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  • Automic Introduces v12 to Drive Operational Agility and Empower DevOps

    VIENNA & SEATTLE – October 4, 2016 — Automic Software, the leader in Business Automation, today announced Automic v12, a unified suite of business automation products for driving agility across Enterprise Operations and empowering DevOps initiatives:

    • v12 allows agents to auto-update with zero business impact
    • v12 removes maintenance windows
    • v12 makes managing core business applications agile
    • v12 drives intelligent insights across automation silos

    Agile IT Operations Integral to Driving Digital Transformation

    Digital transformation is driving the need for agility and speed across organizations of all sizes. DevOps has emerged as a response to fast development of customer facing apps for both web and mobile.  Alongside these, enterprises are left grappling with complex, enterprise systems while being told to ‘rip and replace’ these backend systems and move them to the cloud.

    As a result, traditional enterprises are under tremendous pressure. Automic v12 was built to address these needs and assist IT operations teams in their digital transformation by driving agility across their core business applications, and empowering their DevOps initiatives.

    “As enterprises embrace digital transformation, they are being asked to “rip & replace” their core business applications into the cloud,” said Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic Software. “We believe you don’t have to throw out all your battle-tested operational know-how in order to increase speed and agility. Automic V12 has been designed for the hybrid enterprise to drive agility across operations, while empowering new DevOps initiatives”.

    The Automic v12 Unified Product Portfolio:

    Automic v12 comprises three unified products that are built on the industry’s most open and scalable business automation platform:

    • Automic Workload Automation v12, to centrally create, manage and monitor business processing across your hybrid clouds.
    • Automic Release Automation v12, to coordinate application release and deployment for core business applications and DevOps initiatives across your hybrid clouds.
    • Automic Service Orchestration v12, to orchestrate automation services across the business, application and infrastructure layers of your hybrid clouds.

    Automic v12 drives Agility and empowers DevOps:

    Automic v12 introduces new capabilities that help drive agility across enterprise IT, while empowering their DevOps initiatives:

    1. NEW: Intelligent Auto-Updating of Agents and Removal of Maintenance Windows
    Automic v12 ushers in an era of zero-downtime upgrading for operational IT.

    • Automic’s new agents auto-update with zero business impact by intelligently determining when to upgrade based on their workload and operational schedule.
    • Maintenance Windows are now a thing of the past for Automic software. With v12, our customers now benefit from zero-downtime upgrades when deploying new server or agents.
    • Automic v12 enables our customers to achieve zero-downtime upgrades by embracing our unique blueprint for continuous delivery of their own core business applications.
    1. NEW: Driving agility across core business applications
      Automic v12 allows operational IT to upgrade, deploy and manage core business applications at will, with zero downtime upgrades.
    • Automic’s new Environment Blueprint Provisioning enables users to encapsulate their application deployment plans and models, without changes, to include the required stack template. Now enterprise IT can provide on-demand working application environments at the click of a button
    • Zero-downtime updates and deployments are made possible through the unique blueprint to continuous delivery. Blue-green, canary and hot swap strategies for deployments are all supported through automating the entire application stack.
    1. NEW: intelligent Insights across automation silo’s
      Today, organizations are leveraging disparate tools to automate different silos across their enterprise environment – from ERP systems, to Datawarehousing, Big Data and the cloud. Automic v12 provides a completely new unified interface, together with unified analytics and SLA management to provide enterprise Operations with intelligent insights across their various automation silos.
    • With Automic’s new unified interface, customers can now utilise the same learnings and user interface across their workload automation, release automation and service orchestration – from mainframe to open systems and the cloud.
    • With Automic’s new unified reporting and analytics, customers can now drive intelligent insights across all their disparate automation needs.
    • With Automic’s new SLA management, customers can now define and manage SLA’s to intelligently streamline business workflows. Users can now define deadlines for each task, monitor execution deviations, notify and automate actions on violations from the SLA and analyze and predict future violations.
    1. NEW: Automation Centers of Excellence
      Automic v12 is designed to empower IT operational teams to drive intelligent automation across their enterprises. The unified interface, reporting and analytics help drive down TCO and re-use skills across different islands of automation. The sharing of automation artifacts is now made possible through the new secure private Vaults within the Automic Marketplace. Now IT Operations have the tools they need to empower their business.

