October 17, 2017
AsTech, a leading independent security consulting company, today announced the release of AsTech Vigilance for Managed Qualys Services. This latest offering provides a $1 million guarantee for securing perimeter networks when a customer adds the AsTech Perimeter Security Guarantee to their AsTech Managed Qualys Service subscription. AsTech Vigilance for Managed Qualys Services is the industry’s first guarantee for implementing, configuring and managing Qualys to ensure all vulnerabilities it is capable of finding for perimeter assets are found and provided in a prioritized report.
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October 12, 2017
ScaleArc, aleader in database uptime, announced today that its software is available in the Google Cloud Launcher marketplace. Google Cloud Platform customers can now leverage the seamless application failover, faster application performance, and other instant scale out capabilities of the ScaleArc software. This software simplifies the process of adopting cloud services and helps customers mitigate some of challenges of running critical applications in the cloud.
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October 12, 2017
Qvidian, the leading provider of cloud-based RFP and proposal automation software, today announced a significant update to its flagship solution: an integration with Microsoft Office 365. This first-of-its-kind integration enables content reviewers and subject matter experts to simultaneously edit RFP and proposal content in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats. As content moves through reviewer workflows, Office 365 preserves formatting and styles, ensuring content fidelity, while automatic content syncing simplifies version control.
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October 12, 2017
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering customer engagement at the world’s leading enterprises, today announced the launch of Robotic Accelerators for Pega® Customer Service, making it easy to deploy personal desktop robots to help customer service agents automate their most mundane and repetitive tasks. Now organizations can quickly provide service agents with task-specific bots to simplify their work, increase productivity, and ultimately improve customer experience.
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October 12, 2017
GigaTrust™, a leading provider of endpoint security that delivers in-use protection of documents and emails, today announced the availability of the first and only “community of interest” deployment of GigaCloud, the Company’s fully-managed document and email security ecosystem that is dedicated for Department of Defense (DoD) suppliers required to meet strict security compliance standards when sharing documents and emails amongst themselves and the DoD. This ‘community of interest’ option is available to GigaTrust customers directly and via GigaTrust’s recent partnership with Forcepoint and ICM.
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October 11, 2017
CloudJumper, a Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform innovator for agile business IT, today announced the CloudJumper Competitive Replacement Program. The new program brings the company’s popular WaaS platform to partners using competitive platforms such as Amazon Workspaces by offering an easy migration path, a substantially greater feature set, and lower pricing. Under the terms of the program, new and existing partners gain access to the CloudJumper WaaS platform at no charge for the first three months when signing up for a 12-month service agreement.
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October 11, 2017
Imperva, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMPV), committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced a significant expansion of its network and investment in second-generation DDoS attack mitigation technology. The investment means faster performance for internet users and introduces an industry-leading 10-second DDoS mitigation service level agreement (SLA) to minimize business disruption in the event of a DDoS attack.
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October 11, 2017
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October 10, 2017
Aprimo, a recognized global leader in enterprise marketing operations and through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) technology, today announced new enhancements to its Aprimo Distributed Marketing product that propel automation and scalability of localized integrated marketing campaigns, delivering crucial competitive advantages to Aprimo customers and channel partners. The new features further advance the company’s ability to easily enable channel partners to execute local ad campaigns and generate more sales-ready leads by aligning content to the buyer’s journey.
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October 5, 2017
TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco’s Data Virtualization business (formerly Composite Software), specifically Cisco Information Server, a market-leading solution that powers enterprise-scale data virtualization, and associated consulting and support services. This strategic move strengthens TIBCO’s portfolio of analytics products, allowing businesses to get analytic solutions into production faster than alternatives, while continuing to adapt as data sources change from traditional databases and big data sources to cloud and IoT. The transaction remains subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in the coming weeks.
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October 5, 2017
Pensa, a provider of intelligent SaaS technology to simplify the delivery of complete virtual data centers, today announced the company’s formal launch including the appointment of Pensa Chief Executive Officer Tom Joyce, a former senior executive of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and EMC. The company’s core technology, Pensa Maestro, is a cloud-based system that enables enterprises to rapidly create multi-vendor, multi-platform software-based IT environments to support any application in a secure manner.
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October 4, 2017
Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, today announced that Tripwire Cloud Management Assessor, an extension of its flagship Tripwire® Enterprise solution, now supports Microsoft Azure. Announced earlier this year, with initial focus on supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, Cloud Management Assessor helps organizations strengthen their cybersecurity and maintain compliance, and it now allows users to scan and assess the configuration states of their Azure environments.
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October 3, 2017
MapR Technologies, Inc., a leader in delivering one platform for all data, across every cloud, today announced that the MapR Converged Data Platform is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace bringing a modern data system to Oracle Cloud customers. A silver level member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), MapR Data Technologies enables a unified operational and analytic data service for Oracle Cloud customers.
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October 3, 2017
MapR Technologies, Inc., a leader in delivering one platform for all data, across every cloud, and DataScience.com, an enterprise data science platform provider, today launched at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo a certified joint solution powered by the MapR Converged Data Platform. With this partnership, DataScience.com customers can enjoy a truly collaborative workflow environment where their data science experiments can run directly on the MapR Platform without needing a separate compute cluster to access data.
