Author: Parker Yates

With the acquisition, SolarWinds enhances its already deep server monitoring capabilities with out-of-the-box simple, yet rich SaaS-based server monitoring developed by DevOps professionals for DevOps professionals

AUSTIN, Texas – May 17, 2017 – SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Scout Server Monitoring. The transaction closed Friday, May 5, 2017. As part of the acquisition, Scout Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Andre Lewis has joined SolarWinds.

With Pingdom^® Server Monitor, formerly Scout Server Monitoring, SolarWinds enhances its already deep server monitoring capabilities with out-of-the-box simple, yet rich SaaS-based server monitoring developed by DevOps professionals for DevOps professionals. In addition to all the great features Scout customers have come to rely on, they will now also benefit from even deeper investment in the product, along with streamlined access to the complete SolarWinds^® portfolio of SaaS-based tools to better manage, optimize, and troubleshoot the full stack at every layer, from the infrastructure and application layers through the end-user experience.

“We’re very excited to add Pingdom Server Monitor, formerly Scout Server Monitoring, to our portfolio of products,” said Christoph Pfister, executive vice president, products, SolarWinds. “With it, developers and DevOps practitioners have access to an affordable, SaaS-based server monitoring solution. We look forward to investing in it and we welcome Andre Lewis to the SolarWinds team to help in those efforts.”

Pingdom Server Monitor joins Pingdom website uptime and performance monitoring products, as well as Librato^®, Papertrail™, and TraceView™ in the company’s SaaS portfolio of products for monitoring cloud-native applications, servers, and other infrastructure to address the complex performance and reliability challenges inherent in today’s cloud environments.

“The era of cloud and digitalization is driving exponential application growth and increased complexity,” Pfister added. “It’s clear that cloud-native developers and DevOps teams need faster troubleshooting that enables them to more easily solve problems and improve performance across the full stack, including servers. The goal of our SaaS portfolio, and the market-leading products within it, is to provide just that, and to do so at an affordable price.”

For more information about any of SolarWinds IT management products, including downloadable, free 30-day evaluations, visit the SolarWinds website or call 866.530.8100.

Existing Scout Server Monitoring customers, now with SolarWinds, can contact support.server@pingdom.com for more information.

Additional Resources

• Pingdom Server Monitor: Server monitoring
• TraceView: Application performance monitoring
• Pingdom: Website uptime and performance monitoring
• Papertrail: Hosted log management
• Librato: Metrics monitoring and analytics
• SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2017: Portrait of a Hybrid IT Organization

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— Parker Yates

TeamForge offers great flexibility, simplified source code management, Single Sign-On (SSO) for distributed teams, and support for high availability

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – May 16, 2017 – CollabNet (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in enterprise software development, release automation and DevOps solutions, has released a new version of TeamForge, its award-winning Agile, application lifecycle management (ALM), and Enterprise Version Control platform for collaborative software development. This latest TeamForge release offers versatile source code and version control improvements, greater customization and flexibility for developers, support for enterprise-grade high availability, easier installation and a SAML 2.0 integration allowing for Single Sign-On (SSO).

“We are continually improving TeamForge to make it the best solution on the market for collaborative, enterprise software development,” said Thomas Hooker, VP of Marketing at CollabNet. “TeamForge now gives developers more customization options, allowing for greater flexibility in how the platform simplifies processes and connects people, teams and tools. CollabNet works to ensure that customers can create competitive, quality software with enterprise-grade reliability that supports higher levels of availability.”

Together, ALM, Enterprise Version Control and Agile tools allow organizations to achieve DevOps at an enterprise scale. TeamForge connects the enterprise by providing a collaborative, integrated environment for a variety of enterprise development efforts. Organizations can use TeamForge to increase efficiency greatly through the re-use of resources and the extensive visibility and traceability throughout the software development lifecycle.

