Author: Parker Yates

Low-Code Platform Leader Adds App Templates and Theme Customizer to Address Major Barriers to Mobile App Development

— Parker Yates

Nexus Open Source Intelligence is extending coverage to include Ruby, PHP, CocoaPods, Swift, Golang, C, and C++ in addition to Java, JavaScript, NuGet, and PyPI  

Fulton, MD – June 29, 2017 – Sonatype, a leader in software supply chain automation, today announced that it has acquired Vor Security. Ken Duck, founder and CEO of Vor will join the product and engineering team at Sonatype to continuously expand and refine the open source component intelligence service that underpins the Nexus platform.

As founder and CEO of Vor, Duck created the OSS Index, an innovative and free online index of known open source software vulnerabilities. Today, the index contains more than 2.1 million packages and detailed information on more than 120,000 vulnerabilities across an array of open source ecosystems. 

Sonatype also introduced today Nexus Lifecycle XC, a new data service delivered via the Nexus IQ server that will provide organizations with component intelligence covering a wide swath of open source ecosystems and formats including Ruby, PHP, Swift, CocoaPods, Golang, C, and C++.

Landscape of Open Source Intelligence 

Compared to the precisely accurate open source intelligence offered by Nexus Lifecycle for Java, JavaScript, NuGet, and PyPI — traditional vendors of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools have long provided commodity open source intelligence across a broad spectrum of ecosystems.

Over time, organizations have come to value the unique accuracy of Nexus Lifecycle data for Java, JavaScript, NuGet, and PyPI; but they still require open source intelligence for a wide variety of other ecosystems.  Beginning today, Sonatype is delivering a win-win intelligence engine that combines the depth of Lifecycle data for machine automated open source controls with the breadth of Lifecycle XC data for foundational open source governance. 

Supporting Quotes

“Empowering software development teams with broad and precise visibility into the open source supply chain is critical to practicing proper application security hygiene. Sonatype’s world-class team has led the way in bringing remarkably accurate component intelligence to the forefront of the DevOps movement, and I am excited to join forces with their amazing team and continue the journey.” — Ken Duck, CEO, Vor Security

“Since its introduction in 2012, Nexus Lifecycle has seen tremendous acceptance in the market because it provides remarkably precise and accurate intelligence with respect to open source components across Java, JavaScript, NuGet, and PyPI. While enterprise customers, especially those practicing DevOps, place a premium value on the accuracy and precision of our Nexus Lifecycle data, they also need intelligence for a wide variety of other formats and ecosystems. The combination of Lifecycle and Lifecycle XC gives customers the best of both worlds — a premium intelligence service that fully automates enforcement of open source policies inside of a DevOps pipeline, plus a stock data intelligence service to inform basic hygiene for all other ecosystems.” — Wayne Jackson, CEO, Sonatype

Additional Resources

●      Learn more about the Vor acquisition

●      Learn more about Lifecycle XC

●      Read our blog, “Automated Enforcement: The Not So Subtle Difference Between Sonatype Nexus and Everyone Else”

About Sonatype

Sonatype is the leading provider of DevOps-native tools to automate modern software supply chains. As the creators of Apache Maven, the Central Repository, and Nexus Repository, Sonatype pioneered componentized software development and has a rich history of supporting open source innovation. Today, more than 120,000 organizations depend on Sonatype’s Nexus platform to govern the volume, variety, and quality of open source components flowing into modern software applications. Sonatype is privately held with investments from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Bay Partners and Goldman Sachs. Learn more at www.sonatype.com

— Parker Yates

Demisto Enterprise Learns from Dynamic Customer Environments and Analyst Actions to Optimize Incident Response and Help Train the Next Wave of Security Analysts

 CUPERTINO, Calif. — 8amEST June 28, 2017 — Demisto, Inc., an innovator in Security Automation and Orchestration technology, today introduced the industry’s first Security Operations Platform that learns from analysts’ actions used to resolve incidents to optimize future incident response. The new machine learning-based technology, called “Demisto Insights” and available in the latest version of Demisto Enterprise, helps analysts during an investigation by suggesting the best methods to resolve an incident. Such machine learning technology marks the first time in the security industry when a solution learns from experts rather than relying only on past historical security data.

