Cloudify News and Press

2023

• What’s next in DevOps and what on EARTH is Platform Engineering? Nati Shalom, Cloudify (Dell) & Eran Bibi, Firefly

  In their latest episode of Dev Interrupted (Heb Edition, Eng transcript available*) What's next in DevOps and what on EARTH is Platform Engineering? Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, hosts Nati Shalom CTO & Co-Founder at Cloudify (Dell), and Eran Bibi CPO and Co-Founder at Firefly. Together they take a deep dive into the evolution of the DevOps world over the last 15 years, from SRE to Platform and Production Engineering, and everything in between.

  

2022

• Look, a container! Cloudify automates Kubernetes discovery

  The new Cloudify Discovery feature automates the process of identifying Kubernetes clusters and registering them as self-service DevOps environments in the Cloudify platform. Developers’ burden of manually managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments is replaced by an automated, scalable service that can handle even the most demanding multi-cluster edge environments.

  

• Cloudify Wins the Allbounds Award for Most Innovative Partner Program

  Cloudify created a unique partner program where partners are getting better prepared to track prospects using prospect pages, a faster deal registration process, and engagement. They have launched 8 partners using Allbound in 4 months period with more than 800K deals registered.

  

• Cloudify Discovery Turns Kubernetes Clusters Into Self-Service Environments

  The Cloudify Discovery mechanism provides a generic implementation that scans a given account and looks for existing Kubernetes resources under this account. Once a Kubernetes cluster is discovered, it is registered as a self-service environment under the Cloudify environment section. Each environment includes the relevant authentication token, namespaces and other configuration properties associated with that cluster.

  

• Cloudify Adds ‘Cloudify Discovery’ Capability to Automate Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Discovery, Set-Up of Self-Service Environments

  The new Cloudify Discovery feature automates the process of identifying Kubernetes clusters and registering them as self-service DevOps environments in the Cloudify platform. Developers’ burden of manually managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments is replaced by an automated, scalable service that can handle even the most demanding multi-cluster edge environments.

  

• Cloudify Launches Enhanced Partner Program Giving System Integrators Easy Access to the Cloudify DevOps Automation Platform to Grow Pipeline, Create New Revenue Streams

  Cloudify today announced the launch of its Cloudify Partner Program, including an advanced Partner Portal, designed to equip system integrators with self-service training programs for sales, pre-sales and delivery as well as a diverse set of sales enablement assets. The Cloudify environment-as-a-service technology bridges the gap between applications and their cloud environments, equipping partners with the platform solution they need to deliver what their customers are asking for: automated, self-service DevOps pipelines and easy-to-scale orchestration workflows.

  

• Cloudify DevOps 6.4 arrives. Here’s what’s new

  In its latest release of its open source-based Cloudify DevOps 6.4, the company promises to enable your developers to turn their application and infrastructure resources into a self-service environment in a few hours. It does this by integrating your existing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes & Helm, and many others, with your GitOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. It also now works hand-in-glove with ServiceNow to set up a SaaS on your cloud of choice.

  

• Cloudify 6.4 Release Streamlines Self-Service Conversion of Existing Applications and Infrastructures

  Cloudify, an open-source DevOps automation platform, is launching its version 6.4 release for the platform, further connecting applications to their cloud environments. The latest release brings to the forefront its simplistic strategies for aiding platform engineering teams convert their application and infrastructure resources into a self-service format with efficiency and speed.

  

• Cloudify 6.4 Poised to Improve DevOps Cloud Automation

  Cloudify 6.4 became generally available on Aug. 18, providing users with new capabilities to continuously update operations across different cloud environments. Also, governance tools have been integrated into Cloudify to help organizations comply with policies and implement cost controls. In addition, the updated Cloudify platform now boasts a new user interface and enhancements for Terraform infrastructure-as-code support.

  

• Cloudify 6.4 Arrives, Bridging the Gap Between Applications and Their Cloud Environments

  TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (PRWEB) AUGUST 18, 2022 Cloudify today announced the release of version 6.4 of its open source Cloudify DevOps automation platform that bridges the gap between applications and their cloud environments. Cloudify 6.4 introduces a simple approach for enabling platform engineering teams to turn their application and…

  

• Cloudify Announces Version 6.4

  Cloudify released on August 18th, 2022, version 6.4 of its open source Cloudify DevOps automation platform, which bridges the gap between applications and their cloud environments. This will enable teams to develop and manage environments and remove obstacles between developers and production.