Recent updates to TeamForge include:

• Improved organization and grouping of artifacts.
• New support for multiple workspaces and new and improved workspace widgets.
• Simplified code review with a single-screen view of code changes.
• Completely updated document workflow management.
• Artifact tagging functionality now supports both document objects and tracker artifacts.
• New functionality for enterprise version control with automation to expedite code review.
• Trackers now support advanced transition settings, allowing mandatory and optional field requirements during tracker status changes.
• Heightened monitoring and alerts for error prevention and resolution related to dependencies.
• Single Sign-On (SSO) option for TeamForge users via SAML 2.0 integration.
• Easier installation.
• High Availability; hardware and software failover for both planned and unplanned events.

TeamForge 17.4 is available now. For more information or to request a free trial, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/teamforge-alm.

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 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 13 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.collabnet.com.

— Parker Yates

Delivers Industry’s Only Enterprise-Class, Automated Privileged Account Security and Secrets Management Solution to Secure the DevOps Lifecycle and Cloud-Native Environments

NEWTON, Mass. and PETACH TIKVA, Israel – May 11, 2017 – CyberArk Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CYBR), the company that protects organizations from cyber attacks that have made their way inside the network perimeter, today acquired privately-held Conjur, Inc., a Newton, Mass.-based provider of DevOps security software for $42 million in cash.

Conjur’s revolutionary technology for securing DevOps extends CyberArk’s reach deeper into the DevOps lifecycle to protect secrets and manage machine identities. With the addition of Conjur, recently named a Cool Vendor in DevOps by Gartnerˡ, CyberArk uniquely empowers CIOs and CISOs to accelerate modern software deployment – securely – with the industry’s only enterprise-class security solution that delivers comprehensive privileged account management and secrets protection.

“While empowering organizations with more efficiency and speed, the DevOps process is also dramatically expanding the attack surface across the entire enterprise,” said Udi Mokady, Chairman and CEO, CyberArk. “CyberArk’s acquisition of Conjur further strengthens our market leadership position – providing the industry’s only enterprise-class solution for privileged account security and secrets management on premises, in the cloud and across the DevOps pipeline. Now with Conjur, CyberArk customers can truly embrace DevOps without compromising on security.”

Due to the dynamic nature of DevOps, “secrets” – which are privileged account credentials, SSH Keys, API keys and more – are proliferating throughout the IT infrastructure at a rapid-fire pace, creating massive security risks for organizations. “A Gartner survey in mid-2016 found that 50% of enterprises would be using DevOps by the end of 2016.” However, Gartner estimates “that fewer than 20% of enterprise security architects have engaged to systematically incorporate information security into their organizations’ DevOps initiatives.”² CIOs, CISOs and developers need solutions that offer control and security without impeding the agility and speed of the DevOps pipeline. Conjur and CyberArk integrate with leading DevOps tools and platforms including Puppet, Chef and Ansible to further enable agile development processes.

“Conjur’s innovative DevOps security solution is gaining momentum with developers, security and operations teams in modern enterprise IT organizations around the world,” said Elizabeth Lawler, CEO and co-founder, Conjur. “We are excited to become part of CyberArk to set a new industry standard for privileged account security and secrets management, helping customers move to a true DevSecOps delivery model that supports greater business agility.”
Availability

The CyberArk-Conjur Solution for DevOps is available from CyberArk today.

Related Resources

• Gartner Report – “Cool Vendors in DevOps, 2017”
• Solution Information – Learn more about the CyberArk-Conjur Solution

ˡ Gartner, Cool Vendors in DevOps, 2017, Ian Head, Felix Gaehtgens, Thomas E. Murphy, Nathan Wilson, David Paul Williams, 08 May 2017 ID: G00326392

²Gartner, “Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017: Adaptive Security Architecture,” David W. Cearley, Avivah Litan, Mike J. Walker, 21 March 2017 ID: G00319583

About Conjur

Conjur delivers a DevOps security software platform that enables organizations to balance their goal of adopting cloud computing with their need to ensure security. Conjur automates machine identity provisioning, authorization of privileged access, service account control, and machine-to-machine connectivity in a way that meets the needs of all DevSecOps stakeholders. Companies adopting dynamic, cloud-centric IT infrastructure across industries, including financial services, communications, media and software development, consider Conjur an essential component of their security strategy. Conjur is headquartered in Newton, Mass.

