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Lenovo Serves Up Fresh Thinking with Next-Generation Enterprise Server Portfolio

September 9, 2014 No Comments

Lenovo today announced its next-generation enterprise-class server portfolio. The first wave of products consists of three cleverly engineered servers — two rack systems and one tower — designed to provide the ultimate in flexibility and reliability for traditional and software-defined data center environments.

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Silverchair Embeds Pentaho to Empower Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers

September 9, 2014 No Comments

Delivering the future of analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced Silverchair Information Systems has embedded Pentaho Business Analytics to redefine how the scholarly publishing industry leverages the value of its content by transforming its data warehouse and ETL processes. Silverchair is now able to provide richer and more valuable contextual data in advertising feeds, create personalized content recommendations based on a reader’s history (much like Netflix and Amazon, but in a highly technical space), and provide novel insights about content usage to scholarly Publishers and Editors.

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Atlantis USX™ 2.0 Wins Best of VMworld 2014 Gold Award in the Storage & Backup Category

September 8, 2014 No Comments

Atlantis Computing®, a leading provider of Software-Defined Storage, today announced that Atlantis USX™ 2.0, the software-defined storage platform that delivers all-flash performance at half the cost of SAN, was awarded the Best of VMworld 2014 Gold Award for the Storage & Backup category. The new release powers the first all-flash hyper-converged storage system, adds a groundbreaking new technology that allows enterprises to Teleport virtual machines between datacenters and the cloud in seconds, and offers VMware VVOL support for any storage system.

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Yellowfin launches Yellowfin 7.1 analytics platform: Makes world-class Location Intelligence easy

September 8, 2014 No Comments

Enhancements in Yellowfin 7.1 concentrated on extending three core technical areas, by boosting Location Intelligence capabilities, improving CSV support and increasing the number of visualizations supported by Yellowfin’s Auto Chart functionality.

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Leading Swiss Health and Accident Insurer uses QlikView to Drive Insight for Management and Sales

September 4, 2014 No Comments

Qlik, the market leader in data discovery, today announced that Helsana Group, the leading health and accident insurer in Switzerland, uses QlikView for quick and easy data analysis in the areas of sales, management control and information management. Helsana was looking for a dynamic alternative to reporting that did not create extra work for their IT staff. Since traditional business intelligence solutions were considered too complex, too complicated and too slow by business users, Helsana conducted a complex cost-benefit analysis of all of the solutions available. In the end, the ease-of-use and flexibility of QlikView made it the best choice for their organizational needs.

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Huddle Unveils Secure Publishing Platform

September 2, 2014 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: Huddle Huddle today announced its secure publishing platform, with full analytics dashboard, which is set to transform the way enterprise and government organizations worldwide measure, track and interact with the files that they share and publish. By providing organizations with intelligence around completed content published at scale and how it is being consumed, Huddle complements its […]

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HFR Chooses WebNMS to Deliver Carrier Ethernet Mobile Network Solutions with End-to-End Management

August 27, 2014 No Comments

HFR, Korea’s representative vendor of wired and wireless network equipment, and WebNMS, a division of Zoho Corp. and a leading global provider of multi-vendor, network orchestration solutions, announce their collaboration in an end-to-end, MEF CE 2.0 certified solution for mobile backhaul. The HFR HA-800 series of networking systems has integrated the WebNMS Carrier Ethernet Management Solution to provide comprehensive management of high performance services from client to core.

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Red Hat Continues OpenStack Innovation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5

August 27, 2014 No Comments

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, the latest version of its enterprise-ready OpenStack platform built with the latest Icehouse community release. An updated, robust installer and new high availability capabilities are designed to enable devops and IT administrators to more easily produce a healthy and fault tolerant Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform deployment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 debuted in July 2014, featuring an extended three-year product support lifecycle and enhanced support for VMware infrastructure.

