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  • XebiaLabs Opens Sold-Out DevOps Leadership Summit

    BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – Jun 16, 2016) –  XebiaLabs (http://www.xebialabs.com), a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced the opening of its DevOps Leadership Summit at the iconic EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    The DevOps Leadership Summit is a full day event bringing together some of the most advanced DevOps experts sharing best practices and enterprise case studies. The event features industry thought leaders and authors Dave Farley and Andrew Phillips, along with DevOps experts from companies such as ING, KPN, NJM Insurance Group, Rabobank, DUO, Stater and Wirecard.

    “We are excited to bring together such an exceptional group of industry experts and welcome our customers from around the world,” said Derek Langone, CEO of XebiaLabs. “Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced Continuous Delivery experts, discuss complex enterprise DevOps use cases and network with their peers throughout the event.”

    The event opens today, June 16th 2016 at 9am. To view the full agenda and learn more about the DevOps Leadership Summit, please visit www.xebialabs.com/devops-leadership-summit/.

    About XebiaLabs
    XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale Continuous Delivery and DevOps software, providing companies with the visibility, automation and control they need to deliver software faster and with less risk. Global market leaders rely on XebiaLabs to meet the increasing demand for accelerated and more reliable software releases. For more information, please visit http://www.xebialabs.com.

    Media Contact:

    Victor Cruz
    Principal
    MediaPR
    vcruz@mediapr.net

  • Doing Nothing is Hard Work!

    Doing Nothing is Hard Work!

    If you really want to know how good your software delivery process is, try doing nothing. Yes, you read that correctly, do nothing: Go through your normal release process without any requirements, no new code, no testing and no installation at the end. Sounds easy, right?

    So let’s get started. This will be different for each organization of course, but typically a new release starts by creating an entry in some administrative system. Then there is usually a review on the scope, budget and overall fit within the company’s strategy. Since there are no new requirements, you should automatically pass any reviews. But if the approval requires a meeting or conference call, you still have to schedule it. Say “Hi” and walk out of the room or hang up the phone. Make sure you get any required e-mail approvals.

    Next, go through all of your other mandatory reviews: security, data privacy, regulatory compliance, user interface design, infrastructure readiness and so on. You may need your test team to sign off on quality as well. And don’t forget to reserve an install window and take into account any change freeze periods.

    doing nothing pic 1

    If you’re lucky, you were able to skip or get auto-approval for most of these checkpoints because you had no new requirements, software or infrastructure. If you’re unlucky, you had to deal with review committees that only meet on the second Tuesday of each month. At any rate, add the elapsed days and see how you did. Five days or fewer? Give your company a gold star! Four to six weeks? Not too bad. Did it take longer than three months? Embarrassing of course, but take solace in the fact that you’re not alone.

    When you have actual requirements to implement, a lot of this overhead is masked. You can do your approvals while there is real coding and testing going on. But this exercise will show you your limitations, and why optimizing your software delivery process is at least as important as automation.

    Doing nothing won’t hit all your bottlenecks. In this exercise, we did not look at duplicating a development environment, getting capital for already-purchased production servers or repeating previously passed tests. I’ll talk about those tasks in another post.

    How long do you think it would take your organization to do nothing? Leave a comment below.

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    About the author / Jan S (Bas) Pluim

    Bas Pluim

    Bas Pluim is a Cloud/DevOps solution architect in IBM’s innovation practice. He works with clients on infrastructure solutions, process re-engineering, automation tools and transforming the overall software delivery process. Bas is also a member of the IT Specialist certification board, a gaming enthusiast and an advocate of social media tools

    Connect with Bas on LinkedIn / Twitter

  • CA Technologies Delivers First Integrated and Open Continuous Delivery Ecosystem, Enabling Organizations to Deliver Applications Faster and More Efficiently

    CA Automates Complete Application Lifecycle for Improved Deployment Times and Testing Efficiency

    New York, June 15, 2016 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the availability of CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition, and several new integrations across CA’s DevOps portfolio and third party solutions creating the first integrated, fully automated and open continuous delivery ecosystem. Organizations can now connect and automate the entire app pipeline progression from development, to test, to production, to accelerate deployment times of applications by as much as 20 times* and improve testing efficiency by up to 25 percent**.

