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  • BigPanda Launches DevOps Tools to Troubleshoot and Maintain Healthy Infrastructure at Scale

    New Product Releases Include Unified Search, Incident Dashboards and Enhanced Integrations with Atlassian JIRA Software, Splunk and Datadog

    PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BigPanda, the Alert Correlation Platform that turns huge volumes of IT data and alerts into consolidated insights for businesses, today announced that it has launched new product updates and technology integrations which give Ops teams the ability to troubleshoot and maintain healthy infrastructure at scale. BigPanda’s platform now includes Unified Search and Incident Dashboards as well as new integrations with Atlassian JIRA Software, Splunk and Datadog.

    “Companies looking to mature their operational processes to better support end customers can now unify and visualize monitoring data across their organizations, drastically reduce mean time to resolution and increase uptime with these new features,“ said Assaf Resnick, CEO of BigPanda.

    Unified Search Provides Smarter Results, Less Noise

    Just released, BigPanda Unified Search is a new way for Ops teams to access alert data from all of their monitoring sources, eliminating the need to conduct parallel investigations within each monitoring tool.

    When a problem materializes in a datacenter, it’s not always clear when or where the failure occurred, and Ops teams may frantically search through tens of thousands of alerts from multiple tools to identify the root cause. BigPanda Unified Search drastically reduces time to investigate by giving users an interactive way to find the most relevant alerts and incidents. It surfaces insights from all sources of monitoring alerts by continuously organizing issues from all common modern and legacy tools, including Nagios, New Relic, AppDynamics, Pingdom, SolarWinds, Site24x7 and CloudWatch.

    Using BigPanda Unified Search, Ops teams can search through historical alerts even if the original monitoring tool does not retain that data and automatically find related incidents that were previously resolved or may still be open.

    Operational Health Dashboards

    Ops teams that need an at-a-glance representation of operational health now have access to the new Incident Dashboard in BigPanda. The new feature allows organizations to visualize the health of applications, services and infrastructure areas with personalized dashboards that enable them to be aware of and respond more quickly to issues that can impact the business.

    The new dashboard feature helps Ops teams answer questions about the overall health of their operations and environments and compare it to historical trends. Each dashboard can be customized with specific indicators, including incident counts by status, the percentage increase or decrease of active incidents, and how the volume of active incidents changed over time.

    BigPanda Enhances Integration with Atlassian JIRA Software and HipChat

    BigPanda’s technology integration with team collaboration software company Atlassian helps Ops teams using Atlassian’s JIRA Software and HipChat products collaborate to solve more problems faster.

    BigPanda enables JIRA Software users to automatically create tickets based on intelligent correlated incidents, which helps them save time, reduce ticket clutter, and get a real-time view of what’s happening so they can deliver better customer service and more reliable apps. With today’s announcement, BigPanda now supports a two-way integration with JIRA Software. This means customers who track development tasks now have the ability to automatically resolve BigPanda incidents when JIRA tickets are closed.

    “Many of JIRA Software’s more than 37,000 customers are manually tracking incident response tasks,” said Dave Meyer, senior product manager, Atlassian. “BigPanda’s JIRA Software integration will connect real-time insights from BigPanda with JIRA Software’s powerful search and workflow to help people resolve incidents faster.”

    Splunk and Datadog Integrations Reduce Alert Noise

    BigPanda also announced it is teaming up with two DevOps pioneers – Splunk and Datadog – to reduce alert noise and provide an alternative to filtering through thousands of redundant alerts, pages and emails.

    BigPanda’s powerful aggregation engine normalizes alerts from Splunk, Datadog and other monitoring systems into a single consolidated incident management center. Then, BigPanda analyzes all alert streams in real time, and it intelligently groups them into a simplified list of high-level incidents so Ops teams can detect critical issues faster.

    Now available in the Splunkbase App Store, the BigPanda App for Splunk allows Ops teams to trigger BigPanda incidents from Saved-Search Alerts by using the Custom Alert Actions capability in the Splunk 6.3 release. This app adds an option to the +Add Actions list in the Splunk user interface, making it easier than ever to correlate all alerts in BigPanda.