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KeyMetric Chooses Bandwidth APIs for Call Tracking to Power Its Mobile & Marketing Analytics Platform

August 27, 2014 No Comments

Bandwidth, one of the nation’s leading communications technology companies, today announced KeyMetric, a leading marketing and advertising analytics company, has chosen Bandwidth’s APIs for call tracking to power its call analytics and tracking software platform. With Bandwidth’s APIs for call tracking, KeyMetric can support businesses large and small to measure and optimize their online marketing and advertising spend, accurately connecting each phone call back to the originating source, advertisement, keyword or search term.

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Tata Consultancy Services and Cloudera Join Forces to Deliver Big Data and Analytics Services Globally

August 26, 2014 No Comments

Partnership Helps Customers Fully Harness Big Data by Implementing Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

ManageEngine Debuts Performance Monitoring for VMware Horizon View at VMworld US 2014

August 26, 2014 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the availability of VMware Horizon View monitoring in Applications Manager, its application performance monitoring solution. The move enables enterprises to gain immediate visibility into and understanding of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) running on Horizon View. Likewise, the announcement ensures that users of applications delivered via Horizon View experience optimal application performance.

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Qvidian Announces Latest Innovations in Guided Selling Platform

August 25, 2014 No Comments

Qvidian, the innovator in sales execution solutions, today announced its newest release of Sales Playbooks & Analytics, a guided selling platform enabling sales teams to be more efficient and productive while reacting to buyers’ needs effectively.

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IBM Study: 80 Percent of Organizations are Turning to Citizen Developers to Drive Innovation

August 25, 2014 No Comments

IBM today announced the results of a global study that revealed 80 percent of leading enterprises are forming new partnerships with “citizen developers,” industry professionals operating outside the scope of enterprise IT. These citizen developers help to close the skills gap for application development to drive greater collaboration and innovation across cloud, analytics, mobile and social technologies.

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InfinityQS to Host Manufacturing Intelligence Conference in Chicago

August 21, 2014 No Comments

InfinityQS International, Inc., the global authority on real-time quality and Manufacturing Intelligence, today announces Infusion Chicago, its 9th Manufacturing Intelligence Conference. The event will be held Oct. 9-10, 2014, at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, and is designed to showcase the necessity for implementing a quality system that optimizes the use of metrics and Manufacturing Intelligence to gain insight into production processes.

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Pharma Start, Improves Audit-Readiness with Paperless eTMF Solution from Veeva Systems

August 21, 2014 No Comments

Improving audit readiness is one of the top goals for life sciences companies implementing a new electronic TMF solution today, and Pharma Start is no exception. Since adopting Veeva Systems’ cloud-based Vault eTMF solution, the contract research organization (CRO) is now prepared for inspection at all times and has the visibility needed to establish collaborative relationships with sponsors.

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Lumeta Joins Amazon Web Services Marketplace

August 21, 2014 No Comments

Lumeta Corporation today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) subscribers can now use Lumeta Enterprise Situational Intelligence (ESI) to gain real-time network situational awareness of both AWS cloud instances and on-premises physical or virtual infrastructure. For enterprise and government customers looking to continuously monitor their network security posture, a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Lumeta ESI is available in the AWS Marketplace.

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Atlantis Releases USX™ 2.0 – All-Flash Performance at Half the Cost of SAN Storage

August 21, 2014 No Comments

Atlantis Computing®, a leading provider of Software-Defined Storage, today announced the release of Atlantis USX™ 2.0, a software-defined storage platform that delivers all-flash performance at half the cost of SAN. The new release powers the first all-flash hyper-converged storage system, adds a groundbreaking new technology that allows enterprises to Teleport virtual machines between datacenters and the cloud in seconds, and offers VMware VVOL support for any storage system.

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ManageEngine to Launch Free Virtualization Management Software for VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer at VMworld

August 20, 2014 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that it will launch VM Manager Plus, its free virtualization management tool, at VMworld US 2014. VM Manager Plus monitors the virtual server infrastructure of SMEs and data centers, with unlimited monitoring support and no restrictions on the number of hosts, virtual machines (VMs) or datastores. A demo of VM Manager Plus is available online at http://demo.vmmanagerplus.com.