    “To thrive in the application economy, digital transformation must be driven by continuous delivery—the ability to rapidly and reliably release applications that meet the demands of external and internal customers alike,” said Jeff Scheaffer, general manager, Continuous Delivery, CA Technologies. “CA is the only DevOps solution provider that currently bridges development, testing, release management and operations in an open, seamless tool chain that helps organizations achieve entirely new levels of application delivery speed and quality.”

    Develop Swiftly, Test Agilely and Release Reliably 

    As organizations progress on their digital transformation journey, the volume, velocity and complexity of applications continues to grow. “Businesses no longer have the luxury of time. Rising customer expectations, competitive threats, and increased consumer choice have turned rapid delivery and iteration of software applications into a competitive differentiator. Optimizing the delivery value chain has become the new means to better business outcomes,” according to Forrester Research.***

    For application owners tasked with rapidly delivering innovative and inspiring applications, but struggling with constraints and dependencies across the software development lifecycle, CA helps eliminate these challenges by providing continuous delivery capabilities that enable organizations to improve release planning and orchestration, use agile testing to test less and cover more, provision data on demand and deploy simulated environments – all with zero touch workflow.

    This is accomplished through:

    “With CA’s continuous delivery solutions we’re standardizing our application products, achieving consistency between server environment platforms and are able to easily integrate CA Release Automation with other continuous integration applications such as Jenkins,” said Matt McComas, AVP Critical Applications, GM Financial. “As a result, we are quickly identifying and resolving inconsistencies in our application environments and have been able to cut deployment times down to two and a half minutes for a 98% reduction in deployment time.”

    Furthermore, to help organizations leverage existing investments, CA’s continuous delivery solutions integrate easily with market tools such as HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Atlassian’s JIRA Software, Jenkins, Docker, Perfecto, Chef and Puppet for an open and fully integrated continuous delivery solution stack.

    “By using different CA tools as part of the software development lifecycle, testing is no longer a gatekeeper, but rather an operational quality door opener that helps simplify the development of new releases,” said, Arnold Hoogerwerf, IT strategy advisor at KPN, a leading telecommunications company in the Netherlands. “The tools we use from CA’s set of continuous delivery solutions have allowed us to reduce our investment and increase our agility in testing and helped us discover defects earlier so we can continually improve the quality of our applications in a shorter timeframe.”

    Release automation goes hand-in-hand with DevOps practices and Cloud technologies to ensure that organizations can deliver apps that provide the very best customer experiences and drive competitive advantage in today’s app-driven, cloud-connected, mobile-everything world. The open and flexible architecture of CA’s continuous delivery solutions can help organizations deploy applications to modern Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Skytap as a standard part of their app delivery practices.

    To learn more, join InformationWeek, CA Technologies and a team of industry experts on Wednesday, June 15 from 11 a.m. ET to 1 p.m. ET for the live virtual event, Automation, Speed and Quality: The Keys to Your Continuous Delivery Journey. To register for the event or watch the replay visit,http://cainc.to/Wfn25T.

    Resources

    • The Total Economic Impact™ Of CA Release Automation, Forrester Research, December 2015

    **The Total Economic Impact™ Of The CA Technologies Test Data Manager Solution, Forrester Research, December 2015

    ***TechRadar™: Continuous Software Delivery, Q2 2015, Forrester Research, May 1, 2015

    About CA Technologies

    CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business in every industry. From planning, to development, to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. Learn more at www.ca.com. 

     

    Press Contact 

    Michelle Laidlaw

    Public Relations

    (631) 342-4701

    michelle.laidlaw@ca.com

  • 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

  • 3 Rules for Successful SAFe Adoption

    3 Rules for Successful SAFe Adoption

    Startups and enterprises alike are redefining—some say disrupting—markets, industries and customer experiences by delivering innovative ideas at a rapid pace and responding to feedback. Often they fail, but they fail quickly and adjust. You know the ones: Spotify, Etsy, Netflix, Airbnb. How do they do it? What can we learn from them that will work in our own organizations? What is different? In a nutshell, all of these successful organizations innovate completely, not only in terms of what they do, but also how they do it. And the common thread is the application of lean and agile practices to improve their culture and deliver innovation to customers faster than the rest of us.