About CyberArk                                                                                                       

CyberArk is the only security company focused on eliminating the most advanced cyber threats; those that use insider privileges to attack the heart of the enterprise. Dedicated to stopping attacks before they stop business, CyberArk proactively secures against cyber threats before attacks can escalate and do irreparable damage. The company is trusted by the world’s leading companies – including more than 45 percent of the Fortune 100 – to protect their highest value information assets, infrastructure and applications. A global company, CyberArk is headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel, with U.S. headquarters located in Newton, Mass. The company also has offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Japan. To learn more about CyberArk, visit www.cyberark.com, read the CyberArk blog, or follow on Twitter via @CyberArk, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This release may contain forward-looking statements, which express the current beliefs and expectations of CyberArk’s (the “Company”) management. In some cases, forward-looking statements may be identified by terminology such as “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “expect,” “predict,” “potential” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions.  Such statements involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company’s future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include risks relating to: changes in the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape; real or perceived shortcomings, defects or vulnerabilities in the Company’s solutions or internal network system, or the failure of  the Company’s customers or channel partners to correctly implement the Company’s solutions; fluctuations in quarterly results of operations, including due to our failure to close significant sales before the end of a particular quarter; the inability to acquire new customers or sell additional products and services to existing customers; competition from IT security vendors; the reputational impact of any compromise to our internal IT network system; failure to effectively manage growth; the Company’s failure to effectively expand, train and retain our sales and marketing personnel; reliance on channel partners; failure to anticipate market needs and enhance the Company’s existing products or develop or acquire new products; the Company’s ability to successfully integrate recent and or future acquisitions; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

— Parker Yates

ExtraHop Experts Build Custom Solutions for Cloud Migration, Application Mapping, and Microsegmentation Projects Using Insight from Real-Time Visibility of the ExtraHop Platform

LAS VEGAS & SEATTLE – May 15, 2017 – Today at Interop ITX, ExtraHop, the leader in real-time IT analytics, announced new professional services for cloud migration, datacenter migration, and microsegmentation. These fully-customizable offerings bring together the deep domain expertise of ExtraHop solutions architects with the real-time, multi-tier visibility delivered by the ExtraHop platform to help organizations streamline major IT transformation and security initiatives.

When embarking on major IT transformation projects, a comprehensive understanding of the environment is critical; however, today’s IT environments are complex, dynamic, and distributed, making it extraordinarily difficult to stay on top of all of the systems and their dependencies. Legacy approaches rely on active discovery through device polling—which puts incredible strain on infrastructure—and consultants interviewing people to create spreadsheet inventories of the environment.

With ExtraHop, enterprises now have both the real-time insight and the expert guidance they need to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure performance and security during complex infrastructure projects. New professional services now offered by ExtraHop include:

• Cloud and Datacenter Migration: Cloud and datacenter migration experts map the entire IT infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments to discover all assets, map dependencies, separate clients and servers, and categorize shared services like DNS and Active Directory. Based on this comprehensive, up-to-the-minute understanding of the complete environment, ExtraHop experts build a comprehensive plan, including move groups and migration order, to ensure seamless migration.
• Microsegmentation: Leveraging the automatic device discovery and mapping capabilities of the ExtraHop platform, ExtraHop Solutions Architects work with internal teams to develop and implement a segmentation strategy that takes into account industry-specific considerations, such as medical devices in healthcare and PCI compliance in retail. ExtraHop takes a vendor-agnostic approach that fits with the network virtualization technology selected by the customer, and delivers a comprehensive view of every network-connected device, its communications, and a plan for how to best segment its traffic.
• Application Mapping: Leverage ExtraHop IT analytics to observe all interactions between IT systems including asset discovery, dependency mapping, and identification of core dependencies and shared services.

“In our experience, even organizations with a lot of confidence in their application inventories generally only believe they have 80 percent visibility. When we actually do the mapping, we find that it’s more often only about 20 percent,” said Eric Thomas, Director of Professional Services at ExtraHop. “When it comes to initiatives like migration and microsegmentation, a complete inventory is absolutely mission critical. With ExtraHop technology and best practices, our experts can help customers understand critical dependencies to support smooth transformations. As a result, IT teams can stay focused on continuous improvement and innovation.”

