Author: Parker Yates

Redwood City, Calif. – Sep. 27, 2017 – Appdome, the mobile industry’s first cloud hub for mobile app integration, today announces significant new platform features enabling a new class of mobile app integration efficiency and simplified app customization on Appdome. Appdome for Teams allows groups within organizations to participate in Appdome’s unique mobile integration workflow and collaborate to complete mobile integration projects together.

With Appdome for Teams, enterprise users can preserve their centers of excellence in development, mobility, security and app-signing and combine efforts to deliver integrated mobile experiences to their users within agile development time frames. A new step in Appdome’s workflow, “Branding”, allows developers and enterprises to use app customization as a way of promoting use, trust and understanding among app users, ensuring the broadest adoption of the best apps for the intended use case.

“‘Teams’ is a powerful new concept that allows customers to expand the use of Appdome to all development groups and line of business (LOBs) and leverage the continuous integration and continuous delivery of DevOps with their mobile service integration and mobility strategies,” says Tom Tovar, CEO of Appdome. “Adding a new ‘Branding’ step to our workflow simplifies the customization of enterprise-developed apps and makes it possible to brand third-party apps, maximizing the adoption of all apps used within the enterprise.”

The following new capabilities are immediately available for all Ideal Account-level customers:

Appdome for Teams: Allow existing users to create groups and invite others to participate in mobile integration projects, working together to complete mobile integration projects. The new team architecture is social, not hierarchical, so team members can naturally assume the roles they regularly play in the enterprise and bring apps to the workplace under existing responsibilities.

For example, using Appdome for Teams, one team-mate can upload the apps needed for a group or LOB, another teammate can make the EMM or security feature selection needed to approve the app for use in the organization, another teammate can sign the newly fused application, and a third member can download the app for deployment via app stores. Appdome for Teams aims to improve productivity and efficiency, bringing the best integrated apps to users.

Branding: Appdome users can customize the app icon, bundleID, and other elements that make each app unique and useful for its intended audience. Adding this functionality allows DevOps to easily distinguish between apps with different features and services integrated with the app. This improves transparency of feature sets and allows enterprises to make users aware of capabilities included in the app. It also allows enterprises to choose and use customization as a way of promoting use, trust and understanding among app users, ensuring the broadest adoption of the best apps for the intended use case.

“Developers and non-developer customers alike want more ways to leverage the speed and continuous service integration capabilities on Appdome and one of the ways we can do that is with Teams and Branding,” said Avi Yehuda, CTO of Appdome. “We’ve worked with some of the leading enterprise, mobile app makers and developers to make Appdome a true enhanced productivity platform for mobile integration.”

About Appdome

Appdome is the industry’s first cloud hub for mobile integration. Appdome enables the rapid integration of multiple third-party functions to apps, shortening the deployment cycle and connecting mobile apps to other services on demand. The codeless service operates as a mobile integration workflow in the cloud and allows users to perform integration projects on the final application package. No source code or development expertise is required. Likewise, no modifications to an app or an SDK are required to complete integration projects on the Appdome platform. The solution is currently used by the world’s leading financial, healthcare and e-commerce companies to support productivity, compliance, and security for consumers and employees. Appdome was rated a Cool Vendor in Mobile Security by Gartner in 2015. The company is based in Silicon Valley, United States and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit www.appdome.com.

— Parker Yates

Redpoint Ventures leads round with participation from original investors Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator and Sound Ventures to fuel company’s increasing enterprise adoption

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Gigster, a smart software development service that combines top developers and designers with automation tools, today announced it has raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator and Ashton Kutcherand Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures. Marc Benioff and Adam D’Angelo also participated in the round, as did basketball legend Michael Jordan. Gigster will use the funding to further expand its ability to serve enterprise and mid-market businesses. It will also support team growth, as the company plans to hire over 100 new employees over the next year, more than tripling the size of the core team.

“Nine out of 10 companies have trouble finding and hiring tech talent, but for forward-looking organizations it’s about more than just filling headcount. It’s about finding the best developers experienced in new technologies like machine learning, data science and voice interfaces,” said Roger Dickey, co-founder and CEO of Gigster. “What differentiates Gigster is that you’re not hiring freelancers, you’re hiring an entire engineering department — the best developers in the world with a project management layer that guarantees price and quality.”