    BigPanda’s new integration with Datadog makes it easier to integrate the two systems in minutes and synchronize Datadog alerts with BigPanda incidents. BigPanda features like Environments, AutoShare rules, and Operational Analytics can now be used to help Datadog customers monitor infrastructure and reduce the time required to investigate and resolve issues.

    About BigPanda

    BigPanda’s mission is to keep businesses running by improving how IT teams manage the explosion of IT data they receive every day. BigPanda uses data science to analyze massive volumes of IT alerts from fragmented clouds, applications and systems and turn them into actionable insights. Founded in 2012, the company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield and Battery Ventures. BigPanda is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information visit www.bigpanda.io or follow BigPanda on Twitter @bigpanda.

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    BigPanda:
    Joe Schwartz, 415-902-3300
    joe@bigpanda.io

  • GitLab Expands Authentication Capabilities, Adding Support for U2F and YubiKey Through Partnership with Yubico

    New Offering Gives Developers the Ability to Securely Access Any Number of Online Services, with One Single Device

    SAN FRANCISCO and PALO ALTO —June 22, 2016— Today GitLab, the open source code collaboration tool that allows developers to code, test and deploy together, expanded its authentication capabilities for the enterprises via a partnership with Yubico.  GitLab now supports the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) protocol for user authentication with the added layer of hardware security from YubiKey. U2F changes the game for online authentication as it uses public key cryptography and has built-in support to prevent phishing. This higher level of authentication enables organizations and individual developers to maintain the security of their servers, code, sites, and more from a single source.

    With the steady rise of new devices and the growing capabilities of existing ones, the average user logs into networks, applications, or platforms from a variety of different devices. While device flexibility is great from a user perspective, it represents significant security challenges for organizations and developers. Each new access point makes it tougher to fend off malicious attacks particularly phishing while maintaining the integrity of accounts and systems.

    GitLab’s VP of Engineering, Stan Hu, said, “GitLab and Yubico recognize the importance of security and are excited to be able to provide additional security measures for GitLab customers. GitLab has long supported two-factor authentication via a mobile application, but adding U2F support with YubiKey now provides an additional level of security. GitLab customers will have the option to choose which method of authentication is best for them.”

    The new YubiKey offering reduces the number of steps coders must take to access their accounts, while maintaining usability and providing secure authentication with just a touch of the YubiKey. With U2F, GitLab customers can now authenticate by inserting their YubiKey into the USB port when prompted. The customer activates their YubiKey by simply pressing the button on the device, then instantly, the YubiKey securely authenticates the user into the account.

    The same U2F YubiKey that works with GitLab also works for logging into a growing number of other services, including Google, Dropbox, and Dashlane, without any personal data or encryption secrets shared between service providers. With YubiKeys, there are no drivers or client software to install.

    Jerrod Chong, VP of Solutions Engineering at Yubico, says, “GitLab is making a strong statement with their support for U2F, providing their user community with the highest level of account security by enabling YubiKey’s U2F capabilities.”

    Stan Hu, GitLab’s VP of Engineering, said, “We are committed to securing our user’s work with proven, seamless solutions. Supporting YubiKey for two-factor authentication is a logical step towards that goal.”

    About GitLab

    Founded in 2014, GitLab, Inc. is the open source code collaboration platform that provides a complete workflow to create, review, and deploy code simply and effectively. Downloaded over one million times, GitLab includes Git repository management, code review, issue tracking, wikis and GitLab CI, a continuous integration and deployment tool. Built for the enterprise, GitLab scales effortlessly, handling more than 25,000 users on a single server. GitLab provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective development environment. More than 100,000 organizations all over the globe currently use GitLab on premises including NASA, CERN, Alibaba, SpaceX, O’Reilly, IBM and Expedia. Follow @GitLab on Twitter or learn more it at http://about.gitlab.com.

    About Yubico

    Yubico sets new world standards for simple, secure login, preventing unauthorized access to computers, servers, and internet accounts.

