Release Insights released to the Eggplant suite
Friday, August 10, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Eggplant has announced the addition of Eggplant Release Insights to its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite. The technology enhances the company's automation capabilities, providing intuitive analytics and insights that help teams understand the impact on user satisfaction and business outcomes if they release another version of their product now. This helps...
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud launched for GA
Sunday, April 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
Oracle has announced the availability of a new service based on its Autonomous Database named Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, uses machine learning to deliver performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention, at "half the cost of Amazon Web Services."Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of t...
Website testing platform BrowserStack closes $50M
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
For those testing websites you'll be happy to know that BrowserStack has announced a $50 million Series A investment from Accel for a minority equity position. The investment will fuel the company's testing infrastructure for the internet and allows the company to expand team and raise global brand awareness. The deal was led by Accel's Ryan Sweeney, Nate Niparko, and S...
Software testing using Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
As the complexity of software continues to increase and release delivery cycles shorten, software testers need to provide quality feedback to developers nearly instantaneously. In this age of continuous testing, companies are adopting a new mantra: Test smarter, not harder. There’s simply no other choice, given the torrential pace of new software launches. Today, ...
How you can automate your release process
Monday, April 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Rollout helps mobile app developers build and deploy apps quickly and safely by automating the time-consuming manual tasks associated with gradual feature releases. The company recently released ROX by Rollout, which allows developers to gradually release new features, measure the impact and respond in real-time - all without waiting for the next release. We chatted wit...
IT Professionals Weigh in on the Windows 10 Anniversary Release
Monday, August 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Adaptiva has the results from its 2016 Windows 10 Enterprise Adoption Survey which polled over 300 IT professionals about the Windows 10 Anniversary OS release.The survey was intended to provide high-level data around adoption rates and the IT department impact of Windows 10 migrations. It also analyzed the potential impact of Microsoft’s Windows 10 Second Anniversary U...
QASymphony Releases Survey on Test-First Methodologies for Software Testing
Thursday, July 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
QASymphony has released the results of a survey of more than 200 software testers as part of QASymphony’s first “State of Test-First Methodologies” report. The survey was conducted online in February.Among the key findings from the survey was that Test-First methodologies – though still in their infancy from a global adoption perspective – have the potential to signific...
Using the Right Agile Tool for the Job
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Mark Noneman
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!" Huh? I don’t know; it’s something my father always said. I think he meant that if you don’t have the right tool for the job, you’ll use the tool you have. And if it’s the wrong tool, the job will suffer. Agile frameworks are tools of a sort. You might say that Scrum is like a wrench - requirin...
Array Networks Release Offers Elliptical Curve Cryptography for ADC Physical and Virtual Environments
Friday, February 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Array Networks has released APV version 8.6, a new software release for Array’s APV Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs). The release offers newly added support for elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) - the next generation of public-key cryptography - APV version 8.6 provides improved security while requiring less computational power, resulting in faster proce...
New xMatters Integration Platform Offers DevOps Intelligent Communication Connectivity
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
xMatters has announced the general availability of its integration platform offering intelligent communication connectivity technology that supports DevOps adoption.The xMatters’ cloud platform accelerates business processes through intelligent communication which pinpoints and alerts the individuals, teams and external service providers required to work together to qui...
XebiaLabs Introduces New Updates to its DevOps and Continuous Delivery Solutions
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
XebiaLabs offers a portfolio of DevOps and continuous delivery software and has announced a new version of its XL Release software release orchestration product offering improvements in the solution’s ability to release orchestration across teams, processes and tools. XL Release allows companies to automate, orchestrate and get visibility into software release pipelines...
Ravello’s Smart Labs Provides Networking and Security on AWS and Google Cloud
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Ravello Systems has launched the Smart Labs networking and security platform that combines the functionality of data center labs with the elasticity of AWS and Google Cloud. Ravello’s Smart Labs are powered by a virtual overlay cloud with software-defined networking, with support for running existing VMware and KVM virtual appliances, in a fully fenced environment,...
Prerequisites for a Successful Enterprise Continuous Delivery Implementation
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Cyrille Le Clerc
Continuous Delivery as a methodology and tool to meet the ever-increasing demand to deliver better software faster is fast gaining the attention of businesses today. Continuous Delivery, with its emphasis on keeping software in a release-ready state at all times, is a natural evolution from continuous integration and agile software development practices. However, ...
Continuous Delivery is Eating DevOps as Software is Eating the Business
Thursday, March 26, 2015 by Sacha Labourey
For years, IT has been automating business processes. Now IT is automating its own processes to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to meet the business demand for new software features and capabilities. Continuous DeliveryWhat if the business could release dozens of tested software improvements to production daily? Could the business respond to market and cu...
Flexera Software Release AdminStudio Suite 2014 Mobile Testing and Management Platform
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Flexera Software has announced the release of AdminStudio Suite 2014 which offers application packaging tools to prepare application packages for software deployment with a set of automated MSI packaging, customization, testing and reporting capabilities. AdminStudio Mobile Pack enables centralized management of mobile apps with the same tools and process...
SpeechStorm Releases Mobile Interactive Voice Response Platform
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
SpeechStorm has introduced its ‘Jackson’ software release as part of its SpeechStorm Framework IVR (Interactive Voice Response) platform. The new release offers new multilingual, mobile and testing capabilities for companies need multilingual capabilities.The SpeechStorm platform already supports voice applications and multiple languages and with the addition of Jackson...
Oculus VR Gaming DK2s Now Shipping, New 0.4.0 SDK Beta Also Released
Monday, July 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Oculus has announced that DK2, the latest development kit for the Oculus Rift, is now available. DK2s have started shipping out to developers in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and the company expects to have over 9,000 DK2s in developers’ hands by the end of the first week of August. The company reports they are working out a minor snag for Oceanic cu...
Adobe Releases New SDK and APIs for iOS Mobile Developers
Thursday, June 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Adobe Announced a number of enhancements to its Creative Cloud (CC) platform by announcing 14 new versions of CC desktop applications, including Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Dreamweaver CC and Adobe Premiere Pro CC. The biggest Adobe software release since CS6, it also includes four new mobile apps, the immediate availability of creative har...
