the availability of Ruby and Python bindings for integration with other build automation tools, Ravello now enables extreme CI on production clones in the cloud. Now developers and test engineers can use Ravello’s APIs to:
All this can be done right from the integrated development environment (IDE). Now each code commit can be tested on a clone of production in the cloud for instant and accurate feedback.
“The public cloud with its infinite capacity is very promising for continuous integration, but it’s an inherently different environment than what you have on premise,” said Gil Hoffer, VP of R&D, Ravello Systems. “Your application might have multiple subnets, multiple network cards per server and specific storage requirements. With Ravello we abstract away the differences between the private and public clouds, and have built-in automation for provisioning and deploying those multi-tier applications in the cloud.”
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About Ravello Systems
Founded in 2011, Ravello Systems delivers a software-as-a-service that enables developers, devops and IT to use the unlimited resources of the public cloud to develop and test their on-premise applications. Powered by the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables enterprises to encapsulate their multi-tier applications and run them anywhere – on-premise or in any cloud – without making any changes whatsoever, and thereby implement a true hybrid cloud. Ravello Systems is backed by top tier VCs including Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.ravellosystems.com.