    Supporting multiple authentication and encryption protocols on all devices and platforms, YubiKeys protect access to user accounts for the world’s largest enterprises with a simple touch, and with no driver or client software needed. Yubico is a leading contributor to the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor open authentication standard, and Yubico’s technology is used, and loved, in more than 150 countries.

    Founded in 2007, Yubico is privately held with offices in Palo Alto (California), Seattle (Washington), Stockholm (Sweden), and London (UK). For more information, please visit www.yubico.com.

  • BlazeMeter Contributes Latest Developments to the JMeter Ecosystem

    BlazeMeter speeds up testing for JMeter users with a Step-by-Step Debugger and Keyboard Shortcuts, demonstrates open source test orchestration tool Taurus at Velocity Conference

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BlazeMeter, the leader in open source-based continuous performance testing, today released a number of key contributions to the JMeter community, helping to advance JMeter from a scripting and load generation tool to a more complete environment where practitioners can develop, debug and execute tests.

    “We’ve heard from developers that several common functionalities could be improved, so we worked on capabilities that make for an easier and more productive experience with JMeter.”

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    Leading the list is the BlazeMeter Step-by-Step Debugger, which simplifies and expedites script development in JMeter 3.0 by allowing testers to debug scripts step-by-step and receive updates in real time. Testers can also skip over the step-by-step approach by setting breakpoints and running scripts until that breakpoint is reached. Now JMeter users can easily pinpoint precisely where the components are executed, understand how JMeter scoping works and, for the first time ever, view the execution order of the test plan. The debugger provides testers with a professional-grade tool to speed design and troubleshooting of sophisticated tests. A detailed guide on how to install and use the debugger is available on the BlazeMeter blog.

    Additionally, a new Keyboard Shortcuts feature dramatically speeds scripting with an entirely new way to drop components into the test plan. Instead of manually inspecting menus to find components, JMeter users can select the command key with another predefined key, enabling them to build entire test plans with a series of keystrokes. As a core JMeter feature, Keyboard Shortcuts is available to all users by default when they install JMeter 3.0. For a demo of this and other helpful new features in JMeter 3.0, view our recent webcast: What’s New in JMeter 3.0 and Q&A.

    BlazeMeter’s Chief Scientist Andrey Pokhilko also released the Plugins Manager — a faster and easier way to work with JMeter Plugins. Historically, installing and removing plugins by downloading file bundles was a complex and manual process that often resulted in menus cluttered with extra plugins. The Plugins Manager eliminates these issues by enabling JMeter users to install and remove plugins through one simple user interface.

    “We’re always looking to develop new features that support the core JMeter community,” said Pokhilko. “We’ve heard from developers that several common functionalities could be improved, so we worked on capabilities that make for an easier and more productive experience with JMeter.”

    “The BlazeMeter Step-by-Step Debugger adds professional-grade power to test development and speeds onboarding of developers and seasoned test practitioners to JMeter,” said Dave Karow, Director of Product Marketing at BlazeMeter. “Andrey’s Plugins Manager reduces complexity and the Keyboard Shortcut feature enables power users to create test plans in the blink of an eye. These features come directly from our engagement with hundreds of enterprise customers who want to move faster and more confidently with JMeter as they distribute responsibility for performance testing out to agile teams, closer to where development occurs.”

    BlazeMeter’s open source initiatives extend beyond the scope of its JMeter contributions. The company continues to support and enhance the open source project Taurus, which offers an automation friendly framework for continuous testing using JMeter and other leading open source tools.

    At Velocity Santa Clara 2016, Pokhilko will reveal how Taurus can bring load testing up a level by adding a consistent layer of automation and a wider scope of functionality to existing open source tools. Specifically, he will be presenting ‘Take Your Load Testing Up a Notch With Open Source Tools’ at 2:10 p.m. on Thursday, June 23. For more details, click on the link here.

    About BlazeMeter
    BlazeMeter ensures delivery of high-performance software by enabling DevOps teams to quickly and easily run open-source based performance tests against any mobile app, website or API at massive scale to validate performance at every stage of software delivery. The rapidly growing BlazeMeter community has over 100,000 developers and includes prominent global brands such as Adobe, Atlassian, Gap, NBC Universal, Pfizer and Walmart as customers. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with Research & Development in Tel Aviv, Israel.

