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COLLABNET’S LAURENCE SWEENEY TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES ON DEVOPS AT GARTNER APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE SUMMIT

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:13:43 +0000

Sweeney to explain how enterprise IT departments can increase developer productivity, speed software delivery and realize governance by implementing DevOps

WHO: Laurence Sweeney

Vice President, Enterprise Transformation

(www.collab.net)

Laurence Sweeney helps CollabNetâ��s enterprise customer adopt and scale Agile practices and DevOps programs. He has more than 25 years of software development experience, including director of software at HP. In this role he acquired, deployed and managed multiple Agile ALM platforms for tens of thousands of developers and managers in dozens of divisions. CollabNet also will be exhibiting at the event at booth L.

WHAT: â��Industrializing Agile Software Delivery with DevOpsâ��

Nov. 30, 2011 1:10 p.m. â�� 1:30 p.m. PST

In his presentation, Sweeney will explore the frequency with which code is released to production. He will share why monthly, weekly and daily software releases are increasingly commonplace, and not just for start-ups. Enterprise IT departments have increased developer productivity, saved millions and realized governance by implementing DevOps. Participants who attend this session will hear best practices learned from Fortune 500 implementations. Examples include: 1) U.S. financial services company that cut production release variants by 85 percent, 2) global logistics company that realized flexible delivery cycles ranging from monthly to daily. The session will conclude with an interactive Q & A session from the audience.

WHERE: Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit

Caesars Palace â�� Las Vegas

(http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/applications/about.jsp)

INFO: For more information on this presentation or to arrange an interview with the Mr. Sweeney please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

Datapipe Named to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:10:57 +0000

Datapipe Named to Gartner's Magic Quadrant

Jersey City, NJ, January 6, 2011 - Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, today announced it has been positioned as a Challenger in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. The Magic Quadrant represents Gartner's evaluation of 20 service providers based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

"We believe Gartner's analysis points to our unique value as a single provider solution with unusually strong capabilities for cloud, traditional and hybrid services," said Robb Allen, CEO of Datapipe.

According to the Gartner report, "The market for traditional Web hosting services, especially for Internet and intranet Web content and applications, continues to grow. However, during the past two years, the introduction of cloud computing offerings has radically accelerated innovation in the hosting market." In 2010, Datapipe significantly expanded its portfolio of cloud computing services with Datapipe Managed Cloud, a complete managed services offering designed for Amazon Web Services (AWS) which includes the ability to hybridize Amazon solutions with Datapipe solutions. "We offer solutions that provide improved automation and governance while delivering enterprise performance and reliability," said Ed Laczynski, vice-president of cloud strategy and architecture at Datapipe.

The full report is available for download at www.datapipe.com/magicquadrant, compliments of Datapipe.

About Datapipe
Datapipe offers a single provider solution for managing and securing mission-critical IT services, including cloud computing, hosted servers and storage, colocation and data centers. Datapipe delivers those services from the world's most influential technical and financial markets including New York metro, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. For more information visit www.datapipe.com

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

LEADING RESEARCH ANALYSTS TO DISCUSS LATEST INDUSTRY TRENDS AND BEST PRACTICES AT AGILE 2010 CONFERENCE

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:03:09 +0000

LEADING RESEARCH ANALYSTS TO DISCUSS LATEST INDUSTRY TRENDS AND BEST PRACTICES AT AGILE 2010 CONFERENCE

First ever industry analyst roundtable will explore technology trends, market dynamics and emerging best practices around Agile software practices

PORTLAND, Ore., July 28, 2010 - The Agile Alliance, (http://agilealliance.org/), a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced it will host an industry analyst roundtable at the Agile 2010 conference featuring four leading research analysts covering the Agile software market. Set for Tues., Aug.10 at 5:30-6:30 p.m., at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, the roundtable will provide a unique opportunity for attendees to gain insights into the state of the Agile industry and what developments will likely occur during the coming months and years.
Titled "Agile Trends and Future Directions," this moderated, Q&A formatted session will provide industry experts from leading research firms with a forum to discuss the latest trends and emerging best practices around Agile software development. Attendees will learn how successful software organizations are utilizing Agile to drive business performance and how the latest innovations in Agile practices continue to mature as development organizations deploy Agile further across the enterprise. Moderated by Jim Newkirk, the Conference Chair for Agile 2010, participants in the roundtable include: Dave West, Forrester Research; David Norton, Gartner; Melinda Ballou, IDC; and, Michael Azoff, Ovum Research.

In its ninth year, Agile 2010 is the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development, bringing together many disciplines in the fields of information systems and software development to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices. It provides independent software vendors, software consultants and in-house corporate development teams with the knowledge and shared experiences that lead to successful Agile programs. Agile 2010 connects attendees with the foremost leaders in the Agile domain, enriching the collective body of knowledge and influencing the line of thought in the field. It encourages debate and fosters innovative ideas based on real-world implementations for executives, managers, software development practitioners and researchers from labs and academia. Interested parties can register online for Agile 2010 by visiting (http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/register.html).

About the Agile Alliance
The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). With nearly 6,000 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. The Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industry's leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile 2010 conference http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/ is set for August 9-13 in Orlando. For more information about the organization, visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/).

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LEADING ANALYST FIRM NAMES TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES ‘COOL VENDOR’ IN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:33:48 +0000

Vendors selected are cited for being innovative, impactful and intriguing

VANCOUVER, April 28, 2010 - Tasktop Technologies (http://www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leading provider of task management solutions for application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced that it has been named a "Cool Vendor" in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in the Application Development, 2010" report published April 21, 2010 by industry analyst Thomas Murphy.

"We believe Tasktop's inclusion in Gartner's Cool Vendor report emphasizes the growing need for a task management solution that integrates heterogeneous ALM stacks, whether open source based, best-of-breed, or Agile-specific," said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. "It's great to see Gartner recognize Tasktop's products, open source community, and broad ecosystem of leading Agile and ALM vendors that are working with Tasktop to bring developer productivity to the next level through task-focused collaboration."

Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the Mylyn and Tasktop Pro task management tools to help developers double their productivity by making it effortless to organize work around tasks and automatically presenting the most relevant source code and project management information associated with each task. In addition, Tasktop has collaborated with the leading application management tool vendors to develop APIs that allow Tasktop Pro to serve as an integration hub for accessing and updating ALM systems. To date, there are more than 45 public integrations for Tasktop Pro and over a million users of the open source Mylyn tool.

Most recently, Tasktop announced the completion of several new integrations, including VersionOne and ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM solution. The company also continues to expand support for the IBM Rational suite, including ClearQuest, ClearCase and Rational Team Concert, as well as ALM solutions from vendors such as Atlassian, CollabNet and Rally. In addition, the company was recognized at last month's EclipseCon 2010, where it was named the winner of the Eclipse Community Awards for Best RCP Application.

For more information on Tasktop Technologies or the company's product and service offering please visit: (www.tasktop.com).

About Gartner's Cool Vendor
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company's enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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