In addition to these specialized projects, ExtraHop offers implementation and integration services to configure the ExtraHop platform to a company’s unique needs and build a strong foundation for success. Experts use the Open Data Stream and Open Data Context API to integrate the ExtraHop platform seamlessly with IT and security platforms such as ServiceNow, threat intelligence, and SIEM platforms.

Learn more about ExtraHop Professional Services and visit ExtraHop at Interop ITX at booth #517.

To experience the power of the ExtraHop platform, explore the interactive online demo.

What the Industry is Saying:

“The ExtraHop consultant was a plethora of knowledge about the platform and about IT architectures generally. We even threw him into an application onboarding meeting about upcoming network redesigns, and he added real value to the conversation. We will definitely partner with ExtraHop more on future developments,” said a Business Performance & Analytics Administrator for global financial technology services organization.

“Datacenter and cloud migrations are incredibly complex projects that often involve a great deal of headache for IT and risk for the organization,” said Shamus McGillicuddy, Senior Analyst for Network Management at Enterprise Management Associates. “One of the biggest challenges surrounding these migrations is getting the required visibility into all devices and the dependencies they share in order to avoid performance and availability issues as the project progresses. With these new bundled services offerings, ExtraHop combines the observed visibility delivered by its analytics solution with deep expertise in application and dependency mapping to help streamline these migrations.”

About ExtraHop

ExtraHop makes data-driven IT a reality. By applying real-time analytics and machine learning to all digital interactions, ExtraHop delivers instant and unbiased insights. IT leaders turn to ExtraHop first to help them make faster, better-informed decisions that improve performance, security, and digital experience. Just ask the hundreds of global ExtraHop customers, including Sony, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Adobe, and Google. To experience the power of ExtraHop, explore our interactive online demo. Connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

— Parker Yates

Helps developers monetize new opportunities and deliver better customer experiences

 REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 10, 2017 – Oracle today expanded Oracle Cloud Platform’s integration offerings with the availability of Oracle API Platform Cloud Service.  Bringing  together leading API-first design and governance capabilities from recently acquired Apiary and API management from Oracle, the new cloud service delivers end-to-end capabilities for designing, prototyping, documenting, testing, and managing the proliferation of critical APIs. Through a completely new and simplified API management experience, users can easily support changing business demands while having clear visibility into who is using APIs for better control, security, and monetization of digital assets.

“Data is the new corporate currency and APIs are critical to business modernization and agility, enabling users to easily connect and share key information across applications and devices – mobile, IoT, in the cloud or on-premises,” said Amit Zavery, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Platform.  “The Oracle API Platform Cloud enables developers to capitalize on new opportunities by enabling users to simply and securely manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs.”

Part of the Oracle Cloud Platform, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is designed to eliminate the complexities associated with transforming on-premises API solutions into the cloud, so companies can thrive in the digital economy.  Users can grant external developers and partners access to data locked behind firewalls, inside applications, and within data stores, enabling them to power a larger community to innovate and develop new monetization strategies. It also empowers developers to manage different interfaces for a variety of audiences using advanced, but easy-to-use, API management capabilities.

“As organizations continue to adopt not one but multiple cloud vendors, information has never been more federated. Real time access to such assets via APIs has therefore become a priority for our customers,” said Luis Weir, Chief Architect, Application Services, Capgemini UK.  “Oracle API Platform Cloud Service delivers a pure-play third-generation API solution capable of creating and managing APIs that run in any vendor’s cloud and/or on-premises – while keeping the entire platform operations and API lifecycle central in the Oracle Cloud. The incorporation of Apiary into the platform, only makes it better as developers also get the tools they need to help ensure that those APIs are well designed, documented and are easy to consume.”

“Customers want to unlock the value in their systems by delivering APIs to internal developers and even customers to re-invent and remix critical business functions,” said Steve Giovannetti, CTO and Founder, Hub City Media. “Oracle API Platform Cloud reduces the administrative burden of launching services by handling API discovery, security, throttling, and versioning in an innovative hybrid cloud solution.”