The security industry faces a significant shortage of skilled incident response (IR) analysts. While automation is being used to help analysts reduce manual work, organizations need to be able to learn from experienced analysts’ actions to help educate and train younger analysts to solve problems faster. With this new release, Demisto offers the industry’s most comprehensive Security Operations Platform with pre-built automation playbooks, more than one hundred integrations, incident case management, threat feed aggregation and correlation with incidents, and now machine learning that improves the analysts’ productivity.

“Like Cylance, Demisto is applying machine learning and automation to today’s overly complex incident response process,” said Steve Mancini, senior director of information security at Cylance. “The Demisto platform is redefining how my team approaches internal investigations through the use of machine learning, collaboration and historical threat feed correlation to save time, ensure consistency, and reduce risk.”

“Demisto Insights” collects key findings from analysts as they resolve incidents. Using unique machine learning technology it also suggests the best team members to handle the incident, and best next steps to resolve the incident that will continually enhance playbooks. This type of machine learning is unique in the industry because the Demisto platform learns from analysts’ and SOC managers’ actions which are high fidelity signals rather than static security product data. This model enables accurate results for each customer as Demisto learns the unique customer environment rather than generic security data.

“Demisto was already leading the industry in helping organizations with significant cost and security risk reduction during the incident management life cycle by leveraging our unique automation and collaboration features,” said Dan Sarel, Demisto co-founder and VP Products. “With these new enhancements, we now extend the value delivered by the platform to make it even easier and faster for analysts to respond to incidents. The platform significantly reduces adoption time and time to value with our new machine learning capabilities and updated graphical interface.”

The latest release of Demisto Enterprise enhances the playbook authoring interface and also provides a live runtime review of the playbook execution. In addition, a new language called “Demisto Transform” has been introduced which helps IR analysts build complex playbooks for automation much faster and without writing any code. All these capabilities enhance the experience of security analysts by making it even easier to build automations and to review the results of the investigation. The platform highlights the findings in a single, improved view to give analysts all the details needed for decision making.

In addition, Demisto’s new release offers numerous product integrations as well as 50 additional enhancements. For example, Demisto’s new and improved incidents page helps SOC managers have a better view of the SOC status and allows them to more easily manage their teams. Also, the new incident summary page delivers a quick view of the main findings in each incident, helping managers get a quick view of the ongoing events and helping analysts who join an investigation get quickly oriented. For a complete list of Demisto’s new integrations and release enhancements, see https://www.demisto.com/product/ .

Pricing and Availability
Demisto’s new Enterprise Security Operations Platform is generally available today, with annual pricing starting at $100,000 for up to two analysts. A fully multi-tenant Demisto solution for MSSP that provides SOC-as-a-Service is also available from Demisto. For more information, see https://www.demisto.com/product/ .

 About Demisto
Demisto Enterprise is the first and only comprehensive Security Operations Platform to combine security orchestration, incident management, machine learning from analyst activities, and interactive investigation. Demisto’s orchestration engine automates security product tasks and weaves in the human analyst tasks and workflows. Demisto enables security teams to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), create consistent incident management process, and increase analyst productivity. Demisto is backed by Accel and other prominent investors and has offices in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit www.demisto.com or email info@demisto.com.

— Parker Yates

Cloud-based solution puts employees at the center of anytime, anywhere, any device experience

HOUSTON — June 28, 2017 — BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today introduced BMC Digital Workplace, a cloud-based service that redefines the future of work by transforming the digital workplace experience with employees at the center.

With automation and artificial intelligence becoming an increasingly important enabler of digital business, many employees are fearful about what that means for their careers and future as part of a human workforce. According to a 2017 study by BMC and Opinion Life, 40 percent of global workers fear that they won’t be able to keep up with the rate of change required by digital business. Furthermore, 88 percent of those surveyed place the responsibility for creating innovative cultures on their employers.

Responsive leaders recognize this imperative for change and plan for the future of work by evolving how services are delivered, with a people-centric approach that encourages and empowers employees to learn new digital skills. BMC Digital Workplace transforms the corporate culture to revolve around employees’ needs and gives them the tools and services needed to be successful in an era defined by disruption and change. The Brookings Institution predicts that millennials will comprise 75 percent of the workforce by 2025. To meet that influx of digital natives and their workplace expectations, organizations must adapt to create more open, collaborative, and purposeful human environments that enable employees to have the same consumer-oriented experience at work that they enjoy in their personal lives.

