Inside the BriefcaseHere’s the problem—your organization needs to change. Even the most successful companies realize that “what got you here won’t get you where you want to be.” The challenge for most organizations today is one of transformation. They need new tools, new language, and new frameworks. And it all needs to happen fast.
ITJobsWeb.com, the leading IT jobs website for IT professionals. reports an increase of 1.8% in the number of IT job postings to its site for the month of May 2015 compared to the previous month. The employment website’s increase in job postings is comparable to the 0.40% increase in the number of tech jobs reported by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, June 5, 2015. According to the Economic Situation Report, the IT industry gained 12,700 jobs for the month of May across several industries.
NewsIpswitch announced the findings of a security and compliance survey that highlights the difficulties IT teams face when preparing for compliance audits. The survey polled 313 IT professionals in United States with 59 percent noting that they were not fully prepared to undergo an audit. Additionally, an astonishing 75 percent of respondents lacked confidence that colleagues authorized to work with sensitive information are adequately protecting it. When asked what they would be willing to do instead of a compliance audit, nearly half of all respondents (46 percent) would either undergo a root canal procedure, work over the holidays, live without electricity for a week or eat a live jellyfish.
NewsEnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, today announced the results of its “PostgreSQL Adoption Survey 2015,” a biennial survey of open source PostgreSQL users. Conducted by EnterpriseDB, the survey found PostgreSQL adoption continuing to rise, with 55% of users – up from 40% two years ago – deploying it for mission-critical applications and 77% of users are dedicating all new application deployments to PostgreSQL.
NewsThe acquisition makes DigiCert the second-largest Certificate Authority (CA) for high-assurance SSL certificates. As part of the deal, DigiCert will assume management of the CyberTrust/Verizon trusted roots and intermediate certificates. Verizon will continue to offer SSL Certificates as a reseller of DigiCert.
NewsIBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new Event Readiness services offering that will enable businesses in industries including retail, banking, telecommunications and manufacturing to prepare for unexpected surges in online traffic and sales.
NewsJohann Wrede, SAPA recent Customer Experience Index report from Forrester shows companies that outperform competitors in customer experience are more likely to turn customers into repeat customers, and repeat customers into loyal and engaged brand ambassadors. Simply stated? “Customer service is king” is no longer just a marketing tagline, but a mantra that governs how organizations will continue to survive. Read More >>>
TOPdesk, a leading global provider of service management solutions for IT, facilities management and eHRM help desks, is now available as a virtual machine in the Microsoft Azure marketplace. Azure customers can now quickly and easily deploy TOPdesk’ solutions through their Azure account, giving them all the benefits of accessing the solutions in the cloud, and access to TOPdesk’s best practices.
NewsSolarWinds Virtualization Manager now includes management actions within the product dashboard for immediate remediation when performance, capacity, or sprawl issues are identified. Additionally, IT pros can configure alerts to automatically trigger a management action to enhance optimal performance of virtual machines supporting mission critical applications around the clock.
NewsConnected Data® today introduced its Transporter Network Storage Connector, enabling mid and large-sized businesses to protect their investment in on-premise network attached storage (NAS) systems while offering a secure, private cloud, file sync and share appliance. Offered at no cost and included with Connected Data’s Transporter 75 and 150 private cloud storage appliances, the new Transporter Network Storage Connector syncs enterprise data stored on NAS systems with Transporter shared folders. This seamless and secure file sharing solution eliminates the need for a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and is maintained behind a company’s firewall for true data privacy and protection.
NewsSchneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, today announced the launch of its new micro data center solution portfolio. These solutions are ideal for customers who need to reduce latency and quickly add capacity while ensuring a secure and easy to manage environment. Delivered in a single enclosure, the benefits of the new micro data center solutions include power, cooling and management software to support a self contained, secure computing environment.
NewsAccenture (NYSE: ACN) is launching seven advanced analytics applications for the financial services industry, including banking and insurance companies, to simplify analytics decision-making by placing insight at users’ fingertips. Configured through the Accenture Analytics Applications Platform, the new advanced analytics applications are designed to help financial services companies improve customer experience and retention, increase sales, simplify the credit scoring process, and reduce costs associated with claims fraud.
NewsSolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software, today announced enhancements to SolarWinds® Network Configuration Manager (NCM), its network device configuration and change management product for Cisco®, Juniper®, HP®, Dell®, and Brocade routers and switches and any other device with a command line interface.
NewsThe partnership has seen Proskriptive integrate its predictive and prescriptive data models – designed to identify opportunities for quality improvement, operational efficiency, cost savings and enhanced patient care for payers, providers and those that provide products and services to the healthcare industry – with Yellowfin’s business-user-oriented BI platform.
NewsManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced deep packet inspection (DPI) for NetFlow Analyzer, the company’s real-time bandwidth and security analysis software. The new DPI capabilities rely on packet-level analysis to deliver NetFlow Analyzer’s most accurate bandwidth monitoring. Now, network and IT admins can determine whether the network or the application is at fault when troubleshooting application traffic issues and react quickly to issues before they impact end users.