Gigster prides itself on hiring the top one percent of developers from universities such as MIT, Stanford and Caltech, and companies like Google, Facebook and Tesla. Gigster attracts highly-skilled talent by providing opportunities for them to work on cutting-edge projects with leading organizations. The company is committed to creating a competitive work environment for freelancers and offers innovative benefits like the Gigster Fund, which provides freelancers with bonuses based on Gigster client venture returns.

The company serves an increasing number of enterprise clients across verticals, including financial services (Fidelity, MasterCard, Square, U.S. Bank), travel and hospitality (Wyndham, OpenTable), manufacturing (Airbus) and consumer (PepsiCo). Gigster addresses everything from custom built software and product design to innovation consulting.

Redpoint Ventures partner Ryan Sarver, who is joining Gigster’s board of directors, said, “The Gigster model works because it delivers value for both sides of the marketplace: enterprises who need world class software teams, and engineers who want to work independently and flexibly with access to interesting assignments, project supervisors and automation tools. By transforming the way top engineering talent is convened and deployed, Gigster is redefining the way companies think about managing IT projects and reimagining the future of work itself.”

Ashton Kutcher, founding partner of Sound Ventures, said, “There’s a need for strong software developers across nearly all industries today and that is exactly what Gigster is solving for. We are excited to support Roger and the team as they scale in the enterprise market.”

Gigster is also adding a key executive in Lori Williams, vice president of fulfillment, to lead the high-quality delivery of projects, customer success and operations, as well as the Gigster freelance network. Williams has a proven track record of starting and leading international customer and services operations. Previously, she was a general manager at cloud services company Appirio, where she worked closely with enterprise leaders like Salesforce, Google and Workday as a member of the executive team in both the United States and Europe. She also played a key role in the integration efforts following Wipro’s acquisition of the company for $500 million in 2016.

“After learning more about Gigster’s vision for reinventing custom software development through their freelance network and predictive development platform, I couldn’t wait to join the team,” said Williams. “Gigster has an opportunity to fundamentally change the way custom software is delivered to customers and I’m looking forward to building out a scalable customer operation alongside a world-class network of freelancers to support it.”

Gigster began as an on-demand software development platform, but has since expanded into a full-service project management platform for the enterprise. In addition to attracting the world’s best talent, the company has developed a series of tools that use automation and artificial intelligence to make the traditionally complex process of software development more efficient and reliable. By using data to capture patterns, Gigster can more accurately identify issues and mitigate them before they impact project output and the delivery timeframe. These tools also enable Gigster to identify which developers are best suited for each job, leverage past development frameworks to guide new software projects, and estimate the time and cost of a project, which historically has been extremely difficult.

Gigster achieved key milestones over the last year, including:

• Grew year-over-year revenue by 250 percent
• Significantly increased enterprise adoption, with more than 40 of the world’s largest companies as clients
• Increased project size by an average of 65 percent over the last four consecutive quarters, including several seven-figure deals in 2017
• Raised number of simultaneous active projects from 40 to 200 while reducing error rate and increasing client satisfaction
• Named as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Business and IT Services in 2017
• Included on Forbes’ 2016 list of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups

“Gigster is as much of a game-changer as I’ve seen in the app development industry,” said Michael Keithley, chief information officer at United Talent Agency (UTA). “Their programmers are rockstars in the development of state-of-the-art apps and they work at an amazing speed. Simply put, they are one of the best development shops any CIO could work with.”

 About Gigster

Gigster is a smart software development service that combines top developers and designers with automation tools to make the complex process of software development more efficient, reliable and scalable. Gigster’s network of highly-skilled freelance software developers, engineers, designers and product managers provides Fortune 500 companies and enterprise clients with access to the world’s top technical talent from universities such as MIT, Stanford and Caltech, and companies including Google, Facebook and Tesla. Founded in 2014 by Roger Dickey and Debo Olaosebikan, Gigster has raised over $32.5 million in financing from investors including Andreessen-Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Greylock Partners, Bloomberg Beta and Felicis Ventures. For more information, visit www.gigster.com.

— Parker Yates

Company Also Offers New Digital Services, DevOps Maturity Assessment and Jenkins Training Opportunities at Jenkins World 2017

SANTA CLARA, California – Aug. 28, 2017 – Digital solutions provider Infostretch today announced a new suite of Enterprise Jenkins training services with CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company, as part of its ongoing commitment to help customers advance in DevOps maturity and thereby accelerate their digital transformation journey.

