Veracode, Inc., the leader in cloud-based application security testing, today announced that Branchfire ( www.branchfire.com ) is one of the first companies to benefit from Veracode’s participation as a Good Dynamics Developer Network (GDN) partner. With roots in the mobile app development space, Branchfire is the maker of iAnnotate PDF, a powerful document annotation solution for mobile devices.

Through the partnership, Branchfire can develop and enhance its dynamic mobile productivity software using the Good Dynamics platform, then upload applications to the Veracode platform to identify and fix potential vulnerabilities that may pose a security risk. This is especially important as Branchfire actively licenses its PDF library to developers who want to add robust PDF viewing and annotation capabilities to their applications. Branchfire licensees can feel confident that the applications developed on the GDN platform have passed the Good Technology Mobile Application Security Policy, powered by Veracode.

“Branchfire is committed to delivering the industry’s most innovative, dynamic productivity tools. Our customers range from small software companies to large international corporations and premier educational institutions, so security is integral to our product,” said Ravi Bhatt, CEO of Branchfire. “Veracode and Good Dynamics simplify the process, seamlessly adding security into the development process. Our developers receive testing results that are accurate and actionable, allowing us to deliver the highest quality product, without dragging down the development lifecycle or extending time to market.”

The Good Dynamics and Veracode Partnership at WorkAs a GDN partner, Veracode allows developers using the Good Dynamics platform to upload applications to the cloud where they are analyzed for known and often unknown vulnerabilities, such as zero day vulnerabilities, and against security policies developed by Good Technology. If vulnerabilities are discovered during the testing process, the Veracode platform provides recommended steps for remediation. Once developers have remediated flaws, they will resubmit to ensure the app is free of critical weaknesses before it is made available to enterprises or consumers. Good Technology believes secure coding, security testing and basic security precautions should not be an afterthought in today’s rapid mobile app development process, and they chose Veracode to provide a higher level of assurance that all Good Dynamics apps meet their security policies.

“Together with Good Technology, we are committed to further raising awareness about enterprise mobility security risks, while providing developers with the tools they need to deliver more secure applications to market,” said Pam Cyr, senior vice president, business development and strategic alliances, Veracode. “We are proud to be a Good Technology partner that enables companies like Branchfire to further differentiate its solutions by raising the bar on the security of software being developed and leveraged by licensees.”

Hewlett-Packard announced software to extend its support for network virtualization on its servers and switches. HP’s so-called Virtual Application Networks (VANs) are part of an industry-wide move toward greater programmability and ease of use in complex data center networks.

HP said its VAN software will be compatible with the emerging OpenFlow standard for software-defined networks. However, the new code does not require OpenFlow, it added.

HP and NEC are among a core set of vendors working with researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere on the OpenFlow specification. HP announced in February it will support OpenFlow on all its networking products by the end of the year. It already has as many as 60 customers testing out OpenFlow based on open source versions of the code.

OpenFlow creates in software what’s called a central control plane, a single point for managing everything in a network. It operates via software applications that classify network traffic flows and take actions on how and where they are sent based on policies users define in software.

The software aims to simplify and possibly even replace a growing collection of systems that create firewalls, balance shifting workloads, enforce security and handle other network jobs. Thus the technology is a potential threat to established network giants such as Cisco Systems.

A report in the New York Times last month said a new Cisco group called Insiemi is quietly working on software-defined networking products. The group is led by a trio of veterans including Mario Mazzola who helped set up similar groups that got Cisco into storage networking (Andiamo Systems) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (Nuovo Systems).

Previously, Cisco limited its efforts on OpenFlow to customer-specific jobs. “We are trying to understand what customers want to do and build it for them rather than build generic [software] agents,” said David Meyer, a distinguished engineer at Cisco who said he had no knowledge about the Insiemi group.

Meyer said OpenFlow may be limited to niche markets. “It’s a pretty big bet that OpenFlow will become a general-purpose programming paradigm–I think it’s unlikely that will happen,” he said.

Impetus Technologies Inc. ( www.impetus.com ), an award-winning software product and engineering services company that develops innovative software products and technology solutions, today announced the release of SandStorm CE (SandStorm CloudEdition), a cloud-enabled version of its performance testing tool.

SandStorm CE helps in saving the license and hardware provisioning costs, as well as offers affordable performance testing, with a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model.

With the release of SandStorm CE, Impetus provides its customers, enterprises, start-ups and ISVs an easy provisioning to load test their software at hugely reduced costs. It also reduces the customers’ CAPEX by automatically provisioning a cluster of servers and machines on the cloud, as and when needed. This helps customers test their applications against a concurrency of 50 – 200,000 users, with the same ease.

SandStorm CE helps test the performance of applications hosted in customers’ DMZ, datacenter or the cloud, seamlessly. The solution offers a ‘ready to use environment,’ and provides realistic test conditions across the application’s entire delivery chain from different parts of the globe.

“Performance testing is an integral part of the software lifecycle but often takes a backburner if the organizations are unwilling, or unable to commit to the infrastructure requirements. By offering SandStorm on the Cloud, we give our customers an option to leverage scalability and flexibility provided by the Cloud to test their web and mobile applications,” quotes Shirish Bhale, Director — Performance Engineering, Impetus.

SandStorm quickly identifies application bottlenecks and helps predict its reliability, scalability and performance issues. SandStorm is the only tool to provide multi-protocol support in a single package with easy parameterization of FLEX, AJAX, Silverlight and Applet based applications. Its integrated resource monitoring and intuitive real time status reporting enables high-end analytics and extract capabilities.

It helps reduce the performance engineering costs by at least 30%, vis-a-vis other popular load testing tools.