Newshybris software, an SAP company, today launched its Financial Services Accelerator, an omni-channel commerce and customer experience solution tailor-made for insurance firms as well as other financial services companies. The accelerator provides financial services organizations with a set of pre-configured integrations and pre-built customer portal templates that allow them to rapidly deploy a streamlined, personalized customer experience online.
NewsAs the big data universe evolves and expands to the cloud, Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems company, today announced support for integration with two popular big data technologies, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) and SAP HANA. Available today, Pentaho 5.4 offers new capabilities that build on a pragmatic and future-proof platform for big data orchestration and analytics at scale, further empowering organizations to drive value with Pentaho’s Big Data Blueprint use case designs.
NewsMapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced at Hadoop Summit a new software module to accelerate the provisioning and deployment of big data solutions. The comprehensive MapR Auto-Provisioning Templates apply software-defined concepts that will enable organizations to quickly deploy a cluster with appliance-like convenience and with the flexibility and choice of building a custom, enterprise-grade data platform.
NewsSophos today announced that it has acquired Reflexion Networks Inc., a leader in cloud-based email security, archiving, email encryption and business continuity services. The acquisition will enable Sophos to add cloud-based email security to Sophos Cloud, the company’s single, integrated cloud-based management console. Together, Reflexion and Sophos will deliver enterprise-grade email security in one affordable and simple-to-manage solution.
NewsMapR Technologies, Inc.,provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today unveiled at Hadoop Summit version 5.0 of the MapR Distribution including Hadoop, extending its lead in real-time Hadoop, security, and self-service data exploration and agility.
NewsBlueDataTM, provider of the leading infrastructure software platform for Big Data, today announced the summer release for its BlueData EPICTM software. With this new product release, available immediately, BlueData provides support for the latest Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark versions while extending its interoperability with commonly deployed management tools and applications for Big Data analytics.
NewsJune 4, 2015 Pegasystems Inc.(NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering the world’s leading enterprises with strategic business applications, today announced enhancements to the Pega Customer Service for Healthcare application, including a new Clinical Interaction Manager that improves the delivery of care management services. Clinical Interaction Manager is the first in the market to integrate customer service and care management to give health organizations a 360 degree view of all customer interactions, extending their ability to engage customers, improve health outcomes, and reduce costs.
NewsIpswitch announced the release of Ipswitch Analytics, a new reporting and monitoring solution for MOVEit™ Secure Managed File Transfer, that ensures reliable, cost-effective and auditable file transfers. With Ipswitch Analytics, IT teams gain deep insight into business critical file transfers through an innovative analytics engine that includes an interactive activity monitor, automated report creation and distribution, and fine-grained access control.
NewsCloudSense, the global leader in industry platforms for Quote-to-Cash, is helping CoreSite, a leading North American provider of reliable, secure and high-performance data center solutions, to sell more effectively and fulfil aggressive growth plans. After a competitive selection process, CoreSite chose the CloudSense Telecoms Platform to help its sales team innovate and accelerate the sales process, while offering customers a seamless, multichannel service.
NewsThe partnership has seen ImPOS integrate Yellowfin’s easy-to-use BI platform into its POS solution. The joint offering will deliver reporting and analytics capabilities on transaction data for ImPOS’ current and future clients in the hospitality industry. ImPOS Founder and Managing Director, Sean O’Meara, said that partnering with Yellowfin would assist their clients to monitor and assess their up-to-the-minute POS data, helping them to improve sales strategies, ordering and supply chain processes.
NewsBlue Box is a privately held company based in Seattle that provides businesses with a simple, private cloud as a service platform, based on OpenStack. Customers benefit from the ability to more easily deploy workloads across hybrid cloud environments. Financial details were not disclosed.
NewsSolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software, today announced the integration of SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) onto the SolarWinds Orion® technology backbone. The integration represents a significant milestone that enables stronger collaboration between database and systems administration teams to ensure the performance of business-critical applications by presenting wait time analysis and other key database performance metrics in the context of the application, all within the familiar Orion user interface.
NewsIBM today announced its collaboration with China National Building Materials Group Corporation’s (CNBM), OKorder.com, China’s leading B2B online commerce exchange that serves thousands of suppliers and buyers around the world, to deliver a seamless experience regardless of borders.
NewsLumeta Corporation, the leader in network situational awareness, today announced the release of Lumeta Enterprise Situational Intelligence (ESI) 2.2, which includes new and enhanced features such as Layer 2 indexing, BGP support, device profiling improvements, as well as user-defined attributes and reporting.
NewsGlobanet™, a leading developer and reseller of data migration, archiving, compliance and eDiscovery solutions, announced today the latest release of Globanet Merge1™, the company’s flagship messaging and social media capture platform. The new release spotlights the product’s first-to-market support for Symphony financial communications to begin in Summer 2015 when the Symphony solution is said to become generally available.
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