As a digital-first professional services firm, Infostretch helps enterprises with their digital transformation efforts by combining ready-made tools, frameworks, technologies and partnerships with deep experience. The company is a Global Platinum Services and Reseller Partner of CloudBees, the market leader in continuous delivery (CD) and a Gold sponsor of Jenkins World, the annual user conference for the Jenkins community. Jenkins World 2017 takes place on Aug. 28 – 31 in San Francisco, California.

“I love to see more and more efforts to expand the use of Jenkins,” said Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi, CTO of CloudBees. “The rapid growth and vibrancy of the Jenkins community speaks volumes about its value as a tool for software development but Jenkins cannot be successful without talented practitioners to successfully deploy it. As training in Jenkins increases throughout our industry, we’ll see great advances simply through its widespread use.”

“Our investment in helping companies get DevOps right is a critical component of their digital transformation,” said Infostretch CEO Rutesh Shah. “That’s why we’ve expanded our technology and team of experts to help customers mature in their DevOps approach. With more than 30 certified engineers/trainers, we now offer the largest pool of certified experts who know what it takes to do DevOps right and can teach our customers to do it for themselves.”

Infostretch is heavily involved in this year’s Jenkins World, where it will launch a new set of digital services, a DevOps maturity assessment and Jenkins training opportunities. The company will offer a two-day training course to help attendees prepare for Jenkins Certification (Monday, Aug. 28 – Tuesday, Aug. 29 at the Juniper Conference Room, from 9am– 5pm). Infostretch will also offer a 15-minute presentation and demo by Sanil Pillai, Director of Infostretch Labs, titled Auto-Convert Your Freestyle Jenkins Jobs to Coded Pipeline (Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 1:30pm at the Sponsor Theater in the Expo Hall).

Infostretch will also be featured in the following areas:

• A free DevOps maturity assessment. Visit our booth #415 to learn how you measure up against DevOps industry best practices. Sign up now to schedule an appointment to connect with our DevOps experts at Jenkins World.
• Infostretch executive interview with Co-Founder and CEO Rutesh Shah with devopsy.kinsta.cloud on Thursday, Aug. 31, at 3:30pm at the broadcast booth in the exhibit hall pavilion.
• A free, 90-minute online session conducted by DevOps experts to jumpstart your adoption of Jenkins 2.0. The session will include a briefing on key features of Jenkins 2.0 and Jenkins Blue Ocean, best practices of migration from Jenkins 1.0 to 2.0 and a primer to writing CI/CD pipeline as code. Reserve your spot at booth #415 for Jenkins 2.0 – Tips and Tricks.

Jenkins manages and controls development lifecycle processes of all kinds, including build, document, test, package, stage, deployment, static analysis and many more. Today the Jenkins community offers more than 1,300 plugins that allow Jenkins to integrate with almost any popular technology. It is by far the most dominant automation server and, as of December 2016, there are more than 150,000 active installations and an estimated 1 million-plus users around the world.

About Infostretch

Infostretch is a digital-first professional services firm. By combining in-depth experience with ready-made tools, frameworks, technologies and partnerships, Infostretch helps enterprises get digital right, the first time. With an experienced team of digital technologists, Infostretch offers Digital Strategy, Digital Development, DevOps, Quality Engineering, Cloud, IoT, Data Analytics and Mobility services. The company is trusted by leading Fortune 100 companies as well as emerging innovators to deliver solutions that work seamlessly across channels, leverage predictive analytics to optimize the software lifecycle and support continuous innovation. For more information on how solutions and services from Infostretch accelerate digital transformation, visit www.infostretch.com.

— Parker Yates

Tectonic 1.7 delivers on hybrid cloud by extending Kubernetes capabilities across clouds and data centers

https://coreos.com/press/coreos-extends-enterprise-kubernetes-solution-tectonic-to-microsoft-azure.html

SAN FRANCISCO – August 17, 2017 – CoreOS, the creator of Tectonic, the enterprise-ready Kubernetes container management platform, today delivers on its vision to bring freedom and portability to the cloud with Tectonic 1.7. Now in general availability on the Microsoft Azure cloud, Tectonic is enabling enterprises to benefit from using a single consistent platform managing modern infrastructure in their hybrid cloud environments.