    Today’s business imperative is to be the disruptor and more and more organizations are turning to enterprise scaled agile as a set of practices to help lead transformations to achieve that goal. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is the industry-leading enterprise scaled agile framework with a proven track record in thousands of organizations for several reasons, not the least of which is the incredible breadth of definition and collateral so that you just don’t have to make this stuff up yourself. Nevertheless, there is not an one-size-fits-all framework and SAFe is no exception. But there are three key concepts prescribed by SAFe that, if you do nothing else, will help you be successful in your evolution toward becoming that disruptor.

    Go SAFe or Go Home

    1. Apply Lean Principles at an Enterprise level
    You’ve likely heard the term “MVP,” or minimum viable product. This is about investing “just enough” to deliver a capability—a solution, product or application—and get feedback. It is about avoiding the pitfalls of over-engineering. This is perfect embodiment of lean thinking. By focusing on investing only as much as necessary to get feedback quickly (and doing this continuously) you not only reduce or eliminate wasted resources but also speed time to feedback. Lean is also about the notion that “capacity rules”—in other words, only invest as you have capacity to follow through. Otherwise, what’s the point?

    2. Apply Economic Thinking
    Traditional methodologies typically focus on priority to rank at all levels, from business initiatives and projects down to team-level work that delivers changes into products and applications. In the agile world, story points (or complexity) also might be used. So what’s the problem with this? First, it is only a single dimension. What about business or customer value? What about cost of delivery or reducing risks or enabling market opportunities? Is timing a factor? All of these aspects should be considered when ranking because, at the end of the day, organizations are looking for the “biggest bang for the buck.” By applying economic thinking, you are maximizing the business’s ability to deliver the most value at the lowest cost in a timely manner.

    3. Focus on Delivery of Value
    I’ve often heard that revenue generation is the primary goal when organizations look to speed delivery cycle times. In fact, the goal should be delighting the customer; revenue is a bonus, a side effect of happy customers who use your stuff and pay for it! A focus on improving feature delivery is too narrow. What you really want to do is improve time to value. That means articulating what value means, associating the notion of value with features that are delivered, assessing that value and then tracking so you have insight into your organization’s ability to deliver value and get better at it.

    SAFe embraces all of these concepts through artifacts and activities anchored in lean and agile practices. Try it, you might be surprised at how impactful this can be in improving your ability to innovate and be the disruptor instead of being disrupted.

    Read how a typical enterprise dipped its toe in SAFe water to drive delivery of a critical project, and be sure to visit the SAFe landing page to learn more.

    About the Author/ Amy Silberbauer

    Amy SilberbauerAmy is a Solution Architect charged with the definition and delivery of the Enterprise Scaled Agile and IBM DevOps Plan solutions and strategy for the IBM Watson IoT line of business. She is a recognized subject matter expert on scaled agile and software development lifecycle solutions, including enterprise modernization, SOA and collaborative DevOps. She has been with IBM for 29 years and has two decades of software development experience as an engineer, architect and manager. She is a certified SAFe® Program Consultant experienced in leading and consulting on multiple internal and external SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework®) transformations.

    Connect with Amy on LinkedIn.

  • XebiaLabs Unveils “Periodic Table of DevOps Tools” v.2

    Highly Popular Free DevOps Market Landscape Tool Updated With New Members and More Features

    BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – Jun 14, 2016) – XebiaLabs (www.xebialabs.com), a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced the release ofThe Periodic Table of DevOps Tools v.2, a major update of its free, industry recognized DevOps landscape tool. The latest release of this highly popular tool provides an updated DevOps landscape and users can now dive deeper into each tool, finding tool descriptions, Twitter handles, plugins and related tools.

    Understanding the DevOps tooling landscape is a major pain point for IT professionals as enterprises are looking to deploy DevOps tools and practices to increase competitiveness and deliver better software faster and with less risk.