    Availability and Pricing:

    Automic Workload Automation v12, Automic Release Automation v12 and Automic Service Orchestration v12 are immediately available for general shipment.  All plugins are immediately available on the Automic Marketplace. Pricing is on demand for non-Automic customers.

    Supporting Quotes

    John Gildenzoph, DevOps engineer at TASC:

    “We were doing one release a month, shutting down the entire website for six to eight hours on a Saturday morning to complete deployments.  We knew this was too time-consuming and arduous of a process; something had to change.

    We took the step of using Automic Release Automation [ARA] to orchestrate our deployment pipeline, onboard DevOps practices and catapult our software innovations into production. ARA is platform-agnostic. You can use it like an assembly line and can plug the worker applications in along the assembly line as you like. For example, we use Jenkins as one of those “worker applications” and ARA tells Jenkins to build the software, then moves the software along itself to the next tool to do the next job.

    Using Automic’s solution is easy, quick and works seamlessly for what we need to do here at TASC. No more downtime, no more Saturday’s in the office. It’s exactly what we needed”.

    Julie Craig 
Research Director, Application Management Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.:

    “Automic Release Automation (ARA) v12 is all about simplifying the steps necessary to utilize and maintain the solution to enhance the value proposition of the automation platform as a whole. The intelligent “Zero Downtime” deployment and update capabilities are not simply about updating Automic agents with no downtime. They are also about removing infrastructure maintenance bottlenecks with intelligent software that can determine, for example, which agents are best updated at which time. With an enhanced REST API, customers can leverage ChatOps to use their favorite chat client to interact directly with the ARA platform while processes are in-flight, without going through a dashboard. Both of these new features are impressive differentiators which both current customers and prospects will likely appreciate.”

    Andy Cureton, CEO Forest Technologies:

    “As DevOps initiatives accelerate across enterprises, agility within the core business applications becomes critical. Without agility here, DevOps initiatives will fail as they are inherently linked to newer digital services. v12 has clearly been designed to enable this required agility, empowering the DevOps initiatives that are making Digital Transformation real.”

    Tweet this: .@Automic launches v12 to drive #agility and speed to #EnterpriseIT; Digital transformation requires agile IT operations

    Supporting Resources

    About Automic

    Automic, the leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,700 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

    For More Information:

    Courtney Glymph
    Global PR and Communications
    +44 (0) 7584058886
    Courtney.glymph@Automic.com

    U.S. Media Contact
    Tanaya Lukaszewski
    Kulesa Faul for Automic
    (916) 712-3791
    automic@kulesafaul.com

    — Jules Louis

  • Automic Enables Continuous Delivery for Informatica PowerCenter

    VIENNA & SEATTLE – August 24 2016 — Automic Software, the leader in Business Automation, today announced new capabilities to its release automation product to enable continuous delivery for Informatica PowerCenter. Customers can now automate data integration and processing into their application production deployment pipelines.

    As organizations move toward digital transformation, the need for fast and agile data management across systems increases. Data is a critical component of not only business intelligence, but also for many development and test stages within the application lifecycle. However, testing often requires specific types and amounts of data, which are not readily available from production. As a result, data must be transformed, aggregated and loaded into the test database before certain tests can begin to run.

    Automic has enhanced its Release Automation product with a new action pack for Informatica PowerCenter that ensures data is available at each stage of the development lifecycle (development, testing and production) to increase agility of the entire development-test and release process.

    Key features of the new Automic Action Pack for Informatica PowerCenter include:

    • Adds an out-of-the-box integration point to Informatica and enables users to include creation, execution and rollback of Informatica interactions as an integral part of the application release automation model
    • New built-in Automic actions (including domains, repositories, integration services, repository services and administration console) increase agility of development-test and release process by supporting automation of sophisticated workflows within Informatica PowerCenter
    • Ensures that any Informatica activity (as part of a deployment or stand alone) is always available for monitoring and all outputs are kept in context for debugging and compliance needs

    Availability and pricing:

    The Automic action pack for Informatica PowerCenter is available for immediate download, free of charge for all Automic Release Automation customers in the Automic marketplace. Pricing is on demand for non-Automic Release Automation customers.