“This major release of Tectonic and stable release on Microsoft Azure is an important step to deliver on the promise of multi-cloud, making infrastructure and operations more efficient and scalable,” said Rob Szumski, product manager, Tectonic, at CoreOS. “Tectonic on Azure saves you time and money by building your Kubernetes infrastructure correctly from the beginning and speeding up deployment cycles. With the ability to do hybrid cloud deployments, infrastructure leaders have the freedom and flexibility of a platform that does not lock users into cloud compute and cloud services.”

“We want to make Microsoft Azure the most open and flexible cloud for enterprises and ISVs to build and manage the applications their customers need,” said Gabriel Monroy, lead product manager, containers, Azure, Microsoft Corp. “Tectonic on Azure is an exciting advancement, enabling customers to use CoreOS’ enterprise-ready container management platform to easily manage and scale workloads to build and manage these applications on Azure.”

Tectonic Provides Single Platform to Run on Hybrid Cloud

As enterprises turn into software companies with the demand to deliver web services, they have intense pressure to bring more applications to market to remain competitive in their industries. Many are turning to the cloud, and are looking for consistent ways to run and manage applications across various environments to reduce time to market. According to RightScale’s 2017 State of the Cloud report, 85 percent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy. CoreOS is meeting this enterprise need with Tectonic, as today enterprises are already using Kubernetes in their hybrid strategies.

Tectonic provides a single platform to run across cloud and bare metal environments, making it easy to run, manage, scale and share resources across the organization to support an ever-increasing amount of application workloads. Tectonic reduces the time enterprises need to get their products to market by streamlining the way they manage applications across the organization, reducing costs and increasing revenue overall by being able to focus on business-critical products.

What’s new with Tectonic 1.7

Tectonic combines the best in enterprise-grade features and the newest features in Kubernetes 1.7. This release includes:

• Pure upstream open source Kubernetes 1.7: Tectonic always uses the latest version of Kubernetes so customers have access to pure upstream Kubernetes 1.7 in this release.
• One-click upgrade of pure upstream Kubernetes: With the ability to upgrade Kubernetes from 1.6.7 to 1.7.1 with no downtime, Tectonic is the only enterprise-ready platform enabling automated operations.
• Monitoring alerts: Tectonic now enables pre-configured alerts via the open source Prometheus project, enabling customers ease in monitoring their Kubernetes clusters by configuring their preferred notification channels. This release also introduces unique alerts around rolling updates for Deployments and DaemonSets – tools to help application owners gain visibility into deployment progress and scale out.
• Available in stable on Azure: Tectonic allows customers to securely and efficiently deploy Kubernetes workloads on what has rapidly emerged as one of the leading public clouds.
• Hybrid readiness: Tectonic provides Kubernetes across multi-cloud platforms with availability on AWS, Microsoft Azure and bare metal.
• Network policy support: With network policy now supported in alpha and powered by Project Calico, Tectonic enables better security and control of inbound traffic to your pods.

Tectonic Saves Enterprise Teams Time with Automated Operations

CoreOS is the first to provide enterprises with painless automatic software upgrades in Kubernetes. Now in stable, Tectonic customers get the ease of automated operations by being able to atomically update Kubernetes versions in one click. Instead of spending hours of time updating Kubernetes manually, teams save time and have the ability to focus on revenue-generating projects by easily clicking a button to update to the latest version of Kubernetes.

 Try Kubernetes with Tectonic

Tectonic today is available across AWS, Azure and bare metal environments. Tectonic is free to use up to 10 nodes. Try Tectonic today at coreos.com/tectonic.

 Supporting Resources

• Try Tectonic, coreos.com/tectonic
• Read more about CoreOS and enterprise Kubernetes on the blog, coreos.com/blog
• Join a webinar about Tectonic 1.7, https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14601/274817
• Download a datasheet to learn about Tectonic, https://coreos.com/resources/index.html#ufh-i-358944033-coreos-tectonic

 About CoreOS, Inc.

CoreOS is the creator of CoreOS Tectonic, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that provides automated operations, enables portability across private and public cloud providers, and is always upstream open source software. Tectonic provides the operations capabilities and enterprise features that are fueling broad adoption of scalable and resilient containerized applications. CoreOS created and maintains several open source projects including Container Linux, a secure Linux distribution that automates updates and is streamlined for running containers, and etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes. The CoreOS team is comprised of experts in container management and distributed systems from cloud-scale pioneers like Google, Twitter and Rackspace. Learn more at https://coreos.com/ or @CoreOS.