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September 29, 2017
WatchGuard® Technologies, a leader in advanced network security solutions, today announced the findings of its quarterly Internet Security Report, which explores the latest computer and network security threats affecting small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and distributed enterprises. The findings from Q2 2017 revealed that criminal tactics used to access user credentials are growing in prevelance, and that a record 47 percent of all malware is new or zero day, and thus able to evade signature-based antivirus solutions.
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September 29, 2017
The Information Security Forum (ISF) today announced the release of the ISF GDPR Implementation Guide, the organizations latest digest which presents best practices for guiding a compliance program ahead of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR Implementation Guide builds on the recently released ISF digest, Preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation, which summarizes the key requirements of the new legislation and lists the questions an organization needs to address to understand its GDPR readiness.
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September 29, 2017
Open Data Group, a private company that has spent the past 18 years innovating the way analytic and predictive models are deployed, has announced the evolution of their organizational mission from consultation to creating software products. These will allow enterprises to deploy more analytics with higher quality and greater efficiency than ever before. This shift to Analytic Deployment Technology helps enterprises make analytic deployment a core competency vital to competing successfully in today’s business environment.
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September 27, 2017
In this IT Briefcase exclusive interview, Joseph Carson, chief security scientist at Thycotic, explains how outside attackers or malicious insiders can exploit vulnerabilities using examples such as a compromised email account password that escalates into a full-blown breach of network security. By dissecting the make-up of a privileged account hack, it can be shown exactly how cyber criminals target their victims as well as what can be done moving forward to reduce risk and prevent abuse of critical information assets.
September 27, 2017
Data Breach at Sonic Drive-In May Have Impacted Millions of Credit, Debit Cards.
September 26, 2017
MapR Technologies, Inc., a leader in delivering one platform for all types of data across every cloud, and C3 IoT, the leading AI and IoT software platform for digital transformation, are partnering to provide an end-to-end solution for AI and/or IoT applications. Announced at Strata Data Conference, this partnership will address the large and growing market opportunity for a new generation of enterprise software that requires intelligent applications based on AI and IoT.
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September 21, 2017
Apttus, which provides the first and only integrated platform to combine end-to-end Quote-to-Cash business process automation and Contract Lifecycle Management with behavior applications and artificial intelligence to enable customers to maximize revenue, today unveiled Apttus Contract Management with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The addition of Artificial Intelligence to Apttus’ leading Contract Management product offers legal departments numerous benefits, including reductions in contract cycle time, enhanced agreement risk management, and the automation of third-party paper.
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September 21, 2017
with Henning Volkmer, Cortado Mobile Solutions Inc.In this interview, Henning Volkmer, president and CEO of Cortado Mobile Solutions Inc., shares his thoughts on using device-native capabilities to secure devices implementing productive mobility strategies, as well the benefits, simplicity and cost savings a cloud-based approach offers. Read More >>>
September 21, 2017
WatchGuard® Technologies, a leader in advanced network security solutions, today announced feature updates to its cloud-based Threat Detection and Response (TDR) service for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), distributed enterprises, and managed security service providers (MSSPs). The service correlates network and endpoint security events with threat intelligence to detect, prioritize and enable immediate action to stop malware attacks.
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September 20, 2017
ScaleArc, a leading provider of database load balancing software, announced today that it has integrated its ScaleArc for SQL Server software with Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Customers of Microsoft Azure Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) software can now benefit from the seamless scale out, faster application performance, and high availability features of the ScaleArc software. With this enhancement, customers can now take advantage of the flexibility and simplicity of Azure SQL Database with no application code changes.
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September 20, 2017
After onboarding and configuring customer accounts at an unprecedented rate over the last year, this update empowers its MSP partners with the ability to manage their entire WaaS business from a single interface. The new capability is a milestone for the company as it achieves the goal of building my.CloudJumper as the industry’s first ground-to-cloud portal to help IT service providers deliver the most feature-rich WaaS environments for end customers in a cost-effective and timely manner.
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September 18, 2017
Gartner Application Strategies & Solutions Summit – Date: December 4-6, 2017, Venue: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV
September 15, 2017
with Patrick Carey, Black Duck SoftwareIn this interview, Patrick Carey, VP of Product at Black Duck Software, gives his perspective the Equifax data breach and how to protect privacy moving forward. Read More >>>
September 12, 2017
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of new SAP-certified bare metal servers for SAP HANA® platform deployments in the IBM Cloud and new configurations for VMware environments. The new cloud infrastructure-as-a-service solutions are designed to give enterprises the power and performance they need to manage their mission-critical applications running on SAP HANA.
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September 12, 2017
Energy Vision, the leading telecom ESCO in Africa,has ordered over a hundred units of Flexenclosure’seSite x10 – the world’s first hybrid power system purpose-built for outdoor telecom sites and to outdoor telecom standards – for a large rollout of cell site power systems in Burkina Faso, to be utilised by a major pan-African mobile operator.
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September 12, 2017
ZF, UBS and IBM (NYSE: IBM) will soon be jointly developing an open automotive transaction platform for mobility services based on blockchain technology. Car eWallet has the potential to radically change the way manufacturers, suppliers and service providers process digital transactions and considerably simplify the use of vehicle services.
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