    With its unique market overview and simple format, the Periodic Table of DevOps Tools has become a standard reference tool for IT professions.

    “We have seen interest from hundreds of thousands of users across our website and in social media since we launched the first version of the Periodic Table of DevOps Tools,” said Gottfried Sehringer, Chief Marketing Officer at XebiaLabs. “Version 2 has been highly anticipated and we are delighted to have had the help of the entire DevOps community to update this free tool, and provide an easy to understand overview of the complex and fast moving DevOps market.”

    The second generation of the Periodic Table of DevOps tools adds some new members, provides a new look into the world of DevOps and adds more in-depth visibility into its various tools and categories therein. It also introduces new animations, a completely responsive platform for visibility on any device, and a tooling repository.

    The Periodic Table of DevOps Tools v.2 has been updated based on the crowd-sourced interactive tool “DevOps Hot or Not,” as well as community and industry expert feedback.

    The Periodic Table of DevOps Tools v.2 is available for free today and can be viewed at:https://xebialabs.com/periodic-table-of-devops-tools/

    About XebiaLabs
    XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale Continuous Delivery and DevOps software, providing companies with the visibility, automation and control they need to deliver software faster and with less risk. Global market leaders rely on XebiaLabs to meet the increasing demand for accelerated and more reliable software releases. For more information, please visit http://www.xebialabs.com.

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  • Chef Launches Habitat, New Open Source Project to Automate Applications

    After Nine Months in Stealth Development, First of Its Kind Open Source Project Packages Automation with Application for Deployment Anywhere, from Bare Metal to Containers

    SEATTLE – June 14, 2016 – Chef<https://www.chef.io>, the leader in automation for DevOps<https://www.chef.io/solutions/devops>, today announced Habitat<https://habitat.sh>, an open source project that introduces a new approach for application automation. Applications packaged with Habitat have the intelligence to self-organize and self-configure. Habitat makes applications independent of underlying infrastructure, so it is easy to run applications across increasingly diverse environments such as containers, PaaS, cloud infrastructure and on-premise data centers.

    Companies today have extensive digital presence with many custom applications. As these applications have grown in complexity, so has the burden of managing them. Traditionally, infrastructure has dictated the design of the application. Habitat takes the opposite view and, for the first time, puts the application front and center. As a result, companies can focus on business value and planning features that will make their products stand out rather than on the constraints of infrastructure and particular runtime environments.

    Whether greenfield or legacy, any application that is deployed using a Habitat package has the intelligence to be aware of and react to its environment. Habitat’s novel approach to packaging allows the application to be independent of any particular infrastructure environment. Habitat also provides a well-defined interface that simplifies common tasks such as monitoring, safe deployment of new features and the creation of peer relationships that are required for production systems.

    From a developer’s perspective, by wrapping applications in Habitat packages, application teams don’t have to worry about a particular runtime until they’re ready to deploy. Because Habitat flexibly handles the management of the application, teams are no longer responsible for creating their own management solutions over and over again. With Habitat, developers can focus on new products and features that move the business forward.

    Chef’s co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob will unveil Habitat via livestream<https://bignews.chef.io/> at 8:30 a.m. PT today. The presentation will include a live demo and be followed by live Q&A on Twitter. Tweet questions to @chef using the tag #habitat.

    News Highlights:

    Habitat is a first of its kind open source project that offers an entirely new approach to application management. Habitat makes the application and its automation the unit of deployment. When applications are wrapped in a lightweight “habitat,” the runtime environment, whether it is a container, bare metal, or PaaS, is no longer the focus and does not constrain the application. Features of Habitat include:

    •   Support for the Modern Application: Habitat packages include everything that an application needs to run, throughout its lifecycle. Habitat’s core components are:

    •   Packaging format. Applications in a Habitat package are atomic, immutable and auditable.

    •   Supervisor. The Habitat supervisor runs application packages with awareness of the packages’ peer relationships, upgrade strategy and security policies. The Habitat supervisor configures and manages the application for whatever environment is present.
      The Habitat ecosystem also provides a build service that takes a Habitat build plan, creates the Habitat package, and publishes it to a depot.