  

• Improve Developer Experience by Enabling Self-Service Environment Management

  In addition to cloud management and container management tools that provide some capabilities for developer self-service, Gartner sees a few providers focus on improving developer self-service in Kubernetes environments as one of their core value propositions. Thank you Gartner and Manjunath Bhat for including us in the list……

  

• Cloudify Integrates with ServiceNow to Provide Automation of Cloud Environment Development and Day-2 Actions for ServiceNow Users Through Service Catalog

  We’re excited to announce the integration of the Cloudify infrastructure automation platform with ServiceNow®️ IT Operations Management (ITOM). Cloudify Integration with ServiceNow provides automation of Cloud Environment Development and Day-2 Actions for ServiceNow Users Through Service Catalog. With this update, governance and cloud center of excellence (CCoE) teams can manage…

  

• Cloudify Wins the 2022 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award

  Tel Aviv, (May 24, 2022) Cloudify, a leader in cloud infrastructure automation, announced the winner of the 2022 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award. The 2022 Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards focus on pioneering companies whose solutions support and accelerate enterprises’ digital transformations…

  

• Cloudify Named 2022 SIIA CODiE Award Finalist in ‘Best DevOps Tool’ – earning nod from industry leaders

  Cloudify named a 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist in the ‘Best DevOps Tool’ category! CODiE finalists represent the best products, technologies and services in software, information and business technology.

  

• The New Stack: The Challenge of Continuous Delivery in Distributed Environments

  Learn from our CTO Nati Shalom as he ponders handling continuous deployments in heavily distributed environments…

  

• Cloudify Announces Integration with ServiceNow to Answer DevOps Teams’ Need for Infrastructure Automation

  ‘New integration delivers shift-left, agile-first approach to infrastructure provisioning, helping DevOps teams achieve a better balance between control and deployment.’…

  

• DevOps.com: Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform

  Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules.

  

2021

• TFIR: Is Environment As A Service The Next Gen Of DevOps?

  Ever wondered what we mean by ‘Environment as a Service’? Wonder no more as TFiR talks to our very own CTO Nati Shalom on EaaS as next-gen #DevOps!…

  

• The New Stack: Use Monitoring Insights to Optimize Cost

  Learn from our CTO Nati Shalom as he compares cost monitoring vs cost efficiency, and shares an example to illustrate how you can gain 10x better efficiency by creating separate, optimized environments for development and production.

  

• DevOps.com: Building on Terraform: Evolution, not Revolution

  Head to DevOps.com and read more from our CTO Nati Shalom on Terraform, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) – limitations, innovations and adoption.

  

• Oracle: Why Moving Your Business To Cloud Isn’t as Easy As You Think

  With Covid-19 completely transforming the way we work, there is an entirely new motivation driving companies towards cloud solutions.Head to Oracle Communities to read our CTO, Nati Shalom’s input on moving your business to cloud and the obstacles that may be encountered.

  

• Cloudify announces its launch of Version 6

  Cloudify officially announced its launch of Version 6. Version 6 introduces features that simplify the management of multiple environments and Kubernetes and Terraform at scale. By virtue of this new release, you can wave goodbye to the struggles of Glue Code and say hello to augmented Terraform and optimized Kubernetes.

  

• Webinar: How AWS, Intel, Capgemini, and Cloudify can help carriers embrace an ‘agile-first’ approach and win big in 5G

  Join a distinguished idustry panel moderated by Petar Torre, solutions Architect at Intel on September 14 for a webinar. Attendees will hear ideas and insights from AWS, Capgemini Engineering, Intel, and Cloudify. Dont miss out on crucial topics surrounding 5G and an agile-first approach.

  

• ‘Reducing Cloud Spend Need Not Be a Paradox’ | TheNewStack

  Cloudify CTO Nati Shalom takes to TheNewStack to publish a response to the recent ‘Trillion Dollar Paradox‘ analysis which challenges conventional thinking regarding cloud transformation and migration.  He covers services, infrastructure, automation, Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform.

