CA Technologies Announces FreshTracks.io, its Latest Software Incubator Project
November 15 2017 - 11:31AM
Business Wire
CA Accelerator Program Promotes Start-up
Innovation to Fuel the Modern Software Factory
CA WORLD '17 -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced the
open registration for the FreshTracks.io beta program, one of the
latest innovations stemming from the CA Accelerator program,
bringing the total to 10 start-ups currently enrolled in the
incubator. The CA Accelerator incubations function like lean
startups within the company, where internal innovators receive
support and funding to develop and test new product ideas in the
marketplace.
As CA’s engineers sought to monitor their evolving microservices
with existing solutions, the idea for FreshTracks was born. For
example, FreshTracks.io was founded to solve the real problems
experienced in monitoring and scaling containerized applications.
Leveraging CA’s expertise in the container space, the
FreshTracks.io team started with a clean slate, enabling their
teams to focus on the problem from the perspective of the customer
experience, rather than existing legacy tools.
Utilizing open source technology as the foundation, the team
layered in machine learning to build a self-learning monitoring
system capable of real-time intelligent alerting. The result was a
cost-effective, fast-to-market solution for teams serious about
container operations, particularly teams using Prometheus together
with Kubernetes.
Current container monitoring tools do a good job collecting
metrics about the state of applications, but they fall short when
providing dynamic anomaly detection to allow engineers to act based
on those metrics. FreshTracks.io uses machine learning to provide
intelligent alerts enabling applications to be highly available.
Actionable alerts ensure engineers spend more time where it
matters.
With a strong demand for container management technology as
machine learning and automation make their way into businesses,
this is the fourth container-focused project born out of the CA
Accelerator.
“The CA Accelerator culture values innovation and is changing
the way we think about solving customer challenges. Through our own
experiences, we realized the need for container monitoring and made
our own solution to share with others who are facing similar
challenges,” said Bob Cotton, co-founder of FreshTracks.io. “We are
excited about the market opportunity in this emerging area for
developers, and it was the flexibility and resources of the
Accelerator program that made FreshTracks.io a reality.”
The CA Accelerator Program
Rather than relying on the traditional innovation model of
making a few big investments on long-term development projects that
often miss opportunities due to lock-in and/or flawed assumptions,
the CA Accelerator nurtures many small projects that can rapidly
work their way to success.
The program’s Incubation Rotation helps mitigate risks for
employees transferring into the CA Accelerator. During the 12-month
rotation, the CA employee’s position is held within the company,
allowing the employee to develop his or her business, while
providing the freedom to pursue creative ideas to the fullest
extent. Over 100 CA employees have joined the program to date.
Born in 2016, the CA Accelerator helps drive and foster the
company’s culture to be more agile and innovative. CA Jarvis, an
internal analytics engine and the CA Accelerator’s most successful
project to date, has been integrated into CA’s Agile Operations,
API Management and Security lines of business. CA Jarvis is just
one example of how the CA Accelerator program helps power CA’s
existing software portfolio and drives the cultural shift across
the company.
“When we started the CA Accelerator program last year, it was
not just to bring innovative ideas to life within the company,”
said Otto Berkes, chief technology officer of CA Technologies. “We
also wanted to ensure that the CA Accelerator could serve as a
North Star guiding us through the accelerating cultural and
technological shifts we are seeing within the industry. Seeing our
incubation teams and our customers collaborating closely to solve
tomorrow’s challenges is deeply gratifying.”
Select projects such as FreshTracks.io, CA Jarvis, Waffle.io,
Yipee.io and WhoZoo.io will be on display at this year’s CA World
'17, November 13-17 in Las Vegas.
For more information, please visit www.ca.com/accelerator. For
more information on the FreshTracks.io beta program, please visit
https://www.freshtracks.io/..
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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