    •   Run Any Application, Anywhere: With Habitat applications can run, unmodified, in any runtime environment, from bare metal and virtual machines, to containers like Docker and cluster-management systems like Mesosphere or Kubernetes, and PaaS systems like Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

    •   Easily Port Legacy Applications: When legacy applications are wrapped in a Habitat package, they become independent of the environment for which they were originally designed. They can quickly be moved to more modern environments such as the cloud and containers. Also, because Habitat packages have a standard, outward-facing interface, legacy applications become much easier to manage.
    •   Improve the Container Experience: Habitat reduces the complexity of managing containers in production environments. By automating application configuration within a container, Habitat addresses the challenges developers face when moving container-based applications from development environments into production.
    •   Integrate into Chef’s DevOps Workflow: The Habitat project is sponsored by Chef. Habitat leverages Chef’s deep experience with infrastructure automation to bring unprecedented automation capabilities to applications. Chef will offer commercial support for Habitat and ensure seamless integration between Habitat and Chef Delivery to fully automate the application release cycle, from development to deployment.

    Availability:
    Habitat is an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license. You can download Habitat immediately athttps://www.habitat.sh/docs/get-habitat/. Chef offers commercial support for the Habitat supervisor through its Chef Enterprise subscription.

    Supporting Quotes
    “We must free the application from its dependency on infrastructure to truly achieve the promise of DevOps. There is so much open source software to be written in the world and we’re very excited to release Habitat into the wild. We believe application-centric automation can give modern development teams what they really want — to build new apps, not muck around in the plumbing.”

    •   Adam Jacob, co-founder and CTO, Chef

    “Each year we’ve seen steady progress in taming the challenges of application management at scale,
    but I think we have to pay particular attention to technologies that continuously deliver desired end-states,
    and across diverse production environments, otherwise we’re just speeding up over-the-wall procedures.”

    •   Mark Burgess, Technologist, author, creator of CFEngine, Emeritus Professor of Network and System Administration, Oslo University College

    “Open source projects like Habitat embrace the ability to help DevOps teams run their applications in containers everywhere. The community can take advantage of Habitat’s application-centric automation on CoreOS Linux, the lightweight OS designed for containers, and Tectonic, the premier infrastructure platform for running distributed applications using Kubernetes, across all their environments while benefiting from security, reliability and scalability.”

    •   Wei Dang, head of product, CoreOS

    “Traditional enterprise applications have limited proliferation into the hybrid cloud. By making it easy to build applications that run anywhere, the value of hybrid cloud platforms, containers, and their management can be fully realized. Habitat is an important step forward in enabling enterprise IT to fully benefit from the portability and efficiency of cloud computing.”

    •   Jonathan Donaldson, vice president of Software Defined Infrastructure, Data Center Group, Intel

    “Open source is at the core of the modern application principles powering today’s digital economy. Together, Habitat and DC/OS enable organizations to apply these principles — including autonomy, portability, and scale — to new and legacy applications alike, making it even easier to automate the application stack in any environment.”

    •            Tobi Knaup, co-founder and CTO, Mesosphere

    “Modern application teams want the freedom to make infrastructure choices without worrying about the impact of those choices on their applications. Habitat’s application automation combined with our container management platform gives development teams the ability to easily build, deploy, and manage their containerized applications on everything from bare metal to the cloud.”

    •            Sheng Liang, CEO, Rancher Labs

    Additional Resources

    About Chef
    Founded in 2008, Chef Software is changing the way companies build and deliver software to delight customers. Chef is the leader in automation for DevOps, a cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners. Built on a strong open source foundation, we have distilled the proven patterns and practices for fast and scalable software development into our leading IT automation platform. Chef automates the continuous and unified delivery of applications and infrastructure, enabling enterprises worldwide to deliver software much faster with minimal risk. With hundreds of commercial customers and tens of thousands of open source community members, we are leading one of the strongest technology movements in the world today. Join us atwww.chef.io<http://www.chef.io>.

