November 21, 2014
BM Benchmark Live allows you to analyze shopping trends across dozens of variables — from the hottest mobile devices to how much shoppers are spending on average this year — with the ability to download graphs, datagrams and other shareable assets. The new app is an extension of the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, the industry’s only real-time analytics platform that tracks billions of online transactions to give marketers and retailers 370+ performance indicators to benchmark themselves against industry peers while driving more targeted customer engagements.
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November 21, 2014
SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software, today released the results of its Information Security Confidence Survey, which explored IT professionals’ confidence in their organizations’ security measures and processes. The survey found that while confidence is notably high, likely the result of several key factors, widespread adherence to security best practices is lacking, and significant, damaging attacks continue, potentially indicating this confidence is a false sense of security.
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November 18, 2014
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today is reinventing enterprise email with a new freemium social collaboration offering that uses built-in analytics to give individuals a new way to converse, find the right people and information fast, and get work done. IBM Verse stems from the company’s $100 million investment in design innovation and brings together its leading cloud, analytics, social and security platforms to transform the future of work.
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November 14, 2014
As cloud adoption continues to accelerate, Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in security software and solutions, today announced the availability of its cloud and data center platform, Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ for Amazon Web Services (AWS) on AWS Marketplace, an online store providing software and services for use on AWS.
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November 14, 2014
More than 70 percent of companies recognize that IT infrastructure plays an important role in enabling competitive advantage or optimizing revenue and profit. However, despite this recognition, only 22 percent have a well-defined enterprise IT infrastructure strategy, according to findings released today by IBM (NYSE: IBM).
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November 14, 2014
Yellowfin South Africa – operated by official Yellowfin distributor and enterprise IT applications and services provider, Albi Investment Group Services (AIGS) – has launched Yellowfin to the Zimbabwean market, in conjunction with local reseller partner Insurefin, during an event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Harare.
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November 12, 2014
Tweet SOURCE: Instart Logic Palo Alto, Calif. – (November 12, 2014) – Instart Logic, the Cloud Application Delivery Service for performance-obsessed organizations, today announced the availability of the Instart Logic Security Suite. The new suite extends Instart Logic’s end-to-end, client-cloud software-defined application delivery (SDAD) platform by providing customers with multi-layered protection against DDoS attacks and […]
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November 12, 2014
Sophos today announced the expansion of their product portfolio on AWS Marketplace with the addition of a new secure server option for customers on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Building on the success of the Sophos UTM Next Generation Firewall product, which is offered through AWS Marketplace, the new Sophos Secure OS delivers comprehensive security bundled with CentOS.
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November 12, 2014
Yellowfin on AWS (Amazon Web Services) allows companies to get started with BI in the cloud for free via AWS Marketplace (AWS usage fees apply). With just a few clicks, users will be able to deploy an enterprise-grade BI environment in minutes, which includes a free 12-month three-user subscription license for Yellowfin.
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November 11, 2014
IndependenceIT, a leading software provider of simplified IT management solutions for application and DaaS delivery, today announced its next generation Cloud Workspace Suite® (CWS) with end-to-end automation for unconditional simplicity. Industry firsts of the new solution include automated virtual data center (VDC) deployment which reduces workspace deployment time and enhanced IT administrator and end-user support controls, making it the fastest and easiest workspace-as-a-service platform of its kind to install, manage and use.
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November 10, 2014
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced OpenShift Enterprise 2.2 and strengthened its xPaaS with a new private integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering to provide cloud-based services for application integration and messaging. Based on their traditional on-premise counterparts, the new services — JBoss Fuse for xPaaS and JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS — offer unified, enterprise-grade integration to, from, and within the cloud.
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November 10, 2014
Cloud Technology Partners™, a leading cloud services and software firm, today announced a new partnership with cloud services provider Cloudnexa, to deliver expanded Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings and capabilities.
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November 6, 2014
IndependenceIT, a leading software provider of simplified IT management solutions for application and DaaS delivery, today announced its next generation Cloud Workspace Suite® (CWS) with end-to-end automation for unconditional simplicity. Industry firsts of the new solution include automated virtual data center (VDC) deployment which reduces workspace deployment time and enhanced IT administrator and end-user support controls, making it the fastest and easiest workspace-as-a-service platform of its kind to install, manage and use.
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November 6, 2014
National IT infrastructure and cloud services provider, Peak 10, Inc., is undergoing a multi-phase expansion at its Nashville, Tenn. location. Phase 1 includes a new cloud cluster as well as 6,600 square feet of additional data center space in what the company will call its Nashville 4 facility, located at 425 Duke Drive, Suite 400 in Franklin, Tenn. Coupled with Peak 10’s sales office and three existing data centers this expansion, which will be complete in November 2014, brings the total Nashville footprint to nearly 100,000 square feet.
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November 6, 2014
Today Metalogix announced the launch of the Cloud Acceleration Suite and Partner Program to help clients successfully deploy collaboration capabilities in the cloud platform of their choice, including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and hybrid and private cloud. The program brings together Metalogix’ trusted migration and management tools for mission-critical collaboration platforms.