— Parker Yates

N|Solid customers benefit from the convenience of accessing advanced Node.js metrics from their AppDynamics dashboards

San Francisco—August 10, 2017 – NodeSource, the Node.js® company, today announced that its flagship product N|Solid will integrate with AppDynamics, a leading application intelligence product. This collaboration will allow customers of both products to benefit from the Node.js telemetry provided by N|Solid, which reduces downtimes and helps companies achieve faster time-to-market for their Node.js applications.

With this integration, N|Solid and AppDynamics users can access advanced Node.js metrics from N|Solid directly from their AppDynamics dashboard, allowing customers to derive unprecedented insights from their Node.js applications from a single unified interface.

“NodeSource customers are utilizing N|Solid to power mission-critical applications, and they depend on enterprise-grade solutions to reliably run their businesses,” said Joe McCann, CEO at NodeSource. “Our collaboration with AppDynamics will give customers better visibility into their Node.js applications by offering additional metrics to resolve issues faster and will allow them to spend more time innovating.”

Some of these metrics include those pertaining to asynchronous activity. Advanced metrics can be used to augment the basic Node.js metrics that AppDynamics currently provides, as a way to further enhance visibility into end-to-end transactions across disparate tiers. Also, these insights can be used to provide a full view of a user’s journey through an application.

“NodeSource sees the collaboration with AppDynamics as an accelerant to serving more Fortune 500 companies that are quickly moving to Node.js for application delivery,” McCann explained. He added that by integrating with AppDynamics, NodeSource demonstrates the differentiating value that N|Solid provides, like its ability to give customers insight into their Node.js infrastructure.

To learn more about the integration see here.

About NodeSource

NodeSource is a technology company dedicated to delivering enterprise-grade solutions in support of a sustainable ecosystem for the open source Node.js project. We aim to drive and expand the Node.js ecosystem by providing best-of-breed solutions that specifically target the needs of businesses deploying Node.js. Customers include NASA, Uber, PayPal, Condé Nast, and other progressive Node.js adopters. NodeSource is a privately held company backed by RRE Ventures and Crosslink Capital. For more information, visit NodeSource.com and follow @NodeSource on Twitter.

— Parker Yates

Fixed-time, fixed-price offering combines best-of-breed technologies to create an enterprise-grade cloud environment in just six weeks.

Boston – July 25, 2017 – Cloud Technology Partners, the premier cloud services and software company for enterprises moving to cloud, announced today that it has launched Cloud Kickstart for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a fixed-time, fixed-price offering that enables clients to safely and quickly leverage the power of AWS across their organization.

“Regardless of whether clients are looking at one workload, multiple workloads, or an entire portfolio, transforming from on-premise to cloud-based IT requires a deep understanding of the best technologies, tools, and vendors to build the right end-to-end solution,” said Robert Christiansen, Vice President and Cloud Adoption Practice Lead at Cloud Technology Partners. “Cloud Kickstart for AWS takes the guess work out of standing up an enterprise-grade AWS environment and includes all the processes and tools you need to enable your team to safely and securely start provisioning cloud resources.”

Cloud Kickstart for AWS enables your team to quickly start leveraging a secure cloud environment and gain instant awareness of the transformative power of the cloud within your organization. Reducing time to cloud from up to a year to just six weeks, Cloud Kickstart for AWS provides an enterprise-grade AWS environment with all of the essential automation, security, governance, and compliance controls in place including:

• CTP’s recommended tagging standards
• AWS account standards
• IPSec VPN connectivity to AWS
• Platform common services VPC (both production and nonproduction)
• Active Directory integration for controlling access to tooling and environment
• Automated creation of Windows and Linux AMIs
• AMI snapshot management
• Creation of custom IAM Roles
• SDLC toolchain using best of breed automation tools

Cloud Kickstart helps companies realize the time to value faster with pre-built continuous integrations and continuous testing capabilities that provide immense efficiency gains to DevOps teams. As well as providing best in class security, compliance, and analytics capabilities to keep your organization’s data secure.

