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  • Beyond Server Monitoring

    Beyond Server Monitoring

    The logs go in and the visualizations and insights come out. You suddenly have access to data you never had before—data that helps improve your operations and your DevOps environment. But is that where the value of log analysis stops? No! Extending log analysis benefits your entire organization, not just the development and IT Operation teams.

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  • VictorOps Joins Rackspace Marketplace; Offers Collaborative Alert Management Platform for DevOps

    Significantly Decreases Time To Resolution for Incidents to Reduce Costs For Customers

     BOULDER, Colo., March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — VictorOps, a collaboration and incident management platform designed for DevOps teams, today announced that it has joined the Marketplace for Rackspace® Hosting, RAX +0.03% , the open cloud company. As part of the Marketplace, VictorOps will offer a solution for Rackspace customers that gives them constant situational awareness of their application performance allowing for smarter, real-time collaboration around problems.

    The VictorOps platform allows DevOps to define on-call schedules that notify team members of infrastructure and service delivery platform problems as they occur according to company, team and personal escalation policies. Team members are alerted via VictorOps’ native Android and iOS applications or by SMS, email or phone call.

    “As long-term Rackspace customers, and as a DevOps driven organization, we’re excited to see tools like VictorOps in the Rackspace Marketplace,” said Nick Stielau, Director of Operations for Pantheon. Stielau is focused on architecting and selecting solutions that support his DevOps team members. “Without innovative, team-centric tools like VictorOps, creating an aligned development organization is an uphill battle,” he continued.

    Team members can post ideas and trouble shoot problems in real-time while having unprecedented access to the data they need to solve the problem regardless of physical location or time-of-day. Teams that can share situational data easily, inject thoughts and comments, and leverage team members who are not physically present is key to reducing the time-to-resolution for the company and a better lifestyle for the team as a whole.

    “The power of a collaborative solution for real-time problem solving is in its ability to leverage the entire team’s knowledge in a scalable way through all phases of the incident lifecycle,” said Todd Vernon, CEO and co-founder, VictorOps. “Bringing our collaboration platform to the Marketplace enables Rackspace customers to purchase a solution with new ways to solve problems in a smarter way, which can help solve the same or similar problems faster the next time they occur. This reduces overall costs for a business.”

    “As early adopters of DevOps, we see VictorOps as a natural fit for the Marketplace,” said John Engates, chief technology officer, Rackspace. “We share their desire to enable DevOps teams to do their jobs more effectively and believe that the addition of VictorOps will add great value to the Marketplace.”

    For additional information about VictorOps and Rackspace Marketplace, visit: try.victorops.com/rackspace.

    About VictorOps  VictorOps is the world’s first collaborative alert management platform designed for DevOps teams that 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, visithttp://www.victorops.com  and follow the company on Twitter @GoVictorOps.

    SOURCE VictorOps

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  • Automated Windows User Management Leaps Forward with JumpCloud

    JumpCloud™, the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, today announced that its best-in-class user management functionality now supports the Windows server platform. JumpCloud’s automated server management solution provides user management, patch management, security, and compliance capabilities for cloud, virtual, and/or on-premises servers. With the addition of Windows support, DevOps and IT admins can now manage all of their users across all types of servers from one platform. Organizations can try JumpCloud for free for 30-days on an unlimited number of Linux or Windows servers.

    JumpCloud now supports Windows Server® 2008 and 2012 through its user management functionality. Now, Windows-based cloud servers can be easily managed without the need for Active Directory®. Key functionality in its Linux version is now available for Windows including management of users, creation of server and user groups, password and key rotation, and enforcement of password complexity. JumpCloud seamlessly integrates into the Windows login flow and does not add steps or change the process.

    JumpCloud’s user management process includes not only managing users, but ensuring that only the right people are accessing the system. JumpCloud alerts on first time access and access from different locations. JumpCloud also tracks brute force attempts against the Windows server to allow IT admins to ensure that devices have not been compromised. JumpCloud’s user management functionality ensures that the right people have the right access to your Linux and Windows servers.

