CloudBees to Host Free Event for Jenkins Community in Boston

'Jenkins and Continuous Delivery' features Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi

CloudBees JenkinsWOBURN, MA. - January 16, 2014 - CloudBees, Inc, the Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that it will host a free seminar, along with partners Black Diamond and XebiaLabs, on January 29 for the Jenkins community. The event, titled "Jenkins and Continuous Delivery," will take place at the Seaport Hotel in Boston. It provides a unique opportunity for Jenkins users to meet and hear from Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi, who today was named CloudBees chief technology officer.

Throughout the day, sessions will provide tips and techniques for effective usage of Jenkins CI, with Kawaguchi providing an in-depth session about how developers can use Jenkins to support the entire Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process.

Speakers:

  • Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Jenkins founder and CTO at CloudBees

  • Andrew Phillips, vice president of product management, XebiaLabs

  • Sunil Mavadia, manager of deployment and environmental management, Digital Globe

  • Rich Duncan, president and CTO, Black Diamond Software

"We're excited to host this valuable forum for the Jenkins community along with Black Diamond and Xebia Labs. Having the chance to hear Kohsuke Kawaguchi's unique insights on continuous integration and continuous delivery is a great opportunity for Jenkins users," said Sacha Labourey, CEO, CloudBees. "The opportunity to engage in discussions around the Jenkins project will also be beneficial for all attendees interested in learning how to build and deploy applications better with Jenkins."

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About Jenkins CI and Jenkins Community
Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) server is an open source project developed for and by the Jenkins CI community. Jenkins CI is the leading open source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides more than 600 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

By recognizing and encouraging the numerous contributors to the Jenkins CI project, the Jenkins organization creates and fosters a community-powered infrastructure for maintaining and further developing Jenkins CI. Visit www.jenkins-ci.org to find the latest news, tutorials, forums and other helpful resources for Jenkins CI users of all skill levels. You can also follow the Jenkins community on Twitter (@JenkinsCI).

About CloudBees
CloudBees (CloudBees, Inc) provides a Continuous Delivery Platform as a Service that accelerates the development, integration and deployment of web and mobile applications. The CloudBees Platform provides a set of services that allow developers to rapidly build and run new business applications and integrate them with other services - all with zero IT administrative overhead. With Continuous Cloud Delivery, development teams can make frequent updates and easily deploy those changes immediately to production. By eliminating the friction caused by provisioning, maintaining and administering complex hardware and software infrastructure, CloudBees allows developers to do what they do best: develop innovative applications -- fast. CloudBees serves the needs of a wide range of businesses from small startups that need to quickly create new on-line businesses, to large IT organizations that need to rapidly respond to dynamic market opportunities. Follow CloudBees on Twitter (@CloudBees) and on Facebook . You can also try CloudBees for free.

Backed by Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of middleware and open source technology professionals.

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