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SolarWinds Launches Industry’s First Technology Created to Bridge the Visibility Gap of Hybrid IT

June 13, 2016 No Comments

SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced a revolutionary release of the network administrator’s trusted tool, SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM). With the release of SolarWinds NPM 12, the company’s flagship product and award-winning tool relied on by tens of thousands of IT departments now features NetPath™ and Network Insight. For the first time, these two new capabilities give network administrators the hybrid IT visual insights and analysis needed for visibility into the performance of services across not only the networks they own—but those of their service providers and cloud vendors as well.

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World Software Defined Networking (SDN) Market is Expected to Reach $132.9 Billion by 2022

June 6, 2016 No Comments

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research titled “World Software Defined Networking Market”. The world software defined networking (SDN) market is expected to reach $132.9 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 47% from 2016 to 2022. The growing need for efficient management of data traffic and centralized control of networks has encouraged communication providers to adopt SDN. Implementation of SDN has increased significantly across industries owing to the network complexities, cost and time efficiency, and flexibility in network infrastructure.

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Going Up? What To Look For In A Cloud Provider

June 6, 2016 No Comments

Considering a move to the cloud? You’re in good company — according to RightScale’s recent survey, hybrid cloud adoption has reached 71 percent while private solutions hit 77 percent this year. Yet moving to the cloud isn’t enough; small businesses need the right provider to ensure services are always available, resources are truly “on demand,” and spending is justified by measurable ROI. Here are five key characteristics of a great cloud provider.

How to Setup your Own Taxi App?

May 26, 2016 No Comments

Taxi apps are quite the rage these days. In developing economies like India, taxi apps are more popular, just as Uber is quite popular in USA. The convenience and safety that taxi apps have to offer makes it the trending favorite for many. And with there being more middle class individuals than ever before, it makes perfect sense to create your own taxi dispatch software.

Introducing Intelligent Action Planning Powered by Glint’s AI-for-HR Technology

May 25, 2016 No Comments

Today, Glint, the real-time employee engagement platform, announced Glint Action Planning, the industry’s most advanced, integrated action planning system designed for managers. Powered by Glint’s AI-for-HR™ technology, Glint Action Planning empowers managers to better understand, plan, and execute the most effective responses to employee engagement challenges.

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FleetCor Adopts IBM Cloud to Help Businesses Stay in the Fast Lane

May 25, 2016 No Comments

IBM today announced that FleetCor, a leading provider of fuel credit card and specialized payment products, processing approximately 1.9 billion transactions during 2015, will use IBM Cloud services to help support its growth into new markets.

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Datameer Introduces Datameer 6 With a New User Experience for Iterative Analytics

May 24, 2016 No Comments

Traditionally, the analytics process requires either specialized tools for each step that depend on different users and skill sets, or end-to-end-tools that require sequential workflows. Either approach can make for a long, uncoordinated, and often frustrating user experience that ultimately delays time to insight as potential new data quality and consistency issues may go unnoticed until the last step of visualization.

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Festival Foods Automates Key Processes as Part of Company’s Growth Initiative

May 24, 2016 No Comments

BP Logix, provider of BPM solutions for rapid workflow app development, today announced that it has been selected by Festival Foods to automate and streamline core processes. With a mission to become Wisconsin’s leading and most innovative grocer, Festival Foods selected BP Logix and its business process management software to address needs ranging from inventory and purchase order reconciliation to procurement and onboarding.

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3scale Announces Dockerized API Gateway for Red Hat OpenShift

May 24, 2016 No Comments

3scale, the leading API Management Platform, announced today at the Gartner AADI Summit the availability of a Dockerized version of 3scale’s nginx-based API Gateway that is ready to run on Red Hat OpenShift V3. Customers using OpenShift can more easily deploy the 3scale API Gateway with a few clicks to integrate APIs with 3scale’s API Management Platform. Benefits include the ability to consistently create applications from microservices between environments wherever they are hosted.

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Volpara Solutions and Yellowfin Deliver New World-first Cloud-based Analytics Product

May 23, 2016 No Comments

Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has announced that its BI platform has been integrated into Volpara Solutions’ world-first cloud-based analytics product, VolparaEnterprise. VolparaEnterprise will deliver the best possible data-driven insights to a range of user types – from clinicians to business managers and scientists – to assist with early and more effective breast cancerscreening and diagnosis.