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  • Loggly Closes $11.5M of New Financing

    Cloud-based log management solution follows 2,000 customer milestone with funding round led by True Ventures

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA—June 14, 2016—Loggly, the leading cloud-based, enterprise-class log management solution provider, today announces an $11.5 million funding round. Led by True Ventures, the new round enables Loggly to continue to innovate as well as to expand sales and marketing activities. Additional investors include Matrix Partners, Cisco, Trinity Ventures, Harmony Partners and Data Collective Venture Capital.

    “Following record growth and customer adoption, including reaching the 2,000 paid customer accounts milestone in Q1 2016, this next round of funding marks continued momentum for Loggly. True Ventures – and all Loggly investors – have set the stage for us to build on these achievements,” said Charlie Oppenheimer, CEO, Loggly. “This funding enables Loggly to further accelerate innovation in powerful analytics, alerts, search capabilities and other key areas so our customers can find root causes faster, spot anomalies earlier and monitor the health of their applications and infrastructure.”

    Loggly has become increasingly cash efficient as a result of significant growth in recurring revenues, gross margin and reduction in customer acquisition costs. Combined with record revenue growth from both new and existing customers, the company expects to achieve cash-flow positive operations during 2017.

    “True Ventures believes in taking bold risks and supporting our companies through their entire lifecycles,” said Puneet Agarwal, Partner, True Ventures. “We are excited to lead this next stage with Loggly and look forward to the continued innovation and growth.”

    Customers in the gaming and entertainment industry, consumer services, technology as well as marketing and finance platforms, use Loggly as their cloud-based log management service to aggregate all logs in one central place and turn large amounts of log data into valuable insights in real-time.

    About Loggly
    Loggly aims to empower the creators and operators of cloud-based services to operate flawlessly and deliver great user experiences by knowing what’s going on with their applications and why. Our cloud-based log management solution shows you what matters by crunching through huge volumes of log data that no human could possibly read. Loggly is the world’s most popular cloud-based, enterprise-class log management solution. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, the company is backed by True Ventures, Matrix Partners, Cisco, Trinity Ventures, Harmony Partners, Data Collective Venture Capital, and others. Loggly is an official AWS Config partner and a Docker Ecosystem Technology Partner. Visit us at www.loggly.com or follow @loggly on Twitter.

    Press Contact:
    Matt Trocchio
    SHIFT Communications
    512.792.2555
    loggly@shiftcomm.com

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  • Q&A: CNCF on Instilling a DevOps Culture, Part 1

    Q&A: CNCF on Instilling a DevOps Culture, Part 1

    The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a non-profit comprised of some 49 industry participants that have come together to drive development and adoption of cloud-native applications and services. The CNCF is uniting such giants as Google, IBM, Intel and Cisco Systems to distill a collection of container technologies that end-user companies deem praiseworthy to reach its goal.

    The CNCF intends its membership to represent end users (the CNCF website lists one end user, Goldman Sachs), cloud and container technologies, online and IT services, and academic institutions.

    On behalf of the CNCF, Craig McLuckie, its Governing Board chair, and Brian Grant, its Technical Oversight Committee representative, weigh in on leading the DevOps transformation and instilling a DevOps culture in this two-part Q&A.

    devopsy.kinsta.cloud: How is the CNCF specifically involved in leading the DevOps transformation by instilling the DevOps culture, in the industry or in member companies, for example?

    McLuckie: We believe that at the heart of the DevOps culture is the need to reduce the friction and, indeed, the barriers between teams that build an application and the teams that run an application. Developers learn to think about an application as a living service that evolves continuously and rapidly to meet the evolving business needs. Operations is there to deliver the tools and environment needed for them to successfully drive their application.

    devopsy.kinsta.cloud: Why do developers need an environment that is safe to change? What kind of change? Safe how?

    McLuckie: Safe change has many potential meanings: The first kind of “safe” is about creating deterministic behavior in operations. Does the system handle a change correctly every time? If I make a change to two systems, will they have the same state? How about to 1,000 systems? It’s important to focus on creating strong determinism by removing the moving parts in a production deployment.

    The second kind of “safe” is about being able to validate that a change is good—not just in pre-production environments, but in the actual production environment—with a simple and deterministic rollback. It is important to make it trivial to replicate environments, and offer a way to run a simple experiment in production (e.g. route 1 percent of my traffic to this new version) with the option to deterministically roll forward or backward without effort.