    Supporting Quote

    “Even though data is front and center of any and all applications, too often it is overlooked when it comes to the development and test stages of the application lifecycle. In fact, data preparation for testing is frequently the weak spot of deployments,” said Chris Boorman, CMO, Automic Software. “Automic’s new Informatica action pack enables customers to automate Informatica PowerCenter and ensure that needed data flows into and out of the environment exactly at the right stage and ensure continuous delivery.”

     Tweet this: .@Automic announces new @Informatica PowerCenter action pack w/in online marketplace http://bit.ly/2bFWgSn #releaseautomation #agility

    Supporting Resources

    About Automic

    Automic, the leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,700 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

     

     

  • Automic Positioned as a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation

    VIENNA & SEATTLE – August 02 2016 — Automic Software, a leader in Business Automation, today announced that Gartner, Inc., a leading IT research and advisory firm, has positioned Automic as a Leader in its inaugural 2016 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation.

    The complete report, including the quadrant graphic, is available here.

    Automic believes placement in the report validates our commitment to this evolving market and to the needs of enterprise clients as they look to embrace digital transformation initiatives to increase agility, velocity, reliability and scalability.

    According to Gartner’s report, “application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in moving application-related artifacts, applications, configurations, and even data together across the application lifecycle”. In the report Gartner estimates that the size of the market “is currently expected to grow at an estimated 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2020.”[1]

    “We are honored to be recognized by Gartner as a Leader for our release automation product,” said Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic. “We feel inclusion in Gartner’s report is a testament to our focus on providing efficient and cost-effective solutions that our customers need for driving the agility and speed demanded in this era of Digital Transformation. Automic, with Automic Release Automation, provides customers with the solution they need to ensure scalable release automation, compliance and control across all their applications.”

    Automic Release Automation is the most flexible product on the market and is environment agnostic, making it singularly positioned to help transform any enterprise in this digital age. Unique to the market, Automic Release Automation is designed to facilitate rapid feedback and continuous delivery in agile development while providing the security, audit trails, versioning and approvals needed in production.

    This report provides a Market Overview of ARA and considers how vendor tools can help clients achieve their objectives. According to Gartner “By 2020, 50% of global enterprises will have implemented at least one application release automation solution, up from less than 10% today”.[2]

    Tweet this: Exciting News! @Gartner_inc positions @Automic as a Leader in Application Release Automation MQ http://bit.ly/2auf0mu

    Supporting Resources

    Gartner Disclaimer:

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation, Colin Fletcher, David Paul Williams, Laurie F. Wurster, 01 August 2016.

    About Automic

    Automic, the leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,700 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

     

     

  • TASC Powers Up DevOps Pipeline

    TASC Powers Up DevOps Pipeline

    Technology team members at TASC, a leading administrator of employee health benefits, were feeling the chains of manual processes that kept them from moving software out at more than a snail’s pace. Development, operations, quality assurance (QA), project managers (PMs) and business analysts who were pushing code to test, staging and production environments or performing user accepted testing (UAT) tests needed to forward features through the pipeline much more quickly.

    “We were doing one release a month, shutting down the entire website for six to eight hours on a Saturday morning to complete deployments,” says John Gildenzoph, DevOps engineer at TASC.

    The company took to orchestrating its pipeline using Automic Release Automation (ARA) to onboard DevOps and catapult software innovations into production.

    Manual Challenges

    Before ARA, TASC used Jenkins—that was pretty much its first step into DevOps-style automation. Before that, the company’s processes were, for the most part, all manual, implemented with a source code repository.

    “For anyone to deploy the application for development on their workstation, or to a test environment or even to production, they had to go out to the server, check out the source code, build the source code and deploy the artifact,” says Gildenzoph.

    TASC was doing that on up to 30 JBoss servers—which were its main web servers—using only two developers. One developer started on the first node and the other started on the last node as they worked toward the middle, updating each server individually and manually, he says. “We came from the Dark Ages where there were really no other products we were using other than the servers and our version control software. Jenkins was the first iteration where we figured out that we needed to be running builds all the time,” Gildenzoph notes.