  

• Yahoo! Finance: Cloudify Collaborates with AWS, Intel and Capgemini Engineering to deliver an ‘agile first’ approach to 5G and Edge Orchestration

  Cloudify, along with AWS, Intel and Capgemini, released their ‘agile-first’ approach to 5G network slicing, turning projects that would normally take years and months into hours and days, at a fraction of the cost. Read the release on Yahoo! Finance.

  

• ‘Cloudify and partners deliver an ‘agile first’ approach to 5G and Edge Orchestration’

  Cloudify announces collaboration to create an ‘agile-first’ approach to 5G network slicing, simplifying overly complex automation processes across thousands of distributed sites and devices – turning months and years of work into days and hours at a fraction of the cost.

  

• TechBeacon names Cloudify one if its ‘4 essential open-source tools for cloud management’

  TechBeacon names Cloudify as one of its ‘4 essential open-source tools for cloud management’  for multi-cloud orchestration, automation and abstraction. Head to the article to see who else made the cut!…

  

• DataVersity: Why Open Source Matters in Cloud DevOps

  Ever wondered why Open Source matters when it comes to cloud DevOps?  Head to DataVersity where Cloudify CTO Nati Shalom explains the importance of open source, from rejecting vendor lock-in to rapid innovation.

  

• Intel Guide: Cloudify orchestration, Kubernetes cloud technologies, and High Performance Computing are merging in Financial Services workloads

  Cloudify features prominently in this latest Intel guide released after the launch of Intel Xeon SP Gen3 processor (Ice Lake). The guide describes how Cloudify orchestration, Kubernetes cloud technologies, and High Performance Computing are merging in Financial Services workloads optimized for 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors.

  

• DZone: 5 Key Hack to Delivering a Successful DevOps Strategy

  The successful release and deployment of software systems is an important task that requires firm DevOps strategy; our CTO delivers keys hacks to successful DevOps operations via DZone.

  

• Amartus Partners with Cloudify – Wins MEF 3.0 PoC “Business Impact Award”

  The MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept Program recognizes the most innovative and groundbreaking projects in five categories. This winning proof of concept (PoC) demonstrates end-to-end SASE service layered on multiple SD-WANs with distributed security, orchestrated using the Cloudify platform.

  

• Cloudify and AWS : Implementing 5G Network Slicing

  Head to the AWS blog and read all about our ‘orchestrator of orchestrators’ approach in full swing, integrating with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EKS. Read on and discover why Cloudify is an excellent solution to support 5G network slicing use cases.

  

• IBM Community: Why VRA Should Have Alternatives

  Read our CTO’s latest post at IBM Community which examines why VRA should have alternatives. This post takes a deep dive into  VWware in the age of containers and the need for Open Source.  Head to IBM Community to learn more.

  

• ReadWrite: Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization

  Head to popular web tech blog ReadWrite and learn the truth about multi cloud cost optimization from Cloudify’s CTO Nati Shalom.

  

• WATCH: Cloudify CEO on ZDNet – 2021 Cloud Trends

  Watch as Cloudify CEO Ariel Dan talks to ZDNet’s Larry Dignan on the future of private clouds, multi-cloud adoption, and the maturity of Kubernetes and open source.

  

2020

• BetaNews: All About Kubernetes

  Read on as our CTO Nati Shalom gives an overview for BetaNews on all things Kubernetes- specifically the rationale behind the emergence of this system and related technologies, and their place in an overall automation strategy.

  

• CodeCondo: Exploring the differences in CI/CD

  Head to CodeCondo and learn from our CTO, Nati Shalom all about the differences between the leaders in CI/CD. Explore why CI/CD matters in relation to Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions and AWS – and learn the new way to manage them.

  

• Cloudify CTO: Roadblocks On the Way to Digital Transformation

  The great enabler of digital transformation, the Internet and related technologies, have been around for decades. So why isn’t digital transformation well into the rear view mirror? Head to Datamation and learn more from our founder and CTO Nati Shalom.

  

• Cloudify Wins Intel® Network Builders Winners’ Circle Award

  We are excited to announce that Cloudify has been selected for an Intel®️ Network Builders Award. The award recognizes Cloudify’s innovation and technology and cements our position as leading multi-cloud digital transformation leaders. Read our official announcement here.