    For more information, create a free account at www.blazemeter.com, visit our blog or find us on Twitter @BlazeMeter and onLinkedIn.

  • NS1 PARTNERS WITH RAINTANK, ADDS GRAFANA TO GROWING INTEGRATION TOOLSET

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. and NEW YORK – June 21, 2016 – (O’Reilly Velocity, Booth #511) – NS1®, the leading provider of intelligent DNS and traffic management services, announced today it has partnered with raintank, the company behind Grafana. Thousands of enterprises use Grafana to gain single-console visual analytics of their IT infrastructure. With the new application for NS1, Grafana users can now add key DNS analytics into their IT management dashboards. The Grafana application for NS1 is available now on Grafana.net.

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    • Aggregating metrics and performance: Grafana, the de facto open-source solution for visualizing time series data, consolidates data from the entire stack into a single platform. Features include pluggable panels and data sources for extensibility, including fully featured dashboards with rich visualization options.
    • Visualizing NS1 data in Grafana: Provides teams with a real-time view into DNS traffic and infrastructure health. The NS1 app provides real-time and historic visibility into query-per-second (QPS) traffic and NS1’s high-frequency monitoring.
    • Simple and elegant implementation: This integration provides a seamless way to obtain visibility into NS1 metrics and usage. The App is configured in mere seconds using Grafana’s plug-in platform and allows users to simply enter credentials to automatically generate dashboards from their NS1 data.

    Jose Hernandez, security operations, Zenedge, said: “NS1’s Grafana app helps us aggregate our DNS performance along with other critical metrics into a single dashboard. Configuration couldn’t be easier and gives us instant visibility into our NS1 account usage and monitoring tools.”

    Raj Dutt, CEO, raintank, said: “We’re excited to partner with NS1 to help streamline data visibility for our mutual customers. The powerful combination of NS1’s next-gen DNS platform and Grafana’s elegant visualization framework is perfect for networking and DevOps experts.”

    Alex Vayl, cofounder and VP business development, NS1, said: “Our goal is to provide developers with the tools they need to help them succeed throughout the entire DevOps process. By adding Grafana to our toolkit, we now are able to provide our customers with the visual analytics they need to deliver real-time, actionable business insights.”

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    About NS1

    NS1’s intelligent DNS and traffic management platform, with its data driven architecture and unique Filter Chain routing engine, is purpose-built for the most demanding, mission-critical applications on the Internet. NS1’s comprehensive platform technology leverages infrastructure, application, and network data to make intelligent routing decisions in real time, ensuring optimal application performance and reliability. NS1’s customers include leading brands like, Yelp, Imgur, MaxCDN, Collective Media, OpenX and many more.

  • VictorOps Announces the Incident Automation Engine, Further Advancing Innovation in Real-Time Incident Management

     

    VictorOps helps companies bypass traditional Network Operations Centers by proactively routing alerts, transforming data, and solving problems using end-to-end automation

    BOULDER, Colo. – June 22, 2016 – VictorOps, the real-time incident management company for DevOps teams, announced the Incident Automation Engine, a set of cutting-edge features for on-call teams to automate their way to faster mean time to resolution(MTTR) through use of intelligent alerts, sophisticated routing, and smarter system outputs.

    Unlike other incident management tools that mainly focus on triaging alerts and notifications, the VictorOps Incident Automation Engine provides unsurpassed control and insight throughout the entire incident lifecycle via a combination of intelligent system inputs and actionable outputs. The Incident Automation Engine automatically quiets the noise of unnecessary alerts, delivers remediation solutions alongside alerts, and provides visibility into and documentation of all communications and actions that occurred during an incident. Additionally, through the use of outbound webhooks, the entire VictorOps solution can now be configured to send data to other tools in real-time, enabling users to do everything from automatically fixing standard issues to customizing dashboards.