    Uniting DevOps Tools, Filling Gaps

    TASC uses ARA to unite a variety of DevOps tools into the pipeline and to fill gaps where there isn’t a specific tool. “ARA is platform-agnostic. You can use it like an assembly line and you can plug the worker applications in along the assembly line as you like,” Gildenzoph says. In one example, TASC uses Jenkins as one of those “worker applications,” i.e., as its build tool: ARA tells Jenkins to build the software, then moves the software along itself to the next tool to do the next job.

    According to Gildenzoph, all a company needs to add best-in-class tools at each step in the development process along the pipeline is a command line interface (CLI) or API that enables them to script that tool in to integrate with ARA. That way, if the company decides to use a new tool for any part of the process, it can simply script that tool into the ARA at that point, rather than replace the entire pipeline with one new tool for everything.

    TASC also uses ARA to orchestrate in its use of Amazon EC2 and the ECS products. At the same time, TASC is working to add the management of Docker containers into ARA in the same way.

    TASC IaaS

    TASC uses ARA to create the entire dev, test, staging and production environments where the company will deploy the software. Using the ARA and its automation engine, which is a sort of complex chron that develops the workflows, TASC interacts with its Amazon cloud presence to create the entire application stack.

    “We see that Automic is working on its next evolution of the ARA product, which is a provisioning product that will interact with various cloud technologies such as Amazon or OpenStack so we will be able to create that environment in less of a homegrown manner. It will be more of a drag-and-drop capability with run books to interact with your cloud,” Gildenzoph says.

    These cloud technologies also will be like the applications/worker setups in Gildenzoph’s ARA assembly-line analogy.

    Revving Up Results

    “We moved from our original manual scenario to the point where in some cases we don’t need downtime to deploy the software. We have the orchestration in place and it manages to bleed off part of the cluster, update that cluster, and then bring those portions back online so that our customer doesn’t notice,” says Gildenzoph. This benefits internal and external customers who use the site for call center processes and submitting flex claims, respectively.

    TASC is more agile since the adoption of Automic, releasing software typically on a weekly timetable. This enables the business to respond to requests from customers for new features, innovations and enhancements to the site more quickly and efficiently.

    When TASC purchases another company to add its products to TASC’s, an accelerated pipeline enables the company to onboard that company and products more swiftly and seamlessly.

  • Automic Software Announces Record Q4 and Fiscal Year 2016

    Strong Growth Drives Global Expansion with Opening of Innovation Lab in Austin, Texas and New Offices in Paris

    VIENNA & SEATTLE – 14 June 2016 — Automic Software, the leader in Business Automation, today announced a record Q4 and fiscal year driven by significant customer acquisitions, strategic partnerships and continued product innovation. In addition, the company is expanding its offices with the grand opening last week of a new Paris location in La Defense and confirmed plans to open an Innovation Hub in Austin, Texas.

    Enterprises of all sizes are looking at digital transformation to drive agility and speed while managing risk.  This is driving the demand for Automic’s business automation products.  Automic closed its largest ever year in FY16 with a stellar Q4 performance (new licenses up 48 percent year-on-year), including the two largest deals in the history of the company.  All product lines grew, with Automic Release Automation growing +250 percent. Additionally all regions accelerated, with Americas and APAC leading +100% license growth for the fourth quarter and fiscal year, respectively.

    Customer satisfaction and commitment to future roadmaps was strong with contract renewals coming in at an industry best-in-class 96 percent, including former Orsyp customers, the company acquired by Automic in 2014, resulting in 2,700 customers actively using Automic’s leading business automation software. During FY17 the company will be investing substantially in sales expansion, product development and future M&A.

    FY16 Product and Corporate Milestones

    Product Innovation

    Industry Recognition

    • Gartner acknowledges Automic Software as Representative Vendor in Application Release Automation. Company is listed as a representative ‘established and active vendor’ in Gartner’s recent Market Guide for Application Release Automation (ARA) Solutions.
    • Automic was named a ‘Leader’ in Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) best-in-class Workload Automation (WLA) 2016 Radar Report. The report endorses Automic’s best-in-class pedigree, positioning the company as a global market leader. Automic was also bestowed the prestigious ‘Best Integration Portfolio’ award.
    • Automic was recognized as a ‘Leader’ in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution, 2016-2017. The report highlights the value DevOps release management solutions provide to organizations wanting to enhance the adoption of agile principles to accelerate application delivery by reducing manual errors as well as breaking down walls between IT silos.
    • In October, Automic won the 2015 Ventana Research Technology Innovation award for its finance automation solution. The company was selected for its innovation and ability to help a wide array of organizations reach new goals and generate more value from these finance functions.