  

• TFIR : Your Two Key Hacks To Overcome Cloud Native Migration Challenges

  A recent survey by Flexera shows that the top challenges faced in cloud native transformation is the need to migrate traditional applications to cloud native architecture and deciding on a container platform. Our CTO Nati Shalom delves into these changes and offers two key hacks to overcome migration challenges.

  

• Devops.com : Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A Comparison.

  What cloud providers do you work with? Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Amazon AWS? Microsoft Azure? Which services? Are you using a managed Kubernetes such as GKE, AKS, Openshift or EKS? Our very own Trammel Scruggs takes a deep dive into orchestration languages for Devops.com.

  

• Techopedia: Optimizing Legacy Enterprise Software Modernization.

  Enterprise IT departments rank legacy code modernization as one of their main priorities in 2020. The complexity of software development and support operations for multiple brands and services requires business organizations to adopt a multi-cloud orchestration strategy. Our CTO Nati Shalom talks on Techopedia>>…

  

• Yahoo Finance: Cloudify release version 5.1 to simplify multi-cloud orchestration.

  Cloudify’s latest release introduces out-of-the-box integrations for all cloud environments via new service composition technology. This release sees integration with CI/CDs, Terraform, Kubernetes, among major existing toolchains (enabling modernization of private cloud environments). Read more on Yahoo!…

  

• IT Chronicles: Orchestrating the Orchestrators – Finding the Missing Infrastructure Automation Layer.

  At its inception, cloud computing – with all its infrastructure, platforms, and applications – delivered capabilities and services IT organizations only dreamt possible less than a decade ago. Today enterprise organizations are using cloud for a multitude of reasons – head to IT Chronicles and read more from our CTO…

  

• Technology Letter: ‘CLOUDIFY AIMS TO AMELIORATE A MESS AMAZON AND COMPETITORS HAVE CREATED’

  Even if you’re only interested in public stock investing, it can be extremely valuable to take a look now and then at private companies. Startups can point you toward trends that the public companies haven’t yet latched onto. Read on to learn why Cloudify is part of a trend dubbed…

  

• Cloudify Recognized As A Representative Vendor In Gartner Market Guide For Infrastructure Automation Tools

  Cloudify has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the May 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation Tools. In this Market Guide, Gartner states that “I&O leaders must implement infrastructure automation tools to improve infrastructure agility and accelerate digital transformation”.

  

• Netnumber Integrates TITAN Platform With Cloudify Solutions

  NetNumber announced today the integration of its TITAN platform with the Cloudify cloud-native orchestration platform. NetNumber TITAN, a CSRC platform, provides a common, software-based infrastructure for all signaling control, routing policy enforcement and subscriber database services in the network. Read more…

  

• Forbes Tech Council: Cloudify’s CTO talks multi-cloud strategy

  To Multicloud Or Not To Multicloud: Is That Really The Question? Companies everywhere are quickly shifting data and core applications to the cloud and are realizing that singular cloud solutions simply won’t cut it when it comes to serving future needs. Read more on Forbes>>…

  

2019

• Cloudify CTO presents at ONUG FALL 2019 introducing ‘EaaS’ (Environment as a Service)

  Watch our CTO’s 10 minute session at ONUG Fall 2019 and learn why existing automation tools leave inconsistencies, siloed operations with slow and painful manual processes across multiple cloud infrastructures. Your CI/CD pipeline is complicated -learn to overcome the bottleneck.

  

• Intel: Network Cloudification Requires a Village, Not a Vacuum

  Dan Rodriguez, General Manager of Network Compute Division, VP of Intel, shares an important thought on innovative technology; Technology is a critical ingredient that only becomes transformational in the hands of a global village of individuals and organizations committed to innovation and change.

  

• Cloudify Version 4.6 Adds Modular Service Composition And Ansible and Cloud-Native Edge Support

  Cloudify, the leading networking orchestration platform provider, today announced the release of Cloudify 4.6. Cloudify is on a step-by-step journey to extend our orchestration capabilities and make the automation of distributed network services as simple as possible.

  

• Cloudify Releases Latest Product Version Featuring Industry Changing ‘Environment as a Service

  Cloudify, the leading provider of end-to-end service automation, today announced that its latest product update features an ‘Environment as a Service’ component, designed to achieve consistent delivery and management of hybrid-cloud services and network infrastructures across CI/CD pipelines – at scale.