    “More and more often, the best way to speed organizational innovation is by enabling developers to move quickly,” said Todd Vernon, VictorOps CEO and co-founder. “When it comes to a company’s uptime, this same concept applies. Today valuable time is lost with archaic alerting systems and manual processes. The [Incident Automation] Engine now becomes a foundation to automate out these inefficiencies, gain clearer access to actionable information and continuously evaluate and improve the inputs driving on-call processes.”

    Key features of the Incident Automation Engine include:

    • Alert Transformations– Quiet unactionable alerts and automatically route specific alerts to the correct team members.
    • Alert Annotations– Automatically append alerts with runbooks, monitoring graphs and other relevant information, giving the alert recipient immediate remediation steps.
    • Outbound Webhooks– Extend VictorOps platform data into other systems and integrate VictorOps incidents into other service dashboards.
    • API– Leverage the VictorOps API to extend VictorOps to existing legacy tools and reporting systems.
    • Post-Mortem Report Generator– Automatically pull a snapshot of all activities (alerts, conversations and remediation actions) associated with an outage. Easily use this data to report on SLAs and facilitate team retrospectives.

    VictorOps was one of five companies Gartner featured as a 2016 “Cool Vendor” in DevOps. The Incident Automation Engine is one of the many reasons for this recognition. Its purpose is to support on-call teams as they learn from each incident, providing them with the means to continuously improve and evolve their processes.

    “Visibility at velocity is very important to us so engineers know what needs to be addressed from problems identified in production,” said Mike Perttula, DevOps Specialist, Signiant. “[The] VictorOps Incident Automation Engine is allowing us to inform more team members in a timely fashion. We are lowering our MTTR and increasing the reach of our incident alerting audience without waking up everyone for the wrong reasons.”

    “With the Incident Automation Engine, our customers are now better empowered to resolve and even prevent future incidents, thereby protecting revenue loss, driving customer satisfaction, and maintaining brand reputation,” said Vernon.

    The functionality delivered as part of the Incident Automation Engine is now available in the Enterprise edition of the VictorOps product. For more information about the Incident Automation Engine, visit VictorOps.

    About VictorOps

    VictorOps is the real-time and agile incident management platform focusing on incident lifecycle management and collaboration for IT and DevOps teams. The solution combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day. Privately held, VictorOps is backed by Costanoa Venture Capital and Foundry Group. For more information, visit www.victorops.com and follow the company on Twitter @VictorOps.

  • Akana Platform Wins Cloud Platform Innovation Award

    LONDON–(Business Wire)–Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API Security, API Analytics and Microservices solutions for Digital Businesses, announced today that its Akana Platform won the Cloud Platform Innovation of the Year category. The award was given at the 4th Cloud & DevOps World Awards ceremony on 21 June 2016. Other great companies have won this award in the past. In 2015, this award was won by Amazon Web Services.Cloud and DevOps Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in Cloud Computing. The awards have 8 different categories. The Platform innovation of the Year Award is designed for that game-changer solution provider whose PaaS offerings are able to significantly minimize the cost and complexity of IT. The Judges looked for a platform that enables further agility, scalability, collaboration and facilitates the development environment in the most cost efficient, high quality and secure manner. See more information at https://cloudanddevopsworldawards.com/

    “We are thrilled to receive this cloud innovation recognition,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of Akana. “Akana has developed a proven API Management solution that exceeds customer expectations. As a category leader working with Fortune 1000 accounts, we will continue helping customers in their digital transformation journey.”

    The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment. For more information and a free trial go here http://bit.ly/1sIsUHE

    About Akana

    Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API Securityand Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and “Internet of Things.” Akana enables enterprises to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their businesses and operations. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use Akana to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Akana is also recognized as a “Leader” by several analyst firms. For more information on Akana’s Platform , please visit http://www.akana.com.

    For more information, please contact: pressroom@akana.com

    All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners. Akana, SOA Software, Community Manager, API Gateway, Lifecycle Manager, OAuth Server, Policy Manager and Cloud Integration Gateway are trademarks of Akana, Inc.