    Supporting Quotes

    “We were on a roll this year,” said Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic Software. “The demand for automation around complex business processes, applications, big data and infrastructure has grown dramatically and Automic is uniquely positioned to help enterprises overcome this complexity to drive real digital transformation. We stand out as a global leader that supports organizations of all sizes to not only realize this transformation, but also simplify their journeys to it. We look forward to continued success in the months and years to come.”

    Tweet this: .@Automic closes record Q4 and FY16, expands global offices in Paris & plans to open Innovation Hub in Austin http://bit.ly/1PtI8YX

    Supporting Resources

    About Automic

    Automic, the leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,700 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

    For More Information:

    Courtney Glymph
    Global PR and Communications
    +44 (0) 7584058886
    Courtney.glymph@automic.com

    U.S. Media Contact

    Tanaya Lukaszewski
    Kulesa Faul for Automic
    (916) 712-3791
    automic@kulesafaul.com

  • Automic Recognized as a Market Leader in Ovum DevOps Research

    VIENNA & SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Automic, a leader in Business Automation software, today announced it has been named as a “leader” in the new “Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution, 2016–17” research report. Automic is ranked as a key vendor, based on the organization’s ability to offer ‘enterprise-strength release management and automation features’.

    We’re proud to announce that @Automic has been named a #DevOps leader by @OvumICT bit.ly/21VBeQb

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    The report highlights the value DevOps release management solutions provide to organizations wanting to enhance the adoption of agile principles to accelerate application delivery by reducing manual errors as well as breaking down walls between IT silos. Ovum observes that tools used within the DevOps ecosystem, such as release automation, benefit businesses by increasing the frequency of release and assuring the quality of new customer facing apps and services.

    The report emphasizes the Automic Release Automation (ARA) capabilities and strengths as:

    • Enabling users to benefit from using a common UI, a common set of integrations, as well as a unified platform, that provides end-to-end visibility and control of all automation processing.
    • Delivering scalability, resiliency, security with full auditable tracking and reporting of activities.
    • Providing a robust deployment undo capability to return an environment to its pre-deployment state.
    • Offering the choice of agentless or agent-based deployment technologies.

    “We are delighted to be recognized as a Leader in Ovum’s latest DevOps Release Management report” stated Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic Software. “Application Release Automation powers the agility and speed demanded by clients undergoing Digital Transformation. Inclusion in this report validates our approach in providing a best-in-class Release Automation technology to meet their needs.”

    Ovum analyst Michael Azoff commented “Automic solutions go beyond the coverage of DevOps release management by enabling users to benefit from using a common UI, a common set of integrations, as well as the underlying platform, and achieving comprehensive automation in the IT operations space”1.

    Tweet this:

    We’re proud to announce that @Automic has been named a #DevOps release management leader by @Ovumhttp://offers.automic.com/ovum-decision-matrix-selecting-a-devops-release-management-solution

    Additional Information:

    You can download a free copy of the Ovum Decision Matrix: DevOps Release Management Research

    Supporting Resources

    About Automic:

    Automic, the leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,600 customers including AMC Theatres, Bosch, Carphone Warehouse, eBay, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Netflix, NHS SBS, Société Générale, Swisscom IT and Vodafone. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

    1 Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management, Solution, 2016–17, Michael Azoff,

    Contacts

    Automic
    Courtney Glymph
    Global PR and Communications
    +44 (0) 7584058886
    Courtney.glymph@automic.com

  • Automic Software and Forest Technologies Announce Strategic Devops Partnership

    SEATTLE & VIENNA–(Business Wire)–Forest Technologies, the leading DevOps and Digital Transformation Consultancy headquartered in London, and Automic, the leader in Business Automation, today announced, a strategic partnership wherein Automic will leverage Forest’s experienced DevOps consulting and enablement capabilities to support their customers’ adoption of Application Release Automation and Continuous Delivery solutions, as well as provide input into their product roadmap.

