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Globanet Unveils Full Symphony Support with Latest Globanet Merge1 Release

June 1, 2015 No Comments

Globanet™, 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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REPORT: IBM Mainframe Leads in Worldwide Revenue Share for $250K Servers, Growing 118 Percent Year-to-Year

May 29, 2015 No Comments

IDC reported that IBM (NYSE: IBM) achieved worldwide server factory revenue growth of 66.1 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2015 in $250K+ servers.

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Pegasystems Customer Engagement Application for Life Sciences Drive Highly Personalized Interactions That Improve Customer Engagement and Patient Health Outcomes

May 28, 2015 No Comments

Pegasystems Inc.(NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering the world’s leading enterprises with strategic business applications, today announced enhancements to Pega Customer Engagement for Life Sciences that reduce costs and improve patient health outcomes by driving highly personalized, efficient, and consistent customer interactions across all departments.

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Instart Logic Debuts Next-Generation Software-Defined Application Delivery Platform for Modern Applications

May 27, 2015 No Comments

Instart Logic, the leading cloud application delivery provider that brings speed, security and scale to websites and applications, today announced at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference the next generation of its Software-Defined Application Delivery (SDAD) platform. The major update to the platform includes new performance features including JavaScript Interception that accelerates third party code, and development of Browser Cache Purge to extend cache control to the browser.

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Ponemon Institute’s 2015 Global Cost of Data Breach Study Reveals Average Cost of Data Breach Reaches Record Levels

May 27, 2015 No Comments

Traverse City, MI—May 27, 2015 – Today, Ponemon Institute released its annual Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, sponsored by IBM. According to the benchmark study of 350 companies spanning 11 countries, the average consolidated total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million Local currencies were converted to U.S. dollars for comparison purposes.

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IT Industry Increased by 8,200 Tech Jobs in April

May 27, 2015 No Comments

April’s job numbers in the data processing, hosting and related services industry showed almost no growth, increasing by only 0.03 percent or 100 jobs. The subsector now sits at 292,700 jobs. Over the last 12 months the industry has increased by 6 percent, from 276,100 in April 2014. This industry data includes computer programmers, computer support specialists, computer systems analysts, application developers, and systems software developers.

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IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with HYPR Corp: Fighting Online Fraud

May 21, 2015 No Comments

with George Avetisov, HYPR Corp.Here’s the problem, according to HYPR Corp., provider of a device-to-cloud biometric security platform: cyber criminals are focusing on mobile payments too, and organizations are repeatedly failing to secure data as it transitions to the cloud. Read More >>>

Axero Unveils Communifire 5.0 To Supercharge The Way Teams Collaborate

May 21, 2015 No Comments

Axero Solutions released version 5.0 of Communifire, its social networking platform for the enterprise, today that empowers employees to be more productive, engaged, and collaborative. The latest version includes a comprehensive series of updates designed to improve the user experience and enhance the way teams work together.

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NaviSite Helps Customers Embrace the Cloud with Microsoft Office 365 Suite

May 20, 2015 No Comments

NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable company, today announced expansion to its rich portfolio of solutions to now include the Microsoft Office 365 suite of cloud-based business class email, collaboration and productivity applications. As a part of this service, NaviSite will resell the Business Premium, Business Essentials, E1 and E3 Office 365 plans. Each plan comes with NaviSite’s 24/7 premium support services and available managed migration services.

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MapR Distribution Now Ships with Apache Drill 1.0 – Industry’s First Schema-Free SQL Engine for Big Data

May 19, 2015 No Comments

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the general availability of Apache Drill 1.0 in the MapR Distribution. Drill uniquely delivers self-service SQL analytics without requiring pre-defined schema definitions, dramatically reducing the time required for business analysts to explore and understand data. Drill enables interactivity with data from both legacy transactional systems and new data sources, such as Internet of Things (IOT) sensors, web click-streams, and other semi-structured data, along with support for popular business intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools.