Impetus offers comprehensive services around performance engineering, including performance testing and sizing, system diagnostics, performance tuning and optimization and capacity planning, among others.

Embedded Technology Engineering Services, a practice within Technisource Solutions and Randstad Technologies, one of the largest safety critical embedded engineering services providers in North America, announced today that Jabil Circuit, Inc. contracted Technisource Engineering for the embedded software development for a medical device that relies on safety critical software for all of its functionality.  Categorized as a safety critical product, Jabil’s customer had identified the embedded soft­ware as the highest risk component since the smallest error could result in a patient’s death and the need for FDA regulatory approval. To date, Technisource has supported more than 75 projects with successful regulatory approval.

Jabil, a $16 billion company with more than 100,000 employees, needed the highly specialized skills that Technisource Engineering provides. “In this highly regulated industry, Technisource not only understood the risks and rigors associated with FDA regulatory approval, but they also knew how to manage the software development process in a regulated environment,” stated Shane Smith, director of engineering for Jabil. “They quickly put together a team with precisely the skills we needed. Working collaboratively with the Technisource Engineering Services team has provided us the knowledge and experience to help us penetrate the rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar medical device market.”

In order to ensure a highly flexible and customer-focused delivery model, Technisource deployed a two-phase approach (discovery and execution) allowing them to first understand Jabil’s business and pain points before deploying a comprehensive project plan.  In the discovery phase, Technisource systems engineers and project managers worked with Jabil’s project team to map out the scope of the project and gather extensive information, such as the project’s requirements, the number of existing lines of code, what had been tested to-date and the status of FDA approval.

Phase II of the project entailed the creation and testing of the software code in just a matter of months in order to meet the client’s aggressive deadline, with limited production in Q4 2012 and full production in 2013.  Technisource also put in place a proprietary quality assurance program to ensure a zero error quality level for the software.

Jabil’s client recently completed their first comprehensive audit evaluating all aspects of the project (hardware, software, manufacturing, quality assurance, etc.) grading each team with a score between one and five. The software team, 80 percent of which is comprised of Technisource engineers, was awarded a five for excellent performance.

“Technisource’s software engineers provided a level of service that transformed what was the riskiest component of this project into the highest rated in just a matter of a few months,” said Scott Boring, project manager for Jabil.  “No other firm could have provided the level of expertise, flexibility and scalability that we received with Technisource.”

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QASymphony www.qasymphony.com, a developer of SaaS-based software testing tools for Quality Assurance, announced it will partner with Cohesion (www.cohesion.com), a Cincinnati-based consulting firm that is a leading technology consulting firm that partners with clients to help them achieve growth through the optimization of their technology investments.

Comprised of some 200 consultants, Cohesion will deploy and recommend QASymphony’s new defect capture and bug reporting tool called qTrace, to its many client engagements.  Cohesion’s Director of Quality Assurance and Testing Services, Joseph Ours, states, “Partnering with qTrace gives Cohesion the ability to meet many challenges we find at our client sites.  Not only is qTrace an excellent tool for capturing and automating defect entry, but it’s a great way to document exploratory testing sessions in Agile projects.  qTrace gives testers the peace of mind to know that their actions are being captured and can be easily communicated to other testers and developers alike without the burdensome overhead of a video capture system, or the huge files a video would create.  Lightweight and easy to use, qTrace will improve the efficiency of testing tasks.”

Cohesion specializes in the banking and financial services, insurance, technology and retail industries. The firm offers both short and long-term project work and provides assessments, recommendations, program / project management, end-to-end delivery, resources and ongoing support in developing business applications.

“We evaluate a lot of tools on the market and we found qTrace truly unique,” said John Owens, CEO, Cohesion. “The tool promises to expedite our Quality Assurance process with a lot more accuracy. Our clients should see the immediate benefit in having their custom business applications ready for prime time by about 20% faster.”

qTrace is a defect capture and reporting tool for bug discovery that records all steps, screens, and system information associated with a defect. Early users found it cuts defect capture time by 30-50% and decreases fix time by 10-30%.

With an easy-to-use interface, qTrace provides the functionality to annotate bug fixes and complete reports that can be saved as a PDF or Word file or submitted directly to a bug tracking system. The tool offers out-of-the-box integration with the industry’s most popular bug trackers.

A 30-day free trial is available by visiting: http://www.qasymphony.com/download.html.

Java software developers use agile methodologies to create rich applications for the client. Applications of wide array of Java applications are designed using cloud methodologies. Technocrats are developing more sophisticated and stand alone software for the web as well as one touch solution for the smartphone. Java product development firm are delivering enterprise customized solution using evaluated codes and process modules. Scalable out of box well architected enterprise solution are easily developed on J2EE (Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition) platform. Java experts are well versed with J2EE methodologies, using this programming language to design a custom based end to end solution and run test suits to reduced complexity and easily accessible. Java software developers understand that client’s business visibility in an integral part on the web, focusing on deliver web application that allows client to provide their capable services to its customer is the basic motto of offshore software firms.

Web and mobile application capable to run on any operating system with security enhanced features which improve the performance are some of the hybrid advantages enterprises who’ve leveraged a solution from Java product development firm. Fast debugging and deployment practices executed by the Java experts on the enterprise leveraged custom solution with agile methodologies does provide a unique platform to the offshore firm offering java software developers service. Modern technology has brought a big revolution in the frameworks of developing Java server side based application. Java experts use software like Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to build robust server side application which are decrease the workload on various servers therefore helping enterprises to gain profit by delivering quality performance.

Memory leakage, adjusting critical performance, handicapped local domain knowledge, load malfunctions, glitches and errors where the evident problem of the past, Java product development have incorporated dynamic features like enhanced security measures, load balancing, embedded platforms, control panel administration, testing services and much more.

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