“The future of work will be built on transformative digital workplaces that engage and empower employees by placing them at the center of an increasingly-cognitive enterprise,” said Nayaki Nayyar, President, Digital Service Management at BMC. “Companies that fail to prepare for a business landscape where artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and automation redefine how we work will have difficulty attracting and retaining skilled workforces. Our BMC Digital Workplace solution increases the ability to deliver on those criteria by providing key digital workplace capabilities in the cloud or on-premise, all available via a single pane of glass that transforms the way we work.”

Available both in the cloud and on-premise, BMC Digital Workplace enables IT, HR, Legal, facility management, and any other line-of-business groups to offer employees one-stop-shopping for the tools and information they need to do their work effortlessly. Combining native mobile apps and context and location-aware services, workers can find answers, request services, and ask for help with the ease.

“Creating a successful digital workplace requires not thinking about a workplace at all, but rather how employees have access to the information, apps, and services they need without being dependent on someone else,” said Tyler Lowe, Vice President, Senior Service Delivery Manager, Bank of America. “Our digital workplace strategy empowers an employee experience designed to enable more efficiency, productivity, and self-sufficiency so employees can focus on what matters most: delivering great customer service.”

BMC Digital Workplace also provides cost-benefits to the organization by reducing service desk call volume by as much as 67 percent with self-service IT. That frees up support teams to spend more time focused on business-critical issues and strategic initiatives. In August 2016, BMC received the highest Vendor Product Scores for the Basic Digital Workplace ITSSM Use Case (3.76/5) and Advanced Digital Workplace ITSSM Use Case (3.88/5) from Gartner in its report, “Critical Capabilities for IT Service Support Management Tools, 2016.”^[1]

For more information about BMC Digital Workplace, visit http://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/digital-workplace.html.

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— Parker Yates

Total Funding Approaches a Quarter Billion Dollars; Cements Company’s Position as the SaaS Machine Data Analytics Solution of Choice and Category Leader for the Digital Era

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 27, 2017 – Sumo Logic, the leading cloud-native, machine data analytics platform delivering continuous intelligence, today announced a $75 million funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new and existing investors including Accel Partners, DFJ Growth, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and others. Sumo Logic has raised a total of $235 million in funding over seven years.

“As businesses increasingly standardize on cloud computing and new operating models such as DevOps to digitally transform, they are also standardizing on new analytics technologies powered by machine learning that provide continuous intelligence to build, run and secure modern applications,” said Ramin Sayar, president and CEO of Sumo Logic. “Sumo Logic’s big bet that a cloud-native, machine data analytics service would become a must-have capability in the digital era is paying off. This investment from Sapphire Ventures and others, along with additional funding by our full investor syndicate, reflects the company’s progress and provides the capital needed to become the dominant SaaS leader in the machine data analytics category.”

The funding will fuel growth across Sumo Logic’s business – spanning engineering, sales and global operations – with an emphasis on extending the platform capabilities of its service to address growing use cases including operational and security analytics, advanced machine learning and IoT. These use cases address the most significant challenges facing organizations embracing digital transformation – getting their arms around the growth of machine data to uncover the intelligence and insights needed to build, run and secure modern applications. According to Barclay’s Big Data Handbook, machine data will account for 40 percent of all data created by 2020, reaching approximately 16 zettabytes.

 “The entire analytics sector is being turned upside down by the tectonic shifts in cloud computing, mobile and machine learning, creating the opportunity for new innovative companies to thrive and win major market share,” said Jai Das, managing director at Sapphire Ventures.  “Sapphire invested in Sumo Logic because we believe it has many of the dynamics we feel are required for long-term, sustainable leadership – a proven product/market fit, differentiated solution, clear vision, category leadership position, an experienced team, and an addressable market that is rapidly growing. We are excited to partner with Sumo Logic on the next stage of its journey.”

Since the last funding announcement in June 2015, Sumo Logic’s business has scaled significantly, including:

Rapid revenue growth and customer acquisition – Sumo Logic tripled both its annual recurring revenue and its customer count to over 1,500 customers with over 30,000 active users, reflecting every major vertical and company size, from born-in-the-cloud leaders like Salesforce, Pinterest, Zuora, Twilio and Airbnb to digital transformation enterprises, such as Marriott, Hearst, F5, Alaska Airlines and Anheuser-Busch.

Platform innovation and expansion – The Sumo Logic platform is now among the most sophisticated multi-tenant, patented, cloud-native, machine learning driven analytics services in the world. Analyzing well over 100 petabytes of data per day, the system now handles four times the daily ingest volume, providing real-time insights from over 30 million searches per day.