    “Windows servers represent a significant share of market, both on-premise and in the cloud, and for most organizations managing administrative accounts on cloud servers is a manual process,” said Derek Brink, vice president and research fellow for Aberdeen Group, A Harte Hanks Company. “Automating user management processes across both on-premise and cloud servers – regardless of operating system – is invaluable, and Windows shops can now leverage the JumpCloud service.”

    “Windows support has been one of our most popular requests. Centrally managing administrative access across multiple platforms whether in the cloud or on-premises is a challenge as many DevOps and IT admins know,” said Rajat Bhargava, CEO, JumpCloud. “With our latest release, JumpCloud solves a significant problem for admins managing Windows, as well as mixed OS environments and servers. They can now manage users in one spot through a powerful tool.”

    JumpCloud’s Windows support is available immediately. To try JumpCloud for free, sign-up at www.jumpcloud.com.

    About JumpCloud

    JumpCloud automates manual, tedious server management tasks from the cloud for DevOps and IT pros. Complementary to and integrated with Chef and Puppet, JumpCloud picks up where they leave off by automating management of users, patches, security, and compliance. JumpCloud returns days to DevOps and IT admins’ lives while increasing security. An automated SaaS-based offering, JumpCloud installs in seconds and deploys on physical, virtual, or cloud servers. For more information visit JumpCloud.com.

  • JumpCloud Soars into Commercial Availability

    Extensive Development and Customer Feedback Results in Best in Class Automated Server Management Solution

    BOULDER, Colo.–()–JumpCloud™, the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, today announced the general commercial availability of its automated server management solution. JumpCloud launched its automated server management solution last September at the prestigious TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco event as a Startup Battlefield finalist. Since that time, hundreds of organizations have deployed JumpCloud, and requests for additional features have helped to iterate, refine, and optimize the solution for DevOps and IT professionals.

    “JumpCloud has had a major impact on our daily routine. After automating with JumpCloud, we don’t have to spend cycles on many of our daily manual server management tasks such as managing users and tracking privileged commands”

    “The cloud’s elasticity and agility has enabled several new operational models such as DevOps, an IT model that blurs the lines between development and IT operations, as well as consolidates historically segregated management functions to improve efficiency and responsiveness,” said Rich Mogull, CEO of Securosis, in What CISOs Need to Know About Cloud Computing.

    JumpCloud’s mission is to automate the manual, tedious tasks of managing servers so that DevOps and IT pros can focus on what makes their business tick: innovation. JumpCloud has built a platform to execute these tasks, including SSH/privileged user management, admin activity monitoring, patch detection, and compliance. JumpCloud supports servers in the cloud, data center, colo, or hosted as VMs.

    JumpCloud customers can now choose to extend their access to critical server management functionality for as little as $10 per month per server, as well as benefit from an hourly pricing rate per server should that be a better match for their scalable infrastructure. As part of the commercial plans, JumpCloud customers receive access to its best-in-class functionality, extended data retention, and phone support.

    “JumpCloud has had a major impact on our daily routine. After automating with JumpCloud, we don’t have to spend cycles on many of our daily manual server management tasks such as managing users and tracking privileged commands,” said Scott Brown, CEO of Bounce.IO. “JumpCloud is simple and efficient, yet powerful. And, because we can focus on delivering our product and not on tedious maintenance tasks, its return on investment was almost immediate.”

    “Commercially releasing JumpCloud has meant countless hours of team effort interacting with amazing customers, learning about their problems, and the best ways to solve them. I’m incredibly proud of our team’s results and honored to work with such great customers,” said Rajat Bhargava, President & CEO, JumpCloud. “JumpCloud is solving an incredibly difficult and important problem: how to enable companies to innovate faster.”

    JumpCloud is available immediately. For a free 30-day trial, sign-up at www.jumpcloud.com.

    About JumpCloud

    JumpCloud automates manual, tedious server-management tasks from the cloud for DevOps and IT pros. Complementary to and integrated with Chef and Puppet, JumpCloud picks up where they leave off by automating management of users, patches, security, and compliance. JumpCloud returns days to DevOps and IT admins’ lives while increasing security. An automated SaaS-based offering, JumpCloud installs in seconds and deploys on physical, virtual, or cloud servers. For more information visitJumpCloud.com.