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WWPass Introduces Hacker-Proof Mobile Multi-Factor Authentication and Privacy Protection System for Business

August 14, 2014 No Comments

Combining unmatched security and convenience, WWPass® has launched a mobile version of its patented, unbreakable, cloud-based, multi-factor authentication and privacy protection system. WWPass technology encrypts user data, fragments and disperses it across 12 separate global locations in the cloud, making it inaccessible to identity thieves, producing an unmatched level of security. Instead of providing a username and password to retrieve the data and access secure networks and servers, users connect a physical PassKey token to the USB port or NFC reader to authenticate.

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IBM Acquires Cloud Security Services Provider Lighthouse Security Group

August 11, 2014 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired the business operations of Lighthouse Security Group, LLC, a premier cloud security services provider. Lighthouse Security Group’s Gateway platform protects identity and data in an increasingly complex IT environment where more company information is being stored in the cloud and accessed from mobile devices. Lighthouse Security Group is a subsidiary of long-time IBM Business Partner Lighthouse Computer Services, Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Reflexis Chooses IBM Cloud Infrastructure To Power Retail Cloud Offering

August 4, 2014 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Reflexis, a leader in integrated real-time execution and workforce management solutions, has selected SoftLayer, an IBM company, to help customers in the retail industry make the transition to cloud computing. Reflexis is looking to transform the retail industry by providing customers with its own platform-as-a-service (PaaS) based on SoftLayer’s infrastructure, to help them implement mobile and Web applications.

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IBM Acquires CrossIdeas to Expand Security Offerings with Identity Intelligence

July 31, 2014 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired CrossIdeas, a privately held provider of security software that governs user access to applications and data across on-premise and cloud environments. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Tata Consultancy Services Partners with MapR Technologies to Help Customers Easily and Rapidly Capture Value from Big Data

July 23, 2014 No Comments

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced a new partnership with MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, to help enterprise customers easily and rapidly capture critical big data insights. The partnership’s new big data offerings will shift the IT cost curve and allow companies to strategically reimagine their business models.

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SAP Awards Advertising and Marketing Business to Omnicom Group

July 23, 2014 No Comments

SAP SE today announced that it has consolidated its global account for communications, advertising, media and other marketing services with Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC).

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IBM and Monitise Help Financial Institutions Capitalize on Commerce

July 21, 2014 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Monitise (LSE: MONI) today announced an expanded, multi-year global alliance to deliver cloud-based mobile commerce solutions to help financial services institutions embrace the mobile channel and better engage with customers.

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Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility

July 16, 2014 No Comments

July 15, 2014—Apple® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an exclusive partnership that teams the market-leading strengths of each company to transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps—bringing IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone® and iPad®.

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SoftWatch Launches New Service to Help Corporations Plan and Transform Their End-User Computing Environment

July 16, 2014 No Comments

The recent announcement by Microsoft regarding its discontinuing Windows XP support now forces 25-percent of the world’s corporations still on XP as their standard desktop OS to make a substantial investment in their migration to a new OS. However, the shift to the cloud presents new options to CIOs when optimizing their end-user computing environment.

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SoftLayer Fuels Hybrid Cloud Growth for IBM with New Clients and Services

July 14, 2014 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: IBM ARMONK, N.Y. – 14 July 2014: Today IBM announced SoftLayer is fueling hybrid cloud adoption by attracting thousands of new clients including leading enterprises. To support this ongoing growth, IBM is also launching a range of new cloud services designed for the enterprise that are based on SoftLayer infrastructure. Just one year after its […]

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Big Data Initiatives from SAP Help Protect the Planet and Global Food Supply

July 10, 2014 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: SAP In an effort to improve people’s lives, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced initiatives that aim to use Big Data to help better understand the planet’s diversity and enhance food safety. The initiatives intend to use the SAP HANA® platform to collect and analyze data to help crowdsource the identification and analysis […]

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BP LOGIX NAMED FINALIST IN AMERICAN BUSINESS AWARDS FOR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION OF THE YEAR

July 10, 2014 No Comments

BP Logix, a leader in workflow-driven enterprise applications that accelerate time-to-value, today announced that it has been named a Finalist in the Technology Innovation of the Year category for the 2014 American Business Awards. The company will ultimately be selected as a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie® Award winner in this prestigious program.

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