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    • Blog: https://blog.akana.com/

    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AkanaSoftware

    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/AkanaInc

    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akana

    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QdcCn-FDCqN7gao7wp24g

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    Lisa Blank, 323-708-2651
    pressroom@akana.com

  • Puppet 2016 State of DevOps Report Addresses the Most Pressing Issues in DevOps Today

    Report Helps Organizations Understand the ROI of DevOps, Why Quality and Security Should Be Built In, and More

    PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Jun 22, 2016) – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today announced the findings of the 2016 State of DevOps Report. Over the past five years, Puppet has surveyed more than 25,000 technical professionals, making the State of DevOps Report the largest, most comprehensive and longest-running study on the topic of DevOps. Written in partnership with DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), the fifth annual State of DevOps Report includes findings on some of the most debated topics in DevOps, including understanding the ROI of DevOps; how building quality and security into the development cycle affects business outcomes; the role of lean product management; and the relationship between employee engagement and organizational success.

    “Today, every company is a software company. Yet there’s a huge delta between the organizations that get it and are able to ship software on demand, and the organizations that take days, weeks or even years to ship simple upgrades,” said Nigel Kersten, CIO of Puppet. “The 2016 State of DevOps Report shows that gap is widening. We hope the report will help organizations identify their own inhibitors of change so they can drastically increase their competitiveness and ultimately, their revenue.”

    The Widening Performance Gap
    The 2016 State of DevOps Report shows that high-performing organizations are widening their lead against lower-performing organizations. Compared to low performers, high-performing organizations deploy 200 times more frequently, have 2,555 times faster lead times, and recover 24 times faster from failed changes, with three times lower change fail rates. Because high performers build quality into each stage of the development process, they also spend 22 percent less time on unplanned work and rework than lower-performing organizations, and thus are able to spend 29 percent more time on new work.

    Understanding the ROI of DevOps
    Since the first State of DevOps Report was published five years ago, it’s been widely accepted that DevOps significantly affects IT performance and organizational performance. The 2016 State of DevOps Report builds on this body of knowledge and provides example formulas (based on survey findings and industry averages) to help organizations understand the potential cost savings of DevOps practices, and the additional value to be gained from investing in DevOps.

    Security
    All too often, security testing is tacked on at the end of the delivery process, leading to expensive and painful fixes once development is complete. The 2016 State of DevOps Report confirms that integrating security into each stage of the development process has a positive impact on IT performance and security outcomes. Organizations that better integrate information security objectives into daily work spend 50 percent less time remediating security issues than low performers.

    Employee Engagement (eNPS)
    Employee engagement is more than a feel-good metric: Companies with highly engaged workers have been shown to increase revenues two and a half times as much as companies with lower engagement levels. The 2016 State of DevOps Report found that employees in high-performing organizations are more than twice as likely to recommend their organization to a friend as a great place to work. This indicates a high level of engagement and identification with the company, and as many business studies show, highly engaged employees are more productive and creative, and provide better experiences to customers.

    Lean Product Management
    The 2016 State of DevOps Report looked at lean product management practices to see if changes upstream in the product management process affect downstream business outcomes. Analysis shows that teams that implement continuous delivery practices and take an experimental approach to product development build higher-quality products and feel more connected to the overall organization.

    The 2016 State of DevOps Report also reveals:

    • Respondents who report they are part of a DevOps team increased from 16 percent in 2014 to 22 percent in 2016.
    • High-performing organizations get more new or planned work done, because they have less unplanned work to cope with.
    • And more insights into how organizations are transforming their cultures and outcomes.

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    Atlassian, Automic Software, CA Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IT Revolution, Splunk Inc., and ThoughtWorks

    The full 2016 State of DevOps Report is available for download athttps://puppet.com/resources/white-paper/2016-state-of-devops-report

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    About Puppet
    Puppet is driving the movement to a world of unconstrained software change. Its revolutionary platform is the industry standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. More than 32,000 companies — including more than two thirds of the Fortune 100 — use Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to adopt DevOps practices, achieve situational awareness and drive software change with confidence. Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet is a privately held company with more than 400 employees around the world. Learn more at puppet.com.