In addition to these features, Cloud Kickstart for AWS also includes a robust reference architecture created with best-of-breed tools in the AWS ecosystem to create a simple package for rapid AWS adoption at scale. From configuration management with Chef to security leveraging Trend Micro, Dome9 Arc, and Vault, to operational analytics using Sumo Logic, Cloud Kickstart for AWS includes all the tools you need to ensure a secure and compliant AWS environment. Today’s Cloud Kickstart for AWS reference architecture includes these proven solutions:

• Host-based anti-malware, intrusion prevention and detection, integrity monitoring and application control (Trend Micro)
• Network security and IAM monitoring and enforcement (Dome9 Arc)
• Secrets store, temporary access leases (Vault)
• Encryption for EBS volumes (AWS)
• Monitoring (AWS Cloudwatch)
• Consolidated logging including CloudTrail, Build, Automation, and security events across all accounts (Sumo Logic)
• Configuration management (Chef)
• Orchestration (Jenkins)
• Binary repository (Artifactory)
• Code repository (Git)
• Managed Cloud Controls for Continuous Compliance and Continuous Cost Control (CTP)

“Moving to the cloud is one of the most transformative changes an organization can make, however, it can be disruptive to the business without the right tools or expertise,” said William Fellows, Founder, and Research Vice President, 451 Group. “Today, organizations are seeking methods to help them transition to the cloud more quickly and securely. With Cloud Kickstart for AWS, Cloud Technology Partners has brought together best-of-breed partners to address this business need and help organizations rapidly take advantage of the cloud.”

Supporting Partner Quotes

 Kimberly Martin, Vice President Business Development and Partners, Chef

“The cloud is central to every enterprise’s modern application strategy and Chef’s Continuous Automation platform provides the foundational capabilities needed to make that shift successful. We are delighted to be part of CTP’s solution to accelerate success and help enterprises become more efficient software-driven organizations.”

Suda Srinivasan, Vice President of Growth, Dome9 Security

“For enterprises moving to the public cloud, security is the #1 priority and area of concern. Dome9 Security gives businesses the peace of mind that their environments are secure and protected against vulnerabilities, identity theft and data loss, allowing them to get started on the cloud with confidence. Cloud Kickstart for AWS from CTP offers a frictionless way to set up a cloud environment on AWS with all the essential ingredients for security and operational awareness.”

Jabari Norton, VP of Channel Sales, Sumo Logic

“Organizations are increasingly looking for next generation analytics tools and services that provide continuous intelligence to help them build, run and secure modern applications, and accelerate their journey to the cloud. We are excited to partner with CTP as part of Cloud Kickstart for AWS to deliver the machine data analytics needed to help customers to visualize and monitor workloads in real-time, identify issues and expedite root cause analysis to improve operational and security insights across AWS infrastructure and services.”

Sanjay Mehta, SVP Business Development, Trend Micro

“Trend Micro and CTP were early movers in teaming to help enterprise organizations securely migrate to public cloud deployments. In order to address the rapid pace of new AWS cloud deployments, CTP has established a Cloud Kickstart for AWS architecture including Trend Micro Deep Security that accelerates migrations, increases confidence in deployment success, and improves security controls in public cloud and hybrid data centers.”

To learn more about Cloud Kickstart for AWS as well as CTP’s other cloud adoption services, visit https://www.cloudtp.com/cloud-kickstart

Join cloud experts from CTP to learn more about Cloud Kickstart for AWS in the webinar Breaking Down Barriers to Accelerate Your Cloud Program on August 29, 2017. Register at: https://go.cloudtp.com/breaking-down-barriers-webinar

About Cloud Technology Partners

Cloud Technology Partners (CTP) is the premier cloud services and software company for enterprises moving to AWS, Google, Microsoft and other leading cloud providers. From strategy to operations, CTP accelerates end-to-end cloud adoption with the best implementation services, software and intellectual property available on the market. CTP’s comprehensive framework for cloud adoption and dedicated software development capabilities help clients achieve business results faster, no matter where they are in their cloud transformation.

— Parker Yates

— Parker Yates

Leading North American Financial Institutions Already Taking Advantage of this New Release

TEL AVIV – August 8, 2017 – Typemock, the leader in unit testing, today announced the release of Isolator++ Version 3.6 which runs tests up to 90% faster than previous versions. Several large global financial institutions that have recently chosen Typemock Isolator++ are already enjoying the benefits of this new release.

Typemock Isolator++ is a powerful and comprehensive unit testing framework, making unit testing C++ easy. It lets developers test code that was previously thought untestable, and thus able to find defects and bugs that were previously hidden. Isolator++’s mocking capabilities enable using existing binary executables or libraries and allow a modification of this library behavior in run time for testing. This serves to further enable agile adoption.