In addition, Sumo Logic platform innovations continue to set the bar for modern tools, including:

• The first to offer a unified logs and metrics solution, providing a single source for trouble-shooting and monitoring of modern applications and supporting infrastructure.
• The first to deliver threat intelligence built in as part of its security analytics solution.
• The Sumo Logic Cloud Flex licensing model addresses the tsunami of machine data volume and diversity of datasets limiting traditional, user-based licensing models.
• A broad application library, which includes integrated solutions with AWS, CrowdStrike, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, JFrog, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, New Relic, Pivotal and Trend Micro, all of which, like Sumo Logic, provide the technologies redefining the modern application and infrastructure stack for digital transformation.

Addition of key executive leadership – Sumo Logic recently welcomed four new leaders to its go-to-market teams: Brian Howie, VP of North America, who joined from five years of sales leadership at AppDynamics; Mukesh Sharma, VP of EMEA, who was most recently VP of EMEA at Puppet; Jabari Norton, VP of Global Channels, who joined most recently from Confluent and MapR; and Cian O’Brien, VP of Global Sales Engineering, who joined from New Relic.

Industry recognition – Sumo Logic continues to garner significant industry recognition including Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup, IDC’s ITOA Innovator 2017, Wealthfront’s Top Career Launching Companies, CRN 40 Coolest Analytics Vendors 2017,

Cloud Awards Best Analytics Solution, Stackify’s Top 50 DevOps Tools, Forbes Cloud 100, Glassdoor Highest Rated CEO, Datanami Reader’s Choice Awards, Equities.com Pioneer 50 and more.

Learn more about Sumo Logic:

• Hear Sapphire Ventures’ take on the news in their blog
• Read Sumo Logic CEO Ramin Sayar’s blog on Democratizing Machine Data
• Attend Illuminate, the Sumo Logic User Conference, Sept. 12-13, 2017
• Understand the trends shaping Modern Application Architecture
• Sign up for Sumo Logic instantly and for free

About Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic is the leading cloud-native, machine data analytics platform delivering real-time continuous intelligence, from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 1,500 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic for the analytics and insights to build, run and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. With Sumo Logic, customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.

Founded in 2010, Sumo Logic is a privately held company based in Redwood City, CA and is backed by Accel Partners, DFJ, Greylock Partners, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

About Sapphire Ventures:
Sapphire Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on helping innovative technology companies become global category leaders. Leveraging nearly two decades of experience and an extensive global enterprise network, Sapphire Ventures invests capital, resources and expertise to enable its portfolio companies to scale rapidly. Whether entrepreneurs sell to businesses, consumers or both, Sapphire Ventures offers a platform for business development and operational excellence to help them accelerate growth. With over $2.4 billion under management via direct growth investments and early-stage fund investments, Sapphire Ventures is positioned to elevate companies to the global stage. Find us in Palo Alto and at www.sapphireventures.com.

— Parker Yates

Datical DMC Lets Users Automatically Track, Audit and Resolve Database Deployment Issues

AUSTIN, Texas – June 27, 2017 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced Datical Deployment Monitoring Console (DMC), a new capability to the Datical DB platform that automatically monitors the status of every database deployment across the enterprise.

Datical DMC provides teams with unprecedented visibility into the outcomes of all database deployments, detailing the scope of changes applied and pinpointing the causes of failures – a process that can typically take days or weeks to complete. All levels of the organization – from DBAs to application developers and QA to IT management – can easily audit the database, measure release velocity and monitor deployments.

“One of the primary obstacles to accelerating release velocity is the lack of visibility into database status. Determining what was changed in an environment or the root cause of application deployment errors related to the database is like trying to find a needle in a haystack,” said Pete Pickerill, co-founder and VP of product strategy at Datical. “With Datical Deployment Monitoring Console, customers are able to immediately discover the information they need without spending hours or days investigating or troubleshooting. No other solution can compare to what we’re offering in terms of automating and accelerating the database release process.”

Datical DMC provides a single point of access to an organization’s database deployment activity. The data is presented in many different ways to meet the needs of the wide variety of roles that make up a modern IT organization. Datical DMC delivers relevant and accurate information to all stakeholders on demand, whether they need to know what’s been deployed to a database, why a specific operation failed, or how quickly changes are moving through the release cycle.