  • mLab Launches Private Environments on AWS

    Developers can now peer their AWS VPCs to their mLab Private Environments to create their own private networks isolated from the rest of the cloud datacenter
    San Francisco – June 22, 2016 – mLab, the fully managed cloud database service featuring automated provisioning, scaling, and management of MongoDB databases, today announced the private beta of Private Environments. mLab Private Environments are virtual private networks that customers can provision to house their various database deployments hosted with mLab.
    Private Environments provide the security benefits of self-hosting database deployments without the headache of self-hosting. With Private Environments, customers can use all of the traditional network security best-practices and techniques for designing their application. Customers can:
    • isolate their database from public networks while allowing secure access to their application infrastructure
    • create sophisticated network topologies to ensure least privilege access to their database deployments using CIDR ranges and AWS Security Groups
    • auto-scale their application tier without having to modify database firewall rules

    “As an early beta user of Private Environments, we’ve appreciated the added level of security it provides,” said Chris Lambert, CTO, Lyft. “The private network created by Private Environments keeps our infrastructure secure as we continue to grow, and makes it easy for our team to provision new application servers and auto-scale without needing to modify database firewall rules. We’ve been using mLab’s cloud-hosted MongoDB for several years and it has played a big role in helping Lyft scale.”

    The new solution is engineered to be a novel way for customers to use virtual private networks through a DBaaS provider. With Private Environments, mLab has created an isolated and self-contained solution that securely and seamlessly integrates into an existing stack as though the databases were inside a customer’s own VPC. The result is network security that is both operationally easy and flexible.

    mLab’s cloud database-as-a-service platform hosts over 300,000 MongoDB deployments, powering companies like Turner, Lyft, and Whole Foods Market. Private Environments is the first of several releases slated for 2016 as mLab continues to debut new cloud infrastructure capabilities.

    “mLab is hands-down the easiest way to run MongoDB on AWS,” said Will Shulman, CEO, mLab. “We believe that constantly managing database infrastructure isn’t something most developers should have to worry about; mLab’s platform and tools are designed to automatically provision, host, scale, monitor and backup your MongoDB databases. Private Environments is a powerful new capability that furthers mLab’s goal of providing cloud infrastructure solutions that are both simple and secure. We’re excited for developers to try it out.”

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    About mLab

    mLab is a fully managed cloud database service featuring automated provisioning and scaling of MongoDB databases, backup and recovery, 24/7 monitoring and alerting, web-based management tools, and expert support. mLab’s Database-as-a-Service platform powers hundreds of thousands of databases across AWS, Azure, and Google and allows developers to focus their attention on product development instead of operations.

    Headquartered in the Mission/Potrero area of San Francisco, mLab is backed by premier venture and angel investors including Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and David Cohen of TechStars.

  • VictorOps Enterprise Edition expanded with Incident Automation Engine

     

    VictorOps helps the most innovative companies bypass traditional Network Operations Centers in order to proactively ingest, transform, route, and solve problems using end-to-end automation.

    BOULDER, Colo. – June 22, 2016 – VictorOps, the real-time incident management company for DevOps teams, announced the Incident Automation Engine, a set of cutting-edge features for on-call teams to automate their way to faster MTTR through use of intelligent alerts, sophisticated routing, and smarter system outputs.

    Unlike other incident management tools that focus on triaging alerts and notifications, the VictorOps Incident Automation Engine offers a truly innovative combination making system inputs intelligent and relevant outputs fully actionable. The Engine automates human behavior in order to quiet the noise of unnecessary alerts, deliver real-time remediation solutions, and provide visibility and documentation into all communications and actions that took place during an incident. Additionally, through the use of outbound webhooks the entire VictorOps solution can now be configured to send information to other tools, take automatic actions, and sync with other alert sources and reporting systems already in place. The combination providing unsurpassed control and insight throughout the incident lifecycle.

    “With the Incident Automation Engine our customers are are now better empowered to resolve and even prevent future incidents, thereby protecting revenue loss, driving customer satisfaction and maintaining brand reputation,” said Todd Vernon, VictorOps CEO and co-founder. “More and more the best way to speed organizational innovation is through enabling developers to move quickly. When it comes to a company’s uptime this same concept applies. Today valuable time is lost with archaic alerting systems and manual processes. The Engine now becomes a foundation to automate out these inefficiencies, gain clearer access to actionable information and to continuously evaluate and improve the inputs driving on-call processes.”