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Cybrary Partners with Women in Technology to Advance Women in the Cyber Security Industry

May 18, 2015 No Comments

Cybrary, the world’s first and only no-cost IT and cyber security MOOC, announced a pilot program with Women in Technology (WIT) which will utilize Cybrary’s enterprise training platform to help advance women and girls in the IT and cyber security industries.

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Tools4ever introduces WebSSO

May 18, 2015 No Comments

Tools4ever, the market leader in identity and access management (IdM/IAM), has introduced a new feature, WebSSO, for its enterprise single sign-on solution, E-SSOM. With WebSSO, employees outside the corporate network, those who telecommute or while travelling, can access cloud applications with any device, such as a PC, tablet, Android or smartphone via single sign-on utilizing one password and username.

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Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications – Industry’s First Fully Open Source Integrated IaaS and PaaS Solution

May 18, 2015 No Comments

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications, an accelerated way to develop, deploy, and manage applications at scale using open source technologies.

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TIMEXTENDER ANNOUNCES TX FINANCIALS; NEW PRODUCT ELIMINATES MANUAL PROCESSING OF CORPORATE FINANCIAL DATA

May 18, 2015 No Comments

TXF is a financial management product designed for CFOs, VPs of finance, and controllers. It structures the data collection process, takes away manual processing, and encompasses budgeting, planning, and financial consolidation. In most cases, month-close processes can be shortened with TXF from weeks to days; sometimes even to less than one day. Users can take advantage of these capabilities without the need for IT or tech support for implementation, support, or maintenance.

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The Most Common Mistakes Website Owners Make

May 15, 2015 No Comments

Do you feel uncomfortable when prospective customers say “I’ll have a look at your website and call you later”? Most business owners are experts in their field — not in website design. In all likelihood you’re currently making one or more very common mistakes with your website that can turn customers off or even put you in legal jeopardy. Here’s our list of the errors which crop up most frequently — check your website for them, and you will probably be glad you did.

More than 1,000 Organizations Join IBM to Battle Cybercrime

May 15, 2015 No Comments

IBM today announced that more than 1,000 organizations across 16 industries are participating in its X-Force Exchange threat intelligence network, just one month after its launch. IBM X-Force Exchange provides open access to historical and real-time data feeds of threat intelligence, including reports of live attacks from IBM’s global threat monitoring network, enabling enterprises to defend against cybercrime.

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dinCloud Partners with CDW

May 12, 2015 No Comments

dinCloud, a cloud services provider that helps businesses rapidly migrate to the cloud through business provisioning, today announced a partnership with CDW, a leading provider of technology solutions to business, government, education, and healthcare. The agreement allows CDW to offer and sell dinCloud’s award winning Hosted Virtual Desktops (HVDs) and related cloud services, including its high performance servers, and cloud-based storage.

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Schneider Electric Unveils Industry’s Most Compact Arc-Resistant Switchgear

May 12, 2015 No Comments

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced the launch of its HVL/cb Metal-Enclosed Vacuum Circuit Breaker Switchgear. The HVL/cb switchgear features the unique combination of the industry’s smallest footprint vacuum circuit breaker with an integrated load disconnect switch. The low-cost solution offers a space-efficient alternative to traditional metal-clad switchgear, maximizing desirable facility floor space, while reducing operational and maintenance costs.

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Survey Results Show Securing the Cloud Continues to be a Work in Progress

May 11, 2015 No Comments

Perhaps in a begrudging acknowledgment of the massive data breaches victimizing the likes of Target, Sony and Anthem, combined with the reality of aggressive pushes by organizations to put more of their data in the hands of outside service providers like cloud systems, new survey findings from cloud data protection leader Perspecsys show that the majority of IT security professionals don’t have full visibility into where all their organization’s sensitive data resides.

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Enterprises Adopt SIOS Technology SANLess Clustering Software on Amazon Web Services for Cloud HA and DR

May 11, 2015 No Comments

SIOS Technology Corp., maker of SAN and #SANLess clustering software products, today announced that leading enterprise companies are turning to its SANLess clustering software, SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition, to provide high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) of critical data on business critical applications in Amazon Web Services cloud environments. Some of these enterprises include Gulliver International, a Tokyo-based pre-owned car company; Epicure Selections, Canada’s leading direct sales company; and Spirent, a global leader in communications test and measurement.