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Metalogix Expands Global Footprint into Asia Pacific (APAC) Region

May 19, 2016 No Comments

Metalogix, the premier provider of unified software to migrate, manage and secure content across enterprise collaboration platforms, today announced the company’s expansion into the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, led by newly appointed Director, Lex Taylor. Taylor, who will be based at Metalogix’s newest APAC regional office in Melbourne, Australia, will be responsible for driving revenue and overseeing sales and channel development teams across the region.

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New Release of SAP HANA® Enables Customers to Innovate at Enterprise Scale

May 17, 2016 No Comments

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the latest release of the SAP HANA® platform that delivers a broad range of enterprise reliability and data-center scale features, including new hybrid data management service in the cloud, an expanded maintenance strategy and a new offering for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). This enables companies to embed cloud agility into their on-premise data management environment, provide greater stability for mission-critical workloads and help SMEs go digital with greater ease. This announcement was made at the 28th annual SAPPHIRE® NOW conference.

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How To Do Enterprise Security like Bond…James Bond

May 17, 2016 No Comments

In the era of crippling state-sponsored hacks, cybercrime rings and data breaches, businesses are looking at all forms of preventative measures to keep attackers at bay. Even a modern-day James Bond would find it challenging to keep his data, and identity, a secret in the Information Age. And unlike in the famous films, the real-life ‘villains’ capable of stealing trade secrets, personal information and other forms of sensitive data are oftentimes anonymous and numerous. Reports estimated more than 317 million new pieces of malware were created within 2015 alone. Imagine what they can do today!

New Report: Less Than a Fifth of B2B Organizations Have Achieved a CX That’s on Par with the Best B2C Experiences

May 16, 2016 No Comments

B2B companies are coming to realize that they’re not immune to the digital revolution in how people find, research and buy their products. However, trying to match a consumer-style customer experience (CX) sets a benchmark that most B2B organizations aren’t able to meet, with only 16% saying that they’ve achieved a CX that’s on par with the best B2C experiences. This is a key finding from The Tension in B2B CX Management report, published by Econsultancy in partnership with SAP Hybris.

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WITI ANNOUNCES 2016 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

May 12, 2016 No Comments

San Jose, CA, May 11, 2016 – WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading global business organization for women in technology with more than 150,000 members worldwide, announced today its 2016, annual Hall of Fame winners who will be honored at WITI’s 22nd Women In Technology Annual Summit which will be held in San Jose, CA from June 5-7, 2016 at DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose. An awards ceremony will be held from 5:00-6:30 PM, followed by a special celebration to meet these exceptional women. The Early Bird and special hotel rates will expire on Friday, May 13.

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The Ins and Outs of TLS Encryption

May 11, 2016 No Comments

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol that offers a high level of security to help authenticate and encrypt information between a client and server for both inbound and outbound email (and website) traffic. Encryption protocols such as TLS help create secure connections for communications that must transfer across unsecured networks. Although there are others, SSL and TLS are two of the most popular security protocols of their kind.

Companies Rethink Direct Materials Supply Chains with SAP Ariba

May 11, 2016 No Comments

No company is an island. To make things go in today’s global economy, businesses need to work with thousands of suppliers, partners and customers across supply chains that have become increasingly complex. It’s a mind-blowing task. Particularly when it comes to direct materials. But SAP Ariba is helping companies simplify it with the latest release of Ariba® Collaborative Supply Chain™, an innovative and intelligent collaboration platform that enables companies to connect with partners and manage all of their direct materials procurement activities in one place. And leading companies are embracing the offering to rethink their supply chains and open new possibilities.

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ManageYourIT Brings Enterprise-Grade Cybersecurity and HIPAA Compliant IT Services to Dallas/Fort Worth Market

May 11, 2016 No Comments

Vertiscale today announced that it is partnering with ManageYourIT, a Fort Worth-based managed services provider (MSP), to support increased levels of security for healthcare providers in North Texas. ManageYourIT is incorporating Vertiscale’s security and compliance platform into its outsourced IT service offerings, with a focus on mid-market medical professionals.

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IBM Watson to Tackle Cybercrime

May 10, 2016 No Comments

IBM Security (NYSE: IBM) today announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version of the company’s cognitive technology trained on the language of security as part of a year-long research project. To further scale the system, IBM plans to collaborate with eight universities to greatly expand the collection of security data IBM has trained the cognitive system with.