    Key features of the Incident Automation Engine include:

    • Alert Transformations– Quiet unactionable alerts and automatically route specific alerts to the correct team members
    • Alert Annotations– Automatically append alerts with runbooks, monitoring graphs and other relevant information, giving the alert recipient immediate remediation steps
    • Outbound Webhooks– Extend VictorOps platform data into other systems and integrate VictorOps incidents into other service dashboards
    • API– Leverage the VictorOps API to extend VictorOps to existing legacy tools and reporting systems
    • Post-Mortem Report Generator – The ability to automatically pull a snapshot of all activities (alerts, conversations and remediation actions) associated with an outage. This information translates easily into SLA reporting and the facilitation of team retrospectives.

    Organizations of all sizes are increasingly looking to adopt incident management solutions in order to reduce the impacts of IT downtime. According to Gartner, the potential cost of downtime for organizations can approach $540K an hour. If reduced, mean time to resolution (MTTR) can prevent a modest 300 minutes of downtime in a single year, and businesses could save upwards of $2.5M.

    “Visibility at velocity is very important to us so engineers know what needs to be addressed from problems identified in production. [The] VictorOps Incident Automation Engine is allowing us to inform more team members in a timely fashion. We are lowering our MTTR and increasing the reach of our incident alerting audience without waking up everyone for the wrong reasons,” said Mike Perttula, DevOps Specialist at Signiant.

    For more information about the Incident Automation Engine, visit [URL].

    About VictorOps

    VictorOps is the real-time incident management platform focusing on incident lifecycle management and collaboration for IT and DevOps teams. The solution combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day. Privately held, VictorOps is backed by Costanoa Venture Capital and Foundry Group. For more information, visit www.victorops.com and follow the company on Twitter @VictorOps.

  • REP SPOTLIGHT: TaUB Solutions

    REP SPOTLIGHT: TaUB Solutions

    DevOps Institute: Tell us about your organization.

    TaUB Solutions: TaUB Solutions is a consulting-cum-training organization based in Bangalore India. Our vision is to take the customers beyond the existing state of maturity to envisioned business outcomes.

    We serve a lot of customers in southeast Asian region by delivering consulting assignments on ITSM, IT governance, project and program management and business relationship management. This also includes delivering business simulations on the respective domains and make our customers gain benefit from learning by doing.

    DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult?

    TaUB Solutions: ITSM, IT governance, agile, DevOps, business relationship management, cybersecurity, project and program management and ISO standards (20000,27001, 22301)

    DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

    TaUB Solutions: At the moment, we have successfully delivered around 11 batches of DevOps Foundation and Certified Agile Service Manager courses. We appeal to our customers because of the practitioner focus that we bring to the table and take them through case studies to understand the end-to-end value chain. Our current run rate indicates a strong pipeline of interest in southeast Asian countries who want to apply the DevOps principles and philosophy in their workplace. We also see great traction from Indian corporates to plunge in to the DevOps journey to serve their respective customers better.

    DOI: How do you think DevOps contributes to the business’ value stream?

    TaUB Solutions: One of the things that appeal most to me is the ability to articulate the end-to-end value chain. Business today does not care about which framework or methodology you adopt for the customers. All that matters is to deliver an end-to-end value chain and get a common understanding among different functions and leverage the best across the enterprise. I see tremendous value of leveraging agile, ITSM and lean principles with culture and tool chain to demonstrate key business value.

    DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

    TaUB Solutions: There are three things:

    • Culture change
    • Power of automation using tool chain
    • Business KPIs and Common Metrics across the organization

    DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps Training?

    TaUB Solutions: Today, DevOps is still at its infant stage and has not yet been codified. So people have their own perspectives, thoughts and misconceptions. So in order to be certain with the path they traverse, it is increasingly important to step in the right direction. This is where a formal DevOps training from DOI can help people to understand fundamentals and DevOps trends from practitioners.