“Trunk Club has been able to develop new solutions quickly with Oracle Apiary,” said Brian Lee, engineering manager at Trunk Club. “Originally, a lack of API documentation left a lot of room for interpretation, but since implementing Oracle Apiary, API documentation has been a game changer. Front-end and back-end teams have been able to focus on better API design, and the integrated mock server has allowed us to develop in parallel. Not only has development time gone down, but using Oracle Apiary also brought the architecture and payload discussion earlier in the development process, making it easier for us to collaborate across teams and platforms.”

Key capabilities in the Oracle API Platform Cloud Service include:

• Design: Collaborate company and customer requirements via API Descriptions and Build API semantic guides for governance and control.
• Build: Create APIs on top of existing services to enable access to data formerly locked inside legacy apps and data stores.
• Secure: Assign industry-standard security and threat protection to APIs with no coding, including OAuth 2.0, IP filtering, and rate limiting.
• Hybrid Deployment: Choose to deploy the gateway on-premises, in Oracle Cloud or through third-party clouds with the ease of a single-click. Create API policy once, deploy everywhere – a rich lifecycle management tool.
• Publish: Browse a comprehensive list of proven APIs from Oracle, the community, and your own organization.
• Consume: Register third-party apps easily to allow them the same seamless API utilization as pre-loaded Oracle SaaS APIs.
• Monitor: View operational API metrics on a single dashboard to take action quickly.

 When used in combination with Oracle’s larger cloud portfolio, Oracle API Platform Cloud can deliver API management as part of a comprehensive and unified PaaS solution to simplify the use of API-related tools including identity management, process management, content management, integration and applications development.

Additional Information

• Oracle Cloud
• Oracle Cloud Blog
• Register for the Oracle API Platform Webcast
• Connect with Oracle Cloud on Facebook and Twitter

 About Oracle

The Oracle Cloud delivers hundreds of SaaS applications and enterprise-class PaaS and IaaS services to customers in more than 195 countries while processing 55 billion transactions a day. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), please visit us at http://cloud.oracle.com.

— Parker Yates

Monrovia, CA & Seattle, WA – May 10, 2017 – Parasoft, the leader in software testing solutions, today announced its latest enhancements of their API testing and service virtualization solutions for the Microsoft Environment at Microsoft Build 2017, taking place May 10-12 in Seattle. Parasoft will be featuring its new functionality at booth #209. To get started and learn more, visit: http://software.parasoft.com/virtualize/microsoft/

Parasoft SOAtest and Virtualize are widely recognized as industry standard tools for enabling teams to quickly solve today’s most challenging issues, including security, performance, and test environment obstacles. In a continued effort to improve functionality and ease-of-use for customers, Parasoft has introduced new functionality and streamlined workflows to address everyday challenges that software developers and testers face.

Parasoft has focused on three key areas with this new release:

• Broadening access to testing through the thin client interface: Greater access enables teams to quickly initiate testing projects, facilitate correlation and collaboration, and seamlessly tie test scenarios to environments.
• Solving data challenges through enhanced workflows: Providing quick and simple access to test data helps test designers create move efficient and effective tests.
• Shift-left performance testing: Early-stage performance testing is available by reusing existing test artifacts in performance tests and reviewing results in the Web-enabled dashboard.

To learn more about Parasoft’s offering, please visit:

• Visual Studio benefits portal: http://my.visualstudio.com?wt.mc_id=AID605451_QSG_141866
• Visual Studio Subscriptions overview page: https://www.visualstudio.com/subscriptions?wt.mc_id=AID605451_QSG_141871
• Parasoft SOAtest-Virtualize Desktop for Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers: http://software.parasoft.com/virtualize/microsoft/

About Parasoft

Parasoft provides innovative tools that automate time-consuming testing tasks and provide management with intelligent analytics necessary to focus on what matters. Parasoft’s technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software, by integrating static and runtime analysis; unit, functional, and API testing; and service virtualization. Parasoft supports software organizations as they develop and deploy applications in the embedded, enterprise, and IoT markets. With developer testing tools, manager reporting/analytics, and executive dashboarding, Parasoft enables organizations to succeed in today’s most strategic development initiatives — agile, continuous testing, DevOps, and security.

— Parker Yates

— Parker Yates