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JotForm Adds New Adobe Document Cloud eSign Widget

May 8, 2015 No Comments

During a month where JotForm is celebrating their popular widgets being used over a million times, they’ve added one more for users to enjoy. The new Adobe Document Cloud eSign widget is designed to harness the capability of electronically sending signatures through users’ forms.

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AppRiver Hits Milestone and Raises Its Sights

May 6, 2015 No Comments

AppRiver, LLC, a leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions, today announced that the total number of active Office 365 users has surpassed 100,000 with April 2015 as the best single month year-to-date for license activations. Company leaders say the reasons for AppRiver’s rapid success is years of experience, its hyper-focus on security and commitment to phenomenal customer care.

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IBM and Facebook Team Up to Deliver Personalized Brand Experiences Through People-Based Marketing

May 6, 2015 No Comments

Facebook and IBM Commerce (NYSE: IBM) today announced that they will collaborate to provide the world’s leading brands with tailored marketing capabilities that reach the right people at the right time with the right message.

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MapR Recipient of Global Award for Solution Innovation Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2015

May 5, 2015 No Comments

MapR Technologies, Inc.,provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, announced today that it has received a Cisco® Partner Summit Global award, recognized as Solution Innovation Partner of the Year. Cisco revealed the winners at a Global Awards reception during its annual partner conference, which took place last week in Montreal, Canada.

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New Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Provide Robust Foundation for a Growing Business

May 5, 2015 No Comments

May 05, 2015: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY),the third-largest global x86 server hardware supplier, today announced an update to its flagship portfolio of scalable, high-performance X6 servers along with an array of prequalified ISV enterprise solutions including offerings optimized for SAP® HANA. Updated Lenovo X6 server systems, with just released record-setting performance results, include two Flex System™ X6 Compute Nodes and a pair of System x® rack servers, both managed by Lenovo XClarity™, the company’s recently announced systems management offering. These powerful new solutions improve performance and speed deployment of demanding workloads such as cloud, database, ERP, virtualization, and business analytics.

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IBM and the City of Berlin Accelerate Local Innovation on the IBM Cloud with techberlin.com

May 5, 2015 No Comments

Together with the Berlin Startup Unit of City of Berlin, a range of other local civic organizations and the local community partner Openers, IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced techberlin.com on the IBM Cloud today. techberlin.com is a new online hub for Berlin’s developers, startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and technology enthusiast to meet, establish new connections, learn about new opportunities and create new partnerships that will accelerate innovation and stimulate local economic activity.

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Lenovo Webcast: Because Your Mission is Always Critical

May 5, 2015 No Comments

Join us and hear from a customer how his team is able to make faster, better informed business decisions with Lenovo® technology featuring Intel® Xeon® processors.

Metalogix Announces ControlPoint 6.0 with Next Generation Sensitive Content Manager for PII

May 4, 2015 No Comments

Metalogix, the premier provider of collaboration content management software to move, manage and secure content on Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Exchange, Box, Dropbox, Amazon, Google and other leading enterprise content management (ECM) systems, announced today the Technology Preview of Metalogix ControlPoint 6.0 with Sensitive Content Manager for Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

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SAP Runs Simple with Service & Support

April 29, 2015 No Comments

SAP SE has transformed its service, support and custom development operations to help customers innovate faster and simplify their experience with SAP. The new, simplified portfolio of services, best practices, methods and tools focuses on outcome-based services. This provides a simple and flexible way to interact with SAP as a result of a clearly defined agreement framework. For example, now available are streamlined SAP contracts and pricing through a new set of global terms and conditions combined with a single order form.

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dinCloud Launches Worldwide Anycast DNS Services

April 28, 2015 No Comments

dinCloud, a cloud services provider that helps businesses rapidly migrate to the cloud through business provisioning, today announced dinDNS, an affordable and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) service. With dinDNS, dinCloud customers can buy a bundle of 25 domains or more through their dinManage accounts. Additionally, customers will be able to add, remove, and edit any of their domain records through dinManage.

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