With the latest release, Typemock was able to dramatically shorten the time it takes to search for names, functions and other variables, thus speeding the overall testing run time by up to 90%.

“Quality and agility is necessary for any development process,” notes Eli Lopian, CEO of Typemock. “Yet, many organizations leave their legacy code untested, due to the difficulty of testing and time taken to test existing code. Typemock Isolator++ solves the C++ problem, by allowing existing – otherwise untestable – code to be tested and, with the release of this latest version, speeding up unit testing by up to 90%.”

About Typemock

Typemock was founded in 2006 to help companies prevent bugs and become Agile through unit testing. The company has since established itself as a leading unit testing innovator by offering the first mocking framework for legacy code and the first AI-generated test suggestions. Thousands of companies around the world from a wide range of sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, technology enterprises and others rely on Typemock solutions. These companies demand exceptionally high standards of code quality and minimal errors. http://www.typemock.com

— Parker Yates

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Aug 9, 2017) – HashiCorp, a leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today released HashiCorp Vault 0.8 which includes significant updates to both the open source and enterprise versions, including new secure plugins, disaster recovery, mount filtered replication capabilities, and multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Vault is broadly used among the Global 2000 to address the challenge of infrastructure and application security in distributed environments. The Vault open source product addresses core security use cases for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management. Vault Enterprise enables teams and organizations to simplify Vault usage with collaboration and operations features, provide governance capabilities, and scale Vault across multiple data centers.

A significant addition to the open source version of Vault with the 0.8 release is:

• Secure Plugins: Secure plugins enable individuals and organizations to integrate custom authentication backends and workflows. This makes it easier to author plugins for the entire community and also makes it possible for Vault Enterprise users to create and integrate custom backends.

Vault Enterprise 0.8 includes capabilities that improve operations, security workflows, and multi-data center controls:

• Disaster Recovery: A new mode of replication which allows for the replication of tokens and leased credentials as well as secrets and policies, and prioritizes the ability to quickly return from a down state without having to re-generate tokens for applications/users accessing secrets.
• Mount Filtered Replication: A new addition to the Performance Mode of Vault Replication released in Vault Enterprise 0.7, mount filters allow for only selected secret and authentication mounts to be replicated from primary to secondary. This is critical for managing secrets governed by data sovereignty, governance, risk management, and compliance regulations.
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): An entirely new MFA subsystem allows Duo Push, Okta Push, and Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) MFA methods to be required for any operation on an authenticated path within Vault.

“The previous release of Vault Enterprise introduced multi-datacenter replication, which has enabled many of our enterprise customers to adopt or expand their usage of Vault. The new release makes the multi-datacenter capability richer and adds disaster recovery replication for the most mission-critical use cases,” said Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp. “Additionally, we have added a secure plugin mechanism which allows users and customers to innovate on top of Vault and build on the secure foundation it provides.”

“Deployment of HashiCorp Vault began at Adobe a little over a year ago and has quickly become a fundamental feature of our large-scale, distributed, hybrid cloud environment,” said Chandler Allphin, security engineer at Adobe. “A native plugin system is just one of the pieces that engineers are excited to leverage in the new 0.8 release. With the addition of disaster recovery as well, Vault allows us to expand how we handle fault tolerance and replication across our distributed infrastructure.”

Additional Resources

• HashiCorp Vault 0.8 Blog
• HashiCorp and Adobe webinar replay from July 25: Tackling Security at Scale In A Hybrid Cloud Environment
• HashiCorp Vault Webpage

Availability
HashiCorp Vault 0.8 is generally available today. The new capabilities in Vault Enterprise 0.8 enhance the already rich set of enterprise features. Users can download the open source version of Vault at https://www.vaultproject.io. Vault Enterprise is available in two versions. The Vault Enterprise Pro offering focuses on collaboration and operations features like a UI for managing secrets, health monitoring, and initialization and secure bootstrapping workflows. The Vault Enterprise Premium offering focuses on multi-datacenter and governance features such as Hardware Security Module (HSM) integration and multi-datacenter replication. For more information about HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, go to https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault/.

About HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a cloud infrastructure automation company that enables organizations to adopt a consistent approach to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure. HashiCorp open source tools including Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Nomad are downloaded thousands of times per day and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, security, and governance. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Mayfield, GGV Capital, Redpoint, and True Ventures. For more information, visit https://www.hashicorp.com or follow HashiCorp on Twitter @HashiCorp.