The end result is faster moving, application development teams that spend less time in firefighting mode and more time innovating and building the next great set of applications and features to ensure revenue growth and increased customer acquisition.

“Keeping up with the pace of innovation today requires automation at every level of the enterprise. That’s especially true at the foundation: the database. Datical helps companies achieve velocity as they change to meet market demands, by automating critical database updates, and thus pulling out the stops to digital transformation,” said Eric Kavanagh, CEO of The Bloor Group.

The Datical team has been pioneering database and application deployment evolution for more than a decade. Datical strategically guides some of the world’s most admired companies through their database deployment modernization efforts. The Datical database release automation solution is designed to break the application release logjam created by today’s manual database deployment processes. Datical improves productivity and performance, allowing development, test and DBA staff to focus on more important projects and initiatives.

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Resources

• Datical website: http://www.datical.com
• Blog: http://www.datical.com/blog/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Datical
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datical

About Datical, Inc.

Datical’s mission is to radically improve and simplify the application release process by automating database management. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 949-DATICAL or connect via @datical.

— Parker Yates

This acquisition of the US-India based company will allow DevOps BI and analytics to drive DevOps forward, scaling software releases and Continuous Updates

SUNNYVALE, California – June 26, 2017 – JFrog, the leading DevOps accelerator, acquires CloudMunch, the universal DevOps Intelligence platform, to expand its product offerings for developers. This is the third strategic acquisition by JFrog in eight months, following Dimon, experts in CI/CD, and Conan, the fast-growing open source C/C++ package manager.

In order to succeed in today’s digital world run by software, the adoption of DevOps tools including data measurement and improved software update release cycles are key. JFrog already solves critical pieces of the DevOps toolchain, such as safely storing, managing, and distributing binaries. However, as DevOps becomes even more of a necessity, it’s no longer enough to have high performance tools in place for digital agility. Organizations need to maximize performance further. Getting to the next level requires measuring bottlenecks in order to break through to exceptional performance.

CloudMunch is democratizing DevOps and accelerating the process with a powerful, full stack Intelligence solution. Backed with $3.5M from VCs and VMware capital CloudMunch developed a solution to help teams collaborate their software efforts at scale and enable better insights on the software delivery lifecycle. The company’s leadership and strong engineering team based in Seattle, WA, and Bangalore, India will be rolled into JFrog.

Together with CloudMunch, JFrog will make another leap forward to fulfill its vision of Liquid Software with a complete solution which provides a full picture of the DevOps process, collecting key metrics, correlating them across the diverse systems, and giving actionable information to development managers, operations teams, and compliance officers. CloudMunch integrates with key systems like JIRA, GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Kubernetes, and, of course, JFrog Artifactory.

“The DevOps revolution started with automation, augmenting developer tasks. This is not enough anymore. Next gen DevOps will need insights into the release flow and a better understanding of the ROI on fast releases,” said Shlomi Ben Haim, CEO and Co-Founder of JFrog. “At swampUP we announced the JFrog platform, an end-to-end bundled solution for fast releases. With CloudMunch on board, we can now provide the insight layer that will share the DevOps flow analytics. We are thrilled by this union with CloudMunch and team members that are highly skilled and, just as importantly, their engineering culture and values fit with JFrog’s obsession with customer happiness and quality.”

“We are excited to leap ahead with JFrog to continue our mission to enable enterprises to deliver better software faster. Our products will work together as a strong foundation that will impact leading enterprises around the world,” said Pradeep Prabhu, CEO and Co-Founder of CloudMunch. ”We have been so impressed by what JFrog Artifactory has done in the market and how it is unlocking DevOps performance. The CloudMunch solution bundled into the JFrog platform will not only be a key part of measuring the impact of the software release pipeline, but will show the value of DevOps for our customers.”

About JFrog:

With more than 4,000 customers and over 2 billion downloads per month on Bintray, JFrog is the leading universal solution for the management and distribution of software binaries. JFrog’s four products, JFrog Artifactory, the Universal Artifact Repository; JFrog Bintray, the Universal Distribution Platform; JFrog Mission Control, for Universal DevOps flow Management; and JFrog Xray, Universal Component Analyzer, are used by Dev and DevOps engineers worldwide and are available as open-source, on-premise and SaaS cloud solutions. Customers include some of the world’s top brands, such as Amazon, Google, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe, SalesForce, and Bank of America. The company is privately held and operated from California, Israel, France, China and Spain. More information can be found at jfrog.com.