    This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here:http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160411005949/en/

    Under this partnership, Forest will include Automic solutions in its reference continuous delivery tool chain for their customers’ DevOps and digital transformation engagements. Every business relies on software to deliver value to its customers, and DevOps is the perfect catalyst for innovation in software development, and more importantly, a powerful tool for organizations looking to stay relevant in an ever-changing digital-led market. Software is more critical than ever.

    “Building on their 20 year heritage of automation in production environments for some of the largest companies in the world, Automic have delivered a truly Enterprise Class Release Automation product” said Andy Cureton, Founder and CEO of Forest Technologies. “We are excited to extend our existing relationship with Automic and are confident that by combining our expertise in delivering continuous delivery and transformation initiatives with Automic Release Automation we can ensure greater value.”

    “Forest Technologies shares the same strategic vision as Automic in terms of providing our customers with comprehensive Application Release Automation and DevOpssolutions. Working together, we enable synergies in our clients’ business processes and underlying IT infrastructure”, stated Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic Software.

    DeLaughter continued, “As an industry leader, Automic is solely focused on empowering businesses through automation, helping them to become more agile and responsive in this digital age. Our customers have been very clear about their intentions to align their business and IT needs, and as a result, we are proud to partner with Forest Technologies in order to jointly provide complete Application Release Automationsolutions to meet their needs.”

    The partnership enables Automic and Forest Technologies clients to enhance continuous delivery through end-to-end automation, while achieving greater agility and control. The expertise provided by both organizations will enable clients to adopt the necessary tools to begin their DevOps journey.

    Tweet this:

    Enable continuous delivery w/@Automic & @foresttechltd. Agility, speed & security are now part of your DevOps journey bit.ly/1Mmrx4x

    Additional Information:

    Connect with Automic on Twitter and LinkedIn

    Connect with Forest Technologies on Twitter and LinkedIn

    About Forest Technologies:

    Forest Technologies, a leader in automation, helps enterprises deliver software and software related services faster and at a lower cost through the adoption of DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices. Fanatical about customer service FOREST consultants are hired as much for their DNA as their ability. Established in 2003 with headquarters in London and offices in Singapore FOREST has over 100 customers from start-ups to enterprises across sectors including finance, retail, telco, and online gambling. More information can be found at www.forest-technologies.co.uk

    About Automic:

    Automic, a leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,600 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, Vodafone, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.Automic.com.

    Automic
    Courtney Glymph
    Global PR and Communications
    +44 (0) 7584058886
    Courtney.glymph@Automic.com

  • Herding Kittens: Developer Tools Trends From Our Survey

    Herding Kittens: Developer Tools Trends From Our Survey

    Back in late February we launched our latest survey in partnership with Automic. The survey sought to understand how developer tools are selected and used within organizations. We wanted to have some insight into how prevalent Shadow IT was. Well thanks to the hundreds of you who responded, we have been busy working with Automic analyzing the results. Frankly in some areas the responses bore out our original hypothesis, but in other ones the results were pretty surprising.

    Not to be a tease, I should tell you we are not releasing the full report and results until our webinar on this on May 4th. You can register for that one here. But let me give you some insight into some of the results:

    1. A big difference between DevOps empowered organizations versus traditional IT shops. We actually ran the survey to both our devopsy.kinsta.cloud audience and then to a general IT control group and had a look at the differences. DevOps empowered groups had far greater insight into what tools were being used, generally used more tools, more open source tools and generally had greater diversity (that they knew about anyway).
    2. The large majority of respondents reported that their organization use tools besides those on the “approved list”. This is a form of Shadow IT and shows how new software tools are sneaked in under the radar of the official IT.
    3. Many times these tools that snuck in the back door were eventually adopted as official tools, showing that this is a viable method of introducing new tools into the organization.
    4. Another insight was whether entire dev teams were using the same toolset. This answer as you might imagine was different when you compared organization sizes. However, overall the message is that developers like to use their chosen tools.

    These are just some of the insights we will be discussing at the webinar. Also all attendees will receive a full copy of the report with analysis. So mark your calendars now and register for the webinar where we will discuss these results and more.

    BTW, the webinar will feature myself and Kerry Lebel, senior director of community for Automic.

