Universal Enterprise DevOps leader establishes a new entity in Tokyo, Japan, Appoints Industry
Veteran Katsunori Tanaka as Country Manager

TOKYO, Japan, December 6, 2018 – JFrog, the DevOps leader, today announced the establishment of a new entity, JFrog Japan K.K. Solidifying JFrog’s commitment to the Japanese software market and open-source community, the company has appointed industry veteran Katsunori Tanaka as Country Manager and established a regional partnership program with local partners.

“We are thrilled to open our first office in Tokyo and welcome Tanaka-san as our first frog in Japan,” said Shlomi Ben Haim, JFrog Co-founder and CEO. “As Japan adopts DevOps tools and methodologies rapidly, it’s clear we need to be close to our customers and community. We’re on a rapid global growth path, and Japan is an important market for us. We’ve seen continued growth in JFrog tools adoption in Japan, and we’re committed to investing in the country as we help Japanese enterprises and open-source community make the shift to DevOps.”

JFrog empowers DevOps, allowing organizations to manage fast and secure software delivery.

The company’s platform enables Continuous Software Updates to flow from code to production with zero downtime for all technologies and binary types, including Docker, Go, Kubernetes Helm, Maven, npm, Nuget, Jenkins, and more. JFrog hybrid solutions are available on-premise and in all major clouds (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure).

“IDC forecasts that the Asian DevOps market will see significant growth in the coming years,” said Stephen Elliot, Program Vice President, Management Software and DevOps for IDC and co-author of IDC’s “Worldwide DevOps Software Forecast 2018-2022.” The report indicates the APAC region – including Japan – is expected to see DevOps market growth of nearly 200% in that time frame.

Earlier this year, JFrog appointed its first country manager in Japan. Bringing over 30 years of business development experience in the IT software industry across Japan and Silicon Valley, Katsunori Tanaka joined JFrog from Autodesk, to drive the DevOps community in Japan and expand JFrog’s presence in the region. Prior to Autodesk, Tanaka held leadership roles at some of the world’s leading brands, including Adobe, Nextag, N.E.W., Toshiba and Sharp Corporation.

To further extend its commitment in the region, JFrog announces its first regional partnership with Macnica Networks Corp., an established reseller in the DevOps domain in Japan representing JFrog technology partner solutions such as GitHub Enterprise, CircleCI and others. Alongside JFrog local team and other selected partners, Macnica will provide Japanese customers with localized and dedicated support, training and engineering resources, related to the JFrog offering.

“We see the DevOps market as a key driver in our customers’ Digital Transformation and we are thrilled to add JFrog to our growing portfolio of leading DevOps tools in Japan,” said Jun Ikeda, Macnica Networks Corp. President.  “The demand for JFrog’s solutions within our customer base is growing rapidly, and we look forward to partnering with JFrog to help customers adopt and accelerate DevOps to scale their business.”

Earlier this year, JFrog announced that it closed a $165M Series D funding round. JFrog was also recently recognized as one of the top cloud companies in the world as a member of the Forbes Cloud 100 list, and honored both as an IDC DevOps Acceleration Innovator and a Deloitte Fast 500 growing company.

For more details, visit JFrog Japan.

To download a free trial, visit JFrog.com.

About JFrog:
JFrog is on a mission to enable continuous updates through liquid software, empowering developers to code high-quality applications that securely flow to end-users with zero downtime. JFrog is the creator of Artifactory, the heart of the end-to-end Universal platform for automating, managing, securing, distributing, and monitoring all type of binaries. JFrog products are available as open-source, on-premise, and on the cloud on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. As the leading universal, highly available enterprise DevOps Solution, the JFrog platform empowers customers with trusted and expedited software releases from code-to-production. Trusted by more than 4,500 customers, the world’s top brands, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Uber, VMware, and Spotify depend on JFrog to manage their binaries for their mission-critical applications. JFrog is privately held with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Learn more at jfrog.com.