About CloudMunch:

CloudMunch is democratizing DevOps by providing a powerful and universal DevOps Intelligence Platform. CloudMunch helps DevOps teams gain full visibility across application lifecycle, accelerating releases and enhancing time to market. Leading enterprises use CloudMunch DevOps Intelligence platform to connect to various tools across application release pipeline to get actionable insights. CloudMunch is available as a SaaS service or on-premise. The company is privately held and operated from Seattle, WA and Bangalore , India. For more information, visit www.cloudmunch.com

— Parker Yates

OwnBackup customers can now improve QA cycles with relevant, sized-to-fit test data seeding 

Fort Lee, NJ [and TrailHeaDX] – June 21, 2017 —OwnBackup, a Salesforce AppExchange backup and recovery solution, today announced the launch of a trail-blazing Sandbox Seeding solution on the Salesforce AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. Sandbox Seeding allows for users to streamline development and improve quality assurance (QA) cycles.

With OwnBackup’s Sandbox Seeding, development teams can easily populate a Salesforce sandbox with their ideal data set through in-app object filters, data anonymization, and sized-to-fit sandbox data, all while preserving data object relationships. Development teams using OwnBackup can now ensure code and workflows are tested on relevant, right-sized data sets with only a few clicks, delivering greater accuracy and increased confidence in production deployments.

Built on the Salesforce Platform, OwnBackup’s sandbox seeding technology is currently available on the AppExchange.

“We have been using OwnBackup for two years and consider them our trusted partner when it comes to backing up and restoring our data. OwnBackup continues to innovate to add value to their platform,” said Rob Zeller, Director, Corporate Development at NTN Bearing Corporation of America. “Their org restore function has worked for some time to populate sandboxes with data, but their recent Sandbox Seeding feature provides much greater control and flexibility to this feature. We recommend OwnBackup to anyone looking for a backup, restore and replication solution.”

“Salesforce sandbox environments are critical to developers and architects, but manually seeding a development sandbox is often time-consuming, difficult, and incredibly expensive,” noted Sam Gutmann, CEO of OwnBackup. “We’ve created a way for developers to manage, protect and test more effectively—helping them avoid unexpected breaks in code and workflows when deployed into production.”

Additional benefits of OwnBackup Sandbox Seeding include:

• High-speed data selection and sandbox seeding for more frequent testing
• Multi-parent relationship integrity for increased accuracy and confidence
• Optimized sandbox storage costs via a no-attachments option
• Fast, anonymized data set creation, protecting data confidentiality
• Easy, sandbox test data right-sizing to suit the testing need and budget
• Any-level direct editing for detailed customization of test data sets
• Data and metadata comparisons across and within environments for rapid data change insight
• Advanced data management control with “Never Rotate” snapshot flagging
• Comprehensive label and archive management for rapid access and long-term retention
• Flexible data manipulation options with .csv export options

For complete details on the latest OwnBackup offering, please visit: https://www.ownbackup.com/products

About Salesforce AppExchange

Salesforce AppExchange is the world’s leading enterprise apps marketplace that empowers companies to sell, service, market and engage in entirely new ways. With 3,500 partner apps and more than 4 million customer installs, it is the most comprehensive source of cloud, mobile, social, IoT, analytics and artificial intelligence technologies for businesses.

Additional Resources

• Like Salesforce on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/salesforce
• Follow Salesforce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/salesforce

Salesforce, AppExchange and others are among the trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.

About OwnBackup

OwnBackup, a leading cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor, provides secure, automated, daily backups of SaaS and PaaS data, as well as sophisticated data compare and restore tools for disaster recovery. OwnBackup covers data loss and corruption caused by human errors, malicious intent, integration errors and rogue applications. Co-founded by seasoned data-recovery, data-protection and information-security experts, OwnBackup is a top-ranked backup and restore ISV on the Salesforce AppExchange and was selected as a Gartner 2015 “Cool Vendor” in Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery. For more information, visit http://www.ownbackup.com.

— Parker Yates

Elastic Beam’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) – powered solution focuses on an oft-overlooked threat vector – API Infrastructures; it stops attacks and provides full visibility into API activity across all data and systems, including mobile, IoT, and hybrid clouds.