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    Scott Willson

     

    Scott Willson is Product Marketing Director, Release Automation at Automic Software. He has over 20 years of technology experience that spans software development, pre-sales, post sales, and marketing. Scott is passionate about technology and helping business achieve value through technology and was leading DevOps at organizations before it was coined DevOps.

  • Managing Your DevOps Tool Chest: The Complexity of Herding Kittens

    Managing Your DevOps Tool Chest: The Complexity of Herding Kittens

    We are running another survey here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud, this one co-sponsored by Automic. The survey seeks to understand how tools are selected and used within organizations. Do developers pick their own tools or are tools mandated by the company? Maybe a little of both?

    For many organizations trying to keep track of all the tools that developers and IT ops are using is a lot like herding kittens. But what about your organization? We are trying to find out how often you change tools, what the change process looks like, how big an effect does shadow IT have in this equation?

    The survey is short and shouldn’t take you more than 5 or 6 minutes. As usual we will be giving out $50 Amazon gift cards to 1 out of every 50 people who respond. While email address or your name is not necessary to take the survey, we do need a way to contact you if you want to win the Amazon card. That is the only thing that will be done with the info if you do fill it out and try to win the gift cards.

    We will publish a full analysis of the results in a few weeks. So stay tuned.

    Also for this survey we have versions in French and German in addition to the English version. So please help us, you and the industry better understand how and what DevOps tools we use.

    The English version of the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3VWHPKV

    The French version of the survey: https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/529GKW5

    The German version of the survey: https://de.surveymonkey.com/r/5FWYYKR

    If you have any questions about the survey, please leave a comment. Thanks!

  • Automic empowers cloud Continuous Delivery with OpenStack Integration

    SEATTLE, Wash. & VIENNA–(Business Wire)–Automic, the leader in Business Automation today announced integration with OpenStack, one of the leading open-source software platforms for cloud computing. The new OpenStack plug-in integrates with Automic Release Automation, enabling users to streamline deployment and provisioning of OpenStack computing resources alongside application components and new versions, resulting in the Continuous Delivery of applications to the cloud. The OpenStack action pack is available immediately from the Automic Marketplace.

    The Automic OpenStack action pack uniquely supports the efforts of DevOps engineers, developers, and system administrators to help them create, deploy, and run applications by automatically provisioning or de-provisioning OpenStack environments in the cloud.

    The Automic OpenStack action pack enables users to:

    • Automate the server compute pool in an OpenStack cloud environment. Activities include creating, starting, stopping, deleting and configuring compute resources. Some of the typical use cases include setting up and destroying environments on demand and per schedule (for test environments for example).
    • Dynamically scaling up and down an existing compute environment using automation.
    • Manage configuration changes in an existing environment.

    “We are delighted to add OpenStack to the list of integrations that we currently offer our customers on the Automic Marketplace” said John Purrier, Chief Technology Officer of Automic, and a founder of OpenStack. “As organizations drive adoption of both Cloud infrastructures and DevOps practices, Application Release Automation supports the need to orchestrate and automate both sides of the fence while providing a completeContinuous Delivery mechanism for DevOps teams. Adding OpenStack to our existing list of integrations is a natural progression of our offering, driven by the demands of our customers.”

    The DevOps movement is a natural extension of the increase in the enterprise open source and hybrid Cloud adoption. While a big chunk of the DevOps movement is spearheaded by development, operations are usually in the driver’s seat for Cloud adoption at enterprises. DevOps is the critical enabler of the Continuous Delivery pipeline, one that seamlessly connects developers and operations.

    A hybrid Cloud strategy is the predominant choice of most enterprise IT departments, while OpenStack is leading in the open source software space for creating private and public Clouds. With hundreds of the world’s leading organizations relying on OpenStack and a projected CAGR of 31%, OpenStack is core to many organizations’ hybrid Cloud strategy.

    Tweet this:

    #DevOps deployment in the cloud. @Automic announces integration with @OpenStack. Available now at https://marketplace.automic.com

    Additional information

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    Availability and pricing:

    The plugin is available from the Automic Marketplace. The OpenStack plug-in is free for Automic Release Automation Customers. Pricing is on demand for non-Automic customers.

    About Automic

    Automic, a leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems – from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, Automic powers over 2,600 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, BT Global Services, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

    Automic
    Courtney Glymph
    Courtney.glymph@automic.com
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