  

2018

• Business Standard: HCL Technologies and Cloudify to Bring 5G Network Slicing to Telecoms Providers

  HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, today announced it has partnered with Cloudify, provider of a leading cloud native orchestration platform, to bring Network Function Virtualization (NFV) orchestrated network slicing to telecoms providers.

  

• Globes: KPN Ventures provides growth capital to cloud & edge orchestration company Cloudify

  Cloudify has closed a $7 million financing round from KPN Ventures, CreditEase Israel Innovation Fund and existing investors.  The proceeds will be used to further accelerate the company’s international expansion and to build a partner ecosystem in order to support customer success.

  

• VMBlog: Open Source Cloudify 4.5 Extends its Cloud Native Orchestration to the Network – from Core to Edge

  Cloudify, the award-winning cloud native orchestration platform, has shipped version 4.5 of its open source software today with new features that bring cloud native and DevOps practices to the networking layer.

  

• Enea, Datavision, and partners demonstrate uCPE and SD-WAN reference solution at MEF18

  Technical partnership between Datavision, Cloudify, Enea, Kontron and Fortinet, to drastically decrease operational costs for edge and customer premise deployments…

  

• Cloudify and Lumina Networks Announce Strategic Partnership to Automate Networks, Enabling Agile Service Deployment

  Cloudify and Lumina Networks, announced a strategic partnership to bring agility to service providers with legacy and virtualized networks. The two industry-changing companies will cooperate on customer deployments to automate service delivery without vendor lock-in.

  

• Cloudify Events & Awards Highlight Technological Vision for Edge Orchestration

  Cloudify to showcase innovative network orchestration for Edge & IoT, Kubernetes, NFV transformation and more at leading industry events.

  

• Ariel Dan Appointed as New CEO of Cloudify

  Cloudify announced the appointment of Ariel Dan as the company’s new CEO. “I am pleased to join Cloudify as CEO,” says Dan. “I look forward to working with the board and management team to deliver digital transformation through deeply intelligent cloud automation.”…

  

• Cloudify Revolutionizes Cloud Native VNF Transformation through Embedded VNFM Solution

  Cloudify today announced a newly enhanced solution to help virtualized network functions (VNF) vendors achieve cloud native capabilities for their networking services in record time, through simplified management and orchestration (MANO).

  

• Cloudify Fueling the Cloud-Native VNF Explosion at MWC18

  We are starting to see VNF vendors using the integration with Cloudify not just as a means to transform their VNFs to fit into virtual and cloud environments, but as a means to extend their offering to their customers by turning their VNFs into a full-blown cloud native service that…

  

• Metaswitch and Cloudify Partner to Accelerate Network Operators’ NFV MANO Transformation

  Cloud native communications software leader Metaswitch and cloud native orchestration leader Cloudify announced an agreement today, the two companies are partnering to automate NFV management and orchestration (MANO) for global operators, increasing service agility and reducing service-affecting manual errors.

  

• ASOCS Demonstrates Fully-Virtualized RAN and ONAP-Compatible Orchestration and Automation at MWC, Barcelona, 2018

  ASOCS Ltd., a pioneer in RAN virtualization announced today that it will be demonstrating its most recent capability at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona; a fully virtualized base station solution and automated life cycle management and orchestration, in accordance with the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP).

  

• Cloudify Selected by NTT DATA INTELLILINK Corporation as Preferred Orchestration Framework

  The NTT DATA INTELLILINK Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has chosen Cloudify’s open source cloud-native orchestration platform as a preferred TOSCA orchestration framework and is now offering Cloudify to its IT systems integration customers throughout the world.

  

• 6WIND, Advantech and Cloudify Demonstrate High Performance vRouter for White Box Networking at Mobile World Congress

  6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, today announced that it will demonstrate high performance vRouter use cases for white box networking with partners Advantech and Cloudify at Mobile World Congress.

  

• Cloudify and Fortinet Deliver NFV Orchestration via New Technical Partnership

  Cloudify and Fortinet have established a technology partnership to address the challenges of network functions virtualization (NFV) in order to help organizations quickly, effectively and securely provision and deploy new network services across hybrid environments—brownfield and greenfield—at a fraction of the time and risk.