Redwood City, California, June 21st, 2017: Elastic Beam today announced the unveiling of its flagship solution, API Behavioral Security (ABS). ABS is the first AI-powered software platform able to detect and block cyberattacks that target APIs to compromise corporate data and systems – in public clouds, hybrid clouds, or on premise. ABS requires no predefined policies, security rules, or attack signatures, and can stop attacks that are new and constantly changing. Its comprehensive API activity reporting simplifies forensic analysis and facilitates meeting compliance requirements.

APIs bring great economic benefits but also represent a major security risk for all organizations as they make it easier for hackers to reach into their line-of-business applications, systems and databases.

“API security vulnerabilities have been publicized… Because APIs make digital business work, securing them is essential to managing this digital risk,” notes Gartner, Inc. in Top 10 Things CIOs Need to Know About APIs and the API Economy, Paolo Malinverno et al, 25 January 2017.

Elastic Beam combines advanced AI techniques with strong API behavior expertise to identify and stop cyberattacks that use APIs to gain control of systems and data. Its solution overlays on existing API infrastructures to protect API Gateways, API Management platforms, and APIs implemented directly on application servers.

“Analyzing the behavior of all types of API threats and proactively responding, while also adding to your real time awareness of what threatens your API infrastructure is the next step in the evolution and maturing of the API economy,” said Kin Lane, the API Evangelist. “This is what Elastic Beam is working to do.”

According to a Coleman Parkes Research Ltd. Survey, 88% of enterprises are using APIs in their business. In fact, deployments of APIs in Clouds, Enterprises, and IoT environments are greatly accelerating. Attackers do represent a major risk as they defeat access control and other foundational API security services. Once a hacker is in, the average time to detect a breach is over three months.

“Relying on just access control security to stop hackers from using your APIs to attack your digital assets is like using a locked door without a surveillance system and security personnel to protect your physical assets. By the time you discover the intrusion, it’s too late and you don’t know what rooms were entered or what was done,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, CEO of Elastic Beam. “Customers love our vendor agnostic cybersecurity solution which reduces operational costs by automatically blocking API-based intrusions and providing deep insight into everything done with their APIs.”

“Until Elastic Beam we had no way to stop cyberattacks on APIs without a large group of security engineers manually watching the API infrastructure,” said Chuck Reynolds, CTO of TSI, a systems integrator for commercial and government customers. “Elastic Beam system is the automated, actionable AI solution that our customers have been asking for.”

Patent-pending API Behavioral Security provides comprehensive threat protection across a range of attacks: from hackers without credentials probing for vulnerabilities to attacks on data and systems – including data theft or destruction, API-specific DDoS attacks, complete host takeover, attacks on authentication systems, etc.

Elastic Beam API Behavioral Security reporting provides extensive information on an attacker’s progression through the API services to deliver insight into actions and potential compromises, including which systems were touched and which were not. It also provides a wealth of information for compliance and audit reports – including reporting every command or method used on any API by anyone for any time period.

Elastic Beam API Behavioral Security brings cybersecurity protection to any API infrastructure:

 Blocks advanced cyberattacks that use APIs to compromise data or gain control – with no predefined rules or attack signatures – unlike today’s analytical tools with no API awareness

 Prevents hackers from reconnecting after termination – when attackers are identified, enforcement nodes automatically block access across all sites, even across hybrid clouds

 Reports on all API activity at scale – for forensic or compliance reporting, all actions on all APIs, including every method/command used, are captured and consolidated for easy access

 API deception to trap hackers – Decoy APIs function as traps for hackers and capture attack information for analysis and reporting.

Without changing existing application servers, Elastic Beam API Behavioral Security can be deployed inline or out-of-band to provide seamless integration with any API infrastructure. Supporting multiple protocol environments such as REST, WebSocket, SOAP, and MQTT traffic, ABS delivers security for current and emerging application workloads. Installations can span private and public clouds with flexible support for bare metal, virtualized, and container environments. Offered as a subscription service.

About Elastic Beam Founded in 2014, Elastic Beam is headquartered in Redwood City, CA (Silicon Valley). The company delivers AI-powered security for the API-driven economy. Elastic Beam’s flagship solution, API Behavioral Security, was built by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with a history of success in the Cloud infrastructure, API Gateway, and security space. To learn more about how Elastic Beam can bring intelligence and security to your API environment, please visit www.elasticbeam.com.