— Parker Yates

Combination extends visibility, collaboration and security across all facets of the software lifecycle

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO and ATLANTA – August 07, 2017 – CollabNet (www.collab.net) a global leader in enterprise software development and DevOps solutions, and VersionOne (www.versionone.com), the leader in enterprise Agile software solutions and services, today announced the two companies have merged. The combined company will offer the industry’s most complete Enterprise Agile, ALM Collaboration, Version Control and DevOps solutions that power application development and delivery for many of the world’s leading businesses and government institutions.

The combined company, which will maintain the CollabNet name, will be headquartered in Atlanta. CollabNet CEO Flint Brenton will serve as CEO of the combined company, and VersionOne CEO Robert Holler will serve as chief strategy officer. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.

“Enterprise software organizations are focused on increasing shareholder value through highly collaborative software development built with quality at speed. Highly integrated Agile and DevOps solutions deliver business value and empower teams to do their finest work,” said Brenton. “Analysts and customers recognize VersionOne as the leader for enterprise Agile software and services. CollabNet and VersionOne share a vision that Agile and DevOps are interconnected practices managed with a single mindset through a fully integrated, flexible and governed value stream.”

“Joining forces with CollabNet aligns with our mission to enable organizations to scale enterprise-wide agility through unified Agile and DevOps platforms that connect teams, tools, and processes,” said Holler. “Our combined experience and shared vision to meet the needs of the globally distributed enterprise sets a new standard for integrated software delivery, where speed is essential to the success of today’s software-driven businesses. Our customers will benefit from a wider breadth of innovative offerings, and the recognized leadership our two companies have in advancing the value of software development and deployment.”

“In the past, faster delivery meant lower quality and higher risk,” wrote Diego Lo Giudice, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester.  “Leading organizations have shown that applying Agile and DevOps practices enable faster delivery, higher quality, and lower risk.”

VersionOne is an innovator in enterprise Agile as recognized by industry research firms, Gartner and IDC. Gartner’s most recent Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools names VersionOne as a leader, reflecting its established market position, breadth of adoption, global deployments and the architecture’s integration of other products. VersionOne’s tools and platforms also offer support for portfolio management and established Agile enterprise frameworks, including the Scaled Agile Framework® and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). CollabNet will utilize the VersionOne brand for its Agile products.

Vector Capital, a leading private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses, acquired CollabNet in 2014.  “Bringing together these two great companies will result in a stronger company that can grow and prosper through its leading technology, blue chip client base, and executive leadership, all of which have played a critical role in advancing the software industry,” said Rob Amen, managing director, Vector Capital. “The software delivery space is fast growing and dynamic and represents Vector’s continued commitment to investing in the software market. We look forward to bringing our deep technology and software expertise to help the combined business execute and accelerate its operational and strategic initiatives.”

To review a complete Q&A document on the merger, please visit www.collab.net and www.versionone.com.

About VersionOne

VersionOne helps organizations scale enterprise-wide agility. Using our enterprise software platform for unified Agile and  DevOps, teams at every level can work together to envision and deliver great software. More than 1,000 companies, including 33 of the Fortune 100, use our solutions to help scale their Agile and DevOps initiatives faster, easier, and smarter. Whether a small team just getting started with Agile and DevOps to global enterprises scaling agility across their software lifecycle, VersionOne customers get the best solutions in the industry backed by the pioneers in Agile ALM. For more information, please visit www.versionone.com.

About CollabNet

CollabNet helps enterprises and government organizations develop and deliver high-quality software at speed. CollabNet is a winner of the 2016 Best of Interop Award, a Best in Show winner in the application lifecycle management and development tools category of the SD Times 100 for 14 consecutive years, and a gold winner of the 2016 Golden Bridge Awards. CollabNet offers innovative solutions, consulting, and Agile training services. The company proudly supports more than 10,000 customers with 6 million users in 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.collab.net.

About Vector Capital

Vector Capital is a leading global private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses. With $3.4 billion of capital under management, Vector identifies and pursues these investments in both the private and public markets. Vector actively partners with management teams to devise and execute new financial and business strategies that materially improve the competitive standing of these businesses and enhance their value for employees, customers, and shareholders. For more information, please visit www.vectorcapital.com.

— Parker Yates