10gen, the MongoDB company, today launched its Partner Program, designed for software, hardware, cloud, channel and services companies that develop, market, sell and support solutions based on the leading document database. The program includes the Industry's First NoSQL Validation Program for MongoDB, unique access to 10gen Education intellectual property as well as a wide range of additional technical, sales and marketing resources to officially align partners with the growing ecosystem around MongoDB. Three levels of participation are offered: Member, Authorized Partner and Strategic Partner.

Rally Software, a provider of solutions for managing Agile software development, announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.

Percona, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced the general availability of the Percona Remote DBA service to provide organizations with comprehensive database administrator (DBA) expertise as a service. Percona Remote DBA experts login to a company's MySQL servers remotely to apply operational best practices that optimize performance and availability, install monitoring software, and respond 24x7 to database problems. Percona Remote DBA is offered for a fixed monthly fee based on deployment size and includes an unlimited number of issues, eliminating budgetary surprises and offering a clear return on investment.

IBM announced that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture. This move will ensure that innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of insecure and difficult-to-manage offerings. Without industry-wide open standards for cloud computing, businesses will not be able to fully take advantage of the opportunities associated with interconnected data, such as mobile computing and business analytics.

Couchbase, a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, and Open Software Integrators (OSI), the open source professional services company with specialties in the area of Big Data, enterprise and Internet scalability, today announced a partnership agreement. Through the agreement, OSI will offer consulting, software development, training, and architectural solutions for Couchbase Server, augmenting Couchbase's ability to meet growing customer demand for its flagship document-oriented NoSQL database.

Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, today announced Version 2.0 of its Test Studio for iOS. Telerik’s automated testing tool for mobile iOS apps introduces a cloud sync web portal for test automation and user feedback within a single offering and can be used for native, web and hybrid app testing. Test Studio for iOS is currently available for free download on the Apple App Store.

Atlassian has just released Confluence 5.0, a completely redesigned version of its best-in-class social and team collaboration platform used by more than 36,000 teams worldwide. This latest release showcases Atlassian's design-centric approach to usability and user experience across the company's entire range of collaboration software for product teams. Speed and efficiency are incredibly important in the modern workplace, and each design decision and new feature for Confluence 5.0 was conceived to shave valuable seconds from each end-user's interaction, thereby helping teams get more work done, faster.

Typesafe, the company empowering developers to build high performance web applications, today announced the appointment of Derek Henninger as Vice President of Engineering. With more than two decades of experience managing high caliber developers, Henninger will lead the software engineering teams building Typesafe's products and Akka, Play and Scala open source projects.

CircleCI, a continuous integration platform for web application developers, today announced $1.5M in seed funding from a leading list of investors in the cloud and agile development space, including key Heroku investors and founders.

Rally, a leader in Agile software development management, has acquired Flowdock, a social collaboration hub for teams. The acquisition will add unified communication and collaboration to Rally's Agile ALM platform to ensure teams perform at a high level by keeping them connected and making the status and progress of work transparent.