— Parker Yates

Shared Catalog of Vetted Automation, Application Onboarding Options, and Release/Deploy Dashboards Usher in the “Consumerization of Continuous Delivery (CD)” for DevOps Teams

SAN JOSE, Calif. – O’Reilly Velocity (BOOTH #707) – June 19, 2017 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation and Continuous Delivery, today announced a new version of ElectricFlow that provides a new, programmatic way for Developers to onboard applications, simplifies the way deployments are run for Operations teams, and provides visibility into deployments and releases across any DevOps toolchain (http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow/).

For a demo of ElectricFlow, visit Electric Cloud’s booth (#707) at O’Reilly Velocity Conference!

“A few years ago, the ‘Consumerization of IT’ boosted job satisfaction and organizational productivity by inviting employees to ‘Bring Your Own’ Devices into the workplace,” said Steve Brodie, CEO of Electric Cloud. “Today, ElectricFlow enables the ‘Consumerization of CD’, by allowing organizations and teams to ‘Bring Your Own’ processes, patterns, practices, tools and other technology into a secure and well managed DevOps toolchain. Our aim is to make it easy for both Dev and Ops practitioners to ship software in a way that ‘works best for them.’”

To help Development and Operations teams who are looking to automate and coordinate software deployment and release, ElectricFlow now includes:

• Customizable Self-Service Catalog with out-of-box templates for pipelines, applications, and environments to accelerate time to value and facilitate object re-use
• An easy way for Developers to define applications, environments and dependencies as code to ensure consistent, predictable downstream results
• Release and Deploy Analytics Dashboards to enhance visibility into the status and health of releases and pipelines

Self-Service Simplicity and Bulletproof Deployments

A new Self-Service Catalog in ElectricFlow offers on-demand templates for common stacks/environments, pipelines, patterns, applications, and common DevOps processes. Teams can then customize or add to this catalog to create a shared repository of approved, reusable automation.

This self-service, centralized and scalable solution gives Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams a way to empower developers with the tools they need to move fast, while maintaining consistency, governance and compliance. This allows organizations to balance team ownership and flexibility with standardization and control, which provides manageability, system-level visibility and lower operational costs.

Coupled with push-button access to advanced features such as Container and Microservices Orchestration, Automated Rollback and Rolling Deployments, ElectricFlow takes the ‘rocket science’ out of Continuous Delivery, and provides I&O teams a safe way to keep up with the demands of the business by making software deployments and releases a boring, routine affair.

Treat Your “Process as Code,” and your “Pipeline as a Product”

DevOps is all about eliminating silos. ElectricFlow is the industry’s only DevOps Release Automation solution to span the entire Continuous Delivery process – from code check-in to production release – with a single, unified platform. It provides the entire organization a central point of governance, collaboration and visibility to eliminate the gaps that can introduce friction and errors in the end-to-end process.

The unified platform allows users to interact with and manage all DevOps processes and platform features in a way that works best for them – either as code, or via the product’s GUI. This enables teams to “treat their pipelines like a product,” to continuously improve application delivery and decrease the cost and risk of deployments.

In addition to application onboarding options like GUI and DSL, ElectricFlow now allows Developers to automate the generation of application, environment and pipeline models directly from common CI tools. Using a simple JSON manifest file, developers can “shift-left” application definition as part of the Build stage. This ensures consistency of the deployment package when used by downstream teams.

Visibility and Control for Dev, Ops and the Business

In addition to faster onboarding and improved self-service, new ElectricFlow Release and Deploy Dashboards provide users with detailed reporting about the health of their commit, deployment and release pipelines. This secure, role-based and in-depth view can be filtered by time, project or other characteristics to give teams the fast feedback they need to spot trends and visualize application deployment and release lead times, successes/failures, frequency, throughput and duration.

“By taking the manual effort, guess-work and anxiety out of software delivery, AdvancedMD will be able to innovate more quickly, which gives us an advantage in this fast-moving, regulated market,” said John Esser, senior director of data center operations and SaaS at AdvancedMD. “ElectricFlow provides a secure, unified platform for cross-team collaboration and visibility on deployments and releases that won’t force us to sacrifice compliance for velocity.”

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 For more information

Electric Cloud’s newest release is available now. ElectricFlow Community Edition can be downloaded and used for FREE at http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow/.

About Electric Cloud, Inc.

Electric Cloud is the leader in DevOps Release Automation and Continuous Delivery. We help organizations like E*TRADE, Gap, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin deliver better software faster by orchestrating, automating, and accelerating application releases.

— Parker Yates