    A third kind of “safe” is about being able to ensure that every change is deliberate. One of the problems we often see in production systems is “configuration drift” that isn’t driven through any kind of formal process. This should be addressed by creating a strongly declarative toolset that makes every change deliberate and trackable.

    devopsy.kinsta.cloud: How do you recommend providing these things that developers need? How do you help provide them?

    McLuckie: There are multiple issues like data, security governance and applications that need to be addressed. Additionally, companies want to deliver apps with high velocity. How do you solve all of this? A vendor-neutral organization that can harmonize emerging technologies is important for facilitating cloud-native. Given the large number of players in the marketplace with competing approaches, having an open source way to solve this is also important.

    Grant: Cloud-native infrastructure enables self-service and “hands-off” operation, including provisioning, deployment, scaling, healing, discovery, monitoring and more, with relatively little marginal effort for specific applications. By supporting open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus that provide such functionality, the CNCF hopes to democratize high-velocity application delivery, which was previously achievable mainly by web-scale companies.

    devopsy.kinsta.cloud: How does this align with instilling a DevOps culture?

    Grant: In a DevOps culture, operators are both partners and customers of the developers. Developers take responsibility for meeting operational requirements: security, reliability, availability, scalability, efficiency, actionable monitoring and logging output, necessary configurability, compatibility with the production environment, etc. Cloud-native infrastructure provides mechanisms developers and operators need to facilitate and capitalize on those capabilities.

    Stay tuned for part two of the CNCF interview.

  • DBmaestro Releases TeamWork Version 5.1 with Increased Automation Capabilities  

     

    New version widens database release automation to provide significantly higher interoperability 

    Houston, Texas – June 13, 2016 – DBmaestro (www.DBmaestro.com), the pioneer and leading provider of DevOps for Database solutions, announced the release of TeamWork Version 5.1, which improves its industry leading database release automation interoperability to support seamless integration with all sources of database changes, while predicting the success of database deployments and alerting for configuration drift. Additionally, Version 5.1 includes dozens of security upgrades and improvements to integrations with solutions such as Jira, Jenkins and CA Release Automation.

    DBmaestro’s DevOps for Database solution offers a comprehensive approach to the database development life cycle, providing enterprises the ability to deliver changes faster. DBmaestro has been at the forefront of Continuous Delivery for the Database, with a solution that provides complete database source control, governance, and compliance, and ultimately reduces application downtime caused by database-related human errors by 80%, while speeding up the time to market of database driven business applications tenfold.

    DBmaestro V5.1 enhanced interoperability empowers customers to turn any existing change process into a stable, predictable and reliable release automation process. Any update package or database update script can be managed by DBmaestro’s release automation solution, and leverage its risk evading smart validators and drift detectors before and after deployments. TeamWork provides support for smart deployments between different environments, labels and user stories, as well as support for rollbacks in case of need.

    “With the increased need to improve time to market, budget tightening and tolerances for database downtime approaching zero, companies of all shapes and sizes are ready to make a change when it comes to implementing continuous delivery for the database,” said Yaniv Yehuda, DBmaestro’s co-founder and CTO. “With our new upgrade, DBmaestro is allowing customers to substantially improve the performance, scalability, reliability and cost-efficiency of their DevOps for database solution.”

    Right now, you can join a free demo of DBmaestro TeamWork’s Version 5.1 with the first-of-its-kind pipeline builder. Click here to sign up for a demo. 

    About DBmaestro

    DBmaestro is a pioneer and leading DevOps for database solution provider. Its flagship product, DBmaestro TeamWork, enables agile development, Continuous Integration and Delivery for the Database.

    TeamWork supports streamlining of development process management and enforcing change policy practices. The solution empowers Agile team collaboration while fostering regulatory compliance and governance. With DBmaestro, organizations can facilitate DevOps for database by executing deployment automation, enhancing and reinforcing security as well as mitigating risk.

    DBmaestro’s solutions are deployed at many major international companies, including Barclays, Visa, Isracard (MasterCard), Frost Bank, Thomson Holidays, and Bank Leumi.