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Who Moved My Secure Perimeter

May 10, 2016 No Comments

In today’s mixed on-premises and cloud IT environment, securing one network perimeter is not enough. Read this white paper to learn more.

Scale-Out NAS: Best Practices to Implement Tomorrow’s Storage Today

April 29, 2016 No Comments

by Stefan Bernbo, CompuverdeAs the data deluge continues on unabated, vertically scaling legacy approaches to storage are falling short. Organizations need to find a way to store high volumes of data without busting the budget, all while maintaining high levels of performance… Read More >>>

Kimberly-Clark Professional Builds Intelligence Into Facilities Management with IBM Cloud, IoT

April 29, 2016 No Comments

Kimberly-Clark Professional’s new Intelligent Restroom app was built using IBM Bluemix development platform and is hosted on the IBM Cloud. Through the use of the IBM Internet of Things Foundation service, facilities managers collect data and alerts from sensors integrated into restroom amenities, from soap dispensers to air fresheners, as well as non-amenities like entrance doors. All the data is managed and monitored through a central dashboard that can be viewed on desktops or mobile devices remotely.

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Newest Release of Veeva Vault Streamlines Global Business Processes to Get Products to Market Faster and More Efficiently

April 29, 2016 No Comments

Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) introduced innovative features in its newest release of Veeva Vault, version 14. The Veeva Vault platform and suite of enterprise applications empower life sciences companies to streamline their business processes across an increasingly broad ecosystem of internal and external stakeholders.

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Gartner Names Rocana a 2016 Cool Vendor in Availability and Performance

April 29, 2016 No Comments

Rocana, a pioneer in applying big data analytics to IT Operations, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the report titled, “Cool Vendors in Availability and Performance, 2016”1 by analysts Cameron Haight, Vivek Bhalla, Colin Fletcher, and Sanjit Ganguli at Gartner, Inc. The report evaluates several vendors that are applying advanced analytics and enhanced scalability to tame increasingly complex IT environments.

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Wasp Barcode Technologies launches Cloud-based asset management software

April 28, 2016 No Comments

April 19, 2016 (Dallas, Texas) – Wasp Barcode Technologies listened to what customers had to say about asset management software offerings and devoted more than 20,000 man hours to create AssetCloud, a cloud and subscription-based software that helps organizations efficiently track, maintain and collect data on the materials they own.

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Dataiku Predictive Analytics Now On Microsoft Azure

April 19, 2016 No Comments

New York, NY – Dataiku, maker of Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS), has today announced that the company’s flagship product is now available on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. DSS is an end-to-end platform that enables data teams of all skill levels to create powerful predictive analytics solutions using the latest data analysis and machine learning technologies.

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Customizable Platform Delivers Real-Time Data to Support Grassroots and Fundraising Efforts for Political Campaigns, Non-Profits and More

April 15, 2016 No Comments

CFB Strategies, unveiled today its real-time, data management solution for campaigns, non-profit organizations and corporations. The cloud- based data solution, Campaign Cloud, is built on the Salesforce platform and allows campaigns, companies and non-profits to measure, track and achieve their data-driven goals.

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IBM and Box to Enable Local Data Storage in Europe and Asia with Box Zones and IBM Cloud

April 12, 2016 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to extend its global partnership with Box to provide enterprises with the choice to store data regionally in Europe and Asia on the IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud will be available as part of Box’s new Box Zones technology, which will enable businesses to adopt Box and store their data in select regions for the first time. IBM will also leverage Box Zones to support hybrid cloud deployments with its deeply integrated enterprise content management solutions.

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Pegasystems Acquires Robotic Automation Software Provider OpenSpan

April 12, 2016 No Comments

Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering the world’s leading enterprises with strategic business applications, today announced the acquisition of Atlanta, GA-based OpenSpan, Inc., a privately held software provider of robotic process automation (RPA) and workforce analytics software. OpenSpan uses robotic automation to ease the burden on customer service representatives (CSRs) by automating routine desktop tasks, thus increasing employee productivity and job satisfaction.

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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2016

April 7, 2016 No Comments

Attendees will learn how to maximize the value and minimize the risks of technology investments and ensure the enterprise architect’s role as an indispensable contributor to digital business strategy formation and execution.

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