November 5, 2014
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has built the industry’s first intelligent security portfolio for protecting people, data and applications in the cloud. Built on IBM’s investments in cloud, security and analytics software and services, the new offerings are designed to protect a business’s most vital data and applications using advanced analytics across their enterprise, public and private clouds and mobile devices — collectively known as the hybrid cloud model.
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November 5, 2014
Recently recognized as an enterprise mobility management (EMM) market leader by Forrester, Sophos today announced the immediate availability of additional security and device management capabilities for the Android mobile platform. These simple-to-deploy, yet powerful solutions deliver mobile security for businesses of any size. IT professionals can now allow employees to take advantage of all that the Android platform has to offer without putting sensitive data at risk.
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November 5, 2014
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has collaborated with Dell to create the Dell and Red Hat DevOps Solutions Starter Pack, a combination of OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, the Dell PowerEdge R420 server, and partner services. This solution will be sold through certified Red Hat channel partners.
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November 5, 2014
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) – the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries – and InfoCommerce Group today announced the five data products they have named as national Models of Excellence. The CEOs from the companies that produced them will present a compelling picture of how data and analytics are revolutionizing technology, business and society at the upcoming Business Information & Media Summit (BIMS), November 10-12 in Miami, Florida.
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November 3, 2014
vXchnge, a carrier-neutral colocation services provider dedicated to improving the business performance of its customers, today announced its partnership with TechLAB Innovation Center, a Silicon Valley-based, full circle ecosystem committed to helping cutting-edge technology start-ups across the globe accelerate their businesses, preparing them for growth, including acquisition and IPO.
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November 3, 2014
Cloud Technology Partners™, an industry leading cloud services and software company, today announced the creation of CTP Labs™. CTP Labs is dedicated to transforming existing software and enterprise systems to multitenant, auto-scaling cloud services.
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October 31, 2014
Twitter and IBM today announced a landmark partnership that will help transform how businesses and institutions understand their customers, markets and trends – and inform every business decision. The alliance brings together Twitter data that distinctively represents the public pulse of the planet with IBM’s industry-leading cloud-based analytics, customer engagement platforms, and consulting services.
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October 27, 2014
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its broad portfolio of analytics capabilities – including Cognos Business Intelligence, SPSS predictive analytics platforms and the newly announced Watson Analytics – will be available via IBM Cloud marketplace. IBM Cloud marketplace is a single online destination that serves as the digital front door to cloud innovation, bringing together IBM’s capabilities-as-a-service and those of partners and third-party vendors with the security and resiliency enterprises expect.
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October 27, 2014
When it comes to the U.S. law enforcement community’s practices and attitudes toward using crime-fighting software, roughly a third are using the technology in their departments, most would use it to combat drug-related crimes, yet the majority don’t have the budget to implement it, according to a recent survey by Wynyard Group, market leader in crime-fighting software used in investigations and intelligence operations by government agencies and financial organizations.
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October 23, 2014
Three trending topics for business and IT – big data, analytics and the cloud – have contributed to the growth of revenue, staff and the Cary, NC campus of analytics software leader SAS. Today SAS opened a new building to house the SAS® Solutions OnDemand team. This group develops and supports SAS Cloud Analytics.
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October 21, 2014
Zensar’s End User Experience Management Service leverages Aternity’s platform enabling enterprises to see real time application and device performance from an end user perspective; and to measure, manage and improve user productivity on any device, any application and any location
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October 15, 2014
Orchestrate (Orchestrate.io), the all-in-one database service, today announced that it has launched Orchestrate Enterprise, a complete database portfolio for rapid, massively scalable enterprise application development. Orchestrate Enterprise exposes the features of multiple databases, including Elasticsearch, Hbase and MySQL, in a single footprint. It delivers a high performance, fault tolerant, multi-model data layer for enterprise developers and IT on the public cloud, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud and CenturyLink, and on private cloud environments.
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October 15, 2014
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 that MapR-DB is now available for unlimited production use in the freely-downloadable MapR Community Edition. MapR-DB was recently recognized by an independent research firm as the highest scored NoSQL key-value database for current offering among all reviewed vendors. Companies can reduce architectural complexity, lower costs and speed business results with the integrated, high performance NoSQL and Hadoop solution.
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October 15, 2014
The Finish Line, Inc. (NASDAQ: FINL) announced the launch of its new mobile app aimed at providing services and conveniences that reward Winners Circle loyalty program customers with points and loyalty perks. Available as part of the athletic retailer’s mobile commerce platform, the new Winners Circle customer loyalty app reinforces brand interactions, improves customer service and sales, and also provides timely information about customers’ favorite product releases.
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October 15, 2014
Harvard Business Publishing (www.harvardbusiness.org) today announced the launch of New Leader Program, a leadership development program organizations can use to quickly and effectively build management skills and leadership capabilities among new managers. A virtual, cohort-based experience delivered across 14 weeks, New Leader Program is specifically designed to accelerate the transition of those soon-to-be promoted or recently promoted into first-time manager roles. Different from most new manager programs, New Leader Program places significant emphasis on building leadership capability and mindset early among managers.
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